Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 January 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. 2 . ‘——‘-. ! . Congress. - IN the Senate:on the sth a letter was sub--mitted from President-elect Garfield, formal1y declining the Senatorship from Ohio. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to provide for the sale of the reservation of the Prairie band of Pottawattomie Indians in Kansas. A joint resolution was introduced by Mr.. Whyte for ‘ tge purchase of the sword of George Washington, fiow. in possession of the heirs of George Lewig,'to whom it was bequeathed in Washington's will. A resolution' was offered by Mr. Butler and adopted dlrecting the Secretary of ‘the . Interior to urnish information and the report of the Superintendent. of the Census touching alleged frauds in the enumeration of inhabitants of South Carolina....ln the House Mr. Springer introduced -a bill for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several States, and to secure to the people of each State equal and just representation in the House of Representatives. Fernanda Wood being ill, the Igunding bill w}ent over, and the House went into Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation |bill, which was amended, reported back and finally passed: Mr. EATON reported the Diplomatic Appropriation bill in the Senate on: the 6th. The Army Appropriation bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. ....The House went into Committee of the ‘Whole on the Funding bill, and a general debate followed, Messrs. Kelley, Weaver, McLane, Springer and Lounsberry opposing, and Mr. Chittenden favoring (with certain amendments), the measure, Mr. Phillips gave notice of a substitute to issue three-per-cent. Treasury notes, redeemable after next year; in regular series. The Speaker submitted the reply of the Postmaster-General to the House resolution in reference to the abuse of the franking privilege, but Mr. Browne demanded a reading, pending which a motion was made and carried to adjourn. IN the Senate on the 7th the Vice-President submitted a request from the Secretary of War that the item for recruiting in the Army Appropriation bill be increased from $75,000 to $97.000. A petition from W J. Mogre, of New Orleans, alleging that he had been bribed to vote for Senator Kellogg, and asking that 'he be ailowed to testify to the fact, was presented, and a discussion ensued on a motion to refer the question to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Ferry intro.duced &a bill to promote the efficiency of the. life-saving service and to encourago the saving ot life from shipwreck. Mr. Burnside in~ troduced a bill to authorize the retirement of .Brevet Major-General William A. Averill, U. S. A, withtherank and pay of Brigadier-General. "THe Consular A¥propriuti(>n bill ($1,190,535) was considered end passed. Adjourned to the 10th....1n the House Mr. Springer offered a resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. calling -on the Secretary of State for all information in the . State Department in reference to the Halifax fishery award of $5,500.000 paid by th's Gov- | ernment to Great Britain, and especially that ! relating to alleged fictitious statistics and perjured testimony <dmposcd upon the arbitrators, and on- which evidence the award was made. - A bill to. confirin the title to certain lands in the State of Ohio and the Senate = bill for the relief of the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin were passed. THE Senate was not in Session on the 8th.... Mr. Briggs, member from the Third District of New Hampshire, took his seat in the House. Mr. Wells, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the Indian Appropriation . bill ($4,526,000), which was ordered printed and recommitted. The Speaker laid before the House for the third time the report of the Postmaster-General ;ln regard to the abuse of the, franking privilege, but it was not received. The FKunding bill was debated in Committe¢ of. the Whole. Fernando Wood, - for the Committee on Ways and Means, offered an amendment to fix the rate of interest at three per cent. Mr. Clatlin thought it “would be dangerous to put a bond of that rate on the market. Mr. Warner suggested that the interest be fixed at two and one-half per cent. Mr. Keifer offered an amendment to pay not exceeding four per cent., which was' voted down—l 2 to 149. Mr. Frye said he had lately become convinced that it ‘would be utsterly impossible to float a three-per-cent. bond running less than thirty years. Mr. Randall _remarked that the outstanding bonds vibrated 'between three and one‘quarter and three and three-eighths per cent. i?ermmdo Wood gave Secretary Sherman as authority for a statement thdt a short certiticate could be floated at three per cent, Mr. Mills thought $100,000,000 could be saved by letting the matured debt stand and paying it in five years. Mr. Hawley said that at the present market rates of bonds a thirty-year three-per-cent. was worth 94 to 96. Mr. Converse thought a a three-per-cent. bond was equivalent to six per cent. on private loans. Mr. Townsend , called attention to the sale of Northern Pacific s's at a premium of over two and onehalf per cent. Mr. Felton thought it would be criminal to perperuate the debt. ~ Mr. _‘Bayne offered an amendment that the Secretary of the Treasury sell the new bonds at the lowest rate of interest gracticable. which was lost. Mr. Hurd declare I?ipecie resumption a delusion and a snare.: Mr. Newherry offered an amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue'bonds not to exceed $450,000,000, redecmable at the pleasure of the United States, after ten years, and payable thirty years after issue; also, notes in the amount of $250,000,000, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, after two years, and payable in ten yeéars after the date of issue, which notes National Banks shall be permitted to hold as part of:their legal reserve, and interest on said bonds shall be three per cent., and the interest on said notes three and one-half per cent. Mr. Gillette argued against the policy of refunding. .

Domestic. : A cHILD was almost roasted alive in a small room in a tenement-house in St. Louis ‘afew days ago, and a babeof two months was rescued from a burning cradle by the firemen. The mother states that she had left them but a few minutes before, on a visit toa pawn-shop with a faded shawl. 4 . WitH the provision that $4,000,000 shall be raised in New York for the proposed World’s .Fair, the Central Railroad has subscribed :$250,000. Messrs. Grant, Tilden and Vanderbilt are mentioned in connection with the Presidency of the Commission. - . THE time for filing applications for arrearages of pensions expired on July 1, but over eleven thousand papers have since been received. : ' THE official order appointing a court martial for the trial of Cadet Whittaker was promulgated in Washington on the 4th. ' The court is directed to meet in New York City {Army Building), January 20, instead of West Point, 18th, as first announced. A PHILADELPHIA lad, aged fifteen, was recently fatally stabbed by another hoy, aged fourteen, with whom he was quarreling. Two BROTHERS named Heilman, at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., have recently lost six -children each by diphtheria. o PATRIOK HAYES and Daniel Sullivan, one of whom murdered his wife and the other his mistress, were hanged in Philadelphia on the 6th. A similar double execution took place in Newark, N. J., the victims being Margaret Meierhofer and Frank Lammens, who murdered the former’s husband. - ; By the explosion of a vat of varnish in the brewery of Peter Dodger, in New York on + the morning of tlie 6th, four men were enveloped in flames, and scorched to a degree which left no hope for their recovery. . A. BOILER in a rolling mill at Allentown, Pa., exploded on the evening of the 6th, killing one man, fatally wounding five, and injuring five others. The boller was:cut in halves, each of .which was thrown two hunOredfeny. - o : 3 " Ar Coalville, Kan., the other day the dress ‘of Mis¢ Davis caught fire from an open grate, and herself and her mother were burned to death, - g’ ; ;

CHARLES ‘A. Brßowy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently shot hissonjfor protecting his mother from her husband’s violence. Mrs. Browx, of Indianapolis, has again been convicted of the murder of her husband, but the jury sentenced her to imprisonment for life. | _ e Tre County Poor-House near Dover, N. H., took fire about daylight on the morning of the 7th, and was totally consumed. There were 169 persons in the building, and a list of thirteen who are missing shows that that number were suffocated or roasted alive. The pecuniary loss was about $70,00J. THE Superintendent of Census sent to the Secretary of the Interior on the 7th, for transmission to Congress, a communication asking for an additional appropriation of $530,000 for completion of the census work and publica. tion of the xesults.. . : i : THE total distribution of silver dollars from the New Orleans mint the last six months was $5,507,000, of which there was sent to Texas $1,677,500, Louisiana -§1,379,000, Mississippi $826,500, Alabama $672,500, Georgia $326,000, Tennessee $32),500, Arkansas $123,500 and Florida $87,000. - , A MAIL train on the Passumpsic road was thrown from the track, near Newport, V‘u, on the 7th, by a broken rail. Mrs. Cushing, of Keene, N. H., was, Kkilled, and tweuty others were more or less injured. : TuE lottery features of a promising Catholic fair in New York have been suppressed by the Society for the Prevention of Crime. GENERAL WALKER, of the Census Bureau, computes that in 1890 the United States will have a population of 64,467,000.

_At Henrietta, Texas, a few days- ago, a man named Rice refused to drink with James Curtis. An exchange ofz shots followed, and Curtis fell, dying within ten minutes. Rice, who was badly wounded, was carried to a doctor’s office. As he was placed in a chair a ball was fired through a window, killing him. : > Two BorLEßrs in the vitriol department of Balbach & Sons’ smelting works at Newark, N. J., exploded on the morning of the 7th, instantly killing the engineer and three workmen and seriously injuring two other persons. Three buildings were destroyed. BURGLARS recently blew open the safe in the post-office at Corry, Pa., and stole a latge amount of currency and $l,OOO in stamps. A seAT in the New York Exchange was sold on the 7th for $30,000. : - Two coMPANIES of the New York National Guard were on duty at the large ice-houses below Peekskill, on the Hudson, on the 7th, where the cutters went on a strike. - ‘ THE fast-mail train going south on the Richmond & Danville Road struck a rock slide near Lexington, N. C., on the night of the 7th. The engineer angi firemen‘were instantly killed, and the engine and postal-car completely wrecked. - Tue Tax Commissioners of New York City have this year placed the dmount of assessable property in the city at $980,789,939, an incredse of over $3B 000,000 over last year. . TuE anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans was celebrated in that city on the Bth by asalute and a parade of volunteer soldiery. STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS to the number of 233,995 were distributed during the week ended on-the 'Bth, against 112,495 during the corresponding Wweek of last year. ‘ Tue War Department has rccently issued an order abolishing dress caps for officers, and directing that hereafter helmets be worn with trimmings to designate the different branches of the service. The color for infantry will be white, cavalry yellow, artillery red gnd Signal Service orange. WARREN LANGMORE, a youth of nine years, bas been indicted at Pembroke, Me., for murder in Kkilling Freeman Wright, aged eight years. : ) , Jurivs Cony, a varnish manufacturer of New York, failed on the Bth, with liabilities of $lOO,OOO. . : . Ivax PETROFF, Supervisor of the Census for Alaska, reports that the entire population numbers 81,146, of which 339 are whites. ADVICES were received at Bt. Paul, Minn., on the Bth from Major Ilges, from the camp on Poplar River, to the effect that he had just started his prisoners to Fort Buford under escort, of Captain- Bell, of the Seventh Cavalry, and that he was ready to move on Sitting Bul’s camp when diplomacy should have failed, and he expressed the opinion ‘that such a movement would be necessary.

Personal and Political. THE Massachusetts Lezislature was organized on the sth by the election of Republican presiding officers in both branches. . Tur, Indiana Legislature met at Indianapolis On the 6th. The House at once effected an organization ‘by;electing as officers the Republican caucus nominees. Judge Viehe (Dem.), of Knox County, was chosen President pro tem. of the Senate, there being only one vote in the negative and one other not voting. Four ballots were had for Principal Secretary, in each of which Rice received twenty-five votes and Wilson twenty-five— Davis and Majors (Greenbackers) voting with the Democrats and Poindexter with the Republicans. : " TaE Illinois Legislature was finally organized in both branches on the 6th. Mr. Campbell, of Cook, was elected President of the Senate pro tem., and General Thomas Speaker of the House. . PRESIDENT HAYES on the 6th nominated Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy. ' TrE Michigan Legislature organized on the 6th. Governor Croswell, in his message, says the State is practically out of debt, and the prospects for the future are better than ever before. : ' THE Missouri Lefislature met on the 6th and organized by electing the Democratic caucus nominees. : . IN his annual message delivered on the 6th the Governor of Minnesota strongly urges the payment of the old State railroad bonds. PrESIDENT HAYES recently ordered the re‘moval of Foreman Cook, of the Charlestown navy yard, for intimidating employes at the polls. Three naval officers will convene as a Board toinvestigate the charges. TaE Nebraska Farmers’ Alliance met at ‘Lincoln on the 6th and passed resolutions requesting the Legislattire to pass laws prohibiting the railroads from exacting extortionate passenger and freight rates, also to reduce the tolls on the Plattsmouth and Omaha bridges. : - MR. GOFF took the oath of office as Secretary of the Navy on the 7th and participated in the meeting of the Cabinet. EveeNe HALE was on the 7th nominated by the Republicans for United States Senator from Mainey to succeed Mr. Hamlin, ‘JupGge BiLrLiNes, of Louisiana, has been appointed to the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Woods to the Supreme Court. _ ' GOVERNOR Loxa, of Massachusetts, was re-inaugurated on the 6th. In his message he urges the more thorough enforcement of the Liquor laws, and favors the proposal to give propérty-holding women the right of suffrage. The Btate debt is about $83,000,000. ' \ § IN his message to the Illinois Legislature Governor Cullom recommends that provision be made for submission to the people of 3

proposition which will allow the ‘m‘nols & Michigan Canal to be turned over to the United States on proper conditions. ;| He also recommends legislation to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious| diseases among animals, and such amendment of the sections of the criminal code on thé subject of adulteration jof food as will secnre their better enforcement. . i - GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, hasl issued a certificate of election as Delegat " in Congress to Allen G. Campbell, the G;Ltile candidate, on the ground that J. Q. Cabnon was irregularly naturalized. The latter| received 18,568 votes; the contestant, 1,357. Tue dead-lock in the Indiana State Senate was broken on the Bth by the election of C. W. Brouse (Greenbacker), Secretary. Robert Sears and A. W. Monroe (Republicans) were ‘then elected Assistant Secretary apd Doorkeeper. In his messace Governor P?ray xeeommends, in view of the fact that the Constitutional amendments had been decided not tohave been properly ratified by thie people, the callingz of a Constitutional Conviention to consist of fifty members from the Senatorial Districts. The public debt of the, State is $4,998,173.34, not having been redu(ld during the past two years. _ { R R i Foreign, { Copy, a Land-League President i? Ireland, and twelve members of his organization have been held for trial on a charge of }“ Boycotting” a farmer. i HERR STRASSMAN, a Jew, has hetgn elected President of the Municipal Cofin¢il of the city of Berlin. - ‘ CAPTAIN Eips has obtained from|the Mexican Government a charter to build. a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehhantepec, and a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land. - TaEe British Parliament opened on the 6th. The Queen’s speech expresses anxiety over the ratification of the Turco-Grecian frontier; declares the necessity of vindicating British authority in the Transvaal, and shows that the . permanent occupation of Candahar is mnot intended. |On the Irish question the speech alludes to the terrorism prevailing, and asserts that the insufficiency of ordinary powers forces a request for additional autherity to protect life and property. The Lords are recommended to take measures to give a larger portion of the Irish people a permanent proprietary interest in the soil, and to consider a bill for ‘the establishment of a county government in Ireland, foux‘;ded upon representative principles. S A FEW nights ago the cigar factory of Joseph E. Egener, in Havana, was destroyed by fire, ard seven persons who slept in the building were burned to death. | THE Irish constabulary have beéfi instructed to attend fairs and markets and prevent ‘ Boycotting.”’ A CLOCKMAKER at Birmingham,% England, has informed the Russian Embassy of a plot by Nihilists, involving the use of in%’ernal machines. ; ] THREE of the five Irish Land Commissionershave recommended to the Britiih Government the adoption of fair rent, free sales, and fixity of tenure: Kavanagh and the O°Connor Don dissent. DispaTcuEs from Cape Colony, on the South African coast, received on the 9th, say that the Boers had driven the mounted police of Natal to a point within thre¢ miles of Newecastle. . . A JupGE at Tokio, Japan, was recently assassinated in the street by a man whose father he had condemned to death fifteen years before. . : A Loxpox telegram of the 9th says that since the failure of negotiations for a treaty with Russia the Chinese Government had made extensive preparations for war. It was stated that torpedoes would be laid at the entrance to treaty ports, and the commerce of all nations would be cut off. | } Ox the 9th four hundred British infantry appeared at Tralee to prevent a Land meeting being held. Local magistrates gave the reasons for the prohibition. Davitt spoke to an immense assemblage from the :steps of ‘his hotel. - ' _A plspaTcH from Rome on the 9th says the Pope had sent fresh instructions to the Irish Bishops looking toward the restoration of order. , ' 5

LATER NEWS., THE London Daily News of a recent date, commenting on Prof. Hind’s statement that the Canadian fisheries award 'was based upon false statistics, expresses a hope that the Government will refuse, in the name of English honor, to profit by a misstated case, and insist on a complete investigation. THE President sent the new Chinese treaty to the Senate on the 10th, and it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relgtions. Mr. John F. Swift, one of the Commisgioners who negotiated the treaty with China}’, arvived at San Francisco on the 10th. He sitated, in an interview, that the treaty contajns a clause reserving to the United States the right to terminate at any time the residence of Chinese laborers in this country. If was also tacitly understood that the Chinese cannot be naturalized in the United States, and that the natyralizations already accomplished shall be considered null and void. _ BIR DoNALD STEWART has been appointed to the supreme command of the British troops in India.. A BILL was recently introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives for a special election on May 1, at which all persons having the qualifications of electors, without regard to sex, may vote on the question of suppressing the liquor traffic from July 4. INCENDIARIES have recently made vain attempts to burn the London (England) Cus-tom-House. . | : Ox the 10th Messrs. Crittenden, of Missouri, Cullom, of Illinois, and Porter, of Indiana, were inaugurated as Governors of their respective States, with the customary imposing ceremonies. e | : ~ A BomßaY dispatch received on the 10th announces that a plot to depose the Rajah and massacre all European residents in church had been discovered at Kolopore. Forty-seven natives had been arrested. = ON the visit of the Kingand Queen of Italy to Palermo on the 10th fifteen persons were seriously injured by the fall of a staircase in a church. : _ : , AN outbreak of fever was reported in County Armagh, Ireland, on the 10th. Over one hundred persons had been prostrated. : S Amoxa the bills introduced in the United States Senate on the 10th were the following: By Mr. Logan, to place General Grant on the ! retired list of the army, with the rank and pay of General; to extend the franking privilege to all official business of Senators and Representatives; by Mr. Bayard, to require signatures on National Bank notes to be written. Mr. 'Carpenter presented a Constitutional amendment in the House, providing that the bulk of civil officers of the United States shall hold their positions for four years, and that Congress may provide for the election of Postmasters and other local officers. Mr.. Buckner introduced a bill to negotiate with Mexico or Central America for the cession of territory on which to colonize our colored population. -

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The City Treasurer of Indianapolis states that the delinquency in the books for the present year is the smallesd for ten years past. It is now less than $50,000, when in former years it sometimes amounted to $250,000 and $300,000. - A VERY singular and also ludicrous story, which is declared to be none the less true, however,is told of a clerk in one of the leading business houses of Indianapolis, who became s 0 involved that he needed $5OO to extticate himself from the difficulty: By sorie means he d scovered that a table girl of one of the hotels had by hard work saved up a considerable sum of money, and to‘her he applied for a loan. This wasreadily granted, and a note, with interest and a day of payment only:some months in the future, was executed in acknowledgement of the same. The time came, and with it the same chrounic inability of the maker to pay it. He pleaded for an extension of time, but this the waiter maiden refused utterly to grant, and informed him that he must either pay the sum at: once or marry her. The woman was about forty years old, and much more than correspondingly ugly, so that the debtor demurred against the imposition of such hard terms. The woman, however, was firm. With her it was either the money or a husband, and on the whole she seemed quite anxious to choose the latter. When the hero discovered the gravity of the situation he perceived no way to escape it, and finally capitulated. So the marriage was recently consummated. The man belongs to a good family, and is said to be greatly humiliated by the condition in which he so unwillingly finds himself in being allied by force to a woman so inferior to himself in social position and intelligence. The woman, however, was s 0 well pleased that she rented and furnished a house, and was ready for business before the wedding day. : : A sox of James R. Carter, an Indianapolis saw-mill man, died the other day of lockjaw, resulting from injuries received Christmas by the explosion of a large firecracker held in his hand. FREDERICK MEYERS, & resident of Indianapolis, was struck by a Pan-Handle switehengine the other evening, and fatally crushed, an arm and his right leg being torn off. A FEW nights ago an unknown man stepped into Zeller & McClellan’s coal shaft, near Harmony, and was dashed to atoms at the bottom many feet below. - . NEARLY one year ago Mrs. Wells, principal in one of the Fort Wayne schools, was arrested for whipping a refractory boy with a rubber strap a foot and a half in length and one inch wide. The litigdation has finally ended in a verdict against her for one cent damages and the costs. ' ' THE particulars of a most shocking crime, the work of two physicians, are just made public in Pike County by an anonymous letter to the parents of a young lady lately deceased, that the skeleton in a certain doctor’s office is that of their own daughter. THE question of ceasoning lumber is a ‘subject that is now being agitated and discussed by the State-House Commissioners. It seems that all the doors—and there are a great number of them—as well as most of the other wood used in finishine the State House, are to be of white oak. The preyailing opinion is that no air or kiln drying has yet proved sufficient to stand the test in any building where furnaces or steam are "used for heasing. : - %& RECENTLY-DIVORCED attorney at Fort Wayne has re-married his divorced wife. - Tae New Albany manufactories, without exception, report a most prosperous business during 1880 and a cheering outlook for 1881. Several of the factories will be considerably enlarged the coming year. . THE new State Board of Argiculture met on the 6th and organized by electing the following officers:: President, R. M. Lockhart. Waterloo, De Kalb County; Vice-President, B. H. Hancock, Fredericksburg, Washington County; Secretary, Alexander Herron, Indianapolis; Treasurer, James A. Wildman, Indianapolis; General Superintendent. Ficld. ing Beeler, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Jacob Mutz, Shelby County; Robert Mitchell, Gibson County; W. H. Ragan, Hendricks County, and 8. R. Quick, Bartholomew County. The. time for the State Fair was fixed for ‘Monday, September 26, 1881, and to close on Friday evening, September 30; preparations for the Fair to begin on Thursday, September 22, or three days previous. The Board adjourned to meet on Tuesday, February 8. P Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]: Corn, 38@ 88%5c; Oats, 32@34c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 4134@43c; Oats, 36@3615c; Rye, %@ 97c; Barley, 97c@#1.00. { :

; THE LEGISLATURE. SENATE.—The Senate was called to order at ten o’clock a. m. on the 6th by Auditor-of-State Manson. Judge Niblack, of the Supreme Court, administered the oath of office to the new members. Senator Viehe was chosen President pro tem, only one vote being cast against him. Four ballots were taken for Secretary the result in each case being twentyfive votes for the Democratic candidate and twenty-five for the Republican candidate. The Senate at this point adjourned until ten a.m. on the 7th. : ‘House.—The House was called to order ta ten o’clock a. m. Judge Eliott, one of the recently elected Judges of the Supreme Court, administered the oath of office and a permanent organization was quickly effected by the election of W. M. Ridpath as Speaker, and the Republican caucus nominees for the minor offices. The House then adjourned to meet at the usual hour on the 7th. SENATE.—The Senate reassembled -on the morning of the 7th, pursuant to adjournment. Prayer was dispensed with. A resolution was offered in the nature of a compromise which provided for the election of James H. Rice, as Principal Secretary, Robert Sears, of Vermillion, as Assistant, and C. Y. Monroe for Doorkeeper. The resolution was lost by the usual tie vote. Another ballot was taken with the same result, when a recess was taken until two g m. Upon reassembling a resolution was offered that the nominee receiving the highest number of votes should be declared the Secretary.. This was lost by a tie vote. Several resolutions somewhat differently worded were advocated by either side, and gromptly sat down upon by the inevitable tie. By way of varying the monotony a resolution was offered and adopted to appoint a committee to assist in the A)reparation for the inauguration. Adjourned. HouseE—A bill was passed appropriating $125,000 for the expenses of the Legislature. A special committee was appointed to investigate a contest from Crawford and Orange Counties. The House seated the Republican claimant pending the hearing before the Coms mittee. Adjourned. g

A SCHEME. is under consideration for a canal across the Malayan Peninsula, by which it is believed that Eriglish mails may be delivered in Hong ong in twenty-nine days and a half. asaving of nearly seven days by the present route. The line would be from Bombay to Madras by rail, thence across the Bay of Bengal and by the canal over the peninsula into the Gulf of Siam, and thence direct to Hong Kong. el A e i A GROCER of Boston left $7O to be annually expended in caring for his dog, and that fortunate animal now eats sirloin steak three times-a day, and sleeps on a spring bed.

~ OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. = Necrological. - PFrOM a list, published in the Chicago Tieb= une, of the names of prominent individuals who died during the year 1830, we compile the following, belouging to the United States: , POLITICAL WORLD. » Adolph E. Borie, ex-Secretary of United States Navy; Hon. William A. Howard, Governor of Dakota; Richard B. Connoly, ex-Comp-troller of New York City; ex-Governor Edward Clark, Texas; ex-Mayor George Opdyke, New York; ex-Governor Albert G. Brown, Mississippi; ex-Governor John A. Campbeli, Wyoming Territory; ex-Governor Herbert, of Louisiana; Governor Williams; of Indiana: ex-Governor Westcott, of Florida; ex-Govern-. or Henry 8. Foote, Tennessee; ex-Governor McClelland, of Michigan; Benjamin K. Phelps, United States District Attorney, New York City. ’ EX-MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. i General John Brisbin, Pennsylvania; Samuel G. Arnold, Rhodelsland; William W. Warren, Massachusetts; Thomas F. Bayard, Delaware; Joseph Segar, Virginia; John Robbins, Pennsylvania; Ezra B. French, Miine; J. B. Howell, -Iowa; Jacob Brinkerhoff, Ohio: Joseph R, Chandler, Pennsylvania; William Bigler, Pennsylvania; James Alexander Bedden, Virginia; Herschel V. Johnson, Georgia: Len Bartholomew, New Jersey; Robert McClek land, Michigan; R. C. Ritter; Kentucky; Charles Albright, Pennsylvania; Fayette MoMullen, Virginia; Evarts. W, Farr, New Hampshire; Percy Walker, Alabama; C.. D. Coffin, Ohio; Charles Knapp, New York; LafayetteS. Foster, Connecticut; Henry D. Foster, PennSylvania. , ~ : i UNITED STATES ARMY. e . Brevet-Major-General George Sykes, MajorGeneral Hector Tyndale, General Joseph W. Rexjere, Major-General Heintzelman, General Albert J. Myer (Old Probabilities), General Alfred Torbert, General Richard 8. Satterlee. : ' UNITED STATES NAVY. ' o Commodore Homer C. Blake, Captain John Carson, revenue marine; Isaiah Hanscom; Chief of the Bureau of Navigation; Commodore Edward Barrett, Rear-Admiral Thatcher, Chief-Engineer John 8. Albert, Commodore ‘Lowry, Rear-Admiral C. K. Stribling. , [ THEOLOGY. Fr Bishop Gilbert Haven, M, E. Church, Malden, Mass.: Jacob Ide, D. D., Congregational, West Medway, Mass.; William MoAllister, Methodist, New York City; Rev. H. S. MeMurdie, Director of the Theological Seminary, Emmettsburg. Mo.: Rev. Adolph Baltzer, President German Evangelical Synod of North America, St. Louis, Mo.;' Rev. F. W. Kennedy, editor Southern Christian Advocate, Macon, Ga.; Rev. Jeremiah B. Jeter, D. D., Baptist, Richmond, Va.; Prof. D. L. Tressler, D. D., President Lutheran College, Carthage, Ill: Rev. Robert L. Dashié¢ll, D. D., Methodist. Episcopal Church, Newark, N. J.; Rev, George Punchard, Congregational, Boston, Mass.; Rev. Br. Osgood, Episcopalian, New York; Bishop Pellicier, Roman Catholic, San Antonio, Tex.; Prof. Alexander Macwhorter, Presbyterian theologian, New Haven, Conu.; Dr. William Matthews, Presbyterian, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. Dr, William Adams, New York; Rev. Dr. O.E. Daggett, Professor of .Divinity, Yale College; Rev. S. D Dennison, ‘D. D., White Plains, N. J.;: Rev. William S. Plumer, D. D., Baltimore, Md.; Bishop David S. Daggett, Richmond, Va.; Thomas H. Newton, D. D., Petersburg, Va.; Rev. John MeCloskey, President Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Md.: Rev. John S, Phelps, Methodist,Trenton, N. J.; Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Chapin, New York. ; : SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. Prof. William Livingston, Lombard Colleze, Galesburg; Prof. Samuel Gardiner, electrician and inventor, Buffalo, N. Y.; Prof. I. O, Chapman, Mount Union College, Ohio; Prof. F. A. Allen, Principal Pennsylvania Normal School; Prpf. Frederick Peck, botanist, Washington, D. C.; O. H. 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A Poor-House Horror. DoVER, N. H., January 7. A DISASTER without parallel in this section befell the Strafford County Poor-House, situated about four miles north of this city, at an early hour this morning, whereby thirteen paupers and lunatics/ lost their lives. At 4:30 oO'clock fire was discovered in the furnaceroom of the main building, a three-story edifice of brick, in which lived one hundred and sixty-fcur persons besides the physicians and attendants. In some way the woodwork near the furnace caught fire and burned through one story before it was discovered. It was then burning furiously, and in the absence of facilities for squelching the flames there was nothing to do but to save the inmates, who were immediately in a fearful state of excitement. Many of them were old, imbecile and belpless, and the spectacle as they rushed .about the corridors in utter bewilderment, or crouched stupidly in corners, absolutely refusing to leave the building, was terrible in the -extreme. For some time: the tlames seemed to have a fascination which induced them to return a.ftir having once escaped. Many of the children were saved by being thrown from the windows into the arms of those below. One poor Irish woman, who has been a pauper four or five years, stood nearly naked for three-quarters of an hpur catching them in this way. Finally, after every effort had been made, the building was abandoned and the flames had everything their own way. There was no fire apparatus on the premises. One engine from this city got within a mile of the place, but could go no further, and could have done no good even if it had been stationed at the farm, as there was no water to use. When the flames subsided, it 'was found that thirteen human lives werelost. = s L e————— 3 THE Era;)eror of Brazil has translated some of Whittier’'s poems into Portuguese. ' REv. MR, PEPPER is one of Philadelpbia’s pungent preachers. :

A FIRE HORROR, - Terrible Fate of Ten Occupants of a Tenee ment-House in New York City—Women and Children Obliged to Leap from Loty ,Wlpdom to the Favement 'Belowi. » P fooo s New YORK, January 4, A 8:15 this morninz a fire- broke out in the tenement in the :ear of James -Doyle’s liguor store, 35 Muadison street. - It started at the bottom of the stairs that furnished the only exit for the tenants in the five-story building. ex= cepting the fire-escape attached to the building outside, and in less than five minutes swept ?hroughz.the,\stafirway to the roof, cutting off the escape of a score of persons. The flames soon found vent also'through the two lower stories, and thus barred egress by the. fire-escape. Thé tenants; panicsstricken, made a rush for the roof; but the scuttle was firmly hooked, and would not ‘yield. Ascending, the flames drove the pecople back within their rooms. The wildest confusion followed. Men and women threw their children from the windows and jumped after them ‘through the flames that swept across the yard and set their: clothing ablaze. St : ; When the firemen' obtained mastery, the ‘dead bodies of nine persons who had been burned were taken out:from:theé building. Several were injured in their efforts to escape, and were:sent to the hospital. ' . The scene of the calamity is approached through a narrow alley (hardly wide enough to allow the passage of aportly man) between two tall tenements, N 05.35 and 33 Madison street. In front of the house No. 85 is Doyle’s liquor store. Its ‘back door opens directly upoen a narrow hallway in therear of the tenement where the fire ~obtained its start. Plumbers were at work at the foot of the stairs thawinZ out frozen water-pipes, and for this purpose used gasoline. The vessel was by some means upset, and, becoming ignited, there was an explosion, which blew in the door of the saloon. = . 1o o In an instant black smoke rolled up the long stairway, drawn onward by the draught caused by an,open window in the top story. There was 'al momentary hush as ‘the frightened plumbers hurried into the yard. A man sitting by the bar-room stove Slammed the hall door on the advancing fire. Immediately | there was a wild rush overhead, and the air was filled# with' the wails' of imprisoned men and women, Bhrieks of frightened children, and cries for help. The bar-keeper and plumbers ran through the street to the near-by police station. Very soon the clang of ‘fire-bells filled the Street, and the narrow alley became filled with firemen and police struggling to bring help to the imprisoned and burning tenants. They came ' too late. The fire, finding vent through theopen doors and windows of the untenanted ground floor of the heuse and through the door, had seized upon the shutters, window-: frames, and wooden floors of the balconies . outside, licking them up like 80 much tissue paper, and reaching upward toward the tloors where the frightened occupants were huddled together. : | e Eight families occupied the house, two on each floor. From the second floor the Eagans and Muldoons had at the first alarm escaped through the windows. Mrs, Mary Eagan (widow) and her four .grown chiidren, Marga--ret, Thomas, Joseph and John, reached the ground in safety by a quick jummp. Mrs. Muldoon, who isover eighty years old, was léss fortunate. :Seizing her two grandchildren, - Annie, aged ten years, and Kate, aged seven, she sprang from the fire-escape, but in the fall broke her leg, and crawled away with difficulty. 2o ‘ j On the third floor, Mr. Regan, who lived alone, escaped with his neighbors, the McKenna family, likewise by jumping. James, aged nine, Hugh, aged foxixj, and . the baby, were thrown from a window by CHarles McKenna, their eldest brother, a lad of fifteen. The mother was sweeéping in the yard when the fire broke out. She rushed to the stairway, but was met by a solid .sheet of flame, and realizing the danger of her children, roused them by shouting, before they knew of their danger. **Jump, Charles; throw them do_vgn."' the agonized ‘mother cried, and stretched out her . arms to receive them as the three little heads looked over the window sill besidé their brother. The mother appealed to Charles to throw the children to. her and then to jump himself. The boy quickly' measured the distance to the ground from his thira-story perch, and taking the baby up first, tossed it out, gnd it fell into the arms of - its mother, who caught thée other children as they were sent to her one by oné¢, and finally broke the fall of Charles as he leaped, and all escaped unhurt. v 5% On the fourth floor- lived Cassidy and another family of Eagans. The Cassidy family, - unable to escape to the roof, flung themselves, from the window. Two -of the children, Charles and Thomas, aged six and eight years, remained in the rooms and were burned to death. The Eagan family also leaped to the yard, except a child, aged two years, that was suffocated. Mary Eagan, in the fall, was badly injured. ° M dree s ! S On the fifth -and topmost story Mrs. Ellen Sheridan was at breakfast with her four children. At the first alarm she gathered together the children and sought to escape by - the stairs, but the fire had possession of them. There was no succor from the street, and she sought the scuttle in the roof, but it was immovable. She shrank back from the leap to the yard, five stories below, and, closing the door of her apartment to keep out the rapidly advancing flame, herself and childrén were suffocated by the smoke rapidly filling the room. el : A youth named Donegan, through an adjoining house, had reached the roof of the burning building, and, with an ax, demolished the scuttle. Kate Sheridan, with a child in her ‘arms, endeavored to escape. Her clothing was ablaze. As the girl nearly reached the top she extended her arm to Donegan, who grasped it, but the flesh peeled from the bone, © and the girl and child fell back into the flames, . pieces of the charred flesh remaining in the hands of Donegan. =~ - - : Another victim of the fite was found this afternoon, making the total ten. This addi- - tion to the number is the babe of Mrs. Cassidy, which - was discovered wrapped in a blanket and clasped to the breast of its dead mother. b i gl ot : s Timothy Harrington, the plumber, is arrest~ ed. His hands are burned. He charges the whole disaster to the carelessness of his boyhelper named McGloan, who has disappeared. Their employer, Mr. Patten, has also been arrested. L s e L

Population of States and Territories. THE Superintend,efit of the Census makes the following approximate statement of ‘the: population of the States and Territories: Alabama....... 1,262,844 Montana...... 389,157 Arizona....... 40,441Nebra5ka..... 452,432 Arkansas... . 802,664 Nevada........ 62,265 California..... ' 864,686/N. Hampshire. 347,784 C010rad0...... 194,649/ New Jeérsey... 1,130.892 ‘Connecticut.. 622,683(New Mexico.. 118,430 Dak0ta........ 134,502{New Y0rk....: 5,083,173 Delaware ..... 146,654|N'th Carolina. 1,400,000: Dist. of C 01.... 177,638/00hi0........... 8,197,794 F10rida........ 266,566{0reg0n........ 174767 Georgia. ...... I,s3B,9B3{Pennsyvania.. 4,252,738 Idaho ......... - 32,611/Rhode Island. - 276,528 lllinois. ~... 3,078,636/S. Carolina.... 995,706 Indiana....... 1,978,858 Tennessee..... 1,542,463. T0wa.......,.. 1,624,463 Texas ......... 1,697,509 Kansas ....... 995,335 Utah ... /..... 143,907 Kentucky..... 11,648,699 Vermont...... 832288 Louisiana..... 940,263|Virginia....... 1,512,203 Maine....;..:. ! 648,945‘Washm¥ton... 76,120Maryland..... 9851389/ West Virginia 618,193 Massachusetts 1,783,080 Wisconsin. . ... 1,815,386. Michigan ..... 1,634,096 Wyoming ..... | 20,788 Minnesota. .. =. 780,807 L e Mississigpi.... 1,131,899]' T0ta1......b0,152,559Missouri...... 2,169,091} . s % - —Perpetual motion—a motion to adjourn, which is always in order.—Boston ITranscript. | 37 : SILENCE is the ' safest course for any man to sdopt who distrusts himself.