Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 January 1881 — Page 2

The Zigounier Banner, ; J) B. ‘S'l‘oll.blr;:mnd P‘rop’r. LIGONIER, : .: : INDIANA.

NEWS SUMMARY. [ — Important Intelligence from All Parts. Congress. - A BILL was passed in the Senate ‘on the 19th to provide for ascertaining and settling private land claims in States and Territories acquired from Mexico, except California. A bill reported favorably from the Judiciary Committee to relieve Richard Fatherly, of Arkansas. from political disabilities was, after debate, defeated—3o to 16—not the necessazy two-thirds in the affirmative. A resolution was adopted providing for a select committee on pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious and infectious diseases of cattle and other domestic animals, and Messrs. Johnston, Williams, Rollins, Kirkwood and Coke were named as such committee....The Funding bill came up in the House as unfinished business. Mr, Gillette raised the point of order that, inasmuch a 3 Mr. Newberry had ojpenly, stated that he had gone to the National Bank of which he was a director to inquire how he should vote, " be had no right to wvote on the pending measure. Mr. Weaver afterward extended the point of order so a 8 to include every member who was a National Bank ' stockholder. The " Speaker overruled the J)oint of order, and an appeal was laid on_ the table—22 to 34, The amendment to. the Funding bill, providing that, before any of the bonds or certificates authorized by the act are issued, the Secretary of the ‘l'reasury shall pay on the bonds ‘aceruing during 1851 all silver dollars and all gold over $50,000,000 now in the Treasury for redemption purposes, was rejected—llll to 140. All the other amendments agreed to in Committee of the Whole were adopted, and the bill was then passed: by ~ the following vote: Yeas—Acklen, Atherton, Atkins, Bachman, Barber, Beal, Berry, Bicknell, Blackburn, Bliss, Blount, Bouck, ; Bragg, Buckner, Cabell. Caldwell, - Carlisle, Chalmers, Clardy, Clark (Mo.), Clements, Clymer, <Coffroth, Converse, Cook, Covert, Cox, Cravens, Culberson, Davidson, Davis (N. C.), Dawvis (Me.), Deuster, Dibrell, Dickey, Dunn, Dunnell, Elam, Evans, Felton, Forney, Frost, Geddes, Goode, Gunter. Ham- - mond (Ga.), Harris (Va.), Hatch, Henkle, - Henry, Herbert, Hill, Hooker, Hostetter, House, Hall, Hunton, Hurd, Hutchins, Johnston, Kelly, Kenna, Ketcham, Kimmel, King, Kitchin, Klotz, Knott, Lefevre, Lounsberry, Mannimg. Marsh. Martin (W. Va.), Martin (Del.), McKenzie, McLane, McMahon, McMillen, Mileg, Mills, Money, Morrison, Muldrow, Muller, New, Nicholls, O’Connor, Persons, Phillips, Phister, Poehle, Reagan, Richardson (8.(C.), Richmond, Ross, Rothwell, Russell, (N. C.), Sanford, Sawyer, Scales, Scoville, Shelley, Simonton, Singleton (IlL.), Sir\}glt-ton_(l\{iss.), Slemons, Smith (Pa.), Smith (N. J.), Smith (Ga.), Sparks, Springer, Steele, Talbott, Taylor (Tenn.), Thompson (Ky.),+ Tilllman, Townshend (Ill.), Tucker, Turner, Updegraft (lowa), Upton, Vance, Waddell, Warner, Washburn, Weliborn, Wells, White, Whittaker, Whitthorne, Williams(Ala.), Willis, Wilson, Wise. F. Wood (N. Y.—135. Nays—Aiken, Aldrich (R. L), Aldrich (Ill.), Anderson, Bailey, Baker, Ballou, Belford, Beltzhoover, Bingham, Blake, Bland, Bowman, Boyd, Brewer, Briggs, Brigham, Burrows, Butterworth, Cualkins, (%nmp. Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Claffin, Colerick, Conger, Cmv?rill, Crapo, Daggett, . Davis (I1l.), Davis (Cal.), De La Matyr, Deering, Dick, Dwight, Einstein, Ellis, Errett, Ferdon, * Field, Fisher, Ford, Forsyth, Fort, Frye, Gillette, Godshalk, Hall, Harmer, Hammond (N. Y.), Harris (Mass.), Haskell, Hawley, Hayes, Hazelton, Heilinan, Henderson, Hiscock, Horr, Hubbell, Humphrey, Jones, Keifer, Killinger, Lapham, Lindsey, Loring, Lowe, Mason, McCoid, McCook, McGowan, McKinley, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Morse Mor~ ton, - Murch, Neal, Newbury, NoOrcross,: O’'Neill, Overton, Pacheco, 'Page, Phelps, " Pound, Prescott, Price, Reed. Rice, Richardson (N. Y.), Robertson, Robinson, Russell (Mass.), Ryan (Kan.), Ryan (Pa.), Sapp, Shellenber%cr, Sherwin, Speer. Stevenson, Stone, Taylor (Ohio), Thomas, Thompson (Towa), Townsend (Ohio), Taylor (Tenn.), Urner, Updegraff (Ohio), Valentine, Van Arnim, Voorhis, ° Wait, Ward, Weaver, Wilber, Williams (Wis.), “Willetts (W. Va.), Wood (N. Y.), Wright, Yo¢um, Young (Ohio)—l2s. - s IN the Senate on the=2oth the ladies’ gallery was. occupled mainly by members of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association. Mr. MecDonald called up his resolution for a Standing Committee on the Rights of Women Citizens, and advocated its adoption. and the resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. Mr. Kernan presented a resolution, which was adopted. requesting the President to transmit to the Senate copies of any oflicial crrespondence relative to the exportation of criminals, paupers, or insane persous to the United States by any foreign State, canton, or muniuiyulity., The Funding bill was received from the House and referred to the Finance Committee.... In the House the Naval Approfpriation bill ($14,461,000) was passed as it came from the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Calkins culled up the contested election case of Boynton vs. Loring, from the Sixth Massachusetts District. The majority report . of the Committee on Elections, which was — signed by the Republican and Democratic members, declared Loring entitled to his seat. The minority report,intavor of Boynton, was signed by General Weaver. Mr., Loring made a statement in reply to charges in the minority ‘report, but no further action was taken. - THE bill to place General Grant on the retired list was reported, with two amendments, by Mr. Loganin the Senate on the 21st. The Indian Appropriation bill was passed. Adjourned to the 2ith....The Senate bill-for the retirement of General Ord, with the rank and {{ay of Major-General, was passed in the ouse. The contested election case of Boynton vs. Loring, of the Sixth Massachusetts District, was taken up, and, after debate, the - majority resolution in favor of the sitting member, Loring, was agreed to without division, In the case of Bisbee vs, Hull, from the - Second Congressional District of Florida, the Committee on Elections reported unanimously in favor of Bisbee, the contestant. TaE Senate was not in session on the 22d. ... The House adopted the report of the Election Committee on the contested election case of Bisbee vs. Hull, of the Second Florida District, declaring the foriner entitled to the seat, and Mr. Bisbee took the oath of office. Chy

Domestie, Apvices from Fort Buford, received.on the 19th, state that Sitting Bull had started for ‘the British Possessions, accompanied by forty lodges. Fifty lodges refused to.follow him, and were expected to surrender to the United Btates authorities within a few days. AT PATERSON, N. J., a few days ago five boys, ranging in ages from fifteen to eighteen years, were seriously, and some of them probably fatally, injured, while coasting, their ‘‘bob-sled” having come in collision with a' telegraph pole. The hoys and their sled were horribly smashed.. One boy had his nose broken and driven into his face, his teeth and jaw broken, the imprint of every tooth in the upper jaw being left in the tele‘graph pole against which the sled ran, gomme of the indentations being half an inch deep. MR : THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons have voted to release from prison John 8. Morton, formerly Prestdent of a' Philadelphia street railway, who was sentenced to'ten years’ imprisonment for the fraudulent issué of bonds. A HORRIBLE accident occurred in Detroit the other day. A Mrs. Buettner had been advised to take an alecoholic sweat for some ailment, and she ignorantly placed a saucer full of alcohol o the floor, set fire to it, and then stood over the saucer, wearing her -ordinary clothing. The flames set fire to"her undergarments, and in a moment the unfortunate woman was a mass: of flames. She was alone in the house, but a neighbor heard her screams, and arrived before her clothing had entirely burned off. She was badly and fatally burned, her whole body, from the neck down, being a mass of blisters and halfroasted flesh. o L At Girardyille, Pa., on the 19th, Miss Mary Cardaff and Miss Honore Dougherty were coasting down a bfil when the boy who was guiding their sled lost control of it; Seeing his danger he ro'led off and escaped. Thesled

crashed against a telegraph pole, and both young ladies were instantly killed. » WiLriam H. WEsTERVELT, after comipleting a term of seven years for conspiracy to kidnap Charlie Ross, was discharged from the ‘Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia on the 20th. He deciares that he is utterly innocent of the charge on which he was convicted. Tug Illinois State Grange, in session at Freeport on the 20th, indorsed the Reagan bill to regulate commerce between States. A New York dispatch of the 20th says Rufus Hatch had begun suit in the Supreme Court against the Western Union, the Atlantic & Pacific and the American Union Telegraph Companies, to vrevent. the proposed consolidation. He had obtained an injunction restra‘ning the defendant companies from entering into any agreement of consolidation, .and from increasing their capital stock, aud other matters. A resolution had been adopted by the Assembly at Albany calling for an investigation concerning the prorosed consolidation of the telegraph companies. = Fraxcis B. Boorn and wife, aun aged couple in New York, were recently found in bed perishing from hunger. They had been ill-for thirty days, and had eaten nothing for nine days. Mr. Booth was once wealthy, but lost his money in speculations. ’ Durixa the progress of a fire in Chicago on the night of the 21st the walls of a large furniture factory fell and fifteen firemen and one policeman were buried in the ruins. Two of the firemen were so seyerely injured that they would probably die, and the others were more or less seriously wounded. Tuoe wind blew at the rate of forty miles an hour at New York on the 21st. Telegraph poles were prostrated.in all sections of the city, and the hands of clocks on the churches and public buildings were stopped by the accumulation of ice. - |

" JAMES FRENCH, a brakeman on the Piedmont Road, in North C_aro]ina., recently undertook to dance a jig on top of a moving freight-car, but was killed by a covered bridge, near Salisbury. : Ox the 23d an Erie railway train, having postal and express cars and nine Pullman sleepers, and running at the rate of thirtyfive miles an hour, was thrown from the track near Owego, N.'Y., by the breaking of a driving-wheel axle of a locomotive. By the explosion of the oil lamps the postal-car took fire and burned like tinder, four clerks being roasted to a crisp. The express messenger, Heury C. Brewer, also expired in the flames. The train employes escaped unhurt, but. ten members of a colored minstrel company from Binghamton were more or less iujured. THE storm on the 22d and 23d was widely extended and very destructive. In New York City and vicinity it was especially violent, resulting in the almost total destruction of the telegraphic system, and causinga loss of from $lOO,OOO to $500,000. The fire-alarm system was rendered useless, and the telephonic system also. The injury to trees and shrubbery ‘ was very great. In Boston the stree!s were ‘ impassable, and on most of the lines of street railroad travel was entirely suspended. - Along the- southern - coast of New Jersey the wind on the 21st blew at the rate of sixty to seventy miles an hour. A summer hotel at Asbury Park was spread over the ground, the loss being $lO,OOO. At Water- ‘ town, in Northern New York, the snow was from two to four feet deep. Two saw-mills at Sandy Creek were crushed to the earth by the pressure on their roofs. Tue O'Leary contest for the International belt was opened at the American Institute in New York on the morning of the 24th, in the ! presence of a large crowd. Thirty pedestri- . ans started off on a trot, Hughes making the first mile in 6:03. . ; Durixe the week ended on the 224, 114,-»| 998 standard silver dollars were distributed. ‘ The number during the corresponding week of las{ year was 104,407. ~ 'OxN the 234 the Harlem Railroad near New York was blockaded for eight miles by snowdrifts from five to ten feet high. Jurius MEYER, of New York, was recently’ fined $250 and sent to the penitentiary for three. months for using decayed meat in the manufacture of sausages. _ l TreE Egyptian obelisk was ‘placed on its pedestal in Central Park, New York, on the J 22d. Secretary of the Navy Goff, Secretary of State Evarts; the Central Park Commis-1 sioners and many representatives of the | Masonic fraternity were among the nearly 10,000 people who were present on the occasion. : L | A poucCH of registered mail matter of the first-class, which arrived in Chicago by a Lake Shore train a few evenings ago, from Rochester, N. Y., was found to have been cut open and robbed of valuables to an indefinite amount. . . RecENT snow-glides at Custer and Bonanza, Idaho, swept off seventeen persons, all but four of whom were rescued. ‘ Sxow fell steadily in New Orleans on the 23d for eight hours, melting rapidly away.

Personal and Political. Tae Natioral Woman’s Suffrage Convention in Washington on the 19th adopted resolutions setting forth that suffrage or selfgovernment is a National, inalienable right, and not a privilege that any Government can confer or justly withhold; that we are a Nation, and not a confederacy of States; that we are all citizens, first of the United States, and second of the States wherein we reside, hence the right of 'self-government should be guaranteed by the National Constitution to allcitizens, that, with the ballot in their hands, they may protect themselves everywhere under our flag; that it is the duty. of Congress to submit to the several States a Censtitutional amendment giving women citizens the right of suffrage, and to pass the bill providing for a committee to consider the rights of women. : PresipDENT HoYEs sent to the Senate on the 19th the nomination of Colonel Delos B. Sackett, formerly attached to General Sheridan’s staff, to be Inspector General of the Army. : : : : Hexry L. DAWES was re-elected on the 19th United States Senator from Massachusetts, and Francis M. Cockrell United States Senator from Missouri. i A PUBLIC reception was tendered to General and Mrs. Grant at the Executive Mansion in Albany, N. Y., on the 20th. Many citizens paid their respects. . Tue Senate of California has tabled two _concurrent resolutions protesting against the ratification of the treaties with China. . Georae ReyNorps, of Salf Lake, formerly Secretary to the President of the Mormon Church, finished his term of two years in the Utah Penitentiary for bigamous marriage on the 20th, and was released. His Mormon friends presented him with a purse of $5OO. PrriTions, with nearly seven thousand names, have been laid before the Senate of Michigan for submitting to the people a Constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquor, beer or wine, A still larger number have beeu presented in the House. Faruer Epwirp PurceLL, brother & of Archbishop Purecell, of Cincinnati, died on the 21st at the Ursuline Convent in Brown

County, « Ohio, in his 734 year. He'was his brother’s Business manager. . ' Tae Woman Suffrage Association of Bt. Louis on the 21st appointed a committee to present to the Missouri Legislature a petition asking that body to submit to the people a Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. ‘ ’ » ‘A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 224 says the House Judiciary Committee had ingtructed Representative Harris to report to the ‘House, with favorable recommendation, the’ Lowell Bankrupt bill, as modified by the committee. This bill was before a delegation of merchants recently iin session in that city. CuArLES H., VaAx Wyck was on the 22d elected United States Senator by the Nebraska Legislature, on the seventeenth ballot. Mr. Van Wyck is a native of New York, and served two terms in Congress from the West Point District. He is now a resident of Otoe County, Neb., a farmer, was a Brira-‘dier-General of volunteers during the war, and is regarded as an anti-railroad man. - PRESIDENT HavEs on the 22d directed the following officers to be placed on the retired list: Brigadier-General W. M. Dunn, Judge-Advocate-General; General Stewart Vanvliet, AssiQtant-Quartermastcr-Geue'ral; Lieuten. ant-Colonel Samuel Woods, Deputy Paymas-! ter-General, and Major Joseph H. Eaton, Paymaster. : o i Rev. W. H. PErRIN, D. D., oné of the leading Methodist ministers of Michigan, died at Albion on the 224, aged filty-four years.

: Foreign, ] SEVENTEEN vessels were. ashore near Cardiff, Wales, on the 19th, and it was feared they would all go to pieces. Seven had been beached at Yarmouth and fifty persons drowned. L S : ba RaiLway men at Montreal are discussing a plan to put a tunnel under the Falls of Niagara. - ' Ix the trial of the traversers at Dublin on the 20th one of the counsel for the traversers asked the acquittal of Gordon and Boyton, in order to rejoice the greater Ireland beyond the seas. . A GREAT battle was recently fought be tween the Chilians and Peruvians at a point nine miles south of Lima, in which the Peruvians suffered defeat and heavy loss: Ox the 2)th the Berlin police prohibited a meeting of workmen to protest against the anti-Jewish agitation. IT was stated on the 20th that the cottonmasters of Bolton, England, had notified their workmen that, if the demand for an increase of wazes were mnot withdrawn, they would lock up their mills. i Ox the reassembling of. the Frénch Chambers on the 20th Leon Say was re-elected President of the Senate, and Gambetta of the Chamber of Deputies. ' 'THE death of E. A. Sothern, the actor, was announced from London on the 21st. : ADVICES received on the 21st say that a de cisive battle between the Chilian and Peruvian forces had taken place at Miraflores, in which the latter suffered an utter rout and the loss of the city of Lima. President Pierola had fled and the Minister of War had been taken prisoner.. The Chilian loss was heavy. A LAxD-LEAG UE meeting at’ Rock Carry, Ireland, and a counter meeting of Orangemen were prohibited on the 21st, for fear of a breach of the peace. Forty-nine Leaguers at Listowel had been summoned to answer the charge of seditious conspiracy. . O~ the 21st the police at St. Petersburg arrested several distinguished Nihilists, - THE death of Verbockhaven, the eminent Belgian paiunter; is announced. ~JosepH U. CrAWFORD, a Penunsylvanian, has completed a division of the- first American railroad in Asia, on one of the northern islands of Japan, at a cost of $20,000 per mile. : . ; THERE were snow drifts thirty feet high .in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont., on the 23d. NeEws was received on the 23d that the Chilians had forced the surrender of the Peruvian port-of Callao. . A 81. PETERSBURG télegram of the 23d says a dispatch'had been received from General Skobelefl stating that he fought a desperate battle with the Tekke-Turcomans on the 16th, finally repulsing them with great slaugh’ter. ' : '

. LATER NEWS., : Coerciox: bills were introduced in the British Parliament on the evening of the 24th by Secretary Forster. One of them asks power for the' Viceroy, until September of the next year, to arrest persons reasonably suspected of treasonable offenses. : HEerr BLUCHRODER, a leading Jewish banker of Berlin, is reported to have renounced Judaism and to have departed for Rome to be baptized by the Pope. i GENERAL B. BATE, Democrat, on the 24th withdrew as a candidate for United States Senator fromr Tennessee. The State Legislature took five ballots on that day, the last resulting as follows: Bailey, 11; Taylor, 32; Muse, 45; Rose, 2; Bright, 4; Neal, 1; Maynard, 22; Marks, 1. Tne Pennsylvania Legislature again balloted for United States Senator on the 24th, with the following result: Oliver (Rep. caucus nominee), 73; Wallace (Dem.), 66; Grow (Rep.), 48; scattering, 10. Nochoice. PrESIDENT HAYES has renominated Edward C. Billings, of Loui:iana, to be United States Judge for the Fifth Circuit, in place of Judge Woods, appointed to the Supreme Bench. TEERE was a remarkable snow-storm throughout the South on the 24th. Snow fell to the depth of several inches at New Orleans, Galveston and Mobile, and trees and shrubbery were generally greatly damaged. In Wilmington, N. C., there was good sleighing, and at Augusta, Ga., snow fell for eight hours. Ixn the United States District Court at Charleston a few days ago William L. Webb was convicted of voting twenty-one ballots in Georgetown County at the last election. The jury commended him to the wmerecy of the Judge. ; : , IN the United States Senate on the 24th a bill for the reclamation of the Potomac marshes was passed. Mr. Logan asked unanimous consent to take up the bill to retire ‘General Grant. Mr. Vest objected. A spirited debate followed, and, after the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Logan moved to postpone the pending and prior orders in order to proceed with the Grant Retirement bill. The motion was defeated—2s to 28—a party vote, except that Messrs. Lamar and McPherson, with Davis (IIL), voted aye with the Republicans. A large number of bills were intreduced in the House, among which were the following: By Mr. Robinson, to establish a uniform system of bankruptey: by Mr. Young, authorizing the appointment of a Commission to examine and report on the adulteration of food; by Mr: Gillette, for the construction of a double-track railway from New York to Council Bluffs; by Mr. Acklen, to regulate the collection of duties on sugar. Mr. Cox, from the Committee on Census, reported a substituts for the Apportionment bill, providing for 301 Representatives, The Post-office Appropriation bill ($40,760,431) was considered in Committees of

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. ~ A FEW mornings ago the spacious and elegant home of ex-Senator Fitch, at Logansport, was burned to the ground, involving a loss of $12,000. The aged wife of the exSenator was confined to her bed by dangerous; sickness, and had to be carried toa neighbor’s for safety. . Although the night was bitterly cold, and the excitement incident to the fire great, she stood the test of the removal well, and seemed none the worse for it. .Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 38@ 88l4c; Oats, ' 831¢@85'¢c. The Cincinnaty quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $LO3@ 1.04; Corn, 42@1#3c; Oats, 37@871¢c; Rye, 98@ 9Sldc; Barley, 97¢(@#$1.00. ’

THE LEGISLATURE. SENATE—Not in session on the 15th. House~The House held a brief session, disposing of sundry bills on second reading, and then adjourned until the afterhoon of the 17th. | SENATE.—On the 17th bills were introduced 1 —providing for a ‘State Board of Health, as ‘ recommended by the State Medical Society: | muaking material changes in the law regulating | insanity inguests, so that irresponsible com- | - missioners cannot adjudge parties insane; to | pay claims due members of the Indiana legion and independent volunteers. A joint resola- | tion was presented cutting down the number | of judicial circuits and reducing the number ‘of Judges and Prosecuting Attorneys. G House—A concurrent resolution was adopted for an investigation of the management of the Insane Asylum, and a committee was raised headed by Mr. Berryman. Nineteen new bills were. introduced, among them the following: A Prohibitory bill; providing that -in civil cases a verdict of two-thirds of the jury shall be sufficient; compelling railwaysto plank-fence their tracks; permitting counties to contribute to the support of orphan asylums unconnected with religious organizations. A i\f;titi«m was present¢d by Prof. Campbell, of loomington, asking the payment of $6,662, for fifteen year's services as teacher in the State University. S / SENATE.—On the 18th the greater pait of the time was devoted to the introduction of bills, prominent among which were those providing for a reorganization of the benevolent institutions; providing for a $lO,OOO monument to be placed on the Tiopecanoe Battle Ground; concerning judgments against foreign insurance companies. A resolution regarding a memorial to the Indiana soldiers -to be placed in the new State-House was referred to the Commmittee on Military Affairs without discussion. Over one hundred petitions on the sw#bject of temperance were presented from all parts of the State and sent to the Temgerance Committee withoutreading. In accordance with law, the Senate balloted for United States Senator with the following result: Gray, 23; Harrison, 22; De LaMatyr, 2. Adjourned. . : Housk—Bills were introduced—to limit the rate of travel of railroad trains to twenty-five miles an hour; to prevent fraud at elections; making railroads responsible for damage resulting from the accumulation of rubbish along the line of their tracks. Seventy petitions, bearing fifteen thousand signatures, were presented praying for the passage of a Coastitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of liquor. Two hours were occupied in a debate upon the bill for the submission toghe Supreme Court of the question whether the Legislature has the power to order another vote on the Constitutional amendments, and the bill, which was on its third reading, passed —yeas 52, nays 42. A-ballot was taken for United States Senator with the following result: Harrison, 57; Gray, 49; De La Matyr, 1. Adjourned. - SENATE—On the 19th the bill removing the disabilities of Coverture was made the special order for the 20th, and the bill providing for a Constritutiogal Convention was laid over until the afternopn of the Zith. A bill passed amending the charterof the city of Evansvilie, and resolutions were adopted in memoriam of the late Senator B. L. Davenport, of Elkhart. -Pending the adoptipn, tributes were paid by Senators White, Shaffer, . Heffron and Comstock. The Senate went into Joint Convention, after which an adjournment was had. HouseE.—A select committee on Woman Suffrage was raised, and Mr. Furnas appointed Chairman. Bills were introduced—appropriating $4,000 to relieve the State Board of . Agriculture of mortgage indebtedness; for the more effectual protection and education of pauper children; regulating railway charges for freight transportation. A joint resolution was adopted memorializing Congress in favor of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Both houses met in Joint Convention and voted for United States Senator with the following result: Harrison, 81; Gray, 62; De La Matyr, 2; -and General Harrison was declared to be Sen-ator-elect. Mrs. E. A. Winsor was chosen. State Librarian by a vote of 81 to 71. SENATE.—On the 20th the bill for removing the disabilities of coverture was debated and recommitted. Sundry resolutions were introduced. among them one directing an inquiry into the reasons for the non-fulfillment of the law by the Coal-oil Inspector. The Committee on Claims was’ instructed to report upon the feasibility of making the Auditor, Treasurer ; and Secretary of . State .a board of claims to : pass upon all claims against the Statle. Bills were introduced—providing a school or home for indigent children; a temperance bill stipulating a $2OO license ' for the sale of liquors, the money thus obtained to be appropriated toward the erection and maintenance of aninebriate asylum; repealing the *railroad whistling act,” and making provision that the engines shall sound the whistle twice and ring the bell continuously until the crossing is passed. - > ’ HousE—The greater part of the morning session was occupied in debate upon.the rate of imterest. The Judiciary Committee submitted a majoritg report recommending that the bill limiting the legal rate of interest to six per cent. should lie upon the table, but.the minority report, recommending the adoption of the bill, was acceé)ted by a vote of 59 to 32. After considerable debate the bill was recommitted by nearly the same vote, on the ground that not sufficient consideration had been given other features ot the bill. The State Bar Association’s bill for resubmitting the Constitutional amendments to a popular vote was reported upon favorably by the Judiciary Committee, and the 22d of -February agreed -upon as the date of election. The bil{ passed, ayes, 74; noes, 23. The resolution, declaring’ it unlawful and unconstitutional for the General Assembly to pass an Apportionment bill until the existing act had been in operation six years was laid on the table by a strict party vote, yeas, 51; nays, 36. r : : SENATE.—On the 21st the. Senate designated ~January 28 for memorial addresses and resolutions relative to the late Governor Williams. Bills were introduced—empowering the | Governor to make all appointments now thespecial province of the Legislature, said ap- . pointments to be divided equally between the two political factions; separating the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home and the institution of Feebleminded Children. The re-submission of the Con-~ stitutional amendments and the bill for the Constitutional Convention went over until the 25th. The bill approll)riatjng $16,000 for payment of the Indiana Legion claims passed. HouSE.—Forty new bills were introduced, including one providing for electing the Electors for President and Vice-President, and repealing the present law requiring appointment of District Marshals to collect the vote. A committee was instructed to inquire into'the expediency of redvclng the number of Judi- | cial Circuits in the State, and a resolution assed recommending Congress to gensio.n all giexican veterans except those who bad not ‘ accepted the result of the war of the rebellion, | and had failed to have their political disabilities removed by act of Congress. A bill was introduced amending the present act so as to debar County Commissioners from levying a tax for towuahi(% purposes exceeding three gents on the $lOO for any onme year in any country having a voting population of over twenty thousand, provided also that the town#hip tax shall not exceed one cent on the $lOO valuation. ¥ t : |

THE minute lines and furrows om persons’ hands are likely to receive a far more useful attention than the observation of the great lines by fortunetellers. There is reason to believe that the spiral whorls on the thumb and finger points are peculiar to individuals and races, and may be as certainly used to define the ethnological class or positive identification of the being possessing them as the measurement of the skull or examination of a photograph would be. '

A PARTIALLY deranged prisoner in the Connecticut Stute Prison recently fasted eighteen days, but then gave in.

ANOTHER RAILROAD HORROR. Details of One of the Many Recent Rallroad Accidents—A Train on the New York & Erie Road Thrown from the Track and Set on Fire, and Four Men Buined to " Death. ; A 3 | ELMIRA, N. Y., January 23. . ERIE train No. 12, from 'Buffalo, left Elmira last night at eleven o’clock tbr New York. The train consisted of one postal car, one ex- . press car, two baggage cars and nine passenger coaches, most of them Pullman sleepers. When five miles west of Owego, near Tioga Center, one of the driving-wheel axles of the locomotive broke clogse up to the wheel, and the entire train, which was going at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, was thrown from thetrack. = | ; The accident pccurred where there was no embankment. The engine kept its feet, the engineer applying the air-brakes as soon ashe: feit the shock. The cars were stopped very quickly, but thé forward ones were turned over and over two or three times, some going on one side of the track and some on the other. i - The engineer and fireman escaped unhurt. The postal-car cogtained four clerks. This ‘car almost jnstantly took fire and burned like gunpowder. The oil lamps used probably exploded uu&gdded fuel to the fire.. Every man in the car was roasted to a crisp. The remains of one, ¥ho weighed over tweo hundred pounds, were gathered up and put in a small box. ' In the express car was a messenger, Henry C. Brewer, of Elmira, and efforts were made to relieve him. A hole was cut in a side door of the car so that he got his head out, but his legs were fastened by the-piled-up mass of express matier. The train men tricd to pull him out, but the iames drove tbem away. They saw his hair and whiskers burned off, and then he put his hand up to his eyes and fell back into the tiames. I { The men in the postal car must have perished very quickly, as not a sound came from the wreck except the crackling of the fiames. The names.of the dead are: Joseph Reding.er, mail agent; Eenry C. Brewer, express agent, of Elmira; Mail Agent Seybolt, of Mount Hope; Mail Agent Ingraham, of Bingbhamton; Mail Weigher Fox, of New York. The remains were taken to Owego, where an inquest was held.

WHAT A PASSENGER ,SAW. ; , NEW YORK, January 23. The passengers on the train wrecked at Tioga Station reached New York to-night. Among them was Henry C.Vilas, of Cleveland,General - Manager of the South Shore Line, one of the passengers in the forward sleeping car. He said to a Tribune reporter: ‘‘The crash oc- - curred at about 11:55 o’clock, I should think—some time after { had gone to bed. - It was 'very severe, and I woke with a start. Hastily’ ~putting on my coat, I rushed out and found i myself one of the first on the ground. At once | I began to look out tor the untoriunate people ~ inthe forward cars. Thescene that presented itself was terrible. The postal car, which was directly behind the engine, had beén I thrown off into a field at = right angles to the track, at a ' distance ‘of nearly one hundred feet, and it was smashed all to pieces. The flames immediately began to rise from it, doubtless caused by the fire'in the stoves and the explosion of the kierosene lamps-with which the car was lighted, and in less than five minutes the whole car was in a blaze, which lighted up the bare fields around with ghastly glare. 1t lay in a heap under a large elm tree; which 'soon‘took fire and was enveloped in flames. Nothing could be secn at first of the mail clerks who had occupied the car, and no sound .was heard from them. But when the roof of ‘the car caved in three of the bodics could be distinctly seen huddled up in one corner of -the car, where it is supposed they were thrown and killed by the first shock. The other body - was found in the opposite ¢nd of the ear, and i all were so charred and blackened that identification was almost impossibie. “ The cars which followed the postal ear were not thrown from the roadway, but were lying across the track in the utmost confu.sBlon. The express and baggage cars and the ’ smoking car were off the track, and the first - caught fire immediately. The dcor to it was ‘ completely blo¢cked by the express maiter in ‘ the car, and Brewer, the agent, was imprisoned amid the tlames. His cries attracted attention and great efforts were made to extricate him from his terrible position, but in vain. He had managed to get his head out of a small window in the end of the car, where he begged in piteous tones for those outside’ to save him. The door was forcedopen a few ~inches, which let in the air,and 'the flames ~ bursting out of the window, he fell back with ! a groan and was not seen again. alive. The | passengers had by this time coliected from all ~ parts of the train, and were supplied with shovels from the village. They tried to extinguish the flames by throwing snow upon ‘ the burning /cars. They were soon assisted by the Fire Department of Owego. The three forward cars were burning at the same time, and soon afterward the smoking~ear bgan to blaze. One of these had been occupied by the .Alabama Negro Minstrel Troupe, the members of which had been able to escape without any further injuries than some severe scratches and bruises. This car. was lying on itg side, and it was some time before all got out; with the assistance of those outside. The baggage-master, Perry, was found to have . dislocated his arm, and I assisted two other men in pulling his arm intp joint while he lay on 'the snow. After this he worked . like a Trojan, and with the help of some of the passengers he was able to save every piece of baggage. The | coolness and good discipline displayed by thie employes on the train was remarkable. It was by their etforts that a serious panic was prevented. As it was, all the passengers were at. first much frightened, many rushed from the cars, half dressed, but when they saw.the danger was over they be. came quiet, and were very willingtolend their assistance in caring for those who were injured and in putting out the fire.”

Exposure and Death in the Snow. O~ Thursday, December 30, at 1:30 p. m. Mr. Silas C. Lowe left here on foot to take messages up to the steamer John Gates, at Simmons’ Landing, distance about twelve ‘miles. He passed our section in: good spirits. Two Indians going from here for Wallula were some distance ahead of him and broke the path forhim: Itseems that he went within about three miles of the steamer and then turned back. Nothing was heard of him until yeste,fi:fi! day about one p. m., when Messrs. Roach and Anderson came down from the Gates. After walking “about three miles thiss way they saw blood on the trail and sprinkled along on the snow and places where the snow was stamped down as if a person had been | crawling and rolling in it. They saw where he had walked from the railroad track eut to a telegraph pole; evidently to get kindling to make a fire. They found matches in one place where he had tried to make a fire. They came | on until within|gix ‘miles of this place, where. they found Mr. Lowe lying in the snow and in a dying condition. He was just gasping for | breath. His hands were bleeding. The skin was torn from his fingers and hands in several places, which I'suppose he did in trying to get sage brush to make a fire, as he had no knife with him. Mr.[Roach came on into town as fast as possible to bring the news, and as soon. as I'heard it I ordered our little switch engine to go out and bring him in. 'We took a: box car and a dozen citizens, We were detained some time by the snow on the track about a foot deep. We arrived there about fifteen minutes to two and found him dead.—Cor. Portland Oregoninmn, ; :

A sTupY in oil—The attempt to get a sardine out whole. =~

- OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. . Officia} Cenmns Keport. i THE official statement of the Superintendent of the Census, as sent to Congress a few days azo, gives the population of the United States as follows, by States: 5 o Alabama ...... 1,262,327 Mississippi. ....1,131,572 Arksmsas.... .. 802,564 Missouri. ......2/163,834 California...... 864,686 Nebraska ...... 452,453 C010rad0...., ... 174,640 Nevada..... ..., 62265 Connecticut ... 6562683 N. Hampshire. 346,984 Delaware....... 146,614‘Ncw' Jer5ey....1,150,983 Florida. .:.,..... 267,331 New Y0rk......5,0£3,810 Georgia....... 1.539,048 North Car01ina.1,480,047 Nlinois .. ........3008,96- Ohio. ... ....... .3, 178,280 Indiana ........3.578,8620reg0n... ..... 174,767 T10wa............1,654,620 Pennsylvania. .4,282,786 Kan5a5......... 995,065'Rh0de Island. . . 276,528 Kentucky...... 1,645,788 Soutn Carolina. - 535,062 Louisiana...... 540103 Tennessec ... 1541463 Maine . .....:00 a 8 Texna. ... 0. 18i2.674 Maryland ...... 954,632/ Vermont....... 332.28 Maussachusetts 1,483,012 Virginia........ 1,520,806 Michigan. ... ;.1,636,331, West Virginia., 616443 Minnesota...... 780,806, Wiscon=in... .. :1.352,480 - This makes@ total of £3,369,595 for the States. The Territories aggregate 665,663, and the Disk trict of Columbia 177,638, which makes a grand aggregate of population of 50,152,865, . - G e s 3 A Herklmer_(‘dqntyv (N.+X.) Avalanche. Four young lads of from ten to fourteen, sons of Albert Youlin, Robert Williams, Christopher Van Nort and Jokn Manning, of Frank: fort Center, had a narrow escape from death on Monday. They were attending school, and during the noon intermission, against the protest of the teacher, cli'ph’ed'a hill whose banks were almost perpendicuiar and nearly 300 feet in height. When about 2)) feet from the foot, the snow which had drifted to a great depth about the top. suddenly gave away and came rushing down the side. carrying fences, small trees, and boys to the bottom. A gang of men was immediately summoned to extricate the latter, but it was not till after nearly two hours of incessant labor that they were recovered, exhausted and nearly unconscious. It was found that one of young Youlin’s knees was badly dislocated, while Williams and Van Nort were greatly bruised about” their bodies and heads, and sorhe internal injuries were feared. Manning was unhurt.—Utica (N. Y.) Herald. : ;

1 The Funding BillL : \V.xsufm;‘*ros, January 19. | FoLLOwING is the full text of the Funding billas finally passed by the House to-day: ° SEcTION 1. Be it enacted, etc: That all existing provisions of the law authorizing the refunding of the National debt shall apply to any bonds of the United States bearing a higher rate of interest than4!¢ per cent. per annum which may hereafter beeome redéemable; provided that, in.lieu of the bonds authorized to be issued by the act of July 14, 1870, entitled “An act to authorize the refunding'of the National debt,” -and acts amendatory thereto, and -the certificates authorized by the act of February 26, 1879, entitled ‘**An act to authorize the -issue of ‘certificates of deposit in aid- of the refunding of the publicdebt,” ‘the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue bonds in an amount ot exceeding $400,00,000, which shall bear interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after- five years, and payable ten years from date of issue, and also certificates to the amount of $300,000.000, in .denominations of $lO, $2O or $59, either registered or coupon, bearing interest at the rate of three per cent. per anniimn, I‘edeemabl.e at the pleasure of the United States after one year, and payable in ten years from date. The bonds -and certificates shall be in all-other respects of like character, and subject to the same provisions as the bonds authorized to be issued by the act of July 14, 1870, entitled *An act to authorize the refunding of the National debt,” and acts amendatory thereto; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize an- increase of the public debt; and provided,: further,- that interest upon the six-per-cent. bonds hereby authorized to be refunded shall cease at=the expiration of thirty days after notice that the same have been designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for redemption.. 4 SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in process of refunding the National debt, to-exchahge, at not less than par,’any bonds or certificates herein authorized for any of the bonds of the United States outstanding and uncalled 'bearing a higher rate of interest than 4} per cent. per annum, and on bonds g 0 redeemed the Secretary of the Treasury may allow to holders the difference between the interest on such bonds from the date of exchange to the time of maturity, and the interest for a like period on the Honds or certificates issued; but none of the provisions of this act shall apply to' the redemption or exchange of any of the bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, and the bonds so received and exchanged in pursudnce of the provisions of this act shall be canceled and destroyed. - ° . i : : SEC. 8. Authority to raise bonds and eertificates to the amount necessary to carry outthe provisions of this act is hereby granted, and the Secretary -of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make suitable rules and regulations to- carry this act into effect: provided, vtha,t' the expenses of preparing, issuing, advertising and disposing of the bonds ‘and certificates authorized to be issued shall notexceed one-fourth of one per cent. - SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, if in his opinion it shall become necessary, to use not exceeding $50,000,~ ‘OOO of the standard gold and silver coin in the Treasury in the redemption of the five and six-per-cent.bonds of the United States, authorized to be refundeéd by. the provisions of this act, and he may,.at- any. time, apply the surplus money in the Treasury, not* otherwise appropriated, or 8o much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption of United States bonds or certificates; provided, that the bonds and certificates so purchased or redeemed shall constitute no vart ot the ‘Sinking fund, but shall be canceled, . SEc. 5. From and after the first day of May, 1881, the threée-per-cent. bonds authorized by the first section of this-act shall be the only bonds receivable as security for National-bank circulation, or as security for the safe-keep-ing and prompt payment of public money deposited with such banks; but when any such bonds deposited for the puspose aforesaid shall be designated for purchase or redemp‘tion by the Secretary of the Treasury, the banking association depositing the same shall have the right to substitute other issues of bonds of the United States in lieu thereof; provided, thatno bond upon which interest bas ceased shall be accepted or shall be continued on deposit as security for the circulation or for the safe-keeping of the public money; ‘and in case the bonds 8o deposited shall not be withdrawn; as provided by law, within thirty days after interest has ceased ,thereofi, the ‘banking association depositing the same shall be subject, to. the liabilities and proceedings on the part of the Comptroller provided for in Sec. 5,244 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and provided, further, that Sec. 4of the act of June 20, 1874, entitled *An act fixing ‘the amount of United States notes, providing for a redistribution of the National Bank currency and for other purposes,’” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and Secs. 5,159 and 5,160 of the Revised Statutes of the United Stag(els be, and the same are hereby, re-en-acted, 2 LT Gt e SEC. 6, That this act shall be known as “The Funding Aot of 1881, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this ‘act are hereby re- : B e q’._..’.___._ e | . —The Episcopalians of St. Louis clubbed together lately, hired a theater for a week, paid the manager the salary of the v{)layem, selecting. of -course. a moral play, and ‘at the close turned over the profits to ‘the local charity for the sake of which this new departure wasmade. .o v o o e g A BosToN merchant predicts a year of cheap coffee, - = .