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NEWS SUMMARY i w 0 0% = : S sl ooy i s /s Important Intellizence from All Parts, U. S. Senate Proceedings, MRr. VooruEgns on the 15th called up a resolution offered by him the day before, calling on the Attorney-General for information as to the names of Deputy United States Marshals appointed in the State of Indiana to attend the rolls at the election in that State in October last, 4nd, on motion of Mr. Edinunds, an amendment was adopted calling for any information in possession of the Attorney-Gen-eral bearing upon the necessity for the employment of such Marshalg, and the resolution us amended was then agreed to, Mr. Pendleton called up his reorganization resolution, when Mr. Cameron (Pa.; interposed a motion, which was lost—34 to 36—Mr. Davis (llL) voting with the Democrats, and Mr. Mahone with the Re'gublicans._ A motion to consgider executive usiness was also -lost—3¢ to 37—when Mr, ‘Pendleton, stating that it' was evident no vote could be reached on the pending business, moved to adjourn, which motion was agreed to. e ; THRE organization resolution was called up on the 16th, when Mr. Cameron (Pa.) moved to adjourn, but yielded to Mr. Vest to offer a iresolution, which was adopted, requesting of the President the correspondence and accompanying documents between the United States and Mexico during 1859 to 1861, inclusive, in ‘reference Lo a proposed treaty between said Governments, and also the correspondence during the same years betweon the State De,,&artment and the United States Minister at exico in reference to any proposed convention or treaty between the two Governments. The motion to adjourn was lost—2B to 35— Mahone not voting. A motion to proceed to thé consideration of executive business was also lost—32 to 34—Mahone voting in the affirmative. After the voting down of other mot{ions, Mr. Beck said thsat, as there was a Republican President backed by a Republican House, it might be better for the Democratic party . that he also ihave the. Senate .at his - back, = and 'have the eredit of all that was good and the responsibility of all that was bad; therefore he (Beck) was not in favor of attempting to hold on to g few privileges, and he thought the Senate might as well adjourn, and he made a motion to that effect, which was agreed to.’ Tup credentials of Mr. Edgerton, of Minnesota, were presented on the 17th, and he was sworn in. Mr. Pendleton said he had received information which induced hfign to believe that it would be impossible duridg the morning to obtain & vote on the pending organization resolution, and he therefore moved to adjourn, whi¢h motion was agreed to. il . TaE credentials of Mr. Frye (Me.) were presented on the 13th, and he took the oath of coffice. Mr. Pendleton’s organization resolution was indefinitely postponed—3S to 87—the Viece-President casting the deeiding vote in the affirmative. Mr. Anthony then offcred a resolution reorganizing the Senate Committees, on a Republican basis, which was agreed. to —5B to 37-—the Vioe-Presi-dent casting the deciding vote. - Mr. Davis (Ill.) voted with the Democrats, and Mr. Mahone with the Republicans. Mr. Naulsbury expressed the @inion that in the organization of the Senate the Vice-President, was not clothed by the Congtitution with power to decide in a question of this character. and that such action was an assumptiou of power not warranted by the Constitution. Mr. Logan said the Vice-President merelv followed precedents, and gquoted a similar case in 1879, ~ e — -

Domestic. , A Bourn CAroLIixA lad, named Johr Carroll, while recently playing with some friends on Table Rock, in Pickens County, lost his foeting and fell twelve hundred feet. IX acell of the Eastern Penitentlary, at Philadelphia, a few days ago John Mcßride and John Pfeifter were found dead. Circumstances indicated that ithe former'was murdered dnd the latter committed suicide. IT was stated on the 16th that the Executive Committee of the World’s Fair Commission had agreed to complete the first $1,000,000 by the 15th of April, on condition that the transportation companies subseribe $1,000,000, and the citizens of New York not represented by the companies and others than those then on the books subscribe the remaining §1,000,000. o DALE CROCKETT, 0f Mississippi County, ‘Mo., said to be the head of a gang of counterfeiters, has been arrested by United States detectives. ; : A rew days azo two highwaymen attacked the stage coach near Contention, Arizona, killed the driver'and wounded a passenger. R. N. Paul, Wells, Fargo & Co.’s agent, returned their fire, causing the horses to run away, and thus saving the passengers and treasure. ’ : A DEFICIT of $lOO,OOO has been discovered in the cash of the Ashuelot Savings Bank of Winchester, N. H., and the Treasurer has assigned his property to make it good. A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 16th says twenty-six National Banks had deposited $2,525,000 in United States bonds as security for sirculating notes, half a million of which were issued on that day. _ Tur N.Y. Byening Post of the 17th Bays: JRespecting the reports floating about to theeffect that the Treasury is negotiating with the influential bankers for the sale to them of $104,000,000 four-per-cent. bonds authorized but unissued, our information to-day is that Becretary Windom declines to consider the subject of the sale of these bonds until it has been definitely settled whether or not there is to be an extra sesssion of Congresa.? : : ‘ A BOY geven years old, named Elbert Keck, died in Memphis a few days azo, of hydrophobia, the symptoms of which were fully developed. Ie was bitten by a rabid dog Jast Christmas. Several other persons were bitten at the same time by the dog, SECRETARY BLAINE on the 17th telegraphed to Minister Lowell -at London and Minister Noyes at Paris that there was no ground for the sensational reports’ of British Consul Crump, of Philadelphia, as to the existence of hog-cholera in this country; that Crump had been imposed upon by speculators; that his figures were wholly untrustworthy; that hog«holera had prevailed in this country to a less extent than ever before; and that the scare in England and France about trichimosis had originated from interested specula‘tors. K 2asr ; 2

| A SINGULAR occurrence took place at Florence, 8. C,, on the 17th. James Best, while " under an apple tree in an orchard at that ‘place, was struck by lichtning, his grave dug by the bolt, and himself buried therein. TaE steamer City of Peking. arrived at San (Francisco on the 17th, with 999 Chinese pas'sengers. - : : . Hopsox & BaEPARD, of Utlea, N. Y., wholesdle dealers in crockery, have fafled, with liabilities of $lOO,OOO. : | Durixe a scuffie with a burglar at Valley {Forge, Pa., a few evenings ago Samuel {Clugston was shot twice and soon after died. ' MARINO Ll, the last of the murderers of Colonel Potter, has been captured in New Mexico. : i | TaE Bartlett mills at Newburyport, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the evening of the 18th. v {‘B;‘H! Pittsburgh molders gave notice on the AlBth that they must receive an increase in wages of ten per cent. on the first of Apxil, or would strike, | IN an attempt to execute James Black, at arion, 8. C., on the 18th, the rope broke iffer e had been hoisted thirteen feet into

the air. He was restored to consciousness by means of whisky, and hanged as speedily as new hemp could be procured.. Ox the 18th a collision between a switch engine and a freight train, at Parsons, Kan. killed two men-and wrecked two locomotives and twenty cars. THREE of the alleged Northampton (Mass.) Bank burglars were released from custody on the ISth, the Grand Jury bhaving failed to indict. Much indignation was expressed at the result, and there were rumors that a compromise had been effected. Five citizens of Arizona recently pursued a band of Apache mule thieves for seven days, but were themselves finally ambushed and murdered by them. Mgrs. MArY RoGErs, of Terre Haute, Ind., while delirious from an attack of the measles, sprang into a well on the 18th and was drowned. : ON the 18th the tow-boat John Means exploded her boilers near Osceola, Ark., and immediately sank. Four of her crew were drowned and four injured. Her tow of.five barges floated on for filty miles. ’ LATE advices from the frontier represent the White River Utes as securing all the guns and -ammunition possible, and there were grave fears of an early outbreak. The troops had completed a substantial block-house near the azency. ' THe first overland train for the East by the Southern route left San Francisco on the morning of the 18th. Just as they were coming down with the small-pox, Charles Foster and wife, near Lexington, 111., were turned out into the storm by the burning of their house on the night of the 19th. Rather than endanger their neighbors, they protected themselyes for seven hours with bed clothing, and then traveled eight miles in a lumber wagon to reach the residence of a family already stricken by the same disease. & ' Tromas Purpps, a twelve-year-old boy, died at Hopkinsville, Ky., on the 19th, of lock-jaw, caused from a slight wound in his hand some days before with a toy pistol. Tz snow and wind storm on the 19th and 20th equaled in severity any that preceded it during the past winter, and extended very generally throughout the Northwest, causing considerable detention to railroad trains. Vennor, the Canadian.weather prophet, some time ago predicted a severe snow sterm on the 20th of March.

A ciTizeN of Indianapolis, named Charles L. Ibach, died on the 20th, after suffering torture for eleven weeks from trichiniasis. A BoIiLER in Tyler & Harrod’s saw-mill, near Frankfort, Ky., exploded the other day, killing three persons and wounding six. = Hexry DILLON, a young man emp.oyed in a Buffalo (N. Y.) confectionery, while unloading boxes in front of the place, was attacked by a large Newfoundland dog, which buried its teethin his throat. (Gangrene set in, and Dillon died a few days after, in horrible agony. = _ . A TEN-YEAR-OLD Bosto boy, named Frederick Clark, living at the South End, was on the 19th held for trial on a charge which, if proved, shows-him to be an incipient Jesse Pomeroy. It was alleged that a day or two before he encountered little Albert Taylor, nine years old, and, lassoing him with a slipnoose, hung him to alamp post. ' When tired of his cruel sport he let his victim down and ran away. Taylor was badly choked, the marks of the rope being visible on lhis neck when he got home. The police hg,d Tearned of several other instances where Clark had abused small boys, : TaEe total value of exports from this country of petroleum and petroleum products for the seven months ended January 31, 1881, was §22,839,326; during the same months in 1830, $25,934,159. A CINCINNATI boy, two and a half years old, disappeared on the 17th, and nothing had been seen or heard of him up to the 20th. 1t was thought he had been abducted by gypsies. THE training stable of J. S, Offut, in Paris, Ky., was destroyed by fire on the 20th, and several valuable horses were burned to death. - Tug Comptroller of the Currency reported on the 19th that the total amount of National Bank circulation then outstanding was $346,734,628; total amount of lezal-tender notes on deposit by banks reducing circulation, banks in liquidation and insolvent banks, §33,921,104 —leaving the net amount of circulation of: the National Banks outstanding, secured by United States bonds, $397,513,524. The total amount of United States bonds to secure circulation was $347,632,000, of which $46,083,850 were sixes of 1881, $158,470,100 funded fives, and $137,900,000 fours and four-and-a-halfs. ) THE Ohio State Board of Agriculture has decided to hold the next State Fair in Columbus, beginning August 29 and ending September 3. ;s

Personal! and Political. WirLiam P. FrRYE has been elected by the Maine Legislature to succeed Mr. Blaine in the United States Senate. The vote was as follows: Senate—William P.Frye (Rep.), 23; Richard A. Frye (Fusionist), 15, House—W. P. Frye, 82; R. A, Frye, 59. TuE Democrats of the Seventh Michigan District on the 16th nominated Cyrenius P. Black, of Tuscola, to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Conger’s election to the United States Senate. ‘ » THE Constitutional = amendments yvoted upon in Indiana on'the 14th were carried by about 100,000 majority., The vote in the State was very light. : ’ PRESIDENT GARFIELD on the 16th™ nominated 8. Dana Horton to be Secretary to the Commission to attend the International Monetary Conference at Paris. ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 16th that J. Stanley Brown had been appointed President Garfield’s private Secretary. ' THE Arkansas Senate on the 16th defeated the Prohibition amendment which had been passed by the House. : Ture Michigan Senate on the 16th tabled some resolutions of sympathy with Russia because of the assassination of the Czar which the House had adopted. & SBENATOR EpMUNDS left Washington on the evening 'of the 16th for Florida, Senator Vance pairing with him for the remainder of the session. Mr. Edmunds had for some time been troubled with a bad cold, and has gone South to avoid the threatened danger of its developing into bronchitis, or possibly settling on his lungs. e : GEORGE JONES, of the New York Times, announced on the 17th that the ex-Presiden-tial fund had reached the sum of $250,000, which will yield an anoual income of $15,000. E. D. Morgan, Oliver Hoyt and George Jones are made Trustees of the fund. ‘ Tre Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that the law imposing on express ‘companies a tax of two per cent. on their gross receipts is unconstitutional." G Tue Illinois Senate has passed a bill to make- the Illinois Central Railroad tax available for the payment of the ordinary expenses of the State Government. E ‘WASHINGTON specials of the 19th say the bellef was quite general that an extra session of Congress would be called to meet in April or early in May. =~ it z I was learned in Wuhingt‘on%q the 19th, from what was said to be a trustworthy

source, that during a recent interview President Garfield assured Governor Murray, of Utah, of his determination to use every endeavor to suppress polyzamy. o sl Foreign., .« ; Ox the 16th, on information that a mine had been laid near the palace of the Czar at St. Petersburg, a detachment of sappers was set at work. The mouth of the mine was found under an ottoman in the dwellingroom of an absconded shojpkeeper. The exctvation led to the riding schoolSvhence the murdered Emperor was returning when he. was killed. It was stated that Roussakoff bad confessed his guilt. The spot where the Czar received his fatal injuries had been inclosed and covered with turf, and was guarded by sentries of the old reziment of the Emperor Paul. . b RECENT events are said to have driven the press of Russia into the unequivocal advocacy of a Constitution for the Empire. Tue Pope has proclaimed a jubilee to November 1 for Europe. and to the end of the year for the rest of the world. < Ox the 17th placards congratulating the Nihilists upon the murder of the Czar were posted in Paris, and one arrest was made. A St. PETERSBURG teleqram of the 17th" says it is a fact that, with the sanction of the late Czar, a measure had been prepared tending toward representative government Tue celebratiof of St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland was an unusually quiet one, AT midnight on| the 16th a po"-li&:éman on duty at the Lord Mayor’s residence in Lon-. don found a wooden box containing forty pounds of gunpowder, with which a fuse was connected to which lighted paper had been recently applied. The corporation offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the perpetrators, and additional policemen had been stationed at the Mansion House and Bank of -England. It was reported in London on the 17th that the Boers had virtually accepted the British terms, reserving one or two points for further consideration. : Sir CHARLES DiLgE declaréd in the House of Commons on the 17th that Professor Hind’s aliegations in regard to the fisheries award were unworthy of serious consideration. . - Toe Porte has amended its proposition as to the line of frontier between Turkey and Greece and has offered to cede Crete and retain a larger portion of Thessaly. More than eighty-sevéen pounds of dynamite was found in the Nihilist mine recently discovered in St. Petersburg. THE Ameer of Afghanistan has requested the British to postpone the evacuation of Candahar until he has arranged to take possession. .

FrANCE has yielded to the request of the United States that pork shipped before the passage of the decree shall be subject only to inspection. : : - TuE Government of New South Wales has “voted $200,000 to assist emigrants to that reglon who are willing to pay half their passage .money. THE new Czar has authorized the announcement that he will first give his_attention to the'internal development of ifie State, anl that his foreign policy will be entirely pacific. A RusslAN journal announced on the 18th that the authorities were several months ago advised that Nihilists from Chicago had reentered that country. _ AT the request of the Russian Min'ster at Copenhagen, the editor of a Socialist journal in that city has been arrested for offering insults to Russia. ‘ , s A LARGE quantity of arms have been seized by Austrian troops in the minaret mosque in Bosnia.. = : RocHEFoRT, the editor of the Par's Intransigeant, was on the 20th summoned before a magistrate for advocating regicide. "IN twenty-three of the provineial governments of Russia the payments due from peasants for lands allotted to them on the abolition of serfdom have been reduced from forty to seventy per cent. The reduction amounts to abeut 9,000,000 roubles annually. THE glass-ball shooting match in London between Messrs. Carver and Scott was conciuled on the 19th, and resulted in the following total scores: Carver, 9,737; Scott, 9,735—Dr. Carver, the American, thus winning by two points. -

' LATER NEWS, Ix New York on the 2lst a colored man, delirious from small-pox, escaped from his keepers and rushed through the streets, shouting ‘‘small-pox’’ at the top of his voice. He was captured and taken to the hespital. TuE journp_vmexi tailors of Cincinnati on the 21st demanded an advance of twenty-five per cent. in wages. : Tug Arkansas Legislature has adjourned sine die. A JOINT RESOLUTION, passed by the lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature, expressing sympathy for Ireland and requesting the people of Pennsylvania to extend pecuniary aid to the Irish, was referred by the State Senate to the Committee on Federal Relations, and has been reported upon negatively by that Committee. - TraE Directors,of the Northern Pacific Railroad have distributed 200,000 shares of the common stock to the original promoters of the enterprise, bringing the canitai to the maximum limit of $49,000,000. Tae Cincinnati lad lately reported abducted was restored to his parents on the 21st, and Kate Fitzgerald, his abductor, was, lodged in jail. She says she was under the influence of liquor when she stole the boy. - Bgc’unmnfr. the editor of the Paris Intransigeant, admitted on the 21st that the Nihilist telegrams, which purported to come from ‘Geneva, were manufactured in Paris. : A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the 2lst says the police had discovered two dynamite stores and captured a man upon whom was found arms, poison and twenty thousand roubles. : : ~ Ix the United States Senate on ;the 21st the Chinese treaties were reported favorably from the Committee on Foreign Reiations. Among the nominations confirmed 'were those of Levi P. Morton, of New York, as Minister to France, and 8. Dana Horton, of Ohio, as Secretary of the United States lCommissioner.s to the International Monetary Conference at Paris. i AmoXG the nominations made by President Garfield on the 21st were those of 'Thomas Wilson, of the District -of Columbia, to be Consul to Ghent, Belgium, and ‘Ronello W. Berry as Collector of Internal Revenue for Idaho. , Ly ©lx Lake View, 111., about ten o’clock on the evening of the 21st Willie SBeymour, eighteen year’s old, went to the residence of Charles H. Cram, of the Doggett, Bassett & Hills Company, called him to the door and killed him with a revolver, and then instantly blew out his-otvn brains. - A refusal by Mr. Cram to permit the boy to pay attentions to his daughter is believed to have been the cause of the double tragedy. ik A BOILER in White & Russell’s mill at Middlefield, 0., exploded on the 2lst, killing Joseph Hamilton, Selden Sprague and John Patchin, | oo g o . Irwas stated on the 21st that the Boers had been granted another prolongation of the familflce for a fortnight.

Standing and Select Committees of the j UO S- Sen&‘e. : ; W ASHINGTON, March 18, THE following are the Senate Committees as elected to-day under a Republican resolution sdopted by a vote of 38 to 37, the Vice-Presi-dent giving the deciding vote, in the affirmative. Tlhe first named on each committee i 8 the Chairman: : BTANDING COMMITTEES, Privilegcs and Elections—Hoar, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye, Saulsbury, Hitl _(Ga.), Vance, Pugh. > Foreign Relations—Burnside, Conkling, Edmunds, Miller, Ferry, Johnston, Morgau, Hil (Ga.), Pendleton. : Finance—Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Joncs (Nev.). Allison,Platt (N. Y.), Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, McPhnerson, Harris. Appropriations — Allison, Logan, Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Davis (W. Va., Beck, Ransom, Cdekrell. ; ! - Commerce — Conkling, = McMillan, Jones iNev.), kKellogg, Conger, Ransom, Coke, Farley, Vest. y ; Manutactures—Conger, Hale, Jewell, McPherson, Williams. Agriculture—Mahone, Blair, Plumb, Van Wyek, Davis (W, Va.), slater, George. : Military Affairs—Logan, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell, Coekrell, Maxey, Grover, Hampton. = . Naval Affairs—Cameron (Pa.), Anthony, Rollins, Miller, Mahone, McPherson, Jones (1., Vance, Farley. % : Judiciary — Edmunds, Conkling, Logan, Ingalls,MeMillan, Gariand, Davis (iiL), Bayard, Lamar. ’ Sy {7 - Post-Offices and Post Roads — Ferry, Hill (Col.), Platt (N. Y.); Rawyer, Mahone, Maxey, Saulsbury, i‘urley, Groome. : Publie Lands—tluieh, Hill (Col,), Blair, Van . Wyck, Mcuiil, Jones (Fla.), Grover, Walker, Morgan. - Private Land Claims—Dßayard, Jonas, Call, Edmunds, Allison. : Indian Aflairs—Dawes, Ingalls, Saunders, Logan, Camron (Wis.), Coke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater. Pensions—Teller, Platt (Conn,), Blair, Mitchell, Edgerton, Groome, Slater, Jackson, Camden, . Revolutionary Claims -- Johnston, Jones (Fia.), Hill (Ga.), Anthony, Dawes. ~ Claims—Cameron (Wis.), KFrye, Teller, Hoar, Conger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair, District ot Columbia—lngalls, Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, McDill, Harris, Butler, Vance, Gorman. . Patents—Platt (Conn.), Hoar, Mitchell, Edgerton, Coke, Call, Williams. ~ : _ Territories—Saunders, Kellogg, McDill, Sawyer, Butler, Garland, Vest. ~ Railroads—Kellogg, Saunders, Teller, Hawley, Sawyer, Sewell, Lamar, Grover, Williams, Jonas, Brown, Mines and Mining—Hill (Col.), Jones (Nev.), Van Wyek, Miller, Hampton, Fair, Camden. Revigion of Laws -McMillan, Platt (Conn,), Hale, Davis (iiL.), Pendleton, - Edueation and ;Labor-—-}ilair, Morrill, Burnside, Edgerton, Mahone, Maxey, Brown, George, Fair. ; Civil Servicée—Hawley, Rollins, Jones (Nev.), Hill (Col.), Butler,.Walker, Williams. : - Contingent luxpenses—Jones (Nev.), Platt (Conn.}, Vance. ; . Engiossed Bills—Saulsbury, Call, Conkling. Rules—Frye, Hoar, Sherman, Call, Gorman. Tmprovement of the M.fssissippi River— Mitchell, Keliogg, Van Wyck, Frye, Jonas, Cockrell, Jackson, . 5 ‘l'ransportation Routes to the Seaboard—Harrison, Cameron (Pa.), Blair, Platt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees, Camden. Joint Committee on:Public: Printiny—Anthony, Hawley, Gorman. Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills—Platt (N. Y.), Rollins, Pugh. ; Joint Committec on Library—Sherman, Hoar, Voorhees. Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds—Rollins, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), Jones (Fla.), Vest. j : SELECT COMMITTEES. Civil Service—Sawyer, Rollins, Dawes, Hampton, Groome. : Census—Hale, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), McDill, Pendieton, Morgan, Harris. : Epidemic Discascs—Harris, Lamar, Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller. Sewell. i Niearagua Claims—Davis (W. Va.), Groome, Johnston, Hawley, Mitchell. On Erection of New Library Building—Voorhees, Butier, Morrill. s LD

- A Cruel Hoax, ; BALTIMORE, March 15. A spECIAL from Westminster, Md., to-night, gays: A few weeks ago news reached Westminster and was reported in the various papers of the death by violence of Mr. Frank Wright, son of Isaac Wright, of this cits. Mr. Wright left Washington for Colorado in May, 1880, and until the middle of August wrote regularly twige a month to his family here. Since that time nothing has been heard of him until the sad news of his death at the hands of & so-calied Vigilance Committee was communicated to the family by Rev. Dr. David Wilson, formerly pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church here, but now a chaplain in the United Statesarmy and stationed in Colorado. Dr. Wilson stated that young Wright had purchased two mules,an%-started to the mining district, that the mules proved to be stolen, and the owners, forming themselves inte a Vigilance Committee, had followed him, and, notwithstanding that Mr. Wright assured them hé did not know they were stolen when he purcksased them, had hung both him and his servant to a tree and left them. The only thing that gave a ray of hope to the family was the fact that a letter had been received from the postmaster at Hancock, Col., in Januuy, stating that Frank Wright was there on the 11th of November, which was after the supposed lynching; that he had sold a part of his mining claim to a man whbd had accompanied him to Alpine, paid him the money and left him, and that was the tast time he was seen alive by any of his friends. The hope that he might have been alive at that time, and that some unknown and unforeseen combination of circumstances had prevented his writing, took definite form in the following telegram received this morning: . : “SiLvER Ciry, N. M., March 14, 1881. “ To Isaac Wright: ‘*Read to my horror an account of my death in New York Herald. Arrived here after perilous adventure. S e FRrRANK.” When the last letter was written, in August, Mr. Wright walked ten miles tb mail it, not waiting for a convenient opportunity, as he did not wish to keep his family in suspense. The family and friends are now awaiting with great anxiety a letter, which they hopefully expect in a few days, and which we trust may satisfactorily explain ' all things. Active measures have been taken toward securing Government detectives to find out the facts, and, if possible, punish the actors in the crime; but until something further is heard from Mr. Wright, action in the case will be suspended.” B 2 E it :

A Dog Digs Into a Grave.. ) LAST Friday Martin Flannigan, an Irishman living four miles southeast of this city, died, and was buried Saturday in the Catholic graveyard, which lies in the northeastern part of the city, inside the city limits. Yesterday afternoon some parties, in going through the cemetery, noticed that the dirt of ‘a newly-made grave was torn up and scattered in every direction, which naturally aroused their curiosity and led them to investigate, expecting of course to find the grave robbed. by ghouls. Instead of this, imagine their horror to find a large dog in the grave endeavoring to gnaw through the coffin box, and which turned upon its intruders with gleaming eyes and, growling ferociously, stood its ground, nor could it be driven away. One of the parties procured a shotgun and killed the beast, which had no doubt been digging since the casket was lowered into the grave. Theoccurrence is so horribly revolting in its character as to make the blood almost curdle in any one's veins who looks at the disturbed grave Had not the persons who discovered it acoidentally wandered into that part of the eemetery, without a doubt the coffin would have been torn open and the corpse horribly mutilated.—Columbusg (Ind.) Special to Cincinnati Commercial. B o —Among Mr. Tennyson’s perquisites as laureate is a yearly pension: of one bundred pounds for some imaginary service to the Queen. . —The centenary of George Stephen#onm, June 9,1881 y is to be celebrated.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. ‘EXTRA SESSION. SENATE—On the 11th the Tax bill was amended so as to tax all tangibie property of building, loan, fund and sayings iassociations:. The Committee’s substitute for Sec. 94 was adopted. It taxes the gross earnings of sleepiugi-car companies Itwo per cent. Adjourned until the afternoon of the 15th. S - 4 + House—Several bills were introduced and bills passed—requiring railroads to'destroy ali noxious weeds along their rights of way; relating to the settlement ot decedents’ estates; enabling agricultural, horticultural, and meehanical soceieties to consolidate; amending the act of May 28, 1352, concerning election of President and Vice-President. 'T'he bill econcerning landlords and tenants failed to pass for.the want of a' quorum. - The bill for the creation of a Board ¢f Pardons failed—yeas, 52; nays, 48. The Governor vetoed the bill fixing the pay of jurors at $2 a day, and the bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals, : SENATE—Reconvened on the 15th, and proceeded to the further c¢onsideration of the House bill on Taxation. sz amendment was adopted making the Lieutenant-Governor a member of the State Board of Equalization. Also an amendment depriving “professional ferrets” of their occupation, by providing that County Commissioners shall not employ other than the oliicials prescribed by law to discover omitted property. : House~—The bill dire cting that revenues derived from liquor licenses should reve:t to public libraries was Kkilled. The Insurange Committee recommended that the bill relating to foreign life insurance ceompanies be Inid upon -the table: that the House bill p:ohibiting the taking or receiving of applications for lite insurance policies on the Tontine plan in the State be ind¢éfinitely postponed, and that the House bill relating to foreign insurance companies be similarly dealt with. The first report was concurred in, and action apon the other two deferred. Sundry amendinents to the Constitution were ottered prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State except for medicinal, mechanical and scientific purposes, and requiring the Legislature to provide by law in what manuner liguors for the excepted purposes shall be sold; fixing the qualifications of -electors. These proposed amendments were referred. SENATE—On the 16th the day was spent in consideration of the Tax bill. An amendment wus adopted doing away with the publication of delinquent lists in county papers. .

House—The bill of the Codification Commission providing further penalties for illegal voting, ballot-box stutfling and importation of voters was passed. The majority report of the committee recommend;ng the passage of the bill placing the two State Prisons under a Board of Directors and making other changes was concurred in. Most of the session was taken up with the Cgmm(mr:‘chool law, and the amendment proposed to abolish'the system of County Superintendents was rejected. SENATE—On the 17th the Senate finished congideration of the Tax bill, on which it has worked for the past manth, and immediately took up the bill from the Codifidation Committee relating to offices and officers. 'l'he most important changes over the present Tax law are those doing away with the printing of aelinquent lists and taxing semi-annually the gross receipts of foreign insurance companies three dollars on %100, and not allowing any deduction for actual losses sustained in the Sla%@. % Houvse— Eills passed—the bill in /relation to common carri‘ers; for the protection of husbandry, and the taxing and killing of dogs. A Constitutional amendment was Pproposed making the term of all County and State officers four years instead of two, and rendering such officials ineligible for re-election until .four years after the expiration of their term. The bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions was . ordered engrossed after a sharp fight. The remainder of the day was Qcc“tll)ied with the School bill proposed by the Codification Committee, during which the effort failed looking to the abolishment of County Superintendents. A concurrent rezolation was adopted for a jeint' committee to report upon the feasibility of consolidating the State Prisons. - ; SENATE—On the 18th "the Tax bill passed —33 to }]. Some progress was made on the bill relative to oflices and officers, - and by resolution it was decided to take up the General Appropriation bills on the 24th. A committee was instructed to inquire into the feasibility of an appropriation for representing the State in the World's Fair of 1843, and a joint resolution was introduced requesting Indiana Congressmen to favor the passage of an amendment to the Federal Constitution prohibiting the disfranchisement of citizens of the United States on account of sex, which was read the first time ‘and reterred to the Committee on the Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State. House—Work on the Sehool bill consumed the greater part of the day, and among the amendments was one reducing intercst on school fund jloans to six per cent.; also, permitting half an hour’s instruction each day in German, After engrossment the bill passed—--59 to 26, ; .

INDIANA ITEMS. | . THERE is an unusually large amount of sickness in Indianapolis at the present time. Malarial disorders, diphtheria, spotted fever and measles are the principal complaints. THE winter has been very destructive to ‘bees throughout the State of Indiana. It is estimated that fully half of the colonies that went into winter quarters have died. : TrE second annual report of the State Bureau of Statistics and Geology is teady for distribution. It forms a book! of 368 pages; and will be very valuable in securing a recognition of the resources of Indiana. A few of the most important figures are as follows: In the State during 1880 there were 3,109,845 ¢ es of wheat, producing 47,130,634 bushels; of corn there. were 685,901 acres amnd 15,563,430 bushels; of rye, 15,028 acres and 217,192 Gbushels; of barley, 31,019 acres and 637.911 bushels. It is estimated that there were 6,672,096 apple trees, producing 385,992,182 bushels, and 1,910,601 peach trees, producing 4,241,445 bushels. There were 508,045 horses, 57,815 mules, 1,065,143 cattle, 2,008,943 hogs and 1,538,860 sheep enumerated. The population of the State is given at 1,976,277. There are 256 toll roads in the State, and the total value of taxable property is §380,561,241. There are 63 railroads with 4,275.47 miles of main track. The total length of fences in the State would, if extended, reach 1414 timecs around the earth. The report also contains a number of scientific matters and other things of general interest. . SINCE the Ist day of last September there have been filed 136 divorce cases in Marion County. During the same length of time there have been 600 marriage licenses issued. JANE MELROSE, a young lady of Wabash, has recently been using a preparation to ‘bleach her hair. A few days ago she became suddenly ill, and diel. Soon after death her face and hair turned a deep green color. Physicians state that her death resulted from the chemicals of which the preparation was composed. ‘ e

Tar Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 'sl [email protected]; Corn, 423§ @43c; Oats, 85@36c. Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 47@47Y4c; Oats, 3%@3814¢c; Rye, [email protected]; Barley, [email protected]. ' .

—Tobaceo in Ib;ly is a monopoly of the Government, which largely buys Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio brands. Kentucky leaf makes all the *‘Cavour cigars,” or three-fourths of all cigars smoked in the peninsula; Virginia leaf is manufactured intothe **straw cigars” of Milan, and Ohio leaf turns out the «‘ Havana cigars,’”” somewhat after our plan of Havana fillers and Connecticut wrappers. There are in the kingdom eight principal manufactories which turn out 6,000,000 cigars daily. There is very little cigarette or pipe smoking; from the King to the lazzarone the | whole . nation smokes the ‘¢ Cavours.” They cost only a cent.. .

. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —*“l've just got out of a bad scrape,” as the man said when he came out of a five-cent barber shop. = _ —The thermometer is one of the few things that can fall without hurting itself.— Philadelphia Chronicle. =~ = —Never address your conversation to a person engagéd in footing up a column of figures. There’s nothing so deaf as an adder.—Cambridge Tridene. —*¢ Papa, how do editors get in free atall the shows?” ¢ Well, sonny, as a gencral rule, they give five dollars worth of advertising for a twenty-five cent ticket.”’ i < —A poem in one of our exchanges is entitled ¢ The Cold, Cold Snow."” Perhaps the poet is not aware that the snow is always cold in the winter time. —Norristown Herald. - . —Recently a matron made her appearance’ on .the piazza where her daughter and the latter’s young man had gone several-hours before to enjoy the evening air and moonshine, and began looking around as if she had lost something. ¢*“What are you looking for, ma®” asked the young lady. “‘Fhe ‘morning papers,”’ was the reply. The porch was vacated. ' ; —+¢ Doctor,” said one of our best young men in society. ¢ Doctor, there is something the matter with my brain; I know there is. - What shall Ido about it?’ And the doetor calmly but firmly said he guessed it needed a little exercise about as much as anything else. And now the best §oung man goes around saying tbe ddctor is a fool. — Burlington Hawk-Evye." —A gitizen said to the young man who visited his danghter that he couldn% afford to have so much wood burned in the parlor stove evenings; the young man must come less often, or quit earlier, or furnish his own wood. - Next day two cords of good hard wood were purchased by the young man. and piled in the citizen’s yard, with a big sign over the pile, reading: * For wuse nights only.” —Hudson Journal.

Raghag’s Experience.Did you ever have your country relatives return a visit you had made them? They probably recollected what a nuisance you were; how they had to takea horse right in the busy haying season to carry you fishing; how you drank quantities of milk they might have sold and all that. They determined not to be such a bother to you. They are so afraid that they are making trouble that they insist on doing everything for themselves. - Rather than leave their boots outside the door for the servants to clean, the men will come down and go the shed to black them themselves, and it is twice. as’ much trouble to get the brushes, ete., for them as it would have been to-have cleaned the boots. And the women visitors insist upon doing the work in the rooms they occupy ‘and generally putting themselves upon a level with the servants; and, not even satisfied with this, they are, in their anxiety to be no trouble, constantly looking about for something to do to help you. Ragbag had an experience lately. His father-in-law from Vermont visited him -at his cosy home at the Highlands. The old man“was up to all the tricks described. One morning he strolled out to the stable and there saw a pile of wood. - It consisted of long, dlender saplings with some wood cut up into five foet lengths. The old man saw at once that it was cheap wood and regretted that his son-in-iaw had bought it. - But he decided that it ought to be sawed. He hunted about and found an old saw horse and saw and went at it. Did you ever saw wood? If not you are not acquainted with grief. It is the most tiresome, aggravating business known. ' All day the old man worked, never saying a word to the folks in the house about what he was upto. He blistered his hands frightfully and his back ached terribly, but he stuck to it. About five o’clock he finished the pile. -~ Soon after Ragbag came home from business and to dinner. The old man said: ¢¢ Ah, Jo, my boy, come out -to the stable, I want %o show you what I’ve done.” He led Ragbag out proudly and showed him the pile. ¢ There,’” he said, ‘it would have cost you one dollar a cord to have hired that wood sawed, and I've saved you that sum.” ¢ Good heavenss’ cried Ragbag, ¢‘“doyou know what you've-done! That stuff was for rails and posts to build a rustic fence about my place. :It cost me $75.”” Ragbag had no reproaches for the old man, whom hé knew meant well, but he went alone inéo a box stall and swore like a. buccaneer in hard luck. And the old man was so mad that he kieked tblef) saw horse and in so doing skun himse in seven different spots.—Boston Post.

! " Bread Making in the East. On our return an instructive sight awaited us. We saw how bread was baked in an adjoining building. It was done with a rapidity which explains how of old the supply was prepared every day, and how i%) some guests arrived the house-wife could make the necessary provisions without - delay. (Gen. xviii., 6.) : : Among the Fellaheen the dough is fienerally leavened.. A large round ole in the ground, some one and-one-half feet deep, and the same in diameter, forms the oven. In this lie some live ocoals, which as in Hosea's time (Hosea vii.,"6), are not allowed to go out at night, and when baking has to be done are again revived. / - The housewife tirst forms a lump of dough with her hand, then suddenly spreads it out with an indescribably rapid action of both hands—which can - as little be imitated as a conjurer's movement—into a cake as thin as a leaf, which with a moistened dab or 'rag she presses into the hot oven, where it remains sticking. In a minute it begins to move, and is at once taken out to make room for the following one. _ ‘The bread is now ready, not thicker than parchment, not very relishing, and somewhat sandy on the outside, but really very enjoyable for any one who has a Foo'd appetite. Although of the size of a large plate, such ‘a slice contains but little ‘nourishment; and Jere‘miah could hardly -have been saved | fx;om ; :fmfbvafin" ‘when' _m\iyfi one such yiece re wue’:glven n him ewvery gay.-—Odell.' Gadem Bl