Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 December 1884 — Page 2

: L & e e il The Ligonier Banuer, b 3. & : L J. B, STOLL, Editor. : - THURSDAY, DEC. 18,1884 | OUR CLUBBING LIST. s / e » N. Y, Weekly World and Banner.. ’52 it N. Y. Bemi-Weekly World and Banner..%. 3 40 N. Y. Daily World and Bnnjer..... Prhssy oo Indiana Farmer and BANNOT. .oevvneeesse. 300 State Sentinel and 8anner.................. 8 00 Cleveland Plaindealer and Banner. ]BOO Ameriean Agriculturist and 8anner....... 4 00 Chicago Weekly Herald’and 8anner....... 2 {5 Boston Globe and Banner,.....c.coceeeeve s 275 Chicago Bunday Herald and 8anner....... 3 60 Chicago Daily Herald and Banner... S gy

CONNEOTICUT i 8 excited over the mania for roller skating and the advent of twin babies. :

Brx BUTLER is tying knots in his handkerchief to remind him that he ran for the presidency last summer, -

MR, BLAINE has not yet had time to send his congratulations to Presi-dent-elect Cleyeland. Why this procrastination? - | - '

CLEVELAND'S MAJORIZY over Blaine (66,242) is not.as l#rge as that of Tilden over Hayes, but it is a good deal more effective.’ ]

. THE AVERAGE| republican editor considers his task unfinished unless ‘the paper under his control contains something derogatory to Thomas A, Hendricks. i

WASHINGTON, | Jefferson, [Lincoln ard Cleveland —this will be the groaping of the four Presidents under whose administration the country entered upon a new epoch, ’ | B . ' PERSONS who Want to know what true democratic principles are should familiarize themgelves with the writings of the Father of Amerjcan Democracy, Thomas Jefferson. /

' THE REASON |Why republican editors are so savage in their denunciation of Mr. Hendricks is probabiy because he had to be twice elected Vice ‘President/ in order to sgcure a single inauguration, | . iy . ek

EvERYBODY seems to be in favor of Semator Garland occupying a seat in Cleveland’s capinet. He is a good, true man, a thorough statesman, and the ablest.constitutional lawyer in the United States.| He is' wanted for AtYorney General. . - - ,

THERE is too much Democracy in President Arthur’s message, particularly in that part relating to the- tariff, te suit the/average hide-bound Republican. For that very reason we look with & ggod deal of satistaction tpom Mr, Arthur’s latest effort.

PERSONS cpnte“mp]atln‘g a change of lecation will miss a glorious opportunity by not loing South, The devel spment of the Sotith is the objective point of those who.are enlisted in the laudable work of restoring prosperity to the people of the United States.

YouNe, thrifty, energetic and enterprising men shovld go South and iaquire intp the opportuhities there presented. | The South has a grand futare. Nprthern men will bs cordially welgomed by a generous and hospitable| people. The opportunity shonld met| be neglected. ¢ v . e PP e

- Is THERE in this broad land a single Intelligent Republican who doubts that Mr, Hendricks will faithfully and impartiallp\ and- with proper dignity preside over the Senate of the United Btates? [lf not, and there is surely no cause for sych doubt, why all this abuse of Mr. Herdricks ? '

" THERE are now over. 2,000 millionaires in ?he‘ United States. How many known Empgera have been credted 'dnring the "time these nfillionaires were called into existence 'has not as yet been definitely ascertained. A low estimate would probably place the number at two hundred- thousand adults. | s

WHEN Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President of the United States, his principal competitor, Stephen A. Douglas, stood beside his successful rival, holding .the latter’s hat while the inauguration ceremonies were in progress. Will Mr, Blaine prove himself equally great on the fourth of next March? o i

JosEPH D. OLIVER, son of the senlor mfnufacturer of the Oliver chilled plow at South Bend, was on the 10th imst, married to the daaghter of Hon. David A. Wells, a rnpi%li’onaire of Johnstown, N. X. ' As young Oliver himself is quite wealthy, this combination may justly be regarded ome of financial strength as well as of !07} andaffection. - .

®. BEECRER said to a reporter: *T hope Cleveland will give nothing in hisg Cabinet to the Indepenidents. ‘We went in for right, and as soon as the diginterestedness is taken away down goes the independence. No, this country propeses holding Mr. Cleveland and the democratic party responsible for the administration. The principal thing I hope to see is a revival of business in the South.” - :

| THERE are many thoughtful indiyiduals who believe the only sure method of checking the concentration ef capital in the hands of the few is the enactment of a graduated Income tax.- Such a tax would put /the burden of taxation upon those Wwho can_best afford to bear. it; be|®#ides making capitalists less avari\'sions,. The subject is one well worthy of thoughtful consideration. : | ; —_— | A PAPER published, in one of the | mining districts of Pennsylvania ‘has [ the courage tosay: “It lodksas though ~ there was yot a good. deal of trouble to be anticipated in the Hccking Valley distriet. The sufferings of the people are terrible and if their condition is takén as an evidence of the ' happy results of protection to Amerioan industries, it is the most farcical - and illogical con¢lusion which could - be arrived at”

TaE Indianapolis Times wants the Btate redistricted for congressional and legislative purposes, It would be difficult to - shape the northein part of the State : more 9quitably than it is new, for congressfonal purposes, but some improvement might be med~ by way of a legislative re-apportionment. For instance, put DeKalb and Noble together 1n one senatorial district, and Steu- ‘ ben and Lagrauge in another. How would thatsuit our republiean friends?

~ PApERs that have made haste to announce that the Studebaker wagon works at South Bend were about to shut down because some of their wagons. ‘were burned by indignant Texans, place a very low estimate upon the magnitude of that establishment. If a suspension was really contemplated, it certainly should not be based upon the performance of a few localities in a great State like Texas. Besides, the Wwagons thus destroyed were paid tor by those who engaged in that pastime, and therefore no loss was sustained by the Studebakers. *© . ’ ;

- IF THE MEN who have made their millions during the past twenty years would hold a public meeting at some central point and agree to relieve the poor people who are now actually suffering from the want ot food and clothing, a comparatively small amount of the surplus of these millionaires would be required to keep the wolf from the doors of these poor people.. Such humane action would not.only be a God-send to thousands of i}mpoverished people, but would call the blessings of countless thousands upon their benefactors. A

' SuorTLY after the late election the people of Dodd, Texas, publicly burned a Studebaker wagon becaise it was currently reported that the Studebaker’s had forced their workmen te vote the republican ticket, How this report came to be circulated has not, as yet, been explained. The probabilities strongly point to some misunderstanding, not unlikely cultivated by rival institutions in oLhel: parts of the country. Mr, Clem Studebaker wrote several imprudent letters prior to the election, and the Texans may posgibly have come to the conclusion that bulldozing was confemplated. The Studebakers have had a very heavy trade in Texas. .

OUR INTENSELY RADICAL and wholly irreconcilable friend, Gen, Reub. Williams, of the Warsaw Indianian, says the great isstie before the country is, “Shall we have fair elections in this dountry or not?” If it will help our esteemed friend to allay his feelings we can unhesitatingly assure him that under Cleveland’s administration -we will have fair elections, and that, too, ‘without the &id of U. 8 Marshals. You see, ipasmuch as the arrogant republican bullies will no longer occupy official positions, elections generally will be much more decently conducted than heretofore. Besides, Cleveland will give the country such an excellent administration that even

Republicans will not care to make much opposition. Yes, General, everything will be fair under Cleveland. Therefore please rest easy. ,

IT 13 STATED, not on the mest reliable authority however, that Samuel J. Tilden will see to it that Senator ‘Bayard does not get into- Cleveland’s cabinet. It is asserted that Mr. Tiiden was never exactly satisfied with the course of Senators Bayard and Thurman in the electoral contest of 1877 and that. neither of these eminent gentlemen can therefore be made a part of the new administration. Whether or not these statements be well founded, THE BANNER has no hesitanoy in-saying that while it entertains . the highest regard for Mr. Bayard, it-has no particular anxiety to see him made 8 cabinet minmister, especially not Secretary of the Treasury. Out of considerations of eminent respectability, Mr. Bayard might do very well for Secretary of State, but when it comes to the financial question THE BANNER and Senator Bayard must part company.

THE INDICATIONS, a 3 an exchange remarks, are that- in Cleveland thé country is to have a President who will attend strictly to the duties of his office. His administration will not be one of flummery and tingel, but it will be one in which every man connected with it in an official capacity, will be expected to perform the duties assigned him, and earn,the money paid him for his services. Under Cleveland it is thought there will be that for which, : Lo

We long have sought, .. G "And mourned because we found it not.”

Or, in other words, the books will be opened and inspected by’ men who have no other motive in view than that of ascertaining whether or not the affairs of the nation have been honestly administered, Cleveland’s administration may not prove a brilliant one, but it will no doubt be honest and business-like.

’ . THE editor of thé Albien New Era s alarmed that under President Cieveland’s administration the number of ‘supreme judges of the United States may be so increased as to render possible 'a decision declaring null and void the constitutional amendments fraudulently or illegally ratified during the reconstruction period. The editor of the New Era must be con--Bcious of the dubious manner in which these amendments were put through, but he need not give himself any uneasiness on that scors. None of the amendments will be annulled. Incalculable harm was done by making voters.6f the ignorant. blacks of the South, but since they have been vestedi with the elective franchise that right will be maintained. All the Democrats intend to do in the premises is to try to educate the negroes go as to make .proper' and intelligent use of the ballot, Their elevation, and not! their degradation, is the chjef aim of the Democracy. ﬁ

THE ELEVATED CHARACTER OF GROVER CLEVELAND, : The Harrisburg Patriot very correctlygnd truthfully says it is always unsafe to speculate in politics, That is to say that conjectures as to this and that effect of ' certain political forces, of wunkn>wn quantity, are profitless, because they are without the necessary data to give them value. In the recent election the independent republican diversion contributed materially to democratic success, while the bad record of Blaine, the evil reputation of his party managers, the mistaken zeal of Dr. Burchard, the indifferemce of the New York stalwarts and varieus other causes aided i bringing about the result. But there is another and more potential reason than either of those -named and one the contemplation of which cam have no other than & commendable influence on the public as ‘well 88 an exgelient effect on parties, ‘That s The eleynbed sharadles of Gro-

ver Cleveland. His reputation for integrity, honesty and ability was the msgnet that drew the independent ‘Republicans to his standard. It was that which made the stalwarts disregard party interests and vote with the Democrats or withhold their ballots encirely. - In view of these facts it is futile to speculate on the obligations umder ‘which the president-elect lies to the various elements ‘that combined in his favor, Of course he is at liberty to constitute his cabinet and select his officials according to his own ideas. But his election was due to the democratic party primarily, to his own matehless record finally, and he will violate no obligations expressed or implied if he names only Democrats to official stations. Still, THE BANNER will be well satisfied to see the Independents recognized in any manner that their foremost leaders may des: ignate. If they want a cabinet position, their wish ought to be granted. Weo want a permanent alliance with these patriotic citizens. They have gshown themselves men of the highest honor and disinterestedmess, and it is with that class of men that we love to form an alliance,

THE ‘TRUTH ABOUT THE NEGRO VOTE.

' Mr. Blaine, 1t appears after all, didnot deliver his incendiary Augusta speech altogether in vain. It is bearing fruit, not exaetly to his liking or agreeably to his calculation, but in a| manner that, to some extent, compensates for the mischief wrought by that demagogical harangue. As the St. Louis Republican states it, inteliigent and fair-minded journals of New’ England are putting before their readers facts on the subject of negro suffrage which cannot fail of making an impression. Mr. Blaine sounded’ in his late Augusta speech what was intonded to be a key-note for further political contests, and Senator Hoar in a club speech a few days later took up the Southern subject and dealt with itin a similar vein. The great issue of the future in: the estimation of these Republican leaders 1s negro suffrage. The utterances of thesetwo Radicals has provoked the Springfield Renublican to show how incounsistent they are. Seuator Hoar declared that the'Republicén party must stand on «the principle of universal suffrage, ‘which holds that every soul made by ‘the Creator is equal in‘its title to its share in governing the nation.” :The constitution of Massachusetts ex cludes from the ballot all who cannot read~“and write. This the Boston Transcript and the Springfield Republican show would disfranchise 76 per cent. of the colored vote of the for-! mer rebel states. The latter journai remarks with pertinency that, “If we proceed upon the usual Republican presumption that the Republican vote of the South is a black vote then the returns of the vote cast for Mr. Blaine in Alabama indicate that twice a® many colored men voted there im the recent election as could have veted in the same election had they lived in Massachusetts.” The following fig ures are introduced showing the number of male negroes over the age of 21 years and the extent of their illiteracy, the figures being from the United States census: rNeg{l%e:ﬁgcigz%%m for~Vote for : Total. write. Cleveland, Blaine. A1abama.....118423 96,408 92,973 59,444 Arkaneas..... 46,827 34,300 72,960 b 1,542 Florida, -..... 27,480 19,110 ‘Ge0rgia......143471 116516 . 94587 47,964 L0ui5iana,...107.977 86,556 63:450. 46,347 Miagspi%pi...xfm.urs 99068 75547 42.774 N. Carolina..los,olB 80282 142905 125,068 8. Carolina...llB,BB9 93010 69,800 . 21,783 Tennessee.... 80,250 58,601 131,000 119,000 Texa5........ 18,639 59,669 Virginia...... 120,257 100,210 146,180 138,474 " When it 1s remembered that only abont 71 per cent. of those of voting age throughout the country go to the poils, it will be observed that about as many negroes, in proportion to thei numbers, voted as white men. In those States . where 'the Blaine vote was small in proportion to the number of negroes of voting age, it is also to be noted that the white vote was also small, the reason being that there was no contest to draw out the people. For example;there are 108,810 white men of voting age im Louisiana, whereas there were but 62,450 votes cas; for Cleveland., On the ‘supposition that the negro vote of the Cotton States is the republican vote, the Repubiican says; ° At #lt appears that every biack man in: Arkangag must have voted, and several throusand over, in order to account for Blaine's vote, while in Massachusetts only about one-fourth of the colored men of Arkansas would have been accepted and registered. s * “Hyon in Mississippi the Republicans cast more votes than the colored men of that State would be entitled to cast in Massachusetts,”

The fact is Messrs. Blaine and Hoar are indulging in much démagogism and much that is so gross that their immediate constituenty refuse to accept it. It is like beating ower old straw to answer them in this quarter of the Union, bat.it is highly encoura ging to see that they are now refuted by those who lately followed them and accepted their views as truth,

ASSAILING MR. HENDRICKS.

A fermer citizen of this State, but during the past feyr years a resident of Towa, sends us a copy of the Sioux City Journal containing a viralent attack spon the newly elected Vice President, Hen, Thomas A.Hendricks. In this article, bristling gll over with, isrepresentation’ and maleveiance, Mr. Hendricks is branded a copper: head, a secesslonist, a rebel sympathi-! zer, & venomous traducer of Lincoln,, ete, ete. : :

This malicious assault upon Indiana’s distinguished statesman was in all probability indited by one of those narrow-minded erestures that never learned to understund that while a man may upon some questious of publie policy have differed with the administration during the war it was nevertheless possible to be a loyal citizen and in favor of the suppression of the rebellion, Unfor-: tunately for the present genaratton,i such narrow-minded creatures have] in numerous instances come in possession of printing presses and type, and the result is that a large proportion of -the voting population is being

fed on gross misrepresentation and vituperation. Sach a thing as making & fair statement of the true position ‘occupied during the war by Mr, Hendricks and othe\n 18 not to be thought! of. They lack the requisite fairness and breadth of mind to do such an act of justice. The broad-migded statesmen and journalists of the old re-: ‘publican school scorn to engage in the ‘despicable effort to fasten the stigma of ‘secession mnd rebellion upon men

Itk Mr. Hendricks, but the little crea‘tures who hava grown up in the belief that there is room only for one party in this country, and that the republican, are mever more happy than whep they can disgust men of sense and experience by the cry of copperhead, secessionist, traitor, ete. Tarx BANNER doés mot expect this class of whipper-snappers to profit by ; anything that may be said in deprecation of their unwise and unpatriotic course. Time alone can bring such ¢éhaps to a realization ef the folly of Teviving the spirit of hatred and prejudice that should haye been wholly ‘sradicated years ago. The beneficence of democratic rule will acecomplish more than anything else by way of expanding the minds of this class of republican shriekers. If expansion should fail to accomplish this desirable object, the force of a healthy public sentiment will compel a cessation of the nauseating ranting that now disgraces the columns of the virulent Blaine organs, One day last week a number of veteran soldiers called upon Mr. Hendricks to pay their respects to the newly elected Vice President and to assure him of their unshakea faith in his loyalty and patriotism, in spite of the virulent attacks made upon him by unscrupulous partisan jonrnals. In response to their hearty expressions of friendship Mr. Hendricks said among other things: .

““You have referred to emne eharacteristie of the contest which I hope never te see repeated in our country. The personal attacks and slanders that have been indulged in are unworthy of American politics. I have not troubled to answer the misrepresentations to which I have been subjected. . Four times these fabrications have been before tye people of Indiana, and four times they have given them the lie. As to these fabrications, I have not turned to the right nor to the left, and will now but briefly review them. . “During the first month of the war I found it necessary to correct one of the misrepresentations, and I used the following langnage: ¢‘‘Since the warcommenced 1 have uniformly said that the authority of the Government of the United States is not questioned in Indiana, and I regard it as the duty of the citizens of Indiana to respect and maintain that authority, and to give to the Government an honest and earnest support in the prosecution of the war until, in the providence of God, it may be brought ‘to an honerable conclusion, and the blessings of peace be restored to our country, postponing until that time all controversies in relation to the causes and responqibilities of the war. No man will feel a deeper solicitude in the welfare and proud bearing of the Indiana i’soldiery in the conflict of arms to which ‘they are called than myself.” i

“The sentiments thus expressed guided my conduct throughout the war.” g

No stronger or-more emphatic refu.ation of the base slanders heaped upon Mr, Heudricks eould be cited than the answer given by the people of Indiana themselves. In 1864 Oliver P. Morton was elected Governor by a majority of over 20,000. Four years later, after all the soldiers who survived the war had returned to their homes, Mr. Hendricks accepted a nom-— ination for Governor. - He was elected, though counted out by a process of ballot-box ‘stuffing and- doctoring of returns that was disgraceful in the extreme. The majority figured out against him was a trifle oveér 900. In 1872 Mr. Hendricks was again nominated for Governor and élected, though the remainder of the State ticket (except Mr. Hopkihs) was defeated by majorities ranging from 125 to 1,500, and Grant carried the State by over 20,000 'majority. In 1876 Indiana again attested her devotion to Mr. Hendricks by electing the Tilden and ‘Hendricks electors by oter 6,000 plu‘rality. In 1880, when Mr. Hendricks did not lead the party in Indiana, the State was carried for Garfield by nearly 7,000 majority over Hancock and English. In iBB4 Mr. Hendricks again carried the democratic ‘banner to a great and glorious victory. Would a State like Indiana, that sent 107,147 soldiers to the field of battle to sappress the rebellion and enforce obedionce to the federal government, thus honor'one of its -citizems if it were trus that he was a secessionist, a copperhead and a sympathizer with the rebsllion? The man whe utters such a falsehood not only slanders the State of Indiana, but writes himself down an unmitigated ass.

Why Deceive ?

EpiTorß BANNER:—I am a subscriber and reader of the Albien New Era. lln its igsue of the {ith inst. I find the following paragraph: Despite the best efforts of the demceracy, ajded by the independents, (mugwumps), the SBt, Jehnites, the Conkling soreheads, and “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,” Blaine scooped Cleveland on the popular vote by nearly 6,000. : I was no little astonished to find such a statement in the New Era, knowing that it must be manifestly erroneous. Upon eogt;n,z;;ng my perusal of the New Era, my eyes fell upon a tabular statement purporting to give the official vote of the States at the recent election, From this statement it appears that ingtead of Blaine having scooped Cleveland to the extent of “nearly 6,000,” Cleveland leads Blaine 66,899 vetes. Now, Jacob, if I had no other source from which {o geek information 'in matters of this kind, whigh of the two statements made in your papey siegid I believe? 'And be pleased to tell me! how people who read nothing bui the New Era shajl pbfain facts upon which they can implicitly relyp Is it nof about time to let up om such‘ loose statements and deal mere in tacts than in fiction, simply to gratify partisan malice. BSERVER. .

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Sl Another Lie Nailed, The following communication appeared in the Indianapolis Sentinel of the 3d inst. It speaks for itself: = To the Editor of the Sentinel: - e Sir—On the 18th of October, after making an address to the people of Alexandria, by urgent request of the Democratic gentra.l i %mﬁ&n of Madison county, ‘my. appointment at Summitville, in that county, ‘was changed to the city of Anderson. On the evening of the 21st of October I went to that city to address the people there. The meeting was held in the Court House, where a very large audience was assembled. After I had sgoken about thirty or fortg minutes, the gentlemanly Deputy Sheriff, Mr. Ailen Richwine, came forward and handed to me while speaking, a telegraphic message, which read as follows: :

Wagasn, Ixp., 10th, 21st, 1. McDoxavLp; ’ ; ~ Yes, but you had better make your will before you start. : &Sig’ned) .0. W. Laxrorr. Isimply read the message and said, if it was intended for me as a matter of intimidation, that they had struck the wrong man, and at the same time announced that there certainly must be some mistake about the matter, and that I thought that the message was not intended for me. I afterward learned that the whole thing was a mistake; that the message was for one, Sk hchonald, an enﬁ)loyge of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railway company; that the whole matter was caused by a “smart Aleck” operator of the rai{road company at Anderson. On the next morning, ‘October 22d, I went to, Wabash and presented to Mr. Lamport a copy of the message retaining the original which I had in my possession, . The pr(iger explanations were made by Mr. Lamport, and and all was satisfactory to all parties. Since the November election some of the “Blaine” organs have, for some cause, seen proper to call up the matter in a most’ lyin% manner, as will fully appear from the Columbia CitK Commercial,the “Blaine” organ of this city, which claimed to come from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, which reads as-follows: “Of the incident that occurred at Anderson, during the campaign, the Inter-Ocean of last Thursday says; During the late campaign Col. I.'B. McDonald, of Columbia City, Indiana, was frightened out-of a Bemocratic? speech he was delivering at Anderson by receiving a telegram intended for another McDonald, who was a railroad man. The railroad man had telegraphed to a friend asking for the use of a railroad velocipede, and the answer came, ‘Yes, you had better take out a life insurance policy.' This was han ded the Democratic orator when in the midst of hisspeech, and thinking it was a warning against assassination he suddenly stopped and sought a place of safety,” o g : ~ In'the first place, 'these loyal hars fail to give the correct message, and in the second place, they eagerly lie about the Anderson meeting. ;Let me say to the whole pack of these fellows, that 1 finished my address, and that the same lasted one hour and ten minutes after the message was received and read by me; the meeting was orderly, and that no one was frightened in t{le least at that meeting. If the Ineer-Ocean, the Journal, Commercial and-other sheets of their ilk, see proper to continue in their lying course about Democrats, they shall be properly branded as lying out of whole cloth in this matter. ‘When they say that “Col. 1.8, MeDonald was frightened out of a Democratic speech,” or that ‘“he suddenly stopped, and sought a place of safety,” they simply lie, and I can prove it, and any one of the whole crew is dared to make an affidavit, before competent authority, stating that the matters set forth in the morceau cf the InterOcean is true; then it will be seen to that the Tellow shall have a home at Michigan City for the proper term for perjury. I bave no dispesition to look after these lying fellows, but in this case I am fprced to publish this card, as these fellows had conceived the idea that they had a good thing and would publish as a small morsel to let them down, in their more than unpleasant political calamity, Any of them can find me at Columbia City, Whitley county, Indiana, at any time. Very respectfully, ete., s : : Isaian B. McDoxarp Columbia City, November 29.

OUR NEIGHBORS.

The history of DeKalb county is now being written up by a Chicago publishing house.

Arthur Hazing accidentally struck ‘his head against a beam at Elkhart, Thursday night, and, although the injury seemed slight at the time, he died from its effects next morning. The cage of Ellison against the “Nickle Plate” railroad for damages resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff of $500,00, The amount sued for was $lO,OOO and the company at one time offered to compromise by paying $5,000. Miss Lew. Clugston, a beautiful young lady of Columbia City, met with a horrible accident one day last week. She was carrying a pan of boiling wyter when shp tripped and fell, splashing the scaldiag fluid into her face and eyes. Frank Clark, aged thirteen, son of respectable parents, wag caught Sund?v night in E. K. Boyer's grocery store, at Eikhart, into which he had broken. He was found hidden in a barrel, with a revolver in his boot, which he had taken from the show cage. He claims hs was fo.ced in by a man who essapeg. The boy was a great reader of dimp noyel literature. Acgording to the Goshen News the schopl book war has broken out again that coynty. In Jackgon township the teacher was insfructed to nse the adoptad books and two young men came with the old booka and proposed to use them or none, They had a fight with’ the teacher who put one out doors. Tnat dight the school house wiB broken into and the adopted books dishgured lo & ghameful manner.

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LAST CALL.

All these who have not paid their corporation tages for 1884, and former years, are hereby notified that these tayes must be paid at once or the proper steps will be taken to collect according tolaw. Do not put this notice aside but pay immediate attention, as this {s ahsplutely the last eall. A.'W. PARSQNS, Marsial.

America’s Pride.

‘True Amerigan men and women, by reason of their strong constitutions, beautiful forms, rich complexions and characteristic energy, are envied by all nations. llts the general use of Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic which brings about these results. 84 4w. i e —The finest pictures in town at Kerr’s. They will make suitable holiday presents. :

James L. Ruffin, for ten years chief of police of Cincinnati, died Friday morning. ‘ : Muriate of cocoaine, the newly-dis-covered anmsthetic, has been su CCess~ fully a.pphe% to de?ﬁm, 2%‘ At Thornburg, Io g% 3, Sehultz killed her two . ~‘. “‘with a knife M then s‘* rself. i In front of the néw city hall at San Franeiseo, Daniel Kennedy was killed by his wife with a revolver. Jacob Cassel, Sr., who has resided in the vicinity of Vincennes, Indiana, since 1813, passed away Monday. Samuel J. Randall will during the holiday adjournment visit Louisville, Nashyille, and the Alabama iron regions. - The surprising statement comes from Texas that two lads froze to death, iE‘riday night, on the prairie near Abiene. , Kansas democrats intend to urge the claims of Gen. C. W. Blair upon” Mr. Cleveland for the Secretaryship of the Interior.

W. H. Vanderbilt has filed in the county clerk’s office. at New York a judgment against General Grant for $155,000. George D. Robinson has %iven ascore of politicians early notice thathe will not run for governor of Massachusetts next year. .

Thomas Smith, a lumberman of Cheboygan, Michigan, whose wealth is estimated at $5,000,000, died Tuesday, of consumption.

President Diaz has been authorized by the Mexican congress to reform the stamp laws and cut down the number of tax-eaters. 3

Hosier¥ operatives to the number of 160 have left Nottingham, England, to take Elaces . already secured in the United States. : :

Rumorsare afloat that the Wisconsin Central road will be extended to Chicago, for lack of facilities over the St. Paul track. . ¢

Prof. J. C. Redlgath, Vice-President of the Depauw University, has’ been offered the Presidency of the Indiana State University. : ke

It is thought that the Fortfo]io of the Interior Department will be offered téy Gov. Cleveland to Mr. William C. Whitney, of New York. Wi It is rumored that -the Phillips gold mine, near Ishpeming, Michigan, has been sold to a Chicago and St. Paul syndicate for $30,000. “ _John R. McLean, of Cincinnati, has glyep his young bride a necklace conaining forty-seven diamonds, the:.value being stated at $30,000. ; Mrs. Jacob Judy, who settled near Atlanta, Illinois, in 1819, was on '.l.‘hursdaiYl followed to the grave by seventy-five descendents.

In the mines at Coal Creek, Tennessee, Bix convicts undertook to esca¥e. The guards killed two of them and fatally wounded two others.

At least twenty negroes lost their lives by the capsizing of oyster-boats in the Rappahanock river. Eleven bodies have been recovered.

Wade Hampton was on Tuesday reelected senator from South Carolina, receiving e¥ery vote in the legislature except those of five colored men. f Allen B. Wilson, of Waterbury, Connecticut, one of the earliesf inventors of sewing-machines, has been taken to the insane retreat at Hartford.

An oil-refining firm of Cleveland has obtiined judgment against the Lake Shore road for $4,000 for discrimination in freights and”sl,ooo fordamages. A leakage in a gas-gige in a Montreal mansion was followed by an explosion which injured three servants almost fatally and nearly wrecked the building.

. H. XK. McCoy, United States Judge for the Northern district of Georgia, 18 said to be becoming mentally unsound, {)n account of trouble with a son-in-aw. :

Exports from the port of New York during the week ended Tuesday, exclusive of specie, were $9,456,000—an éncrease of $4,183.000 oyer the week bee ore. .

In the superior court at Chicago, L. Z. Leiter began suit for $50,000 against Marshall Field, for the unlawful = seiz_uréa of one hundred feet of city property.. - :

At a mining village near Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, during Monday night, Thomas Barlow and five members of his family were burned to death. , 5 ' The horrors connected with ‘the Crouch murders at Jackson, Michigan, received reinforcement Thursday by %Iﬁe atttempVOf a witness to cut his roat. ;

The governor of lowa sent two companies of militiato An%us, to deal with striking miners. A delegation of citizens has gone to Des Moines to enter protest, - . - - Hezekiah Brown, a colored schoolteacher, was lynched by masked men in Howard county, Maryland, for intimacy with a white girl named Fannie Shultz. . :

Morosini’s wayward daughter has sued a national bank in New York to recover $l,lOO deposited to her credit by her father, on which he stopped payment. The late H. W. Sanford, of Dubuque, scattered $250,000 among his friends and re}atlves‘3 his private secretary being given $20,000 in government bonds. :

Andrew May, a venerable citizen of Indianapolis, was found dead in. his tmggg, Henry Jones, one of the oldest &) ysicians of Jacksenyille, Illinois, died Sunday, : el

A jury in New York gaye DPavid Stewart a judgment for $103,000 a;ﬁain_st C, P. Huntington for a swindle in connection with the transfer of - Central Pacific stock.

The supreme court of West Virginia has decided that a railroad charter is merely a license, the right tofix freight and passengfer rates being vested only in the legislature. ‘

An oil well in Butler county, Pennsylvania, located half a- mile from all previous developments, was torpedoed, and is flowing at the Yate of five tlious: and barrels per day. - :

Rueben R. Springer, of Cincinnati, known throughout the country for his gifts to Vpublic insgtitutions, died in his chair Wedaesday, from paralysisof the heart, in his 85th year, :

‘The shipments eastward by rail from Chicago during the past week were 65,856 tons, an increase of 9,88 tons. The Michigan Central carried 24 per cent, of the total freight. The receivers of the West Shore road, after paying taxes, rentals, and g%iﬁ*ating expenses, will have asurplus of $20,000 on the business of the guarYer en&jng With Septémber: -.-

' The fact has developed at Washingﬁ&_thatls?gt%r %ayard made a tritpt h’ﬁ any last Satprday, remaining atthe pxeputi{yq mansi%n w’;&lg I‘txllw pres;@gg@; elect until Sunday afternoon. William Royer, when convicted og mugder at Fort Waype and sentenced to life imprisopment, urged the court to send the jmack with instrnctions to order hig execution. i

Mayor Edson of New York, indignantly refused a request by a deleg?tion of the countﬁ,democra(’f for the appointment of Hubert O. Thompson BB commiissioner of publig yorks. The nattonal : democratic ‘edmmittee has selected fifty citizens.of Washing« ton, with Colonel James G. Berret -as ghan'map, to make all arrangements for the inanguga&i,cg; : pe;p%ouies. e The presence af Fortland of the chigf gngineer of the Grand Trunk ‘apd a g?g_t% lftﬁgtphxgeyom, gaye rise to fa ruOF tha Y. WEre plpparing for an extension of their tr%gk tg _f?psinne 2

The workmen in the flint-glass factory at Pittsburg have struck against a reduction of 20 ri»er cent. in wages, Cotton-miils at Columbus, Georgia, are ;mpqhug at foll time on large oruers. Thé ' Mandelpaup Paxt% (i; fugitiyes from New York were g{ nd‘ay‘-mgu charged frofn arrést at Hamilton, Of= tario, but the customs authorities rétain possession of the diamonds seized. Boston . capitglists have contracted for e'ightthogsé?nd'tbné b 8 sg‘.gg} pai&s for the Arizona Mineral Belt railroad, and work will begin forthwith on' the gection from Flagstaff to Green Vallllely. V. A. Harrington, of Janesville, W&sconsin, has been apregted ab Milwaukee for forging checks ta the amount of §6,000 to pay .for ;éurchases ﬁ:}lade for a mining company at Ishpemg : - Warren Pric hanged Friday, at wrigh&viﬁ’e é:(’)%ﬂia, ’%ordkirﬁln! 'hig gon-ip-law, ﬁ F, I%rry, two years gqp, George Cook was executed at Laramie, gwybmins, for killing his prother-in-Pierre Prefaux, ablind beggar, whose B e i by’ n Pittsburg, and who recently die while on his way 0 the . hospital, 19

found to have over $5,0004n-8 savings bank, |- 0 0 ey _ The grand jury at New Orleans, after examining over ome hundred witnesses, has indietéd"Recorder Ford, his brother, and several police and ;f;“?.;j:‘ftf’sz cérs for the murder of A. H. b : ! I'he iiackey-Bennet Commerecial Cable Company received its first cablegam Friday at its New York office: om Walterville, Ireland. The new cable will not be open for business for some days. o J. B. Johnson,-now in the penifentiary at Jefferson City, who cost the state of Missouri $200,000 by firing the Eenson shoPs last year, has been senneed to fen additional years’ confinement for arson. Lol ‘ Kentucky regulators, to, the number of twenty-five, made their appearance at Farmers Station 'during Tuesday night, took from the officers a murderer named John P. Martin, and Killed him with rifles. - Dr. James Defore, of Middlebourne, West Virginia, who was arrested for criminal practice on a village belle named McCoy, which caused herdeath, has been taken to New Martinsville to forestall a lynching. » , Twenty citizens of Daggett, California, surrounded the officers in charge of William Pitts, suspected of murder, and hanged him on a telegraph-pole. He was a deserter from the 2d cavalry, stationed at Fort Ellis. - :

Mary Brannan, who four years ago was a fayorite in the highest social circles of Baltimore, was released from the bridewell Thursday, and ended het career by flinging herself on the track before a passenger train. s Such is the excitement at Redfield Dakota, in regard to the location ot the county seat, that Governor Pierce has sent thither a militia compang from Fartgo‘, and’ arranged to forwar regulars from Fort Sully. .

It isstated that a: representative of the Canadian Pacific syndicate has gone to Manitoba to purchase wheat with §4,000,000 advanged by the Bank of Montreal. The grain will be stored at Port Arthur until spring. : General B. M. Prentiss, who recently visited. the battle-field of Shiloh, urges that the bon%s of the unknown confederate dead be removed to the national ¢emetery and their last resi-ing-place be properly marked. Arkansas derives $25,000 per annum from its penitentiary by leasing the labor of eighty conviets to cigar manufacturers, and handing over 280 others to farmers, the- consideration being '53.75 per month and all expenses.

_The exports of leaf tobacco from the United States for the year aggregated $17.405,232. The leaf tobacco board of trade of New York has resolved to enter a unanimous é)rotgst against the ratification of the Spanish treaty. - A saloon-keeé)er in Chicago is serving three friends with qlunii, and unlimited liquids daily. The first man to refuse a bird within a_month is to gay the entire bill;-should the trio hold or thirty days, the host is the loser.

‘ Henry Bells, residing at South Bend Indiana, undertook to break malarial fever by starving himself, Ie lived on water alone for thirty-four days, and became so faint that he was in» duced to take a spoonful of beef tea. The em‘o%ed Italianlaborers at Port Rowan, Ontario, siezed Colonel Collier Thursday, and carried him by force to one of their camps. His release was secured by the magistrates, who swore in thirty citizens to patrol the streets. Henry H. Green obtained in a Boston court a judgment for $3,025 against the New York Central road for m’i‘ur-‘ ies to a base viol at ‘Rochester. . The instrument waga Stradivarius, to which fact many experts were called to testify. The } commissionershif of patents will become vacant on March 4, when Mr. Butterworth’s termr as congressman commences. The :appointment of James 8. Grinnell, of Greenfield, Magsa -achusetts, will be urged by his friends. The citizens of Andersonville, Ohio, turned out in great numbers and disPatched a tiger which had escaped from liB winter %arters in ‘a menagerie, The animal had killed hogs, sheep, and cows along his route, but attacked no human being. i Gk ; Orrin A. Carpenter, who' was acquitted of the murder of Zora Burns at Lincoln, Illinois, has fled from the place. to avoid assassination by the gixl’s father. His once ample fortune as shrunk to a quarter-section of farming land. .

Neal McKeague, who was ai?u,it'ged at ChicaFo for.the murder of Mr and Mrs. Wilson, at Winnetka, 111, was sentenced Friday at St. Catharines, Ont., to six months’ imprisonment at hard labor for assaulting Mme. de la Vere, the clairvoyant. : A messenger named John McMann of the Leather ' Manufacturers’ bank of New York, ran away to Canada some time ago with $20,000 ini cash. He was caughtiand bronght back to New York, but deeclined to refund the money. e is now in Ludlow street jail. ¢

Clearing-house receipts at -the principal cities of the United States last week show a decrease as compared, with the correspondin% week of: last y\?ar of $258,243,886. he decrease in New York is 26.9 per cent. In Chicago the decrease is 9.1 per cent. A shoemaker at Wytheville, Vir%inia, wrote to Governor Cleveland for is measure for a pair of boots for the inauguration, and received the figures with a $2O bill: The money was returned tothe president-elect, who again sent it to the anxious shoemaker. .

A Japanese prince, 11 years of age, named Alexis Siago, who has for several years lived with the Russian minister ab Washington, died YYednesday of typhoid fever. His remains will be taken home by the Japanese minister of war, now visiting the United States. The American socialists of Chicago, after listening to the statement .of ' a miner fresh from the Hocking valley, passed resolutions to arm themselves to resist the.capitalistic class, and declaring the employment of all means of warfare not only justifiable but nec egsary. 7 :

Judge. Gresham, in passing upon the application of Yattaw and Fetcher to be tried in the federal court for the murder of & Chicago” constable, deeided that the mere holding of a commission a 8 deputy marshal at the time of indictment should not deprive the state court of jurisdiction. .

€ General Brisbrin prints a letter in a Montana newspaper declaring free cattle-ranges no longer practicable, and advocating a Texas cattle-trail. He states that one-sixth of the herds west.of the Missouri river are :controlled by Englishmen, who get free grass and drive citizens out of the business.

The recent suicide of Commander S. Dana Greéen, of the United States navy, was caused by his anxietg to combat the gtatements put-forth by an officer of the confederaté iron-clad Merrimac, which was degtroyed by one of the earliest monitors, at _lfgmpton,, roads, ?igen being second in commarid of the atfer. - : e o

Surveys have been made for an iron bridge across the Mississippi river at Prairie du Chien, to take &e place of the dpontmon structure, . The latter has paid from $35,000 to $50,000 {))er annum. The new bridge will be built by a stock com‘sty. ata cost of $BOO,OOO or more, and will be nearly a mile in length. : o At Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Mrs. Augusius Williamg nfgag surgrised by a call from her husband, who mysteriously disappeared ei%‘lel’t gears age,_and had been mourned as'dead. He nvited her fo a furnished house in Geo;g}awlle‘, which he purchased with part of a forbung legb him Teesplly by hig® grands mother. e Ay WAL

Nearly all the bnildings, walks, and lags {lor the world’s fair at - New Qrleans have been ecompleted; Beveral thousand men work m%ht and day in arranging exhibits, which pour in at ; %e rate of one hundred car-loads daily. The main structure covers thxrtfv-three _acres, and . has eighteen miles of aisles -and a ile of gallerjes, 1 -4ttcl‘;‘a'le%al fight of three months, mainfained by means of contributions from the Canadian public, M;ﬁ‘. Rosé {ﬁyn_)an has selcuredt' li(ir- ielelse wf}fom he insane asylum at Montreal, where B i igoed by her Hysbanid Chseo Tt ,ﬁhedhadlp@;;%ht 5 it .bg separation, and will “claim damages from the medical-%ﬁ)érintendent%;f Eh‘e as%lqm].} ok v | he Baltimoye and Ohio rpad has leaséd‘théi%hga aﬁq %isgisafpgé, the JxTumored consideration being ﬁ;er cent. of its gro§s earnings. The Baltimore company has also secured a loan of $10,000,040 on its Bittsbur%and Connellsville line. The Pitts ur% and’ Western road is about to run fast passex:iger trains between the former gity. MeCmesee L o, Gains Chudwi_c%, the young conwviet gjﬁo g?s lagg vggeJ &eaily mur;)ierbd by ‘his cell-matg at Joliet, 111., ha pardoned by Governor ﬁ;l%ﬂtoil A 4

apgea;:s_ fhat he belongs to an influential family in Brooklyn, and was led into participating in a burglary at Chicago. Architect Mullett, several New York merenhants, Judge Anthony, and Warden McCloughry signed the petition for pardon. - . i . The officials of the Wisconsin Central road, having received an- unsatis-~ factbr.{l decision by the St. Paul people as to the use of their track, threaten to commence fortliwith the construction of a line from Schliesinxifrville to Chicago. Itis understood thatthe Northwestern road is négotiating with S. H. Clark for control of-the Belt line at Omaha, in order to reach the stoekyards in that city. s 2

“Omaha Charley,” a’ desperado, whose real name was Charles Stevens; was taken from the jail at'Margvxlle 1 Mo., Tuesday morning bx{ a-mob. angiu‘ hanged from . the . railroad bridge. Stevens shot Hubert Kramer at Maryville, Dec. 3. Another lynching occurred at Dag%iett.,()al.ﬂ, where William White, charged with killix(xig Josiah O. Harris, Dec. 5, was hanged to a belegraph pole by a party. of regulators. ° ‘The federal grand jury nt'Chica%o found-indictments against Jos‘eﬁh, i Mackin, Arthur Gleason, and Henry Biehl for complicit{e in the election frauds in the Eighteenth ward, and each gave bail. Judge B;odgeit,ﬂ‘at Chicago, dlscharﬁfd the United States grand jury, on the completion of its investi%ation concerning the Eighteenth Ward election fraud., Mackin, Gleason, and Biehl gave bail in $lO,000 each, and' Strausser, Shields, end Kelly in $3,000 each.. Hansbrough is too ill.to be moved {rom the. Counti. ‘Hospital, and it has not been decided as \{et what disposition shall be made of htm. Michael Sullivan has fled and c¢annot be found. It is' supposed that he is in Canada. - = i 3 ;____————‘46—.——-——‘—— v WASHINGTON. . /¢

. Secretary Chandler has been advised by %able of the outbreakof a revolution in orea. - S e i e

Senators Cullom and Logan 'liave united in recommending . Postmaster Palmer; of Clycago, for reappointment. . ... - - -

Surgeon Wyman, of the marine hospital service, has been given leave of absence for four months_to investizate the germ of cholera with Professor Koch at Berlin.

A delegation of -southern senators and congressmen waited upon President Arthur, Wednesday, and made a proposition that he open the New Orleans exposition by touching an electric "button in the whitehouse, the telegraph wires being attached to the machinery on the fair-grounds, - = ° Congress will - practically -adjourn next Friday, for, although the dateof the formal adjournment will probably be fixed for.the 23d, this “wvill ' probably:be done with the private understanding of the members that no business will be transacted between Friday and Monday. "= : oo . In'response to the request of Mr. Springer, the “Attorney-General has ‘sent.to the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice copies of the co’rre%pondf ence on file in the department relative to the emx))loymenc of U‘nit'ed States Deputy Marshals at the Con%ressmnal election in Ohio last ()ct.%ber, ine udi;)_% the correspondence with Lot Wright, United " States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio. =~ A paragraph will be inserted in the Army bill providing for an assistant signal officer,’ with the rank of Colonel. This 1s intended to be a place for Lieut. Greely. The State of Califorf¥a is about to organize a signal service, and in a few weeks an officer of the service _here—probably Lieut. ,Craig—will be detailed. to tike charge. The system adopted is modeled after that- of 'the Government. S S L TR R S

A BUREAU WITHOUT A HEAD. P The President has not made the aﬁpoi—nbment of Commissioner of the new Bureau of Statisties, . although' the eommission to John Fahrenbach of Ohio was made out. A gentleman who saw the President on the subject said that he is- now . waiting until Secretary Teller returns from. New Orleans, Mr. Teller is not expected until the last of next week. ‘Meanwhile new candidates are almost daily arriving, = There are seventeen from Pennsylvania alene, yet to Pennsglvania Representatives the President has indicated that he.does not intend to select a Commissioner from that State, "RAILROAD LAND-GRANTS, = &

.The sué)po'rters of the hills to forfeif railroad land-grants are determined : to secure early consideration if possible: In the Seriate the bill to forfeit the ‘l'exas «Pacifia grant was reached on the ca.lﬁnda;, and if was set down for discussiap next T'uesday. In the House Public-Lands Committee Henley was instructed o ask the House to fix a day for the consideration of the-North-ern Pzcific Forfeiturp bill. The Senate Committee on the J udlciarf' will ask to have the Garland bil? on Central Pacific, reported to the Senate favorably last session, Te: committed, in order that it may be considered with the Thompson or House bill. ‘The impression is that-the Senate Judiciary Committee will recommend the *funding of the debt of the Pacific Railroads in accordance with the Charles Franeis Adams plan —into a long 8 per cent. bond. Those in %{)od position to know the sentiment of the ouse say that such a measure cannotf pass that body. : G i PR

RETALIATORY LEGISLATION.

The action of the Tariff Committee of tha French Chambers in proposing . 1o increase the dxtty on fo"ﬁ‘iﬂ. cereals to. three frangs, 15 another step taken by a foreign ,Giove.rnq ment which will eljeourage the .retaliatory pa.r_t{m Congress. . The ‘statement “has re. tently been published . that a.comhinatio between the pork and petroleum . im‘,erest% has been formed to prepare fo6r such measures -of protection as may be. necessary against the digeriminating tariff_and internal commereial regulations of- Franece and Germany . with respect to. pork -and petroleum ei'gports. Itis possible that the action of the French Tariff Committee, if it shall be adopted by the-French Chambers, will induce the agriculturist and the commissionmen of this country to join this rreported combination. - T'he retaliatory part{ in the. House, however, proved to be. last winter much weaker than had been . expected, and it may be doubted when the compromise proposition that: an inspection law should })e_enacted will be ‘adopted. ~ ‘The interest in this subject appears to be increasing outside of Congress, if Congressmen' thefiiselves are indifferent to it, and répresentafives of various exporfs are now ltcare 10 ¢all the attention pt Congressmen g this gybjeat,” *| - = B

TOO MANY BUREAUS,

‘Thereport of the committee of “the National Academy of Sciences u];longthe org;anization of the signal service, the geological survey, the coast and geodetic sggey, and the hydrographic office of the "% “Y De{)arhment is made public. - After deseribing he work of the various-bureaus and pointing out some existing defects; the' commit. tee are of opinion that the functions of the several or%amzatlons under consideration could now be most advantageously divided among perhaps four bureaus—namely; . - ¥irst—The coast and 1 teiier suLvey, tg be cquertied prificipally wit geodesy and

hydrography, and to consist of ‘the present coast and geodetic survey. - . Second—The geologieal ‘suryey, te coms prise the present %eolo‘gical survey, with ity o;'r%ag;ﬁatxons unchaneed, . i hird—%he - Meteorologieal Bti!‘eetuf to ‘which should be transferred so much of the Erqsent personnel ‘and functions of the hief Signal Officer as are not necessary to the military duties of that office,. - . Fourth—A physical observatory, to investigate the laws of solar and terrestrial radiation and their application to- meteorology, with such other investizations in exactscience as the Government might: assign to it. The committee recommend the organization of a permanent commission fo pre-scribe-a’ general polisy fqr each qt-@ggsq

CONGRESSIONAY,, G i . SENATE. ' = Dre, B,—A. bill- was introduced in the Senate by Mr, Blair grantin% $50,000° to aid the Colored: People’s Exposition to be held at Chicago in'lBBs, -Mr,. Dolph ecalled up “the bill providin% for the incorporation of the Spokane Falls & Ceeur d’Alene Railway ~CompauK in Idaho and. Washington Territories. Mr. Harrison objected to the bill on the ground that the company would proba~ bl{ occux‘iy all the Passes through the mountalns and secure land enough to monopolize the public domain. Mr, Platt remarked that he did not approve -of the praetice in voiué of bulldin% mi_h‘olﬁds on papey. Certain amendmerits fo the bill weré agreed todepriving ‘the cqmpang of « the ‘right'to “consolidate with other roads. Further cop= sideration %t the stibject was nﬁstp;o.ned, < hD,tEtcH.’ 9.—ln th?l Sen_ata ;»Mr;t‘ tg%% "nﬁqmd at the proposed amendments e Nayi %pgr-oprﬁ;t_}o‘ t;iélmhg Lpﬁis{aad. upon qlﬁ at a new conference he held. ' It was sq ordered. A bill providing for the e?ctmn oga statue to. Lafayette was offered %M,r. ermarj, ]jer 4 party vote of 84 to 25the ePublwans orced the consideration of the bill to admit-Southern Dakota asa State. The bill providing for the sale of the Che okee reservation in Arkansas was gas,a,e%, as Wﬁll as an amendment to the: sections of’ the Revised Statutes which prohibit the delivery of registered letters and the paye_nf’ gf money orders to lottery mm&mies-* %ea mﬂm% : cm%sga,teg in - gtrif s,imé, the word "frandulent,” 50 a 8 to cover lote teries generally. ' 11U Ao celal M Drc, 10,—In the Senate the Inter-oceanic Ship-Railway bill "was. withdrawn. The &.‘qaﬁmgmhql ﬁgthz&l Banlk of Ohicago wag uthorize 591', lner *ﬁ’«é‘ itg. capifal siqek tg §2,000,000. 'The Dakota bill wag then taks en ug, - Mr. Xest- , arfe gpeech Aix; 'ggpo&!: gon 0 the admission of 3kotq,v § State, He siid thers ‘was no nded ' to %ﬂm new ?(t,atels %1 order to sﬁengthen%mh\ u_,b a}fg pulation was arge anaygh to entitle the g‘e;ritog%% reggﬁ tation in-égusaeéa-. S Pre 11— n'the_%ena:e ﬁhe'qm%m JoTi= tral Land Forfeiture bill was faken qp again, and the- amendman% of Mr. D e, 105 0, prapdus oo S o gt ers on the forfeited lands. Further dis. cu_ss&on,nt.ﬂ 8 m«z%s e was postponed, and s _demg;;%mf; e bill for the admission | Toh onitta o Termitory vo. sdmission: tos | ,;;«; \ir, Ve ,&. : ‘i‘,if Lied | ;:s_ 1§ , hirit of

‘the Constitution required at least a 8 o g e e e et in the House; buteven if Dakota hada | _population sufficiently large to fulfill this | “condition other circumstances must of ne“cessity enter into a decision of the %uestton ] of its admission as a State. Mr. Cockrell ° ‘expressed himself as opposed to the admis- | sion of new: Territories with a large area | and small po&)ulntwn.v He would notbe satisfied to admit Dakota if it had four . times the population necessary to entitle it. to represenlgaﬁon in Congress. The Senate. appointed Feb, 21 for the Washim?ém Mon- | ument -celebration, and adjourrfed unfil - Monday. o S e 3 o HOUSE., { '~ Drc. B.—lnthe House the Speaker read a communication from the Postmaster-Gener-: al asking an appropriation of $lOO,OOO for. railroad postal service for the remainder of the current year.. This was refer:edhnrs; well as' the followitig bills: One by Mr. Townshend progpsln%‘ a , constitutional amendment providing that treaties shall be made by and with the consent of the House as well as that of the [Senate; anotherl\?&f ' Mr. Ryan to o&en portions of indian 'Lerris tory to homestead settlement; another by “Mr. Buckner to suspend the coinage ot standard silver dollars; and another b%eMr. 3binson-to restore th? ceremonies attend- | ant\upon I'residential inaugurations to Jeffersonian sim;‘mclty. Mr. Cox offered a resolytion : asking the oginion of the At torney}-General as to whether ge ElﬁhﬁHour law should be considered as applicable to ter-carriers. A' joint resolutiom . was als roduced by Mr. Cox proposing an approlfar ation of $lOO,OOO for the comglet‘ion of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. Ir. Warner -offered a bill to prevent the contraction of the currency, a 3)500,000 ‘a&v¥ropriation' was proposed by Mr. O’Neill or the im&yrovemem of the Phil’adeld)hia Harbor, and Mr. Ellis | introduced a bill to erect a monument . to the ®victims : of the Greely expedition at & cost of $25,000,: Some chscurwxou of the Inter-State Commerce bill followed; but no action was taken upon

Drc. 9.—A bill was introduced in the House by Mr. Chalmers, to restore the te- - publican form of government in Mississi pi, providing that Congressional and Stat)oelections shall be held the same day, and" makmf intimidation at- elections punisha‘ble, - 'The bill was referred. Consideration of the Inter-State {ommerce bill was resumed. Mr. Davis,/of lllinois, said he thought the first step should be to appoint a commission of inquiry to investigate each case of injustice on the Part of railroads. Mr. Horr approved of this sufggestion, and objected to Mr. Reagan’s offering on the ground that it discriminated in favor of roads in' ‘certain States and ~agai?t those . which went through other States. It would annihilate cheap rates-of transportation in the-West .and South, he said, and make bread dear. Further discussion was post poned. : { ; 5 .

_ DEc. 10.—A joint resolution was passed in the House to continue the work of the vensus Bureau. ' The resignation of Mr. Scales, 'of North Carolina, was received and laid on the table, The Military Academy 'Agpropriation bill*was {passed, with an amendment providing that in future all appointments to the grads of Second Lieutenant in the army shall be confined to graduates of the Military |Aicademy, meritorious non-commissioned jofficers, and enlisted men recommended fot promotion; also,that the law shall be map%licable in time of foreign war. A motion by Mr. l’h‘elxs to app,ro&;riate $lOO,OOO to _pa%for an American exhibit at the Antwerp xgosmon in 1885 was referred. The Inter-State Commerce. bill was taken up and briefly discussed. ' A message from the President was received transmitting' the report of the Secretary of State urging .the necessity of immediate le:,igislation to bring the statute of the United States under conformity with the international regulations for preventmﬁ collisiops .at sea, which has beeriadopte by all the leadinﬁ‘ maritime Powers except this country. The report was referred. 1

DEc. 11.——,Con§ressman Hancock, of the ‘Committee on Appropriation reported the Invalid Pension Appropriation bill to the House, 'lt was referred to the Commitfee of the Whole. Consideration of the InterState Commerce bill being resumed, Mr, Glascock attacked the railroad-pool system, and advocated its strict prohibition. A gens eral understanding was arrived at that the debate shall close the next day the subject is taken up as bettveen the substituteof Mr. Roa%an and the committee bill. Mr, Reagan has modified his’ moétion, and now offers-his prcépnsi'tion only as a substitute for the remedial features ot the committee bill. - Mr. Hiscock offered a resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the cagacity of the -canals of the State of New York and ascertain if they are sufficient for the requirements of InterState Commerces. A resolution was adopt= ed calling upon the Secretary of the ¥nter: ior for information concerning the fees of claim-agents in pension cases. ] DEc. 12.—1 n the House.a concurrent resolution was passed regretting the inability of Cangress to be ﬁresent, at the opening of the New Orleans Exposition and requeslsmﬁ the President of the Senate, together wit a committee of thirteen Senators and the Spleaker of the House, with one Representative or Delegate from each. State or Territory, to be present at the Executive Mansion Dec. 16, when the President will open the exposition by telegraph and startthe machinery thereof by electricity from the White House'in the presence of the Cabi~ net and representatives of foreign Powers. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, offered a resolution, whlch was adopted, to exjmnge from the official proceedings of last July a s%eech by J. D. Taylor printed by leave in The Recgrd, which reflected on the pension commitee. ¢ .

FOREIGN,

The death gentence of the eannibalistio officers of the English yacht'Mlgnon_ett%hasbeenthcommuted; to imprisonment for'six months. 2 SR

Bombay was decorated on the arrival of the new viceroy, Earl Dufferin, and the town council appropriated 4,000 rupees with which to purchase silver caskets for Dufferin and the marquis of Ripon. : There is great alarm felt in Italy concerning the agitation in France in. favor of increased duties on grain and cattle, and a clamor is being raised for the adoption of some measure of reprisal against France. The Russian police discovered at a town on the,Driexfg’,r that thieves had cut a tunnel. under the office of .the tax-receiver, which containgd 80,000 rubles. Twelve nihilists were caPtured in a restaurant at St. Petersb‘g%l where they were apparently holding a ball. ) e ‘An explosion which wag heard for ten miles occurred Saf,}imay eyening in 1.-ign, don, creating the wildest excitement. The affair is one of Treat mystery, but it would appear that exp osive material xs thrown from London bridge into the ter, with the intention of destroying the famous structure. : &8

In a London court-room, Tuesday,; Chief Justice Coleridge 'pronounced the death sentence against Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens, of: the J'acht Mignonette, who killed abo% named Parker for food. Itis ﬁenerally elieved that they will be paroned, as Lord Coleridge remarked that it was the. privilege of a jury to recommend mercy. : : AR e

GENERAL MARKETS.

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