Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 January 1885 — Page 2

q.e e e Che Ligonier Banuer, 3. 8. STOLL. Editer. , THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1885. B Tee toraL vaLve of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, is estimated at a round million. The indebtedness amounts. to about $300,000. The 'earnings of the Times figure up about $lOO,OOO per annum. Dogs anybody suppose that the wages of the Polish laborers at South Bend ‘would have been so cruelly reduced if they had voted to suit their employers? If there bd such verdancy anywhere, let it be b_,rought to public v~ie_pv. :

Taere were no Polanders among the

railroad strikers at Fort Wayne, hence republican newspaper donkeys do Jx:loi; deem it incumbent upon themselves to .charge that occurrence to the manipu-lation-of “democratic managers.”

Dox Camerox -had but little difficulty in securing his re-election to the U. Be Sendbe by the republican majority of the Pennsylvania Legislature. His subjects came up with becoming meekness to lattest their devotion to hig money bag. ' .

~ Jupee Goobine wasn't made Speaker: of the House at Indianapolis, but that fact will not deter him from keeping a watchful eye on legislation affecting the interests of the people. If any skullduggery is to be indulged in, it will net ‘be with the consent of the gentleman' from Hancock. '

. Irsgems to be pretty gemerally conceded that Wiscensin will have a representative in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet. I Tue BaxsEr had its way it would delect James R. Doolittle. Col. Vilas is, however, a_ good man and will answer the purpose nearly as well. .

! Cnrcaco has 50,000 workingmen out employment. Cincinnati figures up 35,000 in the same uncomfortable pre.dicament. This is the showing that the ‘“grand old party” makes upon its retirement fiom the coiitrol of the government and 'a twenty-four years’ application of the “noble principle” of protection to American labor.

Tar Lagrange Democrat, by putting on its thinking cap, might easily have discovered . that the item commented upon’ in its last issue, reflecting upon the intelligence of Lagrange Democrats, never appeared in the columng of Tue Banxser. That sort of slush may always with entire safety be creds ited to the “leading” donkey of the Northern Indiana presg. s, 5

IN MATTERS per%aining to finance ané the etrbing of corporations Senator Bayard is moreof a Republican than a 8 Democrat. On questions of a purely political character he is generally sound to the core. The former being the most important in a business point of view, Tue Bavxkr is free to confess that the Delaware Senator ismot its beau ideal of a practical statesman.

Hox, Baviess W. Haxxa, formerly Attormey-General or this State, but at present occupying the more exalted position of editor of the Crawfordsville Review, would not seriously object to being appointed Minister to Mexico under the Cleveland administration. Sorry Bayless didn't make his wishes known at’ the recent editorial convention. A formal recorimendation would have been in order. {

Sovrm Bexp has a littlé 'toady editor

who is ambitious to “eliminate”—that is to wipe out—the workingmen wlip . rebel against the introduction of pau- . per wages in this country. Fortunately * for' the workingmen of South Bend this little toady editor is unable to enforce his humane ideas. The only ‘thing he can “eliminate” is the little " respect that has been entertained for “him by those who have not hitherto * known what a very small toady he really is.

¢ No,cENTLEMEN, there is no probabilii ty 6f any radical changes being made in the fees andsalaries of county efhicers by the present Legislature. “The boys” took time by the forelock and carefully guarded themselves against

the threatened encreachments of their

fiscal - prerogatives. County . officers * know their men and are usually wideawake while the dear people enjoy the luxury of an invigerating “snooze.”

TuerE is one Republican in the U. 8. Senate whom railread corperations and monopolists: do not own. His name is VanWyck, and he hails from the State of Nebraska. Heis not afraid to express himself freely on questions relating to the rights of the people and doesn’t care whom his blows mr.y hit when striking from the sheulder.! Pity there are not more Senators of the same sterling qualities about the national capitol. s Wik

IT.IB the merest folly for anyone to suppose that the U. S. Senate, as at present canstituted, will concur in any bill sed by the House that may be desigi%j@o secure the people relief ~from the exactionsof railroad corporations.” The Senate is mainly composed of individuals directly associated with corporations and will give its assent to no measure that is calculated to do justice to the toiling millions. It will take at least four years to effect such a change in that body as will place it in sympathy and . harmony with the masses. In two years from now In- . diana will eliminate one of these tools of gigantic m byv::mng little Benny Harrison to private life and electing in his stead a man who has some sympathy with the sons of toil, & P !

It Isiwor ExpreTED that little whiffets who perchance aeeupy the position of - alleged editors can rise to the dignity and intportance of giving calm, sensible and intelligent consideration to questions pertaining to social and economic- problems. All these creatures are capable of doing is to snarl at men who have the inclination and ~ eapacity to deal rationally-and fairly with mattecs pertaining to the geperal welfareof the masses. Destitute of ‘eommon sense and ordinary decency, : these “journalistic” nuisances usually single out some one who has mani- - Sested nis m”’m*ﬁ.ﬁg:z: yogpsand oy 5 borpater b, with hwaime und fith No sarlicla < %&' vermitted to soil so

‘Troveu the weather has of late been extremely cold, the editor of the Warsaw Indianian-Republican is politically still rea hot. *Can’t something be done for the relied of this heated knight of ‘the quill? "His condition at times seems alarpiing. :

Ir Max be stated with absolute certainty,and without the fear of successful contradiction, that the South Bend strikers have not received two dollars per day and roast beef which has been promised fhe workingmen of this country ever since the memorable protection campaign of 1840. :

* QOurster A. ArTHUR has been éntirelv too fair and manly in the discharge of his presidential duties to commend himself further to the average republican “politician. If he had run the government purely on the rantankerous party plan, he could easily have ‘have élected U. 8. Senator from-New York: : ‘ el

Ir Gex. GraxTmust be supported by the United States; why nof give him a I,ooo:acre farm, a half dozen fast horses, fifty “head of blooded cattle, a yacht for pleasure trips on our lakes and the two oceans, and an annual appropriation of $25,000 or $50,000? In this manner the General might" possic bly be able to make both ends meet and the Republic exonerated from the charge of ingratitude. There should be nothing. small in fhe bestowals of Unecle Sam. : :

HOW THE PEOPLE'S MONEY IS SQUAN- : DERED.

' In illustration of the recklessness of ‘expenditure of government money an eastern paper tells an interesting story of ten barrels of whisky. This product belongs to a distiller who. suspen—ded manufacture several years ago, having at the time ten barrels of very low-grade. whisky on hand—"so poor that it ¢ould not he given away.” The UticaAOb.‘aer\‘r‘e}‘i says that “the whisky, if sold, would not bring ten cents a gallon, yet up toto-day has cost in salary of storekeepers the handsome little .sum of $970. The tax on these ten barrels of fusil-oil, called whisky, would ameunt te $350, but no ﬁorr:'e’ weuld pay the tax and take the stuff in payment. Yet the government con tinues to pay a storekeeper $4 to put in appearance for five minutes each day to watch this worthless stuff, when it could be stored in any other storehouse connected with an opetrating distillery, and all expense saved. Probably such leaks will be stopped before many more good dollars are squandered in-this way.”

WHAT BANKING SHOULD BE.

The Chicago Times 18 not always—in fact, not 6ften—sound in the discussion of matters pertaining to finance; but occasionally it manages to get onto a solid rock. Recently it engaged in the attempt to determine what banking is, or ought to be. It reached this sensible conclusion: “The business of banking is ‘'mainly, and should be exclusively, in our opinion, that of receiving and lending money. Numbers of péople in every commercial community have money which they temporarily do not need, and numbers would like to borrow that same money if they knew" where to look forit. Both are accommodated by the banks. The owner gets a convenient place of deposit for his spare funds, and the borrower a convenient place'for obtaining loans.” The owner saves himself the care and risk of keéping his money in his pokeet or in bis safe; the borrower is saved the trouble of running around to find ‘a lender when he wants one, ahd the bank or banker very justly gets paid for serving both: This is the essence of true bankmg.” -

THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS.

~ According to the New York World, Washin®ton society is already agitated by rumors and api)rehensions of new social sets that it is believed will be the result of the political revolution. ' The Washington Herald predicts that there will be three factions, composed of the powers that be, the powers that expect to be, and the powers that tried to be and coukdn't. 1t is safe to say here that, so far- as in official example will be set at the ‘White House,*society will be less extravagant, less pretentious, less hypocritical and more republican in its tastes and conduct. - :

Whether ,Presidegt Cleveland, the V@rld continues, will drink tea like Hayes, or Sunday-school lemonade like Garfield, or take his Burgundy like Arthur, is of little consequence, hut there is a profound conviction in Washington that there will not"be a horde of contrﬁeters, speculators, - lobbyists and jobbers in the White House to help him drink it.

' The whole character and conduct of the man in public life give rise to the belief that he will restore :to the President’s; official life something of the dignified s-ix}nplicity which characterized the White House in the olden times. ~' /

That The element of republican flummery and social ostentation which has grown. to be such a large factor in Washington life since the war will be offended at this return to first principles ‘may readily be expected. But it,is certain that the people who elected Cleveland will be satisfied if he sets an example of modest propriety, courteous hospitality and unpretentious demoeratic good sense and gdod taste. - And that inuch his public life up to this time warrants us in expecting. i Tur Bawxer feels confident that there will be no disappointment: in this particular. 7 : .

| JEFFERSON-CLEVELAND, ~ When Thomas Jefferson, the foundex of the democratic party, took éharge of fhe presidential chair he found every office filled with a Federalist, many of that political faith having ‘been in office for a period of twelve years. Up to that time, as a- contem‘porary shows, the Federalists had con}.troll'ed‘the republic, and they, like the Republicans of to day. believed that ‘the turning of these fellows out of office would ruin the country; and like ‘the Republicans, too, they had never appointed anyone but members of their own party to office. John Adams sat up until midnight on the last’ day of his term filling vacant offices with Federalists, and then rode away from the capitol ieavin? for Mr. Jefferson nm the duty of selecting his own A , hat Mr. Jeffe a 8 hasg been | the sase with Mr: Cleveland. wes forood to express: his views upon the subject SEREE e e (e S S R e R

o e e g Sl TAN T T LS N R G ‘On the 14th of Febrnary, 1801, M. Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. Ifhrto!t :upq']x;ethis subject, said: . | __ “Besides that no man who bas.copducted himself according to Mis duties would have anything to fear from me, as those who have done ill would have nothing to hope, be their political principles what they might.” - : - On the 25th of December, 1884, Mr. Cleveland, in his letter upon civil service reform to George W. Curtis, said: . “The lessons of the past [few admmistrations] should be unlearned, 'and such officials [as violate the principle] as well as their successor, should be taught that efficiency, fitness, and devotion to public duty are conditions of their ‘continuance in public places.” On October 25, 1802, Mr. Jefferson, in a letter to Levi Lincoln., said: “To these means of obtaining a just sharé in the transaction of public business shall be added one other A 0 wit: rémoval for electioneering activity, or open and industrious opposition to the principles of the present government, legislative and executive. Every officer of the government may vote at elections according to his conscience; but we should betray the cause committed fo our care were we to permit the influence of official patronage to be used to overthrow that cause.”

Mr. Cleveland in his letter says: | “But many now ‘holding positionsl have forteited all just claims to retentien because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard of their duty to the peopie.” : | . Again Mr. Jefforson, in his letter to William B. Giles, dated March 23, ‘ 1801, says: | : el

. “Good men to whom there is no objection biit a difference of vpolitical! principles, practiced only as far as the right of private; citizens will justify, are not proper subjects of removal.” 1 Muy. Cleveland, in his letter, said that those had lost all claim to retention in office who, Lo ' ‘ “Instead of being decent public servants, have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.” .

. After Mr. Jefferson had completed one term and was half through his second, he wrote to a“friend upon this subject as follows: . : v

- “I have never removed a man merely because he was a Federalist; I have never wished them to give a vote at an election but according to their own wishes. But as no government could discharge its duties to the best advantage of itscitizens if its agents were in a regular course of thwarting instead of executing its measnres, and were employing the patronage and influence of their offices against the government and its measures, T have only requested they weuld be quiet and they would be sate; that if their conscience urges them to take an active and zealous part in opposition, it ought also te urge them to retire from a post which they could not conscientiously conduct with fidelity to the trust imposed in them, and' on failure to retire I have removed them—that is to say, those who maintained an active and zealous opposition to the government.”

IT 1S STATED that more murders were cowmmitted in Ohio during the year 1884 than in any other State tn the same length of time. .

THE&E is unparalleled destitution in % Louis. Twenty thousand people are out of employment. The SanItary Aid association is uaable to furnish needed assistance. |

THE ReEPUBLICANS of the Indiana Legislature gave Gov. Porter their complimentary vote for U. S. Senator. The Democrats voted unanimsusly for Daniel W. Voorhees. :

Gov. GRAY states emphatically that he gave no authority for calling out the military to squelch the strikers at South Bend last week. Some one may be called upon to explain.

. Ho~, DANIEL W. VOORHEES has been honored with a unawimous renomination for the U. S. Senatorship. Few public men are the recipients of such marks of honor and esteem.

{ MR. BLAINE'S main purpose henceforth is said to be the punishment of his repablican enemies. As there are any number of these, , Mr: Blaine will have his hamnds full for some time to come. . He »

TrE South Bend labor strike remains statu que. The Oliver shops are still‘*elosed,a_nd likely to remain so for some time to come. No disturbances have occurred since the skirmish last week, . o

JUDGE GOODING thinks that Grant has had enough of this world’s goods, at least at the expenmse of the public treasury. 'He foots them up at about $1,000,000. As usunal, the Judge’s head is eminently level. 5

A RELIEF COMMITTEE has been orgaaized at South Bernd to,pro:tect the poor and destitute of that city, Great distress, but liberal contributions of clothing and food are coming in from the charitably-disposed peopleé of St. Joseph county. o

PRESIDENT ARTHUR announces that the pressure of official duties will prevent him from atfending the New Orleaus exposition. This is very much to be regretted. President Arthur is held in high esteem in the South and would have been greeted with a hearty welcome. I

HoN. GEORGE L..CONVERSE, of Columbus, is favorably mentioned in connection with the democratic ‘nom: ination for Governor of Ohio. He is a man of decided ability, but the probabilities are that Judge Geddes will receive the nomination, he being generally considered the most available of all the gentlemen named in connection with the position.

Checking the Corporatiens. : [New York World.] L ~ The passage of Mr. Regan's interstate commercial bill in the house of representatives by the decisive vote of 158 to. 75 has caused consternation among the large railroad corporations and their organs. This is a fair indication that the measure isone m the interest of the people. e : If the railroad corporations’ had not ‘been rendered overbearing and unreasonable by the power they have secured over the dominant party and the special privileges they have been accorded in contravention of the rights of the public, they would not denounce a law of this kind as confiscatory and cdmmunistic. Certainly its main provisions are based on ‘sound and just principles, and # would be more becoming if the corporations would admit as much and show where, if any, its details are oppressive or impracticable. The bill seeks to prohibit any diserimination in_the rafes, handling or dispatch of freight in favor of individuals, insuring equal facilities to all. As the franchises are the property of

all the people, this seems only an ejuitr able provision of the law. - It prescribes a maximum rate of three cents a mile for passage fare, which is a needed protection to people who do net live on a competing hne and who are required to pay exorhitantly in order to make up for the low fare to points in competition: Is this *eommunistic?” ! ,

It provides for pro rata freight charges, thus preventing the injustice of levying on a farmer or merchantl who lives a hundred miles from a market a higher freight than is paid by one who lives a thousand miles distant. Is’ this “confiscatory ?” S sl ~ The principle of a pro 7ata freight law has long been upheld by shippers, but it isa System which no single state can adopt without destruction to its own interests. A national pro rata law puts all states on an equality and removes this local difficulty. : The law is carefully drawn and well guarded. The vote it received emphasises the fact that with a change of ad‘ministration “will come a change of policy towards the abuses and despotism of large corporations, and that in future the interests of monopolies will not be allowed to override the interests of the people. : Local Correspondence. ¢ T HAwPLWe s,

BY AL B. 0. : “Above the Clouds” will bs repeated at Syracuse lhall next Friday evening, January 23. All should hear it. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Conrad, of ioshen, visited on the Hawpatch last week. | Jerome Urich, of Sunbury, Pa,, visited the family ef H. P. Cooper last week, . = . Fraucis Hurtzler has returned from a vigit in Ohio. s : ‘Quite a nuamber of our farmers contemplate going to New Orleans next month.. ° ; Miss Mary Gerber, who is so sadly afflicted with that dread disease, consumption, is no better. ‘ YORK TOWNSHIP. . ; BY M. M. E. E. : . Last Sunday the thermomstéer registered 16° below zero; Monday 20° and Tuesday 22°. R The repert -that Gracie Chambers Lad the diphtheria proved to be a ca nard. | l : | The spelling~‘ chool at Pleasant Hilil last Friday evening was a failure so far as nun’?bers?were concerned. Miss F.congratulates Uncle John and returns her many thanks for his asaistan;ce.; Writingtschool has closed on account of irreégular attendance. : The ecold weather caused the postponement |of the spelling-school at Qak Grove. . . 1

- WAWAHKA. : UNCLE JOHN. I wonder if “Dug” took thoss girls over to the hub ldst Friday. “Wawaka, Jr.,” is quite a fine lad, if he does like pie. , The Roberts band rsndered scme wvery fine selections at the hom» of Mr. Mummert last Saturday evening. Hile Thompson is having bad luck with his bogs this winter, : It looks as if “Dug” is running a livery ‘stable by the number of rigs that one sees around his stable. George Kitzer 1s a very brave man. Well, George, you are not blamed for not wanting to get wet. . The dance at Springfield Friday night came very near being a failure. If the ‘young gentlemen of this place request the pleasurs of escorting the young ladies homs from church or entertainments, the ladies are so verdant that they inform everyone they meet of the fact. ——————————— Indiana Statisties. The sixth anuual report of the State Bureau of Statistics for 1884, “which, when in print, will make a good-sized volume of considerably above 500 pages, will shortly make its appearance. In his letter to the Governor, William A. Peelle, jr., the chief of the b,ureaui, says: “Although acting under many. embarrassmants—not the least of which were the defectiveness of the law and the want of funds available, arising from the fact that the appropriation bill in 1883 did not become. a law—the department has spared neither time nor labor in its endeavor to present as creditable and complete a report as in 'fp;mer years,” and in conclusion he repeats most urgently the request already made in the report for 1883 of so amending the law creating the Bureau of Statistics as to require all county officers to make annual : reports to the department, and also to provide for a reasonable compensation for their statistical work. The following totals of the acreage and production of the principal crops for 1884 are given in the report, viz.: Wheat, 2,990,811 acres, 40,581,200 bush~ls; corn, 8,187,840 acres, 89,159799 bushels; oats, 791,843 acres, 23,576,117 nushels; barley, 11.907 acres, 259,106 bushels; rye, 37,373 acres, 434,266 ‘bushels. = : ‘

The principal industries in the State are given, showing, in twenty-five tables, the number of establishments of each class, capital invested, the value of the raw material and of the manufactured product, the average number of hands employed, c£nd the total wages paid during the year. The following summary is given for-the year: Number of establishments, 12,229; capital invested, -$54,041,949 ; value of raw material $97,267,909: value of manufactured prodact, $163,851,872; average number of hands employed, 72,924 ; total wages paid, $31,273,340. - There have been added during the year 189.30 miles of main track, 7.98 miles second main traeck, and 65.10 miles of side track, so that the entire length -of railroads now amounts to 542049 miles of main track, 6852 miles of second main track, and 900.44 miles of side track. Total valuation of all the railroad property in Indiana for 1884 amounts to $55,057,687,again5t $53,480,032 in 1883. =

One bundred and eighty-seven pergons were reported killed by railroad accidents in Indiana during the year, and 617 were injured. ) The aggregate value of the common school property of the State is $13,~ 440,479, against $13,019,931 in 1883, being anincrease of $420,548. During the past year 305 new school-houses: have been built, at a cost of 544,630. The common school fund has been increased during the year $67,459.79, and the amounts held on mortgaged real estate by the counties is $5368, 775.86. R ; | The enumeration of children of school age (6 L 0 21 years) was 722.880,1 against 719,036 in 1883, being an increase of over 8,800 for this year. There were 461,881 white and 7,285 colored children admitled into the &üblic schools during the year, making & total of 469,116 pupils, making & total of 460,116 pupils, who were instrocted by 18,615 teachers, among whom there were 145 colored teachers.

. OUR NEIGHBORS. ! DeKalb county sustains twenty postoffices. g . Eighty-four telephone instramen’s are in use at Goshen. : The Progressive Dunkers have organized a cf:xrt;h at Milford.

~ Seventy-eight marriage licenses were issued in Steuben county last year.

Warsaw capitalists are contemplatir}gk' the erection of a large skating rink. ;

Goshen is putting on metropolitan airs. They ‘are now numbering the residences, S

The big dam at Ontawio, LaGiange lcounty, was swept away during the last freshet. i ,

' Some fellow with more monelslr than sense is talking of starting another paper at Auburn. The prisoners in the Goshen jail made an unsuceessful attempt to break ouft some days since. -~ The dwelling of a farmer named George Hoard, near lLaGrangé, was destﬁoyed by fire on Monday of last WeeK. ok

A big hotel project is en foot at LaGrange. No town innorthern Indiana needs a good hotel any more than does LaGrange. e

-R. M. Lockhart, of Waterloo, was elected president of the State board of agriculture at the last anntial meeting of that body. 3 The Menonite publishing company, for many years located at Goshen, will in a few weeks transfer their business to Berlin, Canada. : (s The Elkhart papers claim that the manufacturies at that place have all been runmiffduring the winter, and most of them on full time. |

John Cross, the Millersburg saloonist, went to jail at Goshen last week in default of his fine— $17.00. He sold his villainous stuff to a minor. ¥

Some very narrow escapes from drowning have occurred at Warsaw during the winter. One young fellow had about given up the ghost when rescued. :

Tt is said that DeKalb county will in all probability furnish a candidate for the position now occupied by that re[{ublican war-horse, Billy Williams, of Narsasw. : :

Last Monday mornming a fellow named J. F. iThompson was badly injured at Garrett by falling from. a moving train. He is a celebrated three-card monte man and well known in Northern Indiana. B

A vicious cow bad%l injured Mrs. Emanuel Charpie, at New Paris, one evening last week. She went into the stable to milk when the beast attacked her, breaking both arms and inflicting other serious wouuds. , Mineral springs are springing up in abundance over in Kosciusko county. No less than half a dozen have already been opened. The Frospectors claim that the waters will heal anything, from the Wabash scratches to the worst cases of rhematism.

(George Sheaf, who lost both legs in a railroad accident at Elkhart several years ago, brought suit against the Lake shore company for $25,000 damages, and the jury rendered a verdict in his favor for $lO,OOO. The company appeals to the supreme court. A cow fell into a' sixty-foot well at Pierceton, one day last week, but in her descent lodged about twenty-five feet below the surface, where she was soon afterward discovered and pulled out with an improvised windlass. She was not injured in the least.

The Waterloo Press says that Freeman Kelley is experimenting in adding value to hogs by feeding. He weighs his hogs each week and has carefully watched for every point that may be disclosed. His report will doubtless be very interesting to all farmers.’ Some months ago William Erb made application to the LaGrange county board of commissioners for a license to sell liquor at T.aGrange. This court refused to grant the desired license, when Erb appealed it te the circuit court and from there asked for a chapge of venue. The case came up for trial at Goshen last week and the jury agreed that the applicant was not a proper personi to trust with the dispensing of the ardent, and LaGrange people are yet without a saloon. : At Fort Wayne, last week, a swell affair took Elace at the Masonic Temple under the gu&se of a charity ball. It was well attended and liberalfy patronized, but when the expenses were all p2id the fund remaining on hand to be distributed among the poor was just seven cents. Everything that the fastidious tastes of ﬁtﬁe managers of the affair could think of were provided and it resuited in a big time socially but not very profitably to the needy poor of that wicked city. At Columbia (City during the late campaign two citizens made a, bet of $25.00 each and 'placed the money in the hands of Jeff Maine.” A few days after a thief entered the stakeholder’s room and abstracted the money. ‘The winner of the‘wager, Theodore Mayer, of Churubusco, claimed the amount of the stakes after the matter was settled, whereupon Maine refused to pay but $25.00, the amount of money placed in his hands by Mager. A law suit was the consequence, and Mayer failed to get any more than his $25.00. Mentone, Kosciusko county, was all tore up last Monday by the visit of U. S. marshals, who at once placed C. F. Flory, M. C. McPherson and Hiram Hoover, three well-known farmers living near there, under arrvest, charged with counterfeiting. The accused parties were at once taken to Ft: Wayne where, after a preliminary hearing, Flory and McPherson. were bound over to court. Heover was discharged. It is said that Hoover is a well-to-do farmer, McPherson being his hired man. Ghg : 2

~ On Tuoesday of last week a strike was inaugurated at Fort Wayne that .ended on the 19th. About two months ago the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chiicago milroad authorities notified their trainmen that on January Ist, the “double header " system would be put in operation on the divisions between Crestline and Chicago. In thic way the trains are doubled up, being drawn by two engines and manned by ohe conductor and two brakemien. This, of course, cut down the number of conductors and brakemen one-half, but the conductors were allowed to go to braking. which made the cut all fall upon the brakemen. These operators, | thinking that they have just cause for complaint, began the strike and up to date have not allowed a freight trai* to pass through Fort Wayne. Just a§ soon ‘aB a train is “made ‘up’’ the strikers groceed to pull all the'coupling pins and carry off the links. ey

A Run on a Orug Store. . ' Never was such a rush made for any drug store as is now at D. S. Secott & Son’s for a trial bottle of Dr. King's new discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. All persons affected with asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness, severe courghs or any affection of the throat and lungs, can get a trial bottle of this great remedy free, by calling at the above drug store. Regular size $lOO, : . Tt LM St LLA R o R T 1

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NX¥WS DIGEST. - A bed of salt ninety feet deep is sﬁid to have been diseovered at Bothwell; Ontario. TGRSR ‘

Salt Lake is to have free postal delivery in March, commencing with seyen carriers. g o A The legisiature of Nevada has ‘reelected §olm P. Jones to the United States senate.

Rev. C. F. Thwing, of Boston, has been tendered the presidency of lowa college, at Grinnell. Shy ~ Pittsburg & Fort Wagne brakemen who have been on a strike surrendered unconditionally Sunday.

The body of Major Charles B. Brady, of*St. Louis, kwasg:rﬁmaced Tnmda%’j at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. s

The . watch ™ factory” at “Lancaster; Pennsyivania, is about to move to Chicago, on an effer of $350,000. " % T A Dbill has been ‘introduced into the legislature of Dakota to remove the| capital from Bismarek to Pierre. = William Hale, governor of the territory of Wyoming, died Tuesday evens ing at Cheyenne, at the age of 48, : Barber Nichols, 100 'years of age passed away at Lock 0:3;’ - New Yo%gl . after an illness of mﬁk.gﬁewﬁours. | Judge J. W. Dunlep, of Kansas'City,: died Thursday from- wounds received by the accidentakdischarge of a pistol. General J. 8. Robinson has reﬂg’xed his seat in congress for the Ninth Ohio d}stri%t and taken the oath as secretary l of state. GER i

An emerald ;;éiglxiné;.iovér a pound has been found in the Muzo mines at Bn){):’:ca, in the United States of Columbia. :

The supervisors of Jackson county Michigan. intend to offer a reward of $25.000 Tor the diseovery of ithe Crouch murdervrs. Syt o

Northern Texas is experiencing a blizzard, and the ?redicnon is ‘made that the loss of cattle and sheep will be very great. § : The Catholicz of Eau Claire are b ut 1o expend §50,000 on a church which wiil be second 1o only one in Wisconsin. P

A patent-medicine house in Rochester has contracted with a Philadelphia glass factory for five hundred car-loads Of botbless e oniniin - > The unfortunate Emma Bond, of Taylorville, Illinois, suffers from paralysis of the tongue and is in a condition akin'todeath. = SR A mail-robber from Winnipeg, named Campbell, who was arrested in Chicago, escaped from & Manitoba train near Emerson.

~ The :}’uditor of Illinois reports $3.902,611 in the treasury at the end of September, with §23,600 of bonded debt outstanding. * : At Lincoln, Illinois, on Thursday ni%ht, some unknown person fired-a bullet through the window of the bedroom of Linecoln Nall. = )

The North Chicafo rolling-mills resumed operations Monday with twelve hundred workmen/at'a reduction of 7 to 15 per cent. in wages.

Taylor Bollard, a farmer near Franklin, Indiana, who refused to trust his money to banks, was murdered, and robbed of $l,OOO or more. Horace Richardson, who died Wednesday at Rockford, Illinois, erected the first buildings in Winnebago county, where he settled in 1837. The Hudson’s Bay company is alarmed as to the safety of one of its finest vessels, the Prince of Wales, carrying furs valued at nearly £500,000.

Minister Morton’s backers in the New York senatoriul struggle have decided not to withdraw their candidate, but to fight Evarts torthe last.

The federal g‘ury dat Chicago, failed to agree in the cadses of Clingen, Stearns, and Owen, cl\ggrged with“conspiracy to procure false registration. The Pennsylvania, legisiature has passed a concurrént vesolution —pledging the state to’ an ap%ropriation of $lO,OOO for an exhibit at New Orleans.

The sum of $1,500 has been transmitted by cable order from England to Texas, to pay the cost of forwarding the remains of the earl of Aylesford.

Tlie 70th birthday of Sir John A. Mcdonald, the Canadian statesman, was celebrated at Montreal, by a grand denéo‘nstration without regard to varty. i

A cyclone, whose roar could be heard for miles from its path, swept through Georgia and Alabama, earl{' Monday morning, earrying away buildings and fences.

A hurricane which swept over Steubenville, Ohio, Friday night, caused damage estimated at $250,000. The First Presbyterian church is a complete wreck. : ] if ' The directors of the New: Orleans exposition have designated February 28 as traveling men’s da(ir, with free use of the music hall and committeeTOOmS. :

Frederick Kemler. a farmer near Sinsinaya Mound, Wisconsin, dropped dead of heart disease in the streets of Galena, leaving twenty-twochildren to mourn. ;

The discovexß has just been made that William Druse, of Warren, New Xork, was last month murdered ’by his wife, who burned his flesh and buried his bones. S ;

The wife of Armet Richmond, a wealthy stationer of Detroit, asks the appointment of a guardian for him, on the ground that liquor has shattered his mind. i

Milton Skinner, a wealthy: farmer near Elmira, New York, having .recently been adjudged incom?etent to transact business, set fire to his house and:-Yarns.- ! : 2

The mayors of eighteen of the larger cities.of Jowa réport an increase in the number of saloons and no sueccessful attempts to enforce the prohibitery liquor law, : =

Flames swelst aw§y a large building at Yonkers, New York, occnpied. by manufacturers, valued at $200,000, and Parnel’s malt-house at Auburn, in the same state. ¥ !

An explosion of dynamite at- a faetory near . Somerset, IPemmsyivania carried two employes three l)undred yards where they were- found burned to a crisp. Te T

A battle is reported imminent between the Oklahoma boomers, intrenched at Stillwater, Indian Terriritory, and the military force sent against them.

Four Mormon elders have established a settlement near tEﬁartnnsburg, South Caurolina, and en thither twenty-three Indian .converts from York county. |

Cuts are being made in the price of passenger tickets across the Atlantic, and the emigrant rate from New York to Chicago has been reduced from sl3to $B. = ol

The people of Smith county, Tennessee, Fropose to take from Carthage jail and lynch four negroes who confessed that they had formed a plot to kill and rob white eitizens. : The citizens of Mitehell, Dakota, held an indignation mecting over. the acquittal of Lewis, the murderer of Pierce, and a committee was appointed to notify him to leave. =i -

A school teacher in Hickory townshi&), Illinois, aftexr’ expelling "a pupil an suﬂerin% his. abuse, struck lLim over the hiead with a Dasg-ball bat, inflicting fatal injuries. , e o Itis said that-leading eitizens of Philadelphia have eontributed money to take legal measures to Erevenp the ghipment of the Liberty bell: toj.the New Orleans exposition. . 136 y Sylvester McCarter, a well-known citizen of Rochester, fndiana.‘rebeiv;e‘d fatal injuries. ,Wednesday by being stryck in the forehead by a flying fragmert from an emery wheel. ek David F. Swann, who émbezzled $51,000 from the Northiern -Pacific office -at: St. Paul, entered a plea of -guilty;, and was sentenced to thirteen years and six'montbs at hard labor. : : Eighteen members of a jury at Dallas, Texas; published a card favoring a‘ state law muking the carrying of deadly weapons a felony, punishable by im-. prisonment in the penitentiary, = - The deaths are-reported of Professor. Henry I. Eustis, of Harvard collece; Captain S. K. ﬁahon,-a retired officer of the regular a;:;m&aml M. C. Kell, a leading citizen of Centralia, IIL. . . =~ i it Sepiien firmy of Oliver ‘Bro & Phillips, of; %itts‘b‘nrg' We,re\]%funnina' Friday g:*'u%ual... A imwmw: assele anlcihiliagﬂitigs viv;;ln%be mm soon, 4 ¢ Ohio legislature has &do pted, a ‘resolution tor;,a.fﬁ')ihti ommittee to inL dition of aftaits within Smonia” et tos defuulting Xoasater ot Fios Aleet, the defaulting treasurer of Hu. e i, soee, bl favns and paid in $45.000,; and ask. t« e S e o A BT g e e B IR A R R S S AR W S O TR T IR e R S Y TSR

Thomas Campbell, a J‘Vgnk‘ boatman at Parkersburg, West Virginia, v% has been Jaﬂ?(}) for ste%liﬁg c.hick?nﬁ,ﬂ s a%.uﬁow APis ani rlin univers--1%% { % a mnggson of '%he ‘Scotel ‘ poet.. | * £ George P. Curry, a banker of Augusta,sGeorgia, who failed last year, converted 10 his own use bonds placed in his eare, for which offense ge has been 2gntenced to five years in the peniten-

The striking coal-miners at New Straitsville, Onio, received one hundred Winchester rifics Tuesday. The gyndicate fuards occupy a fort on Hazelton’s hill. The fire in No. §is burning fiercely. : ;

... The.grand jul('iy of Warwick County, Va, has found indictments against _nineteen office-holders of that county “for fraud. As the grand jury i 8 still in session it is thought .that other indietments wifl follow. . A suit of- $25,000 damagesby the . alienation of his wife’s -affections has - been commeneed by Reuben, F. Sher- - man, of Waunkesha, Wiscousin, against Merrick S. Sjpau'ding, owner of the Capital Lotel at Madison. i . Afier an idle period of several - months, work has been resumed by + four larce tobacco factories at Lynch--burg, Virginia, and others are preparing to start, giving employment to two - thousand colored ?aborers. v

Judge Tuley at Chicago decided to allow the widow of the late Wilbur F. Storey s6vo a month for the present. He also granted an allowance of $6O a month to Anson- L. Storey, and a like amount to Mrs. Farrand. -

At a meeting of the Western Iron Munufyeturer’s Protective Alliance at Pittsburg, Wednesday, a considerable reduction in wages was determined upon. 1t is not known as yet what ac¢tion will be taken by the employes. H.'V. Bemis, of Chicago, has obtained a jud-ment for $620 -against’' Jacob F. Studebaker, of South Bend, Indiana, for damages in connection with the j' int purchase of a trottim’h. mare from fj&d_irondack” Murray, of Boston. : At the soda-ash works at Geddes, New York, a distilling vessel weighing four tons was blown seventy-five feet in the air. In its descent it carried away the roof of the main building. injuring eight men and causing a loss of $25.,000. ; i Sy

‘The death of Amos -Henderson, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was speédily followed by the suspension of his banking-house, - which is believed fo have been wrecked by speculation in Wall street. The deposits aggregate £200,000. - |

The Daily Herald, founded in Montreal fifty years lz\tf;o'. has been sold to Peter Mitchell, M. P., for $20,000. ‘The paper has been losing ground on account, it is believed, of having of late {)ears been the organ of the Canadian ‘Pacific Railway. ety The wholesale dry-goods -house of Isaac Zeiller’s Sons, in Cincinnati, with liabilities of. about. $BO,OOO, has suspended payment, partly on account of fictitious statements ‘made by its bookkeeper, Herman Mack, who re.cently hanged himself. Ten persons belonging to the Salvation army escaped punishment for obstructing the streets at Dayton, Ohio, by the failure af a jury to agree. The offenders testified that they gouldrkeep up their street parades in defiance of the civil authorities.

Forty Mexican soldiers, stationed at Ensenada, murdered their captain and several other persons, and fled toward the California line. The Mexican con=sul at San Diego secured sufficient United States infantry to prevent depredations along the border.

Manufacturers and business men of Pittsburg, P’a., have subscribed a large sum of money to endow a church in that city for Franeis Murphy, the temgerance apostle. A congregation has een formed, to be known as the Church of Gospel Temperance. ~Joseph A. Dibble, - a farmer near Osceola, Michigan, was married on Tuesday, nine weeks after the death of his first wife. At night he was visited by a charivari party, upon whom he fired from an upper window, killing one man and wounding three othérs. The costly machinerg of the cable railway in Chicago had a very narrow escape from .destruction, Tuesday morning, as flames . broke out ynder the sidewalk at the engine house, among hundreds of barrels of oil and tar, but the firemen subdued the flames with trifling loss. The Coal-Trade Tribunal appointed to establish the mining price in the railroad ;;‘its in'the Pennsylvania coal districts hras referred the decision of the question to Umpire Bradlefy, who will decide the selling price of lump coal and also the miners’ percentage. which is 1n dispute. W: W. O’Brien, the noted criminal lawyer, died in 'Chicago, Tuesday, of f)ex'itollltis, in his 61st year. - Originallg' an hostler at a hotel in Peoria, C. C. onneyfturned his ambition teward the legal field, in which he achieved success. He was an unsuccessful candidate for 'congressman-at-large from Illinois in 1868. .

Thomas H. Graham, cashier of the Baltimore and Ohio road, who also held the office of school commissioner in Baltimore, disappeared a week ago, and is now known to be a defaulter for $5,000. His wife was-an army nurse, who saved his life after he had been danFerously wounded at Richmond. He left her ass note.

- State Senator Mopn introduced a concurrent resolution in the Michigan Legislature calling: upon Representa~ tives in Congress to secure: ap&ropria—tions for the ereetion of postoffices in all eitigs.in the State having 10,000 inhabitants, in order to give employment to thegreat number of laboring men at present out of work. hoin ; Thirty camels dropped dead on the march of (Gen. Stewart’s army across the desert from Gakdul to - Howeryatt. The troops suffered severely. . Most of the water-skinsleaked, and ‘the men, overcome by thirst, drank up their rations prematurely.. All hardships 'were borne brayely, the men singing cheerily om*their mareh. B

In her petition jresented to the Senate, Mrs. Belva A. Liockwood asksthat -the Electoral vote of Indiana be given to her.” She also demands that the vote of New York be thrown out, on the ground that if the votes polled in ‘bhat state for her had not been counted for one Grover Clev_elagxd, the latter would not have carried the election. On account of the storm at South Bend, the obsequies of Schuyler Colfax were postponed to 3 o’clock Saturday, and the train bearing Messrs. Hendricks, Porter, and (Gray did not arrive in time for tirem to participate. The body was Placed in a vault at dusk. For four: heurs® ini‘the morning the corpse was viewed by large numbeis of peoPprer < 240 : -

. As the eongregation of. the First Baptist Church.of Rockford. 111., was ~about to sing the last hymn Sunday _evening, Mrs. J. S. Young jumped up | and began praying that the persecuto:s of the pastor, who had invited him to resign, mightﬁlg sayed from 11;?9 Lord’s wrath. The ‘P yer lasted ten minutes and was filled with. denunciation. It created great excitement.” : .« Dr. G: E. Smith of - Denver, Colo,, was killed by anfex(;)losion of hydrogen gas. Dr. Smith had been making some whentical experiments, and was generating hydrogen gas. Net knowing that ‘there was anyof thegas in the receiver, he touched a .match incauntiously,| and the apparatus blew up. His ase sistant m&juswsbeppen outside of the door for a-moment when the explosion -oceurred. - b ) ;

fdhflt%a*rd*t'ﬁ credj"{?rs; :i;ski'n‘g :fog" ’ibnu y - was Thursday:-issue v Olige?il‘&“ﬁ?;bthei's & ‘Phill)‘;ps and the Oliver & Roberts. Wire company, of Pittgburg, whose liabilities are believed to ‘](Diet $i’),000,000 _']é‘lieir pag'ééa)l‘}go are said to have tequired over, $200,000 per month. ;Tllet)”'" cla;m t% have assets of | $6,000,000, and seemi fo anticipate an rextension which shall serve to keep ‘their works running. " The special grand jury at Chicago %qncluded . its .. investigation of tﬁe ighteenth Ward: eleetion fraud {‘lﬂ ’(Qay;ap% voted to indict Mackin, Gallaf}her,'s ields, - Hansbrough, Sullivan, Biehl, and Gleason. It was decided not 4o inelude Strausser and Kelly, sufficient evidence against them not hav.%b‘een brought,. Mackin was also ‘indicted separately for gerjury in sweéaring that he did not order the bo“gus tickets, 7 b R b ey ; The employes of the Oliver chilled | &lcw workgi at -South Bend, Indiana, ' struck on ] ond&g against a reduction of Wlieﬂ- 'IJO ‘!%dxjsdvr‘them gath--ered at, the gate, Tuesday morning, to prevent anyone from pmtmng" In the riot which ‘necessarily ensued, Police _man Kelly was shot in the-scalp; Caps ey el e gitekeenet; wak Beivad Bratiss. Oriet was thatobed o a“m Ga ol the fast aoc A L s\%e@rw“’f&* Bra a 0 S W

Kmn Gl e st of the Republic. Nearly all of 'ﬁf:ﬁeqem,-‘, p%oéea were Poles. After the- election _of Cleveland the workswere shut down for three weeks, resuming with reduced force and wages. A el Nathaniel McKay, formerly- one of the leading -shipbuiiders of {he coun{ly, has recently visited Panama. He reports that the Panama Canal is. progressmg amazingly and that in five years it wiil be completed. Laborers are being imported in: large numbers from the West Indies and a quantity of machinery is being brought from Scotland to assist in digging the canal after it has reached water level, The deepest cut is between 200 and 300 feet, The earth excavated has to be carried miles away. . It will tgrrol)a‘b_l'y cost’ $200,000,000 to complete the canal. Mr. McKay thinks that ‘the De Less’egs “people will have to take charge of the cities along the line. S sl

The south infirmary of -‘the insane’ asylum at Kankakee, 111., _W_as;destr(g-‘, ed by fire early Sunday morning, Of fifty-two persons in the bu;ldm%, seventeen of the infirm and Incurable are missing, and thirteen corgseﬁ--- have been recovered. Among -the lost is Thomas Hereley, of Chicago, ‘a brother of the state senator.. The building was a new one, and cost $25,000. -An attendant named W. -A. Rexd d:%ged’ out twenty-one of his charges. There were 1.590 patients in the Eastern hospital. The scene at the fire is«desgxb‘qd as a horrible one. The %atiexitS' nin and out of the burning building withnothing on but their night-clothes, the temperature being 12 deg. below zero. Many were hadly frozen and otherwise injured., One man ran into the building three times after being rescued and finally perished. . .

WASHINGTON,

Congressman -Sé)ringei"s Ariends. coufidently predict that he will be Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet. = -

There is an impression in Washington that the Callom Commission bill will pass the Senate. - The Reagan bill seems to have but a slim chance. s b A

The Senate Committee on - pensions does not favor a monthly ‘allowance of $3O to ﬂl: widow of Lieutenant Commander De Long, i

John Davis, assistant secretary of State, was appointed by President Arthur a judge of the court of claims. eis ason-in-law of Secretary Frelinghuysen, .. Lk

Andrew Devine, who has been appointed :la' Speaker Carlisle official reporter of -the ouse of Representatives. is. one. of the. men displaced by Speaker Keifer, . No notice is to be taken of Gen. Hazen’s char%es against Gen. McKeever concerning the alleged derogatory remarks made by the latter about the management of the Greely expedition, ey The House Committee on rivers. and harbors has decided to recommend an. appropriation of ‘5350,000 for the Hennepin canal, with a proviso for the speedy commerfcement of work., . : v

It does not seem likely that ‘the Spanish treaty will ever be reportéd from the Senate Committee ou Foreign Relations. | The consideration of the Nicarazua -treaty will probably be postponed until the, next Congress. Heaiiny Yo

Agcording to the annual report of the DePa’rtment of Agriculture -at Washington, he corn production of the count-ry'last ?'.ear was 1,7¢5,000,000 bushels. . Of wheadt there was 513,000,000 bushels, and ot oats 583,000, 000 bushels. Thesé are the largest aggregates evervecorded, 7 S e eaaT e

- Great. preparations are' being made for the inauguration. Thousands of niattresses are offered to rent, and prices: for windows range from $lO to. $5O. - Véry considerable contributions are said tq have ‘been.made to cover the ‘expenses, but no large Sums Aap})ear to have been subscribed by individuals. J e

The work of the Investigating Committee appointed to look into the matter of alleged undervaluation of imported goods atthe New York Custom-House may extend to an overhauling of the entire department. . Several trunkfuls of complaints of irregularities are said .to be’on file at- the 'lreasury in Washington. - B g S

. Among theitems included in the River and' Harbor bill is one of $300,000. for the Hennepin Canal. - For the Missouri River §450,000 is app’rupriat “d; with - $9O; €OO additional for sl)_ecin; purposes. ‘The billappropriates in all $11;329,200.. - Estimates preFm}sd by engineers in charge of the various mprovements amounted to §534,707,360. -

Three reasons were given in the Congo Conference for the participation of Ameri calin its deliberations—first, that America was the first Power to oflicially recognize the African International Association: second, thatthe population of this country includes 6,000,000 negroes whose parent ¢country is Africa; and, third, that Americans mainly explored tixe country.: . ; .

Civil war has broken out in the, United States of Colombia. = A battle was fought ‘Phursday at Tunja, the result being the defaat of the federal forces; and the killing of their commander, General Montisfar.: Outbreaks of a desperate eharacter have occurred in Santander and -Boyaca. ~ The revolutionists seek to overturn the liberal state governments as a preliminary to an “effort to displace President Nunez.™ - : No definite indication a%wpe%rs so far as te the probable action of ‘the Senate. on the Inter-State Commerce bill. © It isisaid by those who profess to know that all the Republicans in the Senate, with the possible exception of Van Wye¢k, will vote for the Cullom Commission bill, and that ‘i'proba.bly some Democrats - will alzo vote forit, If this proves true tlie entire subject will have to be seftled by a conference committee.

To the statement that the propdsed-impo-sition by the German Government of a«i)iscriminating tar ff upon American cereals ‘would be a violation of the treat{' With Prussia of 1823 answer is made that the German Enipire is not the Prussia of 1828, This would seem to imply thatthe treaty of 1828 with Prussia is no longer in force between the Unifed States -and Germany. The State Department at Washington takes ‘the ground that the.treaty is still operative, Sge:lker. Carlisle: says that there is no. i)ro ability of an extra session of Congress. e thinks there is no danger of a failure to pass any of the .appropriation. bills. - The talk offan extra session, he declares, comes from the people interested jn the penaing 4reaties. These treaties are dead so- far as the,rresent Congress is coneerned, and 1t is not likely that the next Administration will be inclined to take them up - in view of the fact that the general’ sentiment of the Democratic party is against them. ~ ~

Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch. says thiat he is not in favor of réducing. tl&/ whisky tax, as has been- reported, from 9¢ to 50 cents. : He thinks, howewer, that it would be desirable to so amend the “inter nal-revenue laws as. to requive the payment of the tax only ué)on withdrawal for consumption. Tbe Secretary is ‘opposed to a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits.. In regard to the' bended wareliouse’ period, he thinks that it should be imlehmtefv extended or .done away .with,"and that the tax should be ¢o'lected “only when the spirits are withdrawn for consunption. & THE LAND-GRABBERS. -~ Senator Van Wyck has submitied areiort from the Senate Committes on: Pablie’ ands to accompany. the:bill also reported by him relating to the fenéing ‘of public lands. In the report the Cominittee say that without the least authority and in openand bold defiance -of atl- rights of the Government larg® and oftentimes. foreign corporzitions'dehbemteli' inclose - hundreds of thousands of aercs, closing the avemues of travel and preventing tlxg‘i occupaney of lands by those seeking hemes,. Theyallezed that the lands within their inclosures still remained open to settlement, f}'et: no. humble settlers with scant -means for the: necessaries of life would presume to. enter any such inclosure to seek ‘a home. = The Government has sufficient + authority todrive those seeking homes from the lidian Territory and to burn the ranches’ of those invadin% - Yellowstone Park, while those -gpropr, ating- vast areas are hoping that. Al egnly:remed; to be used against them yill be the law’s delaly in the courts; thereore the Committee has.added .a new section to the House bill authorizing ‘the Pres-ldesx.t.summaril-y'to remove all obstructions, and if necessary to use the military power of the United States. = - - LR

CONGRESSIONAL. $ o BENATE.: -0 i i . JAN. 12.—1 n the Senate, a ‘petition from" Mrs. Belva A, Lockwood was . presented fraYing Congress to see that the yotes cast or her at the late . Presidential election be counted, The House bill to ‘prevent the unlawful occu%aney of publie lands was reported favora ‘{‘y with amendments, Of. these amendmeiits: the most important is one authorizing the President to use eivil or military force to . rémove illegal fences. Mr. Hawley’s resolution ecalling upon' the President for a copy of Gen. Sherman’s | ’%mstorical statement” attacking - Jefferson avis was laid before the Senate and gave rise to a watin discussion. = - -, b JAN. 13.-~ln the Senate, the Committes " on Appropriations reported back the last Naval Appropriation bill passed by ‘the House, amended by smkln,?» out all provis“ions fora chanée,in the % sﬁ% laws.: A bill was ‘introduced by Mr. Edmunds authorizing the President to'-appoint and | place onthe retired list of the army one ; z)erson from. amoxzﬁ those wlho had "been senerals commanding the armies of the United States, ~ The bill, Mr, Edmunds “gaid, would authorize tlxe,".fres‘i’dexnt toap&)int Gen, Grant to the retired list, and 15 Lorm would obviate the difficulty observed | in the Fitz John Porter ease. ‘A" long r&lncussion followed eoucemmqﬂ the Hawley resolution to ask the President for Gen. | ?herma_n’s_ “historieal” document attacking Jefferson Davis. 'Fhe resolution passed by avote of 52 fo 10, A bill ‘wasoffered by | Mr. Van Wyck making railroad corpora-'| _tions organized by acis of-(;qn%tessgg ject | tigetawg-'qg the States and Territories in | “which they are eonag‘med. S»mﬁ«m- k w&t tie tutor-State Commerce bill folo JAN. 14.—The Senat b{ & vote of 49t0 | :9, passed a bill to per % ‘army. An appropriatio *“ b for the | g e %ﬂf«..‘ i Glonkoral rewaens. " Atk | & T B B ! U RN ik T AL a.‘fi’i‘*’ﬁ%‘*@m”}&*ﬁv” s s

S A Vs et bT e ie G T eeLG e Schuyler ! l?&“'* B AN 1& n the M% Millerintroduced a bill to increase the pension of the widow of General George H, Thomasto $l,OOO per annum. Mr. Hale made a favorable veport on a bill for, the relief of sufférers by the wreck of the Tallapoosa. Almest the entire time of ‘tlie executive ses‘sion was taken up by Seuator Morgan, who made an extended and very elaborate argu~ment on the Nicaragua treaty. The Sena- - tor showed at great lengtlt what advantaves, in his opinion, would be derived b¥ this government from the construction o the proposed Nicaraguan Cawal, = Senator Sherman offered a resolution 'look,ir:ﬁ to the . aamendment or abrogation of the ¢ aenom Bulwer treaty betore the pendmgNN caragua treaty shall be putinto effect. No vote, ‘however, was taken to-day, eitlier on the ‘treaty or Senator Sherman’s resolution. - JAN. 16.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Cameron resented memotrials for imé)roveméxmts in . ghe' Monongahela river and against the ratification of the treaty with Spain, Mr, Beck introduced a bill to adjust the claims of any State for expeéﬁzes incutred ‘in the defense of the United States.- A reselution ‘was adopted ,éﬂ:'ec{ing ;the erection of a “marble tablet in the room in which oceurred the death of Vice President Henry Wilson. A conference conunittee- was appoint--ed on the temporary naval apgropmatlon bill. ' The proceedings of the day eclosed with a discussion on Inter-State Commerce. - JAN. 17.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Frye introduced a bill for the encouragement of the “merchantnarine and to promote postal and commercial relations with foreign countries, The Chair - laid the Inter-State Commerce bill before the Senate, and after a ‘long debate the Sliter amendment, in'ohibltiug higher rates for short than for long hauls, was defeated. An amendment proposed 3 by Mr. AHison was agreed &, increasing the number of Commissioners from five to niné and providing that not more than five .of them shall belong to one Eolitical party. The amendment provides that the Comwissioners shall be selected one from each of the nine Judiecial districts of the United Statea. et

HOUSE.

- JAN. 12.—1 n the House, . the Socnate bill was pagsed authorizing the Chicago, .St Paul & St Louis Railway to construct bridges across the Mississip‘!)i; River. ‘A bill was mtroduegd to provide for the better protection of the Northern and Northwestcern frontier and to facilit ite commerce between the States. A bill was passed authorizing the appointment of a con\tpet-ent lawyer to. prepare a criminal code for the District:of Columbia, "T'he House wnt into Committee of the Whole onr vhe Consular and Diplomatic Appr.»{)rmcmn bilf, which was discussed at some length, !

JAN'ls.—ln the House, Mr. Stockslager denied some floating rumors that there is‘a combination to secure the erection of public buildings; - Bills were ’pl;xssed ‘to anthorize the service of proces:es by territorial courts within military and Indian reservations. to prohibit territorial legislatures from grantIng " private charters, and to extend tlie statutes over nnorganized territory south of the state of Kansas. The announcement of the death of Schuyler Colfax was followed by an adjournment. Goßw e

JAN. 14.—The House passed a bill apprepriating $1,500 1o send special messengers to lowa and Oregon to secure duplicate certificates of the electoral vote of those states, which are required by law. The Chinese indemnity fund-bill, which also passed, authorizes the President to return to the Chinese government $5835,400in coin.’

JAN. 15—Speaker Carlisle laid before the House of Representatives a request by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for $lO,OOO to maintain order at thé dedica~: tion of the Washington monument and during the inaugural ceremonies. The House' refused to cdoncur int the Senate amendments to. the six-months naval appropriation bill. The McPherson . funding bill was killed. But one day was fixed for its consideration, and when the, previons question was calléd the opponents of the bill resorted to dilatory tacties, and finally succeeded in carryims a m()tl{i)l) foradjournment. This pretty @ effectually dls?o’ses of the measure. The bill authorizes the issue of circulating notes to-banking institutions to'an amount equal to the par value of the bonds deposited, instead of ¢0 per cent., as now:duthorized Bly law, with a ‘)rovxso that sueh issne shall not -exceed the actually paid-in capifal of the bank. . JAN. 16.—~The House passed a bill ‘to authorize the bridging of the Mississippt at | ‘Memphis, - A motion to recede from disa%reement to the Senate amendment to the bll forfeiting the Atlantic and Pacific land grant was defeated. A bill. was reported geanting a cpension of 850 per month to the widow of Commander 8. Dana Green. A Egti&ion in favor of, the Mexican pension Dbiil, signed by-1,800 persons, was presented. by Mr. Wood. ‘l'he Indian apprgpriation bill; setting aside $5,664,136, was Teported. - JAN. 17.—1 n the House, Mr. Gibsoi rose * ‘to a personal explanation and denied that he had mafavorably criticised ex-Speaker Randall at the recent Wheeling conference. Are olation was adopted asking- the At-torney-General conceminfz the application ‘of the Eight-Hour law to letter-carriers. SMO RBTGN. - | (e Lateést official records place the number of killed by the recent earthquakes in the Province of Grena‘ia‘ Spalq, at 695, and the numberinjured at 1,480, L 00l “The British court of appeal made a décision Friday which will force Edmund Yates, _editor of the Lendon World, to spend four Hl(int'h's in prison for libeling Lord Lonsale.

The Gérman merchants of Alexandria ‘are about to memorialize Bismarck @in reg&d to their business froubles, placin_g the blame on the vacillating policy of Great Britabhi, §

Prime Minister Ferry said Wednesday in the French Chamber of Deputies that the Government had decided on the immediate and complete occupation of Tonquin as the only means to settie the Chinese difficulty. . Bismarck is said to have “abandoned-his contemplated trig to Italy at the request of thie Emperor of Germany. The la?er;does ; not expect to _live long, and fears for the ' safety of the State if the Chancelior should be absent at so critical a period. : - Superintendent Mallon of the Dublin“police says that Fenianism is red-hot in‘all’ the mruing towns and manufacturing cen-~ tres of England. Tn Leéds, Manchester, Sheflield, N ewcastle, and: fzivferpool this form of lawlessness is at its worst.

A deficit of $5,000,000 is reported -in the Prussian budget for 18%5, In the Reichstag Wednesday Bismarck said that in order to meet the demands of the farmers it would be necessary to treble the duty lon wheat and to double the tariff on Tye. At Erankfort-on-the-Main, at 10 o’clock Tuesda?' night,Police Commissioner Rumpit was killed with a-‘dagger in frout of his residence by unknown persons. = As his effeets were not taken, tike deed - was clearly one of vengeaunce. Ile took an active part in'the recent prosecutions of:anarchists at Leipsie, and it is generally believed ‘that socialism is responsible for his death. A reward of $750 is offered for the discovery of the murderer. Emperor William was somewhat unnerved on being informed of ssheerime, o L - ‘ ~WI"I!.‘AND HUMOR. :

-~ @,’bring me a map of the seat of war! I hear the guns of the River Min! : I want to_see where the missiles tore -} Through far Foo-chow with adevil’s din. . : Just show me Ke-lung and Sinoon-chow; -And where, O where, can be Kin-te-ching, Chow-choo, Chang-chow, and where Cha-00? Is Hing-wha far from old Yen-ping? T by-gone times men thought it a ; qud Plan to ¢‘take timé, by the fore--lock.” The revised edition says we should take time by the bang.”'—Life. - A county surveyor in Indiana has a six-mile ditch to survey, and has had; for over two years, but an old woman and two bull-dogs have blocked the ‘way and baffled all his efforts to get the line through. The Governor is now asked to call out the troops. =~ | - Teacher—*“We will conduct the Ger- - | man recitation to-day by aski,n’% each other questions. ‘“Now; ‘Wie alt sind sie?’ . Girl—¢‘Sechtzehn = jahre.” Teacher—*“Very Good. Now ask me a ?[}lestion.” Girl—“Wie alt sind sie?? . 1 Teacher—¢‘Leave the room at once.”’ : . Dennis (in sewer trying to lighthis | K}pe)—Lasht night I sot qg wid/ Mick * Mulvaney (puff, puff); and he was very =« | sick (puff, pu(%‘ii Along about 4 o'clock in the mornin’ (puff, puff), | Mick he‘died” (puff, puff)—Almosht.” - ‘Great relief of Mr. Hooley on the bank. , | —Harper,s Bazar, . = . el | The act came to a close, and the two gentlemen roge, left their wives and retired to the lobby to obtain the latest - gxobations concerning lime juice. Mrs, = | Brown remarked casnﬁ.ll'y. to Mrs. . Smith: ‘Does your husband often 50 ~ out between acts?”’ ¢No, but he al- | ways comes in between drinks.”—San Francisco Post. . It is related that a certain German maiden once presided at a mineral water fountain at which there wereonly two kinds of syrup—vanilla and lemon. . 'To her came a young man who said: “I ~want a glass of soda without syngsj.l” *Ya,', replied Katrina, *boot vot kind | | of siroop you want mitout—mitout vanilla or mitout lemon. . - . |ln a single game Of lacrosse at Toronto the” ather day oho men was. ;Eyome Mﬁg a se %3 ‘had & ump broken, and athird - injured his: = collmliﬁ%ﬁﬁnioﬂfﬁhbh ém Wg; don’t people let those - barbarous ‘lndian games alone and go infor = 0o one gets hurt but the umpire. > ootave/ fou sechi o latest thing g‘! shilng ;3 ﬁ:ﬁ““” e eblae R e k"*l”*" 'ﬂ O 10 e e wwﬁ’”g %wﬁﬁ* o w{%: P u‘»‘.‘g««jﬁ«_i“%&"w*‘és‘fﬁ‘:}\ B A Nl i A= 3k BUEDEISRL. -,