Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 February 1885 — Page 2

i \;4»«7” '~'.« o, eW "' .""'»szﬂw“ﬁ;"»,‘jii‘..»aw:» o, v' :' nk ; The Ligouier Hunner ‘ Ef!‘ é*'r: dG e i ‘E‘E‘EI. ﬁ§ !‘ ’o * ; "7 4. B.STOLL, Bdttor. l « / _ THURSDAY,FEB 5. 1585 - Cov, . Zor‘;;ixxagn,f' of - Fort Wayne, . seems to have a very fair chance of ~ drawing the pension agency under the new administration. " ; : et s Tae rrienos of Hon. Joseph 'E. MeDonald now feel quite confident that he will be invited to accept: a pesition in President Cleveland's éabinet. It is now deffinitely ' determined that the bankat-_ bill now pending in Congréess cannot pass this session. The East is quoted as being in favor of it and the west against it. :

It is sTATED by a person who pretends to know that “Gentleman Gorge” Pendleton can either:be seécretary of state under Cleveland of mjnister to France and that he will choese the latter position. He would adorn either position.

A vertEß of Senator Thomas H. Benton is now produced 'to show that he was opposed to Congressional eulogies on the death of _menibers. The busi“ness has been greatly overdone by means of interminable speech’ making to the damage of public business.

- A-guLr has been adopted by the pension office permitting applicants for pensions to dismiss their agents or attorneys and act for -themselves, when. their cases drag along without action, This rule will, it/is thought, result in the dismissal of*many inefficient attorneys. oL ,

Tae Cleveland Plain Dealer says correctly we think: “The dynamite business is repugnant to the majority of Irishmen who are brave and chivalrie, and who do not care to kill innocent women and children, even to punish the power tht rules them with an iron hand.” ' ' !

Vice PresioentT Henpricks last week was summoned to Albany by President Cleveland. A érotracted conference Igok place between these gentlemen. The cabinet and other mattets were considgred, but the exact nature-of the understanding veached will, of course, not be revealed. o

Royar B. Youva ason of Brigham Young, was arrested for polygamy and illlegal cohabitation in Salt- Lake City the other day. His plural wife testified that he didn't visit her now exceptfonce a week “to wind her bedroom elock.” Such testimony ought to help Mr. Young out of a tight place every time.” e

Tue rarLure of the banking house of John J. Ciscoe & Co,, New York, was precipitated if not caused by a check for '5500,000 drawn by Mrs E. H. Green, widow of a former president of ‘the Louisville and Nashyille railroad ~=gaidito be the richest woman in the ‘United States. She is miserly and very sharptin business matters. fara s

Suxser Cox is of the opinion that Cleveland, in forming his cabinet, will ignore the fossils and select comparatively young democrats. He says that most of the thousands of a‘ppli,can"ts for office go into the waste basket. That's just the place where these: premature applications ought t» go. People. who haven't the good sense to wait until the President has taken his- seat deserve no better treatment. i

Sexsarien is the -order of the day. The Toronto World publishes the following item: “At a meeting of the British'retzﬂiat‘oryv society held here, $B,OOO was subseribed toward carrying on a dynamite war against the United States. The|socialists of Chicago are to be invited to co-operate. Some of the most cherished monumrents of the the United States have been been marked for destruction. @ -

T Evansville Courier is ene of a very small number of Indiana papers that do not condemn the dynamite operation in England. The Courier thinks that British oppression of Ireland is, at least to some extent, a palliition for resorting to that distinctive appliance. ‘Tar BANNER cannot agree to this. Dynamite is a thing that should not be permitted to come into general use for avenging real or imaginary wrongs. a 0 |

A L was reported favorably on Tuesday of last week in the U.S. Senate for the retirement and re-coinage

of trade dollars. The bill authorized the exchange dollar for dollar of the trade dollars for standard silver dol: lars of the United States, and that the trade dollars shall be re-coined into standard silver dollars. This question. has so often been agitated in Congress without any result that if the present body passes the bill which has been reported in the Senate, it will be a mast agreeable surprise to the whole country. ° o e

Grx. Maxsox, our present Lieutenant Gadvernor, is a handy man to have about a Legislature. In the absence of the chaplain one day last week the gallant old General opened the session by repeating from memory the 133 d Psalm. It was a surprise to many of the ngembers to find the old General so fanfiliar with the scriptures; It will surprise them more to know that he will be able to repeat from memory, if the occhsion requires it, a scriptural lesson eath remaining dayief the session. < - e e et A A e | | Ix reriy to the inquiry of a cbrres-i pondent who wants to know| why France and China are at war with each other, the Cleveland Plain Dealet furnishes this interesting information: A lonz}rain of circumstances led to the quarrel, but the reason at the bottem is the determination of France to acquire territory on the south east coast of the Chinese Empire. Just nbw‘ France has a mama _for colonization, and in hurrying out its policy /in_that direction, has been seeking to. acquire territory belonging or claimedby Chithe Frogtl h laid clai &w rtain terriory on fhe Tsknd. of Huinan and about the Gult of Tauaukin snd seized ent a force against them and fired ’ mmﬁ | French govern{37’ \__, ';,,ni' «,{.&‘Qﬁf Kv' 4 ;w_ i ;-.nsw,}z g ?, i 4 ; o Wwwwgwgﬁmﬁﬂ@m@ Wt ﬂ%é@% bpeds gy Sy a sy

Tue Evansville Courier says: “It would be refreshing to see some man have the courage to raise in his place in Congvess and denounce the f&;ﬁ%ﬁ ‘plunder of the people’s money under the:guise of pensions to soldiers. Probably one half of the pensioners nowﬂa% the rol's were never in the army. The Pension frauds must cease,”

So AR the year 1885 vies with- 1884 in “accidents by field and flood” and accompanying loss of’ life © The earthquakes il Spain, the avalanches. of Italy amd the battles in Egypt have reduced the surplus stock of -humanity con-

siderably, and only one-twelfth: of :the year has gone. What will the other eleven-twelfths bring to pass.

" Tae Enoumﬁmmsns are ,a“majoxjigyL in the house of representaiivés of (eorgia, and they appear determined to pass a general local option law. Ninety counties in the state have partial or total prohibition, = Where negroes and extremely poor whites abound.in large numbers some such methods are ¢laimed to be an absolute necessity. - :

ExaLAND appears to be: fgrepaging to make a complete conquest of Egypt, as any attempt of Turkey to occupy any part of that conntry will be resisted. The “sick man” is not in good cendition to cope with the fast anchored isle. But if Prince Bismarck should conclude to measure swords with Johnny Bull, ‘Engéand’s calculations for conquest might be seriously interfered with.

Prusipext CrLeveraxp in inviting Randall and Carlisle both to visit him, indicates that he intends to consult all factions in the party, and will be governed by none. The country may congratulate itself upon the election of a man ‘whe can attentively listen to representatives of all shades of opinion and then mark out a line of policy that will commend itself to the judgment and patriotism of the whole natiok.

' OxE THEORY 1n negard to the English dynamite explosiens that is somewhat plausible is, that they are the werk of ex-detectives who have been discharged from government employment as a result of the stringent times. - It i 3 significant that they cause but little loss of life. ‘Should this theory prove well founded ?some'pfvthe savage dengncié—tion that/ has been hurled at the Irish would have to kg withdrawn or apologized for. :

- The wooL GrßOwEßs' and swine breeders’ association were in session at Indianapolis the latter partof last week. The following resolution was passed hy the latter:

" “Resolved, That we believe no absolute specific for swine plague has been discovered, and we urge upon the hog raigers generally the importance of giving close attention to sanitary regulations' in the management of swine instead of spending ;money tor, so-call-ed cholera cures affer the diseasé has made its appearance.”

" Ex-quzﬁnsou Fraxkniy J. Moses, ot South Carelina, has just been released from the Detroit House of Correction, where he served a three months sentence for obtaining money under false pretenses. He was no sooner out than he was agdin arrested on a charge of the same offense. The Cleveland Plain Dealer remarks that Moses is one of the sweet, saintly Republican Governors of the carpet-bag era that the bloody shirt ‘eranks lament so much about.

Jupae L. D. Tromay, ane of the civil Sexivice commissionei-s, is charged with being a drunkard and gambler. J \:{dge Thoman was a former resident of {Celumbia City and some *years ago wfs considered one of the most promising young politicians in the State of Ohio. He mairied a daughter of % yéry wealthy man who died a few years after the wedding.. Thoman was the p'fst of his-father-in-law, and had almost évery wish gratified, so far as money L;}‘d influence could accomplish this. :'aHE Banxer would very much regret to see Judge Thoman terminate a bril-lia-nt career in the manner indicated ‘and sincerely hopes that his immediate | f;iends may be able to expert sufficient {nﬂuence to induce - reformation before it is to late. Judge Thoman it will be remembered was appointed a member lof the ciyil service commission at the linstance of Senator Pendleton. 4

|| Spearer CaruisLe, who is a very ley-el-headed man on most subjects, recently remarked that he believed the time would come when the form of an oath would be done away with in the courts. This exnression of opinion was brought out 1n a general conversation upon the ssubject of the-rejection of the testimony of an agnostic in theé Swain court martial. Mr. Carlisle said that under the present methods of taking testimony the evidence of the most worthless character who tookfthe oath wouldibe taken against that of the most serupulous and high minded man who from his very sense of truth could not say that he knew there was a God. He thinks that there never was a case tried in'any court where there was not perjury of ¢ome kind on hoth sides. He never yet has in all his legal experience seen | evidence that the oath alone restrains & man from making misstatements in his own interests. He:would ‘have each man give evidence ‘without any preliminary form, and then it wotild stand aceording.to the character of the witness.” FEach witness would be upon his honor. = There would be. no trouble in providing penalties for giveing false evidence, as there is now. The oath isa mere empty form and should be dropped. & e : DEMAND FOR HIGH LICENSE, | ‘While one of the State Senators rep: resenting the city of Indianapolis in the General Assembly has intreduced & bill repealing that part of the present liquor law which requires ‘the t‘i?ﬂink_; }of saloons at 11 o'clock at night and on Sunday, 4 majority, of the press of the. capitol city vigoronsly urge the enact--ment of more stringent laws for the, regulation of the liquor traffic. and a decided increase of the licgnse. The iJo‘mjnal and the Times, thétwo regu-; lar republican organs, strongly advo- | i‘hh%m;d,.:fhe. News, inde-. rmeﬂm of _policy. W ~ claims that the republicans.in both | houses of the Tegislature will vote i, favor of high lcenso sndseominglyen. R L NI m;@ﬁé@ , »‘l“E'?”"uz‘i ﬁvﬂ};g};z‘; ,j; T“sﬂyﬁ%ﬁgx&é’aﬁ? )ri“sg iy iv |

turo could do yothing that” would 50 strengthen (ke democratio party in the state, properly protect the lignor interestmnd reasonably satisfythe tempers ‘m a 8 fo ; '.,:_j; 100 Hiquor Taw; and better still, wath a “local “option®. attachment. . It» would’ strengthen the democratic party because it would turn into town and county treasuries vast sums/of money which would lighten the burden of tax-atﬁo;&-,iﬁ.m&ld also reduce; public oxpendifure by lessening the number of crimes-flowing from the casy precure-. ment of liquor under practiqgl}y.:npy‘r; - strictions, as is now the case’ It would teastHably Satiery e teinieratics element, or satisfy its reasonable element, by presenting a condition in: which-the ‘whiskey traffic would have to bear something like an equitable share in ‘the public expense it° entails, and because it would wipe out mamy of the most harmfnl drinking places. We earnéstly mrge this question ‘upon the legislature, Tt is a question of public policy purely. Our sisfer states all around us have adopted, or are adoptingit. It works a décreasé of crime and pßblic expense, a lowering, of tax-. ation and the betcer protection of ‘the liquor interests in relieving it from unlawful competition. Indiana ecan' not long ignove this wise and just way -of treatinz a pressing public question.”

THE OTHER SIDE.

The Evansville Courier, it would seem, is not, after all, the only paper in the State that does not join in the general denunciation of the dynamiters. The Crawfordsville Review, edited by the Hon. DBayless W. Hanna, formerly Attorney “Gengral of Indiana, thus speaks of thematter: f “There has been a good many tears wasted in America this week over the dynamite explosions of London Saturday, last. The United States Senate !propoSes to pass a bill on American dynamite manufacturers. The innocent women and children injured in the recent explosions-are to be pitied and to them all sympathy is due, but-why sympathise with the Government of Great Brittain? The treatment of conquored nations by the English Government has caused her shame to betome a household word the world over. Her butcheries in India, her crimes in Ireland, her oppressions in America stamp her asa harsh master. Dynamite is the agent of retributive justice for the capacity {)f England. The Edmunds Bill is.-an offensive one [to all true American citizens. It wasprepared by Lowell the aristocratic toady now representing the United States at the ‘court of St James, seconded by the Britigh minister at Washington. It is a confesgion of guilt'on the part of this country, that it isthe home of the dynamiters. No evidence has been produced that the dynammte used by the European Socialists was manufactured in this country. Itis more likely that the dynamite used in England was manufactured in that country, and fired by subjects. of that country. The government of the United States has no business stepping forward and. con[fessing the guilt of, our people when there is no evidence produeed proving the charge. The American people never did degrade themselves by kneeling to any despotic power of the old world and making an humble confession of guilt. ' America is able to take care of hersélf and Congress has no rizht to place her in a crouclli{ng atitude before the world. That’is the "way the Edmunds Bill places us and it should be protested against by every trae American. .o &

The Bvinsville Courier already referred to endeavors to justify its position in language as follows: - 3 “A’s to the use of dynamite it may be said that there are few men deserving liberty, who would not resort to any means to secure their liberty.. If the Irish, the Russiams, the Germans, or any other people cannot rid themselves of oppressive government by organized vesistance, there will always be a sufficient number to war against tyrranny with the terrible weapon, dynamite, to make the ruling class uncomfortablé and unhappy. We may fill volumes with penal statutes against the persons who resort to this kind of warfare, but the more we legislate against them, unless the civilized world repeals the laws that makes the poor poorer and the ricli richer, the stronger and bolder will be their resistance. = Nolody goes into the business of throwing dynamite who places any value on his own life. The poor devil whose dynamite bomb fatally wounded the Czar,danced when he heard of the Czar’s death and went down before the executioner with a shout of ttiumph onhis lips. What did he'care for his life? He had destroyed a tyrant and'died happy. The only legislation that will put an end to dynamite explosions, is the repeal of all laws that discriminate against the masses in favor of a class, making the few very rich and the many very poor. Until the most sweeping reforms in this-direction are accomplished, there ‘will be dynamite horrors in every 'direction.” s e ;

Independent to the Core. Brother Pricket is again at his old tricks. He says that Georgé Ager, of the Elkhart Ilndepndent, is a democrat. Now Jake if ever you told a whopper you told it then—Ligonier Baoner. - i sy If Ager isn’t a democrat, what in ‘the name of common sense is he? We know that religiously he is classed as an*infidel,” but we hardly think this will ‘apply .politically.—~Albion New Era. ’ f “The Goshen papers have for years been charging that lie was a democrat, then a republican, and no one Knows any more about it now than when they first commenced. - We have seitled down that he is. George Ager, and we bet we are the nearest right of any of you,~Goslien Demoerat. - ;- Weihave no friends to reward ‘nor enemjes to punish and e are puslishing the Independent neither: for glory nor gold but just to present fg&gtt’; figures and records a 8 they are and if the most of bwls*b'l(’nk"when ‘we. turn en. the light they they bave only themselves:to censure~Elkhart .lodepeni ST AR i Caun any one bring us.a-case of Kidney or Liver Oomlgﬂblw Electric Bitters will not gmuyem? an:l they can not, as thousands of cases al--ready permanently cured and who are daily remmmgﬁ; f lectric Bitters, will W‘Wi & . . Bright's Disease, Weak *”“f%-'q% atok ;;"*’fatea»r urinar ’ g}:M- regulate the bowels, and act di- | :_I.. %.1. g “15 mf«g’:ﬁi{aql B 8

Wimﬁ’:v' e iy Local Correspondence. » @jgiiﬁ’g (AWPATCIL 4 »";? eBY BTG 4 "?ﬁ:ggeéionr ﬁfﬁutine ready. . G %{Kmﬂmaﬂ has returned from the east.: He reports a good time. ‘ © Mr. Heary Carey, of IToward county, Ind,, is visiting with friends on the Pateh. . s S J. N. Babeock’s little sop is quite ill. - . Henry -Blaek lost a valuable herse last week, - 1 : : "L wonder who that scamp is who seems .to have forgotten the eighth commandment? = ? : " Tup ‘LaGrange orchestra rendered sdme very fine music at Syracuse Hall Jdust“Phursday night. “The play was a decided success. e ' Mr. Albert Ramsby and Miss Metie Skamlin were united in marriage, Sunday, ‘January 25, by Rev.J. P. Jones. We wish them joy. - ; * As unto the bow, thecord is, : ; S 0 unto man is woman.,:; Rough she bends him, yet she obeys him ; ough she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each, without the other.” . YORMK TOWNSHIP.

7 B il S OX B ' ‘Sunday was a beautiful day. * The farmers are now hauling whaat and logs. & g 5 - John Whitmore had a straw-hauling “bee” last Friday. : ~ Southeasy Eikhart has a new M. D. Special attention given to night calls. +. William.and Ida Bu!Z we:ie home visiting last Sunday. :

. Odk Grove spelling-school last Firiday night was largely attended and a good tima was had. v A brand new Democrat made his appearance last Saturdsy ab Mc. and Mrs. C, Heltzsl’s, -

Miss A. Shinke, of Ligonier, has been visiting friends in York, and algo took in the spelling-school at Oak Grove. : ¥rank Myers has changed bhis place pé’ abode from this to -Elkhart tewnship. - ) ¥ : Everybody in Yourk township shonld read Tne BANNER and get all the news, 2 . :

MIENTONE.

BY DORA. | “Health good. v ‘ " Business looming up! ‘ Our factory ruus day and night. Every ice-house in town is full. Another jeweler in town from Ohio. We have been biegsed with a skat ing rink for four weeks. ;

Mr. Bowman, of Ligonier, Sundayed with his brother here. - :

Herman Hartsock, of Celumbia City, was with us last Sunday. : The Wila West Company entertained our citizens Tuesday evening last. 2

" J. W. Sellers and wife is with friends near Etna, Whitley county. Frank Storm and famlily are visiting with friends at Wawaka. e "“They” say Ed F. Reed was in town Jast Sunday and Monday. — Mentene now supports a weekly néwspaper, the Mentone Gazstte.

. Three matrimonial contracts were consumated in this neighberhocod last week.

Mr. Horp, cf the Bourbon Democrat, was in town last Friday. Mrs, Doane, of Akren, accompanied by her children, was here‘last woek. We have fajled to hear the pitiful wail of “hard times” seut up by other towna from any of cur merchants here. All seem to be enj:yirg a healthy: trade, with no siguas of any thing different. : ;

ROCHESTER.

BY YOU NO

Who saw the gronnd heg. : J. Koontz visited with his son Aaron in this place last week. = , Mose and Oscar Niles left for Illinois last Friday. Mose will sfop in Chicago a few months. S -John Conner had his eyes cperated on last week. Ile says 1t was a sore job. e

- There was a slight-of-hand performance at.the school fhouse one night ‘last wetk. It was a grand swindle. i Mrs. H. McDanzel has Leen on the sick list for' a week past. . ) : Mr. Henry Arnell and wife, of Pierceton, wvisited' with the family of 0. L. Chapman on Sunday. : Elder Swikart baptized several pergons in the Dunkard faith at this place last Sunday. : : | " Mrs. John Schiotterback, of near Albion, visited with her mother—Mrs. M. Huff- on Saturday and Sucday.

Reub., McDannel frcze one of his feet very bad last weck while working on the ice. . From the hmount of ice being hauled . from ‘the mill - pend by the farmers we shonld judge they intend to keep cool durirg the coming summer. :

“There is a young man in this village who is capable of taking a strap and whipping his mother. Shame! : Fred. McDannel and Linc Heffner made a trip to Goshen on Friday.

John Heltzell and wife will start for their future homein Kansas abou. the middle of this month.

7 WAWARKA. ¢ : UNCLE JO]:[N. Married, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. H. H. Spurgeon to Miss Ella Fraunk. . The Siamese nuisance was on exhibition last Wednesday. They are curious specimens of humanity. The boys have formed a private de‘tective force im this place, and are at present at work upon several mysterious and seemingly untathomable cases. " The log men are taking ddvantage of the fine sleighing .@gﬁ are, “snaking” the logs in.ata lively rate. - Dan Zimmerman visited the Hub last Monday on business. - One ‘of Jerry Brandyberry’s cooy dogs was«run over by the cars last Fridaysi. & Monb. Neufer says that if he knew who ‘puts the “stuff” in the paper abouthim be would comb the rascal’s hair. e - Uncle John attended the sham Congress' last: Tuesday evening, and reports everything wrogressing finely. Mr. Jeff. Pinchon, of Wolf Lake, has Ween yisiting his brethers for a few days. =« & 0 Phil. Thompson and wife made a flying visit to the Hub on Monday. Miss Emma Glant, of LaGrange, is visiting her parénts at this place. The boy# gave & concert at the depot Mouday evening. Quite a number of the Brimfield people attended church at this place thia week., = © :

~ Quarterly meeting begins on Saturday next. g

SINTINGS FROM THE HUB. Mr, Teagarden, formecly engineer of the construction train on the B. & 0., making this place his headquarters for two seasons, but now on the Nickel Plate at Fort Wayne, had one of his hands cut ¢ff above the wrist one day last week, Martin’s hardware will soon again be opened for business. | A brother of #'red Gappinger Las beg;lsl'ting here the past week. . ound Hog day was cloudy and Mr. G. H. did not see his shadow. | Several of the boys have been fishing through the ice. Occasionally one of .them gets a wetfing. A .. Where was our marghal on Monday when that fight came off? .Probably ab home, whereé he generally is. . 'Bquire Jackson, of Ligonier, was in ‘town on Monday. : ~_Albion is to have another skating Hink. | We i’ﬂhdé}‘_s;u‘nd ~ that Clapp :'.pmgf»xnf@]%fbﬁmgg one 44x120 feer. . Bleighriding is the order of the day amoug’our bad-tog o 1 s . George Reagan has moved his fami s mwwammwmw done in this place the coming season. il ssad fos Do Bt o IR A R S R TN e el RN A S S DA

learn that he can’t run things to suit himself every time he comes to town and géts on a “jamboree.” o Ray has got a mew butcher. He hails from Kendallville, : A. J.Denlar was on the sick list several days last week. : | ~ Owen Black left on Monday for ‘New Orleans. =~ | : Quite a crowd of Albionites took a sleighride to Ligonier last TFriday evening., noy Tl . Dr. Sweilzer, of Etna, Whitley county, was in town several days last week. v ; : Saw logs are being brought to our mill at a rapid rate at present, = Melvin Rapp has been dangerously ill the past week. - : Peters, .of* the Ligonier BANNER, was in town on Tuesday. b Loomis’ dry goods establishment is a thiog of the past—3o far as Albion ' is concerned.

- Saturday it was quite lively ¢n our streets. e

A large quantity of wood is now being delivered for the use of the county offices. b o

A son of Fred Gappinger, who went west four years ago,ls now in British Columbia. Abottt thirty couple from this place weat out to Orlando Kimmell’'s' on Tuesday evening.

SPRING HiLIL.

) : BY SUNSET. : | - It has been some time since your readers have heard from me. : All of our young folks have been having plenty of fun during the sleighing season. : The health of our psopie in this section is excellent. =~ s Uncle Dave Hough has been upon ‘the sick list for some time; that is he has not been very well. : 'Mit‘hé\iﬁkf‘l‘s has been unwell for some /BT, ~suffdring from insanity. We understand that proper steps are about being taken to have the gentleman sent to an asylum, - Our school is progressiag finely under the direction of Mr. Decker, who is giving general satisfaction as a teacher. Z :

Protracted meetings have beea in progress for some weeks both norih and south of us. At Burr Oak aad Richville we understand that many have been called in out of the darkvess of sindo look upon the light of the church. ;

Rev. Rittenhouse commenced protracted meetings at our church last Saturday evening. Tho mestings will be held pightly for some weeks, Well, Mr. Editor, my. father is a subscriber of the Albion New Era, and during the last Year has been saying that he was going to discontinue it the very next time hé wentto Al bion. I bhave been trying to talk him out'of the notion, as.the New Lra isa valuable paper. liis getting to be a funny paper, and I do not know how ‘we could get a2long without it now, sines the publication of those “Sally Mossback” and “Uncle Joe” letters has commenced. They are grand, galorious. They present two good qualifications—that. of being instructive and amusing. *They should be the means of giving the people a big beom. They arse so very intellectual. It wonld indeed bhe a treat to become acquainted with the writer of them, as intellectually he must be a giant; yey, he must be & giant or a she giantess. 1 found in a late issue of the New Eraa ccmmunication from “Hoosier,” in which he makes the statement that ‘after the electiom of Cleveland and -Hendicks, rebel fligs had been wunfurled at the jollification meetings in many parts. of the south. Now, my father says that this 'is a republican lie. T’ll tell you, Mr, Prickett, what you do in your nexi issue: give your readers the tims and place of the atove transactions. Tell us where those flags were uufurled; don’t hide beliud the bare assertion that it teok place in the south, but bs more particular, and if ws can prove to the old gentleman that such things did bappef in the south he will undoubtodly vote the republican ticket. You cap certaiulg- do;this, as you must be dcquiinted with many such cases, as you allow bardly a week but what youg refer to them. If you will be kind enr ugh to give this your attention I will use my influence with father and I think that he will not stop his pa per. Co e

ILLINO!S LETTER.

* WEDRON, Jan. 28, 1885 To the Edttors of the Banner.

Truth verifies itself again in that he-that worketh shall eat, and he that readeth the news must pay for if, therefore I wi!l take up my cross by inclosing the subsecription price of your valuable paper in order thatl may erase the “cross” on THE BANNER that stared me in the face some time since. Lo :

As to the weather, the winter we are having promises te be “shut” at both ends, notwithstanding: the oldest inhabitant’s prediction of am “open” winters At present writing the snow is fifteen inches deep on'the level. Schuyler Colfax, pcor fellow, has come and gone his last time on earth. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he, for the wisest man that ever lived on earth says, “who knoweth the spirit ¢of man goeth upward or the spirit of the beast that goe downward ?” : %

By your kind permission, dear reader, I wi@a to call your attention tq‘a few facfs in regard to our religious nation, if we cap ca!l it so. Dear reader, I have been watchiug the religious sentiment of this country for nearly forty years, and it pains me to remark that, instead of faith and hope | growing stronger it is becoming woaker; and why is this the case? My solution of the problem is that there is too much rum, Romanism ' and rebellion among the people. How are we to overcome this evil? My answer is by doing right. In this‘eonnection I often think of a fine old Eoglish gentlemen I met years ago in South Bend, Indiana. In conversation with him he remarked; “woe unto our childrea’s children when all of the public works are finished in America.” So I say, for we are mixed and asscciated with all nations, tengues and people of the world. I am of the opinion that this will be a hard country on the poor if a change for the befter is not forthcoming. But thé poor have one promise that the rich have not, and that is God has promisad to pay heed to their cries of distress, aud_his word is sure and steadfast. The MethoeNgts cT3this place have been conducting a protracted meeting for some time, bat up to the present there have been no con- | verts, What we want is a charchrun | on the prineiple of Christ and Him crucified and not with money. Truly we wanta change in many lespests in chureh, state and social affairs, and the change will be hére ia about thir‘ty days, when Mr. Cleveland takes his seat as Presidert of the United States. - 7 ApAM CHRISTIE, | R e i i iy S Bucklens Arnienmaive. ter ehuppod hands, bad allskid eruptlons, sk gl i e s satisfaction or money Will bé refunded, R s ol

Lo 7 W Ty ; o NEWA BIGEST. - Diplitheria has within five weeks. swept off twenty-five children at Fullerion, Nebraska. = - £ : In the Nebraska house, the committee ¢n railroads has decided to report a 3-¢entrate bill. o - Muys. Griffith, a sister of General Grant’s mother, died at Batavia, Obhio, at the age of 92 years. 2 . Jumes Owen Smith, one of the best known physicians in New York, died Saturday, in his 84th year. : : - The Western Export association has established a new pool in high wines, and raised the price to $1.13. : Elijah M. Haines was on Thursday elected permanent speaker of the Illinois house of representatives. . 11. McCreary, formerly president of the university at Vincennes, Indiana, died of consnmption Thutsday. The New York legislature passed a resolution requesting congtess to apvropriate $30,000 for the lennepin canal. P : ]

Dr. J. B. Marchisi, who was in the army of the first’Napoleon, died Sunday at Utica, New York, aged 96 yeurs, R s B

In both houses of the Wisconsin legislature John C. Spooner received a mzjority of votes for United States sengitor. 2 The Meshtush well, in the Thorn Creck petroleum district of Pennsylvinia, flewed one thousand barrels in fourteen hours. = - s ‘I

. P. Chisholm, superintendent of a flourmg-mill at Waukegan, Illinois, was ki Jed by eatching his clothing on a revolving shait.

There ave rumors that Charles Paine wilt siceeed S. M. Felton uss general mizvegcer oo the New York, Pennsylv: nia o nd Ohio road. :

- It is reported that the Edgay Thomson stecl-works at Braddock, Pa., are about to rosume operations with severs dolbous pd men,

- Uuiui © Jostéph Utley, of Illinois, bas persunded the New York legislature to piss resolutions in favor of the projected Ilexn: pin canal. Forty delegates are in attendance at the session of the national board of trade in Washington. Frederick Fraley was re-elected president. Peter Trusx. of Eau Claire, Wisconsing’ paid §9.000 for some scattered tragts of pine land on the Chippewa river, aggregating 1,618 acres. A clerk in the probate court at St. Louis wus knocked down in the rotunda of the court house, and robbed of $Bl3 in currency and a watch. j T'he senate ot Texas has passed the Shannon railroad bill, which establisiies a rate of three cents per mile to all passengers purchasing tickets. The late Charles 11. Rogers, a bank nresident in Philadelphia, left in trust an estate valued at $2,000,000 to build a home for infirm and aged persons.

An Irishman who has been in the United States but two weeks has applied to the mayer of Chicago for a position under the city government. In the Arkansas legislature, after the reading of a letter of withdrawal wom ex-Governor Berry, James K. .tlones was electéed United States Senaor.

Two of the pioneers of Coldwater, Michigan—Philo H. Crippen and Ruth 1. Crfippen—were married on Tuesday evening. - Each is seventy-five years of age. s Thankful Tanner, of Cleveland, has brought suit against Mrs. James A. ‘Garfields for $25,000, for injuries sustained by being run over by her carriage.

At Ilamilton, Ontario, John Cash told some policemen that he drove the cab conveying the assassins of Cavendish and Burke through Pheenix Park, Dublin. . . A broken rail threw a St. Paul train trom the track, near Hampton, lowa, seriously injuring six passengers, who were taken to Charles City for medical attention. o it

- At Winterset, Towa, after suffering from poverty, Mrs. Mary Dooley poisoned herself and her son and daughter, Only the latter survived the eifects of the drug. ~ The Plumer Hill mine at New Straitsville, Ohio, valued at §200,000, was fired by unknown. persons early Thursday m?lining, and will probably prove a total loss..

A semi-annual dividend of 1 per cint. has /been declared by the Canadian Pacific road, in addition to the guarantee of 14 per ceni. made by the government. A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts senate to punish persons’ making or Kkeeping- explosive comj ounds with the Intention' to destroy life or property. . Should General MecClellan decline to act_as marshal at the inauguration ceremonies in Washington, the honor will probab}f; be tendered to General Don Carlos Buell. o

/Surveys have been commenced at Omaha, under the supervision of John A. Barbach, for a raiiway and wagon bridge to Council Bluffs, under & congressional charter. :

The Chinege in San Francisco are alarmed in regard to the fate of the steamer San Pablo, which sailed for Yokohama forty days ago with nine hundred of their race.Jimmie Carroll, the famons burglar, has tinished a long term in the penitentiary at Kingston. Ontario. On leaving for = Montreal he exhibited $100.,000 in American bonds. . Upon occupying the executive chambers in the new capitol of lowa, Thurs day evening, Governor Sherman gave a reception to six former governors and several ex-lieutenant goyernors, - Twenty leading physicians of Bosfon. when invited to confer with Mayor O’Brien, agreed that the cholera lis certain to make its ap&:earance next summer in spite of rigid quarantine.

Cuptain Couch and his Oklahoma colonists have resolved to start anew on March 5. General Hatch has information that movements are to be made from Texas, Arkansas and Kan--Bas. } .

In a building in New York in which the British consul general hashis office there was discover-d a round tin box containing a gusntity of blue powder, ggndrat‘tatched tiuereto was a lightcd ase. A

- The outbuildings of the insane hos&%ﬁal‘at Indianapolis, valued 'at $85,<OOO, were burned early Tuesday morning. There weie 1700, patients in the main building, none of whom were inJureds v o : = Rei[))resentative Thompson, anthor of the bill to settle the Union Pacific Railroad indebtedness, is of the belief that the FHouse will not assent to the Benate bill, which bill he denonnces in unmeasyred terms, : 'The recent dynamite outrages in London are denounced by the United Irishman as the work of men who believe they can serve Ireland by carrying on a campaign against stone walls and stained glass. . There are indications of a railroad rate-war in St. Louis, where the Pennsylvania Company announced Sunday that hereafter they would charge no ore than other roads on New York passenger business. - In an address to the American public Chief Engineer Melville expresses the belief that a successful voyage Lo the north pole can be made by way of Franz Josef Land, and that the time is ripe for the attempt. e Cagcain dx G Ramsaﬁ commandant at Fort MecHenry, Baltimore, was thrown into the mud. by the sudden starting of a street-car. He struek the. conductor in the face, fow which he was promptly arrested. g 7

A bill introduced in the Ohio Legislature is aimed at the suppression of the professional criminal. It provides that a person who is sentenced to the peuitentiar‘f three times shall be liable on the third occasion to a life term. - Clearing-honse receipts at the principal cities of the United dtates last week show a dedcrease ai ,cfompalre% .'gsith the €O uding week of 1881 o .5 per '&Mhe decrease in New York was 45.5 per cent., in Chicago 29.3 per vent.. “In the criminal court at Clijecago. in the case of the murder of Specia% Constable Curran by deputy United Btates marshals, the j’tln'y' acquitted Yattaw and Smith, and sentenced - Fletcher to two years in the penitentiary for manslaughter. Ly ; . Cattle-raisers in eastern Montana “where the mercury has ranged from 40 to b 0 degrees below zero, regort that the loss of stock will not exceed 5 per cent. The greatest dan gze-r» at the present time lies in the possibility of an icy crust over the snow. S - ~ ‘Rumors that Colonel Vilas, of Wisconsin, has accepted a cabiriet position. ;’@M trength from the fact that he is ‘to other firms, and he is expécted: to o e asteany e S e e e T TR

February 20. Bl : President Taylor and several other leading Mormons have returned to Salt Lake from an inspection of the church colonies in Arizona and Mexi¢o. . Missionaries have for - several _years been at work among the: Indians of northern Mexieo. i i :

Melissa Flow, an att.ra_ctivgi blonde of 20. years. has been lodged In jail at Louisviile for selling a pint and a half of mountain dew in one of the back counties of Kentucky. She is the second woman ever arrested in that state for moonshining. -

A woman in Brooklyn, claiming to be the widow of the man hangetf in England for slaying informer Carey, reports hergelf in a destitute condition, and says her husband sacrificed himself at the comm+nd of the dynamite gangein New York. : s . Col. W. E. Merrill of the Engineer Corps has sent to Washington, a: communication regurdin% the condition of the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississi»{wpi, showing a continuing failure on the part of Eads to keep his promises to Conaress.. - The federal court of Dallas, Texas, has decided that the Star Insurance company must pay $§5.000 for the destruction of the Endy hotel at Greenville during a cyveione in 1883. Payment was resisted on the ground /that the strueture bliw down. i

Two. Pittsburg lads’ named Spraull and McGrigon, slipped on the Ice at the head of Sixteenth street. and dropped over a bluff one hundred feet high, striking onthe rocks. The former was fatally injuredg the latter escaped with a broken wrist. An express train of four coaches was wreckea Friday morning at Greenville,. N. J.. on the Reading road, by the breaking of a wheel! T'wenty-five passengers were wounded, eight of them only slightly. A special train was sent out from Jersey City for the sufferers.

The Baltimore and Qhio road has bundreds of men at work in the Bristol tunnel, which was fired. by incendiaries. Water is taken to the scene by trains from both sides. It will require a month to lengthen thenorthern appﬁ'oach, on account of a fall of rocks. : g

A correspondent in the Oklahoma countiy reports that over a third of a million cattle have perished in that section through starvation and’ severe cold. 'There are a million cattle in the Cherokee Strip. and if the cold weather holds out a week longer “half of them will. die. S ariyy

A famous outlaw, named Nicholas Aragon, was captured near Chaporito, New Mexico, after he had killed a deputy sheriff. Before Aragon would surrender. a messenger was .sent to Las Vegas for giant powder to blow up his hut. He is likely to be lynched when Lrought to jail. ;

Royal B. Youn&,', a stepson of the late Mormon president was arrested on Thursday for unlawful cohabitation. His third wife testified that herself and Liushand had faithfully kept an agreement. made three years ago, not to live together until the courts settled the polygamy question, e W. B. Trompson, second assistant postmaster gen ral, states that by concentviting the mails between Chieago and Omaha the fast service has become self-supporting. The only quick facilities which fail to pay are those be= tween New York umi New Orleans by way cf Richmond and Savannah, . Efforts are being made to develop an gil-field in the vicinity of . Buifalo. Four thousand aeres of land at East

Auvora have been leased by Bradiord firms, and one well is being drilled. Colin Scott has leased thirty-eight large tracts, and will await the result .of operations by the Pennsylvanians. The national board of trade adopted resolutions originating in Chicago, asking Congress.to take measures to remove the -diserimination. made in certain = foreign ‘eouniries against American meats, andto authorize the

President to prohibit the importation gf_ akdulterated articles of food or rink. & :

W. H. Fertich, superintendent of schools at Shelbyville, Indiana, recently made a rule that tardy pupils . must wait outside the door for some min-

utes. A’ girl of nine years named Michener, very nearly froze her feet on geequnt ot the regulation, and her father = has brought suit for $2,000 damages. D ‘ Late Saturday night an explosion of dynamite occurred in. New fork City, shattering the fronts of Garry Bros.’ and Ridley Bros.’ dry goodsstores, cor-

ner of Grand avenue and Allen street. The damage amounts to $2,500. Five arrests were made. Striking employes are charged with responsibility for the explosion. 7 The enthusiasm of the friends of the

Oklahoma boomers in Kansas has béeﬁ decidedlf' dampened by the capitulation of the colony at Stillwater. Capt.

Couch says that he was compelled "to surrender for lack of supplies and reinforcements. Itis thought ' that another attempt at colonization may be made in the spring. . ' Lizzie Bogart, 18 years of age, whose father is assistant superintendent of the Lackawanna road, eloped from Scranton with a handsome young brakeman named George J. Fowler. They were married by an alderman, and on reaching Binghamton they telegraphed their good wishes to the irate father of the girl. o ; Two German cabinet-makers -from Cincinnati arrived at Vincennes, Indiana, on Saturday. They took a walk to the outskirts, when one shot the other thiree times, took his wateh and 850, dragged him to a deep ravine and buried him in the snow. The victim soon recovered sufliciently to reach a house and relate his adventure, It is rumored that one of the young society men who were concerned in the disgraceful row at a party in ‘Washinzton hétween young' Holman and Senot de Castro has been severely whipped by his father, who remarked that 1f his son had not manhood enough to kee&) out of such serapes he ‘was not too old to be treated as a child. A resolution was adopted by the National Board of Trade at Washington asking an investigation into the cause of the enormous waste of the country’s wealth by fire. Mzr. Covington, who offered the resolution, said there was not the slightest doubt that the annual loss by fire in the United States could be reduced from $120,000,000 to $60,000,000. The overwhelming defeat in the house of the legislation carrying out the Mexican treaty foreshadows the fate of the other treaties. Although the Mexican treaty has been ratified by the senate, the refusal of the house to provide any money for it kills it. The indifference of the senate to the Nicaragua treaty is shown by the faet that no guorum was present in that body when a vote was to be taken upon it, Three explosions of natural gas oecurred Saturday noen, in Penn avenue, near Thirty-fourth street, Pittsburg, The first was caused by lighting a mateh in a cellar. Five lpersox::,s were fatally injured, and a large number were struck by flying timbers. A beerkeg blown from a saloon knocked a sar-driver senseless. The damage to buildings is estimated at $20,000. The sufferers are organizing to tear up the gas-pipes. : e

It was decided Wednesday by the railroads running east from Chicago to advun{ge eastbound freight-rates to 2v cents for grain and 25 'cents for provisions. Roads running east from St. Louis have made a like advance. It is expected that a similar move will be made by roads goinF east from other Western points. The chiet cause of this action on the part of the railroadt is the obstruction of traffic by th snow and cold weather. ; The silver convention at Denver composed of delegates from seven of the States or Territories west of the -Missouri river, passed resolutions demanding free and unlimited coim;%e -of white aud yellow bullion and the withdrawal of small notes. Ata conference at the treasury de)i:{xxtment in Washington with these New York bankers, it was agreed that there is nothing to justify the ’depreciatio%‘ in the value of siiver certificates. The national board of trade passed a résos lution trging congress to repeal the law for eompuisory silver coinage, - The Lake Shore, Mighigan Central, ‘and Fort Wayne Roads have reduced | ggsseuger rates from Chicago to New “York to $l2 first class and $9 second ‘class. Rates to Boston were reduced to $l4 first elass and $lO second class. This is a reduction of $2 on first class and $1 on second class tickets to New York, and of $2 on flist and second _class to Boston. The Grand Trunk is- , seumg tickets to Boston Vfiaigmﬁtr’e'ﬂl ‘ for $ll first class and $7.40 second class. Asthwhéwroaﬂﬂm | mﬁﬁggvﬂr h&&eﬂﬁuﬁ : ‘unlikely east-bound rates will be still o e

Gen. Haten contemplates l’mxk{mgd number of forts in Indian: Tmﬁp?j‘g and will leave treops at Salt Fork in auticipation of another colonizing exRed,ltion by the Oklahioma boomers. ‘he General says that the boomers at Stillwater were starved out. They did not give up until hunger compelled them to surrender. At the time of the capitulation there were onty - 156 men 1n the boomers’ camp. - Capt. .Couch and his followers were escorted \h’\to Arkansas City by 8,00 citizens and a brass band. The received with great enthusiasny” A large part of the land in Oklahofna was found to have been fenced in by cattlemen; who were leit in peaceablel possession after the expulswon of the settlers, An Okkxhomu Union was formed at Arkansas - City. vl

The east-bound freight pool’ from Chiengo has been given its deathblow, the Chicago & Grand Tyunk- having given the required sixty days’ motice of withdrawal therefrom. “The reason assigned for this action on the part of | the Chicago & Grand Trunk is that so mueh of the 'business that should have gone into the Chicago east-bound pool was diverted by lines ot in the pool. as to make the Grand Trunk pool pexrcentage of 13 ?er cent an exceedingly. small.one, and caused it"to overcarry its percentages, whieh: surplus it was compelled to turn over to other roads inthe pool. Commissioner Fink and the Joint Execcutive Committee had been powerless to stop:thpse outside lines from cutting the rates and _tztki_ng the business away Irom the ‘ﬁnol, an consequently the Grand Trunk in selfs defense was compeiled to withdraw from the pool. ; / e

WASHINGTON: ... .| = It has been decided by the Housze Committee on Claims to report a hitl providing for the refunding of the War thx imposed by the Government on States and Territories, and releasing tho:e-States which yet owe the tax. A Ho Ry An adverse repori. will be made by the Civil-Service Reform Committee on the bill prohibiting the removal ‘of ‘any honorably discharged Union soldier, sailor, or marine, | or of the widow or dependent relatiyg of such soldier, sailor, or marine, except for s,})eciﬁed causes.- The bill:is rezarded b the committee as unconstitutional and inexpedient. o N e S Secretary Chandler has ~ordered the United States steamer Wachusett of the Pacific s}guadron to proceed at once to Guavaquil, Ecuador, for the protection 6f J. R. Santos, anaturalized eitizen of the United States; who is imprisoned for alleged complicity in the recent rebellion and who'is in danger of being executed. - T Secretary McCulloch regards the reduetion of the publie debt by $8,000,000 a? very fortunat» and ealéulated to - allay the af)-_ Prehensions ‘of increased ‘depression.: In lis opinion it indicafes that the greatest depth was reached in the latter part of D>~ ceember, and that the tendency-in the puniie revenues and in the business of the country is in an upwari d rection: - ' e The River and Harbor Bill is - exeitiig unusual opposition, especially that partion of it relating to Eads, -which> practically . ereates him engmeer-in-chief of the entire Missi<sippi River improvements, Phe Pm‘posed appropriation for the Galyeston harbor inprovement is said.to be almost wholly for'the benefit.of a privaie corporation, and it is believed that this feature will . do. ‘mueh toward defeating the biil, © - : It is rumored in Washinzton that Swaim’s. dismissal wilt ba: recommended by the court-maztial sitting in the case. and that in the event: of such a Proce'.‘ding “President. JArchur will appoint Gen. Sharpe, of New York, as his suceessor. - It ig also reported that John Davis would like to be. transfer--red from the Cotirt of Claims to. this place, and that if such an” appointment. is made bne of these two will receiveit, | - - An appropriation of $52;258,200 is recom= .mended by the Post-Office bill as cempleted by the House Approprintion Commitiee. The estimates prepared by . the Post-Office Department amonnted-to $56,009,169. . The chief items are compensation of Postmasters, $12,500,(00; compensatio of clerks in post-oftices, $5,100,000; frec-delivery sys tem, $4,100,000; railroad - transportation, $15,:.65,000; star routes, $5,700,000; railway post-oftice clerks; $4,482,600, « - o = ° 50 0= President Arthur has sent to the Senate a letter from Secrctary Teller which defines the views of the EXxecutive in regard to the Oklahoma question. . The Secretary says that it is to be expected tl;_a{)tli’e ‘Oklahoma, territory will continue to be:a source of trouble so long -as the present conditions exist. While all contracts made. by the Government with the Ihdians should be held inviolate, those which are unjust and unfair to both whites and Indians ought to be modified by legislative action, At is not beneficial to the Indians tohave millions of acres-of valuable land remain unoceupied,; and there is a general sentimenv that these lands should not be_ withhéld from settlement. Every year the difiiculty. of keeping them yacant will inerease. Itisin the pow= er of the Government to alter the treaties with the consent of the Indrans and to op-n in this manner the coveted territory to eolopization, =~ T s R

An ofticial letter from Panauma addressed to Surzeon-General Hamilton reports that the isthmusis in an unusuatly “pestilential condition. ‘The annul death-rate is 11 per cent. The prevalence -of malignant and malarial. fovers is concealed by Ihe . canal company and the authorities, . The Diree-tor-Gen - ral- of: the ‘canal- company; who reached Panama fiftesi -‘months ago with his wife, two ehildren, and twelve stafl officers, is now the sole survivor of the party. One thousand i'.lt_ermexﬁs were niade in one of the five ceme.eries in-six months. - Ref)orts from Colon and other points on the ine of the canal are to the sam=effect, =

The Miljitary Committee has withdrawn its reommend:tion.to provide: for jan Assistan: Signai-Service Officer, with the rank and pay «r .Coloxel, the p'ace thus created being intendel tor Lieut. Greely. *The aetion of the Commitice is sad to "be due to cergain facts which hiive récently come out in regard to the Greely Arctic: expedition. The contents of soine of the diaries brouzht back from the expedition are said to give strong ground for the beliet that - three, if not four, of the party were shot forfood; and that Gree'y's obstinacy tvas‘responsil_)lafl for the d sasters which subsequently beTHE PRECIOUS METALS, - : T'he Direc'or of the Mint is enzaged in the preparatioi of his report on thé produetion of gold and silver in the Unit -‘l{)States during the cilendar yearlB%4. . From returns made from the niints and assay oftices it appears. he says, that, contrary to his own expectation and géneral opinien, a gréater amount of ;irohl_y‘\ as obtained from niines in the United Sta’es in 1884 than durinsthe previous yoar. LReports from the mints and assay oflices of deposits- of zold an:d silver, wiieh he'caused to be verified by the accounts, shéw -thut during:the calendar year 18 4° they received. gold of dome:tic production $30,%07,169—near1y $BOO,000 more than t'ie j revious'year; while the deposits of foreirn bullion were $11,217,809, forelgn coin $6,323,0:22 jewelry, plate, ete., 51,899,577, -and . Uniw({i States _gold coin $267, 171—a total, ~“exe uding redeposits, of $50,518,148, - Burchard gays there can be no question that nearly. thfny-,one millions of gold, as shown by these reports, - were.obtamed from the mines of the United States during the last calendur year, becanse the’ deseription -and. character of the gold are apparent to the weigh clerk«‘xi upon inspection, or are easily ase-rtained, and generally the locnlitfr; also, whenee received, by inquiry or knowleldge of the business of tlxg‘deposnpr,vani are enterel-on the record. . y

CONGRESSIONAL: |+, ° SENATE. : . £ R - JAN. 26.—1 n tn? Senate, a memarial from the Kansas Legislature -was presented remonstrating against the establishment of a cattle-trail across that State: «A~ long dis* cuszion of Mr, Bayard’s. d%namite resolus tion followed, Mr. Riddleberger opposed ithe resolution on the ground that - it might be interprefed as an expression of symxl)a-‘ thy with Ireland’s, enemies. 'The resolution was passed by a-vete of (Bt6 1. - . JAN. 27.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Morrill made a favorable regort on the House bill for'the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. A joint resolution was adopted aunhorizing the library cotnmittes to place a marble bust of ‘Henrr Wilsou in the rooni of the capitol where he died. Mr. Cameron made a favorable report on ‘a bill to create a retired list for non-commissioned * officers and-privates who have served thirty” yeais inthe army. The conference report on the temporary . naval appropriation bill was adopted, Mr. Beck yielding to' the ‘House because several thousand persons were left | idle by the disagreement. = . : JAN. 28,—Inthe Senate, Mr, Hoar reported a new bill to provuie for the settle-. ment of the claims of . the government afaiust the original Pacific railroads, the gan being to extend the subsidy debt for-. y-six years beyond the present date of:inaturity, the roads to pay a graduated proportion of the new bonds every six months. | A message from the President was receiv--~ed regarding the landhxf of foreign cables “in the United States and as to the status of the Oklalioma lands, These lands, the President msintains, cannot under existing treaties be opeued for settlement, The J udmiarér Committee repoited back ad< versely the House bill to amend the Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund act and reported :‘vnltth favorable ‘recommendation & substi JAN, 20,—1n the House, . .memorl%)t was pessn for,mvapnronuaﬂox%m‘ﬁm dat itohell, Dakota, a monumen gaqmmy orate the homestead law, - A joint resolution was reported for the freeadmission of forgign goods for the colored men’s: expo- | sition at Chicago, - Anpa}gr.;msoxnﬁq receiving indorsement provides-for. hara%pw: priation of $20,000 to;p;ty.,lﬁllﬁgr; Lilbourne on account of tho Judgmnent secured by hiin avainst Johu G, Th omm_ ; Bg’t vote of 154 %0 144 the House .du aegi' _lnstruet | ggg}fmﬁn%néga \toec'oﬁfs!-,., ler the Dlll to carry Ao ellecy the Mexiean treaty. liscussion -M:ﬂs&.\rex wﬁm i fﬁ&o JaN. 50.—11 n the Senate, a 1 nemorial was | presented from a nimber of naval fficers | e ﬁmwﬂa&% g U el b P i & Hohiey apit bisul Maions 1t e | o ;‘.é.;"f*.ﬁjﬁf!:"l: L u,.:’ :‘a:;«_l 4 :&‘.‘&; . et Méi&?gﬁvuah%: U e B

g O T, pa o T R e T WET TR W . sals e St eyl 8 e ) poge marked distinet ﬁ‘sfis.,““ﬂﬂé"-i"*““i%? that the two Houses of Congress shall assemble in the hall of the House Wedneosday; Feb. 11, to count the Electoral vote were passed. The P‘?ﬁiﬁo Railway and In-ter-State C smmerece bills were discussed at - somelengtli, o piai e : i g e < HOUSE. e . JAN. 26,—A bill was introduced in the ° House by Mr. Roseerans appropriating -$lOO,OOO to aid. agd’ encouragze the “pcrfect—ing of the hichest elass of guns. Mi. Findlay and-Mr. Hewitt offered resolutions asking the Secretary of State for i.formation -agto wiether any-eitizen or resident of the United States had been coucerned in the, “dy. ante explosions in London. Another rosolution “was offered by Mr. 'White, of <Kentueky, condemning the extension of the bonded period for whisky and abolishing the office of Commissioner of Internal Rev‘enne and the entire %wwm of internal-rev-enne taxation. Mr, Biand introduced a resolution calling on the BSecretary of the. "Preasury for inforiation eoncerming the allezed retusal of the New York Clearing‘House to loceive silver dollars or ceriificates in setiloment of balances; also, as to/ wir-ther any National bank has attempted “to discere lit the silver dollar. The Edmunds - Dynaite bill was introduced. JAN, 21.—1 he HouseMvent isto Committee of the Wiiole on the Army - Appropria- | tion bill. After a brief general debate the bill . was read by paragraphs for amendwent.. 'When the Yaragraph for the pay of the army was reached Mr, McComas otferelanamendnisnt suthorvizing the retirementof Gen. Grant (though not specifically naming him) with the rank and fall pay of .General, “Ruled ous on the point of order raised:hy Mr. Forn:y, who has charge of ‘the biil. - The bill was then passed witk some tnimportant amendments, —

- JAN.23.—In the House, a communication “from -the Secretary of the Treasurﬁ was . read suggesting that Congress ‘should tender to thqGovernme:gt and peoples of Russig an official expregsion of its’ thanks for the serviees and sympathy extended to the suryivors of tlie Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette and to the search parties subse- °~ quently sent to Siberia, and fuither recomamending the bistowal of quf)cial rewards upon those inhabitant: of Siberia who directly aided the search parties. A resolution was adopted directing the committee. - on eleetions to report the -status of J. S. Robinson, formerly representing the: Ninth Ohio distrizt; now Sceévet iy of that State. _The eHouse refused to act on the Mexican -treafy or the Michigan land-grant forfeit~ure bills, and filibustering continued until the hourof adjournment. . -JAN. 29.—1 n the Senate, memorials were -presented urging the purchase of the Portage lake'ship canal for'a free waterway; .to estabiish in Cal.fornia a branch soldiers’ | “home; to pension union soldiers coafined ' in confederate prisons during the war, and - urging lerislation to make tite trade doilar | legal tender. An adverse report was made on Mr, Cullom’s biil for the voluntary retirement of army officers- who served dur- « ingthe=rebelllon. In execulive. session, | Lucius H. Foote was confirnmied as miiister - to Corea. 'The motion to postpone further | consideration of the Nicaraguan treaty was “defeated by a close vote, Mr. Sherman’s amendment to the treaty looking to the ab‘rozation or modification of the Clayton-Bul-~wer treaty was discussed at length, and was finally adopted. A vote was then taken up‘on the treaty itself. ~Thirty-two Senators voted for it and twenty-three against it. 1 The affirmative vote being tess than the requisite two-thirds,the treaty was not ratified. ~JAN. BL—ln the House the River and Harhor bill was considered in Committee :of {he Whole, Messrs, Mills and Blanchard urged the appropriation of $750,000 for | Captain Eads to.commeénce improvenients at Galveston. Arguments against the ‘| scheme were made by Messrs. Bayne and Thomas. & =

e TFOREBIGN. ; England's l4st proposals for the! settle-: ment of the Egyptian financial question -are said to be {avorably regarded by the Powers. - ; .. The authorities of Paris have decided to boxjro'v»: $40,000,000 to complete public improvements long contemplated an}l furnish ‘work for thousands of unemployed men. Gen. Briere de I'lsle has just telegraphed for the fitth timethat heis about to begin active operations against the Chinese. feanwhile the delay is of immense advantage to the,enemy. : : : - Jwlius Lieske, the supposed murderer of Dr. Rwupft,.the Px-ankmrt'lpoliee commissioner, ¥ chained hand and foot in the prison at Mannheim, and is constantly accom‘panded in\his cell by a policeman. Englishhmedieal journals are not inelined to take top cheerful a.view. of Gen. Stewart’s préspects of recovery. One writer compgres his case with President Garfield’s aind goints out that the hero of Abu-Kiea Wells is likely to die of blood-poisoning. - Itiis evident that EL Mehdi intends to make determined resistance'at Metemnel, ~whieh General Stewart will endeavor to take by storm. General Wolseley favors brinzing tue garrison at Khartoum down “the Nile to Metemneh, but Geneéral Gordon may interpose objections, : “The Swiss - federal eouncil has received iwarning of an attack on the palace by anarchists, The police in London captured a dynamiter in the Westchester di<trict and “took an infernal machine from his room, - Extra precautions have been taken at the’ - British Museiim on account of information ‘received by Harcourt, the homeg secretary, _Official advices show that Gen, Stewart, -althouzh badly wounded, is infrenched near Metemael, and - lias communication by steamboat with Gen. Gordon. In the fight of Jan. 19, twenty men were shot dead, in“cluding two correspondents” of London journals. - Lord St. . Vincent died from a wound received at Aboo-Klea, Sir. Charles Wilson started last Saturday for Khartoum. -t A rain storm in London Saturday eculminated after dark in alterrific thunderclap, Ruinors instantly Spreqd over the city that thie general postoffice tad been destroyed by -dynamite, angd a dozen fire-engines rushed 10 the scene. - Warning ® letters’ are repoited with such’ frequenecy as t(i) become wearisome. A man named Newbold was arrested at a railway station'in Derby, on a charge of threatening to blow upithe town hall, and the officers report dynamite was found on his persoh. 3

The dynamite pauic in London seems to be increasing. Special guards have been placed at the national arsenal!s and naval stations.. No one is allowed to enter the House-of Commons, Westminster Hall, or the Tower. ‘The hale made in the floor 02 the White Tower where the dynamite ex}i‘loded is ten feet long by five feet wide, he masonry of the building is gractically uninjured, but the woodwork is badly torn aup. Speeial precautions have been taken to protect the London Post-Office, against which anonyious threats have been made. The convictionsthat Cunningham was concerned in the explosions is gaining ground, A French newspaper says thatthe dynas miters-wlho have caused all the recent explosions in Loudon are employed in a print-ing-office in Patis. :

GENERAL MARKETS,

3e ” . - ‘11; 5 CHICAGO, - WiEAT-Lower: Feb., 6@ ¥{c: Mch,, @ 8c: May, 82l5w@sside. ‘Corx—=Lower: " Feb.,, 16 3863 c; Mareh, 6} Eblse: May, 391 40 . OArs—Higher: Feb., 63 a27%~; March, M@ Yo _Provisions—Mess Pork ~higher; Feb., [email protected]: March, $12.20-« 12.225%: May, ! $12,[email protected]¢, lard—Steady: February, $6,[email protected]: * March, £[email protected]% 5 Mzzy,’ 57.0214(@ .05, -]‘ ,;w e - CATTLE Market steady, We'guote: Choice to faney steers. .. 3&%5%535 Good 10 ChOICe STEerS. . ..., .. snsss 4.80@@5.50 Medium to fair 5teer5............ 4.0024.75 .Hoes—Market firm. Salesranged from §[email protected] for heavy: §4.8044.55 for light. - Burtrr—Steady. -We auote: Choice to Faney Creamery at 804382 8 b; %l‘d}llﬂlj." to goodl do. 25¢ RBc; goad of; nc{c‘ airy at 20 24¢; conaon to §nir do. l?@] i

. : NEW YORK. : t Wnrar—Higher; No. 2 Feb., 88i¢@ 80%¢c; March: €0 9037 c; April; "91-9,%@' Rle. Conn= Quiet; Mixed Western Spofy . So@illge. | - O A

T - MILWAUKEE. o W nxar—Higher; February 761{c; Mch. Tie. Conx—FEirm av 86ic for ' No. Z— Oars—lim: No. 2 White, £tie. Ibor - Dull: 65¢ for No. 1. Bamxy— Lower at 6337 for No. 2 :

CINCINNATI,

- Frour—Fair demand: Family $3.604.€0. WuraT—lirm at 85e. CorN—Strong at 44c. - OATs—Weak at 83c. Ryr—Steady Tle. . Provisions—Pork stea‘d{ at §12.25.— Lard firm at $6.85. Bulk Meats s£s.oo@ 650, Bacon [email protected]. ¢ :

< ST. LOUIS. - - WrrAr—Higher: No. 2 Red Feb., 84 : @B4%¢c; Mch., 845¢@843/e: Mni‘r. W@ ‘9le.” Conn-—-Higher: 35w3b3{c KFebruary, | %%g%%c Mch, OArs—Liower; Feb uary 303;@8lec; May, Slec. an:—%et: 65e, BArLEY—Steady at 60@8S0c. OVISIONS —Pork lower; $i2.873¢. Bulk Meats quiet - -81 £6.20, 6.50, 6.55, Bsacon steady at $7.10, 7385, Lard—higher; £6.70 ! : IIALT,LMORE.Y' : e W nreAr-—Western higher: No. 2 Winter Rt Sy DO2 @eo: ORN-—-Mixecd Feb., P6O, “OA -m——%?ostem White, 87(d3& % lxeﬁs do,, 84@386e. Ryr—Quiet at 18476, ' M B R ONTON, i _-Woor—Bteady, with a good demand.— Ohio and Pensx,:svlvnuia, extras azg@sec; . Michigan fleeces 80¢; Ohio fine delaine 36 @9c; pulled 28@3de, o on Gl e Wk e bl s B A PPLICATION FOR LICENSE. Notice Is hereby given that Q%&\W : wﬁm applicayt&ginlt thg March Term of the Board of Commissioners of Nqﬂem\;&?,maw R A o ST uors &gﬂm quan Wﬁiﬁw& : with th .&rolfﬂmvf c e same 1o be location of the premise whereon sald liquors. are to besold and drank is 5 ROUOWERC.. e 1 fhapot room ot firet floor of frame bullding 21 feet wide by 50 feet deep, on south one-third m""‘ By %,«&“Jﬁ’w-gmm‘mr;%\bv‘l‘r’-&"‘;'%&rw 1“*" o gschin b i :»«\N'"ai’\n’\‘. y 3;’"““&"’""‘5“;”~M " ARG o