Ligonier Banner., Volume 20, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 January 1886 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banmer,

STOLL, McDONALD & CO., Publishers

THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1886.

i Tux chances for inyestigations of oor- + rupt election methods are almost unlimited. In Massachusetts it iy charged _ that $B,OOO was expended in the city of Bgs‘ton to elect (eo. D, Robison Goyernor; !

_Tue Fort WAYNE GazETTE has been sold to M. B. Holman, itsjpresent. business manager, and Theron P. Keator, for the past four years. city editor, and |late candidate for congress against the Hon. Robert Lowry. These two. gentlemen are- good newspaper men and will doubtless make the Gazette a success: B :

© Maxy things point to a much better feeling between capital and labor. The labor organizations are slowly but surely being taken out of the hands of the hot-headed and unreliable leaders and are being organized on a temperate basis that can only bring success. Arbitration is taking the place of force, and argument is now used where force was but a few years ago deemed indispemsable. | %

It 18 wow promised that the tarift revisian bill, which will soon be reported by the ways and means committee, will remove many of the burdens from the :people of the nation. The horrizontal features of Mr. Morrisson’s last bill will be abandoned and a general revisien attempted. Some articles will;be put.on the free list, the tariff on others will be cut /down fifty per cent., and in some instances the rate will be raised.

A New Yorxk philanthropist proposes to organize a land company which shall furmsh homes to deserying yourg men in small cottages tosting $2,5Q0. By a novel plan, in case the tenant dies after the close of the year, the property will be deeded to his wifeas a home. The company will not lose, because its plan is the insuring-the young man’s life for the amount of the mortgage on the property, and if he dies his wife takes the property and’ the®company the ingurance:. .. .

CoLumsus, Ohio,shds heen the scene during the past week of one os the most outrageous usurpé,tions of power shown in the annals of our government. The desperate methods used to overturn a constitutional majority have no parallel, Lieutenant Governor Kennedy, backed by seventegén senators, has persisted in browbeating the twenty democratic senators who make up the majority. The end is not yet, and lively times may be expected hefore the week 1s out. - < :

AFTER waiting for some time to see what way the popular tide was turning Hon. Jas. G. Blaine bas declared himself in favor of the silver dollar. He is on record as saying that congress has no power in demonitizing = silver, and that “the attempt to- get along with a gold stapdard will he followed by a dangerous depreciation of value and next by a still more dangerous inflation of valwe on, account of a wild rTush tor wndimited paper issued that ‘would certainly take place.” :

A coop share of the time of the senate has lately been faken up in discussing a bill.to rezulate the connt of the electoral votes. Theye isa feeling preva- . lent among the senators of both parties that something shou'd be done and the temperate Uecision so far indicates that an understanding will soon-be reached. The men of fairness'and patriotism of both parties should get together' and formulate a method that would not only be fair to both sides.but fully adequate to remoye all possibility of tro‘u' s ble. s :

For SOME weeks the republican members of congress haye been: incubating a big sensation in forcing; an investigation of the Norfalk (Va.) nayy vard. On' Friday last Boutelle, of Maine; a member of the naval committee, made a very patriotic speech in- which +he made many-charges which can not be substantidted by the facts, Congress—man Wise, of Virginia, exposed the falsity of Boutelle's declarations. After his speech Mr. Wise was warmly congratulated by 'lthe democratic members. i? e 3

TuE republican press still keéps up its vil{‘ginous attacks on Senator Payne, of Ohio, notwithstanding the fact that the chairman of the investigating committee has several times said that the committee has heard no charges against him personally and are therefore not investigating him. Hon. Charles Foster, in an interview at New York last Friday, said that Mr.!Payne stood without a spot upon his character and that he deemed him one of the most honest and conscientious men 1n the public gervice. e il ,’

A Wasnivarox special says “the decided stand ' taken by the ‘President with reference to the enfoicement of the eight-hour law has been the subject of much favorable comment among the members of congress. [The members on the labor committee have received and are still getting a good many letters from persons interested in the betterment of the condition of the laboting classes, congratulating them on having the hearty and earnest co-oper-ation of President Cleveland and his administration,”» :

. A coxntest between the President and the republican senate seems now to be -unavoidable. By a resolution presented in executive session by Senator Edsmunds, the President, through ' Attor-ney-General. Garland, is requested to furnish all of the papers connected with a judicial appointment in Alabama. The attorney-general will certainly refuse all papers relating to the appeintment, and a test case will be ‘made. Some politicians predizt one of rhe most intense political fights ever witnessed,iyn the nation. - G

Some of our republican friends are taking much consolation ot of the fact that in many places the newly appointd democratic post-masters are being toycotted. At one place in Ohio a "'em,oc,ra.tic merchant wds selected for _ "e place by the members of his own rarty, and now the Republicans refuse, “t+» purchase a dollars worth of goods at hi store and halw'é(’set up an opposition . 1136 office in another establishment and w there for their mail, having given the indiyidual who conducts it an order ?ir their letters, ete. Such detestable Gl S SIS i S e

Dowx in Wells county a peculiar state of affairs exists. While W. J. Craig was county clerk about forty diyorce decrees weré entered by the judge, but the clerk did not make the final record on account of the cost-not beings paid, and now two score of the eitizens of that county find themselves with two.wives on hand. » _ i

Now comes Dorman B, Eaton, member of the civil service commission, for the second time and ann’ohnces‘his resignation from that body. He makes this resignation the occasion to proclaim his undying attachment to. the g. 0. p. and sivil service reform. How he can reconcile the two opinions we can hardly comprehend. | '

Pronmsition received a black-eye by a late decision of Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court in Kansas. In the opinion of the court a [state which renders property tuseless must pay for it. If a brewer’s plant is worth $50,000 for brewing and $5,000 for any other purpose, the state which prohibiti his busingss must pay him $45,000.

Tue Sourtn Bexp T'ives says: *‘Bro. Parker, of the Kendallville News, after quoting a complimentary mention of George H. Finney's candidacy for the Columbus post-office, exclaims: ‘How very solicitous Bro. Stoll is of poor editor Finney. Well, yes, we have felt ‘solicitous’ for ‘Bro. Finney's success, for the (?xcellent reason.that, besides being eminently qualified for the place, he is a man who has more than deserved such récognition and because we were profoundly impressed with the belief that a majority of the Columbus Democrats desired his -appointment. The judgment has been gloriously confirmed by popular vote.” .

- Scorr Ray, of the Shelbyville Demo crat, is not at all backward in expressing his opinion, and he always does it in a manner that makes the meaning unmistakable, He has eyidently ran across one of those too common individuals,an ingrate, anditakes occasion to ventilate his opinion as follows. *When a fellow wants an office, and after that some fellow gets-tup office he wanted, what a change cdm{’s over him! While he wanted the office ‘he was a, gentleman and acted the man. After he gets in he becomes greatly inflated with his importance and really hbecomes a changed man. He sees things differently, has no further use for those who elected hin, until the time comes round for that fellow to-want another faver. Out! out! with-such a man.” :

Tae wipe Awaxke and well informed correspondent of the New York World at Washington has come to the conclusion “that there will be no legislation by this” Congress relating to the financial question or to the tariff. The: House may pass a taviff bill. There 1s a good majority there of: revenue reformers, but the Senale will not'agree toit. No financial legislation can be passed in either branch. If any legislation could be perfected it woJldﬁz—-be adverse to the President’s ﬁnanc;ial policy and would therefore meet with a pompt veto. The anti-silver Senators think that if the President should exert his influence he might be able to carry through the Senate a proposition tp temporarily suspend the coinage, but if he could: earry it through that body he could not npw carry it through the House, no matter what influence he shonld exdrt. I

~ LOWRY'’S PLACES ON COMMITTEES. The Fort Wayne Sentinel’s chatty Washington correspondent, Jaxen,ina la%e letter to that excellent paper says in ‘connection with the comimittee distribution | that Indiana hea'gs the list with four chairmanships; Ohio, Kentucky apd Illinois come mnext with three each. The Republican states of Michigan, Towa and Wisconsin have one each. Indiana, with nine democratic members, fares well under Speaker Carlisle, Uobb and Matson get one each and Lowry two chairmanships, while the other members are well taken care of on good committees. For almost a generation the Fort Wayne district has been kept in the back ground by unappreciative speakers, who invariably placed its representatives at the tail end of unimpoytdnt committees. Only once was a chairmanship allotted fo a representative of the distriet—the cémmi’ttee on enrolled bills, to which no bills are ever referred.: This has not been so much the fault of the speakers as the custom of sending o congress a new man every four years. Amew man, no matter as to his ability, is not placed on an important committee, and there is an unwritten law ,which bars him from a chairmanship. It is true that Judge Lowry was placed ‘on an important committee during his first term but it was due to the speaker’s great friendship for the Judge. Mr. Lowry’s untireing energy in committees and active participation on the floor in the last congress made for himself a reputation which reflects great ¢redit upon the district he represents and won to'him the admiration of the speaker and the leaders of the party and ‘the respect of the administration. Today he is the only member of the house who enjoys the distinction of being chairman of two committees; Besides he is second on the committee of the highest privileges, the committee on elections. It can be said that few men have made such progress in the heuse in so short a time. e :

| ~ THE OHIO REVULUTION. The Chicago Herald, in commenting upon the revolutionary action of the Republicans in endeavoring to unseat the four democratic senators from Hamilton county, says: “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government. - This is a provision of the constitution. Under this' Grant sent bayonets into southern. states and made and unmade legislatures. Under this also Phil Sheridan was sent to Lowsiana: But a condition of affairs worse than Louisiana’s, and failing thejpxquse which recent reeconstruction and_ rebellion afforded for transit and disorder, exists in Ohio, whose politics and politiciang are a stench in the nestrils of the people. The. debtcher‘y with money, which Charles Foster as'a candidate for congress was first to introduce, and which has continued and grown by corrupt contribution from all parties, has made Ohio a reproach and a by-word. Noyes, who engineered the theft of the Florida electoral vote in 1876; Sherman who did like service in Louisiana; Hays, who was the beneficiary ot this scoundrelism, ot ol Clioane. - T)is oxanpit of

upon a large scale has had its effect upon which was one of the reputable.

commonwealths of the republic, and in the,expression of“its politics is to-day sunk lower than ever was. Louisiana at its worst. Representatives bearing certificates of election are thrown neck and heels out of the so-called house of representatives, and because a minority of the Senate, aided and abetted by a usurper of extrdaordinary functions, cannot accomplish like summary reversal of law and order, two rival senates are set up. , “Ohio does not enjoy a republican form of government, Should not Phil Sheridan be ordered to Columbus with a few batteries and batallions to put down the banditti? How would the decent and well disposed people of Ohio like a dose of the poisoned’chalice that they used to commend to the lips of their brethrenin the south because car-pet-baggers, who seem to be rather more respectable than Ohio politicians, demanded that it be done?

"“No one jn his_senses would advisé such a use of the military power of the nation. It is better that the Ohio revolutionists and banditti stew in their own nastiness; the ~people will dispose of them in time; but under the old regime how such asituation in asouthern state weuld haye been siezed for the purpose of controlling its electoral vote and its choice of United States Senators.

CULLINGS FROM OTHER COLUMANS. Pith of the Press. 5 MOB LAY WILL OVERRIDE ALL LAWS. ' Mob law must. be frowned upon, or it will override all laws, and finally destroy popular liberty itself. —Putnam Democrat. - : . GREAT MORAL TRUTH. If the Republican Senators had been as particalar about Republican nominations as they now are about Democratic nominations, the grand old party might not have had to ste'}x down last year.— Louisville Courier-Journal. : ' LOOKING ON BOTH SIDES, “Perhaps,” says the Philadelphia Times, “the millenium is; not so many miles off, when the ablest Republican leaders rally to the support of a Democratic President.” And perthaps sheol is only just around the corner.—Macon Telegraph. ' o TAKING A PIOUS VIEW OF THE SUBJECT. : The silver problem is going to find its own solution, so far as Ameérica is concerned. God has - planted it here along with gold, and 1t only remains for the wisdom of; our own people to apply it to the purpose for which he designed it.—St: Paul Globe.

. CLEAN HANDED. ; ‘Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, will not be suspected of being a vulgar bribe-giveer by people- who know him. He isone of she oldest men in the public service He has been a prominent figure in the political and business world for many years, and, so- far as elose observers have been able_ to judge, he has been clean-handed. While not a brilliant one his career has been eminently successful and useful.—Chicago Herald.

: ORIGIN OF THE MUGWUMP. If the word “mugwump’ goes into the dictionary* its origin should be attributed to the New York campaign of 1882,in'which thousar‘x’iis of Republicans, acting under the advice of Mr. Blaine and the New York Tribune, refused to yote for Mr. Folger for Governor, in order tobring Mr. Arthur’s administration into disfavor. We detest the mugwump, but the responsibility for him rests precisely where we have placed it.—St. Louis Globe-Démocrat.

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. _Senator Sherman declares that the New York election laws are the best in the world, and thinks Hon. Samuel J. Tilden is entitled to greatcredit for his efforts in 1868 to have them passed. Had similar laws been in force in all the States, John Sherman and his coconspirators’ would mnever lave been able to rob Mr. Tilden of the presidency to which he was’ elected. — Boston Gilobe. ] b

.+ THE EARLY MUGWUMP IDEA. ‘The publisher of the New York Eyening Post said to me about 1873 that he did not believe the American people were fit for self-government, and in those words. I suppose that he is too well settled in his views to deny the statement. On that line he has ever since proceeded, and a popular man with the multitude of the political laborers he instinctively dislikes.— Cincinnati Enquirer. .

{. .FOLLY OF A GROWN MAN. s Mr. Curtin is a very good man, aad he has come to be about as good a Democrat as Pennsylvania will send to Congress; but he can do foolish things for all that, and he did one when he got into a pet and threw away an important chairmanship. The Repub lican papers are applauding *him for vindicating his dignity and all that, but the Republican papers cannot give him back the power he has thrown away.— New York Star.

e .}NSISTING O;‘T FAIR PLAY. | ! Partigan as this paper is, and intends to be, :he impression strikes ‘it that Senator Payne is.conducting himself far better thanihis public accusers. He is occupying a digmfied attitude, and we cannot help but feel that the Donavin tribe !are earning a lasting reputation as unmitigated blackguards, The thing to do with Mr. Payne is to try him first and convict him afterwards. That is what the American sense of fair play demands.—(incinnati Sun—Rep.] ‘ ;

BESOTTED PARTISANSHIP, The truth is, as it must appear to every impartial mind, that there is no valid objection in law, in reason, or in equity to the Porter bill, unlessit be that 1t fails of the full measure of justice to which its subject is entitled. The -doctrine that- thereeis no power anywhere in the Goyernment, to reverse an unjust sentence of a Court Martial is a monstrous one, and not, to bé entertained for a moment. And it must be admitted that a more painful exhibition of besotted partisansﬁip has, not been made in our recent history than that of which the Republicans, in Congress and elsewhere, who persist in their opposition to the undoing of the great wrong done General Porter, are guilty—Chicago Times. ~ =

PUNISH THE VINCENNES LYNCHERS. " The whole power of the State should be exerted to vindicate the law and ‘bring the guilty lynchers to a just ‘ punishment for toeir crimes. They are guilty of more than murder, of burglary, of the des'ruction of public property, of resistance to legal authority, of open, bold defiance to the State government, everything that constitutes bad men and dangerous citizens. They had no excuse whatever; they were defending nothing; they were avenging nothing; they were righting nothing. They were simply adding one outrage to another, malng bad infinitely worse. The credit of the State is at stake; these men must be (funishbd and law and org,er vindicated, or Indiana will be disgraced,—Richmond Palladqam. l{ : s A LITTLE OUT OF TUNE, “Asgto the thing which some men call ‘tariff reform,’ and others ‘removal of limitations to trade; it will come sooner: or later. And if too late, it will come with a storm. Forces can be con-

fined u&) to a given point; when that is reached they tear an outlet. In England the forcers of trade were confined. for a long time by the skill of statesmen who knew not trade; but in 1846 they burst loose, mot without some ‘storms of charism and bread riots, it is true; but they burst loose. In America, as in England, ‘and everywhere else, whatever limits the grewth of commerce and ' the extension of mazrufactures oppresses the laborer; and when labor is too severely oppressed there -is first stagnation, afterward tempest.” — Indianapolis Times—Rep.] ‘

Enrollment of Soldiers by Township : Assessors. : The_legislature last winter, says the the Coiumbia City Post, enacted 2 law requiring the township assessors the coming spring to take an enroliment of the scldiers of the war of 1812, the Mexicdn war, the war of 1861, and all wars with Indian tribes and all other persons specified in the several classes below: . :

First, officers of the army, including regulars, volunteers and militia, or any officer in the navy or marine corps, whether regulsrly mustered cor nct. ‘

Second. Ay muster serving on a gunboat, or any pilot, engineer, sailor, or any person not regularly mustered, serving upon any gunboat.or war vessel of the United States. ; Third. Any person not an enlisted soldier in the army, not serving for the time being as a member of the militia, or who volunteered for the time being to serve | with any organized military of the United States, or who otherwise volunteered and rendered gervice in any engagemsant with the British, rebels or Indians. Fourth. 'Any acting assistan” surgeop, Or surgeon, or contract surgeon, or any other physician or person who temporarily volunteered to assist in taking care of the sick or wounded and any chaplain of the army or navy. Fifth. Every widow, whether remarried or notf, and every child under sixteen years of age of all persons mentioned above in classes one, two and three, and the children of like ages and widows of every army or navy chaplain, who havedied or shall hereafter die, and the name of the deceased father or husband of said children and widows. =

The full name e¢f each person named above must be listed by, the assessor and he must, whether they are white or black, take the rank, letter of the company, number of the regiment, and the state to which the regiment belonged of which the listed man was a 'member, the arm of the gervice in which employed, whether injured, wounded, or contracted disease while in the service, and his presant postoflicn.address, of all others listed, and in eass of ‘deeeased fathers and husbands of said children and widows, the dale of their death, acd place of residence at date of death; and shall ascertain and report whather any widow, not remarried, or other person listed, is in iudigent circum stances, or in the alms house or depending upon others for support.

————————— . ——————— The Public FPrinter. - . [Plymouth Democrat,] The Government Printer, Mr. Sterling P. Rounds, has tendered to the President = his resignation, to take effect April Ist, a few days uefo;e his four years would have expired by limitation of law. Mr. Rounds states that he hes accapted an important pogition in Washington which will r§~ quire his attention at the aate named. Ie his report it is. said he will recommend that the Government Printing Office be placed under civil service rules. There are about twenty-eight hundred positions and offices in that institution which thesaid Mr. Rounds, during - his four years’ term, has filled with Republican hangers-on, and his great anxiety that civil service re form shall permeate that department is, undoubtedly, for the purpose of preventing the removal of these truly loyal politicians! The people have about all the civil service reform they want, just at present, and it is highly probable that that “monumental humbug” will not be extended beyond its present limits. It is-to be hoped that the<President will now. be able to see his way clear to, the appointment of a Democrat ;to fiil that. important position, and that the man he selects wiil. be Hon. (John B. Stoll, of the South Bend Daily T'imes. He is worthy and well qualified to fill the office, and by every consideration of political justice and fair dealing he ought to have it. : .

Misdirected KFearlessness, . ; [Elkhart Review.] Some rural editors are always boasting that they are fearless in the exposure of wrong, aund the ventilation of what they call evil. Doesitever occur tosuch that in a community, as in a family, there are some slips of morals that had better be hidden from public gaze? The newspuaper which always reports the vices and the failures and shortcomings of the public, for which it is printed, is an evil in the community. The gossiping woman or the gensorious man who, in private life, scatters scandal, or rebukes shortcomings, are looked upon as dangerous and hurtful. Whyisa newspaper less 80 when it follows4he same course? Fearlessness does not consist in publishing the little vanities of people, or spreadirz abroad their foibles, or scattering guasip, but in defending right, whether in morals or in public pulicy, in condemning wreng,, in building up character, not in tearing it down, in spaeading good report pot evil, in speaking in kindness as well as in rebuke. It is not evidence of ccurage to attack indiscriminately for the gra ification of revenge.- It is more often the evidence of the worst form of cowardice.

A Faultless Family Medicine. “I have used in my family Simmons Liver Regulator for the last eight or ten years, and found it to superceds, anytbing recommended for chills, fe-! ver and ague. I have given up calomel, quinine and all other mercurial treatments. I give it to my children, from one year old to those of twentyfive years old. It isall you could wish in a fawnily. Plezse use my name as you wish. Very truly, : » E H. UrBANEKS, Crawford Co., yUa.”

A Reeciprocity. : s - {Buffalo Express,] Just when the English daandy is learning the American formula of “Give me a hoist with my overcoat, bub,” the New York dude is practicing (he discarded Englishman of “Give me a lift of ms top-c Hat, me deah fellah.”

Excitement in Texas, | Great excitement has been caused in the vicinity of Paris, Texss, by the remarkable recovery of Mr. J, E. Cor ley, who was so belpless he: could not, turn in-bed, or raise his head; every-, body, said he was dying with consumption, A trial bottle of Dr. King’s new Discovery was sent him, Finding relief, he bought a large bottle and a box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills; by the time he had taken two boxes of pills and two bottles of the Discovery, he was well and gained in flesh thirty-six pounds. Hea e e Trial Bdm'qs- of this Great Discovery for Conmmgﬂbn free at Geo. S. Woodruff & Brother’s, ~ 2:11-1y

Additional Local News.

S L PERSONAL, Revival services at the U. B. church this week. o P : ; P. H. Casey, of South Bend, spent Sunday with his friends in Ligonier. : Owen Black and Richard Williams, of Albion, took in the old folks’hop Thursday evening last. > R.L. Myers, of Orange twp., was in town Monday and Tuesday and fayored us with' a pleasant eall. : Tilman Butler, of Benton twp., participated in the ©ld Settlers’ Dance last Thursday eve.,and*had a right jolly good time. " ; ; g ; Fred. Arndt, of near Goshen, visited with' his parents east of town over Sunday and on Monday made a call at Banner headquarters. : Miss Jennie Foster, of Syracuse, has been visiting with Miss Belle Poyneer for the past few days, She returned to her ‘home yesterday. v Tuesday last we had the pleasure of meeting Thomas Franks, who had just removed his family from Altamont, Kansas, and taken up his abode again in Elkhart townnhip. ; ; : Capt. Wm. M. Barney and wife, of Elkhart, made their presence felt at the old Settlers’ Hop last Thursday evening. The Captain was in his glory and had as much Bport as any of the boys. ~John Black, of Toledo, Ohio, spent Sunday last with his uncle John 8. Hays, and ‘ numerous other friends aadrelatives in and around Ligonier, Mr, Black was em- ‘ ployed some years ago by Mr.-A. W. Ran'dolph in the lumber trade. Mrs. John Conklin, of Green township, made a call at pur office on -Monday last, and renewed f#ieir subscription to their favorite paper.f{While here she set up the apples to all t§3 hands, and one and all unite in returnf e thapks for the same.

The Bohfmian Oats Swindle. ~ The Goshe/iNews, in warning its readers aga;,’ . “he, Bohemian oats rascalsy ~sa;;;w,tﬁihe representatives is an old man who introduces himself as Dickinson, ot Allen county, this State. Another is a young man living near Middlebury, who travels under the assumed name of Bolliard. These men present their business in a very plausible manner, and intend’ to canvass the county thoroughly. This is the most plausible a~d suveccessful swindle ever perpetrated upon the farming commurity. The schemers find no trouble in entrapping the most shrewd and successful men, and herein lies their great strength. Where these swindlers have been working the fraud is coming to the surface. The following clipped from a recent Mansfield, Ohie, paper will be interesting in this connection; - . . Four petitions on notes held by thé Greenwich Banking company against Elizabeth White, David Mc¢Cormick, Peter Myers and A. G. McGaw, were filed in the Common Pleas court yesterday. The notes were given by the persons named to parties representing the “Bohemian Oats company,” and only after the paper had been duly gigued and sold by the sleek agents, did the principals learn that they had been swindled on the old self-same Bohemian oats game. The notes range from $lOO to $l6O. The petitions were filed by Skiles & Skiles, of Shelby. The Bohemian oats swindlers seem to have gotten in their work pretty thoroughly in the north end of the county within the last year. A number of notes are in the hands of private inaividuals, into whose hands they were plee-d by the agent who hai by this tims made himself scarce. A number of the farmers who have been victimized by these schcmers called a mesetting at Rome this afterncon to unite and fight the suits in a body. The idea that the oats company that the agents claimed to represent, has any property which the swindled farmers can get at is a mere chimera. If is probable that the best thing these veople caun do is to pay their little notes and promise themselves not to be taken 1. by the slick-tongued agents again. In spite of the newspaper publicity given this swindling scheme, the farmers continue to stumble into it. A goed deal of successful operation has been going on’ in this county and thousands of dollars have been cleared by the rascals in the neighborhood of M. Gilead since last Saptember. .

Very Remarkable Discovery. .~ Mr. Geo., V. Willing, of Manchester? Mich,. writes: ‘My wife has beep almost helpless for five years, so helpless that she could not turn over in her bed alone. She used two bottles of Electric Bitters, and is so much improved that she is able now to do her own work,” . . ; Electric bitters will.do all that is claimed for them. Hundreds of testimonials attest their great curative powers. Only 50 cents per bottle at G. S. Woodroft & Bro’s. 2 11-1 y

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: MARRIED. January 24th, 1886, at the residence of the brides parents in the Hawpatch by Rev. O. W. Bowen, of: Albion, Mr. Abraham Gibson to Miss Ella Carpenter, both of LaGrange county, Indiana, At the U. B. parsonage, Sunday morning, January 17th, 1886, Mr. Thomas Loy and Miss May Hoffman, ‘all of Millersburg. May they find many oasis. in lifes journey. On Sunday, January 24, 1886, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. John Greider, by Rev, T. C. Neal, Mr. ‘Warren Moore, of~Li%onier. and Miss® Mary ‘A. Greider, of Noble county, Indianag -

L DIED. In Kendallville, January 23, 1886, Miss Ida Louisa. daughter of .Herman and Amelia Krueger; aged 18 years, 1 month and 12-days, In Avilla, January 14, 1886, Savannah Hudley; aged 82 years, 1 monthand 18 days. ; : . Déceased was a citizen of Jefferson twp., residing there for many years. He was the father of six children. two of whom Mrs. Dr,F. U, Maloney and W. F'. Hadley, reside at Avilla, and Dr. Sherman Hadley, living now at Arlington, Nebraska. _ln Kendallville, January 23, 1886, Mrs, F“‘;nnla Berhalter, wifé of Joseph lierhgl' N - z. S Bt ¥

NEWS DIGEST.

The United States Supreme Court Decides State Taxes on Drummers Unconstitutional.

The Trouble in the Ohio Senate Causes Many Wild Rumors and 3 Vag_'ne Repo;'ts. : ;

Five Aged and Insane Inmates of -the Jackson, Mich., Poor House Meet a Horrible Death.

PAUPERS DIE BY FIRE. JACKSON, Mich., Jan. 25.—The County house burned dresterday morning at 12:30 o’clock. Of forty inmates all escaped but five, who perished in the flames. The remains of the black bodies were dug from the ruins and brought to the city. The people who perished were three women and two men, named. Dolly Martin, aged sixty years, insane, an inmate for twelve years; Kate Avery, seventy, insane, inmate for ten years; Jane Atkins, seventy, insane, an inmate ten fyears;' Zina- Boynton, ninety-two, deaf, and Charles Elliott, seventy-two, blind. The County Building is four miles from the city. It was a new building and cost $12.000. It was insured for $9,000. The fire caught in the inmates’ kitchen, and no one knows how.- The whole interior was destroyed. All the inmates lost their clothing and fled into the snow naked, with the thermometer ten below zero. Thirty paupers were brought to this city and housed. Some will die from exgosure. John Doherty, the hired man, brought three insane persons down the fire escape in his 'arms, and saved their lives. An imbecile boy, nineteen years old, was found in bed with fire falling on his back, and was rescued by means of the fire escape. Only two men besides the: inmates were about the place when the fire occurred, and they rescued the inmates before help arrived. The County House is in a lonely place in the country. There should have been’ anight watchman to prevent such a calamity. Willinm Mills, an inmate, was the first man to issue Sanders’ speliing book, and was worth at one time a quarter of a miilion dollars. Corumsus, 0.. Jan. 24.—The republican members of the senate remained in the city, and will be on hand ready - for business at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. They have been in consultation ithe greater part of the day and evening with Lieut. Gov. Kennedy and other prominent republicans as to what programme they shall pursue, but nothing definite in %egard to ther course is given out. Ithasbeenstated by one of the republican members that the president will hold to-morrow that their seventeen members constitute a quorum for business, and that they will proceed in the absence of democrats, and. after a brief- hearing. unseat the Hamilion county members and swear in the republicans. It is not believed, however, that the president will assume so much, although he has been advised to do so by Gov. Noyes and others, who have been in consultation with the republican members to-day. The republicans are hoping, however, that there will enough of the democrats put in an appearance tomorrow morning to constitute a quorum, and then they will be able to proceed with Dusiness. :

The committee appointed by the democrats to counsult with attorneys over Sundays have been engaged all day and are still at work to-night, though they have arrived at no definite conclusion what will. be done further than has bren outlined in these dispatches. - A number of the leading democratic attorneys feel that' if the democratic members fail them in this instance it'w 1l require years to recover from the shock in the state, as they will have no surety of maintiaining control, even if they do elect thei: members ‘and state officers. The best information is that the democrats are sadly in need of a leader, and there is a tendency to be a little weak .in the ficht. They have only congluded upon one thing definitely, and -that is that nong of them will be present at the opehing of the republican session tomMOrrow morning - ‘ 5

AUDITOR BROWN REINSTATED. DEs MoINES, lowa, Jan. 25.—Auditor Brown was reinstated at 6 o’clock Saturday evening by Gov. Larabee, and began his duties Monday morning with Mr.. Stewart as deputy, W. T. Hammond as insurance clerk, and B. F. Rahkopf as bookkeéeper. The proceedings were as follows: On Gov. Larabee’s inauguration Brown notified him that he was deprived of offlce illegally, and asking restoration. The governor took thecase up on this apBlication. Brown’s legal advisers ave not been before him. The governor took the opinion of Atty. Gen.. Baker, who holds that Sherman’s appointment of Cafttell in December last to fill a vacancy was illegal. Gov. Sherman and -Judge Wright were heard by the governor in opposition, but Larabee himself handed Brown the keys of the office. Cattell has filed a formal Erotest, but: will hardly contest. The restoration would have occurred socner but for the faect that Brown’s old bond could .not be found. Brown made another, but the old one meantime turned up.

A MICHIGAN LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. - WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 22.—The United States Supreme court decided, in the case of Samuel A. Walling :against the state of Michigan, that the M’i‘chigan law imFOSinga tax on §>ersons engaged in the business of selling liquor to be shipped .from any other state is unconstitutional. Walling, a representative of the Chicago liquor firm of Cavenaugh & Co., was indicted at Grand Rapids, Mich., for selling li--quor at wholesale without license, and for soliciting and taking orders for its. sale without a license. He was con-, victed and sentenced to pay a fine, and was imprisoned in default of payment. He appealed to the County Circuib court, in which the case was tried by a jury, and found guilty. The case was carried to the Supreme court of Michﬁan, which deeided against Walling, olding that the tax imposed by the act is an exercise of the police power of the state forthe discouragement of the use of intoxicating liquors and the preserving of the healith and morals of the people. An appeal was taken to the ~ Supreme :coury of the United States, which holds that the ‘act in question operates as-a regulation of commerce amongrr the states in amatter -within the exclusive power of commerce, and that it is for this reason repugnant to the constitution of the United States, and void. ‘The iudgment of the Supreme court of Michigan is reversed and remandeg, withinstructions to take such further proceedings as may not be inconsistent with this opinion. HALLECK’S REPLY TO M 'CLELLAN.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.—Army officers here who know the secret of the bitter hostility that existed between Gens. Grant and Halleck say that when Gen. McClellan’s private war papers are made public a profound sensation will be ereated, and the hatred of Grant for Halleck will be nao longer a mystery. An officer who has seen the documents preserved by MeClellan says: \ ; On Feb. 16, 1862, Gen.. Grant sent his famous “unconditional-surrender” letter to Gen. Buckner at Fort Donelson. The news of the surrender had thrilled the north from one end to the other, and the name of Grant was upon all lips. . Gen. Halleck, the commander in the west, was at St. Louis. He was troubled at the great renown so suddenly attained by his subordinate officer, On, Feb, 18, two days after the surrender of Douelson,: McClellan telegraphed to Halleck: ‘“Where is Grant?” The same day McClellan received the following from Haileck: “In answer to your question would say Grant is somewherein the rear of his army, drunk.” What Gen. McClellan desired to ascertain was the whereabouts of Grant’s forces and whether they had moved forward from Fort Douelson. The reply of Halleck was all the more inexcusable from the fact that Grant bad kept him constantly Egsted on hig aims and plans, and on at very day had Akt);]egmphed, Halleck that he groposed go ahead 6n a gunboat and reconnoiter the river in the direction of Nashville, Gen, McClellan kept the originals of .all his disgatches, and certified cogles were made orthe war deé)artmen . . These dis_patehes are said not to be among the disgatohes certified and %n the records -of the war department, but the originals are among Gen, McClellan’s papers, T&;eram _carefully pasted into one of the large volumes in which his ‘war dispatghes are gteserved. Three or four {enrs vu%oGa , Grantread these oﬁ%ms - ,d’iaP'aj lches, which was the st intimation that he had ever had ‘that they were in existence, '1? g "-”‘*-ﬁ"‘*f*mfe by a vote _ The presidential-succession bill hag Se s e R

received the signature of President Cleveland. .- . The fortifications . board has estimated at $126,000,000 the cost of a good system of coast defenses. = -« : The total exports of produce from New York during the last week were valued at nearly $6,400;000, - = - Representatives of the roads centering at Pittsburg have decided to grant no palses to shippers of freight. . At Dublin comméreial ciréles are alarmed over the prospect of the inauguration of an extensive boycotting Scheme. f e 0 ; Representative Joseph Rankin, of Manitowoc, Wis.,died in Washington Sunday afternoon of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. : i The St. Petersburg police have -discovered another Nihilist resort and seized a lot of explosives and treasonable documents. ; : Seneca Raymond, one of the pioneers of Racine, for man{ years gro&irietor of the Congress Hall hotel, died Wednesday from Bright’s disease. 5 The state of Pennsylvania has eighteen 'schools for soldiers’ orphans, on which $8,000,000 has been expended during the past twenty years.® ; A quadrilateral duel is reported from Manchester, Kentucky. The last survivor is mortally wounded. One bottle of whisky inspired the tragedy. - A dispatch from Philadelphia reports steel rails quiet, but firm, at $34.50 to $35.50, with - inquiries for: large blocks for summer delivery. The three Russians .who ' stored dynamite within the limits of San Francisco have been sentenced to six months each in thehouse of correction. The supreme court of Illinois hag affirmed the decision of the lower court that the election law adopted last fall by the voters of Chicago is constitus= tional.

The visible supply of gramn, according to the -ficures of the New York Produce. Exchange, is as followsy ‘Wheat, 57.108,286 bushels; corn, 7,076,606 bushels. = : i s ~ Rev. Dr. Pershing, president of the female college at Vitisburg, is on trial by the Methodist church before a jury of seven ministers on charges of dishonesty and lying. ' The relief committee at Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, has received from the public.at large the sum of $8.534 to aid twenty families left destitute by the coal-mine disaster. : J. B. Oliver, a commission merchant of Milwaukee, has suspended payment on liabilities estimated at $15,000 to $5O 000. Tor two years he has been on the long side of wheat. = . In the county court at Kahoka, Missouri, David T. Howern pleaded guilty of murder and was sentenced to the penitentiary at Jefferson City for a term of ninety-nine years. The cigar strike .in New York has extended to nine thousand employes, and a thousand packers are aboub to quit work. The union will pay the strikers $4 or $5 per week. . S The managers of three leading western railways agree that corn is being diverted from the Chicago market by the rigid inspection which prevails in contrast wiith that of other points. The latest gas well, developed at Findlay, Obio, roars like Niagara Falls, and no one dares to light the flow. It is said )y experts that the Murraysville well is its only rival. g

Litigation in the case of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, "of Chicago, has begun again before Judge Rogers. An attempt is' being ‘made to decide the validity of the will executed in 1881. Under the conspiracy law of Michigan, a court at East Saginaw tried and acquitted T. B. Barry, a member of the legislature, of the: charge of leading the strike in the Saginaw valley last summer. e The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Rev. Ben. Jenkins, who murdered Rev. I. Lane Borden at Mansfield, because a woman to -whon Jenkins was engaged stated that Borden had seduced her. 3 The colored barber of Painesville, Ohio, who recently wedded a white girl in Cleveland, finds that she has §one home to her mother, and he asks or a writ of habeas corpus, tlaiming that she is detained. i : Minnie D. Bowman. living in a Catholic convent at Minneapolis, Ras asked the circuit court at East St. Louis to order the production of:the will of her murdered fatlier, who left an estate 0f15150,000. 3 y Austin_Sheldon, who for -forty-five %ears had,lived in a cave at Dingman’s erry, Pennsylvania, expired:on Tuesday evening. His mode of life was ins;éired by the death of his young wife at Brantford, Connecticut. iy The Supreme Court in the contest regarding the estate of Myra Clark Gaines has decided that the will by which the testairix leaves all her property to her grandechildred, and other relatives is the only valid oné in existence. : 2 : Gt The grand jury at Woreester, Massachusetts, has found indictments against Williath H. McNeil, the absconding Eresideut of - the Lancaster National bank, and two other persons for the larceny of property valued at $170,000. Sy ; ’

Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, in a public address at Lockhaven on the evils of railroad discriminations, alluded to the Standard oil monopoly as having disbanded legislatures, mocked the law, and corrupted the avenues of justice. An' officer of the Illinois Humane society caused the arrest and punishment of a commission merchant in Chicago for 'plucking a live turkey. The fact was developed on the trial that the practice is the regular method in South Water street: The 'widow and . sister of Colonel A. D. Nelson. are about to engage in a struggle for real estate in St. Paul and Minneapolis worth $150,000. By one -will made last month the sister was given a half interest, but by the latest will she was left nothing. i

Charles H. Verndbn, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, 17 ydars of age, the heirapparent to an ‘estate valued at $200,000, killed himself with a revolver. at Louisville, because his father ordered bhim to leave the Kentucky military institute for a southern college. Federal officials at Salt Lake arrested N. V. Jones and F. Treseder, who were held.to answer the charge of attempted ' bribery. They offered a deputy marshal $lOO per month to in form them whenever process was to be issued for the arrest of Mormons. Three corpses have been taken from the mine at Newburg, West Virginia. One woman has lost. her reason on account of the death of her husband and four relatives. Everytrain carries to the town hundreds of strangers. There are forty bodies yet to be recovered. /

A bank forger using the name of J. F. (Hale was ecaptured in Chicago Thursday. In his valise were found drafts on sixty-five different banks, printed on *s%wia.l, paper. . He proved to be Robert Bowman, who has served two terms in-the Clinton prison of New York. - | o :

The national board of trade adopted resolutions urging legislation to:grevent the undervalution of merchandise and to define t%e harbor limits of na.vig}r)able water-courses; recommending the adoption of the cental system and the passage of the bill to regulate commerce,

Turkey proposes that the cost of English occupation in _;Eg)apt be reduced by the’ ﬁradual withdrawal of troops; that the Turks garrison the country; that the Egyptian troops become part of the Ottoman army, and that a date be fixed by England for the evacuation of Egypt. : For the murder of his mother, sister, and brother, William Sheehan wag executed at Cork, Ireland, Wednasday, The crime was committed in 1877. and las{qyear the perpetrator was arrested in New Zealand on a statement made by a servant in the famil{, who had not -hitherto dared to tell what he knew, : . One-third of the coke oveng in the Connellsville region of Pennsylvania ard idle, Threehundred strikers Tuesday marched to the Alice mine, blew up the t!p%la with dynamite, and threatened the life of the superintendent. A force of twenty-two policemen has been sent from Pittsburg to Mount Pleasant, : : There are two hundred liquorsaloons openly doin;f business in Leavenworth, but the’ Hro übltoiviy law is said to be guite well enfo ced at all other points in Kansas. The attorney general has cited Couni? Attorney Wheat, of Leavenwortli, to answer the c_ha.rge of refusing to: gqsecuw_(vwlatqrs ot the temperanee faw, . L% L 0 Colonel Knight, of Wiscongin, a {njoﬁn@?n. *:@Q@}WF&&%’QM@Q&& statea ‘that acombination to &WQPWW pPunth. yilee tiom & ﬁ% e Tormea by tho awor of the G

tral, Southern, and Union Pactic roads, the Bell Telephone and Western Union Telegraph companies, the Pacific Mail Steamship company, and the New York: Tribune,. all-of which are controlled by substantially the same persons. Chi EaEgeien “Queen Victoria rode from Buckingham palace to thehousé.of lords Thursday in an open carriage drawn by e?[srht horses; escorted by. eavalry. lHer speech states that she sought to aid in’ bringing the inhabitants of lastern Roumelia under the. ﬁile of the prince of Bulgaria, and that Burmah has been %ermanently Jncorporated with the ritish empire as the most certain method of insuring peace. The practice of organized infimidation . c,ona_-‘ tinues in Ireland, and she recommends that the government be invested with all uecessar?' power to cope with the growing evil. -~ . e g In the United States cowrt at Keokuk, lowa, Judge Love announced that a decision had. been - received by him from Judge Brewer which was directly applicable to the lowa prohibi= tory liquorlaw. The decision ot Judge Brewer, in.the case spoken ofy affects breweries built before thé prohibitory statutes. were passed. Should -the opinion be concurred in by the lowa {')udges, theu all breweries in existence before the passage of the law could not be interfered with. -The opinion declares such statuies unconstitational, because it is'taking properly with=oub a consideration. A distinction is made in this case from. the saloon cases recently remanded to the state courts.. The question .of taking property construe.ed for a_lawfnl business did not enter in the saloon .cases.” .

; . WASHINGTON, SEE L Representatives of boards of tradé and. other comincreial organ zitions addressed the house judiciary committ-e ia favor ot the enactment of a nafional system: of bankruptey proceeding, and.thpyall seemed to favor t.ha’Luwell bill. Mr. Tueicer chiaiiman of the eommittee, says.the committes will be in favor of adépting 'a system that n_lai' be efficient yet .incumb 'red with a 8 little machinery as possible to that end. .

Hayvine failed to get the information desired respecting the causes for removals: of certain federal officors, it *is - belicved - that the senate committee on finance will now adopt a new form of request to be-'sent’ to heads of departments, whieh will’ eall> for all papers in specific cases, and- include, not only the papers showing equses ' for removals, but uYso_ thosa upon which the new appointments have been based. = . . Scnator Payne has mailed-le. the ehaifman of the Ohio aSsen}h!y conunittes appointed to investigate charg s of bribety made against him the f()]luwi: nr-letters - “Bir: . Asj one branch' of t{}e,gene-n}l?_as~ sembly has appdivted a sp.cial committee, of which'you are the chairman, to investigate the conduct of the democratie. caucus whieh, in January, 1884, nominated a candidate fot United States senator, and: as the matter is thus raised to| the plane of respectability mnlzplncnd.i? charge of infelligent and honorabie gentlémen, I propose tp give it am%mpriate attention. ~ For myself I invite thé most thorougsh and rigid seruginy. My private correspondence and: books of accounts will be cheerfully submitted to your inspection if you-desire it. 1 only insist, in ease any testithony is given whieh in. the s ightest dezree inculpates me,” I may he afforded an npis_ni'tumty of appearing before the committde.” by e U DAROTK s R

WASHINGTON, JA~: 25.—Diligent inquiry has failed to. discover any disposition among democratic repreg#ntaiives to admit the southern part of Dakota into the _union as a state. It is probab"ﬁe»that the commit~ tee on territories will favor ;the.admission: of all that part of Dakota east”of: the : Missouri river and the twenty-fourth - meridian under the name of. Dakota-and -the organization of a new tvrritorg, west of that line. Some members of the cqmmittee express a decided -objection to the admission of the Sioux reservation into the union as a part of any state. This reservation is:entirely west of the Missouririver, and is as large inarea as the state of Qhio, and they say the interest of 'the United States and the welfare of the Indians seem to require that congress should retainr jexclusive: ju_risdi‘(!‘tion over this great reservation. = There are only 26,000 inhabitants df the part of Dakota territory west of tive Missouri river line, exclusive of the Indiansion-the Sioux reservation. The admission ot Dalkota with tlie Missouri river as its west boundary would receive into the union Ithe 425,000 inhabitauts who are demanding statehood as a right, and the new smtei would be republican in polities, but it would benecessary to frame a new constitution-and hold a new election for senators m’xﬂ a delegate to:congress, STR L R

SWEEPING FORFEITURE MEASURES, | & WASHINGTON, JAN; 25.—Judge Payson,: of Illinois, says that the house coinmittee on public lands, 'of wlich he is a member, has now under cousideration bills to forfeit all Jland grants that were vnj)t- actually earned by railroads to-which they were given by congress within the time specifiedin the law. These bills contemplate the restoration of abdut 100,000,000 . acres of land to the public domain, aconsiderable part of which’ has been sold by the nailroad companies and is now in the hands of innocent' settlers. They include nearly the entire grant! of the Atlantie and Pacific railroad and all the northe&n Pacitic lands that lie west of the Missouri-river, as well as millions of acres in other states antl territories along the lines of road whieh v~re not' constructed until aftér the expiration of thé :‘term aof the grant. = Some of these lands are in Michigan; Wisconsin, lowa, Arkansas, Alabama. Georgia, and other thickly populated. states. The disposition of the committee is. tor a forfeiture of everything. ‘Judge Payson says, however, that gongress will pass Ino sweeping measures. . All unearned lands will be forfeited, he thinks, but congress will confirm the title to alll lands covered by Frants lying along the lines 'of: roads that lave been actuaily comstructed in good faith, rezardless of the date at which that construction was:completed. .If this policly grevdils all the Northern| Pacific grant will ¢ confirmed except a few million aeres -onthe Padéific coast, but all of the Atlantic and Pacific grant lying east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be forfgited, . - .

CONGRESSIONAL, | i ,Senate‘r S i { - JAN, 19.—1 n the scnate, to-day, Mr, In ‘galis, froam the committeq on rules, reported a seal for the use of the senate, . = = ~ Mr. Hawley, from the ¢ommitlee on military atfairs, reported a. i'_o'nt resolution appointing Gen. John F. Hartrantt of Pennsylvania, as one of the managers of the Na~ tional Soldier’s home in the place of Gen. McClellan, deceased.. Tije resolution was passed. = s et e * Mr. Morrill, from tho‘committee on fi< nance, reported a. resolution extending to the custom-house investizition ordered for the port.of New York tosguch other ports as the committee might deem best. -’The resolution was agreed to. ! S ¢ Mr. Frye’s resolution of yesterday regarding the president’s reconjimendation I‘Q{ a fishery commission’'was plaged’ before the senate, and without deb:yt{a referred to the committee on foreign relations. - . . . Mr. Conger said he would postpone his intended remarks on this subject till the re= turn of the resolution from the ecommtttee, The presidential count bill was ptaged before the senate, but informally laid aside. - A resolution offered by Mr.- Mitehell, of Oregon, was agreed fo’ directing’ the coms mittee on Indian affairs tojinquire as to the expediency of opening up to settlement certain lands of the Siletz Indians in Oregon, . Another resolution offered by the same senator was laid over till to-morrow, directs ing the committee on ? lie lantfs‘toinz quire whether the conditions of the grants ‘had been complied with by land-grantyail-roads inOregon, ~ = | * rahee s

JAN. 20.—The senate passed a resolution directing the secretary of the treasury to forward all papers relating to the contraet: to put.an additional story on the- postoffice at Peoria, lilinois, inclut}ing a _protest against the work bein% performed by eonvict labor, - Mr. Morrill, in diseussing the. silver issue, stated that no man proposed to demonetize the white metal; but the public seemed to forget that out | of a ecinage of 215,000,000 silver dollars wehad only pushed 50,000,000 into circulation. | He contended that the publie faith was i)l,edge(.i to the payment of the bonds, both{ principal and interest, in gold, and that our credit would be dishonored by paying them off in silyer worth 79 cents on the dollar} that a eontins uance of the coinage of silver mieant the banishment of gold, a monetary ocrisis, and - an indefinite isstie of greenbacks ov the revival of wildeat banks, -~ < - e Mr, Beek said that to stoP,' coining’ silver money in order to make silvpr money more: valuahle was like stopping the grinding of wheat into flonr in: order to make wheat more valuable. 'The purpose was to suss ffien(l it now and never to resume eoinage. ‘He gave notice that in due time he would. reﬁ!y to Mr, Morrill’s speecll:: . = T, MePherson (N. J.) expressed himself in faver of as much silver cpin as would kenelp iton a par withgold.. |- .. + % r. Beck said the peoiple of the west had shown their confidenee in silver, They had sent east 66,000,000 of gold dollars and took silver certificates tor if, susta n?id by silver alone, yntil the treasiiry stoppe it. JAN. 21.—The Eleotoralﬁo ant- bill came up in the Senate to-da’yl'.f‘ 1| Sherman ng.i mitted that hehever thought [the Electoral Commission was constitutiongl, and finally offered an amendment striking from the clause allowing either House to exelude a. vote, and ,I;rovmin.g that- in| oase of disagreement the (iuestwn in dispute shall be submitted to a joint conhvention of Ex),t,h» Houses, which joint convention . “shall im= 'mecuate}{‘ without ‘debate, upan the rolls eall of {he respective Houses, vote upon ;lhe %téesnon or questions upon wh;?{x there has been such dxs'agmemen%,_ndft 6 decision of the majority of the members otjtlelﬁ glmnt oosvention‘ present. shall be deemed nal an }ctmcmsive,-‘ang the vate shall he ieounted: aoeordlngly and be annonnced by ?‘ghe l;irggldenthgtu bhg‘SepaWé!tl hat while, :t§e -two Holises s @ in meoting provided in this act the gre‘ﬂlsién& ~of the [Sen ﬁeﬁh&} ‘haye power to préserve '\or&axi it mo - des b ate ha -__"»bei' a_uq wed, ' and ’ ‘é uestions shall be putby the pr % exeept | | to either B MW ion' it withdraw | S MDGIE QUASIIUAS. PR which- the two -’:v-;-: L Sur aagione 00 nelther the wis Po e e sl R R i R

donv'nor {he eonstitutional propriety of Mr, Sherman’s ~amendmenrt} ~which was an abandonment of State rights. “1 - M, Evarts was: disposed to regard the amendment proposed by Mr. Sherman with favor as offering an oppormnit%r to the Sen~ate to overcome the majorityof the House by the vote of the united budy : The Senate adjourned until Monday. : } ‘. House. : 5 JAN. 19.<A large number -of executive, communications were laid before the house by the s?eaker, among them a letter from the chief of engineers asking for an imme-. diate appropriation of $50,000 for the general work of survey on the Mississippi river. Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, from the committee on military affairs, reportéd back a senate bill maklnFan appropriation for the purehase of the e d produce exchange buiiding, New York ecity, for army purposes. Referred to the committee of the whole. - Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, from the committee on judiciary, reported back the biil to prevent cla‘n;?s of the war taxes under the actof Aug. 5, 1861, by the United States; being set off against states having claims against the United States. Placed on the cajender, - LB SR R Er

Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, from the comn%it-tee on public lands, reported back the bill forfeiting: certain grants of lands made to . southern states to aid in the eonstruction of . railroads. Placed on the calender. - |

Mr. Mason, of Indiana, from the committee on iuvalid'})ensiom,' réported back a bill to increase the pensions of widows from- . $8 to 812 per month. Referred to the committee of Ihe whole. =~ - Mr. Bragg, of ‘Wisconsin,- made an attempt to have the: Fitz John Porter bill made a special order for Saturday, Jan. 23, bat Mr. Dunham, of Illineis, objected. : JAN. 20.—Mr. Matson (Ind.) called up in - the house fo-day his bill increasing the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of soldiers from $8 to $l2 a month, and said that the additional annual cost to the government by reason of the passage of this biil would amounit to something over. $5,Mr. Brown (Ind.) offered .an amendment. : repealing the limitation clause of the .ar-rears-of-pensions act.. . : a ‘Mr, Bragg (Wis.) opp?s'ed the amendment, saying that no: soidier wio suffered “from disability sufficient to entitle him to a .pension had failed to knew it uniil -stirred up:by some’claim agent, twenty years after the war had elesed. = He also -opposed the bill ‘because it applied -to all widows. It should, in his opinion, extend only to the woman who was married to the man when “he received the disability, and not to the- : ?’ouug girl who married an old soldier to -live with-him the two ex three last years of - his life for the sake of his pension, - : M. Henderson (Lowd) apd ‘Mr. Wolford ‘(Ky.) supported the biil. | : ‘the minority report of the honse commit--tee _on"milim'ri' aftairs on the bill for the re- . liet of Fitz-John Porter was laid before the house to-day.. Itsays: 3 S . The only tenable ground upon whiclf the report can besustained and .I}\o finding ot the court-maréial reversed is that the court wickedly, corruptly, and maliciously- conspired to saerifice Porter to save Pope trora the odium of defeat, and it would be a bold man-who affivias that proposition. The minonity argue that the bill i§ unconstitutional inasmuch'as it is a usurpation by congress of the functions of the coordi- - nate branches of‘the government. They ~say that if the bill doss not nominate Porter tql‘nﬂice it is-an absolute nullity. llf it does nominate him it is an invasion of the exceudtive prerogative. It is advice or law. 1f adtice it is useless, and if law it is usurpation, -If the ‘court-martial erred there is no appeal. . The minerity respected Porter - for his persistence, still it could not but believe that this disobedienee and® inaetion .cast: a shroud of woe -over shousands at home and brought disaster to the national canse, srastch

JAXN. 21,—The House to-day had under debateé the bill inereasinz nensions of soldier’s widows from $3 to $l2 a month. M. Walford -made an impassioned speech in favorof the biil. He advoecated the repealof the arrearages limitation, but:thought that to incorporate this provision in the biik micht endanger the passage of both. Mr: Reagan took the ground that only soldiers who had béen disabled in the war or widows who had been wives of soldiers at the time . the disability had eoccmired should receive pensions, . lle eriticised tiy+ mannet in which special i)cnsi(m bills were passed by Congress and siated that he would drive the petitioners to the Pensicn Office and make them ig‘.ve Proofs requHred by law. He asserted that there were nuinbers of men—he mizht say thousands—wha .were receiving pensions, who had:no more right to them than he had. : Mr. Townshend offered an amendment providing that when an invalid pensioner shall die his widow or minor children shall be entitled to an originak pension without being required to prove that the death of the pensionér was due to his military or naval service. M. Townshend thought the amendment-was meritorious and justifiable from every standpoint. - 1f a Soldier who had unfortunately incurred a disability in the serviee should die, it was nothing more than humane and justthat the widow and children should be furnished with means 'gmﬁicieut to keep ithem! out of the poor louse, 4 % N -

Mr, Townshend’s amendment was rejected by a vote of 108 to_lls. On. mogion of Mr. Snowden, an améndment was adopted making it a misdemeanor of any person to receivesmoney for the prosecution of any ‘elaim arising under this act. = Mr. Brown, of Indiana, then offered his amendment repeéaling the limitation on the arrears of’ pension act. Mr.' Rogers: raised the point that the amendment was lot in order, as it ‘contained the substance of a bill pendin% before the house. A long discussion o .the point followed and in orfler to enable the matter to be looked into still further the House adjourned. s

+ JAN. 22.—Mr. Herbert (Ala.) reported to the house to-day from the naval committee the Boutelle resolufion ot infuiry in relation to the obliteration of inscriptions in the Norfolk navy yard, so aménded as to make it.a resolution of inquiry into the conduct of the affairs of the yard underex-Secretary Chandler. Without giving the’ republicans 4 chaneg to debate the matter, Mr. Herbert moved the previous question. The republicans resisted this, but were outvoted—B7 to 84, Tellers were ordered, the body of the, republicans refrained from voting, and upon.the announcement of the resuit—llll ta 70—Mr. Perkins (Kas.) raisdxd the point of order that no quorum had voted, : ~Mr: Herbert, remarking, that the republi~ cans evidently did not care to have their | own questions.answered, said that he would | withdraw the resolution, buf- on ‘objection made by Mr. Reed (Me.) ths speaker ruled that it could not be withdrawn without the.consent of tlie house. ‘The republicans ° asked to be allowed to offeramendments. to the resolution, but this request Mr. Herbért refused’to grant.. A motion for a call'of the house was then made, and the republicans'opposed It. -1t was ordered, however, by-a‘vote 153 to 133, and disclosed the: pres: ence of 206 members. The sergeant-at-armis: was directed to arrest the twenty-nine absentees. After a hot debate the res‘olutaon was passed. ; : G Le— )- e | Sl b GENERAL MARKEDS |

CHICAGO, Warar—Lower; Jan., 19%@79%c; Feb.. - 9% a79k4e; May, 85@Sside. 6;01:‘?&TL0\\1’§1'; Jn;x., ;—:(;33/4;&36%0; Feb., - £634 1 863¢c1 May, 4035 u4o3{c. el e ().vrs—:Lower;3 ’;Juns., 291¢ia29l{c; Feb,. - %8%41a 29¢. i Ean gl - __Provisions—Mess Pork - lower: Jan. §10.85710.55; February, $10.85«10.85; May. [email protected]. Lard—Lower: January. " $6.1215@6,.121¢; Feb., $6.121406:12%¢; May. FO.20@0;80, 7 E LhG e g CArTLE—Market steady. . We quote: | EXtra Choice Cattle .. .. vens...§s:so 1565 Good Shipping. 5teer5.....:....... 465 14.8 Medim Steers.......iise., ... £OO@4E “Hoas—Market firm. 'Sales ranged from $£8.70 ¢ 8.90 for light; §4.10 ~4.25f0r hem"}n - Woor—Continued firm and active, Sales. were readily effected at about the following:i range of prices: = . S Wisconsin, lilinois, Michigan, Indiana and Eastern lowa. S ‘Coarse, tub, 24:«27c; Medium, tub, 30@34e: . Fmez unwashed, 17@23¢; Medinm, unwash-. . ed; 24 u26e; ? Coarse, unwashed, 19@23¢: - Burry, unwashed, 14(«?160; Fine, washed, 28@30c; Medium, washed, Sl@s2¢: Coarse, washed, 27%“286. L | Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas and - Western Nebraska, . : . Fine, unwashed, 16@2lcy: Medium, un‘washed, 20@?2¢; Coarse, unwashed, 20@21e. : : NEW YORK. Sl Sg}}VHF‘ﬁT——%OgV&gr; 91N o. I\ZI Febggggvs, 89a ¢: March, «9le; May. 39ge— CorN—~Quiet; I\éxed Western Spot,xbl@) ;. slie, o o bl MIEWAUKER " . WorEAT—Lower; February, 793{¢; May, 85c. CorN—Firm at S’Z:Wfor 9%0. B 10ATS—Firm; No. 2 Whte, 293¢, RyE—- : Dull; 57%¢ fo;; No. 1. : 559 -‘ i . . CINCINNATL B " _Frour—Tair demand; Family [email protected], ~ WaeAr—Firm at 93¢. CorN—Strong at -88 c, .OATs—Steady at 82lge. Ryr—Dull . at 64c, -ProvisioNns—Pork steady at SII.CO. | &:ard steady at $.6,17}g; Bulk Meats $5.35 @ ‘ 55. Bacon §6.10 6. 4. W ‘ R i ST LOUISE : 1 - - WarAT—Lower; No. 2, Red, Jan., 89@ - 8934 c; Feb., 899@1900: May, M%@G;ig. - CorN—Lower: 48 «883{c Jan.; v4uddlge. “Feb, Oars—Lower: cash, 28%e. =~ RYR . —Quiet; 57c. ProvlsioNs—Fork lower; 100 L Se. 08 T :

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