Ligonier Banner., Volume 20, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 February 1886 — Page 2

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'THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD. Again are we compelled to announce the death of an illustrious citizen anda bravesoldier. Major Gieneral Winfield Scott Hancock died on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his residence on Governor's Island. For some ‘weeks he suffered from a malignant carbuncle, complications arose on Saturday last that could not be controlied by medical or surgical skill, and the old soldier gradually descended the stairway that leads to death. ' o

- Wintield Scott Hancock was born in P_ennsylvania‘. in the year 1824. He was educated at West Point, and seryed the government in various capacities. He was assigned to important commands in the Union army, and in the battle of Gettysburg acquired '‘great distinction and repown by his bravery and his extraordinary skill as c(»mmaﬁder of the Union forces. After the close of the war he was placed in command of the department of Louisiana and Texas. ‘ In this capacity he distinguished himse!f by his statesman-like preclamations ! defining the rights of citizens and assert--Ing the supremacy of constitutional law over military edicts. By his courageous adyocacy of these doctrines, in the days of Jacobin misrule and usurpation, he incurred the displeasure of the Radicals but gained the love and admiration of that great body of conservative'citizensl who regard constitutional liberty ‘the\‘ most precious jewel of a free people. In 1867 he was the choice of a large portion of the Demceracy for President of the United States, receiving over 150 votes in the New York convention, which finally nominated Horatie Seymour. He again received the vote of Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Texas and of other states in the St. Louis conven'ion, which nominated Tilden in 1876. He was made the democratic standard~bearer at Cincinnati in 1880, .and was defeated only by the most shameful corruption ever witnessed in American politics. He was a grand type of the American patriot. His sudden and wholly unexpected death will be sincerely mourned by the entire nation. ; Samuen J. TrLpeEN p;ssed his seventysecond birthday on last 'Tuesday. For some reason our republican cotémporaries are not near so solicitous regard.ing his health as.they were two years /EO.

Tue LATE cold wave was remarkable for'its intensity and extent. IFrom all points of the country comes the reports of wonderfully low temperature. In the East the mercury fell lower than for six years and in the middle s ates the cold was intense,

At ms stage of the prqceedings exGovernor Porter sedms to be the favorite xmong the republicans for the candidate for, governor. This gentleman has flatly refused to become a candidate and mny of his friends and admirers are sadly disappointed. :

AMoxg the excases offered by ‘the dedefanlting city treasurer at Indianspolis for lis shortage of 111,000 i 3 {nat he spent $3,500 in the interest of the g. o. p. He ::l}mﬂﬂ'brg kindly treated by his repu.dhc;i n hrethren, for jhe also’ put $2.000 into the stock of a republican newspaper that proved a failare.

A rrerTY Jarge section of the bottom was knocked out of the ery of forgery in the Cincinnati election contests by the evidence of the republican clerk of election, who testified before the investigating committee that tliere were 926 democratic ‘votes in the box, and that he wrote the figares on the tally sheet himaelf, - " obd .

A psrr nas been introduced by Senator Frye creating a commission to inwvestigate the liquor traffic in all of its branches. An appropriation of $lO,OOO wifl be asked, which amount will afford ajunketing party of fiyesenators anda »cle:q; a jolly time. This is a question that will admit of a great deal of inwestigating. ‘

As the time dvaws nigh for the nomination of: candidates ‘for the various township offices, it behooves the Democracy to look out for their best men in every respect - men who are thoroughly honest and competent for the + offices which they aspire to fill. Nomi"nate that class of men only, for whom ~ the people delight to vote, and ‘the bat- ~ tle is won, ~ e A coxssTENT apostle of temperance has been discoyered in the person of Rev. J. Lee Gamble, a New York circuit minister, who was wounded in the' war and now refuses to accept a pe‘n—‘ sion because the revenue from which it would be paid may have been derived from whiskey or tobacco tax. There . may be other conscientious scruples in the way, however, as it is said that he 'is able to walk over his twenty mile circuit each Sunday. : 4

From the activity displayed by the republican workers it is evident that a tremendous effort will Le made to carry this state at the coming election. The organization of the party is being made most elaborate, and no pains will be spared to make it effeetive. It remains to be seen if the old war cry will bring the followers to the staridard and what effect, the changing of the public patronage will have upon the ardor of the average party worker. |

REPuachn_rAmu_s fthat are just now devoting so much of ‘their valuable , space to showing up the “¢normity” of the dlleged bribery i ‘the Payne senatorial contest in Ohio, might possibly be benefited by looking over their files of the pastten or twenty years to ascer- " tain what they bad to say in regard to ‘the notorions transactions that characterized < the elestion of republican United States senators in Pennsylvania. New York, Kansas, California, ete. | VR 5 R ] § . & pry has been introduced in con#ress praviding for a postal note which «wn becashed at any money-order offica. - Fhe antbor says that the present law, N TN iag of 5 povis} . ote only at the officeon whiew drawn, orks an unmevessary hardship A postal order .ﬁ‘.'l%ﬁ*good any- . ere. Should thigbit become a law, i would seem to have the effoet of a t asury note, radeemable at the plea- # re of the holder, and would form o - # valladdition to the circulating mo-

- Tre marggrs yesterday were very gniet at Chicago. Wheat closed at 79 cents; corn, 36 cents; oats, 30@32 ¢ls.; cattle, £3.50 @ 4.25; hogs, $5.75 @ 4.40; sheep, $2.50@5 25. A

For MANY yezrrs"(;ﬁorts have been made at each session of congress fo abolish that seemingly™ senseless arrangement, the executive or secret session of the senate. For the past two weeks considerable attention lias been .given to the matter, as the republican members, with * but _few exeeptions, favor thie open consideration of the president’s appointments.

Tue Ixpiax troubles so far have well proved the inefliciency of the regular troops, and a new departure isabout to be taken. The house military affairs committee have agreed to report a il authorizing the enlistment of two regi ments of cow-boys in Arizona to fight the Apaches. It seems that suchaction is somewhat irregular, and we are afraid that the medicine may prove move refraciory than the disease; but nothing sheould be left undone that can in any way tend to bring the red devils ander subjection.

Tur Arrack being made on Attorney General Garland by the subsidized press of the East, and the parrot-like republican cotemporaries of the West will hardly cover up the real object in view. The Bell telephone monopoly is the most outrageous in exisfence, and to make itself still stronger has taken this method to form public sentiment against the opposition corporations It is eyident that the President does nof intend to allow Mr. Garland to -be driven out of the cabinet in disgrace

Tue South Bend Times,in calling attention to the death of Gen. Winfield 8. Hancock, the heroof Gettysburg and the nominee for President on the democratic national ticket in 1880, says that by a strange co-incidence it took place on the 72d birthday of Samueld. Tilden, the democratic presidential nominee for 1876. Thus we have seen Gar4jeld, Grant, McClellan, Hendricks and Hancock, all having every promise of life, gathered to their fathers, while the s'atesman whose death has been ‘expected at almost any time for years, re‘mains to see the havoc that Death has iwmught among the great and mighty about him,

Amoxe the enlogies passed upon the late vice president that of Rev.Thos. M. Browne, of the Richmond district, fairly represents the republican sentiment of the members. In his speech he bore witness to Mr. Hendricks’ sterling qualities of heart ard mind. “He wag without challenge the chief repre—sentative of the ]ﬁndian?idechracy. L he did mot formulate its policy he accepted 1t as the true faith; if he did not g 0 before, he went well abreast of the party alignment. He went into the thickest of the fight, congratulated his forces in victory, or in defeat covered their retreat. He was not a political boss. }?é governcd without whip or bastile. | He was king, but he reigned by common consent, and made his subjects his peers. He was cver true to hirself, true to his honor. No temptation beguiled to venality. No dishonest dollar ever touched the palm of his hand.” e fea e

~ Tue Sovrn Brxp Times says; Our ‘good frieud, Dr. Parker, editor of the Kendallvil e News, was an applicant for {lie post-oftice of that place. Circumstances so shaped themselves that Judge Lowrydid not see his way clear to recommending the doct r’s appointmenf, This hasgreatly incensed our old co-laborerin the vineyard of democracy, and hé has determined to avenge himself by seeking to bring about Judge Lowry s defeat for renomination. This is not unna'ural, and may be'regarded the usunal result of_such"*"transactions. But the query presents ifself: Suppose Judge Lowry had secured the_doctor’s appointment. In that event the News would unquestionably have advocated Lowry's renominatien and re-election. The public at large may be pl‘,esu,mf;d to have this understanding of the case. What will be its judgment in regard to the News's motive in the premises’? These are points that an editor should fully consider when he maps out a certain = programme. ~Whatever arguments the News may advance against Judge Lowry's coutinuation in congress will naturally be ascribed to its editor’s disappointment. The reader will attentively read what may be said acainst the judge’s reaomination, but the thought will irresistibly present itself that, had matters been shaped differently, the editor’s attitude would be directly the reverse of what it is now. We refer to this matter chiefly with a view to indicate the embarrassments under which editors labor when disappointed in their expectations. It affords a theme for meditation and consideration.” S

| THE TELEPHONE SCANDAL, The pan-clsctree telephone seandal which has broken out at Washington appears upon the surfdce to be very similar to that of the credit mobilier, which wrecked the reputations of several statesmen. The pan-electric telephone scheme had for its object the consolidation of various telephone interests acverse to the DBell telephone company, the abrogation of the Bell pateats, and the organization of another company: upon the ruins of the Bell. - : In pursuance of these various enter-' prises, it is alleged that the pan-electric people - distributed shares of stock among various congressmen and government officials whose influence, it was presumed, would be valuable to, the new company in assisting to get the Bell patents out of the way. | Some of the gentlemen to whom stock was sent kept it, some offered to pay for it and some refused it, the circumstances throughont being very like those attending the distribution of the credit mobilier stock. Among those to whom stock was given and who kept the same were, it i a'leged, Attorney General Garland and Secretary of the Interior Lamar. | L : This 15 the story as it is told. T€it is true, the affair is very serious and calls for a very searching investigation. While allez?x'pse who received this stock without paying for it directly may have justified themselyes to their consciences, thinking that they would not allow themselves to be influenced by the ift, it is none the less tene that such a plea indicates that public morality has refg%éd adan“l{qerously low plaxag,dmong pablic men. No congressman or pu lic official ought ever tom _ﬁtgﬁelf 'lo,vbu‘,g)_ut into an attitude where, whatever his acts .-mggébg.;;&u&gnesmble mgpve s wvoe b iniyiatidihion. | . The affair, bowever, has arother as- | pect just now that dgmm gidera- | telegraph company, have some reason | SRERE SO i indl G SIS i il < g

to fear the abrogation of the Bell pat-‘ ents, as suit is about to be brought by the government to that end. The springing of this story at this time may be and probably is a move of the Bell company and its ally to prejudice the case by impugning the motives of g.tl;mse whose duty it will be to prosecute 1 : Still, it is due to all concerned that congress should make tull inquiry into the circumstances and bring out the facts, whatever they are—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

CULLINGS FROM OTHER COLUMNS. : Pith of the Press. STOLEN GOODS NOT PROFITABLE. Hayes served a term as President; Tilden did not. To-day the latter is prominent in the minds of the people: the former is not. Office does not make a man, especially when the office isa great deal larger than the man.—Goshen News.

ALWAYS A FRIEND TO THE DOLLAR: Blaine turns up asthe friend of the silver dollar. Fndeed he has never shown any 11l feeling towards a dollar of any kind It is but just to Mr. Blaine to say that never has a poor deserted dollar come his way but that he took it in and cared for it-—Columbus (0.) Times. e

_ . HERE'S THE RUB. : President Cleveland has very flatly said that he would not give those papers to the Senate, and unless we are very much mistaken in the man, President Cleveland won’t when he says he won't. Meantime. the President’s appointees will continue to fill the offices and— Lere's the rub - draw the pay.—Philadelphia Record. ; .-

. CAMERONIAN PHILOSOPHY. When Gen. Sherman, read this morning his written opinion of Gen. Grant, as shown by the publication of Gen. Fry, he must have felt the force of observation atiributed to Hon. Simon (‘ameron, that it is better to go a hundred miles to see a man than to write him a letter.—Chicago Herald. .

THEIR CONDITION SHOULD BE KNOWN. The repeated failures of banks at Indianapolis will call for stringent legislation by the next legislature. The truth is, banks ¢hould make a public statement at least once in three months, showing their - condition,. No solvent conservative’ banker will ever obiect to letting the public know how his bank stands, and the people want only solvqu;, conservative banks and b:}nk~ ers.—Frankfort Banner. i ONE'AS GOOD AS THE OTHER. ! With gold, silver and greenbacks of {be same nominal value, and -interchangable, the community need not care what the bonds are paid in. If a man can take his greenbacks or silver certificates and get gold for them; he is himself practically paid in gold. So long as the two metals keep company, and the government is able to redeem its notes in gold, the boudholder will have no berter -money than the laborer.—Boston Globe. . : !

THE REPUBLICANS SNEER AT GRANT. The minority report in the litz-John Poyter case sags the only tenahle ground upon which the report can be sustajned and the finding of the court-martia‘f reversed, is that the court wickedly, corruptly and maliciously conspired to sacrifice Porter from the odium of defeat, and it would be a bold man who would affirm that proposition. It was remarked on a similar occasion once before, that the Republicans were the first in the country to sneer at General Grant's military ability and judgment and accuse him of corrupt motives.— ludianapolis News (Ind.) :

-\ BOUND TO COME. It 18 said Randall has changed his views on the tariff question; that he paralyzed a recent delegation of steel‘men who called on him for the purpose of urgingstiliimore protection than they get from the swollen bnndle of iniquities of the present war tariff. Randall told those fellows that the President had converted him, and that he believed a considerable tarift reduction could le made without harm. It matters little whether this report isso, except for Rdndall. 1f he has ehanged he will join the procession; if mot, he will get left, that is all. Tariff reform is bound to come.—lndianapolis News.

THE ALLEGED INCREASE OF INSANITY.. The question of insanity apnd its greater or less prevalence to-day as compared with former times appears to be far-from settlement. The fact that cases which were considered hopeless fifty vears.ago are mow cured, means that persons who would have died under the treatment then without the knowledge ever becoming general that their complaints were. of the brain rather than of the body, are now added to the table of statistigs as lunatics. The great increase in the number and perfection of asylums also swells the number of the recorded insane and aids n complicating any attempt to judge whether the brain troubles are really, as it is often asserted, on ‘the increase among civilized = natipns.—Medical Journal. .

QUEER ANERJCAN WORKINGMEN.

The coal, coke and iron bosses of Pennsylyania who insist that the tariff Levied in their interest is for the hene fit of the American workingmen are occasionally exposed very ecleyerly. Under the device of importing labor. they have brought about a deplorabley depression -in wages, but at the same time they have revealed the falsity of their pretense s to the American workingman. In arow of some kind in the coke regions the other day some fifteen or twenty men. were arrested. They were striking laborers, ‘presumably of the American vartety, for whose benefit the tariff is levied, and yet they were no sooner in jail than they appealed to the Austro-Hungaria, conqu at Pitts-’ burg for relief, amfn he g;,a,stened to their side.—Chicago Herald,

UNVERIFIED PREDICTIONS. ° Just at-this time all the Regublican papers are pointing out what they term mistakes of the administration. Fraud and: peculation in office are intimated, but no paper has dared to make direct charges, because they know that not one such charge conld be substantiated. The sole basis for these insinuations of wrong-doing 1s the fact, that a sugcessful Democratic administration jis in| power, backed by the Democrats of the country, and the Republicans are out in the ¢old throwing mud. Our Republican friends yredicted during the late presidential campaign thaf in case Mr. Cleveland sh,ouldpa be elected general disaster to our commercial interests would follow and the country would go toruin. Bat the nation stif'l lives, the commercial interests continue the even tenor of their way with a decided improvement all along the line, and a better feeling exists fo the future of trade than at this time last year. It is a sad reflection for our Republican friends, but nevertheless trae; that the present administration s highly suacessFul, and their predictions during the last presidential camtpaig_n have not been justified by the facts. ‘The governmeént is in honest hands. All the eriticisms and tirades hurled at the administration will only have a tendency towards strengthening it by ral'lymtg its millions of friends to its support. g : ;

HOW PUBLIC LANDS ARE STOLEN, . A recent vigitor from Colorado gives. an interesting account of how land is taken up and settled in that part of the country.” He said that the works of the company which supplied the city of Denver with water are sitnated upon land obtained through titles issned upon fraudulent homestead entries. He said "the company could not afford to g R et e (e e £

buy serip, which is necessary fo locate any large blocks of public land, so they employed a number of the agents of the company to mak: frandulent home stead . entries. - The way it was done was this: A toy house, two stories high, neatly painted, 16-inches by 24 and 30 inches in height, was made. It had a handle upon the ridge-pole of its roof. The wou{)d-be homesteader would take this honse in one hand and a blanket. ‘over his arm. He would then proceed to a quarter section, set up his house and lie down by the side of it in his blanket and spend the night there. The next morning he would dig up the land for a few feet withaspade After that he would go: direct,]ﬁ to the Regis—ter’s office and make cath that he had taken up a certain quarter section of land, had erected a hceuse two stories, 16 by 24, leaving it to be inferred that he meant feet instead of inches, that he had slept there and that he had made improvements upon the land. When the title was issued to him the house would be handed over toanother hoinesteader to repeat this process on other quarter sections ~ln this way the company acquired a large block of land. The only justification of the Register's winking at this fraud was thf fact that the land was desert land and would never have been taken up by a reguldr homesteader, and that while it was valuable for the water-works company it would not have been to any one else. The entire community understood the performance and seemed to regard it as a huge joke. — Washington Letter.

SEVENTY-FIVE MILLIONS FOR PEN- | * _SIONS. . | Although it is now nearly twentyone years siuie the war c’osed the pen- ‘ sion bills continue to increase. In 1870, five years after the last shot was fired, the pensions amounted to $28,000,000; in 1880 they had jumped to $56,000,000, and this year they are to he $75,000,000. In the natural order of things this charge shoald show some diminution by this time, but the ten dency is still upward. The pension ‘charge alone for 1886-7 will be greater than the entire expense to run the government for any one year before 1862, and it will be twice as much as that of any year before 1840, Our vensions are annually greater than the entire cost of maintaining the army which conquered Mexico in 1846-49, and the money spenton the army in the year 1812-15, when the seccond war with England was in progress, did not exceed for the entire period the amount now dispensed in pensions m a single twelve-moenth. More money is spent for pensions now in one year than was disbursed in all the years preceding 1860_for that purpose, and®with the countless devices for extending the list there is no immediate prospect that the limit will be reached. o . So'diers who served their country faithfully. and with ne expectation of reward, will do themselves honor if they will on all fit occasions denounce and repudiate the contemptible-‘demagogy by which cheap politicians now seek to cover their wastefulness and jobbery. It i$ eminenfly proper that the nation should care for the disabled soldier and for the famiiies . left dependant, but when i is remembered that the youngest war orphan is now of age. and that ‘death has been- busy during these twenty-one years, it is outrageous oppression to saddle the tax-payers of the country with a bigger pension roll today than was necessary to mect every requirement ten years after the war, whien the need of government assistance was most urgent. Soldiers who ‘do not believe in this expensive, reckless, and; in mény respects. diseredita‘ble policy, can do a great deal toward stopping it by entering their protests against it.—Chicago ‘Herald. :

LETTER FROM HANSAS. . ' PAWNEE ROCK, KANSAS, FEB. 2, 1880, EDITOR BANNER: —Thinkir g that it might be interesting to some of the readers of your paper, I will endeavor to give a description as well as my opinion of this part of so-called sunny Kansas. There have been tut & few warm days since New Years, the most of the time it being extremely cold, with numerous blindiog blizzirds sandwiched in between. The loss of stock in this and adjoining counties is very great, and will be a serious drawback to the citizens. 'Quite a number of persons have been reportedias frozen to dea h near here, but, as there is nothing certain I can not vouch for the truth of the reports. The oldest gettiers say that this has been the coldest winter they have ever witneesed here, and now begin to thick they will have to build .more sheds for the pro tection -of st,ocix, as we!l as lay in a larger supply of feed. The prairies here are slightly rolling, and the soil varies considerabie—being mostly a sandy loam from two to four feet deep, and is well adapted to raising nearly all kinds of grain, as well as for the growing of fruit and vegetables. There are some hills along the Arkansgas riyer which are very sandy, but they produce large guantities of wild plums, which come very handy 10 this new country.

The country is rapidly fillibg up with settlers and as a consequence village as well as farm property is increasing very Tast. I think Kaneas is a very good State in which to make money, provided 2 person has plenty to start with. ‘ But it is a poor placp in which | tn settle without money, especially if it 1s the intention to make a fortune without work., A person can get a cheap home here, but must expect to work forit, for a man without any ambition can not expect to prusper any where and has no business here. However I would advise Indianiaps, as well as others who have comfortable humes and all the necessaries of life, to remain where they are-and enjoy what they have got, while those with limited means and plepty of pluck and backbone can better themselyesin the west. I saw a letter in the Ligonier Leader, written by Wm. E, Scott, of Garden City. He seems to have a very good opinion, but bhe has sertainly misrep—resented the winter. He says “fami lies have been sleeping all winter in thejr tents and ‘covered wagons, and that the lowes}f gtand of the thermometer was ten degrees below zero.” But a 8 that is still west of here I think he must have been asleep most of the time, for to my knowledge it was 24° below zero here for three or four days. He also says that one man got lost.on.

rthe prairie, 50 miles norty o; where he ‘lives and froze to death, but he had ‘not heard of any others. At aboutthe same time the report came from Garden City that a family of seven persons had froze to death. Perhaps Mr. Scott had not heard of it, and I hope it is not true. However I would not advise apy ona to come to sunny Kan £as, where there is no winter and no night, without plenty ¢f warm elothes aud money to buy fuel enough to keep a red hot stove. Waishing the best of success to all who may migrata hither, I remain, - Yours respectfully, ' “ R.D,REYNOLDS.

| . mettie Up. All persons knowing themselves indebted to us either on note or book account will take notice that this is the time of year when settlements should be made, and we now ask them to come forward and do so without delay. Thanking one and all for their liberal patronage in th%}mst‘ we respeetfully ask a continuance of the! smae, Gro, E. Boyer & Co.

Additional Local News.

oo Meem THem Out. | A leading bapker, who is neither a Republican nor a Mugwump, remarked to a News reporter: ‘“We are now sending our important letters by ex - press. Look at this,” said he, exhibiting an envelope on which was the address of a correspondent in bill posting type, “one would naturally think that couldn’t go wrong; but quite recently, when received in Cificinnati, severaldays late, the post marks showed that it had passed through the Chicago office. We can’t afford to have valuable letters, sometimes bearing drafis for $15,000 or $20,600, dancing around all over the conntry, und arriving behind time. It i 8 not business, and 80 we are using the express until the postal matters become more settled.”—Fort Wayne News. The above is a fair sample of the hog wash daily sent out by the Republican press for the purpose of influsuecing public sentiment against ‘changes in the postal services. Thesp fellowa who perpetrate such effusions a 3 the above upon their readers cer‘tainly presume a great deal upon their ignorance, The editor of the News as well as the iandividual who was neither “Mugwump nor 'Republican” well knows that over ninety per cent. of the o'd clerks are still on duty and that the newly appointed clerks have nothing to d» with the distribution of letters; that such work is done by the bead clerks and his well-trained subordenates. Such declarationsare only apart «f a programme that has for its end the keepu;g in fat positicns a Jarge number of men who should have been bounced morths ago. A wellknown postal clerk who has been connected with the service for years told the writer a few days sicce that the dismissals of experisnced clerks haye been very few, and that the places filled wers generally thoss of the newly appointed republicavs, and that the change in no way crippled the service. ’

‘A Captain’s Fortunate 'Piscovery. Capt. Coleman, schr, ' Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City apnd N. Y., bad been troubled with a cough 8o that he was unable to sleep, anda was induced to try Dr. King’s new discov—ery for Congumption. ‘lt not only gave bim instant relief, but allayed the extreme soreness in his breast. His childrsn were similarly affected and a single dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King’s New-Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman househoid and on board the schooner. Free trial bottles of this standard remedy at G. 8. Woodruff & Bro’s Drug store.

Why Some People Fall. They neglect details. i They fail to advertise. They fail to publish business." They talk politics too much. - They have no eyeg to business. . ~ They imitate their neighbors. 1 They over look their smail things. They know not the power «f method. : They become rusty and lose ambiticn. v Tuey let their help waste ard destroy. : : ; i They bave too much outside business., ' T They tail to invent or have new jdeny 0 o ' They are penny wiss and pound foolish. S » They are. illiberal {0 home enter prise. S ] ‘“lLey are nnt polite or acgommodating. . L L They know not that the best is the cheapest. : < ~ They think most things are too much trouble. : : They hope for fortuneto drop into their laps. . They attend to everything but their own business, i

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| 4Tie Official Paper.”’ : While/ the LaGrange Standard is making the following comments upon the hoilowness .of a ciaim made by certain individuals, it should not forget that Noble cqunty has au “ fliicial ‘paper.” TheStandard cuts right close when it says: : - “There is much falsehood being persistently promulgated about an *official county paper.” - LaGrange county, S 0 far 28 we know, never had an’official paper. The Standard hasdons more official publishing for the couaty than any other paper, but we never ¢l:imed for it the designation of the official county paper, If is a piece of brazsu effrontery for any paper in this county to make such pretenses. Kach of the papers in the county publish more or less official matter, but neither has any exclusive right to it, uor is tbhere any order on record that gives the slightest pretext to auy one toring the higb-sounding phrase, “official or gan.” The County Commissioners at their last session authorized the publication of the allowances made ab that term in the Sentinel, it claiming the largest circulation. The order did not cover a single otheritem of publication. The couunty commissioners can at the next term, if they see fit to assume the duty of the Auditor, desig nate eome other paper to publish the allowances made at that term, but will not make that paper an cfficial ccunty paper. It will have abeut $5 worth of legal advertising assigned it. That’s all there is of it.” |

Settle Up. Settle Up. All persons knowing themselves indebted to-us are respegifully requested to call at once and make settlemrent of their accounts. We miusthave our money at once, and take this method to ask our customers tosettie what they mayowe us. .We are very thankful for' your patronage, but must make our collections. 19-tf P, SISTERHEN & SON.

~ —The Lake Shore agent at Auburn Junction, pow in jail at Auburuy, is charged with breaking open trunks and stealing valuable clothing and jewelry, which he bestowed upon bis mistress, The girl gave the whole thing away dod the foolish féllow now languiihes in jil. :

A Maine farmer astonished even tie Hitives by hs ingennity in keeping ‘warm. On the forward pait of his sled was rigged a small tight shanty, in which were a comfortable seat and & hot stove, Two small holes admitted the reins and a pane of glass let him gee whither he was going, Rl The copy of the first book on arithmetie, of which only another copy is known, fetched $2OO at a sale it London the other day, S

- NFWC Y yr NEWS DIGEST. A Sunday Raid on the Chinese at -~ Seattle, with Fruitful Results, | [ el Three Hnuidred Chinamen Taken to the Dock, and 100 Shipped to San Francisco.

' UNDER RIOT'S RULE. " PORTLAND, Ore.; Feb. B—The city of Seattle was in a whirlwind of excitement all day vesterday and evening over the grea est anti-Chitiese demonstration ever witnessed i that territory. -In brief, an altempt was made to drive out ail the Chinese. _ It is said that the Knights of Labor|planned-the movement. According ta dispatches from Seatlle such a step has long been under consideration. gatnrday night a well-atiended anti-Chinese meeting was beld, and the sanitayy condition of the Mougoiian qu rier was discussed. It was proposed (o send a committee 10 Chinalown empowered tg inspe¢t the bu 1\11119,:11, and thus ascer.ain their {rue condition. The ~proposifion was unin'mously ddopted, and this morning thic commiltee, led by the acling Chief of Police, and *folJowed by an imense crowd, began its work. - b :

The reil purpose of the meeting, however. was qiticklv revealed. The commit!ce wouid enter a Chinese house and make ‘inquiry of tle Proprietor concerning the number of Chinamen who dweit in it; and the ranitary precautions jak:n. - While this conversation was in procress the crowd would enter the hou e, dras out goods and furniturd, and pack them on’ wagons which su.ddenly appeared on tiie scene, and any resis avce- whiehi the Chinamen could muke was useliss, They were packed on avigons with their effects and driven to the .dock, where the steamer Qecn of ‘tha Pacific was glging ready io suil for San Franeisco. here hid not becw the slighitesy previous intimaticn of this, and the authorities were totally unprepared. Sheriff MecGraw, accompanied by Judge Greene and other Umted States officials, soon app-ared and._commanded the peace, bul they were ouly laughed at by the crowd, and the work went on. HE e

“The mayor of Seaitle and other prominent citizens telegiaphed o Vancouver barracks asking General Gibbon, commanding the department of Columbia, for troops. General Gibbon te‘;egrelphed the war dek)-.n'tmenc, but mo auiliority eame from Washington to send troops. Vancouver is disiant 150 miles from Seattle, and transportation would be effecied by boat and rail. The shortest time troops could be transported in is sewen hours. Chief Justice Speer, of Washington Territory, telegraphed Attorney General ‘Garland urging him to use his influence to have troops ordered to Seattle.

By 10 o’clock the good-natured mob was 1n complete control. louse afier house was raided, and the police foyce did not dare (o interfere. A litile later the fire-bells were rung, and a few citizens responded to the call. The remainder were too busy aiding the celestials to emigrate. ; | Governor Squire issued a proclamation commandaing the mob (o 'dispersg and callin r cut two companies of terr ritorial militia located at Seattle. These responded prompily, as did also three companies of home guards onganized afier the recent anti-Chinesg excitement. There was, however, nothing for them to do. Almosy a‘ll the Chinamen had been taken to the dock, where they were kept by the imimense crowd. The sieamer’s oflicers refused to receive any whose fares were not paid, and e¢itizens at once bzgan raising a coilection to pay the passages. Enough was raised to pay the passaggs of ninety-six. At Seattje 200 more are siill waiting on the dock with no money to pay their fare. The fare to San Francisco is $10: ‘ The {)osi‘.ion is rather precarious. The militia have possession ot Chinatown and the Chinamén are huddlied together on the dock and on board the steamer. If an attempt is made to return them to their homes there will be trouble. T Governor Squire is here and has informed the authorities..at Washington of all proceedings. The town is full ofstrangers. As yet no bloodshed or incendiarism has occurred, but it is believed there will'be serious trouble.

A gas well three miles Southwest of Buftalo discharges 144,000 feet daily. In the stables of C. R. C. Dye, at Troy. Ohio. seveniy-two imported Jer< sey cattle were roasted alive. '~ Harrison W. Crockett, a pioneer citizen of South Bend, Indiana, died of paralysis Friday, aged 74 years. George T. Lanigan, well known to journalists throughout the country, died in Philadelphia, of heart disease. The pope had a slight attack of syncope on Tuesday, from whiech he recovered before he-could be ecarried to his chamber. % : The citizens of Martinsburg, West Virginia. threaten to lynch a negro named Burns for 2 criminal assault on a white girl. ; Several poor persons in-the City aof Mexico haye died from exposure to the vnusually cold weather prevailing in that quarter, : . D At Oneida, New York, the venerable Rev. William Fennelly was struck hy a train with such force that he expired in half an hour. . The statement is made by the London Economist that home rule would involve the addition| of £2,000,000 per annum to Irish taxes! | ~John Gibbs, a leading merchant of St. - John’s, Newfoundland, after perpetrating forgeries to the amount of $lOO,OOO, has fied to Halifax.” . Dennis W. Dilda was hanged ‘at Prescott, Arizona, in presence of one thousand persons, for the murder of Deputy Sheriff J. M. Murphy. George R. Sims, who was sent to the penitentiary for particigation in pension frauds at Chicago, has been pardoned by President Cleveland.

The United States fish-hatchery at Northville, Michigan, has shipped to the posimaster general of New Zealand ocne million white Jish eggs. B. 8. Edwards, a leading lawyer of Springfleld, Illinois, the second son of the first tervitoriall governor, died Thursday morning, aged 67 years. .

Coal-miners at Lincoln, Tllinois, to the number of 284, have struck against what they regardas exorbitant charges by the company for powder and oil. The Governor.of Ohio has sustairied the charges made against the police commissioners of Cincinnati, but they alﬁojﬁltely refuse to vacate their oflices. ss Jennie Sherman has converted two hundred sinners at Cameron, West Virginia, and collected funds to purchage a saloon and pour the liquoxs into the street. -

Kight car-loads of imported laborers were sent into- the coke region of Pennsylvania, but the striking Hungarians persuaded them not to commence work. FREs Sheriff Stewart, of Grfensburg, Pennsylvania, refuses to eviet Hun--1 garian miners in the coke regions dur--Ing the extreme cold Weather‘ now prevailing there. : faiEe . The governor of Illinois has grdered the live-stock commissioner to investigate cases alleged to be virulent glaners among the horsesof 8. . Dane, at Tower Hill. & _George Koch, a wealthy farmer of Wilson, Wisconsin, froze 1o death on the highway, within one hundred ¥ards of the house, wliile driving home rom Sheboygan. S ' A jury at Bloomington, Indiana, pronounced a sentence of two years’ imprisonment against Cliesiey Ghain-. bers for assaulting a baggage-master while robbing a train. :

At New Castle, Delaware, with_the mercury in the neighborhood of Zero, \five thieves were lashed on their bare backs and a forger was pldaced in the pillory for an hour; ; " d. Q. .A. Ward, the seulptor, has completed ‘the model for a soldiers’ monument in Prospect park, Brooklyn. The shaft will be eighty teet high, and ijl cost $300,000 or more. | A seutence of five yearsr, imprisonment has been passed upon’ John MeMahon, the ex-collector of revenue at Hoboken, New Jersey, who absconded Iwo years agoiwith $-51,0Q'J.5 ; § The Knights of Labor at Worcester, Masgaghusetts, haye forced two extens sive boot factpries to advance waizﬂs for Jauuarf' and May, on condition that the July demand be whived. | * The state court at Pete sbur%Virginia, has ‘im%tisoped- a counterieiter, and t};re;fhem declayes that he sh,ai} only deliver the offender to the federd authorities when forced toido so, ~ Jacob Schaefer challenges Vignaux -or any man in the world to play abalkline billiard %ngag;gt thiee téousa.ud‘ npints for $5.000 a side. the loser to

-pay ail'me%&sw‘oiﬁﬁm?m sl | -W. M. Hornbed, at one time super- | intendent of-the Homestake mine jat Deadwood, Wafa,féx:a}}y‘mjmeda Fort | Keozh while ende: v.o‘ri% to thaw out -a stick of giant ppwder in his hands. l K disgatch from Youngstown, Ohio, states that ihe Pennsylvania company has broken tie agreement and issued passes to all coal and iron shippers in the Mahoning and Chenango vaileys. Charles Ross, a lad. of Aurora, lilinois, having been caught on »Sudag evening in the grocery store of C. C. Stevens, shot that gentleman in the breast, inflicting a dangerous wound. The will of Henry P. Kidder, of Boston, covering §2.000,000 | wonth of properiy, g ves $lO.OOO each to Harvard college and thie Museum of Fing Arts, and $5,000 to Rev. Edward Everett Hale. & _ The governor general of Manitoba has released two half-breeds sentenced to the penitentiary for participation in the Riel insurrection, and amnesty is likely to be granted tomore of the conviets. S : ; i The summer rgsidence of Judge J. D. Caton, ou the: north bluff at Ottawa, Illinois, containing valuable books a_mi relics, was burned early Thursday morning. The loss is estimated at $40,000. : bien i : - Bdward Crowl has been captured at the east and taken back to Cleveland to ansiwer the charge of having drawn ( $lOO,OOO from his mother’s bank ac--eount and forged her niwme to notes for $60,000. An insane young man at| Peru, Florida, cut off the top of his mother’s head with an.ix, «nd was acquitted by the eoroner’s jury. He become rational the instant the crime was| perpetrated. : ,l i The remains of Mrs. Dwight Foster, the first white women to resi:idﬁat Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, were buried ati that place Saiurd:y. Dr. E. L. Boyer, one ot the p onecrs of Oskalogsa, died on Friday night. : fFew | Mrs. Grant will pay to the [Vanderbilt heirs £50,000 from sales of | the general’s book. The bulk of the| debt is 1o be discharged by the proieeds of real estale in which she surrendered her dower right. | A forger from Winuipet_j, named Scott, was arrested at New| Laredo, }\Mexico, on_a telegraphic oxiher from 'the capital, #nd is to Le transt. rred.to {| American soil. where he can be extrajldited to Maniteba. = I

A party of federal marshaus at Salt Lake went Siturday to the E}'esidence of George Q. Cannon and obtpined service gpn his latest wife. For the arrest of Cannon the d's riet attorney offers areward of $5OO. - | So great is the danger of a flosd Washington when theice in/the Potes mac melts, that over one hundred me I chants in the District petitioned the ‘house appropriations committee o take prompt action. | Gladsione has selected ihie earl of Aberdeen as viceroy of Ireland, Baron Wolverion as postmuster general, J. Rigb{, M. P.. as solicitor general, and J. Colling, M. P., as secretary of the local government board. ~|= -/ 1 n the eircuit court at Chicago, Jus-: tice George A. Meech brought suit against Rev. A. K. Kittredge for $27,000 damages for slanders uttered iuja recent sermon 1n connection with the punishment of gamblerse | s Charles Russell, a noted ﬁthief lying in jail at Cineinnati, awaiting transportation to the penitcnr.iury for| a term of three yeurs, passed| ca-mly out with a detaclrment of ‘the Salvation army, in a stolen overcoat.‘l it During a revival meeting in a church at Harmony, Iliinois, five hundred persons were let down tweniy/feet by the giving way of the secoud floor.' Two men were fatally injured,and a lz}dy had a lJeg and an arm broken. L . In the woods near Detroit, close to the house where the Km)@}] family was murdered, a Pole discovered ija hollow tree a full suit of male %:'L)thing, saturated with® blood. é{iheriﬁ Stellwagen is at work on the clew. In Lake View cemetery at Cleveland, _Saturday, the casket of J z;.ames A. Garfield was placed in an ornamented bronze - sarcophagus coattimg $2,000. The military guard ' about the vault -will be continued until the end of June. ; fas Counsel for the Union and Central Pacifi¢c roads will endeavor to convince the secretary of the interior that he ought not to exact 25 per cent of the amounts ihe railways have /paid as subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship company. o In an affray in a bink parlor at Lebanon, Kentucky, Samuel Averill, a Jawyer, cut the throat _of Judge R. A. Burton from ear to ear, yet the wound is not considered a fatalome. -Burton had struck Averill on the head with a 'notﬁ‘?’s seal. s L Students at seventeen of the eastern colleges are in training for the winter games. A tutor from |the 7th New York regiment is preparing the Yale team of thirty men. The runners at Harvard are not permitted to use liguor or tobaced: | | Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, baving paid $300,000 for a mansion in New Jersey, is' this month to:marry the youngz and handsome daughlﬁzr of Lewis Miller. the miilionaire manufﬁfturer of Akron, Ohio. Edison lLas ‘lhree young children. | | i In regard to the railrond war alleged to be in progress on the fpapt of Robert Garrett, no conference of trunk-line presidents has been held, but J. Pierpont Morgan has been laboring with the Pennsylvania and Baltimore people in the interest of peace.| e | The government -suit ‘to test the validity of the Bell telephone patent will be conducted by Solicitor G(Bn'eral Goode, assisted by ex{Senator Thurman of Ohio, Grosvenor Lowery of New York and Eppa llunton and Jeff Chandier of Washington. * | . Fourteen:persons sle(iFhingf at Edgerton, Ohio, attempted to cross the track of the Lalke Shore read. in front of a frexin'c train. Some of theparly urged the horses, while o hers clung 'to the lines. 'l'he resuit wuas a collision, in which six persons were injured: . ‘A suit for divorce and alimony has been brought in New York by the wife of General U:; G. Dunn. who was a staff officer under General Dix, and is a prominent man in soeciety. Ie is chiarged with maintaining ‘a married Wwoman as a mistress in his own home. . The government diseclors of the Union Pacific road report its gross debt ot $30,993,000; state that without the branch system the line would be bankrupt, and recommend congressional action on the principle of the Hoar bill, the period being -fixed at eighty years. ; e _

The Knights of Tabor in New York ordered a strike by 1 750 men employed on the Broadway and Fourth; Sixth, and Seventh avenue ‘horse-car 'lines, during the severe storm of Thursday, demanding and obtaining the present rate of $2.25 per day for a reduced number of hours. ; A blizzard of the Dakota type raged in New York Thursday, and the states southward to Georgia report the heaviest- snowfall’ known In' thirly years. Off the coast of New England a twenty-mile gale has for some days prevailed, wrecking the schooner Mary A. Killgn at Scituate. 2 The mysterious tragedy at Nashville developgd by the discovery of ‘a headless bo % two weeks ago has been solved. Frank ‘Arnold, a progperous farmer, w: ~beaten to death by five men, wh(;w&ivided his effects. The murderers and the wives of two of them have been arrested. = - : In the Storey will case, at Ohicago, Judge Rogers refused to receive the testimony of Charles B. Dennett and Andre Matteson in regard to the mental condition of the great journalist in 1881, and, atter hea.mug argqhmenl's b&r the counsel, annognce thiat he woul in a few days render a decision. - A coke famine islikely to be caused ‘at Pittsburg by the strike. ' In the vi- | cinity.of Scottdale the sheriff has com‘menced the workiof evieting occupants of the .comgauy’s houses.- fl(;hirt}een men qulptlﬁ jegan labor yggte day in a mine hear Mount Pleasant, '.ﬁhgre are over five thousand Slavs in the region alluded fo. . ' fe . The Mewican minister at Washing~ ton has received from the governor of Chihuahua an official rep?rt showin that the American Captain f}rawfqrg was killed'by Mexican troops in the belief that he q.nf his men were hoss. tiles. A Mexican majors lieutenant; and two privates lost their lives in. the Snﬁgse%ent, i J e “ . 1 ev, Dr. J. G. Armstrong, one of the most el_o%‘u.ent clergymen ig ,tg’lgl souths« ern states, having been convicted of | drinking beer a %Visi.ﬁl-lg di@;wma 1 houses, was by ,‘sh,t;ipv pckwith m tenced to suspension for ten years. He | was formerly a Presbyterian minister | at ﬁiﬂn@%’;q!@ and permitted rumors | to be oirculated that he was J. Wilkes

~ Thomas A. Edison wishes 0 earr_e%,; the impression that his new telegraph system will enable bhim. to” telegraph between ships twenty:five miles gpart at'sea. This can be done only under eonditions exceptionally favorable—a caim sea and sky, ena/ l,m%(m,m to keep: up a eaptive balloon| or kite at the height of 8,000 feet, | From masthead to masthead, he says,/ a di,stpatéh can always be sent. by means of a broken musical note beiween vessels "half a mile apart. As to the railroad system, lie agrees to teach any intelligent man to read the key in five/ days. and freight train conductors, who would use 'it most, have nothing to do but run the braing b ! N L e The villages. of Glen Haven, Cassville, and ,oto's{, along the shore of the Mississippi river [in Grant eounty, are the scerie of daily rows among the workers on the Chicago. Burlington & Northern railroad. Many of the m?,n have quit work on/ account of the seyerity of the'weather and go into the villages to spend “their money in saloons. When the saloons close they break into private houses and demand shelter of the occup nts. This vceurs nearly every night |in Cassville .and Glen Haven. The law officers are so few in number that| they find /it difficult to keep thie railyoaders from commitling ‘desperate deeds. About tivo ‘hundred workmen near Glen Hayen struck for an advance of wages from $1.25 10 $1.50 perday. The coniractors would 1o: accede 1o the demand and about half of the men. quit work and bave gone into the village, where trouble is anticipated. L

5 HCWASHENGTONS s The commissioner of pensions estilates: that $75.800,000 will |be required - for pensions the next fiseal ypar. = 5 i A report is revived that Attorney-General: Garland will soon resign. and that Randolph Tucker of Virginia will be appointed to fill his place, . . A g The House Commjttey-on Bahking and Curreney has directéd-an adversa report to be made on Rep ésentative. senty’s bitl to make shareholders in Na.ioual baiks individually liable for the debis of tae bank. . Senator Blair, from the Commiites on’ Eduedtion and Labqgr, fe orted tavorably Senator Frye's bl tf provide for the appointment by the Pyesident: of a' commission of five persons tp invessizate the: aicoholie liguor traffic, £3O e The civil-service epmmissioners informed the house eommitti ¢ on civil-service reform that theg}; do not favor an am aiment of the law allowing the: commissiom in mak= ing appointments tof thke-into considertion the number of emplpyes *alveady in qui(’:c‘ from various states] as it wounid tendl to render the whole eil:il=sorvice systom unpopular: with the forth and west, beciuse undery it the souih woidd get.neariy-all the offices. Under 'the| law as it 18, thiy said; the south was setling i s share of ‘the ofilces and would in tlhe have its . proportion. Me-srs. Moiris mi((I1].) and Breckenridge (Ky.), the d moerit e miemb 1s of the subcommitiee of the ways and means committee, having in charse the sybject of. the funding and payment of the public debt, have a=reed to report to the fill commuttee a joint respiation ipstructinz the seeretary of the treasury 1o dall in-and redeem inter-est-bearing bonds |of the United States to. value ot $10,000,000 each month until the surplus. eash i fthe treasury shall be reduecead to $1£0,000,00, the amount set aside by hinras a greenback reserve, 1t will be supported by - all ghe democratic. members of ways and mehns -eomimittee, with the possible exceptioy of Mr, Hewitt, and will be fayvorably repiprted to the house, ‘The resolution does not specify. in- what coin the bonds shall be paid. il sl 4 s AROTA i oo T

WasmixgToN, Feb, B.—The Dakota ques~ tion has not beden decided by the. houss committee on teryitories, but the conn jgtee has corfeluded the hearing of the respective parties to the iksue, and the individual members. are turning over the subject in their minds, R{presentative Springer has formulated his ¢pinion as to what should be done by drawing up a bill for the admission of Dakota ap a state, but not with the boundaries . preseribed by the -bill that ansed the senate last week: - ‘The Springer ill was introduced in, the house to-day, and was referred to the Eom.mittee on territories, ‘lt is based upon the theory that the Indian reservatipn ought not to be included in any state,” but kept under the direct or exclusive contrpl .of congress during the transition of thg Indians from the hoiding of the Fands in qoimmon to that.of severalty and from habits of semi-barbarism to civilization. - Mr. Springer proposes ‘to form a state of that portion of Dakota east of the Missouri river |[and east of a line running due north from |Fort Stevenson to /the British line. 'The |remainder of the present territory of Dakota west of the line ment tioned above and-west of the Missouri river is to be orzanizpd as a territory, under the name of Lincoln, and all of the small Indian reservations within the state of Dakota are to be under the control of the government of the terpitory of Lincoln until the Indian titles are En'uper.iy extinguished. . He provides expressly that congréss reserves the right to theweatter annex. the tm‘ritorPf of Lincoln to the state of Dakota jaffer all Indian reseryation titles shall have” been extinguished apd when the territory shall have a-populqtion equal to the ratio-re-quired to entitle it 10 -a representative in congress. Th¢ reservation of tpis right of annexation 18| to ‘be recognized and iirevocably fixed in [the constitution 'of Dakota, but congress may at jts diseretion admit Litrcoln as a sfate instead of annexing it to Dakota,: . e : G ;

CONGRESSIONAL. . Senate: . Feß. I.—Seyeral Senators made speeches to-day ou the Hoar electoral countbill. Mr. Hoar explainad that” the.bill before the Senate was the result ofmore than twelve ?'ears’ discussjon in that body, and that it had been pasged three timas, There ‘were two things that Mr Hoar supposed were fixed for the present generation; Kirst, tha the president of the Senate was not inA trusted- with [ the exclusive power to count the Presidential vote, and second, that the i\ower was ot vested exclusively .in the House of R presentatives, He “opposed Mr. Sherman’s proposed amendment to submit disputed questions of double returns: from 4 state 1o the House and Senate jointly.. The arbiler sclected by Mr,. Sherman’s amendment ywould be eomposed of abeut four hundrefl eager political partisans—men - whose future and whose success in

life might be| intimately involved in their deeision. It/would be a body in ‘which individual res )ons‘xbilic?v- would be. wholly lost—a body fwith no character 6f its own. to sustain, b e Mr. Shermpan said that. whatever we did involved more or less daliﬁ!‘. ‘The amendment submitted by Mr., ar involved its ‘special danger, 1t gave the Governor of a state authority to certify the rettrns in case there were two sets. i Mr. Ingalls characterized the whole eleetoral system provided by the* Constitution as ‘Wlebris,” and the electors like the marionettes in a *Punch and Judy” show. The eountry had outgrown: the thing and the people had repudiated it. Wlhy, then, should we tinker with it? It had no longer any significance or substance. Any attempt to patch it pp or to lpl:xsharwer its deformities was merely delaying the action which _ié.xe people just finally take with regard to 1 P b oI f ~__The sengte passed a bill providing for the: division off the-Sioux reservation, Dakota, and the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder. - Bills were introduced to appropriate ¥150,0€0 for buildings and material used or destroyed by the federal army in Nashville, and for a” public bnilding at Beatrice, Nebraska, =~~~ .~ ° .

FEeB, 2,—ln the senate, Mr. - Riddleberger oﬂ‘ereci a resolution ‘that thie president’ is not restricted by law in removing officials, and that the senate has no right to require a statement of Liis reasons for. susßensw_u,s. Mr, Pugh submitted a substitute, declaring the president responsible to the P'eople for removals or suspension from office.. The electoral-count biil, " with: all the amendments proposed, was recommitted. = Mr, Chase introduced a bill to prevent congressmen from recommending appointments: to office, arnrd Mr. Harris ameasura appropriating §75,000 to establish a'bureau of public health. | The secretary of ‘the treasury answered a resolution .of inquiry by stating that ‘NO assistant ‘treasurver has been in--structed tq refuse to issue certificates on. deposits of silver dollars, L Ve " Fes. B,—The chair Jaid before the senate a letter from the -attorney general asking . an additional a;wrmria;ion of $50,000 for gsuror(%(ff the United States courts and $135,000 for witnesses. 1t was referred to the congmittee on appropriations, 7 : Among the measures reported favorably from tlie committees was a resolution bﬂ Mr. Frye, reported, as he: believed, “wit unanimity”. trom the committee 1 -foreign relations, declaring it to be the %imon of the senate that congress ought not to provide fora joint commission of Greal ,Eri—' tain and -the United: States in relation to the fisheries.. Placed ou the ealendar.

< Benator Cameron, from the committee on nayal affairs, veported favorably his bill authorizing the prosident to apfpoint'from civil life an assistant secretary of the navy at a salary of $14,0)0 a year.: ; " A-bill was passed for the benefit of the states of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, and Kansas, jand Nevada, and tlievterritm'ies of Washingten and Idas ho, 1 lprovides that in ¢ase of the loss of original vouchers reqtl)lired by ‘law for.the settlement of claims by the states and territories named, the seeretary of war may ‘agcept eopies thereof properly. certified by the state and territory officers, * ' s Frn. 4.—The senate adjourned to-da without. coming to a vote -on the Dakotg bill cont&ary to expectations. Mr. Harrison addresse L the senate in support of the bill, and after he had finished speaking Mt.'gutr. ler (8. C,) took the floor.to reply. ~ Mr. Call (Fla.) asked Mr, Butler to give way to an executive session and he consented, but. the 'repli licans refused e?, go 'into executive session until a time had been fixed upon for a vote on the bill, - Mr. Beck (Ky.) said that -in Mr. Vest’s g,?senee “he would not’ consent to the fixing of a time, = Cont Ilm aros%over d%h.e e gﬁb@m&% finally an adjournment was taken. .~ % da'gh debate fo%?xe ibtll Wﬂ%ﬁ@ tos y-quite animated. In the ecou € 0% his spee ﬁt‘ﬂn 80N dm&i f . the real animus "E&ié?gﬁ. 16 obj sctions to ’ 4 3 - RYesidential € "i‘:’i.’iz.': L ;‘v"l‘»" g’

‘pass Beford thé peoplé of Dakofa were to be - %rmmed to p tw“i’m.te:in raueh»e?g“c’tions. ; v. Morgan (Ala.) said that Mr. Harrison, who was evidently a candidate for the presideney, might not have a c&anoe at the votes of Dakota, for-he (Mr. Morgan) did not think that he would riren in four years. Mr. Harrison replied that if he ever should be a candidate, a!thouﬁh he would not be sare but that he might justly claim the ‘eleetoral vote of Alabama, he never would exgect to-have it counted for him. . pon the reading by Mr, Harrison of papers in contradiction of those read by dem- . ocratic senators to show the. feeling prevalent in Dakota with rﬁgard, tothe question of admission, one senator brought down the “house and senate by quoting King 'Hem?[y’s -exclamation: “On, Lord, howtisis world is given to lying!” When, at agother time, Mr. Harrison asked amid laughter whether Mr. Butler would have entitled the constitution of Dakota.” **The Constitution of the Siate of Dakota, by the Grace of God and the Senator from South Carolina,” Mr. Butler turned the laugh against his opponent bg repiying: - *No; I should have s_impli’ said ‘By the grace of the senator from Indiana. ;

¥y B, s—The senate closed its long and wrang ing debate over the admission of South Dakota into the unioun as a’ state today by passing the bill of the committee on! territories. A vote was first taken on the Butler substitute. which was an act to enable the people of Dakota to frame a state constitution, ete,, and it was rejected bﬂ' a votz of—yeas 22, nays 33, | A vote was then taken on the bilb itself, whieli resulted in—yeas. 82, nays 22, The negative ~vip,te was . wholly democratic. The aflirmative vote was made up of thirty-one repnblicans and one democrat—Nr. Voorhees (Ind ). The. -bill as it was ra.ssed divides the territory of ~Dakota on the line of the 46th paraliel of latitude; provides for the admission of the southern portion as a state under the title of "Dakota, and the organization of the northern portion into a seperate (territory under the name of Lincoln. “Mr. Randall (Pa.) reported the pension bill from the a;:{n'npriahion committee, and it - was referred tothe committee of, the whole,” The biil as reported apgmm’i’ates $75,7°4,200, an increase of about $15,000,000 over last year. - It is made up as foliows: For ariny and navy pensions, ~§75,000,0003 for fees and expenses ol examining-sur--geons, $5,000,000; for salaries of eighteen - pension agents, $72,00); for miscellaneoys ‘expenses, meluding clerk hire, rents, ete., $182,200. ; - : . ‘The Senate adjourned until Monday. g & 5 : House.. - ; . Feß. I.—ln the House to-day Mr. Watson moved to suspend the rules and put upon its passage the bill increasing the pension of soldiers’ widows from $8 to §l2, with an amendment providing that this act shall apply only to widows wlho were married to the deceased soldier prior to its passage and ‘tosthose who may hereafter marry ;Rrxor to or-during the service ot the soldier. Mr.; Browne, of Indiana, inquired whether the effeef ofsthe passage of the bill under a suspension of the rules would be to put to one side the amendment’ which was pending to the bill, repealing the limitation on | the arrears of pension act, and on receiving | an affirmative response moved that the | House adjourn. This was lost—yeas, 93; nays, 171, - A hively partisan debate ensued, at the conclusion of wiich the motion to suspend the rules and' pass the bill was agreed to—yeas. 198; nays, 66, | FEB. 22—A1l of to-day in the House was devoted to cloguies on the late Thomas A. Bendricks, Mr. Hoiman offered the follow.ing ‘resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That the House has received .with profound Ssorrow the intelligence of the death of Thomas A. Hendricks, late Vice President of the United States. Resolved, . That the business of the House bé suspended in order that the eminent services and private virtues of the deceased may be ap})rumxiutely commemorated, - Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to. communieate these resolutions to the Senhate, . Addresses were made by Bynum, Long, Browne, Randall, S%\ringcr and others high"ly -eulogistic of the deceased Statesman.

F¥EB. 3.—The speaker laid before the House a communication from the seeretary of the treasury recommending the appropriation of #525,000 to enlarge the United States penitentiary at Boise City, Indian territory. Referred. Also a econmnunieation from the postmaster general in response to a house resolution’calling for, information as to what changes should be niade in the law regulating compensation to railroad companiss for carrying ‘the mails. The postmaster general states that up to the present time he has 'been unable to form any clear opinion as to what changes should be made 1 the law, At a future day, he states, he will be able to lay before ‘the house all the information which zinquiries that have been instituted and dre approaching completion will atford. Referred. M. Morvison, of Illinois, from the committee on ways and means, reported a resolution calling on the seeretary of the treasury to re.port to the house the total amount applied to the sinking fund between June 30, 1884, anid Juiy L, 188, and under what dates and in what sever?l amounts the same was applied. . Adopted. e Fpß, 4.—After the reading of the journal! which consumed more than half an hoar,’ the s%w'aker proceeded to call the committees for reports, but 10 measures pf publie importance were submitted. \ in the nmmin% hour, Mr. Culhertson, of. Texas on behalf ot the committée on the judiciary, ecalied up the bill dividing the eastern judicial district of Arkansas into two districts, to be known as the eastern and western divisions of the eastern disricts of Arkansas. Passed.| He also called up and the| house passed the bill to detach Hood county from the Waco branch of the northern judicial district of Texas, and attach it.to the Graham' branch of said distriet, - He also called up% and the house ?aSSed, a bill providing tha in addition to the present mode of taking depositions of witnesses in cases gending before United States courts it shall be law{ul" to take depositions in the mvde prescribed by the laws of the State in whieh the court is held. /The house also passed Mr. Dingley’s shipping bill, with an amendment that any vessel arriving at a port in distress, and not engaged in trade, shall be exempt_from ton= nage tax. ! : . ;

FEB. s.—ln the House to-day, on mation . of Mr. Laird of Nebraska, a resolution was ‘adopted making the Eitz'hohn Porter bill a continuing special arder from Thursday the 11th inst, until Thurday the 18th inst., ine_ cluding a night session Tuesday evening, Congressmen Mm})hy of Towa, Piumb of Ilinois, and Cole of Maryland have been a‘ppomted a sub-commiitee of the House Committee on Railways and Canals to con= sider the Henndpin Canal matter. This of! course insures ja faverable report on the bill, for Messrs. Mwrphy and Plumb are both ardent . supporters of Hennepin, - and Cole, who is for the Maryland and Delaware Canal, is a ]j;unepin—()a.na.l man for eb- - ViOous reasons. R {

GENERAL MARKETs, CHICAGO. e " Warar—Higher: Feb., 193@79%c; Mch., 793{780c; May, €47%.aSs¥e. %‘Onx——Hig{}er; Fg:;;., 4%’;/4/ 363 c; March, 8634 ¢ 361¢c: May, 401 «401fc. ﬁATséﬁigher; Feb., ‘2‘5;'%19 281¢c¢; March, 2856 a 283 c. o et ]’J'.‘OVI[:IONS——Y\[eSS Pork lower: .Feb, $11.05211.05; March, $11.05 ((11‘.05; L“layd [email protected], Lard—Lower; ¥eb., \36‘-1“ @6.105 March, £6.15«6.15; May, §[email protected]: - CATrrne—Market steady, We'quote: | ¢ -Extra Choice Catt1e...............5540 /560 Good Shipping 5teer5............. 430 . 4.80 Medium 5teer5.....iic............. 815 24.00 Hoas—Market firm! Sales ranged from $4.00.. 4.15 far light; $4.20 = 4.40f0r heavy. Woor—Continued firm and active. Sales were readily effected at about the following range of prices; ¢ Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and : “ Fastern lowa. Coarse, tub, 24@27c: Medium, tub, 30@34c; Fine, unwashedq 17@28c; Medium, unwgghed, R4a6e; Coarse, unwashed, 22@23c; ~Burry, unwashed, 14@160; Fine, washed, 28@30c; Medium, washed, 81@sRe: Coarse, washed, 27@?80‘ Sl Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas and Fi W(;stgrn ﬁ%}’»‘i"‘sk“ix di un : e, unwashed, clcy edinm. = washed, 20@%2¢; Coarse, unwashed, 20@216 3 Y . NEW YORK.. ot WinrAT—Lower: No. 2 February, 90@ 9lc: March, 91 91%e: May, 94@idi{c.— g.ORN—Qmﬂ; Mixed Western -Spot, 51@: . Sl oy . © MILWAUKEE. - WapaT—Higher; February, 59}c; May, 85e¢. - _g&m——h‘ﬁm 'at_B6lsc fox"xN'D.;S.—’- v Oars—Firm; No, 2 Wihite, 283%ec. RYE— Dull; 58¢ for No. 1. i Tissimss CINCINNATL . Frouvg—Fair demand; Family [email protected]. WaEAY—Firm at 98¢, ~ConN;-Stl'om§) at B%c. Oamrs—Steady at 81ljc. Ryr—Dull at 65c. ProvisioNs—Pork steady at $11.25, Lard steady at !fﬁ.l% Bulk Meats §4.25 @ 5.50. Bacon $6.15 .6.35, ;

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