Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 January 1895 — Page 2

PASSING IN REVIEW. Summary of Important- Events During the Year 1894. X.tat of the .Host Illustrious Dead —Legislative ami roliticah Action—Disasters, Idprders, .Suicides, Hangings aiul Fires. The necrological list of 1?94 contains an unusually long array of names of persons eminent in the various departments of the world’s industries, literature has lost Constance Fenimore Woolson. one of tho best of our women novelists, whose name is familiar to all magazine readers; George W. Childs, the philanthropist and publisher, an enlightened .patron '¥f books and authors and a staunch frieYl of the printer; Dr. \V. F. Poole, the Ypreinost of American librarians, whose.work was specially illustrated in the organization of the Newberry library in Chicago; Prof. William Robertson Smith, an oriental scholar of rare attainments; Dr. Philip Spitta, who has enriched musical leterature with kisfacolossal work, the “Life of Sebastian Bach," as well as with numerous esr cays;. Henry .Worley, tho English essayist; Edmund H. Yates, equally celebrated as critic, correspondent and author; Prof. W. 11. Whitney, tho philologist of Yale ..college; Walter Pater, one of the most charming of modern*essay writers; Celia L. Thaxter, the New England poetess of the ocean; Prof. 11. K. Brugsch, the Egyptologist; Oliver Wendell Ilolmcs, the. Autocrat and humorist of world-wide fame: Jambs Anthony Froude, the historian, and Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the most popular novelists of the day, who dred in his far-away Saha.an homo*, mourned by thousands of readers in this country and in Europe, la Politics.. From tire world of politics ami statesmanship tacrChave departed W. 11. Waddington, ex-preini'-r 01 i ranee, who had' made a distinguished reputation in diplomatic circles; Louis Kossutli. the Hungarian hero and revolutionist. whose long struggle for the freedom of bis country stirred the whole Civilized world heturly half ago; M. Sadiof France, who fell a victim to anarchistic fury; A. G. Curtin, the •War governor of Pennsylvania:- Robert C. Win.throp. ex-member id congress, contemporary of Clay and- Webster, and oiie of the best historical scholars -fti tlie'country; Gen. N. P. Banks, cx-s-.ieaker of'llie house ;-Judge. JaiAes IV. MeDiiL member of the interstate commerce. commission; United States. Senators Colquitt ('.Vance (N.C.). and StOckbridge (Mich.); es-Gov Samuel- J. Kirkwood, of lowa, and William IVul-ter Phelps, of New Jersey. Music ami tho Drama. The'musical ami dramatic world has lost some of its most eminent representatives, though the lers.s is largely confined to tlie musical department It includes Hans Guido von Bulow, the pianist and composer, who had a most remarkable career; Ernest Camille Sivori. the Italian violinist, who half a century ago was all the Janet M. Patsy, one of the few ,(*Teat contralto .oratorio singers; Agnesley Cook. tho English opera basso; Marie Alboni-Pepbli. unquestionably the greatest contralto singer the world has had; Mine. Fursch-Madi, the prima donna; Emanuel C'habrier, a favorite French composer: and Anton Gregor Rubinstein, tho Russian composer and pianist, whose death was a loss to the whole world of music. The dramatic stage lias lost tho two -Yokes sisters, Resina and Victoria,, who have delighted thousands with tlmir merriment, and Steele Mackayc. the eccentric genius and visionary, who died oi the labor involved by his many daring schemes.

Art, too. has been a great sufferer. During the year there have died Joseph Iveppler, proprietor of Puck and tlie most accomplished cartoonist in the United States; Wiliiam Hart, the landscape painter, whose llnisked work and smooth touch gave him so much reputation some yburs ago; George P. A. Healy. or ! of the most eminent of American portrait painters; George Inness. who in tho future will be accorded the hightest place among American landscape painters; Launt Thompson, tho sculptor, and P. A. Hamerton. not only an artist, blit' an authority in art criticism recognized yie world over. Religion and the Law. The religious world mourns the loss of Rev. R. W. Patterson and Prof. Swing, both of them connected with the lire and growth of Chicago; Dr. James McCosli, the ex-presi-dent of Princeton college, who has made valuable contributions to the literature of religion and philosdphy; and Rev. Dr. W. G. T. Sliedd. the learned professor of the Union theological seminary. From the ranks of the law there have departed George Ticknor Curtis, David Dudley Field. John Duke Coleridge, the English lord chief.justice, all famed not alone as jurists, but as writers on constitutional. historical Sand international topics*connected with their profession. The most eminent physician Avho has passed away is Dr. Browniiequard, the famous Parisian specialist. Science. Science will miss Prof. Hermann von Helmholtz. whose researches, particularly in the realms of light, sound and electricity. have •been of invalaable service to the world, and Ferdinand de Lessees, whoge engineering skill gave the Suez CanaWb the nations, but whose lame has been clouded by tho unfortunate ecandals growing out of his latest project, the .Panama canal. In Other Walks of Life. The world of education has lost one brilliant representative, Elizabeth Peabody, who has done such a great work for children. Tho army world loses Gen. Jubal A. Early of the ■confederate servico and Gen. Henry YV. Slocum of the union army.. Two eminent foreign editors, John Walter of the London Times and Francis Magnard of the Paris Figaro, have passed away. .Royalty has a great sufferer, its only victims being Muley Hassan, Morocco; Comte de Paris, the French Claimant; and Czar Alexander 111. of Russia. Legislative. Tho year 1894 was memorable for many things in America. The legislative history of the United states presents some points of interest. Congress reconvened January 3. The Wilson*! a riff bill, which-was reported to the house December 19. 1893, with the income tax amendment, was passed February 1, 189*1. After reference to the senate committee it was reported back with amendments Marcji 21. Jt passed the senate July 3 and the conferr.ces were- appointed on the same day. The house accepted the senate amendments August 13. It became aJw August. 27 without the president’s signature. •The bill repealing the federal election law passed the senate February 7 and the Behring sea bill April 5. On the 17th of April the house passed the quorum-counting rule. The bill to repeal the 10-per-cent tax on state banks was defeated In the house June 6. The anti-option bill passed the house June 22. The bill to admit New Mexico in the union was passed by the house June '.’B, and that admitting Utah Julv 10. On the next day the land forfeiture bill was passed by the house.- The Bailey bankruptcy . bilU passed the hduso July 13. ,On the 21st the 1 house passed a resolution providing for the election of senators by direct vote. £ bill providing for the inspection of immigrants and punishment of anarchists was passed by the senate August 0. .The remaining ac t of legislation was the passage of tho railroad pooling bill by the house December 11. Financial. The money problem was the cause of much anxiety in business and financial circles. The continued outflow of gold rendered it necessary in February to sell bonds for (*50.000.000, and another issue for the same amount had to be made in November, llieso were 5-per cent, bonds, and the prices realized for tj:cm were about equal to an allowance of 3 percent, for tho use of monw, oy the government. Silver has ° declined urther. tending to weakness all through the year except during Cue short time thft a silver loan to China was under discussion. Last month it sold in. London ♦fr a price equivalent to 6ft cents per fine jounce, giving 43.4 cents as tho value, of the jjure silver in the United States dollar, and a ratio of about to 1. Four weeks ago Secretary Carlisle submitted a neweu: reney ■aoheme, which was indorsod by the president

in his message.-but met with such violent op- \ position that the house curreh- : cy and hanking has agreed on a substitute ! which is understood to be acceptable to Secretary Carlisle and will be introduced in the ! house at an early day. It provides that banks ! may-issue currency to 75 per cent, of their j real capital on deposit of 80 per cent, of ' the amount in legal tenders.'currency, certiflr j cates, etc., and paying- tax to a redemption 1 fund of 5 per cent. It proposes to allow state banks to issue currency of any denomination, I while national banks are to be limited to notes of not less than £lO each, the 10 per cent, tux to , be nominally retained tor suite banks which ! wish to issue circulation not protected by the conditions named. AiipMJ*fr*ncntß. c A few executive appointments have been made, some of which attracted widespread in- ; terosL January 15 W. 13. Hornblower was ! nominated to the supreme bench, but was re- j jeet.ed by the senate after a memorable contest j by Senator Hill. January 22 the name of Wht*eie.r H. Peckham was sent to the senate j and it, too. was rejected by the same influ- I ences: February 19 the name of Senator F.d- ' ward I>. White, of Louisiana, was sent in and ; the long fight was ended by his confirmation. 1 The president called for the resignation of the Utah commission April 11, and residents of the new stat e were appointed in their places. ! 'The <yily treaties cf tlio year are one with i China, making-some concessions, and one with Japan, recognizing her as a civilized and inde- ' pendent nation. j The Great Strike. The memorable event of the year has been the disturbance.of indust rrul conditions by mob violence growing indirectly out of the strike at Pul lonian. It was heralded by, marches of c ommonweal armies, to .Washington, like those of C'oxey's and Randall's, In the same month there were some strikes—a lockout at Chicago called by the Central Building .league, a miners’ strike attended by considerable violence, and a strike on the Croat Northern railroad which was soon settled by J arbitration.. The great strike at Pullman in June ’Was followed by* 1 a boycott of Pullman cars ordered by the American railway.union. The railroad strike begun uponnhe Illinois Central'road, rapidly spread, and the Knights of Labor, joined in sympathy. The claim was made that the strikers were interfering ‘ with the movement of the mails and passenger' traffic, and that the Chicago and elsewhere were destroying property. The federal courts, issued injunctions. As little he< and was paid to them, however, the state militia and federal troops were-culled out. The* trades unions "of Chicago attempted to strike, but the strike was a comparative failure. As violence increased and millions of property were destroyed the President issued his proclamation of warning to the rioters, and by the liberal use of troops they were finally Vtispersed. with slight loss"of life, •property was protected, and the roads were again put in regular running order. Both houses of congress sustained the president in his action. July 10 Debs and other leaders of the American Kailway.union were indicted and a week later-they were also cited to appear for contempt tef court. August 5 the railroad strike was.declared off and September 5 the strike at Pullman.' Meanwhile the president appointed Carroll D. Wright, John 1). Reman and N. 1). Worthington a commission to, investigate the wjiole question of labor disturbances, and tlisit commission- has made its report, Debs and his associates have been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to imprisonment in jail. The sentence was subsequently suspended for an opportunity to test the jurisdiction of the court. Fleet ions. At the, fall elections t-lie democratic majority j in the house wax rep 1 act'd by a republican ma- ■ jority of 134. the next house standing republicans, 245; democrats, 105; populists, 0; jrunicipal Reform. The wave of municipal reform which has swept over the country originated in’New York, where the general disgust withTa.m'rnany corruption was stirred up to furious indignation by the disclosures of the Lexow investigation. The feeling was strong enough at election time to secure the crushing defeat of Tammany, from Mr. llill, the candidate for governor, to the lowest man on the ticket.

Hawaii. The year has been marked also by the close, of the Hawaiian controversy. At the beginning of the year the United States minister was still negotiating with Queen Lilliuokalajii. The provisional government was asked to restore her authority, but refused. Thereupon Mr. Willis was notified that the whole matter was left with congress. - Resolutions passed the house declaring against interference In Hawaiian affairs, and a similar’policy was adopted by the senate. Meanwhile the provisional government kept steadily on with its work of organization. A constitution was promulgated and adopted in June and on the Fourth of July, the republic was proclaimed, with S. U. Dole as the first president. On the 7th of August the government was recognized by the United. States. ' China and Japan. In Alia the war between Japan and China has occupied the attention of the whole world. It broke out in June as the outcome of a dispute between the two powers as to the'® rights of suzerainty in Corea. Both landed troops in Corea, but the Chinese were driven uot speedily. The war was transferred to Chinese soil, and by a rapid succession of victories cn land and sea the Chinese power has been broken and the empire now lies the mercy of Japan. Negotiations for peace are pending, and Japan has received the congratulations of the world for the skill and valor with which it has overcome its huge enemy. Central and South America. Central America as usual has been the theater of almost endless revolutions. Theeflort to form a union between-Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras. San Salvador and Costa Kica, from which so much was hoped, has failed In South America Brazil has been the center of interest. The rebellion there has been squelched, 'except in some of the outlying provinces. The chiefs of the rebellion are fugitives, and the new president, Moraes, has inaugurated what appears to be a firm and stable government. Notable Disasters. Tho worst disasters of 1894 have been as follows: In January 6 were killed at a fire in feuffalo, N. Y., 7by an avalanche in the Appentnes. 16 in a railroad wreck in Cuba. 500 by a temple fire at Ning. Ho. Chiua, 21 by a fire at Esealon, Mexico. 100 by. ah earthquake in Mongolia. 10 ' by an avalanche in the Rocky mountains, 8 by fire at'the Boone county (la.J. poor.-fnrm, 16 by a falling building at Gotha. Germany, and 15 in a railroad wreck at Samara, Russia. In February 7 lost their lives by a cyclone in Alabama. 7 by a railroad at Compiegne, Franco. 8 by an explo ion in Paris. 12 by storm in England. 13 by a mine accident at Plymouth. . 19. by a storm in Germany. 13 by a railroad wreck at Jelan. Russia.. 45 by / r nxplo-.ion of a "German- war vessel. 28 by hufeibane in Australia. 8 by a mine accident at Blossburg, N. M.. 50 by hurricane at Manritius, and 2> by boiler sxplosion at Alexanderoa.sk. Russia. In March 11 perished by tiro at Oscarsfiahiin, Sweden, 18 by lire at Hongkong, 29 by cyclone In Texas*6 by drowning at Uako Putzenario, Mexico. 6by tire at Laon. France. 30 by dynamite explosion at Santander. Spain. 10 by mine accident in Keweenaw county by fire at Hinton, Va.. 11 by mine accident at Koszelew, Poland, and 23 by snow-slides in Idaho and Oregon. In April 11 were killed In a mine in Breslau, Germany. 7 by tire at Frankfort, Germany,. 15 by lire at Petersburg, Va., 10 by the fall of a building at Memphis. 18 in a mine in Japan', 9 by theater fire in Milwaukee. 13 by fife in Buffalo, 211 by earthquake m Thibet. 4i>o by earthquake in Greece, 10 by fire at .Ivanovo,.Russia, 10 by fire in New.Orleans. IS in a mine at Mons, Belgium. 200 by drowning m Roumania and 12 by a landslide in Canada. In May 12 were killed by explosion in Hamburg, Germans*. 15 000 by earthquake in Venezuela 7 by cyclone.in Ohio. 10 by floods in Pennsylvania, i jOO by floods in China, 6 in a mine .at Auderlues, Belgium.2Hr u, floods in India. Bby fl axis lu British Columbia, and 11 by a flood atjba bio. • 010. In June 200 lost, their lives in a railroad •wreck in -an S. lvad >r. 50 by flood in Spain, 10 by a < ’ojdbuusi. I ura ige, Mexico. 10 by cyclone at Y. uhlic.i. Mexico. 6 by lire at P.o. li nd, \ .Ore., 20 Yy drowning at Brighton; Col.. HI by

fire at Yamagadi. Spain, 232 in a mine in Slieia. 45 by drowning at Samara, Russia. 254 lu a mine at Asluriu, Spain, and 15 by cyclone in Minnesota. In July 20 were killed by earthquake in Japan. 100 by drowning at Tokay, Hungary, 10 in a railroad wreck at Biscay. Spain. 10J by earthquake in Constantinople, 13 by lightning in Schnetz, Prussia, 10 in a mine in Hazleton, Pa., 15 by a cloudburst near Saltido, Mex., and 20 by forest fires in Wisconsin. In August 10 perished by drowning in Wales, 50 by earthquake in Sicily, 100 by cyclone in Spain, 15 by flood in Mexico. 1,000 by hurricane in the sea of Azof. 300 by flood in Texas, and 1,000 by fire in Canton. China. In September 700 lost* their lives by forest fires in Wisconsin and MirinQsota. 20 by drowning in England. 25’by forest fires in Canada, 50 in a railroa<£wj;eck near Paris, 100 by fire at Chin-King. China. 53 by cyclone in ItfwaNand 50 by waterspout in Mexico. . J * In October 200 perished by flood by a waterspoufin Venezuela. 5 by eye lone in Arkansas, 200 by explosion in NicarygYla. G 5 by i a storm near .Key WcD* 7 by fire in Detroit, 1 300 by cyclone in Japan. 9 in a railroad wreck at Chatham, England, 10 by storm in. New ; York City, 15 by storm in San Domingo, ! 17 by lire at Grosay, Russia, 85 in a mine at Pesth, 20 by fire and 100 by flood in China, 00 by explosion in Rio Janeiro. 260 by earthquake : in Japan, 2.000 by earthquake in the Argentine Republic. 1(3 by fire at Seattle, Wash, 7 by a tenement-house fire in New York city, and 15 by-lire in Joenkoeping. Sweden. In November 100 perished by,.earthquake in Mexico. 15 by volcanic eruption in Mexico, 150 . by cloudburst in Venezuela. 20 in a mine in Bohemia. 300 by earthquake in Japan, 100 by 1 earthquake in Bolivia, 20 in a mine in Saxony, ; 43 by. flood in Cyprus, 225 by earthquake in Italy. 8 in a mine at Collier’s' Station, W. Ya.. 22 by explosion in Honduras, 9 by snowslide at Monte C’risto. Wash.. 20 by earthquake at Quinto and 38 by lire in China. In December 10 were killed in a rail rolld ..wreck in Russia. 5 by -an explosion at Ottawa, Ont.. 14 by a tidal wave at JJjijjafria, '7/by earthquake in the New Hebrides, 12 by/raiLroad wreA’k in New South Wales, 7by boiler explosion at West Bay City. Mich., 19 by railroad wreck at Chalfii.rd,'Eng.. 100 by storm in England. 40 by lire at Silver Lake, (ire., and 50 by flood in Colombia. „ Various Disasters by tl;;> United States. I The following table gives the loss of life resulting from various disasters' in this country as reported by mail and telegraph: Brownings... JI.H3 Mim s.. 475 Fires .'1.077 Cyclonesnnd spins 517 Explosions..., .... 789 Lightning 367 Falling b’hi's, etc. 775, Epidemics. The prevailing epidemics of the year have been cholera, its ravages having been the worst in Russia, the plague in China, ;fhd smallpox . in the Pacific islands. -The rfflal number of j deaths reported has been 179.910, as compared ' with 00.000 in 1893. 503.311 in 1892. 33.220 in 1891 ; and 50.00 uin 1890. The distribution of these - losses has been us Allows: China —..." 158.372 Turkey 442 Russia.... 11,403 'Germany 154 : Philippine Isl- Holland 42 ancls 4.010 Poland ... 25 Galici.a 3.111, Belgium 48 Canary Islands.. I.o’o Portugal.A; •Spain -lj - Battles. The loss of life in battles in 1894 is much 1 larger than that of 1593. owing largely to the Chinese-Japanese war. The total loss, roughly estimated, was 82.570. as compared with 11.481 i last year, and mainly distributed as follows: j China and Japan . li'..Mh .\g.V|t 4,000 Armenia.......... 10. <-o South Africa 620. Brazil 6.781' Java 500 Central America.. 5.149 .vlo.vco 351 ' Sierra Leone 5 <>V India...' 294 Railroad, Disasters. The loss of life by railroad disasters' for the year was 3.6-18. as compared with 4,603 in 1893, j 4,428 in 1892, 3.2(31 in 1891 and 3.420 in 1890. The j number of seriously injured was 2,397. as compared with 4.804 in 1893. 3,383 in 1892, 2,707 in v j 1891 and 2,740 in 1890. Summary of Disasters. As accurately as can be estimated 6,804 lives have been lost upon the ocean. 77 upon inland waters, 3.648 by railroads, 25,071 by disasters abroad. 7.716 by disasters at homo. Adding to 1 these 82.570 by battle and 179,910 by- pestilence makes a total of 305,790.

Suicides. The total number of persona who have committed suicide in the United Statei-Tdtiring 1894 is 4*9.12. as compared with 4,136 iii 1893. 3.8(3) in 1892, 3 331 in-1891, 2,t'40 in 1890. and 2.224 in 1889. The total is larger than of any of the last twelve years, of this numbqr 3,876 were males and 1.036 P-irTales. Physicians still head the list, as compared with professional men, forty-five of 'them having taken their lives it,s compared with seven ministers. The causes suicide were a follows: Despondency 1.9991 111-health .1 270 Unknown.\. 1.310 Difn. infelicity.... 241 Insane ......V..... 457] Disap't'd love L 32 Liqu0r...... .V... iH| Business losses... 122 In these self-murder 1.729 poisoned themselves. l,so4\shot themselves, 720 hanged themselve.s. '373 drowned themselves. 347 cut their throats, 83 threw themselves in front of trains. 72 stabbetf themselves. 51 threwnhemselves from roofs and Windows, 24 set themselves afire, 5 starved themselves, and 4 blew themselves up with dynamhq. The novclfeatwre in this horrible business fs.that in 1894 poison took the place of tho pistol for the first time as the leading agency of self-murder. IU orders. The total number of murders committed in 1894 shows a startling increase over 1893, being 9.800 as compared with 6.615 In 1893, 6.791 in 1892. 5.906 in 1891. 4.290 in 1890, and 3 567 in 1889, a record rapidly increasing ithd put of all proportion to the increase of population. The causes of these murders may be classified as follows: Quarrels...........4.s36[Highw'ymen killed 204 Unknown l,BJVf|Strikes. 179 Jealousy.. 812 Insanitf 126 Liquor 770jSelf-defense 99 By highwaymen.,. 525 Outrago 49 Infanticide 340 Riots 25 Resisting arrest... 273 j Legally Executed. The'number of legal executions in 1894 was 122. as compared with 126 in 1893 and 107 in 1892. There were 91 executed in the south and 41 in the north. ■\Verk of Judge Lynch. Judge Lynch has executed 190 persons, IST men and three women, during 1894, ton less than last year. The following record of lynchings since 1885 shows that these horrible outrages are slowly decreasing: 1885. 148; 1886, 138; 1887. 122; IPB3, 142: 1889. 176; 1890, 127; 1891, 193; 1892. 2: 5; 1893,200; 1894,190. Os the lynchings in 1891 166 occurred in the south and 24 in the north. Embezzlements. Th,p record of dishonesty continues to be appalling. Embezzlers, defaulters, swindlers, and hank wreckers have succei dedMn stealing $25,234,112 of other people's, money, as vompared with $19,929,692 last year. Out of 629 cases reported 44 stple over $50,000, 37 over SIOO,OOO, 4 over 1500 OOOTand 4 over i1.000.000. __l * *ire* ... ■ The losses by tire in 1894 aggregate $154,127, 012 as compared with SIBB 356.940 for the preceding year, a decided falling off in the volume. Os these fires those with losses of SIOO,000 and upwards Contributed $65,224,300 and smaller fires $88,493,342. A lirlglit Spot. As an offset to the black record of rascality printed here it is pleasure to record a generous bestowal, by will br otherwise, of money upon churches.' colleges, charitable institutions. museums, art galleries, libraries, etc., amounting to $19,967,f 10, as compared witli $33,319.866 last year. 1 nlored Folks Celebrate. Montoomkky, Ala., .Jan. 2.—The colored people of .Montgomery celebrated Emancipation day 'Tuesday by a public parade and a speech by Booker T. Washington, principal of the colored normal school at Tuskegfee. Ilia speech was very favorably .commented, upon by both white and black and was filled with good ail vice as to the two races living together in peace and cpiiet. ' Chicago’s death rate for the year wan only 15.1 per 1.000, proving It.to be th® healthiest city in the world.

CURRENCY DISCUSSED. Carlisle’s Bill Under In the National House of Representatives. On January 3 Mr. Black (dem.. Ga.) resumed the debate on the currency question which had been interrupted by he hol'day recess. He denied that the, I>.in . rur an 1 currency committee had heard < r.jv national bankers while, considering pending measure and had turned a deaf ear to all others. Legislation had not caused all tho tunc^funder 'which'\ the people- were suffering. he said. It might have contributed \to Ahcir misfortune, and. he believed the of the present bill would contribute, to their relief, but. he deprecated the feeling abroad in tho land that for all the ills and misfortunes of the people they should turn to congress. Mr. Black’s advocacy of state banks of issue was ardent, but he concluded by expressing the opinion that the only reul function of the goverment was the coinage of gold and silver. Mr. Haughen (rep., YVis.) described the currency bill, as a crude, ill-considered measure, fraught with dangers.to the country, and created considerable amusement by his reference to Mr. Springer's nreition last summer, w hen he (Springer) antagonized the repeal of tho otate bank tax. He referred to Mr. Springer as the most “agile” member on the floor, one whose voice had been on every side of every question, and said the administration had made no mistake-when it had selected' him to press the proposition for a “flexible and elastic” currency. ; Mr McCreary (do*n., Ky.) said he had examined all the plans suggested for a reform of the currency, and he regarded the Carlisle bill, as amended by this Springer ineditication as the best, solution of the problem offered He was opposed, he said, to funding the greenbacks with interest-bearing bonds. Ho .believed the banking business should be divorced front the government: that the greenbacks should be retired by the surplus revenue as rapidly as possible, and that a safe and elastic, currency should bo provided These objects, ho thought, would bo attained by the passage.of the pending bill. Mr. McCreary q, pressed the opinion that in the. event of the failure of some currency legislation at this session. $lo<M:00.oe0 or $I50,(;0).UOU of bonds would have to be issued. On tlie 4th’ Mr. Ilendrix (deni. N. Y.), a banker, continued the debate. Mr. Hendrix dosyribedat length t.lie process by which the gold was withdrawn by 'speculators for shipment then proceeded to contrast this w ith the situation in France, where the bank of 'France refused to pay. except where actually necessary, more than 5 per rent, of gold on its demand obligations. Those aggressions bn our gold reserve must be stopped, and if tfie pending bill would stop them, afford relief, take the government out of the banking business as it had been taken out of the silver business, he would vote for it. Mr. Hendrix said that the pending bill was open to the vital objection that it Would not do what it set out to do. It would not relieve the treasury of the aggressions on%its gold: it wrould be a failure .as a bank measure, because it would superimpose upon an uncertain body of public credit currency a much longer and more uncertain body of private credit'currency. w ithout sufficient foundation under the former. Mr. Sperry (dem.,.Conn.) presented his substitute bo fund the greenbacks with 3 per cent, gold bonds for the information of the house. Mr. Car-util (dem.. Ky.) eulogized Secretary Carlisle and commended the - efforts of tlm administration to solve the currency problem amJ*r.elieye thetreasury unit indorsedthe pending measure. Mr. Hepburn declared that Mr. Hendrix had unwittingly pointed out the remedy for the present evil when he told tie* house that the. great banking houses of Europe exercised their discretion about depleting, their gold vaults. , “Why will not the secretary of the treasury exercise the same discretion?" he -asked, amid a round of appktusd' “iTie exercise* of this discretion did not impair the European banks. Who dared to say that the credit of this country with 68.000.000 of people behind it and an unlimited taxing power would be impaired because it refused to kneel at the demands of the Shy locks V” “Why have not the republican secretaries of the treasury exercised that discretion?" asked. Mr. Ppncp (pop.. C 01.),. “I have not been secretary of the treasury," ' replied. Mr. Hepburn, hotly. "When 1 am I will answer. I am as fully convinced, however,'as I am that 1 am alive that if the secretary of the treasury were now to exercise his discretion and pay gold when legitimate redemptions were asked and refuse it to sharks and speculators the evils from which we suffer would cease to bo.” Mr. lJingley (rep.. Me), placed tlie necessity for remedying the defects in the currency sy.sj.cm above the necessity of relieving the treasury. The treasury had been living on hope for the last eighteenUmontlis and there could be no confidence until tho revenues equaled the expenditures. Mr Diriglcy asserted that the pendiag bHLwould not relieve the treasury. Mr. Gresham (dem., Tex.) •supportedthe bill. Mr. Boatner (dem.. La.) expressed surprise at the opposition to the measure which had developed on the democratic side of the house. He paid a tribute to the abilities of Secretary Carlisle, and dwelt upon the duly of supporting him, which, he said, rested upon democrats.

Mr. Pence (pop . Col.) brought up Secretary Carlisle’s advocacy of silver while a member of the house in supporting the Matthews resolution. and asked if soon after accepting me treasury portfolio he had not announced his intention of paying some of the government's obligations in silver and had been called down. Mr. Boatner replied that it was useless to revive free silver as a' factor of the currency qfiestion. Mr. Bland retorted; “You can’t run the democratic party on republican lines, and no mugwump can change its policy.” Mr, Boat ner continued that it was the mistake of the century when the administration refused to pay obligations in silver as well as gold. “We should no longer keep oursalves on exhibition.” Mr. Boatner concluded, “as unable to agyee on a single measure that promises relief to the people/” Mr. Lacey (rep., la.) followed in opposition l to the bill. Mr. Cockran (dem., N. Y.) deplored the tendency to treat the measure as a party one as likely to wreck it on the rocks of political expediency. “An agitation without result. which would ruffle restored business tranquillity, had better be dropped. If this house succeeds in establishing a monetary system based on human reason and experience of experts. its last days will not be without profit or devoid of honor,” he declared. There were, in ills opinion, questions on which -legislatures could divide along party lines with advantage, but this was not one of them. He said there were many questions on which maqkind had differed from the beginning of civilization and the questions connected with the .finances and political economy were among those oyer which there-had been most disputatation. Nevertheless, he contended that immutable laws controlled these questions. To obey them was to bring blessings; to ignore them the reverse. We can, he declared, no more affect the economic laws by our legislation than we can by the same means affect the laws governing Hie seasons, lie* asked that the question now at issue be considered on the basis of these economic laws. He thought he saw evidences that the judgment of the generation had been warped by the superabundance of talk of the “crime of 1873.” when silver was demonetized, which had involved ihe use of a host of empty phrases asd much mystery, but had brought but very little practical good to the people generally. The tendency to treat Political economy as a mysterious science bad -enabled men to pose as statesmen, who. if they talked common sense, would have been dy,covered, but were able to confute the people 1 y slfouting platitudinous nonsense “1 am not one," said Mr. Cockran, “who pretends that prosperity can be forged in this chamfer or by the law of the land. I believe nil tlit. law and gospel' on the subject of political economy v.: s revealed to the first man when a just God told him that By tho sweat of his brow he must earn bread.’ Prosperity was in the earth, and charlatans who said they had it in their clothes or their brains, rind who had cursed the country for twentyfive years, it was the chief object of his speech to 0y;,0.->u.”

Taking up the bankiig and currency bill he : spoke briefly of the claims of the committee that it would promote the ends of trade. He' claimed that instead of promoting it would prevent, forbid and obstruct the very thine It was hoped it would accomplish. ’ For local and domestic purposes, Mr Cockran said he would not be afraid of silver as a standard of value, but his objection to it was based bn the fact that throughout the world everything is measured by gold, and even if wc had a local or national silver standard the products of the farmer and of other producers must ly after all be measured by the universal standard. “I anr opposed to any tax on currency?’ he replied to a question concerning the 10 per cent, tax on state bank issues. “It Is like taxing blood, like taxing the speed of a locomotive: it would be to tux everything valuable, to retard progress.” <* . \ As to the pending bill, $o far as It- provided that money should bo based on property it was sound, but its provisions would nullify its object. If it became law it would fall stillborn; not one note would be issued under it in twenty years. It would be a monument to l)ie folly of the congress which followed the Sherman act bj; another makeshift. While the greeneack had Us and the greenbacks was unjustly characterized as a crank, these bills had i served their proper functions and should be taken out of our currency. In reply to a question. Mr. Cockran said he favored the Baltimore plan in its c itirctj/. Mr. Henderson (rep., 111.) asked if the pressing question was nut how to pay the running ex perises of the go\^jrnment. “That is the question, but not all the question. But it is a very serious position which makes any trade dependent on the solvency of the'treasury, and what I am seeking i4 a system that will divorce commerce from the government.” Mr. Catchings (dem.. Miss.) said tho Upshot Os Mr. Cochran’s ’speech was to adopt tho Bakimore plan, and /bus turn his back on tho treasury, leaving it to take cure of itself. , The purposes of the bill were to provide the people with aabundant and clastic currency, anti to relieve the . treasury by retiring the large . proportion of outstanding grecnbjtrks. In discussing tho probable effect of the Carlisle bill Mr.' Catchings said*'tlTat the outstanding certificates would be changed for those of smaller denominations to satisfy the needs for small money. It would follow "that the bullion in the treasury would be coiiietTand a small percentage of customs dues paid in silver. The key to the opposition was that under the Baltimore plan the government would be made to stand sponsor for the notes of tho banks, while it would not be under the pending bill. If the bill was so amended as to make the government, guarantee the notes the opposition of bankers would be instantly withdrawn.. -The superiority of*,,the Carlisle plan over the Baltimore plan was it cpntcmplated ultimate retirement of government notes, while the latter had no object but the profit of its framers. . Mr, Hendrix, of New York, declared .tluit there was not a banker or anybody else who ever has commended that plan who lias hot proceeded upon the theory that-the government would pay its floating debt and cease to use it as a currency. They were nbt formulating legislation foreign to them. They were settling a banking theory. 'TlVey expected the retirement of the greenbacks and legal tend-, ers. Mr. Catchings spoke in support of the soundness of state.banks. The assertion that- state bank supporters of the south and, west, those who demanded more money' 'represented peopleVvho had nothing to exchange for money was erroneous. There was not enough money for the banks to supply tho needs of liis section. A DEFAULTING TREASURER. Thought to Have Been Lynched in Nebraska- A Hanging in Kentucky. O’Xkill, Neb., Jan. 3. —llarrgtt Scott, defaulting’ treasurer of Holt county to the extent of several thousand dollars, is supposed to have been hanged by vigfila-ntes, who then weighted the body and threw it hi to the quicksands in the Niobrara river Monday afternoon. Mrs. Scott says she does not think there is any question that Scott was murdered. The citizens of O’Neill are making’ strenuous efforts to capture the perpetrators of this highhanded crime. Mount Sterling, Ky., Jan. B. —About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning a mob of twenty-five men went to the county jail, overpowered Jailer Best, secured the keys and took from jail Tom Blair, of Morgan county, and hanged him to a railroad trestle in the city limits. Blair fought desperately for his life,and was beaten almost into insensibility before he was hung. Blair was one of the parties who assisted in killing Capt. .1. L. Bonar in this city last February. lie was cleared of the charge and was in jail for shooting with intent to kill a few days ago. It is supposed friends of Bomar were the lynchers.

FOOD FOR FLAMES. A Motherland Two Children Perish In Burning Tenement. New York, Jan. 4. — Three lives were sacrificed Wednesday afternoon in a fire at 25 Pitt street. The victims were Lena Lehman, 24 years of age, and her two children, Sarah and Henry, aged, respectively, 2 years and 3 months. The fact that lives were lost in the fire was not discovered until some time after it was extinguished, when firemen found the three bodies, burned to a crisp, lying beneath a heap of debris in a turn of a stairway on the third floor. The woman lived on the fourth floor and was trying* tp escape to the street when she and her infants perished in the Their lives would ha¥e been saved had the panic-stricken mother remained in her apartments, as help promptly arrived. A VACANT CHAIR. * Gen. Pont, of the Illinois Delegation in Congress, Passes Away. Washington. Jan. B.—Representative Philip Sidney Post, of the Tenth Illinois district, died at 4:40 o’clock Sunday morning in his apartments at Hotel Ilamiltoff in this eity after a short illness. The immediate cause of his deatli was heart failure brought on by an acute attack of gastritis. (Gen. Post was a member of tho Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses, and was reelected to the Fifty-fourth congress as a republican by about 13.000 majority. lie was born in Orange county. N. Y., March 19. 1833. When tho war broke out he entered the union arirfy as a second lieutenant of the Fifth Illinois infantry and rase to the rank of brigajidier general. In 1866 he was appointed consul to Vienna and was promoted to consul general of Austro-lfungary In 1874 and resigned in 1879. Gen. Post was prominent in Grand Army circles and was elected) commander of the department of Illinois in 1886. J Cholera Epidemic Increasing. Buenos Ayres, Argentina, Jan. 7. — The correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, says the cholera epidemic is on the increase. Whole cargoes of dried meat are being returned to the owners, the necessity for fumigating by the health board having ruined the beef.

CARLISLE’S BILL. It Receives the Indorsement of the Hoads 1 Democratic Caucus. Washington, Jan. 8. —Three hour* were spent in caucus Monday afternooni by the democrats of the house. Tho purpose of the caucus was to secure an exchange of views regarding the Carlisle banking bill which was taken up for debate a . week before the holiday recess, and which is still before the house. A number of speeches were made in favor of the bill, while tlie opposition was also well represented. The principal vote of .the day .hinged on a resolution introduced by Speaker Crisp “that it is the sense of the house that the Carlisle currency bill should be passed by tho house of representatives substantially as presented.” This resolution was finally adopted by a vote of 81 to 59. The vote showed that seventy-five democratic members of the house were not present at the a caucus. This vote and tho speeches for and against the bill seemed, to be differently interpreted. Mr. Springer,-for example, believes that many of those who opposed the Crisp resolution Monday will support tho Carlisle bill in the end, the more .especially as some of them are constrained < to believe that Tt will be amended so as to be more in conformity with their sentiments. lie says that to argue that tho fifty-nine gentlemen who opposed tho resolution, will also oppose the bill would be to say that the caucus lias no persuasive power, a fact .which lie is inclined strongly to dispute, lie believes that a. majority of the seventylive absentees will also support tlie bill and that it will carry by a fair majority. Other gentleman regard the -spirit displayed at The caucus as indicating the death of the measure. They say that the speeches in opposition to the bill show that the extreme silver men as well is tlie opponents of free silver, with but few exceptions, have joined hands in opposing the measure, and that their opposition will be supplemented by the solid vote of the republicans and populists, and that as a reyS suit the measure cannot pass tha house. /Li. 7 One of the curious incidents of tlm

caucus \yti tlie meager support accorded to the amendment offered by Mr. Sperry (Conn.), the purpose of which was to commit the caucus to an indorsement of the bill introduced by him last week to fund the greenbacks and the-.treasury notes into bonds. An analysis of the vote given for this amendment shows that four of its thirteen supporters are western men, two from Ohio and two from Wisconsin, and that the remaining nine are from the east. Equally surprising was the largu vote given to the Terry amendment, which authorized the coinage by tho secretary of the treasury of a silver dollar of 412J£ grains for each inhabitant of the forty-four states and territories. This amendment received tho support of fifty-four members, and was defeated by a bare majority of ten. Mr. Livingston (t!a.) made a motion that .all those present should be bound by the action of the caucul. TherO was an instant chorus of “nos” and a point of order was made against tho motion. The chair (Mr. Holman) sustained the point of order, stating,in effect that the uniform practice of thirty years was that caucuses are advisory and not binding in their character. The meeting of the republican senatorial committee Monday morning had a very important bearing, on legisla*tive possibilities. There were present Senators Allison, Hale, Aldrich, Dubois* Lodge and Manderson. A general discussion of the situation resulted in a determination to stick to the policy of non-action previously resolved upon. Not only was it resolved to suffer no amendipent of the tariff laws, but it was also tacitly agreed to obstruct anything looking to currency reform or financial relief for the treasury. DISTRESS IN OHIO. Miners from Nelsonvllle Report Great Destitution. Columbus, 0., Jan. 8. —A delegation of miners has arrived here from Nelson ville for the purpose of making an appeal to the people through the governor for assistance. They tell a most remarkable story of suffering among the miners and say that unless ftid is furnished at once many of them will die of starvation. According to their statement there are 1,800 idle miners in the immediate vicinity of Nelson Ville who, with their families, make a total of nearly 9,000 persons who have no means of obtaining even the most common necessaries of life, and are suffering for want bf food and clothing. In the five counties in that coal section they estimate that there are about 50,000 persons-who are in actual want and must have aid. They say the great national strike of last summer impoverished thefn, andjis work has been very slack since then, they have not been able to recover. This information comes likeo a clap of thunder from a clear sky. No one had ever dreamed of the existence Os such a condition *of affairs iri this state, and the sufferers refrained from making an appeal to the -people until they were actually-driven to it. Until now they have tried to conceal the horrible truth. There is no doubt the governor will act promptly, and that the people of the state will respond liberally to the appeal for aid. BLIXT IS ARRAIGNED. Attorneys for the Defense Set Up the Piet of Temporary Insanity. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 8. —Claus A. Blixt, the self-confessed murderer ot Catherine Ging, the pretty milliner who was murderously shot several weeks ago and left dying on the roadside near this city, was arraigned for trial in the district court Monday. The attorneys for the defense set up the* plea of temporary insanity brought on by the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, which, they claim, was given Blixt by Hayward for tho purpose of provoking the murderer to the deed*