Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 March 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sourest. ! The New Jersey Republican State ’Convention will bo held at Trenton April w.’ ..v,r■ • _ « , I The coinage for February aggregated $1,179,800, of which $1,100,000 was silver •dollars. Secret art Chandler recommends F. M. Gunnell, Helical Director, to be Surgeon-General o ! the Navy. Lieutenant Harber was given a handsome reception the evening of the 28th at his home in Youngstown, O. A terrible snow-storm raged on the 2Sth in New York, New England and Canada, and many trains were abandoned. • The pension w arrants issued iu February amounted to $11,500,000, and the debt reduction for the month was less than usual. The United States Consul at Birmingham, Eng., report s that the foot and mouth disease prevails in almost every county in England. Robert Bailey, colored, was fined $800 and given three months’ imprisonment at Toledo, O., on (he 28th, for marrying a white girl. The steamer Thetis, purchased by the Government far the Greely relief expedition, sailed from England for America on the 27th. - According to the mail accounts of Baker Pasha’s defeat in the Soudan, fifteen Austrians, four Germans and four Swiss officers were killed.

The business failures for the week ended the 29th were 193 in the United States and forty-t wo in Canada, against 216 the preceding week. The Gordon Highlanders and Irish Fusileers landed at Trinkitat on the 27th. The rebels exult over the fact that Allah has sent them for their prey. Speaker Perl took thcchair in the British House of Commons on the 27th amidst intense enthusiasm. It is said the members actually uncovered. It is announced that Charles De Lesseps will go to Cairo in April for the purpose of obtaining concessions from the Egyptian Government which will permit the construction of the second canal. Some of the coldest weather of the winter was expe rienced in New York on the 29th. A heavy snow storm prevailed and trains were blocked on nearly all the roads. __ . ( The St. Louis (Mo.) Red Cross Society within two weeks has forwarded to the flood sufferers eighty-five boxes of clothing and cash contributions amounting to over |41,000. * I The Secretary of the Interior informs the Senate that t he Union Paciflc Company has not since Harch 3, 1673, made any mortgage or pledge on its property or earnings contrary to law. The people of northern Dakota strenuously object to the proposed erection' of Southern Dakota into a separate State or the appropriation of the name unless they are consulted in the matter. The Grand Lodge of the Free Sons of Israel at its session in Cincinnati on the 25th voted $1,000 to the flood sufferers. A banquet was given the Grand Lodge the same night by local committees. 1 Some important documents relating to the charges against Governor Murray of Utah are missing, and Chairman Springer threatens, to make it warm for somebody if they are not found. J^jSsuATCr. Fair." of Nevada, gave a grand dinner a! Wormley’s in Washington on the 29th inst., which was partaken of by a large party of feUoW-Senators, members of Hie Cabinet and other notables. The English Government has decided to send a courteous dispatch to America relative to the ndgUHit American citizens and residents in ll^Tnited States in countenacing, and assisting the dynamiters. Police Sergeant Jenk?, who was murdered by a negro virago in St. Louis, Mo., last Jail, proves to have been a secret agent of the British Government to watch the movements of mischievous Irishmen in St. Louis. , The Cunard steamship Cephalonia ran down and sunk the steamer Gleu Island in New York harbor the morning of the 27th. Charles Feltz, engineer, and Henry Green, deck hand of the Glen Island, were drowned. SiGNAL service predictions on the 29th indicated that the Lower Mississippi would continue rising, and that the floods would exceed those of last year in the vicinity of Helena, Arka nsas City, Vicksburg and the mouth of the Red River. Lieutenant Rhodes, the hero of the Gay Head disaster, has asked leave of Secretary Poleer to distribute the $3,000 received in testimonials among his shipmates. He has purchased new nmfbrms and blankets for every man on board. Commissioner Loring reports t President Arthur that he has examined t! whole business of raising, curing and shi] ping hog products in America, and find ample safeguards to prevent the spread < disease and tiae sale of unwholesome mea Mardi Gsas was celebrated on a scale of unprecedented magnificence in New Or1 leans on the night of the 26th, and the march of Rex and his retinue was viewed by immense throngs of interested spectators. Galveston and Mobile also had fine dleflays.

^Lieutenant Schutz, of the nary, whose heroic search for Lieutenant Ctifpp, of the Jeannette, has given him a worldwide reputation, paid his respects to the President and Secretary of the Navy on the 2Sth. He intended starting for his home in St Louis on the 26th on a six months’ leave of absence. J. I. Gec ghegan, of Chicago, member ol the delegation from that city, which went to Washington to urge the selection of Chicago as the place of holding the Democratic National Convention, died at Willard's Hotel, Washington, on the 96th, of pnecimonia, contracted shortly after his arrival in that city. Ex-Governor Samuel Price, of West Virginia, died on the 25th at his home in Lewisbnrg. He was prominent in Virginia politics before the war and a member of the Convention which passed the secession ordinance, though he refused to vote for or sign the document. He was appointed United States Senator by Governor Matthews to All the nnexpired term of Sr notor Capertp r, w*»o died shortly after eleo

PERSONAL AND Q1WERAL. Captain Keys, Tenth Cavalry, found guilty ot duplicating his pay accounts, has .been sentenced to be reprimanded by his Department commander. William Cardinal who shot and killed Mary Hauser in Vincennes, IncU.last August, was sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary. A conference of Prison Wardens commenced at the Fifth Avenue Hotel., New York, on the 27th, Rev. Dr. Prime presiding. The steamship Bear is being overhauled and strengthened fcr the Greely relief expedition. The London press oomments severely on the recent dynamite outrage, laying the blame on the Irish dynamite party, The; Indiana Democratic State Convention takes place June aft. The worst blizzard of the season was reported on the 27th in Minnesota. The impeachment trial in Norwayiesulted in the conviction of the Minister of State. The committee investigating; the Danville (Va.) election riot hns adjourned pending the passage of an appropriation bill to meet its expenses. The German Socialists of Pittsburgh, Pa., hnve called a meeting to discuss Bismarck’s action oh the Lasker resolutions. Herr Von Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary, has given instructions to the municipal authorities everywhere to proceed rigorously against all persons guilty of fomenting hostility aga inst the Jews. The Post-office appropriation bill, as prepared by the sub-comipittee, appropriates $45,071,900. A Grand Trunk freight train went through a bridge near Montreal, Can., on the 27tb, wrecking seven cars. The P aris police claim to have discovered that that city is the headquatters of the Irish dynamiters.

J.ME cetrotnai of tho Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia is announced. General Longstreikt. testified before the Springer committee on the 27th that he isnot a defaulter. The government owes him $1,200. One of the wounded horse-thieves recently captured by a sheriff’s posse in the Doadi\ood region, Dakota, was taken from jail on the night of the 26th and lynched. The hat manufacturers at Reading, Pa., have given notice of a reduction of wages. Yellow feyer is said to be more prevalent at Mazatlan than it was last fall. The captaih of the Egyptian vessel Damanhour has been placed under arrest fc r refusing to take liis ship to Trinkitat. The Secretary of the Interior has decided to recognize Perryman as Chief of the Creek Nation. The British troops marched out of Trinkitat at daybreak oh the 27th to attack Osman Digna. The House Committee on Railways and Canals will recommend the passage of bills making appropriations to construct the Delaware ship canal, the canal from Pnget’s Bound to Union Lake and an annual appropriation of $1,000,000 to improve the Erie Canal. The President gave a state dinner the evening of the 28th. The anti-Chinese bill will be recommended for passage. The Governor of the Island of Crete has resigned, and an extensive revolt is anticipated. It is announced at the White House that: there is no thought of recalling Minister Sargent from Berlin . Ex-Governor R. D. Hubbard, of Hartford, Conn., is dead. Four Turkish iron-clads have been ordered to proceed immediately to the Red Sea. Military operations in Tonquin are regarded as almost terminated. Two armed staameirs under (he white dag will ascend the While Nile and distribute General Gordon’s proclamation. Cornelius Van Riper and his two children were burned to death in a New York tenement-house fire on the i!8th. Mrs. Van Riper jumped from a third-story window and was killed. A man named Ryan has been playing a joke on the British in Manitoba. He advertised for 500 recruits for military service along the international boundary. He has Been arrested. A fight took place on the Berber roud, nine miles from Suakim, on the 28th, between rebels and friendly tribes. The latter were victorious. W. R, McBowell,, a convicted murderer, broke jail on tho 28th at San Bernardino, Cal., and escaped into Mexico. A passenger train collided with a freight near Paris, 111.,, on the 28th, resulting in many severe injuries and some loss of life. In the debate by the Prison Conference at New York on the 28th, on the subject of labor, tho general preference was for the contract system. James R. Milbukn, a well-known surveyor of Denver, Ck>l., while surveying a farm on Fryer Hill, fell into a shaft 200 feet deep. The shaft was bidden by a snowdrift. The House Committee on Lands recommends the forfeiture of .the Northern Pacific grant along all that part of the road uncompleted July 4,1870. The London police on the 28th found! a quantity of explosives under the Charging Cross Railway station. One infernal machine was of American make . The Red River flood was a.t a stand at Shreveport, La., on the 28th. For 100 miles above and belcrw the city the river plantations were oveirflowed. A substitute for the Morrison tarifl bill is to be reported in Congress, confining the free-list to. salt, coal and lumber. All work has been stopped in the construction department of the Washington Navy Yard.

mi rwuuuuon oi me puDuc aeot lor February was over £!,000,000. Rock Islaki., ill., has adopted a 9500 liquor license, and is number of saloonkeepers have been compelled to close. Mrs. Mart Brow, widow of John Brown of Harper’s Ferry notoriety, died in Ban Francisco, Cal., on the :29th. Philadelphia, Pa., wound up the month of February vrith fire fires, involving a total loss of nearly two million dol - lars. Thu Chemical Works of Powers ft Weightmnn were deutrqyed. The murderers. Camp and Fitzpatrick, who were to have bash banged at Columbia, Ky., on the 29th ult., for the murder of Hiller Brewster, were respited until March 21st,. Secretary or State Kelset of New 'Jersey was blown front the platform of a railway car on the Mew Jersey Central Railway on the 29th, and landed In a solt bank of mud, where he was found apparently uninjured. It was a narrow escape. The President nominated. Rodney L . Wells for Postmaster of St. Louis, Mo., on ,| 111

A«Italian peanut vender in Randolph, Mass., learned on fhe 29th that by the death of a bachelor uncle in Italy he had become a Count and a rich man. Ex-Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee convicted of embezzling $400,000 from the State and under sentence of twenty years in the Penitentiary, died at East Nashville, Ten )., on the 29th. Naval cadets Jastremski, Parker and Maxey have been dismissed from the Navtd Academy at Annapolis, Hid., for hazing) General Ord was buried with military honors at Washington, D. C.,on tie 29th. Luke and William Jones, brotheri, were hanged with the same rope at Jackson, O., on the 29th ult., for the mnrder of Andrew Lackey in April, 1883!* Three suspects were arrested and a quantity of dynamite seized in a house in Clare Market, near the Strand, London, on the 29th. : i ' XLYUITH CONGRESS. Ilf the Senate on the 25th resolutions calling for information as to the manner in which cer ain railroad companies had compiled with the act ot May T, 1878, were agreed to. A res' olution to appropriate $100,000 to the sufferers by the recent tornadoes was referred. The currency bill was taken up. Senator Vest’s am endment was rejected and the bill was Kissed as modified by Morrill.In the oirse, Mr. Ellis asked for an investigation of certain charges that had been made against him. The usual Monday allowance of new hill s were introduced. Tbe pleuro-pneumonia bill was read by sections for amendments and sot re modifications adopted. In the Senate on the 26th the Fits John Po rter bill was reported and made a sjpeolal oreier for March 12. The^bill to prohibit m illing newspapers containing lottery advertisements was placed on the jcalendar. A resolution was adopted calling on the Navy Deportment for information re jpirding the Panama Canal. A joint resolution of thanks to the British Government for the gift of the Arctic steamer Alert was adopted without debate. Tbe bill to consolidate the Bureau of M flit ary Justice and the corps of Judge Advocates of the army was placed on the calendar. A resolution was adopted inquiring as to the expert of grain and cotton and the effect dealing in futures may have had upon it. The bill to construct additional steel cruetsrs watt taken up and diecussed at some length.......hln the House tbe pleuro-pneumonia bill was taken up and discusslo'n of the second sec tion wus concluded. The Senate resolution of tb anks for the gift of the Alert was presented and unanimous consent asked for immediate consideration, but Mr. Robinson objected.

mr twuoie uu but) ztia me dux ioi (illo tment of la'nds in severalty to the Umatilla Delians was reported favorably. A resolu tion was offered and referred for an inquiry whether the officers of the Western Union and Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Companies had at any tiine entered Into an agreement for consolidation. Tho bill for construction' of Orel cruisers was taken up and the debate developed considerable warmth.In the House a resolution was adopted calling for information how Pinch money in the Treasury is available to p »y that part of the public debt now partible. The Foreign Affairs Committee reportedrasking to be excused from further consideration of the Hewitt-West resolution relating to the 0 'Donnell matter. Agreed to. The bill to prohibit the use of the mails to advertise noxious medicines, etc., was laid on the table. 1 Hscussions of the pleuro-pneumonia bill, was resumed and several amendments adopted. In the Senate on the 28th Ur. Ingalls introduced a bill to remove the injunction of secreey from the members of the court-martial which tried Fitz John Porter. Consideration of the bill to construct steel vessels was resamad, Mr. Miller advocatingthe construction of a powerful navy. Mr. Bayard criticised the (handler regime. Mr. Hale offered an amendment to provide safe-guards against extravaliance, which was agreed to. Mr. Seweil offered a substitute providing that the ve ssels to buiit at Government navy yards. Pending debate an executive session was declared__ In tho House Mr. DeUster presented the resolution adopted by tho executive committee of the Liberal Union of the German Parliament expressing its appreciation of the action of the Hcuse In adonting the Lasker resolut ions. After some speech-making tho resolution was inferred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. The pleuro-pneumonia bill passed. IK to 127. iiulogies on the late Mepresentative.Haskell were pronounced. ’ In the Senate on the 29th the origins,! bill for the admission of Dakota was reported and ordered printed. Resolution to appropriate money for relief of tornado sufferers was reported adversely. Resolution inquiring' as to the statistics of grain consumption in foreign countries was adopted. The Military Acs domy bill was reported and placed on the calendar. The bill to construct steel cruisers passed and the Senate adjourned to Monday_ in the House the debate over the bill to place General Pleasonton on the retired list with rank of Major-General was marked by a personal altercation between Messrs. Rosccrans and White of Kentucky, Mr. Belford favored tho bill and wanted the Government to be generous not only to Union soldiers, but also those from the South. An amendment was adopted that General Pleasonton be retired with rank of Colonel. Consideration of the bill in committee of tho whole was concluded. Recess was taken and a night session held, at which various pension claims were considered. — CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. In the House of Representatives on the 1st a resolution waq adopted calling for information as to the unauthorized fencing in of lands in various States and Territories. The naval appropriation bill was taken up and several addresses were delivered in its favor. Bills were reported and . referred: Providing for the issue of j circulating notes to National banks; to aid in the construction of a canal from Puget Sound to Lake Union; to construct the Maryland and Delaware Canal; to increase tho pensions of widows and minor children* The decrease in the public debt sineo June, 1883, is $67,590,074. TiiE^pational debt, less cash in Treasury, on the 1st whs $1,483,501,133. The New York banks at the close of business on the 1st held $18,000,000 in excess of legal requirements. The bust of Longfellow was unveiled in “Poet’s Comer,” Westminster Abbey, London, on the 1st. Lieutenant Schuetze, who recently returned from the Arctic regions With the remains of Do Long and companion s, will be given a reception and banqnet at his home in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th. The investigation into the defalcation of Hiram Post, clerk in the office of the McCormick Harvester Company : in St. Louis, Mo., who recently attempted suicide, developed the fact that his employer, D. W. Pratt, was also a defaulter, and he has been arrested and held to await examination on a charge of embezzling $4,000.

a. uun/iutaiiAL cierK oi me raciuo Express Company in St. Louis, Mo., who was detailed for regular duty on (Sunday, the 2d, seized the opportunity to appropriate atgjl make oft with about $100,000. Three trains were piled up ijn one wreck on the Caledoniau Railway near Dundee, Scotland, on the 1st. Specie shipments to Europe on the 1st included $173,000 in silver coin and $1,027,000 in gold. The total coinage of silver dollars under the act of February, 1878, to March 1., is $186,125,119. The Washington Grand Jury; failed to indict the pension agents lately disbarred for crooked practice. Powhks & Weightman, whose chemical works burned on the 29th in Philadelphia, Pa., had $289,000 insurance. President Arthur recommends that Congress make provision for special research concerning the diseases of s wine. | The production of steel rails last year was 1,360,891, net tons, being about; twenty per cent, lees than in 1882. I l The Spanish newspaper, El Progreso, published at Madrid, has been confiscated 1 tor printing articles insulting to tips King,

THE GO LD OUTFLOW. The Inevitable IteeultT at the Continued Exportation of 'Sold Coin ud the Hoarding of the Precious Metal bp Baakeirs-It Will Become a Speculative Commodity Nsir Yobx, Fet.». At the beginning of the year 1879, the Government resumed specie ‘payment, and the premium on geld disappeared. Yesterdaj, five years later, It is reported that a broker was visiting the banks in Wall street, offering a premium for a call on #1,000,000 of gold any time duping the year. The gold question has become the uppermost one in financial circles. Apart from the possibility of the Government being obliged to substitute (liver for gold in its payment of Hearing house balances, soon ixicome so scarce as to command a premium. Almost every steamer for Europe has among its freight more or less gold. In addition to this it was intimated by a prominent financial authority yesterday that some of the banks have already begun the policy of hoarding np gold. It is true at any rate that the demands for gold at the sub-trea-sury of late have been very heavy. Since last Wednesday there has been paidout $3,100,000 in gold coin. Yesterday Kidder, Peabody & Company purchased $500,000 in double eagles at ;he sub-treasury. Many bankers and brokers are pretlicting that if this state of things continues gold will certainly be qnoted ere long at a premium. President Thompson of the Chase National Bank said yes terday that if any considerable amount is exported gold will certainly command a premium, and when it does this it will cease to be currency and will become merchandise. Already there Is some speculation in gold, and offers are being made for a call on gold to ran through the year. Mr. Thompson beUb^es that there is trouble ahead if gold contiirties to be shipped abroad in large quantities or hoarded by capitalists at home. Mr. ThompsAa admits that his bank has been putting its resources into gold, as there is danger that currency will drop to a silver value only. MISSING DOCUMENTS.

Important; Documents Bearing Upon the Charges Against Governor Murray ot Utah Mysteriously Mitring—Somebody to Get Warmest. WASHING!ON, D. C., Feb. 2J. It has just leaked out that important paper documents in tire charge against Governor Hurray have mysteriously disappeared. One of the most Important documents among those sent from the Department of Justice to Springer’s Committee some weeks since was a war rent issued in Murray’s handwriting, making charges and costs for the sum of $86 for service and mileage and other fees for the arrest of a man who really walked into Murrav’s office and give himself up. Tile offender, the story goes, lived some hundred miles from Louisville. The Postmaster at his place of residence fancied he had violated the laws relative to the use of mails for lottery purposes, and so charged. The man said to the Postmaster that; he was ready to meet the charges, so they together went to Louisville, entered Murray’s office, where the charges were made and the defense entered. Murray, however, it is said, made out a warrant with all the charges, amounting to eighty-six dollars. This was finally .disputed when the facts came out, and Murray reduced it; twentysix dollars. This document, however, in Murry’s own handwriting, Mr. Springer says he considers the most important of all the papers sent him, and this one is no w missing. It was, he said, among the papers when flirst sent him, but not among them when sent the second time from the Department^ Inquiries made by Springer of the oflicials at the Department of Justice show that Governor Sfurray’s attorney, Mr. W ilson, of Louisville, was probably the only person permitted to handle these papers since they were in the hands of the committee the ilrst time. Mr. Springer proposes to thoroughly investigate the matter, and will make it warm for somebody if it appears that the document is really missing and nobody but Wilson had access to the document in the meantime. A SHOCKING FATE. Four Boys Launched Into Eternity by the Explosion of a Magazine Containing Six Tons of Giant Fonder—Two of Them Literally Blown to Atoms. Omaha, Nkb., Feb. 28. Steele, Johnson & Co.’s powder magazine, three miles south of this city, exploded with terrific force yesterday. The building was completely destroyed, not -even a splinter remaining, the only mark by which Sts location conld be determined being the excavation in the ground where the powder was stored. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. The theory is that four boys—named Chris Maclzen, aged nineteen; Willie Mallus, thirteen ; Willie Abney, fifteen; and John Stetts, .nine years old—who were hunting in the vicinity, tried to break into the magazine and replenish their stock of powder. In doing this they must have struck fire in some way and the sparks been corttmunieated to the six tons or more of blasting powder stored there. The real facts will never be known, ag all the parties concerned were literally blown to pieces. The bodies of two of the toys, «, headless and terribly mangled, were found about 200 yards away entirely stripped of clothing and burned all over to a dirty brown color, making them look like small beech logs. From papers»fonndby one of the bodies it was identified as that of Willie Mallus. Of the other two iads the only traces found were four little feet, the rest of their bodies having been blown into fragments so small as ta lie undistinguishable. The magazine was situated in a thickly-wooded ravine. All the trees within the radius of an acre were felled and the ground blackened and torn np in spots as though dragged with a harrow.

The Timber Culture Act. Washington, D„ C., Fob 38. There was a brief discussion in the Senate yesterday on the bill repealing th* timber culture act. Although the bill was not disposed ot, it was quite evident that the repeal bill will be passed. Senator Ingalls said he was satisfied that the existing law has been used by land sharks in the perpetration of ' stupendous and gigantic frauds. He said that he spoke the sentiments of the people of Kansas when he declared it to be their desire that the law should no longer encumber the statute books. A Three-Cornered Affray Terminating Fatally. Richmond, Va.. Feb. 27. In an affray at Winston, Estell County, yesterday, Preston White was killed, and Henry Witt and his son, Tillman, mortally wounded. White and a comjtanlon named Frichell, both drunk, created a disturbance. Young Witt wliile attempting to quell the fuss was attacked and shot by White. Witt, senior, came to his assistance and was shot by Prlchell. During the scuffle between young Witt and White, Prichell attempted to shoot Witt, bnt shot White through the head, killing hiU) iostMtly. Frichell wtte witched,

BY SPECIAL 1REQUEST. Kdttor at the Bat Springs, (Ark.) onmltoe” Requested to Relieve the City at hie Presence—it Thousand Citizens and Visitors Esc oft Him to the Train— Ithen He Returns He Will “Return to Star." f Hot Spri iOS, Ark., March L Yesterday morning a petition signed by 147 prominent citizens and representative business men was: presented M.O. Harris, editor of Flynn’s organ, the Horseshoe, Associated Press agent and special correspondent of the St. Louis Gtobe-Hemocrat,'requestinghim to leave the city, on the grout, ds that he had circulated malicious anil libelous articles upon the condition of affairs at this In'tuln aDth t*ht he W*S in 80 doSn§ toe* clqr by* S leeping visitors who read these false reports away from* the city through fea r of more trouble. Harris declined to go, stating that if any member of the Committee of Fourteen would confront him with a single misstatement he would voluntarily relinquish his positions. Numerous false accounts of the condition of alfairs here written by him were shown him, chief among them being the abortion that “visitors and citizens were .being run out of the town at the point of the bayonet and that a state of anarchy prevailed.” He admitted that these statements were injurious to the place, but still declined to go. Last evening about 3:30 o’clock the Chief of Police began a hunt for Harris with the evident intention of forcing him to leave the city, lie was found about four o’clock and takeu to the office of the Police Judge, where he was met by the citizens assembled en masse, and ordered to leave on the 4:15 train. He was escorted to the depot by a large crowd of citizens and visitors and .the Chief of Police and placed on the outgoing train. Just before leaving he was informed by It. G. Davis, chairman of the Citizens’ Committee, that the people of Hot Springs never wanted to see him here again. His significant reply was: “When I come again, I’ll come to stay,” Six hundred or a thousand people witnessed his departure. Nineteen-twen-tieths of the people are with the Committee of Fourteen, and they are personally and individually responsible for anything that they may do. A mortgage was foreclosed upon the Horseshoe by R,‘G. Davis, chairman of the committee.

A FREAK OF FORTUNE. An Italian Peanut Peddler Succeeds to the Title and Estates of a Bachelor Uncle in Italy and Becomes a Count. Randolph, Hass:, March 1. Dickey Peanut,an Italian peanut roaster, Whom everybody here knows and likes, learned yesterday that heisheirto the title ol Coant and to a large fortune in sunny Italy, He had never heard of his bachelor uncle, whose recent death brings him good fortune, till the Italian Consul hunted him up. Dickey, whose real name is Jaetacon Bacigalupo, was an infant and an orphan when he landed in America, twenty-three years ago, his father, Antius Totilia, the poor second son of a noble family of Northern Italy, and his mother having both died on the the passage over. The poor little waif was adopted by an Italian, to whose business he succeeded three years ago. .Count Dickey, as his friends already call him, is a sturdy, broad-shouldered, good-natured fellow, and has a pretty little wife and two small children. He will go at once to Italy to take possession of his ancestral estates. Dastardly Attempt to Harder an Aged Couple. Parke a, D. T., March I. Officers are searching; for Matt Miller, Who attempted to murder an aged couple to secure their money. He induced the old gentleman and his wife to sell their farm in Woodbury County, la., and come with him to Dakota, representing that he owned a farm that they could work. They bought two teams, took the rest of their money, and ail three started for the Territory. Arriving at Finlay last night at midnight, he induced them to go to an old bouse which had stood vacant for a Hong time, telling them they could stay in it all night and in the morning go to Ids farm. Miller alighted from the wago n, and as the old gentleman got out Miller dealt him a heavy blow on the head with a club. A squabble ensued, during which Miller procured an ax and attacked the old man, knocking him senseless, and then attacked" the woman, knocking her down. He did not get any money, but turned to run away just as the old woman was recovering. She soon found her husband, who was also recovering his senses, and the two went to another house, over a mile away, giving the alarm to the neighbors, who immediately came to the place, and notified the sheriff. The old couple’ are terribly wounded, but will probably recover. The Lasker Resolutions In Congress. Washington, D. C., March 1. The feeling over the Lasker matter is not as quiescent as might be inferred from the rather temperate speeches of Thursday. It is the general impression that when the resolutions are in the possession of the House it will be the signal for some hot speeches. Colonel Tom Ochiltree will open the ball in his most lurid vein, and a number of members are known to be heavily loaded on the same subject. Much will depend upon the terms in which Bismarck’s refusal is couched, but it is admitted on all sides that the matter is liker ly to assume a serious turn. That the House of Representa tives will resent what is deemed an insnlt by formal resolutions of some sort there is very little doubt. The German vote is very large, and this Lasker resolution is to stand as campaign ammunition for a lo ng time to come. The probability is that when it.gets fairly before tho-House there will be enough electioneering music to fully satisfy the German element. This may, it is feared, even go to the extent of demanding Minister Sargent’s recall, and further complicate matters between this and the German Government.

Zara Burns’ Alleged Murderer. LlRCOliN, IiiL,, March 1. Orrin A. Carpenter was taken to Peters* burg by Sheriff Wendell yesterday to be placed in jail there until his trial, March 10th. Your correspon dent called upon him in jail this morning said found him looking remarkably well!. He expressed himself as anxious that the trial be called at the earliest possible day and said that he felt no fear of the termination. He said that he was going for trial to a place where all were strangers to him and from whom he could expert no sympathy, yet would be given an impartial hearing, Sudden Death at Tennessee’s Defaulting Trent turer. Nashv lle. Tens., March 1. The latest sensation in the noted Polk case was the sudden detitth last night of the defaulting State Treasurer. His case for embezzling 9400,000 from the State, for which he was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment, came up in the Supreme Court Wednesday and was continued on account of Polk’s illness. He was sitting last night talking to Ills family when suddenly his arm dropped, and when his son reached him he was dead. Physicians say the cause was heart c Jsease, from, which lie had Jong been % 8UffiK»t

Indicative of Weakness. » Nothing coaid better illustrate the present weakness Of the Republican position than juai the attempt now being seriously made of beginning anew the Investigation of so-called Southern outrages. .That such a movement is again seriously recommended by Republican part? leaders seems to indicate that all questions of practical statesmanship are of, no account when a National campaign'is pending, and that the party must now, as in the past, pin its faith and hope to the capital that may be made by roving committees of investigation. It is patting but a small estimate upon the judgment and intelligence of the American people to imagine that they can be continually moved and influenced by manufactured tales of Congressional committees, sent South to gather up campaign rubbish for Northern stumpspeakers to retail and distribute. If there were no living questions at issue, questions of vital concern to all sections alike, involving matters' of public and individual interest; topics npon which the farmer of the West and the mechanic of the East are both interested, and which have to do with their material welfare, it might even then be foolish to hunt up simply partisan and political issues for people to quarrel over, but when there are such questions and the people are anxi jous to hear them discussed and debated, to make political pilgrimages South for no other" purpose except to inflame the public mind with manufactured stories of election riots and political quarrels, seems too intolerably foolish and absurd for men of sense to venture upon. Yet such pilgrimages are soberly counseled and maue. Wise statesmen _jyho are thought worthy of great official trusts have worked themselves up into a white heat of patriotic fervor, and have solemnly warned the country against the wickedness of the Southern Democrats, and urged the necessity of investigating the charges and rumors sent from the South by Republican politicians and Republican newspapers. The great danger which menaced the peace of £he Union from the acts of these wicked Democrats was feelingly dwelt upon, and Senator Sherman, whose heart always bleeds

xor me aeienseiess soutnern KepuDucans, made one of his most impassioned appeals for Congressional investigation. Senator Mahone, whose heart is also heavy with grief from fhe result of the recent election in Virginia, and the action of the Legislature in asking him to resign his Senatorial seat, also contributed a startling chapter of Democratic outrages, and between these two the Southern outrage-mill was set in violent motion. But just at the threshold of this supposedly flattering crusade the champions are met with a very cruel rebuff in the shape of a letter from a Mississippi Republican, vouched for as politically straight and personally reliable, to the New York Herald, prollsting in strong terms against the Congressional tour. The corresponded complains that when Mississippi Republicans wanted help in 1875, and when Governor Ames asked for troops, the Administration did not dare to act because of a prejudice which existed in Ohio against military interference in the Southern States, yet the very next winter the Boutwell Committee, with a full complement of Senators, clerks and stenographers came down upon them and took back two thousand pages of printed testimony, and all the benefit the committee were to the Republicans could have been put in the eye of the energetic chairman. This correspondent even goes so far as to say that not only was this whole committee demonstration an empty delusion, but two of the men implicated by the committee in the lynching of a colored man, were afterwards rewarded by their appointment to lucrative clerkships under the Administration of which Mr. Sherman was so important a part. This sort of talk must be very unpleasant to the Senator at the present juncture, and it must make his heart bleed afresh to see the objects of his patriotic regard so stiff-necked and obdurate iust when he is upon the point of doing them so much good. The whole truth is these Congressional tours upon the eve of Presidential campaigns are the work of performing demagogues, who seize upon the time and the occasion to make capital for themselves and their party. They well know how empty and fruitless all such missions are, but, trusting to the credulity of some and the ignorance of others, hope to do a little toward the consummation of the object in hand. The Democratic Senators, with rare judgment and wisdom, allowed Senators Sherman and Mahone to unburden themselves of their load without interference, and the Republican Senators as a body were not as enthusiastic and excited as might have been expected. The demonstration was hot grandly successful, and if now the poor downtrodden are themselves indiflerent, and would rather have the procession stay at home, the benevolent Senators may perhaps, after all, find it more advantageous to fold up their bloody shirts and mind their own business.—American Register. Frigid Truth. k'J Torn by jealousy, inflamed by thirst for revenge, honeycombed with corruption, distrusted by the people, the Republican party, with all its patronage, all its money and all its facilities for fraud, is powerless to win another Presidential election through its own eflorts.

-ine uemocrata are going to elect tne next President. They have the power to do so absolutely in their own hands. Whether they will elect a Democratic President or a Republican President depends upon whether they are guided by wisdom or given to folly. If the former, they will save the country from misrule. If the latter, they will continue a little longer in power a party which within two terms has stained the Presidential office with theft, purchase and assassination.—Exchange. —Among the novelties in silver and glass which have lately been introduced in London, and one which was among the bridal presents at an aristocratic wedding, is a grape stand of artistic design and furnished with invisible hooks, from which are suspended the richest clusters of the white and purple grapes. The effect is good as a matter of table ornamentation, and the fruit is preserved in much greater freshness than when the bunches are piled one uj*>n another on a plate. —The New York Mail and Express says: “It is told of a young and probably sensible lady that she severed her matrimonial engagement with a ‘society man' when she saw him at Mrs. Somebody's leap-year party the other evening in a dress coat made with low i neck end short sleeves,’'

Shet WKa aa<! The report that 3i* JlhemMi ii to rise and say: •‘Arthur can noi' carry Ohio, Blaine can not carry Ohio.’’ and that Mr, Warner Miller is to arise and say: •‘Arthur can not carry New York,” indicates a condition of loose ends in polities. Both declarations, whether laid to truth or to spleen, imply a use to which party leaders have not allowed themselves directly to be pat. That sort of business has’ heretofore been conlined to factiorJsts. It has not been the custom of leaders to shew their personal feeling against other leaders by using their position to make statements of each a kind. Leaders prefer to put lieutenants forward for such a purpose at that. Were Mr, Shemtau and Mr. Warner Miller to utter the announcement ascribed to them, it would be regarded as s threat quite a* much as anything else. They would be credited with a desire that their adverse prediction should bs made fact—and with a purpose to make it so. Unless the managers of Republicanism in two States essential to the party’s success have got into a condition of hatred toward other leaders which extinguishes both taot and prudence, the announcement referred to will not be made by them. The object in view will be accomplished by the report that they are about to make that announcement. They can save their record for fealty to the'whole party—-by not making it. They can hurt the leaders whom they dislike—by the circulation of the report that they are ready.to make such an announcement —or are only deterred from it by considerations of propriety and loyalty to the party. Mr. Sherman and Mr. Miller are-pru-dent, cold, suave men. The first has reason to believe that Mr. Blaine and General Arthur cut him out of a nomination for the Presidency, when it apparently meant an election. The second has reason to believe that all the success which he has attained in politics has been due neither td the effort nor to the good will of the PtekMspt. True or false, the belief in Mr. Sherman's mind that his rights were betrayed at Chicago in 1880 by Messrs. Blaine and Garfield is a settled and unchangeable one. He took occasion to characterize the act of pretending to be

iW a UiftU O UULUiUiUlUU. iUlU Uit'U ting it for yourself, at tire late convention which nominated Judge Foraker for Governor of Ohio, in terms that were unmistakable. He said: **I have urged Judge Foraker’s nomination. I have promised tp support him for it The proposition to nominate me or to urge me to ’ let myself be nominated is a dishonorable one. I know not how others may feel, but for my part, I would not be able to look an honest man in the face—if I allowed myself to profit by such a course. ” This was everywhere accepted"without contradiction' as Senator Sherman's comment on the treatment received by him, in his opinion, Trorn General Garfield and Mr. Charles Foster, at the Republican National Convention in 1880. The facts which render Mr. Warner Miller the antithesis in New York Republicanism of all that is represented by President Arthur are too well known to require recital or explanation. The overthrow of every otber Republican leader than Mr. Sherman in Ohio has made him the undisputed master of the Earty in that State. Circumstances ave just conspired in New York to make Mr. Warner Miller the undisputed master of Republicanism in this State. The first result of the discovery of these facts is the report that Mr. Sherman is expected, in the name of Ohio Republicanism, to count Messrs. Blaine ana Arthur out of the Republican possibility for the. Presidency, and that Mr. Miller, in the name of Now York ReEublicanism, is expected to do the same y President Arthur. We have intimated that the sensational character of this report renders its literal verification improbable. At the same time its emanation from the circle of politicians surrounding Mr. Sherman and from the circle surrounding Mr. Warner Miller is not to be regarded as insignificant Those politicians have many methods whereby they can accomplish results— without letting the light fall on them as performers.—Albany Argus. A Good Way to Tse Corruption Funds. This is a Presidential year and we shall soon be itrthe thick of the campaign. A great deal of money will bo spent by the political parties and the contending candidates, and there is no reason why it should not be placed where it will do the most good; We are told by the great Republican engineer of the contest of 1880 that in the famous Indiana Campaign that year a good portion of the money expended to “change the convictions” of tne people found its wav to the church of which the Republican candidate was an honored leader. Wherever a church was found hampered with a heavy debt and ’attended by a Democratic congregation the debt was paid oft through the Morton Fund, and the Democrats were naturally grateful. Wherever » good number of Democratic voters were found of the right faith, without a church, a liberal contribution was planked down for the purpose of erecting one. The godly work was prosecuted in conjunction with the President of Hiram College, aqd, in Mr. Dorsey’s words, the ““lonely way” of the followers of that particular faith was made “as pleasant as possible,” and “there were 26,000 of them in the State.” Politicians do not, as a rale, make a good use of money. They are apt to squander it on worldly pleasures and to be tempted by it into dissipation. A truly good Republican, while recognizing the necessity of paying out money to secure his election, must necessarily feel regretful at the use to which it is put after it has left his hands. The Indiana "method of 1880 will teach him how he can spend money in such a manner as to satisfy his conscience while aiding his election. He can ascertain the religious belief of the opposition voters and contribute liberally to the churches to which they belong. He will then have the satisfaction of knowing that he is helping himself and religion at the same time. Churches which happen to be encumbered with heavy debt or to bo short of building funds will also find in Mr. Dorsey’s revelations a happy method of replenishitog their treasuries. The Democratic portion of their congregations can secure liberal aid from the Republican candidates, while the Republican portion ought to bo equally successful with the Democratic candidates. If elections are to be bought, the best use that can be made of the purchase money is to spend it on the churches.—N. ¥.’ Worth —There are 8,000 Icelanders in Manitoba, one-third of whom live in the city of Winnipeg, where they have recently played an Icelandic drama in their own language. Thoy are iadoslriops, wellbehaved cHisens. . ■

FACTS ASP FKTOBBS. —The report of the Minister of Mv rine and Fisheries places the total value of the fisheries of Canada at $17,215,$75. —Thsre were 1,676 accidents last year in the Pacme coal mines; 32$ deaths, making 153 Widows and 512 orphans. There -wt» one death to every 90,000 tons taken out.—San Francisco ~Cdli. —Canada has 15,000 lacrosse players, 5,000 curlers, 4,000 snowshoers, 3,500 cricketers, 2,000 fopt-b^ll players, 1,000 rowing-men, 1,000 bas&D)dhs&> 1,000 bicyclists and 10,000 given to other sports.—Montreal Witness. —Tulare Lake, in California, is rapidly drying up. A few years ago it was 33 miles Tong and 21 miles wide. y Now it is about 16 miles long, and ha* \ an average width of less than 8 miles. —Son Francisco Chronicle. —The year 1883 was more favorable for potatoes than any since 1875. "''The National Department of Agriculture make the average for„ the country ninety-three bushels per acre, and the total yield 195,000,000 bushels.—N. I. Times. —According to the Medical Record, insurance tables show" that a man who abstains from alcohol has, i!t 20 years of age, a chance of living 44.2 years; at 30, 38.5 years; at 40, 28.8 years. Am intemperate man’s chance at 20 is 15.6 —^ years; at 30, 13.8 years, and at 40, 11.6 , years. - ,, —By the will of the late Stephen Williams, of the Roxbury division of Boston, the Hampton Normal School, of Hampton, Va., will receive $20,900; the Home for Little Wanderers, Boston,' $20,000; the Home for Aged Men, $5,000, and the Home for Aged Women,' $5,000, the remainder of the estate to be equally divided between the Rox«» bury Charitable Society.—Boston Post. —The following schedule of charges for the sale of strong drink at retail was fixed by a Judge of Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1795: West India runl, one gill, 10 pence; continental and French run. 7 pence; country brandy, 9 pence; French brandy, 1 shilling‘2 pence; beer pd? gallon, 4 shillings; cider per gallon, 3 .shillings; rum with

1UI pUUl.il, £, OU1U. sugar for toddy, 1 shilling' 3 pence. —The number of school libraries in France is increasing rapidly, iij 186S the number was 4,833; in 1-871 the i?um-' ber had risen to 14,679; five years la&tt to 17,761; in 1879 there were 20,552 of them; and last year France counted no less than 30,000 school libraries. Be-* sides these there are 4,000 free public libraries, of which excellent use is being made. In England there were in 1882 only ninety-six free libraries. —According to the census report ot ■ 1880, New York leads the States in the manufacture of cheese, having produced during that year 108,722,852 pounds, in which production the value of material was $6,375,566, and the value of prod- ** '• ucts was $8,720,490. No other State < at all compares with that, Ohio stapdr*-—-, idt next, with 17,808,191 pot^ds; value of materials, $1,013,668; value of products, $1,361,124. Close upon Ohio comes Wisconsin, with 16,806,994 pounds; value of materials, $932,308; value of products, $1,340,860.—N. Y.Sun.. WIT AND WISDOM. —The milk of human kindness is never diluted.— N. T. Mail. —The best way to deal with a cold in to avoid it—Chicago Tribune. —Gray hairs are honorable, but lots of old sinners wear them. —N. O. Picayune. —Is the neigh of the horse a negation? It comes from the region of the noes^ anyhow.—Yonkers Ornette. —Is the new publication which is devoted to electrie matters to be classed under the head of light reading pr flash literature? — Boston Commercial Bulletin. _ —The Washington Sentinel, the brewi ers’ organ, speaks of -‘elderly women of both sexes.” And vet they say that! lager beer is not intoxicating!—Gw City Derrick. —“ You are right in supposing I work hard,” said Frederick the Great to si friend. “ I do so in order to live, fok nothing has more resemblance to death than idleness.” —‘•We’re down on hoss stealin’," said the chief of the vigilantes to the horse thief they were about to string up, “ and we are pleased to see.you are ip a-cord with us.”—N. T. News. —A facetious swell, who danced with a couple of Chicago girts at a party recently,remarked that, although he liked rings on his fingers, he couldn’t stand belles on his toes.—Chicago Herald. — “ Where shall we find our teachers?” asks an educational exchange.! Well, many of onr sweet girl teachers' may be found sitting on sofas with nice young men, any time after eight o’clock p. m.—Detroit Post. —“Now, darling, will you gnwit me one favor before I go?” “Yes’ George, I will,” she said, drooping her eyelashes and getting her lips in shape. “What is the favor I can grant you?" “Only a little song at the piano, love. I am afraid there is a dog outside waiting for me, and I want to scare him away. —Philadelphia Call. * —“Never leave your clothes on the line all night,” remarks the household department of an exchange. Well,' yes, it’s better to hang them over the back of a chair in your room. Then if you should happen to oversleep a few hours you won’t have to go shinning, around the back yard in the day-time ,,, up your raiment—Doston

—A youth of limited means, who had just married, sent h& wife's rich father: a beautiful copy of Tom Hood's poemj ! “What Can an Old Man Do but Die The gratified father-in-law at once took away his daughter, clubbed his son-in-law, and, having broken his leg on thei front steps of the youthful schemer,1 sued him for $20,000.' And now the young mau has concluded that an oldj man's sphere of action.is not so limited; as Tom Hood supposed.—Hartford Law* poon. —I used to run a newspaper myself, said a bald-headed and earnest-, eyed man who came in one day to sell us a map of Central Africa; “but some how or other I never could hit on a motto that would take. First I tried, • Bei just and fear not;’ next, ‘The truth U mighty and must previdl;’ then, ‘Tha early bird gets the worm,' and lastly,1 • Hew to the line, let the chips fly where they may.’ While I was running, that! motto, the foreman accidentally left it out and ran for four weeks in its place,1 before 1 discovered the error, ‘Taksl Sockdolloger’s anti-bilious pills. ’ Before I could think of a motto under which I could win success the.. Sheriff