Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 February 1890 — Page 1

J. L. MOUHT, Editor end Proprietor. VOLUME XX. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right’ m PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1890. as.

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Or all the aliens who took oat letters of naturalisation in England last year only three were Americans. A rosTAL card sent from Beading, Pa., to Stroudsburg, fifteen miles away, one year ago, has just reached its dear tination. '% William E. Gladstone has been offered $25,000 a year by an American publisher for the exclusive use of his literary output. Tub latest in short-hand and typewriting is the provision for these business necessities on the limited trains between Now York and Chicago. The Merchant Tailors’ National Exchange at its recent session in Chicago resolved that “sixty days shall be the limit of credit” in their business. General Boulanger is engaged by Alexander Comstock, business manager of the New York Academy of Music, to visit this country next autumn and de- • liver thirty lectures. At King Humbert’s express wish the Italian Government is about'to establish in Now York and Brooklyn four Italian schools, where will he taught the English and Italian languages. The scarcity of gold in the Argentine Republic is worrying the Government, which has decided to offer for sale one hundred and forty million acres of public land, payment to be made for them in gold. _________ Under penalty of discharge employes of the New York Central road and the Wagner Palace Car Company have been ordered to keep thermometers that are to be placed in the cars as near a temperature of 70 degrees as possible. Prof. GoldWix Smith believes that by a secret ballot the people of -Canada would vote for political union with the United States. The real sentiment of the people!, he thinks, is at present hidden beneath the conventional sentiment which the official class labors to maintain. The first annual report of the New YoikStatu Commission on Lunacy, made public recently, relates a number oi shocking incidents observed inf county institutions, declares the county system a failure, and recommends that the State assume charge of these unfortunate people. __________

The Czar of Russia, Emperor William, of Germany, and Kin? Humbert, ol Italy, have each received a present of ten thousand fine cigars from Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria. It will be rather a hard task of the recipients to examine each weed before lighting it to see if it is loaded. The statue of Henry Ward Beecher destined to be placed in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is now being cast in bronze. It will bo of heroic proportions, nine feet high, and will represent the great preacher in the familiar soft felt hat and cape. The cost will be 535,000, and the statue will be completed in eighteen months. It is now possible to go, around the world in fifty days and.the trip will be made in less than forty days before the century is closed. A few years hence .around the world will only be a short vacation. People who are anxious to be famous should be planning for a trip to the moon. Around the world is too slow for modern times. Frederick H. Pace says in the An- . dover Review that the newspaper is the cheapest thing in the world for value received, and that modern society has no class which can not afford to come under the influence of newspapers. Mr. Page .makes no pretentions to being a prophet, or the son of a prophet, but he hits the nail pretty squarely on the head. Recently at Brooklyn, N. Y., Undertaker Joseph Bryan was called to the residence of Dr. W. C. Parks, a dentist, to prepare the body of Mrs. Parks for burial. When Bryan reached the houso he was astonished by the announcement that his services would not be required, as the su pposed corpse had regained consciousness. Mrs; Parks had simply been in a trance. A great discovery is heralded from Vienna. It is that the origin of the influenza has been traced to a germ to. which has been given the name of the “bishop of bacilli” Many experiments have been made with this object in view, but up to this time with no success, and the manner in which the disease was communicated has never been satisfactorily explained.

i > . i Mr. Mercikk, a member of the Canadian Parliament, was believed to be joking when awhile ago he offered a hill giving one hundred acres of land to every father of twelve children who resides in the dominion. But he got the measure passed, and it is now a law to he treated as seriously as any other of the Canadian statutes. Fathers that come under the provisions of the act are already reporting in considerable numbers, and, while there is no such fecundity in Canada, perhaps, as prevails in the tropics, the Government is likely to give away a good manynicres of its public lands. • The original post-office box used in (he town of Pomfret, Conn., 100 years ago is now owned in that towzi ky Benjamin Grosvenor, one of whose ancestors, Lemuel Grosvenor, was the ?■ t postmaster appointed between r .ford and Boston. He received ’ appointment from President Washington, and held the office until tho election of Martin Van Buren, when the infir pities of age demanded his retirement. The box itself is 4K feet in height and 4 feet in length. There are two apartments at the top with five drawers underneath, making a curious relic of the earliest postal dayf and service in Connecticut In the death of Prudence Crandall Philleo at Elk Grove, Kan., recently a remarkable woman passed away. She was a Quakeress, and was one of the first victims to the mob spirit against abolitionists. In 1833, out of the kindness of her heart she opened a school for colored children at Canterbury, Conn. Tne mob destroyed her schoolhouse and maltreated her also, and she was finally thrust into jail and kept there for a long time. For some years she bad lived in Kansas, and about four years ago the Connecticut Legislature Voted her a pension of 9400 a year as partial reparation for the loss sustained. The Vale of Avoca has been bought by an English eompany, and the woods will be swept away in order to make There is great consterna* -district, where the memory Moore ja cherished with far- ■ :

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Tuesday, Feb. 4, — In the Senate several petitions praying for the passage of a per diem pension bill were presented and the Samoan treaty was ratified. Among the hills introduced was one to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska, and one allowing New Mexico to frame a constitution and be admitted to the Union. In the House the bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United States from the amount now charged to him and deposited in the several States was referred by the Speaker to the committee on ways and means after a long debate. Wednesday, Feb. 5.—Bills to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma and to aid in the establishment and the temporary support of common schools were discussed in the Senate, and a resolution was reported congratulating the people of the United States of Brazil on their adoption of a republican form of government. In the House the journal was read, but no business was transacted, a large number of the members having gone to atI tend the funeral of Mrs. and Miss Tracy. I Thursday, Feb. #. — In the Senate j bills were passed authorizing the con- ! struction of a railroad, wagon and foot : passenger bridge across the Mississippi | river at Burlington, la., and appropriate ing $75,000 for the relief of certain Chippewa Indians of t(he La Point® agency in Wisconsin. The bill to provide temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma and the Blair educational bill were discussed. Adjourned to the 10th. In the House the new code of rules were reported, and it was ordered printed and recommitted. Bills were passed appropriating $112,000 to reimburse the seamen who lost their personal effects in the Samoan disaster; to establish two additional land districts in Montana, and to increase the pensions of totally disabled soldiers and sailors to $72 per month. Bills were introduced directing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion per month and to have it coined immediately into standard silver dollars, and for the survey of a ship canal connecting Lakes Superior and Michigan. Friday, Feb 7.— The Senate was not in session. In the House bills were passed increasing the pension of General Abram Duryea to $100 per month and authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri-river betw een Douglas, or Sarpay County, Nebraska, and Pottawattomie County, Iowa. Adjourned to the 10th.

FROM WASHINGTON. The Director of the Mint estimates that on February 1 there was $1,133,185,174 worth of gold and silver coin and bullion in the United States divided as follows: Gold coin, $634,900,433; gold bullion, $66,080,987; silver coin, $439,546,645; silver bullion, $11,557,759. Editor Mitchell, of Richmond, lead a paper at the National convention of colored men jtt- -Washington oh the 5th upon outrages upon colored people in the South. He said that 383 negroes j had been lynched in the South from 1887 to date, and that colored men had been roasted in North Carolina. A permanent organization was formed to be known as the American Citizens’ Equal Rights Association of the United States of America. Ix Washington on the 6th the colored men’s convention elected ex-Senator Pinchback president of the National organization and issued an address to the people of the UAed States asking justice for the colored race, and declaring that the colored vote in the South is suppressed by violence or neutralized by fraud, and that their children are not afforded the school facilities to which they are entitled, The colored voters are urged to support in the future only such candidates for public office as are known to be in favor of justice to the colored American citizens. All we ask, says the address in conclusion, is justice, equal j rights and fair play. In the United States there were 359 business failures during the seven days ended on the 7th, against 391 the previous seven days. The total of failures in the United States January 1 to date is 1,887, against 1,871 in 1889. Secretary Tracy, it was stated on good authority on the 7th, would not relinquish his official duties on account of his recent terrible affliction.

THE EAST. A. Cox & Co’s stove works near Norristown, Pa., were destroyed by fire on the 4 th. Loss, $100,000. At the Metropolitan Opera-House in New York the centennial of the formation of the United States Supreme Court was celebrated with a public meeting on the 4th and a banquet in the evening. Joseph P. Murphy, of Philadelphia, manufacturer of cotton and wcolen gogds, failed on the 4th for $500,000. Ox the 4th window-glass manufacturers met at Pittsburgh, Pa., and ordered an advance in prices of 5 per cent. The Hudson river was open to navigar tion one hundred miles above New York on the 5th. The Republicans of the Fourth Pennsylvania district on the 5th nominated John E. Reyburn to succeed the late Congressman William D. Kelley. Ox the 5th the American Axe and Edge Tool Company, comprising all the edge tool concerns in the country, was organized at Pittsburgh, Pa., the capital stock being $4,000,000. Andrew Carnegie on the #th offered a free library, to cost not less than $1,000,000, to the city of Pittsburgh, Fa. Democrats of the Fourth Congressional district of Pennsylvania on tho 7th nominated W. M. Ayres for the Congressional vacancy caused by the death of W. D. Kelley. Paper-covered library publishers formed a trust in New York on tho 7th with a capital of $3,000,000. A storm in Pennsylvania on the 7th did great damage in Fayette and Westmoreland counties and the Connellsville coke regions, unrooBng and blowing down houses and factories' At IKairsville the glass-works were wrecked and Charles E. Barr and Mr. Burney were killed. The loss in the coke region would reach $500,000. On the 7th the schooner Minnehaha, en route from Philadelphia to Providence, R. I., was, with her crew of six men, given up as lost IN the Connellsville (Pa.) region the wages of the coke workers were on the 7th advanced from 13 to 15 per cent. WEST AND SOUTH. In West Virginia the Gubernatorial contest was settled for the present on the 4th by the Legislature seating Fleming (Dein.), who received 43 votes to 40 lop General Goff.

Is Hamilton Comity, Mo., destruction was on the 5 th said to prevail owing to the failure of crops, and aid was asked for the suffering people: The town of Burke, Idaho, wis on the 5th nearly destroyed by avalanches. Half the business houses wore in ruins and three men were killed. Missouri Prohibitionists in State convention on the 5th at Sedalia adop ted a platform denouncing the maintenance of'the liquor traffic, the high li. *nse laws of Missouri and the local c (ption law. State and National. The river front and several strr lets in Portland, Ore., were underwater on the 5th, caused by the swollen condi tion of the Willamette, and merchants, were compelled to suspend business. Ti troughout the Willamette valley and in Southern Oregon heavy losses were reported, bridges, houses, fences, mills, etc., having been swept away. The Virginia Legislature defeated a bill on the 5th to revive the old whip-ping-post law. Lyon Cr.iT, a mining camp in Montana, was completely buried by a snowslide on the 5th, and two miners were killed and a large amount of property destroyed. The secretary of the agricultural department of Kansas stated on the 6th that the value of crops in the State for, 1889 was #104,572,498. The value of liv h stock for the same year was $116,126,4fM. A writ of error was granted by Chief' Justice Shope, of the Illinois Sup’mme Court on the 6th in the case of Fielden and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago Anarchists, in order that the ques tion of the right of the condemned men to be personally present in court when fne decision of the State Supreme Coui t was rendered may be determined. At Charlestown A. B. Fleming was on the 6th inaugurated Governoi - of West

Virginia. Oregon advices of the 6tL say that the floods had washed away fl fty houses in Oregon City, fifteen bu ildings at Salem, and caused considerable damage at other places. The wat efs were subsiding. The death of Joshua S fexbon, founder of the Urbana Citizen ?«d the oldest editor in Ohio, occurre«i at Urbana on the 7th, aged 83 years. He had been in the publishing business Since 1831. Nearly fifty women, representing the best families in Lathrop, Mo., visited two gambling dens on the 7th and completely gutted them, emptying out nearly 81,000 worth of liquor into the street. Murderers wore hanged as follows on the 7th: Sam Will (colored) at Jacksonville, Ala; Lfge Kloore at Greensboro, N. C.; John Wilson in Yancy County, N. C., and Malen Hankey in Montgomery County, N. C. Flames destroyed the court-house at Dallas, Tex., on the 7th, and most of the records were destroyed. less, $100,000, All over the IJorthwest a terrible blizzard prevailed on the 7th, and the storm was said to be the worst since 1882. George Dermis, aged 23 years, of Hamilton, O., on the 7th made an unsuccessful effort to murder Effie Longnecker, aged 16 yjjars, because she rejected his suit, and then killed himself. Foreign-Intelligence. China advices of the 4th say that a waterspout near Nanking caused the loss of one hundred lives. The sum of $171), 000 in specie and bonds were stolen from the steamer La Plata on her recent; voyage from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp. Owners of docks, wharves ana warehouses in London on the 4th formed a union to combat the tyranny of the laborers’ unions. On the 6th Catherine Henzy, aged lOf years, died in Kingston, OnL, of influenza. By an explosion in a colliery at Monmouthshire, Eng., 300 miners were buried on the 6th, and 151) of them lost their lives. On the evening of the 6th General Salamanca, Captain-General of Cuba, died at Havana, and Minister of War Chinchilla was on the 7th appointed his successor. Advices of the 7th say that 170 bodies had been taken from the coal mine in Monmouthshire, Eng., in which an explosion occurred recently, and it was feared that there were twenty more dead still in the pit

/ LATER. f General Wm. T. Sherman celebrated his seventieth birthday, on the 8th, with a private dinner party to which a number of his intimate friends were invited. He was deluged with congratulatory letters and telegrams and with flowers; — ' jj > The Massachusetts Humane Society has awarded a gold medal to Norman H. Farquhar, of the United States steamer Trenton for extraordinary courage and bravery displayed in the rescue of 140 of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Vandalia at Apia, Samoa, March 16, 1889. Sheriff Parker, while on his way to Helena, Mont, with Senator Becker, was arrested at Bozeman, on the 8th, on a charge of kidnaping the Senator. He waived examination and was placed under bonds. The Commercial Association of Lisbon has expeled the English members because they furnished a statement to the newspapers in London complaining of the treatmedt^ to which they were subjected. Mb. Wuxi am Walter Phelps, United States Minister to Germany, gave his first reception at the American Legation in Berlin on the 8th. It ws: well attended and in every respect successful. Hos. Kyuus Joses, a member of the Georgia Legislature, and probably the most successful -farmer in that State, died at Atlanta on the 8th. A State Council will be convened in Berlin within a short time to consider the rescripts lately issued by the Eraoeror. Jobs E. Haggard, nominated for Marshal of North Dakota, has declined the appointment. It is intimated that this action on his part is because he was aware that his connection with a lottery scheme in North Dakota is distasteful to the Administration. /*The four children of Jacob Slater broke through the ice while skating on the lake at Binnewater, N. Y., on the 9th, and were drowned. The mother and father, who ran to the aid of the children,were also drowned. ^ Miss Rakdaix stated, on the 9th, that the improvement in her father’s condition was quite marked, and that the alarming reports recently published respecting his dangerous illness were greatly exaggerated. Secretary Windom has directed that charges of drunkenness and cruelty preferred against Captain Healey of the revenue steamer Bear, be investigated at San Francisco. A board of revenue p&oert will conduct the inquiry.

STAT*} INTELLIGENCE.

Tiik S> ipretne Court banded down u opinion bo the Gorby-Collet case, in volvin g the title to the office «.f State Geolr^jist. in the Peelle case the conr.t held that the office shall be filled by the people at a general election, and if. the absence of such election a vacancy exists which the Governor may fill by appointment Gorby holds a commission from Governor Gray, in which be was appointed for four years, and the case will now go back to the circuit court on the questions which this fact raises, the Governor contending that Gray had no right to make the appointment Geologist Thompson resigned. Dan Forester, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Ann Keenan and Mrs. Major Wheeler are the four latest victims of la grippe at Connersville. A son of F. C. Walker, trustee of Pike Tov, nship, jay County, handling of. a gun, shot himself, and lived only an hour. PhiijI- SmrpjEB, a pioneer of Marion •Township, Allen County, dropped dead from heart disease while walking from the house to the barn. A trio of boys confessed, at La porta, that they committed numerous burglaries, for one of which two innocent persons were sent to prison. Twenty-one tramps resisted the police at Decatur with stolen revolvers, and eighteen escaped. Biciiaisd J» Carter, of the First National Bank of Frankfort, died the "other evening in his eighty-second year. He was among the oldest citizens of the county and quite wealthy. Andrew Gallagher, an alleged tramp printer, is in jail at Brazil, charged with robbing a clothing store the other morning. He was arrested in Indianapolis. Stephex C- Roll, a member of the present panel jury of the Circuit Court at Terre Haute, died of la grippe. He was sick less than a week. Francis M. Dicks, of Ladoga, has been awarded $700 damages in the Montgomery circuit court, on account of his being injured in a wreck on the Midland railroad last fall. The Cohen Clothing Store, at Brazil was entered iby burglars early the other morning, who carried off considerable cash and clothing. Sarah Egbert, a prominent teacher, was declared insane, at Martinsville. Cause, overexertion in her studies. Is; Hendricks County Lewis Ballard, while crossing the farm of John Barber, which right was granted him by deed, was shot at by Barber, who was held in default iof $500 bail to await the action of the grand jury. A business block at Eliwood was destroyed by fire. Loss. $25,000. Abe and Simon Klute hare beep arrested on the charge of firing the blockj The Union County commissioners have adopted plans for a new courthouse, and will advertise for bids for the building of it at once. The structure will be entirely of stone, iron and slate, and the estimated cost will be about $100,000. L Joe Hill, of Shelbyville, left a 38caliber revolver under has pillow, the other morning, and when his wife went Jo make up the bed she pulled itoff on to the floor, and it was discharged, the ball striking her in the thigh and inflicting a dangerous wound. While going to church in her buggy, Mrs. Gotlieb Walter; of Huntington, aged eighty years, an old pioneer, died of heart disease. James Lawrence was accidentally shot and killed while hunting near Columbia City. *: Harry Haun, of Pendleton, was accidentally shot while out hunting. He and friends were hunting in a large thicket when one of his companions filled his face full of bird-shot not knowing ^e was present. The wounds are not considered dangerous. Burglars at Deerfield plundered the store of Charles Barret the other night, and then set Are to it. Barrett and family, who resided on the premises, narrowly escaped burning to death. At Montpelier, Geo. Howard, aged 90 years, died of pneumonia, brought on by la grippe. He was the oldest man in Blackford or Wells Counties. Horace Dabler, jk., of Terre Haute, wants $20,000 damages from the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company for a mangled arm. A religious fanatic at Fairmount poured coal oil over his head and body and set it on fire. . A boy named Baischmitter was ''arowned in a lake near Laporte. John McGbaw, a farmer residing near Cannelburg, was run down and killed by a train, while walking along the track in an intoxicated condition. R. L. Hegert, a saloon-keeper of Greenc&stle, has sued the city for $5,000 damages for not keeping the Streets in order near his dwelling. Marketmaster Edward Wells, oi Indianapolis, is charged with embezzling $500 of the city’s money. A company has been organized at Linden, ten miles north of Crawfordsville, to< bore for natural gas.

jnat Heaton, living near Kussiavme, was out hunting rabbits and got up on a stump to look around for game, laying his gun on his arm. It slipped down to the stump, and in the fall the lock strnck against the bark and discharged the load into the young Sian's bowels. All one side of the abdominal wall was torn ont. When found he was still alive, but his bowels were lying out cn the ground. He was carried to his home, where he died. Engineer Charles Gorman, of the Nickel-Plate road, dropped dead at the throttle the other morning just as the train arrived at Hammond. W hen ho started on his trip he felt perfectly well, and had rah his engine but seven m|les, when he dropped dead of apoplexy. Joseph Arnold, while assisting at the test of a traction engine at Richmond, was caught by the fly-wheel and thrown several feet, receiving two fractures of the arm and internal injuries. The trial of Geo. Buskirkfor the mnr- ' der of Else Easton at Stlnesville, Christmas eve, was brought to a close at Bloomington, the other morning, by the jury bringing in a verdict of not guilty. During the warm weather of a few days ago grasshoppers made their appearance in vast numbers in Morgan and counties just south. They did great damage to wheat, and had the warm weather continued the crop would have been badly injured. A great many persons think they will renew the attack if the warm weather reiflrns. Andrew J. Huffman, of Lapel, i* authority for the statement that be has ' shipped no hogs to Pittsburgh; that he has had no hogs affected with rabies, and, that the stories ol rabies among the stock in that neighborhood are wiftwuk foundation.

THE WESTERN FLOODS. WwU^tw and Oregon-A Gloom; Time at Gold Raa-Bnilneai I'artlall; Sort .ended at Portland, Ore—attach Destruction In th« Track of the Flood. i. Chicago, Ftoli. 8.—A special from Seattle, Wash., says: Hundreds of families are coopec. up in their houses in Portland unablt to leave. It is feared ‘'that the water it 111 undermine come of .these residence s, and that loss of life .Will ensue. Sc trains can run out of [the city, their thicks being either coveered with watei or snow. Hundreds of ^people are leav: ng their houses iin boats Jot high ground I A special frnma Portland, Ore., says: Meager news ol great suffering in the mining regioi: s has been received. A special from fold Bun gives a gloomy view of that ■ amp, and others, in the foothillsof the Sierras. The rain storm has edased there, but the snow lies heavy, and many of the small mining ts are out of provisions. One man iO was left to guard the India Hill Mining Company was so reduced by starvation when liiis companions returned that he had to be carried put on a litter. Gold Run was threatened with starvar tion, but when food was nearly nil gone a railroad succeeded in getting' a train load of supplies there. Business Suspended! on the River Front iin Portland. Portland, Ora, Feb. 6.—A11 the merchants along the water-front and for two streets back from the river have been competed. to suspend business and move their stock to higher ground. The water rose so rapidly that many of them were unable to remove their goods, and in consequence heavy, damage will result. Throughout the Williamette valley heavy losses are reported. Many bridges have been washed away, and a large amoun t of grain stored along the river has been ruined. The wagon bridge across the Williamette at Salem was swep; away Monday night. It was 1,000 feet long and cost 375,000. Not less than 10,000,000 feet of lop have been swept away on tho Wilkiaraette and Columbia in tbe last two days. Large quantities of sawed logs and a number of saw-mills on the rivers have also been carried away. Southern Pacific officials do not venture an opinion as to when their road will be open vest. All communication south and east of here has been cut off for five da ys,and no trains are arriving over the .southern Pacific or tk e Union Pacific. Trains aro running 10 Tacoma, Wash , over the Northern Pacific, but a hea ry storm in the Cascade mountains has nit off communication to the East. Early this m raing another building from Powers’ furniture factory was swept down lie current and lodged against the we t end piers of the bridge. Other wreckaj j accumulated, and the pressure benea h the bridge renders the structure unsi :e. Driftwood in large quantities has joUected about the central pier, and tbe machinery of the draw is completely blocked. About seven o’clock 1 lis morning a warehouse came floating down the river and passed undei both bridges. The roof had b en taken off and piles of freight lay exposed. The warehouse via; about 300 feet long and is supposed to lave come from Oregon •City. Latei i n the day a bairn filled with hay ca no floating down. Most of the docks are safe enough even for a higher rise, but some of them a,re somewhat shaky. The ships in tho harbor are all secui ely moored, and not hing except too gre at a collection of driftwood can break them loose. The Pacific Postal Company secured Eastern wires this morning, but could not get any news from the south further than Cor vatlis.

Higher Tim for Twenty Veers. Tacojia, V ash., Feb. 6.—The Williamette river is higher than for twenty years pas t Many bridges are threat ened and there has been much damage done in the valley. The revenue cutter Bichard Bush, with the Northern mail from San Francisco, was unable to cross’ the Columbia river bar. She came back to Tacoma and has returned to San Francisco. VALUABLE IRON MINES. An Ira men He Iron Field in Itascii County, Minn., Valued at 320,000,000, to be Developed. Minn'epous, Minn., Feb. 6.—A company of capitalists of this city have commenced Ahe development of iron mines in Itasca County. They' were discovered three years ago, but were* not considered worth much. Further investigation has revealed the fact that 1,000 acres cover rich deposits of ore which assays sixty-six per cent, of iron. The mines are twelve miles from the Mississippi river. They are ten times larger than the VermillitA mines, which sold for $8,000,000. Spur tracks will be put in from the Duluth «fc Winnipeg railroad, ten miles distant The mines are valued at $30,000,000. The Greatest Oro Deposits Ever I Ucovered la this Country. St. Pact, Minn., Feb. 7.—Eminent mining experts announce that the Barker & Neihalt district at Great Falls, Mont.-, contains the greatest ore deposits ever discovered in this country, and will surpass the record of all previous camps. Capital is following close on the heels of these discoverit s, and before the summer has passed ri :h developments are looked for. Labor is needed and employment can 1 s once be given a large number of men.

The Union Pacific ifiicldt lt.^ Portland, Ore., Peb. 7.—Pi rticnlars of the railroad accident that occurred on Sunday last on the Unio 1 Pacific railroad near Cascade Locks o 1 the Columbia river, in which nine sen were killed and wounded, have been 'eceived. The train consisted of the ent ine, tender and caboose, and had on be surd about thirty-five laborers. When tl 3 engine had almost cleared the tree le, which was abont fifty feet in length the underpinning was washed awa r by the torrent underneath, and tho tender, with the caboose nnd its occup .nts, were hurled into the ravine, forty l et below. The Explosion at she Pettlbon t Shaft la Pcniuvlvania.' Wn.KssBARKK, Pa., Feb. 6. —The explosion at the Pettibone sb ift of the Delaware, Lackawanna & We tern Company’s mine late ast night pi >ved to be a more serious : natter than it first reported. The Bha t is the dee est in the' >Yyoming region and its titnl: sr linings are completely birned away The fire departments of .his city am Kingston are pouring water into the sha! . Inordei to prevent the fire attacking be coal i* was foundtafecesiary to flooc the mine The new hanker Ttdttfd «M< was U?ed.

A MANITOBA TRAGEDY. An Old Man of Ninety-Five Delibcra ety Shoots His Son and DM*iiter-la-la» Alter Being Remonstrated w th (or is•suiting the Latter. Winnipeg, Matt, Feb. 10.—A terrible ; double murder ocurred near Miomi i tation, 150 milesfronj here, Friday. 1 articulars are meager, owing to the in erruption of train service. John Moiton and his wife were both shot by Morti m's father. The murderer was ninety- ive years old, and only recently went to ive with his son and daughter-in-law. ' 'he son was fifty-two years old. The son was absent from home, and the old i san and daughter-in-law had some disi ute which ended in the woman being sti ack with a stick of wood. When the 1 iusband came home the wife told him v hat had occurred. He asked his father ■ vhy be did it and the old man replied: 'Do you see that rifle,” pointing to one hi ,nging up, “take it and shoot me or 1 will shoot you.” 'Che son paid no attent ion, and went into another room. The old | man took down the rifle, went out i ind, I aiming through the window, shot his son through the heart. Two witno uses of the murder ran for assistance, and during their absence the old mai i reloaded the rifle and shot his daugi ter-in-law as she was stooping over he> dead husband. She lived an hour. The old man said he did the shooting ir tentionally. The murdered couple fere highly respected, and great indigna tion prevails. I

NELLIE RYAN'S MURDERER. The Body of R. L Scott, the Supposed Murderer of Nellie Ryan at Denver, Col. ' Found with Two Bullet Holes Thr tnglt the Head—Supposed Suicide. Denver, CoL, Peb. 9.—On the m turning of January 28, wljile walking a long one of the principal streets of this rity, in company with two other young la lies, Miss Nellie Ryan, formerly of Mi nneapolis, was shot and instantly ki lied, her murderer slipping up behind and placing a revolver almost against her breast, and then making his es rape through an alley. Although the w hole police force were put on his track, they | failed to catch him. Since then pr vate subscriptions have been raised and a re* ; ward offered for his capture amoni ding j to over $1,000. Detectives scoure l the State without a glimpse of the murderer. Several arrests have been i aade j but each prisoner proved to be the wrong man. It was beginning to look | as though one of the greatest crin es of : this city was to go unpunished, wh< n by j chance, some railroad laborers at work I ten miles south of Pueblo, Fridaj discovered the remains of a man lyi ig in a deep canyon with two bullet aoles through his head and a revolver 1 y his Bide. Yesterday the remains were identified as those of R. L. Scot, the young man who was at first suppos ed to j be the murderer, he having at one time been infatuated with MiBS Ryan. It is generally believed that Scott wai the murderer and committed suicide from remorse.

COTTON’S RIVAL. \ Process Discovered by Which the 1 tamta Plant Can be Mide to Successfully Rival Cotton In the Production of Doe lestlc Fabrics. Washington, Feb. 10. — Bo; anist Porte, of the Department of Agricu ture, is of opinion that a process has been discovered by which the ramie fiant can be made into cloth at such ir oderate cost that it will soon become i dangerous rival to cotton. “Aboufc°ai lonth ago,” said Mr. Porte, in convmgawn on this subject, “information^eached'sthis 'department that Mr. Thomas Ma a Providence manufacturer, had sue jeed-''; ed in doing with ramie what hun< reds, I might say thousands, had triec and failed to do—that is, he had at small cost woven the fiber into cloth. The ramie fiber which he had thus sue ceeded in weaving had been prepared by a process discovered by Mr. Charles Topham, a chemist of Salem, Mass. Mr. Topham by a secret formula had t lrned the fiber into a substance for wet ving. Mr. Topham, it seems, had been etperlmenting with ramie, like a great many other men, and only succeeded afi er innumerable failures. “I was ordered by the Departmt nt to go to New England and investiga te the ’ discoveries of Messrs. Topham and Mabbett. I did so, and what I sa nr has convinced me that the problem c f the utilization of ramie has at Iasi been satisfactorily solved.” AN OPEN SWITCH. - * . Terrible Wreck Resulting From a Careless Brakeman’s Mistake. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 10.—Ar open switch caused a serious wreck <n the Northern Central railway at ft arsh’s Eun, near this city, yesterday hH rning. Two sections of a freight running ahead of the Pacific express had orders to lay upon the siding until the exprei s had passed. After the first section ha d run upon the siding a brakeman. snp posing the second section would folio ir, left the switch open. This sectioi, however, ran fn upon another switcl . Before the mistake could be recti fi sd the Pacific express rounded the cur fe and j dashed into the locomotive of tk e first, section. Both engines were demolished : utd the track was blocked all day. Arthur Emerton, of Baltimore, fireman of the express was killed. ‘ Isaac Sterm sr, engineer of the passenger train, : ind engineer Yagle of the-freight, were seriously injured, and Express i lessengers McCahen and Powneli wer s badly hurt. Several others were c it and bruised. The negligent brakem in <fi» appeared after the accident. The Conspiracy Against Ferdln ind. Sofia, Feb. 9.—The proclamation issued by M. Eankofl to the pe jple of Bulgaria, calling upon them-to banish or kill Prince Ferdinand, it mattered not which so that he is finally gotten rid of, ha| created greater exc cement than the officials will admit. T le palace guards have been increased t m-fold, and every possible precaution i t being taken to prevent any authorize! person from gaining access to the Prince. Meanwhile the police and milit try are active in pursuit of parties to-tt e latest conspiracy, and are adding laigely to the number of arrests. An Kdltor’s Daughter Klopes wit i a Mar ried Actor. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 10. —Pretty Lulu Rutherford, the sevente en-year-old daughter of Z. A. Rutherfcrd, editor of the county paper a, 1 tolckow, eloped with Ed Torrence, an at tor, who has long been out o‘f an engage nent on the stage. They met only tw a weeks ago. Miss Rutherford was stag j-struck, and did not know that Torrenci i already had a wife. The editor’s famil f is one of the most prominent in ti e State, The father was here last night looking for the runaways, ana threaten* to shoot

ADDRESS TO THE NATION. Ex-Speaker Oartiale, on Behalf of the Democracy,

Iddresee* *he <C««a**y, Setting Forth tfw FeoUlnfit of tli« Minority In the lloaw »T lit^rewnt ithre* in the Recent Fight. Walking vt&% Fob. 4.—An address to the'country explaining* the position of the Democratic mouthers of the House ha.? been prepared by ex-Speaker Carlisle, and will be signed by all the znioority members to-day. The address in its full text is as follows: The present situation in the Iloase of Rep* reseatathrea fe» so anomalous, and the. unprecedented decisions of the Speaker are so full of danger to tho iotcgrity of future legislation, that we consider it our duty to sabsnit a brief statement of the facts in order that the propriety of the course we hwe taken may be fairly determined. The House of Representatives met on the second day of December, 1888, and immediately organised by the election of a Speaker and other officers, On the same day by a resolution of the House, the Speaker was aits* thorizcd to appoint a committee on rules, and the rules of the last preceding House were referred to that committee. Tho committee,; constating of the Speaker himself and four other members, WS3 appointed on the Wife day of December, and on the ninth It made a report authorizing the Speaker to appoint aft the other committees and defining their Jurist1 lotion. The committee on elections, to which was referred all cases Involving the rights'of members to their seats, was appointed on the ninth day of December. Although nearly two mouths have elapsed since the committee on rules was appointed, ft haft made no report upon the matters referred to it except the partial one made on the ninth of December, and consequently the Ho*se has been compiled to conduct its -business without any rules or system, except the general parliamentary law, as construed, by the Speaker. There have begin no ca lendars, no order of business, no fixed time to receive reports from eoiomitiees or for the consideration of bills or resolutions, and In fact no regular methods whatever In the proceedings of the House. The American House of Representatives has been ail thift time, and still is, so far as rules for Us government are concerned, in precisely the same condition, as a popular meeting or a political convention in which the chairman and his partisans absolutely control all thi proceedings. No measure can get before the House for consideration unless the Speaker chooses to allow It to be presented, and members have no means of knowing in advance what they are to be called upon to discuss or decide. This is the first tame in. out history that a legislative assembly, or-even a public meeting, has attempted to transact business for any considerable period without a regular code of rales prescribing the order of its proceedings} ami the ftKUmVenSense and injustice resulting from such an attempt have teen forcibly illustrated in the present instance. The Speaker lias repeatedly, during these extraordinary proceedings, refused to entertain parliamentary motions that have been recognized as legitimate ever since the Government was established, and when attempts have been made to appeal from his decisions he hP-S 'refused.to submit the question to the House. By.hi* arbitrary rulings, sustained in some his sauces by less than a quorum, he hits subverted nearly every principle of constitutional and parliamentary law heretoforerecognized in the House. This personal and partisan domination of the House was submitted to, though not without repeated protest, until we became convinced t.bat it was the deliberate purpose of the Speaker and his supporters to proceed without rule* to. oust tjie'Democratic members whoso seats are contested and admit their Republican opponents, whether elected or not. •; On Wednesday, January 29, the committee on elections called up a contested-election case, and the Democratic members? determined that in the absence of rules it should not be considered if they could prevent it by any pro j/er par b amentary proceed i n gs. Ac - cordingly they raised the question of consi deration, demanded the yeas and nays, and on tl»e call ot the roll refrained from voting. The result was shat less than a constitutional qnomrn voted, out the Speaker, in Violation of file uniform practice off the House fol1 more than a century, proceeded to count Sembers who were present but not voting, id declared that the House had decided to the ease up. From this decision an app&ttl was taken, and on a motion to lay this appeal on the table the yeas and nays were taken and less than, a quorum voted, but the Speaker again counted members uot voting, and decided that the motion was agreed to, and hta ruling thereby sustained. The Constitution of the United States provides that a majority of each house shaft constitute a quorum W do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorised to compel the attendance of absent njembers lu such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide. Another clause of the Constitution re* quires each house to keep a journal of its proceedings, and provides ilrat when ot^fifth of the members desire it, the yeas and nays shall kb taken on any question and entered on the journal. Since the beginning of the Government under the Constitution, more than a hundred years ago, toe House of Representatives and tho Senate have uniformly construed the first clause of the Constitution quoted above to mean that a majority off alt the memberseteefc must he present and actually participate in the transaction of business, and that whenever, upon a cajl of the yeas and nays, it appeared from the journal, which is the only official record, that leas thaii the constitutional quorum has voted on any proposition, the vote was a nullity and no further business could be done until the requisite number appeared and voted. Every presiding officer in the Senate and every Speaker of the House, except the present one, has held that when less than a quorum voted on a call of the yeas and nays, no matter how many might be actually present, it was his doty to take notice of the fact, and declare that the pending bill or motion had not passed. When the vote Is not taken by yeas and nays it is not entered upon the journal, but If any member makes the point that no quorum lias voted, the proceeding is a nullity and the. vote must be taken over. The presumption ol the law is that when nothing appears to the contrary the proceedings of a legislative body are regular and valid, and therefore when the official record does not show that less than a quorum voted, or attention is not cal led to the fact in such a way cs to furnish legal evidence of it, the question can not be made afterwards. Many bills have been passed when there was no quorum voting, and it. is equally true that many have passed when there was no quorum actually pjesentj^but this does not prove that the proceed fog would have been valid in either ease if the official record had shown the fact.

In older to secure certainty ana stability la the administration of the law, It is a rule in oar jarisprudijnee that when a particular consiriuticn of a constitution or a statute has for a long ti r*.- been acquiesced in, not only by those trlfose duty It is to execute it but also by those whoee personal and property rights are affected by it, the courts will recognize it as the. true construction and enforce il accordingly. Even if this were an original question it would not bo difffcult to show that the practical construction of the Constitution which has prevailed in the House and Senate for one hundred years is the correct one. Speaker Reed himself, when in the minority on the floor or the House, stated the true meaning and the true phtiosophy of the Constitution when he said: “The constitutional idea of a quorum is not the presence of a majority of sit the members of the Ilonso, but a majority of ihe«aacuibers present and participating in the business of the House,” It is not the visible presence but their Judgment and votes, which the Constitution Calls for. i tJeneral (Jarfleld, Mr. Blaine. Mr. Conger, Mr. Kobesoo and other eminent Republicans, have taken the same position, and their arguments have never been answered. If any legal or political question can be settled in this coii*,try by the long aeqniesence of Jurisis and statesmen of all parties, certainly this question has passed beyond the domain of diaeursion. When, therefore, the press*-ti Speaker repudiated this setded coa*fsrtictS»a of *ta; Constitution, and decided that wfcest the osBcia! record, which the Cosetitdtion requires the House to keep, shows on <1 oaii o| the yeas and nays that nquoroat fc» wt* «***». fts m **&»* mb

sot and not TOtlngJ«Qd thus* Igr I P mi » imtside of the recorded Tote, deter m tba* a measaxe has passed, we consider? ft oo»f duty, as % part of the represent ▼<* am •. the people, to enter o»r protests t every form available to us un« J Uii^ circumstances^ We are not copte Oil the right of the minority to gove* ail the su pporters of the Speaker have en avorcd to make the country believe. On e contrary, we are denying the right of a norltp to eject members from their seats,« to pass laws for the government of the peo trader the Constitution a majority of s members of the House constitute a quor n iio do business, and we are simply insls if that less than a majority 9hall not do isiness. We are contending that the majo y shall take the responsibility which pro rly be~ longs to them, and shall come to the^ House of Representatives and vo if they desire to control its proceedings. \nd we are protesting against their right <| carry their measures by counting ns wb t are do not vote. The claim of the majority that th huve a right to govern the House without tending Its session and tak ing part in the < -duct of its business, is too preposterous require refutation. It must be evident 4* uuy one who understands the position til > by the Democratic minority in the Hon that It can notpossibly result in any inj' y.lo the country, or in any injustice to the *afc>rity. Its only effect will be to compel th Republican majority, elected by the peO] % to assume the responsibility imposed tfl a them. On the other hand no one can to see the evils that may result from he inauguration of this practice o counting votes not cast in order make a quorum. Under it a minorit; ol! the mfcinbcrs-elect to the House and Sc ate may pass the most tyrannical laws fOJ -he oppression of the people, and the m©> corrupt laws for the spoliation of the pufc c treasury. Whether so intended or not s direct tendency is to break down the ban m heretofore existing for the protection c the citizen against the encroachments « power, and the spoliation of the treasu by destroying the limitations which the institution has wisely imposed upon the ! rislatfve department. Constitutions are m \e to restrain majorities and protect min stlosi A majority ruling withont limitatk s or *■©- straint upon its power, is a pure spotism and is inconsistent with our syst< M>lt gov* eminent. ■

THE COBRA Dt CAP! LO. Something About .the Host Tor man ol All Reptiles. »' The cobra di capello, Naja to udian*, has numerous synonyms in ifferent parts of India. It is sometim called the spectacled or hooded snii a; some are marked with a figure like si ituctes; others hare a single ocellus on e hood; some haye no mark. The ft ner are called by the natives of Bengv “gokurrah,” the latter “keautiah,” at they have other vernacular synony 3 i n different regions. A common general native term is kala nag or k a lamp. There are many varieties,' t fih as to pattern on the hood and genei coloration, and they are considered ! tives as being of different degrees of activity or deadliness; but the prot >ility i3 that in these respects they art II much the same, any difference be: g due to temporary or individual cause The cobras are all hooded nakes— that is, the neck dilates inb an oval disk, caused by the expansior >f a certain number of elongated : «. The body and tail are relatively df moderate length, seldom together exce< ins five or- six feet, more frequently three or feet. The scales are smooth i 1 imbricated; there is no local shield the nostrils are lateral, and the pupil f the eye is round. The head is sho and not very distinctly, separate from he neck; the fangs are of moderate sir and but slightly movable; there are c e oir two small teeth behind them* in a maxillary bone. The cobra is a nocturnal lake—at least it is most active in i a night, though often seen moying ab ;t in the day. It is oviparous; t 9 eggs, eighteen to twenty-five in number, are obovate, about the size of those of a pigeon; the shell is whi , tough, and feathery. They feed on : all animals, birds’ eggs, frogs, fish, even insects. They occasionally rob en roosta . and swallow, the eggs whole, id prefer to taker their food at dusk or < ring the night. They are said to dr Jc much water; but it is certain that hey will live weeks, even months, in apiivity, without touching food or wa r. They go into water readily and swir weld, bul are essentially terrestrial sna s. They can climb, and occasionally as ;nd tree* in search of food. Cobras are ot infrequently found in the roofs ofl 4s, holes in walls, old ruins, fowl h< ses, and among stacks of wood, cellars tid. brick kilns, old masonry of brick r d stone or mud among the grass or lc jupgle; such are the common resorts, nd during the rains or inundat ns they collect in such 'places of reft e, where they are frequently disturbed hy mem, who, stepping on or unintenti ally di# turbing them, mostly at nig , receive their death wound. The cobra sheds the epidi mis with ‘ the outer layer of the cornea i que atly, perhaps ten or twelve times ; -ear; the fangs also are shed. The en -e slough is often found marked hy a s gle rent, through which the creature ha merged, brightly colored and glisten g in its new epidermis. It aids the recess ol exfoliation by friction aga st some hard substance, such as the l .nches ol a tree,—Sir Joseph Fayrer, a Nineteenth Century. >

—There is living on a poi 6 on East Bay, near Pensacola, a remar able family of four boys and one you ; woman. The boys consider their siste; 3 tie one of themselves, she being inn< rly every respect as handy as a boy sht Id’lie and sharing the labors of her brot rs. They can draw the lines of a shi , hew the timbers, build and launch h ' and sail • her around the world. 'They av0 done ‘ it, and are doing it again. T1 schooner Axel, a fine little vessel v icb they have built, is at present son where on the Gulf under command of < e of the brothers, who is a most ex rt navigator. The other brothers id sister are now engaged in buildi r another and a larger vessel, which is ill under way. —That is a rather pretty s is now making the rounds gressman Cheatham, the coli sentative from North Carolii that he asks for the retent: of a young Democrat in hi' the ground that in the old ds ry he <the Congressman) war bridal present to the young i er. If true, the story has m Not only does it show the Co; magnanimity in a strong 1 directs attention to the change of fortunes which a < 'century has wrought at the i —A farmer living near Jei Ck, is the owner of a carniv* which wants nothing bettor square meal than a fat pig. the horse sees a pig that it < grabs it by the back of tt shakes it to death, much as shake a rah The horse C the pig with great relish, is very careful to keep hit from th^i feorae ts tor a$ pot rywhich rout Con;d Reprt It to a in ofl istrict s of slar iven as n’e moth y morals essman’s ht, but it narvelous rrter utlu ssonvilK uahors ok and -would evours owner G.WS9