Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — Page 2

' (&\xt JirptiMitan. bygbo. e. Marshall. • BENSBELAEB, : : INDIANA

The New York Graphic describes the quail-eating performance of Mr. Walcott: “A stranger, unaware of the cause, and seeing one man thus silently eating and forty other men standing by and as silently watching him, might with some show of reason imagine he had stumbled on a lunatic asylum. It has a *luhy’ look. The by-standers talk in low tones to each other. They seem sad and serious. The The quail-eater is the saddest and most serious of tnem aIL When he rises and sadly departs, the crowd closely inspects the plate of bones to see if any flesh adheres.*' Tub present King of Portugal is fully abreast of his fellow-sovereigns of Europe in education and advanced ideas. He keeps'close watch on new inventions and discoveries, and is quick to adopt any that may prove of real merit, lie has just had an elaborate telephone system established between his library, the offices of the various Ministers, and the opera, so ♦hat, he can, without moving from his chair, alternately occupy himself with his books and the translations by which he haw distinguished himself, with musio, and with the duties and cares of State. The reader will be surprised to hear of cannibalism in this day and yet information has been received at Brisbane, Queensland, that a three-masted schooner was lost on the shore at the mouth of the Fly river, New Guinea. Thejcrew, seventeen in number, were killed by the savages; their heads cut off, and distributed among the native village?. Captain Pennafeathes, of the schooner Heart, made a search, but found only a lot of wreckage, with nothing to identify the vessel. His party was frequently attacked by the natives. One old woman confessed the murder of the crew. Pennifeather burnt the native villages, and destroyed their canals.

Samvel Soott, of Wartburg, Tenn., has just died,his weight being 360 pounds. It is thought that his death was due to his extreme obesity. He was about five feet eight inches tall, but his body was puffed out to an abnormal size, and he oould scarcely walk. His physicians would not allow him to be in bed, and he slept in a very peculiar position, usually kneeling,with his head resting on a chair. It is said he would sleep as well in this apparently unoomfortable position as any one in a bed of down. He disregarded his physicians’ advice, however, and went to bed as any other person, and died during the night, it is thought of asphyxia. A white-haired, fine-looking old gentleman, giving his name as Maurice Morey, was arrested at Boston on Tuesday for parading the streets with a placard on a pole bearing the following: “None®—The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a court of oonspirators and perverted judges conspiring against the life, liberty and property of the people. Judge Gray and his associates are a body of oonspirators, their reports are forgeries, and the State is the most supreme despotism that ever ruled over free people. “Macbtce Mobey.” It appears that Morey was sent to prison in 1878 on a charge of incest. He has just finished his term of sentence, and has always maintained his innocence. When released he secured testimony that he felt would vindicate him, but was told that he oould not present it except in defense. He then took this method to be arrested in order to. gain his point. A ghost which had annoyed the good people of Broad Greek Neck, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, finally brought matters to a climax by so frightening a young man who was walking on a lonely road with the girl of his choice that he fled ingloriously, leaving his beloved in a dead faint. He aroused the town, however, and a nnmber of citizens, including a courageous and practical man by the name of Jones,repaired to the spot Mr. Jones had taken the precaution to carry his gun, and when, on peering through the bushes, he saw a white .object and heard an uncanny sound, he fired, with the remark: “I think -I have laid that ghost; if any of you choose you can go into the thicket and look him up.” No one chose, but from that day to this no ghost has haunted Broad Creek Neck. A week ago however, Mr. Jones was brought into court by his neighbor, Mr. Hambelton, and compelled to pay for the full value of a hog whose dead body had been found in the bushes at the spot where the ghost was laid. A Commendable effort is being made «o preserve the view oi Niagaia Falls and prevent its being turned into sites for mills. The New York Tribune says: A plan to arrest the impending ruin of this priceless posession has been reported by a commission appointed for that purpose by the state. It is practicable. It is not expensive. It simply provides that the state shall acquire a title to a strip of land between the ciyst of the natun l ter-

race and the river bank. This strip is about MJOfeet wide along the rapids and broadens out at the falls to a more spacious area for the accommodation of viators. The space is not to be tracked out with the finery of so-called decorative gardening. No attempt is to be made to present nature in full dress. But the growth of native trees and swinging rines and rice underwood is to be restored so that all the elements of the original Niagara shall again group themselves in one harmonious picture and every dis tracting object be shut away from sight. If this well considered and simple plan aati be carried out, none of the grace or grandeur of this Unique spectacle will be sacrificed and Niagara will continue to piftkft its solemn and consistent appeal to the nobler nature of all beholders. Washington Tebbitoby is regarded as having the brightest prospects of any of the sparsely settled territories of the West and Northwest, and this for the reason that Puget Sound, situated within its boundaries, is one of the finest harbors in the world. Hopeful people, especially railroad men, express the opinion that somewhere along the shores of Puget Sound, a city will grow up within a few decades that will eclipse San Francisco, and rival Chicago and New York. Puget Sound is large enough and deep enough to float the ships of the world, and there is no ship so large that it could not easily float at any point where the future metropolis is likely to be located. Whether t.hiw future metropolis will be one of the towns already in existence, or whether it is yet to be located, is a question which greatly interests those who are now settled along the Sound, or who have interests there. Seattle is by many looked upon as the city, and it is said that the Union Pacific Railroad is extending its liTiAfl to that point in expectation that it will be. This city now has a population of 6,000, and is in all respects a full grown city, possessing among other features three daily papers. The Northern Pacifio Railroad is expected to extend its line to Seattle, and when that is done, it Is said a saving of five days can be made in the transportation of freight from China and Japan, over shipment by way of San I'randsoo, an inducement which it is claimed will of itself be sufficient to cause the transfer of the receiving port far Asiatic commerce (rom San Francisco to Seattle The future metropolis, whatever it may be, will also be an extensive shipping as well as receiving port, The finest timber in the United States is now found in Washington Territory, and a very large portion of it in the vicinity of Puget Sound. The mills already running turn out about a million feet of lumber daily, and the demand- will greatly increase after the completion of railroads to cities on the Sound. Much of the lumber now sawed is exported, and the trade is certain to increase largely in the future. While the fir forests of Puget Sound are by no means inexhaustible, they possess advantages over the same variety in other parts of the country, being capable of perpetuating itself. Instead of being followed by growths of deciduous trees, the young firs spring up where the timber has been cleared away, forming dense tliiokets, which in twenty years will grow trees from twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.'

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

A bill introduced in the House is to require county auditors to give bonds in the sum of $20,000. The present bond is only $2,000. The House has unanimously passed the bill appropriating $62,000 to complete. the women’s department of the insane hospital. Representative Shively has introduced a bill ranking it a misdemeanor for any person to vote or attempt to vote while intoxicated. A proposition is pending in the House to restrict the income of County Treasurers to SBOO per year—a uniform rate of payment throughout the State. Senator Graham has introduced a bill for the care of abandoned children, providing that where a father abandonee a a child for one year its mother shall have charge of it, if a boy until he is twentyone years old, and if $ girl until eighteen. Senator Willard tackled the railroads Thursday, by introducing a bill providing that they shall be liable for all damages sustained by their employes, even though they may be the result of the carelessness and negligence of other employes. The Warden of the Southern Prison asks the Legislature for baok pay to the extent of $1,200 for each of the Deputy Wardens, their salary having been only SBOO a year since 1879. The extra allowance askec|lfcr UPS|t.the rate of S2OO per year from 1880 to-188^ Representative McCormick has introduced u bill to restrict the t-rm for which a warden of either of the State Prisons can be elected to four and renders the ofßoialfl ineligible for re-election. He frViinkfl that the pqjpetuaripn of a prison % . t t

warden in office an evil, and seeks to remedy it. Senator Bell, Tuesday, introduced a bill, which, if enacted, will do away- with "graveyard” insurance and similar infamous operations. It makes it a felony for any person to insure or solicit insurance on the life of another person, punishable by a fine of not less than SSOO and imprisonment for not lees than two nor more than five years. Senator Foulke, Tuesday, introduced a bill providing that where a person or property was injured by reason of the intoxication of any person, the seller of the liquor which produced the intoxication, and the owner of the building in which the drinks were sold, shall be jointly and severally liable for the damage incurred. Mr. Foulke also introduced a bill authorizing county commissioners to erect separate jails for women. The commission appointed in the Sen ate to consider and report on the expediency of re-apportinoing the school fund was asked for by Senator Foulke, because the officials of Wayne county assert they cannot loan the money at the rate required by law, 8 per oent. Under the aor making the apportionment every county is charged wi*h the iutereet on the amount of fund given to it whether loaned or not «tnd of oourse, if it is not loaned the taxpayers must pay the deficit It is broadly intimated that in some counties, thd custodians of public funds do not lose any sleep in their efforts to place the school fund among borrowers, as while it remains in their custody it is good for four per emit per annum from the banks in which it is deposited. Senator Hoover, Tuesday, introduced a bill concerning the “good time” to be allotted oonvicta in the State prisons, in following plan: For the first year of servitude, the Convict if well behaved, is to be credited with one month; for the second year two mnnths; for the third year three months; for the fourth year four months, and for all sentences of from five to twenty-one jears the “good time” shall be five months for each year. Provisions are made for deductions from the good time for infringement of the rules, and the exercise of this deducting power shall be in the hands of the warden under cerain restrictions. This bill has been indorsed by the prison authorities of the State, and while it is quite liberal in its provisions, it is not so pronouncedly so as the laws of Michigan, and Ohio. Senate bill No. 247, introduced by Mr. Campbell yesterday, provides for the more profitable and equitable hiring by the State of the convicts in the State prisons and to prevent contractors from getting a monopoly of the oontract labor. It provides that proposed contracts shall be abvertised by the directors for ten days in two of the leading daily papers of Indianapolis, Chicago and Cincinnati, and by such other means as directors deem profitable. It also provides that when the exclusive right to manufacture any article is given, any subsequent addition of convicts by new contracts shall not extend beyond the expiration of the first pending contract, and that new contracts shall take effect at the expiration of the old contract, and shall be made sixty days before expiration of the old agreement. , The House Committee on prisons have returned from their inspection visit to the Southern Prison. They have not made their report, nor will not Until after inspection of the North Prison. But from a member of the Committee we are privileged to guess very nearly at some facts the Committee propose including in their recommendations: The capacity is entirely inadequate for the number of convicts incarcerated, and the buildings are old and many parts of them rotten and dilapidated. The walls of some of the wooden buildings are almost ready to give away. There are about 600 inmates, and, as is usual, complaint is made by them of their treatment. Some of the modes of punishment are severely criticised by the “members” as inhuman and ought to be abolished. The insane convicts are kept in wet, dark and dingy cells, “hell-holes as the member expressed - it, about 4ft wide by Bft in length. The mode of management too, while probably the opinion may come i 'nn a prejudiced source, is not entirely complimentary to the present warden. But the Committee if this should not be satisfactory, yill more than likely ask for an improvement.

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

Monday, Feb. 5. Senate.—Met at 2 p. m. New bills were introduced. The time was spent in advancing .bills on the calendar. IN THE BOUSE. Several bills were read the second time. Reports of Committees were received. The bill (concerning and providing against election “tickets” was considered and referred The general appropriation bill beiug the special order. - “The sogstion of a large appropriation to Purdue university created long discussion, and the House finally adjourned without action. Tuesday, Feb. 5. Senate—New bills were introduced, Numerous petititions were presented. A bill authorising gas and water companies to

extend their melne not exceeding fire ndlee of the oorponto linifeof • town or flitgrwas paeeod The bill on rood* and highway* waa farther considered, nr rax house. ~ The House resumed consideration of the State appropriation bill. The appropriation for Purdue University waa made $12400. The Constitutional Amendments came up in special order,'and a vote waa taken resulting in the House declaring that the amendments are properly before this General Assembly for their rejection or approval. The "Vote stood—yeas 52 --nays 85 A motion to strike out the s',ooo appropriation to the State Board of Health waa lost. The bill providing for the re-location of County seats was lost for want of a constitutional majority—yeas 47; nays 41. The bill for an appropriation for the department for women in the Insane Hospital was passed—yeas 87; nays 0. Wednesday Feb. 7. Senate.— New bills were introduced. The bill providing for the purchasing of toll roads was lost for want of a constitutional majority. Tne bill to authorize municipal corporations to invest their sinking fund temporarily in the bonds of the United States was passed. The bill to prohibit certain animkis from running at large failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority. , The bill chauging the dates for paying installments of taxes was passed. The bill to amend an act to provide for the organization and support of the Asylum for Feebleminded Children was passed. Yeas,23, nays 19. The road bill was discussed and amended. IN THE HOUSE. In the absence of Speaker Bynum, Rep. Hoffren was elected Speaker pro tern. New bills were introduced. Several committee reports were made, Thursday, Fob. 8. Senate.— Petitions were presented and new bills introduced as usual. A committee was appointed to represent the Senate in the matter of purchasing a gubemational residence. The bill regulating and providing for the election and appointment of supervisors of highways was discussod at length, and was ordered engrossed. IN THE HOUSE. There was not a quorum present. New billß were introduced. Committee reports were received, A great number of bills were read the second time. Friday, Feb. 9. Senate, —Tho b ill reorganizing the management of the Plainfield House of Refnge and changing its name to the Indiana Reform School was passed by a party vote, The bill for the reorganization of the Southern Prison was also passed by a party vote. The decedents estates bill was passed. New bills were introduced. The bill to define the thirty-first (Lake and Porter) and the forty-fonrth (Pulaski and Starke) judicial circuits was passed finder a suspension of rales. _A local bill to legalize the town of Sullivan was passed. IN THE HOUSE. The bill to make promisory notes non-negotia-ble was amended and engrossed. The metropolitan poliOe bill was called up, amended and passed to the second reading. Two or three bills of no interest were passed. The appropriation bill was reed the thirdtime and passed. Yeas 80; nays 0. It appropriates $1,254,120. The bill regulating the descents of heirs (concerning adopted children) was passed. The bill to create the forty-third jndioial dis trict was passed. The bill to legalise the acts of the trustees of the town of Sullivan was passed. The bill to provide for a homestead and exempting it from sale on execution, and exempting cert ain personal property, was passed. Saturday, Feb. 10. Senate—The usual petitions and remonsr ncfgj were presented. The general appropriation bill reported from the House was reed the first time and referred to to the Finance Committee, A bill creating the 87th judicial circuit of Fayette, Franklin and Union counties, and the Bth circuit of Decatur and Rush was passed. Mr. White’s graded teacher’s license bill failed to pass for.want of a constitutional majority; The vote by which the Senate propoeed to investigate the Winterbotham election was reconsidered. IN THE HOUSE. The Senate bill relating to the qnalifioations of petit jurors was engrossed. Also the Senate bill providing punishment for persons who disclose messages sent over telegraph lines. Also, the House Bill to legalize the incorporations of the towns Syracuse and Silver Lake in Kosciusko, was passed.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

Monday, Feb. 0. Senate -The tariff bill was taken up. Amendment, reducing the duty on fine hosiery from 45 to SO per cent, ad valorem was lost by a tie vote—--27 to 27, it was then made U) per cent. The duty on cotton cord, braid etc., was reduced to 35 per cent., and that on cotton laces and embroideries 'to 4 percent. A proposition to reduce the duty on spool cotton from oto 0 cents was rejected The schedule was passed without further amendment. The schedule embracing jute and flax goods was next considered. A long debate ensued on a proposition to strike out jute and place it in the free list. It was finally stricken out. “Jute butts, $6 per ton,” was also stricken out. The rate on manufacture of jute was changed to 20 per cent, ad valorem, except jute bags and bagging, exclusive of bagging for cotton, which was under i>»per cent. When the wool schedule was reached an adjournment was had. House— The rules were suspended and the bill to quiet title of settlers on Des Moines River lands, m lowa, passed. Cannon moved t 6 suspend the rules and take up the legislative appropriation bill for immediate consideration. Lost by yeas 131, nays 108— not two thirds voting in the affirmative. This was a strict party vote. Mr. Kelly moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution directing a Commettee of the Whole to report the tariff bill to the House on the 12th of Fsbruary, such order to be effective over any amendment that may be pending. A spirited debate ensued and Kelly’s motion was defeated by a vote nearly partisan. Tuesday Feb. 0. Senate.—The Senate concurred in the recommendations of the President concerning the Mexican treaty, then proceeded to the consideration of the tariff bill. The paragraph relating

duties as follows; On all shawls m*nwf«btpre* in whole or in port of wool, not specially mum* ersted or provided for when valued at not exoMflS ; mg $1 par pound, thirty-five oents per pound and 85 per cent, ad valorem; above $1 per powMfepj therty-five cents per pound and 40 per cent al valorem. In the clause rotating to flannels blankets, hate of wool, and all goods made'Oik knitting frames, the words “valued at flights cents per poqndjand not exceeding ft per pound thirty-gve cents per pound.’’ were stricken onb and the highest rate of value named wae made eighty cento instead of sl. The duty on bontfadr was made ten cento per square yard and tl»rtsr< five per emit, The death of Representatives Updegraff and Hawke, were reported, and the Senate adjourned. House— A message was received from the President and referred, transmitting a recommendation from the Secretary of War for more etrig B gent legislation to prevent invasion of the Territory. 1 The House went into oommitthe on the' Tariff I Bill, the clause under discussion relating ta g 1«.1 ware. After prolonged debate, Kelly, to eot eds I debate, moved that the committee rise. The I minority resorted t > fillibnstering, I Various amendments were offered and rejected I The committee then rose and the death of BojSp I sentatives Updegraff and (Hawke was announced I Wednesday, Fab. 7.v I Senate.-The silk schedule was unchanged.! The duty on books was fixed at 15 per cent. On I candles and tapers 20 per oent. and on card cl6ui-l ing 40 per cent, ad valorem, On bitxmittifiis I coal and shale 75 cento per ton. On fricflsß I matches a duty of 75 per cent, ad valorem fixed; on gloves 50 per cent, ad valorem; on pow-l der 10 and 20 cento duty: Hatters plush 25 cediil ad valorem; garden seeds 20 cento ad valoretn;! On marble 60 cento and sl.lO per cubic foot. 3 M House—The day was passed in discussing th»l tariff bill, but no definite conclusions were! reached. A night session was held. I Thursday, Feb. 8. I Senate—The proposition to place jute on the! free list was lost by 22 yeas to 31 nays.likid that to! admit jute butts free was agreed to without dp-B vision. The motion to make raw silk pay a duty! of 10 per cent, was rejected by 7 yeas to 39 naysffi Mr. Allison offered an amendment providing foH a drawback of 90 per cent, of the., duty on salt used in caring meat for export. Ordered! printed. Pending a motion by Mr. Bayard to in-l elude in the free list bottles in which mineral waters are imported, the Senate adjourned. House—A joint resolution was passed permit! ting the importation, free of duty,of mount Park! Philadelphia. After some unimportant businpofl the Hoase went into committee on the tariff bilfl under consideration. - > B Friday, Feb 9, I Senate—The proposition to redace the dutfl on wool produced a sharp debate. In the HueH cellaneons schedule changes were made. Vancfl made a long speech in favor of putting salfe oiH the free list, and a long debate followed. Thfl amendment was lost. The proposition to refun <M duties coUected on salt used in coring meats A I fish was passed over. The paragraph relating tB machinery for the manufacture of beet sngaH was stricken from the free list, it being covereß by a section of the Revised Statutes. The iknflj tions of the bill kuown as the machinery clsfieeß were stricken out, in order that they may be fected when the bill is presented in the Sherman offered an additional section, which adopted, protecting individual righto that mi! have accured under existing laws, and previdinH that any change in the existing law shall pot afl feet pending civil suite, etc,, nor affect the fighH to a tenor of any office. Adopted. - House.—After a time spent in tho fraitleM aSj tempt to pass bills by unanimous consoet, tlB House set aside the private calendar and weiß> into committee on the tariff bill. Mr. Springfli reported a joint resolution for the printing the census compendium, which was adoptefl At the eve .ing session a number of pensioh bilHi were reported and passed, and a large number bills donating condemned cannons to <|reiHl Army Poats for monumental purposes. ** Em The flood in the Ohio river is than ever known, even than that of *4fl Lawrenceburg, Ind., is flooded to a deptK of three feet by the giving way of thflj levees, and great damage is done all aloxfl| the view. H Kavanaugh, the driver of the car co:H| taining the Phoenix Park murderers hfl| confessed. The right parties have arrested for the crime. Kavanaugh sweafl that he drove Brady, Kelly and two othfcHf to the park. Delaney is another who wfl| present. .

THE MARKETS

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