Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - PoBUWna.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

COSHBESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Anthont, who has for a long time Deen on* sick bed, made his appearance in the Senate on the nth Inst., requiring assistance to reach the elevator. Every Senator rose as he was sworn in. Mr. Sherman presented a bill to encourage closer commercial relations with Mexico, Brazil, and thrfTentral South American republics. Mr. Ingalls offered a petition for pensions for ex-prisoners of war. At the executive 'Session Walter Q. Gresham was confirmed as Postmaster General. The President sent in a large batch of nominations, nearly all of them recess appointments. About 300 bills were introduced in the House, among them the following: By Mr. Lqcey, to establish a postal savings deposit as a branch of the Postoffice department; by Mr. Cutcheon, for the better protection of life and property on Lake Michigan, by the construction of a harbor of refuge: by Mr. Tuple, to abolish the duty on salt; by Mr. Muldrow, to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture; by Mr. Hatch, to establish a Bureau of Animal Industry and prevent the importation of diseased cattle and the spread of contagious diseases among domestic animals, and also to allow farmers and planters to sell leaf tobacco of their own'*productlon to other than manufacturers without a special tax: bv Mr. O'Neil, to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs ; by Mr. Burnes, to admit free of duty all grades of sugar; also for the relief of land-owners whose land is destroyed by any navigable river; by Mr. Slocum, a bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter; by Mr. Kelley, to further limit the coinage of silver dollars, and Mr. Smith, another to suspend the coinage; by Mr. Rosecrans, proposing a constitutional amendment suppressing polygamy; by Mr. McMillin, to make the trade dollar legal tender; Mr. Onry, to transfer the Indian bureau from the Interior to the War department, and for the admission of Arizona as a State; by. Mr. Raymond, to establish the territory of North Dakota; by Mr. Cairns, to admit Utah as a State; andbvMr. Hutchins, to provide for, the retirement of all legal tender notes of less than $5. Mr. Robinson, of New York, offered resolutions inquiring about the purchase of public lands byforeign noblemen, and asking whether Minister Lowell received the title of Lord Rector tn Great Britain. Ma. Van Wyck offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 12th inst., calling for information as to'the amount paid to special attorneys and detectives under this administration. A resolution was passed directing the Secretary of the Treasury to show under what provisions of law the reduction of the public debt has been effected. Mr. Wilson called up his joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the civil rights of citizens. The resolution proposes that the following article-amendment be numbered Art. 16: "Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to protect the citizens of tne United States in the exercise and enjoyment of their rights, privileges and immunities, and insure them the equal protection of the laws.” Mr. Wilson addressed the Senate in ■upport of the resolution, and, on his motion, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The House was not in session. Mr. Dolph introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 12th inst., to admit Washington Territory and a portion of Idaho as the State of Washington. Mr. Morrill presented a measure for a commission on the liquor traffic. A prolonged debate took place on tne report of thd tee on Rules. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information relative to the transfer of the Texas and Pacific land grant to the Southern Pacific road. Mr. Sawyer Introduced a bill to forfeit to a certain extent lands granted to Michigan to build a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin line, in order to protect the rights of persons holding proper government titles. The House was nqt in session. In the evening a caucus of Republicans was held for the purpose of nominating officers of the Senate. Gen. Anson G. McCook received 19 votes for Secretary, George Cl Gorham 13, and D. W. Ramsdell 3. McCook was then declared the nominee. Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota, was selected for Chief Clerk; James R, Young, of Pennsylvania, as Executive Clerk; Rev. E. E. Huntley for Chaplain, and Cob W. P. Canaday as Sergeant-at-Arms. A joint resolution was introduced in the House, on the 14th inst-, by Mr. Hoblitzell, requesting the President to issue a proclamation for the commemoration of the centennial anniversary of- Washington’s surrender of his commission, Dec. 24. Mr. Horr asked leave to offer a resolution calling the attention of the President to the recent riots at Danville, Va.,but Mr. Morrison objected. Mr. Cox desired to introduce a joint resolution to repeal the test oath, but Mr. Horr objected. There was no session of the Senate on the 14th. THE EAST. A ball at the New York residence of Wm. H. Vanderbilt was the social event of the season. Two bands were in attendance. Delmonico served the supper at 12:30, and the cotillion began at 1:30 a. m. The decorations are described as being lavish? and beautiful. A Boston dispatch says the Gloucester fishing schooners Rutherford B. Hayes and Witch are now given up as lost, swelling the number of wrecked vessels to seven and the number of lives sacrificed this season to ninety-one... .Mrs. ex-Senator Chris.tiancy died at Brooklyn, N. Y., of Bright’s disease. Two negroes broke into a subsistence shanty in the midst of an Italian camp of railroad laborers, near Newburg, Pa. Upon this the Italian camp at tacked a negro camp from which the thieves had issued, and a battle followed. The Italians fought with shotguns and the negroes with clubs and stones. Four of the blacks were wondded, one fatally, and their side :. wm cosb pelted to abandon -the ground THE WEST. Fob several days a strange young man had been calling at the residence of Mrs. Garfield, seeking an Interview with the widow of the late President. He was well dressed, aristocratic in manner, and good-looking. He annoyed the Garfield family very much, anti said his name was George Washington, and that he was a distant relative of the Father of His Country. He claimed that it was all arranged that he was to marry Miss Molly Garfield, and that he came all the way from St. Louis for that purpose. The police took the matter in hand, and the crank disappeared Three days were consumed in selecting a jury for the trial of the assailants of Miss Emma Bond, ate Hillsboro, lU. Miss Bond fainted in the court-room and had to be propped up in an easy chair with pillows. San Francisco is convulsed over a sensational tragedy. Charles McLaughlin, a pioneer, President of the Central Gaslight company and a millionaire, ■ was shot and killed by Jerome B. Cox, a contractor. The history of the case is remarkable. Tne murderer had recovered 9150,000 judgment against McLaughlin no less than five times, butthe Supreme Court had in each instance reversed the decision of the lower courts. This so embittered Cox that he last spring tried to kill Justice McKinsley, of the Supreme Court, whom Cox held to account for the numerous backsets to his litigation. He demanded $40,000 in settlement of McLaughlin, and, being refused, shot McLaughlin three times. The victim -lived but thirty minutes Miss Emma Bond, in telling her sad story in * court-room at-Hillsboro, HL, positively indentified John C. Montgomery as one of her assailants. Before her testimony was finished she was attacked by hysteria and carried but by her mother and ulster.... JuUa Reese and George Bolles. the servants “employed by Jacob D. Crouch near Jackson, Mich., were arrested the other day for the butchery perpetrated on the night of Nov. 21. They were taken' before a Justice and remanded to jail to await examination Jan. 8. This charge was made by Daniel Holcomb. .. ..George Orr. a boy employed on the farm Of M. M. Trimble, near Paola, Kan., kiUed the aged couple and escaped with what money they had secrets*... . Vigilantes in the Niobrara Valley (QSPT recently lynched five , horse and thieve*. Four others, s&w in <4afl, if not punished by the law, will share the same fate.... Jrank James, the Missouri bandit, was released st Kansu City on $3,000 bail, but was immediately rearrested on the charge ot UUtoff jUMdt cashier at Gallatin, la X 866....

Hunter, who was recently arrested m Peoria in connection with the murder of Zora Burns, proves to be Thomas P. Russell, the eon of a respectable farmer in Macon county. 111. He was set at liberty at Lincoln, ana given a small sum of -money with which to leave town. '* Minneapolis re-ports the erection of 3,539 dwellings and 681 stores and factories during the year, which, with the improvements in progress, will require ovef $12?000,00(L... The fifth day of the trial at Hillsboro, 111., of the men charged with the outrage on Miss Emma Bofid was devoted chiefly to hearing the testimony of Lawrence Heinlein, an uncle of one of the parties indicted, in which he swore to several damaging admissions made by John C. Montgomery just after the crime. The opinion was freely expressed that Heinlein could tell more if he chose, and that ho had been induced by threats to withhold the most damning of the confessions made.to him.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence are booked for a two weeks’ engagement, covering the holidays, at McVicker’s theater, Chicago. The first week will be devoted to a new comedy entit’ed “Faets,” in which Mr. Florence, as Pinto Perkins, has created it character said to be a companion picture to his Hon. Bardwell Slot©. Mrs. Florence also has a character well suited to her talents. The second week these fine artists will be seen in the popular play of the “Mighty Dollar.” It has been definitly settled that the American Catholic Hierarchy will meet in Baltimore next November... .There were 249 failures in the United States last week, but 73 per cent, were those of traders with less than $5,000 capital. THE SOUTH. A dispatch from Austin, Tex., referring to the recent report that a suit is soon to be brought in the United States Court of Claims to Recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war says: “Gov. Ireland, Attorney General Templeton, and several prominent lawyers consulted by the reporter scout the idea that Texas has any morerelalm onjthe Federal Government than any other Southern State. They consider the scheme a very foolish one, and that if anybody is engaged in it, which is regarded as doubtful, it is for political purposes.” . Four quarrelsome persons refused to leave W. H. Fields’ still-house, on the Cumberland river, in Kentucky, when Fields shot all four, one dying instantly, another the next day, and the remaining two are mortally hurt. A Deputy Marshal and posse in Arkansas, who were watching a road for an outlaw. fired upon Judge Noisywater and three other Cherokees returning to their homes at night. One hundred buckshot penetrated the Judge’s body. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C., records the death of Mrs. Preston, the last surviving child of Gen. Wade Hampton, of Revolutionary fame... .Norris Bell, colored, was hanged in the jail at Macon, Ga., for the murder of his wife last August. X Distillers in Kentucky, to the numbey of seventy-five, have formed an association to reduce the production of whisky. The agreement has been signed by men representing half the registered capacity of the State. <■ Levi James, a Choctaw Indian, convicted last November of the murder of James Fulsom, was shot at Scullyville Court-House, Indian Territory, in accordance with Choctaw law. James sat upon a blanket. The Sheriff held one hand and a deputy another. Another deputy’ took position five paces distant, with a Colt’s revolver, deliberately aimed, and shot the murderer through the heart. He died in two minutes. Burt Ellis, a negro murderer, was hanged at Shelby, N.C.; Enoch Brown, also colored, was executed formurder at Halifax, N. C.; Pleasant Hall, another negfo murderer, was strung up at Rolling Fork, Miss.; and Juan Duran, a Mexican, paid the extreme penalty of the law at Fort Davis, Texas, for the murder of a Chinaman.... During the Democratic primary elections in New Orleans trouble arose at a poll on the corner of Monroe and St. Bernard streets, where forty .shots were fired. Capt. M. J. Fortier, Gus Renaud and Edward Mason were killed, and Sheriff Brewster and ten others were wounded. The Sheriff and three of his deputies were locked up. WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: In conversation with a prominent Senator, President Arthur spoke of the proposed English expedition to the arctic regions as “more of this arctic insanity.” He said that while he was willing that everything that could be done for the relief of Greely and his party should — be done, he would prefer that a whaling crew should be sent instead of a big Government expedition. He thought that after Greely was brought back There would never be another sent by this Government to the arctic regions. “They are cruel, inhuman, and useless,” said the President, “and public opinion is right in its decision that they have been more the work of misguided enthusiasts than the judgment of practical men.” John C. Dore, of Chicago, is in Washington in the interest of the Hennepin canal, and hopes to form an alliance with the friends of Mississippi levees which will secure a victory for both. The first movement toward an inquiry into the action of the Government with respeet to the roads has been made in the Senate. That body has adopted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior vfor the papers in the matter of the New Orleans and Pacific road. The United States consul at Bremen has forwarded to the State Department a copy of a letter sent to Bismarck by the Chamber of Commerce; protesting against the continued exclusion of American pork products, and showing that a retaliatory duty upon German stockings would cause a loss of nearly $5,(.09,000 per annum. Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, died at Washington after- a somewhat prolonged illness, brought on, it is thought, by overexertion in the last session of Congress, when he was the leader of the protectionists in their opposition to the Tariff bill. Representatives Hanback and Ryan of Kansas, Kasson of lowa. Burns Of Missouri, Browne of Indiana, and Le Fevre of Ohio, were appointed a Congressional committee to accompany the remains to Lawrence, Kan. POLITICAL. The election in Boston gave Martin, the Republican and Citizens’ candidate for Mayor, 27,051, against 25,753 for O’Brien, Democrat. The National Republican committee met at Washington on the 12th inst. Ex-Sen-ator Chaffee, of Colorado, was chosen temporary Chairman, and Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, was elected jjermanent Chairman. It was resolved that the National convention be held Tuesday, June 3, and on the fourth bal- s lot Chicago was*selected as the place of meeting. A proposition by Senator Frye to give Increased representation to the Republican States of the North was voted down. Private Dalzell, in giving a reporter his views on the political situation, asserts that the Democrats will take up Gen. Sherman and elect him if the Republicans do not. He regards Logan and Lincoln as neck and neck in the race for the nomination.... Both houses of the Virginia Legislature have passed a resolution instructing the Virginia Senators and requesting the Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure the unconditional and immediate abolition of the internal revenue system. - - GENERAL. Burned: The Annisquam cotton mill, at Bockport, Mass., loss $400,000; the Athena worsted mills, Milbury, Mass., loss $150,600; a five-story buFding On Congress.

street, Boston, loss $150,000; Craig’s cabinet factory, Montreal, loss $70,060; a portion of the Union rolling mills, Cleveland, Ohio, loss $150,000; the Mount Hickory rolling mills, Erie, Pa., loss $275,000; Zille Brothers’ store. Third street, St. Louis, Mo., loss $25,000; a bag factory in Federal street, Boston, loss $40,000: the steamship Otranto, in Boston harbor, $160,000; a portion of McManus, Haike & Doolin’s dry-goods stock. Providence, R, 1., loss $50,000; several stores at Marianna, Fla., loss $25,000: a flouring mill at Metamora, Ind., loss $20,000; a warehouse and half a million pounds of sumac, at Petersburg, Va., loss $100,000; Ott & Madden’s furniture factory, Indianapolis, loss $20,000; the Coosa River furnace, at Gadsden, Ala., loss $200,000; two blocks of business buildings at Pine Bluff, Ark., loss $125,000; several stores at Dallas, Tex., loss $15,000; a portion of St, Mary’s institute, Dayton, Ohio, loss $20,000; Williams’ saw-mill, St. Joseph, Mich., loss $10,000; several business houses at Hubbard City, Tex., loss $50,000; the Drake block, St. Paul, Minn., loss $100,000; Brown’s hat factory. South Norwalk, Ct., loss $25,000; the court-house at Butler, Pa., loss $50,000; the Kirkwood house, Carrington, Dak., loss 40,000; a grain warehouse at Lancaster, Ohio, loss $10,000; two stores at Mcßride, Mich., loss $10,000; Payne, Potter & Co.’s store, at Georgetown, N. M., loss $40,000: Spencer’s grocery house, Oskaloosa, Iowa; loss $25,000; Brown’s machine shops, East Hampton, Ct., loss 40.000: a grist mill and elevator at Eau Claire, Wis., loss $50,000; Kellogg's drug store, at Castleton, N. Y., loss $30,000. The December report of the Agricultural Department at Washington states that the returns of corn production are more conservative than in October and November, from injury to soft corn by the warm, moist weather north of the 40th parallel. Corn that has been cribbed is in a worse condition than for many years. The proportion of unmerchantable corn is therefore large. The final estimate of the quantity produced will fall a few millions short .of the indications of previous returns, or twenty-three bushels per acre. This estimate relates only to quantity, and makes no discount for inferior quality, which seriously increases the practical shortage. Losses from packing in masses or injury to soft corn from mild and wet weather arc treated as after-harvest considerations. An investigation will be made as to the extent of such injury. Wheat—The aggregate slightly exceeds 400,000,000 bushels. Oats —The crop is about 4 per cent, larger than last' year, and exceeds .'>00,000,000 bushels. The yield of rye and barley is little less than in ISP2. Buckwheat is reduced more than one-third. Returns from the South point to a cotton crop of about 6,000,000 bales. It is possible the cotton movement of rhe year may pass that limit The Union Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads have formed an agreement for twenty-five years to divide the through business between Ogden and Chicago. It is considered one of the most important railroad contracts for many years. By it the lowa pool is at an end, and, though other Western roads, it is said, are at liberty to enter the alliance, the three roads chiefly concerned plainly have the bulge so strong that the rest cannot probably get in on satisfactory terms, and the result, as forecast, will be a damaging war on nearly all sorts of Western business, involving breaks in the Colorado pool and possibly the Northwestern and Southwestern traffic associations.

The Indiana State grange, recently in session at Columbus as the place for holding the next convention, and the second Tuesday in December, 1884, as the time. A determination was expressed to put more vigor into the workings of the order hereafter. The Financial committee reported a balance in the treasury, after paying all indebtedness, of 51,720. The Wisconsin State grange, in session at Madison, elected the following officers: Worthy Master,'S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Overseer, M. Anderson, Cross IQains; Worthy Lecturer, Aaron Broughton, Evansville: Worthy Steward, R. A. Williams, Worthy Assistant Steward, W. A, Sprague, Reedsburg; Worthy Chaplain, S. N. Jones, Fennimore; Worthy Treasurer, Miss Hattie M. Huxley, Neenah; Worthy Gatekeeper, Enoch Wood. Black Earth; Worthy Ceres, Mrs. H. E. Huxley. Neenah; Worthy Pomona, Mrs. S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Flora, Mrs. A. Brougton, Evansville; Worthy Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. W. A. Sprague. Reedsburg.—The Pennsylvania Grange, in session at Harrisburg, adopted resolutions favoring the introduction of additional instruction pertaining to agriculture in the public schools; urging that the State College be restored to a technical school of agriculture; that corporations claiming immunities as common carriers bo forbidden by law to discriminate in freight rates, and that taxation be equalized.

Gen. O. O. Howard denies that he wants deserters from the army branded with iron, but insists that an indelible mark in ink or some other substance would prevent the re-enlistment of these persons. NOREIGN. The Rotunda at Dublin was packed the other night on the occasion of the Parnell testimonial and banquet. Davitt made the opening speech and was followed by Parnell, who arraigned the Irish executive for tyranny and oppression, asserting that Earl Spencer was only a “bottle-holder to Buckshot Forster.” At the next election he expected that eighty Nationalists would be elected, and with that number Ireland could say how England would be governed—whether by Whigs or Tories. Parnell was presented with a check for £38,000, the national tribute, by Lord Mayor Dawson.,,, A throffft- of pocr people gathered about* the house of a deceased merchant in Moscow to participate in the usual distribution of money, and the pressure became so great that several persons were crushed tu death... .Mario, the famous tenor, died at Rome, aged 75. Advices from Hue, the capital of Annam, confirm the correctness of th© report that Hicphma, the King of Annam, is dead, and that he was murdered by secret enemies acting in the capacity of servanis in the royal household. The death of Hiephma has caused a tremendous sensation in China, and has aroused the Annamese and Tonquinese to indignation..... Buckshot Forster has been compelled to follow the advice of Joseph Chamberlain, and now proposes to extend to Ireland t);e provisions of the Franchise bill Another London stock-jobbing firm has failed. Abbot, Page & Co. are reported to have £160,000 in liabilities, with an- utterly unknown amount of assets, which are believed to be light. The Russian Nihilists continue to display a blind devotion worthy of a better cause. One fanatic, named Rutchkoff, escaped from prison at Charkow, but returned to free his companions. He was seized by the guards, whereupon he shot a gendarme and then himself...:.Henri Martin, the historian, and Pierre Richard de la Prade, the poet, died recently in Paris.... .The freight steamer Duke was wrecked off the English coast, and her crew of twenty-one all drowned. A violent storm swept over Great Britain. The Exhibition building at Wolverhampton was demolished, a gas-holder near Bradford was capsized, the tower of the Cathedral at Lincoln was blown down, ships were torn from their moorings at Belfast, the roof of St. Mary's church at Berwick was damaged, the gasometer at Kildwick was demolished, and the monuments in a cemetery at Bradford were toppled over. Thirteen persons were killed in, the streets in various towns. .... Englishmen are j ust now pouring out more than the ordinary quantity of wrath on the head of Parnell. At the recent Irish banquet the usual toast to the Queen was omitted. This has horrified all England. Patrick O’Donnell, the slayer of Informer Carey, was hanged at London on thel7th of December. He was firm and determined to the last. He said he was prepared to meet death, and added that he knew ft - would be avenged. Johnson Pool was hahged at Dublin, Dec. 18, for the murder of John Kennedy. Peter Wada teas

been sentenced to hang at Dublin, Jan. 16, for the murder of Patrick Quinn, in October last, at Pathfarnaham, near Dublin. Thb prisoner stated that he belonged to a secret society, whose orders he obeyed in committing the murder King Alfonso opened the Spanish Cortes by mating that all foreign relations were harmonious. Certain reforms, including trial by jury, would be introduced, and later the plan for extension of the suffrage, which if passed would conclude the labors of the present Cortes, when, if the Government were successful in the succeeding elections, a scheme for revising the constitution would be presented to the next Parliament The first cargo of American wheat ever imported into Austria has just been landed at Laube.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The sixth day of the Emma Bond outrage case at Hillsboro, lit, was largely consumed in establishing the ownership of a toe-nail found in the loft of the school-house the day after the crime was committed. The jarlng from the toe-nail was produced in court. It had a longitudinal ridge exactly corresponding to a ridge in the mafyn part of Montgomery’s toe-nail. The rest of the evidenee had no particu'ar force. The Plankinton House, Milwaukee, caught fire in the midst of a driving snow s iorm,, at an early hour in the evening. Intense excitement was. created, fears of a repetition of the Newhall holocaust being uppermost in the minds of all, and guests who had a short year ago hardly missed being cremated again made their way through corridorsfilled —with —dense smoke, —where a few inhalations of the lungs would have produced insensibility. So unbearable was the air in the hotel that no less than six firemen were carried to drug stores to be resuscitated. Forty female domestics, cooped in the upper part of the extensive structure, made their way to the ground by means of a fire-escape. The Chief of the fire department was badly injured by breathing smoke -and gas. The fire was overcome in an hour without very serious damage to the property, and no guest sustained any loss or injury^... .The Coroner’s jury at San Francisco astonished the city by bringing in a verdict that Jerome B. Cox killed Charles McLaughlin, the millionaire, in self-defense. ■ . Henry Villard has resigned the Presidency of the Oregon Transcontinental and Oregon Railway and Navigation company. w. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, succeeds him as President of the . Oregon Transcontinental company, and T." Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, as President of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company.... The Supreme court of the United States has decided that the District court of .Dakota had no jurisdiction in the case of Crow Dog, the Indian chief who was sentenced to death for the murder of Spotted Tail, and the prisoner will be released. Patrick O’Donnell smiled while his. arms were being pinioned, and declined assistance in ascending the steps of the scaffold. Binns, the hangman, put the knot under the left ear of the condemned man, who fell eight feet when the lever was pulled. The head was found to be quite loose from the trunk. O’Dohnell's brother stood in a doorway opposite the prison, engaged in prayer, until all was over. The hangman was driven away in a postal van. No business was transacted in either branch of Congress on the 17th inst. In tlje Senate a message was received from the House announcing the death of Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, and was immediately taken up. *After appropriate remarks bv Mr. Ingalls, and ron his motion, the President of the Senate appointed Senatois Pl limb,Cockrell and Dawesa committee to attend the obsequies of the deceased Representative. The Senate out of respect to his memory then adjourned. The death of Mr. Haskell was announced in the House immediately after assembling, and, after-an eloquent uddress by his colleague, .Mr. Anderson, an adjournment was taken. The Republican Senators held a caucus, at which it was decided not to proceed to the election of a President pro tern of the Senate _ until . after the holiday recess. It was urged that the precarious condition of Senator Anthony 's health mitde it advisable not to make the eontemplated change just before the long recess. A resolution was adopted to retain the Union soldiers now upon the rolls of the Senate. The Democratic Senators held a caucus and decided to nominate as its Democratic officers ot the ' Senate those nominated at the caucus two years ago, as iolloxvs: L. Q. Washington, Secretary; R. J. Briuht. Sergeant-at-Arms; Col. Payton, Executive Clerk; F. E. Shober, 'Principal Clerk; Dr. Bullock, Chaplain.

London’s Guilt and Woe.

Now, as a matter of fact, no English writer conversant with the subject has dared to tell a plain, unvarnished tale of London's guilt and woe. There are many of us who have seen with our own I eyes, and heard with our own ears, I things that are so revolting that we can ■ only hint at them in vague and hesitating language. Were I even, now that public attention has been thoroughly aroused to a great danger, to go into the details of ordinary life in a London ( slum, the story would be one which no journal enjoying a general circulation could possibly print.— G. R. Sims, in London Daily News. It is not death, it is dying, that alarms ones— Montaigne.

THE MARKET.

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AVENGER O’DONNELL.

He Was Hanged in Newgate Prison at the Appointed Hour. Failure of the Efforts for a Postponement of the Sentence.

Patrick O’Donnell, the slayer of James Carey, the notorious Irish informer, was hanged in Newgate prison at 8:02 o’clock on Monday morning, Dec. 17. Despite the boisterous and squally weather, says a cable dispatch, a considerable crowd assembled at the prison at 7 o'clock in the morning, while hundreds of workmen who were passing by the jail waited to gaze at the black flak. Among the crowds was O’Donnell’s brother, who paced . to and fro opposite the flagstaff in the most dejected manner, exciting the sympathy of all present. The hangman’s arrangements were perfect and the execution occurred without a hitch. O’Donnell was calm and collected, but made nd statement on the scaffold. O’Donnell Was notified at 7:30 o’clock to make ready. He was perfectly" resigned and expressed great sorrow for his outburst of temper in the dock at the conclusion of his trial. He said he had felt the greatest animosity for the witnesses who appeared against him, but all such feelings bad now disappeared. After communion had been administered, Binn, the hangman, entered the cell. O’Donnell submitted to the operation of pinioning with a smile and without a murmur. The procession then moved toward the scaffold. O’Dpnneftwalked with great firmness and without the assistance of the wardens, who stood close around him. While standing on the drop ho looked around unconcernedly. Binns performed the remainder of his duty quickly. He ‘allowed a drop of -eight feet. The noose was placed exactly as Marwood used to place it. Binns pulled the lever of the trap precisely as the neighboring church clocks were striking 8. The crowd in front of Newgate increased rapidly, and shortly before 8 o’clock numbered 20,000 persons. The streets were closely packed, but the throng observed a quiet and orderly demeanor. The Irish element was not conspicuous. As the moment for the execution approached,, the crowd swayed up against the prison wall, and , the roadway, which had before been kept , clear, became blocked. The police, however, moved rapidly through the multitude and easily cleared the way. When the black flag was hoisted, announcing the tragedy at an end, there was no demonstration, although suppressed excitement marked many faces. O’Dohnell’s brother remained to the last, bitterly weeping, the center of a sympathizing group. Clouds began to break as the hour of 8 approached, and when the black flag was run up it was distinctly displayed against the rising sun. The people immediately dispersed after the hoisting of the flag. O’Donnell was firm as a rock to the last. Every one was much impressed with his nerve. To his brother, who was with him shortly before ” his execution, he said: “I killed James Carey, the infofmer. lam not sorry for killing him, and I never have been. Not only that, but all London’s weaith would not buy me or induce me to give any one away.” At parting O’Donnel shook his brother’s hand, exclaiming: “Good-by, old fellow; keep up your spirits, and don’t be downcast because of me.” e The steamship Assyrian Monarch, which arrived pt Gravesend the day before the execution, was seized by the London police, “as it was suspected Unit a number of men were on board who would, if permitted, make an effort to rescue O’Donnell or seek revenge by assailing some of the officials who prosecuted him. The detectives were about to search the passengers, but a number of Americans on board made such sturdy resistance that, they desisted. All the passengers were held, however, until after O’Donnell’s execution.

Efforts for a Reprieve. On the 12th of December Secretary Frelinghuysen telegraphed Minister Lowell stating that the House of Representatives had brought the case of O’Donnell to the President’s notice in the hope that the.latter might secure a reasonable delay of the execution of the sentence, and ascertain whether the prisoner was an American citizen, and whether there was error in thetrial?On .the Iftth Minister Lowell telegraphed to Secretary Frelinghuysen that he had received the dispatch and communicated its substance to Lord Granville, who acknowledged the receipt, and stated it would bo referred to the proper authorities. On the 15th Lowell received Lord Granville’s reply, in which the latter, after referring to Lowell’s communication. stated that, counsel for O’Donnell having submitted representations, he thought it advisable, on the prisoner’s behalf, that these representations and all other circumstances of the case had been carefully examined and considered in the manner usual in the case of capital convictions, and her Majesty’s Government found no grounds upon which he justified advising the Crown to interfere with the sentence of the law or its execution. Interview with Gen. Pryor. Gen. Roger A. Pryor, who was sent to England to assist in the defense of O’Donnell, was interviewed on his return to New York. He did not see O’Donnell after his conviction, but received a message from him, in which the condemned man expressed gratitude to the Irish-Americans fOr what they had done for him. “How did O’Donnell bear himself during the trial?” Gen. Prior was asked. ‘-Like a hero. He was intrepid, decorous and dignified. He was perfectly social throughout. Nobody ten feet away heard the Clerk ask why sentence should not be pronounced. O’Donnell certainly did not. I did not hear him, nor did Mr. Sullivan. If Mr. Lowell had gone to Mr. Gladstone a respite could have been gotten instantly. O’Donnell did not ask for a respite. He craved no favor Of the British Crown.”. Indignant Finerty. ” Hon. John F. Finerty, the fiery, untamed Irishman, who represents the Bridgeport district of Chicago in Congress, declared in an interview at Washington that the hanging of O’Donnell was an insult to the American people; that England had often tweaked our National nose, but that we never took offense, and that the stars and stripes, as protective of adopted citizens, was a “flaunting lie,” and was looked uyon as a sort of handkerchief by European nations. As a nation of shop-keepers, htsaid, we dare not declare war. as that would hurt commercial interests, and commercial interests must be maintained, even at the cost of the Nation’s honor. He desired an efficient navy, and demanded American representation in London —not by that “Duke of Dudes and adopted Scotchman," James Russell LowelL Victor Hugo’s Plea for O’DonnelL Victor Hugo wrote ta,Queen Victoria asking for the pardon of O’Donnell. In his letter he says that the Queen of England, who had shown more than once her greatness of heart, would grant O’Donnell his-life and accept the unanimous thanks of the whole civilized world. ’

ODD STORIES.

A deer was killed in Twigg county, Ga., by a railroad hand, who hit it with a shovel as it was running by him. Within eleven days after a dog gained access to a Kansas corral of 1,500 sheep, over 800 died of hydrophobia. The horse that J. Wilkes Booth rode after he assassinated President Lincoln is in the possession of a Mrs. Furlong, of Westmoreland county, Va. The animal is 25 years of age. L ■ A akwa man drove 18.500 sheep 1,200 miles.

LOST IN LAKE SUPERIOR.

A Schooner, with Twenty Souls, Goes to the Bottom. ♦ ■— The Disaster Witnessed by Seamen Powi erless to Send Assistance.

A recent dispatch from Port Arthur says the schooner Mary Ann Hulbert, which was being towed to Michlpicoton by the steamer Kincardine, foundered off St. Ignace island in Lake Superior. The Hulbert carried a crew of five, in addition to fifteen laborers, all of whom went down with the vessel. The Kincardine reports that a terrifle storm came on them very suddenly. The steamer’s officers held on to the vessel as long as they possibly could, but finally bed to cut her loose to save themselves, the vessel being full of water gnd in a sinkftig condition. A few moments after they parted the Hulbert was seen to give a terrible lurcjl,and go down with all on board. Those on the steamer were unable to render any assistance or attempt a rescue on account of the hurricane and heavy sea running at the time. The Chicago Times says of the disaster: The loss of the schooner Mary Ann Hulbert near St. Ignace island, Lake Superior, is now a confirmed fact. The Hulbert was commanded and owned by Capt. Martin O’Malley, of. Chicago, who had sailed her for many yhar«. Capt. O’Malley was well known to veeselmen here, and— in faet aft -around the lakes, as he has. been sailing upward of twenty-five years. For several seasons past be has engaged almost exclusively in the Lake Superior trade, sailing between Duluth, Bayfield and Canadian ports, carrying lumber, supplies and grqin. Capt. O’Malley was about 45 years of age and was unmarried. He leaves a mother, two sisters and three brothers, one of whom yesterday received a dispatch from Port Arthur confirming the sad intelligence of his brother’s loss. The Hulbert left Bayfield for Port Arthur last Thursday, in tow of the Canadian steamer Kincardine. She was loaded with camp supplies, and had on board, besides her regular erew of five men, fifteen laborers who were bound to Canadian railway camps. The Kincardine and her tow experienced rough weather, but held together until off St. Jgnace island, when the officers of the steamer were absolutely compelled to let go the Hulbert. That old schooner, left to her own resources, made very poor headway, and before the Kincar ■ dine could get out, of sight.’of her she went down, carrying all hands. The Hulbert was a very old vessel, and had no rating on the Inland Lloyds register. She was under 150 tons burden.

ANOTHER FRANK DUBOIS.

A School-Girl Marries Her Chum and Then Her Chum’s Father. [Cleveland (O.) TelegranSto Chicago Tribune,! A well-to-do widower named Smith, living on Bridge street, had a charming daughter, Frances, whom he jealously cared for and sent to a boarding-school in Now York State. She formed the acquaintance there of a girl of her own age and they became fast friends. Finally the Smith maiden finished her education, came home, and was installed as housekeeper for her father. He would allow her to make no frionds, male or female. Some time ago a jauntly little fellow called, who proved to be Frances' school friend in disguise, and the girls determined never again to part. The jaunty boy staid in town, and one day Frances was missing. The father soon received a letter from a small town In the interior of the - State saying that his daughter- was married and wait--Ing for forgiveness. As she wasmarried, and to her girl schoolmate, there whs nothing for the father to do but to forgive. He did so, and brought the supposed mgn and wife home. The husband behaved himself admirably, and the wife's father was satisfied. Soon the husband’s clothes gave out and paterfamilias desired to renew them. Confession came, and now the old gentleman has married the husband of his daughter, and all are living happily together.

DRIVE-WELL PATENTS.

The Grievances of Farmers' the Subject of Legislation by Congress. [Washington Telegram.] The farmers of the country who have had to pay damages for infringement on the drive-well patents, and all who have ever had a well driven, will be interested in knowing that no less than ten or twelve bills have already been introduced in Congress to cover their grievances, if they have any, and to guard them against loss in the future from suits for damage. Representative Morey, of Ohio, is one of the many authors of these bills, and he says there is a general determination among the members from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, and. some other States whose farmers are interested largely, to have a bill passed at once that will stop extortions from innocent purchasers of the diamond-points todrtven wells. The bill which he has introduced provides that,if any. gwson bvys,a patentetTarticle in. the open market from a regular dealer, for his own use, it shall be sufficient defense, in any suit brought by the patentee, to show that it was bought in good faith, and the patentee must look to the dealer for damages for infringement. ”

FIRST DEATH OF THE SESSION.

Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, Falls Into the Sleep That Knows No Waking. The reaper of Death has begun wortttimong the Congressmen early in the session. Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, of Kansas, is the first victim. His illness was of long standing, and is said to have been caused by overwork at the last session, in connection with the debates upon the tariff question, in which he took a very prominent Bod leading part. Mr. Haskell represented the Second district of Kansas, which includes the counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Wyandotte. His heme is at Lawrence. He was born at Springfield, Vt, March 23, 1842, received a classical education at Eaetbampton, Mass., and took a special course at Yale College; engaged! in mercantile pursuits; removed to Kansas in 1855; was a 'member of the State House of Representatives in 1872, ’75 and ’7B, serving the last term as Speaker of the House; was nominated tor Governor by the Temperance party In declined; was elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty sixth Congresses, and was ro-etected to the Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth Congresses as a Republican.

SMALL TALK.

The centenary birthady of Mrs. Anna M. Greene was celebrated at Newport on the 10th inst. The Mormons of, Little Wood Rhmr, Idaho, severely thrashed Arthur Billingsley, a man wlfohad loudly opposed their pedudhr practices. !■? One of the French societies in the interest of the industrial classes has recommended the suppression of all circular saws in workshops. f : ... < • ... '' ~ j Juliet Carson is teaching the Californians how to cook.