Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA, ft. a. MARBELALL, - Ppbusher.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. A bill authorizing the Secretary or the Navy to offer a reward sf $25,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Greely Arctic expedition was introduced in the Senate, March 18, bv Mr. Hawlnv who, in offering the measure, said *uch a reward might induce ships cruising in or about the Arctic seas to keep a lookout for the exploring party, or turn occasionally out of their coarse in order to gather information about it. Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in advocacy of the bill to aid the establishment and temporary support of common schools. It appropriates the first year $15,000,000. the secorfd year $14,000,000 the third year $13,000,000, and so on for ten years, decreasing $1,000,000 yearly. to be expended on common-school education, the expenditure of each Stats to be on the basis of Illiteracy. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported to bridge the Rio ftrande at Laredo and Kagle Pass, and the Missouri at Sibley and- Leaven worth; to prohibit ths mailing of lottery circulars or newspapers containing 101 l cry advertisements; to regulate compensation to railroads for carrying mails, and to grant right of way through the Sioux reservation to the Dakota Central and the Chicago, Milwaukee A- St, Paul Roads. In Committee of the Whole the Postoffice Appropriation bill was taken up. An amendment bv Mr. Reagan to extend the franking privilege to members of Congress was lost, The appropriation of $«0.000 for let ter carriers, was rejected. The committee then rose and the bill was parsed. A memorial of the Cincinnati Chamber of Comerce, protesting against the construction of a bridge across the Kanawha, was presented dn the Senate on March 19. The Committee on Foreign Relations reported a bill lor the inspection of meats lor exportation, and prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles Of food or drink. Some debate took place >on bills to fix the salary of District Judges at —$5,009 and to appropriate $15,000,000 for the support of common schools. In the House, the Committee on Foreign Affairs reported that the resolutions on the death of Herr Lasker were intended as a tribute of respect to tin, memory of an eminent foreign statesman, and that the House does not deem it necessary to its dignity to criticise the circumstances which prevented the expressions of sympa.hy from reaching their destination. The report. was adopted, as was. also a resolution that the House cordially reciprocates the wishes of the liberal union members of the German Parliament for the closer union of the two nations. The bonded whisky bill was taken up in committee of tffe whole, by a vote of 137 to 118, and Messrs Morrison and Willis urged its passage. Resolutions directing tho Secretary oi the Treasury to furnish copies of accounts and vouchers in the star route cases, and calling on the Secretary of the Navy for information regarding oontraots with parties in Sheffield, for material for the Miantonomah, were adopteetby tbe Senate March 20. Senator Blair's bill appropriating $15,000,000 for the support of public schools in the various States in proportion to the number of illiterate persons was debated. It was supported by Senators Garland, Blair, and Jones (Fla.), and opposed by Senators Plumb, Vest, and Allison. The House of Representatives, by unanimous vote, adopted a resolution declaring Mr. Garrison entitled to a seat as Representative from the Fifth District of Virginia, and the oatli of office was administered to him. The Speaker presented an estimate of $20,000 for the pedestal of the statue <St Gen. Garfield to tie erected in Washington by the Army of the Cumberland. The bonded whiskey extension bill was discussed in committee of the whole, without action. Bills were introduced in the Senate, Mnroh 21, to connect the cities of Davenport and Rock Island with a horse-car line, to grant a pension of SSO per month to the widow of Gen. E. O. C. Ord. and to provide for the creation of the State of Tacoma from Washington and Idaho Territories. Mr. Hoar called un the bill to increase the salaries of United States District Judges to $5,000, and Mr. Van Wyck moved to amend by making tho sum $4,000. When the educational bill came up, Mr. Sherman moved an amendment that the money lie distributed in proportion to illiteracy, and without distinction as to race or color. The House adopted a resolution declaring untrue the charges aeainet Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, in connection with the star route frauds. E. H. Fnnston was sworn in as the successor of the late D. C. Haskell, of Kansas. Bills were passed to retire W. W. Averill -with the rank and pay of Colonel, and for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Capt. J. G. Todd, of Texas. In the House of Representatives, March 22, favorable reports were made on bills to establish an assay office a t Dcadwood and for the return of-the remainder of the Chinese indemnity fund, and adversely to reduce lifetime patents to five years. A resolution was adopted calling for information as to the lease of grounds in Yellowstone Park, and what provision was made for the presevation of fish and game. The Senate was not in session. .

THE EAST. A child in Philadelphia has just been attacked by hydrophobia from the bite of a dog three years ago. The United States Veterinary Association, at a meeting at Boston, discussed the foot and mouth disease, and resolved that to the carelessness and incompetency of the United States quarantine authorities, at Portland, Me., is duo the spread of the infection, Mbs. Georgian a Biffin, a> member of adornment family, was apprehended at Erie, Pa., as she was aljout to elope with a negro, leaving her infant child behind. The negro escaped the fury of the crowd by geta tT a ] n ' an< | in the cicitft* ment Mrs. Biffin fled from the officer and cannot be found. The police of Boston captured fifteen members of a gang of thieves ranging from 12 to 16 years of age. Their meetingplace was an Old cellar, and they had ulmost perfected a distinct language. A special committee of the New York Legislature reports that fully Super cent, of the stuff sold as butter iu that State is of the nature of butterine or oleomargarine. The adulterated article disposed of, it is said, amounts to *0.000,000 pounds, and it is claimed its sale inflicts a loss on the dairv interests of the State of from 85,000,000 to 810,600,000... .At New York Sheriff Davidson, Warden Howe, of the Ludlow Street Jail; Deputy Warden Kiernan, Deputy Sheriff McGonegal, and Jacob Wertheimer, clerk in the Sheriff's office, have been indicted for extortion, larceny, perjury, forgery, and other offenses. Many of the Massachusetts whalers are preparing, it is reported, to make an es fort to win the 125,000 reward for the discov. ery of the Greely party if the Senate bill to that effect becomes a law. THE WEST. The first authentic news from the newly discovered gold fields, in the Coeur •d’ Alone district, is furnished by a special investigator sent out by the Chicago Tribune, who reached Eagle City, the capital of the new El Dorado, eight days after leaving Chicago. There seems to be no doubt that there vrill bo a rich yield from the mines in the district, and the • rush of prospectors continues. Several rich leads have been struck already. Building operations at Eagle City are progressing. Timber fetches a large price, and workingmen are paid from $5 to 98 per day. It is estimated that in 'the region tributary to the Black Hills there are 383,900 cattle and 8;700 sheep. Stock have wintered exceedingly well, the losses not being over 1% per cent.... A letter to the Chicago Times, from Miles City, Montana, states that nearly six thousand Indians are but surely starving to death at the Fort Peek Agency. The game has suddenly disappeared, and the vedaea realized almost nothing from 1,000 acres of laud which they zealously cultivated. William Dane, a love-sick schoolteacher of Bentonville, Ind-, having failed to kill himself and a 13-year-old girl by means

of laudanum, shofi himself. The girl is seriously 'sick from the effects of the drug, but will probably recover... .The Governor of Illinois has been advised that twenty-four head of horses and mules at Shannon, Carroll County, are afflicted with glanders, and that several others have died.... Dr. Shirley re-' ports to tho Illinois Board of Health that cattle have diod on the farm of Hi T. Forth, in Wayne County, 6f the foot and mouth disease.... After the explosion of a still in tho oil works of Morrlam & Morgan, at Cleveland, the oseaping fiuid submerged three employes, who were quickly burned to death. Joseph Bowden, James Martin, and William Sellwood, three miners, were burled beneath a fall of rock at tho Cleveland Iron mine, at Xshpemhig. Mich. The latter was taken out alive, but the two former were dead when reached by the rescuing party, after half an hour's labor. The deceased men left large families. Simon Beattie, representative of the Breeders’ Gazette, of Chicago, has telegraphed from Neosho Kan., where he has been investigating the reported cases of foot-and-mouth disease among the cattle, as follows: “I visited tho two herds most affected in this district to-day and found them in much the sa'ine condition as those in low* .and Illinois. I did not see. any indicaticn of contagious fopt-and-metuth disease in them, and am satisfied there is none. .There are two professors, two veterinarians, and two prominent cattlemen here. I think they are •weakcning’ Eome on the opinions previously expressed by them.” ....Near Salem, Ohio, tho Chicago limited express train rushed into a landslide, which derailed the cars, the locomotive plunging down an embankment and immediately exploding. The engineer and fireman were killed, and three persons were seriously and many others slightly injured... .Two men were killed by a fall of rock in the Cleveland Iron mifle at Ishpeining, Mich. Chicago dispatch: “Dr. Paaren, the’ Illinois State Veterinarian, has made a report on the cattle diseases prevailing in Effingham and Cumberland counties of this State. He pronounces it non-contagious, and say 6 it is simply foot-rot, due to atmospheric or telluric (earthy) influences. In the case of the Keating herd, in -Effingham- County, ho says it Ms entirely due to neglect.” Washington dispatch: “Commissioner Loring lias received a telegram from Prof. Salmon,-the- yeterinarian of the Department of Agriculture, stating that, after a thorough investigation of the disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., ho has concluded that it is not the genuine foot andmouth disease, but is duo to local conditions, and that there is no danger of its spreading to other sections. The Commissioner accepts the conclusion as final.”

For a mining district, tlie Coenr d’Alene region is a remarkably peaceable and orderly place. There have been but two drunken fights since paying dust was discovered there. This may arise from, the fact that whisky sells at $8 per gallon. Other articles fetch proportionately high prices. At tho present season the difficulties in reaching the mines from the outlying towns are very great, Owing to several parties having located claims on the same ground, trouble is expected when the mining season begins. The cattle disease in Kansas has been found to have been caused by wild rye, which contains ergot, being mixed with the hay upon which the animals have been 1ed.... Simon Beattie, expert sent out by the Breeders'Gazette, and who was the pioneer to explode the theory that the foot and-rnouth disease was raging among the herds of Kansas, lowa, and Illinois, telegraphs to the Associated Press: “I am proud to see Prof. Salmon lias pronounced the disease at Neosho. Falls, Kan., as not contagious foot-and-mouth, and that the Commissioner of Agriculture accepts this result as final. This wipes out the foot-and-mouth disease after a series of controversies, and gives me us well as others a feeling of great relief. Prof. Salmon and Ilr. Paaren gave the cases at Neosho Falls a searching investigation, and the result is one which the counrry at large will accept as final in the belief that the drond contagion does not exist anywhere in this country.”... .The jury in the Carpenter case at Petersburg, 111., returned a verdict of “not guilty.” Zura Burns’ father and mother have made threats, but Carpenter’s lawyers anticipate no danger. Lawyer Lynch gave a reception to Carpenter at his hotel, at which many persons attendee Forty masked citizens of Marysville, Kan., forced the jailor to deliver to them Samuel Frayer, who had been convicted of the murder of John Pennington and wife. The offender was taken to the wagon bridge and hanged, after he had made a full confession of his crime... .Frank L. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, has perfected a machine capable of charging 1,500 shotguns per hour. A company to manufacture the invention has been formed with a capital of $250,000... .C. F. Huntington is said to have, secured a controllinginterest in the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, and has been heard to boast that he controls every mile of Pacific coast railway.

Charles Houlden, a farmer nea Petersburg,Hl-, learned from a neighbor that 0. A. Carpenter had beeu acquitted of the murder of Zora Burns. Within ten minutes he felled his wile to the floor with an ax, and with a dull pocket-knife nearly severed her head from the trunk, in presence of his step-children. He then took to the fields, where he sat on a fence and cut his throat in a horrible manner. His wounds were' stitched together,, and he was taken to jail on a mattress. THE SOUTH. At Hatsbrtrg, Tenn., Jolm E. Gassett, W, G. Crcfckett, and ono Hammerhead were seated about a small table engaged in playing cards for drinks, when some dispute arose over the; game. Hammerhead at once drew a revolver and killed both of his companions.He was promptlyjirreste<L_ Mbs. G. D. Alsop, residing near Louisville, gave her four children, by mistake, for powdered rhubarb. Two of the little ones died and the others are probably past recovery. The brothers Champ and Rudolph Fitzpatrick were executed for murder at Columbia, Ky. Both were. Goliaths in size and strength, but ignorant to the lowest degree. Champ was satisfied to die if he could get his "fill of pickled beets” before the execution, while Rudolph wactbd all the candy he could eat. The former at ono time swallowed a live mouse for a wager.... A street railway company has been organized at Little Rock, with a capital of 8100,000. WASHINGTON. - J. M. McGrew, formerly Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department, whose duty it was to audit the expenses of the Post office Department, was examined at his own request by the Springer Committee in relation to the star route Investigation. McGrew said be resigned his position as Sixth Auditor June 2, 1881, at the request of the President and Secretary Windom, the former saying he was embarrassed by the statements of James and MaeVeagli, members of his Cabinet. “June 30,” McGrew continued, “the President sent for me, and said he had done me great injustice, and Intended making my restoration conspicuous. The following day I left for Ohio, and July 2 the President was shot. I never again, and have not asked for another position. I don’t want Bliss, the noted star-route attorney, was- before Mr. Springer’s committee last week. He defended his own course during,, the trials- He intiniated that exSenator Spencer, when on the stand, did not tell all he knew in relation to the orookedness; that A. M. Gibson acted in the investigations partly as the agent of Samuel J." Tilden, who also collected some facts in i-e----regard to the star-route frauds by other means for political purposes; that Gen. Gar-field-bad been made aequaintedwitk the history of thefrnudsbeforebe was inaugurated, and that from that moment Dorsey’s influence with Garfield ceased. Some passages-at-arms botween llliss and members ot the committee occurred.

The House Committee on Appropriations has completed its consideration of tho pension appropriation bill. The measure Bp. propriates $20,684,400, and provides that' any balance of the appropriation for the current fiscal year remaining unexpended on June 30, 1884, shall he reappropriated. The balance is, estimated at $66,000,000.POLITICAL. Sumner Howard, . of Michigan, has been appointed Chief Justice of Arizona..... The Independent Republicans of Rhode Island have nominated Hon. George H. Corliss for Governor.... Robert Smalls, colored, has been elected to Congress from tho Seventh District of Carolina, to fill the seat made vacant by the death of Mr. Mackey. Santa Fe (N. M.) telegram: Ex- , Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, publishers letter in the Santa Fe papers in reply to ox-Post-inaßter General James’ assertion that had Garfield taken a lower view of his duties he would not have fallen a victim to the assassin’s bullet. Mr. Dorsey says: “My answer Is, if it is worth while answering at all a creature like James, that while Garfield may have—been very low in his views sometimes, as ail men are, he struck the lowest ebb of low tide when ho appointed James Postmaster and MacVeagh Attorney General. He caught an evil-fanged craw in one case and a de% r il-flsh in the other.” The KEiode Island Democrats met in convention at Hartford and nominated George H. Cot liss, the nominees of the Independent Convention of the previous day, for Governor. Mr. Corliss, however, refused to accept either nomination. A committee having informed the convention to this effect, Mr. Thomas W. Segar, of Westerly, received the nomination. Delegates were also chosen to the National Democratic Convention. They are supposed to favor Tifden... .The statement is made in Administration circles,—says a Washington dispatch, that the President will Veto the Fits John Porter bill. The assertion is a jtrjeat, surprise to E'itz John Porte's friends, but comes from such jy source as to be entitled to consideration.... A bill making it mandatory on the municipal go veru ments of cities o f 20,000 in h abitants and upward to adopt civil-service reform passed the New York Assembly by a vote of 82 to 32... .The Connecticut State Republican Convention for the selection of delegates to the National Convent;on is called to meet at Hartford the 23d ol’ April... .The North Carolina Republican Convention will be held at Raleigh May 1. The Republicans of Rhode Island, in convention at Providence, renominated Gov. Bourn and all the other State officors. ... .A gentleman who has had very intimate relations with Mr. Til den says that before the meeting of the New York State Convention Tilden will formally announce that he is not to be considered a candidate for the Presidency. If Mr. Morrison shall permit certain modifications in his tariff hill, says a telegram from Washington, it is believed that not more than twenty Democratic members will vote against it, in which case it would be sure to pass the House. The chances of the measure are said to be improving... .Charles H. Page, Chairman of the Rhode Island Democratic Delegation to Chicago, says it is solid for Tilden and Hendricks, with Roswell P. Flower for second choice..... Blaine is the favorite of the Republicans of Rhode Island. The delegates from that State to the Chicago J une Convention, it is thought, will make this manifest.

NECROLOGY OF THE WEEK.

Bishop H. H, Kavanaugh, of Anchorage, Ky., one of the ablest of the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died recently while on a pastoral visit to Columbus, Miss. He was 83 years of age. Ho had been a minister of the gospel for upward of sixty years, aud was ordained Bishop in 1854. He had been sick several weeks, and suflered intensely. His last hour was peaceful; Madame Anna Bishop, once famous on both sides of the Atlantic ns an operatic singer, died of apoplexy in New Y’ork, where for many “years she had lived In retirement. She was born in Londdn in 1816; Godfrey Weitzel. whom Gen. Butler promoted from Lieutenant to Brigadier General at New Orleans, and who since the war has been Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineer Corps, passed away at New York. Other deaths: George Fuller, a landscape and portrait painter of Beaton; Edward B, Wntkinson, President of tho Connecticut Trust Company; Count Adelberg, u distinguished Russian statesman, aged 91; Judge Thatcher, of the Supreme Court of Colorado; Buena Ventura Baez, • ex-President of Santo Domingo; Willis S. Webb, a retired banker of Indianapolis: Mrs. Sully Talmage, the oldest lady in Rockford; Miss Fannie Mosher, a resident of DowngiacvMich., for half a century; ex-State Senator Nathan H. Bitely, of Lawton, Mich., one of the most prominent fruit-growers in the West; Admiral Lessofoky, commander of the Russian squadron in the American waters during the civil war; L. L. Warner, a merchant-philanthropist, of Louisville, Ky.; Charles Laughclnicr, known as “Dickens’ Dutchman,” who hail served fifty years in a convict’s cell at Philadelphia; Col. Norman Curtis, the oldest Freemason in Illinois, at Rockford; Dr. Ezra Abbot, of Boston, noted for his great Biblical and historical learning; Rev. Henry Morgan, of Boston, for twentyfive years the relentless enemy of gambling and the social evil. GENERAL. The Philadelphia Conference of the Mettiodist Episcopal Church ado-pted resolutions approving the action of the Legislatures of iug for instruction iih" the public schools on the relation of alcohol to the human system. The conference favored similar action by the Pennsylvania, Legislature; also the submission of a constitutional prohibitory amendment to the people of tho State.' Burned : Woodward, Faxon & Co.’s wholesale drug bouse, Kansas CHy, Mo., loss $100,000; Osborn’s malt house, Hamilton, Canada, 830,000; Odd Fellows’ Hall, Stanford, Ky., §15.000; Huffman & Billings’ brassworks, Milwaukee, 8.10,000; the elevator building of the rolling-mill at Joliet, 111., $40,000; a glycerine factory in New York, 840.000; a business square at Jackson, Tenn., $80,000; an irons foundry at Durham, Ont., $25,000; twenty buildings at South Chicago, 111., $65,000; a dozen business houses at Moberly, Mo , S4s,t)op; a grain elevator at Ashland, 111., $15,000; the Mitchell Furniture Factory, St. Louis, Mo., 875,000; tho property of the Nelsou Company, including 4,000,000 feet of lumber, at Knife Falls, Minn.; two warehouses at Appleton, Wis„ 825,00 C; two stores at Wright, Tex., 830,000: the Josephine Hotel, Hot Springs. Ark., $25,000; Long’s tobacco warehouse, Manhcim, Pa., $35,000. A duel -was fought near Matamoras, Mexico, between Juan Diaz, a noted desperado, very dangerous and drunk, and one of the privates in a company of guards commanded by Capt. Fernandez. The duel lasted some time, nine shots being fired, and both of the principals being killed in the fire. FOREIGN. The British House of Commons passed the army estimates bill, covering £4,230,000. The Marquis of Hartington stated that boundties and elastic terms of service had during the past year attracted over 33,000 recruits... In the German Parliament, all parties gave their support to tho proposition of the Government to appropriate 17,780,000marks for the construction of torpedo boats and batteries. The republic of Andorra, in the Pyrenees, seventeen miles lon» by fifteen wide, has a revolt, growing out of an electoral dispute. France having threatened to 'support her partisans by force, Spain gives warning that such action will deemed a breach of international ittw.- —----------‘--r-wy A general strike against police taxes is threatened in Ireland, in accordance with a very broad hint convoyed in a recent speech of Mr. Parnell in the House of Corn-

mons, -in which he said the Irish people are fools if they comply with the 'crimes act in this matter. The corporat ons of Cofk and Limerick, tho two principal cities of Munster, have already acted on his advice...... Marquis Tseng, the Chinese Embassador, has been ordered to return to Paris, probably for the purpose of reopeujng negotiations for peace... .The recent conduct of Gen. Lew Wallace at Constantinople is said to hav;e been mado* the subject of a communication from the Turkish Grand Vizier to the United States Government,, . .The eighty-seventh anniversary of the birth of Emperor William was celebrated in Berlin ns a full holiday, the oity being brilliant with flags. Queen Victoria’s congratulation was the flr6t one received.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Newfoundland Legislature has declared a 100 per cent, duty on merchandise packages as a retaliatory measure against the Canadian law demanding the inspection of Newfoundland herring. The river at New Orleans, on the 25th of March, marked over an inch higher than tbe great flood of 1874. The Times-Demtcrat deprecates the appeal for aid from the Government made by Representative Kellogg lor the city of New Orleans, remarking that' tho appropriation, if granted, should be devoted to protecting other points in ’greater .danger. - • The Boston Post addressed circulars of inquiry some time ago to the Democratic members of the Legislature of the New England States as to their Presidential preferences and views on the tariff. The replies indicate that Tilden is the overwhelming choice of the New England Democrats. and that they jftYor a tariff lor revenue only. The feeling in favor of the Morrison bill is alt but unanimous;. At the Republican primaries at Youngstown, Ohio, 1,628 voters deposited ballots in special boxes for recording their Presidential choice. Of this number Blaine got 1,516; Lincoln.came next with 33; while Conkling secured one vote... .It is believed that the delegates from Northeastern Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention will be solid for Blaine. a . George N. Fairchild, tlie United States Deputy• Surveyor of Northwestern Nebraska, in a report to the Secretary of the Interior, makes startling charges against the cattle men of that section. He says they have inclosed thousands of square miles of desirable public lands with wire fences to prevent settlers from occupying them and to form barriers to their cattle. They have, acting ns if the lands were legally theirs, warned off intending settlers on pain of death and with opprobrious epithets. They have cut down valuable timber on the public lands and used it for fencing other portions, and’for houses and sheds for their cattle. Tho catilpraisers are mostly wealthy capitalists, afid they warn persons who wish to settle on the lands that they will be frozen out, not given employment, and otherwise boycotted. In a wrestling-matcli at Cleveland, for SI,OO ) a side, Duncan C. Ross defeated Col. J. H. McLaughlin Epizootic of the most desperate type has made its appearance at Dayton, 0hi0... .The alleged foot-and-mouth disease in Vanßuren County, lowa, has been found to be foot-rot, resulting from freezing and lack of proper attention. Marquis Tseng, in an interview, Said that the capture of Bacninh by the French has not changed the determination of China to resist, French aggression.... Paul Frederick, brother of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, has been converted to the Catholic faith, and renounced his hereditary rights in favor of his younger brothers and their offspring... .It is thought that France has aggressive,, designs with regard to Morocco. Spain- has, it is reported, asked England to unite with her in opposing thismove ment. Mu. Van Wyck offered a resolution in the Senate, March 24, directing the Attorney General to furnish information as to the compensation of special attorneys in the star-route cases. A motion to fix a day for the consideration of the 1 ill for the admission of Dakota was lost by 33 to 23. The Blair education measure and the bid to increase the salaries of district judges was debated. Mr. Vance presented his minority report against the recommendation of the majority of the Foreign Affairs Cemmitte in favor of retaliatory legislation against countries which exclude American meats. He contends that hog pioduct may be barred out by foreign nations it deemed unwholesome; and that such course is manly when contrasted with the American method of imposing prohibitory import duties to effect the same purpose. In the House Mr. Ellis introduced a joint res- - olutton reciting the danger of an overflow at Now Orleans, and appiopriating $300,010 for preventive measures. After considerable debate tho resolution was lost by 05 to 115, but by unanimous consent it was reintroduced and referred to the Committee on Appropriations Bills were handed in to give tho Southern Kansas Pacific Road right of way through Indian Territory; providing a uniform grade for invalid pensioners; to secure cheaper correspondence by telegraph; to prevent the re-use of cigar-boxes, and to repeal the restriction on the coinage of the silver dollar. The sculptor of the statue of Beranger, in Paris, has depicted the great poet with a volume of Horace in his hand. But Beranger himself declared that he did not know a word of Latin.

THE MARKET.

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HORRIBLE CRIME.

Shocking Slaughter In a Remote Section of Tennessee. A Whole Family Murdered—Swift Justice Overtakes the Butchers. [Springfield (Tenn.) Telegram.] Perhaps the worst crime ever committed has just been perpetrated in this (Robertson) County. Twenty-five miles from this place, near the Kentucky line, lived John Martin, hi 9 wife, and three children, two of them grown young women, the other a boy of 12. Martin was in his seventieth year, and had lived in the neighborhood nearly his entire life. He had eked out a moderate living on his little farm, quietly doing his work and having the respect of everyone. Yesterday he returned from Nashville, where he went to procure the final settlement of his pension claims, having teen wounded in the late war. It is presumed that this trip was learned of by certain rough characters living near, who, bent upon robliory, planned and executed this most horrible crime, Martin’s log house was situated a quarter of a mile from the Springfield road, about ten miles northwest from Adams’ Station. A heavy growth of cedars and underbrush hides the Jiouse from the view of the travelers on the main road. This isolation prevented the tragedy from being discovered until this afternoon. A peddler who came to the house gave the first alarm, and the whole neighborhood was aroused. Tho door was broken as If struck violently with an ax. This door led into the main bedrqom, where Martin and his wife slept. The scene upon entering the room beggars all description. Martin was dead upon the floor, his gray hair matted and.soaked in a pool of blood. The head was split open in two places by blows from an ax. The forehead was crushed, and the glaring eyer were forced from their sockets. Upon every side wore evidences of the frightful struggle that must have taken place. The walls and the floor were bespattered with blood. Mrs. Martin must have been killed as she started from the bed. Her arms were broken and her face horribly mangled by the blows of the ax.. There was one stream of ghastly blood. The most pitiable sight was the little boy, who 6ccnpied a trundle-bed in the room. Evidently he had beeu taken by one of the murderers during the struggle with the others and choked to death. In the next room, where tho girls lay, the sight would have melted a heart of stone. Everything indicated a most desperate struggle for life. Evidently the murderers added a worse crime to their misdeeds. The disordered clothing of the poor girls told plainer than words of the outrages that had teen perpetrated upon them. After the brutal aissasslns had satisfied their lust they crushed the skulls of the two girls with the ax, which was found upon the floor, red with lilood. It was a sad experience, and every eye that witnessed tho sad spectacle was full of tears. The liouso had been ransacked from one end to the other, and tables and cliairs were overturned, The entire neighborhood was filled with horror at the fearful sacrifice of human life.

A confusion of footprints was found leading away from the home into the neighboring woods. Search parties were formed, and the country’ for miles around was scoured for a trace of tho murderers. A 1 arm-hand named George French was arrested by one of the County Constables upon suspicion. A crowd gathered and soon swelled into a mob of frenzied men. His contradictory replies conviticed them that be was guilty. A rope wns brought and placed about his neck, and the mob swung him up to the nearest tree. He was let down half insensible. and on coming to confessed that he and Jim and Doc Carter, two negroes, workmen upon the farm of ’Squire Davis, had planned tho murder. He gave sickenihg details of the assassination, and confessed that all three of them had outraged the girls. They found sl,200 in monev, and divided it between them. He had hardly finished his story when he Vas jerked up and strangled to death. Twenty shots wc re fired into his body’. The mob made a break for Davis’ farm, where the two negroes were found. Although both df them protested their innocence, the mob hanged them to the same tree and shot them while they strangled. /

HOT SHOWER BATHS.

Three Men Burned to Death by Blazing Oil from an Exploded Tank. —-*—. ICleveland Dispatch.] An explosion occurred iu one of Merriam & Morgan’s paraffine works in Central way, corner of Ohio street, by which three workmen met with horribled deaths. At the time of the explosion a number of men were in the vicinity of the refining mill, but all ex' cept three escaped injury. At the moment of tho explosion a largo fiery mass of refined oil wns belched upward into tlio air, and fell to the earth like a stream of molten metal from a broken retort. Of tho workmen in the vicinity, August Fisher and August Guenther were closest to the exploded still. They were enveloped in the liquid shower of flame, and in an instant nothing but charred and horribly disfigured remnants remained of what they had been. ■William Stalilman was a short distance panions. When the muss of flames descended upon him his clothing was consumed like ego much tinder. . lie made a wild and desperate effort to escape, but soon succumbed. When the fire tould be sufficiently subdued to allow the firemen to enter the inclosure, the remains of the three workmen were removed to the adjoiuing pump-houso and placed upon shutters. The bodies of Fisher and Guenther were the most horribly burned. Scarcely a vestige of them remained below the hips, and the upper portion of their bodies wore so charred that they could scarcely be recognized as the remains of human beings. Stalilman was about 26 years of age, and lived with his wife In Seymour avenue. He leaves no children. Guenther was 27 years of age. He was married, the father of three little children, and, lived at No. 129 Herseheil street. Fisher was probably 30 years of age. His homo was at No. 160 Tfumbull street. He leaves four children, with a wife, who is in a delicate condition. The exploded still had contained about twenty-five luirrels of paraffine. What caused the explosion Mr. Merriam is at a loss to conjecture, as It was a new one of the most approved pattern. The loss to the firm will be about $20,(00, upon which there is no insurance. Coroner Bock will hold an inquest over the remains.

SPLINTERS.

The sum of 5.50,000 has been given to Yale College (for a dormitory by Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago, \ « .The recent Poods destroyed flfty-flve bridges in the Ohio Valley, which will cost. 8210,000 to leplace. Mrs. Hannah Simon, of Newark, N. J., recently celebrated her 99th birthday by waltzing for ten minutes--The laborers on Ihe Capo Cod Ship Canal struck because. of dissatisfaction with the food furnished by the contractor. The Chief of Engineers at Washington reports the total expenditure by the Government on Chicago harbOr at 81,339.304. and on t he'Calumet ltlver at 8277,000, On ihe Mississippi proper there has been laid out $19,536,995. James Carey, the informer, who was slain by O'Donnell, sought before his “taking off” to cheat his creditors by a transfer of his property in the city of Dublin to his brother. The Irish Bankruptcy Court has jutt annulled the decree of transfer. Bedford, of Colorado, receives more mall matter thau any other member of Congress.

BISMARCK AND LASKER.

The Resolutions as Agreed Upon in Committee Passed by / the House. ■ ■■ >ll - ■r' ■ Some Excitement Among the Members Boring the Debate—The Various Speeches. .. 1 [Associated Bress Report.] As soon as the members were in their seats Mr. Curtin, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted as a privileged question the report of the committee. This declares that the original resolution was intended as a mark of sympathy for a distinguished man who had died in this country. While the committee was of the opinion that tho resolution should have been received In the proper spirit, yet it would refrain from criticising the action of the German authorities in regard to them. The dignified position of the Deparment of State fully sustained tho high character the department had maintained 6ince the organization of the Federal Government. As to the resolutions offered March 10, the committee was of the opinion that they contained language not necessary or proper to vindicate the charno.'er or dignity of the House. Therefore they would report the following resolution as a substitute: Resolved, That the resolutions referring to the death of Dr. Edouard-'Lasker, adopted by this House on Jan. 9 last, were intended as a tribute of respect to the memory of an eminent statesman who had diqd in the United states: as an expression of sytnpathy with the German people for whom he had been an honored representative. Resolver/, That the House, having no official concern with the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the German Government, does notrdeem it requisite to itfr dignity to criticise the manner of the reception of the resolutions or the circumstances which prevented their reaching their destination after they had been eommuni.atod through the proper channels to the German Government. Mr. Curtin then moved the previous question. Mr, Reagan said he hoped this would not be done, as the House had already made apologies enough for being insulted. Mr. Cox, of New York, moved to lay tho matter on the table, as the best way to treat the German Chancellor, but this motion was lost—B3 to 125. 'I he previous question having been ordered, Mr. Ochiltree rose to deba'e the resolution. Ho declared that this affair had gone beyond the domain of rod tape and circumlocution and had assumed a phase, which called upon each Representative to preserve his own honor and dignity. It was not becoming the honor arid dignity of the House to explain the meaning of the original resolutions. They spoke for themselves. The apologetic tone of tho pending resolutions was unworthy the representatives of this great nation. The compliment to Lasker had been a rebuke to the German Chancellor because the mbn were the antithesis of each other. The Chancellor had ever been a sycophant to royalty, had never upheld the rights of the people, and never lost an opportunity to denounce populam sovereignty. Mr. Belford inquired ironically whether it would be In order to offer a resolution j resenting the apologies df the House to the German Chancelfor for having troubled him, but was told it would not. Mr. Phelps, the second -speaker, said that this matter had become of grave consequence. As the committee had unanimously agreed in their report, It would seem that there ought to be an explanation. Tho resolutions were passed unanimously Jan. 9, just as tho members were preparing to adjourn. Ten days later the House was startled by the information that the Chancellor had retusCd to accept thorn. Tho members then looked up the record to see wlmt they had done. They found that they had expressed regret at the death of Lasker, and also the belief that his free and liberal sentiments had advanced the interests’of his country. Both were true, but the histone the House could not report. It hud no righf to send out its opinion that his political work had benefited Germany. There was no refuge. The House would resent the fact that its friendly sentiments had been rejected, but it could not resent the fact that its political sentiments had beoit sent back because ft had no business to put them on the same paper. Mr. Curtin reviewed and defended the features of the report, and the resolutions were adopted without division, though an unsuccessful effort was made to have the yeas and nays ordered. Mr. Curtin then' presented a report concerning the memorial of the Liberal Union of the German Parliament tlx pressing u desire for a closer union of the two nations, and an appreciation Of the action of the House. Resolutions wero presented reciprocating the wishes of the Liberal Union of Germany, accept ng the resolutions, and directing that they should be spread on tire journal. Mr. Cox thought the House was trying to show its thanks to one portion cf the Reichstag after having been thoroughly insulted by the blood-and-iron Minister. By so doing it was complicating matters in such a way as to lose all dignity and pluck. Ho (Cox) had favored the resolution of Mr. Hiscoek, which was dignilied and consistent, but the House preferred to make republicanism and democracy a three or un-, dignified but! ornery. The people of Germany wore in accord with those of this country, and ho believed that sime day there would be an uprising of tho liberty-loving Teutons. Mr. Brurnm said thirt the House was trying to carry water on both shoulders. Dignity was, in his judgment, honorable, heroic action, and not the playing of the coward, simply because a Chancellor might suy tho rules of etiquette had not been strictly followed. Mr. Deuster commended tho action of the Department of State, and declared that Bismaret'*te«stya®t*on.vi'©»)*l<j»’(>veiuiloi’.tunate only for him. Mr. Phelps closed the debate. He claimed that the letter sent by Bismarck to the German Minister in Washington, in which he had expressed his cordial regard for tho American people and willingness to transmit the resolutions if they had not expressed a political opinion, was an ample apology. Thanks to Bismarck, to Frellnghuyseu and- his skill, and to tho Committee on Foreign Allafrs, the dignity of the House had been saved. Tho Gorman Chancellor had entered the Reichstag for the first time in eighteen months, in order to play the new role of an apologist: the gentleman from Texas had seen his tame grow from the confines of his State to the circumference of the world; all had been satisfactorily ended, and the members had the right to ring down the curtain on this international episode. The resolutions were then adopted without a division. ,

A Battle with a Wildcat.

[Philadelphia Dispatch.] Levi Labar, of Purdytown, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, fought a "catch-as catch-cftn” battle with an enormous wild cat In his bedroom lost night. About midnight Labar heard a strange noiße in the room. He Jumped from the bed to make an Investigation, when the animal sprung upon his shoulders, but Labar shook it off and delivered a stunning blow with a club. For fifteen minutes the conflict raged, the brute leaping from wall tc wall, clinging to the paper with its sharp claws, anil then bounding upon its opponent, screething with fury and with eyes shining liko coals of fire. At last Labar dealt the cal a death blow. It measured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end of Us tail. Labai was severely lacerated about the face anc arms. The Cincinnati Evqulrrr claims to hav« canvassed the political sentiments of elevet Southern States, casting a total of lOt electoral votes, a little more than one-fourtl the entire vote of the c-ouniry. It reportt that “everywhere In the South there is at overwhelming' sentiment in favor of the *e nomination of Mr. Tilden.” Clark R. Robinson has brought suit at New York against Commodore Garrison foi 82,895,950. toe proceeds of the sale of bondi of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Ttx answer is a general denial. Estimates place the cattle diive of Texa the coming season iu excess es 300,060 bead