Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

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TIIE EAST. Wbstcott & Co., stock-brokers at Sjracuse, N. Y., made an assignment, giving preferences for $52,377, and the assets will just about cover the latter sum. S. D„ Richardson, drj goods retailer, of the same city, also failed. Both were caused by the suspension of "Wilkinson Brothers’ bank ' Uncle” Silas Savage was buried at public expense last week at Hartford, Conn. His claims under the French spoliation matter were $175,000, and he died the very day the United States Senate referred the question of claims to the Court of Appeals. Miss Newman, whose supposed dead body was taken from a grave in Egremont, Mass., to Albany and was restored to life on the dissecting table, is now perfectly sane and wedded to a physician—nephew of one of the men acquainted with the facts of her resurrection. She proposes to visit friends in the Berkshire Hills within a short time. ZZZ H, J. Goodwin, dealer in woolens, at New York, made an assignment, his preferences amounting to $100,000.... A fire at New Bedford, Mass., destroyed the drygoods store of Haskell & Tripp and injured other buildings, causing a loss of $88,500. The New York Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade resolved by r a unanimous vote to protest against the ratification Of the pending treaty between Spain and the United States The imports at the port of New York for the week were $8,133,000, of which $6,430,000 were general merchandise, and $1,703,000 drygoods.

THE WEST.

Surveys have beeu made for an iron bridge across the Mississippi Hirer at Prairie du Chien, to take the place of the pontoon structure. The latter has paid from $35,000 to $50,000 per annum. The new bridge will be built by a stock company, at a cost of SBOO,OOO or mere, and will be nearly a mile in length , “Omaha Charley,” a desperado, whose real name was Charles Stevens, was taken from the jail at Maryville, Mo., by a mob and hanged from the railroad bridge. Stevens 6hot Hubert Kramer at Maryville, Dec. 3. Another lynching occurred at Daggett, Cal., where William White, charged with killing Josiah O. Harris, Dec. 5, was hanged to a telegraph pole by a party of regulators .... J. W. Mills' saloon at New Paris, Ind., was destroyed by incendiaries, who were opposed to having a liquor shop in the town. The citizens of Andersonville. Ohio, turned out in great numbers and dispatched a tiger which had escaped from his winter quarters' in a menagerie. The animal had killed hogs, sheep, and cows along his route, but attacked no human being.... Keuben B. Springer, of Cincinnati, known throughout the country for his gifts to public institutions, died* in his chair, from paralysis of the heart, in his 85th year.... The wheat yield of California, this year, officially reported, is 57,420,188 bushels, leading all other States in the Union. This is the product of 3,587,864 acres, being an average yield of 16.4 bushels. An indictment has been rendered by the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago against Jos. G. Mackin, Henry Biehl,, and Arthur Gleason, and another against Strausser, Hansbrough, and Shields, judges of election in the -Second Precinct of the Eighteenth Ward, and Kelly and Sullivan, election clerks in the same precinct. Biehl and Gleason were arrested and put under $5,000 bonds each. Mackin gave himself up, and was also put under bonds in a like affiount. With the rendering of the indictments the investigation come 3to an end.... The horrors connected with the Crouch murders at Jackson, Michigan, received reenforcement last week by the attempt of a witness to cut his throat. The sudden breaking out of fire in Gray, Toynton & Fox’s candy factory at Detroit caused the girls employed in the second story to rush for the fire-escape, in descending which one young woman fell aad was slightly hurt. Three girls were seen at a window, but a sudden burst of the fames drove them back, and they were burned to death. When James M. Lean- stepped down to a hotel parlor at Logansport, Ind., to be married to Ida Hostetter, it was found that Ida had fled with Burton Weaver. Leary had purchased a marriage license, feed the parson, and expended S6O toward the faithless one’s trousseau.... Forty-five lodges and 4,000 members were added during the year to the Good Templar phalanx in Dakota... .Two Idaho cowboys - tied their left hands together and fought a duel with knives until both fell dead. Neill McKeague, who gained notoriety in connection with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, near Chicago, last spring, has just heen sentenced at St. Catherine’s, Ontario, to six months' imprisonment at hard labor for assaulting a clairvoyant, who “revealed” some unpleasant things in his past life Orrin A. Carpenter, who was acquitted of the murder of Zura Bums, at Lincoln, 111., has fled from that place to avoid assassination bv the girl’s father. His once ample fortune has shrunk to a quarter section of faming land. \ A verdict was returned at Cleveland, Ohio, by the jury in the freight-discrim-ination suit of Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle against the Lake Shore Boad for $5,000

in favor of the plaintiffs. , The railroad charged the plnintiffs a higher rate for the transportation of oil thniv the Standard Oil Company was obliged to pay,... A verdict for $50,000 was rendered at StPaul againfet the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, in favor of C. L, Dunn, who was injured in an accident in February last near Green, 10wa.... .Elisha Hoyt, of Washington, Ind., assigned owing to embarrassment caused by the failure of the banking firm of Hyatt, Leviugs & Co. ' His assets are reported at $250,000, and liabilities SIOO,OOO.

THE SOUTH.

In self-defense, John P. Martin killed Floyd Tolliver at Moorehead, Ky., on Dec. 2. Martin was taken from officers at Farmers’ Station by “regulators,” and riddled with bullets..., .Included in the Dakota exhibit at New Orleans is a miniature working elevator, eight by ten feet, with glass sides and roof, which cost $1,200. . Mary Brannan, who four years ago was a favorite in the highest social circles of Baltimore, was released from the bridewell, and ended her career by flinging herself on the track beford a passenger train. It is estimated by the correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal that 400 people have perished in three counties of Kentucky by the -pestilence. It is also declared that within the last three months 200 people have died, chiefly by pestilence, in Harlan County alone. The population of Harlan County is 5,278, and that of the three counties specified—Harlan, Bell, and Knox—is 21,420, and 400 deaths would give a death rate of 19 per 1,000 in three months, more than the average annual death rate in the United States. The figures given for Harlan County would make the mortality for the quarter more than twice as great as the average mortality for the year. The ravages of the pestilence in Kentucky have been at least as great, in proportion to the population, as those of the cholera at Marseilles and Toulon.

At least twenty negroes lost their lives by the capsizing of oyster-boats in the Rappahauock River during a storm.... Lewis Fox, manager of the Tate plantation, near Little Rock, was shot dead while sitting at a table writing, the assassin having fired through a window. Six convicts confined iu the convict camp at Coal Creek, Tenn., made a break for liberty. They were surrounded by a strong cordon of guards, but thought that by making a bold dash they could escape in the confusion. They had run a few hundred yards, when the guards recovered and a posse was sent in pursuit. They followed a short, distance, and when they were in range called to the prisoners to halt. They continued straight ahead, whereupon the guards opened fire. At the first volley four of the fugitives fell, and the other two surrendered. Two of the prisoners were killed by the fire, and two more mortally wounded... .The Supreme Court of West Virginia lies decided. that _a_ railroad charter is merely a license, the right to fix freight and passenger charges being vested only in the Legislature.... Hezekiah Brown, a colored preacher, of Clarksville, Md., was lynched by a mob for marrying a weak-minded white girl 17 years old. . . .Judge T. J. Ford, his brother-iu-lnw, and three others were indicted at New Orleans for the assassination of A. H. Murphyi.. .Twenty-five thousand children participated in the Sunday-school celebration of the Methodists at Baltimore.

WASHINGTON.

Opposition to the Mexicau treaty seems to have gained strength in the House of Representatives sine'e the publication of the terms of the proposed treaty with Spain. Surgeon Wyman, of the Marine Hospital Service, has been given leave of absence for four months to investigate the germs of cholera with Prof. Koch at Berlin. Mr. Ran dale intends to rush the ap. propriation bills through the House as fast as possible. YVhen these have been disposed of the interstate commerce bill will be called up for continued discussion. Friends of the Mexican pension bill will make an effort to secure action upon that measure next in order. Capt Howgate the absconding exChief Signal Officer, bus been beard from through a letter addressed to Lieut. Greely asking for a small loan ut 10 per cent, interest. .. .The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Mercantile -Bank, of Cleveland, to begin business with a capital of $1,000,000... . Secretary Chandler has been advised by cable of the outbreak of a revolution in Corea.

POLITICAL.

In connection with the visit of Senator Bayard to Albany, the Washington correspondent of .the Chicago Daily News telegraphs that journal as follows: There is a report coming from New York to the effect that Cleveland will not select Bayard lor a Cabinet position because Tilden is bitterly hostile to him. It IS claimed by Tilden’s friends that he and they nominated and elected Cleveland,; and that he cannot go back on them or discerned Tilden’s wishes. <.n the other . hand it is asserted by Democrats Utah in the party that Cleveland owes Tilden nothing. It is stated by men who were in New York during the canyass and who are familiar with the Democratic management, that Tilden gave only a few thousand dollars, and really made ijo sort of effort in behalf of the ticket. "It Svas,” said a leading Democratic Senator, “Tilden's friends who cut Cleveland so badly in New York." It is also believed by many Democrats that Tilden is trying to put Randall at the head of the Treasury, but the latter prefers to remain in| the House. The almost universal opinion on the Democratic side of the Senate is that Mr. Bayard can have the Secretaryship of State if he wants >it. The cause of Tilden's hostility to Bayard is said to be the former’s belief that the Delaware enactor and Thurman were mainly responsible for the electoral commission bill. In answer to this, friends Of Mr. Bayard say that he and Thurman used every exertion to get an expression of opinion from Tilden about the electoral bill, and that finally the late C. N, Potter and several others, who were said to represent Tilden, accepted the electoral commission bill.

Charles G. Reed, Citizens’ candidate for Mayor of "Worcester, Mass., defeated the Republican nominee, Samuel E. Hildreth. The city voted for liquor license by two to one... .Wade Hampton has been re-elected United States Senator by the South Carolina Legislature,-receiving all the votes bnt those of five negroes...;. Channcey M. Depew declines to be a candidate for United States Senator in New York... .The fact has developod at Washington that Senator Bayard made a trip to Albany last week, remaining at the Executive Mansion with the President-elect for more than twenty-four hours. L. Z. Leiteb, the Chicago millionaire, now in Washington, is spoken of in connection with a foreign mission. Mr. Leiter says he will only accept a Cabinet position. ... .A prominent New York Democrat says Roscoe Conkling can have the full Democratic vote for Senator. Fourteen additional votes are necessary, however A delegation of the County Democracy visited Mayor Edson,of New York'audurgedtheappointment of Hubert O. Thompson as Commissioner of Public Works. The request was indignantly refused.... The

Maryland Democracy gave a banquet to Senator Gorman, wf the Baltimore Academy of Music, which/ wjNf elaborately decorated for the occasion. Senator Bayard was among the speakers. It is thought that the portfolio of the Interior Department will be offered by Gov. Cleveland to Mr. William C. Whitney of New York. ,

GENERAL.

The enraged Italian Laborers nty Porf. Rowan, Ontario, seized Col. Collier; and carried him by force to one of their camps. His release was secured by the magistrates, who swore in thirty citizens to patrol the streets... .Glass-workers’ union throughout the country have subscribed $50,000 to aid the Pittsburg strikers, and have agreed to give, if necessary, the proceeds of one day’s work each week for the same purpose. „.. William Wannemacher, the young temperance orator, is dead. During navigation season this year 1,823,117 tons of iron ore were delivered at Lake Erie ports, 130,428 tons in excess of last year’s record... ..Warren Price was hanged at Wrightsville, Ga., for killing his son-in-law, R. F. Perry. George Cook met a similar fate at Laramie City, Wyoming, for the murder of James Blunt, his brother-in-law.

Business failures for the week numbered 316, agaiust 296 for the previous week, and 249 in the corresponding period of 1883. Special dispatches to Bradntreet’s (New York) from leading trade centers report “the holiday purchases are exhibiting a contrast with the inactivity previously noted, yet the volume of such sales is almost uniformly below the total for 1883. Aside from the continued firmness in the New England cotton goods markets, due to the recent firmness in the price of raw cotton, and with the exception of a slightly improved distribution of goods at Boston, Memphis, Wilmington, and Savannah, general trade at all points is at as lowaji ebb as ever. A more conspicuous feature is found in the long-continued and pronounced dullness of mercantile collections. This is reported in almost all directions. Rates of excliango'on New York at interior points have declined in most instances. There is no gain in the industrial situation. In all lines of manufacturing wages continue to go lower, in sto 10 per cent, drops. Actual stoppages of factories and mills are less frequent, but conspicuous. ”

A friend of Gen, Grant has been expressing the fear that bis financial future is not the brightest, His assured annual income for the future is fixed at about S3O, - 000, and his friends count that amount inadequate to maintain him... .Boston capitalists have contracted for eight thousand tons of steel rails for the Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad, and work will begin forthwith on the section from Flagstaff to Green Valley.... Muriate of cocoaile, the newly discovered anaesthetic, has been successfully applied to dentistry... .Nearly the whole of the business portion of Brookville, Ind., was burned. The loss is variously estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. -■...The Calumet Sewer-pipe Works. near Toronto, Ohio, were burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $40,000.... Eight stores at St. Mary’s, Kan., were burned, causing a loss of $48,000... .Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the depot of the Traction Company; loss, $40,000... .A fire at Johnstown, Ohio, destroyed a block of buildings, including a hotel, and the Masonic and Odd Fellows’ Hall, causing a loss of $30,000... .Fire at Asheville, N. C., caused a loss of $38,0(>0 Fire in New York destroyed a six-story brick building 011 Ninth avenue. Loss on building and contents about $30,000.

FOREIGN.

Capt. Dudley and mate of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed a boy named Parker while on the wreck in order to eat the flesh, have been sentanced to death. The Secretary of State for the Homo Department advises the Queen to'respite them.... The Nihilist chief at St. Petersburg has issued a manifesto condemning to death the Minister of the Interior, Count Tolstoi..., .The Rt. Hon. Joseph YVarner Henley, ex-Privy Councilor of England, is dead’ . .Lord Dufferin, the new Viceroy of India, has been well received at Bombay. The condition of affaires in Spain is believed to bo worse than at any time since the killing of Gen. Prim in 1880. The situation is one of riots and conspiracies, trade is at a standstill, cholera is raging, the treasury is bankrupt, and a revolution is impending... .China will continue the war against France and will secure 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferry has abandoned all hopes of a successful issue of the mediation between China and France.

A dispatch from Odessa, Russia, says : The Turkish atrocities in Macedonia are increasing. Two hundred Christians have beeu murdered within the past few weeks, and three villages burned. Kidnaping is common, and the inhabitants are afraid to leave their h0u5e5........ A panic has been caused on the Vienna Bourse by the suspension of the Bohemian Mortgage Company. .. .A deficit is shown by the Prussian budget of 22,000,000 marks. All Loudon was intensely alarmed the other day by an attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. The attempt, however, proved an utter failure, as far as the design to demolish the structure was concerned. About £SO worth of window-glass was broken in the vicinity. The bridge itself escaped without -injury. A strong force of police was put on guard, and others sent out to search for the parties who planhed the destruction of the bridge, but no arrests were made or clew discovered. Owing to the excitement and the. fear of a repetition of the explosion, traffic was suspended for a time. The English press is filled with indignation at the advance of German influence in Africa, as indicated by the publication of the German White Book, at the expense of Euglani’s interests, which, it is claimed, have beeu sacrificed by the indecisive action of Lord Granville... .Miss Fortescue, who was awarded a verdict of $50,000 against Lord Garmoyle for breach of promise, has been re-en-gaged to Mr. Quilter, whom 6he jilted for the nobleman... .The English Secretary of State for Home Affairs proposes to suppress prize fighting in the future... .The prospects of the Nile expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon are not very encouraging, and it is now said that it cannot reach him before next week... .Unusually severe snow storms are reported in the Alpine regions of Switzerland... .The District Court of Zafingen, Canton Aargun, Switzerland, has fined and imprisoned two Mormon apostles, and forbidden them to enter the Canton for three years..... Louise Michel, .the French anarchist, will be released Jan. 1... .Mme. Colombier is serving a fortnight’s imprisonment for the authorship of “Sarah Barnum”... .A revolution in Corea is reported. ... .Nubar Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister,'

threatens resignation. It is also reported that there is a movement to restore Ismail Pasha 1 to the throne... .The London Petroleum Association has refused to put Russian petroleum on the same footing with the American product.... The French Chamber of Deputies passed the naval estimates and recommended the building of cruisers and torpedo vessels, and the speedy completion of large men-of-war ... .The sentence of Captain Dudley and his mate, Stephens, of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed the boy Parker in the boat to keep themselves alive, has been oommuted from hanging to six months’ imprisonment. /

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The mysterious disappearance of an organ from the Union Sunday School rooms at Struthers, Ohio, has led to a disgraceful row. t . .Father McGee was locked ont of a French Catholic Church at Fall River, Mass., and complaint will be made to the pope.; *. Ninety members of the First Baptist Church at Keokuk forced the dismissal of the pastor, Rev. A, C.Peck. On a dredge-boat in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Captain Edward Duley knocked Patrick McGuire senseless, ,then chopped the body to pieces with a pick-ax, and threw the mangled mass into the hold.

lowa farmers indulge bitter feelings toward the railways, which chargtf them freightage of 17 cents a bushel otoMiorn to Chicago, while the value of the grain is but 13 to 15 cents. The Railway Commission has taken the matter in hand, and if not vested with" full powers already, it will ask the Legislature to enlarge the scope of their duties.... The late Reuben R. Springer, of Cincinnati, left an estate valued at $3,000,000. His will, entirely in his own handwriting, has been probated. While the bulk of his property is given to the childred of his sisters, lie makes seventeen bequests to schools, churches, charities, and household servants, the largest being $75,000 to the Musie Hall Association, and SIOO,OOO to St. Mary’s Seminary of the West.... The Miller Company, of Canton, Ohio, manufacturers of mill machinery and iron novelties, was closed by the Sheriff on executions by Toledo iron merchants.... Fred H. Winston, a well-known attorney and politician of Chicago, brought suit for SIOO,OOO against the Inter- Ocean Company for libelous statements. Richard Brocken, of Philadelphia, President of the Wolfe Tone Club of Irish Nationalists, who recently inherited a fortune of.nearly $1,000,000 bv. the—death-of-his uncle in Brazil, has contributed SIOO,000 “to be scientifically used for the cause •f Ireland in the heart of England.”.... The Edgar Thomson steel-works, at Pittsburgh, with a monthly pay roll of $150,000, have suspended operations for an indefinite period. The Republic irou works in that city have resumed work at a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages... .Henry Levy & Son, importers “of fancy goods in New York City, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $300,000..... The City Bank of Schenectady, in New York, with a capital of SIOO,OOO, has closed its doors. A'Rirx for the erection 'of a statue to Lafayette was reported favorably to the Senate by Mr. Sherman, on the 15th inst. Several petitions from tobacco manufacturers and tradesunions against the ratification of the treaty with Spain were presented by Mr. Logan, as also petitions by hosts of Union soldiers for the purchase of a portrait of Gen. George H. Thomas for the Capitol. During discussion of the Dakota bill, Mr. Garland submitted a proposition for a popular vote in that Territory on the question of its division. A debate on the silver issue followed, mainly between Messrs. Hill and Sherman. A bill was passed for a public building at Akron, Ohio, to cost SIOO,OOO. A coipmunication from the Postmaster-General was laid before the House of Representatives asking an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for postalear service and #75,000 for the pay of postal clerks. Among the bills introduced were the following: One by Mr. Oates declaring forfeited all unearned land giants; one by Mr. Peel granting the right of way through Indian Territory to the Kansas Cite. Arkarisas and Fort Smith Railroad; another by Mr. Blanchard for the creation of a Red River Commission; another by Mr. Willis to give encouragement to the proposed agricultural, mining, and live stock exposition, to be held at Louisville, Ky.; and another by Mr. Buckner to refund the public debt and secure she stability of the national bank circulation. By a susi>ension of the rules Jan. 16 was set apart for the consideration of the McPherson and Dingley bills, both of which are expected to pass. A resolution was offered by Mr. Holman providing that all speeches printed by permission of the House shall be subject to the rules governing debate. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a preamble and resolution requesting the Secretary of the Navy to inform the House in regard to the case of Cadet F. S. Strong, of the Annapalis Naval Academy, who is reported to have died in consequence of cruel treatment received at the hands of senior cadets. Mr. Lacey, for the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill prohibiting the issue of Treasury notes of denominations less than $5, and providing for the issue of sl, $2, and $5 silver certificates. The motion was lost. Mr. Peters, for the Commerce Committee, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to promote the efficiency of the revenue-marine service. 'J his motion was also lost. A motion to suspend the rules in favor of the bill to establish a Department of Agriculture, proposed by Mr. Aiken In behalf of the Committee on Agriculture; was agreed to.

THE MARKETS.

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FRESH HAPPENINGS.

The Mignonette Cannibals Sentenced to Death in England. An Arkansas Train-Bobber’s Confession —Two Great Women in a Napoleonic View. • The Captain anil Mate of the Mignonette ( {Sentenced to Death. [Cable dispatch from London.] Capt. Dudley aud Mate Stephens, of the wrecked yacht Mignonette, who were found guilty of murder in killing the boy Parker for food to keep themselves alive, have been sentenced to death. It is believed they will certainly be pardoned. The scene during the pronoun«ing of sentence was most impressive. The room was crowded. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge read the judgment of court, citing authorities at length. The court declared that the taking of human life could only be justified on the plea of self-defense. The commission of murder for the sake of preserving one’s own life was unjustifiable. Of course it was a dfity to preserve one’s own life, but the duty often required one not to save but to sacrifice his own life. The court must apply the law and declare that the prisoners were guilty of willful murder, for which there was no justification. If this judgment was too severe the court must leave the prisoners to the clemency of the crown. The prisoners were asked what they had to say before sentence was pronounced. Both Copt. Dudley and Mate Stephens pleaded for mercy, in view of their terrible situation when the deed was done. Lord Coleridge said it was the jury’s privilege to recommend prisoners to mercy, and then he sentenced them to be hanged, but without the black cap. The Secretary of State for the Home Department advises the Queen to respite Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens. [The yacht Mignonette, thirty-three tons burden, sailed from Southampton for Australia May 19, 1884. June 11 she foundered during a storm in the Indian Ocean. Capt. Dudley, two seamen, and a boy named Parker escaped in a boat, but had no provisions except a few turnips, and were wholly without water. By th# twelfth day their food, including a turtle which they had caught, was exhausted, and their sufferings from thirst were maddening. The boy Parker was wasting away, and the others hungrily watched his approaching dissolution. The twentieth day, after the party had beeu without food for eight days, the Captain hastened young Parker’s -death by opening a vein in his arm.—The three survivors eagerly drank the boy’s blood as it gushed from his arm,, and they cut his flesh from his arm and ate it uncooked. but with some degree of moderation. The Captain kept the body and served out to himself and the two sailors such rations as w-ere necessary to preserve their lives. They prolonged their wretched existence in this way until July 5, when they were rescued.]

An Arkansas Train-Kobber Confesses. [Little Rock spectal.l The confession of Joseph Cook, the ringleader of the train-robbers who suc-cessfully'side-trackedntHe passenger Train and plundered the seventy-five passengers on the Arkansas Valley Railroad in the outskirts of the city Saturday night, tells the story of the latest daring train-robbery. “There were four in the party—Clifford, Parker, Frank Kline, and myself. We first commenced to plan the robbery a week ago. We studied out and arranged matters in Kline’s room on Centre street. I was chosen Captain. After the robbery we walked straight to Little Rock, stopping on the way to burn pur masks. Reaching the city we separated. I accompanied Kline to his room, Where the swag was divided. We placed it in small sacks and hid it.” He then named a coal-shed and a vacant building, where it was concealed. The officers easily found the plunder, which consisted of twelve gold and silver watches and $526 in bills and silver. Tho property is being returned to the owners as fast as identified. Cook has resided hero some time, and is well known. He is a native of Austin, Tex. Clifford is a railroad man, and came here three weeks ago from Chicago. His home is at Nashville, Tenn. Parker is a boy 16 years old. His parents are esteemed residents of Little Rock. Frank Kline, whp effected his escape, is a car-riage-trimmer, and belongs at Logansport, Ind. At the preliminary examination the prisoners were remanded to jail, and bail fixed at SIO,OOO each. The penalty for the crime in the State is seventy-seven years’ imprisonment. Six Persons Cremated. fPottsville, (Pa.) telelzram.] Fire broke out last night in the house occupied by Frank Barlow in Park Place, a small mining village sixteen miles from this city. All efforts to arouse the sleeping family from their slumbers were in vain. Several miners, who ran from their work at th colliery, brokee open the door, but were driven back by the heat of the now raging lire. All hopes of reaching the sleeping apartments of the Barlow family were then cutoff. While Barlow’s house was burning the spectators were obliged to stand there and witness a most heartrending sight. In the vain attempt of Frank Barlow to save his two children the father in his night clothes appeared at the secondstory window. He raised the sash and threw one of them —a boy 9 years of age —to the ground below. He attempted to then save the others, but was overcome by the heat and smoke. The heroic father swayed to and fro for a moment and then, with the child still held in one arm and clinging to the window sash with the other, he 6ank down into a seethihg mass of flames. The horrorstricken spectators watched the doomed man grasping the window sill until his arm burned off at the wrist and his body disappeared from sight. When the building fell it was the fiery sepulcher of six unfortunate victims. * . „ r

The Attorney Generalship. [Washington special.] A meeting of the Missouri delegation to Congress was held to take action in the direction of urging Broadhead for Attorney General tinder Cleveland, bnt it was practically a failure. Senator Cockrell opposed the movement, saying he had joined with the other Democratic Senators in recommending Senator Garland for Attorney General, and, therefore, he could not indorse Broadhead or any other man for that place. The delegation could not be brought to any harmonious action, and it was finally decided to defer action upon the matter for several weeks. Beating the Becord. [Chattanooga (Tenn.) dispatch.] Less than twelve months ago Mrs. Hugh Blair, of this , county, gave birth to three children, all of whom are living and in good health. Saturday evening the same lady gave birth to two boys and a girl, making six children bom to her in less than a year. [Quebec (Ontario) dtspatch.] Mme. Pidele Vaillancourt, of Kamouraska, Ontario, lias just given birth to her thirty-seventh child# You can buy human steak and chops in Dahomey butcher shops.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Brief Summitry of the Proceed* ings of Congress. Th* Chair laid before the Senate on the 10th Inst, kit invitation to that body from-the Commissioners of the New Orleans Exposition to participate in the opening of the Exposition on Deo. 16. The communication was laid -on the table, that being the usual formal disposition of such documents in the Senate when no special or immediate disposition is demanded by any Senator. Mr. Vest, on behalf of the Committee on Commence, requested that the committee be dlscbarged from the consideration of the interoceanic ship railway bill. Mr. Vest statqd that he had received a letter from Capt. Eades saying certain changes had been made in the concession from Mexico, which made it necessary to withdraw the bill. The committee was accordingly discharged from the consideration of the bill, which was ordered to be withdrawn from the" files of the Senate. Mr. Vest presented several memorials from Dakota in opposition to its admission as a State, and claimed that the movement was engineered by ambitions Territorial politicians. A bill was Introduced to increase to $500,000 the appropriation for a public building at Minneapolis. The interoceanic shiprailway measure was withdrawn from the files. The House of Representatives' passed the West Point appropriation bill. A joint resolution was introduced setting aside SIOO,OOO for American representation in the Exposition at Antwerp next year. The interstate commerce bill was discussed.

The Oregon Central land forfeiture bill was again taken up in the Senate on the llth inst., and the amendment of Mr. DoJph was agreed to protecting the right of settlers on the forfeited lands. Further discussion of the measure was postponed, and consideration of the bill for the admisson of Southern Dakota was resumed. Mr. Harrison replied to Mr. Vest’s attack upon the bill, and inquired of Mr. Vest what number of inhabitants should in his opinion entitle a Territory to admission to the Union. Mr. Vest replied that the spirit of the Constitution required at least a population sufficient to entitle it to representation in the Honse; but even if Dakota had a population sufficiently large to fulfill this condition other circumstances must of necessity enter into a decision of the question of its admission as a State. Mr. Cockrell expressed himself as opposed to the admission of new Territories with large area and small population. He would not be satisfied to admit Dakota if it had four times the population necessary to entitle it to representation in Congress. Mi-. Van Wyck offered a resolution that as the commercial treaty negotiated with Spain had been given to the public, a rule be adopted for its consideration in open session. A joint resolution was adopted appointing the 21st of February for the ceremonies connected with the completion of the Washington monument. Adjourned to Monday, the 15th. In the House, Congressman Hancock, of the Committee on Appropriations, reported the invalid pension appropriation MIL It was referred to the committee of the whole. Consideration of the Interstate commerce bill being resumed, Mr. Glascock attacked the railroad-pool system, and advocated its strict prohibition. A general understanding was arrived at that the debate shall close the next day the subject is taken np as between the substitute of Mr. liegan and the committee bill. Mr. Regan has modified his motion, and now offers his proposition only as a substitute for the remedial features of the committee” bill. Mr. Hiscock offered a resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the capacity of the canals of the State of New York and ascertain if they are sufficient for the requirements of interstate commerce. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information concerning the fees of claim-agents in pension cases. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th inst., a concurrent resolution was passed regretting the inabjjitv of Congress to.be present at the opening of the New Orleans Exposition, and requesting the President of the Senate, together with a committee of thirteen Senators and the Speaker of the House, with one Representative or Delegate from each State or Territory, to be present at the Executive Mansion on Dec. 16, when the President would open the exposition by telegraph and start the machinery thereof by electricity from the White House in the presence of the Cabinet and representatives of foreign powers. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, offered a preamble and resolution reciting that Mr. J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, having obtained the permission of the House to extend in the Record certain remarks of his made July 6, had printed instead a written speech containing improper reflections on members of the House and other matters not a legitimate part of the proceedings of the House. Mr. Taylor urged in his own defense the plea that he had only done what was customary. Mr. Rogers joined in the attack upon Mr. Taylor and a row ensued. The Ohio election drifted into the discussion, and somo sharp language was employed on both sides of tho House. Mr. Warner’s resolution was passed. Adjourned to Monday, 15th.

The Story of an Umbrella.

We were living up in the mountains and had quite a herd of cows, among them one, an old cow, who wore a bell. The cows had been missing for several days, and the boys were out searching, and one afternoon I thought I would try what I could do. So I mounted a pony and rode quite a distance, when I thought I heard the old cow’s bell. I dismounted and started to prowl around among the rocks and bushes. “It had been raining during the early part of the afternoon, and I had an umbrella. After I had gone a short distance I Caught a glimpse of the cows. As I started toward them, suddenly they lifted their heads, crooked their tails,- and started away on a dead run. I was just wondering what frightened them, when I heard a rustling in the bushes behind me. “I turned around, and there, not ten feet away, was a big mountain lion standing on a rock staring at meT I assure you I never felt so bashful in all my life. I hadn’t a gun or even a jackknife, and there was that beast staring and getting ready for a spring. All at once I thought of hiy umbrella, and as quick as thought I raised that much borrowed article and spread it Tight in Mr. Lion's face. He didn’t stop to examine, bnt made one great jump clear across the gorge, and when he lighted gave a yell that shook the hills. “I saw no more of him. When I got home the cows were there.”— Gen. 11. F. Sickles, of Colorado.

The Colonel’s Maxim.

Col. Bumgardner stumbled into a party of gentlemen who were discussing pld maxims. ~ “Zat’s my hah’, too, ’’said Bum ; “I alius (hie) sticks to myfav’rite maxim 1” “Which one is that, Bum?” “Yit’s ‘ never put (hie) off till to-mor-row whacher kin co-hoo to-day ! ’ ” “Well, what are you going to do now r ?” “I’m go-ho-ing to take a dfrink if you’ll set ’em up!” . Which was very promptly done.— Georgia Cracker.

Why He Wanted It.

Mrs. Winks—“ This paper says that Sir Moses Monteixore, now 100 years of age, has neyer believed in early rising.” Mr. Winks—“My gracious! I want to cut that out and paste it in my hat." “You, indeed! Why, you never get up until compelled to. What do you want to paste that in your hat for?” “So the cook won’t see it”—Philadelphia Call. La-cbosse is an kneesy game children. They learn it early.