Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Page 6

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Five hundred guests attended a reception to President-elect Cleveland, the Governor, and Legislature of New York by the Fort Orange Club at Albany. It is reported as the most distinguished social gathering ever held in Albany.,.. In a building in New York in which the British Consul General has his office, there was discovered a round* tin box containing a quantity of blue powder, with a lighted fuse attached.... Leonhardt’s morocco factory, at Brooklyn, was burned, the loss being $100,000..... At Fulton, N. Y., four or five stores aero destroyed, an explosion of gunpowder aiding the fire, resulting in a loss of $40,000. ... .The late Charles H. Rogers, a bank President in Philadelphia, left in trust an estate valued at $3,000,000 to build a home for infirm and aged persons. Two girds left alone in a house near Erie, Pa., were besieged by four masked robbers. The young women barric ded the doors and held out resolutely until assistance came. Two of the ruffians were captured. Sour wine poisoned the Kuril family of seven persons at Bunker Hill, Pa. One child died and two others can not recovers The Health Board of New York, having discovered that druggists are adulterating quinine to an alarming extent, propose to arrest the offenders... .A Philadelphia express train on the Beading 'Railroad was wrecked at Greenville, N. J. More than a third of- tjje seventy passengers on board were injured ... Four members of the Krall family at Bunker Hill, Pa., who were poisoned by sour wine have died, and the remaining three are beyond recovery... .John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was fined sls at Boston for fast driving and cruelty to a horse. New York was greatly excited by an attempt made to blow up (he dry goods store of Garry Brothers by the use,of dynamite. The premises were damaged to the extent of $2,500. The police believe the explosion the outcome of the strike of Garry Brothers’ employes, who are members of the Dry Goods Union, and have * recently tried mauy methods to secure their reinstatement without success. - Four men were arrested on suspicion,-,., Three explosions of natural gas occurred in Penn avenue, near Thirty-fourth street, Pittsburgh. The first was caused by lighting a match in a cellar. Five persons were fatally injured, and a largo number were struck by flying timbers. A beerkeg blown from a saloon knocked a cardriver senseless. The damage to buildings is estimated at $20,000. The sufferers are organizing to tear up the gas-pipes Porter C. Bliss, well known as a journalist, traveler, and diplomatist, died in St. Luke’s Hospital, New York. His death was the remote result of injuries inflicted by Dictator Lopez, of Paraguay, who tortured him to extract state secrets.

THE WEST. i Dispatches from the West state that Couch’s boomer colony in Oklahoma have decided to leave the Territory, and will go to the nearest point on the Kansas line, accompanied by troops. Re-enforcements for the boomers from Coffeyville, Kan., have tunned back, and troops will be sent to intercept the men coming from Wichita. The enthusiasm of the friends of the Oklahoma boomers in Kansas has been decidedly dampened by the capitulation of the colony at Stillwater. Capt. Couch says that ho was compelled to surrender for lack of supplies and re-enforcements. It is thought that another attempt at colonization may be made in the spring. ...A decision against the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company involving $7,000 was rendered last week by the Indiana Supreme Court. The company desired to invalidate a life policy because the decedent had stated that he had eight brothers and sisters, when he had but seven, but the court held that the policy must be paid. ...Suit has been begun at Cleveland against Mrs. Garfield by Mrs. Thankful Tanner for being run over by Mrs. Garfield’s carriage last . December.... .Schwan Bros, packing-house atEnn Claire, Wis., burned, the loss reaching $36,000. A religious revival at Gallipolis, Ohio, has resulted in the conversion of 1,000 persons. Several saloons have been closed, and business is suffering from the excitement. .. .E. A. Price, retail grocer at Des Moines, has been closed by. the Sheriff. Attachments for about SIO,OOO have been secured... ,D. D. Haggart «fc Co., hardware dealers, at Bloomington, 111., have failed. The mine at Plummer Hill, Ohio, valued at $200,000, was fired, it is alleged, by strikers. The Federal Court at Salt Lake held Aggie McMurrin in SI,OOO bonds for perjury, she having testified that she married Royal B. Young, a stepson of' Brigham, in 1881. She had forgotten that in li§l2, desiring to register as a voter, she made oith that she had not married in polygamy ... In an altercation near Hastings, Neb., Irwin Farable broke Harrison Young’s neck with a blow of h s fist. Farable carried the body of his victim to a house, and then went to Hastings and surrendered to the Sheriff. CAPT. COUCH/il. H. Stafford, George W. Brown, and Col. S. E. Wilcox, leaders of the Oklahoma boomers, were arrested at Arkansas City for conspiracy and rebellion against the United States Government Gen. Hatch contemplates building a numberof forts in Indian Territory, and will leave troops at Salt Fork in anticipation of another colonizing expedition by the Oklahoma boomers. The General says that the boomers at Stillwater were starved out They did not give up until hunger compelled them to surrender. At the time of the capitulation there were only 156 men in the boomers’ camp. Capt. Conch and his followers were 9 escorted into Arkansas City by 3,000 citizens and a brass band. They were received with great enthusiasm. A large port of the land in Oklahoma was found to have been fenced in by cattlemen, who were left in peaceable possession after the expulsion of the settlers. Xb Oklahoma Union was formed in Arkansas City.

A spectacular play of more than ordinary interest, entitled “Zanita,” comes to * McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week, after a long and successful run at Boston, where it was first produced. The ballet features of the play are said tobeunnsually attractive. Wichita (Kas.) dispatch: “The Oklahoma leaders airested at Arkansas City by order of Gen. Hatch strived here in charge of a Deputy United States Marshal. They are Capt. W. L. Conch, H. H. Stafford, G.

W. Brown,<«uad E, S. Wilcox. They .were arraigned before United States Commissioner and bound over to the sum of SI,OOO each for hearing Feb. 10. ' Mr; Soneq* and three fcompanion§ arrived in this city this evening fresh from the Territory. These men were with the boomers at Stillwater. Somes was with Capt Payne on his raids. The principal cause of the surrender was the failure of Congress to take any action; also, lack of supplies and their inability to hold out against the troops. The raid was made at this time because Congress is in session-. The colonists will disperse to their homes and will make another attempt the 4th of next March. ’’ Two German cabinet-makers from Cincinnati arrived at Vincennes, Ind., the other day. They took a walk to the out-, skirts, when one shot the other three times, took his watch and SSO, dragged him to a deep ravine and hurried him in the snow. The victim soon recovered sufficiently to reach a house and relate his ndveuture.... The Ohio State Miners’ Union has issued an address at Columbus for a reduction of 10 per cent. This move, it is said, will virtually end the strike in the Hocking Valley William • Leonard, a native of Ireland, died at Portland, Oregon, aged 106 years. His widow, 96 years old, survives him. The First National Bank Building at Marquette, Mich., the finest structure in the city, was sweptaway by flames. Loss over slso.floC ... .Nine persons in a sleigh near Oak Harbor, Ohio, were struck by a Lake Shore train. Two of thorn were killed, and two others received fatal injuries. THE SOUTH. Three prominent gentlemen have begun suit at Vicksburg, Miss., against the Pullman Palace Car Company for $25,000 each, a conductor accusing them of being gamblers, and ejecting them from the coml>any’B cars.... The Nashville and Chattanooga Road offers to carry freight 380 miles, from Chattanooga to Memphis, for 5 cents per hundred pounds. Raleigh (N. C.) telegram; “The exodus of negroes from Anson County has begun. Their Mecca is Arkansas. The men sent to spy out 'land returned with favorable reports, and the people are leaving by hundreds. Every train on the Carolina Central Railway toward Charlotte carries a number of blacks. The trainsare so crowded that there is hardly standing room, and many negroes who gather at the depot from the conntiy surrounding Wadesboro are unable to get aboard, and are forced to Wait for the next train.” Lafayette Melton was hanged at Corning. Ark., for murdering Franklin Hale four years ago. Melton was one of a party of Kn-klux who whipped Hale to death for betraying the secrets of the klan. Sentence of death was passed in the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., upon Frederick Ray. Wm. Meadows, Wm. Phillips, and Mason Holcomb (white men), and Wm. Nixon (negro) for murders conimitted in Indian Territory. The condemned men will be executed at Fort Smith April 17. '

WASHINGTON. Thf, Military Committee has withdrawn its recommendation to provide for an Assistant Signal Service Officer, with the rank and pay of Co’onel, tke place thus created being intended for Lieut Greely. The action of the committee is said to be due to certain facts which have recently come out in regard to the Greely arctic expedition. The contents of some of the diaries brought back from the expedition are said to give strong ground for the belief that three, if npt four, of the party were shot for food; and that Greely’s obstinacy was responsible for the disasters which subsequently befell. “The rejection of the Nicaraguan treaty by the Senate,” says a Washington correspondent, “was not a surprise to those who have known something of the debates in executive session. But it was a sore disappointment to the State Department and to Mr. Edmunds, who appears to have had his- heart' set orv “ratification. Doubtless Mr. Blaine helped to put a few stumbling blocks in Mr. Freliughuysen’s way, but tbe most serious opposition that Edmunds encountered in trying to drive the treaty through the Senate came from John Sherman. Mr. Sherman had made a study of the question for years, and had fortified himself with a mass of facts and arguments that could not be met by friends of the measure. All accounts of proceedings in executive session agree in pronouncing Mr. Sherman's speech the ablest effort on either side of the quest : on. Mr. Edmunds attempted to meet him with fine-spun legal sophistries and technicalities, but could not break the force of Sherman’s blows. Mr. Sheiman carried with him half a dozen Republican votes which, added to the almost solid Democratic vote, prevented Mr. Edmunds from getting two-thirds for its ratification. Mr. Edmunds had a few Democratic allies led by Morgan, of Alabama, but," under Mr. Bayard’s able leadership, the large majority of the Democrats stood firm against the treaty. ” —.. Secretary Chandler has ordered the war steamer Wachusett to proceed to Ecuador,, for the protection of Julio R. Santos, a naturalized American citizen, now suffering imprisonment for complicity in the rebellion. President ARTHURIias sent to the Senate a lett r from Secretary Teller which defines the views of the Executive in regard to the Oklahoma question. The Secretary says that ills to be expected that the Oolajioma Territory will continue to he a source of trouble so long as the present conditions ex-ist---While all contracts made by the Government with the Indians should be held inviolate, those which are unjust and unfair to both whites and Indians ought to be modified by legislative action. It is not beneficial to the Indians to have millions of acres of valuable land lemain unoccupied. and there is a general sentiment that these lands should not,be withheld from settlement. Every year, the difficulty of keeping them vacant will increase. It is in the power of the Government to alter the treaties with the consent of the Indians and to open in this manner the coveted territory to colonization.... The House Committee on Civil-Service Re- , form will make an adverse report on the bill to prohibit the removal from office of any honorably discharged, Union soldiei;, or sailor, thus leaving some responsibility to the President 1 POLITICAL. A bill to inflict corporal punishment on wife-beaters passed the Pennsylvania Senate. A resolution denouncing the Londou dynamiters received favorable consideration in the Texas House. A bill was introduced in the Michigan Legislature securing to women the right to vote in school, city, town, and other .municipal elections. A resolution was pa&sed by the New York Legislature requesting * New York Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote for the bill approptiating $300,000 for the Hennepin Canal. The Kansas

House, by resolution, requested their Senatqjs and Representatives in Congress to ■secure the passage of a law for opening so much of the Indian Territory _ns is not needed by the Indians. A biU introduced in the Ohio Legislature is aimed at the suppression of the professional criminal. It provides that a person who is sentenced to the penitentiary three times 6hnll be liable on the third occasion a life term. After a dead-lock lasting twenty-two days, the lower house of the Illinois Legislature effected an organization by the election of E. M. Haines, Democrat, to the Speakership. Washington telegram' 1 to Chicago Tribune: “ Mr. Evarts’ election as Senator has set the Democratic leaden seriously to considering whether they can spare Garland and Bayard from the Senate. Both were considered booked—the one for Attorney General, the other for Secretary of State. Curiously, thongh both were originally conceded ns eminently fit appointments, there is now fierce opposition to both. The opposition to Garland is chiefly on the ground that he is a Hamiltonian, a Federalist in his construction of the Constitution.” ,* Samuel J. Randall, Jr. , of Washington, an enthusiastic Democrat of less than twelve years, rewarded a schoolmate who favored Cleveland’s election by taking him to the doorkeeper of the House and securing his appointment as a page... .Madison (Vis.) dispatch: The surface indications here point pretty conclusively to the fact that Col. W. F. Vilas of this city will enter the Cabinet of President Cleveland. It is known that he is closing up and transferring to other law firms here the entire, volume of his Law business, which is very extensive and lucrative.... The Arkansas Senatorial contest was brought to a close on the thirty-first ballot the eleventh day of the struggle, by the election of James K. Jones, the present Congressman from the Second District of the State. Before the ballot was taken exGov. Refry was withdrawn, leaving the contest between Jones and Poindexter Dunn. There were 125 votes cast. Jones received 72, Dunn 49, Clifton R. Breckenridge 3, Berry 1. The sixteen Republican votes were divided, eight voting for Dunn.

GENERAL. The Canadian Parliament was opened, but the speech of the Governor General contained no reference to the Washington treaty or an extradition treaty bet\veen Canada and the United States; ' The Opposition read between the lines of the speech that an early dissolution of Parliament is contemplated... .Advices from St. Martin, N. 8., report the loss of the American three-masted schooner Afacana, Capt. Holmes, on Quieo Reef. Fcfur of the crew reached land, three of them dying., soon after from cold and exposure. The survivor is not likely to live. There were 349 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s during the week, against 386 in the preceding week and 365, 276, and 194 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About' 87 per cent, were those of small traders, whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades the failures were as follows: General stores, 67; grocers, 42: dry-goods, 23; liquors, 18; shoes, 18; hardware and agricultural implements, 17; clothing,’* 14; jewelry, 12; books, printing, etc., 12; produce and provisions, 10; manufacturers, 10; drugs, 10; furniture, 9; millinery, 9; carnages and wagons, 8; carpenters, builders, etc., 6; hotels and restaurants, 6; harness, 6; tobacco and cigars, 6; lumber and materials, 5; fancy goods, 5; bakers and confections ers, 4; bankers and brokers, 3; men’s furnishing goods, 3; markets, 3; hats, 2; notion, 2; crockery, 2.. .. .Jimmy Carroll, the famous burglar, has finished a long term in the penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario. On leaving for Montreal he exhibited SIOO,OOO in American bonds. The National Board of Trdde, in session at Washington, adopted a resolution asking an investigation into the cause of the enormous waste of the country’s wealth by fire. Mr. Covington, who offered the resolution. said there was not the slightest doubt that the annual loss by fire in the United States could be reduced from $120,000,000 to $60,000,000. The body adopted resolutions originating in Chicago, asking Congress to > take measures to remove the disclamation made in certain foreign countries against American meats and to authorize the President to prohibit the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink. '■■■'-• , ... ■. !' One thousand delegates attended the National Silver Convention at Denver. Judge John A. Coulter, of Colorado, was made temporary Chairman. Adverse reports of the Committee on Organization caused an exciting scene. The majority wanted ex-Gov. Grant for Chairman, while the minority reported in favor of ex-Senator Tabor. After continued yelling and shouting a delegate nominated ex-Gov. B. H. Eaton as a compromise candidate, and he was unanimously elected. Tbe convention passed resolutions demanding free and unlimited coinage of white and yellow bullion, and the withdrawal of small notes. At a conference at the Treasury Department in Washington with three New York,, bankers, it was agreed that there is nothing to justify the depredation in the value of silver certificates. The National Board of Trade passed a resolution urging Congress to'repeal the law for compulsory silver coinage. FOREIGN. > A wom an was arrested in London to the act of entering the Royal Exchange building. - She was found to have a quantity of dynamite concealed about her person. Three men. supposed accomplices of the woman, were also arrested.... The latest dynamite rumor in London ifl.to the effect that the fiends meditate an explosive attack upon the Victoria Hospital for Children. A special police guard has been placed at the' hospital. England's last proposals for the settlement of the Egyptian financial questibn are said to be favorably regarded by the Powers. .. .The Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of Hawarden and eon of the Prime Minister of England, was married at Liverpool to Miss Mary Wilson, the daughter of a retired physician. The Swiss Federal Council has received warning of an attack on the palace by anarchists. The police in London captured a dynamiter to the Westchester district and took an infernal machine frpm his room. Extra precautions have been taken at the British Museum on account of information received by Harcourt, the Home Secretary. ... .Ah express train between Sydney, New South Wales, and Wagga-Wagga broke through a bridge over a creek. Forty passengers were killed. . ‘ • A reorganization of the English detective fofee is contemplated, and it is not unlikely that the tracking of political offenders will be mide a special department; hereThis political secret-service force

Will cofoperate with similar bureaus at Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg. The repugnance toward .political spies always entertained by Englishmen has been in a measure overcome by the reoent exploits of tbe dynamiters.... A sudden thunder-storm in London startled people, many* of whom thought that another dynamite explosion had taken place. The fire department was called out, only to find that the alarm had been sounded by the lightning or electricity accompanying the storm A Paris newspaper says England has accepted the French counter-proposals relative to the financial management of Egypt. ADDITIONAL NEWS. James G. Cunningham, charged with complicity in causing, the recent explosion at the Tower of London, was arraigned at the Bow Street Police a Conrt in that city. The Crown Solicitor dwelt upon the suspicious circumstances which surrounded tbo prisoner, his traveling under assumed names, and particularly the mysterious disappearance of a peculiar box from his lodg- ' ings in Scarborough street immediately after his arrest. This last circumstance seemed to point to the conclusion that Cunningham was in lo.igue with others, who were instructed how to act in case of his arrest. The court was gratified that the Government would reserve the privilege of altering the charge against Cunningham to high treason. „ Jeremiah O’Donovan-Rossa was shot on Chambers street in New York City by a young woman, who fired five shots at hipi, only one of which took effect. The i woman was respectably dressed, wore eye-glasses, and looked like a schoolteacher. Upon being arrested and taken to the police station she did not appear at all discomposed, but calmly admitted that she had done the deed. Rossa walked to the Chambers Street Hospital, where ,hi,s wound was pronounced not danr gerous. The woman said kdr name was Yseulte Dudley A Reading dispatch chronicles the demise of Sallie Kitner, 84 years of age, who for half her days lived in a dilapidated hut near Booneville, keeping twelve dogs and nineteen cats. Her eccentricities were due to disappointment in love, and she ever afterward fled from men as from tigers.... Schedules filed by the insolvent firm of John J. Cisco & Son, New York, ahow $2,987,00!) liabilities, with actual assets amounting to $2,467,000. A request was submitted to the Senate Public Lands Committee by a syndicate of English capitalists asking for the withdrawal of the committee’s report in favor of the forfeiture of the Sioux City & §t, Paul Railroad laud-grant in lowa. The syndicate urged that it had purchased 60,000 acres trom the railroad which are included in the tract to be forfeited, and desired an opportunity to make its title to this purchase good. The committee denied the request and informed the syndicate that it would have to fall back on the railroad for its money.... The Court of Claims has decided that up to the end of 1882 the Union Pacific Company owes the Government $2,758,692, and that the United States is bound to pay the same rates as private parties for transportation. The Pacific Railway bill be!n? taken up in the " Senate on the 2d inst., amendments were adopted specifying the Sioux City Road as included in the bill and subject to its provisions and making it clear that the interest on the whole debt must bo paid each half year. After a short discussion on the hill repealing the preemption and timber culture laws consideration of the interstate commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Beck's motion to strike out the civil-rights clause was rejected by »jiiirty vote. Mr. Cuflom gave notice of his intention to ask the fr ends of the bill to remain in session that day until it was disposed <f. In the House of Representatives, resolutions were introduced asking for iniormation as to instructions issued by the Treasury Department regarding the entry of Chinese; as to the total expenditures for deputy marshals and chief sup tvisors of election: and as to whether the British Government had male representat,ons at Washington In regard to the use of dynamite in London! A bill was passed to allow $1,500,000 for the proposed public building at Pittsburgh. Bills were introduced to abolish the Census Bureau, an t to give to the State of Nevada. for irrigating purposes, ail the public domain except mineral lands. An attempt to call up the bankruptcy bill was resisted by the opponents of the met so re. Rollcalls and other obstructive tactics were kept up till half-past 1 o’clock, when the Berg ant-at-Arms produced Messrs. George K. Adams, Steele, Randolph Tucker, Hiscock, Johnson, Bay, and Hoblitzell at the bar of the House as culprits who had been arrested by him for being absent from the House during its sessions without excuse. The gentlemen were called on for their excuses, and the Houbc made this an occasion for a little comedy: There were yells of “Louder.” and derisive laughter as the delinquents explained, and in each case, on viva voce vote, the House refused to excuse them, and on division voted to let them off. The disposition of these cases was followed at 2 o'clock by a motion to adjourn, which was carried by a vote of 70 to 5«, but the ayes and noes were demanded. During the night the great majority of the Republicans and a few Democrats were opposing an adjournment and the majority of tne Democrats were trying to get an adjournment.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Senator Magee’s bill, appropriating $225,000 for this year and $335,000 for next year, foi the completion of the new hospital for the insane, .was passed by the Senate on the 28th nit. Lieut. Gov. Manson appointed Senators McCullongh, Hilligass, Smith (of Jennings). Foulke, and Lindley as a committee on investigating the treasury. A bill was introduced to restrain the manufacture of dynamite, and the bill to legalize all sales of real estate made by Commissioners was passed. The committee specially appointed tp inquire into the state of affairs consequent upon the fire at the insane asylum reported that the officers were free from blame for negligence. The laundry and baking-rooms are a total loss; the chapel part ally so. The boilers can be repaired. The water supply is totally inefficient. Three thousand dollars were voted for the immediate payment of workmen at the asylum. Senator Campbell, of St. Joseph, called up senate bill No. 22, which allows two or more counties to - join in the construction of orphans asylums. He pointea out the humane necessity of removing * poor orphans from the degrading' associations of the County Work House, and hoped tne bill would be put on its passage at once. A long discussion followed, nearly all Senators favoring such a bill, but suggesting an indefinite number of methods of attaining the end. In the House, Mr. Taylor offered a resolution requesting the Auditor of State to furnish the following information relative to swamp lands: 1. Whether the Treasurers and Auaitors of State have complied with the law of 1857, and what amount of lands has been sold in each county. 2. What amount of money has been placed to the credit of each county, and tin amount charged for ditching and draining. 3. Whether any of said fund is diverted to other use or purpose, or if any of it has been transferred to other funds. The resolution provides for the employment of a clerk to assist the Auditor In collecting such information. There was no opposition to its passage. The special order was the consideration of Mr. Moody’s resolution calling for the appointment of a committee to investigat * the charges made in the communication of John M. Goar, trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home and Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children at Knightstown. After a long debate the resolution was adopted. The bill of Representative Barr, to prohibit the sale of dangerous toys, was engrossed. In the absence of the minister invited to open the Senate with prayer, on the 29th ult., Gen. Manson stud that if the Senate would rise to its feet he would open the session by repeating the One Hundred and Thirty-third Psalm, which the bluff old veteran did from memory with evident feeling and great effect. The following bills were introduced: By Senator Magee, authorizing the Governor and Auditor of State to refund the State debt at a lower fat 3 of interest and to negotiate a further loan of SOOO,OOO for the erection of the new hospital for the insane; by Senator Brown, for apportioning the State into Congressional districts. The bill confirms the existing bou daries of such districts without any change whatever; by Senator Mclntosh, to limit the rate of interest on county bonds to 6 instead of 10 per cent, and requiring them to be Sold at par. By a vote of 31 to JO the bill to authorize a yearly tax on street-cars by cities was indefinitely postponed. This is one of a similar class of bills all prepared by a State convention of Mayors of cities, and the discussion Indicated that all of them would meet the same fate. The Committee on Cities reported that Barley’s liquor bill be made applicable only so cities with a voting population of 5,000, which will include Indianapolis. Evansville, Fort Wayne, and Terre Haute. lii thesz cities and nowhere else saloons may open at any hour except between 12 o’clock midnight and 4 a. m. week days. They are to close entirely on Sunday and election days. In the House Mr. Eley’s bill to prohibit baseball playing on Sunday and prescribing a penalty of a fine not exceeding $25 for each violation was passed without discussion. The bill to appropriate $40,000 to the Purdue University, one-half to cover last year’s deficiency and the remainder to meet the current expenses of the year, was passed. Seventeen Representatives voted against the appropriation. The hotelkeepers’ bill, which virtually proposed to reestablish imprisonment for debt, was defeated. The following bills were read a second time In the Senate on the 30th ult.: To provide for the continuance of courts when a trial Is in progress. It was ordered that printing of the bill be dispensed with and it be ordered engrossed. Amending the dog law. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. To regulate the reports of township trustees in settling with county commissioners. Amended and ordered engrossed. Senator Foulke offered a petition on military affairs. Petitions on alcoholism, medical education, and huckstering were presented from nearly every county in the State. Senator Smith, of Jennings, presented a petition against compulsory vaccination and in favor of forcing any patient suffering from small pox to isolate himself; against Sunday laws and recognition Of God in the constitution; against all laws excluding stock from pasturage on high roads. Senator Willard made a report of the Finance Committee on bill lofi—the bill for refunding the State debt—with amendments, and recommendation that it pass. Senator Foulke, Republican member of the committee investigating the State Treasury, asked leave to withdraw from the committee, on the ground that a majority oi the committee were averse to an investigation. The point of order was made that he had no right to reflect on his brother members pending an investigation and when no report had been made. The Bsnate refused unanimous consent, and the matter was dropped. In the House, the bill to repeal the act authorizing aliens to hold title to real estate came up for third reading and passage. The discussion on the proposition to postpone for one week led to a long and acrimonious debate, but it was finally carried. The motion to reconsider the bill prohibiting Sunday base-ball playing was lost. The bill to amend til# act prescribing the powers and duties of coroners was pa-sed. The bill provides that all persons desiring to be hoard in inquests shall be examined: that constables shall give subpoenas, arid that where post mortem examinations are necessary the County Commissioners shall direct the pauper physicians to perform such duty. The hill appropriating s<>,Boo to the Reform School at Plainfield was passed. ThERE was nothing done in the Legislature but to introduce new bills on the 31st nit. There was not a quorum In either branch, and it was not desirable to raise any question that might necessitate a vote. Senator Cam; bell of Hendricks introduced a joint resolution to abolish the contract system in State prisons; Senator Bailey a bill to prevent forfeiture of insurance policies after full payment of premiums and charges for one year; Senator Zimmerman a bill to fix the number of Senators and Representatives of the State, and to apportion the State for such purposes. This bill gives to Fulton a Representative instead of a joint Representative, and changes tho political relationship of St. Joe snd St rke and Starke and Pulaski, and Fulton and Pulaski. Otherwise it leaves matters In "statu quo." Senator Willard introduced measures to tax railroads not less than $12,000 per mile on their rights of way and that all sleeping-car companies shall report yearly to the Auditor of toe State the amount of its earnings and value of its stock. In the House the same routine w.s observed, together with the reception of reports irom committees: In these many bills were indSiniteiy postponed. Among the bills introduced were these: By Mr. Bob nson, to prevent the payment of wages by corporations or fir.i s in orders or scrip and the selling of goods to dm ployes t excessive prices, isy Mr. McMullen, to require foreign insurance companies to publish their semi-annual statement in the leading newspaper of each county. By Mr. Hanlon, to provide that the saloons shall close between 12 o'clock midnight and 5 a. m., and Sunday and ail legal holidays. Two mi.itia bills were introduced, one by Mr. Helms, being the one defeated ill the House Jan. 2.) with the appropr ation feature struck out. and one by Mr. Moodv with the appropriation reduced from svs,o»s') to $ ',OOO. A bill was introduced by Mr. Pal to give the Green backers a representation on the Metropolitan Police Hoard of Indianapolis. . __ “Only a womans lock of hair” was thought to be a touching inscription. If so, what pathos may there not be in the eighty tons annually taken to Marseilles, France! Conld we trace the history of only a few locks in that mass we might come trpon tragedies great or small.— New York Herald. The cost of transporting a barrel ot flour from Minneapolis to Boston is sl. The freight on a sack of floor holding a barrel, from Minneapolis to Glasgow, Scotland,, is $1.20. __ f ±-. The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, and not to those who receive the trnst. — Cicero. Of the 32,000 Indians in Dakota 30,000 are said to speak the English language. '

CONGRESSIONAL,

The Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. ■ Messages were laid before the Senate on the 28th nit. regarding the landing of foreign cabjes in the United States and as to the status of the Oklahoma lands. These lands, the President maintains, cannot under existing treaties be opened for settlement. Mr. Hoar reported a new bill to provide for the settlement of the claims of the Government against the original Pacific railroads, the plan being to extend the subtridv debt fortysix years beyond the present date of maturity, the roads to pay S graduated proportion of the new bonds every six months. In the House, bills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Curtin, appropriating $25,000 for experiments with American-made steel armor for naval vessels; by Mr. Patton, to promote the efficiency of the army by the voluntary retirement of officers who entered the service during the late war. Mr. Slocum, from the Committee on 'JfOifUT Affairs, reported back a resolut on requesting the President to transmit to the House a copy of the recent appeal of Fitz John Porter, together with accompanying papers. Mr. Steele moved to lay the resolution on the table. Lost—s 9 to 116. The resolution passed—yeas. 179; nays. 77. Speaker Carlisle laid before the House a recommendation' by the President that special rewards in the way of medals, watches, and money be sent to Russian officials and citizens who aided the survivors of the Jeannette. A resolution was adopted directing the Committee on Elections to report the status of J. S. Robinson, formerly representing the Ninth Ohio District, now Secretary of that State. The House refused to act on the Mexican treatv or the Michigan land-erant forfeiture bills, and filibustering continned until the hour of adjournment. The following memorials from State Legislatures were presented to the Senate on the 29th nit.: By McMillan, of Minnesota, urging the purchase of the Portage Lakq and Lake Superior Ship Canal by the Goveminent for the purpose of making it a free water-way; by Harrison, of Indiana, urging the passage of a bill to pension prisoners confined in Confederate prisons during the late war; by Cameron, of Pennsylvania, urging the passage of a biU to prohibit the Importation of contract labor and urging the passage of a bill to make the trade dollar legal tender. An adverse report was made on Mr. Cullom’s-bill for the voluntary retirement'of army officers who served during the rebellion. The motion to postpone further consideration of the Nicaraguan treaty was defeated by a close vote. Mr. Sherman's amendment to the treaty looking to the abrogation or modification of the ClaytonBulwer treaty was discussed at length, and wa3 finally adopted. A vote was then taken upon the treaty itself. Thirty-two Senators votedfor it and twenty-three against it. The affirmative vote being less thanlthe requisite two-thirds, the treaty was not ratnied. The following is understood to be the vote in detail: Yeas—Aldrich, Allison, Bowen, Cameron (Wis.), Chace, Conger, Cnliom, Edmunds, Frye, Hale. Harrison. Hawley, Hoar, Jonas, Jones (Fla.). Jones (Nev.), Lapham, McMillan, Mahone, Manderson, Maxey, Miller (Cal.), Morgan, Palmer, Pendleton, Pike, Piatt, Pugh, Sawyer, Sherman, Van Wyck, Wilson—32. Nays—Bayard, Beck, Butler. Call, Camden, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Garland, George, Gibson, Gorman, Groome, Hampton, Harris, Jackson, Henna, Lamar, Ransom, Riddleberger, Saulsbury, A’ance Vest—23. In the House of Representatives the Committee on Ways and Means reported a' joint resolution providing for the admission free of duty of articles from foreign countries to be placed on exhibition at the World’s Exposition of Arts to be held by the colored race la. Chicago. By a vote of 154 to 144 the House declined to instruct the committee to consider the bill to carry into effect the Mexican treaty. Discussion of the river and harbor bill followed. A memorial from a number of naval officers protesting against the proposed resolution giving the thanks of Congress to Commander Schley and Lieut. Emory, was presented in the Senate on the 30th ult. It is urged that the passage of the resolution would advance these officers one grade, and that their services in connection with the Greely expedition do not entitle them to such marked distinction. Resolutions providing that the two houses of Congress shall assemble in the hall of the House Wednesday, Feb. 11, to connt the electoral vote were passed. Mr. Hoar called up the bill for a settlement of the subsidy debt of the Pacific roads, and explained at considerable length that the measure was designed by the Judiciary Committee as a .fair adjustment with the present stockholders, only one-sixth of whom can be classed as speculators. The Pacific Railway and interstate commerce bills were discussed at some length. President Arthur sent to the House of Representatives a message asking authority to return the steamer Alert to the British Government, with a suitable acknowledgment for the courtesy which Srompted her tender for the Greely expedition, o thing else of Interest transpired in the Honee. The river and harbor bill solely occupied the attention of the Honse of Representatives, at its sitting on the3lst ult. Messrs Mills and. Blanchard urged the appropriation of $760,000 for Capt. Eads to commence improvements at Galveston. Arguments against the scheme were made by Messrs Bayne and Thomas. The Senate was not in session.

The Evolution of the Skate.

Many a young man of to-day can remember the long curled too, steel runner imbedded in a solid piece of wood that formed the skate of his boyhood days. To the wood were attached the long straps and screw in the heel that fastened the skate to the foot. This skate, too, was guttered, and the fellow that had a pair of “smooth bottoms” was the envy and wonder of all the other boys. The curly-toe gradually disappeared, the long straps gave place to the double toe-strap, and the heel-strap that with its harness rings always reminded one of a halter, took flight with the old wood-screw that used to be bored into the boot-heel. Other changes followed rapidly. Some bright skater concluded that better speed conld be attained if less rff the steel touched the ice, and. the “rocker” skate made its appearance. Another happy thought knocked the toe-strap out in one round, and gave the steel clamps, tightened by means of a doable screw and wrench, in place of them. A plate in the lioot-heel, and a knob on the skate, said “good-by” to the heel-strap, and very shortly afterward clamps similar to those on the toe made the heel of the skate nearly perfect. A simple turn of the wrist connected the two sets of clamps with a lever, and the skate was made.— Milwaukee Globe.

In the Dark.

There are some people who talk without thinking. Mrs. Beasely is that sort of a woman. Her husband while bringing in a pitcher of beer one night, dropped a Quarter. “I can’t And that piece of money I’ve lost,” he said, groping around on the hall floor, when Mrs, Beasely opened the door. “Of you can’t, if you look for it out there m the dark. You are the stupidest man in Texas. Why don’t you hunt for it here in the light where you can see. Nobody can find anything out there in the dark.”—Texas Siftings. The detractor may, and often does, pull down others, but hfe never, as he seems to suppose, elevates himself to their position. The most he can do is maliciously to tear from them the blessings which he cannot enjoy himself.— Collier. To qcakuel with a superior is injurious; with an equal is doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness. — J. Hail. A Loctsiana editor in writing up the circus describes “the man from Albino.”