Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. <J. E. MARSHALL, - Ptbubm.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

.mG BAST. ' JtrDOS Nott created a sensation in the County Court at Albany, N. Y., by announcing that Superintendent McEweu, of the Albany Penitentiary, had offered him a bribe of SSO for every long-term prisoner sent to that prison.... In a suit tried at Philadelphia, the Central TransjKiriation Company obtained judgment for $110,729 against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Providence, R. I„ celebrated on Wednesday, the 23d of June, its 250th anniversary with a procession, speeches, aitipinp of school children, and other exmmuJmmm’ m , .Judge Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, was married in New York to Mrs. Mary K. Theaker, of Cleveland, Ohio. The couple have sailed for Europe. In a hospital at Buffalo, in the case of a woman with a ing was made into the stomach, through which food is passed directly.... .New York dispatch: Ex-President Arthur has gone to New London, (V>nn. He was accompanied by his son Allan, his sisters ( Mrs. McElroy and Mrs. Caw), Miss Nellie Arthur and her maid, and Dr. Mr. Arthur walked through the railway station leaning on the arm of his son. be stepped up to the platform alone, but slipped and nearly fell at the top step. Recovering himself he entered the car. The ex-President looked pale and worn. Several friends came to a good-by. To one of them he said: “My y trouble is my stomach." Then he added, laughingly: “You know how good that used to be. ” In reply to a question bis physician said that his patient was progressing favorably, and without doubt would be benefited by'a change of air: Mayor Grace removed General Alexander Shaler from his position as President of the Health Board, and forwarded to Governor pill, for his approval, a copy of the evidence and findings in the case tried before him, in which General Shaler was charged with receiving sbrilie for his vote in favor of the purchase of certain armory sites while acting a 6 a member of the old Armory Board; Bomby, the big rhinoceros, just imported from Hamburg, died at the New York Central Park Zoological Garden last week. The cost $5,000, and was only ppl into his new quarters a few days previous. It was supposed to be the largest one in the world living in captivity. An affection of the lungs is supposed to have been the cause of death. A Providence, R. 1., dispatch reports a distressing accident, by which six lives were sacrificed. .E. G- farmer, his wife, Mary E., and daughter, Mamie, aged six; Mr. C. W. Girsch. wife, and two children, both men being members of the firm of Farmer, Girsch & Co., engravers and printers; also William G. Brayton, their traveling salesman, and his wife, went for a sail down the bay in the sailboat Wan- ' derer. They reached Bristol safely, and,, after a short stop, started toward Prudence Island. The wind was blowing strong, and Mr. Brayton, who was sailing the boat, was unable to manage the craft. NVhen entering Potter’s Cove the boat capsized, and six of the party were drowned. The four children were in the cabin, and were not again seen alive.

THE WEST.

Cmr Marshal John Cowey, of Detroit City, Minn., was fatally shot by a desperado and gambler named Kellaher. The assassin was placed in jail, from whence he was taken by a mob of masked men and hanged to a tree, after which his body was riddled with bullets. Solomon Messer, formerly Mayor of Cameron, Mo., has been mulcted in $666 for calling Colonel Harwood, the Republican candidate for Coneress, a thief, robber, and murderer. .. .William Quarles, Edward Hollis. W. L. Buchanan, and Albert Jaystall, all of whom participated in the late Southwestern Railroad strike, were found guilty of conspiracy in. the Criminal Court at Parsons, Has., and were sentenced to pay SIOO fine and costs and serve thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. Counsel for defendants filed a motion for a new trial. ... .A spark ignited the warehouse of the Consolidated Oil Tank Line Company at Peoria, HL, and the structure was quickly destroyed. The blazing oil from a huge twit spread across the railroad tracks to the Peoria and Pekin Union freight house, which, with thirty freight cars and one coach, was consumed. The total loss is estimated at $250,000, with heavy insurance. Theatrical interest at .Chicago centers in the fine work of the Union Square Company at McVicker's Theater. The local press is unanimous in pronouncing it the most perfect dramatic organization ever seen in the West. The play selected for this week is “Love’s Martyr,” by the author of the “Two Orphans,’* which brings out the entire company , with the exception of Miss Burroughs and Miss Harrison. Miss Caroline Hill, an accomplished actress, represents the leading feminine character intheplay. A PARTY of three hnndred persons went by steamer from Cleveland to Fairport, Ohio, where some intoxicated men raided a tenement- house occupied by Folanders. Several of the excursionists were injured, and the entire party was pursued to the wharf and forced to embark-in great haste. The Manager of the Lake Shore Boad recently ordered the suspension of twentytwo passenger condhctors running between Buffalo and Chicago, without giving them any reason .... A bank of Cincinnati bas set apart a special vault for the keeping of the ashes from the remains of bodies cremated.

THE SOUTH.

Miss Maude Jetton, of Calloway County, Kentucky, who was bitten by a dog eighty days ago has just died of- hydrophobia.... The boilers of the International Cotton-Press at New Orleans exploded, Mowing out the Peters street side of the building and killing two employes.'... At a banquet in Charleston, W. Va., the Hon. C. Groevenor, an Ohio Congressman, said there was an intense feeling m Ohio against the New England States, on the ground, he explained, that these States do not want the South and West to improve. James Emmett and Robert Dillard, negroes, were hanged for murder, at Greenville, Miss. George B. Davis was hanged in Seale, Ala., for the murder of Archie Reeves. He made a speech on the gallows, saying: “I killed Reeves -willfully, but hope to die like a man. I have nothing

again si anybody. The jury gave me justice, bujt I want the people to do everybody justice. I know God is willing to save me, and I hope Re will. Whisky was tbe cause of all my trouble. I warn the young mien obont marrying as I did! l Want to tell them it is wrong to tell the girls that yoq love when you don't. I hope my death will pave ten thousand. I want everybody to be eaved from sin.” After the marriage. of Reason Stamper and Mrs. Hattie Dinkins nt Ashlnnd. Ky., Miss Frances Tiles attempted to shoot the groom, who. she said, had promise 4 to msrrv her. The bride fell in n faint, and the iMles woman heightened the excitement by charging Stamper with having committed a murder two years ago... .In Baltimore George O. Forsyth fatally wounded his wife with a revolver and then shot himself dead. She was employed in a print-ing-office. '

POLITICAL.

TltE Republican SUIe Convention of Alabama met at Montgomery with about pue hundred delegates present, one-half white. Speeches were made favoring the nomination of a State ticket. All the utterances were for a protective tariff and the Blair educational bill. The convention declined to nominate a ticket, leaving it with the executive committee to put one out or not. as it may think best.... . The liemecrntic convention of the Twelfth Illinois District nominated George Anderson, of Quinfer, for Congress on the ‘23oth ballot. The Knights of Labor in Maine propose to address open lettert to the candidates for the office of Governor, and to all candidates for the Legislature, demanding a decided “yes” or "no” without any “glittering generalizations.” Among other things in the interests of labor, they will demand that the candidates pledge themselves to vole for a ten-hour law, employers’liability bill, repeal of the lnw of imprisonment for debt, and the nbolition of the trustees process.' .. The Illinois Prohibitionists, in their State Convention at Springtield, adopted a coldwater platform and nominated Henry W. Austin of Oak Park for State Treasurer, and •U. Z. Gilmer of Quincy for State Superintendent of Public Instruction... .The Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana District have nominated for Congress Captain James B.White, a grocer of Fort Wayne... .U. M. Broder has been nominated by the Prohibitionists for Congress in the Thirteenth Illinois District,-. . .The Democrats of the Sixteenth District of Ohio have nominated Beriab Wilkins for Congress. Following is the vote, as recorded in the Senate, on the passage of the FitzJohn Porter bill: TEAS. Beck, George, Pugh, Berry, Gibson, Ran9oin, Blackburn, Gorman, Huldleberger, Brown, Gray, Setoell, Butler, Hoar, Vance, Call, Jones (Ark.), Vest, Cameron. Juries (Nev.), Voorhees, Cockrell, McPherson, Walthall, Coke, Maxey, Whitthome, Colquitt, Mitchell iOre.), WilsouiMd.) —30 NAYS. Aldrich, Hale, Palmer, Allison, Harrison, Sawyer. Conner. Hawley, Spooner, Cullom, Ingalls. Teller , Hearts, Hogan. IVils&HijM.) —l7. Frye. Manderson. -« (fIECAPtTTI.Ano.N: Republicans in italics. Democrats in roman. Yeas—Republicans. U; Democrats, ill. Nays—Republicans, 17; Democrats, 0.) The Senate Elections Committee voted last week to report against an investigation of the bribery charges made against Senator Payne (0.) on the.around that there is not sufficient evidence to support the charges. Senators Logan (Ill.), Evarts (N Y.), and Teller (Col.), voted with the Democrats. Senators Hoar (Mass.) and Frye (Me.) will make a minority report... .The Kentucky Republican State Executive Committee met at Louisville last week and decided to nominate candidates in every Congressional district in the State, A call was also made for John W. Yerkes, of Danville, to oppose Joseph Barber, the Democratic nominee for J udge of the Superior Court.

WASHINGTON.

The cashier of the Baltimore and Ohio Road has received fr,om President Cleveland a check for the full amount of the expenses at Deer Park.... Statistics from the Postoffice Department show that during the past year the Chicago office has increased its receipts by a greater percentage than any other large city. Washington dispatch: At a House Democratic caucus, with nearly all the Democratic Representatives present, Messrs. Carlisle, Morrison and Randall were appointed a committee to select and push to the point of action such of the measures as it should deem .proper to attempt to pass before adjournment. Soon after the selection of the committee Mr. Randall asked if the action of the caucus meant an adjournment by July 15. There was a hearty chorus of “Yes! yes!” from all sides. According to the June report of the Department of Agriculture, the prospect for the coming apple crop is materially below an average outside of the New England.and Middle States. The orchards of the Ohio Valley and Northwest suffered severely from the cold winter and the late frosts of 6priug. The Senate Committee on Pensions will prepare a bill, to be passed over the President-’® veto,- giving to the widow of Gen. David Hunter a pension of SSO per month. .... The report that Secretary Manning has suffered a relapse is denied bv his private secretary. The latter says Mr. Manning, who is at Hot Springs, Va., is in as good health now as. he was at any time during the six months previous to his recent illness.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The strike of the molders at Troy. N. Y'., has been .settled, the men having accepted the manufacturers' terms, and work will be resumed immediately... .The harness manufacturers -of the United States, in convention at Pittsburgh, permanently organized under the name of the National Association of Saddlery and Harness Manufacturers. Owen C-Gothright, of Louisville, was elected President. The object of the association is protection against strikes. The convention adjourned at noon to meet in New York next month. The great strike of the'hailers, which has lasted over a year, was settled at a conference of the manufacturers and their employes at Pittsburgh last week. The Mingo compromise scale of eighteen cents oh a s*2 selling card, which was offered by the workmen, was rejected, and the following scale agreed upon: Seventeen cents on a $2 card with an advance of one cent for every increase of twenty-five cents in the selling price... .The Roane Iron Company will presently resume operations in .their rail mill at Chattanooga, which has been idle for five years. The Lake Shore switchmen in the vicinqui#wprkisstw*ek because eight non-union men have not been discharged, in accordance with a pledge made to them by Sheriff Hanchett early in May.

I The strikers derailed a number of freight ! cars and delayed passenger lr.uns. The j police had to resort to their club* to pre*. ] vent greater damage. The railroad officials are firm in their determination to tight to j the end» « The Iron Molders’ Union of Cleveland and Pittsburgh refuted to be absorbed by 1 the Knigbts of Lal>or. .. .About one thou--1 sand miners at Grape Creek, 111., who J Stock last moot!* foe the- Prttwtmi gh Scale ; wages, are now being’ forcibly evicted from the houses owned by the TJOip- ] pany, and have gone into the woods with their families, to subsist on percentages from the union A Chicago dispatch reports an exciting incident in eOnne'ction with the strike of the switchmen on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad: “An engine and caboose of the Lake Shore Road, carrying a large party of Pinkerton detectives and Town of Lake police, undertook to teach Euglewc od: The striking switchmen seized engines belonging to the St. Paul and Nickel-Plate Roads aud gave chase, capturing the Lake Shore train at Grand Crossing,- and hauling it thick to the round-house at Forty-third street. When the officers fired upon the strikers, during the face, many of the latter leaped off. John Newell, manager of the Lake Shore Road, notified.. Sheriff Hancbett and his I>ondsmen that they will be held liable forall damages that may accrue from riotous proceedings. ” Iron men all over the country are deeply interested in the doings of the Gogebic iron syndicate, made up of Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Toledo, and Dayton capitalists. Nearly $200,000 has already been invested in the . work. The syndicate’s stock is $5,000,000. An explorploring and developing fund of $500,000 has been set aside. It is estimated that the new converters now in process of erection will require from 300,000 to 500,000 tons of Bessemer ores annually, and that the Gogebic ores will be able to displace from 400,000 to 500,000 tons of foreign ores.

GENERAL.

The elections in Nova Scotia have re suited as was anticipated. The light was made squarely and fairly on the issue of withdrawing from the Canadian Dominion. Parliament was dissolved for the purpose. The Premier...of Nova Scotia appealed to. ' the electors on a policy favoring secession. The result is that of the thirty-eight members elected twenty-nine are “seceders,” and only nine are iu favor of keeping up the Dominion connection. A majority of the seceders favor annexation to the United States, and boldly proclaim their views on this point. An association of anarchists, fifty in number, has been discovered at Hull, a lumber settlement across the river at Ottawa, Ont. Their oath binds them to burn, kill, and destroy, and they have been in communication with Chicago anarchists regarding the manufacture of bombs and dynamise. The discovery has caused much excitement at Ottawa... .The seventh annual convention of photographers was held at St. Louis, with 1,000 delegates present. The exhibition of views was most creditable. . -v A New York dispatch says “the total humber of failures reported to Bmdstreet’# last week is 161, against 179 the previous “week, and 184 in the like week last year, 153 iu 1884, 165 in 1883, and 137 in 1882. Canada had 13 against 12 last -week and 20 last year. The total failures in the United States from January 1 to June 24 is 5,278, against 6,065 in twenty-five weeks of 1885, a decline of 787, or 31i weekly. The total in 175 days of 1884 was 5,311, or 67 Jess than this year; in 1883 it was 5,077; and in 1882 it was 3,496.

FOREIGN.

The Three-Emperors’ Alliance, which was to expire in 1887, is said to have been renewed for a number of years.... The Spanish Congress has declared by an overwhelming majority that no Government of Spain will ever give autonomy to Cuba.... The German Reicbsrath has approved the regency of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. .... Terrible floods, caused by cloud-bursts, are reported in Silesia.... The French Senate has passed the expulsion bill by a majority of 34. A Paris dispatch says that an 11-year-old girl who bad been treated by Pasteur for rabies and had returned to her home, has died of hydrophobia.... Herr Krupp is preparing to establish a foundry for the manufacture of cannon at Nikolaief, the Russian naval station at the junction of the Ingiil and Bug Rivers.... The French Chamber of Deputies has appointed a special commission of eleven members to report upon the bill to enable the Panama Canal Company to raise $120,000,1100 by means of a lottery loan. Eight of the eleven members are known to be hostile to the measure.... After five years of deadlock between Prussia and England over their respective rights to the appointment of the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem; Prussia has decided to found an independent Prussian Bishopric at the Holy City .., The Count de Paris and his party met with an enthusiastic reception upon'their arrival at Dover, England. The party, consisted of the Count anCountess of Paris, the Duke of Chartes, the Duke of Orleans, and fifty companions. They were received by a large crowd. The Mayor and chief magnates of the town boarded the vessel, welcomed the party, expressed sympathy with them, and presented an address to the Count of Paris, to which the latter made a feeling reply, in which he said that he rejoiced that he had so many friends in England. An address from Frenchmen in all pints of Great Britain was also presented to the Count. Thomas Power O’Connor telegraphs as follows from London: “The progress of the campaign has made the land bill impossible. The bill is dead and buried beyond the hope of resurrection by Gladstone or any other man. Ylr. Childers, Secretary of State Tor the- Home-Departineut, and several other Gladstouites, including some of the Premier's most prominent colleagues, are already pledged against not only this proposal, but anv similar scheme. Public opinion leads the ministry in the matter. The landlords have got just what they deserved, according to popular ideas, by their senseless opposition to the bill, and are left to stew in their own juice. They were warned early in the fight by Gladstone, by Parnell, and by hundreds of other voices', that the terms offered were the best they would.ever, be likelv to secure. Early in the campaign the Gladstone side found it necessary to abandon the measure in defereneeJo expressions of popular disapproval that could not be mistaken. From this on the land-purchase bill is dropped from the programme of the Gladstone Liberals, and the landlords will have to wait until they obtain a. majority in the - House big enough to swamp the Nationals, Liberals, and Independents combined before it can be renewed in any form. The voice of Gladstone is the only one the masses care to bear or the politicians to discuss. Never has the Premier’s personal influence swayed the population to such an extent as at present. If the Liberals lose

, ( I the election, it will be due solely to the want of organization at first prevailing. The .(rouble is being rapidly remedied air last, jond arrangements for further straightening out the difficulties experienced are advancing rapidly.” Rev. Henry Ward Beecher arrived at Liverpool and was royally received. He waR sick most of the way over, but expects to be able to cany out his prearranged programme. .Richard Chamberlain, member of Parliament, attempted to address the people at West Islington, bnt was met with cries of “traitor.” The platform was stormed, and the speaker and his friends had to escape through a back door.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Chicago telegram: “The officials of the Luke Shore Road, being determined to resume business nt their freight yards in and about Chicago,. terrified * the strikers by placing along the track one hundred and twenty-eight policemen, armed with clubs, revolvers, or Winchester Titles. The crowds were driven from the crossings, the new switchmen were protected in discharging their dirties, “and the yards were cleared ■of cars soon after midday, without u shot having been, tired.”.... The nailers’ strike at Belleville, 111., has ended, the Pittsburgh arrangement proving satisfactory to both operators and workmen. .... Seven hundred men employed in the packing-house of John P. Squire, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, have joined the Knights of Labor, aud made a demand lor an advance of from 10 to 20 per cent, in wages. From Computations made at the Treasury, based on last year's receipts, it is estimated that the Randall tariff bill, introduced in the House last week, will effect a reduction in the Government revenue of $34,977,655, including $7,044,452 on account of reductions of tariff on dutiable articles, $1,520,124 on account of the additions to the free list, and $20,407,088 on account of tbe ..removal of the internal tax on tobacco, etc. The revenue for duties on steel railway bars is reduceel from $112,955 to $86,409.. . .Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered a decision that unstirveyed lands are not affected by the indemnity withdrawal. One of the most destructive hailstorms that ever occurred in the Northwest is reported from Walsh and Grand Forks Counties, in Dakota. The storm covered a width of two miles and extended for more than twenty miles, and at Inkster, in Grand Forks County, it extended for more than four miles. Crops in the storm-devastated district were almost entirely wiped out. A Norwegian church four miles from Grafton, in Welsh County, was blown to pieces and converted into kindling wood, and hailstones the size of nuts could be gathered up with a shovel thirty hours after the storm. Scores of farmers are left destitute. The damage in the district so far as reported is thought to be not less than $500,000.

The river and harbor bill, with amendments, f | was revolted to the Senato on the 28th ult. The | conference rejort on the pension appropriation ! bill was presented to the Senato and agreed to. I The House receded from its disagreements. ( Till! Semite, liy..a vote ol 33-to 12, decided to iu- - sist upon its amendment to the postoliice ap- ! propriation giving- a subsidy to Pacific I Mail .steamships. The Senate passed ! ! a bill granting a pension ,ot SIOO a ! : moiltli to tUo widow of tiie late Gen. | Stqnnard of Vermont. A bill authorizing the } President to apiioint and retire Alfred ITta.son- : r ton as Major General was introduced in the ! Senate The Semite debated the veto of the ] Des Moines River land bill without action, Sen- ; ator Kvarts (NV Y.j opposing and Senator Allison | (Iowa) favoring the passage of tlio bill over the i | voto. President Cleveland sent to the Senate j . the name of William G. Ewing to be "United j States District Attorney for the Northern j District of Illinois. Mr. Randall intro- i dueed his tariff bill in the House. ; Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced in the House j ft resolution condemning the proposal of the | t French Government to assist the l’annma Canal j Company by means of a lottery loan as opposed I | to the Monroe doctrine, and calling ou the Sec- j j rotary of State for ail correspondence bearing j | on the subject. Mr. Galliuger, of New Hamp- j shire, introduced in the House a resolution pro- i ; vidiug lor aninquiry by the Civil-service Re- I form Committeo iulirtllß Truth Of newspaper ro- j ports that the Democratic Campaign Committee i is soliciting contributions Irom Democratic Congressmen and -others in the employ of tne Government. While the sundry civil appropriation bill was under consideration in the House ,Mr. Laird (Neb.) made a sovero attack upon Couhniksiouer Sparks in bis administration of the 'Geneva 1 Land Office. Mr.' Cobb (liid.l defended tiie Commissioner, dociariiig.| .that., his action was. meetiug.. with., the condemnation of ; every land-grabber and speculator in the public lands. I Mr. Payson dil l said that he, as a member of i the Committee on Public Lands, bad advised and Counseled Commissioner Sparks to issue j the order of April 3,188-5, and he stood by that I : order to day "It was said that Sparks was : an enthusiast. 110 was an enthusiust; j but his enthusiasm in reference to this : question was in favor of the poor man who desired to rectyvo a home from i liis country. Sparks’ order was .a notice to land-grabbers that a halt was to jbe called upon them, and ho (Mr, Payson) re- • glutted that owing to tho pressuro that hail been brought by letters written by men steeped iu fraud up to their eyes tlicro bail not been sufficient backbone ou the part of the Secretary of the Interior to keep that order in existence.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. ! Beeves S 4 50 @6.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Wheat —No. 1 White .88 @ .88;4 No. 2 Red 84 @ .85 * Corn—No. 2:n...... .46 @ .47 Oats—Western .33 @ .36 Poke—New Mess ..10.25 @10.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 @ 5.75 Good Shipping......... 4.75 , @ 5.25 . common S 75 - &4 25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.25 @ 4.75 Flour —Extra Spring 4.25 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .72J4@ .73*4 Corn —No. 2 ...., .34 @ .35 OATS—No. 2 .. .26 @ .27 Butter—Choice Creamery .14kj@ .1514 Fine Dairy 12 @ .13 Cheese —Fnll Cream, Cheddar.. .06 @ .06)4. Full Cream, new .072s@ .06 Egg6—Fresh 10 @ .11 Potatoes—New, per br1.... 2.25 @3.75 Pork —Mess 9.25 @9.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .72 @ .7214 Corn—No. 2... 34 @ .34^ Oats—No. 2’. 26 @ .27 Rye— No. 1 .55 @ .57 Pork —Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 3 81 @ .81J4 Corn —No. 2 .36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2........ .............. .29 & .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat —No. 2 Red 79 @ .$1 Core —Mixed .30tj@ .31(4 OaTS —Mixed. .29 @ ! Pork—New Mess 9.50 @IO.OO ! - CINCINNATI. Wheat-No- 2 Red .80 @ .80^ Corn—No. 2 '.84 @ .36>* Oats—No. 2. ,-. . 2# @ .30 Pork—Mess. 9.25 @9.73 Live Hogs.. ..... 4.00 @ 4.75 DETROIT. - ’ Beef Cattle .4.00 @5.25 Hogs. 3.50 @.4.50 Sheep 3.00 @4.00 Wheat-No. I’White 80 @ .81 Corn—No. 2. . 36 @ -37 Oats —No. 2., .30 @ .35 INDIANAPOLIS. - • Beef Cattle 3.50 @5.50 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.50 i Sheep 2.25 @4.25 Wheat-No. 2 Red .77 @ .78 t Corn—No. 2 33 @ .34 Oats—No. 2 -27 @ .3734 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Best - 4.25 @ 6.25 1 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common.. 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.7.5 TShr*P ....r too @ 4.75 BUFFALO. ; Wheat—No. 1 Hard ~ .83 @ .8314 1 Corn—No. 2.. .40 @ .41 Cattle...t.t 5.00 @ 5.75

DEATH OF JUDGE DAVIS.

He Passes Away Peacefully, Surrounded bf His Relatives and Friends. Sketch of His Career «a t Jurist, a Statesman, and a Citizen. Judgo David Davis passed peacefully away at his home in Bloomington, 111., on the morning of Saturday, June 20. An hour or so before his death ho talked incoherently for some time. His family and friends in tlio house were around his bedside alia he passed into death as if going to sleep. Judge Davis’ physician says the immediate cause of his death Was erysipelas, the outcome of a malignant carbuncle, which first appeared April 30, but "that diabetes,

which must have been insidiously working for two years, was the primary cause, and to it is attributed his rapid decline in flesh a week before the end came. He had been unconscious most of the trine. His wife; his only son, George P. Davis, and wife ; his only daughter, Mrs. Sarah D. Swayne, and husband ; his granddaughter, Alice H. Davis; his niece, Mrs. Fannie Piorpont; his cousin, John M. Walker; and his old friend, Frank.D. Onne, of Washington, were present at his death.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

A Short Sketch of Judge Davis' Busy Life* Judge David Davis was born in Cecil County, Maryland, March 9, 1815. He received a careful education in tbe best American schools of the I early part of the century. He studied law with 1 Judge Bishop in Lennox. Mass., and afterward in the law school at New Haven, Conn., graduating as the first of his class. Judgo Davis removed to Bloomington, 111., in 1836, being thou 21 years of | age. His home was in that city from that date ! until his death. He soon gained prominence as ! a lawyer and local politician. In 1815 he .was chosen a member of the lower house of the Illinois Legislature. He was a member of no party, i and he soon attracted attention by his conscientious work andjhis freedom of action On all questions. Ho was chosen to th 1 Constitutional Convention of 1847, and the next year elected Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. He was re-elected to this office in 165">, and again ; in, 1861. Hiß capacity for work and liis clearcut decisions soon became proverbial all : over the State and beyond its borI ders. He and Abraham Lincoln became warm friends long before the latter Vose to mere than : local prominence. He became one of Lincoln’s most ardent supporters .for the Presidency and I took an important place in national affairs as j adviser of Lincoln after Lincoln’s election to i that high office. President Lincoln appointed Judge Davis Associate Justice of the Supreme ; Court of the United States Dec. 8, 1862. After Lincoln’s death Judge Davis became odminis- [ trator of his estate. At the National Conven- : tion of the labor reform party held in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1872. Judge Davis was nominated for President of the United States, the candidate for Vice President on the same ticket being Joel Parker, of New Jersey. When the Liberal Republicans nominated Horace Greeley for President at the Cincinnati Convention of the same year, Judge Davis, who had been a candidate before the same conveni tion, receiving 924 Votes on the first ballot,withdrew from the field. Judge Davis remained on i the Supreme Court bench until 1877,when he re- ; signed to take his seat in the United States Senj ate, he having been elected to that body by the Independents and Democrats of the Thirtieth , General Assembly of Illinois. After the death I of President Garfield Judge Davis waß chosen j President of the Senate, in which position be j was virtually Vice President of the United States. Soon after retiring from the Senate in 1883, he was married to a niece of Judge Green, member of Congress from North Carolina. From that time to his demise he resided quietly at his homfi in Bloomington.

REMINISCENT.

Judge Davis’ Early Career—Characteristics of the Citizen and the Judge. “X have known David Davis since 18i8," remarked Hon. Leonard ,Swett, of Chicago, “at which time he came into public prominence. His first appearanoe was as a member of the constitutional convention. In the same year he was chosen Circuit Judge of the Eighth Illinois District. “ Judge Davis, Abraham Lincoln, John T. Stewart, John J. Hardin, Stephen T. Logan, Edward D. Baker, Edward Hannigan, Daniel W. Voorhees, Kirby Benedict, Edward Jones, David B. Campbell and myself were the company that administered law in that district. Most of the attorneys would only go through a county or two and then drop eut. Lincoln and I accompanied Judge Davis throughout the entire circuit. We would travel on horseback, generally, and would invariably put up at one hostelry. “Continually thrown in intimate companionship with Lincoln and Davis, I came to know both well. They were antipodal natures, but the closest of friends. Davis was of the most positive, decisive character, taking his positions firmly, and holding to them tenaciously and doggedly. Lincoln was suave and more yield-story-tellers. Each had a fund of stories that seemed inexhaustible, and never lacked apposltenesß, nor lost anvthing of excellence in the telling. In this intimacy, formed in the Eighth Circuit, maybe found the foundation of both Lincoln’s and Davis’ after greatness.” “The strong points in Davis' character, as exhibited in his whole career, public and private, were many. Ho had the keenest foresight. Away back in 1640 he saw this State as we now see it. To-day he is a very rioh man, worth probably $8,000(000. I don’t know; noono does: He never made a dollar in trade ; never made a trade in which he was not worsted. He did not know how to make a bargain, and seldom if ever tried- He knew good land when he saw it. He mode all his money entering land. His present magnificent farm of 1,030 acres in MoLean County cost him about $3 an acre. “I remember once of. a case that illustrates him very well. Jesse W. Fell, of Bloomington, was a merchant on the down-grade. Mr. Davis received a note from some Eastern party against Fell, which he was instructed to collect. FeU and Davis were friends. On investigation, DaviS found there were no resources, save an eighty-acre piece of ground near Chicago. Fell offered to give up the land for the noto. Without a moment’s hesitation Davis accepted. When tho Eastern party came out he was incensed at losing the note for a worthless piece of swamp. Davis agreed to take the land himself and pay the amount of the note in money. This offer was accepted. That eighty acre tract lies between the city and the stock-yards, and is of incalculable value. “Davis excelled as a Judge. It was his natural sphere. He was more like John Marshall than any man the country has produced. Of Marshall it is related that he would listen attentively to an argument, catch at once the point, and say : ‘ That’s it. That's the law exactly. Now look up an authority or two.’ It was just so with Davis, He took the law as a greyhound takes the scent. He never.relied on his knowledge Of authorities, and never allowed his legal lore to smother his common-sense perception of l&quity and justice.’’ - -

A lawsuit of seven years’ standing, and involving the right to $3.10, was recently settled at Los Angeles, Cal. A skating-rink in New Bedford, Mass., that cost $13,000, has just been sold for SI,OOO. A Philadelphia saloon took in $325,000 last year. A prohibition party has been formed at Winnipeg,

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Brief Hammnry of the Proceed* Us« of CoiffreH. The Senate took up the bill repealing the preemption and timber culture laws at its session on June 22, and rejected the Ingalls amendment npplring tpall lands the Blair amomlrncnt prohibiting the acouisition Of more than 640 acres of-desert land under one ownership. The original amendment was then rejected by a vote of i 2 to 3, Senators Blair (N. H.), Dolph (Oregom, and Teller (Col.), voting yea The President has sent the following’nominations to the Senate.. David N. Burke, of New York. Consul of the United States.at Puerto Cabello; Edward T, Pittman, Receiver of Public Moneys, Durango, Colorado; Samuel L. Gilson, of Pennsylvania, Agent for the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana; John M. Galloway, appraiser of the right, 'of way ,of the Southern Kansak Railroad Company through Indian Territory. Registers of Land Offices— Pierce H. Ryan, Humboldt, Cal.; W. E. Copeland, Carson City, Nev.; Richard McCloud, Durango, Col.; J. L. Camp, Pre'-cbtt. Arizona. Postmasters—Fannie D. Porter, El Paso, Tex.; Thomas H. Perrin, Alton, Ill.: James Able, Auburn, HI.; John J. Ankeny, Minneapolis, Minn.; 8. Curtis Symonds, Hudson, Wis.; James E. McDonald, Ligonier, Ind.; Frederick A. Edwards, Webster City, lowa r Joseph J. Toplitf, Longmont, Col. In the House of Representatives Mr, Morrison called up the proposed change of rule making it in order to amend! a general pension bill by adding a provision for the imposition of a tax to meet the expenditures required by the bill. A long and hot debate ensued. The debate took a wide range, and although in its opening stages it presented the rare spectacle of the rival leaders of the majority party, Mr. Randall and Mr. Morrison, in apparent accord, they soon fell to belaboring each other in good set terms. Mr. Morrison and General Bragg maintained that the Randall faction, in voting against consideration of the tariff bill, had violated the pledges contained in the “platform'’ of 1884.'' Mr. Randall, on the contrary claimed that his course iu the House upon the tariff question had been in entire accord with the “spirit” of the aforesaid platform, and resented the criticisms upon his conduct -with much warmth. A motion by Mr. Reed to lay. Mr. Morrison’s motion on the table was defeated, and the motion went over. Nine vetoes of private pension bills were laid before the ’House, and referred. Several of the President’s terse sentences and ironical suggestions were greeted with applause and laughter. Mr, Mor- ’ rison informed the House that ho had concluded lor the present not to renew his motion to go into committee of the whole on tho tariff bill. President Cleveland sent in seven vetoes of private pension bills to the Senate June 23. Tho Senate voted to reconsider the vote by which it had passed the bill prohibiting Congressmen from acting as attorneys for la»d-grant railroads, und the measure was then referred to the Judiciary Committee. In discussing the matter, Mr. Beck said he was himself a lawyer, and would not place any indignity on the profession of the law. When elected to Congress, however, he found that his public duties Yequired all bis time—not being possessed of the transcendent abilities thattho Senator from New York perhaps possessed. The country believed that the 55.000 a year received by Senators and Representatives in Congress entitled tho people to their whole services, and if Senators or Representatives could not live on that compensation they had no right to supplement it by taking fees from corporations whose interests wero adverse to those of the people. The entire legislative day in tho House was occupied by the Republicans in filibustering to prevent the Democrats from adopting a rule which would result in setting apart for the benefit of pensioners the revenues to be derived from a tax ou incomes. Messrs. Morrison and Randall have fought shoulder to shoulder in this fight, and only ten Democrats, including Messrs. Townshend and Worthington, of Illinois, aided the Republican opposition. Nothing occurred to break tho uninteresting round of roll-calls except an occasional pass between Morrison and members on the Republican side. Tkalatter frequently proposed to improve the time by going on with the appropriation bills or with the Blair pension bill. Randall replied that he would take care of the appropriation bills, and Morrison informed tbem that there would be no trouble about the pension bill if the Republicans would agree to amend it by providing for a tax to meet the expenditures that would result from its passage. The proceedings were conducted in good temper on both sides, and were ended by the arrival of the fixed, hour for adjournment. The Democrats did not have a quorum at any time, and the Sergeant-at-arms was unable to find any of the absentees in the city.

The bill repealing the pre-emption and tim-ber-culture laws passed the Senate, on June 24, by a vote of 34 yeas to 20 nays. The Senate passed the bill providing for the appointment and Compensation of a United States District Judge for'the Southern District of Alabama, with an amendment offered by Senator Logan (Hi.) which fixes the salaries of all United States District Judges at $5,000 a year, and prohibits nepotism on the part of Federal Judges. The Fitz John Porter bill was allowed to reach a vote in the Senate on the 25th of July, although the debato only began at a late hour the previous afternoon. General Logan limited himself to a speech of two or three hours. Senator Conger restrained himself entirely. Senator Teller spoke briefly, as did Senator Blair, and Senator Plumb only talked on hour. Senator Plump addressed himself whoUy to the Democratic Senators. He charged every ex-Confeder-ateopenly with voting for the bill on previous occasions because they wanted to reward a Union General who helped them to win the second battle of Bull Run. Mr. Plumb’s remarks brought Mr. Butler to his feet, and he resented in the moßt inipassionate manner the charge that ho and some of his colleagues had any friendly feeling for a General whothey believed betrayed the flag he was fighting undor, and he added with a little of tiie air of the South Carolina code, that if the Senator from Kansas had made his remarks a little more personal, and in another place, he (Butler) would have resented them in a different fashion. The bill was passed—yeas 30, nays 17. In the House of Representatives Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, made a bitter attack upon the President for his vetoes of pension bills, twentfy ■ of which hud just been read. "Ho was astounded at tho vetoes,’’ says the report. “In the whole history of the Republic,” Ur said, “they were without a parallel. Austere and rigorous Andrew Jackson, desirous of asserting his power and making individuality conspicuous, had never monopolized power os the President had done with reference to these pension bills. This man had even had tiie temerity to sneer at the reports of a committee of this House. He had the temerity to put the seal of his sarcasm oil the reports of a committee granting a pension to tho widow of some man who had been slain in the service of bis country. Who had invested this man with such power that ho must assert himself and say to tho people of tho country: "I am larger than you all, and I know more about what should become law than the 325 members of the House of Representatives and the seventy-six members of the Senate.” It whb a fault of men endowed with brief authority to arrogate knowledge that they did not possess. “He is no better than any other American citizen,” said Mr. Bayne, “and he, by G—d, is not tho equal of any man who periled his life and went out to save the Union.” lApplause oil the Republican Bide.l Mr. Matson, of Indiana, defended the Presidont, who, he declared, was fair and just and prompted by his conscience. Two men might honestly differ upon a question, and that was all there was in ail this talk. All that hasLbeen said in the way of abuse of the President was uncalled for. The President was an honest man and the people of the country knew it. lApplause on the Democratic side and in the galleries.] Mr, Peters (Kau.)—We cannot honor the President for an ignorance of his prerogatives. Mr. Matson -He knows his prerogatives, and, knowing them, he has the courage to exercise them. (Applause on the Democratic side aud in the galleries. 1 Mr. Blanchard (La.) thought that thero was no need to answer the assault made upon the President. The President could staud the assault made upon him by the gentleman from Pennsylvania or any other man. The country was prepared to applaud the action of the Executive when he pointed out the mistakes which had been made by Congress. The sundry civil appropriation bill qecupied the exclusive attention of the House, at its sesBlon on Juna &G. The bill was completed in committee of Lhe whole, after which the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session. Thebe is no place in the wide world like home. It is the dwelling place of our heart’s treasure, and the first of our lives we owe to it and its inmates. To make it pleasant and attractive should be the aim of every man. The largest crystal of ahim ever produced, weighing over eight tons, has been sent to the Edinburgh International Exhibition from the Manchester and Goole Alum Works. The fortune of Peer Park is made. We christen it Frankieville-