Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Q. E. MARSHALL - riT.usHKR.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A New Yoke dispatch says “the two Taxon which Edward -Unger, the sausage peddler, used in earring his partner, August Boltz, or Bohle, after he had killed him in his sleep, in order that the body might be packed in the trunk that turned np in Baltimore, were brought to. police headquarteis and put away with the rest of the overwhelming evidence against the murderer. I’nger sat sullenly in his cell, refusing to speak when si>okeu tov Re is very closely watched to prevent his cheating the hangman.” .... Sullivan, the pugilist, visited Dr. Sayre’s offioe, at New York, when the surgeon made the discovery that Sullivan's broken arm had been set with the palm downward, instead of upward. While the champion was conversing with his friends, Dr. Sayre, with n sudd' n wrench, broke the knitting ’ bones asunder, and with a sharp cry of pain Sullivan fell .upon a lounge unconscious. When he recovered, the arm was re-set in a proper manner, and the Poetor thinks it will be all right in a few weeks. Master Workman James E. Qi inn of District Assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor, and other leading members of the Knights have been arreste d in New York on a civil suit for slo,oou damages, brought bv President McCready of the Old Dominion Line. The company charges conspiracy aud injury to their business by the action of these men in ordering the strike. C. M. G. Schrooder, Treasurer of the Germsnia Savings Bank of Jersey City, has gone to Canada. The- hank has suspended. and hundreds of its poor depositors are impoverished. EnwARir~t'NGER, of New York, has confess d the murder of August Bohle, whose mutilated body he shipped to Baltimore in a trunk.. Near Stockdale, Pennsylvania, a young wife killed her brutal husband, who had threatened her life. Stie was immediately placed on trial for murder, without counsel or- witnesses, and when the Judge directed the jury to acquit her the court room resounded with cheers.

THE WEST.

The Hon. Albert J. Seligmnn. who was kept hostage by the miners at Wicked, M. T., for unpaid wages, was released upon the New York firm of J. and W* Seligmnn A Co., telegraphing the necesgary amount, ($75 .noil' to Helena to pay oft the then. The miners not only protected thir property,.but treated their prisoner-with the utmost courtesy , Fourteen indictments against persons who violated the (lection .laws Inst November were returned nt St. Louis by the I’nited States Grand Jury. Warrants were issued for the arrest of the accused. Miss. Langtry began a three weeks' engagement at McYicker’s Theater, Chicago. on Monday night, in “A Wife's Peril.” Her performance of Lady Ormond'has received high praise. The company supporting Mrs. Langtry is a thoroughly excellent one. -It. includes Mr. Charles Coghlau, one of the finest actors Euglnn 1 has yet gent ns. This excellent actor will lie seen as Captain Bradford in “A Wife's Peril,” and Claude Melnoite in “Lady of Lyons,” which will be played during th> second week of the engagement. “The School for Scandal” will probably be seen in the last week. Miss Van Zandt ■ is, says a Chicago paper, engaged in getting ready for publication a history of Spies and the other condemned anarchists. An interesting feature in the book is an autobiographical sketch by Spies, in which he blasphemously compares himself Jo Christ and finds-an analogy in the crucifixion of his own condemnation for inciting the Haymarket massacre. At Leavenworth, thirty-five masked men broke into the jail, took out a negro ravisher named Richard Wood, and dragged him to death in the streets by a rope attached to the saddle of a masked horseman. Ncreffort is likely to be made "to arrest the lynchers. Two gentlemen largely interested in oil-fields of Pennsylvania, after prospecting for petroleum in the vicinity of Marion. Ind., have begun negotiations for the lease of several hundred acres of, land. The region has already developed an unlimited supply of natural gas... -.'Fred- Wittroclr has made a statement under oath that after Fotheringham was bound and the booty secured be offered the messenger SIO,OOO if he would give the detective a false d- s-rip-tioa of him- Fotheringham replied: “Well, I’ll 6ee about it. Send the money to J. J. Mapp>es. Kansas City.” The money was never sent, ..as- the messenger was scared into giving a good description of Jbe robber.

THE SOUTH.

'Three masked men entered the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad depot, at Richmond. Tex., and, at the point of a pistol, cmnjit lied the watchman to open the doors lending into the inner offices. They then attempted to drill through tlie safe in the station agent s office. Failing, two of them went to the station agent’s house and forced him to go to the station ; and.open the safe. Tt;ev .secured SI. !• o in money, and escaped. ' The Senate of Texas passed a hill appropriating Sit (>.i 0 i for\the relief of the drought sufferers.... .Fire at Fallas, Tex.. —entirely Consumed three of the finest bnildingsin the city. The total loss on buildings 6tpck~~wdl - A trunk directed to “J. A. Wilson” was opened at Baltimore and found to contain the headless body of a man". The feet, legs, . and one arm were also lopped off’, and were 'packed with the body, hilt the head was —missing,The trunk had been shipped front Xew bork, imd t!.e calico --hirt covering the remains had on k the name "C. Kankiioldt. In the trunk were cards bearing the name of a Brooklyn butcher. Five of the^nten .engaged iu the tobhery of the railroad train at Gordon, Tex., have been arrested, and the prospect is that the 3 other three will be captured. A SITE has been selected at New Orleans .ijy eiperienced parties from Mcmph's for a mill to be run in opposition to the monopoly known as the Cotton-Seed Oil Trust Company. Stock has been given to the leading planters ,on the lower Mississippi, who pledge themselves to famish ample raw material.„ .W. L, Cornish, of Sharpsbnrg. Washington Countv, Ky. t shot Miss Lula Green through the heart and brain because she would not marry him. He also tried to kill the girl’s mother and sister, but failed on account of his pistol being out of order. The mother raceiveil a severe wound in the hand, and

Was knocked down with the s pistol. Cornish was captured and taken' to Springfield. A mob composed of ‘ seventy-five men entered the jail and secured the prisoner. He was taken .to a farm about two miles north of the town and hanged.

WASHINGTON.

The internal revenue collections during ; the six mouths ending Pec. 30 were $57,j 503,503 —a decrease of $1,054,340 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. There was a decrease of $3,222,814 in the collections on spirits, au increase of $683,881 in tobneeb, an increase of $1,112,401 on fermented liquors. The total collections* from oleomargarine since Nov. 1 amounted to £298,109^ An adverse report will be made on the bill drafted by the National Cattle Grow- ■ ers’ Association at their session in Chicago ; regarding pleuro-pneumonia and other dis- j eases among cattle. The Consul General at Shanghai re- I ports to the State Department that $1,200 ; was contributed by natives of that-city for | the sufferers by earthquake at Charleston. M. Depew, President of the New York Central Hoad, asked of the Attorney General'a hearing in opposition to the interstate commerce bill. He was requested ' to forward a brief of his argument.. . .It j .is settled now that Mr, C. N. Jor- [ dun. Treasurer of the United j States, will relinquish biR present office I May I in order to accept the Presidency of the Western National Bank,of New York, au institution now in 1 process of organization, and which will be fully established by that date. Mr. Jordan has not yet formally resigned, but expects to do so shortly after the adjournment of Congress. It is understood that the change in office involves a decided increase in salary, the exact j amount of which is npt stated. The salary of Treasurer is $6,900 per year, The new office, it is said, will pay at least SIO,OOO per annum. A final dividend of 5 per cent, in favor of creditors of the World's Ex] osition at New Orleans has been made by the Acting Secretary of the Treasury from the Congressional appropriation of $355,000.

POLITICAL.

A Santa Fr. iN. MTJ telegram says that “A. Gusdorf, Democratic member of the Legislature for Taos County, was unseated, and I’edrp Sanchez (liep. ) given his seat, on a committee report chnrghig Gusdorf with obtaining au election by means of intimidation and fraud. The Democratic j Senators left the House in a body, leaving i the Republicans without a quorum.' The | Sergeant-at-Arms. however, brought back Senator Romero, and Sanchez was then ! sworn in by the President of the Senate, | the Secretary of the Territory refusing to I administer the oath.” The Democrats of Philadelphia have nominated Charles H. Barnes for Mayor. ... .The bill repealing the law giving women the right to vote at school elections was killed in the Wisconsin Assembly | The Michigan Senate passed the House ■joint resolution to submit a p ohibitory i amendment at the spring election. The Ohio House rejected the township loeal- - option bi 11.... The Comm ttee on Railroads of the Nebraska House have recommended the passage of the bill repealing the Railway Commission act. A kill is now before the Indiana Legislature the provisions of which are of so extraordinary a character as to make the pro; used law of general interest. The bill simply provides that in case of. willful homicide in which the slayer is the father, > brother, or husband of a seduced girl or ‘ woman, aud the slain is proven to have ■ been her seducer, action for murder or manslaughter shall not lie. Under such I circumstances the offense of slaying is re- ! duced to a misdemeanor, puuishable only by a tine, without imprisonment. This is i the first instance of an attempt to enact a j law which would under any circumstances, make the willful hiking of human life a - simple misdemeanor. It is understood that a similar bill is to be introduced in the Illinois Legislature.... The resolution for the submission to popu- ; lar vote of a prohibition amendment to the ! State Constitution, which was adopted by,! ; both houses of the Michigan Legislature, i j has been signed by the Governor, and will jby voted on in April next. .. The Tenrres- ‘ see-Senate has-passed on its final reading I the prohibition amendment to the consti- ; tutution, the vote being—yeas, 31; nays, j 2... .A bill prohibiting marriages between white and colored persons has been .intro-j duced in (lie Illinois Senate. . . . A bill cm- j powering women to vote at municipal elections passed the Kansas Senate— 25 to 13

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Three tHors.vxt> five hundred men in the National Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa., have bad their wages advanced lon ah average 15’per cent.' ( , j The Illinois State Labor Association, in : session at Springfield, rejected.a resolution [ asking for a new trial for the condemned j Chicago anarchists. In regard to, the Inj teruational Cigar-maktrs and Knights of | Labor labels a heated discussion arose v but the Knights were defeated and the label of the International Fhion was approved. THE steel rails already contracted for to be delivered daring the present year aggregate 1. 200.000 tons, which is about threequarters of the allotment for the mills for InV7.

THE RAILWAYS.

President Roberts, of the Tennsyl- ; vauia railway, i£_of the opiuion that the ia*. itofstate commerce act will largely prevent i the public from taking undue, advantage of . the neeessitns us railway USSpaSTes f—A-srei ■ i\L'from Topeka, Kus.. says: “A charter has been issued to, the -Emporia, Winfield, and Fort Scott Railway Company. which will build a load from a point in Lyon County through Lyon. Chase. Greenwood, Butler, and Cowley Counties to the south line Of the State, thence through the. Indian Territory Jfld -t% Stale of Arkansas - to the city of -Fxw Smith, Ark.~Tb® total ; length of (he toad will b - 375 miles, and the capital stock $55*1100,000.” 1 The Ro'k Istend extension has completed its bridge across the Kansas River. - Tbe Missouri Central Road iS abbut to be consolidated .with the Kansas City Shert Line, under the Presidency of Stevenson Burke. of the Bee L fie Company. j ' - ■' ■. —■. - - fc.' r ,

GENERAL.

All leading Canadian papers, irrespective of party, agree that Canada's position iaiinprcgnable on the fishery question, and nre? the lloniinion Government .to uphold Canada’s' rights at all La?jirds. At the same time the hope is expressed that the United States Government will not take ihe course which recent legislation indicates until every means of eoming to a fair and friendly settlement is exhausted. Sir Jehu

]A. Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, in an interview <tl Ottawa, said to a New York 1 HrraUl representative that the people of the United States did not understand Canada’s position in the fisheries mntter. The : Dominion Government had endeavI ored to carry out the provisions !of the treaty of 1818 in harmony I with justice and fairness. Sir John said Canaita had not enforced the customs aud fishing laws with a view to coercing the I United States, and would be glad to enter ; into an arrangement lor the renewal of the privilege of fishing in our waters, and for American fishermen to obtain supplies, bait, ; and tranship fish, The Canadian Government, the Premier added, had acted nccordI ing to law, and he saw no reason to change its views, no matter what took place in the i United States. Sir Charles Tupper, when | asked what would be the effect in Canada i should the Belmont or Edmunds bill beß i come law, said; “There wilL,be an outbreak of patriotism. You will find, that, ; notwithstanding the violence of party feeling, the Opposition to the present government will not admit of a disposition to vield to the demands of the United States. No government could live in Canada that | attempted to subordinate national rights to patty politics.” The National Woman Suffrage Congresswas in session at Washington during the week. Among the delegates present were; ; Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. May Wright Sewell, Mrs. Harrietta 11. Shattuck, Mrs. Elizabeth ljoynton , Harbert, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the Rev. Olympia Brown, Phoebe W. Cozzens, Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith, Mary F. Eastman, and Lillian Devereux Blake. Miss Susan B. Anthony delivered the opening speech. Addresses were made by*' Mrs. Sewell of Indiana on “The Condition of Liberty,’*' by Mrs. Harbert of Illinois on “Our Motherless Government,” and by Mrs. Is-abella Beecher Hooker on “The Constitutional Rights of Women to the Ballot, by MissMary F. Eastman of Massachusetts on “The Perils of the Country," and by Mrs. Blake of New Y'ork on “The Rights of Man.” Speeches were also made by Judge Cary of, Wyoming Miss Phube Cozzens of St. * Louis. A series of resolutions were adopted demanding the passage of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution, which shall secure the right of suff rage to women of the United States, denouncing the disfranchisement of thanking the United- States Senators who supported the suffrage amendment. A committee was appointed to arrange a meeting in Washington next year to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of the movement for woman suffrage in this country. Invitations will be issued to women throughout the world who are interested in women's work. The Dominion Government, says a New York special, is determined to enforce the crusade against American fishing vessels encroaching upon its reserves. If the fishery question is hot settled before the fishing season opens several men-of-war •will be dispatched to enforce existing regulations. The Canadians are jubilant over the situation, but the p ssibility of the suspension of commerce with the United States is creating alarm in commercial circles. The Senate resolutions on the subject were regarded as bluster at first, but since the vote on them there has been a change of opinion.

FOREIGN.

A stbike has been inaugurated in Scottish collieries... .A company of Italians ' has undertaken to light Rome by electricity generated by water-power at tlie Tivoli Falls. It is stated that the Czar has forwarded a pacific message to the Emperor of Austria... .A duel was fought at Bucharest by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the latter receiving a bullet in his hand' European way sparks: An order has been issued at Berlin iorbidding the .exportation of horses across the German frontier iu any direction. In special cases deserving of exception exemption will be .made from the present and -from future measures controlling the exportation of these animals. Col. Klepsch,* military attache to the Austro-Hungarian embassy at St. Petersburg, arrived at Vienna, aud was immediately summoued to an audience with the Emperor- and Count Kid? noky. During a debate on the budget in the lower house of the Hungarian diet. Premier von Tisza declared, amid-acehnna-tions, that. no. one .wished for a-war - with Rufcsia.

Russia refuses to join a formal conference of the powers on the Bulgarian question. .. .John Morley has been selected as arbitrator in the Northumberland coal-min-ing dispute English newspapers generally seem to think that Churchill, in his speech, tailed to justify his resignation. . At a c urt reception held in Berlin Emperor William informed the assem- ! bled officers that 72,000 men of the -reserves would be called out immediately and drilled in the use of the"- new repeating rifle..... . In the British House of Commons. Sir James Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, in answer to in juiries, said that the- Government had been conferring with the Government of tho baited States on the fisheries question. The Canadian fisheries, he said, were very valuable, and the Government had followed , the policy concerning them whica had be n ; adopted by the preceding Governments, and would maintain the rights of the colonists,, wi ll every desire to conciliate the ■ United .. States. Minister P-i elps had a conference with the Marquis of Salisbury, at the Premier's request, to discuss the j question. The conference was most cor- ' dial on Seth sides. Lord Salisbury ex- ■ pressed himself gratified at the general tone of the American pi ess aid people in the dispute, and he assured -Mu Phelps that England and Canada were equally desirous of an amicable adjustment of the whole jcase. j- A Belfast eublegrani, states that some soldiers of the -West Surrey regiment in- : suited a number of Catholic civilians. The ; latter retaliated by throwing stones. Over one bundled persons were arrested ty the police, and the troops were called out to r restore quiet. -The rioting was renewed the fol!o\viug day. when the police and the public ev-hanged shots. Many persons are said to have been injured. W dliam O’Brien, speaking at Bodyke, County Limerick, said that if -.lrishmen could meet-the police man to man and rifle to rifle in the open field he for one would promptly abandon speaking, and the next speech the destroyers of the people’s homes would hear would be from the mouths of , the people's guns. Loyd. .Uuusandle offered (To deduce toe rents of his Galway tenahis | 25 per yen', and to reinstate the evicted, j which is a great victory for the tenants. A new tax law has been promulgated in, Russia fixing a tax of 5 per cent, on guir.an teed revenues derived from railway shares, and a lax of 3 per cent, on similar guaranteed revennes . Cooffih-tihg nnnarscome from Europe with reg ird to the probability of war. On all the bourses of the Continent '.here is a general anticipation of early hostilities, but the German Emperor Has given his dictum in favor of peace. At Paris, despite the reaction toward peace.

there exists an undercurrent of belief that war is certainly among the possibilities Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham, said he was willing, for the sake of peace, to postpone the much-needed reforms in Great Britain, but he would not accept terms dictated by a portion of the Irish members of Parliament, nor would he submit to a minority party which represented au auti-English conspiracy. The British people would accept a conciliatory course, but had not suuk so low as to accept a policy of surrender. He believed the question, by mutual concessions, could be settled on a basis which would involve no risk to the English taxpayer.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A Portland, Ore., dispatch says that “a high wind sprung up on the west slope of the Cascade Mountains, east of Tacoma, Washington Territory; about eleven miles from the west end of the Noriheru Pacific tunnel, it blew a large tree down into a camp where a number of Chinese laborers were sleeping. Nine bodies had been removed at last accounts, and a dozen or more were injured. Tnere is three to four feet of snow on the ground, and several bodies are still supposed to be buried in snow under the fallen timber. At Hunt’s camp, a few miles west of the Chinese camp, a similar accident occurred among white laborers, and six were severely injured; none, it is believed, fatally.” It appears to be pretty well settled that Mr. Manning is to leave the Treasury Department to take the Presidency of a newly organized national bank in New. York. It is also understood that Mr. Jordan, Treasurer of the United States, will resign to become cashier of the same institution. . . .An investigation is demanded iu the Minnesota Legislature of the charges that the saloon men have raised a big boodle fund to defeat high-license legislation. .. .The joint resolution for submitting to popular vote a prohibition amendment to the Constitution was adopted iu the Texas House-—B9 te 21.

A cable dispatch from Berlin says: The committee of the National Liberal party has issued a manifesto to the electors. They say: "Never since the Franco-Ger-man war has the danger of a great conflict been so near. No statesman can form any certain as to the future, even for a few weeks. The peace of Europe rests at this moment solely upon the strength, readiness for action, and moral trustworthiness of the German army. The National Liberals are confident that the voice of universal suffrage will pronounce the right decision. Au ympropitious issue, of the elections will bring down upon the country war with all its terrors, and, even with the best results, heavy losses.” Joint resolutions of tne Tennessee Legislature Were iiresenteil in the Senate, on the 3lst ult. in favor of ail appropriation for the World's Farr of Colored Industry at Birmingham, Ala. A resolution calling on tho (Secretary of the Treasury for a report as to whether any national bunks are loaning money or discounting notes, requiring payment iu gold coin only,, was adopted. Bills from committees wore reported to tne Senate and placed on the calendar as follows : For the construction of li building lor the uso of tho officers of the House of Representatives; lor an additional Associate Justice of' the Silpremo Court of New Mexico; authorizing tne construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North; also across the Tennessee, River at Chattanooga. The Senate adopted resolutions of Inquiry as to tho Apache Indians held in confinement in Florida, and Senator Beck introduced a bill to amend the national banking laws. Tho President sent the following nominations to tho Senate: Postmasters—Big Rapids, Mich., Joseph H. Kilbourne; Johesville, Mich., Maria S. Hewlett: Gallipolis, Ohio, William G. Brading; Beardstown, 111., August E. Ivammerer; Chico, Cal., Robinson M. Jones; Galena, Kan., A. M. McPherson; Atkinson, Neb., Willard A. Wheeler; Milbank, Dakota, George C. Middlebrook. Ordnance Department—Lieut. Col. James 11. Whittemore, to be Colonel; Capt. John A. Kress, t> be Major. In the House Air. Lawler presented resolutions reciting the possibility of , war with England, calling attention to our defenseless sea and lako ports, and aßiiing the President, ,as Commander-in-Chiof of the army and navy, to report what steps are necessary, in his judgment, to provide for this emergency. The resolutions were referred. Mr. Boutello also ottered a resolution directing the Foreign Affairs Committee to report back forthwith the Senate retaliation bill. Representative Crain of Texas introduced a resolution proposing constitutional amendment j changing inauguration day to the last Tuesday in April; providing that the Fiftieth Congress shall terminate on Dee. 31, 1683. and tho Fifty-first Congress then begin, and provid ng that Senators whose tern; of office would not expire until March •!. 188.1, shall continue iu office until their successors are appointed or elected. Mr. McRae", of Arkansas", introduced a BiR in the House prohibiting Congressmen from acting a 3 attorneys or employes for railroad companies holding charters or having grants of lands or pecuniary .; aid ' from the United States. G@n. Bragg’ introduced a bill in tho House prohibiting the wearing of badge, decorations, etc., of any kind, bv unauthorized persons, indicating military or naval service during the late war. Representative T, J. Campbell of New York introduced a bill in the .House increasing to Sl»,obt) the salaries of the Supremo Court Justices and the Cabinet The Senate concurrent resolution lor the appointment of a joint committee to take into consideration the expediency of holding an interna'ional exhibition in 1802 in commemoration of the discovery of America was reported to tho House and placed on the calendar.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

t Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. A nESoIiCTIoN offered uy Me. HJar, instructing the Committee on Rrivileges and Elections to investigate tips allegations made by three reside.its of Washington COUuty.' Texas, as to thejr being driven from choir homos, comp died to abandon tneir property, aud deprived of tire right of sudr.cg.) id t.i it county, cumo Up iu the Keiiatri Jan. zG. aud g„ve rise to a warm debate. Mr. Coke protest id i tout‘the pr. nosed investigutiun was into a subject outside the jurisdiction of Cuiigre'ss. Too State of Texas had btato autonomy Her constitution and laws were in full foroe and Operation, bile could redress ail grievances, psreon&l, or otherwise, occurring within- her b rdeis. Tne subject was ono iieeuliorij within the jurisdiction of the State, and the resolution was au intermeddling with sometuing belonging whdly to the State, and outside of the jurisdiction of the General Government He gave a history of the case, to tho effect that a respectable white Democrat had b en shot by a colored mail at the polls near Brenham, Texas; that three colored men had been arrested and placed in Jail, charged with that crime ; that a mob had taken teem out of jail and hanged them, aud that tho throe petitioners, Hackworth, Moore, and Schult.’.e, who had been prominent in infiuencing and deluding’the negro population there, had supposed their lives to be in danger and had fled the country. Ho had reoeived a telcgra.ru fr. m D, C. Giddlngs, of Brenham, formerly a Representative iu Congress from Texas, say*ing that the three petitioners were of the worst type of scalawags; that they had been mainly instrumental in stirring up strife between the races, and were charged with investigating tne murder referred to; that they wero hot driven from their homes nor were their livos threatened,% but that their own guilty consciences had eausol them to leave tho country for the country’s good Mr. Hoar said thh three petitioners represented themselves to bo men of property and wealth; that they had boon earning their living in peaceful, lawful, and honorablo ways; and that they had been driven out from their homes on American soil. Mr. Hoar, referring to the speeches on the fisheries bill, askoil whether the right of an American citizen was loss sacred in the eye of the American Congress when it happened to bo violated on American soil. Mr. Eustis (a member of tho committee) opposed the resolution as a “waving of tho bloody shirt a little in advance of the usual season.” Mr. Evarts ia member of the committoe) sustained the resolution and argued that now, when there was an opportunity to prove, under tho authority of the Senate, that this was a mere “waving of the bloody shirt.” it should do so. The resolution was adopted—3l to 2j. By a vote of 17 to 31 the Senate rejected the nomination of J. C. Matthews, a colored Democrat from Albany, as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. The Senate fisheries bill was laid before the House, and on motion of Mr. Belmont it was referred to tho Committee on Foreign Affairs, and leave granted the c< m nittee to report at any time.

The agricultural experiment station bill passed the Senate, Jan. 27. It directs the establishment in connection with the agricultural coll ges of a department to be known and designated as an ‘Agricultural Experiment Station.” Whore there are two such colleges in one State the amount appropriated to each State and Territory tor this purpose (#15,000 a year) is to be equally divided between them unless the State Legislature shall otherwise direct. The object and duty of such experiment stations is: To conduct .original researches or to vorify experiments on the physiology of plants and’animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject and the remedies therefor; and chemical composition of useful plants ; the compaiativo advantages of rotative cropping ; the capacity of new plants or treos for acrlimation ; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition us manures ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domesiic animals; the scientific and economic quostions involved in the production of buttor and cheese, and such othor researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may be deemed advisable. Tho Senate also passed the House bill for tho relief of dependent parents and of honorably discharged soldiers und sailors now disabled, A resolution was adopted directing an investigation by tho Engineer Bureau of the alleged obstructions to cem.merce in the Columbia River by salmon traps and wheels. Senator Qlngails introduced a bill to amend the Revised Statutes so as to provide that no person shall bo engaged in or carry on the business of rectitier, wholesale or retail; liquor dealer,wholesale or retail dealer in malt liquors, or distiller, nor shall the Collector of Internal Revenue receive from any such person any money in payment of special taxes or for revenue stamps, until the dealer has first made a sworn statement that he has fully complied with all the laws concerning his business of the district in which the business is to bo conducted. A resotion, previously offerod by Mr. Hoar in executive session, declaring that after the Senate has refused its advice and Consent to the appointment of any person to office, it is contrary to the spirit and intent of the Constitution to designate tho same person to the same oiSce immediately thereafter, was taken up by the Senate and reforred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Tho House passed tho river and harbor bill—yeas, 151; nays, yl—in the exact form in which it was reported from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. The House Judiciary Committee rep >rted adversely a joint resolution providing for the oloction of United States Senators by the people of the States, and it was placed upon the calendar. M«. Kdmi nps, in presenting to the Senate, on the 28th ult. a memorial from manufacturers and business men in Vermont for a repeal or reduction of internal revenue taxes, said he wished to urge on the Financo Committee the importance of the subject of reducing, if not altogether re (Sealing, this remnant of the unpleasantness of twenty-five years ago. Mr. fiahone presented numerous petitions from Virginia manufacturers of and dealers in tobacco, for the abolition of the tobacco tax. Messrs. Evarts, Teller, Spooner, Pugh, and Eustis were selected as the Senatorial Committee to investigate the alleged Texas outrages. The President sent in a message vetoing the bill granting a pension to Benjamin Obekinb. “The bill,” he says, “directs tnat tho beneficiary named therein be placed upon the pension roll subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. In July, 1884, the person named in this bill was placed upon the pension roll at a rate determined upon by the . Pension Bureau pursuant to the provisions and limitations of the pension lawß, and it is entirely certain that the -special act now presented to me would give the claimant no new rights or additional benefits.” The President also vetoed the bill for the relief of H. K. fielding, who was a mail contractor in Minnesota in 1860. The measure is vetoed because the President thinks the evidence in the case gives rise to a strong presumption that the claim is entirely fictitious. Edward F. Mealey, of Maryland was nominated to be Consul at Munich. The House of Representatives passed the Washington cable-rail-way charter and agreed to a conference report on the bill making an auuual appropriation of S4Od,W for the ofinipuimt of the militia torees. Tin: bill exts nding the limits of the Yellowstone National Park on the east and west, and diminishing them by two miles on the north, passe 1 the Senate on the 2Jth inst. The Senate by a vote of 24 to 20, placed at the foot of the special orders the Judiciary Committee's substitute for the Beck railroad attorney lull. Mr. Beck, with some show of anger, gave notice that the measure must be voted on, and he should call it up from day to-day. ‘The House of Representatives passed a bill seiting aside t-l ,4 6 b-r a sp'---ial qistrrbuit on of seed in Texas by the C. uiuiiss oner of Ag i ul-tu.-o. The postoJlo.) appropriation bill, in. wi.ich thare is art ißcroaso of y in.OJJ over- last year’s figures for tin investigation of mail depredations in fourth class qiosto(flees, , was passed. The com niitee on alleged violations of the rul ? regulating admissions to the floor recommended that the rules ho so far amended as To admtototbe door only sttvh ex-meinocrs as arc not interested personally or as attorneys or spouts in any claim or bill pending before Concress. ... ' ' _ _T_ “You must not play with tliat little girl, my dear,” slid an injudicious parent. “Hiit, ma. I like her; she is a good little girl, and I am sure she dresses as pretty ns e er I do, and she "Ea? plenty of Toys.” “i cannot' help that, my dear,” res pnded the foolish mother; “her (atligy jte a shoemaker.” “But I don't play wish her father; I play with her; she ain’t a shoemaker.” The oriiiamb of Love sweeps grandly round each separate and distinct Light, bv its holy radiance light mg Tip the' sonls of men until wte see them not as they before have seemed, but as they truly are, An actor may ba, another actor's enemy and yet take bis port.' J’.:..

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Hon. E. W. Davis, of Galena Township, Laporte Comity, has sbme sixty acres of timbered land from which a tree hafi never been cut. He has kept the origin nl forest intact rather more as a curiosity that* anything else. Aitiong the trees are sarge poplars, walnuts, and all the other varieties of limber grown in) that locality, just as they stood when the- country was first settled. The forest is now quite a curiosity, and it is doubtful if nnother one like it cun be found in tbe State. Most of the owners of land have cut more or less timber from all their possessions, and especially has this been the case with the more valuable woods. —lt has just been discovered that the domesticated fish in the numerous ponds in the locality of Moore’s Hill are dead. In the last five years fish culture in that part bf Indiana has become quite an industry, nearly every farmer Laving made and stocked a pond with German carp. The recent warm weather melted the -thin, icn on the ponds, and now large of these fish of all sizes may be seen floating dead upon the surface of (lie water—poor remuneration for the farmers’ exfiense und labor. Many theories are advanced to explain the mystery, but none of them are tangible. —At LaGro, a 14-year-old negress attempted to cross the Wabash Railway track, when she was struck by tbe last car of a freight train, which was switching in the yards, and thrown onto the track. She was not seen by the brakemnn, and the train continued backing. Fourteen cars passed over her body, and when the engine reached the spot she wns scooped up into the ash-pan. The engineer stopped his engine and xescued the girl. She was found to be entirely uninjured, tbbugli terribly frightened by her ffcarful experience.

—A. J. Jewett, a lime-burner at Utica, six miles above Jeffersonville, met a horrible’ death. He was standing at the end of the dump-track above the kiln, when he lost his footing and fell into the burning kiln, the stone from a car falling in after him. Another employe saw the accident, but was powerless to prevent it, After much effort a few of the bones of the unfortunate man were taken out at the bottom of the kiln. Jewett was 45 years old, and leaves a widow and large family. —The annual statement of the Marion County Treasurer, showing the amount of taxes collected in 1886, has just been completed. It makes tbe following showing; County current tax, $585,441.30; county delinquent tax, $182,309.60: city current tax, $546,614.14; city delinquent tax, $09,446.03; total, $1,283,271.07. The collections wero considerably larger than those of previous years. —Wallace Marsh, a saw-mill owner at Truman’s Landing, was accidentally shot p and perhaps fatally injured by bis 10-year-old son. They were hunting-in a swamp near the village, and as the boy climbed over a fence his gun was discharged. The shot took effect in the father’s breast just above the nipple. He was carried home and is now lingering between life and death.

—At a meeting of the Rockville Fair Association recently, a ladies’ u department, managed wholly by ladies, was made a special feature of next Rummer's exhibition. The new officers for the association are: R, C. McWilliams, President; James S. Steele, Vice President; S. D. l’uett, Superintendent; W. H. Elson, Secretary; L. H. Hadley, Treasurer. —The barn situated on the farm of Mrs. McNew, three miles north of Knightstown, whs entirely consumed by fire. Two horses were burned to death, and grain and farming implements were lost. The fire was thought to have originated from a cigar stump negligently thrown away by one of the boys of tho family. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. —As the workmen at the Harris City stone quarry were hoisting a large flagging stone, it broke in two, and one part caught John Lake, crushing him badly. Physicians amputated a leg and ‘arm, but the injury internally, together with the great shock, was too much, and the patient died. Lake was a man about 23 years old, unmarried. / —While Levi Griffert, residing on the farm of Fred Spikers, four miles north of Wabash, was catling a tree, it lodged in the top of another, and, ru his effort to fell it, a limb broke and struck him on the head. The skull was fractured, and Griffert lias since lain in a comatose condition, with little hope of recovery, lie is a man of family. >

—David Meredith, of Rich Valley, Wabash County, who recently made the discovery that he has Cherokee blood in his veins, has received a patent from.lkaGov--eminent so a rich section of land in the Indian Territory'. In the seventeenth century one of his ancestors married the daughter of a Cherokee chief. -T-=rAt IngdnTer, as several young boys were going to school, Irvie Hadley, aged 12 years, undertook to board a moving train and was thrown under the wheels. His right leg was cut off at the hip and he was otherwise injured. His recovery is doubtful. —lt is learned that the woman who inserted her infant at the Wabash depot, at Lafayette, was Cynthia Chamlea, and she liad been for some time an inmate of the! County Asylum. Nothing has been heard of her since she left Lafayette. —The dead body of E. G. Gottsball, of Loyal Center, C'ass County, was found under « trestle-work north of Logansport, The neck of the unfortunate man was broken. He was 35 years of age and leaves some property. t—The Indiana; Academy of Science will probably hold its Held meeting fin May) at the “Shades of Death, Wabash. The name is uncanny and suggestive enough, but naturalists will Venture anywhere. —The Commissioners of Montgomery County have employed George Myers as Superintendent of the poor- farm.—The.present incumbent, Mr. Hole, had to resign on account of ill health. —Another natural gas company is being formed at The capital stock will be $2,500, and it will be the second enterprise of the kind in that city; —The congregation of the Park Chris-