Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — Page 6

£be ffonrirlioro. Geo. E. Makbau, Publisher. BRWSSELAEB. . IMPIAKA

880 congressmen are to be ehoseu ■ext falL __ Time is money and it settles a great many accounts. . A blacksmith is a great bore. He always makes a felloe tired. A New Jersey suicide who filled his gun with water and tlveu blowed his brains out with, it, died irom water ou the brain. ' » . - f^[ —, \ It is the unique grace and the exquisite femininity, unalloyed by any trace of masculine assumption or icature, that constitutes the eternal charm of Spanish women. The North Dakota scheme to relieve the drouth sufferers by a legalized lottery would have a tendency to relieve some of the sufferers of the little they have left of this world’s goods. T: ■ p The New York Sun produces a grouped engraving of the supreme judges of the United States, two of whom —Fuller and Lamar—had forgotten to shave their heads on top before sitting for pictures. A Singular coincidence was the simultaneous death of Riley Swan at Weatherford, Texas, and Jacob Birch of Kittaning, Pa. The singular feature is, the former was bitten to de th by rats; and the latter died from eating chestnuts.

No one except a free white person or an alien of African nativity or a person of African descent can become a citizen of the United States. Chinese, Maylays and Japanese are excluded. -The act specifying the above was passed in 187 Q. The surest way to abolish poverty in this and every other country is to give each individual the utmost reward of his own efforts, and to take e&re that no one individual is able to obtain wealth by devices which create that wealth at the cost of others. The French academy of science has discovered, by experiment, that each human body is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the head and the other by the feet. Therefore it is the proper thing to sleep with one’s head to the north and feet to the south. A Portrait of Ex-President Cleveland is soon to be hung in the White House. The picture will cost $5,000, and will be paid for from money provided by congress in the official estimates for the executive branch of the government This is the first time that such an item has been embodied In the treasury estimates for the fiscal year. One of the Parnell witnesses was libelled by Sir Richard Webster, the attorney tor the Times, in his dosing argument, This witness sued Webstety and to settle that suit the Times paid this man SI,OOO and all the costs which he had incurred in retaining lawyers, etc. A little English idea in this particular would be salutary and just on this aide of the water. It is not at all a cause of wonder that Mr. Stanley should not say much about .kiurecent travels. He bas4>een offered $200,000 to write a book describing that journey. He will undoubtedly accept some such offer, and in order to keep faith with his publishers he declines to tell through interviews what the book is expected to reveal. Mr. Stanley cannot be blamed for such a course.

When a man says he has a new typewriter it is hard to determine whether he has got a new machine,or employed a pretty new woman to play on it; hence two new words have been invented' “typoscript,” to signify the typewritten manuscript, and “graphotype” to signify the machine— that is, the passive machine; the active machine retains the ‘•typewriter’* sobriquet. , The Empress Eugenie has just presented to the fathers who have the keeping of the mortuary chapel at Farnborough, where the remains of Napoleon 111. and the Prince Imperial are interred, a magnifioent alter cloth, made from her wedding gown. The cloth has been; made by the Empress herself. It is trimmed with the lace anA embroidery which ornamented the dre*3. Andrew Carnegie, the steel king,, has offered to spend not less than $1,000,000 for a central free library and branches for the city of Pittsburg, provided the city will maintain them. The offer will be laid before the council soon and it is believed that it will $ - _■ be promptly and enthusiastically a> 94pted. The same donor has spe; nearly $300,000 on the Allegheny Cit ■ ee library. "The clergyman in Massnchuset: who recently putA stop 4e~ Ute kieskr ~;:mes which his congregation -i: bulged in at their sociables is su.TLa severe martyrdom in con c The young folks have ua.i> > his gale, tied up his doc- (• Ightenod him when he bras'returning home orv dark nights by tiring off revolvers, and nave strongly hinted tna. < had better resign.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

DOMESTIC. James Russell Lowell is seriously iIL Memphis pool-rooms are closed. A oijrarrette trust has been formed. Chicago jubilated over her World’s Fair victory. Tennessee’s Legislature is meeting in extra session. A general strike Of Western coal miners is threatened. Treasurer Flynn, of Custer county,,Sßouth Dakota, is short $12,000. A very heavy snowstorm prevailed in Montana on the2sth and 26th. The heirs of the estate of S. J. Tilden will compromise their differences. James E. Cooper, of Philadelphia, has bought the Forepaugh circus plant. Seven-tenths of the work to be dene on the Panama Canal remains undone, immigrants to the number of 1,346 .were landed at Castle Garden on the 26th. Theseal fisheries contract waj, on the 28th let to the San FYancisco bidders. The Australian ballot bill was defeated in the West Virginia Senate on ttie 25th. A cyclone visited Tennessee on the 25th. killing one person and doing great damage. Tramps fired into a passenger train near Leetonia, 0., and injured several persons. There has been another murder among the McCoy-Hatfield outlaws in Kentucky. A corpse in the dead house of a Columbus hospital was partially devoured by rats.

Chicago’s expense in booming that city for the World’s Fair is estimated at $400,--000. -tmr—— The stockholders of the New York elevated railroads want $40,000,000 on mortgage. It is said that Dr. McGlynn wants to be restored to communion in the Catholic church. Preparations are making for the rapid development of the tin mines in South Dakota. Mrs. Loire! Greely,' sister of the late Horace Greely, died at Cleveland, 0., on the 20lh. Ingalls and Cimaron, tivip nval Kansas towns, are still fighting each other. Both sides are armed. An Engliap syndicate intends to establish several hundred families of negroes in Chihuahua, Mexico. The citizens of Macon, Ga., have presented Mrs. Jefferson Davis with $3,000, to which she made a grateful response. The woman crusaders who demolished a saloon at Spickardsville, Mo., were assessed $5 each by the jury which tried them. Thousands of boomers are preparing to enter the Cherokee Strip when the territory is opened to settlement. Many negroes are on the border. Wm. H. Fursman, who disappeared Irom Pontiac, 111., last November, after com mitting forgeries aggregating $200,000, has been arrested at New Orleans. A Chinaman refused to be sworn by the Christian oath in a trial at New York, and aChines6 oath with -burning joss stick accompaniment was administered. A syndicate of foreign {probably British) capitalists has purchased the Indianapolis (illuminating) gas plant The price paid is not given, but is believed to be about $2,000,000.

Ex-Treasurer Con starts, of Newport, Ky., who was a defaulter to the amount of $35,000, has made an offer to compromise for SB,OOO, which, it is likely will be accepted. The $2-a-day law recently passed by the New York Legislature has served to increase wares ail along the line. The law requires that $3 per day be paid for al common labor by the State. The Superior Court of Baltimore has decided that the city must pay SIO,OOO to Cipriano Fernandini for the death of his sou, who was s-wept into a sewer during a storm last June and drowned, The bill providing for a Board of Improvement at Cincinnati haerpasSecTTlle Ohio Legislature. Governor Campbell has the appointment of the board, which will supersede the present Board of Affairs. A dinner will be given in honor of Gen eral Grant’s birthday on April 26 in Delmonico’s, Near York, to which the President, Vice President, Cabinet, Speaker General Sherman and others will be invited. A gang of freight train robbers has been operatingmn the railroads near Lima, O. They have-been selling their goods to' the country folks “away below cost.” The leader of the gang was arrested on the ,2Stb. lGovernor Boies, in his inaugural address, said the State needed greater transportation facilities. He said that the prohibition laws were disregarded, and thought measures covering all classes should bo adopted. It is leported that an organization oi negroes known as the Grand Independent Brotherhood, said to have a largo membership, is planning a movement to secure control of the State and local government of Oklahoma.

Dispatches from various cities in Texas report the severest “norther” of the season prevailed in the State on the 27th The mercury sank 20 degrees below freezing point in many places. The fruit crop is badly damaged and nearly all vegetables are destroyed. It is stated that an English syndicate representing*3s,ooo,ooo, is making an, efi fort to form a school book trust in this country; and has thus far been given the .offer of the purchase of six of the largest school book published houses in America Tho. lower house of the Ohio Legislature on the 26th, passe,! the bin redistrict,ng the State for congressional purposes which was-agreed upon by tho Democratic caucus and introduced in that body. The oleo mart-mine bill passed the Senate and is a ■Uw. It pynyiiU against and sa.e of oleoraargurinenmdo in imitation arm rcmnlahce of butter. Judge Patterson of the New York r„preme Court, denied the ann’fi.' 1' f’oiOfiei W XV rv, sr “PPI-tattlOlt Of Loienei W. W. Dnd.ey v 0 vacate the order ,or his examination before trial in the suit nru.ght by him gainst too Press h n Company to recover $50,00Q for alleged hod m 4-he publication of tho “BlocKs”of "five letter.” Colonel Dudley’s

claimed that be bad been in the State si ana the order was granted, but Judge Patterson held that Mr; Dudley has avoided the service of the order, and can not expect consideration from the court whdn he refuses to submit himself to its jurisdiction. -The Ney? York department of the G. A K. Wednesday adopted resolutions favor ing the per diein pension bill, and declar ing that dependent pension bill would not satisfy the veterans of that State. Corporal Tanner made a speech, declaring his conversion to his view. Cherokee “boomers” continue to arrive at Arkansas City in large numbers, and the banks of Walnut River from that city to the Indian Territory line are dotted with tents where the claimers will make their temporary abode, pending the opening of the Cherokee strip to settlement. A tornado 6wept over and through the southern part of Hot Springs, Ark., Tuesday, carrying away fences, overturning frame houses, and doing a good deal of damage to other property. The old observatory, nearly 100 feet high, which stood on top of Hot Spring Mountain for several years, was hlown down.

The news frog* West Virginia is that the Hatfields have sold some of their lands, have plenty of money, and are likely to go on the warpath again. They seek revenge for the hanging of EllisQn Mounts at Pikesville, and will, it is said, make an attempt to slay or capture some of the McCoys. It is also said that Governor Fleming will make a demand on Kentucky for the surrender of the McCoys, charged with murder in West Virginia. - ■ . > - State Sugar Inspector Kellogg, of Kanas. has presented to the State Agricultural Department his annual report regarding the sugar industry, which has developed so rapidly during the past two years. He says that there can be no longer any doubt as to the practicability of the manufacture of sugar from Kansas sorghum. John Jacob Aster’s will was probated on the 23th. St. Lukes Hospital receives $100,009; Metropolitan Museum of Arts, $500,000; the New York Cancer Hospital, $100,000; Astor Library $450,000; Alexander Hamilton, $30,000, and James Simmons Armstrong, $30,000. All the residue and remainder of his estate goes to his son, William Waldorf Astor. The estate is estimated at $200,000,000..

FOREIGN. Stanley is said to look old and careworn. Emin Pasha is out, and takes long walks in Cairo. Dom Pedro desires to renounce all title and be allowed to return to Brazil. The American squadron in the Mediteranean is kept busy saluting French battie ships. Mr. Laboncheurwas suspended from the commons because he stated that Lord Salisbury had made a statement that was untrue. The announcement of the death of young Abraham Lincoln was premature. He rallied from death’s door, and on the 28th was still alive.

Adyices from Newfoundland state that the Legislature of that province will not consent to a renewal of the modus vivendi regarding the issuing of licenses to American fishing vessels on account of the bitter experience the province has had in enforcing the bait act of the colony. It is semi-officially stated that the result of the recent elections for members of the Reichstag has caused Prince Bismarck to delay his resignation from office. . It is believed that he would undoubtedly have resigned had the election resulted in a victory for the Cartel parties.

CHICAGO GETS THE FAIR.

On the seventh ballot on the 24th the House decided to hold the world’s fair in Chicago. On the first ballot ten of tho Indiana delegation voted for Chicago, and Jason Brown, Holman and O’Neal for St. Louis. On tho next ballot Jason Brown voted for Chicago, making Indiana eleven, whocontinued with Chicago to the end. rFjtfiggmefranged several times’, but managed to be with Chicago oiTtbe last Vote; but O’Neal voted for every plade, and on the seventh ballot refused to vote for Chicago, although but one vote was needed, disgusting the friends of each of the four cities. There was a very large attendance of spectators. Tho votes were as follows: Ist 2d 3d 4th sth 6th 7th ■ hicago 115 121 127 1„4 Ml 154 157 New York 72 S 3 02 95 116 112 107 St. Louis 62 69 53 48 28 27 25 Washington.... 56 46 34 29 19 17 l)^ Tuo balloting was attended with consld. erable excitement. On the first ballot Mr: Skinner voted for Cumberland Gap, but those interested were too much in earnest to raise a laugh at his supposed humor. During the call many members kept the tally for themselves, and so it happened that when the name of Mr. Mason (Ill<) was called ho shouted out “sixty five,” meaning the total number of votes cast for Chicago up to that time,but corrected himself immediately to “Chicago” to tho amusement of tho House. At 4:30 an attempt was made by New York’s friends to securea recess over night, with the inten Lon, it is claimed of throwing tneir votes to Washington. The West voted solidly against recess, however, and the motion was lost. There was intenso excitement over the contest. Every inch of tho ground was contested and the fight fdr the site is rogardod, now,as finally settled.

A TRIBUTE TO SHERMAN.

Gen. Sherman attended a performance of the military, drama, “Shenandoah.-” at New York, Saturday night. He occupied a lbox. The occupants of the souts soon learned of tho presence of tho General and divided their attention botween him and the stage, watching closely the effects of the play on him. After the Sheridan's Ride scene, upon which the curtain falls the audience broke out into loud applause and before it ended loud cries came from all over the house for “Shormau, Sherin.ui.’’ The hero of Atlanta rose to his foot placed his hand upon his breast and made a profound military bow. The cries and knot h C "" U '‘ ,U : U U “ d Whernmn I kept bowing and siiiiliag and shaking his then rilT, U, ‘‘ U ‘ U,I, ' ,UV ’ Unii ««« then did the applause stop. The scene was a splendid tribute to the man who cT^itir" 1 ' !U ‘ d SlK ' ri,J;i,) ’ ahures L credit of saving tho Union.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Grandview want* railway oonaected. Kokomo is organizing a humane society. Anderson is again waring its gamblers, of whom there are many. Many of the towns throughout the State report an epidemio of weddings. Albert Coquillard, a South Bend millionaire wagon manufacturer, died on the 26th. The new infirmary buildings in Union county, costing $16,500, have been accepted. - : * ■“ Frederick Benthine, of Lagrange, of dissipated habits, committed suicide by hanging. „ A non-partisan W. C. T. U., with twenty four members,' has been organized at Bloomingdale, Parke county. George Willis, of Jeffersonville, owns a three year old colt and a scotch terrier which are inseparable friends. A colony of Hollanders has settled in East Goshen, and it is expected that the incomers will number 300 by May. While George Reading, near Montpelier, was hewing, Monday,his broad axe slipped and cut off his foot, between the toes and ancle.

Joseph Shuck, a prominent school teacher of Franklin county, was drowned while crossing Clear Fork. His body was recovered. While Mr. and Mrs. Lon Tracks, of Bluffton, were temporarily outside the house, their ohild, three years old, was burned to death. The quarterly report made by the Superintendent of Ripley county, giving the operations of the new school book law, shows a saving or $1,53i:20. LoWell B. McClodo, of Columbus, is suing the J., M. & 1. Railway Company, claiming SIO,OOO for injuries received by the bursting of a water tank. Prof. M F. Rickoff, Superintendent of the Tipton city schools, is one of the heirs to a large estate near Schenectady, N. Y., and he expects to receive $20,000. Eddie-Young and Jimmie Hicks, juveniles, of Mount Vernon, quarreled over a game of marbles and Young was struck with a brick resulting in his death. The planing mill and saw mill, owned by S. Hege & Co., of Columbus, burned on the night of the 26th, causing $20,000 loss. Fifty men are thrown out of employment Charles Parker, of South Bend, was found dead in his house, with his little boy weeping bitterly ana afraid to venture from the corpse. Mrs. Parker was absent at the time. James Geary, of Fort Wayne, has asked permission of the City Council to build a tower, the base 75 feet, the top 40 feet square and the hight 300 feet, on the high est point sorrounding that city. Mrs. Ella Douglass, injured in the Carmel wreck, is suing the Monon Railway Company, at Frankfort, for SIO,OOO. The family of C. O. Deming, killed in the same accident, has accepted $6,000 in compromise.

George W. Holman, of Rochester, Fulton county, ha 3 been appointed National Bank Examiner for Indiana. Mr. Holman is one of the leading lawyers of Rochester aud of the Tenth Congressional District. He has never been especially active in politics. John H. Sullivan, of Washington, has brought suit, against Wilson & Co., of that 1 city, claiming $5,030 damages. The defendants belong to the local Merchant’s Protective Association, and are accused of black-listing the plaintiff for the allege ; non-payment of a bill. Tyner Weaver, teacher in Fall Creen township, Hamilton county, disputed wit.h a lady pupil concerning Pittsburg Landing, he claiming the battle as a Confederate victory, while the young woman asserted the contrary. Thereupon he expelled her, and the neighborhood is in arms. Figures reported to W. A. Peele, Jr., State Statistician, show that the gross debt of Indianapolis for the year ending June 30, 1889, was $2,005,500. Evansville’s debt for the sato# time was larger, being 4^,lJo2vOOO“'Fort"Wayne*sTloblrw3ff~<74(f, - 000, Lafayette’s s3oo,oufl,and Terre Haute’s $283,000. Sixty ladies at Odon called upon David Simpkins, the only saloon keeper in the place, and expressed themselves that the community was unalterably opposed to the retailing of intoxicants and he must emigrate. Religious services were held, lasting for an hour, after waioh Mr. Simpkins consented to go, and his goods were packed and shipped to Eluora. A lot of young men went to the house of David Graves, in Owen township, Clark county, a few nights ago, to give a oharivari to Frank Henry and bride. After repeated warnings to leave, which were unheeded, Mr. Graves took down his shotgun and fired into the crowd. Two of the young men wont to surgeon and had the bird-shot picked out of their skins. Turner Sims, of Shelbyviile, made a slighting remark about the daughters of Mrs. Francis Diggs, who lives in the same house, aud she attacked him. He secured a hatchet and out her on the head, face and shoulder. Her daughters came bo her rescue, one of them armed with a club, with which Sims was knockod down. 110 was fined, and bound over to keep the peace. The growing and shipping of capons is becoming an important industry at Kusaiaville. This year the shipments will reach something over seven thousand, and tho farmers of that vicinity will realize over $6,000 in cash. The farmers claim that capon raising pays the largost profit, considering the care of the fowls, the feed, marketing aud everything, of anything that is raised on tho farm. ’ By the ond of March, when the season will close, about fifty farmer's institutes will have been held in the State this win-1 ter. Tho last aud greatest will be held in ' tho rooms of tho Slate Board of Agriculture, In the Capitol, probably March 27,28 ( aud 29. The best lecturers and Institute workers that'have participated In those already held will be pt-aent and the meeting promises to bo of great interest. ] The body of Euglnecr Lyons, killed In the wreck at the crossing of Suupp’s Creek on the Evansvii(e it Terre Haute line, was recovered Wednesday, aud Was forwari/id to Evansville. The body of Fireman Bowden was also recovered, aud it wiis claimed by his betrothed, at Terre Haute. Frag meats of another body wore found banging

to the wire fenee spanning the creek, and it is supposed that a tramp was killed, who was stealing a ride on the pilot of the engine. Patents—P. M. Bice, North Manchester, land marker; W. K. Fraley, Lebanon,wire 1 fence; A. E. Herman, Terre Haute, cab for pall bearers; J. afcd M. Mcparter, Bowers, washing machine; L. F. Norton, Lebanon, fence post; C. Orth, jr., Mount Vernon, corn shelter; J. L. Powles, Good land, draft equalizer: N. H. Roberts, Indianapolis, saw jointer and guage; J. J. Stedman, . Laporte, dental plate; S. Stephens, Indianapolis, rendering apparatus j C. F. Walters and P. S. Sellenlack, Richmond, roller mill. Delegates from local lodges of the Min-, ers’Progressive Union and local assent blies of the Miners’ Knights of Labor, met? at Terre Haute and adopted a State constitution, and other wise perfected the Indiana organization of United Mine Workers. Patrick Mcßride, organizer of the national order, served notice that unless the operators met with them and agreed upon the yearly scale before May 1, there will bo a general strike in this competitive district, which includes Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and part of Tennessee.

An attempt was made on the morning of the 25th to despoil the grave of Thomas Johnson at New Albany. The sexton had suspicions that the attempt would be made and set a watch. At 2 o’clock a party of eight, including three physicians of Louisville, appeared, and were ordered to surrender. They started to run instead, and the guard fired upon them, 'iesEantly killing one of the burkers, a negro. Two of the physicians and another colored man thereupon surrendered, the third doctor making his escape. One of . the ari*sted doctors stands high where he is known. An Evansville and Terre Haute express train went through a trestle over Snapp’s creek, near Vincennes early on the morning of tho 25th. The engineer and fireman were both carried down with the wreck and drowned in the torrent of water. Five other persons were injured. There were thirty passengers aboard, all of whom miraculously escaped. The creek was swelled by recent rains to a surging torrent. The cars were hurled clear over, the chasm made by the engine, landing on, the opposite side of the stream. The train was speeding at forty miles an hour. Later

reports state the bridge was carried away before the arrival of the train. A prominent citizen of Marietta has re ceived a letter from an official in one of the departments at Washington with regard to the delay in turning the Democrats out of postofflees. He says that the President has positively declared that he will l permit no more changes in presidential postoffices until the expiration of four years from the date of confirmation by the Senate, unless sufficient charges are made and sustained against the incumbent to secure his removal. The letter further states that Congressmen may storm as much as they please, and yet the administration will make no more exceptions to rule now reestablished. Superintendent Enoch G. Machan, of Lagrange county, has been charged with malfeasance in office. The allegation is that he has acted as paid agent of Van Antwerp Bragg & Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., and ! Donahue & Henneberry during his entire term of office. As agent for these companies, the complaint alleges, he has received 30 per cent, on all the books sold by or through him in the county; and that he has been actively engaged in opposing the successful operation of the new school book law ever since it was passed. The ■ complainant is Nelson E, Miller, a township ’ trustee of Lagrange county, and he avers I that he stands ready to prove his charges. i The introduction of the new books into - Lagrange county has been almost entirely defeated by the open hostility of Mr. Machan. *■

A CRUEL COMMANDER.

The ship of war Enterprise arrived at New York on the 27th, after an absence at European stations of two years and seven months. The vessel left the navy yard in Brooklyn with a well selected crew and officers, picked out by Captain McCalla himself. She returned the most unhappy ship, probably, that ever came into port. In the course of the cruise desertions had been frequent, and nearly every officer in the ward room had been under suspension one or many times. Tho life aboard the Enterprise for officers aud men was described by one of her ship’s company Friday as having been one continual round of “hell.” The commander i 3 charged with tho severest cruelty to both officers and men. This incident Is given of Thanksgiving day last: The Enterprise was lying at Gibraltar, and the men and officers expected a holiday. Instead, the ship went over to the African coast and landed thfe marine guard on the beach for drill, while the blue jackets on board amused themselves with target practice. A storm came up and a boat was sent ashore to take off the men. The boat was capsized in the surf and washed ashore with its crew. At 7 o’clock that night, some food having been floated ashore on a catamaran to the men on the beach, the captain signaled them from tho ship to march to Ceuta, the nearest town, some fifteen miles distant. Tho Enterprise then sot sail for Gibraltar. Lieutenant White was in ohargeof the marines, Lieut. Kline had been in chargo of the boat’s crew that had been washed ashore, and being a line offloer he took command. The way to Ceuta lay through an unknown country, inhabited only by roving banditti. There was no guide to Do procured and tho Americans had not a single round of ammunition. Thore were thirty-four mpn in tho party and about 3,000 pieces of bag gage which they had been signaled to take with them. Added to this was the danger of approaching a settlement such as Ceuta in the night, for thore is a large penal coir ony 6f Spaniards at that place. The two lieutenants decided to erect what "shelter they could for the men and stay where they were lor the night. The next morning the Enterprise proceeded ta Ceuta, aud not finding the men there, went back tc thS beach, wnere sho found them. Captain McCalla took the men on bound, and imme diabely placed White and Kline, under suspension. As from first to last ever} officer on the ship had been under suspension, this was not considered remarkable

A SHOT FOR A PULL.

A Tragedy at Washington—An Kx-Con-Cress naan Shot by a Correspondent. In the corridor of the House at Washington, shortly before two o’clock Friday afternoon, ex-Congressman Taulbee was shot through the head by Charles Kincaid, correspondent of the Louisville Times. Both men are Kentuckians, ond the trouble was caused by the ex-Congressman pulling the correspondent’s nose sos publishing certain statements in regard to him. The shooting occurred just outside the Capitol near the southeastern entrance to th* building. Taulbee was shot in the head, and his is a very dangerous wound. A call of the House had just been ordered shortly after noon on the 28th, when the two men met for the first time since the trouble between them originated. Kincaid hadsent in hiseard to see a Kentucky member of Congress and was waiting at the east door leading to the floor of Hhe House. It is from this door that the cards of all ladies are sent into the House, the ladies’ reception-room being across the corridor. There is always a large crowd of people about the corridor. Taulbee came out of the House while Kincaid was standing in the outer door wav, and, walk* ing up to him. said a few words in an undertone undistinguishable to the doorkeeper, only two or three feet away. It is said the lie was passed. The doorkeeper, who was in the act of closing the doors, as is customary on a call of the House, then noticed Taulbee, who is larger framed and muscular, grab Kincaid by the lapel of the coat, and with a strong grasp, hold him while he'said. “Kincaid, come out into the corridor with me.” The reports Which flew about the capital statod that the exCongressman had pulled the correspondent’s nose, or ear, but the doorkeeper who was standing there denies this. Kincaid is a small and slightly-built man, suffering from illness and some nervous ailment. His reply to Taulbee’s invitation to come out into the corridor was: “I am in no condition for a physical contest with you; I am unarmed.” All this time the doorkeeper was vainly endeavoring to get the men out of the way so that the doors might be closed, but was prevented by Taulbee, who declared that he had a right to enter. Taulbee and Kincaid then went their ways, tho former into the house, and the latter, it is supposed, after a pistol, for, as ho stated, ho had none at the time. '*

This quarrel was not generally known even to the intimate friends of the two ; men, when, at about 1:30 o’clock, members and friends dining in the restaurant, wore j startled by the sharp report of a pistol fired j very pear the private room attached to the ! restaurant. They rushed out breathlessly | while other persons came tumbling down the stairway, and soon there was an excited crowd surrounding a man holding his head from which the blood was gushing m steady stream, while another man was' sxclaiming that ho had done tho shooting. ! The bullet was fired at a range not the ; length of a man’s arm. Taulbee, after spending some time in tho house, had come out and was decending the eastorn marblo stairway leading from tho main to the lower floor of the building. He passed Kincaid on his way and the latter came after him. This stairway is lighted only by one small window, and is dark and gloomy. At the time the affair occurred j there were many people passing up and down. Taulboo had nearly reached the bottom, when he felt a sharp tap on his : shoulder. He wheeled quickly around, and as he did so, Kincaid, who had touched ; him from bohind, fired without a word of | warning, the bullet entering on tho right , side of the right eye. The wounded man almost sank to the floor, but rallied instant ly and staggered down the few remaining steps to the landing, whero ho was quickly surrounded by a throng, some of whom recognized him. : —- Congressman Yoder, a physician, as well as a politician, and Dr. Clarence Adams, a young practitioner, were near at hand. Under their guidance the wounded man was removed to the room of the Committee on Public Building-1 and Grounds, where he was made comfortable on a lounge until he could be removed to his homo. Kincaid did not endeavor to escape, but walked into the crowd surrounding the wounded man, excitedly exclaiming: “I did it, lam the man who did the shooting. ” Officer Bryan, of the Capitol police, caught hold of him after he heard these words uttered, and Kincaid was taken to the New Jersey avenue station, whero ho sits dejected, a physical wreck from nervous prostration, and rocking to and fro, while low moans come from his lips. Mr. Carlisle and other Kentucky politicians called upon the wounded man soon after the shooting. The bullet entered a little below and just to tho right of the left eye. It is believed that it then wept around the side of the face aiid lodged behind the right ear. No paralysis has sr t in, so there is good reason to believe tba* neither the spinal column nor the brain has been affected. Friends of the injured man say the wound may be a facial one, which will not have a serious result. Tho wound is a very serious one, but may not prove fatal. Kincaid says Taulbee has been hounding him for more than a year past and has several times insulted him. lie circulated stories that lie was a coward and afraid to meet him (Taulbee), These reports in his nervous state so overwrought him that he hardly knew what he was doing. He also understood that Taulbee had threatened him with violence. On the 28th ho assaulted him and pulled his nose and ear and this was more than he could endure. - Kinchid is a slight built, inoffensive look ing man Of about thirty-five years of uge. He was formerly a judge in one of the Louisville eburts, and his family is one Of the best known in Kentucky. He has a wide acquaintance in social circles here, and has spent a considerable of his time in attending receptions, parties aud other so* ~ ciety events. „ Taulbee is thirty-nine years old, of tall figure, with a frame j siuowy and strong, out lean. He soon be came known in tho house, as a ready talker, and was more fre quently on his feet i.u|an aay other young member. He had an immensely powerful voice,; rd in the ta pult wlfich sometimes occurred in the house it could always be heard above the dip. His home is Say lor, '* viife, Ky.