Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — Page 2

She JjkpuMiam, Q*o. B. Marshall, Publisher. WENSSELA.ER. . INDIANA

l Washington's Birthday, according lo the calendar at that time, was Feb. CL The v calendar was changed in ass. David Dudley Field is in favor of •mapulsory voting. Compulsory voting would be a great aid to woman aoffrage. . 1L DE Freycinet, the French Minis* Car of War, has published a decree forbidding surgeons in the French army to make use of hypnotism in their practice, or to experiment with it. Marshal MacMahon, twice president of the French republic, sent his hearty congratulations to the young Bne d’Orleans upon the step he had tak»n in going to France in defiance of Hus law.

Thr Deioris Land and cattle Company at Deioris, Texas, has been purchased by the Columbia Cattle Company of New York for $700,000. The company’s headquarters are at Carlisle, Pa. Many curious adulterations of food are reported, but this surely beats them all. An invoice of macaroni seized at New York recently contained an assortment of shawls, all wool, and a yard or more wide. Th* Pike’s Peakcogway will be illuminated the entire seven miles by electricity. Carbons will sparkle on top of the old giant of the Rockies, and a night train will be run for the benefit of those who enjoy novelty. Many of the participants in the battle of Chickamauga, both union and confederate, have agreed to meet on the eiteof the conflict, to settle many important historical questions. Wednesday, May 28, has been decided on.

Canada’s trade with the United States is greater than her commerce with Great Britain. In 18S8 she sold ns $45,572,055 of merchandise and Croat Britain $42,094,984. Her imports to this country were to the amount of $48,841,848, or $90,000,000 greater than from Great Britain.

Paris public schools are overcrowded, and the authorities propose to help to remedy the difficulty by forbidding the attendance at them of children of foreigners. There are 60,000 foreign children in the city, and at least 5,000 of them are getting a French education free at the public schools.

And now comes a doctor who says that nitro-glycerine would have saved John Jacob Astor’s life. How unfornnate it is f or humanity that all these suggestions by the doctors come too late, and that the information necessaay to save life is always in possession of some physician who was not employed on the case.

Columbia college will presently Journey toward the front rank of American institutions of learning. Extensive athelic grounds have been «et apart by the faculty and $25,000 subscribed for their improvement. Xhe builook for next year’s cropT~of demon and wizzard baseball pitchers may therefore be said to be promising. A catholic Indian missionary, Jerome, of the Benedictine order, has compiled a prayer book for (the Sioux. It will be published by [Bishop Marty, and will be printed in Sioux language. Besides the ordinary catholic prayers the book will contain a catechism of Christian doctrine and catholic hymns, with appropriate music.

Thb National Museum at Washington, through the liberality of Mr. John A. Brill, of Philadelphia, has come into possession of two stamps issued under the act of 1765, which led Ito the American revolution. They ■were required to be placed upon all documents. Mr. Brill was offered a large sum for them, but he preferred to place them where they legitimately belonged.

Another French canal enterprise has proved a failure, aside from the gigantic Panama fiasco. This is the canal across the isthmus of Corinth in Greece. Its estimated cost was $6,000,€OO, but the French company that undertook it have sunk more than that and have abandoned the enterprise. Fully $12,000,000 more capital is required and the discouraged French investor dreads the canal. Greece will have to look elsewhere than to France jSbr funds to complete the enterprise.

Qokkh Marguerite of Italy is not jfiair, but she is fat and forty. Asrule, » (to which there are few exceptions, the jnyal families are not models of physl cal beauty. The count de Paris look' like an amiable greengrocer, Queet jVlctoria like a prosperous middle clas> woman, the prinoe of Wales like agoo< aatured bon-vlvant The queen o Italy affects literary tastes, but he. i success as an amateur author has no been very brilliant, for the story goe that, having written a story, she sen it to one of the Italian journals unde C assumed name, and it was decline* h thahks. .

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Louisville butchers will make their own ioe. Northern Illinois Tiad big nun storms Monday. The Starch Trust has perfected itsor ganisation. * Vermont’s maple sugar'crop is five million pounds. Undertakers of northwestern Ohio have formed a trust. Mr. Cleveland is under treatment for reduction of flesh. Gen. Sherman quietly celebrated his 70th birthday on the 17th. Bishop Joyce othinks Robert Lincoln will be the next President. Seventy Denver saloon keepers were arrested for Sunday selling. Artesian well diggers in Chicago struck natural gas in a small quantity. Ex -President Hayes and daughter are on a recreative trip to Bermuda. The lowa House of Representatives defeated a prohibition amendment. The New York Presbytery, on the 15th, voted in favor of creed revision.

The incoming Rhode Island Legislature will stand: 57 Democrats; 50 Republicans. An Illinois minister has brought suit against members of his flock to beating him. Eight hours is a day’s work in all the city departments of Kansas City, since the 17th. . The Massachusetts House h»s rejected the bill granting municipal suffrage to women. Samuel Kimball, aged 16 years, died at New York on the l&th from cigarette poison. Two negroes cutting levees in Luna county, Mississippi, were killed by guards on the loth. Louis Frunke & Co., New York, silk dealers, failed on the 17th for nearly a million dollars.

Eleven valuable horses perished in the burning stable pf Hogan Bros., near Wiliiamstown, Ky.Fifteen hundred building workmen are out of employment at Portland, Oregon, by reason of a lockout. One of the new war vessels of the United States Navy is named the Concord. It will help keep the peace. ■ Eight hiindred mill operatives atNashua, N. H., went out on a strike on the 17th. They want an increase in wages. The lowa oSenate passed the House school book bill. The plan is district purchase of books, with optional county uniformity. The body of a man murdered in Copenhagen was found in a barrel in New York, having been packed and shipped by the murderers.

A number of United States prisoners from Southern States in the Ohio Penitentiary, have "petitioned for removal to a warmer climate. Tennessee Prohibitionists have decided to nominate candidates for Governor and Congressmen, and will hold a State con-, vention on June 4. ---t——- —*- — James S. Caswell, who was convicted at Montpelier, Vt., of the murder of George Gould, his sentence being imprisonment for life, was married Thursday to Mrs. Laura Gould, wife of the murdered man. In the Dubuque, la.. Presbytery the revision of the faith was defeated by a vote of 22 to 13. The Presbytery then voted to instruct its delegates to the General Conference to use their best efforts against revision. | _

A fire Tuesday morning destroyed the clothing store of Browning, King & Co., clothing, and damaged the stocks of N. B. Falconer, dry goods, Mrs. J. Benson, millinery, at Omaha. Loss $115,000; insurance $75,000. The steamer Mariposa, from Australia to San Francisco, brings particulars of “the Suetta, wrecked off the coast of Thurdan Island on March 1, One hundred and thirteen people were lost, eighty-three of whom were negroes. It is announced that the Michigan Cen tral Railroad has decided to put on a new limited vestibule train between New York and Chicago which will be the fastest train in the world. It will reduce the running time between the two oities to twenty-three hours. An agreement has been reached between the miners and operators of Pennsylvania. Both sides made concessions. The new rate is to be 70 and 79 cents, an advance of 5 cents over old prices for mining. It is probable corresponding prices will be fixed for Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia. The International American Conference wiH finish its labors this week, and the Pan-Americans will start on an excursion tour through the Southjat midnight Friday. The arrangements for the trip are similar to those made when the northern section of the country was visited last fall Detroit, Mich., was, Sunday, the scene of a horrible murder and suicide. Alex. Cuddy, aged sixty-two, killed his wife, aged thirty, with an ax, afid then hanged himself to a rafter. Ho left a letter addressed to the press, stating that he was Jealous of his wife, and thou ght it was best that they both die.

E. E. Craig, balloonist, was severely injured in an attempt to make a bolloon ascension and parachute drop at Topeka. \ strong wind was blowing and the balloon came in contact with a telegraph wire, throwing him out. He fell forty feet, striking head formost against a bug gy, receiving severe injuries. A Doniphan, Mo., dispatch says: Two of a gang of four masked Ku-Klux who vis Wed thft residence oi an old man here, n the 12th, for the purpose of whipping him, were killed by Holland's fourteen-year-old son. Ed. Gillam, jr., one of those killed, was the son of a prominent and

well-to-do farmer of that section. The Onto wood, bore an unenviable reputation. A letter from Saline, Kansas, asserts that Mrs. Laura M. Johnson, President of the Kansas State Woman Suffrage Association, contradicts the statements that '•comen are getting tired of voting at mu..icipal elections and are ceasing to vote says the facts are just the reverse; -hat women are steadily gaining influence' 2 nominations and elections, and will have full suffrage. •A strike of stoeet cleaners is on in Philtlcigkia» Tts SMutdkwawaß •WanVeii

on the 15th by a mob of women, the wives and sweethearts of the strikers. The women were having the beet of it until a solitary policeman appeared, fired his revolver tothe-air and corralled the whole lot Another similar event occurred in another part of the city. This squad of rioters was also captured. All the parties are Italians.

The most remarkable marriage that has occorred in West Virginia for years waß solemnized Saturday night at St. Mary’s. The groom was Samuel Shinn, aged ninety six, and the bride Mrs. Jane Patterson, aged fifty. The old man, after nearly a century of single life, has concluded to enjoy matrimonial happiness. In movement and speech he seems no older than the bride, ana give every indication of living many years.

Andrew Campbell, the well known inventor and manufacturer of printing presses, died in a Brooklyn ambulance on Sunday night, and his remains were removed’ to hie home at 677 Gates avenue, Brooklyn. Mr. Campbell had been at tacked by heart disease at the corner of Hart street and Summer avenue, a few minutes before his death. He was in his sixty-ninth year. He removed, in 1855, to Brooklyn, from Missouri, where he first engaged in business. Great suffering for want of food is reported from Logan county, W. Va. It has been impossible to get supplies into the interior parts of th 9 county. The Guyandotte River is the only means of communication, and push boats loaded with provisions, which left the mouth of the rivet two months ago, have not yet been able to get into the county on account of the frequent rises of the river. The roaW are" impassable and it isimpossible to haul ove r them. The starvation among the cattle is on the increase.

A dispatch from Oshkosh, Wis., says: President Albee, of the State Normal School here, has received a letter from One of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State concerning the recent Bible fie cision. In answer to thequesbions of Mr. Albee the Judge says that the decision prohibiting threading of the Bible in schools merely forbids its use as a special book for a specifically religious purpose. In other words, the Bible may be used in the a history or any other book, and as such may be read before the entire school,

Governor Stone has been notified of a horrible assassination in Laurence county, Miss. The stable ofJerry Bass,, colored, was set on fire by unknown parties, and when Bass and his son Charles came out of their house to extinguish the flames they were fired on in the darkness. The boy was killed and Bass badly wounded. Their dwelling-house was then burned to the ground. No clew to the identity of the murderers has yet been discovered. Todke statutory reward Governor Stone has added $906 for the capture and conviction of the fiends.

Miss Elsse-Standring, daughter of Leon»i ard Standring, of Decorah, lowa, a student* at Rockford, 111., female seminary, ten days ago visited a young lady friend at Laporte, and she was followed by the Chicago police, because her description answered that of Emma Starke, wanted for poisoning the Maxwell family. At Laporte she made the acquaintance of Chester N. Weaver, son of Hart L. Weav er, banker; it was love at first sight, and their marriage awas had at Chicago on I Saturday last, the girl returning to Rock } ford to resume her studies. The secret leaked out, however, and Mr. Weaver has claimed Lis bride. FOREIGN. Dom Pedro and the Prince of Wales are sick. Henry M. Stanley arrived in Paris on the 18th. London trades-unions are agitating eight hours for a day’s work. There is a rumor that on Stanley’s return toEn gland he will again become a British suDjeefc, resuming his hationality, which he relinquished twenty-five years ago in America. It is stated that the Queen is anxious to confer high honors on him, which would be impossible unless he again becomes a British subject. It is probable that Stanley will be appointed to a gov emorship in Africa, but not of Congo, It is considered now likely that some territory in British East Africa will be selected for him.

LABOR MATTERS.

The Minnesota Eight-hour League met on the 13th,'400 delegates, representing every large city in the State, being present, A motion was made for a meeting of representatives from all labor organizations of the State, to be held the second Sunday in May, fer the formation of a State Federation of labor. The time, however, was considered too short, and a substitute was adopted directing the Executive Board to confer with all central labor organizations as to the proper date for and the feasibility. of such a union. The Executive Council of the Farmers’ Alliance will also be communicated with, and a report will be made at Minneapolis, May 1L According to program the master carpenters of Chicago, belonging to the association made an attempt to start up work to finish the contraction hand with non-union men. The movement was not general, as the number of non-union men on hand was not very large. It is declared that if the master carpenters persist in putting non-union men at work, a general strike of,bricklayers and masons will be ordered. Organizers reported at the meeting of the Carpenters’ District Council Sunday that every trade organization in Massachusetts promises to financially support the carpenters in their eight and nine hour demands. The uuion carpenters of the State number 6,500.

The indications are that May 1 most of the soft coal miners of Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania will go out on a strike, and that after that date the supply of soft coal will be limited. In view of this fact many of the railroad» are putting. in large supplies of soft coal, a recent purchase of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe amount ing to (75,000. Many of the coal dealers have, within the last thirty hours, received orders thst they cannot fill within a month.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Farmers’ Alliance claims 1,050 membership in Glay county. ], A strong sentiment Is developing at Connersville, favoring looal option. There is a probability that a large sugar beet factory will be located at Bluffton. John Giger, aged sixty, of Bedford, has been sentenced for two years for assaulting his wife. Hadddbk Lodge, L O. O. F., of Grawfordsville, has dedicated a new hall with appropriate ceremonies. Eight hundred Indianapolis Union Carpenters struck on the 15th, for an eight hour day and higher wages. A shepherd dog near Columbus stripped the flesh from the face of a son of Rudolph Schinive, disfiguring the lad for life. D. McWilliam’s olock at Lochiel, occupied by Clarence A. Brockway, general merchant, burned on the 15th, Loss, $5,000. C. S. Gordon, a farmer, near Metamora, owns a Jersey cow less than thirteen months old and giving milk. She weighs 400 pounds and her calf 35. There is a oontest over the road supervisorship at Lagrange, in which each side has engaged eminent counsel, and will spend several hundred dollars in litigating over a ten-dollar office, i Grant Cress, of Terre Haute, while intoxicated, attacked County Physician Stunkard with a knife, cutting him severely in the hand, because he would not release the assailant’s father from the hospital. ' Farmers in the neighborhood of Judson are discouraged over the outlook. Many i©f the wheat fields are being plowed up, and the people, for some reason, seem to if eel that the country is on 'the eve of a great crisis. | William J. Retherford, near Westport, Ax-Commissioner of Decatur county, died yesterday of iagrippe. Two grown sons and a daughter died of similar complications, and the widow and another son are lying at the point of death, i Miss Louisa Stoitz, of Evansville, while (visiting her aunt, Mrs. Henry Manz, Of .Chattanooga, was made drunk with wine (by her uncle and was debauched by him. TShe sued for damages, and a Tennessee {jury a warded her I There arefive lodgesof Odd Fellows in ‘Madison, and Muaroe and Sterlock. The oldest and the youngest of the organiza (tions-have voted to consolidate. The first named has amembershipof 100 with SB,OOO, while the other has 43 members and about $4,000. Miss Virginia Cooper, daughter of ex State Treasurer John J. Cooper was married atMr. Cooper’s home at Indianapolis on the aftcrnoon of April 15th to-Congress-man Wiley of New York. The wedding was a notable-affair, and many prominent (people were present. f Tbe-large new bam of Allen Grass, near Medora, was burned by ineendiares. Three valuable horses, with farming implements, hay and grain, etc., were de stroyed. Loss $4,000; insurance SI,OOO The barn on same site was burned by incendiary fire two years ago. James M. Rice, of Montgomery county is trying the experiment of raising wild geese and ducks. He has half a dozen pairs of each, and by clipping their wings he retains them on his farm, and they have become quite tame. It is doubts if they will breed in-captivity. ■m,,.l S a > *

There are now seventy two lodges of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association in operation in Harrison county, comprising a membership of over two-thousand. The organization has thus far refrained from meddling in politics, but it is intimated that it will take a hand in the fall elecs tions.

At about 9 o’clock Monday night the barn on the farm of John Baggs, two miles west of Union City, occupied oy John Stacks as tenant, was burned. With the bam were burned three horses, thirteen bead of cattle, wagons, farming utensils, grain and feed. Loss, about $3,000, without insurance. The Masonic committee of Cleveland on ;the dedication of the Garfield memorial extend an invitation to all Masonio bodies to participate in the ceremonies on May 30 next. On account of the crowd that will .probably be in attendance it will be im possible for the local organizations to entertain visitors.

Wood Huber’s barn, near CoHnersville, >was destroyed by incendiarism Monday night, and several horses were burned. Loss, (4,000; with $1,200 insurance. The cattle barn of John Groves, only a few .miles distant, was also destroyed by the same agency, and out of twenty head of cattle, only two escaped. Loss, $3,000. □Of the $1,200,000 appropriations for special purposes by the Legislature of 1889 tall but about $330,000 has already been paid opt by State Treasurer Lcmcke. The treasury is almost empty, and the Treasurer says it is certain the counties Will have to be drawn on heavily in advance to their December settlements, in order to keep the wheels of State turning. The Terre Haute Gazette kept tabs on the church going people Sunday last, and found that 6,442 attended divine service In the morning. Taking the Sunday school and night service, with the above as a basis, the Gazette figures out that fifty per cent, of the population of Terre Haute are worshipers; from which it argues that if Terre Haute is a wicked town, heaven help other cities. A day or two ago Eli Rosenbalm was married to Miss Hattie Brad bum, at her home, near Martinrille. A. M. Livingston, of Gosport, officiated and before he had scarcely pronounced the binding tin there arose a grievous misunderstanding between Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbalm. The disagreement was of so severe a nature that ; the husband bade his wife adieu and left, .and he has not been seen or heard of sinoe. Patents wove granted to ItxHaniaas on the 15th as fellows: Ezra Bowman, Remington, car pusherorpinch bar; W GFrost, Lebanon, fence; F Graff, Fort Wayne, compound for cleaning Jewelry; J Jones, Elkhart, railway crossing; Frank and J ‘Hein, Jasper, flexible cover for cylinder or ■voU top desk; G W Marble, Plymouth, .metal roller forging machine; G W Skyman. Terre Haute, muffler; W Teamer Evansville, key bolt and washer for rattmray Joints. • A murderous “tough” named Grant Ohms, called at the office of county physiM. M - n ■ —■ - ■■■■■“■■

cian Stunkard, at Terre Haute, demanding the release of his father from the hospital, When the doctor refused to issue the order the man attacked the physician , with a knife. He made several deadly rushes at him, in one of them cutting the doctor’s hand. The doctor had nothing with which to defend himself, and was alone, but he fought the man as best he could till a policeman arrived and arrested him. Cress was crazy from liquor. In response to formal invitation to play progressive pedro, seventy-five guests were indulging in that game at the elegant home of Miss Minnie Ley, in Elkhart, at 11 o’clock, on the 16th, when Miss Ley and Charles Wilson, in full wedding attire, presented thepselves in the parlor and were united in marriage by Rev. J. E. Knopf, of the Congregational church Everybody was thunderstruck, as not the slightest intimation regarding the event existed among the guests. The lady says she took that way of avoiding wedding presents. The couple left for an extended Eastern trip. The Second Congressional District convention met in Shoals on the 17th, to nominate a successor to Hon. J. H. O’Neal, the present incumbent, who is not a candidate for re-election, and a red-hot controversy resulted, growing out of the rival candidacy, of ex-Speaker Niblack and ex-Con-gressman Cobb, of Knox county, both of whom came into the convention with a divided delegation. Altogether there were seven candidates. The convention remained in session until 4 o’clock Tuesday, and 378 ballot 6 were taken, resulting in the selection of Mr. Britz, of Dubois county, who received fifty votes on the final ballot, with forty-seven necessary to a choice. Dr. A. J. Thomas, who has been a membe of the medical staff of the Central Insane Hospital for many years, has been elected Superintendent of the new Insane Hospital at Evansville. The Board of Trustees of the Evansville institution has been organized, with Williain Rahm, Jr., of Evansville, President; Perry H. Blue, of Sullivan, Vice President, and-Dr. T. Wertz, of Jasper, Treasurer. Besides Dr, Thomas, Dr. William Browning retires from the medical staff of the Central Hospital at this time. To the two vacancies thus caused, Superintendent C. E. Wright’has appointed Dr. D. S. Wiles, of Spencer, Owen county, and Dr. John A. Simpson, of Bloomington, Monroe county. Four prisoners, Bans Sherman, the notorious horse thief; John Omara, held for illegitimate parentage; Chas. D. Howell the dude burglar, and “Slip” Carroll, also a burglar, sawed-through their cells into the corridor and out of the Cass county jail Sunday night at midnight during the heavy thunder storm. Sherman, is a desperate man, having stolen at least a dozen horses in Cass county, and he has served two terms in the penitentiary. He’s wanted at Rochester for cracking a safe and at Warsaw for burning a barn. Tne prisoners were not missed until Monday morning. Howell, the burglar, has been a member of the Knights of Pythias and an Odd Fellow, and is a slick fellow Large rewards are offered for their re capture. |

John McGraugh, an active Dcmocrati politician of near Cannellburg,was arrested last week, accused of attempted bribery, the complaint being lodged against him by John Hosea, a young Republican, who was instigated thereto by David Hosea his father. Sunday night, shortly after 12 o’clock, a party of twelve masked men battered down the door of Hosea’s home, dragged the old man out and fastened him to a tree and gave him a whipping, nearly every man being provided with a strong withe, and applying the blows to his back until he was covered with blood and well nigh insensible. Young Hosea was absent from home or he would have been similarly served. The senior Hosea recognized some of his assailants, and prosecutions will follow. James Dennis, who died at Waynetown, on Wednesday Dight, made a death-bed confession4o the effect that he was the chief actor in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. McMillin, for which act John F. Coffee was hanged in 1885. On the night of the murder Dennis, according to* his confession, went into McMullin’s house for the purpose of stealing S2OO which McMuilin was known to have. Coffee remained on guard outside. McMuilin awoke and showed fight, when Dennis struok him on the head with a club, killing him instantly. Mrs. McMuilin ran out of the house, and was caught by Coffee, who struck her on the head, intendiug to stun her, but instead killed her. The two men then placed the bodies in the house and set fire to it. Both were arrested and Coffee was convicted of murder while Dennis was acquitted. Susie Crownell, aged eighteen, daughter of Captain Leo Crownell, an old lake skipper was to have married Dr. George Rou at Rushville, one year ago. A week bes or the wedding was to have come off the doctor went away on a business trip an did not return. What became of him nobody knows. Six months ago Miss Crownell began-to receive the attentions of Lester Stoat, a well-to-do young mao, living in a neighboring village, and two weeks ago they ware married. Last week Dr. Rouse returned to Rushville as suddenly as he had left. No one knew where he had been or what kept him away, but his reasons for going and staying so long must have been satisfactory to the youn woman, for on Friday she eloped with him. The runaway pair were heard of In Dunkirk, but since then all trace of them has been lost. The parties are prominent in society and wealthy. The eloping bride was educated abroad. She is a handsome! brunette. She speaks six languages fluent | ly. Her mother was a Cuban and eloped I with Captain-Crownell from New Orleans 1 and married tainatwonty years ago, being a wealthy Cvbaa-tover. I

Forgot Himself.

Hew Tort Weekly. American Heiress —Gracious! My< air is coming down. Won’t you hease push that bunch book into its laoe and held it while 1 fasten itP 1 Count De Lafayette Mont Moreney—ertaisunong, • Mees. Dair, eet ees naesh. N«t!

DEPUTY NEAGLE VINDICATED.

The oelebrated Neagle habeas corpns case from California was decided by the Unites States Supreme Court, Monday, the judgment of the Circuit Court being Affirmed. This finally disposes of all proceedings against Neagle for the shooting of Judge Terry in a railway station at Lathrop, Cal., on the 14th of last August to prevent him from taking the life of Justice Field. The Press of California was filled with conjections of a probable attack upon Jus* tice Field by Terry, as soon as it became known that he was going to attend the Circuit Court of that year. 1

After reviewing all the facts * bearing upon the homicide, the opinion says that they produce upon the court “the conviction of a settled purpose on the part of Terry and his wife, amounting to a conspiracy to murder Field. And we are quite sure that if Neagle had been merely a brother or a friend of Judge Field, traveling with him and aware of all the previous relations of. Terry to the oJudge, as he was, of his bitter animosity, his declared purposes to have revenge, even to the point of killing him, he would have been justified in what he did in defense of Field’s life and possibly of his own. But such a justification would be a proper sub- ' ject for consideration ton oa trial of the case for murder in the courts of the State of California, and there exists no authority in the courts of the United States to discharge the prisouer while held in custody by the State authorities for this offense, unless there be found in aid Of the defence of the prisoner, some element of power and authority asserted under the government of the United States.”

Justice Miller then takes up the proposition advanced by Neagle’s counsel that Justice Field, when attacked, was in the immediate discharge of his duty as a Judge and that Neagle was charged with a duty, under the laws of the United States, to protect Field from violence. The law requiring Justices of the Supreme Court to go on circuits is quoted, and the court says that in traveling to perform this duty Justice Field “was as much in the discharge of a duty imposed upon him by the law as he wa3 while sitting in court and trying cases. There are many duties which the Judge performs outside the court room where he sits to pronounoa judgment or to preside over a trial. Justice Field, when attacked,had actually entered upon the duties of his circuit, and was in the necessary act of returning from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where he was required by law to be, when he was assaulted. We have no doubt that Justice Field, when assaulted by Terry, was engaged in the discharge of his duty as a Circuit Justice, and was entitled to all the protection under these circumstances which the law oould give him.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In both Houses on Monday resolutions were passed to appoint members to attend the funeral of the late Hon. Samuel J Randall. Of the Senate, Senators Quay Allison, Davis, Voorhees and Eustis, and of the House, Messrs. O’Neil, Carlisle Hamer, Holman, Cannon,Forney,Springer Reilly and McKinley were elocted committeemen.

The Senate on the 15th debated the Montana election case. The House passed the naval appropriation bill, including the provision for three-coast line battle ships. The bill to 'define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States wa3 also passed—the Speaker counting a quorum. The bill as passed withdraws all original jurisdiction now vested in the circuit courts and vests the same in the district courts oi the United States, also provides that the circuit oourbs .ol the United States shall exercise such jurisdiction by writ of error and ap peal as they have exercised under existing laws. The Circuit Court is made an appellate court exclusively, except that it has the power to issue all remedial process. The circuit courts shall consist of the present circuit judge and two others, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The ciroult courts shall be courts of record. The Senate, on the 16th laid the Chinese enumeration bill on the table. Bills for public buildings at Galesburg, 111., and Ashland, Wis., were passed. The Mon tana election case was disposed of, Sanders and —Republicans — being seated by a party vote. The House received the report on the tariff bill. The military acadomy approprl■ation bill was passed. The contested election case of Posey vs. Parrett (Indiana) was disposed of in favor of Parrett. The Bowen vs. Buchanan case (Virginia) was also decided in favor of the setting member.

The Senate on the 17th, fixed the terms of the new Montana Senators. Many petitions were presented. The House bilj for the appointment and retirement of Gen. Fremont in the U. S. army wae passed. The bill to provide for thirty ad. ditfonal pension examiners was debated. The House adjourned through respect to the late Mr. Randall, whose funeral, 00. curred on this date. In the House a raoket arose over the southern war claim bill. Mr. Snide, its author, rose to a question of persona 1 privilege, saying he had seen an article in a New York paper in which Mr. Thomas, chairman of the war claims committee, denounced the bill as an infamous jobMr. Enloe declared that the bill had been openly and fairly introduced and the claims were perfectly proper. After the introduction of some other business the House, in committee of the whole, took up the court of olaims bilL Mr. Thomas said many of the claims presented had not been properly investigated as to the loyalty of claimants; he knew, of many who wars positively disloyal. Cannon and Buchanan protested against the bill. Houk defended the bill and said the purpose of its opponents was to prevent the payment of any claims however Jnsk Houk, Kerr, Groa. venor and Thomas passed numerous rathe a uncomplimentary remarks about each other, and finally the bill was reported with a recommendation to recommit, fa the House, however, the Speaker ruled this out or order and the bill went book on the calendar. , ' . ; ... • . I , ■ * . .**