Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 11, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 January 1883 — Page 2

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The Blooming-ton Courier.

BY IT. J. FFJJTUS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

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The public debt was reduced $15,413,222.82 in December. The. pension appropriation bill lias been reported to the fall committee. It appropriates $S1,Q00,000. The fortification appropriation bill is just completed. It appropriates $175,000, 100,000 of which is for improvement of harbor fortifications. General Comstock before the Mississippi river commission, estimated that the entire navigation of rfce river c uld not be imjraaMorfi The estimate had no regaratWees. " The Cattle Commissiot. recommends the adoption of vigorous measures in dealing with the plague. The report estimates the yearly losses from the lung plague in the United States at from S2,C00,be0 to SaCCO,0lH), andihe prospective loss at $50,000,000. Secretary Chandler has tram nutted to the House the report of the naval adyis ory board as to the wisdom and expediency of undertaking and completing the

ironclad steamers Monadnock. Amphytrite, Puritan and Tenor. The board is of opinion that it. would be wise and expedient to finish these vessels, and the Secretary concurs m that recommendation. The Committee on Territories, on the i recommendation of General Sheridan,wiil report a bill extending the area of th Yellowstone park on the east to a line north and south through Cedar mountain, and southward to the forty-fourth parallel of north latitude, an addition of about 3,834 square miles to the park, the whole area of which would be 6,951 square miles. .... Arthur L. Thomas, Secretary of Utah Territory, and Philip T. Vanziie, United States District Attorney and ex-oflieio Attorney General of Utah, are here to confer with Congressmen relative to supplemental legislation necessary to the suppression of polygamy. They take no stock, apparently, in the efficao of the Edmunds bill. It works very well so far as it goes, but it is not radical enough to suit the Gentile population. When asked as to the workings of the Edmunds bill Mr.-Yanzile said it would probably work " out the problem in the course of time,but it would only be in 100 years, or in other words, in a very long time. The plan favored is that providing for a council something like that which was applied successfully to Louisiana when the latter was a Territory. This feature was embraced in the WiUifsbill introduced last session, and now before the Judiciary Committee. As the "Willita bill is probably buried where it now is, a new bill is being drafted which will be introduced in both Houses, It will provide for a council to correct in detail the existing errors and evils of the Edmunds law now in operation. Amor g the episodes of the week which famish! food for coment here, was Secretary Lincoln's report to Congress in response to an inquiry as to the necessity r for using the?money appropriated at the previous session for the purpose of improving rivers and harbors. The Secretary prefaced his report with the state- . ment that it has not been customary for the department to pass judgment upon the action of Congress in appropriating money for the improvement of rivers and harbors, proceeds to show that next July there will remain on hand an unexpended balance of more than $6,000,000 of the money recently appropriated. This is as much, in the opinion of good judges, as ought to be spent for the improvements in question in any one year, and therefore the necessity for passing a river and harbor bill this session is entirely removed. Although no one can take exceptions to the tenor of the Secretary's report, he evidently aims to inform his questioners that in his opinien,tho cause of commerce is not likely to surfer if the lavish appropriation of moneyr irr-iloz nsr of cases, Ictrwas sanctioned at the last session, in deiance of a Presidential veto, is

checked. Becoming specific, as he goeson, Secretary Lincoln cites eighty-seven cases in which he thinks the money appropriated is not needed. The amounts in some of these instances are small, but among other improvements contemplated which he particularizes as unnecessary, are those on the Sacremeftto River, to which the bill appropriates 3250,000. Secretary Frelinghuysen has addressed a note to the Chinese minister, on the subject of Ghinese travelers in theUnited

States. It is in resjonse to an inquiry made by the Chinese Legation, last summer, and touching questions arising un

der the Chinese act of last May, relative

to the transit across the territory of the United States of Chinese laborers proceeding to or returning from Cuba or other foreign countries. The conclusion reached by the State Department is based on the opinion of the Attorney General, to whom the matter was referred, and whech, briefly stated, is that a Chinese laborer! coming to this country merely to " pass through it, cannot be considered as within the prohibition of the law, he being "neither an immigrant. a laborer coming here as a laborer;" and further, that Ghinese passing through the country to other countries are not required to produce the certificate of identification prescribed in the Chinese act, provided they prove in some other manner their status as mere transient passengers. The character of the proof required may, Secretary Frelinghuysen says, very proper! v be regulated by the Secretary cf the Treasury who has already been requested by the State Department to frame such regulations. There aresaid to foe 90,000,000 gallons of whisky in bond. The tax on this ie $81,006,000. This whisky must by law be withdrawn from bond this month, and the owners say it will nun their business, make a panie,and turn loose on the country this enormous amount of whisky which can not be marketed Such were the statements of John Sherman when explaining the bonded whisky bill which lie tried to rush through the Senate The bill provides that the whisky may stay in bond two years longer It was admitted

during the debate to-day that this system I

of boudingwhisky for a long time tended to over-production. Neither Sherman or . Beck could answer tire asa?ioii that if 5r63n passed it would on1 -

wo years the time w-Jtr Wst come out, toget? Simulations. It? $I1 to flay thai

in bond the more it would bo worth, as it was the sort of whisky which age made valuable. There was not much opposition to the bill, nor to Senator Ingalls proposition to charge five per cent, interest on the tax for the next two years, but Senator WindonVs proposition to allow no more whisky to go in bond for a longer term than one year raised such a whirlwind that Sherman got excited and Beck angry. In WindoroV proposition lies the milk in this cocoanut. It is tho old fight between the rectifiers, whoso whisky is as good, or bail, when it is thirty days old as it ever is, and the bourbon distillers, whose whisky grows richer in flavor as it does in value by age. The rectifiers claim that the time has come when tho distillers have got to stop receiving the aid of the United Stales Government in competing with tho rectifiers. Tho distillers say that unless the Government goes ou allowing whisky to remain a long time in bond, a businees representing hundrecls of millions of capital will be ruined. So it happens that two interests are playing at see-saw with each other, and using Congress as the balance. The two lobbies aro here; and the foregoing is the statement of the side of the distillers. On the contrary, a gentleman representing the rectifiers says that there is a great deal p. pretense about the appeal of the distillers for relief. He says that the talk about S0,000,000 or 90,000,000 of gallons, which must be taken out soon if the bill should not j ass

thereby injuring the trtde and affecting financial oircles generally, is untrue There is no danger of a panic the corning year on account of whisky, and there are no 80,000,000, nor even half that many gallons of liquor in bond upon which the tax must be paid during the coming season. The whisky which must be unbonded in 1S83 amounts altogether to only 14,000,000 gallons, on which" the tax amounts to about $12,000,000. The whisky men

themselves claim that the consumption br the country of their products is 15,000.000 gallons per year, which is more by 1,000,000 obviously than the amount upon which they are asked to pay tax during the entire year of 1SS3. In fact, the distillers can handle the goods with ease, provided they can induce Congress to pass a law which will benefit them by allowing them to hold the spirits in store untax paid for a year, in which time 'twould double in value. There is the secret of the whole movement. The whisky going out of bond is not more than they need, but if they can hold it at government expense for two years longer and double their money it would be very profitable legislation for the distillers, and -in the meantime the country would be supplied with so much more compound whiskies while this bourbon is getting additional age. - LEGISIAT1VE PROGEEDINGS. India xapo lis, Jan.$l. 1SS3. Senate. Met at 10:20 a. m., Liout.-Gov. Haima presiding, w lib every senator present Prayer -was offered by Rev. Dr. Houghton, and Chief Justice Wood, of the Supreme Court, administered the oath to the newly-elected Senators Officers were then elected .A resolution was ottered and adopted by a party vote declaring the rules of tho last session to bo the rules of this, except in so far as they vested the appointment of the standing committees in the bauds of tho Lieut-Governor, . ..A committee was appointed to notify the House of the organization., of the Senate...... Mr. Brown introduced Senate bill No. 1, to reorganize the management of the benevolent institutions the State; referred A resolution authorizing the Lieut.-Goveraor to appoint a committee of five to report standing committees was defeated by party vote 28 to 22 Adjourned at noon till 10 o'clock Friday. . . Hose. Organization was affected by Hon. E. R. Hawn, Secretary of. State Her. ..Myron W.

kUeed offered prayer Officers were olected, and

Mr. Bjnuin, Speaker, was conduoted to the chair. Committee to report rides was appointed; also a resolution was adapted, requesting officers of the House to give preference in their appointments to disabled ex-soldiers A motion was adopted to cdjourr till 10 a. m. Friday, but notwithstanding a vect&s wns taken till 2 o'clock On reassembling a bill was passed appropriating $125,0 ttfoi legislative expenses...... A bad feeling seemed to prevail over the announcement of the refusal of the Senate to receive the Clerk of the House in Leu of a committee announcing their organization for business, and a great portion of the time was consumed in discussing it.

the Trustees and ether officers of the town of Westiiel'1, Hamilton county. in the house. Speaker announced the standing committees. A resolution by Mr. Shoekney providing for an investigation of State house itnVira; tabled. lulls of intoresL were introduced: UyBep, Deem, concerning city-town elections. By Rep. filmau,ccmcernuig ditching and drainage; also, decedent's estates. T5y Rep, Shaffer, to repeal Board of Health act. By Hop. Whitest, oouenmig fire inn. By Hop.Antrimtre.pm ing all assomtions to pay employes at lea st once every thirl j day. Same, roqnirhig railroad to fence their lands. Same, to protect wild game. By Hep, Montgomery, coneormu;; he construc

tion of highway. And many other bill, which wid bo referred to as tl toy may be railed up, It wasdeeidjd that (he mhmUh. s Fhould commence at 9 a. and 2 p. m. raoeawrcf cWbress, 'IVt'SJUY, Jan. 2, Sesate.--The report of tho Mississippi li'yor Commission was transmitted by t w riiloii "Pel it ions were present .d from ll.'tuvrw iij:nirHt an increase f t lie duty on turpi .lie; J'rom Si. bonis for a reducti4n of tlioduty on sugnrs; from svoral places for the paesaf' of the bill increasing the pensions of jnc-anned and OT C-lcggMl soldiiiv; from Cincinnati, favoring tlu per.ding bnded whisky bill Calendar biuvm s was considered. At 1:25 the Fitz Joh:t Forter bill was taken un and Mr. Logan resnmed his argitment against it. Horse Two relief bills w. passed Als: placing tobacco exported to Canada and Mexico by rail on the same fooling a that export od by vessel; to empower pTn:t.:ie"s to ndininiHter oaLhs to impo rters of book; :o allow n drawback on disilUory worms manufactured for export; nuthoriring U. S. Co nmissio.:ei to take acknowledgments of transfer of V, . bonds Business on Speak'ff's table wan considered. Wedkrsdat, January Sen ati; Petitions asking for ijrohibivory law

against intoxicants were pivtnted. Mr. Ijognn resumed his argument in tho Fit z John Porter case, ai d concluded at 2:0" 3Mr. Seweil read testimony in reply to Mr. Log int speech. Mr, McPherson spoke in favor of llie bill. Mr. Halo moved i'js inde'niite postponement yeas 20, r.;sys 28. Pei diu motion to postpeno for a week the Senate adjourned. House In committee the army appropriation bill was considered. TfitmaDAY, ,Tn. t. SENATE. The house bill to reduce internal revenue tfxation was report -d, with an anmudment embrn .'iug an entire revision of the tarifl The calendar busint ss was pot pound and the whisky bond extension bill was ttken up; several amendments were voted down, after which tho bill was passed by a vote of 23 to By unanimous consent the West Point appropriation b;ll.was taken up and passed. Horse A bill was parsed authorising the payment of $2,127 to Thomas "Yorth?nUn f or iurnishing water at Camp Dennison, Ohio, in teftl... The army appropriation bill ws considered . Tho Pendleton civil service bill was taken up, and

without debnto passed, as reported from the Senate. Vote yeas 115; nays,-!?. Friday, Jan. 5. Senate Mr. Irpmalls presejted a petition for the admission of Dakota as a state Tho Presidential succession bill was briefly considered and then an executive session was held. House The District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed. Saturday, Jan.n. Sesate. After petitions, two or three unimportant bills were passed A. bill was pjssel permitting the exportation of tobacco, snuff and cigars in bond, free of tax, lo adjacent foreign territories.. . . At 2 o'clock tho Presidential sneces-

rsion bill came up and was discussed A resolu

tion providing for the termination of the Hawaii-

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation of the Important Happeuings of the W eek. INDIANA ITEMS: Charles Kulilo, of Logausporfc, Consul ut Sidney, Australia, is homo on a visit Tho llobrew tongrogjttion have dedicated tint". A. R. hull at Terro limit as a place of worship. Elkhart citizens are organizing to fight the driven-well company. The latter demands $V f -reach well in operation. Evans ri lie has a pest-house for HUiali pox patients, it consists of a tent sot up on tho commons in the vicinity of the city. The United Ktataa has filed suit against Isaac MeiuUnihall, tsx -postmaster at Albion, and his bondsmen, to recover an alleged shortage of UKIIT. A Four teen -year-old hoy named I'.oone,

son of a cisfiir maker of Yiiieiames, has

died of lockjaw, having shot himself in the hand with a toy pistol Christmas day. The greater porh m of both Charles Bliannon's feet were ncently ampntatod

! at Otis, which had been terribly frozen

one cold day this v inter, near Jackson Center.

A company has l een organized at Cor- j

ydou to hnihl a larc bathing establishment and sink artesian wells. The milphur water at that place is equal to Ut ft at White Sulphur. Va. William Cieen, of Waterloo township, Fayette eounty,ha3 lost ft number of hogs with a new disease. The animals bem bleeding at the nose and bleed to death generally in ten cr t welve hours. Francis V. V. Shell, of Koseinsko county, has been convicted of two attempts to vde illeallv in that eountv. He was

Baldwin,the San Francisco millionaires now nursing a wounded arm as the result of a shot fired by a wronged woman, was formerly of Olive township, near South

amount of $1,700,000. Ou tha ground of the general benefits to the- country, New York bankers and merchants have forwarded to Congress a memorial for an ap-

Bend, and the South Bond Tribune says j prop nation to cover the deficit.

he was orohnhlv n lmnntAr man while ! Tho Massachusetts Commissioners of

running horse races on Terro Coupee prairie than he has been since. Mis suddenly acquired wealth is constantly getting him into trouble, and, like old Adam, generally with a woman. The morning express train from Cincinnati. broke, Friday, the hind wheel under the tender, just before reaching the Flat Book bridge at St. Paul, and before the train stopped it passed entirely over tho bridge, which is seventy-five feet above the river bed. One-third part of the wheel i broken entirely ofT, and yet, in this condition, tho train kept the track, not a wheel olT.nol even tho broken wheel left the track. I lad it g one oft; and carried t be train with it, the loss of life must have been frightful. On the night of Sept. 'J, thesi.fe in the count v treasurer's office at Seottbunf,

inland fisheries have just laid down in tho hatching-house at Winchester, 110,000 Ij'ike Superior trout, Owingto the failuro of Governor Butler of Mass,, to make mention of the liquor question in his inaugural, no regit iar committee could be appointed by the Legislature upon that subject, however, joint special committee was appointed. Uiver coal operators at Pittsburg have decided to reduce the wages of boat caulkers from 3.50 to $3 per day, and other workmen about the mines in the same proportion. None of the pits in which the redaction was offered wore at work Monday. At Williamsport, Pa., ex-County Commissioners Daniel Carson and William Ebner, pleading guilty to embezzlement, pay a fine of 3250 each, and will be im-

tScott county, was blown open by burg- prisoned in tho Eastern penitentiary, lars and money and bonds amounting Carson for twenty-one months, and Eb-

o 2,000 stolen. By the laws of Indiana, county treasurers, or their bondsme i, aro responsible for all moneys in the treasury and in the settlement with the county commissioners of Scott ccunty, in December, Treasurer Blocher paid to the county the amount of money stolen from the safe. Mr, Blocher will petition the Legislature for that; amount. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. John M. Bless, in his annual report, will call attention to the wretched manner in which school fund accounts are kept. In comparing the accounts of the County Superintendents as to the amount of tuition and special school revenue received by Township Trustees

from County treasurers with the Audi-

nor for live months,

committed for trial on a charge of high treason for utterance in a recent speech. Bad was accepted. At the funeral of Gambetta, '20,000 prS'ons wore in the procession. Advices from Capetown state that during the past two months 900 people have been stricken with smallpox,and 240 have

! died. The negroes object to vaccination

The applications under the arrears of rent act affect 130,000 holdings in Ireland. If they were all granted it would- involve the payment of 80,000 hy the state to landlords. Sexton, member of Parliament, in addressing his constituent, said the leaders of the Irish party were determined to carry on agitation for the independence of Ireland. Cetowayo has left Capetown for Zululand. He complains bitterly that he was sorced to sign the conditions of his restoration without being allowed liberty to discuss them. Minister Logan continues to work in behalf of peace between Peru and Chili. He has written a long letter to Montero, vice President of Peru, urging him to accent the Chilian terms.

RELIGIOUS NOT

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There ate $1 babbatn sopooiii gjy

with 3,794 pupikv :

In India and Ceylon, out of 7"2 iission-3

aries 21 are children of missionarie John Wesley, when preaching hiast

riches, said: To ride in a coach here xu& to get to heaven hereafter is almost Vo much for any man to ask.'' r

Mr. Fred. Billings, of Woodstock, Vt,;

recently gave the Congregational society

of that town a 12,000 chapel Now he has added a $515,000 parsonage. The late Archbishop of Canterbury, when Bishop of London, frequently preached out of doors. He thought all clergymen should be efficient; open-air preachers. - Mr. J. P. "Houeher, of Baltimore, has offered to tho Methcdist Missionary Committee to found 50 schools in India in which the vernacular language shall foe taught. ; ..T".. . ' . The Russian chapel in New York is to be closed.,. It has been kept open for 10 years, but there are not Russian church

I people enough in the city to keep up the

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THE WEST: New Mexico is securing many immigrants. The actual total debt of Iowa on December 31, was only 820,295.27. The. shipment of Hour from San Francisco hi'-t year was '3,000,000' barrels.

A cold snap and freeze are needed to i High License in Nebraska. make the logging in Wisconsin pineries aj,,.. T 00 n x Claeago lutor Ocean, successi v. - Tn the Fmlosffiiff district to sueoeed Hi8u ln.' 'm Nebraska has been

! services.

Mr. Burke, the latef manager of the The. Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson Comptoir Descompte, at Interlaced, is the fifth bishop taken within 12 years Switzerhuid, who absconded after defal-J from the pulpit of Trinity Protestant

oating4or a large amount, and was arrested at Alexandria, jumped overboard from the steamer, while on his way back as a prisoner and was drowned

sentenced to thirty days in jail, fined $10 i torB renorts of tUe apportionment of the

and was disfranchised for five years. same Umd9 by the Trustees he has found Episcopal church fit Cairo, 111.. Sunday, granted the petitioner must present a pe-

TjpdoKr-nfiT, Taylor, re publican, was elected over Alexander, democrat. Herr Moat's efforts at Chicago have not been successful, most of the former Socialists being now property owners. Rev. J. K Mosiiah, a colored deacon,

was advanced to the priest hood of the

praeticaliy a success. The law has been in force long enough to show its workings. A few of the chief points of this lew may he of interest to the readers of the Inter-Ocean. Licenses are granted by the county commissioners or city authorities. Before any license can be

nu. juwjm i. imuauiSiH n Jtwuvu i ,r,.uoriiv rf th, nope Hint fh

near Princeton, aas an orange tree which j Jimounts ou hand at tll0 opering of the

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uas -i-i inu-ffrown oranges upon it wuivu are ripening. The tree is about six feet high and nine yoars old, and was raised froai the seed. Miller tr Po-vell, distillers, gainetl a verdict for $'200 damages, in the Shelby

furnished them barrels, from which they claimed $1,000 worth of whisky leaked oxxz A Laporte woman who was visiting in Argos, Marshal I county, elbowed another woman whom she disliked, off a narrow sidewalk ir.to the mud, and had to pay 811 for :t by the judgment of a 'squire. John Runk, of ShelfojTille, who was

a.i i.i .n r..s r

icceuuj wmppwi uv i no uuiueu onnd in a mail bag

ne:gnbornoou tor wnippmg nis wire, whaled his whe le family on New Years morning, begin-.ring with the wife of his liosom and ending witji his smallest infant. Mrs. Jacob Dabb, of Salt Lake -town-

school year does not correspond with the amount reported on hand at the close of the preceding school year. These striking discrepancies are attributed to carelessness rather than intentional fraud, and have existed for many years. There is a discrepancy in the tuition reveuue of Marion County for 1832 of $27,752.58,

Willie Melton, of Ht. Louis, aged thirteen, died. Tuesday, of hydrophobia, re-

titioa for the same signed by thirty . free

hold residents of the precinct of city.

suiting from a bite received six weeks I ns petition must set forth that the ap-

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nn TfniiYt'ttlv tT"Hv wn t inot till 1Un:?;j

Hoitse.- A rocommtn la rioi i of the Navnl Arm- ship, Jackson county, was operated upon

ory Board, asking an apir'U'J'itiim of i-2 !,Cwi for teftii-'R defect". ve armor, was referred; also, a mcsac from (he Preph'c: t t rcmsmittitif: a commuuicrftloii from ihe Snjrintiidmii of liv1 ooivsua, aslr:itjan appropriation of SIOM' to complete tlie tenth chhsup The shipping M was

J discussed hlr.Steele introduced a hill t epial-

120 the comities of boldiv n , fwilors and marhura. Mo spay, Jan. P. Senate;. A bill to prohibit the ine of eapitnl for other thmi Isgitimate purposes was piisaKT.. .. At the close of the morniufr hoar a bill to nfXord relinf to Congress and th dfpartmfnts came np as unfinished business ... The Presidential snecession bill was taken np at 2 o'clock and the time until adjournment was occupied in itf discussion. HorE. Mr. Andornon Kansas introduced u

Friday, Jan. 5.

Se's .JLv'oifijSuttee wae.f rpointed to wait upon the Governor Senate bill No. 3 provides that county and townshiq offices chali keep a pass book; the bill was read and referred Mr. Yancy offered a resolution providing for a special committee on woman's suffrage; laid on the table Yeas 27; nays 21 Mr. Smith offered a resolution requesting the State to furnish a copy of official rocord in Mb office concerning proceedings of the General Assembly relative to the Constitutional amendments in lfiSI, and to show whether the constitution was complied "with; After a len gthy discussion, the matter was referred to the judictary Committee with instructions to report Wednesday- A recess was taken to hear the Go venors mesease-- Under suspension of the rules, tho House bill appropriating 8425,000 for Legislative expenses was passed. . .. . House A resolution expressive of sympathy with the French Republic c.n tho death of Gambetta was passed A recess was taken to hear

the Govenors message A. motion to furnish the House with all necessary stationery was last 500 copies of the Govenors message were ordered printed -Adjourned till Monday. Satubdat, Jan , 6, Senate - Discussion was had whether the stationery should " bj purchased through the State Librarian or the Bureau of Public Printing. It was decided in favsr of the latter, under the contract with W. 13. Burf-rd Committee on rides reported. The minority was substituted for the majority report, which takes the appointment o committees from tho hands of the Lieut-Governor Tho standing committees were then reported and confirmed. . . .The esion lasted one hour Molpay, Jan. 8. Senate The Lieutenant-Governor laid before the Senate a communication transmitting the Auditor of State's biennial report. Mr. Spann offered a resolution to appoint a committee of seven to fully and completely inquire into the condition of the State House; tho wants of the commissioners, tho demands of tho contractors, etc. Yeas 12 nnys 22. Mr. Voylea offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to secure and contract for committee rooms. Adopted. Bills were introduced by Mr. Adkinsoa, JS. 4, to amend section 7, commissioner's plank rood. By Mr. Belt, f8. 5.J concerning the publication of the Itovised Statutes. By Mr. Benz, for the election and appointment of supervisors of roadways. By Mr Bisehowsky, to provide for a uniform series of. txt books'. . By Mr. Browne, to amend section 10, an act

concerning drainage. . By Mr, Bundy, concerning decedents estates. By Mr. Campbell, to provide for the regulation of freight aud passenger railroad traffic. By Mr. Duncan, concerning oath to the grand Jury. By Mr. Ernest, defining false pretenses. By Mr.Ham,to repeal State Board of Health act. By Mr.Hilligas.concerning proceeding in criminal case. By Mr. Hutchinson, to provide a sewer at the

State prison north.

By Mr. McCartney, to disconrag't ha keep

ing of ueWs and sheep-killing dogs.

By Mr, MeCollongh, providing against nnjnst discrimination in freight and passenger rates. Other bills inh-ndw. d: L relation to lighting cities v.ith electricity; conniTuctbit of macadamised rads: amendatory of State Board of Health act; fn regulate tho practice of medicate and others which will be referred to when jailed up. A, hill by Sen, Voyle appropriating money to r privates and other men of tho Indiana Legion i passed under suspension of tho rules. tSoa pill by Mr. Grah&ji legalizing the acta of

bill to establish a poatn! elcgraj

Hoh-

inson of New York to reduce letter postage to one cent. After the introduction of other bills consideration of the shipping bill was resumed.

THE SOUTH: Mrs. Covington died, Tuesdayfat Bookingham, N. C, at the age of 112. The two Gill brothers, cowboys, were killed, Monday, in a riot at Decatur, Tex. By the sinking of a ferry boat at Raleigh, N. C, eighteen penitentiary convicts were drowned. Trade water, Hopkins county, Ky., i? excited over the alleged discovery of gold there in paying quantities. Wm. White, at Morgantown, Miss., got mftd, Monday, and seized his 3-year old bor bv tne heels and beat his brains out, He wa arrested, but is probably insane. M. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer o Tennessee, was arrested at Sau Autouia, Texas. His baggage was checked for Mexico. Polk was a nephew of ox-President Polk. A negro, Andrew Jackson, who atte opted an outrage on a young lady, was taken from Jail at Henderson, Tex., by a large mob and hanged in front of the hotel "Don Juan. The Rev. T. A. Hoyt, in his prayer at the opening of the Tennessee Legislature, injected the words: "From repudiation and fiorn all forms of dishonesty, good Lord, deliver us.' At Munfordsville, Ky., a mob tried to lynch Bob .Edwards a negro murderer, but the marshal hid him in the bushes. For this the marshal's house has been riddle! with bullets, and his life has been threatened. Revenue Collector, Lewis Buckner, states that the receipts from tho sale of tobacco stamps in the Louisville district have fallen off abort two-thirds since the discussion of tho reduction of taxation began in Congress. Robert Rose and Jaak Moore, two mid

dle-aged men, white asleep in a house in j Webster county, West Virginia, were

burue:! to death. They had probably drunk heartily, built n large tire and laid

down. Baltimore is threatened wiih s:n dl pox scourge. Last w. ek there wore seventy four deaths from the disease, and it is believed there are 1,200 cases in the city. The city jail prisoners, nnmbering 30f, have been released owing to the presence of the disease in its Avails. Rupert Spencer, the young man who attempted ''suicide Saturday by leaping from the fifth tier of the penitentiary, died at Baltimore Sunday morning. Young Spencer had a fortune left him a short time ago, and had quite a good bank account when he committed the crime for which ho was sentenced. The legislative committee appointed to investigate the office of the StatcJTreasnrer of Tennessee reported that the Treasurer had been out of the city for two days and his clerk was not prepared to make a statement of the accounts. The comraission report a deficit in the Treasury of $400,000, 8m after consultation with the bondsmen of tho Treasurer, re oommend a suspension of the businees of the office for the ' e--out Lutheran preacher are more numerous :.n Pennsylyanie than in any other State-Wthe Union.;

on Wednesday, for malignant tumor, probably of a cancerous nature., of nine years standing The tumor contained eight gallons of. tiuid. She died on Friday. A package containing $5,000 was shipped by an Tndiuiapoiis bank to Muncie, Friday. When opened it contained muslin wrapped in ;i few L bills. The myaterious disappearance of the money cannot be accounted for. The cow that oatsnaiis and other hearty diet, has turned up again. This time she belongs to Lewis Heins of Seymour. She was killed on New Year's day, and her stomach on being opened, was found to contain a quantity of small finishing nails, fully one-half pound, and an old battered copper rivet. John Miller, a Swede, having been refused company by a young lady of Elkhart, followed 1 is more fortunate rival, Jacob Trexel and plunged a long knife into his back, otlicting a dangerous wound. He was arrested and bound over to the criminal co:art on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Win. Jackson, of Bennettsville, on the L., N. A., & C, railroad, has in his possession a very fine collection of rare coins for which he has - refused 31,000. Mr. Merrill Weir, of the Second National Bank, of New A' bany, has rare coins and scrip worth 3V0Q. A specie dollar in

his possession, of the date of 1804, is val- I

ued at $200. Richard Baker died at Greensburg on Sunday, at about the ago of sixty years. Early in last October, w hile preparing a flagstatT for a soldiers reunion,, he cut off his hand with a buzss-saw. For a time the wounded member did well, and he served as a jury oailiff in court, but the

Senator Hales opposition to the admission of Dakota, wiH prevent that territory from being made a State at this session of Congress. - Some of the strikers at the Lopton, Pa., furnaces assaulted the new men engagcU to take their places, and three of the rioters were arresttd. Considerable alarm ia felt. A. H. Conner, formerly of Indianapolis, has been elected president pro tern, of the Nebraska Senate. He is an anti-monopolist and temperance advocate, Monday night eighty citizens took from jail a Chinaman arrested at Cheney, W. T., for killing and robbing a Chinese woman, and hung him to a tree. F. A. Beo, Chinese vice-consul at San Francisco, denies the report of an influx of disreputable Chinese women into Washington territory from British Columbia, A family of three persons were found

$1,000,000 of the $4,000,000 appropriated dead Monday, in a house ten miles from last year, will be available on tho 1st of David Citv, Neb. The cause of death is

Exports during tho year ending Nov. 30, 1882, exceeded imports by 1,625,835. Bed Cloud visited Secretary Teller, Tuesday, and demanded 10,OfJO for the horses taken from him six years ago by Governor Crook. A package from Arizona, containing

over one hundred loaded cartridges, was

in the New York

postoflice on Thursday. James McGovern, of Newark, the wellknown base-ball player, has signed a contract to play with the Covington club in 1S83, at a salarj of $1,400. Gen. Comstock, chairman of the Mississippi River Commission, says that

Church, New Orleans, the others being Bishop Peirce, of Arkansas, Beckwite, of Georgia, Harris, of Michigan, and Galla-

Jier, of Louisiana. It is declared that the largest, most elegaut, most costly, and in every way the finest church building on the American, continent is the Cathedral o Mexico. It was largely built of the stones of the Az tee temple that stood upon precisely the same site, and which was destroyed by Cortez. . j Through the labors of Rev; Henry -Johnson, of the Church of England Missionary Society, a great interest has been awakened in the . gospel at Onitsha, on upper Niger, in Africa. Through house to house visitation by the Christians, the congregation has increased to 1,100, and , there is a great awakening among the hearers. Immediately upon resigning the pastorate of -his church at gaco, Maine, the Rev.. Charles Stowey son of Harriet

plicant is a man of respectable character

and standing, and the place where the liquor is to be sold. If in a town or village with less than 10,000 inhabitants he must at the same time pay

into the county treasury the sum of $5007 Beecher Stowe, received a call to the if in a town or city of more than 10,000 ! Windsor avenue Congregational Church, inhabitants $1,000. This money. goes in- j Hartford, Conn., which it is thought he to the school fund and is no ineonsidera- j will accept. He was ordained in the city ble sum when the aggregate is consid of -Hartford about four years ago, and, ered. If the individual making applica- luis many friends and admirers there, tion for license has been engaged hi the j Corken was a Congregational preacher traffic heretofore, a remonstrance setting j a- Salisbury Point, Mass. He was rapforth wherein he has violated the law idly making a reputation "s an orator

next July. Thomas Heinlein, one of the jury which convicted Gnitean, died Sunday at Washington, of heart disease. His physician says his work on the jury aggravated his disease. The American expedition sent to the Cape of Good Hope to take observations of the transit of Venus have arrived at Plymouth, England, homeward bound. They obtained two good observations of of internal contact, and took 237 photographs, over one hundred of which can be measured. The two-masted, scooner- rigged yacht Emma, from Michigan City, has arrived at Vicksburg. She voyaged the entire distance from Lake Michigan to Vicksburg under sail, and left that city tor New Orleans. The craft was thirty-four days sailing from Chicago to Vicksburg, by way of the Illinois and Michigan canal and the Illinois end Mississippi rivers.

THE EAST: Northern Ohio was visited by a slight earthquake Sunday. The Massachusetts house of representatives elected a democratic speaker. The Keystone Iron works, at Reading Pa., announces a 10 per cent, reduction of puddler's wages. The Potts town, Pa., Iron Company has notified its puddlers of a reduction from $425 to 34 per ton on Jan. 15. A lazy letter-carrier left in the back room of a saloon in New York, Saturday night, 000 letters and postal cards, which he intended to distribute Monday. Elizabeth Lambert,of Cambridge,Mass., who has been bedridden for years, claims

a mystery. Reports conflict as to murder and freezing. A. V. Oppman, a prominent brewer of Cleveland, was convicted in the police court of resisting an officer, lined $100 and sentenced to the workhouse for ten days. The sentence created a sensation. The two daughters of George Kronshim, of St. Louis, were soothed to death on Monday morning by an overdose of soothing syrup. They were just three months old. According to the annual report of the Union Stock Yard Company, there were received last year in Chicago 167,237 carloads of all kinds of live stock, valued at $11)0,070,000. Three veterinary surgeons, after a postmortem examination of four victims of the horse disease now raging in Oskaloo-

j sa, la., found the cause of death to be cer-

ebro spinal meningitis. It is thought political hostility between the Nebraska legislative houses will render the session ineffective. The organfaation of the assembly is republican, and cf the senate anti-republican. In a church at DesMoines, last Sundays

Bishop O'Connor denounced the Grant s

policy of dealing with the Indians, by which Catholic priests were debarred from

visiting the agencies, and gave Secretary

may be riled. If it be found true that he has violated provisions of the law license shall be denied. He may appeal to the courts. Acting upon this provision of the law the temperance people of Lincoln last spring remonstrated against the granting of licenses to the old saloon keepers. As a consequence, they were obliged to sell out nominally or in fact, and take out license in another name. Next, the vender of intoxicants must give a bond, with two freehold sureties, to the State of Nebraska in the penal sum of $5,000, "conditioned that he will not violate any of the provisions of this act, and that he will pay all damages, fines and penalties and forfeitures which may be adjudged against him under the provisions of the act." Suit may be brought upon this bond by any one injured by the sale of intoxicants. Any one selling without such license and bond 'is deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon .'conviefciou,, shall be fined in any sum not less than 100 nor more than $500 for each offense, or be imprisoned for thirty days. A fine of $100 is imposedtor selling adulterated liquors. In addition to the right of action on the bond, a civil right for damages is given any one injured by the sale of liquors. Suit may also be lirought for the main-

when a village paper reported one of his sermons, and it was found to be an. old discourse of Canon Wilt-erforee. Then he left the pulpit and became a physician in Lynn, but with no better luck, for he is now under arrest for malpractice- .-. A Japanese newspaper suspects that missionaries are sent to itircunffy in"&Q employ of American and English jiealers in idols and images. These works of art, it says, bring high prices in Christian countries, and the missionaries plan of work is to shake faith in the popularreligion, so as to depreciate the value of the images and buy them at prices ruinously cheap. The Japsoiese journalist does not lack ingenuity. . Western Christian Advocate: "Bishop; Warren passed through the city Monday having spent ten days between the holding of the Tennessee and Savannah Conferences lecturing in Ohio to raise money for the $10,000 he pledged for the Training School for Ministers., at Atlanta The' Bishop has been greeted with enthusiastic audiences, and no lecturer in Ohio hss produced a better impression or delivered more popular and instructive lectures.? Some of Georgia's $ negro Baptists, headed by Bev. George R Jackson, are laying plans for a new denomination which have "Baptist, principlest and the

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tenanee of any intemperate pauper. Drug-! Methodist system" and bear the rather gists are required to comply with the j ponderous name of "The African Baptist same provisions, except the payment of j Missionary Episcopal "Churcb." Brother the license. They are granted permits J Jackson says independence doesn't work and must keep a register of all liquors j well among black Baptists, however sold. Saloon windows and doors must j smoothly it may operate among the. be kept free from screens and paint, A j whites, for they need bishops and presidptnalty o $10 is imposed for treating or j ing eders to keep them orom righting.

offering to treat. Saloons must be closed at 10 p. m. and remain so until ,5 a. m. They must not be open at all on Sunday.

! The two last provisions have been strictly

Ivirk wood credit for being impartial to de- complied with in Lincoln.

arm shriveled away, causing great pain J to have been perfectly healed by prayer.

and resulting m his death. A monstrosity was recently born at Fort Wayne, wh eh in the upper half of the body exactly resembles a monkey, except the hands, which are human. Prom the navel down is the body of a pig, ex-

nominations. Rossel Les.ter went from Muskego, I T., up to Ninita to kill a man named Butledge, with whom he had a quarrel. They met, and Butledge put the contents of a double-barrelled shot gun into Lester's body, aud he was taken back home a corpse.

Four cars of crude silver, in bars of 97

The farego-r-s are the most important

Household Decorations. ' A wood fire hi the -parlor is quite the j correct thing. i Uniformed boys now attend the front doors of fashionable New Yo-k mansions

A new stitch which is very effective on

T- . . I j canvas is a combination of featherimd law. It has beeu very satisfactory in its j " s "feitcli working, espoomlly to .tba advocates of j 0rpnjar tasllion 0f the season fc to high hem ihe neuter of loons has , bri(les bon(inets ,,t flowers. inBtead been greatly dwomifcad. Ontalm has now less than 100; Lincoln has only 11 , xdy imThe low dives have all disappeared, and : - . known m America a few years ago are rap-

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Crime is so ramnant in Newbnrvnort I nounds each, consigned from the Monta- i cn.fian 'Piw .1nnii L-nAna i Tn'mviln idlv gainiug fevor.

Mass., that the citizens have held an in- na mines to the First National Bank of . are all in 'favor of high license. They are I lotion stained glass is is i becoming

able to pav it and monopolize the busi- i W7 PPuto' ror

dination meeting to device mean

extinction. Gottfroid Kreu-jer, of New Jersey, says he proposes to contest United States

for its Chicago, arrived Monday morning. Their value is estimated at 81,000. The treas-

eept the two feet which project from the j Senator MePherson's re-election to the neck where a pig's head would be, and j bitter end.

which looks like any ordinary baby's feet. It died shortly after birth.

The new suspension railroad bridge for the Michigan Central and Canada South-

Ed. Anderson, a youth of fiftean, a son j Crn railroad companies will be constructof Major Anderson, of Mitchell, was j ed below Niagara Falls. -

Thursday, took a solid

of his mine at Wom-

amusing himself ou Saturday, by snap-j David Bechtal, T piny a revolver at another boy, "Will j lump of mica out o

ness.

Turner, to see him dodge, with the usual result. The ball entered Turner's left breast, but fortunately glanced around a rib and was cut out by a surgeon from the right breast. George Dowling is serving a two years

sentence in the State Prison at Jeifersonville. He was sent up for grand larceny about a year ago, aud was convicted ou circumstantial evidence. Lust Sunday, tho ieal culprit, a negro, who is also serving n term in tho game instit ution,chano-

ed to meet Dowlinc on one of the stair

way f- oj the prison. The negro immediately burst into tears and confessed the e.rhna. He made ft. complete confession to tl e chaplain, and exonerated Dowling from any complicity in the matter. Arrangements will be made immediately to seen re Dov, ling5;? release. AVjiHam K. Burnett, Torre Haute's righung ex-fire chief and Mrs. Jennie Dcrriekson were married on Thursday evening. The decree of divorce separating Burnett an 1 1 i3 wife was entered in

the Superior Court about 2:30 o'clock,

and at -i oVlock he took out a license to wed Mrs. Derrk kson. Mrs. (-harles Hall, of Vmcenues, the young wife (f a prrmiinent business man, died on Thursday morning, after a teniIihi illness, in which dementia figured. Her suffering were brought on by chkJd-birtb, and augumented by a mania, in which she Iwlieved herself under tho direction of God to kill her husband and babe, were simply awful, and death must ha-vfi come m a -glajlief .

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elsdorf, Pa,, weighing twenty-five pounds and valued by experts at $1,000 Mayor Colley, Salem, Mass.,whose term of office expired Monday, hanged himself in the afternoon, after attending the inauguration of his successor. Officer Delany, of New York, who killed a desperate bartender named M.cGowan, was given exoneration and a gold watch and chain by the coroner's jury. Jane White, colored, has sued D. L. Stafford, white, for 35,000 damages for breach of promise. Plaintiffs age is forty,

defendant's sixty. They both hve in Boston. Workmen in the fifth congressional district of New York have formed an association to oppose the admission of European product whereby wages will be lowered. Thomas Donohuc, a respectable farmer of Williamston, Mass., has made application for admittance to the lunatic asylum on account of an irresistible desire to kill some one.

Mary Hartenslein,of Ncw Haven,Conn., who caused the arrest of Mayor Hhclton, and Dr. Brown, charge! with procuring an abortion upon her, died Sunday of heart disease. Captain Herbert P. (lye, of the English navy, wag robbed of 8100,000 worth of diamonds on a railroad train, near Philadelphia. He is a brothor -in-law of Maname Albani, the singer, whose diamonds are among the stolen property. Tho stockholders of the Philadelphia Centennial exposition are behind! to the

j ure was taken from Helena to Muir City, j commou on the streets of Lincoln. A

123 miles, by bull trains. Tho Chicago local Saloon-keepers' Association have appointed a committee of five to work against the present agitation for the increase of the saloon licenses. Tho citizens leagu e are confident a law will be passed making 500 the lowestlicense fee for any saloon in the State.

Henry Noelraan, 30 years old, met with

a horrible death the Mead paper mills at Dayton, Tuesday. While oiling the ma

chinery ho was caught in the shafting by

drunken man is invited to step to the outside of the saloon he enters, and if he does not comply with the request is assisted. There is less gross drunkenness, but the moderate drinker is as numerous as heretofore. Franklin Pierce and John Harmon. Nt'W York Letter. People ofteu see at the Fifth-avenue Hotel a tall man with long black locks of hair and Indian features; it is John Har-

New after-dinner coffee cups come in dark blue china inlaid with gold, and are about the size of half a lemon. Ornamental parlor and library lamps have reached the acme of elegance-

mon, collector of the porr, of Detroit un-

the' neck, his shirt having slipped up un- j tier Franklin Pierce, the editor of the

der his chin, and at every turn tightened like a vice. The cloth cut deep into his flesh, and had the shaft been revolving rapidly would have severed his head.

On Thursday morning, when the north-

ern bound train was Hearing Caliente, OaL, J . L. Smith the Mormon, who is under sentence for life for the atrocious murder of his little son a few weeks ago wliile claiming to be under tho "inspira-

tion of God," escaped his keepers aud

leaped from the train. He fell in such a way that the car wheels passed over him cut ting off one of his legs. Smith was on his way to the penitentiary at the time. His recovery is doubtful. A sensation lias been caused at Chicago by the publication of a black list compiled by the Western Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents comprising all persons known to have made any improper use of passes issued to them. There are about five hundred names ou the licit, and mauy of them prominent ones, including politicians

lawyers, clergymen, members of Congress and others.

FOREIGN: Austro-Hungary claims to be preparing for peace, not war. Two deaths from starvation are reported from Ballinsloe, Ireland. . Biggar, member of Parlianient,has becu

Free Press for many years, when it was

Lewis Bass' organ, and he has seen every President of the United States but five. He went to the Hermitage to see Stephen A. Douglas clasped to the breast of An

drew Jackson. Of him it is related that wheu Mr, Pierce did not send his nomination in punctually ho repaired to the White House to know the reasons. "Sit down, John," said Pierce, "bo cool now. There are some charges made against you.' Til have them right now, Mr. President." They say you drink, John.' "That is true, Mr. President, but I never drink alone." "And that you play cards.'' "Mr. President, I always play to win.' "And that you arc too gallant." "Mr. President, 1 never pursued a woman in

my life, and never tied from one.5 Pierce j

had to smile as his own character was being pretty well told, aud Hannous name went in immediately. Mr. Harmon was bora in Connecticut, and has the veritable blood of King Philip in his veins. He is 71 years old, and ho says that the most vivid of all things to him is the great growth and power of Aineru ca, which ho has seen wheu evei y " State west of Indiana was a sava6 territory without any organized government.

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