Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 13, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 January 1883 — Page 2

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The Blocmington Courier.

BT H. J, FELTTJS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.'

Senator Willard wants to repeal the dog law. At least lie introduced a bill to that effect. It is -a singular fact that every bill thus far reported back by the House comnntteo on railroads was accompanied by an unfavorable repoiL Senator Foulke Wednesday introduced a bill providing that married women shall have the same rights under the law as single womenSenator Yancey Monday, introduced a

bill providing for a board toesamine and license all persons who are about to have control of stationary steam-engines. Senator Spann has in course of preparation a bill to consolidate all the educational institutions of the State a measure that will meet with considerable support. Bepresentative" Copeland, of Jefferson county, Wednesday introduced a bill making the offense of piaffing obstructions on railroad tracks, whereby there is loss of life by accident, murder in the first degree. ... Bepresentative Huston has introduced a bill to tax the gross receipts of all corporations doing business in this State but organized under the laws of another Sti ta It is provided that the rate of taxation shall be 83 on each $100 of receipts and the tangible property shall not be exempt If passed this bill will affect

the telephone monoplies operating in Indiana. A spirited discussion took place in the House, Tuesday, over the report of the judiciary committee recommending the indefinite postponement of the bill increasing the jnri diction of justices of the peace lrom $250 to $500. The report was finally adopted and the bill was thus dispostd of. Senator Henry introduced a bill to make deeds and mortgages executed by administrators prima facie evidence of the sufficiency of the cause, in cases rwhere the records have been destroyed. The bill has especial reference to Madison county, where the, court house was

destroyed by fire, together with all the public records. Mr. Williams, of .Knox, Monday, spoke to a question of privilege, saying that lie was invariably referred to in the pub lished reports as Mr. Wilson,and his constituents were beginning to think that he was sailing under fake colors, and he wanted to correct this impression. Speaker Bynum said he had heard several similar complaints, and then the statuesque Mr. Hefiren said that he was the greatest sufferer in this particular, as all the papers called him "Jumbo." Senator White introduced a bill to amend section 4,425 of the act governing teachers licenses. It provides that one six months' license shall be given as a trial license, and extends the twenty-four months' licenses to thirty-six months. After a teacher has had two of the lastnamed licenses he . shall be entitled to teach eight years without further license. The bill also allows school trustees of certain cities and towns to appoint an examiner for their school-teachers, reporting the result of such examination to the county superintendent. ,,. In the House, Monday, Mr. Wilson, of Kosciusko, offered a resolution directing the committee on military affairs, in conjunction with the Adjutant-general, to draw up a bill authorizing the recording in a permanent form, of the muster-rolls of Indiana regiments in the Mexican war and late rebellion. Tho usual political discussion ensued, Messrs. Copeland and Hefiren leading, and then the resolution was referred to the committee named in it by a vote of 47 to 28. Bepresentative Chittenden has introduced a bill to tax the receipts of foreign insurance companies doing business in this State, in the following manner: Any city or town can compel the agent of such company to certify to the receipts of his company for ea"h life insured or each piece of property insured in the town or city, and on this a tax of not to exceed 1 per cent, is levied. This provides for municipal taxes, as there is at present a State law taxing the gross receipts of such companies, less actual losses, 3 per cent. , The Senate committee on education, Monday, reported adversely to the bill introduced by Senator Hilligass, providing thatthe rate of interest on schoolfund loans should be 6 or 8 per cent, at the option of the county commissioners. An ineffectual motion w?s made to

m-nd the report by fixing the rate at 6 !

per cent, and then Senator Voyles moved the reference of the whole matter to a s pecial committee, which was laid on the table. A majority of the Senators on the flxr spoke on the various propositions, sni a decided sentiment was manifested against any change in the present law.

tho State University Ahiuini, visiting in the city. The 'freedom" of tho House was also extimded to thf Mexican veterans of tho State, in convention in the city. Petitions wore presented. Tho bill to fix the time of holding conrt in Posey and Yanderlmrg conn ties waspitssed. aA resolution was adopted fixing Jan. 23 as a day for electing a State Librarian and Prison Directors. A resolution was adopted requesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence to have ceded and conveyed to the State all territory within its limits, meandered out by the Government Burvoy, included as lake and river beds in said survey. Tho ''freedom"1 ot the House was extended tho County Surveyors in session in this city.

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Thursday, Jan. 18. Senate. Several bills were read tho second time. .. The House concurrent resolution fixing nextTuesday for a joint session of tho two Houses to

oloct Prison Directors and State librarian was concurred in. . , Numerous petitions were presented. Committee reports were received , The bill to reorganize tho State liofonnatory institution was called up from the committee, but no de&uto action taken. The resolution instructing the committee on pubtio buildings to inquire into tho uew State House matter was called up, discussed and adopted. Several bills were introduced.

A long discussion ensued over a resolution to print" 1,00 Ucopies of the report of tho Kankakee survey.

reran house. Several bills wore introduced. Two bills were passed to the second reading. Tho Senate concurrent resolution requesting trie Secretary of War to reconsider his refusal to set apart a certain sum of money for the improvement of tho narbor at Michigan City, was taken up and concurred in. . The bill repealing the law nut king libel a criminal offense was called up and indefinitely postponed. The bill to amend the civil procedure act was reported with the recommendation tnat it bo indefinitely postponed, A nunority report recom

mended that the bill do pass. After u discussion he minority report was adopted. The bill concerning trusts for charitable purposes .-as reported fa forably. The bill to restrain, certain animals from running at lare was indefiniieiy postponed, Kbiday, Jan. 19. Senate. Mr. Bowers, from a. majority of the Judiciary Committee, reported that, in accordance with resolution of Senate, it has . examined the records of the last General Assembly as to proper record of the proposed constitutional amendments, that no such record can be found, and, no entry, as commended by the constitution, by which the committee., can determine what said propositions were, or that either house preferred, or intended to refer any proposition to

amend the constitution to this Assembly. Signed by Spann, Bell, Brown, McCullough, and Van Vorhis. . Mr. Bundy, from the minority of said committee reported tho entries as found on the jour, al of the two houses in the sessions of 183lt and copies of the joint resolution proposing toamenc the constitution as on file in .the Secretary of State's office, and published in the laws. It did not find they were referred to this General Assembly in in words on the journal of either house but the provisions of the constitutional amendments have bo n substantially complied with and are properly before this General Assembly. Signed by Messrs. Bundy and Graham: . Mr. Bundy moved that those reports be made the special order for next Wednesday. Agreed to. IN THE HOUSE. Mr. McMullon, from the Judiciary Committee, returned a resolution authoring inquiry into the proposed constitutional, amendments, reported an examination of the journals if the two houses andllnd the amendments are not property entered, and not referred to title . General Assembly

according to the manner laid down in .the constitution. This report was signed by McATullen, Heffron, Wilson of Knox, and Wilson of Marion; Mr. Frazeo, from a minority of snid cominteee submitted a minority report that tin so amendments are on file in tho Secretary of State's mid properly referred to this General Asttembly. Signed by Messrs. Adams; Wright, Frazeo, Wiley, a' d Stewart. Mr, Patton; also, from a minority, presented a report somewhat similar to tho lirst one, signed by Mr, Patton and Mr. Jowott. The report wore mado the special order for Thursday at 10 a, m.

Our Compilation of the Important Happenings of the V eek, INDIANA ITEMS: A bucket shop has commenced operations in Now Albany. During the pork-packing season in Wabash, 10,000 ho;', tvure slarigh tercel. Two tramps in the Indianapolis Jail were found to have smallpox. They es

caped on tho way to tho pest house. There were twenty-eight deaths in Wabash during the year 1882. EHftnaUog tho population at 5,000, the average is only one to 178 inhabitants, Tho greater portion of both Charles Shannon's feet were recently amputated

at Otis, which had been terribly frozen one cold day this winter, near Jackson Center. The public schools of Franklin are in a state of demoralisation, owing to the misoonduct of the pupils and the alloged inefficiency of officers and teachers. Captain John Kirk offers to give the site of the old Mammoth Cave pork houe to the Hall Lock and Bafe Company if they will locate their factories at Madison. Seymour is experiencing a religions revival. The meetings are held nightly at the M. E. church, and have resulted

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. ... Tuesdat, Jan. 15. Sksate. Mr. Van Yoorhis presented a communication from the Board of Health providing law to relieve the people from the corse of such meat as is allowed to be sold in the Indianapolis market. The committee reported favorably the bill proTiding for an Indianapolis reformatory sewer. A bill was introduced extending the time of sale of land for delinquent taxes from the 1st to the 3d Monday in March. Several other bills were introduced. The House bill in relation to the appointment of Judges pro tern, was read the second time. Several bills were read the second time. The Johnson vs. Cverstreet contested olection case .was taken up. Discussion of the subject was had uniil adjournment when it was laid over. .. . IN THE HO USE. Several pills were reported back from committwa, .... The report of tho committee relating to tho extension of the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace was concurred in. . New bills were Introduced. . Memorial exercises In honor of tho late Senator Foster were held.

Wednesday, Jan. 17 . Senate. The resolution pending at adjourn merit, authorizing the committee on elections to send for persons and papers in tho Johnson-

Overstreet contested election case, was debated L

until noon, when a vote was token and the resolu tion adopted. . On motion of Mr. Magee the courtesies of tho Senate were extended to Wm. McKeo Bonn and Gen. John W. Foster, ,. .. The bill defining the crime of false pretenses was passed. The bill providing penalty for disclosing messages passing over telephone wires was passed. The bill of Mr. Ristine concerning the contraction of WcAdam and other roads was road the third time. . .

The bill relating to the qualifications of jurors

Saturday, Jan. 20. T Senate. Tho committee on executive appointments made their report, the majority recommending that the consideration of ilio appointments be postponed until September 80, and tuo minority asking for their immediate confirmation. It was agreed to consider as a special order Thursday at 10 o'clock: IS THE HOUSE. Tho Houso occupied itself iu the second reading of bills. MoDAY, Jan. 22. Sexate. Petitions were presented as usual. Also, memorials and resolutions. The bill to authorize counties to purchase agri cultural fair grounds was postponed indefinitely New bills were introduced. The bill to reorganize the Benevolent Institutions coming up in order, with a majority recommending amendments and the minority report recommending its indefinite postponement. Senator Spann. as a substitute for both reports, moved to amend by strikieg out tho enacting clause, and inserting Rep. Wilson's bill. The matter was made a special order for Thursday at 1. 120 o'clock. Several bills wero read the second time. The bill to regulate tho interest upon the school and other trust funds was read tho second tinio. Discussion whs had at length. A motion to refer wag laid on the table yeas 23; nays 13. IX THE HOUSE. A resolution asking for the introduction of a bill to provide for recording and safe-koeping of muster in and muster out rolls of. tho soldiers Of the war with Mexico and tho rebellion was refwrred to committee on military affairs. New bills were introduced. The bill to authorize charitable associations to change their names was pased, Numerous committee reports wero had. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. . .. Tuesday, Jan. lft. Senate. Tho House bill to modify the. postal money order system was reported favorably The tariff bill was considered An executive session was held. House. Taylor to succeed UpdografT, of Ohio, was sworn in A bill was reported providing for the erection of a library building, the cost not to exceed $1,500,000 The bill for removal of cues r, from Stato to Federal courts was passed Tho tariff bill was" presented and referred to Committee of the whole. . . .Tho House went into Committee of tho whole.

Wednesday, Jan. 17. Senate. A bill was introduced to provide for the appointment of a commission to investigate railroad transportation.... The Senate ro sumed consideration of tho tariff bill. House. Charles T. Doxey, to succeed Orth, was sworn in as a Delegate from Utah A Joint resolution providing for. a commission to investigate affairs of complaint made by the "Venezuela government Rgaint the United States, concerning the treaty existing between the two governments. Thubsiv , Jan. 18, Senate. The postoffice appropriation bill was called up. The clause appropriating $1&VYX) for fast mail service was retained .The tariff bill discussion was then Tesumed. . .. House In Committee of tho Whole tho Naval appropriation bill was considered, Fsiiay, Jan. It. Senate. Tho bill to estiV'rh a soldiers' home in (Kansas was report adversely ... The poat office appropriation bill was taken up and tho reduction clause considered.... Tariff was discuss, ed. . House. Bills were reported Private bill wore considered.

e and passed.

Jhe comtetieo ot the E?" '

Monday, Jan, 22. Senate. Petiti m-jb wore presented Several bills wero introduced ,Tho tariff bill was taken up and occupied the entire time of tho session. ... ....

House. A number of bills wero introduced...... In committee tho naval appropriation bill was in tho order of discussiou and soveral amendments were offered When tho committee arose the House adjourced,.

Print the Pension Li3t. Philadelphia Press. Print the pension list, man whose name properly belongs upon it need be T-nwJOwa country know it.

in nearly fifty conversions and half many accessions to the church. The township trustee of Liberty town

ship, Wabash county, reports 200 sheep killed by dogs during the year 3882, valu eel at $600. This is more than twice the income from the dog-tax. The finest collections of oil paintings, engravings and statuary in southern Indiana is that of Mr. W. 0. Depauw, of New Albany, purchased while on his recent trip to Europe, Asia'and Africa In paintings he has many rare gems. J. J. Alexander, of Rush county, lately sold a lot of hogs the average age of which was seven months and fifteen days, They weighed 283 pounds each, and were of the Poland-China breed' Mrs. Harris, of New Albany, gave her husband 2 and sent him to her dentist in Louisville to have an aching tooth extracted. During his absence she packed up the best cf the household goods and

left for the South with another man. The election in the Ninth District, Tuesday, to fill the unexpired term of the late Congressman Orth, resulted in

the election of Major Doxey, Republican, of Anderson, over Waide, Democrat, Congressman-elect to the next Congres s In a suit for killing a dog, tried a fe days ago before a Gibson county justic S. M. Holcomb and Charles O. Erw, the opposing attorneys had a fight il which chairs wero need -and pistols produced. The Justice fined them five dol -lars eaeh, A miner at DeForest's coal mines, on the Air Line, in Dubois county, slandered three women, wives of other miners. The injured women caught him Wednesday, poured a bucket, of molasses over him, and then coated this with feathers. He h as not been seen since. A keg containing 350,000 in gold, shipped by the sub-treasury in New York, through Wells, Fargo k Co., to tho "Dinted States fleet on tho Pacific, by the steamer Para, which arrived at Aspinwall on the 29th nit., was stolen after arrival at its destination. A persecuted school ma'am in Wayne county has had to give up her school liecause a foolish fellow persisted in following and admiring her. She cannot escape his pensive gase, go where she will, and he has been warned by a justice of the peace to cease his pe-eecuiious, or he will be placed under bonds. Jefferson Ulery has been anvsfed on two indictments, charged with blowing up saloons at New Palestine with dynamite. That town has been the scene of four dynamite explosions, and every aaloon that has been opened has V een blown up. Ulery has been placed in jail at Greenfield m default of $1,000 ba.l. Samuel J ack, a former resident of New Albany, died a few years ago in Switzerland county, leaving an estate valued at $10,000. Treasurer Isaac Miller, of Floyd county, has received a letter from Switzerland county, making inquiry for John Jack, or any other heirs of Samuel Jack, as it is desired to settle up the estate. Last Saturday night a party of men raided the only saloon in the village of Ireland, Dubois county, destroying oil the intoxicants, biu giving the proprietor his money, tobacco and cigars. They had determined that no whisky should bo sold in the town, and the proprietor did not attempt to defend his saloon. The men were not masked, and reports say they are well known, but do not fear prosecution. Charles McKeevcr, of Richmond, went home on Saturday night a little drunker than usual, and vented his spleen upon his family. His daughter determined to end it, and calling in a friend, ti e two overpowered him and tied him to tho lounge and then went out and Willed a policeman, who arrested him. His fines and costs carae to $84, and not being able to liquidate as well as liquor, he will board it out at the jail. Jeffersonville Evening News: "Dr. Sid McClure is the only man outside the Governors who ever exercised the pardoning power. On making an estimate of all prisoners who ever were confined in the Prison South while lie was physician down there,, he found one name on th book to wluoh no one inside the walls

laid elfim. He concluded the convict who was on record but could not be found ought to b pardoned and marked soon the book The convict, however,

had skipped. A Washington special says: Within a ew days the bill known as "the bill to pay the Fourth of July claims" will be called up from the committee on v ar claims in the House. When it is put upon its passage Bepresentative Stocks lager of Indiana, intends to offer a. an amendment his bill providing for the payment of property taken during the Morgan raid in the States of Ohio and Indiana. The Land Office has issued a patent to the heirs of "The Beaver" for 3,200 acres of valuable land near Fort Wayne, under a treaty with the Miami tribe of Indians. The principal owners of the "The Beaver" land, which is located one mile south

west of Columbia City, are S. J. Peabody, who owns 400 acres for which he has but recently ' paid $25,000, and the Nutt-le heirs, who own 1,000 acres, equally valu able. The remainder of the 3,200 acres is divided up into farms of less size, and all embraced the most valuable laud in

McDougall, tho condemned wife murderer, at JerTersonville, says that tho jury which sentenced him did just right, and according to law. He wants Sheriff Davis to hang him "that he may go to heaven to meet his wife." McDougall folks about the hanging c-tearfully. He says he cannot remember when he killed his wife, or why he should have committed the terrible act, but etvs he is not sorry or the awful crime. McDougnll'e nly hope now is that he may not bo granted a new trial Ho eats his meals regularly, and sleeps as sound us a man with a clear conscience and in perfect .health. About forty years ago a cattle dealer, who was know to have $00,000 on hi: person, while going through Madison county

j suddenly disappeared. No trace of him

had been found till a few months ago, v hen Mr. Holom on .Isnoglo plowed up it

skeleton on the Suman farm, near Chesterfield. Detectives went to work on the clew thus furnished, and have demonstrated by eerf ain marks that the ?keleton w as tl ta t of 4 h e en t tle-d ea 1 er, w hose name was George Bnrness, of Cincinnati, Ho was undoubted y murdered for his money, bur no idea of the men who murdered him can be ascertained. Senator Plumb was re-elected from Kansas. Tho Massachusetts Legislature has reelected Senator lluar, inblead of Long as first telegraphed. The Bricklayer a National Union recommend unions to vote for eight hours a day regardless of wnges. The thermometer at Kokomo Colorado, Monday showed 08 degrees below zero; and at Koginn, Col., oS degrees below. At St. Paul it wa? SO.

Louis Trempe, of Sault St. Marie, at templed to cross the Straits of Mackinawon Friday mormn,;, with a team., carrying

the mail?, and no trace of driver, cart horses has been seen since.

Clans Bpreckles, the sugar king of the Sandwich Island.", talks of starting a refinery in Baltimore. He claims that his preseneo in Hawaii kept Kalakau from making a treaty with China, by which the island would have been overrun with coolies. He prefers that the Americans should be the next race to take possession. During the month of December, 1S82 25,868 immigrants arrived in the United States, against 3",037 in Decemlier 1881. For the six months ending December 81, 1SS2, 270,479 immigrants came to this country, while for the corresponding period of 1831 immigration amounted to 328,327, Total immigration to the UuitStates for the year ending December 31 82, was 712,542. and of this number, ?,037 arrived m New York ckv.

THE WEST: Mr. Grosstreck. of Dubuque, has lost Ids family of five children by diptheria. Forty Chinamen were killed i& a giant powder explosion, Monday at San Francisco. Bandits murdered five men and robbed the store at Gold Mountain, Nevada, Monday. Tho Cincinnat i G as Light Go., has increased its capital stock 3750,000 making it 5,000,000. The Quiney House, Quincy, 111., burned Friday morning, but fortunately no lives were lost.

At the Ohio agricultural convention, Thursday, resolutions were adopted against a reduction of the tariif. The post oflice at Leamington, Out., and the store of Be3 & Co., were robbed Srmdav iik'ht of property valued at

$4,000." Evidences are increasing of the guilt of Bcheher, the saloon-keeper charged with the burning of tho Newhall House, Milwaukee.

The manager if the Western Union telegraph oilico at Milwaukee insists that the wires naved some lives and caused the loss of! none during tho hotel tire. Rev. Arthur l ittle, of Chicago, was summoned from his pnlpit on Sunday morning on account of tho critical condition of his wife, who was dead when he reached her bed-side. While the divorce case Jof Josephine Meyer vs, Peter Meyer, for desertion, was in progress Tuesday, at Cincinnati, the defendent from whom nothing has been heard for years walked into court. Proceedings were stopped. Suits in the United States Court against distillers, Dickinson, Leach & Co.. and the Chicago Alcohol Works for

back taxes, amounting to 355.000 and

or J 837,000 respectively, have been compro- j

mised by the payment of 84,000. '

The tow-boat, L . I'hulips, while on her way down the Ohio river to assist the steamer J. X. Bigely, which was laid up at'Dangerous harbor, was struck by a large cake of ice on Sunday evening and sunk. The oft! c ers and crew escaped. f"The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce

,U34, A relative sued out a writ of delivery, armed with which a constable took the corpse from its elaborate receptacle and gave to friends for burial, leaving the express company to return the casket.

A BORDER VENDETTA.

A Father's Death Avenged.--A Feud Which Began with the T.ate Ww,

FOREIGN: It is intended to light Canterbury Ca tbedral with the electric light. Trains aro transferred across the St Lawrence, at Quebec, on tho ice. The proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada, in March next, meets with gener al approval. An explosion in a gunpowder manufactory at Minden, Holland, killed forty persons. Two more of the Huddys murderers,

Thomas Higgius and Michael Flynn,were

hanged at Galway, Ireland, Wednesday,

Tho Russian authorities have consented to the removal of the bodies of Be-

Long and comrades by way of Irkutsk.

It is reported that the Pope has sent a letter to the Irish bishops advising them to adont a- conciliatory attitude toward

the government.

Prince Goatchakoll', the Russian statesman who is staying at Nice, is very ilk Owing to his advanced age his condition

is considered critical, and excites much

alarm.

The Crown Prince Rudolph has abandoned his journey to the East, and re

solved to devote e portion of the sum the tnrj would have cost to relief of the dis

tress in the flooded nistricts.

Tho king and queen of Italy opened

the international exhibition of fine arts

at Rome. The opening was attended by

an immense assemblage, and the specta

cle was a very bnlliaut one.

The Correspondence says: "Bismarck

is opposed to allowing any facilities for

the return of German emigrants after naturalization as -American citizens, as they thus obtain exemption from military

service."

Eleven persons on the convict farm at

Batesville, Ala., have been poisoned by

eating a kind of home-made sauce. Tom

Johnson has died in terrible agony. Oth

ers are suffering terribly, but w?ill proba

bly recover.

According to the olHcial reports, 2G8 persons, including many foreign travelers

presented Herman. P. Strauss, the hero ! lost their lives by the burning of the

THE EAST: An ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falls. While William Denton was coasting at Brentwood, N. J., Tuesday, both of his legs were broken. linking ico pickers on tho Hadou aro compelling men all along- the banks to quit work and join their ranks. A crazy man got loose at a ball at Hermon, Maine, and before being restrained saemded in stabbing four persons. Tho cigar nakerrf of New York are again trying to put down the tenement house system of manufacturing cigars. The iniils alo tig the river at Camden, Me., arc running on half time for lack of water, s nef-h:?i x ' l - " uovvn. A student of Cornell University named

Humphries wii. join the New York base

ball league tea ai after he graduates in July. Robert E. Pattison was inaugurated governor of Pennsylvania, and Charles O. Stockley governor of Delaware, on Tuesday. Boston suga r refiners, who pay the government between $67)00,(100 and $7,000,001) annually, petition for a reduction of he tar ill' on sugar. William lirannegal, of Oil City, was struck and -:illed at Harr.sburg, Pa., Tuesday, in a successful attempt to save a woman and child who were crossing the track. A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch says: "A suspension of three days per week, has taken place in the collieries of this district. It is thought the suspension will continue until March. Mrs. Hilgert, wife of Ohas. Hilgert the sugar refiner who recently absconded from Philadelphia, after committing several forgeries, has died of griof and shame caused by her husband's disgrace. Jonn L. Beaco, bookkeeper of the broken City Bank of Jersey Oi'y, has been arrested on f. chargo of overdrawing his individual account, $8,00(1. The total sum due deposit' -rs is I68,:02: total assets, &i,o00. Michael Kurns, one of the. most daring and iuirless surfmen who ever lived on the Atlantic coast, died in Jersey city, on Wednesday. He has had a hand m recovering all the great wreoks for liirty

years past. Nayor Pc wderly, of Hcrauton, Pa., has resigned ths position of Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor of the Ui -it ed States. He will be succeeded by the Grand Worthy Foreman,llalph Beaumont, of Etmira. Bernardino Casiano hfis been found guilty of the murder of Salvator Hocco, at Goshen, N. Y. The jury asked the judge what penalty attached to murder

in the second degree. The judge refused to toll, and tho jury then returned a verdict iu the first degree. A special from New York says that Mrs. Theodore Tilton has been compelled to seek emoioyment as a nurse through financial necessity. She is reported as saying that her confession produced on the tamous trial was absolutely true. Joseph Sailer, fh amend editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, was the first man in America to comment on the financial topics in the money coin mns cf a newspaper. Fe was interested in building the first line of telegraph under the Morse system. He leaves an estate worth 300,000. Rev. John Dewiit Miller, opening the proceedings of the New Jersey House of Representatives, prayed that no member might l e forced to explain to an inquisitive constituency when he returned home

that, having eoine to Trenton poor, he went back rich on a salary of $500 for the legislative session.

of the Newhall House fire, a watch and

chain valued t.t $350, and tho ladies whom he rescued will give him a locket with pictures of eleven women and one child. At Leadville, Sunday night, two miners, Breunan m d Sullivan were discussing the Robt E. Lee mine. Sullivan said that the mine was solid as Jesus Christ, at which Rrennan, who is a strong Catholic, became terribly enraged, drew a knire and stabbed Sullivan in the neck several times. He cannot live. Bill Molack and Mike Manderburg two East St. Louis negroes, quarreled over their resp eeitve abilities as marks men, and decided to settle the dispute by shooting at each other with shot guns, at a distance : f twenty paces. Roth had their faces arms and breasts filled w ith shot, and each will lose an eye. The wife of a farmer named Richard Bnrren, near Now Philadelphia, O., was kiile l in the following singular manner: She was in the barnyard milking, when the cow turned suddenly around knocking Mrs. Bnrroll down and trampling on her breast and throat. Mr. Burrell picked his wife up, but before he could get to the house she died in hia arms. A horrible cutting affray occurred at Galena, O., in an altercation between Perry Stephens and Dr. Penn. Both were intoxicated. Stepheu held Penn down and cut his throat horribly, so that he will probably die. He also inflicted innumerable other cuts about Peun's face and body, using a common pocket knife. Several parties who attempted to rescue Penn were also cut and driven off by Stephens, w.'io then held the village at bay for several hours. An old, childless couple, Thomas Thompson and wife, near "Ulysses, Neb., years ago adopted a boy and girl from different families. "When the children grew to maturity they indulged in undue intimacy and the girl became enoiente. When the exposure was made it was suggested that they marry. The old lady grew greatly excited about the unfortunate matter, and finally became insane. Sunday night she prepared tea and put poison in it. All partook except the girl. The old man was taken sick and t he girl was sent to a neighbor for assistance.

When she returned all three were dead.

circus m iseraioneii. rue circus nau inner and outer wails, and spaces between

filled with straw.

News has been received at Matawana,

MexJ, of a desperate battle near Tehaun-

tepec between the seventh batallion and the Tehauntepec Indians. The Indians lost eighty men and wounded. The

troops lost fifty men killed, among them

their lieutenant-colonel. The Indians

were routed.

A Dublin dispatch says the belief exists that the authorities will now be able to bring the Phenix park murderers to justice. The real fact is that Parrell's assertion that the inner circle was so composed that its members wero un

known to each other, and therefore not

to be identified is only too well founded.

It appears that the reports of an attempt to assassinate the Sultan grew out

of a riot "between two regiments of the palace guard, one of them composed of

Albanians, and the other of African Ar

abs, between whom a bitter jealousy ex

ists. About fifty combatants were killed or wounded. There was nothing politic

al in the affair.

The whole north of Ireland is in a most

wretched condition, owing to tne complete destruction of the grain crops in September by a terrible tornado and the rottincr of the entire potato crop, caused

by constant rain. In one placet such 'gen

eral destitution prevails that twenty-two tons of Indian meal per week are required

to keep tie people barely alive. Relief is coming slowly, and despair is staring

everybody in the face.

The Prince Napoleon thought the French Republic incapable and placard

ed his opinion on the walls of Paris. He was immediately asrested and cast into prison. If this manifesto is genuine the Prince will be compelled to quit the country. In an interview he declares "everything is going wrong in the Republic: He should like to see the head of the Republic men of the nation, elected by the nation as iu the United States." He denies that he had any personal interest in the matter. The arrest of Prince Plon-Plon by the French government is now considered to be a mistake. Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant, who is the guest of Lord Port Arlington con-

addrees from the

Denver Trib'iae. i

Wm. C. Fletcher, passing through Lit

tle Rock, en route to the Texas border,

where he has been for more than ten

years past engaged, in the cattle business,

gave a correspondent a history of a tragic event which occurred recently on the

border of the Lone Star State, the particulars of which have never before been

made public. At tho beginning of the late civil war. Abraham Hall lived iu one of the thinly settled border counties. He

was seventy years old, and reputed to be

wealthy, owning a large tract of land,

great numbers of cattle, and a large but

by no means costly residence. He had a family comprising one boy, aged, ten, and

four girls, ranging from eight to sixteen

years. Tnougn tne fctate was m a tu

mult, the old man claimed to be neutral,

and while his neighbors were buckling

on the armor, Hall remained at homa

The South called for every man capable of bearing arms. Texas was scoured.

Hall was called on to volunteer, but de

clined. One night a party of twelve per

sons rode up to the house and repeated

the demand for volunteers. The old man

said he preferred death. Ho was taken

from the house to a little ravine 200 yards

away, a rope put around nis necir, tne

end of which was thrown over the limb

of a tree, and Hall was once more asked

to reconsider his refusal. The old man declined, whereupon he was drawn up

and let down senseless. Reviving, he

again refused, and again he was drawn

up. This horrible scene was continued until the victim ceased to breathe, and the party rode away. The son of Hall

hacl followed the party when they drag

ged his father from the house, and hiding himself behind a clump of bushes he was a silent and horrified spectator. He saw everything, and, more, he recognized eve

ry actor in that cruel affair. When the men galloped away he ran from his hiding place, cut down the body and, flinging himself upon it, he registered an oath to s5ay every man who had taken part in his father's death. Time passed, the war ended; young Jiall managed his father's estate and prospered. His sister aided him in the work. Almost their nearest neighbor was Frank Parker, who led the band that hung old hall in 18G5. Twenty miles east lived John and .Tames Mantooth, two members of the party. The remainder were scattered throughout the State. One day in October, 1878, young Biall bade his sister bood-by forever, saving: "The time for revenge has come," and. without further explanation, mounted his horse and rode swiftly away. An hour later he drew rein in front of Fr&ik Parker's dwelling. Parker was in the yard. "I come to ask you why you killed myfrther," Hall said to him. Parker gave the reason, adding that his (;onscience had troubled him ever 6ince. Hall asked him if ho was armed, and when the man drew a pistol Hall did likewise and fired, Parker dropped in the agonies of death. The next day Hall visited the Mantooths. John Mantooth he shot dead on the open prairie, after explaining, the object of his visit. Thomas MantDoth met a similar fete on the public highway Before spring another of the twelve had been slain, Hall killing his man in a saloon brawl in San Antonio. By thistinie the remaining members of the band had become alarmed, and Hall suddenly paused in his career of bloodshed. .For moro than a year nothing was heard of him, and the surviving objects of his hatred were beginning; to think he had perished, when he suddenly reappeared. This time his victim was named Kindred Rose, one of the twelve, but he died only after a desperate struggle. The men met one afternoon in the winter of 1880 in a little village on the Me xican border. A street light ensued and Rose was killed, falling from his horse and dying on the street, while Hall, though wounded in three places, put spurs to hie horse and dashed a way . The friends of Rose pursued him

looks favorable." Mr. Talcotrt took this dispatch to Mr. WeBes. He read it oyer and over, and then be said "Mr. Taloott I know 5'on are a veiy zealous man, but I think you are exceeding your duty in bringing me these dispatches. It is a grave impropriety." "This is a cipher dispatch," Talcott explained. It means that t he Richmond troop3 have finally arrived at Harper's Ferry, and that everything is favorable to the capture of the government property there. At this Mr. Welles awoke. He consulted with Simon Cameron. The latter telegraphed to a Massachusetts regiment, then on its way. to Washington, to stop at Baltimore and go to Harper's Perry. The riot in Baltimore on the night of April 19 put a stop to the advance of the. Massachusetts regiment That night Mr. Talcott- cut off . the connection between Baltimore and Richmond and it was never established

again till after the war. The next news that came from Harper's Ferry was of it capture after the Federal officer in charge . had partially destroyed the property in . his charge before retreating to Chambersburg. If the first information had been promptly acted upon Harper's FeiTy could have been easily held by the federal authorities.

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The End of a Duelist; The Saturday Review. The Comte de Larilliere, 'one of the well-bom among the brettenrs, met one day in the street a business man named Castera, walking with his young and pretty wife. He advanced to him and said, with a polite bow: "I beg your pardon, but I have made a bet with my friend here, whom I beg to introduce to you, that I would kiss your wife while she was walking with you (here the other man turned livid) after having: given you a slap in the face." Castera fought him next day with pistols. The Count's first shot hit Castera on the right ear, his second on the left Before the third he said "Cetta fois je fera mouche" and with the.

third he shot Castera through the eye. Castera was avenged in a manner dramatic enough. One night, as Larilliere sat in his favorite seat in a oafe, while a masked ball was going on hard by," a stranger in a domino and mask came tip to him, overturned his glass of punch; and ordered a glass of orgeat instead. Larilliere, for the tirst time in his life, turned pale, and cried, 'You scoundrel, you don't know who I amf "Oh yes," the stranger rephed, "I know who you are quite well," and with the words forced him down in the chair from which he had risen. The orgeat was brought and the stranger, holding a pistol to Larilliere's head, said: "Unless you drink this off I shall blow out your brains on the spot; if you do drink it off I will do you the honor of fighting you to-morrow." "With the saber," cried Larilliere. who had lately been practic ing with that arm. "How you like," sai 1 the stranger. Then, as Larilliere drark off the orgeat, he added T have humb ed you enough to-night I put off knlir g you till to-morrow' The morrow came, the adversaries met, and Larilliere found that he had met hia match. The stranger left him net a moment's breathing space, , but never followed up his attacks, until at last Larilliere -cried, insolently: "When are-you going to kill me?" "Now,' said the stranger, for the first time using his sa ber like a duelling sword, and lunging straight through Lariiliere's heart. Masses were said i:i the churches of Bordeaux for this mau, who kept his name secret, and who had rid the town of its scourge.

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mnamtancs or fort Arlington congratulating him upon his wise and merciful

coarser kind, such as buffalo, that are Deiug taken oat of the Illinois at Pekin, Havanna and other points south of Peoria aro wor derfa). One haul at Havanna amounted lo 70,000 pounds. Another haul at the same point marketed 41,000 pounds, besides which several thousand pounds were trashed. The fish are taken through the ice in nets, and are shipped all over xhe State. 3 1 is said they are unwholesome owing to the nasty condition of the river, which is laden with sewerage from Chicago and Peoria to sueh an extent that all the game fish have deserted ii and are only found in bayous and oreeku.

At Williamsport, Pa , ex-County Commissioners Daniel Carson and William C. Ebnor have been convicted of embezzlement and taken I o the penitentiary. Mrs. Emma Sti 11 well the woman who confessed soveral weeks ago, to murdering imst ejf her family at one time or another, died Tuesday n.ght,at Mt Vernon,

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THE SOL'TH: Damaging freshets are reported from Virginia and Georgia. En Opelika, Ala., riots have been renewed, and the Montgomery military are under orders. Near Gretna, Lfl., on Tuesday, Paul Coudier, aged eighteen, shot and killed his father during a dispute about a pair of shoes. Triehiniasis has mado its appearance in the family of Jacob Schriever, at Fredericksburg, Texas, from which threo children (Hed. Governor Churchill's message, delivered to tho Arkansas legislature, says the State is in the best financial condition

for twenty years. Clay Sexton, chief of the St. Louis fire department, soundly horsewhipped a "masher" on the streets, Monday, whom

he saw insulting ladies in the prosecution of his "profession.' President Norvin Green. President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, publicly announces that he intends soon to "plant himself down in Louisville for the remainder of his life." After the inauguration of Gov. Bates of Tennessee, Tuesday, a live eagle was set at liberty from Capitol Hill, bearing a medal on which was inscribed: "For President, Cleveland of New York; for vice-president, Bates, of Tennessee." Frnnk Rose a river pilot of Louisville, died at Mobile, where his remains were placed in a costly casket and shipped om by exjwess witit e 0. Q. J bill of

administration of law and the success of his efforts to preserve order and prosperity in Ireland said: "After the events of recent years, it is improbable that lawlessness can at once be eradicated. Its baneful influence will, from time to time, make itself felt, and it needs anxious watching. The government will rely upon the support of all classes to mainta n crder."

A Little Girl's Silk Exhibition. Philadelphia Times. Miss Nellie Lincoln Kossitr,the young silk culturist, is now holding an exhibition of her industry m Spring Garden

j Institute Hall, corner Broad and Spring

Garden Streets. The hall is gaily decorated. Around the sides are arranged tables containing various articles of interest, the most attractive of which are co-

! coons, and a great profusion of pretty ob

jects made of the silk. Near the center of tho room are two silk reels and a pan or basin in which the raw floss is separated from the cocoons. In glass jars are cocoons from every State in the Union. These, in size and shape, resemble noth

ing so much as peanuts, and in color they vary from a creamy white to a pale lemon. One jar of cocoons is specially interesting by reason of the fact that it is from the Media School for Feeble-minded Children, spun by worms raised entirely by half-witted pupils. Miss Kossiter is now but 15 years of age. A little over two years ago she embarked in the business of rearing silk worms and preparing ilk for manufacture. Congressman Muroh, the Maine Green backer, who charged tho chief clerk of the House with being the representative of the Washington Gaslight company on the floor of t he House and ot improperly

influencing members, has withdrawn all allegations and charges. The investigating committee, however, concluded to examine Mr. Murch and his papers on

the subject. The treasury department is docking its employes for absence. Ono man has been notified that for this month he had been docked $80, another $30 and a wo

into Texas. The pursuit was continued thrive days, friends of his former victims joining in the chase. Hall at last was run to cover in sight of his home, and near the spot where sixteen years before the father had met his death. Here Hall turned on the pursuing party and fought until he was riddled with bullets. His oldest sister was a horrified spectator of of the tragic end of her brother. A year after she met one of the party in a neighboring town; she was in company with a female friend, and despite the entreaties of her companion, called the inan to her, slipping her hand into the pocket of her dress as she did so. "Captain Davis,' said she. when the man came up, "you helped to kill my brother; take that!" and drawing a revolver, she fired at him. Davis was seriously wounded, but the girl escaped. This act alarmed all who hail taken part in the death of young

Hall, and they resolved upon the extermination of the entire family of Halls, ot whom only three were living the eldest girl and two sisters. One night after Davis life had been attempted, the Hall homestead was surrounded by masked men, the barred doors were broken down,

and the three girls were mercilessly mnr-1

dared. The assassins then fired the house ! and disappeared. The tragedy caused a J sensation, but the explanation by interest ed parties that , Indians or Greasers had murdered the grls, plundered the j

house and set afire. This was generally accepted, and only lately have the facts

in the case leaked out. Rebellion Reminiscence. Washington Special Chicago News. The death of Daniel Ratcliffe, at Baltimore, recalls the fact that hejwas the last survivor of the trio of oitisiens who planned and carried out the capture of Harpers Ferry by the Confederate Government. Mr. A. B. Talcott, who was in charge of the Washington telegraph office at the outbreak of the rebellion was a very loyal man. Early in April, 1861, he took oft a dispatch sent by Ratcliffe to Richmond authorities. The dispatch said: "I recommend that you go ahead at once with troops and tave possession of Harper's Ferry in the name of the State of Virginia. It is important that yon aet at once.1' Mr, Talcott took a copy of this dispatch to Gideon Wells, the Secretary of tho Navy. He showed it to Simon Cameron, and it was afterward carried to M r. Lincoln. Neither Cameron or Wells thought the Richmond authorities would dare to go ahead, and so took no action. The night of April 18th Mr. Talcott took

VERANDAS AS A MEANS OF ESCAPE IN CASE OF FIRE. The means of escape, in case o fire, in, our large hotels and other buildings several stories high, could be made almost; entirely safe by buiiding verandas beneath all the windows of the several stories. Such v erandas should be made entirely of iron and should extend around or across the ends ot the bnildings. They should then be connected with iron stab ways, one wfrh another, so that a person escaping frori a sixth story window oonld easily descend to the veranda of the fifth and so on down to the ground. Ffeemen would also be enabled by means of these verandis and their connecting state ways to go quickly to any story in the building and assist people who might need help. By this simple means men, women and children could escape fromthe windows of any story in the building in almost absolute safety. Had there been verandas of this kind on the Milwaukee hotel, the guests would not . have been compelled to choose between jumping to worse than doah and remaining

within to be devoured with ilames;

An Alligator that Sweetly Smiles.

! Bangor Commercial. , I A lady in Bristol has a five-foot alliga

tor for a pet. She makes nun a warm bed by the stove at night, and during the day he moves around the sitting room at his own sweet wilLHe likes to have his back stroked, and win open his month and smile in a way that is too charming

for anything.

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