Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 February 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier.

BY H. J. FELTUS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

NEWS AND INCIDENT. Our Compilation of the Important Happenings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: There are 20,000 volumes in the Wabash College library. A nervy thief stole three hogs from the New Albany chief of police. Seymour shipped twenty-two car loads of manufactured goods last Saturday. Nearly 650 men are employed in the seventeen coal mines of Daviess county. The Terre Haute barrel and stave factory is about to establish a branch in DesMoines, Iowa. Stout, the Montgomery county mur-

A wealthy California sheep breeder named Blenkinsorsh, had only one relative, a niece named Town, a young girl unmarried, whose residence was unknown to him, and he searched for her for two years. Last week he found her in Burlington, Vt., working in a mill, and he took her back to California, from the loom to affluence.

Mrs. Gruber, a widow of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, deserted her three small children to elope with a fellow named Lancegloz, and the little ones almost perished, with cold before discovered by

neighbors.

grade with an engine in front, another in the middle and a third on the rear. The front engine jumped the track, drawing the entire train with it. It was a mere joke of a St. Louis Catholic editor that a priest of Perry county,

The other night, Frank James, the

derer, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. Farmers in Clarke county report the wheat damaged by the cold snap, there

being no snow to shield it. James Bonewitz, of Knox county, has lost $500 worth at beef cattle with a disease similar to the pink eye. It is incurable. Mat. Wright, Jr., of Shelby county, marketed seven hogs, on Saturday, which lacked two pounds of averaging 400. He got $6.25 per hundred. James Mason and Lyman Barekman, of Knox county, cut down a tree a few days ago, in which they captured ten young coons, and the old one got away. A printer named Frank Freidman, who has worked in nearly all the offices in Richmond, has fallen heir to a snug little fortune by the death of an uncle who left the money to his father, who is dead. Dr. W. F. Sherrod, physicipn of the Southern Prison, has issued orders forbidding visitors to the prison during the continuance of the smallpox scare at Jeffersonville. At Shoals, on Friday, George Chapman, a section hand on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, was struck on the head with a spade by a fellow laborer, near Huron, and is perhaps fatally injured. Benjarnin T. Price and Harriet J. Le-

marrer, of Lexington, Scott county, were married on the 11th of January. On the following day Mrs. Price was taken ill, and has since lost her reason and does not recognize any one. She had been afflicted with spasms previous to the marriage. A persecuted school ma'am in Wayne county has had to give up her school because a foolish fellow persisted in following and admiring her. She cannot escape his pensive gaze, go where she will, and he has been warned by a justice of the peace to cease his persecutions, or he will be placed under bonds. Hattie Ludington, a little ten-year-old girl of Fort Wayne, who died a few days ago, went to an undertaker's about two weeks before her death, selected her casket gave directions as to her shroud, and instructed the funeral director as to how she desired to be laid out when she should die. William B. Hall, a prominent citizen of Kendallville, was thrown out of his sleigh by his horse becoming frightened and running away, striking on his head. His skull was fractured, causing death shortly afterwards. Deceased was married the night before the accident and was going to take nis wife sleigh-riding when the accident occurred. On Sunday, at Rockville, Rev. W. T. Cuppy, a Baptist minister, baptized fourteen persons in Big Raccoon Creek, near Holland's bridge, while the thermometer was at or near zero. A hole was cut in the ice for the purpose. It is stated that the work was done in nine minutes. The immersed people were compelled to go nearly a mile in their wet clothing before a house could be reached. A stock train came into Elkhart Monday evening, among which were twentyone cattle which had been frozen to death on the way. The weather there is extremely cold. The thermometer registered Monday morning the coldest weather since the cold New Years, having fallen twenty-four degrees below zero. Business was almost entirely suspended. Charles McKeever, 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, the two overpowered him and tied him to the lounge and then went out and called a policeman, who arrested him. His fines and costs came to $34, and not being able to liquidate as well as liquor, he will board it out at the jail. At an early hour Sunday morning, when the thermometer was seven-

teen degrees below zero, a night patrolman in Fort Wayne picked up a tipsy shoemaker named George Zoeller, found lying before his own door. He was taken to the hospital. Both of his hands and both of his feet will have to be amputated. Zoeller had lain on the sidewalk for twenty minutes. Sheriff Ross, of Wabash county, has a number of unpaid executions against the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific railway. The company has had ample time to pay, but has refused to give the matter attention. Thursday evening the sheriff attached the engine of freight train No. 29, bound east. Orders were received by the engineer to move on, and he did so, breaking the chain placed on the engine by the sheriff. A year or so since the narrow-gauge railroad bridge near Vincennes floated away, and some of the timbers were saved by a man named Chambers. He demanded pay for his services, and not receiving it, retained the property. The company had him arrested on charge of stealing. The case has been tried, resulting in the acquittal of Chambers, and he proposes to bring suit against the company for false imprisonment.

THE EAST: An ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falls. Smallpox has appeared in the Phila delphia Alms House. The ice gorge, at Niagara, is fifty feet in height and two miles in length. The Senators of Delaware have refused to pass the anti-whipping-post bill. The contributions of Philadelphia for the German sufferers aggregate 50,000 marks. Municipal woman's suffrage is favored by the Massachusetts legislative committee. The 500,000 ounces of silver bullion in the New York sub-treasury will be coined into dimes. Wm. Brimble, an Englishman and saloon keeper, at Hartford, Connecticut, killed his wife and self on Monday. Senator Frye, of Maine, received a tele-

gram Monday, announcing the total destruction of his residence an dcontents, at Lewistown. The Delaware House of Representatives defeated the bill to abolish the whipping of prisoners convicted of murder in the

second degree. The New York police have caught Richard and Thomas Maguire, burglars, along with $30,000 worth of silk which they had stolen. The Irish wife of a German baker at Newark, New Jersey, captured a sneak thief in her house in spite of his revolver, and kept him a prisoner until the police arrested him. Michael Burns, one of the most daring and fearless surfmen who ever lived on the Atlantic coast, died in Jersey city, on

Wednesday. He has had a hand in recovering all the great wrecks for thirty years past. Thirty-seven cadets of the Pennsylva nia Military Academy at Chester ran off to a theater Monday night, after being refused permission, and an officer of the institution followed and read in the house an order dismissing them to their

homes. Tuesday evening in Philadelphia a boy snapped a self-locking padlock through the door-handles of Aaron Picard's jewelry store, locking the clerks on the inside, and two men smashed in a window, and seizing a tray of valuable gold watches, decamped. Detectives from Massachusetts were hunting for Kate Judd, a domestic who has frequently robbed her employers and fired their homes, when they noticed in the dispatches the burning of J. G Weaver's villa, at Newport. They readily found the criminal, and she made a clean breast of her work. At the meeting of the Central Labor Union, of New York, resolutions were adopted calling upon the Legislature, to abolish the contract system in the State Prison, which the present investigation showed to be the cause of much of the cruelty practiced in those places. Gebhardt made his appearance at the Union Club in New York City, where he told his cronies that he left St. Louis because he found he was getting Mrs. Langtry into trouble. An application by a photographer for a sitting was indignantly refused. Gebhardt admits that he does not enjoy the notoriety he has obtained. There is not much change in the condition of things at the caved in district of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Arrangements are making for an examination of the condition of affairs under-ground, and a part of forty brave fellows, who responded to the call "Only those who have no wives, mothers, sweetlearts or sisters," has been organized for the hazardous undertaking. An extensive cave took place Wednesday morning at Wilkesbarre, Pennsyvania, in the Delaware & Hudson's canal company's mines in this city. On the surface cracks are visible for acres in every direction. A number of houses have settled from six inches to two feet, alarming the inmates who fled. No less than twenty acres have gone down. Charles Briody, catcher for the Cleve land base ball nine, now at his home in Lansingburgh, New York, asserts that he is the seventh son of a seventh son, and intends to try to heal the sick, after receiving instructions from Andrew Coran a spikemaker, who has abandoned that business to heal the lame, the blind, the deaf and the dumb, being the seventh son of a seventh son.

The thermometer at Kokomo Colorado, Monday showed 63 degrees below zero; and at Regina, Cal., 58 degrees below. At St. Paul it was 30. Louis Trempe, of Sault St. Marie, at tempted to cross the Straits of Mackinawon Friday morning, with a team, carrying the mails, and no trace of driver, cart or horses has been seen since. W. F . Carver challenges Bogardus to shoot one hundred birds for $10,000 or less at Louisville, February 14, or other date to suit. He declines Bogardus' challenge for a pigeon match for the world's wing championship,on the ground that he is the wing shot champion, and that Bogardus can only shoot for the champion cup.

THE WEST: The new Panhandle shops at Columbus are to cost $537,010. Northwestern cattle ranges are in good condition in spite of the cold. At Butte, Montana, the spirit thermometer marked 61 below zero, Tuesday. The 800 Pequot Indians in the north of Nevada, are suffering from starvation. Bandits murdered five men and robbed the store at Gold Mountain, Nevada, Monday. Frank James has concluded not to give bail, but will remain in jail at Independence, Mo. Dr. Herman Petershausen, of Detroit, attempted on Sunday in a fit of religious insanity, to kill his sister. The Ohio Fish Commission reports that it has now on hand nearly 90,000,0000 of white fish spawn, but no money. Governor Cullom, of Illinois, will resign his office February 1, and be succeeded by Hon. John M. Hamilton, of Bloomington. One hundred ane fifty citizens of McLean county, Ill., intend to leave next week for Deuel county, Dak., to make that county their future home. Miss Mattie Hoblitt,a damsel of fifteen, daughter of a wealthy Logan county, Illinois farmer, is believed to have gone off with her papa's hired hand. The Milwaukee Ladies' College was partially burned, Friday. Loss $100,000. Sixty lady inmates were saved by the efforts of the firemen and police. Frank James was brought up in court at Kansas City, Tuesday. Two indictments, one for murder and the other for robbery, were dismissed. A third indictment is held. J. H. Howard has filed in the o ffice of the Surveyor General of Arizonia a claim for four leagues of land embracing the entire city of Tuscan and part of the Papajo reservation. Jim Mace and Slade, the Maori, arrived in Chicago, and after an inspection of the heathen, Harding telegraphed Fox, of the Police Gazette, to make matches for Slade to fight Sullivan.

bandit, in jail at Independence, Mo., was permitted to attend a theatrical performance, by Jail Keeper Holland. For this Holland has been dismissed from office by Judge White. Paul Wiegert, whose name appears among the missing of the steamer Cimbria, resided at Saginaw City, Michigan, and went to Germany in September last to look after a small inheritance. He wrote home that he should sail on the Cimbria. Wilson, the St. Louis faster, who undertook to do without food for fifty days was arrested by Chief of Police Campbell, Wednesday afternoon and taken to the Four Courts, where he was forced to drink warm milk. He is to be placed in the Insane Asylum. John Winkle, a workman at the Dover furnace, New Philadelphia, Ohio, met with a horrible death on Wednesday morning. He was passing near a tank of boiling water when his foot slipped and he fell in. When taken out the flesh dropped in large pieces from his body. He died in a few minutes. It now appears that twelve passengers only were killed in the Southern Pacific

railroad accident last week. A theory is advanced that the train was sent flying

to destruction and death through an attempt to rob, the scoundrels tampering with the hand brakes which were properly set by the train hands. The Northern Pacific Hospital and Old Colony Reception House, at Brainard, Minn., burned Monday. There were thirty-six patients in the building, sixteen of whom were unable to help themselves. All were taken out safely. The weather was bitter cold and the suffering of the patients was terrible. On Saturday, two miners named Lawler and Owen, were caught in a snowslide near Irwin, Colo., and carried several hundred yards down the mountain side. Owen, who had a long pole used

in snow-shoeing, succeeded in making a hole through the snow, thus enabling him to breathe until he could extricate himself. A large party of miners later in the night found Lawler dead. Trouble of several year's standing between Mr. and Mrs. David Clark, living on a farm a few miles from Akemos, Mich., culminated Sunday in her killing him instantly by shooting him with a revolver. The immediate cause of shooting was Mr. Clark furnishing medicine to a little daughter which its mother was determined should die through neglect. At Shawneetown, Ill., on Tuesday morning a mob attempted to enter the jail for the purpose of lynching the colored man, Holmes, who murdered a

white man with a hatchet last Saturday. The mob were repressed by the sheriff and jailer. After being refused admission they all came back a second time with a cannon, and placing it in front of the jail, threatened to fire it, but a few shots from the jail, the ringing of the court house bell and gathering of citizens scared them off. Dr. Charles Gaylord. of Paris, Ill., is in jail at Springfield, charged with the offense of sending obscene matter through the mails. It is in evidence that he first gained the confidence of an innocent young woman, the daughter of a Michigan clergyman, through correspondence with her as a physician, in the employ of a firm of doctors in Detroit, and subse quently took advantage of the confidence thus established to corrupt her mind, by gradually leading her into a correspondence of the most revolting character. A terrible crime was discovered at Milwaukee, Tuesday. The wife of John Zimbrick, a laborer, killed her three children; the oldest seven years of age, the youngest eighteen months, literally cutting them to pieces. The neighbors attention was attracted to the scene by the woman's attempt to hang herself. They cut her down and took her in the house, when the horrible crime was discovered. Mrs. Zimbrick was immediately arrested. She took the arrest very calmly, saying that she had read of the sacrifice of children in the good book. She is doubtless insane. The immense hauls of fish of the coarser kind, such buffalo, that are being taken out of the Illinois at Pekin, Havanna and other points south of Peoria are wonderful. One haul at Havanna amounted to 70,000 pounds. Another haul at the same point marketed 44,000 pounds, besides which several thousand pounds were trashed. The fish are taken through the ice in nets, and are shipped all over the State. It is said they are unwholesome owing to the nasty condi-

to the payment of the Cincinnati diocesan debt. In Madison county, N. C., Ezekiel Briggs, in a fight with Clingman and Henry Metcalf, of Tennessee, was stabbed in a dozen places and killed. The Metcalf brothers fled, but next day appeared near the scene of the murder and killed each other, one being shot three times and the other disemboweled. On Sunday evening an old lady named Mary Clark, living at Houston, Texas, was pronounced in a dying condition

Preparations were made for preparing her shroud. About twelve o'clock her attendant being asleep, the building caught fire, and Mrs. Clark was literally roasted. The female attendant barely escaped with her life. The Baltimore authorities are making war on the gamblers. Marcellus Keene, proprietor of one of the leading gambling

houses, has been sentenced to jail for six months by Judge Phelps. Doc Slater, the principal gambler of the city, has made arrangements to remove to Washington. All the gambling establishments are closed.

A body of disguised men forcibly took from the jail of Russell county, Va., two white men, named O. F. Ferrall and Evan Griffith, confined on the charge of obtaining by false pretences about $18,000 worth cf cattle from graziers of that section, and, as nothing has since been heard from them, it is supposed they have been lynched. Lizzie Herman, seventeen years of age, was standing in front of a fire at her residence in Louisville, on Tuesday afternoon, with her baby sister Alice in her arms. Lizzie's clothes caught fire, and in attempting to save herself, she accidentally dropped her little sister into the grate. Her shrieks aroused the neighbors, and assistance quickly came. Both were probably fatally burned.

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tion of the river, which is laden with sewerage from Chicago and Peoria to such an extent that all the game fish have deserted it and are only found in bayous and creeks.

THE SOUTH: United States Senator Coke has been re-elected from Texas. Wilmington, Delaware, reports thirty cases of small-pox, nine of which have proved fatal. Anna Brown, of Louisville, colored,and said to be 102 years old, was burned to death, Tuesday. The accountant finds that the deficiency of M. T. Polk, late State Treasurer of Tennessee, $292,427.25. The prohibition amendment to the constitution of West Virginia will pass both houses of the Legislature. "Peg leg" Polk, Tennessee's defaulting State Treasnrer,has been admitted to bail in the sum of $100,000. Governor Bates, of Tennessee, has signed the bill repealing the recent State debt settlement at 66 cents and six per cent interest. At Dallas, Tex., Robert Williams was stabbed and killed by his son, aged sixteen years, while he was sleeping. The boy committed the crime at the instigation of his step-mother. 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. Others are suffering terribly, but will probably recover. Prairie fires did great damage in west and northwest Texas. The stock and slaughter ranges especially suffered. A large amount of hay in stacks were destroyed. Some of the fires were accidental, while others were set on fire through malice. Fifteen persons were killed, sixty-nine cars and three locomotives demolished by an accident near Cumberland, Va., Tues day. A coal train started down a steep

FOREIGN: Ex-Empress Eugenie has arrived in London. It is intended to light Canterbury Ca thedral with the electric light. Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, has

arrived at Berlin and visited Prince Bis-

marck. Gecrge Munro, the United States publisher, has endowed three tutorships in Dalhousie College at Halifax. Iron huts have arrived at Dublin for protection of the informer, Kerrigan, in the Joyce case, and the informers in the Huddos case. Sullivan and Coburn have been kept under police surveillance ever since their arrival at Toronto, and their glove fight will probably he prevented. O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, has been elected member of Parliament from Ireland over the Government candidate, John Nash, by a majority of seventy-two. A portion of Ju's band of Apaches is committing depredations near Del Rio,

160 miles west of San Antonio, and Indians in large numbers are reported on the Mexican side. At the carnival in Montreal, over 3,000 decorated sleighs were out in procession, some having four horses and others six. Next came a steeple chase across Mount Royal by snow shoers. At night the ice palace was illuminated with electric lights and red fire. The Chief Justice, in giving judgment against Davitt, Healey and Quinn, held that the language of the defendants was distinctly seditious and an incitement to civil war. Judge Lawson added that he never read more blasphemous language than Davitt's. All were required to furnish bonds. Only Davitt and Quinn were present. France is in a most unsettled and uncertain state. The death of Gambetta, the manifesto of Prince Jerome, the appearance of Ex-Empress Eugenie in Paris, have aroused the enemies of the Republic, and demoralized its friends. The Cabinet has resigned, and revolutionists are showing their heads in different parts of the country. The gangs of convicts at the Haul Bowline docks, in Cork, Ireland, attacked the warders Monday. The police were summoned, but were unable to suppress the rioting, which was afterwards quelled by the military, after a severe conflict lasting nearly two hours, in which a number of troops and convicts were killed and injured. Michael Davitt, in a speech at a National Leagae meeting, at Dublin, referred to the terrible distress prevailing among the tenant farmers, and said that he defied

the Government to punish him for pro-

claiming the existing state of affairs. In many districts the suffering was indescribable, and in making it known he was only obeying the dictates of humanity. A Paris telegram says : Prince Napoleon's proclamation has at least served to show how unworthy of its trust the present government is and in what a small degree it represents the stability of the people. Neither the Orleans conspiracy nor the Bonaparte posters have touched the masses in the slightest degree. The agitation has been confined to the politician, to the lighter social elements and to an historical and ineffectual press. The whole difficulty has resolved itself into a hand-to-hand conflict among a lot of pretentious demagogues, every one of whom deems himself the heir apparent to Gambetta. It is a wrangle for the dead man's shoes, and whoever can first step into them and exile the Bourbons and the Bonapartes, or send the poor Empress home to London when she comes over shopping, shall be the great man of France. Ostracism is the latest fine word in French politics. It worked well in ancient Greece, and why should not the Republic try it on the Chambeards, the D'Anmales and the Napoleons? The pretenders are in the last stages of decay and could safely be left to nature. Their adherents are among the devout Catholics; and are mostly women, while the men who have lived in their traditions are all old, gouty, and too rheumatic to take a hand in a coup d'etat. France is undergoing a wonderful transition, but it is the direction of a new life, not a restoration.

lotment of lands to the Winnebago Indians in Nebraska, every Indian woman married to an alien white man, and having children by him, must be regarded as the head of a family, and is therefore entitled to an allotment of eighty acres of land. The Chippewas are in Washington to

protest against their removal to White Earth Reservation. Both democratic and republican caucuses have determined that the tariff bill must be pressed to passage. A bill has been introduced in the House to give the widow of Lieutenant De Long a pension of $50 per month. The Governor General of Canada, Marquis of Lorne, visited and dined with the President at Washington, Saturday, The total deficiencies in appropriations for the various departments for the fiscal year ending June 30 next are $1,549,843. The sub-committee which has charge of the postoffice bill has retained the clause providing for a reduction of letter postage to two centsper half ounce. The marriage of Miss Mabel Bayard,

the eldest daughter of Senator Bayard,

and Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston, took place at the Ascension Church

Washington, on Thursday. The Senate committee on appropriations, in reporting the appropriation for continuing the work on the census, has reduced the amount from $200,000 to $100,000, on the ground that the work is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Congress will give John F. Slater, of Connecticut, a gold medal on account of his bequest of $1,000,000 for the purpose of "uplifting the lately emancipated population of the Southern States and their posterity by conferring on them the blessing of Christian education." One of the counsel for the defense in the star-route case informs the Post that the expenses of Brady, Dorsey and Vaile

in the recent and pending trials will be fully $200,000, of which Brady and Dorsey are reported to have spent $75000 each. Notwithstanding the opposition offered to Rufus Hatch and others who desire to

lease the Yellowstone Park, the company

continues to make preparations for building their hotels on the park grounds. The office of assistant secretary of the interior appears to be headquarters for the company. The grand jury returned a presentment against William Dickson for corruptly endeavoring to influence the vote of his fellow jurors in the last star-route trials. It is stated that the delay in the proceedings which gave rise to the rumor that the bill had been ignored arose from technical imperfections in the bill. The friends of the whisky bill are quite disheartened at the decisive vote--5 to 1 --by which the House refused to consider their bill, and have about given up all

hope of passing it at all this session. The sentiment seems to be growing in the House that the people must be relieved as far as possible, of the taxes on necessaries, and that the luxuries of life, such as whisky and tobacco, should be made to bear the chief burden. The amount in the treasury, Jan. 1, 1883, of standard silver dollars, was $94,016,842; fractional silver, $26,521,692; total silver, $420,538,534, or about 3,500 tons. It is apparent that this Congress should either discontinue coinage of the standard silver dollar or make suitable appropriations for building additional vaults in the East and for transportation of silver coin from San Francisco, no further space being available for building at that point. The lowest rate for transportation of silver from San Francisco

obtainable is $15 per $1,000.

Senators Campbell and Spann spoke in favor of the minority report. New bills were introduced. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, wan given time to show why this Legislature should enact laws requiring instruction in the public school as to the nature and effects of alcohol.

A CLEVER THIEF.

The Thief that Played Marquis Wonderful Patience and Ingenuity--How a Bank was Robbed.

IN THE HOUSE. Ninety-five members were present. Mr. Brazeltin's bill to provide for the relocation of county seats was taken up and its discussion continued till noon. The bill is intended for the benefit of the residents of Jennings county who desire to move the county seat from old Vernon to North Vernon. A strong lobby for and against the bill was in attendance. The entire afternoon was passed in the discusion of the constitutional amendment question. FRIDAY, Jan. 26. SENATE--Petitions for the submission of the amendments, and other petitions and memorials,

were presented. Committee reports were received. The remainder of the day was devoted to the discussion of the amendments, and adjournment was finally had till Monday at 2 p. m. IN THE HOUSE. In committee of the whole, the entire day was devoted to the discussion of the constitutional amendments. Adjournment was had till Monday at 2 p. m.

MONDAY, Jan. 29.

SENATE.--The Winterbotham election case was

called up and referred, with instructions, as per

request of the Studebaker brothers, at South

Bend, to thoroughly investigate the changes made

regarding the election in the 13th Congressional

District. Several bills were introduced. The amendment question was then discussed. The majority report declaring that the amend

ments are not before this General Assembly for its consideration was concurred in--yeas 95; nays

23; as follows:

Yeas--Bell, Benz, Bischowski, Brown, Comp-

ton, Davidson, Duncan, Faulkner, Fletcher, Hill,

Hilligrass. Howard, Hutchinson, Johnston, of Dearborn; Johnston of Tippecanoe; May, Mc-

Clure, McCulloch, Null, Rahm, Richardson,

Smith, of Jay; Van Vorhis, Voyles. Youche--25

Nays--Adkinson, Bundy, Campbell, Ernest,

Fleming, Foulke, Graham, Henry, Hoover, Kelser, Lockridge, Lindley, Macartney, Magee, Mar-

vin, Mcintosh, Overstreet, Ristine, Sayre, Smith,

of Delaware; Spann, White, Yancy--23.

Mr. Bell moved to reconsider the vote just

taken, and lay that motion on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to, and then the

Senate adjourned. IN THE HOUSE. Met at 2 p. m. The amendment question was discussed. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

There are 400,000 claims now pending in the land office. The pension appropriation bill has been reported to the full committee. It appropriates $81,000,000. The Secretary of the Interior has decided that under the law regulating al-

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. TUESDAY, Jan, 23. SENATE.-- A resolution from the committee on Executive Appointments that all unauthorized employes of the Senate be discharged, was laid on the table. The privileges of the floor were extended to ex-Senator Wright, of Iowa. New bills were introduced. Consideration of executive apyointments was had at length. The minority report asking that the nomination of the Governor be confirmed was rejected, and the majority report postponing further action till Jan. 30. IN THE HOUSE. The matter of convict labor was discussed at length and a resolution was adopted instructing the committae on Prisons to report a bill to provide for the relief of free labor competing with convict labor, and to provide for some way to make convict labor self-supporting. In joint session the Senate and House voted to elect Prison Directors and State Librarian, as follows : State Librarian--Miss Lizzie O. Callis, 83; Mrs. Winsor, 57. Directors of the Southern Prison--Dr. W. D. H. Hunter, 81 ; Morris McDonald, 56 ; Dr. H. V. Norvell, 84 : Wm. G. Young, 55. Directors of the Northern Prison--George Majors, 85 ; A. C. Beeson, 54 ; John C. Shoemaker, 83 ; Leopold Levy, 56 ; Henry Moning, 81 ; W. T. Horine, 54. Committee reports were received. Rep. Patton's bill, defining a legal fence, was recommitted. Several new bills were introduced. The usual resolution expressive of "our sense" to our Senators and Representatives in Congress was passed. WEDNESDAY Jan. 21. SENATE.-- Mr. Spann offered a joint resolution providing for the payment by the State of the costs incurred by the superintendent of public instruction in the case of the State vs. the Superintendent of schools in Marion county, charged with corruption in selling the questions prepared for the examination of teachers by the Superinendent of public instruction, which was read the first time. On his further motion the constitutional rule was suspended. The resolution was read the second time by title, the third time by sections and passed. Consideration of the Supervisor's bill was resumed, but no final action was taken. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being the reports of the committees on the 19th inst., regarding the amendments. Mr. Bundy read a lengthy orgument in favor of the minority report. IN THE HOUSE. Rep. Montgomery, offered a resolution which was adopted instructing the committee on the judiciary to consider the expediency of exempting from taxation mortgages, loans on money, sales of property, and other evidences of debt, where at the same time the subject of the debt is also taxed. Bills were read the second time. A bill providing for an issue of 650 $1,000 bonds to improve the Kankakee swamps was introduced The road law question was discussed. THURSDAY, Jan. 25. SENATE.--Petitions praying for the submission of the amendments were presented by 29 Senators. The Brown bill for "the better management o the Benevolent Instioutiors was taken up. The minority report ordering indefinite postponment was rejected. The majority report recommending its passage was concurred in--Yeas 27; nays 22. The bill was amended, giving the Governor power to remove officers for cause, and to fill the vacancies caused thereby by appointment un til the next meeting of the Legislature. The bill was amended on motion of Sen. Spann providing that the female portion of the institutions be placed in charge of a competent female The bill was then engrossed. The constitutional amendment question was then taken up, and Mr Foulke concluded his speech of the day previous. Sens. Voyles and Brown spoke in favor of the majority report.

TUESDAY, Jan. 16. Senate.--The entire day was devoted to the consideration of the tariff bill. House.--The war claims committee authorized a bill be reported authorizing the payment of claims under the "Fourth of July" claims act. The bill includes 1,447 claims representing $289,000, of which Indiana claims nearly $20,000. The naval bill was taken up. Rep. Calkins amendment for gradual abolition of the pay roll was adopted WEDNESDAY Jan. 24. SENATE.--The Senate resumed consideration of the tariff bill. Senator Morgan moved to make the duty on iron ore 60c per ton. Rejected, Mr Maxey moved to strike out the paragraph relating to iron ore. Rejected. He also moved to strike out the part of the paragraph relating to iron pyrites and sulphurite of iron. Rejected. The para-

graph was made to include boiler punchings aud clippings of iron and steol bars. The next paragraph was amended so as to make the duty on all steel ingots, blooms, etc., except crucible steel as follows: Steel exceeding in value 2 cents per lound, 5-10o per pound; exceeding 2c and not exceeding He per pound, 1c per pound; and for steel exceeding fc per pound iu valuation, the same duty as is provided for cruciblo steel, The duty on steel rails was reduced to 6-10 of one cent per pound. House. The House went into Committee of tho Whole on the naval appropriation bill. A paragraph providing for the construction of steel cruisers was adopted. Tho reading of the bill was concluded.

Thursday, Jan.25. Senate. To-day having been set apart for services in honor of tho late Senator Hill, of Georgia on motion of Mr. Brown, immediately afto? reading the journal remarks eulogistic of the deceased were begun. At tho conclusion thereof tho Senate adjourned. House. Tho naval appropriation bill came up as tho regular order, with the pending amendments, The amendment made in committee providing that chiefs of bureau shall receive no additional pay, by reason of holding such positions was rejected. The next amendment, being tliat for the payment of Asa Weeks of $50,000 for use by the United States of his invention in torpedoes, was agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Kel

ly moved to go iuto committee on the tariff. Sir. !

IJuttorworth antagonized it with the bonded spirits bill. Mr. Kelly's motion was agreed to The House went into committee, mid Mr. Kelly called up tho tariff bill, buc Mr. Carlisle made a point of order that the revenue bills must be takup in their order. All the ponding bills were, on motion, laid aside, mid the tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Kelly made a speech, in support of the bill, and at its conclusion the committee rose. Public business was postponed, and the House proceeded to eulogize tho late Senator Hill.

Fsiday Jan. J Senate. The Pensions Committee reported adversely, the House bill increasing the pensions of onc-arued and one-legged. soldiers. At the close of the morning business the tariff bill was taken up. The duty on bar iron was reduced from 9-10ths of a cent per pound to 18 per ton. for fiats not less than one inch wide nor less than :,h of an inch thick. The duty on round bar not less than of au inch in diameter aud square not less than U inch square was .reduced from one cent to $20 per ton. The duty on smaller sizes was reduced from 1.2 oenta per pound to $22 per ton. Tho duty. on. iron and steel T rails was reduced to 8-10 of one cent. Iron in coils or roils was reduced to f.l cents per pound. Tho paragraph rehtting to armor iron was agreed to. The proviso relating to plate or sheet or tagger iron was stricken out. Tho duty on steel plate was fixed at one cent per pound. Tho duty on

corrugated or cnmpled sheet

iron was reduced :

to 1.4 pounds. Adjourned. House. Shortly before. 12 tho House went into committeo on tho tariff bill. Mr. KandalPe motion to limit tho general debato to 5 o'clock to-morrow was agreed to. Mr. Kasson. spoke on the popular demand for prompt action on the tariff question. MrV McLano also spoke at length aud the House adjourned. Saturday, Jan. 27. Uoth the Senate and House devoted the day to the tariff bill. Speeches of more than ordinary interest were made by Converse and McKinley.of Ohio, Carlisle, of Kentucky, mid Bland, of Missouri. ......... Monday, Jan. 2f Senate -The consideration of the tariff bill was resumed. The bill was amended as to provide that on all kinds of iron and steel or articles or manufacturers of steel hereinbefore in this act enumerated, except wire when galvanized or coated with any metal or mixture of metals, by any process whatever, not including paint, there shall bo paid (excepting on what are kuowu com. mercially as tin plates, term plates and iaggar'9 tin and hereinafter provided for) Vic per pound, in addition to the rates pr ovided in this act, Tho duty on steel in any form not especially enumerated, was made 30 per cent, ad valorem, instead of Be per pound. Tho copper paragraph was agreed to as reported. Tne duty on nickel, in ore or other erode form, was reduced to 15c. Tho duty on motalic pons, pen tips, etc., was made 40 per cent, ad valorem. The duty in-the last paragraph, relating to manufacturers, articles or wares not especially enumerated, was made 35 per cent, ad valorem, instead of 45. , House Tho House went into Committee on the Tariff Bill. Tho paragraph relating to tho importation of meat, cattle and hides was amended so as to authorize tno President to suspend tho operation of prohibitory laws at his discretion. Tho paragraph prohibiting the importation of watches which copy tho namo or trade mark of domestic mains facntrers was so anwwtad as to cover any ot-hr article. The clause repealing tho section! of the Revised Statutes which add cost of transportation and commissions to tho dutiable value of articles transported from the seaboard was taken from tho end of tho bill and inserted in the first part, iu order to settle questions that might otherwise ariso iu discussing tho schedules. An amendment to make the duty ou imported whisky double the amount of tho tovouuo tax, and a further amendment to extend tho bonding- period of whisky in payment of interest at 5 per cent., provoked along discussion. Hoth were rejected.

Vidocq, in his "Memoirs," tells some of

the exploits of one of the most famous

robbers of that epoch, Jossas, better

known as the Marquis de Saint Armand de Faral.

Jossas was an ignorant country boy,

who, when very young, became the valet

of a wealthy colonel in the French army.

He remained several years in this officer,s

service traveling with him everywhere and acquiring so well the manners of

good society that he found no difficulty afterward in passing himself off as a nobleman. He was an extremely handsome

man and dressed and lived in great splendor. While Paris was resounding

with the news of one bold and skillful

bank robbery after another, and the police were looking everywhere for the thief

or thieves, the pretended Marquis was leading society, dining with the beaux and flirting and dancing with the belles He was supposed to be a Cuban with a most fabulous wealth, and many of the oldest and most distinguished families of France offered him their daughters in marriage. If Jossas did not have the advantage of the science of this century to enable him to blow open safec he had wonderful patience. He meditated and prepared a robbery sometimes as long as a year be-

forehand. Operating principally by means of false keys, he began first by taking the impression of the lock of the outer door. That key made, he entered the first apartment and if stopped by another door, took another impression, and so on, until he gained the object of his plotting. He lost much time in such a proceeding as this, as he was only able to work in the absence of the occupant. He only had recourse to this laborious expedient when he could not introduce himself into the house. When he could obtain admittance on a social footing he soon got impressions of all the locks. When the keys were ready, he would in-

vite the people he intended to rob to dine

with, him, and while they were making merry with him his accomplices stripped their houses, from which he had also lured the servants, either by asking their employers to bring them to help wait at table, or by having his confederates make love to the women-servants. The porters saw nothing, for the robbers seldom took anything but jewelry and money. If any large parcel was to be removed, they wrapped it in solid linen and threw it out of the window to an accomplice in waiting with a washerwoman's cart. Jossas, as the Marquis, had the habit of engaging himself to be married to young girls with a large dowry. In the course of the many conversations he took care to have on the subject of the marriage portion, he would contrive to learn where it was deposited, invariably carrying it off and absconding at the time appointed for signing the marriage contract. He made up his mind once to rob a cer

tain banker at Lyons. He contrived to get acquainted with the ways of the establishment by banking a considerable sum, and under the pretext of arranging accounts and negotiations, took an impression of all the locks except that of the safe, of which a secret ward rendered aligns attempts unavailing. As the safe was built in the wall and cased with iron to break it open was impossible. The cashier never parted with the key. In or der to overcome this obstacle, Jossas inveigled himself into the good graces of the cashier, and one day invited him to take a drive into the country with him and dine at a rustic hotel. The cashier accepted, and they set out. As they approached the bank of the river

they saw a woman lying down, apparently dying with the blood spouting from her nose and mouth. Beside her knelt a man in great distress. Jossas seemed much concerned, and getting out of the carriage seemed anxious to aid the suffering woman. He ssid at length that the key applied to her back would stop the bleeding. The cashier offered that of his room, but it had no effect. The woman grew worse, and the cashier hurriedly pulled out the only other key he had about him --that of the safe. It stopped the effusion of blood and the woman, with the assistance of her friend, said she thought she could get to her home. Jossas and the cashier drove on. Three days after the robbery of the bank occasioned a wild sensation. The whole scene at the river side had been planned by Jossas ; a piece of modeling wax was concealed in the back of the supposed dying woman in order to take the impression of the key of the safe.

bier in Paris, a year ago. I secured j$ through an agent at the sale. ' ,4Ite mate," continued! the jeweler, "had ane lesB eventful career. It found ite way to a French jeweler, who sold it to the Duke of Brunswick, who, with eccentric prodigality, lavished money on precious stones, which he left to the city of Geneva. The history of the first blue . diamond was published in Paris when I bought it, but search made afterward for the mate, which the Duke of Brunswick had bought, revealed the fact that, it had disappeared." . "We found it two months ago and h w do you think? Why, my partner

saw it sparkling in the shirt from, or a C hicago merchant He could hardly believe it. Bin by a 3tratagem he secured the means of comparing the gems, . and proved their identity to his satisfaction. The merchant said he had bought the stone in England from a Jewish diamond merchant of London. He was induced to part with it at a handsome figure, . "Thus they came together," said the owner, as he rewrapped the sparks of mineral tire with tender care, "and thus they stay. They'll never be separated again if we can help it."

FARM-NOTES. In tiirning under sod or green materia a sprinkling of lime is very beneficial. Ashes should never be thrown npoit manure heaps, nor mixed with any kind of manure, as the caustic potash liberates the ammonia, which is very difficult to'

save. Therefore, spread ashes immediately upon the bind, whether grass or cultivated. The Minneapolis Tribune says thafc goats are the best land cleaners known. It mentions that a herd of 1,000 entirely cleaned a piece of brush land, consisting of 500 acres, in three years. So complete was the work that not a vestige of under growth was left. - A good test for roots is to weigh them in water, as the weight in water will give the amount of solid matter. Sometimes the mangolds will float, which shows them to be deficient in nourishmenwMUi the small ones invariably sink.

The value of sufficient food in a hygienic or sanitary view to man, need not be commented on. All agree as to its ad vantages during our long winters, and its necessity for the proper preservation o health. ...... Dark honey sells lower than that which - is white. IXark honey wOi not be found in the hives until summer heat and moist ure have liberated certain chemical' prop erties contained in decomposing vegetation. Those properties are secreted by flowers or growing vegetation. Within a radius of seventy-five miles from Montreal upwards of 200 cheese factories have been built within a. comparatively shorttime. Ontaripjisalso increaaing her make of cheese." Thus far this year Montreal has shipped to England one-half as much cheese as New York. The evaporation of black raspberries by the new process is so successful that' it keeps up the price of this fruit during the summer. Three and a halt quarts of

green fruit will makes one pound when evaporated. It takes a bushel of apples to make six pounds of dried fruit. Among all of the field crops which th farmers; grow there are few if any that a fordK a more certain profit than winter rye, whether it be sown for the grain and straw or for a green crop to feed stock in May. In fact it is a good crop to grow for any early spring pasture. As timothy grass seed, if sown at the same time -as winter wheat, is apt to crowd the grain too much, the better way is to wait three or four weeks until the wheat is well up before sowing th timothy. Sow just before a rain, and no harrowing or bushing will bo needed. The Los A ngeles Times says that about three miles south of that city is to b seen a hollyhock .plant raised from" th seed since last April, measuring sixteen feet in height The body of the stock is nearly flat, and at a distance of five test from the ground is five and one hatt inches in width and full of bloom. The practice of pasturing sheep or hogs n orchards is excellent, less for the value of the pasture than for the benefit of ths fruit by destroying wormy specimens. The animals should be fed liberally daily but not late at night or early in th morning, so as to encourage theiri to make early forays for fallen fruit Rations composed entirely of timothy: hay, though not so good for horses as those mixed with clover, yet are preferred by horsemen, and clear timothy commands the highest price. Therefore, if hav is to be sold, timothy alone should

Unt if imntiy for home use a

mixture with clover is no detriment.

Gems With a History. "There are the $100,000 twins--brought together by chance, after more than a quarter of a century of separation, and never to leave this country, now we've got them." The speaker was a German gentleman, the head of a wholesale diamond importing house in Maiden Laue. As he spoke he took a packet of silken tissue paper from a big safe behind him and dropped it upon a counter covered with green baize, at which the reporter seated himself. A wire gate slammed to and locked the gate without seeming to imprison him,and the German gentleman began to open the tissue paper packet. Two lustrous gems, which blazed with a pure bluish-white fire, gleamed side by side. Each was about as big around as a three cent piece, but what was more striking than their size was their identity of appearance and beauty. They are cut alike, weigh alike (eight and one-half carats each) and are veritable mineral twins. "I could create a sensation and make a fortune with them in Paris," said the diamond merchant. "They are old Indian mine diamonds,and have a history which puts them in the catalogue of the famous gems of the world. I have proofs that establish their identity. They must have been in possession of Warren Hastings when he was Governor-General of India. Previously they had been the jewels of a rajah, and after they left Hastings' jewel casket they were secured by a Russian nobleman during a mutiny in India. He took them to Amsterdam, where a skilled Dutch lapidary recut them,thercby greatly enhancing their beauty while only slightly decreasing their weight. The nobleman lost possession of one of them at the celebrated gaming table of M. Blanc, at Monaco At least it is supposed he lost it gaming, for it was only recovered at the auction sale of the effects of Mme. Blanc, widow of the famons gam-

It is again authoritatively announced that Senator David Davis and Miss A, 35 Burr .will be married at the lady's house, near Fayettsville, N. G., immediately after Congress adjourns.

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