Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 February 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomihgton Courier.

BY H. J. FELTUS.

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LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

Tuesday, Jan. SO Sesatb Several petitions and memorials wero presented. New bills -were introduced. Sir. Jewett, chairman of the committee on ways nrA mins. introduced tho genernl appropriation

bill for tho years 1SS3-4 and 1S5K. the appropria

tions for the executive and judicial departments are the same as those made for the past two years. For the benevolent, penal, educational and miscellaneous institutions, they are as follows for each year: Insane hospital Maintenance. S2S0.CG0, clothing, $l2,CO); current repairs $15,000. And if by the 1st of November. 1SS8. the women's department is so far completed as to afford accommo dations for more thon 2C0 inmatest hen the appropriation for maintenance shall bo increased by$4O0. . Blind asylumilaintenance and repairs, $8 ,000. Ieaf ard dumb asylum, Maintenance and repairs,. 5,tiuB- . Institute for feeble minded Maintenance. $1,000, Soldiers orphans' home Maintenance $20,ftX); repairs for both theseinstttntions, $2,CG0: salaries, $2,400. State university $2S,00& Purdno university $2,000. State Normal school S 0P0l State Board of Healtl' 5,00C'. Mine Inspector $1,5 0. Fi h commission $1 including the salary of the commissioner, $800. State prison south Maintainance and repairs

$75,000. State prison north Maiutainance and repairs $7500. State reform' school Maiutainance aEdrepairs, . Female reformatory Maiutainance and repiurs 330,000, - Interest on the non-negotionable bonds of the State, SUSUXXV State Horticultural society, 500. Public printing, advertising and stationary $24,000. As a general thing, these sums are in excess of . those voted t.vo years ago; notably that for public printing and stationary, which is doubled. The special order, the road bill, was called up. After discussion without action, it was postponed till Monday at 2 p. m. The consideration of the question of. the confirming or rejecting of the Governors appointments occupied considerable attention, and was finally recommitted till Monday. The bill to change the name of the House of Refuge was reported, and tho report concurred in. IN THE HOUSE. The entire day was devoted to the discussion of the amendments. . . , WSSWTESDAY, Jan., 31. Senate Foulke's bill to enable turnpike companies in this state to connect with turnpike roads operated in an adjoining state was read the third time. Brown,s bill for the bettor management of the benevolent institutions of tho State being read the third time. Willard demanded the previous question. The Senate seconded the doraand for the previous qutstion, yeas, 23, nays .22. TJnder the operations thereof the bill passed the Senate by yeas 27, nays 20. ... Brown moved to reconsider the vote by which . he bill passed, and moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. Tho latter motion was agreed to by yeas 23. and nays 19. Smith's of Jay's bill concerning teacher's licenses was passed. Ristice's bill regarding the construction of gravel roads was passed. The bill allows a tax of Us per cent, for the repair and construction of gravel roads. Yeas 31; nays 12. The bill relating to change of venue was passed. The bill to cnange the name of the House of Refuge was ordered engrossed. IN THE HOUSE. . On motion by Ke" . tfewets the ceneral apprt priation bill for 1SS3-4 ard 1SS4-5 introduced yesterday from the committee on ways and moans, was read tho second time and 150 copies ordered printed for the use of tho general assombly. The Constitutional amendment question was dieenssed. Thursday, Feb. 1. Senate Several bills were introduced. Numerous reports from committees were made. The bill of Senator White authorizing the construction of a dam across the St. Joe river in Elkhart County was passed under a suspension of the rules. .. . On motion the principal door keeper, Kirk, was dismissed, and C. A. Edwards elected to nil the vacancy. . IN THE HOUSE. Considerable time was taken upon the submission of reports of committees. New bills were introduced. The bill concerning criminal proceedings was indefinitely postponed. .... The bill fixing the time of holding court in the Fourth Judicial district wits passed. Fsiday, Feb. 2. - Senate. The Van Vorhis Justice of the Peace bill, providing that the number of justices m a township shall not exceed r.wo, and an additional one for eacn incorporated city or town in the township, was passed unds-r a suspoasion of the rules. .. Many Committee reports were submitted.

Several new bills were introduced, and others

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vie icou Luc secyuu lime.

IN THE HOUSE. Bep. Stacker's bill, providing for the election of County Superintendents by popular vote. An amendment providing ineligibility for two terms in succession was agreed to. The bill provides for four years terms. On motion the bill was referred to a special committee with instructions to report Tuesday, Committee reports were received. The "Interest on school fund" bill was further discussed. A bill was introdaced to create a State Inspector of Gas meters. Several bills were indefinitely postponed and others were read the second time. Saturday, Feb. 8. Sen ate. Tho Senate transacted no business for want of a quornm. tS THE HOUSE. The roll was called and the day occupied in the introduction of bills, and when concluded 4iH. B. 311" was recorded. Senate. Met at 2 p. m. Now bills were introduced. The time was spent in advancing . bills on the calendar. in the house; ; Several bills were read the second time. iteports of Committees wore received. Tho bill coi.cermng and providing against election "tickets" was considered and referred. The general appropriation bill being the special ordur. . The sugstion of a large appropriation to Purdue university created long discussion, and tho House finally adjourned without action. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Tuesday, Jan. 81.

Senate: After the transaction, of some unimportant business, the Sernte .went into committee on the tariff bill. Along debate ensued on . the proposition that all machinery for the manufacture of cotton or woolen goods, or goods composed of hemp or jute, shall pay a duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem. It was advocated by the New England Senators and opposed by the Sonthom. It was voted down IV ycs to 39 nays and the proposition imposing the same duty on all mechanics' tools was rejected by the same vote. Tho sugar schedule was taken up. Debate on this was continued until the Senate adjourned without aoti on. . House Mr. Calkins introduced a resolution to no v the contMtant and contest in tho Third

Missouri District, their expenses. This gives Lessinghous $16,640, aud Frost 10.816. Mr. Gaswell reported tho postofiice bill with eleven Senate amendments, most of which were concurred in. The House then went into Committee on the Tariff Bill. The duty on castor oil, after a long debate, was fixed nfcflmrfliifcv writs Turrnllvn Tho

duty on glucose was reduced to 20 per cent. "Wednesday Jan. 31. Senate The joint resolution tendering thanks to J". W. Slater, of Connecticut, for I

South, was passed. The tariff bill was then taken up. Pending debate on t he sugar schedule, the House resolutions relative to the death of BepreentativeOrth. of Indiana, were reported. Messrs.

Harrison, Frye and Voorhees delivered eulogistic addressee, and the Senate, at 4:35, adjourned.

House Kasson, of Iowa, made an effort to take up and pass the sugar wrie-house bill, but Gib son, of Louisiana, objected. Tho Senate amendment appropriating $100,000 for the immediate of use the census bureau was concurred in. The House at 11:15 went into committee ot the whole on the tariff bill. The California members made an effort to secure a duty on boracic acid, but failed. At 2:20 p. m., after having gono through thirty-two lines of the bill, tho committee rose

Saturday, February 10, at 3 p. m was used u)C the announcemeut of the death of Mr. Shackle ford. r. Brown, of Indiana, then announced the death of the lateGodlove S. Orth. and offered the customary resolutions. . Thurso ay. Fob. 1. Senate Joint nnolution was reported to suspend tho purchase and coinage ot silver bullion. The Senate took up tho tariff bill, Tho amendment to the sugi.r schedule was adopted. It imposes a duty of ll4c. per pound on all sugar not above 13, tank bottoms, melada, etc., testing by che polauscope, not above 75 degrees, and five hundredths of a cent per pound for each additional degree or fraction thereof. Above No. 18 and up to No. 16, the rate is 2 65c. per pound; above No. 10 and up to No. 20, 3.15c. per pound; above No. 20, 3.65c. per pound; molasses, up to fifty-six degrees, cents per gallon; above fiftysix degrees. S cents per gallon. Tho tobacco schedule was noxt takon up. Amendments was offered making tho duty on cigars, cigarettes and cheroots, of all kinds, S3,5fl per pound, and 25 per cent ndvalorem, instead of $4 per pound. Tobacco in loaf, unmanufactured and not stemmed, used exclusively for wrappers, 75c per pound; all other tobacco in loaf and not stemmed, 33c. per pound; manufactured Tobacco of all descriptions, and stemmed tobacco no especially enumerated or provided for, 40c, in stead of 50c. per pound. On motion tho duty was

made 75c. per pound for stemmed tobacco suita

ble for wrapping purposes. Tho remainder of the tobacco schedule was left untouched. Tho

provision schedule, which was next in order, led

to a protracted debate as to the policy of impos

ing duties on artioles of food.. Tho vote to strike out the paragraph taxing beef and pork one cent per pound, was rejected by It yeas to 28 nays. Tho liquor schedule was agreed to with one amendment. House. The "Fourth of July claims" bill was reported nd placed on the calendar. Mr, Hoar offered a resolution for inquiry as to the expediency of providing bv law that the United States shall not employ convict labor on public works. Adopted. The House took up tho tariff bill. Copperas was stricken from the schedule. The provision taxing "acetate of lead, wlute, fit for medical use," ten cents was stricken out. A dobate sprang up on the political features of the bill participated in by Messrs. Bedford, Auderson, Calkins, Cox and others, Tho duty on caustic soda, used largely iu the preparation of wood pulp, was made one cent instead of three quarters of a cent per pound. Tho bill was further amended by making all salts of potash, not enumerated, SO instead of 25 per cent, ad valorem to 40 per cent advalorem. Aniline oils and artificial olozorine were placed on the free list, as was also bone black for refining sugar. Oxide of zinc ground in oil was reduced from 2 cents, and the same fit for medical use from 10 to 5 cents. Oils not oihe-wise provided for were reduced from 25 to 20 per cent. All ground or powdered spices, noten nmerated, were rednced from 5 to 3 cents. FitiDAT, Feb, 2. Senate The tariff bill was 'taken up. Tho duty on potato and corn starch was increased from one to two cents per pound. Tabor, as Senator from Colorado, took the oath of oilico Harris moved to make tho duty on all cotton yarns 30 per cent. No quorum voted, Edmunds moved that absent members be sent for. After considerable skirmishing a vote of 25 to 17 was recorded in its favor, and tho Sergoant-at-Arrus was sent af tor the absentees, Anothor vote was takon on amendments, but, although forty-six Senators were present, less than a quorum voted several being paired Adjourned. House Tho House took up tho tariff bill. Tho duty on extract of hemlock and other sets used in dying was raised from 10 to 20 per coat. A two hours' debate sprung up on tho pottery interest. Haskoll moved that tho Committee rise, and that in the House the debate should be limited to ten minutes. The minority fillibusterod until a compromise was affec tod by making the limit of dobate thirty minutes. Amendments to reduce tho duty on each class of earthen ware wero proposed, discussed and voted down. It was moved to make the duty on green aud colored ghis; bottles 35 per cont. ad valorem, A substitute was offered, making the duty one cent per pound. The Committee rose to close debate. Before going into Committoo again tho legislative, executive and judicial bill was reported. The House again went into Committee,andtho duty on green and colored glass bottles was fixed at 35 per centad valorem.

Saturday, Feb. 3. Senate. The tariff bill was considered. The duties on cotton thread and yams were fixed as follows: On goods not exceeding 25c. per poiuid in valuo, 10c. per pound; valued at over 25c. and not over 40c, 15e. per pound; 40o, and not exceeding 50c. 20c per pound; over 00 and not exceeding 70cM !0c per pound; above SOc. per pound 4Sc. A motion to reduce the duty on fine hosiery from 4d to per cent, ad valorem, created a long discussion, wMch was interrupted by a message from the House announcing the death of Rep. Lowe. Business was suspended. Adjourned. House. The Senate bill to encourage an International Cotton Centonnial Exposition in 1SS1 was taken from the Speaker's table and passed. Iu Committee the tariff bill was considered, but no part disposed of. The Committee rose and the death of Representative Lowe, of Alabama, was announced, eulogies pronounced, and the customary resolutions passed, Monpat, Fob. 6. Senate -The tariff bill was taken up. Amendment, reducing the duty on fine hosiery from 45 to SO per cent, ad valorem was lost by a tie vote 27 to 27, it was then made 10 per cent. The duty on cotton cord, braid, etc, was reduced to 35 per cent., and that on cotton laces and embroideries to 4 per cent. A proposition to reduce the duty on spool cotton from 9 to 6 cents was rejected. The schedule was passed without further amendment. The schedule embracing juto and flax goods was next considered. A long debate endued on a proposition to strike out jute and place it in the free list. It was finally stricken out. "Jute butts, $5 per ton,1 was also stricken out. The rate on manufacture of juto was changed to 20 per cent, ad valorem, except juto bags and bagging, exclusive of bagging for cotton, which was under JW percent. When the wool schedule was reached an adjournment was had. House The rules were suspended and the bill to quiet titl of settlors on Jjes Moines Rfrrer lands in Iowa, passed. Cannon moved to suspend tho rules and take up the legislative appropriation bill for immedi

ate consideration. Lostbyyoas 13", nays 108

not two thirds voUng m the affirmative. This

was a 6trict party vote. Mr. Kelly moved to sus

pend the rules and adopt a resolution directing a Commettee of the Whole to report tho tariff bill to the Houso on the 12th of February, such order to bo effective ovor any amendment that may bo

pending. A spirited debate ensued and Kelly's

motion was deEeated by a vote nearly partisan.

NEWS AND INCIDENT. Our Compilation of the Important Happenings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: . A street railway is in process of construction at Vincennes.

Crawford county's delinquent tax list contains but 110 names. New electric belle have been placed in all the recitation rooms at Asbury universi'y, and now the students long for a steam elevator. The costs in the Stout murder trial, since taken to Parke county, amount to Sl,4&i.05, exclusive of Stout's board in the county jail. During the three months from November 1 to February 1, the United States Express Company at Rushville shipped 14,221 ponnds of poultry. The returns from the different fox drives in the State are coming in. They are all about the sametremendous noise, lots of fun, and no foxes. At a negro funeral at Jefferson ville, Sunday, a disgraceful fight commenced just as the body was being lowered into

the grave, bricks and shovels being used.

Two freight trains on the Lakeshcre road collided, Sunday, near Laporte, and were burned by an explosion of two oil oars. Forty-one ears and two engines are a total loss,

An obstreperous street car passenger in Fort Wayne, refused to pay his fare, and resisted the efl'orts of the driver to eject him by lying down in the bottom of the ear on the flat of his back. Kokoino Gazette : Kokomo can boast of more pretty girls, fewer old bachelors, more young widows, and more musical rnlAnr, rn fchfl sonare inch, than any town

of its size in the State of Indiana. Win. Derrington, of Montezuma, Parke count', a few days ago, married his eighth wife. He was divorced from No. 6 in 1881, and No. 7 died last November Mr. Derington is eighty-six years old. A fruit-tree peddler has been nulling Laporte County farmers by having them sign a ''wrapper" in order to ship the goods. Inside is an ingeniously hidden promissory note which turns up to plague the confiding, granger, Surveys are being made, with a view of constructing a levee running from Knox into Sullivan county, along the Wabash River, a distance of fifteen miles, which would reclaim a large area of valuable land in both counties. Tho Canuelton cotton-mill runs 11,632 spindles, '100 looms, and gives employment to 330 haLds. It consumes about 5,000 bales of cotton per annum and

pays out from 80,000 to ivooo per month for labor. The county clerk at Logausport received 10,000 in cash in payment of two judgments on Saturday afternoon after

bauking hours. Not being able to deposit the money, lie stood personal guard over it all night, and Sunday morning got tho bank officers to take it in. A little girl by tho name of Burtou,living with her uncle, Joseph Leasure, north of Rushville, was playing in front of an open fire-place with a dog Friday evening, when she lost her balance, fell backward and was literally roasted. She lived ui.til Sunday. A romantic marriage took place at Greensburg last week. William H.Beall of Southern California, through a mutual friend and correspondence, became betrothed to Miss Cora E. Stevens, of that city, but never saw her until he came to claim her as his bride two days before the marriage. They will make their home in California. Mr. David Force and Miss Ella Clark living near Seymour, were to have been married Sunday evening. Arrangements for the wedding were all made and the invited guests and minister were present, but the groom did not report, and lias since mysteriously disappeared. The inended bride is nearly crazy with grief. At Vincennes, Monday, John Whelaud, a white barber was jailed, having been caught in a trap. During the past few weeks various sums of money have been missed from the Trivoli s aloon, and when a watch was kept it was Hind that Wheland entered through a do door of the barber shop in the same building by takofi the lock. Berry Foreman, who lives in Hard Scrabble, a suburb of New Castle, got mad at something and began beating his siste rand mother. Then he smashed the furniture, aud finally ran out, pulled up the pump and split it open. At this juncture the neighbors were aroused, and took a hand. One man struck Berry with an ax handle, and a woman snapped a rifle twice at him, but it would not discharge, when a boy named Dolan took the gun, picked powder into the tube and fired, tho ball striking Foreman in the ankle, when he threw up the sponge.

nctt, of New York, to draw double jxmsions. The widow of John C, Green has given

the New York Chamber of Commerce $57,000 for the benefit of honorable but unsuccessful merchants. An efibrt will be made this season, to revive tho waning popularity at Coney Ielaud, Austin Corbin intends to spend $1,000,000 at Manual ten Beach.

During an entertainment of Lincoln Council, A. I. H., at Brooklyn, a croaking beam caused a panic,aud many pcrepun wero injured by rushing for tho doors. Amanuel Ojoln, wife and son have beon arrested in Jersey City for making counter feit coins, by a now process, which does away with the use of molds or steel dies. George Biemiller, of Allegheny City, Pa., ia held to answer tho charge of killing his wife, by kicking tier in the brea&t and thigh, while she was sick with typhoid fever. The Chinese-American was issued for tho firs' time in New York, on Saturday. It is edited by Wong Chin Foo, and is written in Chinese characters and multiplied by lithography.

house.at Sharon Hill, has been seized bv the Sheriff. , satisfy Mrs, Melville's

creditors, and a mortgage on the property held by Miss Polish has been foreclosed. Tha exports of petroleum have fallen off r00,000 barrels during the past year at Philadelphia, while they increased 500,000 at Now York, owing to the Standard Oil Company delivering its traflic to Now York. A large fire occurred at the docks near Canal Street, New York, Thursday. The sheds,stores and shipping were all ablaze. Tho steamship Egypt vras totally burned, and other ships of smaller dimensions also destroyed. The loss was very heavy. The Rev. Dr. Webber, pastor of the foremost Presbyterian church at Troy, N. Y"., has resigned because he no longer believes in the existence of hell. His congregation-refused to follow him in his belief. He was formerly a professor in Middlebury college. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, at New York, Anthony Comstoek stated that during the year he had seized six tons of gambling furniture and apparatus, and m ide 118 arrests for offenses against decency. Franklin Pier5e, Worcester, Mess., claiming to be a physioian, was Tuesday held in $3,000 bail for manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs. Barns Bemis, of Oakdale. He treated her for internal erysipelas by bathing her in kerosene, and rolling her up in a bandage saturated with that oil. The woman was literally blistered and skinned alive, and lied after a week of horrible suffering. A disgraceful row occurred in Calvary Cemetery, New York, on the occasion of the burial of a child of Dennis Callahan, of 7 Batavia street, on Sunday last, Callahan's friends claiming that the proper grave had not been opened. A fight toh lowed, during which the grave diggers were assaulted and thrown into the gmve. Police arrested Mortimer O. Sullivan, Callahan and Jeremiah Hagerty, who were fined 815 each. The condition of MicFerron, one of the principals in a prize :aght which recently took place near Rochester, Pa., is reported very serious, &nd slight hopes are entertained for his recovery. A Swede, named Gilsono, who fought several eeks

Isaac H. Kierstead has given bonds at near ouaron, ra., is aiso saia w oe Tr.dinnnK in tho snm of S200.000 ns ! dying from the effects of injuries re-

the executor of the will of the late Bishop

Talbot. The property left by the bishop was all personal. He held a policy for $5,000 in the Mutual Life Insurance company and one for alike amount in the Mutual Benefit After paying his cash bequests and distributing to legatees his furniture, etc., and the payment of debts to the amount of about 1,000, there will be several thousand dollars to be given to his sister-in-law, according to the provisions of the bill.

The debt of the United States February 1, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,580,269,900 Charles II, Peed will probably ask congress for 5,000 for his services in defending Guiteau. The organized and nnorgamzed militia force of the country numbers 0,800,000 men available for military duty. The Hawaiian Islands sent 106,181,858 pounds of sugar to the United States during the year ending June 30, 18S2. The first through train from New Orleans for San Francisco, over the Southern Pacific route, went into, San Antonio Wednesday evening on t ime. The rains of Friday and Saturday flooded the creeks and rivers to overflowing, and great damage was done in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania. The loss at Indianapolis will foot up $50,000. The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents shows: Total receipts, $1,009,219; expenditures, $682,807; balance in the treasury on account of patent fund, $2,205,471; total number of applications requiring action, 36,114; total patents granted, 20,517. From official statistics received by the secretary of the American Iron and Steel aesociation, he reports that the production of Bessemer steel ingots in the United States last year, was 1,096,450 tons being an increase over the production of 1881 of 10 per cent. The quantity of Bessemer

steel rails produced in 1S82, by the fourteen completed works were 1,334,349 tons an increase of 0 per cent, as compared with 1881. These figures do not cover rails made from imported blooms and open heath steal rails.

ceived. The referees and other partici

pants are preparing to leave tho city in the event of their death. A new excise law has been prepared for New York and Brooklyn, and will probably pass the assembly. The threebed clause of the present law is stricken out. The bill requires warrants to be obtained before arrests can be made for vio lation of the law except between the hour of 1 o'clock in the morning and 12 o'clock at night on Sundays, when the police officer in whose precinct a violation of the law occurs can make an arrest without such warrant.

THE EAST: Pittsburgh shipped 4,000,000 bushels of coal Tuesday. Mace and Slade were arrested and prevented from meeting Sullivan. The loss of the burning of the Inman docks at Now York will aggregate $1,000,000. Fred Gebhard was seen to pass through Pittsburgh with a seal skin sacque valued at S1,000. The Vermont Supreme Court has decided that tho State liquor-Jaw is unconstitutional. Mace and Slado were bound over io

keep tho peace in New 3ork in $500 bonds each.

V-ermont is distressed by the drought,

and actual suffering is predicted should

it continue a fortnight longer.

The association of textile fabrics of

Philadelphia, collected 835,000 to estab

lish a school for instruction in the textile

art. . .

The United States Supreme Court de

nies the right of General Ward B. Bur-

THE WEST: A professional "masher" was fined $100 and costs at Chicago Thursday, The Detroit river is bridged with ice, the first time in twenty-eight years. The I ebanon, Ohio, reservoir broke Sunday and caused a damage of $4,000, The ice between Mackinaw City, Mich., and Point St. Ignace is twenty feet thick. Frederick Smith was smothered in the bran bin of a Mansfield, (O.) flouring mill. F. L. Lord, publisher of the Mail, was hung in effigy at Kalamazoo, Mich., on Monday. Gen. Chas. F. Manderson has been elected Senator from Nebraska, to suc

ceed Sauuders. A cyclone struck Denver on Monday, doing $200,000 of damage and seriously injuring several citiisens. A valve chamber of the Cincinnati Pumpmg Works, weighing thirty tons, has been successfully cast. A wife in St. Louis went home Tues

day night to find that her husband had

committed suicide en the doorstep.

A woman at Wapakoneta, O., was fatally burned Thursday, in her attempt to save her child, whose clothing had caught

fire. The post-master general has directed that the free-delivery system" be established at Madison, Wisconsin, beginning April 1, D. M. Sabin has been elected U. S Senator from Wisconsin, to succeed Windom. He was "Windom's choice" next to himself. Three cases of scarlet-fever have appeared iu the Jieeble-niindod institute at Lincoln, Illinois, which has over three hundred inmates. ' The Standard Oil Company's works amd tanks at Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire

Saturday aud wera entirely desfcroyod. Loss about 1300,030. Eevivalist Harrison's meetings at Decatur, 111., are in the tenth week, and the converts number a thousand. The interest continues great. B is estimated at Sandusky that 320,000 has recently been sent from that city to

tho grain swindlers :in Chicago lately debarred from using the mails. A special dispatch from Milwaukee says Jno. Gilbert, actor, injured in the Newhall House fire, has been informed of his wife's de:ith. His mind is deranged Smallpox has become epidemic in the

camp of Little Shell,of the Turtle Mountain Chippewas. Ten deaths have-already occurred, but nothing has been done for the new patients Great excitement prevails among the saloon men tit Springfield, Ohio, on account of the wholesale indictment hav

ing been found against them by the Grand Jury. One of them wai indicted Tuesday on thirty-five counts for violating the liquer laws. In the Ohio House of P.epresentatives, Saturday, Mr. Miller, of Mercer county, who was on the verge ot delirium tremens created a seusation by threatening SpeakHodgo with violence. The inebriate was sent to prison and his seat declared vacant. He has been intoxicaied all this year. Saginaw lumbermen are thoroughly aroused at the blow threatened against their interests by putting lumber or. the free list. A committee of twenty-live has been appointed to go to Washington for the purpose of lobbying against the proposition. An attempt iB being made to secure concert of action from other lumber districts. A passenger train Wednesday, when within six miles of Crested Butte, Colorado, divided, the engine going ahead to clear the track. When about four miles from where it left the coaches the engine was struck by a snowslide and thrown from the track; it is now under twenty feet of snow. A wrecking engine could

not get marer than two miles of the coaches.

Miss Emma Bond, of Tnylorville, 111., is still alive, but her death is hourly expected. Montgomery and Pettus, the two men charged with murderously assaulting her, have barricaded their homes, and heavily armed, rcanain constantly on guard in expectation of an. -attack by a lynching party. They say they will give fight until killed. It is believed that Ferry's chances for re-election as Senator from Michigan are hopeless. His representatives at Lansing were served with process, Saturday night in a suit for an unpaid bill nf 2,300 for rooms and board for the month of .January, at a hotel there. The Senator has been absent from Lansing for a week, seeking to tide over his financial difficulties, but their extent is unknown, ja.V panic was caused in London, Mon-

The German government has asked an appropriation of $5,000,000 to fortify tiie western frontier. It is stated that the Czar has ordered, the coronation manifesto ready for signature on tho 20th of February. Funds are being raised in London to defend the Irishmen charged in Dublin with conspiring to murder ofiicers. . Bismark 'a illness, although not dangerous, is attended with much pain, and will congne him to his room for several weeks. Twenty three persons were killed and twenty-eight injured by a panic in a wool factory, at Bombay, caused by dust blowing into a room. Tho London Economist says tho afc tention of financial circles is drawn to the high dividends paid by American land aud cattle companies. The American schooner Adrianna pnt iuto Lapaz, Mexico, in distress, aud was seized for smuggling, Captain George Caleb being thrown into jail. The Vestnik newspaper at Odessa, says famine prevails in tho government of Kherson, Russia. Several peasants have committed suicide to escape seeing the misery of their starving families.

Cetawayo has been reinstated King of Zululand. Abour 5,000 Zulus were present at the ceremony. Many chiefs ex

pressed great dissatisfaction at tho conditions on which he was restored. The attitude of China toward Japan is becoming unpleasant, if not actually hostile, the cause of the ill feeling being the still unsettled Loo Chooquestion, A Matamoras, Mexico, special seysfor y bandits have captured the town of Ohuacatton, Pueblo, and are now holding tho Prefec, justice the peace and municipal judge for ransom. The Neuchalet, Switzerland, Cantona government condemns the attacks there upon the "Salvation Army," and the con sequent dis'.urbanees.and exhorts citizens to respect religious liberty and the right of public meeting. The suspicion x)revails that the Aus-

WASHINGTON NOTES.

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day, by the sudden flight of Earl Spencer triau government contemplates eventual

to London. Dublin was full of rumorsj and his sudden departure is believed to be due to the discovery of a plot to assassinate him. The condition of 4,000 workmen, thrown out of employment at Joliet, 111., a month or two ago, by the closing of all iron and steel mills, is very distressing. There is no prospect of their being able to resume work, and starvation now stares them in the fact. Every church iu the place has organized a relief measnre. There has not been so much destitution in that place since the great strikes of 1875. The recent cold snap of four days dura tion, was one of the coldest in the history of Wyoming Territory. The mercury ranged from zero to 35 c below, with slight wind. The till of snow was light, so that the winter cured grass was not covered. The animals can withstand any temperature while feed is abundant. The losses are scarcely sutliciont to notice. A few sickly calves iu each herd succumbed. Sheep suffered none. Thirty millions of dollars are invested in that territory in cattle, sheep and horses, and as these live out of doors all the year, the weaJrher is an important matter. A young man named Fletcher Keed, son of a prosperous farmer, at Newtonville, Ohio, had been paying attentions to a young lady in the same village who rejected his advances and married his brother. He became melancholy, and an enthusiastic church member.the meetings threw him from his melancholy state into a frenzy, bordering on madness. His father was awakened at 4 o'clock Thursday morning by a strange light, which he found to be his hay-stack all ablaze. He ran. out, and perceived his son Fletcher lying in the midst of the burning mass. The body, charred, almost beyond recognition, was recovered from the flames, the throat of the young man being gashed from ear to ear, by a razor, which was lying by his side. The inference is plain that, after having risen and obtained the razor, he crawled in the stack, set it on fin?, then cut his throat. THE SOUTH: There were 15,000 visitors at the Montreal carnival. Navigation has been resumed on the Mississippi from St. Louis to Cairo. The college at Evening Shade, Ark., was burned by an. incendiary Thursday night. The Ocmulgee Creek orphans have been paid $350,000 by the government at Little Kock, Ark. About 100 vessels, potato laden, are frozen in the Bay of Halifax, aud are not expected to get out before spring. Sixteen of the mob who attempted to lynch Neal and Craft, afc Catlefctsburg,

Ky., have been indicted by the grand juMr. Acklen, of Louisiana, has with drawn his notice of contest against William Pitt Kellogg, for the congressional seat of the third district. Price and Cameron, the detectives who aided in the attempted escape of Polk,

the absconding State Treasurer of Tennessee, have gone into Mexico. The home creditors of the city of Memphis have agreed with the committee for a settlement of the debt on the basis of fifty cents, wish six per cent interest. On a plantation in Laurens county South Carolina, some negroes killed and ate a goose which had been bitten by a mad dog. Five of the family have died, and four others were in convulsions at the last report. The Texas State Treasurer has asked for an investigation of his books on account of cash balance by the legislature which will begin next week. As there is nearly 2,000,000 in the vault, the count is not expected to be much fun. There is great excitement at Miontgom ery, Ala. A committee to examine the accounts of State Treasurer Vincent were to have begun the examination Tuesday.

Vincent left the city Monday night. A letter from him to liis chief clerk was delivered to the latter late Tuesday, to

extension of the frontiers of the empire in the southeast, for the realization of which project Hungary will be the base of operations. The North German Gazette points ou that Emperor William's letter to the Pope was countersigned by Bismarck, thus proving that the letter was not simply a compromise, but a document of political importance. German military officers in the Turkish service have drawn up a plan for the reorganization of the Turkish army, retiring a swarm of useless officers and devoting their pay to useful purposes. It is understood the Sultan has expressed entire concurrence. The Prussian decree ordering youths born as Danish subjects and now residing in Schleswig either to enter the Prussian army or leave their homes, causes intense indiguation throughout that country. Denmark protests against this fresh breach of treaty obligation. A report is current in Paris that the Orleans princes have drawn up a manifesto in which they protest against the charges made against them and declare their readiness to sacrifice their personal interests for France. It is stated that should necessity arise they will publish a manifesto and at the same moment qui the country. Parnell has forwarcd to Father Gallagher 100 of the 385 received from the New York society of Ancient Order of Hibernians, Father Gallagher, in acknowledging the receipt of the money writes that the suffering people of Donegal are subsisting- on food only fit fox beasts; that private charity can not cope with the wide spread distress there; that tho government alone can do so; and that things will never come to a crisis.

Siberian Exiles. George Kennan, author of "Tent Life in Siberia," delivered a lecture on "Siberia," in New York, recently. He said that if tht United States and every country in Europe except Russia, were put into Siberia there would stili remain 1,000,000 square miles uncovered, and that a broad bety of land extending from the southern part of Siberia to what is known as the Central Forest was one of the most fertile and genial places in the Russian Empire.

The idea that exile life in Siberia is one j of suffering in dungeons, and that politi- j cal agitators suffer imtold miseries in I "" ". 1. J 1. . -rfTNl T I

mines is au a mistake, "xne ltussian government," he said, "in the beginning sent out its prisoners to Siberia in order to settle the couutry. ; Good homes were provided and farming utensils given"to the exiles, and such is the case to-day. There are two divisions in the exiles, the first of which we will designate as convicts, and the seeoud as simply banished. The first class work in tho western part of the tract I have alluded to. There are no exiles in any of the very cold parts of

KihoTin T1a mi I v rvnivinhs whn "work in

mineiare men who, had they committedj Permleildt ev

the same crimes in America, would either have betn hanged or imprisoned for life. The second have farms which they cultivate for themselves iu the eastern district Most of the inhabitants are descendants of exiles, who were banished ong ago for very small offenses. The number of political prisoners is very small. From 1867 to 1S72 6i,225 people were sent to Siberia; 5,300 were sentenced to hard labor, and the rest were only banished. There are annually about 443 polifim:! nftWulMrcj frfiiisnnrtiVI fiTFA-f hirrla

', i u'.i iu. bv appending to the post-office approof these are nobles, and one-third of the t , . .

Soventy-flve congressmen

from Washington. The estimated reduction of the public debt for January is 13,500,000. The House, Monday, refused to consider the bill to reduce the whisky bond period. The pension appropriation bill has been reported to the full committee. It appropriates $81,000,000. More than 3,200 persons were employed in the public printing house during the year ending June 30, 1882. The pension appropriation bill appropriates $80,505,000, and rcapproiriates 315,800,000 unexpended balance. The sugar refiners are reported to have spent 500,00 in an ineffectual attempt to influence the present tariff iegislation. The cost to the government of printing binding and lithographing dnring the last twenty years has amounted to about $34,750,000. Thursday 102,400 new five-cent pieces

were put into circulation. The new coin will be struck at the late of 100,000 pieces per day. The sub-committee which has charge of the postofiice bill has retained the clause providing for a reduction of letter postage to two centsper half ounce. The Veterinary Division of tho Agricultural Department reports the number ef cattle in the United States to be 33,-

306,385, of which ten per cent are lost annually through epidemic diseases. A witness in the star route case, during xamination, said the congressional investigation paralyzed, them; they did not know what they were about,, and were afraid to move. It is generally conceded that the only way m which the tariff bill can be passed

at this ser-sion will be to hurry it through the Senate and then pass it through the House under a suspension of the rules. The "Morgan Raid Claims," of Ohio and Indiana are to be paid at last. A great many of those personB to whom this money is due have probably passed away,, as the claims have been pending for about twenty years. Fiffcy-seven petitions asking the passage of a bill to extend national aid to common schools were presented in the Senate by Messrs. Blair and Mahonc. There is a suspicious regularity of signature and duplication of names about them. General Grant is said to have been sur

prised at the opposition of congressmen to the clauses of the proposed commercial treaty with Mexico. It seems certain that no further concessions can be obtained from that country, and that the scheme willfail. Attorney-General Brewster has ordered the United States district attorney to file a bill in the federal court in behalf of the Phiibrcok heirs, who claim the ownership of a large portion of ground comprising tho old city limits of Little Rock. The claim is before the interior departs ment and the object is to test its legal merits. Representative Deuster, of Wisconsin has introduced a resolution authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to send seed, plants, grain, etc., not required by the department, to sufferers by the disastrous fioods in Germany, and to receive from private sources donations in grain, seed, etc., and to provide for proper storage, shipment and distribution. ... As a result of the conference with Folger and Commissioner Raum, in regard to the extension of the time for the collection of revenue taxes due February 6, it was held that no authority exists for the extension. Mr. Raum telegraphed the following instructions : "Where taxes are due and unpaid upon spirits in wan mouse on the Gth of February next, proceed to collect according to assessment, and yon will report such cases on your next list." Treasurer Gilfillanhas received aeon science contribution of $10 in an envelope postmarked "Washington" which aloe contained the following note: Estimated, amount of customs due on on ar tides brought home from Europe. If I could have made head or tail of the tariff I would have paid the duty honestly at once, aud not have suffered myself to be overruled by other members of the

party aud beguiled into paying the cus-

torn house inspectors instead of the United Stales. Secretary Chandler issued a circular bearing upon the troubles at Annapolis Academy, in which he says that the disturbances anil insubordination among the cadets at Annapolis will doubtless subside if the superintendent is allowed to work out a result without interference; but if the cadets are encouragal to perist by their parents and friends, the dismissal, of forty or fifty may result. So far as the Department now understands

the difficulties at the Academy, it will Secretary Chandler says, sustain the Su-

ren to the extent of dis

missing tiic larger pare ot one ot tne

classes. The Senate post-ofiiee committee has decided to postpone till nostfe session further consideration of the bill to regulate rates of post age on second class mail matter at mail carrier offices. The bill proposed to fix the rats of postage on second class publications deposited in letter carrier office? at two cents per pound. The post-oflico committee is very much dissatisfied with the action, of the appropriation committee in fo retailing them

sundry civil appropriation bill that the act to place colored soldiers on the same footing as other soldiers as to bounty and pensions be so construed as to extend to and include the heirs of such soldiers in -their claims for military service, and the accounting officers of the Treasury be directed to readjust the claims of such . heirs as would have been entitled to and who may have been denied the benefit of said act. Senator Dawes will offer auj i amendment to the same bill to provide for paying the Cherokee nation $300,000 "out of the funds due under the appraisement of Cherokee laiide west of the Ar ; kansas river," on condition that the Cherokees shall first execute conveyances sat- S isfactory to the Secretary of the Interior for tracts now occupied by the Pawnees ! Poncas, Nez Ferces, Otoes, Missouris and Osages, to whom (in their tribal capacities) these lauds are thereupon to be pat- c en ted. ' The Secretary of the Navy had reports ed to Congress a formidable list of casualties to the Navy, it being a list of forty-

three vessels whose names have been stricken from the navy list by recommendation of examining boards under authority of the act of August 5, last. It iB recommended that four of these be retained for various purposes, aine bo broken." up in the stocks, and thirty-one be sold at public auction. Tius makes a heavy reduction in the apparent strength of the United States Navy. An interesting and entirely new pen-t sion claim Is now before the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for decision. The guardian of the children of the deceased soldier has applied for the back pension of S2 a month, due each child from the' time of their father's .death. The children's mother neglected to make applica-, tion for a pension for herself and family

and finally married. The claim of tho guardian was rejected at the Pension Oifice by the examiner, who hejd that the marriage of the widow barrect all rights of the family to a pension from that date. Her neglect to apply for a pension at any time was construed as a further difficulty in tne way of allowing the claim of a guardian at this date. The Assistant Secretary is of the opinion that the mother of a fanaily entitled to a pension, occupies the relation in law of a trustee, and any failure or neglect on her part to apply for or secure the allowance of pension due the children can not work to their prejudice. He will accordingly decide that the children are entitled to a

pension from the time of their fathersdeath until they arrived at the age of sixteen years, the second marriage of their mother having nothing to do with the claim of the guardian. Private dispatches have been received' hero of a reliable character with reference to the nature of the gold deposits in Alas ka. Much discredit has been thrown over the reports of gold discovered in our Northwestern Territory from time to time until the impression has become pretty general that as a gold field Mr. Seward's purchase was not particularly valuable The information alluded to is ot such A character that as soon as it becomes known it will result in such a rush to the gold fields as has not been seen since the days of '49. It is stated that a quartz vein which will yield from $5 to $8 net to the ton has been discovered on the mainland in Alaska 200 feet in width Many others equally rich are reported, and preparations are being made qnietlyiisit is said, by a combination of New York and San Francisco capitalists to start early in the spring with mills and machinery to take possession of the mines. Plenty of coal and timber are reported as convenient to the mines. Two gentlemen in . conversation on , this subject said there would be 10,000 men from Nevada and California on their way to Alaska within three months, and that before a year the mining population of the Pa-s , eifie Slope would be thoroughly drained! of all surplus labor to supply the new field, unless some extraordinary excite-, ment should be created by new discover-; ies near home

A terrible accident occurred near Hinsdale, Pa., Monday, to a passenger train the trestle of a bridge giving way, and v precipitating the engine and baggage car into the water, covering them up entirely, standing the smoking ear on end, and shaking up the passengers in the day

i oach. Two persons were arownea. ine i water was within t wo feet of the rails of the track. . j In the trials in 3Jublin, Kavauaugh has. j been unequivocally identified as the dri

ver of the car containing the Phoenix Park assassins, and it is believed he will turn informer. A mare belonging to John Kane, of Fayette county, died the other day aged thirty-seven years. During the twentyseven years that he owned her she raised eighteen colts which were sold at an w

j erage of S125 each.

THE MARKETS

FOREIGN: Madagascar will ask the protection of

England,

Anthony Trollope's will devises property valued at $125,000, It is intended to light Canterbury Cathedral with the ei'eotrie light. The average yield oi wheat in Great Britain in 1882 was 26J bnshels per acre. It is rumored that the Vatican has decided to appoint another American cardinal. ...... Prince Napoleon has been removed to an asylum near Anieuil He is much dejected.

other classes. So this proves that Nihilism is not a popular uprising against the Russian government. Tomsk and Omsk are two of the wealthiest places in Siberia, and most of the political prisoners are sent there, Omsk has 20,000 inhab itiuifes, 452 merchants, a public library, a boysr military school and a ladies' seminary, I visited one of the political exiles, who, as a photographer, had made money there. He was living in a fashionable house, adorned with pictures and works of art. He spoke bitterly of the practice of transporting prisoners, but admitted that te was living wolL I know that there have been crimes committed in Siberian nrisons, but crimes ss bad have

occurred in our own land. Transportation there is a great and growing evil to society. The prisoners are, however,very well treated. I think that the custom of transporting prisoners will be stopped in a very few years or greatly modified." Arabi the Exile. Exiled Arabi is comfortably housed in a pretty "bungalow" of Colpetty, the suburb of Columbo on the island of Ceylon. His house is surrounded by cocoanut and cinnamon trees,and stands within car-shot of the Indian ocean.

priation bill matters of legislation proper

ly within the jurisdiction of tho post-of-lice committee, and the action is due to this feeling rather than to any opposition of the bill in question. Gen. ShJ ridan has accepted an invitation from Dwtrict-Attornoy Corkhill to be present at a dinner to be given here to Gen. Sherman to celebrate his 63d birthday and his retirement from the army sometime during the present year. A friend of Gen. Sherman says: "The friendshipI should say affection existing between Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan is closer than the world supposes. They correspond with each other like school

boy lovers, and are iu the closest accord in every relation. So chivalrous is Sherman in his regard for Sheridan that he asks, I understand, that the law be

amended so that tne rams or ueneraJ especially created for Sherman at the time of Grant's retirement may not go out with himjjnt that it may descend to Sheridau." The dinner bids fair to be one of the most enjoyable of the sea on. Among the guests will be Gen. Grant, Gen. Sheridan, .Justice Waite.Milier, andjlarlan, and exSecretary Blame. Logan has giveu uotiee in the Senate that he would offer an amendment to the

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