Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 January 1889 — Page 2
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THE COURIER.
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BY H. J KEBTUS
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INDIANA.
Tnis year aiitempt will bo made to
annex Brooklyn to New Yorfc The city will then contain 2,300,000, and by next
census wfll ran am cioseiy ior we second place in the: ranks-of Jhcj world's ; -cities - -: . g 'i -. "5 - As Alabama federal, court has discharged an Apache who had abominably mistreated an Indian girl on the Mount Vernon reservation. The reason assigocd was that eh&-was not a competent : - witness because she had never had any
ireligious teachings. Arcr yep tftjs is nearly the close of the nineteenth ceaiwai " - -v
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Thb Eastern States are agitating the question of the popular electien, or at least selection, of pcsma3ters. It is urged that the -appointment is rarely 'f indicions? and for the beet interest of
the people. As a mere matter of party
machinery the post office in country
districts is far from being of as great importance as formerly: The salary is too small in the maioritv of cases to be
generally and widely attractive!
Vreonentlv the work is done by clerks
who. have some ability, while the post
master himself is unable to manage af-
faira-of the office lntelucentlv. ool
business men do not seek the place
This discussion is confined mainly to
the country tow ns, but it is widespread.
It would be an improvement on the present system if the people should select three candidates, leaving the appointment of one of themssp th&authori-
tiesat Washington. ,
' Wb seem not yet to have' 'nearly got
ajt ihe full resources of this continent. Attention is now drawn-to that enor
mous tract of the Northwest known as Mackenzie River Basin. It reaches
from the arctic regions to the Saskatchewan, including about one million and a
ihird of square miles. It is found that half of all this vast area is fitted for the cTOwth of potatoes, and much more of
if for barley, wheat,oats,' buckwheat and other food products. The climate is no more severe north of Great Slave Lake than at Minneapolis and Ottawa There are forests of trees averaging 1C0 feet high; and there are mines of extraordinary value, including not only precious metals, but salt and qalphur. Petroleum deposits underlie the whole district of the greatest value almost inexhaustible. This will 'afford one more great reservoir for the great' Westward pushing tides of the human race.; It is one of the richest tracts of the Western continent. s
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James Pabtok?s list ot defeated Presidential candidates, and ids. review of themi makes interesting reading. William Wirt had -the vote of Vermont alone; Peter Cooper and James r. Birney carried no States, but stood for
principles. Henry Clay Parton consid
ers a great escape for us, because his brain was always suffused - with alcohol
a su lime blackguard," as Marshall
called him. Some recent revelations of
Seward's policy makes us less regret his
disappointment. Horace Greeley, "half baby, half philosopher we all will for
ever-feel sorry for, but not for the
country that missed, ha vine him for
President.' Then there was McCiellan,
whose glory had a bad habit of steadily
ftdingr and Clinton and Scott, and
Hancock, and Blaine and Tilden, and
Bouglass, and Caes, and Calhoun, and
Crawford; and Fremont, and St. John, and Beiva Lock wood; Probably in the whole list not naif a dozen were great losses to the country as possible Exccu tivesr-moflt of them no loss at all.
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INDIANA STATE JEWS.
Hobart will incorporate.: . -; .
Bedford sighs. for a oom. "Tv ,, Rockville wants a flauring mill. A telephone-war rages at Anderson. ; White Caps have appeared in Wabash.
Kokbmo had but tw enty-one fires last
abound in Washington
Wi
county.
"Scab" is raging : .among Wabasb county sheep." "..' ' 5 Lagrange Methodists will build a new $15,C00 church. " y John Poutins, of A dams; countv, was fatally kicked by a horse. " A child, aged four, at Martinsville was choked to death-by a grain of corn. : Andrews SYitiie Caps are giving the Huntington, county authorities some anxiety' . Vr.,. 1 ;
r Asbury JBvans, of Elkhart, suicided because of the death of his favorite dojr. Evans "Jm thought to have been worth f 100,00-1 : The Indianapolis League base ball club is a thing of the past. . Financial troubles forced the, surrendering of the franchise.' -'.'V,..,r':j ;' ""' Harrison Dawley, near Rochester, who was bitten by a dog and badly mangled, died of hydrophobia, the disease being strongly developed.
The Democracy, of the First Conares-
The Pan-Handle Railway has decided to bnila ten mils of new track between Logansnort and Royal Center, in order to avo:d the heavy grade leading out of Logansnort on the Chicago Division. The State Line track will be used to Curvoton and thence the direction will be northwesterly to Royal Center. A Fort Wayne telegram states that Miss Carrio Guthrie, of that city, answered an advertisement in a metropolitan paper for a lady correspondent, and
the result was a series of letters. These resulted in a betrothal. To her intense disgust, however, the gentleman proved to be an African and he was peremptorily dismissed. s John Alstott, of Wasson, was shot in the face and badly wounded by Nora Bain, a young' woman, to whom he persisted in paying attentions, despite , her demand that he should leave her alone. They. were standing, in front of her home at the time, and she had the weapon concealed under her apron-until
ready for use. A jury at Indianapolis, Thursday, sentenced George Hacker, an anaichist who attempted,- and nearly. succeedel in taking, the life of George Bruce, to fourteen years imprisonment, and fined him $1,000. Bruce had befriended Hacker in many ways, and,., the.-attack upon, him was most outrageous and without any justification whatever. The Mayor aud Councilmen of Vincennes resolved themselves into a detective corps and spent a large part of the night in shadowing the night police to see if they did their duty. Patrol man Hall was found at. home, but Patrolman Robinson could not be located anywhere. These officers were suspended but were reinstated on proof showing they were rightfully engaged. G. M. Billings, of Laporte, is very low from the effects of chloroform administered to him by robbers in a depot at Ft. Wayne. Mr. Bill in arrived in that city about 12 ocIock at night and going into the depot comfortably seated himself and soon fell into a doze. While in thi3 condition the narcotic was adminisiered, and on .awaking Mr, Billings was
taken with hemorrhage of the lungs and
is now in a dangerous condition.
Near DeSoto, Delaware county, lives
Asael -Tbcrnburg, aged ninety-seven,
who is one of the pioneers of Indiana, and who was a direct participant iu
many of the early events which distin-
suished the State. He has voted for
every President from John Quincy
Adams to the present time, and he was
a delegate to the convention which nominated "Old Tippecanoe" for President. He was at Greenville, 0., hen
General Harrison negotiated the famous
treaty with the Indians.
There was ill feeling between Edwin
Vallandingham and John M. Dunn, employed on John Hornby's farm, in Vanderbnrg county, and Saturday evening Vallandingham, upon return
ing from Evansville, passed Dunn's
cabin and the quarrel was renewed. Scarcely had a word been spoken, however, before Dunn seized an ax and
struck his victim on the Head, inflicting
an injury wincn resulted lataiiy. ..uunn
escaped arrest. The deceased was aged fifty-six, unmarried, and recently, came
from Owentown, Ky.
Nora Bain, the voung eirl who shot
John Alstott at Watson, has been
arrested for attempted murder. She
claims that a few days ago, while alone
at home. Alstott attempted an assault
and she compelled him to leave, warn
ing him that if he ever repeated the in
sult she would shoot him. Friday
evening he came back, and while he was
trying to force his way m she armed
herself and-opened the door, and as he stepped forward she fired, the bullet
striking Alstott in the face, penetrating
his throat and dropping downward.
Last week Dr. Highway, a veterinary
surgeon of Iiadoga, was called to see a horse, in the country, suffering with hydrophobia, and the animal soon after died in convulsions, but not until the Doctor liad been seriously bitten on the wrist! Dr. Highway then went to Terre Haute and applied a madstone, which adhered the. first time thirteen hoars and the second eleven, making twentyfours altogether. A number of animals were bitten in the vicinity of Ladoga by a mad dog and the owners of live stock are greatly alarmed over the. probabilities of a general development of bydrophobia. ':. '.' . " ' The Federal Grand Jury has mapped out lively times for a" great many people in Indiana. Monday morning its eighteen members went into court and presented to Judge Woods a bundle of indictments, forty-seven in number. -Have you any " further inquiries to make?" asked the Court of the foreman. "We have." "You may retire,? and the jurymen stiffly filed out between the rows of reporters and other honest folk that they have not been able to indict. Seventy-seven indictments have thus far been returned by this industrious
jury, umy two ot the forty-seven re
ported Monday were for other offences
than election law violations. Dudley is
not included in tne list, but the lurv is
-l.'ll 1- .1 - ' , ' T
huh in its uen w raing on nis case m-
oiauapous news.
The Kokomo Board of Trade starts
upon its second year with John M.
Leach, President, and J. P. Johnson.
Secretary and with most flattering pros-
Msuu9. xsurmg me past year it was suc
cessful in securing lactones represent-
mguu,uuopaidup capital and in vine
employment to l,?W workmen, and it also drilled three gas wells and present
ed tnem to manufacturing interests
KING SOLOMON'S MINES. BY H. lUDBR HAGGARD.
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rarrett, uongressman-eiect; to nil out
toe unexpired term of General Hovey. Three yonngmen near English, while trying to scare a rabbit out of its burrow, unearthed a small pot of old coin to the amount of $4,000. 'rhe coins were dated - from 1825 to 1855.
Three yonng men near English; while ' trying to scare a rabbit out of its burrow, unearthed a small pot of old coin to the
ameunt of $4,000. , The coins were dated
uom to 185&. ? .
Jesse :D. McConkey, near Dublin,
wmie wutng in sawing wood, using
Aium a jorge xjcjt, uu some way aislodged the mass, and was buried under-
t, neath, resulting in his immediate, death.
John J. Burton, ex-Postmaster of
Boyal Center, ha3 been arrested t.
Trinidad, CoL, accused of .defrauding the
government oot oi 1,133. Jtie was living with his family at Trinidad under the name of J. Warren Miller. T Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Christian HpW.
Indianapolis, machine ior making mact i caroni and noodles; John C; Reed, Indianapolis; closure for buckets, James p D. Sloan, Bushville, hose coupling; Joel
xv. otannrougn, nendan, gate. 'k-' ; James Campbell, a farmer of Clark - eounty, committed suicide Thursdav bv
sh ooting himself through the head. One year ago he was appointed administrator of his father's estate, and Thursday- was the time affixed for " final settlement. The presumption is, he was unable to settle ; .. The Pern postmaster is holding a letter properly stamped; addressed to "Oar Dear Lord in Heavenl" and while he
The last one "blew in" the past week.
and it is the Becond best well in the
Howard field. Altogether eighteen
wells have been drilled in the Kokomo
district, and there is not a failure
among them.
Mr. Wi X. Penfield, of Lagrange, messenger for the Indiana Electoral College, delivered the certificate of the
btate s vote to the Senate. Messengers'
are now reporting daily. As Mr. Pen-
ncld handed the returns to Mr. Ingalis,
.me jaiteronservea: it gives me more
pleasure to rvceive this vote than I will
experience in acceptmg the returns of
any other State. I was" particularly
anxious to see uenerai JHarrison carrv his own State." Mr. Penfield replied hv
sional District have nomina ed -Judgef1?8 I ngalte a decided cdmpli-
ujcui. Haviuv: "lou am ns mnen . ns
my other man to help us carrv Indi
ana." "In what wav?" asked the Presi,1 l o ((Tin . . .
ucuv u mib ornate. " vyny, ; by givmg
oenator v ooraees tne rap you did."
CHAPTER V. CoNTXJStfan. tnis PKSKR-r. We had nothing to guide ourselves by except the distant mountains and old Jbse da Silyestra'a chart, which, considering that it was drawn by a dying and half distraught man oh a fragment of linen three centuries ago, was not a very satisfactory sort of thing to work on. Still, such as it was, our solo hope of success depended . on it. If wc failed to find that pool of bad water which the old Don marked as being situated in the middle of t ho desert, about sixty miles from our starting point, and as far from the mountains, we must in all probability perish miserably of thist. And to. my mind the chances of our finding it in
that great sea. of sand and karoo scrub seemed almost infinitessimal. .... Even supposing da Silvestra had marked it right, what was there to prevent its having been generations ago dried up
by the sun, or trampled in by game,, or
fi led bv the drifting sand
On we tramped silently as shades
through the night and in the heavy
RrtniT. The karoo buslies caught our
shins and retarded us, and the sand got into our veldtschoons and Good's shooting-boots, so that every few miles we had to stop and empty them; but still the night was fairly cool, though the at
mosphere was thick aud heavy, giving
a sort of creamy feeling' to the air,
we made fair progress. It was very still and lonely there in the desert, qppressivelv so indeed. Good felt this, and
at once began to whistle the. "Girl I left
behind me" but the notes sounded lnmihrious in that vast place, and he
gave it up. Shortly afterward a little
incident- occurred which, though it
made us inmn at the time, gave rise to a
laugh. Good, as the holder of the com
pass, which, being a sauor. of course he
thoroughly understood, was leading,-
and we were toiling along in single file
behind him, .when, suddenly we heard the pound of an exclamation, and he
vanished. Next second there arose all around us a most extraordinary hubbub, snorts, groan?, wild sounds of rushing feet. In the faint light too we could descry dim galloping forms half hidden
bv wreaths, of sand. Ihe natives
threw down their loads and prepared to holt, but remembering that there was
nowhere to bolt, cast themseves upon
the ground and howled out that it was the devil. As for Sir Henrv and my
self we stood there amazed; nor was our
amazement lessened when we. perceived
the form of Good careering off in the
direction of the mountains, apparently mounted on the back of a horse and holloaing like mad. In another second he threw up his arms, and we heard him come to the earth with a thud. Then I saw what had happened; we
had stumbled right on to a herd of
sleeping quagga, on to the back of one of which Good had actually fallen, and the brute had naturally enough got up and made off with him. Singing out to the others that it was all right I ran oward Good, much afraid lest he should be hurt, but to my great relief found him sitting in the sand, his eyeglass still fixed firmly on his eye, rather shaken and very much startled, but not in any way injured. After this we traveled on without any further misadventure till after one
o'clock, when we called a halt, and having drunk a little water, not much, for water was precious, and rested for half
an hour, started on again. .
On, on we went, till at last the east
began to blush like the cheek of a girl.
Then there came faint rays of primrose
light, that changed presently to golden bars, through which the dawn glided
out across the desert. The stars grew
pale and paler still, till at last they van
ished, the golden moon waxed wan, and
her mountain ridges stood out clear
against her sickly face like the bones on
the face of a dving man; then came spear
upon spear ol glorious light flashing far
away across the boundless wilderness,
piercing and firing the veils of mist, till the desert was draped in a tremulous
golden, glow, and it was day.
btill we did not halt, though bv the
time we should have been glad enough
to do so, for we knew that when the
sun was fully up it would be almost impossible for us to travel in it. At length, about six o'clock, wo spied a
little pile of rocks rising out of
the plain, and to this we drag
ged ourselves. As hick would hay e it here we found an overhanging slab f
ock carpeted beneath with a smooth
sand, which . afforded a most grateful
shelter from the heat. Underneath this
we crept, and having drunk some water
each and having eaten a bit of biltong,
we Jay down and were soon sound
asleep. ...
It was three o clock m the afternoon
before we woke, to find our three bear-
rers peparing to return. They had al
ready had enough of the desert and no
numberof knives would have tempted
them to come a step further. So we had .tf , 1' ' '
a neartyanna, anu naving emptied our
water, bottles, filled them up again from
the gourds they had brought with them
and then watched them depart on their
wen ty miles' tramp home.
At half-past four, we also started on.
It was lonely and desolate work, for with the exception of a few ostriches .there was not a single living ..creature to be seen on all the vast, expanse of sandy plain. It was evidently too dry for game
ana witn.tno exception oi aaeaaiy-iook-cobra or two we . saw no reptiles. One insect, however, was abundant, and
that was the common or house-fly. There they came, "not as single spies, but in battalions," as I think the Old
Testament says somewhere. He is an " i . j ,
exiraoromary animal, tro. where you
will vou hnd him: and so it must
always have been. ... I have seen him in
closed in amber, which must, I was told, have been a half a million ysars old,
looking exactly .like his descendant of
to-day, and I have little doubt but that
when the last man lies dying on tho
earth he will be buzzing round if that
event Bhould happen to occur in the
summer watching for an opportunity
tc settle on his nose.
At sunset wo halted, waiting for the
noon to rise. At ten she came up
Deautnui ana serene as ever, and with
foot long hy twelve wide to the depth of two feet. Then we cut a quantity of low scrub.. with our hunting-knives, and creeping into the hole pulled it over us all, with the exception of. VentVogel, on whom, being a Hottetitot, the sun had no particular effect. This gave us some slight shelter from the burning rays. of the sun, but the heat in that amateur grave can be better imagined than described. The Black Hole of Calcutta must have been a fool to it) indeed j to this moment I do not know how we lived through the day. There we lay panting, and every now and again moistening our lips from our scanty supply of water. Had wo fob lowed our inclinations wo should have finished all wc had off in tho first two hours, but we had to exercise the most rigid care, for if our water tailed us we knew that wo must quickly perish miserably. ..' But everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it, and somehow that miserable day wore on toward evening. About three o'clock in the aftornoon we determined that we could stand it no longer. It would be better to die walking than to be slowly killed by heat and thirst in that dreadful hole. So taking each of us a little drink from our fast diminishing supply of . water, now heated to about, the same temperature as a man's blood, we staggered on. Wc had now covered some fifty miles of desert. If my reader will refer to the rough copy and translation of old Da Silvestra's map, no Mill see thai the desert is marked as being forty leagues across, and the "pan bad water" is set down as being in the middle of it. Now forty leagues is one hundred and twenty miles, consequently we ought at the most to be within t welve or fifteen miles of the water if any should really exist. Through the afternoon we crept slowly and painfully along, scarcely doing more than a mite and a half an hour. Through the afternoon wo crept slow
ly and painfully along, scarcely doing
more than a mile and a halt an hour. At sunset we again rested, waiting for the moon, and after drinking a little managed to get some sleep. Before we lay down Uinbopo poiuted out to us a slight and indistinct hillock on the fiat surface of the desert about eight miles away. At that distance it looked like an ant hill, and as I was dropping off to sleep I fell to wondering what it could be. With the moon we started on again, reeling dreadfully exhausted, and suffering tortures from thirst and prickly heat. Nobody who has not felt it can know what we went through.. We no longer walked,, we staggered, now and again falling from exhaustion, and being obliged to call a halt every hour or so. We had scarcely energy left in us to speak. Up to now Good had chatted and joked, for he was a. merry fellow; but now ho had not a joke left in him. At last, about two o'clock, utterly worn out in body and mind, we came to tba foot of this queer hilS, or sand koppie, which did at fiisFeight resemole a gigantic ant-heap about a hundred feet high, and covering
at the base nearly a morgan (two acres)
of ground. .. . ...
lie re we halted, and driven by our
desperate thirst eucked. down our last
drops of Mrater. We had but half a pin
a head, and wo could have drunk gallon.
Then we Jay down. J ust a i was dropping off to sleep I heard Umbopa
remark to himself m Zulu 'If we cannot find water we ;shall al
be doad be lore the moon rises to-mor-
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row-
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1 shuddered, hot as it was. The near
prospect of su ch an awful death is not
pleasant, but even,, the thought of it
could not keep me from sleeping.
one halt about two o'clock in the morn
ing, we trudged wearily on through the night, till at last the welcome sun put a
perioa w our iaoors. w e dranx a little
CHAPTER VIWater! water!
In two hours', time, about four o'clock I woke up. As ;soon as the first heavy
demand of bodily fatigue had been sat
isfied, the torturing thirst from which
was suffering asserted itself. I could
sleep no more. I had been dreaming
that 1 was bathing m a running stream, with green banks and trees upon them,
and 1 awoke to lind myself in that arid
wilderness, and to remember : that, as
Umbopa had said, if we did not find wa
ter that day we must certainly perish
miserably. No human creature could
live loDg without water in that heat. I
sat up and rubbed my "grimy lace with my dry and horny hands. Mv lips and
eyelids were stuck together, and it Mfas
only after ruobing and with an eflort that I was able to open them. It was not far off the dawn, but there was none of the bright feel of dawn in the air, which was. thick with a hot inurkiuess I can not describe. The others Mere stilk sleeping. Presently it began to grow light encu gh to read, so I drew out a little pocket copy of the "fngoldsby Legends" I had brought with me, and read the "Jackdaw of Rheims," When I got to where l "A nice iittlo bo v held a aolden ewer, Kmlwsed. nd filled with water as pure as any that flows between Eheims aad Namor," I literally smacked my cracked lips, or
rather tried to smack them. The mere
thought of that pure water made me
mad. If the cardinal had been there with his bell, book and candle, I woule have whipped in and drunk his water
up, yes, even it he had already filled it with the suds of soap worthy of washing
the hands of the jfope, and I knew that the whole concentrated curse of the
Catholic Church should fall upon me
for so doing. I almost think . I. must
have been a little light headed with
thirst and weariness and want of food:
for I fell to thinking how astonished the cardinal and hia nice little boy and the
jackdaw would have looked to see a burned up, brown-eyed , griiizle-haired
little elephant hunter suddenly bound in and put his dirty face into the basin,
and swallow every drop of the precious water. The id ea amused me so that I laughed, or rat tier cackled aloud, MThich woke the otheis up, and they , began to rub their dirty faces and get their
gummed-up lips and eyelids apart.
As soon as Mre were an well awake we
fell to discussing the situation, which was serious enough. Not a drop of wa
ter was left. We turned the water bot
tles upside down, and licked the tops.
but it was a failure they were as "dry as
a bone. Good, who had charge of the bottleof brandy, got it out and looked
at it longingly ; but Sir Henry promptly
took it away from him, for to drink raw
to our astonished eyes that for a moment or two we even forgot our thirst For there, not more than forty or fifty miles from us, glittering like eiiver in the early rays of the morning sun, were Sheba's breasts; and stretching away for hundreds of iiilles on each, side of them was the great Suliman fierg. ..Now that I, sitting here, attempt to describe the extraordinary grandeur and beauty of that sight, language seems to fail me, I am impotent even before its memory. There, straight before us, were two enoritioUs ihQiintjdus, the like of which are not, I believe, to be 6fe5n in Africa, if, indeed, there are any ether stidli inthes world, measuring each at least fifteen thousand feet in height, standing not more than a dozen miles apart, connected by a precipitous cliff of rock,and towering up in awful white solemnity straight into the sky. These mountainstanding thus, like the pillars of a gigantic gateway, are shaped exactly like a woman's breasts Their bases swelled gently up from the plain, looking, at that distance, perfectly totirid afid smooth, and on the top of each was a vast rotind hillock covered with .snow exactly coriespohdihg to tho nipple on the female breast. 'Me stretch of cliff which connected them appeared to be some thousand feet in height, and perfectly precipitous, and on each side of them, as far as the eye could reach, extended similar lines of cliff, broken, only, here and there by flat, table-topped mountains, something like tho M'orldfamed one at Cape Town; a ifortnation, by the MTay, very common in Africa. "To describe the grandeur of tho whole view is beyond my powers. There was something so inexpressibly solemn and overpOM'ering about those huge volcanoesfor doubtless they are extinct vol canoes that it fairly took oar breath away. For awhile the morning lights played upon the snow and the brown and swelling masses beneath, and then, as though to veil the majestic sight from our curious eyes, strange mists and clouds gathered and increased around them, till presently we could only trace their pure and gigantic outlines swelling ghost-like through the fleecy envelope. Indeed, as we afterwards discovered, they were normally wrapped in this curious, gauzy mist, which doubtless accounted for our not having made them out more clearly before.. Scarcely had the mountains vanished into cloud-clad privacy before our thirst literally a burning question reassert ed itself. It was all very well for. Ventvogel to say he smelled Mater, but look which M'ay, we would we could seo no , signs of it. So far as the eye could reach there was nothing but arid sweltering sand and karoo scrub. We walked round the hillock and gazed about anxiously on the other
side out ic was tne same story, not a
drop oi water was to oe seen; there was
no indication oi a pan, a pool, or a
spring.
"You are a fool." I said, angrily, to
Ventvogel; "there is no M'ater."
i5uc stiu he lilted his ugly snub noBe
and sniffed. I IT ,1 "I-. .. t ...
"i smen it. isass i master), he an
swered; -'it is somewhere in the air."
"Yes,'' I said, "no doubt it is in the
clouds, and about two months he nce it
will fall and wash our bones."
Sir Henry stroked his yellow beard thoughtfully. "Perhaps it is on the top
of the hill, he suggested.
"Rot, said Good; "whoever heard of
water being lound on the tho top oi a
hill!"
"Let us go and look." I put in, and
hopelessly enough we scrambled up the
sandy sides of the hillock, Umbopa
THE STATE LEGISLATURE
TheScnrife; fffl,theJ(Hh, passed the House bill appropriating $1tiw fo'r flip cxpeiwea of the General Assemhly. A joint tesfaifitlofi, confirming the action of the Governor dt'sigoaf r& paii
ceive the annual appropriation of 815,000 by CJoiikhxB.iot an agricultural experimental station in
Indiana ttaff nawfu. A long uiBcussion was pro
fit mm licccs-
to -have m m?n
cipuaica over a resomuon tauopieai aninoriiog the cmploymctit of cef taJH crtniiiiittees Puring
tne discussion cox declared mat !!
sarv for t.lu inninritv to do so
way it would put down the luumbH&fewft Johnson replica iu a neat bit of-sarcasm. MulHnlx tried to turn It with the suggestion that the cofkscrcw Instead of the thumb screw might be Wst'd if it ito'ild be more acceptable to the inliiorljy. . Sc!ia,tor Baffett thought the corkscrew woiiUjje.ilhuccessiir, aft tficfo ifcte sonic gentlemen" in tiic mjh'prity wlio- "were aiWaf uncorked." A rcsoftUio'u' hmhori?.iiig tm at; pointmcnt of twenty addition! assfstant doorkeepers created an animated political discussion1 but was finally adopted, by-, party vote. Diirinthe discussion a point of order was raised that the resolution was out of order. The chair sustained this. An appeal to the Senate was then had and sustained by a party vote. Smith accused roliltsdtj of making an unprovoked assault oh SeiiatOr 1. U. McDonald two years ago. JohuSOii rcnlietl' thai the" CHafYfe tas unotiallficdlv
aise. tinumis said u was -unquesuouamy riic." Johh'soh replied, "Yo'ti F aro a. tlflfi , aha its faifgiiagc well as Smith's ahd Cjfiffitli's iVa akeh dhwif. fA caticiis of Democratic Seratofs.
later, decided that Johnson must apologize
ly'orabfe repor1 effi mxde on the not those who are elected, shall: eoHfl
bycoiiflff mcc& Kills favorably reported would not be members u tJaey : snomo. v
the Senate, orseverer action wofild be taken.-
to
A resolution prohibiting the use of tofjaceoVifl the House was laid on the table. A resolution1 liistHiciiiig our Kcnrcscntativc and Senators in Congress lo vote' for a measure to continue the pension of Union soldiers aflcr death to their widows was adopted. Several fCStflftjtfoiis. authorizing the appointment of committee clerfei were adopted. Probably in excess of fifty bius Avcre introduced. The House devoted considerable time in consideratioh of tiljefi . A majority and minority
report was submitted. The majority report waa
HI? Vt0
adopted.
p
Jennin
rovidina i
a mohumcrit of QsiVenor
two election reform bills.
Bll IU wetc ihtfOdiicw
Iioard of Control of the City of
for a
indiaiiapWiisj ap
ropriat lug S3.000 for
nrs: two elc
One the 17th the Senate adiourned at iiOdhi The business wius principally of the routine chaiacteri Among the more important bills intro
duced were! CHeinpting Homesteads from
1
sale
meed were! exempting nomesteads irom inbility; conceruii)g ihclostirce; reffulating the ale of intoxicating liouors: pfoltibflilig Iransfer
oi property by deotors just prior providing for the State suppljin;
UUg in
to iiieoiyehoj'l
school Wimiti
County Commissoners to construct free turn pikes; to rnuUe railroad Companies lia'ble for damnires for all fifes CatiEed by tlie onorjuJon. of
such roads: prohibitinir sale bf tobaccos to boys'
under sixteen: to nroteet the ballot. WS: reauLi
ting use of natural gas; encouraging breeding irf.
improved stock; requiring cliects ot intoxicants be taught in public schools. The House adopted several unimportant resolutions. Among the more important bills introduced were! An amendment to the school law; the selection of school teachefs bv school meetings; a high Hceiiso law; repcaliflg thcstoiA law; bill for extinction of thistles; to protect breeders of live stock; exempting from execution for debt of 40 acfes of land of ohe toivh h)t; regulating ninhiiig of pasgeftgtif tfatiisj to. .nrOVLie for high license and local Optipri:.rej?ealnijt telfephone laWi for the punishment of pfiblic Offchders; for punishment of timidoyets viho boircbtt discharged employes; and malty" OiherU; SO far 226 bills have leen introduced in the House". Berry offered a resolution providing that the committee on fees and salaries be instructed to report a bill with a view of reducing the fees and salaries of county officers, especially that of cou n ty t rea surers, sh cri ffc, audi tors, clerks and recorders, to a rate corresponding with that or reductions in prices of skilled and ttusklikc labor, and also of the actual reduction of profit ; in general mercantile business since tiie pm : 1870. Lost. A bill legalizing the election Of schoc l commissioners of New Lisbon was passed. The Senate on the 18th voted down a nisolntJb 1 to adjourn until the 21st. Boyd introduced a. joint resolution proposing an ameiMmf.ht to ti c Constitution making the term of county of&g'is
four years and prohibiting their re-election. Tie Trustees of the Blind Asylum in a resolutic n
were directed to report upon what authority ta y had Temoved the fence from around a part oi the
institution grounds. A majority and minority report from the committee on rules create a long and animated discussion; the majority eport being adopted. The rules are similar-iu force to those of the Senate of two years ago idth the exception that in certain emergencies t he Secretary of the Senate is given powers ovef p tra above the Lieutenant Governor. The bill to reduce the interest of school funds loaned f:o m eight to six per cent, after considerable debate, was passed to engrossment Hubbell introduced a- resolution whicSh dii( cts the Serate Committee on labor to prepire a 1 ill creating a bureau of labor. Several bills w re reported favorably including: to legaliice theturvey of Itensselaon requiring land owners to It ;ep roads aloug their property clear oi noxious weeds, and cut hedges; requiring railroad c!an-
panies to put up blackboards at teiejrraph sta
t nfavbrabfe
bill aid
ft hv
v ere: To create a Dtirean o? lvaoor suiwstics, providing for the incorpoffltkyft ot hd)or organizati ons; providii ig for a homeslctrd an d exempting it f -0m sale or execution. The bill irhanging time C-C holfjing cenrt in the circuit composel of UAfticK, 5peer and Perry counties wa pu.ed. 0 hrce illiiiriirtaiit bll Is were introduced and the Senate adiourrtl af noon, to rive committeesjm 0 pportunity to dis'itoft of. ifio V'ork that natf t ccumulated on their hawdS The rfouse on the 22d took tfp the bill authorizing the burial of indiprent Soldiers at a j tfbfte expense of not exceed $35 Tfio amount - ran t&tiii&d io $50 by amendment Ader moved i3inc(rporatc a clause that whei a member of the Putnam C'jWitfAmt dic in poverty the fitote s haU btiry him at art expense not exceeding $10; laid on the blc with great 1 alienation. - The bf f I Wis ogrosscL J iill No. 70, providing for a pciiaU of from 85 to; i jUO and imprisoment for slandel' tfaM reported favorably. The bill was referred bocK lo comT iitfiJO.- 0afi??11. thought the provision too1 fc'mct-' til afl -tlio bills introduced ' nj in's iiotise shofjfd . be pafis-id it worid to daugerbVis fo be be alive, he saitf Ihe bill for the? rem)ta? of driftwood from s ;rcams and the bill makfnfc it rmfawful to des roy or withhold from thelf eAVniSy dweftnvges 0 nd other papers of cx-soldieW vere eftgftcd. 1 lie bill is meant for the relief ol soldiers aflrt soldi erg' widows who have place l t?T papers" 11 the hands of pension agents and riw cart Hot get them again. The agent? ?.M fioofea of cases held these docunentSj - whltw s re vamed ery bighly by their owners, in (jrdex to compel the owners to rc-employ t hem in case oi other claims arising against the
idorernment in which legal aid Is necessary The bill auf hording county coiamlssioners to
ay a bounty Of oc mill per head lor killing hiGrl irh soarrifws Waj reported unfavorably from
at he committee. - - . ,
Bills engrossed: To authorise and encourage i he construction of levees; requlilug owners of J raction eriglifes w'aen running over atreets and ugh ways, toselid a man iifty yards in adance to give wimilifg" to drivere of teams of he; approach of the eWgitte; creating a ive stock wmitary cofnmtaslon, and iho ofnee of State Veterinary 'Surgeon: "0 encourage the breeding of improved j foci:; giving the State Jloard of Agriculture an .ifiihmf apprcprlation oi SXO,00p; retrtinngthe :!tadBta(isficiai to gather statistics . relating to abor on Various; subjects. ; The following bl!ls Were passed hiding to the United States juris diction over c3rtain lands; to ,Pffn lixn neta of notaries public whose commis-
don have expired or who were ineligible; to appropriate 910(1,000 for the Shite Kcrroal School; in rob. mti in tntvtiKh hi schools: for the tablish-
merit of township libraries; providing tor the
ji
T-rti u -w. kTk I "ons to announce upon them time of depart ure leading. Presently he stopped as though of trains; giving State Board of Agriculture an
he was petrified.
"Nanzia manzie!" (here is water), criei with aloud voice. Continued next wc'gfc.
Stanley Chrisler and Clav H. Dnnnan.
nfT.flmrnTiPD.r.nntv KM,r...,U 1 A 1 f I MTfSu.O
rpnrlinf 5iA.SH.i Tov ute Mwieen. xuere was no neea 10 set a
4
Iriiowa it must otv yvixt a "fltor" rnnto
still he does not know how to dispose of it To relieve himself of responsibiiity, However, he will forward ifckto the deaxf
letter office WsMxig Y "
reaclincr "Sixteen-Striner Jack" and "Rnf.
ralo iJili" literature, and who were wild
with the belief that hears and"Xnjuns,,
were siiu roaming in the wilds of Law
rence. armed tliemselves with Witi-
cbester riijtes and other pharaohernalia
or- war, capturetl an old cabin which
they ton nl on the banks of a creek in
the woods and prepared to make a time i. mi si a. . . . i . - .
uiiu jlu uratmirnL wnuo tnev werft
asleep, the cabin caught fire: and they
were awakened with their clothing
auiaze, ana witn au tne surroundings
wrappeu in names, isotn were badly scorched, and Chrisler was comnelled to
take shelter in a straw stack, while Dun
can, clad only m a fertilizing sack, returned to civilization for clothing. Their
cuvfxouuo uurea tnem oi tneir ioiiv.
j. iie real uen us oi xsroaa itionie. near
Indianapolis are oecomintr awakened to
a reai jzaiton oi tne tact tiiat tnev were
8 windlea about a year ago.W Two well-
. . J 1 -V A ...
ureeseu, gno-ionguea young men can
vassed the townshi p selh pg silverware which they purported wai a lirst-clnss
article, and made a sale on an average
io every ocner resiaentin tno township.
-b very piece of ware sold was marked
"1847, Rogers Broa., A. I.,": which is the
genuine ntarK ottne liogers l5ros wares. This ware, nowever, proves to be en
tirely worthless. The price paid by
tne purcnasers was 511 for a set of tea
and tablespoons, a set of knives and forks, a sng ir spoon and butter knife, the real value of which is less than $5. Some parents are known to have purchased upward of $79 worth for presents for their childreni
and flung ourselves down, thoroughly spirit would only have been to precipi-
tirea out, on tne sana, ana were soon all tate tne end.
"If we do no t find water we shall die,"
ne saia.
"If we can trust to the old Don's map
there should be some about," I said:
but nobody seemed to derive much sat
isfaction from that remark. It was so
evident that no great faith could be put
in tne map. j.& was now gradually
growing ligut, ana as we svt blankly
staring, at each other. I observed the
Hottentot Ventvogel nee and begin to
walk aoout with his eyes on the irrouud.
Presently he stopped short, and uttering
a guttural exclamation, pointed to the
eartn.
"What is it?" we exclaimed, and
simultaneously rose and went to where
he was standing pointing at the ground.
"Well " 1 said, "it is pretty fresh
bpnnebok spoor: what of it"
"Sprigbucks do not go far from water,"
ne answered in Dutch.
''No," I answered,"! forgot; and thank
God for it."
Phis little discovery put nuw life into
us; it is wonueriui now, when one is in
watch, -for we had nothing to fear from
anybody or anvthmg in that vast unten-
aniea nain. uur. omv enemies were
heat, thirst and flies, but . far rather
would I have faced anv dancer from
man or beast than that awful -trinity.
mis ume we were not so . luckv as to
find a sheltering rock to guard us from
glare of the snn. with the result that
about seven o clock we woke up experi
encing tne exact sensations one would attribute to a breakfast on a gridiron.
We were literally being baked through
and through. The burning sun seemed
to De sucKing tne very nie mooa out of
us. We sat up and groaned.
"Phew," said I. grabbing at the halo of
ies, wnicn Duzzea cneenuuy round my
lead. me neat did not aliect tnem.
"My word! said Sir Henry. ' Tt is hot!' said Good.
"X was hot, indeed, and there was not
a bit of shelter to be had. Look where
we would there was. no rock or tree,
nothing hut an unending glare, render
ed dazzling by the hot air which danced
over the surface of the desert as it does over a red hot stove.
"What is to be done?" asked Sir
Henry; "we can't stand this for long."
We looked at each other blankly. "I have it," said Good, "we muot dig
a hole and get in it and cover ourselves with the karoo bnsheB."
It did not seem a very promising sug
gestion, but at least it was better than
nothing, so we set to work, and with the
trowel. we nad brought with lis and our hands succeeded in aboutan hour in del
ving out a patch of ground about ten
The Befit Disinfectant Chicago Journal.
"it people oniy anew, said my friend the Doctor, "the value of frosh air as a disinfectant, they would not be
so anxious to close it out of theiir dwellings. I don't know whethpr you know it or not, but the very best disinfectant
in the world is good, fresh, pure, com
mon atmospnere. xne oxygen tnat is
in it will destroy any disease germs it
can get as. and, taee my word it. n our
houses were well filled with good pure
atmosphere there would be much less
diphtheria and other diseases than we have been having lately. The habit
that people generally have fallen into,
as soon as tnev tninK winter is ap
proaching, of filling up every seam and
crevice about their doors and windows,
and malting their houses practi cally 'air
tight, ank keeping them that way until the following spring, is a very baneful
one, particularly so in reference to the
basements, where sewer gas is most
likely to accumulate, and from there
make its way up through every room in
he house. Of course it is desirable that
our homes should be kept moderately
warm and free from cold draughts, but
his is ouite compatible with an abund
ant supply of fresh air. Air, to be
resh and pure, need not necessarily
be eolo but provision should be made
in the construction of our houses for
thorough ventilation in such a way
to avoid draughts. In houses already
bunt, however, where such provision
has not been made, a little cold air now
and again would be much less detri
mental than the vitiated stuff which the
majority of people breathe for months in the year."
annual artprooriation of 810.000: concerning fair
ha i associations and the bill making the terms --d ! aU
i:uuih uiutxin cim uu uiu nisi ui jjijiuuiy.
Drjcr introducd a resolMtion in the Ih use which declares that no elecuonlawlsiierfect ihal
does not provide for tne registering oi v tea. Laid on the table. Among the bills jntrodiced were: Prohibiting the taking of fish with gfc or net from any rivers of the State except the C hio aud St. Joseph; providing for a dairy and J ood commissioner to he appointed by the State B rd of Agriculture; allowing the hiring of con vict labor, in- gangs of more than one hum ired (similar to laws of several Southern States) to prohibit manufacture and sale of intoxica ting liquors (joint resolution). In the Senate on the 19th the Republicans, presented a written protest against the riles. The protest is made, it is stated, for the re ison that the rules are unconstitutional, a to f -me, unnecessarily harsh, arbitary and oppression as to others, raanv are unknown in previous 1 ;crts-
lative bodies, and taken as a whofe, they ar s so f mined as to throttle and oppress the min. rity
and prevent them from actiiiK as a cin.'ck an i'Te-
straint upon the excesses of the majority. ! ?hey
protest against rules 10 and lo lor tno re ason that they are unconstitutional in that tlieif de
prive tne Lieutenant Governor of the nght;l y be President of the Senate in certain cases and confer that rteht unon the Principal Secretary of the
body, an 3'for the further reason that i;hey ate- an insult to' the Lieutenant Governor, are de rogatorT to the diirnftv of Ithis hitrh office and w ioiiv
without a parallel in any legislative l)odyj The bill legalizing the survey of Renssclae ? was assed . A mong the new bills iu troduced . were he following: rclatiug to the sink ing of gaih rolls; relating to the incorporation ot labor organizations; to create the o filcc of insuran-ce coi nnis-
sionen to amend the fee and salary act; tcI ating
to the inspection of oils: amendine the shool
law.euablinK commissioners to purchaw toll
roads; relating to dniinage; to prevent swinilling; to extend the liabilities of cmpWers to cmp oyes:
concerning promissory notes; lorniuding tir e soiling of maigins, and others of less impolance.
i n su-A&iuu vvtu in suiuh mu u Miox u lime,. There were seventy members of the House in
attendance at the session which lasted a brief
hour. Several Important bills were introduced
anu several were reported lavorably from com
mittees. House bill number 28. piovidh s for
the payment and recovery of costs and ff es in
certain (jases by the State was reported oi i un
favorably by the Committee on Judicinrj'. This brought out a burst of indignant eloouend! from
Mr. KclJey. of D-akalb. the author of thi bill
He vowed to at once introduce another bill a Imost
like 'tother "press it on the House. If you mem-
uers oi uiis noose agree to ici my dim go iis me
committee advises T tell vou T will trot after' voii
and keep it up till Ute end of the session? The
on i was reierreo pact to tne committee.
In the Senate on the 2lst. after nraver bv Sena
tor Smith, and the reirular order of business had
been takon up and disiosed of. the. Committee
on Judiciary presented favorable rcrorte of Sena
tor Barretrs bill acainst trusts, and lenator
Dresser's bill to amend section 73 of t he a t con
ccrning proceedings and civil cases; on senator
iiaydeivs uui to amend section 514 of the Revised Statutes of 1881: on Senator DeMotte's
bill providing for the cancellation of cer ain 11
censes when fraudulently obtained, on Senator
Hay's bill to repeal section i of an act -dating
to nusoand and wife: on Ssenator Johnst irs bill
to amend sections 1.109 and 1.202 of the Re
vised Statutes and his bill concerniiiK th 3 dejith
penalty; Senator Howard's bill to amend sections l,49Scf the Revised Statutes; Senator )resser's
oni-io amend section 16 ot an net; coi eermne:
)nonc onenaers, and fccnator Harness's Dill to
egallze the acts ef Notaries Public whose com
missions have expired. On the call ot ;he roll
for the introduction of new Wis, the following were offered; By Senator
Cox, creating a Supreme Court Com mission
by Senator Dresser, authorizing peion! having
claims against tne state to bring sutit therefor in the Marion countv Superior Court: bv Senator
Jones, cpneerning taxation; hy Senator Hull inix. providi ng for the study of the effects of i .leoholic drinks and narcotics; by Senator -S'lockney,
iimuing iue raie mat may ue cnargeo oy rail
roads for transportation; by Senate); Sm ith. con
ceming tho pnictice of medicine, surwrv arid
BIX
Lincoln's Noble Temper,
Gentleman, man of sense, and man of
noble temper was Abraham Lincoln,
"The Centnry" prints a formidable let
ter with the air of the duello about it.
written to Lincoln in 1840 by one Ander
son. "On our first meeting on Wednes
day last," says this person, difficulty
in words ensued between us., which I
deenwt my duty to notice further. I
think you wero the as'iresuorr Your
words imported insuli, and whether you ohstetrics; by Senator Urmston, to ere te a State
a desperate position, one catches at the
slightest hope, and feels almost happy in
it. On adark night a single star is bet
ter than nothing. i -
aleanwhilo Ventvogel was lifting his
snub nose, and sniffing the hot air for all
the. world like, an old Impala ram who
scents dauger. lreseptly he spoke
again.
"I smell water' ho said. Then we felt iubilant, for yr knew
what a wonderful instinct these wildbred men possess,
just at that moment tne sun came up
gloriously, and revealed so grand a eight 1 and inviting
meant them as such is for you to say.
xou will, tneretore, please iniorm me on this point. And if you Resigned to offend me, please communicate to me
your present feelings oil the subject and whether you persist in the stand
you took."
Here is the reply, perfect in tact, tem
per and self-respect:
"Your note of yesterday i& received.
In the d fficulty between us of which
you speak you say you think I .was the
aecressor, do not think 1 was. You
t i . 1 . 111 TT
sav my woros importeu insult i
meant them as a fair set-oif to your own
statements and not otherwise; and in
that liirht alone I now wiish vou to un-
dei-stand them.. You ask for my 'pres
ent feelings on the subiect. I entertain
no unkind feelings to you, and none of
any sort upon the subject , except a sincere reeret that I permitted myself to
get into any such altercation. Yours,etc. A, Lincoln."
of stationary engineers: by Senator Byi d for the relief cf Township lrnstees in Clav & mty; by
5enator bnaiiKs, repealing vsome provisi ms ot tn
election Jaw; oy senator urmston, 101 tne protection of birds, their nests and egfrs; T v Senator
liyrd, relating to raliroao eoipo rations;
by senator iier;y, to amend section
147 of an act concerniiiK taxation: bv
senator lludson, relating to street mil road com
panies; by Senator Johnson, to amend section IV
of an act concerning real property; )y Scnatoi
Barrett, providing for tho appomta'ier t oi; special
aemmes. marsnais ana policemen, t tne alter
noon session a number of new blllr nero Intro
duced, and tbc Committee on the Suiiervision Oi
tne Senate journal preseutea majon ,y ana mi
nority reports on tne language used, hy Senators Johnson, Smith and Griilin on lasi; .Vcdnesday, The majority report was adopted b3' t party vote.
Improvements in Train Service.
In the year 1S88 there was a good deal
done toward improving train service.
Air brakes were placed on 20,000 freight
cars, and !it is believed that 50,000 more
will be so equipped during the present
year. A uniform code of train ruleB
was adopted by 85 per cent, of the roads
of this country. Vestibule trains were
introduced by several of the leading
roads, and several of the roads took the advance stop of heating their trains with steam furnished by the locomotive,
and much of a minor importance was
done toward making travel toinfortable
s.
Kisincr to a question of personal privilege. Sena
tor Johnson protested against the a;I ption of tho
majority report, because it did not st ite ihe facb; fulfv. and asked that his protest sh mid be en
tered in the journal.
The House convened at 1:30 p. m. rnd Dr. J. H.
Ford oiTered prayer. Mr. Foster, of Madison
county, got first recognition from tli Chair ajul
proposed a joint resolution to amoi .d tae con
stitution making a residence of one year in the
State necessary for the right to vot ) instead of six months as now provided. A .re olut:on wai
that the 1 to pre
pare a bill for a local option lfqnoj. law in the state, but on motion of Mr. Schmuc k the resolu
tion was laid on tne table. Mr. rieasti its introduc
ed two resolutions bcarhiff upon thi- school book
quosuon. Auopicu. isir. wuiamart louneea inat Kobert C. Huston had been appointed clerk of the (knnmittee on Ways and Weans. Mr.
Bcasley, of Sullivan, introduced i. joi;it rcso-
jutiou proviiling for a constituu mal amendment making the terms of all counir oihcersfoiir
years, and prohibiting two successiv e tc rms for
the same man. - sir. nen ry, 01 i loy, , introduced a bill nopointine sepamte Boaids of Trustees for
the Insane Hospital, Blind Institute tnd Deaf and Dumb Institute. Mr. Zoorcher presxii ted a resolution instructing tho proper commit t ;e to prepare
a bill for the better enforcement offc law regard ing the returns of property for taxes . Brownies and Foster and the introducer of Mm resolution spoke earnestly in favor of it. They thought 03 romwlv for tho Stnte's insnftieient. fi in tioH tn
that rather than in an increase of tli -tax levy.If. K. 103 iixlnvr court term was oass id. Several
bills were advanced to a second read Mff and en
grossment. - ; j
Tne enaie, on uju aau. pasieu a on legaiizm; tho records of tho Circuit and Supe loi couru . , y , ' :
vn iiilrnilrn'od.
Hi the Senate on the 2&1, lie bill to make terms
of county otitccrs begin on tllCJst 01 January was
referred to trie; judiciary comnmiee io mvesugaht jta'coiisliluUinality. The bill mnking it unlawful to ma htf future dynamite br.other nitroexplosive compouridft ilhin'lGO rods of any occunint dwnltincr or Tiiblic ottWdine was engrossed.
Citizens of Brazil petitioned thai the civil engin
eer and school trustees of thai: city, be made Mm-tivn nMocrs. Cttizeiw. of Kewtoh county
iiieaioHalizod for reimbursement for execs of viilfa iirtid fnr the bed of Beaver Lake. A reso
lution aUtJiorizing a committee of three to ascertain if "he lawa relating to ihe inspection of
petfoleUm oil are propeny cnior;ea, wis s auinw. hilia tore renorted Jrom committees.
Amohcr those With favorable recomendations
wefe? To fix - too salaries or Judges:
i.sMiHhM. flin rrime of riotous, consolracy: to
moke sepaftifo ju'dieW circuits of .Howard and Tipton counties: providing for the fnconwration of t h e India na Sw ine Breed ore'-A ?$oelatidn ; prcvidinr for the supcrfntendehey of iree gravel roads; to prevent gambling in grai?.if stocks, ct autliorize cities to construct levees. Araong the
utUa nnfni-nrnhlv renorted were: Making a
BCborate judicial circuit of Hamilton county; providing that Prosecuting Attorneys should not collect feeu wheu the prosecuted is arrested hy
k number of iicw bills were introduced in the TT.tucfv.itt fhe 2aL Amomr which were: Provid
ing for the purchase Qf tcn.acies of groud for iac of the Insane Hospital at fpjisnqrt; approprlatInir Sfi00000 for the erection of a fire-proof library
ntinnwiinfffrttl, n hill taking from the Hands of
the Governor the afjpitrrtiicn ; of a mine inspector
and placing tnat power iu wifranuB m . cumuiission exempting pension noitey Jrom execution for debt; making it a misdtfiaeipmr for a state or county office to accept a pass froiu aTaiiroad com pony; )rohibiting use of screens before saloon duorc; making a debt for tile a lied pa the -larid: regulating prrfcticc "of medicine by examiHation aild license. Wi (lard, Dr offered a naolutiefi requiting a siatericnt from tho Auditor wr ether he has issued a warrant for the payment of any money from' th State Treasury to one Robert S. Robertson. 4 tfamsv R. could see no need for tho resolution; It 1fofc in reduced simply to open the old sore. "The people have beard enough of this outrage aud its perpetra tors." Brbwnville, p., then launched an' rmigwant de'iuiiciation of the Pcmocratic majority. lie was called to order but afterward allowed to conclude his remarks! : W illard . declared he did not introduce the re lution in a partisan spirit but simply for information "The trouble i," he stdd, -" ihe State Auditor has dared to iwivmoney from tfcc public treasury to that man, snd vou are afraid to have the matter investigated. We want tha information in the Ways and Icans.Comm:ittej arid if Wc find that the State Auditor has paid jnoney unlawfully, as 1 believe he has, he shall ust bc reimolued." A great deal more indignant'teloouenee yr& indulged in by way of explaua,tior. of vo.tes. Kelly, D. f mid the trouble is that the . Republicans have boasted that they were in a majority, and that now they find their Governor doesn't wield unlimited power and they feel sore. Covert, Democrat, voted against the solution, and a few others of that party did the same, but it was adopted by a vote of 55 to 40. The following bills were then introduced: Making eight hours a day's work; for the prevention of frauds. In retaliation for the W illatd resolu tion; Slhbblefield, R., introduced a resolution requiring that inquiry mould be made to ascertain if Green Smith had drawn more than the amount due him during
fhe Inst Kcjyiion of the General Assembly. A
-motion was pnjmptly made to lay the resolution on the table, and it" was done, on a party vote.
Wilson, P., introduced a resolution, with a whereas, statiuc that there had been rumors
durine the yeais 1SS7 nnd 1SSS affecting the State
Treasury and the Treasure!., and. in conseouence
it was important that there should be an investigation into the affairs of tir.e office. The resolution provides that a committee of rive should be appointed to conduct the investigation. The
resolution was adopted. ; L EG 1 S L AT I V E NOTES.
The bill creating tho office of Insurance commissioner is said to be' for the
benefit of -A. Greene Smith. " A Bucket Shop bill was introduced, Saturdav mornintr.bv Senator Shocknov.
It makes unlawful the selling of margins
on wheat or anything else, and the pen-
aiiV ior vioiauon ot tne acu is a nne oi
not more than $500, to which may be
added imprisonment. . , . : Thomas Tislow, of Petersburg, was
Saturday appointed State Mine Inspect
or by Governor Hovey. The appointment was recomme nded by a large number of miners and others. Mr. Tis
low was a Captain in General Hovev s
WlttiUraW, it lo Ciai UiCU: turn v-nuiwR, k , of the Benocrat i Wit as members
constitute a quoru m. m mipjpors w-.-y-this construction of te constitution, :tho?; decision of the Suprc tne Court itt thfjv , action of the.DemoeraiVi who withajrew ,
fTm ihft Tmslatvire Li lh to aeiear . - , s
the fifteenth amendment, is .cited, , . Iff was held then that twi vthirds of ttier members constituted a qiirufn Senator Byrd, has inoduce two bills for trie protection and relief w tb miners of the State. OnevldeB for-iU fairer method oi weighing, hnefite of which will go i o the miner . JTJhe coal . n?nst be weighed in the car in 'whichp. the employe places it and before iff
screened. Clauses aro also included m; the bill, which forbid tho making of at contracts which woull practically tadO. the Jaw, aud make f it the, duty the Mine Inspector5 to: test tbaaaV scales, in use7 at all mines and otitute criminal proceedings agaimst;. any peions not complying fully wittiv the law. Senator Byrd's second bill is another attempt to prohibit the opera
tion of whht are known as "pluclc nife
stores. It ras long tcen" a favorite .. . . il. a-,( an A mill nicHdMiirr .aKif
back a large pait of the wages paidl:J
compelling their empioves to purefmae supplies at storeu owned by -the companies, where the higiest of iprices are charged. This evil, whicfii is a greatcm e, the bill endeavors to inemedy bw
fixiDg severe penalties lor thtv making
of any contract or agreem3nt?.di.recuy QEry indirectly, or the usinfir of aDt threats oMtf
'
trade at anjf particular store or etiop, Favorable committee reports -'hmm! 'f been made on several of the ii ousOihHlSar J one of which is intended to apply fi-Se rectlv to the Indiananolis Railroad xlom-
panies that have entered into a com pact not to again employ ariy of the swi Vsht
men who were discharged dunnc" i $10
recent strike, and to all other cases 0f blacklisting of . discharged empldy3c -The bill provides that, "if any person, . agent, company or corporation, after hay ; . innr HiBphnrtrAilj anv emnlnw -'frm' filial
or its service shall prevent or attempt to
prevent by word or writing of any kind, ;v t such discharged employe from obtain- ' ing employment with any other coin panv or corporation except by iurhiah mg in i riting, on requesti "a truth fnlP-
statement as to the cauee of his iMbcharae. such person, acent or cornera-
tion shall; be guilty of a. misdemearioifl and shall be punished by a fine, not ea: , ccedincr$5(K) nor loss than $100, an&sucin V
person, agent, conipaoy or corporationi; " shall be liable in pienaj damages to such
diEchaiged persons1 to be recovered by a; ' '-zfc. civil- action; but this section shall not to , construed as prohibifing any person ofe fS-' agent of any company or corporation from informing in writing any Other r-fv soni company' or; corrwatlori setiag T forth a truthful b tatemen t of the reatpnSri .l of such diBchaige, - THE ARIZONA KICKEK. i ! -.' ; v Choice Extract ft-om JKjeia: ';
a crn uonrnai.
DeUoit Fred Press. j: v ' 7, .
J5JECOM1NO DKBious. Tnose mm
men who make a practice of firing: into ' the Kicker's office on their way up and down at night may be extracting a,reats ) deal of fun from it but we are ndfc : Jfafc long as they fired; high" no particulanr damage was done except to the stovepipe
but of late steel ballets have whistled
Wet
not
any
too close to our couch for comfort.'
have been patient- and forbearing
wanting -to dvprive the boyg.ol
legitimate amusenent, but tibia
must be stopped orvwj Bhall take ;gojrous measures. against fe.shpotera .. . t
regiment in-the late war. He is a practical miner. '- ; .Two amendments to the constitution were proposed in joint resolutions that were introduced, Saturday morning,by Serator Boyd. One of them forbids the re-election of a Supreme Court Clerk, and the other provides that there, shall be nin e Judges of the Supreme Cour t, to be elected respectively for two, four and six years.. s, ' . , v .'. Colonel Robertson has already been paid his mileage and per diem while serving as a member of the State Board of Equalization, but it is understood that
the Democrats navo determined not to make an allowance for the sum in the
general appropriation bill, and it is not
improbable, therefore, that the old question as to the Lieu tenant Governroship
will again be brought before the bu-
preme Court. Green Smith is credited with having declared that he would not refund the $2 he is charged with having
overdrawn at the 1 ast session, but that
ho will claim an extra allowance of $120
or his Bfirvicea -au-presiding officer of
the Senate, and it Bruce uarr refuses to
draw a warrant for the amount, after
resolution directing mm to do so is
passed by the Semite, "his fees will be
cut in two" ' i .. .;. 1 - .;
If a bill that was introduced in fc the
senate Saturday morning Becomes a
law, Bruce Carr will find the . office of
Auditor of State during the next two
years a barren ideality. Senator Griffith, is author of tho bill. It proposes to
create the office of Insurance Commit
sioner and provides that he shall be elected by the. General Assembly. He
shall have supervision over all matters pertaining to insurance and in relation to such ' business is given all
authority heretofore vested in the
State Auditor, Companies and their agents are prohibited from soliciting risks in the State without first procuring a certificate from the Commissioner, a
copy of which shall be filed with the
clerk of each county in which the company operates. The fees amount to from $4,000 to 16,000 a year. If the bill
is passed the A ud t tor's income will be restricted to $L500 a year, simply the
salary aliowed tlbim by statute. . t
Representative Hess, of Wabash, is
credited with havingsaid that the Re-
publican memb ers of the General As
sembly may determine not to meet with
the Democratic majority unless the oppressive rules that have been adopted are suspended, and that, if they, should withdraw, thero -could be no legislation, as there are not enough Democratic members to constitute a quorum. Other members of the House, however, say that there is no probability that such a course will be pursued, and the Democrats claim that if the Republicans should withdraw it would not interfere with leaislation?! as the Constitution
states that two- thirds of tho members
Sit Us Wrokg. We have sevte4
times announced that we had ote .Vwo'
spells and Our "off" spells itt xegatd
fighting, and that citizens who tairkled: '
us mm t take their chanees Last Ffi-
day the old broken-backed hyena wlio . Z
edits the opposition ahefet sav u get
letter in a m;ourmB the postonleeV and he conclndiid; ife would be an foff'd pitched in to - get' satisfactioni' Tn; mourning envelope enclosed & BptofeCvS; .
from the hank at Tuscon, giving noic:
that a draft sent for collection had betn, much to our astonisbunent; cclectecL? k The bid reotild above -referwA t
therefore hit us deadwrongand he
IfCUII iUl 1UIU OUU UM u uuwiw,,, .
for mercy inside of five 'minutes. Ho says in his issue of yesterday tiiat 'bxi ' thought we were trying ;to , tow ganr
on him, but that is too thin. What he
really thought was thaA,wed Mb hutf
with a ton of granite.
4c
r We Had To. We understand thofe
some of our leading 'dt&wilii V fH, lot theT arrest of Coh Jim; Drakewhx? s was pinched and teken to pna ? 'ft ' other day. We al write a le'ttfA-,;; sherifi that Jim was he had any day in the week, hut wb tid ttfc r He not only persistently refused to sub-- K- 4
scribe for The Eier, butv he avoided our grocery and dealt with iionidvdt
tisera. In addition to this Jim wia gefc ting puffed up and conceited, aitd ite-
had an idea that he was -running the
town.. . -;. 2 We want to be friendly with all,
we must be used right: ; The first dnty f.
of every man in this town whorknpwa
he is wanted by a sheriff any whem ib o?ffi Mtma ol' niarihA , Prinrt SiS , rM -'.H'
year, invariablyjin!advsiice. jAk
P
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A.
. !: The HanginlSWa;; niicgo Tribune. . 2o-' . : ; The number of legal exeoutionH -'duiv
ing the year has increased over last year,.
when. it ; wa much.; smallejc ttgr
many years previous. The tot
hfir wan ' flfi mmnflrArl wit h 74 vil 17. I -
3r 'if. '
were as
lows: Alabama, 5; Arkansas, 5; CJalifor-
nia, 5; -Oonnecticut. 1; -Delaware, -,
Georgia, 8r Illinois, 2; Indiana, 1; ; lowap Q-A 1; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 1 ; Louisiana, 3;) fW
Maryland, !; Massachusetts, ly Minneso
ta, 1; Mississippi, 4; Missouri." 4; New!
York, 9; New Jersey, 4; North -Cto'ipP. K
2; Ohio, 3; Oregon? 1; Betuisyivaa
South Carolina, 6; Tennessee, 2 ;Texae
6; Arizona, -i 1; Idaho, 12; Montetna, '
Washington, fjyopm&l fedw
Territory, v , '. JtJf; 1
Of this number, ali i were males but
one, 57 were white, 20 wew negroes,and
1 a Chinaman. ; ,: -
It Will Not Ho a Regular Hoe-Down, ;
Atlanta Constitution. .' : ; , :
At about 11 o'clock the music of the
a3
first dance will start upr It will be
quadrille. Gen. Harnson and hisparty
win rorm a sec ana wata. tnroujn ue a
figures, jrs, Cleveland be Qeoi:
narrison s partner; air. viieveiana win :?m dance wiUi Mrsv Harrisoi It w u ever, be a tame arlatr, alut a? lively a i
shaking of the feet as t he rehe irsal , of
ah old-fashioned minuet. When ,th quadrille is oyei Mr. Harrison :uihI-nis ' "
party will go to tho hito Kotiae. VPtS will thus bo ae dent ill not indulge to any great extent -
in the gayeues otne evening,! . ja- ms;
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