Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 February 1884 — Page 2

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BLOOMINGT&N, THE SEWS CONDENSED. COKOBESSIONAL FROCEEBIKGS. JC. Vah Wtck, o-N)W tetrodaoed a resolution in the Senate on the 4th inst., which iu agreed to,prrvidirigtliafc no dividends shall be made by the Tj nion Pacific road except from the net earnings, and that no new stock shall be issued or mqrt -ages created without leave of Congress, under penalty of fine and Imprisonment. Various petitions from Union soldiers for laws for their benefit were handed in. Mr. lagan presented a protest against the passage of the bill for the relief ot Fitz John Porter. Bills were favorably reported to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy; to make eighthonrua day's labor in Government workshops, and to pay wages for lecral holidays. Bills were introduced to enable the people of Dakota to form a constitution; to provide artificial limbs for exsoldiers; to erect a public building at Tyler, Tex., and to prevent the publication of lottery advertisements in the Territories. The Chair presented resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Onto favoring a tariff for revenue. In the House Mr. Morrison, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, introduced a bill to revise the tariff on imports. It makes a reduction of SO per cent, on numerous articles, but prevents any reduction to a lower rate than the Morrill act of 1S61. The bill was referred. The oath of office was administered to Mr. Hammond, who has been ill since Congress convened. Mr Hock offered resolution directing the Committee on Education to Inquire into the working of agricultural colleges aided by tend grants. Bills were introduced to punish officers of the United States for the illegal use of money at elections ; authorizing a survey of the passes between the affluents of the Upper Missouri and Columbia rivers; to prevent the sale of certain Pacific railroads before the United States bonds and interest shall have been fully paid: for an export tax on cotton; to declare Good Friday a legal holiday; appropriating $125,000 to improve the Colorado river; and for the relief of the Lady Franklin bay expedition. Mr. Springer presented a memorial from New Mexico making grave charges against Chief Justice Samuel B. AxtL Mk. Coke presented a memorial in the Senate, on the 5th inst., from the Legislature ol Texas asking legislation to reopen the western traQ through Indian Territory, leased for grazing purposes. BiHs were reported favorably t erect a public building at San Francisco, to grant right of way through Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Road, and to allot lands in severalty to Indians. A resolution was passed directing the Committee on Printing to report on the expediency ot publishing an official gazette of the United States, to contain advertisements for proposals and contracts, as also general orders by heads of departments. There was some debate on Mexican land titles. The House of Representatives concurred in the Senate amendments to the tobacco rebate bill. Mr. Dockery offered a resolution to abolish the position of stenographer of committeesA resolution to send a sub-committee to investigate matters at Hot Springs, Arku, was defeated. Bills were reported favorably to donate to the town of Fort Smith a part of the military reservation for school purposes; to give the Southern Kansas Road right f way through Indian Territory, and to give General Ward B. Burnett a pension of $100 per month. A bill for the election of territorial governors and secretaries by the people was tabled. A memorial from t e Western Associated Press, asking a reduction of postage on transient newspapers, was referred to the Committee on Postoffice. The House discussed the bill for a bureau ef animal industry. Bills were reported in the Senate on the 6th inst. to amend the Chinese restriction act and to provide fortbesrappxession of pleuropneumonia. A bill was introduced to provide indemnity for the State of Iowa under the swamp-land acts. There was further debate on the bill regarding Mexican land grants. Paul Btrobach, nominated for United States Marshal of the Middle district of Alabama, was rejected by the Senate, in exeoutlTe session. In the House a resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for copies of all papers regarding irregular practi ces on the part of attorneys practicing before tUe pension office. Bills were introduced to authorize the purchase of snug harbors for disabled seamen, and to establish a branch home for crippled soldiers fn one of the Western States. Resolutions were adopted requesting from the President copies of correspondence with Great Britain respecting the extradition of alleged fugitives from justice, and calling on the Secretary of State for facts in connection with the absence of foreign ministers and consuls from their poets during the past two years. The remainder of the session was devoted to debate on the pleuro-pneumonia bilL Mb. Gadb offered a resolution in the Senate, on the Tth inst, requesting the President to prevent the delivery to the Spanish authorities, on a pretended charge of highway robbery, of Carlos Aguero, t le Cuban patriot, now imprisoned at Key West. A bill was passed in regard to lands occupied by settlers on the Ute Reservation in Colorado. Mr. Cullom Introduced a bill for the relief of a large number of citizens of Southern Illinois who were granted lands by the Governors of the Northwest and Indian Territories. Mr. Tan Wyck reported a measure for the relief of settlers on the Denver and St. Joseph Railroad lands. Mr. Beck offered a resolution for an inquiry into the removal of John Dudley, a colored porter of the Senate, formerly a Union soldier, and charged that he had been wantonly dismissed. Nice Senators voiced their views on the Mexican landgrant titles bill, but no action was taken, la the House of Representatives, a resolution was reported declaring vacant the positions of stenographers of committees, proper reporters to be employed by the Speaker. A bill was passed to provide for the removal of the remains of Captain Walter Clifford from Wyoming to Michigan. A bill was reported to constitute a Bureau of Navigation in the Treasury Department. The rotes were debated until a quorum wan lost. Whether or not Secretary Chandler had been impertinent in the Greely affair was discussed without issue in the Senate on the 8th Inst. Mr. Beck abandoned his attempt to secure information relative to the discharge of a colored laborer named Dudley. Mr. Riddleberger offered a resolution for a joint committee to report the cause of all removals of congressional employes. Mr. Frye reported a bill to remove burdens from the American merohant marine. Mr. Logan introduced a bi.l for a commission to report on the progress of the colored people since the close ot the war. The Mexican land-grant titles bill was passed, and an adjournment to Monday, the llth, was taken. The House, after a debate, the conclusion of which occupied most of the day, adopted thj rules which governed the Forty-sixth Congress. Messrs. Hopkins, Ward, Lanham, and lUson were named as the committee to investigate and determine who teila tne truth Keifer or Gen. Boynton, The House passed a resolution authorizing the loan of tents for a reunion of soldiers and sailors at Chicago in August. Resolutions were offered inquiring whether any consular officer is indebted to the Government on account of fees and trust funds, and whether Congress can impose inspection laws on pork rrodact destined for exportation. Another resolution provides for an appropriation of $100,000 for the sufferers by the Ohio River floods. Mr. Randall reported the naval appropriation bill, and Mr. Willis introduced a measure temporarily providing for the support of common tchoola. A resolution was offered requesting the President not to deliver Carlos Aguero to the Spanish authorities to be tried for political of - THE EAST. Burglars under arrest at Bridgeport, Conn., confess that the gang to which they belong broke into twenty-six places within the past year, and committed one highway robbery. Their ages range from 18 to 19 years. Btjbsham Ward well, the prison-reformer, who was convicted of libeling the Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts, baa been sentenced to one year in Dedham jail. James E. Lines shot his wile twice, at Homer, N. T., and then killed himself. The funeral services over tbe remains Of Wendell Phillips were bold in the Hollis Street Church, Boston, the edifice being densely crowded. A large concourse folio wed tbe hearse from the family residence to the church, and agiin from the church to Faneuil Hall, wheretbe-remains lay instate for three hours. Here a plaster east of the head of the deceased was taken, and the remains were then conveyed to the old Granary burying ground, in Tremont street, and deposited in tbe Phii-ips family tomb. . . . Billy MiGlory, a New York saloor -keeper known throughout tbe country, has been sentenced to the peni

tentiary for six months for violating the ex

cise law. ,; : Ax entire square in the center gpf Ht$leterFa.,ia fcn of&0My inhabitant ftu&tenlf sanjfe thee fe Four biildi$gs w4$ wteoke No, one was hurt. Te tqffh hall been undermined by the coal-diggers. Five firemen were killed .and eight others injured by falling walls conflagration at Allentown, Pa. Two large factories were burned, the loss being $1:0,000. Henry S. Church, for six years chamberlain of Troy, N. Y.. proves to be a defaulter for $77,600. It is thought that most of the money was lost in stock Speculation. A meeting to honor the memory of Wendell Phillips was held at Faneuil Hall, Boston. Julia Ward Howe was among the speakers. Instead of parading on 3 St. Patrick's day, ftie Irish will give lecture! in the evening, the proceeds to go to the Phillips statue fund. THE WEST. Leavenworth (Kan.) dispatch: Reports come in thick and fast of damage to winter wheat by tbe reeent variable weather. Similar reports, but more serious, come from sections of Northwestern Missouri and several pointjp in Nebraska,. It is stated in a dispatch from Detroit that James E. Soripps, of the Detroit EveniniJVeic, has paid to Dr.Donald McLean, of the Ann Arbor University, the sum of $80,000 for libel. The jury adjudged the complainant that sum; the Supreme court affirmed the finding of the lower court; the prayer of Mr. Scripps for an injunction restraining McLean from using the money was denied, and nothing remained for the editor but final settlement, which was at once made. The crashing of their boat by a floating log caused the drowning of Frank and James Henderson, married men, near Lafayette, Ind. Near Newcoinerstown, Ohio, four young men were drowned by the capsizing of their boat in the Tuscarawas river. A Sioux City dispatch says the man hanged at Bassett, Keb., by vigilantes was not Kid Wade, but the vigilantes still had Wade in their custody. Neab Horton, Mich., Mr. Brown, a detective, who has been working en the Crouch murders, was -met on the road by a carriage containing two men, one of whom, after making sure of the identity of the detective, shot him, inflicting a dangerous wound and leaving him for dead. There is great excitement over the affalm.... At the Nez Perce Agency in Indian Territory is a Presbyterian Church with full-blood o Ulcers and pastor. A revival now in progress has added 172 to the membership. Thirtythree Indian pupils are soon to be placed by the Government in White's Institute at Wabash, Ind., where they will be educated with funds left by the founder of the school. the south:. The season of the Presidential straws has begun. The Maryland Legislature was polled the other day, developing the fact that Senator Bayard is the favorite on the Democratic side, and President Arthur on the Republican side. A negro named Jeff Rogers was lynched by a mob at Lafayette, Ala., for assaulting and brutally stabbing a white woman. . . .The Texas Senate Indefinitely postponed the bill to justify the killing of fencecutters caught using nippers. Peteb Bland was taken from the jail of King William County, Ya., by masked mea, banged to a tree, and riddled with buckshot. . . .The called session of the Texas Legislature has adjourned sine die, having been engaged during the session of thirty days in enacting laws for the suppression of agrarian crime in that State. Many wise measures were adopted, gnd large appropriations of money made to strengthen the arm or the Governor in his efforts to crush out the law, lessness of the hour and save Texas from the anarchy into which it seemed to be drifting. Richard Nelson (colored), proprietor of the Galveston (Tex.) Spectator, while traveling in a coach of a Texas and St. Louis train, between Corsicana and Waco, was ejectal because he refused, when ordered, to go into the smoking-car, and upon his request the train was stopped, and he walked back to Corsicana. He will sue for damages. At New Orleans, James Graham, aged 55, a lawyer, shot his wife three times, killing her instantly, and then laid down beside her in bed and almost severed his head from his body with a razor. It is said that Graham was suffering from delirium tremens, or insanity Mrs. Gordon, residing near Bluffton, South Carolina, now 111 years of age,, walks four miles to partake of the monthly Lord's supper at the Baptist church, WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: The Senate Committee on Elections has organized its sub-committees to proceed to Danville, Va., and to Copiah county, Mississippi. The Mississippi committee is very strong on tbe Republican side. It will consist of Messrs. Hoar, Chairman, Frye of Maine, and Cameron of Wisconsin. Republican, with Jonas and Saulsbury, Democrats. The committee will probably start for the South next week. It had been thought that the Danvil'e investigation would be largely conducted from Washington, bnt it is now expected that the committee will visit Virginia. The Mississippi committee expects to be absent for two or three weeks. The Hennepin Canal people have won a decisive victory in the House Committee on Hallways and Canals. Mr. Murphy has been ordered to report favorably the bill making an appropriation of $1,000,000 to begin work on the canal. The vote in the committee stood 8 to 2. The Mississippi River convention,held at Washington last week, passed resolutions declaring it the duty of the Government to so improve the great river and its tributaries as to permanently secure safe navigation, and expressing the belief that the system now being prosecuted under the Secretary of War is the one most generally approved. Nothing, says a Washington telegram, has been done by the Committee of Ways and Means in relation to the tariff except to direct that tables be prepared for their use, showing in parallel columns the tariff of 1861, the present tariff, and the proposed one by the Morrison bill, and that representatives of the interests that will be affected by the Morrison scheme shall have an opportunity to be heard by the committee. It is not intended that the privilege of being heard shall unreasonably delay the action of the committee upon this bill, but its practical effect will be to prevent the committee from completing their work for several weeks. Ex Senators are to be excluded from the floor of the House of Representatives. POLITICAX. The Ohio Senate has passed a bill redisricting the State. The House has passed a bill amending the Scott liquor-tax law, making the license payable annually. The bill was put through under the application of a gag. The Democratic caucus at Frankfort, Ky., nominated Joseph C. S. Blackburn for Senator, giving him (13 votes to 57 for Williams. The Mississippi river convention, composed of 500 delegates, assembled in Washington last week. E. O. Stannard, of St, Louis, was elected President, and addressed the assemblage on the importance of improving navigation on the great river. A State convention of negroes at Gainesville, Fla., was presided over by exCongressman Walls. The platform demands equal rights for the blacks in education, public o.nces. and conveyances, and pledges the colored men to unite with others in the election of an independent candidate for

Governor. An address tQ the colored men of

ine Biare was aaqjioa ana aoiegates eiecieu to the national convention of colored men. Andrew Dee, of the committee stenographers removed by Speaker Kolfor, has been reappointed by Speaker Carlisle. . THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD, The fire record of the past week, as reported by telegraph, is as follows: A feather-board mill at Middle Falls, N. Y., loss $30,000; two stores, Albert Lea, Minn., $10 000; the Areado building, Blmira, N. Y., $15,000; the Phoenix glass works Phillipsburg. Ohio, $125,000; Reed's Hour mill, Mound Olty, 111., $12,000; two stores. Borne, N. Y., $20,001); King & Joch's business block, Peoria, 111., $100,000; two grain elevators, Toronto, $255,000; the Mappes Hotel and other buildings, Belmont, Wis., $25,000; several manufactories, San Francisco, $125,000; a business block at Uvalde, Tex., $15,000; two hotels, Goodwin, Dakota, $17,000; a warehouse, Minneapolis, Minn., $20,000; the round-house of tho Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Leadville, Colo., $00,000; several business houses, Searcy, Ark., $20,000; a livery stable and six residences, Pueblo. Colo., $20,000; Howe's planing mill. Bull alp,, N. Y., $25,000; a warehouse and other property, Nashville, Tenn., $20,000; a brick block, Alliance, Ohio, $50,000; the plumbing goods manufactory of Nelson & Co., St. Louis, Mo., $05,000; a boot and shoe manufactory, Brookfield, Mass., $40.00); flouring mill, Toledo, Ohio, $20,000; Pfeil & Gotz's lithographic works, Camden, N. J., $60,000; an II warehouse, Niagara Falls, $10,000; the principal business section of Lonoke, Ark., $00,000; Swan's restaurant, Detroit, Mich., $30,000; a business block, Jackson, Miss., $25,000; Crocker's general store, Mount Pleasant, Ontario, $30,000; the Pearl flouring mills, South Toledo, Ohio, $30,000; Niblaok's flouring mill at Kockports, Ind., $15,000; W. H. Fcsdiek's fine residence at Stamford, Conn., $o0,000. During January fires in tho United States destroyed property valued at $12,000,000, $10,200,000 alone being burned up in 284 conflagrations. Uhia is the heaviest loss in one month for several years. COMMERCIAL FAILURES. Failures reported by telegraph during the week were as follows; Liabilities. H. W. Perine, dry goods, Bnth, N. Y. .$ 60,000 Perryman & Co., general store, Paris, Ark 25,000 Victoria Felt Works, Montreal 100,000 Oehrlein Bros., jewelry. New York. . ,-. . 30,000 Warren & Co., groceries, Cincinnati. . . . 100,000 Lee & Son, groceries. Allegan, Mian. . , . 25,000 Cox & Bell, general store, Hiflsboro, Tex ;.. 55.000 P. Martcl. tailor. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. . . 23,000 L. Brown, clothing, Allegan, Mich 14,000 Riverside Furniture Co., Wheeling, W. Va 35,000 John Lanvon, general store. Mineral Point, Wis ; 40,000 Smith Bros., dry goods, Linden, Vt. . . . 42,000 Faris, Bishop & Co., clothing, Charleston, DL : 20,000 F. Vonderheide, rope manufr., Cincinnati. 35,000 Blake & Co., grain. Baltimore 25,000 C. H, Thompson, drugs, Lemars, Iowa. 12,000 O. M. Olson fc Co., drugs. Dayton, Iowa 10,000 M. T. Bitterman, dry goods. Junction City. Kan ; f.. ,ooo Henry Monteith & Co., dyers, Glasgow, Scotland. 500,000 W. S. Abbott, publisher, Chicago 20,000 Carrick & Co.. shoes, Boston. loti.OOO W. A. Smith, diamonds. Boston 200.000 GENERAL. The rivers were falling rapidly at Pittsburgh on the 8th inst., but were reported still rising at Wheeling- and Cincinnati. At Wheeling thousands of people were sheltered in public hails and FChool-housts. Several dwellings had been carried away, and the financial loss was placed at $1,500,000. Tbe pas was cut off and the water supply was threatened. In Allegheny and Pittsburgh the loss is estimates at $3,000,000; it will be weeks after the water recede before some of the mills resumo wcrk. , Ten schoolhouses in Cincinnati were occupied by the sufferers, who were well cared lor. At Lawrenceburg and Aurora. Ind.. and Catlettsburg. Ky., resi' dents were ouartored in the second stories Of their dwellings, and at Louisville the inundation was not attended with much privation. The destruction of railway and other bridges has been widespread, and travel and business were greatly retarded. The plate-glass works and other factories at New Albany, employing 5,000 persons, were compelled to suspend operations. Tbe Louisville Board of Trade sentout provisions, boats, etc., to the submerged districts. The Ohio Legislature authorized the Comptroller to borrow $50,000 for the relief work. At Shawnee town, III., valuables are being taken to the upper floors. Two hundred families living above Nashville, Tenn., were forced to abandon their homos, and tho drift is exceeding heavy. Casualties affectinsr life are few when compared to the immensity of the deluge. The water at Cincinnati stood at sixty-three feet and was still rising on the 9th inst, and tho suffering was increasing. At Wheeling provisions were becoming scarce and calls were loud for contributions to aid the needy. Wellsburg, W. Va., and some Ohio towns along the river were threatened with famine. At Coshocton, Ohio, the water was twelve inches, and at South Toledo seven inches higher than ever before. Marietta, Ohio, was completely inundated and telegraphic communication cut off. The loss by the flood at Steubenville, Ohio, is estimated' at $500,000. At Benwood, W. Va., a town of 3,000 inhabitants, but six houses were out of water, and Belpre was entirely flooded. Between Evansville and Louisville, along the Ohio River, great destruction was wrought by the flood. Nearly every town on the river shore was inundated, and houses, barns, cribs, outhouses, and fences were swept away. The lots in this stretch of 200 miles, it Is estimated, will aggregate millions of dollars. Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, has ordered that tents be sent to Shawneetown, 111., to shelter the homeless who have fled for safety to high ground. The destruction of property increases with every hour.... in the flooded d'stricts of Wheeling thieves cut holes in the root's of buildings and helped themselves to valuables and portable property Mrs. Waddle was found on a housetop at Newport, Ky., being rendered insane by the belief that her children had perished in the flood. She took up her exalted situation for tbe purpose of "being nearer to Jesus." FOREIGN. Baker Pasha has met El Mahdi in the Soudan, and got a taste of! tho mcdiclnewhich was administered to Hicks Pasha, This second catastrophe made a profound sensation in London, where tho local events of the day tended to magnify its moral effects. As to the military aspect, of the defeat, there is little to say. The Egyptians, upon beholding the Prophet's forces, lay down and yelled for mercy, which they failed to receive. Baker Pasha formed a hollow square and maintained it, afterward making lor the Red Sea with considerable motion. Baker's losses are reported at from 2,000 to 8,000 men.... The British Parliament opened its session on the 5th inst. The Queen's speech announces that an Anglo-American commission is now sitting in Paris to consider the Newfoundland fishery question, and that diplomatic relations with Mexico are in a fair way of being soon resumed. The order for the evacuation of Cairo was recalled in consequence of the Egyptian reverses in the Soudan, and Gen. Gordon has been sent to assist tho Khedive in carrying out a withdrawal. Tho Queen urges the passage of the bills to extend the franchise throughout the United Kingdom, and to reform local government, and states that plans will be prepared to extend municipal government to the whole metropolis, and to repress corruption at elections. French editors are now railing at Great Britain for excluding Europe from the conduct of Egyptian affairs, and then suffering two such extraordinary defeats as have been inflicted by the quack Prophet who is now governing the Soudan Pouches containing 0,000 marks were stolen from a mail oart at Leipsic. Rebels in the provinces of Nam Diuh and Sontay, 'nTonquin, havo beeen dispersed by French troops, and dens of pirates have been broken up. The feeling at Hue is said to be excellent, and tbe King has appointed delegates to assist Admiral Courbet in pacifying the aountry.... France has

offered to co-operate with English forces in Egypt, proposing that her troops be landed at Suakim and march to the relief of Khartoum, the final settlement of the-Sjoundun question to be left to a conference of tho powers; . It appears ftpra-jfche correspondence (now published IffLondon) which preceded the hanging of Patrick O'Donnell that Minister Lowell was personally snubbed as sharply as was the nation which he represents. All of Lord Granville's replies to ex-Lord Rector Lowell were limited to a single sentence, and that sentence in each case only expressed first, the request that the United States mind Its own business; and second, the declaration that Britons never, never, never should be slaves

ADDITIONAL NEWS. A band of 800 Indians reoently attacked and murdered most of the principal inhabitants of Omitlan, in one of the south' era most provinces of Mexico. The stores and dwellings were plundered, and the women and children subjected to brutal outrages. A large force of Mexican soldiers ,hus been dispatched to quell the outrages. An attempt of a civil force to put down the revolutionary mob was defeated with a loss of twenty-five men killed. Detective Giles Brown, who was shot near Horton, Mich., is positive that Judd Crouch was the assassin, and Crouch and his hired man, named McCullum, were taken from their residence and lodged in jail at Jacxson, but were soon released. Crouch claims that he can establish an alibi. The people in the distr.ct are intensely excited. The stage of the Ohio river at Cincinnati, on the morning of the llth inst., was sixty-five feet five inches, still rising, and still raining. A Wheeling dispatch of the llth reports the calamity there as general and appalling. Dwelling houses, many of them formerly costly and handsome residences, have been carried away, overturned or battered to pieces by ice and drift, the debris filling the streets, alleys, and yards being piled in many places twenty feet high. When the Relief Committee took food and clothing to them they almost bad their clotbinir torn from them by the starving inhabitants, everybody crying for the first supply. Several steamers arriving at Wheeling were fired upon, the inhabitants fearing that the waves created by the boats would complete the work of destruction. An unknown woman was drowned by falling from a second-story window into the river. A baby of a family named Lash, on the island, also fell into the water and disappeared from sight, Neither body has been recovered. Many narrow escapes are reported, and doubtless several lives have been lost not yet discovered. Tim McCarty, on the island, lost $2,500 in gold in his house, which was swept away. Many other large sums of money have been lost. The estimate of the total loss in this vicinity on both sides of the river is $6,000,000. Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Association of tbe Red Cross, accompanied by Dr. Hubbell, Special Field Agent of the association, left Washington on the llth InQt, foe the scenes of the floods. She will go first to Pittsburgh and follow the Ohio River down, visiting such places as have suffered. Miss Barton requests that Red Cross societies North will, until further notice, forward supplies to Cincinnati as the central point of distribution. The Governor of West Virginia has telegraphed the Congressional delegation from that State that the work of relief for tbe sufferers by the floods will require $1,000,000. Ges. Grant, according to a Washington correspondent, favors the nomination of Senator Logan for the Proiiidency. He regards him as the most available candidate, a won of ability, courage and integrity. The Illinois Senator, he said, was more a man of the people than Edmunds of Vermont whom he also thought would make a good candidate. Gen. Grant la still couflned to hie bed.... Washington telegram : A prominent Pennsylvania politician says that a quiet movement is on foot in that State to elect delegates to the National Republican Convention who will be pledged to Gen. Logan. Under the rules adopted at the last convention the delegates must be elected by each Congressional district. These delegates will be elected early in March, and he says that a canvass is being made throughout tbe State in the Interest of Gen. Logan. He says that he is satisfied Logan will be nominated. Hot Springs, Ark., was the other day the scene of a bloody affray between two rival factions of gamblers. Three brothers, Frank, Jack, and William Flynn, were proceeding home in a hack, when a body of seven men, armed with double-barreled shot-guns and Winchesters, stepped out from the door of a saloon and opened fire. The Flynns were armed, but the attack was unexpected. Jack Flynn was shot through the forehead by a ball from a Winchester rifle, and died in a few minutes. William Flynn was shot through tho breast with a Winchester, and fatally injured. Frank Flynn received a shot throuf h the hand, inflicting a slight wound. Frank Hall, the driver of the hack, was shot through the back of the neck, and dangerously wounded. R. Hargreave, a bystander, was shot through tho breast and will probably die. J. H. Craig, a prominent lumberman, received a charge of buck.- hot through the back. Hisiujuries will probably prove fatal. Intense excitement prevailed, and there were strong threats of mobbing the prisoners. The seven men were arrested. They are 3. A. Doran, two Pruitt brothers, Howell, and three others. Doran is a man whose record has been one of blood and crime in Tennessee, In Texas, and elsewhere. He has killed several men. THE MARKET. NEW. YORK Beeves , 7.00 7.50 Hogs , 6.23 & 7.oo Floub Superfine a 75 & 3.50 Wheat No. 2 White 1.02 & 1.04 No. i Red 1.07 & I.llJjj Corn No. 2. 61 & .6i Oats--No. 2. 40 & .12 Pouk Mess 16.25 )16.75 Laud .10 CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fancy Steers.. 0.75 7.60 Common to Fair. 6.00 7.00 Medium to Fair S.OO , 5.7o Hoos 6.00 (S 7.25 Ftoun -Fancy White Winter Ex 8.25 5.7.5 Good to Choice Winter. . 5.00 & 5.75 Wheat No. 2 Sprint: 02 g .08 No. 2 lied Winter. 99 & l.Oi COBN No. 2 52 0$ .54 OATS NO. 2 332SS .35 Ilyn ho. 2 68 & .60 Uakley No 2 62 B .64 Butter Choice Creamery 30 .33 Egos Fresh .38 & .40 Point Mess 16.75 17.25 Labs usfcei ,w MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 02 .93 Corn No. 2 .62 .'4 Oats No. 2 32 & .34 Rye No. 2 65 .67 BAUTJ3Y No 2 69 & .61 Pork Mess , 17.00 17.50 LABD 9.25 (31 0.75 sr. louis. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.05 & LOO Corn Mixed 40 & .60 Oats No. 2 34 & .35 Bye f3 (B .55 Pobk Mess 17.60 tU8.00 LABD 09 & .09J4 CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Red I.02 1.04 Corn..,.. c$ A'i Oats .36 & .37 RYE 63 (iQ .64 Pork Mess 17.25 (S17.75 Lard 09 & .09a TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 98 1.02 Corn No 2 63 t9 .55 Oats-No. 2 34 & .36 DETROIT. Flour 5.25 & 6.50 Wheat No. 1 White 1.02 & 1.03 Corn No. 2 55 W ,66 Oats Mixed 36 .37 PORK Mess M.OO al8.50 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT NO. 2 Red.... 1.03 1.03 Corn No. 1 48 & .49 Oats Ijixed 36 s$ .36 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTTE Best 6.25 7.25 Fair 6.50 & 6.2". Common 4.75 $ 6.75 Hoos fi.so & 7.00 Sheep 4.75 & 5.25

i ANCIENT MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

Curious Ceremonies Formerly Prvoleut at : occasionMly rjsad of aa:oljnarriag4 custom 0 Enjjgian in $bi the bride appeared at ohhrch' n single, long white garment. ' this ' practice had ta origin in the popular and erroneous notion that the husband was not answerable for the debts of his wife, who came to him thus insufficiently clad, . even as patient Griselda was clothed when she was turned out of the place of her Marquis. The reasoning which caused the error is obvious. It being a legal doctrine, laid down in Bacon's "Abridgement, that a husband was answerable for his wife's debts because he acquired an absolute interest iu her personal estate, it was inferred by the populace that if he acquired no property with her, he could not be compelled to satisfy the claims of her creditors. Hence it comes to pass that now and then grooms of the rudest and stupidest kind, bent on .securing themselves against one of the legal consequences of marriage, insisted that their brides should, by their insufficient dress at the church porch, give a practical demonstration of their utter want of wordly wealth. Nor were these exhibitions of women, shivering in white sheets in the open air like creatures doing penance in the public ways, peculiar to the qualified barbarian of our feudal period. Both in London and in the provinces such marriages now and then scandalized decent spectators as late as the earlier years of the eighteenth century. One of them is recorded in the parish register of Chitten, All Saints, Wiltshire, under date of October 16, 1714, and another took place November 8, 1725, at Uleomb, Kent. Mr. John Southerden Burn mentioned another that occurred in the purlieus of the London Fleet about 150 years ago, but the offensive practice altogether disappered in the earlier days of the period of the four Georges. The question now and then arises, have there been similar cases in this country ? In the first book of marriage records in the town of Warwick, in this State, may be found the following entry: These are to signin unto all ministers of Justice that henry Straight, Jur of East Greenwich, in ye Colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations Took Mary Webb, of ye Town of Wurwick, in the Colony aforesaid. Widow, in only a shirt and no other Garment, in ye presence of Amos Goiton, Mary Collins and PresiUah GrandalL. and was Lawfully Married in s'd Warwick ye first of August, 1725, by me. John Warnee, Justice. Recorded ye 5th of November, 1725, for John Wickes, T. 0 Through the courtesy of Town Clerk J. B. Pierce, of Wickford, and Mr. James N. Arnold, of Hamilton, Rhode Island, I am enabled to give three similar records, as follows : Non-ra Kingston, March 26th dav, 1730. Then Rebecca Downinsr, beinsr in the kurhway, and she had no clothing on but her shift, took Thomas Eldratto be her husband, and he took her to be his wife, and leu her across the highway, and were married before me. Wtixiam Spencer, Justice. Thomas Culverwell was Joined in marriage to Abigail, his wife, the 5S.dJay of February, 1719-20. He took her in marriasre after she had gone four times across the highway in only her shift and hair lace, and no other clothing. Joyned together in marriage by me, UEoiiuE jhazabu, Justice. To all people whom it may concern : This may certify that Nathaniel Bnndy, of West erly, took ye widow Mary Palmeter, of s'd town, in ye highway, with no other clothing but shifting or smocking on ye evening1 of ye 20th day of April, 1724, and was joined together in that honorable state of matrimony in the present John Corey, Peter Curdall, George Stillman, Mercy Hill; and was joined together a3 above on je day and year aDOYe mentioned, cyme, John Saunders, Justice. Registered ye 27th day of April, 1724, per John liabcock, town cleric Three points are noticeable in the above records viz. : 1. The "undress uniform" of the bride; 2. The taking her after crossing the highway ; and 6, in the last, the fact that the ceremony was performed in the evening. Some friend has suggested an indistinct recollection of a ceremony performed in the house, the bride attired in the manner of "old Mother Eve" before the fall, standing in a closet and reaching out her hand to be joined m marriage. An other suggestion has been made that, of the three records last evening, eacn ceremony was performed in the evening and by the roadside. Mr. Hamilton suggests that the ceremony is symbolical, and gives the idea that the woman is taken without home or clothing, eoming as she does from the highway, and therefore brings nothing with her which a sheriff might consider attachable under color of law. The husband gives her clothing, credit, and a home that she be not again brought to such dire necessity. Can anyone give other records of a similar nature, and cau and will anyone give more light on this obslete custom of colonial times? Providence Press. Interviewing Her Pa. "Now that we are engaged," said Miss Pottleworth, "come and let me introduce you to papa." "I believe that I have met him," replied young Spiokle. "But in another capacity than that of son-in-law." "Yes er, but I'd rather not meet him to-night. "Oh, you must," and despite the almost violent struggles of the young fellow, he was drawn into the library where a large, red-faced man, with a squint in one eye, and enlargement of the nose, sat looking over a lot of papers. "Father," said the girl. "Huh," he replied, without looking up. "I wish to present you " "What?" he exclaimed, looking up and catching sight of young Spickle. Have you the impudence to follow me here? Did'nt I tell you that I would see you to-morrow?" "Why, father, you don't know Mr. Spicle, do you?" "I don't know his name, but d him I know that he has been to my office three times a day for the past week with a bill. I know him well enough. I can't pay that bill to-night, young man. Come to my office to-morrow." "I hope," said Spickle, "that you do not think so ill of me. I have not come

to collect the bill you Jave, but - gf "The devil! .j&otinoth nr "You mrsiste in 'raw ratanding; me.X I did ijotjcpmib col oan-oome ipmomwjnpa a that?. Torniffht'rl or0! on about to your daughter, and have been accepted. Our mission is to acquaint you of the fact and ask your consent to our marriage.' "Well." said the old fellow, "is that all? Blamed if I didn't think you bad a bill. Take the girl, if that's what you want ; but say, didn't I tell you to bring the bill to-morrow?" "Yes, sir." "Well, you needn't, One relations are different nW. Wish hid a daughter for every biu-colleetor town." Ark. Traveler. in Science and Religion, While the beliefs to which analytic science thus leads, says Herbert Spencer in the Popular Science Monthly, are such as do not, destroy the objectmatter of religion, hut simply transfigures it, science under its concrete forms enlarges the sphere for religion sentiments. From the very beginning the progress of knowledge has been accompanied by an increasing capacity for wonder. Among savages, the lowest are the least surprised when shown remarkable products of -civilized art, astonishing, the traveler bythek indifference. And so little of the marvelous do hey preeeive in the grandest phenomena of nature that any inquiries, concerning them they regard as childish trifling. This contrast in mental attitude between the lowest human beings and the higher human beings around, us is paralleled by the contrasts among the grades of these higher human beings themselves. It is not the rustic, nor the artesian, nor the trader, who sees something more than a mere matter of course in the hatching of a chick ; but it is the biologist, who, pushing to the uttermost his analysis of vital phenomena, reaches his greatest perplexity when a speck of protoplasm tinder the microscope shows him life in its simplest form, and makes him feel that however he formulates its processess the actual play of forces remain unimaginable. Neither in the ordinary tourists nor in the deer-stalker climbing the mountains above him does a highland glen rouse ideas beyond those of sport or of the picturesque ; but it may, and often does, in the geologist. He, observing that the glacier-rounded rock he sits on has lost by weatheringbut half an inch of its surface since a time far more remote than the beginnings of human civilization, and- then trying to conceive the slow denundation which has cut out the whole valley, has thought of time and of .power to which they are strangers thoughts which, already utterly inadequate to their objects, he feels to be still more futile on noting the contorted beds of gneiss around, which tell him of a time, immediately more remote, when far beneath the earth's surface they were in a half-melted state, and again tell him of a time, immediately exceeding this in remoteness, ' when thei eompmente were sand aud mud on the shores of an ancient sea. Nor is it in the primitive people who supposed that the heavens .. rested on the mountain tops, any more than in the modern inheritors of their cosmogony who repeat that "the heavens declare the glory of God," that we find the largest conceptions of the universe, or the greatest amount of wonder excited by contemplation of it. Bather, it is in the astronomer, who sees in the sun a mass so vast that even into one of his spots our earth might be plunged without touching its edges; and who by every finer telescope is shown an increased multitude of such suns, many of them far larger. Popular Science Monthly. A Bice Plantation in Japan. My curiosity to see a rice plantation has been abundantly gratified. They are as numerous as the Chinese, and even less inviting in appearance. They are usually very small, a quarter of an acre constituting a good sized field. These fields are of all imaginable shapes and are usually created by means of irrigation. Flat land is selected, which is then inundated with slush, so that it ' shall really constitute a swamp. Here the seed is planted in June, and the crop is reaped in November. The cultivation is almost always by hand, men and women wading through the slime, which is often knee deep, and carefully plucking every weed. Bice is the staple product here, even the revenues being estimated in tliis grain. Thereare ucarly a dozen different varieties. The farmers soak the seed until it is nearly ready to sprout, and then scatter it thickly in basins that are flooded every night thereafter and allowed todry off during the day. When the brilliant green plants are heavily manured, which adds to the unsavory appearance and smell of the plantation. When the plants are about three inches high,, which is in about six weeks after the planting, the farmers transplant them, putting them in bunches about a foot apart, the bunches forming rows which are also about a foot apart. At least three times during the process of growth it is necessary for the farmers, to turn out and "puddle" the forthcoming crop, an operation which signifies the removal of all the tangled weeds and aquatic plants which are solicitous of growing in the black water. This water has to remain until the rice is ripe, when the field is dried off. Fields are very successfully formed by the terracing of sloping gronud, in which event the process of irrigation is facilitated. In the case of fields on the plains it is necessary to. raise water from a main canal into more elevated ditches by means of a portable treadmill pump. This apparatus resembles, a large paddle-wheel, and is operated by a coolie, who iudustriously ascends its floats. The average crop per acre is from thirty to fifty-five bushels of the grain. Cor. Jew Orleans TimesDemocrat. 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