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NEWS SUMMARY.
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General Booth, N of the York Salvation Eu¬
Army, sailed from ew to
rope.
Serious charges of the are St. made Louis of cruelty Insane
to inmates
Asylum.
George J. West, counsel for “Doc"
Wilson in the Moen suits, has with¬
drawn from the case.
Rufus K. Garland, brother of the
attorney 1'iescott, general, Arkansas. died Monday morn*
ing at
Mayor 0*Brien, fair of Boston, was re¬
elected Republican by and a labor plurality over the
candidates.
In a six-hour trial trip at Fortress
Monroe, made Va., tlie fourteen United States steamer hour.
Dolphin knots an
The supreme court of Ohio has
affirmed tlie constitutionality of the
Dow liquor-tax law in all its features.
Gratiot Washburne. a son of Elihu
B. Washburne, of Chicago, dropped
dead Friday in- the Galt house at Louis¬
ville.
England lias decided to reduce the
standing and tbe army of of occupation Egypt to 10 , 001 half ) inen that
army to
number.
William Reed, ex-treasurer of the
South lias Boston pleaded (Mass.) guilty of railroad embezzling com¬
pany, $160,000.
The schools at Pittsfield, Ill., have
been closed because of scarlet fever.
There are twelve cases and two victims
have died.
Ida Baldridge, has of Greenburg, Penn¬
sylvania, bing the maiis been while arrested her father ior rob¬
was
postmaster. grand
The federal jury at St. Louis
lias returned indictments against fifty
citizens for frauds perpetrated at tlie
late election.
Hillsboro, Hugh McCiislin, Illinois, a pioneer settler of is
92 years of age,
struggling with whooping-cough for
the second time. ,
caned Congressman-elect Belleville (Ill.) Jehu Baker, who lias
pleaded a guilty of assault and reporter, lias been
fined ffcj and costs.
I The dairy commissioner of Iowa
states that he has thus far failed to find
adulterations in samples of butter
fresh from the farms.
Marshall P. Wilder, one of the fore¬
most died Thursday nomologists Hoxbury, of the United States,
at Massachu¬
setts, at the age of 86.
* Eleven hundred coopers in Cincin¬
nati and Riverside quit work Tuesday
because tiieir scale of prices was not
signed by the proprietors.
The domestic servants at Green
ville, advancement Pa., have of formed a Objectionable union tor the
employers will be wages. boycotted.
The re-election of T. J. Vail as Sec¬
retary of the National Trotting Asso¬
ciation lias been received with con¬
siderable dissatisfaction.
One of the district largest iron mines in tbe
Negaunee three hundred tons is arranging of daily to ship to
ore
Cleveland by rail during tlie winter.
Mgr. Capel proposes to bring suit
for damages against the San Francisco
Aryonaut and certain eastern papers
for' the slanders circulated with regard
to him. governor
C. M. Cros ©c , twice of
Michigan, ex. of *Vor
.M-Mie age 61. many
’ ida r! T . 51.
The agriculii.ial department has
telegraphed Dr Texas Paaren, of Chicago,
to proceed to and investigate
the cases alleged to be pleuro-pueu
monia.
G. J. Foreacre, one of (lie division
superintendents of the Baltimore and
Ohio road, formerly major of tlie 7th
Georgia regiment, died at Newark,
Ohio.
By the explosion of a boiler in the
saw-mill of Charles Iiogenberth, at
Evansville, Indiana, received one man was
killed and seven others severe
injuries. stock
Delegates from the live ex¬
change of Chicago, Kansas City, St.
Louis and Omaha met ai St. Louis and
decided to form a National Live Stock
Exchange. with the
Terms having been made knitting
Knights of Labor, eleven Monday at
mills Cohoes resumed New York, operations after lockout of
a
nine weeks.
The eushion-cavrotn billiard-match
“Friday of 560 points, evening for in Chicago $2,000 a side, by Schaefer played
and Slosson, was won by the former,
by 70 points. sale of thoroughbreds in
At the the
progress at Lexington, 1880. Ky., brought Fonso, $7,800,
Derby winner of
and Grimaldi was taken by a Chica¬
goan at$3 6 (0. . ,
Andrew J. Wightman. the couvicted private
detective at New York who of was blackmail recently in the Sears
divorce case, was sentenced to three
years’ imprisonment.
Friends of tlie late General Hancock
contributed sufficient money to pur¬
chase a home for his widow. At her
desire a residence in Washington will
be placed in her name.
William Ried. treasurer of the South
Boston railroad, who embezzled $80,-
718 and issued 1.263 shares of fraudu¬
lent stock, has beeu sentenced to state
prison for seven years.
Charles Robinson, one of the earliest
governors of Kansas, has been industrial appoint¬
ed school superintendent for Indians at of Lawrence, the Arthur
Grobouaks having resigned. London,
Sir John founded Lister Kaye, of with
having a cattle company
a capital of $5,500,000, Pacific is negotiating road for
•with the Canadian
large blocks of laud near Calgary.
Bobu, the only two-horned rhinoc¬
eros in tbe in New United Orleans States, for the lately Central pur¬
chased menagerie ia New York, has
park installed in his new quarters.
heen state committee of
The democratic the resignation of J udge
Iowa accepted him gold-headed
Kinne, gave a L. cane, IL
and elected as his successor
Hunter, treasurer of Adams county.
‘ Carl Mussfeldt, one of the Milwau¬
kee rioters whose sentence was recent¬
ly suspended behavior, by Judge has Sloan been on arrested prom¬
ise of brutal good assault upon his father,
dor a Standard Oil has voted
i The company
new works will be larger than the
Eelinee works, which employ 40G men.
: on an order from the California
■ on society, large numbers of
and “Bob White" quails to
i from San Antonio
where they are unknown.
lion of the Chicago and
n road to Deadwood may
om tbe Introduction of a
ess to grant Meade a right of way
Fort military re-
won City Derrick of Pittsburg,
have bee^written bv the notoriouanex
EyaftSfr press robber, “Jim" Cummings, ww-A»* dated
-
On M«owt of U* delay In equip
ping tugs foi the purpose, the harbor
wH or 'the* sraaLm the* pro ject rftoS
ing the St. Lawrence river open to
navigation.
Six theaters in operation in New
the"worirsi.^^ce'tlie tne worst since the wir war. C- Audfences Auaiences
of less than one hundred are frequent
ly seen in a house with capacity for
two Uiousana.
The jury in the second trial of ex
Alderman McQuade, charged with re
ceiving a lirfiie m connection with the
verdict SSSi“3“5S" of miiltv
veroict or guilty
1 lie people of Worcester, Massachu
setts, voted m favor or liquor licenses,
and elected Samuel John Winslow, It. lhayer. repub
Itcan, mayor, over each poll for
IV omen worked all day at
til. ce.„pe,»„»»„»,.
1 he extradition of J. J. Hoke, the
defaultmg book-keeper of Peoria, III
mom was ordered Wednesday at
Montreal by Judge Dugas. Ilokes
counsel gave notice of application for
awritol habeas corpus.
The official canvass of the vote cast
in Iowa at the recent election give the
ltepubiiean candidates Pray, majorities clerk of rang- the
ing from H.342 for
Supreme court, to 16.0)1 for Lbersole,
Supreme court reporter. by
Payment has been suspended Asli ham,
Charles Winchester, of burn
Massachusetts, who lumber lias been investing south
lieavily in western and
eni pine lands. He hopes to resume
through an extension.
Willie Arnold, the young son of a
leading Citizen of Reading, home Pennsyl- Last
vania, is oil his way from
Stroiisburg. He disappeared some
weeks ago, and it was thought he had
been kidnaped for ransom.
The Floyd County Savings bank at
Charles City, Iowa has been seized by
tlie sheriff on an attachment sued out
bv the directors against Cashier Ros
tine, who is charged With taking $20,
000 and absconding to Europe.
connected A swindler, with representing the geological himself as
been operating survey
at Washington, has for
throughout the western country
four years, generally using the name
of Captain Clarence E. Dutton.
Tim circuit court at Indiananolia
ES» ernorship. t ^SftSi Tlie case will immediately 8 ft'.
be taken before the supreme court.
A iiirv in Si Louis awarded S‘2.5 000
damages “ V to stfee Mrs Juliet Cunningham 1C
against a suee. .car cai comDanv company 101 for in
juries received of colliding by jumping with Horn a car at
ill danger a tram
tlie Fourth and Poplar streets cross
iug.
After the appointment tlieVabash hv Judge
Gresham of a receiver for
road, the bondholders who recently
scored a victory at Chicago will bring
suit against the Missouri Pacific com
panv to compel a settlement with the
Wabash Inmill’
Jacob Twinimf 1 Wining, who wlio poi.foaaod confessed that tliat
lie qnd two other men had formed *
has plot ; to burn held the for City true. of iindlaw Pf illiain
'been
a' to® '' •’ *>ave >eeu
atacuargea.
A letter written to a New lork
family his gratitude by Jeff tor Davis, attentions expressing to his
daughter, confederate called out an invitation to
the chieftain to come
norfli and get some new new ideas iueas about auoui
OIU enemies.
I lie will of Mrs. \V lieller, of Cleve*
land, with whose murder her husband
is charged, gives 1he greater part of
$175 000 to Thomas E Shaw, of Bir
mincliam *obnmVnc« England l’ronertv valued
at «♦ $A).000goes to in the tlie Western VYestera Iteseive Reserve
acliool of Design.
The Mexican consul at New lork
lias called the attention of the United
era for Cutting’s Mexican expedition.
Boyton lias sailed for New Orleans eu
route for \ era Cruz.
A railway collision in Dayton, through Ohio,,
sent alocoruoiive running mile wild minute.
the city at the rate of a a at
lt passed through the union depot
the exhausted highest known rate of speed, and
itself at a point on tlie track
ten miles in the country.
Judge Gresham's decision in the
Wabash litigation and the scathing receiv
rebuke he administered to the
ers have given intense satisfaction at
St. Louis, where monopoiv Gould and bis agents trans
hold a complete of the
portatiou business on both sides of the
river.
Judge Gresham has appointed Judge
Thomas M. Coolev ot Michigan, re
November. XSrfwSS.'n.SVib.SS Jay Gould refuses to
ex
press an opinion in regard to the new
appointee. the in
The Sweeney law. compelling corporations in
corporation of foreign Wednesday by
lowa was sustained body,
tlie htnveverfdeclarhm Iowa Supreme 6 court that
of magnitude thatthe that it ought qitestion to be is
such Su
considered court. by the United States
preme renresenting tlie
Ghicatro attornevR
International Carbenters’ Workbiamen^ijauevol- union and
«! the Bohemian W r5raSfy!i state’s attorney, r .„a
ed from the mayor, the of
and the chief of police the return
certam red flags and books seized last
-Mav ? hv the police
1 xPast 1 ^ RniUninre that
General Master fiVknrn Workman Iowdeiiy Powdedv
has ordered all Knights of Labor as
semblies to withdraw their delegates trades
from federation of trades or be
assemblies. This action is said to
1 he Calumet Hotel, P*im.
Minn., Chicago, owned by burned Mr. Wednesday
was
morning. The Rev. A. S. Orcutt, a
Baptist clergyman, was killed by fall
ing walls, and David McCullough and
?£SssioSr»na ,reund “ L
Ihe linaucial lossis $45.U00. l
workers A convention of the <, uMSL“SA“ January
held at Pittsburg, Pa., throughout 4, to
establish uniform wages
the country disbanding and to complete their national arrange¬
ments for or¬
ganization prior to going into the
Knights of Labor as a body.
1 A minority of the bondholders of the
Wabash system applied to the federal
court at Toledo property for an in order Ohio placing in the
the hands company’s of T. M. Cooley, who has accept¬
ed the receivership for the Chicago
division. As objection was made, tbe
«££ took lhe under ad * iae '
At Greenyille, Alabama, Tuesday
morning. Mayor l erry anu
SSSSf^SS gSJJ, WUPMS
w jth brass knuckles; the other was in
*** “ ay °‘' ^ ^
JiLfiila Tll „ r«ii«f mmmittPB of rimrleaton V ,‘,24 o^
^ „ 0 k ”°tT.JXralpufflB , „t the of SB
ers ' rom .J?««W ake * Al i er T
complete garving $86,169 of ilie remainder to
the repairing of houses, the
gum of $100,000 will be aid deposited in rebuilding wi,h
the city treasurer to
charitable insiitutions.
G f Rice, au exte usive oil refiner
#t Mar etta q 110 , )ias brougit suit for
vine SSKS anu-Xasiiviiie t?ffiSi.*SShS. i anway U roi for L nin , 5
shut out ot tne southern markets by
aii unlsiwftil conspiracy beiween the
road named and tlie Standard Oi com
j„ my . He asks discrimination for an injunction steadily
Uie
nraetieed ‘T
W V«d«Mlt. for the Nickel
Plate railway, lias filed at Erie an an
swe r to the bill of the Central Trust
cornpa „ y 0 f New York, in which he
repudiates the bond issue of $14,66 ).66d
a s made without adequate consilient
tion. He also alleges that there
been no lawful consolidation of th*
various state corporations forming the
Nickel-Plate company.
Paul Grottkau was arraigned before
the municipal court at Milwaukee
tf Monday German for contempt in publishing libel- in
ing Judge paper Sloan. a poem Edward grossly Loew, pri
vaie secretary of the accused, sent to
the court a letter avowing Ins sole
responsibility for the poem, and when
the sheriff endeavored to arrest him it
was found that he had gone to Chi
:ago.
3en. Ebenezer Grant’s Holmes, funeral, the has undertaker brought at
a
Jamage suit for $25,000 against the
New York 2\mes, the based upon an arti
;le published in issue of Nov. 22,
In which his bill is referred to as un
|ust and baseless, and charges are
made that he was dr unk and in an un
fit condition tlie to perform during professional which hiS—
services for time!
claims he was rendering service.
In consequence (of disagreements
having arisen between district assern
bly No. 49, Kniglus Uf Labor, and the
Central Labor unions, of New York,
the leaders of the former body sent out
a proposition to withdraw tlie knights’
in tio/of withdraw
mg, torty-uve non-committall opposted and it, that ana the twenty
were movement will op
ponents of the refuse
to withdraw'their general delegates and will
appeal to the iut<initnhsi. executive board.
?i 9 ™L fc ^^4,?aion rnad hnvA
located the western \extensiou at ioic
Assinibom. 1 !
The complaint for in the suit of George
H. Tilden the construction of cer
tain clauses in the will of his uncle,
btniuel J. Tiiden, has
Cartel & Ledy aid. tii e attorneys rot
the executors and tri siees unaei me
will The clauses cal ed in question
ar& those providing for the establish
tnenfc of libraries and free reading
to rn „ n m ,u " Vow Lebanon diansioivNe|\ Yonkers, ami
^lr ^ r»ark WmtlJll
.|A r a- IheUomtisasKeu isasked losav lo.av . (j® I
a
to the lieirs-at-law for the property re
maining after tlie special trusts are
provided for. Tlie document estimates
the estate at $15,000,000.
r wn 11 'ii>Im f..,., nfir vJ lv assistant
postmaster of f Ilamburg. Ia., I i was was
brought before Comuiissionei Shields, indict
meut 0 f New found York, against Monday, him on about an two
years ago. charging him with convert
j „Jot, ... own use about $200 of the
-office huSnfcrlnibecame^known monev Brown left Ham
burg when shipped his Pilfering boaid ueca of sailing
and lie on lie visited a Liver
vease i as seaman, filial
pool, t then xveut to Australia, China. and Hear
v managed to reach
rived on the ship Ropes, which is dis
SS^raoST udwiien He Commissioner was arrested,
a taken before
shields made a confessiou. lie was
handed over to tlie officers from Iowa
and will be taken there for trial.
Jt is now stated that the real cause
for the summoning of Dr. McGlynn lias to
Rome is the attitude which lie
maintained on the school question for
nearly twenty years, in opposition to
the wishes and teachings ot the bovei
ign the l’ontiff and Catholic the recommendation episcopacy of of
whole only, it said,
America. He has not is
refused to build a parish school where
the matter was optional, but since the
denary Comicil of Baltimore decide
that this duty was to be incumbent t
upon every pastor, lias stood alone in
opposing tlie injunction. several Complaints
were sent to the pope years ago
dSTmhl." promise fiovemeuts never of the to kind.
meudle in any
Henry M. Stanley, the African ex
plorer, now in New York, lias received
a cablegram irom the King of Belgium
ordering him to return at once. Mr.
Stanley was also further advised that
this unexpected P summons is occasion
ed bv the Uxmble with the predatory A
Arabs m the i iee Congo State,.
band of Ai-abs undw Ben Mohammed,
emboldened by the absence ot fetan ev
have entered the x ree Congo otate Stanley ai.u
massacred the garrison at
Falls. At every village where they
gjgj killed and the „fr;Se»"and‘c"uS \ b
cwned^away. Ihe Arabs , number mim e r
to check their advance, nut without vviwiqut
success. “1 am well acquainted with
Beu Mohammed,” said Stanley, hav ;
*7 known him since 1875, when x
de a contract ® with him to accom
uh a o{ men f or I fifty
\Ve are a good friends, and pie
v r Aprvnid wants me to co
Just What He Wanted.
-——
“Say, mister, ain’t you the orator 4
man w fi a t made a speech bumpkin to us yister
d . v? >> as ked a country of a
“I have that honor,” was the reply.
:% , s=s5 r r„ h “jfbS ld j..
ub .
you ask?”
“Whv, you said that you made the
finger, SSlA^g&SLBS and there ain’t any big enough,
and 1 thought as how I would come to
ner, and it’ll take lots of welkin to
make one big enough fur tier.”— Nete
mon lndcpendoti. _
WASHINGTON NEWS.
ixmis K Church, of the supreme court of
Dakota, has been nominated governor of
*%S£SZ »»» —
New Mexico, ill * price to be $2.50 per acre.
Site? of tef friends as a
being strongly urged by ins
candidate for the vacant Turkish mis
D .£«
<riie siiipmeuts of fraction»l silver coin
since Dec. l amount to $2 8,328.
A statement was published to the effect
that Secrectary Maiming and Attnriiey
General Garland will shortly retire from
cUm4 hi Jv‘«,%£!? ot afv* nroblbie P
l.is cvbmet
Tin, M ot tin, Hnnn.oln c,n»l r,
cognize the fact that the board ofen
e r.s' renorf while favorable to the
canal in some form, is so opposed to tne
canal that lias been talked about that it is
an obstacle to their success but Senator'Gill- at present..
They are not discouraged, ill have hopes
Join and Gen. Hen lerson s
gS»WtUrSi.* canal, have not ,, ArSSa yet deter
of the however,
mined on au v course of action.
Thomas E. Benedict, of New Voik, has be
been nominated by the President t>
Public Printer, Dabney R.Maury, of Vir
gima, to he envov extr.ior.hnary and lain
]>Jen i po,,eiit,iaiy^ to the l. tHi i ic it
.
a,!?™ WiMnikd i „.i™,; v-m ">r Iloorheke Soutl.era of
n the
District Illinois. George W. Surveym’-Geii- Julian, of in
dlana. was nominated to be
eral of New Mexico. Robert W. Ross, of
Illinois, was nominated to be recorder of
the general land off! e.
the national drill and encampment.
The executive committee gives notice
that the national drill ami May encampment
will take place in this city 33■ to sa
Yf ^ *-Ji'i'oi expeL-s.' tl. insm- Vim
paymont of prizes and Entries
will be open for the regular army and the
organized volunteer militia of the United
States for competition as regiments, bat
tations, or companies, in infantry,artillery,
cavalry, and zoinve tactics, and also to
schools. The prizes
aggregate $26 500 of which «10.500 will be
distributed among follows: the live First best prize. companies $5,000;
of infantry as third, $1,5JO; fourth, $1,
second, Ooo; fifth, $3,.50i); fcoo.
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congressional.
-
senate.
dec. 13.—Mr. Morrill’s resolution declar
ing it impracticable to make a proper re
vision of the tariff at the present session
(5?Mi?Sf materials not
the free list such raw as were
produced in this country. The Senator
criticised tlie Secretary of and the taking Treasury for
coming into the field an ad
vanced position on the tariff, thus causing
increased apprehension and alarm in all the
great industries of the country. The prop
osition for removing said, the duty on raw ina
terial, Mr. Dawes did not even meet
the approval of manufacturers for whose
benefit it was suggested. Mr. McPherson
on sugar, and predicteU that, with Unit
duty retained, nine-tenths of the sugar
consumed in tliis country wouid be i>ro
dueed here. He favored a fair revision of
tlie lariff and an immediate one. Mr. Mor
nil moved the reference of his resolution
to the finance committee. 1 his Mr. Reek
opposed, and hoped the House would pass
some tariff measure so as to bring the ques
before tlie Senate in some practical
question and show that protectionists m-rl
merely robbing the laborers whom they
were pretending to befriend, 1 he resolu
tion was then laid over.
Dec. 1L—Hie benate took up the tenure
ofiollloe bill, whicli was attacked by Mr.
Edmunds, tlie Senator declaring that tlie
measure had been brought forward in ap
pu rent aid of the Democratic party and to
relieve the President of tlie difficulties now
attending removals and suspensions. It
was an invitation to linn to make short
work of the whole civil service business, al L
»" ,J to ex ' ,el trom at 0l ‘ ce 10
officers who were within , the purview of the
statute. If the Senate voted to repeal that
statute it would make a mistake which it
would long regret. Mr. Hoar supported
tne hill. It seemed to him to betotally in
consistent witu the constitutional theory of
8we4 e to°tlm4responsib%t4 11 w4'n d
' iimtru
, a euts wore forced upon him against his
wil | t 0 rlu whom he had no confidence,
At 3 p. m. without action on the bill, the
doors were closed, and tlie Senate lu secret
executive session 'large referred numbers to appropriate of nomina
committees the
res <lei,t ' andsUort *
y Tlie Senate committee finance ordered
on
favorable report on the bill for tiie re
demption and coinage providing of tlie trade that dollar, tlie
V ith amendments
amounts redeemed shall not exceed $500,000
monthly, ami that it shall be counted as a
part,of the monthly purchase ot bullion for
Among the memorials presented from to the the
« onate was one by Mr. Spooner r
(j erman Aid Society of Wisconsin ex
p ress mg the idea that there was no further
necessity for stimulating immigration to
gug(?es ti nE: f| l0 enactment of laws making
* a iuralizatiou and suffrage conform to a
uniform standard.
D ec. 15.-Mr. Platt called up his resolu
tj oa tiiat executive nominations shall here
after be considered in open sessioii, except the
wheu otherwise ordered by a vote of
ufapons.i^anTinsertiug ‘ ‘•'reciprocity treaties, in lieu so-called.” thereof the He
vort i s objection change. Mr.
no to that
c fi arac terized the amendment Hoar as a
case moved ot - “Greeks lay bearing resolution gifts.’* the Mr. table.
to the 'lUu on
<r«m tw
Bath ^ board °f^. of trade against the admission
r built sllipa t0 registry. Mr. Cul
iom offered the conference and report on notice the
}, interstate commerce bill gave
jat would call it up next Tuesday, adjouru
, V hen it mieht go over the holiday
ment tor discussion. utii bill prohibiting
Mr. Beck called up the
senators or Representatives from actmg
cs attomeys for subsidized railroad coin
panics, the question being on the substitute
^) KC i6.—Mr. Edmunds addressed, the
. opposition to the bill to
Vnate to-day in of
t s,>en }J the tenure office act and
r . George made a constitutional
historical argument in favor of the bill,
Mr. Evarts said that he would vote for
tss^si wxws.hs; judgments, where the
an srgswwa^ss'&ssss t wo concurrent
„enso witli, and by wnose action the presi-
2snt could not accomplish his duty.
^ permit their the owners to of American the government vessels
IssSSEF*® ana cargoes sue
eaUiius *®Mr. Van Wyck tccretarvof called up War his resolution for inter
on dm
psszssg the improvement of Van the V\yek Missouri thereo- Tivr.
Alter remarks by Mr.
ation was adopted. made special order for . _ hB ««
The Senate January a of the bid "
second relief Tuesday of settlers in and purchaseoot
the and Kansas adjoitng
lands in Nebraika Joseph Kaitroad,
tin. Denver & St. upthe
Dec. 17.—The Senate to-day took
MU to repeal tlie tenure-ot-omce act,ma
without further discussion the bill vas
passed-yeas 30, nays 32. Messrs. Chce,
Iloar, Mitchell (Ore.) and Ingalls, ofthe
tiepublicans, voting With the Democats
tor its repeal. Among the House the bil hilhexteneng s passe'hy
the Senate were cities, vili ares
the free boroughs delivery containing system to lx»I>uUtttoi oi
and a $ ( 1 000 >en
'.0,000or postoffiee revenue ot 1 , mutey ;
___bill ate authorizing the issue of
orders or postal notes at a tee ot 3 cnits,
House bill authorizing the einp oyineit or
mail Adjourned messengers in the postal service.
to Monday.
House.
Dec. 10 .—The House was not in session
to-day.
:1L n —The 10 House passed without
division, . fO rteiture bill^storing TM^iiigan to
&SSSTS& Mfffl, ^ j n
Line Railroad. Hie la Ralto^d’cotty. t*ds hv^.p'L'ton
K waiTm^ tileroad
which that
i,ad I eot the laud-grant expired in 1S96, and
stroke of work lias been Idoue. formed In
18 ^, present made corporation confer was it the
an< i attempt The to public lands upon com
forfeited grant. based^fu recommendation
^ittee, tp|^tate‘after'“the however, expnXfof'the‘ten
py ^a nwfessarily^iave been subject
v rs would tuiy
t 0 the right of the United States at
ti me to declare a forfeiture.
Dec. ia—The time of the House was al
most entirely taken up to-day with the D
troduction of bids, only one being d>
cussed—that providing for the appointment constitute
of twenty-four school trustees to
fc board of education._ 1 he cadin„ up
the meas.ne was the signal for a display of
parliamentary tactics on both sides, apu
without reaching the point, of .action dm
House adjourned. Among the resoluticfis
I' Hi 1 *™*'/®® re Jg 1 * ^ ( 'i!® ^^rfi^SlumuiattnK
j ieasU rv is in excess of the
needs ot ffie government for itnsuppprl and
the discharge of the bonded debt; that the
coast defenses are inadequate to protect the
lake and seacoast cities, and that nearly
one million men are unemployed, iurJfd“ and u«r th‘
through in
treasury appropriations should be expended for repairing mud
liberal defenses h»d
properly equipping the coast Hewitt
for die construction of ships. Mr.
introduced a bill authorizing the ^ cietiary
of die Treasury to anticipate the I’aynr® 1
Into pi
tee of the whole on the sundry-civil Kansas andlMr. a pro¬
imutiou bill. Mr. Ryan criticised of the bil as
Long of Massachusetts
being inadequate. and diplomatic . approp^ia- ,.
Tne consumr commitjw 5 ®
tion bill was reported from the the
on foreign affairs. It appropriates officers and niiscjel- for
siiaries of diplomatic iutercoiuj^c
j.menus expenses of foreign
$6L’,345; for salaries ami contingent a|f ia 0
miscellaneous ^f expenses of consul#seryF
<SS, u, l i "KraKn" $1,029%, 1 vuik
officers total now appropriation paid by fees), of $1,571,905. T 16
ing total a appropriation fur tlie current y«* r
was $1,356,065. Tlie committee earneijs *y
recmnmends tlie passage of tlie bill, if ia
service says that lias an convinced examination the of membejrs the consu ot ^ 116
committee cmml only that be secured tlie improvements by increasing accessary salai5 e8
and abolishing tlie fee system. J
Yellowstone Nniioual park, alleged to bl
needed as an outlet for a mining district
Dec. 15.—The principal business before
the House to-day was the 9undry civil bill, tbe
wliicn was considered in committee of
W lioie. After some Pacific di-cusston—mainly
political—on lions, tlie an.endment the coast rejected anpropria- and th e
was
committee rose. national
A pm W1S passed requiring
banks in (lie cities of Atlanta, Galveston, Kan
Paul, Minueapohs, Omaha Indianapolis, keep hand in
8a3 City, of amt the United States to on equal
money a sum to
as per considering cent of their circulation appropriations and deposit.
harbor^improvements the for
r House ] V et and committee pursued the policy to-day of the al
i oW in g about 25 per cent of tne amounts
which tne chief of engineers reports can be
tion of''between $7 l OxfteO reeommendwl’a g and Tsoafow*
The setrebiry of war gross
appropriation The bill of $io,ooo.000. providing for the admis
Senate
sion nmended of Washington House territory committee as a state was ter
by the on
ritories so as to include Montana territory.
colfneMb tfie i"were a^Dointed af wmferrbes
on eieaoral count billon the part of
tlie House.
Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm
was before the House committee on bank
jug and currency and submitted ins views
on needed legislation affecting the ua.ionai
banking system. agriculture has adopt
ed tlie resolution of Mr. Swiiieburn. mtro
dueed Commissioner t at tlie last of Agriculture session, calling foriuforma- on the
tion concerning pleuro-pneumouia. of the
Deo. 16,—'Tne House, iu committee
whole, resumed consideration of the suu
exempUug UnitetTlstates'wnimfteionereln. population from the
cities haviiitf 100,000 IsOO
provision limiting to ner annum the
fees and comiiensatiou of commissioners, United[States
and prohibiting payments to
the internal-revenue laws, unless the prose
cution has been approved by the United
States district attorney and the collector oi
theprf«Son e o4 0 ^ r,ct,n Wlu<
ms tlie bill for tU
The House passed Senate
allotment of land iu severalty to the Indians,
upon sLrirtibe/?; whom are to be conferred (as rights
"sss the
tirement Another Senate of Admirals bill was Rowan passed and tor Worden, re
on their own application, with the highest
pay of their grade.
Dec. In— The House to-day passed thtihole the
Im^’Lentso?tee 0 co f mmUte e oi taken
were agreed to, separate votes being
on “ZX™b&“b!!Sda'fe the propositions increasing tbe , appro
P
mo the
N. Y., ana maxing an appropriation for
construction of amendments a lighthouse supply
6teamer. These were con
““UwuTmw yeas issas
byeblab session the House
eiguteen private pension bills.
Tbe late William H. Vanderbilt, for
some years after lie inherited his great
fortune, paid no taxes on his personal
estate. He “swore off” his taxation on
personalty. That is to say, he main¬
tained, when applied to lor an in¬
ventory, that his debts exceeded the
value of his perssnal estate. This be¬
came such a scandal that in 1880 in
confessed to of owning his debts personal the property value of
in excess to
$1,000,000, and on that amount he and paid
taxes each year until bis death, oh
that amount only. It is low known than
he left at least $38,000,000 in taxabk
securities, of which all but $8,000,000
has escaped taxation.
,; The Biel Rebellion. j
A Vinnipeg letter says: Tie 1 ire
tofors unwritten chapter of histp is
just riven regarding the presidency provisibnai
government under the ot
Louifc BieL After the rehelhdh of
1869 ind 1870 Biel, Le Pine and 0 Do.
noghie, with and a the few Hudson followers, Bay.,Com¬ sawed
Fort f arry and established an al¬
pany! stores, nearly
leged? government, by the which loyalist was settlers
overthrown leadership of Dr. Schultz,
the and Mr.
Dr. Brown, Major Wallace
Scott. Riel and his companions deter¬
mined to make an example of the lead¬
ers, and Schultz, now a member of the
Dominion parliament^ would have been
shot bad he not escaped to the United
States. Scott was a man of ungovern¬
able temper, and this furnished a pre¬
text for his taking-off- The prisoners freezing
and starving process the
were subjected to did not improve his
temper, and one day, in :v tit of pas¬
sion, he crowned his acts of insubordi¬
nation by a violent assault upon a sen¬
try who came within his reach. This
sealed his doom. A court-martial was
hastiiv summoned, at which Adj. Gen.
Le Pine presided, and -the prisoner,
who could not comprehend a word of
the proceedings, was condemned to be
shot forthwith. All efforts of the Hon.
D. A. Smith Bannatyne and the Rev.
Mr. Young to procure even a respite
proved unavailing. Riel and Le Pine,
inflamed by rum and resentment and
incited by O’Donoghue, determined to
carry out the programme. The doomed
man was led out into the barrack-yard,
and, after two volleys from the clumsy
and inexperienced firing party, fell
back on tbe rude box which was to
serve as his coffin. Riel refused to
give up the body, and what became of
it is a mystery to this day.
A man who was at that time con¬
nected with the Fort Garry New Na¬
tion, ernment, the organ of the provisional time gov¬ the
relates for the first
partic liars of the murder of Scott,
showi ig that he was thrust into his
coffin, and lay there five hours terribly
wount ed, with the mercury below zero,
before receiving his death shot. The
editor of the New Nation was an old
count! yman. Maj. H. M. Robinson. On
the a ternoon of the death of Scott,
Maj. Bobinson was, dent] for from the
fort bi Scott. He returned some two
hours afterward utterly unnerved and
horror stricken, and in an intense state
of nervousness. He said th *t Riel had
desired him to defend in th > New Na¬
tion the shooting of Scott as an act of
necessity to the, provisional could govern- credit
ment. Major Rolinson not
that tlie deed blood had actually
been dime, and expressed his incredul¬
ity. Steeing thi.j. Riel led the major
into the court, atd to one of the sheds
which lined sentryj th t interior walls, where
stood h As they approached
Riel threw opm the door, exposing dripping a
box, from whip blood was
into the snow. gf-irn Harcjlly had before the he major
realized the hearing fact was
horrified by ja voice proceeding
from within the box, 1 exclaiming in dis¬
tinct tones: God,
“Oh, let me out of this! My
how I suffer!”
” trie inajoir blood retreated curdling from in the his vein*
calieA and the spot.
Riel tba ccaitry twu en¬
tered the shed and closed the door.
A moment later there was a sound of a
shot within, and Scott was probably
released from torture. Riel returned
with the major to the fort, where he
dismissed him with a significant warn*
ing to sicresy. To comprehend the
full horror of this tragedy, it must bo
remembered that this occurred fire
hours afier Scott had been shot and
coffined, and with the thermometer
many degrees below zero. Majo»
Robinson left immediately for England.
American Politeness.
It must be admitted by all just peo¬
ple that the average of politeness in
every-day in the contact soufi. is lower Iii southern in the north city,
than a
if you ask a passer-liy will to direct of you his te a
certain street he go out way
to guide you. Saleswomen will treat /and
you with an admirable patience
good nature. In tee north in stores of
the better class employers exact that
their employes shall be civil to custom¬
ers. But go into the side streets to the
smaller shops ;.nd with wliat insolence
and inattention the would-be purchaser li
is treated. Tin librarian of a free
brary will oftei aet as though you were
doing & him a personal re injury J if you •’, ask
him , . tq take d^vn a , book. , w Hotel cieiks , k
will insult yoij lostoihce officers will
snub you or glare speechlessly at you if
you venture upon a timid question. visiting New
f “orthem wpman wmi
Orleans for the fust time. $he ame
from the land where politeness has its
market value, like everything else, and
this lavish col , rte sv, ‘given without
mmm «*
wilder her. “V\ ell, she said after
pomlerino' these things, “tlie city is not
the cleanest in the world, and the
st*.are not well paved or drained.
but the pcepte are simply lovely. Why, little
if y.u ask (tie driver of one of your
bob-tailed bars (A a question he will an
•-«?»» •• »*
home I have often been insulted for re¬
fusing to takte in change silver pieces
worn as hawjfh&iled as p aper . And often,
when I a car at a distance,
the driver ids called out in the rudest
way: ‘Come.hurry up! Can’t wait all
day for you" I never realized how
dreadful »I4fotoow it was until I came south.
H. w l hb«»rtl»«sht myself
1° get out at I just throw upon
the mercy ot the other passengers, and
take no “““f tholight for the morrow. I’m
1 *>
Is the no tb ield I hare frequently old sent and a
young feeble girl in her place full to an of seated
woman a car
men. inhumanity Mr.) Howells’ protest against
man’s to woman, as shown
in the street-car, will be remembered;
and his pl«i for them to have mercy on
the sex that [think was “born tired.”
t I do not vtemen it will be found that
iSouthem are less polite because
(outhern Ben treat them with consid
(ration. In fact, it is to be feared that
the masculinity and independence of
too many northern women nave reacted
unfortunately upon the manners of tiieir
men.
To lend a helping hand to strangers,
to assist the weak, to be always cqurte
ous to women—canjthe highest civiliza¬
tion The produce Comopoltian. a tiuefj ilower than this?--