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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1885.—TWELVE PAGES.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THE RULES FINALLY COMPLETED
AND ADOPTED.
Congressmen Miat Not Solicit Appoint-
■units—Augusta to Hare a Public
lluildlne—Taklne a HoIItUr
ltrcru—Tlio Iiebates.
YVashinoton, December 18.—Id the Sen
ate, Air. Mitchell, from the committee on
pensions, reported favorably on the bill
granting a pension to the widow of General
Grant. The bill was at once passed without
debate.
CONOOTSSIfEN SOLICITING APPOINTMENTS.
Senator Hampton introduced a bill mak
ing it unlawful for Senators or Representa
tives to recommend or solicit appointments
to office. Mr. llawloy inquired of the
chair whether this bill was retroactive in its
operation.' [Laughter.] The chair .replied
that in his opinion it was not [Renewed
laughter.
Mr. Butler called up his resolution of in
duin' relating to the alleged organization of
the Territory of Dakota into a State, which
wna debated until ‘2 o’clock, when it again
went over. The Senate then proceeded to
tho consideration of the joint rules.
After a short debato, resulting in some
amendment of details, the rules were 11'
nally agreed to.
.Too Senate adjourned until Monday.
Proceedings of tile House.
On motion of Mr. Wilson, of West Vir
ginia, the Senate joint resolution was passed
to provide for filling vacancies in the board
of regents of Smithsonian Institute.
The consideration of the report o{ the
committers on rules was then resumed.
Pending nn amendment offored by Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, to abolish tiic
various committees on expenditures in
different departments, and to concentrate
their duties in one committee, consisting
of fifteen members. In advocating the
amendment, Mr. Springer said that daring
the past ten years, the clerks of these com
mittees had been paid $250,000, while, as
far os he conld remember, but two of them
hod made reports —oommitteo on expendi
tures in the War Department in the forty-
fuirth Congress, and committee on expen
ditures in the Department of Justice in the
forty-eighth Congress.
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, thought that much
Rood had resulted from the work dono by
these two commissioners daring tho late
campaign. Ho had heard it proclaimed ev
erywhere in Democratic speeches that the
Democratic party wanted to see the books.
After some further disoussion, the amend
ment was rejected.
Another long end lively debate followed,
participated in .by Messrs. Hammond]
lilount, Hiscock, McKinley, Holman, Reed,
Conncn, liyan, Morrison and Binghnm.
In its course a number of amendments
were offered, some of which were withdrawn
and others defeated. Finally Mr. Hammond
offered on amendment to striko out the dis
tribution feature of the report.
This brought the House to a square vote
on the question, and the amendment was
rejected by a vote of yeas 70; nays 226.
Un motion of Air. Herbert, of Alabama,
an amendment was adopted granting the
committees appointed under tins law power
to report by bill to the House, and to re
port at any time.
On motion of Air. Cobb, of Indiana, an
amendment was adopted granting the com-
mitteo on pnbliu lands leave to report at any
time on bills for the forfeiture of land gTants,
to prevent speculation in public lands nnd
for tho reservation of publio lands for the
benefit of actual settlers.
No other amendments were adopted to
this portion of the report, and that portion
which proposes to amend rale 21 was then
token up.
Air. Ilammond offered nn amendment
having Ter ‘ts object to probibitattachingof
general legislation upon appropriation bills.
Mr. Holman offered an amendment allow-
Inu such legislation when it shall directly
rcance the number, salary or compensation
of officers or employes of the United States.
After some debate the amendment was re
jacted—yesa 69, nays 205.
Air. Hammond's amendment was then re
jected by a idea docs vote, Mr. Hammond
declining to call fur a division, saying, sar
castically, that it seemed prcferablo that the
other side of the Honse should manage the
affair.
Air. Adams, of Illinois, thereupon offend
an amendment, which was adopted, and
which leaves elsnse 3 of the twenty-first
rale resiling as follows:
“No appropriation shall be reported in
any general appropriation bill, or be in or
der ns an amendment thereto for any ex
penditure not pnvionaly authorixed bylaw,
unless continuation of appropriations for
such public works and objects as sro al
ready in progress, nor shall any provision
changing existing the law be in older in
any general appropriation bill, or in any
amendment wnereto.”
The remainder of the report was agreed
to without objection and the report was
intoto;so the rales of the lorty-cighth
Congress, as amended by the report of the
committee on roles, are re-enacted aa roles
of the Forty-ninth Congress.
HOLIDAY BICES*.
Air. Alorrison, of Illinois, then called up
the resolution fora holiday recess, after
having amended it oo that the rjoees will
begin on Alomlay next and end January 6.
Mr. Reach, of New York, opposed the
idea, which he considered childisn, of tak
ing a holiday recces at this time. Itwas at
tended with danger and he appealed to the
Democratic House to go as for as a Bepnb-
lican Senate had in taking some action on
the I’rcsidential succession bill. The reeo-
'“onVoUofoTMr: W.Uon the Senate bi.l
granting a pension to the ’Mo* ° f
Grant was taken up and P*“*i
being the only one voting in the negative.
The Honse then adjourned.
A l’ubtte Building for Auguita.
A hill was introduced in the Senate to-(lay
by Senator Colquitt for
public building at Augusta, Georgia, to coat
not more than >200,Wd.
A Toons Lady Murdered*
SsfaShfexS s
ri'dnriv^Tta^smHi ^roUing the
Mcinit} nre up frv 0 negro who
death. ■
THE AAIERICAN COTTON CROP.
C. I,. Green & Co. Estimate It at 0,000,000
Bales, r.nd the Supply at 7,837,000.
New Yobk, December 20.—C. L. Green*
Co., in their annual review, covering an es
timate of the cotton crop of the United
States and tho prospective disposition of
the supply, obtained from a large number
of inquiries sent out to points carefully se
lected for their importance as business
centres, and possessing fair facilities for af
fording information, announce that tho es
timates from the States of *tho total crop
average 6,520,000 bales; the estimates from
the principal ports 0,589,000, and fmm in
terior towns an average of 0,557,000.
“But," says the review, “having the
advantage of recent personal observation
through a trip to several important points
South, we feel justified in adding somewhat
to the above snowing, and place our esti
mate at 6,900,000 bales for the crop of
1885-6—a figure much below that indicated
by the phenomenal conditions of tho stand
to August 15th, and from which there is no
good evidence of deterioration in quantity
to the extent claimed in some recently pub
lished estimates. Furthermore, it is sug
gested that while the spinning quality may
not result in quite so good a proportionate
out-turn as last year, it has a fair offset in
the weight of the bales, which thus far av
erage ten ponnds above 1884, and already
we find that the low prices have induced a
decided holding back of cotton, a practice,
if persisted in. Bare to make a difference in
tho visible crop, but not really showing the
actual growth.
The average crop condition in 1885 is
given os 90, against 83 in 1874 and 90 in
1882 The crop for 1882-3 was 6,992,000
bales. The estimate of the total supply
reaches 7,837,000 bales, against 6,684,000 in
comparison with last season, nnd 7,776,000
in 1882-3. Tho review concludes that tho
week's consumption will not vary greatly
either way from six million boles of Ameri
can cotton. This will stand in comparison
with 5,711,000 bales last season and 6,323,-
000 bales in 1881-2, the latter being the
largest of any year on record.
DOWN IN A COAL MINE.
GEN. TOOMBS FORTUNE.
Notes for Two Hundred nnd Eighty Tliou
sand Dollars Endorsed.
Wasbinoton, Ga., December 18.—The
wreck of General Robert Toombs's fortune
continues to be the subject of discussion
here.
It appears that about a mouth ago some
of General Toombs's heirs determined to
legally investigate bis connection with the
Kimball House Company, and went to At
lanta for that purpose. The investigation
resulted in the heirs' deciding to contest a
certain power of attorney given by General
Toombs to Mr. Joseph Thompson, a mem
ber of the Kimball House Company. This
power of attorney authorized Air. Thomp
son to endorse certain notes of the compa
ny with General Toombs's name. It is al
leged that Air. Thompson did this to the
extent of two hundred und eighty thousand
dollars.
It is certain thnt the work on tho Kimball
Honse would have been stopped, had not
General Toombs given the power of attor
ney authorizing Air. Thompson to endorse
for him. In one instance, the Balke Com
pany refused to famish the billiard room
unless General Toombs’s name were en
dorsed on the notes which the Kimball
House Company offered in payment for bil-
lard fixtures.
It is understood that the heirs will con
test the power of attorney given to Air.
Thompson, npon the ground thnt General
Toombs was mentally incapacitated to at
tend to business.
Ugly disclosures are anticipated.
THREATENING THE PRINCE.
An Old Cltlien Speaks
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Bad«*-».,nJ uxAnU^MB
Tho London Voltes Capture a I’«
Blackmailers.
London, December 18.—London has bod
a genuine sensation to-day. Early this
morning a young man and his wife, John
and Bar ih Magee, were arrested at Kenhing-
ton on the charge of having attempted to
procure money fr >m the Prince of Wales
by writing a long letter. They were taken
in custody and formal chaises preferred
against them, and they were then remanded
to await examination. It appiars
that the prisoners hail written two letters,
hut ae these were not rood in
court to-day, it is impossible to give their
exact language, or to state, except in gen
eral terme, what they contained. It is
known, however, that the letters made a
demand for £750 nnd intimated in unmis
takable terms that unless this amount was
forthcoming the Princ's life would be in
leopard/. The Prince, it I* said, paid only
pausing attention to the first letter, but
when the second letter came, reiterating
the demand (or money, and threats of vio
lence, the Prince tamed the letters over to
the police and left them to du whatever they
thought best The police sent messages sh
though coming from the Prince to the
address given in the letters, directing the
author or authors to appear at s specified
time and place. Assurance was given that
somebody would meet them at the appoint
ed hour prepared to hand over the package
containing tl*e mono/ they had demanded.
The eon-oirators at once fell into the trap.
They appeared at the place designated this
morning, and were handed a package of
farthings. As they started to leave with
the supposed treasure, the police off their
disguises and arrested them.
Medical Graduates at tho Telegraph Key,
Kingston, N. Y., December 20.—Alisa
Ora Misner, aged 21 years, daughter of
George Misner, a well known farmer redd
ing at Rig Indian, a small hamlet a few
miles from here, took an onnee of laudanum
yesterday morning. The parent* of the
girl went at once to the railway station t<
telegraph Dr. 8chley at Pine Hill, threw
miles west, to come quickly
The operator working the Bg
Indian wire in the main office ol the «i ast
ern Union Telegraph Company in New
having overheard the message snm-
jg Dr. Schley, asked the operator at Big
Indian about the case. Learning the situa
tion of affairs and appreciating the necessity
of immediate medical treatment, he con
sulted with two brother operators on duty
at the time, who had graduated from a med
ical college in New York. The*, two
operaton then told the Big
niierator what remedies sbon
applied, nnd gave fuU
ai to treatment, etc. Following thetr di-
rations, powerful emetics were adminis
tered, which proved effective. They also
prescribed vigorous robbing, »nd whipping
with small twig* to keep the gin awake.
Dr Schley, who arrived hour later, aud,
the girl's life could not have been »ved tad
the not been treated so promptly. ThU
morning Miss Alianer was pronounced to
he out ol immediate danger.
Marriage of an Editor. ^
Eastman. Qa., December 20.—Mr. E. B.
Milner, junior editor ol the E^tmen Tiinea,
waTmirted to-night »t 8 o'clock to MU.
irirr Horne, diagbter of Mr*. M. Horne
un [niece nC Colonel D- M. Robert* of our
town. Rev. P. A. Jeaup officiating.
THIRTY AIEN CONFINED IN A CHAM
BER of HonuoRa
Water Flows Into a Mine and Imprisons a
Number of Mlners^-Keanulng Party
Working to Ileltave Them—
Loss of Life Unknown,
WiLiKSBABRE, Pa., December 18.—The
water in the Susquehanna nver at Nanti-
coke broke through the workings of No. 1
stop of the Susquehanna Coal Company
this morning, anil at noon there was as out
six feet of water in the stop. The alarm
was sent through tho workings when the
danger was apparent, anil all the men ex
cept seven Hungarians, who are missing,
and who are believed to have been drowned,
hurried to the month of the stop and wero
rescued. The mules and most of the tools
were saved.
Latf.e.—Tho disaster of Nantlcoke is
more appalling than was at first anticipated.
The cry that the water broke through the
bed of the river has been dispelled by the
fact that the place from whence the water
came is over 4,000 feet from the Susque
hanna. In tracing the water it was discov
ered that it formed from a pool or surface,
in which it had collected from some
springs near by. The water had then fol
lowed the rock to a fault in the seam, which
was the first ontlet for it. It then ran into
the gangway and slopes and thence to the
lower working of number one slope. When
water was discovered rushing into the alope
there were nearly 1,000 persons at work in
the various openings, but at that particular
spot where the water first appeared
there were not over thirty persons at work
at the time. It is reported that there are
now about twenty or thirty men in the face
of ono of the gangways who are shut in by
the water and rubbish that has accumulated
in the gangway. It is impossible to say
what their fate will be. Rescuing parties
are now vigorously at work with hopes of
relieving the men some time during the
night.
Officials say there ia no danger of the men
suffocating, as they will get plenty of aid
from faces of tho chambers that are not
filled with water and rubbish. Pumps will
be put into operation this evening. They
have a capacity ol 2,000 gallons of water
per minute, and it is expected the prime
will be cleared by Monday next. Old
miners nre of tho opinion that the men wk .
are shut up will be rescued alive.
Later advices from Nnnticoke state that
thirty men employed on rock work in No.
1 slope, are reported to have been impris
oned in tho upper lifts by the rapid rising
of water.
Several miners entered the slope at 3
clock with boats, and will use every means
to reach the men. There .is considerable
excitement among those at the mouth o!
the slope who are anxiously awaiting the
return of the rescuing party.
Wilssbabbk, Pa.. December 18.—The outlook at
No. 1 Slopo this morning • frightful. Mlno Inspec
tor WlUlams says it tho men ran be reached within
forty-eight hours they will be found alive, as s totml
exhaustion of sir will not occur before then. The
chance of reeone this morning Is very slim, from
" * feet that the sir circle bee been broken. This
ea ascertained by s second rescuing party, who
wero working at the opposite end from the Drat
pally. In Slope No. 1 8upL Morgen fonnd that there
were eixly-iieveii feet of quicksand, culm and
earth to b > dug away. This Is wedged In between
the mine Umbers, which haveepnng inward and
crossed each other, presenting an almost insur
mountable barrier to rapid progress. The shifts are
now changed every two hours, but the
culm and quicksand, by Its very nature, dlls
In place of that which was taken
fore. On good authority It ia said
will require tire or ala days before this can
be dug ummgb. All hope ia abandoned of the res
cue of the twenty-nine imprleoned men, who. It is
thought, died from sulforaUon within the first
twelve hours. Sixteen English. Irich and Welsh
men,and thirteen Poles end Hnngartana ares"
known to be entombed in thla chamber of death.
Wiuuuaaiuut, Pa.. December 19 —The officials at
the offioe of the Susquehanna Coal Company at
Nantlcoke state thla evening that there are twenty-
four men In the fetal slope, not twenty-nine aa
generally understood. They eay farther that the
disaster waa precipitate 1 by the collapse of the pas
sageway of the tunnel to the extent of five feet,
causing a depression which brought down Into
“ tunnel a twenty foot vein of
quicksand. The vacuum created by
thla break created an arch, and through a heavy
fissure ia the mof a mass of culm, estimated at
(.000 tone, with the contents of a pond of water
overhead, containing over 20.IXJO,OUO gallons, poured
in, flooding both No. 1 and 7 Slopes, end caching
up the tunnel end carrying with it fifty-two mi a
rho were at work there. Of these tuea. twenty-
four were, tn ell probability, caught before they
could gain chambers that pitched upward, and
they are supposed to be la thla quicksand and
culm, not having been able to reach a piece of safe
ty in time. •
AN EDITOR ON TRIAL
tancc of IBs Article.
Salt Lass Cm, Utah, December 19.—Chat. W,
Hemingway, editor of the Ogden Herald, wee con
victed last night of libeling Chief Justice Zone, The
trial Was held In the lint dtetrirt. Justice Powers
presiding. Judge Z»qe did not know of the libel
till after the proceedings bad been begun.
The article charged Judge Zane with being
responsible In hie riding fur the murder of Me-
Murrin by Deputy Marshal Collins, and of shielding
officials and othen guilty of lewdness. It states
that the action of Judge Zeno -made U reasonably
evident to and-Mormon villains In Blab that a Fed
eral Justice would permit no atrocity committed by
anti-Mormon against a Mormon to be speedily
and condlgnly punished, according to Jus
tice.” Then followed a threat that tf this
thing continued Mormons would defend their per
sona. famines and property with the neraseary
tore*. The article declared that there was a limit
to the endurance even ef Mormons, end bade '-antt-
lformon assassins, asperses*. Judicial malafscton
end robbers" beware. It said that Judge Zone ren
dered a "crooked" decision In tho Vauderrook
lewd end lascivious ease, and that dozens and dos
sils of Mormons bed been slaughtered ut
cold blood, bat tn every siugie rase the murderers
leaped punishment at the bends of Justice, which
ins practically vindicates murder."
There waa more In the article of the some tone.
Hemingway will be sentenced January 4. less. The
McMurrin referred to above attempted to kill Col
lins end was badly hurt himself; bnt will recover.
A Frightful Mining Accident.
Dawks. Col. December 19.—'While seven
wen being hyieted tn the surface In the Beiferino
mine, near NevedavUle. Gilpin connty, last night
a nick fell from shots and struck Archalene Wai
ran on the heed, knocking him oat of the bucket.
The men tried to catch him, hut faiiad. The
bucket wee about forty-hva feet from the surface at
the time. An eaplortng party found a piece of hi*
Jawbone at the l.Juu foot tarsi and a^ Piece of hla
skull at the I.JB) foot level, where hit coal waa
also found. Hla body fell about 1.3W fact In all.
and la now tn the water at the bottom of the abaft.
Threatening Attitude of Indiana.
Bt. Paul. December 19. -A special to Uta Pioneer
nee from Helene. Montana, aaye: The latest re
ports from Art re say that the Indians
then tn large numbers. Their leader *• knew*
"Big Jim." an Indian who is said to have killed eight
white men. The Indians shot by Combe have not
yet been Identified. Major Ford, with Urea com-
panlea of troopa, baa left Missoula for Arise, hie
feared that the tribee making demontiretlona will
all be Joined by the Flat Hiafl* who are inclined
i boottUttea against tho whilse tn that
V I oilier \rr. -I. -I
CttA'TAKooQs. Ta»>.. December 19.—Frank a.
Douglas, atlas M. D. Irwin, a clerk la a clothing
alore In this city, was arrested tonight for a sertss
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.
Incrcasea the Fumber of Places vvhero
Liquor ts Oprnly Sold.
Philadelphia Times.
State Senator Hhtton, of Io wa, has con
tributed to the history of the ^prohibition
movement tho most remarkable chapter of
recent times. >t is in substance an exhaus
tive review of the silnation in the Senator's
Stale, Us. whig the workings of tho law as
illustrated iu -inety-nino counties, includ
ing every city and town of three hundred
inhabitants and upwards. Briefly, it shows
that since the law went into effect the num
ber of places where liquor is sold openly
has increased from 1,806 to 1,837 anil that
over 400 dealers are selling by tho well-
known *subtsrfuge of a Bide door. White
the little villages in some instances have
been enabled to enforce the law in the larger
cities and towns there is practically no ef
fort made to abolish the traffic. Even
where anch effort has been made and the
issue sharply drawn the result has been the
complete rout of the prohibition people and
an increase of the evil they sought to de
stroy.
A comparison of present with past condi
tions in the lending cities is especially in
structive and significant. Des Moines,
which two years ago, under a high license
law, had reduced the number of its saloons
to a xty, now h v one hundred aud seventy-
five; Davenport reports an increase of
thirty; Dubuqe, one hundred and twenty-
six; Keokuk thirteen; Sioux City twenty-
five, and the correspondent from Ottumwa
reports “four times as many and ten times
aa bad." Waterloo, a place of sixty-five
hundred population, reports a reduction
from twenty to sixteen, together with less
drunkenness, less loafing, less carousing;
but it is carefully explained thnt this is the
reaulr, not of prohibition, but of an annual
tax of $275 levied on the saloons, without
regard to the prohibition law.
It has long been apparent to the most
casual observer that it is ^easier to pass
strict prohibitory laws than to enforce
them. The New England States passed
through this experience long ago and Kan
sas and Iowa are but repeating the lesson.
In the country districts and small towns
the law can be enforced without much dffi-
culty. In the cities and larger towns it is
practical-/ not enforced ul all, and the
wiser way would be to attempt to regulate
the traffic by a high license law. Some
control of the worst rcatures of the traffic
would be secured by this means and a large
revenue for municipal or State purposes de
rived from it.
A LOYALIST DEMONSTRATION.
speaker* Bold and Defiant In Ex^resalne
their Views.
Dublin, December 18.—The city of Ar
magh, in the province of Ulster, waa to-day
the scene of an immense loyalist demonstra
tion. Several addresses were made by
prominent loyalists, who were in no way
chary in the expression of their sentiments.
The gathering was characterized by some
very enthusiastic expressions iu opposition
to the homo rale doctrine.
The meeting adopted a series of resolu
tions expressive of its belief that- a resort to
home rale principles would be certain,
sooner or later, to eventuate in actual civil
war, and further exhorting the Loyalist
party to go its utmost length in reautini
the efforts of the home rale advocates. J
resolution also commended Loyalists in
Ireland to the full and deserved sympathy
of all Protestants throughout the
British kingdom. The assembly was
imbued with a feeling that had
not for a very long timo manifested
itself to any Loyalist demonstration in Ire
land. The speakers were hold and actnally
defiant in declaring their views on the pend
ing political situation, and more than one oi
them boasted, with n degree of earneetness
that aroused repeated cheers from their
listeners, that the Loyalist party
in Ireland was ready to meet
whatever issne might be presented. “The
Ulster Orangemen are ready to come
to the front,” said one of the speakers,
amid great applause. “And when their
services are wanted, sixty thousand men
can readily be put into the field for active
service in defense of the cause of loyalty to
the government.”
THEY OUTWITTED GRANDMOTHER.
THE PROGRAMME AT WASHINGTON
FOR THE WEEK.
The Presidential Succession Bill to be
Pressed In the House—Secretary Man
ning nn Custom House Adminis
tration—General Notes.
HEMS FROM WASHINGTON i n d0 " " r ,!l " ccoim : ,,f » ,1ot ' . ani1 ol*
AAtJiiAU AAIVAU. H JlOXIUdUlUil. | o[ t)u emerges inrSld of Madame Puss.
Moro amazing still i. is to fee pass there hv
herself at one moment, aud the next, on the
lifting of the basket, to behold her the cen
ter of a happy family, kilt, ns crowded by
her side aim n bird perched on her lir-ad.
liometinu-s it child is placed under tho bas
ket and tho juggler dances wildly around it,
thrusting long hincis nnd knives into the
liamboo, until blood cornea out and the spec
tators are horrorstrieken.
Bat just its tl).-y nre reedy to interfere, a
merry laugh will ho heard on tho edge of
the circle, nnd there will ho tho little one
quite unhurt, nnd how ho escaped from the
hnsket, or where the r-1 fluid which looked
likfc blood came from was not explained.
A French traveler saw a juggler ret a large
top spinning on the end of a stick, which
he balanced on his forehead. Tbo top then
stopped revolving or went on at the word
of commend, just as if it hod bean alive.
Some of the jugglers dnneenirily on a loose
ly fastened rope, One of them was seen to
walk along tho rope without n.-rnisstep, al
though buffalo boras were tied to his feet.
I think you will agree with tho general
opinion that if you want to see really clover
tricks you must go to India.
Died In a Doctor's Office.
A Terre Haute, Ind., special says: At
Rockville, near here, this afternoon, Tom
Hrdlivnn suddenly died while two doctors
wero trying to replace a dislocated shoulder.
He had several times before dislocated the
same shoulder, and to-day when he entered
Dr. Cross' office be said: "Doctor, thatd—d
shoulder is out of place again-” Dr. Crots
tried to replnce it, and failing, called in Dr.
Gillnm. When both were working with
the patient, they noticed that his feet was
mooing qneerly. In a few minutes Sulli
van waa dead. He was a hard drinker.
Tho coroner's verdict was death from heart
disease'.
St«ge Hobbcm Foiled*
St. Paul, December 20.—A Miles City,
Mont, special to the Fionecr Frees ho/h:
Stage robbers stopped the 8pearfisb conch
this evening, hut as ono of them attempted
to fire bis gun snapped and tho
driver whipped tip tho horses and escaped.
Sheriff Savage and posse, appearing sud
denly on the scene, opened Are on the rob
bers. One of the highwaymen received two
shote. He is known os “Corkscrew Hank."
He, with a companion named Turpin, was
secured, but Uto others escaped.
Tit* Imprisoned Miners.
-No
llsres county. Team. TWre was (iusi reward for
bln. Dou«Ua was Uta editor ot w wreekiy neper In
Havre county. He era* arrested at tbe Urns and
In prisoned at Mania. Tajraa but nttpd
norths s*o andeane to Chattaooo**. be
recognised by a former acqnsinuara on the .t
today, sad thl* lad Ip bbs street.
On Ills Way to Kill the President.
Council Bluff*, Ia., December 29.—A
m en believed from papers fonnd on bis
tieraon to be L. T. KempeU, was amstal
UU night on tho onUkirto of tb« city. He
anya he is en route to Washington to kill
Mr. Cleveland in order to rid the country
He we* heavily armed and
Kemptll is be
bop* is now * d minrrs had considerable murej. Kempt
mooing any ol the imprison | liaT( j ^ j,, Horn Sidney, Nebraska,
alive.
Nashville American.
A runaway match was consummated last
night in tho parlors of the Commercial Ho
tel. Esquire Fulham in his most graceful
manner tied the knot which bound Mr.
John V. Anderson, of Todd connty, Ky., to
Miss Blanche Gilwon, of Cross Plains, aa
fair a' daughter of Rutherford connty as
the eye would care to rest upon,
About five months ago she went
to visit her grandmother in Todd
connty, and at an entertainment given
in her honor met Mr. Anderson, a tail,
brown-haired son of the bine-grant region.
It was love at first sight—a blinding, mad
dening, unadulterated cose of it straight
from the shoulder. The grandmother ob-
, ectcd bnt to no purpose. Yesterday morn-
ng after the most approved modem atyle
the young man called n|>on the young lady
and suggested a buggy ride. Re had a stout
hay attached to a strong boggy. Outside I
and into it the lovers went, the unsuspect
ing ancestor viewing tba proceeding in no
alarm. Wily John bore his lady love to’the
depot at Guthrie and thence escaped to
Nashville. .
How She Walks amt Looks.
■ General Roberts, of the Waabingtin Her
ald, thus discourses about Southern girls:
“When the Southern girl walks on the ave
nue she ia aa distinctly recognizable aa
though she were marked ‘from Georgia,’ or
placatded ‘an Alabamian.' Her step is easy,
for it was learned from Dame Nature her
self, and the slender feet might belong to the
daintiest ankle that ever gleamed in the shad
ow* of the orange Walk at Seville. Yon never
knew before how lovely a costume of sim
ple white oould be, and yet you say to your
self that the coetliest device of the cunning-
eet milliner in the Rue de llec could not be
moro effective in demolishing the masculine
heart. Every woman who eeee her, knew*
that that hat waa the work of the wearer'*
slender fingers, hut how becoming it
ia, lighted ly tho softest, sweet
est brown eyes, and as yon look
yonr thought* an mih-a away from the
I crowded avenue and its ever changing
scenes. Yon are yonng again and the ro
mance of the far South comes back, and
yon smell the orange trees aa they wera in
bloom eo many yean ago, and with Owenl
Meredith yon unconsciously say:
Ok. that we were ttorawily young l
ThtMirwttixuil North Georgia-
Mauietta, December 20.- Some time
since a few old stockholders of the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad filed a bill of
injunction against the new stockholders
and asked for a receiver, etc. The new
stockholders yesterday had the case trans
ferred to the United States Court and filed
; enes-biU denying all the charges as set
forth by the oi l e'.ockh ihl rr, and asked
that they forever hereafter be enjoined
from troubling them in the courts or other
wise. The present owners car* very little
lot the bill itself, bnt it has a bad effect on
their standing. In the meantime work is
•till going on to complete the road to Mur
phy. They are looking for forty car loads
of rails in a few days.
Wasbinoton. December 20.—Since tlio
present session of Congress began 728 bills
and joint resolutions have beon introduced
in the Senate and seven—one of which orig
inated in the House—has been passed by
that body. Forty-seven executive mes-
sages,containing about fifteen lmndred|nom-
inations, have been sent by the President
to the Senate, and have been referred to
proper committees, but no nominations
tave been confirmed. Two treaties—one
relating to the boundary line between this
country’ nnd Mexico and the other provid
ing for the settlement of the cluims of cer
tain American citizens against Venezuela—
have been sent to tho Senate for ratification.
Seventy-four bills and joint resolutions
have been introduced in the House,
and four—two of which originated in tho
Senate—have been passed. To-morrow an
effort will he made fn the House of Repre
sentatives to secure the passage of the Pre
sidential succession bill under a suspension
of the rales. The result is doubtful, as s
motion to tho suspend will not be in order
until after the call of the States for the in
troduction of bills and joint resolutions
shall have been completed, and as members
hare their desks full of bills to be introduced
the call U likely to consume the day. The
succession hill may he considered by unan
imous consent, hut this is not probable, as
tho opinion is entertained by many repre
sentatives that the measure ought to go
regularly to a committee before receiving
consideration in the Honse. It is not likely
that the committees of the Hottse, possibly
excepting that on ncconnts, will be an
nounced until after the holiday recess.
The Senate, if hits a quorum to-morrow,
will probably continue tho consideration
of the Dakota question until 2 o'clock, and
of the bill fixing the salaries of District
Court Judges after that hoar. The House
resolution to adjourn to-morrow night for
the holiday recess will probably be adopted
by the Senate without change.
Secretary Mannlne Interviewed.
Secretary Manning, in conversation to
day respecting the proposed eaxmination,
by the Senate, into the wotking of the New
York custom house, said that, as the execu
tive officer responsible tor the execution of
the tariff law, he should welcome the co
operation of a committee of tne Senate, if
one ahould be created to that end. He said,
however, that daring nearly all the present
year an active inquiry into the condi
tion of enstom honsca had been going
on under tho initiation and supervision
of his immediate y predecessor and himself,
and thnt the result of that inquiry is ex
hibited in a volume of 690 printed pages,
which, when exnmined by Senators, will
disclose all needed facts in regird to tho
enstom houses up to October last, aud save
the work of an climing committee. If
there has been defective administration
since then, which has escaped his atten
tion, ho wonld bo glad to know of it A
resolution had been introduced in tho
Hotue respecting an importation of glass
ware by L. Lehmano, which he
said wonld ho promptly answered
as soon as adopted, and sent to him. Any
other specific inquiries addressed to the de
partment by either house, wonld receive
immediate and thorough attention. Mr.
Manning remarked that he bad, in his an
nual report to Congress, described his own
ideal of a collector ot customs at any ot tho
great porta, and ho had distinctly intimated
his own conviction that a satisfactory exe-
ention of the present tariff law would se
verely test the Best efforts of a staff of the
best officers that the country conld supply.
The point of attack now, he said, is
the appraising department, and, for obvious
reasons, he shonld, he arid, firmly and
earnestly uphold the conscientious conduct
of these officers against all corners. The
collector at New York, ho said, was neces
sarily and naturally assailed by selfish in
terest, because in case of disagreement be
tween the reappraisers his decision is final.
The Secretary had no doubt that the Senate
and country would discriminate between
tho existing tariff system, or rather the ex
isting tariff chaos, created by law nnd tho
officers who administered that syttem of
chaos. It will la difficult enough
to execute the existing law with tbo very
best of subordinates, and it would bo his
effort to efficiently use such instruments ts
may be placed in his bauds by the Fresi-
dent and Senate, to whom the law hail
wisely confided the selection of the chief
customs officials.
The civil service law has, Mr. Manning
odds, practically taken away from theTreas-
nry Department the selection of such me at
important subordinates os examiners, in
spectors, weighers, gangers and measurers.
The general appraisers, tho appraisers and
assistant appraisers are nominated by the
President and continued by the Senate.
Mr. Manning laid that ha expected toon
after the holidays to send to Congress a
special report on one branch of the cos lotus
system, and the project of a law which, if
adopted, will work therein needed reform.
Tbs Secretary concluded by aaying that it
is vittd to the public welfare, that in cus
tom honse matters there be concert of action,
K od understanding and pleasant relations
tween Ute Senate and head of the Treasury
Department, and added; “I shall do my nt-
mmt to promote this, and sltaU not unduly
intrude my psrty affiliations, or my party
prejudices, which I nevertheless hope and
believe arc reasonably strong.”
Odd Tricks.
Harper’s Voun* People.
If you wunt to see curious sleight-of-hand
tierfuraiaDccs, you must go to India. No
jugglers in this world can compare with
tluate who practice their carious art in that
far away laud.
'They have neither curtains nor tables,
boxes nor drawers, nor do they wear loose
embroidered mantlet with large sleeves, as
western wizards usually do. An Indian
I r is clothed only with a strip of mos-
^■tened around hid body. Hi* lintlie
[are bore. He stands in an open court yard,
withuul a tree, a grass plot, or the shelter
of a tent, and in the midstofaringuftpec-
tators, all gaxtng at him with intent watch!
fulness, he calmly performs the tricks which]
look like miracles.
For instance, ha extends'to you hi* empl
ty hands. You see that there is nothing in]
them, lie stoops down, picks up two or
three pebbles; mbs his bands together andj
presently there fat a shining stl.er rupee.
Again he shows yon his bare hands, picks]
np the rupee, breaks it in two, or pretends
to doao, aud there ore twocoiua. llehrcaks
these again and ag tin until be has ten or a
dozen, and where the money has eomefaont
or where he bad it hhlden, no mortal can
tell
The basket trick is a favorite and very mys
terious one. Toe h net ■ ■ .-.wn you emp
ty. F. is torne-l u;-v.de down in yonrsight.
| You know perfectly that there is nothing
j Is-n. -dh it; lull the juggli r sings a little soug,
“lliew! mm*:' is h.-ard; he lift* the bas
ket and out jumps'u cat. Sotaatimea in-
1 at- o j of “mo * s jnt Liar, _th. barking f
Destruction to Cattle.
AbxansabCitt, Ks., December 18.—Snow
to the depth ot seven inches fell on tho
night of December 11th and remains on the
ground yet, covering all feed from range
cattle except on bottom lands. As n great
pan. of the territory is burned off, it will
make grassing very scarce. Recent prairie
fires left hundreds of singed carcasses of
cattio and horses on the prairies and many
that escaped are wandering abont blind.
Knocked Into tlie Fire#
Taylor [Texas] Special#
Last night a tramp built a lire in ono of.
the pits in the roana-houso and laid a board
acroKS the pit, on which he Iny down and
went to sleep. The hostler, in moving an
engine, did not see the tramp, tho engine
knocking him into the blazing fire, burning
him very badly before he could he pnllecf
ont of it. lliii name could not bo learned.
Dr. It. O. Cotter,
Permanently located In Mm •?", Second HtrecL
Di-cM-t h of the eye, ear, throat and noae. Former
ly a*«lat&nt for four year* to Dr. A. W. Calhoun. At
lanta.
Advice to Mothers.
Mni. Winalow’a Soothing Syrup ahonld nlwayn b«
used for children teeUilnf. It aoothea tho child. 1
•oftona the Ruma. allay a all pain, cures wind coUg»
and la the beat remedy for dlarrhasa. 25c. a bottle*
P34wlj
Capital Prize §75,000.
Tickets Only $3.08. Shares in Proportion.
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
do hereby crriltj that we rni+nrl** the ar
rangement* for all th« Monthly aud Quarterly
Drawing* of the Loululana State L tt.-rv Company,
and tn p«non manage and and coutrol the Draw*
Inga thcmaelTM. and that the same am conducted
with honeaty, fairncM and tn good f*l'h toward all
partien, and we authorize the company to ui*« thla
certificate, with tee elmilrw of our aignatureN at
Uched In lte advertize menu.'*
CommUalo
W* the undersigned Dank* and Hanker*, will
pay all Prize* drawu in The Louizlana Stale Lot-
terries which may be presented at our counter*.
II. 0GLKSBY. Pmddrnt LoaLiiana National IUnk.
_ II. KKNNKDY. ITwtdcnt State .National Hank.
A. BALDWIN, I'ri -i-lcnt N. 0. .N-ti iial Bank.
Incorporated tn 1«W for 25 year* by the Legtala-
tnre for Educational and Charitable purpose*—with
a capital of 91.000,000—to which a reserve fund of
over 9M0.000 ha* etnee been added.
By an overwhelming popular rote iU fnnchlmm
«m male a part of the present Bute con*tltutloa
lopted December 2d, A. !»., U79.
The only lottery ever voted on and lndonied by
the people of any Ktate.
It never scales or postpones.
IU (trend Single Nnintar Drawing* fake
place Monthly, and the Extraordinary Draw
ing* regularlv every three mouths Instead of
Semi-Annually a* heretofore, beginning
March, 1886.
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FIRST GRAND DRAWING CLANK A, IN Till
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY.
JAM. ARY tXHL lsS6-18»th Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE. $75,000.
100,000 Ticket* at Five Dollars Each, Frac
tion* In Fifths In Proportion.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE
t do do
2 PRIZE* OP fd.000
• d> Vio»
10 dt> l.OHO
ArraoiMATto* non,
• Approximation Prices of 9750. A..
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t *• - aw
* gK
.. f 75,009
25.000
UAOOO
12.M*)
10,000
10.000
10,000
e.750
4.500
2.AJO
lwn Prizes, amounting to I2C5.50O
Application*for rat*s to dabs ahould bemads
only to the oflUw of tbs company In New Orleans.
For further Inf ..miat • i write «l«nr|y, glv ing fall
eddrees. POSTAL JfOTIM. Kvpreee M *r.. y Order*, or
Sew York Lxchanr* to ordi .tr ’ • r.irr.-ucy
by expreee tall same of |5 ei-1 cj -u. '.»tour«x-
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relief.