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Trains arrive and depart as follows: Depart 3:55 am U:43am 3:0O pm S:30 pm H'r.dO pm Arrive 12:35 am 10:15 am 11:15 am t7:43pm 10:55 pm Dally. tDaily except bon.iay. City uefcet oince corner Illinois street and Ken tacky avenue. II. J. nilEIN, General Agent. BARGAIN WEEK DIAMOND JEWELRY GOLD WATCHES GOLD AND PLATED JEWELRY IN Ko?ers' Knives and Forks (1847 GOODS.) SOLID SILVERWARE CLOCKS AND 'FANCY GOODS AT W. T. MARCY'S, 23 WEST WASHINGTON ST. 1. s. Watcii and Clock repairing. Music Box re- Tair.nc Bona PANSY BOOKS REDUCED FKOJI $1.50 to $1.05. Pelonbef Notes on Sniulajr-scbool Lessons for IssOl, DO cents per copy: $1 if sent by mail. Polonbtt'a Hook of Golden Texts and Bible Facts. $'J iuT lt'O. Ureat Sacrifice sale of Books and X-mas goods lor vim week. lu-ad iny paralyzing "art. In to-day's Sun. JOHN A. ALLISON,' CS E&n Market Street. BRL7S H BRILL IAN C Y Are and Incandescence ELECTRIC LIGHTS For particulars address THE BRUSH ' ELECTRIC CO. CLEVELAND. OHIO. COMMENCING W. H. "Will place on sale a beautiful assortment of CHINA, JAPAN and FLORENTINE SILKS at the low price of 50 CENTS A YARD. Do not fail to secure some of them, as thev are remarkably cheap. "W. H. EOLL, 30 to 3S SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET. HOLIDAY - O - OF EVJ3RY DESCRIPTION. Solid Silver and Cut Glass. Plush Toilet Cases. Fans and Opera Glasses. Christmas Cards and Juvenile Picture Books. CHAS. MAYER. & CO., 20 and 31 West Washington Street. SWEET OM E BREAD Cannot bo Beat. riTFor ci2K.c WAHE ViUUKS. N UT CltACKS A.N V i'lCKS, NOVELTIE IN CUTLEltY. fTTlK IjAKOKWT AlfD UE9T ASSUltTCD cTUCK ;KWT A.ZMJ I3X.31 AsoUiU ! OiuvK 1U TUJi CITY. THE WHEN'S YOUNG PULITZER FLOY AND "SAY." 5S ill YOUNa Pulitzer Floy Was a flip sort of boy. Who referred. In pcrfanctory way. To his sister as ,,Sia,M And his mother as "Miss." And his dignified father as "Say." lie could chew, and keep mum. Something stronger than gum. r v. r I And could "talk back at drivers that Vi whipped; And banana-peels he . Could drop round carelessly, And laugh at the fellows that slipped. L I f V CP Warmer; fair weather. FULl 8 The use of the Swallow-tail is extending into com munities where not long ago it was almost unknown. So much for the advance of civilization. The Full Dress Suit is distinctively an evening dress, and should never be worn before the evening dinner. It can be worn any where in the evening, and should be worn on all occasions of ceremony, such as weddings, parties, dinners, recep tions, theater and opera parties, and other occasions whose formal character is indicated by a formal invitation, and where social amenities are at their highest. A Full Dress Suit should not be worn during the day on aiy occasion whatever, but during the evening it may be worn when ever and wherever the wearer likes, and for formal occa sions it is absolutely requisite. You may buy or rent Full Dress Coats and Vests A.T THE w i JUL MURPHY, HIBBEN & CO; Offer for the Holiday Trade their line of UMBRELLAS In Gloria, Cloth,' and different grades of Serge Silk, handsomely mounted on natural and carved woods and with Gold, Silver, Horn, Horn and Sii- I ver, Buckhorn and Silver handles. MUFFLERS. A large assortment of Staples and Novelties in Wool, Cashmere and Silk. Stripes, Plaids and Figures. isroTiocsr department. .A.T A. BARGAIN T FRIDAY NEXT O Y MAD I ONLY 11Y BRYCE BAKERY sale at all Grocers. LILLY & ST4LN4KER 1 HLL1 l JllLilaliL IV, f I T . T- j. t. JR. GOODS NURSERY RHYMES. V Yet his fond father had Quite a pride in the lad. And had promised him, time and agalu, I f he'd half - way reform, Ile'd go buy him a warm Little overcoat down at THE WHEH. So said rnlltzer, "Say.." To his father, one day, 'Git that 'ben, as you're promised me to. Or," the little chap said, -As he stood on his head, I'm asoin to stand hers till yon do! -( ' t. H i i J"' if tl Ti . . . i V. DRE Yl 7 A And everything in Snrglo&l lustrnments ud Appliances VM. Ji. AHMBTllOU A CO8 Surgical Instrument House, i)'J bontlt Illinois su . POLTICAL LNTIM1DATI0X. Novel Case Growing Oat of the Democratic Factional Fight in South Carolina. Columbia. S. C.Dec. 12. A warrant has been sworn oat by N. G. Gonzales, a news paper correspondent, against Attorney general Y. J. Pope for violation of Section 552 of the federal statutes, which provides that whoever shall assanlt or intimidate any citizen because of political opinions or on the exercise of political rights and priv ileges guaranteed to every citizen of the United States by tho Constitution and laws thereof, or by the Constitution and laws of this State, or for such reason shall dis charge such citizen from employment or occupancy, or eject such citizen from a rented house or land, or other property, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be lined not less than 50 nor more than $1,000. or be imprisoned not less than three months nor more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. The Attorney-general had discharged Thomas A. Butler, clerk in the engrossing depart ment. He was one of the Haskell bolters, and was a candidate on that ticket for the Legislature from Union county. In dis charging Butler the Attorney-general ex pressed personal regret at the necessity for so doing, and testified to Butler's efficiency. Butler then wrote to Pope, and desired to be informed of the cause of his discharge. Pope answered: 'l removed you from oflice from a sense of duty to the people of this State. I believe It due to them that no oflice shall be bestowed upon one who has so recently jeopardized, by bis political conduct, the best interests of our whole people. While I am Attorney-general no independent need apply for oflice. and no such a one will be knowingly retained in oflice by me." TRYING TO BULLDOZE THE PRESS. Newspapers That Show Unfriendliness to the Farmers Alliance Movement to Be Boycotted. Sanford, Va., Dec. 12. President Polk, of tho Farmers Alliance, has named Friday, Feb. 6. 1S91. and Washinuton as the place of holding tho first meeting of the national legislative council, which is composed of the national president and tho presidents of all the State alliances. An important piece of action taken during the closing moments of the late convention was the adoption of a resolution with reference to the support of all alliances. The policy of the alliance will be to withhold all support from newspapers which do not conduct al liance departments or at least publish al liance news regularly. This arrangement does not compel a support of alliance meas ure? or an advocacy of alliance demands on the part of these newspapers in their edi torial columns, but does compel a certain deizree of friendliness, on their part and amounts to an absolute boycottof all news papers which do not come up to the terms of the resolution. Hood's Sarsaparilla is In favor with all clauses because it combines economy and Itrength. 100 Doses Ono Dollar. SS A , PD TPI1F UlUIUll NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH Mr. Dolph Causes a Slight Flurry in the Senate bj an Innocent Besolution. Vest and Batler Lose Their Equanimity Be cause It Was Suggested Mississippi's Con stitution Abridged: Rights of Electors. The Latter Senator Gets Angry and Ac cuses Somebody of Willful Falsehood. Mr. Hoar Regents the Imputation and Proves That the Southerner Threatened Colored Men for Voting the Republican Ticket Washington, Dec. 12. Mr. Plumb's res olution fordaily meetings at 10 o'clock and for evening sessions was taken up in the Senate to-day. Mr. Hoar moved to amend the resolution by striking out the clause for evening sessions and making it take ef fect after to-morrow, so as to leave the res olution provide only for the earlier daily meetings. The amendment was agreed to, and then the resolution was agreed to with out debate. Tho resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Dolph instructing the committee on privi leges and elections to inquire and report whether the right to vote at any election for presidential electors, members of Con gress, or State Legislatures or officers is denied to any male citizens of any State, or is abridged, except for participation in the rebellion or other crime, was taken up and Mr. Dolph stated the reasons which had induced him to offer it. What he desired th6 committee on privileges and elections to give special attention to was whether some States had not provided in their constitutions or laws such voting qualifications as were not permitted by Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, without an abridgmen t of representation. He claimed that the Constitution recently adopted in Missis sippi did impose such qualifications, and that therefore tho representation of that State should be abridged. He did not deny the power of a State to make such provis ions and to require such qualifications, but be asserted that if they were made and if the citizens of the United States had their right of suffrage denied or abridged, the representation of such State ought to he diminished in like proportion. He sent to tile clerk's desk and had read the recent in augural message of Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, which ho said was an of ficial declaration that the great mass of the colored men of the South were not tit to exercise the elective franchise and that the white people of tho South were in control of the State governments and proposed to maintain the control at all hazards. These two propositions taken together showed clearly, he said, that the colored people of the South would not be permitted to vote so long as they voted the Republican ticket or where their voting would secure Repub lican control. VEST EVADES THE QUESTION. Mr. Vest moved an amendment instruct ing the committed to inquire further whether, by any State legislation, any citi zens of the United States were denied the right to work on any publio improvements by reason of their color. There was, he aid a ricrht antecedent to and superior to the rights of suif;. That was the prtvtl lege of every human being to obey the divine injunction: "In the sweat of thy face thon shalt eat bread." It was the right of self-sustenance, of self-preservation. While the Senator from Oregon ex pended his logic and ' eloquence on the wrongs of the colored people of the South, he Mr. Vestl simply desired, with equal handed justice, to commend to him the legislation of the Republican Legislature of Oregon, which deprived .the negro citi zens of that State of the riht to labor on the works of publio improvement: Mr. Vest read a clause from a recent statute of the Oregon Legislature authorizing the building of a bridge and providing that none but white labor should be employed on the work. It might be said, Mr. Vest remarked, that the provision was intended to exclude Chi neso labor, but the lauguage of the statute waa "white labor," and it excluded the Mongolian, the Indian and the negro. Not oueof the 25,000 negro soldiers who fought in the Union army could draw a dollar for his labor on a bridge authorized by the legislative assembly of Oregon. Whatever might be said of the Democratic States of the Union, not one of them had ever denied to a negro the right to earn his bread and that of his family by his own honest labor. Not one Democratic State had ever perpe trated such an outrage. Mr. Dolph replied to Mr. Vest, and the discussion drifted into the question of tho treatment of Chinamen on the Pacific coast, A further allusion to Governor 1 ill ruan'e inauuural mesaaue brought out the declaration from Mr. Butler that ho was perfectly williug to stand by that message, and that it was conclusive proof to his mind that there were no people on this con tinent who were half eo anxious to settle, race difficulties as were the people of the South. A SOUTHERNER TUT IN A nOLE. Mr. Dolph said that ho was informed by a Senator on his side of the chamber that the Senator himself had threatened colored men in his employment that he would dis charge them if they should vote the Repub lican ticket. Mr. Butler whoever made that state ment is guilty of a deliberate and willful falsehood a deliberate and willful false hood. Mr. Hoar I suppose that I read within twenty-four hours the testimony of the Senator from South Carolina before a com mittee of this body, or of the other bouse, in which he stated that he had told the col ored people on bis plantation ihat he should dismiss them from his employ if they voted the Republican ticket. I made the state ment myself to the Senator from Oregon. Laughter on tho Democratic side. Mr. Butler Then the remark that I made applies, of course, to the Senator from Massachusetts. Mr. Hoar I am not to be deterred from saying what I have to say Mr. Batler 1 do cot propose to deter the Senator. Mr. Hoar (concluding the sentence) Ei ther by the manner or behavior of the Sen ator from South Carolina. I have read that in a publio document within twenty four hours. I suppose. If there is any mis take about it, I have made the mistake. This incident went no further. The reso lution then went over without action until to-morrow. The elections bill was then taken up, and Mr. Blodgett addressed the Senate in opposition. Mr. Walthall also argned against the bill. In tho course of his re marks he referred to the stereotyped peti tions in favor of the elections bill that had come up from Mississippi, and said that the largest number of names to such petitions came from the county of Bolivar. Aud yet, be said, there were more negroes holding office in the county of Boli var than in any other county in the South, or than in any State in the North. Out of forty-four office-holders in that county forty-ono were negroes. It was a wealthy county, where the white people were intelligent and enterprising, and yet every constable in the county was a negro; out of 150 justices of the peace thirteen were negroes. The two members of the board of supervisors, the coroner, the as sessor, the treasurer, the Circuit Court clerk and ono of the two Representatives in the State Legislature were negroes. The same condition of things existed, Mr. Walthall said, in Washington and other connties of Mississippi. Ho mentioned these facts in contrast to the treatment of colored men in the Northern States in the matter of holding office. Even in the Sen ate of the United States, where such inter est was professed in colored men, there was not one holding any office higher than that of laborer. He declared that there was nottate where the colored people were happier or more prosperous than they were in the State of Mississippi. The average negro in that State was reasonably content with his condition and realized that it was steadily improving. WHAT SENATOR BUTLER DID SAY. When Mr. Walthall closed his speech Mr. Hoar rose and called attention to the re marks made to-day by Mr. Butler stating that any one who said he had threatened to dismiss colored people from his employ if they should vote the Republican ticket was guilty of a deliberate and willful false hood. He sent to the clerk's desk and had read the official reporter's manuscript of what took place, aud said: "A rule of my life, long since formed, does not permit me to reply to tho Senator from South Carolina in such language as he thought proper to utter. Whether I should be guilty of a de liberate and willful falsehood about a mat ter contained in a publio document will be settled in the estimation of those who know me. I will read for the information of the Senate from the document to which I referred." Mr. Hoar proceeded to read from a minority report made to the House of Rep resentatives, in 1S76, signed by Mr. Law rence of Ohio, Mr. Banks of Massachusetts and Mr. Lappanof New York, in which Mr. Butler is represented t have testified as follows: Question Did you 6ay to these colored men that they could not remain on your land unless they voted the Democratic ticket! Answer I do not know that I said that. I said this: ! went down and gave them tickets, and said to them that they bad a right to voto the Republican ticket if they pleased; that they were free men, as free ns I was, but tnat if they exercised tnat right and Imposed taxes upon me that would destroy mj property and prospects, I should throw myself back on some rights that I had under the laws of the country, and would see that they left my plantation.' Q-I)id they all vote the Democratic ticket? A No sir, six or seven of them voted the Dem ocratic ticket. Some of them did not vote at all, and I do not know how the others voted; but I Intended to inform myself. Q With a view to turning them off if they voted the Republican ticket! A Not for voting the Republican ticket, if they had an honest ticket, but for voting for these thieves aud robbers. 'If that language," Mr. Hoar said, "did not justify the statement that the Senator from South Carolina had threatened to discharge men from bis employment for voting the Republican ticket, then I have done the Senator an injustice, but I think that it did." Mr. Butler said that he had denounced as falso the statement that he had threstened to discharge colored men on his plantation if they voted the Republican ticket. He had no retraction to make. If the Senator from Massachusetts had said that he gave the information to tte Senator from Ore gon Mr. Dolph, not of his own knowl edge, but from a publio document, the re mark would not, of course, apply to him. The testimony quoted was, he said, a garbled statement He bad never seen a report of the testimony which he had given, ard did not now recollect having appeared before the committee in question. But he repeated now that he had uever at any time, or on any occasion, attempted to influence a sin gle negro on his plantation, in the exercise of the franchise. Mr. Hoar, while justifying his own posi tion, expressed the great respect which he entertained for the Senator from South Carolina, and as Mr. Butler gave assur ance that he reciprocated that sentiment, the subject was permitted to drop, to the satisfaction of the Senators concerned and of Senators on each side of the chamber. Mr. Jones of Arkansas took the floor on the elections bill and the Senate adjourned. MILLIONAIRE FAYERWEATflELVS WILL. His Widow Will Contest It Because Three Ex ecutors Were Presented with $1,000,000. New York, Deo. 12. Mrs. Lucy Fayer weather, the widow of the deceased leather merchant, Daniel B. Faydrweather, who, by will, deeded over $2,000,000 to colleges, got leave from Judge Ransom, to-day,' to withdraw her consent to the probate of the will, and she will contest the instrument. The whole estate is expected to realize 86,500,000, oat of which bequest, legacies and other charges absorb only $2,750,000. Mrs. Fayorweather receives, under the will and codicils, $10,000 in cash, the houfe and stable in Fifty-seventh street, and nn an nual income of 315.000. The fourth and last codicil to the will was signed by Mr. Fayer weatneronthe day of his death. It re moved Mr. Rich from the position of a simple executor and gave him a joint resid uary interest with Henry B. Vaughn and Justus Bulkley. Mrs. Fayerweather is said not to have understood at first the effect of tho provisions of her husband's will. The objection which Mrs. Fayerweather holds to the granting of pro bate on the will and fouith codicil is not based on the liberality of her husband's bequests to the twenty colleges. Jt is said that she is even willing to carry these out in case she should obtain the power to dis pose of the property. What Mrs. Fayer weather fails to comprehend is why the three executors should receive $1,000,000 apiece without any of them having any particular claim on it. The contest will be ui;de on the fourth codicil, probably on the grounds of undue influence. The signa ture of the testator to this document will play an important part at the trial. MURDERS IN NO-MAN'S LAND. Error in the Trial of a Noted Case That Re sulted in th8 Conviction of Seven Men. Canton, O., Dec. 12. A private telegram just received here from Washington says: Attorney-general Miller has confessed error in the United States Supreme Court in the conduct of the Pay Camp killing case, in which seven men were sentenced to die ou Dec. 19 by the United States Court for the Northern district of Texas. This will prob ably reverse the verdict and sentence of the Texas conrt. Capt. Cyrus Frease, of the Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, formerly of this county, and six other citi zens of Hugotown, Kan., were indicted for the killing of Sheriff Cross and two com panions from Woodsdale, Kan., whose 'bodies were found in No-man's Land. The evidence was all circumstantial. Sam Woods, a Woodsdale leader, was shown to bavo worked up the prosecution, aud it is claimed that $100,000 was spent in the name of the government to convict these men. Grand Army men and various society or ganizations all over the country have been moving in behalf of the prisoners, one of whom was a county commissioner aud an other a congressional candidate. Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, has been active in behalf of the prisoners. The question of jurisdiction of the court of the Northern district of Texas over No-man's Land is in volved in tho case, and it is now being ar gued by Jndges Dillon, of New York, Peck, of Topeka, and Day, of Canton. TVliy There Is No ISarbed-WIre Trust. Chicago, Dec. 12. The reason why the barbed-wire manufacturers at their meet ing here this week did not form a trust is revealed by Mr. Wellington, of the Wash burn & Moen Manufacturing Company. He said: "Some of the firms which manu facture barbed wire under the patents of our nrm soucht to evade paying a royalty of 5 cents per 100 ponnds, but were enjoined. They then tried to form a combination and thus get control of the patents, but ther .failed. Our firm has sued out injunctions against an ox tuese concerns, and we intend to crowd them out of the business or force them to obtain a license. We do not de sire to raise the price of barbed wire, as we are making plenty of money at the present rates." Hoosler'a Deadly Work tn Kentucky. Louisville, Dec. 12. W. B. Curl, who ffAl whlnnpri Itv norinnnl nnm(ii nanr Brandenburg last week.iis still hardly able io ueouu mo rata were about to nang I Warrants Sworn Out Against Officials of Two Philadelphia Institutions. Philadelphia, Dec. 12. George F. Work, who was the master mind ot the Work-Mc-Farlane-Pfeller-Dungan syndicate, which, it is alleged, wrecked the Bank of America and the American Lifo Insurance Company, was arrested, Thursday night, on a warrant sworn out by District Attor ney Graham, and at the hearing to-day, in default of $20,000 bail, was committed to prison. The District Attorney also sworo out warrants for the arrest of State Sena tor John J. McFarlane, T. Pfeffer and James Dungan, but Work was tho only one of the number that the constable, could find. Tho war rant on which Work was arrested charges him with rehypothecating the stock, and with conspiracy to cheat an d de fraud the depositors and others interested in the Bank of America. The warrant also charges him with similar offenses in connec tion with the American Life Insurance Com pany. Senator McFarlane was president of tho American Life Insurance Company and vice-president of the Bank of America. Louis E. Pfeffer was president of the hank and vice-president of the insurance com pany, and Dungan was cashier of the bank. Work had the position of assistant, or ad visor to Senator McFarlane, The disas trous financial methods of the quartet reached a climax last spring, and when they could no longer be concealed the bank suspended and the iusuranco company assigned a few days later. Hundreds of people lost their all by the rnin of the two institutions, and when the full truth of the manner in which the crash was brought about was learned the great est ingnation was expressed against tho officers of the company. Senator McFar lane disappeared and has never returned. Pfeffer and Dungan were arrested, charged with receiving desposits after they knew the bank was insolvent, and the indictment on that charge is still pending against them. Since that time an expert accountant has been at work examining the books, and it was npon the discoveries made by him that the District Attorney issued the war rant for tho arrest of the quartet of bank wreckers. m BRITISH CONSUL IN TROUBLE. Likely to Get His Walking Papers for Disre spect to the Governor of Texas. Galveston, Dec 12. Mr. Lyall, British consul at this place, lately undertook to defend a man named Kelly, an English man who was convicted of burglary iu Houston. His efforts in behalf of the burglar have resulted in tho following cor respondence, which bids fair to cost Mr. Lyall his official head. On Nov. 8 Gov. Ross wrote to Secretary Blaine, inclosing the papers in the Kelly case, togother 'with Consul Lyall's letter, and closed with these remarks: I respectfully suggest that the inclosed letter Is of such character as to call for action by tho United States authorities with a view of with drawinghis exequateur. Entertaining tho views expressed, bis further ofllclal relations with tho people of this State are calculated to disturb tho friendship and comity existing between this and the British government. A number of other let ters received from him havo been wanting in that tone of proper respect whib should obtain from a foreign consul to the executive of a tatc, but I have hitherto passed them over as un worthy of notice. But the present assault on tho integrity of our judiciary and the threat he makes use of renders it necessary that some ac tion be taken for the preservation of the respect due to this government, and therefore the mat ter is confidently committed to your hands. Following is Mr. Blaine's reply to Gov. Ross, written on the 8th inst.: Sir -Referring to your letter of the 8th ult, concerning improper conduct of Sir. Lyall, Brit ish consul at Galveston, with reference to the case of James Kelly, wbc vra recently con victed in the District Court in Harris county, Texas, of the crimes ot larceny aud bunrlary, I have the honor to inform you that the matter was brought to the attention of tbe British min ister at the capital, with a statement that in tho opinion of this department tho conduct of Mr. Lyall has destroyed his usefulness as a consular representative of her Brltanuio Majesty's gov ernment in this county. This communication has Just been answered by a note from the Brit ish minister, in which he states he has trans mitted copies of the papers in the case to Lord Salisbury, and the department awaits the fur ther reply of the minister before taking final action in reference to the subject. I have tho honor to be your Excellency's obedient servant. James U. Blalse. m t m ' HIGH PRICES FOR RELICS. More Effects of the Washington Family Sold at Philadelphia for Fancy Sums. Philadelphia, Dec. 12. The sale of Washington relics was continued yesterday and last night, all the articles being dis posed of. The closing sale was devoted principally to books, many of which had autographs of either tho Washington or Lewis families. As ras the case at last night's session, high prices were given for nearly everything bought. Tho ladies who were buying for tho Ladies' Mount Vernon Association made many purchases, and bid so spirited that thty became the observed of ail. Henry Home's "Loose Hints," printed in Edinburgh in 1.S7. and bearing Washington's autograph on the title page, was the first article in tho catalogue. It was knocked down to the Mount Vernon Association at $85. The same society gave $77 for Hervedy's Meditations." London, 1750, which bears four autographs of Mary Washington. The society also made an interesting tight for a volume of tho "Female Spectator," of which tbero were three. However, they were purchased by Mr. Murphy, atent for W. 11. Hearst, the California millionaire, for $100 a volume. Murtha Washington's Bible, which has had COO copper plates engraved by John Stuart, was won after a lively tight by Mitchell, the New York book-seller, for $700. this bo ing the highest amount given during thd day. The book, which was printed nl Ox ford in 1789, contains two signatures of Martha Washington, in addition to the family record of tho Lewises. After th Bible was sold Martha Washington's fan, described iu the catalogue as a beautiful composition of ivory, steel and lac which is extremely small, was awarded to Benja min T. Cable, of New York, for S2CO. Novel Question Italaed iu Wyoming:. Cheyknne, Wyo.. Dec. 12. A novel plea was entered in tho District Court here, yesterday, to try to save Win. Kitigan, a convicted cattle-thief, from tho peniten tiary. It was that, as the Wyoming state Constitution provides that both male aud female citizens of the State have equal rights and privileges, females as well as males shouht bo summoned as jurors. As no females were summoned on tho Kingan jury it was urged to have been illegally drawn. The plea was overruled, aud Kingan was sentenced to eight years' im prisonment. Acquitted of Criminal Negligence. Reading, Pa., Dec 12. The jury in the case of Henry C. Kemp, the Reading Rail road Compauy brakeinan, charged with criminal negligence iu causing the disaster at Shoeinakeraville, t y which twenty peo ple were killed aud many injured, this morning returned a vsrdict acquitting tho prisoner and putting the costs on tho county him, bntnpon his plea for the sake of his children, contented theriselves with beat ing him until he was bleed in k from heavy welts from his shoulders to his knees. When Constable Massey, with the warrant, called noon Thomas Buigess to answer the chargo of beating Curl, Burgess answered, "Not by a sight," and, taking his shotgun, he tired through the door. None of the shot took effect. Then be went to the window and fired tho other barrel. The chargo en tered the bowels of John Foote, and he fell to the ground dead. During the excite ment created by tho shooting of Foote, Burgess escaped through a rear window and is at large. Burgess came recently from Harrison county, Indiana, where he had killed a man. m CHARGED WITH BAXK-WRECKING. .TWENTY-FOUR COIIGRESSLIEN An Increase of That Knmber Provided intheApportionment BillAgrcedOn. New Icrk and Brooklyn's Prolonged Outcry cf Fraud in the Census Enumeration Found to Be Without the Lest Foundation. Shrewd Schemeol "Green Goods" Swin dlers to Evade tho Postal Laws. Conference of World's Fair OlScials with tla President Views cf Senator Squire on the Influx of Chinese-Injustice toilr.Rust. APPORTIONMENT BILL AGRTED ON. Tli 3 lea n re Reported to thm House No Fraud in the Brooklyn and New York Count. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . Washington, Dec li The census com mittee this morning met at 10 o'clock lor tho purpose of listening' to the arguments of the Democratic delegation from tho city cf .Brooklyn, who promised that if they were given an opportunity they would show conclusively that there was a good deal of Republican fraud in the enumeration of the City of Churches, Congressman Felix Campbell was to be the spokesman, and he was to be aided by the corporation counsel, and he was going to produce volumes of figures with which to confront and astound Superintendent Porter, but Mr. Campbell proved to be a complete fiasco. He edmit ted very readity, as soon as ho entered tho committee-room, that he had no evidenco whatever to present, and asked that the matter be indefinitely postponed. Congressman Dunnell, the chairman of tho committee, asked whether any effort had been made to induce Super intendent Porter to recount tho population. Mr. Porter replied that he had never received a solitary word of complaint from the local authorities of Brooklyn in regard to the matter, but, on the contrary, the greatest satisfaction with, the supervisor had been expressed. This was admitted by the delegation, and they left the room. This matter is of interest, because New York city and Brooklyn alleged frauds have been published all over the country, and a great ado has been made about alleged attempts to deprivo these cities of Representatives. Mr. Porter has shown very conclusively that all tho howl over New York's enumeration is un founded. The committee, after having given New York aud Brooklyn men every opportunity to make their cases, concluded to wait no longer before deciding upon a re apportionment claim, and they con sequently took up, discussed and agreed to the Frank bill, which provides for a new Congress of S"6 members. Under this plan, which has been heretofore ex plained in these dispatches, no State will lose a member, and there will be a total f;ain of twenty-four, of which Nebraska eads, with a clear gain of three. Illinois. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas come next, with gains of two each, and the re maiuder aro scattered among various States. If it shall be proven that thero has been fraud or neglect in the matter of enumeration in New York city, an amend ment will be added to the bill, after it shall have passed, giving that State one tuoia member, if the population .in tho Lmpiro.- State is found to be so much greater than that reported as to warrant this change. This reapportionment scheme meets with very general approral on both sides of the chamber, aud. aside from the Democratic factional opposition to the bill, it is believed it will pass eventually in the shape in which it was reported to tho House to-day. The most important feature is the section which is designed to prevent gerrymandering by providing that the max imum number in each district may not ex ceed another, and also that there shall be more compactness in the formation of the district. The agreement to report the bill was unanimous, although Messrs. Holman and Tillman reserved the right to vote for a different number than 2,'A. Tbe only vote taken was on a motion made by Mr. lioltnan to til the number zi and it found no second. Mr. Tillman is In favor of a House composed of five or six hundred members, and a Senate of six members from each State, and will probably make a speech in support of his views when there apportionment bill comes np. He made a strong speech in committee when the mat ter was under discussion, and members say his remarks will certainly be interesting. The bill will be brought up in the House at an early day. If the claims of either New York city or Brooklyn with respect to the census should bo favorably acted upon the House will be increased by tho necessary additional representation. The report notes the changes that will be e fleeted, and says that from the aggregate population of the United States the com mittee subtracted tbe aggregate population of tbe District of Columbia and of the Ter ritories of Oklahoma and Utah. The re mainder was Cl.y08.WG. WTith this number ditlerent ratios were obtained by taking n a divisor any proposed number. K.ich number was taken from S22 to 275. Trials were made until a number was found that would give a ratio which, in applica tion, would eecure each State against any loss in its membership, and iu no instance leave a major fraction, 'ibis num ber was found to be Tho ratio was 173J01. The number of members obtained on even division was The additional seventeen needed to make 356 was secured by giving another member to each of the 8tates having left to it a major fraction. The States and the fractions remaining are: Alabama. 121.W0, California, 101,724; Geor gia, 03,13; Indiana, lttVW; Iowa, Kentucky, llfJ.C25; Maine. 1S9.&S.1; Maryland. 172.8S5; Massachusetts, 152,121; Oregon, lo., mi; Rhode Island, 171.GOT; South Carolina, 107.743; South Dakota, 154,007; Texas, 14,- 711; Vermont, 158,521: Virginia, 10,871; Wis consin, 121,771. The committee docs not deem the number fixed in the bill an unreasonable increase in the membership of the House. A much larger increase, the report says, has been urged by many members. An increase in tbe membership of the House has been made in every apportionment act sinca 1789, except in that of 1843, when there was a reduction of fifteen. EVADED THE POSTAL LAWS. Green Goods' Dealer Caught In a New Scheme to Get Letters through the Mails. Washington, Dec. 12. Tb "green goods' swindlers who have for years been operating in and about New York city have recently devised a new echemo which is, by representing themselves as be longing to some syndicate or mining com pany, and arranging with a fourth-class postmaster on some star route away from thelregnlar lines of travel to forward their mail to them as they may decide. This re sults in tho "green goods' men directing the victim to address his communications to them at the small postoftlce. The pout master, sometimes knowing that he is dc Ing wrong, and at other times be ing dereived, forwards tho "green goods" letters or holds them until a courier from New York comes after thrrv A short time sinco the postmaster at Alter' " Mich., was approached by the "grec goods' wen, who otlered him a good week-" ly salary to co-operate with them. Th Eostmaster reported this to the Postottc lepartraent. and Mr. Rathbone, tbe chief inspector, instructed tho postinnster to ac cept the employment frcn the pern goods" men, holding in account the . n?y paid to bio vthich yv'U'i. XLa it. ult u i ;