The DeSmet leader., January 27, 1883, Image 1

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VOLUME 1.
The latest boror is reported from
Russian Poland, where three hundred
persons perished in a burning circus.
The loss of property in Germany
alone, by the recent calamitous fl rods,
is estimated at about S2O,OOJ,Oi)U. It
must be equally large in Russia and
Hungary.
Brooklyn has lost the right to her
title as th© “City of Churches.” Cincin
nati, Philadelphia, Boa'on and Chicago
have now more churches in proportion
I nopuiation than Br< oklyn has.
UXJ — —- hospital hjlvtnging to old Fort
•Jwutajriord, at Prairie du Chien, Wis.,
which was a government military sta
tion early in th© present century, and
was one of the landmarks of the past
iu the northwest, was destroyed by tire
on Saturday.
The preponderance of current con
• greeflional opinion is that there will be
Thk.tariff legislation this session, as the
is badly complicated and
SuilSf- 0 J et but thirty working
while much necessary legislation
is still unperfected.
The New York Tribune sees a possi
bility of financial troubles ahead, but
advances two reasons for hoping that
they may be avoided. The first is that
banks and business men have had
some pretty sharp warnings of the
danger. It would be strange indeed, it
thinks, it tney should not take especial
precautions to draw away from de
pendence up >n operations so plainly
dangerous. The s< cond is that the
speculative fever has ab>ut reiched
the stage at which the professional
gamblers are left to amuse themselves
with each other.
The constitutionality of the Kansas
prohibition has been affirmed by the
supreme court of Kansas. The plain
tiff in the case claimed that the law
violated the constitution of the United
Htates, as it deprived citizens of prop
erty without due process of law. The
brewers in the state have large proper
ties that h ive been rendered worthless
if the law stands. A dissenting opinion
tiiat the State must pay for such
property. The matter will go to the
United States supreme court.
Mr John F. Olmstead is iB a posi
tion to know something of the vanities
of politics. The president nominated
him as one of the commissioners of
the District of Columbia, thus giving
boa an introduction to fame aud pub
lic life. The pre*3 was alert and at
once began to examine his record.
Tnis was found to be very vulnerable,
and such a buzz was made about his
ears that he was forced to defend him
self in the lame fashion common to
his class. The senate committee found
out something about him after the
newspapers had fully ventilated his
surrouudings and associates and they
concluded yesterday to let him down
ai easy as possible. He has for his
reward a character more or less
smirched aud the privilege of going out
with as good a grace as possible, as
sured that if he does not see fit to re
tire he will be r»j acted. Very few
politicians have had an experience so
varied and valuable iu the same
space of time as that through which
Mr. Olmstead has gone in the last
month.
(jkkat firet», like olher misfortunes,
come not singly. While woikmen are
clearing away, the debrie of the New
hall house Are in Milwaukee, the wire*
are burdened with a weight of woee.
A portion of the Planters house, Bt.
Louie, burned Sunday morning, in
which three lives were lost: the Russell
house in Neenab, Wia., together with
4i* the Pettibone bleck, the First National
i bank and other property; the Mandt
i wagon manufactory at Stoughton, near
£ Madison, wed the First Presbyterian
X\ church of Memphis. No hves were
\ ' lost at Neeoah or at Stoughton or at
, Memphis, which is cause for profound
congratulation. But a terrible catas
-4 wsa narrowly averted at the
I*. fire, as the congregt
tion shad hardly passed across the
into the outer air when the
B: ! . destroying element seiaad upon it and
. ' reduced it to a heap* of smouldering
A remoter calamity, meagerly
'Outlined in the cable djrfpetches, recalls
the frightful horrors of the Brooklyn
1 at&lheater fire. A fire breaking out in a
L dreta building, in a Jewish town ol
t iJti*Muan Poland, destroyed 800 hves 1
'' gpd wrappetHfcc whole city in mourn
if fog. The recoirence ot these warning
in America is hardly to be re
gnsted, since the loss of life is inrfg.
nificanL as they repeat and emphas'se
j the , ashßj of the Ne shall house fire.
The o-rfMr and' proprietors of that
rfes elry have endured a good
deal of indignant criticism, but it is the
ooncursent evidence of the whole trav
eHtg ptblic that nearly eHry coneid
•rable town j* tbs not thwest has one
OK more hotels as dangerous. The
ij? need for rtfoija in eating for the safety
l'* of guests is almost ukiversaL The sub-
Wi receive the prompt alien
uoo Jr every legislature now in session
The De Smet Leader.
TELEGRAPHIC.
News by Wire Reduced to
Close Quarters for Con
venient Reference and
Easy Reading.
CHIMB.
C. B. Chisholm, secretary for several
California minii g companies, has abscond
ed from Sa i Fraiciaoo, after confessing a
defalcation of $7,800.
Chaklis Bkidley, a Canadian burg-
lar, who was recently discharged from
Joliet penitentiary, has been sent back
by Judge Tulev of Chicago to serve
twenty years.
Thk hangman has rid the world of Ar
ihur Preston, a Maryland negro who
n urdered his paramour, and of Charles
G. Bhaw a colored man of Washington,
who stood on Guiteau’.* scaflold.
Two prisoners in j til at Springfiedl. 11l ,
dug through the wall of their cell with a
pair of scissors, s'epped into the ventilat
ing flue connected with the chimney, and
reached the ground by means of a rope
made of blankets.
In the »uit brought by Chief Engineer
Melville for the custody of his children, a
trial has for somedavs been in progress at
Meeia, Penn. The judge gave the two
youngest children to their mother, and
directed that the elder he sent to college
at the father's expense.
On the death of John Broad and wife at
Atlanta, Ga., who lelt $40,000, no will was
found. A nephew was approached by let
ter and cflered the misong document for
SSOO without questions. He made the
purchase and the will was placed on rec
ord. The administrator brought suit to
break the document, and the superior
court decided that it was a forgery. Two
witnesses to it have lieen ai rested,
C»pt. Stanfi rd Millican, of the tug
boat \V. H. Payne, of N. J., was arrested
oh a charge of incendiarism, preferred
by Chief Farrier, of the Jersey City F re
department. At an early hour Saturday.,
dimes were discovered on the tug boat
W. H. Psyne, by the sailors on the V iit
ed States revenue cutter Grant. The
alarm was rounded and the fire depart
ment promptly responded. The burning
tug was found sa'urated with kerosene
oil, and hlanke s wet with oil were found
on the deck.
FOREIGN.
The loss by Hoods in Germany in esti
mated at 80,( 00,000 marks
Lady Dixie declines a testimonial in
acknowledgment of her servicis in reliev
ing distress in Ireland.
Twenty-tw’o shocks of earthquake were
felt at Murcia, a province of S,»ain, Satur
day. Several houses were destroyed.
Marwood, the hantman, swung eft
Thomas Higgins and Michael FHnn at
Galway, Friday, for complicity in the
murder of the Huddys.
Japan is about to adopt the American
system of railroad building, and has or
g:tn r zed a union steamship company, with
capital of SB/00 000, to develop the trade
of the empire.
Thrkk explosions occurred Tuesday in
a gunpowder factory eight niilei from
Amsterdam, Holland, and twelve corps?s
have already been discovered.
Tng anarchist trials at Lyons, France,
resulted in sentences of five years’ impris
onment and fines of 2 000 francs for
Priece Krapitkine, Gautier, Bernard,
and Bordaf. F«»ur of the accused were
arquiUtd, and forty others were ordered
fined and imprisoned.
A CiUCU-t of republican congressmen
was held Saturday afternoon, at which it
was resolved that the tarifl bill bi taken
up next Tuesday and given preference
over all legislation except appropriation
bills.
The national board of trade, wh ; ch
yesterday closed its session at Washing
ton, passed resolutions in favor of a pcs al
telegraph and the encouragement of
American shipping, and averse to the
continuation of the II iwaiian treaty.
Michasl Paviti’s rppearance on the
platform at Oldham brought on a free
tight. The mob drowned hi« words by
noise, and made an attempt to storm the
speaker’s stand, but were repulsed with
chairs in the hands of Daviti’s triends.
Police removed the disturbers.
Vabiocs accounts from Constantinople
state there was an affray on Saturday be
tween two regments of the police guard,
one of them composed of Albanians and
the other of African Arabs, between whom
hiiur hereditary jealousy exists. About
fifty of the combatants were killed or
wounded.
FUEUBB AMD CASUALTIES.
The business portion of the village of
MsArthur, O hio, has been destroyed bv
fire.
Aft explosion of nilro-gljcerine at San
Publo, Cal., Tuesday caused the death of
two Portuguese.
Bon. £. B. Wjbhburmb, wl tie ridirg
at Sin Antonio, was painfully injured by
being thrown from hit horse.
Trb jail at O&k Harbor, Ohio, was
burned Sunday morning, and a prisoner
charged with drunkenness perished in the
flames.
Small pox has developed in the lum
ber camps near Rat Portage, Manitoba,
aad the government has sent out physi
cians and Lurses.
Tbichimiasis made tts appearance ir
the family <f Jacob Schriever, at Fred
ericksburg, Texas*from which three chil
dren died.
Thb stesmer Josephine, with twenty
passengers snd s ful* load of freight, ex
ploded her boiler in Port Susan bey, or
the Pacific, aid several lives were lost.
Thb stallion Pemberton, with a record
of 2:24, owned by H. C. Stever.s, of Me
thnen, Mass., and valued at $lO (XO, has
killed himself by runair g into a picket
fence.
Tub Quincy houss, one of the larges*
hotels in Quit cy,i 1., took Are at brsnkfast
lirne, Tuesday, and the upper stories were
burned away. Over one hundred person*
wire hurried tut of the building. Loe
about $45,000.
Atbauglimq bands of Indiana, en roe*e
from San Carlos reservation to join Ja in
Sonora, are seen frequently near Tomb
stone, Arisons. The governor of So norm
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DE SMET, KINGSBURY CO., DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27,1883.
has ordered out a large force of troops to
intercept the hostiles.
The village of Mara, Switzerland, has
been entirely destroyed by a land-slide, a
great mass of earth, rocks and tries mov
ing down the mcunta ; n side, and l-urying
the town. The inhabitants escaped with
their lives by fleeii g hastily.
WASHINGTON.
The grand jury has returned an indict
ment against Frank H. Fall, charging
him with attempting to corruptly control
the vote of one Brown, a juror in the first
star-route trial. *
Kx Senator Spencer, who is wanted at
Washington as a witness in the star-route
esses, has for »ome time been staying in
Kingston, Ontario, closely watched by
detectivi s, bu* is now reported at Halifax,
en rule for England.
The house committee on public build
ings and grounds has authors d the pur
chase for $12,0(0 of the house in which
Abraham Lincoln died. A report will be
made against the sale of the brideweil
d< ck property at Caicago.
Gen. C’auedo, one of the commission
ers spp anted by Mexico to negotiate a
commercial tiea'y, has arrived in Wash
ington, and called upon Grant and Tres
cott in company with Romero.
The court of claims h is rendered a de
cision in favor of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company for SB3 333 33 in a mil
aga<nst the United States under its con
tract for carrying the mail on the China
line a number of years ago.
Kev. Dr. Hicks spiritual adviser of
Charles J. Guiteau, has executed a legtl
instrument transferring to Surgeon-Gen
eral Crane all his right aid title to Gtiii
eau’a body. The pafier recites a clause of
the will by which Guiteau bequeathed
his body to Dr. Hicks, and it hears evi
dence ot acknowledgment before s justice
of the peace. Surgeon General Crane is
unable to state what the final disposition
of the assassin’s remains will be.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Milwaukee Germans have sent
$24,000 to the flood victims of Father
land,
A err z tN of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
is about to erect and presmt to Harvard
col'eare a dormitory building costing
$250,000.
A Bill to prohibit the sale of l'qnors,
is I*-fore the senate of Texas and will
prcbibly pa«s, although influential, whis
ky dealers are lobbying against it
The select and common councils of
Philadelphia elected Win. M Taggart as
city comptroller in place of Gov. Pattison.
The governor has already sent to the
senate the name o A. Divis Page for
that office. A legal confesl is expected.
1 A Boston journal, in dealing with the
report that the Burlington road is to buy
Hhe Rio Utaiidr, wxertc th- Atefc*<»en
company would, in such event, retaliate
by-laying a broad gauge roa4 to Lead
ville through the Grand canon of the
Arkansas, in 1 by building a road into
Denver.
The stock farms around
Kentucky are alive with eastern and
northern horsemen in search of roadsters
and trotters. Breeders in that section
dislike to sell to each other. A 6 vear
old-mare w«s sold the of her day for $1 500
after MilteYoung had cflered $8(K) for
her.
The republican national committee met
in Washington Thursday, John A. Mar
lin, of Kansas, was elected secretary in
pluce of 8. W. Dorsey. After prolonged
debate it was resolved that the basis of
repri sentation invitational conventions be
two delegates for each senator, the same
for every member of congres*, and two
for each territory and the District of Co
lumbia.
Ktiwai it-** M«raei.
Milwaibes, January 23 Flour- In fair
demand. Wheat—Steady; active. No. 2 hard,
1.13; No. 2, 1.01; for seller January 1.01. V,
for teller February 1.01 S; for seller March
1 02*4; for seller April 1 03V; for seller May
I.OHV No. 3 84; No. 4. 70. Corn—Quiet
but firm. No. 2, 58. Oats—Higher; No. 2, 38 *,;
white, 3V* Rye—Higher. No. 1, 84 No. 2,
80 bid. Barley—Stronger. No. 2, 77; extra
No. 3, 55. Previsions—Higher. Mess Pork
17.55 for seller* cash and January; 17.55 for
seller M treh. Lard—Prime steam, 10.80 for
seller cash and January; 10.90 for seller March,
live Hogs—Lower; 5 80||8 15. Dressed Hogs
—Wanted; 7.00£715.
I'htrace Barker.
Lmicaso, Jan. 23.—Flour—Steady end firm
ing upward; common to choiee springs, 3.50£
4.75; Minnesota, 3 50£425, brokers, 4.25£5.50!
patents,
low grades, 2 0063.50. Wheat—Active, firm;
higher; 1 00* for seller January; 1.0161 01*
for seller February; 1.01*61 02 tor seller March;
I. V for seller April; 107*61-07* for seller
May; No. 2 red winter, 1.01; No. 2 Chicago
spring, 1.00 v£ 1.00 V; No. 3 Chicago spring
88*. Cora—Strong; higher; 58*658Vfor sell
er cash January; 55*<g55* for seller February;
57 V for seller March; 45m for seller May reject-
Oats— Demand fair; prices higher; 37 X for seller
cash; 37* for seller January and February; 37*
£3B for seller March. 39 Vifß9V * or seller May
Rye- Firmer; 81. Barley- Steady and unchang
ed. Butter—Steady and unchanged. Bggs—
Dull and unchanged. Flax seed—Firm and un
changed. Dreseed hogs -Fair demand at lower
rates; hght. 7.1067.15; heavy, 7.20®7.20. Pork
- Fairly active; shade higher; for
seller rash; 17 52*617.55 for seller February
17 72 17.73 for eel er March; 1802*6**05
lor seller May. Lard - Active; shade higher;
10 JO for eeller cash, 10.77 *6 10.80 foe seller Feb
ruary; 10.85*610.90 for seller March; 11.106
11. for seller May. Bulk Meats—Steady aud
eachangad. Whiskey—Steady and uuchaaged
1,18.
A Bed Time.
Commander J. B. Coghlan U. 8. N.
writ** to u« from the Navy yard at Mare
Island, Cal. —Ao enforced residence of
iwo years in California made me the sub
ject t f most painful attacks of rheuma
tism. Consultation upon my case by emi
nent Naval and other surgeons fall d to
offer any reMef. Dr. Hoyla recoommend
id to me Bt. Jacobs Oil. the happy result
of the use of which was my comptric and
U'onderfhd curt Wathrujtou ( D. V. ) Arm y
arid .Vary.
- -m e♦» - *
Frau La con gets $215 for entry mp
penmoce nt the Viennn oppem house,
where the is penmnnentlv engaged. In
Berlin she recently reoeived SB,OOO for
six evenings, while in London she will
iljfcri, next Spring $1,400 per night.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Tuesday, Jan. 10.
Stunt? —At the close of the morning
hour the Halliday bill went oyer.
S nator Hill, from the postoffice com
m tt«e, reported favorably the house bill
to modify the postal monev order system.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the tariff bill.
House —ln the hou*s, Joseph E Taylor
*as r worn in as representative from the
1G b Ohio district.
The bill amending the act regulatirg
the removal of causes from state to fed
eral courts, was then aonsidered as the
sppeial order, and a long debate enrued.
Pending discussion of the federal court
bill, Mr. Kelly of the ways and means
committee, reported the tariff hill which
was referred to committee of the whole.
Widni sday. Jan. 17.
Senate —The conference report on the
agricultural appropriation hill was agreed
to. The postoffice appropriation bill was
then considered, and after a short debate
the tarifl bill was taken up.
House—Mr. Peitibone (Tenn.) submit
ted the unanimous report of the election
committee in favor of the claim of J. T.
Csine to tie admitted as a delegate from
Utah, and Caine wat sworn in.
Thursday, Jan. 18.
Senate —After further unimportant
business, the postoffice appropriation bill
came up, the pending question being on
the amendment appropriating $185,000
for necessary and spetiai facilities on
trunk lines. After debate the amendment
wai adopted.
The tar ff hill was then resumed. After
a long debate, during which several un
successful efforts were made to amend the
duty on various aitides from rates agreed
upon by the committee, the senate ad
i >urned in res|iect to the memory of the
late Mr. Shackleford.
House —The morning hour hsving been
dispensed with, Robeson moved to go into
committee of the whole on the naval ap
portionment bill.
Mr. Butlerworth nnde an effort to get
a consideration of the bonded extersion
whisky bill, but Robeson’s motion pre
vailed, and with Page in the chair the
house vent into cimmittee of the whole
on the naval hill.
Mr. Rihecon explained the provisions
of the hill as heretofore published and at
the coi elusion of his remarks the house
aJj turned out of respect to the memory
uf the late lieprtseinative Shackelford.
Friday, Jan. 19
Senate —At the close of the morning
hour the post* ffice bill was laid aside and
the senate resumed consideration of the
tarifl.
House —The house pissed two private
bills. A war claim bill then gave rise to
some debate and the ayes and rays were
ordered on its i assage, pending which, on
motion of Robeson, ot New Jersey, the
house at 3 o'clock atfj turned and a repub
lican caucus was helu immediately.
Wvri’RnAv. Jam. 20.
Senate — At the clwe of the morning
hour tbe p istoffice appropriation bill was
taken up, the pending question being on
the amendment changing the date when
the reduction of letter postage from 3 to
2 cents shall take effect from January Ist,
1884 to the first of July next.
After a long and tedious debate the
amendments made in committee were
agreed e iacluding that of fixing the
date at July 1 t next when the reduction
of letter postage shall take effect.
The bill then passed and the tarid bill
was then passed.
House —After the passage of two private
bills the house went into committee of the
whole in the c msidera'.ion of the naval
appropriation bill, and when the com
mittee aruse ‘he house adj turned.
Monday, Jaw. 22.
Senate —A somewhat spirited debate
was had on the lumber supply of the
Uaited S.ates, and also on taxation of
sugars and molasses. Regarding the for
mer product. Hen. Bavard thought there
was a striking inconsistency in keeping
upon the statuta books a law offering a
bonus for the cultivation of timber and at
the same time keeping out foreign lum
ber by duty. The preset vation of our re
maining forests was a m&t'er of great na
tional importance. He had been informed
by gentlemen familiar with the region
about the headwaters of the Missouri and
Missies ppi and chief kffl leots that there
was great danger of the destruction of the
forests there unless prompt measures were
taken for their preservation.
Houm— The house had under consider
ation the naval sppropi iation bill. It
spei.t the entire dar in fruitles* discus
sion of it, and adjourned without taking
action.
THE DEADLY HIP POCKET.
PI la Wsrds sstea C'swaNly Habit
Th u* Tea4s Is Footer Crime.
From the Mobile Register.
It must be admitted that with the
growth of this country and with its
advancement in dvilisttion crime
should have decreased. It cannot be
truthfully said that this is the case.
Without seeking other causes it can be
asserted, without fear of oontiadiction,
that one reason for this is the criminal
habit of carrying concealed weapons.
We use the word “criminal” advisedly,
for whatever is oontrary to law is crim
inal. We do not consider it the mark
of a brave man to carry ooncealed
weapons, but rather the contrary. Of
course there are circumstances in
which carrying them is jnstifitble, but
for a man to put on his pistol in the
morning as regularly as he nuts on his
coat does no credit to him as a citizen
nor as a man.
Especially is this a dangerous habit
in the young. Many of them think
that it is manly. Poor fools. True
manhood consists in courage of soul,
in daring to do right, in abhorring bul
lying, braggadocio and rowdyism. Let
a thin-skinned youth, of violent tem
per and great idea of his own import
ance and honor—heaven save the
mark—stick a pistol habitually in his
pocket, and he is making of himself a
dangerous element in a community.
a
in admirable-Dourt: “My dear
fellow,” said the late Lord Chancellor
Westhurg one day to Ex-Lord Chief
Justice Erie; “why do yon not attend
the judicial committee of the Privy
Council T” “Beesuse lam old, deaf
and stupid.” “That is no re'son at
all,” rejoined the acidulated Chancell
or, “for I am old, Williams is deaf, and
Oolou-Sav in stupid; yet we make an
admirable oourt of appeal”
Richelieu Robinson is known in
Washington as the “tioa hunter.”
ONE ARM AND ONE LEG.
A Colored Man Who Kara* Him Living
W Ith Only Two Limbo.
Camden Daily Post.
One of the most remarkable men in
Camden is a one legged and one-armed
colored man named James Weeks, re
siding at Ferry road and Harley street
in the E'ght ward. He is a strong,
healthy man of about forty-eight years
of age, and evidently enjoys life as
much as his more fortunate and phy
sically supplied brelhern. The strange
part of the thing is that, although both
liia left leg and left arm are entirely
gone—they having been taking out at
tbe sockets—he Is able to drive a cart,
loading the Vehicle as quickly and as
well as those who have all their limbs,
with sand or brick, aud doing fully as
much work as any cart driver in the
city. Home time ago he was a lamp
lighter, performing Tiis work in a man
ner satisfactorily to his employers. Sj
well has he plied his bust'ness of cart
driving that he has accumulated quite
a property, both in horses and carts and
in real estate.
He was met yesterday afternoon by
a Poet reporter, sitting ou the side of his
cart, whistling as gaily and apparently
ss happy as any man in Camden.
When asked how it came to loose his
limbs, he showed his ivories as a broad
grin spread over his rather generous
mouth, and said: “De war took ’em
off. You see, boss, I was shot down at
Port Hudson. I laid dar for hour arter
hour, and finked 1, Jim you’re a cooked
nig. shuah, ’case I only had a piece of
my Ifef* arm and none of the lef’ leg
worf mentionin’. Putty soon, when
de scrimmage was all ober, de men
come along to pick up de wounded, an
1 seed doctah Gross, a son ob the old
professor at de Jefferson College, I link
he was. He jus’ looked at me au pass
ed on. Hold on, surgeon, said I, cant
you ’ford to help a fellah? Don’t gone
foah to leah him heah when he can’t
walk? ‘Why said de doctah, you’re
dead! Dcre aint no use ’tendin’ you.’
But I Viated dat I was better’ll two
dead men, an’ he ’cided to see what
could be done. When 1 came out of
dat hospital 1 was jus’ as you see lis
now. Dey took both limbs out I’om
de body at de sockets.” He draws a
pension of $lB per month from|the gov
ernment, and says he has no trouble
making a living and a little extra by
driving cart. Twice each year since the
close of the war, “Jim” goes to Phila
delphia to see Prof. Gross, a ho exhibits
him to the studen's at the Jefferson
Medical college as “Old Ironsides.”
That world renowned surgeon says it
was one of the most remarkable cases
that had ever come to his knowledge,
and he does not belitve there is one
man in a million who could have cone
through what he has and still live.
Over one-third of his body waa taken
from him, and the whole course of the
circulation of the blood changed. Jim
gels around wth ease with one crutch
and the remaining leg, it matters very
little whether he uses it under his
right arm or leaning against his left
side, where the arm socket now is.
Another Washington Scandal.
Washington Telegram to the Pioneer Press.
The investigation of the clerk of the
house, John Bailey, which will begin
*oon before the special committee ap
pointed for that purpose, promises
some interesting features. The charge
is that Bailey is the paid agent of the
Washirgton Gas Company, and
has acted in the double capacity of lob
byist and clerk, and the truth of the
charge is apparently established by
the character of legislation where this
monopoly is concerned. Every public
office, if it is charged, sports some paid
agent of the company, whose influence
is used to retard or accelerate legisla
tion, as Bailey has been doing at the
capital. Even this committee of inves
tigation was appointed hy the speakea
from friends of the company. The
m< mbers who brought the investiga
tion about were shut out. Tee reason
for this, it is said, will be brought out
before the investigation closes. A long
list of witnes-es have been called
among whom are prominent senators,
members and public men. One of the
witnesses will swear, he writes, that he
was in ’he employ of the gas company
at $5,000 per annum “to retard legists
tion” and that Bailey operated ou the
door of the in the same way as agent of
the company.
Mrs. Tilton Reaffirms the Truth of Her
Confession.
(New York Telegram to the Pioneer Pretw.)
It is reported that Mrs. Theodore
Tilton recently found it necessary,
owing to her straightened financial
circumstances, to hire herself as a
nurse. The lady with whom she was
brought in contact and Mrs. Tilton soon
began to exchange confidences. And
Mrs. Tilton said that the allowance of
SI,OOO a year which was made to her
by her husband was Dot sufficient to
maintaind her familv in the style in
which she lived. It appeared that
Mrs. Tilton is caiing for her daughter
and young baby, the hu«band being an
inmate of an insane asylum. Mrs. Til
ton referred to her confession in the
Beechrr case and said: “Every word
cf it was true; my relations toward
Mr. Beecher will never be understood.
He was my spiritual guide, and my
religious belief had been formed under
his teaching. There seemed to be
nothing wrong in what I did, aa I view
ed it.” After Mrs. Tilton had been en
gaged in her new occupation four days,
her daughter put in an appearance
and objected to her longer playing the
roll of nurse, and the engagement
was terminated.
Mrs. Atttorney General Brewster re
cently at a dinner wore cardinal satin
over a gold-colored satin petticoat, with
a oourt traiu of cardinal satin embroid
ered in gold designs of boqueta.
Governor Ben Butler was the guest
of the Merchants’ club in Boston at a
dinner Saturday night, and took occa
sion to speak at length on the shipping
interest, taking the ground that not
ships but protection in running
the ships waa the remedy fe our com
mercial decadence. He also eatd that
the Hooeao tunnel must be Joined to
the Erie canal.
SELECTED MISCELLANY.
Cetewayo has arrived at Port Durn*
ford. Only a few reeled him.
Signer Salvini is putting his ertnings
into an estate at San Renso, Italy.
There will be almost fifty contested
seats in tne next congress.
Ex-Senator Djrsey retains a $150,000
interest in a New Mexican cattle ranch.
Mr. Riley, “the hoosier poet,” is one
of the “literary lions” in Boston just
now.
Grti. Sanford gave a banquet to the
Scandinavian settlers at H inford, Fla.,
a few days ago.
Bishop Peck has conveyed to th%
Syracuse university five Syracuse lots,
worth $9,000, as a part of his $25,000
gift.
Lawerence Barrett’s daughter, Miss
Mary Birrett, is said to be engaged to
marry Baron Von Reeder, of Stutt
gart.
Ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, who
was injured in a runaway accident a
few days ago, is slowly improving in
health.
Judge B. F. Cjleman, of Columbus,
Ga. has written to Gov. Stephens pro
testing against the pardon or so many
convicts.
Thatcher Perkins, who died in Balti
more recently, was the inventor of
the valuable “Perkins ten-wheeler,”
still in use for drawing heavy railway
trains over steep grades.
Gov. Butler’s message/ according to
to the statistician of the Boston adver
tiser, contains 29 recommendations, 18
insinuations, 5 misrepresentations, 4
revelations and one promise.
Mr. Henry, the owner of the famous
Henry House, hard by Bull Run bridge
on the battle field, has collected a set
of accurate maps of the battle ground
for the instruction of visitors.
It is said that United States Senator
Allison, of lowa, is working night and
day this session, and continues in ex
cellent health.
It is now the general opinion it St.
Louis that Miss Garrison’s recent “ab
duction” was a willing one on her own
part.
Only the manuscript of the first vol
ume of Thurlow Weed’s autobiography
is cumplete; the rest is a collection of
fragments.
John Welle*, ofH allenbock, Pa., has
presented the I-ayfayette College in
that state a second gift of $50,000 to
endow the chair of its president.
Ex-Governor Natt Head, of New
Hampshire, has bee.i seriously ill with
congestion of the lungs.
Florence Kelley, daughter of con
gressman Kelley, of Philadelphia, has
gone abroad with her bi other, and pro
poses to walk through Europe.
The funeral of Hw. Lot M. Morrill,
of Augusta, Me., was attended by the
governor and council and scores of the
distinguished citizens of that state.
Secretary Teller hAs telegraphed to
Denver to the effect that “he ia not a
candidate for the United States senate
and has not been.”
The Union League ciuh, of New
York, elected William M. Evarls presi
dent, and applauded the adoption of
the civil service bill.
The “Union party” of the Michigan
legislature, composed of democrats and
gieenbackers, have nominated for sen
ator Byron G. Stout, of Oakland.
It is now stated that Governor Ben
Butler will throw the weight of his in
fluence in favor of ex Governor Long
for United Slates Senator, in order to
defeat Mr. Hoar.
An indignation meeting has been
held by the citizens of Camden, Me.,
over the removal ef Postmaster Alden
Miller, Jr., a wounded soldier, for re
fusing to pay the assessment on his
salary.
Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake has a
new lecture entitled ‘ Is it a crime to
be a woman?” The Buffalo Express
thinks this seems a little like begging
the question.
Queen Victoria will spend the latter
Ejri of this winter at Li Mortola, near
entone, on the Meuitterraoean, where
she hopes to erjoy more peace and
quiet than she found at Mentone last
winter.
The social event of the winter at
Indianopolis was a reception given by
cx-Senator McDonald to members of
tbe legislature and political and per
sonal friends, to which 700 invitations
were issued.
Mias Alice Livingston, of New York,
who sued a merchant named Henry
Fleming for breach of promise, was
awarded $75,000. Tbe verdict was
followed by deafening applause, which
the court was unable to suppress.
Thos. W. Pierce, of Texas, who
made his millions from railway opera
tions, haa given a $25 000 church to
the town of Dover, N. H. Tbe.churcb
which is known aa the Pierce Memori
al Cbnrch, serves as a monument to
his parents, once residents of Dover.
The Montana legislature was io ses
sion lsst week. The council has not
organized, on account of a dead-lock,
five republicans and one independent
voting against six democrats. There
is a prospect that the dead lock will
last a week or two longer.
The Princess Louise, the Marquis of
Lome and party arrived in Louisville
from St. Louis last evening, and left in
an hoar for Richmond, Va., going
thence to Bavans and Charleston.
The wife o’ Mayor James A. Fox, of
Cambridge, Maas., is suing him for sep
arate maintenance, and the Mayor's
estates have been attached for SBO,OOO
in her behalf. Tbe affair causes great
excitement in Cambridge.
General Ganedo, one of the commis
sioners appointed by Mexico to nego
tate a commercial treaty, haa arrived in
Washington, and oalled upon General
Grant and Ex-envoy Tresoott in oom
pany with Beoor Romero.
While Albert Robison was before a
police court in San Francisco attempt
ing to explaih away aehaigeof vag
rancy, he waa handed a check for SSOO
with which to pay his passage to Eug-
a fortune of await-
NUMBER I.
Railway Land Grants.
Washington Jan. 16. —Evidently if
this session of congress weie the h>pg
instead of the short one there would be
a pretty sharp raid made upon certain
railroad and telegraph °°fP° r ?f? OD JL } n
the interests of the general public. The
corporations influence in the halls of
congress has choked off for a long time
anything in tne way of adverse
tion. The question of forfeiture of land
grants made to railroads who have fail
ed to comply with their contracts, is
one that is being constantly being press
ed upon the attention of the commis
sioners. Hundreds of thousands of
acres are in the hands of corporations
who have done nothing to eern them.
These lands are kept out of the market
and legimate settlers are foroed to seek
leas eligible lands or else pay heavily
for the railroad lands. There is agood
deal of general dissatisfaction with the
bill relating to alleged forfeited railroad
grants. It is said that this bill was re
ported by the committee under a mis
apprehension of its real effeot. It is
believed that no lands could be forfeit
ed under the provisions. If notion was
to be brought sgainst anv corporation
under the rule the defendant oould be
gin work and show good faith on then
part in their going ahead Ibuild * into
accordance with the contracts, and
thereby setting up a good defense.
Practically the bill la an indefinite ex
tension of all land grant* ever given by
the government to railroad corpora
tions. Judge Payson, of Illinois, has
been devoting a great deal of attention
to the corporation conspiracy in the
west, and he ia going to make hie
mark in exposing and fighting the ag
gressions of these bands of * capitalists
who have such uninterupted control.
Congressman Anderson, of Kansas ia
anotner member who is devoloping as
an anti-monopoly legislator.
The senate committe on Pacific run
ways with ttie reputation of being a
railroad committee, reported to-day
Anderson’s bill to compel the Kansas
Pacific to pay $1,000,000 due the gov
ernment for the survey of lands grant
ed to it by the government. That the
corporation should have to be oalled
upon by an act of congress to make this
payment is a fair illustration of the way
corporations carry out their contracts
with the government. In 1862 congress
granted certain lands to aid in the con
struction in the eastern division of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad company.
Four millions of acres have been earn
ed by this company under an act that
especially stipulated that the company
should pay for the surveying and locat
ing of this laud. The United States
completed these surveys ia 1675, at a
cost of about S7B 000. Of, this amount
the company paid something ]lesa than
$lB 000. Now SIOO,OOO ia due and the
company declines payment. It does
not appear that an act of oongrees were
necessary to compel this payment if
the intenor department were rightly
managed. Only 900,000 acres of the
4,000,000 acres granted have been pat
ented. It would be a much simpler way
to stop tbe patenting of more lands un
til the amount due haa been collected.
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Kisses on Interfat.
A father talking to his careless daugh
ter said: ' I want to apeak to you of
your mother. It may be that you
have noticed a careworn look upon
her face lately. Of course it hsa
be*o brough there by any act ef youi*,' *
still it is your duty to chine it away. 1
want you tc get up to-morrow morning
and get breakfast, and when your
mother comes and begins to express
her surprise go right up to her and kiss
her on the mouth. You can’t imagine
how it will brighten her dear Haoe.
Besides, you owe her a kiss or two.
Away back, when you were a little
girl, she kissed you when no one else
was tempted by your fever-tainted
breath and awollen face. You were
not as attractive then as you are now.
And through thoee years of'childish
sunshine and shadows she was always
ready to core, by the magic of a mo#
er’f kiss, the little, dirty, shabby hands
whenever they ware injured hr those
first rough skirmishes with the rough
old world. And then the xnidnleht *
kiss with which she routed so many
bid dreams, aa she leaned over yonr
restless pillow, have all been on interest
these long, long years. Of course she 1
is not so pretty and kissable as you are;
bat if you had dona yourabareof work
during the last ten years, the contrast
would not be so marked. Her face
has more wrinkles than yours, far
more; and vet if you were sick that
face would appear mors beautiful than
an angels, aa it hovered over you,
watching every opportunity to
ter to your comfort, and every ooTo#
those w ankles wouki seem to be brkS
wavelets of sunshine chasms each otw
over tlie dear face. She will leave «nn
one of theee days. These bSdiTS
not lifted from her shoukW^l?
*her down.
hands that have doneao BumysMa
nary things for you will beorwnSd
upon her lifeless breast.
looted lips that gave you y££ aX
baby kiis will be forever ??}
thoee sad, tired eveawST
in eternity, and then you will amSSJi
ate your mother, but it will ha
day tteefe’s Agesg.l
The Bun a Washington ■mAv
that Grant, in his eflorta Bkh
Mexican treaty rahSi >£» fllfk,.
of Jay Gould. Theca ia* -
the control of the raHMull
Mexico between air! > '' \J!
Gould. Palmer
can National mil—m
diet*. Gould end
kill their oounaji
.lubeidies,
ity to pay ils eg
» now the
shouts for fry Qog|
sugn
“the fsjSmTmv
hides tha vlk.
taking part In
fortunaieP vSSEBr
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