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givti journal.
cTr. MORSE, Publisher.
RIVER FALLS, ~ WISCONSIN.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned
on Monday the 24th of December until
the "th day of January. Most of the
members went to their homes to spend
the holidays.
The times do not improve and will not
«ntil the back of winter is broken. Then
there will probably be a revival of busi
ness, but those who dream of such activ
ity as has prevailed for several years
past, are I' sly to be disao pointed.
The ween or two before Christmas
the windows of the New York jewelry
stores blazed with diamonds—one ex
hibit, which was patrol ed about by a
dozen uniformed officers and several
private watchmen, sparkled with bril
liants to the value of $350,600, ai d the
demand for the little sparklers showed
that a great many people had money to
spare notw thstanding the dull times.
It is one of the features of the condi
tion of Northern Pacific securities that
the rumor that Mr. Villard intends to
get out of the Northern Pacific en
tirely, gave them an upward tendency.
When a big railroad man falls it is usual
ly pretty sudden and very flat. Villard
in August—celebrating the completion
of,the Northern Pacific by a trans-contin
ental excursion of forty cars loaded
with notables of all lands—and Villard
in December, overwhelmed with abjur
gations of stock and bondholders make
a very picturesque showing of the ups
and downs of fortune.
There is a good deal of suggestion and
instruction to be found in an examin
ation of the sources from which the
Mormon supply comes. The great body
of Mormons come from England, Scot
land, Wai s, Denmark, Sweden, and
Norway. England has supplied in
rou m 1 numb -r s, 20, o JO oft he m; Scot land,
3,200; Wab s, 2,4'X); Sweden, 3,750; Den
mark, 7,701; Norway, 1,200; Ireland,
1,300. About ths character of this Brit
ish and Danish contribution there is
very little doubt both the men and the
women belong to a 1 >w, ignorant peasant
class. The same thing is true, though
probably in a less degree, of the Scan
dinavian contribution.
At the New England Society’s ban
quet in Philadelphia on the 22d, after
President Arthur hid responded to a
toast, and while Secretary ('handler was
speaking of the .American Steemsbip
Company as being the only line of for
eign-going craft bearing the American
flag, Mr. Shortridge, a director of that
company, arose and said the corporation
was negotiating for the sale of their
steamers. ;h they could not be run with
profit under the stars and stripes, but
could be under England’s ensign. This
blunt speech, us the colored preacher
said about an exhortation of Bishop
Simpson against stealing, “made a cold
ness in de congregashun.”
The reports of special agents of the
government made during the last sum
mer show that for many years tnere
have existed organizations among capi
talists to obtain contr fl of vast tracts of
timber and agricultural land. The re
ports state that the public domain is
fast disappearing under this system. A
number of oiils have been introduced to
check this practice, notable among them
being propo-iti»ns to repeal what are
known as the timber and pre-emption
laws. It is ve-y evident that the days
when speculators by combinations can
secure the best of the government land-*
have passed. Meanwhile the extent of
the national domain itself has been rap
idly restricted.
Mr Alfred. Austin writes to the Lon
don Times to suggest that no more bards
or statesmen shoul 1 h ive memorials in
Westminsb r Abbey till they have stood
the test of time by, say, l<*o years of im
mortalitv. Tula is a good idea as re
gards Westminster Abbey, and just as
good when it is applied nearer home.
The American people have made nin
nies of themselves in trying to give im
mortal reputations to small-
beer poets, writers and alleged
statesmen who will be utterly forgotten,
save by name, in a score of years. A
very wise man once said he w >uld rath
er have people ask why he had not a vis
ible monument, than why’ he had. But
the lasi question will be asked concern
ing many of the popular idols of the
present day.
Electric lights have disappeared from
the streets of Paris. The expense was
too great for even the gay and extrava
gant French capital to bear any longer.
The city tried electricity for several
years, paying from eleven to thirteen
times as much for the electric light as
for the gas-lighting. Then the novelty
wore off, and the authorities gladly’ re
turned to gas. The experience of Paris
is, in the main, the experience of Lon
don and all large cities where • treet il
lumination by electric light hes
been given a trial. It
is claimed as an explanation, that the
expense of putting the wires under
ground is what has proved fatal to
the commercial success of electric light
ing. But there is no question about the
necessity «f their going under ground
fur the security’ of human life and prop
erty. Electric lightning from the clouds
is fearful at some seasons of the year,
but it is not half so much to be dreaded
asshocks which are liable at any time to
be encountered in the streets of a city.
Resources to Draw On.
Mr. Webster used to t 11 with great zest
an incident iu his professional life, to illus
trate Low past studies iceiy prove of gre t
sen ice in an emergei •y. While prat ic
ing in New Hampshire, a blacksmith em
ployed him to defend a cent-steel mi .
The case was such a complicated one th t
he was obliged to crier books from Boston
at an exp* e: eof 850, in order to acqua nt
himself with and to settle the legal princi
ples involved He won the case, and is
the sum iuvclv-d vas small, charged sls
for se-niccs. and was therefore large y
out of pccket. Many years after, when
nassing through New York, he was con
sulted by Aaron Burr.
“I have a very perplex! g ease," said Mr.
Burr. “ which I eannot disentangle, i kin w
I am right, but see no way of proving it n
court."
Mr. Webster listened, and found tl e
principles identical with his early case.
IL stated them in such a luminous vry
that Mr. Bnrr,excited, asked,
been consulted before, Mr. Webster?
■‘No, -r. I t >er hear.! cf the case till
yon kh mioned it."
"How is it p.'-ille that you ecuid unravel
suen a e rae at siffiit. when 1 have giv. u
many hours of anxious study to it in
Mr. A' -1-(.-•• ■ y 1 his pi-rpl xi ty, tn
finally relit V’-d turn by a s’; teiueut of t e
facts. A grra'.t sum was nt stake, and '.l.
Webster ie -Trevi a fee of $1 ,v. 9 to balance
his to: uier les-'.
The moral of this incident is that what
ever is worth doing at all is worth doing
well. Mr. Webster, when a young lawyer,
acted npen this maxim, and this laid tie
foundation of hi* gscataess us a lawyer.
The editor of the Earley, s C Messen
ger attended a recent musicale at the
bigt school in Pickens, and tlm-s de
scribes the success of two young lady
performers: “It was shimmering sun
beams pitched against raven tresses, the
mellow grav against the ke» n hlnck, the
Palmetto State agai --t Georgia Gold
fields the Lark, which heralds the
streaks of morning, against the Night
ingale. rivalling a songstress whose bps
the Attic bees had stung with the nec
tar of sweetness. Here is the thought
which flashed through the m-nd oI the
writer: If those two girls were cut out
in little stars and placed in the Arma
ment all the world would be in love with
Night”
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EPITOME OF THE XEAVS.
Washington Gossip.
Benjamin P. Butler, who is sooa to be
ax-governor ol Massachusetts, was in Wash
ington the other day, and, according to th
Chronicle of that city, tried to get into the
senate chamber by a door the keeper of
which didn’t or wouldn’t recognize him.
“You can’t go in there, sir," said the door
keeper, “the senate lain session.” Butler
merely growled out, “Jim Butler,” and
persisted in his effort to enter. "Oh, no.
toy antiquated masher,” said the other with
a wink at a bystander, “you can’t play rue
for a sucker. Senator But er has just gone
in through this door. Mash 'em from the
gallery, my dandy.” Gen Butler was par
alyzed fora moment, and then wheeling
upon the astonished doorkeeper, be fairly
veiled: “Butler of South Carolina be d—d,
lam Butler of Massachusetts. Gov. Butler,
veu impudent fool," and amid the profuse
apologies of th ■ doorkeeper heeatere-1 the
chamber.
Senator A’est says that he has received a
letter from the governor of Missouri, in
reference to the turning over of the Unised
States authorities of Frank James, the out
law, and be would lay the matter before
the president as soon as possible. He did
not anticipate iinrne- iate action, for the
subject would have to be rerferred to the at
torney general who was now in Louisiana
prosecuting the lottery cases and would not
return to Washington for a couple ot weeks.
Mr. Vest s-id it was his opinion that the
United States had not the power to inter
vene at tnis stage of the proceedings, for the
case was still undr tbe jurisdiction of the
state authorities appending Judge Crekel’s
decision.
Among tbe contests! cases in the present
house is that of Fredericks against Wilson,
o ithe fifth lowa district. Fredericks is a
Democrat, and Wiisou, whose certificate
gave him the prima facie right to the seat,
is a republican, Fredericks claims he wis
elected by twenty-three majority, according
to the returns ot the local authorities. The
returning hoard by its count gave Wilson a
majority of seventeen. He (Fredericks) de
clares this was a fraud on him, a put up
job, by which be lost his certificate, and he
proposes to go before the elections com
mittee immediately after the holtrays. The
papers have been tiled. Fredericks is in
Washington, and is confident as a man can
be whe has the count on his side.
John N. Irw’n, governor of Idaho Terri
tory, returned to the treasurer of the Unite*!
Srales a draft for 1650 sent him as salary for
the quarter ended Oct. 30. and declined t.lso
to nceive the salary due him for the quar
ter em’ing Dec, 31. He states that he lias
been unable to attend to the office since
July 1, an*’ does not consider that he can
conscientiously take the pay.
Senator Saulsbury of Delaware is the only
member of the senate who has never been
married,
Railroad News.
Ar'.icles of 11 corporation of the Moorhead
& Chicago Railroad company were filed re
cently with the principal office at Moor
head, and a capital stock of $5 000,009 with
the limit ot liability the same amount.
The corporation is to endure 50 years from
Jam 1, ISS4. The first board directors is E
C. Sprague, J tin Er cksou. P. H. Lamb. F.
J. Burunain and F. E. Briggs. The road is
to run from Moorhead to the ontheri'i
boundary of the etate.
H. ?. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
toba road hai resigned, to take efLct Jan.
1. His successor in the passenger devari
me -1 will bs C. H. Warren, at present pri
vate secretary to General Ma' ager Manvo),
who wid he known as tae general passen
ger and ticket agent.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and
Central lowa have issued a joint freight tar
iff. crated l-)»c. 26, quoting rates on emigrant
nicvubhs from Chicago, Milwaukee and
Ricins to points in lowa.
Crimes and Criminals.
Helena, Mont., Harald: Gov. Crosby
was recently notified by telegraphic mes
sage from the department ot justice, that on
the intercession of Senators Sabin and Me-
M>Pan the president had granted to Frank
Young, the slayer of McCarty, a reprieve
for sixty days from Dec. 27. The family
and friends 0! Yo mg were able to secure,
through the Minnesota senators in Wash
ington, what here, Gov. Crosby, with full
knowledge of the case, felt constrained to
deny. The execution of Young was set, for
the 27th inst., the sane day as that appoin
ted for the hanging of Clark, and it would
certainly have t keu place at that date, but
for tbe president’s reprieval.
John H. Clark was hange'at Bozeman,
Mt„ on the 27th, for the murder of Thom
as Rogets and Peter Lyman. The noose
was adjusted, and Clark addressed the spec
tators, thirty in number. Alter stating that
he was of one of the best Virginia families,
carefully brought up, he disclaimed any
knowledge of the crime for which he wss
executed, stating that his life had been
sworn away falsely. He ended by saying:
"Farewell, my southern, sunny home, my
mother dear, and the one I love." Tbe
black cap was dropped, and Deputy Bans
ford touched tlie lever. Clark fell nine
feet, dislocating his neck, and dying in nine
and one-half minutes withsut a struggle.
Albany, N. Y.. Special: F. 8. Sherwin,
the millionaire adventurer, who was impli
cated in the Phelps defalcation from ths
state treasnrery in 1874, and sentenced re
cently. to two years in the Albany state
penitentiary and fined $560 for contempt of
c mrt, doesn’t take a cheerful view of his
situation. The sentence, if carried out,
which r-eetna likely enough, notwithstand
ing his ill gotten wealth, takes him from a
blooming bride and s life of luxurious ease
and places him in a felon’s garb and cell.
The coroner’s jury, at Beverly, W. Vs.,
after a five days’ inquest on the mysterious
murder of the Somerfield family, brought
in a verdict recently implicating J. C. Flan
agan in the crime.' Hi was arrested and
lodged in jail. The fact was developed that
he had quarreled with Mrs. Somerfield and
threatened to kill her and burn the house.
There is a strong feeling against him.
Cap*. Hunter, John Stewart and John
Mayhem, members of the Salvation army,
were arrested at Bridgeport, Conn., charged
with violating a city ordinance by parading
tbe streets. Hunter derla-es that the army
wik parade eve’y night, regardless of the
city ordinance.
From singing at missionary meetings in
the Gloversvdle, N. Y., jail, Aggie Austin,
a pretty girl, fell in love with Ford Roder
ick, a horse thief. In order to be with him
she stole the same team he did, was sen
tenced, and last week was married to him
The postoffice at Perryville, Kaus., ws*
robbed of SBOO, the burglars going east on
the Union Pacific. The sheriff and chief o
police of Lawrence went to Lenope and
cap:ured one of the men.
Willlie Whitley, the “Chicago Kid," was
arrested at Lawrence, Kan., recently, for
stealing a thousand dollars worth of drafts
from a trunk.
Personal Gossip.
Gen. McKenzie, commander of the de
partment of Arizona, has, as already pub
lished, become insane during (he past week,
> but the matter has been kept quiet at the
war depirtment to avoid trouble m bringing
■ hin> East. He has no idea of his own c n
: Jition, and is coming on under orders to
' rep >rt at tbe department. Nothing is known
at Washington about the cause of his men
tal break down. It is said to have violent
phases. He will be taken to the govern-
1 merit asylum tor treatment.
Admiral Stephen D. Trencbard, U. S. N.,
died on the sth of last November. He
made a will on the 20th of’January. 1
appointing bis wife sole exeemrix, legatee
a» d devisee. She died five years K e.ore
him, smi as he never executed another wiil
that nn-de in 1856 became inoperative, and
Edward Trencbard, the only surviving son
applied for letters of adminstration on his
i father’s estate. The decedent's real estate
is valued at about $2'7,000, and personal
-property at $2,000.
John McCarthy Scully, the well known
Irish nationalist, was found dead in bed at
New York of heart disease. He had been
in failing health for several months. His
death was accelerated by severe literary
labor. Hewes instrumental in founding
msny fonian organizations In America and
was the chief o’-gsuizer of Land league
movement in New York.
E. W. Roxie an engineer cn the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul road, disappeared
about four weeks ago, and his family at
Minneapolis are bow very anxious about
hi v, and fear he has met with foul play, as
he was known to have some ssoo.in his pos
session when last seen.
• Miss Maude, dar.gbt*r of President Rut
ter oi the New York Central Railway com
pany. wa’ niarr’ed on Thursday, the 27th, to
Char lee A. Ba devine.?
Reuben R. Springer has giv?n tbe Cin
cinnati art museum a lot of vahrable pic
tares. end the college of music SIO,OOO.
Charles King is Middleton's (Mass.) cen
tenarian. He will be 103 Jan. 15. and has
360 descendents.
Mrs. Mary Kirwin of Newington, Conn.,
is dead at tbe great age of one hundred and
five years.
Good Methodists say Sojourner Truth
was not 108, nor even 90 years old.
Sprague, the [living skeleton,) has willed
his bones to Harvard college.
Jessie McGee died at Kappa, 111., 101 years
eld, Sunday,the 23rd.
Wilson Sherman, son of the general, is
very sick in Beston.
Casualty Record.
John Burk, fireman in the engine rcom,
of the Fuller Electric Light company, 6
Arcade court, Chicago, was caught in tbe
belting this noon and whirled against the
stone wall. His arms and levs were torn
oft and he wa< disembowled. His remains
were scattered all over the room.
Foreign Items of News.
Charles Bradlaugli announces his inten
tion to go to the home of commons on tbe
day of the opening of parliament and do his
best to take bis seat. He rejects the idea of
holding public meetings and obtaining peti
tions because, he says such a course will be
useless.
Gr nt Silcox, of Middlemess, Ont., was
murdered on Friday night the 28ih.
Miscellaneous News Items.
The banking capital of St. Paul for 1883
shows an aggregate of $5,550,000, or an in
crease of $1,200,000 during the year. The
total surplus is $1,168,483, against $955,000
last year. The increase in circulation has
been (96,080, the total being SCi6O,OBO. The
deposits for the year foot up $11,297,307, an
increase of $1,297,367, while the loans
amount to $14,222 477 an increase of $219,-
B'.'2. The most remarkable increase, how
ever, is shown in the aggregate ot exchange
sold, the amount being $103,683,079, as
against $91,577 45J in 1882. During th ■
year two new banks have been organized—
the National German-American, wi’h a
capital of $2,000,003, and the St. Paul Na
tional.
C icago Special: Conductor Church of
tbe Illinois Central, charges that Rt. Rev. J.
H. Lytton, former rrctor of the Episcopal
church of Highl .nd Park, a suburb ot Chi
cago. got on his train drunk, and near
Carlo attempted to get into a lady's berth.
The conductor and passengers siezed him
ind kept him under guard until he got
sober. Lytton denies that he was drunk,
bu; claims he was suifering irom an over
dose of bromide taken to cure restlessness,
and that in his confused state ot mind he
mistook the lady’s berth for one that he had
ordered Blade up for his liitle girl.
Frank Cole and Miss Neary of Cohoes,
N. Y., were announced to be married Wed
nesday afternoon. The minister, in th°
I reseuce ot thegues’s, vouched for the
genuineness of a marriage certificate pro
duced by the couple, dated four years ago.
The minister, by request had kept quiet.
The state penitentiary at Auburn, New
York, is being fitted with an electric appar
atus similar to that employed in hotels,
whereby if a convict attempts to scale tbe
wall the bell on tbe annunciator sounds
the alarm, anti at the same time the ma
chine gives toe number of tbe station.
There were 26) failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet’s during the
past week—twenty less than the preceding
week, eighteen more than the correspond
ing week of 18S2, and ninety-nine more
than the same week of 1881.
R >se Horan, formerly a lady's maid to
Ia iy Mandeville, has begun suit in New
York to re -over $20,000 damages for false
imprisonment at the instance cf Lord and
Lady Mandeville, who charged the maid
wish larceny.
The Ohio senatorial Sght is hot, indeed.
All the closing work is to be done dur
ing the holidays. There is no doubt
tbat Hmry B. Payne, individual!;, leads
n the fight, but he does not lead the
field.
Mr. Chidsey, fifty years old, persis’ed in
paying his suit to Miss Johnson, who clerk*
iuaNew Haven saloon. Her eye lighting
on a brisket ol eggs, she began aliombardment
that did not cease till he was covered with
albumen.
I The case of the K v. William Mitchell,
the clergyman who was arrested in Bos
ton for stealing a book in a store, was dis
missed from the court, it appearing that he
was insane. He is now in a private asy
lum.
The Albany Evening Journal says that
Attorney Genersl-elect Dennis O’Brien has
signified his intention of making a clea.i
sweep cf ad the clerks in his department.
An order has been granted in New York
vacating attachment obtained by AVilliam
A. Heeney against the "Christian Healer,”
Dr. Monk.
Thirty years ago lager beer was practically
unknown in this country; now there are
2,500 breweries with an investment of $150,•
000,000.
The real estate exchange and auction
room has been incorporated in New York.
Capita! stock, SStO.OIJ, divided into 5,000
shares.
The case of Rev. W. Mitchell of Boston,
arrested for stealing a book from a store,
has been dismissed He is now in a private
asylum.
Osman Bolety, of Chamberlain, 8. C..
continues to drive a street car, although his
wife has just inherited $300,000.
The site of Fort Clark, Tex., embracing
2,4(X) acres, has been bought by the govern
ment for $100,(00.
St. Paul's building record for the year ag
gregates 3,567 buildings, costing $8*240,450.
A St. Paul tailor prophesies that 1885
will s-re knee-bresches in style.
Death of General Humphreys.
Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys, brigadier
general U. 8. A., retired, died suddenly in
Washington on Thursday night, the 27th
inst., of angina pectoris. The general
had been complaining of lumbago for a
week or two pas’, but was not seriously af
fe 'ted, and on the rlay before his death was
out for a walk. He was out for a short
time in the evening before, and on his re
turn was in the parlor with tbe family.
About 9 o’clock tte rest ot tbe family re
tired. leaving b iu alone apparently in good
health. At 9:3-J o’clock a servant went
into the room to see about the fire and the
general was sitting there apparently well.
At 11 o’clock he had not gene to his
and the servant sent to tbe parlor
after him. found him sitting in his chair
dead. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has issued an
Older regarding he death ot Gtn. Hum
phreys. which, after giving the military re
cord of lhe deceased says: In the uischarge
of military duties Gen. Hnmphreys dis
played great zeal, intelligence a .d conspic
uous gallantry. Those who served under
him Bad the highest confidence in is ca
picity to commar d, and greatest admira
tion tor his soldiery qualities. The officers
of the engineer corps of the army will wear
the usual badge of moun-ing thirty days.
Gen. HumpI’re 1 ’re s wasadisiinguishedarmv
officer, and one of the most popular gemle
m<n in Washiue'on society. He was ap
pointed to the militarv acadamy from Per.H
sylvanis, Julv 1, 1827, graduating July 1,
183 L ami appointed second reutenant ot the
Second artillery the same day. He was pro
moted to the various superior grades and on
March 13, 1865. he was breveted brigad-er
! general in tbe regular armv for gallant and
meritorious service at the battle of Gettys
burg, and breveted major general oh the
same day sot gallant conduct at the battle
of Sailor’s Creek, Va. He was mustered out
of the volunteer service Aug. 31. 1866, and
was promoted to the rank of brigadier gen
eral in the regular service and to duty as
chief of er gmeers, which office he fiileu un
til June 30, 1879, when he was retired at his
own request.
An old negro woman in .Georgia has
sued the keeper of the penitentiary for
SIOO,OIIO, on the ground that he kept
her in the penitentiary twenty-two
days after her term of imprisonment bad
expired.
CONGRESSIONAL
Following are tha committees as annoumrac
by the speaker
Elections—Turner, Ga.: Davis, Mo.. Converse,
Cooke, Bennett, L 'Wry, Elliott, Robertson. Ken
•nckr: Adams N.Y: Banner. Feniboue, Miller.
I'a.; Valentine, llepburn. lowu: Hart-
Wars and Mean"—Morrison. MH s, B.ount,
Blsekburn, Hewitt, N Y.; Herbert. Hurd, Jones,
Ark.; K-liey, Kasson, lowa. McKinley. Uuiot His
•nck, N. Y ; linase’l.
Appropriations—Bandall, Forney. Ellie, Holman,
Hancock. Townshend, Hutchins, Follette. Burns.,
Ksiter, Cannon, Ryan, Calkins Horr, Wasaburn.
Judicial-?—Tucker. Hamruoad, CulUertsou, 1 es. I
Moulton, Broadhead. Dorsheiiner, Collins, Seney,
Reed, Me.; E. B. Taylor, Ohio; McCord, Brown.
Ind.; Poland. „ ,
Banking and Currency—Buckner, hrmentrout,
Potter. Hunt, Miller. Tex : Chandler, Wiltius.
Varies, Dingley, Brnmtn, Adams, Ill.; Heauorson,
Iowa; Hooper. ,
Coinage. Weights and Measures—Bland, Dowd,
Hardy, Nicholls. Posey, Lanham, Tuiley, Belford,
Lacey, Chase. Everhart, Luna
Comm-roe— Reagan. Clardy, Turner. Kv.: Lunn.
Seymour, Glasscock. Woodward, Boyle, Barksdale.
O'Neill, Pa.: Davis. Hl.; Wadsworth, Lone, blew
art. Vt.
Rivers and Harbors—Willis. Blanchard. Jou-a
Ala: Gibson. Rankin, Breckenridge. Murphy.
Sumner. Fellows, Brine, It >b:nson, Ohio; Chase,
Stone, Burleigh. ..
Agriculture—Hatch, Mo.; Aiken, Dibred, Will
iams Beach, Green, Winans, Weiler, Patton,
Cullen. Wilnon, Iowa; White, Minn.; Ochiltree,
Hovey. Stephenson, Raytnond. Dak.
Foreign Affairs—Curtin. Belmont, Deuater,
Clemen's. Cox. N. C.: G. D. Wise, Va.; Stewart,
Tex.; Lamb, Ind.: Rice. Wait, Ketcham, Phelps,
11 Military Affairs—Bosecrans. Slocum, Dibrell,
Morgan, Wolford, Nicholls, Murray, Duncan. Steel,
Bayne, Lemon, L-ird, Cntchln. Magiuuk. Mont
Naval Affalts—Cox, N. Y.; Morse. Talbott.
Buchanan. Elton, Balleutyne, McAdoo, Harmer,
Thomas. Goff, Jr.. Boutelle.
Postofflces aud Postroadn—Money, Rees, Ward.
Cosgrove, Riggs, Rogers, Ark., Taylor; Tenn.:
lou-s. T-x : Paige, Bingham, Peelle. Skinner, N
Y.: White, Ky.; Wakefield, .McCormick.
Itai'Ways and Canals—Davidson, Hoblitz, lit;
Murnhy, Pag", Culbertson, Ky.; Turner, Ky.:
Wemnle, Caldwell. James, Atkinson, Hatch, Mich.
Public Lande—Cobb, Scales. Oatee, Shaw, Lews.
Henley, Van Eaton, Bedford, Strait, Anderson,
Payson, Brant*. Washington Te-ritory.
ledian Affairs—Welborn. Graves, Htevenr, Pesile,
Price, Finerty, Skinner, N. C smith, Penn..
G-orgo. Perkins, Nelson. Ouray, Harrison.
Territories—Evans. S. C.t Pryor, Arnot. Harde
man. Lanban. Alexander, Carleton. Forau. J. D.
Taylor, o.: Kellogg. Johnson, Lawrence, Struble,
Post, Wyoming Territory. . .
Mauufautures—Bagley, J. D. Wise, Virginia:
Mitchell, Caldwell, Crisp. Lewis, Brewer, N. J ;
Mackey, Elwood, Campbell. „
Mines and Mining-Warner. Tenn.; Csssldv,
Alexander. Skinner, N. C.t Miller, Tex.; Wood,
btevon-. Breitung. Culbertson. Ky.; O’liata, Pin
giser. Idaho. .
Ja'rees and Improvements of the aiissts-lpp’
River—King, Dunn, O'Neill. HL; Post, Campbell,
Jones, Wis ; Henley, Thomas, J. S. Wise, Va.;
Hovey, Whiting. . „ ,
Militia—Muller, N. Y.; Covington, McCord,
Peelie. Hoyle, Ballentjne, Strait. Morley, Valen
tine, Cu'cheon. . „ ,
Claims—McMillan, Dowd, Tillman. Warner,
Ohio, Van Alstyne. Dockery, Wood. Love, Snyder.
N. M.; Ray. Va.; Price, Ochiltree, Elwood, Browu,
' WJr Claims—Geddes, Jones. Wls.; Stone, Tuiley,
Rogers, N Y.; Welles, Ferrell, Kellogg, Eve-hart,
Rowed. Bowen.
Revision of Laws-Oates. Bnchanan. McMldln.
Hill, Clav. Ward, Hemphill, Brown, Pa.; Bayne.
Spooner, McComas.
Public Buildings and Grounds Stockslager.
Young. Dibble. Reese, lionkins, Pusoy. Wemple
Worthington, Brainard, Holwu, Kean, Jr., Breit
tmg. Milliken-
t’acifle Railroads—Cassidy. Throckmorton, Ca
bell. Thompson, Jr.. Jordan, Crisp, Post, Wilson
Iowa; Millard, Dutiliam. Hanl'ack.
Expenditures ot llio Wai Department—Thomp
son, Jr, Ferrell, Taylor Tenn,; Elliott, Mayo,
Johnson, Hanback.
Expenditures ot the Navy Department—Morse,
Hewitt New York; Shaw, Davidson, Houck.
Davis, Mass.; Lawrence.
Expenditures of Department of Justice-
Springer, Hemphill, Van Alstyne, Fyar, Stewart,
Vr.: Bowen, Stephenson.
Expeniluures on Public Buildings Bel
mont, Wilkins, Spriggs: Sumner, Wis.; Harmer,
Weaver. O'Hara.
Expenditures ot the Post.cfflce Department—
Messrs. Morgan, Talbott; Robiuaou, N. Y.; Neece.
Pt-elie, Stone, Nuttiug
Expsnditures of the Interior Department—
Young, Clardy, Cook, Storm, Brumm, Dunham.
Payne.
Patents-Vance, Singleton. Mitchell, Greenleaf
Hallsell. Dorgan; Winans. Wis.; Hepburn.
Education—Aiken. Converse, Wills, Bnd'J,
Arnot, Duucau, Winans, Wis.; Taylor, Ohio;
Miller, Ha ch, Mich.: M ,rriil.
Invalid Pendons—Matsou, Leavitt, Leary, Fyar.
Winans, Mich.: Budd, Sumner, Wis.; Patton, Lov
ering. Bagley, Ray, Oulleo, Hanks, J. B. Wi»e, Va.;
Holmes, Morrell.
Pensions—Hewitt, Ala.: Tillman, Robinson, N.
Y ; Steele, Laird, Struble, York.
Expenditures of the State Department—Harde
man. Dorgan. Worthington, Campbell, Barrett,
Henderson, Iowa: Price.
Expenditures of the Treasury Department—
Davis, Mo ; Hewitt, Ala.; Potter, Connolly, Lacey
Libbey, Haines.
Labor—Hopkins, O’Neill, Mo.: Foran, Levering,
Mackey. Junies, llayne.
District ot Columbia—Barbour. Muldrow, Shelly,
Eldredge, Wilson, W Va.: Fiedler, Spriggs, Bar
rett, Gunther. McComas. Jeffers.
Private Lands—Mu drow.Mitchell, William*.Ala.:
Hallsell, Cosgrove, EldredgLowery, Payson,
Parker, Mayo, Weaver.
Public Health—Beach, Graves, Riggs, Chandler.
Fiedler, Davis f.Uass.l, Evans (Peun.), Libbey
Pettibone.
Ventilation and Acoustics—Hardy, Cabeli, Green.
Shelly, J ffr-ys, Evans (Penn.), Brewer (N. Y).
Enrolled Bills—Neece. Warner (Tenn.), Snyder
(W. Va.), Yaple, Peters. Ho mes.
SELBCT COMMITTEES.
Reform Civil Service—Mitchell, Cox, Clements,
Hobli'zel, Finerty, Barksdale. Seymour, Roberts
tN. Y.), Bingham, Pbe p,. Midird, Lvtnan, Hitt.
Alcohol c L'quor Traffic—Hill. Bland, Klein-r,
Carleton, Evans, Davis Hl.; Guenther. Goff, Jr.,
Campbell.
American Shipbuilding and Shipowniug—Slocum,
Deuster. Dibble, Throckmorton, Hunt. Findlay.
Love, Dingley, Jr., O'Neil. Pa ; George Long.
Law Respecting Elections of President and Vice
dent—Eaton. Snrinae-, Clay, Jordan, Price, Bon
nett, K einer, Findlay, Parker, White, Ky.; Peters,
Hart, Wait.
Orange Riot In Nova Scotia.
St. Johns, N. F., Dea 27.—Advices from
Harbor Grace state tba: the Orange proces
sion yesterday, while passing bhif ahead, was
fired npon by the crowd. At first, tho Orange
men thought the firing was fioni powder guns
carried by their friends, until they saw theh
men fall. Four men were killed—two Orange
men, two Roman Catholics. Eight are re
ported mortally wounded, and eighteen t;
twenty sUghtly wounded. Head Constable
Doyle is among the wounded. There
is * a lull iu tho outbreak at
Harbor Grace, but the neishboring
town of Carboneau is in a etate of tbe wildest
frenzy. Over 1,000 men are parading the
streets and preparing to march to Harbor
Grace. Crowds are hurrying up from the
whole extent of tbe north shore of Conception
bay, to the scene of the disturbance. Ab
business places are closed, and most of th<
private dwellings protected by bars and bolts.
The police despatched from St. Jo fins reached
Harbor Grace last night. If tho riot breaks
out anew tbe law officers will be powerless ti
protect life and property. It is rumored that
tbe government has cabled to Halifax for
troops and a war ship. It the Carboueau con
tingent marches to Harbor Grace the result
wiil be terrible to contemolata.
Talni.i un<l Nupoleoti.
I once beard an old dramatist relate
nn anecdote, which may or may not
have found its way into print. As long
go as 1788 or 1759 ho was walking in
the Rue Sr. H more with his friend Ta'-
ma, then nt tho commencement of his
career, when a young oflicsrin a shabby
leutenant’s uniform met them, and eaid
o the actor, “Romomber to-morrow."
Valina nodded assent, and the other
p rased on. “Who is that?" inquired my
mfoimant. “The torment ot my life,"
was the reply. “A young ellow witboui
a son, wlio is perpetually plaugtng me
for tickets of admission to the theater.
Not a bad judge, I must sav.” he contin
tied. “Knows ail our classics by heart
and won't listen to anything but Coe
neille and Racine.” Some 20 years late!
lhe two friends chanccfl to m.-et agaii
in the Place du Carrousel, at tho ven
mouion* when Napoleon was startint,
tor his dailv ride. On seeing Talma hi
stopped bis horse and spoke a fov
words to him. When he had left them,
the tragedian, turning to his companioi
asked if he recollected the young den
tenant who used formerly to bother lim
for t ekets. <>n the latter’s confessing
that he had quite forgotten the circum
stance, “Ab,” observed Talma. “I bavi
more reason to remember him than "O
have. He is emperor now, and lan
.-■tiU a poor devil of an actor; bnt.yoi
see that tie has not forgotten me. Only,’
lie added with a smile, "lie has no neei
to n-k me for free admissions now!"-
Lcmjman's Matrazine.
Application lor a Patent.
Tiie usual course is to place the ma'
ter in the hands of a solicitor for pat
ents. who has special facilities for ex
to'ining the models and records of the
patent office, and whose familiarity with
lhe business will save the inexperienced
applicant needltfl) trouble and expense,
she solicitor requires a mo-fol with full
lescription of the article to be patented,
and the first step is to make an exatnin-
Ation of the mo'le s in the patent office
to see if there is anything there likely
u. prevent the grantingofa patent. For
this preliminary examination the fee is
usually If the solicitor reports the
invention patentable, Lie next step is to
make a formal appli, alien for winch the
government fee i- 115, and the solicitor’s
isuaHy ?25. If the patent is not grant d,
this s4'» is, of course, a "lead loss to the
applicant- If the patent is not granted
there is a second government fee of 820,
making the toial c st, including the pre
liminary examination, $tC». It will be
flx weeks or more after the application
is made before the patent will t-e issued,
md if issued at all will be for 17 years
The model must riot exceed 12 incites in
iny of its dimensi'ine, and may be made
of wood or metal, or both. If tbe ap
plication s for ar improvement in part
>f a machine a model of the part on
which the improvenrent is claimed is
sufficient. ’ |
WISCONSIN NEWS. '
Gustavus Werlich, prominent citizen j
and leading business cun of Watertown
for over thirty j-ears, suicide
by shooting himself if the head. Fi
nancial embarrassmeijsf are hinted at as
the cause of the sufcids.
Badger teachers promise to turn out
3/>- 0 strong nt the natfonal convention
at Madison next J|tly,
Darlington, has » new $20,000 opera
house.
Drunken Willuni Dn ic, stayed in a
burning Manuctte, and per
ished.
John Furlong vne of the old pioneers
of Milwaukee,setting there in 1836,died
lately. \
The State of Wis\>nsin reports 13,406
marriages, 12,344 bfths and 4,684 deaths
during the year.
T. P. Mathews of Merrill, has beenap
pointed receiver^the Merrill Manufac
taring company, fie was required to
giv bonds in t!> sum of slou,ooo with
two sureties. Thie is a strong proba
bility that the fyrks will be leased to
John Phelps.
John M. Truest!cl, who 'Jied at Berlin,
would have been »ade governor once
but for his intern prance. He quit law
years ago, when he was purposely
made drunk at Foil du Lac by persons
interested in a ci.se jivohing over $106,-
000. He was a close Hand of Stephen A.
Douglass.
A monument feet square and
twenty-five feet hgh has been erected
at Matt Carpenter’fgrave in Milwaukee.
On the north fron is the inscription:
”To the memory o ALitthew Hale Car
penter. Horn in Mi", town, Vt., Dee. 22,
1834; died in Waslipgton, D. C., Feb.
24, 1881. A man greatly beloved.”
Frank Gross, has lAcn convicted at La
Crosse for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Much interest is manifested over the
ntliiirs of the late S. J. Lyon, who com
mitted suicide at Ripon by drowning
himself a few days after his failure,
which was announced on tho 6th inst.
The fact has been develoned that in t .e
excitement incident to his trouble, Mr.
Lyon neglected to affix his signature to
the assignment papers, consequently the
transfer is void.
The National Knitting company, Mil
waukee, with a capital stock of $50,000,
lias filed articles or association.
Wiiliam P. McLaren, the well-known
ex-grain commission merchant of Mil
waukee, has just r-turned from a trip
through Canad an I the Eastern States.
Speakingoftbr buj nessoutlooc in those
sections, he s ys: “In Canada the fool
ing in bush ess circles is very blue.
There is aso a very marked degree of
trade dep’essi m "in New England. I
have not eon, however, any; hing which
leads me o baneve that anything more
serious than the weeding out of weak
and loosely-conducted concerns is likely
to result. Prices are low, and money is
plenty. Trade is healthy at the bottom.”
The Wisconsin Acaiemy of Sciences,
Arts and Letters elected Prof. E. A.
I’irge of Madison librarian, and resolved
to publish a pamphlet on prehistoric
mounds, and listened to a paper on the
Driltless Area, by R. S. Salisbury of Be
loit. Prof. R. I). Irving gave the sub
stance of a paper on Metamorphic
Rocks.
At Fort Atkinson, fire was discovered
in the frame building owned by Dr. L.
C. Bricknell, and occupied by Chris Pelt
as a harness shop and James Brette as a
boot and shoe store. The tire spread
rapidly, destroying the entire stock of
harness, whips, robes, trunks, etc..
Portage, Wis., Special; For the past
three years Sam Wab, thoroughbred
Chinaman, has been running a laundry
here. When he first came here he wore
the common bag and blouse costume of
hifl race. But gradually, as his purse
widened and civilization took hold on
him, his natural clvthes were thrown
away, and of late Sara has eclipsed the
local swells in the e»t of his Prince Al
bert coat, and the fineness of his linen.
He kept his money in a large iron'.trunk,
and has it nearly lull. But his life was
too monotonous,and he met Sarah Lee a
buxom dame oi 200 pounds, to whom tie
eaid: “Samee livee alone longee nuff;
me wanteea wifee.” Tie woman thought
the sane, and after a brief courtship
they were married on Christmas day,
Sam made ready for his wif- by buying
a stuffed set of furniture, and otherwise
fifing up his waihroont.
Generalties.
The Lowell Courier laments that news
paper departments devoted to “fem
nine facts and fancies'' are padded like
other feminine "ear, and that too much
space is taken up with “dry moral
essays written by the fool, by impe
cunious clergymen and played-out litter
ateurs.”
Since the beginning of the present
year 2,684 buildings with a total frontage
of 77,797 feet have been erected in Chi
cago at a cost of 815,548,700, This record
is said to surpass that of any other city
in the country as regards the number of
new structures and to be second only to
that of New York as regards their cost
Perhaps the most noticeable feature
of the year’s building operations
is the preponderating use of br ck
instead of stone in both walls and trim
mings.
New York charity is about as great a
humbug as New York society, writes a
correspondent of a western paper. I
Mrs. A gives SIOO to some association
apart from the one which she stands
sponser for, Mrs. V will do likewise,
prov 'ted her name is printed alongside
of Mrs. A’s in type equally as large.
Charity is dispensed by the most fash
ionable merely for show, and goes in the
main to support officers of institutions
that do little or nothing for the poor.
England’s greatest historical sane,
Westminster Abbey, is said to be s®
crowded with the remains of illustrious
dead, that it now contains no more
room for interments. Chaucer’s grave
was molested to make room for Dryden’s.
Ben Johnson’s bones fell into the grave
prepared for Sir Robert Wilson. Addi
son’s remains are squandered over those
of the Duchess ot Alberinarla, and, in
turn, those of James Cracgs rest upon
his. It is proposed to enlarge the burial
accommodations of the abbey by erect
ing new cloisters.
Mexicans favoring the cremation of
persons who die from contagious diseas
es in that country say that during the
recent visit of yellow fever on the Paci
fic coast the disease was spread into the
interior by ghouls, who robbed the
bodies of buried victims and sold the
clothes. In Hermosillo burials were so
hastily and careless that a dreadful
stench rises from the cemetery, and the
health officers talk of collecting and
burying the remains in one large grave
and cementing the place over.
According to the recent issue of the
English Financial Reform almanac t here
are twenty-eight ducal families com
nosed of 519 members, occupying 1,013
offices under the British government as
a hereditary right, and at a cost to the
State of $48,800,450. Thirty-three fam
ilies of marquises supply 621 relatives
to 1,250 offices, ata cost of $41,513,750.
The earls, however, seem to be the most
self-sacrificing; they supply 3,341 mem
bers to 5,963 offices, at a cost to the
State of $240,525,96.). The total cost to
Britain is $330,840,100.
The winter carnival at Montreal be
gins on the fourth of February, and ar
rangements have already been made
with the railroad companies to run spec
ial trains at reduced rates. New tobog
ganing hills are to be prepared a much
more beautiful and elaborate ice palace
than that which was bo much admired
last year will be erected; the snow shoe
ciubs are arranging to bold grand union
torchlight pt ocessions, moon light tramps,
races, and games; there will be special
competitions by the curling clubs, abor
iginal games by the Indians, skating mas
querades, tandem drives, horse racing on
the river, carnival ball, and various oth
er attractions.
A lecturer on the growth of the Epis
copal church in America says it was not
until 1835 that the church struck root
and became an institution. Just prior
to this, an importanteventin the history
of the church transpired in the conse
crations of four bishops, all remarkable
men —Dr. Doane to New Jersey, Dr.
Smith to Kentucky (its first diocesan
bis op). Dr. Meli vain to Ohio, and Dr.
Hopkins to Vermont—each stamping
his own third upon the American
church, and each having done much to
change the character ofahe Episcopal
church in America.
A novel way of aiding the needy has
just been put into operation in Balti
more. It is the “Provident” wood-yard,
where men who are willing to work can
saw a cord of wood for 50 cents. At
present the place is far too small and
arrangements .are making to enlarge it.
Strange to say, not one tramp has yet
put in an appearance for work. The
applicants are all residents of that city
who have been thrown out of regular
employment. One of the applicants on
Tuesday was an old. gray-haired man
fully 80 years of age; he was one of the
first to finish his assigned labor, and
went off rejoicing with his half dol
lar.
3113 IS HR W i'.S i> VA LET.
Tlie Who** A<-f|unint
unce l*hha<h-iphia .Eagerly
From tha Philadelphia H imes.
When Ltnoel 8. Slickville West, thi
new British Minister to the United States,
was b .<•>...1 ti» P ohm Win it on luv <-.-o--i
side of the Athntie, he betrayed cousider
able ‘anxiety lest be might suffer by lauding
at a port win re none of the aristocracy, so
far :.s he knew, hail Lmded before.
“Iv'e often heerd of New York, yon
know.’ he is reported to have said, ‘■and I
am told the facilities for tiuveliru from
tbere to Washington are quite comfortable.
Th* v have railways all tbo way I am told,
but Philadelphia— I never hoard about the
traveling facilities from I’biiadelpbit or
how travelers get from there to Washing
ton, or the condition of the roads—but I
suppose it will not take very much longer
to go to Washington from Philadelphia
than it would take to go from New York.”
To be f 'ii the safe side, Mr. West sent
h>s valet on in the steamer ahead of him to
examine the country and the roads ana find
out the shortest routes, and meet him and
report upon his arrival. Nowit happen;
that in his cot nection with the diplomatic
service abroad Mr. West found it convta
lent to have a valet who, w ile an English
man, still spoke French, and Mr. Wills- -
torthat is the name the gentle nun of the
bed chamber bears upon his stylish visit
ing curd —aside from his nstmal gifts, by
reason of his extensive travels and inform
ation, is a very agretalle and interfering
person. When, therefore, a email, natty
individual, with a fresh face and mutton
clop whiskers, a fl it hat. square shoes, and
overcoat reaching to bis heels, appeared on
board the Government vessel, crowded with
senators and judges and colonels and co a
tnodores, and men with tre endous bank
accounts, all intent upon meeting an 1 wel
coming the di] 1 imatist, there was a flut’er
on the quarter-deck that extended, down
into the cabin, where a duet was progress
!<i tween crating joacs and popping corks,
and everyone saiit: “Whois he?"
A fortunate iniividu il who had previous
ly got wind of him and simply knew that
ae was an Englishman and Mr. West’s
av.int courtier, quickly had him by the arm
and was introducing him. “General So
and-so, let me introduce you to my par
ticular friend, Mr. Wills. the new minis
ter's private secretary,” “Judge Such-a id
such, e.ime here u minute until I present
you to Mr. Wille, the secretary of tl e lega
tion, and a personal friend of Mr. West's;’’
*'excuse me, Dr. Willis, allow mo topre
sent to you the Hon. Mr. So-and-so, one
of our im st distinguished citizens. The
doctor. Mr. So-and-so, is in charge cf the
British i tt' iirs at Washington until Mr.
West arrives.”
This is about the way tbs thing went on.
Everybody wanted to be introduced, and
Mr. Wills, was the lion of the hour. If thev
could not have Mr. Wast they at least could
have Sir. Wi'ds, who was the next thing to
him. Several distinguished citizens
thought it disgraceful that Mr. Wills should
be subject to promiscuous introductions,
and by the exerc se of considerable diplo
macy engineered him off into the after cab
in. where they had him ail to himself and
feted him to their heart’s content.
He was unquestionably an entertaining
companion, and afterward, with the select
party goii g down the river on the tug, sit
tirg in the cosy little room, it was delight
ful hearing him telling about Gortchakoff s
peculiarities, t’ e character of the Vienna
water, the condition of the road to Mos
cow, the style of Eugenie in her palmiest
days, and a great deal more such as a trav
eled num of taste would observe, or a lack
ey be able to retail after hearing it from
other lips. But when the visiting party
arrived on board the steamship a manifest
change came over Mr. Wills. A reporter
hid already noticed that Mr. Wilis had
steered clear of Mr. Adam, cf the British
emli issy at Washincton, and th it Mr. Ad
am, who had confidently told the reporter
that his godmother was Lady North, took
no more notice of Mr. W’ills than he did
of the wooden figure-head on the tug.
“Oh," said Mr. Adam to a questioner,
‘he’s only Mr. West’s valet, my dear fel
low, that’s all.”
Personalities.
John Bright makes notes and head
ings of his speeches, and with great
care writes down and commits to mem
ory nil the important passages. Glad
stone merely jots down facts and fig
ures, and for expression trusts entirely
to the moment. The late Lord Derby,
the “Rupert of Debate,” wrote down
every word and committed his speeches
to memory. In one of his letters be
says that till his principal speeches cost
him two sleepless nights—one in think
ing what he would say and the other in
lamenting that he might have said it
better. Theirs was equally precise.
O’Donnell and Gambetta spoke always
on the inspiration of the moment.
Mr. Henry H. Faxon has sent to the
various Sunday-schools of Quincy, Mass..
without regard to denomination or situ
ation* his check for money to be used
exclusively in holiday gifts for the chil
dren, the sum varying according to the
size of the school, from upward.
The local societies of the town are also
remembered, and even larger checks
are forwarded to them.
Mr. Dusenbtiry sent his man home
last evening to tell itis wife that he
“won’t be home till late.” “Well, if he
won’t come till eight,” remarked Mrs.
D., “cook will have awann dinner ready
for him when he do< S come.” And the
coo*, obeying orders, sat dosing and
nodding before the kitchen range w ait
ing lor Mr. D, unti I i o’clock in the
morning.
When Gen. Sherman relinquished
command of the army he turned over to
the War Departmentlibrary S6O volumes
being mainly military histories and bi
ographies which he had collected at the
army headquarters. The library will be
closed for a month, to give the 1 brarian
an opportunity to arrange the new books
properly, according to the subjects on
which they treat.
Victor Hugo has been visited by a
delegation of Mormons, who urged him
to join their body and endeavored by
appeals to his poetic sense to make a
convert out of him. Such, at least, is
t <e story that is going the rounds of the
German newspapers, which assert fur
ther that the aged poet’s visitors intro
duced two Mormon girls to him and
gave him to understand that he might
have them both as wives if he should
conclude to bebome the follower of
Brigham Young. The French journals
pronounce the latter part of this report
a sheer invention, prompted by Teuton
ic malice; but thev admit that Hn.’O
gave audience to a Mormon deputation,
and that he had an extended conversa
tion with them.
A Mr. De Hart, of Walden, New York
an Episcopal clergyman, has lately been
damaging the nose of a Mr. Best, one of
his parishioners, with whom he hts
been having games of whist and glasses
of beer. Readers of English novels un
derstand that rectors are accustomed to
indulge in glasses of wine and quiet
games at cards after dining, and though
Paul’s advice to Timothy did not men
tion beer, the principal includes it and
there is no warning from the great apos
tle against the seductions of whist. It is
doubtful whether Mr. De Hart has made
himself liable to any ecclesiastical pen
altv or even whether he has permanent-
Iv impaired either his own usefulness or
Mr. Best’s nose; but it is likely be wdi
be careful to select hereafter, less ex
plosive parishioners with whom to play
the tranquil rubber and absorb the nn
excessive beer.
Among the passengers recently ar
rived in New York, were two rosy
cheeked, large-eyed, blushing English
girls, who gazed with eagerness and as
tonishment on all the wonders and
granduer to lie seen on a bright and
fresh morning while journeying up
the bay from .Sandy Hook. The young
ladies were the Misses Flora and Amelia
West, the daughters ot Hon. Sackville
West', the British Minister at Washing
ton , and cousins by marriage to one of
England’s celebrated beauties, Mrs.
Cornwallis West. It is the intention of
Mr. West that his daughters shall make
a prolonged stay .in America, so that it
thatthey wiil-adorn eocietwetr- •
cleg in the capital and elsewhere during
the present winter.
An Austrian missionary says that El
Mahdi, the False Prophet of the Sou
dan, is about 40 years old, tall, and of a
coppery-red complexion. An emtnis
sary sent to interview him some time
ago found the Mahdi at Abba, surround*
eu by 500 or 600 followers, all of them
naked, with iron chain belts round their
waists, and with broad drawn swords in
their bands. The Mahdi occupied a
raised sent in their midst, and in his
right hand he held a prophet’s staff. The
three marks by which he knew the
Egyptian Government to be false to
Islam were: First, that they allowed
Cnristians to have churches of their own;
second, that thev afforded them protec
tion; and, third, that the Government
levied taxes.
DEPARTMENTAL LIFE.
The Alpha anil Omogii of OlHcial 1.-f*
Where the ( k ills Com? From.
From tlm Warhingtou R-pui-lieau.
Does any bo ly out of Washington have
an idea of "what life in a government de
partment is? In the first place there is the
scramble for an appointment, the weary
waiting, and the hope deferred day after
diy; the rushing around after influential
friends to urge the cliim and the peculiar
fitness ot the applicant for the pl ice de
sired, and after innumerable letters or visits
to the head of the department, the assign
ment to duty. All this precedes the en
trance upon official life, whether in the
capacity of coovist, first, second or third
cl tss clerk. Then follow the long, weary
days sitting at a desk trying to do something
one has never tried to do before. To be
come an object to be stared at and whis
pered about and criticized by the older
clerks in the office, who are always curious
to know what kind of hand he
or she writes, wbr.t stite they hail from,
an 1 what roll they are on. The days, weeks
a d months y iss on, and the new comer,
it ut .11 bright and capable, begins to ba
e m,e familiar with the work before him,
inc to feel pretty well acquainted with his
fellow clerks, and here comes the most try
ing part of official life.
No one, except those who hive tried it,
know wh it it is to be shut up in a room
with the same people seven hours s x days
every week. People from as many differ
ent parts of the country as there are indi
vidinils, and with quite as many different
opinions. No two of th hu with the same
religious belief; some highly endured and
some without any culture at all. The ma
jority of them so puffed up with their own
importance as to imagine that the wheels of
the government would immediately stand
still if by chance they should die or resign
or be dismissed. Conversation n -ver lags
or want of a subject. It is easy enough to
set a sane person insane to hear the various
topics introduced and discussed iu the
course of the day, and also to hear the
different hobbies ventill ited. Almost every
-nan has a hobby, whatever his position iu
life, but it does seem as if those of the Gov
ernment clerk have ao equal outside. Tie
fi nuerd schemes introduced from time to
tiaae are really wonderful. It is the sleep
ing and waking dream of the average clerk
to become rich, or at least independent
enough to resign; and yet he never for a
moment imagines that this is to be attained
by stlf-denid, economy or small savings.
Oh no! Some lucky investment in a lottery
ticket is to draw the covoted prize, or a
good speculation is to surprise him, ora
rise in mining stocks is to make him
suddenly a millionaire. It is remarkable
how the ideas of a clerk change and enlarge
alter a few years residence in Washington.
Away off in his country home one good suit
of clothes was made to do service for more
than one season, and an interesting book
or an agreeable companion was gufficiem
entertainment for his evenings. But
after a sojourn here in Government em
ploy he must have a new suit of clothes for
eveiy change of season, a new net tie to
match each suit, and gloves to match the
neclie, and a cane to match the gloves, and
scarf-pin to match the cane, and a hat to
match them all.
Everything there must be tickets to the
theatre or opera, or a carriage to the ball,
or a supper at Harvey’s or Welker, or if
near the end of the month, at some second
or third rate rest turant. If a lady clerk—
but the pen must move gently dealing with
them, for a majority of the lady clerks are
noble, self-sacrificing women, force Ito this
life through loss of father or husband or
the demands of dependent ones, and the
outside world has no knowledge of the
struggles they make or what many of them
pass through in providing for those loved
ones. Their salaries are, with a few
exceptions, much smaller than those
of the male clerks, but they often make it
do twice as much service. There are, iu
every office, though, some lady clerks who
do not have burdens to bear, and of them
it has been observed how the womanly
weakness for personal a lornment takes pos
session of them. What dainty costumes
ihey appear in, and bow they love to dis
play pretty little pieces of jewelry and be
coming laces.
Although the life is a plodding one, and
there is far more reality than romance in it,
the litter is not altogether absent, for more
than one RanifO has there f ui.dhis Julidt.
Youthful couples, thrown constantly to
gether, frequently become interested in each
other, and before th* y are aware of it the
dangerous li’tie god has marked them for
his own. What fun it is for the other
clerks to watch the progress of the affaire
du ccrur, the interested parties an the
while imagining that it is known only to
:hemselves; and after a time, some day at
the close of busiue s, the lady quietly bids
adieu to those around her and remarks that
she is not coming back again.
The clerks gathered in the several de
partments are far from being ignorant as a
:l iss, although some may be entitled to the
charge. There are poets, historians, phi
losophers, lawy< rs and thi olognins to be
found of no mean attainments. Various
causes have led them to this city and to the
position they hold. Thev have drifted here
Torn all parts of the country, from the
bleak and rutg'd hills of New England,
from the sunny region of the orang, and
he palmetto, from the mountains amt vales
of the western territories, and from the
golden fields of Cdiforuta. Many of them
boast of an ancestry distinguished in this
o mntry and the Old World. Mmy
f them at one time possessed
both wealth and influence. If the
story of some— for many have a history—
could be written out it would be more in
foresting than the most sensational of the
model n novels. There are also some very
peculiar people among them. Life moves
on day after day in such a limited circle,
that if one is at a 1! inclined to cranky no
tions it developcs more rapidly, and the
sharp corners stand out so prominently that
it becomes dangerous to come in coi tiet
with them. Yet after ail the life is a good
one for discipline, and two or three years
of such employment—but not any longer,
for after that time a man is apt to settle
down in a rut and remain there —two or
three years of such discipline helps to form
character and to give a wan better com
mand of himself. _
Resignation of Villard.
It is stated on the best authority that
H-nry Villard resigned the presidency of
the Northern Pacific Railroad company io a
le ter handed in to the directors on the 29 h,
up >n which no official action was taken.
Inquiry at the house of Mr. Frederick Bil
linas confirmed the truth of the statement,
but Mr. Billings was said to be too sick
from worrying over the recent development!
to be seen. His son said that his fa ther
would probably have to assume the direc
tion of affairs, but nothing definite on the
subject could be ascertained.
The effect on the market values of the se
curities of the companies, as it was thought,
would probably be in the direction of high
er prices; but in view of the distrust and al
- terror which seemed to pervade all in
terested in these ente.-prisee, the effect
would be only a temporary one, unless a
frank an t full sta’ement of the exact condi
tion of affairs should show the companies
to be in a sounder condition than was gener
ally b.lieved to be the case.
Mathias Molitor died in Caledonia recent
ly, aged ninety-nine years and four months.
He was in Napoleon’s army from the inva
sion of Russia unt l the overthrow at Water
loo. and came to this country in 1859, cele
brating his golden wedding in 1861.
Four thousand eight hundred and seven
ty-four deeds were recorded in Ramsey
County last year with a total consideration
of §l2 981.331*
The fortune of the late Dr. Halloway oi
London in estimated at $2-5 000,000. The
pills and ointment cost almost nothingj but
bis advertising, which began with $25,000
is now more than $200,000 yearly
The Swedish brig Natal, which arrived at
Brisbane, Queensland, from Boston, reports
a mutiny on the voyage, in which the cap
tain and first mate were wounded and tne
second mate killed, The captain shot two
mutiners and secured three ethers. »he
latter are in prison at Brisbane
The Dublin Gazette announces that three
baomiea in County Tyrone, including Dro
more and Oaiagb, where nationalist meet
ings were announced to be hell, bave bees
placed under the arms act Tne lord hen
tenant has p-oh bl ed the projected natron
aliet meeting at Cootchill.
.. LAST ..YEARS EVENTS. .
Hie Loss of Hainan Lite by Earthquake,
Fire, Flood and Accident
Last Year.
Crimes Increase in Nnmb'rs and larii-ty—.*
Year’s Sport in the Lniteil States—
Dramatic Events.
The l.is'ory of a year is something that the
best memory, or even tha bast nsvripapcr, can
not present unimpeachably correct Only the
salient events of the 365 days can ever be
carried in the mind, aod it is of these that the
impression of tbe year 1883 must ba inada
There is a special valna in studying even
the driest presentation of the year’s
events as a matter of practi
cal every-day history. Its convenience
appears iu a thousand ways as time goes on
and greater or lesser events fix themselves in
the memory of their relation to other occur
renccs. A review of the events of 1883,
gleaned from a review of newspaper files, ap
pears below. It shows that tha year was one
of the moet remarkable m history in tbo great
number of catastrophes by which many lives
were lost. The fatality of tha world,
approx mately estimated from tha reported
deaths, cannot be far from 100,000. The list
of deaths includes a larger than usual propor
tion of great persons. A full catalogue of the
liomieidt-s and mi-cellaneous crimes that have
taken place in the United States would sur
pris» the public with the information that vice
is rapidly on the increase. In other respects
the events of the year are decidedly noteworthy.
BIBABTEBS.
Few years have witnessed bo many great ca
t ietropbos. Jan. 10 lhe Newhall house burned
in Wisconsin at 4 o’clock iu the morning, and
75 guusts and servants lost their lives. The
pecuniary loss was $500,000. Four days
later the" Planners’ house, St L uis, burned
causing four d-aths, and the circus in
Benlitsoheff. Russia, burned during a per
formance, and 268 parsons pr-rished In
January, also, 18 oonvic s worn drowned
f-res-ung Tukascegoe rivi-r. North Carolina; the
Biii-h eh p Empire burn-od r»n the way to
it ,nib,v, sii I 16 were 10-t: a Bethlehem, I’*.,
bo. er explosion killed 5; the Cnnbria sunk iu
cot i.sion with the Sulim iu the German ocean,
drowning 434 persons; a Southern Faeiflc
I ai i went <>v< f an embankment at Tehachopa.
Cala.. and 20 were killed: 6 meu were los
from’the schooner Garfield in a st rm near
Halifax; 7-’ were d>owned by the flooding of
n mine in Amtria; 10 lives were lost by the
s ukmg of the City oi Brnssells; at Centerville,
I. a mine exploded and ten men were killod;
iu ’F.bruary the frightful disaster at Br iid
wo; d 111, occurred, bv which 63 men
wer© btxried iti tii6 Uiaiii'iU'l mine, jiuvl t ieii
ho lies were not recover d for several montua.
In a panic m the Fourth Street school. New
York citv. 16 children lost their Ives. By
various floods in Ohio Missouri and other
neigl boring S ates 56 lives were lost.
I no schooner I’ilot Bride w ut down off Ln-o
lat on island aud all the crow but four urowued.
The Ashuelot sank off Hong Kong, drowning
11. In March the steamer Navarre
went down with 65 mon on board,
In April a boiler exp’osiou a’ St Dezier, 1 ana,
till d s’xty- five Ou the 25t1» of t:i« same
month 127 miners were kided in Eastern
France. In Mav tbo Brooklyn bridee panic
cost fourteen lives, the steamboat Pilot blew
ui> at San Francisco, killing eiuht, and torna
do s are est mated to have killed over 100.
Ou June 16 occurred the frightfu* pa-*ic in
Sunderlanii Exhibition ball, in which ‘.’>l2 clul
dren were trampled to death. 1-1 tods and
tornadoes caused fifty-eight deaths in tins
month. June 25 tweu'y-five Chinamen were
killed in » mine beyond the Mullan tunnel,
Montana. July 2 ‘seven lives were lost
iu a railroad accident at Bradford, Fa.
On the 4th the Daphne, m, being
lauuchod at Glasgow, careened and drowned
150, A tiro in Hungary burned twenty.
Juiv 24 Tivoli pier fe 1 near Baltimore, drown
ing seventv-two. At Carlyon, N Y, seventeen
were killed, among them Thomas Hoyne of
Chicago. Capt Webb was kii.cd the last of
this mouth while trying to swim the Niagara
whirlpool. Floods at London, Ont, urowued
seventeen. The mouth closed with the vol
canic eruption at Ischia, off the Bay of Naples,
in which tbo loss of life was beyond
estimation. The Cologne Gazette put it
at 8.000, while others think not
5,000 lost their lives there. On the 231 of
August occurred the Rochester cyclone, in
which the teal loss of life was twenty-three.
The steamer Riverdale burst her boilers on tbo
Hudson river and a number of fives were lost
\ng 30 came the Java earthquake, a
catastrophe terrible beyond anything km.wn iu
the historv of the world. Probably <o,ooo
people were killed by it. The ravages or the
cholera in Imba and Egypt during the Btimtuar
caused a horrible loss of life, over 12,000
people dviug in July, and 10,000 being re
ported iu Egypt alone during August,
Deaths bv vellow fever in Mexico, the West
ludie- ami tbo United States probably reach
tha number of 3,000. In beptember mne
si I liars of Illinois militia were Killed at Spring
field. On the 29tb, a powdertnili in San I ran
cifco exploded nrnl killed fonj -uue. mostly
Chinese. Nov. 8, the now wing of the papite!
at Madison, Wis , fell, burvmg twenty mam
One was killed, and others seriously hurt. Jbe
steamer Manistee went down oti Lake superior
about the 21st, with, it is estimated, sis y per
sons on board. In the same storm probably
roveutv-flve sailors perished on the takes. In
December three Gloucester schooners went
down with thirty-eight ou board The sinking
of the schooner Mary Ann Hurlburt in L>k«
Superior on the 14th caused the death ol
fifteen men. On the 16th. the Bb*' ll ’* l
J earner St. Augustine burned in the Bay or
Biscay, and upward of thirty lives were lo<t.
On the 17th a terrific etirnj occurred on the
Black hob, it which it is ostimateil tint 3(H)
perished. In the burning of the German
Israelite school at Constantinople thiriy wore
burned to death. A snows.ide iu Colorado
killed ernht men last week. The steamer
Plautyn, bound for Antwerp from New 1 >rk.
was foundered and five sailors were killed
last week.
NECEOLOCX.
The year began wi h a notable death at
Washington—Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian min
ister and deau of the diplomatic corp-’, while
making a New Year’s call at the White House
On the same day Loon Gambetta died near
Paris in his forty-fourth year, from a pistol
wound, said to have been inflicted by bis mis
tress, Madame L on, but now believed to have
been by his own aecideht. The same day also
the oarl of Stamford died in England, aged
fifty-four. Other notable deaths in January
wore those of Barrett, tho jockey
who rode Pa ole; Wilhsm A. Scavor i sa s aut
editor of Harper’s Magaz ne; Lot M. M rrrill of
Maine; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Lryans
t w >, Md., afier his release from tho Dr* Tor
tugai for participation in the assassinati in of
President Lincoln; ox-CongresTnan Fort of
Illinois; Bishop Cruikshank cf Indianapolis,
ige sixty-seven; Henry Kip, vice-president
United States Express company; Jeiome F.
Kargo, one of tbo expre s family, at Buffalo,
Y.; Prince Alexander, brother of Emperor
William; Wolfgang Goethe, sou es the great
German poet; Gustavo Dore, the artisq 1. rd
Greviile of England. In February, ex-Gov.
E. D. Morgan of New York died;
Richard Wagner, the composer; Mareha 1
Jewell, the ex-postmaster general and clnvr
man of the Republican na ionai commi t o;
x Gov. Davis of Texas; Dr. Paul Chadbourne
f Maessachnsotts, in Now York city; and
Charles R. Tuorno, the actor, at New York.
1 tie first no ed death iu March was that of
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, on tho 4th
->f ihe mouth. O liar noted deaths were Col.
ttarrv Giitnou-, the rebd guerrilla, at Bilti
moie; Prince Gortschakoff. ex-chancellor of
tho Russian empire, at Baden-Baden;
I O. Howe, postmaster general;
J R Green, the £ -gbsh historian,
at Mentone; Karl Marx, aged sixty five, at
Argenteuil; and John Brown. Queen victoria s
oudy servant. Hie tirat notable death in April
was tnat of Peter Cooper, the philanthropist,
in New York ciiy, iu bis ninety-thirJ year.
0 her deiths wire Surgeon Geirnial Barnes.
I-’ianz IL, giand duke of Meckieuburg-
Schworiu; i (Constantinople. Sul eman Pasha,
hi Mav Pre idsut Grant s m ither di -1 a
Jersey City, in her eighty-fourth year ; Israel
iVa-liuurn died iti Philadelphia; B shop Peck,
at Syracuse; Will.am Chambers, the publish
er, in London; E louard Labotllaye, iu Parrs:
and Abd-e-Kader, in Dama-cus. In June,
Charles C. Futon, edltoref the Baltimore Amer
ican, died. Prof. Autioti, the classical scholar,
diedin New York; and ex Congressman Css
s rly in California. In August Wli t Sykes, con
eul a: Cardiff, died; aim. Judge Black, at York,
pa.; Count de Cbainbord, at Froh-toorf i i
September, Hugh Hastings, of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, died; aud Janine
Brutus Booth, at Manchester, Mass. In Octo
ber Gen. st edmau, the war hero, died al
Toledo. In November, Natt Hea I, ex-goveru
nr of Now Hampshire, and Admiral Creighton,
died.
POLITICAL.
The identifieatiou of Presdicnt Arthur's ad
ministration with the reform of the civil e* r
v.ce took shape in February aud March. Sen
ator Pendleton’s bill was passed Jan. 1
earlv in March tho president appointed Dor
man B. Eaton o’ New York, Jobu M Gregory
of Illinois, aud L D. Thoman of Ohio, civil
service commissioners. March 3, Sena
tir David Davis retired from the vice
presidency, and Senator E Imunds elected to
succeed him. March 4 congress adjourned.
John W. Foster was sent as minister io Spain.
Fnomaa W. Palmer of Detroit was elected to
ihe Senate. Ai rd 3 Walter Q Gresham was
appointed postmaster g neral to succeed T. ().
Howe, dec a sei. May 21 Walter Evane
was appointed comm nsi-mer of interna;
revenus to succeed Green B. Ra ini. In Angnst
President Arthur came West, going bv wav of
f!ie Uuiou Pacific to f h.s YeHowawuo park.
Dae. 1, the l ortv-eighth congress met and J.
G. Canislo of Kentucky was elected speaker.
On the 12th th'jß'ptib’ican nationdcommittee
met st Washingion and elected Senator Sabin
chairman, to succeed Marshall Jewell, de
ceased, and Chicago was selected for the next
national convention.
In the States several notable changes hav<
taken place. Jan. 4, Gov. Butler was in
aogurateil at Boston. Jamee 8. Boynton was
sworn in as governor of Georgia, to succeed
Ah xander 11 Stephens, deceased April 12.
11. D. McDaniel was nominated for governor,
and on tue 24th was elected, to suem-e 1 Boyn
ton. May 17, Proctor Knott was nominated foi
governor of Kentucky, and ia’er was elected.
Nov. 6 Judge Hoadly, Democrat, was
elected governor of Gino; Buren R. Sher
man, Republican, of Iowa; Georgo D Bsbin
son. Republican, of Maseacnnsot a; Rober: Me
Lane, Democrat, of Maiylsnd; Leon Ab
belt, Democrat, of Mew Jersey; and L F. Hub
bard. Republican, ot Minnesota-
DBAMiTIC.
'ln fhedramsfic world ibe ybkr lixs been wort •’
or lees memorable. Mrs Langtry made het
first appears .co in the West at Chicago, or
Januaty 1. After an c-xtonifed tour throng!
tha country, in which she experienced
all tue ’incidents attendant on a
theatrical scandal, she sailed home July 24
Her earnings are said to have been neail;
*2t)o,(HK>rn this country. Io October Henry
living aud Ellen Terry landed in New York
and tho former appeared the follow
ing week in The Bells, receiving a
welcome from people and pros* such
as belonged to England's great* at
actor. Mary Anderson went to London in Oc
tober, and lias ulayed steadily at the Lyceum.
Mapleson and Abbey have brought larjfe a-id
high-priced operatic performers from Europe,
inc uiling Paul, Gerster and Sembrinh, sml
have been playing in fierce rivalry at tue Met
ropolitan and tue Academy of Music in New
York.
SFOBTINO.
Jan. 6, in a billiard match, cushion oarroms,
at New York, Maarica Daly def atsd Wil.iam
Sexton; averags: Daly, 4 8-23; Soxt n, 4
11-114. The wroatiiug match ou the 1J n,
at Louiavide, Ky, between John Gra
ham and Clarence WMatler, best two
nt of three falls, Grseco-Roman and
catch.as-catch-ean, was won by Graham. In
the Grieeo-Romiu wrestling match, the 271 n,
for SSOO and championship, at St Louis, be
tween Muldoon and Bauer, the former won.
Feb. 4 Muldoon downed Bibby in a
wrestling match st St Louis, va the
23d Carver beat Bogardus at Louisvil.e;
score, 83 to 82. March 12thoNational league
and Anv-rieau Base Ball associations ma le up
their differences. The Chicago billiard tour
nament opened on tho 26th with a victory for
Vutnaux over Daly. April 5 Sheerer
beats tho best record at billiards,
»t Chicago. Mav 14, Sullivan knocked out
Mitchell in three rounds in New York. July
28, the Pullman regatta opened at Pufimati, ill.
August 6. Sullivan, iu a glove tigut aitha Madi
son Square Garden, New York city, knock il
„ut Herbert A. Stade in two and a-ha!t
rounds. On tho 13ili Wili am Ryan John
MorriMev , n trainer ia hh eauy day*, died
Kort Edward. B >wtan wou the league chain
pioirhip; the Athletic, of Philadelphia, tin
Aoicricau ; atid the Toledo nine the NortfiWist
ern championship.
noktmwestsen events.
The year has been especially eventful In the
Northwest. In Minnesota Senator Windom
was defeated for re-election, and D. M. Sabin
elected on tho twenty-uinth ballot, Feb. 2.
the capital of Dakota, after a long
and arduous struggle, was removed tc
Bismarck by Gov. Ordway and the ea>>ital
commission chosen tor inch his >ns<rumouiel
ity Ihe Nortneiu I’aeitio road was completes!
<nd formally opened Sept. 8. St Paul aud
Mmucapo is,' ou Sept 3, celebrated this
event with a magnificence aud enthu
'ia*m never be o e shown in the two
cities. President Villard, accompanied by
numerous guisw, among whom were G.*n.
Grant and cx-Secre'ari’is Evarts and Schurz,
was accordod a grand ovation, ending with a
banquet given by the city of St Paul at tbo
Lafayette hotel. Lake Minnetonka. Tbo last
spike was driven Sop*. 8, at a point sixty
miles Went of Helena, with appropriate aud
■jlaborate ceremonies. The YellowatoM
park was this vear opened to the pnbiio by
railr >ad, aud Rufus Hatch, with a special train
b aring a largo number of invited guests,
spent a fortnight there. The Canadian Pacific
was pu -hud oa to the Rocky moun ains. _ Rich
discoveries of gold in the (.autr d'Alene
mines have stimulated crowded emigration
thither. The crops throughout Minneso a and
Dakota wire generally good. Early frosrl
damaged wheat in some parts of tue Rod Rivet
valley. Tho improvement of ths mineral
region north of Duluth was be.tin m tbs
budding or tlie Irr ■ Range railroad, which is
to tap that hitb< -io unknown section of th»
S at.*. One of ihe impoi ant events is tbo
c imt lotion of the Minitob* railroad viaduct at
Miuneapolis, the first stone bridge across tho
Mississippi.
CBIMK.
One of ths most blood-curdling crimes of the
past year was the killing of Richard Pierce o!
B*. Paul tbo night of Jan-1. Great excitement
wns einsed by tho attar, which was <ml*
a layed bv the discovery of the supposed dead
man iu the pineries and his return noma. The
Dumber of murders in the United States it
probably larger for 1883 than any preceding
year. Only two celebrated crimes car
be mentioned. Juno 8 Armistead Bark’da's
killed his cousin, Scott Clayton, at Lawrence
burg, Va., aud a few days later committed
suicide m remorse. Mai .b 1, Jimmie Ediott,
iho puugilist, was shot aud killed in Chicagc
bv Jeru Dunn, a notorious sporting man.
.March 8, George (.oakling shot and killed W
H. Bavorstick, Inn sister's paramour iu New
York; Couuliug was let off on bail and ii
living in Nevada. At Harrodsburg, Ky., April
27, Congres-man Phil Thompson shot aud
killed instantly Waner H. Davls, whom ho
charged with seducing his wife. Thompson
was acquitted. April 21, a mob at Devil’s
i.ake kuled the tw > Ward brothers. At Union
town, Pa., June 13, James Nutt killed Duke*
who murdered his father, Capt. Nu t, in an
altercation over a siauler against Mtav
LzzieNutt Young Nutt’s trial is ponding in
Pittsburg. Sept. 3, tho body of Bose Amblet
C.ark was found at Stamford, Conn. The mur
derer escaped <»a the 25th of the aunt
nioiith, Ada a\ikiiiHon wm hiu’-il y tnurdt’reu
i.y Noilmg at Oxford, lud. Nailing was subse
quently lynched.
Other notable crimes were tho r.mbsry <M
he Citv bank, New York, of $48,000 by
Cashier Shaw and Assis'aqt Cashier Beach I
the abduction of Zorelda Garrison at bt. Louis,
the rubbery at Panama of $15,000 sent by th*
government to the United btates fleet in tht
Pacific; O. B. Owen’s stealing $200,000 from
the St. Louis bank; tho robbery of $20,000 in
diamonds at Spritigflel-l, Id.; the assault on
Lt «y Fioreude Dixie iu ho grounds at Wind
sor; robbery of the United Hopes ex
prie* company of $15,000 at Des Moines;
murder of two men in tho posse that captured
the B.rber brothers in Iowa; the defalcation ol
1 roasurer Polk of Tennessee to the amount ol
$100,(M>0; tbo murder of Biandy bj
his wife and her paramour at Argyle,
Minn.; tho embozz oment of Phipps,
he Philadelphia alms house keeper;
die robbery of Secretary Peller’s trunks, cou
aining $3,000 of diamonds, at Livingston,
Mont Ihe murder of seven neeroee at Dai
vilie, Vs , on election day, aud tho shooting of
several persons at Yaz >o. Miss., Cliristtns , re
sulting in tho lynching last uight of four
negroes at that place.
A Typical Texan Matinee.
McDade Special: Henry Pheifier, Wrigbl
McLemore, and Thad McLemore were taken
roni a saloon here by fifty well-armed
masked men, carried a tnlle into the brush,
and hanged to a tree. Thad McLemore was
under arrest at the time, having been taken
early in the evening on a charge of burglary
by 8. J. Walker. The other two happened
to be present when the lynche-s arrived
Pfeiffer was under indictment for horse
stealing in this county. 8 x men, lilends and
relatives of those hanged, came to >own
aud picked a quarrel with Tom
Bishop and George Milton. A fight with
shot guns nd six-shooters ensued. Two
of the six, Jack Bayley and Asa Biyley,
were killed, and a third, Hayward Bayley,
wounded. Wallis Griffin an estiiiiabls
citizen of McDade, w’.nle assisting Milton
and Bishop to defend themselves, was shot
through the head mortally by Hayward
Bailey. Five corpses, those of the two Le
mores, the two Bayleys, and Pfeiffer, are
Iving in the market house yet unclaimed.
It is thought that friends will come, aud
trouble is threatened.
Matrimony and Suicide.
LxCbossb, Wis., Special Telegram, Dsc. 20.
—A dispatch from Necedah gives the pariicu
lara of tha marriage of the daughter of Samuel
Hi’cs to William Armstrong, which was quite
a brilliant event Among tbo festivities wa»
an excursion of the entire wedding party orei
tho new Wieconsin A Pittsville railroad, with a
nuch at Dexierville at the residence cf George
Hilt s, uncle of tho bride. The following dis
patch from Grand Rapids will bo et.-on to have
relation to tlio above event: “W. H. Johnson
of Dexterville, who lias been head bookkeeper
and general accountant for George Hiles for
years, mado an attempt at suicide to-day st 2
p. m. iu his room st too Central house
by shooting wi:h a revolver. After din
ner ho complained of being fatigued
and went *0 bis room. Calling tho landlady,
he put the muzzle of a revolver to his bressl
aid fired just as she entered the room. The
bail passed just above tho heart ami was taken
out near the rhoniderbla-le. Tho patient is ir
a precarious condition. He ie r.bout twenty
eight years old. Th- re is nt definite idea »•
to the causa of th a deed, tut it is generally
believed that the marriage of a certain young
tadv yesterday, on whom ho had set his affec
tions; cut considerable of a figure in the case.
He had written letters to parties at Dexterville,
informing them of his intentions, and the 3
o’clock train brought several persons over here
to interfere. <
All Be Wanted W: s Advertising.
Bcftaw, Dec. 2> —John J. Mcßride, who
in specials is made to threaten dire disaster tn
Canada, aod tbo capture or death of Lord
l.andmlowne, in consequence of the hanging of
O'Donnell, is known here as having no connec
tion with, or is not acknowledged by, any rep
utable Irish organization of this or any oriioi
city. He infests nenkpaper offices, and when
unable to get publication for Ins prouuncia
meutoes to ‘ England's queeo,” or any other
person, Le pay* fol the insertion as advertised
matter. Mcßride gives out tnat last night an
attempt was made to abduct him by two Cana
dian detectives, which was fruhtated. Thorn
is no band of Invincibles or dynamiting Irish
in this city. Mcßride is cbuckiing over the
success of his scheme t > secure notoriety. He
is a peddler of badgesand photographs of pub
lic meu aud prominent characters. He served
a term in the workhouse for insulting ls<Hos
entering church.
i(nustmiey Rewarded.
Canton, Ohio, special: Twenty years age
William Craig quarrelled with his pretty young
sweetheart. He went out of the neighborhood
and was never heard from. His betrothed
mourned him M lost, but refused all offers of
ma nage. Friday, Dec. 7, a bearded uixn of
forty waked up the path io the house of his
old sweetheart. Mu’ual recognition followed
and the long deferred mstriage took p.ace yes
terday. Craig said he re. red iu the arm) and
then went to Nebraska, where Le took up a
valuable tract of land which be had since cul
rivaled.