CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Tuesday, April 15 — Senate. — When
the senate met a note was read by the
secretary from Vice I’res. Wheeler, say
ing he whonld be unable to attend the
session, and advising the election of a
pres, pro tern. Sett. A. G. Thurman
was then elected to that position by a
vote of 28 to IS. A few bills were in
troduced. including one to authorize an
increase of the army in cases of emer
gency. Adjourned.
Tuesday, April 15— House. —The bill
providing for the purchase of a refrig
erating siiip for the disinfection of car
goes, passed. The legislative lull was
then taken up, the pending amendment
being that ottered by Mr. Bragg to
abolish the southern claim commission.
A long debate followed. Mr. Voting’s
substitute to Mr. Bragg’s amendment—
to abolish the commission, and turn
over all claims to the court of claims—
was also discussed. Mr. Bragg made u
strong argument in support of his
amendment, and Mr. Garfield answered
him with his usual loree claiming that
there were just claims from the south;
the southern claims commission was
the proper tribunal to pass upon them.
Bragg’s amendment was lost by a vote
of 65 yeas to lid nays. Voting’s sub
stitute was also lost by yeas, 53; nays,
107. Mr. Springer then o tie red an
amendment providing for abolishing
me southern claims commission and
providing that all just claims shall be
tiled with the court of claims, which
body shall report them to congress for
action. Without disposing of the
amendment the house adjourned.
Wednesday, April 10- Senate. —Con-
sideration of tin army bill was resumed.
51 r. Beck had the floor and uiscussed
the subject at length in a running con
troversy with Air. Hoar. Mr. Beck
said the democrats wore not proposing
to either coerce the president, nor were
they setting up revolutionary measures,
and endeavoring to pass acts which
would deprive the president
f oin using the army for con
stitutional purposes. All they pro
posed to do, as would he seen by the
6th section of the bill, was to say to the
president, he should not recall troops
from the frontier, or where they were
placed to prevent invasion from abroad
to be used merely for political purposes,
and that while the courts were open
and all the judiciary macinery working
in harmony with them, he should not
use troops except on call of the gover
nor or legislature of a state in an emer
gency, contemplated by the con
stitution. nor should he use troops
against the public will. He quoted
numerous precedents to show
that it was u-nial to attach legislation
on general appropriation bills. Among
them it was shown that the law relating
to supervisors and deputy marshals was
.■in amendment on an appropriation hill
by a republican congress and that Un
celebrated Drake amendment which
annulled the decision of the supreme
court was made a part of an appropri
ation bill. In conclusion he said the his
tory of the republican rule showed it to
he the duty of democrats to curtail tin
military power of the country. Mr. Hoar
replied briefly, when Mr. Dawes look
the floor. Me argued that the south
had been given a fair trial, and it had
shown a continued rebellion against
the general government. A large class
of voters in the south were held in ab
ject terror, and refused the right of
cuflrage by the lawless, predominant
race there. Some protection is needed,
and the democrats now desire to re
move that protection. Mr. Dawes
yielded the floor to Mr. Butler, who
staled that his colleague, Wade Hamp
ton, was ready to he sworn in. Mr.
Hamilton then took the oath. After
executive session, adjourned.
Wednesday, April 16. — House. —The
legislative bill was further discussed.
The amendments dissolving the south
ern claims com mission, and transferring
its duties to the court of claims, was
defeated by the united votes of northern
democrats and republicans. The object
of th*amendment was to place southern
war claims on a par with loyal war
claims for compensation. Adjourned.
Thursday, April 17— Senate.— The
army bill was again taken up and Mr.
Morgan spoke briefly in favor of a re
peal of the law authorizing th 6 ns<- of
troops on election dav. He was follow
ed by .Mr. V borhees who made a two
hours speech. He declared the pro
tection of the ballot box had been
wrested from the people and given
over to corrupt federal oflieers who
would use their authority to cheat the
people of their rights. He alluded to the
civil rights bill of 1860, under which he
said tlie president could use the army
any where under the pretense of en
forcing its provisions; there being
placed under the power of the president
a range of subjects a< extensive as the
rights of man. I'mier a free constitu
tion the vast scopeof this law places ab
solute power in the hands of one man.
There was not a phase of human afl'airs
in any state or territory that could not
he interfered with by the army. He
then read other laws to show what base
uses military forces might be applied in
controlling elections. After executive
session, adjourned.
Thursday, April 17 — House.. — Some
time was spent in discussing the bill to
substitute legal tender notes for subsi
diary silver coins, but no action was
reached. It was agreed that all bate
on the legislative bill should close on
the 20th. Kelley and Carlisle spoke at
some length in favor of the political
legislation proposed by democrats. Ad
journed.
Friday, April IH S>nate. —After a
long debate on the array bill partici
pated in by several senators, the senate
hekl an executive session and adjoum
unlil Monday.
Friday. April 18 — Houte— The legis
lative bill was discussed at length, but
no action was reached.
Saturday. April 19th —House.—A
discussion occurred upon the question
whether bills could be introduced in the
form of petitions, and the subject was
finally referred to the committee on
rules. The subsidiary silver commis
sioners’ biil then came up as the un
finished business of the morning hour.
Several amendments were oflered.
Mills offered an entirely new substitute,
providing for a dollar of 412 j grains,
and that all subsidiary coins should be
u -xact proportion in weight.
Mr. Springer's amendment increasing
the legal tender quality of subsidiary
silver coin to twenty dollars, was agreed
to —yeas 126. nays 103. The morn
ing hour having expired, various
amendments, making the trade
dollar legal tender, for issuing fractional
money, etc., were oflered, and then the
bill, with pending amendments, includ
ing Mills’ substitute, went over without
action. The legislative bill was then
taken up, and after being shortly dis
cussed the house adjourned until Mon
da v.
Monday, April 21 — Se’iatt, —Consider-
ation was resumed of the army appro
priation bill. Mr. Bayard defended the
iucorpoiation of general legislation on
the appropriation hills, there being
nothing unusual in it Mr. Maxoy
followed Mr. Bayard. After executive
session the senate adjourned.
Monday, April 21 — Hoiue. —A bill
for the distribution of the un
expended balance of the Geneva award,
was introduced, bv Mr. Frye, and three
financial bills by Mr. March. Several
bills relative to the Pacific railway were
referred. Among the bills introduced
were two by Mr. Wood, one establish
ing a permanent sinking fund, and the
other providing for the appointment of
a joint committee to revise the revenue
laws. All states and territories
being called, and bills to the
number of 1,385 having bet n
introduced, the house took a re
cess until evening, the session to he de
voted to debate on the legislative bill.
There were but five members present
when the house reassembled. The
house immediately went into commit
tee of the whole. Blackburn in the chair,
on the legislative appropriation bill.
Speeches wore made by Browne, New,
Frost and Deuster. The committee
rose and the house adjourned.
Failures for First (Quarter of 1>79.
The mercantile agency of li. C. Dun
A Cos., has made up the list of failures
for the first quarter of 1879, as com
pared with the same quarter of 1878
and 1877. W? give it below and it will
be found full of interest to the business
and industrial classes. It .is the first
healthy showing sent out since 1873
The western states may well rejoice at
the comparison. The number of fail
ures have fallen off about half, and the
amount of liabilities almost two-thirds
as compared with 1878 and the com
parison with 1877 is nearly as encourag
ing. The following are the figures:
FAILURES FOB FIRS I QUARiER OF I*7o, 1878 AND 1577.
Quarter Ending M irchfll, 187:* Quarter Fading March Cl. 1878. Quarter Ending March 31,1877.
status and territories. „ ... ,
Nnmb'-r nf Amount of Number f Amount of Number of Amount of
Fsßures. Liabilities. Failures Liabilities. Failures. Liabilities.
Eastern 343 1 $6.<40.842 539 $ 11.016.974 418 16,798.403
j.Midd’e States 831 14 314,647 950 32,271.6 6 9’.8 23.308.354
jS“tliern States 4:5 8 717908 - 4<3 11,699,029 :i<l 6,606,391
ftVesicrn States 618 3,380,221 1,218 25,014.( 81 969 15,545.398
Pacific States & Territories 207 4.859,047 165 2,074,130 1-0 2,219,519
I Total 2.524 $43,112,665 3 353 s<2 078.-23 2,869 $54,-5:58,070
Dominion of Canada 631 $11,618,697 5.55 $9,100,929 572 $7,570,511
Illack-Mailinir Women in Washington.
Letter to Chicago Inter Ocean.
The only way to avoid complication*
with these women is to keep them at a
distance, and congressmen of experi
ence make it a rule never to see a wo
man applicant for oflice except in the
presence of others.
.Senator Chandler says that he would
not receive the Virgin Mary except
in the presence of a witness, and de
clines to see all lady callers at his home.
He tells them ail to call upon him at
the senate, and has interviews with
them in the presence of the crowds
that haunt the reception-room of the
senate.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is a favor
ite object of attack by designing wo
men, hut he has escaped them hy being
prudent and avoiding any appearance
of evil. He will not see a woman ex
cept in public.
There are scores of cases like the
Olivar-Cameron id lair in Washington
every year, and innocent men have
paid roundly to avoid notoriety. Cam
eron is the first man who has let a
blaek-mailing case of this kind go into
cour', and has set an example that
other public men will be glad to follow.
Kx-P./stmaster-Goneral Jewell once
came very near getting into the clutches
of a woman of the Oliver stamp; not i
that lie sinned, but there was a "job
pul up on him, - ’ and his prudence j.re- I
vented its being carried out.
llexbv M. Stanley is now on his way
to Zai.rbar, and J. G. Fangtiom will,
in a couple of days, be on his way to the
wilds of Mexico.
A OEOEGIA woman has carried a brass
pin in her mouth for twenty years.
THE WHEAT NORTHWEST.
WISCX'SMX.
Mr. J. I. t'vsK, of Racine, has added
several more tine blooded horses to his
stables, having pm chased them in Ken
tucky.
Tuk president ot the Milwaukee A
Dubuque railway company says that
the mad will he built to the town of
Franklin this summer.
Tuk l.a Crosse ('‘iromV.V says the
Northern line schedule ot salaries for
the season of 1872. gives captains $hV,
tirs! clerk $!H\ second clerk ST>O, pilots
SBO. tirst mate s7.'. second mate sh'.
and roustabouts S2O per month.
- Os the kith inst . there was a lively
lire in Beloit. The tUmcs broke out in
the Commercial house barn. It was
destroyed with three horses, an onini
! bus. a top carriage, harnesses, etc. A
j brick building owned by Chet Hodge
was also destroyed, and a large tene
ment house belonging to A. B. Car ('en
ter The loss is about SB,OOO, and the
insurance only SI,OOO.
A I’oki aoi special says: Wednesday
John Joins No. 4.. an old farmer about
t‘>o year.' old, living in the town of Cal
edonia, hail one of his legs crashed in a
terrible manner while attempting to
sink a large boulder in one of his fields,
to clear the land for plowing. The ac
| cident happened about I o’clock 111 the
afternoon, and when the ola man did
not come to supper some of the family
went in search of him, and when found
j he was trying to extricate himself with
| a crowbar. 'The limb was amputated
and the old gentleman is doing well.
Hinvi: the body of the ‘‘unknown" was
washed ashore upon the west side of
Lake Winnebago, a Brothertown tar
mer, residing on the N.lcs farm, sud
denly remembers the strange disappear
ance of a stranger from that locality
last fall. This man says that in the fail
a gentleman drove to the farm and re
mained over night. He left a horse anil
buggy in tin- barn mid in the morning
went out for a walk, hut since that time
has not returned, nor has anybody else
come forward and claimed the horse
and buggy. It appears that the far
mer lias since kept the rig, and that the
whole circumstances had escaped his
recollection until he was reminded ol
the affair by the report of the finding of
a man's body in the waters of the lake.
Chief of I’ohce Kretlow has been in
formed of the ease, and has turned the
same over to the sheriff for investiga
tion.— Fondihi /.Hi' Commonurolth.
Tuk fact came to light yesterday that
; ex-Hheritl Hanger has been successful in
his negotiations for the purchase of
Hunnyside, the farm of Gen. John Mc-
Donald, .nutated near Kipon, in Green
Lake county. Rumor hail it that the
price paid was $45.(H)0, hut it was im
possible to verify these figures as all of
the interested parties were out of town.
Gen. McDonald and Mrs. La Molhe
; yielded a quiet possession. The estate
1 embraces nearly GOO acres, and is well
-locked. There is within its limits a
real vmmtry mansion, lilted up and
furnished 111 extravagant style, all of
which comes under the present pur
chase. In short the property has all
the modern conveniences which met
ropolitan taste could suggest and a fat
purse buy. Real estate men say
Mr. Hanger has made a wonderful liar
gain. The ex-sheriff and his family will
| doubtless permanently reside on the
I picturesque spot.- Milwnukir Srnlinrl,
■ April IS.
ILLINOIS.
Ni sua elected the license ticket by
! 25 majority.
Foil the sixth year Batavia last w eek
i elected a no-license ticket.
A Clil<'.too special of April ISlh says:
Thomas Cahil, a sailor employed on
’ the large schooner J. W. Doane, 111 lil
ting her out, fell from the cross-tree of
tho foremast to the rail below, a dis
tance of sixty-five or seventy feet, and
was instantly killed.
An Elgin special) of April 17lh says.
The city council last night voted to
place the saloon licenses for the ensu
ing year at SSOO. Saloon men are mad,
while the temperance element rejoices.
The vote in the council was a tie. and
Mayor Lord voted for SSOO.
A Champaign special of April LSth
says: E. Wright, of the New York Ju
venile asylum, landed a considerable
number of hoys here to-day, with a view
of securing homes for them. The hoys
j range in age from oto 14 years. The
1 only girl in the company was aged 8.
i They were nearly all sent mil on trial
of two weeks, and if both parties are
satisfied at the end of that time tiie
children will he indentured. They all
went to farmers,
A Mkndota telegram of April 18th
says: One hundred men and team* com
-1111 need work yesterday on a double i
track from here to Arlington. The
work is to he finished in sixty days, and
its completion will give an additional
line to the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, from Leland to i’nncelon.
This will prove a great acquisition to
the road, and will prevent a delay toj
freight at this point of from two to three!
hours, and in many instances much 1
longer.
Lii'knsks to organize were issm and April
18th by the secretary of state to the fol-;
lowing proposed corporations: The)
Hercules Gold and Hilver Mining Com
pany, of Colorado, with headquarters 1
at Chicago; capital, $2,000,000; corpo
rators, Julius Cohen, William I*. Ken
nedy, Henry Uiske, William J’enn Nix
on, J. Ward Ellis, Seth Wood and F. !
Hankel, The Rockford Hteam Power;
and Heating Company, of Rockford;)
capital $25,000; object, to produce and
furnish for general use steam for pow-1
er, heating and domestic purposes, eon- 1
ducted by pipes and fixtures. Corpo-j
rators, C. M, Brazee, Thomas Butter-i
worth, James Ferguson, Frank T. Her-j
trand, and Hamuel P. Crawford, all of
Rockford.
MINNESOTA.
Tin; city council of Ht. Cioud is at a
dead lock in regard to the appointment
of city officers.
W. E. Ht’U has erected a handsome
hotel at Prior Lake, this season, which
will he opened on the 15th of May.
Hon H, B. Williams has been em
ployed by officers of the Southern Min
nesota railroad company to examine
and appraise the lands of that company
and also insecure the right of way for
ihe company on th west end of ‘their
road.
I'vi i Bros. have been awarded the
con tract for com pletiug tne I'resbvte
lian church, at Hastings. for the sum
of &U4O.
Ukv. ,1. W . j; iv, who has recently ns
turned from a visit to the Holy hand,
is lecturing on Palestine in the down
r'vcr towns.
'1 UK Hastings V: kVi is informed that
V \. H miner is going to put in forty
acres of anther cane on Hen. l.cHncs
farm, in the town of Nminger.
A toKAMfi; Fvtt.s telegram of Vpnl
17th says Hranite Falls people are \-
cited over gold washings in the Minne
sota river here. Fifteen colors to th
pan, valued at titty cents, is the highest
yield reported. Claims are being stak
ed out. There will be a meeting of the
leading citizens to-night to organize a
stock com pan v.
CliVKiKs Fkimkai was arrested at
Brainerd for obtaining goods under
(also pretences, but before bis exami
nation another complaint had been cm
terred against Crimean, charging him
with having committed rape a short
time since upon two girls named
Slradcan, living n the town of Maywood.
The minor complaint was dropped and
Crimean was committed to the Stevens
county jail on the charge of rape.
Says a Faribault telegram of April
17. the sugar-refinery committee lure
have received a formal proposition
from Hr. Wilhelm, which they are go
ing iii act upon. The necessary capital
stock to begin with will be about
sltViHH', Subscription papers wilt be
started to-morrow, and it is confidently
believed by the committee that the
amount necessary will soon be sub
scribed and Faribault insured a first
class sugar-refinery. Many of our
leading citi/.ons have signified their wil
lingness to take' stock.
tow \.
Gki at interest is manifested m the
high school oratorical contest, which
will he held at Waterloo May 17*.
A niM'Vivu of April ISth says the ex
ecutive committee of the Gland Lodge
of Good Tem piers, now in session at
Elduia. reported that Rev, Pearl P, In
galls, the greenback candidate for gov
ernor, will he supported by the Good
'Templars and Prohibitionists,
A Kkoki k special of \pii! 17• 1 1 says
Aid. Timhennan, win* died suddenly on
Tuesday, was hiirieil today with the
highest honors ever paid to any men
by this community. Stores and offices
were closed during the cervices, slid
business was entirely suspended. 'The
laboring men of the city to the number
of several hundred marched at the head
of the procession.
Hays a Des Moines special of April
is Prominent citizens of Ottumwa
have gone to Milwaukee to get the ulti
matum of Manager Merrill as to extend
ing the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul
frmi Cedar Rapids to Ottumwa and
Kansas City. It Is rumored tile Chica
go, Burlington A Quincy have porch a*
cd the right of way for live miles this
way from liidiauola, and will begin ex
tending their Chariton branch to this
city, instead of connecting with the Chi
cago, Rock Island A Pacilic at India
uula.
Havs an lowa dispatch of Anril 1 Dili
the preliminary examination of Ken
nedy, Redlield, and Lyman, merchants
of Oxford and Davton, who were licens
ed of burning their store and attempt
ing to defraud their Chicago creditors,
was concluded yesterday after a two
weeks’ trial, and the parties held to sl,
5tH( bond for the action of the grand
jury. Over 100 wilnes.es were exam
ined in the case, and it has already cost
the county about sl,llOO and the end
not reached, as, if the grand jury find a
true hill, the whole trial must he re
pented in the district court.
\ 1 onng Hero.
Tin; treasury department, Coiled
Htates life-saving service, has recently
directed 11 medal to he presented to Mr,
'Timothy C. Murphy, of Norwich, Conn.,
as a recognition of lus exploits in sav
ing persons from drowning. Mr. Mur
phy is yet a young man, being but 21
years of age, and has saved by Ids dur
ing no less than twelve lives, lln is the
youngest of three brothers, who gained
distinction as oarsimn in several races
on the Thames river (Conn.,) and at
Hilver Lake, where lie made a tine rec
ord. In many of the cases in which life
was saved by him, lie acted with an ut
ter recklessness of risk and peril as to
himself. A correspondent thus de
scribes one of his feats; "()n one occa
sion. when the steamer (il>j of Lawrence
was returning from an excursion with
some 1,500 persons on hoard, a passen
ger was crowded off the gang-plank at
the landing. The night was very dark,
hut Murphy plunged into the water in
search of the unfortunate person. In
the darkness he was confused, and it
was nearly an hour before he was res
cued by a rope, with the man he had
saved. The latter was unable to swim,
and his rescue was, therefore, attended
with great difficulty." All who have
witnessed his exploits speak in the
highest terms of his bravery and cool
ness, and there seems to he no room
for doubt that the honor conferred hy
the government has been worthily be
stowed.
-
(•aid Hunting.
Washington Irving’s tales of the gold
hunters have about them a certain mys
tic attraction that has drawn to them
many readers. The day of gold hunt
ing, evidently, has not gone by, for here
is the brig Gypsy, which is expected to
sail to-morrow in search of gold lost of)
Caraccas years ago in a Hpanish ship of
war. The projectors of the voyage
fully calculate upon recow ring $2,000,-
000. The ruins ot a building where
there was erected a machine to dredge
the Hudson river for Captain Kidd’s
treasure, may be seen not twenty miles j
from this city. The building is fallen j
into decay, and the capital that was in-1
vested in it has long since been placed i
to profit and loss. It is to lx,- hoped
that the proprietors of the (Sypvy will
not find fortune so fickle as the name
of the vessel that goes in search of it
— N. K- Krprr**.
BBS PORTER'S MLRBEIL
Tln> Storv hioli Miss EHei. ('itiumens,
the Actress, Tel v.
i'otn>i|iandnc Cincinnati Commercial.
Your correspondent mot Miss Ellen
Oummens, the actress, at Memphis.
As she assured him that no oorroot ac
count of tho lute tragedy, hi Marshall,
Tex., h.-wt appeared in print to her
knowledge, hiu! hs. moreover, she is
well known in Cincinnati, where, hi
\\ ood's theatre. in her tirsf season ns
" lending lady," slio won her maiden
■ histrionic laurels in 1875 t>. the readers
of the thi'iei. tvinl may take interest in
her description of the murder of •• poor
Men Porter
We had given a matinee at Shreve
port. I .a., at I- o'clock, \\ ednesvlay,
March It*. 1 "ill never forget that
dale. The o'clock train was held for
as, and we reached Marshall about 7
o'clock. All the company hut Mr.
Barrymore. Mr. Porter and myself took
such supper as they could get at the
depot hotel. We three concluded to
wait until after the theatre for ours, as
we had lunched on the train. After the
performance of " Ihplomacv" to the
only good house we had had in Texas,
the entire company went to the Texas
and Pacific depot hotel to wait for the
train at half-past - o’clock for Littl**
Hock, Ark. Those ot the company
who had supped before w ent to the
parlors. Alter deposition our sachets
we, Mr. Porter, Mr. Uariymoie and
myself, went into the cation saloon.
The lunch counter was lunh, and wo
| had to sit upon hinh stools to eat. Mr.
Porter was upon my left, Mr. Hirry
: more upon my nnht. It was just, mid
night, Mr. Barrymore ordered heer
forme and for himself. Mr Porter
declined, say inn he would take
cot Tee. Mr. Barrymore looked in
his pocket for money, and found
that he had hut twenty cents
m channe. \\ ith this ho paid for the
heer, and said "I’ll have to no to find
KeOpath (the treasurer) and net some
i money to lake yon out of pawn. PH
leave von here. Order your suppers,
and I'll he hack in a few minutes, lie
went out laughing. We were uegotiat
mn as to w hat wo should eat, when a
man, whom 1 now know was Gurre,
caino in, drew the stool on which Mr,
Barrymore had luen sitlinn a little
apart from me, and sat down to the
counter. I glanced at him, and he re
turned my look impudently, lie was
a powerfully built, rough-looking man,
not handsome, lie wore a ronnh, scem
innly simlT colored smi; a while shirt, 1
think,and the inevitable slouch hat. I
was alarmed at his manner, or, rather,
fell out of place. I whispered to Mr.
Porter, "Hadn't we hotter go in there?”
pointing, as I thought, to a more re
tired dining room. Mr. Porter replied;
"Thai is the bar room. Von are all
right here." Then we turned onr atten
tion again to the supper question, Onr
re n( first ordered some eggs, in a loud
tone, saying to the attendant that he
was going to eat his supper and ilien go
to bed. So far as 1 could judge he was
not drunk, nor even under the iullu
euee of liquor. Mr. Porter ordered cof
fee and Ourre did the same. Porter or
deredsome eggs andwe continued to chat
over our suppper. 1 had not looked
again at Ourre directly, hut he seemed
to me to he ordering everything that we
did. I may he mistaken in this. He
paid for his supper, and when
the piopnetor handed him live
cents change he said: "Keep that;
do von want to insult me? ’ and then
add ed, as I understood him; “Ho yon
waul to sell me a dog?” I thought this
was anew way of ordering a drink, and
laughed at it to Mr Porter, after Ourre
liiid gone in the direction of the bar
room through a lattice door. Mr. Bar
rymore about this moment returned,
took his seat and said, pointing In the
remains of ('line's supper; "What is
this?" I said, " Home man had some
supper and is gone.” Ourre just then
passed hack through tho loom mid went
out the other way. I culled Barrymore
up and was telling him about the ex
pression, "si King a dog," when Ourre
again eamo in and said to Mr. Porter,
who was leaning his face on his hands:
"Wlinl did you do that to me for?”
Porter turned and said:"Hid you speak
to iui?” Ourrio replied: "Yes; and I
want to know what you did that for,”
making a peculiar motion of the hand
and arm past his head and ear. Porter
replied "I wasn’t thinking of yon, sir;
we were talking among ourselves.”
Ourre replied, calling Porter a G and
and and liar, at • dd dst rand a(i and
and ds nof ah li, Mr. Porter said:
"Be careful; don't talk that wav; there
is a lady present,” "A lady?” < inrre
replied with a sneer; "well, I don't
know." Mr. Barrymore then turned to
the proprietor and said: "Is this the
sort of a place you keep? Oan notipiiel
people come here and snp without be
ing insulted?” Harvey said; "Oh, he's
all light; don't mind him. Jim, go
home and go to bed." 1 said to both
the gentlemen with me; "Be ipiiel;
please don't answer him.” I’orler said ;
“Go away. Wo don’t know von. We
want t i he quiet; we want to eat onr
supper.” Curie said: "i'll meet vou by
and by; I want to eat my supper now.”
Then Ourre said to Barrymore: "Per
buns you want to take up his quarrel?”
1 him noticed that all tins time he had
his hand on Ids pistol, Barry more re
plied: "1 can’t fight with yon; I have
neither pistol nor knife." Ourre said:
"Neither have I," swaggering nn to
Barrymore. Barrymore replied. "Will
you swear to limit” and Ourre respond
ed: "Yes.” Barrymore said: “Then
I'll meet you,” ami jumped oil'the stool
and began to take ids two coats oil' he
gether. Almost before tie could get tin i
off, Ourre aimed deliberately at Ids
heart. We were now all on our feel,
and 1 seized Mr. Barrymore's right
arm. He threw me off, and the motion
saved him, as the pistol muzzle was
close to his h<sly, and could not have
missed its cool aim.
The pistol was a self-cocker, and the
bring co rapid that to give Bin order o'
evenU in almost imjmcsihle, I only re
member, the man wheeled and fire<l it
Porter before he had finished hi* crt.
•* Don't shoot me; 1 am unarmed”
Porter grasped his wound with Mb
hands and ran out. The man then fred
at Barrymore, who was going Old die
hack door, the shot missing, a* it
proved, and lodging in the wainwoting.
lit' fired again. following Porter out. I
was alone, the proprietor having disap
peared. I started out to go after Mr.
Barrymore ami met him returning. I
said: ** IVn’t go in again,” He was very
pale, ami hurried behind the counter,
evidently hunting a refuge. 1 was still
in the haok doorway when Onrre re
lumed. He pointed two pistols at mo.
I gasped. "•Oh, please. sir, don't." Bar
rymore said; " Hon't you see I am un
armed ? 1 can't light you,” Curre
sod “ Have yon had enough?” Mr.
Barrymore again ran out of the back
door, and I alter him. He went over
a si\ foot fence, and 1 understand it
was r'or the second lime. After some
ditllcnlty he was persuaded to come
hack, and we got him up stairs into a
hed-room over the saloon. For nearly
two hours afterward, ss we attended
unon Barrymore, I could hear Cur re’s
voice, evidently at large, in carousal. I
did not dare to go to see m>or Porter
before he died.
rids is the statement of Miss Cunt
mens, as she assures us she will make
il substantially upon live witness stand.
♦ •
The World’s Fair of I ss;l at Mew York.
I’hal the hundredth anniversary of
the acknowledgment of the Independ
ence of the American colonies by
the mother country in l7Sd, will
he signalised by a grand world's
; toir m this city, may he accepter! its
morally certain.
rite occasion will be one demanding
especial recognition; and in this in
dustrial age there is no way by which
I the great events of a nation's History
; may be celebrated so appropriately or
so profitably as by a national or iiitcr
-1 national exhibition of the arts and
j sciences. Front idle pageantry and
noise ami mock engagements at arms,
national celebrations nave risen to the
higher walls of civilisation, national re
sources, and the thousand inducements
which commerce oilers for (he closer
I interweaving of nations m the arts of
peace and mutual helpfulness.
Neither the educational nor the in*
dustnal nor the commercial benefits
which llow from such exhibitions need
I he argued now. That lesson was suf
| licicully learned three years ago, and
the coming census will show that Phila
delphia alone has reaped a snlllcient
j harvest front the centennial exhibition
i to more than repay the cost of it, had
the burden fallen upon that cilv alone.
Ami not only Philadelphia, i>ut the
whole country, even t the smallest
hamlet or larniliouse or wayside work
shop, however remote front the great
centers of trade or mnnufacttire, is to
day enjoying a real and glowing pros
perity. m which may ho traced the in
fluence of that exhibition, cither in cre
sting new industries and finding new
markets, or in improving, stimulating,
and widening the old. And whatever
good was accomplished in 1S7(I will he
easily continued and surpassed by the
exhibition ol 188!l. The former dem
onstrated md merely the profitableness,
hut the possibility ol a successful world's
fair on this continent; and not only will
our own people lake a more lively in
leresl in the next one, tail millions o(
our American neighbors, who were but
feebly represented, or not represented
at all, at Philadelphia, will have the
strongest possible incentive to come
forward in IM.sft. The one took place
during a period of profound industrial
and commercial depression; the oilier
will reap the advantage of the rising
tide of what promises to be a period of
national prosperity such as the world
has never yet seen. The projectors of
the Philadelphia Kxhihitlon were met
with almost universal doubt and incre
dulity; and il was not until the show
was open that the majority of our peo
ple hecanio convinced of its probable
success. The vast majority of our West
Indian and Hoittb American neighbors
were not reached by or represented in
it at all. Mexico was meagerly repre
sented; Central America not at all,
Willi the exception of the Mulish
Islands of Jamaica and Nassau, the
West Indies were unrepresented. Bra
zil was well represented, and Chili
slightly; all the other rising Htides of
Mouth America,so rich in raw material,
so promising as markets for our inami
factored gooeli, look no part at the Cen
tennial, In organizing the exhibition
of IhHh, no sueli obstacles and deficien
cies will bo encountered. Our product
ive industries, and lliose of al the rest
of the world, now know for a certainty
that representation will pay,and that a
failure to be represented wii be the re
verse of profitable. This will make it
possible to secure at oncen wider range
and a higher grade of odnhits. And
the experience gained at Philadelphia
should see tiro also a nnye critical and
judicious selection and arrangement oi
materials.
It may be said I lid it is to repeat
wind was. despite Its shortcoming, so
admirably done at Philadelphia. True,
but not too soon to hold another exhi
bition which, without repealing what
whs done in lH7t, shall supplement,
extend, and crovn the work begun
there for security the supremacy of
onr country in tie development of the
peaceful arts aid sciences. To repre
sent simply tin progress of the world
between iß7* and iHSd, excluding
everything egiinited at Philadtdphia
which cannot show an improvement
upon what w*s shown there, will suffice
to make (becoming exhibition us wide
in scope, a> rich in material, ami even
more viiliahle and instructive as an ex
hibition Man the centennial exhibition
was. Atd the success of Amer
ican exhibitors, there and since, at
Pans, wll compel our foreign rivals to
send lb> best they have,
Wotnay ho sure that whatever Now
York undertakes will not he second
rate in magnitude nor deficient in thor
oitfoness of execution. Tim assured
cbuaclcr of the gentlemen engaged
upon the new project gives good reason
Mt anticipate a successful exhibition.
it certainly will not fail thruugu any
Jack of broad views, practical ability,
or administrative capacity.— SetetUi/lc
Atnrrican,
The Smith will case, involving Ike
disposal of $50,000 lagn at New Haven
on Tuesday. The testator, familiarly
known as “ Can'n Jim Smith,” was
sketched by Mara Twain in the “ Inno
cents Abroad," and always hated the
humorist heartily for doing it.