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NORTHERN PACIFIC FARMER
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WHITNEf aSVffiPELE Pdbliaherl1
WADEN
CURRENT TOPICS.
IT is reported that Dr. Thomas Foster, of
the old Minnesoiian, who has been so
journing the last ten years in Washington,
is about to return to Minnesota, and start a
paper at Thompson, on the Duluth lail
road.
SRNATOK COJFKMNG of' New York, vis-
ited Gen Garfield at his home in Mentor,
Ohio, and was closeted with him for sever
hours. Beyond this nothing is known, but
the papers Tire filled with speculations as to
the import of the visit, all agreeing in one
thing, that it possesses considerable polit
eal significance.
THE failure to bring Sitting Bull into
camp is now attributed to the ill-advised
attack of Major Hges on Big Indian Gall,
and Ins band, which stampeded Bull to his
old quarters at Wood Mountain. He came
down with the full intention of surrender
ing, but was scared away by the brave and
impetuous Ilges.
IT is stated that the epidemic, small pox,
now raging in some sections of southern
Dakota was carried there by newly-arrived
'emigrants, and widely distributed among
the French Canadian settlements by public
funerals and other practices common to'
people ignorant or indifferent to the proper
treatment of contagious diseases.
THE land regulations adopted by the
Canadian syndicate are said to be of such
a character as will be likely to induce emi
gration—that the lands will be sold at ten
shillings per acre, four shillings to be paid
in cash, and the balance to stand on mort
gage, which will be canceled after three
years of continuous occupation.
CAKL SCHUKZ will be fifty-two years of
age on the second of March, two days be
fore the expiration of his labors as secretary
of the interior. It is announced that he
will, remove from Washington to St. Louis,
and resume editorial charge of the Westliche
Post, a very influential paper among the
Germans of Missouri and other states.
THE pension appropriation bill now be
fore congress appropriates $68,282.68 for
this year, and is said to be the largest pen
sion appropriation bill ever perfected either
by this government or any other, and is
more than all the pension appropriations of
all the governments on earth combined.
This is not entirely owing to the Arrears of
Pensions Law, although before that was
enacted the pension expenditures were an
nually less than one-half the amount now
about to be appropriated.
ANTI-MONOPOLY—or grangerism, (so
called at the west,)—is obtaining a strong
hold in some of the eastern states. In New
York city, there is a very large and power
association, and it is the intention to or
ganize branch associations in all the assem
bly districts in the state. It is not a dis
tinctively political organization, as mem
bers will work inside the political parties
to which they are respectively attached, but
will vote only for such candidates as sup
port the views of the league.
CHRISTIAN K. Ross, father of Charley
Boss, is quoted as saying: "The only
tidings I have ever received of Charley
since he was stolen was the demand for a
ransom cf $20,000. If I had paid, that, I
would have had him long before this. As it
is, I have spent $60,000, and have not got
him. I have examined more than 300 lost
children in the search, some of whom had
been stolen but none of them was Charley.
Charley is .lost, andthe little spark of hope
which was kept alive for many years is at
last extinguished the little kidnapped boy
is mourned as dead."
MICHAEL.DAVITT, whose ticket-of-lenve
has been declared, forfeited* is still a young
man, not over thirty-five years of age. He
was heart and soul in the Fenian movement
and was engaged in arming the Fenians in
Ireland when arrested in London and sen
tenced to fifteen years imprisonment. He
'had served eleven years when he was par
doned out, and unless restored to liberty
will have the remaining four years to serve
in prison. He. organized the first land
meeting in Ireland, and has since been the
right-bower of Mr. Parnell. When the
present disturbance is over, andthe author
ity of the government fully restored, it is
said that Mr Davitt will be released from
imprisonment. .'
LADY BUBDETT-COUTTS, who latelymar
ried William Lehman Ashmed Bartlett, a
native born American, is sixty-three years
of age, while Mr. Bartlett is only thirty-two.
He was born in Philadelphia in 1849. His
mother became a widow a few years later,
and in 1761 removed to England where' her
son was educated. The Baroness became
interested in him through an acquaintance
with his mother. This interest ripened
into warm affection at a later date, and the
Baroness, it' is said, never wavered in her
determination to' have• the marriage take
place. Mr^-Bartlett at one time was in
clined to withdraw from, the engagement
because his motives had been impugned
but the marriage|finally took place, and is,
a fruitful topic pf fun on both sides of the
Atlantic, though* sensible people-concede
that it is nobody's business, if the parties
most immediately concerned are satisfied
with what appears to be a flagrant misalli
ance.
NEWS SUMMAltY,
YFCRFKRY RECOI&F OF CRMFE^
P. Mullen of Scrantoiii Pa.^ stablieii her
i^jisb^nd to,.death.
i^orio^ratorfed murd&$r haijpto be guard-'"
ed by
companies of militia to keep him from
two
the hands of Jwige Lynch.
J. Marsh, editor of the Commercial, Port
land, Ind., ia reported mortally wounded on
Tuesday, by Williams, a printer.
-, Lawrence Johnson, the .janitor of Michigan
Aveiiue Baptist church, Chicago, arrested and
charged with having fired that, building on Sat
urday night, was discharged from custody this
morning.
A man named Reid, in, jail at Brockville, Can
ada, for contempt of court, fell into a sleep
continuing eightyhours, and then terminated
by death. While asleep his pulse and respira
tions were regular.
James Adams was arrcBted near Kansas City,
for the murder of Samuel Armstrong, at New
London, three years ago. Adams has been
living at Lee's Summit about two years, under
the name of J. P. Hall.
Tour pistol shots, delivered in rapid succes
sion, attracted a funeral party to the Texas
Pacific depot, Dallas, who found the corpse of
A. R. Caruthers, a wealthy cattle man, but no
trace of his murderer.
August Pathoff, a well known saloon keeper,
at Des Moines, went to his bedroom, lay down
on his bed, placed the muzzle of a revolver in
his mouth and let the bullet fly. His wife rush
ed into the room only to find liim dead
Jos. Wade, on trial at Indianapolis for the
murder of Brown, pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life. On a farm
er trial lie was found guilty and sentenced to be
hung, but the supreme court reversed the de
cision.
Mm Susy Elkins, wife of the well-known
landscape painter, has begun suit in Chicago
against a saloonkeeper and the owners of the
buildingto recover $25,000 damages for sell
ing liquor to her husband, whom she claims
has been ruined by liquor.
On the Canadian Pacific, near Rat Portage,
by an explosion of nitro- glycerine, Foreman
O'Brien was killed instantly, and DeRosier and
Pierson, two laborers, were fatally injured, and
were not expected to live over night. Four or
five others were badly hurt
A new electrical company was organized at
Detroit, comprising some heavy capitalists,with
stock of $500,000, for the purpose of manu
facturing electricity for lighting, heating and
driving machinery. It is called the Edison
Electric Light company of Detroit.
There is considerable excitement and interest
regarding the later developments of the burn
ing of the Michigan Avenue Baptist church at
Chicago. The mystery is greater than ever
since the janitor and his assistants have inti
mated that the pastor, Rev. Kerr B. Tupper, is
guilty of incediarism.
The little town of McKee, the county
seat of Jackson county, Kv., was the scene of a
terrible shooting affray, a few nights ago. Sev
eral persons were engaged in the fight. A man
named Cox, from Estill county, was shot and
instantly killed by his brother-in-law. One
other man, whose name we failed to learn, was
killed.
1 Mrs. Rebecca Corseilline has been arrested at
Columbus, O., charged with murdering Samuel
Armstrong, her first husband, at London, Ohio,
two years ago, and Mrs. Darely, mother of the
woman, has also been arrested for supposed
complicity in the murder. Mrs. Corseilline
was married to her present husband two years
ago.
Seven American prisoners in jail at Paso Del
Norte, Mexico, made a break shooting the guard
dead, and running toward the American line,
but were overtaken by guards, who fired on
them. The prisoners, being armed, returned
the fire. Three of the prisoners wei killed,and
the others surrendered. Two guards were se
riously wounded.
Last month the store of Joseph Lederer,
wholesale jeweler of Chicago, was partially de
stroyed by fire, and he was arrested on suspi
cion a few days ago. Delord Safford of New
York, representing $92,000 of claims of east
ern creditors, filed affidavits in five actions of
assumpsic, and had Lederer arrested on a
chaige of incendiarism.
There is an account of a late social event in
old Kentucky. It occurred at Louisville: Wm.
Hardy and Harry Clemens quarreled over an
alleged remark made by Haray about Martina
Clemens, Harry's sister. When they met on the
street, Harry said, "Let's settle that matter,
now." Hardy immediately stepped back and
pulled out a pistol from his hip pocketand held
it towards Clemens. Before he could use it
Clemens clintclied with him and endeavored to
get the weapon out of his hand. They grappled
with each other, and in the wrestle that follow
ed, Clemens threw hardy on the ground and fell
on top of him, still endeavoring to get his hands
on the pistol While they were in this position,
Hardv reached up with the weapon, which was
already cocked, and bringing the muzzle against
Clemens' head, pulled the trigger. Clemens'
hold relaxed, and he fell like a beef upon the
breast of his murderer, who worked himself
from under the weight, and putting the pistol
in his pocket, walked rapidly away. Clemens
died. He was never conscious after being shot
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
At North Bennington, Yt., the Essen cotton
mills burned. Loss $45,000 insurance,
$25,000.
The charred body of George S. McClellan,
miner, was found in his cabin at Leadville, the
result of a lamp explosion.
The extensive ship-chandlery stores and
warehouse of Wilcox Bros., of Toledo, was en
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000 in
surance, $14,000.
At a fete of students of the Academy of
Painting, at Munich^ the costumes of some'stu
dents caught fire and four students were burned
to death and eight seriously injured. No Amer
ican was hurt
Mrs. McCarthy of Clifton Place, Brooklyn,
filled and broke an oil lamp, which set fire to
her clothing. Mrs. Morton rushed to her assis
tance, when her clothing also took fire, and both
women were fatally burned.
The button shop of the Scoville Manufactur
ing company, at Waterbury, Conn., was burned
Sunday morning. Loss estimated at $200,000
insurance, $125,000. Over 200 hands are
thrown out of employment
Great consternation was created in the camps
on the Poplar river by the overflow of the up
per Missouri and its tributaries, overwhelming
the tepees of the Indians, drowning a number
of them and over 500 of their ponies in sight of
the agency.
The most sensational story of shipwreck that
has been reported this stormy season comes
from Montreal. Itrepresentsthatthe Norma
nium of St Johns, N. B., was wrecked near
Cape Aquilla? one boat of the crew being cap
sized at the time, and the other reaching shore
with apart of the crew, who were subsequent
ly reduced to the strait
:of
feasting off of each
others' flesh.
F. A. McClain, in the employ of the Roberts
Torpedo company, was driving along the high
way fifteen miles southeast of Bradford, Pa., in
a sleigh with 200 pounds of nitro-gylcerine.
The horses became frightened and ran against
a boulder, causing an explosion. McClain was
torn to mince-meat, bo h.horses were torn to
pieces, and no evidences of the sleigh could be
found. McClain wasa young man and .unmar-,
ried
A fatal' accident occurred iou the Lakeland
branch of the eastern division of the Omaha
line, two miies from Hudson, Wis. While the
snow-plow was clearing the track, the engine
ran off the track and down an embankment
Two section men, Martin McMahon and Michael
Walby were instantly killed,:* The latter has a
brother living in StUlwatei"#no is employed as
cat.repairer on the Chicago, St Paul, Min
neapolis &-Omaha railroad. The engineer and
firemin weraifliKhtty injured, but Were jtble t4
walkhome. ^rwp-dispatcber Kemp/of SC.
Paul Wasalsiihurt, bis# not »erious$£ tg- 4$
ClKUKNl^VKNTS.
Samuel G. King, (Dem.) has been elected
Mayor of Philadelphia by 5000 majority.
It is reported that W. G. Howels of the At
lantic Monthly has resigned, to acceptthe Swiss
mission.
Ex-Corporation Counsel Joseph F. Bonfield
«f Chicago is dead. He was a young lawyer of
great promise, 1
A nfew line of'passenger and freight-steamers,
will be established between Montreal and Cleve
land next season.
The Forster resolution in favor of abolishing
westward canal tolls passed the New York sen
ate by a decisive vote of 19 to 7.
The rapid telegraph company in New York
made an exhibition of speed, in which they
transmitted 500 words in thirty six seconds.
The Wisconsin senate has passed a bill to
prevent the manufacture and sale of oleomar
garine or buttenne, unless properly stamped
and plainly labeled.
The Bismarck city council, granted the privi
lege to a Pittsburg firm to build water works
and operate ,them for twenty years, free from
municipal hindrance.
.. The funeral services of Fernando Wood, took
place from his residence, and there was an im
mense crowd of prominent public men and citi
zens of Washington present
S. T. Beatty, an old resident of Lake City,
will locate at Millbank, D. T., this spring, and
engage in the sale there of general merchandise
and agricultural implements.
Nearly §118,000 is already subscribed
toward the new building of the Boston Young
Men's Christian Association, and as soon as
$175,000 is pledged work will be begun.
The term of office of the postmasters of the
following offices expire March 16: Faribault,
Minn., $1,900 Hastings, Minn., $1,900 Lake
City, Minn., 2,000 Manitowoc, Wis., $1,4)00
Jefferson, Wis., 2,200,
Joshua Benson of Hoboken, who was valet
for the eccentric millionaire, Lewis, for a num
ber of years, and obtained a verdict of $10, 000
against the executors of the will, had a decision
rendered in his favor in the New Jersey su
preme court
Jennie Smith, a young white woman, and
Geo. W. GJ UU, a mulatto, were arrested at
Omaha, on a telegram from Red Oak, la., where
they were married Monday night, but were
subsequently released, the authorities discon
tinuing the prosecution.
Frederick Gunther, an old and well-known
business man, wholesale hatter and furrier, for
twenty years past in business in Milwaukee,
made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of
his creditors. Estimated assets, $58,000. His
liabilities are $75,000.
Col. Ingersoll indicates that he will go to Dela
ware again to speak when he finds it expedient
to do so. The colonel certainly thrives by his
way of putting his peculiar ideas. His Sunday
night talks here in Washington generally bring
him a cool thbuisand or so.
Dr. Hamburg, one of the characters of In
dianapolis for over a quarter of a century, was
cremated at Le Moine, Penn., a few days ago.
He left a will which directs what disposition
shall be made of the ashes but the document
has not yet been unsealed Deceased also leaves
considerable property.
Francis Ml Palmer, president of the National
Broadway bank of New York, and owner for
$75,000of the Union tabernacle, Thirty-fourth
street, near Eighth avenue, has dismissed the
pastor of that church, and now the entire con
gregation have gone out with the pastor, Rev.
George J. Wingivo, and together they are look
ing for another edifice wherein to worship.
A board of army officers consisting of Major
J. C. Breckinridge, assistant inspector general
Capt. E. W. Smith, Eighteenth infantry, aide
de-camp Capt G. L. Browning, Seventh in
fantry, chaplain, and G. G. Mullins, Twenty
fifth infantry, are in session for the purpose of
selecting a list of text books suitable to be made
the established uniform series for all the post
schools of the army. The list will be confined
to such books as will cover the course of in
struction in common English .branches.
In the case of the Northern Packet company,
Judge Iindley, at St Louis, dismissed the con
tempt and recognized the right of possession of
the receiver. The new board, or Davidson in
terest, now ask the court to direct the receiver
to turn all the property over to the new board,
which in consideration offers to pay in cash all
the receiver's expenses and all the debts ef the
company which have not already or will not
hereafter be amicably arranged with the com
pany for the continuance of its business.
Oshkosh, Wis., (where the boys have a good
dea] of fun,) has had a sensational divorce case.
An action was commenced for a divorce at the
March term of the Green Lane circuit court by
Mrs. Emma C. Clark for a divorce from Rev.
Ira D. Clark. .The case was of a highly sensa
tional character, the complaint setting forth in
sixty-two folios, a condition of affairs so revolt
ing as to be unfit for publication. The trial
went over until the January term, when the
divorce was granted. Mra Clark, on the 6th
of February, was married in New York city to a
Mr. J. Q. A. Rollins, of Rollinsville, Col., pres
ident of a mining company with a capital of
$5,000,000, with headquarters in New York.
The divorced husband has now commenced an
action to set the divorce aside on the ground of
irregularity.
The Universitv of Chicago, endowed by
Stephen A. Douglas, has for some years been
in deep water, financially. In 1875 its trus
tees borrowed of the Union Mutual Insurance
company of Agusta, Me., $150,000 and exe
cuted a mortgage to that company. They have
never paid the mortgage, andhave even allowed
interest to accumulate and compound, and the
principal and interest being some days over
due, they filed a bill in the superior court to re
strain the company from foreclosing under the
trust deed, claiming that the trustees ndVer
had any power to mortgage the university prop
erty. The insurance company on the other
hand, filed a bill in the United States court to
prevent the university authorities from inter
fering with their proceedings in foreclosure.
MEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The senate judiciary committee again laid
aside the nominations of Stanley Matthews and
Billings for judges, and Geo. H. Forster and
Jacobs for New York appointments. It looks
very squally for all these late nominations.
Thomas Washington, an aged colored minis
ter,at Detroit was arrested,charged with perjury
in a fraudulent pension ease,recentlv tried in the
United States court, when his wife, a white, wo
man, who was one of the conspirators, pleaded
guilty before the commissioners.
The following amounts are appropriated for
parties engaged in contesting seats in the house:
a $ 5 0 0
Shell 1,000
Bisbee 2,000
Donnelly 2,000
and now andthen, when Stephens would en,
deavor to lift up hie voice, it had a shrinking
sound, as. ^ough M,dgng?.agony. The $cene
toQfc areiiArkiibIy»t^h charabter.
I *"r^——•—!• .. j.V
Barry i' Suftivai^the pSjimlar fea'gediiri, is5
dangerously ill at Dublin.
Davitt's physician ia permitted to visit him to
ascertain the tine condition of hie health.
A returned Irish-American named jngMin
has been arrested in. connection with the out
rage and robbery new Castle Island county.
Gen. Skobeleff telegrapfciis from Geok Tepe,1
the 12th inst, that the pacification of the
country is progressing favorably, and 16,000
families have now returned. Amnesty has been
proclaimed and the chiefs (promised fidelity.
Paris dispatch: At the dinner which he gave
toPariifell ro-hlghti Victor^Hugo- pledged him
self to write an appeal to the world in favor of
Ireland, similar to that which he published in
favor of Poland. It will probably appear next
week.
The executive committee of the diocese of
Ontario^ Can., have decided, recommending
that, as over $13,000 of the funds of the di
ocese have been unaccounted for by the late
clerical secretary, he be,presented to the bishop
for trial.
Capt. Henry Bellingham, conservative and
Home Rule member of parliament, and private
chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII, writes the
Times protesting against the interviews of the
Irish members of parliament with the continen
tal revolutionary leaders, and says he must
completely excuse himself from the sentiments
expressed at such interviews.
Edward H. Henning, of Hamilton, Ont, was
accidentally killed by his friend Chas. J. Smith,
clerk in the auditor's office of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad Company, at Chicago. Conver
sation turned on the state of society iq which
Eis
istols settled all disputes, and Henning showed
friend his revolver, one of the British self
cocking pattern. Smith took the revolver in
his hand, and laughingly threw his arms around
his.chum's neck, when it exploded and sent a
38-caliber bullet through Henning's brain.
A London dispatch says that the manifesto
issued by William Shaw, Home Rule member
of Parliament for county Cork, is addressed
to the Right Rev. John McCarthy, Catholic
bishop of Clerine. It reviews the course pur
sued by the Irish parliamentary party since he
(Shaw) held the leadership, and condemns the
programme iadOpted by that party, which he
declares has been marked out for it across the
Atlantic. Shaw continues: I can understand
and respect a revolutionist, but despise and
condem a mongrel that talks bluster by hints at
physical force, slinking away at the first hint of
danger, leaving the poor people he has fooled
helpless in the hands of an enraged class and
government.
The senate committee on foreign relations
have agreed to recommend, the insertion in the
sundry civil service appropriation bill of a
clause which, if enac ed, will enable the presi
dent* to send a special embassy to Mexico to
negotiate additional treaty provisions, promote
the commercial relations of the two countries
and for the protection and encouragement of
works of internal improvement, such as rail
ways and canals, constructed by American citi
zens. The committee propose for this purpose
an appropriation of $2o,OO0, and tnat the em
bassy shall consist of not more than two em
bassadors, to act in conjunction with our resi
dent
Harlason.....$1,250
Hall.......... 2,000
Aclden 750
Washburn.... 2,000
A protocol has been signed by United States
commissioner W. H. Trescott and Gen. Down
ing, representing the government of the United
States of Colombia, which arranged for the en
forcement of the neutrality of the isthmus of
Panama according to the treaty of 1646. The
protocol determines the way by,which the Unit
ed States government shall interfere to guaran
tee the independence of-Columbia and the
neutrality of ue canal
An unusual scene was presented the house
last week. Alex. Stephens was rolling about
in his wheeled chair, delivering a speech on the
acceptance of the Collamer statue. Members
all gathered around him, with bended postures
and solemn visage, as if the thought of death
was on everv mind. Entire silence prevailed,
minister at the City of Mexico. The ap
propriation also provides for a secretary and
translator to the embassy.
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, FEBKUABY. 14.
SENATE—After considerable routine busi
ness the postoffice appropriation bill was die
cussed and passed, the steamship subsidy
amendment having been tabled. The. senate
adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory
of the late Fernando Wood.
Senator Saunders reported the bill for the di
vision of Dakota and making the Territory of
Pembina to the Senate, and it was placed on the
calendar. The bill locating an assay office at
Deadwood, and making an appropriation of
$35,000 therefor, has also been reported.
HOUSE—A bill was introduced fixing the first
Monday of November as the day of the meet
ing of Congress. The death of*Fernando Wood
was announced, and the customary resolutions
were adopted, and a committee appointed to
superintend the funeral.
Hie house committee on elections sent the
estimates for contested election expenses to the
committee on appropriations to be included in
the sundry civil appropriation bill. In the
Bisbee-Hull case. Bisbee claims $3,986.39
and Hull $3,726.43, and thev were allowed
$3,500each. In the Donnelly-Washburn case,
Donnelly claimed $5,539.24, and Washburn
t3,500
3,520^30. The committee allowed Donnelly
and Washburn $2,500.
TUESDAY, FEBBUABY 15.
SENATE—The house funding bill came up and
Mr. Bayard made extended remarks in support
of the senate committee amendment for 312 per
cent, bonds. The committee amendment au
thorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue
bonds to an amount pot exceeding $400,000,
000 was agreed to. The senate adjourned
without taking final action oh the bill.
HOUSE—The elections committee reported in
the McCabe-Orth contested case (Indiana) that
Orth, the sitting member, was entitled to his
seat, and the report was agreed to. Addresses
were made on the acceptance by congress of
the statute of Jacob Collamer of Vermont The
river and harbor bill waa considcred. Filibus
tering was indulged in and a call of the houBe
was ordered, ^which showed a ouorum. Are
cess was taken until 10 a. m. Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16.
SENATE—Mr. Eaton, from the committee on
foreign relations,, reported a resolution reaf
firming the Monroe doctrine in connection with
the inter-ocean canal projects. The discussion
on the funding bill was resumed.
Senator Pendleton (dem.) made a report on
civil service.
HOUSE—The entire day was passsd in contin
uation of Tuesday's session on the river and
harbor bilL An amendment was adopted with
out division that no part of the_ appropriation
'for the improvement of the Mississippi river be
devoted to the building of levees.
Mr. Phoeler moved to add $60,000 to the
improvement of the Minnesota river according
to the plans proposed by Col. Farquahr and
made a speech upon it,' but the amendment
went down.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17.
SENATE—The principal business or the day
was the consideration of the funding bill. The
amendment of the senate committee fixing the
rate of interest at 3*2 per cent instead 6f 3, as
provided in the house bill, was rejected—22 to
33. An amendment by Mr. Kirkwood was
adopted, that the bonds and treasury notes be
any syndicate
finally reported to the senate.
HOUSE—The river and harbor bill passed,
163 to 84—and the apportionment bill was
discussed. A message was received from the
president recommending an appropriation to
enable the government to be represented at the
forthcoming international, monetary confer
ence. -.o
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18.
SENATE—The funding bill passed the senate
practically as it came from the house. The re
publicans voted solidly against the measure,
except T«ga.Ha and Plumb, the Kansas senators
and Booth. The demoorats, including David
Davis, voted as solidly for the bill. Even Mr.
Bayard, whose recommendations had been so
cruelly treated, -yeht with his political brethren,
aji did Beck, who had protested against the
measure as pernicious.
A bill was introduced to incorporate the Inter
oceanic Railway company.
The District of Columbia bill, appropriating
$3,500,000, Rassed.
yrter
JousE—-A motioDtto take up the Fitz-John
bill was defeated—141 to 117.
The agricultural appropriation bill was eon
V&dered^afid Mtt Hnfd madd^ ertarpng and elo
quent free trfcd£iljspepch.
E*^'
aimmbA*| FEBRUABY.1».
SENATE^^Shebilljpo spread of the
cattle disease in, this coming was debated in the
senate. It met with opposition from the numer
ous senators who earnestly advocated the la,w
for this purpose, but condemn the present bill
as crude and full of imperfectiona The debate
indicated that the bill could not pass, the pre
vailiug opioioii.bciug that it would bo better to
Wait until the-tiext congress for such a law than
to put through a.bill so imperfect
HOUSE—The house went into committee of
the whole on the agricultural appropriation bilt
An amendment was adopted appropriating
$80,000 for the purchase, propagation and
•distribution of seeds etc., providing tbat in
equal proportion three-fourths of all seeds
shall, a* their request, be supplied senators and
^representatives for! distribution amongtbeir ag
ricultural constituents.
Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, insisted that the
members knew the practical farmers of. their
districts much .better than anybody- else, and
stated that more' aiid better reports had come to
the agricultural bureau from the few farmeis
f®r whom he had procured seeds than from all
that had been sent by the department into his
district.
APARIUCIDE.'
The Death-Bed Confession of His Crime.
Letter from Bloomington, 111.
Three years ago George M. Ronsh, a prom
inent-stock-raiser living- about five miles from
this place, died one night in his bed, his demise
resulting, as was thought at the time, from
heart disease. Roush was in possession of a
considerable amount of property which was
valued at $50,000/' Dying intestate, his be
longings were divided among his three children
and his wife, who followed him to the grave
about a year later. The second oldest son,
Peter, soon after his mother's death went to
northern Iowa, where he invested his money
and succeeded in adding to his wealth. He had
married, and his wife, who is Said to be a very
estimable lady, the daughter of James B.
Green, of Iowa City, blessed their union by giv
ing birth to one child Three or four weeks
ago Peter Roush was taken seriously ilL His
attending physician became convinced that he
could not live, and so informed the sufferin&r
patient. Three days before his death Roush
called his family around him, and in their pres
ence as well as the atteqding physician, Rev. A.
H. Moore, a Baptist minister of the neighbor
hood, and one or two others, said before he
died he desired to make a statement,as he could
not die without confessing a great crime which
he had committed. In a slow and faltering
voice, not a word being unheard, he made the
following startling avowal: He was a murder
er his father had been in the habit of placing
a tumbler of water on a chair by his bedside
upon retiring, and during the night, while his
unsuspecting parent was sound asleep, he slip
ped into the room and emptied a deadly drug
the glass. In the morning the old man was
found dead in his bed, and hi8 neighbors and
friends were of the opinion that he died from
heart disease, which at times troubled him
slightly. The murderer confessed thathe want
ed his share of the property, and that was the
only motive which led him to commit the hellish
crime. Upon entering the room in the morn
ing with one or two members of the family, he
seized the glass when his movements were not
watched and, carrying it out in aback yard de
stroyed it He entered his father's room be
tween 8 and 9 o'clock at liight, and it is sup
posed that at a later hour the unfortunate old
man got out of bed and drank the water con
taining the fatal poison, and which act cost him
his life. After making this terrible confession
Roush seemed to be in a better state of mind,
and said be was prepared to meet his death,
which, as above stated, occurred three days
later. He hoped to be buried by the side of
his murdered father, but his remains were in
terred in a small country grave-yard near hie
farm in Iowa.
OUR TREMEDOUS COUNTRY.
The British Thunderer On the American Cen
sus.
From the London Times.
The details we publish this morning of the
principal facts elicited by last year's census of
the United States, confirm the impression the
original summary 6f results produced. A na
tion has never exhibited a more magnificent
picture of material progress for ten years.
Since 1S70, more than eleven and a half mil
lions have been added to the population, at a
rate of thirteen per cent increase. Except
China and Great Britian and Russia, no gov
ernment can count more subjects. Inthenum
ber of citizens moved by similar impulses, and
recognizing common ends, the British Empire
itself yields to the great Republic. Fifty mil
lions of human beings in a land like America
more than match the eighty-six millions of Eu
ropean and Asiatic Russia. The 425 millions
of China-are not to be compared with them as a
force among mankind. The growth of a popu
lation may generally be understood to imply
the growth of wealth and resourses. As each
census in a European state indicates a numeri
cal advance, it may for the most part be in
ferred that fresh means of support have been
made available. When, however, every suc
cessive census in the United States reveals an
expansion by bounds and leaps, faith in the in
stinct of human nature not to multiply beyond
the power pf existence is scarcely needed re
assure anxiety. The granary which is to feed
the new millions which have come, the millions
which are to follow, piles its stores for the
whole world to certify them. Each added
American citizen has not to search for the live
lihood nature hides somewhere or other for all
its children. He is born ci imported with his in
heritance labeled and allotted. He lias but to
fiswest,
or north, or south there it is awaiting
advent
Death of Fernando Wood.
Hon. Fernando Wood, member of congress
from New York, died at Hot Springs, Ark., at
10 o'clock last Sunday night Since Ids arrival
at the springs, a short time ago, he has been
in a very weak and almost hopeless condition,
which continued without the slightest change
until overtaken by death, his disease being a
complication of gout and rheumatism. The leg
islature at little Rock, and the city council
paid doe honors to the .deceased, and the news
at Washington, created a profound feeling of
regret among all the members of both bodies.
He had been in public life so long (over forty
years) and had been so conspicuously identified
with so many important epochs in the recent
history of the country, that his taking-off was
like the remeval of a landmark in the march of
time. Mr. Wood had served 18 years in con
gress, held the office of mayor of New York, and
many other high positions.
Congressional Apportionment
The latest advices are that congressional ap
portionment will probably pass the house with
the number, of representatives fixed at 307.
The house iis strongly disposed to this number,
and the1 committee will not, it is believed, op
pose, the house when the bill comes up again
for discussion. The present number is 293.
At 307,' California, Iowa and Michigan gain pue
representative each, Kansas gains three and
Minnesota and Nebraska two each, making' a'
gain of ten in .the .northern states. Arkansas,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina'ana
West Virginia gain one each, and Texas gains
four, making again of nine in the southern
states and Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
and New York lose one each.