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Lsi- -- S . I" '! hT - THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. V. L. THOMAS, ribliohrr. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. CURRENT TOPICS. At a caucus of the Republican mem bers of the Senate, held on the 13th, it was agreed that the Post-oflico Appro priation bill shall be taken up as soon as the pending measure in regard to Chinese immigration is disposed of, and that preference snail be given to other Tegular appropriation bills, including the River and Harbor bill, over all oth er business thereafter. Tiik English Parliament convened on the lath. In the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Nortbeotc, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said it was not desirable to either exaggerate or depreciate undu jy the severe blow in South Africa. There exists general admiration for the gallantry of the troops, and universal sympathy for the sufferers. The Cabi net is resolved to repair and wipe out the disaster. There s every reason for satisfaction with the progress of the Berlin treaty. The Russians have already begun to with draw from Turkey, and there is every reason to hope for complete evacuation in due time. Regarding reforms in Asia, he said the Porte has shown an earnestness in arrange ments now under discussion, and which it is hoped would prove adequate. The expedition to Afghanistan may be said to have accomplished its object, and satisfactory arrangements for the protection of the northwest frontier, while preserving the independence of Afghanistan, arc now possible. In re gard to tho present distress prevalent in England, he hoped an improvement in the weather would diminish it. Lord Beaconsfield, in the House of Lords, made a statement similar to that of Sir Stafford Northcote. Skcketakv Siikkman, in a commu nication to the House, states the esti mate for expenditures for the next fiscal year at 281,502,419. The estimated receipts arc: From customs, $l.'):i,000, 000; from internal revenue, $100,000, 000; from miscellaneous sources, $18, 500,000; leaving a deficiency of $27,- 002,419. Judck Baxter of the United States District Court has appointed Thomas J. Lathani receiver for the City of Mem phis. He is to take chargo of all the effects of the late municipality, includ ing unpaid tax-bills to the amount of nearly $3,000,000, and the creditors are ordered to file their claims on or before the third Monday in May. These claims are supposed to exceed $2Jf00,000. The steamer A. C. Donnally was burned on the night of the 14th a few miles below Cairo, on the Mississippi River. The burning boat was run aground upon Island No. 1 and all the passengers got off, although several were crippled by jumping from the boat. The boat burned to the water's edgo and books and papers Tho pilot, Wm. remained at his post not even the were saved. Underwood, until the boat struck the shore, when the pilot-house was in flames, and he descended through the wheel-house, jumped into the water and swam ashore. Tiik excitement regarding the plague in Southern Russia continues, although the latest reports are somewhat more Javorable as showing the energetic yisurcs adopted for the suppression of inrHiease and keening it within bounds. f. the dtkcantine lines have been extend- The qujSgthcned, and Gen. Melikofl exercises supmj"" !'" " " """ district. A Liverpool, dispatch of the 15th re ports tho probable adjustment of the labor troubles in that city which have for so long completely paralyzed trade. ..-. - The Canadian Parliament met on the 14th. The opening ceremonies were conducted in a style of royal magnifi cence, the Governor-General and the Princess Louise being accompanied to Parliament Hall by a guard of honor, where they received the royal salute. A most brilliantly arrayed company of ladies and gentlemen assisted at the opening. TnE Democratic Senatorial Caucus resolved to recede from the action pre viously tasen by the Joint Congression al Caucus, pledging their support to the Tepcal of the Federal Supervisors-of-Election law. The abolition of the Ju ror's tet oath will be appended to the Legislative Appropriation bill, as here tofore agreed upon. An imperial manifesto has been is sued announcing that the Czar has rati fied the definitive treaty of peace with .Turkey, and orders consequently are given the troops to return home. The manifesto closes with thanks to God for Russia's glorious victory. m The Senate Committee on Transpor tation Routes to the Seaboard have made a favorable report on the applica tion of Capt. Jas. B. Eads and his asso ciates for relief. The bill proposes a modification of the original act, author izing the immediate payment to Capt. Eads of $750,000 ; when the channel is 25 feet deep and not less than 200 feet wide, $500,000; for 26 feet the same, and for SO feet the same, without regard to width. There arc also provisions for the maintenance of the work, as pro vided in the original. . It is a good time to purchase corner lots in Sodom and Gomorrah, for a Jor dan Valley Railway is projected, mainly with a view to opening the inexhausti ble beds of asphalt andlignite which are a chief geological feature of tho neigh borhood. See Ezekiel xvi., 46, et scq. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Gen. Grant and party arrived at Bombay, India, on tbc lHtb. LuTHKit II. Conklino, late County Treasurer of (htwego County, X. Y., Is a defaulter to the amount of $80,000. Ill ojkj rations began in IRtf). Representative Cltmkk, of Penn sylvania, is seriously ill in Washington and ban not been in hfs seat for three weeks. Five Judges of Election have been convicted and sentenced In Baltimore for in terfering with United .States Supervisors at the recent Congressional election. Ex-Go v. PiscimACK has accepted the ofllec of Revenue Agent of the Louisiana District. The President has nominated Hora tio C 15urchard,Ucprc8cntativc in tbc pres ent Congress from the Fifth District of Illi nois, Director of the Jiint, vice Lindcnnan, deceased. Mr. A. Loudon Snowdcn, the iiret nominee, declined the position. The President has approved the bill to alio' women to practice before the Su preme Court. EmvAiiD O'Kellv, the last of the Fenian prisoner?, has been released and Is on his way to America. Cordial letters have been exchanged between the Pope and the German Empe ror. Dom Pedro of Brazil has contributed to the Washington Monument a stone weigh ing nearly eight tons to perpetuate the mem ory of Washington. The htonp, engraved and inscribed, in now in New York City. The Grand Jury of Rensselaer Coun ty, N. Y.f him indicted Postmaster Ford, his two Mins, and Henry Cox and Dr. Hager ii an for complicity in the frauds recently unearthed In the Alms-house at Troy. The Pope has proclaimed a universal jubilee and indulgence on the anniversary of his election. Dr. Georoe H. Gray, of Dcnison, Tcxih, who distinguished himself by pro fessional services at Holly Springs during the epidemic, committed suicide at New Or leans on the l.')th by shooting himself through the head. No cause is assigned. Juikik Solomon Blair, a prominent Republican politician of Indiana and Chair man of the State Central Committee, is dead. O. M. Barnes is the Democratic nom inee for United States Senator from Michi gan, and Henry Chamberlain the Green back candidate. The President has nominated Wil liam Garvoy, of Ohio, Indian Agent for Ne vada. Frederick W. Vanderiult, young est son of Win. II. Vanderiult, and favorite grandiou of the late Commodore, has re cently contracted a secret marriage with the divorced wife of his cousin, Alfred Tor rance. Young Vandcrbilt has just attained his majority and come into possession of the handsome sum of 2,000,000, bequeathed him by his grandfather. His wife is at least 10 years his senior, and said to be a most beautiful and captivating blonde. In com-, patibility with her lirst husband was the ground for divorce. The allair lias caused a great sensation in New York society, and it is understood that the happy couple arc un der the ban of parental displeasure. R. II. Chilton, formerly Adjutant General of Gen. Lee, and since the war President of the Columbus (O.) Manufactur ing Company,fcll dead at his desk on the 18th. He was over (JO years of age. He graduated at West Point from Virginia, was promoted Major in the Mexican War, and was Pay master in Texas before the Civil War. George R. Evans and three colored men were killed and a number of other pas sengers and employees severely hurt by the falling of a bridge on the Selma, Rome and Daltou Itailroad, on tho 18th. The train went down into the water, a distance of M) feet. Hox. Zacii. Chandler was on tho IStli formally elected United States Senator from Michigan, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Christiancy. Senator Bruce of Mississippi was called to the chair in the Senate Chamber on the 14th and presided over the Senate a portion of the afternoon, it being the lirst lime in the history of the Government that a colored man lias occupied the chair. The report of tho special committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the causes of the omission of the Hot Springs section from the enrolled Sundry-civil Ap propriation bill, last session, says the omis sion was clearly caused by a clerical error on the part of the overworked clerks and that nobody is particularly to blame. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A negro burglar named Wm. Patter son, who attempted to rob the jewelry-store of M. 15. Wright in Kansas City, on the night of the 12th, was killed in a hand-to-hand tight with the clerk, a lad IT years old ,'nacicd Augustine Marty, who was armed with a dirk-knife. The Coroner's Jury exonerated young Mart'. The well known Tattcrsall's stables in New York City burned on the night of the 12th, with over 00 horses, many of them valuable roadsters. Charles R.McGill was hanged atCleve land, O., on the loth, for the murder of his mistress, Mary Kelly, in December, 1877. Another revolution in Hayti is an nounced. John Edwards was hanged at Smith field, N. C, on the 14th, for the murder of one Italian! about two years ago. At Ottawa, Ontario, on the 14th of February, the thermometer was 21 dcg. be low zero. At several points in the valley mercury was frozen. The main building of the Soldiers1 Or phans' Home atXcnia, O., was destroyed by tire on the morning of the Kith. Six hundred children had just finished breakfast in the building and returned to the cottages when the fire broke out. Several members of the Legislature, officially visiting the institution, saved their lives by Jumping from the second-story windows. The entire contents of the building, including the personal effects of oflieers and teachers, were destroyed. The loss to the State.is about $75,000, upon which there is no insurance. Seven of the Cheyenne prisoners con fined at Fort Leavenworth have been iden tified as being engaged in the raid through Kansas last fall, and they have been turned over to the civil authorities of Ford County, where they will be put on trial for murder. James Beck, a baggage-master on the Iron Mountain Railroad between St. Louis and Columbus, Ky., has been convicted of robbing the mails and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. At Terre Haute, Ind.f Knight and Jackman, jointly indicted for wrecking a train on the Indianapolis and St, Louis Railway, by throwing a switch, were found guilty by a jury and sentenced to imprison ment for life. Three masked men robbed the Little Rock mail-stage, on the night of the 14th, three miles west of Tine Bluff, Ark. The driver and the single passenger on board were relieved of their money and valuables and the mail-bags gutted. No clew to the robbers. Kphriam Hystcr and wife, of Som erville. Me., went to a neighboring tow hopping, leaving their three children locked In the house. During their absence the House caught fire and burned, together with ail it content, including the three children. Their agca were 4 and 2 1-2 year and 8 months. Rev. Peter Waits, a colored Baptist preacher of Madisonvillc, O., was shot and killed on the night of the l.'th by An drew Emery, a colored boy of 17, employed as a coachman by Mr.Jewctt, of Red Rank. Waits wm dodging around Jcwett's houc in a Minpicious manner, and young Kinery, mistaking him for a burglar, fired hi gun with fatal effect. The house had been burglarized only a short time previous, and, the family being absent, Emery was on the lookout for another attempt. It l be lieved that WaitV minion was one of love, not burglary, as he was fomewhat intimate with a young colored girl, a ecrvant In the houfc. Deceased was .V) years old and had a wife and family. Matt. Pollock, a printer well known In many offices throughout the country, was shot and killed by Jim B-rrat BcIIefontaine, O., on the morning of the 10th. Roth were under the influence of liquor at the time, although the murder seems to have been committed in a cold-blooded manner. Pol lock was ; feet 8 inches high and very thin, and bore the nick-name of "Shorty" Pol lock. The Governor-General of Canada, in his address to Iirl lament, says he will press for tie most vigorous prosecution of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A pajic exists among the white set tlers of Alaska, owing to threatened hostili ties on the part of the Indians. The trouble arose out of the arrest of two Indians charg ed with murder. At last accounts the whites had armed and fortified themselves and were awaiting an attack. The Collector at Sitka has telegraphed Scrrctary Sherman for aid, and meanwhile the commander of a British vessel has been asked to allord them protection. John Geyer and Wm. Wilson lost their lives in a burning building in Frank lin Township, near Pittsburg, Pa., on the night of the 15th. A diflicultj' occurred on the 17th, at .lohnsonvillc, Miss., between Col. Hoi man, Dr. Lowrey, Dr. Walker and Mr. Arnold. The fight was begun by Holraan shooting Lowrey; Arnold shot Holman, wounding him, then shot and killed Walker, and was himself shot in turn by Holraan. Ar nold and Lowrey have since died. Holman was arrested. John McLeon has been arrested at Marion, McDowell County, N C, on a charge of bigamy. It is said that he has 1!) wives now living in various parts of the country. He was formerly a Methodist minister, is said to be exceedingly prepos sessing in his raannpr, and has apparently made abus:ncss of going from State to State and marrying in every community where he temporarily located. A mob of masked men undertook to take a prisoner named Dallas Rogers from the Jail at Graham, Texas, on the night of the 17th, but were resisted by the SheritPs posse and one of the mob, named A. W. Hayes, was shot and killed. Mrs. Wolf, wife of a farmer living near Olathc, Kansas, on the ISth was out raged by a negro workman during the ab sence of her husband, who then cut her throat and left her for dead. The brute was captured and lodged in jail. Mrs. Wolf's injuries were fatal. Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading among the Kittle in North and East Yorkshire, England. Summary proceedings have been in stituted against Deputies Fritzchc and Has sclman for alleged violations of the Socialist law. Warrants have been issued for their arrest. The L. C. McCormick, a small steam er, running between Marietta and Zancs villc, on the Muskingum River, exploded her boiler when near Itcvcrly, on the 15th, killing the fireman, Mike Havcmcycr, and seriously scalding Capt. Martin, two of the crew and three passengers. The boat sunk a few minutes after the explosion. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now at Port Townsend, to Sitka, to preserve peace, and the UritNh man-of-war Osprey has gone from Victoria, It. C, to" Sitka, at tho earnest request of the citizens, who represented that they feared an indiscriminate massacre by the Indians. The chartered steamers Dublin Castle, from London, with the 3d Battalion of the 00th Regiment, and the Frctoria,f rom South ampton, with the 91st Highlanders.sailed on the 19th for the Cape of CSood Hope, and several other ships were in readiness to fol low at intervals of a few days. Col. Edmund Rice and Lieut. Fred Sibley, of tho Fifth Infantry, accompanied by Morris Colin, a trader, with an escort of six soldiers, were surprised and captured near Glendtvc Creek, on the Yellowstone, while en route from Fort Keogh to Bis marck, by four makcd men, armed with re peating rilles. The whole party were rob bed of their money, Cohn losing a bag con taining $2,500. A party of soldiers went out from Fort Keogh after the daring freeboot ers and captured one of them, named Wm. Dixon. The Senate has passed the Honse bill reducing the tax on tobacco and snuff to 10 cents a pound. Heretofore the tax on all kinds of tobacco has been 24 cents per pound and on snuff 32 cents. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Kellogg in troduced a bill to secure the completion of a line of railway from San Antonio, TeAa3, to a point at or near Kl Paso upon the Kio Grande, and to bo known :us the Mexican and l'acillc Extension of the l.alvcatnn and San Antonio Railroad. He poke briefly in favor of the construction of the road, which asked but $10,C00 a mile from the Government. The bill was referred. Mr. Morrill called up the bill reported from the Committee on Finance r. few days ago, authorizing tho conversion of national cold bonds, and it was passed. The House bill to restrict the immiijration of Chinese was taken up, and Mr. Sarscnt advocated the measure. At the close of his remarks he made an effort to force a vote upon the bill, but by a vote of 29 to 25 the Sen ate adjourned In the House, a letter was presented and referred to the Committee on wavs and Means from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that there will probably be a deficit in the revenues of the Government during the next llscal year of 527,000,000, and asking authority to issuejlper cent, bonds to coTersuch deficiency. The Legislative, Ju dicial and Executive Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole In the Senate, on the 14tb, Mr. Cameron submitted a resolution authorizing the Se- lect Committee on Transportation routes to" the Seaboard to take testimony relating to the bill for the relief of Mr. James B. Eads. Agreed to. After considering the bills on the calendar, consideration was resumed of the bill to restrict Chinese immigration, and Mr. Klaine advocated It. He ar gued that the legislation designed was in strict accord with international obli gations. Remarks upon the bill were also made by Messrs. Thurraan. Sargent, Jones of Nevada, Beck, Hamlin and others. Without reaching a vote the Senate adjourned In the House, Mr. Bras?. Jrotn the Committee oa Military Affairs, reported a bUl authorizing the President to appoint James Shields, of Missouri, as Brigadier-General on the retired list, such appointment to be in lien of the pension which he now receives. Mr. White (Pa.) rose to a point of order, and although appealed to, to withdraw his point, by Messrs. Bragg, Frank lin and Butler, be refused to do so. Great confusion was caused by Mr. Franklin com- Ins over to t ho Republican Ml of tbc hall and charging the Krpobllcan- with not h-vln been men meat tart year In thelrcsort for tlw appointment of Gen. Shield a Doorkeeper. To this Mr. White re piled the IKtocrat were welcome to maaa all tb party capital they wanted of his action. He wan wlUtnic to take nil tin rrponnibllltv that a roemtxr of Con Kress tdiould take for doing his duty. The conlnslnn wan great that Mr. Urtugca In nnlred whether this waa a town-meeting or the Houmj of !prrentatlvr. Finally tfee speaker .utnlncd the point ft order and tbc bill wm referred to Committee of the Whole. Anumlrrrof private- war claims wem con sidered in 1'oranitttre of the Wliolr. tho dt cushion of which vu quite animated. In the course ol some remarks. Gen. Butler aald I rcpe that whenever the question of de pletion ol tho Treasury by thre war claim ! ovt-r. I think that the pity. thi humanity of the North, will take care of the mnlm ed of the war, and if you ih to know tt, I no more reason by the Confederate Mildier, maitml and crippled in the bonrt discharge of what he believed to l til duty, should not Ik; p4ndoiicd,tnan why a Confed erate General, who honrtly believed be ww doing hi duty, should lie put Into the Repub lican Cabinet. ' (General upplnuvs and clap ping of hands on the Democratic nlde.J In the Senate, on the 15th, the bill to re strict the Immigration of Chinese to the t'nitcd States paused by a vote of 30 yeas to 7 navtf. The bill makes it a mUdcineanor punishable by line or Imprisonment. lor the ma-terol any vewl to take on board ach vm.-1 at any foreign port, more thjn 15 Chi-ne.-e paengcr, with Intent to bring Mich piwengers to the L'nlted States. Thi- act l to take effect July 1, 1ST?, and the President Is to immediately notify tho Government of China of the abrogation of whatis known as tho i:urllirame Treaty In the Houe,tho Legislative. Judicial and Executive Appro priation bill wm completed in Committee mid reported to the House. Tho amount ap propriated Is about SlfiW.mJO. In the Senate, on the 17th, the bill to amend the Internal Revenue laws was con sidered at length but not disposed of. The bill to provide for tho construction of a bridge accross the Missouri River at Decatur, .Nebraska, pased In the House, the RIvcrand Harlor bill paus ed under a Mispeiislou of the rules by a vote f 17:t yeas to 11 nay. At the evening . don memorial wrviec were held for the late Representative-Schleicher. In the Senate, on tho lSih, consideration was rcMimed of the bill to amend the Interna Revenue laws. The bill having been consid ered In Committee of the Whole was reported to the Senate, and Mr. Whyte submitted an amendment that the art take effect the 1st of Stay instead of 1st of April, as proposed by the committee. Agreed to yea-, .11 ; nny,n. The bill was then read a third time and pass ed. Memorial services were then helil in hon or ot Representatives Schleicher and (jiiluii. In the House, thecensus bill was further considered, but laid aside to take up the 1 Islatlve. Judicial and Executive Appropria tion bill. The bill providing for the payment of arrears of pen-ions, appropriating $2f, X2;mo out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, passed under a sus pension of the rules. In the Senate, on tho litth, the House bill to llx the pay of letter-carriers and tho Sen ate bill to Incorporate the United States Rail way Mall Service Mutual Benefit Association pus-ied. Consideration was then resumed of the Post-office Appropriation bill. When the Rrnzillliiii Mall Steamship Subsidy amend ment was reached, Mr. Keck made t he Kilut of order that It was not gcrmain to the bill, and that it was new legislation uihii the Appro priation bill. The Senate, by a vote ol yens :c, n:tvs!, derided that the amendment was in order. Without further action on tin bill the Senate went Into executive Mission In the House, the Legislative, Judicial mid Executive Appropriation bill was far ther considered in Committee of the Whole. An nmcudment was offered by Mr. Herbert, repealing the Jurors' test oath, ami regulating the mode of drawing and pay ol jurors, which was objected to on a point of order, but tho objection was overruled by the Chairman, Mr. Blackburn. A long and heated discussion ensued, which was generally participated in by tho mem bers. The amendment was finally adopted by a vote of 1 J7 yeas to SS nays. An amend ment was then offered by Mr. Southard, repealing the section which au thorized the appointment of Federal Supervisors of Election. This led to a t-till more animated discussion, in which Mr. Southard made a lengthy speech In favor of the proposed legislation, and Mr. Garlic d in opposition to it. Without taking any action on the amendment the committee rose, nnd tho House adjourned. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIUATIONS. The Teller Committee. The Teller Investigating Committee ex amined a number of witnesses at Washing ton, on the Uth, regarding the recent election in Mississippi, and the general condition of political affairs in the State. (Jen. Reuben A. Davis, Greenback can didate for Congress in the First District, tes tified that, according to the best of his belief, he would have beaten Col. Muldrow. his Democratic opponent, by 10,000 votes, with a fair count. He had been accused of endeavoring ,to organize; tho negroes in opposition to the Democrats; had been informed of threats to prevent his speaking, and that he had been hung iuefilgy and then burned. Mr. Garland called the attention of tho witness to his testimony bo fore tho Boutwell Committee In 1875. Tho witness said he indorsed every word he then uttered; he had said Radicals were bulldozers, and they operated on ne groes by superstition, threatening to put snakes and lizards into them. The Demo crats, he added, now arc obnoxious to what he then said of Radicals. A white man could not vote in the South against the Democracy without being ostracised ; but he dreaded the assassin's knife more than he did ostracism. He believed the great majority in his district was against bulldozing nnd ballot-box stuf fing, but there was a class of ambitious, as piling men who sought to render all persons odious who do not adopt their views. Wm. II. Yasser, elected State Treasurer on the Alcorn ticket, testified that he sup ported the Greenback ticket in the late elec tion. Even.-thing is called Radical in MhN sl.-sippi that Is not Democratic. The .irnn who makes such a speech is considered a pest, nnd if the speaker is a man of ability he Is considered a dangerous pest. A man's social and business relations are affected by his political opinions. The Republican party there Is virtually dead. It has had no vitality since 1875 and 1876. The leaders were mostly Northern men. and since tho State passed into Democratic hands the Republicans have been without .eadcrs. The whites would take every measure possible to prevent the State from again falling into lie publican hands. The people have a great horror of being ruled by colored people. J. II. Field, of Columbus, testified re garding the late election In Mississippi, that he did not know or had not heard of a sin gle instance of intimidation or attempt to prevent any one from voting. The election was sought to be conducted In a pleasant wav, in accordance with the principles of right nnu justice, tnougn actively ana ener getically. Mr. Garland. Aro your peoplo willing to ac cord the black man all his rights under the Constitution? A. I think they are, with this modification, viz.: The white people gener ally would dissuade tho negro, by kind and conciliatory means, from having any thing to do with politics. Whilethcy would not ex clude him from doing so. I think our people are against limitation of suffrage or taking suffrage away from them. Mr. W. W. Humphreys testified that Ue late election was more peaceable and quiet than usual; nobodj- was prevented from vot ing; he thought it as fair and honest an elec tion as any in any ot the States. The witness added that there was no disposition to de prive the colored man of any of his rights, except perhaps on the part of a few extreme men. Freedom of speech and of the press was f ully recognized in Mississippi, and any man could make a seech there, provided it was not calcnlated to create a breach of the peace. He believed the principal reason the people desired col ored men to vote was the increased repre sentation in Congress. The Patter CosasBittee. The sessions of the Potter Committee were resumed at Washington on the 17th. John F. Coyle testified that he went to Florida during the canvass of the Presiden tial vote, upon request of Col. I'clton. Ed ward Cooper gave him his instructions and a telegraphic cipher, and he was authorized to draw upon him for money to defray aay nec essary expenses. Ills instructions were to aid the Democrats in securing a fair const. He expended while there nearly 510.OW. A proposition was made to witness by one Al exander Thaln to buy cp the Returning Board for 5200.000, but he bad been warned that Thain was not trustworthy and to have nothing to do with him. Witness de nied the correctness of several of the TrSbmme ciphers attributed to him. He had destroyed his key. lie did not believe that Tilden had any knowledge of the attempted negotia tions to secure the Electoral vote. Thomas C. Dubb, a aaeatber of the South Carolina Returning Board in 1ST6, at present residing in Boston, was caUcd by his own re quest and testified in denial of certain state meats mad by Smith M . Weed in his evi dence before the Committee. Witness said he was approached by Hardy Solomon, during the session of the Returning Board, who told him he waa requested to see members of the Board and ascertain whether negotiations could not be perfected by which the vote ol the Board, or a portion of it, could be obtained for the Til den Electors. Solomon told witness that the Democrats in the State were armed and or ganized, and that they meant to have the state, peaceably if they conld, forcibly It .- ...., it.. rHKir tmtlmafrsl that It better to ue gold than M"-!. and JWt the ! prrlon upon the mladnl wUn-tnJ Bw sthnrtzetl to give a valuable consideration for the areotnpU-BtwBi ol his pBrpo1- "" nesw told Solomon that tt m utterly uJc for him to attempt any ch rgotUWn wlthtne Returning Board, as there am quration tht the State. hd pone for H) and would l- -o decUrt-1. WMr related bl conversation nUn Solomon to , !ubwrqu-nt Interview- wlta oltoon for the purpoUot leading him on and flndlngoutth tl,itr. fhnilM-rlaln net niomtnc. !M " Upon croexaralnatlon wliao- atd that Solomon told him he wa aallmric-t to ne f UO.ao If nrcery to ecur nU objret. tht Urge sum a not enough, however, to Inflo ence witne. Ill- frt"n(Jly relation with Solomon continued uninterrupted notwlth Handing the latter attempt to bribe bias. nlam nt tlif DrmiM-nt. Her K- How a Woman Keeps pen.Hc-look. It is a touching aight to sec a woman tcrs. May cac at oace present them begin to make up her housekeeping ex- wire t,tba mind in which the Judicious n.nw. she havinc firmlv resolved to , cxercb- of the faculty of bringing thing! pat down ever)' cent she spends so that I she can find out how to economize, and where all tho money goes to. Trocur- j of lettc-.writing was W m.-ue lae rrcip ing a small book, she makes a due en- j lent ish there wtJ more,'' and the try, and on the Monday after the first article ?n "The Aft Going Away," Saturday in which her husband brings j in tlo Saturday Jicncxe, brings homo his pay she earefully tears the this excellent adt to mind. It U margin off a newspaper, and, with a ono of the greatest ycrits of a novelist blunt pencil, strikes a trial balance, j to kno when to wisd up at tho right sometainginthisway: "John brought I momcrt and in tk right way, and the me home 18.50, and $1.43 I bad is i editor who can widup his leader at the $19 D3, and $1 I lent Mrs. Dixon b $o0.93 but, hold on, I oughtn't to en ter that, because when she returns it it'll go down. That was $t'JJ3, and what havo I done with that?" Then she puts down tho figures, leaving out the items to save time a process which enables her to lcavo out most of the items where a round sum is involved, on the supposition that they have already been put down. As thus: " Six dollars and fourteen cents for meat; and 10 cents for celery; and 10 cents on the street-cars ; and a bad o-ccnt piece I got in change; and $2.81 I paid tho milk man, who owes me VJ centsthat's $3 ; and 15 cents at church ; and tho gro ceries they wero either 15.00 or $16 50, and I don't know which they were, but I guess it must have been $15.00, for tho grocer said if I gave him a dime ho could give me half-a-dollar, which would make even change, and I couldn't, because the smallest I had was a quarter; and $2 75 for mending Katie's shoes, which is tho last money that shoemaker ever gets from me; and 10 cents for celeryno, I put that down." Finally she sums up her trial-balance sheet, and finds that it foots up $6 1.28, which is about $15 more than she had originally. She goes over the list several times and checks it care fully, but all the items arc correct, and sho is just about in despair when her good angel hints that there may be a possible mistake in the addition. Act ing upon the suggestion, sho foots up the column and finds that the total is $14.28, and that according to the prin ciples of arithmetic she ought to have $5.05. Then she counts her cash sever al times, tho result varying from $1 10 up to $1 97, but then she happily dis covers that she has been mistaking a $2.50 gold piece for a cent, and remem bers that she gave the baby a trade-dollar to cut its gums with. On the whole, she has come within 8G cents of a bal ance, and that, she says, is closo enough, and she enters in one line of the account book "Dr. By household expenses" so much, and is very happy till sho re members, just after going to bed, that she has omitted $2.75 for her husband's hat. Ghi&iyo Tribune. Sheep Kai.sing in .Montana. A correspondent of tho New York Evening Vol makes the following state ment of the experience of a Montana gentleman who, in October, 1875, took on shares one thousand ewes for four years. During tho first winter a few died, but his increase amounted to one thousand and fifty, half of which were ewes, so that at the end of the first year he had more than two thousand head. This year he sheared three thousand three hundred, and the lambs number one thousand five hundred, making a total of four thousand eight hundred head in the flock. With fair increase bis lambs will next year number two thous and five hundred, or, at the end of four years (in October, 1879), he will have not less than seven thousand head, val ued at $10,000. His share of the wool clip will more than pay his expenses, so that in the end he will be able to return the original number one thousand ewes and half tho increase, and still own a flock worth about $0,000, besides having $2,000 in cash as a result of his venture. Now the other persons in this speculation -arc not less fortunate. They ralue the one thousand ewes furnished at $4,000; the person taking them paid all taxes and expenses for keeping dur ing the four years, gave them half the fleece, and at the expiration of that period returned the .original num ber of average age, together with half the increase. They have received for wool the first year $000; the sec ond. t l.nno: the third. $1,500. and will receive next year about $2,200; or, oa an investment of $4, 000 for four years, they will receive the original amonnt, namely, 1,000 ewes, and not less than 250 per centum, or 2,500 head of sheep, additional as increase and $5,300 in cash. A fair increase in sheep-raising is 80 per centum, bat daring the last two years it has reached as high as 100, and in some cases even higher. The increase in the total number of sheep in Montana is very rapid. Less than 80,000 sheep were in theyear enumeration for 1877, while the best authorities estimate the present number within the territory at not less than 200,000. A single flock imported dar ing 1878 numbers 11,000, another 10, 000, and still another 0,000. Some of these from California are considered the finest ever brought into Montana. w w m Sfcbtxxo men in Connecticut are alarmed at the discovery that there a upon the statute books a provision that every horse used in races on which any wager is to be laid or any purse or stake offered shall be forfeited to the State. Tit Art off 8WFlff. It !ai fcstkfally remarked kl oh of ti poruM cUl accom plUhmeifc tt of trinjt a roots: Kcfall. ritr i the IxdhJos Selmrdi Jcrir-1 to differ here, &&d j 1 f.L.I tK . V.t1tsr t1 lMT nn 1w-1" f , ., . (. .,,rwj- it. eJklilj ati jSHUC.mjly, superior. U Udmki it fAi-l to mpoopia anxtooi to btl vrrtrtw from cH or tUiL, and yet pnrlJJ " an- to ncapc a rats in trp. ilthoa nothing br their - M P" ould gladly dfepwJ wl wctr company. The an or science of departarti both I from 1 ..caUw and positions U worth ! atudricin mall as wH aa prrt mat- , to a conclusion would b- appreciated. Sam Wrller one said that th great art right piint Is ma. " K " ' his art. Many prthcrs complain mat their g-catest diflcalty b that of con eluding their scrrsSoo; but in this par ticular caso there b lutlo need for the excrebe of any special ingenuity, as an abrupt but early B-ing is a fault, of all others, most rcadtlj pardoned by a con gregat.an. A(t4r all, a bulky essay might bo writtenf ca the part of going avay and the dificulty in bidding faro well to a host in koannc -h wlu con vey to him tho iuif rcssion that you har cjoyed yourself. Tho subject b com mended to the onsideration of those eminent students! who make social con ventionalities a s$udy. " Death froii Hyilropliobla. f Fall Uivkk, lim-, Feb. 8. Anoth er death resulted from hydrophobia thb morning, the viotia being William Tal bot, about 60 yctn of ago. Some lime last August a dog belonging to a neigh bor acted strangely, aud effort were mado to hang itj -3 it had previously bitten its owner. While tho dog, an Engliith bull, wi banging, it bit off tho rope, (recti itseljtnd bit Mr. Talbot in tho log. Last Sunday the man began to feel unwell, and a physician, Dr. Mo Orath, was called on Monday, who dis. covered evidence of tho dread disease. Tho spasms were quito violent, but on Tuesday ho waj better. On Wednes day hu was full 1 of dread imaginings, liko a hypochondriac. Ho would put away liquids, hit ftco depicting intense mental agony, ilia could swallow opi um pills, but IhCM had little effect. Ills appeals not to be moved was most pa thetic. Tho d'etor stated that tho suf ferer retained sis consciousness all of tho time, excepting when the spasms (which wero not very markod) were upon j Lim. These spasms affected tho rupiratory and other muscles. Tho p&ticnt, who remained in bed during tho whole time, gradually grow weaker, and, on Friday, for the first timo, by great effort, ho swallowed somo nourishment. Tho muscles of the throat acted vary peculiarly, sumotimes allowing him te mallow without dtfll culty, then refusing to act excepting very slowly, ai though ho had a severe sore throat. I It died in an easy manner, his system completely pro.tratod. This being the sccced death which has oc curred hero tiu week from tho same cause, it naturally cames somo anxioty and comment. It is thought that there must havo been considerable madness among the dogi lost summer, for, dur ing the last six months, quite a number which were considered mad havo been killed. Some COO unlicensed dogs were killed, and a very large number were licensed last summer. Mr. Talbot leaves a wife and two children. Somo Old Connctlcut Cats. Mrs. Lemuel J. Curtis had a cat "ever sinco it was a kitten" until Monday, when it breathed its last. The cat lived to the remarkable age of 21 years. For somo years pat it was on the retired list, having Io: all its teeth. Its sight was somewhat impaired, and it was deaf. Death was the result of old sge. There are other old cats in Meridcn.but none that we hear of reached the age of the one owned by Mrs. Curtis. Mrs. John Dreher, on Crown Street, has two cats aged, respectively, 18 and 14 years. The elder one wabbles about like aa aged human invalid. Both are great pets and well cared for. Mrs. Merrill D. Smith has cat 14 years old. It Is almost toothless, but age seems to make no improTentsnt in its docility, for it can scratch a stranger with as much pleas ure as it could a dozen years ago. Jfc ruUen fConn. RnMirjn. A STRAxne story hi that of Charles Gilbert, who has served 14 years of a life sentence for the murder of Henry Cadwell of Ntw Britain, Conn., in 1&64. Gilbert says that the crime was commit ted by his father, Jonathan Gilbert, and a man named Charles Patrons, with the object of pl-fcdering Cadwell of $700, and that be, Gilbert, allowed himself to be convicted in order to save his parent. The father has since died, and Parsons committed scicide. It is claiired, how ever, that both the elder Gilbert acd Parsons made confessions exonerating young Gilbert. Should the convict's story prove true, his aevouon to nu parent has exceeded any thing recently J imagined aj, wnicra w iuumbw. Jonx Bx.toijrr,cPhiladdphU,ccKaId not, in consequence of heart disease, lie down, nor eren sit down comfortably. He had a bed made in such a way as to sustain him in an upright position, aad in that contrrrancc he slept for ntaay years. He died a few days ago. Ir yon wish to pay your debts yo hare paid them, xosr crecUwOrs sot duty that there has beesi pay t.1 WIT AM WISDOM. TflK comcuring henth Oampo dist. YOf can hear a defon, htt bow qtt a df f Mice hear you ? A st rk care for starpWia-tM jn imagine you hare got in gt oj "I ttorn I see yon writ,' . Uw bucket said when It touched the Ur I,Aw-rKRS are never root crat On. when Owy wvrk with a wtll th.u lk 1f the estAfc i raloablo. It lake 30 yard of drttw pxilt u make a fashionable lady's dr. nw.. days it u wear on hr pTsa and fourteen to carry In her right haa4 or up under her elbow. Tiik following I ptM in front of grocery utore near Harvard Swjstxns "Wooden palls, six cent eaoh. NsXe We did not tcal lhoo pall, but w think the man we bought lhcmf did. ftmUti ,Ulrtrtt.r. "I sit, my frxm' can yu (bse) Wti mo uhero the other Wc of tho sCrs Is?" " Certainly jt acrms Ihe , why do you ask" "Why (he), h cause a minute ago I a,kcd anothor f low the lamo thing, and (hkr) he ad IhU was ihc other side of the sires " Tilt daf approaches on which Uh freckled boy will cnd to tho oro cyad girl over the way, a picture of a liu heart stuck through tho center wkh a barbel slick. He wilt ocdl It a rale) line, and tho Uak bow how he it stuck on the gal. -.NV-p Orhtmt Xfttnc. Tiik Detroit Frr IVtt say- "SUrk a pin there; lUvld I.ivl will aUg U his nut in tho Senate, the report of hit resignation to tho contrary nouh standing." Now, tf we should Wrk a pin there wo don't behove Mr. lr would cling to his snat In the SonAto, tho report of the Fn 'rwi to the m irary iiotwllhtmdlig. Chimym Tnl unc. To classical Mtidnnt You ask, "If Atlas Miportcd tho world, whit aup ported Atlas?" Tho question, dear sir, has often been asked, but never, wi far as wo aro aware, satisfactorily answurrd Wo havo always befn of the opinion that Atlas mint havo married a rich wifo and got his suport from hor fathor. Altnitnj Evniiuj JnurunL jiui tiik iKunniMii'N. oi, Mtiif.of tho fltbtlP, Vfllholm). if tml yH lot nit", put triM4, Jut nnrr my !! ItV tin Kliiri nt your ). !! hoiKMt un! toti't try to nMti). With rupture your mutc 1UI tMrHst-i, Willi plnmirr iitprniin M It lOts-4, AllU II I IMUlbl bllr0 That j mi inortiit to iltrlm WltliHiiiJ.l thin. It H.HtM fclfhu). Wliy KrroMMtr Lump KIodr. Prof. II. C. Kedlt', M. I. IVuldnni of tho Statu Honrd of Health of Mlohlgan and professor in tho State Agricultural College, lately delivered an addrius b). for tho Michigan legislature, in which ho explained tho manner In whioh kero sene lamp usually ox ptodo. n "Aid "Some person seem to think tho itxplo iion of a kerosene lamp Is enuod In tho samo way at a boiler explosion; namo ly, by tho prossum of tho vapor of thn oil Inside the lamp. In rnro Instance explosions may bo caused In this way, for example, where tho IgniUnl oil oror Jlows tho lamp aud tho lamp U envel oped In flame. Hut explosions usually occur In another way ; namely, whom the vapor of kerosene Is mixed In projer proportions with r.lr, ami thus a true explosive mixture is formed which will explode with the forco of a gunshot when fired by llamo. This explains why a lamp Is in more danger of ex ploding when only partially filled with kerosene, because a larger amount of space is filled with tho explosive mix ture; it is tho same as a larger load of powder In a gun. Many persons suppose that there can be no danger of a lamp explosion unless tho whole body of the oil in tho lamp Is healed to the lath ing point; that because tho temperature of our rooms never rics to 120 degrees there can be no danger in using oil whose flashing point Is 120 degrees. But Dr. Baker, Secretary of the State Board of Health, hai proved by experi ment with lamps that an explosive mix ture may form and the lamp may ex plode while the body of oil In the lamp u not above 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of tho body of oil in the lamp is not-tho only factor to bo considered, because different parts of the lamp become very uncjually belt ed. If you will touch the brxM collar of a lamp which has been burning for some time yoa will find it quite hi, and the tube supporting the wlrk It stfll more stronzlv heated. The formation of vapor will be dclcrmlned by the hot- teat part of the lamp which com-- n contact with the oil. When the com bustion Ls imperfect from any cause, the brass fittings of the lamp become excess ively heated. Dr. Baker found in his experiments that when the cbinioey was removed by breaking or Kh:r wlse, and the lamp continued to bum. the temperature of ihc brs collar rows very rapidly in tilery instance; In one case ia 14 minute it row to 111 demn and in aaotber case in 10 minute V -W decrees Fahrenheit. In this la - M stance very rapid explosions occurred by the side of the wick, aart to prerea. the whole lamp from cxplodiag the light was extisguished- In soae of the ex periments did the tensperatwre of the body of the oil rie above fc5 degrees Fahrenheit- Maay persoas on leaving a room tBrn down the lamp to save od, bat such economy is very liable to cao a lamp explosion, which U ar this? but economical. 1 know of a csMt m Charlotte which Uiastrate the fiZ of lhi practice. A lamp ia a store waj turaed down dariag the absence of the clerk; a persoa pas-Leg sw the Ump explode aad by promptly breaking ope the store he extinguished the firw- If - liht aot aeeded in a reom ehber ex tingnkh the lamp or leave it boraiafc with the cw-al bUse." W i f
