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RED CLOUD,
NEBRASKA.
CUKBENT COMMENT.
As A result of the work of "spotters"
on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St.
Look & Chicago Railroad, several of the
conductors on that road have been dis
charged. The "spotters" were disguised
as drummers.
The remains of the old time residents
and pioneers of Southwestern Montana
who were killed by Indians or died
away from home are to be gathered
together and interred in the Bozeman
cemetery.
The cost of marriage licenses varies
from $4.50 in Maryland to twelve cents
-in New Jersey, the average being $1.20.
New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Rhode Island anji Wis
consin make no charge at all.
When the law for the manumission ol
the Cuban slaves was passed several
years ago they numbered 385,355. It is
estimated that all but 100,000 have
already been set free, and it is thought
that all will be free within a year.
Three girls between the ages of thir
teen and seventeen were taken out of
Lee Young's opium joint, at New
York, recently. They were all in a
state of stupefaction. When examined
the next day they said the Chinaman
was "awful good" to them, cooking
chops and steaks for them whenever
they called.
Mississippi has something over 80,
000,000 acres of land much of it the
richest known to man. Less than
5,000,000 acres are cultivated. This is,
however, an increase of several hundred
thousand, acres over the number in 1870,
and nearly equal to that under cultiva
tion in 1860. There are now 75,000
'arms, as compared with 68,000 ten
vears ago, and 42,000 twenty years ago.
Jhe number of acres comprised in the
plantations is nearly three times that
actually farmed i. e., there are 14,000,
000 owned and but 5,000,000 cultivated.
Rev. Dr. J. Parker, of London, de
clares himself out of sympathy with
some of the common talk about the so
sailed outcast poor of London. He says
that man' of the families which are
pitied lor having to live in one filthy,
unventilated room, neither ask nor de
serve pity. In fact the- prefer to live
in that way, and would do so if they
had all heaven at their disposal.
"Dirt," he says, "has its warm friends,
even among people who are not num
bered among the outcast poor. I say
this to guard benevolent persons against
the notion that dirt and poverty are
sj-nonymous terms. I am given to un
derstand that even some Christians have
a wonderful likeness for anything slov
enly and slipshod; at least I have heard
women screaming to other people to
hold the fort and rim the bells of
heaven, whose stockings would have
been the better for a day's darning.
It is interesting to notice, as news
comes to hand from day to day, the
growing prosperity of the South. A
report from Atlanta states that in that
city there are contracts for about $200,
000 worth of new buildings in the hands
of contractors and architects, besides
the new capitol, which will be started
during the spring. Large sums are be
ing invested in private residences. In
Macon contracts for over $500,000 worth
of new buildings have about been closed
out, giving a new appearance to the
city. In Columbus $200,000 worth of
residences has been erected since last
summer, and about S300.000 worth of
work is engaged for the coming season.
A half-dozen new residences recently
erected cost $10,000 to $15,000 each.
In Savannah $1,000,000 has been ex
pended during the year in improve
ments, much of which has gone into the
river front and much into private resi
dences. There is scarcely a large town
in Georgia from which the same story
does not come. Calculation shows that
over $5,000,000 will be invested in
Georgia during the present year in new
buildings.
A most important original Masonic
record has been discovered in the library
of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
" by CliftordP. McCalla, Junior Warden of
the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsyl
vania. The relic consists of the original
ledger account of the first Masonic Lodge
organized in Philadelphia (St. John's
Lodge), from June 24, 1731, to June 24,
1738. Among the members of the Lodge
was Benjamin Franklin, who became a
member, according to the records, in
February, 1731. The exact date of
Franklin's admission to the order was
not known until the discovery of this ledg.
er. It is claimed it is the oldest Masonic
Lodge book in America, and one of the
oldest in the world. It was presented
to tho Historical Society by George T.
Ingham, of Salem, N. J., on Nov. 8,
1880. Mr. Ingham received the volume
from a descendant of David Hall, who
was the partner of Benjamin Franklin
In the .printing and publishing bus
iness. Its great value consists in its
corroborating all that has been claimed
and proved in behalf of Philadelphia
as being the "Mother city of Masonry
jn Ameiiaa."
THE WORLD'S DOINGS
A Summary of the Daily News.
PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS.
Tbb Senate, on the 3rd, passed a num
ber of bills authorizing: the construction of
public buildings, not to exceed for site and
building-the amounts following; Carson City,
Nev.,100,000: Waco, Tex., 1 100.000; San An
tonio. Tex., 5100,000: LaCrosse. Wis., f 100,000;
San Francisco, Cal., $400,000; New Albany,
Ind., f 100,000: Winona, Minn., f 100.000; Oskosh,
Wis., $100,000: Fart Smith, Ark., $100,000;
Nebraska City, Neb., $75,000: Pueblo, Col.,
$200,000. The resolutions expressive of
the regret of the House at the death of
Mr. Haskell, late Representative in that body
from Kansas, was laid before the Senate
In the House, Mr. Randall, under instructions
of the Committee on Appropriations, reported
back a letter from the Secretary of the Treas
ury, relative to the rebate on tobacco. The
House Committee on Appropriations agreed
to report adversely the joint resolutions mak
ing appropriations for the relief of sufferers
from high water along the lower Mississippi.
Several bills were introduced, when the bill
pensioning soldiers of the Mexican war was
taken up and passed by a vote of 227 to 48.
In the Senate, on the 4th, among the
memorials presented was one by Mr. In galls
from the Grand Army Posts of Kansas,
remonstrating against the passage of the
bill reinstating Fitz John Porter. The
Senate took up and passed without debate
the bill reported by Mr. Garland, from the
Committee on Judiciary, to punish counter
feiting within the United States of notes and
bonds or other securities of foreign Gov
ernments. The Senate took up the bill to
provide for the exercise of jurisdiction con
ferred upon the United States in places out
of their territory and dominion. When
the reading of the bill was concluded the
Senate went into executive session and soon
adjourned... In the House, Mr. Lamb,
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, re
ported a bill to amend the Chinese Immigra
tion act. Mr. Wemple, from the Committee
on Railways and Canals, reported a bill for.tho
permanent improvement of the Erie canal,
and maintaining the same free to the people.
Mr. Hewitt, of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, reported a bill to prevent the adulteration
of teas. The House went into Committee of
the Whole, Mr. Converse in the chair, for con
sideration of the Navul Appropriation bill.
After debate, and without action, the commit
tee rose und the House udjoumed.
In the Senate, on the 5th, Mr. Garland,
from the Judiciary Committee, reported favor
ably the original bill for the collection of sta
tistics touching marriage and divorce. Mr.
Cockrell Introduced u bill to amend the re
vised statutes, so as to give to processes of
United States Courts the same force in all
States that the processes of the several States
have in their respective Spates In theHouse,
on motion of Mr. Manchard, a bill was
passed making an appropriation of $8,100 to
supply the deficiency in the amount required
for the expenditures to ascertain the depth
of water und width of the channel at South
Hkss. Mississippi River, and gauge the waters
of the Mississippi ltlver and tributaries. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole, Mr. Converse in the chair, on the
Naval Appropriation bill. Considerable de
bate was had, most of the amendments being
rejected. Mr. Tullcy, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported n bill forfeiting the
Ontonogan Urule Itiver land grunt.
In the Senate, on the 6th, a petition was
presented protesting against the importa
tion of foreign laborers under contract. Mr.
Muxey introduced a bill fixing the rate
of postage to be paid upon mall matter of the
second class, when sent by others than pub
lishers or news agents. (It fixes the rate
of transient newspapers at one cent for four
ounces, the precnt rate being one cent for
two ounces). Mr. Walker introduced a bill to
grant the Kansas City and Gulf Railway Com
pany right of way through the Indian Terri
tory from a point near and south of Baxter
Surinirs. Kas.. to n point near the city of Fort
Smith. Ark......Tho House was occupied nearly
the whole of the day in discussing the Naval
bill in Committee of the Whole, when It was re
ported back to the House and passed by a vote
of 2.V. The only negative vote camo from
White, of Kentucky.
The Senate, on th9 Tth, pasred the bill
reported by Mr. Garland, from the Committee
on the Judiciary, constituting a majority of
the Judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States to be a quorum of the court,
instead of six judges as heretofore. The bill
also prohibits the Judge who heard a case at
a Circuit Court from sitting on the Supreme
bench when the case comes up for appeal.
Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported favorably the House bill de
claring forfeited the lands granted the Texas
Pacific Railroad Company, and stated that the
minority of the Committee desired the
privilege of submitting nt their convenience
their views in dissent, and the majority re
served the right to present hereafter their
reasons In support of the bill. TIm; Senate
then adjourned till the 10th In the House
a bill was reported granting a pension to the
widow of General Francis P. Ukilr. The
Speaker announced unfinished business to be
the further consideration of tho bill author
izing the retirement of Alfred Pleasanton
with the rank of Colonel. Mr. Steele moved
to recommit the bill without instructions.
Carried: yeas 122, nays 115. At the evening
session the House passed u number of pension
bills and adjourned.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
"Waddingto.v, the French Ambassador to
England, has been summoned to Paris to
confer with Premier Ferry in regard to the
proposed Auglo-Portugucso treaty regard
ing trade and navigation on tho Congo, and
also in regard to Sir Evelyn Baring's
f cliemo for financial reform in Egypt.
It is rumored at Washington that the
name of Secretary Folger will probably
bo sent in ut an early day as Minister to
Russia.
General Grant is at the Hygeia Hotel,
Fortress Monroe, for a month or six weeks
stay.
Rev. JonN S. Inskip, editor of the Chris
tian Standard, and well known as the
leadei of the "Holiness" movement, is
dead.
Spuroeon, the Baptist preacher, has
fallen heir to a large fortune left him by
Joseph Pool, of Leicester.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Vienna police have discovered great
quantities of dynamite stored in various
parts of tho city. The Anarchists of Aus
tria threaten trouble in the near future,;
Some of the jury in the Dukes case are
suing the Uniontown Republican-Standard
for libel in condemning the action of the
jury in acquitting Dukes.
William McMillan, of Huron, O., swore
he would kill the first man that came to
help bis wife, whom ho was abusing. A
youth named Thompson, unaware of any
trouble, happened to call at the house, when
McMillan killed him. Hethentried to shoot
himself, but failed. He was jailed, but tho
morning after was found dead, having
taken some rat poison which he had secreted
about his person.
The Newspaper Copyright bill has been
introduced in both the House and Senate,
It prohibits tho uso of newspaper articles
by other newspapers until eight hours
shall have elapsed after publication."
HarvkylBozza, money clerk of the Paci
fic Express Company in Little Rock, Ark.,
has been arrested for.emberzling several
hundred dollars belonging to his em
ployers. Another gang of car robbers has been
broken up at Indianapolis.
About thirty representatives of the
barbed wire manufacturers of New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
held a meeting: at St. Louis. The meeting
was secret, but it was learned from a relia
ble source that it was decided to advance
the price of barbed wire half a cent per
pound.
Petitions are being circulated for aa ex
tra session of the Missouri Legislature to
consider the repeal of the old statute which
bd to Commissioner Phillip' recent decis
ion. Governor uittenaon, however, says
he does not think the occasion warrants an
extra session, ana tnac ttre is unneces
sary alarm.
W. H. Oyler, agent at Kansas City of
the Continental Fast Freight llne, com
mitted suicide recently by shootfng him
self through the head. Despondency and
drink was the cause. '
Dr. S. W. Kirk, of Atlanta, HI., is in a
critical condition, from the prick of a neodle
which had been used in a- "post-mortem ax
animation.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
adopted a resolution to the effect that it is
desirable that the money of the United
States should consist of gold and silver
coin of exchangeable relative value, and
that coinage should be regulated by the
public demand; that the coinage of silver
dollars cease for two years, and that an
address should be sent to Congress upon
the question.
Milas Lterlt, colored, was killed by
Major J. F. Stansill, in Rowan County, N.
C. Milas was raising a riot, and on being
requested to desist, shot a man through
the arm. He then advanced on Major Stan.
sill with the above result.
The employes of Singer, Nimick & Co.'s
steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pa., have decided
to strike if the firm insists on reducing
wages.
The railroad coal miners at Shaners
Station Slope Mines, near Pittsburgh, Pa.,
resumed work at a reduction of half a cent
per bushel, and also signed a contract to
continue at the same rate for one year.
Prince Krapotkine has asked to be al
lowed to remain at Clairvaux as being
near Paris. Ho will then be able to obtain
scientific documents to assist him in his re
searches. Ten towns in Kingston County, N. Y.,
have voted for no license.
TnEREwere 21C failures in tho United
States during the week, an increase over
the previous week.
A negro has been arrested for the mur
der of the peddler, whose headless body
was found near Cahokia, 111., recently.
The missing skull was found in the negro's
house and also an axe stained with blood.
The Parnellites threaten a fresh agita
tion in Ireland.
Frank Rande, the notorious desperado,
who recently nearly killed Warden Mc
Donald at tho Joliet, 111., penitentiary,
committed suicide while in solitary con
finement. The Premier of Canada thinks the
troublo in Manitoba. is due to political
blackmailers who have been besieging him
for office.
The German Minister at Washington has
received tho rejected Lasker resolutions
and Bismarck's letter accompanying them.
The examination of Jud Crouch and
Dan Holcomb for the murder of the Crouch
family has begun at Jackson, Mich.
The Italian ambassadors are instructed
to confer with the powers in regard to the
proposed European demand upon the
United States Government to legislate
against dynamiters.
Two indictments for murder, three for
assault with intent to kill, and oue each
for robbery and burglary, were found
against Charles A. Rugg, the colored as
sasin of Long Island.
It is reported that the moonshiners
hanged an Internal Revenue informer in
Floyd County, Va. As Floyd is far from
tho railroad or telegraph, it is impossible,
to verify tho story.
It has leaked out that a robbery of .27,
000 took place a few days ago in the office
of the Paymaster of the Chicago, Burling
ton & Quincy Railroad at Chicago. No ar
rests have yet been made. The Paymas
ter was discharged for negligence.
Agrarian disorders are reported in
Southern Russia, the Cossacks violently
resisting efforts of the Government to col
lect taxes.
Dean Murray, at the close of a lecture
to the Seniors of Princeton College, stig
matized the charge against him as utterly
baseless. Tho feeling is still strong.
itimiTKONAIi DISPATCH E.
An Indian Territory special says: Hon.
J. M. Ferryman, to whom the position of
Principal Chief of the Creek Nation was
awarded by Secretary Teller, has taken
possession of the office and is doing all in
his power to prevent any further trouble.
The friends of Speicheo are awaiting his ar
rival beforo making any movement. Spei
chee is in Washington a? a delegate from
the Creek Nation, but is expected home
within a few days. The adherents of Spei
chce and Checote have a majority in both
branches of tho Creek Legi-lature.
Another arrest has been made in the
person of Henry Jackson, a negro teamster,
in connection with tho butchery of the ped
dler Lavine, at Cahokia, 111. There is no
doubt that he assisted Brown in the horri
ble murder.
The Senate was not in session on the 8th.
In the House very little was accomplished.
Mr. Morrison made an attempt to further
the Bonded Extension bill, but the House
refused to go into Committee of tho Whole,
and the bill stood over.
The fires are lighted in every green glass
bottle factory in Pittsburgh, Pa., except
one, and work will be resumed in a few
days at last year's wages. The men have
been out on the strike against reduction
eight months.
. The Duxbury St. Pierre section of the
Anglo-American cable, which has been in
terrupted over three months, has been
repaired.
Since the introduction of two-cent letter
postage, there has been an unexpected re
duction in the number of postal cards.
A snow-slide half a mile wide, extend
ing from the summit down, at Alta, U. T.,
swept away the works of the New Emma
mine, killing Gus Lebccker, foreman; D.
D. Wasson, machinist, and his brother,
Samuel Prethers, Charles Colgreen and
wife, Edward Crockett, Lottie Pleon, O. J.
Johnson, N. 8. Deland, Willard Stephen
son and John Richardson.
It is given out as one of the results of
the recent meeting at St. Louis of barbed
wire makers that steps were taken tor a
practicable consolidation of all the barbed
wire manufacturers in the country under
the name of the National Bar bod Wire
Company.
A large deputation of Italians from New
Xork City visited the cottage where Gari
baldi lived at Clifton, L. L, and placed
over the door a white marble tablet, in
scribed in Italian: "Here lived in exile,
from 1851 to 1853, the hero of two worlds,
Guiseppe Garibaldi. Dedicated by some
friends."
Air attempt was made recently to arrest
W. B. Cash, who killed Town Marshal W.
H. Richards, in Cheraw, S. C Young
Cash escaped to the swamps, but his father
and brother were arrested as accessories to I
the crime. '
HARD CASH.
A. Sheriff's Posse Pursue the South CaroIIaa
Desperado and Captures Several.
Columbia, S. C, March 10. A posse of
twelve armed men, commanded by Chief
Slate Constable Rlchburg, left the city under
orders from the Governor to proceed to
Chesterfield County and capture W.B. Cash,
who killed W. H. Richards, Town Marshal
of Cheraw, and whom the Governor had pro
slairaed a fugitive from justice. The posse
arrived at Cash's place early and
surrounded the residence. Col. B.
Cash, the father of the fugitive, was arrested.
Bogan Cash, who was sleeping in an out
building, escaped into the swamps which
are now being searched. E. B. Cash, dis
covering the picket at daylight armed him
self and attempted to escape. Ho ran against
a member of the posse, who leveled his rifle
and compelled Cash to drop his weapons.
ANOTnKR ACCOUNT.
Chaklkston, S. C, March 10. Under
special instructions from Governor Thomp
son, Stat Constable R. M. Richbourg with
twelve picked men armed with Springfield
rifles left Columbia at midnight and arrived
at Florence at 3:30 a. in. They were there
met by Sheriff Cole, of Darlington, and took
a special train for Cash's
depot. The force reached a point
a mile below Cash's depot
at 5 a. m. Here the train stopped and the
force disembarked and proceeded up the
track on foot to Cash's house. Before day
light the house was surrounded. About six
He Cash, the elder, rose and saw the pickets.
armed himself with Winchester repeating
rifle and pistols a:ul tried to escape from the
premises, but he ran against John H. Pear
son, one of the sentinels, who presented his
riile, demanded a surrender. Cash hesitated,
and Pearson said: "Drop your minor I'll
shoot you in two seconds." Cash dropped
his gun quickly. He admits having
been taken completely by surprise. When
captured he was endeavoring to make his
way to a log house where young Cash had
been stopping every night since the murder.
The force closed in and searched old Cash's
house thoroughly but could find nothing of
Bogan Cash. The party then started for the
log house. When they were half way there
Cash, getting alarmed for his sou's'safety,
proposed to go to the log house
alone and pledged his honor he would have
his son surrender within two hours. The
proposition was accepted and the force re
called. Cash went and soon returned say
ing his son had left the house an hour be
fore and he did not know where he was.
He offered, however, if the force
would withdraw that his son would
surrender before Wednesday. He
stated that he only wanted to come
off with flying colors, that neither he nor
his son desired to be considered outlaws, but
that he desired to effect capitulation on
his own terms. Bearing in mind the desire
of Thompson that Cash should be captured
rather than be allowed to surrender, Chief
I Constable Richbourg declined these terms.
Cash's home was then surrounded by guards
witli instructions to allow no one to leave or
enter. Cash's pistols and rifles were taken
from him. Cash protested strongly against
this, but said he yielded to force. Captain
Richbourg having determined to let nothing
prevent a most thorough search for young
Cash, left the most of the men at the house,
and at nine o'clock proceeded to Cheraw to
summon a larger posse with which to enter
the swamp and attack the fugitive.
At Cheraw about thirty additional
men, including a number of horsemen were
obtained and these scoured the county
around for miles during the evening, but
could find no trace of Bogan Cash. The
search will be resumed at daylight and
strong hopes are entertained that the mur
derer will be taken. Old Cash was taken
to Columbia by to-night's train, charged
with complicity in his son's crime,
Fatal Fire.
St. Louis, March 10. A special from
Keokuk, Iowa, says: A quarter of a block
of buildings were destroyed by fire at Mem
phis. Mo., and several lives lost by falling
walls, while other persons were seriously in
jured. The reiKirts received indicate that
the walls of a two-story brick building near
the northwest comer of the public square
gave way. The brick and mortar and tim
bers crushing the lower floors and falling
into the basement buried the three men
therein. Fire was communicated to the
debris by the stoves in the basement and first
floor, and soon spread to the Wadash Hotel
in the Mackey block adjoining. The entire
building with the greater part of the contents
were destroyed. The lower floors were oc
cupied by stores and the xstflflice, the low
er floor of the building of which the walla
crumbled was occupied by Abe Wise, grocer;
Loami Mott's restaurant, and there
was a saloon in the basement. In
the latter were Philip Payne, Loami
Mott and Samuel Dobyns, who were buried
in the ruins. These men were either
crushed by the falling wall or burned
to death by tiic flames that burst
forth immediately thereafter. Lee Davis,
a merchant, liallett Sanford, Percy
Tucker and Mrs. McDoIc were seriously
hurt. The buildings destroyed were valued,
at S'20,000, and were not insured. The loss
on stocks and furniture is estimated at S14,
000, with partial insurance.
The Cattle Plague In Kansas.
Tor-EKA, March S. Governor Glick haa
returned from Woodson Count', where ha
had been investigating the new mouth and
foot disease among tfie cattle, and says that
lie found the situation bad enough, indeed.
In answer to a reporter's inquiry, the Gov
ernor said that an immense
meeting
of citizens was held at Neosho Falls,
At that meeting a committee of six -was ap
pointed, with Lieutenant-Governor Finney
as its chairman. They were Instructed to
adopt quarantine regulalions, at once estab
lish a dead line and see what can be done
towards raising money enough to buy up all
the diseased cattle and kill "them off. The
Governor further stated that he made a pro
position at the meeting that if Lieutenant
Governor Finney, their State Senators. Legis
lators and prominent stockmen would give
their names as security, he wotdd execute a
State note to them for the amount of
money required with the understanding that
he would recommend at the next session of
the Legislature the amouut to be appropri
ated by the State. lie also advLsed that the
Commissioners of Woodson Comity make a
similar vote and appropriate it out of the
amount of money in the county treasury.
The committee was to have a meeting, and
His Excellency felt confident that they
wouiu act upon nis suggestion.
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The Floods la Louisiana.
New Orleans, March 10. A St. Joseph,
La., dispatch says: Heavy rains have swol
len the river five inches. The back water is
rising eight Inches in twenty-four hours, and
beginning to overflow the low lands back of
St Joseph. The belief is general that we
will soon have a destructive overflow. The
mall carrier between here and Newllght
apsized his boat, losing the mail bags In ten
feet of water, and barely escaping with his
life. A Thibodeux special says: A break
in the levee, three miles above, has occurred,
and the water is running through in a stream
thirty feet wide and ten feet deep. Planters
are mating strenuous efforts to close the
break.
BY HIS OWII HASD.
Drtak Causes W. H. OylertoLese a Good
Position at Kansas City, aad Drives Hisa
to Salcide.
Kansas Crry, March 7. W. H. Oyler,
for five years past agent at Kansas City of
the Continental Fast Freight Line, entered
the store of Mrs. Schaffer, 1018 Union
Avenue, and asked for a pistol. The clerk
handed him a forty-four calibre bull dog re
volver, with one shell in it. Oyler handled
the weapon nervously, looking into the cham
bers of the revolver as if to see if it was loaded.
"Be careful," said the clerk, "the pistol is
loaded." "All the better," answered Oyler,
at the same time bringing the muzzle up to
his right eye and pulling the trigger. The
action was so instantaneous that the by
standers did not have time to check his arm
as it was uplifted on its awful errand. Even
before any one could reacn mm, uyier ien
back with a groan. The bullet had enteral
immediately above the right eye and came
out the top of his head, not striking any
vital part of the brain, so death was not in
stantaneous. Deputy Coroner Street and the
reporters accompanied the dying man to the
police station in the ambulance, where he
expired at eight o'clock. Here hLs clothing
was searched. No money was found
upon him, only a few keys and a
copy of a Kansas City newspaper. Several
expense accounts drawn up on telegraph
stationery showed his salary as agent of the
Continental Fast Freight Line to have been
S100 a month, the other items on the
sheet beinGr telegrams, sundries, etc
He had been drinking more or less all day.
and on reaching the Union Depot instead of
boarding the train he wandered off on the
avenue and entered the store, where
he shot himself about dusk. Despon
dency hi regard to business matters is
ascribed as the motive for the deed. He
was addicted to drink and neglected his busi
ness lately to sucli an extent that it was
hinted to him that his resignation would be
accepted by the company. He was thirty
five years of nge, came here from
Chicago about five years ago and has been al
most all that time connected with this freight
line. He was liked by his superiors and
his fall is attributable 'to drink. He
has lived with his wife at 1106 Grand
avenue till within a short time when
his wife, who is about to be confined, was
removed by friends to the house of a mutual
friend on 3Iain street He has a brother at
Vinton, la., and his father is at Topeka in
the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad. Tel
egrams were sent to Vinton and Topeka,
but the friends of the suicide refrained from
advising the wife concerning his terrible
taking off, for fear of its effect upon her.
MOB 1IIJJLE.
A. Georgia Town Under Mob Rule The
Governor Called on for Aid.
Albany, Ga., March 6. Alapaha, a
town of five hundred inhabitants, in Berrian
County, South Georgia, is under mob rule.
Governor McDaniel has been applied to foi
military aid in restoring the peace. In com
pliance with the request the Governor or
dered the Albany Guards, fifty strong, to
proceed to the scene of the riot at once by
special train. One of the first acts of the
rioters after learning of the appeal to the
Governor, was to take possession of the tele
graph office, a:id prevent the sending of any
further messages. Details of the trouble
have therefore been difficult to obtain. It is
said a planter named Turner entered tiie town
while under tlie influence of liquor, and
began firing his pistol in the street regard
less of anybody's danger. Two unoffending
negroes were wounded, one in the arm and
the other in the abdomen, probably fatally.
Summoning assistance the Sheriff succeeded
in lodging Turner in jail, but not before one
of his bullets had entered a window and
dangerously wounded a widow lady named
Martha Meigs. Threats of lynching Turner
were made, but not carried out. This morn
ing the town was thunderstruck by the entry
into the confines of a mounted
cavalcade, at least thirty strong, and
armed to the teeth with a heterogen
lous collection of knives, rifles, shotguns
and pistols. Riding direct to the jail the
leader announced that they were friends and
neighbors of Turner, and demanded his re
lease. Making the jail as secure as possible
the Sheriff refused to deliver Turner, and
collecting his few assistants prepared for the
defense. A number of the villagers armed
themselves with what weapons they pos
sessed and flocked to the side of the Sheriff.
Two volleys were fired by the opposing
bands, but no one was hit, and it appeared
that each was trying to frighten the other.
At this juncture an assault was rnade
on the jail in a vain attempt to
batter dow the door. Seeing that in
decision was dangerous the Sheriff shot
one of the ringleaders of the assaulting par
ty, bringing him to the ground, but not kill
ing him. As soon as possible after this
charge a message was telegraphed to the
Governor. Learning of this fact four of
the mob drove the operator from the office,
and barricading it took possession and
threatened to kill anyone who interfered.
A short time before the time for the arrival
of the troops the rioters beat a retreat from
the town, and the Sheriff, in accordance
with the Governor's instructions, ordered
the guards back to Albany to hold them
selves in readiness for any further emergency.
Finished up on Jtat l'olson.
Cleveland, March 7. William JIcMil
Ian, living near Huron, went home drunk
and abused his wife, who tlireatened to call
in the neighbors for help. McMillan swore
he would kill the first man who came to the
house. Presently George Thompson, aged
nineteen, appeared in the door yard, having
an errand at the place and ignorant of the
trouble there. McMillan, mistaking him for
another person, shot and killed him, and
then discovering his error, and fearful of
the consequences, tried to shoot himself, hut
only succeeded in inflicting a trifling wound
in his side. McMillan was arrested and jailed
at Huron. In the morning he was found
dead in his cell. The Coroner's verdict was
that he committed suicide by taking rat
poison, which he managed to And.
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Abscoadlagr Coanty Treasurer.
Nobwalk, Q., March 6. M. O. Vanfleet,
the County Treasurer of Huron County, ab
sconded last Saturday, and has not been
heard from since. HLs cash account Is short
from $50,000 to $00,000. His bondsmen are
good for the amount taken. It i? thought
he is hi Canada.
Speaking of Alaska, the SSn Fran
Cisco Chronicle s&ys: "Its climate is on
the coast less rigorous than that of
Newfoundland, or Sweden, or Norway,
or the Baltic coast of Russia. There
are good reasons for the belief that
wheat can be made a profitable crop in
parts of the Yukon Valley. And the
cedars of Alaska are better and infinite
ly more inexhaustible than the famed
cedars of Lebanon.11
Seventy -five doctors of Albany, N.
Y., believing in the old code of ethics,
hsr rtrtranizpri a. Stntn Morlu-ol Aaao-in.
ti'jn. Albany Journal.
DCPOgTANT DECISIONS.
fc V. S. Sapreraa Caart Declares Coap
atttatleaal th Xtebaae of Xexal-Taade
Katas of 1878 Xaklux C DlapoieJl
Waskhtotox, March "4. A decision wa3
rendered by the Supreme Court of th
United States yesterday in the long pending-legal-tender
case of Augustus D. Julllard vi.
Thoasaa 3. Grtenman, brought here bjrja
writ of error In the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Southern District of
New York. The question 'presented by tho
case, as stated by the court, is:
"Whether taesotes of the United States.
Issued ia a time of war under an act of Con
gress declaring- theifa to be legal tonderia
payment of private debts, and afterward la
peace redeemed and paid for in sold coin at
the Treasury, and then reissued under the act
of 1878. can. under the Constitution of the
United States, be a legal tender in payment of
such debts." -f
The court is unanimously of the opinion
that the present case can not be distinguished
in rrinciple t rem the cases heretofore decided
and reported under the names of 'Lepal
tender Cases" 12 Wall, 437; -Dooly ts.
Smith" (U Wall. M): "Railroad Com
pany vs. Johnson" (IS Wall. lysc
aad "Maryland vs. Kallrnad Company" a
Wall. 195) and all the Justices except Justict
Field, who adheres to the view3 expresced m
the dissenting opinions in those catc. are of
the opinioa Uiat they were rhthtly decided.
The court holds, therefore, that Com-ret haa
power to Issue obligations of the L'nitefl
States In such form and to Impress upon theru
such qualities as currency for tbcpurcbt-.be of
merchandise and the payment of uebts tn ac
cord with the usages or sovereign Govern
ment. The power (as incident to tho powert
borrowing- money and isiuinjr bills aud iiodt'3
of the Government for money borrowed) of
impressing- upon those bills or notes the
quality of being- legal tender for the payment
of private debts, was a power universally
understood to belong- to sotercigntr in
Europe and Americaat the timcof the framing
and the adoption of the Constitution of t:
United States. This power of making notV
of the United States legal-tender in pxytneix
of private debts, being- included in the power
to borrow money and to pro-tide National cur
rency. Is not defeated orrestneted by tho lact
that its exercise may affect the value of pri
vate contracts. If, upon a jut and fair inter
pretation of the whole Constitution, a par
ticular power or authority appears to be
Tested in Congress, it is no constitutional ob
jection to the existence or to Its xerci'C that
the property or contracts of individuals may
be incidentally affected.
Congress, the court says, in conclusion
as the Legislature of n sovereign Nation. !
mg expressly empowered by the Constitution
to lay and collect taxes to Day debts and to
provide for the common defense nud general
welfare of the United btates. and to borrow
mosey on the credit or the Uniu-d Stutes, aud
to coin monoy and rcgnlate theialue thereof,
and of foreign coin, and being cleuriy author
ized, as incidental to the excrete of these grettt
powers, to issue bills of credit to charter
National banks, and to provide a. Na
tional currency for the whole peo
ple in tho form of colnT reatury notcj
and National-bank bills, and the power tJ
make the notes of the Government a legal
tender in payment of private debu being one
of the powers beloninjc to tu bovcreirftis In
other civilised Nation, and not exprw-wly
withheld from Congress bv the Constitution.
we are irreetetibly impelled to the conclusion
that the impressing- upon the Treasury notu-i
of the United States the quality of bjlngn
legal tender in payment of private debts is-
ao appropriate means. conducive and
plainly adapted to the execution of unJou0
ed powers of Congress, ami consistent witn
the letter and spirit of the Constitution,
and. therefore, within the-meaning oTthat In
strument, necessary and proper for the carrying-
into execution of the powers vested by
the Constitution in the Government of tho
United State. Such being our eoucliinion in
the matter of the law question, whether at any
particular time in war or poact the exigency
is such by reason of tinusuul and preying d
maurfson the resources of the Goturninea.
or of the inadequacy or the supply of gold anf
silver coin to furnisn the currency needed for
ues of the Government and of tho people, that
It is aa a matter of fact wise and expedient to
resort to Lhht means. U& political question to
be determined bv Congress, when the oikv-
tion of exigency shall arise, and not a judi
cial question, to he alterward passed upon by
the courts. It follow s that th act of May 31.
1876. is constitutional and valid, aud that tho
Circuit Court rightly held that the tender in
Treasury uotea reissued and krnt In circula
tion under that art, was a tender of lawfujfr
money. In rayment of defendant's debt to tlie
plaintiff." The judgment of the Circuit Court
isarermea. opinion byJusttcu Gray, Justice
Field dissenting.
The Supreme Court has refused a writ of
habeas corpus in what are known as the
Kuklux cases of Northern Georgia. Tueli
parties to the cases were tried and convict
ed last fall of intimidating voters just prior
to the election of a member of Congresef
Justice Miller, speaking for Uie court, holds
that the offenses are provided for
lu the revised statutes. The Government
must have the power to protect tiie elec
tions, on which its existence depends, from
violence and corruption. It can not bs
doubted that Congress has the power to pro
vide laws for the proper conduct of the
elections of representatives, and because it
has for years refrained from cxercisiny
these powers they are now doubted, but
they are nevertheless vested in Congress by
the Constitution.
A Desperate Fotltlnn.
LEAiviLLE,CoL.,March 7 Richard Swan
a mining speculator of this city, was rescuec
from a horrible fate, being found in the bot
tom of a deserted mine shaft, into which he )
had fallen six days ago, and which has since
been his living tomb. His rescue was bj
the merest accident. James Barry anc
Charles A. Dean, two miners, while on then
way to work heard the groans of some out
in distress. For some time they were unable
to locate the sounds, but finally found the
opening of a shaft which had almost beer,
closed by the snow and ice. They conic
ihen more plainly hear the distress cries,
lad knew that the person who uttered then i
must be lying at the bottom. How deer,
the shaft was they could not tell, for ylk
Jepths were black as midnight. Ropes anc
mining timbers were procured and Barrj
was let down the shaft. On reaching the
bottom and striking a match, he found a mar
lying face downward jut in the entrance of
a drift leading from the shaft. The mar
was unconscious, and his face unmbv.
takably depicted the agonies of deatii byV
starvation. The unfortunateman was raised
to the surface and carried to the city, where,
after restoratives had been applied, he re
covered consciousness. lie says that six
Jays ago he,was walking up the gulch to look
at some mining property, when all of a sud
den lie was precipitated" down the deserve!
sliaf t spoken of. He was not aware of lis
presence, as the mouth was completely
blocked over with snow. From the falL he
suffered a sprained ankle and a bruised arm,
but was not otherwise hurt, as he struck
uison hLs feet. All that night he made at
tempts to climb out of the shaft, and only
.'eased his efforts when his strength had com
pletely given out His suffering was terri
ble. As near as he can tell for three days
md nights he kept up the endeavor to es4
(Mitui frrm lila rtinll "KViWfTlontll- hrf ?1V'
lie heard men passing by. but he called to
them in vain. Finally hunger and the ex
posure made him so weak that he could not
stand up, and giving up in despair he-lay
down on the spot where he was found.
An Oregon Murder.
Pobtlam) Ore., 3Iarch 7. After sevemi"
hours' deliberation the jury in the case-21
William Bloxain, charged with killing an.
old man named Jacob Fisher, near this city,
jome weeks ago. returned a verdict of mur
der in the second degree. The murder of
FLsher ended a long, deadly family fuexL.
Mrs. Fisher, the divorced wife of the mur
dered man, was indicted along with Bloxam.
for murder in the first degree, but her'Sfcae-
was dismissed. Murder in the second qjjiL
gree Ls punishable by imprisonment for life
under Oregon statutes. Ten days have been.
:onsunied in the trial, and the case, owing
to its peculiar features, lias been one of tht
ciost remarkable trials in the criminal ijr
tory of Oregon.
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