Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1886, Page 1

FIFTEENTH YEAR, L — WAVING THE FLAG OF TRUCE The Packing um..'.- Willing to Kiss and Mako Up With the "Blotters,” THE DOCTOR 'Pnuposts PEACE, e Provision min of Morrison's Tarifr ONCI Wants (o Bridge the Niobrarn Foreonst of Congrins, The Packing Wanin gram.| It Millor wnd J Honne Seeks Peace. Fob, 14, ~ [§ thought quite probable that Dr. Sterling Morton, rival demo. eratle Jenders In Nebraska, may make up. Sutirdny P, Miller sent . messenger to O Mattan to set before him his | sition for harmony. ‘Fhe president has given both of them distinetly to know unless thefr fuetionnl quarrel 16 patelied up the party in Nehruskan s 1ittle to oxpeet from him. Miller offered 1o Morton as the conditions i he would make up with him th Hante for colleetor of Internal rey d v Crawford of W it be appointes and that George E, Pritchett of Om be wale distriet attorney. The Un States mnrshalship, he id, should be wndisturbed until affer the reconeiliation. Mo asked for time, The allusion to leaving e marshalslip untonehed doubtless means that Mr. Blerbower, whose terimn does not plee until 1540, fx to stay in, as he is the son- Indaw of Mayor Boyd, one of Miller's sworn friends, Morton'schief aim since the quarrel Between himself and Miller began has been to eat the Intter's eandidates for federal oftiees, und he has thus far been suceessful, MORIISON'S TARIVE BILL. Mr. Morrison has deeided to introduce his At DL in the house in the usual manner, and 1Eis likely he will present it to-morrow under the eall of states, 1t is of special Inferest to Ohio and other wool growers, “The UL I8 more comprehensive than has been gonerally supposed, and perhaps in- cludes more thai was originally intended. At the outset t 1y wis o disposition not to chinngd the rate on textiles, but the reductions mado on certain elasses of wool impelled a corresponding ehange in woolen manufae- tures, ‘Thus, a horizontal eut of about 20 per cont on existing rates has been made on Latmorals, blankets and the upper grades of wooulen diese goods in the pi This cut is wade to equalize a reduction in clothing and combing wools, A eut of 20 per cent is also nide in the bigher grades of cotton pl oods, the present rates on which vary from 21 o 6 eents per square I'he duty on & col radls is reduced trom £1 T ton, A reduetion is also made in the vates on bar Iron, which now varies from 510 of 1 cent to 1 cent per ) Atr. Morr informed Judge Kelly and Mr v, who are members of th ways and means committee, that his bill would be very moderate in its reductions, and asked Kelly if he would not assistto pass such a bill, “Idon’t eare,” said the old de- fender of protection, “what the character of your bill is, 1 will oppose it. No bill you muke ean bea good measure. The present lnw is good enough, and the business inter- ests are tired of this eternal agitatiog of the taritt, Regard me as dead against your bill.” This was indorsed by McKinley, who said: “Lalways follow my old leader,” PENSIONS FOI EVERYBODY, Itis now proposed to create a retived list for devartmental employes here. An old cmploye of a departinent informs the By correspondent that the subject has been d eussed wmong prominent members of con- gress, and that it appeared to be well r celved, It is notatall likely, however, that stich i seheme has the ghost of a chance of receiving the necessary endorsement by con- gress, as it would cventually be a great source of expens O'NEIL DI FOR A BRIDGE, Repre tative present in the house to-day o petition from the cit- Jzens of Holt county, Neb,, asking for an ap- propriation of e and dollars for the purpose of building a brid across the N brara river, and otherwise opening a mail and initiatory route between O'Neill City and Fore Randall. The petitioners say that the bottom of this river is composed of quick- sand, so that fording it Is very dangerous and almost impracticable, and that thisis the only existing impediment between the two points, LAND GRANTSTO BE 10) 3 chaivman of the house commit- s lands says that his committee il the forfeiture of more than 100,000,000 neres of publie lands that haye been granted in aid of the construction of milronds, and expects that the house will contirm the judgment of the committee, PERSONAL AND OTHERWIS Senator Allison returned to-night from New York, whither he went on Thursday night last with the sub-committee on under- valuation, composed of members of the sen- ate conmittee on appropriatious, of whien he I chairman, Clark B, Colby, of Beatrice, is here, Secretary Manning reports the expense of draping the public bulldings here, on ae- count of the death of Gene ant, to have been 2, while that of My, Hendricks' Wis 80,4 FORLCAST OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, Feb, 14, — [Press,)—The business of the senate s in almost the same one week ago, the only ma- difference being that the education bill, I was then taken up, is now unfinished business. It is generally believed that its consideration will consime nearly all the ok, and that it will be sneceeded either by the bankruptey bill or by the bill for the ad- mission of Washington tervitory as a stal There is the same condition of " expectan with regard to the report of the judiciar commitiee upon the leter of the atto; o An which he declines to furnisl papers in the Duston ease, but Edmunds | no eonfidents who are not pledged to secre the matter cannot be made the ediction, The eoming week in the house will for the part b d the discussion of the r bill, and a vote will be taken y evening., As a result of a 1 on this subjeet, the eall of com- s for motions to suspend the rules, that would otherwise follow the call of states for bills and resolutions to-morrow, will be omit- . ted. Some discussion may arise to-morrow before proceeding with thie ¥Fitz John Porter bill, if Lauback suceceds in securing consid- eration for his resolution to broaden the scope of the investigation of the Pan Electric Ix-hflxulm watter, In the morning hours during the week Chairman Hateh, of the tural comumittee, may call up the bill for the ereation of a depaiiment of agri ture and labor, Belmont's bill limiting the exaction of consular fees is also in a position favorable to consideration during t The pension appropria ndian appropriation bill are house calendar in readiness for consideration, 0 ArTAngement yet been made to bring thew up Tor aetion during the we INT COMMISSIONER'S REPG forwarded to col the calendur year ended 1 itis ommicnded that some provision be which the office should be furnished With complete records of patents decided in Jederal courts for publication 1o the Gazette, Tlhe commissioner says the examining corps I8 whally insutlicient to perform its hwpor- lant duties, and on inciease of the number of cuiployes 1s repomuended, a5 well as a geu- eral inerease in other divisions, The allow nnees fo alaries of assistant examiners are snid to be inadequate and the practieal result of small salaries is that many of the most valnable examiners desert thelr employment gvery year to enter more lucrative field receipts of the patent office during 1 were 1,155,050 and expenditures ' 81,024,270, leaving a balance of S16 A nimber of caveats filed was 2, number of fssties 25,661, N HASKA LAND DISTRICS, ceting of the senate committec on pub- Saturday, Senator Van Wyck was instroeted to rey back favorably the bills introduced by him to create two new land distriets in Nebr One is to be known as the northwes distr and be taken from the present Valentine district. The otheris tobe taken from the Platte district and to be known as the Sidney distriet. - FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, House, Wasntvaroy, Feb. 13.—The speaker laid hefore the house the reply of the postmaster general in response to the resolution callin for information as to whether the eight-hour Inw is applicable to letter-carriers, Referred. The postmaster general states there is no de- partment regulation preseribing the numver of hours during which letter-carriers are r quired to work, and that the eight-hour law has not been deemed applieable to letter- rriers as laborers, workmen or mec 3 The opinion that the law is not applicable to letter-carriers was, the postmastmaster gen- eral is informed. promulgated from the de- © his ineumbe in office and lianie has been orderea sinee 2 . Payson, from the committec on public lands, reported the bill to quiet title on the Des Moines river lands in lowa, Placed on the honse enl Mir. Geddes, from the commiltee on war claims, reported back Blanchard’s resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury for information as to moneys and funds seized or colleeted Banks or Butler while in ient of the Gulf, Adopted. ‘Tlie house committee. on expenditures in the department of ‘\Mive was instructed by the chairman to make the following report to the house on the referred to the presentative ed and em- , and by Gene the” depa lutio The resolution_dir the nmumittee to make ingui into any ex- art of the goyernment glits of the Bell and Pan plone companics, The commit- s received letters trom the heads of the t nd interior departments, and head of the department of just Fi replies it appears tnat the sum of been spent for printing the opinions of th departinent of justice, and Solicitor Gene Goode has cont ed for fees to be the United States to the amount of § and for other fees not fixed at the date o answer from the department of justice, These and 10 other expenses appear {0 have curred, Bragy, from the committee on military tee i L reported the bill providing for the Toeation of a braneh soldiers’ home west of the Rocky mountai In the committ business in the morni to table the motion to which the house on Thurs authorizing national bank: capital "t \e pending A wotion msider the vote by passed the bill to inercase their tk and change their location and names, motion to reconsider was tabled —ayes, 1152 noes, 94, Mz, Duniam, on behalf of the committee on commeree, called up and the house 3 the bill authorizing the Mississippi Power and Boom company of Minnesota to construet a dam across the Mississippi river. Mr. Trion, in behalf of the same comm called up the bill authorizing the seve exccutive departments to loan the New Orleans exposition certain —articles for exhibit, Pending action, the morning hour expired and the house went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Springer in the chair, on the Fitz John Porter bill, Alr. Swincburn, who was entitled to the floor, being in ill’ health, his remarks were ad by the elerk. Ie favored the bill and opinion that the country owed . Porter gratitude instead of punishment. Mr. Woolford attacked what he called the inconsistencies of the opponents of the bill. Pending the conelusion” of Mr. Woolford's speech the committee rose. On motion of Mr, Tucker the house bill au- thorizing the treasurer of the United States in his diseretion, and wiih consent of the of the ‘treasury, to appoint one ot to discharge the duties of the treasurer or as t “treasurer in the event of illness or absence of either of those offi- cers, was taken up and passed, Rt el NEBRASKA NEWS. Casey, the Driver, Arrested for the Recent Stage Robber, CiADRON, Neb., Feb, 14.—[Special Tele- gram. |—"Thomas H. C: v, the former driver of the stage, whose recent robbery has ex- cited considerable interest, was arrested here yesterday on the charge of being the robber and concealing the money, Some recent de- velopments show strong evidence against him. The detectives have been on his track for some time and feel certain that they have cornered the right man. Fall & Spargner of this place have been engaged as attorneys for the defense., A Blaze at Chester. Cuy , Neb., Feb. 14,—[Special Tele- gram,]—"The five fiend visited our city yeste day, and Mr., H, W. Drallinger’s fine new dwelling house was destroyed, The dwelling was a §8,000 strueture, recently built, The citizens turned out in full force and worked nobly, but owing to a searcity of water the louse conld not be saved. The cause of the iire is said to have been a defective flue. All the furniture, however, was saved. In- surance, 81,200, Killed by the Cars at Gilmore, PAPILLION, Neb,, Feb, 13— [Special Tele- gram, |- artin, a dissolute fellow, twenty years of age, was killed by the Union Pacific train near Gilmore last night. Mar- tin had been to Omaha, came on the Denver train to Gilmore, and started for home down the tracle toward Papillion. The body was horribly mangled, the flesh ann clothing being strewn along the track for half a mile, Martiu has relatives in Omaha, Sentiment For Removal, PonrTLAND, Ore,, Feb, 14—The anti-Chinese congress asserbled Lere yesterday afternoon with about 150 delegates present, The meet- ing passed a resolution appointing an execu- tive commitee in every community in Wash- ington tervitory and Oregon to carry out the purpose for which this mass meeting was called, The plan designed by the meeting is to assemble at the houses of the Chinese and request them to move to other localities, The meeting characterizes the Chinese as constant violators of health and ‘publi mmoral, degraded and undesirable in Il'as & constant menace to free | i and to howe and faily, prevailing sentiment was in favor o Tul removal of the obnoxiou: ——— ! peic inhabitants. The Great Gorge Breaks. St. Lovis, Feb, 14.—This morning be- tween 7 aud 8 o'clock the long looked for gencral break up took place, and huge s of ice have been flowing through the , but the damage has been re- kably small. The Missouri river has | broken up as far west as the wouth of the Sage, and that stream, and all southern trib- utaries this side of there, e running out ere are 1o sighs of freshets, and unless heavy ns fall there will be no flood s | here, for a while at of Suicide. 14, 1iL, Feb. 14.—The body of Joseph h, was- found in the woods near Suwithville, this county, yesterday afternoon With Lis throat.cut and- a razor in his right haud. Weideseh has been wissing 1or thiee ud it ds thought the body has lain in ime, at il OMAHA. M( JNDA MORNING. FEBRUARY 15. 1836 BURNS AND HIS DEMON BAND The People of London Indignant at the Poor Police Protection Afforded, THE MINISTRY RESPONSIBLE. Ample Opportunity to Prevent the Outrages—The Condition of English Politics—Sir Chas. Dilke's Suit—Notes. Monday's Mob in Londo Loxpox, Feb, 14.—[Special Cablegram, |— The three hours of riot Monday were fol- lowed by three days of panie. The riot, serious enough in itself, beeame much more serfous owing to the incapacity of the police authorities and the timidity of the publie. It is nonsense, however, totreat the disturbance as socialistic or revolutionary, a line which the continent gleefully take: he trouble began with an attempt of the socialist feder- ation to break up a genuine meet- ing of unemployed men in Trafalgar square. The police had ample notice of this attempt and the ample force at hand did protect the mecting and forced the socialists to move to the north side of the square, followed by a crowd of roughs and thieves, to whom Ilyndman, Burns and the other anarchist leaders made speeches directly, inciting them to violence and crime. The mobs thereupon started westward and began their career of demolition. The whole of this destruction and outrage might easily have been prevented if 100 police had been sent around and formed across the top of St. James street, but the police had orders not to interfere with the proce: sion The orders remained unchanged after the desiruetion began and continued two hours, The s which en- sued Tuesday and the following days was due wholly to the police, who adv closing of shops in the chief street was regarded as an avowal of their inability to protect the town against the expected at- tack. It encouraged the mob, which again assembled in Trafalgar square, but was easily dispersed. There was the same warning Wednesday on mere rumors. Business was rtially resumed on Tradesmen, merehants and citizens gener- ally are indignant, and justly so, with the aunthoritics, They rightly hold the ministr) responsible for not allaying the assurances of protection. ‘There never has been really since Monday the slightest danger. The force at hand was overwhelm- ing, both police and military, The alarm has not quieted. More discreditable than mere inaction has been the spectacle of the minis- ters, including Gladstone and Chamberlain, parleying with the scoundrels who caused the first riot. An inquiry is now promised into the imbecility which pervaded the police headquarters and home oflice alike. The inquiry is to be conducted by the home secretary, who is personally responsible for everything that has happened sinee Monday. In the absence of parliament and in the presence of the mob, polities dropped out of sight. Yet several points require notice. The ministry, which has been for a fortnight in process of formation, is still incomplete. Gladstone has experienced many vexation: and reveated refusals from his followers. Difficulties were continually raised by the queen. Several nominations were abandon- ed. Some of the highest ministerial posts in the royal household are going a-begging. Mat- ters went more smoothly with the country. All the ministers were re-elected without con- test except Russell and Morley, both of whom now have been returned by largely increased majorities, the increase consisting mainly of Irish voters, Morley’s very able speeches in Neweastle delivered at any other time would have attracted universal attention. They afforded the first indication of the road the ministry means to travel, and please neither the Irish nor English. The people are not less puzzled by the very curious and perfeetly true story that Glad- stone secured the adherence of onehigh of- ficer by a written agreement he might re when home rule should be proposed, whi said Gladstone, not likely to happen for some months. No approach has yet been made toan understanding between Glad- stone and Parnell respecting the precedence of the land question and howe rule. Parnell in the meantime has faced and quelled mu- tiny in his own ranks, and forthe present is stronger then ever. The decision in the Dilke case Is equiva- lent to the Scotch verdiet *‘not proven.” The judge said he saw no reason for doubting the truth of Crawford’s evidence, and was com- pelled to come to the conclusion that the adultery charged was committed, The result disappoints Sir Charles’ friends, who hoped to e his in- nocence conclusively established. Sir Charles’ non-appearaiice in the witness box to deny on oath the aceusation against him was due to the advice of his counsel, The press takes various views on the trial, the Daily News and Telegraph regarding his vindica- tion as suflicient. The Times thinks the judge’s decision singular, regrets that the matter was not probed to the bottom, hints at the belief of the guilt of, and doubts whether he can continue his public career. The Grecian War and Home Rule, NEW Youk, Feb, 14,—[Speci —A cable to the Herald from Justin ) Carthy says: “If a Buropean war bres out England would be glad to give home rule, otherwise she would have to send a huge army to Ireland. L lave it on the best authority that Greece will make war against Turkey it her demands are not granted, whether the great powers like it or not. One of her caleulations is that England.hampered by the condition of Ireland, will not draw the sword in defense of her beloyed Turk.” The German Anti-Socialist Bill, i The question whether chstag will pass a bill prolonging the operations of the anti-socialist law for five which was accepted by the bundes- rath, is one of the main topies under discus- sion here, The preamble to the bill recites that if the law has not prevented some at- tempts at outrage, it has nevertheless ameliorated the situation since 1 when the measure went into force. The aititude of the parties in thereichstag toward the bill 15 uncertain, Members of the center are op- posed to the measure on principle and if they remain undivided a refection or madification of the bill is certain, 1t is estimated that, if n thirty clericals will vote with the coalition “of " conservatives and national liberals 10 enable the bill to pass. There are 1o symptoms of division in the center, but the government hopes that news of the recent rioting in London will have great influence. ‘The center haye fears, too, that Prince Bismarek, if the bill should be deteated, would make xtto dis- olve the reiehstag, The ch s recent eclaration that Le had no intention of dis- solving parliament, is understood to apply only in the event' of the rejection of the spitit wmonopoly bill, and it 1s thought that he would wake the de of the anti-social- ist bill a reason for dissolving, Parnell Mcant What He Said. Loxnon, Feb. 14.—The News lat Parnell; ; threatened that it Healy aud Biggar did not perwit hiw to h.nuui” in giving the party nomination to instead of to Lynch, the local choice, he would resign and retire from litical life, Commenting on the fact the s says the Irish leader made it clear that meant just what he s: The paper adds: Jut this game cannot bé played too often. This threat is Parnell’s last card, and it may some_day be triumphed by acce then be followed of necessity by resignatio Capt, OS] Was He Paid By France. Brruiy, Feb, 14.—~Newspapers which are known to be government organs give prom- inence to a statement of the judge who sen- tenced Cay n Sarouw, who was found guilty of having furnished information con- n fortitications and armaments to French authorities, that a bureau exists in the French ministry of war, whose duty it is to discover German mlli crets, and that paying him ng plans of , mobilization, cte, Polish Editors Squelched. LONDON, Feb. s of the Polish Journal printed in the city of Posen have heen arrested, tried, and sentenced to six months imprisonment in_consequence of the publi- ation in their paper of an article libeling ince Bismarck and the Prussian ministers, publication of the article was due to action of the Prussian government towards the Poles in Posen. The Allied Bulgarians, Loxnox, Feb. A dispateh from Vien- nato the Times says: An oflicial dispatch received here from Bulgaria is to tne effect that King Milan has resolved to sign the treaty of peace with Bulgaria, no matter what the action of the Greek government ike. Servia will hereafter enter into a agreement with Austro-Bulgaria. Spanish Dynamiters Arrested. Mavnin, Feb. 14 arrested at the railroad Subsequently dynamite apparatus, revolvers and a number of red flags weré found on the premises of a ker known to be identified with the Missionaries Murdered. Loxpox, Feb, 14.--The London Missionary society h: reived advices from the effect th i 1r k A v men of his expedition, taken out for execution. e athac: THE WEEK IN WALL STREET, Tips for Investors Who May Be in Love With Coal Stocks, W Yons, F 14.—|Special Telegram.] "he coal stocks have been steadily ed up, while the promise of a dividend on Lake Shore at the end of this month has helped to sustain the general situation. Advances in coal stocks for the week are about as fol- lows: Delaware & Hudson, 13; Jersey Cen- tral 10; Lackawanna, 75 and Reading 61§ per cent. This coal stock speeulation is based upon the notion that through monop- olizing the coal business the profits thercon can be brought up to whatever point the 1 vas Francis B. v he paid al proper- ties, and fairly turned the Reading road into aminingeompany. Asthecountry grew up it s to be taxed up. to the greed of all the holders of Reading stocks and bonds. It ald not work. But so thoughfless is capital that from the day Gowen hbegan his operations he has suceeeded in cantinually adding to the total of the obligations upon the original theory, and yet here to-day excited specu- lators are caught with the same old chaff, Gowen, and after him the Drexels, may buy and consolidate without end, but they can not control conditions or some of the influ- ences they are unquestionably making against private taxation of all kinds, and in the direction of better filled stomachs for the There is then nothing in the present situa- tion to warrant the conclusion that earnings can be better held up by coal properties in the future then in thepast. On the con- trary, it should be noted that the share of the miner who digs the coal is fairly certain to become ereater in the future, It is natorious that during the last decade a majority of the anthracite coal miners have been forced down well towards starvation wages. This 1 not continue, The men of the coal ions have gotto eat. Labor everywhe is becoming better organized, and this will gradually tell on the bankers who are seeking to hold un this huge stoek and bond structure. Railroad securities of every sort were 50ld by bankers both here and in Lon- don far in exeess of the plain rules of justice. 1t was simply impossible that taxation could be kept sufliciently high to meet the interest and de on the stuff the bankers The banker had become a personage. stition of wmoney had gathered ubout Lim. Whatever he labelled “good’ was supposed to be good. In Philadelphia the banker's stamyp eame to be rded as only one remove from that of the mint, and now New York has an increasing frenzy of the same sort, and what does it all mean? Why, simply that the stocks and bonds which the various bankers indorse both here and in London are measurcably being returned to them as not up to promise, and they are compelled to takeo them back. Lam writing in the interest of investors who buy for the morrow, Speculators may boom this and thatstock, but let the invest- or beware, The truth is that investors must come to rely more and wore upon what I call production sharves, IHe must beware of the taxing secunties, The railroad has knocked out the middleman, but the railway itself is the great farreaching middleman, and now its profits are to be cut down, Brad- street gives a report of the total coal produc- tion of the country for 155, The aggregate production of coal fn 1885, nearly 97,000,000, tons, is over 2,000,000 tons smaller than 1854, slightly larger than 1583, and over 10,000,000 tons heavier than fn 1882, The bituminous production, amounting to 65,503,000 tons in 1585, is over 5,000,000 tons smaller then 1584, but is in excess of the total in 1883, and about 7,519,000 tons larger than in 1882, thracite production” |s 23,620 tons, or 170,000 tons less than in 1883, the year of the largest production, ftis 904,000 tons heavier than 1854, and 2,500,000 tons larger than 1552, ————— The Little Postmasters' Meeting. CHiICAGO, Feb, 14—About fifty of the dele- gates to the national convention of third and fourth class postmasters, which will be held here to-morrow. met this afternoon to arrange vreliminaries. M. H. Westbrook of lowa, who presided, advisea mat they scek rediess of their grievances in a quict way and as a matier of Fight, and not in any seuse as a demand, - & Thelr Fighting Brothers. i special to the News from San Antonio says: The Knights of Labor in the city have actively espowsed 1s¢ of the boycot againet the Mallory Steamshiv company, and Stetson, manufaé- turer of hats, A eomnmittee visited the prin- A esterday and received niany romises 1o stop patrouizing the Mallory ine and ceace ordering Stetson’s gouds, The Week's Bostoy, Feb. 14— ting clearing houses in the United States show gross bank exchanges for the wee i 4 with the conesponding last year, NOVE OF A MODERN MALTHUS A Logislator Proposes to Make Prospective Husbands Show a Bank Account. NO MARRIAGE WITHOUT MEANS, The Old lowa Lawmakers and Their Coming Reunfon—Imprisoned for Debt—Searlet Women Abroad ~The Legislatuve. From the Hawkeye Capital Drs Moix lowa, Feb, 14—([8 One of the strange bills that are sometimes introduced in legislatures has been the sub- jeet of mueh comment and more fun the past week. It was introduced by Wesley Red- head, one of the members of the house from this city, and provides that whenever a man applies tor alicense to marry, he shall satisfy the clerk of the court that he is abundantly able to support a wife and any ehildren they may hav The bl was referred to the committee on woman suffrage, and after holding it a day that committee returned it with an amendment that the woman should be obliged to show that she could do the snp- rting if neces: The bill was then re- d to the committee on retrenchment and reform. By this time it became manifest to nearly all but the member from Polk that the house was making game of his bill. The last named committee kept the bill aday and eturned it with a recommendation that it be referred to the committee on domestle tures, but some compassionate mem- 1o to the relief of the author of the bill and moved that 1t be laid on the table, and so it was disposed of. The bill has been eribed s one to keep the poor from for its provisions it adopted would shut off from marriage three-fourths of the poorer classes who cannot show wealth enough to insure in advance for the sup- portolany children they may bring into the world. It has been suggested thatif the bill had been a law in Iowa it might have pre- vented the gentleman who introduced it being born, for his parents were very poor and began married life with no eapital in money or property. The legislature literally laughed it out of court, and has dubbed its author a name which he will carry for some time as “the later Malthus,” The reunion of the old law makers of the state promises to be one of the most interest- ing meetings of the whole year. The list of those invited includes members of the early territorial and state legislatures down to the eleventh general assembly, twenty ye: The first territorial assembly of Iow vened at Burlington November 12,1838, In those days Lowa was demoeratie, strange to y, and the democrats controlled both vanches of the legislature, In the council there were six d crats and five whigs, and in the house seventeen were democrats and seven were whigs, The recollections of those days is about all the political comfort that Iowa democrats have had for the past forty years. Of the mem- bers of that first legislature but oue {s now known to be liying, Mr. Hawkins Taylor, of Washington, (D. C.). Butof the early legis- latures succeeding, several members are now living and are expected at the reunion. The “old boys” have been tendered the use of the new capitol, and they will go through the form of organizing a legislature in each house, and Sam Kirkwood, Iowa's old war governor, will deliver an inaugural address. Although the code of Iowa does not include the relic of barbarism that allows imprison- ment for debt, there is a case in Jasper county that comes very nearly under it. Mrs, Far- mer, living fi miles south of Prarie City was arrested by the sheriff a few days ago and placed in the county jail at Newton This was done upon a rant and execution from the county clerk, returnable with either £270 or the lady herself. The money not being fortheoming, Mrs. Farmer was taken from her home—leaving four young children and taking one with her—and was lodged in jail, where her imprisonment is to continue without limit unless she pays the §210 as ordered by the eireuit court and confirmed by the supreime court, "The case is teehnically one of contempt of court, she being im- prisoned for refusing to pay an attorney’s fee of $20as ordered by the court. Butin fact it 15 unprisonment for debt, and strange thing for Iowa. The legislature has brought to town a large number of the sex who are frail as well S "The scarlet woman sees a legislature ou afar and marks it as her prey, Already several scandalous stories about prominent members are afloat and two or three cases of alleged blackmail are reported. As might be expected it is the statesmen from the coun- try and not from the city who is inveigled into the net of the temptress, and rumor says there are several instances of the kind al- ready. lh)iq legislature which started out with such large promises isn't really doing very much, Thel las been®a large amount of talk, but very little done. Probably there will be no racdical temperance legislation, and the revision of the judielal system of the state willbe the most important work of the session. The house only was in session Saturday afternoon. A bill affecting foreign insur- ance companies by compelling them to pay abpercent tax on their gross receipts an- nually for an addition to the sehool fund was introduced by Mr, Craig of L The bill only applies to companies not organized un- der the laws of Towa, Cole introduced a bill to assist in the en- forcement of prohibition by providing that injunction’ suits may be brought by any citizen in the name of the state, at the ex- pense of the state, whenever a county or dis- trict attorney fails to do his duty, On motion of Holbrook, the house adopted by a rising vote the resolution of respect on the death of Horatio Seymour, The committee on agriculture reported favorably the bill prohibiting all traflic in domestic animals that have died of disease, e ently assignee of the tate of Archbishop Purcell, deceased, w ted on Saturday afternoon on warrapts 0 to by Peter Dwyer, a creditor of the lop, in which charges are made of ling $330,000 of the cstate and perjury in making false statements in the probate court in connection with his report. Man- nix was taken beforea magistrate, who re- quired bail in the sum of 110,000, and this not being furnished, the prisoner was lodged in the county jail, Perished in the Flames, S1. Louts, 14.—The Cumwmings hotel burned at an e Saturday morning. Two inmates, N. Axbridge, Ontario, and Joseph Armstrong, of Brantiord, On- tario, perished in the flames,” Others barely escaped by jumping from the windows. Masonic hall "and the stores occupied by or Bros. and W, B. Howell were d. The total loss is $50,000; fusur- ance, §16,000, & For Business. Feb. 14.—Thomas A. Edi- articles of in of Railwiy company, which is to introduce for telegraphing to and froie nioy it iug bains, A SUN RE Editorially Charges Sherman With Betrayal of His T . tw Youk, Feb. 14.—[Special Telegram. ] ~The Sun to-day prints for the first time six columns of fetters written by Jeff Davis and several of his cabinet ofticers during the clos- ing days of the confederacy, and says editori- ally that these documents make it necessary to rewrite the history of the closing days of the rebeilion, and that for his compact with Johnston in North Carolina, Sherman “must be held guilty of either gross imbecility or of seandalous betrayal ot his trust.” It says that not only Johnson but President Davis and the attendant members of his eabinet, far from being palsica by the stroke of irre- parable catastrophe, strove to the last mo- ment to redeem the unblest and hopeless cause, and came within a hair's breadth of securing more amid the shock of shipwreck than ever had been conceded in the flush ot their succe But for Stanton, the Sun de- clares, tie republic must then have lost all it won by Grant at Richmoad. mong th etters printed is one written [ Davis from Charlotte ( ) April , to his wife, in which he says: “The dispersion of Lee's army and the surrender of the remmant which remained with him destroyed the hopes 1 entertained when we parted. Iad that avin held together 1am now confident we could have successfully executed the plan which I sketehed o you, and would have been to-day on the high road to independence. J. B Johnston and Bean- regard were lopel asto recruiting their forces from the dispersed men of Lec's arn and equally so as to their ability to check Sherman with the forees they had. Their only idea was to retreat. Of the power to do so they were doubtful, and subsequent deser- tions from their troops have mate- rially diminisned their strength, and 1 learn still more weak- ened their confidence, General John- son had several interviews with Sherman and agreed on a suspension of hostilities and reference of terms of pacification, They are sceret and may be rejected by the Yankee zovernment. To us they are hard enough, though freed from wanton humiliation and expressly recognizing the state governments and the rights of person and property as secured by the constitutions of the United States and the several states,” Accompanying the above are letters to Davis from the varions members of his cab- inet, discussing the compact with Sherman, the text of which is too well known to need repetition. From the admissions made in these letters by the cabinet counselors can be seen what the state of things really was in North Carolina and in the confederacy at large when Sher- man entered into his astounding compact with Johnston, Ingitives from Richmond speak to one another with the sullen and downright candor of despa They confess possible; that herman’s army ot 50,000 men, elated by their own imposing march and by Grant’s triumph in Virginia, the rebel authoritics eould set Yess than 15,000 infaniry and artil- lery, whose forlorn disproportion was daily ated by dejection and desertion. Nor was any 1ay of reassurance to be looked for in retreat. Confederate ofticials coneur in the conviction that, even, with success iy eluding pursuit and with the time allowed tliem for recruiting, they could not levy 15,600 inen on the east side of the Mississippi, and if they did they conld not find arms for half of them. S the flying remnent of Johnson’s the Mississippi was seen to be no less r grim experience had shown a wall e, Therebellion, in a word, was knows to its organizers and dircetors to be at the p, and with the clutch of a drowning man they cling to the plank of rescue and re- demption held out to them by Sherman, L SOUTH AMERICAN NOTES. A Political Conflict—Cemetery Flood- ed—Barthquake Shocks.” PANAMA, Feb,, 14.—Senior D. M. Nicholas De Peoln, ex-dictator of Peru, who was exiled under the late governiment of General Tgleas, has returned to that country, Gen Cacercs having granted amuesty to all ex- iles, e arrived in Callas early on the mor ing of Junuary 21, Huge negresses, draped in all colors of the rainbow, bearing immense wreaths of Jaurel with which to erown their fayorite, and carrying the national flag, led the procession to the docks, from the anxious gaze of the multitude direeted in searh of the steamer. as people, most of them ve- hement supporters of the constitutional ticket, on which General Caceres is a candi- date, became unduly excited at this incu of their 1 bors, fearing, perhaps that if they x tranquil tireir political bias might be understood. Consequently they heeame oblivious of the obligations of hospitality and armed thems i A columi of abitants of Callao pr ceeded to the docks, and there raised lhe “Death to Picrola, and long life to Caceres: The verdant crowis brought from Lim thrown into the sea, and during the ¢ tion_several enthusiastie citizens of were severely handled, a ho addressed the told them he was “that he did notseek office apt iLif elected. . The presiden- tial clection takes place in’ Marel, but the coufident beliet 15 that General Caceres will 1 be elected. g A deplerable state of affaivs exists at the cemetery in Copiape, Chili. A lake has been formed from the - waters of ‘which the eene- tery has become inundated. vaittsare full of water and coffing ire while many of the common graves | completely cleared of theiy confen to thie horror of flows from the cemel that supplies the inhabitants’ with water for domestic purposes, Eartlijualios at 08 Amatellan _continue, and* at escaped ruin by the first heavy sl k@ oW quite shaken and inhabitable. “The shocks now felt companied by yery strong winds, I tress among the people is heartrending, and President Baillas “and - lis cabinet have started a subscription for their relief, —_— HUNG UP TO DIE. Unknown Parties Attempt the Life of a Respectable Young Lady. CiicAGo, Feb, 14,—The Journal’s Maitoon (11L.) special say riday night wt 10 o’clock, at Windsor, Miss Georgia Aldridge narrowly escaped hanging at the hands of unknown parties, She was alone in her house at the tune, and stepped outdoors when she w seized, her hands and feet welghted down with brick, and then hung up to She was aceidentally discovered a few minutes af terwards by her brother, who came in the back way by chance. Life was almost ex- tinet, She i ccount of the affair, being s0 overcome by the shock she can only say: “Oh! the man, that man A note was found saying it was done to get even with Ler father, D Idridge, M is & highly stable young No clue 0 the perpetrators o t yet been found. Intense excite Vails at Windsor, CHICAGO, Feb, 14, sor (Il.) special says: dridge, who 50 nurrowly by an unknown ruflia gained consciouse | ments throw no i | neighbor's wite w cries Friday night, ay, bt her sta on dhe mystery. 0 heard Miss Aldrid of alam Friday night has Yy excitementy and har chane alwost as precprious as those of Te Miss Aduidge. HANCOCK'S GENEROUS HEART His Salary Spent in Oharitable Deeds for Less Fortunate Comrades, HIS WIDOW WITHOUT MEANS. Figaring for a Dying Congressman's Seat-No Show to Scoure Allot ment ot Indian Lands i Seyer- alty A Valuable Patent. WasmNGToN, ¥ 14, — [Special. |—An army officer who was on intimate terms, both ly and socially, with General Hancock the last ten years of his life, tells your correspondent that it is doubtful if the gen- eral’s entire effects would bring £10,000 if sold atauction, “General Aancock and his esti- mable wife,” said the officer, “were nmong the most charitavle people in the United States, and his salary as major gencral in the army was almost entirely devoted to the furthering of his chari 1 do not. suppose 1t cost him £2,000 a year for the ex- penses of his wife and himself, for they wore plain people. The balance of his pay was spent upon his old comrades in arms who have been less fortunate than hebas, and the result is that unless something is done for Mrs. Hancock she will be in a very precari ous financial condition,” There is little doubt that congrress will eventually pass abill to give Mrs, Hancock £2,000 a year during the remainder of her life. Tt would have gene through the house last Thursday, but for the objection of that great reformer, Lewis Beach, who is at- tempting to make a reputation for himself as the successor to 1ohman, who has entirely forgotton to object to a single proposition be- fore the house at this session. The move- went on foot in New York and Philadelphia to raise a fund for Mrs. Hancock has already grown to considerable proportions, and it is likely that the widow of the dead hero will beable to carry out aer eharitable purposes in the future as she has in the past, through the generosity of such men as George W, Childs and his associates, FIGURING BEFORE DEATIT CAME, Thomas R. Hudd, who, in all probability, will suceeed Joe Rankin as member of co gress from Wisconsin, is the one man above all others whom It chosen if he could have v in the matter. lieved that Rankin would not live to make the trip to Washington, Hudd is reported to have made a strong eanvass for the nomina- tion to succeed him, and he was so offen in his ivass that Rankin is reported to have written {o a number of his defeat Hudd at any cost. In his anxiety to come to congress Hudd made a disgusting exhibition of Limself, and when he arrives here, as he will in all probability, to take the 50 recently draped in mourning, he will with a ¢ cool reeeption from the ends ot the late Joe Rinkin in congress, and there are a great many of them. THE BILL WILL FAIL TO I A member of the senate Indian e)mmitteo said to your correspondent to-day in refer- ence to the bills which ate now pending hav- ing fortheir object the breaking up of the ibal relations among the Indians and the dividing of the reservat'ons into farms for each member of the various tribes affected : ve no_doubt that the bill to cut up and stribute the lands of the Senecas in New York will beecome a law, but I do not think that the Dbill which projoses to divide the nds of the Seminoles, the and the other western tribes, will meet with approval during this cong are a great many ex- cellent reasons why the tribal relations of all the In should be broken up, and why ch s te family should be started to- ion in the way prowosed by these bills, but a reform of this kind is too radical to be brought about without the most. careful consideration. It will not do for congress to £o about this matter hastily, and 1 do not believe that the time is ripe for the passage of a bill making such wholesale changes in the existing order of things in the wi No doubt the time will come when a bill of this character will pass, but I do not think it wiil be during the life of the Forty- ninth congress,” A FORTUNE A One of the most able patents which has ever been issued to a citizen of the United States was granted by the patent of- fice a short time ago and has been mentioned in some of the newspapers of the east, 1t is avery simple device, and m its simplicity lies a great portion ot its value, It is aseries of hieavy rollers for rolling old steel rails into nail plates. Heretofore these ola ‘rails had to be melted over Lefore they could be nsed, By this machine they are eut up into sections of three feet cach and rolled out into perfect plates by simply running them through two sets of rollers made especially for the purpose her patentee has already acts which will bring him at least rauring the life of the patent in alone, and he has been offered a bonus of £100,000, as well us half the profits, for the right to use the invention in the, countrics of Europe where the device has ' also been patented, — Could Not Come to Time, Orrawa, 1L, Feb 14,—The 11, A. Pitts Sons’ Manufacturing company, malers of Pitts' thresher machines, made an assign- went yesterday, No schedule of labilities s said 1 outecome of the company’s failure i years ago, ‘The indebtedness then was § 20,- 000, but was arranged to Le met in threo yearly payments, Janug of this 3ear was the date of the thivd payment, but” the coupany has been unable o meet it, P R Hood'’s Sarsaparilla Oombines, In a manner peeuliar to itscif, the best blood-purifylng and strengthening remes dies of the vegetablo kingdom. You will find this wouderful remedy effective where other | medicines have fulled, Try it now. It will purify your blood, regulate the digestion, and give new life and vi tie Lody, “Hood’s Savsaparilla did me great good. I was tired out from overwork, and it toned meup!” Ms. G, E. S1asoxs, Cohoes, N, Yo “ 1 suffered three years from blood poison. I took 1ood's Sarsaparilla and think 1 am L7 Mig. M. J. 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