The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1877 Page: 2 of 4
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J.U KSllOUO, - TKXAs
CUHHKNT NEWS.
WAfilllRiiTON.
President Ortuu, of the Western Union
Telegraph 1'ompauy, on th« 13d, Informed
tb( Congressional committor* tlml the
Board of Dirt ctora of (lie Company bad l>y
official resolution taken from Ita officers the
control of all messages now In pcsieasion of
the Con>panjr, and that ha would therefore
' be unable to respond to the uli[,u-nas Is-
sued against him. The prrtant condition
of Ms health being aomewhat critical, he
begged that the Houae Committee would
excuse him from penonal attendance upon
them it Kew Orleans.
Tba fact haa recently been made pul.llc
that MM weeks ago a package,aald to con-
talu 08,000,waa aent from the caib room of
thefrsssury Department at Washington to
the Illlnola National Bank at Chicago, by ex-
pre**, and upon Iti receipt It waa found to
eetitaln only • lot of wa U paper. Where
and In what manner the robbery waa accom
pifahed 1> entirely unknown.
The President, on the smth. aent to the
Senate a message, Inclosing the report and
Journal of the proceedings of the commie-
aton appointed In accordance with the pro-
TUiana of the Indian Appropriation bill of
latt jiear to treat with the Sioux Indians for
the relinquishment of their right to tha
Blade BUI*. By the terms of theagree-
t the country is now opened to white
Washington special io the St. Louia
Sladt-Dtmterat, Mth, eaya: Gen. Ander
-ulalsas Returning Beard, hm
__ With the President to-day,
Mm a complete Inside hlatory of
ana election. Ha Indicated that
would refuse to answer all the
jetlgjtieg Committee 'e demands,
submit to imprisonment for con-
ed the Department of
hit December report,
... wop only two per cent,
of great crop of last year, and DO
—' * ihas the erop of 18T4.
subject to future revision,
bushels.
of the erop If, railed hi New
acareely six per cent, la the Hid-
M l*'thle,Southern.4* lathe
and M weet of the Kiwlulppl
th Is 10,000,000
Ottitlufte* last years that
. -m&t
'sstern
r.pihiK.af eon per
" uaette, ant
i respective'
BKS'Ssfei'L.......','"7.
the Territory of
_^Ji'Senate laat week,
the newterritory eat of
t the pretext Terril
caent Territory pf
l UC^OM square miles, and the
" I have an area at about
~ It Is to be par'
it from Minn*
; eomethlng Use than 400
on the weet, and from the
" on the north too miles
Mag territory
b estimated
mo of the
I United Sutea
r Territory.
SffpiviM
'-WR?'
mas DodT of im eo
W&Wb.
laW befeeethe Hooseames-
la regard to ohtalalag
the Siotui Indiana.
oouaUng of IbeKlee
I Waa not In eeeelon on the 38th
.J** asel, bat, wiUtoat UrnneacUng
s ot laportaace, adjourned.
nate, on the 10th, the Chair pre-
I a telegram from Gen. John A. Logan, In
i staling he would not be able to return
" 1 in time to aot aa a member of the
_ _ r. conkllac appointed
to All the vaeaney.. Sr. Oor-
ass?"wi.T>aiss
«
ate^tte
^sxsrws^.s:
reea moved to amend so aa to
nlttre on VrlvUsge*i and
De Judiciary Committee,
r, Uordoa. by nnanlmoua
re eolation Yeoognlilng tba
The 1'rriddciil has pardoned Major John
I.. Hilllnger, of St. Jnsei.h, .Mo., who w n
t nlug out ii miii, ihc in Ihe liucliiiiiaii
( "limy Jail, for euni|illcity in llie whisk)
frauds.
W v. drover, of Ort'jjou, arrived In San
Kranclsco on the 2ft; Ii, and waa tendered a
reei ptlxn liy Uov. Irwin ami oilier Demo-
crats. Uov. drover made a short speech,
difendiUK the constitutionality of hl ac-
tion, and the trieclliiK adopted a resolution
Indorsing hi* course. s
Thn electoral vote of Florida, aa cnstliy
the. Krpulillcaii Uieetora of that State, wax
dcponllcd by tbe messenger with Senator
Kerry, Vice-President pro tent.,' ou tbe
Kith. No receipt for tbe voto waa given the
ineaartiKer, as t lie re are now two seta of
electoral returna from Florida.
Mr. Cronin, the Tildeu Kleetor of Ore-
gon, on the 37tb drllvered the electoral vote
of tliet State to Vice-President Kerry, who
declined to give a receipt on account of there
being two returna from the State, aa in tbe
caae of Florida.
By the bursting of an Immense beercas
InFinlay's brewery,' Toledo^O., on tbe
28th, John Benke was inatantly killed and
another employee probably fatally Injured
Capt. Eada telegraphed from tbe Jetties,
on tbe 29th, that he bad aecured the requi-
site depth and width through the channel—
20 feet deep and -200 feet wide—to entitle
blm to the first Installment of pay from the
Government.
Another terrible railway accident oc-
curred on the Michigan Southern and Lake
Shore Uallrpad, near Ashtabula, Ohio, on
the ovenlng of the 20th. The Pacific Kx-
presa train, comprising six coaches and two
drawing-room ears, drawn by two locomo-
tives, . left Erie for Cleveland one
hour late. About H p. m.
the train reached tbe bridge over,
Ashtabula Creek, and, in panalng over,
the bridge gave way, preclpliailog the
whole twigMjtfc^hi iwiniluu uf one lo-
comotive, tothe frozen bed of tbe stream,
75 feet below. Tbe cara Were completely
(mashed In pieces; tbe iee was broken
poriione of the train sub
while tbe remainder of the
wreck took flre and burned. The night waa
Intensely oold; the sufferings of the wound-
ed were terrible, while It waa almost im-
possible during the night to recover the
dead and rescue tbe dying, who were
fUally bruised, burned, or drowned
About 00 of the wounded managed to
escape from the wrcck, and were retnoved
to Ashtabula, where they were Mnderly
eared for. It waa believed that from 75 to
.100 Uvea were loet, but at the hour this dls
patch waa forwarded It was Impossible to
give any positive Information.
ffiL
armativei
thi innate
MHO vvjwswh
.others,and It waa laid
Ing on the amendment of
MMtora voted la the at-
e««tiTe, K> quorum.
intil Tuesday next, In ae-
n order previously adoiiti d
was not In session.
A committee of Hew York merchants,
bankers and other*, without regard to
party, have addressed a memorial to Con-
greea expressing great satisfaction at the
appointment of a joint oommlttee to con-
ildar tha proper mode of counting the bal-
lot* tor Prerideat and Vlee-President, and
prefer a prompt determination of the
A eargoef munitions of war for the Turk •
ish Ooverament, valned at $1,000,000, was
I from this country on the 28th
rldeoa waa killed In apubllc boxing
r with V. i.UcDermott, at Revere
Hall, Boeton, on the «th. Several arrest*
U' • torn* W. W Nevada
Another revolution ha* taken place In
ut Domingo. President Gonzales has
been deposed, and a provisional Govern-
ment'fo'med for the purpose of restating
ex-President Baez to power.
It I* < stlfnated that 190 vessels and 250
Uvea 'ullni * —— severe gale on the
Orkney
of tba represent-
tU Ant session at
1th. Savlt Paaha
.- . . d lhat tbe armis-
tice be proloaged 16 days. The new Turk-
ish Constitution, Which was proclaimed on
the day preoedlng ^ meeting of tbe Con-
ference, I* extremely liberal* In It* pro-
vision*, guaranteeing the llbeity of the
pre**, and the free exercise of publio wor-
ship by allereeds, and making primary ed-
wmtlffn oomwiUory.
Tha convent of th Slater* of Providence,
it «t. Kllxaheth, near Joiictte, Province of
Quebee, waa horned to the ground on
Christmas night, and thirteen of the In-
mate* perished In the flames. -
It Is reported that President Lerdo and
the member* of ht* Cabinet have left Mexi-
co and are now ea route to San Francisco.
DISPUTED STATES.
SOUTH. CABOIilBfA.
the petition to the Supreme Court to re-
move the quo warranto proceedings by the
Tllden Elector* against the Hayes Electors
In South Carolina wa* decided on the Mth.
Justice Willard delivered the opinion of the
Court, refuting the motion to remove the
cat* to th* Ualtod State* Circuit Court, un-
der the aot of Coogreta of 187B.
A Columbia dl*pateh of th* 9Mh Mir* that
the oompUatloa of thai vote la South Caro-
lina, aa m*d* by the afloountants employed
by th* HooM Committee, give* Hampton
•ad the other Democratic State officer* ma-
jorities ranging from 1,100 downward, and
tha Hayea Electors an averse majority of
about 800. ____
X.OUIMAHA.
The Democratic Stat* Senator* holding
over, and Clerk Treievaht, of th* Hou*«,
called oa Governor KeUojeg oil th* 88th and
proteitsd against tha barrlaadlnfe of the
8(at*.hMM) 4Midetomd*d the.removal df
the barricade*, which th* Governor, de-
elinedtodo. He further Informed Clerk
Treaeraat that a lilt of the leghlly elected
member* of the Houae would be furnlihed
him by the Secretory of State, and that It
w«* hi* duty to call the name* a* they ap-
pear upon *uoh lift. ,
riOBIPA.
The Floridamuddle wa* still further oom
plicated, on the 17th, by the action of the
mombeis of the Beturnlng Board la recan-
vssslng the vote* In eompllance with the
order of the State Supreme Court. Ac
oordlng to the report *«nt by tha Associated
Ptm*,. Attorney-General Cocke, one of
the member* of the Board, pro-
oceded to act alone, on that day,
the other two member* at flrit refusing, aa
I* alleged,t<> obey the mandate of the Court.
HI* count gave Drew *97 majority, and the
Tllden Elector* M majority. Subaequently,
on the aame day, the other member* of the
Board agreed to reoanvaa* the vote, and
It was done In the preaenee of the full
Board, their count giving Drew a majority
of 196 and tbe Hayes Elector* a majority of
200. Mr. Cooke filed a protest against the
last count, and tho whole matter will again
go before the Court for it* revision.
ooiramsnftioNAii IWVK TISA*IOI «.
f(onUI«n«<
TUB 0BNATK COMM1TTKK. *
James Gallagher, aged IX), a native of Ire-
land, teatified beloro tlta eommlttcc on tho 21M:
Lived In-Ouachita during the election on Mr.
Whlted'a plantation! Whttml was a Itopuhllnan,
and sevoral squads of bulldoaors visited him to
force him to loin the I*miocrata: lloallv tliny
•lamtmled all the linnda. and Mr. and Mrs
Wlilted and die wltnets lied to tho colton-neld,
where Uiey tay out all nlxht; waa at the | il "n
elnotlon day for about three honr^ every thlt. j
* 01
(llntrlituM Ur!—-*—.. ..
thcomeers adjouraeil a«, n. ij UM ltwul.llean
notinoMl M 81. but wliqn Inr
„. -•- -- *n> ril to the ImiMiIox*™'
lp*aUu«n> t f Mr un«l ftlrt.. uihI
JJ ' MlaiiijM-thiiK iliclr HiKKH'l, Kiev haul
l a y wrro (....kink |..r a nr^r.. iimum-.I .It«•
Uliu ll.tl H(||r.C.| (* * , 111« I «\ It II ill l| | | y|'l
h lam- |.n-at li, r I . i r.a. ltii,tt -1 hui. 'i < f win. Ii
i «; (Iti jKv*) with n iicaroii. W lliu ntf (urilit r U-h
! J '• 'J''11 ,,,> lltVrtH'M lun-tHl U|l (« It IK"
im- roll iti I *• -11ii>«*r«ttit* imrtingH; ua« i t* «t
t •i||||||Ur«OIU>r vt KliH'.tHMI ul I'oll lo^t UM-r
Hiuitvvo tuluri., a nr. Hr.irborMiiKii rimni iuuii*
iiir p "i j,it,i MMuiiuixf'l (lie lU k-lH * | all ili« lie
Krw. «nri| ut itu* irmnlvr of llt'iiry I'lukwlon
HU«I miiiij, I'rtniun JoliUnoii, |)r IlinltKravf ainl
•laiii<; t Jui'kii ui, mid th«< bhooliiiK >f Kutmi Ijuk-
w«mm| hlit'llou it iii I oihtir lU'imlilicanB; iio
HluU) UciiMN'ia m wi-rt- kllU'il iluruiK ram*
; dUU r the t'let il.m wiIiikhh wAm r« <|uo uml
l' lo lhi« m*Imm>I• hoiiM* ami tstkit itlU<laviU>,
ami i.viiiK a •liiHtirr of tim IViirn <lnl <>; a nimi-
Iht o| itcKrot'M afllilavitM Buying Uiul lliey
lm«l voUm) tlu | « mocratic Uckt t wiilioni tear or
rim aril, Imt mhii« of tho eirroc« haul It wan
liurtl /or tlu'iu to ttWear to it. WU00H4 Mini that
liti mum iut. rci-ti.Ml In ti iiltiiiLati.iii forwitioli ho
pajil $:i,Anu rout, but <li«t not iiitotul to roturn
totMiu !luta, a* lu< wa-afrai«l UmIo-bo; | r. Youiik
aii>I two ollu-ri* brought him Hftt'taviUi Ui MiRn
ult4-r llio oioi'ilon, h«>uIiig forth that tho i^ri-tioii
wait fair ami ix-mwuhlc; ho ikv,|iii<Nt poitTrivoly
to «lo im ami wait a Ivimo«1 hy frifmU t< Icavo It he
oouhl not i«n tiit ni, an-Uo In* «li«t loa¥< . i«t <>r^v
II. Ilamlct, HhurllT of Ouuchita t4^titlo«l: Am a
MaUVo of Ohio ami lutvo IIvihI in tho Statu lm'o
iHt.l; all waa (icacoahle in the |MirUh until Ui«
electioii iu Way, IH.'ft, when tho DoiutH'raU
org/tnisoti, and by miriui* ol .threat* ami iutimi-
tlatioii Mueoeotlisl in elootinfc their ramlidato for
Mayor by 17"majority. Witnesagave a hi tory
ol the organization of tho rifle-ciuba, of their
rliling about by nig.it ami terrorizing the lie-
groe , ami gave Uie nameit of thou* who hail been
kilU'ti ami wouniletl or whippetl ami tlriven
away froiu their hoit ea. ^ itneaa aahi that Uie
l>ciii.K rat- had charged him with having or
ganizod the noproeM to light, Wilt that it was un
true; Ida life hud U>ca continually threatened,
but not* Ithfrtaiuling he had organized the He-
iitihlinuiM In the lai«t uloction, being prutccUMi by
l iiitod Hlatea troops. Being oroaa-cxaraiued,
witmaa aald that the houaea of a num*
l^r of whito men ott .thi- Inland lia<l lioon
tire I into at uight; an HheriflT lie went to
invcMligute tho matter, but failed to find
any of the guilty |>artioa; had nob det who killed
Dr. 1) nkgrave; tiio rifla cluba furni-'hedaimaae
to purauo Uie aaaaaaln; tlie oflioera of the parish
were all Ropublieana. imt no imllotmenta or in-
formation had been filed againat the authors of
tlie dialurbanoe, benauaethe jiarty in p >wer were
uuablo to euforee the law; tho whites wore armed
and would not obev a summons; know nothing
except by herasav of Uw killing ana whipping of
the parties named.
On the S2d, a voto was taken on tho reso
lutfon of Senator McDonald, requiring tho Be
turning Hoard t* produce the original records of
the rote of the State for 1'residontial Electors
and It was defeated by a party vote, the ltepnb
lloan members stating that they wero ready to
— - *- — motion that
but thought
. i-..- - .resent, Inas-
much ai it would embarrass the labor* of the
Board. W. it, Hardy, District- Attor
ney pro tem. of Ouachita Parish, test!
Hod to general intimidation and
violence by organized bands previous to the
election; among tliose killed wore B. H, Dink-
grave, Jamea Thomas, oolorotl, Primus John-
son, colored. and Fred. Bynum,oolared; among
tho wounded wer.- Katon Logwooil, colorwi,*
Henry Uurrell, colored, and several others,
while mnnv colored men were driven from their
hpmqa, Stephen Wood, supervisor at Poll v.
Eleventh Ward, Ouachita Pariah, testlfled that
his house had lNMn fired into and ho was com
polled Air several nights to sleep in the woods.
Otlter witnesses tea tided aa to Republican meet-
ings having been disturbed and broken up by the
bulldozers, and that colored JUepublicana were
driven irom the polla.
Jolui Cut per, colored, testlfled before the
ftenate Committee oa the SldT Besides in Oua-
ohita; voted the Democratic ticket on account of
general tlireata made against all colored men
who voted the Republican ticket; the white men
drove the negroes to the noils like a lot of shoep
witness's father waa killed in 18<iH for voting thi
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
•f Inatanr^s Whioh he had no re
; am a inrintii r of tlte Klour lt« artl
d by (fort'riHir AiiU<iim< la ft Au
iit.> tlif ftea < l tin- olU v, whu h Personal and Literary
.mil, iii lit 'u "iuMk*7orriu iht-'Viului'iii' i —Mr. Ilullam Tutntyaon, u son of till!
ut Umhnr lunrii,,iiirrt jM.rilay, wa.Ui«-ii [ i>oct, is a writer ut Homo prouiiau.
— It in aaid that Mr. (Seorgo liunorofl
naree. at a iiroper tlmo, to any motion that
wouUrthrow light on the iub]ect, but thought
the reaolatlon Impracticable at preMnt, liuii-
■HtUUeaa ticket. Henry IT. MeUawley, Virat
ueuienant Thirteenth Infantry, teatltled: Waa
orderetl to attend a number of uepubllean meet-
Inge In Onachlta to preferre tho peace; the meet-
ing. generally paaaed off quietly, though on one
oecaalon tho colored people wero eo badly fright-
ened that tho meeting waa not held. Tbe oom-
mlttee adjourned tluTueaday.
On th* 10th, Senator, Wadlelgb, McWl
lad" and UcDonald were appointtd a aub-oom-
mlttee to take teatlmony of Eltaa Plnkaton. Col,
J. W. Patton, Chairman of tho Democratic State
.. waa oalled by requeat of Senator
, to rebutoertaln evidence in referenoe
to a circular iaaued by him during the campaign.
Col. Patton teatltled that tbe circular in queaflon
waa eorrectly printed In Senator Shertnun'a re-
port, hut that the Italic there given,with the ex-
ception of tbe one word, horseback, were not In
the original; tho eiroular waa beaded "Con-
Hdcntlel," but It waa acattered broadcaat, and
there waa no Intention ol Jueptng ita ooutenta
aeeret; the polley of the Democrata, aa agreed
upon at tbe pommencement ot the campaign by
the state Cofomittee, wua to aroid all eoliiBlona
with' their political oppoocote, both upon hu-
manitarian princlplee and aa a matter of polloy.
AsLSsrsfWinS
In Ouachltit; atatcd that he knew nothing
ot them until after the eleetlon, and thai
In the oan
t he
... . . eleetlon,
the lnatructlona Iaaued by tbe committee early
in the campaign wore not carried oat in the In-
terior of tlie State. The cxamlnatlun and croaa-
cxninitiation of wltneaa occupied alx houra.
Sam D. Mc£nery, of Ouuchita Pariah, waa
next called and teatlfled at length: A large
number of prominent colored men acted with the
Democrata and organleed colored club.: the ao-
called rlflle'Cluba had noconneotlon with the po-
litical ciuba and were for tbe purpoee or pre
" irotectlng Demi
aervlng the peace and
■roea front outragea
neaa waa eiamlned at length In regard to the
loeratlo
own raee.
outragea ¥rom tbel
amlned at length Ini
aaaoaalnatlon of Dr. Dinkgrare, whom ho had
Will unlet, but all on one aide, a thoy were not
allowed to dlatrlbute llepnbllean ticket, i when
thr old tier* adjourned at noon the Itapubllnan
Tolewaaann nnce<l aa HI, but whon iVje |kiM.
cloned at night It waa announeeil a« 'in; the illle-
club. r<Klo around at night, fully arinnd, and
teiTorUnd the colored pe"!'1*; tho ne-
aniea dlallked to Join the I)cmo-
cratlceluba, but were fordyl t0 'l0 .p. .rainr.
K. Hall, formerly of Terre Haute, ln<
In the United Statee Army, leallded: llact llywl
for two year. In Ihiehlta! rJ,", ..V^„i^,i,f.t .I v
July every thing wa. l eaoealile, but on tliat day
there waa a report that Uie negroea were organ-
lalng on the laland.anil tho while. lhorni|Min Im-
gan organlaing rlBe oomp,vile., and every *bll*
man waa wiled upon by a committee and
man we* ^'^mmitiM Mid Uiey
Ibe Democratic XxcenUve
jtb#*e rlde-clnbe would
UWH wilv IvIIUUVj , HINWM ««'-
Ibe killing of rani Jonea,Tom
I the two Myera.all colored; alao,
•peolllo caeca uf bulldoalng ana
the pariah, and ita ted that the
kaewaalnce a boy; aald that Dlnkgrave had
killed a man named Wlmberly. In 187 , and
Winberiya brother had threatened to avenge the
aurder; the general belie! In tho neighborhood
t'aa that Dlnkgrave waa killed by thle man, or
y n man named Adama, who waa a bitter ene-
my of Dinkgrnve'a. Croaa-examlaed, aald he
ha<l never hoard Adama or hla frlehda make any
threat* againat Dlnkgrave.
The Senate Committee, on tha 37th, con-
tinued the examination of Sam. D. IfcKnery.
Upon ;roM-examInatlan be elated that he bad
been a member of the Knlghta ot the White
Camella, which waa a aecrot and oath-hound
■oclety Tbe Senate rab-eommittee, oom-
poeed of Benator. Wadieigh, McMillan and Mc-
Donald. examined a number of wltneaaea aa to
the condition of affaire in Kaat Baton itougc
Pariah. Alexander 8. Gilbert, colored,
teatided: On tbe night of September s
tlie buildoaera' vlalted my home; my wife
anil two colored men eaoaped to the
flelda; they put'a rope around my neck; broke
my gun and tore down the ienoca; wltneaa far-
ther tea tilled aa'
It. Payne, and
to numervne a
terrorising In . _ . ... . .
effect of theae acta waa lo prevent colored peo
pie from attending Bepublioin meeting, and
voting that tloket. Alice Ullbert, wlti) of Alex-
ander, corroborated hla teatlmony aa to hla per-
sonal treatment by the buildoaera; the men were
diaguiaed; knew aorne of them, but declined to
give their namea aa abe had property there and
could not go buck It she did
ao. Benjamin Morgan, colored, Coroner ol
Baton ltouge, te.tilled that he hail holu
many Inquoala on murdered men ainco Jan. 1,
but waa llnally notified by the Hegaiator. to atop
holding Inuueata, and held no more; on tlie
morning qt the 18th ol May waa called to hold
ah lnqueat on the bodtea ol old man Jerry Mey-
era and hi. aon Sampaon Mey era; tbe oid man
wa. hung and the young man waa allot: both
were Indualrloue men, and leading Republicabi;
never heard any other reaaon for their murder.
Sophia Payne, colored, teatlttad that in June laat
her huabaail. Thotnaa II. Payne, who waa a
prominent llepubllcan, waa ilraggod off with a
rope around hi. neck by a body or white men and
kiUail i gave the namea ot aame or the men en.
giigodln the affair.
TUB 1IOU8B COMMITTER.
J. Madinon Well", I'rcaldont of the Re
totaling Hoard, toatlfled on the Silt: Ail of tho
Itcpublienn Kleetor. were votoil for In Concor-
dia Purl nil, bilttho vote* wore not properly oount-
eil; wo Mnt for the boxen nnd corroetol tho re-
turna; noiac of the returna received nnd oanvataed
by the Board wereHeniby mall, aoine byexpreaa,
nnd aome wore delivered by band; tlie luw re-
qulrea thut all returna ehull bo nent by
■mill; did not canvnaa the re-
turn. (Tom Urnnt i'arl.li liecnuse tliey
did not ooino through tho HupcrvlHnri*;' did euu-
yam mime ut tlie ri liirnn fiurn Loiutorillii lMrlnli
whinli did not come througl! the MiipervlMim; the
law require. tlmtCnmhilHHloiieriio! Klrcllnn -liull
|w appoiittefl from Iwitli pnrlle.; do not kifttw
ttmt all die ikiII. In the Niulo were ivpreaenlcd,
by Democratic < ommHaloncr., nml do n t knmr
Uitt there wa. liny Dcinne.rntlo niiiierylnor of
lUmlKtrntlon in tlin Htuto; amadecldod imrtnan,
butWlilild not alluw uiiUtlcn to Influence me to
ddBiiy tl)ln«unju*t; iim Surveyor of tlie port
ami I'reaidentor tlie Itrturnlng Board, but do
hot Hi I nk Unit holding both nflleoa la Inwintra-
illi.tlun to I'reiililnnt tirant'. onlera that no Keil-
ernl ofllcer nlinll held n Hlale ollleo; tho law naya
there ehull be a Itemnerui on the Board,
but did not nil the vacancy be-
online Die llonrd could not aiiree; Dr.
If mi n Kennedy, thn gentleman iiro| inud for the
vm-nnl iMiMtlon on the llonrd, I. gentleman of
blab i-tniidliig, lireiirtmclnilile ebaracli-r nril n
friend ot inlno, but the llonrd could not agree on
lua nppolniment, nnd no other name waa pre
Minted; did not vote on tho quoation nor tldnk
that any member of the llonrd wa. much o .
posed Ul l r. Kennedy; but, In talking oyer the
iimtkUini, we found that we oould not agree.
The Minute 1hi.iV containing the procctxllng. ot
tlie Hoard wu. priallicail, nml wltnenn wan nrtand
to explain a i,umber of entries anil onli.nlonn to
which bin aUentlnn >« called, Imt wan tinalile
pi do no. CIlarlenH. a boll, An.laUint Mi'Coelary
of the llonrd, teatltled.' Iild not know that any
polla In the l'artah of itrlenna were thrown out;
(ho Board had no oBcl/il knowledge of any tblng
aot retnraed by Mm| wmiervlnoreaiid onkl not
MlWl in Plrti W# gsj; JJJBSJlL-i
Hioluiil ^'ii'tary of the iU-tiirning Itoaid.
UtHiMn atal4«l that hr had n al fnUilff, hut r«-
liiKt'il to Miato whfro it miih local* d, aayiiiK it huh
out of tlm Stat4*. Krank •fohiiHon, coiurt^L of
C ataliouia Pariah, U'atifl.-d that hr canvufOMMi tli«>
) iriah for tin* Ih inocrau; Man a miniisUT of tho
il l iitiHt ( huri'ti, and waa turned out of thvchiirrh
In «%iuim In* Wan a I H'tnocrat; kiww of a wvrrt nr-
gaiiiz.itioii calhsi tha "Couih-.iI of Kreedmrnit
wa>* oalh-lMiund; tlie iin uilani. imd arinaaitdt^tr*
trnjKi'H; waa I'rcMiiU'iit of a ooIokmI 1>i inocratto
t'.luhof alioilt tuirty iiinuilMra; no iuiiinidalion
was ii .*4*i i l«i i in I urn colore i innn to join tho
iH'inocrata, lint tha lto|iublicana intiuiidaUid tho
lH'inocr.ilio a|H*akcra; told them that if Uio l>«n-
«* rnu surcMMlMl the iicjrrors would all bo put
liauk into alavary. On <;r<NM «examlniilion, aaid
hi' ijui i |irt!ttcliiiiK whau lie Joined thi) Ikmiioi ratin
party; thay turutMl him out uud took his liccnao
away froni him; Uia clcction passed off quietly
at tlM poll where he voled j only one strniaht Ite-
publican ticket was voted at that poll! The
IIoiimo Committee, in executive se«idon, to-day
iuotructeii Mr. Morriaon, t hairman, to reimrt
the nieml>«*rs of tlie Iteturninjf llourd to Uie llouse
for contempt in refusing to producu the records
called for.
Before the llouse Committee, on the 2*Jd,
it. .1. Ilogan, colore<l, of West Feliciana Parish,
testifle4 that the election was fair, free and
oeaoeahle; the only inUmldaUon was by coloreil
Ui'publicans of colored Democrata; wituess
made an affidavit at the ( ustom-house soino time
alter eieetion; did not know what was In it. aad
only swore lo hla signature; heard other colored
witnesses say thoy did not kuow what was in the
alUdavlta they aworo to. Several witnesses
swore that tho election at Poll 2, Kleventh Ward,
was lair and peaceable, ami that tbe returns
wvro legally signed. (This poll
was thrown out by Uie Iteturnlng Board.)
Lieut, tiaiuuel N. Holmes, of Uie 1 th United
Htatea Inhintry, testitted: During Uio election
was atllaton ltouge: the general disposition of
' the canvass in East ~
Uio people during
ltouge and Kast reliclana was to avoid any dls-.
Baton
iy dis-
turbances of any kind by either party, and espe-
cially was that Urn case with Democrats; have
not heard eomnlaints of an unfair oleeUon by
either
crats
party boyond the fact that Demo'
expressed themselves surprised at
that poll be^ng thrown out, they having a major
1 y there; In East Feliciana, before Uieelocuon,
I knew that meetings were held by both parties,
and every thing was conducted quietly and
pcooeably; am not well enough conversant with
tue situation to say whether or not there was any
feeliagof dread among oolored people.
AFM. dpHeariiey testified before the
Rouse Committee on tho $kl: Ant a Republican
was a ('ommlssloner of Blootlon at P^ll 8, Elov-
o intiml
_ _ 'was after
the voting cloned; tho Doinocrntlo Canmlaaion
era would not allow me to quit counting and go
home a. I wanted'to do; tbe law required the
eountlng to be completed in St houra; dldnt
think the tnlly-aheeta wero correctly kept; think
the liemocraia received all tlio votea that were
counted for them; and that all the vote, polio*
were legal. A. W. Kempton, another Uejrabli-
con Commianioner at the name poll, teatltled that
theeloction waa fair anil peaceable; got alck
while counting the rote* and wanted to quit, but
enth Ward, New Orleane; there wai j
ilation during the eleetlon, but there j
waa threatened and eompelled to fluinh the
count; .igned the tally-aheeta beoauac be wa
afraid uf Ills life. Loula Bacchus, Kepub
llcun, Supervisor of iteglntratlon of the Kleventb
Ward, te.tllled: Had been told by a number of
eolored men before the election that they would
vole the Uepubllean ticket, but were afraid of
losing their altuatlons; know 31 colored men who
have been dlscbargoil slnoe -eleetlon for voting
the Bepubliean ticket; objected to give tbe namea
ot any ot them, aa they had icqueated him fur
Uod's sake not to do so. The statement ot Abel,
the Secretary of the Beturnlng Board, aa given
to the oommlttee, shows tliat tlie Board thiaw
out 10,1m Democratic and 1,1(13 ltopubllcan
voles, exclusive ot tboso not returned by the
Supervisors. Hie oommlttee adjourned till
Tuesday.
Tbe Home Oommlttee, on tbe 2Qth
adopted a resolution, that the refusalof William
Ortonanil B. W. Barnea to respond to tbe sub
pumas of the committee be reported tothe House
such refusal, In the opinion of the oommltteo
being In contempt ot tho process of the House.
Tbe Morrison sub-committee heard tlie
ovulence of A. B. Morgan, who was employed
In the Custom- house up to Nov. 10 laat: Btuted
that the affidavits made out In the Custom-house
woro different from tlie statements of the wit-
nennes; a man named llarrla seemed to be at
the bead of tlie affidavit-making business In tho
Cuntora-house; know of an Instance where the
answers to cross-Interrogatories were
•Mruok out by Harris's orders and other
answer* put In; this wa* In tbe oase of
Mr. Simmon* of l>lvlng*ton Farlab: liarri* *ald
tho Urst answer wouldn't dd," A ntunber of ne
groes testiileit to belna assaulted and beaten fbr
v.tlng the Uemoeratlo tloket the Black-
burn BUb-commlttee examined witnesses as lo
the cleotion in Livingston, Lafayette, Tangi-
pahoa and Lafourchc Parlabe*. all of whom
tentlllod that tbe eleotion waa lair and peace
able. r
llefore the Houae CoQunlttM,'ont)MSTth,
Rev. Tbomaa Brown, colored, testlfled: Wa*
President of a Democratic olubj wa* IflMoUd
down and wai not permitted |h>
he waa a Democrat; loat 11,400
inoii's JJank; used that annmentlal
Joe Craig, colored, teetloed: Was President of
a colored Democratic club of .00 members at
Baton Honge; tne oolored elnbs numbered too or
uov members. Bight other oolored witnesses
leiMllled as to having been assaulted and their
Uvea threatened forvotlng the Democratic ticket.
Itobert T. Carr, of De soto Parish, tostllled:
Was Itepublloaii candidate for Sheriff and was
retnraodas elected, although his opjionent re-
ceived i'W more votes tlian he did; tnore was no
Intimidation whatever in the parish The
Blackburn sub-oommittee examined a number
of witnesses aa to the oloctlon in f.afourcho Par-
ish, the substance ef their testimony being that
tlie alleged irregularities at the various polls In
the making up of tbe returns were due.to tbe In-
competence or willful disregard ot UMJaw of tbe
Bepubiioan blBaials; and thai the voting was
fairly and pyioeably cohijacted. |
mstern NewToandUid,
irtsnutda by exploring parties,
oonalfiting of geologists and mineralo-
gists, under tbe lead of Captain Mur-
ray of tho Koyal Engineer service, who
recently journeyed Into the unsettled
Western part of Newfoundland, furn-
ish most interesting details of the ap-
pearance and resources of that seotion
ot tho island. They frequently en-
countered closely grown forests of
stately birch and pine extending many
miles without an opening between the
thickly matted branches and foliage.
Hay of a wild description had grown
to the height of nearly six feet in some
instances. The horses seemed to relish
it more than the ordinary grasses. The
soil upon whioh this hay grows is said
to be chiefly nnrtpred bv tho molder-
ing trees. A little island in the (iambo
River, a beautiful and partly navigable
channel of fresh water, whioh, accord-
ing to tome vague tradition, had been
believed to be the last remnant of ter-
ritory inhabited by tho original red
men, was found to contain no vestige
of Indian life. The numberless lakes,
. and rivulets team with trout.
usk'rats and ottors abound in various
quarters of this uninhabited Westorn
coast and give promise of a very luora-
tivo industry. Here, rabbits, deer, sil-
ver gray aud black foxes were met in
numbers. l'lovers, curlews, and par-
tridges were very abundant. In splto
of the fame this country has auquirod
foi- fogs and storms, tho westhor wan
almost continually dry and salubrious,
wliilo tho nky at evening exhibited
splendors unequaled by tho heavens of
Italy or the Kast.
Fenr Victims of the Breeklyn Fire.
It was only on Friday lant that Mr.
Charles llalpin, of Stamford, received
a letter informing him of tlio death of
throti near relative* in tlie Brooklyn lire.
He saw their muiios (McClellan) in tlie
published list of tlio dead, but iih the
family livod in New York anil very rn.ro-'
iy wont to Brooklyn he did not slipiiose
for a moment they worn liii relatives.
It apfmars, however, that one of thorn,
a young lady of twenty, hall an admirer
living in Brooklyn, and ho purchased
ticket* for the yming lady, her mother
and her two brothers,'and Invited tho
whole parly to accompany him over to
Brooklyn to Heu # io "Two Orphans."
One of tho two brothers, being delayed
•it lili work down town, did not got
home in tinm to accompany tho others.
Tli-y left hii ticket for liiin, but it was
so Into liy the lltne lie wan ready to go,
that l.e reluctantly resolved not to goat
all. Tlie rest, of Hie party—mother,
son, daughter, and her lover went,
and all were lost, the bodies of all but
has nluited a testimonial fund for Wade
Hampton.
—Oliver Goldsmith's grand-niece,
Jauc Goldsmith, has Just died at the
Home for the Aged iu Halifax, N. S.
—lieu, ilawley says that tho best
thing lie saw ul the Kxhibition was the
American people, and that during the
whole time be was there he did not see
a single intoxicated person on the
grouuds, nor did he witness any diffi-
culty or altercation.
—The wife of Kx-United States Sena-
tor Henderson of Wisconsin has dedi-
cated a book on cookery which she has
just written to the wife of Oen. Sher-
man, whom in her dedication she calls
"A lady who studies tho comforts ol
her household."
—Of Senator Conkling's memory,
Major Don Perley I'oore says that it is
wonderful. " You quote a line or two
of Chaucer, Spenser, or any of tbe
old Knglish poets, and he will repeat
the whole poem to you."
—Mrs. Jane O. Swisshelm says of
Anna Dickinson's Anne Boleyn: "There
is no kind' of compressing machine or
patent corset that can ever put this
great representative American woman
Into the dimensions of that very small
sized bit of English royalty."
—Auerbach, the German novelist, is
of Hebrew parentage, about 01 years
old. He is short ana rather ponderous!
has a close-cropped gray beard, and a
faoe of the thoroughly Hebrew type,
lie is witty, tells good stories, and has
the art of amusing the titled soeiet;
whioh he seeks. His manner, whioh '
somewhat breezy, has mined for him
tho title of "the Tyroleseof the salon."
—Henry O. Shaw ("Josh Billings")
said to a St. Louis ropartur that ho had
been told by Ossian K. Dodge of a fact
iu Artemus Ward's career in contradic-
tion of the accepted history of that hu-
morist. Mr. Dodge was traveling in
the Western Statos with a show consist-
ing of a musical machine and vocallsm
He met young Browne,liked his wit and
sprighthness, and employed him as an
agent. While thus engaged Browne
wrote tho quaint letters about the
"snaix and wax-figgers" that intro-
duced him to the publio as "Artemus
Ward, moril showman."
—Mark Twain looks like anything
but a humorist. Two deep wrinkles
between his eyebrows mar a faoe other-
wise as fresh and fair as a boy's. His
slight figure, his nervous way of twitch-
ing his hands and stroking his mus
toe be, and the apparent embarrassment
of his manners suggests a modest elerk
or an overworked bookkeeper. He
rarely laughs, at least openly, althongl
his friends say he constantly grins in
ternally at the funny people and situa-
tions that foroe themselves on his busy
brain.
Sslensi aad laflntry.
—Connecticut brown stone is now be-
ing shipped to Europe by quarrymen at
Portland.
—A Wisconsin inventor has patented
a oorn-outter whioh is attached to the
operator's feet, so that at every step he
oan out a hill of own. The labor '
light, like skating vigorously all day on
rough ice.
—The pino-apple is cultivated exten-
sively in the East Indies, where the
leaves are oon verted into a kind of wad-
ding, used for npholstering purposes
instead of hair, and into a sort of flan-
nel, of Which substantial shirts and
ooats are made.
—The attention of agriculturists
directed to the sulphocarInmate of po-
tassium as an insecticide. It has been
used with great success among the vine-
yards of France, but requires some per-
sistence. '
The cultivation of celery is now
recommended to farmers, not only as a
source of profit to themselves, but as a
benefit to the ooummunity, since the
ibitaal daily nse of this vegetable is
lore benefioial to man as a nerve tonic
ion most persons oro aware of. Those
especially who are engaged in labor
weakening to the nerves should use
cclery daily during its season.
-But few people outside the sugar
trade have any idea of its magnitude.
The exports of oane sugar from pro-
ducing countries to the consuming
markets reached, last year, th$ surpris-
ing aggregate of 2,140,000 tons, while
tha yield Of beet-root sugar amounted
to 1,#17,623, or a total productfon of
raw sugar reaching the enormous quan-
tity of B,467,1623 tons. This vear, as is
well known, .the production is consid-
erably less.
A very novel and, at the same
time, intesting experiment, according
to tho Lockport (it. Y.) papers, is soon
to bo nttomptcd in that city by Mr.
Holly, the successful water-works pump
inventor. This experiment is to heat
the whole eity with steam, after the
same manner as it is lighted with gas.
Tho city is to be divided into districts,
and cach district is to have its separate
boiler. Mains from eaoh boiler are to
run to tho different bouses, and all the
occupant has to do is to turn on a fau-
cet, and obtain all the heat he wants.
—It Is well known that'a large por-
flon of the tobacco grown never en tors
into that stato of fermontation neces-
sary to fully develop its burning quality,
flavor and dark color, so that it retains
its wild, rank elements and its green
ami yellow lonves, and is therefore un-
fit for cigar purposes. An apparatus,
however, has now been invented, which
is described in a rccent number of the
Hcicntifio American, by which such to-
bacco can be forced to sweat and color,
md its quality can bo improved, thus
reclaiming a largo quantity of goods
hitherto considered worthless.
week?" Answered Hall: "If he is a
deep thinker and great condenser, ho
may gut up one; i( he is an ordinary
man, two; but if be is an ass, sir, he
will proilucc half a dozen."
—The Itev. Charles It. Treat, of
Greenwich, Conn., preached on last
Thanksgiving Day a sermon which was
delivered a hundred years befors to n
regiment of Revolutionary soldiers then
encamped in that town. It was a re-
cital of events in the Revolutionary
struggle and an acknowledgment of the
Divine aid.
—In compensation for the destruc-
tion of the American chapel at Yen-
I'ig-Fua, China, a few years ago, a
party has been sent by the loc u au-
thorities to the U. "8. Consul, with a
sum ef money for books and other
property destroyed. Tho chapel is re-
built and delivered to the missionary,
Mr. Hall, may n minister get up each purpose of lynching hint. Tbe Sheriff
1 ^eyond^reoognjtlom
An.:
School Md Church. .j '
Tliirty-six States and eight Terri-
tories report 14,007,622 children enti-
tled to instruction.
During President Smith's adminis-
tration at Dartmouth College WI<30,J>!)0
has been given to tlie iiistuutkm.
—Beren College, Kentucky, him more
than 2IH) stuiletilH, of whom tliruo-liftlw
are colored mid two-llftlis while.
—ljinlics have been elected In the
School Committee ol New Bedford,
Mass., front two of tho wards of that
city.
—It is proposed to olTor tha superin-
tendence of l.lie Massachusetts schools
Ui Mr. \V. V. Harris, at present Super-
intendent of tho St. I^hiis School*.
—The l.nilierans arc now oiitslrlp-
piii nil nther denoinina'ions in their
yearly iiicroam. The Methodist K|iis-
eopul Church rep.orti a gain of iilimil,
■lo,mill lliin )car; lint liiin is nnrpiuweil
by the increase of ihe Lutherans, wliieli
amounts to 67,27t>.
—Somebody said to Robert Hall:
the rights of foreigners to reside in the
interior.
r«r«l|a Kale*.
—Spread ot American ideas. Young
Arabs now greet the traveler In Egypt
with the familiar salutation, "blaok
your boots."
—The rebuilding of the Tuileries and
its transformation into a museum have
been decided upon by the Frenoh Gov-
ernment. The prospects of tbe Paris
Exposition of 1878 aro looked upon as
gloomy in presence of the existing Eu-
ropean complications.
—Col. Valentine Baker has returned
lo London muoh disgusted with the
Turkish authorities, who Wanted to put
him as seoond in Command of aoavalry
regiment under a Pasha, whereas the
Prince of Wales's qnon iam protege had
domanded a full colonelcy.
—United States Minister Washbnrne
has presented President Grant's apolo-
gies to the Duke Decases, Minister of
foreign Affairs, for the arrest at Phila-
delphia of Capt. Aufrye, naval attoheof
the French Legation at Washington,
and Delegato French Commissioner to
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-
phia, at the instance of one of the Ex-
hibition policemen.
—Last year, it Will be remembered, a
young English lady, Miss Stratton, dls*
tinguuhedf herself by making the ascent
of Mont Blano in midwinter—on Jan.
81. She is a large, handsome girl with
a private income of 96,000 per annum,
and is abont to marry the Alpine guide
with whom she has made many ascents.
Although in love with her. he oould not
wed her, he said, unless she would be-
oome a Roman Catholic. She has de-
cided to abjure the Protestant faith,
and is now building a chateau near Ar-
gentine, in Switzerland, where the b
py pair will dwell.
—The German Government has li
ly published the results of an investiga-
tion by various States of tbe Empire,
with regard .to the employment of
women in manufactures. From the re-
turns it appears that 220,000 women
alJove l6 years of age aro so engaged.
About one-fourth are married, and moire
than one-half are employed In tpxtlle
industry, 34,000 in the manufacture of
cigars, and the rest in various branches.
The duration of work is from 10 to 12
hours a day, and never exceeds 18
hours. In wages, the usual pay Is from
91.20 to 92 per week, although many
skilled workwomen reoeive as much
as 96-
—A letter from Constantinople tothe
Mtftager Franco-Amtrioain states that
the Turks expect, in oase of war, an In-
vasion by Russia both on the European
and Asiatio sides. They claim that tbey
oan place 700,000 men in the field, and
have provisioned and supplied the fort-
resses of Kars and Erzeroum for nearly
a year. English officers have been vis-
iting both strongholds of late, inspect-
ing the defenses and offering suggest-
ions. It Is fully expected at Constanti-
nople that the English will oeoapy the
oltvonthe outbreak of war. English
officers ham indicated locations for de-
fenses, bnt no work has yet been com-
menced.
Haps anS Mlebai *.
—W. G. Wood, City Clerk of Idaho
City, Idaho, was killed in a railway ao*
cident near Fort Wayne, Ind. His
relatives live In Newburgh, N. Y., and
he was on his way thither to spend the
holidays.
—At Washington, D. C., a carpenter
named Wm. Lawrie, while entering bis
residence, slipped upon a step and fell,
and | was literally impaled upon the
heading of the lron-fenoe surrounding
the premises. He died in a very fuw
moments.
Xpung man living
nd., blew into the
to ascertain if it
was defendin,
sixty men at
the Jail with a
e tiuie.
Ofldi and BaSh
—Wagon wheels are among the thing*
that go by turns.
—No man can tell bow big his mind
is until it is made ap.
—An industrious man with a hand-
cart can make a living if he pushee
things. j.i®.
—Tho Boston BulUtin suggest*
" Mated and Cremated" as an appro-
priate bead for the •• Marriage and
Death" oolumn of the futon. -: -
.—We have no oonfld—.o> whatorsc in
the report that Chit
offered an elegant i _
convert before th« 1 p. «e W
to olubs of 10. W< lisM im-
port started in St. L< ley Whig.
lie lookai
In all kis gorgeous
Such mournfulspeol
When an'
And she, i
In all bet . ,
Suoh tragic Inddenta I
When sidewalk* are so
—People say that
when tney un shell
husk oom when they ««•&■
they dud the furniture wk
dust it or take the dast froas
they Hn a calf when they ms-s
and that they uaU fishee when they ins-
soale them. I have heard many men
t their gar-
to treed I
like the gesture of a ven<
goat in the i
MM ...
Iy look
say they were t _
dens when I thought their gardens were
weedy enough already.
—Anna Dickinson is a failure in tho
love scenes of her own plays. When
the experienced actor sidles up to her
and reaches his arm around her rigid
waist, she grabs him by tho wrist and
holds him off at arms length jgple he
•ays his pleoe, and then,
reaches the melting moo
ere her head to let it
shoulder, the ooastrained
ire of a vent
act of assist
ovor
aucllenoe ,
happy lover butted clear
orchestra flddlee, aqd
eral murmur oL
he braces his feet a
of her head with a
grunt.—Batch-tit.
■ail Mistaken Chin ,
Men are prone to a false i
their views of
male Ind
support with a nervous, 1
of borrof rather than with ita i
meed of honor. Indiu
stronger sex Is styled]
weaker. The very shfvalnr _
toward woman Is often mansifaetied l
mistakes. A father or a husband l'
like a true knight, battle with the '
for a lifetime to rear his i"
oemfort, and yet ho will
and unwisely oojeot to so i
females as to enable them, I
to do battle for themselves. He'
bear without a murmur the hardships
and dangers of the life-straggle, b«t ne
will not suffer those for whom he Works
to be armed and fight for themsslvee
beside him. Yes, men Me often not"
only as valiant but as foolish as Don
Qaixote. And this mistaken ohiva'
this false delloMy of fathers and]
bands, does inji '
selves by
it%
but it' Works !•■« vw, .
dear ones for whom they toll. (
ders women hsipisss, and, thereto
in the great orisls of life, hopeless.
When, as happens evenr day in this
country of snaden wealth ana ss sod-
den poverty, the bread winner is re-
" iced from aiKaenoe to poverty, or
due
#h
Will Taylor, a
' Morgantc
muzzle of his
near Morgantown,
of his gun
was loaded. lift foot, whioh held the
hammer, slipped and discharged the
gun, causing instant death.~
-Mary Heiley, aged 9 years, of Pitt*
burgh, Pa., was fatally burned while play-
ing bofore an open flre. The flames
from her clothing were communicated
ti the bed of her. invalid father, who
was rescued with difficulty., A younger
sitter was seriously -but not fatally
burned.
-A son of C. Lloyd, of Oriont, Osce-
ola County, Mich., was burned to death
by tint imuso tilting fire. The lad,
about 10 years of age, was asleep in the
gariot. Mr. Lloyd was aroused by his
son's cries, and tried to reach his bed,
but was driven back by the flro and
compolled to abandon his son to the
flames.
hen his death reveals tbe faet that
only his life tood between hie loved
ones and want; then the fondled and
pampered widow aed daughter are
found to be as Ignorant of real life and
as incapable of work ns a child. Then
she stands on the brink of nda with
folded hands, and. sighs and snArs,
whon, had the departed one, half fool,
half martyr, been truly wise as welt i
loving, she might have 1"
trade or paying business \
faoe aad fight a frownii
for men's sakes as well
I appeal toman to
life to woman —Mr*..
York Herald.
A queer Iakab!
-Eikanah Ingalls and his wifo were
suffocated at Providence, R. I. It ap-
pears that they had left a lighted lamp
on the bureau on going to bed. When
tho police, attract'd by smoke, entered
tlm limine, tho top of the bureau was
entirely charred. The smoke had
arousod the old couple, but both per-
ished beforo reaching tho door. Air.
Ingalls was about 70 years old, and a
well known Iron fence manufacturer.
—Recent suicides: Henry H. Son-
nickson, proprietor of tho Indiana
House, at RiiOimpnd, Ind., committed
suicide by shooting himself while his
wifo was at the Court-house pfoseeut-
lug a nuit for divorce oh thn ground of
his ilinsipated habits anil neglect —
Robert Schultn, a vmng German me-
chanic of Eyansville, Ind.;, shot him-
self through the lieaij with" a revolver.
The boy hail been drinking, and is sup
posed to have coiumittoil Ihe deed bc-
cmiso of his father's scolding liiiu for
not coming home.—-Thomas \\ ilkinson,
a prominent anil wealthy citUen
of Davenport, Iowa, shot himself
wltile .standing before ,o mirror, calm-
ing instant death. No caHso Is known.
Pinii O. Whitman, an old resident
nnd merchant, of l)l*on, Iowa, hung
himself ill the liarn with a pair of reins
He was discouraged by the dulliiei-s ■>(
business.— Jim .laokson, in jail nl De-
catur, Oa., on a charge of murder and
robbery, hanged himself with a pocket-
handkerchief to save himself from
inOyeter SkelL
While some meViMpa at work down
the Potomac River a, or so ago,
dredging for oy*ten, onaof the work-
-men came across what If#
an unusually large and
Tho man pressed one of his
tho partly opened shell, ' ~
utter astonishment, SOI
took a firm hold of hls.Ai
ho forcibly abstraoted It
considerable pain and ton ad
what lacerated. His suspicion and Sur-
prise were by this time excited, and ho
at once opened the shell, and was as-
tonished to find that it contained a cu-
rious animal, several Inches long, oom-
pletely filling tbe oavity of the shell.
This animal very much resembles what
is commonly oalled a water-dog, ex-
cept that It haa no feet. The head is
similar to that of a catflsb, with a large
mouth full of fine teeth. Just back of '
its head are two large lobes, whioh rive
it a little the appearance of a small roll-
dog. The man who had his finger bit-
ten suflored considerably, and It wae
much inflamed. The animal, wfcataver
it may prove to be, moit have made its
access to the shell When small, deetroy-
Ing the oyster it found as tbe natural
tenant, and grow up to ite present siae
within the oalcareous prison usurped
has been nil
ilen
man, who will determine What it is.—
IfWiiMi/ton Nation.
been placed
in tlm "hands of a competent scientific
by itself. Thecroature I
Cow Basle.
Tho cow has at least, four tonee or
lows. First thore is her alarmed or
distressed low, whon deprived of her
calf or separated from ner mate—her
low oi ail'ectlon. Then there is her call
of hiiuu'ci , a petition for food, some-
times full of impatienoo, or hor answer
to tlio farmer's call, full of eagerness.
Then there is that peculiar frenaied
Un Jail fee t
pee
liawl she utters on smelling blood,whioh
icullar
loc
cnute* every member of the hord to lift
its head am) hasten to the spot—tho na-
tive cry of the elan. When she is gored
or iii great pain she bawls also, but that
is ilillcrcnt. And lastly, there is the
i„„g, sum irons volley she lets off on tlio
hill* or In the yard, or along tho high-
win, and « hieh seems to bo expressive
of a kind of unrest and vague longing
- the longing of the imprisoned lo for
her lost Identity. She sends her voice
forth that every god on Mount Olympus
can hear her plaint. She makes this
sound in the morning, ospeuikily in Iho
M>rlng, as she goos forth to gi nse —. v
Mrn&mrmMf#*
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