1881-02-24; Saline Observer

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Congress.
Mr. Eaiok, from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, reported a resolution in the Senate
on the 16th declaring-that the "United States
Government will insist that its consent must
* ^^iWoe'd 'tis a condition precedent to the
^^touc^on of a shlr>canal or any other work
^r the transportation of sea-going vessels
^;°|st7e Isthmus of Panama. The resolution
»'«tabled and ordered printed. The Eortifl-
S.,2°tt   Appropriation   bill    was    reported,
™   , amendments,    and     Mr.     Pendleton
SP°rJgu. a  bill   to   regulate   and   improve
tne Civil   Service   of   the United   States,
ihe   Funding    bill    was   taken    up,    and
B^ajnendment fixing the rate of interest at
. ' ,?e*an3l one-half per-cent, was discussed at
; c^nsiderable*length, but no definite action was
«?" -^.-^the House the Conference reports
mi tne Indian and the Naval Appropriation
Q-us were agreed to.   Almost the  entire   day
anauifrht were devoted to the consideration,
m Committee of the Whole, of the Blver and
Harbor Appropriation bill, and.sevoral amendments were disposed of, -and the bill was reported to the House.
Isf the Senate on the 17th the Conference reports qn the Consular and Diplomatic and the
' NavarAp'proprlation bills were adopted. The
Funding bill was taken up in Committee of the
^rhole, and further debate ensued, after which
tae amendment favoring three and one-halt
per cent, was lost—33 to 33. Amendments
trere then ageed to—making the interest on
tae bonds and Treasury notes payable semiannually; creating a five-twenty, instead of a
ire-ten, loan; substituting theterm'-Treasury
notes" for " certificates" as applied to the short
Van. inserting the words "not exceeding" be-
f>refhe amount (§300,000,000) of such notes,
providing for their issue iu denominations of
?i0, or some multiple of that sum not exceeding §1,000, and that none of less denomination
;han §100 shall be registered; fixing the ex-
jtmseof preparing, advertising and disposing
fit the loans at one-half, instead of one-quarter,
fmeper cent.^providing that the resumption
*lfif gold and silver in the Treasury shall
be: permanently reduced in the process of
indiflg by the purchase and paying off of
Suturing bonds; making the bonds receivable for circulation, and providing that only
interest-bearing securities of the United States
shall be receivable as collateral for Government deposits; providing that subscriptions
to the loan shall be received by the Secretary
p£ the Treasury-for thirty days before .any
. contractor award shall be made. Notices of
other amendments were given, when the committee rose and reported the bill to the Senate,
and it was ordered printed A report was
submitted in the House on the contested election case from the Second District of North Carolina, declaring Kitchen, the sitting member,
«S.'tled to the seat.   The Kiver and Harbor
.typropriation bill was passed -163 to 94.   The
- ..Qi|fere"nee>epbrt on the Consular and Diplo-
■   nitieAppropriation bill was agreed to.   Some
o the Senate amendments to the Pension Ap-
popriation bill were, and others were not, con-
erred in. The Apportionment bill was taken
\V\ and Mr. Cox gavenoticethat he would call
ta i»evious question at noon on the 10th.   A
ressage was received from the President rec-
onmendingan  appropriation forthe proper
^presentation of the United States at the In-
• '   tarnational Monetary Conference at Paris.
Ihe   credentials  of Messrs. Van "Wyck, of
Nebraska, and Miller, of California, Senators-
efget* were presented and filed in the Senate
ra the  ISth.   A bill" was introduced by Mr.
.    i*est,to incorporate the Interoceanic Railway
;  Company.'- Tbe Eundinsr bill was taken up, and
all the amendments madein Committee of the
TVhole were finally agreed to, and the amendments reported  by  the Finance Committee
and rejected iu Committee of the Whole were
" \ voted upon  and rejected,  the vote on the
• "proposition for three and one-half, instead of-three, per cen±~ interest on the bond,
being. 26 to 36. The bill was then read a third
time and passed—13 to 20—all the Democrats
j« and Messrs; Plumb and Saunders voting in
. Ithe affirmative. |Tne amendments to be
,&, *asse<| upon by the House are: A five-twenty.
m
809.
rniTXiecf to advebxisjbbs,
\iy you. sttio the Advertisement
apesf.
f
. isstyof i>£re»ten, bond; a compensation of
'ne-jiaTffinstead of one-fourth of one per cent,
for placing the loan; a provision for popnlar-
iTinirxJieloan in the sense of having it taken
b;the people, and several verbal alterations.]
TeDistrict Appropriation bill ($3,500,000) was
4 v^SS^is. The Conference Committee on the In-
can appropriation bill was re-appointed, and a
6nference Committee on the Pension Approbation bill was also named In the House a
lotion to proceed to business on the calendar,
Sr the purpose of taking up the Pitz John
lorterbiil, was defeated—114 to 31T—the fol-
iwifig Democrats voting with the Republi-
onsin the negative: Messrs. Blount, Bouck,
: .ayidson (S. C), Dunn, Felton, Mills, Ste-
ifens. Stevenson and Whitthorne. ■ The Agri-
BltUral Appropriation bill was taken up in
fommittce of the Whole and read by sections.
The credentials of Messrs. Camden (W. Va.),
.icksoii (Tenn.) and Pair (Nev.), Senators-
«oct, were presented and filed in the Senate
7ithe,19th. A number of proposed amend-
lentsto the River and Harbor bill were intro:
diced and referred, after which the regular
cder, the calendar, wa^s postponed, and the
Otile-Disease.s bill, establishing a Bureau of
inimal Industry, was taken up—23 to 21—and
t&b-ated. .Without progress on the bill the Sen-
ste, at,two o'clock, adjourned to give Senators
^^noDortunity to attend the funeral of the
la? Representative Wood—Mr. Carlisle, from
tfeWays and Means Committee, reported a
biliii the House, repealing all laws imposing
taies on. bank checks and drafts and on
baBKJPeposits, friction matches, medical
preparations, perfumery, cosmetics, cologne
and other articles. The Conference report - on the Army Appropriation
-Tnt'JBas agreed to. A resolution was adopted
povmiag for an adjournment at two o'clock,
s a mark of respect for the memory of the
]«fe Fernando Wood and in order to enable
iicanbers to attend the funeral. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was taken up in
rtimrnittee of the Whole, and an amendment
was adopted appropriating $80,000 for the purchase, propagation and distribution of seeds,
etc, providing" an equal proportion of three-
~t foarths of all the seeds shall, at their request,
I lv>supplied to Senators and Representatives
* * j-Jrdistribution qmong their agricultural constituents. ^	
Domestic.
Jcdge ChaM/'es E. Eorbes, who recently
died*8* Northampton, Mass:, left by will
g220;O0& to establish-a public library in that
places - ■   - ■ ■■■-"■' ' ■        	
Three children were fatally burned at Dan-
fgy0nvMe, (5onn> f-on the 16th' by pouring ker-
Iv    • * o.«ne oil Qn a-fire.   The mother was seriously
^HS&'In trying to save their lives.
Qyfthe 16th John Ennis, of Chicago, defeated Rudolph Goetz, of Milwaukee, in a
lOft-mile race on skates in New York. Ar-
^jjgejuents were made for a race for §1,000 a
side.
The Society for the Suppression of Crime
,   j^pjaijing,strong .efforts.to close the gam-
i" blin^ houses in New York.
T&B members of two families, named Boyce
an(j Vfelter, at Rondout, N. T:, have been
I made dangerously sick by eating what is sup-
losedt0 haAre ^een a^eased pork. Some of
the same meat given to cats killed them. The
j,vmptoms Of the sick persons are those at-
**' ijixiS&Stne presence of trichina3 in the sys-
tena.
A 5tflT in c1uifcy was T3^1111 in ^e United
States Circuit Court in New York on the 16fcn
to ■prevent the carrying out of the agreement
of consolidation ^between tlje' three great
telefrapli companies, on the ground that ib
vkll%eenW in the violation of specitic con-
ttacis with* the Xfnliei, States   Gable Com-
Th'b Palace Hotel of Buffalo, sa'd to be the
'most perfect structure of its kind in the
United States, and perhaps in the worlds-was
d'esfcroyed DJ nre on *^e ISih. It was'erected
three years ago by Dr. R, V. fierce, recently'
member of Congress from the Buffalo District, and cost half a million dollars.
The International Commission has decided
; to jggue an appeal to business men to jassisfc
in makih? the Exposition of 1883 a success.
K O- Adams, the defaulting Postmaster of
Dead wood, who was sentenced to five years
.,     jn the Detroit jKouse of Correetion, has been
.#WW«Rt>y the President
The Denver City Common Council has accepted a proposition to light the streets of
the city with the electrical light for one
year for 11^000.
Two trains whicb left Sioux City on February land 2 reached St.* Paul on the 17th,
with, forty througb. passengers.
Ok the 17th a Wabash, train was thrown
from an, embankment near Hannibal, Mo.,
by a broken railj and was burned. V. Snell,
of Crescent City, Iowa, was killed, and Conductor Pollock was bruised and cut badly.
A cosiPAsr of Philadelpbians has undertaken to reclaim the Everglades of Florida by
constructing canals.
p^ the evening of the 17th the Central
Brancb Union Pacific Road sent out its first
passenger train foe seven days. A stock-
train with five car-loads of bogs Avas snowed
in at Summit Station, and all were dead when
reached.
Richmond Peacock, living near Darien,
Ga., was recently assassinated and robbed of
§100. At tbe inquest a lady identified a piece
of the gun wad as a part of a dress she had
given to the nephew of the deceased, and the
latter was arrested upon the charge of murder.
The challenge of Edward Hanla» and "Wallace Ross to row any two men in the world
has been accepted by John A. Kennedy and
M. F. Davis, of Portland, Me.., The, contest
will take place in American waters, for $8,000
aside.
It is stated that the consolidation of the
International, Iron Mountain and Texas Pacific Roads has been arranged.
The Valley Bank of Kansas City, Mo., suspended on the 17th. *
Axabge tract of land has been 'purchased
in Eastern Kentucky for a Swiss colony.
A notable slander suit was on trial in New
York Citj' on the 18th, wherein T. A. Have-
meyer, the extensive sugar importer, had
sued L. N. Fuller to recover §100.000 for accusing him (Havemeyer) of -adulterating
sugars.
Twentt-itve houses were destroyed by fire
at Scottsboro, Ala., on the ISth. Tbe total
loss was estimated at $40,000.
It was stated on the 18th that the spinners
and weavers of Fall River, Mass., had decided
to inaugurate a strike at from five to ten
mills, and that the mill-owners had decided,
if the persons employed at some mills should
strike, to close out all the operatives.
A Boston telegram of the 18th says the
small-pox had made its appearance in the
Massachusetts State's Prison, and]that Prison
Officer Bobbins was down with,the,disease.
Joseph H. "Wade, on trial in Indianapolis,
has pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. On a former trial he was found
guilty and sentenced to be hung, but the Supreme Court reversed the decision and gave
him a new trial.
The body of the late Dn Kourden Horenz-
burg, of Indianapolis, was cremated in the
Le Moyne furnace at "Washington, Pa., on
the 19th.
Standard silver dollars to the number of
93,995 were put in circulation during the
week ended on the 19th. During the corresponding week of last year the number was
127,500.
The widow of Wilson Fowlkes, of Petersburg, Va., has been found guilty of the murder of her husband, and sentenced to be
hanged.
A San Fhancisco dispatch of the 19 th state
that, after the examination of 875 citizens,
extending over a period of twenty days, a
jury had been secured to try Isaac Kalloch,
the murderer of Charles De Young.
At a meeting in New York on the 19th of
the stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company 325,973 shares voted in favor
of the increase of stock to SOD,000 shares of
?100 each, and 100 shares against the increase. The 100 shares voted in opposition
belong to William S. Williams, who brought
one of the suits against the consolidation.
It was stated oh the 19th that the epizootic
had broken out afresh in some of the street
car stables in New York City.
The beet-sugar enterprise at Franklin,
Mass., is reported to have proven a failure,
and many farmers in that region are said to
be heavy losers.
It is again stated that cattle-raisers are
unanimous in the belief that the severity of
the winter has had a marked effect from the
Rio Grande to. the British boundary. Some
Nebraska herdsmen recently predicted a loss
of twenty to thirty per cent., with still greater damage unless there should soon be a
marked rise in the temperature. About
150,000 Texas cattle were wintering "in Indian
Territory.
Personal and Political.
The Ways and Means Committee of the
National House of Representatives have
chosen John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia,
to fill the chairmanship made vacant by the
death of Fernando Wood.
The following is the resolution reported in
the United States Senate on the 16th from
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives that the interests of the people of
the United States and the welfare and security
of their Government are so involved in the
subject of the construction of a ship-canal and
other ways for the transportation of sea-goih*.
vessels across the isthmus, that the Government of the United States, with the frankness
Which is.„due to all otherpeoples an.d«jGovern-
irients, "hereby asserts that it will insist that its
consent is a necessary condition precedent to
the execution of any suchproject, andalso as
to the rules and regulations under which other nations shall participate in the use.bf such
canals or other ways, either in peace o'r war.
The Greenbackers of Michigan met in State
Convention at Lansing on the 16th, and nominated John B. Chipman, of Coldwater, for
Justice of the Supreme Court.
The President has withdrawn the nomina-
nation of Mr. Foster to be District Attorney
of New York, in place of Stewart L. Woodford.
The Senate of Illinois has passed a bill to
tax the gross earnings of telegraph companies two per cent.
A dead-lock: lias prevailed iri the New York
Board of Aldermen since January 1, no President having been chosen.
An Ohio legislator has introduced a bill
providing that wife-beaters shall be given not
less than twenty-five lashes on the bare back,
well laid on.
The .Michigan Senate on the 17th voted
down the joint resolution for submitting to
the people an-amendment to the Constitution
forbidding the sale ormanufacture of liquors.
On the 17th two Chinamen of Chicago applied to Judge Moran for "naturalization
papers, and the matter was taken tinder advisement.
The vote for Mayor at the recent city election, in, Philadelphia, was as follows: King,
Independent Democrat, indorsed by the Independent Republicans, 787l2Y;'Stokicy, Republican, 72,589;   King's majority, 5,538.
Governor Porter, of Indiana, after consulting the Attorney-General, has commissioned Mrs. Martha J. Evans, of Richmond, a
Notary Public.
The remains of Fernando Wood arrived at
Washington on thel8th, in charge of his son
and the Committee of the House appointed
to meet the remains at Pittsburgh. The
party was met at tlie depot by the Committee
on Ways and Means and the Sergeant-at-
Anns of the House, and were taken directly
to the late residence of the deceased.
Mr. Elliot F. Shephabd was nominated
on the 18th, by President Hayes, for United
States Attorney of the Southern* District of
New York, in place of General Stewart L.
Woodford.
The following is the vote on the final*
passage of the Funding bill in the United
States Senate on the 18th:
Teas.—Bailey, Bayard, Beck, Booth, Brown,
Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Davis (III.), Baton,
Farley, Garland, Groome, Grover, Hampton,
Harris, Hereford, Hill (Ga.), Ingalis, Johnston.
Jonas, Kernan, Lamar, McDonald, McPherson,
Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Plumb, Pugh,
Saulsbury, Saunders, Slater, Thurman, Vance,
Vest,- Voorhees, Walker, Wallace, Whyte,
Williams, Withers—43.
Nays—Allison, Anthony, Baldwin, Blair,
Burnside, Cameron (Wis.), Dawes, Ferry, Hamlin, Hill (Col.), Hoar, Kirkwood, Logan, McMillan, Morrill, Paddock, Piatt, Rollins, Teller, Windom—20,
The obsequies of Fernando Wood took
place from his late residence in Washington
on the 19th, the attendance of prominent men
being very large. The remains were to be
interred at Trinity Cemetery, New York, the
family having decided to have no public ceremony.
The lower house of the Maine Legislature
lias voted to indefinitely postpone a resolution adopted by the Senate expressive of
sympathy with the people of Ireland.
.Foreign.
In consequence ot the action of the Government on the subject of coercion, the Par-
nellites have resolved to vote with the Con1
Servatives on all questions not relating to-
Ifeland.
In the British House of Commons on the
18th the first clause of the Coercion bill—that
giving the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland authority to cause the arrest of any person on the
island and to imprison him' without bail for
certain specified offenses—was passed—382
toM.
Lieutenant Schwatea has offered to
place at the disposal of her Majesty's Government the Franklin relics recently discovered.
Atotjb Khan has declared war against the
Ameer of Afghanistan.
On the 18th William Shaw, Home Rule
member of Parliament from County Cork,
issued a manifesto, iu which he denounced
the course of Mr. Parnell and his associates.
• A Rome (Italy) telegram of the 19th says
the Pope was indignant at Parnell and the
members of the Land League because they
had evidently formed an alliance with Roche-
fort and-other French anti-clericals.
At a recent maskedfete of the students of
the Academy of Painting at Munich, Bavaria,
the costumes of several caught fire. Four
pupils were burned to death and eight seriously injured. ,   .
The Iron-Holders' Union of Cincinnati issued an order on the 19th for a strike in all
the foundries for an advance of twenty per
cent, in wages.
The Alpine village of Brevieres, in Savoy,
has been destroyed by an avalanche. Fifteen
lives were lost, and property to the value of
250,000 francs was destroyed.
In addressing 15,000 persons aji Clare, Ireland, on the 20th, Parnell congratulated himself that, through his tactics in the House of
Commons, he had postponed for seven weeks
the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
Fkance has issued an order of prohibition
against the importation of salted pork, bacon
and hams from the United States.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 20th says
the Czar had sent his aids to distribute
money in the famine stricken villages of Russia.
The Municipality of Marseilles, by a vote
of 33 to 1, has annulled a decision to grant a
site for the erection of a statue to Thiers, on
thegroundthat he was an enemy of radical
ideas.
A late dispatch from Cape Town says the
Boers had made overtures for peace through
the Presidentof the Orange Free State, asking that the British evacuate the Transvaal
and leave its future relations to be settled
by a Commission. It was stated that General
Colley. had agreed., to .the appointment of
Commissioners on condition that hostilities
were immediately suspended.
LATER NEWS.
In his speech at Clare on the 20th' Parnell
is reported to: have advised tenants, in case
of threatened eviction, to plow up the land
and prevent the landlord from grazing his
cattle. The question whether this was not
an incitement to indictable offenses was
raised in Parliament.
Another unsuccessful ballot (the thirty-
third) for United States Senator was taken
in the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 21st.
The vote was: Beaver, 27; Bayne, 2-1; Wallace, 19; scattering, 5.-
Secretary Sherman on the 21st issued a
call for §25,000,000 in five-per-aents. of 1881,
on which principal and accrued interest will
be paid after May 21.
It was stated on the 21st that the Sub-
Treasurer at New York had received deposits
of §5,557,000 from banks which threatened to
retiretheir circulation in ease the pending
Funding bill should become a law. The Tnter-
Ocean of the 221 says some of the leading
bankers of Chicago, wild had been interviewed on the bill, united in declaring three;
per cent, too low a -rate of interest, but
stated that the passage of the bill would have
no other effect upon business than to
strengthen first-class securities.
The total value oE silk goods manufactured
in the United States for the year ended June
30, 1880, was. according to the report of the
Census Bureau, 434,410,463; number of factories, 383; amount of capital, real and personal, invested, §18,899,500.
The Statistical Bureau reports that ihe
value of the exports of domestic provisions,
lard and dairy products during January, 1881,
was §15,218,657; January, 1880, §9,547,447;
values o£ provisions and tallow for three
months ended January 31, 1831, §38,551,634;
three months ended January 31, 1830, §;>5,-
696,915; values of dairy products for nine
months ended January 31, 1881, §21,108,166;
nine months ended January 31, 1830, §14,655 -
734.
In the United States Senate on the 2lst the
credentials of Mr. Harrison, Senator-elect
from Indiana, were presented and filed. The
House Post-Route bill was passed, with
amendments. The report of the Conference
Committee on the Army Appropriation bill
was adopted. The Legislative Appropriation
bill was taken up, and several proposed
amendments weredisposed of. In the House
a resp'utiqn.) (Offered by Mr. McMahon, was
,adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for full information of his dealings with
syndicates, banks, bankers, brokers and other
persons in the work of refunding the ten-forty
bonds during the year 1879, and as to the expense incurred by the Government in printing,
preparing and advertising said bonds; etc
Mr. Warner presented a bill for the appointment of a Board of Fiscal Inspectors to watch
the collections and disbursements of the
Treasury. Mr. XJrner offered a. measure, for
a Commission to propose a remedy for unjust
charges upon inter-State commerce. The
bill to incorporate the Cherokee and Arkansas  Kiver Railroad Company   was passed.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
A Year of Horrors.
If good old Mother Shipton, Instead of
frightening timid people with the prophecy
that the world would come to an end in 1881,
had announced that it would be a very extraordinary year, and that the natural elements
would be in unusual commotion, involving
vast destruction of property and entailing
great human suffering over wide areas, and
that an era of casualties would set in, occasioning severe loss of human life, and that
violence, murder and suicide would run rampant, she would have hit much nearer the
truth. There jret remain ten months and a
half of the year, and If the destruction which
has been caused during the past six weeks
continues in. any thing like the same proportion for the rest of the year it will be
set down in all future time as the year of
horror. The winter seems to-have accumulated its ravages since the 1st of January.
Fierce blizzards have continuously, swept
down from the Arctic region, via Manitoba,
piling up snow almost mountain-high, and
burj'ing many viotims beneath its avalanches, while numerous others have frozen
to death, exposed to its pitiless blasts. Continuous rains have inundated the Pacific
coast and have washed out several mining
towns. Tho ice gorges have burst with great
violence in the thaw and flooded Washington*
Toledo, Philadelphia and other cities, involving damages to property that amount up into the millions. A large part of New Orleans
has been under water for days. Innocent little brooks and creeks in the rural districts
that have barelylife enough to run in the summer have been transformed into raging tor.
rents and have swept away mills, farm-houses,
bridges and fences, and inundated quiet country villages. Railroads have been blocked up
until supplies of tood and fuel have grown
scarce and prices have mounted upward with
astonishing velocity. The ocean has been
strewn with wrecks. Not satisfied with
their damage in their own region, Ihe snow-
blizzards have crossed their natural boundaries and devastated unfamiliar regions, killing the fruit. Disease has
followed in the track of these extraordinary
natural manifestations, and epidemics xyf scar,
■let-fever, small-pox, diphtheria and other diseases have spread with fearful fatality. Every
element of destructiveness seems to have been
let loose. In this country alone the railroads
have killed 102 persons and severely maimed
120 others. By& marine disasters 470 persons
have lost their lives. By explosions and other
casualties 205 persons have been killed in this
country, as reported by telegraph, which only
takes cognizance of larger casualties. Not
content with the loss of life by natural and
unavoidable causes, eighty wretched persons
In this country have taken their own lives,
and H8 others have been murdered in six
weeks' time, and these figures only include
those whose names have been mentioned in the
telegraphic news, which, of course, only includes a part of the whole number.—Chicago
Tribune, February is.
Municipal  Bonded Indebtedness.
Mr. Robert P. Porter, special agent of the
census on "Wealth, Debt and Taxation," furnishes an interesting exhibit of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the cities and
towns of the United States containing a population of 7,500 inhabitants and upward. Forthcoming tables will show tlie purposes for
which all bonds were issued in each year from
1880 to 1880, and the amounts maturing each
year from 1880 to 1900. The figures given in
the following table are subject to possible revision:
States.
Maine	
N. Hampshire.
Vermont	
Massachusetts.
Rhode Island...
Connecticut	
New York.	
New Jersey	
Pennsylvania..
Delaware	
Maryland	
Virginia	
W.Virginia	
N. Carolina	
S. Carolina	
Georgia..	
Florida 	
Alabama	
Mississippi	
Louisiana..	
Texas	
Arkansas .'.
Kentucky	
Tennessee	
Ohio	
Indiana	
Illinois...	
Michigan.-., i...
Wisconsin.	
Iowa 	
Minnesota	
Missouri.......
Kansas,........
Nebraska	
Colorado	
Nevada	
Oregon	
California	
Popida-
tion.
116.00S
81,242
...      23,513
39 1,122,034
'      181,554
295,300
2,550,15'
503,071
1,505,705
42,499
332,190
155,9561
31,366
17,361
00,039
100,860
9,8901
55,448
11.8141
227,157)
92,026
33,185
198.S3
93,636
760,363
252,823;
776,244:
279,409
, 227,988
152,576
107,6471
467,8711
55,618
6
15
28
13
29
1
li
7:'
l!
l
21
4
1
3
1
2
0
1
4*
21
12;
22
13;
il
10
4|
6
4
2
2
1
1!
6
43,522
50,450
13,705
17,578
324,097
Total.....:.,..|300lll,350,772i$664,346,913l §58 53
Totalbond-
ed dcl)t.
Per
capita.
§11,635,550
2,952,400
C07.900
73,636,019
11,424,756
12,846.564
207,742, SSI'
3S..578,350'
95.258,1341
i;372.450
34,516,417i
10,703,177
506,5G0
530,500:
4,775,451
3,387,000
•3,49K566!
373,217
35,968:570;
3,14i;662
378,694
30,321,500!
3,583,400
28,392,920
6.958,700
38,590,680
5,109,775!
3,683,650
2,749,309
2,991,931
26,178,449
1,524,777
428,535!
'iiKooo
76,500!
7,055,115
§100 22
36 34
25 85
65 68
62 93
43 52
8146
76 69
63 26
32 29
103 91
68 04
16 20
30 56
79 54
83 15
63*99
31 59
70 30
3414
1315
5191
15 89
50 36
27 52
2414
18 29
38 39
38 02
27 79
55 95
37 42
9 85
'837
435
2177
Geographically considered, the bonded indebtedness of the cities and towns of the
United States, containing 7,500 inhabitants and
upward, is as follows:
States.
Eastern..
Middle-
Southern.
Western..
No. of i Pop la-
cities,     tion.
75'3,839,793
72'4,933,622
38 3,073,468
335!3,533,S91
TotaUwnd-
ed debt.
§313,163,183;
377,468,232
59,964,321
113,751,327
Percap'a
§63 38
76 51
5586
32 38
In the report of the State of South .Carolina
the indebtedness of the .City' of Columbia
^(§600,000) is not included. * The report of the
State of Tennessee does not include the (repudiated) indebtedness of the City of Memphis,
which is estimated at about §5,000,000. The
States of Colorado and Florida have no bonded
debt. The bonded indebtedness of New York
City amounts to §136,407,434; of Chicago to
§13,043,000, and of Louisville, Ky., to §8,079,000.
The rates of interest paid range from three
to twelve per cent, per annum.— Washington
Cor. N. T. Tribune.
A Remarkable Case.
As accident occurred on Monday at Ramcy,
Clarion County, which proved to be one of the
most extraordinary cases ever recorded in tbe
history of surgery or medical jurisprudence.
James Gaupell, a French Canadian employed
at Ramey's mill, fell from a trestle aDout
twelve feet to the ground. After recovering from the shock resulting from the fall, he
was unable to move his head, and Dr. Edwards, attending physician, discovered that
the neck was dislocated and some of tho
bones broken; but it was evident that the
spinal column had not been severed. The
doctor reset and put the fractured neck
in position, and "set about devising means
to put it in place until the broken bones
and contused ligaments attain their normal
condition. To this end a muslin bandage three
inches wide was wrapped tightly around the
neck, and to it were attached two lugs, one on
either side; To these arope was fastened and
run oyer a pulley fixed to the ceiling of the
room. A bucket was suspended on the other
end of the rope and in it were placed various
weights, So that the patient can adjust the contrivance as occasion may require by simply
reaching to the bucket and removing or adding
one or two weights. He remains in a sitting
posture, and should any slight change of position occur, the tension of tho rope will still
support the weight of the head. With these
appliances for his support, the unfortunate
man will have to remain practically in the
same position until the injured parts become
united or death ends ihe case.—Pittsburgh
{Pa.) Telegraph.
The Funding BO*.
Washington, February 18.
' Following is the text of the Funding bill as it passed' the Senate to-day:
AN ACT to facilitate the refunding of the
National debt:
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., -That all exist-
ing^provisions of the law authorizing the refunding of theNational debt shall apply to any
bonds of the United States bearing a higher
rate of interest than ilA per centum per annum
•which may hereafter become redeemable:
provided, that, in lieu of the bonds authorized
to be issued by the act of July 14,1880, entitled
"Au act to authorize the refunding of the National debt," and acts amendatory theretot
and the certificates authorized by the act of
February 26,1879, entitled "An act to authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of
refunding the public debt," the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized to Issue bonds
to an amonut not exceeding §400,000,000 in denominations of §50, or some multiple of that
sum, which shall bear interest at the rate of
three per cent, per annum, payable semi-an-
nually,redeemable at the pleasure of theUnited
States after five years, and payable in twenty
years from the date of issue; and also Treasury notes to an amount not exceeding §300,-
000,000, in denominations of §10, or some multiple of that sum not exceeding §1,0C0. either
registered or coupon, bearing interest at a
rate not exceeding three per cent., payable
semi-annually, redeemable at the pleasure of
the United States after one year, and payable
in ten years from the date of issue; and no
Treasury note of less denomination than §100
Bhallbe registered. The bonds and Treasury
notes shall be, in all other respects, of like
character and subject to the same provision
as the bonds authorized to be issued by the
act of July 14,1881, entitled "An act to authorize the refunding of the National debt" and
acts amendatory thereto; provided that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize an increase of the public debt; pro
vided, further, that interest upon the six-percent, bonds hereby authorized to be refunded
shall cease at the expiration of thirty days
after publication of notice that the same
has been designated by the Secretary of
the Treasury for redemption. It shall be the
duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, under
such rules and regulations ae he may prescribe, to authorize public subscriptions at not
less than par, to be received at all depositories
of the' United States, and at* all National
Banks, and such other banks as he may designate, for the bonds and Treasury notes herein
provided for, for thirty days before he' shall
contract for or award any portion of said bonds
or Treasury notes to any syndicate, or individuals, or bankers, or otherwise than under
such public subscriptions; and if it shall happen that more than the entire amount of said
bonds and Treasury notes, or either, have
been subscribed within the said thirty days, he
shall award the full amount subscribed to all
persons who shall have made bona fide Subscriptions for the sum of $2,000 or less, at the
rates most advantageous to the United States,
and the residue ratably among subscribers in
proportion to the amount by them respectively subscribed, at the rates most advantageous
to the United States.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized, in the process of refunding
the National debt, to exchange, at not less
than par, any bonds or Treasury notes herein
authorized for any bonds of the United States
outstanding and uncalled, bearing a higher
rate of interest than four and one-half per
centum per annum, and on the bonds so redeemed the Secretary of the Treasury may
allow to the holders the difference between
the interest on such bonds from the date of
exchange to the time of maturity, and the interest for a like period on the bonds or Treasury notes issued; and the bonds so received
and exchanged in pursuance of the provisions
of this act shall be canceled and destroyed.
But none of the provisions of this act shall apply to the redemption or exchange of any of
the bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized and directed to make suitable rules and regulations to carry this act into
effect, and the expense of preparing, issuing,
advertising and disposing of the bonds and
Treasury notes authorized to be issued shall
not exceed one-half of one per centum.
Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized, if, in his opinion, it shall
become necessary, to use temporarily
not exceeding §50,000,000 of the standard
gold and silver coin in the Treasury in
redemption of five and six-per-cent.
bonds of the United States authorized to be
refunded by the provisions of this act, which
shall, from time to time, be repaid and replaced out of the proceeds of the sale of the
bonds or Treasury notes authorized by this
act, and he may, at any time, apply the surplus money In the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, orso much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption
of the United States bonds or Treasury notes
authorized by this act; provided, that the
bonds and Treasury notes so purchased or redeemed shall constitute no part of the sinking
fund, but shall be canceled.
Sec. 5. From and after the 1st day of July,
1881, the thre&-per-cent. bonds authorized by
the first section of this act shall be the only
bonds receivable as security for National
Bank circulation, or as security for safe-keeping and prompt payment of public money deposited with such banks; but when any such
bonds, deposited for the purposes aforesaid,
shall be designated for the purchase or re-'
demption by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the banking association depositing the same
shall have the right to substitute other issues
of bonds of theUnited States iri lieu thereof;
Provided, that no bonds upon which interest
has ceased shall be accepted, or shall be continued on deposit as security for circulation, or
for safe-keeping of public money; and in case
the bonds so deposited shall not be withdrawn,
as provided bylaw, within thirty days after interest has ceased thereon, the banking asso-.
ciation depositing the same shall be subject to
the liabilities and proceedings on the part of
the Comptroller provided for in Sec. 5,234 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States; and
provided, further, that Sec. 4 of the act of
June 20, 3874, entitled "An act fixing the
amount of United States notes, providing for
redistribution of the National Bank currency,
and for other purposes," be and the same is
hereby repealed; and See's 5,159 and 5,160 of
the Revised Statutes of the United States be
and the same are hereby re-enacted.
Sec. 6. That payment of any of the bonds
hereby authorized, after the expiration of five
years, shall be made in amounts to be determined from time to time by the Secretary of
the Treasury at his discretion, the bonds so to!
be paid to be distinguished and described by
dates and numbers, beginning for each successive payment with the bonds of each class
last dated and numbered; of the time of which
intended payment or redemption the Secretary of the Treasury shall give public notice,
and the interest on the particular bonds so
selected at any time to be paid shall cease at
the expiration of thirty days from tho publication of such notice.
Sec. 7. That this act shall be known as "the
Funding act of 1881," and all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.
The Boston co-operative store, oi
which Josiah Quincy and other philanthropists are Directors, lost $525 on its
last year's business, but is now nearly
on a paying basis.
Lady Mart Bennett is said to' have
raised the first pansy that ever blossomed, some twenty years ago, at Wal-
ton-on-Thamc9.
•* The Man in tliefDonie."
" The Man in the Dome"' is dead.- He
had a national reputation, and thousands of people throughout the United
States who have stopped at his stand,
just below the large picture in the dome
of the Capitol, will remember him.
Sassmel Douglass Wyeth was no ordinary
man. Few of" his visitors knew his
name and fewer still were aware of his
checkered career.
Wyeth came from Harrisburg, where
his father had a printing office, in which
General Simon Cameron learned how to
" set" type and become a printer. Samuel and his brothers found their way to
Philadelphia, where he set up a stereotyping establishment on Pear Street,
near Third, but soon failed, and was ruined financially. About this time his
domestic relations became inharmonious and the" result was that his wife left
him, went to her home in Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, and there she
still remains. From 1862 up to the time
of his death this peculiar man never
saw his wife, though he was visited at
times by his children.
Wyeth was known by all the old
printers of Philadelphia, and when he
came here he sought out A. J. Donaldson, now in the Government Printing
Office, and secured a position in the
stereotyping rooms, where he remained
but a short time, and his restless disposition took him into the devious path
of journalism. He became a correspondent of the Philadelphia Sunday
IDispatch. Then he wrote a book on the
" Ins and Outs of Washington," and
latterly took to selling photographs in
the Capitol. Along in '65 Congress
cleared all the booths out of the building, buc Wyeth, .singularly enough, was
not included in the exodus, and was
given a stand up in the dome. Here
it was that he became famous and
earned the title of "The Man in the
Dome." Wyeth was of excellent edu-
cution, naturally, bright, of retentive
memory and an inquiring turn of mind.
He wrote a book on the bronze doors,
and had studied closely all the features
of the Capitol building and of the city.
He was a human directory and encyclopedia. His stand proved a lucrative
one, and he cleared as high as $1,500 to
$2,000 per year from the sales of photographs and knicknacks. ,
Now ~ comes the strange part of
Wyeth's life. He developed a taste for
oddities and entered upon a career of
extravagance. A suite of rooms only
satisfied him andreceptions twice a week
were his hobby. Here gathered the
choice spirits among the men and women of culture about Washington and wit
and wisdom marked the moments of
th eir mingling. His earnings were spent
in rare pictures, articles of vertu and
bric-a-brac. A few years ago, however,
he found that he was' living beyon'd his
income and then he forsook' his expensive habits, distributed his trophies
among his friends to save storage and
betook himself to a quiet abode. Three
weeks ago he was afflicted with pneumonia and after a week's illness the
earthly career of "The Man in the
Dome" had ended, and he had been
called up higher. He left no will but
prepared a statement of his effects.
Among the many articles is an allegorical picture named "Catholicity," which
is valued at $1,000. Innumerable bills
have appeared against the estate, and
weeks "will be required to adjust the
differences. At the present time he
has a book in the press entitled " The
Federal City," which may never see the
light of day.
Samuel D. Wyeth was a brother of
John Wyeth, the well-known Philadelphia druggist, on Walnut Street, near
Broad, ana a elose friend of the Cameron family. It lias always been believed that the influence of General
Simon Cameron placed him in the dome
as the Camerons never forget a friend.
There was a scramble for Wyeth1 s stand
soon after his death, and one man had
the signatures of ten Senators to his petition, but it did not avail. A widow
named Barnes has become " The Woman in the Dome" forthe present generation.— Cor. Philadelphia Record.
Uncouth and Untrained.
have
ymade
i   the
I lin-
If, indeed, young mothers knew how
thoroughly uncouth their rude, undisciplined children appear to others,
would that consideration have any effect upon their method of training?
The stranger who sojourns at a lax-ge
boarding-house or hotel has ample opportunities to observe the spoiled child
of the period. 1 once passed the Sabbath at a hotel where the children
ruled the house. They rioted, Avithout
interference on the part of their parents,
so as to make a bedlam of the house,
and the Sabbath was turned into half a-
dozen Fourths-of July. In the evening,
when the guests had met in the parlor,
sixteen (I counted them) girls and boys
from six to twelve years of age, rushed
in and cleared the room of all quietly-
disposed people almost as soon as so
many Comanche Indians could
done it. Their boisterous romping
conversation impracticable, anc
parlor was speedily deserted,
gered to see what the young ones could
do. One boy mounted the marble-top
center-table, and lying on his back,
kicked up his legs and shouted. Three
others jumped On, and the four had a
rough and tumble on it, yelling and
pulling. A servant was sent in to quell
the riot, and the children laughed him
to scorn. When he turned to go out
they followed him and girls—children of
rich and fashionable people—kieked
him to the door. Talking about this to
the landlord, he said he was obliged to
allow the childrenfull liberty. "It is
not so much the fault of the children as
of the parents^ mothers especially. They
resent aily interference with the liberty
of their children and take a pride in
their boisterous glee. And worse than
that tney teach them to be saucy and
rude and. profane. I spoke to a child
four years old in the presence of his
mother, reproving him for misconduct
and to my horror the little rascal turned
and swore at me! His mother laughed,
and said, 'How funny!' Mothers seem
to think it very smart; for their children
to use such words and to have such manners. Poor, deluded women! They
are preparing an unhappy future for
themselves. Children should not be
crowded into corners; they must hav
their rightful share of liberty; but surely adult guests have some rights as well.
The Tekkes as Soldiers,
The Tekke is a man of war. He is,
as a rule, a tall, well-built fellow, with
a swarthy face, beard as black as- coal,
dark, shaggy eyebrows, small, glistening blae*k eyes, with a sword held in his
-teeth and pistols in either hand. It is
counted a sin for hi«i to leave his dead
comrades behind him. The more he
carries from the battlefield the moie
houris he receives in paradise. Often
he dashes himself upon the enemy anjd
uses his sword till he is killed. Often
he conceals himself in straw upon the
field and deals deadly bullets all around-,
When discovered and dragged out*
though already covered with wounds,
he starts no- and lights till he is cut to
earth. His martial qualities were nev4r
so thoroughly tested by the Russians as
on this very battle ground of Geojfc
Tepe. Rarely were soldiers more certain of success than those whom Loma-
kin had led to its walls in the autumn
of 1879. They had held a church parade and performed a mass in honor of
General Lazareff. They were full of
spirit and sang impromptu Russian airs,"
one of them being about the Tekkes and
beginning—" Ah, you rascals; the Turks-
we have thresh.ed, and now we come to
pay you out also." The officers discussed their plans and saw themselves
already in Merv. At the word of command they marched in full fighting or-*
der, when a dispatch was brought from®
the staff that the Tekkes were showing
themselves. Shouts were raised, rifie|s
were examined and revolvers loaded.
A troop of horsemen bore down on them.
Masses of Tekkes, many in Whitfe
turbans or huge black busbies, and
having a curved sword or double-barrelled gun in their hands, dashed wildly upon the square, but gave way before the artillery and fled back to the
desert. The Russians advanced to thb
high walls before which they are fighting to-day. In front of them was a
deep fosse, defended by hosts of Tekkes.
Beyond were riflemen, aiming steadily
and well. To the left were Cossacks,
the mountain battery being behind and
firing at a distance of lessthansix hundred yards into the encampment.* The
native women and children, on camels,
were trying by two roads to:gotaway
from the aoul. Men ran behind with,
children around their necks. . Thk
mothers threw themselves at the feet ol
Russian horsemen and taking thfe
babies from their breasts begged pitef-
ously that they might be spared. Their
screams made an awful medley with the
roar of the cannon and crack of rifles.
They were turned back to the encampment by order of the conrmanderr
Then the Fourth Battery signaled, the
trumpets sounded the attack and
the' troops with officers m fronti,
rushed on with cheers. The
troops hurried pelimell to the batr
teries, the enemy swarmed onthewall^
the iman in" the minaret of the mosqtie •
summoned the faithful and the ai'tillery
poiired volleys into the aoul. The Rus--
sians singing songs, crossed the six-foot
fosse, and clambered on one another's
backs to get into the battery. At that
moment there started from the earthy
as though by magic, thousands of dest
perate Tekkes. The Russians' "were
stunned by the desperate ohslaughti
Looking to the rear, they -saw
not a single reserve behind, theml
Giving -way to. , th.e_.__ _mass of
Tekkes, they fell back. "From the
walls women threw stones and boiling
water upon them. The nomads, ledjby
that son of Nur Berdi Khan who lead4
them to-day, encountered the "pick of
the Caueassian army. A hafi*d-to-hand
fight ensued. "Not a soldier or officeij
remained unengaged. The Russians
fought desperately, using the sabre, and
revolver. A sapper, disarmed by.two
Tekkes, threw himself upon one, was
dragged, to earth, and then only "was
killed by the other. An ensign formed
a ring about him of the nomads who
fell under his revolver. He was theri
nearly cut to pieces. To the right? of
him the commander, bearing the fiag^of
the Shervan regiment,, was killed by a
bullet in the chest. The Russian bayonets kept the Tekkes off. Seeing this;
two of the latter threw . themselvesj
against the line and drew the bayonets!
towards their own bodies and thus'al-!
lowed their comrades to slip in through;
the broken formation and sabre/the "en-j
emy. Many flung themselves upon the!
mountain battery. Eleven, were killedj
in front of one of the guns./ *Hqv^ thej
battle ended nobody exactly9'' knows.]
The attacking-party Was about li;Q0Ol
men; the Tekkes 15,000. In the evening';
all the Russians were gathered inside thej
laager and it was found, that they had;
lost 161 men killed and 272 wounded.
Among the Tekke slain was a younger
brother of Im Berdi Khan,, and the renowned warrior Kara-Batiri. __.Th.eyi
had not given their lives in vainv *'Be-:
fore the end of the month the Russians;
were retracing their steps toward, ithe
Caspian, in the mood of Napoleon's j
troops retreating from Moscow.   .,  ,~
A Wild Traveler of tlie
Skiei£^
. In the Hacienda Miraflores, in Col-'
ima, recently, between ten and elevenj
o'clock in the forenoon,- sorne;.ladies,)
While going to the baths, saw an«nor-i
mous Eerolite, seemingly cast jforth from;
the sun. It was enveloped in a dark j
cloud, drew after it ah immense tail, i
from which sparks seintilated, and!
passed through the heavens with a tjre-j
mendous noise. „ The same phenopaeiion. I
accompanied with a noise vei'y'niuch!
resembling that-of an eartaiqiiakeV-wasi
observed at the same moment in- the j
haciendas of Manzanilla, -in .Teconian, j
Ixtlahuacan, Achotan and Coalmayana, j
While detonations were heard along' Ihe'
vast extent of coast from ManzanilM to
Tonila. In Ixtlahuacan the people went
to praying, believing that the.end of
the world had come.—-La Yos del Pa-
cifico (Mexico.) ""'■'"',        '     1
—She had sued for breach of proniisej
and the verdict of the jury was against j
her. "Want to poll the*jury?"^ishel
was asked. "Yes, I do. Jesi gimmef
the pole for two minutes,'? and she had!
thrown off her bonnet before the lggal
phrase could be explained by" 'her [
counsel. '; *'     .■■'•■"l     \
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_—A Scotch chemist tries to f throw.
discredit on many a fine poetic fancy bvf
suggesting that the beautiful azure Itintj
of a clear sky is the result-of the.dugt in}
the atmosphere, and .that. {the. thicker
the dust the deeper "the blue of the sky.
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