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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 27, 1881.
VOL.1. -NO. 11.
NEWS SUMMARY.-
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Important Intelligence from All Parts.
Congress.
A buvcj was passed in the Senate on the
19th. to provide for ascertaining and settling-
private land claims in States and Territories
acquired from Mexico, except California. A
Dill reported favorably from the Judiciary
Committee to relieve Richard Fatherly, of Arkansas, from political disabilities was, after
debate, defeated—30 to 16—not the necessary
two-thirds in the affirmative. A resolution
Tvas adopted providing for a select committee
on pleuropneumonia and other contagions
and-infectious diseases of cattle and.other
domestieahimals, and Messrs. Johnston, Will-
iamsj Rollins, Kirkwood and Coke were named
as such committee The Funding bill came
up in the House as unfinished business. Mr.
Gillette raised the point of order-that, inasmuch as Mr. jSTewberry had openly stated that
he had gone to the National Rank of which he
was a director to inquire how he should vote,
he had no right to vote on the pending measure. Mr. Weaver afterward extended the
point of order so as to include every member
who was a Kational Bank stockholder.
The Speaker Overruled the point of
order, and an appeal was laid on the
table-^to 3£. The amendment to the Funding bill, providing that, before any of the
bends or certificates authorized by the act are
issued, the Secretary* of the Treasury shall
par on the bonds accruing during 1381 all
Silver dollars and all gold over §50,000,000 now
in the Treasury for redemption purposes, was
rejected—111 to 140. All the other amendments agreed to in Committee of the Whole
were adopted,.*aiid the bill was then passed by
the following, vote: Yeas—Acklen, Ather-
ton, Atkins;.. Baehman. : Barber, Real,
Berry, Bicknell, Blackburn. -Bliss, Blount,
Rptiek, Bragg, Buckner, Cabell. Caldwell,
Carlisle, Chalmers, Clardy, Clark (Mo.), Clements, Clymer, Coffroth. Converse, Cook,
Covert, Cox, Cravens, Culberson, Davidson,
Davis (N. C), Davis (Mo.), Deuster,"Dibrell,
Dickey, Dunn, Dunnell, Elam, Evans, Felton,
Forney, Frost, G-eddes, Goode, Gunter. Hammond (Ga.). Harris (Va.); Hatch, Henkle,
HenryT * Herbert, Hill, Hooker, Hos-
tettef, House, Hall, Hiinton, Hufd,
Haitchins, Johnston, Kelly, Eenna, Ketcham,
Kfirimel, King, Katchiri, Klotz, Kndtt, Le-
fevre, Lounsberry, Manning, Marsh, Martin
(W. Va.). Martin (Del.), MeKenzie, MeLane,
McMahon, McMillen, Miles, Mills, Money,
Morrison, Muldrow, Muller, New, Nicholas,
O'Connor, Persons, Phillips, Phister, Poehle,
Reagan, Richardson "|S. C), Richmond, Ross,
Rothwell, Russell; '(jST. C), Sanford, Sawyer,
Scales, Scorille, Shelley. Siuionton, Singleton
(111.), Singleton (Miss.), Slemons, Smith (Pa.),
Smith (N. J.), Smith (Ga.), Sparks, Springer,
Steele, Talbott, Taylor (Tenn.), Thompson
(Ky.), Tillman, Townshend (111.), Tucker,
Turner, Opdegraffi (lowai, TJptou, Vance, Wad-
dell, Warner, "Washburn, Wellborn, Wells.
White, Whittaker,Whitthorne, Williams (Ala.)!
Willis, Wilson, Wise. F.; Wood (N." Y.)—135.
Nays—Jtifceh', Aldrich (It. I.), Aldribh (III.),
Anderson, Bailey, Baker, Balloii, Belford,
Beltzhoover, Bingham, Blake, Bland, Bowman, Boyd, Brewer, ■ Briggs, Brigham,
Burrows, Butterv/orthi Calkins, Camp,
Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Clafflin,
Colerict, Conger, Cowgill, Crapo, Daggett,
Davis (III-). Davis (Cal J.DeLaMatyr, Deering,
Dick, Dwight,- Einstein, Elb's, Errett, Ferdon,
Field, Fisher, Ford, Forsyth, Fort. Frye, Gillette. Godshalk, Hall, Harmer, Hammond (ST.
Y.), Harris (Mass.), Haskell, Hawley, Hayes,
Hazelton, Heilman, Henderson, Hiscoek,
Horr, Hubbell, Humphrey, Jones, Keiier, Kil-
linger,Xapham, Lindsey, Loring, Lowe, Mason,
McCoid, McGook, McGowan, McKiniey,
Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Morse Morton, Murch, Neal, Newbury, Norcross,
O'Neill, Overton, Paeheeo, Page, Phelps,
Pound, Prescott, Price, Reed Rice, Richaid-
son (N. Y.), Robertson, Robinson, Russell
(Mass.), Ryan (Ivan.), Ryan (Pa.),Sapp, Shellen-
berger, Sherwin, Speer. Stevenson, Stone,
Taylor ^Ohloj, Thomas, Thompson (Iowa),
Townsend (Ohio). Taylor (Tenn.), Drner, Upde-
grafC<Ohio). Valentine, VanArnim, Voorhis,
Wait, Ward, Weaver, Wilber, Williams (Wis.!,
Willetts (W. Va.), Wood (N. V.), Wright, K o-
eum, Young (Ohio)—125.
iNthe Senate on the 20th the ladies'gallery
vras occupied mainly by members of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association. Mr.
McDonald called up.his resolution for a Standing- Committee oh the Rights of Women Citi-
zehsr and advocated its adoption, and the resolution was referred to the Committee on
Rules. Mr. Kernan presented a resolution,,
which was adopted, requesting the President
to transmit to the Senate copies of any official
erresponde'nee relative to the exportation of
criminals, paupers, or insane persons to the
"United States by any foreign State, canton, or
municipality. The Funding b;il was received from'the House' and referred to the
Finance Committee— In the House the Naval
Appropriation bill t'$ 14,481,000) was passed as it
came from the Committee on Appropriations.
Mr. Calkins called up the contested election
case of Boynton vs. Loring, from the Sixth
Massachusetts District. The majority report
of* the Committee on Elections, which was
signed by the Republican and Democratic
members, declared Loring entitled to his seat,,
The minority report, in favor of Boynton, was
signed by General Weaver. Mr. -Loring made
a statement in reply to charges in the minority
report, but no further action was taken.
The bill to place General Grant on the retired list was reported, with two amendments,
by Mr. Logan in the Senate on the 21st. The
Indian Appropriation bill was passed. Adjourned to the 31th—The Senate bill for the
retirement of General Ord, with the rank and
pay of Major-General, was passed in the
House. The contested election case of Boynton vs. Loring, of the Sixth Massachusetts
District, was.taken, up, and, after debate, the
maifoTity'resoltitioh in; fiivor "of the sitting
member, Loring, was agreed to withoiitdivi-
sioto. -In the ease of Bisbee vs. Hull, from the*
Second Congressional District of Florida, the
Committee on Elections reported unanimously in favor of Bisbee, the contestant
The Senate wasnot in session On the 22d.
The House adopted the report of the Election
Committee on the contested election case of
Bisbee vs. Hull, of the Second FloridaDistrict,
declaring the former entitled to the seat, and
Mr. Bisbee took the oath of office.,
Domestic.
ADTiOES-from Fort Buford, received cm-the*
19th,'state'that Sittinsr Bull: had started for
thir" British: Pdsse'Ssions, accompanied by
forty lodges. Fifty lodges re.tised to follow
WnTj.itridwere expected to surrender toJthe
ft Uni|ed states authorities within' a few^'days."
At Pateksox, N. J., * a few days aj»o five
boys, ranging in as;es from fifteen to eighteen
years, were seriously, and some of them
T-robably fatally, injured, while coasting,
their "bob-sled" haviusr come in collision
with, a telegraph pole. The boys and their
sled were horribly smashed. One boy had
his nose broken and driven into his face, his
feeilx iiifd jaw ^^cen. the irjQprfnl; ,of every
tooth in the iip{ er jaw beiiiaj left in the;teie-
•gfapn pole against which the sled ran,
'^oiti&'Ol the indentations being half an inch
deep.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons have
voted to release from prison John S. Morton,
formerly President of a Philadelphia street
railway, who was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for the fraudulent issue of bonds.
Ahohkiboe accident occurred in Petroit
the other day. A Mrs. Buetti-er had been
advised to take an alcoholic sweat for some
ailment, and she ignoran^y riaeed si,, saucer,
full of alcohol on tire floor, Eefefue to it, and
then stood over th#saucer, •wearina* her oi-
dinaiy* clothing. The "flames set lire Co her
undergarments, and in a moment the unfortunate woman was a mass of flames. She
wa^ atone in the house, but a neighbor heard
her screams, and arrived before her clothing-
bad entirely burned off. She was ba-Jly and
fatally burned, her tvhole body, from the
reck down, being a mass of blisters and half-
roasted flesh.
At GirardviUe, Pa., on the 19th, Miss;Mary
Cardaffand Miss Honore Dougherty were
coasting down a hi 1 when the boy wbo was
guiding their gled lost control of it. Seeing
Lis danger hero-led off and escaped. The sled
crashed against a telegraph pole,*and both '
young ladies were instantly killed.
Wu^tam H. Westbrvelt, after completing a term of seven years for conspiracy to
kidnap Charlie Eoss, was discharged from the
Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia on the
20th.   He declares that he is utterly innocent
of the charge on which he was convicted.
The Illinois State Grange, in session at
Freeport on the 20th, indorsed the Reagan
bill to regulate commerce between States.
A New Yohk dispatch of the 20th says.
Rufns Hatch had begun suit in the Supreme
Court against the Western Union, the Atlantic & Pacific and the American Union Telegraph Companies, to prevent the proposed
consolidation. He had obtained an injunction restraining the defendant companies
from entering into any agreement of consolidation, and from increasing their capital
stock, and other matters. A resolution had
been adopted by the Assembly at Albany
calling for' an investigation concerning the
proposed consolidation of the telegraph companies.
Feancis B. Booth and wife, an aged
couple in New York, were recently found in
bed perishing from hunger. They had been
ill for thirty days, and had eaten nothing for
nine days. Mr. Booth was once wealthy, but
lost his money in speculations.
During the progress of a fire in Chicago on
the night of the 21st the. walls of. a large
furniture factory fell and fifteen firemen and
one policeman were" buried' in the. rains.
Two of the firemen were so severely injured
that they would probably die, and the others
were more or less seriously wounded.
The wind blew at the rate of forty miles
an hour at New York on the 21st. Telegraph
poles were prostrated in all sections of the
city, and the hands of clocks ou the churches
and public buildings were stopped by the accumulation of ice.
James French, a brakeman on  the  Piedmont Road, in North Carolina,  recently undertook to dance a jig on   top of   a moving;,
freight-car,   but  was killed  by a  covered
bridge, near Salisbury.
On the 23d an Erie railway train, laving
postal and express cars and* nine Pullman
sleepers, and running at the rate of thirty-
five miles an hour, was thrown from the
track near Owego, N. Y., by the breaking of
a driving-wheel axle of a locomotive. By the
explosion of the oil lamps the postal-car took
fire and burned like tinder, four clerks being
roasted to a crisp. The express messenger,
Henry C. Brewer, also expired in the flames.
The train employes escaped unhurt, but
ten members of a colored minstrel company
from Binghamton were more or less injured."
The storm on the 22d and 23d was widely
extended and very destructive. In New York
City and vicinity it was especially violent, resulting in the almost total destruction of the
telegraphic system, and causing a loss of from
$100,000 to $500;000. The" fire-alarm system
was rendered useless, and the telephonic system also. The injury to trees and shrubbery
was very great. In Boston the streets were
impassable, and on most of the lines of street
railroad travel was entirely suspended. Along
the southern coast of New Jersey the
wind on the 21st blew at the rate of
sixty to seventy miles an hour. A summer
hotel at Asbury Park was spread over the
ground, the loss being S10.0J0. At "Water-
town, in Northern New York, the snow was
from two to four feet deep. Two saw-mills
at Sandy Creek were crushed to the earth by
the pressure on their roofs.
The O'Leary contest for the International
belt was opened at the American Institute in
New York on the morning of the 24th, in the
prosenee of a large crowd. Thirty pedestrians started off on a trot, Hughes making the
first mile in 6:05.
Dukino the week ended on the 22d, 114,-
998 standard silver dollars were distributed.
The number during the corresponding week
of last year was 104,407.
On the 23d the Harlem Ba-lroad near New
York was blockaded for eight miles by snowdrifts from five to ten feet high.
Julius Mexeb, of New York, was recently
fined ?250 and sent to the penitentiary for
three months for using decayed meat in the
manufacture of sausages.
The Egyptian obelisk was placed on. its
pedestal in Central Park, New York, on the
23d. Secretary of the Navy Goff, Secretary
of State Evarts, the Central Park Commis-
s'oners and many representatives of the
Masonic fraternity were among the nearly
10,000 people who were present on the occasion.
A potjch of registered mail matter of the
first-class, which arrived in Chicago by a
Lake Shore train a few evenings ago, from
Rochester, N. Y., was found to have been cut
open and robbed of valuables to an indefinite
amount.        ' ' •      :
Recent snow-slides at Custer and Bonanza,
Idaho, swept off seventeen persons, all but
four of whom were rescued.
Snow fell steadily in,New Orleans on the
23d for eight hours, melting rapidly away.
Personal and Political.'
The National Woman's Suffrage Convention in Washington on the 19th adopted resolutions setting forth that*'"suffrage or .self-
government is a National, inalienable right,
and not a privilege that any Government can
confer or justly withhold; that we are a Nation, and not a confederacy of States; that
we are all citizens, first of the United States,
and second of the States wherein ,we reside,
hence the? right otiself-goyernment should, be
guaranteed.by the National Constitution to
all citizens, that, with the ballot in their hands,
they may protect themselves everywhere
under our flag; that it is the duty of Congress to submit to the several States a Constitutional amendment giving women citizens
the right of suffrage, and to pass the bill
providing for a committee to consider the
rights of .women.       ,., „,. - ,     .^
President Hates sent to the Senate on
the 19th the nomination pf 'Colonel Delos B.
Sackeit„ formerly attached, to General Sheridan's staff, to be Inspector General, of the
Army.
Henrt L. Dawes was re-elected on the 19th
United States Senator from Massachusetts,
and Francis M. Cockrell United States Senator from Missouri.
A public reception was tendered to General and Mrs. Grant at the Executive Mansion
in Albany, jST. Y., on the 20th. Many citizens
paid their respects. ".:'■"..
The Senate of California has tabled two
concurrent resolutions protesting against the
; ratiflcation'of the treaties with China.
George Reynolds, of Salt Lake, formerly Secretary to the President of the Mormon
Church, finished his term of two years in the
Utah Penitentiary for buramous marriage on
tlie 01th, and was released. His Mormon
friends presented" him 'with a purse of $500.
Petitions, with nearly seven thousand
names, have been laid before the Senate of
Michigan for submitting to the people a
Constitutional amendment prohib ting the
manufacture or sale of liquor, beer or wine.
A still larger number have been presented in
the House.
Father Edward Puroell, brother of
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, died on
the 2lsfc at the Ursuline Convent in Brown
County, Ohio, in his 73d year. He was his
brother's business manager.
TnE Woman Suffrage Association of St.
Louis on the 21st appointed a committee to
present to the Missouri Legislature a petition
asking that body to" submit to the people a
Constitutional amendment giving women the
right to vote.
A Washington daspatch of the 224" says
the House Judiciary Committee bad instructed Representative Harris to report to the
House, with favorable recommendation, the
Lowell Bankrupt bill, as modified by the committee. This bill was before a delegation of
merchants recently in session in that city.
Charles H. Van Wtck was on the 22d
elected United States Senator by the Nebraska Legislature* on the seventeenth ballot. Mr. Van Wyck is a native of New York,
and served two terms in Congress from.the
West Point District. He is now a resident
of Otoe County, Neb., a farmer, was a Brigadier-General of volunteers during the war,
and is regarded as an anti-railroad man.
President Hates on the 22d directed the
following officers to fce placed on the retired
list: Brigadier-General "W. M. Dunn, Judge-
Advocate-General; General StewartVanvliet,
Assistant-Quartermaster-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Woods, Deputy Paymaster-General, and Major Joseph H. Eaton,
Paymaster.
Rev. W. H. Perrin, D. D., one of thelead-
ing Methodist ministers of Michigan, died at
Albion on the 22d, aged fifty-four years.
Foreign.
. Seventeen vessels were ashore near Cardiff, Wales, on the 19th, and it was feared
they would all sro to pieces. Seven had been
beached at Yarmouth and fifty persons
drowned. ..■"-."
Railwat men at Mpntreal jare discussing
a plan to put a tunnel under the Falls' of
Niagara.      '" - "■,
In the trial of the traversers at Dublin on
the 20th one of the counsel for the traversers
asked the acquittal of Gordon and Boyton, in
order to rejoice the greater Ireland beyond
the seas. ■'■■:'■'   .
A great battle was recently fought- be
tween the Chilians and Peruvians at a point
nine miles south of Lima, in which the Peruvians suffered defeat and heavy loss.
On the 20th the Berlin police prohibited a
meeting of workmen to protest against the
anti-Jewish agitation.
It was stated on the 20th that the cotton-
masters of Bolton, England^ had notified their
workmen that, if the demand for an increase
of wages were not withdrawn, they would
lock up their mills.
On the reassembling of the French Cham
berson the 20th Leon Say was re-elected
President of the Senate, and'Gambetta of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The death of E. A. Sothern, the actor, was
announced from London on the 21st.
Advices received on the 21st say that a de
cisive battle between the Chilian and Peruvian forces had taken place at Miraflores, in
which the latter suffered an utter rout and
the loss of the city of Lima. President Piero-
la had fled and the Minister of "War had been
taken prisoner.   The Chilian loss was heavy.
A Land-League meeting at Rock Carry,
Ireland, and a counter meeting of Orangemen were prohibited on the 21st, for fear of
a breach of the peace. Forty-nine Leaguers
atListowel had been summoned to answer
the charge of seditious conspiracy.
Ox the 21st the police at St. Petersburg
arrested several distinguished Nihilists.
The death of Verbockhaven, the eminent
Belgian painter, is announced.
Joseph U. Crawford, a Pennsylvanian,
has completed a division of the first American railroad in Asia, on one of the northern islands of Japan, at a cost of $20,000 per
mile. . .. ..      ,      ,.
There were snow drifts thirty feet high in
the vicinity of Kingston, Ont., on the 23d.
"News   was received on the 23d that the
Chilians had forced the surrender of the Peruvian port of Callao.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the 23d says
a dispatch had» been received from General
Skobeleff stating that he fought a desperate
battle with, the Tekke-Turcomans on the
16th, finally repulsing them with great
slaughter.
- LATER  tfEWS.
• Coercion biliswere introduced in the" British Parliament on the evening of the 24th by
Secretary Forster.' One of them asks power
for the Viceroy, until September of the next
year, to arrest persons reasonably suspected
of treasonable offenses.
Herr Bluchrod.2s, a leading Jewish banker of Berlin, is reported to have renounced
Judaism and to have departed for Rome to be
baptized by the Pope.
General B. Bate, Democrat, on the 24th
withdrew as- a candidate for- United States
Senator from Tennessee. The State Legislature took five ballots on that day, the last
resulting as follows: Bailey, 11; Taylor, 32;
Muse, 45; Rose, 2; Bright, 4; Neal, 1; Maynard, 22; Marks, 1.
The Pennsylvania Legislature again balloted for-United States Senator, on the 24th,
with the following result: Oliver (Rep. caucus nominee), 73; Wallace (Dem.), 66; Grow
(Rep.), 4S;' scattering, 10.   Nochoice.
President Hates has renominated Edward C. Billings, of Louisiana, to be United
States Judge for the Fifth Circuit, in place of
Judge Woods, appointed to the-Supreme
Bench.
There was a remarkable snow-storm
throughout the South on the 24th. Snow
fell to the depth of several inches at New
Orleans, Galveston aud Mobile, and trees and
shrubbery were generally greatly damaged.
In Wilmington, N. C., there was good sleighing, and at Augusta, Ga., snow fell for eight
hours.
In the United States District Court at
Charleston a few days ago William L. "Webb
was convicted of voting twenty-one ballots
in Georgetown County at the last election.
The jury- commended him to the mercy of the
Judge.
In the United 8tates Senate on the 24th a
bill for the reclamation of the Potomac
marshes was passed. Mr. Logan asked unanimous consent to take up the bill to retire
General Grant. Mr. Vest objected. A spirited
debate followed, and, after the expiration of
the morning hour, Mr. Logan moved to postpone the pending and prior orders in order
to proceed with the Grant Retirement bill.
The motion was defeated—25 to 28—a party
vote, except that Messrs. Lamar and Mcpherson,, with Davis (III.), voted- aye with the
Republicans. A „ large number Qt ."bills
were introduced in the House, among
which were the following: By Mr. Robinson,
to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy;
by Mr. Young, authorizing the appointment
of a Commission to examine and report on
the adulteration of food; by Mr. Gillette, for
the ponstruction of a double-track railway
from New York to (jouucil Bluffs;* By Mr.
Acklen, to regulate the collection of duties
on sugar. Mr. Cox, from the Committee on
Census, reported a substitute for the Apportionment bill, providing for 30L Representatives, The Post-office Appropriation bill
($40,76;),431) was considered iu Committee ot
the Whole.
OCCUKRENCES OF INTEREST.
Official Census Iteport.
The official statement of the Superintendent of the Census, as sent to Congress a few
days ago, gives the population of the United
States as follows, by States:
Alabama...... 1,262,727 Mississippi 1,131,5'
Arkansas...,         ""  "
California...
Colorado....
Connecticut
Delaware...,
Florida	
Georgia.....
Illinois	
Indiana	
Iowa...,
Kansas
Kentucky
174,64,9
652,683
146,014
803,564:Missouri  3,168,834
864,686 Nebraska    452,453
Nevada ....    62.265
N. Hampshire.   346.9S4
New Jersey....1,150,983
....   267,351 New York 5,083,810
... 1,5S9,C48 NorthCarolina.l,40rJ,047
... .3,078,76J.Ohio 3,178,2S9
....l,578,3620regon.    174,767
.. 1,654,620'Pennsylvania.. 4,282,786
    995,966 Khode Island..   276,528
y 1,64S,78S South Carolina.   595,662
Louisiana    540,103lTennessee ... .l,54i,463
Maine    64S,945iTexas .. .1,572,574
Maryland    954,632 Vermont    332,286
Massachusetts.1,783,012! Virginia 1,520,800
Michigan l,636,331j West Virginia..  616,443
Minnesota   780,806]Wisconsin 1,352,480
This makes a total of 49,369,595 forthe States.
The Territories aggregate 665,663, and the District of Columbia 177,638, which makes a grand
aggregate of population of 50,153,866.
A. Herkimer County  (BT. "IT.) Avalanche.
Fotfii young lads of from ten to fourteen,
sons of .Albert Youlin, Robert Williams, Christopher Van Nort and John Manning, of Frankfort Center, had a narrow escape from death
on Monday. . They were attending school, and
during the noon intermission, against the protest of the teacher, climbed a hill whose banks
were almost perpendicular and nearly 300 feet
in height. When about 20^ feet from the foot,
the snow which had drifted to a great depth
about the top, suddenly gave away and came
rushing down the side, carrying fences, small
trees, and boys to the bottom, &. gang of men
was immediately summoned to extricate the
latter, but it was not till after nearly two
hours of incessant labor that they were recovered, exhausted and nearly unconscious.
It was found that one of young Youlin's knees,
was badly dislocated, while Williams and Van
Nort were greatly bruised about their bodies
and heads, and some internal Injuries were
feared. Manning was unhurt.—T/tico (2V. Y.)
Eerald.  ^
The Funding: Bill.
Washington, January 19.
Following is the full text of the Funding
bill as finally passed by the House to-day;
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc. That all existing provisions of the law authorizing the refunding of the National debt shall apply to
any bonds of the United States bearing a higher rate of interest than 414 per cent, per annum
which may hereafter become redeemable; provided that, in lieu of the bonds authorized to
be issued by the act of July 14,1870, entitled
"An act to authorize the refunding of the
National debt," and acts amendatory thereto, and the certificates authorized by tho
act of February 26, 1S79,' entitled "An act to
authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of the refunding of the
public debt," the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to issue bonds in an amount
not exceeding S400,ODO,030, which shall bear interest at the rate of three per cent, per annum, redeemable at the pleasure of the
United States after five years, and payable
ten years from date of issue, and also certificates to the amount of $300,000,000, in, denominations of $10, S20 or §50, either registered or
coupon, bearing interest at the rate of three
per cent, per annum, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after one year, and
•payable in ten years from date. The bonds
and certificates shall be in all other respects of
like character, and subject to the same provisions as the bonds authorized to be issued
by the act of July 14, 1870, 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 authorise an increase of the
public debt; and provided, further, that interest upon the six->per-cent. bonds hereby authorized to be refunded shall cease at the
expiration of thirty days after notice that the
same have been designated by the Secretary
of the Treasury for redemption.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, of the Treasury is
hereby authorized, in process of refunding the
National debt, to exchange, at not less than
par, any bonds or certificates herein authorized for any of the bonds of the United States
outstanding and uncalled bearing a higher
rate, of .interest than ty2 per cent, per annum,
and on bonds so redeemed the Secretary of the
Treasury may allow to 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
certificates issued; but none of tho provisions
of this act shall apply to the redemption or
exchange of any of the bonds issued to the
Pacific Railway Companies, and the bonds so
received and exchanged in pursuance of the
provisions of this act shall be canceled and
destroyed.
Sec, 3. Authority to raise bonds and certificates to the amount necessary to carry out the
provisions of this act is hereby granted, and
the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make suitable rules
-and regulations to carry this act into effect;
•provided, that the expenses of preparing, issuing;, advertising and disposing of the bonds
and certificates authorized to be issued shall
not exceed one-fourth of one per cent.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized, if in his opinion it shall become necessary, to use not exceeding $50,000,-
000 of the standard gold and silver coin in the
Treasury in the redemption of the five and six-
per-cent.bonds of the United States, authorized
to be refunded by the provisions of this act,
andbe.may, at any time, apply the surplus
money in the* Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as he may consider
proper, to the purchase or redemption of
United States bonds or certificates; provided,
that the bonds and certificates so purchased
or redeemed shall constitute no part of the
Sinkingfund, but shall be canceled.
Sec. 5. From and after the first day of May,
1881, the three-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 the safe-keeping and prompt payment of public money deposited with such banks; but when any such
bonds deposited for the purpose aforesaid
shall be designated for purchase 'or redemption by the Secretary of the Treasury, the
banking association depositing the same.shall
have the risrht to substitute other issues of
bonds of the United States in lieu thereof;
provided, that no bond upon which interest
has ceased shall be accepted or shall be continued on deposit as 'security for the circulation
or for the safe-keeping of the public money;
and in case the bonds so deposited shall not be
withdrawn, as provided by law, within thirty
days after interest has ceased thereon, the
banking association depositing the same shall
be subject to the liabilities and proceedings
on the part of the Comptroller provided for in
Sec. 5,344 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States; and provided, further, that Sec. 4 of
the act of June 20,1874, entitled "An act fixing
the amount of United States notes, providing
for a redistribution of the National Bank currency and for other purposes," be, and the
same is; hereby, repealed, and Sees. 5jl59nnd
5,160 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States be, and the same are hereby, re-enacted.
Sec. 6. 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 Episcopalians of St. Louis
clubbed together lately, hired a theater
for a week, paid the manager the salary
of," the players, selecting,*of course, a
moral play, and at the close turned
over the profits to the local charity for
the sake of which this new departure
was made.
MOTHER RAILROAD HORROR.
Detail* of One of the Many Recent Railroad Accidents—A Train on thelfcwTovk
«fc Erie Road Thrown from the Track
and .Set on fire, and Four Men JBurned to
2>eatn.
Elmira, N. Y., January 23.
Erie train No. 12, from Buffalo, left Elmira
last night at eleven o'clock for New York.
The train consisted of one postal car, one express car, two baggage cars and nine passenger coaches, most of them Pullman sleepers.
When live miles west of Owego, near Tioga
Center, one of the driving-wheel axles of the
locomotive broke close up to the wheel, and
the entire train, which was going at the rate
of thirty-five miles an hour, was thrown from
the track.
The a*ccident occurred where there was no
embankment. The engine kept its feet, the
engineer applying the air-brakes as soon as he
felt the shock. The cars were stopped very
quickly, but the forward ones were turned
-over and over two or three times, some going
on one side of the track and some on the
other.
The engineer and fireman escaped unhurt.
The postal-car contained four clerks. This
car almost instantly tooknre and burned like
gunpowder. The oil lamps used probably exploded and added fuel to the fire. Everyman
in the car was roasted to a crisp. The remains
of one, who weighed -over two hundred
pounds, were gathered up and putinasmall
box.
In the express car was a messenger, Henry
C. Brewer, of Elmira, and efforts were made to
relieve him. A hole was cut in a side door of
the car so that he got his head out, but his legs
were fastened by the piled-up mass of express
matter. The train men tried to pull him out,
but the flames drove tbem away. They saw
his hair and whiskers burned off, and then he
put his hand up to his eyes and fell back into
the flames.
The men in the postal car must have perished very quickly, as not a sound came from
the wreck except the crackling of the flames.
The names of the dead are: Joseph Bedmg-
er, mail agent; Eenry C. Brewer, express
agent, of Elmira; Mail Agent Seybolt, of
Mount Hope; Mail Agent Ingraham, of Binghamton; Mail Weigher Fox, of New York.
The remains were taken to Owego, where an
inquest was held.
WHAT A PASSENGER SAW.
New York, January 23.
The passengers on the train wrecked at Tioga
Station reached New York to-night. Among
them was Henry C.Vilas, of Cleveland,General
Manager of the South Shore Line, one of the
passengers in the forward sleeping car. He
said to a Tribune reporter: "The crash occurred at about 11:55 o'clock, I should think-
some time after I had gone to bod. It was
very severe, and I woke with a start. Hastily
putting on my coat, I rushed out and found
myself one of the first on the ground. At once
I began to look out tor the unfortunate people
in the forward cars. The scene that presented
itself was terrible. The postal car, which was
directly behind the engine, had been
thrown off into a field at right
angles to the track, at a distance
"of nearly pne hundred feet, and
it was Smashed all to pieces. The flames immediately began to rise from it, doubtless
caused by the fire in the stoves and the explosion of the kerosene lamps with which the
car was lighted, and in less than live minutes
the whole car was in a blaze, Which lighted up
the bare fields around with ghastly glare. It
lay in a heap under a large elm tree, which
soon took fire and was enveloped in flames.
Nothing-could be seen at first of the mail
clerks who had occupied the car, andiio sound
was heard from them. But when the roof of
the car caved in three of the bodies could be
distinctly seen huddled up in one corner of
the car, where it is supposed they were thrown
and killed by the first shock. The other body
was found in the opposite end of the car, and
all were so charred and blackened that identification was almost impossible.
"Thecars which followed the postal car
were not thrown from the roadway, but were
lying across the track in the utmost confusion. The express and baggage cars and the
smolting car were off the track, and the first
caught fire immediately. The door to it was
completely blocked by the express ma'ter in
the car, and Brewer, the agent, was 'imprisoned • amid the flames. His cries attracted
attention and great efforts were made to extricate him from his terrible position, but in
vain. He had managed to get his head out of
a small window in the end of the car, where
he begged in piteous tones for those outside
to save him. The door was forced open a few
inches, which letTn the air, and the flames
bursting out of the window, he fell back with
a groan and was not seen again alive. The
passengers had by this time collected from all
parts of the train, and were supplied with shovels from the village. They tried to extinguish the flames by throwing snow upon
the burning cars. They were soon
assisted by the Fire Department of Owego.
The three forward cars were burning at the
same time, and soon afterward the smoking-
car began to blaze. One of these had been occupied by the Alabama Negro Minstrel
Troupe, the members of which had been able
to escape without any further injuries than
some severe scratches and bruises. This car
was lying on its side, and it was some time before all got out with the assistance of those
outside. The baggage-master, Perry, was
found to have dislocated his arm, and
I assisted two other men in pulling
his arm into joint while he lay on
the snow. After this he worked like
a Trojan, and with the help of some of the
passengers he was able to save every piece of
baggage. The coolness and good discipline
displayed by the employes on the train was remarkable. It was by their efforts that a serious panic was prevented. As it was. all the
passengers weie at first much frightened,
many rushed from the cars, half dressed* but
when they saw the danger was over they became quiet, and were very willhigto lend their
assistance in caring for those who were injured and in putting out the fire."
Exposure and Death in the Snow.
On Thursday, December 30, at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Silas C. Lowe left here on foot to take
messages up to the steamer John Gates, at
Simmons' Landing, distance about twelve
miles. He passed our section in good Spirits.
Two Indians going from here for Wallula were
some distance ahead of him and broke th,e path
for him. It seems that he went within about
three miles of the steamer and then turned
back. Nothing was heard of h"m until yesterday about one p. m., when Messrs. Itoach and
Anderson came down from the Gates. After
walking about three miles this way
they saw blood on the trail and sprinkled
along on the snow and places where the snow
was stamped down as if a person had bsen
crawling and rolling in it. They saw where ho
had walked from the railroad track out to a
telegraph pole, evidently to get kindling to
make a lire. They found matches in one place
where ho had tried to make afire. They came
on until withiirsix miles of this place, where
they found Mr. Lowe lying in the snow and in
a dying condition. He was just gasping for
breath. His hands were bleeding. The skin
was; torn from his fingers and hands in several
places, which I suppose he did in trying to get
sage brush to make a lire, as he had no knife
with him. Mr. Itoach came on int-> town as
fnst.ns.possible to bring tbe nr.vs, and as soon
as I heard it I ordered our little switch engine
to go out and b.-ing him in. Wotoika box
car and a dozen citizens. We were detained
some time by the snow on the track about a
foot deep. AVe arrived the:e about tlfteen
minutes to two and found him lead.—Cor. Port-
land Oregonian.
The Surroundings of the Farm House.
Why is it that when farmers attempt
to ornament their homes they so often
make failures? Why is it that so many
farmers make such a perfect suecess of
not ornamenting their homes? Why is
it that so many farmers, without making
strenuous personal efforts themselves to
render their homes disagreeable and
unattractive, succeed in attaining the
same object by denying to their wives
and daughters . the use of fresh paint
when requisite for a few hours' assistance from the hired man during the
spring season, or the necessary funds to
procure a few rose bushes or ornamental
shrubs? Agriculture is a laborious occupation and if the remuneration is
sure, it is slow; every cent is earned
before it is received.
Farmers are essentially utilitarians.
A farmer knows the value of a" field of
grain, but cannot estimate the value of
a fountain or arbor in a lawn. A farmer
knows the value of a horse or cow, or
the use of a piece of farm machinery;
but to some of them the most perfect
piece of statuary is so much useless
lumber. Hence it is that so few farmers undertake the task of ornamenting
their homes. That is why so many
farni houses are guiltless of ornamentation. A farmer looks with suspicion
upon any project that does not promise
a return in dollars and cents. The entire
farm must, if possible, be devoted to
grain, pasture and meadow; and if, unfortunately, there is any waste land
about the house, it is utilized for tethering calves and perhaps as a hog pasture. Everything about the farm must
produce something that can be taken to
market. The time and efforts of every
one on the farm must b.e devoted to the
production of something marketable.
Mowers do not pay; you cannot eat
them and they have no market price;
they^are not worth twenty-five cents
per bushel, or fifteen dollars per
ton, and therefore they should not be
planted on the most fertile spot on the
farm. If the " women folks" are insane
enough to want to pull weeds and dig
•all summer, why not plant early potatoes and corn in the dooryard rather
than flowers? Fuchias and geraniums
are nothing but a temptation for women
to fritter away valuable time. The
farmers to which I refer are not to
blame and I do not wish to be understood as blaming them, for it is constitutional.
When a farmer does take a fancy to
decorate his house and its surroundings
he often allows his taste to run riot in
the attempt. I have known a wealthy
farmer who iad the board fence in
front of his house whitewashed annually,
and then imagined that he had accomplished everything that was necesesary
in the way of ornamentation and even
wondered why his home was not the
pride of his family and an object for the
envy of his neighbors. Another had
the yard between his house and the
roadfilled with current bushes and
plum trees with the dog-kennel and
chicken-coops as extras, and wondered
what more could be done to make his
house attractive in appearance. In
many instances of home decoration
which I can call to mind, no matter
what has been attempted and accomplished, there is always too much appearance of a forced effort. Each
'•picket that has been freshly painted
seems to say in theplainest language, "I
at least am an ornament to this place."
Each rose bush and shrub that has been
planted in the front yard, seems oy its
very prominence to challenge the admiration Of all beholders, in regard to
its own personal appearance and the
style its presence gives to the front
yard and the house and even to some
field back over the hill. In many an attempt made by the farmer to ornament
his home, even when aided by wealth,
the failure is complete, the attempt is
disjointed, eccentric and ludicrous.
let the same men have perfect success in making farm houses and their
surroundings very unnecessarily desolate and unattractive. Farmers like
convenient barns and comfortable dwellings, but it is hardly necessary that these
several buildings should crowd * each
other; and even worse than this—in
many farm houses the principal view
from the dining-room is perhaps the
pig-sty. Now I do not find any fault
with a pig-sty; in fact, I like to look at
a good one, well stocked; but! would
rather look at something else when I
am dining. Perhaps the parlor on the
other side of the house commands a
beautiful view of the cattle yard. The
proximity of such objects in the country
. goes for nothing, and yet were it not
that country air is so pure, the effect of
such a reckless arrangement of buildings would be insufferable.' Of course
farm huildings must be reasonably convenient to the house; but when the
matter of convenience has received sufficient consideration, it is not absolutely necessary to make the least attractive objects the most prominent. Ii is
not necessary that pigs and calves
should challenge admiration from the
front yard. It is not necessary to have
the pig-sty more prominent than the
house or horse-barn. Rather than this,
1 would have—and I make the suggestion in good faith—half a dozen haystacks, with the unattractive buildings
in a quiet background. We cannot get
along without some unsightly objects
on the farm, and they have to be near
the street, and pretty near the house;
but we need not willfully exercise our
ingenuity in making the matter as bad
as possible. From this sanitary point
of view, certain buildings must'not be
too close to the house; fancy or good
taste has nothing to do with it; the
dividing line between that which is safe
and that which is dangerous to health
cannot be crossed with impunity. If
the farm buildings are located unfortunately, a bpard fence or hedge, or perhaps a few*ornamental shrubs, properly
placed, will go a great way in obviating
all defects. Let me tell you, brother
farmers, that when a man wants to buy
a farm, he looks longest at that which
is neat and attractive in appearance,
and is willing to pay more for it.—-Cor.
Country Gentleman.
—No matter how deep a young man's
pocket may be, a colored silk handkerchief will inevitably float to the top and
flop over, while a soiled linen rag will
sink to the bottom like a brick thrown
iu » mud-puddlev
Training' Day-
-A Reminiscence of Boyhood.
The crowning glory of our village in
bygone times was its volunteer military
company, the Suffolk Guards. To miss
seeing a training of the Guards was an
irreparable misfortune in a boy's life..
They were uniformed in stiff* shiny
hatsr a little like fire buckets, blue coats
with swallow tails and bright brass buttons. In summer they wore linen pantaloons as white and stiff as soap and'
starch could make them. Jim Leggett
in his everyday clothes, clerk in a dry
goods and grocery store, measuring^ out
pennyworths' of snuft and tape, did not
rank very high with us hoys, but Jim
Leggett arrayed in the Suffolk Guard
uniform became another man. Then
he shone. The Guard was an artillery
company, and used to drag after them
on parade a nine-pound gun. In our
estimation that gun could have prevented the largest fleet in the world
from entering our harbor. It was
housed in the '' arsenal.'' When, sometimes, we stole in that dark, dingy
apartment wh^re it was kept we regarded it with feelings akin, to those
entertained by the South Sea Islander
for his biggest and most hideous god.
That gun and carriage were no inanimate piece of machinery w,ith us. It
Was a material connecting link between
Bunker Hill, New Orleans and our own
stale times, stale because there was no
war and seemingly nothing to make any
history.
We ran away from school regularly
on training-day. It mattered not how
hard the consequent thrashing might
be, nothing could resist those "bright
swords, gilt epaulettes, "blue coats, brass
buttons and music. The parade over,
the Guards dismissed and only brilliant
fragments of the array in twos and
threes remaining on thestreet, we went
home knowing the price we must pay
for our stolen pleasure—knowing that a.
heavy task awaited our Dom's cowhide
next morning at school. For a boy to-
do any little service for the Guards; to
be sent on an errand; to get a high private a glass of water; even to be addressed by a member (when in uniform)
was deemed an honor inexpressible in
words. .Some hoys were allowed to"
help serve and fill cartridges.    These,'
with us, had taken high degrees; had
begun to leave the era of boydom and;
enter on that of manhood. Two lads,
were " markers" in the company; wore
a real uniform; were real soldiers, hut
this shot them up quite out of our
sphere. The brass band always accompanied the "Guards" on parades? One
air that the band used to play still lingers with me. It was called the '" Swiss
March." Everyone in the 'rfllage.knew
the "Swiss March." I think they could
.play it better than anything else. At
all events they played it a great deal.
They had a big hass-drum. No sound
in this world has ever filled my souL.
and, indeed, my whole organization,
with more emotion than the "rum-
bum" of that big bass-drum. I have
heard greater bands and greater bass-
drums since, but theirs, after all was
not the imposing performance of our
band and bass-drum. Every tap filled
the village full, from the Otter Pond to
the end of Long Wharf. It sent sublime thunders up into the dimmest"
garret recesses and down the darkest
cellar corners. Wherever Imight be it
called upon me to follow it. My*
whole life for the time -being
lay between the drumsticks and the
sheep-skin. The flourishing of those
two sticks by the drummer seemed to
me the embodiment of warlike pomp
and circumstance. It intoxicated me,
and when I heard the concussions I
lived in a fascinating bass-drum dream
of glory, battles, guns and feathers.
We used to speculate largely whether
the band would march in front when
the Guards went into battle. Of coarse,!
it was presumed that the music, would
play, while the Guards, in their clean,
white, starched pantaloons, advanced
into the jaws of death. There was con^
siderable anxiety manifested for the
bass-drum and trombone players. It
was argued by some that the drummer
might, if an enemy attacked him, leave
off his musie long enough to hit him a
rap or two with the drumsticks, but the
case of the trombonist seemed utterly
hopeless. i
When the Guards had finished their
artillery practice they marched through
the village and culminated their maneuvers by going around the liberty-pole at
the foot of the main street, in a semicircular single file. I have never seen
this movement imitated by any other
troops. I think it. was a species of tactics
originating with the Captain. There
was never such another Captain. He'
was very large—but mainly in breadth.
He quite eclipsed the company. In
brilliancy, he stood toward his battalions
in the same relation that the comet's
nucleus does to its tail: Such a man
could not long remain a mere Captain.
He was promoted to a Majorship, This
proved a great disappointment to us
boys, because he never "trained" after
that save on grand musters or Fourth of
July. They chose another Captain, but
he did not half tiU the first commander's
place. And as the sound of that bass-
drum has for me never been equaled,
neither has the original Captain.—Prentice Muljord, m tii& San Francisco
Chronicle.
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Notfse Waiting.*
I At nine o'clock Monday morning a
small, thin man was shaking with cold
as he stood in jfront of the office of a
Detroit Justice of the Peace. When he
had been there for half an hour, a man
in an office opposite raised the window
and asked:
" Waiting to see anybody?"
" Yes; I haveia lawsuit here at ten
o'clock." I
" Areyouplajintiffor defendant?"
"Defendant.'?
"Then you are a fool to stay there in
the cold The case will be decided for
plaintiff anyhow, and you might as well
get a corner on some stove as to stand
there in the wind,"
" Yes, I suppose I might, and I guess
I will," replied the other* and off he
went, to return two hours later and
found, that judgment had been rendered
against him.—Detroit Free Press.
—The Irish Wesleyans have raised
$65,000 toward a special thanksgiving
fund.
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