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bill. A debate ensued, and nt 8:30 the What THE GKKAT i'lUE IN LO.NDOX. KANSAS STATE NEWS. THE WORLD'S DOINGS. refused by a vole or to to immm nine, ili'lliiiti'ly.

and by voi of lit yen to HI niiya RUSSELL 1IAWKEYE. iIh, Ijiwi.II bill. Introduced liy Mr. The sixteenth annus! meeting nf tin Ststa Horticultural Society was held at Topck last noatrurtlon of About Itloclc ot Tall Wareliuunea Killed With Costly Hl I.o.i KutlmataU at A limit IS.OOO.OOO- Hour, an a nuhnllum for the one reported by Mr liiimll. The bill was referred to the Coin week.

A number of Interesting papers were A Summary of the Dully Newt. IUDM811ID DT Till milleeoii Judiciary. 'Jim Heuiito then by Klglit I'rnons Hurt lurln the Flro. London, Ticeoiiihor H. vole of 44 to IU.

took up Mr. I'cnilloion civil read and the Interchange of views among the members led to much valuable information. Mxrvlae bill, which ww discussed and disposed JIAWKEYE miXTISO COM PA NT. Mr. Hopkins, of Wyandotte County, slated Tils city has suffered within tho past twenty-four hours from tint greatest llru with which It ti reported that tlx Kinsley, Kansas, of by Indetlitlto iHMlpoiiciiiciii In the I lou mi Mr.

Towiishend, of Illinois, offered a miuiliitioii rceiiing 111 ul It Is aliened thai certain bank was recently robbed of 12,000, and that that he received 91,000 for the strawberries off of if veu -tight lis of an acre. He usrd as a London bus been afflicted since tho great eon- exfstlng railway limit of trsiisportatlnn have the robbery was traced to J. V. crawioru, CURRENT COMMENT. M.

0. Butler has been re-elected fertilizer dry blood, procured from the County Treasurer of Edwards County, whose entered inUiaeomiilnaiion lor urn purpmwoi provcntiiig I he eonl ruction of coitipi-lliig Hue into tho Terrltorttiea and through the Slate, ling nllon lu Tooley stio In tna 11 'rough, about eighteen years ngo, when Inimons-j warehouse tilled with Juto and other good wero dent roved. This fire caused a loss of slaughter bouse. He received for his crop twenty live cents per quart. He paid for pick ofllce ww In the same building.

Crawford, It It itld, acknowledged ffullt and agreed to thereby establishing monopolies in trniiioi United SI atea Senator by tbo South Caro lion! and during tho progress, Mr, ing berries two cents a quart, used four huu restore the money. On Inn, and directing too oiniiilllefl or torn-incrcc to reMirt without delay, pmhlhitiinrnii'! i.niiUhlnir Hiii combinations. A IiiiimIhtoI dred pounds of blood, which cost hlin about The boiler In Vincent A Sou's saw mill at Jlraldwoo l. Ihnu Chief of tho London Firo De partmcnt, and a ntimlicr of firemen lost their billH wore InlriHliii-eii. mm by Mr.

Sprlngrr, twelve dollars. The other expenses were Shawncctown, exploded few day since, lives by tho railing of a wall. alight. Ho did not know the exact net profit, proposing a constltutiouiii iiminuiiem reiiiuvu to tho i liM'tlon of President, Vice-President and ineiiiU-m of Congress. It limn thtl completely shattering the mill and blowing lina Legislature.

The Tost Office Appropriation bill now pending in Congress omita the amount ($000,000) asked for apecial facilities. Tbis looks to an abandonment of the fast moil service. but It must have been over Ha ex Tbo firo which broke out lat night and which Is not yet ext. mulshed, allium 'h II was eight men to pieces, besides injuring uirce others. The nieu were eating their dinner at plained how the fertilizer wits used.

Among gotten under control about noon to-duy, also the apples on exhibition was a fresh lot ex the time. resulted In loss of life from tho samo cause. term of President ami lee-President at sis years, and makes the President ineligible to election for Uia neat aiicuwHliiiir t'-nn; abolishes the Klecluml College and provides for direct vote for President. Every Slate shall ho entitled to as many voles as It bus Heniitoin and KeiiresentHtives in Congress. Members of hibited by Mr.

Shepherd, of Dickinson County, Cbas. L. Lamb, a ton of Dr. C. L.

Lamb, a It Is believed that eight persons were injured. a locality that It had been stated would not IT. S. Railroad fommliwIoiMT' ItPport. Wakiiinoton, December 10.

In tho annual report of Ibo Commissioner of Itallroads for tan lli-eol yearondoJ Juua 110. ISKi. tho Commissioner tnvt: Tbo unpreoe lent construction of railroad tho present year deserves Very thoughtful consideration. Tho Pncltto companies ar rapldly extending their Hues to teeure tho trado lu rapidly-developing sco Ions, or make through connections with important distributing points, which will ultimately be of great valuo to Ibo main lines. Tho money applicable to tho "ropuyment of Interest," Uvo pur cent, of tbo net earnings, and sinking fund and Its-reiiiirementH, derived from transportation receipts, will Tho total cash payments to December Ul, lsHI, required from the companies, In addition to the retention of tbo cntiie iNiinpeiHiitlon for services, are: Central Pucllle, Central Branch Union Pacific, fl.USi; Union Pacific, total.

The total Indebtedness of tbo several subsidized Pnciflo railroad to tho United Ptntos Juno DO, 1H -2, was: Union Pucllle, principal, aecruod Interest, total, Central Pucllle, principal, accrued lutcrest, total, Sioux City Sc Pucllle, accrued Interest. 1,4 totul, Central Branch Union Pacific, prln clpal, accrued intcroit, totil, Transpoitiitlnn services performed an I money paid Into the Treasury: Union Pacific, Central PiUllic, Moux City Sc Pacific Central Branch Union Pacific, total, llalaneo In fuvorof tho Unltod Btutes, but not duo until maturity: Principal, IH.ifi, imi, Tho sinking-fund account amount, Juiu 'JO, to Tho Commissioner says: "Tbis ruud has evidently not accomplished the result anticipated, an I sineoAp.il, 1KS1. may bo regarded as having practically failed for want of suitable Investment. In view of tbe low ruto of inlcrmt returned from tho Investments made by tho Secretary of tho some fatally. Following as rloc ely as this great eoiillngra' wealthy and highly respected citizen of Hannibal, while very drunk the other night went to the bouie of a man named Hull, a trrow fruit.

Mr. Shepherd said tils orchard was about thirteen years old, but lilt most Congress shall bo chosen for three years. tlon is done In th i burning of tho Aliinmbra Ill tlie Senate the l'-ith, the President sub boater, In I-oluest -r Hjuura, which alarmed Secretary Teixeii aaya if tho alleged Intruder on Jho Creek and Seminole Reservations; in the Indian Territoryare not members of the respective mitted a memorial of the Chicago Board ol prollllc tres were phuitcd eleven yea. ago, The crop compared with any he bad ever teen, lie had 300 bushels of peaches this year. Trade in favor of tho Lowell Itimkruptey bill, wile or two from town, to see a woman with whom he said he was formerly Intimate, but who had reeeutly married Hull.

Lamb became abusive and wus ordered out of the house. He I London, tho disaster bns created Intense excitement. Tho actual loss Is estimated a I mid tho doslru-tlen cxiondod over Mr. Vest offered a nwolullon, which wa The Topeka, gullna and Western Hallway Company held another meeting In Topeka last an entire Hiiuiira in tho heart of tint city. greed to.

Instructing the Connnllteo on ler-ritoriixito Inquire and report what legislation necessary to protect public uniiwrly and refused to go and when forcibly ejected reeled Ihotlrolirokoout Intho wholesale hosiery tribes he will see that they are removed A memiiek of the Senate Military Com week, and further strengthened Itself for the enforce laws III tlm ellowslonu Park, and ureserve the trame more. Also whether Immediate building of tho road. One of the rouud to the side of the house and discharged a pistol through the window, the bait taking cflect In Mrs. Hull's side, killing her utmost area of the Park should lie extended, mid if principal objects of the meeting was to re mittee, speaking about uisinisssed army officers, is reported as enying that the so, to what extent. Mr.

Pendleton Civil service bill was taken upiioddlscusKcdutlciigili. A ufllrm all past actions of the Board of Direc Instantly. Lamb fled but was captured. tors, and make more secure the company's largo number or aiiieinimeiiis were oircrcu. Mr.

Plumb Introduced bill to authorize llui Governor Stephens, of Georgia, has par committee was in no temper to listen to defense to the suits for damages that have Secretary of War to eiablih a homo for Indi cn iitillfbniont of Foster. Portor limited, wh'eh is situate I on tho corncrof Addle stro 't aud Wood street, I'honp-ddo. It spread rapidly, derying all tbo olTorts of tho ftromcn, although nearly ovory engine In London was summons to tho spot when the magnitude of tho conflagration was realized. From Poster, Porter it extended north to tho Immense warehouses of Ityland Sons, limited, dealers in Mowers and funcy goads and Man-Chester warehousemen. By this tlmo It had become entirely beyond control, and been brought by the people llvl along the appeals for reinstatement, and tho visit of army officers to Washington would gent soldier iili'l sailors in ivausiis.

iicicrreu. Tim Uutiuln then Wfllt illtft Vfl MiHlMlith. Ill the House tho Postolla-e, Military probably be fruitless. Academy and Agricultural Apimijl.utlnii bills wero reiMirteil, tiled aud relR nilViio Committee of tho hole. In nmmlttoe of Ilio line of theroaiL A charter was ulso filed for the building of a branch road from the main line ot thi! Topeka, Sullna ami Western, sixteen miles southeast of Abilene, up to that city.

Jay (iould it Is said Is furnishing the money. It is expected to Interest the same management In the Topeka, Ottawa and Fort Whole Ihe Hoii-hi then proceeded to I lie con It is reported tlint the conference be sideration of the 'oiigrcK-donal Library lull. It progressed rapidly nlonir tho cast doned Capt. Kdward Cox, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Col. Itobert A.

Allstou in 1ST1). Near Lafayette, the other evening-, while out sleigh riding, Isabella Bryan was Instantly killed, her skull bclu crushed by a horse attached to a sleigh driven right behind that iu which she was seated. The party of young folks were racing, and her sleigh was accidentally overthrown, causing the accident. The Enterprise cotton mills at Manayunk, wero destroyed by fire tho other day. Loss on buildings and stock, About Alter lonif debate the bill was recommittal tween the Bessemer steel manufacturers of Chicago and their employes to fix a to tho Committee on Additional Accommoda sldo or Wood street until London wall and Hart street wore reached.

At tho sumo tlmo the flumes ate thi Ir way back to Phll lano, a tions for the Library of I otiKress. with Instnnv rate of wages for next year, which was to Hons to report a bill providing fertile ereeilnn of a library on land In Washington Mniiglng to the United Slates. Pending a motion lo re. Scott Uoail, lu order to get an out let to the Southeast by way of down to New Oi leans. narrow thoroughfare running parallel with Treasury, I deem It my duty to recommend have taken place last week, has been indefinitely postponed.

It Ls stated that wood street. Within these 1 mits almost insider. Mr. Ka-win. from ilieCmninlltccnn cveryth'ng was destroyed, tho only exception Civil Service) Hcform, reported back Ihe bill Capt.

D. 8. Payne, of Oklahoma fume, was the postponement is the result of a de for the better regulation of the civil service. oouig a warehouse lu tho northwestern corner and the House adjourned. that Sec.

it, act of May 7, 1H78, bo amended so a to authorizo tho Secretary of tho Treasury to invest tho sinking funds In flrst-mortgugo bonds of the companies, or such bonds as have been Issued to them by tho United Suites, or in other good and sulliciont sceur ties, and one hundred operators were at work at the in Topeka last week, prosecuting his case before Judgss McCrary and Foster against (icn. John Pope, commander of the United In the Senate tho Llih, at the close of the of tiiesipniro, ot London wail. Ilrowors' Hall, In Aid riminbury, was tbreateoo but tho flra was stopped before reaching that storic time. Those on the fifth floor were to most danger. There were no fire escajics, morning hour Mr.

Heck culled up bis Political AK-ie-wnent resolution. Tho quentiou being, on Mr. I'Miuiinil's motion, to refer Mr. Heck's resolution, and suhsiituo one olTered by termination on the part of tho manufacturers to suspend operations after January first until tho report of tho Tariff Commis-lion has been acted upon. The Arlington estate, not far from structure, aud Slon Collcgj and St.

Alphuge I hurch also escaped. States army at Fort Leavenworth, to test bit rights as a pre-cinptor and homesteader of lauds In the Indian country. II. Higgles, convert the bonds now held by tho Unltod Mates In said sinking funds Into money at and the only means many of the operatives had to avoid destruction by lire was to use the ho point whot-o tho fire originated fa only Hull to the Committee on Judiciary. Aller de market rates, and invest tho same lu llko se at out Oil yards from tho Guildhall, and if tbo wind had cluing mI hero was nothing to save Ihut building.

Many of tbo ol lest of tho city bate this was adopted. CotKidcniHou of tho Pendleton Civil Service III form hill win then resumed, whteh wn del ated at lengt and a number of niucuilnieiitrtollcrcd, some of which were adopted. Pending tho consideration of of WIclilta, has been Mr. Payne's attorney In all ot his Oklahoma business for the past two years, but since coming before the U. 8.

circuit court they have retainel Hon. Thus. P. curities. As ninny doubts have been expressed as to tbo abil.ty of the companies to mo their indebtedness at maturity, aud as to tho efficiency of tho provisions for tho sinking fund.

outslle hoisting rope, which reached only to the second floor. All coming down this way had to fall from the second floor to the ground. Several were burned by the flames belching out of the windows, others churches, including several of tho finest speci this bill the Senate went Intoexcciitlve session. mens of Sir Christophrr Wren's work, lie with 1 deem it proper to suirgest whether It may Fonlon, of Leavenworth, to assist them. Capt.

liyno and his attorneys think they have a in a stone throw of Ihe scene, nnd in tho Im- intheHouse the Congressional l.ihmry lit was taken up and tho motion to reconsider not bo profitable and highly desirable, with mediate vicinity arc tho General Post-ollic, the vote to recommit was tabled. 1 his veto recommitted the bill with Instructions to the jumped from the windows. In nil sixteen persons were injured, some by falling and others by bums about the face and body. Only one, Slary O'Connor, aged fourteen, believed fa irood case, and that the disputed territory will be ultimately opened to settlement. the consent nf the companies, to change tho form of their indebtedness nu a running hook account hi to settlement and actual delivers of interest-hearing bonds for tho Goldsmith's Hull, Co rs' Hall, Haberdashers' Hull and Harber-Hurgeons' Hall.

Tho en to report back tho bill for the eree-Ion of a library on ground belonging to the The main irrigating ditch, which was com rnitod States In Washington. The bill was menced recently at Lamed, near the Pawnee, tire district is devoted to th-i wholesa'o trado, many firms several houses which have been converted from rcsid mcos nnd tally injured. Two. persons were killed by an explosion In the mills, several Injured, and lien considered, reported back and pinwcil. amount I ootid to bo due on a convenient day, say July 1, 1H.S1, at which time one-half or tho interest will have been paid by the United States; let tho ascertained amount be divided will run In a Southwesterly direction to Gar The Iloiiso then ent into Committee of the the body of a third supposed to be buried iu Whole on Ihe Militnry Academy Appro- shops into warehouses Tho streets are all field, there receiving the waters from Coon the ruins.

creek aud the Arkansas Hirer. This will con into, say, ono hundred semi-annual Installments, ouch lo bo represented by a redeinn- very narrow, with tho exception of London wall, where Ihe fire was stayed. It is announced that pending consideration nect the raw nee with the above mentioned irlation bill, and soon reported it back aim II HMeil. lu the Scnute the 14th, the bill to promote lllcleiicy In tho Navy Chaplains by increaslnn It is Impossible to-dny to do mora than make on bond, ono payable each six months, with interest upon tho wholo unpaid reiiiuiudor of the debt, tbo lien to remain us it is." fit reams, all of which cannot, in any bound of their salaries wits rejected. Consideration of The report says: "Tho adjustment of railroad rates Is ono of he Pen llcton CiFil Service ltetorm bill was of the Tariff bill by tho Senate Committee, the Finance Committee will receive In manuscript or print, views of auy persons who desire to submit them, but under no circumstances will they give an oral hearing.

a rough of the loss, as no details of Ind.vvdual losses can bo ob aiiiwU However, it is not bel oved that "MXRO0O will cover it. Nothing Is kucwn accurately as to tho insur Washington City, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, which was taken during the war by the Government and a portion converted into a natioual cemetery, has passed into the bauds of the heirs of General Lee, by a recent decision of the Supremo Court of the United States. When confiscated, or taken upon a tax titlo for a nominal sum duo for taxes, the estate belonged to General Lee. It consists of eleven hundred acres, and at 1 the death of General Lee the heirs sued Tor its recovery, and the highest Judicial tribunal in the country decides in their favor. Thousands of Union soldiers are buried thcraand the only way out of the difficulty would fcem to bo for the Government to purchase it at a fair appraisal.

The value of tho property is now said to bo fully Half a million dollars. Some weeks since thestudentsof Adol-bert College at Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in their annual frolic, termed by them reason, fall, In any season, of affording sufficient quantity of water to Irrigate a great portion of the valley lauds between Lamed taken up. A number of ScimtoM spoke when Mr. Drown, of lieorgla. offered an amendment ami Garfield.

striking out the provision that entrance lo Ihe ance, but the amount must bo very large, ns It I'ostoflli'o changes In Kansas during the Officials and other representative citizens of Is customary to Insure to very nearly tho full vuluo of goods in stock. week ending December 3, 1S83: Postmasters tho most d.tlicult an I delic ito questions of model mos, and It is specially com plicated inlhoUn ted States, whore every trunk lino runs through several States, etichlndependcnt within own Jurisdiction, and jealous of all Interference by thelieneraKiovornment. Tho enormous extent of this interest and the rapid. ty ot its growth, both lu lnereae of mileage and tuiMiage, demands that its relation to tho public shall be under snmo judicious legal upiiolnted Antone, Pawnee couuty, L. C.

service snail no at. tne lowest grime, nnu providing that compotii Ion shall be fur olllces of ail grades, and shall not bo eonllneil to persons already in ollice: also the amendment explicitly authorizing removal by Ihe President or lieads of the departments ithout an assignment of a cause. Pending which the Senate ml loomed In tho llouso tho Postollice A Buttle With a Buck. at son; Blgilow, Marshall couuty, Joseph E. Kirk Cactus, Norton county, Patrick H.

Con- For nenrly two years there has been etui- Dakota were before the House Committee on Territories recently, and explained that at the lute election Yauktou County had purged Itself of the attempted repudiation of Its indebtedness aud that a settlement satisfactory to all concerned will be practically reached by the Issuance of new bonds to holders of old bonds desiring them arty; Olur Point, Chase county, Clark It. control. Hates and discriminations are not en lined nt It sniarek Grove, Lawrence, Kan. Appropriation billwaseonsideredinCominlttee ot the Whole. Mr.

Caswell explained in detail Corey; Jimtowu, Phillips county, Wm. II. Phillips; Osage Mission, Neosho county, as. Hie orov sicns ot the bill, 'ihe total ammmt appropriated was being Curtis. Discontinued Hcllen, Sedgwick ess man ineosumines hiiu ieis iimn lurgo buck, and which until recently was always considered a kind nnd docile anliii il, nnd on account of its good behavior mid gentle bearing in th pint 'was given tho very highly complimentary namo of "Gar-Held." However it transpired lust Friday morning that tho notorious and world-wide aud the payment of cash to those who did not lie appropriation for the current year.

tor. ho compensation of postmasters is county; Jacksonville, Neosho county, Lain-arco, Graham county Painted Post, Bourbon county; St. Paul, Sheridan couuty. They claim that this will remove any objection to the admission of the Territory on the account of debt repudiation. appropriated, or less than the mates.

Mr. Holdnson, of Massachusettes, In-ipiired whether there wero any provision In tirely within the arbitrary determination or the railroad companies. Ihoy are subject to competitions hich Ihoy cannot control upon the ocean, upon the lakes and upon the rivers. Tho great hikes and rivers, so peculia-ly advantageously looatnd as to trade, with their numerous far-reaching and widely-extended navigable tributaries, carry wuter compe-, tition into almost every portion of the country, with the efl'oet of so reducing general rates that tho United States enjoys the cheapest railroad transportation iu tho world. As yet no just basis of general application for tne adjustment of rates and discriminations has been found, and it is undeniable that thero are harJship, neither lew nor small, arising from existing discriminations.

The engineers of tho St Louis, Fort Scott The exteusive depot and wharf, together numo of "Gultcau" would have boon much more appropriate for thi beast, as tho following will signify: Last Friday Mr. Frank lie lllll mr special iiiiiniiiiii laeuuifs; linn wi.v een States paid their own postal bills and the alls of tho rest. The first ten on Ihe list were with sixty cars and ten locomotives of the and Wichita Kallroad are making a final survey for their line in Sedgwick County. It is said that the road will be completed and lu operation to Wichita by June 1, 1883. Much interest in the road is manifested by the peo Mcilrade, familiarly know about the grove ns Manhattan Beach Railroad, at Dayridge, were destroyed by fire tho other day.

Loss, $300,000. Fully iusured. "Old Jlmmie," went into a pen containing the six New England mid four Middle States. Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, said there seemed to be a general impression in that strip of country known as Now England, that when (iod Almighty niado boulders up there and framed them in with sand and nut upon that region buck "Garfield," together with his com a "Tempus.

They had a banquet, one ttf the principle features of which was cider and a high old lark, though so far is known they did nothing worse than be boisterous, and possibly burlesqued the college attaches and the regulations they did not approve. This sort of spree lias been an annual a flair for some years, but this year was interdicted. Later the ple of Wichita, as it is said to be an indepen The diflioulty between the students and often arbitrarily imposed, which affect disas panions, forthe purpose of giving them afresh supply of water. As Mr. MoUrado stepped dent line, which will compete strongly with Faculty of Adelbert College at Cleveland, among the brightest and bravest of tho Ameri to tho trough to turn on tho water the Santa Fe.

can race, ho stopped, lie did not stop, iscw. Ohio, growing out of the expulsion of the Junior Class has been settled by the reinstating of Garfluld" nnido himself obnoxious to his England has somewhere niiout popu Burglars and horse thieves keep the Wichita lation, and he rather fancied the remiiininii trously local trade at non-competing points. Thero'ls a growing nnd clamorous demand among the pu iple that railroad management shall be to tbe restraints of law; nor is railroad management advr rso to reasonable control. It has become a necessity that 'wars' of rates shall bo controlled in tbo interests of tho people and tho roads. Such the Juniors.

police busy. keeper, and Mr. McUrade attemptel to ihas-lisehim by hitting blm over the hond with a 'SMUKUmii or no American people wero just As a freight train was standing at the sta- TheM ayor of Decatur, Texas, was attacked Faculty neld a meeting and determined about as good and had just about as mueb brains to the sipiaro inch as the inhabitants of stick wh'ch he carried in his band, whereupon by a negro recently. The Mayor struck the New England, no couni see no good reasons ucgro with an iron, breaking his neck. wars unseiiii-, witiiiii luiiu (ipciutivMi, wni-mcrcial values, affording suddon nnd unrea The City of Kingston, the capital of Ja why, if the remaining 60,000,111 HI of peoplo could bo accorded facilities on ordinary trains, the people of New England could not be contented with the same facilities.

Without closing thf general debate tho Committee rose and thi "UuiJlelil' retaliated by knocking his mnstor flat on his buck and then attempting to finish him by goring him with his horns. A desperate battlo ensued between MeGrude and tho nnt-mal. Tho buck pounced upon his helpless victim In a terriblo fury, tearing hU clothes entirely from bis body. Flnnlly McGrndo suc t'on at Chetopa lately, the fireman, W. Joyce, crawled under the engine to clean out the ash pan.

While he was thus employed the brake was let loose, causing the cars aud engine to move forward. Joyce attempted to crawl out, but was caught under the wheels and cut in two in the middle, death being Instantaneous. The deceased was from North Vernon, Indiana, to which point his remains were for maica, was reeeutly the scene of a terrible conflagration. 1 he loss Is estimated at Only once before has the town suf- sonable profits to tho few aud entailing heavy losses upon theoth' rs. "Tho Kailway Commissioners appointed in twenty-one States," tho report continues, exercise healthful inllueno over railroad man-nu-ement lint railroad transportation strictly to punish this disobedience of orders, and therefore expelled tho entire Junior class.

The other students then met and resolved to leave the college in a body if the Juniors were not restored. The Faculty was stubborn; so were the students. As a consequence the instructors daily attended vacant recitations rooms with no prospect of a truce. ercd so severely from fire, and that was in llouso adjourned. ADDlTIONAlf DISPATCHES.

One morning lately the eight-year old boy of confined within Stato Jurisdiction is so limited ceeded in getting tho animal's ear in his February, 1TS3. that it leaves tho real mincuities unsoivea ana nnurlv imntfcotod. The power of Congress Henry Shumate, a negro, for outraging a mouth and bold on to it like grim death, almost chewing the member off, with both hands holding to his horns. In this way McGrade warded. white girl, was sentenced at Springfield, over tho wholo subject can hurdlv bo ijues-tionod.

The Supreme Court of lllino's con Mr. Drevis, from Germany, who some time to the penitentiary for thirty years. Mike Leonard, of Sedalio, found a bottle of whisky on the rail road switch near his father's house. Ho took It tohls father, who took a drink, and then gave a portion to his wife and three children, the youngest two and A thief walked Into Miles' jewelry store at ag-o bought six quarter sections of land lying west of Sedgwick City, will at once prepare succeeded In keeping his antagonist from but. ting his life out right there and then.

MeGrude held the bcust In this position for nearly 111 toon cedes it, and the decisions or tho hupi-emn Court of tho United States seem to rendor it indisputnblc. A commission is recommended to take into consideration the whole question, and report to Congress facts neeess iry for in Cleveland, Ohio, lately, aud handed the attendant a cheap watch to be repaired. While for the erection of his Creamery. He will be mmut when tho buck attention was nt. a half years old.

The whole family soon became deathly sick, and almost went into tr.ioted by his companions for som unaccountable ro son, which undoubtedly saved the proprietor's ationtion was turned, the thief succeeded in getting off with diamonds to the value of 110,000. It is considered highly improbablo that Dakota will be admitted as a State at the present session of Congress. It is said that a canvass discloses the fact that a sufficient number of Republican Senators are opposed to the measure to defeat it, although they are willing to have the Ter Mciirmie lire, us tho buck pulled loose and telligent nnd efficient action upon thesiibjecL" The Commissioner speaks of tho unnecessary nnd dangerous dissimilarity of railway signals, and recommends tho adoption of a uniform system. A review in detail of tho operations of the Pacific roads mentioned closes the report. The estimate of tho expenses of the railroad ollice tho next fiscal year is The committee examining the books of the spasms until they vomited freely.

The youngest child soon died in convulsions. It is supposed the liquor had been poisoned. Gladstone has resigned the Chancellorship dashodofT to their ass'stance. Mr. McGrade struggled to his feet as best be could and made City Tax Collector and Assessor of Louisville, bis i scape through the gate.

for report 2'J3 cases lu which the Mr. McGrade was terribly manglod and dis city has been defrauded of sums ranging from Beport of the Commissioner of Pensions. nf the Exchequer, and Right Hon. Hugh C. C'hilders, Secre taiy of War, has been appointed to succeed him.

A number of changes in the F.nglish Ministry will beccomc necessary by this arrangement. figured, and upon examination of his body it was found that two of bis ribs were broken, his face and bead out in a frightful manner, nnd bis bnnds lacernted terribly by tho spikes from tho buck's horns. A Journal reporter $3 to jtiUO. All tho cases occur in the second assessment district of the city, and false entries made between July 1 and December 31, 1879. assisted by eighteeu laborers direct from Germany.

Corn is sixty cents a bushel in Trego County. The farmers out there have raised no grain worth speaking of, and arc turning their attention entliely to stock raising. Wm. A. Baker, who was tried for forgery, raising a check from $12 was found guilty In the United Statct Court, at Topeka last week, and sentenced to bard labor iu the penitentiary at Chester, for two years.

La Cygne was visited by a destructive fire one day last week, which broke out In Crox-ton's Billiard Hall and made a clean sweep on the west side of Broadway from Market to Walnut streets. The principal losers were: A. Friedman, Geo. J. Miller, George Eyer, H.

Deminjrer iSs D. Coouradt, Wm. Sharon, Washington-. December 10. The report of the Commissioner of Pensions ritory divided.

The Democrats, as a party measure, are solid against admission. Delegate Fettigrew takes this view of the situation, although anxious for admission. He thinks, however, that while the Democratic opposition to divi- The other night the house of Singleton Many petitions from the West and South are being presented to Congress, asking for called on Mr. McGrade Into last evening at his ollico, and found him resting quietly and do James, on a plantation near Atlanta, was destroyed by fire. Thomas Kulght and two the Immediate action of that body on the tobacco tax.

It is claimed that the agitation for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 18S2. ts Issued. Commissioner Dudley says tho Bounty-Land laws should bo generally rcmodolqd and simplified. Congress should give thoughtful consideration to the entire rcgruding ot pensions, making disability rather than rank the measure of the pension, oflicerj and men having been drawn from and returned to tho samo walks of civil life. Thore are now 117 different children were burned to death.

Knight was (ion will bo strong, tho proposition will cot be antagonized by an element strong enough in the House to prevent the pas lying drunk in the house when the fire oc curred. lng ns well ns possible, clthougb ho is consid erably crippled and lamo. His cscnpe was miraculous, and id he not presence of mind enough to lio still aft-r the buck had knocked him uown, ho would have certainly boon killed. Since tho above fight occurred "Buckle Gar field" has parsed lu his checks nt the end of a double-barreled shot-gun loaded with "buck-Bhot," Lottrence (Kan.) Journal. A jury 1ms finally been obtained iu the Star Houto cases and the second trial grades of pensioners.

It is proposod to give nn sage of a bill similar to that now pending as unfinished business in the Senate, Another reason which has compelled Mr, officer the benefit of actual rank, as an act There were thirteen vessels and 115 men lost in the Gloucester, fisheries the present Pettigrew to confess his inability tosccure admission, is the unqualified antagonism of simple justice. It Is recommended also, in order to place all war claims more nearly upon tho same footing, that tho limitation in Sec. 4,713 be removed, so that case barred by tho year. relative to modification Is proving of serious to trade In general, and pending consideration of the subject, business is becoming demoralized. At a late conference of railroad ofllclals in New York, to adjust the difficulties that brought about the recent war In Northwestern rates, Presidents Keep, Porter, Mitchell and Riddle signed a contract to maintain railroad rates for one year from date.

While a number of persons were skating on Abbot's Dam, at the falls of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, the other evening, the ice save way and Annie Casey, John Snowdcn, Thomas Kindle and Violet Barker, children, were drowned. It ls feared that othors met a similar fate. Cholera Is reported to be raging with such three-year limitation shall have thoir data ou to the measure by Mr. Halo in the Senate. He has, therefore, come to tho CONGHKSSIONAL.

In the Uoise, the 9th, Mr. Page from the tho commencement at the time of tiling tho conclusion that Dakota must be content Commerce Committee, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for Informa with the division. tion as to wuetuor tne money upproprlateiltiy tho last Hlvcr and bill was appropriated for works or objects not In the interest of commerce or navigation, and if so, requesting that giccil)catioiig be furnished. This pave rise to Ex-Senator Spencer, the recalcitrant Star Route witness, has suddenly turned up in New York, and his friends assert ml son Davis, I. Croxton, Booker Seaton, Porter's barber shop, Tilguer's meat market, Robt.

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Nevison and D. S. Kelley. Wetmore will build a new mill next summer. Kansas grown fruit trees are the best for Kansas orchards.

This is a fact that orchard-iets should remember. C. A. Bowers, a stockman of Newton, walked oil the platform of the cars near Car-bond ale a few days ago and was seriously if not fatally injured. A number of Kansas towns will establish wat er works next season.

Three young men, named Elmer and Richard Gwinn and George K. James, have been arrested at Atehis'jn for alleged complicity In ticket stealing. The first two hail from Glenn Uock, N. and the other is reported to be a couein of the noted Frank James. They were detected stealing'tlckets from railroad ticket oflices and locked up.

Armstrong lately had tho sensation of a small fire. Topeka hat a social scandcl. nn interesting ana exciting iionaio. MoLaue, of Maryland, and ltobeson, of Now Jersey in support, and Cox of New York terrible fatality near Chapas, Mexico, that In that ho is exasperated at the attacks made upon him by the Department of application, rather thin that of tho tiling of the last piece of evidence. Widows and Invalid1 soldiers of the regular army and navy, hose rights accrued since Juno 30, 18S0, should be allo ed reasonable time to tile their applications, and pensions should date from the commencement of the accruing of tho right, instead, as rom tho date of filing the application.

A yearly salary of (5,000 is recommended for Pension Agents. Speaking of the pension population the Commissioner ex presses regret that no provision was made in tho tenth census for its enumeration. Tho best approximation that can bo made shows that, of 2.0 soldi rs who enlisted during the war, pensions-have been applied for by, or on account of. only twenty-six per cent. The report concludes with the statement, from the best available information, that It appears there ls a surviving soldier ipnlatlon of a littloover 1.000,-000, out of whit da ms for pensions in future-may be made by those who incurred pensionable disabilities.

some places owners of and laborers on plantations all died, and It was not possible to bury them. The bodies hnd to be burned. Sixty Justice, which resulted in his displacement as Government Director of the deaths occurred in A terrible panic Poisoned by Cosmetics. A dispatch from New Orleans, received In Now York tho other day, announced the death In tho Hotel DIeu of Miss Cussle Troy, the well-known emotional actress, who has boon traveling with tho Carrio Swain Dramatic Company, supporting Miss Swain in the play of Cad, the Tomboy." Miss Troy had been complaining for some time of frequent sharp pains and of rushing of blood to her head. On Novombor 27, whilo tho company was playing nt Ilidwell's Academy of Music, she appeared in tho first act in her usual character of Emma, the adventures.

As the curtain fell on the first act she was seized with sudden Illness, and could not proceed with hor part. A physician who was called pronounce 1 her ailment painters' colic. Her part was taken by Miss Ella Hunt, and she was removed to the Hotel Dieu in a precarious condition. On Wednesdny last she was much improved, but not well enough to pro. cced with tho company to Mobile.

She remained in the hotel in curj of a kind acquaintance. Hor disease, however, grew worse, until death relieved her sufferings. It was behoved she died of blood-poisoning, superinduced by the use of cosmetics necessary to hor make-up In the parts she played. An examination of her make-up box showed that she was tn the baoit of using large quantities of a paste containing a preparation of lead, which is believed to be poisonous. ensued.

Pacific Railways, and that ho will make public some facts that may prove interest ing reading. Spencer professes to be in possession of secrets in connection with the Star Route business not only damag John C. Rudd, mail agent, was sentenced Little Rock, to three years' imprisonment for opening registered letters. The Senatorial fight in Michigan is becoming very bitter. Senator Ferry and Congressman Hubbell are the contestants.

The National Board of Health has appealed to the different Boards throughout the country for authority to sign a petition to Congress asking the reinstatement of the Board A lawyer named Sprowls, who was once County Attorney of Kingman County, but who had been arrested upon the charge of ngnlust, anna uiueu contusion. Tne resolution was finally adopted. The Consular and Diplomatic bill was then taken up and passed. In tho Senate Mr. Vance offered a resolution, which was agreed to, directing tho Secretary of tho Treasury to furnish, as soon as possible, a detailed statement showing the cost of collecting internal revonue in each collection district, the numberof employes in each district, and tho percentage of cost upon tho sums collected In each district After the introduction and reference of several bills Mr.

Heck called up his Political Assessment resolution. Ho spoke forcibly in favor of the resolution, but the matter went over without IIiibI action, and the Senate took up tho Bankruptcy bill which did not. reach a vote. Mr. Hawley Introduced a bill to prevent officers of tho United States from collecting subscriptions or assessments from each other.

The bill provides that no member or member-elect of either House of Congress, or employes of either House, and no executive, Judicial, military or uaval officer of the United Stated, and no clerk or employe of any department, or any branch or bureau of either service shall directly or indirectly solicit or receive, or be iu any manner concerned in sollcltingorreooivingany assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any officer or employ-cot the United States, and makes tho pcnnltv ttno or threo years' imprisonment. Hcferrcd to the committee ou Civil Service Keforni, In the Senate the 11th, a large number of pension petitions were presented. At the close of the morning hour tho Senate took up the Bankruptcy bill, the auestinn belnir on Mr. swindling and released on ball, disappeared, and it was thought bad jumped his bond. ing to Dorsey and Brady, but his friends intimate that his failure to appear as a witness was with tho approval of the counsel for the prosecution.

In fact from what is said the inference is that he will open a volume of sensational revelations. On the other hand Attorney Bliss asserts that it is not true that he ever informed ox-Senator Spencer he could go West, in quarantine matters and for additional ap propriations. Later developments, however, lead to the belief that be was murdered by others of the gang Implicated with him in the land swindles for ff.r that ho would turn Btate's evidence. De A ladt stood patiently before the receiving teller's window In a Broadway bank thft other (lay, but no one took any notice of her till she attracted the attention of the money-taker by tapping with her parasol on the glass. Why don't you pay attention to me 1" she said, petulantly.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, hut we don't pay anything here. Next window, lease," was the polite response. iV. Y. Commercial Advertiaer.

Thb Popular Scienee Monthly asks What-are crowds It, Is not quite certain how se'ence will handle this question; but-tho average common-school educated man knows that under some circurfistances three ls considered a 0. Picayune. While a freight train of twenty cars belonging to the Iron Mountain Railroad, hauled by two locomotives, was lately being taken up the Poplar street grade In St. Louis, It broke lu two, and the rear part, consisting of four teen cars, dashed down the grade toward the tectives ara workintr the case up. BRiDr.sncno, a suburb of Philadelphia, has and that it is true that Spencer had told There is a rumor current at Topeka, that a plague of cats.

Farmers on the way to the city from Bucks counly have been In the Morion, of tho Shawnee district, in number of persona of national prominence that he did know of questionable transac tends to resign his judgeship in February Liabit for years of dropping their supernumer next, and that Hon. John Martin, oflopcko, it tn be his successor. river. On the way down it collided with a wagon of they Transfer Compan, killing the team and smashing the wagou. This threw several cars oil the track, which ran into and ary felines in the vicinity of Bridesburg, and this, with the natural Increase of the cat population, has made sleep Impossible to the in tions between Brady and Dorsey.

Bliss adds that Spencer will be likely soon to Lave an opportunity to explain himself Tie corn stalks around your young trees if you expect to save them from the bark-eating habitants of the place. demolished several buildings and contents. under process for contempt of court. 1 rabbits. llrown's motion to indefinitely postpono the Damage ls $15,000..