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ALLEGED BRIBERY. THE SOUTH. The Louisiana Democratic Convention re-nominated McEnery for Governor. Thomas Butord, who in 1ST9 killed Judge Elliott, of. the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and was sent to the Lunatic Asylum from which he escaped to Indiana, has returned to Henry County, and is said to have threatened other members of the Court.

He is in a desperate condition and asserts that the Judges who decided the case against him have some of his money. The Jjdges were uneasy. Jim: George, colored, residing five miles from Clinton, recently returned home and found his daughter, aged seventeen, dead, and another woman fatally wounded. The latter has since died. The crime was committed by a man who called at the house, found the women in bed and shot them both.

Suspicions were strong against a negro man, who was an ested. A lone horseman recently attacked the stage, six miles south of Cisco, and rifled the mail bags. The same stage was robbed in the samo locality a few months since. While a family named Gray, consisting of man, wife and two children, and two middle-aged ladies from Illinois, were crossing Petit Jean Creak, near Paris, recently, they were swept away by the swollen stream and all drowned. At Pine Bluff, the superintendent of a gang of convicts, was found guilty of whipping a prisoner so severely as to cause death, and was' sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-one yrars.

YATES CENTER ARGUS. I. I. U. 1JTJCIC, Publisher.

YATES CEKTEE, KANSAS- A WEEK'S NEWS. Cleaned Telegraph and 31 ail CONGRESSIONAL. Irt tho bill adapting the tvew standard time to the District of Columbia passed. The Senate then resumed consideration oC unfinished business in regard to After a lenffthy discussion the Senate took up the House resolution for a holiday recess and urnrrKJNl It to read from Monday. December 24, to Monday, January 7.

As amended agreed to, and returned to tho House. After executive session, adjourned In the House, Mr. Scalr presented the certificate of election of Mr. Skinner, representative-elect of the First District of North Carolina. This led to a lengthy discussion, non-partizan fn its character, the question opened being: that of the lejralityof an election for a vacancy undor tho new apportionment.

Finally a resolution of Mr. Hiscock was agreed to that Mr. Skinner be sworn in and the reference of the main features of he case to the Committe of Elections, with instructions to report quickly. A report by Mr. Hlackburn for the creation of a number of committees, called forth an amendment by Mr.

Heed for the creation of a Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, which brought on a debate in which Mr. Vance I reply to those who opposed it said the object such a committee only looked to getting- Information upon a subject of interest to every human being on the continent. Tho sentiment of the people should be respected by this Congress, to know the facts about intemperance, which wrecked so many house spondent, having alveady lost nearly four months this' year by a similar suspension. Rev. Willi Air David Walker was recently consecrated Missionary Bishop of North Dakota.

The ceremonies took place in New York. The east wing of the Lunatic Asylum on Ward's Island (N. was recently burned. Loss 25,000. There were over twelve hundred male patients in the building.

The fire caused great excitement among them, but all were removed to places of safety. The Titusville, Shamokin Shenandoah Districts, of Pennsylvania, mined in November tons of anthracite coal, in the production of which fifteen miners were killed and thirty-four severely injured, mainly inexperienced Poles and Hurga-rians. TnE Philadelphia Reading Coal and Iron Company gave notice that their mill would shut down January 1. Three hundred men would be thrown out of employment. Lillie Sixxott, daughter of a wealthy, liquor dealer, of New York City, was probably fatally shot recently by Sarah Clan-cey, a servant of the family.

Lillie went to the kitchen to attend to some household duty when the shooting occurred, it was thought, accidentally. Capenv Superintendent of Schools at Canton, R. and Joseph Morton were killed by a snow plow on the Boston Providence Ilailroad the other morning. A sleighing party, numbering fifteen persons, went over an embankment at Mill Village, recently, and James Krouch, Charles Imshwaler, Mary Kutter, Caroline Green and Mary Hessler were seriously KANSAS STATE NEWS. J.

V. McLean, a brakeman, was recently killed by the cars four miles north of Emporia. He had bee a married only six months. At the solicitation of Congressman Peters, an order was recently transmitted to the President for hii signature attaching the county of Ford and the west half of Hodgeman County to the Garden City land office. Post-office changes in Kansas during the week ended December 15, 1SS3: Postmasters appointed Ashler, Chase County, James II.

Wright: Chase, Rice County, F. Griffith Hollyrood, Ellsworth County, Frank Murray; Keimfield, Rush County, S. W. Sutton; Shady Bend, Lincoln County, Mrs. Emma R.

Cox; Slate, Rooks County, John Ruby Stilson, Cherokee County, Neil Exous; Wakarusa, Shawnee Countj Lucius T. Franks. George Carter recently mysteriously disappeared from Russell County, and his friends are anxious to know of his whereabouts. At the late special election in Topeka to choose a successor to Mayor Wilson," resigned, Bradford Miller was elected by 492 majority over Sells. Recently two prisoners who had been allowed to step out of the corridor of the jail, at Emporia, undertook to make their escape, starting to run in different directions.

The jailer started in pursuit of one of them and commanded him to halt. He refused to do so and the jailer fired on him, the ball taking effect just behind the left ear, and glancing downward lodged near the large artery in the neck. The wound, though serious, Was not considered fatal. The other prisoner was captured and returned to the jail without injury. The President recently sent to the Senate a message recommending such legislation as would authorize the reconstruction of the bridge over the Republican River near Fort Riley.

Accompanying the message was a statement from the Secretary of War to the effect that the former structure fell Into the river through the negligence of the company owning it. The question of its replacement was one of great public importance, and more especially as effecting the interests of the military service. A young woman going from Wichita to Omaha was robbed on the Santa Fe road the other morning. She had fallen asleep after leaving Topeka, with her portmanteau, containing her watch and chain, several articles of jewelry, her ticket and six dollars in money, on the seat beside her. On waking she found it gone, and immediately made her loss known to other passengers, who gave her a purse of six dol Accusations Agrainst Certain Statesmen iu Connection with Texas cine Land Grant- Mr.

Newell's Story of Alleged "Wholesale Corruption Submitted Washington, Dec. 21, Among the papers relating to the Texas fc Pacific land grant and the claim of the Southern Pacific to It, scut to the Senate by Secretary Teller in response to the resolo-tion of Senator Van Wyek, is a communication from J. J. Newell purporting to be made up from his diary, and describing alleged wholesale corruption in the passage of the Southern Pacific bill. The event occurred in May, June and July, 1ST0, and jn the winter and spring following, Newell says that Senators McDonald, of Arkansas, and Kellogg of told General E.

W. Rice and Colonel G. II that they would push the Southern-Pacific -jcheme, then engineered by General Fremont, for $200,000 in first-mortgage-bond and $110,000 cash, half to be paid when the bill passed the Senate and halt when it became a law. The money was to-be paid into tlie bauds of par-lie? tn nmiipil hv th Sena tors, and some other preposition were made, and then went to Fremont and told him he would take hold of the thing on the terms he named to Rice-Mrs. Fiemont raised 90,000 on a mortgage on some New York property, and on June this amount and securities to mrJce up the-difference were put in the bands of E.

Y. Rice ami J. P. Defrees, and next day Newell, Rice and (Ikldings contracted with Defrees. as agent for Fremont to push the thing for $150,000 in bonds.

The. lull passed July 3, and immediately thereafter-MeDonald and his friends received of the money put up with. Rice and Defrees, and Newell snys McDonald divided with the other Senators. The-next winter IL C. Parsons contracted ith 31.

O. Roberts, New York, to get the bill through the House and put; Roberts at- the head of the organization for .51,000,000. all of which Parsons said he had contracted to pay members, except ten per cent, for his own paj The bill passed, and in April, 1871, organization was effected and Roberts-was elected President, having given, J. W. Forney and diddings, ks a.

committee of arsons interested a verbal promise to pay all the claims of the lobby and others. At the Conference Commit tee-on passage of bill, Keliogg refused to-sign or agree to the bill unless lu? was paid cash in hand ten thousand dollars, which was given, and be supported the bill. Accompanying this is a lot of letters between Newell, Defrees, Giddings and Parsons in regard to the non-payment of their -claims-Newell says the books of the Texas Pacific Company will show the names of over thirty Congressmen who were paid for their votes, and the amounts given. Newetl filed this document last May. Since then he' has become the friend of the Southern Pacific, and has tried to withdr i this paper from, the files of the Interior Department.

Ex-Senator Kellogg denounces Ne well's story as an infamous lie from end to end, and without one syllable that even approximates to truth, and he is ready to bet a ti ousand dollars that" Newell dare not look him in the face and repeat his story. An Engineer's Plan. Brockwayvii.lk, Dee. 21. Fof 3ome time Dominic Mori lie, an Italian, has.

been keeping a house of bad reputation and an illicit liquor shop on the- property of the Ridgway Clearfield lilroad at this place. Every effort was made to put a stop to the proceeding, but without avail until Thursday evening, when A. J. cooper, oioive, up me iicsu When his locomotive pulled up on the sid- -ing a number of men girdled the house with, cables, which were attached to the engine, and as soon as the ropes were firmly fixed the locomotive pulled out. The whole building was torn from its foundation and completely wrecked, the Inmates escaping without injury.

After the wrecking of the structure a fire-was lig-hted and the building burned. A large crowd quickly collected, and the confusion for awhile approached a riot, as but tew were in the secret. The house stood within a few feet of the railway, apart irom other' buildings. As its foundations cracked and the pressure of the he ivy rope lightened wild shrieks issued from the windows, lights were overturned, and doors battered down, half-naked girls and drunken, men emerging through tha crackling timbers. m- 4 Failures.

i a a. New Yckk, Dec. 22. There were in the United States reported to UradstreeC during the past week, 31 more than the preceding week, 44 more than the corresponding week in 18S2, and 133 more than the same week of 1SS1. About 75 percent, of the failures were those of sm ill traders whose capital was les than $3,000.

Compared with the previous the States iiad 03 failures, an increase of New England 37, an increase of South ern States 51, an increasa of Western States 95. an increase of Pacific States -and Ten itories 33, an increase of 13; Can--adaand the Provinces 3 5, an increase of 1.. New Yokk, Dec 22. The business failures of the last seven days, as reported by telegraph to IL G. Dun Mercantile Agency, number for the United 231, and for Canada and the Provinces, 42.

A Murderer's Desperate Effort to Es- cape. Denver, Dec, 22. The negro. "Rig Dee," who murdered young Bruce Hunt, son of ex-Governor Hunt, at Durango, last, week, was captured on Wednesday on the Southern Ute Reservation. As his pursuers came suddenly upon him, about daylight, sitting by a lire just made, he jumped, and ran like a frightened deer to a precipice forty leet high, over which he leaped He was found at the bottom terribly bruised but alive.

He was taken to All talk of lynching has subsided. Among bis pursuers were seventy-five Indians. The negro says he had two accomplices vL the bank robbery, but refuses to give tliohj names. GENERAL. Pablo Quintana, Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico, has been arrested by a detachment of the Fourth Mexican Cavalry, on the charge of instigating the recent train robbery on the Mexican National Railway.

It was reported the Chinese forces wera concentrated at Hung Hoa, twenty miles above Sontay on the Red River, and atBac Ninh. A great storm recently caused much damage to houses in the town of Abada (Turkey). Six large ships and fifteen coasting vessels were lost and the crews drowned. Five of tho "dynamiters" were recently sentenced to life imprisonment at Edin-burg, Scotland. The French, are reported as having captured the principal outposts of Sontay, embracing live strongly-fortified villages.

The Chinese rrade a stubborn resistance. The French loss was two hundred men and fifteen officers killed and wounded. The Chinese still held the fortress of Sontay The Mexicans are making war on nickels. Recently a refusal to accept them in the market at the City of Mexico caused quarrels, resulting in firing and cries of "Down with the nickel." The panic spread and all busin-ess houses were closed. A mob passed through the streets breaking lamps and windows.

Troops fired blank cartridges at the mob and cavalry charged the crowd, and order was finally restored without bloodshed. A Jewish school and synagogue at Galatin, a suburb of Constantinople (Turkey), burned recently. Fifteen students perished, and, the same number were missing. The directress of the school, siezed with fright, threw herself from a window and was killed. THE LATEST.

Mr. Buckner, Chairmain of the Committee on Banking and Currency, was reported to be preparing a bill to introduce when Congress reconvenes. It will provide for the issuing of treasury notes without the legal tender quality, to take the place of bank notes going out of existence. The purport of tho measure is the same as that of the bill introduced by Mr. Ruckner the first session of last Congress.

The large flouring mill of George C. Thilenus, at Cape Girardeau, burned recently. Loss, insurance, $50,000. It is stated that France is determined to enter into no negotiations for peace with China until tile French occupy Bacninh. A rescuing party of thirty-one persons went from, Ouray, to the Virginius mines to take away the victims of the mine disaster of the day before, and while returning with the bodies on sleds a second snow slide came down and the party had a miraculous escape from being overwhelmed.

The sleds containing four dead bodies, however, were carried two thousand feet 4 own the mountain side, and then hurled over a precipice five hundred feet high, where they must remain until spring. The party finally reached Ouray, nearly dead from exhaustion. About eleven o'clock the night before Christmas Henry Pferfer, Wright McLe-more and Thad McLemore were taken from a saloon at McDade, by fifty well armed masked men, carried a mile into the brush and hanged to a tree. The men were under arrest for horse stealing and other crimes. The next day six men, friends and relatives of those went to town and provoked a quarrel with some of the men supposed to be engaged in the hanging.

A fight ensued, during which two of the six. Jack Bayley and Asa" Bayiey, were killed, and a third, Howard Bayley, badly wounded. A young man named Griffin, was also mortally wounded. Mr. Bland, Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, is said to favor recoining trade dollars into standard, and thinks the issuing of the latter should not be stopped.

He is also of the opinion that a mint ought to be established in the Mississippi Valley. A late fire at Fargo, D. destroyed a number of business houses. Loss, insurance about half that amount. Another Colorado snow siide recently occurred near Telluride carrying off fourteen men, eight of whom were killed.

It was reported that there were prospects of trouble in the bituminous coal districts of Pennsylvania. Over fifteen thousand miners have expressed a willingness to co-operate and assist in a general strike. The wife of General Rosecrans died at Washington a few days since, after a holds or tho land. He hoped that the representatives of tho people would accord the friends fif humanity, justice, mercy and happy homes the right to be heard, and extend to the people an opportunity to gather information on a subject of such tremendous importance. It did not follow necessarily that there would be a Prohibitory law.

After further debate the motion to create the committee prevailed. Mr. Calkins offered a resolution, which "was adopted, calling on the Secretary of State for all communications, documents and papers in his possession relating to tho trial, conviction and execution of the lato Patrick O'Donnell by the Itritish Government. Tho Senate amendment for a holiday recess was agreed. Adjourned.

la the Senate, the 20th, Mr. Cullom introduced a bill to establish a board of Ilailroad Commissioners and regulate inter-State Commerce. Mr. Van Wyck's resolution regarding lands granted to railroads was taken up, di-. cusseu, amended ana adopted.

The senate concurred in tho joint resolution of tho House relating to the celebration of the centennary of the surrender by Washington of his com-mission as Commander-in-Chief of tho patriot forces of America. Anjournod till Monday. long discussion sprang up in the House over the resolution offered by Mr. Geddesto grant a month' extra pay to discharged employes. Further discussion was had on the creating of new committees, when the House adjourned until Monday.

The Senate met on the 24th and only transacted executive The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State and papers relating to the trial, conviction and execution of the late Patrick O'Donnell. Tho Speaker announced the committees and tho House adjourned. WASHINGTON NOTES. Tins Treasury recently purchased 400,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia and New Orleans mints. Ir a recent interview, ex-Senator Spencer stated to a Washington correspondent that the investigation of tho star-routo trials by Congress would bo urged, his object being to learn why some persons were tried and others were not, and why so much money was paid the Government attorneys.

Dorsey was but small fry in the tar-route rases there were Western men deeper in than he. Jcdoe Wvlie discharged ex-Senator Spencer, arraigned at Washington for contempt, owing to an informality of the subpoena, SrzAKER Carlisle announced the Standing Committees of the House on the 24th. The -chairmen are Ways and Means, Morrison, Appropriations, Randall; Judiciary, Tucker; Banking and Currency, Buckner; Coinage, Weights and Measures, Bland; Commerce, Reagan; Rivers and Harbors, Willis; Agriculture, Hatch (Mo.) Foreign Affairs, Carting Military Affairs, Rosecrans; Naval Affairs, Cox (N. Post-office and Post Roads, Money; Railways and Canals, Davidson; Public Lands, Cobb; Indian Affairs, Wellbourn Territories, Evans (S. C); Manufactures, Bagley; Mines and Mining, Warner (Tenn.) Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi, King; Militia, Miller, (N.

Claims, McMillan; ar Claims, Gwddes; Revision of Laws, Dates; PuWic Buildings and Grounds, Stockslager; Pacific Railroads, Cassiday; Expenditures, War Department, Thompson; Expenditures, Navy Department, Horse; Expenditures, Department of Justice, Springer; Expenditures, Pub-lie Buildings, Belmont; Expenditures, Post-office Department, Morgan; Patents, Vance; Education, Aiken; Invalid Pen-lions, Maston; Pensions, Hewitt (Ata.) Expenditures, State Department, Harde-Qion; Expenditures, Treasury Department, Davis Labor, Hopkins; District of Columbia, Barbour; Private Land Claims, Muldrew; Public Health, Beach; Ventilation and Accoustics, Hurd; Enrolled Bills, Neece. Select Committees Reform of Civil-Service, Mutchler; Public Liq.uor Traffic, Hill; American Ship Building Slocum; Law Respecting Election of President and Vice-President, Eaton; Payment of Pensions, Bounties Warner, Joint Committee on Printing, Scales; Library, Singleton. THIS EAST. George I. Graff, formerly cashier of the Wall Street National Bank, of New York indicted for certifying to checks of Cecil Ward when they bad no funds la bank, pleaded guilty in the United States Circuit Court, and was remanded for sentence.

The Western Nail Association met recently at Pittsburgh, and decided to close down from December 29 to February 11. The meeting was one of. the largest ver held, every mill of the West being represented by person or by letter. The itoppage was for the purpose of restricting the production. This actiou will throw leveral thousand men out of employment.

The employes were said to be very de injured. Henry Deoten, of Philadelphia, recently attempted to kill bis wife and father-in-law and then cut his own throat. THE WEST. A recent snow-slide at the Virginius Mine, in Ouray County, struck a boarding house in which were eleven miners, burying the men over twenty feet. Six were killed and the five others supposed to be fatally injured.

All had families. In. the Federal Court at Chicago, the other day, Judge Blodgett sentenced each of the lottery agents tried before him to pay a fine of $500 for using the mails for lottery business. The negro "Big Ike," who, while attempting to burglariz9 the Bank of Durango, recently, and shot Bruce Hunt, son of ex-Governor Huntdied at Denver the other night from injuries purposely inflicted on himself in jumping headlong from a forty-three foot embankment, to avoid being captured alive. Just before dying he made a confession implicating four others.

All are under arrest. Arthur J. Jennings, bookkeeper for William P. Howard commission merchants, of St Louis, was arrested recently charged with embezzling $3,000 from his employers. He was released on bond, and said he would explain matters satisfactorily.

Last August William H. Conklin went to Omaha, bought several acres of ground for a residence, and at once commenced the erection of a fine house. He was largely engaged in the tree business in Minnesota, and seemed to be a man of means. During the erection of his house he paid flying visits to Omaha. Several weeks ago he went to attend the finishing of his house and arrange for the removal of his family.

He fell in with bad company, commenced drinking and died before his family reached their new home. Charles Harvey, of Petersburg, who murdered Henry Culin, was taken from the jail the other night and hung to a tree. At Richmond, the other evening, Henry W. Johnson, a prominent criminal lawyer, while attempting to shoot one of the Baumer brothers, shot Policeman Wer-tenburg in the thigh, and was himself shot in the back of the head by an unknown party. The shooting was the result of a law suit between the Baumer brothers and a man named Vaughan.

The extensive broom factory and warehouse of the Samuel Cupples Woodenware Company of St. Louis burned the night before Christmas; loss, $123,000. The Busch Wrine Company building was also burned; loss on building, stock, $150,000. An explosion in the Busch building shattered the walls, and in their fall they covered John Conway and Michael Kehoe in the debris, killing them and more or less injuring Con Gallagher, Patrick Powers, F. M.

Williams, John Hartey, all members of the salvage corps who were spreading tarpaulins when the wall fell. A passenger train on the Louisville, New Albany Chicago Railroad recently went through a culvert near Salem, Ind. Three persons were killed and seven or eight badly injured. WniLE Abe Morrison was seated in his store at Dubuque, Iowa, the other evening, with a gallon can of alcohol beside him, its contents became ignited, and all at once Mr. Morrison was in flames.

He ran into the street and rolled into a snow pile until the flames were extinguished, but not before he was badly if not fatally burned. He afterwards returned to bis store and with some assistance extinguished the flames, which had already done considerable damage. The other morning the roof of the round bouse of the Chicago Alton Railroad, at Bloomington, 111., gave way beneath the accumulated weight of wet snow and went down with a crash, burying six locomotives in the ruins. The damage to the locomotives was quite serious. One man was quite severely injured.

About four weeks ago Carl Gull, a German boarding-house keeper, of Blooming-ton, 111., aged sixty; his son, aged twenty-two; aughter, aged twenty, and a boarder named Frink, were taken sick, and in a few da fs it was discovered that their disease was trichinosis. After dreadful suffering Carl Gull died about a week ago; his son was in a precarious condition, with but little prospects of recovery, and the daughter was quite ill. Frink, it was thought, wouid also die. All the result of eating raw sausage. lars with which to purchase a ticket to Omaha.

She was much grieved over hei loss, which she claimed was about $200. Jennie Whaley was found dead in her room at the Farmers7 and Drovers Hotel, at Wichita the other night. She was discovered about nine o'clock, and had been dead two or three hours. She was on the street during the day in apparently ordinary nealth. She was about twenty years of age, bright and good looking, and had evidently taken her own life with poison.

George Rayser, of Leavenworth, whe so ne months ago found his wife in a Kansas City bawdy house and killed her, and who had been in jail in that city since committing tho deed, was recentlv adjudged insane and will be 'sent to an asylum. Should he recover he will be ti ied for the murder. G. W. Broadhurst, a young man twenty-two years of age, engaged in the grain business at Kansas City, recently took $2,000 of the money of the firm and started out into Kansas to purchase corn.

He was cautioned not to take so much money with him but ne vertheless did so. He boarded the Santa Fe train and went as far as De Soto at which point he left the train. He reported that at that place'he started out in the morning for the country on foot to buy porn, not being able to secure a conveyance. At a point a short distance east of De Soto he came to the bridge over Kill Creek, stopping there a few minuses to look at the stream. As he stood on the bridge looking down at the water two mpn, wearing masks over the lower portion of their faces, approached with drawn pistols and ordered Mr.

Broadhurrw to hold up his hands. He said he at once drew his revolver and confronted his assailants. They succeeded, however, in disarming bim, and took from his pocket a large leather book containing $2,600, also his watch, but as it contained his initials they handed it back. One of the men, he alleges, then shot him in the leg below the knee, inflicting a flesh wound. He returned to De Soto and men started in pursuit of the robbers; then went to Kansas City and had his wounds attended to.

One day recently a young man by the name of Hammer, while at work at a corn-sheller, in bette County, accidentally got his right Knd between the cogs of the wheels, crushiriall the fingers into a jelly. Rev. W. T. wen, rector of the Episcopal Church at P.

fsons, who has been afflicted with a malignant attack of asthma for years, and wlio a- few weeks ago attempted suicide, was adjudged insane re cently, and will be ent to the Asylum at Topeka. A party of men at Leavenworth attempted to cross the river in a skiff to catch a train, and when they landed about four miles below, the train wai a. out twenty miles in an opposite direction. The Secretary of State't Hon. F.

T. Fre-linghuysen, has written Governor-Glick that the Postmaster-General says he has been informed by the German Postal Administrator that no regulations exist in Germany excluding from the mails publications representing the public lands ol this'country. Joseph a yoUng man from Ohio, but residing near Cherokee, was bitten by a mad dog something oyer two months ago. Nothing was thought of it at the time. A few days ago, however, he was attacked with hydrophobia and died in great agony.

Surviving turkeys have been respited. lingering illness..