The Galena Messenger from Galena, Kansas • 2

KANSAS LEGISLATURE. one man and running ort four horses. Two the King of Burmah has murdered all the KANSAS NEWS. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Tie Galena Messeier.

companies of the 7th cavalry, under command of (Japt. French, started from Fort Meade in pursuit of the marauding savages. The gen eral opinion is that the present depredations were made by Little Wolf's band of Cheyennes, making its way to Sitting Bull a camp. A FEARFUL OUTRAGE. The Globe-Democrat" 's Fulton, Mo.

special 6ays A most daring and atrocious outrage was perpetrated there on the person of Miss Georgie Arthur. The young lady is a clerk in the post office and while assorting the mail, about 1 o'clock, a very large and power ful man entered the office, locked the door and, notwithstanding the girl's desperate struggles, accomplished his vile purpose and escaped. The whole town was immediately aroused, men and women ran through the streets in wild ex citement and a large number of men startel in pursuit of the villain. A VTLLIAN CAUGHT. W.

L. Sargent, the accomplished scoundrel, and bigamist was arrested at Olathe Kansas, where he was living with his last vic tim Miss Nettie TVillonghby, an excellent young lady of that place, whom he married under an assumed name in the St. James Hotel in Kansas City last week. Hanging is too good for such a character. EXTRADITION GRANTED.

Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, decided to grant the request of the New York authorities for the extradition of David Levere, charged with obtaining a large amount of dry goods from H. B. Claflin under false pretenses. It is alleged that these goods were taken to Cin cinnati and sold.

ANOTHER BULLDOZER FIXED. In the United States circuit court at Baltimore, Judge Bond sentenced Martin Burns, Judge of Election, pleading guilty to hindering United States Supervisor at the late Congressional election, to twelve months im prisonment and to pay a fine. CASUALTIES. FATAL EXPLOSION. A fctocKton uaiiiornia cuspatcn says a terrible explosion occurred in that place.

A crowd of more than two hundred people assembled to witness the trial of a new Propeller Pump in the slough, and run by a threshing engine. Those who stood near were prostrat ed. The body of the engine was blown a distance of one hundred and fifty feet through the crowd. The dead lay prostrate in every direction, some fell into the slough from the bridge. Ten or twelve dead bodies were lay ing in one heap at the northwest corner of the bridge: others lay stiewn, dead and dying, in all directions on the spot, blown from fifty to one hundred feet.

The heads of some were blown to pieces; others were blown to the ground with such force as to break every bone in their bodies; faces, hands and whole per- sons were stained in mrt and smoKe and cinders. The wounded were promptly cared for and the dead left undisturbed until the excite ment had subsided, when they were removed the coroner office. The explosion was the result of recklessness on the part of the engi neer. The steam-gauge refused to work, and after the engineer had attempted to fix it and failed to screw down the safety-valve and went on with his work. The explosion occuired about fifteen minutes afterwards.

KILLED BY A FAILING TREE. A. b. Mora, aresidentotl lora, was killed by a falling tree. A dead limb caught on a small oak, which bent to the ground with the falling tree.

As the tree struck the ground the limb broke loose and was thrown with ter rible force, striking Flora, tearing away the entire top of his 6kull, scattering his brains over the leaves and snow. He leaves a large family of children, mostly large enough to care for themselves. A warning: to smokers. Charles Jameson, of Lawrence, met with a singular accident, which may prove fatal. He was smoking a pipe with a long stem, and as he entered the gateway of the yard of his residence the pipe was struck by the gate, driving the stein through his neck, inflicting a terrible wound.

wind and snow. During a terrific storm on Prince Ed ward Islands, N. the Catholic Church at Cardigan road, the Presbyterian Church at Souris and the railway sheds at Summerside were all blown down. Other casualties are re ported. The snow in railway cuttings is 16 to 20 feet deep.

FOREIGN NEWS. INDIA. Further intelligence from Mandalay states that great consternation prevails in con sequence of royal murders. The victims num ber ob. The details or the reported massacre are horrible.

British interference is hoped for by the people to prevent more bloodshed. The King of Burman, His Majesty Mendoomen, has for some time cherished a deep hostility against certain of his nobles, and especially against Princes Thouse and Mekara. The King himself is an orthodox and devoted Buddhist, and is largely under the influence or ms ec clesiastical advisers. He is of an extremely jealous and secretive disposition, and for some months past appears to have cherished the be lief that the Princes in question were plotting against him. 1 inally summoning his privy council, which consists of four persons, known as Atwenwoons, he laid before them his suspi cions, and demanded that the princes and their households should be executed.

As the will of the monarch in Burmah it supreme, the order was given and the massacre took place. The two princes and 86 of their rela tives were slain immediately. EGYPTIAN ROW. A correspondent at Cairo says- a shot fired one of the mob on Tuesday passed close to the Khedive. Great pressure is being used to induce Wilson to remain in office.

M. deBligrieres waits the advice of the French government. A dispatch from Alexandria says the officers threaten a general revolt if their comrades are not released. The minister of war has resigned. It is said that Cheriff Pasha, an old Turk, will succeed Nudar Pasha at the head of the ministry.

THE ZULU WAR. Unless attacked the British forces confine their operations to the maintainance of the status quo and the retention of their strategical position on the border until strongly reinforced. Two hundred volunteers from Port Elizabeth will relieve the 8Sth regiment at King Williams Town, 60 as to permit the latter to go to the front. the khedive's game. A telegram says the Khedive, displeased at the refusal of the cabinet to fulfill the engagements of the previous ministry, and its failure to meet his demands concerning the civil list, incited the disbanded officers against the ministers, that the disturbance might lead to his resuming personal rule.

ENGLISH STRIKERS. Thp Livprnnnl strikers not heinr entire- ly settled the troops remain at the request of the magistrates, lne lsoiton cotton opera tives are Btriking against a 10 per cent, re- dnction, while the Sheffield seizor manufacturers are reducing wages from 5 to 15 per cent. PLAGUE DECREASING. Gen. Melikoff telegraphs to St.

Peters burg that not a single case of epidemic illness exists throughout his jurisdiction. The "military cordons isolating the different villages have been abolished, and a general cordon is only retained. A ROYAL BCTCHEBT A report from Mandalay ai aerts that royal princes and their entire families, and replaced the new ministers with those form erly in office, thus restoring despotic govern ment. MORE STRIKES. A strike has occurred in two large cotton mills at St.

Petersburg for increase of pay, the diminution of the hours of labor, and the dismissal of the English foremen. It is believ ed the movement will spread. EVEN ME. Grand Duke Nicholas, son of Grand Duke Constantine, has been exiled to Orenberg for communicating with ths Berlin Xational Zeituny in regard to a strategic railway. SLAUGHTER SHEDS.

At a meeting of the Mersey docks and harbor board it was decided to spend 38,000 in erecting slaughter sheds necessary to a con tinuance of the American cattle trade. THE PLAGUE. Despite the general thaw and warmth throughout the infected districts, both public and private advices state that no fresh cases of the plague have occurred. NO HOGS OR HAM. The Italian government has -prohibited the importation of American swine or any preparation of their flesh, as a precaution against trichnosis.

LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED. A correspondent at Paris states certainly that less than 100 members of the Chamber of Deputies will vote for the unconditional am nesty. FLOODED. A Vienna dispatch states that the salt mines at Witieska have been flooded. The miners were saved.

GENERALITIES. UNPROTECTED. ine can Francisco unranicie nas an editorial animadverting severely an action of the government in leaving Alaska without pro tection, and on the fact that there is not a sin- gie man-or-war on tnis station available ror cruise to bitica. xne Jiecora union compares the unsettled condition of Indian affairs in Alaska with the peaceful status under the Rus sians, and attributes the disturbance in a great measure to the tra rs who sell liquor to Indians. It suggest a government inquiry into the cause of J' trouble.

THREATENED MINERS OUTBREAK. Considerable excitement and uneasiness exists in Brownsville and other towns in Pennsylvania along the upper Monongahela owing to recent outbursts and threatened violence by striking coal miners that vicinity. Nearly all the coal mines have been shut down for some time, the original cause of the trouble being the reduction in the price paid for dig ging. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CASES. In the contested election case of Frost vs.

Metcalfe, from the Third Missouri district, tne committee on elections decided unani mously to report in favor of Metcalfe, the sit ting member. BONDS. The Secretary of the treasury has called in the additional 820,000,000 of 5-20 bonds. in coupons, and $7,000,000 in reg istered bonds. THE RENO CASE.

The Reno court of inquiry, it is under stood, report that evidence was not adduced to warrant court martial. LOANS. Ihe subscriptions to the 4-per cent loan since last report, amount to $4,716,550. CAPT BLAIR THE EIGMAIST. The sentence of Capt.

Blair is dismissal from the army. THE MARKETS. QUOTATIONS. Kansas City spring wheat, No. 2, bid.

Winter 70c bid: No. 3, 64c wheat, No. 2, cash, 863c: No. 4 cash 80. Barley, nominal at 75c.

Oats, No. 2, 22c bid. Rye, No. 2, 66c. Uorn, No.

2. mixed, cash, 26XC Live Stock Choice native steers, $4.40 to prime native steers, good native shipping steers, av. 1250 to 1350 B8, fair ligl shipping steers, av. 1050 to 12o0 lbs, 3.503.90; fair to good butchers' steers, av. 900 to 1100 lbs, good feeding steers, av.

1000 to 1200 Bs, $3,400 3.80; good stock steer. av. 800 to 1000 lbs, good flesh, choice cows and heif ers, Gord cows a1! a heifers, $2.50 2.80; common 1. fair coats and heifers, jmilch cows, $15.0050.00. Hogs, heavy packers, $3.503.75: light and medium grades, a.zu(CB.a Eneep, prime natives, good medium, common stockers and Mexicans, $1.75 2.25 FrodtjCE JJIArket? Apples, per bbl.

Butter, good to choice, 1014c, Eggs, 8(3 yc. Uhickens, 2.50U.50 per doz. Turkeys 910c dressed. Chickens, 67c dressed. Cheese, fresh Kansas, 56c; choice Eastern 8c.

Cranberries, $6.0 08.00 per bbL Hides. green, per Id. MillwauKee Wheat, firm; hard, No. 1. 98c; No.

2, 92c, cash and 92c March; ac April; No. 3, 78c. Chicago Wheat, 92 Kc March, 9292c: April, 93M93c. Corn. Feb, 33c; March, 33c; April, 33ct May, 37 6lc.

New York Wheat, quiet and firm; No. 2 Chicago, No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.05 1.C6; No. 2 red winter, $1.111.12. Corn, easy; steamer, 44c; No.

2, 4bsc; No. 3, 43c. Toledo Wheat, easier; No. 2 red Wabash, $1.00, cash, $1.01 March; $1.03 April; $1.05 May. Corn, quiet; No.

2 cash, 353-; April, 3fMc; May, 38Mc: June, 39c. Baltimore Wheat, western firm at $1.096. Corn, western hrm; bid. St. Louis Wheat.

Heb. 1.0 154; Marcn, ei an. ot noT. m. si na: c.v.

32; March, 32c; April, 33c; June, ooiftC. La ver pool Market for breadstuff firm; quotations unchanged. London Consols, 96 5-16-, Lo The Poor Indian From the Princeton Union. Ilattie Stanley, a grirl under 15 years ol age, who has been residing in the woods, about four miles above town, deserted her home one dav last week; her father Stan ley, lound ner in an Indian wigwam in company with a big, loafing one-eyed Indian, to whom she asserted she had been married Indian iashion. Ihe lather endeavored to persuade her to return to her home; this she positively refused to do, he insisted on nis request being complied with, the Indian then pitched into Jack and pounded him unmercifully.

Jack came to town last Friday to have his wounds dressed and to invoke the aid of the law, but for some cause or other the officers refused to interfere. Several parties advised Jack to take the law into his hands, and if it should happen that one red skin should fail to be present at the next annual payment. Uncle Sam would be none the poorer. On Saturday the ill- mated pair departed for Mille Lacs Lake. The girl has been considered a "wild-one" for a year or so, but why she should become infatuated with the worst looking Indian that roams the forests is a mystery to most people conversant with the facts ia the case How to Get Sick.

Expose yourself day and night; eat too much without exercise; work too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take all the vile nostrums advertised, then you will want to know HOW TO GET WXIX Which is aawered in thee word Takt Hop Sittcn! Be other oolsmat Eggs 8c in Oskaloosa. Banner has a sewing circle. Amencus has a sewing bee. Butter 10 cents in Oskaloosa. "Woodson county wants a jail.

Lawrence wants a free bridge. Wichita is to have a flouring mill. Lawrence is digging a new cistern. Oats are being planted in Linn county. "Wheat in Allen county is looking well.

Considerable pneumonia in Allen county. "Wheat in Butler county is looking well A large hotel is being built at Reading. The sanitary condition of Lawrence is bad. Peach buds show a promise of a fair crop. Corn is worth nineteen cents at Spring Creek.

Leavenworth wants to reduce her city limits. A new bank is to be started in Osago Mission. "Wheat is looking fine in Jackson county. A ferry to be putl in the Salt Fork, at Ponca. A great manv new house going up at Whiting.

A large number of land-seekers in Inde pendence. A large number of home-seekers in Jack son countv. Butler count3T has organized a horticul tural society. A great many new buildings are going up in Girard. D.

H. Hager is feeding a fine lot of cat tle at Avoca. Wheat in Bourbon county is reported as needing rain. The masons at Huron had their annual festival last week. Several new buildings in course of erec tion in Reading.

W. II. Mitchell has been confirmed post master at Beloit. The cistern of the State University at Lawrence is dry. Independence has recently had a grand circular wolf hunt.

Emporia will put out 6,000 trees on her streets this spring. A revival of religion is going on Hol- ton, Jackson county. Work has commenced on the county line bridge near Reading. School district No. 74, Butler county, has enrolled 59 pupils.

Whitinsr, of Jackson county, is to have a new Methodist church. Ex-Governor Anthony is going to erect a flouring mill at Onega. Atchison is to have a fruit and vegetable packing establishment. An Iowa murderer was captured in Empire City last week. Considerable sickness in the village ot Avoca, Jackson county.

Mr. Isaac Wright, an old citizen of Americus, died last week. The Workingmen of Leavenworth will have a meeting the 24th. Lawrence claims to have the best regu lated postoffice in the State. The hotels of Winfield are crowded with persons in search of homes.

Scarlet fever is prevailing in Ruder township. Anderson county. Three hundred car loads of lumber were received at Fort Scott. District No. 108, Butler county, has built a new school-house.

The ladies of the Baptist church at Emporia gave an oyster supper. Several car loads ot farming implements have reached Fort Scott. A pair of Kansas-raised mules were recently sold at Banner for $250. The Central Branch engineers are within twenty miles of Decatur Center. Ducks and geese are more numerous al the Barnard lakes than for years.

The voung fish deposited in the Big Blue at Manhattan are doing well. T. McDonald, near Platte City, has five cases of scarlet fever in his family. The Methodists of Wichita are trying to raise money to build a new church. The literary society of Towanda, Butler county, is in a flourishing condition.

Mr. Oak's elevator at Lawrence is now shelling 500 bushels of corn per day. John Evans, of Stanley, was arrested in Lawrence recently for horse stealing. A religious revival is going on at the school house in Drum Creek township. Jackson county is getting up a petition to the legislature on the dram shop act.

A farmer in Marais des Cygnes Valley had forty Indians employed last week, husking corn. Mary Shapp, a Miami Indian woman, formerly of LaCygne. died recently in the Indian Territory? Some villian stole the banner belonging to the Methodist Sunday school at Manhattan. It cost $25. A man named Thorne is traveling through the State exhibiting one of Edison's phonographs.

Mrs. M. E. Houts, of Circle ville, Jackson county recently, grathered from her garden some fine pansy blossoms. Twenty-two counties in Kansas, each of which raised more corn last year than the State of New Hampshire.

Representatives Riggs, Gilman. and Smith of Marshall, have declined the $0 in postage stamps from the A wedding in high life is on the lapis at Topeka Mr. James P. Farnham and Miss Sallie McMeekin, the belle of the town. Senator Gillette, of Leavenworth, refused to accept the $5 worth of yKtage stamps voted to members of the Kansas legislature.

The West Joplm Lead Zinc Company received from Murphy Cheney last week 122,220 pounds of lead ore and ol ,415 pounds of jack. The tax-payers of Miami county are complaining about the rate of assessments for taxes, the rate being much higher than in Linn county. C. B. Hayes, of Jackson county, plowed 50 acres of land while the snow was on the ground, he has plowed most of the time during the late cold weather.

The Lead ville fever is taking hold of the young men throughout the State better stay at home boys, unless your father can afford to send you money to come on. The proposition to vote $5,000 aid to the Atchison, Republican Valley Pacific railroad in Scandia township was recentl defeated by a vote of 85 lor to 104 atrainR The Jefferson county Pomona Grange in-Btalled new officers. The grange is in a flourishing condition, the last meeting be-insr more largely attended than any pro- Ivious meeting. Senate, 19. In the Senate five bills were introduced.

Concurrent resolution No. 22, an nouncing it as the sense of the Senate that the work of the revising committee ought not to be taken up at this session, was amended so as to release tbe committee from the performance of its duties in completing the revision and making the report required by law, and was adopted. Senate bill No. 4, which provides that tbe burden of proof shall rest on the plaintiff in suits against counties where lands have been sold for taxes, was recommended for passage in committee of the whole. The remainder of the day was spent in considera tion of Senate bill No.

37, which proposes that the couties of Atchison, Leavenworth nd Douglas have but one Senator each and to create the 39th and 40th (Senatorial district, one of the southwest and one in the northwest part of the State. The committee on ways and means submitted majority and minority reports on Senate bill No. 20, to provide for the erection of the west wing of the capitoL The majority report is favorable, the minority unfavorable. House In the House three bills were intro duced and a resolution to make appropriation bills the special order for each evening, was laid over. The balance of the day was spent in committee of the whole discussing the Higgs railroad bill.

Senate, 20. In the Senate committee of the whole the Senate joint resolution No. 3, proposing an amendment to article 15 of the constitution of the State of Kansas relating to the manufacture and sale ot intoxicating li quors by adding section 10 to said article was substituted by Senator Bradley's dramshop act. A concurrent resolution recommending that the electors of Kansas vote at the general election in 1880 on the question of a constitu tional convention was introduced. fifteen bills were introduced.

Senate bill No. 10, an act to provide for the enrollment of the mili tary for the organization of the national guards of the State of Kansas and for the public defence, was considered in the committtee of the whole and its passage recommended. A bill repealing the law of 1877 in relation to the sale of lands owned by counties which have been bought in for delinquent tax-sales, was recom mended tor passage. A lomt resolution was introduced to recommend that a constitution al convention be held. Adjourned.

House in the Mouse sixteen bills were in troduced. A concurrent resolution was intro duced, memorializing Congress to secure the payment of posse scrip. The bills empower- ing the counties of Douglas and Leavenworth to take up and refund their bonded indebted ness, were passed, ihe aiternoon session was devoted to a consideration of the Riggs railroad bill, which was recommended for passage. Senate, 21. In the Senate the question of the constitutionality of the law defining boundaries in new western counties was brought up by a resolution requesting the judiciary committee to give their opinion upon it.

Three Senate bills of a local character were passed. House bill No. 60, regulating the practice of medicine in the State, was passed. The till provides for the appointment of a State board of seven members, chosen from the medical society of the different schools in the at ate. senate joint resolution JNo.

6, propos ing an amendment to the constitution of the State which shall forever prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in tne State, was passed. Senate bill No. 10, providing for the enrollment of the military for the organization or national guards of the State of Kansas and for public defence, was passed. A good deal of business was done in the committee of the whole. Three bills were intro duced.

House bill 196, authorizing and empowering the county of Leavenworth and the citv of Leavenworth to take up and refund their bonded indebtedness, and the substitute for the House resoltion No. 138 authorizing the county of Douglas to take up and refund its bonded indebtedness, were passed. House. In the House the Kiggs railroad bill was recommitted for passage after an amend ment in committee of the whole. The investi gation committee to investigate charges of cor ruption in the senatorial election reported that they had served a subpoena on E.

L. Smith, manager of the Western Union Telegraph com pany to appear before them with such original telegrams as refer directly to the late senatori al election, and that he had as yet failed to do so. The sergeant-at-arms was instructed to arrest E. L. Smith for contempt and to bring him before the bar of the House.

Senate, 22. The Senate passed the fol lowing bills on third reading and adjourned until 3 clock Monday: To repeal an act in relation to the collection of delinquent taxes on real estate bid off by counties and cities at tax Bales, and providing for a sale of Buch real estate: enabling: counties to make dona tions or appropriations to railroad or public improvement out ot surplus revenue; in re lation to the State Historical society; to au thorize the board of commissioners of Clay county to appropriate funds to build a bridge, and to authorize the collection of a tax to pay the same; to repeal chaper 122 of the session laws of 1872; relating to probate courts; to authorize the township trustees of Delaware township, in Jefferson county, Kansas, to sell and transfer any capital stock in the A. T. S. Fe railroad company, which is now held, or may hereafter be acquired by said township and to purchase with the proceeds thereof outstanding bonds of said township; to author ize the board of education of the city of Paola, Miami county, to purchase its outstanding bonds, and to issue new bonds in lieu thereof, and to provide for the payment of the same; to provide for the better protection of people in public halls and places of amusement, and who travel by rail in the State of Kansas.

louse. lne House spent tne forenoon in discussing the bill for a frontier patrol of forty men to be appointed and officered by the governor and appropriating $25,000 for pay and substance. It will hardly become a law as many ot tne rrontier members oppose it and prefer arms and ammunition furnished by the State with which they propose to settle the Indian question themselves, ihe House con curred in Senate amendments to substitute for House bill to authorize and empower the county of Douglass to take up and refund its railroad bonded indebtedness, the amendment be ing an increase of the rate of interest from five per cent per annum to six per cent. Senate, 24. In the Senate the judiciary committee reported in accordance with the resolution instructing them to ascertain the constitutionality of the act relating to organization of counties in the western part of the State; that it was unconstitutional, and the counties of Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sheridan, Thomas, Sherman, Lane, Buffalo, Foote, Meade, Sequoyah, Anakaska, Seward.

Wich ita, Kearney, Grant, Stevens, Greeley, Ham ilton, Stanton and Kansas and that the chang ing of the names, Norton, Coto and Billings was unauthorized. The committee on counties and county lines were instructed to report a bill to remedy the uncertainties. Seven bills were introduced and four Senate bills were passed, among them one revising the death penalty. In committee of the whole a bill to provide for the erection of the west wing of the State house was recommended for passage, The bill appropriates sixty thousand dollars from the treasury and authorizes the levy of a tax of one-half or one mill for each of the years 1879 and 188U. House.

In the House the Senate concurrent resolution in relation to committee on revision was non-concurred in. A bill was introduced to regulate railroad fare and freights in the State. The Senate bill to reimburse certain persons for expenditures made in the selection of indemnity school lands was passed. The bill to provide for the concurrent expenses of the Topeka Insane Asylum was passed. The motion to re-consider the vote by which Bigg's railroad bill was lost did not prevail.

This kills the bill for this session. Some matches are made without sulphur, thus avoiding the offensive smell of that material. A German composition for this purpose consists of phosphorus, four parts; water, ten; fine glue, six; red ochre or red lead, five; smalt, two. The ingredients, in the order named, are incorporated with the liquefied glue to form a Daste. "Yes, I' a good dancer," Faid the bar ber, as he sheared off the blonde locks 01 al customer.

See me dip the light- faatustic tow. XLVth CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 19th the House bill to fix the pay of letter carriers, and the Senate bill to incorporate the United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit association, were passed. Consideration was then resumed of the postoffice appropriation bill. A great many amendments were offered to this bill, and a lengthy discussion ensued, pending which the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were re-opened adjourned.

The legislative appropriation bill was before the committee of the whole, and consumed the entire time of the House. The committee rose without action and the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 20th the army ap propriation bill, with amendments, was reported back and placed on the calendar. It is devested of all army reorganization sections inserted by the House. The so-called Butler railroad telegraph amendment is related in the bilL The following hills on the calendar were passed: House bill to give circuit courts supervising jurisaietion in certain criminal cases: the House bill to amend section 184, revised statutes, relative to fees of district at torneys.

The Senate laid aside temporarily the post office appropriation bill, that ShielcUJ might speak in favor of the bill granting pensions to the surviving soldiers of the Mexican war. The post office bill was then called up and after numerous amendments, and a lengthy discussion, passed. The House went into committee of the whole on the legislative bill. The Florida contested election case was called, and the House decid ed, by vote, that Finley is and Bisbee was not, entitled to the seat; Finley was sworn in. In the evening session of the House resolutions were offered and adopted expressive of respect in which the memory of deceased members is held, and eulogies upon the life and public character of each were delivered: after which the House adjourned.

In the Senate on the 22d, the Vice-Pres ident submitted a communication from the postmaster-general in regard to the bill recently passed fixing the pay of letter carriers. The credentials of Senator Ingals, re-elected, were filed. The house bill to promote education of the blind was laid aside and consideration resumed of the army appropriation bill. Discussion as to whether the subiect of army re organization should be considered in this ap propriation bill was continued, and the Senate, yeas, 45; nays, 18, struck out all sections relating to army re-organization, upon the ground that there was nt time to consider the sub ject at this session. The provision forbidding the use of troops at elections was stricken out.

A discussion ensued over the telegraph bill. Finally it was agreed that the Senate should adjourn or have an executive session, and that the discussion of the bill be resumed on Monday at noon, and a vote taken on the pending amendments at 3 p. m. withont further de bate. In the Heuse business on the speaker's table was considered, the second bill being reached, which "was House Dill repealing the third section of the resumption act as amended by the Senate, making United (States notes receivable in payment of four per cent bonds and duties on imports.

Several amendments were offer ed and a warm discussion ensued, and was finally laid on the table. After disposing of several bills on the table the bill was reached restricting the immigration of Chinese and with the Senate amendments thereto. A move to lay the bill and the amendments on the table was defeated yeas, 95, nays 140. The Senate amenments were then concurred in without division. The bill now goes to the President for approval.

The Senate amendments to the bill reducing the tax on tobacco was then taken up and an animated debate fol lowed, and great confusion in respect to the manner in which the amendments should be voted on. At the speaker's suggestion all the amendments were concurred in the gross, with the exception of three, referring to the tax on rectifiers, on on banks, and to the time when the bill shall take effect. These amendments will come up on Monday, mean time the amendments will be printed. In the Senate on the 24th the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept for a voyage of exploration by way of Behring Straits the ship Jeannette, tendered by James Gordon Bennette's, passed. The army appropriation bill, and discussion upon the clause in regard to allowing railroads to ineir leiegrapn lines ior commercial purposes was continued.

The clause as restrained the bill reads: telegrams are authorized to be transmitted by railroad companies which have telegraph lines and which shall file their writ ten acceptance of restrictions snd obligations imposed on telegraph companies by title 65 of tne revised statutes, ror tne government and for the general public, at rates to be fixed by the government according to the provisions of title Co of the revised statutes. Mr. Paddock submitted an amendment appropriating for the construction of a military post in Northern Nebraska or Dakota. Agreed to. The bill having been considered in committee of the whole, was reported to the Senate, and the question being on concurring in the amend ments made by the committee, Mr.

Beck de manded a separate vote on the amendment made in committee, striking out the House clause forbidding the use of troops at polls and pudishing offenders for violation of the section. The amendment of the committee was sustained and it was struck out. Yeas, 34; nays, 66. The revenue bill was taken up, and the House concurred in the Senate amendments to the tobacco clause providing that the reduced tax on tabacco shall go into effect May 1, 1879, and non-concurred in the Senate amendment which strikes out the clause abolishing the tax on matches. Directing the President to insti tute inquiry as to the disposition of the funds belonging to the 6o-called Confederate States renfaining, at the end of the war, in the Bank oi England or in the hands of English citizens, in order that such funds may be used for the relief of citizens of the Confederate States who incurred disabilities during the war.

For the payment of additional bounty to soldiers of the late war. To prevent the introduction of contagious diseases and to establish a na tional board of health. A resolution to suspend me ruies ana pass civil sundry appropriation bill which appropriates about $17,000,000. and the bill was read. The reading of the bill consumed two hours.

A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was agreed to; yeas 181; nays, 79. CRIMINALITIES. CHILD RA VISITER CAUGHT. Dr. T.

Dyer, the double-dyed villian in Christianities clothing, was caught in Johnson county and returned to Wyandotte, the scene of his fiendish transactions. This incar nate scoundrel, came to Wyandotte last September, claiming to hail from Tennessee, and announced himself a stock doctor. Took active part in religious matters. Duped a respectable citizen into partnership, swindled him out of $400. He has also a large number of creditors, and his method of operating shows an accomplished, unscrupulous villian, and it is not strange that he succeeded in takin? in the community.

This exemplary member of the church and society had an adopted daughter about 14 years of age, who, by threatening to kill, and by brut force, he has been outraging for some time. The story was told bv the lit tle girl in fear and trembling, and was drawn from her between her agonized sobs, by kind inquiries ana promises or protection. EEDMEN'S RACKET. A courier arrived at Fort Meade, D. T.

bringing news that two freight trains were at tacked by Indians a few miles from Rapid wuy. ne states mat tne Indians tired several volleys into the town, and. prevented the citi zens from going to the rescue of the teamsters. Another band of Indiana attacked Sulphur Spricgs lUtion oa the Bieaarck road, killing PT7SL.I8HZD ZTEBT FBIDAT BT B. MILHOLLA3ST.

GALENA KANSAS. TOPICS OF THE TIMK Westward the tide of immigration, in the pursuit of fortune, takes its way. Leadville is the mecca of the fortune hunter. He turns thitherward as the needle does to the pole. The bill authorizing the supreme court of the United States to admit women the bar was signed by the president.

to The International Commission to settle the location of the ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama will meet in Paris the 15th of May. on Another preacher on diabolical subjects has arisen, this time in North Carolina, where the Rev. Mr. Dunham is discoursing on "The Devil as a Success." The report that yellow fever still exists in New Orleans, and at other points along the Mississippi, may be untrue; but the bare report is enousrh to make one feel uncomfortable. Antioquia, -where a speck of rebellion is reported, i3 cn of the United States of Columbia, with an area of 22,290 square miles and a population in 1870 of 365,974.

It is rich in fruits and mines. The Canadian Governor-General ue- clares himself in favor the immediate completion of the Railway to the Pacific coast. He does not like to see the United States capture all the plums in the West ern pudding. By a very close vote the lower house of the Prussian diet has rejected a resolu tion expressing opposition to the purchase of the railways by the state. This indicates that the scheme of the government will be carried out.

A native of Marseilles ha3 purchased the right of extracting chlorate of potash from the Dead Sea, which he expects to be able to offer in London at 72 shillings a ton, whereas the present price of that article is 104 shillings. An educated sealion in the Westminis fc i it i i ler Acquanum piays the guitar, beats a tambourine, climbs a flight of steps and takes a "header" from the top, smokes pipe, fires a revolver and draws a boat to which it is harnessed, entering eagerly in to the fun. The unfortunate Peruvian cities of Arequipaand Iquique, where earthquakes alternate with revolutions, were at last accounts suffering from a visitation of the former style of calamity. They prefer the earthquakes to the revolutions, as they are generally of less duration. TnE latest advices from Africa state the British loss in the encounter with the Zulus to have been 600 men.

The force opposed to them is stated to have been this estimate is probably no more correct than those which Reno's men made of the number of the Indians at the battle of the Rosebud. In ms address to the Reichstag Kaiser William said: "My duty is to preserve the German market for articles of home production. We should revert to the well-tried principles which we in our com mercial policy, since 1865, have abandon ed. Ihis means a return from free trade to the protective tariff policy. News of the disapperance of the plague in Russia may be expected soon.

The gov ernment has taken hold of the matter in earnest, and, failing to actually stamp out the pestilence, assumes, instead, a strict supervision of the newspapers. At Moscow the journals were suppressed last week until their plague reports were modified to suit the authorities. This method of banishing the eqidemic is so much easier than the other that it will doubtless be applied immediately in all parts of the empire. India for the moment half forgets the Afghan war in the absorbing interest and fervor with which she is waiting and pray tug ivi me liuus wmcn aione can secure ner people ironi the impending horrors of another famine. There have been slight showers in the I'unfaub, but not enough to give much comfort to the formers.

whose hopes of a crop will wholly vanish li mere is not a generous ram fall within a fortnight. Other portions of Hindostan ar an equally unfavorable condition. aabvcio huuuic iuwt mat, undesira ble combination of icebergs and bad In- aians Known on the map as Alaska. The icebergs make it too cold, and the Indians make it much too warm, and between the two extremes the unfortunate white inhabitants are kept very uncomfortable. icn clays ago, when last heard from, the people of Sitka were in mortal dread of an Indian uprising, and the Collector had telegraphed Secretary Sherman for assistance.

Bt a vote of 39 to 27 the senate passed the house bill restricting Chinese immigration. An amendment recognizing the reciprocal right of China to regulate the commercial relations of that country with the United States according to its own laws was defeated, the vote on this superfluous proposition being also 39 to 27- in this case the 39 being in the negative. After enacting the practical abrogation of thfitrcc'y iras it bound the United States, las majority of the senate evident-y thought the right of China to carcel art of it seeded so affirmation..