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'Jit Bismarck openly opposes secret voting KANSAS CHl'llCniOS. Milwaukee for receiving deposits aftei insolvency Was proclaimed, ho had shot, the dog discharged the gun (lying belore him on tho ground,) at CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on Doo. 24th, Senator Cock- THE SALEM ARGUS. 4 GEO.

W. BEE1, Ed. And Prop, IaLEM, JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS. KANSAS NEWS. Mahattau wants a sugar mill.

Tho Marion Graphic is-two years old. Osage City has had another small fire. Salina has revived the horse-car nro- fornienibew of the lower house of tht Prussian diet, and favors universal sull'mga with public balloting. A mail named Jarvcy has been arrested In Limerick, charged with placing a vessel containing twenty pounds of powder and a fuse near the barracks. An anarchist who advertised an anarchist meeting to be held on the Bourse, in Paris, and who hud manufactured explosives, was sentenced fop 18 months The Minister of Finance of Ontario Is considering a request from the Millers' association for the reduction of the wheat tax from 15 to 7i cents per bushel, AdmiraLCoiirbet has been instructed to continue preirtrations fora campaign against Sontag and Bac Ninh, but to await fresh waking the assault.

A detachment of Russian ttoops escorted through the streets ot Irkutsk the' Vemains of De Lri(r and his comrades of the Jean-nette expedition, which will oott. be brought across the Atlantic The government) of Canada is making in quiry into the statement that, two. of its citizens, who had deserted fro iu the United Suites army, were seized upon Canadian soil and taken to a military station, in i Minnesota. The workmen and the officials of the railway works at Lida, Russia, engaged in riot owing to exactions on the part of the contractors. One official was killed and several workmen were injured.

The ringleader of the rioters was arrested. 'An Orange' procession at Harbor Grace, N. was fir.ed Upon by a crowd. Four men were killed, of whom two were Orangemen and two Roman Catholics. Eight were, mortally wounded and20 slightly wounded.

i i An Arubic journal says 3,000 of Hicks Pasha's army escaped annihilation and are encamped at Melbass, while the governor of Dongola is reported as telegraphing that Hicks Pasha victorious, and that the Madhi's followers are daeerting him, belie ing that, as he was defeated, -he is not the promised 'The French Government has decideil to prohibit the importation of American salted meats' until the Chambers of Commerce have pronounced upon the bill which the Minister of Commerce will introduce at the beginning of -the next session. The pro hibition does not apply to the ports of Havre, Montes and Bordeaux, where, upon arrival it is subjected to rigid scrutiny the Chamber of THE GOVERNMENT GRAZING LANDS. The following" is a copy of a memorial Congress from the Western Central Kansas tockJ Association. The document explains itself: To tht Honorable, the (Senate and TIoxm qf Representatives of the United States of America: The undersigned your, nienipriaUstJ3 would respectfully represent that we were appointee! a committee by a meeting ii the Western Central Stock Asso an organization coruustini' of sixty stock growers living on tlie grazing lands of the Mate ot Kansas Ix'twean the Smoky Hill and Arkansas rivers, to petition your honorable bodies for thehsp6-sition of the government grazing lands a rtanner that will be more beneficial to the settler and the govern ment than the present methods. In the hrst place we would respecttuiiy-direet your attention to the fact that the west ern third of Kansas, the western half of Nebraska, and large portions ot Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana, are not adapted to agricultural pursuits, mainly for the reason that the rains in this territorial area are unreliable and untimely.

This same area, however, furnished subsistence for ages to millions of and it has been demonstrated that it will also subsist domestic herbivorous animals. Only in exceptional cases have agricultureal pur suits been followed with any degree of success in this region, and what success has been attained'has been accomplished mainly by irrigation. Settlers Who took homestead preemption or timber claims iu the government grazing lands in Kansas, with a view to engaging in farming, have been compelled either to abandon their claims ana leave the tounny, or change their occupation to tiyit of raising live stock; pr have become impover ished in their enorts ai tarnjing. It has been the humane. Polity'-of the government to give every! cituen.

who has the courage to encounter the. vicessi-tudes of pioneer exjierience, enough land to make liiin a. home and support. Under this wise and liberal policy mil lions of poor people have been made independent and happy in those portions ot 'our country adapted to1 agricultural pursuits. One hundred and sixty acres in our agricultural countrv, witti reason able cultivation and management, will furnish a comfortable maintenance for the average familvl In a grazing coun try, 'where people are wholly dependent upon the growth oi live stock, one hundred and sixty acres are insufficient for the following thereon Of this occupation.

One hundred and sixty acres of grazing land, producing mesquite grass, will maintain only sixteen of cattle or or horses. Enough land for the maintenance of two hundred head of, cattle or horses is needed for the independence of the settler in a grazing region. 1'rac-tically two thousand acres of land in a grazing -section are-only equivalent to one hundred and sixty acres in an agricultural section. We therefore would mogt respectfully petition your honorable bodies' for the passage of law ditiding the grazing area of the United States into two4.hou-sand acre or tracts of oar sections, tract subject to settlement under the! sairie or' analogous conditions imposed for the acquirement of land under the homestead or pre-emption i 'S. S.

i Bjix; Committee. Too are a Liar. (,..,, Uncle Hank Allen was perhaps the smoot hest and most accomplished liar in Central Now York. -Why, the, old man's lies were so smooth, so- that while) listening to. them 'you imagined you were listening to Elder 'Cleveland's Bible One day we were talking about potato in Uncle Hank's grocery, which" was a sort of Village1 'farmer's Old Hank scratched his.

head thoughtfully, and remarked 'J'Gentlemen, you don't any- ofyou appear to know, anything abouohe, ravenous" naturei of them phtatprbugs. You may Call me a liar, but Tve had potater bugs walk, right my and yank red-hot potatoes righl.out of. the oven. Waiting around the potato patch for the second crop exclaimed Old Hank, with a sneer. "Waitinii? "Why confound your eyes, I was- up send store, yesterday, aud i saw potato bugs up there looking over Xownsend's books, to see who had bought seed potatoes for next year.

I did, by gosh The whole grocery was still' when Uncle Hank finished. You- could have heard a Din drop. Finally lone, lean man from Woodman'B Pond raised him self "up near the the door. He was evidently new cotnerand not acquainted with Mr. Allen.

Pointing his long finger at Uncle Hank, he exclaimed "You are a liar!" Uncle Hank looked ever his glasses at the stranger, long and earnestly. Then holding out his hand, he inquired, with a puzzled look: "When did yon get acquainted with me Button Herald. Col. Orin Thurston! a prominent citizen of Humboldt, died suddenly recently. punning game.

Unit dog is worth a thousand dollars, spot cash. Emporia Iicimbticam Two Creek Ind ian girls have just entered the Normal school with the expectation of complet ing their education, llicir uncle aiuituo interpreter were much pleased with the school, and had a great time examining the steam heating apparatus and talking through the telephone. Seneca Tribune: In District 8.1, Miss Rosa Stirk was hired to teach the school. J. B.

Gray claimed that ho was hired. Last Monday both teachers field trie tort in that school house. Finally the directors appeared and led tho Gray teacher out into the street, leaving the Kosa teacher in possession oi tho hold. Uood evening, lolit CbitraM Wednesday night of last eek, burglars entered Mr. Kigg's drug store, ut Moran, drilled a hole in his sate and with puiK'h and hammer from Gorrell's shoji, broke his lock.

Who ever did it was no novice, but had been there before, as he knew just where to strike at the weakest part of the lock. air. Kiggs says there was just one dune in the sate. Nickersori Arqumi: Bon Morrow, an employe at the Reno House, was clean ing a gun which ho thought was not loaded and carelessly and thoughtlessly pointed it into the street and pulled the trigger. Of course the gun went oft', the bulk of the load bird shot striking Lon "Walker, of Lincoln township, in the face.

His wounds, luckily, are not dangerous. Carbondale Independent: Will Moody was caught by a falling rock in No. 1 on, last Friday and seriously injured internally, although it is now hoped that he will recover. The rock had to be broken before it could be removed from him, and then two men exerted themselves to the utmost. The miner takes his life in his hand every minute he is under ground.

Grenola Chief. Officers from Colorado arrived in this place- Thursday, evening, having in charge a young man about twenty years of age bv the name ot Hib-bard, a son of Dr. Hibbard, of Chautauqua county. The is charged with murder in Colorado a few weeks ago, and it is said there is evidence sufficient to convict. The entire community is in sympathy with the parents of the young man as they are highly respectable and honorable citizens.

Lawrence Joarnnli Chiefs. Buckskin Charley, Quatro and Savers, three Utes, were in town yesterday, accompanied by Indian Agent Warren Patten and inter preter Albert Moiavetz. They have just returned from the nation's capital and were their way to the Lte reserva tion in Bouthern Colorado. They visited the' Indian school in the morning, and seemed to be "hoop1 with the buildings. They are desirious of having their children attend when the school opens.

Nickerson Argow: On Friday the six year-old son of a German farmer of Lin coln township, named tsaiise, started down stairs pulling a loaded gun after him. The hammer caught on the steps and discharged the gun, the load striking the poor little fellow in the head, killing him almost instantly, lonmer Mcfvin ney empanneled a jury which returned a verdict ot accidental shooting, ot course and also censured Mr. Banse for leaving a loaded gun where the child could getit. Mr. Chas.

R. Casselman and Miss Cer- illa H. Clevmger, both mutes, were married near Neodesha, recently. The Begis- ter says The marriage vows were ex pressed by the twain reading a written copy of the ordinance, in abridged form, aud" then bowl1lig'''their assent, alter which the pastor verbally pronounced them man and wife. The congratulations of the guests were indicated by a grasp or shake of the hand and a smile and nod of approval all going forward to thus recognize the newly married couple.

Ablilene Gazette There died iri one of our hotels, on Saturday night, a gentle man named Painter, a horse trainer and veterinary stirgeon. lie was only sick five days, being afflicted with inflama- tion of the His relatives were telegraphed at Winfield, Cowley county but it was not until Monday that an an swer was received, which came from his wife, stating that she was too poor to come up, and requesting that the body be embalmed aud forwarded to infield, which was done by Abilene Post, deceased being a member of the Post at0 Winfield. STOCK SQUIBS. Point and Items About Kansas Stock. O.

W. Kirby of Dickinson county is grazing loO head ot cattle. The Western Land and Cattle company have 30,000 head of cattle in Chase county. Wilson county Citizen J. R.

Moore, living east of Fredoma is feeding eighty steers for the market. Osage City Fret Press: Henry Jacoby Of Reading says it pays to- raise 1 Jersey red hogs. He slaughtered one last week that tipped the beam at oO pounds. Council Grove COmoe: Isaac WV Phil- hps of Moss Springs, Davis county, re cently sold to Wall Bradshaw, at Par- kervillea toad, oi Poland-, lnna hogs, eight months old, averaging 327 2-3 pounds each. Osage City 'Free Press: At the last meeting of the Osage County Stock Growers' Association, we notice that the horse question was discussed and a move is abput to.be made in the direction of improving the stock of horses as well as cattle and hogs.

Le Roy Bepurter Mr. Roswell Norton the other day killed a pig a little over nine months old which weighed fiounds. It was a cross between the Po-and China and Berkshire. Mr. Norton has several more of the same litter, which are now much heavier than the.

one killed. 'Funrnerr county Pros Thursday of Uus week; John Gilchrist, of Belle Plaine tojvhuhip, Kld ona hundred headofcows to Jini Holliday for' They were thoroughbred and higlirade, short and Imextraordinaril.v? tine lot of cows. Mnlfollidav nad S. large' stock farm before this purchase. VBtirlinglme Clwomcltl IHfranW ard tells us that he has sold In the neighborhood of 800 worth of thoroughbred Shorthorns this summer from his herd which he breeds.

He says raising fine stock pavs a srood dual butter than, rais- inff ifiierkif animals, and tlnv demand is constantly increasing for this class tof SIOCK. i I Junction City. Uuioit. Quite a large loss of swine has occurred in this vicinity recently. At least.

have been lost from "dwiera, on some disease resembling it. Grant Bros, bought some ten or twelvejhundred head in Missouri, and Sold them to the farmsm in- this Vection and the" losses occurred among them No losses are reported among the hogs raised.m tins part of the state. The City of Mexico proposes to enforce the law making nickel money legal and has opened stores tor ttie sale oi necessities where sucn money win oe received. The Xew York coroner's jury decided that Rose Keiier committed suicide. S.

Lnntz was recentlyrel eased from the Kansas City work house und died two days after. Mal-treatment is alleged and an in-evstigution has been ordered. All hands on the bark, Mohawk, from New York to Calcutta, which anchored oil New Haven, were frost bitten and one man died from cold. All are Japanese. A gang of desperadoes have recently killed a Negro at Pottsville, Texas, a white man at Dexter, and also burned a church and school house at the latter place.

Chatuffel, a Choctaw Indian, was Elias Yarby, a mcmberof the Chootaw Lighthorso, while resisting arrest at Double for violation of the Anterous law. "Mrs. Mary Keener, wifa of Andrew Keener, a milkman was found dead in her bed at Indianapolis, under circumstances which criminate hor husband who was arrested. Three Negroes have been shot by' county officers in Kolla, recently, and their actsarenotjustifiedbythe public though they claimed to be acting in the line of duty. An explosion of natural gas in Sheenber-ger stable at Pittsburg, completely wrecked the brick stable and killed two valuable horses and four mules.

Loss, ooo. John 9. Auslutz ami two daughters were sleighing near near Bluftington, Ohio and while crossing the Lake Erie Si Western truck, were struck by the expre and all killed, Fred. Spiker, who killed Ernest Kom-hardt, and FrederikaTinimennan, tho lady who recently came from Germany bent on matrimony, were married in the jailor's at St. Louis.

A freight train broke through a bridge on the Chester it Lehoir narrow gahge railroad at Charlotte, N. and Joseph Henderson, fireman, and Wm. Simmons, brake-man, were killed. Mrs. Judith living in the country about twelve miles west of Lawrence, was murdered by unknown parties supposably for a tew hundred dollars she was said to possess.

A snow slide in Marshall Basin, Colorado, carried away the shaft house oftheMendota mine, containing fourteen men, eight of whom were killed outright, two were wounded and four dug themselves out. Mrs. Judge Ellison of Ft. Wayne, was seriously hurt while aboard a Nickle Plate train, near Ft. Wayne, which, was backed into by a switch Blame attaches to the engineer oi the switch engine.

Henry Schroeder was fatally shot by Edward Eyring in Cleveland, Ohio, on Christmas. Schroeder had thrown beer kegs through the windows of a saloon tended by Ehring's sister, because she refused them drinks. I i Dick Pedler, of Port Brownley, and Dyde Bright, of Manor's Station, met'in the ring, at Wilkesbarre, and eighty-seven rounds were fought, for $)0 a side, -Great brutality was displayed, and both men were badly used up. 1 Mrs. O'Donnell, wife of Carey's murderer, reached New York from England, on Dec.

26th. She felt elated because of a dream during the voyage that her husband had been respited, but her hopes were dashed upon learning the truth. Chas. Harvey- of Petersburg, who murdered Henry t'ustiu, at Evansville Friday night Dec. 21st was taken from jail Sunday morning following, at one o'clock and hung to a tree.

There was no doubt of his guilt. Wm. H. Kirk, of Cunimingsville, Ohio, was found dead in the bushes near that place, with a rope around his neck, and his tongue protruding, as though choked to death. He had been robbed of $200, and John Neill, a teamster, baa been arrested for the crime.

It is believed that at least three thousand miles of wire fence have been destroyed in Texas by the small herders, Coleman and Brown counties sulftriug the most. One man owns an inclosed tract thirty miles square, aud a corporation has 2s6 miles of wire leuee. The New Albany bridge over Blue river on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road was washed away and the southbound train ran into the washout. Charles New baggagemas-ter; Mrs. Dora Iddings, Lafayette, 3.

Helfrith; father of the master car-build-er-of the road, and' seven passengers were killed Engineer John Vaughn and the fireman four or five passengers were injured. A bloody affaay occurred at. a St. Louis boarding house, the chief actor being D. C.

Gibson, hUsband Of the landlady, who has been separated from his wife, and has lived in Ft. Worth, Texas, for three months. He returned on Dec. 24th and went to the house and opened tire on Burlington, the husband of one of Mrs. Gibson's daughters by a former husband, mifsed him, and inflicted a slight wound on a border, named Mullhall.

He then shot Bnllington twice and 'then put a ball in his pwn head. Thad. MeLeniore was arrested on a charge of burglary at McDade, and locked jup. A mob: took -thim and Wright McLemore and Henry Pfeifer out in the brush and hung them. The last named two- were taken because they happened to be in the jail.

Next day six friends and relatives of the men who were hung went town and engaged, in a row and two of them, Jakeand Asa Baytey were killed, and Haywood Bayly badly wounded. Willis Griifin of the other party was mortally woimdfd. Gov. Ireland was notified and on tji following day sent a detachment "of troops from' Brenhain and Hearne, who, upon arrival, found all quiet and returned by the Jirst train. The governor says that so far as his -information extends the affair was the result of drunken row At the county" cross roalls arid has no is believed that the-killing of the Baylcy boy was justiliable.

Llay wood Bay ley, who was wounded, and Wirl. Stevens were arrested by Sheriff Jenkins and County Attorney. Maynard at their hpnies. S. W.

Noble, telegraph operator1 ar tin duty, without sleep, forjiftmsjx houis. 1 e. P'i i 1 1 -1 i4 M-The king and queen "of Italy are to visit Seditious placards hare beerl posted about htockarau, Austria. A strong, shock of earthquake was Jolt in London on Dec. 22d.

I In the Mayo conspiracy trial at Cork, the Jury failed to agree. '1 'Th6 'Russiah Kantakusin, has been appointed iuinistotof war for Bulgaria. English gunboat has been throwing rocks over Suakim, to scare the Frri Government has congratulated the troons which took part in the attack on Sontay." "SumvanfO'Doftnell's counsel, wants to interview the jury Hiat tried him, but can't learn who they were. It is said that the bank of Concepcion, Pe ru, fost trom defalcations of corn merchants and a miller. The steitmer Bolivia bound for New York, has sunk in the Clyde river.

The passengers were taken on in safety. The Chinese steel corvette, Ninther, launohed at Kiel, Prussia, carries ten Arm strong guns and torpedo boats. Gennany has retired the General 'ot th etn army corps and appointed a catholic to secceed him, jo please tne Vatican. "Plon -Plon" has written Prince Napoleon, his father, that he will not oppose him as the head of the Bonaparte family. During the year 5,400 assisted emigrants left Ireland, of whom two-thirds went to the United States and the balance to Cana da.

Five more men of the wrecked ship Re-gin have been rescued at -sea. They had been rive days on a raft, without food or water. Items of all Kind Coiuinriihii; Tliein. The churches of McPherson seat 1.3(H) persons. Tho M.

K. church at Westmoreland has a new bell. A Baptist society has been organized at Milan, Sumner county. The Episcopal church at Ft. SooTt'has been renovated and beautified.

The new United Brothern church near Shiloh, Saline county, was dedicated recently Stockton New: The Conirre'-ational church is being finished inside and now pews are to be put in immediately. Wellington llWiWumaii: A series of interesting meetings are in progress at the Presbyterian church, in Oxford. McPherson Freeman. Rev. J.

A Vicar, of the M. E. church, has been conducting a very successful meeting in the Chirk school house, Grovelund township. McPherson Freeman: The revival meet ing is still in progress at the Baptist church, thirty-six added to the church at this date and still the good work goes on. Holton Signal: The revival that has been in progress at the Christian church North Cedar, for three weeks has closed with ten accessions to tho Elder Wade has been employed to preach once a month at that place for the 'ensuing year.

Iuka Timcst; The meetings of the M. E. church have been hugely attended. Under the earnestness of Rev. Rollins- son's sermons quite a number have been converted and united with the church.

There was an abundance of room for this in Iuka and we chronicle the fact with pleasure. Osage City Free Press: The Methodist meetings have closed. Bro. Griffls and other members of the church are greatly elated over the Eight persons joined the church on the last evening of the meetings. Great good has been accomplished and the church is in a flourishing condition.

KANSAS FAKMING Noteworthy IncirientB Among the Farmem of the State. Mahlon Pratt, of Brohson, Allon county, husks eight bushels of corn per hour, on an average. In southeast Kansas, corn is in good first-class condition and the crop is more than an aterage one. The corn crop in Brown county, which was estimated at 50 to 7'i bushels per acre will not harvest more than 85 bushels. Sterling Bulletin: The wheat in the country is looking well.

A favorable spring will produce a big crop from the present outlook. Osborne county Farmer: Sam Kidley states the product of his season's farming as follows Wheat 3,352 bushels, rye 973 bushels, corn 3,000 bushels. Florence Herald: It is not a good thing to allow cattle to eat too much. Several have died in neighboring counties recently, from the effects of devouring too much food. ElDorado Times: Over in "Poverty Holler" as he facetiously calls it, C.

Bon-nell, of Rosalia township, raised 1,065 bushels of corn from twelve acres of ground. It is the biggest and best corn we have seen this year. Columbus Times: Last Saturday, A. Kirk, who lives six 'miles northwest of town, sold $112 worth of honey to one man at twelve and a half cents perpound and during the last season his sales have amounted to upwards of $250. Mr.

Kirk has been in the business about six years. He thinks that this and last season have been the best during his experience. Valley Falls Xew Era: Mr, John Mc-Clenuy has found raising sorghum and making syrup profitable. He raised this fall 3-J acres of cane from which he made 10 barrels averaging 45 gallons each, or 450 gallons of syrup, which he has sold at an average price of 45 cents per gallon. The syrup was the finest of the kind that we have seen, being clear and pleasant to the taste.

Chanute Times: Last Saturday was a field day for corn dealers. The high prices of the few days previous stimulated farmers to bring in a portion of their surplus, and the result was the largest receipts of corn ever known here in one day, 310 loads being brought in on that day, all large loads, and of good, sound quality. We take it that such facts as this oue ought to be convincing to au eastern doubter, that we have good soil, and are far from Buttering for anything that money can buy. Winfield Courier We don't like to see our farmers selling corn at even the late advance to thirty cents. The more we learn the more satisfied we are that corn Is bound to go much higher and that before spring.

We expect to see it go to forty cents and possibly to fifty. There is evidently not enough corn in the country to supply the demand and then we expect a reduction in the rates of freight. GRAND ARMY GLEANINGS. Particular!) Pertaining to the Poets. A ladies relief corps has been formed at Ft.

Scott. The Ft, Scott Tost has organized a drum corps. The Post at Iola gave a fair during holiday week. The installation of Halstead Post will occurred on Jan. 1st.

A post with forty members has been organized at Dodge City. Gen. Mower Post No. 95 of Great Bend will install its oHidcrsJan. 6th.

The Post at Hepler, Bourbon county, held a cainprire on New Year's night. AVestmoiland Post No. 151 is building a substantia) building and will use the upper story for. hall. Colony Press Equity Post G.

A. at their regular meeting elected nearly all their ollicers Over," for next vear. SaliS are one hundred and. sixty-two "members of' Jirand Army post in this'city; the 'number is gradually increasing. Post belda bjg cauipfire and reunion on the lSth, in the evening.

An address was delivered by Hon. J.Jay Buck, and caiapojies were sw apped. R. B. No.

164 of Blue Mound, Linn county, installed their otli-oers the presence of fclwmrildes and their families. A fine collation was served afterward. The Dodge Cir Post of the U. A. R.

has been namedHn honor of Col. Lewis, of the army, who wr? stationed at Fort Dodge when the Cheyennes and Arapa-hoes broke away from their rexervation in the territory and went north in October 1S78, and was killed in a fight 'With them on White Woman itboiit "'thirty miles southeast of Fort Wallace. rell presented memorial from the nianu- lacturers and business men ot St. Louis, opposing the repeal of tho vaporizing law. After an executive session, adjourned until Jan.

7th. The Senate has confirmed Royal Johnson, Surveyor General of Arizona. In the House on Doc. 24th, a message was received from the President transmitting the papers in his possession respecting O'Doiinell. The speaker announced his standing and select committees and the House adjourned until Jan.

7th, There ts some dissatisfaction among the members of the House respecting tho composition of the committees. Willis, cliair-Uiun of the committee on Rivers and Harbors sayB he will forco a liberal chairman of the Ways and Means committee, declined toexpress himself beyond saying that the make-up of the committee indicated what its policy would be. Calkins says the muke-up of that committee means that "particular thunder will be raised." A New England Democrat says the composition of the committee is not in-aceordanee with conservative ideas on the tariff question. Most of its members are not men of moderate views, and the selection of such men was, bethought, at variance with the sentiments expressed by Carlisle! in his speech on accepting the office of Speaker, Springer is dissatisfied because he is not a member of the committee on elections. Cox refused to serve on the Naval Atl'aisr committee, aud is angry at not being given the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs committee.

Twenty-nine of the 55 new chairmanships goto the South. Bland, chairman of the House committee on coinage, weights and measures, favors the recViniugof. trade dollars into standard dollariiand thinks the issuing of the latter should not be stopped, but that another mint should be established at St. Louis. POLITICAL, AND PERSONAL.

1 George Murray the executive of Utah has arrived in Utah. The legislature will meet soon. Jessie MeGee, nearly a hundred and one years old, died at Kappa, Woodford county, 111., on Dec. 22d. Saleldo, charge d'affairs of the Venezuelan government, has presented his credentials to the Secretary of State.

Wm. Hunter, second assistant secretary of the U. S. Treasury, has been in the diplomatic service of the United States 53 years. Dubuque has lost a noted character by the of Mexican Henry, who lived alone in a cabin on the flats.

He served under General Scott in the Mexican war, and later in the 1st Iowa regiment. Gen. Grant slipped on the icy pavement in New York, and fell, as he was alighting from his carriage, recently. No bones were broken but the sciatic nerve was bruised causing him to keep his bed forseveral days. At a state convention of colored men In Columbus, Ohio, with delegates from all parts of the state, resolutions were adopted to petition the Legislature to better their condition by the passage of laws tending in that direction also asking State and National aid for colored schools, recommending co-operation by forming joint stock companies among themselves, etc.

A committee was appointed to perfect a plan for the protection of colored citizens and the formation of Civil Rights Leagues, The resolutions set forth that the states in the late rebellion are averse to the rights of colored men and demand the enforcement of laws to protect them. Chairman Sabin of the National Republican committee Ikis appointed John 0. New, of Indiana, Wm. C. Cooper, of Ohio, C.

L. Magee, of Pennsylvania, John A. Logan, of Illinois and Powell Clayton, of Arkansas as a committee to assist him and Secretary Martin in the management of the Chicago convention. L. J.

Gage, of Chicago was appointed treasurer. C'apt. Wm. Biggins of Kansas was appointed sergeant-at-arms of the National committee. The following sub-executive committee has been appointed to have charge of the preliminary campaign work O.

H. Piatt, Connecticut; Win. Chandler, New Hampshire; Jas. H. Stone, Michigan; Wm.

P. Frye, Maine; Geo. W. Hooker, Vermont; Nathan Goll, We Virginia; and 8. B.

Elkins, New Mexico. CRIMES AND.jCASTJALITIES. President Arthur passed Christinas in Washington. Hathaway, the Fall River, Mass. embezzler has been pardoned by Gov.

Butler. Louis Johnston was crushed at Vincennes by the fall of a tree he had chopped down. At Stigo furnancc, near Salem, James Wingfield stabbed and killed Browning John A. Clark was hanged at Helena, Montana, for the murder of Thos. Rodgers, in June.

D. McGarland's business block in Portsmouth, Ohio, burned. Loss insurance $7,000. 1 Geo. C.

Thilenust's flouring mill at Cape Girardeau, has burned. Loss $60,000 insurance $50,000. John Conway and Mike Kchoe, firemen of St. Louis, were killed while working at a fire on Dec, 24th. Geo.

B. Lincoln, of Chicago was arrested in New York, charged with threatening to shoot Minnie Healy. i A dead Negro preacher was found near Brinkley, lying near a hog which he had killed. He was Henrv Moines, an ex-noliceman of Phila delphia, has been couvicted of robbing the Kensington bank in 1871. 'ri A street fight occured at Allendale, C.

on Christmas, iivwhioh two persons were killed and five others wounded. Orth who killed Geo. Fredericks, was released on $7,500 bail on Dec 27th. His new trial is set for Jan. 10th, Walter E.

Kidder, a traveling salesman has been arrested in New YoTk on a charge of bigamy, preferred at Peru, Carl Gull died at Bloomington, 111., from eating raw pork sausage, which has since teen found to be alive with trichina. A pan'c succeeded a false alarm1 of fire in the Standard theatre at St. Louis, on Dec 20th. Quiet was restored without accident. The dead body of a man who' had "been stahbed in several places and whose 'throat had been cut, was found near McKeekinap, I.T.

John Walton', who was" charged' witri seducing Henry Sefihler's wiW shofc and killed Sechler, in the streets ot Beardstown, Ills. 'Ulyses A. Grant, son of WnV Jesse 'Grant and a relative of the ex-presiueui nas neeu arrested for burglary and theft in Galveston. Reed Pierce, the murderers of W. tl.

McMillen, at Emporia, have been sentenced to be hanged after one year in tiie penuen tiary. A fiunliy named Gray, consisting of the mau, his wife and child and two ladies were drowned While crossing a creen near; runs, engines of an accommodation and a newspaper train Were demolished in a col lision uu tile rcuuipvaiun iwwi, dleton, Pa. James Denton, a Negro deck hand on the steamer aiary nousion, Kineu joikc nuu, an Italian; a deck passencer, and escaped in to Missouri. P. S.

Tobias flour mill at Troy, burned with all its contents except the -books and a iortion of the flour. Ixiss eurance, $12,000. J. P. Diehl.

formerly collector of customs at Philadelphia, was found dead in bed at Dilanco, New Jersey. Coal gas is believed to have caused his death. H. R. Jones, president of suspended bank at De Pere, Wisconsin, was arrested at ject.

Centralia lias a prosperous brooTn' The waterworks test at Winfield was successful. A lodge of masons has been inwtituted at Pittsburg. Several buildings in Hartfbrd were burned recently. Osage'City" has" I "colored Club "of Kentucky Black Jackers. Lawrence has a broom brigade composed of colored kulies.

The opera house at Belle Plaine has been supplied with 300 chairs. A wolf hunt in Allen county did not result in any injury to the wolf. A lodge of Knights of Pythias is to be formed at Lyndon, Osage county. The Butler Comity Exposition association is already preparing for a fair. Wm.

Herron has been arrested at Caw-ker City for stealing a pair of mules. Mrs. John M. Crowell, of Atchison, is confined to her house by a broken leg. The Medicine Lodge Council have passed an ordinance against gambling.

An anti-horse thief association has been formed at Milan, Sumner county. James Shields, of Osage City, fell from his horse and broka both bones of one lg' Eufus Wilder, of Waterville, broke the large bone of one leg, while playing football. Some villain has poisoned a valuable horse belonging to K. Jewell, of Ar-cadifK 4 A Miss JJorth, of Carbondale, was seriously burned while stirring the fire, recently. There are 42 students learning the art preservative in the State Agricultural college, The new Newton opera house will be second to none in the state, outside of Topeka.

The Hanover city council lias an ordinance closing the saloons at 10 o'clock. The Harper opera house is to be lighted with gas manufactured by a portable machine. The remaining unentered land in Wilson county is fast being filed on and proved up. A brakeman named Stoner lost a leg at Independence, by being run over by an A brakeman on the Mo. Pacific road at Council Grove, was killed in an accident last week.

Miss Dora Ingles, of Valley Falls was Seriously hurt by being run over by a wagon, recently. Some boys recently set a fire which burned over the cemetery atFarmington, Dickinson county. Sterling Bulletin; The Arkansas Valley inside of ten years will produce more sugar than Louisiana ever did. City Marshal Brown shot and killed Newt Boyce, a gambler, at Caldxyell, while attempting to arrest him. Belle Plaine Aeiw; T.

B. Malernee lost two horses this week from cold caused by driving through the river. W. H. Jackson, a traveling agent for Cartright A of Malcolm, Iowa, has been adjudged insane at Marion.

Junction City Union, Dustin Sands has shipped from Junction City this fall over one thousand tons ofjbaled hay. The Pottawatomie county seat fight is to be fought over again, Petitions are being circulated for a removal from Westmoreland. 4 County Citizen: Owen Lee shot eighteen rabbits in less than an hour's on K. F. Pryor's place, near the Fall river bridge.

'Gaylord Herald Twenty thousand pounds of Way freight was unloaded at this station one day last week besides five cars side-tracked. George Washington, of Wyandotte county, filled Robert Divers full of shot while the latter was trying to set fire to the Washington mansion. 1 Two deer have recently been seen in the vicinity of Chanute, and it is said that several of these animals have wintered on Big Turkey creek. Marion Granitic: The grain "dealers at Hillsboro stopped seventeen car Jpads of wheat from that point luesdav. Ihev claim tluit this is but an average day for them, i Tiie Banoe of Light, published at Boston, gives a spirit communication from the Jate Judge.Nathan Price, of Troy, re- ceiveu inrougu jtiisb di i.

oneinamer, medium. Stockto43Ve(1'', Atlast the Increase of service on the mail route between this place and KirWih has been granted and we will flow receive mtil daily from the north fork. A 'coroner's jury at New-ton has held Doctors l. v. uonrad ana tiittel re sponsible for the death of Mrs.

Kichet, alleging the performance of unwarrant able Hiawatha florWi, Mr. W. pobertedh says that pur stone here is not a sandstone but.murl,' and that if it was 400 away we should -prize it highly, It takes on a nne Mr. 0. Ellison, Scandinavian Agent of the ainta road, as actively -engaged in turning the tide of Scandinavian immi gration! from, the cokT northwest to a more congenial clime further south, Sharpers robbed ifon'ri Earnest; art old farmer from Barry pf $1,400, a on Santa Fe train, recently.

He had pulled out his pocket book and was going to bet on their game when one snatched his purse and ran. Ler'oy Rfpotter: 'Two new switches and a spur will be put down at the depot in this city forthwith. business1 on the Missouri Pacific at this point is increasing at such a rapid rate that the above action becomes alisolutely necessary. Eureka Herald i Frank ten miles sonth of Eureka, committed Buicide by hanging Sunday inst. He had shown no evidence ff insanity.

So" far as we are able to learn, he was liv ing by himself and left ho reason' record ed lor the act. Hal stead Independent: On last Saturday evening while Robert Roberts was at the barbershop, some person entered his lively stable and stole one of his horses. Air. Korjerts was only away a lew inm ates and when he went back he found his horse gone. Cawker City Jaurnal: Will Daniels has the smartest dog in the The other day while Will was after a duck NEWS SUMMARY.

MISCELLANEOUS. Two non-union mon were bailly bcuteu by strikers at Pittsburg. A. D. Smith of Providence, have failed and have paper outstanding amounting to $707 ,000.

Mrs. Martha Staves died in her church pew at Moriah, New York, while tho congregation were singing. The Hess English Opera company has given the Mexicans their first taste or opera at Laredo. Taey were greatly pleased. The widow of Captain Nutt, killed by Dukes at Uniontown, has been compelled to bring suit to recover insurance of $5,000.

Geo. Oakes Clark left his fortune of $300,. 000 to his family, and after their death and the death of his relatives it is to go to Harvard college. Workingmen of Reading, are signing petitions to Congress to prevent the importation of foreign laborers under contracts made abroad. The journalists of Cincinnati are forming a press club.

There are about 30 members who have signified their willingness to support such an organization. Three thousand employes of the National Tube Works company at McKeesport, de-cide4 "to accept a reduction of 125 to 26 per cent, on January The New Jersey zinc and mining company has been restrained from working a miaing property in Sussex county. N. valued at several million dollars. The marriage is announced of Frank H.

Walworth, formerly of Saratoga, who killed his father in a New York hotel, and Miss Corinne B. Bramlette, of Louisville. In the New York Superior Court, Judge Truax refused a Chinaman, who had obtained his tirst papers, naturalization documents, citing the provisions ot the Chinese act. Live-stock dealers scattered along the line from New York to Cheyenne, have incorporated the Ogalalla Cattle Company, with a capital of main olllce being at Omaha. The bell oflndependence Hall at Philadelphia was rung one hundred times at noon Dec.

24th commemorating the surrender of his commission by Washington as Chief of the army. The convicts at the Jefferson City penitentiary were given a fine Christmas dinner and allowed the liberty of the yard. They indulged in games of ball, boxing aud other athletic amusements. Wm. Hatfield, an escaped convict from Michigan, was arrested in Malone, N.

but not until he had stabbed Sheriff Stock-well, Allen Stockwell and his wife. The wounds were not dangerous. An injunction effecting nine of the largest Glucose factories in the United States, has been obtained by the New York Glucose company to prevent the use of the patent process owned by the plaintiff. The following postofflces in Kansas have been made presidential offices with the salaries mentioned; Franfort, Lindsborg, Howard, Harper, Carbondale, $1,000 Osage Mission, $1,200. The pension bureau at Washington has received a letter from an Ohio man contain ing the following "Drop my name from the pension roll and write opposite it: 'Cured by faith in the He will be dropped.

During the year 6,000 miles of railroad have been built at an approximate cost of $165,000,000, making the total number of miles of railway in the country about During 1882, 11,600 miles were constructed, and in 1881, 9,000. Ex-Senator Herbert Spencer has been discharged for contempt from failing to appear as a witness in the Star Route trials. Spencer threatens to urge an investigation by Congress which would develop that Dorsey was hut small fry in the frauds. During the late unpleasantness a federal soldier aimed at a hog in a southern cornfield, and hit a contraband who was stealing roasting ears. The darky has forwarded to his- congressman a claim for a pension, hich has been duly placed on file An association of Professors of modern languages has been formed in New York for the purpose of preventing the conferring of the degree ot Bachelor of Arts by any college in America upon any student who cannot read with facility, French and German.

Fort Columbus, in New York harbor, fired a National salute and the bell in In-dependence-Hall, Philadelphia, was rung a hundred times on Dec. 24th to commemorate Washington's surrender of his commission as Commander-in-chief of the army. The state Liquor Dealers' association of Ohio adopted measures ior uniting me brewers, distillers and wholesale and retail dealers, all in one perfect State organiza-. tinn with auxiliaries in each county, to be gin an ageressive campaign for the fullest personal imeny. A Washineton dispatch of date Dec.

27th says Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has received a telegram from Maj. Gen. Pope, at Ft.

Leavenworth, saying he thinks the white boy Charlie McComas is with a band of the Chiricahua Indians, who are daily expected to reach San Carlos agency. Dan. Mackeney visited his sister-in-law, whn in a widow living in Harrisburg, and after statiug that he had come there to murder her he beat her with a spittoon aDoiu hpnH struck her with a heavy iron in strument and then iuniued on her. The woman is in a precarious condition. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the district court of Dakota lia,) nn jurisdiction in the case of Indian Crow Dog, tried and sentenced to death for the murder of Spotted Tail, and that the imprisonment of Crow Dog is illegal.

The writs of habeas corpus and certiorari prayed for will be granted. A special surrogate at Buffalo has decided that the widow of President Fillmore was of aound mind and not under du- ress when her will was executed, by which her estate was given to several churches and schools. The contestants, her first cousins, have made a disgusting fight, and will have a large bill of costs to pay. The ex-presi-dent's mansion on Niagara square was sold lir $26,000 less than it cost. Th Herretarv of the Interior, Inspector Benedict, Agent Tuft and Special Agent Townseud will proceed at once to Muscotah, Indian Territory, to investigate the Creek troubles, arising from the recent election of chief, and will make recommendations looking to a settlement.

The recommeuda-. tions will form the basis of final action by the Interior Department. The gentlemen above named are 'instructed to inform the Creeks the Department will, if necessary, enforce the action recommended. Mr. Buckner, chairman of the committee on Banking and Currency, is preparing a bill to introduce when Congress recon- renes.

It provides for issuing of Treasury notes without the legal tender quality, to take the place of the bank notes going out- of existence. The purport of the measure is the same as the bill introduced by Mr. Buckner the first session of the last Congress. Mr. Buckner does not favor the proposition of Comptroller Knox to take off one per cent, on the circulation and allow banks to issue at market value instead of par value.

Dingley, who heads the list of Republican members of the committee on Banking and Currency favors a plan which proposes to provide for the issue and circulation of notes of equal per cent, and market value of the bonds deposited and thus secure their circulation. He thinks the committee will be favorable to such a plan..