The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-02-26

House Of Representatives TO be organized d
moro on the basis OF the committees award
Conservative members 10 sign an agreement
that, while not approving or recognizing The
/ legality OF the Government known As th'
Kellogg Government, they would agree moi
to disturb the Executive because OF his pas
political acts, 80 long as he is sustained by the
President; members of the House OF Repre-
sentstiyes returned by arbitration not 10 b,
changed, except by dsa'h, resignation, or ex
pulsion for just cause: the senator's returned
by arbitration 10 be seated. The election Of
1872. now before Congress, was not 10 be in
cludcd In the adjustment. Coy. McEnery and
other leading Conservatives opposed the pro
posed compromise, and it was also rejected 10y
the Republicans, and SO came 10 naught.
A statement having been published some
time since, signed by 1915 eN-Federal soldier,
residing ia Arkansas, saying that a reign OF
terror existed in that state, and that the
lives of al Union men were imperiled, Gov.
ernor Garland directed the Prosecuting At.
torney to have the parties who signed the
statement summoned before the Grand Jury
then in session, and. If tho facts as stated
were found To be true, that the
guilty parties be prosecuted. The report OF
the Grand Jury has now been published, and
is To the effect that about forty of the parties
were examined, and the jury was not able,
After diligent questioning, 10 find IA single in
stance in which any man had been deprived
Of his right 10 vote, or any other right, and
that there was no evidence OF the existence
Of any secret organization known as the
White League.
In Cincinnati, on the 18th, Mrs. sophia
Cowan, seyenfy-three years 'of age, was
burned to death by her dress catching fire
from a CRATE. Mrs. Mills. wife Of promi-
ueut manufacturer, was also fatally burned
from the same cause.
The Grand Jury at Chicago have found in
dictmeuis against the business managers of
the morning and evening papers published in
that city for publishing lottery advertise
ments. II j. understood that the papers will
contest the indictment on the ground that the
advertisements referred to are not those OF
lotteries.
The Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners. in
their report 10 the Legislature, recommend
the repeal Of the Potter law. and the substitu-
ton OF such Legislation a, VIII authorize the
Commissioners to fix the maximum rates Of
freight and passage Tor railroads Of
the first class, namely the -. Paul
and Northwestern. No restriction j.
proposed on roads Of the seconl class. The
plan OF the Commissioners also contemplates
that each road shall be appraised. and that
when the net earnings Of any road Of the first
class exceed temper cent. of value its rates
shall be reduced. The Commissioners have
prepared bin embodying these recommend
ations. and il j. indicated that the bin will
pass.
the 18th, destroyed a large number Of stores
and the Gazette printing-ofice. Loss, $780,
600: insurance. $4,000.
At New Orleans, on the 18th, Henry
Ducher. colored, when returning from church
with two friends, was assailed by party Of
intoxicated soldiers. They pursued Ducher
into his residence. near by, when the negro
finally seized musket, fired and killed Pri-
vate Warren Hicks, Company ID, Third
United States Infantry.
Hon. LandOn e. HAYNES, Confederate sena
tor during the war, and for many years n
prominent politician in Tennessee, died on
the 18th.
About midnight on the 18th the large gas
ome,er ofthe Dcs Moines, Iowa, Gas-works
exploded. and in a few minutes the whole
works were on fire. one man was missing,
and II is feared that he was killed and covered
by the debris.