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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-12-28

A MAIDEN lady said to her little
nephew: "Now, Johnny, you 60 to
bed early, and always do SO, and you'll
be rosy checked and handsome when
you grow up" johnny thought over
this few minutes, and then observed:
aWen, aunty, you must have set up a
good deal when you were young"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-12-28
ITS.7INE TO GO TO BED.

'Tis strange how pa does act sometimes
When ] have got beau;
J BE seems to think it just the time
Authority to show.
He never thinks himself once young.
But thinks me old instead;
Then fapssenthe fioor and shouts,
"Its time to go to bed"
Nov all was silent when at last,
His saddenest heart to cheer,
/ said you must not mind papa,
He's getting old and queer.
He sat as still as any post,
And not q word was said;
When 10, another rap and shout
aIss time to go to bed"
Said poor r.George-"May, I now must go
And let folks go to bed;
He's Knocked upon the floor now twice,
He'll next knock on my head -
"But you must come again, dear George.
Remember, pa is old;
II he was young like you and
Pm sure he would not scold."
But poor George never came again,
The knocking scared him out;
And always when I've got beau
Ps's got to bang and shout.
Butt have got another now,
And Johnny is his name;
'Tis true papa yet bangs and shouts,
But Johnny he is game.
81 think your papa has retired"-
1t was no sooner said,
When instantly the rarT and ebont
..lt's time to go TO bed
Iqaickly Dade ae e.ar John good might,
Up to ~ roor did go.
ana ana Nan'' .appened quite soon after
iVeVU soon shall know.
irsept quite silent down the stairs,
Thile John outside did wait;
] threw my shawl about myself,
And joined him at the gate.
Hours at the gate passed pleasantly
Between dear John and 1,
could not now enumerate,
No, not if should try.
Pa says dear John has common sense
mot staying go late;
But knows not half the sparkling done
ByuA down at the gate.
Dear papa no more raps and shouts
For us to go 10 bed;
There isn't SO much sitting up
Since Jobl and were wed.
4af@f4 -Poughkeepsie Press.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

ton adjourned sine die on the 10th. The
proposed State Constitution will be submit
ted to popular vote July I.
GEN. SARGE, Chief Commissioner of
Japan, with suite, arrived at San Francisco
on the 18th. bringing a large quantity Of ex-
hibits for the Centennial.
THE United States Grand Jury ut
Chicago, on the 10th, returned indictments
against Philip wadsworth, ex-Collector Of
Internal Revenue, d. w. Mum, eX-Su-
pervisor Of Internal Revenue, and +. T.
Bridges, ex-Revenue Agent, for completely
in whisky frauds. Bridges has fed to
Canada.
A STATE Greenback Convention was
held at Syracuse, N. Y. on the 18th.
QUEEN VICTORIA has made arrange
ments to spend a week each at Baden Baden
and Coburg. She will travel %incognito. and
has particularly requested that no official re-
ception be tendered her anywhere Oh her
journey.
IMMUNITY from arrest having been
promised ty the Government to Caleb Z.
Marsh and his wife, who fed to Canada on
account of being implicated in the Fort Sill
frauds, it was authoritatiyely stated on the
10Th that Marsh would return te Washing
ton in a few days and testify before the
Grand jury in %Belknap's case.
The Council of Administration al
Fort Sill have recommended the reappOint-
ment of Capt. John S. Evans, who was re-
Gently removed on the order Of President
Grant, on account Of completely in the Bel
knap-Marsh frauds.
GEN. ScHENCK, late United States
Minister to Great Britain, arrived in
New York on the 18th.
THE Ohio Democratic State Conven.
ton will be held at Cincinnati on May II.
JosEpHUs SOOY, Jr., the defaulting
State Treasurer of New Jersey, has been
sentenced TO confinement in the state Pris.
on for three years, and until the costs OF
prosecution are paid. lie is over GO year,
old, and has u family highly respected.
FERDINAND FEILGRArH, the German
poet, died on the 18th, aged 60.
The President has nominated Joe
ID. Harvey FOR Collector of Internal Ncvenu,
for the First District of Illinois; VIM. ii,
Doolittlc, OF Minnesota, for Assistant Gem.
missioner Of Patents: Philip Arnhalt, o
Missouri, for Pension Agent at st. Joseph.
and John NJ. Coghlan. of California, fol-
Chief-Justicc OF Utah Territory.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

HALLETT KILPOURNE, a contuma
cious witness before the House committee
engaged in investigating the District real
estate ring, was by vote Of the House, on
the 14th, ordered to confinement in Jail for
refusing to disclose to the committee the
names of the members Of the pool.
The Democrats of the Third Con-
necticut District have nominated David A.
Wells for Congress, to fill the vancancy
caused blythe death Of II. b. Starkweather.
CHARGES having been made affecting
the literary reputation of Mr.. Richard II.
Dana, Jr., to the effect that q considerable
portion Of his published writings had been
plagiarized, the action of the Senate upon
his nomination as Minister to England has
been suspended until Mr.. Dana has had an
opportunity to meet his accusers-chief OF
whom is Gen. Butler-and repel their &c.
cusations. 1t is generally understood in
Washington that his nomination will not be
confirmed.
The Governor of Kansas, in accord,
ance with the request of the Legislature,
has appointed Saturday, April /, as arbol
day for the entire State.
THE wife of ex-senator Carl Schur,
died in New York, on the 18th, Of puerpera
fever.
THE Colorado Constitutional Conven
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

Hon. GEORGE II. PENDLEToN APP
peared before the Committee on the
War Department on the 14th, and ex-
planned his connection with the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, and with the
collection of its claim for Transports
ton services. He testified that he was
paid by the company 80 per cent. OF
the amount recovered through his agen-
cy ($14S, OOO), and also received about
$4,000 additional, to be paid by him
to A. II. Ransom, who assisted ia the
preparation of the claim. He testi-
fled with great emphasis that he
never paid one dollar to any person
connected with the Government, OIL to
any member of Belknap''s family, or to
any one else, except to Ransom. Sena.
tor Stevenson, one of the stockholders
and a director of the road, testified be-
fore the committee that he considered
the claim a just one, but hard to gel
through; and that the arrangement with
Pendleton was entirely satisfactory tc
the company. The Bower estate own
ed four-fifths of the entire stock of the
road, and Mrs. Bower (now Mrs. Bel
knapp received her proportion of thu
money recovered.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
Mrs. BeII1nap's Last Appearance.

This season Mrs. Belknap determined
to establish Il precedent, and declined re
turning visits unless those made by the
wives and daughters of officers of the
army and navy, the diplomatic corps
and II few others. She gave no evening
entertainment but her dinners, and she
has had three or four each week since
New Years, which were of the most re-
fined and elegant description. There
we're usually covers for fourteen, and the
menu embraced every delicacy in and
out of season, served on Il table glitter
ing with costly silver and fine glass, and
illuminated by a p%rofusion of rare flow
ers. These dinners have been the talk
of the town, and it has been considered
as great an honor to receive u card for
one of Mrs. Belknap's dinners as for a
dinner served at the White House. The
toilettes have been of the most elaborate
and expensive materials. At the last
german, where she received the guests
for the "Bachelor's Club" who gave it,
the dress worn by her was said to have
cost 5000, and came from Pingat in
Paris, and this was n of the most
modest of her costumes. Her laces and
Jewels were the envy of the ladies OF
the diplomatic corps, and that speaks
volumes for their worth and magniii
cence.
Her last appearance in public was on
Monday last, when she attended three
entertainments, the first IN elegant din
ner party given by Madame Bergmont
at her superb house on II Street. Here
she seemed not to be very bright, ant
remarked to q lady near her: 81 an
not well; | am so nervous, and l ough
not to be here.n What wonder that sh'
was nervous, with the sword ready t.
fall and destroy her and her husband
Later, she went to the last reception
given by Mr.. Riggs, the prominen
banker, and his daughters; and still
later to n leap-year party given by Ad
miral and Mrs. Porter. Her costume o
shimmering silk was half hidden unde
the drapery of foamy, costly lace, worth
they say, q princes ransom. Her orna
, ments, as I heard the next day, were
costly parure of diamonds, which gilt
tered and flashed forth a thousand col
: ors, worn for the first time. She wa
surrounded all the evening by friends
and was acknowledged the most ele
!, gantly dressed lady of the evening"
=, Coy BostOn Herald.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

A FORT MADISON man went into h
constable the other day, and by mi.
take mixed her up II nice mash in a be-
full OF saw-dust instead of bran. TT
10Y merely supposing the hard tim
had come, and they were all going
economist, meekly ate her supper; al
that man V discovered his mista(,
until the next morning when he milkf
that cow and she let down n half.
gallon of turpentinc, a quart of she
pegs, and Il bundle of laths.-Burlin
ton HaWkeNe.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
F"ORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

In the Senate, on the 14th, the bill to re-
duce the salary Of the President to &25, 90 per
annum, after the 4th Of March next, was passed
yeas, 26; nays. 20....... In the House, Mr..
Grover, Chairman Of the Select Committee on
the Real estate Pool and Jay Cooke Indebted.
ness, m de a report, from which IL appeared
that the real estate pool consisted first Of five per.
sons, who had contributed IS, 900 each, and who
were subsequently, assessed 5000 each. and OF
Jay Cooke Il Co., who had contributed s25, $50,
but did not pay any assessment. The firm OF
Hallett kilbOurne 4 Co. acted as agents Of the
pool, and Mr.. kilbourne refused to tell the com.
mittee the names of those interested. 1t was
therefore ordered that Kilbourne be brought be.
fore the bar Of the House to answer for con.
tempt, and still refusing to answer, he was or.
1ered to be confined in the common Jail Of the
District until he should purge himself Of his con.
tempt.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the bill to en-
clude Missouri from the provisions Of the Mining
act was passed. .......In the House, Mr.. Faux.
ner offered a resolution instructing the Commits
sioner Of Foreign Affairs to inquire into the
powers conferred upon A. H.. ~teinherger a.
Special Agent or Commissioner to the samoan or
Navigators' Islands. Adopted. The House then
went into committee OF the Whole, Mr.. Cox in
the chair, on the Legislative Appropriation bill
and a number OF speeches were made upon vari.
GUS questions.
In the Senate, on the 10th, Messrs. Cam
eron, West, Logan, and Edmunds took occasion
W ueny tnc rum VI certain Cnlrpcb maup Dy
newspaper correspondents rejecting upon their
official conduct. There was some general de-
bate on various measures, but no bills were
passed 1.-THE House passed several local bills
among them one providing for the holding Of
terms Of District and Circuit Courts in kansas
City Mo.
The Senate was not in session Oh the 18th.
......The House transacted but little business of
Importance. The Banks Centennial Committee
was authorized to sit during the recess of Con-
gress.
The Senate was not in session on the 18th
......No business of interest was transacted d in
the House.
In the Senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Withers.
from the Committee on Appropriations, report.
cd the House bill to supply the deficiency for
feeding the Sioux Indians. He moved to strike
out OF the bill the words 800 900. and insert
Sl5D 900. The amendment was agreed to and
the bill passed The bill to provide for counting
the votes for President. ETC., was then taken w
and debated at some length......ln the House
Mfr. Atkins moved to suspend the rules and pass
the bill repeating all provisions of the act of the
18th O. January, 1915, for the resumption of spc.
Gle payments, that authorize the Secretary Of tho
Treasury to redeem and cancel United States
notes, and to sell United states bonds for the ac.
complement Of that purpose. The motion Il
suspend the rules and pass the bill was rejected
yeas, 1889; nays, l0S-not two.thirds in tho
Affirmative.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

IT is stated that the Indian Appropri-
alton bill, as prepared for the considera-
ton of the Committee on A%ppropria-
tions, is based upon the assumption that
the proposed transfer of the Indian
Bureau from the Interior to the War
Department will be enacted. 1t there
fore makes no provision for Indian
Agents, superintendent, Inspectors,
etc., nor for any miscellaneous OBJ
jects, except such as are re-
quired byexpress st~ipulations of treaties.
The amounts which, in the judgment
of the committee, are needed for sub
sistence and clothing, and for transport
tation for Indian service, will hereafter
be provided for in the Army Appropria-
ton bill, to be expended by the Com.
missary and Quartermaster's Depart.
ments. Under these heads, Mr.. Ran,
dali believes that at least one and Il halt
million dollars can be saved annually
The plan contemplates making a grea,
saving in transportation by removing
all the principal agencies to the vicinity
of military posts.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

He was telling her of Belknap's dis
grace, and casually remarked that there
was a m at the bottom of it, ms
there always was in the troubles OF
men. But, after he had crawled out
from under the bed and apologized, he
gathered the children around him, and
told them that a woman was a holy and
beautiful thing. So it is that tribes
change IL views of life. A flat-iron-
ave, even an inexpensive rolling-pin-
may be the humble instrument to teach
a man that the hay-loft is good enough
place for him to sleep inS-Brooklyn
Argus.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

Two deplorable marine casualties
were reported by cable on the 10th. The
ship Great Britain, from Liverpool, be-
came water-logged on the Sd of March
and was abandoned at sea. The cap
tain and IS men took to a boat and sui.
fered terribly from hunger. Three Of
the men died, and the survivors were
forced to eat portions of the re-
mains of their comrades to keep from
starving. On the 18th of March they
were rescued in the last stages of ema
citation. The American ship Enmeni
Giles, from Port Royal, S. c., was cap
sized on the 18th of March, and Capt
Beard and IS of the crew we're drown,
ed. The second mate and seven of tn,
crew succeeded in reaching Queenstown
in safety.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
~TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The improvements IN Galveston Har-
Dor, made during the past year by means Of
the jetty system, have materially deepcncd
the water over the bars, so that the depth
of water in the shoalest spot in low tide is
now AK feet, md at ordinary high tide, 10
feet.
The Bank Of the State of New York
closed its dSors on the 14th, by reason of hav-
ing been thrown out Of the clearinghouse
on account of impaired It was
found by the Bank Examiner that the bank
had allowed various spectators to largely
overdnw, and that many Of the securities
held we're of doubtful value. There will be
no loss except to stockholders.
A%nunusually severe storm of wind,
rain md snow, prevailed throughout the
Northwest on the 10th and 18th. Further
Souththerc was II low temperature, and it
is feared much damage was done to fruit,
etc.
The O~pera-house at Springfield, III -,
was burned on the morning of the 18th. IL
was built some 10 years ago, at a cost OF
$3.50 ,0O. and was not insured. 1t was
ownedby Jacob Bum.
Hesmg, Rehm, and a number of other
members of the indicted Chicago Whisky
Ring, lave pleaded guilty to one or more
counts in the indictments found against
them.
Advices to the Indian Office dated
Fort Laramie, 18th, represent Red Cloud
band of Sioux quietly on the rescrvatioa'
and taking no part in the warlike lemon
~stration of Sitting Bull.
At Jackson, Miss, on the 18th, d. ID
Bell, proprietor of the Peoples Defense,
had an alteration with a printer named Au
gustus Carey, regarding Il settlement OF nc
counts. when Bell drew a pistol and sho
Carey dead. Bell is under arrest.
Vesuvius was reported to be in erup
ton on the 18th, and the lava flowing
towards Pompeii.
Railway communication in Scotland
was almost entirely blockaded by the snow
or the 18th and 18th.
The Elmyille Wooden Mills, at Grams
ton, r. l., were burned on the 18th. Los
nearly 500, 900, mostly insured.
The steamer Isabel, from Rochell
for Bristol, was wrecked off the Engli'.
coast near Lands End, on the night OF tn
18th, and her entire crew., 30 in humble
was lost.
Fourteen tons of silver coin, amount
ing to half a million Of dollars, was shippe
from San Francisco to the Treasury DC
partment during the week ending March, "a
A London dispatch of the 2lst say
that on the preceding day the unprecedente
spectacle was witnessed of 400 wind-boun
vessels sailing from the Mersey. loa OF the1
were bound for foreign ports. h Vesse
formed Il procession sometimes ten apreas'
which occupied two hours in passing
A fire al Charleston, Sc on Tn
morning of the 21st, destroyed a large nun
Der of small wooden tenements, and hur
dreds of people were rendered homeless a"
pcnniless.
King Alphonso made his royal entr
: into Madrid, on the Goth, at the head Oh n
victorious troops.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

THE Democratic Financial Caucus, by
a vote of 60 to 46, has agreed to report
the Payne bill, the principal features of
which are as follows: 1t provides for
the gradual resumption of specie pay
ment by making it the duty of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury annually to
retain, in coin, an amount equal
to 3 per cent. of the legal-tender
notes outstanding, to constitute a
resumption fund, and also requiring
National Banks to set aside an amount
of coin equal to 8 per cent. of their cir
culating notes. The bill, in addition,
provides for the repeal of so much OF
the Specie Resumption act of January
IA, 1875, IS designates the 1st of Janu-
airy, 1879, as the date of resumption.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

had seen one of the books of the firm
which showed that they set aside aeon
siderable proportion Of their receipts
from mail contracts to be devoted to
such payments. The witness said that
subsequently Mr.. Sanderson Informed
him that they had burned their books,
and suggested that he had better not
remember what had been told him on
this subject.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

A FRIGHTFUL railway accident oc
Cured in Germany on the 18th, caused
by the giving way, on account of high
water, of an arch of the railway bridge
over the river III, neal Lutterbach. A
passenger train from Malhouse, for
Strasbourg, which was crossing at the
time, was precipitated into the river.
The carriages fell on top of one another,
and were dashed to pieces. Owing tc
the violence of the storm none of the
passengers could be saved, and some 4C
or 80 persons were either crushed tc
death or drowned.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24
a Woman Sentenced to Impris-
Onment for Life.

The Auburn IN. W Advertiser of
March 10 says: We have published the
verdict of the jury in the case of Mrs.
Emma f. Wimple, at Little Valley, Cat
taraugus County, which vas "murdcr
in the second degree, and sentenced to
imprisonment in Sing Sing for the term
of her natural life," for poisoning her
husband.
As Wimple, the murdered man, was
formerly u resident Of Mexico, Oswcgo
County, a resume of the case will be in
teresting to readers in this locality
Wimplc was in the army during the
war, was wounded in the army, and re-
ceived a pension. He was small in
stature, very ordinary looking, and had
but little force in character. lie owned
two acres of land, will, n small house
upon it, near Little Valley, OF which he
lived. His wife, just convicted, is fair
looking, affable, with plenty of deter
mination and will q of her own. In
August, 1874, n young fellow, named
Nelson III. Cool, went to Wimple's to
board, and before he had been there
long an intimacy sprang up between
the boardor and the wife dis.asteful to
the husband. In January, 1875, VIM
pie was taken sick, and had commissions
two or three days. In February he had
another attack, and about the middle
| nf Naval, n,nthn. u.I;,l, 1,.,,l ,,,tl Ia,
died, on the 18th of March, in II violent
spasm. No doctor was called at either
time, Cool procuring medicine and at.
tending to the sick man.
After the death of Wimplc, the neigh
bors concluded there had been foul
play, and q Coroner's jury was sum-
moned to inquire into the matter. An
analysis of the stomach revealed strych-
nine and arsenic, poisons which Cool
bought, and Cool ard Mira. Wimplel
were arrested. Cool was tried last OcL
tober, convicted Of murder in the first
degree, and sentenced to be hung in'
November last.
He vas respited by the Governor t,,
the 81 of March, for the purpose OF
learning what might be developed on
the trial of his accompl:rc, and he was'
again respited until Friday, March II
There were no new developments in tht
trial of the unfortunate woman, and ap,
plication for executive clemcncy wa
then made, and Governor Tildcn coms
muted the death sentence to imprisonl
ment for life. Cool was received at til.
prison this morning, and exhibited bu,
little emotion at the dreary scntenc
staring him in the face. The defens
tried to show on Cool's trial that thn
poison was mixed with meal to kill rat;
and that the rats carried tie poison t.
a box where was kept hull corn, frol
which corr coffee was made for Win
pie. /,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

VIM. A. DANFoRTH, of Chicago, tes-
titled before the House Committee on
Post-offices, etc., on the 18th. He said
he was an intimate personal friend of
MI. Sanderson, of the firm of Barlow,
Sanderson a. Co., Western mail con-
tractors, and that the latter had admit
ted to him that the firm paid large sums
to various officials in Postmaster
General Creswell's Departmental
n case not less than $4,000 per quar-.
ter to n person, and to another party
they had given a carriage anc
pair of horses, and to an
other a diamond pin, etc. No names
were mentioned. The witness said h,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-24

THE New Hampshire State election,
held on the 14th, resulted in the election
of P. c. Cheney, Republican, for Gov
ernor, and the entire Republican State
ticket, and probably the election of n
majority of Republicans in both houses
Of the Legislature. Cheney's majority
was variously estimated on the night of
election day at from 1000 to 1000.