Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

CONGRESSIONAL.
On the 1st inst. the Senate acquitted

CONGRESSIONA :
On the lst inst. the Senate acquitted
Belknap Of the charges set forth in the i'm
parchment; want Of jurisdiction being the
reason given by those who voted in his favor.
The vote on the first article was, guilty So,
not guilty 25. On the remaining articles 81
to rs, Senators Maxey and Morton voting for
conviction. A two-thirds vote being re-
quired to convict, q judgment Of acqnittal
was entered. The House referred the report
on the Robson investigation to the Judiciary
committee: A bill approp1iating a25O, 900 for
. the completion OF the New York custom
house was passed. .--..,..~-
The Senate on the I'd passed bill
giving pension of g., 600 to Geo. Hansell, q
messenger Of the State department in 1865,
} who was injured in defending Secretary Sew
ard from the assassin Payne Mr. Morton in
, tr0duced a resolution to print 10000 copies
the message of the President on the Hamburg
massacre. An effort was made in the House
J to pass the Bland silver bill, but by persist
, ent filibustering the opponents prevented q
, vote being taken. In committee Of the whole
the bill transferring the Indian bureau to the
war department was taken up and Mr.. Lamar
. obtained the floor and proceeded to mHle a
listened to for over two hours.
The Senate on the 23d passed the
river and harbor bill, with amendments fix
ing the amounts the same as recommended
by the committee and given in these records.
LII the House report was submitted exOner-
atinng Mr.. Knott from the charge Of cnlpabili-
and Knott proceeded to make a lengthy and
very bitter address, .insinuating that Mr..
Blaine's illness was assumed. Mr.. FRYE re-
Piled in equally bitter terms, and the report
was recommitted tor further action by the
committee. "A joint resolution was passed to
adjourn OH Monday.
The joint resolution which passed
the House for adjournment on Monday was
read IN the Senate on the 4th and referred to
the committee on appropriations. The Sen
ate insisted on its amendments to the bill for
the sale OF the Usage ceded lands in Kansas.
The bill to allow pension of $37 month in.
stead OF 924 now allowed to soldiers who have
Dunnell, in the House reported back the Sen
ate bill making St. Paul a port OF appraisal
and it was passed. The committee on civil
service reform reported the evidence taken in
the Chicago pension agency charges and it
was ordered printed. The committee recon-
mended the passage Of resolutions declaring
that the acceptance or the demanding
money as consideration for real or pretend
ed influence in securing appointments to
public Office is disgraceful to the individual
and prejudicial to the public interest, and
such conduct is good cause for removal. The
| WIS UlFcCleu 10 report IL lOf the
punishment OF such Otfenses.
On the 5th inst, in the Senate, Mr..
Morton moved to take up the resolution to
print ten thousand copies of the Presidents
message on the Hamburg affair. Mr. Thur
man objected and a vote was taken resulting
in 80 tor and Is against-a strict party vote.
A motion was then made to lay the resolution
aside and TAXI " other business which
the morning hour expired and the Senate
went into executive session. The House took
up the silver bill, but went over under tili-
clustering motions. Mr.. Cox, chairman Of
the committee on banking and currency, re-
ported bill to repeal the resumption act,
lo6 to 50. Mr.. Cox then reported bill for a
commission Of three Senators, three repre-
sentatives and three experts to enquire into
the financial situation and report on or be-
fore the 18th OF January, 1877. The bill was
passed.
CHOLERA IN INDIA.
One Of the dark spots in Indian viii
lage life is the periodical visitation of
some epidemic which enters almost
every hoyel and carries off one or more
of the occupants. The villagers may
have been living happily together,
their minds perp]exed about nothing
more serious than the state of their
crops, their cattle, or the ordinary
gossip of their little community, when
suddenly the destroyer appears, and
the scene is instantaneously changed
from peacefullness into terror and con.
fusion. A sad instance of this fact has
occurred in this Presidency within the
last few days. Where there was once
a thriving, pleasant little village situ-
ated on the sca-shore, there is now a
deserted collection of huts. Not hui
man sound is to be heard in the place
from morn till night. Most Of the in
habitants are dead, the victims of a
terribly sudden invasion of cholera,
and the survivors have left everything
in their huts and fled to the adjoining
mountains. The few survivors and
every poor Wretch who could move
have fled to the adjacent hills, where
they are now huddled together and
struggling to exist on such food as
they can find in that barren locality.
Such was the terror and helplessncss
Of the people when the outbreak oc-
CURED that they did not bury their
dead, and bodies lay rotting in the
streets for two whole days, during
which the stencil was aboninable. No
reason for the outbreak has been as
signed, and the fate of Golwood fur.
nishes one more instance of the mys-
terious movements of cholera. The
misery of the people was aggravated
by the fact that there was no doctor
at hand. A Mr.. H. B. Wharton, per-
manent way inspector on the B. B. &
c. l. line, has a house close to the vii
lage, and when the epidemic appeared
the people ran to him for help. He
was the only European in the station.
and they naturally thought the sahib
might be able to help them. He hap
pened to have a supply of cholera mix
ture and chlorodyne, but it was soon
exhausted among SO many applicants,
and Mr.. Wharton could do nothing but
listen helplessly while tales of death
were being told him on every side by
panic.stricken people. Mr.. Wharton
says that the cholera was the most
viruleht he had ever seen III the course
of long experience. He saw people
die within thirty minutes from the
moment of attack. The village was
filed with lamentations, and natives
rushed wildly hither and thither.
Many people died in the streets; while
running away they were seized with
the pangs of the disease ana dropped
on the spot and soon expired.
| SUN-LlKE. ..
The New York Sun prints a very
clever jeu d'esprit relating the adven-
lures of the Prince of Monaco in search
of a wife. The story is not so plaus.
able as it might be, but it is we'll told,
and the uncautious reader is likely to
be trapped by the skillful manner in
which the whole is explained in a tel
egraphic addition. The Prince, it is
said, had dreamed that ho was to find
a wife in a town beginning Mon; !;
and that the occasion would be mark
ed by conjuncture of spades, di;,-
monds, and clubs. After searching in
vain through his native city of Monaco
and Monaghan, in Ireland, he finally
larriYed at M0nheean. an Island off tho