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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-02-10

THEODORE TLTON delivers his lecture.
The Problem OF Life" at Scranton. or
the evening of the l4th, St Valentine s day.
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A Payinu Restaurant.

Says correspondent of the Roches-
ter Chronicle: Delmonico's, in New
York city, the establishment to which I
have referred, has made sometimes
100000 year clear profit, and can
afford to pay Moses FL. Grinnell rent
of $12, 900 a year. But how many of
our first class young men, the jeuneSse
dore, must be annually ruined in order
to yield the enormous profit How
many casks of brandy and baskets of
champagne must be guzzled, and how
many sons carried dead drunk home to
sorrowirg fathers and mothers It was
at Delmonico's that Stokes took his last
glass of brandy before going down to
the Grand Hotel for the purpose of
shooting Fisk. He needed an extra
drink in order to give him nerve, and
perhaps had not that last bumper been
taken he would not have done the
crime. 1t seems strangely harmo-
NOUS in the entire scheme of retribution
wrought out so effectually in Fisk s
death that his murder should be refera-
BILE to the bar where he SO often reveled.
At Delmonico's he was considered rare
fellow. and indeed none could rival him
in the lavish flow of cash. Here he be-
gan Stokes ruin, and from this place
the latter proceeded to the work of ven
geance. The recent death of Stokes
father recalls scenes in the Tombs where
I met him as he went to see his son.
He was frequent visitor to that miser-
able son, whom he saved from the gal
lows, and for whose release from State
Prison he 80 anxiously ]abored until
cut off by death. The Stokes murder
was but one of the denominations con-
nected with Delmonicos. Mr.. Grinnell
draws an enormous rent from this see ne
of midnight orgies.
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finished, a discussion arose, pending which the
Senate went into executive session and soon after
adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 18.-Knott, from
the Judiciary committee, proposed an amendment
to the constitution, which provides that no person
who has held or who may hereafter hold the Office
of President, shall ever again be eligible to said
office. Made the special order for next Tuesday.
....Ashe, from the same committee reported bill
to amend the revised statutes in relation to natur-
alization, which provides that the declaration of
intention to become citizen Of the United States
may be made before clerk of court, and such
declarations heretofore made, are declared legal
and valid :. Bills were introduced and referred .
To fix the legal rate of interest national money
throughout the United States at not exceeding per
cent; fixing the pay of members of Congress at
S,60O, and no allowances; fixing the pay of men,
beers of Congress of $4,000, with mileage
at 10 cents per mile; for the construction of the
Illinois and Mississippi canal. The House then
went into committee of the whole on the Centen-
Dial appropriation bill, and was addressed 10y We'd
dell and Hopkins. Without taking any action he
committee arose Williams, of Ms, introdu ced
proposed amendment to the constitution sup
Elementary to the one introduced by Blaine which
prohibits distribution control of any school
fund or school lands TO any sectarian schools II
is in these words: Neither shall money raised by
taxation be appropriated for the maintainance OF
any sectarian school or sectarian institution ,"
The House at O'Clock adjourn ed.
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est In the Canada Southern Railroad marks q
new era in the history of that enterprise, and
predicts direct route to Chicago. through the
Commodore's influence.
IT is alleged that the Golden City Home
stead Co., of San Francisco, has swindled the
state out Of s., O0O, 900 worth of public lands.
The legislature will investigate the charges.
LADY claiming to have been engaged to
Henry Wilson at the time of his DEATH pub
fishes in an Atlanta (Ga.) paper memorial
sketch of the dead vice-president. She il
said to have drawn literally from McCaulay's
essay on John Hampden.
An $4,000 fire occurred in Nashville on the
18th, destroying Grover & Bakers sewing ma
chine rooms, and toy store and confectionery
THE American schooner Jefferson Borden
brought into general notice by mutiny or
board during the voyage from New Orleans tt
London and which resulted in the killing oil
two mates and the subsequent sentence tt
death of the mutineers, has been brought into
Aberdeen, disabled. The Jefferson Border
was sixty-seven days out from Booth Bay, fol
Gloucester, England, and the crew were fam
shing and unfit for duty. The water ration
was teacupful each day.
Crimes and Casualties
The trial of Charles X Landis for the muir
der of Eli Carruth wac begun at Vineland, n
j.. on January 18th.
NEWS has just been received OF the utter
demolition OF the Hebrew cemetery at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, by parties unknown. About
Is monuments were overturned, many OF
which were destroyed. Scarcely single
grave escaped dissertation. Flowers and
sbrubbery were uprooted and the graves
rrampled on and dehled The authorities have
offered large rewards for the arrest Of the
perpetrators.
pended.
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Patents on Farm Products

Mr.. Hoskins, of New York, has intro
duced bill. which is being considered by
the Committee on Patents, in which
every farmer and horticulturist in the
country will be interested. The
bill provides that any citizen of
the United States who shall origin
ate or discover any new plant or fruit,
of a new variety of fruit, grain, vegeta-
BILE. vine, herb, root, tree, wood, plant,
shrub, or flower, or the seeds, scions,
bulbs, tubers, eyes, or cuttings thereof,
which shall not have been sold or offered
for sale by the originator or discoverer
shall, upon complying with certain pro
visions, have the sole right and liberty of
growing, propagating and selling such
plant for term of seventeen years.
The conditions alluded to are that pro-
tective letters shall be issued under the
seal of the Patent Office, and recorded
with the description of the plant, in the
books of the Patent Office. That, in
order to obtain such protective letter,
formal application shall be made to
the Commissioner of Patents, with an
oath to the effect that the statements
contained in the application are true,
and that no other such described plant
was ever before cultivated or known.
nv, tho fling Of snrh an annlinatiOn the
correctness of the statement shall be
investigated by the Con missioner of
Patents, and other steps such as are
customary in the issue of letters patent
shall be taken. The bill will probably
be reported on favorably and passed.
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a NorWeuian Whalery.

On a small island opposite to the
town of Wadso, the extreme north of
Norway, there exists an establishment
the like of which is probably not to be
met with in any part of the world. It's
most appropriate designation would be,
perhaps, straightforward for whales
and Mr.. Foyn, its proprietor, conducts
the business of capturing and cutting
up the monsters III manner peculiarly
his own. Instead of fitting out the
usual-sized vessel intended to make
long voyages and bring home only the
most useful parts of the animal, Mr..
Foyn employees small-one hundred and
fifty or one hundred and eight tons
screw steamers, shoots his fish with q
cannon, and has them towed back, one
by one, as they are captured, to the
shambles at Wadso. AS the fishing
grounds are within easy reach of the
latter, the steamers, AS a rule, secure
and return with a prize within twelve
hours time. With respect to the
cannon employed, it is gun having a
chamber about four feet long; this
is mounted on the forcastle of
the vessel, and, being very accurately
balanced, can be easily moved to allow
an exact aim to be taken. The projec-
tile in use consists Of long iron bolt,
having at the extreme end four har-
poems, bound round with line 80 as to
be fiat, and close to the harpoons five
to six FOUNDER shell. AS soon as the
steamer has approached sufficiently
near to the fsh-and whales off that
part of the coast are not over-shy, al
lowing vessel to come within shot
the bolt is fred of, and, if well directed
penetrates deeply into the flesh and
blubber of the animal. The whale then
naturally rushes off at furious pace
thinking thus TO elude his pursuers.
Unfortunately for him, however, no
step could be more suicidal, for the eff
feet of his rapid movement is to make
the bolt slip back little, thus setting
free the four harpoons from the lines,
and by means of a mechanical arrange
ment causing shell to explode. This
generally proves the coup de grace,
killing the fish outright; but occasion
ally the animal is not sufficiently hard
hit, and its capture is not SO easily eff
fected, as it dashes away at tre-
nendous speed, dragging the steamer
after it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-20

SAN D1EeoANs complain that if matters
run on much longer as they have been
doing for some time, the heather Chi
nee will virtually take possession of the
city. He now dictates which Cinnamon
shall occupy situations at the various
hotels, and announces to the hotels
from which Cinnamon their provisions
must be procured. A protective union
of housekeepers will have to be formed
against the encroachments of the Ce-
lestials.
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S2,252,057
ESTIMATE OF REVENUE.

The secretary of state has prepared, for
your consideration, all estimate of the ordi-
nary state expenses for the year beginning
January 1, 1877, and Of the revenues Of the
state for the same period, from which it ap-
pears the sum OF S189, ITS will have to be pro-
priations as you may make, not included in
his estimate.
TAXES AND APPROPRIATIONS.
1t is provided by chapter 1853 of the general
laws Of 1869, that when the appropriations
shall exceed the amount OF state tax levied, it
shall be the duty of the secretary of state to
levy and apportion such additianal amount rs
may be necessary to meet authorized demands
upon the treasury UP to such time
as the succeeding state tax shall
be payable. Section 5 of article 8 of the
constitution provides that whenever the ex-
penses Of any year shall exceed the income
the legislature shaf provide for leyying tax
for the ensuing year sufficient with other
sources of income, to pay the deficiency, az
we'll as the estimated expenses OF such ensu-
ing year. The authority thus conferred ought,
in my judgment, to be used as little as possible.
The tax levy for each year should be sufficient
to cover the aggregate of the appropriations
for that year, together with such other appro-
priatlons as it may be necessary to pay before
the collection of the state tax for the next en-
to be added to the next levy. This is the
only honest and business like system OF dis
the burdens Of the government.
The state having been led into o departure
from this sound and safe policy your duty Ia
to bring it back. For this purpose, recon-
mend that you levy tax sufficient to cover all
the appropriations. 30 that there WILL Do no
deficiency at the close Of the year, and no o.
casion Tor resorting to the very doubtful prse.
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First Message of Gov.
Ludington.
Sundry Suggestions and Re-
concentrations.
Repeal of the Railroad Law Recon-
mendei, and a More Liberal one
Enacted in it's Stead.
Felloto Citizens of he Senate and Assembly:

Felloto Citizens of he Senate and Assembly:
1t NAV not be considered unbccoming for
me to express some doubt as 10 the wisdom
| OF the provision Of the constitution, which
makes it the duty of the incoming Governor
| to communicate to the legislature the condi-
| ton of the state, and recommend such mat
| ters to them for tn cir consideration as he may
deem expedient. 1t would appear that such
| information and recommendations might
more properly come from the citizen who had
administered the affairs Of the state during
| the past year, than from one who has just
| been called from other occupations to that
| duty.
| / make this communication to you with I'M
affected dffidence, with deep sense OF nay
| obligations to those gentlemen connected
| with the state government who have assisted
| me in procuring information, and aided me
| with their advice. My hope OF discharging
satisfactorily the high trust that has devolved
| upon me rests upon the continuance of the
generous cooperation which they have thus
| far extended to me.
The division of government into the law
| making, the law-interpreting, and the lsw-e1-
ecuting departments is natural and almost
| necessary. The more and more distinct sep
aration Of these departments, marks the prog
| ress that the human race has made towards
| freedom. In our federal government and In
our state governments there is still some
| blending of these functions. but you can not
have failed to observe the tendency toward
their separation. This process is mainly man
ifested i'll the greater freedom that the legislar
| tive department enjoys from interference by
! the executive. The governor of the state
| would not be justified, IL he were to waive any
of his prerogatives when he might use them
| to protect the people from detriInent; but he
may very properly give broad Interpretation
to the clause of the constitution which Gays
that 1.-The Legislative power shall be vested in
! q senate and assembly"
that the duty and responsibility of legislation
rest Immediately with you ard that the few
rec lamentations which l shall make should
be weighed by you in the light of this fact.
GENERAL FUND.
The receipts and expenditures OF the gener-
al fund for the fiscal year ending September
go 1875, were as follows:
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-20

THE best skater in London is an
American; the best skater In Paris is an
American; the best skater in Russia is
an American.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-20

WHEN a man jumps his bail, can it
be said that he four-foots it?-Cona.
Adu. Well, it behoofs him to.-Bos.
on Post.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-20
XLIVth CONGRESS.
Summary Of Proceedings in Both Houses,
senate.
WEDNESDAY. January 12.-Conkling

WEDNESDAY, JHHuaIy IA'-OUHhIIHB
presented petition from citizens Of New York
asking an amendment to the constitution, prohibit
ing the appropriation Of money property to any
religious body or sect. Davis submitted reso-
luton calling for the appointment of committee
to examine the books of the treasury department,
and gave notice that he would address the Senate
to morrow. Ordered printed and to lie on the
table,. "A bill was introduced and referred, to
place all coored troops, who enlisted in the army
on an equal footing with other soldiers, 20 boun-
ty and pensions. The morning hour having ex-
PRED the chair laid before the Senate the unfin-
ished business being the resolution reported from
the committee privileges and elections in regard
to president pro tempore of the Senate. After
much discussion, the third resolution, which de-
clares that the office of president pro tempore of
the Senate is held at the pleasure of the Senate,
was passed: Yeas "a nays To-. Adjourned.
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RECEIPTS.
$1,1S6, 483 81
DISBURSEMENTS.
$1,260. 80


AT the beginning OF the year there was in
the treasury belonging to this fund balance
OF S125, 53l 80, but the disbursements having
exceeded the receipts, this balance was re-
duced to 81, 1858 on the seth of September,
1875
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The receipts and expenditures Of the gener-
al fund for the fiscal year ending September
80, 1875, were as follows:
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| finished, discussion arose, pending which the
Senate went into executive session and soon after
4 adjourned
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On the Both Of September, 1876 the state
debt, for which bonds and certificates of in
debtedness have been issued WAS 81, 252, 057,
as follows:
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Senate.
TUESDAY, January Thurman pre-

TUESDAY. January 18.-Thurman pre-
scented the credentials of James r. Eusts claiming
a seat senator from Louisiana, which he sent to
the clerks desk and had read. Ordered printed
and laid until tomorrow. =. The Chair laid
before the Senate the memorial of the Democratic
conservative convention of Louisiana, held January
6, 1876, concerning the election and condition of
the state of Louisiana. bill was introduced
and referred, instructing the committee on
postofhce and postroads to inquire and re-
port whether the restoration of the
ranking privilege would Increase the
cost of the mail service and to what extent....
appropriation of 5 90 900 for the Improvement of
the upper Mississippi river The morning hour
having expired, the Senate resumed consideration
Of the resolution submitted by Davis on Wedn es-
day, to appoint q special committee to examine the
books and accounts of the treasury department. and
was addressed by Boutwell,. After Boutwell, had
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-20
TRUST FUNDS.

At the beginning of the lsst ifs
cal year, the trust funds held
by the state amounted to. SIS
The increase during the year Was.
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$4,058,9 93 68


dROss RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.
The gross receipts and disbursements by the
treasurer during the year were as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Balance Sept, 3d. 1874....$ 378, 344 90
Received during the year 175O 8O6 AZ
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WEDNESDAY, January 12.-Bills were


introduced and referred, as follows: For post
office and custom house building at st. Louis; to
permit tobacco growers to sell TO consumers tobac-
co of their growth, without license; to make it
misdemeanor fer United States officials to de-
mand contributions to election funds; to prohibit
senator's, representatives and Delegates IN Con-
gress from acting as counsel otherwise, in suits
or proceedings against the United States; for the
admission of New Mexico a state; to pay for all
cotton seized by the treasury after May, 1865 also
refunding cotton tax At O'Clock the House re-
sumed consideration of the amnesty bill and was
addressed by Mr.. Garfield. Blaine to speak
two hours tomorrow, and then call the previous
question. Adjourned.
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FRIDAY, January 15.-White intro

duced bill to reduce the salaries of public Off
Gals, exceeding s1,50u, twenty per cent. Refer
red. =. The committee on ways and means reported
back the resolution directing the several commit
tees to inquire into any abuses, errors or frauds
that may exist in the administration. Adopted.
Knott. from the iudiciarY commiftae rarnrtad
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81, 129, Isl 46
DISBURSEMENTS.
STATE DEBT.

AS per secretary's report. ....$1 851, 47O OF
Balance September 80, 1875. $277, e81 "A
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-12
Still They Come.

We had a very pleasant call, Monday,
from Col. w. F. Sevins, a prominent
business man of Baker City, Oregon,
who left that city about a month ago
for the purpose of visiting Cheyenne
and the Black Hills country. Unfor-
~tunately, Col. Sevins met with a seri-
u accident while occupying one of the
coaches of the Northwestern Stage COM
pany from Boise City to Kelton, New,
the horses running away and upsetting
the coach. This mishap has detained
the Colonel here for three weeks, and
during that time he has become at
tached to the Magic City-so much so
that he has decided to engage in bust
ness and bring his family here. He
will leave to-day for his home, Baker
City, expecting to return here in four
Or five weeks. To his neighbors and
friends in Oregon he will give a good
account of Cheyenne and its resources,
and will undoubtedly be the means OF
bringing many others to this growing
and prosperous city.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-12
MATTERS.
An Interesting Budget of Miscellaneous
Army Items.

Capt. ellis, quartermaster, u. s. A.,
at Cheyenne Depot, has on the way TO
Forts Fetterman and Reno over six
hundred thousand pounds of grain for
Gen. Crooks command. 1t is not ex-
pected, however, that the present ex-
petition will remain put longer than
the middle of January. The army is
now in a position east of old Phil Kear-
ney, from which, in a march of four or
five days, it can reach any point where
the hostile Indians can be found.
The Pawnee scouts, under Frank
North, got over sixty scalps in the late
fight under Gen. Mackenzie, on Crazy
Woman's Fork.
" The body of Lieut.. McKenney, Fourth
cavalry, killed in Mackenzie's fight of
Nov. 25tb, is ON h way down from
Fort Fetterman, and will be forwarded
to his family in Memphis, Tenn.
Capt. Carpenters company, Four
teenth infantry, recently stationed at
Medicine Bow, has gone to Fort Hart
stuff, Neb., to take post.
Capt. Eskridge's company, Twenty
third infantry, stationed at Sage Creek,
between Fort Laramie and the Black
Hills, left that post Tuesday for Chey-
enne, en- route to the Department of
the Missouri.
Cant Nickarsop Of Con rroolx,s
staff, has gone to Salt Lake on impor-
tant public business.
Capt. Brady's company, Twenty
third infantry, at Camp Cheyenne De-
pot, is under orders for Wichita, In
dian Territory, and will leave in a few
days.
Lieut.. Geo. F. Chase, 3rd Cavalry,
arrived here Monday from Fort Lar
annie, with I60 ponies, which are to be
sold by Capt. Gilliss at Cheyenne Depot
next Saturday. These are part of the
herd Of 500 captured by Gen. Mackenzie
in his fight with the Cheyennes on
November 25th.
o Mason, Ihlrd cavalry, command
ing at Camp RobinsoH has made a new
census of the Indians at Red Cloud, and
has kept things there in such a shape
that not a mouthful of provisions could
by any chance be furnished the hostiles.
Col. Mason is recruiting another band
of Sioux scouts for Crook.
The reason for changing the date of
court martial ordered to at this
city on the 18th, for the trial of certain
officers on charges concerning their
conduct in the Crazy Horse fight OF
March last, is that Gen Crook will be
a witness, and as he is not expected to
return until about January 10th, the
court will not until that date.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-12

W. J.. Boman, just in from the
Black Hills, brings eonfirmatory infor-
nation regarding the recent discovery
Of S6w and rich diggings near Wolf
mountain Mr.. Bomsn says that the
excitement in DeadBood over the new
discovery is the most intense yet since
the location Of Custer City. The party
who discovered the new diggings were
only absent a few weeks, returning for
provisions. They brought with them
nuggets as large as robins' eggs in
great number, and dust to the value of
many hundreds of dollars. The exodus
from Deadwood was daily increasing,
miners going IN horseback and on foot.
with their traps packed on oxen Such
a stampede has not occurred in the
Hills before, and among the gold hunt
ers the general impression prevails that
the grand lead is struck.
On the day before MI. Boman left
Deadwood, a single miner came in from
b west with several hundred dollars
in nuggets, which he said he had taken
out by two weeks labor, and that in
the locality in which he made the find
the prospects are good for taking out
untold quantities of the precious dust.
He proposed TO secur a quantity OF
provisions, and then to select his party
to return with him.
Wolf mountain, in the vicinity OF
which these discoveries have been
made, is west and south from Dead
wood, and is a more desirable locality
to winter than Deadwood. ISt. Paul Dis.
patch.