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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON.

About 2,200 original measures have
| been introduced in the house of representa-
| tives the present session.
DIR. Linderman has informed the house
committee coinage, weights and measures
that he sees no necessity at present for the
establishment of new mint in the west.
The committee on Mississippi levees
will ask authority of the house to add the
levee appropriation bill as an amendment to
the river and harDor bill. They will also ask
authority for the subcommittee at its own
expense to visit the overhOwed sections and
to leave about the 25th inst.
Pursuant to resolution of the house
of representatives, the secretary of war has
sent to that body list of the enlisted men of
the army employed in the city of Washing
ton last year. 1t is as follows: Office of adj
jutant-general, 100; of chief engineers, of
Lieut.. Wheeler, ,; of United States centen-
NAL Office, Il military division of the Mis-
souri, 9; depot quartermaster, a. chief of
ordnance, IS; medical statistics 8; United
States dispensary, ); chief signal officer, 146.
Total, 344.
The arguments before the house COM
mittce on agriculture show that there is
probability that the railroad and cattle men
can agree with the agents for the prevention
of cruelty to animals, upon a bill regulating
cattle transportation. The cattle men only
insist that the law shall be uniform as to all
and equally enforced. The greatest diff
Guilty that the bill will have to encounter in
the committee is the doubt of some of the
members as to the constitutional right of
congress tc regulate interstate commerce.
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Depression in the Oil Region.

Perhaps no section of the country has
suffered more serious depression during
the past two years than the Oil-prOduc-
ing region of Western Pennsylvania, but
the cloud now appears to be dispelling,
and the people look forward to time in
the near future when business will again
flOurish-not, perhaps, as of old, when
fortunes were made and lost in a few
days or weeks-but sufficiently to place
the oil producer on an even footing with
persons engaged in other pursuits. The
daily production of Butler, Clarion and
Venango counties during 1874 was 27,-
6S2 barrels, and the consumption during
the same time not more than $4,000 bar
rels Thus it will be seen there remained
daily surplus of 1852 barrels, which at
the end of the year would leave 1,708,
$50 barrels in tanks above ground. This,
together with the stocks on hand the first
of the year, had the effect of gradually
reducing the price of crude oils at the
wells from three dollars to forty-five cents
per barrel, which was less than the cost
of production; nevertheless the producers
continued to strike lie" so long as the
territory lasted. They were not satisfied
with wells of moderate producing capac-
| ity, and when one was struck that pro-
| duced less than twelve or fifteen barrels
| per diem, the tools were extracted and
| another venture made. This moving
from enc locality TO another was contin-
ued last year, until now the producing
territory is thought to be nearly defined,
and many of the hot-headed operators,
who year or two ago were satisfied with
nothing less than a four or five hundred
barrel well, would to-day be well pleased
TO come into possession of the smaller
wells which they abandoned in search for
more prolific territory. The production
| of 1915 was not so much as in 1874. The
total amount produced in the whole re-
| gion in 1874 was 10,95O, 130 barrels, and
in 1875, 7S7, ,506, showing a decrease in
! 1875 of 2,263, 224 barrels. The average
| daily production for the month of De-
| cember, 1874, was 27 ,682 barrels, and for
the same month in 1875, 2S,254 barrels, a
| difference of 4, ,42S barrels. From these
| figures it will be seen the production is
gradually decreasing, while it is found
that the consumption is increasing. The
daily production of the region, at the
present there, is about %, 900 barrels, and
the daily consumption of the country is
probably not less than $4,000 barrels,
so the stocks on hand are daily dimin-
| ished by about 1000 barrels to supply
the demand. This, of course, has a
strong tendency to cause an appreciation
| liz the value OF crude.
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expenses of the constitutional convention.
The bill passed. The bill to reorganize the
judiciary took up the remainde- of the ses-
sion.
In the house, on the 18th, nearly the
entire session was consumed in electinr a
speaker pro tenn, Mr.. Kerr being absent
Mr. Cox was finally chosen. The house then
took up the bill for the reorganization of the
judiciary. After discussion, Mr.. Savior
moved to lay the bill on the table. Rejected
Adjourned.
In the house, on the 18th, Mr.. Cason
offered a resolution declaring the 22d of Feb
ruary, George Washington's birthday, ma
tiOnal holiday. Adopted. The house then,
as special order, took up the consideration
of the bill to reOrganize the Judiciary of the
United States. Mr.. Lawrence submitted the
following points of the bill: 1. The bill will
relieve the supreme court, SO that it can
speedily decide all cases which may come to
it. 2. A new court of appeals is provided
for each circuit to finally dispose of cases
involving less than ten thousand dollars.
This court will be more convenient to the
bar and suitors than the supreme court 8.
The court of appeals viii have jurisdiction
to revise judgments in criminal cases, and
there is no provision for review. 4. The
bill requires a circuit court to be held at
every place where district court is held
and suitors. 5. The expenses are, reduced
by giving the same jury to the court ana dis
trict courts, except when business requires
twO-sixths, and the expenses viii be reduced
by reducing the number of jurors, the dis
tance of travel for the jurors and witnesses.
Z. The bill provides for making new parties
to writs of error in the supreme court with.
out requiring a review in the court below.
These are all improvements and advantages
in law. On motion of Mr.. Knott the 10th
section was amended by inserting the words
=" except in capital cases." so as to provide
that writs of error shall not operate in Grim
inal cases as a stay of proceedings except in
capital cases. The next amendment was that
of Mr.. Lawrence, to Substitute "Cincinnati"
for " Louisville" Agreed to. The amendment
offered by Mr.. Hooker to add provision
that the senior Judge in the court OF appeals
shall not preside in any case decided by him
as such district judge, was agreed to. The
offered by Mr.. COnger that APP
peals from the eastern and western districts
Of Missouri shall be taken to the court at
Chicago, was agreed to. Pending the vote
on ordering the bill to third reading, adj
jOurned. The session tomorrow viii be for
general debate only.
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gTISCELLANEOUk,

The total Indebtedness of Chicago is
S25, ,OeO,O 900, and the people, on the first day
Of January, were s1O,00O,OOO in arrears on
tax payments.
Charlotte Cushman died at the Parker
house, Boston, on the morning of the 18th.
Her age was fftv nine years and seven
months. She had been afflicted with cancer
for long time, but was better last week and
took a short walk Saturday, when she caught
cold, pneumonia resulting. She was quite
cheerful the day before, buta change occurred
two o'clock in the morning, and at seven She
was dead.
Hon. John E. Ellis, chairman of the
committee on Mississippi levees of the house
of representatives, is going to the Lower Mis-
sissippi on the 1st of March to take observa-
tions as to the best method of keeping the
river within its banks. Among the plans
which have been suggested, that of construct
ing outlets at intervals seems to meet with
favor in the committee. The amount of the
appropriation to be asked for temporary re-
lief is So 500 600
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A special telegram from Vienna gives
the following: "The Bosnia insurgents have
issued a manifesto against Count Andrassy;s
note. The manifesto points out the portc's
former breaches of promised reforms, and
declares that the resistance of Mohammedan
beys will battle every reform. The Moham.
medans even are expected to revolt if an
attempt is made to execute the reforms. The
insurgents, therefore, refuse to lay down
their arms and appeal to the justice of
Europe"
An article in the Cologne Gazette
draws attention to the fact that the Russian
press is continually instigating the insurgents
in Servia and Montenegro against the porte.
The Gazette declares that the Russian gov
ernnent is responsible for the alarming de-
meanor of the press, consequently it cannot
be surmised that the people believe in the
existence of a secret agreement by which
Austria is to be allowed to annex Bosnia,
Russia retaking the Bessarabian territory,
which was ceded in 1867. The powers have
accepted the porte's modification of An
drassay,s proposals, so that the application
of the direct taxes of Bosnia and Herzo-
gOyinia TO the deYolOPement of those prov
inces viii not be required.
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EAST.

A party of four hundred men has been
organized at Philadelphia to start for the
Black Hills early next month.
Chas. X. Lands, recently acquitted ON
the ground of insanity of the murder of Car
ruth, the Vineland, N. Y, editor, has been
pronounced sane by Judge Reed after exam
inatiOn of witnesses and discharged from
arrest
A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine, and substitute Imprisonment and
hard labor for life, passed the senate by a
vcte of IS to IL. The measure had previously
passed the house. An attempt to have the
question settled by the people at the next
election was defeated in the senate by a vote
of IS to II.
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LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND REST.

The rush for the Black Hills con
tinues.
Total number of hogs killed in Cincin-
natl since November LIST, 519,796; same time
last year, 5OO,63s.
Pat Herman, who outraged little girl
in Richland parish, Louisiana, was hanged
by a mob last week.
A lady named Mrs. Moore, passenger
on the Rosa Miller from Pine Bluff, fell over
board, thirty-five miles below Little Rock,
last week, and was drowned.
1t is stated that the prominent capital
lists of New York and Chicago have obtained
a controlling interestin some of the bonds of
the Missouri Pacific railroad, and are about
to commence foreclosure proceedings.
During the last month there have been
placed in the headwaters of the Kankakee,
one of the sources of the Illinois river, $780,
600 California salmon, which, it is expected,
will thrive well, and ultimately stock the en-
tire river.
j. NJ. Hutchings, of Yosemite, has dis
covered in the headwaters of Kern river,
10, 500 feet above the sea, new and beautiful
fish, which he named the golden trout. Its
color was like that of the gold fish, but richer
and dotted with black spots quarter of an
inch in diameter, and with black band along
its sides.
A dispatch from Bakersfield, Cal, says
the Kern valley bank was entered by bur-
glars last week. While the cashier was work
ing at his accounts they knocked him down,
chloroformed him and robbed the bank of
$27, 900, of which so, 900 belonged to the
county treasury. The cashier was found in
sensible on a table next morning.
The New Orleans Times is jubilant
over the wonderful progress made within the
last thirty days on the jetty works at the
mouth of the Mississippi, and the still more
wonderful results of that work, and says:
I" The most skeptical can hardly refuse to be-
Iieve that Mr.. Eads' undertaking is an as
sured success in the near future that ships
of the largest draft will pass the bar with
ease within twelve months and that our har-
Dor will be almost without a rival IN the
world"
On Sunday, Feb. 18th, a destructive
wind storm passed through Washington
county, Ind, unroofing, as far as heard from,
six barns, demolishing seven dwellings, be-
sides numerous outbuildings. The wife and
two children of Thomas Nicholson, farmer,
received severe injuries by the overturning
of his house. j. J. Denny lost nearly 900
fruit trees. Some of the farmers suffered
great loss in live stock. The money value of
the property destroyed is said to be very
large.
The New Orleans Picayune's Wash
ington correspondent announces that Gen.
Morey has received from the president of the
Texas Pacific railroad the assurance that the
wishes of the people of New Orleans and
north Louisiana would be met by having the
New Orleans and Pacific railroad recognized
as the branch from Shreveport to New Or
leans, and the north Louisiana road, about
to chartered by the legislature, as the Shreve-
port and Monroe branch of the Texas Pacific
railroad, in the bill now before congress.
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,I1l SUN, Neon, LENT AND EASTER
tuwo eclipses of the moon occur in 1876
! NE first occurs shortly after ten O'Clock
~ the night of March 10th. 1t will be
Is ssible in every part of the United States
Md Canada. The second eclipse of the
ic.oon will take place on September Sd.
lit will be visible in this country. The
ear 1876 is leap year, its dominical let
rs being A B. The epact is the number
! days between the last new moon and
ede first day of the new year. The epact
$ s used to tell Easter Sunday This year
,ISe epact is four, and Easter falls on
,elpril 10th, Ash Wednesday being March
telt. Two eclipses of the sun occur dur
Dig the year. The first will be an annu-
mir eclipse, visible only in its perfect phe-
1ntbmena on line from Nancouver's island
Ihs the northwestern shore of Hudson's
bhv. Outside that limit it will be visi-
ce throughout the United States as a
Iohrtial eclipse. A total eclipse of the
n-ohn occurs on the afternoon of Septem-
hr 18th, not visible on any part of the
merican continent.
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New METAL.--Tt is natural that every
item of information regarding the new
metal qaiiium should le eagerly welcomed
by the student and, though as yet IT
has not been isolated, the following in
cidents of It's discovery will be OF inter
est Between three or four o'clock IN
the afternoon of August ~, 1870, Nj.
Lecod. an amateur French chemist, was
examining, by the aid of the spectre
scope, a specimen of zinc-blende from
Pietrafita, Spain; while engaged in thiss
work, he noticed hitherto unrecognized
violet line in the spectrum. Further
observation determined its place as AZ
on the scale of wave-lengths. Another
fainter line of the same color appeared
at 404. Thus was the new member added
TO the list of elements. The name it has
received was suggested to the patriotic
chemist by the ancient name of his coun-
try, Galiia. Notwithstanding the zeal
shown by Americans in all branches Of
scientific research, and their success as
geographical and astronomical explorers,
the honor of having discovered and added
10 the list new chemical element has
not been attained. \ contemporary
stands ready with name wherewith 10
christen the new w-cOmer-cOtUBibtUBt
honor of the centennial year.
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Almost 4 Tragedy.

st. Louis papers of the 18th contain
the following:
Between I and o'clock last night two
men i'll buggy with what seemed to bt
colored boy sitting between them drove
on the bridge, tossed the tOll-keeper theiI
fares and started hastily towards East st
Louis. When out some distance on thC
bridge a cry of " Help, for Gods sake, .
issued from the buggy, and the colored
boy was tumbled out, when the other oc-
cupants of the buggy put the whip to
the horse and disappeared in the dark
ness. Jerry Miller, the bridge collector,
hastened TO the spot, and found that the
seeming -colOred boy was colorcd wo-
man, who said the men in the buggy
were named Wilson and Holland, and
that they were the parties who robbed
the United States express car on the St.
Louis Kansas City and Northern railroad
a few miles from st. Louis about six
weeks AGO. She stated further that she
attended to their room in the fourth stO-
ry of the building 314 North Third street,
over the American Express office, and
that she went there about eight O'Clock
Yesterday morning and found them look
ing some of the stolen articles and papers
over. On being discovered at this, they
seized and chloroformed and gagged her,
and kept her in the room all day. To
wards evening they put mems clothes ON
her and about seven O'Clock carried her
down stairs and placed her in buggy.
She saws she was sensible while being
taken out of the building, and heard
Wilson and Holland say they wanted 10
tie weight to her neck and throw her
from the bridge into the river; that she
knew too much and must be got rid OF.
BEING gagged she could not call forhelp
ner could She escape by running away.
But while on the bridge she managed to
get the gag out of hermouth and scream
ed for assistance, and was thrown out OF
the buggy. When Wilson and Holland
reached the east end of the bridge they
were stopped by the toll collector and
officer Armstrong for fast driving, but
they jumped out of the buggy and dashed
down the eastern approach of the bridge
for dear lie, and escaped. In the buggy
was found bottle which had contained
chloroiorm, a trace-chain, and sledge
hammer, and car coupling link, which
were 10 doubt intended 10 he used to
sink the woman after throwing her into
the river. Holland was formerly a rail
road conductor, but the cOlored woman
did not know who Wilson was.
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BURNED TO DEATH.-A horrible story
comes from Oakland, California A fire
broke out in the house of Mr.. Weary
There was no one in at the time but a
child about fifteen months of age. 1t
was tied in high chair to prevent its
falling. The fire was not discovered un-
til the whole room where the little one
was bound was filled with smoke and
flames. A lady next door heard the tor
tured infaut scream Mamma! Mann
ma p and rushed out just as the alarm
had been given. 1t was too late to save
it then. The fremen came and extin-
guished the flames; but the little girl,
still sitting in the chair, was charred to
a crisp. The mother was absent from
the house five minutes when she returned
to find her darling dead in the flames.
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TINE ENOUGH.

Two little squirrels out in the sun,
One gathered nuts. the other had none;
" Time enough yet, }" his constant refrain,
Summer is stflI only just on the wane."
Listen, my child, while tell you his fate:
He reused hi at last, but he reused him too lat
Down fell the snow from pitileSs cloud,
And gave little squirrel spOtless white shroud.
Two little boys in school-Ioom we're placed
One always perfect, the other dissrsced
Time enough Tor my learning" he said
will climb by and by from the foot TO the head.
Listen, my darling, their locks are turned gray
Tine a governor sitteth to-day;
The other, pauper, looks cut at the door
OF the almshouse, and idles his days as Of yore.
Two kinds of people we meet every day:
One is at work, the other at play,
Living uDcared for, dying unknown
The busiest hive hath ever a dFone.
Tell me, my child, if the squirrels have taught
The lesson loDged to imPIant in your thought
Answer me this, and my story is done,
Which Of the two would you be, little one?
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ded the duty of reading the address. MIR.
Turnbull, the secretary to the justices,
passed down, bearing OIL cushion ofred,
the richly Ornamented casket, containing
the address" looking, remarked a lac y,
Every like bride cake" Last of all
there passed down Sir Richard Temple.
By this time the royl standard no long
er flies from the main truck of the Sera-
pis. The boats of that ship and the war
vessels have formed an avenue between
the Scraps and the ponteon; and now,
as the cannon of a royal salute roar,
the royal barge speeds toward the shore.
The prince from distance is seen to
get from the boat onto the pontOon, and
then there Is an interval, during which
the address presumably is being read.
This over, a procession marshals ltselfon
the jetty, with General Probyn and Lord
Charles Beresford leading. Then follow
the prince, in the full uniform of a field
marshal, and the viceroy, walking side
by side then follow the suite, stats, ci-
villains, soldiers, and rajahs intermingled
in brilliant chaos. At the CHAT the
prince stops and the vicerOy introduces
him to native chief after native chief
These are taken at hap-hazard as they
stand, for the vexed question Of Prece-
dencc has lpecn adroitly circumvcnted by
the abolition of all order OF Arrangement
for the nonce. Ladies stand upon chairs
and look over shoulders at the little
group in the ring inside. There had been
vociferous cheering as the prince adj
vanced up the jetty, and it is with diff
Guilty now restrained while the introduce |
tions and conversations are in progress.
The prince spends a good half hour
working his way through the rajahs, |
shaking hands, paying and receiving
bowling his frank response |
to salaams. Then he moves on under |
the arch, and the cheering rings out loud |
er and louder with crescendO of peals. |
There is procession Of officials in their |
carriages in their drive across the Madam |
to government house, but the order of its |
going would possess no interest for you. !
While as yet the seething throng at the |
CHAT is struggling out i'll the direction of
the carriages, there is heard the salute |
which proclaims the princes arrival at
No native princes, |
as at Bombay, joined in the procession,
and their efforts to reach their carriages |
in the confusion at the CHAT were almost |
tragic in their intensity.