West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-02-02

From the Capital.

Tor the per cent funded loan of the limited
states at par and accrued interest I'm coin
theh on9S are redeemable after thirty wears,
from July l, 1877, and bear interest, paya.
ore quarterly, on the LIST day Of January,
April, July, and October of each wear. and
are exempt from the payment of taxes ON
duties TO the United States as well as from
TAXATION IN any form by or under the State
u. P", or oeal authority The De-
Partment OF State has been Informed of IN.
loss oil the ship Granger In Swallow Reef.
an1 Tue arrival ut Lobnau OF the second
ma'e anu SIX men. The fate of the two
otper ooatS, containing respectively Cap
tan Doane, wife and six men, and first mate.
anu seven men, is not known to the De.
partment.
IL is limited that the President. i'm his
forthcoming civil service message, will
recommend that the selection of Postm IS.
tiers IN smaller towns be made by popular
vote, and the Postmaster General shall
merely confirm the selection made This
pan was adopted in the Presidents own
town IN Ohio, and is said to have given great
satisiacton.......AnOth subject To which
VIZ clVu service message is expected To
REFER, is the law which makes four wears
.he term oil Office. A recommendation may
DE made that, instead of this definite term.
'he commission run until removed for cause
,...ihe bill submitted TO the Senate by Mr.
hoWe TO punish the forcible obstruction of
interstate commerce upon railways, pro-
n,uSS that whenever any person or persons
Shali conspire together to obstruct or hin.
uer py force, violence, threats, or intimida.
ron 'ne iree ana customary transit OF per-
sons, baggage, and merchandise passing by
railway or water from any one State or
territory INTO another, such ofiense shall
DC deemed misdemeanor against the
united States, and persons found guilty
s"eIeol, on conviction, shall be punished by
hne OF hve hundred dollars and one wears
Imprisonment, that whenever any persons
shaii compel any railroad employee engaged
IN the transportation of interstate com
merce TO abandon his duties, they shall. on
econFieuoh thereof, he fined not less than
nve hundred dollars nor more than three
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned NOT
icss IMAM one year nor exceeding five years
Inc controller of the Currency has de.
ciarHd dividend in favor of the creditors
oil the Third National Bank OF Chicago of
10 per cent, and OF creditors of the Central
National Bank of Chicago of % per cent
payable as soon as the schedules are re-
Selved by the receivers and examined. He
mas also declared dividend in favor Of the
creditors OF the following banks: First Ma.
uonai Bank of Delphi, Ind, % per cent.
mak,ng IN all 90 per cent; First National
Bank of Duluth, Mimi, 20 per cent, max
rug IN n 90 per cent......... President HAYES
mas written the following letter in answer to
one written by j. NJ. Glover, Chairman of
the Committee on Expenditures in Treasury
Department:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, January p
DEAR SIR: / am I'm recent of a resolution
anopted by the Committee Of the House of Rcpre-
osisos OF expenditures in the Treasury Depart
Inssnl, requesting my cooperation with the com
hl'ee III ITS Investigation Of alleged abuses i'm said
department. shall be glad TO cooperate heartily
WIN the committee in the proposed invesiigation
and To that end will issue such proper directions ~
az oneeIS OF that or any other department as may
ne required TO secure prompt and effective assistance
IA the conduct Of the investigation TouSbing The
susses.lon contained in your letter that witnesses
w may testify before the committee NAV be an
prehensiVe OF losing their places II they testify t
go lnlIy, you arc at liberty TO assure AN snborIE
'"e eo'nlStee shall not be used to their prejudice
Hon. John 81. Clover NJ C. -
Captain \. X. Long, Commissary OF Sub.
slstence at Washington, committed suicide
va th9 "a January. He went home at the
usual hour IN the afternoon, and entering
ms wiies room had a brief conyersation
win her, and Immediately afterward passed
INTO an adjoining room and shot himself
hea, lhe heart, causing death almost i'm.
IuI,1iu.i"teiy' Long was pardon clerk at the
Nhlte House under President Johnson, and
assigned to duty with Mr.. johnson when the
latter was Military Governor of Tennessee.
lie married the daughter of Hon. Henry
-. roster, ex-Representative from Pennsyl.
Items In General
states Senator from Kentucky. The
death of Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Spring.
held (Mass.) Republican, which occurred ~
eleYen O'Clock on the night of January m
was not unexpected. 1t was the resuit of
acute symptoms following a general break
ing down OF the system, the result no douht
81 oSerwork. Mr.. Bowles was only in his
hlty-second year, having been hon ~
springfield, February 8, 1896. Stanley
tue AFRICAN explorer, reached Paris ON the
10th inst.........The stroke of pick Inv a
workman in the Potts mine, near Loeust
que "a, freed large body OF gas, which
was fred by the lights in the mine A To-
iul explosion followed, killing five men
ana seriously iniuring a number of others,
The memory Of the dead King Emanuel of
italy was honored at Cincinnati bv the
TIA ian residents. A requiem mass was eel.
ebrated, and an interesting sermon deIiv.
cred by Archbishop Purcell.
Frank b. James, a prominent business
man OF Cincinnati, committed suicide few
mornings ago. Sickness in the family and
business troubles were the cause. James
b. Groome has been elected Unites senator
for Maryland
The Boil Silver Resolutions were adopted
IN the Ohio Senate, by party vote. the Re.
Pnoiieans refusing to censure the President
ana Secretary Sherman .........The Lebigb
valley Coal Company has announced ia
prices per ton, delivered on board: Lump
$40, steamboat $3.50, broken s325Ot3 RI
egg $50, stove 1915. chestnut Z o..
Stanley, the African explorer, was ban
quoted Saturday night in Paris, by the
geographical Society. Two hundred
ana seventy guests we're present. He
was presented with two medals
pr. Lorillard, member Of a New York 10.
6acco manufacturing firm, was before the
ways and Means Committee on Saturday
ana presented arguments against the reduc.
zion 81 the tobacco tax .......The liabilifies
OF jacob Bum, the Springfield III u banker
are reported at &912,0 600 and the available
assets at SS6O,OOO The assignee fbf,Ls
creators VIII get seveBty.fve cents on the
d2ilar ......Ihe Greenbackers Of the Twelfth
I'LL Congressional District held a peeting
az Springfield Saturday, elected officers
adopted resolutions, heard Brick Pomerov
etc.5 ana arranged 70 perpetrate their mem.
DRY IN future official elections
commodore George N. H0llins died IN Bal.
tmore Friday night, Of paralysis. aged
seVenty-nine years. He was in command of
lhe sioop-oi-war Cyane, which bombarded
breytoWn, Nicaragua, in 1854 AT the
commencement OF the late civil war he
estered the Confederate service ......... DR..
morton, his brother and man named Rev.
tIy5 "t"s Johnson, charged with The rob.
gcty oi graves in The Forest Cemetery at
IoieoOi were arrested Saturday Ncrto,.
formerly lived in Columbus, and has been
mere only short time. a partial confee.
sion has been made hv the o,.-....r