The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-24

in the Senate bill proposing the creation
Of tariff commibion. The House osnk-
ing and currency lcommittee has accepted
Mr.. Prices bill fd Mr. Buckner's requiring
one half the netonal bank reserve 10 be
kept in coin.
Thursday-Ths Senate passed the navel |
and other pensio3s appropriation bills, and |
after much discussion on Mr.. Voorhees, |
resolution rega3iing an inquiry into the |
cause OF the ntro exodus, il was passed |
with some notifications. Mr. Hereford in |
troduced bill f,r the distribution OF the
balance of thel Geneva award. In the
House Mr. Viewer Indignantly denied the
statement that he had written the petitions
from certain soldiers asking for the difference
between gold and greenbacks In
their pay for services in the late war. bill
was introduced and referred by Mr.. Gibson
to lauthorize national banks to make loans
on real estate. Mr.. Steele reported adversely
from the committee on agriculture the bill
to encourage Interstate emigration. Mr..
LIE Fevre introduced q resolution providing
for an investigation into the manage
ment of the agricultural bureau.
Friday.-The vice president appointed
committee to investigate the causes of the
negro emigratie N, and the Senate then adj
journed until January 6. In the House Mr..
Blackburn, from the committee on rules,
reported the proposed revision OF the rules
OF the House. They were ordered to be
printed and we're recommitted. The COM
mittees on the lnter-oceanic canal and the
Yorktown celebration were reported and
the House adjourned for the holidays.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Charles F. Funch, wealthy New Yorker,
died last Thursday, with S250,000. He
directed that his body be taken to Milan and
cremated.
A private detective in Boston claims
that Rev E. h. Winslow, the forger, is liv-
ing in Buenos Ayres, where he is publish
ing paper.
Ireland during November through the Irish
Emigrant society, and the remittances thus
far this month have reached $4,000
Joseph and Mary Volkemer, husband and
wife, have been convicted of an attempt to
poison Charles E. Blair, of Chatham Four
Corners, New York, and both sentenced 10
IL years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The trial of George Price, colored, who
last summer shot his employer, Willie Black,
at the Iatter's tobacco warehouse in Cincin-
natl Onio in the court of common pleas in
that city, was ended on Wednesday by the
jury returning verdict of murder in the
first degree.
Philip Donahue died some time ago in
California. leaving 81, 100000 to two sisters
and q brother. They have been found after
a long search, and leave New York in fe y
DAYS for San Francisco. The brother and
sisters met in New York Saturday night for
The first time in 80 years.
General Charles Adams, of the Ute COM
mission, arrived in Denver Friday night
He has little doubt that the 12 Indians de-
signated by the commission, will 60 to Fort
Lsavenworth, and believes sufficient evi
dence will be secured to convict several If
net all of them. Those convicted viii be
hanged.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Brady ia reported to have cleared 500, 900
in the last six months in telephone stock
He is very large shareholder in the Bel
Telephone company, and owns a controlling
interest in the local branch which supplies
New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City with
a telephone service.
W. W. Winton. president of the Second
N tiopal bank at Scranton, Penn, his SOM
A. H. Winton, his son IN. law, Thomas Livey,
and his brother-in law, Isaac Dean, have been
arrested, charged on the oath OF George g.
Goodale, the receiver, with mallciously con-
spring to defraud the bank of $135, 900.
They gave bail in $50 600.
The emigration fever seems to be breaking
out again among the negroes of Mississippi,
| toward st Louis, with Kansas the objective
| point in their minds The negroes in Ar
| kansas have also caught the fever, and 500 of
| them are now en- route north. From the
| present indications the exodus next year
| will be greater than it was last stspring.
The Republicans of New York have beer
discussing the question for several weeks, Al
to whether they Will or not, through the &C
tion of the present Legislature. take posses
| sion of the electoral vote, and settle tha
| matter at once, giving the State to the Re
| direct vote of the people. They say tn,
State is doubtful If the people VOTE and they
desire to remove the doubt.
New Jersey commission appointed b,
Governor Mcclellan, has about conclude,
that church property ought to be taxed
that there is no reason why $4,000 600 o
bank property should shuffis off its obliga
tions. and that IL poor women who teacl
school for livelihood are taxed it is un
fair to exempt Princeton college with il
rich endowments. Tkis Is laying the axe a
the root of inequalities a. an awful rate.
Counsel IN the so called Pennsylvania RIO
bribery cases not having come to an agree
! ment as to the time for the hearing of tn
evidence on the motion to quash the indici
ments against A. w. Leisenring, of Mauc
Chunk, Judge Pearson has fixed January
as the day. Should the testimony be simi
lar to that submitted in the case decided il
favor OF Representative Salter, all of the In
dictments will be set aside because of tn
illegslity of the grand jury.
!, The discussion OF the inter oceanic cana
project will probably take on new phas
with the return OF Captain Eads from Europ
by the steamer Germanic. Captain Eads ha
long had a scheme for transf rrIng vessel
from ocean TO ocean by railway, and hs
been spending several months in Europ
working up the project The House con
mittee, just appointed to consider the Who'll
subject of inter-ccs sanic communication, vii
organize at an early day, and it is expscte,
that the matter will come before Congress
| soon after recess. fGs7
The annual report of trade, Sheffield Dii
trict, shows remarkable decrease in the fl
trade. In 1878 the value of files sent on
was $3.50, ,741; In 1875, $l97, 906; in 1871
81 049; In 1879, $54 ST. Imports of Amer
can food products are enormous. A poo
fund of EGO O00 WAS ,;sne nsed hv the NAV