Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-09
CAPITAL CHATTER.
THE LOUISIANA POTS AND KETTLES
Engaged in an Unsuccessful Effort to
BIacken Each 0ther-Jongee's Sad
Return-Defeat Of Attempt 10
Reduce Letter-C arriers' Pay.
Pot and Keffie.


WASHINGTON, June THE proceed
ings in the election contest OF Spoherd
versus Kellogg, now engaging the atten
ton of the Senate Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections, are ludicrous in
extreme. Spofferd had brought here
several negroes to swear kellogg away
and the two who have thus far given
testimony have proved themselves the
most accomplished liars OF the prolific
crop which Louisiana has produced.
To-day one OF the witnesses swore to
one statement on direct testimony,
and then point-blank contra
dicted himself in the cross-examina-
ton, and got quite angry when he was
reminded that he had diverged from
the path OF veracity. The proceedings
are disgusting, and belittle the dignity
of the Committee which gives hearing
10 such disreputable characters. II spot
ferd can not support his Senatorial
claims by better evidence than he has
vet produced, il would be creditable for
himself and his State il he let kellogg
remain undisturbed rather than intiict
the body polite with another upheayal
of Louisiana development. To-day one
of the witnesses who testified yesterday
for arrested for perjury, taken before
the Police Court, and held in bonds To
appear for trial on Tuesday next.
The Letter Carriers.
The House to-day, after a long wran-
gle, defeated the bill reported from the
Committee on Appropriations to reduce
the pay of the letter carriers, and passed
an appropriation of S4l5, 900 to continue
the service as it now is for the next fis-
cal year. and an appropriation OF Sl7 900
to supply deficiencies for the present
wear. Cannon, VINO championed the
Committees report. was badly beaten
at every Joint; and Keller, OF Ohio, TAX
ing advantage of his decentralization,
threw in a substitute for the Committees
bill, providing the appropriation herein
before indicated. The effect OF to-day's
work is to let the letter carrier system
alone for another year precisely rs it is
now organized.
A Sad Home Coming.
There arrived in the city to-day sad
faced man. He came up from the depot
10 the Capital without a guide, and
moved along as if the byways were IA
miliar TO him. He bore sad evidence Of
having been badly used, and looked
neither TO the right or left as he came
in contact with the shadow of the proud
Goddess of Liberty surmounting the
dome of the citidel Of freedom. In his
hand he carried a small gripsack, which
alone proved the identity of the SEEM
ing stranger by the cabalistic letters in
scribed thereon: ~. G. T." 1t was
our own Thompson, the returning peni-
tent pilgrim, a sadder but wiser man.
General Rice
arrived here to-day on the same train
with Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson and
Frank Hurd. His presence was known
TO but a few, and he purpOsely avoided
any public city. He had pleasant
conference with General Ewing on the
plans for the campaign.
Roasted Alive
WILMINGTON, June As Mrs.
Honora Lacy was driving from here 10
her home in Chester county, Pa, last
evening, the contents OF the carriage,
cotton and straw, were ignited by a
match and instantly the whole interior
of the vehicle was afire. The horse got
frightened and ran away and before it
was stopped Mrs. Lacy was literally
roasted alive.