Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-12-12

reforms, made long report to the board Dec
Al large amount Of testimony was taken,
principally that of prisoners and officers of
the institution. The committee say there w:s
no escape from the conclusion that Inspector
Hasse is incompetent, that he is not even fam
liar with the rules governing the institu-
ton. Hasse, the report holds,sis proven in.
punishment, and has been prefane and indie
cent. The practice of imprisonment in the
dark cell, too small to stretch the body, and
without bed or bedding in summer or winter
is severely condemned. The poor helpless GRIM
inal, unable to'lie down or sit up, is compelled
to breathe the foul and sickening gases of
his own excrement.
A MURDERER's STATEMENT.
The Tltusville, Pa, Herald has pub
lished post mortem statement of Andrew
Tracy, the young lawyer who was hung at
smithport, Mckee county, Pa, for the murder
Of his cousin, Miss Mary B. Reilly, in Sept
1878. The account makes four columns in
the Herald, and is written in remarkably well
chosen and chaste language, and in itself is
inter esting. It was prepared during the lat
ter months Of Tracy's Incarceration at great
expenditure of time and labor, and perhaps
few posthumous statements have ever ap-
peared in more highly attractive form. Tracy
claims that the deed was not murder, but was
instigated by his intense love for Miss Reilly,
whom he says he could not bear to think of
marrying another. Their love, it seems, was
mutual, but her objections to their marriage
was their near blood relationship. He pays
beautiful tribute to her memory. The case is
one that created the most intense interest
throughout Pennsylvania and western New
York.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Senator Hoar introduced into the Sen
ate Dec. q bill to establish labor commit
tee. 1t provides that the President, with the
consent of the Senate, shall appoint COM
mittee of five persons to inquire and report as
to the extent to witch machinery and labor
saving process have entered into the produc-
ton and distribution of products in general
and consumption among the people, to the
displacement of manual labor Also whether
any causes are in operation to bring about the
ownership and cultivation of lands in large
tracts instead of email farms and homsteads
Also as to the condition of persons employed
in agricultural, mechanical, manufacturing
and mining labor in this country, and cspeci-
ally whether any causes are at work to change
for the better or worse the condition of such
persons, their hours of labor, the education
of their children and the proportion received
by them of the profits of the occupations in
Which they are engaged. The commissioners
are to hold office for two years, receive an an
nual salary of g. 900 each and be allowed ex-
penses of travel, have authority to eHploy a
secretary and three clerks, and report to Con-
gress annually through the secretary of the
interior.
DEATH OF A CONGRESSMAN.
Congressman Lay, Of Missouri, died
in Washington on the morning of Dec. Sth.
He had been in feeble health for some time.
The immediate cause of his death was paraly-
sis. Alfred Morrison Lay, of Jefferson City
was born in Lewis county Missouri, May 20.
1886. In 1912 he moved with his pareuts to
Benton county, Missouri. He was educated
at private schools in Missouri and Bethany
college, Virginia, from whence he graduated
in 1856 He studied law in the Office of the
attorney general of the State at Jefferson City,
and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He was
appointed United States attorney for the west
crn district Of Missouri by President Buchan-
an; resigned in 1851; enlisted as private in
General John b. Clark's division of the Mis-
souri, State Guard, and was promoted TO the
rank of major After this command disband-
cd bo 10 nj; 1a n 1r;,,
oner and confined in prison at Alton, ILL.,; be-
ing exchanged in 1863, he entered the Confed-
crate army and served to the close of the war
when he resumed the practice of law at JEFF,
ferson City, and was elected to the Forty. sixth
Congress as a Democrat, defeating A. Under
wood, Republican, and James Boyd, Green.
hacker.
ENGLISH MARKETS.
The Mark Lane Egpress says In several
districts the autumn sowing is not completed
and farmers must wait, for the time has now
arrived when the weather consideration exer-
cises little influence on the grain trade. Wheat
at country markets was pressed forward by
farmers who are anxious to realize, but its
condition was not improved. Its bad condi.
ton also greatly restricted business in Mark
Lane and but few parcels fit for milling were
sold at unreduced rates. The foreign arrivals
were again swelled by much Russian, and
business was naturally depressed thereby, but
the general situation is unchanged, dullness
being the usual characteristic of the close of
the year. Sales have been quite of retail char
acter, with little if any change in prices, and
holders have shown no desire to press sales.
A few weaker Spectators have began to evince
desire to realize, but merchants generally
are still confident, with the cessation of Rus
sian supplies and the diminution of Ameri-
can in consequence of the closing of the
canals and increased demands for British
for winter consumption, the future should
furnish few. grounds for much anxiety.
The arrivals at ports of call have been small
Wheat is in steady demand, and closed firm
There was an improved demand for maize
which advanced three pence per quarter.
There was only a moderate business done
in wheat for shipment in consequence of the
high prices asked. Maize quiet. Barley in
limited request at previous quotations
Sales OF English wheat last week, 1850 quar-.
tiers at 46s, Z per quarter, against 81 1874 quar-
tiers at 4lc, per quarter, for the same week
last year. Imports into the United Kingdom
for the week ending Nov % were /,
64473s hundred weights Of wheat, and
$50, SOS hundred weights Of -four.