The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-21

Secretary Evarts sent communication to
the Senate Saturday In regard to the two dis
puted awards of the late Mexican Commission.
mittee on Friday represented that the relief
organizations of his State were managed by
Republican politicians and ofiiceholders sole
~ In the interest oftbeir party.
The House on Saturday passed the Indian
Appropriation bill without any provision for
the Indian Commissioners, but without edopt-
ing the amendment transferring the bureau
to the War Department. IL also adopted the
Election CommltJee's resolution for an in
vestigation of the authorship of Mr. Springeris
anonymous letter.
Before the Exodus Committee on Saturday
Kansas negro, named Singleton, claimed to
his State.
A conference of the Democratic members of
the Senate Committees on Rules and on the
Electoral Count has substantially agreed TO
recommend new joint rule To govern the
count OF the vote Tor President, praC t.ceiiy
Identical with the Morton bill passed by the
Senate Of the Forty fourth Congress.
testified before the lnteToceanic Canal Com,
mftiee that all of the surveys OF the isthnus
had been hasty and incomplete.
The Chliian legation has reports OF thu
blockade of Callao, panic in Lima ana a
Peruvian defeat near Moquegua.
On Monde Y the Senate witnessed n sharp de-
bate on the Geneva Award bill Blaine and
carpenter We're the central ngures. Carpen-
teT Is quite egaai 90 10 Blaine in that STayao
latter is so notorious. Carpenter got the best OF
him, though his frequent illusions to Grant
rather weakened the effects of his speech.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
William Blanchard, a New York grain spec
ulstor, quit, on Saturday, sle0 900 shcrt.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned, on Satur-
January.
The Lanterne publishes a dispatch from ST
Petersburg stating that poison was recently
table.
It is said General Butler doesn' t fancy being
put off the Board of Msnsgers of the National
soldiers Homes, and will make a fight for his
retention in office.
Albany. n. Y gave an ''old fashioned" Dem.
ocratic majority of over 1900. at the city eec-
tion. Jersey City also elects the Democratic
ticket, as do Hoboken and BOrdentown.
The exports of provisions and tallow from
the United States for March. 1889, sl2 4S7.-
5l2; March, 1879, Sll U5O,l IVA; for nine months
ending March, 81, 1884, ;S2.74l, ,275; same period,
1879, sSj, ,s69 SOC.
1t having been reported that there were
cases of yellow fever at New Orleans, Governor
Witt and other resident members of the Ma
tlonai Board OF Health declare that there has
not been single case OF yellow fever in that
city this year.
A lady well-known in Seymour, Ind, is re-
porLed TO have eloped with a stranger who had
been loltering in that city for several days.
She took ner youngest child with her, leaving
two behind with her husband. 1t is supposed
| the shippers went to Indianapolis.
One of the heaviest shocks of earthquake fel
| in San Francisco for years occurred there on
Wednesday, at about l o'clock in the afte.-
noon. Buildings rocked that the motion
was plainly peTceptible, and the Nevada block
| swayed foot out OF the perpendicular.
Charles L. Worthen, who sued the Grand
| Trunk Railway Company for damages re-
| careless of the CompaDys servants, in 1876
| ceived verdict of $4,000, at Boston, last
| week. On the first trial he was awarded SIS
| 600, and on the second s26, ,CO0-
| James Black q negro, attempted to outrage
| the person of Mrs. Hattie Ferris, near Ford's
| Depot, in Dinwfddie County, Virginia, the 3rd
/ of the present mouth. he was taken from
Jail at Dinwldd1e Court House, on Thursday,
/ by an armed body of seventy i've maske ed men
/ and hanged TO gsllows near the jail.
| James T. Klncart, one OF the most respected
citizens of Carlisle, KY, was instantly killed
ge NJ ihst Dace st ne R Sas on
ing cut OF the car window, when his head
| came in contact with a sn all bridge His
/ skull was horribly fractured. He leaves wife
and four children.
General Manager De Funiak. with the Dl-
| rectors of the Louisville and Nashville Road,
held meeting at Montgomery, Ala, satur-
| crease the bonded Indebtedness of the South
| and North Alabama Road Sl,OO0,OOO gold or
| sterling, at per cent. and thirty years, and
the stockholders are to meet on the 25d OF
, May to carry the project into effect.
The Independent Republican organization
| of New York has issued an address saying:
| "The undersigned, American citizens OF Ger
| man descent, adherents OF the Republican
party, would consider the nomination OF Cen
| eral Grant candidate for the Presidency
| an injury deeply affecting the welfare OF the
| country as well as the Republican party"
| A little three-year-old child of Mr.. James
| SIDES near Madison, Ind, met with a shocking
accident Thursday evening, which resulted IN
| it's death Friday. A large boiler of sca,ding
| water was lett setting upon the floor, which
the child overturned, deluging IL from head
| to foot with the boiling water, fatally scald-
| ing it.
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men were removing rafters Ia the old jail
| which support the floor, two cousins, George
| and William varner, slipped and fell. Before
] with falling timbers, which knocked them
| senseless. William had one leg broken in two
places, while Georges right leg was broken
| near the knee. They were internally iDjmed
/ as well.
| The Appropriation Committee of the Houfe
of Representatives have had made, as pres
ent for the bride of Hon. Hester Clymer, an
| elegant solid silver and gold embossed ice
| cream service, of beautlsul design and ex-
1 Suitably Inscribed and viii be forwarded TO
the bride In few days.
One hundred and thirty-five thousand i'm
| three months of this year. An unusually
i large proportion were Germans. At this rate
| the whole number OF new corners for the
entire year would be 100000. If these bring
| with them $50 each, on an average. the asgre-
| gate increase OF money thus brought into the
country would be about S25OOO,000.
4 II,
| Internal Revenue Bureau, shows the receipts
| from the tobacco tax for the first six months
| of the present fiscal year, compared with
| the corresponding period of the last fiscal
| year in ali districts which returned $50, 90
| and upward during the last fiscal year.
| The total increase is S77,7S0.SS. The New
| York districts especially show a decided in
| crease.
| The Congressional Democratic Caucus Com
| mittee met Saturday and decided TO recon-
| mend a new joint rule for counting the cleo
| toral vote, which will provide that when only
| one electoral return is received from State,
j il will require an affirmative vote in both
| Houses to prevent its being counted. and In
| case two returns are received from a single
| state, neither shall be counted unless both
| Houses shall agree upon which is the proper
i one.
| The returns of April TO the Department of
| Agriculture show the increase in the acres
| sown wheat last fail TO be l3 per cent, more
| than in the fall previous. In the area sOwn in
| rye there is a decline of per cent. as COM
pared with the year previous. There was
| large increase In fall-sown wheat in those
| States that hitherto have exclusively sown in
| the spring. The experiment was unfortunate,