The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16

/ fhey would therefore abandon the pendl ug l 7es
was discussed at length, the pending amer drrcn
Deins the one which provides for II 900 % sas
sidy 70 an American ocean mail service.
In the House on saturday, the bsIl embody3s,
/ the Eads scheme for the Tehuantepee shin kss5l
road gave rise 10 a noisy debate which ended II
/ laying tie subject on the table. The senate bill
amending the charfer of the Freedmen's Savins
and Trust Company passed The bill regulation
\ the importation % raw material used in the con
sHucion OF repairs of vessels engaged in the
foreign trade, inclOSing the trade between AT
lantic and Pacific ports of the inter Sts.es OF
I DuHt on foreEn account, Wa. ON motion 81 Mr.
frye, amended so as 10 provide that copper and
/ spelter, of foreign growth and PRODUCTION
manufactured i'm the United STATE,
and used in the construct IN,
equipment and -epair OF vessels to be employ ed
IN foreign trtde. or built on foreign account may
be imported in boDd. uTsler the regulations a.
the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe TIE
river and harbor appropriation biz WAS amendaS
81 as 10 provide thai the Secretary of War SHAH
cause TO be let by contract all puNlic works pro.
Vlded for In this act 10 the lowest responsible
bidders provided that in the opinion of the Secre
tary OF War the interests OF the Government
should not be actually injured thereby.
Inc senate ON Monday passed the Postofiice
appropriation Dill. Many new bills were intro
dueed into the Lower House of Congress as is
usual on Monday. In consequence ot the death
OF Hon. Fernando Wood both Houses Of Congress
adjourned early.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The pursuit OF Sitting Bull and his hand has
Eighteen thousand cattle were lost IA The Span.
ish Province of Seville by foods
Thirty-five thousand GOLFERS are on a strike in
Lancashire, England, and the numbeTis increas-
ing.
The connersville. qnd..) Board Of Trade has
voted TO disoand, and has appointed Committees
~ administer upon It's effectA
The Illinois Legislature passed. on Thursday.
resolutions of sympathy with Michael pNtVitt and
blaming the conduct OF the British Government.
There are general ana heavy snow storms in
the West and Northwest Nearly all railroads are
bloekaded, the drifts in eases being four
feet high.
Henrietta Brandofer and Barbara Weis, young
New lork domeStics. were Sufiocated b. gas
which they had failed to properly turn Off on
retiring.
General Grant Logan C. Murray and II. V.
Neweomb, propose TO establish in New York at
an early date, the United states Bark with a
capita. OF S50O,OOO
Two men last Friday stole the communion
service from the Christian Church at Laporte
Ind They will have two years each to reflect at
the Michigan City Penitentiary.
Eleven square mues OF New Orleans Is under
water and food is daily distributed 20 about
81 900 families. The Mayor has issued orders to
shoot anyone found plundering dssereed dwell
lihgS.
The details OF a drunken tragedy come over the
wires from New Mexico, where Julian Vigil
chopped his wife and daughter inta pieces NOR
tally wounded his son. and hanged himself To a
natter.
steamer only twenty-five feet IA length has
been constructed and equipped for Iaeob Powell,
farmer near Logansport, Ind, who awaits the
subsidence of the storm TO run her to New Or
leans and back on a pleasure trip.
Berthe Clipmnger, messenger IN the Michigan
House of Representatives, while playing in the
Capitol on last Thursday, telI sixty feet through
the well-hole, striking on bis face on the marble
floor. His death was instantaneous.
There are indications OF a large emigration
from Canada to the United States this summer.
The Montreal Post declares that nothing can stop
the exodus until the Dominion ceases TO be !,
Crown colony, and has the sole management OF
Its own affairs.
Suicides in New York est year 1872: l2l, males
thirty-One females: fourteen married thirty -four
single twelve widowed: Germans sixty-four:
United States, thirty-fve; Ireland, twenty-fv
France, seven; Poland, Scotland and Italy three
each; England, five.
Professor B. F. Stanley. Principal of the Alton
Academy. at saltwater, Mimi, has been arrested
| on a charge OF seduction. His examination Wa.
postponed until the 18th inst. Bail was fixed al
-. 900, which could not be furnished. and he wa.
remanded TO Jail until his examination.
Lieutenant Cook ana a squad of soldiers are on
the way to Fort Leavenworth with four MescalerC
| Apaches who spent eight months with Victoria
and afterward melted revolt at Fort Stanton
| Their leader Is negro, who has done hard fight
ing in several bloody struggles with our troops.
! third tragedy in the family Of the late William
Hogg, of bloomington, ILL.,. is reported from Car
thage, Mo, where Mrs. Niccolls drowned herself
/
father shot two of his children and killed himself
Last month Mamie Hogg committed suicide by
/ drowning.
family named Uhler, living near Wooster
O., il is reported. have fallen heirs 10 AN immense
/ ly valuable and extensive estate in the East. II
belonged to an eccentric unmarried uncle. who il
SAID 10 nave lett no WIZ. Inc heirs expect soon
to leave for the place where IL is located and
claim their property.
! Ofiice-seekers have left General Garfield barely
vitality enough TO reach the. National Capital in
creditable shape. He has decided to remain al
/ Mentor through February. The throng of visitors
at his home daily grows larger. lie receives
about 100 letters per day, and great bulk OF pa
pers and documents.
| At Loughrea session one Habon, a Land
Lacquer, has been sentenced to three months
Imprisonment and bound over 10 keep the peace
| for one year for a seditiouS speech in which he
allegiance to the British Crown, and calling on
his hearers to strike hnal blow for the independ
ence of Ireland.
The idea Of abandoning the proportion of fifteen
and one-half 20 one between gold and silver, as
| recommended in Secretary Sherman's late report
is supported by an apparently official note In the
| Pals (Franee) Journal des Debats. A telegram
! from Berlin states that Bismarck has said il the
United States accepted return to the bimetalliC
system he would support the representation OF
Germany in the Conference.
In the battles around Lima the Peruyians are
said to have lost 900 men and the Chilians ,O00
/ Peru Is powerless. all her armies being defeated
and demoraliZed, and the Treasury bankrupt The
forts have been blown up, and the ships in the
harbor burned Lima is reported quiet under
| Chilian control, but the Chinese quarter was
burned. One OF the principal Peruvian command
ers is accused Of treason, and President Pierola
| has fled.
Old Baroness Burdett-COutts was married sltur-
| day i'm Christ Church. London, TO Ashmond
Bartlett a Philadelphia chap, who was educated
4 in England. and Is better looking than the En-
| glishmen. lie is good cricketer and boxer has
brown hair, and is ruddy and untry-looking.
The old lady was lost soon after she knew him,
and made him her Private Secretary and dis
penser OF her charities. He is only thirty-one
years old. and the poor old lacy is sixty seven.
The Baroness Coutts is the daughter of the friend
Of John Hikes, the Rad.cal-Sir Francis Burdett,
who was several times expelled from Parliament.
More than forty years ago the Baroness received
more than 500 600 600 in a legacy. To marry the
Young man she has to give un an income of $50.
600 year I'm Coutis' Bank. This shows thu. value
OF young man when he is badly wanted.