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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

New Hampshire, with population of
346,9S4 has 379 members in the lower
house, while Illinois, with population
OF 3. OS3, 1926, has only 1873 members. The
question as to whether popular senti-
ment Is better represented in New Hamp-
shire than Illinois is an open one. All
the newer States, it will be noticed, have
adopted a system favoring a membership
IN the lower house sustaining the rela-
ton OF 3 to l or 2 to l to the Senate.
In New Hampshire the ratio is 80 to l.
and in Pennsylvania and New York 4
to l.
Outside of the United States the facts
as to Legislative bodies are quite as in
teresting and suggestive. In Canada
the Parliament is composed of Senate
with IS members, and House of Com
mons with 206 members. In Mexico
the Congress consists of Senate with
membership of Sc and House
of 227.
In the Parliament of Great Britain
there are 538 members in the House of
Lords, and 658 in the Commons in
Prussia, 3O2 members in the upper
house, and 434 in the lower in Hun
gary, TAG members of the House of
Magnates, and 444 in the House of Rep
resentatives in Italy, 27O members OF
the Senate, and 500 members of the
Chamber of Deputies; in Spain, the
! Cortes has q membership of 4O8; in
Portugal the upper house of the Cortes
| has 1913 members, and the lower l49 :
in Switzerland the Standerath. or upper
| house, has A members, and the Ma
| tionalrath, or lower house, 1876 mem
| bers.
In Sweden there are 1856 members in
the first chamber of the Diet, and 2O4 in
the second; in Norway % members OF
the Lagthing, and e3 members Of the
| Oldesthlng. In Greece there is one
chamber of 1873 members, and in nearly
| all the smaller German states the legis
lative assemblies consist of one house.
In France the representation in the
Chamber of Deputies is based on the
population of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS. every
reimbursement to have one representa-
tive, and an additional one fer each
1905 population or fraction thereof
when the population is in excess OF
| 100000. This gives to the Chamber of
Deputies, or lower house, 532 mem
bers. The Senate consists of 300 mem
bers, Is elected by the Senate for life
and the other 225 by electoral colleges
chosen indirectly by the municipalities
and communes.
The Legislative Assembly Of the Ger
man empire consists of Bundesrath OF
So members appointed by the govern
ments of the individual states and a
Reichstag of 397 members elected by
the people.
In Brazil the Senate has member
] ship Of So, and the House OF Congress
/ 1872.
81 HAVE a BILL" began man, as hi
stood In the door of an office and looked
over the file; 81 have a little bill
which g Leave it with me, and IL
collect it if I have to follow the debtor
straight year, interrupted the lawyer
Yeshere is the bill; bill for $40. 1
is bill against you. $ Against me
All, that alters the case. You mus
give me year to pay it in. Good day
4 Sir.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
THE Massachusetts Humane Society

The Massachusetts Humane Society
has presented Ida Lewis with the
society's medal, for heroism in saving
the lives of two soldiers, recently. 1t
seems rs though this brave girl might
be given better position than a lonely
life in the Lime Rock light house.
She ought to have a good husband, a
pleasant home and chance to save a
baby from attacks Of Group, etc.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

AN honorable member of the Penn
sylvania assembly has given the news
paper correspondents assembled at
Harrisburg notice that, if they should
be so little regardful of their own
physical well-being as to criticise his
conduct as a legislator, he would
"kick their ribs in And it
would now be physical impossibility
for him to carry out his threat, so gen.
eral is the criticism.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Tho BOertsh War Ended.

Telegraphic dispatches from Lon
don state that the Beers have accepted the
British terms of peace, which are that arms,
nmmunitions, and other property captured
during the hostilities by either side shall be
restored; that the Transvaal shall be granted
nm independence, subject to conditions to be
hereafter settled By the royal commission, and
that the Boer government commence after
the commissioners shah have made q. re-
port; meanwhile the British garrisons are
10 remain in Transvaal without in anywise af
fecting the interest Of local affairs, sovereign
ity of the queen, British control of foreign re-
tations and the establishment of British re-
sident at the future capital. The conditions
also provide for the dispersal of the Beers
forewith and the temporary maintenance of q
British garrison which, however, are not to
interfere with local affairs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

Gov. JACKSON, of West Virginia,
takes strong ground against govern
ment interference in educational mat
ters, and thinks each state ought to
be left to educate it's people in it's
own way. There are some peculiari-
ties of southern education which are
developed in the mountains by moon
light, with copper still, in which
federal interference is looked upon as
hardship, and the teachers and
pupils are ready to defend their sys
tenn with the shotgun.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Recent Fires.


Marietet's mills at Newburyport,
Mass, were destroyed by fire recently, involv-
ing a loss of over $500, 900.
The covered bridge over the sciota River at
Cricleville, Ohio, was destroyed by fire
recently. The bridge was 600 feet long and
was built over forty years since.
]. O. Rogers grist mill in Genessee,
Mich, was burned with a large quantity of
wheat. Loss, $4,000 small insurance.
The steamboat Willie, with a cargo
of $50 bales of cotton, was burned when near
Monroe, La. Fire destroyed the American
hotel and post office at Portage, N. Y, the
loss being $4,000 also the Saxony Wooden
Mills at Cincinnati. Loss sS5, 1000, and the
furniture factory of G. Mendel & Co., and
Wheeling City FIGURING Mills at Wheeling,
w. Va, both of which are supposed to be Of
incendiary origin. portion of the paper
mill of Averill, Russell and Carpenter, at
Minneapolis, Mimi, was burned involving a
loss of about $1,000 The cotton press OF
James {. Harvey, of Norfolk, Va. The
cotton was carried to different portions of the
city, and several other fires were started there
by, but happily extingnished. The loss on
the cotton amounts to 100000.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
A Woman the Case.

A woman named Sophie Pieoffski
has been arrested at St. Petersburg, who con-
fessed to having given the signal to Hart
mann tor exploding the mine under the train
near Moscow, and also the signal to Roussa-
koff to through the bomb which shattered
the czar's carriage. She is a daughter of a
councillor of the ministry of domains.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Editors IN Trouble.

Rochefort is again in trouble, hav-
ing been sentenced to- pay one months i'm
prisonment and 1000 francs fine for publish
ing articles applauding the assassination of
the Gar; Rose Michel, the editress of the
Ciyton, has been sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment and q fine of 2 1000 francs and the
manager of the Journal to three months and
1900 francs the editor of the Jurcnal to six
months and 2, 900 francs the manager Of the
Rcvolution Socielc to the same-all for like
offense.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Death on the Rail.

On the Sioux City Railroad near
MankatoMinn., all accident occurred resulting
in the death of man named August Kranke,
who with six others were on hand car, and
were run into by freight train in deep cut.
The train was ahead of its schedule time
hence the accident. John J. Jeffrys, at Des
Moines Iowa, while attempting to board a
train for the purpose Of crossing the river was
struck by an approaching locomotive and his
head completely severed from the trunk.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

Revenue RAIDERS.

Officers of the Internal Revenue
Department recently made raid on several
Illicit stills in the mountains of Virginia, and
succeeded in capturing and destroying four
distil1eres, and over 10000 gallons of whisky.
At all the distlleries the officers were met
with armed resistance and eeveral persons
were injured on both sides.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

DIPHTIIERIA is making fearful raw
ages IN various parts of Canada, and
many persons are crediting it to an
awful visitation of Providence. The
cause, as in all other afflicted COM
munities, will be found in impure
water, bad drainage and a general dis
regard of the laws of hygiene.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
A Iona Run.

The first train from San Francisco
over the Banana line arrived at Kansas city
March %. The train consisted of twelve cars,
al crowded, and seventy through passengers
" r, on board. The run was the most
remarkable one on record, the train having
left San Francisco on time, was on time at
every station on the long. line OF 1880 miles,
and arrived on time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
The assassin Tortured.

News from St. Petersburg says that
Roussakof and Zeibotf have been merclessly
put to toiture in the presence of Gen. Louis
Mil koT. Roussokoff was electricizcd by
powerful batteries and forced by the intoler-
able agony he suffered to answer the questions
mt TO him ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Theatre Burned

The italian opera house at Nice,
italy, was destroyed by fire March %, involv-
ing the loss of over seventy lives. The fire
was caused by the explosion of gas at the
rear of the stage, which set fire to thescenery
Several Of the performers persisted in the
flames, and many of the audience were
trampled to death.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Homes ron. the yriSys.

Tt is said that the British govern
M" is about to buy 100000 acres of the
best portion of the Irish waste lands, will
TX end about S7,5OO,0OO in the reclamation of
tn" same, and will then divide it into thirty
tiv -cre farms, which will be allotted to evlct
ell tenants and the tenants of small and rack
rented farms in the west of Ireland.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

The Charleston NsaOs has apparently
seen the folly Of longer kicking
against the pricks, and says: If the
south wants the federal government
to be it's friend, and treat the south
as it does other sections, the south
ern people themselves must manifest
national spirit"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
A Beautiful Thief.

At New York, few days since,
detectives arrested woman charged with the
theft of over 100000 worth of diamonds
from Chicago dealers. She is the wife of a
prominent physician in Chicago, stands high
in the social world, is very wealthy, and her
family connections are the best in the state.
About S12O, 900 worth of diamonds were found
in her possession.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Homicide and Suicide.

A dual tragedy is recorded from
Chicago. Charles Cram Of the firm of Dog
gett, Bassett & Hills, was shot and killed by
William Seymour, young board Of trade
clerk, nineteen years old, who Immediately
afterwards shot and killed himself. Seymour
was sultor for the hand of Mr.. Grams
daughter, but he had been forbidden the
house. ......
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Our First Coins.

The first coins Of the United States
were struck with the portrait Of Martha
Washington, Mr.. Spencer, who cut the
first die, copying her features in his
medallion. When Gen. Washington saw
the coins he was very wroth, and before
any more were struck off the features of
his, wife were altered somewhat, and a
cap placed on her head, this being the
original of the present Goddess OF Lib
erty.-A1eW York Graphic.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

ANOTHER addition to the inquiry
regarding the origin of the word biz
zard is made by the Critic, which
says the word is derived from the
French "blesser," to wound that &C a
reg lar blizzard - is piece of voya-
geur slang to denote north wind that
cuts like knife.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

THE late Lewis Clapp, of Lee
county, Illinois, bequeathed $l50,000
for the establishment of an agricul-
tural college. O. w. Clapp, of Chicago,
a son of the legatee, has secured the
setting aside of the will.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

DR.. GEORGE LEWIS Of Evansville,
Ind, has married his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Jane Dyson, of Lincoln, III. He
had previously married two of her
daughters. They are bound he shall
not go out of that family.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
The Bogus Diploma Mons Confession.

John Buchanan, the bogus medical
diploma man of Phil ,delphia, now undergoing
Imprisonment in consequence of his issuance
of so-called diplomas to medical students, has
made confession Of his doings. He gives
the names of wholesale druggists in Phlladel-
phia, who have sold his diplomas, and the
names of parties to whom diplomas were is
sued. He relates how diplomas were signed
by the faculty; how, in one instance, three
professors, for IS each, signed 500 diplomas,
and how, for $3.50 dollars. diplomas which
were to be sent abroad were certified to by the
Spanish consul. In all, about 10000 names
were tangledup in his disclosures. He has
given the names of New York, professional
| abortionists, and the means whereby they
destroy Ii e. He tells of the tricks of his
trade, quack nostrums that are advertised to
cure all diseases, and of imposters who prey
on public creduality. He recites incidents
| wherein he has robbed graves, and how, one
Saturday morning, he stole five bodies from
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Representative Bodies.

The discussion of the apportionment
question in Congress brought out some
curious facts as to the legislative bodies
OF other countries. The following shows
the number Of Senators and Representa-
tives in each of the State Legislatures
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Combinations.

The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations
Postmasters- Hyram D. Pearson, New York
City; Edward Russell, Davenport, Ia. John
Kennedy, Hastings, Mimi; Francis W. Seeley,
Lake City, Minnesota; Eden N. Leavins,
Faribault, Minnesota; Thomas F. Hall,
Omaha, collector of internal revenue, R. w.
Berry, Boise City, Idaho.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Dealt, of q German Political Leader.

Col. Fred Hacker, prominent Ger
man politician, died at his home near Summer
field, ILL.,, March "a. He was one of the lead
ers of the German revolution in 1S47, was
exiled, came to this country and has been an
able and influential palitical adviser and
exponent of advanced thought among his
countrymen for many years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

MR.. D. L. MOODY is going abroad
during the autumn. Mr.. Moody can
find a number of fields ripe for the
harvest in the old country.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
A Gould St1.ok

The Wabash Railroad Company
has quietly purchased buildings, property and
real estate of strip eighty feet wide, from
east to west through the entire city of Des
Moinses, Ia, as right of way for their road at
an estimated cost of about 100000.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Death Of a 1Veu-nao.o,. irish Leader.

Thomas M. Halpin, a we'll known
Irish leader, died in Chicago, March 81.
Deceased was secretary of the Irish confeder-
alton movement in 1s49, and was associated
with Dorcy MCGEE in the publication of the
New York Nation. He was a. member of the
Illinois legislature from 1872 to 1876, and
published the first directory of Chicago.
Among his other ventures he published the
Memphis Bulletin in conjunction with
Admiral Semmes, of the confederate navy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Nebraska Flood.

Extensive floods are reported in
various portions of Nebraska, doing consider.
able damage to property, and carrying out
bridges. The whole sPlatte Valley from CO.
umbus to Fremont was under water. Loup
river which empties into the Platte river near
Columbus, swept out the bridge of the Omaha,
Niobrara & Black Hills railroad near Column
bus and flooded the country in the immediate
vicinity, and, flowing over the Union Pacific
track, washed it out, together with about a
mile and half of telegraph lines, cutting of all
communication west of that point. Bridges
everywhere were swept away, and even the
most substantial structures were unsafe The
railroad bridge at st. Paul, on branch of the
Union Pacific over the Loup river, has gone.
All the wagon bridges in Howard coun v have
been swept ut by the Loup river. The Bur-
lington d Missouri bridge over the Platte river
at Oreopuls has been abandoned, owing IT, its
insecurity, and other bridges on the Burliag-
ton & Missouri railway are regarded as uns aie.
The Union Pacific has abandoned the eastern
division. Three spans at the pile bridge over
the Loup river were washed out, and the track
is washed from one to three feet deep for a
long distance east of the bridge, and for about
three-quarters of mile west of the bridge
Tae total rise was about thrice feet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

B.t1ls>c's -Hsi;crt on the Health Of the Hog.
The treasury department report
on trichine and trichinosis il nearly ready for
distribution. The folly of any nation pro-
hibiting the entry of pork from abroad, when
in point of fact no country is without trichina
of Its own, is we'll shown, and it is held to be
ridiculous to assume that a foreign variety is
more harmful than those of native produc-
ton, ...
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
KMlooh Aouitted,

After being out twenty-four hours
the jury in the Kalloch murder case, at San
Francisco, brought in verdict of not guilty;
The verdict was received with much applause.
The defendant was heartily congratulated by
his friends. When Kalloch was discharged
and got in a carriage to go home an immense
crowd took the horses from the vehicle, and
pulled him to his house, some three miles
AWAY. s.l.,... !. H..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
child Stolen bo Gvps,es.

A child two-and-a -half years old,
son of Theodore Kelly, prominent citizen
of Cincinnati, has been missing since March
Is, and it is supposed has been stolen by
gypsies several of whom were in the locality
at the time of disappearance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Indian, Massacre.

Gen. Sheridan has received news of
massacre of thirty men and the destruction of
a train of nineteen wagons by Indians at
Puerto del Chocolate, Mexico, about fifty
miles south Of the boundary line at Santa Ee.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
The Lo,,do,, T,,ues o., U,naon,.

The London Times of March FL,
says: On this side of the Atlantic American
finance is more generally and practically inter-
esting than the diplomacy controversies of the
United States. Mr.. Window, of Minnesota,
who has succeeded Mr.. Sherman ut the treas
ury, may possibly turn out sound and capa-
BILE financier, but though he has addicted HIM
self much in Cor gress to the discussion of
economical questions, it would be rash to
forecast his policy in finance. He is described
as moderate protectionist, and, indeed, there
is no sign of any tendency for free trade in
any of President Garfeld's appointments. 1t
is more important to be assured that Mr..
Window is free from those "western ideas "
of financial policy which foun'l favor not long
ago in Minnesota and the neighboring States,
and which, though at present inconspicuous,
have, we fear, by no means died out
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
No Extra Session.

It has been decided by the President
and Cabinet not to call an extra session, it
not being deemed necessary by existing cir
cumstances.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
THE NEWS. IN BRIEF.
1Eeett,aa Of Gree,,baekers.

The meeting of the National Com
mittee of the Greenbeck party has been called
to meet at St. Louis, May g.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
France and YorktOtc,..

President Grevy OF France has been
presented by Minister Noyes with the auto
graph letter of President Hayes, inviting the
corporation of France in the centenary cele-
bration of the surrender of CORVALLIS, at
Yorktown, and on behalf of France accepts
the same
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

Miss PAULINE SCOTT, of Mononga-
hela City, Pa, lis declared to be the hand
soonest lady in the United States. A
few weeks since, Adam Forepaugh,
he of managery fame, offered a prize
of $4,000 to the lady possessing the
most natural handsome charms, to
exhibit herselfunder his management,
and out of over ten thousand applicants
who forwarded their photographs to
the great Adam, Miss Scott
was selected. She is a brunette,
of the most pronounced type,
her hair, is of lustre that would
shame the raven, is long, wavy and
luxuriant. Of astyle of beauty differ
ing from that possessed by Mrs. Lang.
try, the British beauty, she is none the
less handsome, and will compare very
favorably with the English Lily o.
any other professional beauty.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Presidential appointments.

Among the more prominent appoint
ments by the President are the following: :
William H. Robertson, Collector of Customs
at the port of New York. William Walter
Phelps, of New Jersey, Minister to Austria.
Edwin A. Merritt, of New York Consul Gen
eral to London. Adam Badeau, of New York !,
Charge d. Atfaires in Denmark. Lewis Wal
lace, Indiana, Charge d. Affaires in Paraguay
and Uruguay. Michael J. Cramcr, of Ken
lucky, Charged Affaires in Switzerland.
William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
Solicitor-Gencral. SamuelJ. Philips, of North
Carolina, Judge of the Court of Claims. L..
A. Sheldon, of Ohio, Governor of New Mexico.
Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs. Edward S. Meyer,
United States Attorney of the N rthern Dis
trct of Ohio. George w Atkinson, United
States Marshal, West Virginia. Byron H.
Langston, Collector of Internal Revenue,
Fifth District Of Missouri. Ellis G. Evans,
Receiver of Public Moneys, Ironton, Mo.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
Theatre Cremation.

The italian Opera House at Nice,
Italy, burned March %. The fire occurred
during the performance, and many lives are
supposed to have been lost. The bodies of
fourteen persons were taken from the ruins,
and it is thought others remaired.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31

A FRIENDLY correspondent repre-
sents Senator Ben Hill as every we'll
satisfied with his course in this
matter; he prides himself on the
virulence of the hypothetical casti-
CATION he gave the prospective traitor,
and upon it's effect upon his successful
discovery of Mahone's position. He
has received bushels OF letters from
democrats in the south, but especially,
of course, from Virginia, thanking
him in warm terms for his service in
the cause of political honesty. He has
received as we'll flowers that rival
those of Malone. The citizens of
Alexandria, Va, intend, it is under
stood, presenting him with a magnifi-
cent floral tribute as a mark of respect
and gratitude -