, 1881-02-04

lAlltH lpT ~ years,
The Oriental Tea Company Of Chicago
with liaulitDe, of>25O 900 made a voluntary
assignment ou the 18th,
The wife If James Cummings, coored,
living near Cranston, North Carolina,
gave birth to four babies recently; all do"
ing we'll
Noah BowiingS during drunken spree
yesterday at Delaware Bend on Red river,
Texas, assaulted George Barrett with
pistol aud was Shot and killed by Barrett
A solder Of company +, 10th infantry,
was shot and killed IN cold blood at San
Angelo, Texts, near Fort Concna, on the
18th by n gambler named Il. Il. Watson,
who, after The murder, was furnished with
a fleet hOr.e hy his friends and escaped.
Fanny Nepher, young lady aged II,
committed suicide to-day by taking
strychniue at Brownvile, Neb,, on Tues
day. She had been jrlted by lover who
refused 10 psy adry goods bill she had
contracted with the expectation ofmarry-
ing him.
A boiler ;pIoded on the oath inst. five
miles from Long Prairie, Todd county,
Minnesota rIlled Frank Oliver, engineer,
and seriously injurng II. +. Rice, propri-
etor of the IIrm, and two brothers named
Strong. The men were saving fence
posts, using Il threshing machine for
power.
Three passenger cars of an express
train OH the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
citic railwuy,which left Council Bluffs oD
the 10th FOR Chicago, were thrown from
the track by broken rail near Pond
creek, His, early this morning. One Of
the cars took fire from lamp. Two pass
eEgers were fatally injured and four SER
iously hurt.
A'few nights ago some one fred hay
stack belonging to Henry Garnell near
Chattanooga. While Yarneil, after he
had extingushed the flames, was search
ing for theiucendiareS, assisted by man
named Howe, report of Il gun was heard
and Yarnell dropped dead, shot through
the brain. Howe, also, was shot in the
mouth, dangerously, perhaps fatally.
About fifty Jewish gentlemen met IN
Greenbaum's hall Chicago, on the 23d for
thepurpose of aiding colony of Israeltes
which has established itself in Palestine.
The colony, which is composed of sixty
obtained grant of $4,000 acres
of land between Jerusalem and Jatfa from
the Turkish government several years
ago, and is now engaged in tiiIing the
ground after the fashion of their ancestors
long centuries ago. The colony is not rich
and societies have been orgrnized in New
York, Philadelphia and other cities to as
slst in its getting firm iOothold.
Gen. Walker states the per centage Of
census increase as follows: Alabama 26,
Georgia 30, Delaware H., Louisiana 20,
California "a, Maryland 10, Illinois 81,
Missouri 26, Iowa SO, South Carolina Il,
Michigan 50, Texas 81, Nebraska 20, West
Virginia Is, Ohio 10, Florida AZ, Wiscon-
sin %, Kentucky "a, Colorado 1888, Arkan-
sas So, Kansas l73. Indiana II, Mississippi
81, Minnesota II, North Carolina 80, Ne
vada 46, Tennessee 20, Oregon 80, Virginia
90, Arizona 3l9. New England States
Is, Massachusetts, % Rhode
Island 27, Maine .03, New Hampshire 90,
Vermont .0O5, New Jersey %, Pennsyl-
yania 90, New York l6, District of Cpl-
umbia 50, Montana 30, Utah &C, Wyoming
l2S, Dakoia S54, Idaho ia, New Mexico
29, Washington 2l3.
The apportionment bill introduced by
Cox fixed the number of
at 30l, and apportions
them as follows: Alabama s, Arkansas 5,
California 5, Colorado |, Connecticut 4,
Delaware |, Florida /, Georgia ., Illinois
10, Indiana IL, Iowa 10, Kansas 8, Ken
lucky TO- Louisiana 8, Maine 1, Maryland
6, Massachusetts II, Michigan 10, Mime
sofa 5, Mississippi I, Missouri Is, Ne
braska 3. Nevada |, New Hampshire .,
New Jersey I, New York 81, North Caro-
lima s. Ohio 10, Oregon l, Pennsylvania
26, Rhode Island 2, South Carolina 6, Ten
hessee o, Texas 10, Vermont ., Virginia
8, West Virginia 4, Wisconsin s. As com
pared with he present number of mem.
bers this bill makes the following losses
and gains Arkansas, California, Iowa,
Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina
and West Virginia gain one each, Kansas
gains three, Texas four, and Minnesota
two.
Senator Eaton, chairman of the COM
mittee on foreign relations will on tile 25th
call up the Chinese treaties in his com
mittee and endeavor to have them made
the exclusive order of business from day
10 day, until the committee reaches final
action in regard to them. He also says
that with n view of Fastening action he
will propose that the committee obtain
from the senate to hold meet
ings whi e the senate is in session. Sem
ator Eaton fully appreciates the impor-
tance of taking prompt action on the
treaties, aS, II they are to be amended,
they should speedily be brought before
the senate for d scussion or else they may
not be returned to China for ratification
of amendments before next winter; and
If they are To be ratified without amend
ment, this also must be done quickly or
there will! be no time left for this con.
gress to enac. the necessary legislation to
carry them into effect On the whole,
however, Senator Eaton doubts whether
final action 10y the senate may reasonably
be expected short Of two weeks from the
present time
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