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Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
FORTY.SEYENTH CONGRESS.

FEBRUARY 2S.-In the Senate the House
bill to restore to citizenship such citizens OF
the United States as have become citizens OF
Great Britain was reported adversely. SEN
ate cOnferees on the Revenue and Tariff bill
were instructed to report to the Senate II they
found any restrictions touching the constitu-
tionality of the measure placed on the ac-
ton of tie House committee. The blll 20
give increased pensions to one. armed ana ana
after long debate, the bill was reported to
the Senate the amendments made in Com
mittee of the Whole agreed to, and the bill
pased-yeas II; nays, IA. Mr.. Allison re-
ported the Sundry Civil bill and said he would
call it up tomorrow. In the House Messrs.
Randall, Morrison and Tucker successlvely
declined to serve on the Tariff conference
committee and Mr.. Speer (Ga.l was APP
pointed Consideration of the River and
Harbor bill occupied the remainder OF the
day.
MARCH In the Senate Messrs. Bayard
and Beck were excused from serving on the
Tariff conference committee. The Chair was
authorized TO fill vacancies. and Messrs.
Voorhees,. McPherson, Miller, ingalls,, Maxey;
Butler, Morgan, German, Davis, Jones ana
Harris being appointed success1vely declneo
to serve Messrs Malone and Mcptli ~ were VEL
taken up and mater ially amended The
clause repeating the pre- -empt1on law was
stricken out, as was the clause prohloltihg
the Yellowstone Park lease. a. provision
allowing leases of ten acre tracts was
inserted The Joint resolution OF the
Missouri Legislature reques ing its Congress
men to use their best endeayors to secure the
appropriation recommended by the Mlssls-
sippi River Commission was presented Inc
conference report on the FOrti1caton Dill
was agreed to, and the River and Harbor Dlll
was ordered printed In the House the
conference report on the Fortification APP
preparation bill was agreed to. 1t approprl-
ates S295 900 more than when 1t passed the
House. The River and Harbor bill was fur
ther considered in committee. An effort to
prohibit the further construction of leveeS
except in the performance of existing con
tracts was lost. The rules were
suspended and the General Deficiency bill
was passed, after which the River and Harbor
bill being resumed. Mr.. Van Voorhis moved
to strike out the appropriation for the Sacra-
mento River saying that nobody but a
gambler and cut-throat would have thought
of tacking it to the BILL A motion was made
to expel him for using such language, but was
withdrawn on retraction and apology.
MARCH 2.-In the Senate the conference
report on the District of Columbia Appropri-
alton bill was agreed to. Conferees on the
Postal bill failed to agree upon two provis-
ions in the bill, the appropriation Tor fast
mail service and legS alton Ielatng 70 the
Pacific Railroads, and new confereeS we're ap-
p tinted. A resolution was adopted providing
Tor committee to examine into the condl-
t on of the Sioux Indians. The credentials OF
Charles Il. Manderson, elected Senator from
Nebraska, and of :. NJ. Cuilom, Illinois, were
presented and filed. 4 resolution reciting
the apRoppcemsHt by the President pro
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
The Malice of Inanimate Things.

A certain young man in this city can
never be argued out of a belief in the
total depravity of inanimate things,
which has been impressed upon him in
q singular and forcible manner. Last
Saturday night he came home very late
from the club-although that fact is
neither here nor there. On reaching his
sleeping apartment he proceeded to un-
Dire IS according to an unvarying system
into which he had fallen. He removed
his coat and vest and hung them over
the back of chair. Then he sat down
and took off his shoes. He then drew
off a certain other garment-in short. his
trousers--in one pocket of which he was
accustomed to carry q penknife and the
KEY to his Office desk. On doing so he
heard the knife fall upon the floor, and,
picking it up, he placed it upon the
washstand and finished disrobing. In
the morning he arose betimes, and, on
resuming bis trousers, discovered that
his key was missing. He groveled all
over the floor looking after it, but with
out effect, and although hunting high
and low, could find nothing Of it. AS it
stormed that day and the walking was
bad he put on pair of heavy boots,
which he wore all day, and donned
again on Monday morning. On Sunday
he tried all manner Of keys on his desk,
but, owing to the diabolical ingenuity
of the lockmaker, none would fit, and
on Monday he got lock NTH to come
up. who. after long trial picked the
lock ,and at his order made him two keys,
so that no such calamity as he had en-
dured should again fail upon him. With
these two keys in his pocket he went
home Monday night to prepare for the
theater, and on putting on the dress
shoes he had worn at the club found the
missing key in the toe of one of them.
The language that he used at this dis
coverv was of somewhat lurid char
acter, but it seemed t. do him good.
And he swears and aflirms that the key
Jumped into the shoe on purpose, hav-
ing previously arranged with the knife
to fall loudly on the floor at the same
moment aud avert suspicion; and he
furthermore deposes that the key will
not now fit his desk, as it had stretched
the slot in it so widely by grinning over
its little joke that 1t can not move the
colt in the lock.-B Boston Jour71aE.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has decided that bank taxes must be PAID
up to the time the new act takes effect.
IT was reported en- the 5th that the
Jesuits OF Boston had offered to assume tie
debts of the Augustinian Association OF
Lawrence, Mass.
SUICIDES among German army Off
GERS were recently said to be of almost daily
| occurrence.
THE rolling mill of the Potts Brothers,
stopped five weeks ago on account OF the
uncertainty about the tariff, started up a
few days ago, but after one heat the plate
mill was compelled to stop on account OF a
strike by the puddlers and helpers.
THE Toronto (Cana.) courts have
decided to hold Phipps, the Philadelphia
Almshouse embezzler, for extradition.
b. F. PRITCHARD, of Washington, ID.
c., has been placed upon the postal fraud
list. He advertised himself as a pension
and patent attorney, when, in fact, he had
been debarred from practice before all OF
the Executive Departments.
SECRETARY FoLGER has given in
structions that the word scents" be placed
on the new ive-c cent pieces, in order to meet
the requirements of law.
JAMES GILFILLAN, Treasurer of the
United States, has rendered his resignation
to the President, to take effect the 1st
proXimo.
SENATOR TABOR and his wife, who
were married at Washington, d. c., few
days ago, deny the story since published
that they were married in St. Louis last
September.
B. S. WALDEN, President of the
Oklahoma Colony which left Kansas City
recently for the Indian Territory, has re-
turned and says other members were COM
ing home across the country. Although
embarras- ed in circumstances he announced
his intention of making another start for
the Territory.
JULIUS MARCUS, New York broker,
was missing from that city on the 5th and a
number of customers were mourning for
something like $4,000
The steamer Commonwealth ran into
and sunk pilot boat in New York harbor
the other morning and Pilot Campbell was
drowned.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, traveller
named Jesse Williams laid his sacheI on
bench in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot
the other day. and went to get lunch.
When he returned the sachel, con aiming
81 900 and gold watch, was missing.
THE Chester (Pa.) Grand Jury has
indicted Colonel The odore Hyatt, Princi-
pal of the Pennsylvania Military Academy,
for alleged assault and unlawful imprison.
ment Of . pupil.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
What Brave Surfmen Accomplished.

The surfmen at Smiths Island, on
the Northampton shore, rescued the
crew of the Albert Daily, Of Augusta,
Me-, on the night of January 7. On the
following day MIR. Cobb's wreckers went
on board in spite of the protestation of
Keeper Kitchens, of the Life Service.
That night the storm was terrific. The
surfmen succeeded in reaching point
opposite the wreck, at two a. m. of the
9ti. E9aly she u.asts eppe2sad in dim
outline, while the hull was completely
submerged. Several signals were burned
to cheer the men on the wreck and to
enable the surfmen to determine more
accurately the position of the vessel. 1t
was determined to make an attempt to
rescue them with the boat, but after
proceeding some distance the surfmen
could see nothing of the schooner, and
were forced to return to the shore. When
it was light enough to see the vessel,
the safety line discharged from the
Lyle gun, was twice thrown across the
jibboom of the vessel; but as no attempt
was made by those on board to get the
line, it was hauled in by the surfmen,
| and each time it parted. Two more
efforts to shoot the line over the wreck
proved unsuccessful, owing to a strong
adverse wind and the frozen condition
OF the line, which caused it to part be-
fore it reached the destined point. Had
the line been thrown full across the ves-
sci, it would have availed naught, as
MIR. Cobb stated that they were toe be-
numbed with cold to have hauled it on
board, even if it had been placed in
their hands.
Seeing then that the only hope of
saving the imperiled men lay in reach
| ing them with the surf-boat, Keeper
Kitchens and his crew, as soon as the
ebbing tide allowed them to launch, set
out through the storm and the sea,
which was running half mast high, to
| the rescue of the nine men Give of the
schooner's and four of the Cobb Wreck
ing Company who had been left on the
stranded vessel, and who could now be
seen lashed to the rigging.
Keeper Kitchens and his men, though
they had been out on the beach all night
! ineethe terrible storm without fire or
! food, drenched to the skin from their
| first effort to board the vessel, and
keeping their feet from freezing only by
wading in the salt water of the sea, yet
rushed with alacrity to their duty. The
boat was launched and started on its
perilous journey, but the current was SO
! strong that the men were cut to leeward
and the boat forced inshore. Launch
ing the boat again, they got far enough
out TO reach the line, which was fast on
board the wreck, but the sea was run
ming so high that it was snatched from
the hands of the men who held it, and
again they were driven ashore. An
other powerful effort was made to reach
the wreck, and this time they succeeded.
One of the men on the wreck, Ed
ward Hunter, of Maine, the steward of
the schooner, who refused to g up in
the rigging, had been washed over
board and lost about daybreak. The
remaining eight men were carried
ashore at time-dreadfully be-
numbed by their long exposure to the
cold. Richard Gordon, member of
the Cobb wrecking crew, died from the
effects of exposure just about the time
he reached the shore. Onac9ck VW-
QI72lGn.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


SING LUM, Chinese murderer un-
der sentence OF death in San Francisco. CAL,
got ahead OF the hangman on the I'd by COM
mitting suicide.
HANK Monk, the Nevada stage driver,
has gone to Join Horace Greeley, who gave
him national reputation as dare devil on
the mountain slopes.
WILLIAM SMITH was fatally shot the
other evening at Elgin, H., by George Pam
ton, son OF a Frss Methodist clcrgyrnaa. :
The French Senate has passed bill
organizing French jurisdiction in Tunls.
THE election of the new Archbishop
OF Canterbury has been formally confirmed
The Dunlap Elevator at Albany, N /.
Y. was DESTROYED by fire few days ago.
Three men were killed by falling walls
THERE was still twenty-one feet of
water in the Braidwood (Ili.) mine on the
4th, but it was hoped it would be pumped
out in a week.
6. 0. KALB has resigned the Secre-
! taryship of the ST. Louis (Mo.) Fair Asso-
citation, having held the position twenty
seven years.
The cantonal Government at Berne.
Switzerland, has complained of irregular
action of DIR. Cramer. United States Charge
d'Affaires.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, has adopted
the new charter By very small majority.
TELEGRAMs announced on the 4th
hat the Spanish authorities were arresting
members of the Black Hand Society by
wholesale.
THE New York Herald fund for the
relief of the Ohio flood sufferers had reached
nearly $4,000 on the 4th.
PHAREs CASSIDY died on the 4th at
Lebanon, Pa, at the remarkable age Of 102
| years.
ONE of the Texas train robbers was
arraigned at Dallas on the Sd.
AN expedition has sailed from New
York for the Marquesas Islands to observe
the eclipse of the sun May 6.
THE death of Governor Alexander III.
Stephens, OF Georgia, occurred at three
O'Clock on the morning of the 4th.
1. HARVEY n. FOLLANSBEE, clerk of the
Superintendent of the Boston (Mass.) Po-
bezzled some $40, 900 and has been held for
trial. c. D. Whitman, late clerk in the AL
ALBANIA State Audi or's office, is also in
trouble, having been arrested on charge
Of embezzling about $1,000 Of that State IS
funds.
A GREAT portion of the turnpike be-
tween Shenandoah and Pottsvile, Pa, caved
in the other day. Further cavings were ap-
pretended.
Two Touring mills in Red Wing,
| Mimi, owned by the Red Wing Mill Com
pany, were totally DESTROYED by fire few
days ago. The mills had combined ca
pacity of 900 barrels day, and employed
sixty workmen. Loss, 100000. Insurance,
100000.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the fund for the
erection Of an Exposition building at St.
Louis, Mo-, had reached S5i0,025 on the 5th.
CHARLES I. BOYLE, agent at Boston,
Mass, for Burlington (Iowa) grain firm,
confessed to appropriating $1,000 Of his EN-
ployers' money and has been arrested.
JEALOUSY caused Robert Magee, OF
Buffalo, N. Y, 10 shoot his wife through
the eye the other day and put ball in his
own forehead.
A MEXICAN woman Ill years OF age
died a few days ago at New Laredo.
DURING the session ended on the 4th
| Congress passed $50 bills.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

L; the star-route trial at Washington,
D. c., recently, Merrick denounced lnger-
sOl as a puppy, and in return was called a
dirty dog. Both subsequently apologized
tOthe Court.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

Soap bubbles can be blown to a size
of two feet in diameter and kept two
days by using preparation OF oleate Of
soda and glycerine. IN. J. San.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

REPORTS from the Upper Missouri
and Mississippi Rivers on the 9th indicate d
that the ice was still solid, but liable to be
lifted ont at almost any time.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

THERE were 272 business failures in
,bo United States and Canada during the
seven days ended on the I'd, an increase OF
forty.two over the previous seven days.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

r. poard of Directors OF the st.
nc ma Fair Association have appro-
LOUIS S ,@y "a oo) for premiums for their next
exposition
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

AsECRET revolutionary society, with
suembership of six thousand, was said to
have been discovered in the North of Eng
land recently, the members being well sup.
Piled with fire arms.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

rss BoYNroN, President OF the
'AA"c san.te. has been sworn in as Gov
Georgia o' snrceed the late Governor Ste
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

D.N. SPEER, Treasurer of Georgia,
has recently sold 900 OF United States
bonds for his State and placed the proceeds,
exceeding $1SO,O00, in bank to reduce the
debt Of the State.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

THE bond of ex-Treasurer POLK, OF
r,anos.ee having been reduced to $4,000,
has has boan enabled to give bail and has
bosn released from custody.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

The suffering at the flood-swept city
Of Shawnee own, H., was increasing on the
ID. Only thirty houses were habitabe and
malaral fevers and other sickness were
irightfully prevalent.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10
NEWS and NOTES.
f, Summary of Important Events.

the inf f,rmer, has been ex-
OA", ..ar the Dublin (Ireland) Town
pelled nOD'
rnnncil.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

r,s,cy Hunt and party, including
L'., 1,,, and other survivors Of the jean
bal.'',' h,re arrived at St. Petersburg, Rus
si, all in good health.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

EVIDENCE of the connection of P. j.
Sheridan, of New York, and Frank Byrne,
arrested in Paris, France, the other day,
with the Phoenix Park assassinations was
said to be in the possession of the British
pnlio
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

rnr resignation of General Won
lhh nr'7.siau Minister Of War, has
heep accepted. -
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

THE relief committee at Cincinnati,
o., had received $l56, 900 to recent date,
and the municipal appropriation Of 900
would probably be returned to the Treasury.
The losses at Lawrenceburg, Ind, had
been carefully computed at $433, 900.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

The last foot of land at Arkansas
City, Ark, had disappeared under water
on The 1St Disastrous crevasses were re-
ported, though planteas were still hopeful
that the overflow would not be of great ex-
lent. At Cairo the danger was thought to
be over.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

A BAD break occurred in the levee
below Helena, Ark, on the 5th, and several
plantations were quickly flooded. 1t was
thought there would be much loss of prop
erly and stock. and probably some loss Of
lne 10 those who were far back in the bot
'O'ilS ana were not yet aware Of the break.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

t.r ANoIHER dreadful steamboat disas-
steamoS ieu on the 4ih in the sinking of the
abora II fazoo Valley, thirty-fiv miles
person. " 1 orleans, La, by which eight
Other. iosl their lives and about fifteen
lost w we're missing. Those known to be
passsnn e: Mrs. c. T. Lewis, Of Chicago, a
Chris 7e' Lee Carpenter, second clerk:
herns, first maze; an infant child of
ter. ooIy Tooley, pilot; John France, carpen-
sem eO'orea chambermaid and colored pas !.
sisws,a aaiies not known; Dan Lightner,
Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-10

AT Helena, Ark, on the I'd they were
expecting greater flood than that of last
!e"I' "hlch was the greatest ever known.
palage IN Southeast Missouri it was said
%ouio exceed that Of last year. the water
peing loot higher than then. At Vicks-
puis a more hopeful view was taken of the
prospect.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-01
wnmowsa Friend.

Having been troubled for many years with kidney
disease, with severe pains in my back and limbs-my
ankles were at times very badly swollen-I was advised
to go to the hospital for treatment, which l did on the
advice of a friend. but found no relief. at least only of a
temporary nature, and 1 had given up all hope of a cure
until my husband was advised to use Hunts Remedy by
q friend that had used it and been cured of a severe case
of dropsy and kidney trouble. l procured a bottle, and
had not used one-half of the bottle before l began to be
letter, NO pain in the back, and the swelling OF my
limbs commenced to go down, and my appetite was
much better, for l had become SO bad that all l ate dis
tresssd me very much. 1t was really dyspepsia. COM
bined with the other troubles, and l have used four
bottles, and am able to do my work and attend to
household duties, which before had been a burden to
me. And / can only thank Hunts Remedy for the
health and happiness which l now enjoy, and esteem 1t
a great privilege and duty to give you this letter IN
behalf of my many suffering lady friencs IN Boston ana
the country; and can only say in conclusion thatl If you
once try it you will be convinced, as l was, even against
my own will, that Hunts Remedy is indeed a woman's
friend. You are at liberty to use this for their Denent.
if you 30 choose. Respectfully yours.
IRIS WIN. GRAY,
Hotel Goldsmith. 14l6 fremont Street. Boston.
AnrIl 25- 1873.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-01
oriental fortunes.

Implement, horrible as it is, is not
the cruelest punishment inflicted in
Oriental countries. Particularly the
Chinese and the inhabitants of AMMAN,
Cochin China and Siam seem to have
exhausted all their powers OF inyen-
ton in devising new and insufferable
torments for criminals or persons who
had incurred the hatred of the rulers
AZ those countries. In China rebels
and traitors are literally cut into a
thousand pieces. The executioner
who is to carry out this dreadful SEN
tence fastens the prisoner, who is tied
hand and foot, with a chain TO a post,
and makes an incision owe the fore
head of his victim. He pulls the skin
Of the forehead over the eyes OF the
sufferer, SO that he can no longer see.
A large basket with small knives is
now placed beside the exe%cutioner,
who shakes them up several tlliles ~
takes them up, one by one.
On each knife is written the name
Of d part Of the human body which the
6end who takes the instrument OF tor
ture from the basket proceeds TO Lace
rate slowly. Little pieces Of flesh and
skin are cut from the struggling wretch,
and when the executioner has cut and
slashed one part, in his opinion, sufii-
GENTLY, he takes another knife frem
the basket and proceeds as before, un-
till at last all the knives have been
taken from the basket. But while the
victim suffers horrible sorments the
execntioner operates on him with such
skin that no vital parts are touched,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-01

and death does not come to the relief
OF the sufferer. And when all the
numbers of this terrible lottery of
knives are drawn, the bleeding body
OF the unfortunate man is thrown to
ravenous dogs, who, more merciful
than their masters, Don put an end to
the agonies of the doomed man.
Another punishment said to have
been inflicted in China on great crimi-
nails consisted in being brushed to
death. The instrument employed in
this torture was a wire brush, with
which the executioner brushed, OF
rather scraped, off the flesh of the cul-
prit, a proceeding which naturally con-
sumed agreat deal of time. The tor
mentor with consummate skill, brush
ed around all the great veins and ar
teries, to prevent the victim from
bleeding to death, and kept him alive
for a long time. In Siam the death
penalty was inflicted on rebels by
having them trampled to death by ele-
plants. Others had a small ~cocoanut
forced into their mouth, SO that they
had to starve. Other horrible punish
ments have been inflicted by Oriental
despots, and many Of them have taken
particular pains to vary the pains,
changing the mode of their torment
with every sufferer. Butthe above in
stances will suffice to show what cruel
ties are practiced in those countries.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-01
A Pocket Companion.

DIR. C. D. Barham, Southampton Co.,
Va, endorsed it. When a small thing
full of virtue and speedy cure, can in
sure against sudden death and violent
pains, It ought to be carried about the
person as a pocket companion. DR..
Worthington's Cholera and Diarrhea
Medicine is recommended by eminent
physicians, statesmen and ministers
as the best and surest cure for all kinds
of stomach and bowel complaints
Price 25 and so cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-01
would again revolutionize the mann
facture of small arms.

The commissioners charged with ex-
aiming recruits for the French army
were compelled to reject a lad two
years ago for the reason that he was
a fraction of an inch under the pre-
scribed hight. He was SO young. how
ever, that there was every reason to
suppose that he would grow, and he
was marked as a likely candidate for
the next year. Last year, accordingly,
ne was measured again, but instead of
increasing in statue, the commits
sloners were amazed to find that he
mad grown perceptibly shorter. They
decided to give him one more chance,
and he has just been examined again,
only to be finally rejected, since it ap-
peared that his head is steadily sinking
toward his boots. During the two
years his hight has decreased one
twentieth of an inch.