The National tribune., 1883-02-15

the payment of sums greatly in excess of the
fine imposed by law for non attendance. The
profits of this business Commissioner of Jurors
Caulfeid puts at 100000 year.
dispatch from Seattle, W. T., says the
steamer Gem left that port on Friday morning
with hay and other freight for Port Gamble,
Seahre, and Union City. When five miles out
from Port Madison, fire was discovered in the
hay and the boat was headed for the shore.
After lashing the wheel lifeb0at was got into
the water, but in three minutes got adrift.
/ The Chinese cook and two deck hands were
drowned, as well as T. C. Vickery, a teacher at
| the Skokomish Indian reservation, and his wife
! by jumping into the water. Capt. Williamson
| cast anchor and kept the crafts head TO the
/ wind, keeping the bow free from fire. Those
on board were taken off by boats from the
| shore.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark, says
/ When the Creek orphan money was distributed
/ among the tribe, one of the Euchees band re-
ceived $1,000. The mans good luck drove him
crazy, and the following morning before
| daylight he shot two of his companions, kigia
| Brown and John Buck, through the head while
| they were sleeping. In the attempt to capture
! the lunatic Jim Barrett was mortally wounded.
! The Indian then took shelter under a wagon
and defended himself with firearms. 1t being
/ impossible to capture him, he was killed by q
! vOlley
! situated midway between Minneapolis and st.
Paul. Mimi, built in 1875 at q cost of 100000,
! and owned by the Methodist Episcopal Church
/ Society Of the State, has been destroyed
/ by fire. The school of 100 pupils wasin session
/ at the time, but all escaped. The library
( was saved, but the school furniture was burned.
The total loss is $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The cause of the fire is supposed to have beena
a defective flue.
A mail robbery occurred at the Union Depot
IN Cedar Rapids, Iowa. on Thursday night.
| The east-bOund train being late, the mail was
carried into the baggage-room, and while there
the mail-pouch was ripped open and l40 regis
| tered letters were taken out. One letter con-
tanned 81 600 bill and 500 bill, the amount of
the postmaster's monthly remittance to the De-
partment. There is no clue to the robbers
Henry Smith, colored man, in Paola, Kan
sas, assaulted colored girl, aged 9 years, and
left her in the road insensible. When found,
her arms and legs wero frozen. Smith was ar
rested, and a mob of cOlored men attempted to
take him from the jail. In the assault at the
Jail colored man was killed. Subsequently
the jail was broken into, and Smith was found
to have committed suicide.
The headquarters of the Department of the |
Missouri at Leavenworth has received official |
notice of the capture of Captain Payne and
party south of the Cimarron River by Lieuten- |
ant Stevens. The party were on their way to |
Oklahoma, with 100 wagons. Captain Carroll, |
commanding the troops in the Oklahoma coun-
try, will take the entire party to Fort Reno
A passenger train on the Wabash, St Louis
and Pacific Railroad was thrown from the /
track by broken rail near Antwerp Ind, on |
Sunday, and the following are the injured: J. |
w. Bowers, seriously; j. Z. eager, route agent |
of the American Express Lewis Lane and L. |
" Shadon, slightly. All are of Toledo.
On the sth inst. two robbers broke into the |
house of VIM McGregor, a farmer of Rockford, !
ILL.,. shot him and his ten-year-old daughter, |
gagged his wife, and robbed them of a small |
sum of money. McGregor and his daughter are |
not expected to live.
A band of Hungarian gypsies in camp near
New Brunswick, \. j., lost baby and fed the |
body to their trained bears. The mother of |
the child gave it up to the captain of the band |
after its death for red shawl. The bones have |
been found.
While officiating at a marriage service at La |
Sale, H., Rev. Geo. +. Bronson, pastor of a |
Congregational church at that place, fell dead |
at the feet of the couple whom he was marry |
ing just as he pronounced them husband and |
wife
POLITICAL.
In common pleas court, No. g. of Philadel- |
phia, on the 9th inst, Judge Ludlow, for him |
self and Judge Fin1etter, decided that the city |
councils had no right to ill the vacancy in the |
city cOntrollership, and therefore that Mr. VIM. |
NJ. Taggart had no title TO the Office. Judge |
Yerks was not prepared with an opinion but /
he stated brify that so far as he had given the |
subject attention he was led TO believe that the |
councils should fill the vacancy. Judgment |
was then entered in favor OF the Common
wealth, and counsel for, Dir. Taggart proceeded |
at once to prepare writ of error to the Su- /
preme Court.
Gov. Pattison sent the nomination of S.
Davis Page, TO be comptroller of the CITY of |
Philadelphia, to the Pennsylvania Senate, and |
after some discussion it was confirmed. The |
argument on the application of the attorney
general for writ of quo warranto against Mr.. |
Taggart who was elected to the office by the |
city council, was heard by three of the Phila-
deIphia judges, who granted the writ.
Governor Butler recently instructed the war
den of the Massachusetts State prison TO gather
the prisoners IN the chapel and inform them
that they would be permitted to send sealed
communications to the Governor. The con-
victs received the notification with cheers for
Governor Butler and groans for the warden
Already over seventy letters have been sent the
Governor.
Governor Bate has sent a message to the
Tennessee Legislature justifying the policy of
scaling the State debt, and proposing plan of
settlement with the bondholdeTs which in
wolves Inc exchange OF the " contingent" |
bonds for the new three per cent bonds at fifty
cents on the dollar.
Governor Patterson, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the concurrent resolutions Of the State
Legislature requesting the Senators from Penn
syivania TO vote for the passage of the $40 bill
The lower house of the Illinois Legislature
on Friday passed q resolution asking Congress |
to pension veterans Of the Texan aud Black
Hawk wars, Jefferson Davis excepted.
Personal.
Major-Gen. George Webb Morrell died at
CaFborough, n. Y, on Sunday.
The Princess Louise is expected to return to
Ottawa from Bermuda on March H.
Mr.. Charles r. Thorne, Jr the tor, died in
New York Saturday, aged 43 years.
Ex-Gov. Edwin d. Morgan is lying danger
ously III at his residence in New York. His
family are very anxious as to the result.
The remains of Col John Howard Payne
have been forwarded to the United States b.
the French steamer Burgundia, expected to
arrive at New York about Feb 10.
The correspondent Of the Baltimore SIN at
Rome writes TO his paper that " Nile Ida Mo-
reno" who is the charming Ada Myers, of
Baltimore is TO appear az Leghorn in February
and give series Of Lucia representations.
She gets the highest salary ever given TO an