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The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19
Friday, January II.

SENATE Mr.. Van Wyck, from the com
mittee on improvement of the Mississippi
river, submitted a joint resolution appro.
p,iating s $1,000 600, to continu g the improve
ments begun by the Mississippi river i'm
proyement commission. After debate it was
amended to give it in the form of q bill,
which passed.
Bills were introduced for postal savings
banks and q medical university at Washing.
ton under the auspices OF the government.
Senator Cnllom. of Illinois, made his
maiden speech. speaking in support of his
bill reorgabizing the legislative power of
Utah. He vigorously assalled Mormonism.
Mr.. CulIom argued that while the Ed.
munds commission bill had done some
good, it was entirely Inadequate, and .
more radical policy is needed ii the evil is
to be eradicated. If the Mormon question
is not soon settled, he predicted that war
would result.
Senator Brown, on the other hand, op-
posed the measures, and declared that it
land all recent legislation of congress regard
ing Utah affairs was unconstitutional. Con-
gress had no right to destroy territorial gov
eminent. and to concede the power would
be an exceedingly dangerous precedent,
The Christian church, he claimed, was the
true medium to deal with the Mormon
question. II the millions sent every year
tor the conversion Of polygamists in far od
India aud China were applied te Utah, the
result would 10 be apparent.
Senator Garland closed the discussion fer
the day by comparing the Edmunds bill to
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The Crim,na, Record.

W. E. Finch postmaster at Ellendale, OAK,
was arrested by a special inspector on the
charge Of embez cement. He waived exam.
ination before the United States commits.
si0ner and gave bail in 81, 900. Ii is report.
ed that he admitted the charge and that
his young and beautiful wife created quite
a sensation ut the time of his arrest, by i'm.
Plcring the inspector on her knees, not ia
prefer charges against her husband.
Amanda Hall ian assumed nanae), sem
fenced to the workhouse in Dayton. Ohio,
last month, has been taken to her home by
Councilman Lincoln of Pittsburg. She is
the daughter Of gentleman who was gov.
erDor OF Ohio, q member Of the United
States house of representatives and senate,
and a ~distinguishe' officer in the late war,
whose death was fastened by the wayward
course of his daughter. One of her sisters
is the wife Of a Pittsburg millionaire.
At an inquest on the body of Jacob H.
Rothchild who shot himself at his resi-.
dence in Brooklyn on the 10Th inst, a
brother of the deceased testified that Jus,
before the deed Jacob was very violent in
his actions, claiming to be q martyr and
calling himsalf Christ. The jury's verdict
was suicide while temporarily insane.
Thomas Mast, the cartoonist, wi IL insti
tute a suit sgaint the Hampers. As the case
o stands, Mr.. Mast is receiving $40, 600 a
year from the Harpers, on condition that
he will draw q cartoon for them every week,
and work for no other periodical. He holds
that the non-publication of his vork is q
great injury to him.
Nathan Hills and wife and Lamar Rob.
inson have been arrested at Big Rapids.
Mich, IN the act of making counterfeit sill.
yer coin. All the tools. dies, ETC., were can.
tured, with bogus dollars, Canadian guar.
tiers and new nickels:
In a drunken carouse near Omaha Will
liam Smell killed a soiled dove named Jes.
sic Wright.
Bismarck's son Herbert is transferred
from the London to the st. Petersburg en-
bassy.
Hiram Caldwell was convicted of murder
ing Edward Tampa at Red Wing.
j. M. Lee, a carpenter of Minneapolis, su
icided on the 18th.
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How the Fast Powder Train Ran
Toward Antietam Ground

Otkl1tk
At the battle of Antietam Nc Clellan's
ammunition ran short. A train was dis.
patched from Baltimore via the North
IN Contra! Railway to Harrisburg.
thence via Cumberland Valley Railroad
to Hagerstown, Nd, which was within a
few miles of the front. The engineer of
this ammunition train had orders to run
to Hagerstown as quickly as his engine
would do it. Sounding a few quick
whistles and the train dashed through
the startled towns of the Cumberland
Valley, sweeping the surface of the
ground clear of leaves and dirt along the
track. 1t seemed to be travelling in a
whirl wind of dust and smoke. ] saw it
whirl chickens, which were close to the
track, around and dash them away as il
a cyclone had struck them. The train
reached Hagerstown in safety; where
the freight was quickly transferred to
army wagons, and soon the bullets
were ~s'tickling the seconds" and the
shells booming i'll Lees front.
The Rev. I. De Witt Talmage spoke
of this incident in one of his serm MS,
saving:
The ammunition at Antietam had
given out. A train went laundering
down toward the battlefield. 1t stoppe ed
not 1or any crossing; thew put down
brakes for no grade; they held up for no
peril; the wheels we're on fire with speed
as they dashed by. 1t the train did not
come RIP in time with the ammunition
the battle might be lost.
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Lively Senatorial sp.t.

Washington, Special. Saturday evening
the 18th g werdy encounter occurred
between Senators Logan and Sewell
near the senate restaurant. Sanator S.well
pleasantly greeted Logan, and remarked in
q Joking way he hoped ke would mo-. again
detain the senate with a three days. anti
Fitz John Porter speech, as the members
were pretty we'll informed oa the subject.
Senator Logan grew violently mad, and de-
clared that there were still many senators
who we're not properly informed on the
subject, and he thought he would again
make q long address in the Porter case. He
wound up with insulting language, saving
that no gentleman would have made such q
remark, and by asking Mr.. Sewell to at
tend to his vi business in the future Mr..
Sewell was overwhelmed with surprise for
. moment, but. recovering himself, he re.
torted in kind, asserted that no gentleman
could ave found an insult in his remark.
Both gentleman assumed an off .nsive stti
tude. and we're on the point OF assanltine each
other with their fists. when u numb.r OF
capitol employees rushed up and interiered.
The senators were induced to separate,
and an effort was made to hush the matter
up, but it leaked out in spite of pre.
' cautions.
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Monday, jan Mn,u IL.


sENATE.-Ssuator Anthoay was elected
president pro tenn, but declined w~hereupon
Senator Elmunds was reelected and sworn
in. A bill vas introduced repeating laws
granting a pension to e .soldiers without
proof of loyalsy.
The folio wing nominations were sent to
the senate: Myrus H. McCord, Wisconsin,.
register OF land office Wausau, Wis.
Postmasters: Edward 8. Renne, Marsh.
field, Wis; II ebert II. Johnson, Waussu.
Wis; Henry 81. McGraw, Whitewater, Wis:
VIM. r. Delap, Boscobel, Wis; David o..
WEIGH, Baraboo, Wis; Seth Smith. Man.
ming, Iowa; Elias Skinner, Manson, Iowa.
HoUsE.-Bllls were introduced regulating
transportation by railroads and preventing
discrimination; recognizing infantry regi-
ments; establishing a department of com.
merct; for q per cent. forty.year bonds; put
ting sugar, molasses, wood pulp. lumber
and salt on the tree list; abolisLing the
postage on newspapers; repeating
the civil service act; for bridges across the
Missouri at Omaha and the Mississippi at
81. Paul; against Importation OF foreign
labor; to retire trade dollars; improving the
lower Mississippi and providing Tor the re-
demption OF national bank circulation.
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d is in much trouble arising
Intervention with the affairs of
The has been from a similar
h other nations during a large
f her history. The lombard
alexandria was justified at home
lea that it was necessary to save
ife and property and it was
as soon as these ends were &C.
ed, British forces would be
wn from the country. But now
! is called on to fight the false
land save the Khedive from de-
L This necessity seems as ur-
the first, and cannot be evaded.
lch better the United States are
&. and will continue, so long az
~ observe the farewell address
ington, and avoid all entangline
alliances, The youth of this
must be taught to observe and
, last words of Washington,
stamp out any lingo states.
counsels are in an opposite
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the prescription of corn plaster for a case
of consumption, but pointed out that the
supreme court has laid down the doctrine
that people cannot shelter themselves from
the consequences of crime byple adingthe re-
quirements of religion. The remainder OF
the new rules we're adopted.
Combinations
Consuls.Frank H: Mason. Msrseilles;
ford, Basic; Bolivar J, Pridger, Piedras
Negras.
Samuel w. Ferguson, of Mississippi,a
member of the Mississippi river commits.
sion, vice James B. Esis. resigned.
Registers of Land OfRces-Nathaniel
Clark, Raed City, Mich; William 81.
Brown, Larned. Kan; Hxrwell z. My,on,
Garden City, Kan; Alonzo L. Patcher,,
Ooerlin, Kan.
Andrew J. Harrington, receiver of public
moneys, Garden City, Kan.
Adj,urned till Monday.
HoUsE.-Not j.. Sc, sion.
The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19
TAKING EXERCISE.

An Example for Public Mcn--How
John Quincy Adams Did.
From the New York Tribune.
The subject of exercise bv the Chief
Magistrate makes timely the personal
confession Of John Quincy Adams on this
subject. He was aswimmer. Two days
after he entered his eigh:ieth year he
recorded: III rose this morning with the
dawn, and, drawn by an irresistible i'm
pulse, walked over the lower Tibet
bridge to my OLD bathing spot on
t tpS a!a's'n behind Gn inc the f0'G Naval
Observatory Hill at what is called
Braddock's Rockl. "And there. under
the shelter Of a nigh bluff yet remaining,
m I R "a c snd s os9. dr ,s 3 five %ysx t. a tsa
walked home. AS l went down the
hill to the edge of the water I found
three young men, neither of whom |
knew, already in the river, and heard
one Of them say: There is John Quincy
Adams They had their clothes at one
of my old standard rocks, but without
noticing or disturbing them l found an
other rock a few rods higher toward the
Potomac bridge where l left my clothes.
The tide was low and the time not CON
venient for entering the river. but i sue
ceeded i'll obtaining the bath for which l
painted. The time consumed was as in
former days, about one hour and half
half an hour going to the river, half an
hour to battle swim and dress, and haitian
hour..to return. The thermometer was at
eighty-four.n The next day but one he
records: "Third bath and swim in the
Potomac at 5 o'clock this morning, thre-
miometer seventy-four. and a brisk
breeze, so that when l came out 1 shiv-
cred while dressing at my old rock, but
warmed in walking home, and suffered
no after Inconvenience" This inde-
ftatigable swimmer also used q horse
hair str p and mitten daily in body bath
ing for three years. One day he took a
walk with the celebrated Dr.. Parkham
lthe man murdered by WebsterO in
Botton inst after fierce ablution, and
tell in a paralytic stroke.
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Commercial.

Chicago: Wheat. No. 2spring, ela@s1ac
No. 8 spring, 75@suc; No 2 red winter
so@9' /, Corn, cssh, 5s3@5l4'. Oats
casu, s2s@325c. Rye. 5sc. Barlev, 5ee
Flaxseeu. $1.41. Pork, $14. 5S ali ga
Lard, cash, s8.S @a.85. Bulk meas, sheui.
ders, $685.; short ribs, $7.75; do clear, So.
Milwaukee, Wheat, No. 2, spot, elsc.
No. l, 6l3c; No. 2. 5s}c. Barley. No )
osta. Provisions. mess pork, $l4. SIS. Lard.
R E"1@ steam, $s.s51 svest-pickled hams
Minneapolis. Wheat. No. l hard. Sac.
No. 2, ,s5c: Corn. 5 @53o. Oats. No.. >,
SIC. Rye 47@48c. Barley, No. 8 35G55 >
8fa'' sl.@l2 per ton. Shorts, $ls@I4.
G.cn s5gs or Wild; ss5o@lo tor timo.uy.
st. Paul. Wheat, Ne. 1 hard, s7c:
No. 2, s0@s3c. Corn, No. 2, Sic. O u.s.
NO. z mixea, 30c. Barley, No. {, SOC. RYE
Duluth. Wheat, No. 1 hard, 81; No. 2
"eANt SSSs
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'ormon question win probably

'ormon question will probably
e attention Of Congress this
The Edmund bill put a stigma
ny by DISTINGUISHING practical
9, and in time, would doubt
+e the evil. tut it is too slow
lilies in Utah or the rest of
I'd much seve,er, and in
nconstitu ional remedies
Senator Edmunds has
/ that when the law was
was supposed that some
would be necessary. He
a supplemental law in
ght of female suffrage shall
l in Utah. 1t is a notable
mon women, whether the
ygamists, or exclusive wives,
olygamy. and it is thought
using women will help things.
all it is doubtful whether poly.
be suppressed. 1t is a relig-
}gma, and the Mormons have
l\t they can suffer and die for a
The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19
FORTY. EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
Tuesday, January 8.


SENATE.-sectetary Lincoln sent to the
senate a list Of the o Ulcers Of the army 1t
present on detached service. The total Of
abseatees from their regiments foots up 34l.
Of these forty. four are at West Point, and
htty.seven on sick leave. Many OF them
are on staff duty.
The new rules were discussed. A special
message was received from the president
ON M'saissiT pi river Improvement.
Provision should be made not only at once.
he says, but sufficiently for the undertaking.
The Hennepin canal is also inc uded in the
recommendation, but not in the positive
spirit with which the other scheme is trea1ed
Commerce, including, first of all, the i'm.
portant transit of wheat from the upper
valley. and cotton from the lower va ley, is
the capital argument advanced, and really
the only one necessary.
The following nominations were con.
hrmed:
Postmasters-Lewis g. worthington, Lit.
tie Fla Is, MIMI; d. Kenper, Perham,
MINI.
den, Indiana, Wa la Wasfa, Wash; Ar.
thur j. Shaw, Lewiston, Idaho; Charles F.
Gardne SACRAMENTO, CAL; 7. ]. Sherwood.
Marysville, Cal.
Registers land ofice-Jeremiah D. Hyde,
y1saila, Gal; JONI U. Bradley, Marysv1lle,
CAL; David Walker, Bodie, Cal.
The senate discussed the new rules at
great length.
HoUsE-Bills and resolutions re intro
duced app priating, Immediately, 81 6o0,-
700 for Mississippi river Improvements; put
ting salt wood, lumber and other articles
on the free list; limiting the arount of pub.
lie land to be acquired by aliens; to pur-
chase trade dollars with fractional coins;tor
free ship material, and authorizing
the purchase Of fo5eign:built ships by clti-
importat On of foreign labor; reducing the
salari' q Of heads Of departments; for a pub.
lie building at La Crosse; or the admission
of the state of Was ington; extending the
money order sys'em to the state of all
counties having 1000 inhabitants. Several
constitutional amendments were proposed.
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Wednesday,, January 9.

SENATE.-In the senate the same discus
sion about the rules was continued. Mr.
Frye threw some spice into the dull mon
otony of the dull proceedings, by an at
tack up n the commerce committee, which
he said should have something better to do
than spending its time in distributing a
BRs s4Bes PROMOTION %gssy to Of es siZs' i sns
gressioual district. He declared that the
shipping of the country demanded some at.
te,ttion which had declined since 1861.
This s snator Vest took to be a ref -ction up.
on the confederancy, and was nettled to q
characteristic speech. Senator Mcmillan de-
tended the commerce committee
opinion in regard to such dues and it was
With regard to the york of the committee
on commerce. MI. NJ MILAN said that dur
ing the last congress it made eighty reports
on a greet variety of subjects. The n,er-
chant marine had not been neglected. With
regard to the river aud harbor bill, he
thought it n of the most useful an bene.
fetal bills that congress has to deal with,
ant criticisms made on river and harbo,
bills would apply to other bills also. Tie
proposition which was to create an inter
national improvement c1Mmittee to take
shN Akt ~ II COllIUcEC6 COIl0
mittee over river and hnrbor bills, was not
acted upon when it came time to 20 into
executive session.
HousE.-From the very warm discussion
over tue preliminary disposition of the
presidents message and the report of the
Mississippi river commission in both houses
of congress 1t is evident that CONGRESS will
find some other work besides tinkering
with the tariff. The house devoted almost
the entire day to the question of reference.
Three committees claimed Jurisdiction on
this subject-R.agan's committee on com
merce. Willis committee on
rivers and harbors, and Kings
committee on Mississippi river i'm.
proyement and levees. The gist of the
fight lay in the supposition that the refer
ence to the King committee meant what
the president recommended-a separate
bill and a lioeral appropriation for the Mis-
sissippi. A warm contest of words Tor su.
prelnacy over this important measure was
the result. Over three hours of the session
were used up in disposing of the matter,
several roll calls being taken before it was
finally settled in favor of the committee on
rivers and harbors.
Resolutions we're adopted i%nstructing the
proper committees to Inquire into the ad-
visa bllity of retallatory legislation against
countries which exclude American meats.
A bill for the relief OF Gen. Fi,z John Por.
ter was reported. Thesecretary of the treas
ury asked for an appropriation of SIS, 600
for printing 81 and 81 treasury notes. Res.
olutlons OF respect to the memory OF the
late Herr Lasker of Germany were adopted.
The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19

Jew York Tribune says that who
,as followed the discussion of the
sunsets, however, must have real
by this time that, the limitations OF
ern science are narrow, and that
Il even scientific men do not like
owledge ignorance perhaps, yet
absolutely truthful answer that
ven to questions as to the ORR
Se phenomenon is: 81 don't
For that is the simple and OBJ
q We have ceased to believe
sunsets prognosticate war or
,e, or the death of great men,
'se or downfall of dynasties, but
no more than our ancestors
real cause of these occurrences.
,ntists suggest all manner of ex-
ms, but none Of them are more
Jectures, and some of them lack
Sort even of plausibility.
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General e W Goss1p.

M. Waterman & Co., grain dealers of San
Francisco have failed. The failure is due
t" the decline in charters and fall OF prices
of wheat for England, An assignment vas
made for the benefit OF creditors. A
Warmser is the assignee. The liabilities
are 81. 0O0, GOO, with 5000 available assets.
tional bank $340, 900. against which they
hold grain receigts and other col,aterals,
$240 900; Nevada bank, $500 o; Apgls-Cal.
itornia bank, Alfred Borel g. Co., ard Others
small amounts, mostly secured.
An unprecedented rise in the Elk river, q
tributary to the Ksnawha, has caused a loss
OF not less than 500, 200 in slaves, bark and
lumber. Among the losers are the Oxler
Stave company, thirteen valuable barees oil
slaves; the Boston Stave compony. $25, 900;
smaliev & shrekeld, saw mill, $10, COO. The
Kanawha is not yet broken mn.
s. G. ODER, representing the Marquis dc
Mores, the Montana Dressed Meat company
and the Refrigerator company. is in Du.
luth, and has made arrangements for the
immediate erection of q dock and ware.
house for the shipment and storage of mea,
in transit east. he purchased dock from
tage from he Western Lend association fol
$40 GOO, and has plready contracted for the
driving ofthe piles and the lumber necessary
for construction.
The Sullivan combination had a large es.
cort from the depot up to the city in Butte,
Montana. The champion, accompanied by
his wife, rode in q sleigh drawn by tour
white horses. A band Welcomed the pug.
lists, and the streets were throneed With
men and boys anxious to catch a glimpse
of the great knocker out.
Oliver Gibbs, Jr., secretary of the Mime.
sofa Horticultural society. will attend the
meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticul-
tursl society. at Kansas City, the 22d inst,
at which he will read q paper on The Cop.
ditions of Profitable Fiuit Culture in Min
| nesota.
The stockholders of the Montana Nation.
al bank at Helena. have elected the following
officers: President. c. A. Broadwater: vice
PRESIDENT, A. G.. Clarke; cashier E. Sharne.
assistant cashier, S. E. Atkins. Toe profits
OF the bank last year were $335, 081.
On the 2eth Of December the wind blew
at the rate of 1872 miles all hour at the sum.
NIT Of Mount Washington. The cold.sI
day IN the month there was the 22d, when
the thermometer was Al degrees below zero
o. ". Leland, the leading merchant O
Mesopotan,ia, O., has eloped with q,
unknown woman, leaving his famii,
and the Methodist church to mourn hi
loss.
The New York regents of the uniyersit,
have refused to charter a United States col
lege ofsurgery and medicine in New Yorl
city.
J Senator Dawes thinks there is not euoue]
The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19

At San Francisco in a suit known as
the great debris case of farmer versus
miner, Judge Sawyer, of the United
States circuit court, has rendered a de-
cision granting thu perpetual injunction
against hydraulic mining. The defend
ants we're permitted to apply to have
-Sahpe injunction dissolved or modified.
The case esved the agricultural pros
perity of che entire Sacramento valley
and this is the most important decision
yer rendered on the Pacific coast.
Farmers are holding joyous demonstra-
tions in different partsof the state.
Here is a case where a hiEh court rem
dered a decision i'll favor ofthe farmers
as against capital and it is not a matter
Of wonder that joyous demonstrations
are held in different parts of the state.
But the case goes to the supreme court
where the farmers may not fare so we'll.
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The late gold snap is everywhere
called UNPRECEDENTED, but it is not.
People areApt to forget and probably
it is.just q web to forget unpleasant ex-

The aggregate fire losses in the Uni
ted States for he year 1883 were slo3,-
100000. There were 1876 fires where
the losses exceeded 100000. The De-
cember fire record shows an aggregate
loss bf Sill 900 900. The fire loss of 1883
was'the heaviest. excepting in 1871 and
1872. the year of the Chicago and Bos-
top fire. 1t is classed by those who
have given the subject much ate ntion
tat at bt st 80 per cent. ofthls loss might
not have occurred but for carelessness
of one sort or another.
The Dickinson press., 1884-01-19

At a dinner of Boston merchants the
other day, Senator Moar yividly presen
ted the marvellous growth in business
and increase in wealta of the United
States. He said what few Americans
have ever thought that our accretions
we're such that "everv morning the sun
rises on our fifty millions OF people there
is transferred from income to capital
$2.50O,0O0, one-third of the amount laid
up by the entire people of the GLOBE
though this vast sum is only five cents a
head averaged among fifty millions.
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Personal News Paragraphs.

81. T. Rasin, a prominent Texan, reached
a hotel in Galveston Dec. 81. A few days
afterward hew 8 taken sick, an telegraphed
to Rockport for Miss Mary Bracht, from
whom he had been divorced seven years
ago. She came, and on New Years
evening they were married as he lay
in bed, and he died q few hours after
ward.
DR.. Henry A. Dubois, a well-known physi-
clan of sw Haven, died on the 18th of heart
cal d%escendent Of Jacqus Dubois, a French
Hugenot, who, tn 1876. came with the
Dutch settlers to Kingston. N. Y.
The will of the late will,sm ]. Wise, OF
Vincennees gives $50 each to eight nieces
ignoring thirty other relatives, and leaving
the balance of the estate, worth over $1O,-
600, 600 to three oher nieces.
Strickland Kneass, formerly chief ensi-
neer and surveyor of Philadelphia, and for
many years past assistant to the president
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
died Monday the 14Jh.
Rev. George W. Quimbly, D. D., died at
Augusta, Me-, aged seventy.three. He
was we'll known as an author, and at enc
time was editor of q paper called the Star of
the West, Cincinnati.
Lieut.. Col. John Coppinger, Eighteenth
infantry, now awaiting orders, is direc.e ed to
report to the commanding general, depart.
ment of Dakota, for assignment to a station.
James Donald Cameron Bradley is the
name to b given Senator Cameron's grand.
son at Washington now a week old.
David Davis is now president of the Iii
nos Bar association.