Barbour County index., 1884-02-01

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after the Office shall have devolved upo,
such person.
Four HUNDRED Winnebago Indians. nov
upon the reservation in Nebraska, ,petitioneC
the Secretary Of the Interior to allot then
lands in severalty, so as to acquire tn,
rights Of citizenship.
The Senate Judiciary Committee recentl,
reported favorably the bill providing that
hereafter a majority of the Justices of In,
Supreme Court of the United States shat
constitute a quorum thereof. No membe,
or the Court shall sit at hearing or partic
ipate in a decision of any cause upor
which he acted i'm a court below.
A BILL recently introduced into tn,
House by General Slocum, Of New York
limits the time OF presenting claim,
against the Government arising from tn,
late war with the exception Of pension
claims) to two years from its passage
Claims hereafter accruing must be pre-
sented within six years Of the event from
which they originated.
The jury In the case of young Mutt, who
killed Dukes, the slayer Of his father ai
Uniontown, Pa, returned a verdict of &C
quittal. He was tried at Pittsburgh.
SENATOR HALE lately introduced int
the Senate bill providing that all appoint
ments to the medical service under IN,
Government shall be made from graduate,
Of legally chartered medical institutions
without discrimination in favor of O,
against any school or theory Of medical
practice.
IssUE OF silver dollars for the week ended
January 10, ss,977; corresponding perioc
last year, 404, 900.
ALL the factories in Lowell, Mass, re
Gently gave notice of another reduction OF
ten per cent. in wages on February 1.
A CAIRO Egypt dispatch stated thai
seven hundred black recruits for tb,
Egyptian army had TO be driven by the
cavalry TO train waiting to transport
them to Suez.
CAPTAIN NELSON, who had a wife anG
three children in Maryland, went to Nor
thumberland County, Va, and became
very devoted TO a young woman, whose
brother learning that Nelson had a wife
interviewed him with a shotgun and de
posted load OF buckshot in his face, NOR.
tally wounding him.
DURING Sabbath School recently, the
Erskine Presbyterian Church at Toronto.
children were gotten out safely. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
HAIGH's woolen mill at Newburg, n. Y.
employing fifty hands, burned the other
evening. Loss, 10000; partially insured.
WILLIAM SCHMIDT, of st. Louis, was
found dead in bed at hotel near the Union
Depot in Kansas City the other morning.
EDWARD j. MEANEY, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
who for sixteen years had been Treasurer
OF the Moulders' Union Of North America.
is missing, together with $2O, 900 of Unior
funds.
the House Committee on Indian Affair,
has agreed to favorably report on the Wei
born bill, granting a right of way through
the Indian Territory to the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe Railroad.
REPORTS from Jamaica were that the cof
fee crop is expected TO be small, being al
most an entire failure in some parishes.
The proposition Of Representative Potter.
oil New York, to substitute two.per-cent
twenty'tve-year bonds for the bond,
now in existence, was discussed by the
House Committee on Banking and Cur.
rency recently. The committee decided tc
await the action of the Senate Finance
Committee before deciding on a bill to re
port to the House.
UPON the arrival Of train at Little
Rock, Ark, from Memphis, the other night.
on passenger coach was a dead man sit
ting bolt upright in his seat. He was
tramp, AMI was put aboard the train at
brinkley while in dying condition.
The Senate Committee on Public Land.
has decided to recommend the repeal of tn,
Timber Culture act.
A BLOCK Of business houses at Arkansas
City, Ark, was recently burned. Loss
over $4,000.
Il. w. MAHoNEY, a broker, was knocked
down and killed at Cairo, ILL.,, the otbe,
night, robbery being the object.
AT Gunnison, Colo, the other morning
Willis kissee, saloon-keeper, and Johr
Kellogg, quarreled over game of cards.
in which kissee was worsted. A short
time after Kissee met Kellogg on the street
and Immediately drew a pistol. Kellogs
attempted to wrench it from him, but
slipped and fell. Kissee fired, shootins
Kellogg through the body. Although NOR.
tally wounded Kellogg returned the fire
and killed Kissee Immediately.
Over one thousand tobacco factory EN-
ployes at Petersburg, Va, recently STRUCK
against a reduction of wages. The striker,
subsequently held a meeting and appointed
a committee to solicit aid to enable them tc
hold out until employers consented to pay
the former wnges.
LEWIS BoEDIcKER and wife, living on
farm near Fenton, Mo-, twenty miles from
st. Louis, were recently murdered in their
house by unknown parties.
THE notorious Joel A. Fowler, who ir
November murdered James f. Cole, was
recently taken from the officers by a moi
at Socorro, n. NJ, and hanged.