The Monitor., 1885-01-16

Notice has been given in both houses of
the Michigan Legislature of a proposed Pro-
hbition amendment to the State Constitu-
ton.
p. I. Barnum offers General Grant
5000 600 for the privilege of exhibiting
to the public the Generals relies of all
nations.
\ movement is on foot to celebrate the
centennial of the adoption of the constitu-
ton of the United States, on the nth of
September, 1887, in Philadelphia.
Schuyler Colfax, ex-Vice President of
the United States, dropped dead in the
railroad depot at Mankato, Illinois, on
Tuesday. He was in the 62d year of his
age.
A human skull, to which was attached a
paper tag inscribed GA T. Stewart" was
found last week i'll the area of private
house in Hoboken. 1t was sent to the
Morgue.
DR.. Carver began his effort to break
sixty thousand pieces of coal in six days
at noon in New Haven on Sunday. He
must average five hundred hits an hour
to accomplish it.
There was warm discussion in the
United States Senate, Monday upon the
question. ''Is jeff Davis a traitor?" All
the Union men insisted that he was while
the Southern Senators insisted that Jeff
was patriot who was still honored by
millions
Sundays are becoming the popular days
for the people Of New Orleans, who have
not the week day leisure to visit the Ex-
position. Although a few exhibits are
covered with tarpaulins and the machinery
is not allowed to work, there are attrac-
tions sufficient to make the visit a profit
able one.
An attempt was made in O'Donovan
Rossas shop i'll New York on Friday after
noon to assassinate Captain Thomas Phe-
Ian, Superintendent of the Kansas City
Workhouse and an Irish Nationalist. lie
was stabbed eleven times. The assault
was made because Phelan is accused of re-
yealng secrets of the Irish Invincibles.
The profits to Moody and Sankey on the
sale of their revival hymn books are said
to have reached over a half million of dol
lars. No other publications in that field
have approached these in popularity. The
proceeds are divided equally between the
evangelists. Moody has endowed school
with part of his share. and it is now re-
ported that Sankey is about to do some
thing handsomely philanthropic.
George NJ Gait, aged II years. Il pupil
of the military school at Chester, Penna.
who was home for the holidays commit
ed suicide at Sterling, Illinois. a few days
ago, by taking rat posion, because he had
been reprimanded by his parents He
swallowed the poison at a livery stable
where friend of his named Jacob Rhein-
haadt, aged 21, was employed. RheiE-
hardt was so affected by the death of Gait
that he, too, committed suicide by taking
some of the poison which the other had
| left
a Connecticut paper says: ''E. A.
Locke, of Waterbury watch fame, in 1869,
invented and patented the device by which
the fraudulent use of revenue stamps on
whisky barrels is prevented. and which
saves the Government millions. lie spent
ten years and $22, 900 trying to get the Gov
| ernment to adopt his stamp. The whisky
ring was exposed, and General Bristow
proceeded to use Mr.. Locke's stamp, stat
ing that it was the only way of protecting
the Government. The Government, how
ever, ia lied to make any compensation to
the inventor. The Supreme Court has just
decided the improvement was not an inven-
ton, yet Locke still holds patent
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