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the contrary. He and other Irish members ac-
cused the Orangemen of secretly carving arms
with the intent to murder Nasionalists
Mr.. Decobain, member for East Belfast and
deputy grand master for Ireland of the Orange
organization, said that he did not object to the
bill
Mr. Morley said the government had seriously
contemplated the extension of the operations of
the act to the whole of Ireland The authori-
ties he added, would exercise the powers in
trusted TO them impartially.
Sir Michael Hicks-B Beach, in supporting the
bill. said he considered it a strong argument
against the other propoeed measures for Ireland
Mr.. Thomas Power O'Connor said that Sir
Michael Hicks Beach had discreetly made no al
lusion to Lord Randolph Churchills speeches
Did Lord Randolph, he asked, express the opin-
ions of the Conservative party2 Loud cheers
Mr. Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett. Conservative
made lingo speech to the effect that he be-
longed to a militia regiment and was willing TO
assist the men of Ulster His remarks were
greeted with laughter.
The arms act passed the second reading by
vote of 303 to &c.
Mr. Labouchere and and a few other Radicals
voted with the Parnellite minority against the
arms act.
The government "whips" report that two
hundred and twenty Liberals are pledged to vote
for the home-rlue bill, with the eighty six Par
nellites, and that the number of supporters is
increasing daily. They now count upon Carry
ing the bill by majority of fifteen.
large meeting of Orangemen was held to-
day near Armagh. Two hundred armed and
drilled volunteers were enrolled and other ar
s,made to forciby resist home rule
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A HINT OF WAR.

Address of the Czar to the Officers and Men
of the Black Sea Fleet.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 20.-An imperial de-
cree has been issued to the commanders, other
officers and the sailors of the Russian feet in the
Black sea. The decree says: 1T is thirty years
since the feet. by its heroic deeds, sacrificed
itself for Russia's welfare. brave men trans
ferrng themselves in spirit to the heights of Se-
bastol The feet is now being reconstructed, to
the joy of the fatherland which long mourned
its loss My will and thoughts are directed
toward the peaceful development Of the
nations welfare but circumstances may
render the ful6lment Of my wishes difficult,
and forced me to an armed defense in order to
preserve the dignity of the empire. If such oc-
casion should arise, know that You will aid mo
with the devotion and constancy which our an
cestors displayed in response to my grandfather's
appeal-a devotion and constancy which aston
ished their contemporaries on the sea who wit
messed their gallant exploits To you / confde
the defense, honor and safety of the Russias"
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MINOR MATTERS.

Grosvenor's Sympathy for Warner-Fine
Prospect for Fun in Ohio.
special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. May 20.-For several days Rep
resentative Warner. of Ohio. has been suffering
with Inflammation of one of his eyes, and has been
compelled to wear heavy black eye shade. To-
day Representative Grosvennr, who has, by the
late gerrymander, been thrown into the same
district with Warner, went over to the latter,
and gazing sympatheticaly into the lone optic
of his Democratic colleague. observed eravey:
General Warner, it is too bad that von should
have one eye closed this early in the fight. l am
afraid you will get blind before we get through
with our scrapping contest this fall"
For once General Warner was without a re.
tort Representative Cooper. hearing of the ex
preston Of sympathy" by General Grosvenor,
said to rarty of Congressman: Gentlemen,
you need not 60 to an exposition a circus, a sum-
mer resort or elsewhere for amusement this fall.
Just come to Ohio, and follow Grosvenor and
Warner around in their campaign. 1t will make
you growfat
They will make the fur fly, suppose" sug
gested listener.
Fur fy!" repeated Colonel Cooper; sit will
not only be fur, but it will be cutcle, and the air
will be full Of it..
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A DEADLY STREET FIGHT.
One Man Killed and Another Fatally Hurt
Additional Encounters Expected.

CANTON, Tex, May 20-News has just been
received from Grand Saline, Van Zandt county,
of tragic affray. For several months feud
has existed between the Padgetts and the Car
rolls. two families residing Ave miles north of
Grand Saline. It originated in the Padgetts ac-
cusing ]. NJ Carroll of stealing hogs. The quar-
rel spread until the entire settlement became
embroiled. Arrests and counter were
made Of parties on either side, afidavits sworn
out Dy adherents of the opposing factions, and
every month they have been in attendance upon
the court at Grand Saline. Each faction came
heavily armed with breech-loading shotguns,
Winchester rifles and six-shooters, and deadly
contest has been expected at each successive
monthly sitting of the court In court, yester-
day, after the cases had been disposed of. j. NJ.
Carroll went to w. K. Padgett, father of Robert
and James Padgett, and told him he would burn
his shirt eff if he and his sons did not cease
slanderine him. Bitter and violent words passed
until the Padgetts moved off to their horses.
Carroll went up to the front gallery of
store, picked up his breech-loading shotgun.
and stepped out in front of the Padgetts, curs-
ing them, and saying that they did not have the
nerve to use their guns. Bob Padgett instantly
This was the signal for an mpromptu duel be-
tween the two men. Padgetts first shot, which
contained twelve buckshot took effect in Car
rolls right lung and the upper part of his stom-
ach Carroll returned the shot, which took Of.
feet in Padgett's right and left lung and left
arm Casfoll's second shot tore Padge gett's arm
to pieces from the elbow downward Padgett,
with his left arm horribly manged and bleeding
by his side, raised his gun with his right and
poured the contents of his second barrel into
Carrolls NECK and shoulders, when the latter
had turned to reload his piece. The Padgetts
then rode off, Carroll. who was felled to the
ground by the buckshot received in his neck
raised himself and fred both barrels at his re-
treating enemies, killing one of the horses Car
roll then fell again, saying: well. boys got
my work in on them all right, and / am willing
to die" gave gasp, and was dead. Bob Pad
gett was carried home by his father and brother
and cannot live. It is thought that several 9TH
ers will fall victims to this deadly feud before it
is settled
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THE PUBLIC LANDS.
MIR. Payson's Report on the Bill to Prevent
Aliens Acquiring Lands in the Territories.

MIR. Payson's Report on the Bill to Prevent
Aliens Acquiring Lands in the Territories.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Representative Pay
son. of Illinois, has prepared report on the
bill to prevent aliens from acquiring real estate
in the Territories Of the United States. The
report says the bill has for it's basis the PROPOSE
ton that American soil shall be owned by Amer
leans, so far as Congress can control it. The
committee on public lands-in this Congress, as
N the last. is thoroughly committed to the pol
icy of so administering public land system
that the agricultural lands of the Nation shall
be parted with, without cost, to be held in small
tracts by actual settlers only, for the purposes
of cultivation by the owner, securing thereby
the economy in management that ownership
always stimulates. The experience of SO many
thousands of our people in the securing of
homes in our vast area of public lands has been
successful that the desire for ownership of a
home capable of producing support for the fam
lily, is more universal here than in any country
in the world. This, the report says, was the
prevalent idea when the homestead law one of
the most beneficial acts ever adopted
by Congress, was passed. Areas of land suni-
cently large to make great estates were donated
with reckless liberality to railroad and other cor
porations and by lax. easy administration of
inju6icious laws, men of wealth and companies
have been illegally permitted to acquire other
great areas of the public lands. and now, this
generation had seen the vast territory we had
at its beginning so reduced that less than 5.000.-
900 of acres of arabic agricultural land-upon
which crops can be raised without irrigation
remain for the settler. These lands are becom-
ing more and more valuable year by year. and
tempted by the promise, sure to be realized. of
immense profits, as well as the absolute security
of the investment, these lands, by devious meth
DDS in many cases. have been secured in great
areas and holdings by capitalists and corpora
tions, foreign as we'll as domestic In
the hands of mary of these foreign
owners and holders these lands are
made subject to a system of landlordsm
and conditions totally un- American, and kindred
TO that existing in the old world; systems and
conditions which have spread ruin and misery
wherever they have existed in Europe. Beside
this. out of the heritage of the American people,
the common property OF this Nation, its public
lands, we are at present permitting the coinage
of immense private fortunes in the hands of for
eign nobility and gentry at the expense Of our
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Gable Notes.

During April over 13, 900 cases of smallpox oc-
Cured in Japan, and more than 5000 resulted
fatally.
Natives in the river Tanna district, east
Africa, have murdered Missionary Houghton
and his wife, near Lamoo
There were reported at Bari yesterday seven
new cases of cholera and one death. and at Ven.
ice four new cases and three deaths
Paymaster Watkins OF the United States
steamer OssiDee, at HongKong has disap-
peared. Charges were pending against him.
Admiral Davis has offered reward of 81, 900 for
his capture
Later advces from Cape Coast Castle, west
Africa say the forty five traders murdered by
the Bequahas were natives belonging to the
Gamin tribe, aud not Germans, as the first dis
patches stated.
News was received at Tient-Tsin, China,
April Z that one of the imperial palaces, about
forty miles from Pekin, on the imperial road,
had been destroyed by fire. The palace was
built in 1850 The loss is over So. .00O, 900.
The anniversary of the death of General La
Fayette ives observed yesterday BY religious
service in the Picpus Chapel, at Paris. On the
altar WAS magnificent wreath of natural f1ow-
ers, sent by many Americans, and bearing the
inscription "Au General LA Fayette les Amer
icaines reconnaissance lS3418S6.'
LIE Paris, in an inspired article disapproves of
the expulsion of the Orleans Princes from
France, and advises that the Princes if guilty Of
any offense, be punished like ordinary citizens
The Republican papers are strongly opposed to
permitting the Princes to remain on French
territory, and combine in raising the cry, '.Ex-
pei the Princes"
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The sontlarn Methodists.

RICHMOND, Va. May 2O-The NJ. E. General
Conference consumed the greater portion Of to-
days session in discussing the reports of COM
mttees on missions The board of missions
was increased to twenty five, and the bishops
made ex officio members. A paper was referred
to the board of missions suggesting steps towards
unifying Methodism in foreign fields. The dis
cussion of this paper was the most earnest of the
present session, and at its close the committees
report recommending no change in the status of
foreign mission work was adopted by vote of
LOG to 81.
At o'clock this afternoon the conservation of
the four newly elected bishops took place in the
presence of an immense congregation. The SER
mon was delivered by Bishop McTyiere. and the
conservation services were conducted in accord
ance with the Book of Discipline.
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Resulting in the 0usting Of Mr.. Payne Un-
explained Delay in Forwarding the Reso-
lutions Adopted by the Ohio Senate.
The Appropriations Committee Tries to
Cripple the Civil-Service Law.
Mr.. Payson Tells Why Aliens Should Not Be
Allowed to Acquire Land in the Territories
An Office Found for L. ]. Woolcn.


General Grosvenor Says It Was Bought, and
that the Proof Will BE Forthcoming.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-A good deal Of sur
prise was expressed by Senators to-day when the
resolutions passed on Tuesday by the Ohio House
of Representatives, containing formal charges
against Senator Payne and demanding an in
vestigation, were laid before the Senate and re-
ferred to the committee on privileges and elec-
tions, and the same resolutions, passed by the
Ohio Senate on Saturday, had not been received
There was a general inquiry: What does this
meant Can it be that the Senate's resolution is
delayed by Democratic officer of the State
Senate2" Some thought such to be the fact, and
Ohio Republicans lamented the fast that the Re-
publican Senators at Columbus had not hurried
forward the matter as soon as adopted. There
is now no doubt in the minds of people here
that an investigation will be ordered aud that it
will be vigorous and fruitful. Representative
Grosvenor, of the Athens district, said to the
Journal correspondent this afternoons: ''The
Senate cannot avoid an investigation. The
proof is complete and the demand so great that
there must be an investigation; and further, an
investigation means an ousting and vacant seat
in the Senate from Ohio. for there will be con-
elusive proof that the seat was bought"
It is feared by Republican members of the
Ohio delegation that Representative Little will
not be here on next Wednesday to argue the case
before the Senate committee, as he has been re-
quested to do by the Republican State central
committee or Ohio. He is now at his home,
deeply engaged with private and public affairs,
and does not want to return until week after
next. Should he fail to be here to argue in fa-
vor of an investigation, the hearing will be post
poned or another member be selected to make
the preSentmont
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Mormon Missionaries in Danger.

PlTTsBURe, May 20.-A special to the Com
mercial Gazette says that seven Mormon mis-
sionaries from Utah, have been holding services
in a school-hoCse near Fayette City, Pa,
and have baptized several converts.
The people became indignant and at
tended the meeting in large numbers. At its
conclusion Justice -Baubah denounced them as
boasters having first challenged them to drink
solution of arsenic. which they said they could
do without harm, and which they declined to do
The meeting broke up with great tumult, dur
ing which clubs stones and other missiles
were used on the missionaries They fed for
their lives, but were so suddenly pursued by the
mob that they impored the protection of the
justice, who succeeded in calming the turmoil
and conducting them in safety to their stopping
places.
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Wooden at Last Gets AN Oaice.


WASHINGTON. May 2O-It was to day officially
announced that DR. L. j. Wooden, of Vevay, has
been appointed chief of the swamp-land division
in the General Land Office, vice Daniel T.
Fierce, who has been appointed to fourth class
clerkship in other words Woolen is to draw a
chiefs salary while Pierce does the work. Had
some Democratic clerk been promoted to this
position it would not have been so bad, but
Woolen is wholly ignorant Of the duties of the
position. and gets his pay for holding his hands.
Woolen is chronic offce-seeker. and was here
at the inauguration. and ever since has been
bounding Mr.. Holman, first at one place and
then at another. Holman felt Switzerland
county drifting from him to John r. Cravens
for the congressional nomination, which means
failure for him, and to strengthen himself he
puts Woolen in Office, for which Sparks will
doubtless be enabled to get all the assistance
Holman can render as member of the appro
priations committee.
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troll OF the homes ana happiness or thousands or
citizens, or those who have come here to identify
themselves with US. AS an illustration of this,
published statement showing that 20. TAI, 900
acres of land are held by foreigners is appended.
Among the large holders mentioned are the Mar
quis of Tweeddale, SIR Edward Reid, the Hol-
land Company, and several foreign syndicates.
the possessions Of each numbering millions of
acres.
There is no question, the report says, "as to
the power OF Congress over the subject. Eng
land exercised it during all the years of her
progress and has only recently granted the right
to hold real estate there to aliens The question
Of how cheap homes for the people can best be
secured will depend upon u.s. At the present
rate OF disposal. this generation will see the last
acre of public land, worth taking for home by
a farmer, disposed off, In conclusion, the re-
port gives the following summary of the work
of the committee during the present session:
''The committee has devoted its best efforts and
most earnest endeavors to perfect and present to
the House, for its consideration end action such
measures as. in its Judgment, would reclaim
such lands as had been improvidently granted to
corporations. and to which they are not entitled;
also. for the repeal of such laws rendered pos
sble the improper acquisition of great
-ecres Of land from the government. and to pre-
preserve what it had and should reclaim of the
public land as a reserve to be drawn upon by the
actua! settler, without cost. in h0mesteads.
We do this because we believe that not only
the fostering of the home sentiment and indi-
vidual prosperity would result. but, in addition.
because we believe there is no greater safeguard
against public disorder, tumults and riots than
a generally distributed ownership of lands and
homes"
The bill which the report accompanies pro-
vides that no alien or foreigner who has not de-
cared his intention to become a citizen Of the
United States, nor any corporation one tenth of
whose stock is owned or controlled by aliens or
foreigners, shall have the right to acquire real
estate In any of the Territories of the United
States The bill has been agreed upon by the
committee, and will probably be reported one
day this week.
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Miscellaneous Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Bayard S. Gray, post
master and editor Of the Sun, at Portland, ar
rived here last night, to remain a week sight
seeing and observing the national characters
Capt. j. F. Mcmillan, of Munce. chief of a
division in the Treasury Department, will leave
here on Saturday for northern Ohio, where he
will be married next week.
Edwin M. Swain, of Knightstown Henry
county is here. He wants to be appointed to an
agency in the General Land Office, and 1t is said
impression at the Interior Department..
The time schedule of the star mail route from
Warren to Hartford City has been ordered
changed as follows: Leave Warren on Tuesdays
and SATURDAYS at | P NJ; arrive at Hartford
City by P NJ; leave Hartford City on Tuesdays
and Saturdays at 6 A. NJ; arrive at Warren by
I'm
Dr. Patterson of Winamac. chairman of the
Republican congressional committee for the
Tenth district, is here.
Adam Stahl has been commissioned postmaster
at Elvin Ind.
The House committee on the judiciary to. day
decided to report adversely on various amend
ments to the Constitution proposing that Ssna-
tors, postmasters aud judges shall be elected by
vote of the people.
Senator Mandersou from the committee on
military affairs. TO-DAY reported favorably the
bill which recently passed the House appropriate
ing $780, 600 for the construction of additional
quarters at the soldiers homes at HAMPTON.
Milwaukee and Leavenworth.
Senator Blair introduced bill to restore to
officers of the army and their widows and minor
children the rate os pensions they received prior
to July 25 1866, at which date certain classes of
pensions were reduced.
Senator Morgan o-day introduced Joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary of War to ad-
nit to the West Point Military Academy III. L.
Morsing, of Brazil.
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A Threat to Import German Workmen
Causes Riot at Sheffield.
LONDON May 20.-The recent action of Ward
& Payne, tool-makers of Sheffield. in announc-
ing reduction of wages and their subsequent
declaration that, in case their employees
refused to accept the reduction. they would
be compelled to employ Germans at the reduced
rates, in order to compete with German manu-
facturers, resulted to-day in a disturbance at
the establishment of the firm. A large
mob of strikers gathered in the neighborhood of
the manufactory and threatened with personal
violence all the German passersby who were
believed to have secured employment with the
firm. The rioters afterwards attacked the fac
tory buildings, smashing the windows with stones
and doing much other damage.
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INDIANAPOLIS, MORNING, Il.

two-and a-half-year-old son. and then swallowed
some himself The son sdied in great agony,
with his arms clasped about his mothers neck, an
hour and half later, in spite of all that medi-
cine could do. The wretched father also suffered
dreadfully. but rallied from the effects OF the
poison, and this morning gashed his throat with
knife. though not fatally He was arrested to-
day and lodged in jail He expressed regret at
his failure TO end his existence. He has been
respondent over the loss in speculation of some
of his own money and some he borrowed from
his brothers-in-aw
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United states brewers, A.socIation.

ST. LOUIS. May 20.-The trustees OF the
United States Brewers Association who were
delegated to meet here and determine when and
where the next annual convention of the asso-
ciation should be held, have decided upon the
holding of special convention at Niagara Falls.
on the second Wednesday in September next, to
which body the date of holding the twentieth
annual convention will be left to decide.
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A Plan Intended to Help Morrison.


WAsHINGToN, May 20.-A bold scheme is on
foot to give strength to Morrisons tariff bill 1t
has been arranged that when the bill to tax
oleomargarine and all limitations of butter and
cheese is called up in the House, Speaker Car
nue.. and is a subject which must be treated by
the committee on ways and means, or come in
as amendment to the tariff bill. The oleo-
margarine tax bill is intensely popular, and this
ruling is intended to help Morrison.
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WASHINGTON, Mo-, May 20. EARLY yesterday
morning the store of William @. Ruge. in North
Washington, was discovered to be on fire, and
before assistance could arrive the flames lad
made such progress as To make it impossible TO
save either the building any part of the stock
OF goods There is no doubt that the store was
nrst robbed and then set on fire. A box of jew
elry dropped by the burglars in their fight was
found near the building after the fire. The
stock Was valued at $l2 900; the building at &c.,
O0O; insurance. Sc, 900.
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Steamship News.

PHILADELPHIA, May 20-Arrived Ohio, from
Liverpool.
HAMBURG, May 2O.-Arriyed: Rhatia, from
New York.
BosToN, May 20.-Arrived: British Queen,
from London
Southampton, May 20-Arrived: Fulda, from
New York, for Bremen.
New York, May 2O--Arrived: Australia.
from Hamburg; City of Rome, from Liverpool