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The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
STATE MAKING.

Some Erroneous Impressions Relative ."
the Admission of Territories To state
hood Corrected-Tbe Power to Admit
Rests with Congress, Regardless OF the
Qualification Of Population,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The House COM
mittee on Territories, Of which Mr..
Springer IL chairman, met and organizer
Saturday. This is the committee which
will have charge of all the bills relating
TO the admission OF the Territories into
the Union. Bills have been introduced
looking to the admission Of Montana
Washington Territory, New Mexico and
Dakota. A bill has been introduced to
divide Dakota, admit the southern half
as a State aud leave the northern half a
Territory. Mr.. Springer, when asked
what NAV be done in any Of these cases,
said: "Very probably enabling acts
will be passed for some OF
those Territories, that Is, we may
pass nm act enabling some OF these Terri
tories TO adopt State constitutions and to
construct the machinery Of State govern
ment, preparatory to recognition as
States. The admission OF new State is
a very important matter" continued Mr.
Sprin ger, "and can not be done on a mere
application or on any nero arithmetical
basis. Somehow An impression has got
abroad that Territory must have Ger.
tain population to qualify IL for admi' y
sion. Some put 1t at forty thousand,
some at sixty thousand, some at one hun
dred thousand, and have seen IL placed
as high as ono hundred and sixty
thousand. Then | have seen II laid
dowl. that the population re-
quired to qualify Territory for
Statehood, was just the population which
in the apportionment of represe ntation,
gets one member in the House Of Repre-
sentatives. But all these theories are en-.
tirely fancful and arbitrary. There Is no
law, no rule and no custom about it. The
admission OF new State is within the
Legislature. II Is within the po wer OF
Congress to erect No Mans Land and adj
init II to the Union. There Is no census
qualification prescribed. The State OF
Illinois was admitted when she had less
than forty thousand population. Dakota
has over six hundred thousand now.
Congress, in it's discretion, may exclude
Dakota. and may admit No Mans Land
Mr.. Springer is giving good deal OF at
tention to his bill for the organization OF
the new Territory OF Oklahoma. This
wonld include the public land strip KIN own
as No Mans Land, and tho western half
of the Indian Territory. 1t differs from
the scheme which Mr. Springer submitted
to Congress last year, in the fact that IL
does not propose to extend the judicial
system OF the new Territory over the
eastern portion of the Indian Territory
which is inhabited by the five civilized
tribes of Indians That part Of the In
dian Territory is left to be dealt with BY
the committee on Indian affairs.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE nomination OF Lamar was reported
mittse on the 9th.
THE Clarion and the State Ledger, pub
lished at Jackson, Miss, were consolidated
ON the 10th.
MRS. ANNIE WEBER, of Louisville, KY,
was found dead on the 9th sitting on q
frozen to death. She left home intoxicated
the day before, and it is supposed lost her
way in the commons.
THERE Is going to be novel reunion In
Nashville, Tenn, soon. The assemblags
will be composed Of men who, before rail.
roads were built, were engaged in driving
wagons for commercial purposes from
Nashville to neig ighboring towns.
| SECRETARY LAMAR on the 7th rendered
to the President his resi- ignation as Secre.
tary Of the Interior and 1t was accepted
/ by the President.
! TUE recent accounts Of the great floods
in China were not exaggerated. London
dispatches say that populous district of
| 10000 square miles was in q single night
converted into q raging sea, drowning
nearly 100000 people and rendering
homeless 1900, 900 more.
CHICAGO had a $3.50, 900 fire on the 7th.
SENATOR GULLY on the 7th introduced a
bill in the Mississippi Legislature to pro.
vide for the education OF two students
from each county, free of expense to them,
at the A. and NJ College and at the Indus
trial Female Institute.
! A BILL was introduced in the Mississippi
Legislature on the 7th to limit the number
of ministers Of the gospel who shall be ex-
empt from road duty in Kinds county.
DNK TowsER, white mal, at Birming.
ham, Ala. was run over by n switch en-.
! gine on the sth and horribly mangled, be-
ing almost cut In two at the waist. He is
supposed 10 have been intoxicated.
Two Cinnamon, Dan Lee and Phil Wing,
were formally bsptiasd and admitted 10
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brook
lyn on the sth. They are believed to be
the first Mongolians ever received into a
Church Of this faith in America.
ABOUT 800 stonecutters went out on q
strike at Buffalo. N. Y, on the 7th. The
employers had notified them that during
the winter months they must work ten
hours per day and the strike Is the result
LOUIS MAzzASrISI, the famous Spanish
bull fighter and matadore, had a benefit al
the City Of Mexico on the sth. There was
an enormous rush for seats in the ring and
nearly $4,000 was cleared.
J. K. HArLxy, Of Lincoln county, Ark
lost . 5000 Clubhouse. ten bales Of cotton
and large quantity Of coeson.sssd, By Ars
- he N. H ha1 troabas Win nsgro,
lves = ssgpssee = Nv - - xsst.
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a FLOOD OF BILLS.
Over Thirtecn Thousand Bills Already In
troduced In tho House of Representa-
tives, aud SHIT hey Come.

Over Thirtccu Thousand Bills Already In
troduced In tho House of Representa-
tives, aud STINT hey Come.
WAsHIvGroN Jan. 9.--There will be
great deal of committee work, but very
few finishing touches. in Congress this
week The House is already flooded with
bills. The bill clerks were at work all
Of YESTERDAY, putting them In order. In
the House alone there have been intro
duced in this session l3,2l3 bills, against
ll,526 during the entire life OF the last
Congress According to the average per-
centage Of the work done at different
STAGES Of Con gress, there will be about
fifteen thousand bills introduced in the
lower branch Of this Congress while the
senate will swell the grand total to tho
neigh borhood Of eighteen thousand or
twenty thousand. In the House of the
Forty-seventh Congress, only six years
since, the total number of bills
was about six thousand, and in both
houses of that Congress there was scarce
ly nine thousand measures proposed. Now
the member promises to be doubled. In
tho last House there were nearly four
thousand bills referred to each of the com
mittees on war claims, and Invalid pc n
sions. The number for the former com
mitteo, II is estimated, will in this House
he brought up to about six thousand,
while those for the latter committee may
reach five thousand notwithstanding the
impres sion that there is not to be great
deal of pension legislation. Ia the House
to-day there will be another call of the
States and Territories for the introduction
of bills. The committee on rules may sub
init report which will occupy consdera-
BILE time in debate.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
RELIGIOUS AND epUcAr,o..

There are nine British mi..,
societies now laboring in Afric. 00a7
an aggregate annual expepd;,. VIZ
81. 200, 600.
The Russian Church. whit,
been in process Of construction IN aa
the last ten years on the Mors.
Olives, is now finished.
THE Kindom OF Heaven sus
violence, and the violent taks
force" Violence is a good thin ~.g ~
well applied. wa
Gratitude is the homage the /.
renders to God for His goodness. cS T'a'
tian cheerfulness is the external m. my
festation OF the homage.
Steps are being taken in N.
bourne, Australia, to effect an or,s' %
union of the Presbyterian cbu,s1
throughout the Australian colopia,
The Methodist Episcopal Chm
will spend for home and foreign ~
sions the handsome sum of sS' 4O0s.
every working day in its fiscal Yea,
or over 1000, 000 In all.
The apostolic vicariate Of Dal,,
has at present 80 priests. 1SO church..
100 stations without churches, NGS
cesan students, 20 parochial school, ,
converts, 8 academies, 10 Indian scboOl,
1 hospital and Catholic popalatiou j
10000
A school in Vermont is presid.,
over by a cross-eyed teacher. Az,
days ago he called out: The boy ,h,,
/ am looking at will step out on a,
floor" Immediately twenty-seven lad,
walked out in front of the astoni.hA
pedagogue.
The marking" system has h4..
abolished at Columbia college. E,eI
professor is to stately report Ii.
names of the three members OF III,
class who have shown the most dill
gence and proficiency, and the best all
around students are to be known 4
"honor men,.
Harvard College distributes iii
year about $4,000 among deservin
students in the shape of scholarship
This is $4,000 more than last yea
that sum having been added to II
funds by the late Ezekiel Price Gree
leaf. The scholarships vary from 4
TO $3.50.
Victoria has made arrangemen
to celebrate the jubilee of Congreg
tionalism in October, 1888. 1t is e
pected that the churches of Austria
and New Zealand will be representt
and that delegates will be sent Q
from the home churches.
The American College and Edu,
ton Society expended last year sZl,i
in assisting young men preparing
the ministry in six institutions in
newer States. Since the organizat
of the society it has expended 81,
S41 and aided 1928 young men.-P
lac Opinion.
In recent foot ball game
Princeton a player was gashed b
bangle worn on the wrist of an adv
sary. The umpire decided that
bangle. or the player wearing it, m
be removed. The ornament was
gift of Boston girl, and the coll
man had sworn to wear ii till de'
but he took it of rather than forfeit
place on the rush line.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
Will Call Out the wyoming Miners.

NEw YoRK, Jan. "A conference was
,eld Saturday night in Jersey city be-
tween Representa- tatives OF the various
trades represented IN the Reading strike,
and II was decided that the men
should be ordered out 'of the
Wyoming mines. This action, it was
said, would practically stop work in the
anthracite coal region. prominent
member Of District Assembly no. 40 said
that the Knights had fully made up their
minds to fight this strike to the end, and
would make no attempt now to secure
arbitration. Closing the Wyoming mines,
he added. would result in thousands Of
men being thrown out Of work from lack
of fuel TO run factories and mills.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
The Fisheries Commission.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Sir Charles and
Lady Tupper arrived in Washington late
Saturday evening, aud went at once to
the Arlington Hotel. Lady upper has
quite recovered from the recent serious
illness that summoned Sir Charles "a
Winnipeg. Before the telegram announc.
ing Sir Charles inability to roach Wash
ington on Saturday morning was re-
ceived, il was DECIDED by the Fishery
Commission already here to postpone the
arranged meeting OF the conference for
Saturday until Monday 9. two O'Clock.
The meeting was not postponed because
Of the tslesre4, The ecaferees viii meet
psoiwvekly.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

Adversely may try mems souls. but
prosperity often grinds them to pow.
der. american 7raceler.
To suffer through those we love b
ten times worse than TO suffer our.
selves. - Somerpilie Journal.
-Contentment is a pearl of great
price, and who procures it at the ex-
pcnse of ten thousand desires makesa
wise and happy purchase.
An ounce of lead isn't so very
heavy, but it depends good deal on
how it strikes you whether you can
carry it or not 49, Washington Critic
-Ruskin says: "Man should resem'
BILE n river Some men do, in one re-
spect at least. The biggest part Of
them is their mouth. -HOtei Gazette,
Every ultimate fact is only the first
of new series; every general law
only n particular fact OF some more
general law presently TO disclose itself
-EmcrSoH
What was Mrs Modus STRESSED in,
George?" "Oh, she had on kind OF a
mauve blue arrangement over por..
tiere of plush colored thingumbob'
"Ah, indeed. IN Y Journal
Doctors say that drinking large
quantities of water will produce fat
To show its absurdity, look at fish.
II fairly lives in water. yet why is 1t 50
bonyp-B Binghdmpt0a Republican
A young college debater will argue
for hours that the pursuit of happiness
is better than the rea ization and then
feel disappointed because his girl re-
fuses for the fourth time TO marry hlm
Merchant TraUeler.
"A strange child was introduced 10
four-year-old Adelaide with iniunetions
as to his entertainment. With a SUI
perb dignity the suggestions were
checked by: my dear ] have playea
with children all my life. "-Amer'ea"
Magazine.
The pie of the season:
Honor the pumpkin vine
Long may its tendrils twine
Over the land
Blessed he those who wear
Crisp hayseed in their hair
Glorious band
Minneapolis Tribune
1T is the father of precociou'
two-and-a-half-years-old who tells tha'
the child was once watching lad!
make her toilet The old lady had re-
moved her false hair and false teetn
when the astonished small boy salu
"Bet yer can't take yer neck OIL :
San Francisco Chronicle.
Here's box addressed to you'
said the wife of prominent man. :,
don't think you'd better open IL
what shall we do with itP" "Tll TEL
you; Wen take it out and get the hlre'
girl to open it. She has lit the hr' 1t,
with kerosene three times this weeh
and don't thing that dynamite VII
hurt her. Washington Critic
Wise laws and just restraints AZ
to a noble nation not chains, but cna',
mail-strength and defense thons'
something also of an membranes IN
power and glory of all creatures am
all consist in their obedience. not u
their freedom. The sun has no hber'.
/ "a dead leaf has much. The dust .
which you are formed has no iiber7y
Its liberty viii come-with IT. ccrTa
Ton. j2WetjA
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

The hint-glass workers strike has ex-
tended from the Western manufacturers
10 the Eastern factories. and the men who
left work in the fifteen factories in Brook.
lyn, Philadelphia, New Bedford, Boston
and Corning. n. ". failed to return to
work on the 81, with few exceptions. In
the East and West about 1900 men are
now ont.
REPORT is that the treasurer OF Logan
County, la, is betw cen $50 900 and SIS, 600
short in his accounts.
The Newark IN. J.) Shoemakers' Union,
numbering several hundred members, has
decided to withdraw from the Knights of
Labor. The reason assigned is bad man :
agement on the part of the National and
local leaders.
MANY of the farmers of Northwestern
Iowa are in bad shape. caused by the
scarcity of cars for the shipment of sur.
/ plus produce, their mortgages and notes
4 being due.
On the night OF the 4th mass. meeting
under the auspices Of the Reading strikers
was held at Philadelphia, and resolutions
were passed denouncing the Reading
management for employing Pinkerton's
detectives; charging it with impeding
the traffic OF the State by refusing to meet
its employees amicably, and calling on al I
merchants and business mon to boycott
the road.
On the 9th Senatorial elections were
held in France. The Republicans appear
to have lost ground.
AT Czernowiz, an Austrian town, a
Russian spy, with maps and compromis.
ing documents in his possession. has been
arrested.
THE opinion is expressed by the Mayor
OF Newark, N. j., in his annual message,
that few funerals are needed In the
directory OF the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad.
An order has been issued by the Secre-
tary of the Navy for the United States
ship toquois, at San Francisco, to pro
| coed to Humboldt Bay, California, for
the parpose OF blowing up the wreck Of
the schooner John Hancock, reported e
hsias : dssgwess shssrueeIss = naviga.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
TT BE HANGED.

DUBLIN, Jan s.-D,ciu- Crrl, tia
Cork physician who was ceav 1 Il
having murdered b. $3.50 s-l "a,
be might marry iii- cn, ~ s,,i ls.s.
viii b. banged on TssAday.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
A GRATIFYING INCREASE.

LONDON, Jan. S-Tho Board Of Trade
announces that British imports and ex-
ports for the month Of December, 1887,
each show an increase in value OF over
three million pounds against those OF
December 1886
SENTENCED, WITH A COMPLIMENT
DUBLIN, Jan. s-The hearing Of Mr.
Wilfred Blunt's appeal from sentence vas
concluded at Portunna to-day. H. con-
viction was confirmed, AMI the sentence
OF two months Imprisonment, pessed
upon him last October sustained. Tn,
magistrate, again sentencing Sir. iilunt,
said that although the latter had bcja OK.
tremely unwise in his conduct, L., was
certainly not a coward.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

Ar Cork MIR. William John Lane mem.
Dor Of the British Parliament for the East
division Of Cork, has been arrested on
the charge Of making seditious speech
at watergrass hill on December 4 ne
was admitted to bail.
On the 7th Mrs. Cleveland's first after
noon reception Of the season took place
IL was very brilliant and very largely
attended. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted
in receiving by Mrs. Ingalls, and half
score Of pretty young girls, among them
Miss Endicott, Miss Bayard and Miss
Villas.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

LONDON, Jan. 9.-The physicians who
examined the body Of Archibald McNeiH,
the reporter FOR the sportsman who was
found dead on the Bouogno sands, agree
that he was beaten with brass kuuckles
to insensbilitv, robbed and drowned.
The relatives of McNeill complain bitterly
of the apathy of the French police in the
matter Of searching for his murdsrers.
The body will arrive in London to- NOR
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
THE DJFENss OF INDIA.

LONDON, Jan. 9.--The Maraiah OF Nv
sore, desiring to share in the dsfcnse Of
India, has placed his entire military re-
sources at the disposal of the Viceroy,
Lord Duffern. Large bodies of Thibetans
are entering Sikkim, and to prevent
further moyemsn Of this kind il is ex.
pected that the Indian Government viii
be compelled TO make an immed ate dis
play of military force on the frontier.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-14
TOO HONEST FOR THE LAW.

Senator Cullom tells good story
and not being given to practising
law much himself, | suppose he
can afford to do so-of prosperous
storekeeper in a small Illinois
town, the name of which has es-
capped me, who once practiced law,
but who has long since alb andoned
it. Being met by an old acq uaint-
ance, he was asked for all the
particulars of his giving up the
profession.
"Didn't it agree with your
health z"
"Oh, yes" answered "Uncle
joe" as he was familiarly called
by his friends.
"Didn't it pay :"
"First-rate."
"Meet with sufficient favor from
the courts ~
"All could ask"
"Then what was it compelled
You to quit it,"
"Well, III tell you-l was too
honest"
A loud laugh from the bystand-
ers aroused "Uncle Joe" into
earnestness, and he repeated the
strange statement, and nailed 1t to
his shop. counter with his huge
fist. But his cross-questioner went
on:
"When did you find this outF
"In my very last case.'
"What was that 7"
"One in which | was retained to
prosecute a nelghbor for killing a
dog.D
"And he was acquitted ? So you
lost the case and gave up your
profession discouraged y
"No, he was convicted"
"Then he was guilty"
"No, he was innocent"
"But didn't the evidence prove
his guilt"
"Certsinly it did"
"Then why do you say be was
innocent ?"
"Because | had killed the dog
myself few nights before for
trespassing on my poultry, and l
came to the conclusion that any
business that would aid a man to
convict a neighbor of his own
crimes wasn't the business tor me,
on I Oava il un.b
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-14

cans might continue TO wear their
hats on their ears. He saw the
point and we ate the two sand
wiches, drank some river water
and sat and fought mosquitoes for
three hours. We we're not left
entirely to ourselves, however,
On several different occasions
some of Mr.. BOwser's "select few
approached us and sought 10 in
terest us in the proceedDgs.-
They called him by such familiar
terms az sold man." old bowlegs,"
"bald head and "sawed off," and
they addressed me as "Hey, Su-
SAN" "Ah /! there !" and "Your gall
At every such attempt to draw
ont our patriotism Mr.. Bowser
would rebel, aud | wOuld have to
talk to him of the suffering en-
dured by our lorefathers until he
Gained down.
A climax finally came. A doub-
le.distlled, full jewelled, diamond
mounted patriot, who had perhaps
taken out his first papers the day
before, threw a biscuit and bit me
on the ear, and Mr.. Bowser went
over to interview him about it,
When he came back he had a black
eye, his nose was Ont of "trne,"
and some of his teeth we're loose.
He had met the enemy, and he
was theirs. ! took him down to the
boat, got a stateroom, and we
locked ourselves iu. felt like
talking, but he didn't. When l
had washed his face and laid wet
rag..oyer his eye | asked him if he
wasn't sorry that one OF the Bow
ser family didn't have hold of the
rope when the old Liberty bell
sent its notes of freedom pealing
forth to the world, and he wouldn't
answer. pinned up his torn SHIRT
and inquired whether he had ever
visited the spot where CORVALLIS
surrendered, bat be refused to tell.
Even when / told him that it was
the duty of every good patriot to
get out on the glorious Fourth and
whoop Ter up aud let the eagle
scream, he would not open his
mouth. 1t was only after we got
home that he found voice to re-
mark: "Mrs. Bowser, you'll pay
for this !"
"Why, dear, what have l done y
"Done! Look at me Who
made ne the wreck am :"
"a few select patriots at Har-
sons Island"
ayes; and how did we come to
90 there ? Just 60 right away
from me- You and must have
a settlement tomorrow. This is
the last straw-the very lastw
But | think he will forgive me.
lie can save the teeth and the eye
is rapidly getting better.-Detrod
/ Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-14
Clearly a Wicked Plot.

"Uncle Dan'l," he said as he met
one of the white-wash brigade at
the market, "do you think you
could get away with a twenty
pound watermelon this morningP
81 does, sah."
"Can you eat 1t all alone n
"I kim
"In twenty minutes y
eyes, sah."
"Will eat seeds, rind and all !"
Uncle Dan'l looked at him suspi
ciously for long minute and ther
said:
"You 60 on, sab ! l see de objicl
VERY plainly. You want to kill m'
off 80 l can't vote the Republican
tick ct, but Ize too deep fur you
sab y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-14

John NeesOn, OF Buffalo, \. Y,
a lifelong Democrat, vice.presldent
of the Emerald Society, has gone
back on Cleveland and jumped the
track entirely. ne said 81 am a
Democrat, as l always have BEEN
bat Pm not for Cleveland this time
The trouble with Cleveland IS he
is not Democrat enough for me
That's my first reason-Cleveland
ia not a Democrat. Secondly, l
don't believe in tree trade.
think this country needs more
rather than less Protection to It's
industries. / say there's no Irish
man with drop of good Irish
blood in his veins who'll vote fol
this man Cleveland. Yes, | wear
a Harrison and Morton badge"