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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-09-07

winch ner Hc8ttn was S3cF1uc0Qs ono
il q homemade invalid Stacy. 1t is
an exertion now almost beyond her
endurance. 10 even 60 out in car
riage to make call. She sits by the
register and rocks all day. with the
temperature over eighty. and wonders
why she has II headache all the time
and feels so wretched. l really be-
lievc, Stacy, She would get well again
IL she would only take some exercise
and live in a well-ventilatel room.
Why. strong as l am now l knew
would be q wretched invalid in year s
time if lived as Emma does. Women
have only themselves to blame for
naboy muscles and bad compilations. -
What u lecture, Lou. You ough.
to 70 on the platform as an exponent
OF physical culture for women"
I'D do we'll. / know: but l won.
LECTURE any more now: I'll tell you
about the dresses worn at Mrs.
,,hayne's high tea last Thursday
From dress they wandered into dis.
cussion of a recent biography of a
noted man. and then talked of church
affairs; but it was of LOUIS little lecture
only that Stacy thought after her friend
had taken her departure and left her
alone again.
Il wonder why women seem opposed
to strengthening their muscles" she
soiiio9uized; but. perhaps, it is only
because they don't understand the i'm.
porfance of il. aai then" She
started. raled suddenly. and then grew
rosy-red A sudder idea had taken
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Democrats who voted with us before-not
enough to give rs majority
Then it is not likely that the Republic
ans can drum up sufficient strength to con-
troll action on this bill."
II would not answer in the negative" re-
piled the Major. although / am very much
in doubt as TO whether we can accomplish
anything. We are apt to overestimate our
influence with the multiplication Demo-
Gratis before we engage in the contest with
them. You must remember that this House
is strongly Democratic. and the substitute
TO the Mills bill is strong Republican
measure
When il was suggested to Major McKin-
ley that the Democrats in the Senate are
contending that their understanding of the
agreement to vote on the tariff bill on two
weeks from to-day was that there should
be commensurate of the voting on amend
ments, and that they were not then to take
a final vote on the bill as a whole. he was
at first surprised; then. as he reflected and
considered the action of the Democratic
Senator'S in delaying progress on the bill by
making long speeches and demanding the
yeas and nays on all votes, he said that 1t
was very probable they would hold out for
that Interpretation of the agreement. The
prospects are that the House will not get
the Republican substitute To the Mills tariff
bill under a month or six weeks.
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THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
General Master Workman POwderly Answers
the Circular of the Orders Founders.

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. Tin public
speech here, tonight, General Master
Workman Powderly, of the Knights of La
Dor, paid some attention to and made an
effective assault upon the manifesto wide
ly published this morning, which was add
dressed to the Knights of Labor and signed
by four of the original founders of the
Knights of Labor. Mr.. POwderly said that
1.-The complaint that the order had departed
from the old way was true; so did every
thing that progresses, and the working
men of to-day were not the dull prosy fell
lows they were twenty years ago. eff Wash
ingtOn, Jefferson, Adams, or any of the
original founders of this great country"
said Mr.. Powderly, ''were to awake from
their sleep, as our friends have just DONE
they, too, would be surprised at the prog
ress of century. You cannot turn
back the wheels of progress. The
things that Washington and Jefferson
did one hundred years ago were wise; they
were adapted to the time; but suppose they
returned now and asked the people of to-
day to 90 back to the methods Oftheir time,
would the people obey7 Think you the
millions of blacks who were set free in 1868
would consent to return to bondage, even
though the request came from the immortal
Washington So it is with the Knights of
Labor. 1t has made progress since these
four signers left the order, and it cannot go
back; it cannot retrograde."
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A FIENDIsH DEED.
A Revengeful Italian Blows Up Residence
with Dynamite, killing Three Persons.

SEATTLE. w. T.. Jan. This morning. at
4:30 o'clock. Gilman. little coal-mining
village forty-fiye miles distant, was the
scene of a dastardly dynamite ex-
plosiOn perpetrated by an Italian
fiend with the assumed name of Albert
Schaeffer. Three persons, John and Michael
Schurvik, brothers, and a nine-year-old
daughter of George Bodalie. a Bohemian,
were blown TO pieces. Bodalie himself had
his left leg torn from his body.
The explosion created terri
bic commotion in the village and
brought every inhabitant to the spot. An
armed posse of miners went to the Italians
cabin, where he and a mate lived. The an
CRY miners seized both men and took them
before a justice. Sheriff Cochrane arrived
from the scene of the late New Castle riot,
and when the Justices court adjourned for
dinner took the men in charge. The sheriff
also went to dinner, leaving the two men In
Knights of Labor Hall, intending to bring
them to Seattle on the train.
body of armed miners came
and broke into the hall and took
Schaffer and lynched him, hanging him to
tree near by. All efforts to make him
confess failed. He died in ten minutes.
Schaffer's deed was actuated by revenge.
Last March he assaulted Bodalye's
wife. intending to outrage her.
Bodalye had him arrested and
Scheffer served term in the peniten-
tiary, being liberated July 1. He frequent
ly threatened to kill Bodalye and family
for revenge. and when freed went
straight TO Gilman to fulfill his
threat Christmas night ne made
an unsuccessful attempt to blow
up Bodalye. Bodalye then asked the
Schurvik brothers to sleep downstairs in
his house to guard him, and sold his prop
erty preparatory TO leaving Gilman to get
away from Schaeffer. The fiend started
out atmidnight and awaited his opportunity
until early this morning. when he threw
the bomb under Bodalye's house. He then
went home and was pretending TO be
asleep when discovered. Bodalye lies
in the hospital here, and may die any
moment. BOdaley's wife will not recover.
A little eighteen-months-old babe was not
injured. George and Mike Schurvick were
blown twenty-five feet. and their heads and
limbs were torn from their bodies
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States steamer Chicago, who was ordered
to Alaska to protect the seal life during the
sealing season of 1886, was next examined.
While on duty there he captured several
more protection from these pirates. and
stated that the Alaska company had fully
carried out their contract.
j. III. Moulton, treasury agent from 1877 to
1885, was the next witness. He said the
company had done a great deal for the ma
tives, and their association with the gov
ernment's and the company's agents had
greatly elevated them. He thought the
newspaper charges false.
George X. Jingle, the general treasury
agent in charge of the islands of St. Paul
and st. George, was the next witness. He
testified that from three years experience
on st. George and ST. Paul islands the -stO-
ries published that immortality on these
islands was traceable to the Alaska Com
mercial Company were absolutely false.
He knew of no community where less open
immortality existed. He knew Mr.. Gavitt.
the treasury. agent who was put on st.
George island. Mr.. Gavitt quarreled with
every man on the island. Mr.. Tingle said
all the charges made by Mr.. Gavitt were
disprOved on investigation. Mr.. Gavitt's
statement that Mr.. Webster was constantly
drunk was untrue. He (Tlngle) usually had
liquor in his house on st. George island,
as he did not know at what time a
Congressional committee would visit him.
This statement created some laughter. !
Mr.. Tingle said the natives were now
treated with such consideration by the
Commercial Seal Company as to spoil them.
They work about ninety days year, and
receive about $500 a year for it. He knew
of but one case of open immortality, which
he tried and fined the offender $40. Mr..
Jingle then read several letters from his
agents on the islands, denying the charges
made by Mr.. Gavitt against the cOmpany's
agents. The cOmpany's agents are always
instructed not to come into contact with or
offend the government agents, and he never
knew of a case where they tried to intim-
idata them
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STATEHOOD FOR DAKOTA.
Congress Will Be Besieged by Delegations
of Republicans and Democrats.

Congress Will Be Besieged by Delegations
of Republicans and Democrats.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. fudge Gideon c.
Moody, of Deadwood who arrived here
late last night from Indianapolis, will be
joined by number of prominent Dakota
Democrats and Republicans who will work
for division and two States for that Terri
tory. at the hands of this Congress, and
failing in that, will impress the Republic
ans who will be members of the next House
and Senate with the Importance of having
an extra session. The Democratic side of
the delegation will be led by Chief-justice
Bartlett Trip, and the Republicans will
be headed by GovernOr-elect Mellette and
Senators-elect Moody and Edgerton- In
view of the fact that there is inclination
for an extra session of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress, If for no other purpose than TO secure
organization of the House and the admlS-
sion of Territories TO statehood, these
men may be able to impress the Democrats
Of the present House of Representatives
that it would be wisdom for it to take the
short horn of the dilemma which con-
fronts them, and give at least compromise
legislation on the subject before the 4th of
March. The evident purpose of the Demo-
Gratis in the next House is 10 defeat legisla-
ton on the territorial question by flibust-
eTing tactics. In this they viii undOubt-
eddy be thwarted by the adoption of a set
of rules which will prohibit tilibustering
against bills creating new States. This
subject will be made privileged one in the
next House, the same as cOntested-electiOn
cases. and there can be no scheme worked
TO prevent final action. Judge Moody says
that the question should undoub tediy be
privileged, as it is privileged under the
Constitution. and, inasmuch as it involves
<ha inI1f of faf
elect TO take their seats, it stands ON the
game footing as contested elections.
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LITTLE ,PHGBE's FRIEND.
Touching Story of Birds Love for It's
Child Mistress.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
Marguerite" little girl, sends the fol-
lowing little story. 1t is so prettily writ
ten that the editor hadn't the heart to
change word of it, SO all he did was to
correct a few mistakes in spelling:
"One day, in the springtime, great tree
was felled In the grounds, and In IL was a
nest of young birds. They were all found
dead except one dear little thing. / begged
mamma to let me bring 1T up, and L made
nest of cotton wool in little cage, and
began to fill It's wide-Open yellow mouth as
best could. / hunted for worms and
caught flies, but it was too much for little
girl to do. So many breakfasts, lunches.
dinners and suppers all in one day, until
mamma showed me how to make worms
out of meat. No one can tell the amount of
labor done by the mother bird until they
try it themselves. Birdie began to grow
happy as bird could be-. Now il could
fly about the room and it would come
to my call to be fed. Next we let it fly in
the garden, but as it could not feed itself
yet it would fly against the window, never
mistaking the room in which was. When
other little boys and girls were visiting l
would ask them If they would like me to
call bird down from the tree. OF course
they all wanted bird, but We're doubtful
of Its coming. Then i would call Phoebe!
Phebep and down would fly the charming
little bird and nestle on my shoulder, never
alighting on any one but me.
There was one thing which puzzled little
Phoebe very much, and that was why
changed color so often-one day all white
and the next all black-and would have To
be assured by my voice before she would
come to me. She would sit on a twig and
turned downward. During this period of
several weeks Phoebe always came home at
night to her clean, warm nest in her own
little cage. About this time she got ac-
quainted with her own relatives, and
Vnpw 10 n.I l.x,4 cI.r ,I~
CAME at my call until the autumn, when
she went away to warmer land. i be-
lieved that if Phoebe lived through the
winter she would come again TO me, but
was not there, and / can only hope that all
the little boys and girls were good to her.
Don't VOnfv
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Business Embarrassments.

NEW YORK, Jan. fudge Beach, of the
Supreme Court, to-day handed down de-
cision setting aside the assignment of
Payne, Steck 81 Co., jewellers. on the ground
of fraud, on the suit of ID. Wilcox, a credit
or. The firm failed on Dec. %, 1887, with
liabilities of $500, 600 and assets only $4,000.
Just prior to the failure the firm confessed
Judgment to relatives for $50, 600. and Payne
drew SAC, 600 from the funds of the firm for
his own use.
ST. PAUL, Jan. THE firm of Wemot,
Howard & Co.. doing business at $50 and
SSS Jackson street. made an assignment to-
day to Joseph Lackey. The firm came to
st. Paul from Dubuque, Ia. about year
ago, and are reported as being. behind in
their accounts at that time. Their assets
are probably $4,000 to $4,000, and their
liabilities q little less. The assignment was
brought on by suit brought by John L.
Reynolds.
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 1.-THE ID. Keefer
Milling Company. of Covington, KY. as
signed to-day to B. +. Grasiania. The as
sets are supposed to be $4,000 to 500, ZOO,
while the liabilities are estimated at $780,
600 to $15O,OOO. The death of Mr.. ID. Keefer,
president of the company, last week. and
the filing of q suit to-day by the First Ma
tional Bank for S6S. 600, caused the assign
ment The flOur-mill has been attached by
the bank.
CHICAGO, Jan. THE Maenberg Brick
Manufacturing Company made voluntary
assignment to-day to Wylly $. Abbott. The
liabilities are $4,000 and the assets S50,000.
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THE LITTLE HIGH-CHAIR.
Bit Of Life History Disclosed by q Scene
I'm an Auction Room.

Bit Of Life History Disclosed by q Scene
I'm an Auction-Room.
Detroit Free Press.
There was an auction at one of the down
town auction houses recently. A pale, sad,
in crowd. The loud-voiced auctioneer
finally came to lot of plain and somewhat
worn furniture. 1t had belonged to the
plain woman, and was being sold to satisfy
the mort gage on it. One by one the articles
wero sold, the old bureau to one. the easy
rocker to another, and a bedstead TO a
third.
Finally the auctioneer hauled ont
child's high-chair. 1t was old and rickety.
laughed-everybody excepting the pale
faced woman. A tear trickled down her
cheek. The auctioneer saw it, and some
how a lump seemed TO come up his throat,
and his gruff voice grew soft. He remem-
bered little high-chair at home. and how
it had once filled his life with sunshine.
1t was empty now. The baby laugh, the
two little hands that were once held out TO
greet papa" from that high-chair were
gone forever. He saw the pale-faced
womans piteous looks, and knew what it
meant; knew that in her eye the little
rickety high-chair was more precious than
if it had been made of gold and studded
with diamonds. In imagination he could
see the little dimpled cherub which it once
held; could see the chubby little fist grasp
ing the tin rattle-bOx and pounding the
chair full of nIcks; could see the little feet
which had rubbed the paint off of the legs;
could hear the growing and laughing in
glee-and now, the little high-chair was
empty.
He knew there was an aching void in the
pale-faced woman's heart; there was In his
own. Somehow the day may come and 60,
but you never get over it. There is no one
to dress in the morning, no one to put to
bed at night. Don't laugh" said the auc-
tioneer, softly, as somebody facetiously
offered ten cents; many of you have little
empty high-chairs at home which money
lie handed the clerk bill out of his own
pocket and remarked, "Sold TO the lady
right there" and as tho pale-faced woman
walked out with the little high-chair
clasped in her arms, and tears streaming
down her cheeks, the crowd stood back re-
spectfully, and there was a suspicious
moisture in the eyes of the man who had
bid ten cents.
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Losses by Fire.

CHICAGO, Jan. There was a small fire
and great food early this morning at
1.-The Mention" apartment building, at the
southwest corner of Dearborn avenue and
Erie street. The estimated damages by fire
is $500; by water, $4,000.
JACKSON, O., Jan. THE fire department
at this place was called to Wellsburg to-
day, where the Scott Block and twelve
other buildings were burned before the fire
was under control.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. THE large farm
residence of Morgan Hall, near Aza1ia, Bar
thOlOmew county, was destroyed by fire
about noon to-day. The furniture in all
the rooms except the kitchen was saved.
Several hundred blu shells of apples stored
in the cellar were destroyed. The fire orig
mated in the shingles of the kitchen roof.
The loss is about $500. Insured for 81, 800
in the Ohio Farmers Company.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Senate Passes the Resolution Disappearing
European Control of the Panama Canal.

Senate Passes the Resolution Disappearing
European Control of the Panama Canal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Mr. HOar, from the
judiciary committee, reported back the
Senate bill to abolish Circuit Court powers
in certain District Courts of the United
States, and to provide for writs of error in
capital cases. He stated that it was in
tended to apply to the State of Arkansas
and the Indian Territory, where, in capital
cases, exceptions had, under existing law, to
be argued before the judge who sat at the
trial. The bill had been carefully cOnsid-
cred last session, and passed both houses,
failing to become law only for want of
the Presidents signature before adjourn
ment. The bill was passed.
Mr.. COckrell, from the committee on pub
lie lands reported the bill to establish the
Lincoln land district in the Territory of
New Mexico and made like statement as
to it's having passed both houses last ses-
sion, and failed to receive the Presidents
signature before adjournment. The bill
was passed.
Mr.. Chandlerreported resolution. which
was referred to the committee on con-
tingent expenses instructing the COM
mittee on the Mississippi river to con-
tinue its investigations of the existing and
proposed methods of work, including the
whole subject of the Mississippi river, and
the resolution heretofore offered by Mr..
mines and mining to inquire whether there
have been distractions of mining opera
tions in Nevada ON account of prosecutions
recommended by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, was taken up and
agreed to.
The resolution reported from the COM
mittee on foreign relations, in reference to
the Panama canal, was then taken up, and
Mr.. Gray arose to make some remarks, but
was interrupted by motion made by Mr..
Edmunds and seconded by Mr.. Hoar, that,
in the consideration of that subject, the
doors be closed.
The galleries were accordingly cleared,
the doors closed. and the Senate, at 1885
proceeded to the discussion of the subject
In secret session.
The secret session continued until $40
o'clock, when the doors were re-Opened. 1t
was then found that the discussion had been
carried on by Senators Edmunds, Morgan,
Sherman. Gray and Jones, of Arkansas, and
that the joint resolution was adOpted-yeas,
40; nays, 8, having been modified so as to
read:
Resolved, BY the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled that the government will
look with serious concern aid disapproval upon
with the construction control of any ship
canal across the Isthmus Of Darien, or across
Central America, and must regard any such con-
nection control as injurious to the just rights
and interests OF the United States and as a men,
ace to their welfare.
Section 2 That the President be and he is here
by requested to communicate these expression of
the views of the government of the United States
to the governments OF the countries OF Europe.
The vote in detail.
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Lost with the Paris C. Brown.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. IA special to the
Times-DemOcrat from Bayou Sara gives the
following list of persons lost by the sinking
of the steamer Paris G. Brown near Hermit
age Landing, Saturday night: Mr.. Miller,
cabin passenger, of Vicksburg: VIM. Mitch
ell, cabin crew, Gallipolis, Ohio; also, a
cabin boy, name unknown: VIM. Marshall,
of Cincinnati, ladies' cabin man; the porter
and barber both of Cincinnati; James Har-
risOn, second pantry man; VIM. Taylor, night
Waterman, of Memphis; John Bolan, ''shin-
en-" of Cincinnati; Samuel Gray, fireman,
and Abraham Mitchell, fireman, both of
Cincinnati
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ILLINOIS.
Death from the Shock and Loss of Blood
Caused by q Shotgun Wound.

Death from the Shock and Loss of Blood
Caused by Shotgun Wound.
Burglars entered the residence of n. w.
Holland, grain merchant at PatOka,
recently, and stole two watches and $175 in
money.
William Parish. a fifteen-year-old boy,
who. with Frank Jacobs, committed a bold
burglary at FairmOunt few weeks ago.
has been arrested at Osceola. Neb.
Charles Meyer. of Nashville, accidentally
fired charge of shot into his face on Sat
urday He may recover, but it will prob
ably be at the loss of his facial beauty.
III. II. Harris, who escaped from the
courtroom at Decatur, just as the judge
was about to sentence him to Joliet for
forgery, has been captured at Holton, Kan.
James H. Scott, of Towanda Meadows,
Mclean county, has been stricken with
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instead of sevenmen to select for his Cabinet
as the members of the House committee of
Department of Agriculture and Commerce
are willing to recede from their position
and accept the demands of the Senate. The
principal point at issue has been the trans
fer of the signal service from the War De-
partment to the Agricultural Department.
which has been insisted upon by the House
but opposed by the Senate. Those i'll
charge of the bill in the House are of opin-
ion that it is better to surrender this point
expect in another Congress to amend the
law so that not only the signal service, but
the Land Office, shall be added to the new
department.. 1t is understood. however,
that the President is not, entirely satisfied
with the bill, and is likely to veto it.
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paralysis, and is lying at the point of death.
He is brother of ex-Justice Scott, of the
Supreme Court of Illinois.
The Church of God, new bethel erected
at Milmine. Piatt county. was dedicated on
Saturday. The address was delivered by Rev.
j. X III. Latchan president of Findlay Col
lege, of Findlay q. He was assisted by
Rev. L. j. Crowder. of Macon. Ill.