The Monticellonian., 1894-12-14


 NJ. LEON SAY. in the discussion on the budget in the French chamber, on the Sd, expressed himself IS opposed to an income tax. NJ. Poincar proposed that a personal progressive rebate tax be imposed.
 FAILURES for the week ended on the 7th, as reported by R. C. Dun X Co., were: For the United States 3s5, against 3s5 for the corresponding week last year; and for Canada 10, against 1? last year.
 NJ. IIENRI iIorssAIE, the French his torian and critic, was, on the 9th, elected member of the Academic Franeaise Emile Zola, who was also q candidate for membership did not receive a single vote.
 THE cash balance in the treasury on thc 9th was Sl54, ,9fo. S44. net gold, S111,- liz. .020. It k understood the entire amount of gold called for under the bids for the new bonds has been de posted in the s0b-treasury at New York.
 
 A BILL passed to the third reading in the South Carolina legislature makes intoxication and drunkenness and the nsc of profanc and obscene language misdemeanors punishable by fine or imprisonment. The use of an ordinary profane word will cost 8 to S50 under the law.
 SOME time ago several farmers liv- ing near Cushing, Okla, gave deputy marshals infOrma tion about the gang of outlaws that infest that region. On the 9th four of the outlaws visited the home of Cyrus King, one of the farmers, shot him to death and burned his property.
 THoMAN's crop reports. publis he'd in the Cincinnati Price Current on the 5th, and which coincide in most par ticulars with the government report, make the acreage of winter wheat as compared with last year, l01.9 per cent, and the condition, as compared with normal, 94.7 per cent.
 w. E. ROBERTSON. who was cashier of bank at Salida. Col, and received deposits when he knew the bank was insolveut, was released from the prison at Canon City, on the 4th, after years sentence, and pleading guilty to four other charges was immediately sent back for another term of three years.
 AN application for the use of the Cleveland (0.) Grays armory for lee ture to be given by Col. w. C. F. Breck- inridge has been refused. "The armory was engaged for that night" said Mir J. R. McGuigg, president of the board of trustees, on the 7th, but in any event it would not have been rented to Breckinridge.
 DAVID JoYGE, the millionaire lum- herman of Lyons, la, died, on the 4th, at Minneapolis, Mnn.. of paralysis. aged nearly 70 He was connected with twelve sawmill plants in various parts of the country. and had business interests in twentY-two different local ities in northern Iowa. The remains were taken to Lyons for burial
 TIE president and directors of Georgetown college. district of Colum- bia. issued regulation, on the 4th, adopted in faculty meeting, prohibit ing the student from playing football with teams, whether collegiate or other, from outside the college, until the character and rules of the game shall have been radically modified.
 THOMAS F. PRoCToR, president of the United States Lea ather Co.,, sometimes called the Leather Trust, died in Bos- ton on the 7th. Mr. Proctor the most prominent man in the leather trade, was about 60 years of age, and was born in South Danvers (now Peabody, Mass, in which town he received his carly education, He grew to be the largest individual tanner in the coun- try
 IT was announced, on the 7th, that eleven boxes of arms and ammunition had been received at Thompson's, Utah. shipped by Gov. West for use of the settlers against the Indians in San Juan county. Military men insist that the Indians have Il right to graze their animals in southwest Utah, and that soldiers will protect them in so doing. settlers and cowboys, they say, have nc right in that country.
 EVERY indication points to vigor' ous attack in the house of representa- tives from the south and west upon the recent bond sales of the treasury de partment On the eth Gen. Hooker, ot Mississippi, introduced in the house q bill repeating section of the bill pro viding for the resumption of specie payments This is the act under which the late bond issues have leer made and the object of the bill is tc revoke this power.
 TIE pension appropriation bill as re ported to the house, on the 9th, by MT ONeil of Massachusetts. carries an ap propriation of SI41, ,5Sl, gro being S200, 900 less than the estimates and Sl0, 20 below the appropriation for tue cur rent fiscal year.