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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
REPUBLICANS GATHERING IN LONDON
A SECRET CAUCUS HELD BY MEMBERS OF
THE LEGISLATURE.

THE LEGISLATURE.
London KY, Feb (SpeciaD.-The Republ-
can members OF the Legislature will soon get
down to business in response to the Governor
proclamation that they were to meet here. They
continued to come into town to-day until to-
night there thirtyive of them here, and
they met In caucus in the Court House at
o'clock The session was secret.
The members decided it would be unwise to
assume that the Democratic officers of the
House and Senate would not come here to attend
the meeting and they therefore decided to re-
frain from selecting officers pro tenn. except in
the case of the President of the Senate.
1t is known that the Northumberland,
John Marshall, will not be here, and therefore
the Senators held caucus separately and Sc
lected Senator R. NJ. jolly as president pro tenn.
Senator Jolly's son, Edwin was selected as a
page They appointed Senators jolly, Dye and
Huntsman, and the House caucus appointed
Representatives Reed, flanagan Bethuram and
HasweIl committee to draft suitable resolu-
tons on the death of Senator Goebel, and it
was decided to adjourn tomorrow until Thurs
dsy out of respect to the memory of the dead
Senator.
Governor Taylor ordered the Barboursville
company of militia to come here to-day to see
that the peace is kept. They came in their citi-
zens' clothes. There were ninety of them. They
they came out in their new uniforms which had
been shipped 10 them from the capital, and
they gave a drill for hour on the seminary
campus.
Senator Jolly, who is close to Governor Taylor,
said that the bringing of the guards here is only
precautionary measure; that the people are
so worked up that he does not know what might
happen, and in order to be on the safe side he
sent troops here. Circuit Judge Brown opened
his court here to-day with speech, in which
he took the sensational newspapers to task for
misrepresenting the town and people of London
most law abiding Of any in the State. A local
for the Divine blessing those who had come
through which Kentucky is now passing would
end in peace.
The Republican leaders have abandoned the
idea of arresting the absent legislators and
bringing them here by force. They have de-
cided to meet and adjourn from day TO day,
in the hope that the Democrats will come here
and join with them in a great deal of legisla-
ton that is badly needed for the welfare of the
whole people
If the Democrats dc not come the Republi-
will continue to meet and adjourn until
the session expires. While the Republican
members Of the Legislature are much de-
termined ever that they will hold on to the
offices to which they have been elected, there
is feeling that the troubles which have racked
the State from end to the other about
over, and that within a week ten days the
Democrats will see how futile are their efforts
to thwart the will of the people and will give
up the fight ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
I'm getting on nicely where am; don't helIsxe I

I'm getting on nicely where am; don't believe
Certainly. l always tote a gun. In nv hin
poeketY Oh, no. That's too much of a giveswnv
mere where IL Is can get at 1t there without
t the s,urronnding population saying Look out
Sninhs pulins a gum Then can do a little bust.
ness with en- But no mountains for yours truly
po t you know Il was to start up there it wouldn't
taneers with squirrel rifle behind every tnnJner
bush along the big road. And he'd be crazy To- In
stltute democratic funeral right of too Excuse
me; out have no desire to have somebody pull a
sheet down OF or my face and remark Poor Jack
rnisntuirs a ctineh-that want to BIZ Goebe
spite Of al these blue beed boys and Dan Toii,ar
over there; But rs this way, you know: l don't
wan 20 nave any singing at my house II can't
hear It That's the way Il Is with me-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
SUPREME COURT BUSINESS.
APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIoRARI
IN THE CARTER CASE MADE.

washington Feb. 5.-Abram j. Rose representing
ex-Captain Oberlin M Carter, to-day made a
formal application 10 the United States Supreme
Court for writ of Certiorari to be directed to the
Circuit Court of Appeals for the lid Circuit The
Court announced that it would consider the petition
and ten days allowed for the Solicitor General
to prepare brief in opposition. II the petition is
granted the effect will be to bring the to this
court for review.
The Supreme Court decided the controversy be-
tween the United States and the Tennessee and
Coosa Railroad Company over the land grant of
that company in the State of Alabama. The Court
held that the decision of the Circuit Court of Ap-
peals for the With Circuit had been correct In
awarding the land to the railroad company, SO far
the road had been completed but 1t remanded
the case for further investigation of the award
of the grant Of six miles of the proposed road
which had not been completed within the time
required.
The Court adjourned until February g.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
SIBLEY NOW A REPUBLICAN,.
THE PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSMAN AGAIN
ARoUsEs DEMOCRATIC WRATH.

Washington, Feb BIN the House to-day Mr..
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, called down uron him
self the wrath of the Missouri Democrats by
reading a letter from former Democratic
member of the House from Missouri who sup
ported the Chicago platform" indorsing the
speech he made few days ago He drew a
round OF applause from the Republicans by tell
ing the Democrats that hereafter they could
consider his seat constructively on the Republi-
side.
Mr.. Cochran. Of Missouri, replied to Mr. Sibley
in warm five minute speech.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
Frankfort
News.

Colonel jack Chinn. racehorse man. ex-Con-
federate cavalryman, and a about whom more
falry tales have been told than any in the
state or Kentucky. in telling the story of the
wrongs Democracy has suffered in the corncrac ker
state, makes some characteristic remarks
It's qualified outrage, sab the Way
we've been treated by the - qualified cor
poratlons in this election. And, then, these noun
tain citizens and their meetings. What rot!
10 ca those weevil Drained ginseng diggers repre-
sentatiVes OF Kentucky manhood Why. II any of
EN- ever to eat two kinds of grub one meal
u would surprise his stomach so badly that he'd
nave nervous prostration and die of the shock Go
up there? on, no, i guess not. Not any for Jack
IL - any one was 70 offer me the best coal mine IN
tne mountains and say Go up there Jack and
take charge OF g.. Jack would say Excuse me, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
RELIC OF WAsHINGToS's ANCESTORS.

MAY BE BROUGHT FROM WILTSHIRE. ENGLAND.
TO THIS COUNTRY.
Washington. Feb. 5.-Representative Kahn. Of San
Francisco has received a letter from DR.. Robert
Davies OF that city telling OF the successful Efforts
he has made 10 secure from England the gravsstora
OF Lawrence and Elizabeth Washington. ancestors
OF George Washington. which he desires to have
deposited in the Washington Monument or tha
Smithsonian Institution. DR. Davies located rba
stone in churchyard In Wiltshire and identified N
by the family coat Of arms. He has been ns1orf-
ating with the parish authorities. and has ansIIv
overcome all obstacles to bringing the relics n,
America: Mr.. Kahn will lay the matter before fbsr
authorities here "0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT.

PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY AND CIVIL. APPOINT
MENTs.
Washington Feb. 1.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate to-day:
NAVY
Commander J.. F. MERRY, captain: Lieutenant w
F. FULI.AM, be lieutenant commander: Lieutenant
(junior grade) II. II. CALDWELL. be lieutenant:
Lieutenant Commander L. r. HARRIS. to be a COM
mander; Medical Inspector WILLIAM G. FARwELL
10 be medical director; Surgeon D. n. BERTO-
LETTE. to be a medical inspector: Pay Inspector d
A. SMITH. TO be pay director the Rev. Z. r
REYNOLDS Maryland. be chaplain
THAD A. THOMSON OF Austin. Tex. to be Super
visor OF the Census for the Xth District Of Texas.
JOSEPH o. SMITH of Cortez. COL TO be The
Indians of the Southern Ute Agency In Colorado.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
OPINIONS OF EMINENT JURTSTs
THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN RE-
SORTED TO.
Tny TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

IBy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBuNE.l
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir Replying to your telegram, just received,
can see no reason for the present unfortunate
condition of affairs in Kentucky. The courts OF
the State have ample powers to prevent the
usurpation OF authority and to restrain Illegal
action by the respective claimants. Their aid
should have been invoked at the beginning of
the trouble. Neither party can afford or be per-
mitted to resist their DEGREES
S. LESLIE MESTREZAT,
Justice of Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

enulased>and his memory will be reverenced Tor
centuries, and
"TelI my friends to be brave and fearless anu
iva, n the great common people"
.. those dying words of William Goepei ps
rnf in granite and engraved on the pages ol
Ee,frckv history. Let them stand q beacon
iirs,t bursting through the clouds of malignity,
slanaer and falsehood, intended TO develop, op-
srr~e and destroy him. He died a martyr 10
those moving in the humber walks of life, from
which he sprang. Had he lived he would have
neen TO Kentucky what George washington
was To America what Diaz is to Mexico. But
Re died: he foully. cowardly, infamously
shot and his Death will be to those he sought
TO Cuba"
No Iabored panegyrc can strengthen his
memory in the bleeding hearts of every true
Kentuckian no vocabulary can bestow a eu-
Iogv satisfying to the writer, who, with thou
sands had been drawn to him by his noble,
patriotic purposes and his ability to LEAD, 10
execute and to command. His devotion to the
common people was remarkable, yet they had
only fairly begun to know him. so retiring ana
modest was his disposition.
To be cruelty shot down by a craven coward
liz the zenith of his manhood. just as ne mao
reached the goal of his ambition, is indeed de-
plorable and calamitious to those he would serve
So we'll and the facts and circumstances sur
rounding his assassination will cling to Repup-
licanisrn in Kentucky like the poison OF Nessus,
until they consume its flesh and rot Its very
bones
Thousands of copies of the paper containing
the foregoing editorial are being scattered wide
srread over the State obviously for the purpose
OF firing the Democratic heart.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

Washington, Feb. 5.-The Adjutant-GeneraI has
received telegram from Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral Mccain. at Vancouver Barracks. Washington,
saying that Colonel Ray. at Fort Gibbon, Alaska
reports the safe arrival there of Lieutenant
and his party, who were supposed have been lost
while exploring the Copper River country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

purpose OF the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
was. at every cost and hazard. to defeat the
election of Mr. William Goebel."
AUGUST BELMONT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
GOVERNMENT OF PHILIPPINES.
MR. PAYNE INTRODUCES BILL CONFER
RING POWER ON THE PRESIDENT.

Washington. Feb 5.-Representative Payne, of
New-York to-day introduced bill similar in
terms to that of Senator Spooner. in relation to
the suppression of the instruction in the Phil
ippines. and giving the President power to regu-
late affairs after the instruction shall have
been suppressed, until otherwise provided by
Congress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

RETURN OF LIEUTENANT HEBRON AND PARTY
WHO WERE THOUGHT TO BE LOST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

Louisville, KY, Feb 5.-The following tele-
gram was received by Milton w Smith. pres-
dent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

EXPLORERS BACK FROM COPPER RIVER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

Who would think there was in
sanity behind drop of water? But IT l
there is. 1t favorite torture | |
IN the old days to fasten the victim -
where water should slowly drip on | |
his forehead. In little while he III |
was bowling maniac. -
Women do not, as a rule, realize ~ | |
how the steady drains which some Isl |
times afiict them must at last react 49,
on the mind. Sometimes, If is only
fretfulness, irrltabiiIty or peevish-
ness. At other times the condition passes bevond
unreasonableness to irrat;ona lily.
With the relief of the body from disease, Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription gives also a cheer
ful mind and conteuted spirit. When the drains
and pains stopped the mind scars up like
balloon from which dead weight has been cast out
Mothers who never knew happy moment when
the birth hour confronted them, and Younger
women doomed each month to period of mental
depression as well physical suffering, have
found perfect cure by the use of I" Favorite Pre-
scrpton.n II contains no alcohol, neither opium,
cocaine or other form of narcotic.
suffered with female weakness about eight yearstried
doctors but derived benefit until began using
Of Danpilie BOYLE Co. KY. HThis medicine
nended 70 by other patients have taken six bottles
and feel like another person"
Fl took your medicine six months and
Annic stephens of BeieviIle Wood Co, kS
sse va no s, aave an n0 nse took seven
bottles Of DR.. Pierces Favorite Prescrip NA
ton aad seven bottles OF his Golden tlIFA
Medical Discovery / think there is no LIZA
medicine like d.. Pierce s.. / can't speak T7A
done me 80 much good ] don't feel tired gy9AaA
as used 70. nor sick feel ., vel, y, and and
PieToes Fsvcrite Prescription" ER
DIR. P;erce's Pleasant Pellets are WI
graduated TO the sensitive system g.
of women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

To NJ. w. Smith, president Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad. Louisville, KY.
My attention is called to an editorial in THE
Courier Journal" Of February ), said 10 be from
the pen of Colonel Watterson, abiding TO let
ter addressed TO me by him and my reply in
June last, and to certain resolutions passed by
the Board of the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company as result of a consideration OF
this letter.
lie mind In Kentucky renders it unWise 10 add
this correspondence a subject for controversy
at time when cool reason would not be likely
to deal with ii, nor do feel quite prepared TO
give publicity at this time Colonel Waiter
sons letter without his permission / feel that
should say, however, that neither the CORE
company has furnished any justification for
Colonel Watterson's statement that athe sole
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06

NewYork, February g.
To NJ. w. Smith, president Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad. Louisville XIV
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WHAT CITY JUDGES SAY.

Justice of Supreme Court Of Pennsylvani;
Philadelphia. Feb. B.
Iron County register., 1900-06-07
JAPANESE FUNERALS.
Always Much Pomp and Ceremony IN
Paying the Last HOnOrs
to the Dead.

To be buried with pomp and cere-
mony is the lifelong ambition of a
Japanese. The higher the rank the
greater the display. When the en-
press dowager died in 1897 no less
| than 100000 was appropriated from
the national treasury. The cere-
monies occupied several weeks, as
they were conducted according to an
cient usage.
A few days ago, says the Indianap-
oils Press, the funeral of a lady OF
the higher class in Toxic was attend
ed by a vast concourse of people and
with large expenditure of money.
Large edifices were erected near the
family vault for the mourners. The
service was chanted by so Buddhist
priests, the principal of whom pro-
nounced a warm and sympathetic ora
tion in memory of the deceased lady
whose noble character had won uni
versal esteem. Recently a CORE
spondent, while out in jinrikisha,
saw Il great concOurse of people
assembled in front of a silk store,
and learned that one of the firm
had died, and this was his funer-
al. He hurried on and took a
position near bridge that led to the
temple. First in the procession came
a body OF men in gray tunics. These
were followed by a great number of
Japanese in their siIi<en robes, that
set off their fine, intelligent faces.
Then came the priests with their
shaven heads, over which men carried
large red japanese parasols. After
these a company of men with queer
head-covering of straw, like an invert-
ed bread basket, carrying in their
hands sprigs of paper lotus. About
midway in the procession was the
bier, made of unpainted wood and COW
cred with royal purple drapery and
borne on the shoulders of eight men,
the mourners, on foot, looking like
so many girls going to their first
communion, as they were dressed in
white, with white wells and carrying
in their hands dishes of rice, fish and
fruit. These were following by men
in white, bearing tree-like lotus plants
in wicker baskets.
The gold and silver paper flowers
reflected the morning sun and gave
color to this most picturesque process
sion. At intervals there were men
bearing wicker baskets on long poles,
containing birds, that were to be
freed at the grave, symbolical of the
freeing of the spirit from the earthly
cage of the body. A band of music
added it's mournful strains as it
passed through wall of japanese on
either side of the street. It was diff
cult to tell whether the deceased was
Buddhist or Shintoist, as there
was a blending of the ceremonies Pc
culiar to these religions
Iron County register., 1900-06-07
The Gtraffe,s Tfmiditv.

A giraffe is very timid on hearing
slight sounds, but is Indifferent to
loud ones. A writer in the Leisure
Hour says: Noisy sounds, like a
man walking with hobnail boots, it
does not notice: but lady coming
in with hardly more sound than the
rustling of her dress makes it start,
with pricked ears ,and eyes dis
tended. We remember well, after a
terrible explosion of gunpowder on a
barge on the canal, asking the keeper
of the giraffes of that day how they
had taken it, and he said he was sur
prised how very little notice they
took; they jumped to their feet. but
almost at once lay down again, when
they found nothing happened. But
he added, ''if 1 were at night time to
creep along that gallery in my socks,
they would be so scared that / believe
they would dasha themselves to bits
They fear the lurking foe. and big
bang scares them less than a faint,
rustling sound. They are in that re-
spect very deer-like.
Iron County register., 1900-06-07
FOOD FOR BIRDS.
How Ii May BE Supplied Through ths
Long Winter and Pretty
Nests in Summer.

Food in winter and lodging in sum.
mer may be provided for great num-
Der of birds in very simple way
You have only to buy a few cocoanuts.
cut off the ends, like taking the top
off an egg. which can easily be done
with sharp chisel and mallet, bore
holes through the sides, put string
through and knot it. and then hang
the cocoanut from the creeper or a
bough. Thus for a few cents you can
provide food for birds for weeks or
months.
Last winter our cocoanuts were sell
dom let alone for many moments.
Birsd swarmed on them, lowering
themselves down by the string. and.
at last when confidence was quite es-
tablisned. flying straight in. They
worked away at them from early morn
&ill dewy eve.
When all the nut is eaten the shells
make excellent nesting places, and
will probably be taken possession of
by the same birds that hollow them
out, if the shells are left out through
the summer. In this way both board
and lodging are provided on most
reasonable terms, with no extras. In
the hardest weather the food sup
ply is always available, and if you
arc away from home for a few days
you know the birds Will not be in
Iron County register., 1900-06-07
A BACK YARD CAMPAIGN.
The Ba-ad Nan Went Forth to SIay,
Bat Changed His Mind Very
Speedily.

what! throwing old fruit cans, cab
bage roots and dead branches into our
! yard? Fine new neigh Dor. that, I must
say. / guess I won't do more than a
! few things to him. o, In be modest
III my demands. All I'll insist upon is
! that he come this side of the fence,
| throw the rubbish back and enter into
! an agreement to never commit like
! trespass as long as he lives here
'"Bu; suppose that he refuses, dear?"
''The,. I'll take the law into my own
hands. I'll make him think that the
earth exploded. and then I'll pay my
fire like a gentleman and a patriot
I'm easy to lead, but when it comes to
riding me, I'm ba-ad. That's what I
am
''Please don't have any trouble
"No trouble at all. He'll clean uE
or get cleaned out. ] want everybody
to understand distinctly that my house
is my castle and that my backyard is
not dumping ground
Then. says the Detroit Free Press
this vigiiant defender of his rights
took 6 look up and down Vinewood
avenue TO see that there was no police
Kan III : IL [ " WITH HIS CdH1-
paign plans, hurried out the back way
and came upon the new neighbor toss
ing dead grape vine over the fence.
Here, you," yelled the proprietor
and there was dynamite danger in his
voice.
Well" and the offender straight
ened up. He is built on the lines CT
Jeffries. and that ''well'' sounded like
blast in ccal mine.
''Er. howdy do. Glad to meet you.
I just wanted to ask it as a favor that
YOU throw any old roots and bushes
and things into my lot. The boys want
'em for a bonfire on the Fourth. don't
you see?''
Heavens" he added, when safely
in the house again. But when he
learned it was all practical joke put
up by his brother-in-law, limitations
to the right of publication were hope,
1eSSfy exceeded
Iron County register., 1900-06-07
The Unsteady North Pole.

Although the inhabitants of the
earth are not perceptibly affected by
the wandering motion of the north
pole, yet it is phenomenon of unceas-
ing interest to astronomers, and on
January 1 a new plan for investigating
it went into effect, says Youths Com
nion. The motion, which is sugges-
i've of the wabbling of top, is ex.
tremely slight when the vast size OF
the earth is taken into account Since
1890 the north pole has never seen
more than 35 feet away from the place
it should occupy if the earth's axis
of revolution never varied in direction.
But the motion is erratic, and it's cause
is obscure. The new plan of observa-
tion was formed by the international
Geodetic association. 1t provides four
observing stations, all close to the
thirty-ninth degree of north latitude,
and all within 500 feet of the same
parallel. These are at Midzusawa,
Japan; Carloforte, Sardinia; Gathers
burg, Nd, and Ukiah, Cal. Precisely
similar observations with exactly the
same kind of zenith telescopes viii be
made at each station on carefully Sc
lected stars. Any change in the direc-
tion of the pole reveals itself by shift
of the stars.