Year: 1879

from Tyner about making two appoint
ments in the Interior Department at
salaries of 2,5o0 each, and asking Chand-
Ter to do this and have the money
deposited in some national bank SO that it
might be drawn in indianapolis by the
Republican committee. The kilograms
also contained the names of the persons to
be appointed. He could not remember
what those names were, but he believes
one was Martin. Mr.. Chandler telegraphed
he had deposited the money as requested.


AN Iuka, Miss, special says: At seven
O'Clock Thursday morning this place was
visited by terrible cyclone. Itappeared
to come from the southwest to northeast, in
its course riking the southeastern portion
of the town on the hill, mostly occupied
by colored people, instantly killing
colored woman and child and four other
colored children, two of whom were not
found until the next day and then
quarter of mile from home, the head of
one having been severed from his body.
Eight others, coiored persons, were
wounded, one of whom died. The others
wounded are doing well, Though one is
suffering terribly from q broken thigh, and


another from broken arm. Four house
were blown down AMI one church. A
wagon was carried nile and imbedded in
the ground. The tornado lasted but few
minutes, and its track is not over two hun
dred yards wide. 1t swept everything
within reach. Its course was towards the
Mississippi River, where it struck Newport,
badly damaging that town and breaking
ehiid's arm. Some timbers of a house
blown away were found TWO miles distant.


THE "Pension Arrears Bill, which
passed both Houses by a large majority, and
was lately signed by the President, enacts
that all pensions which have been granted
under the general law regulating pensions:
or may hereafter be granted in consequence
of death from a cause which originated in
the United States service during the con-
tinuation of the late war of the rebellion, or
in consequence of wounds, injuries or dis
ease received or contracted in said service
during said war, shall commence from the
date of discharge from said service of the
person on whose account claim has been
or hereafter shall be granted, or from the
termination of the right of the party having
prior title to such pension, provided the
rate of pension for the intervening time for
which arrears of pension are hereby granted
shall be the same per month for which pen
sion was originally granted. 1t also enacts
that section 4,717 of the revised statutes,
which provides that no claim for pension
not prosecuted to successful issue within
five years from the date of filing the same
shall be admitted without recorded evidence
from the war or navy department of injury
| or disease which resulted in the inability or
death of the person on whose account the
claim is made; oroUided that in any case in
which the limitation prescribed by this Sec
| tion bars further prosecution of the claim,
| the claimant may present through the pen
sion Office to the Adjutant General of the
army or Surgeon General Of the navy, evil
dence that the disease or injury which re-
suited in the disability or death of tie per-
son on whose account the claim is made
originated in the service and in the line of
| duty and if such evidence is deemed salts
| factory by the officer to whom it may be
| submitted, he shall cause record of the


fact SO proved to be made, and a copy of the


same transmitted to the Commissioner OF


Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution OF


the claim shall thereby be removed and the


same is hereby repealed. No claim agent


or other person shall be entitled to receive


compensation for services in making ap


plieation for arrears OF pension.