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REDPATIWS WEEKLY.
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December 14, 1882.] :
AT HOME.
and a quarter of inhabitants for the list two wee!
jt with us? Here are only a few of the American outrages
since our last issue.
Massachusetts leads off witha youth of fifteen shooting dead
his sister aged eight years.
In New York city on Thanksgiving night, James Brown, &
truck driver, was stabbed through the heart, by a gang of
roughs, on entering a saloon.
FM. McDowall was brutally murdered by a negro, near
‘ina.
a farmer residing at
Colorado, Dr. Evitsky, administered a leaden
pill to his partner, Dr. Clay, and then took the same prescrip-
tion himself, There are two doctors less there now.
Frank Iglebart, of St. Louis, was shot by the husband of a
lady with whora he was about to elope. ; ;
+ John Wheeler, of Chicago, shot and killed Bill Allen,
the negro murderer, while attempting to arrest him. .
Thomas Mahony, of Buffalo, murdered William Gaeef with
a hammer, after a quarrel. .
Prince Hayden, of Evansville, Ind., carried a cocked pis-
tol in his pocket to a dance, and while dancing the pistol ex-
ploded and killed his sweet-heart, and the relatives of the
girl charge that it was intentional murder.
William Ramsey, of East ‘Tennessee, was jealous of Vol
Clark, and, arming himself with a double-barreled shot-gun,
met Clark and emptied the contents of both barrels into his
body, killing him instantly. He then drew a revolver from
his pocket and killed himself.
Preparations seem to be meking in Chicago for another
“vindication” of a woman who has rounded her irregular re-
lations with aman by killing him. While Madeline Stiles,
on trial for the murder of Charles Stiles, was testifying, it is
reported that a remarkable scene occurred. The witness gave
a very minute account of ver life with Stiles, of bis treat-
ment and final desertion of her; and her midnight walk from
Sunnyside, where he had left her, back to the city, while
“the rain was falling in sheets” and ‘‘the lightning was 80
vivid that it seemed to burn itself into my brain.” , She was
“cold, wet, and in an agony of despair.” This rhetorical
i continued for some time, until, rising to a histri-
onic climax, the witness shrieked, ‘‘And then I killed bim ;”
.”” Of course ‘every eye”
id ‘‘ every ear
performance,” and ‘‘the te .
"The law which allows a prisoner to testify herself makes
his, her own counsel, Unless juries
not only will Madeline Stiles be ‘“tri-
umphantly acquitted,” but the jurors will probably regret that
they cannot inelude in their verdict a ju igment for a hand-
some testimonial to her at the public expense.
‘An altercation in New York means language, in Chicago
fists, in the South pistols. They bad an altercation down in
Frankfort, Ky., the other day, avd pistols were, of course,
the arguments used. It was a mere nothing—an every day
occurrence. Messrs. Charles E, Taylor, of the Western
Union Telegraph office, and Francis Montgomery, manager
of the Telephone Company, had a little talk—that was all.
The Western Union got it in the right arm, and the Tele-
phone Company in the left. Both gentlemen feel better.
COLORADO
Has produced 25,000,000 tons of coal for the year ending
Oct. 1, 1882. .
The output of gold and silver in Colorado for 1881, as
shown b: 6 annual report of the directors of the United
States mint at Washington, was $20,460,000.
CONNECTICUT:
mouth, Connecticut, an excited elector deposited his
butter bill in the ballot-box. After bis mistake was discov-
ered, he was itted to vote again, and that ballot elected
the representative in the Legislature from that district.
FLORIDA.
Lord Houghton’s newly-purchaced estate in Florida com-
prises 60,000 acres. Lord Houghton is largely interested in
sugar culture in Jamaica. He is better known to most read-
ers of poetry by his former name, Monckton Miles, than by
his aristocratic title. But it is infamous that a foreigner who
cannot be forced to fight for this country should be permitted
a foot of its soil. .
ber
for
‘An old gentleman residing in Simmons’ Gap, in Georgia,
has about as wide, varied, and full an experience of domes-
ticity as avy man since the days of King Augustus IL. of Po-
jand. This happy man, who has attained the patriarchal age
of fourscore years, has bad the supreme felicity of being mar-
ried nine times, and it is the ninth wife who is at present so-
n't say
rate, the present
Nor in wives alone has this fine
old gentleman been well and extensively endowed. Fifty-
three persons are entitled tocall him “papa,” and at a recent
family gathering over 300 of his descendants were present,
INDIANA.
"The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics authorizes the state-
ment that there is a full average of winter wheat, and that the
condition warrants estimating that it will yield a full average
erop.
INDIAN RESERVATIONS.
Gev. Sheridan says the Crow Indians in the Yellowstone
Valley, who number ‘only 3,400, have six million acres of val-
nable land in their reservation, from which they produce
nothing. This seems like an extravagant waste of the publio
domain, but after all it is small in comparison with the grant
of over forty million acres toa single railroad company.
KANSAS.
Jos. Morgan started a cattle ranch in Ford county, Kan-
sas, twelve years ago oD borrowed oapital. The other day he
sold a choice herd of 4,000 head for $100,000. ' Go west,
young man.” . . |
Land fraude of startling magnitude have been discovered
Little Compton, ~
each.
in Kansas, Numbers of entries of pretended settlers have
been made by cow-boys, who immediately turned the land
over to their employers, investigation is going on, and
the parties to the frauds will be prosecuted.
LOUISTAN A.
Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, has refused to issue a certifi-
cate of election to Senator Kellogg, who was a candidate for
Congress, on the ground of non-residence in the district or
State.
NEW JERSEY.
Southern Jergey has the prospect before it of becoming
one of the great wine producing districts of the United States.
Year by year the manufacture of wine increases, and that far
beyond the extornal demand for this product.
NEW YORK STATE.
R. Porter Lee, a defaulting President of the First National
Bavk, of Buffalo, has been sentenced taten years’ imprison-
m
ent.
“If in lawfully correcting a child or servant homocide re-
sults, the act is excusable,” says the Field Penal Code! That
is to say, one may commit murder with impunity, but dare
not buy a newspaper or get his boots blacked on Sunday un-
der pain of imprisonment.
Vanderbilt and Trinity Church, in New York, should be
warned that the heirs of Anneke Jans in Chicago are conspi-
ring to make them disgorge if they do not offer to compro-
m:
ise.
Governor-elect Cleveland had a brilliant reception at the
Manhattan Club, in this city, on Tuesday evening. In res-
ponding to the toast of his health, he said, in reference to the
recent victory, that if the party is to retain the confidence of
the people it must deserve it.
OH:
“Gath” tells, in a letter from Pittsburgh to the Cincinnati
Enquirer, of another great Ohio consolidation, called the
Standard Coal and Jron Company. ‘The company has a capi-
tal of $25,000,000, and owns 24,000 acres, according to W.
D. Lee, who is at the head of it, of the best coal lands in the
Hocking Valley. The $25,000,000 bonds issued by the com-
pany have been practically all’ taken, Boston and Eastern
holding large amounts, and New York being
also largely interested. The Boston and Ohio Railroad is
making connections with the purpose of runuing through the
property, and various new railroads are talked of in connec-
tion with the scheme. brief suggestion by Mr. Lee, who
talks very largely of the wealth of the company, is worth
thinking of —that it would take more than a page of the En-
quirer to print the names of the men in America who are
worth $1,000,000 at this moment. And among tbe other men
who belong to the company are ex-Secretary Blaine, who has
been remarkably successful in similar enterprises, and Sena-
tor Eugene Hale.
PENNSYLVANIA.
A sensation was caused in Philadelphia by the arrest of an
organized gang of grave robbers that bas for nearly twenty
years been despoiling Lebanon Cemetery.
UTAH. :
‘There is a difficulty in Utah arising from the refusal of the
incumbents of certain offices to turn them over to the
appointees of the Governor. The difficulty has originated
with the provisions of the Edmonds bill. motion for a
stay of proceedings pending av appeal to the Territorial Su-
preme Court, will be argued on Saturday.
WASHINGTON.
Congress met on Monday. The President's Message and
the Reports from the Departments were read.
essage recommends the reduction of internal taxa-
©
demns such wholesale extravagance as was embodied in the
River and Harbor Bill.
It suggests that Congress should authorize the President to
approve or veto each item of every appropriation bill, andurges
upon Congress the imperative need of further laws for the
protection of the invaluable forests on our public domain.
It promises that no Star-route conspirator shall escape pun-
ishment throngh avy lack of diligent effort on the part of the
Administration.
It recommends the reduction of postage from three to two
cents. . -
It expresses great sorrow that Chili is so exorbitant in her
demands on Peru, but proposes that we do nothing about it.
It explains why the proposed ‘‘Peace Congress” of American
nations was postponed, and advises tbat it be called at a
‘ature day.
It calls special attention to the wants of the Naval Depart-
ment for the building of ships, and the utter worthlessness of
our forts for protection in case of foreign war, .
egard to many o:her matters touched upon the Message
nr
is studiously indefinite, calling attention to needed reforms,
but making no recommendations as to methods
It recommends a national bankrupt law. It refers to the
amount of illiteracy iu the country, and thinks the General
Government should do something in the premises. It calls
attention to the inequalities and injustice caused by inter-
State commerce, and says it ie a proper subject for national
legislation It insists that some wise method of counting the
Presidential votes shall be devised. It refers to the contro-
yersy with Great Britain respecting the right of supervision
and control of an inter-oceanic canal across the American
Isthmus—a subject of the highest importance; and dismisses
it with the vague and puerile suggestion that ‘time will be
more powerfal than discussion in removing the divergence be-
tween the two nations, whose friendship is 80 closely cement-
ed by the intimacy of their relations and i
their interests ” A more unsatisfactory conclusion can hardly
conceived.
d to the arrest of American citizens in flagrant vio-
lation of all right and all Jaw, and their imprisonment without
so much as the formality of a trial, it apologizes for England’s
course by attributing the outrage to the disturbed condition of
Treland, and dismisses the matter, which is of the gravest im-
portance, with the assurance that ‘‘a disposition to respect
our rights has been practically manifested by the release of
the arrested parties.” Complimentary flunkeyism could no
farther go in that direction.
Republicans regard the President's Message as an able
document. Democrats regard it as an evidence that its au-
thor has been taught a lesson by the recent storm.
Commissioner Raum states in his report for the current
year that the collections of internal revenue will not fall be-
low $145,000,000, and that if the present rate of paying the
public debt be continued all the bonds subject to call will be
paid within three years. He recommends the repeal of taxes
on sugar, matches, patent medicines, bank checks, national
and savings bank deposits and capital, amounting to over
$73,000,000.
The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the
judgment which restores the Arlington estate to the Lee fam-
i ‘The estate was sold for taxes during the war, and bought
ii tates.
presentedat Washington his credentials
inis' enezuela.
Clayton McMichrel, of Philadelphia, has been appointed
United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, yice
enry removed. .
The United States sloop-of-war Juniata bas sailed to join
the Asiatic squadron.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made to launch the Uni-
ted States monitor Puritan, which has been on the stocks
since 1876.
A fearful picture of the destruction of life by our late war
is shown by the published report of the Commissioner of Pen-
sions. It shows a total number of enlistments, as re]
the Adjutant-General, of 2,780,178. Of these 716,878 were
counted more than once eason of reenlistment, leaving
the actual individual enlistments 2,063,291. Of these there
are living who have not applied for pensions 1,009,469.
living who have applied for pensions are 458,553, The num-
ber of the dead leaving pensionable relatives who have not
applied for pensions is 86,803. The number of dead leaving
pensionable relatives who have applied is 297,566. The num-
er of dead leaving no pensionable relatives is 220,000. Thus
of the whole number of actual individual enlistments, more
than one-half are included in the lists of dead either with or
without pension applications, and of those who have applied
or who have legal claims. Ont of the whole number of sol-
diers who served in the war for any term pensions have been
applied for in behalf of 26 per cent.
“The general proposition is presented that there is a sur-
viving soldier population of a little over ten hundred thou- +
sand out of which claims for pensions in the future may
made by those who incurred pensionable disabilities. With
this are the following pregnant figure
ing the war.
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WEST VIRGINIA,
At Wheeling, W. Va., manufacturers intend to begin mak-
ing nails from steel instead of iron.
FAMOUS AMERICANS.
Whittier will be 75 on the 17th inst.
Whittier receives baskets of flowers from classes of Boston
i is i as bashful as ever.
making a purchase
suggests a new attempt at monopoly—he has bought
a burial plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Josh Billings (H. W. Shaw), is sixty-three years old.
Hannibal Hamlin arrived in New York on Monday.
Wendell Phillips is just past 73 years.
General Stoneman is the first military man who has been
elected Governor of California since it has been a State.
Louisa Chandler Moulton, the poetess, has arrived from
road.
Governor-elect Waller, of Connecticut, has just received
from adwiring friends a small edition of the ‘‘ Democratic
rooster ” in gold, with diamond eyes, to be worn as a scarf-
Mr. Edwin Booth, who kas always declined to speak when
called out here, has appeared in the role of a before-the-cur-
tain orator on the other side. His speech on his last night in
Dublin was very effective, and satisfied a most fastidious gal-
‘Lhe Journal de Rome says that Bishop Spalding’s visit to
Rome is connected with a plan for the establishment of a
Roman Catholic University at Chicago, on the model of the
vain, where he took a theological degree. The London
Tablet thinks this more than likely.
Mr. George Augustus Sala, who delivers his opinion on all
matters American with ez-cathedra air, pronounces Mr. W.
M. Evarts the best raconteur in the United States, next to
Senator Bayard. The general public do not know the states-
man of the little State in that character. Mr. Evarts isa rec-
ognized jester.
‘Barnum has got all his animals into winter quarters at
Bridgeport, Jumbo eats every day 300 pounds of hay, three
bushels of oats, and fifty loaves of bread, and is still growing
in weight. :
Congressinan Orth, of Indiana, is seriously ill.
Henry Ward Beecher, Madame Modjeska, and ex-Senator
Conkling are in Washington.
General and Mrs. Grant will go to Washington in the first
week in January.
Senator Eugene Hale's new home 9t Ellsworth is to cost
100,000. He was a poor young man when Mr. Blaine first
picked bim up.—Graphic. Yes: and Blaine was a poor
yoang man, too, when he went to Congress. It was Zach
Chandler’s daughter who picked Hale up by marrying him
and endowing him with all her wordly goods, But how did
Blaine make his money? He will never be even a Presiden-
tial candidate until he rises to explain how on a Congressman’s
pay and without other visible means of support, he became a
millionaire,
Colorado’s Governor-elect Grant is only thirty-five years of
age.
Judge Milo Olin, of Augusta, Ga., is known as a ‘‘ good
Samaritan.” During the last twenty years, whenever yellow
fever has stricken an American city, Judge Olin has given his
time, money and services unstintedly in behalf of the suf-
ferers.
_ Rev. John Rankin, of Ironton, 0., is said to be the oldest
tates. He is ninety years of age, and began preach-
ing in 1816. He organized an Abolition Society in Kentucky
in 1817. .
IN GENERAL.
The Western Union Telegraph Company furnished all
independent observers of the transit of Venus, all over the
country, with noon-time signals from Washington on the 4th,
Jth, 6th, 7th inst.
The railroad mileage of the United States on the Ist of
January, 1882, was 104,813 miles, This is more than all the
countries of Europe combined can boast,