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HiLmoia ammemsnm CIRCLING THE GLOBE. HISTORY OF DAYS' DOINGS. 8BVBN \KW*tHe *M« (tan *WMy CtvlIUvrf Ww)4 In. ill^fSiN^AAlnMd ••;v _ •' |M«( iMpwtMrt Ma«u«.^ • I *0 LEND MONEY TO FARMERS. .)f VlMtOr Stanford Advocates Bi« 2 FerCent. "wl Bill. • '. IF'*. MR. STANFORD addressed the Senate on ' .i the 10th in explanation and advocacy of hts ? '. ' fclll to provide the Government with means •,fy. iw flic lent to supply the national waut of a ,'T Mound circulating medium. Said he: "The - %lll I am now considering proposes to put the Government in a condition to issue a supply of money equal substantially to the < fleaeral demand, and to erect a standard by . Which the Government may determine what 7: the amount needed. This has never %ecn attempted by any Government. The money (legal tender notes) will be ls- Wtlid Under the provisions of this bill "ipMi' vaimpeacliable and practically inex- - haustlblc security, and its supply is ascer- , ttaad »ud determined by the rata which ' the tooilpawer can afford to pay. Two pet . WMlt. 1* the amount to be paid to the Gov- for the loan of its money, and so kpgas money is worth more than 2 per i. _ Mat., the security be in? practically inex- lUMStible. money will always be borrowed , tram the Government., and thug the Govern­ ment will be able to discharge its duty and •uppiy the general want. As borrowed money is not expected to lie idle, but to be Wsed, it goes into general circulation to •Upply the needs of business, and its abun- > dance stimulates not only the larger but ... the smaller enterprises and industries on "Which so largely depend the steady eiu- • i Jpiloyment of labor with its natural conse­ quences--general prosperity. The rate of interest on these loans on real estate is Axed at 2 per cent, in the bill, but in time may be reduced as experience shall •Bach. The rate of interest charged by the Government under the provisions of A this bill will not necessarily fix the / • \ general rate of interest for business pur- 1 Joses. That always will be determined by Its value in use. The farmer having this l»est security will borrow for his own use or the use of others who may be willing to pay him a satisfactory interest. The banker 'borrows money from the Government free .., * at interest and loans it at such rate as its Use commands in the market. No business »- • 'Of importance was transacted in the House. •HHT) r latloi FE f DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW. £ \ , ^ " trade Is CM but Business K» An Borne- L- . - wlart Nerveui. 4 / R. C. Dos 4k Co.'s weekly review of N ; trade says: ̂< J Business continue* large for the season, ?-C. titre is perceptibly less eontidence. ^ ' The causes appear to be: First, prospect g&V ,*} «f important. monetary legislation, tho ef- E;\ - flscto of which are not clearly foreseen; \ ( aeoondi frequent failures and greater dif- *- V * Acuities in making collections; and, third, f* ' . * less satisfactory conditions In home large branches of industry. Probably jw'i more people are affected as to busl- undertaklngs, often unconsciously, uncertainty about financial legis- tion and its effects, than by any Other cause. Though the rate for money on call is lower than a week ago, and Money is easier at Boston and Philadelphia, then Is still stringency at most points throughout the country. Complaints of ak>w collections have rarely been more gen- ttral, and in many cases settlements can be 'v Baa^e only with notes or renewals. But in , it " all quarters there is hope that after Jan. 1 things may improve in this respect, if legis- M'iQ Mlatlve prospect} do not meanwhile 'JtJ? % • ®*®Be greater shrinkage of credits aud 3Tw' curtailment of purchases. At Chicago re- lb * J- COlptaof wheat and wool are a third below H8-"* , >• ' ,laW year's, of hides larger, and of other ' * * *• <'9>oAttcts about the same. Sales of mer- exceed last year's, money Is firm ^fltiefular business supplied, and there is OOBSAmce in the immediate future. At Ullwakee and Detroit trade is good, at Cleveland fair, and at Cincinnati quiet in wholesale lines. "?/ * -«. M- " • $ A thousand Chinese Killed. THE steamship Belgie lias just arrived C in San Francisco bringing Chinese ad- viecs to Nov. 20 and Japanese advices to Dec. 3, The deaths resulting from the powder explosion at Taiping were more f' than at first estimated, it being stated !- ^ /"that 800 coffins had been taken out of "' the city and yet there were not enough < ' /to bary the dead. A Chinaman lighting * ' * pipe while repairing the roof of the jj»J :/!|i0wder mill is said to have caused the i ' - catastrophe. The British barkentine, Guiding Star, was driven ashore in Sun- Straits, Nov. 29, and will be. a total ^S-"'!fknp®ok. The crew was saved, |4' '• 'ft* The Hessian Fiy In Kansas. , ', IN Kansas the reports as to tne ttes- tsian fiy are much more widespread than they were a month ago, and while there saw.' ^*8 not heen probably any very serious . damage done, yet nevertheless they are i* 7^ showing up to a greater or less extent all ;•; J&*' over the State, and farmers are becom- '^ ing apprehensive as to what they may 1 <do. There has been no rain for nearly 1 ,§C • a month past in Kansas, and no snow V "th's winter. The ground froze up in a %" •' Very dry condition, and the hard winds, Syf, \ which are of frequent occurrence and do f£?yI •„/£"-il so much mischief in uncovering the roots '• of the wheat, cause anxiety. m-' % > ^ ?**[; Preparing to Invade the Strip. 4 J/? PAT O'COSSOB, the leader of the Cher- /t * 1^okee Strip Colony, with headquarters at i . jr? "Caldweli, Kan., says that there are at least 8,000 families now camping in the * fe " within twenty miles of Caldwell Mid many coming every day. He said it *4^" jiWfcS jwoposed to make an invasion on the •. .' ""VSth of next month and make the fight •v/.for settlement until Congress and Chief would see that it was important ' 'they hasten negotiations. JKilled by Electricity. . 'VI Oeobgb Wiwn, Superintendent ©f the si? • iFire Alarm Telegraph of Allegheny City, I'-Pa., fell from a telegraph polo and was ' Instantly killed. He was repairing a • wire, and, It is supposed, received an electric shock, as a long burn was dis- covered on his body. When picked up To Vest the O'MmaresrJn*) Law. CHABLISS P. WEBTHKK, the alleged Cincinnati representative of a Chicago Si concern who was given a jail sentence for offering for sale oleomargarine with- .> ••• out * tag distinguishing it from butter, ^ (f'.y . has been granted a writ of habeas cor- f % JC-"/ pus by United States Judge Sage. The ;k "& Question to be argued is whether the f 'k • , State law regulating the sale of oleo- " margarine it applicable where Roods are ' -?/ }> brought inW> State. Further pro- M ceedings will be commenced shortly. •>.* -*• Majob S*' 4M on at his nue, Ni been e: came, blned neys. to; m eastb^K occurrence*. ALFRKI> HOWB TERBT corning at four o'clock No. 30 Hillhouse ave- Conn. His death had not so suddenly as it to heart disease, coni­ t's disease of the kid­ 's illness dates back , June It, 1887, when the dedication of the moziuaaent. Among ion $e|je*»ls pres- She^iUMi and the Terry was but from that never rejoiced in _ . r later he was com the malady which afflicted him, and which had been diagnosed as Bright's disease, to ask for his retirement from the army, Which was gran tod, and soon after he located at New Haven, pur­ chasing one of the finest residences in tie city oil New Haven's aristocratic avenue. JAMKS LANK, a Salem (Mass.) moroc­ co dresser, was deliberately shot and killed at his door at an early hour in the morning. Charles Chutt and Michael Callahan are the persons implicated, but the shooting is believed to have been done by Callahan. The men charged Lane with being a non union labor man and a "scab," and this was the immedi- ated cause of the tragedy. Jealousy over a woman, however, is said to bo at the bottom of the affair. Thk H. C. Frick Coke Company, of Scottdale, Pa., recently suspended a large number of its unmarried employes at Standard and Mount Pleasant and banked 255 ovens. A special effort was made to give work to all married men during the winter. This has served as a cue to the.single men of the neighbor hood, who, at a meeting held the other day, agreed that, all who could find mates should wed by New Year's Day. It is said the meeting was largely at­ tended, and the knowledge of the action has caused a great flutter among the young women of the coke region. GEORGE PABOVE, aged 26 years and employed at the Carnegie Homestead Steel-Works at Pittsburg, has received intelligence that he has fallen heir to a legacy of S25,000*by the death of Will­ iam Preston, of Boston. Preston died Sunday last. He was an uncle of Par- due, who has already quit his position as a steel-worker, will banquet his com­ panions, go on to claim his little fortune, and then embark in some business en­ terprise. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. THE meeting of the Nebraska State Farmers' Alliance, at Lincoln, was a stormy one. The first work was tho election of officers. These were as fol­ lows: President, John H. Powers, of Hitchcock County, the independent claimant for the office of Governor; Vice President, H. G. Stowart, of Butte County, who is contesting the elec­ tion of E. L. Heath, Republi­ can, from the Fifty-third Representative District; Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. Thompson of Lancaster County. A big sensation was caused when ex-Senator Van Wyck offered a resolution express­ ing the sense of the Alliance that green­ backs and silver should be made a legal tender for all debts, public or private, whether the contract provided for their payment in gold or not. He made a number of attempts to get the floor be­ fore President Powers would recognize him. President Powers ordered him to sit down a number of times, and finally ordered the Sergeant-at-arms to seat him or put him out of the room. The officer approached the ex- Senator, who dared him to lay a hand on him, declaring that he would fight for his rights as an American citizen. Presi­ dent Powers then told the belligerent ex-Senator that he would send for the police. Van Wyck told him to send for the police if he wanted to, but he should treat them the same as he had treated the Sergeaut-at-arms. The resolution was seconded and then discussed at some length, and finally was adopted with a grand hurrah. A SERIOUS cutting affray took place on the St. Louis train just below Keo­ kuk, Iowa, between members of the Carleton Opera Company. It was a drunken dispute. One of them slashed another in the throat and breast with a knife., Several, were wpunded, one seri­ ously, but no names are attainable. THOMAS GUTHRIE, his wife and four children, and the father and mother of Guthrie, 75 and 71 years old, respectively, living on a farm in Evans Township,, Kingman County, Kan., were called up­ on early one morning by masked Alliance men, about sixty in number, and forced out of their home, and with their house­ hold goods were escorted fifteen miles southeast and left near where they re­ sided for some years until recently. Guthrie was a tenant on a quarter section which fell into the hands of Jarvis, Conklin & Co., by foreclosure proceedings last August. It had formerly been owned by John Cassidy a prominent Alliance man, who soon after the Guthries were moved away was accompanied back by an Alli­ ance crowd to his former home, with his family and effects. The Alliance say they do not propose to allow any of their members to lose their homes just to bene­ fit mortgage companies. L. W. Clapp, agent of the mortgage company concern, said that he was getting the names of all those interfering with his business and would give them the benefit of all the law that would apply to them. He says that he will have possession of the prop­ erty soon, and hold it if he is compelled to maintain a military company. PBOF. J. H. DKTMKKH, of the Ohio State University, formerly of the Illi­ nois Agricultural College, announces that he has made satisfactory tests of his newly discovered prophylactic treat­ ment for tho prevention of hog cholera. He has been experimenting for four years on the subject. The treatment is by inoculation, but the composition of, the fluid is a secret. Prof. Detmers 19 credited with the discovery, made somo years ago, that hog cholera was due to bacilli. HUGH LEHOHT, the oldest man in the Galena and Wisconsin lead mines, died at Benton, 111., 103 years of age. SENATOB KINTEB, a Democratic leader in North Dakota, in an Interview said that he would vote against resubmitting the liquor question. He had confarred with two or three other Democrats who will stand with him. This puts a new phase on the prohibition struggle. Sev­ eral Republicans who have been counted on the liquor side will vote for prohibi­ tion. Senator Worst, Republican, said that he thought the license men had a majority in the Legislature. RELIABLE parties from the Sisseton Reservation, in South' Dakota, assert that the Indians are actually starving. Sickness, arising from hunger and cold is prevailing to an alarming extent. Immediate relief is absolutely necessary. IN the celebrated original package case of the State of South Dakota vs. George H. Chapman and William Koller, on a writ of error The Supreme Court has rendered a decision against the de­ fendants. This was an action where the defendants were informed against in the County Court of Lin­ coln County for keeping intoxicating liquors as a beverage and willfully and unlawfully permitting persons to resort to rooms and buildings where such liquors were sold. A jury was impan­ eled, a trial had, and a verdict of guilty rendered against defendants, and each was sentenced to pay a fine of 8150 andt' o be imprisoned for sixty days. The court further holds that when bottles of whisky or beer, each sealed up in a paper wrapper and closed And placed together the in* of ItwOottrt. Tfci&mrt fiiilfr t&ilini defendant» f«id to establish such facts as will them to any immunity from the 001gi||pe$ of the State law, and orders that the Judgment of the court be enforced. S. A. KEAK A Co., of Chicago, one of tho best known banks in the Northwest, has failed, and Samuel A. Kean, head of the house, and George B. Warne, the cashier, are under arrest charged with receiving deposits only a few hours be­ fore tho failure, aud when they knew the bank was insolvent. This is a grave charge, and, if proved, constitutes the crime of embezzlement The schedule of assets as estimated by the assignee foots up a total of $497,500. The liabili­ ties are figured at 51,500,000. TWELVE Chinamen who were cap­ tured near Dungeness, Wash., while at­ tempting to smuggle their way into the United States, have been taken to Port Townsend. The party resisted arrest and one Chinaman was- killed by Inspec­ tor Fenn. Chinamen say they will call the attention of their Government to the killing. The Inspector's superior cere hold him blameless. RGSlsYil SLAIN WHILE ARREST.: Bl 80UTHERN INCIDENTS. ^ THE vicinity of Monroe, Walton Coun­ ty, Ga., was visited by a destructive! cy­ clone. The storm cleared a space of several miles long and 100 yards wide, blowing down housed and killing sev­ eral people. Jack Henderson and his wife were buried beneath tho ruins of their home. Henderson was killed, but his wife was not badly hurt. Gov. TAYLOR,- of Tennessee, has par­ doned eleven citizens who were convict­ ed and sentenced to thirty days in jail for gambling in addition to a fine at the session of the Criminal Court at Mem­ phis. Several prominent business men were among the recipients of executive clemcncy and escaped punishment on the ground that they were not gambling, that they were only engaged in a social game. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, THE Republican Senatorial caucus, at Washington, turned its back on two al­ luring propositions, free coinage and the issue of $100,000,000 2 per cent bonds. The steering committee had formulated a series of propositions which it reported to the qaucus. They were for the purchase of the over-supply of silver in t he market within a year, the issue of $100,003,000 2 per cent bonds redeemable by the Gov­ ernment at' its option, the recoinage of the subsidiary coins and the trade dollars, the issue of either coin certifi­ cates or Treasury notes to take the place of national-bank notes when their circu­ lation fell below $180,000,000, and tho increase of the national-bank circulation to tho par value of tho bonds. The sil­ ver men were willing to give up free coinage for the present if they got all these propositions, which meant in reality a good deal of silver inflation. But they didn't get them all, and they were forced to acquiesce in the caucus decision that when the legislation was formulated they would not make a deal with the Demo­ crats for free coinage. Senator Sherman made a hard fight for his pet idea, but when a vote came to be taken it was knocked out by a decisive majority. The upshot of all the talk was that after de­ feating the 2 per cent, bond plan the other propositions were recommitted to the steering committee with instructions to prepare a bill and report it to another caucus. The residence of Mrs. E. N. Jay of Washington, D. C., was robbed while the family was at church. Besides a small, amount of money and some jewel­ ry four $1,000 coupon ' bonds of the St Louis and Iron Mountain railroad and the Arkansas Bank were carried off by the burglars. ^ * ' FRESH AND NEWSY, . THE Mexican Consul General, in an interview with Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, advocated cloSer trade relationship between the Dominion and Mexico. He says the McKinley tariff lias hit his country hard and that the Mexicans would buy Canadian car­ riages, agricultural implements, hard­ ware, boots and shoes, and butter and cheese if direct steamboat connection was established and a commercial treaty between the two countries negotiated. The United States exports to Mexico in the lines named now named amount to over two and a quarter million a year. B. W. THATCHEB, General Traffic Man­ ager of the Mexican Central, says his road and the Mexican Government have compromised the subsidy to the road by the payment of 83,000,000 in cash. The Government will buy all the subsidies. THE Cumberland Plateau Mining and Railway Company of Tennessee has been organized in Port Huron, Mich. The company owns the majority of the largest coal tract in the South--over 100,000 acres, and considerable timber. The general offices will be at Port Huron. ANTONIO GUEBBEKO, alias Chalequerot (the Jack the Ripper of Mexico), has been found guilty. He was convicted of eight murders and was sentenced to death. , * ; j v ̂ M A K K E T REPOBt» _ CHICAGO. C*,Wt£tf--uommon to Prim* fl» With ili« Itodn-KJclit of IN and Four of the Indian Follmmii) Ri Uutl--Troop* Ta ke Part In tit* Fight Ohost Doaeers Put to Plight by tho SoIiUerg. [Standing Rock Agency, N. D., dispatch.] Sitting Bull, tho Sioux chief, was shot and killed at liii camp, forty miles north­ west of here, early this morning by the Indian police while resisting arrest Seven other Indians, including Sitting Bull's son, Criow Foot, Black Bear, and Catch Bird, were slain. Five of the In­ dian police wore killed. Four or five days ago it was decided by the War Department that Sitting Bull should be arrested. Last Saturday In­ dian Agent McLaughlin sent the chief order to come into the agency. He in uncovered wt the importer, are mar&ed to and shipped It gs furnished by rooden boxes foi tM lflMt to another, $ * ifyfft-y. y* >ir Hoos--Shipping Grades.. BHEKP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2.... OATS--No. 2 BYE--No. 2 ...i.'T BCTTEB--Choice Creamery...... CHBKBK--Full Cream, flat#..,... Eo os--Fresh ; POTATOES--Western, per bn..... IN£>IANAPOL18. CATTLE--Shipping HOGH--Choice Light ...«K SHEEP--Common to £Bjxne...i.. 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CATTMI Hooa.. feg*i^vjA* V '##.*• ' 3.23 & 8.75 3.00 m 8.75 .92 am .93 J* ,53 @ .67 @ .23 m .28 .09}*# .WH .23 & .94 & .» .68)* Ma .85 3.50 3.00 8.00 .93 .50 .48 4.00 3.00 .95 .48 .43 .72 8.00 3.00 3,00 .62>6" .47)6 @ 4.75 & 8.78 & 4.75 m .i*a ® .81 & Ma ® a.7j & 9.50 & .90 & .49 & .44 & .74 0 4,50 3 8.75 M 6.25 .33* Ma .88 & .48 & .43 & .00 .49 .44 .wa JH 7 8.00 8.00 3.00 .98 .53 S4.2S 8.50 M 4.00 0 .97 o Ma .ma» .*7 ,96 .51^0 Ma® .ma j&a Ma 4.00 m 5.00 3,50 0 3.75 1.08 # 1.08^ .57J40 .5#& 0 4.78 0 & 8.75 6.28 6.00 0 6.50 h- '. tsy* *rVO > * SITTING BOTX. I . tefnsed, and last night the Indian police were sent out to his camp and instructed to bring him in. The plan was for the police to proceed to Bull's camp on Grand River, followed closely by a troop of cavalry under Capt. Foucliet and a detachment of infantry in the rear of the cavalry. Bull had been told of the coming of the Indian police, and he and his imme­ diate followers were fully armed with Winchesters, scalping-knives, revolvers, and clubs, The Indian police did not get an opportunity to demand the old medicine man's surrender, but firing began from the Indian tepees imme­ diately upon the appearance of the offi­ cers, and three of the latter were killed outright, and two wounded so seriously that they died before they could be moved, and three others slightly. The police then opened fire upon the savages, at the same time dispatching couriers to the rear to bring tip the cavalry under Capt. Fouchet. Sitting Bull started to run up the river, and was captured, but his followers made a desperate effort to rescue him, and he was shot twice, once in the left shoulder and again in tho re­ gion of the heart. The body of Sitting Bull was secured by the cavalry, and is being brought to Fort Yates. A party of reds, estimated at 100, escaped up the Grand River. Capt. Fouchet arrived justin time, and with his troops and Hotchkiss and Gat- ling guns, drove the Indians away, and secured the body of Sitting Bull. The remainder of Sitting Bull's band are now in retreat up the Grand River, but it is not yet known definitely along which fcfrk their trail will lie. Informa­ tion of the most reliable nature has been received that a band of eight wagons was encamped on the Little Missouri opposite Buttes. It is therefore probable tha& the fugitives will make this camp their objective point. Thoy will not bo able without great exertion to reach the forks of the Grand River to-day. It is estimated that 150 war­ riors are in the band, and this number is likely to be increased by other bands. Lieut. Casey with a troop of Cheyenne scouts and Capt. Adams' troop of the First Cavalry is healed for tho north end of the Powder River range opposite the mouth of the Box Eldor Creek. Capt. Fountain's troops of the Eighth Cavalry, with pack transportation, which will leave here in the morning for White Buttes, will probably intercept the band before. it reaches the Little Missouri. If not Lieut Casey and Capt. Adams will do so. Settlers who are aware of the movements of the troops are little alarmed, as the weather is such that Intelligence of disturbances and of move­ ments travels rapidly, and it is well known that tho troops are so distributed as to have tho situation in hand. A general outbreak on the Sioux Reserva­ tion is not feared, and those disaffected bands which now are giving trouble will soon be placed where they will cease to be a cause of alarm for the settlers. The Sioux Reservation Is surrounded by troops, thoroughly equipped for a winter campaign in the most difficult country. All are in communication with each other and department headquarters. No outbreak can become general in the face of the precautions already taken, and the wild rumors, which have caused the population of entire valleys to fly for their lives, are malicious and groundless. Tho arch villain is dead, and his follow­ ers j^ill soon lose the enthusiasm neces­ sary to follow his teachings. Troops are hot on their trail, and before another sun has set Sitting Bull's celebrated chorus of dancers will be good Indiana or prisoners. MORE BBAINS THAN COCJBAOB. Bitting Ball Was thn Most Crafty Indian of Modern Times. Although not a great war chief as the Indians understand and apply the term, Sitting Bull was the most prominent and influential blanket Indian in America. His supremacy was due to his head, for he lacked--being possessed of brains-- that insane courage that characterizes most of his people. Fully appreciating danger, although by no means the coward or "squaw-man" that the newspapers generally described him to bo, he never unnecessarily exposed himself. He had much executive ability and could plan a campaign or execute a retreat with equal facility. He did his fighting much as the great Generals of later days have done, from a position in tho rear. His com­ mands were carried to tho front by run­ ners; that is to say, when he had any orders to give. As a rule, after a battle had begun, the old chief Interfered but little with advice or directions, trusting to his lieutenants to carry out the few Instructions given in advance, or take the consequences. Sitting Bull Inherited the chieftainship of a branch cf the Sioux Nation from his father. lie was a miracle-worker or medicine man also, and by playing upon the credulity of the Sioux with his science, and being an adept in the crude political work of the red men, was twenty years ago the acknowledged power of the na- tion, although such well-known Indians as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, and such minor chiefs as Rain-in-the-Face, Gall, and Broad' Trail, were at times inclined to calj the question of leadership Into arbitration. Sitting Bull, however, was not to be brought into an argument, physical or otherwise, to maintain his. right to a position which he could hold by aboriginal wire-pulling and chicane. To the day of his death he was the prin- man - joctly: throt 'was a88f«^':'-Illlfi'yataii)!ng' the bucks. The first that was known of Sitting Bull among the whites was at the time of a terrible raid he led near ]3u- ford, in 1866,when the commandiMofflcer there shot his wife to prevent herf&lling into the hands of the Sioux, whose tortures would havo been worse than death. From that time until 1875 he was known as a marauder, stealing horses and cattle, and very ingenious In eluding pursuit. In January, 1876, the Interior Department decided to turn Sitting Bull and his men over to the War Depart­ ment. His leadership was drawing the young men away from the agencies to the war-path. The following summer ocf-torred the massacre of the Little Big Horn, where Custer, disobeying tho or­ ders of Gen. Terry, and failing to be re-enforced by Reno, fell with his 300 men. This battle was a victory for Crazy Horse, Gall, and Crow King, rather than Sitting Bull. T*hey were the war­ riors; but the lightning that struck terror to Custer's horses and renders • slaughter possible was claimed by tl crafty old chief as due to his medicine work. Sitting Bull didn't know where he was born, or when/' He was, however, about •65 years old. Being a Teeton, ho was probably born in Central or Southern Dakota. Four Bears, his uncle, says tho place was near old Fort George, on Wil­ low Creek, near the mouth of the Chey­ enne, on the west side of the Missouri River. His father was a rich chief, Jumping Bull. At 10 years of age the Indian lad was famous as a hunter, his favorite game being buffalo calves. His father had hundreds of pretty white, gray, and roan ponies, and the boy never Wanted for a horse. He killed moro young buffaloes than any of his mates, and won popularity by laying his game tit tho lodges of poorer Indians who were unlucky In the chase. At 14 ho killed an enemy; his name before had been Sacred (or wonderful) Standshot When he had killed this man and could boast a scalp, his name was changed to Sitting Bull, though why tho old man didn't know. He had two wives, Was-Seen-by- the-Nation and The-One-That-Had-Four- Robes. His children were all bright, handsome boys and girls, nine In num­ ber--one, a young man, when about 18, was In a Catholic school near Chicago. Sitting Bull himself w'&s not a Catholic, as reported. One little boy, 6 years old, bright as a dollar, was with him at lJu- ford when he surrendered. At the for­ mal pow-wow the chief put his heavy rifle in the little fellow's hands and or­ dered him to give it to Major Brothbr- ton, saying: "I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this way that he has become a friend of the whites. I wish him to live as the whites do and bo taught in their schools. I wish to be re­ membered as the last man of my tribe who gave up nis rifle. This boy has now given it to you, and ho wants to know how he is going to make a living." Sitting Bull's personal appearance is described by John Finerty, who paid the chief a visit at his camp on Mushroom Creek, Woody Mountains, Northwest ! Territory. The noted chief had taken a trip into the British possessions to re­ main until he could arrange for amnesty for his connection with the uprising of which tho Little Big Horn or Custer massacre was one of the sanguinary in­ cidents. Mr. Finerty thus paints tho portraits "Soon afterward an Indian monnted on a cream-colored pony and holding in his hand an eagle's wing which did duty ai a fan, spurred in back of the chiefs,and stared stolidly for a minute or two at me. His hi,ir, parted in the ordinary Sioux fashion, was without a plume. His broad face, with a prominent hooked nose and wide jaws, was desti­ tute of paint. His fierce, half-bloodshot eyes gleamed from under brows which displayed large perceptive organs, and as he sat there on his horse regarding me with a look which seemed blended of curiosity and insolence, I did not need to be told that he was Sitting Bull. * * * After a little the noted savage dismount­ ed and led his horse partly into the shade. I noticed he was.an inch or two over the medium height, broadly built, rather bow-legged, and limped slightly, as though from an old wound. He sat upon the ground, and was soon engirdled by a crowd of young warriors with whom he was an especial favorite as represent­ ing the unquenchable hostility of the aboriginal savage to the hated pale­ faces." This hatred for the whites distin­ guished Sitting Bull above all other Sioux. When he was engaged in hos­ tilities he was as ferocious and blood­ thirsty as a beast of prey, and his atroci­ ties, or those directed by him, have earned him death a thousand times. In peace he was a smooth liar, and, pro­ fessing the utmost friendship, never failed to be insolent and Insulting when the opportunity offered. He was a breeder of discontent, and his bucks, ever since the campaign which culmin­ ated in the Fort Buford surrender, havo been invariably kept on the eve of mak­ ing "war medicine." Tho messiah craze was brought on by the Bull, who in the last few years thought that the agency system of the Government had a tendency to impair his influence with his men. He desired a sort of counter-irritant, and no one will dispute the fact that he succeeded in manufacturing it. He calculated that tho Sioux, and possibly all the blanket, Indians of tho West, would rally arounti his standard as the anointed of the messiah, for old Sitting Bull had dreams of conquest. and was another Ciesar in his ambition. IRISH U NEARLY PUT OUT. 1' of the Well-Known PaogRo. EDITOR HENRY WATTERSON, Louisville Courier-Journal, will celebrate his silver wedding Dec. 20. EPISCOPAL BISHOP WHIPPMJ, of Min­ nesota, and Bishop Vincent, of Ohio, will Spend the remainder of the winter in Southern France. JOSEPH H. CHOATE, Robert G. Ingor- soll, and Ben Butler are reported to make from $75,000 to 8125,000 a year each from their law practice. MRS. BLAINE is the tallest of the la­ dies of the Cabinet and Mrs. Noble the shortest, the latter being only five feot in height. MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS IS in New York, giving the finishing touches to the life of her husband, which Is nearly ready for publication. She will remain there until April, and then go to Colorado Springs. QUEEN AMELIK of Portugal Is now al­ most restored to health. She is the prettiest and most fascinating of the sovereign ladies of Europo. She is tall, and has a gracefuWigure and a charm­ ingly expressive face. *' CHARLES ' Louis DK SAUCIES DE FRET- CINET, the newly chosen "Immortal,1* was a mining and railroad engineer by profession until the revolution of 1870, since which time he hasbeon almost con­ tinuously in public life. He has just entered upon the 63d year of his age. ROSALIE MONTMASSON, who was mar- years ago to Prime Mi Italy, but with some de nial which afterwa padiation, is memoirs, which enormous sel 4*,' i "* * >* * ,v» . , f i ft jst&' Cwt»» of * Bow at » lllrtOig la Ireland Home One (ftpii^in the Kx-Leader's Byes/ AhiNHit Blinding Him--A Uvaiy Fi*bt tft Ktl. Icenny. [Dublin (Ireland) dispatch.] between the Parnelfttte and tfef X£&i»t^ttet;'|«aulted in a free flfht at HalllnalHH.• A, greeting was held theM In of Mr. Seulljr, tbe ParneMhe oMwdate. Mr. Pameli was one of the speakers, and when he made his appearance cheered by bis supporter*. While thla xneetinf was being held another one in the interest of Sir John Pope Hennessy, tn© McCarthyUe nominee, was taking place a abort distance away, at which addresses were made by Mr. Davltt and Dr. Tanner. **r-, Davitt, accompanied by Father O Halloran, was the first of the prominent speakers that arrived, and he took his stand in the.higher part of the square near the church. Cheers and counter-cheers and partisan shouts were vociferously indu&ed in by the assembled members of the two factions. Mr. Bedmond began speaking siinultane- oualy with Mr. Davitt. The advent of an- other party, headed by several priests* driving briskly through the crowd, put a temporary stop to the speeches at both meetings. The newcomers ranged them­ selves alongside of the car occupied by Mr. Davitt amid a chorus of mingled cheers and execrations. Mr. Scully took up the speaking and was expressing his views when great shouting announced the arrival of Parnell and Har­ rison and a number of supporters on horse­ back and in cars. Parnell's appearance be­ side Bedmond was the signal for cheers and yells of "Tally-ho. tho fox," and "Kitty's petticoat." Amid the din Mr. Parnellspoke to the group around him as follows: "I come among you to insult no man. [Ed­ ward Harringtogf--No, and we will protect ourselves.] I come to speak of the great national crisis. I will not enter into a personal contest with any man. I regret that Mr. Davltt is not at my side [cries of 'Down with him'j to fight for Ireland with me as strongly as heretofore. I will speak only about Hennessy, the man who went to Parliament in 1861 hs a Tory supporter of Disraeli, and who now wants to go as a Libe­ ral supporter of Gladstone. In 1861 Hen­ nessy defended in the House of Commons the evictions proceeding throughout King's county. [Yells of 'To h with him.'J Will Kilkenney take a man who defended the extermination of these people? [Cries of •Never.'] Disraeli gave him a place and pension." Several men now made a strong effort to drag the wagonette into the midst of the anti-Parnell gathering, but were dissuad­ ed and stopped. Mr. Parnell, resuming, maintained that the consistency of hl-i public life had been preserved amid his unceasing efforts to create and preserve an independent Irish party. The enemy had been unable to cope with them in the open Held. They were unable to meet them with physical force, so they sent this rat, Hennessy, to try to do by corruption what they had failed to do by every other method. The internal dis­ sensions which were destroying the parly were not of his creating. Having made an unavailing fight at Westminster for inde­ pendence, he had been forced to appeal to the people. [Mr. Bedmond--"We will fight for you till death."] The people were slack and cowardly. If they failed to come to a Just, true and patriotic decision Ireland's cause was lost for all time. Mr. Harrison was about to follow Mr. Parnell, and Mr. Tanner was speaking, when a sudden conflict arose on the verge of the crowds. A rush was made toward Davitt's car, and a general melee ensued. A forest of ashplant sticks and blackthorns arose and descended in the air where ^he dividing lines of the opposing factions mot. Mr. Davitt leaped from his car, wielding a thick hazel stick, and fought his way foot by foot straight toward Mr. Parnell's wagon, receiving and giving numerous blows. He finally reached the wagon hatless and with his face badly marked and with a few of his men with him, who also bore traces of the severe usage they had received in their desperate passage between the two vehicles. Standing on the steps of Mr. Parnell's wagon Mr. Davitt uttered a breathless and indistinct defiance, then turned and pushed his way back to his own car, surrounded by his faithful supporters, amid the continuous yells and execrations of the two contending and wild y exciting fac­ tions, and with an exchange of a shower of blows. Mr. Davitt then remounted bis car and shouted: "Men of Kilkenny: I come here in de­ fense of tho rights of public meeting and liberty of speech. Our opponents sent their blackguards to interrupt the proceedings, but we have beaten them back. I was never Struck by an Englishman, but to-day I was many times struck by my own countrymen." These remarks were greeted with tumul­ tuous cheers, after which, the crowd began to disperse and the square resumed its nor­ mal aspect. Mr. Parnell and his friends drove to Cas- tlecomer, Mr. Davitt and Mr. Tanner fol­ lowing in their wake. Mr. Parnell afterward spoke to a small meeting. While other Parnellites were addressing the crowd a number of Davitt's followers go# together and began hooting at the speakers. The Parnellites closed around the vehicle from which their orators were addressing the people, and the police ap­ peared and tried to divide the factions. The meeting ended in a scene of wild con­ fusion. and Parnell and his friends drove off amid a shower of stones and mud. Frequent attempts to assail the members of the party were made, and several bags filled with lime were thrown at them. Mr. Harrington's shoulders were covered with lime, and a mass of llmo struck Mr. Par­ nell full In the face, completely blinding him. This Insult infuriated Mr. Parnell's friends. Mr. Harrington turned and ad­ vanced toward Father Downey, who was at tho head of Mr. Parnell's opponents, and shouted: "Coward, you are a disgrace to your church!" The police here again in­ terfered, and Mr. Parnell's party, who had left their cars, again took their seats and finally got away. Mr. Parnell's eyes, which were quite closed, were intensely painful. He was soon obliged to stop his carriage, which he left and entered a laborer's cabin in a fainting condition. A local doctor at­ tended him. The lime had become caked beneath his eyelids, and the doctor was only able to remove some of It by using a silk handkerchief and some hair-oil he found In the cabin. The physician finally advised Mr. Parnell to drive immediately to Kilkenny. So the latter re-entered his carriage and proceeded on his journey. But the pain again became so intense that a second halt was made, this time at a roadside public-house, where the doctor made further efforts to relieve the terrible pain which Mr. Parnell was suffering. The Doctor apologised to Mr. Parnell for causing him so much pain, but said it was unavoidable. Mr. Parnell repllod: "Never mind the pain. Do your best Don't let me lose my. sight." The Doctor poured more oil Into Mr. Par- cell's eyes, and said he hoped the case was not as bad as that. Finding that he was unable to remove all the lime the Doctor urged Mr. Parnell to drive with all speed to the town, and this was done. Davltt was struck twice on the head dur­ ing the fight. His hat was split and his head marked. Tho cheek or his assailant was laid open by a blackthorn in the hands of Dr. Tanner. The blood of both sides is up, and it will be war to the stick until after election. Had it not been for the police Parnell and his party would have received serious injuries to-day at Castlecomer, for the people are aroused to a pitch of ferocity by the priests, who should receive all the credit for the disturbance there. During his speech at llallinakill Parnell swung his cap and shouted, "Down with Hong Kong and English dictation! To h--1 with Hong Kon<l" This extraordin­ ary expression drew all eyes to him and caused many porsons to wonder if he hud not been drinking. He looked wild enAigh to justify this. Parnell is not the same man he was ten years ago or three weeks ago. The change hi the uncrowned king's manner is positive­ ly startling. Ho Is no longer the dignified, self-possessed Charles Stewart Parnell of old, the 11 iilit leader who ever disdained to abuse. The contrast between was and as he Is now is int. His face has grown iked while Harrington wa« rather, halt smoked a nrna- throwing one away and The uncrowned king Is tSD »1--Wfurt Xft| and 1 Md New < the bills introduced and rs on )Ae J3th? we stoSMWi in thi Fry*h--To establ advaikejHneut of the chantwarine. Mr. CaisSyL tion calling on the SecreMOT^Ii for information as to the: In the inve«tig*tlcm f<j _ purposes under the deficient a#1) session. After considerable ,ailliriistifti'i||ilTT""' resolution was agreed to. The genate tfew resumed the consideration of the election bttL Mr. Jones, .if Arkansas, made an nrgomeefc in opposition to it. The interstate meat lttf spection bill, which passed the Senate mm* time ago, struck a snag in the House, rajfe measure was designed to relieve mpat products to some extent from the delays and expenses of State and local in­ spectors by providing for careful in­ spection by United states inspectors. The bill went through tlio Senate easily, but when it was called up in the House some of the Democrats raised an outcry against it on the ground that it was an unwarranted assumption of power belonging to the Sttiteit, and the friends of the bill consented to air low it to be referred to the Committee on Agriculture for a report rather than to risk an immediate vote. The proposed legisla- iatlon was desired by Chicago packers. . MR. EDMONDS presented the credentials of the election of his colleague, Justiu 8. Morrill, In the Senate on tho 15th. Laid on the table. The first bill considered on the calendar was one enlarging the righte of homesteaders on the public lands. Passed. (It provides that parties who settled oppo­ site unsurveyed lands, and therefore were obliged to take up less than ICO acres, may- extend their holdings not to exceed 160 acres. " On motion of Mr. Pierce the House bill wa* ^ passed for the erection of a public building at Fargo, N. D., at a cost of 8100,000. T6* Senate then proceeded to the consideration. of the election bill, the floor being taken by- Mr. Colquitt. He made an earnest appeal for the abolition of sectionalism. In thO House Mr. Spinola. of New York, from tho Committee on Military Affairs, moved tt> suspend the rules and pass a hill appropri­ ating $100,000 for the erection of a monu­ ment to Ihe victims of the prison ships at Fort Green, Brooklyn. Mr. Al- ; len, of Michigan, opposed the bill. Thar soldiers had died for their country, and- • '/'I they had suffered untold horrors. But its ';X was likewise true that there were all overf-' ' this country living men who had suffered TfP horrors equally atrocious1. At Libby Prison* at Ander.sonvllle, and at every prison pen south of the Potomac during the war men *4 had lost their health, and to-day wera. <-'] $ physical and mental wrecks because of theitf. •' V confinement in the prisons of the South. su** They should be relieved before monuments - V to Bevolutionary heroes were erected. The vl motion was lost. IN the course of the morning business it) Wp the Senate, on the 16th, Senator Hoar read*. • a letter from John L Davenport making a ... vigorous denial of the charges preferred • -.7^ against his conduct as Chief Supervisor of Elections and professing a willingness to, |1 appear before a Senate committee to an-' ' swer the charges. Mr. Gorman expressed ..... ., the hope that a committee on Investigation^-'S|| would be appointed. Mr. Hoar re­ plied that the Committee on Privileges;; and Elections would look into tho; .y iJ matter. Mr. Morgan presented the crederi-- ; tlals of his colleague, Mr. Pugh, and they wore laid upon the table. Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, in the House, called up as af,.-...^ privileged question the apportionment bill- .,,'4 and briefly explained Its provisions. Tho . ! ^ bill appeared, he said, in response to the re- . , -4 quirements of the Constitution, and was •> t-, based upon the eleventh census, which - showed a gratifying increase in the popula- 1 c$$j$ tion of the United States. There was a diver- , sityof opinion among members of the House .' ' ^ as to whether the present representation should standi or Whether it should be In-3 creased. Some difference of opinion had. also been shown in the committee, but it bad been finally determined to accept 356 as the proper number. This number been selected because it had been found 1 be the number first reached between and 375 that would secure to every State 1 least its present representation. With 3_ members the ratio of population would bO>u vt 173,SH)1. If the present representation wer© : " retained many States would lose one or" jN more members. No vote was taken. Ii THE Senate, with a small attendance of members, proceeded on the 17th with tho usual routine business of the morning hour, •, \ When Mr. Quay called up the bill providing. •' for the sale of tho old Customs-Honast«,r#'^ building at Erie, Pa., Mr. Blair protestedL, against giving time to such unimportant^ matters while so many bills of national irn- , ' ^ 'f portance were pending, and said that If thO , Senate could do nothing else during the pres- - ent session but change its rules it should do «»'• v ai •Mi •that, and future Senators could then pro ceed to do something for the country. Afte£ a long debate the House passed the ajjpo*** tionment bill with amendment--yeas, 187; nays, 88. Mr. Flower presented the claim# of New York City for a recount. Mr. Wash­ ington of Tennessee also argued in favor of^V-If?1 the recount. Mr. Allen of Mississippi . ^>4 thought it a mistake to increase the House membership. Mr. Tillman of South Caro- \j 1 lina spoke in favor of the bill. He d«-- 1 * nded the Superintendent of the Census, - ..V.J as did also Mr. McKenna of California." ,' -as Mr. Blount of Georgia favored the bill. The previous question was ordered and a.-, .tJi. vote taken on Mr. McBae's amendment to make the membership 35S. It was lost-- yeas, 113; nays, 145. Mr. Washington of-. t.VC}",.; fered as a substitute for Mr. Flower's amendment (to give New York one more Bepresentative) an .amendment ordering a recount in New York CiUr and county, the"' representation of New York to be made thirty-five if the recount warrants it. Lost --yeas, 123; nays, 148. Mr. Flower with­ drew his amendment and the bill was passed--yeas, 187; nays, 82. It fixes the membership of the House of Representatives at 356. IN the Senate, the election bill was 1 up again on the 18tb, and Mr. Coke 6po| in opposition to it. Mr. Cullom (Beput) can) accepted the bill as the best that < be framed to meet the evils complain of, with the understanding that be shou favor such amendments as might be of and might meet his approbation. The bl he said, had been opposed 011 the othorsW of the chamber, notably by Mr. Gray an'^ Mr. George, on the ground that General Government had no right undc the Constitution to control and mar the election of Bepresentatives to Con in the States. But in that objection tho was no virtue. The duty was imposed upon' it by the Constitution and by the results OF the war--to protect the negro of the South In his right to cast a free ballot and to have' a fair count; in his right to exercise. ' K j without fear of violence and unde- • terred by threats of any kind, all: the political rights of American citi-. [ zens. The time was at hand, Mr. . Cullom declared, when the authority of,vv , the Government must bo lnterposod In be-*/"'*, * half of the negroes of the South. In thef morning hour in the House the pendtogV measure was the Senate bill amending the;.; Interstate-commerce act by providing fot; the taking of depositions by notaries;, public. The bill was passed. Mr. *'arqu-„ bar, of New York, as Chairman of the,' Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish-; ̂ erles. moved that the House go into commit-' , V ; tee of the whole for the consideration of Senate bill to place the American marine 1 -ftJf engaged in the foreign trade on an equality"™!?• with that of other nations, with the House, " - •< substitute therefor. Mr. Farquhar made a * , '; ' motion that the House go into committee of „ * iM the whole on the state of the Union, and1" •• the House proceeded to the consideration of : • ̂ the Senate bill to place the American mer-,- chant marine on an equality with tbat of ;/ "^ ottar aatlona. , ' { • }r % i * * i , : ~ f BIO THINGS.. THK greatest cave in tho world is ' r" - Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. • *1; ; THE greatest lake In tho world is Lake'f^VifC- Supe r io r , 430 m i l e s l ong a nd 1 ,000 f e e t " • \ . deeP- X'i; THE largest bell in the world is the great bell of Moscow, which weighs 440, 000 pounds. A MORTGAGE on a railroad for975,- \if;. ' 000,000, the largest on record, has josfcV'.'.'-r beea filed at Pittsburgh ^ £ * 1^.-" % j + Jfctf Vi. j iotas