Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A telegram from the Russian frontier states that the attempt to assassinate the Czar was not unexpected, as the police had received an intimation of the existence of a conspiracy. Several domiciliary visits in search of politic il criminals were made the night preceding the murder. The Czar was warned not to attend the parado. All the European Cabinets and the entire European press express profound sorrow for the death of the Czar. The Emperor of Germany is said to be inconsolable. Gladstone, Hartington and Granville called on the murdered monarch's son-in-law, the Duke of Edinburgh, to express condolence,, and President Grevy telegraphed his sorrow to St. Petersburg .Messages of condolence were also sent freesthe other European courts. A St. Petersburg dispatch of Marcl: 14 says : It is now stated that the asssasins win killed the Czar drove in an open carriage, and were thus enabled to avoid suspicion, and get close to the imperial sleigh. The bombs which the murderers threw, and which did the fatal work, exploded with such force as to tear up tho entire pavement aroiind the place where they struck and to make a hole four feet deep in the ground. Both the Czar’s legs were broken, the lower part of his body severely injured, and his loft eye forced completely out of itsocket The assassins were disguised as peasants. Itussakoff, who threw the first bomb, has been a student for two years at the Mining Acadeim. The second bomb-thrower has been arrested, lie is also a young man. A Cossack and a civilian, who declined to give his name, died from injuries received by the bursting of the bomb. Altogether twenty persons are more or less injured, thirteen of whom are in the hospital. Dr. Dvoriachine, who was among the physicians first summoned to the Czar, immediately fetched the necessary instruments for amputating the legß, which were held by the flesh only, the bones being broken. The blood flowed copiously from the lacerated wounds. India-rubber bandages wore applied, first to the right leg below the knee, and then to the left. The Czar’s right hand, on which was a glove, was found to be greatly lacerated. His marriage ring was broken to pieces and driven into the flesh. The surgeons tied up £he several arteries. At length, under the influence of sulphate of oxygen and ice, the Emperor opened his eyes, and respiration became more apparent. Chaplain Bjainor availed himself of tho interval of apparent consciousness to administer the sacrament, and for a moment some hopes were entertained of the Czar’s lifo. But, a minute or two afterward, his heart ceased to beat. During the final flicker of life the members of' the family surrounded the bed. The Archpriest recited the prayers for those in extremis, all present kneeling. The spectacle was heart rending. Tho Czarowitz ascended the throne of Russia as Alexander 111., and the imperial family, court officials and the troops swore allegiance to him. In his manifesto to the people he announces himself as “ Tne Autocrat of AH the Russia s, Czar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc.,” and pledges himself to devote his whole life “to care for the welfare and honor of Russia,” and calls on his “ faithful subjects to unite before the altar of the Almighty their prayers ” with his, and commends them to swear fidelity to him and his successor, “ his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicolai.”

One of the chief organizers ui the attack on the Czar was arrested in St. Petersburg on the 15th and made a full confession. He denounced Russakoff in person, and the latter recognized the corpse of the citizen who died in the hospital as that of his accomplice, the man who threw the second bomb. Tho house from which the assassins obtained the bombs was discovered, and, as soon as the police appeared, the male occupant shot himself. It is said that warnings were repeatedly sent to the Czar, but he disregarded them all. The Nihilists diverted the attention ot tho police by letting them suppose the explosives were being manufactured in London, while they were being prepared in St. Petersburg. Princess Dolgourouki, tho morganatic wife of the late Czar, has left St. Petersburg, and will- not return. P. J. Sheridan, one of the Irish traversers, was arrested under the Coercion act. This is regarded as the most important arrest that has been made. A Berlin journal states that at the International Monetary Conference France will propose tho unlimited coinage of gold and silver, in the proportion of 1 to 15J/Sj, tue acceptance of the white metal to begin the same day in all countries consenting. Count Hubert Bismarck, son of the German Prime Minister, has eloped with Princess Elizabeth of Carlotti-Beuthen, a married lady of 36, who has a daughter aged 14.

In the pigeon-shooting match in .London, Dr. Carver, the American, won the championship cup and $3,250 in money, defeating Scott by a score of 79 to 74. The authorities ,in St. Petersburg have discovered a mine under the street leading to the riding school, whence the Czar was returning when he was assassinated. It was intended to blow up the imperial carriage in case tho bombs failed to do their work. Oue of the first official acts of the new Czar was to grant to Siberian exiles permission to engage in. commercial or professional pursuits after three years of good behavior. The spot where the Czar received his fatal injuries has been inclosed and covered with turf, and it is guarded by sentries of the old regiment of the Emperor Paul. In opening the Kerry assizes in Ireland, Justice Fitzgerald said 463 orimes had been reported in the last seven months. The frequency of sweeping conflagrations in Tokio, Japan, has compelled the au thoiities to put in operation a building order similar to the Chicago fire ordinance. A plot to blow up the Lord Mayor’s residence, in London, has been discovered and frustrated. The Pope has proclaimed a jubilee to Nov. 1 for Europe, and to the end of the yew for the rest of the world. A St. Petersburg correspondent of one of the London papers says that a measure had already been prepared, with the sanction of the late Czar, tending toward representative government. Since the discovery “of the~plot to blow up the Lord Mayor’s residence, great precautions have been taken for the safety of the Parliament buildings in London. The cellars have been carefully examined, and the police in and around the buildings reinforced. It lias been decided to place a religious memento on tho spot where tn.. late Emperor fell. The new Czar has authorized the announcement that he will first give his attention to the internal development of the state, and (bat hjs foreign policy will be entirely pacific,

Several Russian editors have been summoned before the Press Censor, who requested them to refrain from utterances calculated to excite public opinion. Minister Noyes telegraphs from Paris that the French Government has agreed that all American pork loaded on ships prior to the date of the decree prohibiting its importation shall be admitted into France subject only to inspection, and with as little delay as such examination will permit A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the new Czar is about to adopt a policy which will tend to make the Russian peasants independent, prosperous and happy. Rich tracts of land will be immediately thrown open to occupation, the burdens of taxation will be lessened, and generally a great deal will be done for their comfort and welfare. In twenty-three Governments of Ruspeasants for lands alloted to them on the abolition of serfdom have been reduced 40 to 70 per cent. The reduction is about 9,000,000 roubles annually. It has been decided to erect a memorial church on the spot where the Czar of Russia was murdered. Gen. Milan, the Italian Minister of War, is dead.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. John Sliriever, of Utica, N. Y., shot liis wife and then killed himself. Julius Schwab, a New York Com munist, says the assassination of the Czar of Russia is a warning to such men as Jay Gould aid William 11. Vanderbilt, who have cause to tremble. They are oppressing tho people, he -ays, and for just such oppression Alexander 11. was killed. At a large meeting of Communists in Xew York city, presided over by Justus 11. Schwab, one of the speakers said tho imperial families in Europe must go. In the resolutions • adopted tho American people are asked to rejoice at the overthrow of the Czar as they did at that of Maximilian. An address will be for. warded to Russia asking that aristocracy be annihilated to the very germ. Jealousy caused a double tragedy in New York, where Ernest S. Memeroth, a wood carver, shot Emil Pauly, who boarded in his family, and then blew out his own brains. A deficit of about SIOO,OOO has been discovered in the Ashuelot Savings Bank, of Winchester, N. H. Elleroy Albee, the Treasurer, has assigned his property to the bank. A most startling and extensive robbery is reported from New York city. In broad daylight two or more men succeeded in entering a large apartment filled with people on a ■ p jpulous street, evading the servants with which tie house was supplied, and, breaking in tbc apartments of one of the occupants, carried off bonds, certificates of stock and jeweliy to the value of nearly $1,000,000. After completely ransacking tho rooms in the absence of tho occupants, they escaped without detection with their valuable booty, an d lefi absolutely no-trace behind them. The victim of this bold and skillful robbery is Mr. Abram E. Simons, a stationer and p nnter, who had been printing bonds and stock certificates foi some railroad companies, and nearly $1,000,00c worth of these securities ho had taken to hit rooms for safe keeping and concealment. They are unsigned by tho proper officers, but it it said were otherwise complete. Every one of these bonds and certificates was taken, together with $2,000 worth of jewelry and valuablet belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Simons.

The Bartlett mills, at Newburyport, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that the law imposing on express companies a tax of 2 per cent, on their gross receipts is unconstitutional. West. It now appears that the purchase of tho right of way through Bear Butte canon to the Black hills had not been consummated by the Chicago and Northwestern railro ad, am the publication of the matter interfered witl the negotiations. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul people are jiow trying to secure tin road. An attempt to fast for forty-two days is to be made in Chicago next month by a son of the late Dr. John Haskins Griscom, of Nev York. It is intended to be a scientific test ol human endurance, and will be supervised by several med.cal gentlemen. The- Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill to make insanity for five years sufficient ground for divorce. Borne mischievous lads at New Bremen, Ohio, blew a school-house into fragments with two kegs of powder. Brevet Maj. Gen. Emory Upton, ol the regular army, shot himself dead in bed at Presidio, Cab A letter left by him for an offi cer expresses fears that his second volume Of tactics will prove a failure. Made insane by liquor, James Tolan entered a hotel parlor at Marine, Minn.-; and shot his wife through the heart with a Winchester repeating rifle. She sat on a sofa, with an infant in her arms and two other children by her side. The Cincinnati Price-Current publishes an extended report on the winter-wheat crop, embracing reports from nearly 400 points in the winter-wheat belt. The Price-Current says : “Taking all the evidence into consideration, with an indication of some increase in the acreage, the crop may now be considered generally promising, with a prospect for a yield not much, if any, less than the preceding year. ” Six Polish citizens of Chicago, who refused to be vaccinated, were fined $5 each. A marble tablet has been erected on the site of the old Fort Dearborn block-house. Two highwaymen attacked the stage coach near Contention, Arizona, killed the driver and wounded a passenger. R. N. Paul, Wells, Fargo A Co.’s agent, returned their fire, causing the horses to ran away, and thus saving the passengers and treasure. Miss Kaylor Ins obtained a verdict of $2,500 damages against the city of Elkhart, Ind., by falling on the ice. Jacob Powell, of Logansport, Ind., has left that city in a twentv-five-foot steamer for a trip down the Wabash and Mississippi to New Orleans. Chicago slaughtered and packed nearly six millions of hogs during the past winter. Five citizens of Arizona pursued a band of Apache mule thieves for seven days, but were ambushed and murdered by them. A collision between a switch engine and a freight train, at Parsons, Kan., killed two men and wrecked two locomotives and twenty cars. It has been decided to remove the Western Reserve College from Hudson, Ohio, to Cleveland. The latter city has raised the funds to purchase a site, and Amasa Stone has handed in a half million dollars to aid in the transfer. The inshtutiop wff take the name of Adelbert College,

Dakota dispatches announce that the spring immigration has commenced. One thousand persons, mostly Canadians, passed northward from Fargo, the •tker day, to select homes. The Beauplan French Opera Troupe is playing a two-weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s, in Chicago. This is the first time in our history that a troupe made np entirely of French artists has given tho heavy Italian operas here. The troupe have already given a four-months’ season in New Orleans, and is very thoroughly equipped in the way of chorus, ballet and orchestra, as well as in the number of its soloists. The orchestra numbers fortyfive pieces, the chorus forty people, and a full corps de ballet also accompanies the troupe. The repertoire includes “Les Huguenots,” “La Juive,” “Faust,” “Aida,” “II Trovatore,” “ Traviata,” “ Robert le Diable.” South. William Old and William Whitehorst were shot and killed in Norfolk, Va., as they were leaving Princess Ann Court House. The assassins Iky in ambush and .fired at them as they were driving along the road. The people of Greensboro, N. C., celebrated tlie centennial anniversary of the battle of Guilford by parades and speeches. A South Carolina lad named John Carroll, while playing with some friends on Table rock, in Pickens county, lost his footing and fell 1,200 feet. 1 Col. A. G. Hodges, of Louisville, Ky., one of the oldest editors and Masons in the South, is dead. George S. Davidson, once a Lieutenant in Latham's Confederate battery, who tired the first gun at the battle of Bull Run, died at Esteilville, Va. On the ground of insanity, Capt. Ed*ward R. Ames, of Baltimore, has been acquitted of shooting at M. W. Hodgdon. The accused Is a sou of the lato Bishop Ames, and was sun-struck while an officer in the army. He has been returned to a private asylum. On a plantation near Florence, 8. C. Joseph Biggs was simultaneously killed and ouried by lightning. His corpse was only discovered by a portion of his overcoat being left in sight. Western Texas threatens to secede if the Legislature passes the Temperance and Anti-Railway laws. The boilers of the towboat John Means, of the St. Louis and New Orleans Transportation Company, exploded near Osceola, Ark. The ooat sunk immediately, and four of her crew .re supposed to have drowned. In an attempt to execute James Blacky at Marion, S. C., the rope broke after he had been hoisted thirteen feet into the air. He ■vas restored to consciousness by means of whisky and hanged as speedily as new hemp could be procured. The training stable of J. S. Offut, in Paris, Ky., was destroyed by fire and several valuable horses burned to death. A boiler in Tyler & Harrod’s saw-mill, near Frankfort, Ky., exploded, killing three persons and wounding six. The revenue officers recently raided the moonshiners on ltunnet bog and Shooting creek, Va., and had a lively time of it. A good many shots were exahanged, but nobody was hurt.

WASHINGTON NOTES. President Garfield has appointed J. Stanley Brown his Private Secretary. St. Patrick’s day was celebrated more quietly than usual this year, both in this country and in Ireland. In ihe United States it took the form of Land League meetings and lanquets. Ac the request of provision shippers n Chicago and New York,,Secretary Blaine has instructed the American Ministers at Paris and London to insist upon the admission of all meats shipped prior to tho edict against pork. Secretary Lincoln has appointed Mr. Charles S. Sweet, of Chicago, as his private secretary. Mr. Sweet has entered upon his ulies. Ho has been in Mr. Lincoln’s Jaw jffice in Chicago for tho past five years. A Washington dispatch states that the nvestigation which led to the exposure of the lleged land swindle in Missouri and the arrest >f Eobert L. Lindsay in St. Louis, and of other alleged land swindlers in Cleveland and L’ittsburgb, was instigated by a letter received >y Secretary Schurz more than a year ago. This letter stated that Lindsay, whose father iiad once been in charge of the land office at fronton, Mo., had in his possession one or two boxes filled with United States land patents, which were certainly genuine, although Lindsay might have obtained them by questionable means. Tho writer of the letter alleged that Lindsay kept these boxes concealed, and had queer dealings with queer people. Tho writer, who professed to be a friend of Sec. retary Schurz, suggested, in conclusion, it might be well to look into the matter'. The Secretary secured Special Agent D. P. Terrell, of the Treasury Department, to investigate the matter. The result was the arrest of Lindsay and soveral other persons. It is believed it the Land Office the ring have obtained raudulcnt land titles to more than 1,000,000 teres of the public lands, most of which they have sold to innocent settlers, who therefore ave no valid title to the laud they occupy. In an interview with a Western Senator and several gentlemen from Salt Lako, President Garfield gave free expression to liis convictions relative to Mormonism and polygamy. He said polygamy in Utah was a foul blot on the nation's escutcheon, which should be speedily obliterated ; that he hoped Congress would take early action to place the vile institution of polygamy in course of extinction ; that any judicious measures adopted looking to that end by the legislative branch of the Government would secure his hearty approvaL Since Secretary Windom’s decision as to the withdrawal of national-bank circulation, $3,647,000 has been redeposited by frightened banks, and $828,500 in new notes taken out by others.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Governor of Minnesota has appointed Gen. A. J. Edgerton to serve out the unexpired term of Secretary Windom in the United States Senate. The new amendments to the constitution of Indiana, which were voted upon by the people of the State on Monday, March 14, have been adopted by a majority estimated, at this writing, at 100,000. The vote was very light, probably, not one-half as large as that oast in November last. One of the amendments provides for changing the time of the State election from October to November. A recent Washington telegram says : “President Garfield said yesterday to a Senator from one of the Middle States that he would send very few nominations to the Senate before the adjournment of that body. He would only fill - vacancies. It wonld be sixty days, at least, before he began to make any important changes. He also outlined the policy that be intends to pursue in the se-

lection for offices in the different States. He thinks the best judges as to who shall be selected for such positions are the Senators and Representatives most interested. He said that they knew better than he possibly could who should be appointed and he intended to rely in the main in making his selections upon them.” Ex-Chief Justice Caton, of the Illinois Supreme bench, is in Washington urging the Senate to reject Stanley Matthews, on the ground that he is not a resident of the circuit, and the people of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana don’t want an outsider put over them again as United States Judge. Senator Lamar is the only member of the new Judiciary Committee who favors the confirmation of Stanley Matthews as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The President is reported to be decidedly apathetic about the result. Private letters received in Bloomington from Senator David Davis deny that he has any intention of resigning the Senatorship. He means to serve out his full term, which expires March 3, 1883, and then to return to Bloomington to manage his private business.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In tho United States Senate, the oath of office was taken, on the meeting of that body on Monday March It, by Messrs. McDill, of lowa, and Cameron of Wisconsin. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution de. nouncing assassination as a means of redress for any grievance. On the question of organizing the Senate speeches were made by Messrs. Pendleton, Conkling and Hill, the lattei inquiring particularly what Senator chore' by Democrats would prove false to his trust Mr. Mahone took a position in front of the Viet President’s desk and declared that he Bhould vote a; he pleased; that he owed nothing to the Democrats, and that the Democratic party had done more injure to the South than anything e’te. Mr Voorheos offered to be oue of two Di-ino-cratsto pair off with vacant Republican seats. Th< President nominated Stanley Matthews,of Ohio, to bt Associate Justice of the United St.-tcs Supretrt Court; Don A. Pardee, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit; John W. Powell, of Illinois, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey; Orlando H. Brewster, Louisiana, Surveyor General of the United States District of Louisiana. Postmasters— George J. Williams, Youngstown, Ohio; Thomas J. Anderson, Topeka, Kansas; Jacob M. Wells, Marion, Ind.; John R. Dowd. Rockville, Ind.: Mrs. Prescilla W. Wilson, Braid wood, Ill.; G. W. Mitchell, Charleston, Ill.; -TameH. Clarke, Mattoon, Ill.; John Kennedy, Hastings Minn.; Eden N. Lavens, Faribault, Minn.; France' W. Seeley, Lake City, Minn.; Edward Russell, Davenport, Iowa; William C.Hawley, Manchester,lowa; George Crane, Dubuque, Iowa; Justus T. Moak Watertown. Wis.; Frank Patterson, Junction City Kan.; William Mulienix, Bristol, Tenn.; Henry VY Turner, Lexington, Mo. The Senate session was very brief on Tues day, the 15th Insk Mr. Voorhees called up his resolution asking the Attorney General for the names o Deputy Marshals appointed to guard the polls at thi October election in Indiana. It was amended so a to call also for information as to the necessity so their appointment, and in its new shape was adopted An attempt was mado by Mr. Pendleton to call nj his reorganization resolution, but it failed, and th Senate adjourned. Senator Edgerton, of Minnesota, took hi seat on Wednesday, the 16th inst. A resolution w* adopted calling for the correspondence betweei Mexico and the United States, from 1859 to 1861, ix reference to a proposed treaty. Tho Democrat went through the motion of calling up the organization resolution, but did not attempt to press It t< a vote. There was a little filibustering oi the part of the Bepublicans, after which the Senat adjourned. The President nominated S. Dan. Horton to be Secretary to the Commission to attem the International Monetary Conference at Paris Also the following Postmasters: William H. Hart man, Waterloo, lowa, and George B. Reichnekej Wyandotte, Kas. Surveyors of Customs: John R Leonard, Indianapolis, Ind., and Joseph L. Gaston Chattanooga, Tenn., and B J. Watson to be Nava Officer at San Francisco.

The credentials of Senator Edgerton, of Minnesota, were presented to the Senate on Thursday, March 17, and he took the oath of office. Mr. Pendleton said he had received information which induced him to believe that it would be Impossible to obtain a vo'e upon the pending resolution this morning, and he therefore moved to adjourn. Agreed to. The appointment of Hon. James A. Wildman as Postmaster at Indianapolis was sent to the Senate this afternoon by the President Col. AF. Rockwell was also appointed as Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. Tim Senate was organized by the Republicans, on Friday, the 18th inst, Mahone voting wiib them, and David Davis with the Democrats. The vote stood 37 to 37, Edmunds and Vance being paired, and Vice President Arthur gave his casting veto in favor of the Republicans. The committees, nj irranged by the Republican caucus, were then appointed. As soon as Senator Frye was sworn in, Mr. Anthony, Chairman of the Republican caucus, offered the list of committees prepared in the caucus as an amendment to the resolution offered a number of days ago by Mr. Pend eton. The vote stood 37 to 37, and the Vice President said that, the vote being a tie, he would vote in the affirmative, and declared the resolution adopted. The President nominated Philip Doppler to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the ixth district of Tennessee; George H. Starbnck, of New York, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Second district, and the following Postman ters: James .C. Sherman, Menominee, Mich.; Joseph E. Wilkinson, Sidney, Ohio; John G. Magaw, Coshocton, Ohio; James A Wildman, Indianapolis, Ind., and William L. Hfcrvey. Minneapolis, Kan. The following are the Senate Committees as elected, the firßt named on each committee being the Chairman: Privileges and Elections—Hoar, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye, Saulsbury, Hill (Ga.), Vance, Hugh. Foreign Relations Burnside, Conkling, Edmunds, Miller, Ferry, Johnston, Morgan, Hill (Ga.), Pendleton. Finance—Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Jones (Nev.), Aliison, Platt (N. Y.), Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, Harris. Appropriations—Allison, Logan, Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Davis (W. Va.), Beck, Ranßom,'Cockrell. Commerce—Conkling, McMillan, Jones (Nev.), Kellogg, Conger, Ransom, Coke, Farley, Vest. Manufactures—Conger, Hale, Jewell, McPherson, Williams. Agriculture—Mahone, Blair, Plumb, YanWyck, Paris (W. Va.), Slater, George,

Military Affairs—Logan, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover, Hampton. Naval Affairs—Cameron (Pa.), Anthony, Rollins, Miller, Mahone, McPherson, Jones (Fisa), Vance, Farley. Judiciary—Edmunds, Conkiing, Logan, Ingalls, McMillan, Garland, Dai is (Ill.), Bayard, Lamar. Poetoffices and Post-Roads—Ferry, Hill (Col.), Platt (N. Y.), Sawyer, Mahone, Maxey, Saulsbury, Farley, Groome. Public Lands—Plumb, Hill (Col.), Blair, Van WycV, McDill, Jones (Fla.), Grover, Walker, Morgan. Private Land Claims—Bayard, Jones, Call, Edmunds, Allison. Indian Affairs—Dawes, Ingalls, Saunders, Logan, Cameron (Wis), Coke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater. Pensions—Teller, Platt (Ct), Blair, Mitchell, Edgerton, Groome, Slater, Jackson, Camden. Revolutionary Claims—Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Hill (Ga.), Anthony, Dawes. Claims—Cameron (Wis.), Frye, Teller, Hoar, Conger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair. District of Columbia —Ingalls, Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, McDill, Harris, Butler, Vance, Gorman. Patents—Platt (Ct), Hoar, Mitchell, Edgerton, Coke, Call, Williams. Territories—Saunders, Kellogg, McDill, Sawyer, Butler, Garland, Vest. Railroads—Kellogg, Saunders, Toller, Hawley, Sawyer, Sewell, Lamar, Grover, Williams, Jones, Brown. Mines and Mining—Hill (Col.), Jones (Nev.), Van Wyck, Miller, Hampton, Fair, Camden. Revision of Laws—McMillan, Platt (Ct.), Hale, Davis (III.), Pcnd.eton. Education and Labor—Blair, MorriU, Burnside, Edgerton, Mahone, Maxey, Brown, George, Fair. Civil Service—Hawley, Rollins, Jones (New), Hill (Col.), Butler, Walker, Williams. Contingent Expenses—Jones (Nov.), Platt (Ct), Vance. Engrossed Bills—Saulsbury, Call, Conkiing. Ru es—Frye, Hoar, Sherman, Call, Gorman. Improvement of the Mississippi River—Mitchell, Kellogg, Van Wyck, Frye, Jones, Cockrell, Jackson. Transportation Route* to the Seaboard—Harrison, Cameron (Pa.), Blair, Platt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees, Camden. Joint Committee on Public Printing—Anthony, Hawley, Gorman. Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills—Platt (N. Y.), Rollins, Pugh. Joint Committee on Library—Sherman, Hoar, Vo Oi hees. Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds —Rollins, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), Jones (Fla.), Vest. Civil Service—Sawyer, Rollins, Dawes, Hampton, Groome. Census—Hale, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), McDill, Pendleton, Morgan, Harris. Epidemic Diseases—Harris, Lamar, Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller, Sewell. Nicaragua Claims Davis (W. Va.), Groome, Johnston, Hawley, Mitchell. On Erection of New Library Building—Voorhees, Butler, Morrill.