Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — Page 1

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LOVBTD TOO MUCH. In Colorado Springs did dwell Once on a time a dashing belle, Whose name was Hannah HumnwelL A blooming, buxom lass was she. And she was sweet as sweet could be— So all the fellows did agree. But Hannah Hnnnlwell was rain; That fact, alas! was all too plain. And caused her family much pain. For Hannah laid uncommon stress Upon the vanity of dress— A weakness of her sex, we guess. She had a lovely seal-skin sacqne. That often graced her comely back. And sealed her doom at last, alack! For when the wintry winds did blow. Prognosticating ice and snow. Unto her trunk did Hannah go, And straight she hauled that seal-skin out, And, with premonitory flont, She put the noisome moths to rout. “Now, blow ye winds,” quoth Hannah gay, “80 long as in my sacqne I may Go gallivanting all the day!” Alas, the poor, misguided child! The sun appeared—the tempest wild Was lulled Into a zephyr mild. Then Hannah waxed uncommon pale, And walled a great and grievous wail 'To see her pet ambition fail. Much to her family's dismay. She stayed at home day after day. And, as she stayed, she pined away. And still the weather milder grew, , The gentle south wind balmy blew. And warmed the people through and through. And while all other folks were glad, IPoor Hannah Hunnlwell was sad—<Or, what was sadder yet, was mad. And so one calm, soft eventide, 'She pressed her seal-skin to her side, And, with a hollow sob, she died. The chattering gossips love to tell The fate of that vain, foolish belle Who loved her seal-skin sacque too weU. —Denver Tribune.

NINON’S PRINCE.

It was the siege of Paris. The Empress Eugenie had fled from the Tuileries, the Provisional Government had been organized under Troohu, Paris was in a state of wild alarm, and the Prussian armies were steadily making itheir wav toward the city, investing one point after toother, and rapidly cutting off all communication between the besieged city and the surrounding ■country. Winter was coming on; food and fuel becoming scarce; business was entirely suspended; the boulevards were filled with idle, aimless loungers, gazing with sad and hungry eyes upon the long files of troops that marched before them. Into the quiet and aristocratic precincts of the Faubourg St. Honore the grim ghosts of famine and bloodshed had not made their way, and the luxurious entresol of the fashionable hotel where Ninon, the gay little Baronne de Valcour, took her abode during gray Parisian winter was all alight with sunshine. Ninon was leaning back in her cushioned fauteuille with the toes of her slippers extending toward the fire, and her head thrown back wearily, looking the very personification of ennui. “Fifiine, you bother me. Go away.* Fifine departs, but returns again in the space of twb minutes. “Madame, vici monsieur. ” Madame turns her pretty little head and takes a comprehensive glance at the tall young officer in the uniform of the national guard. # “The Prussians have not eaten you up yet?” inquires Ninon, with a yawn that she does not take the smallest pains to conceal. “Not yet. Would it be a great source of relief to madame if such an event was to take place ?” “Rather.” “Don’t you care for me at all, Ninon?” “Don’t be silly, my child. Tell me what his Excellency Gen. Trochu is about, and when you propose to stain that elegant uniform with Prussian gore ?” “Poor Paris!” The young officer sighed and shook his head. “Paris is very nice—all but the Prussians ; and no one is giving any parties. That annoys me.” “Ninon, are you as really heartless , as you seem?” “Just about. What do you want me to do?” “Tell me you love me, Ninon, just a little.” “But I don’t.” The boyish lips trembled and a great wave of sorrow spread itself over the fair, fresh countenance. Then he knelt down by her side and a single tear fell on the little hand that he stooped to kiss. “Ninon, Ninon, won’t you love me?" “You are a stupid boy and you must go away or I shall never eat my breakfast. You are a very nice boy, Armand, but you look as if you were going to cry.” “Ninon!” the word sounded like a cry of pain. Then he kissed her hand again and turned tn leave her. “I shall not come again, Ninon.” Madame d e Baronne disfigured her pretty lips with an incredulous little move and the door closed upon her boyish lover. Paris in a state of siege! A city of 2,000,000 inhabitants surrounded by the force of a powerful enetiy and all suppb'es cut off! The streets were filled with a gaunt and hungry crowd of desperate men and despairing women. The sounds of distress and suffering began to make themselves heard even in the luxurious quarters of the Faubourg St. Honore, where Ninon, de Valcour wore out her days in wailing over the dullness and dreariness of the gay capital. The high price demanded for all the necessaries of life began to exhaust even the princely De Valcour revenues. The establishment must be reduced, ,avd Baroness Ninon awoke out of her long r dream of luxury and laziness to face life for the first time seriously. One among Ninon’s friends was missing. The boyish form of the young officer, with his untarnished uniform tod unused sword, appeared no more among her guests. At first she smiled at his absence, then insensibly she began to watch for his coming, and, as the days passed one after another, Ninon grew anxious. It was the evening of the 24th of November. Ninon was sitting alone when a quick, hurried tread sounded behind the chair, and the clanking of a sword startled her. “Armand!” she exclaimed, as she turned and encountered the excited glance of the young officer. “Yes, Ninon! At last Paris is aroused. To-morrow there will be a grand sortie. With 100,000 men we shall leave Paris, march upon Cbampigny—on to Villiers. Ducrot has sworn to re-enter Paris only victorious or dead. I have come to say good-by. Before to-morrow night Prussian ball or bayonet may have quieted forever tiie heart that loves you so passionately. Kiss me, Ninon, and God bless Ninon lifted the brown hair from the fair young forehead; a moment her lips rested there, and she murmured, “God Wess you, my Armand!” And then he

VOLUME VII.

Eressed her passionately against his eart, and then he left her. In the morning the troops were in motion. With stern and set/determination they moved forward looking neither to the right nor left, lest the sorrowful faces of the women they loved should unnerve their hearts and unsteady their hands. At the head of his company rode Armand de Rochecceur. He did not turn his head, but the hand that held the bridle rein shook as the heavy tread of his powerful horse bore him slowly on beyond the gaze of the bright eyes that looked down upon him. Quietly Ninon watched him go, steadily she looked after his retreating form. A soft mist clouded his flashing eyes, and as the distance hid him further from her view she murmured gently, “Armand, God watch over thee!” All day long, that terrible 30th of November, the incessant roar of cannon echoed back into the stillness of the city’s streets. Paris held her breath in anguish. Outside the walls the sickening drama of battle, with all its horrid accompaniments of tumult, noise and bloodshed; inside the no less horrible torture of suspense, as those left behind waited with blanched faces and bated breath for news from the scene of conflict. Among the foremost in the strife on that terrible morning rode the boyish officer, Armand de Rochecceur. The pure blood of his Norman ancestry courses wildly through his veins today. France is his life, and he would give his life for France. Early in the afternoon Champigny yielded to the passionate attack of the French troops. Amazed at their defeat, the Germans fell back to recover from their bewilderment produced by this almost their first reverse. Then, rallying from their surprise, reinforced by fresh troops and protected bv their batteries, they fell upon the French with a sudden fury. With a wild feeling, half fury, half despair, Armand saw the line give way. “Cowards!” he muttered below his breath. Then, turning suddenly to hifl men, he cried: “Courage! Will you go back to your women and tell them you fled from Prussian guns? Onion! Conqueror die like Frenchmen!” Then he rode forward; but the terrified, panicstricken men were deaf to his call, and suffered him to go alone. With his right arm uplifted he rushed toward . the Prussian line.

Ninon has listened all day to the sound of that terrible cannonading, waited all night in frightened suspense for news from the scene of battle—for tidings from Armand de Rochecceur. In the morning no word has come. Dark circles have appeared under the brown eyes, and their brilliancy is all faded, gone out in that long night of watching. Restlessly Ninon paces the long salon. Finally a sudden impulse seizes her, “I will go and find him.” She finds him at last. As she approaches his bedside she trembles. She looks upon the white bandages that lie upon his eyes and shudders. Then she speaks to him, and the glad smile that flits across his lips reassures her. His single hand goes out to meet hers, and he tries to speak. A warning gesture from the nurse attracts Ninon’s attention, and she whispers: “Do not talk, Armand; you must get well first.” From an old soldier who watches over him Ninon learns the history of the sortie. As she listens to the story of how bravely the young soldier bore himself on that dreadful day, there is a look of newly-found happiness in the brown eyes. Suddenly they fill with tears, and her lips murmur softly, “I have found him, the Prince.” The Sister of Charity comes and whispers, gently and pityingly, “Madame, he will be blind.” “Armand, mv love! God help you!” Then she lifts her tear-stained face, lit up with its wonderful light of love and pity, and looking at the sympathetic countenrnce of the poor sister, whispers, “He shall see with my eyes.” The sister looks into the depth of the lovely eyes raised to hers, and thinks, “ He is not much to be pitied, the brave man.” Through long nights of fever and days of weary restlessness Ninon watched by her lover’s side. Strength returns to the crippled body, but the sorrowful eyes always wear that helpless, vacant expression peculiar to the blind, and the strong right arm is represented only by an empty sleeve. He is not forbidden to speak now; and one day, as he hears Ninon’s footstep by the bedside, and the soft rustle of her dress as she bends over him, he says, “You are always with me, Ninon, are you not, or do I dream it ?” “I am always with you, Armand.” “What brings you here?” “Because I love you, dear.” “Love me ? —but I am a cripple and blind.” “Yes, Armand. Your right arm and your eyes you have given to France. Will you give the rest to me?” “Ninon!” and the left arm, the only one he has, draws her quickly and passionately to his side. Her soft breath plays against his cheek, and as his lips meet hers she whispers, “Armand, my Prince, I love you. ”

Back Ague.

The London Lancet, speaking of those nervous sportsmen who are unable to avoid trepidation or palpitation when walking up to a dog at its point, or if a bird or covey rises suddenly without being pointed by the dog, says: “Such nervousness ought rather to be designated as excitability. It is nearly always constitutional, and therefore incurable. In short, it is not a disease or morbid condition, but a state of impressibility, though it may be temporary and connected with some deficiency of the power of control. Steadiness, as regards the nervous system, is much a question of reserve force. In some cases the ‘nervousness’ of the sportsman is a direct consequence of his enthusiasm. He is so anxious that, in the endeavor to acquit himself creditably in the field, he his unable to make even a respectable appearance. The heart beats, the eyes dance, the hand trembles, and, of course, good shooting is out of the question. This is why many a man who is a fair shot when alone is unable to hit a haystack, as the saying goes, when criticising eyes are upon him. Practice may, in certain cases, reduce the magnitude of the trouble, but nervousness is constitutional with many a too enthusiastic sportsman, and he will be increasingly nervous as his enthusiasm augments.” A South Carolina paper, referring to the disappearance of a man, says he “had on his working clothes and an overdose of liquor.”

The Democratic Sentinel.

POLITICAL NOTES.

The President has control of SIOO,OOO to disburse in case of a dangerous epidemic in the country. Mb. Tabor, the thirty-day Senator from Colorado, is said to have paid nearly $1,000,000 for a divorce from his wife. Robert T. Lincoln, Mr. Arthur’s Secretary of War, is called the second Lincoln. It would be better to call him Lincoln No. 2. Democrats in the Senate and House, by declining to serve on the cut-and-dried conference committee, simply said to the Republican gag-law legislators that they could skin their own skunk. The Republican party should not be at a loss to find a man to succeed Marshall Jewell as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Dorsey made a very excellent Secretary, and there can be no doubt that he would prove a most capable Chairman. Ohio seems to have three Representatives in the United States Senate, in defiance of the constitutional provision that the States shall have equal representation therein. The third man is Swank, of the Iron and Steel Association, who dictates how the Senatorial vote of Ohio shall be cast.

The Chicago Tribune, not having the fear of John Sherman very largely developed, refers to his recent declaration that in the matter of tariff tax on iron “he spoke in the interest of his constituents,” and tells him that he “spoke falsely” and that “he knows it.”, Mr. Sherman won’t fight. Mr. Tariff Commissioner Porter has learned from a carpet maker in Halifax, England, that the United States are making their own carpets; and the information is volunteered by a protection organ that carpets are sold more cheaply here than anywhere else. Yet the protectionists- still insist on a duty of 60 to 65 per cent, on carpets. Jones, of Nevada, says, “at no time in our history has the country been so prosperous as it is to-day, ” and protection is what has done it. Yet there is not one of the protectionist organs in the land that has not something to say daily of the “extraordinary business depression.” Jones ought to consult the organs and come to an agreement with them on the subject of the country’s prosperity. The recent action of the Governor and his Lieutenant assures Indiana to the Democracy by a large majority in 1884. This is a simple question. Shall the majority rule? The Lieutenant Governor and a Republican minority in the Senate say “No!” The next Republican Convention should nominate Mr. Hanna for Governor. The dirty work that he has done for the party entitles him to the nomination.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Let us see. Was it old Two-Per-Cent. Hubbell who advertised to the country last summer that Senator Ferry could not and should not be reelected ? Hubbell was ridiculed at the time, but he has succeeded in making his boast good against the expressed wishes of three-quarters of the Republican members of the Legislature. The tail wagged the dog.— Grand Rapids Democrat.

Howgate is said to be in Florida, where he might easily be arrested if the Government authorities had any use for him. They appear, however, t<xbe no more anxious to bring him back to Washington than to compel Spencer’s return to that city. Howgate’s sojourn in Florida is beneficial not only to his own health, but to that of many wrellknown persons at the capital, and there is little prospect that his arrest will be ordered. Gen. Butler denies the revived charge that he stole spoons and horses when he was in New Orleans. He says he supposes that those who believe the spoon story will believe all the rest, but he states, to oblige a friend, that the horses he drove when in command in New Orleans were his own Massachusetts horses which were shipped home by sea after they had ceased to be of use to him in New Orleans. Senator Van Wyck’s charge on the extravagance and cost and endless trials which pretend to be in the interest of public justice was good and strong as far as it went, biit it did not go far enough. The ffial itself is a black disgrace to American jurisprudence, insomuch that it is believed that no conviction will ever be secured. A Judge turned prosecutor rarely fails to hang a jury in criminal trials, and this will probably be the result in the present costly mockery at Washington.- Omaha Herald.

Senator Edmunds succeeds the late David Davis in the chair of the President of the Senate. This is a respectable, and also a refreshing change. Everybody will know where to find Senator Edmunds as a Republican of positive views and unmistakable political identity. Nobody ever knew where to find David upon any question, except to gain a personal advantage. He would barter his votes with an oleaginous ease and audacity that was quite remarkable in a man who flattered himself that he was independent in his political action.— Omaha Herald. The man whom President Arthur now has at the head of the Naval Department of the Government is in a fair way to earn and receive s a vastly larger load of odium than fell to the lot of his venal predecessor, Robeson. Robeson was a vulgar robber, a pusillanimous thief. Chandler’s* record is not yet made up. How much he will steal is a matter of conjecture, but in point of arrogance and vanity he is already in advance of Robeson. His treatment of Lieutenant Commander Gorringe is exciting universal indignation and may yet lead to his dismissal. The Naval Department of the Government will not be able.to maintain intact its present obnoxious notoriety with such a man as Chandler at its head. It is bound to still further decline. The Republicans are getting a little sick of their bargain with Mahone, though the President only a few days ago gave him one of the best appointments in Virginia for John Paul, his man. Mahone was very anxious to ha u e a special session of the Senate, in order to shape the organization of that body and to get possession of the offices nine months before the regular meeting of Congress next December. He found a pretext for this proposition in the proposed commercial treaty with Mexico, recently negotiated by Gen. Grant, and urged it in executive session as a project of the utmost importance, Which might suffer serious injury by delay. 'Hie ingenious arguments of the repudiator and his persistent energy

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16,1883.

The closing hours of Congress were enlivened by a little colloquy between Randall and Hewitt, in which the New Yorker gave the Pennsylvanian a pretty thorough overhauling. Mr. Hewitt urged Randall to vote against the conference Tariff bill, when the latter got out of temper and told Hewitt that he had been fighting thd battles of the Democratic party for twenty-five years and wanted to be dictated to by nobody. Hewitt replied: “Yes, sir, I understand how you have been fighting the battles of the Democratic party for years. If packing and assisting to pack the Ways and Means Committee in the interest of monopolies and against tariff revision and the people for years means fighting the battles of the Democratic party, you have been doing it. You have done more, sir, to keep the Democratic party out of power than any other man in the country, and I tell you, Mr. Randall, you will meet your Waterloo in the Democratic caucus which assembles to elect a Speaker for the Forty-eighth Congress” With Hewitt and Cox, who will be influential in the New York delegation, against him; with the New Englanders dissatisfied at the cut on the wool tariff; with the West urging either Morrison or Springer, and the South united on Carlisle or Blackbtirn, Randall’s road to the Speakership is up hill all the way there. 1

in failed to make the desired impfession. The Republicans - knew very well that when Mahone endtreaty he meant Gorham and the other officers of the Senate. They were too sharp to follow him into the experiment of an extra session, which might be attended with grave consequences. Hence, when the direct question came to be put of considering the treaty now or of postponing it until next winter, Mahone could not muster half a dozen followers. This desertion, on what may be termed a test of personal strength, soured the temper of the repudiator, and made him realize for the first time that, while.he may get patronage trona the Executive, he is not in condition to dictate terms to the Republican party. —Washington telegram.

The Beauties of Protection.

While the packed conference committee of Congress was settling down to its work of murdering tariff reform, two great protected manufacturing establishments in different parts of the country suspended business and made assignments involving aggregate liabilities of about half a million. The more important failure, in a money point of view, was that of the Taylor Paper Company, of Chicago, with liabilities of nearly $400,000. The more interesting to us here in New York was the failure of Samuel H. Fox, of Durham, Oneida county, proprietor of the largest glass manufactory in the State. Mr. Fox was the defeated Republican candidate for Congress in the Oneida district last fall. His large establishment at Durhamville has long afforded the eulogists of high protection a favorite example of the benefits of that beneficent institution. He was the ideal employer, patriarchal in his concern for the welfare of those who worked for him, generous more often than strictly just in the matter of wages, and markedly progressive in his efforts to work by the best methods and the most improved appliances. He fails for something like $150,000. Why should he have failed, if protection really protects? The tariff taxes the importation of wares similar to his with duties ranging from 57 to 80 per cent. In the year 1881, for example, we imported from Europe window glass to the value (European price) of $1,425,363. Upon that glass we paid a total duty of $999,066 —which raised the gross cost to $2,424,429. The price at which Mr. Fox sold his glass to Americans was settled. by this foreign price, of which seven parts were actual cost and five parts tax. Yet even with this enormous contribution of five cents bonus out of every twelve paid, him by his customers, Mr. Fox is unable to continue his business! Is it not time to ask ourselves in all seriousness whether we cannot find a better use for our energies and earnings as a people than to tax them in this way to bribe men to do a losing business? — Albany Journal.

The Tariff Abortion.

Congressman Abram S. Hewitt, in an interview in New York, said: “I was ready to vote for the Senate bill, which was to some extent a measure of reduction ; but when, by a trick, the whole subject was confided to the decision of a packed committee representing only special interests and not the interests of the people, and when this scheme produced substantially increased taxation iipon consumers, I could not give it my support. I find the conference committee made no reduction in any case where reduction would decrease the price to consumers or cheapen the article. It blundered in two striking cases into re luctions of duty which wi.l cheapen certain manufactures, but even then not to consumers at large, because these very manufacturers are so highly protected under the tariff that they have a monopoly of the market. The conference committee raised the duty in all cases where protected articles had.. the inside track or the ear of the committee or they could manage it. This legislation will fail of its intended effect, for the reason that the industries of the country are suffering, not from foreign competition, but from the domestic competition arising out of the protection we have had for the last twenty years. The result of this long period of protection is an excessive production at home, for which no market can be found, because we have no access to foreign markets, as other nations who have free raw materials. The result of this pernicious system is that. failures in every branch of business have already begun and will continue with accelerated rapidity until the weaker concerns, which cannot compete with their stronger are driven to the wall. The only sensible and possible relief that could have been extended to manufacturers would have been to free raw materials from destructive duties, so that ' goods might be produced at lower prices and thus find a wider market at home or abroad. I think the passage of this bill makes the fundamental issue between revenue reform and unprotected protection so clear that the organization of the next House will be determined by it and by it alone. It is, in my judgment, the beginning of the leal revenue fMorin demanded by people of this country.”

Randall Has a Hard Road to Travel.

THE NEW TARIFF.

a Birds-Ky* bf the Tariff Law, a« Compared with thbOy I life' is a comparative statement Tariff law and the new measure adopted during the closing hours of Congress. ’The rates of the old law are in the first column, while the rates of the new law are in the second column. While the provisions of the act go into effect generally on and after July 1, 1883, an exception is made in respect of tariff duties upon sugar, which take effect June 1, and the Internal-revenue provisions relating to the reduction of taxes on tobacco, snuff and cigars, and the reduetion of special license taxes, which go into effect May 1, with a provision that all claims for drawback on unbroken packages of tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes held by manufacturers or dealers at that date must be presented before July 1: SCHEDULE A—CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. Old New rate. law. Glue .. 20 pct 20 pct Beeswax 20 pot 20 pot Gelatine and all similar preparations 36 p ct 80 p ct Glycerine, , brown or yel10w.............. 30 pet 2cft Glycerine, refined. SOpct 6c ft Fish glue or isinglass SOpct 26 pct Phosphorus 20 p ct 10c ft Soap, hard and soft, all of which are not otherwise specially amended loft and SOpct Jpct Fancy perfumed and all descriptions of toilet soaps. .. 10c ft and 26 p ct 16c ft Sponges ...... 20 pct 20 pct Sumac, ground 10pct 30cft Sumac, extract 20pct 20pct Acid, acetic, acetous, or pyroligneous acid not exceeding specific gravity of 1.017 6c ft 20c ft Exceeding specific gravity of L 017 30c ft 10c ft Acid, citric. 10c ft 10c ft Acid, tartaric 15c ft 10c ft Camphor, refined 5c ft 5c ft Castor beans or seeds 60c bu 50c bu Castor oil $1 gal 80c gal Cream of tartar 10c ft t 6c ft Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substltue or British gum 10 pct lop ft Extract of hemlock for tanning Free 20 pct Glucose or grape sugar... 20 pct SOpct Indigo, extracts ana carmined ~ 10 pct qn- 20 p ct lOpct lodine, resublimed 70c ft 40c ft Licorice, paste or roll 10c ft 7)6c ft Licorice juice Now free 3c ft Oil of bay leaves, essential 50c doz $2.50 ft Oil, croton Si ft 50c ft Flaxseed, or linseed oil and cotton-seed oil 30c gal 30c gal Hempseed and rapeseed oil 23c gal 10c gal Soda and potassa, tartrate of, or rochelle salt 6c gal 2c ft Strychnia or strychnine and all salts thereof....sloz,sl.sooz 60c oz Tartars, partly refined, including Lee’s crystals.. 6c ft 4c ft Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina ana aluminous cake, and alum In crystals or ground 60c lOOfts 60c $ 100 ft b Ammonia, aqua or water of ammonia. 40pct 20pct Ammonia, muriate.; lOpct lOpct Ammonia, carbonate. 20 p ct 20 p ct Ammonia, sulphate. 20 p ct 20 p ct Quinta and cinchonidla, sulphate and salts 0f.... Free Free Imitation mineral waters and all wholly artificial mineralwaters Bcqt, 25pct SOpct Asbestos, manufactured.. 26 p ct 20 p ct Baryta or barytes, crude and sulphate and carbonate of, unmanufactured Wo ft lOpct Barium, baryta, or bartes, sulphate and carbonate of, manufactured )6c ft Mo ft Refined borax '.. 10c ft 5c ft Cement,Roman, Portland, and all others, ground and unground 20 p ct 20 p ct Whiting and Paris white, dry Io lb Mo lb Whiting, ground in 0i1.... 2o lb l)6c lb Putty l)6c lb 1c lb Prepared chalk,precipitated chalk, French chalk, red chalk, and all other chalk preparations not specially enumerated or provided for 20 to 60 p ct 20 p ct Chromic acid 15 pct 15 pct Chromate and bichromate of potash 4 c lb 3c lb Cobalt oxide 20 p ct 20p ct Copper sulphate or blue vitribl 4c lb 8c lb Iron sulphate or copperas He lb 3-10cIb Acetate of lead, brown.... 5c lb 4c lb Acetate of lead, white.... 10c lb 6c lb White lead, when dry or in pu1p....... SC lb 3clb When ground or mixed in oil 3c lb 8c lb Litharge 3c lb 8c lb Orange, mineral and red lead ... 3c lb 3c lb Nitrate of lead 3c lb 8c lb Magnesia, medicinal carbonate of 6c ft 6c ft Magnesia, calcined 12c ft 10c ft Magnesia, sniphate of, or Epsom salt 1c ft He ft Potash, crude carbonate.. . 20 pct 20 pct Potash, chlorate of 8c ft 3c ft lodide, iodate, or hydriodate..... 75c ft 50c ft Prussiate of, red 10c ft 10c ft Prussiate of, yellow 6c ft 6c ft Nitrate of, or saltpeter, crude 1c ft 1c ft Nitrate of, or refined, 1H of 1c 9 ft - 2c ft 2)6c ft Soda ash, K of lc« ft.... Heft Heft Soda, sal, or soda crystals Me ft He 1b Soda, silicate of )6c ft He ft Bicarbonate of. IHcft 156 c ft Hydrate, ox caustic iHc.ft 1c ft Sulphate, known as salt cake, crude or refined, or niter cake, crude or refined, glaubers salt 20 p ct)6c ft 20 p ct Sulphur, refined in rolls.. $lO ton $lO ton Sulphur, or flowers of wood tar 20 p ct 10 p ct Coal tar, crude. 20 pct 20 pct Coal tar, refined, naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil .. 40c gal 20pct Ultramarine, 6c per ft 6c ft 6c ft Turpentine, spirits of, 200 per gallon 30c gal 20c gal Colors and paints, including lakes var'us rates 26 p ct Bone-black 26 p ct 25 p ct Bone-whar or bone-black fit for BUgar-reflning, 25 p ct ad valorem 25 p ct Me ft Ochre 50c to $1.50100 lbs Ho ft Zinc, oxide of, when dry lo per ft... IMcft IHcft Zinc, oxide of, when ground in on, 2c per ft.. IHc ft lKc ft Oils, essential or distilled. and not otherwise provided for in this act, 25 pct ad valorem 60 pct 26 pct OUs, olive and nut, as salad oil, 60c net ga110n.... $1 gal 25pct All medicinal preparations 40 p ct 25 p ct All logwood extracts free 10 p ct All barks, gums and gum resins, woods used expressly for dyeing, ground or refined var’s rates lOpct Non-dntiable crude minerals, ground or refined. 20 pct lOpct All ground or powdered spices, this act 10c ft 6c ft Clays, unwrought $3 ton sLsoton Clays, wrought.. $3 ton China clay, or koaline.... $5 ton $3 ton Proprietary preparations —to-wit:alT..... 60pct 60pct Perfumery, cologne waters3gal 60 p cts2gal 60 pct Chloroform, 60c per ft.... sift 50c ft Collodion and compound pyroxyline gift MJoft Ether, sulphuric, 50c per ft , Sift 60c ft lodoform 50c ft 30c ft Acid tannic and tannin.. $L $2 ft $1 ft Fusel oil s2gal lOpct Varnishes of all kinds.... SOcgal 20 pct 40 pct Spirit varnishes SOcgal 26 p ctsL32 addt’l per gal Opiums (unchanged) $1 ft $1 ft EAETHENWABE AND GLASBWABE. Brown earthenware, common stoneware, gasretorts, and stoneware not ornamented 25pct 20pct China, porcelain. Darlan. bisque, ornamented x earthen, stone and crockery.. 60pct 60pct China, porcelain, Darlan, bisque ware, plain 45 pct 56 pct Earthen, stone and crockery ware, white 40 pct 66 pct Stoneware 20 pct 30 pct Encaustic tiles 35pct 35pct Brick, fire brick and tile. 20 pct 20 pct Slates,.... 40 pct SOpct Roofing slates, etc 35 p ct 25 p ct Green glass b0tt1e5....... Var’s rates 1c ft Green glass bottles, filled 30 p ct 30 p ct Flint glass bottles 35 p ct 40pct Flint glass bottles, filled. 86 p ct 40 p ct Flint and lime pressed glassware, p1ain..;..... 86pct 40pct Articles of glass, cut..... 40 p ct 45 p ct Flate glass. .Unchanged Polished cylinder and common glass Unchanged Unpolished qylinder, crown and common win»t >dow teame as present,

Old W Hew U rate. loses -qrfth % riiMtnctiMi on each j j size) .. .-• .«... ...... Porcelain, Bohemian and stained glass, and glass N.. O. P 40 p ct 45 p ct Iron 0re...... 20pct 75cton 75c ton & 2? 2 clb,for Pyrites. 90pct< copper ores2per cent. Iron in pigs $7 ton $6.7240n Scrap ir0n........... $6.08 ton $6.72t0n Scrap ateeL 30 pct $6.72 ton Iron railway bars weigh- • ing more than 25 1b5.... 70c cwt 0.7 c Ib Steel railway bars S2B ton sl7 Bar-iron, first size in present 1aw...... left o.Bc ib Bounds and squares, first z size present law. 1c Ib 1c lb Plata, rounds and squares, second size. IHc Ib Lie ib Bar-iron, paying less than 35 p ct 35 p ct Charcoal iron, at least.... ; $22 ton Iron or steel T rails weigh- (iron 70c.p 0.9 c Ib I ing not over 25 lbs ■< 100 lbs > Iron or stel flat rls punc’d (st! IMclb 8-10cIb) Coils or rods less than 7-16 inch in diameter IMc Ib 12-10 clb German silver, unmanuf’d 85 p ct 25 p ct Copper.. 3c Ib 2)4c Ib Steel in blooms 45 p ct 45 p ct Ingots, less 4c lb, 4 to 7.'.. 2Mc 2c Ingots, less 4c lb, 7 to 10.. 3c 2«c Ingots, less 4c lb, over 10. p ct B)4c Leadore.... 2c lb IHclb Lead in pigsandbars.... Lead in sheets, pipes, or 5h0t..... 294 c lb 2c lb NickeL 30c lb 15c lb Nickel, nickel oxide 20c lb 15c lb Zinc, spelter, or intenegue in blocks or pigs Diclb l)4c lb Sheathing or yellow metal 45 p ct 85 p ct Bronze powder 20 p ct 15 p ct Cutlery not specially enumerated 35 p ct 35 p ct Dutch or bronze metal... 10 p ct 10 p ct Steel plates, engraved stereotype plates, and new types 25 p ct 25pct Gold leaf 77 $1.50 $1.50 Hollow-ware, coated, glazed or tinned 3)£c lb 3c lb Firearms, not enumerated 35 pct 25 pct Needles, for knitting or sewing machines 25 p ct 35pct adv Needles, sewing, darning, knitting 25pct 25 p Ct Penknives and pocketknives and razors. 50 p ct 50 pct Swords, sword-blades and side-arms 45 p ct 35 p ct Pens, metallic 10 c gross 12 c gross Pins, solid heads or other 85 pct 80 p ct Britannia ware and plated and gilt articles 35 p ct 35 p ot Silver leaf 75c pkg 75c pkg Tvpe-metal 25 p ct 20 p ct Chromate of iron 25 pct 15 pct This is an illustration of the iron schedule. The remainder of the list is extremely technical and comparison is about impossible. WOOD AND WOODEN WARES. Timber, hewn or sawed and timber used for spars 25 pct 20 pct Timbersquare or sided.... left loft Sawed boards, plank deals and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, sycamore and basswood, and other sawed lumber $2 m • $2 m Hubs for wheels, posts.... 20 p ct 20 p ct Staves. 10,20 pct 10 pct Pickets and palings 20 pct 20 pct Laths ; 15c m 15c m Shingles 35c m 35c m Pine clapboards $2 m $2 m Spruce clapboards $1.50 m $1.50 m House or cabinet furniture finished 80 pct 30 pct Cabinetware and house furniture, finished 35 p ct 35 p at Casks and barrels, empty. 80 p ct 80 p ct Manufactures of cedarwood,ebony, mahogany, rosewood and satin wood 85 p ct 85 p ct Manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the chief component part not specially enumerated 88 pct 88 pct Wood, unmanufactured, not specially enumerated 20 pct 20 pct TOBACCO. Cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and cheroots ( $2.50 $2.50 (2.25 pct 2.25 p ct Cut cigarettes, and cheroots, but paper cigars, cigarettes. Including the wrappers thereof, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed on cigars.... J $2% lb $2)4 lb 125 pct 25 pct Tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured, 25c lb 85c lb 85c lb Tobacco stems 15c lb 15c lb Tobacco manufactured of all descriptions, and stemmed tobacco not specially enumerated... 50clb 40clb Snuff 50c lb 50c lb Tobacco, unmanutactured, not specially enumerated 35c lb 75c *sl lb PROVISIONS. Unchanged. LIQUOBS. Champagne, dozen quarts $6.00 $7.00 Still wines 40c gal 50c gal SCHEDULE I—COTON AND COTTON GOODS. There have been slight reductions except on the former grades of hosiery. HEMP, JUTE AND FLAX GOODS. Flax straw $5 ton $5 ton Flax not hackled or dressed S2O ton S2O ton Flax, hackled, known as dressed line S4O ton S4O ton Tow of flax or hemp $lO ton $lO ton Hemp Manila, not specially enumerated $25 ton $25 ton Jute, butts $6 ton $5 ton Jute, other. slston 20pct Brown and bl’ch’d linens. 85 p ct 35 p ct Flax, hemp and jute yarns 25,30,35 pct 35 pct Flax or linen thread twine 40 p ct 40 p ct Flax or linen laces and in- ' setting embroideries.... 80 p ct 89 p ct Burlaps 80 p ct 39 pct Oil-cloth foundations.... 40 p ct 40 p ct Gunny cloth, not bagging 3c 4c Ib 3c 4c Ib Bagsandbagging 40 pct 48 pct Bagging for cotton 2c Ib l)£c Ib Tarred cable or cordage.. 3c ib 3c ib Untarred Manila cordage. 2&c ib 2)4c ib All other untarred cordage 3)sc Ib S&c Ib Seines 6)4c Ib 25 p ct Sail duck or canvas for . sails 80 p ct 30 p ct Russia and other sheetings 35 pct 85 pct Other manufactures of hemp or Manila 30 p ct 35 p ct BOOKS, PAPERS, ETC. Books 25 p Ct 15 p Ct Bankbooks • 25pct 20pot Paper, sized and glued, suitable only for printing paper 25pct 20pct Printing paper, unsized.. 20 pct 15 pct Paper,manufactures of.. 85pct 15pct Sheathing paper... 10 pct 10 pct Paper boxes 35 pct 85 p ct Paper envelopes 'BS p ct 25 p ct Paper hangings 35 pct 25 p ct Pulp 20 p ct 10 p ct SUNDRIES. Alabaster and spar statuary sopct Wpct Baskets 35 p ct 30 p ct Beads 50 p ct 50 p ct Blacking 30 p ct 25pct Bladders, manufactures.'. 25 p ct 25 p ct Bone, horn, ivory, manufactures of 85 p ct 80 p ct Bonnets, hats and hoods. 40 p ct 80 p ct Bouillons or cannetille... 25 p ot 25 p ct Bristles... 15c Ib 15c ib Brooms 85 p ct 25 p ct Brushes 40 p ct 30 p ct Bulbs, not medicinal 30pct 20pct Burr-stones 20 pct 20 pct Candles and tapers 2)4 to 8c Ib 20 p ct Canes.... 35 pct 35pct Card-cases and pocketbooks . 85 pct 85 pct Carriages 35 p ct 35 p ct Chronometers 10 pct 10 pct Clocks 85 p ct 80 p ct Coach and harness furniture, plated 85 pct 85 pct Coal, slack or culm. 49c tn 80c tn Coal,bituminous and shale 75c tn 75c tn Coke 25 p ct 20 p ct Combs.., 85 pct 30pct Compositions of glass or ► paste 10 pct 10 pct Card clothing, B . 25csqft Coral 30 pct 25 pct Corks 30 pct 25 pct Crayons 30 p ct 20pct Dice 50pct 50 pct Dollsand toys... 35pet 50pct Emery 2ctb Epaulets, galoons, laces of 88 p ct 35 p ct Fans 35 p ct 35pct Feathers 25 p ct 25pct Firecrackers SI.OO box 100 pct Floor-matting 30 p ct 20 p ct Fur 35 pct SOpct Gloves 50 pct 50 p ct Grease 1. lOpct lOpct Grindstones $1.50 ton $1.75 ton Gunpowder 6c Ib, 20 p ct 6c Gun-wads 35 p ct 35 p st Guttapercha 40 p ct 35pct Hair, human .-. 85 p ct 85 p ct Curled hair. 30 p ct 25 p ct Hair cloth, known as crinoline cloth .. SOpct 30 pct Hair-cloth, known as hair seating , 40csq yd 30c Bq yd Hair pencils. 35 pct SOpct Hats, hoods, bonnets, materials for SOpct 20 pct Hatters’ furs not on the skin 20 pct 20 pct Hemp seed and rape seed. )/c ft Xc ib India rubber fabrics 25 to 85 pct SOpct Inks 2 36 pct 80 pct Japanned ware...... 40 pct .40 pct Jet manufactures and imitations 0f...... 85 p ct 25pct Jewelry...... 25 pct 25 pct Leather., 15pct 15pct

NUMBER 7.

. - r . old Hess w rate. law. c Calf, goat and sheep skins 25 p ct 20 p ct All manufactures and articles of 1eather......... z 35pct SOpct Ltat.... lOpct lopct Linseed or flaxseed 20c bu 20c bu Marbleof all kinds in blcksl cu f2sp ct 65c cu ft Ail manufactures of marble not specially enumerated 50pct SOpct Musical instruments 30 pct 25 pct Paintings in oil or watercolors lOpct 80 pct Papier-mache 35 pct 30 pct X— »* {SISWEW?.. Percussion caps 40 p ct 40 p ct Philosophical apparatus, etc. 40 p ct 35 p ct Pipesand TOP ° ‘ Plaster of Paris 20 p ct 20 p ct Playing-cards 25 and 35c pk 100 pct Precious stones 10 p ct 10 p ct Rags lopct lopct Rattans and reeds 25 p ct 10 p pt Teeth 20 p ct 20 p ct Umbrellaand parasol ribs 45 pct «)pct Waste 20 pct Bl pct Watches 25 p ct 25 p ct Webbing. 35 pct 85 pct Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, 12 cents in bulk 12c per cwt 12c per ewt In bulk 8c per cwt 8c per cwt Provided, that exporters of meats, whether packed or smoked, which have been cured in the United States with imported salt, shall, upon satisfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured with imported salt, have refunded to them from the treasury the duties paid on the salt in curing such exported meats in amounts not less than $100; and provided, further, that imported salt in bond may be used in curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries and in curing fish on the snores of the navigable waters of the United States under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and, upon proof that the salt has been used for either of the purposes stated in this proviso, the duties on the same shall be remitted.

WOOL AND WOOLENS. Raw wool is reduced about 80 per cent Manufactured wools are reduced an average of 17 to 25 per cent, but a few goods are Increased 62 per cent KILK AND SILK GOODS. Reduced about 10 per cent, except that cocoons, which have been on the free list, are put at 50 cents per pound. SUGAR. The changes in the duties on sugar are threefold: First, the rate is made specific throughout; second, the polariscope is employed; third, the classification is altered. The first works a double reduction by omitting a source of itevenue from an ad valorem rate more secure than that from specific brand on color. The second will encourage the introduction of sugars whoso primary manufacture is skillfully conducted and exclude those colored to order. The new law proposes that up to 13 Dutch standard all sugar shall pay 1.40 c a pound, 4-100 for every additional degree on the-polariscope over 75 degrees. With this explanation comparative rates are: Up to No. 7 Dutch standard, old rate, 1& cents per pound and 25 per gent., new rate 1.40 cents per pound, and 4-100 cents: from No. 7 to No. 10, 1% cents per pound ana 25 per cent.; for 20 degrees over 75, from No. 10 to No. 13, 2)4 cents per pound and 25 per cent.; from No. 13 to 16, 2% cents per pound and 25 per cent., 2.75 cents per pound; No. 16 to Np. 20, 3H cents per pound and 25 per cent., 3 cents per pound; over No. 20,4 cents per pound and 25 per cent., 3)6 cents per pound; molasses, under 56 degrees by polariscope, 194 cents per pound plus 25 cents, 4 cents per gallon; over 56 degrees, 194 cents per pound plus 25 cents, 8 cents per gallon; confectionery, under 30 cents per pound in value, 15 cents per pound, 10 cents per pound; over 30 cents per pound in value, 50 per cent., 50 per eent.

THE WORK DONE.

Some of the Bills Passed by Both Houses of Congress at the Second Session. The total number of bills and joint resolutions introduced in both houses during the sessions of the Forty-seventh Congress aggregated 10,650, of which 650 passed both houses. Fifteen hundred bills remain upon the House calendar, of which 225 passed the Senate. The reports of debates cover 10,715 pages of the Congressional Record, averaging 1,5'J0 words to the page, a total of 16 00b,000 worda The following is a partial list of the bills passed at the second session. To amend the act repealing the discriminating duties on goods east of the Cape of Good Hope. Authorizing the sale of certain property at Harrodsburg, Ky., belonging to tne Soldiers’ Home. Leasing to the First taxing district of Tennessee a lot of land situated in that district. x , . t . To reimburse the States of Oregon and California for moneys paid in the suppression of the Modoc war, To provide for holding a term of the District Court of the United States at Wichita, Kaa, and for other purposes. Extending the time for filing claims for horses lost oy officers and enlisted men. To amend Sec. 3,362, Revised Statutes, relating to the tax on perique tobacco. To increase the fees of the witnesses In United-States Courts in certain cases. To amend Sees.. 1,926 and 1,927, Revised Statutes, so as to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Washington; Idaho and Montana Territories. To increase the police force of the District qfColumbia, [•! i r To suppress gaming in the District of Columbia. , To encourage the hoMliijf of A W’drid’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884. To admit free of duty a monument to Gen. Washington. «- Granting right of way for railway and telegraph purposes through the Fort Smith reservation in Arkansas. Authorizing the examination and auditing of certain claims against the Freedman's Savings Bank and the paying of certain dividends barred by the act of Feb. 21. 1881/ Providing for the binding of the compendium of the tenth census. The regular appropriation billa The Civil Service bill The Tariff bill

Two Cent Letter Postage.

The Postoffice Appropriation bill as finally passed establishes two-cent letter postage to take effect Oct 1,1883. While this reduction from the three-cent letter postage will be gratefully received by the public, it will inflict an estimated loss of four to five millions a year at first on the postal revenues Between now and next October the department will be able to get rid of a large stock of stamped envelopes The three-cent stamp is much handsomer than the twocent, and it will be in order after the reduction takes effect to interchange the colors and designs After Oct 1 there will be comatively little use for three-cent stamps. By a separate measure the House readjusted the pay of Postmasters, so that officers of the fourth class will receive under the lower rate of postage about as much pay as they get now. The bid also adjusted the salaries of 47,000 Postmasters, which the Chairman of the committee explained had been rendered necessary by the action of Congress in reducing the rates of postage, to take effect on Got, 1 next. The Dill retains the present classification of Postmastera The salary of the Postmasters at fit Louis, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia was increased from $4,000 to $6,000, ana at Cincinnati, Baltimore, fian Francisco and Washington from $4,0U0 to $5,000. The compensation to second and third-class Postmasters remains as at present. The rate of compensation granted to fourthclass Postmasters has been changed so that they will receive about the same compensation under the 2-cent law as they did under the 3-cent law.

Calmly Facing Death.

A few momenta after death had taken place some one remarked the calmness and tranquillity with which Gov. Stephens had faced it from the first. Dr. Steiner said: “Such a man as Mr. Stephehs could have faced any i ost of death with perfect calmness. Yesterday Dr. Irv.ne proposed to read a chapter in the Bible and have a prayer. Mr. Stephens said quickly: 'ldo «b----ject, and most decidedly. I have no objection to prayer, for I believe in it, but I do object to deathbed repentance. I have made it the rule of my life to live each day as if it were going to be my last In the heat of politics I may have sometimes forgotten myself, but lam no better to-day on my deathbed than I have tried to be every day of my life, and I have no special preparations to make and no special pleas to offer.”* Mr. Stephens’ creed was simple, but it would have sufficed to have carried . him without a tremor through the most terrible death struggle.— Atlanta (Ga.) Telegram. , , Retthed army officers are now denied the ‘ right of bolding civic p ositio ns in the Turri--tories. - ‘ .ft

THE DEMOCRATIC OUR JOB PRINTING OFFICE I IV : p .I 3 t i "Has better facilities than any office in Northwestern Indiana for the execution of all branches of * * 4T013 pniKTTINa. «T PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. “•» Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a Pamphlet- to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy- SST Satisfaction guaranteed.

THE RECORD.

Vote of the Senate and House of Representatives on the Tariff Bill. ’< We print below a detailed vote of both houses of Congress upon the final passage of the Tariff bill THE SENATE VOTE. The bill passed the Senate by an almoststriot party vote All those voting yea were Republicans except Davis, the Independent Senator from Illinois, and Mahone, Virginia Readjuster. All the negative votes were by Democrats, with the exception of that of Cameron, of Pennsylvania The record stands thus: J YEAS. HO- ' SK'™- S».T.>. SHf** ss* CameroniWis.), Jones (NovJ, Plumb, Conger, Kellogg, Rollins, Daria (IB.), Lapham, Sawyer, Dawes, Logan, Sewell, Edmunds, 1 McDill, Sherman, SKi™. NAYS. Barrow, Gorman, Pugh, Bayard, Groom®. RanaoMi, Brown, Harris, Saulsbury, Butler, Jackson, Slater, Call, Jonas, Vance, Oatneron (Pa.), Jones (Ma.), Van Wyck, gsr l ' & George, PAIRED. The following pairs were announced: Messrs. Camden, Ferry, Hale, Saunders and Mitchell, with Tabor, Grover, Reck, Hampton and Johnston- . . ■ ’ THE VOTE IN THE HOUSE. [Yeas— Republicansi, in roman, 132: Democrats, in italic, 16; Independents, in small capitals, 4; total, 132. Nays—Republicans, 12; Democrats, 98: Independents, i : total, HA] Aldrich, IJwkcll, Anderson, Hazelton, Reed, < BMr,, « 4 Heilman, Rich. Bv-lford, Hendhrson, Richard»on(NY) li.tltthvover x Hepburn, Ritchie, Bingham, Hill, Robeson, Bisbee, *?> Hiseock, Robinson(Mass) Blitis, 18, Boss, Bowtnau, Ifcr, Ryan, Brewer, Hbuk, Scoville, Briggs, Hubbs, Scranton, Browne, Humphry Sessinghans, Buak, Jacobs, Shalleuberger, ». Butterworth, Jorgensen, Shultz, Calkins, Jpycp, Skinner, 6amp;G'' *‘44 Kapson, Smalls, Chandler, t Kelley. Smith (N. Y.), Cannon,• 1 * Smith (Mu), Cliaoe, Ladd, SpeaiuJlc Crapo, Spoonfiff J Orowley, Lindsey, Steele, Cullen, Lord, Stone, Darrall, Lynch, Streit, Davis (Ill.), Mackey, Thomas, Deering, Marsh, Townsend (O.), De Motte, Mason, Tyler, Dczendort,’ McCoid, Updegraff, Din gley, McCook, Valentine, Doxcy McLean (Mo.), Van Aernam, Dunnell, .Miles, Van Horn, Dwight. Moore, Van Vorhis, Ennentrout, Morey, Wait, Farwell (In.), Aforss. Walker, Farwell (la.), 1 jMVfdnler, Ward, Fisher, ,'NeaJ, Washburn, I Fulkerson, Norcross, Watson, Georgs,, O’Neil, Webber, Godshalk, Pacheco, West, Grout, Page, White, Guenther, Parker, Williams (Wis.), Hall, Payson, Willits, Hammond(N.YJPeelle, Wilton, Hdrdenbergh, Peirce, Wiee (va.k.. sa Kffir Harris (Maas.), Randall, Yoiing. Harris (N. J.), Ranney, S—,

J • ' NAYS. ■4. Aiken, Oibrell, Miller, Jrmjleld, Jh/gro, ,J Mills, Atherton, Dunn, Money, A tkins, Ettis, Morrison, Errett, Moulton, Baype, I Evins, Muldrow, J teach,Flower, Murch, Belmont, Ford, Ree.se, Berry. Forney, Rice (O.), Blackourn, Garrison, Rice (Mo.) Blanchdra, Geddes, RichardsoniSO Bland, Gibson, Robertson, Bldunt, winter, Roblnson(Ohio), Brang, Hammond (Qu,)Robinson Brumm, Hazeltine, Rosecrans, Buchanan, Hatch, Scales, Buckner, Herbert, Simonton, CabnV, Hewitt (N.Y.), Singleton (Hl.). Cgldwell, Hoblitxell, Sparks, Campbell, Hoge, Springer, Carlisle, Holman, Stockelager, Cassidy, House, ‘ Talbott, Chapman, Hubbell,:; 77izwnpj«>n(Ky.) Clark, Hutching, Townshend (LU) Clements, Jones (Tex.), Taylor E. 8.,‘ -s. Cobb.. Jones (Ark.), Taylor, J. D., Davidson, ’ f . Matson, Wheeler, Colerick, Kenna, Tucker, Converse, King, Turner (Gad, Cook (Ga.l, Knott, Turner (Ky.), Cook (Iowa), Jjatnam, Upson, Cov (N. Y.), Leedofn, Urner, Cox (N. C.), Le Fevre, Vance, Covington, Manning, Warner, Culberson, Martin, Wellborn, Davidson, ‘ Matson, Wheeler, Davig (Mq.), McKenzie, Whitthome, Dawes, McKinley, Williams (Ala.), Deugter, • McDane, Willis, Dowd, McMillin.

The Appropriation Bills.

Mr. Hiscock, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, has ifarnlshed for publication a BtatenterifjMattve to the appropriation bills passed this session and nvbiph TaWA The aggregate tbe bills-is $229,827,511, made Pensions. ,>. -L.. J $86,575,000 Military academy 318,657 Fortifications 670,000 Consular and diplomatic 1,296,755 Navy.. 15,894.434 Army 24,681,350 Postofflc®.. 44,480,620 Indian, 5,362,655 Legislative. 20,464,296 Sundry civil. 23,906,147 District of Columbia 1,699,867 Deficiency, j.. .......j.. 2,818,187 Agricultural 405,640 MißcStlaneous bills involving appropriatlonsof money.. 750,000 The aggregate of appropriations for last Bjar, including $ 18,73b,b75 for the River and arbor bill, was $295,609,639, and for the preceding year,’ including $11,441,300 for the River tifid harbor bill, was $219,867,9b& An analysis of the figures for the past three years shows that the appropriations for the current expenses of the Government, irrespective of the amounts'for pensions, aggregate less than either of the two preceding yeara 2 The regular pension bills for the fiscal 575,000, the bill lust parsed being $20,575,000 in excess of thte bill passed two years ago, and $13,225,000 less than the bill last year. Of the Deficiency bill Just passed only about $500,000 is on account of the current fiscal year.. The appropriation bills the present session were based upon estimates aggregating $271,394,844. As reported from the House Committee on Appropriations they aggregated $280,083,753, as passed by the House $226,420,208; as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations $231,115,015; as passed by the Senate $230,662,541. and as finally passed hy both houses after adjustment by conference committees, $229,327,511, an increase of $9,244,758 over the amounts originally recommended by the House' Committee on Appropriations.— Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.

A Remarkable Escape from Death.

James R. Hutchinson, of Newark, was caught upon the cowcatcher of an engine one night last week in Newark, and got off at another stAtfon and went home He said to-day: *on my way home I started to pass around a train. Just then I heard some one shouting. The next moment I saw a flash of light -I knew nothing after that until I awoke and found myseif lying on the beam above the plot of the locomotive I was dazed, but saw that I was at the Market street Station. The' engine was standing still. I slid down the cowcatcher and staggered alomg. until J got into Market street TWo young men wiped the blood off my face, brushed the dirt from my clothes and helped me to walk home. I must have lain on my back on the pilot, because the blood trpm a gash:on my forehead flowed over the top Of ifiy head.' -I shall get ont of the house in a few. daysi— Hew York Herald.

A Printer Murdered.

L>. J. Johnson, a printer, supposed to be from Bowling Green, Ky., was struck over the head with a bUHmdrcue in Fick’s saloon, Nos. 30 and 32 West Madison strait, Saturday evening, by a person Whom he interrupted at a gpme orpoox Johnson floon after went to bed in a lodging house pver the saloon, where he Whs yesterday discovered to be in a dying condition- He war removed W the County Hospital, where he died during the afteraeon. Thfe person who struck the fatal SKSUT. 52 leecriptioU lot Tvm*-