Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. CALENDAR FOR 1884.

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DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Among the measures introduced in the Senate on the 4th inst. was one of Mr. Ingalls*- to remove certain limitations In the arrears of pensions act. Mr. Beck presented a bill for the removal of all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, and Mr. Edmunds one to provide for the further protection of colored citizens. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to. give national banks a circulation equal to 90 per. cent, of the market valpe of their bond deposits. Mr. Edmunds presented an act for the construction of four trunk' lines of postal telegraph radiating from Washington. Mr. Blair offered a bill for a bureau of labor statistics and to make eight hours a day’s work. Mr. Lozan handed in an act to • appropriate $50,000,000 for the education of children, and another to provide pensions for Union prisoners in the late war. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill to force railroad corporations to pay within sixty days the cost of surveying lands to which they are entitled, and Mr. Slater another to repeal the Northern Pacific land grants. Mr. Sewell reintroduced the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. The President's message was read. The Republican Senators held a caucus, after adjournment, and decided to await the arrival of Senator Anthony, who has been on a sick-bed, before electing a new set of officers. '»ln the House of Representatives the delegates . from the Territories were sworn in. A resolution was adopted that the Committee on Elections report whether Manning or Chalmers is entitled to be sworn as a member from Mississippi. Some debate took place on the contest between Mavo and Garrison, from the First district of Virginia. The President’s message was delivered and read to the House. Mr. Butler Introduced a bill in the Senate, at its session on the Sth inst., tJ repeal the internal revenue laws and abolish the system. Mr. Hoar presented a joint resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts in opposition to convict labor on public works. Mr. Cullom presented a measure to place the legislative power of Utah in the hands of the Governor and a Legislative Council appointed by the President. Mr. Walker introduced a bill to indemnify Arkansas for swamp lands sold by the United States since 1857. Mr. Logan handed in a bounty land bill affecting everv honorably-discharged soldier or sailor of the late war. Mr. Blair introduced a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale bf liquors. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution for a military academy west of the Mississippi, to educate Indians for Ihe army. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill providing for the use of a patented ballot-box and counting device. In the House of Representatives Mr. Randall raised objections to a deficiency appropriation of $20,000 for printing the Supreme Court records. The death of Thomas H. Herndon, of Alabama, was announced, and an adjournment was taken. The Senate was in session less than two hours on the 6th inst., and accomplished very little in the way of legislation. Petitions were presented from the Legislature of Nebraska to so amend the law as to force railroads to take out patents on their land grants, and from the Astoria Chamber of Commerce to forfeit landa granted to the Oregon Central railroad. Mr. Garland Introduced a bill to release the Memphis and Little Rock road from conditions which unjustly affected it, and to adjust differences on account of customs duties on iron. Mr. Cameron presented a measure to restore to the market certain lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin reserved for dams and reservoirs. Mr. Groome handed in an act to construct the Maryland and Delaware free ship canal as a means of defense. Mr. Lapham proposed an amendment to the Const*ution giving women the right of suffrage. The House was in session but a few minutes, and accomplished nothing. Both houses adjourned over to the 10th.

EASTERN.

Gov. Pattison sent a message to the Pennsylvania Legislature, vetoing all appropriation bills save those sections providing for employes’ salaries, basing his action on the fact that the legislators failed to accomplish the purpose, of the extra session. The House passed the bill over the veto. A pilot-boat was run down by the steamer Alaska, in Long Island sound. There were ten persons on board, and all perished. Two students at Yale college have died from typhoid fever, and a number are ill from malarial fever. The professors claim that the sewerage is perfect. Judge Willson presided at the proceedings in the trial of James Nutt for killing Dukes, at Uniontown, Pa. After a panel of eighty names had been exhausted and but three jurors secured, the defense moved for a change of venue, the Judge sending the case for trial to Allegheny county, which is considered to be favorable to the .prisoner. Senator Voorhees, leading counsel for Nutt, was serenaded in the evening. Charles F. Freeman, who butchered his young daughter in Massachusetts, three years ago, as a sacrifice to the Lord, has been committed for life to the insane asylum at Danvers. At a fire in a tenement in North street, New York, two persons were fatally burned, one was overcome by smoke, and a fourth leaped from a third-story window. Prof. Von Bruenning, known as the “tramp musician,” who was formerly a Baron in Germany, died at New Haven, Ct., the other day. Ruined by gambling years ago, he became a wanderer and a misanthrope. > The salary list of the Boston Base Ball club for 1884 Will exceed 822,000. i Recent false statements in regard to Mrs. Theodore Tilton have developed the facts that she lives with her children in a family in one of the best streets in Brooklyn, receives 51,200 per annum from Mr. Tilton, and devotes her time and talents to the study and teaching of music.

WESTERN.

St. Paul has during the year erected 3,500 residences and 443 business blocks, the

amount expended thereupon being nearly 112,000,000. W. 8., of Cleveland, father of We American beauty, so famousJn Europe, gives jfetice that he wIU-prosecute any one fodhd selling photpgyaphs of Miss Je The Chicago IWbvneprtafa iotasas, Nebraska and Dakota, embracing all of the great corn belt especially susceptible to sudden changes in the harvesting season. The reborts show, as a whole, that new corn in Hlinois, Indiana, and lowa is in a condition anything but satisfactory. Much of the crop was reported soft some weeks ago, ana the continuance of warm weather has prevented its hardening to any appreciable degree. In many cases it has been found necessary to empty the cribs to dry the corn, which, in several localities, is being fed to stock. In some portions of Indiana and on a few bottom lands in Illinois recent* floods have worked great injury to the crop still in the fields. Corn from Kansas and Nebraska seed is very generally reported in bad condition. While the yield in Kansas and Nebraska is fully up to the average, there appear to be good grounds for the belief that the quality is not so good as at first reported, and that there will be a shortage in the higher grades in those States. Corn in Dakota is as yet much of an expert men*, being generally grown on the sod, and the results are uneven. A, man named John W. Hunter, alias John W. Russell, was arrested at Peoria last week in connection with the Zora Burps murder, taken to Lincoln, Hit, and confined in jfliil. He was at one time 'in the employ of Carpenter, for whom Zora Burns also worked. Hunter has been in Lincoln for several days recently, and acted somewhat peculiarly. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe roacl will soon begin extensions from Fort Worth and Dallas for outlets independent of Jay Gould. At the consecration of Archbishop Elder, in Cincinnati, the six brothers of the aged prelate were present. The seven had not met together for fifty years. A sister aged 83 lives at Emmittsburg, Md., but is too feeble to attempt a journey. Five mounted men raided the town of Bisbee, Arizona, a few nights ago, killed J. C. Tappiner, J. A. Nolly and D. A. Smith, and wounded Mrs. Roberts. They then robbed Castenada’s store of $1,200. The whole business was accomplished so rapidly that no at tempt was made at defense. The men are believed to be the same who robbed the Southern Pacific train at Gage station last month. The robbers fled in the direction of Sonora.

SOUTHERN.

The grand jury at Danville, Va., after a two days’ investigation of the November election riot, reported with no indictments. A passenger train on the Memphis and Little Rock road found a switch displaced about twenty-five miles from Memphis, and came to a sudden stop. Four armed men mounted the platform to rob the train, but shots from the express messengers drove them away. Chattanooga has the finest jail in the South, but fourteen inmates sawed their way out with steel shanks taken from their shoes. In Columbia county, Ga., three negro children, locked in a cabin while their parents were at church, were burned to death. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Rouenden Springs, Ark., which lasted for forty seconds. The building which is to be erected in New Orleans for the World’s exposition will be 1,500 feet long and 900 feet wide, with over 1,000,000 square feet of floor space. Four Mexicans, charged with murdering Domingo Polingo near Fort Davis, Tex., were taken from the authorities and lynched. • The Directors of the Louisville exposition have decided to give another show next year. James M. Underwood was hanged Friday at Dardanelle, Ark., for murdering Robert J. Pendergrast, a wealthy planter. Underwood claimed on the scaffold that the wiles of his victim’s wife led to the tragedy. A railroad bridge is to be built across the Arkansas river at Little Rock, which will be completed in about a year. Wesley Posey, the negro who caused the recent riotous demonstration at Birmingham, Ala., has been convicted of rape and been sentenced to die Jan. 11. It required four companies of troops to escort him to jail at Montgomery.

WASHINGTON.

The Pacific slope representatives, at Washington held a meeting to consider the evasion of the Chinese Immigration law, and appointed a committee to prepare a bill providing for a passport system similar to that in wse on the continent of Europe. Secretary Folger has given orders for the removal of the body of Gen. Jesse H.. Moore from Callao, Peru, to Decatur, Hl., and the interment is announced for February. Senator Logan will oppose the proposed bill for the reinstatement of Fitz John Porter. Congress is about to take up the question of the unearned land grants of the railroads. It is claimed that the Kansas Pacific owes about $14,000,000 to .the Government, and the move is in the interest of having them locate their lands under the Thurman act, so that they will be subject to State taxation. About a dozen members of Congress called at the White House the other day, where Hon. S. S. Cox appealed to the Presi" dent to request a postponement of the execution of Patrick O’Donnell. The President in reply said the Department of State would at once telegraph Minister Lowell to make all possible inquiry regarding O’Donnell’s citizenship, and that he (the President) would take whatever action he could with proprlety-

POLITICAL.

The Executive committee of the Michigan State Temperance alliance, in session at Lansing, Issued a call for a massconvention at Jackson the second Wednesday in January to form a party. The Illinois State Union Temperance convention, in session at Bloomington, voted

to consolidate with the National Prohibition and Home Protection party. The National Temperance Association adopted a resolution at New Ydrk asking Congress to amend the Constitution so as to proMbit the liquor traffic. The Illinois Republican Association of Washington elected Green®. Rflurn Prert '-Mr. ■W * It is understood that Mr. Kasson, of lowa, will decline a renomination for Congress.

MISCELLANEOUS. Fire losses: A dozen stores at Chillicothe, Mo., loss $20,000; Hiller's sausage factory, Milwaukee, Wlb., loss $5,000; a business block at Burlington, lowa, loss $40,000; the steamer, Fred Derby, Jacksonville, Fla., loss $50,000; two stores at Milan Junction, Texas, loss $15,000; the postoffice and other buildings at Walshville, 111., loss $50,000; Watson, Obert & Co.’s general store, Bancroft, Mich., loss $15,000; the steam barge Minnie, Fort Howard, Wis., loss, $15,000; the Sentinel office and twenty-one other structures at Lynchburg, Tenn., loss $35,000; several shops and residences at Nashville, Tenn.,, loss, $40,000; Sinclair's woolen-mill, Salem, Ind., loss, $75,000; a flaxseed oil mill at Tippecanoe, Ohio, loss, $40,000; three stores at Paris, Tenn., loss, $25,000. A steamship leaving New York the othej; day, took to Europe 100,000 trade, dollars. • At Toronto a street car was blown from the track by a dynamite explosion, the ' six passengers being injured and the car wrecked. The reasons for the act are unknown. , . , . A young’seal was lately caught in the. St. Charles river at Quebec, and many others have been seen in the St. Lawrqpce. The books of the Union Pacific road show that two-thirds of the stock is owned in New England. Financial embarrassments: Levy Brothers, wholesale clothing, New York city liabilities $2,475, assets $1,712,000; William T. Addis, lum, Boyne, Michber., liabilities $75,000; A. K. Stephens, dry goods, Saginaw, Mich.; M. Hammer, clothing, Mattoon, 111., liabilities $25,000; Miller & Uinbenstock, printers, Chicago, liabilities $20,000; Arrington Brothers, boots and shoes, Boston, liabilities $27,000; 8. Jones & Co., New York, manufacturers of hangings; Haswell & Co., whole* sale drugs, Montreal; the Dover Silk Company, Paterson, N. J., liabilities $102,000; Herman Renburg, dry goods, Chicago, liabilities $13,000; Radzinski Brothers, jewelry, Chicago, liabilities $15,000; W. H. Stewart, dry goods, Davenport, lowa. The failures throughout the country and Canada, last week, rose to the extreme number of 307, the largest weekly figure since the rush to get under cover before the repeal of the Bankruptcy law, and three times as great a number as was usual two years ago. Flames destroyed the First Presbyterian church at Kalamazoo, Mich., worth $20,000; Howell & Co.’s drug-house at Montreal, valued at $40,000; the iron foundry of Harrison Loring, at Boston, causing a loss of $30,000; the valuable Corry block at Corry, Mass., worth $50,000; thfe extensive packinghouse of T. M. Sinclair, at Cedar Rapids, lowa, Entailing a loss of $100,000; the business portion of Williamson, N. C., causing a heavy loss; the Adams Chilled Plow vjorks, St Plymouth, Ind.; a brick-making establishment worth SIO,OOO, at New. Richmond, Ohio.

FOREIGN.

A general feeling that Sagasta will return to the head of affairs created a buoyant feeling in the Spanish markets. At Marseilles a clerk of the Credit Lyonnaise was seized by a man in the street, strangled and robbed of 50,000 francs. Alsace and Lorraine are to be thoroughly Germanized. Manteuffel, the Provincial Governor, has annulled the resolution passed by the District Diet of Upper Alsace allowing the use of French in debates. England informs Marquis Iseng that if China does not make important concessions she will give France full liberty of action in Tonquin. Hundreds of houses in the Haskieni quarter of Constantinople have been destroyed by fire. The Belgian Legislative Chambers have been almost completely swept away by fire. Many records have been destroyed which were invaluable, and the destruction of the building itself, which was built by Marla Theresa, is regarded in the light of a national calamity. The famous library, containing many rare books and important documents, was also destroyed. Shipbuilders on the Clyde are suffering a great falling off in business. At a meeting of agriculturists in London, the sentiment that America should be permitted to send dressed beef, but should be prohibited from shipping live cattle to Great Britain, was much applauded. At the trial in London of Wolff and Bandurand, the dynamite conspirators, an accomplice named Kalborn testified that five persons were concerned in the affair, including a police officer. They attempted to blow up the German embassy in order to secure a reward of £2,000 by pointing out an innocent man as the perpetrator and swearing away his life. A dervish swore upon the Koran at Khartoum that not one Egyptian soldier was left alive in Kordofan, whereupon 5,000 hearers armed themselves and declared for the False Prophet. For striking the Governor General of Eastern Siberia, a popular teacher at Irkutsk was arrested, and shot within twentyfour hours. Blum, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg, has been pardoned by an imperial edict, and his stipends restored. Great excitement has followed a duel at Rome between two prominent Italians. They tried hard to kill each other after such efforts had become ungentlemanly according to the code, and, in attempting to mend matters, the seconds all got to fighting with swords, the weapons of the duel, and made a very bloody and sensational ending of the affair. Thhe Queen insists upon Tennyson, the poet, accepting a peerage, and reports are to the effect that he looks kindly upon the proposition. According to a St. Petersburg special dispatch the Zemstvos, or provincial assemblies, of Russia will be intrusted by the Czar with the initiative in moderate reforms.

>v. A large force of. Hill men attacked five companies of Egyptian troops which were reconnoitering out Suakim, in the Soudan. The Egyptians were annihilated and their artillery captured. It is now believed that war between Trance awl China is inevitable. Both Powers have heed maJKg Atemrive preparations. France, it is said,’has chartered several English merch ant vessels to take arms and munitions Of war to Tonquin. M. Ferry’s war measures have been on a very extensive scale, and are said to be such as will un. pleasantly surprise the Chinese.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Boston two boys have caught the hydrophobia from a boy who had been bitten by a dog, :• It has been ascertained that Rogers, the missing Treasurer of Lewis county, N. Y., has sl7 to his Credit, instead of being a defaulter. He lost his reason and fled because he could not make his books balance. Four ladies named Martin, daughters of a former member of Congress from Ohio, reside in Baltimore. Flames broke out in their house the other morning. One of the ladies dislocated her spine by leaping from the second story, and another received serious injuries by dropping from the balcony to outstretched mattresses. Albert a negro who outraged a little child, attempted to escape from his dgptors Inear Clinton, Miss., and was riddled with bullets. The steam-barge Enterprise sank near Port Austin, on Lake Huron, with eight persons on board. Seven corpses, supposed to be Capt. Quick and sons, of Pelee Island, drifted ashore in a boat pt New Glasgow, Ontario. Driven ont while fishing, they perished from e x haus tfon-and .bold. < President ‘Arthur, in an interview the other day, sfbke very coldly of arctic expe- - them “cruel, inhuman, arid useless.’* S. T. Bacon & Co.’s jewelry store, in Brattle square, Boston, was robbed of SIO,OOO worth of watches and diamonds. The-boiler in Shipley Brothers’ sawmill at Claypool, Ind., exploded the other morning, killing one- man instantly, wounding two mortally, and injuring others. The building was completely wrecked.

Ma. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 10th inst., expressing disapprobation of the plan of perpetuating the bonded debt in the feterest of the national banks. Mr. Hill called up and had passed a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to furnish copies of all papers relating to the .transfer oi the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution looking to the purchase for a national park of .the grounds occupied by the Revolutionary army at Valley Forge. A memorial was presented from veterans of the Mexican war asking for pensions. Eight hundred and twentyfour bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the House. There were numerous propositions to forfeit unearned land grants, to amend the homestead and pre-emption laws, to limit the coinage of silver, to amend the tariff, to reduce postage, to dig canals, and to improve navigable rivers. Mr. Sumner introduced a bill to fix passenger rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads at 3 cents per mile for first-class travel. Mr. Rosecrans distinguished himself by presenting fifty-three measures, most of which were old bills printed upon writing paper. Mr. Springer introduced a bill amending the Constitution so as to prohibit special legislation. Mr. Clements brought in a bill to repeal the internal revenue laws; Mr. Henderson one to establish a board of inter-state commerce commissioners; Mr. Townshend, one to abolish second-class postage and reduce transient newspaper postage, and another to authorize the President to prohibit the importation of articles injurious to the public health from countries which, on the same ground, prohibit t' e importation of American goods; Mr. Thomas, one to divide Illinois into three judicial districts; Mr. Finerty, one to provide for the construction of four gunboats and three additional cruisers for the navy; Mr. Holman, one to limit the disposal of public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers under the homestead laws. Mr. Calkins proposed a constitutional amendment, providing that no State, pub ic or private corporation, should deprive citizens of the equal protection of the laws or abridge the rights of any persons on account of race or color. Mr. McCoid introduced a bill providing that in case of the removal, death, or resignation of the President and Vice President, the Secretary of State shall act as President until a special election shall be held. Bills to create a postal telegraph system, and to reduce the postage on letters to 1 cent, were presented by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas. Among the bills relating to monetary matters was one by Mr. Morse to repeal the act for the coinage of standard silver dollars, and another by Mr. ■Whiting to remove all taxes on the circulation of national banks and to fix the amount of notes issued upon the deposit of bonds. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution that the House bring to the notice of the President the case of Patrick O’Donnell, to the end t at he ascertain whether he (O’Donnell) is a citizen of the United States, and if so, whether he was tried and convicted in accordance with the municipal laws of Great Britain and the requirements of international law. Adopted by an overwheming majority. At the caucus of the Republican Senators, a letter was read from Mr. Edmunds resigning the Presidency pro tempore, and it was resolved that the nomination be riven to Mr. Anthony.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beevess 4.50 @ 7 25 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.75 Flour—Superfine 3.50 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 1.06 @ 1.06% No. 2 Red 1.11 @ 1.13 Corn—No. 2 65%@ .65% Oats—No. 2.38 @ .43 PoßK—Mess 14.25 @14.75 Lard us%@ .09 CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.50 @ 8.00 Common to Fair 4.00 @6.25 Medium to Fair 4.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.50 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.0» @5.75 Gcod to Choice Spr’g Ex 4.75 @ 5.75 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring9s%@ .96% No. 2 lied Winter 97 @ .98 Corn—No. 2 56%@ -53 Oats—No. 231 %@ .32 Ryu—No. 2 56%@ .57% Barley—No 264 @ .65 Butter—Choice Creamery.. 32 @ .35 Eggs—Fresh.2s @ .27 108 K—Mess 12.50 @13.75 Lard 08%@ .08% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 294 @ .96 Cobn—No. 256 @ .57% Oats—No. 230 @ .32 RVE—No. 2« .54 @ .56 Bablejc—No 2....62 @ .63 Pork—Mess 13.50 @14.00 Lard 8.50 @ 8.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @ 1.01% Corn—Mixed 48 @ .48% OATS—Na 230 @ .31 Ryes 4 @ .55 PORK—Mess 13.25 @13.75 Lard....- .08 @ .08% CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.06 Coen ,56%@ .57% Oats... 33 @ .34 Rye6o @ .61 Pork—Mess 14.6 b @14.75 Lardoß & .08% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.04 Cornss @ .57 Oats-No. 233 @ .34 DETROIT. Flour 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—Na 1 White?..... 1.04%@ 1.06 Corn—No. 252 @ .53 Oats—Mixed32 @ .34 Pork—Mess.. 12.25 @12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red... 1.01 @1.03 Corn—Na 2.53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed.3o @ .32 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Beet 5.25 @ 6.50 Fain 5.50 @ 6.25 Common iJSO @ 5.25 Hogs 5.50 @ 6.25 Sheep.. 4.00 & 4.50

THE NEW CONGRESS.

Name* of the Senators, and When Their Terms Expire. A Complete Bell of the House of Representatives. Tne Senate of the United States consists of seventy-six members and the House of 825. The membership of the Senate is complete. In the House there are two vacancies; one in district of Mississippi, caused by tne refusal of Van H. Manning to present his certificate for the seat which is contested by James R. Chalmers; the other in the Seventh district of Virginia, caused by the appointment of Representative-elect Paul to a Judgeship. The following isa complete roll of the membership of the new Con-

gress: SENATE. . . ALABAMA. MIHHTNsn’I’L 1885. James L. Pugh, D. 1887. J. Z. George, D. 1889. J. T. Morgan, D. 1883. L. Q. C. Lamar, D. ARKANSAS. MISSOURI. 1885. J. D. Walker, D. 1885 George G. Vest, D. 1889. A. H. Garland, D. 1887. F. M. Cockrell, D. CALIFORNIA. NEBRASKA. 1885. J. T. Farley. D. 1887. C. C. Van Wyck, R 1887. John F. Miller, R 1889. C.F JKandereon.R. COLORADO. NEVADA. 1885. N. P. Hill, R 1885. J. P. Jones, R. 1889. Thos. M. Bowen,R 11887. James G. Fair, D. CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1885. O. H. Platt, R 1885. H. W. Blair, R. 1887. J. R Hawley, R 1889. Austin F. Pike, R DELAWARE. NEW JERSEY. 1887. Thos. F.Bayard.D. 1887. Wm. J. Sewell, R 1889. Ell Saulsbury, D. 1889. J.R.McPherson, D. FLORIDA. MEW YORK. 1885. Wilkinson Call, D. 1885. R G. Lapbam, R 1887. Chas. W. Jones, D. 1887. Warner Miller, R GEORGIA. t NORTH CAROLINA. 1885. J. E. Brown, D. 1885. Z. P. Vance, D. 1889. A. H. Colquitt, D. 1889. M. W. Ransom, D. ILLINOIS. OHIO. 1885. John A. Logan, R 1885. G.H. Pendleton,D. 1889. 8. M. Oullom, R. 1887. John Sherman, R INDIANA OREGON. ... „ 1885. D. W. Voorhees, D 1885. J?H. Slated D* 1887. Benj. Harrison, RIBB9. Jos. N. Dolph, R lOWA PENNSYLVANIA. 1885. W. B. Allison, R 1885. J. D. Camaroiu,R. 1889. Jas. F. Wilson, R 1887. JohnL Mitchell, R KANSAS. RHODE ISLAND. 1885. J. J. Ingalls, R. 1887. N. W. Aldrich, R 1889. P. B. Plum, R 18811.- H.. 8. Anthony,- R KENTUCKY. . SOUTH CAROLINA 1885. J. 8. Williams, D. 1885. Wade Hampton, D 1889. James B. Beck, D. 1889. M. C. Butler, D. LOUISIANA. ■ TENNESSEE. 1885. B. F. Jonas, D. 1887. H. E. Jackson, D. 1889. RL. Gibson, D. 1889. Isham G. Harris,D MAINE. TEXAS. . 1887. Eugene Hale, R 1887. Sami B. Maxey, D 1889. Wm. P. Frye, R 1889. Richard Coke, D. MARYLAND. . VERMONT. 1885. J. B. Groome, D. 1885. J. 8. Morrill, R 1887. A- P. Gorman, D. 1887. G. F. Edmunds, R MASSACHUSETTS. VIRGINIA. 1887. Henry L. Dawes, R 1887. Wm. Mahone, R + 1889. George F. Hoar, R 1889. H. H.Riddlebergen MICHIGAN. R. t 1887. Omar D. Conger, R west Virginia. 1889. T. W. Palmer, R 1887. J. N. Camden, D. MINNESOTA. 1889. John E. Kenna, D. 1887.5. J.R McMillan, R Wisconsin. 1889. D. M. Sabin, R 1885. Angus Cameron, R 1887. Philetus Sawyer,B Republicans, 40; Democrats, 36. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ALABAMA. 1. James T. Jones, D. 5. Thomas Williams, D. 2. H. A. Herbert, D. 6. G. W. Hewett, D. 3. William C. Oates, D. 7. Wm. H. Forney, D. A Charles M. Shelly, D. 8. Luke Pryor, D. ARKANSAS *C.B Breckinridge, D. 3. John H. Rogers, D. 1. PoiridexterDunn.D. 4. Samuel W. Peel, D. 2. James K. Jones, D. CALIFORNIA. ♦Chas. A. Sumner, D.l 2. J. H. Budd, D. ♦John R Glascock, D. 3. Barclay Henly, D. 1. W. S. Rosecrans, D.l 4. P. B. Tully, D. COLORADO. 1. James B. Belford, R CONNECTICUT. 1. Wm. W. Eaton, D.l 3. John T. Waite, R 2. C. L. Mitchell, D. 14. E. W. Seymour, D. DELAWARE. 1. Charles B. Lore, D. FLORIDA. 1. RH.M. Davidson.D.l 2. H. Bisbee, Jr., R. GEORGIA. ♦Thos. Hardman, D. 5. N. J. Hammond, D. L John C. Nicholls, D. 6. Jas H. Blount, D. 2. Henry G. Turner, D. 7. J. C. Clements, D. 3. Charles F. Crisp, D. 8. Seaborn Reese, D. 4. Hugh Buchanan. D. 9. Allen D. Candler, D. ILLINOIS. 1. R. W. Dunham, R 11. Wm. H. Neace. D. 2. Jno. F. Flnertyjnd. 12. James W. Riggs, D. 3. George R Davis, R. 13. Wm. M. Springer, D. 4. George E. Adams,R 14. J. H. Rowell, D. 5. Reuben Elwood, R 15. Jos. G. Cannon, R 6. Robert R Hitt, R 16. Aaron Shaw, D. 7. T. J. Henderson, R 17. Sam’l W. Moul ton.D. 8. William Cullen, R. 18. Wm. R. Morrison,D. 9. Lewis E. Payson, R 19. R. W.Townshend,D. 10. N.E. Worthington, D 20. John R Thomas, R INDIANA. L John J. Kleiner, D. 8. John E. Lamb, D. 2. Thomas R Cobb, D. 9. Thos B. Ward, D. 3. S. M. Stockslager, D. 10. Thos. J. Wood, D. 4. Wm. S. Holman,D. 11. Geo. W. Steele, R 5. C. C. Mason, D. 12. Robert Lowry, D. 6. Thos. M. Browne, R 13. Wm. H. Calkins, R 7. Stanton J. Peelle, R I lOWA. 1. Moses A. McCoid, R 7. John A. Kasson, R 2. Jere H. Murphy, D. 8. Wm. P. Hepburn, R 8. D. B. Henderson, R 9. W. H. M. Pusey, D. 4. L. H. Weller, D. 10. A. J. Holmes, R 5. James Wilson, R 11. Isaac 8. Struble, R 6. Jdhn C. Cook, D. G. KANSAS. ♦E. N. Morrill, R. 1. J. A. Anderson, R. ♦Lewis Hanback, R. 2.. D. C. Haskell, R ♦Samuel RPeters.R 3. Thomas Ryan, R *B. W. Perkins, R. t’K Y, 1. Oscar Turner, LD. 7. J. 8. C.Blackburn.D. 2. James F. Clay. D. 8. PB Thompson,jr.,D. 3. John E. Halsell, D. 9. W.W. Culbertson, R 4. T. A. Robertson, D. 10. John D. White, R. 5. Albert S. Willis, D. 11. F. D. Wolford, D. 6. John G. Carlisle, D. LOUISIANA. 1. Carleton Hunt, D. 4. N. C. Blanchard, D. 2. E. John Ellis, D. 5. J. Floyd King, D. 3. Wm. P. Kellogg, R 6. Edward T. Lewis,D. MAINE. ♦Thomas B. Reed,R. I ♦Chas. A.Boutelle.R ♦Nelson Dingley, R I ♦SethL. Milliken, R, MARYLAND. 1. G. W. Covington, D. 4. J. V. L. Findlay, D. 2. J. F. C. Talbott, D. 5. Hart. B. Holton, R 3. F. S. Hoblitzell, D. 6. L. E. McComas, R. MASSACHUSETTS. 1. Robt. T. Davis, R 7. Ebefi F. Stone, R 2. John D. Long, R 8. Wm. A. Russell, R 3. A. A. Raney, R 9. Theo. Lyman, R 4. Patrick A. Collins, D. 10. Wm. W. Rice, R 5. Leopold Morse, D. IL Wm. Whiting, R 6. H. B. Lovering, D. 12. Geo. D. Robinson,R MICHIGAN. 1. Wm. C. Maybury, D. 7. Ezra C. Carleton, D. 2. N. B. Eldredge, D. 8. Roswell G. Horr, R 3. Edward S. Lacey, R 9. B. M. Cutcheon, R 4. Geo. L. Yaple, D. 10. H. H. Hatch, R. 5. Julius Houseman, D. 11. Edw. Breitung, R 6. Edw. B. Winans, D. MINNESOTA. 1. Milo White, R 4. W. D. Washburn, R 2. J. B. W akefield, R 5. Knute Nelson, R 3. Horace B. Strait, R MISSISSIPPI. 1. H. L. Muldrow, D. 15. Otho R Singleton, D. 2. Contested. 6. H. 8. Van Eaton, D. 3. E. S. Jeffords, D. ' 17. E. Barksdale, -D. 6. H. D. Money, D. I MISSOURI. 1. Wm. W» Hatch, D. 8. John J. O’Neill, D. 2. A. M. Alexander, D. 9. J. O. Broadhead, D. 3. Alex. M. Dockery, D. 10. Martin L. Clardy, D. 4. James N. Burnes, D. 11. R P. Bland, D. 5. Alex. Graves. D. 12. Chas. H. Morgan, D. 6. John Cosgrove, D. 13. Robt. W. Ryan, D. 7. A. H. Buckner, D. 14. L. H. Davis, D. v NEBRASKA. L A. J. Weaver, R I 3. E. K. Valentine, R 2. James Laird, R. NEVADA. 1. Geo. W. Cassidy, D.| NEW HAMPSHIRE. 'I.M. A. Haynes, R ( 1 Ossian Ray, R NEW JERSEY. 1. Thos. M. Ferrell, D. 5. W. W. Phelps, R 2. J. Hart Brewer, R 6. W. H. F. Fiedler, D. 3. John Kean, Jr., R 7. Wm. McAdoo, D. 4. Benj. F. Howey, R NEW YORK. •H. W. Slocum. D. 17. H. G. Burleigh, R 1. Perry Belmont, D. 18. Fred A. Johnson, R 2. W. E. Robinson, D. 19. A. X. Parker, R 8. Darwin R James, R 20. Edward Wemple, D. 4. Felix Campbell, D. 21. George W. Ray, R 5. Nicholas Muller, D. 22. Chas. R Skinner, R 6. Samuel S. Cox, D. 23. J. Thos. Spriggs, D. 7. Wm.Dorsheimer, D. 24. N. W. Nutting, R 8. John J. Adams, D. 25. Frank Hiscock, R 9. John Hardy, D. 26. Sereno E. Payne, R 10. Abram S. Hewitt, D. 27. J. W. Wadsworth,R 11. Orlando B. Potter,D. 28. 8. C. Millard. R 12. Waldo Hutchins, D. 29. John Arnot, D. 13. John H. Ketcham, R 30. H. S. Greenleaf, D. 14. Lewis Beach, D. 31. Robert S. Stevens, D. 15. J. H. Bagley, Jr., D. 32. Wm. F. Rogers, D. 16. T. J. Van Alstyne, D. 88. Francis B.Brewer,R NORTH CAROLINA. •R T. Bennett, D. 5. Alfred M. Scales, D. 1. Thomas S. Skinner J). 6. Clement Dowd, D. 2. James E. O’Hara, R 7. Tyre York, R 8. Wharton J. Green, D. 8. Robert B. Vance, D. A William R Cox, D.

'■ nwm L John F. Feftett, D, 12. Alphonso Hart, R 2. L M. Jordan, D. 18. Geo. RConverse, D 8- R M 1A Geo. W. Geddes, D. 4 1s - Warner, D. A Gsf'SE.’ilMk BA 1A Beriah Wilkins, D. A Win. D. Hill. D. ’ 17. Joe. D. Taylor, R 7. Henry L. Morey, R 18. W. McKinley, Jr., R A J. W. Keifer, R 19, Ezra B. Taylor, ». A J»«. 8. Ro tjtepou, R. 20. David R Paige, D. 1A Frank H. Hurd. K 21. Martin A. Foran, D. I. Melvin O-GeocgAß? 0 • PENNSYLVANIA. , •M. F. Elliot, D. 14. Sam’l F. Barr, R 1. H. H. Bingham, R 15. George A Post, D. t X ChaA O’Neill, R 1A Wm. W. Brown, R' A Sami J. Randall, P. 17. J. M. Campbell R A Wm. D. Kelley, A. 18. L. E. Atkinson, R. 5. Alfred C. Harmer.R 1A Wm. A. Duncan, D. A Jas. B. Everhart. R 20. A. G. Curtin, D. 7. Isaac N. Evans, i. 2L Ckes. E. Boyle, D. A D. ErmentroUt, IV 22. JiK H/ Hopkins, D. 9. A. Herr Smith, R 23. Thos. M. Bayne, R 1A Wm. Mutchte, D. 24. G. V. . Lawrence, R 11. John B. Storm, P. 25. John P. Patton, P. RHODE IHLkND. V • ’ ’’ ’ 1. Henry J. Spooner, R| 2, Jonathan Chaoe, R . SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. Samuel Pibble, D 5. John J. Hemphill,D. 2. Geo. D. Tillman, D. A Geo. W. Dargan, D. 8. D. Wyatt Aiken, D. 7. E. W. M. Mackey, R A John H. Evins, D. TENNESSEE. 1. Aug. H.Pettibone.R A A. J. Oaldwell, D. 2. L. C. Houk, R 7. J. G. Ballentyne, P. 3. Geo. C. Dibbrell, P. A .John M. Taylor, D. 4. Benton McMillin, P. 9. Rice A. Pierce, D. 5. Richard Warner. P-IW. Casey Young, P. L OMurleO Stewart, Riv” T. R Ochiltree, R 2. John H. Reagan, D. a J. F. Miller, D. 3. Jas. H. Jones, D. 9. Roger Q. Mills, D. 4. D. B. Culberson, P. 10. John Hancock. D. t SiffSSKSJft”- “■ & w - p - VERMONT. 1 John W. Stewart, R 2. Luke P. Poland, R .VIRGINIA. ♦John S. Wise, R+ 5. George C. Cabell, D. 1. Robert M. Mayo, R 6. J. R Tucker, D. 2. Harry Libby, R 7. Vacancy. 3. George D. Wise, D. 8. John S. Barbour, D. 4. B. 8. Hooper,B. Bowen, R 1; Nathan Goff, Jr., R. 13. Chas. P. Snyder, D. 2. WilliamL. Wilson, D. 14. Eustace Gibson, P. ■ WISCONSIN. ; . ■■ 1. John Winans, D. 6. Richard Guenther, R 2. D. H. Sumner, P. 7. G. Mr Woodward, P. 1 Burr W. Jones, D. 8. William T. Price, R 4. Peter V.DeußtejjtD, ifci I. Stephenson, R 5. Joseph Rank!o, U* toe v- * - Republicans, 126; hj7; Independent, 1; vapanciae, 2,,, ♦Elected on ticket at large.

POSTAL TELEGRAPHY.

Provisions of Congressman Anderson’s Measure. .. _ , .. ■, » t *>." ♦ / [Washington Telegrafn.] Reprqeantative Anderson, of Kansas, ha* revised the Poßtal-Telcgrwtfli biH Introduced by him at the lari and again introduced it In TOe House. By its pho vision s the Postmaster-General if authorized to construct, maintain and operate three 'main line* of telegraph, thenorthoni line to intend from Bangor, Me., to St. Paul, the’central line from New york tQ Topcka, and the southern from Baltimore to San Antonio. The northern main line will be 1,720 and the branches 1,661 miles, a total of 8,881; central line, 1,437 and branches 978, a total of 2,415; thesouthern line 1,896, branches 1,418, a total of 8,314; grand total, 9,110 miles. Ata maximum cost of S4OO per mile the cost is $3,614,000. It is provided that all telepraph lines which since 1865 have been or shall be constructed by the Secretary of War for the use of the army shall be, when no longer needed for military purposes, transferred to the Postmaster-General for the use of the postal telegraph and be part thereof; also, where a junction can be made with the Wires of any railroad or telegraph company has received a grant of public lands, or bonds, or credit of the United States, the PostmasterGeneral may in his discretion cause the connection of the postal telegraph therewith, and all postal-telegraph messages may be transmitted over said wires at Government rates and in the manner prescribed by law. The bill provides for the issuance by the Secretary of the Treasury of $6,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds of SIOO each, redeemable ah option in ten years, not to run more than thirty years, to be offered lor sale In the open, market at New York, the proceeds of the sale to be applied to the construction and equipment of the postal telegraph by the Postmaster General, who shall hold a sufficient reserve of said bonds as a surplus over the cost of construction as may be necessary to meet the interest for five years. Ample provision is made for the redemption of the bonds, the capital thereof to be reimbursed by the profits, and all fiscal details are properly arranged in consonance with the rules of the Treasury Department. The local offices are to be under the control of the Postmaster, and stations are to be established only in Government postoffices.

LAPSED LAND GRANTS.

Bills to Forfeit Them to the Government. Judge Payson, of Illinois, has' introduced in the House bills to forfeit the followinglapsed and unearned land grants: The land grant to the Texas Pacific railroad, involving 1,500,000 acres; Oregon Central (Portland to Astoria) railroad, 1,180,000 acres; New Orleans and Jackson railroad, involving 1,000,000 acres, estimated; Elyton •& Beards Bluff railroad, 800,000 acres, estimated; Iron Mountain anq Arkansas railroad, 1,800,000 acres, estimated; Memphis and Charleston railroad, 800,000 acres, estimated; Savannah and Albany railroad, 1,200,000 acres, estimated; Gulf and Ship Island, and Tuscaloosa and Mobile 652,800 acre a and Mobile and New Orleans, involving 1,500,000 acres, estimated; Ontonagon and State Dine, involving 142,480; Oregon and California and California and Oregon railroads. unpatented lands, 4,168,307; certain lands of the Northern Pacific (Wallula to Portland, eto.), 5,504,000; Mobile and Girard, 482,421; certain land* of the Atlantic and Pacific east of Albuquerque, N. M., and west of Mojave, Cal., unpatented lands, about 1,500,000. Also a bill to create a Court of Appeals (the bill introduced by) Senator Davis in the Senate and Mr. Payson in the House in the For-ty-seventh Congress). And a bill for an amendment to the Constitution to permit the President to veto items in a general appropriation bill.

WOOL.

An Effort to Be Made to Restore the Former Duty. Representative Converse, of Ohio, has introduced in Congress a bill providing for a restoration of the duty on clothing wools, combing wools, carpet and other similar wools, to what they were prior to the enactment of the present tariff law. Converse had a conference with Delano, President of the National Wool-growers’ Association, at which the latter gave the proposed measure his indorsement, and Converse said he had no doubt his bill would pass the House by a two-thirds majority. The wool-growing Industry, he said, was closely allied to the agricultural and farming class interested in the restoration of the old rates on wool, and this circumstance will give the bill strength before the representatives of the people. His State was the chief wool-producing State in the country, and had suffered most severely from the reduction made in the present tariff law. There were In that State 46,000 wool-growers, and their loss on sales of wool the last annual dipping amounted to more than 51.000,000. The effect of the reduction of the tariff on wool product has been felt so keenly in Ohio that both political parties there pledged themselves to work for the restoration of the old rates. Mrs. Lydia Sturtevant has just died in Albany at the age of 98. She leaves a sister living at the age of 94. Her mother reached the age of 97, and she had a brother who w*c killed by accident when in his 99th* year.