Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — Page 2

<7 l)c Democratic Sfl’ afatl RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - ~

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of tst e Week. DOINGS OF Mr. Cockrell presented a memorial in the Senate, Dea 24, from the merchants, manufacturers, and business men of St. Lonis opposing the repeal of the Vaporizing law of 1879, which permits vinegarmakers to produce low wines for the purpose of making vinegar without payment of the United States tax. The Senate confirmed the appointment of Royal M. Johnson to be Surveyor General of Arizona. Adjourned until Jan. 1. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting the report of the Secretary of Scale, and. the papers relating to the trial, conviction, and execution of the late Patrick O’Donnell. Laid on the table for fnture action. Speaker Carlisle announced tne standing committees, and the House adjourned to Jan. 7. . s

EASTERN.

With a capitalization of $125,000, the Chronicle and the Telegraph, of Pittsburgh, will be consolidated, retaining both names. Gen. Grant slipped on the ice at New York and fell to the pavement, sustaining a painful Injury to the hip. Rowell and an Aiderman of New York are to have a six-day walking match in that city in February, for SSOO a side. The banks and savings institutions at Providence, R. 1., hold $767,000 of the paper of the bankrupt firm of Amos D. Smith & Co.

WESTERN.

A terrible accident on the Louisville New Albany and Chicago railroad occurred Christmas eve, near Salem, Ind,, resulting in the death of seven persons and the wounding of a number of others. Tbo place where the accident happened is the bridge over Blue river. The stream is a narrow one, and in the summer time is an insignificant brook. The speedy melting of snow and the heavy rain following had swollen it to undue proportions. The flood had washed away the earth from under the shore-supports of the bridge, rendering the structure weak and shaky. The train consisted of a baggage car, smoking oar, ladies’ car, and the Pullman buffet car Escaria. Just after the engine had gofrten safely across tho bridge suddenly settled. The awful crash followed. Tho chasm is about forty feet deep. The baggage car pitched headlong into the river, while the other cars telescoped and were badly smashed. Some of them, however, remained partially on the track, although what was left of the cars was scarcely anything but debris. The bridge was only about half again as long as a passenger coach, so that all the cars did not go into the water. A scene of excitement and confusion ensued, and the passengers, many of whom wore bruised and otherwise injured, began crawling out of the coaches. Some were asleep in the buffet car, but managed to get out all right. Through the overturning of the stoves the wreck caught fire, and till that was above water burned. John A. Clark was executed at Bozeman, M. T., for murder. The condemned .man died protesting his innocence. John N. Irwin, Governor of Idaho, declines to receive his salary since July 1, as he has been unable to attend to his dutierf.

The eleventh and twelfth days of the Emma Bond outrage case at Hillsboro, 111., were consumed by the defense in further building and strengthening their alibi structure. Clementi, one of the defendants, was placed in the stand and accounted for his whereabouts on the day of theoutrage in a straightforward story. A number of witnesses, all of them, with one exception, relatives’of the accused, were called to the witness stand and corroborated the stories of the three defendants. On the thirteenth day of the trial Miss Bond was recalled and gave important testimony directly contradict ory of John C. Montgomery. She had to ■ leave the witness stand for the Judge’s private room, where she fainted and fell heavily to the floor. On recovering she remarked that her condition was caused by the presence of Montgomery. The Merchants’ Exchange, of St. Louis, has tendered its hall for the Democratic National The liquor-dealers, of Ohio, who have been holding a State convention at Columbus for the purpose of organization, passed a resolution asking the repeal of the Scott law and the enactment of a judicious and constitutional measure. Ten thousand men, women and children gathered at Nevada, Mo., to witness tho public execution of William Fox for themur-der-of Thomas Howard. Petersburg, Ind., at a public meeting attended by thp best citizens of the place, resolved that the lynching of Harvey was the proper-thing in the proper place.

SOUTHERN.

A family of seven persons named Bobs lived on the banks of Hardy creek, in Trimble county, Ky. By a sudden rise of the water they and their cabin were swept .off and have not since been seen. In a free fight at Allendale, S. C., three persons, were killed and several wounded. A. number of Christmas tragedies of an exceptionally bloody character are reported from the South. At McDade, Tex., three men were taken from a saloon at midnight by fifty armed and masked citizens and hanged to a tree, for horse-stealing. Six relatives of the victims rode into town and forced a fight with suspected lynchers,in which two of the assaulting party were killed and two others were mortally wounded. At Yazoo, Miss., an affray between whites and blacks resulted in the killing of three white men and a negro. At Paris, Ky., in a drunken affray between negroes two of them were slain. In Chatham county, N. C., Mrs. Sarah Gunter, her daughter and grand-daughter were murdered by robbers. In New Orleans a city official named McCaffrey was shot dead by a notorious gambler. Near Sherman, Tex., a constable and three citizens were murdered by a band of outlaws. A company engaged in boring for oil at Warfield, Ky„ struck a flow of gas which blew 6,000 pounds of tools into the air. The roar of the well can be heard for three miles. A gambler named Burns killed the

night wa’chman at the end of the track on , the Mexican Central roads near El Paso, Tex. Burns was hanged to a box-car by a mob. Two negroes, accused, .of. white men, were from jail at Brooksville, Fla., and shot dead.. r .

WASHINGTON.

The prediction is made at Washington that Mr. Bland, as Chairman «f the Coinage committee, will prevent the passage of a bill to stop the manufacture of the daddy dollars. Representative Townshend, of Illinois, feels confident of the passage of his bill to pension-all survivors of the Mexican and Blackhawk wars. - . Gen. A. A. Humphreys, who was retired in" 1879, died suddenly in Washington last week. He was Major General of Volunteers, and afterward became a Brigadier in the regular army, serving as Chief Engineer for twelve years. He was an honorary member of several scientific societies in Europe and America.

POLITICAL.

Senator McDonald is attending closely to his law practice in Indianapolis, which in 1883 netted him over $60,000. He is about to proceed to Washington on Supreme court business, but will confer with Senators Beck and Garland as to his chances for the Presidential nomination. So says an Indianapolis dispatch. .

MISCELLANEOUS. Burned: Several stores at Rushford, N. Y., Involving a oss of $50,000; Belcher’s shoe factory, Holbrook. Mass., loss $20,000; Tyson Brothers’ mill and elevators, Baltimore, loss $70,000; Blanchard’s mills, Winterburn, Pa., loss $30,000; Wright’s sash and blind factory, Stevens Point, Wis., loss $lO,030; Linderhoim’s elevator, Clarinda, lowa, loss, $10,000; Harrison’s dry-goods store, Paris, Tex., loss $30,000; Sarazln’s tobacco factory, New Orleans, loss $20,000; eight business houses at Stewartsville, Mo., loss $30,000; a wing of the insane asylum, Ward's Island, N. Y., loss $25,000; a number of stores at Neches, Tex., loss $20,000; a herd of cattle and horses at the Cheyenne agency, I. T., loss $12,000; the Lutheran church, Rochester, Pa., loss $10,000; Demorest’s fruit store, New Orleans, loss $25,000; a large saw mill, at Deer Lake, Mich., loss $125,000; a large printing' establishment, at Montreal, Canada, loss $55,000; a street car house an<’ stables at Cambridge, Mass., loss $35,000; a cotton-seed oil mill at Temp le Tex., loss $35,000; Goddard's flour mill, Freeport, 111., loss $10’000; Toble’s flour-mill, Troy, Kan., loss $25,000; a storehouse at Memphis, Tenn., loss $35,000; the Havelock house, Algona, lowa, loss $15,000; Samuel Cuppies’ broom factory and other property in St. Louis, Mo., loss $450,000; a flouring mill at Chippewa Falls, Wis., loss $35,000; a match factory at Utica, N. Y., loss $15,000; a flouring mill at Cape Girardeau, Mo., loss $60,000; Nclderlngham’s furniture store,,. St. Louis, Mo., loss SIOO,000; a business structure at Red Wing, Minn., loss $25,000; ’Lee’s shoe factory, Athol, Mass., loss $ 70,000; Hard enburg & Co.’s carpet store, Brooklyn, N. Y., loss $125,000; Green Brothers’ fotlndry, Waterford, Ontario, loss $30,000; Several stores and shops at Fargo, Dak., loss $40,000; a number of business houses at Bloomfield, Ind., loss $25,030; the Empire brewery, Utica, N. Y., loss $40,000; the offices of the Tribune and Times and half a dozen stores at. Hammond, Ind., loss $45,000. Deaths: Ex-Mayor Strasburg, of Baltimore, one of the defenders of that city against the British; John F. Ramsey,' one of tho pioneer settlers of Madison, Ind.; Rev. Dr. T. D. Anderson, of Boston, a. widely known Baptist clergyman; Henry 8. Buckner, an old and wealthy merchant of New Orleans, aged 87; Rev. John B. Wright, of Wayland, Mass,* the oldest Unitarian clergyman in the United States; Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Cram (retired), of the United States Engineer Corps; Gen. Hiram Leonard, of San Francisco, retired army officer; exGov. Ralph P. Lowe, of lowa, at Washington City; Judge E. 8. Williams, a prominent Chicago lawyer; the wife of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, Washington, D. C.; Gen. Thomas L. Kane, one of the most prominent citizens of Pennsylvania. D. Smith & Co., of Providence, R. 1., operating 87,000 cotton spindles, have failed for $1,000,000. The crash is a' highly disastrous one, carrying with it the suspension of three great companies besides the five mills run by the ruined firm. Other failures of the week are as follows: Bomann & Von Berwith, worsted goods, New York, liabilities $75,000; Willis Bronson, real estate, New York, liabilities $250,000; J. W. Woolfolk, cotton factor, Columbus, Ga., liabilities $200,000; J. P. McAfee, hardware, Celina, Ohio, liabilities $20,000; W. H. Kingsley, grain, Allensville, 111., . liabilities $26,000; Donald Gordon, dry goods, Rochester, Oswego and Mexico, N r Y., liabilities $200,000; Lockhart & Stright, dry goods, Albany, Ind., liabilities $12,000; S. Jacobus, dry goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities $40,000; Gordon, Barker & Co., millers, Sparta, HL, liabilities $160,000; George Brooks & Bro., hardware/’AUerton, 111., liabilities, $18,000; H. S. Gilbert & Co., grain and comi mission, Ottawa, 111., liabilities $250,000; Soper & Co., auctioneers, Baltimore, liabilities $35,000; French & McKnight, dry goods, Erie, Pa., liabilities $34,000; Horatio E. Davis & Co., dry goods, Boston; Lamborn & Gray, bankers, Alliance, Ohio; J. & B. Lambert, ' dry goods, Chattanooga, Tenn., liabilities . $63,000. ' ■ ? In the assault upon the Orange procession at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, four men were killed and eight were mortally wounded. 1 Dun’s reports show tliat there were 1 214 failures in the United States and twentyI four in Canada during last week, being a reduction of eighty-five as compared with the 1 previous week. Alaska has had a terrific volcanic ] ■ I b / C‘. ’ 4

FOREIGN.

M. De Lesseps has publicly declared that as long as he or hie sons live the Suez canal shall remain under French control. An escaped female slave reports that the Mehdi is becoming frightened, that some tribes have refused him aid, and that he has sent his family to a place bf safety. It is asserted at Madrid that Chinese troops took no part in the defense of Sontay, are actively preparing to hold the Red

river delta. A rumor obtains circulation in Vienna that the French will not negotiate for peace until they occupy Bac-Ninh. ■ Admiral Courbet has been ordered to take all the advantages possible from his victory at Sontay, but to exercise prudence. * r Col. H. If. Rathbone, who married the daughter of ex-Senat»r Ira Harris, of New York, killed his wife and himself in a German >city, Christmas day. , The Grand Duke Nicholas, x>f Russia, in exile in Turkestan, attempted-to escape to India, but was captured.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A Washington dispatch says the publication of the letters of C. P. Huntington, disclosing the movements of the railway kings in Washington in connection with the Southern and Texas Pacific land grants and the Thurman Funding bill, has attracted great attention there. There can be little doubt that this publication will nave these Results: First, there will be a searching investigation by one branch of Congress or the other Into the various suggestions contained in the letters of undue influence; second, the publication will most unquestionably destroy whatever hopes or prospects the Southern Pacific magnates had of obtaining from Congress the ratification of the assignment of the unearned land grant of the Texas Pacific to the Southern Pacific. A mob composed of 200 armed men marched through the streets to the jail at Yazoo; Miss., demanded apd received from the jailer the keys to the prison. The object of their visit was.to inflict summary punishment upon four negroes confined therein for the murder of Joseph Nichols and the Posey brothers a few days previous, and they did their work promptly and effectually. The mob first proceeded to the cell of W. H. Foote. The door was forced open, and as one of the crowd entered he was struck with a band-iron from the fire-place wrapped in a towel, and knocked down. At this moment firing commenced and the prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by more than a dozen shots. Robert Swaysee, another of the murderers, was taken from his cell, a rope placed around his neck and thrown over the fence, and ho was thus hanged. They then proceeded to the cell in which Richard Gibbs was Incarcerated, but could not open the doors with the keys. Gibbs appeared at the grating of his cell, and on being perceived was riddled with shot. A rope was passed into his cell, which was placed around him by his cell-mate, and he was then dragged out and hanged from the outside of the building. The mob then went upstairs to Micajah Parker’s cell. Ho was taken out, a rope placed around his neck, and in tho balcony of the middle corridor of the jail he was hanged, the body dangling over the balcony. After this tho crowd quietly dispersed. The victims were all negroes, and Foote was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for tho district. The lynchers were young white men from the surrounding country. No effort was made to hinder them. The French lost thirty-six officers and nearly 1,000 men in the battle of Sontay, and found $2,000,000 in the city. At a consistory to be held at Rome in April, several Cardinals will be created, and the vacant' sees in America will be filled. It is thought that Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore will be made a Cardinal. Report has it that O’Donnell, recently executed, was one of four notorious leaders of the Molly Maguires who have long been hiding from American justice. It is reported that the Salters’ Company, one of the largest and mopt successful of the London guilds, has decided to dispose of its Irish lands, and is now offering them to tenants on twenty years’ time. Within the last three months seventysix fourth-class Postmasters have been raised to the Presidential grade. A strong pressure is being brought to bear to have the whisky bonded period extended two years. The petition is signed by whisky-men, bankers, and merchants, from Boston to Denver. Mr. Morrison says he will be prepared to introduce his tariff bill in the House of Representatives about the 15th of January. Mr. Morrison says he has received letters from prominent business men of the East, saying that they are not alarmed at the prospects of a tariff revision, but they would like to have the revision made at once. A Commissioner of Potter county, Dakota, has made affidavit that Gov. Ordway accepted a bribe of $5,000 for the appointment of a fellow-Commissioner.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 @7.00 Hous 5.50 @6.00 Flour—Superfine 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 1 Duluth 1.20 @ 1.22 No. 2 Red 1.13 @ 1.16 Corn—No. 2...'. 66 @ .67 Oats—No. 2 39 @ .41 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.25 Lard 09 @ .0914 CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.00 @6.50 Common to Fair 5.50 @6.00 Medium to Fair 5.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 4.50 @ 6.00 Flour -Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.50 / Gcod to Choice Spr’g Ex 5.00 @5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 95 @ .96 No. 2 Bed Winter 99 @ 1.01 Corn—No. 2 ,59 @ .60, Oats—No. 2 .33 @ .34)4 Ry.:—No. 2 59 @ .60 Barley—No 2. 66 @ .67 Rutter—Choice Creamery 32 @ .35 EggSs—Fresh 27 @ .28 i'or.K—Mess 13.25 @13.75 Lard 08)4@ .09 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 LO3 @ 1.05 Corn—No. 2 .58 ® .60 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .34 Rye—No. 2 ■. 58 @ .59 Barley—No 2 62 @ ~63 Pork—Mess 13.50 @14.50 Lard 8.50 @ 9.00 sr. louis. Wheat—No. 2 Red i.oi @ 1.02 Corn—Mixed. .48 @ .49 Oats -No. 2 .30 @ .32 Rye 54 @ .55 Pork—Mess 14.25 @14.75 Lard -. .08)4® ,»9 CINGINNATL Wheat—No. 2Red... 1.03 @ 1.04 Corn \ .48 @ ».49 Oats .33 @ .34 Rye 60 @ ,ei Pork—Mess 14.25 @15.00 Lard 08)4® .(W£ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red .94 @ .96 Corn : 54 *@ .55 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .34 DETROIT. Floub 5.c0 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.04)4® 1.05*4Corn—No. 2 53 @ .56 Oats—Mixed........ 34 @ .36 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @l.Ol Corn—No. 2 53 @ .54 Oats—vixed 32 @ .33 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTTE—Best ’. 6.00 @ 8.5( Fair . 5.50 @7.01 Common 6.00 @ 6.50 Hogs 5.50 @ 6.50 Bhsep x.... 4.00 @4.50

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The total loss by the fire at Fortville is es I t! mated at »boutss9,ooo. ' One of the most respectable citizens of I Angola has been indicted by the grand jury ‘ for omitting to list some of his property for ; taxation. • James DfER, of Middlgtowq, county, j has bepn in/fictedjtpr the crime of burning his ow# homtand caiiMnglhc death 'Of histwo children. The NewJ Albany, LeaVenworth and Cannelton railway has been incorporated, with a capital of $1,000,006. to build a line seventyfive miles in length, giving Perry county its first road. Lafayette boasts of the smallest and largest girls of their ages in the world. Annie Toole, at St. Elizabeth hospital, aged 21, ij less than thirty inches tall. Lettie Weygold, 12 years of age, weighs 211 pounds. The breach of promise case of Miss Helen McPheeters against U. 8. Blocksom, which was en trifl at the Federal. court at Indian, a polls, was stopped by the payment of $2,500 as a compromise. The lady had seven lawyers among them Senator Voorhees. Paddy Shea, who recently died in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, confessed that he and Alec Cronin, now serving a term in the same prison for. burglary, murdered Richard Nagel at the ferry dock, in Louisville, Ky., on the night of Pec. 2, 1881. Robert O’Nei] was arrested*ahortly after the killing and sentenced to the Kentuekj' penitentiary for life for the crime. The Indiana Bureau of Statistics, from reports which have been compiled, gives th e following summary of .the crop yield in this ptate for 1883: Wheat, .31,405,573 bushels; corn, 89,699,287; oats, 19,567,789; barley, ■399,183; rye, 358,513; buckwheat, 39,459; flax, 156,181; timothy hay, 1,831,137 tons; clover hay, 1,620,5151; Irish potatoes, 8,353,412 bushels; sweetpotatoes, 168,876; tobacco, 7,706,110 pounds. The yield of wheat in 1882 was 46,128,643 bushels, and of corn 115,699,797; bats, 19,615,516; barley, 1,138,717; rye,548,405; /potatoes, 7,261,830. The annual report of the Southern penitentiary at Jeffersonville shows that at the beginning of the year there were 590 convicts In the prison, while at the close the number had droppodjto 548. The daily average during the year .was 588, and since 1877 this has decreased. Of the 548 now in jprison, 241 were born in Indiana, 80 in Kentucky, 188 in other States, and 39 in foreign countries. At the ti.iie of conviction 71 per cent, were 30 years old or under; 59 per cent, ban read and write, 18 per cent, can yead; only 33 per cent, can neither yead nor write; 38 per cent, have been married; 8 per cent, are widowers; 21 per cent, have admitted intemperance. Fortyigix of the convicts were sentenced to imprisonment for life. The cost of the management of the prison during the last year was $82,176.20. The earnings from contract lab r during the year amounted to $66,624.11. Dr, Sherod, the prison physician, reports that there were seventeen deaths during the year but the mortality resulted largely from con-, sumption and chronic diseases contracted before the convicts were placed in prison. A sensation has been created at Indianapolis by the announcement that James B. Ryan ex-Treasurer of State, has become insane through dissipation and loss of his fortune, and that steps have been taken by his wife to procure his commitment to the hospitalRyan returned from Washington, whither friends had sent him, in the hope that a change would benefit him and relieve his family of persecutions that had become toogriev" ous to be but his appearance showed that he had been on a prolonged spree, and Mrs. Ryan was compelled to flee from the house and seek safety with friends. To his physician Mr. Ryan was so violent that sure-ty-of-the-peaee proceedings were instituted to bold him until his commitment to the hospital could be secured. Mr. Ryan’s case is a peculiarly sad one. Some years ago he was a wholesale dealer, in which business he amassed a fortune of $200,000. During that time he was a pronounced temperance advocate. Afterward he drifted into politics, and bore a conspicuous part in the campaigns of 1870 and 1874, when he was elected Treasurer of the State. Gov. Hendricks paid him a compliment in saying that his (Ryan’s) argument on the State’s finances was the clearest and strongest he ever heard. He was one of the most effective campaign speakers in the Democratic party. With tho panic came his first losses, and these were added to by speculation, until he had nothing left. A few years ago he took to drink, anj his downfall has been rapid. lie is 62 years of ag».

Report of the Secretary of State. Hon. William R. Myers, Secretary of State, has filed with Gov. Porter his report for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 1883. There was paid out for public printing the sum of $22,021.26, land for public stationery, $1,713.19; total printing and stationery, $23,734.45. The report furnishes the names and residences of all the State officials, United States Senators and members of Congress, and names of officers appointed by the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor and Treasurer. It contains a full list of the Senators and Representatives of the Forty-third'Gen-eral Assembly, Judges- of the Circuit, Superior, and Criminal courts, Prosecuting Attorneys, Commissioners of Deeds, and county officers. There have been 963 Notaries Public appointed within the last fiscal year, and 140 Justices of the Peace have also been appointed during the same period. Th,ere were filed in the office of the Secretary of State during the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 1883, thirty articles of incorporation and consolidation of railroads, and 264 of manufacturing, mining, banking, insurance, and building and loan companies. The official register is valuable tor reference, as it furnishes a full list of the Territorial and State pfficials cf Indiana, Senators and members of Congress trom the year 1800 to the present, as also the vote for Congressmen in 1882 by counties. John F. Ramsey, for seventy-five years a citizen of Indiana and for fifty years of Indianapolis, died in that city recently'. He settled near Madison with his father in 1808, 'when there were very few white people in the Territory. He was a gentleman of wealth and social standing. Mrs. Mary C. Humaston of Terre Haute, a dealer in toys and confectionery, has, by the death of her father, John Hadcox, of Madison county, N. Y., fallen heir to a for. fuiy> of $20,000. Three clearly defined cases of small-pox fiave been reported in Lafayette.

THE HOUSE.

Speaker Carlisle’s Committee Assignments. Following is * full list of the committees of the National House of Representatives, as made up by the Speaker : Elections—Messrs. Turner of Georgia, Davis Ot Missouri, Converse, Cook, Bennett, Lowry, Elliott, Robertson of Ken.ncky. Adams of New York, Ranney, Pettibone, Miller of Pennsylvania, Valentine, Hepburn of lowa, and Hart. Ways and Means—Morrison, Mills, Blonnt, Blackburn, Hewitt of New York, Herbert, Hurd, Jonesof Arkansas, Kelley, Kasson, McKinley, Eiscock, and Russell. Appropriations—Rarfdall, Forney, Ellis. Holman, Hancock, Townshend, Hutchins, Follett, Burnes, Keifer, Cannon, Ryan, Calkins, Horr, and Washburn. ’ Judiciary—Tucker, Hammond, Cnlbevson of Texas, Morton, Broadhead, Dorsheimer, Collins, Seney, Reed, E. B. Taylor of Ohio, McCoid, Browne of Indiana, and Poland. Banking and Currency—Buckner, Ermentrout, Potter, Hunt, Miller of Texas, Candler, Wilkins, Yaple, Dingley, Brumm, Adams of Illinois. Henderson of lowa, and Hooper. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—Bland. Dowd, Hardy, Nicholls, Pusey, Lapham, TuUy, Belford, Lacey, Chace, Everhart, and Luna. Commerce—Reagan, Clardy, Turner of Kentucky, Dunn, Seymour. Glascock, Woodward, Boyle, Barksdale, O'Neill of Pennsylvania, Davis of Illinois, Wadsworth, Long, Stewart of Vermont, and Peters. Rivers and Harbors—Willis, Blanchard, Jones of Alabama, Gibson, Rankin, Breckinridge, Murphy, Sumner, Houseman, Henderson of Illinois, Bayne, Robinson of Ohio, Chace, Stone, and Burleigh. Agriculture—Hatch of Missouri, Aiken, Dibrell, Williams, Beach, Green, Winans, Weller, Patton, CuUen, Wilson of lowa, White of Minnesota, Ochiltree, Hovey, Stephenson, and Raymond of Dakota. Foreign Affairs—Gurtin, Belmont, Deuster, Clements, Cox of North Carolina, G. D. Wise of Virginia, Stewart of Texas 1 , Lamb of Indiana, Rice, Wait, Ketcham, Phelps and Hitt. Military Affairs—Rosemans, Slocum, Dibrell, Morgan, Wolford, Nicholls, Murray, Duncan, Steele, Bayne, Lyman, Laird, Cutcheon and Maginnls of Montana. Naval Affairs—Cox of New York, Morse, Talbott, Buchanan, Eaton, Ballantyne, McAdoo, Harmer, Thomas, Goff and Boutelle. Postoffices and Post Roads—Money, Reese, Ward, Cosgrove, Riggs, Rogers of Arkansas, Taylor of Tennessee, Jones of Texas, Paige, Bingham, Peelle, Skinner of New York, White of Kentucky, Wakefield and McCormick. Railways and Canals —Davidson, Hoblitzell, Murphy, Paige, CaldweU, Turner of Kentucky, Wemple, Culbertson of Kentucky, James, Atkinson. and Hatch of Michigan. Public Lands—Cobb, Scales, Oates; Shaw, Lewis, Henley, Van Eaton, Belford, Strait, Anderson, Payson, and Brents of Washington Territory. Indian Affairs —Welborn, Graves, Stevens, ■ Peel, Finerty, Skinner of North Carolina, Smith, George, Perkins, Nelson, and Oury of Arizona. Territories—Evihs of South Carolina, Pryor, Arnot, Hardeman, Lanham, Alexander, Carleton, Foran, J. D. Taylor pt Ohio, Kellogg, Johnson, Lawrence, Struble, and Post of Wyoming Territory. Manufactures—Bagley, G. D. Wise of Virginia, Mitchell, Caldwell, Crisp, Lewis, Brewer of New Jersey, Mackey, Ellwood, and Campbell of New York. Mines and Mining—Warner of Tennessee, Cassidy, Alexander, Skinner of North Carolina, Miller of Texas, Wood, Stevens, Breitung, Culbertson of Kentucky. O’Hara, and Singiser of Idaho. Levees and Improvements of Mississippi River—King, Dunn, O’Neill of Missouri, Post, Campbell, Jones of Wisconsin,Henley, Thomas, J. S. Wise of Virginia, Howey and Whiting. Militia—Muller of New York, Covington, McAdoo, Peelle, Boyle, Ballentyne, Strait, Money, Valentine and Cutcheon. Claims—McMillin, Dowd, Tillman, Warner of Ohio, Van Alstyne, Dockery, Wood, Lore, Snyder, Ray of New Hampshire, Price, Ochiltree, Ellwood, Brown of Pennsylvania, and Ray of New York. War Claims—Geddes, Jones of Wisconsin, Stone, Tully, Rogers of Npw York, WdHer, Ferrell, Kellogg, Everhart, Rowell and Bowen. Revision of the Laws—Oates, Buchanan, McMillin, Hill, Clay, Ward, Hemphill, Brown of ■ Pennsylvania, Bayne, Spooner and McComas. Public Buildings and Grounds—Stockslager, Young, Dibble, Reese, Hopkins, Pusey, Wemple, Worthington, Brainerd, Holton, Kean, Breitung, and Milliken. Pacific Railroads—Cassidy, Throckmorton, Cabell, Thompson Jr., Jordan, '''Crisp, Post, Wilson of lowa, Millhrd, Dunham, and Han- . back. Expenditures of the War Department— Thompson, Ferrell, Taylor of Tennessee, Elliot, Mayo, Johnson, and Hanback. Expenditures of the Navy Department— Morse, Hewett of New York, Shaw, Davidson, Houk, Davis of. Massachusetts, and Lawrence. Expenditures of the Department of Justice— Springer, Hemphill, Van Alstyne, Fyan, Stewart of Vermont, Bowen, and Stephenson. Expenditures of Public Buildings—Belmont, Wilkins, Spriggs, Sumner of Wisconsin, Harmer, Weaver, ahd O’Hara. • Expenditures of the Postoffice Department— Morgan, Talbott, Robinson of New York, Neece, Peelle, Stone and Nutting. Expcnitures of the Interior Department— Young, Clardy, Cook, Storm, Brumm, Dunham and Payne. \ Patents—Vance, Singleton, Mitchell, Greenleaf, Hallsell, Dargan, Winans of Wisconsin and Hepburn. Education —Aiken, Converse, Willis, Budd, Arnot, Duncan, Winans of Wisconsin, Taylor of Ohio, Milliken, Hatch of Michigiin and Morrill. Invalid Pensions—Matson, Le Fevre, Fyan, Winans of Michigan, Budd, Sumner of Wisconsin, Patton, Lovering, Bagley, Ray of New Hampshire, Cullen, Houk, J. S. Wise of Virginia, Holmes, Merrill. Pensions—Hewitt of Alabama, Tillman, Robinson of New York, Steele, Laird, Struble and York. Expenditures of the State Department— Hardeman, Dargan. Worthington, Campbell, Barr, He idersou of lows: and Price. Expenditures of the Treasury Department— Davis of Missouri, Hewitt of Alabama, Potter, Connolly, Lacey, Libby, Mayne 3. Labor—Hopkins’, O’Neill of Missouri, Foran, Lovering, Mackey, James, Haynes. District of Columbia—Barbour, Muldrow, Shelley, Eldredge, Wilson of West Virginia, Feedler, Spriggs, Barr, Guenther, McComas and Jeffords. Private Lands—Muldrow, Mit’ehell of Alabama, Cabell, Cosgrove, Eldredge, Lowry, Payson, Parker, Mayo and Weaver. Public Health—Beach, Graves, Riggs, Candler, Fielder, Davis of Massachusetts, Evans of Pennsylvania, Libbyo and Pettibone. Ventilation and Acoustics—Hardy, Cabell, Green, Shelley, Jeffords, Evans of Pennsylvania aud BrewSr of New York. Enrolled Bills—Neece, Warner of Tennessee, Snyder, Yaple. Peters, Holmes. SELECT COMMITTEES. Reform of the Civil Service—Mutchlcr, Cox, Clements, Hoblitzel, Finerty, Barksdale, Seymour, Robertson of Kentucky, Bingham, Phelps, Millard, Lyman, Hitt. Alcoholic Liquor Traffic —Hitt, Bland, Kleiner, Carleton, Evins, Davis of Illinois, Guenther, Goff, Campbel]. American Shipbuilding and Shipowning—Slocum, Deuster, Dibble, Throckmorton, Hunt, Findlay, Lore, Dingley, O'Neil of Pennsylvania, George, Long. On the Law Respecting the Election of President and Vice President—Eaton. Springer, Clay, Jordan, Pryor, Bennett, Kleiner, Findlay, Parker, White of Kentucky, Peters, Hart, Wait. On Payment ot' Pensions, Bounties, and Back Pay—Warner of Ohio, Connolly, Pierce of Tennessse, Regers ot Arkansas, Greenleaf, Brewer of New Hoik, York, Whitifig,'Andei son. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEES. Printing—Scales, Rogers of New York, Smith. Library—Singleton, Woodward,' Nutting.

SMALL TALK.

The “Confederate rose" is a singular flower grown by Joseph C. Bailey, of New Orleans. It is white in the morning, but red at “night. It grows in largo bunches. A farmer in Stokes county, iJ. C., got into a frenzy over his short crops this season, and cursed heaven and earth. While ho was cursing he was suddenly paralyzed. A sparrow flow against a'man as ho was briskly rounding the corner of an old wall in Louidville, Ky. The bird's bill entered the corner of the man’s eye, destroying the sight. A curious lawsuit is now pending in Lausanne. A dog chased a cat, which fled down the air shaft leading from the afreet into a wine vault. The dog followed, and the two fell against the tap of a large cask of Yvorne, and the wine began to flow. The wine merchant claimed he had a cause of getion for the loss of his wine, and as the owner of the cat was not known, ho Sued the dog. » Plymouth church, Brooklyn, received but seven new members last year.

CHARLES HARVEY’S FATE.

A Mob Takes Him from Jail at burg, Ind. ' • His Body Afterward Found Dangling to a Locust Tree. [Telegram from Vincennes, Ind.] Sunday morning, between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock, from fifty to seventy-five men! surrounded the jail inPetersburg,Pike county 1 Ind., in which was confined young Charlie || Harvey, the murderer of Henry Custin, Jrf The front door was broken and unfastened! and a guard was stationed near it, but h» was quickly overpowered. The jailer was ini bed. and the leaders of the mob crowded , into his room and demaiMod the keys. i< to the jail doors. These he gave up at once, seeing that it was useless to attempt resistance. The mob marched with, the keys to the cell where Harvey was confined. As soon as he heard the noise he was struck dumb wifo terror. Grabbing hold of him the mob placed a rope around his neck, pinioned his arms, and bade him walk ahead. They hurried the doomed man to the edge of _ the town, and, arriving at a locust tree, pro- * ceeded to bang him up. After hanging him, ’ they placed a card in his hand bearing the words: ”Mose to follow.” It is stated that Harvey made a confession of the murder of Henry Custin, which occurred Friday night. Nothing positive isknown, as the men who received the cons as- < aion are mute. The confession is said to im--plicate one of the most desperate characters of Petersburg. The body hung suspended from the tree from 2 until 10 o’clock Sundaymorning, and was covered with sleet and iceand frozen stiff. Three thousand people vis- i ited the scene Sunday. The Coroner cut the- 1 body down between 9 and 10 o’clock, and ren- ,j dered a verdict that Charles Harvey came to- ’ his death by hanging at the hands of nn- - known parties. The crime which young Harvey expiated in so horrible a manner was one of the most cold-blooded murders on record. Henry Custin was employed in the dry-goods store of Ed Montgomery, and i.t is supposed the murderer thought he carried some of Montgomery’s money or that he mistook Custin for Montgomery. Custin was returning homeabout 10 o’clock in the evening, and was shot almost at his own door. A barber who lived near heard two shots, raised a window, and saw one man bending over the prostrate form of another. The murderer fled, and the dead man was borne to his home. Those in pursuit went to Harvey’s home, two miles east of Petersburg, at a village; called Alford. Harvey wa? requested to, come forth, and with reluctance put on his clothes. He put on one boot, and then, refused to put on the other. His mothef' brought his boot from the kitchen, and walk- 1 noticed rubbing it with her fingers. The boot was snatched out of her hand and blood was discovered upon it. The boot exactly; fitted the track of the man who shot Custß® Harvey was taken to Petersburg. He reX quested that they should lock him securely in. jail, as he feared the mob.

A TERRIBLE STORY.

The Horrible Fate of the Crew of at,- 1 Steamer Burned at Sea. I [Cable dispatch from London.] The second engineer of the burned steamer St. Augustin, who was landed at Shields, tells* a heartrending story of the wreck. He says that when all the boats had been filled therewere still thirty people on the burning ship-. The lifeboat, which was already loaded down to the gunwales, was appealed toby these unfortunates to save them. Their agonized cries were irresistible, and. even the strong desire for life, alwaysselfishly manifest under extreme circumstances, was overcome, and the boat returned. The folly of the attempt was apparent to all. The weight of one more human, being, let alone thirty, would be fatal, but this was forgotten or disregarded and the. life boat turned her course toward -thedoomed vessel. She approached as carefully as possible, laboring over the big seas, onlyto be dakhed to pieces, for when near the St. Augustin she was thrown with terrific forceagainst the side of the ship and crushed. Nearly , all in her were drowned at once. The rest, clambered over the sides, catching overhanging ropes, and suffered probably a worsefate with those on board. The Captain of the ; St. Augustin, after having his legs cut off by | a falling spar, begged of the crew to tie some-, weight to his body and throw him He preferred drowning to being burned. The crew finally complied, and he was heavily weighted and thrown into the sea. .The sec- , ond rfiate, after his master had gone, becamo perfectly frantic, and, pulling his pistol,. £ . he put the muzzle into his mouth, and J sent the charge through his brain. He fell.jl dead in his tracks. These examples were fol- 1 lowed by the rest. SoinC .jumped overboard, I others stabbed themselves, all seeming to- I prefer some quicker mode of terminating I existence than the horrible torture awaiting I them from the rapidly advancing tlamesi. I When the John WiPiamsorr hove to and stood I by, a perfect hurricane was blowing. She- I nevertheless lauched a. boat ing a volunteer crew and sent Ait t|fl the rescue. When the St. Augustin reached the man in the bow jumped® for a dangling line, but he missed it and was ■ drowned. A second man made the attempt.' He was dashed against the side of the vessel and killed. Two others followed and weredrowned. Finally a line was secured and six, persons were taken off. This was all thatcould be done. The sea ran so high that,a near approach meant, certain death, and the- - gallant crew of the Williamson were obliged to return, leaving those still on board theblazing ship to their fate. The Williamson was meanwhile drifting - away. She made desperate efforts to face- 1 the storm and keep her boat in sight, but they were almost useless. When she wasabout to give up the bodt was seen comingtoward her and the crew with the six rescued men were with great difficulty taken on board. The boat had rescued six persons and had lost four in doing so.

“FRENCH GLORY THIRST.”

A .Nation, Intoxicated by a Victory Over',, the Chinese. ' ' [Cable Dispatch from Paris.] The Parisians are just now jubilant over the French successes at fontay. The cry, “A Pekin!”is the popular thing in the cases and public places. The people who a week ago were clamoring against the Government becaiiee of ‘Wis crazy Tonquin business’’ are now applauding.the Ministry for “the glory won by,-the legions of France.” 4 week ago the popijlaee thought the Chinese myriads wbifld simply obliterate.; tire French army; to-night the same populace appears Jo fancy that the French army have < a holiday march before them. The capture i ol'jjtaiitay seems to have thoroughly revived' among the French people, particularly in. Paris, the old national mu lady “French glorythirst.” The statesmen of the republic are; alarmed at this; for they know and fear its certain tendency.

ODD STORIES.

In New oav‘en, Conn., 172 persons over 70 • died' iast year. The population is’about 60,000. The terms of twenty-five United States Senators will expire in 1885. or whom fourteen are Democrats and eleven Republicans. An ostrich raiser says that, ostriches are plucked once a year when uud r 3 year? of age, and twice a year when older, yieldingfeathers at each plucking worth from S7O tos9o.' .jr.Q• The Pike’s Peak railway will probably be completed by July 4,1884. '