Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — Page 2

ijjf gcmocraticJentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. Vs. McEWEN, - Publishm.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week, EASTERN. The produce exports (from New York during last week were valued at aboat $6,000,000. The bank examiner reports that the "West Side Bank -of New York has $63,699 above all liabilities. By an explosion in the straw-board factory of Moore & Wilson, Waterford, N. Y., five men lost their lives and $15,000 worth of property was destroyed. New York dispatch: Seventy-four business men of this city, members of an association whose charter has been subscribed to by thirty different interests, representing $350,000,000, held an important meeting. This union has been formed for the purpose of preventing discriminations by the railroad!, telegraph, and express companies. The meeting was devoted to an interchange of views and the relation of instances where the relators thought they had been discriminated against. The International Lodge of Good Templars, in session at Washington, elected the Hon. James B. Finch, of Nebraska, Bight Worthy Grand Chief Templar. Frederick D. Grant and Jesse R. Grant filed schedules in their assignments at Now York. F. D. Grant owes $2,215,066, •with assets nominally worth $1,990,013. J. R. Grant's liabilities are placed at $95,249, the nominal value of his assets being $131,150. The true inwardness of the Penn Bank collapse at Pittsbugh reaches the public in interesting slices. President Riddle has filed a confession of judgment in favor of the wreck for $99,750. The overdrafts of $350,000 reported previously have now swollen to $1,200,000, and it is expected that the liabilities will reach $2,000,000. Theofficersof the concern are charged with desperate speculation in oil ever since the Cherry Grove district was opened. For ordering the swathing of a female patient with bandages steeped in kerosene, and on his second visit directing that more oil be poured on the ligatures, the •woman dying in a short time, Dr. Franklin Pierce was found guilty of manslaughter at Worcester, Mass. Charles O’Conor left $20,000 in money and a portion of his library to the Law Institute of New York, SIO,OOO each to four ladies, and two-thirds of the residue to his sister, Eliza M. Sloane. George Mountfort died at Boston, aged 78. He was a son of Joseph Mountfort, one of the famous Boston tea party. A bill to abolish the prison-labor contract in Massachusetts was defeated in the Legislature of that State. By the fall of a scaffolding in a railway tunnel near Ligonier, Pa., nine Italian laborers were killed and eleven others severely injured. The Coroner’s jury investigating the Knapp Tunnel accident In Pennsylvania, by which eleven men lost their lives, returned a verdict exonerating the contractors. Mayor Martin, of Boston, refuses to Issue licenses to liquor dealers in that city. A case has been carried to the Massachusetts Supreme Court with a view to compelling him to issue the licenses. Ferdinand Ward says that the responsibility of Gen. Grant and James D. Fish In the firm of Grant & Ward was equal to his own. A violent snow-storm passed over the towns south of Buffalo on the morning of Decoration Day, trains arriving at Buffalo being covered with snow. At the National Horse Exhibition in New York, Freddy Gebhard’s horse Leo cleared a barrier six feet and six inches in height, beating the English record for high jumping.

WESTERN.

Two masked men, armed with Winchester rifles, halted the Fort Benton coach twenty-rive miles from Helena, robbed the passengers, and rifled the mall bag’s. Prentice Tiller, the St. Louis express robber, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years’ Imprisonment. David Stone, of Hillsdale, Mich., pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his young niece, Lulu Dyke, and was sentenced to solitary confinement in the Penitentiary for life. The premiums for races at the lowa .State Fair, beginning at Des Moines Aug 29, amount to §30,000. A vast crowd assembled in the Criminal Court-room at Chicago to learn tho result of the McKeague trial. Judge Anthony expressed the hope that the audience would make no demonstration over the verdict, but when the acquittal was announced the floor shook with applause. The accused was permitted to hold a reception, when he was returned to his cell to await trial on an indictment for the murder of Mrs. Willson. In Fountain County, Indiana, in a deposit of black sand, gold has been discovered yielding a large percentage to thq ton. The “find” has caused no little excitement in the district. Wesley Johnson was hanged at Napoleon, Ohio, for the murder of George W. W illlams and his wife near that place the 23d of October, 1883. At Tower Hill, HI., a mob attempted to lynch three highway robbers, on their way to the Shelbyville jail. The officers threatened the vigilantes with death, and safely lodged the men inside the prison walls. A mob wrecked the office of A. K. Webb, a lawyer of Madrid, lowa. Webb had brought suit against a half-witted boy and garnished his wages for a fee in a case which was never brought to trial. Ikador Jones, a Detroit dentist, was pardoned from the Michigan Penitentiary. It appears that he had a taste for detective work, and voluntarily aided the police, who soon grew tired of him and convicted him of receiving stolen property in order to rid themselves of his presence. It is not believed that be committed any crime. After the ceremonies at Vevay, Ind ,

Decoration Day, Peter Joyce, while drunk, for no reason, shot Squire Sanders (colored) dead. A heavy frost in Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Northern Ohio, and portions of Pennsylvania and Michigan seriously injured fruit buds in those sections on the night of the 29th ult. A sculling-race for SI,OOO a side took place on Lake Calumet, near Chicago, on Decoration Day, between John Teemer of Pittsburgh, and Peter H. Conley of Halifax, the former winning by a quarter length. Bight of way is being purchased for a railroad from Belvidere to Peru, 111., eightyfive miles. Bixteen thousand acres of coal land has been secured on the Illinois River, six miles west of Peru. Neal McKeague, who was acquitted of the murder of James L. Willson at Winnetka, was released from the jail in Chicago, State’s Attorney Mills having entered a nolle prosequi on tbe remaining indictment, for the murder of Mrs. Willson. McKeague at once started in search of bis father, with whom he will probably go to Canada for a visit. Unknown men entered the residence of the widow of Senator True*, at Osborne, Mo., and after ransacking the house committed a criminal assault upon her. A large party of citizens is scouring the country in search of the villains.

SOUTHERN.

Inge & Mahone, who carried on an extensive tobacco business at Petersburg, Va., have executed a deed of trust for the benefit of their creditors. The junior partner is a son of Senator Mahone. The absence of the President resulted in a run on tbe Hot Springs (Ark.) National Bank, which was compelled to close its doors. A run was also begun on the Arkansas National Bank, excitement. Miss Medginer, the daughter of the Baltimore merchant, who had been missing for three days, was found near Phoenix Station, Md. Her mind had become unsettled by over-study, and it is feared that she will not recover her reason. Several inebriated men at Sharpsburg, Ky., amused themselves by shooting at lighted lamps in a grocery store. One of the lamps exploded and set fire to the building. The flames spread rapidly, and nearly all the principal business places of the town were destroyed. The total loss is placed at $40,000. The Belmont coal mines in Alabama, in which U. S. Grant, Jr„ is a principal stockholder, have closed down because of the Grant & Ward failure. In a shooting affray near Granby, Mo., resulting from an old grudge, John G. Koontze, ex-Postmaster, and Nathan Tabor, a merchant, were killed, and George Hudson, a desperado, seriously wounded. Hooper’s building at Baltimore collapsed from the weight of cotton it contained, the fourth floor first giving way. and forcing the others down. Of a number of persons in the structure six bodies have been recovered. Three persons were fatally injured, and two others are missing and supposed to be in the debris.-' The Protestant Episcopal Convention at Baltimore, after thirteen ballots, failed to elect a bishop, and decided to hold a special session for that purpose in October, until which time tbe convention adjourned. William Cook, Edward Lover, and William Debus were drowned near New Orleans by the overturning of a sail boat. G. B. Eens, a prominent citizen of Petersburg, Va., well known as a contractor, has assigned his property to secure the payment of State funds deposited in the wrecked Planters’ Bank, of which ho was a director. Barkley & Hasson, coffee and tea merchants of Baltimore, have made an assignment. Their Labilities are placed at $225,000. Some miscreant fired three shots through a window of the Common Pleas Courtroom in Baltimore, the only damage being to the window panes.

WASHINGTON.

Mr. Ker, of the star-route counsel, informed the Springer Committee that William Pitt Kellogg had said he ought to take a shot-gun and blow out Ker’s bruins, and tho latter desired It known that Kellogg can have that kind of satisfaction by giving notice of the time and place. Col. J. O. P. Burnside, Disbursing Clerk of the Postoffice Department has hecn removed on the charge of converting $45,000 of the nation's money to his own use. There is a warrant out for his arrest. The banking house of D. W. Middleton & Co. has suspended payment. The captal of the concern was $400,000, and the liabilities are nearly $500,000. The heaviest creditor Is Mrs. Hutchinson, who had about SIOO,000 on deposit.

POLITICAL.

San Francisco telegram: “The election of delegates in the forty-seven city clubs to the State .Democratic Convention was continued till past midnight. The double resolution pledging tho delegates to Tilden and against Field was unanimously adopted.” St. Louis dispatch: “The Democratic county conventions so far held in this State, either for the nomination of county tickets or the selection of delegates to the State convention to choose delegates to the national convention, have expressed decided preference for Samuel J. Tilden for President. There seems to be a strong desire throughout the State for the renomtnation of the ‘old ticket’ ” Judge Foraker, of Ohio, is, at his own request, to nominate Senator Sherman for the Presidency at the Chicago convention. The Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin adopted resolutions denouncing the present tariff as a masterpiece ot injustice arid falso pretense, and demanding that all custom house taxation shall be only for revenue. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, was nominated for President by the National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis. J udge West, of Mississippi, was nominated for Vice President. The Minnesota Democratic Convention met at St. Paul and eleoted delegates to Chicago. While riot instructed, those chosen are in favor of Tilden. At the semi-monthly meeting of the

Trades Assembly of Chicago, three delegates from the New York Typographical Union detailed their grievances against White law Reid, and announced their purpose to urge the Republican National Convention into boycotting him.

miscellaneous. Owing to the recent “departures” of swindling bank presidents and officials from the United States to Canada there ha* grown up a desire to make the extradition treaty between our Government and that of Great Britain somewhat more stringent and comprehensive. The American Congregational Association held its thirty-first annual meeting at Boston. The year’s receipts were $23,389, and tbe balance on hand is $233. Tho changes in the directory include the dropping of Charles G. Hammond, of Chicago—T. V. Biatchford taking his place. Annual memberships were abolished, and life memberships raised from S3O to SSO. An expedition which lately left Nassau on a British yacht has been safely landed in Cuba. At Sainte Claire, on the island, Col. Varona is organizing a large force. The iron manufacturers of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys signified their willingness to sign last year's scale with the new additions omitted. It is believed that there will be no ironworkers’ strike in tbe Youngstown district, but at Pittsburg matters are unsettled. Employes of the Walrnsh Hoad at. Chicago quietly stopped work because they had not received their wages. William Brown, a colored man, who murdered a peddler named Lnvigne at Cahokla, Illinois, and buried his body in the fireplace, was executed at Belleville. He confessed his crime, and scarcely had strength to reach the scaffold. John Tucker was hanged at Paris, Alabama, for the murder of a companion named Aaron Baker. Decoration Day was observed with unusual pomp throughout the country. At Chicago the street parade was very large and fine. Addresses were delivered at the cemeteries by Hon. Emery A. Storrs and Col. R. G. Ingersoll. Gen. Rosecrans officiated at the unveiling of the soldiers’ monument at Delaware, Ohio, in presence of fifteen thousand persons. During the memorial exercises at Louisville the speaker’s stand col lapsed, fifty persons being precipitated to the ground, but none received serious injuries. The business failures in the United States for the week just closed number 148, against 183 the previous week. Death has taken away Harvey D. Parker, who built tho Parker House; at Boston; C. Hobbs, of the St. Louis bar; Samuel S. Shoemaker, ex-Vico President of tho Adams Express Company, and a prominent citizen of Baltimore; Judge Henry H. Coolidge, of Niles, Mich.; John D. Gibson, one of the proprietors of the Gibson House, Cincinnati; Dr. Thomas Griffith, of Louisville, of paralysis, after a long illness. John C. Eno, late President of the Second National Bank of New York, was captured at Quebec, on board a steamship about to sail for Liverpool. With a companion dressed as a priest, Eno took passage at Montreal, and the suspicious behavior of the pair led lo their arrest.. Fire at Paducah destroyed the Knights Templars’ hall and a large store. The falling walls demolished three small structures. The loss is placed at SIOO,000. A paper mill at Itockton, Wis., valued at $50,000, was destroyed by fire, and Independence, lown, had a $40,000 blaze.

FOREIGN.

The Aldermen of Limerick, Ireland, have decided by a large majority not to pay an extra police tax. The members are personally responsible, and they are prepared, they say, to go to jail rather than vote for tho tax. The race for the English Derby was declared a “dead heat” between St. Galien and Harvester. The stakes were divided. This is the first time in the history of the Derby that the contest has resulted in a dead heat. Queen Adelaide, the favorite, came In third. The midgets, “Gen. Mite” and Millie Edwards, were married at a public hall at Manchester, England, recently. The band of the Third Dragoons played tho wedding march. The Catholic Bishop of the Soudan has arrived at Cairo from tho south. He reports that seven Italian priests and four Sisters of Mercy were massacred at El Obeld. He also reports that three priests were exposed naked to tho sun for four days, and died from the effects of their exposure. The French Government lias decided to celebrate the centenary comiriencement of the revolution of 1789. The Count de Hausonville, a French politician, and a member of the Paris Acad' erny of the “immortals,” is dead. Ho was born in the French capital May 27, 1803, Sir Bfiftle Frere, well known in connection with British South African politics, died in London after a protracted Illness. Ho took a conspicuous part In connect'on with the Boer and Zulu difficulties of England In the Cape region. The annual review of the troops in and around Berlin was held last week by the Emperor, who appeared on horseback. Mr. Thomas Sexton, the most eloquent of the Parnellite members of Parliament, is about to proceed to Australia on an Irish patriotic miesion. He will be accompanied by the younger of the Redmond brothers. Dynamite explosions at London caused widespread alarm and Indignation. The police, says a cablegram, are completely baffled, and, for the first time ih the history of groat crimes In tho metropolis, have not even a theory to offer. In fact, they find themselvo3 to be a laughing stock. The public aro becoming hourly more restive and agitated over the apparent incompe tence of the police, and the wildest schomes of reprisals against Irish agitators aro mooted. The appointment of local vigilance committees on tho American Western plan is seriously discussed in .some hitherto very conservative quarters. Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, in a statement to European powers, asserts that Egypt is not able to support the present rates of taxation. The land-tax, he says, exceeds the value of the crop?. Long-continued drouths have had

a damaging effect on the crops in England. The farmers anxiously hope for rain. Xing Tawhiam, of the New Zealand Maoris, is on a visit to England to urge his recognition as King, so that he may be able the more successfully to prevent the New Zealand whites from grabbing the lands of the natives. It is mentioned in the dispatches as a remarkable fact that Tawhiam was sober on his arrival in England. At Lille, France, the car of a balloon containing twelve persons fell forty metres. Three were killed, and the remainder severely injured.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The steamship Yaquina reached Yaquma, Ore., and with a full cargo had no difficulty in reaching the wharf. The event has caused re’oicing throughout Central and Eastern Oregon. Yellow fever has broken out at Guaymas, Mexico. Because of the revenue-stamp tax five Mexican States have proclaimed war against President Gonzales. The Washington Post, a Democratic organ, announces that Samuel J. Tilden is not an aspirant for Presidential honors at the hands of the Democracy, and that he will not accept the nomination under any circumstances. The Directors of the Beading Boad, after numerous meetings, announced that the coupons on the consolidated bonds will be cashed at par. They then applied to the Circuit Court fora set of receivers, and H. CKelsey, Stephen N. Caldwell, Edwin M. Lewis and George De B. Keim were appointed In bonds of $500,000 each. Moody, the evangelist, announced at his revlva’ services in London, that the health of his colleague, Mr. Sankey, had again collapsed and that he would sail for the United States shortly. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grade trade, says the outlook for the wneat crop is more than usually promising. The sales of English wheat last week amounted to 50,351 quarters at 37s 7d, against 58,893 quarters at 43s 5d for the corresponding week last year. , Mr. Biddle, who was President of the wrecked Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, is in a critical condition of health. He states that the directors were interested in the oil pool which caused the collapse of the bank; that the fictitious accounts wore opened two years ago; and that the directors have recently appropriated $400,000 in stock and deposits which he left for depositors. In the Senate, on the 2d inst., with Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman, Logan, Hawley, and Allison in their seats, the greatest day’s work of the session was performed. Among the forty bills passed were those to bridge the Wisconsin, Chippewa, and St. Croix Rivers; making the cities of Tacoma and Seattle ports of delivery; for the relief of the Protestant Orphan Asylum at Nachez, and to enlarge to four ounces the newspaper limit of weight for penny postage to the general public. The House passed the legislative appropriation b.ll, with an amendment giving certain exemptions to distilleries. A bill was introduced to api ropriate $25,030 in aid of the Southern Exposition at Louisville and to admit exhibits free of duty. A resolution was presented calling for the names of persons with whom contracts have been made for supplies for the army or the Indians. Mr. Stewart, of Texas, introduced a bill authorizing the President to issue a proclamation carrying into effect the Mexican reciprocity treaty whenever he is satisfied that the President of Mexico has issued a similar proclamation. The legislative bill was debated and amendments reducing the number of internal-revenue districts to forty-three and the number of customs districts to sixty-nine were adopted by large majorities. An amendment abolishing Storekeepers at small distilleries was adopted by a vote of 118 to 74. Mr. Hlscock moved to suspend the rules on a motion favoring the abolition of the internal revenue tax on tobacco, on alcohol used for artistic purposes, and on fruit brandies. Pending a vote on the motion, the House adjourned. How often do men build better than they know. In Philadelphia a wrathful citizen hurled an iron bootjack from a fourth-story window, at a maddening organ-grinder, and knocked a Street Commissioner into the gutter. Thus, oftentimes, a noble aim will round out the humblest actions of our lives into a fullness of glory and merit that places us on easy and familiar footing with the angles. —Burlington Hawkeye. The Union Springs Advertiser tells of a widower of a few weeks only, who proposed to an old maid acquaintance with all the gush and fervor of his condition, setting forth the inducement of a fine house as the leading feature of his suit. But the o. m. had her opinion of the suitor, and replied: “And what on earth is the use of marrying a hog for the sake of his pen?”— Ex.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 8.50 @IO.OO Hogs 6.25 @ 6.00 FLOUR—Extra. 4.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 95 @ .96’$ No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.03 Col|N —No. 2 64 @ .66 Oa'is—Willie 40 @ .44 POBK—Mess • 17.50 @IB.OO CHICAGO. Beeves -Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 7.00 Fair to Good 6.00 @6.50 Butchers’ 6.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 6.50 @ 6.00 Flour— Fancy White Winter Ex 6.60 @ 6.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.23 Wheat—No. 2 Soring 87 @ .88 No. 2 Red Winter 1.06 @ 1.03 Coen—No. 2 54 @ .65 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .-34 Kye—No. 2 61 @ .63 Baulky—No. 2. 67 @ .69 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .19 Fine Dairy 14 @ .16 Cheese—Full Cream 11 @ .13 Skimmed Flat 06 & .07 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ .14 Potatoes—Peachblows 34 @ .36 Poek—Mesa 19.00 @19.25 LARD 08 @ .08^4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 95 @ .96 CQBN—No. 2 /?. .57 @ .58 Oats—No. 2 36 @ .38 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 89 @ .90 Coen—No. 2 65 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 81 @ .32 BABLEY—No. 2 62 @ .64 Poek—Mess 18.50 @19.00 Laud 8.00 @ 8.25 ST. LOUia Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.11 @1.12 Coen—Mixed. 62 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 S 2 @ .33 Rye 01 @ .63 Poek—Mess 18.00 @18.60 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.03 Coen 68 @ .59 Oats—Mixed. 34 @ .35 Poek—Mess 17.75 @18.25 Lard 08 @ .0854 DETROIT. Flour 6.60 @ 7.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.05 @ i.u7 Coen—Mixed 56 @ .59 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 34 @ .35 Poek—Mess 20.00 @20.50 INDIANAPOLia Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 @l.Ol Corn—Mixed 54 @ .65 Oats—Mixed 34 @ .35 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best. 5.75 @ 6.25 Fair. 6.25 @O.OO Common. ».8o @ 4.00 Hogs *.25 @ 5.60 BHKKP 4.26 @ 4.75

THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.

Tilden the First Choice of the Badger State Democracy. Kansas Democrats Indorse the Hew York Statesman and Revenue Reform. Wisconsin Democrats. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention for the selection bf delegates to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, met in the State House at Madison. The attendance was uncommonly large, nearly every district being fully represented. The gathering was notable for containing a very large number of old-timers, many of whom had not attended conventions for many years. It was almost a foregone conclusion that Tilden delegatee would be chosen; and although a strong effort was made by Mr. George, of Milwaukee, to get together a following for his uncle, Roswell P. Rower, of New York, the sentiment for the old ticket was overpowering, and the delegation is a unit. The convention was called to order by Judge L. B. Larsen, of Eau Claire, who in his speech took strong ground in favor of free trade. His remarks were received enthusiastically. Delegates were chosen as follows: At Large—William F. Vilas, E. S. Bragg, J. G. Jenkins, and J. M. Morrow. District Delegates—First, J. R. Doolittle and Aaron Rogers* Second, A. K. Delaney and Barney S. Patter; Third, D. S. Rose and R. M. Bashford; Fourth, John Black and and Charles F. Freeman; Fifth, A. L. Gray Carl Ziller; Sixth, G. W. Pratt and. George Kru ess* Seventh, J. W. Lusk.and J. L. R. McCollum; Eighth, W. H. Smith and G. Y. Freeman; Ninth, Alexander Brazeau and L. Marchite. The resolutions reafirm the principles of the platform of 1876, and denounce the present tariff levied upon 4,000 articles as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality, and false pretense, which has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few, degraded American commerce from a first to an inferior rank, cut down the values of American manufactures, depleted the returns of American agriculture, obstructs the process of production, and wastes the fruits of labor. It is also ieelared that the tariff issue is of first importance in the coming campaign, and the course of the Democratic members in Congress in endeavoring to bring about a reduction in taxation is indorsed. Kansas Democrats. The Democratic State Convention of Kansas, which met at Topeka, was the largest body of that complexion in politics ever held in the State, nearly every county being fully represented. J. T. Buriss, of Jackson County, was elected Temporary Chairman. In a brief speech he pronounced for tariff reform, and hoped the great political crime in 1876-7 would not be forgotten, and that the national convention would nominate S. J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks. This remark met with wild applause. The usual business committees were then appointed. The resolutions adopted indorse Speaker Carlisle’s position on the tariff, and denounce the present system of taxation, which imposes duties on the necessaries of life for the benefit of a few to the injury of the many. The resolutions also declare emphatically for Tilden, but do not instruct. Gov. Glick, the first Democratic Governor of the State, is also indorsed. The temporary organization was made permanent. Congressional delegates were chosen as follows: First, C. C. Burns and Ed Carroll; Second, B. J. Sheridan and W. C. Jones; Third, C. C. Black and A. Mathewson; Fourth, H. E. Norton and J. Mileham; Fifth, A. H. Martin and E. A. Hallowell; Sixth, John A. Schaffer and J. H. Schyler; Seventh, A. F. Petition and C. Diffendecker. Gov. Glick was then nominated for dele-gate-at-large, upon whidh the rules were suspended and the nomination made by acclamation. The Governor made a brief speech, in which he hoped the national convention would declare against sumptuary legislation. The other three delegates-at-Jarge are T. P. Fenian, W. C. Perry, and T. J. Hudson.

DEATH FROM CARELESSNESS.

Mining Engineers Pass on the Causes of the Pocahontas Mine Disaster. [New York Dispatch.] Stuart Buck, of Coolbaugh, W. Va.; J. H. Bramwell, of Eoanoke, Ya.; andE. H. Williams, Jr., of Bethlehem, Pa., a committee appointed to investigate the Pocahontas (Va.) mine explosion of March 13, submitted a report at the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. They reported “an exceedingly dry and dusty mine, the dust floating into the chambers,” was among the causes leading to the disaster. The ignorance of the under bosses in having unimportant doors tended while the main door was left fastened open during the night was another contributory cause. The. committee found that the subordinates were not only careless but failed to follow the rules of the company in reporting such a state of affairs to the Superintendent. It was found that powder had been carelessly used in blasting off from the solid without making the necessary under cuts. There was the bare possibility, in the committee’s estimation, of a very slight amount of fire-damp, as shown by the persistency of flame of blown-out shots, and When the smoke from the blast was subsequently ignited. No tiace of gas was found in any part of the mine before the Ventilation was resumed. Any of the causes named were harmless singly, but combined were sufficient to cause the explosion. Dust was the agent foi; extending the explosion. Had it been gas it would have been local. The mine was well ventilated, and the carrying out of the rules of the company by its employes would have spared tho necessity of investigation.

ITEMS.

Ferdinand Ward smokes cigarettes incessantly. The Comte de Brionte has been nonsuited in the Paris tribunal in his action for alimony, against his wife, Mme. Schneider, the actress. John Lawrence, who was Admiral Farragut’s pilot in the famous naval battle in Mobile Bay, died recently in the Mobile, Ala., poor-house. ’Dr. Louis J. Bischoff, who at one time was a practicing physician of North East, Pa., is said to be an assistant to the dentist of the Queen of England. Camels utterly wild may be seen on the desert lands at the head of the Gulf of •California, where they find a congenial home and multiply steadily. Consul Tanner gives a hint to the oleomargarine makers in the United States to the effect that they ought to brand their foods honestly and let the dairies make the utter. In Southern Spain 419 dwellings have been destroyed and 514 injured by floods.

SENATE AND HOUSE

Proceedings of the Federal i gress Boiled Down. Os the bill to grant the Cinnabar R* right of way through Yellowstone Park, 1 gan raised a breeze by detailing the enc ments made on the park, and by comp] that he had been incessantly lobbied in be this road by an official of the Interior D ment. Mr. Cameron reappeared upon tin after prolonged absence in Europe received congratulations. Mr. In gal trodneed a bill for the sal* lands belonging to the prairie ba Pottawatomies. Mr. Lapbam sub the majority report on the Danville riot, - ing that it was preconcerted by the Dem for the purpose of intimidating the n« Mr. Sanlßbury presented the minority rep the Copiah County murder, asserting tin investigation was originated to aid the Re cans in the Presidential canvass and pi furnish an exettsefor rejecting the electorii of Mississippi. During the debate on the bill for the suppression of polygamy Brown, of Georgia, made a sweeping i on the morality of the State of sachusetts and New England gem The House of Representatives passed a resolution appropriating an additional r. for the relief of sufferers by the overflow < ' Mississippi River and its tributaries. The! resumed the consideration of theWallae Kinley contested-election case. Mr. (Dem.) admitted that under the laws of the sitting member was not entitled to hi* and yet he believed Mr. McKinley had elected. He based his opinion upon th« that a number of illegal votes were for the Democratic candidate. Mr. FoHett culed the testimony upon which his coll based such an opinion. Mr. Mills believei cording to the law and facts of the case Mr. McKinley had been fairly elected, an lieved he would be less than a man it he al! party clamor to lead him to vote again convictions. Mr. McKinley, the contesteej a ten-minute speech in his own behalf, d yoked no technicalities, and declared thl did not want a seat which could be ret J only by Invoking them, but he asserted 1 conceding every technicality, he would I have an unquestioned majority of the I cast in the Eighteenth Ohio Disi The House proceeded to vote upon the mini resolution declaring Mr. McKinley entitle the seat. It was lost—yeas, 108; nays, 158.1 following Democrats voted with the Republl in the affirmative: Blackburn, Dorshef Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson, Thompson.® White (Rep.), of Kentucky, voted with® Democrats. The majority resolution sen Wallace was adopted without discussion! that gentleman appeared at the bar and E the oath of office. L The Senate, on the 28tli ult., took upL Mexican war pension bill, and struck on* proposed amendment to restrict its benefit those dependent on their labor or the as others. Mr. Hoar, with the avowed purpof killing the bill, moved to extend its provi* to ail Union soldiers of the late 1. In the House a bill was reported to forfeit! unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pa’ Road. The Legislative appropriation bill, ym reduces the internal revenue collection dis» from eighty-four to sixty-three, was consict for the remainder of the day and at the eves session. s In the Senate, on the 29th ult., a mem* was presented asking an appropriation of fa for the Southern Exposition at Louisville,o* count of Government exhibits. The rental* of the appropriation tor the Ohio River suffa was voted for the relief of citizens aft the Mississippi. The District of Cow bia appropriation bill was paw The Senate adjourned to Mont In the House bills were reported to ri late the exportation of imitation butter cheese, and to make $1,000,000 the limit for cost of the public building at Louisville, legislative appropriation bill was amende provide that there shall be but forty-three ternal revenue districts and sixty-seven toms districts. In this shape it was report* the House and the previous question orde when an adjournment to Saturday was take Thebe was no session of the Senate on 31st ult. In the House, with half the seat* cant, bills wepqj}a3Se4. granting right of through Indian Territory to the Southern I sas and the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Ro A resolution was adopted authorizing the C mittee on Indian Affairs to investigate leasing and fencing of lands in Indian Ti tory.

Mind Cures. 19 While Chicago is busied with grfl material enterprises, Boston is develß ing a new “ism” that is likely to crefl a good deal of attention. It is calfl the mind cure. Literally the people of that good city believe tB disease may be banished from the oafl by professing a belief in supernatufl agencies, and submitting to the persfl al magnetism of certain highly fl dowed men and women, who, by fl laying on of bands, can rid the afllicfl person of the ills he suffers from. Gfl N. P. Banks, the Rev. W. R. Algfl and a great many clergymen are sfl to be believers in the mind cure, isl eases of all kinds, it is claimed, are fl cause of a lack of faith. Fear, whfl is inverted faith, is one of the incitfl causes of physical ailments. Of coufl this craze is but the repetition of ■ old, old story. From the medicfl man in his wigwam, all through fl history of the race, certain religiofl mystical zealots have claimed that npfl is so far superior to matter as to be afl to control it. The power to heal t 9 sick is regarded in many countries, ■ it has bten in all ages, as a warr<9 from the Most High to prove the trt9 of certain theological dogmas. It 9 however, surprising that so 9 telligent a community as that 9 Boston should give acceptance to so <9 a superstition. It is, nevertliele* true that the imagination has much I do with the fancied ailments of nerve* people. Many hundreds of thousanl of human beings think they are sfl when all they really need is some sti! ulus that will set them to work, I some absorbing pursuit that will tal them out of themselves. When onl energies are directed outward instel of inward there is no time for broodrl over fancied ailments. This is all the! is in faith cures or mind cures.— Dem oresi’s Monthly.

The editor of a scientific month! asks for correct drawings of a “TornaJl at Work.” A man who went home t other night and found his wife readii a letter signed “Your Own Julia which she found in his inside 00 pocket, has made a sketch of the “su sequent proceedings,” which he w send to the scientific editor.— Ex. The following ages have, on the a thority of a skillful arborculturist, be* attained by trees: Yew, 3,200 year sohubertia, 3,000; cedar, 2,000; oa 1,500; spruce, 1,200; lime, 1,100; Oriel tal palm, 1,000; walnut, 900; olive an cypress, 800; orange, 630; maple, 50< elm, 300. “Oh, don’t propose to me now, shrieked a Philadelphia girl as h< lover dropped on his knees and seize her hand. “Don’t pop the questio now, ” she screamed; “don’t, don’t, don’ If I sav yes you’ll want to kies me, an I’ve been eating onions. ” How natural it will be for Ja Gould to sing out on his new yachi “Bear down on the bull works!” The Mississippi civil-service law shul saloon-keepers out of office.