Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — Page 2

® I) e iicmocraticSentintl RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Touching Gen. Grant’s malady, the following appeared in the Medical Record (New York) last Saturday: There have been so many sensational stories concerning the precise character of tne disease of Gen. Grant’s tongue and throat, that it will be gratifying to his many friends to learn that all the more serious and alarming symptoms connected with them have virtually disappeared. It was one time feared, in professional circles, at least, that the ulceration of the tongue and sauces were dependent upon a malignant disease, not an uncommon occurrence at his time of life, as a result of local irritation from a troublesome tooth. The focus of the trouble on the side of the organ, usually the site of a cancer, and the induration of the base of the sore were ominously confirmatory of such suspicion. We are gratified to learn from his attending physician that all these signs of epithelioma have passed away; that the ulcerated surfaces have healed, and that the adjoining tissues have regained their natural suppleness. There is now remaining only a small excavation in the neighboring tonsil, such as sometimes results from follicular inflammation of the part. * * * IVhatever may have been the cause of the disease, it is a matter for congiatulation that all fears of grave complications are lor the present at an end, and our ex-President is spared an affliction the bare contemplation of which would be distressing in the extreme. Six physicians from Bombay have arrived in New York and will remain there to battle the cholera if It should make its appearance the coming summer. Russell Sage was acquitted in New Yora of the charge made against him by Jonathan S. Purdy of the larceny of certain bonds. Horace B. Ferren, Deputy Postmaster of Batavia, N. Y., killed himself with a revolver in a coal-shed. It was soon learned that a special examination of the accounts of the office is being made by inspectors, who have already discovered a shortage of $2,000.

WESTERN.

A petroleum well, gushing twentyfive barrels an hour, has been struck in Dallas, Wyoming. Bray Bros., San Francisco commission merchants, failed, with $500,000 liabilities. Lawrence Spoyde & Co., bankers at Pierceton, Ind., failed for $45,000. The wine house of C. Cavaroc, Son & Co., in Chicago, was seized by a Deputy Sheriff on confessions of judgment. The liabilities aro $93,05 ), and the stock and accounts are valued at $105,000. The Cavarocs have been engaged in the wine business in New Orleans for more than a century. The late S. S. Merrill, of Milwaukee, left an estate valued at $775,000. The will gives the widow the homestead at Grand Haven, SIOO,OOO In cash, and a liberal income besides. Two sisters and a brother of deceased will receive SSOO annually, and his children are to have the income from the bulk of the estate. / Mrs. Mack, who was convicted of murdering her husband at Janesville, Wis., sentenced to life imprisonment, and granted a new trial, has married the principal witness against her and thus rendered him incompetent to testify. On the Palouse River, Washington Territory, a desperado named Calvin Pierce quarreled with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb, and subsequently crept up behind him and split his head epjn with a pickax. The murderer tied, but an alarm was given, and he was speedily captured. A vigilance committee, composed of miners, tried Pieroe, condemned him to death, and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left suspended some time, but was finally buried. A stock train on the Alton Road was wrecked at Sag bridge, near Chicago, by a broken rail, killing one hundred head of cattle. The great spectacle of “ Zanita ” has entered upon Its fourth week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. The dancing of Senorita Bella, the premier of the troupe, has created a perfect furor among Chicago theatergoers. The Tribune says of her: “A more graceful, soulful, and joyous dancer has seldom before visited this country; and none been with mjjcg urymimous praise. Tl is not that she accbmpi'lsnes particularly difficult oi startling feats, but it is her natural perfection of motion that in the delight of its abandon captivates pttpntion and makes what is extremely artliicfal appear to be the embodiment of ease. With such gifts as hers united to will-power and intelligence there is no reason why she should not become another Taglioni or Elssler.” Las Vegas (N. M.) dispatch: “Later reports from the murder of Don Miguel Mon tano and wife at their ranch at Lasnariss are to the effect that Jose Gallegos, a ranchero and desperate character, killed Montano and his wife in a fit of insanity*. After assuring himself his victims were dead he went to his own home and cut the throats of his entire family—a wife, two daughters, and a young son." Farmers in the Edwardsville (III.) section report the winter wheat plant very badly damaged by the cold weather. A well at Bay City, Mich., has been sunk to a depth of. 2,620 feet, With favorable indications for salt. An infernal machine is reported to have been found in a dwelling at Sturgis, Mich. The fuse had been lighted, but failed to burn. A three Peeks’ Methodist revival at Decatur, 111., resulted In 400 convert?. The Baptists have made ninety conversions. Farmers in the vicinity of Grand Haven, Mich., report finding in the woods great numbers of frozen tobins. George Q. Cannon, one of the Mormon leaders, adds his testimony to that of others from Utah that the Edmunds law has bred such insecurity that business is almost at a standstill, and no one feels safe from prosecution. There are 16,700 skilled laborers unemployed in Cincinnati. One-fourth of the boaworker* are idle, one-third of the build--I

era. and one-half of the carriage and furniture makers. The total number of men out of work is estimated at 30,000. In the District Court in Chicago, after atrial lasting fifteen days, the jury convicted J. C. Mackin, W. J. Gallagher, and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating election frauds, and acquitted Henry Biehl. Motions were promptly entered for a new trial. Mackin and Gallagher were held in $20,000 each, and Gleason in SIO,OOO.

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Bony, 96 years of age, living alone near Falmouth, Ky., barred the door and windows of her bouse, started a blaze, and perished therein. In Hawkins County, Tennessee, James Reynolds put kerosene on the heads of his three children, to kill vermin. Two of the little ones died, but the third survived. The steamers Ida Darragh and City of Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharfboats were burned at Memphis, the losses aggregating SIOO,OOO. John Chaffee’s Sons, cotton factors, at New Orleans, ask an extension from their creditors. They owe $633,816, and have assets of $1,763,614. Gidiere/Day & Co., cotton factors at New Orleans, ceded their property to their creditors. Their liabilities amount to $112,328, with assets of but $494,800. Valuable silver discoveries have been made in Ritchey County, West Virginia, and it is asserted that the Baltimore and Ohio Road ballasted its track four miles through the mountains with silver quartz. Bob Johnson, a negro boy, who assassinated a citizen near Princeton, W. Va., was taken from -fail by a mob, tied to a tree, and riddled with bullets. Babe Ellison, a negro who outraged Miss Polly Francis, was hanged by a mob at Shelbyville, Tenn., the home of his victim. She was found by neighbors in an unconscious state, but recovered and identified her assailant. The Adams Express Company lost $250,000 by the recent accident on the Virginia Midland Railroad. All of their Southern money safes were on the train, and the fire was so Intense as to melt the gold and silver In transit. In McDowell County, West Virginia, and the territory adjacent citizens and live stock are said to be starving, on account of the failure of crops last summer. This region Is 103 miles from a railroad. Marshal Gardner and Deputy Manning were shot near New Braunfels, Texas, the former fatally. They were taking James Pitts and Yeager to the penitentiary to serve life sentences for postoffice robbery, when the prisoners turned upon them with pistols, killing the former • and mortally wounding the later. A woman passenger was hit by a stray bullet and dangerously wounded. The desperadoes jumped from the train and fled. Pitts was overtaken and killed one hundred yards from the train. Yeager, his accomplice, was pursued eight miles and shot dead.

WASHINGTON.

A report has been made by the Committee on Naval Affairs concerning the charges brought forward by Dr. Collins of Minneapolis to the effect that his brother, Jerome B. Collins, was inhumanly treated by certain officers of the Jeannette expedition. The committee decides that the charges have not been sustained. The Secretary of the Interior refused to reinstate the land entry of John Talbott, because it would give him possession of the water supply of Cheyenne. Secretary McCulloch last week decided the case of Mohr & Mohr, a distilling company of Lafayette, Ind., which claimed $151,000 taxes upon 3,606 barrels of whisky destroyed by fire in their warehouse in 1881. The Secretary abated tho raxes and ordered the warehousing bonds canceled. Mrs. Raymond, wife of the Hon. John B. Raymond, delegate in Congress from Dakota, died at Washington last week. The completion of the Washington Monument was celebrated at the national capital with great rejoicing on Saturday, Feb. 21. The dedicatory ceremonies commenced at 10 o’clock in the morning. Gen. ’Sheridan and staff were followed to the grounds by militia companies from Boston, Charleston, Hartford, Richmond, and Philadelphia, which were organized from 1638 to 1793. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee led a division of Masonic bodies. Addresses were delivered in the open air by Senator Sherman, W. W. Corcoran, Col. T. L. Casey, and President Arthur. In the Masonic ceremonies of the District Grand Lodge the gavel used was one held in the hands of George Washington Ju luting the corner-stone of the national capitol. (5n £he return march from the monument the procession was reviewed by the Pres|dgnt. In the afternoon, in the hall of the House of Representatives!, Johp Long read the oration of Robert G. Winthrop, and John W. Daniel delivered an eloquent address.

POLITICAL.

The first general ballot for United States Senator was reached in the Illinois Legislature Feb. 18, there being but two absentees. John A. Logan received 101 votes; W. R. Morrison, 94; E. M. Haines, 4; James H. Ward, 1; Frank Lawler, 1; and John Smith, 1. The resolution for submitting a prohibitive amendment to the people has passed both houses of the Michigan Legislature. The resolution to submit to the people the question of licensing the liquor traffic was defeated in the Ohio House. A bill punishing those who attempt to commit suicide, by from six months to five years’ imprisonment, has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature. A constitutional amendment has been passed by thh California Assembly providing that railroads shall pay a tax of 2% per cent, on their gross earnings. The Illinois Senate passed a joint reeo.ption indorsing the Edmunds bill to place Gen. Granton the retired list, but the House sent it to a special committee to insert the name of Fitz John Porter. Every member of the Illinois Legislature participated in three ballots for Senator on Feb. 19, the result in each case being the same. John A. Logan received 100 votes and W. R. Morrison 94, the remaining 10 votes being scattered among seven persons. Representative MacM. Ilan voted steadily for Andrew Shuman. Representative O'Shea, who is from an iron district, bolted Morrison's

nomination because at free-trade views. Representative Sittig refused to vote for Logan, and supported E. B. Washburne. There were three ballots for United States Senator in joint session of the Illinois Legislature at Springfield, Feb. 20. On the first ballot Logan received 100 votes and Morrison 95. On the second 100 votes were cast for Logan and 97 for Morrison. Logan received 101 votes on the third ballot and Morrison 98. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says: ‘‘There Is great excitement over the Senatorial election at Salem, Ore. Night before last the joint convention of the Legislature adjourned without electing a Senator on the sixty-eighth ballot. The customary forty days of the session having expired the Democrats declared that the Legislature was adjourned. The Republicans, however, having a majority of both houses, passed a resolution continuing the session.. The Democrats were angry, and determined in caucus to quit the city in order to break the quorum of two-thirds. Saturday another joint session was held, at which but few of the L'emocrats were present. There was no quorum, but the Republicans proceeded to vote, declaring that a majority was sufficient to elect a Senator. There was no result, however, the votes being widely scattered."

MISCELLANEOUS. The Marvin Safe Company’s factory at New York was burned, tenements adjoining being badly damaged, and the occupants driven, half-naked, into the streets. The loss is $230,000, and 250 men are rendered idle. The Mansion House at Boston and the Passenger Hotel at Mendota, 111., were also destroyed, the loss on both houses aggregating SBO,OOO. The Union School building at Howard City, Mich., was swept away, entailing a loss of $26,030. There is an ice bridge across Niagara River, extending into Lake Ontario for two miles. A Toronto dispatch chronicles the failure of William Thomson & Co., hardware and crockery merchants, with liabilities of $2504300. Mr. Francis S. Drake, a well-known literary man of Boston, dropped dead in the Tremont House at Washington. He was a member of the Boston Light Guards; and was with that organization at the dedication of the Washington monument. A fire in the business portion of Philadelphia destroyed $125,000 worth of property. A fire broke out in the residence of John A. King, while the family were sleeping in the upper apartments. Means of escape were cut off, and Mr. King and two servants were burned to death. A toy 5 years old, who was dropperl by his mother from the fourth story on a mattress, was killed. A girl 3 years old was seriously injured in being dropped from tne same floor. Miss Hamilton, a sister of Mrs. King, was killed in attempting to jump from the upper story. At Huron, D. T., the opera-house and other buildings were consumed by fire. The Cardiff Giant, which was on exhibition at the opera-house, was destroyed. As it crumbled away, the giant disclosed large iron rods projecting from his limba At New Britain, Conn., a fire starting in a livery-stable spread to the surrounding buildings and destroyed $200,000 worth of property. The insurance covers $125,000 of tHis amount. A fire at Texarkana, Ark., destroyed $20(3,000 worth of property. A fire starting in Schiff Bros.’ building, Charlotte, N. C., destroyed over $60,000 worth of property. Grace Howard, a disreputable woman, was lying helplessly drunk in bed at the time, and was , fatally burned. -Stanton, Mich., was visited with a $25,000 fire, sixteen frame buildings being destroyed. The Robertson Block, at Danville, Va., burned. Loss on buildings, $30,000; on merchandise, $55,000, with insurance about covering the losses. An incendiary firo at Anderson, Ind., caused a loss of $12,00(3.

A west-bound passenger train on the West Shore Road collided with a freight train at Canajoharie, N. Y., demolishing three locomotives. Two persons were killed. Railway stock valued at SIO,OOO was destroyed. Six persons were killed by an explosion of gas at Wellsburg, W. Va. Two trains on the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad collided near Tollgate, W. Va., killing five men. An express train on the Ohio and Mississippi Road ran into the rear end of an accommodation train at Delhi, Ohio, in j uring a large number of passengers, suburban residents, but none fatally. The New York ex. press on the Bee Line jumped the track at Lockland Station, near Cincinnati. Max Flieschman, of New Y’ork, is reported fatally injured. A train on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Road was ditched near Arrowsmith, 111. None of the passengers were seriously Injured,

FOREIGN.

In case of an agreement between England and Italy upon a plan of operations in Africa prompt measures are contemplated by the Italian Government to give ettective aid to the British in the Soudan. Gen. Ricci will take command of the Italian contingent. There is a general feeling of alarm in England in consequence of the Government order calling out the militia and suspending transfers of officers from the regular army to reserves. Gen. Buller has been hemmed in at Abu-Klea Wells, and it will probably be necessary to send strong re-en-foroements to his rescue from Korti. The retreat of Gem Buller from Gubat was rendered necessary by a concentration of the Mahdi’s forces against him. It is believed that the British Government is preparing for a long campaign in the Soudau. The quantity of ammunition and projectiles now in process of manufacture at Woolwich Arsenal for transportation to Egypt is greater than during the entire period of the Crimean war. The Scots Guards, on leaving London for Egypt, were compelled to force a passage through the cheering crowds in the streets. The Prince of Wales, in the uniform of the organization, made a brief address at Westminster Bridge. Gen. Briere de I’lsle- promises the French Government that when his troops number 12.00 J men, to which they will be increased very shortly, as re-enforcements are already on their way, he will expel every Chinaman found within the borders of Tonquin, and 010, o the frontier by means of a cordon of soldiers. Great anxiety is felt in England as to Gon. Buller’s position at the Abu Klea Wells. Special dispatches state ho is hemmed

in by hordes of Arabs, and apparently the only alternative before him is slaughter or starvation. The War Office admits his critical condition, but expresses the belief that he will be able to retreat to Gakdul with most of his troops. Orders have been sent to the Chatham Naval Department for 20,000 shrapped shells to be shipped to Suakim within ten days. A large number of cutters and steam launches fitted with rifled mortars, guns and rockets have been ordered constructed, and will be conveyed with Gen. Graham’s expedition from Suakim to Berber for use on the Nile.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Governor Moody, of Oregon, thinks that he shall appoint a successor to Senator Slater, but will not do so until next December, unless an extra session of Congress is summoned. Gen. Horace E. Capron, ex-Commis-sloner of Agriculture, died at the National Capital from the effects of a cold contracted while attending the dedication ceremonies at the Washington Monument. At Hersher, 111., forty farmers who needed coal helped themselves to about thirty tons from Illinois Central cars. A fierce storm raged in Southern Kans s last week, snow falling to a depth of twelve to fourteen inches. A passenger train on the Hlinois Central which left Bloomington on the 16th reached Kankakee, consuming on account of the blockade 168 hours in running eighty-six mi’es. Near Indianola Junction, lowa, a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train Jumped the track, the passenger coach plunging down a low grade and resting on its roof. Six passengers were slightly wounded. Lionel Levy, a prominent grocer of New Orleans, was killed on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain by stumbling upon his gun. Oil speculations are responsible for a defalcation of $50,000 or more by Edward Vogely, book-keeper of a savings bank at Butler, Pa. The remains of Rev. D. W. Cahill, the Irish patriot, which for twenty years have reposed in a cemetery at Brookline, Mass., were last week escorted to a steamship at New York by the Bixty-ninth Regiment and the Papal Zouaves, for transfer to Ireland. The cases against Frank James, the bandit, at Booneville, Mo., were dismissed on motion of the prosecuting attorney, and there are no other charges pending against him in Missouri. P. P. Lespenasse, of Harverstraw, N. Y., has just paid an election wager by carrying a pig and a rooster to Washington. He expressed himself as beinggreat'y pleased at the manner in which the people treated him along the route. The fowl and porker together weighed ninety pounds. In a debate in the House of Commons Sir Stafford Northcote lashed the British Ministry with stinging invectives, and said that General Gordon’s character towered grandly above that of th? cravens who left him to his fate. Mr. Gladstone sat throug'i this excoriation pale with rage, and writhed under the applause which greeted Sir Stafford Northcoto’s points. His reply was full of vigor, but, as a defense of the Lite-al party, it was thought to be a failure. Resolutions authorizing the Indian Com•mittee to continue its investigation regarding the leases of Indian lands during the recess of Congress and calling upon the Secretary ot the Interior tor information in regard to the progress of Indian education, were agreed to in the Senate on Feb. 23. The bill to quiet the titles ot settlers on the Des Moines River lands -was passed by a vote of 31 t 024. It now goes to tho House. The postotice bill being taken up, the House provision requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to bid in com etltion with private parties for the manufacture of postage stamps, postal c rds, and stamped envelopes was stricken out, as was also the provision for an extra ten-cent postage rate on letters intended for special expedition in delivery. Mr. Frye offered an amendment appropriating s'oo,ooo for the transportation of foreign mails. After a long discussion, in the course ot which bitter attacks werfe made upon the proposed “donation" to the Pacific Railroad kings, the amendment was agreed to by a vote of 20 to 18. A resolution was offered in the House of Representatives instructing the Foreign Affairs Committee to investigate the alleged discriminatipn by Germany against American products, and report whether alike discrimination should not be adopted by the United States against articles imported from Germany. The Senate’s amendments to the Texas Pacific land-grant forfeiture bill and the anti-foreign contract labor bin were concurred in. Mr. Perkins introduced a bill to open the Oklahoma lands to homestead settlement. The naval appropriation bill was amended by an item ot $1,780,000 for th? completion of a steel cruiser, in which shape it passed. Mr. Randall's scheme for the construction of a naw was killed on a point of order, the Chairman ruling that it was new legislation, and that it did not retrench expenditure.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 @ 7.00 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.00 Wheat—Na 1 White 91 & .92 No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2.. 53 @ .54% Oats—White 38 @ .41 Poke—New Mess 14.00 @14.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 7.00 Good ShipMfig. 5.50 @ 6.00 Common to Fair 4.00 © 4.75 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.50 Floub—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 4.00 @4.50 Prime to Choice Spring 8.50 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 37%@ .38% Oats—No. 2 27 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 G 3 @ .65 Barley—No. 2..°.. 63%@ .65% Butter—Choice Creamery 29 @ .32 * Fine Dairy 18 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13 Skimmed Fiat 08 @ .09 Eggs—Fresh 27 @ .29 Potatoes—New, per bu 48 @ .52 POBK—Mess. 12.75 @13.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 77 @ .77% Corn—No. 3 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 39 © .81 Rye—No. 1 65 @ .67 Barley—No. 2 54 @ .55 Pork—Mess. 12.75 @13.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2 Red 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ .87% Corn—Mixed. 37 @ .38 * Oats—Mixed .29 @ .30% Rye 64 @ .66 Pork—Mesa 13.25 @13.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red >. 86 @ .87% Corn 44 ,@ .46* Oats—Mixed.... 33 @ .35 Pork—Mess 13.25 ©13.75 _ DETROIT. Flour *.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 87 @ .88 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .44 Oats—Na 2 White. 32 @ .81 Pork—Family 12.50 @13.00 _ INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 82 @ .84 Corn—Mixed 40 @ .41% Oats—Mixed 30 @ .31 „ BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Spring 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 47 @ 48 Oats—No. 1 36 @ .36 „ ~ EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 6.75 @ 7.50 Fair .. 5.75 @ #.50 Common 4.75 « 5.50 g OQa - 5.00 «l 5.60 ► 4.50 •M 0

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Anti-Foreign Contract Labor bill passed the Senate Feb. 18, by a vote of 50 to 9. Briefly summed up, the measure forbids the importation of aliens into the United States on contract to perform labor. All such contracts are declared nu’l and void, and punishment is provided for violaton of the law embodied in the bill Exceptions are made in favor of artists, actors, lecturers, singers and domestic servants. A bill was introduced to set aside the St. Clair flats in Michigan as a hunting and fishing reserve. The Committee on Indian Affairs reported a bill to enable the President to negotiate for the opening of Oklahoma, providing a penalty of fine and imprisonment for entering upon the lands without authority of law. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill to appropriate $•’0,009 for the improvement of the Missouri River opposite Nebraska City. Emery Speer, of Georgia, was confirmed United States District Judge of that State by a vote of 26 yeas to 25 nays. All the Republicans except Mr. Hale of Maine voted for him and all the Democrats except Mr. Brown ot Georgia voted against him. The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the erectipn at Chattanooga of a public building to cost SIOO,OOO. Considerat on ot the river and harbor bill was resumed. Mr. Potter opposed the Hennepin Canal provision on the ground that it would benefit the State of Illinois alone Mr. Reed .“poke against the Mississip i River appropriation. He said that the improvements, if carried out on the plan proposed, would cost $156,000,000. The pending amendment offered as a substitute for the Galveston harbor paragraph was ado; ted. It appropriates $500,c00 for the improvement of the harbor and directs the harbor board to examine the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements and report to the Secretary of War. A report was submitted to the House by the Elections Committee on the Missouri contested election case of McLean vs. Broadhead, accompanied bv a resolution confirming the right of the sitting member. Broadhead. to his seat. The House bill forfeiting lands granted to the Texas Pacific Road passed the Senate Feb. 19. Fifty-six Senators voted for and only two —Blair and Bowen—against it. Despite the efforts of the obstructionists, all amendments which militated against the effectiveness of the bill were vote! down. It declares forfeited all lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company under the act of 1871, and repeals the act of 1875 "for the relief of settlers within railroad limits.” V. hile the bill was under discussion there was a sharp interchange of amenities between Senators Beck and Morgan. Mr. Beck made some severe remarks about the difficulty of getting any legislation inimical to the railroads through the Senate, and reflected particularly upon Senators on the Democratic side. Mr. Morgan took this as personal to himself, and replied that he had always tried to do his duty unawed by public clamor. He had not tried to earn applause by making himself conspicuous on the popular side of every question, regardless of right and wrong, and, as he had been a Democrat longer than the Senator from Kentucky had enjoyed the privileges of American citizenship, he did not intend to take any lessons in Democracy from that gentleman. The Scotch have often been accused of Intellectual inertia, and Mr. Beck took this allusion to his being a naturalized citizen as an affront. There is no doubt Mr. Beck is proud of “cakes and brither Seo's," but he appeared to be exactly the reverse, for he excused himself lor being born in Scotland by saying that he had no chance to exercise his choice in regard to the place'of his nativity, and he declared that Mr. Morgan's allusion to his b rth in Scotland was very unworthy of him and unworthy of the Senaite. He added, loftily, that in what he had said before he had no thought of the Senator from Alabama. He did not think the Senator from Alabama was so important a person as that gentleman thought that he vAs. In the House of Representative i Speaker Carlisle took the chair for the first time since his recent sickness. He was welcomed back with hearty applause. Consideration of the river and harbor bill being resumed an amendment was adopted Increasing the appropriation for the Improvement of the Mississippi River, between the Ulinois and Ohio Rivers, from S4(K’,OOO to $600,0110. An amendment was also agreed to providing that no portion of the Mississippi appropriation shall be expended in repairing or building levees, unless for the purpose of benefiting navigation. Several hours were spent in committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bilL A letter from the Secretary of War concerning the estimated cost of the new lock for the Sault Ste. Marie Falls Canal in Michigan was laid before the Senate Feb. 20. It is estimated that the lock will cost $1,253,400, and additional improvements for deepening the canal, etc., $355,685. A memorial from the Illinois Legislature was presented urging Congress to acquire the ownership of the ship-canal connecting the waters of the Keweenaw Bay with those of Lake Superior, and to make tire canal free lor the commerce of the lakes. The Committee on Agriculture reported favorably with amendment the House bill for the protection of forests on the public domain. The Des Mornes Biver bid was further considered, and several amendments offered by Mr. Lapham were rejected. Tbe agricultural appropriation bill was parsed substantially as it came from the House. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information whether the subsidized Pacific roads are operating their telegraph lines in the interest of the public. Notwithstanding the recommendation of the Appropriations Committee against it, the Senate decided by a vote of 33 to’lß in favor of the House amendment reducing the postage upon drop tetters to two cents an ounce. The House of Representatives passed three bills for public buildings, appropriating SIOO,OOO for Council Bluffs, $50,000 for Clarksburg, and $1,000,006 for Louisville. When the river and harbor bill came up, the friends of the measure, to expedite matters, yielded to the Mississippi River clause. The Chair ruled that the Hennepin Canal paragraph should be stricken from the bill on the ground that the subject came properly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Railways and Canals. Mr. Henderson, of lowa, appealed from the decision. The naval bill was discussed at length. Mr. Long called the navy “an alphabet of wooden washtubs,” and said that scarcely a nation was so poor as to do it reverence. People, he said, laughed at the navy and relished the sinking of the Tallapoosa by a coal barge as a Falstaffian burlesque. Very little business was transacted in Congress on Feb. 21, the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Washington Mqnument occupying the attention of Senators and Representatives. The Senate held a brief session, which was devoted exclusively to the postoffice appropriation bilL The House did nothing in a legislative way.

Prudent, Even if Tipsy.

During the war Brown was a train dispatcher at Memphis, and one evening prior to taking hold of his key he chanced to meet several jolly companions, and by lingering with them managed in some mysterious way to get a rabbit’s foot into his pocket, or, in other words, imbibed too much sour mash. The consequence was, that when he found himself at his post of duty f he had sense enough to realize that it was impossible for him to direct the movement of trains on the road during the night. The more he endeavored to find a way out of his dilemma the more fuddled he became, until at last he grew indignant, and, after side-tracking all the trains on the road, he closed his oft ce and went to bed. The trains remained on the sidetracks all night, waiting for orders to move, while the respective crews shook their fists and howled in their profanity. The next day Brown was discharged.—San Francisco Argonaut. Said a man who had made himself, and thought that he had turned out a pretty good job: “When I was a boy I so thirsted for knowledge that I worked all night to buy books, and then got up before daylight to read them.” Dickens never allowed himself to be called grandpa. A man may readily pass for 25 years old, if he happens to hit noon the right scheme. The pet aversion of a Japanese is the fate of being buried at sea.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Senator Foulk introduced a ooncurre: resolution in the Senate, Feb. 19, providing f such an amendment to the Constitution would give women the right of voting at Sta and national elections. With some amendznen the Senate passed the deficiency appropriate bill. The union depot bilL after a long debat was passed. Mr. Willard brought up his res, lution to change a Senate rule so as to pe mit a majority instead of a two-thirds vote take up any business out of the regular ord* and the consideration of the same was postpoi ed. The usual batch of petitions on oleomarg rinc, militia bills, intemperance, gravel road and dog-tags were presented. In the Hous bills were Introduced allowing manual trainii schools in c ties of over ten thousand inhabi ants; legalizing barbed wire fence. An amem meat to the Constitution was read the Hr time, concerning the compensation of membe of the Gen- ral Assembly to be fixed by law. All that the session must be restricted toone hundn d* y9 -.The appropriation was partly considers The House passed a bill 'which places colon and white children on an equality in the puhl schools, and defeated McHenry's bill providii a uniform system of text-books not to 1 changed oftener than once in six years. Tl vote by which ’ he bill was passed fixing railros fares at two and a half cents a ml e was lecoi sidered. President Smart, of Purdue Un versity, submitted a long rep rt of tl condition of the State agricultural institutio When the Legislative apportionment bill can up for consideration the Republican membe filibustered. The minority report signed by tl Republicans, substituting the present law f the proposed law, was laid bn the table by vote of 57 to 39—Messrs. Lloyd, Reeves. Kellso and Smith of Warrick voting with the Republ cans, and Messrs. McHenry and French, wl voted with them the previous day against tl apportionment bills, going back to their par associates. The majority report, recommen ing a bill to take 101 of the 150 districts f the Democrats, was adopted by the sat vote and the bill ordered engrossed. Tl following protest from tbe Republican side w sent up: “Air. Speaker: We protest against tl hien-handed and summary action of the majo itv on this floor in applying the infamous ga law in the disposition ot the minority reports < House apportionment bills Nos. 422 and 4! thereby absolutely throttling the minority this House and suppressing free speech and d bate in the Indiana House of Representatives < a subject of so much importance as r. dis trie til the State for Congressional and Legislative a portionment." The Speaker, after striking o the word “infamous," allowed the protest to . on the record. The rest of the day the genet appropriation bill was under consideration committee of the whole. The deficiency appropriation bill, with few amendments, passed the Senate Feb.! Mr. Wiers’ bill requiring corporations and firt to pay their employes at least once a month w passed. The Senate bill for suspending impri onrnent in cases ot felonies and misdemeano pending an appeal from the court convicting t defendant was called up and debated at gre length and finally tabled. The consideration Senator Foulke’s bill for instruction in schoc on the effects of alcohol and other narcotics ai stimulants was made the order of t' day. There was a majority and a minor! report. The minority report said that the b was useless, because “the baneful effects alcohol were made visible in all reading of boo: and newspapers; also becahse it would give a few teachers who are temperance fanatics enthusiasts an opportunity to give lheir ov interpretation of the law, and lead to distur ances and commotion in the public schools.” motion to lav th ■ bill on the table resulted in tie vote. Senator Magee, in the chair, gave t.; casting vote in the negative, so the bill was n lid on the table. After much discu slon it was finally postponed indefil Itely. In the House of Representativ a joint resolution was introduced pr posing a change in the State Constitutio fixing the limit of the r gnlar session at fit days. Under a suspension of the rules N Frazier’s bill to legalize wire fences was pass, by a hare constitutional majority. The 8 preme Court has held all such fences to be ill gal, and the bdl cures that defeat. The Cor mittee on Temperance recommended the 1 definite of all tne measures their hands, which includes Mr. Staley s pr posed constitutional amendments, Mr. Besl bill for a local option law, and Mr. Akins' b to prevent wagers of drink and the practice treating in saloons. No minority reports we made. The Railroad Committee reported favor of the passage of twh bills in their hanr and the indefinite postponement of six, amoi which was the bill providing lor the ajipou ment of a Railroad Commissioner. The Co? mitree on Prisons submitted a lengthy repo of the results of th -ir dbservations at the ti I stitutions, which is altogether favorable both of them. The recommendations madea only for appropriations for suggested improv ments and changes. Tne Senate bill providii for an additional loan of $600,000 was passe The bonds cun be placed at 3% per cent. A concurrent resolution by Senat Foulke for an amendment to the conetituti Increasing the number of Supremo Court Jndg from five to seven, was introduced in t Senate Feb. 21, and referred to the appr priate committee. The Judges of the Snprei Court sent in a communication requesting th the Legislature appropriate SSOO per annum 1 the insurance of the law library in the sum $20,006 for the period of three years. Senat Schloss introduced a substitute bill approprii ing $75,000 per annum to the State Norm School. A fruitless effort was made to pi it under suspension of the rules, and it w sent to the Committee on Education. Aco current resolution was introduced instruc ing Congressman to vote against a restfiotii of the coinage of silver money. The Hon amendment of the bill tor refunding the Sta debt was concurred in. The amendment relat only to the times of payment of interest. Sen tor Sellers’ bill, to make valid the sale of r< estate by councils of cities, was passed under suspension of the rules. In the House message from the Senate announced th that body had concurred in the Hou amendments to the S6uO,OOJ tempera loan bill, and that it had been se to the Governor for his signatm The special order, the general appropriate bill, wa- postponed, and bills on second read!: were taken up. The Best resolution, proposi a constitutional amendment giving to worn' the right of suffrage, was reported back by t Committee on Rights and Privileges, wit out recommendation, and was order engrossed by the House by a vote of 36 16. Mr. Engel’s bill compelling all railroad coi panies to fence their roads wherever they n through improved lands, within six montl was taken up, with a majority report recoi mending its indefinite postponement and minority report recommending its passage, motion to lay the latter on the tai was defeated yeas 10, nays 59 and lengthy ' discussion ensued. The majorl report was ultimately adopted, and the bill thus amended was ordered engrossed. Mr. B worth introduced a bill to amend the liquor li providing that licenses to sell liquors shot not be granted by County Boards to any pers not a resident of the county. Speaker Jew announced that during the remainder of 1 session members could not obtain leave of 1 sence, unless by a majority vote.

Self-Depreciation.

When you meet a Scotch farmer ri ing a huge horse of' seventeen han< and remark to him what a grand ai mal he has got: “Yes,” is the huml reply, “it’s a nice powny.” We depi ciate ourselves and our belongings, € pecting to be appreciated. You remei ber the lady described by Hann More, who frequently declared that h sins were grievous and innumerab At length her husband, thinking comfort her, said that she was vexii herself unduly. She was not so ba No doubts he had her faults. Whereu on the penitent, with intense bitterm and self-assertion, burst forth in ac monious tones: “And pray what a they, sir?” Indeed, she added mu more, which may be found in the pro er place. But this was the keynote. Longmans’ Magazine. When a young man attempts to p his arm around a girl, she can repu him politely by telling him to "wa not, want not.” In the height of the peach season t daily receipts in New York City oft run as high as 200,000 baskets. , Left-handed penmanship is- n< taught, it is said, in a. number American schools. The wine oup Is the lather ofeln; and i whisky ju» is the «t«p Unther.