Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — Page 2

® fje ScmocraticScntincl ■ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher,

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. O’Donovan Rossa is preparing a manifesto, and is also planning a lecture tour. At a recent conference at the residence of W. H. Vanderbilt in New York, at which George B. Roberta, Dr. Hostetter and George M. Pullman were present, arrangements were made for harmonious relations between the Pennsylvania and South Pennsylvania Roads, and the ultimate acquisition Of the West Shore Road by the New York Central. A special dispatch from New York, based on what is claimed to be reliable mod' leal authority, says: Notwithstanding the rose-colored report of Gen. Grant's health recently given in a medical journal, the truth is Gen. Grant is a very sick man, and his death is apparently not far distant. The public have no conception of the shattered condition of hi* physical system. It is hoped the affection of the tongue may not prove fatal, but there is, as yet, no appearance of its not developing a malignant and fatal disease. Although somewhat- better now than some weeks ago, the enlarged and inflated tongue continues, making it painful to speak or swallow fluids, the only nourishment he can take. In addition to this malaay Gen. Grant is a terrible sufferer from neuralgia, and it seems to have taken possession of his whole system. He has had most of his teeth drawn to lessen the neuralgic torture, and his injury in the hip, caused by his fall a year ago, is still a source of very great suffering and forbids physical exercise. It is a fact that should no longer be concealed from the country that Gen. Grant is rapidly breaking down and apnarently without hope of reaction, and unless there should be some unexpected relief, he will not be long among the living. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad freight house, with several adjoining buildings, was destroyed by fire at Albany. The burnt district covers some acres. It is said that agents of American and foreign dynamite societies have been experimenting in a secluded valley near Huntingdon, Pa., the results of their investigations being the perfecting of a destructive machine of great power which can be timed with the utmost nicety. At the Court of General Sessions in New York City, Richard Short, who stabbed Capt. Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa*s office, pleaded not guilty. His bail was increased from $3,003 to $5,000. Mrs. Dudley, the woman who. shot Rossa, was held in SSOO bail. A plea of not guilty was also entered In her behalf.

WESTERN.

Wallace Waterman, convicted of I grave-robbing at Geneva, 111., was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Dynamiters destroyed the house of Neal Shanks at Nashville, Ohio. The outrage is the upshot of a local feud. The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, in appealing to wealthy citizens for funds to continue Its work, reports that in point of destitution this winter is the worsts in the history of Chicago. Two Chinese laundrymen at Bloomington, 111., committed suicide with opium, becoming despondent because they bad cut off their queues. A new and rich discovery of lead ore has been made by Stephen Klais, a German miner, on land three miles east of Galena. Hl. A decision has been rendered by the Attorney General of the State of lowa that State Oil Inspectors must brand all oil inspected with its actual quality. Inspectors have been recently in the habit of rejecting all oil not up to the test of 100 degrees, and branding the rest with that figure, whatever its quality might be. It is thought that the decision will cost the Standard Oil Company $500,000 annually. Thomas Nevins, ex-Mayor of Adrian, and a fugitive from justice, has disappeared from Port Townsend, W. T., where he was known as John B. Voorhees. The petition of a Chinese artist of Chicago to be allowed to adopt a white babe was denied by Judge Prendergast, for the reason that the child would not receive suitable education and nurture. •Two passenger trains on the Illinois Central Road were telescoped by a freight train near ‘Chebanse, IIL, where they had stopped on account of a broken track. John A. Mclnnes, of Ingersoll, Ontario, was instantly killed. Among the eight persons injured were Capta n James Dalton, Rev. J. M. A. Brown, and Dr. Isabella Mitchell, of Chicago. While at work at Lafayette, Ind., Edward Burkhalter, a teamster, became suddenly and incurably blind from the glare of the snow. At Toledo, Ohio, the Toledo and Indianapolis Railroad was sold to Francello G. Jillson, of Woonsocket, R. 1., acting in behalf of the bondholders, for $150,000. Gen. C. R. Woods was found dead in bed at his home in Newark, Ohio. Wdrkmen at various shops scattered along the Wabash Road have struck because of an increase in the hours of labor or a reduction in wages. Gas with a pressure of twenty-five feet to the inch has been discovered in a well bored for water on a lot adjoining* the Dayton Railway depot in Cincinnati. Lloyd Breeze lost $17,000 in Detroit since Christmas by publishing the Evening Times, which suspended last week. In Madison County, Illinois, winter wheat has suffered seriously from the intense cold. One farmer reports that 200 acres of his crop has been killed. Forty thousand brook trout, destined for streams in Grant County, Wisconsin, were frozen to death while in transit from the State hatchery. A financial cyclone struck St. Louis last week, resulting in two heavy suspensions on the Merchants’ Exchange. B. W. Lewis and E. M. Samuel & Sons were crowded to the wall by a break in May wheat. A plot to rob the State Treasury of Nebraska became known at Lincoln early in February. One day last .week three men stepped to toe cashier's window in the State

House, presented pistols at the bead of Deputy Bart’ett, and took S4OO in coin. As they walked away, a detective fired at them, and killed one named James Griffin. Alva McGuire was captured, and the third party escaped. The robbers named had each previously killed his man, but escaped conviction on the plea of self-defense. There are suspicions that the affair was a clever job engineered by local detectives solely to secure reputation. The revolver of one of the alleged burglars was found to be loaded with blank cartridges only, and there are other suspicious circumstances in connection with the affair.

SOUTHERN.

William Hanna, aged 80, was mur dered near Knoxville, Tenn., and his son is suspected of the crime. Mrs. Frazier, aunt of President Arthur’s deceased jvife, and mother of Agnes Herndon, the actress, died at St. Michaels, Md. Warehouses at Norfolk, Va., containing 2,450 bales of cotton, were destroyed by fire, the losses aggregating sl4 7,000. Keen & Hagarty, wholesalers at Baltimore of tin and japanned ware, have made an assignment, the trustees' bond being placed at $400,000. The liabilities are placed at $350,030. Before quitting Port Townsend, M.T., Thomas Navin, the absconding Mayor of Adrian, Mich., raised a small amount of money by a forged check. He had reached San Francisco before his absence was discovered, and is supposed to have gone to South America. Dr. J. H. G. Rogers, whose death occurred at Madison, Indiana, raised a company of volunteers for the Texan war of independence, and fought with them throughout the struggle. Near Smith’s Mills, Union County, Ky., Mose Caton, aided by his sons, took out his wife and hanged her. A posse came to arrest the Catons, but they resisted, when four of them were shot, a son and daughter probably mortally. An attempt was made to take the five prisoners from the posse, but it failed. In the case of the State against the murderers of A. H. Murphy at New Orleans, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against Pat Ford and Policeman John Murphy, and manslaughter against Judge Thomas J. Ford, W. H. Caulfield, and Thomas. Buckley. Thos. J. Nevin, ex-Mayor of Adrian, Mich., who absconded in 1882, was arrested at New Orleans last week. He did not attempt to conceal his identity, and consented to return to Michigan without a requisition.

WASHINGTON.

The findings of the court-martial in the case of Judge Advocate General Swaim and the sentence as formally approved by President Arthur have been made public. The court finds Gen. Swaim guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and sentences him to suspension from rank tor twelve years on half-pay. The Senate Committee on Railways has received a letter from' Charles Francis Adams, stating that the Union Pacific would be seriously injured by the construction of a railway from Sioux City to a point west of the 101 th meridian, for which a charter is now asked from Congress. The National Theater at Washington wa3 entirely destroyed by fire, together with some small buildings In the rear. The scenery, properties and wardrobe of the Wallack Company were consumed. Manager Rapley says his lose is $150,000, upon which there is $40,000 insurance. The House Committee on Military Affairs report that there is a shortage of $211,023 In the accounts of Gen. Butler as one of the managers of the soldiers’ homes, Gen. Slocum, one of the members of the House Committe on Military Affairs, admits that there is a serious discrepancy in the accounts of Gen. Butler, but believes that all can to easily explained when the proper time comes.

POLITICAL.

Hon. Robert E. Logan, a Republican Representative In the Illinois Legislature from Whiteside County, fell dead in the State House at Springfield, while climbing the stairs to the Assembly chamber on the 26th 'ult. When the joint session was held for a Senatorial ballot, the announcement was made that both political parties had agreed to have no decisive vote until March 3. An election to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Logan's death has been ordered by Governor Oglesby for March 21. Very few Government officials at Washington will resign until they are asked to do so. Some take a hopeful view of the situation and think that, while all active partisans and appointees purely political will have to go, valuable and experienced men will be retained. Following is the reply addressed by Mr. Cleveland to the silver-coinage advocates in Congress: To the Hon. A. J. Warner and others, members of the Forty-eighth Congress: Gentlemen, the letter which I have had the honor to receive from you invites and, indeed, obliges me to give expression to some grave public necessities, although In advance of the moment when they would become objects of my official care and partial responsibility. Your solicitude that my judgment shall have been carefully and deliberately formed is entirely just, and I accept the suggestion in the same friendly spirit in which it has been made. It Is also fully justified by the nature of the financial crisis which, under the operation of the act of Congress ot Feb. 28, 1878, is now close at hand. By compliance with the requirements ot that law all vaults In the Federal Treasury have been and are heaped full of silver coins which are now worth less than 85 per cent, of the gold dollar prescribed as "the unit of value" in section 14 of the act of Feb. 12, 1873, and which, with sliver certificates representing such coin, are receivable for all public dues, beinz thus receivable, while also constantly increasing in quantity at the rate of $28,000,000 per year, it has followed of necess ty that the flow of gold into the Treasury has been steadily diminishing. Silver and silver certificates have displaced and are now displacing gold, and the sum of gold in the Federal Treasury now available for the payment of the gold obligation of the United States and for the redemption of United States notes called "•greenback," if not already encroached upon, 1b perilously near such encroachment. These are facte which, as they do not admit of difference of opinion, call for no argument. They have been forewarned to ns in the official reports of every Secretary of the Treasury from 1878 till now. They are plainly as-

firmed in the last December report of the I present Secretary of the Treasury to the Speaker of the present House of Representatives. They appear in the official documents of this Congress, and in the records of the New York Clearing House, of which the Treasury is a member, and through which the bulk of receipts and payments of the Federal Government and the country pass. These being the facts, our present condition, our dancer, and our duty to avert that danger, would seem to be plain. I hope you concur with'.-me and with a great majority of our fellow-citizens, in deeming it most desirab'e at the ’present juncture to maintain and continue in use the mass of our gold coin as well as the mass of silver already coined. This ia possible by the present suspension of the purchase and coinage of silver. I am not aware that by any other method it is possible. It is of momentous importance to prevent the two metals parting company, to prevent increasing displacement of gold by increasing the coinage of silver, to prevent the disuse of gold in the custom-houses of the United States in the daily business of the people, to prevent the ultimate expulsion of gold by silver. Such a financial crisis as these events would certainly precipitate, were it now to follow upon so long a period of commercial depression, would involve the people of every city and every State in the Union in prolonged and disastrous trouble. The revival of business enterprise and prosperity so ardently desired and apparently so near would be hopelessly postponed. Gold would be withdrawn to its hoarding places, and an unprecedented contraction in the actual volume of our currency would speedily take place. The saddest of all, in every workshop, mill, factory, store, and on every railroad and farm, the wages of labor, already depressed, would suffer still further depression by the scaling down of the purchasing power of every socalled dollar paid into the hand of toll. From these impending calamities it is surely the most patriotic and grateful duty of the representatives of the people to deliver them. lam, gentlemen, with sincere respect, your fellow citizen. Gboveb Cleveland. Albany, Feb. 24. The Michigan House has passed a bill to renew the death penalty for murder in the first degree, and a majority of the Senators are pledged to the measure.

MISCELLANEOUS. * The yacht Atalanta, with Jay Gould and party on board, has reached Havana. A marked improvement has taken place in the coke trade, and 70 per cent, of the ovens controlled by the Pennsy vanla syndicate are now in operation. Residents of the City of Mexico have forwarded $150,000 for the sufferers by earthquake in Spain, and the citizens of Vera Cruz subscribed $9,0J0. The electric lighting interests of the United States were represented in national convent'on at Chicago by over one hundred delegates. A letter from Mr. Parnell urging immediate action on the establishment of the parliamentary fund was read at a meeting of the Irish National League at New York. The failures reported for the past week in the United States were 270, of which 85 per cent, were petty traders. Stephen Clarke, afflicted with hydrophobia, was lodged in jail at Picton, Ontario, where he took every opportunity to tear and bite his own flesh. The Mexican customs receipts for January show- an increase of' $700,003 over the preceding month. The Central Railway is carrying large amounts of American corn to the capital. The Legislature of British Columbia has passed a bill, to take effect within two weeks, imposing upon Chinamen attempting to enter that province a fine of SSO or imprisonment for six months. The death is announced of ex-Gov. Beriah Magoffin, of Kentucky; ex-Gov. Patton, of Alabama; Rear Admiral George H. Preble, of the United States navy; John A. Bean, of Boston, General Eastern Agent of the Burlington Road; Alonzo Flack, D. D., principal of the Hudson River Institute; Mrs. Malinda Evans, of Vincennes, Ind., the oldest woman In that State.

FOREIGN.

Knubley, an English journalist who is supposed to have concocted the reports of the Irish dynamite convention said to have been held in Faris the 23d ult., has been arrested on the charge of trying to shoot the editor of La France, who accused him of fabricating the story. Commenting on the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to the Emerald Isle, United Ireland says that if the Dublin Castle flunkies organize mock demonstrations of enthusiasm they may rest assured there wHI be counter displays whieh will overshadow any demonstrations Earl Spencer may inaugurate. Gen. Briere de I’lsle is building a railway from Chu to Langson. Five thousand fresh soldiers have joined his army. Col. Strangeways, Commandant of the Royal School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness, England, and Col. Lyon, head of the Government Laboratory at Woolwich, died in consequence ot injuries caused by the accidental bursting of a shell in the course of some experiments at Shoeburyness. Each had both legs blown off. Capt. Adams, Sergeant Dakin, and a gunner named Underwood have also died from Injuries received at the same time. The British House of Lords, by a vote of 189 to 68, adopted Salisbury’s motion to censure the Government for its course in Egypt. The House of Commons, by 302 to 288, rejected a similar proposition by Sir Stafford Northcote. The British Cabinet after a council of nearly five hours decided to dissolve Parliament soon after the passage of the redistribution bill. Advices from Durban report that a contingent of 5,000 Zulus is to be organized for service in the Soudan. * A million dollars has been sent by the Italian Government to Massowah for the purchase of camels. This is thought to indicate that Italy Intends to take steps for the relief of Kassala. Lord Granville has opened correspondence with the Powers with a view to securing a joint pro est against the proclamation issued by France declaring rice contraband of war, which, it is urged, is in direct violation or the resolutions adopted by the Congress of 1856. Ten thousand people were present at a mass-meeting in Phoenix Park, Dublin, to protest against the action of the Speaker of the House of Commons in suspending O’Brien, editor of United Ireland and mem-

ber of Parliament for Mallow. Fiery speeches were made and the prompt reinstatement of O’Brien demanded. The Lord Mayor, who presided, declared that be would haul down the flag on the Mansion House upon the arrival of the Prince of Wales, and that be would oppose vigorously any attempt to strike medals commemorative of the royal visit to the Emerald Isle. Dispatches from Pekin report that the chief dignitaries of ths Chinese Empire have been summoned to give an opinion as to the expediency of continuing the war with France.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William H. Vanderbilt recently paid a New York banking firm $9,000,000 for sufficient West Shore bonds to control the road. 6ne hundred thousand cattle are ready to take the trail north from Southwest Texas if the quarantine laws of other States will permit their passage. • During the season ended March 1, 385,435 hogs were packed at Cincinnati, against 365,451 the preceding season. W. R. Lemon, a student in a medical college at St. Louis, killed himself because he failed to pass the final examination. Gen. Francis Darr and other Californians have tendered Gen. Grant and his family, as a loan, a large bearing vineyard in the State, which would be conducted by a skilled viticulturist, with a residence and necessary outbuildings. All the expenses of the General and his party to the Pacific coast would be paid, the Central Pacific Road guaranteeing to send special cars to New York for their conveyance Westward. Albert D. Gihon, son of a medical director in the navy, was cowhided in Washington by W. A. L. Gresham, son of Judge Walter Q. Gresham. The latter was arrested. An order has been issued by the President of the United States throwing open to settlement the lauds included in the old Winnebago and Sioux or Crow Creek Reservations in Dakota, with the exception of certain specified tracts. It is rumored that war is imminent between England and Russia. Negotiations between the two powers regarding the Afghan frontier have reached a delicate stage. Russia has made such sweeping demands that England cannot accept anything approaching them. It is said that the British will occupy Kabool as soon as possible, and the Ameer of Afghanistan has teen ordered to have the road cleared from Herat to Peshawar to facilitate the march of the troops. A medical inspection of every regiment in the British army is now in progress, and the Devonshire Regiment and Seaforth Highlanders have teen oi dered to India. Queen Victoria has taken a hand in the Anglo-Rus-sian complication, and has conveyed an intimation to her Cabinet that any Minister who opposes a vigorous maintenance of her imperial rights will soon find himself without a portfolio. The Cabinet is fully aroused to the gravity of the situation, ana recognizes the fact that England’s protectorate in Afghanistan is seriously menace!. Some sharp messages are said to have been exchanged between London and St. Petersburg. A recent sortie by the British garrison at Kassala, which has been defending the town for a year against the Mahdi, resulted disastrously, twenty-eight officers of the garrison and 630 privates being killed.

The Senate, in considering the sundry civil appropriation bill, on the 2d inst.. Inserted an item of $2,790 to reimburse R. B. 1 ayes for the expenses of a political commission sent to Louisiana in 1877 to pave the way for the recognition of Nicholls as Governor. The committee amendment reducing from #160,000 to $75,000 the amount to be paid for the Foit Brown Reservation was non-concurred in, and th' larger amount was retained. Mr. Aldrich offered a joint resolution requesting the President to open negotiations with foreign Powers with a view to securing an agieement to the free coinage of silver with full legal-tender power. In the House of Representatives the naval bill was reported with the Senate amendments, some of which were agreed to and otheis nonconcurred in. New conterrees were accordingly appointed. Mr. Mills moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution to the effect that inasmuch as the Inaugural Committee had declined to give Representatives in Congress their proper place the House would refuse to take any part in the ceremony March 4. The motion was defeated by a vote ot 55 yeas to 188 nays. At a meeting of the House Expenditures Committee Representative Springer’s report of the result of the investigation of the conduct of United States Marshal Lot Wright at the Ohio October election was agreed to by a party vote sto 4. The report was to the effect that Democratic voters had been intimidated at the polls. A minority report was rendered condemning the action of the committee and declaring that no evidence had been presented during the investigation whtch in any manner warranted the conclusions embodied in the report.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Mr. Foulke’s civil-service bill came up in the Senate Feb. 25, was read a third time, and defeated by a vote of 23 to 19. Senators Bailey, Hoover. Magee and Peterson were the Democrate voting in favor of the bllL The following bill, were read a third time: Relieving railroads from liability for damages tor animals killed in certain cues, passed; approving a contingent fund of s>,ooo per month to be used by the Supennteudent of the Insane Asylum. for current expenses, passed; prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age in mines and lactones. Un the last named measure the vote was, yeas 25, nays 15, so that it failed for lack of a constitutional majority. Mrs. Josephine R. Nichols addressed the House in support of the Stalev bill providing for scientific instruction in the public schools on the effect of alcohol on the human system. She spoke earnestly for fifteen minutes, and was attentively listened to. The Hous?, during the day, passed the measure by a vote ot 54 to 39. The following bills were recommended for passage in the House : Supplemental to an act authorizing the sale of lands ; providing for the construction of bridges over railroadsestablishing the Indiana weather service; providing fire protection at the insane hospital; abolishing all distinctions of race and color made in the laws of the State: creating the Forty-eighth judicial circuit; in relation to assessments for gravel and macadamized roads; providing tor the re-election of a Reporter of the Supreme Court; regulating the incorporation of cities and defining their powers; providing for the erection of fish ladders; authorizing the dissolution of the Eastern Indiana Agricultural, Mechanical and Trotting Park Association; establishing provisions respecting private corporations. Bills prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age In mines and factories; extending the benefit of the mechanics' lien law to farm hands: to enable municipal corporations to hold and purchase real estate for sanitary purposes outside city limits; concerning election of Justices of the Peace and their powers; and to amend the drainage laws, were passed by the Senate on the 26th ult. Mr. Youche’s bill to prevent townships from appropriating money to build railroads was defeated. Senator Mayer said there were eighteen east-and-west lines centering in Chicago which crossed Indiana Not six of them were paying affairs, per so they derived their profit by forcing paying roads into a pool. Meanwhile the townships that had taxed themselves to build such roads under the impression that freights would be reduced by competition had been deceived. The joint resolution proposing a woman-suffrage amendment to the constitution was defeated bv a vote of 25 to 22. In the House several new biljs were introduced.. A resolution was introduced, which was adopted, authorizing the appointment of two Representatives and one Senator to call the attention ot the Legislatures of other States to the importance of securing a uniform system of laws on the subject of marriage and divorce, and to consider the propriety ot holding a convention to frame such laws. The legislative apportionment bill passed after a long discussion. The House c> mmittee to investigate the affairs of the Knightstown Soldiers’ Orphans’ Asylum reported officially that the chargee preferred bv Supt. White against John M. Goar, a Trustee of the institution, were true and proven, and recommended the immediate removal of Goar and White.

Mr. Atkins’ bill to divorce the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home from the Institute for Feeble-Minded Chilren, and appropriating $50,000 for the erection of a new building, was defeated in the Senate on the 27th ult, by the close vote of 23 to 22. The following bills were passed: The militia bill, appropriating SIO,OOO lor uniforms and equipments and putting the militia on a satisfactory basis; to reorganize the State Board ot Health, adding one member. Empowering cities and towns to levy taxes for building bridges. The bill appropriating SIO,OOO to Mrs. Sarah May, for services rendered by her late husband as architect of the new State House, was defeated by a vote of 22 to 26. Subsequently, however, the vote was reconsidered and the bill passed. The special committee apt ointed to investigate the accounts of Senate officials reported that Secretary Kelly and Assistant Hofstetter had been carrying on the pay-rolls more employes than were allowed by law, and that they have overdrawn the amount of the money due them for the entire session. Mrs. Josephine Nichols addressed the Senate (by Invitation) on the necessity of the passage ot the bill for the education of school children on the effects of alcohol and other stimulants. In the House the special order was the second reading of the Senate bills, and the reports of the House committees on them were cone urred in without opposit on. A large number were in this manner advanced to third reading, the only important amendment to any being that of Mr. smith, of Tippecanoe, which incr ases the pay ot court stenogra hers from $5 to $6 a day. The Committee on Ways and Means made a majority report favoring the passage of Senator Magee's bill ior the continuance of the work on the three new insane hospitals, and appropriating $z50,000 for the current year, $338,000 for 1886. and $40,100 for their maintenance up to F eb. 1, 1887. Mr. Gooding, from the committee, made a very long minority report. In which he recommended a continuance of the work on the Evansville asylum and an appropriation of $190,000 therefor, and that the work on the Richmond and Logansport buildings be stopped at once, the mater.als sold, and the contractors indemnified for anv loss they might sustain. The minority report was laid on the table by a vote of 46 to 22, Mr. Shively's bill for the regulation of the practice ot medicine was discussed, and various amendments were offered, but all were laid on the table at the request of tne supporters of the bill, who urged the fa t that it would never become a law if amended this late In the session. The following Senate bills were indefinitely postpon'd: Amending the common schools act ; providing for the probating of wills or recording copies thereof in other counties; providing funds for the expenses ot county Institutes. Mr. Magee's bill authorizing fore ign surety companies to do business in the State on the same terms as insurance companies, ana empowering State and county officials to accept such surety as bonds, passed the Senate on the 28th ult. Huffstetter, Assistant Secretary of the Senate, resigned, and John D. Carter, ot Orange County, was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. Gen. Manson then said he regretted exceedingly that he had signed the warrants for pay in advance of some of the clerks and officers whose conduct had been the subject of inquiry. Senator Smith, of Jennings, presented an illadvised resolution, to the effect that the Senate exonerated Lieut. Gov. Manson from all complicity in the irregular pt actives which had become common, but Foulke and Youche for the Republicans, and Magee and a halt a dozen other Democrats at once rejected it. “Exoneration,” they said, “implies suspicion, and the Senate has the most implicit confidence in its presiding offlesr.” A resolution was introduced instructing the Attorney General to take steps for the recovery ot all moneys illegally drawn by employes of the Senate. The Democratic caucus bill for Congressional and Legislative apportionment were introduced. The Senate bill regulating the public printing of the S.ate was brought up, and witn it was read the message from Gov. Gray on the subject. The bill and message were referred to a committee. Senator Hilligass’ bill allowing municipalities to purchase lands for sanitary purposes outside of the corporate limits, and legalizing all such purchases already made, was read a first time and referred, the House refusing to suspend the rules to finally dispose of it. This bill is general in its operation, but is thought to have especial reference to legalizing the purchase of the Sellars farm by the city of Indianapolis. The House th< n took up bills on third reading. The most important of them was one providing that when a person is acquitted on any criminal charge on the sole ground of insanity, that fact should be set forth in the verdict, and the court should upon this finding order him to be sent to the insane asylum and kept there until further orders, without any formal insanity proceedings, and also providing punishment for persons who are accessory to the fact, after .the crimes bill has passed. The insane hospital bill was passed, appropriating $225,000 for next year, and $285,0u0 for th • following year. There were only two votes in the negative. Mr. Helms introduced a bill prohibiting street railway com- ] anies from working their employes more than twelve hours a day. The British drink bill for 1883 foots up $628,386,375. Tho quantity aggregates 1,032,142,158 gallons. This would make a lake a mile long and a mile wide, with a depth of thirty-five feet, or sufficient to float men-of-war. The highest-priced clock in America is owned by a Wall street broker in New York. It cost $34,000, and was made in that city. Canon Farbab will visit the United States next autumn.

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. Mr. Allison submitted a conference report to the Senate, Feb. 25, ou the army appropriation bill, and said that the conferrees had agreed as to all differences, except tboee relating, to courts-martial in time of peace. The House provision, he said, so amended the ninety-fourth, article of war as to enable courts-martial tocontrol the hours of their own session. An animated discussion concerning the Swaim court-martial ensued. Mr. Hoar said that persons inferior in rank to the accused were sometimes fbuua in such courts, and that such persons might have auersonai interest in the decision of Theoretically, the Judge Advocate was an impartial officer, but in fact he was a vigilant prosecutor, who regarded a conviction as a personal triumph. Mr. Ingalls thought that the proceedings subsequent to the Swaim courtmartial were a disgrace to civilization. Mr. Sherman said that the great evil Connected with courts-martial was the Judge Advocate. Mr. Hoar declared that he saw no reason in time of peace for the existence of oourtsmartiaL Mr. Ingalls said that what had been done in the trial of the Swaim case would not ■ be permitted under Russian tyrannyor Turkish despotism. Gen. Swaim, he said, had been Enrsued with a revengeful malignity ever sinceis appointment to office. Th s persecution was due to the jealousy of West-Pointers. Mr. Conger spoke in the same strain. The wholeaffair, Mr. Conger averred, was a mockery of justice. Mr. Hawley denied that any such jealousy existed between volunteer officers and graduates of West Point. The Senate insisted! upon its amendment striking out the Houseprovision permitting courts-martial to control their own hours ot session, and the conference committee was reappointed. A bill was reported in the House of Representatives by the Committee on War Claims making an appropriation for the payment of Fourth of July claims. The Senate bill was passed withamendments appropriating $l(X),oeo to pay certain citizens for supplies furnished the Sioux, and Dakota Indians in Minnesota between 1860 and 1862. Consideration of the river and harbor bill was resumed, and continued till late in the ■ evening. When the silver bill came up in the Senate, on the 26th ult.. Mr. Sherman declared that the--Government rested under no obligation to give the trade dollar preference over silver bullion.. Since the coinage of standard silver dollars com- . menced, the market value of silver bullion had been steadily declining. The exportation or~ hoarding of gold would contract the currency so sharply as to shock every hamlet in the country. The best remedy for threatened evils would be an international agreement to maintain the free coinage of silver aZ afixed ratio. Mr. Beck said he would give no President the power to strike down silver coinage. Mr. Hill argued that the expulsion of gold would give an increased value to the silver and paper in circulation. Mr. Coke remarked thatthe suspension of silver coinage would itself contract our money supply by* $50,000,000 a vear. No action was taken by the Senate. Mr. Hoarintroduced a new Pacific Railway funding bill. The House bill to provide a fireproof building to contain the medical library of the army was passed. In the House of Representativesthe conference report on the army bill was adopted. An agreement was reported on all amendments except that relating to the hours during which courts-martial, may hold sessiona, and a further conference was ordered. Mr. Cobb moved to suspend the rules and. take from the Speaker’s table the bill repealing the pre-emption and timber-culture lawsHe said that no greater evil had been done tothe future of the country than had been done through these laws. Mr., Converse asserted that more fraud had been committed under the homestead laws. Mr. Valentine said that he voiced the sentiments of the people of the West in protesting against the repeal of the timber-culture laws. The demand fortheir repeal, he said, came from the railways and cattle kiffgs. The motion to suspend the rules was lost. Mr. Randall moved tosuspend the rules in order to consider the sundry civil bill for four hours, the time to be devoted to debate on the clauses relating to silver suspension and the New Orleans Exposition. The motion was lost by a vote of 118 yeas to 149 nays, Mr. Randall finally moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, with the silverclause stricken out, after two hours’ debate on. the New Orleans proposition. This was agreed to, and after further discussion the bill went, over. The naval appropriation bill, with an item, of $112,000 for the purchase of the torpedo-boat-Destroyer from Mr. Ericsson, passed the Senate Feb. 27. A bill also passed for the sale of theSac and Fox reservation in Nebraska and Kansas. On a bill to grant a pension of SSO per month, to the blind and penniless daughter of ex-Presi-dent Tyler, the vote showed that no quorum waspresent. In executive session. Francis E. Warren was confirmed as Governor of Wyoming. An hour was spent on the nomination of E. A. Kreidler to be Marshal of Montana, the Wisconsin Senators, opposing the removal of A. C. Botkin, and noaction was taken. The House of Representativ< s passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, with an item of $300,000 to pay indebtednessand premiums of the New Orleans Exposition. • Mr. Losecrans reported a bill for the retirement, ot Maj. Gen. H. G. Wright. A bill was passed appropriating $5,0(10,035 to be expended by the Secretary of War in improvements at Galveston, and for continuing work along the Mississippi River. A communication from the Attorney General, stating that the deficiency bill as passed by the House insufficiently provided for the expenses of juries, etc., in the United Statescourts, was read in the Senate on the 28th ult. The report of the conference committee on the agricultural bill was agreed to. The House substitute for the river and harbor bill, appropriating a gross sum ot $5.1.00,000, was referred to the Commerce Committee. Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to prepare a bill suspending the coinage of the silver dollar. He asked unanimous consent to an immediate consideration of the re-olution, and requested permission, to read Mr. Cleveland’s letter on the subject. Objection was made and the matter went over. The House bill forfeiting the Sioux City and St. Paul land-grant was taken up and discussed at some length. The Senate passed the House bill providing . for the erection ot public buildings as follows: AtAberdeen, Miss,, not to exceed $75,000; Clarksburg, W. V ~ $50,000; Wichita, Kan., $50,000; Port Townsend, W. T., S7OJX-O; for the Appraiser’s office, Chicago, $50,000. Also abill increasing to Siuo.ooo the appropriation for a public building at Louisville, Ky. In the House of Representatives Mr Anderson offered an amendment to the rules providingthat the Appropriations Committee shall report all general appropriation Bills nb-., later tha i May 1. during the long session nor later than Feb. 1 during the short session. The conference reportstn the agricultural and army bills were adopted. The postoffice appropriation bill wastaken up and most of the Senate's amendments were concurred in. An exception was: made, however, against the amendment relative to the compensation of American steamships foncarrylng the mails, and a new conference was appointed. The naval b.ll was referred, to the Appropriations Committee The fortification bill was passed, thus disposing of the last, of the appropriation bills. In tne course of debate, Mr. Horr, of Michigan, expressed his approval of every line of Grover Cleveland’s letter on the silver question. The House Committee on Foreign Aft airs submitted a majority report, finding no sufficient reason why the United. States should participate in the Congo conference. The President signed an order throwing open to settlement the greater part of theWinnebago and Crow Creek reservations, comS rising 6 O.fXio acres, lying east of the Missouri, iver and south of Pierre. President Arthur issued a proclamation calling upon the Senate toconvene March 4 for the transaction ot business. The friends of silver in the House of Representatives held a conference, and decided to make a formal reply to the le'ter ot Presidentelect Cleveland. They deny that the continued! coinage of $28,000,000 per annum in standard silver will force gold to a premium or drive itout of circulation. They contend that, in order to preserve a stable ratio between the money volume and population, an annual increase of $40,000,000 in currency of some kind is required. In Sweden young girls place under three separate cups a ring, a coin, and a piece of black ribbon. If the ring ia first accidentally exposed she will be married Within the year; if the money,, she will get a rich husband; if the ribbon, she will die an old maid. It is a favorite amusement among the young girls in Russia to conceal their fingerrings in small heaps of corn on the floor. A hen is brought in, which at once begins to peck at the tiny heaps of grain. The owner of the first ring exposed to view will, according to popular belief, be married before her companions in the experiment Journalists in India are excused from jury duty.