Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — Page 2

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. II llfc J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. ■■ • EASTERN. As the result of a domestic misunderstanding, Dr. Morits Richter shot and killed Prof. 8. Clark Smith, a public school principal, at Middleville, N. Y. The murderer is Imprisoned at Herkimer. The New York Chamber of Commerce, as a special tribute of respect, elected Chester A. Arthur an honorary member. Charles A. King, teller of the Orleans County National Bank, shot himself fatally in a doctor’s office at Lockport, N. Y. His accounts were found to be all right. He informed the Coroner that he committed the act because he didn’t wantto live any longer. Dr. Albert G. F. Goerson was hanged at Philadelphia for poisoning his wife, nearly five years ago. The following bulletin in regard to Gen. Grant’s health is telegraphed from New York; There is no longer doubt tnat the General's malady has assumed an alarming form. Dr. Donglas thinks there is no reason to expect any Improvement of a permanent character. The great danger lies in the loss of strength incident to the difficulty of giving him nourishment which he can retain on his stomach. The retching which food induces aggravates the terrible agony he suffers from his malady. At such times not even cocaine is powerful enough to neutralize the pain. The recent prostration following the reception of the news from Washington, which was necessarily exciting and bracing, indicates how little strength the General has. The disease itself, too, has come to the surface at other points, indicating that it has been progressing rapidly within the past few days. The diseased tissue lies in such a place that the knife can not be used, and there is no hope of prolonging the life of the distinguished patient beyond a few weeks. Only a few of the most intimate friends of the family are admitted to the house, and no visitor enters the sick chamber. Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, sentenced a Coney Island hotel proprietor to three months in the penitentiary and fined him $750, for pool-selling. A Brooklyn landlord was given two months. The Directors of the New York Central Road report that owing to the snow blockade nothing was earned on the stock during February. The balance for the quarter was $940,000, out of which $894,284 was appropriated for a dividend of 1 per cent. A congress of churches, embracing all Christian denominations, will be held at Hartford, Conn., early in May.

WESTERN.

The damage to winter wheat in Ohio from severe freezing will reach 25 per cent. From reports received by Mr. S. W. Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, he estimates that the yield of 1885 throughout the country will fall largely below that of last year. Dispatches from the West state that there are about 500 Oklahoma boomers at Arkansas City. A dozen or more of their leaders waived examination by a United States Commissioner at Wichita, and gave bail. Five companies of cavalry have camped near Arkansas City, and two companies of Infantry are at the Ponca agency. The Denver Chamber of Commerce unanimously adopted resolutions requesting the new Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the silver coin now hoarded in the vaults of the Treasury, in order to stop the contraction of the currency, and thus relieve the business depression of the country. Since Feb. 1 five manufacturing establishments at Detroit have put 2,300 men to work. A Mitchell (Dakota) dispatch reports that interest in the rush for the newlyopened Crow Creek reservation is greatly Increased on account of the report, which has reached that place, that the Indians are sweeping down on the white settlers, driving them off the land, and destroying their improvements. Dispatches have been received from Col. King, of Chamberlain, requesting rifles and ammunition to be forwarded Immediately, and a car-load of munitions of war was sent to the front by special train. The Whole country is preparing to arise en masse, and, if the Indians persist in impeding settlement, trouble of a serious character may be apprehended.

It being expected that the National Encampment, G. A. R., will be held at Sacramento in 1886, the California Legislatui e has appropriated $25,000 to defray the expenses. The dry-goods firm of W. EL Gumersol & Co., of St Louis, which recently failed for SIIO,OOO, has settled in cash and notes at the rite of 50 per cent, and will resume business. The Indiana State Board of Finance has awarded the temporary loan of $600,000 to Walter Stanton, of New York, who bid 101% per cent Henry Linze, a Prussian, living at No. 165 Augusta street Chicago, killed his wife by shooting her, and then killed himself, in a fit of jealousy. They came to the country eight years ago, and had separated seven times, and led a very unhappy life. They leave one child, a girl 7 years of age. Pleuro-pneumonia has developed in a herd of Jersey cattle belonging to the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton, Mo., and eight cows have died within a month and others are sick. The infection was communicated by a bull purchased last July from S. 8. Trip, of Peoria, 111. The bottom-lands in Clark County, Missouri, bordering on the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers, are a sea of water and ice, and the country for seven miles west and farther south is flooded to a depth varying from one to five feet. Three miles of the Egyptian Levee on the Des Moines is gone, and the water of the river finds an outlet over the farming lands. St. Francisville and a portion of Alexandria are flooded, and the inhabitants have moved out. The Wanash has three miles of track under water west of Alexandria. T 1 io bulk of the ice from 160 miles Of the Des Moines Is packed in the lower thirty miles of the river. The Governor of Kansas has signed Use new temperance bill, which requires that eittse®# shall appear before the County Attankey and testify under oath as to their

knowledge of the jairebase and sale of liquors, thus doing away with the grand jury investigations on the subject. Three of the convicts who escaped from the Michigan State Prison were tracked through the snow from MosherviUe to Jonesville, jaded and hungry, and sent back to serve out their sentences. The action taken by Congress in its closing hours with regard to the Oklahoma question was briefly this: The Western Representatives defeated the Dawes bill which had passed the Senate, and the Ryan amendment to the Indian bill was adopted, directing the President to enter Into negotiations with the Indians with a view to opening Oklahoma to settlement. The question as to whether these negotiations shall be opened through the agency of a commission or not is left to the President’s discretion. Ryan and other friends of the settlers think that the negotiations will result in the opening of the lands to colonists. A dispatch from the West states that "Capt. Couch and Gen. Hatch have both left Wichita, Kan., for the border of Indian Territory, the former to confer with the colonists assembling there and the latter to station his troops to prevent the contemplated movement toward Oklahoma.”

SOUTHERN.

While celebrating the inauguration of Cleveland, the people of Hopkinsville, Ky., thought they saw a meteor that looked like a burning cabin, which exploded with the noise of a dozen cannon. The safe in the postoffice at Ozark, Ark., was blown open and robbed of SBOO. The steamer Wave’s boiler exploded at Wilmington, N. C., blowing into the river three persons, who were drowned, and badly injuring several others. The boat was completely wrecked. Lee Blatter (colored) was taken from jail at Monroe, N. C., by a mob and hanged. The Newcomb-Buchanan distilleries at Louisville covering thirteen acres, were sold at public auction, the sum realized being $162,000. Three persons were killed and a dozen injured eight miles south of Grenada, Miss., on the Illinois Central Road by a collision between a mail-train- and an express train. Both were running at full speed, and the engines, two baggage-cars, one mail-car, and a smoker were wrecked. A young woman of Nashville, Tenn., has been miraculously restored to health by the “faith cure” after four months of lingering illness.

WASHINGTON.

The decrease in the public debt during February was (3,204,975. The interestbearing portion of the debt is now (1,196,149,050. Deducting the cash in the Treasury, The United States owes (2,405,923,350. Following is the official statement issued from the Treasury: Bonds outstanding— Four one-half per cents 8250.000,000 Four per cents 737.707.200 Three per cents 194,190,500 Refunding certificates 251,350 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 81.196,149,050 Matured debt $5,401,395 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes. 846,739.116 Certificates of deposit 30,580,000 Gold and silver certificates 294,530,051 Fractional currency 6.968,306 Total without interest $678,817,473 Total debt 1,880,367,918 Total interest 10,021,988 Cash in Treasury 448,466,557 Debt, lees cash in Treasury. 1,405,923,350 Decrease during February 3,204,975 Decrease since June 30, 1884 44,125,885 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid 81,483,140 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 5,401,395 Interest thereon 246,918 Gold and silver certificates 294 530'051 United States notes held for redemption of certificate of deposit 30,580,000 Cash balance available .152,225,052 Tot® l 8484,466,557 Available assets— Cash in Treasury 8484,460.557 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railway Companies, Interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding. 864,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 616,235 Interest paid by United States 65.038,209 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. 819,043 657 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net ’ earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 45.339.353 The first official act of President Cleveland was the nomination of his Cabinet; his second, to affix his signature to the commission of U. S. Grant as an officer on the retired list of the army with the rank of General.

The resolution introduced in the Senate by Mr. Van Wyck, calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information touching the issuance of land patents to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad, is likely to lead to a lively debate, says a Washington correspondent. It Is alleged that, in order to issue these patents to about 700,000 acres of public land, Secretary Teller caused extraordinary labor to* be performed by the clerical force of the Interior Department, and that work was carried on day and night to complete the papers prior to the retirement of Mr. Teller from the Department. Miss Cleveland held her first reception at the White House in Washington on Saturday, March 7. She was assisted by her sisters. Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Bacon, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cleveland. Over 1,000 visitors were received. “The latter were waiting outside of the house long before 3 o’clock, the hour for the reception to begin, and a system having to be employed in disposing of the crowds and delegations of these three days the policeman and ushers formed the visitors In a long line. Each arrival had to take his place at the end of the queue, and democratic principles and equality were carried out in this way. Those who drove in under the portico with a flourish had to take their places at the end of the procession with the commoners who came on foot. The new President has reduced handshaking and delegation encounters to a science, and when the crowd In the mansion gets too great to be managed he comes down, shakes five hundred hands in half an hour, and dispersed the multitude more quickly than the policeman and doorkeepers can when put together. For his convenience in discharging this duty canvas has been laid over the carpet of the broad inside corridor leading to the middle door of the east room, and over the half of that foom that the crowds occupy in their brief passage to the temporary exit built from a hall window to the outside walk.’’

POLITICAL.

Representatives Bayne, Hiscock, and Millard called upon President Cleveland, at

Washington, and had quite a long talk with him. They told the President they approved the attitude he had taken in his inaugural, and in carrying out the policy therein declared be would have their hearty support. In this they spoke as Republicans, and said they believed they spoke for a large majority of their party. The President received their advances in the best possible spirit, and thanked them with much feeling and earnestness for their promises. Both houses of the Dakota Legislature have passed a bill removing the capital from Bismarck to Pierre. The Dakota Council passed the woman suffrage bill, with an amendment submitting the question to a popular vote. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, has appointed Gen. E. C. Whithall to succeed Secretary Lamar as United States Senator from that State. Gen. John C. Black, of Danville, Hl., went to Chicago the other day to attend a reunion of his old comrades of the Thirtyseventh Illinois Volunteers. Shortly after his arrival he received a telegram from Washington reading as follows: The President thinks your official connection with his administration will contribute to his success, and desires me to ascertain if you will assume the duties of Commissioner of Pensions. I cordially join in the request. L. Q. C. Lamab , After a short consideration the General replied as follows: To L. Q. C. Lamab : I thank President Cleveland and yourself. If my appointment will contribute to the success of the administration I will accept the position. Telegraph when I should arrive in Washington. J. C. Black. President Cleveland declines to receive applicants for appointment to office, and will refer such persons to the heads of departments. The Washington' correspondent of the Chicago Times is authority for the statement that “the Senators and new Congressmen from after agreeing upon a scheme for the distribution of Federal patronage in their State, went to the White House and laid it before President Cleveland. He smilingly remarked that they seemed to have forgotten the civil-service law, and assured them that he would send a printed copy to each of them." At high noon on Saturday, the 7th of March, Messrs. Bayard, Whitney, Garland and Endicott entered the office of the Secretary of State at Washington, where Mr. Bayard took the oath as Secretary of State. The party then went to Secretary Chandler’s room, where Mr. Whitney was sworn in as Secretary of the Navy. In Secretary Lincoln’s office, where Gen. Sheridan and staff and other army officers were assembled, the oath was administered to Mr. Endicott. Attorney General Garland was sworn into office at the Department of Justice. From the Department of Justice the party went to the United States Treasury Department, where Secretary Manning took the oath. Soon after Secretary Manning had qualified all the bureau officers and chiefs of division visited his office and paid their respects. Secretary Lamar and Postmaster General Vilas were also sworn into office. In the various departments the retiring Secretaries bade the chiefs and clerks who bad served under them good-by, and complimented them upon their services.

MISCELLANEOUS. The California railway kings have placed under one management the Southern Pacific Road and its branches to New Orleans, and the steamship lines thence to New York. The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific and Louisville and Nashville Roads ' for February are respectively (49,477 and (66,291 greater than for the same month last year. There were 222 failures in the United States during the week reported to Biadetreet’e. as compared with 254 in the preceding week, and 211, 208, and 177, respectively, in tie corresponding weeks of 1881, 1883, and 1882. About 88 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than (5,000. Canada has 38, a decrease of 8. Special telegrams to Bradstreet’s from leading trade centers give a brighter look to the general trade situation than has been reported for some months. Charles F. Adams, Jr., President of the Union Pacific Road, has written to Senator Hoar that his company would not be able to meet semi-annual payments to the Government at the rate of (900,000 to (2,500,000 per year for sixty years. As to the scheme of equalized payments of (1,800,000 per annum, he thinks there Is a fair prospect that the company could carry the burden. He complains that through Federal legislation the company has been rendered unable to meet competitors on equal terms, and he desires the public to know that he is not a figurehead put forward by Jay Gould. G. A. Davis & Co., dealers in agricultural implements, San Francisco, assigned with liabilities amounting to (170,000. I. J. Kranz, a drover of West Bethlehem, Pa., assigned with liabilities amounting to (50,000. Augustus J. Dick, publisher, New York, also assigned.

FOREIGN.

A motion in favor of an established bimetallic standard currency was rejected by the German ReichstagThe Russian Ambassador at London had an interview with Premier Gladstone "on the sth inst., and communicated the contents of a number of dispatches received from St. Petersburg in relation to the frontier difficulty in Afghanistan. Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that public policy forbade his answering questions about the complications with Russia. The Chinese Government has ordered home all its subjects now studying in French schools. Advices from London report that Baron Staal, the Russian Ambassador, has promised that the Russian troops shall retire. The Royal Irish Rifles, nearly nine hundred strong, the only regiment at Halifax, has been ordered to make ready for active duty, and expects to be sent to the Soudan. One hundred and twenty-three of the 147 men in the colliery at Karwin Austrian Silesia, at the time of the explosion, have been found dead. Only five have been found alive. It is suggested by the Pall Mall Gazette that the best tribute to Gordon’s memory would be the formation of a “Gordon Free State” on the plan of the Congo Free State, to embrace the Nile territory and hold that great waterway in the interest of trade and civilization. Gen. Wolseley has issued an address to the soldiers and sailors of the Nile expedi-

tion complimenting them tn behalf of the Queen for their courage and self-devotion, and promising to lead them to Khartoum in the autumn. Notwithstanding the pacific assurances of Russia, the British War Office is dispatching troops to India with all possible ■peed. The number sent is limited only by the means of transportation. A troop ship which arrived recently from India was ordered to return at once to Bombay with 1,200 soldiers. These troops are needed to partly supply the places of those sent to the Afghan frontier!

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A large consignment of articles manufactured by prison labor in the United States has been seized at London. Ontario, under the new Canadian law prohibiting the importation of goods made by convicts. Gen. Buller’s rear guard has arrived at Korti from Gakdul in a terribly' fatigued condition. Two Italian men-of-war and six torpedo vessels have arrived at Port Said. A special force of clerks is employed in filing applications for postinastersbips. First Assistant Postmaster General Crosby has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted. Col. Nelson H. Davis, who is now located in Chicago, will succeed the late Gen. Sacket as senior Inspector General of the army. A New Orleans dispatch says that before relinquishing his prisoner, the Chief of Police of that city demands the reward offered by the Adrian (Mich.) authorities for the arrest of ex-Mayor Navin. The requisition papers for the return of the fugitive have been signed by the Governor of Louisiana, but, unless a reward is forthcoming, the police may let the prisoner slip through their fingers. An earthquake at Lancaster, Pa., shook buildings and threw plates from tables. Services were suspended in the churches until the shock subsided. Gen. Weaver, of lowa, and the Hon. Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, interviewed President Cleveland the other day in behalf of the Oklahoma colonists. Mr. Clarke urged that, these people were law-adiding citizens, who only desired to obtain their right to settle upon lands which had been bought and paid lor by the United States long ago. A large amount of information was laid before the President showing that the whole of Oklahoma is now illegally occupied by cattle companies, and that it would have been opened to settlement long ago had it not been for fraud and conspiracy between dishonest public officials and the cattle syndicate. In conclusion Mr. Clarke asked the President to withdraw the United States troops. Gen. Weaver argued that the settlers, far from being the desperadoes they are painted, were among the most respected citizens of lowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, and other States, who were anxious to go to Oklahoma to make homes. The invocation of the military power Gen. Weaver declared to be wrongful and without precedent. President Cleveland said that he would investigate the matter at once, and suggested that Secretary Lamar should be conferred with.

Communications from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney General, conveying notification of their acceptance of Cabinet positions and requesting the President of the Senate to so notify the Legislatures of their respective States, were read to the Senate on the 9th Inst. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: C. 8. Fairchild, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; John C. Black, of Illinois, to be Coihmißsioner of Pensions. Mr. Van Wyck’s resolution making inquiry of the Secretary of the Interior regarding the issue of patents to the “Backbone” Railroad was taken up. Mr. Van Wyck detailed the “mysterious record" of the Backbone Road. He said that Gould and Huntington were at the bottom of a scheme to get possession of the land-grant. It was claimed that there was a special meeting of the Cabinet to legalize the fraud; but the settlers did not have any advocate there. The Cabinet did not protect them. On the contrary, it turned them over to the tender mercies of the corporation. The whole history of the land bureau of the Interior Department was a record of demands by land grant corporations and decrees of the department in obedience thereto. When the demand was too exacting, as in this case, the opinion of the Attorney General was sought behind which to hide. By what mysterious power, Mr. Van Wyck asked, could this compary coerce the Government into an extra session of its Cabinet and compel the Interior Department to work nights and Sundays in order to secure action foreclosing Congress and the people from rending the spoiler from his prey? Mr. Van Wyek gave notice that the patents issued would lie contested. Ex-Secr§-tary Teller in his reply said that Mr. Van Wyck was a professional anti-monopolist, and that his object was to pose before the public and to gain notoriety. Mr. Teller's speech was an elaborate legal argument to show that the “Backbone” Company was entitled to the grant.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Aftkb * very protracted debate. House bills -.ilarging the powers of building associations ras advanced to second reading in the Senate on the sth inst The House bill on the amendment of the drainage law was passed to a second reading. with a score of amendments, all of which were ordered printed. The Mil reducing 1 Supreme Court reports from $3.50 to $2.7 5 was read, with a minority report that it lie on the table. The Mil itself is a substitute for Senators Foulke and Sellers’ bill, which provides that the reporter of the Supreme Court shall receive a salary, and that the reports shall be sold at an advance of cents on the cost of production, which would place the reports In the market at about $1.25. A long discussion on appellate courts ensued, no decision being reached. In the house the special order of business was the continuation of the consideration of Senator Howard's bill for the leoraanization and maintenance of the State militia, and the entire “o™?? session was devoted to speech-making The bill was opposed by Representatives BrownJGordon, Gooding, Harrell, Murphy, Smith, of Warrick, and Garrison, who alleged that it was not constitutional; that there was no necessity for an extended military organization; »(hat iis tendencies would be to oppress the laboring men who might organize strikes for the purpose of securing their rights, and that it would involve the State in very great expense, which would Increase from year to vear. The bill was supported by Messrs. Dittemore, Pendleton, and Barrey, who claimed that its passage was demanded by the Grand Army of the Republic, as well as a majority of the people of the State, and that Indiana was behind her sister States in organizing and maintaining the militia. The opposition to the bill was much more active and vigorous than its support in the House, although hard work had been done for it in the lobbies. Almost every member explained his vote on the bill, a majority of those voting for it saying they were greatly influenced to do so by numerously signed petitions from their constituents. The bill finally passed by a vote .of 56 to 35, the announcement ot the result being received with applause. Another attempt was made to take up the appropriation bill, but failed. The Republicans solidly voted against it, together with a few Democrats. The amendment to the weight and measure bill, fixing the weight of a bushel of sweet potatoes at fifty pounds, was defeated in the Senate on the 6th Inst. Senator Bailey’s 12 o’clock liquor bill was taken from the table by a vote of 19 to 16. On the question of its second reading the Democratic Senators Mclntosh, Magee, and Hilligass spoke earnestly against its passage, and so voted. The yeas were 21 and nays 21. The responsibility of deciding lay on Gen. Manson, who was greeted with much laughter. He said: “Now this is not so funny a position for the Chair as yon may think." Richardson here changed his vote from nay to yea, and the Chair was relieved from his dilemma. The vote then stood yeas 22, nays 20, and it was moved that it be read a second time and engrossed. Mr. Bailey’s bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, butterine, and other fictitious butters, was passed to a third reading. A resolution passed indorsing Cleveland’s inaugural. In the House, Mr. Kruger’s resolution proposing an amendment to the State Constitution fixing the terms of all county officers except the Surveyor at four years, and making them ineligible for re-election, was passed by a practically unanimous vote; and Senator Duncan’s bill providing for the election of County Commissioners, and the terms thereof, was passed by a vote of 70t0J12. It authorizes the election of only two Commissioners at the same time. Mr. Pendleton’s bill appropriating $55,616.68 to John Martin for brickwork done on the Insane Asylum came up on its final reading and provoked a long discussion. Nearly every member on the floor explained his vote, and the bill ultimately failed for want of a constitutional majority by tour votes, the aves bein ' 47. and the nocs 39, with fourteen members absent. Attempts were renewed to take up the appropriation bi 1, but they failed as usual. Gov. Gray signed the Congressional and legislative apportionment bills and vetoed the militia bill The Governor also signed the following bills, and the same are now laws: An act empowering voluntary associations to establish homes for the care of aged females; an act appropriating $30,000 to the Indiana University; an act providing means for securing the health and safety of employes of coal mines; an act authorizing township authorities to bridge streams forming the boundary line; an act fixing the time of holding oourt in the Fourth Judicial Circuit

A bill for (2.25 for telegraphing the Senate's congratulatory message to the President and Vice President on their peaceful inauguration, and wishing them a happy and prosperous administration, was presented in the Senate on the 7th inst. Mr. Yonche objected to the payment of a partis in congratulation, and Messrs. Magee, Mclntosh, Siploss, and others immediately asked that the objection be entertained, and that they be allowed to pay the bill themselves. Mr. Magee paid it. The House joint resolution for amending the Constitution so as to make regular sessions of the Legislature endure one hundred days and an extra session fifty, their pay to be fixed by law, was read a first time. Senator Winters' bill amending the Justices’ act was passed under a suspension of the rules. In the House, the Appellate Court bill passed, after a long and acrimonious debate. Speaker Jewett and Judge Gooding both participated. Mr. Reevis, from the special committee appointed to investigate the condition of the State House fund, made a report which found that the Auditor of the State, in accordance with the custom of his office, had from year to year turned back into the treasury all unexpended balances from special appropriations, and the State House Commissioners, in consequenoe, thought they had a very large balance to their credit, whereas they had only about $706,000. They had made large contracts, and if additional means were not provided the work would have to stop. From an investigation of the State’s finances the committee was of the opinion that there could be no money jn the general fund that could be so appropriated, and they therefore recommended the passage of a bill authorizing a temporary loan of $450,000 to complete and furnish the building. The report, bill, and recommendations were ordered printed. Mr. Thompson’s civil service bill and the May claim passed. Only a feeble effort was made to call up and dispose of the appropriation bills. Governor Gray signed the Congressional apportionment bill. The new districts are arranged as follows: First District—Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Pike, and Gibson. Second District—Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Lawrence. Greene, Knox, Daviess, and Martin. Third District—Harrison, Floyd, Clark, Washington, Jackson, Jennings, Scott. Fourth District—Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio. Ripley, Dearborn, Franklin, Decatur, and Union. Fifth District—Bartholomew, Brown, Monroe, Owen, Morgan. Johnson. Hendricks, and Putnam. Sixth District Rush, Fayette. Wayne, Henry, Randolph, and Delaware. Seventh District—Marion, Hancock, Shelby,and Madison. Eighth District—Sullivan, Clay, Vigo, Vermilion, Parke, Montgomery, and Fountain. Ninth Distr.ct —Howard, Warren, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Clinton, Boone, Hamilton, and Benton. Tenth District—Carrol, Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White, Jasper, Newton, Lake, and Porter. Eleventh District—Grant, Blackford. Jay, Adams, Wells, Huntington,Wabash, and Miami. Twelfth District—Allen, Whitley. Noble, De Kalb, Steuben, and Lagrange. Thirteenth District—Kosciusko, Elkhart, Marshall, St. Joseph, La Porte, and Starke.

A Ghastly Scarf-Pin.

A harmless yet ghastly scarf-pin is a mechanical skull of enameled gold, with a moveable under jaw, and diamonds set back in its hollow sockets for eyes. The skull is worked by a current of electricity generated by a little battery carried in the pocket, and transmitted over wires no heavier than strands of thread. Pressing upon a button which completes the electric circuit, the teeth rtittle. They are made in Paris and are worth SIOO. The price is rather steep, but the ornament has to be very carefully and nicely adjusted, and it is made of platinum and the best of gold; besides, the diamonds alone are of some value. No cheap counterfeits have yet been made. The ability of the average American school-marm to take care of herself is renewedly illustrated in the case of Miss Mattie Worley, a teacher in Greenwood County, Kansas. She has earned enough money by teaching to buy 100 acres of land, although she is not twenty years old and has been receiving only S4O per month. A clerk in Indianapolis was arrested for embezzling 1 cent The value of a ton of pure gold is $602,799.21.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Brief Summary «f the Proceedlags Congress. By vigilant work in its last hours, Congress succeeded in clearing up the work before it to the extent of avoiding the necessity of an extra session. The river and harbor bill was the only one of the appropriation series which failed, the Senate tabling it, just before adjournment on the 4th, by a vote of 28 to 20. Almost the very last act of Congress was the passage of the bill for the retirement of Gen. Grant. When Senator Edmunds affixed his signature to the bill, it being about noon, the assistant doorkeeper turned back the hands of the clock. Only a few minutes were consumed, by President Arthur in nominating U. 8. Grant, to be General on the retired list, and the Senate confirmed the nomination amid an outburst of applause.

Extra Session of the Senate. President Cleveland sent to the Senate, on the sth inst, the names of the gentlemen he has. selected as Cabinet officers. They are as follows: Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel JJarining, 2? New York; Secretary of War. William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts; Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of NewYork; Secretary of the Interior, L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi; Postmaster General.. William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; Attorney General, A H. Garland, of Arkansas. On;motion ot Senator Sherman, the Senate went into executive session. There is a time-honored custom in the Senate of confirming all appointments without reference or discussion where the person appointed is. or has been, a member of the Senate. This rule would not be violated by any Senator who had any self-respect, except for grave reasons. A confirmation can not be made at once, if a single objection is raised. There was an objection promptly made to Senator Bayard, by Senator Riddleberger. Neither of the Readjuster Senators finds much, if any, friendly recognition, upon the Republican side. The majority of the Democratic Senators will not even speak to them, if they can avoid it, so much do they dislike them. Itiddleberger made his objection in a ringing, defiant voice, and with a swagger of manner that called for no. reply. Senator Allison turned to expostulate with Riddleberger, but Senator Van Wycks caught him by the arm. Senators Manderson Palmer, Ingalls, and other Republicans came up to the Virginian, and begged him in low tones to respect the courtesy of the Senate and withdraw his objection. He stubbornly refused, and then began to give his reasons. He regarded Bayard as too much of an Englishman. His recent resolution denouncing the dynamite outrages in London was enough to unfit him for the post of Secretary of State. He then repeated paragraphs from his former harangues against the original resolution of Mr. Bayard. No one ventured to answer any of hie remarks. Mr. Van Wyck introduced the rollowing resolution in the Senate, on the 6th inst, for which he asked immediate consideration, but Mr. Edmunds objecting, it went over for a day: “ Uesolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate whether patents have been issued for lands granted in 1871 to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, popularly known as the Backbone* Railroad. If so, for what number of acres; to what corporation of individuals; whose receipt was taken for it when signed; whether unusual means were used to hasten the preparation and execution of said patents; whether the clerical force employed worked nights and on Sundays, so they might be completed before the4th of March; what day they were ready for the signature of the President; what necessity existed for any special exertion to secure their completion and signature before the 4th of March, and whether anything was done to protect actual settlers in their right to any such lands; also, whether previous to the 4th of March anything was done or written in regard to any other unearned land grants, the forfeiture of which had been considered by the Forty-eighth Congress.” The Senate then went into executive session, and all the Cabinet nominations were confirmed without debate or division, and by the unanimous vote of the Senate.

“Pot-Boilers.”

“Pot-boilers” are highly colored and. well-varnished paintings, carelessly, rapidly and conventionally executed, with the sole purpose of selling as soon as possible. Although such & picture is bad art, it is better than the“manufactured” paintings done by the yard from patterns and sent to auction rooms as “genuine oil paintings in real gold gilt frames.” In even a "potboiler” the artist feels some interest in his work, and weaves into it some fragmentary glimses of his more loyal moods. As for composition the popular “pot-boiler” always has a surrounding of purely conventional and stereotyped arrangement, a distance, middle distance and foreground, a tendency to vivid yellow, purple or emerald. Sun-: set scenes and marine views are very common, the latter for the reason that an economical perspective, and an expanse of lifeless blue or green waves, can be “painted in” with vast rapidity. The gay barge in the center of the canvas can be gotten up with little drawing and much color. The entire picture may be “done” by an accomplished “pot-boilerist” without a sketch before him. He knows to a cent the price he will get for the result, and his art is leveled to almost the grade of the frame-maker.— The Hour.

Just Like ’Em.

“Now, for instance,” he began, “suppose vou were poor—very poor.” “Yes, sir.” “And your husband was sick—very sick.” “Yes, sir.” “And you were to be turned out of the house for non-payment of rent.” “I see.” “Well, a philosopher comes along and gives you S2O to pay rent and buy medicines. ” “Well?” “But your husband dies, you are Eoor, the city buries him at its expense. a some cases the undertaker simply comes in a wagon and takes the body away, but in this case the city sends a carriage for the mourners to ride in.” “Ah!” “Well, now, you are a widow, rent unpaid, and S2O in your pocket, and what would you do ?” “Well, if I had money I ” “But you have money. The philosopher gave you $20.” “Yes, but when the city got ready to bury my husband I order four extra, carriages for the funeral procession, and that used up my last cent.”—Detroit Free Press. Far out at sea along both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida are seveial springs of fresh water. They are well known to the spongers and fishermen, who frequently visit them to replenish their water casks. On thia same coast is an oil spring which diffuses a calm over the troubled wafera and affords a safe refuge to small vesseis during a gale. The Glasgow Herald thinks that if Americans would substitute oatmeal for pies and hot cakes they would be calmer, less lively, less speculative, less bombastic, and happier. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. — I. Disraeli. For knowledge to become wisdom, the soul must be rooted in God. Antiquity is the aristocracy of history.