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

WBtmocraticScntiiitl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. a. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. John W. Richards, a Lieutenant of the Salvation Army, and three members have been inducted at North Adams, Mass., for obtaining from merchants in different cities goods valued at >30,100, and disposing of the same. Police Inspector Thomas W. Thorne, of New York, died suddenly in a Broadway store. Charles Briggs, who cut his wife’s throat in 1883, was hanged at Philadelphia J. Spargo, Postmaster at Clarion, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was short in his accounts, and took this means of escaping disgrace. R. H. Larimore, Superintendent of a coal mine near Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was nearly murdered by one hundred riotous laborers and their wives, who attacked him on the road. Sorakichi, the Japanese wrestler, was in February married to a pretty Quakeress in Philadelphia. The bride last week caused his arrest in New York for threatening to kill her with a razor. Theophilus M. Marc’s paraffine factory at Elizabeth port, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. The loss was $200,000; no insurance. Gen. Grant has improved sufficiently to take hominy and beef. A consultation of surgeons decided that it was mechanically possible to remove the growth in his throat, but resolved not to recommend the procedure. The Philadelphia Medical News states that the malady from which the exPresident suffers, as a rule, speedily terminates fatally, and that the duration of the life of those who survive an operation averages nineteen montns. A loss of $170,000 was incurred in South Boston by the burning of the works of the Machine Manufacturing Company, covering two acres on First street. The owners are Nash, Spaulding & Co. Frank Williams, an old miser of Portland, Me., was found dead in his candy store, having starved himself to death. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars was found concealed in the house. Boston Typographical Union, No. 13, sent the Massachusetts Prison Commissioners a protest against the project to instruct the inmates of the Concord Reformatory in the art of printing. A bed of salt seventy-eight feet thick is said to have been reached at East Aurora, N. Y., at a depth of 1,350 feet. Two explosions, caused, as it is thought, by gas, occurred in the New Jersey State House at Trenton. The building took fire, the flames spreading to the Ceological Museum on the third floor, in which many valuable relics were stored. The museum wap completely destroyed. The loss will not be lessthan SIOO,OOO. The Continental Sugar Refinery storehouse in Boston, Mass., was burned, with 10,000 barrels of £ugar. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, with $75,000 insurance. On the top of Mount Washington, Now Hampshire, on the night of March 20, the wind blew at the rate of from 100 to 140 miles an hour, with the thermometer at 48 degrees below zero.

WESTERN.

Charles W. Stagg, the stenographer who accompanied the lute Senator Morton in all his campaign appointments, was found dead in bed in Indianapolis from an overdose of chloral. At Ishpeming, Mich., Sellwood’s Block was destroyed by fire. In it were the Postoffice, Masonic, and Odd Fellows’ Halls, City Library, two stores, and a number of offices. The loss is $60,000. John W. Walters, of Detroit, reached his 106th birthday March 17. Ho has long been unable to leave his bed, and his deathis liable to occur at any time. About a year ago his sight became restored to the fullest degree. He was an officer in the Irish Insurrection of 1798. The Fish Commissioner of Kansas reports that he has distributed in the streams of the State 20,0J0 brook trout, 850,000 shad, 70J,000 pike, perch, bass, and catfish, and 13,000 carp. W. P. Graham, County Treasurer at Madison. Ind., who died from blood-poison-ing, owned an interest in seventeen noted race-horses. Louis Bachus, of Chicago, the slayer of the alleged seducer of his daughter, was found guilty of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at four years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The jury were out nearly seven hours. Near Elkhart, Ind., William Hubbell, who was about to be removed to an insane asylum, shot his wife fatally and then shot himself dead. The Captain of the Governor’s Guards, at Des Moines, quietly placed a dozen uniforms and muskets in the Capitol at night. Eleven members of the organization were gathered at the Governor's office, in the morning, and the doors the Auditor’s room were opened with the butts of muskets. Auditor Brown was seized by the Sheriff, and Auditor Cottell was placed in possession. The seal was missing and the safe locked. Hon. Frank M. Bridges, Democratic Senator of the Illinois Legislature from the Greene and Morgan County District, who had been ill for several weeks, died at his home in Carrollton. The effect of his death causes a vacancy in the State Senate, and reduces the Democratic vote on joint ballet to 101. Bis successor will be chosen at a special election to be held April 11. The Boston block at Leadville, Col., was burned, the loss being $20,000. Stephen Jones, a negro murderer, was hanged at San Francisco. The Langham Hotel, Chicago, formerly known as the Crawford and the Burdick, was totally destroyed by fire. Many of the guests made their exits from the burning building by means of fire-escapes and ladders. The south wall fell upon a two-story building next door, burying five firemen under the l

ruins. Mrs. Belknap, one of the guests of the hotel, jumped from the fifth story to the ground and broke her neck. The loss is estimated at $250,000. The tannery of Pfister & Vogel, on Vogel's Island, atMilwaukee, was burned, with a large amount of stock, the total loss being $30,000. State Auditor Brown, of lowa, has served notice on the Postmaster to deliver no mail addressed to him as State Auditor to any person but himself. Notice has also been served on the State Treasurer to pay no warrants unless issued by Brown. It is understood that Brown will open another office and go ahead as State Auditor. The State Treasurer has determined to recognize the authority of Mr. Gattell, the newly appointed Auditor. The Governor has dismissed the militia, after removing the archives of the Auditor’s office to the Capitol. At Freeport, Ohio, last week a boy named Benjamin Forsyth was to be buried, but his appearance was so lifelike that his mother had the coffin opened at the grave. After several hours of hard labor the lad was restored to consciousness, and his full recovery is expected. The Illinois Board of Health is advised that there are fifty-one cases of smallpox at Mound City, caused by infected negroes attending a revival meeting.

SOUTHERN.

The Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley has petitioned President Cleveland to convene the National Board of Health at once, and to authorize the use of so much of the epidemic contingent fund as may be necessary to enforce a vigorous system of preventive measures. The yacht Atalanta took Jay Gould and family from Havana to Charleston in forty hours. The loss sustained by Texas cattlemen during the Winter is placed at 3 to 5 per cent, of the herds. At least 150,000 head wandered southward, and their recovery will require much time and a heavy outlay. The ranges are said to be overstocked, and the throwing of the surplus upon the market will reduce the price of beef. From six to ten inches of snow fell in Virginia and North Carolina on the 18th inst. E. Jeffords, of Issaquena County, Mississippi, lately Representative in Congress of the “Shoestring” District, died suddenly, of heart disease. A building at Emmittsburgh, Md., Occupied by the Sisters of Charity, valued at $50,000, was destroyed by lire. Six white convicts made their escape from jail in Grimes County, Texas, but two were shot down by the guard. The extent of the destitution in Wirt and Pleasant Counties, West Virglana, has, it is said, reached the point that unless aid is at once given deaths from hunger must result. Crime has become so infrequent in the Parish of Cameron, in the southwestern corner of Louisiana, that the parish jail is used as a corn-crib.

WASHINGTON.

Henry A. Newman, formerly Chief of the Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been appointed Special Agentof the National Labor Bureau. Francis Wharton, an eminent Rhode Island lawyer, has been selected by Secretary Bayard and Attorney Genera! Gafland to be law officer of the State Department at $3,500, vice Judge O’Connor, resigned. It is reported that the authorities of Mexico, San Salvador, and Nicaragua have posted guards at the cable landings of the Central and South American Telegraph Company. Secretary Bayard has telegraphed to the United States Legation at Guatemala stating that that Government will be held responsible for injuries to tt-e cables or other interests of United States citizens in Central America. It is said that the revolution at Panama is ended. The new President was 48 years of age March 18, on which occasion he received a bouquet of violets from a child to whom he has shown considerable attention. William H. Vanderbilt was among those who called at the White House. Some one entered the lobby of the reporters’ gallery of the Senate at night and cut the wires of the United Press, Associated Press, and Western Union and Baltimore and Ohio companies. The damage done was slight and soon repaired. One of the last acts of Commissioner Evans was the acceptance of $2,030 from the Chicago Distilling Company to compromise the offense of putting twenty-four ounces of burnt sugar into barrels about to be filled with spirits. It is said that the Administration has determined to compel all cattle to be removed from Oklahoma and all other public lands; also to require the removal of all fencing on lands of the Government. It Is further stared that all leasee of Indian lands will be annulled, and the lands restored to the Indians, alter which offers will be made to purchase such lands as the Indians do not need, to be added to the public domain. Postmaster General Vilas has asked for the resignation of twenty Postoffice Inspectors. Six have already tendered their resignations. An examination of the books of the Treasury Department has been going on in a very quiet manner for some days. It is not improbable that the investigation will go back eighteen or twenty years. Army officers and their friends have been given to understand by Secretary Endicott that personal appeals and political influence will not be considered in making assignments to easy duty in Washington or elsewhere.

POLITICAL.

Mr. Rich, Postmaster at Camden, Me., sent in his resignation from a conviction that the place should be filled by one in accord with the administration. The Wisconsin Senate killed the bill empowering women to vote at municipal elections; and the lower branch passed an act that vagrants may be sentenced to a diet of bread and water only. Washington special: “There is a falling off in the crowd of office-seekers here. It is said that the President Intends to make no changes in any of the four-year-term offices except for cause. When the terms of the present incumbents expire the offices will be filled’by picked Democrats.” The Cincinnati Republican City Con-

vention nominated Amor Smith, Jr., for Mayor, on the first ballot. The Ohio Senate, by a vote of 12 to 5. rejected the House bill giving women suffrage in school districts. The Ohio Legislature adopted a resolution for submitting to the people an amendment changing the date of State elections from October to November. Hon. Austin Blair, Michigan’s war Governor, has teen nominated by a nonpartisan convention as Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, Michigan. Hon. James H. Berry was elected United States Senator from Arkansas, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney General in President Cleveland's Cabinet. Dwight S. Spafford, Republican, was elected to succeed the Hon. Robert E. Logan, deceased, in the Illinois House of Ropre sentatives. The wholesale indictment of election judges and clerks in Chicago, has been followed by the entering of a nolle prosequi, there being no evidence of criminal intent.

MISCELLANEOUS. The lowa Supreme Court rendered a decision affirming the constitutionality of the new prohibitory law and providing for its speedy enforcement. The court virtually declared that saloons may be enjoined as nuisances, and any citizen is practically given the power to close up a saloon without trial by jury. If a saloon-keeper disobeys an injunction he can be punished with a fine of SI,OOO and six months’ imprisonment. Prohibitionists claim that they can close every saloon in the State. Gen. Pacheco, the Mexican Minister of Public Works, has survived the reamputation of his left leg. Gen. Marques, the new Governor of Puebla, is dying from gout. The people o' Vera Cruz subscribed $10,675 for the earthquake sufferers in Spain. Louis Riel, the hero of the Red River rebellion, who was exiled from Manitoba, is said to have created serious dissension among the half-breeds in the Northwest territory. There were 247 failures in the United States during the last week, a decrease of three as compared with the preceding week. Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to China, died suddenly at Pekin. Levi Kerr, a leading citizen of Cleveland, and having an interest in John Roach's ship-building enterprises, was drowned in the St. Johns River, near Palatka, Fla. He was over 60 years of age. Dr. David Grffith, who was medical director of Sheridan’s army corps, died at Louisville, Ky.

FOREIGN.

British officials at Cairo have tried unsuccessfully to persuade the home Government to appo:nt Gen. Wolsely as Governor General of the Soudan. The Gvernment has declined on the ground that such an appointment would unduly prolong the stay of the British army in Africa. In the Royal Alpha Masonic Lodge at London, Prince Edward was initiated by the Prince of Wales, and manifested the deepest interest in the work. An explosion in a coal mine near Saarbruck, in Rhenish Prussia, imprisoned 217 miners, only seventeen of whom had been rescued at last accounts. The bodies of two men, frightfully hacked with knives, were found on the track of the Cork & Bandon Railway, in Ireland. It is believed that the victims wore passengers on a train and were murdered for the purpose of robbery. The assailants are supposed to have occupied seats in the same compartment with them and to have thrown them out of the car window after stabbing them to death. James Stephens, the Fenian leader recently expelled from France, is said by his wife to be dying in destitution at Mons, Belgium. The cost of the French war thus far to China is estimated at $90,000,000. At last accounts fifty-one of the workmen who were entombed in the Camphausen mine in Rhenish, Prussia, had been taken out alive. One hundred and thirtyseven dead bodies had been recovered, and about forty .paen and boys remained unaccounted for. Sir Baldwin Malet, K. C. 8., British Ambassador to Germany, was married at Westminster Abbey to Lady Ermyntrude, second daughter of the Duke of Bedford. The ceremony was attended with almost regal splendor, the presents being valued at SIOO,OOO. An advance in force was made from Suakin in the direction of Hasheen. Cavalry, mounted infantry, and Indian infantry were sent to reconnoiter, while the Guards acted as a reserve. The Arabs retreated before the British as far as the hills near Hasheen, the main body of the troops under Gen. Graham supporting the skirmishing line. The scouts, on reaching the summit of the hills, discovered the Arabs massed in the village. When the main body of the British reached the hilltops the Hadendowah tribe rushed from Ambush and made an attack, in which several hundred Arabs were killed and wounded, as well as a number of the British. It was ascertained by a reconnaissance that the enemy were in force along the entire range of hills. The engagement ended with the retirement of the British. A dowry of $650,000 was given by the Duke of Bedford to his daughter on the occasion of her marriage with Sir Edward Mslet. The radical newspapers contrast the splendor of the wedding pageant with the poverty-stricken condition of the tenants who inhabit the slums from which the noble Duke derives his revenues. The Duke of Richmond, the largest owner of rented property in London, has reduced all his rents 10 per cent. The announcement has been made in the House ot Commons that Great Britain recognizes the right of France to search for contraband articles all neutral vessels bound for China. After purchasing the Schoenhausen estate the residue of the Bismarck birthday fund will be devoted to the establishment of a Bismarck foundation for some patriotic object of national importance. The British steamer Rhonddah was sunk in Bristol Channel by the British steamer Brooklyn City, from New York. A detachment of English and Indian infantry was engaged in erecting a zareba seven miles southwest of Suakin (March 22), when a large force of Arabs rushed upon them from Ambush. A square was quickly

formed, but the camels and horses were driven back upon the troops, causing great confusion. The Arabs penetrated the square from the north and south. The marines and Berkshire regiment on the east and west sides maintained a steady fire and kept the Arabs in check, repulsing them finally with the aid of the cavalry and artillery from the Hasheen zareba. The English loss was two officers and twentytwo men killed and thirty-three men wounded. This does not include the loss among the engineers, transport corps, and Indian troops, which had not yet been reported.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

E. S. Clark, of Vicksburg, Miss., recen ly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior, died in Washington of pneumonia, with which he was attacked on the day of his confirmat on by the Senate. Gen. Edward E. Bryant, of Madison, Wis., has been tendered and has accepted the position of Assi tant Attorney of the Postoffice Department at Washington. It is said that President Cleveland has not yet considered the pos toffices or other po* sitions the terms of whose present occupants areabout to expire. ltha< not even been det -rmined who is to fill Postmaster Pearson’s place at New York. A cartman in Detroit, named Thomas Burke, persisted in shoveling iron ore from the base of a huge pile, and was instantly killed by its collapse. The Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Road has been handed over to the representatives of the first-mortgage bondholders, in consequence of a default on >1,000,000 of bonds. Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh, on trial at Carrollton, Mo., for killing John Rea on the Bth of April, 1884, were found guilty, and their punishment assessed at ninety-n.’ne years each in the penitentiary. A disease identical with that affecting Gen. Grant, carried off a pioneer of Montague, Mich., named James Dalton, after several operations had been performed. Ex-Mayor Thomas J. Navin, of Adrian, Mich., was sentenced, at Detroit, to ten years in the State Prison for forging signatures to city bonds. Weller & Merz’s ultramarine blue works at Newark, N. J., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000; fully Insured. The Hale House and other property at •Charleston, W. Va., were consumed. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. One man was burned to death. Fourteen business houses at Henderson, N. C., went up in smoke, causing a loss of $75,000. Reports are published of the destitution in Braxten, Gilmer, and Calhoun Counties, West Virginia. People and stock are dying of hunger. A great number are sick but cannot secure medical aid, and grain for seeding purposes cannot be secured. The explosion of a boiler in a wholesale house at Charleston, W. Va., caused the death of a porter and the destruction of buildings valued at SBO,OOO. Frank Cottrill, the actor, who was placed in jaM at Harrisville, W. Va., violently insane, hanged himself with a handkerchief to the grating above the door of his call. Eight negroes recently took from a store at Oceana, S. C., a package of $6,000 in currency. They were followed to an outhouse in Swain County, North Carolina, and refused to surrender. In the fight with the officers two robbers were shot dead, four were captured, and two escaped. A negro killed the Sheriff with an ax. When Vice President Hendricks took his seat in the Senate, on the 23d inst., there was an absence of many faces. The Vice PresidenUsignaled the Chaplain to proceed with prayer, but the onlv iv ads present to bow were those of Miller of California, Miller of New Yorx, Sawyer of Wisconsin, and Vest of Missouri. After ihe amen and before the reading of the journal was completed a motion was ma *e to adjourn, but just then several other Senators entered and the motion was withdrawn. Secretary 1 ruden then entered the chamber and laid upon the desk of Mr. Hendricks a document from the Executive Mansion, containing the following to be Envoys Extra rdinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States; Edward J. Plielps, of Vermont, to Great Britain; Robert M. McLane, of Maryland, to France; George H. Penaleton, of Ohio, to Germany; Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mexico. Mac nas E. Benton, of Missouri, was named for United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Assistant Engineer John W. Saville, of Maryland, now on the retired list, to be a Passed Assistant Engineer on the retired list. These were confirmed, the name of Mr. Pendleton being passed upon without reference to nominations. The following were also confirmed : Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and David S. Baker, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.50 @ 6.50 Hogs 5.25 @5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Whiteß9 @ .91 No. 2 Redßß @ .80 Corn—No. 250 @ .51 Oats—White3B @ .43 Pork—New Mess 13.50 @14.00 CHICAGO. Beeves-’’holos to Prime Steers. 5.75 @ 6.25 Good Snipping 5.00 @ 5.50 Common to Fair 4.25 @4.75 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.25 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 3.75 @4.25 1 rime to Choice Spring. 3.50 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. "2 Red 77 @ 178 Corn—No. 238 @ .40 Oat-—No. 2.-27 @ .28 Rye -No. ?61 @ .63 ” Barley—No. 264 @ .65 Butter —Choice Creamery 24 @ .26 FineDairvl6 @ .20 Cheese—Full Creaml2 @ .13 Skimmed Flatos @. .06 Eggs—Fresh u @ .is Potatoes—Choice, per bu 44 @ .48 Pork—Mess.... 11.75 @12.25 • MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 276 @ .76 Cobn—N o. 239 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 30 <«; .32 Rye—No. 166 @ .67 Barley—No. 256 @ .57 Pork—Mess 12.00 @12.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red7B @ .79 Corn—No. 2 43 @ .4416 Oats—No. 233 @ .34 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Redß3 @ .84 Corn—Mixed3B @ .39 Oats—Mixed 31 @ .3216 Rye6o @ .62 PORK—Mess 12.25 @12.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Redßs @ .87 Corn4s @ .46 Oats -Mixed34 @ .35 Pork—Mesa 12.50 @13.09 DETROIT. Flour 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Whiteßß @ .89 CORN—Mixed 44 @ .45 Oats—No 2 White 33 @ .34 Pork—Family 13.00 @13.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Redß3 @ .85 Corn—Mixed4l @ .42 Oats—Mixed; .31 @ .32 BUFFALO. Wheat—No.2 Spring.9o @ .91 Corn—No. 247 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 White3s @ .37 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.35 @ 7.00 Fair 5.25 @ 6.00 Common 4.25 @ 5.00 Hogs... 5.00 @5.50 Sheep....» 4.50 « 5.09

CONGRESS.

What the Extra Session of the Senate Is Engaged At The Chair laid l»etore the Senate, March 18, the resolution offered by Mr. Miller, of New York, authorizing the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to sit during the recess to consider the best means of preserving the forests upon toe public domain, and to employ a clerk. A brief debate ensued, developing the fact that the only object of the resolution was to give employment to the clerk of the committee named during the recess. It was a<- eed to, however—27 to 25.' The division was upon party line*, except in the case of CaU. who voted in the affirmative, and Riddleberger and Sherman, who voted in the negative. The President sent the following nominations: Milton J. Durham, of Kentucky, to be First Comptroller of the Treasury; William Garrard, of Nevada, to be Superintendent of the Mint at Carson City, Nev.; James R. Ryan, of Nevada, to be Coiner of the Mint at Carson City, Nev.: Malcom Hay, of Pennsylvania, to be First Assistant Postmaster General; Martin V. Montgomery, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents; David S. Baker, Jr., of Rhode Island, to be United States »ttorney for the District of Rhode Island; Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. The Senate then went into executive session. Ephraim K. Wilson, Senator-elect from Maryland, was sworn in on March 19, as was also George Gray, of Delaware, successor of Senator Bayard. The Committee on Printing was authorized to sit during the recess. The resolution offered last week relating to the sale of lands eranted Florida to aid railroads was referred. Mr. Ingalls’ resolution, offered last week, calling for information relating to the illegal occupancy of Oklahoma lands, was laid before the Senate, Mr. Ingalls said since the resolution was offered it had been t>ractlcally answered by the President’s message. He moved it be laid on the table—agreed to. Mr. Manderson offered a resolution providing that a committee of five Senators be appointed to proceed to Alaska to make investigations; laid over. In executive session Mr. Sherman offered a resolution providing for the appointment of two Senators to wait upon the President and inform him that unless he had some further communication to make the Senate was ready to adjourn without day, which was laid over The resolution for the appointment of an Alaskan Commission was taken up in the United States Senate on the 20th. During the debate which followed Mr. Van Wyck made a vigorous attack upon the South American Commission, which, he said, consisted of two men and a boy, the Chairman remaining in Albany. He charged that two men and a bov chartered a palace-carat $35 per day,and each drew s7,s<iO for his expenses. It cost the Government $40,000 before the trio got beyond New Orleans. Messrs. Vest and Hawley defended the commission. The Alaska resolution was referred to the Committee on Territories. In executive session the Senate confirmed the following nominations: Martin V. Montgomery of Michigan, Commissioner of Patents; Milton J. Durham of Kentucky, First Comptroller of the Treasury; Malcolm Hay of Pennsylvania, First Assistant Postmaster General; Joseph R. Ryan of Nevada, Coiner of the Mint at Carson City: 'William Garrard of Nevada, Superintendent of the Mint at Carson City; J. D. C. Atkins of Tennessee, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and James D. Porter of Tennessee, Assiatan; Secretary of State. Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution in the Senate on the 21st, providing for the appointment of a special commission of five Senators to inquire, and report not later than the second Monday in next December, as to the number of trade dollars put in circulaticn in the United States before their legal tender quality was repealed; how said coins came into circulation subsequently; how many are still held in the several States of this country; ar. what rates they were token; how much profit accrued in any way to the Government by the coinage of trade dollars, and what has been the practice of this and other Governments as to the receipt or refusal by them of their own coins. Laid over. the Couore.ssional Record of some remarks made on the 20th by Mr. Van Wyck derogatory to members of the South American Commission, and, a! tor debate, a resolution was passed directing the official reporter to republish the proceedings of the previous day. During tne discussion Mr. Teller made a spirited defense of his course as Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Frye reported a resolution from the Committee on Rules, directing that committee to prepare an official seal lor the Sena eof the Un'ted States. Laid over. The Senate then went into executive s 'ssion, and when the doors reopened adjourned.

George Eliot’s Wisdom. One of the lessons a woman most rarely learns is never to talk to an angry or a drunken man. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? When Death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent, but our severity. Quite superfluous existences inartistic figures crowding the canvas of life without adequate effect. He held it no virtue to frown at irremediable faults. Imagination is a licensed trespasser; it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. There are various odors of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish.

Gladstone’s Appearance and Tastes. Gossip about great men is always in order. People never tire of reading accounts of the appearance and habits of men who mold public opinion and govern the world. Gladstone has been described over and over again, but in such a way as to leave the impression that he is rather a stately personage. Nothing could be further from the truth. The great Premier is a mildlooking man, with baggy trousers. He is a regular prowler. He prefers back streets. He never dresses well. People frequently see him in a tumbledown hat and a shabby suit standing in front of the window of a bric-a-brac store. His face is striking. It is hard and bony, with a powerful forehead, a firm mouth, and a characteristic nose. He is, as everybody knows, a close student, a devout church-goer, and a great lover of negro minstrel songs. Altogether, an odd character. — Atlanta Constitution.

Cleaning Brass. The Government and railway method of cleaning brass is to dip the articles in a mixture of one part common nitric acid and one-half j>art sulphuric acid in a stone jar, and then into water, and rub them with sawdust.. They at once take on a brilliant color. If the brass is preasy it should first be dipped in a strong solution of potash and soda in warm water, which so cuts the grease that the acid is enabled to act.—Philadelphia Press. The wealth of Mammon is locked up in burglar proof vaults; the wealth of God is stored in the hearts of man. The lock combination to open the first is only known to the man who sets it, but the combination that opens the latter is known to every Christian.— Whitehall Times. If you are determined to live and die a slave to custom, see that it is at least a good one.— B. P. Day. Afteb a man has led a fast life for a while the fast life begins to lead him.

HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.

A Chicago Hotel Goes Up in Smoke—Panic-Stricken Guests. o Ten People Buried in the Ruins— Three Taken Out Dead. [Chicago special.] Another sacrifice of life and property has been added to that long list of disasters from fire which goes far to make the methods of Chicago building a reproach. Once more has the wretched shortsightedness which too frequently prevails in the erection of buildings intended for public occupancy contributed to a fatal and startling disaster, and the unequaled combination of a wooden elevator shaft and a shell-like building has within a few hours reduced a valuable and imposing property to a blackened ruin. At five minutes to 7 o’clock last evening a general alarm from box No. 46 conveyed the information of some serious conflagration in the very heart of town. It was soon learned that the Langham Hotel was in flames, and a general rush was made to the scene of the disaster. The Langham Hotel is the five-story and basement pressedbrick and stone building on the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Adams street —numbers 199, 201, 203, and 205 on Wabash avenue, and 32, 34, 36, and 38 on Adams street. Tnere was an entrance on Wabash avenue and one on Adams street, the hotel bar and restaurant being on the latter street. It was built in 1871 by William B. Burdick, a well-known lumber merchant, and a former County Commissioner. It was then named the Burdick House, and for some years the hotel was run under that name. Afterward it was partially rebuilt and improved, and called the Crawford House. The management of the Messrs. Crawford did not last very long, nor was it very successful, a good deal of litigation resulting among the parties running the hotel. Last fall the property was sold.to William B. Howard and Columbus R. Cummings for the handsome sum of $280,000, and recently Messrs. O. M. Shaw <t Son leased the hotel and expended nearly $15,000 in improvements, fittings, and fixtures. Messrs. Shaw & Son came here from Bar Harbor, Me., where they had for years kept hotel, and the Langham Hotel, under their management, seemed fairly ushered into a career of permanent prosperity at last. The new management of the house had recently put everything in first-rate shape, and the hotel was running more satisfactorily than ever before in its his.ory. About 1(12 guests were living at the house at the time, and of this number thirty were in the restaurant at supper when the fire broke out. Those employed in the hotel numbered fifty persons, of whom fifteen were chambermaids. These gills were all on the topmost floor of the hotel, and escaped with great difficulty, the smoke rolling up the elevator shaft and stairway in such dense masses that escape was nearly impossible, and suffocation seemed imminent for those above, even a few minutes after the sending of thefirstalarm. The progress of the fire was extraordinary rapid, and within three minutes from the discovery of the flames the upper floors were so dense with smoke as to render escape almost impossible. From the first it was seen that the entire building was doomed. The whole place looked like a huge bonfire surrounded by a brick wall, so completely was the light wooden structure of the interior within the power of the flames. From the main floor to the lofty cornices, both on the Wabish avenue and Adam street fionts, the flames leaped to the sky, carrying everything before them, as though the interior of the build ng was but go much dry tinder. The thousands who had gathered around the corners of Wabash avenue, Adams and State streets were in an agony of fear and apprehension respecting the fate of those within the building early after the commencement of the blaze, so apparent was it that all retreat .from the upper floors must have been cut off. About half an hour after the fire broke out, Kannte Thime, Capt. Edward Shepard, Patrick Mu.lens. Edward Jones, and John Walsh, of Bullwinkle’s insurance patrol, went into the store of F. R. Hilger, No. 207 Wabash avenue, for the purpose of covering the goods. A young man, said to be named Burns, a paper-hanger, accompanied them. While they’ were engaged in their labor the south wall of the Langham Hotel toppled and fell upon the building, which is but two stories in height. The roof was broken in, as was the upper floor, upon which they were at the time. They were precipitated to the floor Below, and buried beneath a mass of debris. The fire was quickly communicated to the inflammable material of which the floor was composed. As soon as it was possible to do so, a large force of firemen went to work to clear a passage to the rear of the building where the men were. Capt Ed Shepherd and two of his men, Patrick Mullens and K. Thime, were soon reached and rescued. Shepard was badly bruised and nearly suffocated. Thime also suffered from cuts and bruises and from inhaling smoke. He will be able to be up and around again in a few days, it is said. Mullens was the most fortunate of the three named. He sustained but slight injuries. At 11:40 the fire patrol succeeded in extricating William Burns from beneath the debris. He was removed to No. 217 Wabash avenue, and Dr. Rounseville was called at once. He rendered the man such assistance as he could and had the' patrol wagon called and Burns sent to the hospital. When the injured man was taken into the store he revived sufficiently to give his name and residence, but almost immediately relapsed into an unconscious state. He revived agiin and was conscious when removed, but his injuries were pronounced fatal. He was bruised from head to foot, both legs were broken, the pelvic bone was crushed, and it was apparent that he was injured internally. Burns is married. He is a paper-hanger, and went into the building to save his too’s and render such assistance as he could in preserving the property. After Burns was t tken out, Capt. Bullwinkle and his men returned for the purpose of extricating John Walsh and Edward Jones, two of his own men. Their bodies were found near the spot where Burns was discovered, but both were fast under the heavy debris. A careful examination showed both to be dead. The estimated loss is $250,000, with about $120,000 insurance. A wagon load o’ scrap iron and rubbish which was bought for a song by a De Kalb, 111., junk dealer, developed a pocketbook which contained $1,600 in bank notes. The Canadian Pacific Bailway promises to run its first train through from Quebec to Port Moody Aug. 22, and will make the trip in 105 hours. New York shines are down to 2 cents. This is on Washington Square. About the City Hall they are still 5 cents. Frank France, of Wicklifl'e, Ky., ig “editor and undertaker."