Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — Page 2

Stye gUmocraticgentiwel RENSSELAER, INDIANA, j. \p. McEWEN, - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Inspector Byrnes arrested thirty boycott-erg, at New York, for interfering with the business of Messrs. Cavanagb, Sandford <fc Co., manufacturing clothiera The waiTants on which the boycotters were arrested were issued by Recorder Smyth. General Butler, a famous trotting horse, died at New York last week. He contested the race with Cooley in Chicago, Sept 22, 1806, when Wm. McKeever, the driver of Butler, was killed by some person who had speculated largely in pools on Cooley’s winning. 11. H. Richardson, the famous architect, died at Boston last week. The Baltimore and Ohio has finished its line to Chester, Pa., will connect with the Beading, establish a line to New York via the Jersey Central, and begin business shortly. Three boot and shoe factories and an hotel at Natick, Mass., were destroyed by fire, the loss reaching $50,000. A petition is in circulation in New York asking for the pardon of Janies D. Fish, ex-President of the Marino Bank. It is said to have been signed by over nine hundred busi ness men.

WESTERN.

An unparalleled crime is reported from Seward County, Kansas. The wife of a farmer named Jacob Freimuth was assaulted and murdered by Fritz Rupin, a half-witted German, who has been for some time enjoying the hospitality of the Freimuths, being homeless and without friends. During the absence of Mr. Freimutli Rupin assaulted his benefactor’s wife, then bound her hand and foot, and cut her throat from ear to oar. He then secured an old rusty hoe, and while the woman was yet writhing in the death-struggle ho disembowlcd her with the blunt instrument. Mrs. Freimuth was enceinte, and when discovered the unborn babe lay a few foot from the body of the mother, cut in two. AYhen Mr. Freimutli returned and discovered the mutilated body of his wife ho became a raving maniac. A neighbor in that sparsely settled region who happened to be passing by found him wild with frenzy, but dared not approach for fear of his personal safety. He rode rapidly to a settlement some eight miles distant and tolM&f.terrible tale. A party was at once they returned to the scone of the outragp and found Freimuth weltering in his own blood. Ho had killed himself with a shotgun. A gravo was dug, and the remains W tho unfortunate people were buried. The posse then scoured the country for tho murderer, and found him in a small ravine several miles from the scene of his crime, near the Cimarron River. A fractious horse was secured and saddled. Ono end of a long lariat was fastened around his neck and the other extremity was attached to tho pommel of tho saddle. The horse was then started, and amid the shouting of the men and crack of revolvers and rifles the frightened animal tore madly away. After a run of nearly five miles tho beast fell exhausted and tho lifeless body of the murderer was loosened as soon as the men came up. His head was almost severed from his body. Tho body was left lying on the prairie, uncovered. The Union Pacific Road will at once begin the erection of a union depot at Omaha, to cost $400,000. A large freight house will also be built.

The explosion of a lard tank in the packing-house of Tobey & Booth, Chicago, caused the death of one man and the wounding of two others. George E. Graham, the Missouri wife-murderer, was buried in the potter’s field at Springfield Mrs. Molloy has gone to Bolivar to attend Cora Leo, who is about to become a mother. All the planing mills at Milwaukee, save two, shut down in preference to paying ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. A heavy burden of real estate caused the suspension of the Bank of Marietta, in Ohio, with deposits in excess of SIOO,OOO. At the Ohio G. A. R. encampment at Cleveland, Col. A. L. Conger, of Akron, was elected Department Commander, and Butherford B. Hayes was chosen delegate to Hie National Convention. A loss of $750,000 was the result of a fire, at San Francisco, in the furniture store of L. & E. Emanuel and the publishing establishment of A. L Bancroft & Co. A spectator was killed by a falling walk The business portion of Keystone, lowa, was entirely swept away by fire. The losses aggregate $55,060, with insurance of $26,000. C. F. Robertson, Episcopal Rishop of Missouri, died in St. Louis from a complication of diseases. United States troops are driving out of the Indian Territory large herds of cattle recently transferred there from Texas. The assignees of the Bank of Marietta, Ohio, fiud s9Join cash and SIO,OOO in personal property and notes to pay claims of $120,000. The concern owns 12,000 acres of wild land in West Virginia.

SOUTHERN.

The Mississippi, levee has broken at Austin, Miss., causing the inundation of at least two counties in the State. Capt. Alfred H. Brotherton, of the brig O. B. Stillman* was convicted at Baltimore of conspiracy to wreck the vessel. Many survivors of the steamer Sultana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, last Near Memphis, on the morning of

the 27th of April, 1855, the boilers of the vessel exploded, and 2.141 persons perished The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific Company for the month of March were $858,116; the operating expenses $449,055, and the net earnings $409,061. The capital of Alabama was beautifully decorated on the 28th ult. in honor of Jefferson Davis, who delivered an address to a vast multitude in aid of the Confederate soldiers’ monument about to bo erected From the dome of the State-house floated the national flag. The orator was escorted to tho grounds by a procession half a mile in length, and greeted by military salutes. A mysterious and fatal disease lias broken out in Bowelsburg, W. Va., and physicians are powerless so far to save the lives of any attacked The victims are first seized with a severe pain in the head and are dead within twelve hours. After death the bodies become spotted. The corner-stone of the monument to be erected in honor of Alabama’s Confederate soldiers was laid at Montgomery, Ala., on the 29tli ult Tho central figure of the occasion was Jeff Davis, who delivered the oration. The unhappy old man took occasion, as is his custom whenever such opportunities present themselves, to reaffirm his old doctrines of .State rights and secession. Said he: “That the South did not anticipate, much less desire, war is shown by the absence of preparation for it, as well as by the efforts made to securing a peaceful separation, The successful party always hold the defeated responsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided and reason shall have resumed her dominion, it must be decided that the General Government had no constitutional right to coerce a State, and that a State had the right to repel invasion. Itw'as a national and constitutional right.” S>. W. Floss & Co.’s notions and white goods establishment at Baltimore was gutted by fir?, and adjoining buildings were badly damaged. The total losses will aggregate S6OO,(XX), with insurance in excess of $400,000.

Jeff Davis was given a grand ovation at Atlanta, Ga. Ho was greeted by thirty thousand people, the occasion being tho unveiling of a statue of the lato Senator Hill. Davis’ trip from Atlanta to Savannah was a continuous ovation. At every station along tho route crowds collected, and when stops were made Mr. Davis was called upon for a speech. Upon the arrival of tho party at Savannah they wore received by fifteen military companies and a vast coueourse of enthusiastic citizens. At Judsonia, Arkansas, many horses and cattle have been choked to death by inhal ing buffalo gnats. Memphis dispatches state that the floods in the South along the Mississippi showed signs of abatement, but reports showed that plantations on both sides of tho river had bsen overflowed already,. and tho crops destroyed. The levees in tho vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, were patrolled day and night to prevent the negroes cutting holes through them.

WASHINGTON.

Prof. Bell and Gardner G. Hubbard testified in the Pan-Electric inquiry at Washington. It was brought out by their examination that the New York World article was prepared by Gen. Sypher for Prof. Bell, by Bell sent to Hubbard, and by Hubbard sent to President Forbes -of the Bell Company. Prof. Bell furnished the committee with this note from Gen. Sypher to Bell, which covered the article: Dear Sir—l hand you herewith an authentic statement of facts compiled by my associate, Mr. E. N. Hill, which may interest you. Tho scheme to destroy your patents was tolerably well matured, and it remains to be seen whether this reform administration will lend itself to its consummation. E. N. Hill is tho Lawyer Hill who figured in tho Wardor-Stealey investigation. He is a Washington lobbyist. The House Committee on Territories has ordered an adverse report on the Senate bill to admit the southern half of the Teritory of Dakota into tho Union of States. The report will not be made until action is taken on other hills regarding the admission of Dakota.

Gen. Sypher, an ex-Congressman from New Orleans, testified in tho Pan-Elec-tric investigation, and confirmed Professor Bell’s statements that tho New York World newspaper article was composed by E. N. Hill, a lawyer-lobbyist lately from Arkansas. Wlntelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, testified that tho first article concerning Attorney General Garland’s connection with the Pan-Electric Company had been prepared by Major Clark, one of the Tribune's Washington correspondents. The Tribune had not paid anythiug for the matter. T. C. Crawford, the Washington correspondent of the New York World, testified that he obtained the facts on which he based his letter, printed in tlia World and headed “Loud Call for Mr. Goode,” from-a United States Senator. He declined to tell the Senator’s name, without his consent. Ho had obtained the original history of the case from E. N. Hill. The Senate Committee on Commerce lias voted to make a favorable report on a new Atlantic & Pacific Ship Railway bill as a substitute for the original ship bill. Jas. B. Eads and such others as may he associated with him are created a body corporate with tho title of the Atlantic & Pacific Ship Railway Company, with power to issue capital stock and bonds not to exceed in the aggregate $100,090,000. The United States will afford aid not to exceed the sum of $7,500,( 00, under certain conditions specified in the bill. Brigadier General Thomas H. Ruger lias b en assigned to the command of the Department of Dakota, and Brigadier General J. H. Potter to the command of the Department of the Missouri. In the telephone investigation at Washington, Speaker Carlisle test tied fliat ho was notified of his election as a director in tho Rogers Telephone Company, and that SIOO,000 in stock had been placed to his cx-edit for such services as he might render. He replied that while he remained, in Congress he would not b 9 interested in any enterpriee requiring legislative action

Representative Samuel J. Randall testified that he had no distinct recollection of having received either a letter or stock from Dr. Rogera Representative Abram 8. Hewitt testified that he had been solicited to embark in the Pan-Etectric Company and had been offered a tenth interest, but had declined. The following is a recapitulation of the national debt statement, issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4X4 per cent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737.75 . 00 Bonds at 3 per cent 163, nr,, 3 0 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 210 0 ) Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000.000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal 0, 65.-62 Interest 6)7 * . .. ■ —.■ Total 51.21 45.451 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal s>,>-56,795 Interest. 20 ,554 Total S , 03,646 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $340,738.5?! Certificates of deposit 1 , >l. ,000 Gold certificates s l t -,y, Silver certificates t 0,733,111 Fractional currency (less $8,375,931, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6.95 ,5 7 Principal 510,656, .11 TOTAL, DEBT. Principal $1,770,870,001 Interest 9 430,551 Total $1,(80,365,552 Bess cash items available .or reduction of the debt 2 >2,307,700 Less reserve held for redeinDtion of U. S. notes 100,000,000 T °tal $3 ,2,3u7,7U0 Total debt less available cash items Jl, i -1,057 B*7 Ket cash in the Treasury 7 /,u30,999 Debt less cash in Treasury May 1, Debt less cash in Treasury Apru 1,1886 1,4’7,992.23.5 Decrease of debt during April gi >,<)(r> 38/ CASH IN THK TIiLASURr AVAILABLE FOR RFDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $81,715 >25 Silver hold lor silver certificates actiially outstanding 90 73? 141 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 11,515 000 Cash neid for matured debt and interest unpaid 15 341,347 Fractional currency .. . . . ’ 9>3 Total available for reduction of the debt $2)2,307,7CC RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12 tt $100,000,003 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin • «23 831,482 Minor coin *4.JG;3 1 Total £29 3 ; -73 Certificates held as cash. 1 ........( ?’ 3j Net cash balance on hand * 77,03 Total cash in Treasury as shown by tho Treasurer’s general account.. $492, 62,510

POLITICAL.

Prohibition met with an overwhelming defeat at Richmond, Va., the election resultiug in a majority of 5,681 in favor of licensing the sale of liquors. The vote in Manchester, a suburb of Richmond, was anti-pro-liibition; majority, 626. The colored vote was almost unanimously anti-prohibition. The Anti-Prohibitionists carried Lynchburg by 1,138 majority.

The Republicans of Oregon, in convention at Portland, nominated Biuger Hermann, the present incumbent, for Reprcsenttivo in Congre-'S bv a unanimous vote. John B. Waldo, of Portland, was nominated for Supreme Judge, Thomas R. Cornelius, of Washington County, for Governor, and George W. Mcßride, of Columbia County, for Secretary of State. The resolutions adopted condemn the economy of Postmaster General Vilas, through which Oregon lias beeu deprived of the ordinary mail facilities; denounce the alleged civil-service reform of the party iu power as a sllam, and the secrecy in withholding tho causes of removal of officers as infamous; condemn the appointment of unrepentant Confederates over the heads of ex-Union soldiers; and insist that the bill to pension soldiers of the Mexican war bo passed.

MISCELLANEOUS. Near Libertad, San Salvador, the steamship Honduras, valued at $70,000, was wrecked. The passengers’baggage and 12,000 bags of coffee were lost. James Walker, colored, was hanged at St. Augustine, Fla., for the murder of Charles Harper in November last The hangman also closed tho careers of J. M. Armstrong at Perryville, Ark., George Carroll at Searcy, in the same State, and Richard J. Lee and Louis Somerfield at Washington. Giuseppe Scoma, an Italian conviccted of tho murder of one of his countryman, committed suicide in his cell in the jail at Hudson, N. Y. Kit Ross and Lincoln Sprolla, white, Calvin James, colored, and Blue Duck, a Cherokee, all murderers, have been sentenced to be hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., July 20. There were 172 failures in the United States reported to Bradstrcet's during the week, against 175 in the preceding week, and 167, 151, 132, and 105 in the corresponding weeks of 1885, 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About eighty per cent were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,100.

FOREIGN.

A Chinaman who murdefed Captain and Mrs. Wickersliam, in Sonora County, California, and escaped across flic Pacific Ocean, hanged himself in tho jtail at Hong Kong. A cablegram from Athens announces the resignation of the Grecian Minister of War. At Strasbourg a French officer in uniform was followed through the streets bv 3,000 people shouting “Vivo la France!” The police dispersed the mob. Statistics show that during the last three months 61)8 families, comprising 3,477 persons, were evicted from holdings in Ireland. During the same period rloO outrages were committed. In Prussia the police have been directed tq interfere in case strikers intimidate workingmen, and extra vigilance is ordered. Cardinal Gibbons says that organization of workmen is necessary to protection and progress, but he does not commit himself on the question of the church condemning or indorsing the order.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

Gov. Larrabee of lowa baa issued a proclamation relative to the enforcement of the prohibition law. He calls earnestly upon all temperance societies and other bodies organized for kindred purposes to exercise new energy in assisting the enforcement of the law. Priests, ministers, teachers, and the press are especially urged to use their best efforts to enlist the moral forces of the State in the cause. He says: “Let the Judges, attorneys, and officers of the courts be painstaking and persistent in enforcing the law-, both in letter and in spirit. Let the Sheriffs and peace officers be fearless and vigilant, and let the Mayors and all other municipal officers awaken to new zeal in their efforts to secure its observance. I exhort all citizens to lay aside partisan differences and by determined efforts banish the dramshops from lowa. ”' Friends of the Des Moines River land b.lt, who have been threatening to try to pass the same over the President’s veto, are a good deal discouraged at the outlook. They have pretty carefully canvassed the Senate, and think the chances of its passage rather slim. On a farm near Tekonslia, Michigan, liauodyne Shedd killed his wife with an ax and then took his own life with a razor. He was one of the pioneers of Calhoun County, and she was a widow whom he married seven years ago.

The business section of Fait view, Pa., was swept away by fire, entailing heavy losses. Thirteen famil cs lost all their household goods, and are homeless. The insurance amounts to $30,000.

Mr. Ingalls’ resolution making April 30 instead of March 4 the beginning of tho Presidential term and of Congress was favorably reix>rted to the Senate cn tho 3d inst. Mr. Dolph offered an amendment to the fortifications appropriation bill appropriating 810,090,003 for the construction of fortifications ajid other works of coast defense. The Senate considered without action the postottice appropriation bill. Senators Vest and Colquitt opposed the subsidy amendment. Senator Eustis advocated it. Speeches were made by Senators Ingalls and Miller. The Committee on Privileges and Elections reported favorably to t.ie Senate a bill creating a commission, tr be appointed by the President, to select an accurate ballot-box and counting device, which shall be used in all Congressional elections. In the House of Representatives the delegate from Arizona introduced a bill to authorize tho President to offer a reward of $25,000 for the killing or capture of Geronimo, the Indian chief. The House passed under suspension of the rules bills providing for tho adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads in Kansas and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and appropriating $153,003 for the repair and enlargement of the public buildings at Des Moines, lowa. Mr. Breckinridge, of Araansas, introduced a resolution to give silver certificate a full legaltender charactsr, and providing for the issue of certificates of tho denominations of sl. ;2, and $5. Mr. Findlay introduced a resolution declaring a reduction of the tariff duties impolitic and impractical and abolishing the excise taxes on tobacco and its sale and manufacture.

LORD BEACONS FIELD ON WOMAN’S OBSTINACY.

A French critic of Lord Beaconsfield’s letters, recently published, adds an anecdote of his own which, at least, deserves citing. Some one was discoursing in his presence on the obstinacy of woman. “Yes,” interposed Mr. Disraeli, as he then was; “take the example of my wife. I had all the difficulty in the world to induce her to range herself among the women of 30. At length she consented, but no power on earth can, after an interval of twenty years, induce her to loosen the connection. ” No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. Three are now 3,000 teachers of elocution in this country, and hardly a dozen orators. About $3,000,000 worth of Ameri-can-made locomotives are sent away yearly.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.75 @ 6.50 Hogs.. 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White .95 (a) .97 No. 2 Red .91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 46 <§t .49 Oats—Western.... .39 @ .42 Pork—New Mess 10.00 @10.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.50 @ 6.00 Good Shipping. 4.75 @5.25 Common 400 @ 4.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.75 @ 4.50 Flour—Extra Spring 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .36JA Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .19 Fine Dairy ~ .14 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream, new ioj£@ .12 Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh....... io @ .1016 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 33 @ .35 * Pork—Mess 8.75 @ 9.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 .36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2... , 29 @ .29Js Rye—No. 1 55 @ .66 Pork—New Mess 8.75 @ 9.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 86 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2.... 30 @ .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red , .86 @ .87 Corn—Mixed 32 @ .33 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .29}n Pork—New Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 ~ CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .88 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Pork—Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 4.5 J DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 6.00 Sheep.. .' 3.25 @4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 84 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 37 & .38' Oats—No. 2 33 @ .37 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.50 Sheep 2.60 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 85 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 34 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .31 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.50 @ 6.00 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs < 4.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat -'No. 2 Red 88 @ .89 Corn—YeUow .41 @ .42 Cattle 6.00 @ 5.75

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Chair laid before the Senate, on the 27th ult., a communication from the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, transmitting a transcript of testimony taken by a committee of that House, and the’ report of the same committee on the subject of charges against the official integrity of certain liiombers of that House in connection with the elecii n of the Hon. Henry B. Payne as United States senator. Mr. Payne at once rose in his seat in tne Senate and entered a most emphatic denial of charges and invited the most exhaustive scrutiny of all his acts and of his private correspondence. The whole thing, he said, was an attempt to circulate baseless gossip and scandal, everything substantial in the way of charges having been discredited and disproved by the testimony. He was willing to leave the matter with the Committee on Privileges and elections of the Senate, to which committee it was referred. The Senate passed bills allotting lends in s?veralty to the Indians of the Round Valley Reservation, California; appropriatings3oo,ooo for the extension of the White House, and authorizing the building of railroad bridges across the St. Croix River, between Prescott, Wis., and Still--water, Minn., and across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Mo., at or near Council 1 Bluffs, lowa, on the line of railroad between either Clay or Jackson County, Missouri, and the county of Wyandotte, Kansas, near Atchison, Kansas, at or near Salino City, Mo., near St Chatles, Mo., at or near St. Joseph, Mo., and near Chamberlain, D. T. The Senato has confirmed the nomination of C. W. West as Governor of Utah. In the House of Representatives Mr. Breckinridge introduced a bill to reduce the number of internal revenue officers and to amend the internal revenue laws. The House Judiciary Committoo reported adversely a bill to prohibit aliens from acquiring title or owning lands within the United '■ States.

The postoffice appropriation bill was- discussed in the Senate on the 28th ult., the bone of contention being the amendment appropriating SBOO,OOO for carrying South and Central American, Chinese, and Australian mails and authorizing tho Postmaster General to make, after due advertisement, contracts for five years with American steamships. The House of Representatives debated the river and harbor bill, and passed the bill providing that hereafter no alien who has not declared his intention to becomo a citizen of the United States ■ shall be granted a license as pilot, engineer, mate, captain, or other officer on any steam* vessel carrying tho flag of the United States.

Mr. Beck (Ky.) spoke for three hours and a half in the Senate on the 29th ult. in opposition to the subsidy clause of tho postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Hale (Me.) addressed tho Senate in favor of the Bubsidy amendment. Tho Senate passed the 4th of July claims bill, with an item of $67,000 for the heirs of Ayres P. Merrill, of Mississippi, for supplies furnished the Union army during the war. In the House the amendment of Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, to the river and' harbor bill, that th'O' appropriation for the Missouri River shall be expanded jmder the direction of tho Secretary of War without tho intervention of the Missouri River Commission, was defeated. A bill was reported to the House providing for the reception of .trade dollars at. their face value in all payments to the Government, or for exchange at the Sub-Treasury for standard dollars, to lie transmitted to the ■ mints as bullion. Mr. Hall (Iowa) gave notice that he would call up the Campbell-Weaver contested election base May 4. The Committee ■ on Public Lands reported a hill to grant the right of way through the public lands to any canal or ditch company formed for tho purposeof irrigation. The postoffice appropriation bill occupied the attention of tho Senate on the 30th ult., and Mr. Hale, of Maine, finished his speech in support of the subsidy amendment. Mr. Brown, of Goorgi.a, also spoke in favor of it. The bill to. make Omaha a port of entry was vetoed by the President for the reason that at that place the Government does not have the necessary officers for the appraisement of merchandise and the collection of duties. The President sent the following nominations, of Postmasters to the Senate : At Brooklyn, N. Y r ., Joseph C. Hendrix; at Baltimore, Md., Frank Brown, vice I. Parker Vesey, resigned; at Shippensburg, Pa., J. A. C. McCune; at Washington, Kansas, James S. Vedder. In the House of Representatives the Committee on Indian Affairs reported favorably a bill giving the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad the right of way through the Indian Territory. The House rejected an amendment to the river and harbor bill offered by Mr. Warner (Ohio), providing that the appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi River shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War instead of the Mississippi River Commission, and providing for a Congressional committee to investigate the work of the Mississippi River Commission. The House refused, by a vote of 33 to 129, to strike out the levee clause. The Senators took a rest, and the House of Representatives only was in session on the Ist inst. Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, from tho Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill amendatory of tho Chinese immigration act. Also, providing indemnity to certain Chinese for losses sustained within the jurisdiction of the United States, Mr. Ward, of Indiana, from the Committee on Postoifices and Roads, reported a bill authorizing the employment of messengers in the mail service. Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, from tho Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill authorizing the construction of dry-docks at certain navy-yards,

India-Rubber Gathered in Colombia.

When the hunter has found a rubber tree, he first clears away a space from the roots, and then moves on in search of others, returning to commence operation as soon as he has marked all the trees in the vicinity. He first of all digs a hole in the ground hard by, and then cuts in the tree a V-shaped incision with a machete, as high as he can reach. The milk is caught as it exudes and flows into the hole. As soon as the flow from the cut has cease'd the tree is chopped down, and the trunk raised from the ground by means of an improvised trestle. After placing large leaves to catch the sap, gashes are cut throughout the entire length, and the milk carefully collected. When it first exudes, the sap is of the whiteness and consistence of cream, but it turns black on exposure to the air. When the hole is filled with rubber, it is coagulated by adding hard soap or the roots of the mechvacan, which have a most rapid action, and prevent the escape of the water that is always present in the fresh sap. When coagulated sufficiently, the rubber is secured by bark thongs, carried on the back of the hunter to the bank of the river, and floated down on rafts. The annual destruction of rubber trees in Colombia is very great, and the industry must soon disappear altogether. unless the government puts in force a law that already exists, which compels the hunters to tap the trees without cutting them down. If this law were strictly canied out, there would be a good opening for commercial enterprise, for rubber trees will grow from 8 to 10 inches in diameter in three or four years from seed. The trees require but little attention, and they begin to yield returns sooner than any other. Those that yield the greatest amount of rubber flourish on the banks of the Simu and Aslato Rivers.