Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — Page 2

W £tmocratitsenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. John Roach, the ship-builder, is dying of cancer of throat, his case being similar to that which carried off General Grant Two large black bears were captured in the Catskill Mountains, last week, after a chase of four- days and a desperate fight Mrs. Hugh Jones and her sister, Mrs. Jane Ryan, of Erie, Pa., and another sister who resides in Wales, have fallen heir to £l,000,000, the estate of a brother who died recently in Calcutta. The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the well-known nomologist and horticulturist, died at his Boston res dence, aged 88. A forfeit of SSOO has been put up at New York by John B. Day, of the New York Base-ball Club, aud Chris Von der Abe, of the St Louis Browns, for a series of games next spring for SIO,OOO a side. William Ried, Treasurer of the South Boston Railroad, who embezzled $80,718 and issued 1,263 shares of fraudulent stock, has been sentenced to State prison for seven years. James D. Warren, proprietor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser since 1861, and a leader of the Republican party of the State, is dead. He had from his early manhood been influential in political affairs. Near Harmony Grove, Pa., T. B. Sanders decapitated John Swilling, his wife, and three childreen, and then fired the premises. His purpose was to secure S4O which he knew was in the house, and then decamp.

WESTERN.

Judge Gresham has appointed Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, Receiver of the Chicago Division of the Wabash Railway. The old Receivers report $271,431 on hand at the close of November. Jay Gould refuses so express an opinion in regard to the now appointee. The Federal Grand Jury at St. Louis has returned indictments against fifty citizens for frauds perpoirated at the late election. Mrs. Juliet Cunningham was awarded $25,000 damages by a St Louis jury for injuries received in jumping from a street car which was in danger of colliding with a railway train. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at the rate of a mile a minute. It passed through ths Union Depot at the highest known rate of speed, aud exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in the country. The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked near San Francisco, the ship going to pieces in a few minutes. Of the forty-two persons on board, only the captain and ten others are known to have been saved. Vessel and outfit were valued at $25,009, and the insurance but SS,(LO. It is stated that the timbers of the bark were so rotten they could be knocked to pieces by the blow of a hammer. Sylvester Granda, alias Gainders, was arrested at Kansas City for complicity in the Haddock murder, and wis taken to Sioux City, lowa. Granda admits he was. with several persons whom he mentions and drank with them. They had agreed to attack Haddock and another prominent Prohibitionist Arensdorf, he says, fired the shot which killed Haddock. Granda, with his wife and Koshnitzki, who is now under arrest at Sioux City, floated down the river cn a flat-boat, and Koshnitzki went on to California.

The Cherokee Council has passed an order extending the time for driving cattle in Indian Territory from April 1 to May 1, and also allowing the shipping of timber out of the Te-ritory upon payment ot a royalty. A letter from Sassakawa, Indian Territory, gives an account of the death there of Mrs. Susanna Warren, probably the oldest woman in the wofrld. She was born in Florida in 1750, and was in her one hundred and thirty-seventh year at the time of her death. She leaves a daughter ninety-seven years of age and many grandchildren.

Factor Jones and Dick Bullock, two of the four negroes who a few diyj ago murdered George Taafe, iu the Choctaw Nation, because he discovered them killing his cattle, ■were released on S4)O ball, but were caught by a mob, taken to the scene of the murder, and riddled with bullets, each rece ving not less than forty shots. Sandy Smith and George Moss, the other murderers, are in jail awaiting trial

SOUTHERN.

Judge Duffy, of Baltimore, Md., imprisoned a reporter named Morris for exposing grand jury proceedings. The steamer J. M. White, the finest boat on the Mississippi River, was burned at the bank near Pointe Coupee, La. It is bel.eved that nearly fifty lives were lost The steamer cost $225,000, and had a cargo valued at $150,0.0. At Greenville, Ala., Mayor Perry and some friends made a brutal attack upon two temperance speakers who had given offense. One of the lecturers was knocked down on the railroad track with brass knuckles; the other was in the act of the Mayor when his arm was seized. James Howard, aged 35, imprisoned at Texarkana for brutal treatment of his 14-year-o d wife, was taken from jail and hanged to a railway trestle. With a red-hot live-stock brand Howard had branded the letter “H” in two places on his wife’s person. A stake of SSO, COO, to be run for on the Louisville Jockey Club’s track, has been arranged for the spring of 18891 Mr, Wgshborne, wm of the

Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago, dropped dead in a Louisville hotel. Bob Jeter (colored) was hanged for murder at Spartanburg, S. C. He brokerdown completely on the scaffold, and the scene was pit.ful Leading steamboatmen of New Orleans agree in the opinion that no more large boats with costly cab ns will be built for the lower Mississippi trade. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet in thickness, has been discovered on the line of the Marietta and Norh Georgia Railroad The Louisiana Board of Liquidation has arranged with two banks in New Orleans to take the accounts of the State and provide for the payment of interest on her consolidated debt.

WASHINGTON.

Touching the question of tariff revision at the present session of Congress, a Washington special to the Chicago Times says; As the time draws near for a vote upon consideration ot the tariff question, the hopes of both sides to the contest rise and fall from day to day. The fust motion to be made is that tne House go into committ ie of the whole to consider revenue bills. Upon t iis motion a small majority is churned on each side, the difficulty in mak.ng calculations being that it cannot be definitely ascertained what course will be pursued by those Republicans and Randall Democrats who disiie a reduction of revenue, yet do not approve of the Morrison plan of reduction.

A Washington special to the Chicago Tribune iays the friends of the Hennepin Canal, “have about decided on their course of action. They will send a delegation to the Illinois Legislature at Springfield early in January, and try to have pushed through a bill meeting the objections of the Comstock Board to the acceptance by the General Government of the Illinois aud Michigan Canal under existing conditions. They have decided that all the points involved can be met by the Legislature without again submitting the question' to the people. With these objections overcome, they believe an indorsement of the project can be got from Secretary Endicott on the ground of commercial importance. Re-enforced by this, they would make a final attempt in Congress to again graft Hennepin on the river and haibor bill It is a forlorn hope, but the Hennepiners insist they will not give up the fight” The Consolidated Cattle-Growers’ Convention has perfected a bill for the eradication of plenro pneumonia.

Secretary Manning has directed the payment, without rebate, of the interest due Jan. 1, 1887, on tho United States four-per-cent bonds of the loan of 1907, amounting to about $9,000,000.” President Cleveland has accepted an invitation to be present at the “Old Guard” ball to be held in New York Jan. 27, conditioned on his being able to leave public duties. General Bragg, in reporting the army appropriation bill to the House of Representat ves, stated that the managers of the military prison at Leavenworth had within a year drawn $160,815 from the clothing fund with which to purchase material The committee has decided to limit the amount for next year to $125,000, and expresses the hope that the business of shoemaking as a penalty for desertion will soon be abandoned.

POLITICAL.

Worcester, Mass., voted for license by 5,8J7 against 4,710, and elected Samuel Winslow, Republican, Mayor by a vote of 5,811 against 5,001 for John 11 Thayer, Democrat The Republican Aldermanic ticket was elected, and the Republicans also elected eight out of the twelve members of the Common Council Women worked at the polls all day for tho no-license ticket Preston H. Leslie, of Kentucky, has been nominated Governor of Mont ma. The following appointments of Postmasters have been made by the President: Illinois—Charles Wiessman, Warsaw; William A. McCann, Sterling; J. M. Startzman, Saoona; Edward Gardner, Rochelle; Michael 8. Touhy, Nokomis; E. 8. Burns, Hillsborough; C. W. Jones, Griggsville; George W. Hess, Evanston; John Culbertson, Delavan; 8. W. Tufts, Centralia; Edward Smith, Carrollton; J. M. Toler, Carbondale: It. L. Allen, Joliet; J. 8. Palmer, Duquoin; Ellis Briggs, Roodhouse; W. C. Scanland, Normal; Conrad Durkes, Franklin Grove; F. A. Mead, Marengo; J. A. Able, Auburn. Michigan—Louis P. Seent, Sturgis; George C. Thompson, Midland; D. C. Johnson, Ithaca; F. F. Colo, Albion ; H. D. Pugh, Lansing ; Ira B. Card, Hillsdale; Eucharlste Brule, Lake Linden: Abner M. Moore, Dowagiac. Wisconsin—J. J. French, Sparta; Carl Zillier, Sheboygan ; Roderick McGregor, River Falls ; J. E. Jones, Portage; J. A. Bardon, Superior, P. H. Carney. Waukesha; Jeremiah Sullivan, Ashland. Minnesota—John S. Stewart, Pipestone; Fred Hupler, Adair; A. S. Kemp, Montevideo; Henry J. Dane, Le Sueur; Edward Fay, Moorhead ; Michael Sullivan, Marshall. lowa—G. J. Rodman, Washington; Richard Burke, What Cheer; Thomas A. Massie, Logan; J. N. Davis, Knoxville; W. H. Merritt, Des Moines; G. P. Neal, Columbus Junction; James Frey, Sigourney: Frank P. Motie, Odebolt; E. K. Pitman, Leon; J. P. Carb ton, lowa Falls; George Paul, lowa City; 8. H. Harvey, Centreville ; Ale>.a'ider Charles, Cedar liapius ; John Hornstein, Boone; A. H. Graves, Afton; It. L. Gedtey, Malvern ; J. H. James, ■ ac Citv; G. C term eon, Helle Plaine. Kansas -J. Q. a’. Sheldon, Manhattan; J. R. Hall, Howard; J. F. Baker. Ellsworth; W. H. Eddy, Columbus; J. E. Ireland, Iola; E. W. Lyon, Cherryville. Nebraska—W. F. Wolf, Friend; Frank Campbell. O’Neil.

Following is the vote for Mayor of Boston at the election held on the 14th inst: O’Brien, Democrat, 23,387; Hart, Republican, 18,719; McNeill, Libor, 3,564. The Republican candidate last year received 18,092 votes, while O’Br.eii polled 26,672. The Republicans elect five Aidermen and the Democrats seven. The Common Council will stand 32 Republicans, 35 Democrats, and 5 Independent Democrats. The license vote was: Yes, 20,223; no, 16,786 —a majority for license of 3,437, against 9,969 last year.

A Washington special states that “about a dozen Representatives, including Messrs. Randall (Pa.), Warner (Ohio), and Merriman (N. Y.), had a conference over the tariff question and decided to oppose the consideration of the Morrison bill. They favored a reduction of the revenues to prevent the accumulation of a surplus, but insist that it shall be effected by some measure which shall embrace the repeal or reduction of certain of the internal revenue taxes.” President Cleveland has nominated Erskine M. Ross to be Judge and J. Marion Brooks to be attorney for the Southern District of California, and CoL O. B. Willcox to be Brigadier General. Representative Anderson, of Kansas,

a revenue reformer, says he voted against the Morrison tariff motion because of deeper interest in interstate commerce legislation.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Domestic servants at Greenville, Pa., have formed a union for the purpose of advancing wages 50 cents a week. They will boycott any girl who refuses to join and merchants who refuse to pay the advance. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road has ended the strike of freight conductor« by a compromise. Thus far the vote of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers shows that 99 per cent of the men are opposed to affiliation with the Knights of Labor. Knights of Labor at Amsterdam, N. Y., have been greatly excited by the publication in a local paper of the mode of initiation and the secrets of their order. A meeting of the coal operators and miners from all of the mines in the Mahoning Valley, was held at Youngstown, Ohio, at which it was agreed to submit all questions in dispute to arbitration committee’.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The extension of the Chicago and Northwestern Road to Deadwood may be guessed from the introduction of a bill in Congress to grant a right of way through the Fort Meade military reservation. The Lake Erie and "Western Road was sold at Muncie, Ind., Samuel Thomas, $f New York, bidding in the entire line from Sandusky to Bloomington. Thomas represents the Cummings syndicate. Jay Gould recently forwarded to an agent at Little Rock $2,000,600 in bonds of the Little Rock, Mississippi and Texas Road, which was sold to him at auction for $50,000. Surveyors of the Manitoba Road have located the western extension at Fort Assimboine. It is stated that the West Shore Road is arranging to build a branch line into the Catskill mountains. The Fort Worth and New Orleans Railroad, forty-two miles long, was sold to C. P. Huntington, the consideration being $546,000.

MISCELLANEOUS. A dispatch from New Bedford reports the killing of three of the crew of the bark Mermaid in the Indian Ocean, by a mad whale. Friends of the late General Hancock contributed sufficient money to purchase a home for his widow. At her desire a residence in Washington will be placed in her name. Sir John Lister Kaye, of London, having founded a catile company with a capital of $5,500,100, is negotiating with the Canadian Pacific Road for large blocks of land near Calgary. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 260 and for Canada 28, a total of 288, against 274 the week previous. The casualties in the Middle, Western, Southern, and Pacific States were above the average in number. Counterfeit S2O silver notes are reported as in circulation. The Government of Nicaragua is endeavoring to negotiate in London a 6 per cent loan of £2,850,000 at secured by State railways. The Grant monument fund in New has reached $123,729.

FOREIGN.

John Dillon pleaded his own case in a Dublin court, claiming that the language he used in his speeches was justifiable. The Judge thought differently, and ordered him to give bond for £3,000 for good behavior in the future or go to jail for six months. The Belgian Government has sanctioned the holding of an international industrial and scientific exhibition in Brussels. The English Court of Appeal has quashed the verdict for £5,0J0 obtained by Cyrus W. Field against James Gordon Bennett, on the ground that the latter is not even a resident of Great Britain. M. N. Droze, a Radical, has been elected President of Switzerland for 1887. Reports from British Consuls in America on American homestead laws are about to be published. They agree in praising the operation of the laws, and favor the application to England of the principle of the exemption of personal property to a limited extent from sale under a legal process. Merlatti completed, at Paris, his fifty-day last in good condition, aud was given a small quantity of wine before his food. All Germans and Poles employed on railways in Russian Poland are to be dismissed at the beginning of the year. Fred Archer’s blooded stock has been sold, realizing £3,585.

The annual report of the Irish Land Commission shows that there ha, been an average reduction of 24 per cent in the price of land, and that in Connaught the reduction amounts to 28 per cent A large company of Kerry moonlighters have been sentenced at Cork to eighteen months’ imprisonment. The Irish Executive has formally proclaimed the anti-rent campaign. The funds of the league have been transferred to France, and rent moneys deposited with trustees will be secreted. France, Germany, Russia, and Turkey are declared by the Journal des Debate, Paris, to be in accord on the Bulgarian matter. Presumably Austria has the benefit of England’s “moral support” ae against the four powers named , Opinions are now considerably divided as to the pro pects of a great European war. B.smarck, however, is determined that Germany shall be prepared for the worst Emperor William is quoted as being desirous of peace, and, it is said, he has written the Czar asking his forbearance from any policy that will precipitate a European war.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A. J. McQuade, the convicted New York “boodle” Aiderman, has been sentenced to seven years in the Penitentiary anl to pay a fine of $5,000. The last actin the drama, says a New York dispatch, seemed to have even more interest for the public tnan the scenes of the trial: Chambers street and the approaches to the brown-stone Court-house of tue General Sestions were with hundreds of i>eople. The large court was densely packed. Th? mot.on lor a new mal was denied by Recorder Smythe. McQuad. was oidered to stand up, ana did so with his thumbs in his pantaloons pockets. The Recorder said in substance: "Arthur J. McQuade, you have been fairly and justly convicted of bribery. You were, elected to perforin a public duty and public trust. Instead of doing so you violated that trust. Your character as a business man, citizen, father, and husband is good. I have sympathy for your wife and family. You should have considered them before you did wrong. You did not add to the crime of which you have been convicted, as Jaenne, by taking the stand and committing p rjury. I have reason to believe that you received as much money as Duffy did—SIJ.aIJ. That money is not yours; it is not the property of your family. If it is left wit.i them it will worx the inevitable result ot ill-gotten gain. I would advise you to give up and pay back to the city the money which you receive !, and I have no donot it would work to your benefit. The sentence of the Court is that you be confined in State’s prison at hard labor for a term of seven years, aud th it you pay a fine of SS,iDO. ” During the sentence McQuade stood up, his arms so ded across his bosom in the manner habitual to him. His chin was a little elevated, his head inclined a little to ope side, aud his brow knitted, the whole poSo and the expression of the face being that of one listening to a voice difficult to hear At its close he sat down, turned immediately, and, with a business-like air, entered into conversation with Gen. Tracy, as if he were discussing a bargain just consummated. After the sentence was given the audience dispersed, McQua le going out with his keepers aud the faithful brotner who had stood by his side throughout bis trial.

President Cleveland has made the following appointment-: W. A. Walker, of Wisconsin, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ; D. H. Risley, of California, to be United States Marshal of the Southern District of Calilornia. Postmasters—Cairo, 111., Alexander H. Irvin; Decatur, 111., Samuel S. Jack; Edwardsville. Hi., James B. Dale; Fulton, 111. William O. Groeno ; Atlanta, 111., Richard T. Gill; Barry, 111., William F. White; Winona, 111., Reginald F. Beecher; Paris, 111., Thomas E. Garner; West Plains, Mo., Lemuel G. Ellen; Wellington, Kan., Edith Love; Brazil, Ind., John D. Sour wine ; Hartford City, Ind., Charles U. Timmunds; Hastings, Mi ni., Michael McHugh; Sauk Center, Minn., Ur el M. Tobey; Willianson, Mich , William P. Ainslee ; White Pigeon, Mich., humuel R. Robinson; Lowell, Mich., John M Mathewson; Black River Fails, Wis,, George W. Lev.s ; Belfast, Me , Henry L. Kilgore; Annapolis, Md , Richard Welsh; Valdosta, Ga., Willis Lang ; Bardstown, Ky., Mary McAtee ; Calvert, Tex., B. F. Church; East Liverpool, Ohio, Robert O. Abraham; Lorain, Ohio, C. S. Vorwerk; Mandan, Dakota, Joseph Hager; Seattle, Washington Territory, M.Lyon; Paris, Texas, C. B Pegues.

Barbara Elizabeth Grund, aged 16, daughter of a well-known citizen of St Lou.s, died from hydrophob.a. She had been slightly bit en some tints ago by a puppy two months old, but nothing was thought of the occurrence.

The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, December 20, authorizing the acceptance of the tract of land at Highwood, 111., donated by the Chicago Commercial Club fur a military post. A bill was intr >ducad for the extirpation of contagious diseases among cattle. It creates a commissio i of tares, whose s irvice shall end when the disease is eradicated, and appropriates SI,OOO, jJJ for the work proposed. Mr. Vest introduced a substitute for the oil! to incorporate the Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway Compan v, and stated that it simply provided for a naked incorporation of the company without any guarantee by the Government. It was made the special order for the second Tuesday in January. Among the petitions presented and referred in the Senate were several in favor of the reduction of the tax on oleomargarine. The House of Representatives refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill increasing the duties on Sumatra tobacco. Bills were introduced to appropriate SIOO,OOO for the erection of a monument to negro soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the rebellion, to forbid the sale of liquors within the limits of any soldiers’ home, aud to punish the ] assing of Confederate money. The Weaver resolution call.ng on Secretary Manning for certain information concerning canceled Treasury notes was adopted. Mr. Townshend introduced a resolution in the House that the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to ascertain whether any National Banking Association in New Tork City has during the present month loaned its suiplus funds to stock-jobbers without security, and merely upon receipt of interest on the same for the purpose of enabling the speculators to lock up and prevent the use of money in business transactions, and thereby produce a scarcity of money and greatly increase the rate of interest on loons.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 3 5.75 Hogs 4.25 k* 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 89 & SO No. 2 Red! ..J.. .88 @ .89 CORN—No. 2 47 @ .48 Oats—White 37 <3l .41 Pobk—New Mess 12.25 m 12.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 4.75 @ 5.50 Good Shipping 3.’.5 & 4.5) Common 3.00 « 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @4.59 Wheat—No. 2 Red .76 & .77 Corn—No. 2 36 & .37 Oats—No. 2 23 @ .27 Butteb—Choice Creamery .25 @ .27 Fing Dairy 18 & .22 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar. ,12%@ ,12% Full Cream, new 12%@ .13% Eggs—Fresh 20 & .22 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 46 @ .50 Pobk-Mess n. 25 @11.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 76 @ .77 Cohn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats -No. 2 26 @ .26% Rye--No. 1 56 @ .57 Pobk—Mess : n.oo @11.50 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 79 <a 80 Cobn—Cash 38 @ .38V, Oats—No. 2 28 @ 30 * DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.25 <a 5.5) Hogs 3.00 @ 4.5) Sheep 4.0) @ 5.00 Wheat—Michigan Red .80 @ .81 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ 33 * ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 89 <a ,80v> Cobn—Mixed 35 @ 36* Oats—Mixed 28 <a .29 Pobk—New Mess 1150 @l2 01 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red . 80 @ .80 U, Coen—No. 2 38 @ 39 * Oats—No. 2 30 .’3l'6 Pobk—Mess t 11.50 <312 0.).' Live Hogs : 4.00 @4 50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 89 @ .90 Corn-No. 2 Yellow 43 @ 44 Cattle - 4.25 @ 5.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.00 @5.00 HO'.S 3.75 4.50 Sheep 2.5) @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .78 Corn—No. 2 .35 @ .36 Oats 29 .30 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.50 @ 4.75 Fair 3.75 @ 4.25 Common 3.0) @ 3.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Sheep 4.00 @ 4.50

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The biU for repealing the tenure-of-office law gave rise to an extended debate in the Senate on the 24th inst. Mr Edmunds opposed and Mr. Hoar advocated the repeal of the law. The House amendments to the electoral-count bill were non- oncurred in and a conference ordered. The Committee on Finance reported back favorably a bill for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. Bills weie introduced for the amendment of the oleomargarine law, and to increase the pensions of those who have suffered disabilities equivalent to the loss of a foot or a hand A memor al was received from the German Aid Society of Wisconsin. suggesting the enactment of a uniform naturalization and suffrage law. The House of Representatives killed the scheme for a railroad through the northern part of the Yellowstone National Park, alleged to be nseded as an outlet for a mining district, and spent the remainder of the day in considering the sundry civil appropriation bill. The bill to repeal the civil-service law reported adversely by Senator Hawley from the Committee on Civil Service during the first session of the present Congress was reintroduced by Senator Vance on the 15th inst. Senator Cullom offered the conference report cn the interstate commerce bill and gave notice that he would call it up Tuesday, when it might goover the holiday adjournment for discussion. Senator Conger favor bly reported the bill recently passed by the House to extend the treedelivery system to towns of 10,000 population. Senator Platt’s resolution for open executive sessions was laid on the table by a vote of 33 to 21. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the proposed bridge rcrcss th? Arthur Kill, between New Jersey and Staten Islnnd. Mr. Beck called: up the bill prohibiting 8 nators or Representatives from acting as attorneys for subsidized railroad companies. Mr Beck denounced it as indecent for Senators and members to sit and vote upon measures affecting great railroad companies to the amount of hundreds of millions while having the money of those companies in their pockets. Public right, common decency, and the honor of every -Senator and Representative were involved in having the world to understand that no man was sitting in either House as the or the retained attorney, or the agent of any, of these subsidized railroad corporations. The House of Representatives devoted the day, in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the sundry civil bill. Senaiok Van Wyck’s resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to how the Missouri River Commission apportioned the money appropriated by the last river an l harbor bill for the improvement of the Missouri River, was adopted by the Senate on the 10th inst. A bill granting a pension to Mrs. Barbara Fuchs, the stepmother of a soldier, was passed. A bill was introduced fixing the salaries of the Commission, rs of Education and Labor at $5,000 each. Senator Plumb introduced a bill providing that no railr ad or other company or corporation engaged in the interstate commerce shall have or keep an office lor or otherwise provide tor or permit the transfer upon the books of said corporation of any portion of the capital stock of the same at any placeoutside the State by or under the laws of which the said corporation was incorporated, and all transfers of the stock of any such corporation, at any point or place outside the limits of the State by which such corporation was incorporated shall be void. Petitions were presented from tobacco manufacturers from St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynchburg, Durham, N. C., and other cities, protesting against the passage of the House bill in reference to the p eking of cut tobacco. Senator Spooner introduced a bill for a public building at Milwaukee at a cost for site and build ng not to exceed $1,200,00). The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians, upon whom are to be conferred the rights of citizenship. The measure does not affect the tribes in Indian Territory. Another Senate bill was passed for the ret reinent of Admirals Rowan and Worden, on their own application, with the highest pay of their grade. The urgency deficiency bill was passed. Bills authorizing the o instruction of bridges across the Cumberland River near Nashville, across the St. Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, and across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn., passed the Senate Hee. 17. The Senate then took up the bill to repeal the tenure-of-office act, and without further discussion it was passed—yeas 30, nays 2?—as follows : Yeas—Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, Chace, Cockrell, C Iquitt, Eust’s, Geo-ge, Gibson, Gorman, Gray. Hampton, Harris, Hoar. Ingalls, Maxey, Mitchell (Oregoni, Morgan, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Saulsbury, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Whithorne, and Wilson (Md.) — 30. Nays—Aldrich, All so ), Blair. Cameron, Cheney.'Conger, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Hale r Hawley, McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill, Platt, Sawyer, Sherman, Sneoner. Stanford, Williams, W Ison (lowa)—22. The Senate also passed bills to retire anl recoin trade dollars, to extend the free-delivery syst em of the Poito fice Department, to sell the Custom House lot at Eastport, Maine, and erec ba $100,1)00 building on anew site and to allow the bridging of the Mississippi at Memphis and the Cumberland at Nashville. The House of Repres mtatives passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, and a bill directing the Quartermaster General toad iu st the claims of the.McMi inville and Manchester Railroad. A resolution was mtroluced and referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, authorizing the Pr sident t> appoint a commission to take testimony in relation to the losses and injuries indicted since December 1)1, 1835, by Br tish authorities, imperial or colonial, upon citizens o’ the United States en .'aged in the fisheries on the northern coast of British North America. Mn. Dibble, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Dec. 18, asked unanimous consent to put upon its passage a bill appropriating $5-0,000 for a public building at Charleston, S. C. Mr. Hepburne objected on the ground that, in view of the recent experience of that city, this was not the time to appropriate $500,000 for the erection of a new bu Iding. Mr. Dibble remarked that if the bill were not passed the Government would have totransact its business in the open air. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Oklahoma bill. Pending action the committee rose and the morning hour expired. Instantly a hush fell over the House, and the noisu in the galleries ceased. All eyes were turned upon Mr. Morrison, who, arising in his seat, said: “Mr. Speaker, I move that the House resolve itself into the committee of the whole on the state of the Union for the purpose of considering revenue bills.” Mr. McKinley, of Ohio—And on that I demand the yeas and nays. During * the roll-call absolute < silence reigned in the House, and many members, with pencil in hand, were figuring up thfe vote. Messrs. Morrison and Randall were apparently among the least interested members, each leaning back in his chair within a few feet of each other, while now and then a pleasant remark was exchanged between them. The mition was lost—yeas 149, nays 154. The announcement was received with some applause on the Republican side, but it wiis. quickly suppressed. The following Democrats voted against Mr. Morrison’s motion: Messrs. Bliss, Boyle, Campbell (0.1, Curtin, Frmentrout, Foran, Gay, Geddes, Greene, (N. J, I, Irion, Lawler, Lefevre, Martin, McAdoo, Merriman, Muller, Randall. Seney, Snowden, Springs, Stahlnecker, >t. Martin, Wallace, Ward (Ill.), Warner (O.), and Wilkins The following Republicans voted in the affirmative: Hayden, Ni Ison, Stone (Mass.), Strait, Wakefield, end White (Minn.) A steam barge has been built at Suffolk, Va., which is 167 feet long, 22 V feet beam and eight feet depth of hold. It will carry 20'J,000 feet of lumber on six feet draught, and has two masts, schooner rigged, to be used as auxiliary power when wind is favorable.

London and its vicinity consume over 3,250,000 pounds of eels a year, worth $650,000. The larger proportion of these eels come from Holland, only a small quantity being taken from English waters.