Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The register of St. John’s Church, Buffalo, shows that on Feb. 15 Margaret Mather and Emil Habercorn, an orchestra leader, were married by Rev. Mr. Ballard. The jury in the Minnie Clark-Kitt-son case’ at New York decided that, notwithstanding the performance of a marriage ceremony, Kittson was incapable of entering into any such contract, owing to drunkenness at the time. Frank W. Foster, Town Clerk and Treasurer of Greenfield, Mass., is a defaulter for about $23,000, and has been lodged in jail. The bodies of Mrs. Belle Ellsworth and John Neibert were found at West Newton, Pa. Both had pistol wounds, and are supposed to have died by their own hands.

WESTERN.

"Representatives of sixty-eight trotting associations from fourteen States assembled at Detroit and unanimously decided to form a now trotting association, to bo known as the American Trotting Association. Rules were drawn up and approved, and officers and directors chosen, William R. Morriam, of St Paul, being elected President The next meeting will tako placo at Chicago two years lienee. The brief in the Chicago anarchist case filed in the Illinois Supreme Court at Ottawa, by counsel for the condemned, is a printed volume of 42(1 pages. Leonard Swett had previously filed a documont of ninety-six pages. On the farm of Scott Callaway, near Ligonier, Ind., customs officers seized $15,000 worth of horses smuggled from Canada J. A. Seddon, a well-known St. Louis lawyer, has been appointed Circuit Judge, taking the placo of Judgo Thayer, who succeeds Judge Treat on the Federal bench. Mother Angela, the founder of St. Mary’s Academy at Notre Dame, Ind., has just died in her sixty-third year. She was a cousin of James G. Blaine, and was educated at Georgetown with Mrs. Gen. Sherman. During the war she rendered great service by opening hospitals. An injunction was granted at St. Louis preventing the Union Mutual Insurance Company from doing further business, and an agent was appointed to wind up its affairs. Its liabilities and assets are, respectively, about $125;000. The blue-ribbon temperance movement has carried Vincennes, Ind., by storm, says a dispatch from that city. Over two thousand people have signed tho pledge, and signers are pushed forward by tho hundred. Everybody is amazed tat the astounding progress of the meeting. A dark-complexioned, smooth-faced man of about 28 years, entered the waterworks at Chicago, on Sunday last, end stood watching the ponderous machinery. He moved to the south end of tho room and glanced around to see whether any one was watching him. Seeing no one, he approached the walking-beam, threw off his hat, and crawled underneath the guard rail. As the beam descended ho throw himself beneath it The beam at tho lowest point it reaches has a play of about four inches, and the body of the unknown was crushed into a shapeless mass. Death must have boen instantaneous for ho uttered not a groan. The body was hurled by the beam up on top of the cylinderhead, whence it was removed to the morgue. Mrs. Becker, of Cincinnati, Las been sentenced to two years in tho Dayton (Ohio) Penitentiary for fraudulently obtaining a pension. Lucky Baldwin has offered to match Yolanto against Montana Regent for from $5,000 to $20,003 on any course offering the most money. Joseph W. Bingham, a well-known journalist, committed suic.de at Indianapolis by cutting his throat with a razor. His health had been poor for some time. Joseph Donaldson, a farmer, living near Galena, IIL, carved his wife and child some days ago, and was twice prevented from hanging himself. At last he procured a gallon of whisky, retired to a secluded spot, and drank himself into tho next world.

SOUTHERN.

Mobile dispatches give some details of the burning of the steamer Gardner, on the Tombigbeo River, by which twenty human lives were sacrificed: The fire was discovered in a bale of cotton by Capt. Stone. A negro deck hand, in throwing ■water on the burning bale, set his clothes afire. Panic stricken he ran from place to place setting fire to cotton bales, and in a few momenta the boat was in flames. She was in midstream and in motion. The pilots were driven from the wheel,and the crew and passengers jumped overboard. It is not thought that more than one or two were burned. Capt. Stone saved himself by swimming ashore. The steamer Tally was behind the Gardner Wait ng to pass. As soon as the flames broke out the Tally lowered her boats and threw over bales, seed sacks, and planks to help the people who were jumping from the Gardner. Tne heat was so intense that the Tally did not dare to go ne r, but her boats pickod up a number of people. When the fire broke out the Gardner was ordered to be run ashore. She i backed, and bells were rung for going ahead, but the engineers were driven from their post by the flames, and the boat drifted into the woods on the opposite side from the place where there was a practicable landing. Pilot VV. H. Wilson remained in the pilot house until ho found that his signals wore not obeyed and that the flames were licking the side of the pilot house, when ho fled for his life. He is much praised for his heroism. The cabin-boy of the Tallj, named Barber, colored, performed heroic deeds, saving five lives by swimming ashore with those in the water. The screams of those on the boat were heartrending. Mrs. W. T. Bembert threw one child into the water, her husband taking the other two. Then she jumped in. All but her husband were lost. A Mobile dispatch states that the

steamer W. H. Gardner, one of the largest boats plying on the Tombigbee River from Mobile, was burned below Gainesville, Humter County, A abama, and twenty persons are known to have perished. Fifteen buildings at South Boston, Va., with a large quantity of tobacco, were destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000, with insurance of SBB,OOO. A skiff containing seven colored persons was run down on the Ohio River near Madison, Ind, by a towboat, and six of ttiem were drowned John White, a colored preacher of Lonoke, Ark., 102 years, has just married a woman of 70. Paul King, a bank cashier at Cynthiana, Ky., was short about SIO,OIO in his accounts, and settled by shooting himself through the temple.

POLITICAL.

The Lower House of the Indiana Legislature adopted a memorial to tho United (states Senate against the seating of David Turpie as a Senator from Indiana. The memorial reviews the proceedings by which it is claimed Turpie was elected, charging particularly that three persons voted for him who had no right to do so. The Democrats vigorously protested against the adoption of tho memorial, and one member in a bitter speech alluded to the Republicans as “the fifty-six cowards on the other side,” to which a Republican Representative responded “You are a liar. ” The Michigan House of Representatives has passed the bill to pay a bounty of one cent a head for tho destruction of English sparrows. The expense is made a county charge, and is payable upon the order of township, village, or city clerk. A. M. Jones, Chairman of the Hlinois Republican State Central Committee, announces himself as unalterably opposed to Mr. Blaine as Presidential candidate. Fifty counties of Kentucky were represented in tho Prohibition Convention at Louisville last week. Judge Fontaine J. Fox was nominated for Governor. Cincinnati special: It has been authoritatively stated that an alliance has been formed between Senator Sherman, Governor Foraker, and Congressman Butterworth, to secure Sherman’s nomination for the Presidency 4n 1888. Tire terms of the agreement are that the nomination for Governor this fall shall bo given to Butterworth, and if Sherman is chosen President Foraker shall bo elected United States Senator. The combination, if it holds together, can overcomo all opposition in Ohio. It is believed at Washington that the Democratic members of the Interstate Commission will be Morrison of Illinois, Grant of Colorado, and Bragg of Alabama.

WASHINGTON.

It is given out that James C. Matthews, whom tho Senate recently rejected as District Recorder of Deeds, will soon be appointed Register of tho Treasury. Gen. Rosecrans, the report says, will be placed at the head of the Geodetic and Coist Survey. The river and harbor bill passed by Congress appropriates $50,000 for surveys and estimates for a waterway from Lake Michigan to Joliet and thence to La Salle, which, with the improvement of tho Illinois River, would permit the passage of large vessels from the laltos to tho Mississippi. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4)6 per cent $ 250,C00,000 Bonds at 4 per cent. 737,789,1)0 Bonds at 3 per cent . 52,654,200 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 184,350 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,00j,0D0 Pacific railroad bondß at 0 por cent. 64,023,512 Principal $1,119,251,162 Interest 10,692,581 Total 81,129,943,743 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 6,530,815 Interest. 200,303 Total $ 6,732,210 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes .$ 346,738,341 Certificates of deposit 8,180,000 Gold certificates 99,958,365 Silver certificates 121,130,755 Fractional curroncy (less $8,3/5,931 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,950,561 Principal...’.., $ 582,958,021 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,708,740,0 U Interest. 10,893,946 Total $1,719,633,977 Lobs cash itoms available for reduction of the debt $269,452,976 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 T0ta1....'. 309,452,970 Total debt, loss available cash items $1,350,181,091 Not cash in the Treasury 19,118,975 Debt, less cash in Treasury, March 1, 18)7 $1,331,032,026 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Feb. 1, ISB7 1,332,468,808 Decrease of debt during the montn 8 1,436,782 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1886. 58,104,357 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR BEDUCOF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding 99,958,365 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 121,130,755 United States uotes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding..... 8,180.000 Cash held tor matured debt and interest unpaid 17,424,792 Cash held for bonds called not matured and balance of interest 22,755,549 Fractional currency 3,515 i Total available '... $269,452,976 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, acts Jan 14. 1875, and July 12, 1882 $ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin. 20,482,472 Minor coin 113,-42 T0ta1...!.. § 26,595,714 Certificates held as cash 29,972,577 Net cash balance on band 19,148,975 Total cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account $ 445,170.242 The Comptroller issued a call for a statement of the condition of tho national banks at the close .of business on the 4th inst. The Secretary of State is in receipt of a dispatch from Uruguay announcing that cholera has beeu declared epidemic at Montevideo. The President has pardoned N. H.

Camp, for embezzlement; He ling and Le Long, of Arkanaaa, for violating the internal revenue laws; J. W. Allen, violating the postal laws; Joseph H. Evans, convicted of polygamy, and Alfred Brotherton, convicted of conspiracy to cast away a vessel on the high seas.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Bradstreet'a, in a review of the strikes of the first two months of the year, says: In January, 1887, there have been reported ninety-two strikes and lockouts, involving over 73,3C0 employes, as compared with nineteen strikes and 47,200 employes during January, 1886. Of the former, eightyeight strikes, involving 63,300 employes, were concluded by Feb. 28; while four strikes, including 10,000 men, were still open. Of the 10.000, about 8,000 are New England boot and shoe factory hands, locked out as a protest against Knights of Labor dictation as to shop management The number of shoe operatives locked out or on strike Feb. 1, 1887, was, approximately, 8,400; on March 1, 1887, 5,930. The number out in various small strikes is about 900, as against 400 Feb. 1. The total number of successful strikes of the January list, including compromises as successes, was 31 (out of 88 ended by March 1), involving 18,173 employes. As January strikes of 63,300 employes are ended, liis shows that about SO per cent of the employes have thus far been successful. The prospect, however, is for a smaller percentage of successes after the termination of the boot and shoe lockout The totals of failures are 57 strikes and 45,127 employes—about 70 per cent In January, 1886, 9 strikes, with 23,300 strikers, were successful—nearly one-half —while 10 strikes, with 23,900 strikers, were failures. In February, 1887, there were 74 strikes and 26,000 strikers, as compared with but 5 strikes and 10,700 strikers in February, 1886. By the close of the month 57 strikes, involving 20,000 strikers, had ended, and 23 strikes, with 6,000 strikers, remained unsettled. Of the 51 strikes with 20,000 strikers ended, 12 strikes and 5,350 strikers had been successful—a little over 20 per cent.; while 39 strikes, with 14,650 strikers—nearly 89 per cent —had been failures. In February, 1886, all the strikes were failures. The Milwaukee newspapers have filled their composing-rooms with non-union men, and now positively refuse to re-employ tho strikers.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has secured the Cunard steamships Batavia, Parthia, and Abyssinia to run monthly between Vancouver and Hong Kong, commencing May 1. The Hon. Edward Breitung, of Negaunee, Mich., died at Eastman, Ga. His esstato is valued at between $5,000,000 and $7,000,000. Recent deaths: Mrs. Jane Washington Thornton Beck, wife of Senator Beck, of Kentucky, died at her residence in Washington last week, the result of a cold contracted while out riding in an open carriage, yhe remains were taken to Lexington, Ky., for, interment. Mrs. Beck was born in Auburn, Va., October 9, 1835, and was the grandniece and nearest living descendant of George Washington. She married Senator Beck in Lexington, Ky., Feb. 3, 1848. A cable dispatch announces the death of Mr. G. Harris Heap, the United States Consul General at Constantinople. Commodore E. P. Lull, of the United States navy, died at the Pensacola naval station. William Coke, one o$ the seven men who organized tho Knights of Labor, passed away at Philadelphia, aged 63 years. Tracy Titus, the well-known theatrical manager and husband of the late Alice Oates, died near Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Ruth H. Harmon, mother of Mrs. Folsom, and grandmother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, expired at Jackson, Mich., where she had been living for the last ten years with her son, M. Harmon. She was horn in 1809, and was married in 1835. Lieut. CoL R. N. Scott, chief of tho publication office of war records, died at Washington. Charles J. Peterson, author and publisher, died in Philadelphia.

FOREIGN.

President Grevv will send a special envoy to Berlin to congratulate Emperor William ou the approaching ninetieth anniversary of his birth. George Franklin Anderson, the Detroit man who was arrested in England for swindling, has been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg is beiDg urged by tho army officers as Prince of Bulgaria. Nine of the Ilustchuk rebels have been sentenced to death. King Oscar dissolved the Swedish Parliament for refusing to vote the estimates asked by tho government An explosion in a Belgian colliery suffocated 144 persons. The rumor that China has given Germany the Chusan Islands has again started the whole fever of French discontent about the colonial scheme. The position of Austria in the event of war is at present rather uncertain, but it looks extremely likely that she may decide to take tho sunny side of the road and affect to discover that, after all, no Austrian interests would be prejudiced by a Russian occupation of Bulgaria. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has resigned the office of Chief Secretary lor Ireland on account of continued trouble with his eves, and Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Scotland, has been appointed in' his place. The retiring Secretary goes to Berlin for treatment The Marquis of Salisbury regards the change as a disaster to the country, and, speaking on the Irish question, said what was needed was the restoring of the law machine so that juries would act The question was not a national one, for while the agitators in England demanded freedom, in their own country they preached the heroic gospel of how debtors could escape paying creditors. The struggle on the part of England was for tlie existence of the empire, and would succeed.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The issue of standard silver dollars | last week was 313,714. The license tax imposed in Tennessee ou salesmen from other States has been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, as interfering with interstate commerce. The State Department has forwarded to the American Minister at Berlin instructions to investigate the arrest by the German Government of Richard Reabecker, a citizen of Shelby County, IIL Surveyors for the Wisconsin Central Road have laid out a routr Irum j. ortage to Madison. A strong vein of natural gas has been developed at Alexandria, Ini, at a depth of 940 feet • The Kansas quarantine against Canadian cattle has been raised. Gattie kept curing the last twelve months in Cook County, Illinois, are absolutely prohibited from entering lowa. The Congregational clergymen of Chicago, at their regular monthly meeting, declined to send resolutions of condolence to the family of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, for fear they would be considered as an indorsement of his views on future salvation and punishment The case of David S. Fotheringham, charged with being “Jim Cummings’ ” accomplice in the noted Adams Express roubery, was continued at St Lou.s until the July term of court, on account of the illness of one of defendant’s counsel and the inability of the other to be present in the city. The new Cottou-seed Oil Company, which is to compote m the manufacture of cotton-seed oil with tho (standard Oil Company, has been chartered in Camden, N. J., with these officers: President, Henry C. Butcher ; Secretary and Treasurer, John Oliver. Two thousand cases of measles are reported in leading, Pa. A vagrant lying in jail at Augusta, Ky., was soul to Uie mghest bidder for seven-ty-five days. He was knocked down for $1 to the jailer, who turned him loose. Alexander Crawford, colored,charged with murdering V.u Loggiiis, a merchant of Wiuona, Miss., was ta?icn from tho jail at Winona by a mob, and hanged to a trestle. The wroteh made a desperate fight for liis life in his celt. The German Consul General at Sofia has demanded the release o. six iiulgar.au rebels, at the instance of Russia. Tne German Consul at Rustchuk declines to surrender to tiie Bulgarian authorities a leader in the recent revolt named Bqllman, who claimed protection as a Russ an subject. The President has appointed John B. Sackett postmaster at Buffalo, N. Y Presidential, postmasters have been appointed as follows: John McGonigle, San Buenaventura, Cal., vice Mrs. Jenuio Goodwin, resigned; James L. Scott, Mattuon, Id., vie ) John Cunningham, resigned; George Procraskey, Rockport, Ind, vice Lymau S. Gilitey, commission expired; Susan K. . Burch, Georgetown, Ky., vice Milton Burch, deceased; Charles E. Kinder, Miamisburg, 0., vice Henry Boltin, commission expired; Edward J. Wood, McMinuville, Tenu , vice Richard Kennedy, removed. The followiug reappointments as Presidential Postmasters have been made, the Senate having failed to act on the original nominations: William T. Kirk, Atlanta. IIL ; William F. White, Barry, 111.; Samuel P. Tufts, Centralia, Ill.; Agnes Ross, Ravenswood, IIL ; Joel H. Johnson, Woodstock, UL ; John F. Baker, Ellsworth, Kan.; A. M. McPher on, Galena, Kan.; Robert A. A. Pilcher, Olathe, Kan.; James P. Carleton, lowa Falls, Iowa; Richard Burke, What Cheer, Iowa; Maria S. Howlett, Jonesvillo, Mich.; Fred Punier, Ada, Mina ; Gustav Daugeleisen, Bellevue, Ohio; George Perritte, Cannonsburg, Pa.; George W. Dickey, Houtsdale, Pa.; Cyrus A- Eaton, Miffliuburg, Pa.; George W. Lewis, Black River Falls, Wis.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. A House bill forfeiting certsie lands granted to the State of Michigan for a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line passed the Senate on the Ist inst. The Senate passed fifty-seven private pension biUs in twenty-five minutes, as also bills to convey to the city of Aurora, 111., a small island in Fox River; to authorize the bridging of the Missouri at Yankton; to annex a portion of Idaho to Washington Territory; and to give right of way through Indian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Road. The Senate ordered the preparation of an index to its secret journal for the fifty years from 1829 to 1879. The injunction of secrecy will probably be removed next autumn. The conference report on the river and harbor bill was adopted by both houses. It appropriates nearly $10,000,000. The House of Representatives passed the Mexican pension appropriation of $2,300,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year, and $4,000,000 for next year. The legislative and deficiency appropriation bills were passed under suspension of the rules. At the evening session bills were passed for bridging the Missouri at Omaha and Kansas City, and the Mississippi at Keokuk. The Senate passed the naval appropriation bill on the 2d inst., with an amendment providing for six protected steel cruisers and for the purchase of Ericsson’s Destroyer. In executive session Public Printer Benedict was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 37 to 19. The report of the Committee ou Printing recommended his rejection because he did not answer to the requirements of the law, which stipulates that the incumbent of this office shall be a practical printer, which, technically speaking, Mr. Benedict is not. having never learned the trade. He gained what knowleige he has of the printer's art while editor of a newspaper and proprietor of a job office. Mr. Gorman and Mr. Miller, of New York, defended Benedict, and argued that having proved himself a competent man during six months of trial he should not be rejected upon a technicality, which appeared to be tne opinion of the Senate, for twenty Republicans voted in his favor. The Senate Committee on the District of Columbia reported adversely upon the nomination of James M. Trotter to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The nomination of Lieut. Greely to be Brigadier General and Chief Signal Officer was rep irted favorably. The House of Representatives receded from its amendments to the Senate retaliatory fisheries bill and the Pacific railroad investigation resolutions. The Committee on Ways and Meaus made an adverse report on the bill for the relief of sufferers by fire at Eastport, Me. Senator a bitter attack on Speaker Carlisle, in the Senate on the 3d inst. He stated that by holding back the appropriation hills both the Senate and House were compelled in the closing hours of the session to submit to the dictation of three or four members of the House Committee on Appropriations. He also complained that the Speaker haa recently refused to recognize a n ember desiring to make a motion of which the Chair disapproved. The Kentucky Senators rose and defended Speaker Carlisle from the charge of usurpation of power. The Senate passed bills for public buildings at Dayton, Sioux City, Lafayette, and Lynn over vetoes by the President, and the House bill appropriating $8,000,008 to pay pensions to Mexican veterans. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Chauucey R. Schultz, of Missouri, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at St. Louis, Mo.; also the following Registers of Land Offices : At Concordia, Kan., Samuel Demeres; Deadwood, D. T., John R. Whiteside; Blackfoot, Idaho, Frank W. Bean. The President approved the act authorizing the President to defend the rights of American fishiug vessels, American fishermen, Am -rican trading and other vessels in the British Dominions of North America ; also the Indian ap propriation bill; the act to establish an agricultural experiment station in connection with the colleges established under the act of July 2, 1882; and the act relating to the division of the State of Illinois into judicial districts and to provide for holding terms of court of the Northern District at Peoria. The House of Representatives passed Senate Dills to repeal the tenure of office act; to accept the Highwood tract from the Commercial Club of Chicago; to appropriate $35j,00J for the purchase of a postoifice site at ban Francisco; an attempt to pass the Senate bill pensioning Mrs. Logan was defeated. The bill admitting free of duty articles intended for the Minneapolis exposition, and the Senate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Grand Tower, 111., were passed. Chairman Curtin, of the select committee created by the House of Representatives to inquire into the cause and extent of Western railroad strikes, submitted the report of that commtitee. By far tho larger part of the report is devoted to a history of the origin and progress of the Missouri Pacific strike, and a recapitulation of the testimony taken by the committee. Congress adjourned sine die at noon on Friday, March 4. Among the appropriations of national importance that failed during the closing hours were the following: The deficiency, the District of Columbia, and the fortification bills. The river and harbor appropriation bill, including the Hennepin Canal, failed because of the failure cf the President to sign it before the adjournment. Tho anti-polygamy bill became a law without the President's signature, ten days having elapsed after its passage before the. nnal adjournment of Congress. The failure of the deficiency bill is likely to embarrass the postal service, as it contained provisions for supplying pressing demands for postal-cards, stamps, and other items. The legal machinery of the Government will also be materially disarranged during the remainder of the fiscal year, as no money will be available for jurors’, witnesses’, or marshals' fees, and many prisoners cannot be tried for luunths to come A number of soldiers claims, aggregating $703,000, which had been certified by the Treasury, will fail also of settlement. Navy department officials say the failure oi the bill will cause a stoppage of all work on the now cruisers Boston and Chicago. It is expected that the Atlanta can be completed, as bat little remains to be done on her. Rhe Senate in executive session confirmed James W. Trotter to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, and Captain Greely to be Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of Brigadier General. A Washington special thus describes the closing scenes in the House: “All night long the conference committees were wrestling over the contested portions of the appropriations, and the two houses were necessarily kept in session to await reportß thereon and take final action. It was the most tedious and uninteresting all night session, and after midnight, when the galleries had been emp-ird of the crowd, at least one-half of the members went to their lodgings or to committee-rooms and convenient resting-places to sleep. A quorum was not present at any time after that hour, but the forms of legislation were kept up, and a number of bills were passed. The shouting and rushing for a chance to get bills before the House for action was kept up at intervals, but did not disturb members sleeping in various parts of the hall. Wide-awake and tireless fellows unbent their dignity, played pranks upon each other, and resorted to other boyish means of whiling away the time. During the night the announcement of an agreement upon tne legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill brightened the prospeot so that the diversion of a brief debate on a proposition to give clerks to Representatives as well as Senators was indulged in. Meanwhile the portions of the bill that had been in dispute were being enrolled, and the bill was ready for the President in good time. The House remained firm against the mail Bubsidy, and so the Senata receded and the postoifice appropriation was saved. The conferrees on the fortifications bill did not agree, but had so far reconciled differences that it is believed a few more hours would have brought them together. The Sioux City public building bill, vetoed by the President, was again passed by the Senate, but in the House William L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, fought it and beat it because Mr. Struble, of lowa, had defeated the Sioux City bridge bill, in which Scott was interested. ”

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.— Sydney Smith.