Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — Page 2

fljeJcmocraticSciitincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happen* lugs of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ANARCHY’S GRAVE. Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Linggi and Engel Laid to Rest at Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago. After lying in the vault at Waldheim Cem- | etery for five weeks, under the constant guard of those who knew them when living, sentient beings, says a Chicago special, the bodies of the five dead anarchists, August Spies, George Engel, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and Louis Lingg, were on Sunday consigned to the great Mother Earth. All of the most noted anarchists of the city were present on the train, and also a large number of equally prominent labor-leaders of unpronounced auarchist typo. The speakers of tho day were Captain William P. Black, Paul Grottkau, of Milwaukee; Albert Currlin, of St Louis; aud Joseph It Buchanan. The features of the dead all looked as if but little marred by the lapse of time since .life Bad departed from them, with the exception of Lingg’s, around whose eyes were broad purplish-red rings. Tho grave or vault was open at the top, its sides and floor being made of solid masonry. Its width is that of the length of a coffin, and its length just sufficient to contain the coffins packed close side by side. The five coffins having been lowered into this curious vault, an immense flag-stone was lowered down over it, covering the vault entirely, the stone being lowered down into its place with tho aid of a derrick. During all the ceremonies excollent order was preserved, and the only show of a want of reverence for tho occasion was tho use of the word “Bravo” by several of the auditors during the progress of Grottkau’s speech. STERLING P. ROUNDS DEAD. The Well-Known Printer and Newspaper Man Stricken Down at Omaha. Ah Omaha dispatch announces the death of & P. Rounds, President of the Omaha Republican Company. He was at first attacked with pneumonia, followed by pleurisy, but had so far recovered as to be considered out of danger, when he was seized with heart trouble, aa old affection, which was the direct cause of his death. Sterling Parker Rounds was a native of Vermont ana was born in June, 1828. He learned the printer’s trade in Buffalo, after which he went to Racine, Wis., where ho started a weekly paper. He was married in Racine Dec. 8, 1850, and has threo sons and two daughters living. One daughter is the wife of O. H. ltothakor, the journalist. After his marriage Mr. Rounds removed to Milwaukee and started the Neiua as a weekly paper. He afterward went to Cnicago aud opened a large job printing office on State street, in company with James J. Langdon, They were burned out by the tire, but opened an office soon after on Monroo street, where they continued business until their failure five years later. In 1882 Mr. Bounds was appointed public printer by President Garfield, and held the office until the incoming of the present administration. A year ago in Septembor.be bought the Omaha Iteimblican, and has lived there since. His father is ■till living at Eureka, Wis. He has a brother in Milwaukee and a sister at Aurora, 111. A WAITING GAME. Austria Decides to Make No Move Unless Russia Calls Out More Troops. A Viehxa dispatch says the military council la that city Sunday was presided over by Emperor Francis Joseph. The council resolved that the unexpended portion of the credit of 52,0( O,OOJ florins voted last spring shall bs applied *> the purchase of equipments and construction of huts for troops in Galicia. No increase of the forces in Galicia has yet been decided upon, and, if there is no further augmentation of Russian troops on tho frontier, Austria will adhero to the policy of observation. Higgins’ Successor. A Washington special says that Secretary Fairchild has decided to appoint Mr. Perry C. Bmith, at present Disbursing Clerk of the Postoffice Department, to the position of Appointment Clerk of the Treasury, to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of Mr. Biggins. Mr. Smith is a cousin of the Secretary. Secretary Vilas, in his annual report, ■peaks of him as a most efficient and economical officer.

Convention of Republican Clubs. The Convention of Republican Clubs at New York completed its labors on Saturday and adjourned. Mr. James P. Foster, President of the New York Republican Club, was elected President of the newly created National League. The resolution against the confirmation of Mr. Lamar was tabled. Telegraphic Brevities. Jacob F. Studebakeb, of the carriage manufacturing firm of Studebaker Brothers, died in Chicago of peritonitis. Aubertin, the man who attempted to assassinate M Ferry, has become violently insane and is now in a mad-house. The poet Whittier celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth at his home in Danvers, Mass., on the 17th inst Several thousand men have boen thrown out of employment by the closing of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock, Pa. The last spike was driven m the construction of the California & Oregon railroad, which is completed to Ashland, Oregon. It had been building twenty-one years. Aa a result of the feud between the Adams «•! Caswell factions in Rock Castle County, Kentucky, seven men have been killed within a weak, many others wounded, and several hawses burned. • j

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. An assignment has been made by Searle, Vaunemau A Co., jobbers of notions and white goods at Philadelphia. They owe #265,000, bat the ameunt of their assets is not known. The death is announced at Philadelphia of General T. K. Smith, who was chief of General Grant’s staff at the close of the war. Hknby Ives, of railroad notoriety, was arrested at New York upon a warrant sworn out by Julius Dexter, President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, alleging that in June last Ives appropriated a draft for #IOO,OOO which belonged to the railroad company. Ives was held on #25,000 bail, his sister furnishing security. • Joseph Knight, a man with almost snowwhite hair and gray beard, is under arrest at Philadelphia on a charge of stealing from #60,000 to #70,600 from the Manufacturers’ National Bank, by which he had been employed aa book-keeper for thirty-five years. Although always considered a trustworthy man, it is. said that Knight had been robbing th 3 bank for twenty fi /* years.

THE WESTERN STATES.

In the death at Whatcom, W. T., of the Rev. laaac S. Kalloch, one who had led a career full of startling sensations has passed away. The bloody drama In which he was one of the principals In the stormy days of sand-lot domination in San Francisco brought him into sp> cial prominence but from bcvliood he bas furnished sensation after sensation, and it was only witliiu the last half-dozen years that he was in a measure lost to public view. He is best reni.mbar.d in connectiou with the terriblo scandal wbac h. was pastor of the Tremont Temple, Boston, o»er a quarto of a century ago. Kalloch was elected Mayor of San Francisco on the workingman s ticket in 1879. During the campaign ha was shot by Charles De Yalta?, at time time editor of the Chronicle, the dispute growing out of a number of personal attacks made by both parties. The Chronicle printed the details of Kalloch’s Hie in Boston and Kansas, and Kalloch was equally bitter in his attacks on the De Youngs, assailing their mother in the vilest lnnguage. in April, 1880, Kalloch’s son went to tho Chronicle office and shot De Young dead, and was afterward acquitted of the charge of murder. At the closo of his term as Mayor Kalloch removed to Washington Territory, where he had since resided. A Chicago dispatch says: “The building at the northwest corner of Adams street and Fifth avenue, which was owned by Edwin H. Sheldon and occupied by Phelps, Dodge A Palmer, wholesale boot and shoe dealers, was completely ruined by fire Monday night The loss on the building is placed at #115,000; insurance, #85,000. Phelps, Dodge A Palmer estimate their loss at #600,000, and say that it is about covered by the insurance. Adjacent property was damaged to the extent of #5,000.” The farm residence of Michael Harris, fourteen miles from Wossington, Dak., was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Harris and six children were burned to death. Mr. Harris aud one daughter escaped. A Concobdia (Kas.) telegram reports that “an armed mob surrounded the jail at Leoti, in Wichita County, Kansas, and made a desperato attempt to lynch Thomas Allen, imprisoned on the charge of having been implicated in the killing of Coulter and Ransom Feb. 27 last John H. Edwards, Sheriff of the county, with Dick Wade, his Under Sheriff, was in the jail at the time. The mob broke in the jail door and demanded the prisoner. Their demands being refused by the officers, the mob opened a heavy fire with Winchesters and revolvers on the occupants of the jaiL Tho officers returned the fire, fighting bravely for their man, and after a fierce fight succeeded in repulsing the mob, severely wounding several of them and saving the life of their prisoner. The news that Allen was attempting to obtain hiß release on bail enraged the Lootians.” Fubtheb particulars of tho horrible burning of the Harris family, near Wessington, Dak., are telegraphed from Huron, Dak.: They lived on a farm in a two-story house. About midnight Mr. Harris awoke and found the lower part of the house in flames. Himself, wife, eight children, and hired man all slept in the second story. The fire had gotten such headway that he was obliged to jump from the window, and called to his wife and Parr, the hired man, to throw the children to him. Parr and Harm' oldest boy jumped from the window, leaving Mrs. Harris to get out the children. She threw the baby to her husband, and returned for another child, when the floor gave way and the roof and side of the building fell in, engulfing her and the remaining six children in the fire. The heat was so great and the wind so strong that itwas impossible to render any assistance. AU were in their night-clothes. Parr went to a neighbor's, a mile and a half distant, for help, returning with his feet and hands badly frozen. Tho baby was put in the barn and covered with hay till assistance came, but it was also badly frozen. The seven bodies were removed from the debris in a blackened and almost unrecognizable condition. The feet, hands, and legs of some fell off as they were taken up. The family were from Mount Ayr, Ind.

Kansas Cm special: “Sands Hopkins has committed suicide by taking laudanum. Deceased was the son of Dr. J. Hopkins, who died twenty years ago, leaving the boy a large amount of real estate, which has since increased immensely in value, and a year ago the victim of last night’s tragedy was held to be worth almost #1,000,003. For the la3t two years he had led a dissolute life, plunging wildly into dissipation, and spending large sums of money in a reckless manner. He was the dupe of gamblers, who bled him for thousands of dollars, and the influence of Mb relatives and friends to tear him away from these associates proved futile. Sands was still a very young man, having just passed his twenty-ninth birthday.” Wong Ah Lung, a Chinaman of San Francisco, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and fined #2,000 for importing women into the country for immoral purposes.

A Broken Bow (Neb.) dispatch says: A young farmer namod James Rankin, living about eighteen miles northeast of here, started out on the morning of Dec. 10 for a hunt in a sleigh. When he had reached a point in the woods about half a mile from his father’s! house his double-barreled shotgun slipped off the seat, and in attempting to draw it toward him the hammers caught and both loads discharged into Ms heart His clothing caught fire from the flash and was burned off, with the exception of the overshoes. The remains were discovered Thursday morning, lying in the seat of the sleigh, about a quarter of a mile from the main road, in the woods. His right hand still

held the reins firmly, and the horses were stand ng on the edge of a deep ravine. They had been without food Sinco the accident occurred, and had gnawed the sle gh-tongue nearly in two.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Heney Fawcett’s dwelling, five miles south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., was burned, Fawcett’s three children perishing in the flames. Thomas Powell and his sister, Mrs. Sarah O’Toole, aged 76, keep a general store at Eastern Kentucky Junction, Ky. The other night it was entered by robbers, who strangled Mrs. O’Toole to dsath to stop her outcry. They then bound and gigged her brother and robbed the store of sex errl hundred dollars in money, besides gojds, and made their escape. Mr. Powell is 80 years of age. Stockmen from the northern part of the Panhandle, Texas, are calling upon the Slate and Federal authorities for protection against cattle-thieves. They declare that the public land strip is virtually in the possession of these desperadoes, who have established a reign of terror there. Murders are of daily occurrence, and there is no way of bringing the criminals to justice.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The r'unicipal election in Boston resultad in tho,re-election for a fourth term of Mayor Hugh O’Brien by a majority over Thomas N. Hart, the candidata of tho citizens aDd Republicans, of 1,700, against 4,600 a year ago. Tho majority for license is 5,453. llie Atlanta (Ga.) City Council has fixed the cost of retail liquor-sellers’ license at #1,500. The ordinance restricts saloons to certain streets and provides for strict regulations. Congbeßsman Mills, who, it is thought, will be Chairman of the Committee of Ways aud Means, is confident that the House will pass a bill reducing the customs duties, which will be presented to the Senate within a short time. Posthastes Joseph Manley, of Augusta, Me., thinks that Blaine will be nominated by acclamation, and that he is too much of a patriot to decline such a summons to serve his party and his country. An Augusta, special says the Superior Court of Kennebec County has declared the law making the payment of the United States special tax as a liquor seller prima facie evidence that the party paying such tax is a saloon-keeper, and therefore a public nuisance, is unconstitutional The Alabama State Prohibition Conventiofi mot at Montgomery and chose delegates to the National Convention. Resolutions were adopted favoring Clinton B. Fiske, of New Jersey, for and J. T. Tanner, of Alabama, for Vice President. A Dubuque (Iowa) telegram to the Chicago Herald says: The Prohibitionists of lowa have scored a great victory—a victory that foreshadows the closing up of all the saloons and Breweries in the State at an early date. Judge Shiras, of the United States District Court, in pursuance to instructions received from Judge Brewer, remanded to the Stjite courts all "the liquor injunction cases before him. Some of these cases are to close saloons in breweries. The defense argued that the plaintiffs aimed at the destruction of the breweries, and not the saloons in them. Claims of that character, the Court intimated, are no longer vadd, since the Federal Court has decided that a brewery may be closed bv an injunction aa readily as a saloon. The liquor men and cold water apoßtles fully appreciate the widespread effect of Judge Brewer’s order. It is the hardest blow struck at the Beer and whisky traffic since the passage of the Clark law. The import of Judge Brewer’s order is that hereafter all cases appealed from the State to the United States Court will be promptly remanded. This renders impossible the indefinite postponement and delay of cases by appeal, and will resut in bringing to a speedy test the virtue of the lowa prohibitory law and the power of that sentiment which sustains it. This nIBO cuts away from the brewers all prospect of securing delays. Thebe were 1,353 delegates present at the convention of Republican clubs which met in Chickering Hall, New York, Dec. 16, and 350 clubs were represented. Seventy-five additional clubs were accredited but not represented. The early proceedings of the convention were presided over by Temporary Chairman Daniel J. Ryan. As the roll of the clubs was called, the names of the oil party leaders were cheered, especially the name of Blaine, although it was noticeable that tho Ohio delegation did not join in this demonstration. Resolutions fa. voring coast defenses and the distribution of tobacco and whisky taxes among the States were offered and referred. A resolution offered by Mr. Grosveuor, of Ohio, denouncing L Q. C. Lamar, and declaring that ho ought not be elevated to tho bupreme bench, caused a sensation. Senator Evarts was made permanent Chairman.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Fbance’s new Ministry is composed as follows^ Tlrard - President of the Council, Minister ol Finance, and Minister of Posts and Telegraphs ;M. Fuilieres, Minister of Justice; M, 1 lourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. SarMinister of the Interior; M. Bautresme, Minister of Commerce; M. Loubet, Minister of Public Works; M. De Hapy, Minister of Marine: M. Viette, Minister ot Agriculture; M. Faye, Minister of Public Instruction; General Legerot, Minister of War. A Pabis cablegram says of President Carnot’s message, which was read in the Chambers immediately after the formation of the Cabinet: In it he says he is fully sensible of the honor conferred upon him by his election to the Presidency, and of the great duties intrusted to him.* His appointment clearly proclaims that Parliament has resolved to put aside all causes for disagreement in regard to the vital interests ol the country and its legitimate influence abroad. For him upon whom has fallen the honor of uniting the suffrages of the different factions, the first duty is to show that he himself is penetrated with the spirit of concord. He will then endeavor to maintain harmony. With appeasement, security, and confidence the Government hopes to assure the country steady progress, practical reforms calculated to encourage industry, and produce a revival of business. M Wilson u» s been declared innocent of the charges made against him in connection with the decorations scandal in France. Edmond Litekatt, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, who was wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law recently, has died from Ms injuries. Thebe has been a change for the worse in tile condition of the Crown Prince of Germany. A consultation of physicians has been called at San Remo, and Dr. Mackenzie has lelt London for that place In order to make another examination of the Prince’s throat.

A dispatch from Berlin says: “The doctors in examining the Crown Prince discovered symptoms of a fresh growth and an increase ia the swelling. A special consultation of medical experts was determined upon.” Ey the arrival at San Francisco of the steamship Sydney, from Chinese ports, we receive intelligence of one of the most appalling calamities of modern times. The disaster was occasioned by the Yellow River overflowing its banks in the province of Honan. Chinese papys give the following particulars: The river broke its bank on the evening of Kept. 28 southwest of the city of Ching Chow, ami not only completely inundated that city, but also ten other populous cities. The whole area is now a raging sea, ten to thirty feet deep, where it was a densely populated and rich plain. The former bed of the Yellow River is now dry, and the present lake was the bed of the river centuries ago. The loss of life is incalculable, and the statement is made by missionaries that millions of Chinese are homeless and starving. The Chinese Times states that in the province of Chihli, where disastrous inundations have also occurred, there are 270,000 people homeless, represent,ng those whose lives were destroyed, and adds that the missing in that province is trifling compared with that caused by Hoang-Ho, or Yellow River. The extext 0/ ground swept over by overwhelming flood, given in Knglish figures, is over 7,000 square mi es, end the land thus submerged formed a part of one of the richest and’ most densely populated plains of Northe, n China, ’lhe necessity for liberal aid may therefore be imagined. Already considerable sums have been con-, tributed toward the relief of the sufferers. The Emperor of China has given 2,0c0,0;0 of taels, and the Chinese have started a subscription list in Shanghai, to which foreigners have contributed liberally. Millions have been rendered homeless and entirely deprived of all chances of earning their livelihood, for their fields will either become permanent lakes or uninhabitable swamps. It is feared that the distress which will be felt during the coming winter will equal m intensity the famine of ten years ago, when charitable donations contributed from all parts of the world were utterly inadequate.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

Col Mabshall McDonald, of the United States Fish Commission, says the Government last year planted 93,000,000 shad, and the States 150,000,000. A new station, costing #IO,OOO, is to be built at Dulutb. Gen. Butleb sent a decided negative in response to a letter asking him if he would approve of tho selection of the Comte de Paris to deliver the address at tho reunion of the Army of the James, which is to be held at Gettysburg next July. The General refers to the Count’s services in anything but complimentary terms. Thkee men, one of them a New York de tective, have been convicted of smuggling tobacco into Liverpool inside of cotton bales, and fined SB,OOO. Thebe were 36,106 rifles and 5,000 carbines manufactured at the Springfield (Mass.) armory during the last Steal year at a cost of $373,628. A further sum of $114,096 was expended for repairs. B. G. Dun A Co., in their weekly review of trade, say: There is a clear though moderate improvement in tho commercial and industrial outlook, mainly due to a growing confidence that Congress will finally do nothing prejudicial to the business interests. At the same time it is observed that uncertainty in regard to the action of Congress tends to restrain purchases, and contributes to the weakness in some markets. Monetary anxieties diminish,and speculation in products abates. The iron production, by many considered a reliable barometer of business, falls a little below the unprecedented output reported Nov. 1. It is b<ild that the new sales of rails for next year do not yet aggregate more than 10:), tons, and large buyers still hold off. The dry goods trade, very moderate in all branches, is particularly dull in woolens, and the stiffness in cotton is attributed to a scarcity of ready surplus rather than to large fresh orders. The boot and shoe trade improves, with better Western and good Southern business, and the leather market favors buyers. No lack of money checks speculative activity. On call the supply is abundant, and the large demand for money on time is now fairly met. Interior reports all indicate less monetary pressure, though the market at some points is st 11 close. Complaints of stow collections continue, but are leas general. Past pressure is reflected, however, in an unusually large number of failures. The business failures during the week number: For the United States, 254; for Canada, 34; or a total of 288, as against 254 for the previous week, and 288 for the corresponding week of last year. Advices from Jamauive, in the southern part of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, state that there was much trouble there, and a riot during the election Sunday. One of the parties opened the polls, when the others began the fight At each of the polls there was a pitched battle, and the ballot-boxes were overturned or destroyed. Eight men were killed and over forty wounded. The result is that the old Mayor will hold over for another term.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle $5.50 @ 6.25 Hogs 0.00 @ 5.7 5 Wheat—No. 1 Hard .94 @) .9454 No. 2 Red 90>4@ .91 Corn—No. 2: cl @ .62 Oats—White 39 @ 43 Pore—New Mess 15.25 @ls 75 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.50 @ 6.50 Good. 4.00 ® 4.75 Common to Fair 3.50 @ 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.75 @ 5.50 Flour—Winter Wheat 3.75 & 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red Winter 77 tgi .77)6 Corn—No. 2. 47 @ .48' Oats—No. 2 .'3O @ .30)4 Butter—Choice Creamery 29 @ .30 Fine Dairy 20 & .24 Cheese—Full Cream, new liu.nt .12U Eggs—Fresh 20 @ .21 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 80 @ iss Pork—Mess ■ 14 25 @l4 k MILWAUKEE. ' Wheat—Cash 74 @ .74^ Corn—No. 3 48 @ 49 Oats—No. 2 White ".32 @ ’33 Rye—No. 1 .7. .01 ® *63 Pork—Mess 15.00 @15.60 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80Hd .81 % Corn—Mixed 47)6 3 48 Oats—Cash 30 & .30)4 PoRK-«eBS 14.25 @14.75 „ T „ TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 83 @ 83)6 Corn—May .53)4® .'54)4 Oats—Cash 32)4® .33)6 DETROIT. Beet Cattle 3.75 @4.75 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.00 6.C0 Wheat—No. 1 White 84 ® .85 Corn—No. 2 TU6 & 1416 Oats-No. 2 White U @ 35 „ r , CINCINNATI. ' Wheat—No. 2 Red 85 ® .86 Corn—No. 2 >3 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 34 @ .35 Pork-Moss 14.75 @15.25 Live Hogs 5.25 @ 575 BUFFALO. Cattle 4 . 6 0 @ 5_50 Hogs 5.00 m 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 88 @ 89 Corn—No. 2 56 @ m INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 3.50 @ 5,00 Hogs 5.00 @ 5,75 Sheep 3.00 ® 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 81 ® 61)6 Corn... ... @ .'52)4 Oats—Mixed @ .33^ „ east liberty Cattle—Prime 4.00 @ 4.50 EMr 8.25 & 8.75 Common 8.00 @3 50 Hogs 525 @5.75 BHMP 4,50 @ 6.08

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Whmt Is Being Done by the tional Legislature. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections investigat d the West Virginia con-tested-election case, on the 13th inst., and decided unanimously to report in favor of Mr. Faulkner’s claim to the vacant seat. Mr. Ingalls introduced bills to remove the limitation in the payment of arrears of pensions and granting arrears in certain cases to those pensioned by special acts of Congress. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill to equalize the rate of pensions. It fixes the pension for loss of sight or disability requiring regular medical attendance at #72 per month. Mr. Cullom also introduced a biU to establish the United Stateapostal telegraph, and another to define and extend the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Senator Jones, of Arkansas introduced a bill to open the great Sioux reservation in Nebraska to settlement. Senator Dawesintroduced a bill taxing manufacturers and dealers in adulterated lard, and requiring it tobe stamped. The Senate Committee on Agriculture will give a hearing on this subject inJanuary. The Finance Committee made a favorable report on the Morrill bill to refund tothe States the direct taxes imposed by the act of 1861. The aggregate is about $15,000,000. The bill was placed On the calendar. The Senate voted to continue Senator Cockrell’s select' committee to inquire into the executive departments, with leave to report at any timeprior to Jan. 25. Senator Chandler introduced a bill to regulate the holding of Congressional elections in South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The House unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Cannon (Ill.) declaring that the following named gentlemen should constitute the Committee on Flections: Messrs. Crisp (Chairman), O’Fenali, Outhwaite, Barry, Maish, Heard, Johnson (N. C.), O’Neill (Ind.), Moore, Rowell, Houk, Cooper, Lyman, Johnson (Ind.), and Lodge. Speaker Carlisle then dij rected that ajl papers in the varions contested election oases be referred to this committee. The committee report on the West Virginia contested election case was unanimously . adopted by the Senate on the 14th inst, and theoath of office was administered to Mr. Faulkner. Mr. Morrill addressed the Senate at some length on his biU relating to foreign immigration, the principal object of which, he explained, was to have the character of the immigrants examined by the United States Consul at the port of departure. He stated that nearly one-third of the population of the country was composed of foreigners, and expressed a doubt as Jo the possibility of transforming them into good American eftizens. Among the bills introduced in the Senate were the following : By Mr. George, to protect innocent purchasers of patented articles; by Senator George, to annex the public-land slip south of Indian Territory to the Territorv of New Mexico; also, a bill to appropriate #IOO,OOO for the erection of a public building at Vicksburg, Miss. Senator Butler introduced withhl ig tit amendments the bill reported from the Committee on Improvement of the Mississippi River last session, and known as the Cowden outlet bill. It is entitled “A bill to make the Lake Borgne outlet, to improve the low-water navigation of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Cairo, and incidentally to reclaim and protect the valley lands of the Mississippi from overflow without levees.” The House was not in session. Senator Butleb introduced in the Senate, on the 15th inst., a bill, framed by the National Association of Railway Conductors, t« license conductors. It provides that no railroad shall employ any person as a railroad conductor upon any train engaged in interstate commerce unless the person iB licensed as provided by the act. Senator George introduced a bill to protect employes and servants engaged in foreign and interstate commerce, which provides that they shall be -entitled to receive damages for any injury sustained through the carelessness, neglect, or unskillful act or omission of their employers or masters, or of their lellow-servanta engaged on the same service. Senator Stewartaddressed the Senate in support of his coincertificate bill. A bill was introduced by Mr. Plumb to forfeit lands granted to the State of Michigan for a railroad from Marquette to Ontonagon, and another by Mr. Palmer to increase to 52,000,000 the limit of the appropriation for a public building at Detroit, Mich. The House was not in session. In the House of Representatives, on the lGth inst., Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, submitted a concurrent resolution that when the two houses adjourn on Monday, Dec. 19, they stand adjourned until Tuursday, Jnn. 5. Mr. Reed, of • Maine, opposed the resolution. He said Congress was pressed upon by a serious public duty, which was the reduction of a surplus which was coming into the Treasury in amanner calculated, uhder the management of the Treasury Department, to be an embarraaiment to the finances of the country. AU were agreed—at least on the Republican, side—that this surplus should be reduced, and the Republicans stood ready now to make onereauction to which the other side wasagreed, and that was in reference to the tobacco tax. He hoped that an opportunity would be given them by the powers" that be, or were to be, to vote thereon and show to the country some proper disposition in this regard. If the gentlemen on the other side found it somewhat difficult to range themselves alougside of the recent message, which had been sent them, that the Republican scould well understand and could give their assurances of most profound sympathy. Mr. Cox of New York, commented on what no termed the sudden conversion of the gentleman from Maine. He did not think that there had been such a sudden conversion since s the time of Saul of Tarsus. [Laughter.] / He could recall the time when the most eminentmen on the other side of the House had insisted upon the reduction of the tariff to prevent the accumulation of a surplus. Among the resthad been the gallant man from Maine with the white plume. Among them had been Frye and Hale, insisting in the reduction of the tax on salt and other articles, except lumber. He would like to see every man in the House regard this fiscal question as outside of politics. It was a business question in every sense of the word. There were members of Congress from Republican States like Minnesota demanding the reduction of taxes, but this could not be done by picking out one article. It must be general; it must be stable and permanent. He hoped that when a tariff bill was considered all parties would unite and act for the best interests of the whole people. and not for aggrandizement of one man or one set of men, or one party. Mr. Mills of Texas offered as a substitute for Mr. Hatch’s resolution a resolution declaring that when the twohouses adjourned Thursday, Dec. 22, they stand adjourned until Wednesday, Jan. 4. Mr. Hatch, accepted the substitute, and the resolution as modified was agreed to.

An improvement in sugar has been lately made, insuring *hmch greater simplicity and economy. The most important feature of this new plan is a vacuum pan for the finishing process of boiling and crystallizing the sugar. The heat is imparted by steam to the contents of the pan through an inner bottom of copper, and by a series of copper coils or worms, and the operation is conducted in vacruo by means of a suitable horizonal vacuum pumping engine. This pan is mounted on an elevated platform, for convenience in discharging its contents into the hopper of the centrifugal drying machines, and the discharge of the pan is equal to six tons of dry sugar. The sugar, after having been concentrated and crystallized in the vacuum pan, is run into the hopper, or mixed over the centrifugal sugar-drying Machines of improved construction. These machines are on the well-known self-bal-ancing suspended principle, the cylindrical baskets which receive the sugar revolving at a high speed and purging the sugar from all molasses.