Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — Page 2

®ljf lUmocraticSentinrl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Poblibhde.

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happenings of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. 1 THE SNELL MIItDEK. The Crime Fastened Upon William B. Tascott—The Murderer Still at Large. William B. Tascott, the stylish, blue-eyed young burglar who murdered Amos J. Snell, the Washington boulevard millionaire, and sought safety in flight, has not yet been arrested, says a Chicago telegram of Monday. f' He is still securo in his place of hiding, but an ’army of spies Is on the watch for him, wherever ho may bo, and will lollow him wherever he may go. The police say that he cannot escape. It is alleged that he was seen at Leaf liner, Wis., and detectives have gone there to search for him. Sunday last there was arrested in this city the man who wrh Tascott's companion, who stood on guard on the outside of the Snell residence while the youthful burglar was inside committing murder, and this man has made a full confession. Ho places the guilt on William 13. Tascott, against whom ■o much dumaging circumstantial evidence has already been piled up. Tascott wauted him to engage with him in a life of crime. The night that the Snell burglary was to be committed this man and Tascott went to the house together. Tascott put on his felt slippers, and, after boring the holes to open the kitchen door, went inside to open the sale and secure the plunder. His accomplice remained outside, watching for the police, to prevent any interruption of tho dangerous undertaking. He heard the shots tired and was alarmed, but remained at his post until Tascott came out. The lattor was pale, excited and trembling He grasped his friend by the arm and told him of tho murder. Then the two skulked away together, and crept up the stairs to Talcott’s lougiugb at No. 47i West Madison street The next morning they sneaked out and separated, when Tascott went to the Northwestern depot and boarded a truin for Oak Park, where he bus a brother and sister living. .The accomplice was horrified by the murder, and so alarmed lest he might be arrested and held lor complicity in the crime that he refrained from giving information to the police. He has made a sworn statement, and satisfied the police that he had no direct connection with the Snell murder, or with any other crime that was planned and executed by young Tascott. The name of iliis man is withheld at the earnest request of the police. The officers at the Central Station Sunday were all busily employed addressing and mailing to all parts of this world copies of tho following revised circular, which gives the very latest description of tho man wanted: TWO THOUSAND DOLL Alts REWARD. Department op Police, City of Chicago, Feb. 18,1888.—Look out tor and arrest William B. Tascott, alias T. A. Cathright, alias Moore, alias Scott, alias Clark, the supposed murderer of A. J, Snell, who was killed on the night of Feb. 8. Twenty to 22 years of ago, 5 foot 9 or 10 inches high, 150 pounds weight, slim built, very erect, full round lace, heavy eyebrows, verv fair complexion, light brown hair, thin on top of head, cut short, prominent blue eyeß, small thin dark mustache, may be dyed, may have some front teeth, upper jaw, filled with gold, lower jaw receding. Wore when last seen brown and gray striped pants, stripe one-half Inch wide, dark coat, vest, and overcoat, with silk hat, square top ring, set with garnets and pearls, one pearl missing. May carry cane with a round gold head, engraved with W. B. T. in monogram; also a rus-set-colored oval valise eighteen inches long and eight inches deep, hung by a strap over his shoulder. Claims to be a newspaper reporter. Is also said to bo an expert pool-player, and will frequent pool-rooms. He converses freely about his travels through the country. Tho above reward will be paid for his capture and detention until officer with papers can arrive for him. (Send all information to George W. Hubbard, Acting General Superintendent of l’olioo. SHERIDAN WON’T RUN. Satisfied with His Military Position, and Would Not Exchange It for Any Civil Office. The Washington agent of the Associated Press sought an interview with Gen. Sheridan on Monday for the purpose of ascertaining whether he would consent to make an authoritative statement in regard to his alleged Presidential candidacy. “Well,” said the General, “I know nothing more about this alleged ‘boom’ than what 1 have read in the papers, except that now and then some friend has twitted me about becoming a candidate. But if the matter is really now discussed seriously, it is time that all f>artles concerned should bo informed that bey are wasting their breath. I have never had the Presidential bee in my bonnet, and I don’t intend to have it, for there is nothing that would induce mo to leave the profession in which nearly forty years of my life have been spent to enter upon & ci»ul career. talk about my being a candidate may a M 'ell end." “But suppose the Republican M m’tion should ” Gen. Sheridan—“No «*>Uge me? I would not accept.But there is not the slightest probability of my being nominated; and, in any event, I would not accept. No, not under any circumstances. Ido not want that or any other civil office. ” l Four New States. The subcommittee of the House Committee on Territories which lias been charged with the preparation of the “omnibus” bill to enable the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Arizona to secure recognition as states, was busily engaged in framing that measure, says a Washington telegram. The bill provides for the election of delegates to Constitutional Conventions on Tuesday after the first Monday in August, for the meetings of the four conventions in September, and for the submission of the four Constitutions to the people of the four Territories on the day of the Presidential election. The Reading Strike. Letters have passed between representatives of the strikers and the Heading management looking to a resumption of work, and it is believed that the pits will again soon be manned. The wages question will be arbitrated after the miners resume work, and no man will be barred out who has been quiet and orderly during the troubles. Two Thousand Lives Lost. Chinese advices are to the effect that a terrific earthquake has ocourred in the Province of Yunnan. Two thousand lives are reported to have been lost,

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTEEH STATES. A Wilkesbaere (Pa. i special says that *a new Polish Catholic Church was dedicated in Hazel ton. Pa., on Hun day, and the Slavic population poured in from all sides. Many became drunk on polinki, a Hungarian beverage, composed of bad beer and coarse whisky. A party of them returned intoxicated to their boarding-house, where they engaged in a fight, during which a lamp was knocked off a table and the honse set on fire. The door was locked and the key coaid not be found. Some escaped through the windows, but the more besotted ones were routed to death. Following is the list: John Elias, aged 30; John Seddo, aged 25; John Kobinko, aged 35, and married; Michael Ynakovitech, aged 30; Mrs. Mary Manlick, aged 16; Paul Siskowitz, aged 30. Mrs. Manlick threw her babe out of the window to save it, but it was fatally bruised. Half a dozen others were badly burned.”

A New York telegram says that part of the Union “L” structure now building on Broad way, between Ellery and Fayette streets, Brooklyn, collapsed with fatal results. A Beid avenue surface car containining half a dozen people was caught under the falling mass and entirely demolished. Three men were killed outright and nine people were severely injured, two of whom are not expected to live. Four horses were killed. The accident resulted from the springing of tho sixty-foot longitudinal girders upon which the sleepers and rails are laid, and was due to carelessness.

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Toledo (0.) dispatch announces the death of David Boss Locke, editor of tho Toledo Blade, widely known as “Petroleum Y. Nasby. ” The immediate cause of his death was consumption of the lungs. Mr. Locke was a native of New York State, and was in his fifty-fifth year. In his 11th year he was apprenticed to the printing trade in the office of the Courtland (N. Y.) Courier. After serving his seven years he traveled through the United States, working at his trade and acting as a reporter. In 1852 ho founded the Plymouth (Ohio) Advertiser, conducting it two years. In 1856 he founded the Bucyrus Journal, and afterward was successively connected with the Mansfield Herald and Findlay Jeffersonian. He was editing the latter paper when the war broke out, and in its columns appeared the firstnumberd of tho renowned “Nasby” letters, the first bearing the date of April 21, 1801. These political satires sprang at once into tremendous popularity. In 1865 Mr. Locke assumed charge of the Toledo Blade, first on a salary, afterward purchasing an interest, and finally entire control.

The Illinois O. A. R. held a three days’ encafnpment at Springfield last week. The attendance was unusually large. Nearly every candidate for a State office was on hand, freely mingling with the boys in blue. CoL Sexton, of Chicago, was chosen Department Commander. It was decided to moot next year in Springfield. The service pension resolution was defeated, and the dependent pension bill, now before Congress, was approved. Commander-in-Chiof Rea reported that ho thought President Cleveland would sign tho lattor measure. Mrs. Sarah Bradford, of Augustus, was elected President of the Woman’s Relief Corpa The Wisconsin G. A. It. held tlioir annual meeting at Milwaukee. There was a good attendance, and a good time generally. A. G. Weißsert, of Milwaukee, was elected Department Commander. Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, of Yiroqua, sister of Governor ltusk, was chosod President of tho Woman's Relief Corps. The last hope of the “boodlers” faded away yesterday, says a Chicago dispatch of Friday, and the counsel for the State scored a signal triumph when the Appellate Court handed down its opinion and affirmed the findings of the court below, thus sending Adam Ochs, Dan Wren, Mike Wasserman, John E Van Pelt, Mike Leyden, exCounty Commissioners, and Harry A. Yarnell, late Warden of the Insane Asylum, down to Joliet penitentiary for two years oaeh. The sentence of Ed McDonald, ex-Engineer of the County Hospital, and brother of Mike McDonald, was likewise affirmed, and he goes to Joliet for three years. The convicted boodlers had been led to expect a decision favorable to them, and they were sorely disappointed when they were apprised of the court’s ruling. The Chicago police are certain that they know who murdered Millionaire Snell, says a dispatch from that city. The man under suspicion is William B. Tascott, the son of Col. James B. Tascott, the head of the J. B. Tascott Manufacturing Company. Col. Tascott has been in business in Chicago many years. His house is engaged in the manufacture of paints. His youngest son, William 8., during his boyhood, had every care and opportunity for culture and refinement which could be given by a kind, thoughtful and rich father. But he was by nature a scapegrace,tho black sheep in the family. He would not attend school and associated with the worst class of boys. When lie was about 16 years old he ran away from home and was not heard from for several years. Less than three years ago he had become a confirmed thief. He landed in the Kentucky penitentiary and served a term of two years for burglary. A few mouths ago he returned to Chicago, and, altnough his father was making every effort to reform him, and treated him kindly, he has continued to associate with burglars and thieVes. It is established beyond douot that he wus the chief of the formidable gang of burglars who have, during the last mouth, been guilty of so many daring crimes on the West Side that citizens of that section of the city have lived in a partial state of terror. It is said there is positive evidence of his connection with the Snell murder.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A colored family of five persons, living at Colfax, La., were poisoned, and all died within twenty-four hours. Instead of soda, Rough on Rats had, by mistake, been put in a pot of greens. A skiff containing eight persons was submerged by the swells of a steamer a short distance below New Orleans, and seven of those board were drowned. A telegram from Cisco, Texas, gives the following particulars of a daring bank robbery: At 3 o’clock p. m. (1 C. Leveaux, cashier, and T. R. Blake and M. B. Owens were in the bank, when a man appeared at the cashier’s window and demanded the cash. Three pther men appeared at the same time and took the three bankers in charge, while the first collected the funds of the bank,

about 96,000 in cash. Mr. Levaux’s movemente were too alow to suit the robbers, when ordered around, and he was severely beaten on the head. The robbers looked the bankers in a yard back of the building, and, jumping into a wagon, fled down the street, saluting the astonished people with volleys from their revolvers and displaying the bags of illgotten gains.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Public Printer Benedict is getting into hot water, says a Washington special to the Chicago Daily Netat. The Honse has ordered an investigation into th® aflairg of bis office, and the President has called upon him to explain the seeming unnecessary delay in work sent there for execution. A large number of reports have been delayed till the time ot their usefulness has passed and there is & general clogging of wheels in some quarters. Bills are not printed for Congress sometimes for a week or ten days after the usual time, and there are documents not yet issued which are more than a year behindhand. A Democratic member says the President called upon the Public Printer for an explanation and has received it, but is not satisfied, and has in contemplation the appointment of another man to the office.

A Washington special says the House Committee on Territories on Wednesday considered questions relating to the admission as States of Dakota, Montana, Washington, and New Mexico. It was decided to formulate an omnibus enabling act for the four Territories, and the preparation of the bill was referred to a sub-committee consisting of Messrs. Springer, Mansur, Hayes, Struble, and Symes. During the session the committee voted against ordering favorable reports upon Mr. Gifford’s bill for the admission of South Dakota and Mr. Baker’s bill looking to the recognition of North Dakota as a State.

President Cleveland will have the longest term of any President of the United States. The House Committee on the judiciary has reported favorably the proposed amendment to the Constitution changing the inauguration dry from tlie 4th of March to the last Tuesday in April, which, if it is adopted, as it undoubtedly will be, will add nearly two months to his term of office and to the life of the present Congress as welL Tho Senate has already passed the resolution unanimously, and the expectation is that it will go through the House in a hurry as soon as it is reached for action. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs that— Chairman Mills promises a tariff bill within a few days. It is understood that as it now stands it will put wool on the free list, and reduce considerably the uuties on woolen goods, especially of the cheaper kinds. Ad valorem duties’ are to be substituted in many cases for specific duties, on the ground that the specific duties weigh heavily upon the cheaper classes of goods. Lumber, salt, coal and a number of other articles goon the free list. Iron ore and steel rails will not go untouched. It is believed the bill will provide for the reduction of about 20 per cent, on sugar duties. The internal revenue tax on tobacco is to be reduced—possibly repealed, and the tax removed from fruit brandies. The authors of the bill aim at a reduction in the revenue of between $70,01,0,030 and $80,003,003.

A decision affecting tho rights of tho colored man on railways has just been formulated' by the Inter-State Commerce Commission : In the case of William 13. Heard against the Georgia Railroad Company, the complainant, a nogro, had paid first-ulasa fare, but was compelled to ride in a car of inferior accommodations. The Commissioners are of opinion that it is the duty of the carrier under the law to furnish to passengers paying the same fare equal accommodation and protection, without discrimination on account of color. But, if sepation of white and colored passengers is expedient for adequate reasons, such separation is not unlawful if the accommodations and comforts for colored passengers are in all respects equal to those for white passengers paying the same fare.

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

“The revolt of the rank and file of the Knights of Labor from their allegiance to Mr. Powderiy and the reigning General Executive Board is making steady and rapid progress,” says a Philadelphia dispatch. Since Dec. 12 last, when the General Master Workman was stricken with an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs, the movement has been going forward quietly and steadily ail over the country, gathering numerous recruits In every locality into which it is extended, and becoming irresistibly strong in its continued development. It is estimated now that not more than 250,0U0 Knights acknowledge allegiance to the General Executive Board. The latter part of the present month of February will in all probability become historical as marking an important epoch in the progress of the revolt—the month in which the disaffection that has become so widespread will assume an organ c shape in the form of a concerted movement all over the country toward a new and independent organization, to be called probably tho Brotherhood of Labor. 'lho Provisional Committee of Philadelphia will take the initiative within the next ten days, and issue a manifesto calMng a convention of the anti-administrationists to meet in Chicago and set up a new form of government in the order.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A Columbus (Ohio) special of Thursday to the Chicago Tribune says: Senator Sherman started for Washington last night, alter seeing that his Presidential boom wus well on its way in Ohio, He spent the day in company with many of the distinguished guests who remained over from the banquet. The Blaine letter enthused the Sherman managers, and the fences were placed in what was considered fair repair before the battle for delegates shall begin. The meeting of the Republican State Central Committee was largely' attended. Senator Shtrman graced the occasion with hia presence. The friends of the Senator on the committee were enthusiastic at the present outlooK. Dayton was fixed as the place for holding the next State convention and April 18 and 19 the dates. 'J,he Congressional election in the Eleventh Michigan District, to supply the vacancy caused by the deg,th of Representative Mofffttt, resulted iu favor of Seymour (Republican), who defeated Breen (Democrat-Labor) by a plurality estimated at this writing at from 500 to 1,000. Tho canvass was a hot one. Tho Democrats made a strong effort to reduce the Republican majority and defeat Seymour if possible. The day was bitterly cold and very stormy, the vot9 being very light in consequence. Yery large gains were made by the Democrats in the Upper Peninsula counties of the district Mr. Joseph H. Manley, Chairman of the Maine Republican S.ate Committee and Mr. Blaine’s lieutenant, sail in an interview at Augusta, on Wednesday: “Mr. Blaine’s letter is not to be considered final by any means. He doeß not decline the nomination Or say that he will refuse to head the ticket. He merely announces that he is not striving for the honor, and that the time has gone by when he desired it. No man has a right to ask him whether he will take the nomination or not, and no man has a right to offer it to him now. If Mr. Blaine is offered the nomination by the National Convention I think he will take it. I am in constant communication with Mr, Blaine,” “You say he will not decline

the Domination if it is given to him?* *1 think he will accept It.* ‘What, then, does the letter mean?* ‘lt means that Mr. Blaine will not have his name presented to the convention as an aspirant far the honor. If the convention gets up and demands that he take it he will do so.* A dispatch of Friday, from Marquette, Mich., says: “Seymour’s plurality is less than 200 now, and the official figures will be needed to establish the result Breen, the Democratic-Labor candidate, says he will contest the seat, and that the Knights of Labor will back him up. He claims that there was fraud, intimidation, bull-dozing and ‘boodle’ employed in Seymour’s behalf.” The President sent to the Senate on Thursday the following nomination*: Charles 8. Cary, of New York, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; R. B. Wilson, of Arkansas, to be Register of the Land Office at Dardanelle; Edward G. Spillman, of Dakota, to be Register of the Land Office at Devil’s Lake, D. T.; Henry W. Scott, of Kansas, to be Register of the laud Office at Larned, Kas. The Republican State Central Committee met last week and fixed the date for the State Convention and district caucuses for electing delegates to the National Convention Wednesday, March 21, in Des Moines.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Mr. William O’Brien and Mr. T. D. Sullivan, Irish members of Parliament who were recently imprisoned, arrived in London on Monday and received an ovation from 10,000 persons who had gathered at Euston Station to welcome them. The weather was bright and frosty. Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Sullivan were escorted by an immense procession to Hyde Park, where a meeting in their honor was hold. Forty thousand persons were assembled. Reports from the interior of the Czar’s dominions, says a St Petersburg dispatch, con cur in stating the publication of the AustroGerman treaty, taken in connection with Bismarck’s speech on the military bill, created intenso irritation among all classes. An order has been issued to all cavalry officers to learn telegraphy.

THE WOULD AT LARGE.

Two men were killed and four injured by the bursting of a boiler at Barnesville, Ohio. The Fisheries Comissioners have finished their labors and signed a treaty in which all concurred, says a Washington telegram. Before it can take effect it must have the ratification of the Queen of Great Britain, tho Dominion of Canada, and the Province of Newfoundland, as well as of the Senate of the United States. Although the treaty will not at present be made public, it can be said that it relates exclusively to the disputes concerning the fisheries of tho North Atlantic coast, and does not include any provisions concerning the Behring Sea trouble or commercial reciprocity. The newly negotiated fisheries treaty has been the subject of much speculation and discussion at the Capital, telegraphs the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune: While declining to give any specific information as to its provisions, Secretary Bayard said that for many years tho great contentions among American fishermen had been for a fair and just construction of the treaty of 1818, and that the present treaty had been framed by the American negotiators with a view to meet the needs and necessities of our fishermen, and he believed that if the treaty ■be ratified that end will have been accomplished. From a trustworthy source it is learned that to ohr fishermen are secured all the commercial privileges for which they have been contending, with the exception of the right to purchase bait in Canadian waters, which is expressly withheld. Their right to enter Canadian porta for fuel, water and repairs is conceded. Certain bays, which are specified, are to remain under the exclusive control of Canada. There is nothing in the provisions ot the treaty, it is said, which necessitates the removal of the duty on Canadian fish or in anyway changes our tariff system. In its important features the treaty, it is said, is favorable to the United States, and while new and valuable privileges have been acquired, this has been done without any costly sacrifice on our part.

A Washington dispatch says that Gen. Phil Sheridan has been greatly annoyed by the statement of his Milwaukee cousin, McCabe, that he was not born in this country, and he has'•authorized tho following statement: “I was born in Albany, N. Y., March 6, 1831. My parents landed from Ireland about six months previous to my birth. About a j ear and a half after my birth my parents moved to Somerset, O. ”

THE MARKETS.

NEW YOi.K. Cattle $4.50 @ 5.50 Hugs 5.00 @6.75 Bhf.kp 4.00 ,1* 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 88%@ .895$ No. 1 Red 91%@ .92% Cohn—No. 2 .60 @ .61 Oats—White 44 @ .48 Pork—New Mess 15,00 @15.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.50 Good 4.25 & 4.75 Common to Pair 3.75 @4.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 4 50 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red ... .79 @ .80 Corn—No. 2. ,47 @ .47% Oats—No. 2 28 @ .28% Parley—No. 2 80 @ .82 Butter—Choice Creamery 25 @ .29 Fine Dairy. 23 .25 Cheese—Full Cream, new 12V@ .12% E3GS—Fresh 24 @ .25 Potato, s— Choice, per bn 82 @ .88 Pork—Mess 14,00 ,314.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 84 © .85 Corn—Cash 49 @ .60 Oats—May .32 @ |32% Clover Seed 3.95 4 05 KANSAS CITY. Cattle 4.25 @ 5.03 Rugs 4.75 (tj 6.a0 Wheat—No. 2 .73 @ 79 Corn— No. 2 .41)6'# .42)$ Oats—No. 2 28% i# .23 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 75 @ .75% Corn—No. 3 4G% # .47% Oats—No. 2 White 32% # .33% Rye—No. 1 61 % $ .01% Barley—No. 2 74 @ .75 Pork—Mess 14.00 <u 14^50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 19 .81 C< RN—Mixed 44% '0 .45% Oats—Cash 29 @ .29% Rye 60 @ .60% Barley.... .85 @ .90 Pork—Mess 14.25 @14.75 BUFFALO. Cattle 475 i« 5.50 Hogs.' ’ 5.00 @ 5.75 Sleep S.'K) @ 0.75 Corn—No. 3 Yellow .55 a, .55% EAST LIBERTY Cattle—Prime 525 @5.75 Fair 4. 0 @ 4.50 Common 2.75 & 3.25 Hogs..; 5.50 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.75 l( i 5.50 Lambs 5.00 @ 6.50 OMAHA. Cattle—Prime 4.00 © 4.75 Common 3.25 @ 4,00 Hogs—Heavy 5,00 @ 5.75 Light 4.50 @ 5.25 Sheep— Prime 3.75 @ 4.50 Common to Fair 8.25 © 4.00

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Wk»t Is Being Dose Mr tke National Legislature. The resolution regarding the alleged fnefficiency of the portal department waa considered by the Senate on the 13th inst Mr. Beagan defended the department. Mr Yoorhees introduced a bill to increase the pensions of those who have lost a limb or two limbs or both eyes, and Mr. Turpie introduced one to grant service pensions in the army and navy The address of the Dakota Constitutional Convention, favoring the division of ths territory and the admission of ths south half as a State, was presented to the Senate A petition was presented for the forfeiture of the Marquette, Superior and Ontonagon Railroad land grant in Michiwas P“ aßd to prohibit any person in Washington or Georgetown from making books or pools on result of any races or of any game of base-ball. Bills were introduced in the House for the erection of public buildings at Galesburg, Ill.; Richmond, Ind,; Lafayette, Ind.; Davenport, lowa, and Eau Claire, Wis : and in the Senate for public buildings at Starling, HI., *100,000; at Helena, M. T.VfIOO.QOO; at Fort Worth, Texas, *130,060. The resolution for an inquiry into tho causes of the alleged inefficiency of the mail service was further discussed in the Senate on the 11th -inst. The Senate passed the bill for the relief of David L. Brainard and eighteen of the United States army who w*re on the Greely expedition in the arctic regions—as commutation for fuel and quarters. Senator Cuilom introduced a bill for the compensation of female nurses during the war. The Senate confirmed the nominations of B F. Wade, Marshal of Northern Ohio, and Alexander McCue, Assistant Treasurer at New York. The House Committee on Public Buildings reported the bill authorizing the condemnation of land for sites for public buildings, and it was placed on the calendar. Bills were reported to the House and referred to the committee of the whole for the erection of at public building at Omaha, Neb., and for the enlargement of the building at Charleston, W. Va.; also for the purchase of additional land at Council Bluffs, lowa An adverse report was made by the House Labor Committee on the bill to license railroad conductors. Secretary Endicott sent to the House a message in answer to Representative Grosvenor's resolution calling for information regarding the publication of the official records of the rebellion, and whether any person has been forbidden access to the records. The Secretary Bays the work is being carried out strictly according to the plan adopted in 1860 and required by the provisions of the act of July 31,

xhe Blair Edueational Bill passed the Senate on the 15th inst., by a vote of 39 yeas to 29 nays. The announcement of the vote was greeted with applause by its friends. Mr. Beck introduced a bill to reimburse States lor interest paid on moneys expended in raising troops for the war of the rebellion. The House bill for the appointment of eleven division superintendents of railway mail service was amended by making the number “two, in addition to those heretofore authorized,” and a bill was passed by the House providing that Nebraska shall constitute an entire judicial district to be known as the District of Nebraska. The House Committee on Publio Buildings favorably reported the bills for public buildings at Milwaukee, Wis., and Bay City, Mich. The Milwaukee building is to cost *259,003. The House Military Committee made a favorable report on the bill for the payment of *IOO to soldiers who enlisted under tne act of July 22, 1861, and who were discharged by reason of surgeon’s, certificate of disability or by promotion before the expiration of two years, and who have not received SflQO bounty. The report was referred to the committee of the whole. The resolution offered by Mr. Manderson re quiring the Secretary of War to furnish to Sen. ators on their request lists of persons to whom copies of, the Records of the Rebellion are to oe issued, was taken up in the Senate on the 16th Inst., and after a protracted discussion, participated in by Senators Vest, Manderson, Tellor Hawley and Gorman, was adopted. One hundred and eight private pension bills were passed. Bills were reported from committees und placed on the calendar: For the relief of volunteers of the Fourth lowa Infantry ; authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City. Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Forwell, to brevet army officers on the active and retired list; by Mr. Sabin, to authorize tho President to confer brevet rank on army’ officers for brilliant services in Indian campaigns; by Mr. Manderson, to authorize the wearing of the badges of the iGrand Army of the Republic. The resolution offered by Mr. Plumb some weeks ago directing an inquiry as to the causes of inefficient mail service was taken up and agreed to. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill to appropriate SIOO,OOO for the erection of a publio building at Richmond, Ind. Senator ManderBon introduced a joint resolution for the abolition of the office of Surveyor General of Nebraska and lowa. The House of Representatives devoted the day to the consideration of tho urgency deficiency bill. An amendment was adopted directing the Public Printer to enforce rigidly the provisions of the eight-hour law. The ancleut bill for the relief of Nathaniel McKay and the executors of Donald McKay, the ship-builder, came up in the House on the 17th inst. Mr. Springer made a stubborn fit ht against the bill, but it was p issei by 156 yeas to 72 nays. McKay ’s conuaetj for gunboats called for $1,056,u00. He was paid that and *409,000 for extras, and what he has been trying 10 get ever since is $323,000 more for alditional extras. There is a considerable lot of these claims Of pretty much the same character, amounting in the aggregate to many millions of dollars, und the) will all be pushed before Congiess.

A Bonanza.

When Major Stofah was a young man he courteda giri whose father objected to him. After a time the old man failed, and when the Sheriff sold his effects the Major bought the watch-dog. “What in thunder do you want with that brute?” asked a friend, as he saw the Major leading the dog away. “Don’t you worry,” replied the Major, confidently. “He only cost me half a dollar, and 1 think I can pick abont two pairs of Sunday pantaloons out of his teeth.”— Washington Critic. The honor and merit of the first application of coal-gas seems to belong to William Murdock of Bedwortli, Cornwall. In LO2 he lighted an extensive manufacturing establishment. France also claimed the honor of its first demonstration, but not satisfactorily. Jan. 28, 1*507, saw a number of London streets lighted by gas. The amount of £20,01)0 was raised, and the king pe'itioned for the incorporation of a company. Two companies supp y London at 70 cents per 1,0 )0 cubic feet, and their capital is $ >0,000,000. Coal-gas was first used in Baltimore in 1810, and f r some time its progress was slow and unsatisfactory. Now there are over one thousand works in the United States, furnishing emp’oyment to over twentyfive thousand men, a portion beipg for the manufacture of water-gas. They had asked Dr. Sandblast, the eminent surgeon, to carve the fowl, and he stood over it with the carving knife delicately held in first position. “The incision, you will observe, gentlemen,” he began, dreamily, “commences a little to the left of the median line, and—oh, excuse me, Mrs. Parmalee; I thought I was in the—the—may I help yon to a little of the femur?” —Pu k. The world deals good-naturedly with good-natured people.