Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — Page 2

glje JemorroticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 9. W. McEWEN, . - - Publishes.

THE NEWS GRIST.

Important Happenings, in Every Quarter of the Civilized Globe. The Very Latest Intelligence Flashed Over the Telegraphic Wires. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. COERCING THE IRISH. Efforts to Hold Proclaimed Meetings Frustrated by Police—Many Persons Injured. Sunday last was an exciting day in Ireland, says a Dublin dispatch. Mr. Balfour’s assertion that in proclaimed districts the National League was a thing of the past had a palpable refutation in numerous meetings, which in Clare, Galway, and Cork wore of a character demonstrating that the league was anything at all but a thing of the past. The meetings were everywhere large, and were marked by the greatest enthusiasm. They were in most instances dispersed by the police and military, but the organizers were of opinion that they effectually accomplished the object they had in view. In Kilrush, County Clare, where John Redmond, M. P., and D. Crilly, M. P., attended, the police attacked the people with bayonets. A priest was assaulted and several persons were wounded. There were violent scenes at Ennis, where Michael Davitt attended. The Loughrei meeting, at which William O’Brien, M. P., attended, was dispersed, but the meeting came off nevertheless. In Macroom, County Cork, there were scenes of violence. Dr. Tanner, M P., and the authorities had a disagreement which ended in Dr. Tanner being arrested.

BISMARCK. The Chancellor ConsentH to Retain Office to Preserve the Unity of Germany, A cable dispatch from Berlin states that “Prince Bismarck has withdrawn his resignation, but solely from the consideration that the domination of Empress Victoria would speedily lead to the breaking-up of German unity. Nothing since the accession of Emperor Frederick has occurred that has so strongly animated the Prussian conservatives against the Empress as the marriage question. It now becomes known that the Empress will impel her helpless husband to thwart Prince Bismarck, without regard to the respect duo to the late Emperor or to the national safety. The National Zcilung says that the betrothal is postponed, but that circumstances may arise under which Prince Bismarck will no longer oppose the union.” Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore Dead. Gen. Quincy A. Gilmohe, who became famous during the civil war while directing the siege operations against Charleston, died at his residence in Brooklyn. Ho was born in .Lorain County, Ohio, was educated at West Point, graduating high in his class in 1849 at the age of 23, and was assigned to the engineer corps. He was 63 years old. Conkling Had a Narrow Escape. A New Yobk special says that “ex-Senator Conkling’s condition is much improved, but his physicians will not yet pronounce him out of danger. Mr. Conkling has been a very sick man, and it was thought at one time that he •was dying. His illness is directly attributable to the blizzard. It is now hoped that he will Boon be all right again.” Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, A Washington special to the Chicago of Monday says: “The Illinois politicians are saying in Washington that Judge ficholfield, of the State Supreme Bench, will be selected to succeed the late Chief Justice Waite. Their confidence is apparently well founded.” A Female Smuggler. Customs inspectors at New York searched Mrs. Frank De Goes, a Chicago boardinghouse keeper, just arrived from Antwerp on the steamer Belgenland, and found a pair of gold earrings in her hat and three watches, several rings and other jewelry in her pockets. The jewelry was sent to the seizure rooms. Oleomargarine Better than Poor Butter. As the result of various hearings upon the subject given by the Massachusetts State Board of Health, that body has made a special report declaring in substance that oleomargarine is good and wholesome, and preferable to poor butter. Telegrams in Brief. The loss of the steamship Rio Janeiro is reported at Montevideo. She had 120 passengers on board, all of whom are supposed to be lost The negro boy Zephyr Davis, who murdered little Maggie Gaughan in Chicago, five weeks ago, has been sentenced to hang on the 12th of May. It is officially announced that all foreign Jews in Odessa, numbering 10,000 families, chiefly natives of Austria and Roumania, will be expelled shortly.

CONGRESS.

Another Day ot Filibustering in the House of Representatives. The opponents of the direct-tax bill continued their filibustering tactics in the House on the 7th inst., and the day was consumed in calling the roll on dilatory motions. In answer to a call from Chairman. Cox about 125 of the Democratic members of the House met in caucus in the evening, to decide upon a line of policy to be followed by the party in the admission of Territories as States of the Union. A resolution was adopted declaring that an enabling act for the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Washington, ana New Mexico should be passed at this session providing for Constitutional Conventions in each Territory and the submission of those Constitutions for ratification or rejection at an election in November, 1888, substantially as provided for in the bill reported by the Committee on Territories,

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Lutheb Shaffeb, aged 22, was hanged at Lock Haven, Pa., for the murder Of Isaiah Colby and his wife last August Afteb an illness* of several months, Benjamin Harris Brewster, United States Attorney General during President Arthur’s administration, died in Philadelphia, aged 72 years. Jacob Shabp, notorious for his connection with New York street railway schemes, who was convicted of bribing Aidermen, is dead. A Wilkesbabbe (Pa.) dispatch says that “Mrs. Mary Sharp, of Wanemic, Pa., was engaged in the manufacture of whisky, when the pot containing the same toppled over into a hot fire. The fluid blazed up, setting fire to her clothing, and she was burned to death in a few moments. Three of her children who tried to save her were also burned, and will die. The husband and father, John Sharp, who was at work at the time, is reported to have become insane. ” The adoption of the Rhode Island suffrage amendment to the constitution is being vigorously discussed in all quarters, says a Providence dispatch. There can be found hardly three intelligent men who agree as to the meaning of its provisions, and it is certain to come before the Supreme Court for interpretation. The Democrats expect that 5,0C0 of the 6,000 naturalized citizens of the State will become qualified in December next for the election of 1889. The total number of aliens who will eventually come in under this law is upward of 36,000, there being 30,000 who will become naturalized as soon as possible. The corrected total vote on the amendment is: Approved, 20,167; rejected, 12,657. The Italian bank, the Banca Avellinese, at Na 72 Thompson street, New York, is broken and the manager, Aurelio de Yoanna, has decamped with <39,000. All the depositors are poor and ignorant Italians. The whereabouts of Yoanna are not known. Fbank L. Wilson, a clerk in the Boston and Providence freight office at Boston, has confessed to embezzlements of the company’s funds. His stealings may reach 510,000 Rev. Mb. Sutherland, the evangelist, better known to the theater-going public as Senator Bob Hart of the minstrel stage, which he quit to preach the gospel, was found dead in bed at New York. Ho had been on a spree. Ex-Senatob Roscoe Conkling is confined to his room in New York with an abscess in his right ear.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Au aeronaut over in Michigan has successfully demonstrated that by the aid of a parachute a man may safely jump out of a balloon ten thousand feet above the earth. Tho feat was a daring one, bnt its utility is not very clear, as very few people’ ever find it necessary to jump from a balloon when it is ton thousand feet from the ground. One of the worst accidents that have ever happened on the lowa and Dakota Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road occurred on Thursday, near New Hampton, lowa. The west-bound passenger train plunged over a bridge into the Wapsie River, swollen to a fearful torrent. The engine, baggage-car, and smoker were piled together in the river where the water was ten feet deep, the two passenger cars following. Five persons were killed and over twenty injured, many of them severely. The scene was most heartrending. The shrieks of men, women, and children were heard issuing from the cars, calling and begging for help. Those who were in the sleeper were the first to get out, and immediately they went to work to assist those in the two breaking through the windows and cutting out the sides and bottom. In less than thirty minutes not a person remained in either ot these coaches. Following are the names of the dead: Willard Anderson, Lemont, Wis.; Gens Martin, Christianson. Denmark, ticketed to Dell Rapids; John Duclus, ticketed to Kimball, D. T.; James Scagell, engineer, Mason City, Iowa; an infant daughter of Mr: Herdecker. A wind and hail storm raged at Faribault, Minn., for fifteen minutes, during which time tho roofs of several store buildings were torn off, telegraph and telephone poles blown down, and a total loss of about $100,003 caused. A tornado demolished several buildings in Sioux City, lowa, and another cloud an hour later tore up the Illinois Central track at Marion, fifty miles distant Asad accident is reported by telegraph from Palmyra, Mo., in which a score of school children had a miraculous escape from death: ' It was Arbor or Tree-Planting Day in Missouri, and fully forty little ones started out with their teachers to dig trees in a neighboring grove and plant them iu the school-yard. Twenty of the children wandered away from the teacher and began playlug around an abandoned well. The rotteu planks covering the well gave way and fifteen children were precipitated to the bottom. It was twenty feet to the water, and there was three feet of water. Two of the children, Arthur Little and May Dolan, were drowned. Seven were dangerously injured. Help was summoned and the little ones were hauled up as fast as possible. Three of tho rescued are not expected to live. Ambbose White, recently Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati, has been indicted for embezzlement and for receiving goods under false pretenses. A fatheb and son who attempted, to row across the St. Clair River from Port Huron to Sarnia, Mich., had their boat capsized by a cake of ice and both were drowned.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A Memphis diepatch says that just before daylight Wednesday morning the jail at Friar’s Point, Miss., was discovered on fire. Desperate efforts were made to release the five prisoners it contained, but without success, and they perished in the flames. They were William Gray (white), Fred Powers (white), Powers, another white man, Andy Drown (colored), and a negro boy, aged 15, who was crazy. Gray set the jail on fire, as he had threatened to do, rather than go to the penitentiary. In a saloon fight at El Paso, Tex., between Bert Penn and William Owens, colored desperadoes, Penn was killed, and Fannie Oliver and Lillie St Clair, white women in the saloon, were shot, the former fatally.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says: “The House Committee on Elections unanimously confirmed the decision of the sub-committee in favor of Gen. Post’s title to the seat as Representative of the Tenth District of Illinois. Before beginning the tedious examination of

the ninety pages of printed record it was agreed by the sub-committee that their guide upon disputed points of law should be the statutes of Illinois, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State. The disputed votes were taken up one by one, and it was found that irregular and illegal votes had been cut for both parties to the contest, but after giving Mr. Worthington the benefit of all doubts the net result of the sifting was about fiftynine majority for Gen. Post The Public Linds Committee of the House has decided to report bills forfeiting about 40,000,000 acres of the Northern and Southern Pacific Railroad land grants and the Ontonogan grant The President has made the following appointments: George J. Denis, United States Attorney for the Southern Dis trict of California; Ezekiel E. Smith, of North Carolina, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Liberia. A mild protest is entered by Secretary Bayard against Germany’s high-handed proceedings in the Samoan Islands. Minister Pendleton is authorized to convey to Prince Bismarck the impression that the United States Government is quite put out about the matter. To find a man who doesn’t want an office has astonished President Cleveland enormously. He hid sent to the Senate the nomination of J. Marion Brooks as District Attorney for the Southern District of California, but before the nomination could be acted upon along came a letter from Mr. Brooks stating that since being tendered the appointment he has made over a million dollars in real estate and doesn’t care for the office now. Accordingly another man was nominated.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Illinois Democratic State Convention id called to meet at Springfield, May 23, to nominate candidates for Presidential Electors, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General and three Trustees of the Illinois University. The convention will choose forty-four delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Ex-Congbessman John R. Lynch presided over the Mississippi Republican Convention at Jackson. About one hundred and fifty colored and twenty-five white delegates were present The Delegates to the National Convenntion from the State at large are: John R. Lynch of Adams County, James Hill of Hinds, T. W. Stringer of Warren, and John R. McGill (white) of Jackson. The resolutions vigorously denounce the National and State Administrations. The convention did not instruct the delegates to the Chicago convention, but referred to John Sherman as a popular statesman and one of the strongest men mentioned in connection with the Presidency, and one whose nomination would be specially acceptable to that State. The colored element was evidently almost a unit for Sherman. The State Committee is empowered to form and put out an electoral ticket when it sees proper. The Vermont Republican Convention assembled at Burlington on the 4th inst. Rodfield Proctor, J. G. McCullough, J. I. Estey, and Frank Plumley were chosen delegates-at-large to Chicago. Tho platform adopted charges the Democratic party with imperiling popular government bv nullifying the purity and honesty of elections. The convention declared itself in favor of the protection of American markets for American citizens, and such taxation as will yield only the revenue that the general welfare requires and such a tariff as will obviate the large surplus in the Treasury and protect our producers aAd artisans from serious competition with foreign capital. The Oregon Democratic Convention, in session at Portland, indorsed President Cleveland and his tariff policy. The platform demands the forteiture of unearned land grants. It declares that the pension roll should be a roll of honor without visiting on the people so great a financial burden. The convention favored the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people; enlarged power to railway commissions and liberal appropriations for river and harbor improvements. Resolutions tantamount to instructions were passed indorsing Cleveland for President and Gov. Pennoyer of Oregon for Vice President. Delegates were chosen to the National Convention. The Rhode Island election resulted in a victory for the Republicans, who elected their Governor and a majority of the Legislature. The majority on Governor is about 2,030. One hundred and fifty-seven delegates, onethird of whom were women, attended the California State Prohibition Convention, at San Francisco. Ex-Governor St. John addressed the convention. Delegates were selected to the National Convention at Indianapolis, lhe platform demands the enaclment and enforcement of an intel.igent and rational Sunday law, and declares in favor of universal and enforced education, woman suffrage, and government control of railroads and telegraphs. The New York Democratic State Convention has been called to meet in New York City on the 15th of May. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention will convene at Madison on the 13th of June. An. Oskaloosa (Kan.) special says: “The ladies whose ejection to the offices of Mayor and Council has brought in a deluge of telegrams and special reporters, took the oath of office to-day and will at once assume their official duties. They declare for law and order and public improvements.”

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

Cincinnati house painters have struck for an advance from 25 to 30 cants an hour, and for nine hours for a day’s work. The boycott on Burlington freight camo to an end at Chicago on Wednesday, says a special from that city. The strikes on the St. Paul. Fort Wayne, and Michigan Central Railroads are ended, aaid there will be no further spread of the troubles which have threatened for several days to demoralize the entire commercial interests of Chicago. This result was brought about through the mediation of Chief Sargent, of the Firemen’s Brotherhood. The switchmen realized that the backbone of their strike was broken when the Michigan Central men returned to work. Another reason why they gave up the fight was the successful transfer of trains made by the St. Paul Road. The gage of battle was withdrawn and the strikers sued for peace. Shortly after the close of the Michigan Central strike the switchmen, firemen, and engineers of the various roads decided at a crowd-

ed meeting that the employee oi each road should use their own judgment about returning to work.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The German police have increased their precautions on the frontier, and now refuse admittance to everyone who is not provided with authority to enter Alsace-Lorraine. Geeman Socialists in Switzerland have parodied Emperor Frederick’s amnesty decree and spread 150,00) copies in the principal towns of Germany Twenty-five persons who had copies in their possession have been arrested at Leipsic. Ameeican tourists now sojourning in Europe speak very highly of the wonderful improvements which are being made at Zurich, Switzerland, with a view of adding to its attractions as a pleasure resort Within the past four years a vast sum of money has been expended in substantial and tastefully arranged granite edifices. Over three miles of water front has been reclaimed from the lake and transformed into a park and promenade, covered with forest trees, Alpina plants and mosses, giving to visitors a public resort unsurpassed in picturesqueness and beauty. A greater number of American pleasure-seekers are now visiting Zurich than has been known before. 'lhe Cologne Gazette, srys a Barlin dispatch, publishes the following: Great excitement prevails in diplomatic circles in Berlin over the possibility of the speedy resignation ot Prince Bismarck because of the proposed marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenberg ana Princess Victoria of Prussia. Prince Alexander wishes to accompany Queen Victoria to Berlin as a suitor for the hand of the Princess. The bearing of the reports are so serious that they can not be passed over. Until the Bulgarian question shall have been settled by all the powers, the projected marriage can only be judged from a political point of view, ond on that account the marriage is an impossibility. The German policy has its root in the endeavor to avoid anything that would be likely to arouse the slightest inducement for suspicion, and in the Bulgarian question Germany must, in accordance with the declaration made by Prince Bismarck in the Reichstag, remain a wholly uninterested party. A mubdebeb who had been released on ticket-of-leave near Tempesvar, Hungary, says a Vienna dispatch, went to the house of the Judge who condemned him and killed the Judge’s wife with a revolver. Then he went to the house of the notary and killed the latter’s deputy. From there he went to his own home and split the skulls of his wife and children, after which he fled and has not yet been captured.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The United States Supreme Court has denied the motion for a rehearing of the Max-well-Preller murder case. Neably 100,000 seals are reported as having been caught the last season off the Newfoundland coast, the largest catch for years. Mb. James W. Dbapeb of Pittsburg, says a telegram from that city, is in receipt of a letter from a personal friend, now in Vienna, a prominent citizen and a wide-awake politician, in which this passage occurs: “I saw Mr. Blaine quite often at Florence, and it is evident that he is very greatly broken in health. He looks every day of 70 years and yet is only 58. Washington excitements and too much hard work have been hie troubles, and any one who sees him will know the reason of his withdrawal from Presidential aspirations, I fear his life will not be spared long.” A vacancy among the Major Generals of the army is created by the placing of General Alfred H. Terry upon the retired list. Bandits are holding high c a-nival in Cuba, where murder and kidnaping flourish unrestricted. The nitro-glyceriue mills of the Fowler Company, situated at Miller’s Station, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, exploded with terrific force while the men were drawing tho mixture into the vats, killing the thyee ipen who were in the building at the time. The shock was felt in Crownpoint and Booneville, twenty miles away, the inhabitants thinking there was an earthquake in the vicinity. Pedestrians staggered and reeled on the streets, and window glasses were broken. Beigadieb Geneeal Geobge Cbookhas been nominated by the President to the Major Generalship vacated by placing General Terry on the retired list, and Colonal John R. Brooks is nominated as Brigadier General. The business failures in the United States and Canada for the week numbered 227, against 223 the previous week

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle —Cl lice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.50 Good 4.25 @ 4.75 Common to Fair 3.25 (.& 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.00 0 5.75 Sheep 4.50 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red ,79<4@ ,80<4 .Corn—No. 2.... 50 0 .5114 Oats—No. 2 29’6)5 .30 )» Barley—No. 2 79 0 ,81 Butter—Choice Creamery 28 & .19 Fine Dairy 25 @ .26 Cheese—Full Cream, flat 11)40 .12)4 EGGS—Fresh 15 .if, Potatoes—Choice, per bu. .90 @ 1.00 Pork—Mess 1.3.00 @13.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 73 © ,731$ Corn—No. 3 47)6“ .48)6 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 Rye—No. 1 ”” .59 0 .61 Barley—No. 2 • 75 ® .77 Pork—Mess 13.00 ' @ 13.50 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 82 & .83 Corn—May ’. 52)6 a> .5 <l4 Oats—May • 33 •«, .3314 Clover Seed 3.75 @ 3.80 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 @ .81 Corn —Mixed jj) 47U Oats—Cash '3o’6 ta 31 2 Bye 62 0 62)4 Barley 80 w .88 P0rk—Me55.......... 13.25 <313.75 NEW YORK. Cattle $ 5.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 5.25 ® 6.00 Sheep 5.00 to. 7.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 89Li<-n .91 No. 1 White ’.94?I<S d)SJ4 Corn—No. 2 04 ■<« .65 Oats—White .41 @ ,45 Pork—New Mess 14.51 (315 25 DETROIT. Cattle 4.00 @ 5.50 Hogs.... 5.00 05.75 Sheep.. 4.50 0 0.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 .83’6 Corn—No. 2.... 52 0 .53 J Oats—No. 2 White 36V,ai 3714 INDIANAPOLIS, ’ " Cattle—Fair to Prime 425 @5.25 Hogs " 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.50 0 6.00 Lambs 4.50 0 6.25 BUFFALO. Cattle 4,00 @ 5.00 H° g s 5.00 a 5.75 5heep....... 5.50 @5.75 . Wheat—No. 1 Hara 90)40 .91)4 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 57 0 .53 J EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 4.75 0 5.25 Fair 4.50 @ 4.75 Common 3.75 @> 4.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.00 Sheep 5.53 @ 6.50 Lambs r 550 @ 7.00

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. • The tariff bill, with some amendments, was presented to the House on the 3d inst. by Mr. Mills, Chairman ot the Committee on Ways and Means, and referred to the committee of the whole, the intention being to call it up for consideration in two weeks. The amendments slightly increase the duty on sugar, so as to make the net reduction *2O per cent, below existing duties, and authorize the classification of worsted cloths as woolens. The report of the mino.-ity of the Ways and Means Committee was prepared by Mr. McKinley and is signed by all the Republican members of the committee. It denounces the refusal of the majority to receive and consider the views of manufacturers and others affected by the reductions, and charges the Democratic majority with favoritism toward the South in that it lowers the tariff on but two articles of Southern production—sugar and rice—while heavy reductions are made on everything produced in tbe North and Northwest. TheCrain amendment changing the beginning of the Congressional term from March 4 to Jan. l r and changing inauguration day from March 4 to April 30 was defeated in the House. The Bond bill was further discussed by the Senate without reaching a vote. The Memphis Bridge bill was passed, with au amendment requiring the bridge to be so constructed as to allow of tbe passage of wagons and pedestrians as well as railway trains. The bond-purchase bill occupied a large share of the time of the Senate on the 3d inst. The measure was discussed an 1 amended, but final action was deferred. Mr. Riddleberger called up his motion to consider the fisheries treaty in open session, and it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. There was a struggle for precedence in the House between the Senate direct-tax bill and the pen-sious-appropriation bill, but the former finally won, and the House went into committee of the whole for its consideration. Among the billspassed by the House was the one for the retirement of Alfred Pleasonton with the rank of Colonel.

By a vote of 37 yeas to 13 nays the Senate, on. the 4th inst., adopted Mr. Beck's amendment to the bond-purchase bill providing for the coinage of silver in excess of the present monthly limitation to take the place of national bank, notes withdrawn from circulation. Mr. Lawler’s bill to establish 100 schools to test the Bcienco of s-pelling was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Palmer The House filibustered ail day and all night over the direct tax bill. The climax of obstruction was reached when, after a motion for a recess had been made and was pending, Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, moved that Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, be excused from voting. In ruling upon’ the point of order raised by Mr. Reed, ot Maine, the Speaker ruled that the motion to excuse from voting was in order under the rules of the' House. This being the case the question was raised as to what limitation could be placed upon this ferm of filibustering.. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, drew attention to the curious fact that after one hundred years of experience in legislation and parliamentary practice the House had for the first time made the discovery that it was possible to delay legislation for an indefinite period. There are 325members of the House, and with a separate' motion to excuse each one, and a separate motion to reconsider the vote just taken, the obstructionists may obtain 650 roll calls on any cne question.

When the Senate took up the bond-purchase' bill, on the sth inst, Mr. McPherson withdrew the amendment offered by him the day previous. Then the substitute as amended by Mr. Beck, providing for additional coinage, to takethe place of surrendered national bank circulation, was agreed to without discussion and the bill was read the third time and passed. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, addressed the Senate on. tbe subject of the President’s Message. Tbs' House spent the day in filibustering over the bill to refund the direct taxes, the time being consumed in roll-calls. During the interval in the voting Mr. Hatch introduced a ■which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, instructing the Int?r-State Commerce Commission to consider what can be done t> prevent the loss of life and limb in coupling and uncoupling cars, and report to the Houso the result of their inquiries.

The bill creating a bureau of animal industry to facilitate the exportation of live stock and its products and to extirpate contagious pleuro-pneumonia. was discussed by the Senate on the 6th inst., but no action was reached. The Senate passed bills for a public building at Texarkana, Ark., and to prevent obstructive deposits in New YorK harbor. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Riddleberger calling on the President for copies, of letters, etc., bearing on the recent acquisition of territory in Venezuela by Great Britain. Among the one hundred and twentyseven private pension bills passed by the Senate inside of ninety minutes was one granting $25 a month to Dr. Mary E. Walker, at one timeAssistant Surgeon in the army. The widows of General Judson Kilpatrick, the famous cavalry leader, and General Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, receive SIOO each per month. The House spent another day filibustering on the direct-tax bill.

The Boys and the Bee-Gum.

One of our most popular preacherstells a “rich one” on some of the boys who “wore the gray,” “one of whom he was which:” While quartered in North Mississippi they attempted to open ne’gotiations with a stingy farmer for the purchase of a bee-gum. He refused to sell the honey, whereupon the boys informed him in a chivalrous and soldierly way that they were going to have the bee-gum anyway, but preferred to pay for it. He still refused and defied them to show their heads about the premises at night. The boys, bent on having the honey despite the threats of the old “tight-fist,” went back in the night, and following the direction of their leader, took the heaviest gum they could find in the yard, having to carry it “turn about" and wade a creek before they reached the distributing point, and just as they were huddling around in breathless suspense, anxiously awaiting with watery mouths their midnight repast on Samson’s favorite dish, what was their chagrin on the one hand and suppressed laughter on the other, as one of their number “struck a light” and they beheld before them a large gum of ashes, which they had mistaken for a bee-gum. Walker County (Ga.\ News. -—-■ -i...* , ■ ■ ■ ■ 11— a

Russian Sanitation.

In an aggregate population of 100,000,000 in Russia, according to Dr. Bubnoff, there are only about 5,000 medical men, while no working sanitary system can be said to exist in the empire. In some district the deathrate ranges from 60 to 80 per 1,000, and in spite of a high birth-rate the population of the country is increasing only at the rate of 1 per cent. That a frightful penalty in human lives is paid for neglect of public health is shown by the fact that of the total of some 2,800,000 yearly deaths something like 1,000,000 may ’ fairly be traced to preventable causes.— Arkansaw Traveler,