Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — Page 6

glje Jtnwcratic Sentinel RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - PUBUKEKK

WORDS BY WIRE.

The Latest News by Telegraph from Aril Parts of the World. Political Gossip, Railroad Notes, Persona! Mention, and Occurrences of Lesser Note. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY. The Great Mississippi Freshet Said to Have Caused a Lush of Nearly >54,000,000. The mighty flood in the Mississippi, which will be remembered as without a precedent in the destruction and suffering created, is slowly abating and it is thought that the worst of the high water is pasted, says a Q lincy (ILL) dispatch: Hundreds of families have been rendered homeless, and thousands of acrest(of growing crops ruined, to say nothing of the loss entailed by demolished dwellings, wrecked fences, and washouts. A trip through the submerged regions shows that the stories of loss and Buffering already published have net been exaggerated. Krom the northern end of Adams County to the southern end of Pike County the land on the Illinois side of the river was protected by a system of levees, the region embracing 250,001 acres, the soil being the richest in the State. All the region is now one vast lake from si < to ten feet in depth. Along the bluffs on the eastern edge of the submerged district hundreds of families are camped, living in tents, huts, and in the open air. Before the Hood most of these people were well-to-do, prosperous farmers, but Dow they have little or nothing. Much sickness prevails among the unfortunates, owing to want and exposure, but prompt measures have been taken to alleviate their sufferings. Owing to the great confusion it is imirossible to obtain detail losses, but the aggregate will reach fully #3,000,1X10 from ciops alone. The damage to the levees, houses, and railroa ls will approximate 8000,000.

BLAINE. He Is Again Interviewed by a Newspaper Currespondeii t. T. C. Crawford, the London correspondent of the Naw York World, has again interviewed Mr. Blaine in Paris. I have seen Mr. Blaine several times within the last three days, generally surrounded by his family, says Mi. Crawford. As regards the first question, whether he would accept, it can be said that Mr. Blaine adheres to his Florence letter, and does not withdraw one word of his interview last February in Florence. I have no authority to say more than that, as Mr. Blaine did not wish to be interviewed again on this subject. His Florence letter was so explicit ihat the fact that he has now nothing to ald to it by way of qualification should be tuough to satisfy the most doubtful of Mr. Blaine s enemies as to his future intentions. His declarations at Florence correctly represent fils present state of mind. Of his health the correspondent says: It needs no medical expert to pass upon the bright, clear look of his eyes, bis good color, and the vigor shotvn in every one of his movements. . Ho has to-day the health that comes to a man as a reward for a lite of simple habits and tastes. TWO BODIES CREMATED. Five Successful Incinerations at St. Louis. Iwo bodies have been cremated.at the St Louis Crematory lately, making five successful incinerations since the furnaces were put in operation. The body of Robert Martin was cremated with Masonic honors. The ritual was changed to conform with the retort where “the grave” is the common form. Otherwise the services did not differ from those at the grave. The body of Frederick Grafenst-ein was also cremated. The Sunday Law EnlorcecMn St. Louis. The Sunday law as applied to saloons went into effect at St. Louis, Mo., on Sunday last A few saloons keepers kept open until forced to close by the police, but the law was voluntarily observed for the most part, the Brewers’ Association having acquiesced iu the law. The same Jaw prohibits work on Sunday and amusements of all kinds, but no effort will be made to enforce these provisions or any except the one against the sale of intoxicating drinks. Telegraphic Brevities. Ihe steamship Umbria landed 007 immigrants at Castle Garden, New York, one day, the La Bretegne, 741 from Havre, and the Schiedham 6JL from Amsterdam. The attempt in New York to raise a Grant monument fund of $500,099 has completely failed. The project was begun in 1885, and now but $130,000 has been collected. Fred Marsden, the well-knowu play-writer, committed suicide at his residence in New York, by turning on the gas in his room. His wife says his death is due to his daughter’s cruel and shameless conduct.

REED AND CARLISLE.

They Make the Closing Speeches in the Great Tariff Debate. The great tariff debate was brought to a close in the House on the 19th inst., Messrs. Reed of Maine and Carlisle of Kentucky making the final oratorical efforts in behalf, respectively, of the protectionists and tariff reformers. A Washington telegram says : “On the floor twelve Senators, many ex-Congressmen, a bevv of little girls in gay color, a few ladies, about.a hundred House employes, and a solitary colored ex-Congressman' listened to the discussion. The venerable Congressman, Jehu Baker, hud the benefit of this great audience to hear his earnest denial of the allegation made by Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky that Mr. Morrison was deprived of his seat in Congress by some sort of crookededness on the part of the protectionists. Half an hour later the Kentuckian approached Mr. Baker, as be stood talking to Mr. Randall, and the two had a friendly conversation, for Mr. Brackinridge did not allege or believe that Baker hud personally taken part in any improper things done to carry the election for his benefit. The great expectations of what would be done by Mr. Reed, of Maine, and Mr. Carlisle were not fully realized in the speech of either, yet both were far above tne average and so thoroughly characteristic of the men that their respective friends could not fail to be gratified with their success. The verdict of some of the Republicans was that while Reed’s effort fell below that of Mr. McKinley as a masterly presentation of the protection argument, it was a good philosophical discussion of principle. As to Mr. Carlisle, it was said among Republicans that he hud excelled all of the tariff reform speakers, but had failed to cover the whole ground in not answering the objections of McKinley and Randall to tbe details of the bill. Democrats said they thought Mr. Carlisle excelled any previous effort he had mode, which was high praise.”

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Fanny Davenport has sued the Manhattan News Company in New York for infringement in publishing “La Tosca” as a novel Claus f freckles has bought a piece of land in Philadelphia for $459,000, and will at one : proceed to erect a sugar refinery. A suit has been begun in the Unfted States Court at Hartford, Conn., to wind up the affairs of the Hooeac tunnel through a receiver. George, alias Harry, Benson, the Patti ticket swindler, committed suicide at New York by jumping from the second tier of the Ludlow Street jail to the floor below. Time and again during the proceedings looking to his extradition to Mexico, Benson had declared that to return thither was equivalent co signing his death warrant, and that he would rather die than go back. Benson’s swindling career was perhaps the most marvelous of which there is any account in the world. Born of French parents in Alsace forty-one years ago, he was given a brilliant education, and at an early age he entered journalism in Paris, where he made his mark at once. Before he was 30 years old he was editor of one of the Parisian dailies, and the high mode of living into which he drifted at that time led to his subsequent criminal career, as he was unable to procure the means of indulging his tastes by legitimate means. Then he perpetrated a most stupendous series of swindles, and finally, in December, 1886, made his famous haul in the City of Mexico by selling, $26,500 worth of bogus Patti concert tickets. While a prisoner in London years ago he attempted suicide by setting fire to his clothing in his cell. In the Methodist General Conference at New York a motion was made providing that hereafter it shall require a two-thirds vote to constitute an election of Bishop. After considerable debate the motion was carried by a vote of 202 to 131. The greatest gathering in the history of the Presbyterian Church assembled at Philadelphia on the 17th inst The General Assembly, which began its centennial session on that day. is the largest and most important Calvinistic assemblage ever seen in this country, and its deliberations promise to have an unusually important bearing upon the status of American Presbyterianism. There was a lively contest for Moderator between the venerable Dr. McCosh, of Princeton College, and Rev. Dr. Charles L. Thompson, of Kansas City. The Western man captured the p.um by a good majority. One man was blown to pieces and two seriously injured hv the explosion of a magazine containing 3W kegs of powder, at Stockton, N. J. Scores of houses were ruined by the tremendous copcussion. The action of the Philadelphia Post, of the G. A. 11, in electing Gen. Joseph E. Johnston (ex-Confederate) a “contributing member,” has brought an order from the Department Commander declaring that such election is irregular, and not in accordance with the laws and rules of the order. Mrs. Scofield, involved in the death cf Broker Hatch at New York, has been discharged by order of Judge. Lawrence.

THE WESTERN STATES.

The partially consumed body of a man supposed to be Morgan, of Fort Smith, Ark., was found in the embers of a fire in the Indian Territory near there, showing marks of violence. It is believed he had been robbed and murdered. Melville E. Stone, who founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, and has been since then editor-in-chief of that journal, has sold his interest to his partner, Victor F. Lawson, and retired from the newspaper business. Mr. Lawson, by this deal, becomes sole owner of the valuable plant, and will hereafter have charge of the editorial conduct of the News. 11l health, caused by close application to work, is given by Mr. Stone as his reason for retiring. The Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Road have inaugurated a through vestibule train service between St Paul and Chicago. The will of the late Commodore Kittson has been filed at St. PauL It disposes of millions in a very concise manner. The amount which the estate will clear up is estimated by the Commodore at $4,000,000. Each of his eleven children is given SIOO,OOO at the start, and the remainder of the estate is to remain undivided until the youngest child, becomes of age, which will be in 1896. Fire destroyed the candle and glycerine works of the Dearborn Manufacturing Companyin Chicago. Loss about $115,000; insurance, $83,000. A Quincy (Ill.) dispatch of Thursday says: “The river is higher than for many years, and is over ten miles wide at this point. The Indian Grave levee is utterly ruined, and will not be rebuilt It cost over $200,000. The losses to the farmers in the Indian Grave and Sny Valley districts is roughly estimated at over $1,000,000. Quincy is now cut off from all railroad communication with the West The tracks of all linos are under water, and flat cars loaded with rails are run on the bridges to save them from being swept away. ” At Bloomington, Ind., Bill Patrick shot and killed a saloon-keeper named J. W. Carter. Patrick escaped. Three of the five defendants in the tallysheet forgery cases at Indianapolis—Reardon, Counselman, and Metcalfe—have been acquitted, while in the cases of Budd and Sullivan the jury were unable to agree. Coy and Bernhamer, who were convicted several weeks ago, have been taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City. . , Merchants employing collection agencies to realize on slow debts will do well to be careful as to the methods used. A dry-goods dealer of Mexico, Mo., has been fined SSOO and costs because a collection agency sent one of his customers a bill inclosed in an envelope on which the words “Bad Debts” were printed in large type. A mail-pouch on a through mail train from St. Louis to Boston, it has just been learned, was cut, and five registered letter packages taken. William George was hanged in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for murder. He refused spiritual advice and bore up well during the ordeab Fire at Palouse City, W. T., destroyed seven business blocks, at a total loss of $250,000, With a total insurance of $75,000. Michigan’s local-option law is declared un-

constitutional by the Supreme Court The decision is based upon the point that the act in question was entitled “An act to regulate the manufacture and sale of liquor," whereas the local-option Jaw does much more than that, and is, therefore, invalid under the clause of the Constitution which provides that no law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be embodied in its title. The decision is regarded as a great victory by the liqtpor men. A terrible hail-storm swept over Pratt, Kan., destroying fruit and wheat and corn for miles of territory. People caught out had their heads laid open by the driving hail Cattle and pigs were killed. All windows facing the north and west were broken. Each farmer’s loss in the territory covered is from SSOO to SI,OOO. At Cullison and Wellsford roofs were broken in by the weight of the hailstones. A terrific wind-storm swept over the mining town of Aurora, thirty-five miles south of Springfield, Mo., which blew down nearly all the tents in the camp, leaving hundreds of people without shelter to battle with the storm. There was no loss of life, and the only reason assigned for this is that the people were in tents instead of houses. A great deal of stock in the surrounding country perished by falling buildings. Charles J. Maetih, a notorious horsethief, has been given ten years in the penitentiary at Indianapolis, Ind. It is said that he has stolen about two hundred horses in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and lived in fine style with his family at Mitchell, Ind. He was captured in St Louis and taken to Indianapolis for trial Four of the leaders of the election night murders and riot at Lima, Ohio, were arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and were remanded for trial June 25.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A cyclone in Baxter County, Arkansas, wrecked many dwellings and destroyed crops, causing heavy losses to farmers. No lives are reported lost A proposition to refer all correspondence touching union with the Northern church to a special committee has been adopted by the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, in session at Baltimore. It was also decided to join in the centennial celebration at Philadelphia. The Governor of Kentucky has appointed L A. Kpalding, W. B. Fleming and J. F. Hogan Kailroad Commissioners. Mr. Joseph R. Anderson, who was nominated by the Prohibitionists of Tennessee, is dead.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Coy and Eeruhamer, the convicted Indiana tally-sheet forgers, must serve out their sentences in the penitentiary. Their application for a writ of habeas corpus has been denied by the United States Supremo Court The decision of the United States Supreme Court in tho case of disputed jurisdiction between West Virginia and Kentucky, growing out of the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta, affirms tho principle laid down in the case of Ker, the Chicago defaulter, that tho question of how the prisoner came to be inside the State is not one to be considered. In both cases kidnaping was resorted to in obtaining jurisdiction. Once more tho Senate Judiciary Committee, at the supposed instigation of Mr. Edmunds, has postponed action on the nomination of Melville W. Fuller as Chief Justice. The matter has not even been referred to a subcommittee. The Supreme Court has denied the application for a rehearing in the Bell telephone case. The American Woman’s Baptist Home Mission Society has just held its eleventh annual meeting at Washington. About 290 delegates were present The reports of the Secretary and the Treasurer were read, showing the society to be doing important work, particularly in the South. Satisfactory progress has been made during tho last year.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

It is reported by cable that the Russian and Montenegrin Governments have concluded a treaty, according to the terms of which Montenegro, in the event of a liusso-Austrian war, will send 30,000 troops to Herzegovina to harass Austria, and Russia, if victorious, will give Cattaro to Montenegro. A dispatch from Warsaw says that the managers of railways at Warsaw, Granica, and Ivan-Gorod have received a military order directing them to accumulate without delay on each line 600,000 tons of coal Advices from Australia say that a tidal wave forty feet high, caused by a volcanic eruption, swept over New Britain in March, drowning seventeen members of the scientific expedition. The Russian Count Strogonoff and his sister, Princess Tscherbaotoff, with an escort of 150 men, have been captured in Asia Minor by a tribe of Kurd nomads who demand an immense ransom. Ihe Brazilian Senate has passed the I*lll abolishing slavery which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies last week. The election in the department of Isere to fill a vacancy in the Chamber of Deputies resulted in the return of M. Gaillard (Radical). The vote was as follows: Gaillard, 40.260; M. Giroid (Opportunist), 37,673; Gen Boulanger, 14,223. A Rome dispatch says that Archbishop Walsh’s words on his return to his diocese were that no Irish Bishop could rebel against the Pope’s decree, it being a question of faith and morality.. The Irish Bishops who assembled to examine the possible consequences of the decree have forwarded to the Propaganda certain observations on these points, and an attentive and dispassionate examination is also being made of the various utterances of members of the National League made with the object of rendering the decree of no effect. The London Standard, speaking of Lord Wolseley’s exposure of the army’s weakness, says his declarations, if true, are a reproach to a rich and powerful government The Times says Lord Wolseley’s defense was manly and straightforward. The royal families of Russia and Greece are to be more closely allied by the approaching marriage of Princess Alexandria, daughter of the Queen of Greece, and Grand Duke Paul, the Czar’s youngest brother

From London, Mr. Libouchere telegraphs to the New York World: “Private accounts of. Emperor Frederick are as bad as possible, and it is to be feared he cannot possibly live more than a few weeks. People about him are amazed that he lasts so long.” The second ballot for Paris municipal councillors resulted in favor of the republicans. Gen. Boulanger has completed his tour and has returned to Paris, says a dispatch from that city. A crowd met him at the depot and followed him to his hotel, uttering mingled cries of “Vive Boulanger” and “A baa Boulanger.” The General delivered s. speech at Hirson. He said the sole thought that was always before him was to make the French nation a united family, and he hoped to attain his object. The fraternal presence at the gatherings he had attended recently of representatives of all social elements proved that they were unanimous in desiring the greatness of the country and the triumph of the Republic. Forty Parnellites, including Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien, sat nine hours in the Dublin Court House discussing the Papal rescript. A sub-committee was appointed consisting of Messrs. D. Sullivan, T. D. Sullivan, O’Brien, Redmond, Healy and Harrington, with Messrs. Kenny and Clancy as secretaries, to draw up resolutions on the principles agreed to. The meeting prepared a manifesto to the following effect: That the allegations of fact which are put forth in the circular of the Holy Office are unfounded, and could not have been promulgated under the authority of the Holy Office if statements bo prejudicial to the Irish people had been tested by reference to the prelates of Ireland and the elected representatives of the people. That we repudiate the assumption on which the circular proceeds that the status of Irish farmers is that of more tenants at will, and assert that not only in equity but in law the dominant interest in the agricultural holdings of Ireland belongs to the tenants by whom the improvements have been executed; and we attribute much of the discontent which now prevails to the disregard of our constant protests against the imposition of rent on those improvements in defiance of the statute which tardily recognized a dual ownership in the soil. That we cannot refrain from expressing our deep regret as Catholics and Irishmen that the Holy Office is silent as to the source and provocation of the evils and disorders which afflict the people of Ireland. That the demand of tne people of Ireland for agrarian reform and political liberty is dictated by necessity, sustained by natural justice, and conducted by modes of action and methods of organization prescribed or allowed by the constitution under which we live. It is rumored in Berlin that an imperial rescript is about to be issued which is intended to prevent as far as possible Frenchmen from visiting Alsace-Lorraine, in reprisal for the obstacles placed in the way of Germans on the French side of the frontier.

TEE WORLD AT LARGE.

A letter recently received announces that the Nicaragua Canal survey drogresses satisfactorily, and that the members of the expedition are in good health. John L. Sullivan has finally had the long-expected row with Harry Phillips, his manager, and the partnership is dissolved. Ihe Protestant ministers of Montreal, Ont., have passed a vote of thanks to Archbishop Tabor for w thdrawing his name from a petition to the City Council to have a statue of the Virgin Mary erected in a public park. The State Department at Washington has received a telegram from Roderigo da Silva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the Brazilian Parliament has approved the Government bill completely abolishing slavery, and that it was sanctioned by the Regent on the 18 th inst. The telegram was immediately sent to the President, who at once di-patcheJ the following reply to Minister da Silva.: The President directs me to convey to your Government his congratulations upon the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and to express his personal hope and expectation that the freedom thus extended will result in the increased happiness and prosperity of your country. Rives, Acting Secretary. The action cotnmancol by Gen. Adam Badeau against tho family of the late Gen. U. 8. Grant for SIO,OOO sei v.ces rendered tho latter during his lifetime has entered into a new phase. The family has offered to pay the amount, but Badeau demands a public trial, to vindicate his honor. Osmond Tearle and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Bigelow, Bolossy Kiralfy, Marshall PJ Wilder, and Ernest Pcssart have sailed for Europe. Mrs. Frank Leslie has also gone abroad. Canadian railway traffic for the year ended July 1, 1887, increased by five and a half millions. There are 12,332 miles of railroad in the Dominion.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers $5.00 @ 5.50 Good 4.25 @4.75 Cows and Heifers 2.75 @ 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades... 5.00 & 6.00 Sheep 4.00 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red92)s® .931$ Corn—No. 2 . 59 @ .59J# Oats—No. 2 .34 @ .35 Barley—No. 2 77 @ .80 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 @ .25 Fine Dairy 22 @ .24 Cheese—Full Cream, flato9 ® .09 $ Egg-i—Fresh 12W.® .131$ Potatoes—Choice, per bu 80 .85 Pork—Mess 14.00 @14.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Juneß6 .86)$ Corn—No. 356 «« .57 Oats—No. 2 White 37!;>@ .34)$ Rye—No. 1 65),'>>i .65 Barley—No. 2 68 d .68’$ Pork—Mess 14 2 5 ©14.50 TOLEDO. Wheat-Cash 94’./><? .95 Corn—Cash 59 'd .60 Oats—No. 2 White34l/,® .35}$ Clover Seed 4.40 4.45 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 9156 <5 .92)$ Corn—Mixed<...55 .55 Oats—Cash 3s ® .36 Rte 6iy.@ .62’$ Barley 80 .88 Pork—Messl4.7s @ls 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.5) @5.75 Hogs 5.50 @ 625 Sheep 5.00 @ 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 < 1.03 Corn—No. 2 ... 67}$ ® .685$ Oats—White 43 @ .47 Pork—New Messls.oo @15.50' DETROIT. Cattle 4.C0 @ 5.25 Hogs 5.00 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.50 Wheats— No. 2 Red.9s @ .9:5 Corn—No. 2 58)$ .59J4 Oats—No. 2 White..4o <4O .41 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 4.50 @ 5.52 Hogs 5.25 i® 6.00 Sheep 5.50 @6.25 Lambs...... 6.00 @ 7.00 BUFFALO. Cattle 4.00 (3 5.00 Hogs 5.00 & 6.00 Sheep 6.00 @» 7.25 Wheat—No. 1 Ked 99 @ 1.00 Corn—No. 3 Yellow .. .62 @1 .62)$ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 5.00 @ 5.50 Fair 4.50 (<55.00 C0mm0n..... 4.00 & 4.50 Hogs 5.25 & 6.00 Sheep 5.50 (9 6.25 Lambs... 4.50 & 6.00

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

What In Being Bone by* the National Legislature. Mb. Vest, of Missouri, introduced a resolution in the Senate, on the 14tu Inst., providing for a select committee of five Senator a to examine fully all questions touching the meat product of the United States, and especially as to the transportation of beef and 'beef cattle and sale of the same in the cattle markets, stock yards, and cities. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Flections, to which had been referred certain resolutions of the Indiana Legislature concerning the election of Mr. Turpie as United States Senator, made a report and asked to be discharged before the further consideration of the resolution and memorials, “thereby confirming the title of Mr. Turpie to his seat.” Mr. Stewart introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce from two-thirds to a majority the vote in each house overriding Presidential vetoes. In the House, Mr. Lawler introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause such changes and improvements to be made in the public building at Chicago and to erect such additions thereto as may b^ necessary to provide sufficient Accommodations .or the postoffice. The committee on invalid pensions reported a bill proposing to remove the restriction upon the payment of arrearages of pension in the case of claims filed before the passage of the bill It is estimated at the pension office that it will require $250,000,000 to meet the requirements of the bill. The tariff debate in the House was continued. The speakers were Messrs. Struble of lowa, Hatch of Missouri, Symes of Colorado, Funston of Ktnsas, and O’Ne'all of Indiana, The pension appropriation bill came up inthe Senate on the 15th inst, and the amendment reported from the committee increasing l the appropriation from $79,00’,000 to $80,477,000was agreed to. Mr. Hoar called up the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the matter of Senator Turpie, and in accordance with the request of that committee it was. discharged from further consideration of the memorials and remonstrances on the subject. A bill to provide two additional justices for the Supreme Court of Dakota was favorably reported. The House bill providing that hereafter eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for lettercarriers was passed. Mr. Farwell introduced a bill appropriating SBOO,OOO for enlarging and changing the Chicago Postoffice building. The House devoted the day to the discussion of the Mills tariff bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Butterworth of Ohio, Henderson of Illinois, Grout of Vermont, and Seymour of Michigan In opposition to the bill, and Messrs. Buckalew of Pennsylvania and Stone of Kentucky in favor of it. The Senate on the 16th inst. passed Mr. Vest’s; resolution providing for a select committee toinvestigate questions touching the meat, product of the United States, after amending it so as to make the investigation embrace the Trunk Line Association, the Central Traffic Association, and other agencies, of transportation, and was then adopted. The Senate passed a bill appropriating $509,000 for the commencement of a boat railway around the obstructions of the Columbia river nt the Dalles and Celilo falls. The bill appropriating $200,000 for a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers in Grant County, Indiana, was passed by the House. In the House there was an exciting scene during the tariff debate. Mr. Brumm charged Mr. Scott with contributing toward paying the iron police in the coal regions. Mr. Scott denied it. “You made that charge once before,” said he. “Yes,” retorted Mr; Brumm, “and I can prove it.” "I will make you prove it.” cried Mr. Scott, vehemently. “I am going to call you before the bar of the House to make you prove it.” “And I will prove it,” shouted Mr. Brumm. “It is false as h itself,’’ retorted Mr. Soott. “The gentleman ought to haveknown what he was doing. I have nothing mere to say.” The other tariff speakers were Messrs. Bound of Pennsylvania, Fat*uhar of New York, Laird of Nebraska, Mcßae of Arkansas, Ryan of Kansas, Baker of New York, Russell of Massachusetts, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Wickham of Ohio, Montgomery of Kentucky, and Shively of Indiana. The Senate passed the pension appropriation: bill on the 17th inst., after adopting an amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations to strike out the words “that in all pensions to widows payments shall be made from the date of the death of the husband,” and to insert “that all payments which have been or which may hereafter be granted under the general laws regulating pensions to widows in consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service since the xth of March, 1861, shall commence from the date of the death of the husband/ The Senate also passed the following bills : To amend the Revised Statutes in relation to timber depredations ; authorizing Gen. Absalom Baird Jo accept the Legion of Honor decoration from France ; to pay certain employes of the Chicago Custom House for extratime service, and appropriating $150,000 for quarters and barracks nt the branches of th® National Military Homo for disabled volunteer soldiers. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to appropriate $25,000 for the erection in Washington of a monument to the memory of George Rogers Clark in recognition of his eminent services in the occupation and conquest of the northwestern territory. In the House speeches on the tariff were delivered by Messrs. Mason of Illinois, Cox of New York, Anderson of Illinois, Breckinridge of Arkansas, Peters of Kansas, Herman of Oregon, and Stewart of Vermont. The tariff discussion was resumed on the 18th, and Mr. Anderson of lowa concluded his speech, against the bill. Mr. Randall spoke. He said he would, as soon »s practicable, repeal the laws on internal-revenue taxation, and that tho administration would be better and purer today if the excise laws were abolished. Randall s time expired at noon, when request was made to have his time extended. Mills of Texas rose in hie seat and objected, which created great dissatisfaction on both sides of the House, and all the members rising in their seats shouted “Regular order!” for’minutes, until McKinley of Ohio, the next speaker, yielded to Randall fifteen minutes of his time, which finally restored order. The speaker took strong grounds against the Mills hili, because the details were liable to prove injurious to the manufacturing industries. He differed from his party in the belief that tariff for protection was constitutional, but for himself he favored only such a degree of protection as was incidental to raising the necessary revenue. He was unalterably opposed to the internal revenue system. He then stated his objections to the bill in detail, especially the wool and iron schedules. In view of these facts, he could not yield in his judgment to the majority of his own party, and gave notice to those who proposed to rule him by caucus dictation or rule ijjm out of the party that he refused to be dictated to on this v>tal subject. He concluded with a reference to the growth pt the country’s industries. The speech was carefully listened to and frequently applauded bythe Republicans. McKinley of Onio followed,, opposing the Mills bill. Proceeding to point out. what bewailed some of the ridiculous features of th.e bill, Mr. McKinley said that the duty on steel billets had been increased from 45 per cent, to 63 per cent.* ad valorem, thereby causing an increase of from ?£ to ;<j per cent, on every pound of wire fencing that inclosed the farms of ttie West. The duty on cut nails made from steel billets was reduced 25 per cent., while the duty on raw material was increased 45 per cent. He declared that the bill was sectional in that every cotton-planter could get hoop-iron for his cotton ties free of duty, while the farmer of the West must pay for the same iron l’£ cents a pound if he wished to bind his thatch or his pail. Breckinridge of Kentucky came next in an earnest defense of the bill. He contended that the bill was a protective tariff bill. It left the average rates of duty higher than under the Morrill tariff. The present law was so highly protective as in many cases to be prohibitory. The changes proposed by this bill are designed to give the farmer, by whom all provisions are raised, a market for his breodstuffs and raw materials, which is only profitable when he has a prosperous manufacturer for a purchaser; to the laborer.the hope of a constant market, and to the manufacturer freedom from unnecessary burdens.

The pointed girdle of ribbon passementerie or silk extending below the waist is a feature of dressy gowns and wraps. Sashes of moire ribbon are part of nearly every house gown, and a sash of ribbon or silk fringed out at the ends will be the invariable accompaniment of white muslin and shees ’fiwn gowns worn during the summer, I 4