Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — Page 2

m Jtmocratic Jetttinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W. McEWEN, - PDBUSBn

THE WORLD OVER.

Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. DEATH OF GEN. SHERIDAN. The End Came Unexpectedly—Heart Trouble the Cause. Gen. Sheridan is dead. The end came suddenly and unexpectedly at Nonquitt. Mass., from heart trouble. The weather was warmer than usual, and the General was at times restless, but seemed generally bright and cheerful. Mrs. Sheridan, the

Sisters Maban and Justinian, and the faithful body-servant were at his bedside during his dying hour. His death was painloss, he having gradually sank into an unconscious state, Tho following official bulletin has been issued: The immediate cause of Gon. Sheridan’s death was heart failure. The remote cause was disease of the mitral and aortic valves, the existence of which was known to his physicians, to himself, and to his family in November of last year. The complications which occurred were nervous exhaustion, pneumonia, pulmonary cegeria, anasarca and hemorrhages. The la't day of his life was somewhat restless, but not more so than he had been several times siuco his arrival at Nonquitt. Symptoms of heart failure suddenly appeared, and the remedies which hod hitherto been successful were vigorously applied, but prove i ineffectual, and he sank rapidly, dying painlessly. The news of his death was received with deep expressions of sorrow all over tho land. The General leaves a wife and four small children—three girls and one boy. He had made his will. BASE-BALL BATTERS. Bow the Various Clubs Stand That Are Competing for First Place. The relative standing of the clubs that are competing for the championship of the associations named is shown by the annexed table: League. Won. Lost. New York 52 28 Chicago 48 32 Detroit 47 32 Philadelphia 39 40 Boston. 37 45 Pittsburgn 33 41 Indianapolis 31 48 Washington 29 50 Western. Won.Los'i.. American. Won. Lost. St. Paul 42 24 St. Louis 53 26 Des Moines 40 25 Brooklyn .52 31 Omaha 39 27 Athletic 50 30 Kansas City 32 34 Cincinnati 49 81 Sioux City 13 14 Baltimore 37 45 Chicago 31 38 Cleveland 31 49 Milwaukee 32 40 Louisville 30 52 Minneapolis 25 41 Kansas City 23 56

A FATAL COLLEGE DINNER. Three Deaths Follow an Alumni Spread— Twenty Cases of Illness. Frank H. Chamborlain of Marietta. 0., has died of typhoid fevor. Of those who partook of the college alumni dinner June 27, residents and visitors, more than twepty have been seriously ill with typhoid feVer. Chamberlain is the third to die, following George P. Dye and Prof. Beach. Others are dangerously sick. Outside of this dinner company Marietta has no typhoid fever. This fact is a startling one and directs especial inquiry to the cause. MURDERED BY A KNIFE-THRUST. One Man Killed and Another Wounded in a Mysterious Affair at Lewiston. John Lehey and John Connors were seen ■walking with two other men at Lewiston, Me. Shortly afterward cries for help were heard, and Lehey was found dead and Connors insensible from knife-wounds. Lehey was a foreman at the Winston bleachery. Jerry McGillicuddy, Michael McGillicuddy, and James Connors have been arrested on suspicion, but deny knowledge of the affair. The motive of the assault is a mystery. A TENNESSEE TOWN BURNED. The Village ofNewbern Nearly Wiped Out. Advices from Newbern, Dyer County, Term., say that lire lias destroyed the entire eastern part of that town. But for the blowing up of one building by the citizens the whole town would have been wiped out. The loss is $25,000, and not a cent of insurance. The fire was incendiary. Killed Three Men and Escaped. Advices from the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, say that Charles Perkins, a noted horse-thief and murderer, shot and killed two Deputy United States Marshals and one citizen at Marshall's Ferry, on the Bed River, while resisting arrest, Perkins escaped. There are nine indictments against him for murder. He says he will never b« taken alive.

FIRE’S FRIGHTFUL FURY. Awful Log* of Life in a Tenement Crowded with Polish Tailors, Families and Workmen. The bursting of a kerosene lamp in a large tenement house in New York City caused a conflagration of a dreadful nature. Seventeen people were roasted, six others so severely burned that they will die, and many more received serious injuries. The house was a ramshackle affair hidden in the middle of the block, the only entrance to it being a narrow alleyway from the Bowery. In front of it was a four-story building. Adjoining this is Harry Miner’s People’s Theater, Tn the rear of the burned building were two nouses, hemming It completely in. In this caged-in building lived about one hundred and fifty people. Each of the six floors was occupied by a single family, the head of which was a tailor, who made clothing for the cheap wholesale houses, and employed from fifteen to twenty men, women, and children, in addition to his own family. They were all Polish Jews, and employers and employed worked, ate, and slept in the crowded rooms of the dingy tenement. The flames gained such rapid headway that escape was almost impossible, and the most appalling scenes followed, the crackling of the flames mingling with the wild shrieks of despair of the unfortunates. Many of the frightened inmates rushed down through the flames, and escaped to the narrow court yard, with clothes ablaze and hands and bodies burned. The picturo of charred remains of men, women, and children was such as to beggar description. The financial loss is placed at $25,000.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY.' Various Parties Throughout the Country Name Candidates for Congress. The consolidated Greenback and United Labor party of the Seventh Congressional District of Indiana, have renominated James Buchanan of Indianapolis for Congress, The Republicans of the Eighth Congressional District of Indiana in convention at Terre Haute, unanimously renominated James T. Johnson for Congress, and the Republicans of the Twelfth Congressional District, in convention at Fort Wayne, renominated Capt. James B. White by acclamation. The Democrats of the Fifth District of Kansas, in convention at Clay Center, nominated Dr. N. D. Tobey for Congress. The Union Labor party of the Ninth District of lowa, at Des Moines, have nominated J. L, Severign for Congress. John T. Heard, Congressman from the Marshall (Mo.) district, has been renominated. The Republican Congressional Convention of the Second District of Florida, at Ocala, has nominated Fred S. Goodrich, of DeLand. The Seventh District Republicans of Indiana have nominated Thomas E. Chandler, of Marion county, for Congress. The Illinois Democratic Congressional Convention for the Twentieth District met at Murphysboro. The Hon. A. T. Robinson, of Union County, was unanimously nominated for member of Congress. The Prohibition Convention of the Second District of Nebraska have nominated the Rev. George Scott, of Saline County. The Republicans of tho Sixteenth Ohio District have nominated E. L. Tybarker for ’ Congress. BUSINESS SITUATION IMPROVING. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of tlie Situation in Trade. R. G. Dun <t Co.’s business review for the past week says: Business is a little better, and in aggregate volume is now fully equal to that of last year at this date. The iron and woolen trades have materially decreased, but business in groceries, lumber and farm products generally is large. Trade has improved in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Paul, Nashvide, and Galveston, and is excellent in Omaha. In Detroit and St. Paul the lumber trade is especially mentioned as excellent, and in Pittsburg and Nashville larger transactions and better prices in iron have been noticed, with improvement also in charcoal iron in Detroit. Wool dealings are smaller than usual, and dry goods are not especially active. The speculative markets have been non-active. Wheat has risen 4 cents for the week with sales of 83,000,000 bushels Iu New York, and com 1 cent with sales of 16,000,000 bushels, and oats 2 cents. Hogs have risen 10 cents, lard 15 cents per 100 pounds, and pork 25 cents a barrel, oil DA cents, and cotton 22 cents per 100 pounds, with sales of 259,000 bales. Reports as to collections do not improve and complaints are common. The New York retumß would indicate au excess of merchandise imports over exports of about *13,000,000 for July, following $61,000,000 for the previous six months. The Treasury has taken in during the last week $2,000,001 more than it has paid out, and the actual circulation of all kinds is about $5,000 000 less than it was a mouth ago. The settlement of the cable war and the excellent crop prospects have been usea to advance stocks about 62 cents per share, but Western freight wars do not yet improve iu spite of frequent hopeful reports. Business failures throughout the country during the last seven days numbered 216, as compared with 221 the previous week. SWARMS OF RAVENOUS GRASSHOPPERS. Canadian Priests Say They Are a Punishment for tlie People’s Wickedness. In tho parish of SI. Barthelemi, county of Berthier, says a Montreal, Quo., dispatch, swarms of ravenous grasshoppers have settled down upon and eaten almost everything n the fields. The wheat and oat crop in the neighborhood has been completely destroyed. Tlie grasshoppers do not seem to bo satisfied at the ruin they have wrought to everything in tlie shape of fruit and vegetables. but actually eat the cedar bark from the posts along tho fences. In speaking after mass with reference to tlie plague, tho priest attributed tlie serious visitation to tlie probable wickedness of the people. Who had neglected to perform their religious duties in a manner becoming a Christian people. WESTERN JUSTICE. It Is Dealt Out in a Summary Manner in Nebraska. Fremont Emmons, the murderer of Bertha Schultz, aged 17, was hanged from a trestle bridge of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway over the Burlington and Missouri tracks, at Pawnee City, Neb. At the time of the murder tears were entertained of lynching, and Emmons was taken to Beatrice. He was taken back to Pawnee City for preliminary hearing and bound over to the Dis-

trict CouFt. His presence there inflamed the people and caused great excitement. Emmons was taken from jail by a masked mob,-a rope placed around his neck, and he was forced to jump from tho bridge. His neck was broken and he died without a struggle. BIG AMI STyi> MURDERER. A Man with Thirteen Wives Kills No. 4 and Then Shoots Himself. The village of Wellsboro, Pa., has been aroused by the arrival at the county jail of George 8. Bailey for shooting his wife. Bailey has not less than thirteen' wives. Wife No. 4 became satisfied of Bailey's unfaithfulness and proposed having him arrested, but he agreed to abandon the other women and live witn her. She met him by appointment in the town of Farmington, where an officer arrested him. Bailey and the woman rode together in a buggy, the officer walking behind. The constable was startled by a shot from a revolver, and the woman fell mortally wounded. The bigamist then shot himself, but not fatally. GEN. MEYERS A PRISONER. Continued Alarm Over the State of Affairs In Stevens County, Kansas. There is much uneasiness felt over the condition of affairs in Stevens County, Kansas. It is now reported that Gen. Meyers, Captain Wallace, and Attorney General Bradford are held prisoners at Hugoton. It is said that when they ordered the citizens to lay down their arms they were made prisoners, and will be held until the ringleaders in tho late battle with Woodsdale citizens can be spirited away. ' Threats have been made against Gen. Meyers, and his friends are greatly alarmed. TWELVE THOUSAND SHORT. A County Treasurer of Kansas Suddenly Disappears. T. J. Goodin, who has filled the office of County Treasurer of Rawlins County, Kansas, for two terms, has disappeared. His accounts with the county are short about $12,000, which amount ho Is supposed to have taken with him. Because of some irregularities in Goodin’s bond, it is reported that the county will lose the entire amount of the shortage. Goodin was considered one of the first men of Rawlins County in the matter of honor and responsibility.

GENERAL BOOTH COMING BACK. Be Will Reorganize tlie Salvation Army and Court-Martial an Officer. General Booth, the Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army, will leave England for this country 6oon. He intends to reorganize the army in tho United States. One of the chief officers now in charge of the American army is said to be accused of appropriating material valued at SBO,OOO belonging to the army to his own use. General Booth will appoint a court-martial to try the case, BARTLEY CAMPBELL DEAD. The Well-Known Playwright Pusses Peacefully Away. Bartley Campbell, the well-known playwright, is dead. He died at Bloomingdale asylum for the insane at New York. He passed away peacefully and death was so sudden that his friends, who had been hastily sent for, were not able to reach his bedside. Mr. Campbell had been an inmate of the asylum for nearly a year. He was born in Allegheny City, Pa., Aug. 12,1843. BLEW OFF BIS BEAD. A Michigan Man Ends Bis Life Almost as Did Anarchist Lingg. The body of Michael Weiss, a single man 40 years old, was found near Red Jacket Depot, Mich., with his head completely blown off. It is supposed lie committed suicide by placing a stick of Hercules powder in his mouth and touching it off. Tho brains and skull were scattered for a hundred feet around.

SIOUX INDIANS STJLL OBSTINATE. No Signs of Any Intention to Sign the Treaty. A Bismarck, Dak., special states that a courier has arrived there from the Standing Rock Agency, and says that up to the hour he left the Indians had manifested not the slightest disposition to change their determination not to sign the treaty. They only remained for council on account of their respect for the wishes of Agent McLaughlin. A Double Tragedy. At, Pittsburg, Pa., May Patton, of Johnstown, Pa., aged 20, shot and killed Charles Do Knight, a Pullman car conductor, .and blew her own brains out in a hotel where they had registered a few hours before as C. Lewis and wife, of Johnstown. Both were dead before any one reached their room, and the cause of the murder and suicide could only be surmised. Both were young people of good connections and reputation. Southern Politicians. The Republican State Convention of Florida, held at Ocala, nominated Prof. Stone of Sanford for Commissioner of Public Instruction, Charles Lewis of Fernandina for Comptroller, John Egan of Pensacola for Attorney General, John P. Althorpe of Tallahassee for Commissioner of Agriculture, and F. M. Randall of Jacksonville, J. F. Goss of Gainesville, and Charles Swayne of Kissime for the Supreme Court bench. Knights of Pythias Elect, Officers. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias, in annual session at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor, D. T. Auclimoody. of Kingston; Grand Vice Chancellor, J. C. Delamare, of New Yprk; Grand Prelate, W. S. Carpenter, of Syracuse; Grand Master of Exchequer, Peter W. Mead, New York; Grand Keeper of Records and Seals, John J. Acker, Albany. Fatal Fire in Canada. E. H. Eddy’s lumber mill at Birchton, three miles east of Ottawa, Ont., has been destroyed by fire, together with the entire season’s cut. valued at $420,000. The total loss will amount to $500,000, on which there is an insurance of SIOO,OOO. William Hobbs, 18 years old, a slab cutter, was burned to death

and William Stewart, a boy, is supposed to be fatally burned. Mrs. Junking Found Guilty. After thirty hours’ deliberation the jury at Terre Haute, Ind., returned a verdict of guilty against Mrs. Junkinafor the killing of her sister’s daughter, Hattie DeDaun. Mrs, Junkins’ son. who saw his mother driving the girl out of the yard, and handed her the musket with which she shot the girl, is under indictment as an accessory. Burglar Killed by a Woman. Near Davisville, W. Va., Maria and Viretta Reeves, maiden ladies living alone, were awakened by burglars moving in their room. One of the sisters fired, killing one burglar, and the other marauder was shot and mortally wounded by the other sister while trying to escape through a window. Murdered by a Nihilist. On the death of Gen. Dreuteln, Military Governor of the Kieff district in Russia, it was announced that death was due to apoplexy. The Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung now says it has learned that Gen. Dreuteln was murdered by a nihilist at -Kieff. Bishops Appointed. News has been received from Rome of the appointment of the Rev. Dr. John 8. Foley, of St Martin’s Church, Baltimore, Bishop of Detroit, and the Rev. J. J, Hennesev, of St. John’s Church, St. Louis, Bishop of the diocese of Wichita, Kan. Highest Price Ever Paid for a Horse, A large crowd of prominent turfmen from all over the country attended the sale of Bell Boy at T. C. Jefferson’s farm, near Lexington, Ky. The animal was sold to J. S. V. Clark for $50,000, the highest price ever paid for a horse.

Wind and Lightning. A severe storm visited St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., unroofing several houses and doing much damage, Peter Swagart was killed by lightning. The velocity of the Avind was sixty miles an hour. A Wine Merchant Assigns. James Guest, a wholesale wine merchant of Montreal, Canada, has made an assignment. Tiie liabilities are $200,000, assets not stated. Large losses by failures caused the assignment, A Prominent Man Dead. Christopher Meyer, millionaire, leading rubber manufacturer of tho country and associate of Ives in his raid on the C., H. & D. Road, died in New York recently. Horses Burned to Death. Thirty horses belonging to tho Mutual Benefit Ice Company, and valued at $6,000, were burned to death in the company’s stable at New York. Minor Mention. A young girl named Julia Flynn, of Des Moines, lowa, lias begun suit against her uncle and guardian for SIO,OOO damages for false statements made concerning her character and brutal treatment.

The wife of Thomas W. Eck, the bicyclist, has begun suit in Minneapolis, Minn., for divorce. Just a year ago quite a sensation was created in that city by tho runaway marriage of this same couple. Strenuous efforts are being made to secure commutation in the case of Mrs. Pyle, under sentence of death at Walla Walla, W. T. Two thousand persons have signed a petition to the Governor. Tho Cigarmakers’ Union, No. 138, of Newark, N. J., will appeal to the United States Supreme Court tlie Vice Chancellor’s decision that any one may use the International Cigar makers’ label. A steel shell has been cast at Pittsburg, Pa., the first ever made, that weighs ninetyfive pounds and requires five pounds of powder, which will throw it six miles and a half at tlie rate of 2,000 feet a second. Henry M. Yinont, made insane by excessive cigarette smoking, has been sent to an asylum from Millersburg, Ky, Samuel Lockett, of Dewitt, Ark., has been arrested for the murder of his brother, I. L. Legaro, who claims to have assisted in tho capture of Sitting Bull, is trying to get a reward from tho Government.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers.® 5.75 @ 6.25 Good. 4.50 @ 5.75 Common 3.50 @ 4.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 6.00 @6.75 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 lied 85)6@ .86)6 Coax—No. 2 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 .28 @ .2816 Kye—No. 2 46 @ .47 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 @ .18 Fine Dairy 14)6@ .1516 Cheese—Full Croam, flat 08 @ .0816 F-ggs—Fresh 14 @ ,15' Potatoes—New, per bu 40 @ .45 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 79)6@ .80 Corn—No. 3 45 @ .45^ Oats—No. 2 White 34)6@ .35}A Kye—No. 1 56 @ .58 * Barley—No. 2 58 @ .60 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.00 CINCINNATI, Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .84 Corn—No. 2 . ,46)6@ .47^6 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 33 @ .331^ Hogs 5.50 @ 7.00 - ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 83 @ 84 Corn—No. 2 43 @ Oats—No. 2 23 @ .24 Kye—No. 3 42)6@ .43)6 Barley 75 @ .85 Pork—Mess 14.75 @ls 25 . NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 @6.00 Hogs 5.25 @7.00 J'Heep 4 .00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 lied <jo @ .98 Corn—No. 2 57 @ .571 A Oats—White 42 @ .50 Pork—New Mess 14.75 @1525 „ DETROIT. Cattle 3.50 @5.25 Hogs 6io o @ 6.50 ?» EEP 3.00 @3.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 88 @ .89 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 @ .47 Oats—No. 2 White 37 (a) ’33 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 4.03 @ 0.00 H°gs 6.25 @6.75 sheep 3.50 @ 4.75 Bambs 4.00 @ 5.00 _ BUFFALO. £ attle 4.50 @5.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.09 Sheep... ‘. 4.25 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92)6@ .93)6 Corn—No. 2 52)6@ .53)6 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 5.25 @ 575 Bair 4.50 @ 6.00 Common 3.50 @4 25 HOOS 6 .25 & 7.00 ? HKEP 4.25 @ 5.00 Lambs 4.50 & 5,25

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. An amendment to the sundry-civil bill, appropriating *250,000 for the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigating was offered in the Senate the 30th by Mr. Bowen. By arid lands is meant all land that isinon-productive without irrigation, and this classification embraces the eastern portions of California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and nearly the whole of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wjoming, and Montana, while western portions of Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas are, in some seasons, seriously affected by drought. The amendment with the following amendment was agreed to: “And all the lands which may be designated for reservoirs and canals fer irrigation shall be reserved as the property of the United States and shall not be subject to entry or settlement until hereafter provided for by law." The nomination of Surveyor-General Irish, of Nevada, was again before the Senate in secret session. The Hou*9 Committee on Manufactures submitted its report on the trust investigation, and it was ordered printed. The committee savs it has been unable to complete its investigation, which has been mainly devoted to the sugar and Standard oil trusts. The House devoted considerabletime to the consideration of the deficiency appropriation bill in committee of the whole. The only amendment was one appropriating *120,(D0 for the completion of the Port Townsend (W. T.> public building.

When the Senate resumed consideration of thesundry civil bill the olst, Mr. Beck made the point of order on Mr. Spooner's amendment appropriating *75,000 for a public building at Atchison, Kas., that the Senate had no right to attach Sublic appropriations to the bill. After a long iscussion the point of order was withdrawn by Mr. Beck and a yea and nay vote taken on theproposition itself as a test qcestiou affecting all the other public buildings. The amendment was rejected—yeas, 21:. nays, 23. An amendment was agreed to appropriating *3,017 to repay the city of Omaha for paving the Court House and Postoffice ; also one providing that no part of the appropriations in the bill shall be used in the investigation of any case or in the prosecution of any person in the mining region for cutting formining or domestic purposes any short or scrubby timber unfit to be sawed or hewed intolumber of commercial value. The Senateagreed to Mr. Hoar’s resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to investigate the relations of commerce and trade between the United States and the British North American possessions, including the effect upon the commerce and carrying trade of the United States of the Canadian system of railways and canals, and the prospect of the displacement of any existing industries of the United States by industries established there ; also, whether the obligations of existing treaties and of international law are and havebeen observed by such dependencies toward thepe p)e of the United States, and as to the number, amount, and character of existing claims against Great Britain by reason of the violation of such obligations toward tho people of theUnited States in such dependencies. The House postponed consideration of the deficiency bill and went into committee of the whole ou theSenate amendments to the armv appropriation bill.

Senator Pdgh presented to the Senate the Ist the minority report in the case of the Jackson (Miss.) election investigation. The report is. signed by Senators Pugh, Coke, Vest, and George. The minority says the hearings were held with closed doors' and in Washington, more than one thousand miles irom the locality of the transaction. Hence the members of the committee had no opportunity of examining the great mass of witnesses who were on the ground. “How unsatisfactory and misleading such a course is,” says the report, “wid be evident to those who carefully examine the reported evidence.” A lengthy discussion was nad in relation to Mr. Calls amendment to the' sundry civil bill appropriating $10,039 ior the recovery of property of tne late Confederate States, now held in adverse possession, to the government. The bill was tauled. Tne bill wag then reported back to the senate and passed, all the amendments , eing concurred in except that appiopriatiug $50,00j for the widow of Prof. Baiid. Among the House bills taken up by unanimous consent and passed by the Senate were the following: For a public building at Jackson, Mich., witn an amendment incr jasing the appropriation from $50,000 to $75,000; to authoiize the Win’ona and Southwestern Railway Company to build a bridge• across the Mississippi at Winona, Minn.; to protect purchasers of lands lying in the vicinity of Denver, Col., h retofore withdrawn by the exec-- * utive department of the Government as lying within the limits of certain raiiroad grants and afterward held to lie without such limits ; to provide for the disposal of the Fort Wallace military reservation in Kansas. The House in committee of the whole voted to non-concur in the> Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill and to ask for a conference. The action of the committee, as far as the minor amend-’' ments were concerned, was indorsed by the full House. After the transaction of some routine business the Senate, the 2d, by a strictly party vote, determined to take up the fisheries treaty, the question being on'Mr. Morgan’s motion to postpone its further consideration till December next, and a lengthy and heated debate followed.. The following bills were taken irom the calendar and passed by the Senate: The House bill, establishing alditional aids to navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi River; the Senate bill providing for an additional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming. Senator Dawes introduced a bill to ratify the agreement made by the Northwestern Indian Commission with the Cceur d’Alene tribe > of Indians in Idaho. After some routine work the House went into.committee of the whole on the deficiency appropriation bill. Speaking to a formal amendment, Mr. - Hovey of Indiana precipitated a long political debate by some criticism of Mr. Matson’s speech published in tHe Record, but not delivered. This led to a long debate as to the relative claims of the parties to the title of “The Soldier’s Friend,” and the rebel flag incident came in for a shareof attention. The consideration of the bill was then resumed and for some time ran smoothly until Mr. Dockery of Missouri precipitated a brief tariff debate by a few remarks on the subject of the surplus. After a short discussion the committee arose. Tne Houso voted to non-con-cur in the Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill and ordered a conference. Mr. Cullom offered a resolution in the Senate-, on the 3d instructing the Committee on Interstate Commerce to make full investigation, into the relations of the Canadian railroads with the transportation across the continent of commerce which naturally belongs to the United States. The resolution instructed the Committee on Iniorstate Commerce to ascertain and report whether any United States railroad lines are owned, operated or controlled by the Grand Trunk for the Canadian Pacific or any other Canadian railroad; also ■ whether commerce originating in the United States is diverted from American to Canadian lines, to what extent and in what manner. Also whether any discrimination is practiced in thecharges for tolls against American vessels in the Welland and St. Lawrence Canals ; also to inquire into the question of the regulation of commerce carried on by railroad or waterways between the United States and Canada. The resolution was adopted, after much discussion, without a division. TheSpeaker laid before the House a letter from Gov.. Green of New Jersey, presenting to tha Congress, in the name of the State of New Jersey, statues of Richard Siockton and Philip Kearney,, to be placed in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. A resolution was adopted as igning Tuesday, Aug.. 21, for the consideration of a concurrent resolution accepting the statues and returning thanks to the State of New Jersey therefor. The bill loaning tents and equipage to Sam Reid Post, Grand Army of the Republic of lowa, was, favorably reported to the House. Private business having then been dispense 1 with, the House went into committee of the whole on the deficiency appropriation bill. The evening session was devoted to the consideration of private, pension bills. Galileo, in 1564, discovered the pressure of air to be about fifteen pounds to the square inch, and this was demonstrated by Torricelli (the inventor of the barometer) about 1643.