Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — Page 2

gljc gmocraticgentintl RENSSELAER* INDIANA, f. W. McEWEN, PogJBHn.

DOINGS OF THE DAY.

BVENTFIH HAPPENINGS IN EVERY KNOWN HEMISPHERE. An Interesting Summary of the Latest News by Wire—Fires. Accidents, Crimes, Politics, Religion, Commerce and Crops, Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. A REMARKABLE GATHERING. Friends and Relatives of the James Boys Together. The Samuels homestead, a few miles from Kearney, Mo., was recently the scene of a remarkable gathering. Mrs. Caroline C. Quantrell, mother of the celebrated guerrilla chief, called on Mrs. Hamuols, mother of the James boys, and the two old ladies had a hysterical time of it in talking over the past. Frank James and wife were up from Dallas, Tex., to see Mrs. Quantrell, and Mrs. Jesse James, who is living in Kansas City, was present with her son Jesse. Mrs. Quantrell lives in Canal Dover, Ohio, and is 67 years of age. Her son William was born in Canal Dover in 1837 and left for the Missouri border in 1859. She received two letters from him the year after he left home and never heard from him afterwards except through the press. He was well educated and his father was a school-teacher. She recently visited Quantrell’s grave at St, Louis and is collecting material for a biography in which she will attempt to show that he was not altogether bad. The old house is picturesquely located and is surrounded with trees and vines. In one corner of the yard is a mound covered with flowers and sea-shells. A profusion of forget-me-nots fringe it. The two old ladies visited it many times lately. It is the grave of Jesse James. Three men killed. A Serious Collision of Trains on the Baltimore unri Ohio Roa<l. The Cincinnati express out from Washington collided with a freight train near Dickerson, D. C.. killing three trainmen and injuring six othors. A mile west of Dickerson Station the road makes a sharp turn and then goes down a heavy grade in a deep cut, the banks being twenty feet or more above the level of the tracks, and it was in this cut that the collision took place. Several of the trainmen saved themselves by jumping. The two engines camo together with such fearful velocity that they stood locked together on the track and formed a base upon which was piled in confusion a pyramid twenty feet high, consisting of three wrecked freight cars, two express cars, the mail car. and a baggage car. The killed were: Wm. H. Wiley, a postal clerk, of Fairmount. W. Va.: John Casey, postal clerk, of Washington; George ltidenbaugh, brakeman, of Berlin, Md. ____ AROUND THE DIAMOND. League Ball Clubs Contesting for First Place. The official standing of the various ball clubs in the race for the pennant is given below: League. Won. Lost. New York 82 41 Chicago 75 55 Detroit CH> CO Philadelphia 66 60 Boston 67 61 Pittsburg 64 64 Washington 46 83 Indianapolis 46 84 Western. Won.lost.| American. Won. Lost. Des Moines 73 39 St. Louis 89 39 Kansas City.... 74 41 Brooklyn 78 48 St. Paul 72 46 Athletic 78 48 Omaha 67 51 Cincinnati 78 51 Milwaukee 60 63 Baltimore 54 72 Sioux City 27 49 Cleveland 49 74 Chicago 40 73 Louisville 44 85 Davenport 31 74 Kansas City.... 38 81 A BAD WRECK. Three Passengers and Four Trainmen Hurt on the Pennsylvania. The limited express on the Pennsylvania Railroad, while passing Wall’s Station, fourteen miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., dashed into the engine of an accommodation train. No person was seriously hurt, but both engines and the combination smoking car were badly wrecked. Three passengers in the smoking car were painfully bruised and the enginemon of both trains also hurt. The passengers injured are: Theodore Wallace of Chicago, shoulder bruised; Samuel Forbes of Edinburgh, Scotland, ankle sprained; John J. Sackett of New York, scalp cut. A FIRE WITH FATAL RESULTS. A Drunken Farmer Burns Up His Family and Hired Man. Carl Beechster, a farmer living, three miles from Ohiowa. Neb., went home drunk. He lit a lamp and upset it in his drunken wanderings around the house. The building took fire and was burned to the ground. He escaped without injury himself, but his wife, 3-year-old child, and the hired man, who woro asleep at the time, were fatally burned, A Nine Months’ Respite Granted. John J. Cornelison, whose horse-whip-pmg of Judge Richard Reed in the Superior Court at Louisville, Ky„ led to the latter’s suicide, has been respited from imprisonment by Gov, Buckner for the term of nine months. He will then return to jail to serve out his three years’ term. The respite is on account of illness. Trouble In Chicago., A strike occurred among the street-car men of Chicago recently, the trouble originating on the North Side. Low pay and long hours the alleged cause. Hundreds of people were uffeeted thereby. TIIO Yellow Scourge. Up to October 0, at Jacksonville, Fla., there had been 282 deaths from yellow fever and 3,103 cases-

MULLS RENOMINATED.

Tlie Author of the Tariff BUI Named for an Eighth Term. A Waco (Texas) special says; The Democracy of the Ninth Texas District have renominated Roger Q. Mills for the eighth successive term in Congress. There were over fifteen thousand people present, big delegations being in attend-

ance from every county in the district, and nearly all the principal Democratic leaders of the State, both Prohibitionists and anti-Prohibitionists, were present and made speeches at a barbecue. Mr. Mills, of course, was the principal orator and made one of his best efforts. UNCLE SAM’S FINANCES. Sta'ement of tlie Condition of the Treat* ury at the Close of Last Month. The following is a statement of the public debt at the close of business, Sept. 30: INTEREST-BKARINO DEBT. Bonds at 4’2 per cent $ 212.340,030 Bonds at 4 per cent 693,567,750 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 131,910 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,0*0 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal $ 984,663,179 Interest 10,454,389 Total $ 995.117,561 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal.' 9 2,419,095 Interest. 163,720 Total $ 2,683,345 DEBT BEABINO NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes.s 346,737,823 Certificates of deposit 12,73 ,000 Gold certificates 134,838,190 Silver certificates 218,561,601 Fractional currency (less 98,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,921,316 Principal $ 719,788,930 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,706,871,728 Interest 10,618,110 Total $1,717,489,838 Less cash items available for reduction of debt.. .$379,169,336 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 ■ $ 479,169,336 Total debt less available casn items $1,238,320,502 Net cash in the Treasury 7 96,444,815 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, Debt leas cash in Treasury Sept. 1. 1883 1,154,122,682 Decres.se of debt during the month $ 12,247,025 Decrease of debt sinoe June 30, 1888. 23,709,000 CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of the public debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding S 134,838,190 Silver held for silver certivieates actually outstanding 218,561,601 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 12,730,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 13,037,735 Fractional currency 1,810 Total available for redaction of debt $ 379,169,336 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12,1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver coin $ 24,738,695 Minor coin 107,124 Total $ 24,845,819 Certificates held as cash.'. 35,916,285 Net cash bulanoo on hand 96,444,845 Total cash in Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account.® 636.370.285 STARTED FOR CONGRESS. Late Nominations of Men Seeking Political Preferment. Connecticut—Fourth District, Edward W. Seymour (Dem.). Kentucky—Sixth (Carlisle’s) District, Robert Hamilton (Rep.) of Covington. Massachusetts—Fourth District, Joseph H. O’Neill (Dem.); Seventh. Gen. W. Cogswell (Rep.), renominated. New Jersey—Second District. Chauncey M. Beasley (Dem.). New York—Fifteenth District, Henry Bacon (Dem.) of Goshen, renominated. Pennsylvania—Twenty-first District. Dr. H. L. Donnelly (Dcin.) of Latrobe; Twen-ty-seventh. the Rev. William A. Rankin (Dem.) of Oil City. T. J. Duncan, nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania District, has declined to run. The Labor party of the Eleventh Illinois District have indorsed Wm. Prentiss (Dem.) for Congress. Candidates for Congress have been nominated as follows: Rodney Wallace, by Eleventh Massachusetts District Republicans; M. E. Atkinson by Eighteenth Pennsylvania District Republicans. lowa—Third District, B. B. Richards. Democrat, of Dubuque. Tennessee—Tenth District, CoL L. B. Eaton, Republican. Pennsylvania—Twenty-fifth District, Norman Hall, Democrat, renominated. Massachusetts—Twelfth District, H. W. Ely, Democrat; Third District, J. F. Andrew, Democrat. New York—Fifteenth District, M. D. Shivers. Republican. Louisiana—Second District. R. C. Elliott. Democrat. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Nearly All Articles Score Higher Prices andi Clearings Increase 10 Per Cent. In their review of trade for last week R. G. Dun & Co. say: The great wheat, speculation was the absorbing feature of the week, for, though the September corner came to an end with heavy losses for sellers, it left the market in such a state that much higher prices for other options were easily obtained. With December wheat at sl.lß at Chicago there came heavy selling and sharp reactions. Cash wheat sold for more at Chicago than at Liverpool, and at one time it would have paid to ship wheat back from Antwerp

to New York. At New York saiss of wheat f mounted to 108,4 C 3,000 bushels—more than three times the entire visible supply, and prices closed 8?* cents higher than the previous week. Com advanced two cents, with sales of 13,04),000 buehels, and oats a fraction. The speculative fever waa felt in other markets, and pork rose $1 a barrel, la-d 33 cents, and hogs 25 cents per 100 pounds. Cofcea rose one cent, with sales of 516,50 and oil c _arly one cent, with sales of 6,738,0 X barrel*. In cotton there was a slight decline of an eighth, with sales of 3Ji,000 bales. Reports from interior points were uniformly favorable, outside of the influence of yellowfever at the fcouth. At many Western points the tenor of reports was generally encouraging. There was less complaint as to collections, money was in increasing demand, and the volume of business was enlarging. Outside New York the bank clearings showed a gain of 10.5 per cent, over last year. While the number of failures was large, the amount of liabilities for the third quarter of the year shows a great decrease—front $73,022,556 last vear to $82,114,254 for tne quarter just ended. The failures during the week numbered 211. (THE PACIFIC RAILROADS. Annual Report of the Commissioner, Gen. J. E. Johnston. The annual report of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Commissioner of Railroads, shows that on Dec, 31,1887, the Union Pacific Company had disposed of 12,944.781 acres of land; total cash receipts from all sales, $29,395,255; outstanding on account of time sales. $13,538,861; average price per acye for all sales, $2.53 for the Union division, $3.72 for the Kansas division, and $4.24 for the Denver division. A comparative statement of the funded debt of the Union Pacific Company shows that on Dec. 31, 1887, the amount of bonds outstanding was $115,508,639, a net decrease for the year of $1,788,472. The revenue of the road for the year 1887 aggregated $25,129,515 and the expenditures $19,297,981, leaving a surplus of $5,831,534. The debt of the Union Pacific Company on Dec. 31,1887, was $222,169,431. of which $60,868,500 is capital stock. The increase for the year was $1,801,183. The assets of the road aggregated $266,451,137, a net increase for the year of $8,848,316. The not increase in surplus for the year was $7,057,132, BUSINESS FAILURES. They Aggregate for the Third Quarter of the Year 2,361. —The business failures throughout the United States for the third quarter of the year, us furnished by R. G. Dun & Co., amount in number to 2,361, with liabilities of a trifle over $22,000,000. The failures for the third quarter of 1887 numbered 1,938, with liabilities aggregating the enormous sum of $73,000,000. For the nine months of 1888 the failures number 7,550, with liabilities of over $90,000,000, as against 6,850 failures and $128,000,000 of liabilities in the same period of 1887. In the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland the failures for the three months just closed number 384. with liabilities of $3,679,000, ns against 308 failures and $2,996,000 of liabilities in the same quarter of 1887. In the nine months of 1888 ended with Sept. 30 the Canadian failures number 1,256, with liabilities of $11,482,000, as against 1,017 failures and $13,458,000 of liabilities in the same period of 1887. THE WHEAT CROP. Minnesota and Dakota Show a Decrease of 40 Per Cent. A carefully tabulated statement, giving the actual results of the season’s thrashing in eighty-three counties of Minnesota and ' Dakota, shows a net dccrease*as compared with last year’s crop of 40 per cent., which would make the present wheat crop of Minnesota and Dakota 55,000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels. In the Red River Yalley and through the frosted region of Northern Dakota there is not half a crop and the grain is poor in quality, the proportion of No. 1 hurd being very small, A large proportion will go No. 3, while in many localities half will grade rejected. Hundreds of acres have not been harvested at all. Corn is in good condition, witli a largely increased acreage, and other crops have turned out well. IN A NEW ROLE. Bob Burdette, the Famous Humorist, Licensed to Preach. The Philadelphia Baptist Association in recent session in Philadelphia, received a letter from Lower Morion, announcing that Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, had been licensed to preach the gospel of the church. It is said that Mr. Burdette will retire from the field of literature and lecturing and immediately seek a charge. He was bom torty-lour years ago in Greensboro, Pa. Before he reached his majority his parents removed to Peoria, 111., where he received a common school education and graduated in 1831. He enlisted in the Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry and served in the ranks throughout the war. When peace was restored he entered journalism as night editor of the Peoria Transcript. He afterwards edited the Review, and finally his great sense of humor, which up to this time he had rot utilized, broxe out in the columns of the Burlington Hawkeye. After several years he retired and settled at Bryn Mawr, wjicre he spent his time in writing for newspapers and magazines.

DIED ON THE GALLOWS. A Revolting Scene at Bridgeport, Conn.—A Murderer Hangs. Philip Palledoni, the Italian who murdered his brother in cold blood the evening of June 22, 1887, suffered the death penalty at Bridgeport, Conn., being tho third victim to capital punishment within the history County. Pallqdoni was 24 years of age, below tho medium stature, and possessed a repulsive countenance, The scene on the gallows was sickening. As the condemned man stepped onto tlie trap lie fainted, and his cap fell off. The fall failed to break his neck, and us he slowly strangled to death the convulsions of his face were terrible. Several in the crowd fainted at tho sight. A BUNDLE OF BONDS STOLEN. J. W. Coates, of U’latt County, Mo., the Victim of a Sneak-Thief. J. W. Coates, attorney of Platt County, Mo., took $240,000 in new bonds of that county to Jefferson City, to have them registered. The bonds were duly recorded and Mr. Coates placed them in his valise at the hotel in Jefferson City. Upon his arrival in St. Louis, where he intended to dispose of the bonds, Mr. Coates discovered that twenty 5 per cent, funding bonds of the denomination of SI,OOO each were missing,

their numbers being from twenty to Airtynine, inclusive, and dated Oct. 1,1888. THE INDIANA ELECTION. Measures Taken to Prevent Fraud at the Polls. The Republican and Democratic State Committees of Indiana have' agreed that in all election precincts where the inspector is a Democrat, a Republican judge and clerk shall be selected; and in precincts where the inspectors are Republican, Democratic judges and elerks shall be chosen. The Democratic Committee also makes a proposition for the appointment of a committee of 100 —forty-five to be Democrats, forty-five Republicans, and ten Prohibitionists—to discover and punish election frauds. FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. Two Trains Come Together Near Oswego, N. Y.,ami an Engineer Is Killed. The Lehigh Yalley passenger train from Philadelphia to Oswego. New York, over the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg line, collided with the extra Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg west-bound train a few miles east of the Hannibal station. Martin Slattery, the engineer of the west-bound extra, was instantly killed. The Traders’ Bank Failure. Receiver Smith, of the Traders’Bank, of Chicago, pronounces it a bad failure. Joseph O. Rutter, the bank's late President, is dead. It is supposed that the determination of the bank's condition will now be speedy, as the money affairs of the late Traders’ President were so closely connected with the bank that a settlement of the complications of the latter could not bo made without an examination of Mr. Rutter’s estate. Injured in a Wreck. Wabash Western passenger train No. 5 was wrecked near Mexico. Mo., all of the seven cars but one sleeper leaving the track. No one was killed or fatally injured, though Mrs. Kate McCarthy, J. F. Conway of Pittsburg, and T. S. Humphrey of Jerome. Kns.. were badly hurt and others slightly. The wreck was caused by the removal of a rail, done supposedly by parties having unsettled claims against the company. Mrs. Garrett Sentenced to Hang. Mrs. Mary L. Garrett, who was convicted of the murder of her two imbecile stepdaughters, at Cleveland, Ohio, nas been 1 sentenced to hang Jan. 24, 1889. Mrs. Garrett, as the evidence showed, killed the girls in the farmhouse and fired the building. She has a 5-weeks-old babe which was born in jail, and it will be taken to the Penitentiary with her until her execution. A Colorado Lynching. A Trinidad, Col., special says; A man named Hickman, who lives in Boston, shot and instantly killed J. C. Booth, who was in the habit of visiting the woman with whom Hickman lived. The murderer was taken from his home an hour afterward by a mob of seventy-live men and lynched. Gov. Gordon Re-elected. Gov. Gordon and the Other Georgia State officers have been re-elected, there being no opposition to them. The election was quiet. The amendment to the Constitution increasing the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to five was adopted. ' Disappointed in Politics. John Edwards, a prominent attorney of Maryville. Mo., shot himself, it is believed, because of his disappointment at not receiving the Democratic nomination for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Western Missouri District, at a recent convention. Accepts tlie Nomination. Levi P. Morton's lettor accepting the Republican nomination to the Vice-Presidency has been mado public. He strongly approves the National platform, and makes an argument in favor of protection of American industries. A Numerous Man. A man giving his name as Houlihy was arrested by three officers at Kingston. N. Y.. on suspicion of his being Tascott. Houlihy claims that he is employed by the owner of a racing stud, and says his arrest is absurd.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers. $6.25 @ 6.75 Good 5.25 @6.00 Common 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs—Shippin ; Grades 6.00 @ 7.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red J.Ol @1.02 Corn—No. 2 44}$@ .45 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .25}$ Rye—No. 2 56 @ .58 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 @ .23 Cheese—Full cream, flat 08}$@ .09}$ Eggs—Fresh 18 @ .19 Potatoes—Car-lots, per bu 30 @ .35 Pork—Mess 15.50 @16,00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—No. 3 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White 28)$@ .29!$ Rye—No. 1 56 @ .58 Barley—No. 2 74 @ .76 Pork—Mess 15.50 @16.00 DETROIT. Cattle 4.00 @5.25 Hogs 5.50 & 6.75 Sheep 2.50 @ 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.04 @1.05 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44}$@ .45}$ Oats—No. 2 White 29}$@ .303$ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 lied 1.13 @ 1.14 Corn 45 @ .-16 Oats—No. 2 White 24 @ .25 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 & 6.00 Hogs 6.00 @ 6.75 Sheep 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.... 1.12 @1.13 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .55 Oats—White 35 @ .43 Pork-New Mess 16.50 @17.25 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 5.03 @ 6.00 Hogs 6.25 @ 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 1.11 @ 1.12 Corn—No. 2 3935@ .401$ Oats—No. 2 2235@ .25 Rye—No. 2 52 @ .53 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle... 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 6.00 @ 6.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.00 Lambs ..J 4.00 @ 5.00 CINCINNATI. Hogs 6.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2Red 1.02 @l.o2}s Corn—No. 2 44}$@ .45}$ Oats—No. 2 Mixed 26 @ .27 Rye—No. 2 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess 15.50 @16.00 KANSAS CITY. Cattls—Choice 6.00 @5.75 Medium 3.60 @ 5.00 Common 2.50 @ 3.50 Hogs 6.51 & 6.50 Shkkp i 3.25 @ 4.50

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. „ Our National Law-Makers and Wliat They Are Doing for the Good of the Country —Various Measures Proposed. Discussed and Acted On. A favorable report on the bill authorizing, the appointment of three commissioners tonegotiate with the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the relinquishment of their rights in certain Indian reservations was made to the senate Oct. Ist- The Senate confirmed the nominations of Lambert Tree, of Illinois, as - Minister to Hussia; J. G. Parkhurst, of Michigan, as Minister to Belgium; Charles Boyle, 9 Pennsylvania. Chief Justice of Washington Territory; Prof. George Davidson, of California, member of the Mississippi River Commission; Capt. H. W. Lawton, InspectorGeneral with the rank of Major; and the following Secretaries of Legation: Charles K. Holliday,. Venezuela; Howard Martin, China; H. L. Vilas, Argentine Republic; H. R. Whitehouse, Mexico. The Senate passed a bill providing for the sale--9f the Fort Wallace military reservation in Kansas. This is a substitute for the measuro recently vetoed by the President. Over thirty leaves of abeeneo were granted to members of theHouse ail for an indefinite period. There areonly about sixty members in Washington now—about one hundred less than a quorum—and since no business can be transacted, except byunanimous consent, the House is little better than dissolved. No business was transacted beyond the introduction of bills, all attempts to - call up measures being prevented by the point of “no quorum" being raised. Among the bills presented was one providing that one-third of the members of each house tball constitute a~ quorurn. Mb. Call’s resolution instructing the Committee on Epidemic Diseases to consider and report additional legislation to prevent the importation of contagious or infectious diseases from foreign countries was referred to thatcommittee by the Senate on the 2d inst. Both houses of Congress agreed to the conference report on the joint resolution in aid >f the yellow fever sufferers. As agreed to, the resolution appropriates $190,000, to be expended, under the direction of the President in eradicating the epidemic of yellow fever now existing In the United States or preventing its spread from State to State. The conferrees on the deficiency bill have come to an agreement upon all but four of the amendments added to tlie measure by the Senate. The principal point of disagreement is on the item appropriating SBO,OOO for the Industrial Christian Home of Utah, an association organized to relieve, protect, and care for dependent women and children seeking to escape from polygamous relations. The House - passed the Senate bill allowing i>ersong who have abandoned or relinquished theif homestead entries to make other entries, with amendments. The amendments empower Land-office Registers to grant settlers leave of absence for not exceeding one year whan by reason of drought or other - unavoidable casually such settler cannot obiaiu j, support for himself ; reaucing all double minimum pre-emption lands to a uniform price of $1.25 per aero, und allowing any homestead settler wno has entered less than one-quarter seev tion to enter additional land contiguous to theoriginal entry, which with such entry shall not exceed 160 acres. The new tariff bill was reported to the Senateby Mr. Allison on the 3d inst. It was placed on the cal< ndar and ordered printed. The Senate resumed consideration of Mr. Hale’s resolution calling ou the Secretary of War for an explanation of General Benet’s circular as to discharges of Republican employes in United States armories and arsenals. After some discussion tne matter went over. Mr. Stewart introduced a resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses, instructing the Committee on Mines and Mining to inquire during the recess into the foreign ownership and operations of mines in the Territories. In the House the Senate bill was passed establishing the Lincoln Land District of New Moxico and ‘ the Senate bill granting a right of way to the Pensacola and Memphis Railroad through ih9 Pensacola reservations. Mr. Humes, of MisBour , presented the conference report on the deficiency appropria ion bill, but the House adjourned without taking action on it. The resolution on Gen. M. Benet's circulars a»; to discharges from arsenals and armories was ■ agreed to by the Senate on the 4th inst. Postmaster John B. Gosherof Kingsley, lowa, wasconfirmed by the Senate. The Senate bill relating to the classification of postoffices and amendatory of the act of March 31, 1883, “Toadjust the salaries of Postmasters,” was taken from the calendar and passed. In the House the Senate bill was passed providing that the Secretary of the Treasury may permit the use of' petroleum as fuel on steamers not oarrying pas- ■ sengers without, the certificate of the Supervising Inspector of the district where the vessels are to be used. After several hitches in the Honso over the* question of no quorum and objections to bills, the Senate bill to incorporate the MaritimeCanal Company of Nicaragua was taken up forconsideration, on the sth inst., but no action was taken. Mr. Burnes of Missouri offored a concurrent resolution, which was agreed to, for tne appointment of a select joint committee of three • Senators and three Representatives to investigate the work dono on the Washington aqueduct tunnel, the contracts mode for the same, the bidding for and the letting of the contracts,, and tne compensation paid for the work. Mr,. Catchings,of Mississippi, from the Committeeon Rivera and Harbors, reported the bill appropriating $185,250 for completing the improvement and dredging of the;St. Clair Flats Ship Canal. Referred to the Committee of the Whole. At the evening session twenty-seven privatepension bills were passed.

Wise Sayings of Mrs. Grundy.

That the wise parents are those wholook after the kind of literature their children read. That the woman whoso voice is “all forsuffrage” is not always a Hebe, a Cleopatra, or a Venus. That often the most consequential husband in public is the meekest and most> humble at home. That no champion duck sheds waterquicker than fashionable people shake ofiT family disgrace. That in the writing of obituaries nowadays it is often most important to know what not to put in. That a great many women sacrifice the= proprieties of life just for the sake of a* ■ little brief celebrity. That there are young men who do not wish to see tailors executed, but who wish, they would “hang up.” That it would be a splendid idea for the decent press of the country to combine to ignore Sullivan. That boasting of one’s wealth andachievements must be regarded as a. “fashionable accomplishment.” That it is something akin to a puzzleto decide what is really the mission in lifeof the “society youth.” That red flannel to a bull is not moreobnoxious than the suggestion of genealogy to “society people. That, as a rule, the “specialist” amongdoctors charges very much after the style' of the “noble six hundred.” —New YorkMail.

To Be Held in the Fingers.

There are a number of things that-well-bred people now eat at the dinnertable with their fingers. Strawberries, when served with thestem on. Olives, to which a fork should never be applied. Celery, which, may properly be placed on the table-cloth beside thfr plate. Fruits of all kinds, except melons and preserves, which are eaten with a. spoon.