Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — Page 2

®lj c gemocrattcStntinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publishh.

NUGGETS OF GOLD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN EVERT QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. The Latest Intelligence Received by Wire from Distant Lands and at Home—The Cream of the News Gathered from All Quarters of the World. THE MILLS BILL. After Much Discussion It Is Referred to a Committee. The Speaker laid before the House on the 26th inst. the Mills tariff bill, with the Senate’s substitute therefor, together with the request of the Senate for a conference. A lengthy debate resulted. Statements were made in the debate that the bill should be reported back from the committee, but there was no recorded or direct agreement with respect to the disposition of the bill. The decision of Speaker Carlisle was that the bill as a matter of course, under the rules, must be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means unless unanimous consent conld be obtained to dispose of it in some other way ; that the question of high privilege did not attach to the measure until it had been referred to a conference committee and that save by the same unanimous consent the conference asked for by the Senate could not be granted until the bill had been referred to a committee. The unanimous consent conld not, of course, be hod for the proposition to concur, and the bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. BOULANGER IS ELECTED. The French Generat Has a Great Victory Over M. Jacques. A Pakis telegram says: The most exciting election that ever took place in the Department of the Seine closed with the elec-

GENERAL BOULANGER.

tion of Gen. Boulanger by a plurality of 81.550 over Jacques, and a clear majority over all of 54,432. The complete vote is: Boulanger 244,070 Jacques 162,520 Boule 10,760 Other candidates ; 10,358 The Boulangists predict the immediate fall of the Floquet ministry, the dissolution of Parliament, and a general election in March. They also forecast a rupture in the Radicab party, and express the belief that forty Radical Deputies will join the Boulangist ranks and thus give the General a following of sixty members in the present Chamber. Bets-ire freely offered that the ministry will resign. The members of the government are astounded at the result. A BATTLE IN EAST AFRICA. The Position of Captured Missionaries One of Great Banger. —A Zanzibar special says: An engagement took place at Dar-es-Salam, resulting in the defeat of the Arabs, many of whom were killed. During the fight the First Lieutenant of the German warship Sophie was killed by a sunstroke. The defeat of the Arabs renders the position of the captured missionaries still more dangerous. It is reported that the manager of the German Vitu Company assembled the friendly natives and read an autograph letter from the Emperor thanking each native by name for his good-will and assistance, and promising protection and rewards. The British consul is trying to arrange for the dispatch of a caravan to bring away the missionaries at Upwapwa and Mamboyo, their position being extremely dangerous.

FEARFUL BOILER EXPLOSION. Three Men Killed and Three Fatally Injured Near Poplar Bluffs, Mo. A terrible boiler explosion occurred in Perkins’ mill, five miles east of Poplar. Bluffs, Mo. Just before the explosion Judge Shamont, of that city, and a farmer named Bobins were passing. The expolsion wrecked the mill and 100 feet of shed attached to it. Jud*e Shamont, John Moore and John Chronister were instantly killed: W. H. Perkins, Mr. Bobins and a young man named J alcolm were so badly burned and injured that they died. Two brothers named Spencer, employed in the mill, were badly scalded. DEATH OF A PLAYWRIGHT. A. R. Cazauran Passes Away in New York City from Dropsy. Playwright A. B. Cazauran died in New York City, after a sickness of two years, from dropsy. For the last six months he had been confined to his bed. Mr. Cazauran was born in Bordeaux, France, in October, 1811. He came to America in 1845-6, going to Louisville, Ky. He serve !on the C’our-ier-Journal as reporter and .dramatic critic. He was Supreme Court Reporter in Washington before the war, when he became a corresp adent. He afterward went to New York City. Wi h Bronson Howard he wrote the “Banker’s Daughter ” He is the author of "The Fatal Letter,” and composed and adapted “A Celebrated Case,” “Mother and 8on," “French Flats, ” etc. Died from Blood Poisoning. Dr. Walter Stillman, a prominent physician of Council Bluffs, lowa, died of blood poisoning resulting from treating a case of erysipelas.

STRICKEN IN THE HOUSE.

Congressman Burnes Attacked by Paralysis, and Dies in a Few Hours. Representative James N. Burnes of Missouri was stricken with paralysis at the

JAMES N. BURNES.

Noticing that his face appeared to be somewhat drawn on the left side Mr. Butterworth assisted Mr. Burnes into the fresh air. Mr. Burnes in a short time felt better and lay down upon a sofa. He soon began to breathe in a labored manner and to lose consciousness. Physicians were called and he was removed to his hotel. His condition grew worse rapidly, and about midnight he died. His son. D. B. Burnes, was at his bedside. Another son. who lives at St. Joseph. Mo., was notified. Mrs. Burnes, an invalid, was at her Missouri home. Joseph Nelson Burnes was born in Indiana in 1832, and at the age of five years he was taken to Platte County, Missouri, where he received a common and high school education. He afterward studied law at the Harvard Law School, and graduated with the class of '53. After graduation he practiced actively for twenty years. In 1856 he was a Presidential elector and voted for Buchanan and Breckinridge. From 1868 to 1872 he was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat, receiving 14,451 votes, against 11,964 for Dunn, his Republican opponent.

THE PULLMAN MONOPOLY. The Control of Over 150,000 Mlles of Road for Palace Car Service. The negotiations between the officials of the Pullman Palace Car Company and the Union Palace Car Company, which absorbed the Mann Boudoir'Car Company and the Woodruff Palace Car Company, have closed at New York City, and an agreement executed by which the Pullman Company obtained control of the opposition corporations. The purchase involved the expenditure of about 82,500,000, and leaves the Pullman in control of over one hundred and fifty thousand miles of road for palace-car service. As soon as the agreement was signed the holders of the Union Palace Car Company stock delivered their certificates and received checks at once. President Pullman says no increase of stock is necessitated by the purchase. After the consummation of the deal the following officers for the Pullman Palace Car Company were elected: George M. Pullman, President; T. H. Wickes, Vice President, and E. D. Adams, John H. Inman, John G. Moore, Edward Lauterbach, John P. Marquand, G. M. Dodge, C. Latterbury, Job H. Jackson, John Jay White, and Howard Mansfield Directors. The purchase of the Union Palace Car Company leaves the Pullman Company with only one competitor—the |Wagner Company—in the field. That company has its cars on the Vanderbilt roads and is owned by the Vanderbilts.

DULLNESS IN TRADE. The Transactions, Though, Are Unusually Large, According to Dun & Co.’s Report. The review of trade for last week, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., is as follows: The state of trade is unusually perplexing, for with general complaint of dullness there are evidences that the volume of transactions is large. The payments through banks last week were 25 per cent, larger than for the corresponding week last year at New York, and 16 per cent, larger at all other cities. Railroad earnings also show that the traffic is large. The demand for money is sufficiently active nt nearly all interior points, moreover, to indicate that a large business is in progress. Yet it is undeniable that the prevailing temper is one of disappointment at the result of business since the new year began, and this is not wholly explained by the steadily declining prices of products. At Southern Soints, after some depression, trade appears to e improving. In the Northwest trade is fully equal to that of last year and at some points clearly larger. The supply of money seems to be everywhere ample for legitimate demands. There are no indications of general unsoundness or overstraining of commercial credits. In the great iron industry consumption for all other than railroad purposes appears to be larger than ever, but ihere is serious disturbance. A decline in the price of coke is considered probable, and the anthracite coal market continues weak. The decline in wueat continues, the price having fallen cents for the week. Corn has fallen a ceut, and oats are lower. Pork products have also declined, mess about 5j cents per barrel, lard 23, and hogs 10 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton is a snade lower, with sales of 421,0J0 bales, and coffee % cent higher, with sales of 2)3,000 bags. There is little activity in groc« ries, but the sugar market favors holders. The exports of merchandise from New York show a gain of 11 per cent, for three weeks. The stock market is nevertheless so firmly sustained that the average decline in prices has been only €0 cents per SlvO for the week. The business failures numbered 342, against a total of 387 the previous week.

VICTIMS OF THE GALLOWS.

.Southern Murderers Expiate Their Crimes on the Scaffold. Ed Fry, alias Ed Williams (colored), was hanged in Marietta. Ga., for the murder of his wife. A negro named James Seames was hanged at Eutaw, Ala., for murdering Deputy Sheriff Autrey of Tuscaloosa about six months ago. Charles McGill was hanged at Cameron, Texas, for the murder of Willie Leonard. It was the first legal hanging in Milan County in thirty years. John Yancey, colored, was hanged at Yanceysville, N. C.. for murdering Bob Oliver, colored. Two thousand people witnessed the execution. Yancey confessed the crime and said his punishment was just. Charles Blackman (colored) was hanged in the presence of an immense crowd, at Ellaville, Ga., foi- murdering Stonewall Tondee (white) in 1885. Blackman had been convicted of the.murder three times, and each time his lawyer secured a new trial. The people of Senley County were so afraid

National CapitoL The first symptom of the approaching attack w as experienced when Mr. Butterworth, in the House, called Mr. Burnes’ attention to , a passage of the sundry civil bill then 'under consideration. *Mr. Burnes remarked that his tongue appeared to be affected so that he had great difficulty in speaking.

Governor Gordon would interfere and stay Blackman’s execution that the telegraph wires were cut in order to prevent the transmission of a message from Atlanta, the State capital. DOING PENANCE FOR SINS. Strange Story of an Old Mw Who Must Travel 2,000 Miles on Foot. An old man halted in Louisville, Ky., recently. to get a ghave. While the stranger was undergoing the operation he told a very remarkable story about himself. He said that five months ago he started out from a distant point in Eastern Canada to walk to the Abbey of Gethsemane, near Bardstown. So far he had safely accomplished his journey, which, he said, was a distance of 2.000 miles. In his long tramp he had worn out nine pair of shoes. "I am very weary,” he said, “and wish I w’ere at my journey’s end. where I I will find sweet, rest for the remainder of my already numbered days.” These words, spoken in a very earnest and pious tone, aroused the curiosity of the barber naturally. “Why did you not ride?” “I belong to a certain holy order of the. Catholics, and this is the penance imposed upon me for my sins.”

SOME FIGURES ON CORN. The Illinois Crop of 1888 Vai tied at Nearly 980,000,000 —Acreage and Prices, The Illinois corn crop of 1888 has been reported to the State Board of Agriculture as yielding in the aggregate 277,726,451 bushels, valued at $79,241,114. The acreage for 1888, reported by the assessors, is 7,470,813 acres. The statistics are not all prepared for the crop report of the Board, but from the tables as far as completed it is ascertained that the average yield per acre is thirty-nine bushels. Greene County reports the largest average yield, fifty-nine bushels to the acre, and the yield of fifteen bushels per acre in Jefferson County is the smallest. The average price of corn where raised was 28 cents per bushel. Cook and Alexander Counties report the highest average price of 36 cents per bushel, aud the lowest price is 24 cents, which is the value of corn in Lawrence County.

HARRISON HGGAN ARRESTED. The Aged Indiana Desperado Finally Captured by a Sheriff’s Posse. Sheriff Hay and posse, of Jeffersonville, Ind., went to Bull Creek and arrested Harrison Hogan. They ran the steamer Minnie Bay up to his shanty and threw the electriclight rays upon it. Hogan went out to give battle, but seeing the od'ds retreated Inside. The excitement among the Bay’s fifty passengers was intense. Hogan’s hired man begged him to surrender. The old man then bared his breast and asked the Sheriff to shoot him. He had no friends, had been beaten out of his wealth, and did not want to be further abused. Finally he surrendered. The arrest caused a sensation. Hogan had hitherto successfully resisted arrest, giving battle a number of times and putting the officers to flight, though he is seventy-five years old.

OHIO ADOPTS A NEW LAW. Executions Will Be by Electricity After Jan. 1, 1890—Disposition of the Remains. The General Assembly of Ohio, at Columbus. has passed the Rannells bill, providing that after Jan. 1,1890, all criminals in Ohio sentenced to death, shall be executed by electricity at the Ohio Penitentiary. The bodies are to be immediately destroyed by the quick lime process, unless friends make a demand upon the authorities for the rePolitical Doings. The Senate deadlock has been broken at Charleston, W. Va.. by the election of R. S. Carr, Union Labor Senator from Charleston, as President of the Senate, on the 126th ballot. He received sixteen votes, nine of them being cast by the Democrats, who claim that it was their victory. The New Jersey Democratic legislative caucus renominated Senator McPherson for United States Senator. The Republican caucus nominated Hon. William J. Sewell, of Camden. The Arkansas Senate has passed the House resolution instructing Senators and requesting Representatives from Arkansas in Congress to use their utmost efforts to defeat the Blair educational bill. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors has been passed by the Legislature by a vote of 132 to 55. The Hudson bill creating a labor bureau has been recommended for passage in the Indiana Senate. y The Kansas House has passed the Senate resolution favoring the opening of Oklahoma for settlement. The Arkansas Senate has denied to grant C. M. Norwood’s petition for permission to contest the election of Gov. Eagle until he gives a sufficient bond for costs.

Arizona Politics. A Prescott. Arizona, telegram says that the deadlock in the House has been broken by Mr. Jordan (Dem.) joining the Republicans, who elected J. T. T. Smith, of Phoenix, Speaker. The Governor’s message was presented. He advocated memorializing Congress for admission as a State. The bill to remove the capital from Prescott to Phoenix passed the House. In Religious Circles. The Bev. Milton Merle Smith, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted a call to the Central Presbyterian Church of New York; salary, $7,000. The Rev. I. A. Crandall, of the Twenty-third Baptist Church of New York, has been called to the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church of Cleveland; salary, $5,000. He Was Insane. Thomas Conway, of New Suffolk, L. 1., who disappeared Jau. 2, the day he was to have been married, was found in a barn near that eity. He was insand and nearly starved, having lived in the shed without food since his disappearance. On receiving

medical treatment he recovered. He can give no explanation of his action. Women Elect Officers. The Woman’s Suffrage Association at Washington, D. C., elected the following officers for 1889: President. Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Vice President-at-large. Susan B. Anthony; Secretary. Rachael F. Avery; Treasurer. Mrs. Jane H. Spofford; Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mrs. Mary W. Sowell, Wants to Be Governor. A petition has been filed by C. M. Norwood in the General Assembly of Arkansas preliminary to contesting the election of James P. Eagle as Governor. Norwood, the Labor candidate, charges fraud, and claims that a fair count will elect him by over 5.000 majority. He Assisted Lincoln. Samuel M. Felton, President of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, died in his residence at Philadelphia, aged 79 years. He will chiefly be remembered as having enabled President Lincoln to pass unrecognized through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration at Washington.

Headless Bodies Found. Two headless bodies were found on the beach near Scituate, Mass., by James Ward, of the United States Life-Saving Station. They are evidently the remains of sailors of the wrecked schooner Norton, which went down in a recent gale. Sold to the Vanderbilts. It is stated that all of the interests of the late Dr. Hostetter in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad have been sold to the Vanderbilts, and that some important changes in the management of the road w ill soon take place. A New Trial Refused. At Geneva, 111., Judge Wilson has refused a new trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Q dynamiter, who was recently sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. His friends were much disappointed, and Bauereisen paled when the Judge read his decision. A Large Judgment. Judge Wheeler, in the United States Circuit Court at New York, decided that the car trust was entitled to a judgment in its suit against the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad for $580,003 for breach of contract.

Charged with Murder. Thomas Pritchard and Sydney Murray, well-known citizens of Jonesboro, Tenn., are charged with causing the death of William Patton, of Telford Depot, Tenn., by forcing a large quantity of crotou oil down his throat. Steel Works Close Down. The Glasgow Iron Company has closed down its steel plant near Pottstown. Pa., discharging 250 workmen. There was no demand for the kind of steel manufactured at the works. Probably Only a Rumor. Information comes from Nebraska that John M. Thurston, the prominent railroad attorney, has been tendered and has accepted the position of Secretary of the Interior. G'rls on a Strike. Eight hundred girls employed by the feather manufacturers of New York have struck because the firms receded from their agreement to pay the wages demanded by the Workingwomen’s Union. In Big Luck. John E. Sheneman and Mrs. A. W. Sayles, living near Cheboygan, Mich., have fallen heirs to $2,000,000 by the death of their greatgrandfather in Berlin, Germany.

Consecrated as Bishop. In St. Paul’s P. E. Church, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Rev. J. Boyd Vincent was consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio with solemn services. Liabilities of W 30.000. George and William Kepler, proprietors of Kepler’s Hotel, at Cincinnati, have assigned. with liabilities of $3J,000. Committed Suicide. At Newton, Mass., Rev. Thomas Marcy, aged 72, committed suicide by shooting.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime Steers $ 4.25 © 4.75 Medium 3.50 <g> 4.01 Common 2.50 @ 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.75 ©5.25 Sheep 3.50 © 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 & .93 Corn—No. 2 . 34 © .34)$ Oats—No. 2 24 & .25 Rye—No. 2 47)4© .48)4 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 © .26 Cheese—Full Cream, flat 11 & .11)4 Eggs—Fresh 15 © .16 Potatoes—Car-loads, per bu 30 @ .35 Pork—Mess 12.00 ©12.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 90)4© .91)4 Corn—No. 3 3114© .3214 Oats—No. 2 White 28 & Rye—No. 1 .48 & .50 Barley—No. 2 60 & .62 Pork—Mess 12.0 J ©12.25 DETROIT. Cattle 3.50 & 5.00 Hogs 4.50 © 5.50 Sheep 3.5) & 4.50 Wheat—No 2 Red 98 & .99 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 35 © .35 Oats—No. 2 White 29 © .30 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 © .93 Corn—Cash 31 © .35 Oats—No. 2 White 27 © .27)4 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.75 © 5.00 Hogs 5.25 © 5.75 Sheep 4.00 © 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red <u © .97 Corn—No. 2 44 © .4; Oats—Wnite 35 © .40 Pork—New Mess 13.75 ©14.25 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 HOGSJ 4.50 © 5.0 J Wheat-No. 1 93*4© .9414 Corn—No. 2 30 ’© .3014 Oats—No. 2 24 © .25 Barley—lowa 44 © 46 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.50 © 4.50 Hogs 4.75 © 5.00 Sheep 3.50 © 4.50 Lambs 4.00 © 5.25 CINCINNATI. Hogs 4.50 © 5.25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 9O © 1.01 Corn—No. 2 ...... .55 © .36 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 2 >4© .28)4 Rye—No. 2 53 *© .55 Pork—Mess 12.75 ©13.25 KANSAS CITY. Cattle—Good 4.00 © 4.50 Common 3.2 > © 4.00 Stockers 2.00 © 3.25 Hogs—Choice 4.50 @ 5.00 Medium 4.25 © 4.75 Sheep aj>o « L2s

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted On Gist of the ibwtnAv. Mb. Cockrell, from th? Committee on Military Affairs, reported to the Senate, on the 21st. Inst., the Senate bill to authorize the Omaha, Fort Dodge and Southern Railway Company to build its road across the military reservut on in Kansas, not exhaling oja hund.-ed feet in width, and on motim of Mr. Plumb the bill was passed. The Sena.e occupied the balance of toe day consider.n; tue tariff bill, lu the House Mr. Payson (Id.), by introducing incouseqw ntiai bills end demanding their reading iu full, succeeded iu the double object of forcing t*ie friends of the Oklahoma bill to yield to certain atueridments he desiied to bavo incorjiora ed in the bill, and in extracting from the friends of the Union i’aci 1c funding bill a promise that they would not call up that measure. Mr. Bower (N. C.) introiuced a bill for the repeal of the tobacco tax and moved its reference to the Committee on War Claims. The yeas and nays were ordered, and results 1: Yeas 100, nays 126—50 the motion was agreed to. and the bill was referred to the Committee on Wavs and Means. The call of States was concluded, and then Mr. Warner (Ohio) withdrew his pending motion to suspend the rules and ] ass the Oklahoma b 11, and in lieu thereof moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution providing for a final vote on that bill on Thursday next, with permission to Mr. Payson (Ill.) to order an amendment to the section relative to town sites. Agreed lo—yeas 165, nays 76. J. D. Tayior (Ohio) introduced for reference a preamble and joint resolution directing the Government officials in charge of any building which may be used for tbe inaugural ball not to permit wine, beer, ale, or other intoxicating liquors to be sold or served to any person on the occasion of the ball. The Senate passed the substitute for the Mills tariff bill by a strict party vote, on the 22d inst. The day’s proceedings were largely devoted to disposing of various amendments. When these had been exhausted the vote w*B taken, first on agreeing to tbe substitute, and then on the passing of the bill. Both votes were identical yeas, 32; nays, 30-* as follows : Yeas—Aldrieh, Blair, Bowen, Cameron, Chance, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dewss, Dolph, Edmunds Evart 8, Farwell, hrye, Hawley, Hiscock, Hour, Ingalls, Jonet (Nev.', Manderson, Mitcnell, Morrill, Paddock, Palmer, Platt, Pin mb, Quay, Sherman, Spcoaer, Stockbridge, Teller, Wilson (la.i —32. Nats—Bute, Eustis, Payne Berry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniol, Jb aulknor. George, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Jones (Arg.), Morgan, Pasco, Pugh, hansom, Reagan, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Wsltuall, Wilson (Aid.) —3O. Mr. Hiddlebei-ger said that he had voted right along with the Republican party and with the Fin an e Committee for the bid. but there was nothing in the bill which would hate justified him in voting for it after the adoption of the amendments of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Plumb; presumably the customs-commis-sion provision). Therefore, if he had not beeu pairet and had not loir under an obligation to preserve that pair, he should not have voted for the bill. The House refused to consider the Smalls-Elliott election contest, and took up the. river and habor bill. On Mr. Cutcheon's motion, t e appropriation for continuing the improvements at Portage Lake, Michigan, was increased from 816.0J0 to 820,000.

The concurrent resolution for the counting of the electoral vote was passed by the Senate on. the 23d inet. It provides that the two houses of Congress shall assemble in the hall of theHouse of Representatives on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1889, at 1 p. m.; that tie President of the Senate shall preside; that twotellers on the part of the Sei.ate anl two on the part of the House shall make a list of the votes its they shall be declared ; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the vote and the persons elected to the two bouses, which shall be deemed a declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United Stales, ani, together witu a list of the votes, shall Le entered on the journals of the two houses. The Senate passed the Honea I ill for the relief of the State National Earn, of New Orleans, formerly the Louisiana State Bank, after amending it Boas to read “the proceeds of cot on alleged to belong to said bank.” An amendment providing that it must be made to appear to the court of Claims that the managers Of the Louisiana. State Bank were at tue time of the purchase of the cotton in fact loyal to the United Mates and had not been In fact engaged in the rebellion, was rejected—yeas 17, nays 35. Ths bill allows the bank to prosecute a claim for the proceeds of the cotton seized by the Government. Senators Platt and Edmunds opposed the bill ou. the ground that the Louisiana State Bank was the fiscal agent of the Confederacy. Senator Hoar championed the bill, holding that whatever may have been the charac .tr of the State bank the national bank was loyal, and it was from the hitter that the cotton had been taken. The vote on the passage of-the bill was: Yeas, 32; nays, 20. A committee' of conference was appointed. A bill granting the right of way to the Big Horn Southern Railway through the Crow reservation in Montana was passed. TheHouse, in committee of the whole, continued the consideration of the sundry civil bill, and a heated debate occurred over an amendment tofix a royalty on every thousand impressions made by steam presses.

Both houses of Congress adopted suitable resolutions, on the 24th inst., on the death of Representative James N. Burnes, of Missouri,, and then adjourned as a mark of respect to his memory. A joint committee consisting of Senators Vest, Teller and Coke and Rspresentative i Mansur, Stone, Wade, Sayers, Bynum, Hender- ' son and Perkins was appointed to accompany the remains to St. Joseph, Mo., where the funeral took place. The body was in ci ar/e of thecoinmittes, and was taken over the Pennsylvania Road. In the Senate, on the 25th inst., Mr. Allisonmoved that the Senate insist on its amendment to the tariff bill, and asked for a conference with the House on the bill and amendment. Themotion was agreed to without objection. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was taken up, amended, and passed. One of the amendments appropriates $200,000 for a zoological park near ihe city of Washington. Gonferrees were appointed on the part of the Senate and then the following bills were passed : Toprovide for the sale of land alotted ami patented to certain members of the Bluek Bob bond of Shawnee Indians. For tho presentation of suitable medals to the survivors of the "Forlorn Hope Storming Party,” of Port Hudson, on the 15th of June, 1803. The Senate bill to establish two additional land districts in the State of Nebraska. To authorize the'construction of a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi at, LaCrosse. Wis. Among the thirty bills passed was one (a Senate billi increasing the pension of the willow of General Rousseau to SIOO a month. The Ho ‘se wont into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The appropriation for repairs of light-houses was increased from $300,(500 to $335,(0). Theappropriation for the sala>ies of light-house keepers was increased from s6uO,(X)i toss - ,003. The appropriation for tho pay of assistant custodians and janitors of public buildings was increased from $460,000 to $4:10,00). Mr. RandaJ, from tho Committee on Appropriations, reported a joint resolution making mi appropriation of $5 X).00) for payment to l lie legal representatives of J. B. Eads, Referred to thecommittee of tho whole.

A Proposed Sky Railway.

The plans for the propose ! ship railway across the isthmus connecting Nova Scotia with New Brunswick have been approved by the min ster of railways, and the con racts are s'gned. Vessels bound from Europe and Boston and New York will 1 ave FOO miles by utilizing the railway. Thev will sail up the Bay of Fundy, and alter being hoisted by hydraulic lifts, will be transported to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The railway will be about forty miles long. 'lhe contracts call for the completion of th 3 werkin 1892.—Canada paper.