Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1889 — Page 2

@!)c JtemocratuSeniine! RENSSELAER. INDIANA. I. W. McEWEN, - PDBUSBS&

A TURBULENT WOULD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY TOED BY TELEGRAPH. Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Transmitted by Wire —A Kaleidoscope of Interesting Occurrences—Political, Criminal, Accidental, and Industrial. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. The Senate Bill Passes the House to Ratify Agreement with Creek Indians. Consideration of the resolution regarding election outrages was resumed by the Senate on the 23d inst., and the day was occupied in discussion of ihe same. In the House the Senate bill was passed to ratify and confirm the agreement with tr e Creek Nation of Indians for the purpose of opening to settlement theunnssiguod lands in Indian Territory ceded by the Creeks to the United States. The Senate amendments were concurred in to the House bill for the taking of the eleventh census. The House went into committee of the whole on tho deficiency hill, and the following amendments were adopted : Appropriating *150,u00 to supply a deficiency in the uppropriution for tho Bureau of Construction and Repair for the navy; appropriating 82,103 to Mrs. A. R. Hancock for moneys expended by Gen. Hancock in entertaining tho York town visitors ; for the payment of an extra month’s salary to Senate and House employes. Pending further progress with the bill the committee rose and public business was suspended. Appropriate memorial services, in memory of the late J antes N. Burnes of Missouri, were read, after which tho House adjourned. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Inflated Bank Transactions —Stronger Market in Breadstuff's. In their review of trade for the past week, R. G. Dun & Co. say: It can hardly he said that business improved during the week, und the accounts from interior points almost uniformly represent trado as rather quiet, or at least fair. The clearing house reports continue to show gains over last year at a ma ority of cities, hut the number falling behind is larger than it has been of late. At C hicago and other Western points grain speculation inflated bank transactions. General confidence in the future continues unabated. The net earnings over operating expenses on 127 railroads for 1881 amounted to $z35,145,066, as against 8258,972,020 in 1887, showing a loss of about 9 per cent, for the year, of which the greater part was on Northwestern railroads. The coal market is glutted by excessive production, in spite of the tdct that consumption in .January appeal's to have been 2,4:57,371 tons, against 2,291,501 last, year. In breadstuff s there was a stronger rnsrket, with tho usual lack of definite reason. Atlantic exports do not improve, an 1 corn goes to Europe in great quantities in place of wheat, while the exports of wheat from the Pacific ports ure remarkably large. But wheat advanced 2Sb cents during ttie week, without change in com. while tats declined a quarter. Pork is steady and lard stronger, while hops are weaker, each by 15 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton advanced an eighth. C ilfee is a quarter stronger, and oil nearly a cent lower. The general average of prices for commodities declined and lost more than the entire advance early in February. Interior cities a 1 report money in ample supply, and nearly ail report collections slow, or somewhat backward. The monetary prospect is at least as favorable as it has been at any time this year. Business failures uumbored for the United States 229 and for Canxda 41. WRECKED BY A BROKEN KAIL. Some Thirty Passengers Injured on a Pennsylvania Road. The fast-line express train on the Northern Central Railroad struck a broken rail between Ralston and Roaring Branch Pa., about thirty miles from Elmira. N. Y., while running at high speed around a curve, and tho rear coach was thrown down a twenty-foot embankment into a . small stream. The thirty occupants of the car were all injured, and it is considered marvelous that no one was killed. Among the injured are: Conductor William Dale, of Elmira; Gottlieb Beyer, of Philadelphia; A. D. Obcrton, of Elmira; Elmer Goden. of Roaring Branch, Pa.; tho Rev. C. A. Babcock, of Canton, Pa.; Mrs. T. Bronson, of Watkins, N. Y.; Simon Zergg, of Herndon, Pa.; O. E. Deighton, of Now York; John Lee, of Williamsport, Ta; William Pascoe, of Woodstock, Canada. ELEVEN SEAMEN DROWNED. Tlie Bark Jose Troop Wrecked Off Cliicamacomico—Most of the Crew Lost. Information has reached Norfolk, Ya., of the wrecking of tho British bark Jose Troop off Chicamacomieo, N. C. A terriblo storm raged along the coast, and about an hour after dark the vessel struck the boaeli. The weather was intensely cold, and, as heavy seas burst over the vessel, tho seamen were drenched from head to foot and -their clothes wero frozen to their bodies. Their sufferings were terriblo. The life savers on the beach saw the rockets of distross and hastened to the vessel as fast as possible. They did everything in their power to save the crew, but only succeeded in rescuing six out of seventeen. DEATH OF A MILLIONAIRE. Charles H. Sherman Stricken Down with a Peculiar Disease. Charles H. Sherman, a millionaire, died at St. Paul, Minn., of a most peculiar disease that had baffled the best physicians. About three weeks ago Mr. Sherman was attacked by a chill and liis throat began to swell. A physician was summoned, and as the only means of saving Mr. Sherman’s life, it was decided to perform the operation of tracheotomy. This was done, but several paroxysms followed, resulting in death. The case crcaled great interest among the medical fraternity, as such a general and sudden attack of oedomia is rare. <* _ MRS. LESLIE SELLS HER PAPERS. Mr. Arkell Secures Control of Valuable Illustrated Periodicals. Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York, has sold to W. J. Arkell, of Judge, her weekly illustrated papers, both English and German. The transfers are to be made Mayl. Mrs. Leslro will retain and personally direct her other publications. Mr. Arkell refuses to state the price paid. He says the policy of the weekly will remain the same—aggressive arid independent. The present force will be, retained and new skill added. Mr. Arkell says he had been negotiating for theso papers since 1833.

KENNA AGAIN HONORED.

The West Virginia Senator Is Re-elected After a Weary Struggle. Trie weary dead-lock Iq-The Legislature at Charleston, W. Ya., has been broken by the re-election to tho United States Senate of

SENATOR KENNA.

ney of Kanawha County from 1872 to 1877; was elected to the XLYth. XLVIth, XLVlIth, and XLVIIIth Congresses, and then was promoted to the Senate, taking his seat in 1883. THIRTY-FIVE PERISH. A Boiler in tlie Park Central Hotel, Hartford, Conn., Explodes with Awtul Results. A terrible catastrophe occurred at Hartford. Conn., caused by the explosion of the large boiler in the basement of the Park Central Hotel, one of the most popular hotels in that city. The large building was completely wrecked, the great walls going down with a tremendous crash, burying in the ruins all but a few of the guests in the house. A special telegram says: Almost simultaneously with tho falling walls was a tremendous explosion that shook the whole city and wrecked ,ho fronts of all buildings near by. Nothing remained of the handsome hotel but a mass of ruins, which barely filled tho deep cellar, and a scanty twenty feet of the rear end of the building, five stories in height, and showing the interior of the last row oi rooms on each floor. The ruined part had been sliced away as neatly as though with a giant knife. From the ruins arose groans and cries, and from the part still standing were heard the shrieks of the servants, who lived in an annex. A cold, half-frozen rain from a lowering sky, with the spectacle of wreck and ruin, and the FUickei nvoloping clouds of steam which for hourß hid from the surging crowds of people around the policemen’s coi'don the occasional awful revelations made by the workmen in unearthing dead bodies or living sufferers, combiued to make a scene which no beholder will be likely to lorget. Held close to the top of the wreck ago were a man, his wife, and a child. I lames ha.l burst iorth from near the boiler, and thebe came licking toward the group. The child cried aloud for nelp, but no help could reach it. The man and woman loosed death in the face with clasped bauds, and a moment later all were beyond suffering. The flames at first prevented any attempt to rescue auy one, and the ruins were flooded with water beforo any work could be prosecuted. A few dead or dying persons wero taken from tho edge of the debris, however, within an hour after the explosion. Tho force of tho explosion throw a bed with a sleeping woman upon it far into the street, while one of the heavy doors landed a block away. The special telegram, sent out a few hours after the explosion, continues: The magnitude of tho calamity cannot bo realized. Tne register of the hotel is lost, and Night Clerk Perry is buried in the ruins. But from the best estimates that can be procured from tho landlord and others it is probable that there were not fur lrom fifty people in the hotel proper. Of these perhaps live escaped uninjured, leaving forty-five to beaccounted for. Ten are in the hospital; sixteen dead bodies have been taken from the ruins, leaving nineteen missing. Andrew F. Whiting, actuary of ttie Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company ; tho Rev. Dr. Lavellette Herrin, agent of the Memorial Hall Association, and wife, and Edward Terry, the night clerk, are in the ruins. It is believed that Mtb. Wesson, of Springfield, Mass., the widow of Frank Wesson, who was kiiled at the White River Junction Railroad accident, was in the hotel, togother with all of her family, five children, and probably a servant or two. The complete list of the bodies taken out is as follows: Dwight H. Bnoll, of Hartford; George Gaines, porter of hotel; J. Georgo Engler, of Hartford; John W. Housman, of Boston; J. C. Hill, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Louis H. Bronson, of Hartford, his wife and child; George Ketchum, brother of landlord: Eddie Ketchum, son of landlord; George W. Root of Brockpori, N. Y. ; Maximilian Gatody, proprietor of the Hartoford Herold, and Mrs. Andrew F. Whiting, whose body was burned to a crisp; two unknown persons. The victims at the nosphal are: Helen Leport, of New Britain; Rachel Cramer, of Avon; Jacob B. Turpin, a colored barber; Walter M. Gay, of Bayonne, N. J.; Henry Steffel, of Thiladelphia; Wellington Ketchum. proprietor of hotel; Mrs. Georgie Ketchum, wife of proprietor; Jennie Decker, of Unionvillo; Michael Coirigau, of Unionville; Enos James.

WILL SOON HE STATES. North Dakota, South Dakota. Montana and Washington May Now Prepare for Their Admission. Tho conference report on the Territorial bill has passed both houses of Conaress. As agreed to the bill provides as follows: For tho admission of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Jjako a is to- be divided in the 47th standard parallel, and the two constitutional governments ace to meet at Bismarck and Sioux Falls. Delegates to the conventions in each of tho pri posed States are to be elected on tho first Monday In May, and are to meet on July 4. It is provided that at the electiou for delegates in South Dukotaiho electors shad vote for or against the Sioux Fails constitution. If a majority of the votes shall be for the constitution tho convention shall resubmit to tho people of Sout i Dakota for ratification or rejection the constitution framed at Sioux F’alls, and also the ai tides and propositions separately submitted, including the question of locating tho temp.rary seat of government, and if a majority of the votes cast on tho ratification shall be for the constitution, irrespective of the articles separately submitted, the State of South Dakota % shall be admitted under said constitution, but the archives, records, and books of the Teriitory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capiial of North Dakota, until an agreement in roference thereto is reached by said States. But if at the election for delegates a majority of all the votes cast shall be against the Sioux Falls constitution, it shall be the duty of the couvention to form a constitution as if that question had not been submitted to the people. It is made the duty of the President to admit the four new States by proclamation if the constitutions formed are ratified’at the'election to be held on the first Tuesday in October. Each of the new States shall be entitled to one Representative in Congress, oxcept South Dakota, which shall be entitled to two Kepresentatives. All lands granted for school purposes are exempted from entry under any of the land laws and can only be sold at public sale at not less than $lO an acre, tho proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, tue interest of which only can used. Such lands may, however, be leased under legislative restrictions. All mineral lands are exomptod from tbe grants made by the act. The two Dakotas are to be added to Justice Miller's circuit (the Bth) and Washington and Montana to Justice Field’s tthe 9th). POLITICAL POINTERS. Interesting Happenings of More or Less Importance In the World of Politics. According to unofficial returns from the six counties comprising the Fourth Congressional District of Missouri. R. P. C. Wilson, of Platte County, and Charles F. Booker, of Andrew, Democratic nominees for the long and short term respectively to succeed Congressman James N. Burnes, are elected by a small majority. The Indiana Senate has killed the Hays

John E. Kenna, Democrat, by a strict party vote, he receiving for-ty-six votes. John E. Kenna is 41 years old and was born at Valcoulon. Va..ona farm. He served through the I war in the Confederate army, afterward graduated at St. Vincent’s College,Wheeling, and studied law. He served as Prosecuting Attor-

high license bill, the Democrats voting solidly against it and the Republicans Bolidly for it.

Up to date all but fifteen of tha certificates of members -elect of the next House have been received at Washington, D. C., by Gen. Clark, the Clerk of the House. Among those lacking are the certificates of two Representatives from West Virginia and one from Tennessee. Assuming that Evans (Rep.) will receive the certificate from the Tennessee district, the Clerk figures that the Republicans will have 164 and the Democrats 159 members at the organization of the next House, not counting the West Virginia members. Should these two seats go to the Democrats it will leave tho Republicans a majority of three, but the admission of the Dakotas, Washington and Montana will increase the majority. The National Tariff Reform Convention met in Chicago, over 300 delegates being present. The proceedings lasted for three days. President Cleveland has returned to the House with a veto message the bill for the relief of tho settlers on the Des Moines (Iowa) river lands.

TIRARD FORMS A CABINET. De Freycinet Takes tho War Portfolio—M. Eouvier Minister of Finance. A Paris special says: President Carnot has signed a decree appointing the following Ministry: M. Tirard, Premier and Minister of Commerce. M. Constans, Minister of the Interior. M. Rouvier, Minister of Finance. M. Thenevot, Minister of Justice. M. Fallieres, Minister of Education. M. Faye, Minister of Agriculture. M. Gues Guvot, Minister of Public Works. M de Freycinet, Minis.er of War. Admiral Jaures, Minister of Marine. M. de Courcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The cabinet is a coalition of Opportunists and Radicals. Tho National asserts that if tho Tirard cabinet fails President Carnot will summon M. Ferry to form a cabinet. Gen. Boulanger says that if President Carnot could not obtain a better c ibinet he should have resigned to prevent his being overthrown. Personally the General says he is satisfied, the President and M. Tirard working unconsciously in the interests of the Boulangists. MONSTER NATURAL-GAS WELL. A Flow of Between 15,000,000 an l 20,000,000 Cubic Feet a Day. The gas well owned by Theodore Mithoff Sr., at Lancaster, Ohio, has been drilled seven feet further into the gas rock, which more than doubled its capacity. In an attempt to measure it the mercury was blown out of a three-pound Igauge placed in the five and five-eighths inch opening. A tenpound gauge was afterward tried and the mercury shot up to four pounds, although tho gauge was imperfectly held and the force too great to allow a more perfect test. As near as can be ascertained the flow is between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 cubic feet per da) - . An excited multitude thronged to tho well. The drillers, Mossrs. Stretton and Kee, pronounco it the greatest well in tho country. The well is located in the heart of Lancaster.

GERMAN SHIPS FOR SAMOA. Uisinarck Said t:> Be Preparing to Resist American Demands. Tho London Times correspondent, referring to the fact that tho German squadron had been ordered to Port Said, says: “I hoar on good authority that this step is connected not so much with East Africa as with the Samoan questior. The squadron will remain at Port Said pending development in tho latter question, and sail for the Pacific in event of the American Government proving too exacting or unreasonable. But this explanation had best be received with caution.” Four German iron-clads at Genoa have been ordered to sail for Samoa immediately. PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITIONISTS. They Indorse the Stand Taken by Master Workman Powderly. The Pennsylvania State Prohibition Convention met at Harrisburg, with 774 delegates in attendance. The convention adopted a resolution indorsing Master Workman Powderly’s stand on the Prohibition question, aud'-defeatud by a vote of 17G nays to 162 yeas a motion for a committee to prepare a plan of campaign, the opponents of a third party opposing it. Resolutions pledging the organization to the support of the constitutional amendment wore adopted. IT BURNED LIKE TINDER. A Twenty-second Street Block Destroyed , ill Chicago. The three-story business block on Twen-ty-second street, Chicago, was completely destroyed by fire, involving a total loss of about $60,000 to tho building and the stock and personal property of the numerous tenants. The structure was the property of the Wood & Bliss estate, of Philadelphia. It was a brick veneer front, the remainder of tho building being frame back to the alley in the rear. It was erected in 1869, and, as the timber was as dry as powder, there was no stopping the flames once fairly started, and it burned like tinder. The loss to occupants was heavy. An Inter-State Case Dismissed. —The Inter-state Commerce Commission has dismissed the case of tho Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce agAinst the Flint and Perc Marquette and the Detroit, Grand Huven and Milwaukee Railroads, on the ground that the rate of Feb. 1, 1888, on wheat, flour and mill stuffs from Minneapolis to Eastern points was a through rate. Washington’s Natal Day. The one hundred and lifty-seventh anniversary of the birthday of George Washington was celebrated throughout the country with fitting observances, on the 22d inst., showing that the memory of the Father pf his Country is still kept fresh in the hearts of the patriotic Americans as the years go on. Har«l Struggle for Life. In York county, S. C„ the Rev. James Gibson, a prominent Baptist minister, was

drowned in Sugar creek. For eight hours he clung to overhanging branches, while a large number of persons stood on the bank watching his struggle for life, but none of them attempted hfs rescue.

Attempted the Life of a Mayor. An attempt was mado to blow up the office of the Hon. J. D. Alsop, Mayor of Dyersville, lowa. A hole was bored ip a stick of wood and filled with powder. When Mr. Alsop put the wood in his stove an explosion took place which wrecked the office, but which failed to kill the Mayor.

Railroad Matters. At Cincinnati the Chamber of Commerce voted against tho Mack bill authorizing an indefinite extension of the present lease of the Cincinnati Southern Road at a minimum annual rental of $1,250,000, while the Board of Trade unanimously reported in favor of the scheme. Large Issue of Bonds. The stockholders of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad have decided to issue $1,000,000 worth of 6 per cent, bonds for the purpose of enlarging, improving and operating the road, for the purpose of additional right of way and for the erection of buildings. Froze to Death While Intoxicated. Mrs. Margaret Ford was found dead and frozen on the floor in her house at Clinton, lowa, while her husband was found in a drunken sleep in bed. The husband is suspected of kicking his wife to death while both were intoxicated. Disastrous Fire at Cincinnati. The machine-shops, car-shops, and lo-comotive-house of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway, at Cincinnati, have been entirely destroyed by fire, causing a loss to the company of $200.000, which was partially covered by insurance. An low* Man In Trouble. JohnH. O’Keefe, who disappeared from Northern lowa last fall with some cattle which he had bought | on time from L. M. Hartley, turned.up at Windsor, Ont. O’Keefe was enticed into Detroit, and was immediately arrested. Folicenien in Trouble. Sergeant Gano, of the San Francisco Chinatown police squad, and three policemen under his command have been arrested nn indictments charging them with receiving bribes from keepers of Chinese gambling dens. A Prize for Cleanliness. John G. Borden, of New York, who spends his winters in Florida, has offered a premium of SI,(XX) to tho Florida city which shall present tlie most cleanly appearance on July 1. Tho State Board of Health are to act as judges. Adverse to Contract Labor. A verdict has been renderod in favor of tho government in its suit to recover SI,OOO penalty against James Lees & Son, of Bridgeport, Pa., tor'the alleged importation of contract labor at their mills. ' Shipping Money to Washington. Twenty millions of silver dollars, which have been stored on an upper floor of the Philadelphia Postofflce, have been shipped to Washington at the rate of a million a day. A Terrible Death. Mrs. Max Schwartz, and her baby wero suffocated and then burned to death in a small Are at Philadelphia. Pa. Mr. Schwartz escaped by jumping from a window. Law and Order League. At the seventh annual session of the Citizens’ Law and Order League of the United States, held at Boston, the Hon. C. C. Bonney, of Chicago, was re-elected President of the organization. Indiana Justice. James Robbins, of Franklin, Ind., has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for stealing two chickens valued at 30 cents. Railway Slieds Burned. Three hundred feet of the Boston & Lowell Railway freight sheds at Boston were burned, causing a loss of $30,000.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime $4.50 @ 5.00 Good 3.50 © 4.00 Common 2.50 © 3.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.25 ©4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.0716& 1.08 S OI4N 3J>6@ .34^ Oats Eo. 2 25 © .20 Bye—No. 2 43 © .44 Butteb—Choice Creamery 27 © .29 Cheesjj—Full Cream, flat 11 © !ll?4 Eggs—Fresh 13 © .44 Potatoes—Car-loads, per bu.... * .27 @ !30 Pork—Me3S 11.00 ©11.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 93 © .953 A Corn —No. 3 29 © .30 * Oats—No. 2 White 28 © 29 Bye No. 1 i 4 %& A 5% Barley—No. 2 .57 © .58 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.25 „ DETBOIT. Cattle 3.50 © 5.00 Hogs 4.50 © 5.00 Sheep..... 4.01 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.01 © 1.02 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 33 @ [34 Oats—No. 2 White 28 @ 2816 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Bad 1.02 @ 1.02 M Corn—Cash.. 3 2'4@ .33 Oats—Cash. 26 © .23u NEW YOBII. . Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs 5.0 J @ 5.5 > ?J? EEP 4.00 © 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bod .98 © .99 Corn—No. 2 © .40 Oats—Whito 35 © .40 Pork—New Mess 12isj w 13.00 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.53 HOGS 3.75 @ 4.50 Wheat-No. 2 98 © .98U Corn—No. 2 29 @ .29 % Oats—No. 2 24 © ,24}jj Barley—t Canad a 77 © 78 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.03 © 4.59 H°gs 4. 50 © 4.75 oHEtT 3.00 © 4.25 Lambs*. 4.00 @ 5.5 J CINCINNATI. Hogs—Light 4.03 © 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed , 99 @ .931 a Corn—No. 2 33 @ .33}A Oats —No. 2 Mixed 27 ($ .2714 Bye—No 2 .5316© ls4>6 Pork—Mess 11.53 @12.00 KANSAS CITY. Cattle—Good 3.75 @ 4.25 Common 3.00 & 3.50 Stockers.. 2.50 @3.25 Hogs—Choice 4,25 (c£ 4.50 Medium 4.00 & 425 Sheep... 3.00 ©4.50

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. * Our National Law-Makers and Wliat They Are Doing for tlie Good of the Country —Various Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted On. Mr.. Coke concluded his speech on alleged Texas election outrages in the Senate on the 13th inst., after which the resolution was laid aside. The House bill to provide for taking the eleventh and subsequent censuses was passed. Mr. Cullom, from the Committee on Territories, reported back to tho Senate the House bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma and it waft placed on the calendar. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia called up in the House the California election case of Sullivan against Felton, against which Mr. McKennn, of California, raised the question of consideration. Nearly the entire day was consumed in filibustering. The Senate took up the sundry civil appropriation bill on the 19th inst., and agreed to the following Western amendments reported from che Appropriations Committee: For completion of postoffice building a Fore Scott, Kan., 88,000; Point Betsey (Mich.) lighthouse, *35,000; Point Peninsula (M.ch.l lighthouse, *2,(.00; supply department, Ninth Lighthouse District, $50,u00steam tender for the great lakes, 885,000; Columbia River, Oregon, *60,000; San Pedro, Cal., #5,000; fish hatcheries in Lake County, Colorado, 815,000, and on Lake Erie, $20,00j ; viaduct at Rock Island, 111., 4 35,000 (one-half to be reimbursed by the city of Rock Island). The Senate amendment to pay Mrs. Waite 88,740, the balance of one year’s siilary of the late Chief Justice Waite, was agreed to—yeas, 28; nays, 16. The amendment appropriating 810,000 each for statues of General Philip H. Sheridan and General John A. Logan in Washington was agreed to. Jn the Senate Mr. Harris called attention to the large number of unconfirmed nominations. He held it to he as much the duty of the President to make nominations to fill official vacancies as to perform any other official duty, and as much the duty of the Senate to consider and confirm or reject such nominations as to pet form any other Senatorial duty. Ho moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. The motion was rejected by a party vote—yeas, 24; nays, 26. Mr. Harris gave notice that he would make tho same motion every day to the end of the session. The postofflce appropriation bill was beforo the Hcuso. Amendments to regulate tho salaries of assistant postmasters an 1 to reduce the salaries of postmasters’ stenographers to .*BOO wererejected, as was also Mr. Adams’ (Ill.) motion to fix the salary of the Assistant Postmaster at Chicago at $3,203. Representative Butterworth introduced his resolution authorizing the President to invite Canadian officials and legislators to visit the United States about Mav I.

The conference report on the Territorial bill’ passed both houses of Congress on the 23th. inst., and only lacks the signature of the President to become a law. The bill as agreed provides for the admission of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported to the Senate the Senate bill for the relief of settlers in Hettinger County, Dakota, which was explained and passed. (The bill authorizes an exchange of lands on which homestca l settlements were made by mistake for other public lands with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.) A message from tho House announcing the signature by the Speaker of the direct tax bill was laid before the Senate, and the bill (having beed first signed by the presiding officer) was immediately sent to the President. The House passed a large grist of bills at its evening session. Among them were the bills lor the establishment of a lighthouse and log signal at the outer breakwater, Chicago; authorizing Lake View to erect a water-works crib in Lake Michigan, and authorizing bridges across the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., near Kansas City, and at Leavenworth, Kas., and across the Mississippi River between Wisconsin and Minnesota at Lacrosse, Wis., and at Lyons, lowa.

The Senate devoted the larger portion of its session, on the 21st Inst., to the sundry civil bill. After a long debate tho amendment reported from the Appropriations Committee allowing a royalty of oj cents per l,i 00 impressions for the use of steam plate printing presses in the Bureau of Engraving was passed. Tne House bill allowed a royalty of 1 cent per 1,00.1 impressions. Furtuer appropriations reported lrom tbe committee were agreed to as follows : Sedatia (Mo.j postofflce site and building, .$5: ,000; expenses of In emational Conference of Americuu States (additional), $7->,uoo; lighthouse and fog signal at Chicago outer break-w ater (substitute for House item of $5,200), 836,000; lor the in'eveniicn of epidemics (additional), $335,0j0. The Agricultural Department appropriation bill was also reported and notice was given that it would be called up as soon as the Sundry Civil . bill was disposed of. The House pasted ,he Postoflico Appropriation bill with an amendment l.xing the salary of the ■ Superintendent of Registry at Chicago at 40 per cent, of the salary of the Postmaster. Toe House also made considerable progress on the deficiency bill, to which an amendment was appropriating $6,000 to pav Daniel Layout, the President’s Private Secretary, the difference between his present salary and .'*■s,oo(l a your, the salary which his successor will receive. Representative O’Donnall (Mich.) presented in the House an egormous petition against the Sunday-rest hill, which bears the signatures of 230,003 seventh-day adventists in alt parts of the country. Two immense packages in favor of the bill were presented in the Senate bv Mr. Stockbridge. The conference report on the legislative appropriation bill was agreed to by both houses. Three appropriation bills—the Army, Sundry Civil and Agricultural—were passed by the Senate on th 9 22d inst. An amendment was added to the Sundry Civil bill as a substitute for Mr. Hiscock’s motion to appropriate 83j0,00) for csle-rating tho constitutional centennial, declaring Tuesday, April 30, 1883, which is tho centennial anniversary of tbe inauguration of the first President of the United States, a national holiday. It provides for suitable ceremonies by both houses of Congress on the second Wednes- • day of December, 1889, under the direction of a joint committee, which is authorized to invite the officers of the United States, the Governors of the several States, and lepreßentatives of foreign governments to participate ; also to invite tho Chief Justice to deliver a suitable address on the occasion. It appropriates $3,003 to carry out tho arrangements. An item was also added appropriating $40,003 for a site and pedestal for a statue of Gen. Hancock in Washington. Mr. Reagan made a long argument in tne Senate in opposition to the Evarts resolution for a revision of the laws regulating Congressional elections. The Senate passed the House bills authorizing the construction of bridges at Leavenworth, Kan., and across the Illinois River within seven:, miles of Campsville, 111. The Houb3 amendments to tffe Alma (Wis.) bridge bill were also concurred in. The Houso passed a bill granting a pension of $3,501) to Mrs. Sheridan, with an amendment reducing it to 82,500. The Senate non-concurred in the amendment and ordered a conference. The Senate bill placing Gen. Rosecrans on the retired list of the army with the rank of Brigadier General pissed the House.

Russian Peasant Traits.

Quarrels prevail not only between different households but even in the - very midst of families livingunder one roof. Now in our house, for instance, the grandmother—a brisk and still lively old woman of 75—sided with one of her daughters-in-law against another, and they went so far that eventually nothing would do but they must divide all their possessions; even the ■ iron sheet serving to dry peas was cut in two—spoiled on purpose—so that it should not serve any one. If one party to the quarrel gets its peas burnt a . trifle, its opponents are happy; if a . young ox belonging to one dies, the others rejoice, saying, “See now how God chastises him !” Yet at the same time they are all of them really good and very considerate people.— Vassih Verestchagin , in Havper's Magazine .■