Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Page 2

gljeJlniiocrnticStiitind <J. W. McEWEX, PubllNher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

NO FUTURE DANGERS.

SHELLS AND SHRAPNEL TO DE DISCARDED. Pullman Re loses to Aid the Hungry In His Town—Big Fire Loss at Memphis— Aliens Fight lor Work—Epidemics at London. Unreliable Ammunition. Neither shrapnel nor shells of the preswat construction *lll be used again by the Department of the Missouri of the United States army. This was decreed by Gen. Miles Tuesday. Two explosions of shrapnel from slight causes in a mmth brought the General to this decision, 'lhe news was heard with delight by the artillerymen and other soldiers, who were frightened at continually risking their lives near these infernal machines, that were liable to blow them into eternity without a moment's warning. The explosion of the caisson on the drill grounds at Evanston Monday was friely discussed in the army camp The unanimous opinion of officers and men was that the explosion was caused by a defective fuse in a shrapnel. This also had caused the terrible accident at Chicago on Grand boulevard June 16. Some one will have to answer for the Evanston explosion. At the very first of the encampment General Mlles ordered all ammunition but blank charges taken from the caissons and stored In camp before the artillery went upon the field. A sergeant is said to be the one at fault. PLEADS FOR THE POOR. Cltlxens of Illinois Asked to Give Food to 6,000 Starving Ones. Just before returning from Chicago to Springfield Tuesday night Gov. Altgeld issued a proclamation to the people of Illinois, asking them to send contributions to relieve the starving strikers at Pullman. He also addressed a letter to the County Commissioners, calling their attention to the suffering lu Pullman and urging them to furnish immediate assistance. The letter to the county commissioners is expected to secure food enough to keep the strikers alive until responses to Governor Alt-eld’s proclamation begin coming in. The appeal to the people was not made until the Governor bud satisfied himself that the Pullman Comt pany would do nothing to relieve the distress. The Governor engaged during the day, In a spirited correspondence with Mr. Pullman, but could get no promise that officers of the company would help the starving tenants. “As you refuse to do anything to relieve the suffering In this case,” the Governor wrote to Mr. Pullman. In closing the correspondence. “I am compelled to appeal to the humanity of the people of Illinois to do so. ”

ALMOST A BREAD RIOT. Fl'-e Thousand Men wit h Picks and Shovels Cry tor Work. Five thousand hungry and determined Poles and Bohemians gathered at the Rock Island crossing and Archer avenue, in Chicago, early Tuesday morning and demanded work. “Give us work Or bread!” wn their cry. and armed witii picks and shovels they looked as if they would fight for the privilege ut working. Superintendent Drake, who has charge of the preliminary work for the elevation of the Kock Island track, said Im needed but a few men ano could do nothing for the crowd which had gathered. Ho telephoned for the police and Lieutenant Barrett with twenty-five police came hurriedly to the rescue. The police charged the crowd and drove It back without violence. The men I wore nearly all ignorant and could not un- 1 derstand that the railroad company had no work for them. QUARTER OF A MILLION LOSS. Mansfield Drug Company and Other Business Houses at Memphis Burned. Fire broke out at Memphis in the fourstory building at 376 and 378 Shelby street, occupied by the Mansfield Drug Company, and within less than an hour nearly a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of property was destroyed. The fire started among the chemicals and oils in the rear of the Mansfield building and spread so rapidly the firemen soon lost control of It, A general alarm was turned in and every engine In the city was brought to the scene. Finding that they could notsubdue the flames, the firemen devoted their work to saving adjoining property. The following firms have suffered heavily: Mansfield Drug Company; Fader & Co , wholesale grocers, and A. B Treadwell & Co., whoftsale grocers and cottcn factors. LONDON IS AFFLICTED. Outbreak of Smallpox Complicated by a Scarlet Fever Epidemic. The London authorities are seriously alarmed over the outbreak ot, smalipax In Marylebone, St. Pancrus. Hampstead, Shoreditch and other thickly populated sections of the city. The first cases weto discovered about three weeks ago, and it Is reported that over 15,01)0 people are now afflicted. On a single night last week over fifty sufferers were removed in ambulances from St Pancras district alone. The two hispltal ships lying in the Thames at Long Beach, the Atiai and the Castalia, are crowded with patients, and the asylums board, which has charge of all matters relating to public health in the metropolis, is now seeking to purchase additional vessels. Fatal Boiler Explosion. A thrashing machine boiler exploded ii, a field two miles east of Medaryville, Ind., and fatally scalded Gus Lltkey.' the engineer, and Injured John and Peter Cox in a horrible manner, John Cox Is in a dangerous condition, and will probably share Lltkey's fate. Steam Gauge Didn't Work. A boiler explosion occurred four miles from Elwood City, lowa, on the Smith farm. Levi Boiler and his son Harry, of Fumbell, were both instantly killed, and Dogan McElvalne. of Wurtemburg. will die. The steam gauge failed to work after sixty pounds of steam had been registered. The boiler was blown 400 feet away. Miss Pullman to Wed. London dispatches say that Miss Florence Pullman, daughter of G.-orge M., is to snsrry Prince Isenburg-Blrstein. eldest son of Prince Ohar.es of Isenburg-Blrstein and the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria and a cousin of ths Emperor of Austria. Death Blow to Woman Suffrage. Woman suffrage was probably dbposed of finally, so far as the constitutional convention at Albany is concerned, by the vote of the convention in favor of agreeing with the adverse report of the suffrage Committee Tucker proposition to refer the controversy to the people. Paid for His Folly with His Life. _A Urge crowd of people assembled at Cberburae, Minn., to witness a balloon asMMWion nod parachute leap by Professor <■ Ward. A» the balloon was about to as- , meet LM Palmer, of Jackson, seixed a ’ m 4 wm crrrled u > about 150 feet, MfelN fi*U «aA «M killed.

KING OF SIAM DEAD.

Tear Is Expres»ed that the Question of Succession May Cause TroubleDispatches per steamer Tacoma announce the death of the King of Mam. IL M. & Rattler has been dispatched to

Siamese waters to anticipate. posslb e trouble over the su ;- cession. 'lhe late king was 41 years old and began his rel.n when he waslsyears of age. His full name was Pbrabat Somdet Phra Paraimindr Maha Chulalonkoui Pbra Chula Chom'sJKlao Phra Chow Yuhua. He was just as progressive as his father, but somewhat more

KING or SIAM.

exclusive. He was particularly Interested lln America and American business methods, and remarked to our ConI sul at Bangkok not long ago that ; he hoped before long to see a line of steamers plying between American ports and his capital. Although tho king bad upward of 300 wives only one of them ranked as queen. The other wives are as subject to her will as to her husband’s. The “second” wives, as they are called, attain, through their relation to the king, a certain rank of nobility. The king had eighty-seven children. The king, like all his subjects, was a devout Buddhist and believed in the transmigration of souls. In the royal palace grounds arc four white elephants in which his majesty believed were Incased the souls of four of his royal predecessors on the throne. The king himself never came into their presence without making humble obeisance. CHINA CAN BORROW. Foreign Bankers Ready to Furnish Plenty of Money. The financiers of London. Berlin and j other capitals of Europe are eagerly dls- | cussing the proposed Chinese loan. Ini quiries made at the offices of Jardine, Matheson & Co, Londt n and China mer- ( chants, and at lhe offices of the Hong Kong I and Shanghai Bank Company, show that the loan which the great banking institutions of Berlin are said to be floating for I China amounts to 10,060,000 taels, and not : to £10,000.000 as previously announced in Loudon and Berlin. A tael is about $1.40. : It appears that about a month ago China i inquired through tho Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank for the rates lit which , such a loan, to be made in silver, could bo effected. The bank immediately offered to loan tho Chinese Government £1.000,003 sterling, or $5.1)00.000. Jardine, Matlie 1 * son & Co. of!erel to lend China another £1,003,000, or as much more as the government should require. But Viceroy LI Hung Chang declined both offers at that time, saying that Iheto was no immediate need for the money, as China had plenty to go on with. Later, however, it became know that China desired to in■rease tho amount of her available cash. A syndicate of German bankers was at □nee formed In Berlin, and their agents offered £100,030.000 to China, and this produced the result that China was not Inclined to pay over 4 per cent for her loan. The negotiations for the loan have already affected the price of silver and there is no question that silver will go higher.

SOLD LIQUOR WITHOUT LICENSE. Shelby County, Tenn., Loses an Enormous Income. The grand jury of Shelby County. Tenn., has found 304 Indictments, making 538 found in two days, against persons in Shelby County, charged with selling liquor without licenses, and tho investigations of tho body have developed the fact that the county. State and city have loit about 51,000,033 in the past eight years from failure to collect this revenue. Before the end of this week 1,000 indictments will have been turned Into court. It has been found that not, only have liquor deniers enjoyed Immunity from taxation, but u great many people in other linos of trade ulsa When all persons who have not complied with the license law for the past year shall have paid up the income will be $250,000. CHINA TO BORROW MONEY. German and English Hankers to Loan ths Country 850,000,000. It Is rumared at Berlin that tho Discon-to-Gesellschaft Is negotiating a $50,000,000 Chinese loan. In connection with the proposed loan, a syndicate has been formed which Includes most of the leading banks and bankers of the city. The members of the syndicate hold a meeting and discussed the terms of the loan, which will be taken conjointly by a London banker and tho syndicate. The amount has been doubled In the last few days. Reverses tho Policy. In the quietoit manner that official methods will permit, the Navy Department has amended the naval regulations in such fashion as to entirely reverse the policy of right of asylum as laid down by Secretary Tracy in the case □ f Gen. Barrundia, when Commander Reiter, of tho United States steamer Ranger, received his stinging reprimand. The new regulation appears to completely justify that unfortunate officer in his refusal to protect Barrunda. for it its construction of the proper duty of a naval commander is correct and in conformity with International law then he could not have offered to take the General from the merchant vessel. The department has been Induced beyond question to make this new regulation restricting the granting of asylum by the grout trouble it has been put to by harboring the Salvadorian refugees on the Bennington. The National Game. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows In the championship race: NATIONAL LEAGUE. ti , T F«rl Per W. L. cent.l W. L. cent. Boston 62 84 .646 Brooklyns.,6o 47 .‘615 Baltimore..6l 3t .647 Chicago.. .46 62 .4»9 New York. 0<) 34 .612 Cincinnati.4l 62 .tot Olevelands.63 t 2 .656 St. Louis...<l K) .410 Phil'delp’iaSl 42 .548 Louisvllle.,32 06 “.3.7 Pittsburgs.6l 47 .520 Washingt’n3l 68 .313 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per \ Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux Oity.6B 37 .611 Tndi’n'p’Hs.46 48 .496 Toledo 52 40 Mi Grd Rapids!'. 62 ,iOl Mlnne'p’Haei 42 .648 Detroit., ...40 66 .421 Kansas C’ysl 43 .54?, Milwaukee. 32 57 .300 Dying Man Confesses Forgeries. Ex-Sheriff D. Grant Armstrong, dying at Covington, Ky., sent for his brother and confessed to having signed tho brother’s name to $15,000 of notes that are held by the banks In that city. Tho brothers wore associated in business formerly, so that they bad authority to sign each other’s names, but the dying ex-Sherlff had no such authority when these unmatured notes were issued. Emma Goldman Freed. Emma G.ldman, of anarchist fame, who has spent the last ten months at Blackwell’s Island, having been found making an incendiary speech to the unemployed in Union Sqnare. was released Friday. She was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year, but her good behavior lessened the time of her Incarceration two months First Bale of New Cotton Sold. The first bale of cotton of this year's crop was received at Memphis from West Point, Miss , and sold nt auction fa front of the Cotton Exchange. It classed as strictly low middling and brought 10 cents . per pound. | Soap Men Complain. i Importers and merchants claim a serious | blunder has been made in the tariff bllL Under the prop.ted taw cocoauut oil la ' admitted free of duty, but copra which ia

| the raw material of which the cni coanut oil is manufactured, is subI jected to a duty of 33 per cent. Copra Is the raw sun-driel product of the , cocoanut and cannot be used for any other i purpose than making cocoanut oil, which , Is chiefly used in the manufacture of soap. Copra is not prepared and cannot | be used a* adesslcated cocoanut. and has always been du>y free. Twelve leading i firms have united In telegraphing a protest to Washington urging a correction of what they believe to be an error made | through ignorance of the articles. DIES WITHOUT TITLE. ' Baron Von Benthen Passes Away on a Boat in Chicago Harbor. Herr van Bentheo, who oaly lacked the I coronet to 03 lord of a Netherlands barony, I died In a ship in Chicago harbor the other i day at sunrise. He was stricken with ' fever en route from Petoskey to his wide I estate in Kansas, and died on the lake, an 1 unknown royal passenger in the lists of I the ordinary excursionists. Herr Van | Benthen came from a family with a his- ■ i tory as long as the story of the country in I 1 which bo was born. His birth gave him I the right to a peerage, but, by the curl- i ous manipulation of titles in the NetberI lands, he was declared a pretender. All I the other members of the family fared better than he at the time of the distlni guished father’s death and, taking his por- | tian of the estate, lit came to the Western | worll to make a future. Ho went directly j into bought a tract of 1,000 as fine I acres as the sun ever shone on. and stocked • it with the best animals he could buy. 1 | This was near the town of Lindon. For I twenty-two years he lived there in secluj sicu and prosperity, rearing a fam.ly of three girls and six boys. He built a great I bouse, decorated It with the heirlooms of his ancestry, and planned this year to have his relatives over from tho fatherland. They were t-j come at the end of the summer trip on the lake, but Instead of this reunion in this country there will be » funeral and a burial of the expectant hos down in the province of Geldcrtand. where ' all tho other Van Benthens for a dozen I centuries are resting.

TRADE HAS A BASIS. Passage of the Tariff Hill Has Removed Uncertainty. R. G. Dun Uo.’s Weekly Review cl Trado says: The new tariff provides a -definite- basis for business. No su. piemental legislation Is thought possible until next year at least. Largo Ympgovement has been expected from any settlement, tho more because of a vast amount of business deferred from wool: to week In'the hope of more definite conditions. Tlie rush of such business, or even a part of It, might easily double transactions for a time. It Is not to be overlooked that the effect of now duties upon many branches of industry and trade is problematical, ami may be determined only after some months of experience, and meanwhile tho serious Injury to corn and some of the conditions exorcise a restraining influence. It is too early to look ftn effects of the new situation in the great industries, but tho gradual recovery which has appeared for some time is seen in n better demand for products. Vaccination Row in Se lalia. A fight is on between the Sedalia, Mo.. Board of II >alth and tho Sedalia Board of Education. Recently tho Board of Health revived an old ordinance requiring all children of school a:e In tlje clty to be vaccinated before the opening of tho fall term of school. The city physicians offered free vaccination to the poor if they would make oath that they were unable tr pay for security against smallpox. Other citizens were threatened with arrest and fine If they did not comply with tho ordinance. As a result of these bulldozing methods the Board of Education sent a letter to Mayor Haskin and tho Board oi Health asking to have the obnoxious ordinance rescinded. Two. Kentucky Horses Killed. The 4-year-old Bell Boy stallion Signal Holl, the property of J. S. Caldwell, o! Louisville, ran away at tho Louisville, Ky., fair grounds, and, making bls way down South Broadway, ran in between a moving freight train and a coal bln, where he was crushed to death. Ho was valued at $1,030. The two-year-old bay filly, by Red Wilkes, tho property of W. C. France, of New York, was struck by lightning and instantly killed, 'lhe filly was out oi Ulva, by Wedgewood, and very valuable.

Ohio Fusion Candidates Namod. At Columbus, 0.. the fusion convention of thd Populists and organized labor nominated the following ,Stat 3 ticket: feervtary of State. Charles R. Martin; Judge of Supreme Court. E. D. Stark; Commissioner of Common Schools, M. J. Flannery; member of Board of Public Works, Joel S, Stewart. Jacob S. Coxey, of commonweal fame, and John Mcßride, Presldontot the United Mino Workers, were present, and Mcßride addressed the convention. Kaffres Slaying Boers. The rebellion of the Kaffres in South Africa is assuming alarming proportions, and the efforts of the authorities of the republic to suppress it have proved unavailing. The Transvaal mounted police detachment, which has been attempting tc relieve the garrison of Agatha, besieged by the Kaffres for some days past, has been repulsed with, It is feared, serious loss. Ex-Gov. Robinson Dead. Ex-Governor Charles Robinson died at his home in Lawrence, Kas. He had been ill several weeks. Removed the 85,000 Limit. The New York Constitutional convention has decided to remove the $5,000 limil for damages by loss of life.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 ro 5 21 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 oo @ 6 oo Sheet—Fair to Choice 2 oo 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 & 64 Coan—No. 2 54 (je Oats—Np, 2 20)6® 30V> Rte—No. 2 46 48 □BuTTEIi-rGholce Creamery.... . 23 ® 23V; Eggs—Fresh 13 ® 14 Potatoes—New. per bu 70 <g> 8u INDIANAPOLIS. CattLe—Shipping 2 00 (It 4 73 Hogs—Choice Light l 4 co @ 5 7> Sheep—Common to Prime 200 ® 3 27 Wheat—No. 2 Red 48 ® 48'4 Cobn—No. 2 White rs ® 5514 OATS-No. 2 White 32 ® 23 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 «? 5 00 Hogs 3 00 ® 5 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 10 ® 51 Corn—No. 2 (3 ® f 4 Oats—No. 2 so <a> 31 Rye—No. 2 42 ® 51 CINCINNATI. Cattle 2so <a 4 so Hoos 4 oo ® 5 76 Sheep 200 «t a 60 Wheat-No 2 Red 50 5 Ji CORN—No. 2 Mix- d 5614® 67)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 ® 3? Rye—No. 2. 45 @ 47 . DETROIT. Cattle 2 60 @ 4 ro Hogs 4 00 ® 6 75 ?” EEP ; 200 ®BCO Wheat—No. 1 White u @ 5> Corn—No. 2 Yellow 58 ® 59 Oats—No. 2 White 33 «« 3! TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 ® 54 Corn—No. 2 Yellow f.B ® SSk; Oats—No. 2 White 30 ® 31 ' RRE—No. 2 46 @ 48 _ x BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White No. 2 Red.... 56 ® 57 Corn-No. 2 Yellow co ® 00)4 Oats—No. 2 White 3.5 0 30 MILWAUKEE wheat—No. 2 Spring 54 @ MW Cobn—No. 3 jo -<a 67 Oats—No. 2 White :«* ® 35 2 13 ® 68 Pork—Mess 13 05 @l3 75 _ NEW YORK. a 00 e so> ®F KKP 200 ® 3 29 yHEAT—No. 2 Bed M « is W’enern 3» S M iSaaKTj-™:: 51 S

WORK OF CONGRESS.

RESUME OF WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. Data Concerning a Remarkable Period of Legislation—Tariff .Silver Bills and Other Important Measures—Nearly 3,000 Nominations Sent to the Senate. Tariff th- Main Topic. / S I T mav b 3 Ba *d that bis- / W j tory has claimed the /Cx second session of the /rSi? t 4 d Congress,one of the

mo?t remarkable periods of legislation ever witnessed since the foundation of the United States Government. A little reflection - will show those disto challenge ’’this statement on the ground that it 'is too general, how . true the assertion jis. Jor the first time since A; arch 4, 'Bl, when Abraham

Lincoln succeeded a Democratic t resident, the executive and legislative branches of the Government were in the possession o f the Democratic party, pledged to chi nge the prevailing method of raising revenue. Added to this the country was confronted by an appalling prospect of financial disaster to its business interests and the people looked to Congress togive them relief from the prevailing distress Remarkable as were the radical changes propos- d they were made even more so by the character of the Piesident whose record of four years in the White House from 1885 to ioB9 showed cone usively that party pressure did not su ceed in making him changes policy he had outlined. With this knowledge of Mr. Cleveland, it was no wonder the people of the country looked for someth ng out of the common during the sessions of the Fiftythird -Congrei-s and it is safe to say that tiiey were not disappointed. The term “extraordinary sesdon” applied in a formal and technical sen=o to the special convention of Congre.-s for the purpose of repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman Silver Act. might well app y to the entire period from Aug. 7, 1 U 3, to the date of tho approaching adjournment. Only On < Longer Session. The second session of the Fifty-third Congress, including the first, or extraordinary session, lasted over 350 days, a record exceeded only by the first Congress, which held a session of 431 days and the Twenty-seventh Congress, which transacted business for 375 days. Compared with other long sessions of a Congress, the session just ended has not ben prolific in the enactment of important measures, a though it has accomplish' d much that would ordinarily have attracted greater attention had not the tariff been the all absorbing qieston. line of the most important acts of the session, passed by a strictly party vote, was the act re] ealing all laws creating federal supervisors of elections or defining their powers. Appropriation bills, which are of first importance, wore no exception in that upon them has been engrafted general legislation. The postoffice department bill the first to pass, authorized the I ostmaster General to allow postmasters of the fir. t and second class to disburse at their discretion the amount allowed their offices and admitted to mails publications of benevolent and fraternal societies as second class. The pension bill regulated fees and methods of examining boards, the paval bill empowered the President to fill certain vacancies and prescribed the methods of appointment to naval schools by the Secretary of the Navy. Several measures were enacted in accordance with recommendations of the I Dockery commission ■ so-called > for improving and amplifying the methods doing government business. Most important, were those changing the method of auditing accounts in the Treasury department, improving the method,; of accounting in the Postoffice department and changing the money order system, and that regulating the making of property returns by o.i cers Of the government. Appropriations. The diplomatic and consular bills changed several salaries. Nothingim- , portant was attached to the lortifications bill. The agricultural bill provided for distribution of seeds. The river and harbor general deficiency and sundry civil bills have not gone to the Pres dent. One der eiency bill contained legislation relating to suspension of pensioners w thout thirty days' notice against them. Five deiiciency bills have been nece sary during the session. The first was for 'tIZV.OM for treasury janitois and custodian< and $200,010 for mileage for members. The second, signed the same day, included $745,000 for the treasury, $300,010 for customs service, $200,000 for pension service, $300,000 for the census, and $200.000 for public printing. The third carried a total of $770,00.). the fourth $1,451,01)0, and the fifth bill $310,000 for various departments. Two resolutions appropriated $50,d00 and SIO,OOO for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act. approved Dee. 7, 1893. and Ap il 4, 1894. As most of the appropriation bills had not passed at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, it was necessary to extend by resolution all appropriation ) for the necessary operations of the Government, for pensions, and for the District of Columbia. They were twice extended for thirty days and once for fifteen. Two special appropriation bills for salaries of employes were necessary, and one for the expenses of investigation ordered by the Senate. Miscellaneous Knactments* Prcvisii ns for the admission of Utah and the matting of the first Monday in September (I.abo • Day) a national holiday—largely at the instance oi labor societies—hieeame laws, and at the urgent request of scientific sccieties an act to define and o >tablish the units of electrical mea-;u; e was passed. Three bills were parsed to give effect to the Paris seal arbitration and another to regulate teal fishing. By re-.olution the Secretary of the Treasury was ordered to receive and place t > the credit of the Cherokee nation $ >,74 for the Cherokee outlet and the Secretary of the Interior to settle agents' accounts with Delaware Indians. Several special acts for printing rejort. were passed and ado en laws of benefit to merchant marine were enacted. The acts pertaining to the judiciary i of tho United States were: To provide I for two additional associate justices of | the Supreme Court of Oklahoma,: for I the division of the Eastern District of Michigan into two divisions; to provid >. that a term of ths Circuit and District Courts of Vermont may be. held at Montpelier; that criminal causes in the district of Minnesota shall be brought and prosecuted in the division of the district in which the | ofienses were committed: to fix a term of the Districted Circuit Courts of the Southern District of Mississippi,

to be held at Meridian; and four other &ct& Bill* of Alt Kind*. Laws to require original receipt? for deposits of postma te<B to be sent to the Treasury Department, to authorize the Fourth Assistant Postmaster to approve bonds, to regulate inspection of boiler plates and their stamping, to redress an injustice to certain graduates ot Annapolis, to fill vacancies in the grade of assistant p&ymqsfers end to reclaim the wreck of the Kearsarge on ' Roncador reef were passed. A vast numbar of territorial and public lands bills were adopted, one of the latter extending to January, 1897, -the time within which persons may purchase rai'road grant lands forfeited to the government by the actof Sept. 29,1890. By joint resolution, officers and men of the army and navy were authorized to wear the government badge on occasions of ceremony; three members of the Board of Managers of the National Solders’ Home were chcsen. and the Secreta-y of War was authorized to restore to Michigan and lowa recaptured flags. Foremost in importance of the numerous bills which became laws was the act authorizing the New York and New Jersey Bridge Company to bridge the Hudson between New York City and New Jersey. After its first passage the bill was vetoed by President Cleveland, but an amended bill fina ly met his sanction. This structure must be built in ten years, not less than SI,OOJJ 00 to be expended on it each year, and $2,590,000 the first year. Acts were passed also to amend several bridge charters and to authorize the construction of numerous dams for various purpose?. In addition there were odds and ends of legislation, such as authorizing the World's Fair to confer diplomas upon designers, artisans and inventors: the erection of the fire escape on the Government printing office and Maltby building, providing additional clerical iorce for the librarian of Congress, relieving emoloyes injured in the Ford Theater accident of the law restricting sick leave, and numerous others. House and Senate Calendars* About 800 of 1,500 bills acted upon were passed by the House and sent to the Senate, but owing to the extended debate on the tariff bill in the latter body they did not receive its consideration. The House adjourns, leaving about bOO bills on its calendar, half or which are of a general character and the remainder private claims. During this session of Congress there were sent to the Senate by the President 2,4fil messages containing nominations. Inasmuch as some of these messages contained more than are usual, notably in the case of military and naval promotions, a fair estimate of the total number would be 3,00.. Of these all were acted upon but about fifty. The most celebrated cases that resulted in rejection were those of Hornblower and Peckham, both of New York, nominated to be associate justices of the Supreme Court. During the session there were created five vacancies, two by resignation and three by death. Deaths and resignations have been numerous in the House during this Congress, numbering eighteen combined.

NATION’S NEW TARIFF. Kate* of Duties Upon a Number of Great Commercial Staple*. The new tariff law places the following rates of duty unon the great staph s which have teen the bones of contention: Ail raw sugars, 40 percent ad valorem; sugars above Na IB (refined), % per cent additional: sugars produced in bountypaying countries. 1-10 percent additional to these rates. Hawaiian sugar is still free under the reciprocity treaty. Iron ore, 40 cents per ton; pigs, $4 per tin; iron or steel rails. 7-20 of 1 percent per pound; lead ore and d-oss, % of 1 per cent per pound; silver lead-bearing ore, tne same duty as on the lead contained therein. Tobacco for wrappers, St.so per pound u "stemmed; $2.25 stemmed; cigars and cigarettes. 84 per pound and 25 per cent nd valorem. Coal, bituminous and large slack, 15 cents per ton. Precious stones, cut and unset, 25 per ce.tt. ad valorem ; set, 30 per cent. ; uncut, 10 percent. ; glaziersand miners' .diamonds free. Logs and sawed lumber and timber (save | tropical woods) and wood are free. Tin plate, 11-5 cents per pound after Oct. 1. Marble, rough, 50 cents; dressed. 85 cents per foot (cubic). White and red lead, 1% cents i er pound. Under the internal revenue sections of the bill playing cards are taxed 2 cents apa kage. An income tax of 2 per cent, on incomes above $4,000 is | provided for: also a tax on corporations !of 2 per cent. Whisky is taxed at ‘ sl.lO per gallon and the bonded period i fixed at eight years. ! The following is a statement of average al valorem rates of duty of the i McKinley law and the new law, on a number of principal items, as compiled iby the Treasuiy Department. Wherever duties aro specified in cither bill i they were reduced to ad valorem rates I for purposes of comparison: Me Kin- Senate Articles. ley bill. bill. Camphor, refined 12.20 10.00 Sumac, extract of 23.24 10.00 I Epsom salts 38.3( 25 51 I Castor oil 1 0.35 43 s 7 | Cod liver oil 28.65 20.00 1 Opium, prepareu for smoking 169 65 84.82 ; Chromium colors 30.84 -0.66 Ocher 19.04 16.37 Sienna 21.14 17.62 Un ber 25.10 21.f0 Spirit varnishes 69.66 09.56 All other varnishes 35.00 25.00 Whiting, dry 142.48 71.24 Ground in oil (putty)...,... 189.60 91.75 White lead 59.21 29.60 Nitrate ot potash 21.32 10.66 Bi carbonate of soda 60.47 30.24 Bi-chromate of soda 20 00 25 00 Strychnia, or strychnine.. 91.79 70.34 Sulphur, sublimed 28.66 '.0.00 Sutuac, ground 19.81 10.00 ; China, painted, etc 60.00 35.00 1 Plain <6.00 to.oo Bottles, empty 70.17 so.oo Filled 71.48 62.63 I Demijohns, empty 37>1 28.43 i Manufactures of glass .. .. 60.09 35.00 ■ Cylinder glass, poll-hed. I nnsilvered 20 to 64 13 to 48 Plate glass, fluted, etc 49 to 64 37 to 43 Plate glass, unsilvered, cast, etc 98 to 174 68 to 122 Plate glass, cast, silvered, above 24x60 49 ."9 31.28 Cylinder and crown glass. silvered 43.83 27.79 Spectacle lenses 60.00 36.00 Stained or painted window glass 45.00 35.00 Roofing slate 4>.co 20.00 Iron ore 42.77 22.77 Iron in pigs etc 26 to 41 15 to 21 Scrap iron 47.83 28.47 Scrap steel 43.00 25.59 Bar iron ~..|... 25 to 63 16 to 32 Bars of rolled iron 61.77 44.93 Boiler or other plate iron or steel 54.00 25.00 Rails of steel 58.24 33 99 Sheets of iron or steel,common or black 25 to 70 20 to 55 Tinplates 78.44 42 32 Tin. manufactures of 56.00 35.00 Steel ingots, etc 29 to 50 20 to 40 Wire rods 34.00 21.67 Cast iron vessels, etc 26 97 17.98 Malleable iron castings.... 31.83 16 37 Hollo w ware 35.33 23.65 < hains 47.28 30.00 Firearms..... 41 to 80 30.00 1 ,NailS 23 to 45 2.1 tO 30 Railway fish plates 72.18 25 00 ■ Hand, back and other saws 40.00 25 00 'Screws 47 to 111 33 to 67 Wheels 83..2 41.86 Plates, rolled, braziers, copper 35.00 20 00 Gold leaf 44.87 30.00 I Silver leaf 77.88 30.00 I Lea I sheets 36.65 18.33 1 Nickel.. 23.77 14.26 1 Gold pens 30.25 25.00 . Penholders and parts 0f... 30.00 '.5.00 Pins 30.00 25.00 I Zinc, in sheets 29.19 1i.69 I Manufactures ot metal ... 45.00 35.00 , Shooks and boxes 30.00 20.00 Casks and barrels 30.00 20.00 Blocks ot wood 85 00 25.00 Rice, cleaned lll.M I 83.h0 Uncleaned *4 19 u.ra

Oranges. lemons, and lime* 12 to 31 12t03) Comfits, sweetmeats, etc.. gj.oo 30.00 Nats, not shelled (almonds) 51.34 30.80 Shelled (almonds) 42.42 28 28 Elberts (not shelled) 62.90 35.20 Peanuts 1 unshelled) 72.86 20.00 Extract of meit 17 95 15 00 Spirits, distilled 91 to 367 65 to '-64 Cotton cloth, not oyer 100 • threads, not bleached.;.: 35.17 26.53 Bleached 38 t>o a 0.54 Dyed, colored, etc 40.80 80.54 beached.....:." 42.89 32 39 Bleached 43.27 36 00 Dyed, etc 43.84 £8 84 Cables, cordage and twine. 16 to 31 10 to 20 Bagging for cotton 32.52 free Woolen yarns 278.66 to.uo Shawls, woolen, not above 4u cents per pound 136.00 35.00 Blankets 80 to 104 35.(4) Hats ot wool 86 to 105 35.00 Flannels, not over 60 cent* per pound 85 to 104 25 to 30 Silk, partially manufactured 60.50 20.00 Silk webbings, gorings. etc 50.00 45.00 Silk buttons to.oo 45.00 Silk dress goods 50.00 45.00 Silk ribbons 60.(0 45.00 All other silk 60,00 45.00 Writing, drawing and other paper (n. s. p.).. 2'.00 20.00 Dolis and other toys 33.00 25.00 Emeiy 25.19 20.15 Fire-crackers; 147.32 60 00 Coal, bituminous 21.72 12 12 Slack, or cnlm of coal 28.68 14 34 Coke 20.00 15.00 Matches 33.93 20 00 Haircloth, known as crinoline cloth 27 99 20 99 Haircloth, known as hair seating 03.22 15.48 Leather, bend or belting and sole 10.00 10.00 Calfskins, japanned 30.00 20.00 Leather, all not specially provided for 10.00 10.00 Boots and shoes 25 00 20.00 Manufactures of Indiarubber 30.00 25.00 Umbrellas, covered with silk or alpaca 56.00 45.00 Burrstcne. manufactured. 15.00 free Composition metal, copper 6.49 free Plates of copper, not rolled, etc 11.80 free Cider 18.52 free Binding twine 6.47 free Paintings, in oil or watercolors 15.(0 free Statuary 15.00 free Hatters' plush 10.00 free

WORE BLOOMERS LONG AGO.

The Woman After Whom the Dress was Named Living in lowa. Not many pople know how the name of Bloomer came to be applied to the style of woman 8 dreis sometimes called the divided skirt. Mrs. Amelia Bloom-

er, after whom the garment was christened, resided with her husband in Council Bluffs,their resid en c e to-day , being the one in which they took up their abode forty years ago, when Council Bluffs, now a city of 25,000 people, was a some-

AMBLIA BLOOMER.

what straggling vidage of 3CO souls. Mrs.Bloomer,nibwseventy-six years old, carries her years easily, her fifty-four years of married life having been unmarred by other than the fleeciest of temporary clouds. It was in 1851 that she began to wear the costume which is now known throughout the Englishspeaking wor das the boomer. She

was then liv.ng at Seneca Falls, N. Y.. where she was publishing a temperan c e paper called the Lily. A Mrs. Miller, who in 1851 pail a visit to Seneca Falls, appeared in the bifurcated dress, an:l Mrs. Bloomer published a description of it. She and Elizabeth

Cady Stanton adopted the style and advocated its general adoption. Mrs. Biooxer wore the costume on several lectu e trips, and in this way it became associated with and finally known by her name.

WHAT LO COSTS UNCLE SAM.

Nearly 810,000.000 Appropriated for Indian Affairs for 1895. A comparative statement of appropriations and expenses of the bureau of Indian affairs has been compiled by Commisdoner Browning. It shows that the total amount covered by the Indian appropriation bill for the fiscal year 18.4-1 was $7,173,440 and for 1895 •11),3c 8,880. The ditterence in amounts for designated ob.ects for the two years is as follows: 1894. 1895. Current and contingent expenses sl.-5,000 $187,100 Indian treaty obligations... 3,170,073 2,960,157 Miscellaneous supports and gratuities 660,125 669,124 Incidental expenses 121,5(0 114,000 Support ot schools 2.243,482 2,066,69' Miscel aneous expenses.... 915,540 803,777 Trust funds, principal 30,094 Interest 80,390 78,320 Payment for lands 406,336 2,467.697 Totals $7,873,440 $9,338,830 Excess over 1894 1,465,440 Although the object of the Indian appropriation act is 11 make appropriations lor current and contingent expenses of the Indian Bureau, and to fulfill treaty stipulations with various tribes. Congress has in recant years attached agreements with the various triles and latifiedthem i i a bill, which was formerly done by separate acts. Certain objects are also appro riated for every year under the head of miscellaneous, which are not pronerly considered part of the current expenses of the service.

CHINA IS SAFE.

An Anderson, Indiana, Chinaman Makes Haste to Heed His Country’s Call* A telegram from Anderson, Ind., says: “All the Chinamen in this city, it is said, have received official letters urging them to return to China to en-

ON THE WAT TO CHINA.

list in the national army. One ha 3 responded and the other four say they will as soon as they can dispose of their property.” C. P. Huntington has reopened negotiations with the Mexican government for the purchase of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Railway. The smallest bird in the world is the golden-crested wren.

A very curious temperance society exists in the Siberian village of AstiIyka. Every year, in September, the membeis meet in tho church and make a solemn promise to abstain from wine and spirits for a whois year. They also sign an agreement that any person breaking the pledge shall pay a fine of 25 rubles to the church, and submit to be spat upon by his more continent fellows. The most peculiar feature of the whole business, however, is that the members on tile one day of the year when the pledge ex’piies allow themselves wine and brandy during the few hours which intervene before the pledge for the ensuing year is made.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. For five hours Wednesday afternoon the Senate debated the question of proceeding immediately to the consideration of the House bill placing sugar, raw and refined, on the free list, tut no action was taken. The debate was marked by some ot the most sensational speeches of the session. In the House Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, recently appointed Minister to Russia, announced the resignation of bis commission as a Representative. Considerable interest was excited by the reading ot a resolution by Mr. Black of Illinois reciting the depletion ot gold In the treasury, and instructing the coinage catnmittee to report a bill privileged for the proper -use and avail” of the sliver In the treasury, and instructing the rules committee to report a rule for its prompt consideration. It went into the box in the regular order and was followed by a resolution from Mr. Talbert (Dem.), of South Carolina. for the free coinage ot silver, which wus referred to the same committee on motion of Representative Tracey (Dem.), ot New York. At the opening session of the Senate Thursday Mr. Hill received unanimous consent for the consideration of his bill to provide for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists It was passed without division. 'J he House bills admitting sugar, coal. iron, and barbed wire free were referred to committee. In the House, the deficiency appropriation bill was taken up for further consideration and Me Sayers’ motion to insist on disagreement on the Soul hern Pacific claim amendment was adopted. Unanimous consent was asked that the Senate substitute bill for the ex--elusion and deportation of alien anarchists. -which had justbeen received from the Senate, should be taken up for consideration. Objections were made by Messrs. Tracey and Warner, of New York. The bill was withdrawn and referred to the committee on the judiciary. The conference report on the general deficiency bill was reported to the House by Mr. Savers announcing an agreement on the Southern Pacific amendment, the Senate conferrees having receded. The bill to repeal the free alcohol clause In the tariff bill was passed. At 4:45 pm. the House adjourned until Monday. For fifteen or twenty minutes Monday the business of the Senate was suspended while the Sergeant-at-arms was sent in search ot an actual quorum. The four supplemental tariff bills were all reported from the Finance Committee and sent tc* the Calendar. Several bills were passed, among them the bill for the speedy prosecution of the United States against (he estate or the lute Leland Stanford. Less than fifty members- were present when the house met at 12 o’clock. There were the usual indications that Congress was on tbo eve of an adjournment. A bill appropriating 89.000 for an additional force for the Collection of internal revenue and 86,000 for carrying into effect the arbitration convention between the United States and Venezuela signed at Caracas in January last, was passed without objection. A bill was passed to Incorporate the Association of American Florists. 'I he Senate seams to have nothing to da There was not a quorum present tvhen the House began Its session Tuesday, but members sought to take up several measures by unanimous consent Senate bill allowing an additional 854.009 for the public building at Little Rock, Ark., and another authorizing vthe Secretary of the Treasury to allot rooms in the Government building at Meridian. Miss . for holdh court, were passed: also a resolution to print 20,000 conies of the tariff bill; also, on motion of Mr. Haugen, a bjll to grant to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a right ot «ay over the Chippewa and WhUe E rth Indian reservations. At I:2> o’clock the House adjourned until Thursday.

A Queer Temperance Society.

How the Snail Breathes.

The breathing operation in tho snail is one of the queerest processes imaginable, and is ca ried on without the least semblance of lungs. The orifice through which he takes his supply of “the breath of life” is, of course, called the mouth, notwithstanding that it is situated in the side of his great suckerlice foot. The process of breathing is not carried on with anything like regularity, as it is in most creatures, the mouth simply opening occasionally to let in a supply of fresh air, which is expelled by the same opening as scon as ihe oxygen nas been exhausted. The snail's peculiar mouth is pro ided with a tongue set with hundreds of fine teeth.

Injun Too Big for His Cell.

There is trouble on the Umatil’a Indian Eeservation became the cells in the calaboose are too small. The other day Swichiick, cne of thetal'estof the government wards on the reservation, was arrested, and he could not enter the door cf the guardhouse erect, and in the morning was found curled up like a spiral spring because the cell was not long enough for him to lie straight in. The Indian is seven feet tall, ani the Indian police think the government ought to build a new jail there. —Portland Oregonian.

A Tom-Boy Princess.

The Princess Maud of Wales is said to be known in her family circle almost exclusively as “Harry. ” because she is so playful and sportsmanlike. But she is also an excel ent cook and gardener.

Facts in Few Words.

Dresses are sold by weight in Japan. Lord Rosebery’s dairy farm in Buckinghamshire comprises 1,400 acres, on which he keeps 1:0 dairy cows, 880 cattle and 1,000 sheep. Joseph A. Calloway was admitted, to the bar in Green County, Missouri, recently. He is the only colored man entitled to practice law in that county. Next to her dolls, the little Queen of Holland values most a collection of wax figures sent from Batavia and clad in the picturesque peasant costume of the Javanese. WE can do more goed by being pood than in any other way.—Howland Hill. Canada’s divorces for the past twenty years have just been floured up, and they amount to only i ls ; . A combination of gas stcve manu- - facturers has bsen incorporated in Illinois with a capital stock of $-’,,"00,0J.'. IT has been figured out that a man who shaves regularly until he is 8U has. cut off about thirty-five feet of hair from his face. A resident of Indiana sold his vote for 81 last spring and is now suing his purchasers for »3(M> and costs. This is vermivaible under the Indiana law.