Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Page 2

gfjejcmotrotic Sentinel •I. W. McEWEN", Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

CHARLESTON’S EVENT

GREAT GRAIN CONGRESS TO BOOM TRADE. Interests the Entire South and West —Election Results at Chicago—Outrages Upon American Missionaries in Turkey-Measles at White House. Will Boom Trade Interests. Interest in rhe coming South and West grain congress is becoming general, and the assemblage in < ’harleston. S. < .. promisee to be a large one. It will be composed of prominent business men of the South and West, and the resuit of their deliberations must be the improvement and extension of trade and business relations. All the railroads south of the Ohio and seat of the Mississippi river will be represented, either by their presidents or vicepresidents and traffic managers. It is also expected that promiifent officials rtf several of the trunk lines between the Ohio river and Chicago will be in attendance. Interesting addresses by practical men from different sections will be delivered. TURKEY INVITES WAR. Reported Imprisonment of the Rev. George C. Knapp. Advices received at Constantinople Tuesday from Diarbekir indicate beyond any reasonable doubt that Rev. George C. Knapp, one of the American missionaries at Bitlis. is confined in the jail at Diarbekir, capital of the vilayet of that name, in Turkish Armenia, and that serious international complications are more than likely to follow. At the first intimation of trouble the United States charge d’affaires, after communicating with the porte and receiving the unsatisfactory reply cited, cabled to Washington for further instructions, and it is now said that the United States squadron in the Mediterranean. consisting of the flagship Minneapolis. commanded by Admiral T. O. Selfridge, and the cruiser Marblehead, will shortly assemble in the Gulf of Iskanderun, and at the same time a formal protest Against the treatment of the American missionaries may be made to the porte, coupled with the demand for adequate indemnity for the damage recently done to the property of Americans. The imprisonment of Rev. Mr. Knapp is understood to be but a preliminary to the expulsion of all the Christian missionaries, mostly Americans. English and French Catholics, from Asiatic Turkey, and, possibly, from European Turkey as well. Besides, it is rumored that the agents of the American Red Cross Society, now distributing relief funds in Asiatic Turkey in the presence of local Turkish officials, are also to be expelled from that part of rhe empire. LITTLE ESTHER SICK. President Cleveland's Baby Girl Attacked with Measles. Measles has suddenly appeared in the President's household, little Esther Cleveland being stricken with it. This infantile disease has been almost epidemic in Washington for some time past and al! precautions have not availed to prevent its spread. Private Secretary Thurber’s children have all had the disease in regular course, and to prevent the possibility of its transmission to the White House Mr. Thurber absented himself from his own domicile. But this sacrifice was of no avail, for the eruption suddenly appeared on little Esther Cleveland, marking her as the first victim at the White House. Orders were sent to Woodley, the President's suburban residence, to put the place in shape for the immediate reception of the family, and Mrs. Cleveland. accompanied by all of the children, left the White House to make their home at Woodley until the disease shall have run its course.

Chicago Elections. The town elections witbin the borders of Chicago Tuesday resulted in the election of the entire Republican ticket by decreased majorities. About 50 per cent of the total vote was polled. In the aldermame elections party lines were generally disregarded. A bitter fight was waged to prevent the re-election of boodle aidermen, and regardless of party the Civic Federation and the Municipal Voters' League indorsed thirty-three men. candidates in twenty-seven wards. Of these, twenty-tivo were elected. There now remains in the Council, of men who are known to be thieves and boodlers, only twenty-seven, of whom all but five are hold-overs. The entire Council numbers sixty-eight, so for the first time in many years Chicago has a Board of Aldermen the majority of whom are believed to be honest.

Hotel Fire in Springfie'd, Ohio. Guests of the Arcade Hotel, at Springfield, 0., were roused from slumber at midnight Friday by a bellboy, who raced through the halls announcing that the place was on fire. Owing to the warning, every one escaped and took refuge in adjoining houses for two hours, by Which time the fire was put under control. The flames were confined to the dining room on the second floor and rooms on the third floor. By fire and water the loss is about $5,000, fully insured. Photographs by Stove Light. Profs. F. W. Bushong and W. H. Foulks, of the Emporia, Kan., College, exposed a sensitive plate for nine hours to the light emanating from an ordinary coal stove and a perfect photograph was obtained of three substances taken through the wooden cover of the plate case.

Hangings in England. During the last three months there have been more hangings in England than in any one year for the last decade, and this despite the fact that Home Secretary Ridley, who is sentimentally opposed to capital punishment, has been unusually prolific in granting reprieves. Shaft for Silver Mining in Indiana. The presence of silver ore among the Lick Creek bills, in Wayne County, Ind., has been known for several months, but only recently has a company sunk a shaft nearly 200 feet Seventy Insurgents to Be Shot. A dispatch from Havana says: The court martial is busy in various parts of Havana province, and death sentences were recently passed on seventy captured insurgents, who will soon be shot. Falls to Instant Death. Thomas Wharton, Sunday editor of the Philadelphia Times, fell from a fourth•tory i window of the house- in which he lived and was instantly killed. Leaves No Relatives Behind. Peter F. Conkling died near Middletown, N. Y., Thursday, aged 106. AH his relatives are dead.

SHREWD SWINDLE UNMASKED. Alleged Inventor Finds Many Victims to Invest in a Patent. A scheme to defraud which extended to various cities throughout the country, and in which a number of people in all those cities fell victims in varying sums, including $1,200 by an Atlanta investor, has been discovered by rhe patent office officials. The scheme is the sale of a part interest in an alleged thill-coupler invention, the purported inventor disappearing after taking the purchase money and leaving all the expenses for the investor. Twelve different applications from eleven cities, accompanied by drawings which show that they were all made from the same aluminum model, are already on file in the patent office, and the name of the inventor varies in ea<h case. Most of the victims bought a half interest in the invention. A singular feature is the fact that punishment can only be made after proof that the operator had sold an interest in more than the whole of the patent, and to prove this would mean the gathering of three men from three of these cities, in view of the half interest generally assigned. Even then the operator could be prosecuted only on the petty charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. ROBBED AND SHUT IN A BOX CAR New York Man Tells of Long Involuntary Journey. William S. Hale, proprietor of the Maple Lawn farm near Syracuse, N. Y., who disappeared March 3, has turned up in Minneapolis, Minn., with a strange story. Ho claims he was sandbagged in the Central Railroad yards at Syracuse, bound ham| and foot, robbed of $240 in cash and throjvn into a box car. For three days and lights he lay without food or water. His hands grew thin and he slipped the ropes off, managed to open the car door, and, when the train slowed up, jumped out. He crawled to a farm house gnd learned that he was near St Cloud, Minn. For three weeks he was cared for by a farmer's family, and then, having regained strength, walked seventy-five miles to a point where he sold a mackintosh and obtained money enough to pay his passage to Minneapolis. He is now with his aunt, Mrs. James Loftus, still very weak and showing the effects of the experience, and it will be some weeks before he is fully recovered. WOULD BURN THEM ALIVE. Frenzied Mob Beleaguers the House of a Desperado of Concord, Ga. At Concord, Ga.. a tragedy occurred in which two men were fatally shot. About 7 o’clock in the evening Sheriff Gynn and a posse went to the house of Taylor Delk, a notorious desperado, to arrest him on a warrant for robbery and assault to commit murder. As the sheriff arrived at the door he was fired at through a window with a rifle. The bill passed through his left side. About fifty shots were fired. Sheriff Gynn was lying on the front porch begging for some one to come and get him when Mr. John F. Madden attempted to drag him off. He was also fired on, and the ball passed through both thighs, breaking both legs. A crowd of enraged citizens, thirsting for the blood of the desperado, surrounded the house and determined. if it was possible to take the trio of prisoners alive, their fate should be death at the stake.

CARLISLE STEPS OUT. Says He Declines to Be a Presidential Candidate. Washington dispatch: Secretary Carlisle declines to enter into a contest for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He has written a letter to the chairman of the State Central Committee of Kentucky in response to one from the chairman asking him to consent to the use of his name, declining to do so. At the same time the declination is not so forcible as to entirely remove Mr. Carlisle from the list of possibilities. In his letter he says: “The convention ought to have no difficulty in selecting an acceptable candidate who will fairly represent its views, and, in order that its deliberations may be embarrassed as little as possible by the contentions of rival aspirants and their friends, I think my duty to the party will be best performed by declining to participate in a contest for the nomination.” TO WRECK A CAPITOL. Men Attempt to Undermine the State House at Jackson, Miss. An attempt was made Wednesday night to wreck the State eapitol at Jackson, Miss. At 10 o’clock, while Secretary of State Power was engaged in his office at the eapitol, he heard a noise outside. Going to the window, he saw several men digging at the wall between the door and a window. His appearance frightened away the men, and an investigation showed that two pieces of stone, about 2 feet square, had been removed from the wall. Had the work gone on a little longer, a section of the wall about 4x20 feet would have fallen, thus wrecking the whole building. Strenuous efforts were made during the recent session of the Legislature to provide for a new building, but nothing was done in the matter, and it is thought some miscreants took this means of securing immediate action.

“SCOOP” EXPLODED. Budding Newspaper Man Satisfied that Price Is Dead. An idle rumor that Rhys R. Price, who died at Hutdhinson, Kan., and was buried at Topeka in December, 1894, was seen alive in Europe caused the family to open a vault which contained his body that it might be publicly identified. Mr. Price was one of the World’s Fair commissioners from Kansas. He developed the salt industry at Hutchinson and perfected an organization among the manufacturers. He owned life insurance amounting to $90,000, which has all been paid except a $25,000 debenture policy, due in twenty annual payments. A young reporter, eager for fame induced the family to open the vault and prove to him that the body was there and so prevent the publication of a disagreeable story. MR. CLEVELAND’S DECLINATION. ecretary Lamont Says He Never Heard of the Letter. Secretary Lamont, when asked concerning a published statement that he had in his possession a letter from President Cleveland declining to be again a candidate for the presidency, and urging the Democratic party to stand for sound money and its previous position on the tariff question, said the statement was absolutely untrue. Secretary Lamont added: “I never have heard of such a letter.” From another and unquestionably excellent source of information it is learned that the published statement is absolutely without foundation and that no such letter has been written by the President. SPANISH MINISTER’S DENIAL. . utuor that United States May Send Squadron 1 o Barcelona. In Madrid a rum >r is in circulation to the effect that the (United States would send a squadron t< Barcelona If Spain continued her naval preparations against Cuba. The rumor u s so persistent that the following minist rrial denial has been issued: “The ministry emphatically deny that there is any foundation for the rutwr that internatk nal difficulties have arisen which impede the sending of a

squadron to Cuba or the arming of transatlantic cruisers.” It is said two of ’these ships will start immediately with their full armament. Dun <St Co’a Review. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The regular quarterly statement of failures shows 4,031 with liabilities of $57,425,135, against 3,802 last year with liabilities of $47,813,083 and 4,304 in the same quarter of 1804 with liabilities of $64,127,343. The average liabilities were $14,246, against $12,577 last •year and $144100 in 1894. Manufacturing ■failures were 833. against 651 lasUyeftr, with liabilities of $23,507,326, against $20,223,991 last year,, increase 16.2 per cent; but the decrease in comparison with 1894 is 16.4 per cent. Trading failures were 3,118, with liabilities of $31,424,312, against $25,979,894 last year; increase 20.9 per cent, but in comparison with 1894 the decrease is 6.9 per cent. The ratio of defaulted liabilities to payments through clearing-house was $4.45 per SI,OOO, the average for the previous ten years having been $3.27 and the average per firm in business was $47.48, against $38.64 for the previous ten years. The main increase over last year has been in manufacturing failures in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky and in trading failures in Texas and Minnesota, owing to two recent large defaults. Banking failures have been 51, against 36 last year, but with liabilities of only $4,751,972, against $12,482,537 last year. More than half the entire banking defaults were in Northern States, west of the Mississippi. The improvement expected with spring weather begins, though in some branches of business scarcely visible. The backward season has been a hindrance, as has also been the number of hands unemployed in important industries, and the low prices of farm products. The gigantic steel combination is expected to have a great influence in sustaining markets and stimulating confidence and, though such operations often miss the success they seek, they rarely fail to kindle speculative buying for a time.” Displeased with Hie Audience. Robert Mantell was displeased with his audience at St Louis Thursday night, not because of its lack of appreciation, but on account of its small size. It was an enthusiastic audience, however, and after the curtain fell on a particularly stormy scene there was a demand for a speech. Mr. Mantell responded with his accustomed cheerful alacrity. He thanked the audience, but commented caustically upon its meager proportions, saying he supposed he would have to take his company to Europe before it would be considered good enough for the American public to patronize. No Distilleries for lowa. The bill to allow the manufacture of liquor in lowa was defeated in the Senate Thursday afternoon after twelve hours of debate, running through two days. The bill received twenty-two votes, including the seven Democrats; there were twenty-seven against it, and Healy, who was the only absentee, sent the request that the record be made to say that had he been present he would have voted against the bill. Secures the Cairo Short Line. An important railroad deal was consummated in St. Louis by which the Illinois Central secures control of the Cairo Short Line and thereby will have a through line to the South and control an entrance to St. Louis. The Central was given a ninety-year lease for the payment of a dividend of 2% per cent per annum. Terrible Disaster. The monitor Huascar, fresh from the new drydock in Talcahuano. arrived in Valparaiso, Chili. Scarcely had she cast anchor when a dreadful disaster occurred on board. Without warning the main steam pipe of the engine burst, killing eight of the crew aud probably injuring nine others. Singer Sues the Evangelist. The pay due Sam Small, the evangelist, from the W. 0. T. U. for his series of lectures at Bellaire, Ohio, was attached by Park H. Heaton, the singer, for salary due him when traveling with Small in 1894. The evangelist wanted to argue from the pulpit with the lawyer. New York Sand Yields Gold. Another test of five tons of.sand taken in Gloversville, N. Y., has been mSde. The sand was found to yield more gold than the first lot. The first showed gold to the value of $6.20 per ton and platinum to the value of 41 cents to the ton, making a yield of $6.61 to the ton. Price of Nails Goes Skyward. R. C. Patterson, of the Newcastle Wire Nail Company, is authority for the statement that as a result of tthe steel billet pool wire nails will be advanced 25 cents per keg. This will make an advance of 40 cents within the past two weeks. Robbed on a Mission of Mercy. James Hyde, proprietor of Hyde’s comedians, was knocked down and robbed of $2,130 at Louisville, Ky. He was enticed to the spot by a negro who begged him for help for his children. Wealthy Orphan Missing. Miss Chloe Ruehlen, a wealthy orphan, aged 22 years, of Bellefontaine, 0., who arrived in Denver a week ago, left her lodgings to take a car ride Sunday and has not since been seen

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2,19 e to 20c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 36c; butter, Choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, freah, 10c to 11c; potatoes, per bushel, 15e to 25c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per. ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; Sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 68c to 70c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 3Oc; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 37c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, Njo. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 29° to 21c; barley, No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye, No. 1. 37c to 39c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. « Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No-.. 1 hard, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Wasteru. 11c to 12e

IS NOW MRS.HARRISON

MRS. DIMMICK IS WEDDED TO THE EX-PREbiDENT. Ceremony Is Modest Enough to Please the Groom and Beautiful Enough to Charm the Bride-Only a Few Gueata Are Bidden. Simple Services. The marriage of ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick took place in St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church. New York, at S3O o’clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown officiating. Two hours later they had left New York, and before noon the next day the bride was installed in her new home at Indianapolis. This, the most notable wedding of rhe year in the light of its interest for the whole country, was the quietest. Not more than thirty persons saw the ceremony. and fewer still were bidden to the post-nuptial collation. Only the immediate relatives of Mrs. Dimmick and the lifelong friends of Gen. Harrison who had borne with him the burden of a national government were there. All the members of his immediate family were conspicuously absent. Mrs. Dimmick was given away by her brother-in-law, Lieut. Jahn F. Parker. U. S. N„ and Gen. Harrison was supported by Gen. B. F. Tracy. ex-Secretary of the Navy. Two ushers. E. F. Tibbott, the ex-President’s private secretary, and Daniel M. Ransdell, sufficed to seat the guests. Gen. Harrison's ingrained repugnance to anything approaching publicity in relation to his private affairs extended to his matrimonial plans. It mattered not to him that the whole country would read eagerly every detail touching the marriage of one who had walked so many years in the public eye, and who had served in office at the head of the nation. He want-

SAINT THOMAS’ PARISH CHURCH. (In which Ex-President Harrison was married.)

ed a quiet wedding, and Mrs. Dimmick was of the same mind. Hence it was that the few bidden to the ceremony were asked to keep secret the hour. Gen. Harrison left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, accompanied by Gen. Beujamin

MKS. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

F. Tracy, in a close carriage, at 5 o’clock and was driven to Rev. Dr. Brown's house on Fifty-third street. They passed through the house to the vestry, where they awaited the coming of the bridal party. The bride left the home of her sister, Mrs. John F. Barker, 40 East Thirty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John F. Parker, who gave her away. They arrived at the entrance at 5:20 o’clock and proceeded to the tower room, where the bridal procession formed. They proceeded to the chancel, where Gen. Harrison, accompanied by his groomsman, Gen. Tracy, received his bride. The ushers, standing to one side, faced the altar as the bride and groom stepped forward to the altar rail, where the rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, Dr. George William Warren, organist of the church, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin,” and during the entire ceremony playing very softly Mascagni’s intermezzo in the “Cavalleria Rusticana.”

That portion of the matrimonial service known as the marriage service proper, the recital of Which lasts only about fifteen minutes, was used, and immediately the blessing was pronounced Gen. and Mrs. Harrison, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker and Gen. Tracy, Mr. Tibbitt and Mr. Ransdell, Lieir. Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walk'd down the aisle to the strains of the “Tannhauser” march of Wagner, and eitering the carriages waiting at the entnnce the bridal party was driven to the esidence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Gram,mercy Park, where light refreshments vere served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip to Indianapolis. Hundreds ofvaluable presents were received by the ouple. Col. E. S. Ferguson sent a stiver service; ex-Secretary Tracy’s friendy sentiments were embodied in a silver ish service; Gen. and Mrs. Morton sent I silver fruit basket; ex-

Secretary Whitney «ent two handsoma compotiers for bonbons. The present of the bridegroom was a magnificent string of pearls. The Bride's Life Story. Mrs. Harrison, who is a small but very graceful woman, of rather dark complexion, and of a very bright and attractive appearance, is related to Gen. Harrison through his late wife, who was her aunt. She was born in Princeton, Pa., where most of her younger life was spent. Her mother's marriage to Russell F. Lord proved an unhappy one. Soon after

BENJAMIN HARRISON. [From his latest photograph—Copyright by Pach, New York.)

the war Mrs. Lord left her husband and joined her father, Dr. Scott, at Indianapolis, Ind., the two daughters going with her. After the return of his daughter to his home in Indianapolis Dr. Scott was caljed to Springfield, 111., to take charge of a Presbyterian institution that is now known as Concordia College. Mrs. Lord and her children accompanied him. In 1875, when Dr. Scott left Springfield, Mrs.

Lord, with her two children, moved to Princeton, N. .1., where for five years Mrs. Dimmick attended a Princeton day boarding school managed by Mrs. Moffitt, wife of one of the professors of the theological school. Later she attended the female college at Elmira, N. J. It was in Princeton that Mamie Lord became acquainted with Walter Erskine Dimmick. and two years later they ran away and were married, their efforts to reconcile their relatives to the union having proved unavailing. Young Dimmick was the son of Samuel E. Dimmick, one of the leading lawyers of northern Pennsylvania, whose large fortune was left to his three sons. Their honeymoon was hardly ended before Mr. Dimmick was stricken with typhoid fever. His young bride nursed him with such devotion and tenderness as only the noblest natures can put forth. Day and night she was at his bedside, but the dread disease was relentless, and on Jan. 16, 1882, three months after marriage, Walter Dimmiek died. After the death of her mother, in 1890, she went to New York city to live with her sister, Mrs. John F. Porter. She spent some considerable time at the White House during Gen. Harrison’s administration, and was a great favorite with her aunt, the kite Mrs. Harrison.' General Harrison’s Career.

Gen. Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, 0., in August,' 1833. He is a grandson of W. H. Harrison, eighth President of the United States. After graduating from a law school in 1853 he was married in Indianapolis to the late Mrs. Harrison. In 1860 he was elected official reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana. In 1862 he raised a regiment, the Seventieth Indiana, went into the field

HARRISON'S INDIANAPOLIS HOME.

as colonel and served through a number of important engagements with distinction. He was breveted brigadier general before the close of the’war. On his return to Indianapolis at the close of the war he was re-elected official court reporter. One year later he returned to the practice of law, and in 1876, when the regular nominee withdrew shortly before the election, the nomination was forced upon Gen. Harrison for the governorship. He was defeated by a narrow majority. In 1880 he was elected to the United Statqs Senate from Indiana and served one term, and in 1888 he was ejected President of the United States.

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House—Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch-Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. The House spent Tuesday considering the sundry civil bill and fair progress was made. Effort was made by some of the Southern representatives to strike out the appropriation of $50,000 for the pay of internal revenue informers, but s t was unsuccessful. The expected debate on the resolution for a Senate inquiry into recent bond issues did not take place, as Mr. Peffer gave notice that he would defer his motion. The postoffice appropriation bill, carrying $93,000,000, was considered in prfrt, but not completed. A sharp debate on mail subsidies arose, Mr. Vilas opposing an extension of the subsidy system, while Senators Perkins and White of California upheld them. Senator George's speech in opposition to MY. Dupont’s claim to a seat occupied most >f the day and was not completed. Ocean mail subsidies brought on an animated discussion in the Senate Wednesday during the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Vilas opposed subsidies, and pointed out many instances of what he declared were excessive payments for mail service. Mr. Perkins of California energetically defended the subsidies for their encouragement to American shipping. The subsidy item was reserved for a separate vote. The balance of the postoffice appropriation bill was completed. Senator Call of Florida introduced in the Senate a joint resolution directing the sending of an adequate naval force to Cuba to put an end to barbarities and the violation of treaty obligations. The House continued consideration of the sundry civil bill. The House Thursday passed the sundry civil bill, and wasted a lot of time in acrimonious debate of the question of appropriating public money for private or sectarian institutions. The postoffice appropriation bill served to bring out some sharp discussion in the Senate on the propriety of abolishing country postoffices and absorbing them as branches of city offices. The bill authorizing the lighthouse board to proceed with the building of the lighthouse at North Manitou island, Lake Michigan, was passed. The House bill granting the Atchison and Nebraska and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railways a right of way through the Sac and Fox and lowa Indian reservations in Kansas and Nebraska was passed. The Senate then went into executive session and soon after adjourned until Monday. Speaker Reed made an important ruling in the House Friday which will have considerable bearing on legislation in the future. He held that a majority of the ’members of the House who are living at the time any question of a quorum comes up shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The majority of the constitutional membership, he holds, is not necessary to constitute a quorum. This is a reversal of the ruling made by Mr. Reed in the Fifty-first Congress. A bill to authorize the construction of a third bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis was considered. The river and harbor appropriation bill was finished by the House committee, which has been working on it most of the session. The total amount carried by the bill is a fewthousands less than $10,000,000, or about $1,000,000 below the bill of last Congress. There are also provisions for contract works to the amount of $01,000,000. The Senate spent the entire day on the postoffice appropriation bill, but did not complete it. After a brief but very spirited debate the House passed the river and harbor appropriation bill. The action was taken under suspension of the rules, in spite of the vigorous protests of the minority against the continuing contract system. The opposition was unable to muster votes enough, however, to call for the yeas and nays on the suspension of the rules.

Western Hospitality.

People In the Eastern cities know not the meaning of the word “hospitality” as it is written in the dictionary of the Western ranchman. “Why,” eaid Senator Warren, of Wyoming, discussing some of the characteristics of the Western people, with a representative of the Washington Post the other day, “I would regard it as a personal insult if I went to a house on any ranch and found the door locked. The first impulse of the average Western man on such an occasion would be to break the door down.” “But how about locking up when the inmates go away?” Senator Warren laughed. “It would make no difference at all,” he said. "We all go on the general supposition that a man traveling through the country is hungry. If he has any food in his haversack, and finds nobody at home, he goes in the house, takes possession of the kitchen, and cooks his meal. If he has nothing, he helps himself to what he can find. He does it as a matter of course, and the family would feel that he was worse than a dude if he declined to share with them even the smallest bit of food that they happened to have in store.”

A Curious Barometer.

One of the most curious of the many natural barometers consists of a halfpint glass half full of water, a piece of muslin and a leech. The leech must be put in the water and the muslin tied over the top of the glass so that the creaturecannotgetoutagain. When fine weather is to be the order of the day the leech will remain at the bottom of the water, coiled up in spiral shape, perfectly motionless. If rain is to be expected it will creep to the top of the glass and remain there until there is a likelihood of more settled weather. If there is to be a storm of wind it squirms about in the water with violence. For some days before thunder it occasionally moves its body in a convulsive fashion. In frosty weather it behaves in the same manner as in fine weather, and it foretells snow In the same manner that it does rain.

Mother Day.

A curious old custom still prevails at Girard College, Philadelphia. Wednesday last was "Mother Day,” and there were over 1,000 visitors to the institution. This day is set aside for either the mothers or nearegt relatives of the students to call and make their request of the management for the relief of the boys on holidays. This time it is for Easter, which means four or five days of vacation for as many as have relatives or friends to make application.

Lassalle, the baritone, has set up a cement manufactory at Chantemelle on the Seine. He attends to the business himself, and has been made mayor of the town.

QUEEN OF THE CARNIVAL.

Miw Arthemise Baldwin-One of th* Sweetest Maida of New Orleans. . One of the sweetest maids of New Orleans is Miss Arthemise Baldwin, who was crowned queen of the recent Mardl Gras in the city near the delta. She 1* the daughter of Albert Baldwin, preaident of the New Orleans National Bank. Miss Baldwin looked a real queen and certainly never did a real queen wear a more gorgeous coronation robe, a pretty picture of which was made by Illustrated American. This gorgeous robe was of the richest white satin embroidered with gold thread and jewels. Around the bottom of the skirt were five large coronets, wrought out of seed pearls and jewels. Above them was a rich appliqueof palest green velvet couched in gold thread and with the design picked out in. amethysts, sapphires, emeralds and other glittering jewels. The corsage was cut round in the neck and the entire front was covered with the same exquisite jeweled embroidery. Huge puffs of satin-

MISS ARTHEMISE BALDWIN.

formed the sleeves and on them the rich design of the skirt was repeated. About the neck was a costly medici collar, thickly studded with jewels on both sides until it formed a glittering mass of gems. From the shoulders, fastened by gem*, hung the court train of royal purple velvet, deeply bordered with ermine, and lined with heavy white satin. The train, three yards long, was richly embroidered with fleur delis, wrought in the same jewels as those used in embroidering the gown. About her white throat she wore a superb necklace of diamonds, a jeweled girdle spanned her waist, on her head she wore a crown and in her hand she bore * scepter.

GENERAL KITCHENER.

Man Who Leads the Anglo-Egyptian Expedition Up the Nile. Gen. Kitchener, who is in command of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition in the Soudan, is an able soldier and well fitted to be head of the enterprise by which it is hoped to reconquer East Soudan, nowunder the rule of the mahdi. He is the sirdar of the Egyptian army, and the expedition will consist chiefly of Egyptian troops. The native forces will bo strengthened by 1,200 British troops, Who will be under the command of Gen. Henderson, staff major of the army of occupation. The native army will be commanded almost exclusively by British officers. The force will march up the Nile, passing through the two Dongolaa (old and new) on their way to Berber, and there will be fighting unquestionably at Dongola, where the mahdi has been collecting a strong force, to which he will add in anticipation of the approaching trouble. After Dongola is captured it will be made the base of operations against Berber. Twelve thousand

GEN. KITCHENER.

Egyptian troops are on the advance already, and there is need for some alarm, for the dervishes are reckless fighters and scorn danger, believing, as they do, that If they die fighting they will be at one* translated to the paradise of the koran. It is said that the purpose of the expedition is to assist Italy by this diversion near Abyssinia, but this is not believed. On the contrary, there can be no doubt that the sole purpose of this great undertaking is to re-establish British supremacy in the domain of the fanatical successor of the late prophet. The territory sought to be reclaimed for Egypt comprises Darfur, Kordofan, Senaar, Taka, th* Equatorial province and Bahr-el-Ghazal. It was, until 1882, under Egyptian rule. In that year the revolt of the mahdi made it free. After the mahdi’s death one of his lieutenants succeeded, and, with Omdurman as his capita), has since ruled over most of the territory. The khalifa still holds several of the prisoners taken at Khartoum. Last year France was said to have sent an expedition to the Soudan, but nothing has been heard of it.

PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

Increase for the Month of March Is Given as $5,274,780. The monthly statement of the pubHo debt shows the debt, less cash in the treasury on March 31, to have been $942,342,- ’ ncreas ® over last month of $5,. 2 i 4,i80, which is accounted for by an increase of $14,209,522 in the amount of bonds delivered during the month, payment for which had been made previously. The increase in the cash during the month amounted to $8,934,741, making the net increase $5)274,780, as stated. The debt is classified as follows: Interest bearing debt $837,404,140 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity... 1,659,510 Debt bearing no interest... 37L920 351 T0ta151,213,984,001 This, however, does not include $562,909,253 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by ail equal amount of cash in the treasury. The cash in the treasury is given as follows- "? 1d 5171,885,709 “ Ilver 508,930,744 Paper . ... 165,952,143 Bonds, disbursing officers’ balances, etc 28,200,349 Total ... $874,969,947 Against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $603,327,198, leaving a net cash balance of $271,641,748 including the gold reserve.

News of Minor Note.

Patrick McGuinness, 90 years of age, was burned to death in a fire which stroyed his home at Middletown, N. Y. James and Frank Tillman and Lucy Law were instantly killed by a rock crashing through the house where they were sleeping at Echo, W. Va.