Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ,e..- ■. ■■ . T..’-.- ' r» RENSSELAER, ■ INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Another snowslide occurred at Silver Plume, Colo., carrying away all the buildings of the Seven-Thirty mine, together with several miners’ cabins and burying four men, two of whom huve been rescued alive.

Japan is selling arms to the Filipinos. United States Consul Wildman has induced the Chinese Government to impound 20,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cartridges stored at Nankin ready for shipment to the islands.

The stockholders of the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia have decided to issue $1,500,000 in thirty-year first mortgage gold bonds, nnd retire nil outstanding obligations.

Mattie Winston killed her husband with a shotgun in Lee County, Virginia. Her husband had been in the habit of whipping her and tried it onee too often. Mrs. Winston is an invalid. She left home after the killing. Immense damage has been done in the city of Manila by fires, which are believed to have been started by insurgents. The fire department experienced great difficulty in fighting the Humes owing to defective apparatus. The dead body of Mrs. Nancy L. Sargent, who was frozen to death during the recent cold snap, lias been found near Hanover, Ohio. Mrs. Sargent was a widow, nearly 80 years of age, and lived alone. Neighbors found her lying on a bed frozen stiff. Gov. Thomas of Colorado has sent a special message to the Legislature, urging legislation to prevent the consummation of the contemplated smelter combine or the formation of any trusts in Colorado. The Senate passed the anti-trust bill with but one dissenting vote. The new board of trustees of the Poshisha at Tokyo, .lajian, lias restored the former constitution of the university, thereby securing a continuation of the policy that prevailed before ’lie late board of trustees decided to ignore the Christian religion in the training of the students. Notice has been posted in all the plants of the Tomas Iron Company at Allentown, Pa., notifying the employes that their wages have been advanced 10 per rent. This is the first order increasing wages that has been issued in the Lehigh Valley for many years. Potts Bros, will increase puddlers’ rates to $2.50 per ton in their big mill at Poltstown April 1. Other employes will ulso receive an advance in their wages. Particulars of the killing of George Wilson of Colorado by three Mexican highwaymen have roaehed El Paso, Tex. The murdered man was a civil and mining engineer in the employ of the San Pedro mine, 125 miles southeast of El Paso. A posse of Mexican officers started in pursuit of the murderers. The fugitives headed north and cut the telegraph wire at Santa Sofia to prevent their descriptions preceding them.

The St. Louis Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in the case of the State for the use of 8. Beatty against J. It. Randall et nl., from Barry County, sustaining the lower court's decision that school teachers are empowered to preserve discipline among their pupils not only while the pupils are on the school premises, but while they are on their way going from their homes to school and in returning. In this case the son of Beatty refused to obey the school teacher, who told him to aecompan.v a pupil home, and was expelled from school. The School Board sustained the teacher and the court sustains the School Board. The American Car and Foundry Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $(10,000,000, half of which is common aud half 7 per cent, non-eumulative preferred stock. The company is a consolidation of these concerns: Michigan-Peninsular Car Company of Detroit, the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company of Berwick, l*a.; Missouri Car and Foundry Company of St. Louis, the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company of Jeffersonville, Ind.; Union Car Company of St. Charles, Mo.; Wells & French Company of Chicago and Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company of Terre Haute, Ind.

BREVITIES.

Gov. Roosevelt of Now York hns aflixod his signature to the hill to prevent the desecration, mutilation or improper use of the national flag. Isaac Hyman, a San Francisco clothier, was found dead in his bed, with the gas turned on. 'He was 53 years of age, and. about a year ago endeavored to end his life. In New York, Louis Wendel, well known as a manager of hotels and pluces of public amusement, has tiled a petition in bankruptcy. Inabilities $35,000, assets none. R. W. Jameson, member of Parliament for Winnipeg, Man., and for years Mayor of Winnipeg, was accidentally shot and killed at his home while handling a revolver. In response to a call by the women of Lexington, Ky., a mass meeting raised S6OO as an additonal reward for the capture of John H. McNamara, the murderer of Jacob S. Keller. R. J. Walsh, a Chicago real estate dealer, was shot and instantly killed by John Driscoll, one of his employes. The shooting occurred in the hallway just outside the office. Five shots were fired. R. W. Jameson, ex-Mayor of Winnipeg, Man., and present member of the dominion parliament for Winnipeg, was accidentally shot and killed by the discharge of a revolver in his own bands. Unknown men secured $4,000 of WellsFargo Express Company money from an express car in Cherryvalc, Kan., while the messenger was at breakfast. A number of young meu in Sacramento, Cal., are organizing a colony to settle on the island of Guam. They propose to engage in the raising of the staple products of the island. The Postofflee Department has shipped to Porto Rico 4,000,000 United States postage stamps, with the words “I’Orto Rico” overprinted on each. The shipment embraced 1,000,000 Is, 2,000,000 2s and (00,000 each of 5 atnd 10 cent stamps.

EASTERN.

' » Coal prices have been advanced from 25 to 35 cents a ton at New York. Fire in Auburn, N. Y., in the scythe manufacturing plant of David Wadsworth & Son, did $75,000 damage. At Norwich, Conn., Luther M. Kinney, a farmer, aged about 55, was found dead, buried in the snow near his home.

“Colinette,” a French historical comedy, was given a successful first production in this country by Julia Marlowe at the Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia. At Philadelphia, .Pa., the St. John Roman Catholic Church has been ruined by fire and water. , The parochial residence adjoining the church was destroyed. The Niagara Falls nnd Lewiston Railroad Company, otherwise known as the George road, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The company will be reorganized.

At Easton, Pa., Prof. Stephens, who has been on trial for a week pnst, charged with setting fire to Pardee Hull, Lafayette College, was found guilty, the jury being out only an hour. Albert Heysler, who murdered his wife nnd stepdaughter, died at his home in Burkettville, Me., from the effects of the paris green he had taken with suicidal intent. He never regained consciousness. Grief killed Alfred McVeigh ns he gazed nt the face of his dead mother resting in her coffin in the parlor of his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. lie pressed his lips to the cold forehead and fell upon the coffin dead.

The floating grain elevator Columbia, valued at $200,000, was burned to the water's edge and is now lying a total loss on the Hoboken, N. J., flats. She was

owned by the International Grain Elevating Company. Luther Chapin, founder of the senior order of United American Mechanics, died at his home in Philadelphia. He was 83 yenrs old. His organization, of the first lodge folio wed the native American riots in 1844. At New Brighton, Pa., the opera house block, together with Marshall’s dry goods store, Stuckey's drug store, Carr’s shoe store, the Daily News, Sehrupp's drug store and the National Guard armory, were burned. Loss $-85,000. While about a dozen firemen were at work in the ruins of the store of the Emerson Shoe Company in Philadelphia,, which was burned out, a mass of iron and stone crushed down from the upper floors, burying the men beneath it. Three of the firemen were killed. A dwelling house nt French Hun, thirtyfive miles east of Dubois, Pa., belonging to a woodsman named Carlson, was burned. Carlson was away. The injother had just time to grasp her baby nnd jump from a second-story window into the snow. She was then obliged to stand nnd witness the burning to death of her four other little ones, aged 12, 7, 5 and 2 years, respectively.

WESTERN.

Fire wiped out the business portion of Hunnewell, Kan. Ten buildings, with their contents, were burned. Advices from Northern Nehraska indicate that the winter wheat crop has been badly damaged by the recent cold snap. At Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. George R. Lucas, aged 22 years, died from the effects of strychnine poisoning. Her husband says it was an accident. At Kansas City, U. G. Gibson, 28 years old, was instantly killed nt the Rex mills by n large icicle falling upon him from the cornice of the building. The initial production of Max O’Rell’s new play, “The Price of Wealth,” was successfully giveu in the Detroit Opera House, with Olga Nethersole as star. Rev. Alfred Lee Brewer, a prominent Episcopal clergyman and founder of St. Matthew’s school for boys, died at San Mateo, Cal., of pneumonia. He was (]f> years of age. Gov. Lind of Minnesota vetoed the bill appropriating $20,000 to pay bounties on beet sugar, in accordance with the county law passed two years ago. He announced himself as opposed to bounties on principle. J. A. Aoklen, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been granted the privilege of maintaining a waterworks at Dawson City by the Canadian Government. Ho will tap the Klondike river spur miles above Dawson.

The Emmn furnace, the only one now owned by the Union Roiling Mill Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has been absorbed by the American Steel and Wire Company. The consideration is not made public. Lueien M. Chipley, aged 55 years, for years one of the best-known financiers of St. Louis, is dead from cancer of the liver. His son, Dean, recently died of fever contracted while iu the army at Chickam&uga.

11. H. Johnson, general manager of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company, died suddenly at his residence in Columbus, Ohio, from apoplexy. The deceased was one of the most prominent coal men in Ohio. W. H. Gresham, a nephew of the late Walter Q. Gresham, and who is a clerk in the St. Peter, Minn., postoffice, captured a burglar who was in the act of breaking into the postofflee and marched him to a police station.

At Joplin, Mo., a deal was closed involving $2,000,000. By it all of the Lanyon zinc smelters in the Kansas coal belt and natural gas belt pass into the hands of exGov. Flower and other New York capitalists and become a part of the smelter trust.

The St. Louis County Circuit Court assessed a fine of SI,OOO each against Charles Masom Richard Burke, Edward Fitzgerald, Isaac Cohen, Joseph Cohen, Charlie Brett, Fred Khel and Howard Ellis, poolroom operators. They claimed to be doing a legitimate telegraph business.

A Salina, Kan., man, whose is withheld, has enfered into an agreement with the Kansas Wesleyan University to' endow that institution with SIOO,OOO. He offers to give the money in 1000, providing that at that time the university is free from debt aud that it adds $25,000 to the endowment. A. L. Jennings, graduate of the law school of West Virginia University and former prosecuting attorney of Canadian County, Oklahoma, was convicted of train robbery in the Federal Court ’at Oklahoma City and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Federal penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Jennings was convicted of the robbery of a Rock Island express train at Chickasha, I. T. The train was robbed at midday and >a trainman was

mortally injured by the robber*. The gang of which Jennings waa the leader has been charged with numerous hold-up* and robberies. Gow-Ah-Sbenka, a leading member of the wealthy Osage tribe of Indiana, was found deffd at Salt Creek, Ok. He fonght with several young Indians in the Indian dance house the evening before, nnd they beat him over the head, let him lie where he fell and he froze to death. The Oaages have no fixed punishment for murder, and the compensation to be received by the family of the dead warrior from his slayers will be fixed by arbitration. Susie Moore, a young girl at HutchinKan., has been arrested and held to the grand jury ns an accessory to a murderous assault on John Gallup by Charles Cook. Cook and Gallup were rival suitors for the girl’s hand and she refused to choose between them. She declared that she liked them both equally well and that they must fight it out between themselves. They met one night and fought it out in Miss Moore’s presence. Gallup’s skull was fractured. Cook was arresked at once and Miss Moore was arrested later.

Thomas O’Neil, a butcher, employed at Swift's packing house in South St. Joseph, Mo., was literally cut to pieces fey his two younger brothers, Edward and Jack. The men lived together, Thomas being married. They had a dispute over money matters, when Edward and Jack attacked Thomas with butcher knives. The dead man was stabbed twice in the heart. His head was badly cut and his body is covered with knife wounds. Edward was badly cut in the head. Jack O’Neil is a one-legged man, and has no fingers on one hand. He says he did the killing in self-defense. Cracksmen gained an entrance to the vault of the Oberlin, Ohio, Banking Company between midnight and 3 o’clock the other morning. The robbers connected the trolley wire of the Cleveland, Berea, Elyria and Ohio Electric road, which runs directly past the bank, to a drill machine to operate on the outside door of the vault. After forcing this door they inserted a big charge of powder nnd blew the interior of the vault into a thousand pieces. The walls on all sides were badly shattered, plaster was torn off and the vault doors were blown over twenty feet out Of their settings. However, no money was secured, ns the robbers failed to get intq the big safe, evidently for lack of time. The papers and books inside .the vault were damaged beyond redemption.

SOUTHERN.

John W. Funston, of Champaign, 111., nnd John G. Green, of Bolasco. Mexico, were asphyxiated in a room in New Orleans Friday night. Fire at Stamping Ground, Ky., dbstroyed G, G. Carl & Co.’s furniture store, George Duvall’s grocery, the large warehouse of A. Ford, Dr. C. Lewis’ drug store, and the postoffiee. At Clarksburg, W. Va., the Lucas coal lands, including 4,000 acres lying on the west fork of the Monongaheln river, have been sold to the 11. C. Frick Coke Company of Pittsburg for SOIO,OOO. Dr. Thomas J. Buffington, aged 78 years, and Miss Fannie Conrad, aged 17, both of Baton Rouge, were married at New Orleans. Dr. Buffington has been married twice before, both his former wives being aunts of the present bride. The residence of Douglas Sherley, the former leader of Louisville’s fashionable set, was damaged by tire to the extent of about $12,000. The residence and fur*, nishings, which were very costly, Mr. Sherley being a collector of rare bric-a-brac, were fullly covered by insurance. The death sentence imposed upon Private John N of wit, Company 11. Seventh United States volunteer infantry, convicted of murder by a court-martial, held in Camp Haskell, Macon, (!a., has been commuted by the President to dishonorable discharge from the army and imprisonment for life.

WASHINGTON.

The President has nominated Ernest P. Goodrich of Michigan, Leonard M. Cox of Kentucky and Alfred C. Lewerenz of Michigan to be civil engineers jh the navy. the Department of State at Washington has been informed in a cable from Consul General Gudger at Panama that a compromise has been effected with the strikers at Colon and work has been resumed. Recent advices from there said that the situation was critical and that a revolution might be a possible outcome if the strike continued.

A definitive agreement for the adjustment of the debt of the Central Pacific Railroad to the Government has been made between the Government commission and the bankers representing the railroad. It is understood the plan contemplates the payment of $58,000,000 to the Government in semi-annual 3 per cent notes, the last expiring ten years from date. These notes will be secured by; a deposit of Central Pacific 4 per cent bonds.

A decision of considerable general interest has been delivered by the United States Supreme Court. With three justices dissenting the court held that a State has the power to compel a railroad to stop trains at certain cities prescribed by State statute. The ease was brought against the Michigan Central Railroad Company by the State of Ohio, which had passed a law providing that if the railroad ran three trains a day through certain towns they should be compelled to stop for passengers. The railroad contended that this was interference in interstate commerce. Justice Harlau, delivering the majority opinion, said a contrary ruling would enable the railroads to build up the great cities of the East nnd West at the expense of the small places on the way.

FOREIGN.

Felix Faure, president of the republic of France, died at Paris of apoplexy after an illness of three hours. A high authority at Madrid estimates that the next Spanish bndget will show a deficit of 325,000,000 pesetas. A serious conflict lias taken place between the Russians and Chinese at Tnlienwan, 300 of the latter being killed. The fighting originated over a question of taxes. The London Standard’s Berlin correspondent says that no request from America for the recall of the German officials in Samoa has been received in Berlin, and that none is expected. It has been decided at a Spanish cabinet council to liberate the Filipinos wh p had been deported to the Caroline and Ladrone Islands, in order to influence the. Filipinos to release the Spaniards they hold prisoners. ' El Comerdo of Havana publishes a 0

long article calling upon Cabans aai Spaniards to unite against the American*, who, it says, are “grasping all.the possibilities of the island, to the exclusion of the natives.” During the recent festival of Bairam, at Constantinople, Oscar Straqs, the American minister, insisted upon the custom house being opened to clear a cargo of flour from the United States. His request was complied with, but the incident caused great annoyance in Turkish circles. The Persian gulf mail steamer, which has just arrived at Bombay, brings news that a British ultimatum has been presented to the Sultan at Oman, owing to his having leased to France a coaling station on the coast of Oman, which is a semi-independent state in southeast Arabia. Oman is considered to be under British protection, as the Sultan has been receiving a subsidy from Great Britain. It is officially announced at Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, that the Mexican Government has decided to offer a big subsidy for a railroad across the Sierra Madrc range from Chuichitpa, in the' State of Chihuahua, to Huisopa, on the Sonoro line. This line will save from four to five weeks in getting troops across the mountains and incidentally prove a great blessing to American prospectors who hare located large deposits of precious ftniuerals.

IN GENERAL.

The Uuited States refrigerator steamer Celtic sailed from San Francisco for Manila via Honolulu. She carried a large amount of supplies for the Uuited States forces.

Options have been secured on the leading smelter plants of the country, according td a Wall street report, preliminary to forming a trust with a capital of $50,000,000. The steamer Olympia, about to sail from Tacoma for Manila, has an unusual cargo in the form of 350,000 American made cigarettes. The paper used in the wrappers came from China. At Manila there are all kinds of tobacco and ail kinds of cigarettes except American. The Anglo-American commission has agreed upon the establishment of a permanent international court or tribunal, similar to the interstate commerce commission, for the adjustment of disputes that may arise from time to time affeetirg commerce nnd transportation between tae United States and Canada, The annual conference of the National Association of American Rabbis, w'iieh was to have met March 13 nt Boston has been transferred to Cincinnati oa the same date. It will continue one week. Tljis change was made because the birthday anniversary of Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati, its president, falls on March 14. Engineer J. T. Jones has returned to Juneau from a surveying trip over the Taku trail to the Atliu district. He surveyed the site of a new town, which will be called Taku. It is advantageously located on Taku bay, four miles above the mouth of the Taku river, about twentyfive miles from Juneau, and is expected to become the ocean terminus of a railroad in which Eastern capitalists are inlerested. This road is to traverse the Atlin mining district and will extend to Teslin on the route to the Klondike country. The lack of a commercial treaty with Spain, the former treaty having been terminated by the war, is not altogether preventing trade between the two countries, although American products arc handicapped by an additional 20 per cent duty in Spanish ports owing to the lack cf a treaty. Still, even uuder these conditions. United States Consular Agent Mertens at Valencia reports to the State Department that there is a great demand for American wheat. A cargo of 4,000 tons of red winter wheat which had just arrived there proved entirely satisfactory, and importers were willing to receive more.

Bradstreet’s says: “Following the longcontinued cold wave, culminating in heavy snow nnd sleet storms and inclement weather'generally throughout nearly all sections of the country, come reports of reviving spring trade and of efforts to ascertain the extent to which material interests have suffered. All things considered, the damage so far indicated, while serious in some sections, has proved less than might have been expected, in view of the severity of the visitation. Exception is, of course, made in the case of the winter wheat crop, from which trustworthy reports as to damage are not forthcoming at this early period of the year. From the South come reports of more serious damage, particularly to the growing fruit and vegetable crops. Even here, however, permanent daninge. aside from the reported loss of the unpicked cotton, seems to be centered in the States of Georgia, Florida and Louisiana.”

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 -to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2,35 cto 37c; oats. No. 2,27 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, choice light. $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to SG.OO; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; corn. No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 70c; corn, No. i mixed, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2,02 cto 64c., • Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 82c to 34c; rye, 02c to 04c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33;c oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 57c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 51c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $9.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.0(1; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.26. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 86c to 88c; buster, creamery, 10c to 23c; eggs, Western. 23c to 24c.

CONGRESS

The House on Friday finally passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, to which it had (Jevoted over a week. No important amendment had been adopted. The Speaker's ruling upon the motion to recommit the bill, with instructions to incorporate in it the Nicaragua canal amendment, was sustained—lss to 90. A bill was passed authorizing the President to appoint five additional cadets-at-large to the naval academy. The evening session was devoted to private pension legislation. The naval personnel bill, for which the Navy Department has been contending for so many years, was passed by the Senate. It was under discussion for several hours, but was passed practically in the form in which it was reported by the The remainder of the ilny’s session was devoted to passage of bills on the private {tension calendar, seventy-four in number, and to the reading of the Alaska code bill. The Senate spent most of the day Saturday on the posioffico appropriation bill, but failed to complete it. An echo,of the old star route developments was heard when several Senators criticised the method by which a combination of speculators secured the star route contracts. Several bills of minor importance were passed early in the day. The House spent two hours upon the naval appropriation bill without making any progress. The remainder of the session was devoted to eulogies upon the life and public services of the late Representative Northway, of Ohio. The paragraph in the bill relating to the naval academy, against which Mr. Mudd (Rep., Aid.) raised a point of order, was stricken out, the point of order being sustained. Mr. Mudd then moved additional appropriations or $729,000 for the completion of the buildings nt the academy authorized in the last naval bill.

During almost six hours Monday afternoon the postoffice appropriation hill was under discussion in the Senate, the time being consumed largely by Mr. Butler (Pop., N. C.) and Mr. Dettigrew (Sil. Itep., S. D.l in an amendment providing that the postal commission should present its final report to Congress by March 1, 1900. Failing after many trials to obtain unanimous consent for the insertion of the amendment in the bill, Mr. Butler permitted it to come to a vote. It was defeated 27 to 19. Mr. Hawley, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, moved to take up the army reorganization bill, unanimous consent having been refused to take up the measure without displacing the unfinished business —the antiscalping bill. Mr. Hawley’s motion prevailed, 44 to 20, this making the army bill the unfinished business. A separate bill appropriating $20,000,000 for payment to Spain under the provisions of the treaty of Paris was passed by the House ui*U*r suspension of the rules. The Senate oill to reimburse the Governors of for expenses paid by the States in organizing volunteers for service in the war with Spain before their muster into the service of the United States also was passed under suspension of rules. The bill appropriating $500,000 for the Pan-Ameri-can exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y„ in 1901 was before the House, when absence of a quorum compelled an adjournment.

Formal discussion of the Hull-llawley army reorganization bill was begun in the Senate Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Hawley and Mr. Warren, Republicans, supported the measure, anil Mr. Mitchell aud Mr. Cockrell, Democrats, opposed it. while Mr. Proctor, Republican, addressed the in favor of some amendments which he had proposed to ike bill. The postofflee appropriation bill was laid before the Senate and its consideration was resumed. At 2 o’clock the debate closed anil the voting began. Mr. Butler's amendment reducing the amount paid to railroads was defeated, 45 to 15. The bill was then pnssed. The House reached .the last page of the naval bill and adjourned with a point of order pending against a provision fixing the price of armor plate at $545 per ton. Much of the time was occupied in debating the amendment offered by Mr. Mudd (Rep.. Md.) appropriating $720,000 to complete the three buildings authorized to be erected nt the naval academy at Annapolis. The Housasadopted the amendment, 75 to 53. The House on Wednesday inaugurated the custom which has prevailed for many years in the Senate of listening to the reading of Washington’s farewell address on Washington’s birthday. Two hours were devoted to the naval-appro-priation bill. The consideration Of thO naval bill was suspended to allow the members of the House to pay to the memory of the late Senator MorriU of Vermont. The session of the Senate was devoted to two special orders—the reading of Washington's farewell address, an annual custom of the Seuate on Washington’s birthday, and the pronouncing of eulogies on the late Senator Justin 8. Morrill of Vermont.

Telegraphic Bre[?]ties.

Uncle Sam gets something over $30,000,000 a year in taxes out of tobacco , The “thoroughbred department” of the great Stanford stock farm at Palo Alto, Cal., is to be abolished. The Memphis Cotton Planters’ Journal reports that a cotton grower in Mississippi has traiued 200 African monkeys to pick cotton. Don Carlos, in a letter, forbade his adherents from attending the Spanish Cortes while the peace treaty is under discussion. Anarchy and rebellion are said still to prevail in Samoa. The provisional government persists in interfering with British subjects. Emperor William of Germany has issued an imperial decree announcing hia gratitude to God for allowing him to complete the fortieth year of his life and the tenth of hia reign. The British steamship Grange wood ran ont of coal when 300 miles from Halifax, and in order to reach port nsed her cargo of beet sugar for fuel. The sugar was worth SOO A ton. Smallpox is said to be epidemic in Fulton and Izard counties, Ark., and the surrouuding towns maintain a shotgun quarantine against them. The disease also exists in ievernl other counties.

How to Avoil Shrinking Underwear.

UU .‘w-SPi No greater personal discomfort can be borne than the wearing -of Underwear which la hardened and drawn up in washing. Yet If care be gird* the work the trouble may be prevented. Impure soap, and too hot water are responsible for much of the ruin wrought in wushing woolen aj£l silk goods. When ready to begin, fill a tub half full of warm water, iu which dissolve a fourth of a bar of Ivory soap; wash the articles through it, rinse and squeeze, but do not wring. Hang on the line, while still damp press with a hot iron. By this washing the garments will remain soft and white.

ELIZA R. PARKER.

The B [?]ble.

Though the Brlvle is the most widely translated of all books, It Is said that there are still 300 languages into which not even fragmeoW of it have been done.

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