Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — Page 6

JASTCMWSTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. KEBSSEUUK, - - - MDIAWA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The Ixmdon Daily News' Rome eorri--tpondeDl s«y* Ihe works of Prof. Schell, the German theologian. hare been put on the index expnnratorius. S hell always supported the same principles as Father Hecker. The British steamer labrador, front St. John, N. B-. by way of Halifax, for Urerpool, went ashore on Skerryrore rock, off Tobonnory, a town of Scotland, county of Argylo, on the northeast of the island of Hull. All the passengers are safe. It is reported on gool authority that the interests of the Itoyal Baking Powder Company, the New York Baking Powder Company and the Cleveland Baking Powder Company have been sold to William Ziegler for between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000. The Sloss Iron and Steel Company, Birmingham. Ala., iiosted notices at their coal mines that beginning Wednesday the wages of their miners would be increased 2% cents per tou. The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company will grant a similar advance. Lord Hersehell. one of the high joint commissioners from Crest Britain, died at Washington. He fell on a slippery sidewalk and broke one of the pelvic bones several weeks ago, and this finally caused his death. Lord Hersehell was lord chancellor of Great Britain. A consular report from Cape Town. Africa, says that, reckoning on the basis of, the September reports of outputs. South Africa will, produce in the eutTent year sT(i.<'dTJ7Ti of gold, which will place South Africa ahead of all the gold-produc-ing countries of the world. The Chicago and Alton road is sold to , the Ilarrimau syndicate. A majority of the stock has been deposited, with the United States Trust Company of New York in accordance with the plan suggested by the syndicate and pledges have been given for the deposit of many more shares. Maj. John B. Guthrie, Fifteenth United States infantry, chief mustering officer for the State of lowa, has been relieved of that duty by the Secretary of War and ordered to proceed to Havana, Cuba, in connection with the work of inspection and completion of record of volunteer organizations serving in Cuba. Trouble continues between the opposing factious iu the Chinese quarter of San Francisco. An infernal machine was placed under a house iu Sullivan alley, bnt was discovered in time by one of the women inmates of the place, who extinguished the lighted fuse. It had the appearance of a dynamite bomb. At Quincy, Mass., the conference committee from the Grauite Manufacturers' Association and the Granite Cutters' Union failed to agree on a hill of prices and as an outcome about 1.2»¥) granite cutters struck. The cutters insist as a minimum price 30 cents an hour. The manufacturers offer 25 cents as the minimum. It is announced at Scio. Ohio, that the Allegheny Gas and Oil Company of Pittsburg, I‘a., has closed a deal with the United States Oil Cont|iany of West Virginia for'3oo acres of valuable oil” territory owned by the latter concern iu that field. There are twenty-three producing wells on the property, and forty-five more are being drilled. The gold commissioner at Dawsou. N. W. T„ has just made the important ruling that “a person who locates a claim and, after pros|iectiiig it. finds it a blank or nnprofitable. can make an affidavit to that effect and regain his right to locate again on unoccupied grounds in that district.” Heretofore a person lost his right after recording. Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia ha* vetoed the labor lieu bill, which allowed a laborer or employe a lien on material or property for unpaid wages, even when held by an innocent purchaser, and a hill taxing express companies SSOO a year for a charter. S2OO on every agent. 2 cents on each package handled and 2 per cent of the gattss earnings. Reports from the coal mining district in western Arkansas indicate that the wholesale walkout of the miners has liegun and that the biggest strike of recent year* in the Southwest is on. At the mines of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, in the territory, the 1.500 union miner's heretofore employed are out and their places are being filled as near as possible by 200 non-union meu.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Premier Ha past a aud the Spanish niiuistry hare resigiu-d. William B. I*epew, lirother of Chauncey M. Depew, is dead at Buffalo, aged 63. Queen Itanaralo of Madagasn-ar is being deported to Algiers by the French Government for political reasons. A 400-pound torpedo planted at the outbreak of the Spanish war drifted ashore near Norfolk, Ya., in good condition. At West Liberty. W. Va., three masked men entered the residence of Frita aud Henry Pape, beat v the two brothers in a horrible manner and robbed the residence of $5,000. Aa a consequence of the breaking up of the Atlantic steamship combine passenger rate* to Europe have been reduced to (50 and (75 first class and (37 and (50 second dam. Queen Victoria has abandoned her projected visit to the Kiviera because of newspaper attacks, which, she fears, might induce some half-demented person to seek her life. In a head-end collision lietneen passenger train No. 1, east bound, and a doubleheader, west bound, near White Plains. Nev„ four people were killed outright and one seriously injured. Frank G. Mortimer, formerly of Chicago. whose disappearance in Denver created a sensation and suspicion of foul play, has turned up in Ban Francisco. The Madrid Senate has, by a vote of 130 to 7, approved the motion of Marshal Martinez de Campos demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the ! recent war. A movement haa been set on foot in St. John's, N. F„ for an extensive reciprocity scheme between Newfoundland and the United States. It is regarded aa extremeCOm “ UsK>n ■

EASTERN.

William Reid was hanged In Jersey (Sty for the murder of Andrew Henry in Hoboken on May 14,1898. At Buffalo, N. Y., the EUieott Square Bank has closed its doors. The bank had a capital of $300,000 and was organized in 1891, Thirty Americans, under Col. Ausburn, formerly of Roosevelt's rough riders, are serving in the srmy of Provisional President Reyes in Nicaragua. A rival for Croker’s automobile company has been incorporated in New Jersey aa the New York Electric Vehicle Company. The capital stock is $23,000,000. , Maj. George W. Sauer, totally blind, his wife and two daughters were carried down the fire escape from the fourth story of the Klondike Hotel in New York, in a fire panic. The Brook Iron Company has posted notice at its works at Birdsboro, l’a., of an increase of 23 tents a ton in tbe wages of pnddlers, to go into effect April 1. The new rate will be $2.50 a ton. Gov. Powers of Maine has decided to call a special election for Juuc 19 to choose a successor to the late Nelson Dingtey, Jr., as a member of Congress for the second district of Maine. The conference of the representatives of the cotton manufacturers and the labor unions at Fall River, Mass., resulted in the manufacturers agreeing to advance wages on April 3 at the rate of per cent. One person was killed and thirteen otlii era injured in a head-on collision between two Pennsylvania Railroad trains near the Forty-fourth street bridge, Philadelphia. The accident was due to an open switch. Because two tending boys cheered for President Hayes of the Glass Blowers’ i Union at Bridgeton, N. J., the Cumberi land glass works are closed and 1,000 men and boys are idle. The two boys were discharged for cheering and a strike , followed. John Krebs of St. Clair, Pa., employed at Silver Creek colliery, was very seriously injured by the premature discharge of a dynamite blast. Two of his fingers were blown off, both eyes put out and he sustained frightful contusions about the [face and body. Four of the crew of the HamburgAmerican liner Bulgaria have been landed at Baltimore. They were trying to I launch a boat from the disabled- steamer : during a storm, when it broke adrift and 1 they were picked np by the steamship I Victoria. Nothing is known of the fate of the Bulgaria.

WESTERN.

Fire destroyed the entire business porf tion of Muskogee, I. T. Loss $500,000. A Michigan syndicate has been form--1 ed to erect a $500,000 hotel in Pasadena, Cal. [ At Columbns, Ohio, Alonzo B. Colt has resigned as colonel of the Fourth regiment. At Newark, Ohio, Miss Ethel Smoke ! sued William Emswiler for SIO,OOO for breach of promise. The California Legislature has passed ■ bill forbidding the publication of cartoons in newspapers. Judge T. A. Hurt!, aged 80 years, died of heart failure while sitting in his chair ■t his residence in Learen worth, Kan. The five-story building in Minneapolis, owned and occupied by the Tribune Publishing Company, was destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved. At Toledo, Ohio, Isaac D. Smead, the furnace manufacturer, who recently failed for $1,500,000, was discharged by the court. None of his creditors got a cent. A woman arrested for drunkenness, who gave her name ns Hattie Allen, committed suicide in the Cincinnati city jail after being sentenced to the workhouse. Mrs. Anna E. George, in Canton, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to the indictment against her for the murder of George D. Saxton, and her trial was set for April 4. Bruno Kirres, charged with killing his 18-year-old daughter with a shotgun, was found guilty of murder in the first degree ; at Dayton, Ohio. This sends Kirves to the electric chair. The monster smokehouse of the Jacob I)oId Packing Company, together with its contents of 00,000 pounds of meat, was destroyed by fire at Wichita, Kan. The loss is heavy. It is announced that the survey of the ; United States ship Topeka has been completed, and that it will cost $25,000 to put her in good trim. Of this amount SIB,OOO will be needed for structural work and SB,OOO for boilers. L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Mis- ’ souri Horticultural Society, has issued a statement in which he says that while the recent cold snap greatly damaged fruit in Missouri, the indications are that there will be a fair crop this year. On application of some of the stockholders of the Union Savings and Trust Company a receiver was appointed for the F. Tuchfarber Company, manufacturers of glass and other signs at Cincinnati. Liabilities $70,000, assets $175,000. The trial of J. M. Wallace, alias Daniel Jones, on the charge of forgery, was begun in the Crimiual Covrt at Cleveland. Wallace was charged with swindling the Citixens' Savings and I.oan Company out as $5,000 on a fraudulent mortgage. The trial was brought to an abrupt termination by Wallace pleading guilty to the chaise. Edwin T. Earl, who is thoroughly familiar with the California fruit trade, says: “The yield of oranges in the suothem part of the State this season is about 3,000,000 boxes. Of this number about four-fifths are being sent to Eastern cities. The financial returns to the orange growers of the crop will be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Got. Stanley has signed the bill through which the State Legislature aims to relieve Kansas from the exactions of the binding twine trust. The measure provides for the manufacture of binding twine by convicts in the State penitentiary, and appropriates $40,000 for installing a plant and $150,000 to be used as a fund to carry on the enterprise. William S. Foley, a 28-year-old farmer, was acquitted of the charge of having murdered his mother at their home near Liberty, Mo., in 1807. He is still under indictment, charged with killing his sister, but will probably never be tried on the charge. Foley’s first trial resulted in a hung jury. On the second he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but was granted a.new trial. In the United States Supreme Court an opinion has been handed down by Justice

Peckham in the case of the State of Ohio vs. Gen. J. E. Thomas, Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. The case was h prosecution against Gen. Thomas under State laws for failing to post a placard in the eating room of the home stating that olemargarine is used there. The court held that the State law was unconstitutional in its application to the Soldiers’ Home. The transcontinental fast mail known as the Union Pacific cast-bound flyer was wrecked at Wood station, 150 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo. The accident was caused by a broken rail. The engine and firin' four cars passed over safely, but the rear sleepers left the track while the train was running a mile a minute. One passenger was killed outright, and five passengers and two trainmen were injured. James M. White, the capitalist, is dead at Kenton, Ohio. Some time ago he built nil immense mausoleum aud fitted it up elegantly, and directed that his friends should come there and play cards and enjoy themselves after his death, adding that he could not take a hand, but he would be with them anyway. Mr. White was a thirty-second degree Mason, having been a member of that order for fifty-two years. The members of that fraternity from all parts of the State attended his funeral. He leaves a large estate to two daughters. In an explosion and fire at Hartford City, Ind., four persons perished and $40,000 worth of property was wrecked. A night policeman discovered fire in the rear of the Dick building and hastened to investigate. Just as he turned the corner into the alley there was a terrific explosion, which lifted the third floor of the building several feet nnd dropped it down on the second. Flames enveloped the Dick, th eWilliams and the Mason buildings. Four charred bodies were taken from the ruins. It is supposed the explosion was caused by escaping gas. In one of the most disastrous fires that has visited the union stock yards in Chicago for years one fireman was killed outright, two others were probably fatally hurt, and a fourth sustained severe injuries as a result of falling walls, while property valued at $200,000 was reduced to ashes. The fire started iu the ham and smoke house of Swift & Co., in the veffy center of the packing-house district. The building was totally destroyed, the flames being so furious at times as to get beyond the -control of the fire department, and threatening to consume millions of dollars’ worth of property.

SOUTHERN.

W. M. Scott, State entomologist, reports that the commercial fruit crop of Georgia was entirely destroyed by the recent cold wave. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has decided to fix May 3 and 4 as the dates for the dedication of the Kentucky State monuments at Chickamauga Park. Seven prisoners escaped from the jail at Tyler, Texas. Among the fugitives is Jim Nite, the surviving member of the Dalton gang, which robbed the Longview Bank in 1894, when two citizens and one robber were killed. The postoffloe at Pickens, Miss., which went out of existence as the result of the violent opposition of the citizens to the appointment of a colored potsmaster, has been re-established, and J. G. Webb, a white man, appointed postmaster. Texas is passing through an epidemic of meningitis. The death record in Fort Worth is thirty for the week. Reports from the country towns give a similar situation. Many schools have been closed on account of the ravages of this disease. The recent severe weather did great injury to one of the most profitable industries in Kentucky. Reports show that millions of bees were killed and that honeymaking has practically been exterminated in the State for several years at least. Senator Kimball has introduced a bill ip the Arkansas Senate for the erection of a new State copitol building. The bill provides that the cost of the new statehouse shall not exceed $1,000,000 and that State convicts may be employed in the performance of rough labor. J. W. Ingleby, an engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad, shot nnd fatally wounded J. R. Hayes, proprietor of the Hayes House, Hodgensville, Ky., and seriously wounded Robert Crcal, a drummer, in a saloon, and without provocation. Ingleby was under the influence of liquor. Two Chinamen were found dead at El Paso, Texas, in different parts of the city. Undoubtedly they died at the hands 6f a highbinder from San Francisco. Both were known to have been in perfect health the day before. No marks of violence were found on either of the bodies. President J. W. Springer of the National Live Stock Association, after a personal investigation of the condition of cattle in Texas, places the loss from the blizzards at 10 per cent. This is the most serious loss, he points out, since 188 G, when over 90 per cent of the range cattle perished.

WASHINGTON.

Levi P. Maisli, a former Pennsylvania Congressman, died in Washington of apoplexy, aged G 2 years. President McKinley has sent to the Senate the nomination of C. C. Kohlsaat to succeed Judge Grosscup as judge of the United States District Court of Illinois. The United States Attorney General has sustained the opinion of the judge advocate general of the War Department in the case of the Cortez brothers of Manila, and has notified Gen. Otis to turn over to the representatives of the Cortez family all of their property now held by the military authorities in the archipelago.

FOREIGN.

Faris police have arrested fire monarchists and seized documents being circulated in the interest of the Duke of Orleans. Six men were killed by a dynamite explosion at the Eiger tunnel works on the Jungfrau railway, Switzerland. It is supposed that the explosion was the result of an accident. According to the semi-official Hamburgischer Correspondence, the German foreign office, complying with a petition of Germans in Samoa, has requested the Washington Government to supercede Chief Justice Chambers. The officials of the British foreign office, in a statement, emphasize the fact that the Anglo-American commissioners displayed the utmost friendliness, aithongh they were unable to agree on the difficult problem of Alaskan boundary. The steamer Miowera brings news that a sensational discovery of opal is reported from Qpaiton, Queensland. The find is said to be ode of the biggest blocks of opal

ever discovered, its value being estimated between £7,000 and £IO,OOO ($35,000 to $50,000). Count Jean Bernard Rachberg-Rothcn-lowen, the distinguished Austrian statesman, formerly minister of foreign affairs, and the incumbent of other important administrative posts under Emperor Francis Joseph, died the other day in his nine-ty-third year. The officials of the German foreign office have notified the United States embassy that the Government will henceforth admit American oranges, lemons nnd raisins without examination, and also that ail American fresh and dried fruit will be allowed to pass in bond through Germany without being examined. The American residents in Chee Foo, China, have sent an appeal to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, requesting that a ship load of corn be sent for the relief of 2,000,000 Chinese in Shang Tung province. The unprecedented floods of the Yellow river have destroyed crops, and the immense population along the great river is on the verge of starvation!

IN GENERAL.

Grover Cleveland is said to be laying the wires to run for Fresident in 1900 on an anti-expansion platform. Two iceboats going at a high rate of speed came together on Hamilton bay, Ontario. William Holtbam was killed and several others were severely injured. Two boys were killed, another mortally injured and several others more or less seriously injured by a terrific explosion in one of the mixing-rooms in a building of the Nordlinger-Charlton Fireworks Company in Granitevilie, S. I. The failure of the joint high commission to reach an agreement has revived the question in St. Johns whether Newfoundland is not entitled to demand from the British Government the right to negotiate a fisheries treaty with the United States independent of Canada. The sailors of the American ship Erskine M. Phelps, which arrived at San Francisco from Baltimore, have filed charges of inhuman conduct against Capt. Graham and the first and second officers, Bailey and Moye. The men tell a pitiful story of starvation and cruelty. Brig. Gen. E. P. Ewers, now in command of a brigade of troops in the department of Santiago, Cuba, has been honorably mustered out of the volunteer army. He is lieutenant colonel of the Ninth infantry, regular army, and will join that regiment, which is under orders to proceed from Madison barracks, New York, to San Francisco, where it will be held in reserve for transportation to the Philippines. Three hundred Chinamen who have been sent from China like slaves to Mexico to work on the Mexican Central Railway tried to escape at Montreal ,Qqe. They made a determined rush with their sticks for the five railway station guards, while others started to break the windows. They yelled like maniacs. A general riot alarm was turned in and it took six wagon loads of police to subdue the Chinamen. The battleship Oregon arrived at Honolulu* twenty-three days from Callao. Owing to the long aud severe service in which she has been engaged, the wear and tear on her engines and boilers necessitated repairs, which took from ten days to two weeks to make. Capt. Barker did not think it prudent to take her into the harbor on account of the fact that 6he drew within two or three feet of as much water as there is depth to the harbor. In consequence she was anchored about a mile from shore. The Philadelphia arrived six days later, eleven days from San Diego. Her bottom was very foul and her progress slow. Bradstreet’s says: “Iron and steel and cotton goods have shared in public interest for a few days because of urgency in demand and consequent buoyancy in prices. In the former industry the striking feature has been the continued call for supplies niike of raw aud of manufactured material, not only on domestic but even on foreign account, nnd it is as yet too early to ascertain the effect of the numerous and heavy advances announced upon the export demand. In cotton goods, as in iron and steel and a number of other products, active export demand seems to have been at the bottom of the unquestionable improvement which has occurred in the last three months. The export trade in cotton goods is the largest ever known for the period since Jan. 1. Cereal products remain steady and but little changed in price. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,844,359 bushels, against 2,454,771 bushela last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,871,057 bushels, against 1,5G0,545 bnshels last week.”

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. 2,30 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c; hotter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 26c; potatoes, choice, 45c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, (3.00 to (5.75; hogs, choice light, (2.75 to (4.00; sheep, common to choice, (2.50 to (4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis —Cattle, (3.50 to (6.00; 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; oats, No. 2, 28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2, 57 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, (2.50 to (5.75; hogs, (3.00 to (4.00; sheep, (2.50 to (4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64c. Detroit—Cattle, (2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to (4.00; sheep, (2.50 to (4.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75e; corn. No. 2 yellotr, 35c to 36c; oata, No. 2 white, 32c to 83c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2;Jprhite, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 58c, clover seed, new, (3.80 to (3.86. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats .No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 1,57 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 51c; pork, mess, (9.25 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 (4.75; lambs, common to extra, (4.50 to (5.25. New York—Cattle, (3.25 to (6.00; hogs, (8.00 to (4.50; sheep, (3:00 to (4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 85c to 87c; corn. No. 2,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2 white, (7c to 88c; butter, creamery, 16c to 23c; egga, 'Western, 33c to 35c

ARREST OF MOULINEUX.

Belaud BamkM IbfiMO, soaaf Gea. Leslie Molineux of BraoUym, n arrested in New York charged with aaidniag Mrs. Katherine J. Adams in that city «aa Dec. 28, 1898. He eras locked «p in the Tombs prison. The arrest tdtosri the verdict of the coroner's jury accasimg him of the crime. While the inquest was into the death pf Mrs. Adams it also went into the rireaaastances of the death of Henry CL Barart of the Knickerbocker Athletic Csmh. who was poisoned by a powder received through the snail, as was Mrs. Adaazs. The cases are cJosriy csraKcted. The newspa iters from the beginning had stack to Molineux as the person most to be mpectcd, but the prosecuting officials apparently never harbored sack a tbowght.. The evidence which the district attorney produced may be stnmmarined thus: 1. Nicholas A_ Hecknaan posarivelridmtified Molineux as the man who mated one of his private letter boxes in the name of H. C. Barnet. 2. Miss Emma Miller, saleswoman, identified the silver holder in which the poison that killed Mrs. Adams was sent to Harry Cornish, and stated that it was sold to “a man” Dec. 21; the district attorney had previously proved that MoEnenx was in Newark Dec. 21. 3. Seven handwriting experts >Ara!ified samples of MoEnewx"* prams atship. given by him to the State's attorney, as identical with the writing on the package of poison sent to Cornish and in letters sent from private letter boxes in the name's of *TL CL Barnet” and ”H- Cornish.” These letters were to drag fimmsi, ordering powder medicines. Each of the seven experts was positive that all the writing had been done by one man, nnd that that man could be no other than Roland B. Molineux.

PASSES THE ARMY BILL.

Senate Adopts the Goron Amendment by o Dnaaimoai Vote. The army reorganization bill was passed by the Senate by a vote of 55 to IX Senator Hoar was the only RepabSseu voting against the measure. The amendment of Senator Gorman providing that all the increases of officers and men antliorized by the bill shall terminate July 1. 1901, was adopted by a vote of CS to 0l This was to some extent a victory for the opponents of the meosnre. and shows that Senator Hawley, who was in charge of the bill, found that be had to withdraw his determined objections to the Gorman amendment or imperil the passage of the Mil. Under the lull os originally drawn the standing army would be redwood on and a Ter July 1, 1991, to 38,*00 men. This meant an increase of lLbtl in the military establishment os it existed prior to the war with Spain. Senator Gorman was against this permanent increase in the standing army and his amendment was offered with that view. The army ball adopted by the Senate in no wise resembles the bill which the President derived. According to the Senate bill in two years the regular army mast drop back to 27,099 men.

The Political Pot

The Senate of Kansas passed a bfll giving the right of eminent domain to irrigation companies. A Missouri statesman has introduced in the Legislature a bfll requiring saloonkeepers to establish and maintain a home for inebriates. The estimated expenses of the city of Philadelphia for the year 1839 are $31.400,000, the chief item of which la for education, the police expenses being ss.100,000 and the fire department $L««t 000. The youngest member of the next Congress will be Martin HL Glynn, editor of the Albany Times-Unkm, who is 36 years old and sprung from the same m 3 in the town of Kindrrboot, N. Y~_ which produced Martin Vaa Boren and Bwnl J. Tilden. The proposed amendments to the osustitution of North Carolina provide that all persons claiming the right to vote shall be able to read and write any put of the constitution in toe English language. That disfranchises all illiterates. Then it provides that all males who on Jan. L 1867, were entitled to vote, and them descendants, shall be exempt from the tending and writing qualification. And that lets ia all illiterate whites. Tom L. Johnson, toe wealthy street car magnate of Cleveland, Ohio, and New Y ork, who helped to manage the caamugo of Henry George for Mayor of New York, has declared in a public jpcecfc that he has withdrawn from all has basin nm enterprises, has disposed of every cwfirthg interest and of every duty that would interfere with the devotion of his time, his entire energy, his tortune-in tort. Ms life—to the advancement of toe single tax idea. The Alabama Leghdatore has provided for the submission to the voters of that State of a proposition for the holing of a constitutional ronvention intended radically to alter toe present system of voting by toe establishment of an edacatiiaal qualification onto as now exists in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi. The suffrage ia Ala bases is ns m pewrtiraHy free, one year's residence in the Stale, three months ia toe county and thirty days in the voting precinct being ivqniied only. New York now has three resident messhero in the United States Senate—Depew, Platt and Clark of Montana. Senator Clark's palatial home ia New York City is ready tor occupancy. The formal initiation of Senator elect Depew into Washington fife Saturday was the wannest thing be went agninst in forty years. Four hundred nr when of No seats were provided to rest toe leads! even Chauncey was not pusshtsd to to

CONGRESS

The naval appropriation bill finally passed the House Thursday afternoon, after four day* of acrimooioßS debate, most of which was spent upon the question of rehaihel&tatiing the naval academy at Annap«E* in accordance with the scheme inaugurated by the appropriation of $500.00# in the last naval bill ami the proposition to increase the maximum price to be paid for xswmr plate to $515 a ton. existing law hniitLng it to S4OO. Upon both propsHsaitiwfflt* the Naval Committee suffered signal! defeats. The amendment to ktiild a great armor plant was ruled out «pw a point off order. During the entire Tesrion. mntil G o'clock, the Senate had raader consideration the river and harbor liffl- Good progress was made, eigiitynaasc pages having been disposed of. with the exerptfion off one amendment. A bill reported fran the Committee on Military Affairs permitting volunteer regin: ents to retain sheer eoßmjrs and to deposit them in the State capital* was passed. The Hffuse spent most of the- day Friday in general debate upon the army appropriation hill, finally closing that order off iwtsiasss. After a session of nearly eight bonis the Senate passed the river asad haib«w bill by the decisive vote of 50 to X The measure was under coasiderati:o® thronghonit the day, and on several of the cwaminnittee saaradaaraiß a determined fight was made, burnt in every instance the opgwfflsMM® availed, nothing. During the affterawmo Mr. Sew est CN. J.> delivered a speech in off the II till-Hawley army reocg-iuTat i-un biR, La committee off the wss?e oc Saturday the Hcase entered upon the further eonsaderatMsffl off the army appropriation bill, and it was read by paragraphs for amendment. Later in the day the House suspended peMk- business to listen to eulogies *l*sol she late Senator EL C. Walthall and Rcrreseffitative W. F. Love of ®H>«Affter a brag contest in th? Senate on Monday the compromise anuy bill was passed iim the evcuing by a vote of 55 to IX Afterward the Senate took up the wtadry civil hill and completed its reading. all the committee amendments Luring agreed to except those relating to the Dttrtrictt of Columbia. The House was in ress*Mn seven hours and sent to the Senate two mow appropriation bills—the army, which hr* be*» under consideration for several days. an*! the fortifications. The former carried about $7V* *>.♦**) and the latter approximate! $4,790.0)0. The final conference report upon the Indian appropriation bill was also adopted. Mr. Haser trefc. Iowa) asked unanimous eemsras for the consideration of the Senate joint resolution antborizing the President to appoint Oscar Detgaan. one of the heroes of the Merrimar. a naval cadet at Anna pedis. The resolution was adopted. A bill was passed appropriating SXW»® for the inrestigatioi* off leprosy in this conuutry taader a board to be selected by the srargrom general. Mr. Corliss (rep.. Mich.li stated that there were about 300 cases in the United State*. The Hcsase spent pvactieaEy the entire tunae off the seren-hodr session » n Tuesday passing the pablie brildtag bills favorably acted npom by the committee of the whole ten days before. Sixty-one bills teall were passed, carrying $9X52.00#, off which, however tthe amount appropriated for the New York custom honseit. is to be repaid from tke proceeds of the sale of the old bafldmg. A joint resslntion was passed to anthorixe foreign governments _desiring to make exhibits at s he rofflcmereial exposition to be held at FhtlndeSphia is ISO to bring into this ewantry foreign laborers tender contract to prepare the exhibit*. A frenzy off bill passing a was on in the Senate. The bin* passed were principally public building narasnres, and at times during the day and night the scenes in the Senate were remarkable. Bills carrying an aggregate of S&ffiNMMM or SKMMNMMW» wee? passed, and many more that had not been passed by both house* off Ceagresa were placed a* amendments on the sandry civil appropriation hiaL Finally, at a late hour in the evening, an amendment to the sundry rivd beffl was adopted, appropriating nearly sLri#oU#ot(ff for the peelimmarv work on the braiding* which had been authorized. The samndry civil bill was passed at 11:13 A* having hem technically under conritaratioiß thronghout the day and eveoThe lost pwswtbSity of aa extra session of Congress disappeared Wednesday when the Hense passed the Senate army reorgaaaiaatiMa talk The bill passed 2WS to XL The decks- were also cleared of many oehrnr iatpwrtamt matters The genT* tarrying off the rale*, wit hunt a triad off criticism. The Senate amendment* to the river an j hauriwaw biHl were nun rom qi m d in and it was amt to rmferewe*. The conference ******* an the nranihns claims bill the naval personnel and many other less important measure* were agreed to. The Senate bill making Dewey a M admiral was pawed. TV- naval appropriation bill, whftdh ordinarily ronsnmes the time of the Senate tor several days, was passed by that body after Its* than five hoar* of debate. One off the first act* of the SenMewhm that body eonremd was the tUO# with which to pay Spam f«r refinance with the "VlnAfit mm Hawaii reported the mmsnre from the Committee on Attpropriations and asked *w it* immediate consideration. The bill was laid before the Senate and in half a minnte w“a* pawed withent a wood of detente. The Senate mneimkd the day's ******* by pronwrariag enhogic* upon the late Representative Dingtey.

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A Washington, to cos* SS-nJOWW. cc 1-) he erected in Chicago. The former SpniA gmmhoat Borneo, m Hh May an river, Crto, has keen mbedAllied N»'lua&, a prawhsewt farmer iivaaig warrh of KodkoMHiJL Mol, eras found dead in his bed by kb fussily. Gem. M. P. Mifflrr, who nwsanU the Carted States fusees- at the tape are of liaiSo recently, win he retired ia a few dare having h«ew forty-car year* in service.