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A LOCOMOTIVE is being constructed in England to run 100 miles an hour. It is 2,000 horse: power, the driving wheels 12 feet. in diameter. The three cylinders are 40, 28 and 18 inches diameter with a thirty-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is 200 pounds.

- 'DESPITE losses through the big wind storms, Delaware’s peach crop this Yyear was the biggest in the history of the peninsula. The various estimates place it at from 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 baskets. The railroad alone carried 5,980 carloads of peaches and over a third of the crop is usually shipped by water. LRk

- THR ex-Empress Charlotte, of Mexico, has aged rapidly in the last twelve ‘months. Although only about fiftythree years old, the dezply wrinkled face, the pure white hair, and the.careworn expression of ‘her eyes make her * seem at least seventy. Hope that she _will ever recover her reason was long * ago abandoned. .

A WRITER in Longman’s Magazine ficures that the Pacific ocean includes 68,000,000 square miles, or over onethird of the total area of the earth’s surface. He further says that the Pacific extends thrgugh nearly'l3s degrees of latitude, or three-eighths of the world’s circumference—a stretch of 9,000 miles from north to south.

IT is 2 remarkable fact that the climate of the southern polarregion is much more severe than that of corresponding regions to the north. It is well known that a race:of human beings live within the arctic circle with some degree of comfort, but at a corresponding degree of latitude at the south all is one dreary waste, wholly uninhabitable. ' .

It is stated that ordinary bricks boiled in tar for about twelve hours, or until they are saturated with it, are increased about thirty per cent. in weight, are much harder than common ones and unaffected by frost and acids as well as perfectly waterproof. They form an excellent flooring for workshops or sturerooms, particularly in chemical establishmernts.:

A RECENT visitor at Pittsburgh is John Greenwald, superintendent of the Norwegian railways. Heis making a study ef American railrcad methods, and is much impressed with the magnitude of the: transportation systems of this country. Many American locomotives are used on the Norweigan lines, and Mr. Greenwald expects to order six more-while he is in this country.

As TO the healthfulness of going without shoes or stockings there can, says the London hospital, be no question. Some of the healthiest children of the world are to be found in the Scottish highlands, where shoes are seldom worn at an earlier age than twelve or thirteen. The Negro and eoolié laborers, who work bare= footed, are usually in robust health.

/ THE czar is deseribed as the largest eater among crowned heads and the kaisercomes next. The latter is stated tohave a mania for eating at extraordinary times, and, although dining copiously before going to the theater, he generally insists ‘on the dispatch from the imperial kitchens of a fully prepared supper, which he devours ;n one of the private rooms of the theater between the acts.

IT is'an American woman who is the mistress of Bulwer Lytton’s old home, Knébworth house. She is Mrs. John Cleveland Osgood, formerly Miss Belote, of Virginia. Like many other Virginians she is of English descent, and her English blood shows itself in an ardent love of sport,which is said to be her chief reason for living in Exgland. Her husband is an American, with large interests in the west, but he spends a good deal of time in England. She has recently become' known to novel readers as *‘lrene Osgood.”

REy. Dr. HiraM BINGHAM, who, with his wife, is about to sail from San Francisco for the Gilbert islands, has completed a translation of the Bible for the natives of those islands, where he has been ‘a missionary for many years. Mrs Binglam is the anthor of - several schoolbooks for the islanders, /fllfi‘isat present-working on an arithmetic, a task which offers many difficulties on account of the lack of equivalents in the Gilbert island langunage for many arithmetical terms. Certain of them Mrs. Bingham has been bbliged to coin. T

PrixcE JomN, of Lichtenstein, is not + a mighty ruler, although a great hubbub was 'made when he broke his leg vhile out hunting, the ~other day. His highness rules over a state so small that it was overlooked when peace was declared - between Austria and Prussia in 1866, and consequently Lichtenstein is still nominally at war with Prussia. Prince John’s army numbers exactly forty-six men, including several brigadier generals, and an hour’s march inany direction would take it out of the principality and into a foreignland.. =

- Miss ViegiNlA FAIR, who is interests ing to the public because of the fact that she will some tiiné be one of the richest women in America, is a nine-teen-year-old girl, .short, plump, dark and vivacious. She is a pious Roman Catholi¢, and it'is sdid that a few years ago she was anxious to join one of the sisterhoods of that ehurch. By the death of her mother she became an heiress to' $1,500,000; to pass into her control when ghe'is twenty-five, and a monthly income of $2,500. Her father is one of the western multi-millionaires and sheé will probably inherit largely from himalso. ' &

Miss M. F. Hewitt, whe died in New Castle, Ky., & few days ago, was one of the best known and most popular teachers in the south, and from Kentucky to Texas there are hundreds: of her old pupils, some of them gow middle-aged matrons, tggwhom her death will be a perscnal sorrow. Miss Hewitt was a daughter of Judge Hewitt, of Frankfort a famous member of the Kentucly bar. She had been a teacher for taven~ t%,;-fonr yeurs,: part of the time at Ward's seminary at Nashville. and later as principal of the Warrendale semi_nary at Georgetown and the Jessamine 4dnstitnte at Nicholasville =~ -

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Extra Session.

MonpAy, Oct.' 2. —ln the senate the silver purchase repeal Dbill was -discussed, Sevator Kyle (pop., 8. D.) -addressing the senate in opposition to the bill. 'ln the house the election laws repeal bill was further discussed by ‘Messrs. Cooper: (dem., Fla.) and Clark (dem., Mo.), who spoke against the bill - . o

‘TUESDAY, Oct. 4 —ln the senate an amendment to the silver purchasing repeal bill was offered. It revives the free-coinage act of 1837 and remits 20 per cent. of the import auties on goods from ‘eountries which accept the American standard . dollar. The-repeal bill was taken up and discussed. A Dbill wass introduced permitting the railroads to pool traflic under’ restrictions. The %‘(é}lse withouttransacting any routine stisiness resumed the consideration of the federal election repeal bill and was addressed by Mr. Northway in opposi; tion to the measure. ¢

‘WEDNESDAY, QOct. 4.—ln the senate after the approval of the journal and the introduction-of a few bills of minor importance, the silver purchase repeal bill was .taken up and discussed by Senators Butler and B ackburn, each pleading for a compromise of some sort. In the house the question of war claims was brought up and discussed. A substitute for the election laws repeal bill was introduced, the northern democrats, after an informal conference, deciding that the Tucker bill was too sweeping, and this substitute was formulated to meet the objections. ‘ THURSDAY, Oect. s.—ln ‘the senate the entire day was spent behind closed doors in the consideratian of executive business. The greater part of the time was devoted to a discussion of the alleged violation of the home-rule principle in the appointment of men as Indian agents in one state who live in another. In the house a number of bills of minor importance were passed. The federal election laws repeal bill was then taken up and Mr. Murray addressed the house in opposition to the measure. : :

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE statement of the public debt issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $834,793 during the month of September. The cash in the treasury was $106,875,633. 'The total debt, less the cdash balance in the treasury, amounts to $961,886,975. ‘ THE death of Sister Loretta, directress of the Georgetown convent, is announced. She had been connected with the convent for fifty years, and instructed many of the women of the country who have since become prominent. L

THE coinage of standard silver dollars from the mints and treasury offices for the week ended September 30 was $541,663; for the corresponding period of 1892, $12,925. o : . A TREASURY statement of circulation shows §25.29 per capita for an estimated population of 67,306,000. i . THE president-has made a new rule in regard to officeseekers, and will hereafter refer all applicants for offite to the heads of the- different departments. » ) ° :

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the bill to extend the time for completing the work of the eleventh census. . .

THE report . of the interstate commerce commission shows the railway mileage iMhe western states increased during 1891-92, 3,160.78 miles. :

THE EAST.

Tae death of Charles:J. Melville, 75 years- old, world-famed as a bareback rider, pecurred at Pittsburgh. : AT Springfield, Mass.,, W. W. Windle broke -the world’s biecycle record for a mile flying start at Hampton park, making it in 1:58 1-5. ' ATt Pittsburgh, Pa., a lamp which exploded in a coloréd boarding house fatally burned Mrs. Nettie Johnson, the proprietress, and Robert Madden, ‘a ‘boarder. - o

' Lours NIroRR and Neal Roy, glass workers, were drowned at Mononguhela City, Pa. They were crossing the river in a skiff and it capsized. - IN her breach of promise suit against Asa P. Morse, of Boston, Miss Van Honaten was awarded $40,000 damages. At Syracuse, N. Y., Dr. Mary Walker caused the arrest of Arthur D. Snoad. who, she says, is the murderer of Christie Warden at Haverhill, N. H, jn Julyy 1891. = She alleges the wrong man was hanged for that crime. J. L. CorNELIUS, a Harvard student, while insane from illness crawled into the hospital furnace and was cremated.

WirriaM LAWRENCE was confirmed bishup of Massachusetts to succeed the late Phillips Brooks of the Methodist Episcopal church. ot

WEST AND SOUTH.

GEORGE MCFADDEN ' (colored), who assaulted Miss Sallie Duboise, the 16-year-old daughter of 8. C. Duboise, near Moore’s Cross Roads, was captured and lynched. : : - RicHARD NoOBLE, a well-known citizen of Mount Pleasant, la., aged 80 years, was gored to death by a mad bull A - '

PAuL KAZMIRE, & we;lthi farmer at Brenham, Tex., shot and instantly killed his wife and then fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. + AT Columbus, O.; Ralph Smith, aged 18, accidentally shot and fatally injured George Mason, aged 16, Texas has perfected arrangements for filing suits to recover 1.000'.0(!) acres of school lands under the act of 1883,

TWELVE prominent residents near Columbus, Ind., were indicted by the grand jury for cruelly whipping a ‘woman. ; =

. THe death of Erastus Wells, ex-con-gressman, and the first to operate an omnibus west of the Mississippi, occurred at St. Louis, ‘ R h e B

AN’ unknown person placed a dynamite cartridge between Eliza Dent and Houston Kelly (colored) at Paris, Ky., killiog both of them. e v

. Fetry 10,000 men were Baid to be idle in the Mahoning valley, Ohio, and many were suffering for the necessaries of life. :

‘Two THOUSAND persons killed and $5,000,0000 worth of property annihilated i 8 the record .of the great gulf storm in Louisiana. There has never been anything approximating it since the country was settled. More than half the population in the region over which the hurricane swept are dead. One house in ten is standing and thes surviving population is left in a mast destitute condition, without food or even ¢lothing, for nearly all were sieeping when - their * houses. were erushed by the wind or the waves,©

Srx prisoners confned in the county jail at Bowling Green, V., escaped by digging a hole through tiie foundation, one of them being a murderer. - THE National bank of Kansas City, Mo:, which recently suspended, has been permittéd to reopen for‘business.

1x Bt. Louis at the bimetallic convention resolutions were adopted strongly advocating the free coinage of silver, opposing the farther issue of government bonds and ‘'demanding the speedy improvement of all great western and southern waterways. "

Tue town of Fulton, Ark., a thriving place of several thousand inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by fire. .

Tae death of ex-United States Senator Groome occurred at his home in Baltimore, Md. He was elected governor of Maryland in 1873, and "at the expiration of his term served one term in the senate. Bissopr 11. M. TURNER of the African Methodist church.south,has issued a call for a convention to meet in Cincinnati, November 28, to consider lynchings: At Jamestown..lnd., Oscar Darnell, shot and stabbed Miss Tillie Major and then killed himself. Jealousy caused it. THE agentof the Adams Express company at St. Louis has ordered the discharge of every clerk who gambles in any form, including betting on horse races. 5 : '

NEBRASKA democrats in convention at Lincoln went on record.as according heartily with Cleveland’s financial policy. fols : S

JubeEe Loxa, of Detroit, will attempt to force the government to pay his pension, suspended September 23. At Indianapolis, Ilnd., during a riot at the Big Four shops special police fired at the crowd, fatally wounding one man. : o

Ix state convention at Lincoln, Neb., republicans nominated a state ticket headed by T. O. C. Harrison, of Grand Isl and, for judge of the supreme court.

A MAD bull at the Cincinnati stock yards attacked John Maher, aged 19, and - gored him to death, one; horn penetrating the skull near the right ear. . d

MarTHA BLAND, & pensioner of the war of 1512, died a} Seneca county, 0., aged 100 years. ;

IN state convention at Lihcoln, Neb., the democrats nominated Frank L Irvine for justice of the supreme court to head the ticket.

NEAR Goffs, Kan., Gottfreid Greutze, a farmer, had his head completely severed from his body ina runaway accident.’ : ) 0]

. THE body of Charles Cook, living near Cairo, 111., was found in a field close to his farm. He had wandered away six weeks ago. : e THE death of S. A. Robinson occurred at Dennison, Tex., aged 64 years. He was chief of the United States secret service department during the war and a delegate to the first convention that nominated Lincoln for president.

At Cincinnati’ ex-President Harrison was installed commander of the Ohio commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. AT Bumtown, 0., W. K. Hill sought out his wife, who had left him; killed her and her mother and escaped.

FOREIGN INTELL!GENCE.

ForeIGN advices state that George Muller, who was sent by the French government to explore Madagascar, had been attacked by a band of brigands and beheaded. : ;

THE Dominion government has decided to impose a further restriction on Chinese entering Canada.

ADVICES from ‘Alaska state that in an uprising among the natives many persons . had been killed; among them several missionaries sent out by the American board.

OwiNG to the coal miners’ strike England is threatened with a coal famine. A ecargo has been ordered from Philadelphia. gy i :

FraMes in the Russian barracks at Rosslave caused the death of eleven soldiers. | Eight others were fatally hurt. [T was said that Hamburg was now ‘free from' cholera, and it was believed that no further cases would appear this Yyear. :

AN anti-Semitic mob at Beream, Bohemia, attacked the Jewish guarter of the town, setting many. houses on fire.

LATER NEWS.

Ix the United States senate on the 6th a resolution was introduced. for a special committee on the improvement of the banking system of the country, which was referred to thefinance committee. = The silver .purchase repeal bill was taken up and Senator Call addressed the senate in opposition to the measure. In the house, after the-read-ing of the journal, the federal election bill was taken up aud Messrs: Hainer, ‘Hicks and Ray denounced. the pending measure and Mr. Brookshire defended it. :

Tae anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart. Parnell was celebrated in Cork, lreland, with imposing.ceremonies. ; : b :

A TERRIFI¢ wind and rainstorm which passed over Arkansas in the vicinity of Little Rock-done great damage. Six persons were reported killed and several severely injured. i Two BECTIONS of a freight train collided near New Haven, ‘ky., killing Engineers Burke and Higgins. L PALLAS, the anarchist, was shot in the back at Barcelona, Spain, in accordance with court-martial findings. NEw YORrK republicans held a convention at Syracuse and placed a state ticket in the field headed by Edward T. Bartlett for judge oof the ecourt of dboests, © A ;

Two TRAINMEN were killed in-a rear- | end collision at Gethsemane, Ky., on the Louisville & Nashville road, . A sKIFF containing a fishing party of four men was overturned in the Mississippi river near St. Louis and two of the party—Joseph Franklin and an unknown man—were drowned. . Busixess failures to the number of | 820 occurred in the United Stateés in the seven days emded on the 6th. 'During the week previous the failures numbered 467, against 184 in-the correspnding time in 1892. cr ; Four of the family of G. H. Bassett, living near Emporia, Kan., were pois- ' oned by eating headcheese. The father and daughter would die. - B G i By the explosion of a blast at Cline ton, Ind., Audrew Lipps, a boy, was killed, and Billy’ Brown, a. miner, fatally injured. t L : CORNELL university at Ithaca, N. Y., | celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its opening. : ; ! J. G. WILLIAMSON, a wealthy mer-. chant of Hawkeye, la., fell under a train at Springfield, Mo., and was killed. . e e i ‘ . WmirecArs were burning gin houses of farmers near Salina, Ark,, who sell.eotton for less than a certain price. = |

THE SILVER DEBATE. Synopsis of the Discussion in ¢he United States Senate. = On the 30th ult. notices were given of two amendments to the silver repeal bill-—one by Mr. Wolcott (rep., Col), providing for the return to the states interested of the amount of the cotton tax collected from them during the war; the other, by Mr. Perkins (rep., Col), providing for the coinage of silver of American production at the existing ratio, the treasury to retain a seigniorage of 2) per cent.; also providing 'that hereafter there should be no gold coins minted of less than §lO, and ©no bank notes or treasury notes issued of less than $5, and for 2 monetary commission of flve experts, Mr. Camden (dem., W. Va.) argued in favor of the silver repeal bill, and Mr. Peffer (pop, Kan.) resumed his speech against regeal. On the 2d Mr. Eyle (pop, S. D.) argued against the repes! measure. He took the ground that the Sherman law was notinany way responsible for the business troubles of the country. He appealed to senators from the south and from the west to stand for the protection of their own states. He contended that, &8 between gold and silver, silver was the more stable measure of commodities: " that it was folly to fritter away time with an iniernational monetary conference, and_that the hope of the United States was in looking forward towards a Pan-American alliance.’ ; Mr. McMillan (rep., Mich.) made an arguwent in faver of repeal. Hesaid that the argunent that the United. States should continue the purchase of silver for the sake of the silver mining and kindred industries could not stand.

Silver had deelined in value for the same reason that iron had. The result of closing the silver mines had been to start work on the gold mines. .Whatever might De the evils of & scarcity of money, the evils of an overabundance of money were still greater. Congress should do these three things: (1)° Provide for a currency, every pars of which shall always be maintained at par with the world’s money; (2) provide for adequate banking reserves distributed throughout the country in accordance with local business necessities: and (3) provide a ready means of converting securities into cash and cash into securitjes accordini to the need for & more expanded or a more contracted -currency. If these things were accomplhished the quantity of ‘money might be left tonatural business causes. Mr. Dolph (rep., Ore.). expressed the beliel that the cause for the present business disturbance in the country was Ihe fear of hostile tariff legislation. The democratio party was standing, torch in hand, to fire the indugtrial interests of 'the country. Was it, then, any wonder that with such a threat mills and factories had closed and idle men walked the streets demanding work and bread? { In a wordy controversy with Messrs. Teller and Stewart on the question of free coinage, Mr. Dolph asserted that the advocates of free coitage did not want a silver dollar that was worth a dollar in gold. ']‘fiey wanted a 56-cent dollar—a ciieap dollar; the cheaper the better

On the 3d Mr. Dolph (rep., Ore.) continued his remarks. He had read extracts from President Cleveland’s messages to congress during his former administration giving his views on the silver question. He thensaid these extracts justified the statement that the success of the democratic party with such a candidate was the verdict of the American peopie in favor of the discontinuance of the purchase of siiver and of the coinage of silver dollars. He (Dolph) did not expect that congress could pass any act

for the use of silver by this country alone that would receive the president's approval. But he understood that the president would be in favor of what he considered @ practical use of silver. He did not doubt the good. faith of the president, and believed him honest when he asserted from time to time that he was in favor of bimetallism by an international agreement whereby the parity of both métals can be maintained. s !

Mr. Palmer (dem., J 11.) said he had no doubt the president understands that while we. continue the purchaseof silver we are disabling ourselves by putting ourselves to a disadvantage in any attempt at adjusting bimetallism with foreign countries. He was quite certain the president believed ‘that so long as we continue the purchase of silver .and undertake to support silver coinage we would appeal in vain to foreign governments to enter into any agreement to

establish international bimetallism. Mr. Palmer. argued that the.free coinage of silver would drjve out the gold, so that instead of the eountry having the two metals—it—would have tut one. Lt ‘

Quite a wordy controversy ensued between Me-srs. Palmer, Teller, Dubois and Voorhees relative to the power: of the senate to force a vote on the pending measure. - ‘On the 4th Mr. Butler (dem., S. C:.) spoke against the silver repeal bill. He replied to Senator Palmer's remarks critieising the senate for its uction. He said the minority en the rejeal question was not attemp ing 1o coerce anybcdy, but that it didsnotintend to be coerced by anybody. The senate was not 'a town meeting, but was a great deliberative bLody, intended to put a veto upon hasty, unwise and improper le.&slation. It- had been asked: What = was to be done? His reply was “compromise.” Compromise i the solution. It has been said that the president of the United States was interfering with legislation, and that whenever compromise was spoken of the statement was made that the president would pot compromise. ‘‘Whoever states that,”’ said Senator Butler, emphatically, ‘does that high official great injustice, because it is none of his business what the senate does. I don't believe that he has attempted to use his high office to influence the senate improperly.” Mr. Bla.ckburn/-(dem., Ky.) spoke in opposition " 10. the repeal. He was not, he said, the friend or apologist of the Sherman act But, bad as the measure was, unfair and uncandid as he believed it tu be, he did not believe it had been the cause of the financial woes which the country suffered, nor did he believe that its repeal would prove that panacea for all the finan¢ial ills under which the couniry was strug-

gling. He did not wish to see the country put upon - a single standard He was as mueh opposed to a sihgle silver standard as he was to a single gold standard. He declared an international standard of value was a myth.: There never had been. never would be and never needed to be an international standard of value. The trouble ay further back than, the Sherman law. The tariff system of the country needed revision, and the financial systgm needed overhauling. He stood here to-day to advocate both those. necessary works’ He said: “If there be these who think that I am making the tight for the owner of silver mines, or of the silver smelter, they are mistaken. If the 10 per cent. charged before 1873 is mnot enough, double it: take 20. If thatydoes not suffice, take 25, If you tell me that the ratio of of 16 to 1 i 8 too low, Isay, in the spirit, not of justice, but of compromise, ‘raise the ratio.’ Make it ¥7; make it 18; makeit 19; make it 20 and L for one, will accept it rather than have the silver metal stricken down. The only condition which I would impose would be: Unlock the doors of your -mints to silver! give it right of entry there; and then hamper it with what

conditions you please. But, Mr. President, important as this is, it is of equal importance that we must, settle it.”” e ) Mr. Biackburn concluded by saying: *The sottlement of the issue should come, and should come now. I appeal *to the sense of fairness, to the patriotisiv, the sense of dignity which chara.cter?:es the senate, and I ask senators. without regard to go,ny afMliations, to rise '-‘umhn-dignn&mhfrg ent issue and ‘make s settiement that ghall be just and fair.” B Mr. Call (den., Fla) spoke on the pending bill, and declared his opposition to its passage, unless coupled with a s;ovlsion- for the fra® ocoinage of silver at & ratio of 16 to L.

AFFAIRS OF THE HEART. Tug wedding ring is worn on the left hand because, in symbolism, the right hand is authority, the left obedi onve.. o THE wedding wreath is reminisceat of the age yghen the bride was always presented with a bouquet of symbolie flowers' 51 ! . o St * t : ~lx China all arrangements for a wedding are made by a go-between, who also does the courting and makes the IN most ehurches-of England a "fing is kept. so that embarrassment may be spared in case of forgetfulness of the parties concerned, - o A cOUPLE of hundred years ago English and German people, in order to secure the greatest possible publicity, were married in the ehurch door. IN Hungary the father of the bride takes off her shoes and hands them to her husband, thus turning over all his authority to the groom. | : : SENTIMENT i 8 as old as anything else, as is indicated by the disc@m% ig; Egyptian tombs dating back to B. C. 2000 of wedding rinfs engraved with & heart and two clasped hands. '

| THE ELECTIONS REQEAbv: BiLL. Synopsis of the Debate in the National | House of Representatives. % On the 30th ult Mr. Henderson. (rep. la.) read s letter from a friend of his (whose name in advance he declined to give) mentioning five counties in western Tennessee where whole. sale fraud and violence had been committed by the democrats in 1888. L : . Mr. Patterson (dem., Tenn.) entered a general denisl of this charge, and said the republican party assumed that every negro was a republican, and that if his vote is not counted for the republican party there must be frawd and violence. That was an entire mistake. Even the republicans of the south on economic questions voted the democratic ticket. The | republican party, by its legislation, had ' succeeded in drawing the color line, and 80 faras the white peopie of the south were concerned it was a sectional line. He thought | the remedy would be found in the Australian | ballot-box system. If that were adopted thou- ! sands of negroes in the south would vote the democratic ticket, and thousands of white men | would be found voting with the republicans. Let there be kept away from the polls the army, the supervisors and marshals; anpd let every citizen, whether he be black or white, go . intoa booth and determine by himself for whom | he would vote. j : | Mr. McCall (rep., Mass.) opposed the bill The federal ‘election laws shouild stand because there should be no reactionary legislation; they should stand as an evidence that the national government had some regard for its Citi-

-gens. . e Mr. McNagny (dem., Ind.) advocated fhe bfil; holding that the judgment of the American peo- . ple was that the federal election laws should: be repealed.y | Mr. Warner (dem., N. Y.) d¢fended° the city of New York, which he said had given a model to the United States in its registration and its election laws. .The reform |of the election methods had come about by state laws under the construction of the state courts. He asked in behalf of New York state that the federal laws should be repealed. | L Mr. Richards (dem., O.) also: advocated the repeal of the election laws, | On the 2d Mr. Dinsmore (dem., Ark.) spoke " In support of‘the pending repeal measure. He expected to see the pledges of the democratic - party on this question redeemed. It was the duty of the democratic party to repeal the laws permitting federal interference at state elections, and that duty should be faithfully performed. Bt ] Mr. Denson (dem., Ala.) denounced the election laws. There were some men who said that there might be another war. He was not one of those. He had fought against his distinwuished friend, Gen. Henderson, of Illinois, and he did not whnt to see th‘at fight any more. _ Mr. Cooper (dem., Fla.) and Mr, Clark (dem., Mo.) spoke agaihst tbe laws. The latter said the democratic party had begun business for

the purpose of giving local self government to. the people. That was the mission upon which Thomas Jefferson had led it to its first victory, and that was the mission on which Grover Cleveland had led it to its latest victory. Mr. Clark, in the course of his gpeech, predicted: that within a short time the people of the south, white and black, would be found working together on all economic questions. In conclusion Mr. Clark said the democrats were honest and earnest in this business of repeal

‘' On. theBd Mr. Northway (rep., O) in speaking agaifist the repeal measure, said it was @ peculiarity of his to stand by the under dog in a fight, and realizing that the United States was the under dog in this fight he took =ome pleasure in defending that under dog. 'He then entered upon an argument to prove that the laws were perfectly constitutional, ! Mr. Kyle (dem., Miss.) spoke in opposition to

the laws, criticising the statutes of the .states from which the members who signed the minority report came and indulging in colloquies with Messrs. Ray (rep., N. Y.), Murray (rep., S. C.) and Boutelle (rep., Me.). The federal election laws, he said, should be repealed because they. were unpecessary, -because they were not in the genius of our government, because they were inconsistens with our republican institutions, and beause they weré a tax upon the people. :

Mr. Bowers ' (rep., Cal.) in speaking againsg the repeal bill denominated (sarcastically) the election ‘aws a 8 a “‘frightful specter:'’ and then went on to ridieule the house for the slim attendance at the debates. He understood, how-

evar, that the giants were in_trzicing for the last great struggle. When t%ex shied their hats into the ring the attendance might be larger. S : On the 4th Mr. Compton (dem., Md.) advocated the pending measure. He denied the statements made by republicans that the minority ef voters in the south controlled the action of the majority. He quoted from statistics to show (on the other hand) thatin the New England states there was a majority of democratic voters, but there were few democratic members in congress from that section. Mr. Boutelle (rep., Me.) denied this statement and got into an angry ‘collogquy with Mr. Compton in regard to the matter. Mr. Sweet (rep., Idaho) opposed the passage of the bill and then entered upon & criticism. of President Cleveland. The refusal of that officer to enforce the Sherman silver law and the Geary Chinese exclusion law was without parallel in the history of the United States. No public officer had ever been impeached for ° a more reckless violation of law. "He ridiculed the letter of the president to Gov. Northen—nominally to the governor but really to congress—and declared that it merely said: ¢I want,” “I wish,’” “I order,”” “I demand,’”’ “I am Sir Oracle, and when I open my mouth let-no dog bark.” He then went on to speak upon the silver question, opposed unconditional repeal of the Sherman law and eulogized the silver senators for their fight against the money, power and: administration patron-

age. . e g Mr. Lane (dem., Iil) in advocating the pending bill declared that the federal election laws should never have been placed upon the statute books. Every deputy marshal appointed under them (according to his belief) had been either a hired assassin, a hired spy or a hired voter. : = > Mr. Murray, the republican colored man from South Carolina, spoke against the biil In his state, he said, before any man could vote in democratic primaries he must declare that he had been:a democrat since 1876. The repeal of the federal election laws would, he said, open the floodgates of fraud and violence. On the sth Mr. Murray (rep., S. C.) concluded: his speech against repeal of elections law. He appealed to republicans. everywhere, standing true to the principles of Sumner, Seward, Lin‘eoln and Grant, the great saints of the grand old party, to resist this nefarious measure with all their power and resources. He requested his people everywhere to take the roll when it shall have been called on the passage of this bil, mark the name of every man casting an affirmative vote and regard him as their perpetual

Gnemy. 4 Mr. Russell (dem., Ga.) favored repeal Referring to Mr. Murray’s speech he said it was proper and fitting that the requiem gun of the repunlican party should be fired by a son of Ham. - ‘Mr. Money (dem., Miss ) resented the reflection made upon his state in the minq;i!:y report, denominating those reflections as ipfamous and iniquitous. There was no ground for the socysations made against if, and he deoclared its elections were fairly conducted. He argued ip favor of an educational qualification:

ODD CORNERS.

NorRwAY men cannot vote unless they have been vaccinated. AUSTRALIA’S summer is said to be so hot that matches accidentally drqopped au the ground often become ignited. . . INn Turkish Asia Minor such is the econdition of the roads that the freight of a ton of grain one hundred miles would be over forty-five dollars. o Tae Eskimo Bulletin is . the only journal published in.the arctic circle. 1t is printed at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, and is issued only once & year. Tur inhabitants of Thibet fire the dirtiest people on earth. Not only do they never wash, but when ongeri;gfi)z; growth has been attained they never take off their clothes, When the garments they wear become old others are put over them. .| o 0 g IT has been ascertained by Prof. Kernot, of the Melbourn university, Australia, that the usually assumed weight of 80 to 100 pounds per square foot, pro~ duced by a demse crowd of persons, may be largely éxceeded. = ‘many m%m&tfie' otest dutles, in view of the searcity of feed stuffs.

RACE FOR .THE .CUP.. . Neither Yachts Cover thc Course'in Time

. Wik Try Again.

New YORE, Oc¢t. 6.—Baffled by light winds, the yachts Vigilant and Valkyrie, which started Thursday on the first of the international racgs for the America’s cup, were compelled to abandon the contest. It was just 5:10 o’clock in the afternoon when a tug took the Valkyrie in tow, and the ‘dismal tooting of the whistles announced the failure of thd day’s sport. The English cutter was theén a mile in advance of the Vigilant, and the point for'which they had started almost six hours before was yet miles away. 1t was a keen disappointment to the thousands who had stood by the rails and clung to the vantage ground on board the steamers all day. The overpowering attraction of the big race between the English and American prize winners drew the biggest flotilla that ever sailed to Sandy Hook to see a yacht -race. Every boat was crowded, too. Not one aboard had thought for other than the out~ come of the first contest of the ships, for in that result they felt that they could foreshadow the remaining contests. : ; :

A long stream of craft from the iron steamer to the towboat swept past the battery and down through the narrows almost from daybreak. ;

' The wind was close to due northeast at the start and the regatta committee, of the New York Yacht club, who had scharge of the race decided that the boats should start leeward for the first 15 miles and return to ,windward. When the preparatory gun was fired from Commodore Morgan’s flagship, May, the Valkyrie found a position‘under the Vigilant’s lee quarter. Both boats then headed to the liné. pEe

- Just before the line was passed the Vigilant dropped her spinnaker, m to starboard and hung . up her b@de sail in a jiffy. The English boat twas about six lengths behind on the lee quarter and succeeded in setting her spinnaker in only about two seconds less time'than did the American boat. When 2 miles out the center boarder had gained at least a half minute in time apparently. The Valkyrie’s iib topsail was drawing very poorly, while ‘the Vigilant was doing good work. There was not wind enough to ballodn out any sail on either vessel, but such as there was helped the American boat more than the Englishman. During these first 2 ‘miles the breeze’ freshened up a bit. The sky. had cleared and there were some little black clouds over in the east that seemed to betoken wind, and everybody hoped it would bring it. Their hopes were not realized. Scarcely had the spurt made itself known before it died out and left ‘less air than had originally been present. From then the boats entered into a drifting match. The wind began to haul to the south, and before they knew it there was a south-southwest breeze, if it could be dignified by the name of breeze, and the yachts had to make a tack toreach the outer buoy. In this work the Vigilant’ gained no - little on the Valkyrie, but %t was plain @ that the chase was a hopeless one, in the lightair prevailing. The Valkyrie went down to the. mark on the signal starboaxd tack and rounded it amid the wild shriekings. of the hundreds of steam whistles that made a semicircle on the sides and below the buoy., It was twenty-six minutes after this that the Vigilant made her turn, and she had to make an extra tack in order to weather the buoy.’ Although apparently defeated in the first race of the series, the American boat was greeted with even a greater clamor than had been heard when the Valkyrie went around. The American was a mile behind. i - G When about ‘half the homeward journey had been completed Lord Dunraven, who was on his own boat, hailed a tug, asked for a tow line and was brought back to the bay under steam power. Almost simu:taneously with the earl’s action did - Mr. Iselin on the Vigilant determine to do the same thing. Another’attempt will be made Saturday. : ’

BEATEN BY BURGLARS.

Masked® Men Frightfully Maltreat a Wis-

consin Farmer.

APPLETON, 'Wis., Oct. 6.—Wednesday night two masked buarglars broke into the house of Thomas - MeGillan, in Center. Mr. McGillan was knocked down with a club, and then gagged by the robbers, although he made a vigorous resistance. About $lB was stolen. They poured coal oil gver him and over the contents of the house and threatened to burn himto death. They beat him. about the head frightfully, and tried to smother him by rolling him in a bedtick! They thought McGillan had money secreted in the }aoiise' and in every imaginable way tried to get him to divulge the hiding place. McGillan is 4 well known farmer and resides alcne.

Decapitated by a Wire Fence.’

TorEkA, Kan., Oct. 6. — Gottfried Gruetze, a wealthy German farmer, living near Goffs, had his head completely severed from his body in a runaway accident. He was driving a spirited team and met a woman on horseback wearing ‘a large flowing cape. The wind spread out the garment, frightening Mr. Gruetze's team.. They ran into a diteh, throwing Mr. Gruetze completely over the team onte a barbwire fence. He struck oa his neck with such force that the wire severed it completely. : ~

Nebraska Democrats. ; LiNcoLN, Neb., Oct, 6.—ln the state convention Thursday the democrats ] nominated Frank J. Irvine, of Omaha, for associate justice of the supreme, court. Milton Doglittle, J; M. Pyleand | Cnarles Klomap were named for re~ ‘gents of the state university. The platform indorses President Cleveland’s ads ministration, demands the immediate repeal of the Sherman silver law, favors ! tariff reduction and, purging of the pension list, opposes unionof church. and state and favors econstitutional amendment providing for state railroad commissioners, = : 4 -~ Mr. Murphy Is Recovering. | WasHINGTON, Qet, 6.+Ex-Congress= ~man ‘Jerry” Murphy, .of Davenport, la., who won the sobriquet of ‘‘Henne- . pin”! Murpby from @ persistent advo_eacy iq-ag;_;l out of congress of the proposed Hennepin canal, connecting:. Lake : Michigan with: the Mississippi river, is recovering from a serious illt ness. A}!ifl@‘h ago it was announced that he could not get well, = 5 m“?‘ m‘ffl“fl"fl% 3 : ree from cholera; @nd it is boieved RN R S e-S S S eGO R e o

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