Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — Page 3

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, March 17.—/The chaii submitted a joint resolution of the lowa legislature asking congress to amend the act donating public lands to states and territories which may provide colleges of agriculture and mechanics arts so the state may loan Qie fund derived from the sales of real estate security, etc. Referred. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Brown declaring against the contraction of the currency by the withdrawal of silver certificates, &c. Referred to the finance committee without debate. Upon the conclusion of the morning hour, the regular business, she tariff commi°sion. bill, was temporarily laid aside to proceed with the postofllce appropriation bill, which was taken up and the remaining committee amendments adopted. The bill then passed. . The fortification appropriation bill, reported by the appropriation committee without amendment, was read, and Mr. Morgan protested against the conversion or manufacture of smoothbore guns on the Crispin plan. After an executive session the adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. The speaker laid before the house a communication from the secretary of war, transmitting estimates of the number of persons destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. The communication estimates the number of persons destitute at 85,000, as follows: Missouri, 2,200; Illinois, 22,000; Kentucky, 8,000; Tennessee, 6,000; Mississippi, 30,000; Arkansas, 30,000; Louisiana, 25,000. Rations distributed, 713,000. The appropriation already made is sufficient to purchase 800.000 • rations of a substantial kina. The supply will be exhausted in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, about the 21st. No estimate can be made of the time during which the necessity for which congressional aid will continue. No further demands are expected from Illinois and Kentucky, but from Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, the department has information that the necessity for subsistence will continue for a period variously estimated at from thirty to sixty days. Tbe department has no information, but it is thought it may be placed in the same category as Mississippi.

HOUSE. Washington, March 18.—There was a slim attendance in the house to listen to the debate on the Chinese bill. Mr. Speer was the first speaker. He paid a high tribute to the colored rac-s. * Mr. Gunther said he would vote for the bill. Let congress stamp this threatening danger out of existence before it could grow large enough to require the most serious measures for its suppression. He would like to limit the time of suspension to ten years, but he would vote for the bill as it stood for fear that no other restrictive measure will be advocated. Mr. Moore, of Tennessee, created a sensation by making a strong speech against the bill. Mr. Flower made a speech against the further importation of what he termed “eating, drinking and opiummaking lepers.” Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, spoke against the bill and said: “My sentL ments in regard to this bill is to express the hope that as president vetoed the other, so may another president veto this bill.” fApplause on the Republican side.] Mr. Brumni supported the bill. He made the point that every Chinaman who was in this country had kept out one honest German or Irishman. After other speeches the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, March 20.— The bill was reported for a public building at Erie, Pa. The bill for the admission of Dakota was reported with amendments. A resolution was passed allowing Senators Butler and Kellogg $3,600 and $9,500 respectively for expenses incurred in vindicating the titles to their seats. Mr. Pendlelon presented a memorial from the National Tobacco as-o-ciatipnj>rotesting against the passage of any “free leaf tobacco bills” 7 a’so, a petition from thef some association for the abolitiom-'of export stamps, and for sundry changes of the law in regard to the exportation of tobacco by rail, and the fees paid inspectors of exported tobacco. After a short executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president in response to a resolution requesting him to furnish the house the statement of facts berore him at the time he authorized the sending of troops to Nebraska. Mr. Reed, of Maine, under instruction from tbe committee on judiciary, moved to suspend tbe rules and adopt a resolution making the Geneva award bill the special order for the fourth Tuesday In March. A number of Democrats were opposed to this motion and manifested their opposition by motions to adjourn, which, however, were voted down. The question having recurred on the motion to suspend the rules the Democrats opposed to having the bill made the special order, refrained from voting and the house was left without a quorum A call of the house was ordered and the doors closed and the sergeant-at-arms and his deputies were dispatched for absentees. At 7.30 the first captives were brought in and from time to time others followed. The excuses caused a good deal of merriment, except that of Clements, of Georgia, who stated that he had just been sum-

moned to the bed-side of his colleague, Mr. Beck.who was dying. All were excused. The house at 12:15 a. m. is still in session, but without a quorum., At 12:10 to-night another* call of the house took place, but np quorum appearing, Rfeed, of Maine, suggested that the house do now adjourn with an understanding that tomorrow morning after reading the journal, the houstf shall proceed to vote upon the compromise proposition submicted by Mr. Hewitt This was agreed to and accordingly at 12:45 the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, March 21.—Mr. Hale presented a protest against the admission of Dakota as a state untj.l her record is purged of repudiation, with which it is charged in the matter of the Yankton county bonds issued in aid of a railroad in that county, upon which iptefest payments have ceased. Bills passed—House bill to establish a railroad bridge over the Mississippi river between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Senate bill to remedy defects in the law of last year for the sale of the remainder of the Oteoand Missouri reservations In Missouri and Nebraska. Passed with amendment protecting the rights of those tribes who may not have rfemoved. Mr. Pendleton introduced ajoint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, providing for the election by the people of postmasters, marshals, district attorneys, United States clerks of courts inferior to the supreme court, and all such other civil officers of the United States, exercising executive or ministerial power. HOUSE. The Chinese bill was taken up, Mr. Page stating that he would call for the previous question to-morrow at 3 o’clock. Mr. McClure spoke in advocacy of the bill. , , ■* Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, declared his intention to oppose the bill, because he considered it a violation of the treaty, and he believed the executive will insist that we shall keep our treaty. Mr. Page stated that be would not call for the previous question until both sides of the house were fully satisfied that the debate had continued a sufficient length of time. The bill then went over. Adjpurned. ) SENATE. Washington, March 22.— A number of bills were introduced and referred, and the remainder of the time up to two o’clock was occupied in the consideration of amendments to the bill to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service, establishing additional stations. Owing to the sudden illness of Garland the tariff commission bill was laid aside and the diplomatic appropriation bill taken up. The senate committee amendments were agreed to. These included J90,ftOO for the contingent expenses or the department of state. Mr. Beck moved an amendment requiring hereafter that all commercial agencies, whether paid by fees,or otherwise, be specially enumerated, with compensation in each case, in the annual estimates of the secretary of state. Agreed to and the bill passed.

HOUSE. The Chinese bill was taken up, and Washburne spoke in its lavor, claiming that continuance of immigration would bring about the greatest of all dangers—degradation of labor. He contended that there was no analogy between immigration from Europe and that from China. It was the part of wisdom not to degrade labor, but to bring labor and capital in accord. Mr. Page gave notice that he would, at 2 o’clock, demand the previous question on the bill. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, March 23,—8i11s were introduced for the formation and admission into the Union as a state of Washington territory. Mahone, from the committee on agriculture, reported favorably a bill to establish a bureau of industry and to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and the spread of contagious diseases among domestic animals. Mr. Dawes, from the appropriations committee, reported the Indian appiopriation bill with sundry amendments. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. The morning hour being dispensed with consideration was resumed of the Chinese bill. A large number of amendments were then voted upon, but were all lost, without a division being called. Tbe bill then passed—yeas 187, nays 65. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, March 24.—Mr. Sawyer presented a memorial from the Milwaukee chamber of commerce against the renewal of patents for steam grain shovels. The senate spent a large portion of the morning hour upon the life-sav-ing service bill. The bill was then passed—yeas, 46; nays, 8. The joint resolution for printing Blaine’s Garfield memorial address was passed. The tariff commission discussion was resumed and Mr. Miller,ofNew York, gave some reasons for his belief in protection. General debate on the bill will close Tuesday, after which amendments may be ottered under the fifteen minutes rule. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. The bill was reported appropriating

s6,Bß3>Goafor the improvement of the Mississippi river. Referred to committee of the whole. The hoase' then Went into committee of ttye whole (Mr. Valentine in the chaff-} on the private calendar. Two hours were consumed in discqssipfi of the first bril on the calendar; teferriifg td the court of claims, the cjaim of the captors of the ram Albemarle, when at last the bill was laid aside favorably. Another debate arose upon the next bill, for the relief of the heirs and the next bf kin of James B. Armstrong, the opposition to the measure being based*on the fact that the heirs were disloyal.; Pending action the committee rose and reported the AlbeEhktle blll and it was passed. A recess followed until 7:30, the evening session bbing for the constderatioh of pension bills on the private calendar. . - Thirty-seven bills were passed at the evening session, and the house adjourned till Mon lav-

CHOICE SELECTIONS.

The evil cannot brook delay. The good can well aftord to wait. Justice delayed Is justice denied. All men have their imprudent days. What frenzy dictates jealousy believes. .. Indulge' no doijhts—they J are traitors. VrT7>"^ \ Beadty is the mark God sets upon Virtue.' Nothing overcomes passion more than silence. A virtuous man is ever in unison with nature’s works. In every parting there is an image of death. About the only force some people have is the force of habit. The secret of felicity is a judicious interruption of routine. Beware, beware of the mother of the man that despises women! Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. The duly really bitter tears are those which are shed in solitude. ' Idleness is the key of beggary and the root of all evil. Half the ills we hoard in our hearts are ills because hoard them. The rules of a printing establishment are generally made of brass. We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are healed by opening. Jealousy is the sentiment of property, but envy is the instinct of theft. Whatever is obtained by deceit cheats no man as much as the getter. Kisses by people who no longer love each other are merely collated yawns. In love, women go to the length of folly and men to the extreme of silliness., _• ... :

The qualities we possess-never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. A man’s good breeding is the best security against the people’s ill manners. Devote each day to the object then in time, and the evening will find something done. An elevated purpose is a good and ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at the top of it. Nothing will so increase and strengthen the virtues as practice and experience in them. Most of our misery comes from our fearing and disliking things that never happened at all. When you give to others give cheerfully. There is no blessing from an unwilling offering. If anything is possible for man, and is peculiar to him, think that this can be attained by thee. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by th 6 fiercest flame. Good temper, like a summer day sheds a brightness over every thing! It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude. Reflect upoD your present blessings, of which every man has many—not upon your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Lasting reputashuns are of a slow growth; the man who wakes up famous some morning is very apt. to go to bed some night and sleep it off.— Billings. Be thou like a bird perched upon some fiail twig, which, althouge he feels the branch bendingjbeneath nim, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that he has wings.—Mme. de Gasperin. Though the good may have little wealth, yet it is useful to all, like the water of a well. The selfish may have much wealth, but like the water of the sea, it quenches the thirst of none. —Buddhist Scripture. Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. But trust is vain. Occasion cannot make spurs. If you exj ect to wear spurs you must win them. If you wish to us 9 them you must buckle them to your heels before you go into the fight.—James A. Garfield. If you would keep a hook and daily put down the things that worry you and see what Incomes of them they would be of benefit to you. It is not well to give up the battle after a single defeat. Some people are totally discouraged by a disappointriient, while others are so enraged by it that their strength and persistency are doubled.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

“The boy preacher, ” Rev. Thomas Harreon, Is Laving such success in meetings among Methodists of Cincinati that he is likely to remain in that city through the month of March. Bishop Jausen, of Natchez, has forbidden marriages in the Catholic Church after dark, and desires that ail weddings be celebrated in tbe morning with nuptial mass, according to the suggestion of the rubrics of.the Roman Catholic Church.. Dr. Duyrea, of Boston, who is evi dently a wit, says that a multitude o * connoisseurs are running around to the different churches iu that city to hear the music without paying for it. These connoisseurs are by no means confined to Boston. The Pope has been invited to remove the Papal chair to Quebec, and it is rumored that he would not be averse tb establishing himself in some part of America, tbe United States being prefered. The Roman Catholic'population of this country is 6, 370,858. Dr. Morgan’s new American EpisooEal church, in Paris, will be a very andefome edifice when completed, which will be soon, as large subscriptions have recently been received, many of them from Dr. Morgan’s many freinds in this and other cities on this side of the Atlantic. Dr. Dana, of St. Paul, traveled 886 miles to preach the sermon at the installation of Rev. C. M. Sanders over the Congregational Church, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cheyenne was nicnnamed “Hell on wheels” when it had 100 saloons and no chnjches. It new has seven churches and but twenty saloons, Some naturalists in Alaska have found it difficult to secure a skeleton of the sea otter, because the natives believe that when thay kill an otter they must cut oft the head and throw it into the sea or their canoe will be lost.

De Foose, of Paris, has introduced a paper covering lor furniture. It is made in imitation of Cordovia leather, and is said to be so effective in its purposes as to promise competition of textile fabrics for upholstery work. Spfecial poisons are secreted by the toad, newt, frog, etc. M. Baul Bert has collected a liquid from the glands on the neck of the frog, which causes the death, with convulsions, of a spai. row to which the substance had been administered. Some observations were lately made in a balloon, by M- de Fouviele, on an opaque cloud which covered the region of paris foi several days. The cloud was hardly 300 metre! thick. The upper part of the guide rope was covered with hoar frost. The mean temperature of theuloud was 5 degree. In 1879 the product of fron *in Virginia was 169,683 tons, and the State ranked as twelfth amotffc the iron producing states. In 1880 the product was 182,326 tons, and the State rose to the eigth rauk. The figures for 1881 are not known, but they will exhibit a rapid stride toward the front. It is stated that in Mexico wooden railway ties cost $ 50 apiece, and that some of the Mexican National Railroad last May are now decayed and unsafe It is said that it has been found cheaper to order iron tfes, worth $3 each, from England, than to use wooden ones. In coppering cast-iron M. Weil uses a bato of copper sulphate rendered strongly alkaline with an organic acid added to prevent the precipitation of copper oxidy. To effect the same object M M. Mignon and Rouatt employ a distinctly acid solution of a -double salt of copper and any alkali with an organic acid. To harden steel take two tea spoonfuls of water, one-half teaspoontul of flour and one of salt. Heat the steel enough to coat with the paste by immersing it in the composition, after which heat it to a cheery red and plunge it into soft water. If properly done the steel will come out with a beautiful white surface.

The Muster Zeitung recomends in preft-rence to the treatment of glue with nitric acid the following: So-cail-ed gelatine is dissolved in the water bath in its own weight of strong vinegar, a quarter part of alcohol and a very-little alum, This glue remains liquid when cold, and is much used lor cementing mother-of-pearl, horn, etc. upon wood oriental. According to the Manufacturing Chemist Association of the United States the capital invested in the chemical industry is 185, 000, 000; the annual prductiou is worth $118,000,000: the number of manufacturing establishments is 1,346, using 6,000,000 tons of coal, and employing 30,000 working people, whose wages amount to $12,000, 000 a year. The congregation of a Canada church brought an action at law af;amst a man who had rented a pew n which he was In tbe habit ol sleeping and snoring so as to disturb the people’ to compel him either to abate the nuisance or to stay away. The court decided that be had a right to remain awake and listen to wmat is going on, or to take his ease in slumber. “If that decision Is sustained,” The Christian Advocate thinks, “ the result will be a mighty argument for free seats.” On March the i the Moravian brethern commemorated the four hu,ndred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding at Kimwald, on the barony of Litifz, in Bohemia, of the associaation named “The Brethern and Sisters of the law of Christ.” The name of the new society was soon after changed to its present form, “The Unity of brethern, ” because the title was understood by some, espeically by the 'gcorant peasantry, to imply that the association was a new monastic order.

RACY REMARKS.

"f * Literary: “I occasionally .drop into poetry,”- as the man said when he fell iuto the editorial waste-basket. Can keep it: “Can a woman keep a secret ?” asks an exchange. She can. That is to say, she can keep telling it. Young swell to optician; “Is this the smallest opera glass you have?” ”Yes.” Y. S.—“ Well, then, I guess I’ll take an operetta glass.” Musical: The cat is the great American prima donna. If bqotjacks were bouquets, her nine lives would be strewn with roses. Paris advertisement:* “For sale—a monkey, a cat and two "parrots. Address Mine. X , Rue . As the lady is about to get married she has no further use for these animals'” Explanatory note: “Jay Gould can’t get time to shave.” It should be said out of justice to Jay, that this paragraph refers solely to his fade and not to speculators. Class in history: Teacher: “Who was the first man?” First boy. “George Washington.” Teacher: “Next.” Second boy: “Adam.” First boy (indignantly): “I didn’t know you meant foreigners.” A questionable compliment: Brown —“Ah! That’s your dog. He’d astonish any suspicious-looking party coming about, I should'think.” Jones: “Oh, you needn’t be afraid as long ns I’m with you, old fellow.” Implacable: “If I have ever used any unkind words, Hannah,” said Mr. Smiley, reflectively, “I take them all back.” “Yes, I suppose you want to use them over again,” was the not very soothing reply. Better left unsaid: Vicar (who, until last Sunday, has always preached himself)—“Well, and how did you like my young curate’s sermon?” Mrs. Robinson—“Oh, quite the best we have heard for years. We all said so!” —London Punch. * She jumped the hurdle: In ar|4’*perience meetin, ” near here one of the sisters said she had been to liehen. Another asked “if she seed any ulggers dar?” “Lor’, sister, you don’t s’pose I went In de kitchen, does you?’’

The other side: “Is this the front of the capitol?’, asked a newly arrived stranger of an Austin darkey. “No, sab; ois heah side in frout am de rear. Es yer wants ter see the frontyermust go. around dar behind on de udder side.”—Texas siftings. Calculated to fill It: “I tell you,” continued Pingrey, “Brown isn’t fit for the place. In fact I don’t know of a place he iscalculated to fill.” “Don’t be intemperate in your remarks, Pingrey,” said Fogg; “you forget his stomach.” Customer, with red nose: “Yes, I want the hat to be just of that size.” Hatter: “But, my dear sir, it will be so unbecoming; so very large, you i-now.” Customer: “Hush! make it that way, I tell you there must he space for the brick.” A Saratoga hotel has a waiter seven feet high, and he is very popular. When he spills the soup it gets cooled off'falling through the air, and therefore does not burn the bald head underneath. An exchange says: “A man lives in this vicinity who states that he first met his wife in a storm, took her to the first ball in a storm, popped the question in a storm, and has lived in a storm ever since.” 4 boy in a country school was reading the following sentence: “The light-house is a land-mark by day and a beacon by night,” and rendered it thus: “The light-house is a landlord by day and a deacon by night.” “Have you seen our friend B, lately?” “Yes.” Then you must have noticed that he dyes his hair in front, but forgets to dya the back of it.” “Well, it only proves this, tbit if he is willing to deceive himself, he is not willing to deceive others.”—Paris Pleasantry. A soft answer: “Ah!” he exclaimed, as he pressed her tenderly to him at parting, “shall I hold vou in these arms again to-morrow and paint our future with the bright pigments of the imagination.” “No,” she said, calmly, “Not to-morrow. To-morrow’s wash-day.” Appropriate: A Philadelphia boy was asked if he ever prayed in church and answered, “Ob, I always say a prayer like all the rest do, just before the sermon begins.*’ “Indeed,” responded the astonished querist, “what do you say?” “Now I lay me down to sleep,”

On the international train that left yesterday for San Antonia there was a darkey who kept sticking his bead out of the car window. “Keep y<>ur head inside,” said the conductor, angrily. “Whaffor?” '.For fear you will damage some of the iron work of the bridge, you fool.”—Texas siftings. Didn’t match: “How are you and your wife coming on ?” asked a Galveston man of a colored man. “She’s run me off, boss.” “What’sthe matter?” “I is to blame, boss. I gave her splendid white silk dress and den she got so proud she had no use for me. She ’lowed I was too dark to match de dress.” —Texas Siftings. Mr. Henry James, the Anglo-Amer-ican, asked a young lady in Washington, “Is there not a river near here called the Potomac? “Oh. ye.*, indeed, Mr. James; and at a place cal led Mt. Vernon there once dwelt a Mr. Washington; you may have heard of ihim: his father was an Englishman. —Haivard Lampoon.