Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Page 6

The Republican. ■■■■:' - ' RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, r - Pobuhhke

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Cockrell presented a memorial In the Senate, Deoc S*. from the merchants, manufacturers, and business men of St. Louis opposing the repeal of the Vaporising law of 1879, which permits vtoogarmakers to produce low wines lor the purpose of making vinegar without payment of the United St&trs tax. The Senate confirmed this appointment of Royal At. Johnson to be Surveyor General of Arizona. Adjourned until Jan. 7. Tike Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting the report of the Secretary of State, and the papers relating to the trial, conviction, and execution of the late Patrick O'Donnell. Laid on the table for toturc action. Speaker Carlisle announced the Standing committees, and the House adjourned to Jan. 7. __ THE EAST. Dick Peiilek and Dyde Bright fought eighty-seven rounds near Wilkesbarref Christmas day, for S3OO a side, Pedler winning the contest, in which great brutality and enduranee were displayed. _ ■ •' - The banks of Providence hold 9787,000 of the paper of A. D. Smith & Co., the bankrupt manufacturers In alighting from his coupe at his residence in New York. Gen." Brant slipped and foil upon the ic£ sidewalk, being painfully wounded near the hip. No bones were broken, but the sciatic nerve was bruised and the General is compelled to keep his bed... .S. C. Blodgett, recently Treasurer of the Providence (B. I.) Institution for Savings, Is a defaulter and fugitive from justice. He had served the bank for thirty-sev-en years, and close a his career by the theft of $20,000. . the west. An Ounay (Colo.) dispatch reports a terrible accident, by which nearly half a score of people lost their lives: "The Virginius mine is owned by the Carolina Mining company, of Boston, employs thirty-five men, anil Is situated above the timber line at the foot of the Sueffies range. Friday afternoon a huge mass of snow started from the top of the range and swelled into an avalanche as it descended, striking the building used as a boarding-house, where eleven men were resting. It swept thebuiid- . tog completely awaf. crushing and burying toe men fifteen and twenty feet under the snow, among the rocks and timber, fortunately missing the engine-house. After toe noise and confusion the other miners were posted from the shaft and started in search for their comrades. Five were taken out alive, but badly crushed, and may die. The other six were found dead." While a party was returning to Ouray, brings tog the bodies of the dead men, another snow■lide struck the sleds containing the corpses, carrying them 2,000 feet down the mountain, whenoe they plunged i>oo feet over a precipice, where they must remain until spring. The party reached Ouray half dead from exhaustion.

Bishop Warren, of the Methodist diocese of Georgia, was married to Mrs. Biff, of Denver, 0010., at that city last week. Bishop Simpson officiated... .John A. Clark was hanged at Bozeman, Montana, for the murder of Thomas Rogers. A terridle railroad accidfcnt on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad occurred Christmas eve, near Salem, Ind., resulting in the death of 6even persons and toe wounding of a number of others. Tlie place where the accident happened is the bridge over Biue river. Tho stream is a narrow one, and in the summertime is an insignificant brook. The speedy melting of snow and the heavy rain following had swollen it to undue proportions. Tho flood had washed away the earth from under tho shore-supports of tho bridge, rendering toe structure weak and shaky The train consisted of a baggage car, smoking car, ladles' car, and tho Pullman buffet car Escaria. Just after the engine had gotten safely across the bridge suddenly settled. The awful crash followed. The chasm Is about forty feet deep. The baggage ear pitched headlong into the river, while tho other cars telescoped and were badly smashed. Some of them, however, remained partially on the track, although what was left of the cars was scarcely anything but debris. Tho bridge was only about half again os long os a passenger coach, so that all the cars did not go into too * water. A scene of excitement and confusion ensued, and tho passengers, many of whom were bruised and otherwise injured, began crawling out of the coaches. Some were asleep in the buffet car, but managed to get out all right. Through the overturning of the stoves the wreet( caught fire, and all that was above water'burned. A dispatch from Telluride, Colo., says that “a snow-slido came down Marshall basin, carrying off a shaft-house at toe Mendota mine containing fourteen men, eight of whom were killed outright. Two . were wounded and four dug themselves out.” An Alma (Chi.) telegram reports that “a snow-slide occurred near Montezuma, which carried John Headstrotn, John Amstrom and John ling, three miners, half a mile down the mountain. Ahlstrom and Ling were badly frozen and will probably die. Headstrotn is ■till missing and must have been killed." The eleventh and twelfth days of the Emma Bond outrage case at Hillsboro, HI., were oonsumed by the defense In further building and strengthening their alibi Structure. Clementi, one of the defendants, was placed in the stand and accounted for hfs whereabouts on the day of the outrage to a straightforward story. A number of witnesses, all of them, with one exception, relatives of the accused, were called to the witness stand and corroborated the stories of the three defendants. -On the thirteenth day Of the trial Miss Bond was recalled and gave important testimony directly contradictory of John C. Montgomery. She had to leave the witness stand for tho Judge’s private room, where she fainted and fell heavily to the floor. On recovering she remarked V, that her condition Wns caused by the presence Of Montgomery. William Fox, who perpetrated a treacherous murder to procure money by which he dud his paraAiour could secure divorces from their respective spouses, was executed at Nevada, Mo., and met death to a feaoiess manner. The woman for whom be committed toe crime brought him to the gallows.... The Ohio liquor dealers, after a two days’ convention at Columbus, resolved that the Bcott law was Inimical to the best interests of the (State, and asked the coming Letris ature to repeal toe Scott law by a judicious and constitutional enactment.

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Austin, Tex., referring to tbe recent report that a suit is soon ' to be brought in the United States Court of Claims to recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war aays: “Gov. Ireland, Attorney General Tom plot on. and several prominent lawyers consulted by the reporter scout the idea that Texas has any more claim on the Federal Government than any otter Southern State. They consider the scheme a very foolish one, and that if anybody is enraged in it, which is regarded as doubtful, it la for political purposes.” In the streets of Yaxoo, Miss.,% party of negroes tired upon a tup. kd by Joan F. Posey, a white business sen. killing Posey and two others and wounding two more. Posey had heeu insulted by a negro and went c 8 to collect his friends. Tbe negro did the aamo thing, and bis baud unexpectedly "v ■ i. / • , * • %

opened fire as soon as toe Posey party put in as appearance. The negro leader was killed while resisting arrest, and the City Council, after an investigation, resolved that toe conflict was entirely personal, and not the result of race rancor or political difficulties..... Fifty armed men took three persons of bad reputation from a saloon at McDade, Tex., carried them to the outskirts, and hanged them. The following day, friends of the lynched men came to McDade, and picked a quarrel, when a fight with shot-guns and revolvers ensued. In which three men wore killed, and j one badly wounded.... A band of desperadoes are terrorizing the northern section of Grayson county, Tex. They recently killed two persons and burned a church and school-house.... A turkey-shoot near Paris, Ky., ended in the killing of two negroes by another negro. , • r A family named Boss, the parents and five children, were drowned in a sudden rise In Hardy creek, Trimble county, Ky. The neighbors heard their screams, but did not venture out to the night. The following morning the cabin and inmates were all missing.

The Atchafalaya bridge of the Texas Pacific toad, a structure 1,015 feet in length, has been completed, and trains are now crossing. The Construction of this bridge was begun In September, 1881, and the cost approximates $500,000... .Archbishop Perchc died in New Orleans last week. A gambled named Bums killed the night watchman at the end of the track on the Mexican Central road, near El Paso, Tex. Burns was hanged to a box-car by a m0b....Tw0 negroos, • accused of shooting white men, were takon from jail at Brooksvillc, Fla., and shot dead. WASHINGTON. Mr. Buckner, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, is preparing a bill to introduce when Congress reconvenes. It provides for the issuing of Treasury noies without the legal-tender quality to take the place of bank notes going out of existence. The purport of the" measure is the same with that of the bill Introduced by Mr. Buckner during the first session of the last Congress. Secretary Teller and a party of agents and inspectors will soon go to Muscogee, Indian Territory, to investigate the Creek troubles and make recommendations to bring about a settlement. Representative Bland, chairman of the Coinage Committee, expects to effect no ohanges in the laws this session except to bring about the even exchange qf standard dollars for trade dollars. Representative Buckner disavows any Intention of making war on the national banks, but holds that their note franchise is vicious and unnecessary.... Brig.-Gen, ■ Andrew A. Humphreys died suddenly at Washington. GENERAL. An Orange procession at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was attacked, three men being killed and soveral mortally wounded. Troops have been forwarded to the scene. Burned: Several stores at Rushford, N. Y., involving a loss of $50,000; Belcher’s shoe factory, Holbrook, Mass., loss $30,000; Tyson Brothers’ mill and elevators, Baltimore, loss $70,000; Blanchard’s mills, Winterburn, Pa., loss $30,000; Wright’s sash and blind factory, Stevens Point, Wis., loss $10,000; Linderholm’s elevator, Clarinda, lowa, loss $10,000; Harrison’s dry-goods store, Paris, Tex., loss $30,600; Sara/.in’s tobAcco factory, New Orleans, loss $20,000; eigb't business houses at Stowartsville, Mo., loss $30,000; awing of the insane asylum. Ward’s Island, N. Y., loss $25,000; a number of stores at Neches, Tex., loss $20,000; a herd of cattle and horses, at the Cheyenne agency, I. T., loss $12,000; the Luthei-an church, Rochester, Pa., loss $10,000; Ueniorest’a fruit store. New Orleans, loss $25,000; a large saw mill, at Deer Lake, Mich., loss $125,000; a large printing establishment, at Montreal, Canada, loss $55,000; a street ear house and stables, at Cambridge, Mass., loss $35,000; u cotton-seed oil mill at Temple. Tex., loss $35,000; Goddard’s flour mill at Freeport, 111., loss $10,000; Tobie’s flour-mill, Troy, Kan., loss $35,000; a storehouse at. Memphis, Tenn., loss $35,000; the Havelock house, Algona, lowa, loss $l!>,000; Samuel 'Guppies’ broom faotery and other property in St. Louis, Mo., loss $450,000: a flouring mill at Chippewa Falls, Wis., loss $35,000; a match factory at Utica, N. Y., loss $15,000; a flouring mill at Cape Girardeau, Mo., loss $00,000; Neidoringbiun’s furniture store, St. Louis, Mo., loss $100,000; a business,structure at Red Wing, Minn., loss $25,000; Lee’s shoe' factory, Athol, Mass., loss $70,000; Hardenbtirg & Co.’s carpet store, Brooklyn, N. Y-, loss $125,000; Green Brothers’ foundry, Waterford, Ontario, loss $30,030; several stores and shops at Fargo, Dak., loss $40,000; a number of business houses at Bloomflold, Ind., loss $215,000: the Empire, brewery, Utica, N. Y., loss $40,000; the offices of the Tribune and Time* and half a dozen stores at Hammond, Ind., loss $45,000. Deaths : Ex-Mayor Strasburg, of Baltimore, one of the defenders of that city against the British; John F. Ramsey, one of the pioneer settlers of Madison, Ind.; Rev. Dr. T. D. Anderson, of Boston, a widely known Baptist clergyman; Henry S. Buckner, an old and wealthy merchant of New Orleans, aged 87; Rev. John B. Wright, of Waylund, Mass., the oldest Unitarian clergyman in the United States; Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Cram (retired), of the United States Engineer Corps: Gen. Hiram Leonard, of San Francisco, retired army officer; exGov. Ralph P-. Lowe, of lowa, at Washington City; Judge E. S. Williams, a- prominent Chicago lawyer; the wife of Gen. W. 8. Rosecrans, at Washington, D. C.; Gen. Thomas L. Kano, one of the moat prominent citizens of Fennsyi vania. • A. D. Smith & Go., of Providenoe, R. 1., operating 87,000 cotton spindles, have failed for $1,000,000. The crash is a highly disastrous one, carrying with it the suspension of three great companies besides the five mills run by the ruined firm. Other failures of the week are as follows: Bomann & Von Bermith. worsted goods. New York, liabilities $75,000: Willis Bronson, real estate. New York, liabilities 8250.000: J. W. Woolfolk, cotton factory, Columbus, Ga., liabilities $200,000; J. P. McAfee, hardware, Celina, Ohio, liabilities $20,000; W. H. Kingsloy, grain, AUensville, 111., liabilities $28,000; Donald Gordon, dry goods, Rochester, Oswego and Moxico, N. Y., liabilities s2oo,oott; Lockhart & St right, dry goods, Albany,lnd.,liabilitie,sl2,000 ; 6. Jacobus, dry goods, Nashville, Teun., liabilities, $40,000; Gordon. Barker & Co., millers, Sparta, 111., liabilities, $160,000; Goo. Brooks Jt Bro., hardware, Allerton, 11L, liabilities $18,000: H. S. Gilbert & Co., grain and commission, Ottawa. 111., liabilities, $250,000; Soper & Co., auctioneers, Baltimore, liabilities, $35,000; French & McKnight, dry goods, Erie, Pa., liabilities, $34,000; Horatio E. Davis & Co., dry goods, Boston; Lam born & Gray, bankers Alliance, Ohio; J. B. Lam bert. dry goods Chattanooga, Tenn., liabilities $63,000. Last week’s business failures numbered £oe, twenty less than the previous week, but eighteen more than for the corresponding period in 1882... .The gross earnings of the Lake Shore road for the year are reported at $18,550,000, and of the Central and Southern line at $14,000,000. In the riot at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, two Orangemen and two Catholics were killed, and eight persons mortally and. about twenty slightly wounded. FOREIGN. It is stated that France will not be. gin negotiations for peace until her forbes occupy Bae Ninh, and that the French loss of life at Sontay was greater than reported. The Chinese are active in the Red River delta constructing defenses..... Forty thousand looms are idle in Lancashire, England. There 1 threatens to to an equally colossal strike of miners In Yorkshire. The ironworkers in France are also discontented. Col. Henry R, Rathbone, of Albany,

N. Y., while traveling in Germany, killed his wife in Hanover Christmas day, and then attempted suicide. Col. Rathbone and the lady be has murdered (in 1865 Miss Harris) were sitting in toe box at Ford’s theater when the assassin Booth entered and killed Abraham Lincoln, i.. The French Government has instructed Admiral Courbet to follow up his victory at Sontay with the utmost baste compatible with safety.... Russian Nihilists are quarreling among themselves. The Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, who has been in 'confinement in Turkestan, tried to escape to India on horseback, but was overtaken.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A mob composed of 200 aimed men marched through the streets to the jail at Yazoo, Miss., demanded and received from the jailer the keys to the prison. The object of tbeir visit was to inflict summary punisiimefit upon four negroes confined therein for the murder of Joseph Nichols and the Posey brothers, a few days previous, and they did their work promptly and effectually. The mob first proceeded to the cell of W. H. Foote. The door was forced open, and as one of the crowd entered he was struck with ahaud-iron from the fireplace wrapped In a towel, and knocked down. At this moment firing commenced and the prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by moro than a dozen shots. Robert Swaysee, another of the murderers, ‘ was taken from his cell, a rope placed around his neck and thrown over the fence, and he was thus hanged. They then proceeded to the cell in which Richard Gibbs was incarcerated, but could not open the doors with the keys. Gibbs appeared at the grating of his cell, and on being perceived was riddled with shot. A rope was passed into his cell, which was placod around him by his cell-mate, and he was then dragged out and hangod from the outside of the building. The mob then ugsnt upstairs to Mica jah Parker’s cell. Ho was taken out, a rope placed areund his neolf, and in the balcony of the middle corridor of the jail he was hanged, the body dangling over the baleouy. After this the crowd quietly dispersed. The victims are all negroes, and Foote was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the district. The lynchers were young white inen from the surrounding country. No effort was made to binder them.... Four colored children on. a plantation at Summerton, S. C., in the absence of their mother built a fire, which consumed the house and cremated themselves.

The excess of the value of exports over imports of merchandise for the month ended No v. 30,1883,was $23,375,753, and for the twelve months ended Nov. 30 $l2O 000,■000. The values of the imports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1883, were $802,495,561, a decrease of $58,186,000 compared with the same time last year. The values of the exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1883, were $812,406,651, an increase of $00,418,080 over the same time in 1882.... The State Deparment has learned that American pork and lard are not even permitted to pass through Germany in sealed cars...-A party of French aliens, who have for years controlled the modeling-room in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury, at Washington, have been dismissed. The Orange Grand Master of Ireland has issued a circular advising the enrollment of volunteer forces for the society, and announcing that the Government will be asked to arm those men with rifles, to be stored in the Orange halls... .Egyptian rebels at tacked the town of Gezireh. ne.ir Berber, but were repulsed with heavy loss by only twb companies of Bashi-Bazouks.... Lieut. Col. Sudeikin. of the Russian army, has been assasinated by Nihilists, whe also threaten the Minister of the Interior.... Garcia, tho most noted gambler in Europe, who has been known t:> win or lose stakes of £100,030, has entered a Trappist convent in Spain... .Cardinal Bishop Antonino do Luca died at Rome.

Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, is alter Attorney General Brewster, and a Washington dispatch say 6 he will shortly prefer charges and ask the appointment of a committee to investigate the Department of Justice. The charges os formulated are, in brief, that the detectives ih the employ of the department are managing things to their own liking; that some of them are unfit for the places they hold; that some of them was discharged some time ago from another department for making fabe entries; that another has been drawing mileage he was not entitled to, and the money appropriated for tho support of the department has not been spent in an economical manner, nor with due regard to the public interest. A dispatch from Walla Walla, W. T., Bays that as Sheriff Thompson and Jailer Williams were visiting tho jail cells at night for the last time they were attacked by Elfus and Owen, two condemned murderers, who knocked them senseless with bricks they had secreted. On the jailer showing signs Of recovery they took a knife from his pocket and |raeked him to pieces, and then tied.... After a three hours’ wrestling contest at San Francisco, Muldoon defeated Bauer, and was oarried from the hall on the shoulders of admiring friends. The number of emigrants arriving at Castle Garden for 1883 was 387,638, against <55,540 for 1882.... The city of New York spent over $5,000,000 for charity during th* vear 1883.

THE MARKET.

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THE HOUSE.

Speaker Carlisle’s Committee Assignments. Following is a full list of the committees of the National House of Representatives, as made up by the Speaker: Elections—Messrs. Turner of Georgia. Davis Of Missouri, Converse, Cook,- Bennett, Lowry, Elliott, Robertson of Ken ncky, Adams of New York, Rann »y, Pettibone, Miller of Pennsylvania, Valentine, Hepburn of lowa, and Hart. Ways and Means— Morrison, Mills, Blonnt, Blackburn, Hewitt of New York, Herbert, Hnid, Jones of Arkansas, Kelley, Kasson, McKinley, Eisoock, and Russell. Appropriations—Randall, Forney, Ellis. Holman, Hancock, Townshend, Hutchins, Follett, bumes, Keifer, Cannon, Ryan, Calkins, Horr, and Washburn. Judiciary—Tucker, Hammond. Culberson of Texas, Menton, Broadbead, Dorsheimer, Collins, Beney, Reed, E. B. Taylor of Ohio, McCoid, Browne of Indiana, and Poland. i Banking and Currency—Bnckner, Ermentrout. Potter, Hunt, Miller of Texas, Candler, Wilkins, Yaple, Dingley, Bmmm, Adams of Illinois, Henderson of lowa, and Hooper. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—Bland, Dowd, Hardy, Nicholls, Pnsey, Lapham, Tully, Belford, Lacey, Chace, Everhart, and Luna Commerce —Reagan, Clardy, Turner of Kentucky, Dunn, Seymour, Glascock, Woodward, Boyle, Barksdale, O’Neill of Pennsylvania, Davis of Illinois, Wadsworth, Long, Stewart of Vermont, and Peters. Rivers and Harbors— Willis, Blanchard, Jones of Alabama, Gibson, Rankin, Breckinridge, Murphy, Sumner, Houseman, Henderson of Illinois, Bayne, Robinson of Ohio, Chace, Stone, and Burleigh. Agriculture—Hatch of Missouri. Aiken, Dibrell, Williams, Beach, Green, Winans, Weller, Patton, Cullen, Wilson of lowa, White of Minnesota, Ochiltree, Hovey, Stephenson, and Raymond of Dakota.

Foreign Affairs—Curtin, Belmont, Deaster, Clements, Cox of North Carolina, G. D. Wise of Virginia, Stewart of Texas, Lamb of Indiana, Rice, Wait, Ketcham, Phelps and Hitt. Military Affairs—Rosecrans, Slocum, Dibrell, Morgan, Wofford, Nicholis, Murray, Duncan, fteele, Bayne, Lyman, Laird, Cutcheon and MaInnis of Montana. Naval Affairs—Cox of New York, Morse, Talbott, Buchanan, Eaton, Ballantyne, McAdoo, Harmer, Thomas, Goff and Boutelle. Postoffices and Post Roads—Money, Reese, Ward, Cosgrove, Riggs, Rogers of Arkansas, Taylor of Tennessee, Jones of Texas, Paige, Bingham, Peelle, Skinner of New York, White of Kentucky, Wakefield and McCormick. Railways and Canals—Davidson, Hoblitzell, Murphy, Paige, Caldwell, Turner of Kentucky, Wemple, Culbertson of Kentucky, James, Atkinson, and Hatch of Michigan. Public Lands—Cobb, Beales, Oates, Shaw, Lewis, Henley, Van Eaton, Belford, Strait, Anderson, Payson, and Brents of Washington Territory. Indian Affairs —Welborn. Graves, Stevens, Peel, Pierce, Finerty, Skinner of North Carolina, Smith, George, Perkins, Nelson, and Oury of Arizona. . Territories—Evins of Sou'h Carolina, Pryor, Arnot, Hardeman, Lanham, Alexander, Carleton, Horan, J. D. Taylor of Ohio, Kellogg, Johnson, Lawrence, Struble, and Post of Wyoming Territory. Manufactures—Bagley, G. D. Wise of Virginia, Mitchell, Caldwell, Crisp, Lewis, Brewer of New Jersey, Mackey, Ellwood, and Campbell of New York. Mines and Mining—Warner of Tennessee, Cassidy, Alexander, Skinner of North Carolina, Miller of Texas, Wood, Stevens, Breitung. Culbertson of Kentucky. O'Hara, and Singiser of Idaho. Levees and Improvements of Mississippi River—King, Dunn, O'Neill of Missouri, Post, Campbell, Jones ot Wisconsin, Henley,Thomas, J. S. Wise of Virginia, Howey and Whiting. „ Militia —Muller of New York, Covington, McAdoo, Peelle, Boyle, Balientyne, Strait, Money, Valentine and Cutcheon. Claims—McMillin, Dowd, Tillman, Warner of Ohio, Van Alstyne, Dockery, Wood, Lore, Snyder, Ray of New Hampshire, Price, Ochiltree, Ellwood, Brown of Pennsylvania, and Ray of New York.

War Claims —Geddes, Jones of Wisconsin, Stone, Tully, Rogers of New York, Weller, Ferrell, Kellogg, Everhart, Rowell and Bowen. Revision of the Laws—Oates, Buchanan, McMillin, Hill, Clay, Ward, Hemphill, Biown of Pennsylvania, Bayne, Spooner and MeComas. Public Buildings and Grounds—Stockslager, Young, Dibble, Reese, Hopkins, Pusey, Wemple, Worthington, Brainerd, Holton, Kean, Breitung, and Miiliken. Pacific Railroads—Cassidy, Throckmorton, Cabell, Thompson Jr., Jordan, Crisp, Post, Wilßon of lawa, Millard, Dunham, and Hanback. Exp-nditnres of the War DepartmentThompson, Ferrell, Taylor of Tennessee, Elliot, Mayo, Johnson, and lianback. Expenditures of the Navy Department— Mprse, Hewett of New York, Shaw, Davidson, Bouk, Davis of Massachusetts, and Lawrence. Expendi; ures of the Department of Justice — Springer, N mphill, Van Alstyne, Fyan, Stewart of Vermont, Bowen, and Stephenson. Expenditures of Public Buildings—Belmont, Wilkins, Spriggs, Sumner of YV iscohsin, Harmer, Weaver, and O’Hara. Expenditures of the Postoffice Department— Morgan, Talbott, Robinson of New York, Neece, Peelle, Stone and Nutting. Expenitures of the* Interior Department— Yonng, Clardy, Cook, Storm, Brumm, Dunham and Payne. Patents—Vance, Singleton, Mitchell, Greenleaf, Hallsell, Dargan, YVinans of YVisconsin and Hepburn. Education—Aiken, Converse, Willis, Budd, Arnot, Duncan, YVinans of YVisconsin, -Taylor of Ohio, Miiliken, Hatch of Michigan and Morrill. Invalid Pensions—Matson, Le Fevre. Fyan, Winans of Michigan, Budd, Sumner of Wisconsin, Patton, Lovering, Bagley, Ray of New Hampshire, Cullen, Houk, J. S. W’ise of Virginia, Holmes, Merrill. - Pensions—Hewitt of Alabama, Tillman, Robinson of New York, Steele, Laird, Struble and York. Expenditures of the State Department— Hardeman, Dargan, Worthington, Campbell, Barr, U& derson of lowa and I Tice. Expenditures of the Treasury Department— Davis of Missouri, Hewitt ot Alabama, Potter, Connolly, Lacey, Libby, Haynes. Labor—Hopkins, O’Nei.l of Missouri, Foran, Lovering, Mackey, James, Haynes. District of Columbia—Barbour, Muldrow, Sht llev, Eldredge, Wilson of West Virginia, Feedler, Spriggs, Barr, Guenther, MeComas and Jeffords. Private Lands —Muldrow, Mitchell of Alabama, Cabell, Cosgrove, Eldredge, Lowry, Payson, Parker, Mayo and Weaver. Public Health—Beach. Graves, Riges, Candler, Fielder, Davis of Massachusetts, Evans of Pennsylvania, Libbyn and Pettibone. "Ventilation and Acoustics—Hardy, Ca'iell, Green, Shelley, Jeffords, Evans of Pennsylvania and Brewer of New York. Enrolled Billsr-Neece, Warner of Tennessee, Snyder, Yaple, Peters, Holmes. SELECT COMMITTEES. Reform of the Civil Service—Mutchler, Cox, Clements, Hoblitzel. Finerty, Barksdale, Soy-* monr, Robertson of Kentucky, Bingham, Phelps,. Millard, Lyman, Hitt. Alcoholic Liquor Traffic—Hitt, Bland. Kleiner, Carleton, Evins, Davis of Illinois, Guenther, Goff, Campb-H. American Shipbuilding and Shipowning—Sloienni, Deusier, Dibble, Throckmorton, Hunt, Findlay, Lore, Dingley, O’Neil of Pennsylvania, George, ljong. \ On the Law Respecting t-be Election of President and Y’iee President—Eaton, Springer, Clay, Jordan, Prvor, Bennett, Kleiner, Findlay, Parker, YVhtte of Kentucky, Peters. Hart, Wait. On Payment of Ffcnsions, Bounties, and Back Pay—Warner of Ohio, Connolly, Pierce of Tcnnesssc, Rogers of Arkansas. Greenleaf, Brewer or New York, York, Whiting, Anderson. JOINT SELECT COMMITTERS. Printing—Scales, Rogers of New York, Smith. Library—Singleton, Woodward. Nutting.

SMALL TALK

The “Confederate ro6e” is a singular flower grown by Joseph C. Bailey, of New Orleans. It is white in the morning, but red at night. It grows iu large bunches. A FARMER in Stokes county. N. C., got into a frenzy over his short crops this season, and cursed hoavon and earth. YY’hilo he was cursing he was suddenly paralyzed. A sparrow flew against a man as he was briskly rounding the corner of an old wall In Ky, The bird’s bill entered the corner of the man’s eyey destroying the sight. A curious lawsuit is now pending In Lausanne. A dog chased a cat, which fled down toe air shaft loading from the street into a wine vault. The dog followed, and the two fell against too tap of a largo e**k of Yvorne, and the wine began to flow. The wine merchant claimed he had a cause of action for the loss of his wine, and as the owner cf the cat was not known, he sued tho dog. Plymouth church, Brooklyn, received but seven new members last year.

CHARLES HARVEY'S FATE.

A Mob Takes Him from Jail at Peters* , fair?, Ind. His Body Afterward Found Dangling to a Locust Tree. (Telegram from Vincennes, Ind.] Sunday morning, between the hours of I and 2 o'clock, from fifty to seventydive men surrounded toe jail inPetersburg.Pike county* Ind., in which was confined young Charlie Harvey, the murderer of Henry Custin, Jr. The front door was broken and unfastened, and a guard was stationed near it, but he was quickly overpowered. The jailer was in bed, and the leaders of the mob crowded into his room and demanded the keys to the <ja.il doors. These he gave up at once, seeing that it was useless to attempt resistance. The mob marched with the keys to the cell where Harvey was confined. As soon as he beard the noise he was struck dumb with terror. Grabbing hold of him the mob piaood a rope around his neck, pinioned his arms, and bade hint walk ahead. They hurried the doomed man to the edge of the town, and, arriving at a locust tree, proceeded to bang him up. After hanging him, they placed a card in his hand bearing the words: “More to follow.” It is stated that Harvey made a confession of the murder of Henry Custin, whioh occurred Friday night. Nothing positive is known, as the men who received the confession are mute. The confession is said to implicate one of the most desperate characters of Petersburg. The body hung suspended from the tree from 3 until 10 o’clock Sunday morning, and was covered with sleet and ice and frozen stiff. Three thousand people visited the scene Sunday. The Coroner cut the body down between 9 and 10 o’clock, and rendered a verdict that Charles Harvey came to his death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties. The crime which young Harvey expiated in so horrible a manner was one of the most cold-blooded murders on record. Henry Custin was employed in tho dry-goods store of Ed Montgomery, and it is supposed the murderer thought he carried some of Montgomery’s money or that ho mistook Custin for Mofftgomei y. Custin was returning home about 10 o’o.ock in the evening, and was shot almost at his own floor. A barber who lived near heard two shots, raised a window, and saw one man bending over the prostrate form of another. The murderer fled, and the dead man was borne to his home. Those in pursuit went to Harvey’s home, two miles east or Petersburg, at a village called Alford. Harvey was requested to come forth, and with reluctance put on his clothes. He put on one hoot, and then refused to put on the other. His mother brought his boot from the kitchen, and was noticed rubbing it with her fingers. The boot was snatched out of .her hand and blood was discovered upon it. The boot exactly fitted the tiyck of the man who shot Custin. Harvey was taken to Petersburg. He requested that they should lock him securely in Jail, as he feared the mob.

A TERRIBLE STORY.

The Horrible Fate T)f the Crew of a Steamer Burned at Sea. [Cable dispatch from London.] The second engineer of the burned steamer St. Augustin, who was landed at Shields, tells a heartrending story-of the wreck. He says that when all the boats had been filled there were still thirty people on the burning ship. The lifeboat, which was. already loaded down to the gunwales, was appealed to by these unfortunates to save them. Their agonized cries were irresistible, and even the strong desire for life, always selfishly- manifest under extreme circumstances, was overcome, and the boat returned. The folly Of the attempt was apparent to all. The weight of one more human being, let alone thirty, would be fatal, but this was forgotten or disregarded and the life boat turned her course toward the doomed vessel. She approached as carefully as possible, laboring over the big seas, only to be dashed to pieces, for when near the St. Augustin she was thrown with terrific force against the side of the ship and crushed. Nearly all in her were drowned at once. The rest clambered over the sides, catching overhanging ropes, and sufferod probably a worse fate with those 011 board. Ihe Captain of the St. Augustin, after having his legs cut off by a falling spar, begged ol’ the crew to tie some weight to his body and throw him overboard. He preferred drowning to being burned. The crew finally complied, and he was heavily weighted and thrown into the sea. The second mate, after his master had gone, became perfectly frantic, and, pulling his pistol, he put the muzzle into his mouth, and sent the charge through his brain. He fell dead in his tracks. These examples were followed by the rest. Some jumped overboard, others stabbed themselves, all seeming to prefer some quicker mode of terminating existence than the borribie torture awaiting them from the rapidly advancing flames. YY’hen the John YViUiamson hove to and stood by, a perfect hurricane was blowing. She nevertheless touched a boat containing a volunteer crew and sent it to tho rescue. YVben the St. Augustin waa reached the man in the bow jumped for a dangling line, but he missed it and was drowned. A second man made the attempt. He was dashed against the side of the vessel and killed. Two others followed and were drowned. Finally a line was secured and six persons were taken off. This waß all that could be done. The sea ran bo high that a near approach meant certaiu death, and the gallant orew of the Wfillaihson were obliged to return, leaving those still on board the blazing ship to their fate. The YVilliamson was meanwhile drifting away. She made desperate efforts to face the storm and keep her boat in sight, but they were almost useless. When she wai about to give up the boat was seen coming toward her and the crew with the six rescued men were with great difficulty taken on board. The boat bad rescued Six persons and had lost four in doing so.

“ FRENCH GLORY THIRST.”

A Nation Intoxicated by a Yictory Over tlie Chinese. [Cable Dispatch from Paris.] The Parisians are just now jubilant over the French successes at Sontay. The cry, “A’ Pekin!” is the popular thing in the cases and public places. The people who a week ago were clumoring against the Government because of "this crazy Tonquin business” are now applauding the Ministry for “the glory won by the legions of France." A week ago the populace thought the Chinese myriads would simply obliterate the French army; to-night tho same.populace appears to fancy that toe French army have a holiday inarch before them. The capture or Sontay seems to have thoroughly revived among the French people, particularly In Pnrls, the old national malady “ French glorythirst.” Tho statesmen of the republic are alarmed at this, for they know and fear Us certain icndoocy.

ODD STORIES.

Is New Haven, Conn., 172 persons over 70 diod .ast year. The population is about 60,000. The terms of twenty*five United States Senators will expire in 1885, of whom fourteen are Democrats and cloven Republicans. As-ostrich raiser says that ostriches are plucked once a year when uud t 3 years at •go, and twice a year when older, yielding feathers at each plucking worth from S7O to s9o. ' The Pike's I*eak railway will probably be completed by Juty 4,1884.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

! Iron rust may be removed the same as ink from white goods. | Cold-drawn castor oil is reooibmo:i<led by an English sportsman as unequaled for water-proofing bopts. It should be applied liberally as first, and less so at subsequent times, .before a moderate fire, and well rubbed in byhand. It does not prevent polishing: the leader. - ,* ; / Grease spots on clothing or carpets may he removed by ammonia, sometimes by hot water and fine soap, sometimes best by repeated layers of buckwheat flour. removing the first as it becomes soiled with the grease, and renewing as often as necessary. Generally ammonia should be; diluted before put on colored clothing. Spots on colored goods, if made by an acid, such as tomatoes or lemon or sous frnit or vinegar, may often bo restored by dropping on the spot a little alkali, such as soda water, or a feudrops of lye diluted with water or ammonia. If the stains or spots are made by lye or soda or any alkali, drop 'oh a little acid, diluted vinegar or tomato or leipon. Grease „pots on wood can often boldest removed by scraping with glass. Qoal oil will sometimes evaporate. I was pained one day by seeing a long streak of coal oil on my new lightcolored wall* paper in my room where it was very conspicuous. When I found the time and paper to cover up the place, I was really astonished to find there was not a trace of the oil. Whether it had evaporated or had been absorbed by the plastering I could not tell, perhaps both. \ v - To Preserve Flowers.— The following directions are given for the preservation of flowers in their form and color: Insert their stems in water in which twenty-five grains of ammonium chloride (sal ammonia) have been dissolved. Flowers can be preserved in this way from fifteen to thirty days.. To preserve them permanently for several months, dip them into perfectly limpid gum water, and them allow them to drain. The gum forms a complete coating on the stems and petals,, and preserves their shape and color long after they have become dry. To Remove ink stains from colored goods or carpet, wash with milk, changing it often, till the milk does not color it; or, in the absence of milk, use an abundance of water, changing frequently. From wl»ite goods, dip the spot in oxalic acid, which will usually take it all out in a few minutes. If not, rub a little, hang in the sun or by thefire, and wash it once, else the acid will injure the fabric. Lemon-juice is also* good for this purpose. Rub it on and hang in the sun, and renew the application if the first does not suffice. Salt added to the juice may sometimes be of use. Never put soap on ink spots. Remedy for Squeaking Shoes.— Sometimes *a peg driven through the middle of the sole will stop the noise. As a rule, only double-soled shoessqueak badly, and they do not wearany better and are little better in any respect than .single-soled. A German shoemaker in Dubuque effectually cures. squeaking by opening the soles at the shank, and along toward the toe if necessary, and putting in a thin paste o 9 clarified neatsfoot oil and French chalk, holding the shoe up so that thepaste will run between the soles to thetoe, and then make the sole fast again, “the paste removing the difficulty entirely. Nervous people will bless him if lie will make this known to other manufacturers generally. —The Housekeeper. .. • •

The Rage for Monuments.

In truth, the present rage for erecting “monuments” is fast becoming a nuisance. Every week or so busybody, who has been studying the almanac, discovers that on such and such a day a person of more or less note was born, or died, or-, did something more or less notorious, and instantly he begs the world to join them in “erecting a monument to his memory.” When only a moiety of mankind could read, wlieh engravings and photographs and books did not exist a “monument” was the only means of appealing to the public eye. This is no longer the case. A'man must be an uninteresting person indeed who does not obtain the attention of those literary hodmen whose persooal histories, have made not bo much the the Eves of statesmen , bitter, and certainly a library is likely to survive the worst monstrosities in marble or in bronze which we could rear to their memories. We have, moreover, not been fortunate in this description of art. Better, if we desire to do honor to the prophets, to marie the houses in which they lived or died, or penned their great poems, or painted their great pictures, than to build their tombs afresh. The Society of Arts has indeed dope something in this direction; but if we are not to lag behind the more reverend continental nations, much still remains to be done. Within the last few days the house in Fox court, in which a very worthless man of fame, Richard Savage, the early friend of Johnson, was born, was pulled down. The house in which Johnson lived in Gough square is still standing; the various Fleet street taverns which lie haunted are, for the most part, in existence, and his chambers in Bolt court and the Inner Temple lane - may perhaps still be visited. But though the garden of the Thrales at Streatham. is now covered with rows of ' red-roofed villas, we fail to find one of these endless avennes named in his honor. This carelessness not to bestow civic honors on our great men ’ is, according to our latest French critics, a bad British fault We have Buggin’s buildings and Jobson’s rents. There are George streets in London until we become bewildered, and how many Chapel streets only the poor postmen know. But in vain we search this directory for a Doctor Johnson street or Shakespeare squares, and there is, perhaps, not in all England the poorest little Btreet bearing the illustrious name of Chaucer or Dryden. —London Standard. Robert Emmet has been dead flighty years.