Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ~ PoßLnannu

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

nuisw. A FIRE which started in C. A. Coffin & Co.’s wooden shoe factory at Lynn, Mass.; spread to the buildings of the Smith Manufacturing Company, Charles B. Tebbetts <t Oa,W two other shoe manufacturing establishments, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, with insurance in excess of that amount ....Samuel Cardwell, a director of the Murray Hill Bank, was garrotedatNew York and robbed of bank stock certificates amounting to $15,000, $l5O in money, and papers only valuable to the owner.... Three lignters loaded with cotton were burned at the foot of Christopher street, New York. The loss is estimated at $50,000.... An explosion of gas in the Hillman mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed one man and seriously injured ten others. In East Cambridge, Mass., ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretenses. Moses made an appeal for mercy, alleging that his mind had given way under his troubles.... The elevated railroads of New York have decided to pay $300,000 in taxes and bring their offices back from Jay Gould’s place on the Hudson. Frau at Troy, N. Y., destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of property. The building burned adjoined the Everett House, and the guests were panic-stricken. An attempt was also made to fire the hotel. Two arrests were made of supposed incendiaries... .A valuable business block in Philadelphia was burned, causing a loss of two lives and $250,000. Nine large business houses, between Second and Front streets, en and near Chestnut, were gutted, and several more were damaged... .One of French, Palmer & French’s spice mills in Fairport, N. Y., was burned. The loss is estimated at $40,000; insurance, $26,000. ... . A medical journal of New York states that all alarming symptoms in Gen? Grant’s tongue and throat have entirely disappeared.

THE WEST.

Detroit telegram: "The meeting of Socialists drew a large audience at Germania Hall to discuss the dynamite question. Two German speakers led off deploring the use of explosives, and declaring that peaceful and constitutional methods were the best course for the Socialists to pursue. This elicited some applause, but when three other speakers openly defended dynamite violence and indorsed the Irish conspirators the applause became- deafening. Lyman E. Stowe cursed the present civilization, and said capitalists were waging a deadly war on the people. If the dynamiters had sent to heaven the bankers assembled in Saratoga last fall; if they woulctblow up a few railroad monopolists and send- them to Satan, and if both our own Senate mid the English House of Lords were dynamited to kingdom come, it would be a glorious thing for the masses. The meeting broke up m confusion without adopting the anti-dynamite resolutions prepared by those who caßed it.".. . .Judge Prendergast, of Chicago, having learned that a verdict for SIOO damages against a landlord was reached by a jury by the foreman flipping a penny, promptly granted a new trial.... Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon has been awarded by the court in San Francisco $2,500 a month alimony and $55,000 counsel fees. Thb Illinois State Encampment, G. A. R., met at Peoria. A membership of 20,000 was reported, 105 posts being added during the year. A resolution was unanimously passed asking the Illinois Congressional delegation to Urge the passage of the Edmunds bill retiring Gen. Grant... .Geo. Scott, an aged resident of Gibson City, HL, seized a young woman whose clothes were on fire and carried her to a snowdrift, saving her life and losing his own. ... .Frederick Hempel, a prominent citizen at Beaver Dam. Wis., with whom a number of poor Germans deposited their funds, has failed for $30,000, with assets of but $4,000.....8ray Bros., grain commission merchants at San Francisco, failed for $50,000. with assets as large, but not readily convertible. New warrants are to be issued for the arrest of Couch and other Oklahoma boomers, to be made returnable March 5, the day which has been set apart for another raid upon the territory. General Hatch will make ammgements for preventing any future m vement that may be attempted The annual report of the Chicago and Alton Road for 1884 is given. Gross earnings amounted to $8,709,274 22, against $8,810,610.38 in 1883, a decrease of $101,336.16.... .Mr. Armstrong, of the Crow Agency, in Montana, has secured from the Secretary of the Interior an order for the imprisonment of three Indian chiefs who are turbulent characters....P. 8. Shelly & Son, wholesale and retail glass and crockery, at Peoria, Hl., have failed for $26,000... .Half the business portion of Marshall, Hl., was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $40,000... .The business portion of Bisbee, Arizona Territory, was swept away by fire, the loss reaching $100,000... .The ministers at Shelbyville, 111., have begun a crusade against progressive euchre. Twelve bodies of the rictims of the snowslide at Alta, Utah, weye brought to Salt Lake. Four of those reported dead were reecued alive, after being buried for hours. By other avalanches in the vicinity six persons have perished. The Grannis Block, one of the finest office buildings in Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire. The firemen fought the flames for hours under the most trying circumstances. The cold was intense, and the streets were flooded with water, which threatened for a time to invade the basements of the neighboring buildings, where great damage might have beep done to perishable stock. Two banks and one private banking firm were among the sufferers. The total loss is estimated at $259.006. One fireman was badly hurt by a falling icicle.. .A plow factory at Hamburg. lowa, with its contents of manufactured farm implements, wagons, etc., was consumed by fire. Loss, $40,000; insured for $20,006. ’. .Mrs. Mack, of Janesville, Wis., who wee tried twice for murdering her husband, being convicted once, bus cheekmated the prosecution by marrying the principal witness against her, and, the other witnesses being scattered, it is not provable that the case will be called again.... Kat Mudmhntg, Ohio, new petroleum wells pened daily. Three spontera, •ventyrfive barrets each, were »e day, and the population is rapidly increasing... .Horses and cattle are dbring in large numbers in the Caldwell (Ohio) seption from a mysterious epidemic, the lorn to farmers thus far reaching $20,$00... .The Weatern Export Association, at

a prolonged session in Chicago, re-estab-lished the whisky pool. X On the Palouse .River, ■Washington Territory, a desperado, named Calvin Pierce, quarreled with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb, and subsequently crept up behind him and split his head open with a pickax. The - murderer jescaped, but an alarm was given, and he was speedily captured. A vigilance committee, composed of miners, tried Pierce, condemned him to death, and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left suspended some time, but was* finally buried. Milton MortoN, a Cleveland business man, suspecting that his place would be robbed, fixed a revolver so that it would be discharged if a certain window were opened. That night Michael Murray attempted to invade the place, and received the bullet in his chest Roswell Miller has been called to the St Paul Road. Joseph F. Tucker has accepted the position of Assistant General Manager, with entire supervision, of freight and passenger traffic.

THE SOUTH.

Some dissatisfaction having been caused in Dallas, Tex., by the recent action of Justice Schuhl in introducing colored jurors into his court, the Hon. James B. Simpson, a leading Democrat, has published a card in which he says that “our courts do not realize and *our fashionable churches have conveniently forgotten that slavery has been blown bellward from the commonwealth." The Mardi-Gras festivities at New Orleans attracted an unusually large number of visitors, and the decorations were of a high order of merit. While the steomer Ida Darragh was unloading a cargo of cotton and cotton-seed at Memphis, Tenn., fire was discovered in her hold. All efforts to extinguish the flames were unsuccessful, and they quickly spread to a wharf-boat and thence to the Anchor Line steamer City of Helena. All three were burned to the water’s edge. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Elizabeth Bony. 96 years old, committed suicide by burning herself to death in her house near Falmouth. Ky. .. A woman, representing herself as Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, has been defrauding merchants and others at Cameron. W. Va. Near Princeton, W. Va., Arthur Jackson (colored), 18 years old, concealed himself behind a clump of laurel bushes and shot Mr. Perry, killing him instantly. He robbed the body of several dollars and part of the clothing. That night he attended a dance, where he was arrested. The following day he had his preliminary examination, at which he confessed his guilt At night a mob took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree.... A negro named Babe Ellison was lynched at Shelbyville, Tenn., for assaulting a white lady... .Brown’s wholesale grocery house at Fort Worth, Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO .... A fruit-schooner, the E. V. Olive, went ashore on Dixie Island, at the entrance to Mobile Bay; Five lives were lost. One sailor was taken from the rigging next morning, but died soon after.

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the general postoffice in London solicited information at Washington in regard to the construction Of postal cars and the manner of handling the mails, and Postmaster General Hatton sent acomple.e description. A West Point cadet named Wright; who recently resigned from the Military Academy because he was unable to keep up With hie class, has been confirmed by the Senate as a Second Lieutenant in the army. Wright comes from New Jersey, and his appointment by the President and subsequent confirmation are thought to have been due to social influence. Every pension bill reported favorably during this session of Congress by the Invalid Pensions Committee passed the House. Of the 1,200 reports made 660 were favorable.

POLITICAL.

Washington telegram to Chicago Tribune : “Inquiry among leading Republicans on the House side of the Capitol develops only good opinions of Messrs. Garland and Lamar. The case of the former was stated tersely but forcibly by an old-time Republican to-day. ‘I think,’ said he, ’that Mr. Garland’s name has been cut in the Cabinet slate with a jack-knife, while the others are in pencil and liable to erasure.’ Several Representatives whom the correspondent talked with, although declaring that they had not the honor of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Garland, seemed impressed with his fitness for a Cabinet position because of his known conservative ideas. As to Mr. Lamar, an opinion generally expressed was that he had a reputation as a scholar and deep thinker, but not much was known of his executive ability. Ex-Speaker Keif er thought Mr. Lamar far above the average Democrat in liberality of spirit and feeling. Mr. Gatland he regarded as one of the foremost men of the country, and his conduct in any department would reflect credit upon a Democratic administration. Representative Hiscock was not very familiar with Mr. Lamar, but had been frequently brought in contact with Senator Garland. He thought the latter was a strong, fair man, and in his intercourse with him the more he saw of the Arkansas Senator the better he liked him.” A concurrent resolution has been adopted by the New Jersey Senate to submit to the people a prohibition amendment to the State Constitution. In the Michigan Legislature the House committee of the whole agreed to a similar constitutional amendment L The first genuine ballot for United States Senator was reached in the Illinois Legislature Feb. 18, there being but two absentees. John Al Logan received 101 votes; W. R. Morrison, 94; E. M. Haines. 4; James H. Ward. 1; . Frank Lawler, 1; and John Smith, 1. A resolution asking Congress to place Gen. Grant on the retired list was unanimously adopted by the Illinois Senate. The House refused by a vote of 86 to 52 to suspend the rules and pass the same resolution. The Democrats moved to add Fitz John Porter’s name and refer the resolution as amended to a committee of five. The motion was adopted by a party vote.... Three ballots for Senator were taken in the Illinois Legislature Feb. 20. every member being present Logan twice received 100 votes, and then 101, Morrison had

GENERAL.

A Chicago dispatch reports that the embargo on railroad travel, caused by the stormy and frigid weather, is very serious. Travel between Chicago and fit. Louis was almost stopped. The postal officials report greater annoyances than have previously

been endured. In the Dubuque section the embargo is repotted as the worst in eighteen years, and from various points come 4 .reports of trains six to ten/ hours late, and of others imbedded in 1 mountainous drifts. Superintendents make announcements that they will not attempt to clear the tracks until the wind subsides. Thermometrical readings average 20 below zero, a few towns reporting one of the coldest nights of the winter. For 100 miles around Dickinson, D, T., a fierce snowstorm raged, with the temperature at zero, msiking all Northern Pacific trains several hours late. Snow and rain fell in Pennsylvania. Snow fell at Wilkesbarre reaching thirteen inches. Six' inches of snow; followed by torrents of rain, fell in the Port Jervis (N.Y.)district. Heavy rain and high tides flooded] streets in New York. The butcher stinds in Washington Market were inundat'd, and every cellar in West and South str iets was submerged. A hurricane along' the Atlantic coast . did heavy damage at Cap» May, Atlantic City, and other points, kt New York two men were fatally hurt b■ a falling shutter, another man being bio n from a building and killed. A wind-i :orm at Denver, Col,, unroofed several sti ictures, and wrecked plate-glass fronts, 1 suiting in a loss of several thousand dollars. Heavy rain following a snow-stern flooded the streets in Baltimore, in some tl iroughfares the water being two feet deep There were 254 failures in th< United States reported during the week as compared with 273 in the preceding i id with 218, 204, and 135, respectively, in he corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, idlßßl. About 85 per cent, were those f small traders whose capital was less thai $5,000. Canada had thirty-three, a decreamof one. -....Special telegrams from jJominent distributing centers to Bras®reet’s from and St. the south, to Boston, Chicago, and at the north, all tell of a decreased of business owing to the the weather and the consequent inteisH|>n to railway traffic... .The opinion p- "'dSb in the City, of Mexico that, regardinppYWWship railway, Capt. Eads will secure front theGovernment the concessions he reqirsts. .In anticipation of a Socialist out Leak the National Guard in New York Citland elsewhere is said to be drilling for Ireet fighting. Chicago merchants are alwreported to be drilling their employes inlimilar tactics. I ’ A collision on the Virginia Miuand Railrotid, a few miles from Washinion, D. C., resulted in the death of five m<s, all train hands. All the passengers, sewnty in number, escaped serious injury. |The safe of the express-car had been opined shortly before the accident, and the fllnes made such headway that the express a*nts could not close it. Its contents |ere burned. On account of the way-bills laving been burned, it cannot now be toldlust how much money was in the safe, but.lt is variously estimated all tlie way from s7® 00 to $150,000. About a bushel of silverlollars were taken out of the wreck. ®ey W’ere badly burned, and many more wire melted into a solid lump. The loss oflhe railroad company is estimated at- $25,1)0. Postal officials say the collision called the largest loss of mail matter of wlch there is any record in the depnrtirHit. The fire which resulted from* the I>l- - destroyed thirteen through roistered mail pouches A party of sußvshovelers at the Chicago Stock Ymds was run down by a Northweswn train. Two of them were killed.lA passenger and a colored porter were kiftd by an accident on the Ohio and Mississjlii Road, near North Vernon, 1nd.... Wo hundred and fifty men are thrown ontlif employment by the burning of the Main Safe Company’s factory, which was jffiIstroyed by fire in New York. me factory was an eight-story buiffiliig. The tottering walls of Me. structure threatened the surrounding tmments, wliich were cleared by hundreds of ijalf-clad women and turned intotheStreets. The loss is mated at $230,000 . Fire partially ed St Michael’s Orphan Asylum arwg Joseph’s Convent near" .Pittsburg, SH Several structures were burned ville, Texas, with a loss of

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Admiral uouu. vs :1 I’leuvb naval vietoiy in CliinW waters. The French torpedo-boats suP? two Chinese men-of-war, three others escaping in a fog. French residents at Shanghai have been placed uPder Russian protection... .It is imported that Lord Dufferin, Vicerby of India, has asked for 20,000 British soldiers to re-enforce the garrisons in India, which, he says, are absurdly weak in view of the prospects of a Russian advance by way of Afghanistan.... Carl Herman, aged 22, of Bloomingiugton. Hl., has been seized in Germany, and will be forced to serve tie allotted term in the aimy unless the American Minister interferes. In consequence of the fall of KhartomP and Gen. Gordon's death, the whole plan of the campaign in the Soudan has bee? changed. Gen. Brackenbury has bee? ordered to abandon his advance on Berber and return to Korti. Col. Buller, wh*> evacuated Gnbat and withdrew to AbuKlea W’ells, has also received orders to fall back on Korti. Gen. Wolseley will probably concentrate his entire army at Debbeh, and will there await help from England. It is thought that the moral offect of Gen. W olselej s retirement will be neu - tralized by the contemplated action from Suakin... .The British Parliament reassembled on the 19th of February. In the House of Lords, Earl Granville stated that the Government left Gen. Wok ley tg decide whether to attack Khartoum at once or delay until the autumn. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone disavowed responsi-h bility for the death of General Gordon, and] remarked that overtures could not be made! to El Mehdi. Sir Stafford Northcote gavel notice of a motion for an address to the! Queen praying for decided measures to-1 ward stable government in India... A battalion of the Coldstream Guards, 840 in number, have started from London] for Suakin. A detachment of Hus-1 sore has left Aidershot for Egypt....] Advices from Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia ] report a revolt among the Russian exiles, which was quelled with great difficulty, Nine soldiers and thirty exiles were killed. .... The wife of James Russell Lowell, Minister to England, died in London, Feb. 19. - The British Government has called out the militia and suspended transfer of officers from the regular army to the reserves. Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart died at Gadkul Wells. The English arsenals are preparing more war material for Egypt than was sent to the Crimea. Gen. BuUer, on his retreat, is menaced by the hordes of El Mehdi.... Advices from Khartoum report that after the battle at Abu-Klea Wells El Mahdi proclaimed a great victory for his troops, and announced that the British were destroyed. The garrison at Kha toum believed the rumors they heard and leveled a portion of the wall to admit the enemy... .The Third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards left England for Suakin last week. Before their departure from Windsor they w.n ad-

dressed by the Prince of ‘Wales, who said that he well remembered the day thirty-one years 4go when the same battalion departed for the Crimea. The Queen sent an autograph letter to the officers assuring them of her good wishes and prayers.... An almost universal protest has arisen against the Ministry in England. It is admitted even by the Fall Mall Gazette, which has always been the friend of the Government, that “Mr. Gladstone’s sun is setting far behind black and lurid clouds.” The war spirit is fully aroused, and the peace party finds little support.... .Three thousand colliers have struck in the coalmines of Mous, Belgium.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Indians about Fort Reno are exhibiting symptoms of hostility on account of the recent invasion of the Oklahoma boomers. The troops at Camp Russell having taken refuge in the fort. The War Department has ordered camp's to be formed along the border of Indian Territory to keep the boomers away... .George Q. Carinon, one of the Mormon leaders, adds his testimony to that of others from Utah that the Edmunds law has bred such insecurity that business is almost at a standstill, and no one feels safe from prosecution. .. .Some Wood-sawyers at Galion, Ohio, stopped their work on finding that they had cut the head from a corpse in a ho lbw log. They soon discovered SBOO in< money, a pair of revolvers, and some burglar’s tools. Thomas Parish Sherman, a New York lawyer, was arrested in Syracuse at the instance of the heirs of Hamilton White, of whom his wife is one. He is charged with squandering $1,000,000 of the estate in Wall street.. .At Batavia, N.Y,, Deputy Postmaster Ferren committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. A shortage of $2,000 in his accounts is said to be the cause.*.. .Russell Sage, whe'n brought into a New York police-court to answer the charge of larceny of bonds, was discharged for lack of criminating evidence. By a collision of trains at Delhi, Ohio, thirteen residents of Cincinnati were more or less injured.... Two passengers were badly maimed by a wreck at Lockland, near Cincinnati.. ... An engineer and fireman were killed by a collision near Cauajoharia, N. Y., where SIOO,OOO worth of rolling-stock was ' destroyed... .Near Grafton, W. Va., occurred a collision of Baltimore and Ohio trains. Three men were killed and two others were fatally injured. The wreckage on the track was twenty feet high, and a night’s work was required to uncover the corpses. The completion of the Washington Monument was celebrated at the national capital with great rejoicing on Saturday, Feb. 21. The dedicatory ceremonies! com menced at lit o’clock i > the morning. Gen. Sheridan and staff were followed to the grounds by militia companies t’r >iu Boston, Charles on. Hartford, Richmond, and Philadelphia, w ieh were organized from 1638 to 1793. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee led a division of Masonic bodies. Addresses were delivered in the open air by Senator Sherman, W. W. Corcoran, Col. T. L. Casey, and President Arthur. In the Masonic ceremonies of the District Grand Lodge the gavel used was one held in the hands of George Washington in laying the corner-stone of the national capitol. On the return march from the monument the procession was reviewed by the President ; n the afternoon, in the hall of the House of Representatives, John D. Long read the oration of Robert C. Winthrop, and John W. Daniel delivered an eloquent address, . . Dispatches from Abu-Klea Wells report that on the 15th of February Gen. Buller began shelling the Arab lines. Wei - directed shots did the enemy much damage. Maj. Wardrop, with thi teen men, stole cautiously around the enemy’s right, and, finding only a few hundred riflemen on the hills, fired a volley into their think. Leaving one man to continue the firing, the twelve others advanced, and by pursuing the saqie tactics on three successive hills gave the Arabs an impression that fresh bodies of British troops were arriving. The enemy were panic-stricken and fled toward Metemneh. Gen. Buller contemplates an adva ice to Gakdul as soon as reenforeements arrive from Kort!— The adI vance of Russian troops to the Afgh m frontier has alarmed England, and it is probable that in anticipation of further forward movements the British will occupy Herat and the mountain passes, forming a natural strategic line... .The Congo Conference has concluded its sessions... Gen. Briere de I’lsle promises shortly to expel i every Chinaman from Tonquin, and to ' close the frontier by a cordon of soldiers. Very little business was transacted in Congress on Feb. 21, the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Washington Monument occupying the attention of Senators and Representatives. The Senate held a brief se-sion, which was devoted exclusively to the pqstoffice appropriation bill The House did nothing in a lejrfslative way.

THE MARKETS.

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POPULAR SCIENCE.

> A German botanist has given instances of* the modification of plants by insects' so as to produce new varie ties. , . ;■« [ -r The number pf living specimens known in the animal kingdom is at least 300,000 of which more than nine tenths are invertebrates. Experiments in England have shown' that gas and oil are about equally'good for light-houses and that the electric light is superior to either in the fine weather but probably not so good in fogs. After much experimenting, Dr. Richardson has' found a satisfactory means of causing painless death, and has introduced into the Home for Lost Dogs, in London. The animal 3 to be killed are placed in a chamber charged with a mixture of carbonic oxide and chloroform vapor, when they tranquilly fall asleep and wake no more. From surveys of the Gulf of Mexico it appears that its area is 595,000 square-miles,- and that the area of the surface included within the line is 387,000 square miles—rather more than one-third of the surface having a depth of less than 100 fathoms. The greatest record depth in the Gulf is 2,119 fathoms, the mean’depth being >BSB fathoms. In lobsters and crabs the mouth is situated underneath the head, and consists of a soft upper lip, then a pair ol upper jaws provided With a short feeler, below which is a thin lower lip. Then follow two pair of membraneous under jaws which are jobed and hairy, and next three sair of foot jaws. The horseshoe crab has no special jaws, the thighs answering the purpose. Sir Joseph Fayrer considers it most remarkable that a poisonous snake cannot poison one, of its species, and only slightly any venomous snake, although it quickly kills harmless snakes. A,vigorous cobra can kill sevsral dogs or from a dozen to twenty fowls before its bite becomes impotent, and then the rapid re-secretion of virus soon makes it as dangerous as ever. Birds are without lips or teeth, the jaws being covered with horn forming a beak. This varies greatly in shape, being extremely wide in the whippoorwill, remarkably long in the pelican, stout in the eagle, and slender in the hummer. It is hardest in those that tear or bruise their food, and softest in water birds. The tongue is also covered with a horny sheath, its chief function being to secure the food when in the mouth. It is proportionally largest and most fleshy in the parrots. Researches in France by Dr. Schultz have shown that citric acid possesses powerful antiseptic properties, which may give it an important place as a food preserving substance, since it is believed to be free from the objection of unwholesomeness urged against other antiseptic acids. Meat fragments placed in a 5 per cent, soln; tion of the acid were in a state of perfect preservation at the end of fifteen days. Experimenting upon organized germs, Dr. Schultz found that one drop of a solut on of one part acid to 1000 of water placed in liquid containing bacteria and other germs of microscopic life Instantly caused their death.

General Grant’s Accident at Shiloh.

On Friday, the 4th, I was-very much injured by my horse falling with 'me and on me while I was trying to get to the front, where firing had been heard. The night was one of impenetrable darkness, with rain pouring down in torrents; nothing was visible to the eye except as revealed by the frequent flashes of lightning. Under these circumstances I had to trust to the horse, without guidance, to keep to keep the road. I had not gone far, however, when I met General W. H. L. Wallace and General (then Colonel) McPherson coming from the direction of the front They said all was quiet so far as the enemy was concerned. On the way back to the boat my horse’s feet slipped from under him, and he fell with my leg under his body. The extreme softness of the ground from the excessive rains of the few proceeding days no doubt saved me from a severe injury and protracted lameness. As it was, my ankle was very much injured; so much so, that my boot had to be cut off. During the # battle, and for two or three days after, I was unable to' walk except with crutches. During the night rain fell in torrents, and our troops were exposed to the snow without shelter. I made my headquarters under a tree a few hundred yards back from the river bank. My ankle was so much swollen from the fall df my horse the Friday night proceeding, and the bruise was so painful, that I could get no rest. The drenching rain would have precluded the possibility of sleep, without this additional cause. Some time after midnight, growing restive under the storm and the continuous pain, I moved back to the log-house on the bank. This had been taken as a hospital, and all night wounded men were being brongt in, their wounds dressed, a leg or an arm amputated, as the case might require, and everything being done to save life or alleviate suffering. The sight was more unendurable than encountering the rebel fire, am} I returned to my tree in the rain.—Gen. Grant, in the Century.

Up in the Clouds.

The Washington monument will not long enjoy its pre-eminence as the highest structure in the world. An . iron tower of the astonishing height of 1,000 feet is to be erected in the grounds of the French exhibition in 1889. An elevator, the safety of which is guaranteed, will communicate with the summit, and visitors to the exhibition w 11 be taken to the top for a small fee. Those who have the courage to make the ascent will enjoy an almost •interrupted view for nearly a hundred miles all round. The towqr will also be utilized tor astronomical and meteorological observations, for experiments in obtic signaling, for the investigation of certain problems in experimental physics, and for various other scientific purposes. '*■ A contiskhtal journal says that six-ty-seven pers ns die every minute, and seventy are born in the same time. Births exceed the deaths by three per minute.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Uriel'Summary of the Proceed* ing'o of The bill authorizing the sale of part of the lands of the Winnebago Indians m Nebraska was passed by the Senate Feb. 17. A favorable report was made on the House bill to per? mit the building of a horse railroad over Rock Island, to connect with the lowa shore. The anti-foreign contract labor bill was taken up, and an animated discussion ensued, in the course of which there was a lively passage-at-arms between Senators Sherman and Vest. The latter advocated the passage of the measure, saying he had no doubt of Its constitutionality. It was an exercise of power and right to preserve the life of our Institutions and our civilization. It was not intended to exclude any self-reliant man from coming to the United States. He was glad to see that Mr. Sherman and o.her Republicans favored this bill. Mr. Vest said that Mr. Sherman was himself the father of a bill to establish office Of Commissioner of Immigration, one section of which provided that all contracts made abroad for the repayment of passage money by intending emigrants shall be binding here, and be a lien on their wages land lands. According to newspaper there were 15,0c0 men out of employment in!the streets of New York. "And this,” Mr. Vest exclaimed, “after twenty-four years of Republican ascendency and protective tariff." Senator Sherman, entering the chamber at this juncture, explained that tne immigration act of 18tU, to which Senator Vest had alluded, was a temporary measure. It was passed at a time when our labor had been taken from our homes to put down a formidable rebellion. The gentleman from Missouri (Vest), being engaged in attempting to break up the Government, was not familiar with the motives which ihfluenced Congress in passing the act. The bill was unanimously passed, receiving the votes of Republicans and Democrats alike. Soon after the war the act was repealed. Senator Sherman concluded with the statement that all measures adopted for the protection of our laboring classes had emanated from the Republican party, ana that it was the policy of the. Republican party to elevate the laboring men of this country. Senator Vest replied tartly that, so far as Senator Sherman's remark* bore personal allusion to his (Vest’s) status during the war, he would only say that whatever the opinion of others in that regard he had no sort of apology to offer the Senator from Ohio. He had heard Senator Sherman condemn in toto the principle of “contract labor." The Senator from Ohio was now compelled to admit that that principle had been appli d by ' the Republican party to meet the contingencies of the war. The act had never been expressly repealed either. If it were merely a temporary measure, intended for the exigencies of war, how did it happen to stand on the statute books until 1874, when it was omitted in the revision? Senator Sherman explained that he thought the law had been repealed in an appropriation bill as early as 1866. Two amendments to the river and harbor bill were proposed in the Senate by Mr. Cullom, in case it should be determined to consider the bill in the Commerce Committee as offered by Mr. Morgan. One of these amendments is the Hennepin Canal provision and the other proposes to appropriate $50,000 for a canal from Calumet River to Calumet Lake, below Chicago. The House of Representatives passed the legislative appropriation bil'. Mr. Dorsheimer introduced a bill to regulate the coinage, providing for the issue of circulating notes redeemable ip. silver dollars of 480 grains. A bill was passed for the erection of a public building at AVicliita, Kansas, at a cost Of $50,000. .- ' ' ■ The Anti-Foreign Contract Labor bill passed the Senate Feb. 18, by a vote of 50 to 9. Briefly summed up, the measure forbids the importation of aliens into the United States on contract to perform labor. All such contracts are declared nu 1 and void, and punishment is provided for viol at. on of the law embodied in the bill Exceptions are made in favor of artists, actors, lecturers, singers and domestic servants. A bill was introduced to set aside the St. Clair flats in Michigan as a hunting and fishing reserve. The Committee on Indian Affairs reported a bill to enable the President to negotiate for the opening of Oklahoma, providing a penalty of fine and imprisonment for entering upon the lands without authority of law. Mr." Van Wyck introduced a bill to appropriate SO,OOO for the improvement of the Missouri River opposite Nebraska City. Emory Speer, of Georgia, was confirmed U*ited' States District Judge of that State by a vote of 26 yeas to 25 nays. All the Republicans except Mr. Hale of Maine voted for him and all the Democrats except Mr. Brdwn of Georgia voted against him. The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the erection, at Chattanooga of a public Imilding to cost ' $105,000. Considerat on of the river and harbor bill was resumed. Mr. Potter opposed the Hennepin Canal provision on the ground that it would benefit the State of Illinois alone. Mr. Reed spoke against the Mississippi River appropriation. He said that the improvements, if carried out on the plan proposed, would cost $150,000,000. The pending amendment offered As a substitute for the Galveston harbor paragraph was adopted. It appropriates $500,000 for the improvement of the harbor and directs the harbor board to examine the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements and report to the Secretary of War. A report was submitted to the House by the Elections Committee on souri contested election case of McLean vs. Broadhead, accompanied by a resolution-con-firming the right of the sitting member, Broadhead. to his seat. The House bill forfeiting lands granted to the Texas Pacific Road passed the Senate Feb. 19. Fifty-six Senators voted for and only two —Blair and Bowen—against it. Despite the efforts of the obstructionists, all amendments which militated against the effectiveness of the bill were voted down. It declares forfeited all lands granted to the Texas-Pacific Railroad Company under the act of 1871, and repeals the act of 1875 “for the relief of settlers within railroad limits." While the bill was under discussion there was a sharp interchange of amenities between Senators Beck and Morgan. Mr. Beck made some severe remarks about the difficulty of getting any legislation inimical to the railroads through tue Senate, and reflected particularly upon Senators on the Democratic side. Mr. Morgan took this as personal to himself, and replied that.be had always tried to do his duty unawed by public clamor. He had not tried to earn applause by making himself conspicuous on the popular side of every question, regardless of right and wrong, and, as he had been a Democrat longer than the Senator from Kentucky had enjoyed the privileges of American citizenship, he did not intend to take any lessons in Democracy from that gentleman. The Scotch have often been .accused of intellectual inertia, and Mr. Beck took this allusion to his being a naturalized citizen as an affront. There is no doubt Mr. Beck is proud of “cakes and brither Scots," but he appeared to be exactly the reverse, for he excused himself tor being bom in Scotland by saying that he had no chance to exercise his choice in regard to the Blace8 lace of his nativity, and he declared that Mr. [organ’s allusion to his birth in Scotland was very unworthy of him and unworthy of the Senate. He added, loftily, that in wha* he had said before he had no thought of the Senator from Alabama. He did not think the Senator from Alabama was so important a person as that gentleman thought that he was. In the House of Representative* Speaker Carlisle took the chair for the first time since his recent sickness. He was welcomed back with hearty applause. Consideration of the river and harbor bill being resumed an amendment was adopted increasing the appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi River, between the Illinois and Ohio Rivers, from HOO.OoO to s6oi,i>4>. An amendment was also agreed to providing that no portion of the Mississippi appropriation shall be expended in repairing or building levees, unless for the purpose of benefit ng navigation. Several hours were spent in commitfee es the whole on the naval appropriation bill Said a man who had made himself, and thought that he had turned out a pretty good job: “When I was a boy I so thirstqd for. knowledge that I worked all night to buy books, and then got up before daylight to read them. ” A man was lately fined $lO over in j the Dominion for beating- his wife. A few days after another man was fined SSO for vagrancy. From this it may be inferred that it is better for a man to beat his wife than to do nothing. T' ' Miners and married women are now allowed to open accounts in French Government saving banks without the ’ authority of their parents or husbands. ! The pet aversion of • Japanese is the fate of being buried at sea.