Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. f £ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I ft. E. MARSHALL, - - Ptniuraa.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. William Shields, an old man whom President Arthur recently appointed Postmaster at West Chester, Pa., grew so mnch confused over h* B new duties that he drowned himself. A fellow named Lieb advertised in a New York newspaper that he had a girl of 11 years to dispose of. A detective was sent by a charitable society to investigate the matter, and found that the father demanded SI,OOO. - The child was brought before Judge Van Vorst, who gave the case a searching inquiry and awarded the girl to a wealthy and reputable insurance agent as a companion for his wife'...Mrs. E. D. Morgan, widow of ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, died at New York. The Supreme Court of New York has ordered the release of Becky Jones, who spent a year in Ludlow Street Jail rather than testify in the Hammersley will case. Gen. Grant testified that he paid in SIOO,OOO as a special partner in the firm of Grant k Ward; that on May 1 last he thought himself worth $1,000,000; that he drew from the firm $3,000 per month for two years, and that everything he possessed was lost in the failure. The lithographic art establishment of Schumacher k Ettlinger, New York, was burned, causing a loss of $350,000. Mr. F. 8. Winston, of New York, whose death is announced, had in many respects a unique and remarkable history. He was the founder really of American life insurance, and lived to see the system from a very small beginning reach its present imposing dimensions. American life insurance, with its $500,000,000 and upward of assets, its 700,000 policy holders, and its average weekly payments in death and endowment claims of over $1,300,000,is largely the outgrowth of Mr. Winston’s ideas and methods. A corpse found in the Delaware River at Trenton, N. J., has been identified by several persons as that of hi. 8. Conant, the missing editor of Harper’a 'Weekly.

THE WEST.

The Attorney General of lowa has decided that Cattell, the new appointee, is de facto State Auditor, and that warrants drawn by him_must be paid by the State Treasurer... .The forfeited lands of the Texas Pacific were declared open for entry at Tucson, A. T., and hundreds of people rushed to the land office to make entries. Gen. Anson Stager, a much-esteemed citizen of Chicago, died in that city last week. Gen. Stager organized and had charge of all the Government military telegraphic lines during the war. He was one of the most expert electricians in the world, and a man of extraordinary executive ability. He was 60 years of age. J. H. McVicker, of Chicago, secured a permit to place two additional stories on his theater, to cost $100,000.... .Capt Prindiville, who escaped from the steamer Michigan, says there are thirty inches of ice from the straits down to the islands, and from present appearances no vessel will be able to go from Chicago to Buffalo before June... .Joseph Aitaria, a laborer living in Illinois street, Chicago, was stricken with small-pox after the parade on St Patrick’s Day. He claims that he has never been in contact with the disease. Two Chicago firms have.made contracts to furnish the British army with 10,000,000 pounds of canned beef. The orders came from the British War Department, the destination being Woolwich., It will require two weeks to fill the orders. These are the largest orders ever received here, and, owing to their magnitude, the supposition is that they are to meet a war emergency. The canning houses are working day and night in order to meet these demands. Orth Stein, who three years ago killed George Fredericks, at Kansas City, for which he was once sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years, was acquitted on the ground of self-defense. The prohibitory liquor law was yesterday the cause of a fight on the street in Atchison, Kan., between the Rev. D. C. Miner and a saloon-keeper named Jesse Crall. The latter struckthe first blow, and x the struggle lasted for five minutes... .An explosion of gas caused a fire in the Michigan carbon-works, near Detroit, resulting in a loss of $150,000 before the city fireengine could reach the scene. The yard foreman, Isaac Burke, fell from the building and broke his shoulder-blade. An incendiary fire destroyed fourteen buildings at Oakland Cemetery, Ind., the loss being variously estimated at between $40,000 and SIOO,OOO. The insurance amounts to $40,000. '■

Douglas R. Hale, formerly manager of the Chicago Clearing-House, has been granted a divorce from a woman now serving a term at the Bridewell for shop-lifting. She was once the wife of Mike Weaver, the famous burglar..;. The Treasury Department has ordered a survey of the lot in Chicago on which the Apisraisers’ Building is tone erected, and work will be commenced at an early date. ’ , • » At San Francisco John Kane, a wealthy stock-raiser, insisted oh his wife accompanying him to Colusa County to live. Enraged at her refusal, he seized a Winchester rifle and fired; three bullets into her and then killed himself Ex-Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri, disappeared from St Louis, and no trace of him can be obtained. The Buchanan County Court House at St Joseph, Mo., was partially destroyed by fire. The building was completely gutted, except the wing containing the County Court and the office of the Recorder of Deeds. The Probate Court; County Collector’s office, and all the records and books were destroyed. The law library, valued at SIO,OOO was burned. The county jail was saved. The building cost $250,000. Perry H. Smith, formerly Vice President of the Northwestern Road, died at his residence in Chicago, of congestion of the liver. For some yean his health had been extremely poor, and a conservator was appointed for his estate.

THE SOUTH.

On the ground that the gospel is free, the Superior Court of Georgia threw out a suit brought by Rev. J. A. Smith against the Marietta Railway for preaching to the convict gang its its employ* ... The loss by the fire atCnariestou, Va., will reach $l7O,-

000. It hgs been discovered that the safe-ty-valve of the boiler, the explosion of which caused the conflagration, had been plugged with iron. I 4 , ( ,J Al Chapman, a well-kriowri sporting man, committed suicide at Hot Springs, Ark. . „ The ferry steamer Mark Twain, plying between Memphis and Mounda City, exploded her boiler while lying at the latter place, killing five, persons and wounding four others.... Jos. A. Katzenberger, convicted of manslaughter at Ellicott City, Md , in causing the death of Miss Emeline Miller, was sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary. ( William Neal, the third and last of the villains who murdered and burned the bodies of two girls and a boy at Ashland, Ky., was executed at Grayson in presence of 100 armed guards. As the drop fell he protested his innocence. One of his confederates.confessed and was lynched; the other was hanged at Grayson last October. Twelve miners were killed by a terrible explosion in a coal-mine at McAllister, I. T,, supposed to have been caused by the ignition of a quantity of blasting powder. The anniversary of ( Ponce de Leon’s landing at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1512, was celebrated at that place March 23.

WASHINGTON.

P. De Lovenorn, Secretary of the Danish Legation at Berlin, has been appointed Minister from Denmark to the United States. ‘ ~~ ------ - “Mr. Garland, Attorney General, intends to follow in the civil-service track, ” writes a correspondent. “He says that he will not remove any clerk in his department who has proved himself efficient. The clerks are not to be allowed to work Sundays.” It is authoritatively stated at Washington that Treasurer Wyman and Superintendent of the Life- Saving Service Kimball are the only two Treasury chiefs who will be retained. The others will be removed as quickly as their successors are determined upon... .President Cleveland has nominated Samuel S. Cox, of New Y’ork, to be Minister to Turkey; M. M. Ham to be postmaster at Dubuque, and Thomas J. Bunn to be postmaster.at Bloomington, 111. IN acircular issued by Secretary Manning to Customs Collectors, the practicability of curtailing the force of clerks and employes is strongly urged... .Secretary Endicott says no orders have been issued to General Hatch to drive the cattlemen out of Oklahoma, nor will they be except upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior. A reasonable time will be allowed the cattlemen to leave the Territory, and when that time has expired they will be compelled to go. The troops will be called upon if necessarv. There is an impression at Washington that war between England and Russia is inevitable. Statistics collected by the Naval Bureau of Intelligence concerning the relative strength of the two powers show that while Russia’s standing army is more than twice the size of England’s, England’s navy is nearly double that of Russia. The British navy comprises more than 75,000 officers and men, against 44,000 in the Russian navy. Russia estimates the war footing of her active army at 1,000,000 officers and men. increased by the reseves, Cossacks, and local troops to nearly twice that number. President Cleveland is to have pews at two churches, so as to avoid advertising any particular sanctuary. He is said to be as much of an epicure as Mr. Arthur. He proposes, however, to decline all dinners. Miss Cleveland is to have charge of the social affairs of the White House, except on state occasions. The President does not intend to leave Washington next summer, but he is likely to change his mind.

POLITICAL.

The Mormons express great dissatisfaction with the ruling of the Supreme Court that inhabitants of the Territories are under the sovereign control of Congress The Texas Legislature has passed a bill compelling railway and other corporations doing business in the State under penalty of SI,OOO per month, to maintain a general office in the State. The Democracy of Chicago nominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor, William M. Devine for Treasurer, John G. Neumeister for Clerk, and Peter J. Ellert for Attorney. Contrary to the stipulation that technicalities be waived and speedy trial result, counsel for Gov. Sherman and Cattell dismiss the mandamus Suit against Auditor Brown, at Des Moines... The New York Assembly has passed a bill providing for a reservation around Niagara falls. A Congressional apportionment bill, making nineteen Republican and nine Democratic districts, passed the Pennsylvania Senate... .The Democratic city convention at St Louis, after taking 186 ballots, agreed upon David R. Francis for Mavor. The Republicans have nominated William L. Ewing. The Tennessee Railroad Commission law has been repealed by the Legislature of that State by a vote of 56 to 35.

GENERAL.

In the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, Judge Gresham granted a writ of error in the cases of Mackin and Gallagher, the election conspirators, and fixed May 4 as the date for hearing arguments in company with Justice Harlan. He closed his decision with the'remark that it need not be inferred that a new trial will be ordered. The prisoners were released in bonds of $50,000 each. Conflagrations consumed nine small buildings in Stevens Point, Wis., fourteen in Frankfort, Ind., eight in Hale, Mo., thlee in Stuart, lowa, a livery stable and thirtyseven horses in Urbana, Ohio, $75,000 worth of property in a manufacturing building in Boston, and a pork-house and several other buildings in Covington, Ky. ....Reports of the troubles at Prince Albert and Duck Lake have greatly exaggerated the gravity of the situation, although it is actually serious. The half-breeds demand that patents shall be issued for the lands occupied by them, defining each man’s homestead. The Dominion Government has admitted the justice of this demand, but delay has been caused by the fact that the Government had previously disposed of many of the half-breeds’ farms to speculators. The half-breeds refused to give up their homes, and demanded the same treatment as is accorded to other settlers, Dispatches from Winnipeg, Manitoba, state that companies are being organized in the West at all points along the line of railway for defense against the half-breed rebels under Riel. The country is in an uproar. The rebel army has been augmented by bands of Indians, and general uprising is expected. Cot

Irvine, who ‘started for Fort Carlton three days ago with a detachment of mounted police, has changed his rouse, reports having reached' him that the insurgents wpre lying in ambush at Batache. It is thought that the rebels number over 1,000,all well armed. Advices from Ottawa report that .two batteries of regulars have been ordered from Quebec and Kingston to the Northwest. Twenty officers of the Mexican army have gone to join the forces of San Salvador and Nicaragua. Some skirmishes have already occurred. The armies of Guatemala and Honduras act in harmony against those of the remaining republics. Costa 'Rica has contributed SIOO,OOO toward the expenses of the war. President Zaldiyar will command the forces allied against Barrios. Advices from Ottawa, Ont, report that Maj. Crozier left Fort Carlton for Duck Lake to obtain a quantities of suplies stored there. His force consisted of 100 mounted police and civilians. At Beardy’s Reserve several hundred rebels were encountered, and Maj, Crozier forced to retreat after a hard fight, in which he lost twelve men killed and eleven wounded. Two rebels who tried to wreck a train carrying troops west from Winnipeg were captured. More troops are to be sent at once to the scene of the disturbance from Winnipeg, Quebec, Kingston, and elsewhere. Reports from the chief wheat-growing States of the country regarding the condition of the whoat crop are discouraging.... There have been 277 business failures the present week, being nineteen less than last week ... Four boys, belonging to wellknown families, created a disturbance in a Cincinnati school after dismissal by rushing after each other over the desks, armed with large revolvers, and whooping like Indians. They were practicing to be cowboys. having determined, to go to‘Texas in May. The rebellion in the Northwest appears to be even more serious than was at first anticipated, and the Canadian mounted police seem totally unable to cope with the insurgents. According to dispatches from the front, the defeat of the troops at Ruck Lake Was followed by the evacuation of Fort Carlton, which was burned to prevent it falling into (he hands of the rebels. D. W. Caldwell was appointed at Cleveland, 0., receiver of the NickelPlate Railroad... .Capt. Couch has again postponed the time for the invasion of Oklahoma with his force of 500 men. Gen. Middleton and 700 men are on the march from Qu’appelle to the scene of the Riel insurrection. The Canadian Government has ordered the immediate dispatch of 800 militia from Ontario and Quebec by the Lake Superior route. Capt Moore died from a wound received in the engagement of the 26th ult, and there are rumors that Maj. Crozier was killed.

FOREIGN.

Gen. Graham has moved his camp two miles nearer Tamai. Serviceable work is being done by the balloon corps in reconnoitering the enemy... .The British in the Soudan are employing balloons to make observations of the whereabouts and movements of El Mahdi’s forces. Balloons are found to be of very valuable assistance.. . .The British Cabinet has resolved to demand of Russia the speedy delimitation of the Afghan frontier. All officers of the Indian army now in Europe on furlough are ordered to rejoin their regiments. Earl Granville had an interview with the envoys of the Sultan in London in regard to the rumored alliance of Russia and Turkey against England. The liabilities of Scarananga & Co., the merchants who recently failed in London, will amount to £1,000,000. The firm’s embarrassment was caused by the decline in wheat last fa 11.... The calling out of the reserves and the militia will enable England to comply with Lord Dufferin’s demand for 25,000 troops. Lord Dufferin requested the Government to send either 25,000 soldiers or one Viceroy to take his place. The Ministry concluded that the noble Earl could not well be spared at present, and so advised her Majesty to call out the reserves and militia. A terrific hurricane on the east coast of Madagascar, Feb. 25, sunk an American bark and two French steamers. Seventeen persons perished. Forty men wore buried alive by an explosion in the mines of the Dombrau Qrran Mining Company at Trappan, in Austrian Silesia. All are be ieved to have perished. An explosion in the mines of Baron Rothschild, in. Moravia, killed fifty-six men.... James G. Cunningham, alias James Dalton and Harry Burton, both charged with treason-felony in connection with the late dynamite demonstration at London, were committed for trial. Oxford won the “ ’Varsity” race on the Thames, defeating Cambridge by three lengths... .In the sculling match at Sydney, N. S. W„ between Hanlan and Beach, the latter won by six lengths,.... the municipal authorities of Paris have voted SIOO,OOO for the relief of the wounded French soldiers in Tonquin... .Owing to the success of the bill increasing on cereals in the French Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate Committee which reported it favorably, speculators have secured the control of the French grain market, and the bakers have increased the price of bread 10 centimes per kilo. Bread riots are threatened in many towns in consequence of this. The past month has witnessed the collapse of five of the heaviest tea and sugar importers in Moscow. A crisis has now been precipitated by the failure of a London grain house with branches in Russian cities.

The Russian organ, Le Nord, published at Brussels, prints a letter from St. Petersburg, which is regarded as good authority, and says: “Present Russsian military movements are nothing but precautionary measures, dictated by the most elementary principles of national prudence.” The same paper states editorially that the people of Russia regard the whole quarrel with no trace of irritation. A London dispatch states that there is a lull there in the war scare. The call for the army reserves and militia aroused and alarmed the people, and after the subsidence of the first excitement they ano asking what number are to be put under arms. The Ministry, it is claimed, have alloweß reports to circulate without contradictibn that in fact no more .than 25,000 men are wanted. This is just about enough to fill the vacancies in the muster rolls caused by the recent draft for the Egyptian and Mediterranean stations. Gladstone replied to the most pressing requests as to the true import of the Queen’s summons by saying that the Government had decided to postpone *ll statements upon the subject until after Easter, hoping in the meantime to reach some arrangement with Russia. AftSr two weeks of active campaigning, during which several hundred lives have

been lost, Gen. Graham’s camp is just two miles nearer Berber than when be started from Suakin. The army is suffering from typhoid fever and dysentery. The Berber railway has not yet begun. The Celestials have scored another victory, they having carried the jntrenchments at Langson, securing the keys to tire position and forcing the invaders to retreat beyond Dong-Dang along! the Lougkoi. The losses are unknown. The Orientals have 50,000 men and seriously threaten the French lines of communication with the south. Gen. Briere de I’lsle has asked for 20,000 men.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A TELEGRAM from New York of March 30 says* Gefi. Grant was much weaker today, and his physicians thought that death was not far distant. The disease had gone beyond control, and it seemed likely that the patient would choke trt death. The General’s wife scarcely left his room during the day. She stole Out at intervals in order that he would not see her weeping. A member of the Grant household, in conversation with a reporter.said: “General Grant never doubted that he was dying. He knows the progress of the disease as well as the physicians, and he awaits the filial summons with the stolidity for which he is noted. Perhaps his only regret is that he can not be allowed more time in order to satisfy himself about his book. He expects to die, and has no fears. He thinks that after his death he will be better appreciated, and that he will be better understood by some future generation than by this.” Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, nephew ofR. E. Lee, sent atelegiam to-day saying the heart of the South was throbbing like the Northern pulse, and that the prayers of all were for his recovery. Shortly after the arrival of the Rev. Dr. Newmxn from California Gen. Grant decided to have family prayers daily. He insisted on having every one in the house present at these exercises and has manifested the greatest interest in them. “That is what you doctors always say,” was the General's remark to one of them, when he informed him that he looked better. He relapsed into silence, and listened intently to what the doctor had to say. “Well, we have all got to go, ” he said, and he quickly changed the subject. A fire in Chicago destroyed the building alongside and in the rear of the Montauk Block, in Monroe street, occupied by the National Printing Company and Bradner, Smith & Co. The loss is $350,000. The same building was burned fifteen months ago. The insurance aggregates $112,500. Rowan County, Kentucky, has been brought to a condition of anarchy because of a quarrel over the election of Sheriff last August. The Clerk is the only officer who has escaped death or banishment Armed bands patrol the region at pleasure. Moses Porter, an aged and reputable citizen of Lafayette, Ind., who was recently swindled out of SI,OOO by a confidence man, now alleges that the sharper mesmerized him, depriving him of self-control, and then led him to the bank where the money was withdrawn and handed over.

The President sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 30th nit.: To be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States: Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, to Brazil; Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, to Russia, and Anthony M. Kelley, of Virginia, to Italy. To be Ministers Resident of the United States: Isaac Bell, Jr., Rhode Island, to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, of Indiana, to Sweden and Norway, and George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hawaiian Islands. To be Ministers Resident and Consuls General of the United Stages: Edward Parke Custis Lewis, New Jersey, to Portugal; and Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, to Denmark. To be Consuls General of the United States: Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut, at London; Frederick Raine, of Maryland, at Berlin; and Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, at Vienna. To be Consuls of the United States: A. Halier Gross, of Pennsylvania, at Athens, Greece; and Evan P. Howel), of Georgia, at Manchester, England. Brown, Shipley <t Co., of London, England, to be special fiscal agents of the. Navy Department. To be Collectors of Internal Revenue: Nathan Gregg, of Tennessee, for the Second District of Tennessee, and Isham G. Searcy, of -Texas, for the Third District of Texas; Alex. McCune, of New York, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; David Settle, of North Carolina, to be Marshal of, ,the United States for the Western District of North Carolina; Jos. E. Johnston, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Railrqads; Lewis Mullen, of New York, to ba Appraiser of the District of New York City; Wm. Caldwell, of Ohio, to be SurveyoUof Customs at Cincinnati, Ohio; Clement Dowd, of North Carolina, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth District of North Carolina; J.O.Henderson.of Indiana.Collectorof Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Indiana; Capt. William J. Volkmar, of the Fifth Cavalry, to be Major and Assistant Adjutant General; Capt. George H. Burton, of the Twen-ty-first Infantry, to- be Major and Inspector General. To be Postmasters: Michael J. Dougherty, at Galesburg, 111.: Wilbur F. Horn, at Idaho Springs, Colo.; Palemon Wiley, at Central City, Colo.; and Ansel Watrous, at t ort Collins, Colo. The Senate confirmed the following: Postmasters—Frederick G. Kendrick, at Mount Clemens, Mich.; Aquila Jones, Sr., at Indianapo'is, Ind.: Mrs. Lizzie H. Flcklin, at Charleston, 111: Claiborne Bowman, at Yazoo City, Miss.; and N. C. Ridenour, at Clarinda, lowa.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Foulke’s bill establishing the Female Reformatory was passed by the Senate, March 25. It provides that girls convicted of arfmlnal offenses may be sent to a home for friendless women, instead of being imprisoned in jail at the option of the Judge. The bill authorizing the payment of SI,OOO to the two orphan children of Joachim Bachtell, an employe of the Insane Hospital, who whs killed on May 16. 1882, by falling into a vault on the groupds of the institution, was called up. It was stated that one of the children is an idiot and the other helplessly crippled.aiid that both have been in the county asyluni a part of the time: The court recommended an allowance of $4,000, and there were several Senators-who favored increasing the amount from SI,OOO to $2,000. The bill }assed by, a unanimous vo'e. The House bill requiring that the effects of alcoholic stimulants upon the human system shall be taught in the public schools came up for consideration on the second reading. An amendment was offered by Senator Thompson requiring the teaching of hygiene in connection with physiology, 'and providing that the text-books shall be selected by the State Board of Education. After further , lengthy discussion, the bill passed. In the House the bill authorizing the Secretary of State to sell copies of the Revised Statutes of Indiana at $2 a volume, instead of $3.40, as now provided, was passed by a vote of 72 to 1. It was explained that there were at present about 4,000 of these books in possession of the Secretary of State, and that they were becoming less valuable every day, as, since the revision of 1881, there had been many changes in tbe laws. The bill extending the charters and franchises of gravel-road companies was passed, as was, also, the bill prohibiting railroad companies from making forced assessments on their employes. The State House bill passed, making a levy for an appropriation of $350,000 for this year, authorizing a temporary loan of $500,000, and $150,000 tor present use on the State House grounds. A bill providing for an Appellate Court comprising five Judges, who shall be located at Indianapolis, was introduced in the Senate, on the 26th. It is substantially the same as the original Appellate Court bill which was introduced by the same gentleman. It was referred to a special committee with instruction to report on it without delay. The House bill prohibiting Sunday bass-ball playing came up for consideration on third reading. An amendment was proposed by Senator Hilegass, providing that the bill should only apply to base-ball games > r played for profit. Senator Willard objected to the use of the word "base-ball” tor the reason that clubs could play with eight men and it could be proven under the rul.es of the league that the game was not base-ball. After a long debate the bill was referred to a special committee, to report immediately. The bill requiring that the effects of alcoholic stimulants shall be taught in the public schools came up on third reading. Senator Foulke warmly advocated its passage, but Senator McCullough oppposed it because he believed that it was a subject which was improper for school-room instruction. The bill was indefinitely postponed by a vote of yeas 22, nays 20, and a motion to reconsider the vote was laid on the table, the yeas numbering 23 and the nays 19. The bill forbidding gambling at fairs was recommitted. In the House, Representative Sears, from the special committee appointed to draft resolutions concerning the death of Representative Browning, reported a lengthy memorial, and speeches were set down as the special order for the 29th inst, and a resolution was passed allowing $225.66 for funeral expenses. A number of Senate bills were read the first time, and Mr; Patten introduced a bill providing that school trustees shall make public statements of their indebtedness. Mr. Gordon called up his bill compelling County Clerks to keep a record of unsettled guardianships and estates, and Mr. Moody opposed it for the reason that it would give the clerks large fees. The bill barely passed. Mr. French’s bill allowing County Treasurers 6 per cent, for collecting delinquent taxes was passed by a vote of 55 to 25, and the House then, by a vote of 35 to 34, resolved Itself into a committee of the whole to resume consideration of the general appropriation bills. The pending question was Mr. Gordon’s amendment to strike out the item appropriating $24,000 for Purdue University, which was discussed all the afternoon and no decision made. In the Senate the House bill authorizing a special loan of $500,000 for completing the new State House building, besides continuing the tax levy of 2 cents, was read immediately after the Senate was called to order, March 27, and on the motion of Senator Willard was referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Willard said that he thought there was some question about the constitutionality of the proposed tax levy. Long debates followed on allowances to Senators for visiting State prisons and other allowances for divers purposes. The House did not go into committee of the whole to resume consideration of the general appropriation bill, but took up Senate bills upon their second reading, advancing them a stage toward passage. When Senator Bailey’s bill prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age tn mines and manufactories was called, Mr. Williams moved for a suspension of the rules, which was agreed to, and. under the operation of the previous question, the bill was put to a final vote. The roll-call progressed half way through, with everybody voting in the affirmative, when a few gentlemen explained their votes, claiming that the bill was entirely too broad in its provisions. A number of members changed their votes, the bill failing to pass—yeas 42, nays 42. Mr. Gordon moved to recommit the bill with instructions to amend it so as to prohibit the employment of child labor in coal mines, iron and steel manufactories, and such other establishments as would be deleterious to their health, and that they should not be compelled to work more than eight hours a day. Mr. Lloyd moved to instruct the committee to report in favor of the indefinite postponement of the bill, which was laid on the table by a vote of 9 to 17, and the motion to recommit was carried. The committee designated is composed of Messrs. Gordon, Williams, and Hopkins. A large number of Senate bills were read a second time and passed over without discussion. The Purdue appropriation was reduced to $19,590 and passed. Senator Willard, Chairman of the Finance Committee, submitted a report to the Senate, on the 28th ult., on a bill authorizing the continuance,of the new State-House tax levy of 10 cents, besides a temporary loan of $500,000. He stated that the bill as passed by the House was unconstitutional. In order to conform to the requirements of the constitution the temporary loan should be for the purpose of covering a casual deficiency. He recommended an additional change by making the interest on the bonds 4 per cent, annually instead of 4 per centum payable semi-annually. The language of the bill might also be interpreted as including the $150,000 for the improvement of the grounds, and the appropriation of $350,000 for the completion of the building. The changes which Were recommended were adopted, and the bill was passed. Senator Marshall’s bill for fixing the time for holding courts in the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Forty-seventh Judicial Circuits, and a Judge in the latter, was passed under a suspension of the rules. After discussing the ditch bill, the Senate adjourned. In the House the Senate concurrent resolution providing for the employment of an expert to compare the various measurements' and make a computation on the brick-work in the Insane Asylum, with a view of determining whether or not the claim of John Martin is just, waspassed. 'lhe appropriation bill was taken up. The appropriation for the Slate Normal School was increased from $7,000 to SIO,OOO. The afternoon was given up to hearing eulogies upon Representative Browning, recently deceased.

The chair in which all the English sovereigns for the last 500 years have sat to be crowned is a rough wooden affair, with a Gothic back. It stands on the backs of four wooden lions, and has underneath the seat the famous “Stone of Scone, ” on which the Scottish sovereigns, down to the time when there was none, knelt to be crowned. The stone is said to be the same which Jacob used for a pillow when he had his well-known ladder dream, but this part of the story need'not necessarily be believed. The throne ift the House of Lords is modeled after the famous old chair,- which latter is' kept just behind the teredos in Westminster Abbey. The youth who wooes and wins a girl at the rink will find it but a few steps from roller-skates to the rolling-pin.— New York Morning Journal. In Siam husbands gamble away their wives. In this sfbuntry the wives frequently gambol away from their husbands. — Texas Siftings. Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justifies none. Six hotels have already failed in New York since Jan. L ?. ! t-

CONGRESS.

What the Extra Session of the Senate Xb Engaged At Th® President sent to the Senate the following nominations, March 25: Samuel*& Cox, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey. Postmasters—Henry a Shannon, at Erie, Pa.; William Wortham, at Sulphur Springs, Tex.; Robert O. Denton, at Gainesville. Tex.; Henry O. Cassidy, at Youngstown, Ohio; Hefity D. Black, at, Coshocton, Ohio; Willis G. Neff, at Greencastle, Ind.; Sbrden Lister, at South Bend, Ind,; J. Knox Hall, at Tonion, HL; Thomas J. Bunn, at Bloomington, Hl.; John Cunningham, at Mattoon, HL; James E. Neet. at Versailles, Ky.; Frederick G. Kendrick, at Mount Clemens, Mich.; George W. Cate, at Stevens Point, Wis.; David O. Irwin, at Lake City, Minn.; J. D. Armond, at Davenport, Iowa; M. M. Ham, editor of the Herald, at Dubuque, Iowa; Joseph Lander, at State Center, Iowa; Wm. R. White, at Prescott, Ark. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations on the 26th: Thomas C. Crenshaw Jr., to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the DistrictiOf Georgia. Po tmasters: Aquila Jones Sr., at Indianapolis, Ind.; Osbun Shannon, at Lawrence, Kan.,; John Mileham, at Topeka, Kan.; N. C. Ridenour, at Clarinda, Iowa; Vincent J. Lane, at Wyandotte, Kan.; Mrs. Lizzie H. Ficklen, at Charleston, Ill.; and Claiborne W. Bowman, at Yazoo City, Miss. The Senate met at noon, and five minutes later went into executive session. After some further discussion of the Weil and La Abra treaties, thev were postponed until next session. When the doors reopened, the resolution providing that a committee of two Senators be appointed to wait upon the President and inform him that if he had no further communication to make the Senate was ready to qdjoum was adopted, and Senators Sherman and Beck were appointed such committee. Senator Mahone made a report from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds favoring the substitution of electric for gas light in the Senate. The Senate confirmed Daniel McConville, of Ohio, Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department. The Senate met at noon and immediately went into executive session, on March 27. The committee appointed to wait upon the President reported that they had performed that duty, and the President had expressed a wish that the Senate should remain in session until Thursday, April 2. The following confirmations were announced: Postmasters—James E. Neet, Versailles, Ky.; Henry D Beach, Coshocton, Ohio; Henry C. Cassidy, Youngstown, Ohio*; John Milham, Topeka, Kas.; Vincent J. Lane, Wyandotte, Kas.; J. M. Dearmond, Davenport, Iowa; M. M. Ham, Dubuque, Iowa; Joseph Lander, State Center, Iowa; Henry C. Shannon, Erie, Pa.; Robert O. Denton, Gainesville, Tex.; William A. Wortham, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; W. R, White, Prescott, Ark.; John Cunningham. Mattoon, W.; J. Knox Hall, Tonion, Ill.; Sorden Lester, South Bend„ Ind.; Willis G. Neff, Greencastle, Ind. ; David O. Irwin, Lake City, Minn., and George W. Cate, Stevens Point, Wis. Thomas C. Crenshaw, Jr., was confirmed as Collector of the Internal Revenue District of ■ Georgia. When the doors reopened the Senate adjourned to Monday, 30th.

A Skillful Professor.

“Ah, hah!” exclaimed Prof. Mayorhuff, looking up from a book and turning to his wife. “What have you found, dear ?” ===: “Listen to this from Horace Greeley: ‘I am fully persuaded that if chopping wood were universal, rheumatism and dyspepsia would be unknown.’” “Well, What of that?" asked Mrs. May or huff. “What of it? Why, I shall chop wood, that’s what there is of it. ’’ “Did you ever chop wood?” “Didi ever chop wood? Haven’t I been editor of the Woodman for years ? Didn’t my article, ‘How to Clear up New Ground,’create a sensation? Of course it did. 1 ane, I swear that sometimes I believe you are blind. Did I ever chop wood, indeed! I have just ordered a cord of hard oak wood and I shall chop it myself. Aside from the healthful exercise, it will save money. I shall order an ax sent up just as soon as I go down town. ” When the professor returned at dinner time, he asked if the ax had come. “Yes, it’s out there on the porch. ” “Well, I shall go to work at once.” “I hope so. We are needing some now, for the weather has turned awful cold.” “Don’t fret You shall have all the wood you want.” The professor went out, and after laboring three hours, brought in two small sticks that looked as though they had been gnawed in two. “This enough?” “Enough, the mischief! It’s not enough to start a fire.” The professor puffed and “biowed” awhile, and then went out again. Three hours later he came in again with two more sticks. “This do?” “Of course it won’t. Well have snow before morning.” “Snow!” he exclaimed, wiping his reeking brow. <4 Y©s ? snow.” “Well, I don’t care if it fails fifty feet deep, I am not going to chop any more to-day. Needn’t expect a man to kill himself just because we are going to have snow.” Just then a rap came at the door. “Come in,” called the professor, too tired to get up. “What have you got there?” “Ax from the hardware store. Made a mistake before and sent you a grubbing hoe.” Mrs. Mayorhuff shouted and the professor collapsed.— Arkansaw Traveler.

“What’s the news, my dear ?” asked Mrs. Smith of her husband, after he had read his morning paper. “Oh, nothing special. I see. that a Frenchman entered a newspaper office for the purpose of killing the editor, but the editor succeeded in killing his antagonist.” “Goody! goody!” exclaimed Mrs. Smith. “Served him right. How did the editor kill him ? Shoot him ?” “The editor was newly married,” replied Smith, “and I guess he induced the Frenchman to eat some es his wife’s cooking.”— Newman Independent. While the ladies’ fair was in progress at Dallas, a gentleman from the country who was smoking a. cheap cigar, after peering into the door for a while, said: “I would like to go in.” “You have to have two things to get in.” “What be they?” “One is a ticket, and the other is no cigar in your mouth.”— Texas Siftings. Siebka Valley, one of the most beautiful places in California, has no telegraph communication with the rest of the world, and can only be reached by an exceedingly dangerous and difficult stage ride of twenty-five miles. "■■■ ,g) ' To make others* wit appear more than one’s own is a good rule in conversation; a necessary one, to let others take notice of your wit, and never do it yourself.—SirJF. Temple. « * $ Wisdom is to the soul what health isto the body.— De Saint-Beal.