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THE NEW CONGRESS.

A Complete Roster of the Members v Elect of the Senate and House. e Senate, 42 Republicans and 34 Democrats—House, 184 Democrats and 141 Republicans. i' The Forty-ninth Congress, which meets Monday, Dec. 7, will stand as follows: Senate —Republicans, 42; Democrats, 34. House—Democrats, 183; Republicans, 140; Greenback-Democrat, 1; Greenback-Re-publican, 1. A complete list of the members is printed below. THE NEW. SENATE* List of Members and the Periods When , Their Terms Expire. Republicans 42 Democrats ; 34 Total number of members 76 ALABAMA. Term Term expires. expires. James B. Pugh, D.. 18911 JT. Morgan, D 1889 ARKANSAS. James K: Jones, D.. 18911 Thos. W. Berry, D.. 1889 CALIFORNIA. B. Stanford, K 18911 John F. Miller, R.. .1887 COLORADO. Henry M. Teller, R. 18911 Thos. M. Bowen, R. 1889 CONNECTICUT. O. H. Platt, R .18911 Jos. R.Hawley, R.. 1887 DELAWARE. Eli Saulßbury, D.. .1880 | George Gray, D 1887 FLijiUDA. Wilkinson Call, D.. 1891 | Chas. W. Jones, D. 1887 GEORGIA. Jos. E.Brown, D... 18911 A. H. Colquitt, D... 1889 ILLINOIS. Johu A. Bogan, R. .1891 | S. M. CuUom, R.... 1889 , INDIANA. D. W. Voorhees, D. 18911 Benj. Harrison, R. .1887 lOWA. Wm. B. Allison, R. 18911 Jas. F. Wilson, R.. 1889 ' KANSAS. „ John J. Ingalls, R. .1891 |P. B. Plumb, R... .1889 KENTUCKY. J.C.S.Blackbum,D.lß9l | Jas. B. Beck, D.... 1889 LOUISIANA. Jas. B. Eustis, D... 18911 R. B. Gibson, D.... 1889 MAINE. Eugene Hale. R... .1887 | Wm. P. Frye, R... .1889 MARYLAND. E. K. Wilson, D... ,18911 A. P. Gorman, D.. .1887 MASSACHUSETTS. H L. Dawes, R 1887 j Geo. F. Hoar, R..... 1889 'MICHIGAN. O. D. Conger, R... .1887 |T. W. Palmer, R.... 1889 MINNESOTA. S.J.R. McMillan,R..lßß7 | D. M. Sabin, R 1889 MISSISSIPPI. J. Z. George, B 1887 | E. C. Walthall, D.. 1889 MISSOURI. George G. Vest, D.. 18911 F. M. Cockrell, D.. 1887 NEBRASKA. C. H. Van Wyck, R. 1887 | C. F. Manderson, R. 1889 NEVADA. John P. Jones, R.. .1891 | James G. Fair, D... 1887 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Henry W. Blair, R.. 1891 F. Pike, R.. 1889 NEW JERSEY. Wm. J. Sewell, R. .1887 | J. R. McPherson,D.lßß9 NEW YORK. Wm. M. Evarta, R. .18911 Warner Miller, R.. 1887 NORTH CAROLINA. Z. B. Vance, D 18911 M. W. Ransom, D.. 1889 OHIO. H. B. Payne, D... .18911 John Sherman, R. .1887 OREGON. Jno. H. Mitchell, R. 1891 | Jos. N. Dolph, R.. .1889 PENNSYLVANIA. J. D. Camoron, R.. .13911 J.. 1. Mitchell, R,.. .1887 RHODE ISLAND. N. W. Aldrich, R... 1887 |J. Chace, R. 1889 SOUTH CAROLINA. Wade Hampton, D. 1891 |M. C. Butler, D... .18S9 H. E. Jackson,D.. .1887 |L G. Harris, D..... 1889 TEXAS. S. B. Maxey, D 1887 | Richard Coke, D.. .1889 VERMONT. J. S. Morrfll, R..... 1891 | G. F. Edmunds, R. 1887 T VIRGINIA. Wm. Mahono, R.. .1887 | H. Riddleberger, R. 1889 WEST VIRGINIA. J. N. Camden, D.. .1887 | J. E. Kenna, D 1889 WISCONSIN. J. C. Spooner, R... .18911 Philetus Sawyer, R. 1887

THE new house.

A Complete Cist of the Members-Elect. Democrats 183 Republicans 140 Greenback-Dem0crat......... j 1 Greenback-Republican 1 Total number of members .325 Members of the Forty-eighth Congress reelected to the'Forty-ninth 185 ALABAMA. Dist. Name. Dist. Name. 1. James T. Jones, D* 5. Thos. W. Sadler, D 2. H. A. Herbert, D* G. J.M. Martin, D 3. Wm. C. Oates, D* 7. ffm. H. Forney, D* 4. A. C. Davidson, D 8. Joseph Wheeler, D* ARKANSAS, 1. Poindexter Dunn.D* 4. John H. Rogers, D* 2. C. R. Br’kenr’dge.D* 5. Samuel W. Peel, D* 3. Thos. C,Mcllea,D+ CALIFORNIA. 1. Barclay Henly, D* i 4. W. W. Morrow, R, 2. J. A. Louttit, R. .1 s.*Chas. N. Felton, R. 3. Joseph McKenna, R.l 6. H. H. Markham, R. COLORADO. 1. George G. Symes. R. CONNECTICUT. . 1. John R. Buck, R. 13. John T. Wait* R.* 2. Chas. L. Mitchell,D*i 4. Ed. W. Seymour, D* DELAWARE. 1. Charles B. Loro, D* FLORIDA. > 1. R.H.M. Davidson,D*| 2. Chas. Dougherty, D GEORGIA. 1. Thos. M. Norwood, D G. James H. Blount, D* 2. Henry G. Turner, D* 7. Jud. C. Clements, D* 3. Charles F. Crisp, D* 8. Seaborn Reese, D* 4. Henry R. Harris, D 9. Allen D. Candler, D* 5. N. J. Hammond, D* 10. George 'f. Barnes, D ILLINOIS. 1. R. W. Dunham, li.» 11. W. H. Neece, D * 2. Frank Lawler, D. 12. James M. Riggs, D.* 3. James H. Ward, D. 13. W. M. Springer, D.* ' 4. Geo. E. Adams, R.* 14. J. H. Rowell, R.* 5. A. J. Hopkins, R.l 15. Jos. G. Cannon, R.* 6. Robert R. Hitt, R.* 16. Silas Z. Landes, D. 7. T. J. Henderson, R.* 17. John R. Edon, D. 8. Ralph Plumb, R. 18. W. R. Morrison, D.* 9. L. E. Payson, R.* 19. R.W. Townshend.D* 10. N.E Worthington,D*|2o. J. R. Thomas, R.* INDIANA. 1. John J. Kleiner, D* 8. J. T. Johnston, R 2. Thomas R. Cobb, D* 9. Thos. B. Warde, D 3. J. G. Howard, D 10. Wm. D. Owen, R 4. Wm. S. Holman, D* 11. Geo. W. Steele, R 6. C. C. Matson, D* 12. Robert Lowry, D» 6. Thos. M. Browne, R* 13. George Ford, D 7. Wm. D. Bynum, D * lOWA. 1. B. J. Han, D 7. E. H. Conger, R 2. J. H. Murphy, D* 8. W. P. Hepburn, R* 3. D. B. Henderson, R* 9- Joseph Lyman, R 4. W. E. Fuller, R 10. A. J. Holmes, R* 5. Ben T. Frederick, D 11. Isaac S. Struble, R* G. J. B. Woaver, G-D av KANSAS. P 1. E. N. Morrill, E.* 5. J. A. Anderson, R.* 2. E. H. Funston, R.* 6. Lewis Hanback, R.* 3. B. W. Perkins, R.* 7. S. R. Peters, R.* 4. Thomas Ryan, R.* KENTUCKY. 1. Wm. J. Stone, D. 7. Wm. C. P. Breckin2. Polk Laffoon, D. .„ ridge, D. 3. John E. Halsell, D.* a J. B. McCreary, D. 4. T. A. Robertson, D.* 9. W. H. Wadsworth,R. 6. Albert S. WiHis,-D* 10. W. P. Taulbee, D. 6. John G. Carlisle, D.* 11. F. L. Wolford, D.* 4 LOUISIANA. 1. Louis St. Martin, D, 4. N. C. Blanchard, D.* 2. Michael Halm, R. 5. J. Floyd King, D.* 3. Edward J. Gay, D. 6. Alfred B. Irion, D. MAINE. 1. Thos, B. Reed, R.* [3. Seth L. Milliken, R.* 2. N. Dingley, Jr., R.* |4. C. A. Boutelle, R.* MARYLAND. 1. Chas. H. Gibson, D. 4. J. V. L. Findlay, D.* 2. F. T, Shaw, D. 5. Barnes Compton, D. 3. Wm. H. Cole, D. 6. L. E. McComas, R.* MASSACHUSETTS. , 1. R. T. Da-vis, R* 7. Eben F. Stone, R* 2. John D. Long, R* 8. Charles H. Allen, R 3. A. A. Ranney, R* 9. Frederick D/Ely, R 4. P. A. Collins, D* 10. W. W. Rice, R* 6. E. D. Hayden, R 11. W. Whiting, R* 6.<H. B. Lovering, D* 12. F. R* MICHIGAN. . 1. W. C. Maybury, D* 7. Ezra C. Carleton, D* 2. N. B. Eldredge, D* 8. T, E. Tarsney, D 3. J. O'Donnell, R 9. B. M.' Cutcheon, R* 4. J. C. Burrows, R 10. S. O. Fisher, D 5. C. C. Comstock, D 11. Seth C. Moffatt, R >6.E. B. Winans, D* - MINNESOTA* 1. Milo White, R.* *l4. John B. GiffiUafi( R. 2. J. B. Wakefield, R.* j 5. Knute Nelson, R.* 3. H. B. Strait, R.* | MISSISBIPPL_, 1. John M. Allen, D. 5, O. R. Singleton, D.* 2. J. B. Morgan, D. G, H. S. Van Eaton, D.* 3., T. C. Catcbings, D. 7. E. Barksdale, D.* >». a Barry, D.

■ ' ■' ' r '. ~ 7 ’> j, !. < MISSOURI. B Wm. it. Hatch, D.» a John J. O'Neill. D.* 2. Johnß. Hale, D. 9. John M. Glover. D. a A'. M. Dockery, D.* 10. M. B. 'Clardy. D.* . 4. Jas. N. Barnes, D.* 11. R. P. Bland, D.* 5. Wm. Warner, R. 1A Wm. J. Stone, D. 6. John T. Heard, D. 13. Wm. H. Wade, K. 7. John B. Hutton, D. 14. Wm. Dawson, DNEBRASKA. 1. A. J. Weaver, R.» 13.G.W. E. Dorsey, R A James Baird, R.* | NEVADA. 1. Wm. Woodbum, R. NEW HAMPSHIRE. EM. A. Haynes, R.* |2.J. R. Gallincer, R. NEW JERSEY. 1. George Hires, R. 5. W. W. Phelps*. R.* A Jas. Buchanan, R. 6. H. Behlbaeh, R. 3. Robert 8. Green, D 7. Wm. McAdoo, D.* 4. Jas. N. Pidcock, D. NEW YORK. 1. Perry Belmont, D.* 18. H. G. Burleigh, R.* 2. Felix Campbell, D.* 19. John Swinburne, R. 3. Darwin R. James,R.* 20. George West, R. 4. Peter P.Mahoney.D. 21. F. A. Johnson, R.* 5. ArchibaldM.Bliss.D. 2A A. X. Parker, R * 6. Nicholas Muller, D.* 23. J. T. Spriggs, D.* 7. John J. Adams, D.* 24. John S. Pindar, D. 8. T. J. Campbell, D.§ 25. Frank Hisccxrk, R.tL 9. Joseph Pulitzer, D. 26. S. C. Millard, R.* 10. A. S. Hewitt, D.* 27. S. E. Payne, R.« 11. T. A. Merriman, D. 28. John Amot, D.* 1A A. Dowdney, D. 29. Ira Davenport, R. 13. Egbert B. Viele, D. 30. Charles S. Baker, R. 1 14. W.G. Stahlneoke*D. 31. John G. Sawyer, R 15. Lewis Beach, D.* 32. J. M. Farquhar, R. 16. J. H. Ketcham, R.* 33. John B. Weber, R. 17. J. D. Bindsley, R. 34. W. B. Sessions, B. ; NORTH CAROLINA. ' "" 1. T. G. Skinner, D * 6. R. T. Bennett, D.* 2. Jas. E. O'Hara, R.* 7. J. S. Hendetson, D. 3. W. J. Grtsen, D.* 8. W. H. H. Cowles, D. 4. William R. Cox, D.* 9. T. D. Johnson, D. 5. James W. Reid, D. OHIO. 1. B. Butterworth, B. 12. A. C. Thompson, R. A Chas. E. Brown, R. 13. Jos. H. Outwaite, D. 3. J. E. Campbell, D.* 14. C. H. Grosvenor, R. 4. C. M. Anderson, D. 15. Beriah Wilkins, D.* 5. Benj. Be Fevre, D.* 16. Geo. W. Geddes, D.* 6. William D. Hill, D.* 17. A. J. Warner, D.* 7. Geo. E. Seney, £>.* 16. Isaac H. Taylor, R. 8. John Bittle, R, 19. Ezra B. Taylor, R,* 9. Wm. C. Cooper, R. 20. W. McKinley, Jr.,R. 10. Jacob Romeis, R. > 21. Martin A. Foran, D.* 11. W. W. Ellsberry, D.| OREGON. I. Ringer Herman, R. PENNSYLVANIA. E. S. Osborne (atilt. Frankin Bound, R. large), It. 15. F. C. Bunnell, R. L H. R. Bingham, R.* 16. Wm. W. Brown, R.* 2. Chas. O’Neill; R * 17. J. M. Campbell, R* 3. S. J. Randall, D.* 18. L. E. Atkinson, R * 4. Wm, D. Kelley, It.* 19, John A. Swope, D.*|| 5. A. C. Harmer, R.* 20. A. G. Curtin, D.* 6. J. B. Everhart, B.* 21. Chas. E. Boyle, D.* 7. I. N. Evans, R.* 22. Jas. S. Negley, B. 8. D. Ermentrout, D.* 23. Thos. M. Bayne, R.* 9. J. A. Hiestand, B. 24. O. L. Jackson, B. 10. Wm. H. Sowden, D. 25. Alex. C. White, R. 11. John B. Storms, D.* 26. Geo. W. Fleeger, R. 12. Jos. A. Scranton, E. 27. Wm. B. Scott, D. 13. C. N. Brumm, G.-R.* RHODE ISLAND. 1. H. J. Spooner, R.* |2. Wm. A. Pirce, R. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. Samuel Dibble, D.* 5. J. J. Hemphill, D.* 2. Geo. D. Tillman, D.* ti. Geo. W. Dargan, D.* 3. D. Wyatt Aiken, D.* 7. Robert Smalls, R.* 4. Wm. H. Perry, D. TENNESSEE. 1. A. H. Pettibone, R.* 6. A. J. Caldwell, D.* 2; B. C. Houle, R.* 7. J. G. Ballentine, D.* 3. John R. Neal, D. 8. John M. Taylor, D.* 4. B. MeMillin, D.* 9. P. T. Glass, D. 6. J. D. Richardson, D. 10. Zach. Taylor, R. 1. Charles Stewart, D.* 6. Olin Wellborn, D.* 2. J. H. Reagan, *D.* 7. W. H. Crain, D.* 3. J. H. Jones, D.* 8. J. F. Miller, D.* 4. D. B. Culberson, D.* 9. R. Q. Mills, D.* 5. J. W. Throckinor- 10. J. D. Sayers, D. ton, D.* 11. S. W.T.Banham, D.* VERMONT. 1. John W. Stewart,R.*l 2. Wm. W. Grout, R. VIRGINIA. 1. Thos. Croxton, D. 6. Jno. W. Daniel, D, 2. Harry Bibbey, R.* 7. C. T. O'Ferral, D,* 3. Geo. D. Wise, D.* 8. Jno. S. Barbour, D.* 4. Jas. D. Brady, R, 9. C. F. Trigg, D. 5. Geo. C. Cabell, B.* 10. John B. Tucker, D * WEST VIRGINIA. 1. Nath. Goff, Jr., B* I 3. Chas. P. Snyder, I).* 2. Wm, B. Wilson, D.*| 4. Eustace Gibson, D.* WISCONSIN. 'v 1. B. B. Caswell, B. 6. Bich. Guenther, R.* 2. Edw. S. Bragg, D. 7. O. B. Thomas, R. 3. R. M. BaFolloto, R. 8. Wm. T, Price, R.* 4. I.’ W. VanSchaick.R. 9. L Stephenson, R.* 5. Jos. Rankin, D.* TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. ARIZONA. Curtis C. Bean, R, DAKOTA. Ofecar S. Gifford, R. IDAHO. John Hailey, D. X> MONTANA. . Joseph K. Toole. D. _ NEW MEXICO. Anthony Joseph, D. UTAH. John T. Caine (People’s Ticket).* WASHINGTON. Charles S. Voorhees, D. WYOMING. Joseph M. Carev, B. ♦Member of the Forty-eighth Congress. to succeed James K. Jones, D., elected to the Senate to succeed Augustus H. Garland, D., appointed Attorney Gonoral in President Cleveland’s Cabinet. (Elected to succeed Eeuben Ell wood, R., deceased. §Elected to succeed Samuel S. Cox, D., appointed Minister to Turkey. ((Elected to succeed W. A. Duncan, deceased.

BANKS AND BANKING.

Points from Comptroller Cannon’s Annual Report. The annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency contains some points of special interest. Carefully compiled tables show that banking is much less profitable in this country than in England or the This is a point that few people will he ready to accept without proof, and the Comptroller has taken pains to prove it. The rate of interest charged by banks on the other side of the water is usually lower, than here, but unless a depositor has a balance of £2OO or upward in the Bank of England, for instance, he is charged for every check he draws upon the bank, or for any business the bank may do for him, and even when he does have a balance of that amount he is limited in the number of checks he can draw in a year without charge. In short, it is the theory of the English banking system that the banker must be paid for everything he does. What would an American think of being charged for drawing a check on his deposits? The ease with which checks are drawn and circulated in this country is a great stimulus to business. Any one can keep an account at the bank and check it out with impunity. No other country is so easy in this respect except France. But in "Prance the system is so different from ours that it is hard to make a satisfactory comparison. The bankers there take charge of valuables, etc., to a much greater extent than here. In France the bankers are obliged by law to do the business of . the people at low rates and be very accommodating, but even in that country charges are made that people here would never think of. Mr. Cannon ealjs attention to the fact that private banking institutions generally seem to be on the decline in this country as well as in England, and that the national banking system seems to be gaining in favor with the people on account of uniformity and security to the people. He is confident that the national banks in some form or other will continue.

J. C. Higgins, of Florida, is six feet four inches high, weighs 415 pounds, and has had a hat expressly made for him at Camden, N. J., which measures thirty-two and one-half inches in circumference. E. A. Lever, a prominent journalist of New Orleans, who served at various times in the American, Peruvian, Chilian,'and Mexican armies, has just been commissioned a Brigadier General by the Hpnduras Government. There are 633 German papers published in the United States, of which eighty-three are daily, seventy-six Sunday, and 474 weekly. The circulation ranges from 400 to 65,000. • A subterranean outlet to .the Great Salt Lake of Utah has recently been found. The lake was discovered by Col. John C. Fremont in 1846.

MEN OF NOTE.

Hon. Alfred P. Edgerton, One of the dvil-SerTlce Commissioners. Alfred P. Edgerton. of Indiana, who has been made Chairman of the Civil-Service Commission.is a native pf Plattsbnrg,N. Y., and is now seventy-seven years of age. He was in early life a clerk in a mercantile honse in New York City, but while yet a young man went to Northern Ohio as the agent of the Northern Land Company. He established a law office at Hicksville, Defiance County, at which 140,000 acres of land were sold. In 1852, Mr. Edgerton

found himself the owner of 40,000 acres in ( Northern Ohio, which he sold to actual settlers on the most liberal terms as regarded payments. He reserved for himself a country-seat near Hicksville, which he still holds, and where he resides part of each year.' In 1845 he was elected to the State Senate of Ohio. Here he opposed Alfred Kelley, leader of the Whigs in that body, and brought himself into wide repute thereby. In his official . action he evinced such knowledge of the finances of the State that he was strongly urged for Governor by leading Democrats. In 1848 he was a delegate-at-large to the Baltimore Convention. In 1850 —• after the close of his term in the State Senate—he was elected a member of Congress from the Toledo District, and re-elected in 1852, and was the Chairman of the Committee on Claims of that body. In 1853 he was elected by the Board of Fund Commissioners the Financial Agent of the State of Ohio tb reside at New York City. In 1856 Mr. Edgerton was Chairman of the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. In 1859 he was very appropriately appointed by the Ohio Legislature one of the committee to investigate frauds upon the State Treasury, and made an elaborate report, exposing the frauds and their authors. In 1857 he removed to Fort Wayne, but retained his citizenship in Ohio until 1862. Two years later he was a delegate-at-large to the Chicago Convention. In 1859, in connection with the late Pliny Hoagland and Hugh McCulloch (late Secretary of the Treasury), he became lessee of the Indiana canals, and then general manager. In 1868 he was nominated on the ticket with Hon. T. A. Hendricks for Lieutenant-governor of Indiana, and was defeated by less than 1,000 votes. He declined the nomination of the O’Conor Democrats for Governor in 1872. By appointment of ex-Governor Porter, Mr. Egerton is now a Director of Purdue University. He has been engaged in many successful business enterprises, is in easy circumstances, and is a practical student of public affairs. He is a man of such high integrity that he paid over $500,000 to the creditors of his brother-in-law some years years ago, although his legal obligation was, at the outside, $200,000. He was for many an intimate friend and.associate of Chief Justice Waite, who, with Senator Henry B. Payne, Governor Gray of Indiana, Vice President Hendricks, and many leading citizens of Ohio and Indiana, warmly indorsed him as possessing qualities peculiarly fitting him for the work of the Civil-Ser-vice Commission. He is in fullest sympathy with the reform.

ELECTION ECHOES.

The Official Figures in New Fork. The complete official vote of the State o{ New York for the State officers voted for at the election held Nov. 3 has been published. The vote of Davenport, Republican, for Governor, was 489,727; for Hill, Democrat, 501,418; for Jones, Greenbacker, 2,127; for Bascom, Prohibitionist, 30,866. In 1884 Blaine’s vote in New York was 562,001, Cleveland’s 563,048, Butler’s 16,955, St. John’s 24,999. In a total vote of 1,171,263 Cleveland had a plurality of 1,047. The total vote at the last election was 1,024,138, or only 147,125 below the very heavy vote of 1884. There was a falling off in the Republican vote of 72,274, and a falling off in the Democratic vote of 61,630. There was a falling off in the Greenback vote of 14,828, and an increase in the Prohibition vote of nearly 6,000. Official Count in Dakota. The official canvass of the vote cast in Dakota at -the election held Nov. 3 shows the following results: . For the Constitution 25,138 Against the Constitution...., ?.... 6,527 For Prohibition i. 15,572 Against Prohibition. .Vjr..™ ...... 15,218 Following is vote on the location of the State capital: Huron, 12,695; Pierre, I 10,574; Chamberlain, 3,170; Sioux Falls, 3,338; Alexandria, 1,374; scattering, 602; total vote, 31,815; Huron’s plurality, 2,121. Following is the vote on the State ticket, there being no opposition: Governor —A. C. Mellette, 28,994; scattering, 226. Lieutenant Governor—A, E. Frank, 28,726; scattering, 200. Secretary of State—H. S. Murphy, 28,417; scattering 156: Auditor—Frank Alexander, 27,323; scattering, 47. Treasurer —A. W. Diggs, 29,170; scattering, 47. Attorney General—Robert Dollard, 29,067; scattering 152. Superintendent of Public Instruction— A. S. Jones, 28,406; scattering, 161. Commissioner of Schools and Public Lands —W. H. H. Beadle, 28,311; scattering, 127. Following was the vote for Justices of the Supreme Court: First District—D. Carson, 28,661; scattering, 115, Second District— A. G. Kellam, 29,149; scattering, 122. Third District—John E. Bennett, 28,130; scattering, 120. Following is the vote for members of Congress: O. S. Kanouse, 28,750; scattering, 184. The following were elected Judges of the Circuit Court: First District, E. G. Smith; Second District, H. H. Keith; Third District, D. C. Thomas; Fourth District, C.H. •Dillon; Fifth District, Seward Smith; Sixth District, J. W. Newlan. The counties of Butte, Dickey, Richland, Sargent and Walworth are all sparsely settled, and where elections would be expensive and hard to hold, held no elections.

POPULAR SCIENCE.

Weather vanes illuminated by electricity, so as to be visible at night, have been suggested. C. F. Im Therm, the German explorer of British Guiana, iff climbing Mount Roraima, found, at a height of 5,600 feet above the sea-level, a garden of orchids. <■' The phenomenon of red hail, the coloring matter being diffused throughout some of the stones and the others being White, was lately observed i& the English County of Down. A peculiar black paper of Siam and Burmah, made from the bark of certain trees, is used very much as are slater in Europe and America. The writing upon it may be rubbed out by the application of betel leaves, just as slaterwriting is erased by means of a sponge. It has been found that compressed teak may be made to serve some of the purposes for which boxwood—which is rapidly becoming very scarce—is nos used. A powerful hydraulic press for compressing teak for loom shuttles has just been made in Manchester, E* gland. Remains of gigantic birds lately dii covered in the Thames Valley show, according to Mr. G- E. T. Newton, of the London Zoological Society, that England was once inhabited by birds as large as the famous moa of New Zealand, or much larger flian the ostriclies now existing. Of at least a dozen fishes having electric organs, the electric eel of South America is the most powerful. It reaches a length of six feet, and is provided with a pair of batteries containing some hundred minute nervesupplied cells, which exhibit the same phenomena as artificial batteries. It appears that an alloy of copper, platinum and tin has been extensively used in Great Britain for jewelry, with the object of deceiving pawnbrokers. The fraud has been very successful, as the compound resists the usual nitric acid test for gold. The alloy has even been used for counterfeiting English coin. ... ; There is no record of the distance from shore at which divers have gone down in the Atlantic Ocean. They can go down to certain depths at any part of the ocean. As long ago as 1856, E. P. Harrington, of Westfield, N. Y.,went down 170 feet and recovered the iron safe of the steamer Atlantic, snnk in Lake Erie the year before. He was dressed in a common diver's suit, and remained down eleven minutes. A recent French invention enables men to descend over 800 feet. W. Matieu Williams remarks that the popular notion that mosquitoes are chiefly resident in tropical and subtropical countries is quite a mistake, the home of their mightiest legions being within and about the Arctic Circle. On coasting trips to the North Cape even,vessels are invaded by maddening swarms at every stopping place. It is reported that in Alaska they form clouds so dense that it is impossible for sportsmen to aim at objects beyond. Native dogs are sometimes killed -by them, and even the great grizzly bear is said to be occasionally blipded by their attacks and finally starved in consequence. M. de Pabville has published a paper on the presence of bacteria in the air we breathe. He says that the presence of bacteria in a cubic meter is six in the sea air, one in the air of high mountains, sixty in the principal cabin of a ship at sea, 200 in the air at the top of the Pantheon in Paris, 360 in the Ruede Rivoli of Paris, 6,000 in the Parisian sewers, 36,000 in the old Parisian houses, 40,000 in the new hospital of the Hotel Dieu in Paris, and 79,000 in the old hospital of Pitie in Paris. In Ryder street, St. James's, London, a cubic meter of air contains only 240 bacteria, whereas in the Rue de Rivoli the same quantity of air contains 360. M. de Parvilkj maintains that the superiority of London air, as compared with Paris air, is shown not only by the London air containing bacteria, but also by the London rate of mortality being smaller. The greater purity, or less impurity, of the air of London than that of Paris is accounted for byLondon being nearer to the sea, by its covering a larger extent of ground in proportion to the population and by its bouses being lower.

Artists in Every-Day Life.

There is no place so remote but the work of artist hands may be seen therein—no work on earth where people are so impervious to the elevating influences of the beautiful that the result of artistic imagination.is not apparent. The farmer, who mows his lawns, prunes his trees, whitewashes his fences, and spares an occasional fore-it tree in his pastures; who selects a conspicuous place for his garden, lays it out properly and cultivates it well, is an artist. He is conscious of his power to please and to attract, and is stimulated thereby. The housewife who knows just the kind of carpets she needs; who knows where to hang the light pictures and where the dark: who can transform the humblest abode into a fairy palace by harmonious grouping of flowers and draping of vines, is certainly an artist. So* also, is the young lady who can dress herself beautifully with a small outlay, or the ugly girl who can make herself pretty by wearing the colors that harmonize -with her completion and adopting the styles that suit her. The merchant who can drape and dress his window so that it can not fail to attract, the fruit vender, who knows how to arrange his wares so as to tempt; the thinking architect, thh'careful cultivator of flowers, all goto make up a class whose works are indispensable to the welfare and happiness of mankind, far more so than the labors of thousands who have received the homage of the world, and whose names “shine as the stare”— Mattie X Brown, in CourierJournal.

How to Secure Advancement.

If you'are a salaried man, and, therefore, one of metho4 in your expenditures* set a fixed snm apart for. dress, and, even if this be seemingly large, yotfwill find that a neat and otherwise attractive appearance will not militate against your advancement. — Boston Herald.

THE KING IS DEAD!

Alfense oF Spain Passes Away, and the Queen Has Been Appointed Regent. The Ministry Resign, and Sagasta Be* turned to Power—Ho Danger of Revolution. At the early age of twenty-eight Alfonso Francesco de Assisi Ferdinando Pio Joan Maria de la Concepcion Gregorio, son of Isabella 11. and King of Spain, has yielded his scepter and sleeps with his ancstors. Robust neither in mind nor constitution, aggravating by his oyrn incontinence the infirmities inherited with his regal rank, this young monarch passed a feverish and unhappy existence. During much of his

nonage his mother was in exile, but in 1874 he was called to the throne only to encounter the rebellion of the Carlists. This suppressed, the nation has enjoyed a large measure of tranquillity, which may disappear in revolution now that he is gone, leaving as his heir only a very young daughter, during all of whose infancy a regent would be necessary. THE MONARCH’S DEATH. The Queen Appointed Regent—Political Future of Spain. [London dispatch. King Alfonso of Spain died at Madrid on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 25, of consumption, accelerated by dysentery. Throughout Monday . night the King had spasmodic fits, the result of fever and debility. Six doctors from Madrid and two physicians of El Pardo were In constant attendance upon him. They decided on Tuesday morning that his Majesty was in a dangerous condition. The fits continued throughout Tuesday, and finally resulted in his death. The Pope’s benediction arrived before he expired. All officers of state and the Cabinet members, except the Minister of War and the Minister of the Interior, were present at the death-bed. The Cabinet met immediately, and the Queen was appointed Regent. In accordance with the law, the members of the Cabinet have tendered their resignations, but will remum in office pending the Regent’s pleasure. Grave fears are entertained of a disturbance, and orders have been given to have the troops confined in the barracks. It has boen decided to proclaim a state of siege at Madrid. A large force of military and police is being quartered throughout the country as a precaution against a Carlist uprising. Princess Mercedes, the five-year-old daughter of Alfonso, will be Queen under the regency of her mother, Christina. Senor Sagasta will form a new Cabinet. Washington telegram. The Spanish Legation on Massachusetts avenue is draped in mourning on account of the death of King Alfonso. Mr. Valera, the Spanish Minister, speaking of the probable effect of the King’s death upon the political future of Spain, said to-day: “I see no reason why it should materially disturb the existing condition of things. It is natural to suppose that the Queen will be appointed Regent until her eldest child, now five years old, shall reach her majority. The King had grown in popularity ever since his succession to the throne eleven years ago. At that time the republican spirit was very strong among a certain portion of the Spanish people, ! and Alfonso had many bitter prejudices to overcome. This he gradually dim” 1

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Historical Sketch of the Deceased Ruler. Alfonso Xn. (Alfonso Francisco de Assisi Ferdinando Pio Juan Maria de la Concepcion Gregorio, etc.), King of Spain, eldest son of the exQueen Isabella 11., was bora Nov. 28,1857. When his mother was driven from the throne by the revolution of 1808, he accompanied her to Paris, where he resided with her for some time, but subsequently he went to Austria, in order to prosecute his studies in the Theresianum, or nobleman's academy, at Vienna, to which he was admitted Jan. 20,1872. He .remained there three months. June 25, 1870, Queen Isabella formally abdicated her right to the throne of Spain in favor of her son, but no open steps were taken at that time to secure for him the position which this abdication left open to him. His pretensions were, however, opposed by his cousin, the eldest son of the Duke of Montpensier, and his aunt, the Infanta Luisa, bqt as so many qretenders were calculated to complicate matters, the claim of Louis Philippe’s grandson was ultimately waived in favor of the heir of Isabella, Early in 1874'the Princo of the Asturias, as he was then styled, visited England, was entered as a student at the military college at Sandhurst, and witnessed the antumn'-manenvers at Aldershot, Dartmoor, and other places in the fall of ths year. December 29, 1874, General Martinez Campostproclaimed him King of Spain in Valencia, and a few days later Alfonso, who had gone over to 'Paris in order to spend the Jour de I’Ah with his mother, left France for Spain, arriving at Madrid Jan. 14,1875. He was most enthusiastically received. Feb. IG, 1876, he departed from Madrid to take command of the troops operating against the Carlists, and the 20th of the following month he returned in triumph to the capital at the head of 25,000 men, having Bubdued the Carlist insurrection. In the same year the ex-Queen Isabella returned to Spain, and was received by her son at Santander JUly 29. King Alfonso married, Jan. 23. 1878, at Madrid, his cousin, the Princess Maria de las Mercedes, Infanta of Spain, daughter of the Due de Montpensier. (She was bom June 24, 1860.) The exQueen Isabella was much opposed to this union, and to mark her disapproval she left Spain abd went to Paris before the marriage Ceremony took place. Queen Mercedes died June 26, 1878. King Alfonso married secondly Nov. 29, 1679, Maria Christina, daughter of the late Archduke Charles Ferdinand, of Austria. (She was bom July 21,1858. Oct. 25, 1878, King Alfonso was fired at In Madrid by Juan Moncasir a workman, but escaped unhurt, Defe. 30, 1879, as the King and Queen were driving in an open ferriage through the palace gates at Madrid a youth named Francisco Otero Gonzalez Igans fired two pistol shots at the royal pair, one passing between them, and the other through an attendant's hat, but fortunately without doing further damage. Otero was tried in February, 1880, and sentenced to death. In 1883 the King made a visit to Germany and France. In Paris a demonstration was made against him which called out strong feeling in Spain and made the King more popular in his own country than he had ever been before. This popularity was increased by his visit to the cholera-infected districts last summer. In the order of succession fixed bjy the constitution of. 1870 Alfonso’s children come first, then his sisters, next his aunt, the second daughter of King Ferdinand, and her legitimate descendants, and’ finaUjw bis uncles (the brothers of Ferdinand,VlL) Should all the lines become extinct “the nation pill elect its monarch.* Panthers, wildcats and bears are reported very numerous in Sullivan and Tioga Counties, Pennsylvania,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Indiana and Hoosier Htate Polo Leagues have united. —The federated miners in the Btate have united in an organization and secured a charter. —The State House at Indianapolis will be decorated by statues set up in appropriate places. —Granville Carter, colored, who ran a nail in his foot while working on the new State House, died of loekjaw. —On Dec. 29 the scientists of the State meet at Indianapolis for the purpose of forming a State Academy of Science. —lndiana was one of very few Stages wherein there were no seizures of for violations of the internal revenue laws. > —Eva Adler has brought suit qjgainst the city of Evansville for SI,OOO damages sustained in the overflow of her cellar from a defective sewer. —The senior class of the Purdue Mechanical Institute took a trip to Chicago. They visited the large manufactories for lessons in practical mechanics. —Lon Scott, formerly well-known as a traveling man, and proprietor of a country store near Richmond, has made an assignment. His assets are said to be worth $14,000. —Thomas Harrison, the evangelist, will visit New Albany some time daring the winter, and remain a month, holding meetings at Wesley Chapel, Centenary Church, and the Opern House. —Among the effects of the late Governor James I). Williams was found a due-bill for forty dollars, signed by L. L. Watson, of Vincennes, Oct. 13, 1840, payable “when Martin Van Bitren is elected President.” —The work of drilling for natural gas at the DePauw American plate-glass works in New Albany will soon be commenced. If there is natural gas within 3,500 feet of the surface at these works Mr. De Panw will find it. He intends to make a thorough test of the matter, regardless of cost. —A “Law and Order Club” has been organized in Harrison County with over three hundred members. The object is to detect and bring to punishment the members of the mob known as the “Knights of the Swith.” whose acts have of late brought so much disgrace upon the county. —A preacher at Terre Haute has come to grief through a slight eccentricity. After due consideration he concluded that Theodore Parker's sermons were better than his own, so Be preached them, and won great renown. Finally the congregation heard of the cheat, became wroth, and kicked. The erratic preacher is now without the pale of the church. —There are nine churches of the Mormon faith in Southern Indiana. They belong to the .Joseph, Smith, or anti-polygamy, wing of the church. There has been a churclv jn Floyd County ever since 1868, and it is said the sect is growly slowly but surely. Elder Morris Scott, of Galena, Floyd County, is head of this branch of the church in Indiana. —Boone County has issued a county order for $23,500, in aid of the Midland Railroad, to be placed in the hands of a committee, who are to use the proceeds to purchase materials to complete the road to Westfield, the company agreeing to at the same time furnish money to purchase all additional materials to finish the esatem end of the road, and to at once proceed to lay track. —lndiana farmers are experiencing an attack of the Bohemian oats disease. In Tippecanoe County one of the sharpers has been at Work, and has fleeced many of the fanners. He sells the oats at $lO a bushel, taking a negotiable note, and gives a contract to take double the number of bushels at the same price from the first crop. The oats are worthless, the seller never shows up, but the notes appear all right in the hands of the bank.

—A wealthy stock-raiser from Indiana, named Theodore Fowler, complained to the Chicago police that he had been held up in a dark street and robbed of $1,500 in bank notes and two watches by two “friends” whom he had picked op. On a description furnished by him, the police arrested Louis Doutrie and Ed Hardy. Fowler's pocketbook and several promissory notes were found in their room. The man ■with the “boodle” is still missing, —The Indianapolis Time. s speaks as follows of the City Council: “The session last night was no exception, but was rather the climax of the confusion and disorder that have reigned atpre viops meetings. Two members were present in-so drunken a condition that they could not speak nnderstandingly, nor stand squarely upon their feet. Several other members were also under the influence of liquor: Instead of the sober and level-headed members endeavoring to frown down the disreputable actions of their besotted colleagues, and upholding the dignity •of the representative body of Indianapolis, they merely laughed at the drunken antics and allowed the stultifying imposition to go unchecked.” —Miss Melissa McClery, a well-known young lady of Fort Wayne, answered an advertisement two years ago from a gentleman advertising for correspondents with a view to matrimony. Correspondence progressed until photographs were exchanged, followed by a matrimonial engagementTnesday Mr, Wilbur Richards, of Clarksburg, arrived at the residence Of the young lady and,introduced himself to Miss McClery as the expectant bridegroom. Hurried arrangements for a wedding were commenced, and Wednesday afternoon they were married by the Rev. vD. A. Northrop, of the Jefferson Streep BaptistChnrch, and started at once for their fntdre home in Virginia. The gentleman famished letters of recommendation from prominent men in his State, among them Senator Mahone. He is editor and proprietor of a newspaper at Clarksburg Springs, and was, until a few weeks since. Postmaster at that place, r •'•4.’