Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. K. MARSHALL. - prßiJimEE.|

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

, THK EAST. horse Gen. Butler is dead. He ww 30 years of age, and was in his day one of the most famous trotters in the { country. He took part in ninny notable contests against such flyers as‘Lady Thorne and George M. I'atchen. and at Chicago, Sept. 22, 18G6, was the contending horse against the Western crack. Cooley, when William McKecver, his driver, wits murdered in the gathering shadow* of the back-stretch by some one who bad pools on the other horse, and who sliovod a board oat over tbe fence as McKecver passed, crushing his skull .. .On yarrant* issued by Recorder Smyth. the police of New York arrested thirty men for boycotting a clothing-house... The rolling-mill of Oliver Brothers & Phillips, in Pittsburgh, shut down because of n demand for increased pay. _ ’ w An astronomer at Phelps, X. Y., has discovered a new comet. .. .Three shares of New York Tribune, stock Were sold at New York to J. B. Beach, who bid therefor $6 ,GOO per share. It is stated that he made the purchase in behalf of Whitelaw Reid. A PETITION for a pardon for James D. Fish, of Marine Bank notoriety, ic being circnlnted at New York, and has roceived the signatures of prominent persons. : r;A meeting of citiwus at Albany, N. Y., protested against, the utterances of Jefferson Davis at Mongomery. The gathering sung "John Brown's Body.” The Grand Juiy at New York returned a presentment condemning boycotting ns n “cursed exotic,” and urging the press, the bench, the bar, and the Legislature “to aid in exterminating the hydra-headed monster.” The‘Executi ve Board of the Empire Protective Association—Joseph R. O'Donnell, Andrew J. Best, James K. Graham, _ James F. Downing aud John Hughes—were indicted, and eace gave bail in the sum of $1,000... .A fire at Natjck. Mass., destroyed the Summer Street Hotel nnd three boot and shoe factories, the loss being $60,000.

THE WEST.

Geohgf, E. Graham, the wife-mu*-derer, was taken from the jail at Springfield, Mo., by a mob of 300 men, and strung np to a tree. When the mob unlocked Graham's cell he greeted them with the remark: “Yon can hang me, but by G — d yon can’t scare me." The whole affair was conducted very quietly. A cattle company >bf St. Louis has leased over two million acres of grazing land in the British Northwest Territory for I twenty-one years without taxation. . The transfers of this land are from her Majesty the Queen... .There was held at Toledo, Ohio, last week, a reunion of the survivors of the wreck of the steamboat Sultana; which occurred twenty-one years ago near Memphis, by which about one thousand Ohio and Indiana soldiers lost their lives, after being released from' Confederate prisons. The remains of George E. Graham, who was lynched at Springfield. Mo., were burned in the potter's field there. The body was taken to the place of interment in a delivery wagon.- It is stated that before leaving his cell with the lynchers, Graham took a huge chew of tobacco that had been saturated w ith morphine, with the resalt that he was only in a semi-conscious condition when hanged... ■William E. Withers, a non-union switchman in the employ of the St. Louis Bridge and Tunnel Company, at St. Louis, was assaulted while going to his room. In selfdefense, as he claims, be shot and killed one of his assailants. He was with difficulty rescued from the mob and taken to the station.... Fercv Perkins, John Klingel, Charles O’Connell, and Policeman CassenbroUt. were bitten by a mad dog at Pullman, 111., and have gone to Paris for treatment bv Pasteur. .. .The Union Pacific Hoad is about to expend $400,600 in the construction of a union depot at Omaha, and in enlarging its headquarters building... .Indians are reported to have attacked a ranch twenty miles southwest of Pantano, A. T„ and killed eight persons. The packing establishment of Plnnkinton & Co., at Milwaukee, employing 300 men, shut down because of the dissatisfaction existing among laborers in general.. No demand had been juade upon the firm. ... . A hurricane prevailed for twenty-fonr hours in Nebraska, the wind being so heavy that trains were retarded. The effect on young stock, it i 6 feared, will be disastrous. .... The bank of Marietta, Ohio, has failed with liabilities of over SIOO,OOO. L. £ 13. Emanuel's furniture establishment at San Francisco, A. L. Bancrofts Co.*B stationery and publishing house and adjoining smaller buildings were destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $750,000, with about $230,000 insurance. One man is known to have been killed by falling walls, and several others are reported as either killed or wounded.... Keystone, lowa, was visited by a fire which destroyed the Postoffice end ten other buildings. The chief portion of the business district of the town was consumed. A part of the mail matter in the Postbffice was burned. — ; Mr. Dion Boccicault has scored a great success in his new play, “The Jilt," Which is now occupying the boards of Mc"Yicker’e Theater, Chicago. It is a most, shunning comedy, happy ia situations, pure in sentiment, and simple in plot. Myles O'Hara, the character played by Mr. Boncicault. is a sort of Irish Bohemian, but still a gentleman, a devotee of the turf and a writer on sporting topics. Mr. Boucicault is unctuous in his humor as he always is, suggestive without ever being tooexpressive.

THE SOUTH.

Aar Baltimore, Md., Capt Alfred Brotherton was found guilty of conspiracy on the high seas to scuttle the brig 0. B. Stillman. The vessel left Charleston in September, 1884, and was shortly afterward reported lost, and the insurance was peed. She was picked up at aea and towed into Bermuda in April, 1885, having floated about the ocean for six months. Brotherton and the mate were arrested in Baltimore, together with F. L. Clayton, one of the vessel-owners. Clayton was acquitted. The mate turned State’s evidence and confessed that the Captain induced him to bore holes to scuttie the vessel. The penalty is ten years in prison and SIO,OOO fine. .—'v , Hekby Fryer, an aged" gatekeeper in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, lost his life by catching his foot in title crotch of a tree and . „ -

hanging head downward, ljis body was warm when diaoovem&t Several hundred feet of the levee a mile below Austin, Miss., has been swept away, increasing th« inundation in Ttmica and Coaboiua Counties. A general breakup in the A rikausas levees is reported, and gaps ranging from 100 feet to half a mile in extent. It is believed that every acre of land \ Wtween Helena. Ark., and Laconia subject to the floods will lx*' inundated. The corner-stone‘of the monument to be erected in honor of Alabama's Confederate soldiers was laid at Montgomery, Ala., on tbe 29th nit. The central figure of the occasion was Jeff Davis, who delivered tho oration. The nnlmppy old rnntftook occasion, as is his custn m when ever' such op * portunities prcncitf themselves, to reaffirm his old State rights and secession., Said he: “That the Konth did not anticipate, much less desire, war is shown by the absence of preparation for it, ns wefl-as by the efforts made to securing a peaceful separation. The successful party always hold the defeated reI sponsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided nnd renhn shall .luvve resumed her dominion, it must be decided that the General Government had no eouSfltutlonal power to coerce a State, and that a State haa the riglgtto repel invasion., It was- a national and constitutional light.” S. \V. Floss & Co.'s notions and white goods establishment at Baltimore was gut- ? ted l>y fire, and adjoining _tuiildings were, badly damaged. The total losses will aggregate stgH),o(>o, with insurance in excess of $400,000. " *

WASHINGTON.

Thf. Treasury Department has decided that Chinese seamen may bo allowed to land on our shores without a certificate, for the purpose of shipping on a return voyage as soon as possible. The decision was brought out by the refusal of the Collector at Niirfolk to allow Ah Say, a Chinaman rescued from the ill-fated American ship Frank A. Thayer, and shipped by the United Stab s Consul at. Barbadoes, to land. Figures in-the office of the Commissioner of Internul Revenue, says a Washington dispatch, show that the collections thus fur during this fiscal year amount to $3,100,000 more than last year, while the expenses of collection have been considerably reduced. Had it not been for labor agitations the increase, it is thought, would have been much larger. The House Committee on Labor has agreed to report the Crain educational bill as a substitute for the Willis-Blair bill. The Crain bill appropriates $7,500,000 a year for ten years from the receipts of the sales of public lands for popular education within the States on the basis of illiteracy. Secretary Whitney haß written to the officers in charge of the now naval cruisers, calling attention to the delay in completing the Atlanta, and asking that, she be put in condition for sea ns soon as possible. Gen. Syr her, an ex-Congressman from New Orleans, testified in the Ban-Elec trio investigation, and confirmed Prof. Bell’s statement that the New York World newspaper article was composed by E. N. Hill, a lawyer-lobbyist lately from Arkansas. White!vw Rei<t, of the New York Tribune, testified that the first article concerning Attorney General Garland’s connection with the Pan-Electric Company had been prepared by Major Clark, one of-Gw Tribune » Washington correspondents. The Tribune had not paid anything for,,'the matter. T. C. Crawford, the Washington correspondent of the XewYork World, testified that he obtained "the facts on which he based Iris letter, printed in the World and headed “ Loud Call for Mr. Goode,” from a United States Senator. He declined to tell the Senator's name without his consent. He had obtained the original history of the case from E. N. Hill. IN the telephone investigation at Washing', on. Speaker Carlisle testified that lie was notified "of his election as a director in the Rogers Telephone Company, nnd that SIOO,OOO in stock had been placed to his credit for such services 'as he might render. He replied that while he remained in Congress he would not he interested in any enterprise requiring legislative action. Represent dive Samuel J, Randall testified that he had no distinct recollection of having received either a letter or stock; from Dr. Rogers. Representative Abram S. Hewitt testified that he had been solicited to emlwirk in the Pan-Electric Company and had helm offered a tenth interest, hut had declined.

GENERAL.

GEROKIMO’S band has attacked several ranches near Imuris, Mexico. It completely destroyed all the bnildiugß at Casita, a small way-station near Imuris. on the Sonora R:\ilroad, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans. A company of soldiers were sent after the « Indians. Two soldiers were killed. The Indians were moving in the direction of the Sierra Madre Mountains. -The steamer Honduras was wrecked on the bar of Lempa River, near Libertad, San Salvador. The crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was valued at $70,000 and owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was engaged in the coffee trade. Twelve thousand bags of coffee were lost and the baggage of the passengers. Archbishop .Taschereau’s mondament, issued at MontrenLforbidding Catholics to join the Knights of Labor, has caused the most intense excitement among the working-glasses. ■■■ .■ Lotus Somerfield (white) and Richard™ J'."" Lee "(colored) were executed at Washington, I>. C.; J. M. Armstrong was hanged at Perryville. Ark.: George Cara roll paid the extreme penalty at Searcy, Ark.; and James Walker (colored) was strung up at St. Augustine, Fla. All had been convicted of murder. Guiseppe Scoma. a murderer, sentenced to be executed June 4. hanged him self in the prison at Hudson, N. Y., using a cord which lie had worn as a bell to support his trousers. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 189, and for Canada 18, or a total of 207. as compared with a total of 194 the previous week.

FOREIGN.

It is officially announced at Paris that Greece, yielding to the advice of France to refrain from.war, will at once disarm. The statement; is confirmed by London advices. The Greek Chamber of Deputies has been convoked. The combined fleet of the Powers which had assembled to coerce Greece has departed. Emperor William has sent the Pope a costly gold cross, mounted with jewels, as la souvenir of German gratitude for the friendly offices rendered by his Holiness in arbitrating the dispute between Germany and Spain over the Caroline Islands. ■ i Tax Treasury Department has decided

that Chinese seamen do not fall within the prohibitory provisions of ihe restriction act, and therefore may be allowed to land temporarily in the ordinary pursuit of their calling, for the purpose of shinping on a return voyage as soon us possible. The Porte has thanked the powers for their efforts to cause Greece, to disarm. Prompt and unconditional disarming alone, says the note, could induce -the Porte to dispense with a demand for.compensation for the sacrifices Turkey has been compelled to make in the maintenance of a war footing to* meet the threatened attack of Greece. ,

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Planters in the submerged'portions of "Arkansas deny that there is any so fieri fig among the negroes. They only fear that the latter will ent the levees f to escape future work. Several negroes who have attempted to do this have been killed. Heavy rains fell Sunday between San Antonio, Texas, and the Itio Grande, westward, covering a vast grazing country, where no ruins- of any consequence Las fallen for eighteen months, and flooding the country .Jefferson Davis ‘unveiled a monument to (Senator lien Hill at Atlanta, in presence of an assemblage of forty thousand persons, among them being fifteen liinulrcd school children; A rich vein of coal has been discovered in Cheyenne County, in (he northwestern part of Kansas. .. .The Kansas Veterinarian will visit every county in that State and take steps to stamp out glanders. . .In eight counties of Nebraska flax has been extensively sown as an experimental crop, to take the place of wheat. A large increase in the space given to com is reported from twenty counties. Dr. Nelson, who was recently a member of the Board of Health at Panama, states that the Canal Company is working - on borrowed capital until De Lesseps can make a loan of $120,000,000, and that vast sums have been wasted in the purchase of useless machinery. A cablegram from Panama announces thut Director Boyer, chief of the work, is dead. Tmt.Senators took a. rest, and the House of Representatives only was in session on tile Ist iiiht. Mr. Cox, <f North Carolina, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill amendatory of the Chinese imme-ration act. Also, providing indemnity to certain Chine si for losses sustained within the jurisdiction of tho United K:ates, Mr. Ward, of Indiana, from the Committee on Postoflices a id Roads, reported a-bill authorizing the employ mint of messengers in the mail scr\tee. Mr. MoAdoo, of New Jersey, from tho Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a kill authorizing the construction of dry-docks at certain navy-yards, i.

Ungloved Hand-Shaking.

The custom of withdrawing the glove in hand-shaking is now a thing of the past. It had its origin in the knight of the olden time taking off his iron gauptlet so as not to, hurt his lady’s hand, and l as gradually become an obsolete fashion,’ though one yet sees a gentleman who considers it only due a lady that he should give her his bare hand. A young lady told me that she incurred the displeasure of a provincial acquaintance because she merely bowed instead of .shaking hands with a group of girls, with some of whom she had but slight acquaintance, when entering a parlor at a country afternoon tea. They called it “putting on airs, ” when, in fact, it was their own ignorance of the social necessities of the occasion that was at fault. But the provincial young ladies evidently be heved in hand-shak-ing as part of the code of manners. Yet at this same gathering my friend said the young people did not seem to see any impoliteness in whispering or giggling in the room, or rudely,staring at any dress that differed from their own style. What a very trying ordeal, too, is the loud-voiced greeting, where your hand is held and inquiry made after your welfare and that of your family so as to be heard all over the room. 4 ’ * A mistake often made in social greetings is that of introducing a lady to a gentleman, which is the reverse of correct When the sex is the same, introduce the one you consider inferior in point of social position, or by reason of youth, to the superior or older. When introduced it is etiquetteTo bow, but not to shake bands, and it is optional with a lady toLrecogni/e the gentleman at the next meeting. 1 think I could easily tell a flirt if 1 saw her shake hands, for the method of that' character is to linger over every hand as if that particular hand came nearest her affections, In fact, there is much to be learned of human ratine in the methods of social gatherings. —Christian World. •” - 7

THE MARKETS.

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GLADSTONE.

A Portrait and Brief Sketch of the Greatest of Living Statesmen. -* ’ " " - ’ ■ • f ; ■; . , William Ewart Gladstone was born at Liverpool Dec. 29, 1809, and is therefore in the 77th year of his age. His father was a wealthy merchant, and acquired a large fortune in the West India tjjrode. Mr. Gladstono' was educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered Parliament in 1832 as a member for Newark, which borongh he continued to represent until 1840. Daring this period he was a constant contributor to the Quarterly Review, chiefly on literary and '-ecclesiastical subjects. In 1834 he was made Junior Lord of the Treasury, and in 1835 Under Secretary for Colonial Affairs. In 1841 hen-wns sworn in a member of the Privy Council and appointed Vice President of the Board or Trade and Master of the Mint. In 1843 he was made President of the Board of Trade. In 1845

he entered the Cabinet as Secretary of the Colonies, /under the Premiership of Sir, Robert Bejel. In 1852 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Earl of Aberdeen, and retained the office for a short period under tho Premiership of Lord Palmerston. In 1858 Mr. Gladstone declined a position in the Cabinet, but accepted an appointment as Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary to the lonian Islands. On Lord Palmerston’s return to power, in 1858, Mr. Gladstone again became Chancellor of the Exchequer. After the death of Lord Palmerston, in 1865, he became the leader of his party in the House of Commons. In 1868 Mr. Disraeli’s Ministry resigned, and Mr. Gladstone succeeded him as Premier.' He continued at the Bead of the Cabinet until 1874^when the Liberals being defeated in the Parliamentary elections, Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues resigned, and Mr. Disraeli again took the helm. In 1879 Mr. Disraeli again retired, and was a second time succeeded by Mr. Gladstone, who, with the exception of a very brief interval, has been Premier ever since.

IN HONOR OF JEFF DAVIS.

Crowds Flock Into Montgomery to Sec and Hear the President of the Confederacy. Wednesday, the 28th of April, says a dispatch from Montgomery, will ever be memorable in the history of Alabama, in that, while calling out ringing oratorical pleas for the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead, the occasion has served for a grand demonstration in commemoration of the secession of Alabama, the establishment of the Confederacy, and the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as its President. Every locality was represented, and many adjacent towns and villages poured their entire population into the streets. The entire city waß gayly decorated, and the City Hall had United States flags fluftering out of every window. More Federal flags floated in Montgomery than at any time sinoe 1860. The private houses aud business houses all had a liberal supply of decorations and devices and words of welcome to Mr. Davis. The ex-Presi-dent of the Confederacy was driven in a carriage drawn by four milk-white horses to the State Capitol, which waa followed by an immense procession. Arriving at the State House, Mayor Reese introduced the guesErfo the vast audience." Mr. Davis, leaning on his cane, with the Federal flag over him and Confederate veterans before him, spoke in a clear, ringing voice, showing the deep intensity of his feelings, but without a tremor or pause, except when interrupted bv the shouts of his hearess. He said: "My friends, it would be vain if I should attempt to express to you the deep gratification ■which I feel at this demonstration. But I know that it is not personal, and therefore I feel more deeply gratified. Because it is a sentiment far dearer to me than myself. You have passed through the terrible ordeal of war which Alabama did not seek. When she felt her wrongs too grievous for further toleration she sought the peaceful solution. That being denied hoithunders of war came ringing over the land. Then her people rose in their majesty; gray-haired seers and beardless boys eagerly rusned to the front. It was that vr'tft which Christianity alone approved—a holv war fordefense Well do l remember seeing your gentle boys, 60 small—to usp a farmer’s phrase—that they might have been called seed-corn, moving on with eager step and fearless brow to the carnival of death; and I have also looked upon them when thoir knapsacks and muskets seemed heavier than the’ boys, and my eyes, partaking of a mother's weakness, flljed with tears. Those davs have passed. Many of them have found nameless graves; but they are not dead. They live in memory aud their spirits stand out, the grand' reservo of that column which is marching on with unfaltering steps toward the goal of constitutional liberty. [Applause.] It were in vain if I should attempt, as I have already said, to express my gratitude to yon. I am standing-now very nearly on the spot where I stood when I took the bath of office in 186 L Your demonstration now exoeeds that which welcomed me then. This shows that the spirit of Southern liberty is not dead. ILong and continued applause.] Then von were full ot joyous hopes. You had every prospect of achieving all you desired; and now you are wraj p d in the mantle of r gret—and yet that regr.t only manifests more profoundly, Ind does hot ol literate, the expression of your sentiments. , I felt last night as I approached the Excha ige Hotel, from the gallery of which vour peerless oator, William L. Yancey, introduced me to the citizens pf Montgomery, and commended me in language which only hts eloquence could vield, and which far exceeded my merit—l felt, I say again, that I was coming, to m v home—comiug to a land wb< re liberty dies not, and serious sentiments will live forever. [Applause.} " I have been promised, my friends, that I .should not be called upon to make a spe ch; and therefore I will only extend to you my heartfelt thanks. Gol Mess you, one add all, old men and boys, and the ladies above all others, who never' faltered in our direst need, [Loud and long-continued applause.] Nasby ought to be happy. Ho is not only unAlderoaan over in Toledo, but a member of eight of the most important Council committees. Mark Twain told n recent visitor that be could print sitigle copies of Gentral Grant’s book for 55 cents each. The sell-j mg price is $3.50. _ ' «“• —' .5 Miss Maf.yAxdeeson is reported to be negotiating for a large stock ranch near North Platte, Neb. A sox of Hannibal Hamlin is said to aspire to the Governorship of Maine.

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and Hoflfie . • i- r~ • x.. r 1 at Representative*. Tttfi. postofflio appropriation, bill was reports/! to tho Beuate on tho 26th of April. Washington ■C. Whitthome, (Tenn.), the sucoessor of Judge Jackson, was sworn, and took, hts soat. Senator Van Wyck (Neb.) addressed tho Senate in support of tho interitate c bill. Hts speech consisted liiainlv of. (qi arraign in >nt of Jay Oould and C. P. Huntington, who had, lie salii, aooortHnz to thetr cnrti testimony, moved ou Btato Legislatures, tho court* and Congrats, unblushiuglv'purchasing judges and legislators. Senator Blair jN. 11.) addrj&setl tho 8.-uata in support of his proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting tne manufacture or sale of alCohollc Iniubrs as his speech he said that it was 1 -as possible for tho Republican party to rouiain permanently three-fourth* for prohibition and one-fourth against it than it once was for tho nation to remain pennon -ntly one-half slave and onehalf free. W. T. Dowdall was nominated to the Benato for Postmaster at Pooria, Illinois. In tho House of Representatives, Mr. Springer introduced a bill£o establish a department of lalvor. witri a eominl-Hioner and two assistants, tho expense not to exceed SIOJ.OJO per annum. Tho Committee on Pacific Railroads reported to th < House the bill formulated by tho sub-com-mittee providing for an extension of seventy yeara of the bonded debt of the Pacific Railroads to the Government, The bill makes provision for tho payments of the iudebtedneis of the Pacific Railroads to tile Government after tho following plan: To the present debt is added tho intorrst thatwouiil acerue during the lifetime (elovon yearsi of the existing bonds, assuming that no furthsr payments are made by the companies, and the total divided into 140 equal payments, which are represented by a sortos of bonds falling duo semi-annually, tho last bond maturing seventy years after issue, fho average annual payments by tho companies would roach nearly £4,(530,000, which, it is estimated, would amount to asutu gretvtn than the principal of tho dobt before tho existing bonds would mature. ’i'QE Chair laid before the Senate, on the 27th ult., a communication from the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of,-Ohio, transmitting a transcript of testimony taken by a committee of that House, and the report of the same committee on the subject of charges against the official integrity of certain members Of that House in connection with tho election of the HOn. Henry B. Payne as United States Senator. Mr. Payne at once rose.in his seat in the Senate and entered a most emphatic denial of charges and invited, tbe most exhaustive scrutiny "of all 1 is acts and cf his private correspondence. The whole thing, he said, was an attempt to circulate baseless, gossip and scandal, everything substantial in the way of charges having been discredited and disproved by the testimony. He was willing to leavo the matter with the Committee on Privileges and elections of tho Senate, to which committee it was referred. The Senate passed bills allotting lands in severalty to the Indians of the ltouna Valley Reservation, California; appropriating ?300,000 for the extension of the White House, and authorizing the building of railroad bridges across the St. Croix River, between Prescott, Wis., and Stillwater, Minn., and across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Mo., at or near Council Bluffs, lowa, on tho line of railroad betweon either Clay or Jackson County, Missouri, and the county of Wyandotte; Kansas, pear Atchison, Kansas, at or near Saline ' City, Mo., near St Chatles, Mo., at or near St. Joseph, Mo., and near Chamberlain, 1). T. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of C. W. West as Governor of Utah. In the House of Representatives Mr. Breckinridge introduced a bill to reduce the number of internal revenue officers and to amend the internal revenue laws. The House Judiciary Committee reported adversely a bill to prohibit alieiiß from acquiring titlo or owning lsnds within the United States.

The postoffice appropriation bill was discussed in the Senate on the 28th ult., the bene of contention being the amendment appropriating £800,003 _ for carrying -South -and Central American, Chinese, and Australian mails and authorizing the Postmaster Genera] to wake, after due advertisement, contracts for five years with American steamships. The House of Representatives debated the river and harbor bill, and passed the bill providing that hereafter no alien who has not declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States Shall be granted a license as pilot, engineer, mate, captain, or other officer on any steam vessel carrying the flag Of the United States. Mn. Beck (Ky.) spoke for three hours and a half in the Senate on the 29th ult. in opposition to the subsidy clause of the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Hale (Mo.) addressed the Senate in favor of the subsidy amendment. The Senato passed the 4th of July claims Lill, with an item of SCV.OOO for the heirs of Ayres ,1\ Morrill, of Mississippi, for supplies furnished the Union army during the' war. In tho House the amendment of Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, to the river and harbor bill, that the appropriation for tho Missouri River shall be expanded under the direction of the Secretary of War without the intervention of the Missouri River Commission, was defeated. A bill was reported to the House providing for the reception of trade dollars .at their face value in all payments to the Government, or for exchange at the Sub-Treasury for standard dollars, to be transmitted to the mints as bullion. Mr. Hall (Iowa) gave notice that ho would call up the Campbell-Weaver contested election case May 4. The Committee 011 Public Lands reported a bill to grant the right of way through tlie public lands to any canal or ditch company formed for the purpose -of irrigation, -zir-:. .... ; —- The postoffice appropriation bill occupied the attention of the Senate on the 30th ult., and Mr. , Hale, of Maine, finished his speech in support of the subsidy amendment. Mr. Brown, of Georgia, tdso spoke in favor of it. The bill to make Omaha a port of entry was vetoed by the President for the reason that at that place the Government does not have the necessary officers for the appraisement of Merchandise and the collection of duties. The President sent the fallowing nominations of Postmasters to the Senate: At Brooklyn, N. Y., -Joseph C. Hendrix; at BaltiMore, Md., Frank Brown, vice L Parker Vesey, resigned ; at Shippensburg, Pa., J. A. C. McCuno; at Washington, Kansas, James S. Vedder. In the House of Representatives the Committee on Indian Affairs reported favorably a bill giving the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad the right of way through the Indian Territory. The House rejected an amendment to the river and harbor bill offered by Mr. Warner (Ohio), providing that toe appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi River shall be expended" Under the direction of the Secretary of War instead of the Mississippi River Commission, and providing for a Congressional committee to investigate the work of tho MississippiWti ver Commission. The House refused, by a vote of 33 to 129, to strike out the levee clause.

Thought He Was an Episcopalian.

Secretary Chase was not originally b profane man. He learned lieur to swear after he went into Lincoln’s Cabinet. One day, after he had delivered himself rather vigorously, Lincoln said to him: “Mr. Chase, are you an' Episcopalian?” “Why do you ask?” was the some- . what surprised counter-question. “Oh, just out of curiosity,” replied Lincoln, “reward is an Episcopalian, and I hid noticed that you and he swore in much the samemanner.” —- Washington Hatchet. The discovery of a hitherto unknown lake in the Persian desert was announced at a late meeting of the Vienna Geographical Society. It is at least twenty-five miles long, and from M ohammedan evidence appears to have dried up after a previous existence, and to have again filled up at a quite recent date. , . /. Prof. Langley’s researches have led him to conclusions which imply that, in the absence of absorbing atmosphere, the earth would receive sufficient heat from the sun t o melt an i#e-shell about IKO over the globe’s entire surface. Recent German researches 'show that the purification of natural waters is effected almost wholly by plant and animal agencies, the chemical action of ozone, peroxide of hydrogen, and atmospheric oxygen exerting but a feeble influence. 1

THE LABOR SITUATION.

The Great Movement of WageWorkers for Shorter Hours of Labor, rhe Situation Just-on the Eve of the Great Battle- -History of the EightHour Agitation. j -.

From the mass of telegraphic dispatcher to the metropolitan press on tho morning jf the Ist of May we glean the following rammnry of the industrial and labor situation at thnt date: At Chicago the eighthour agitation had resulted in closing all '.he furniture nnd - box factories and in tho suspension of work at most of the iron nnd brass shops. The great army of meat-pack-ers threatened to strike for shorter hours. Workmen in the lumber yards dedemarfded the eight-hour concession nod double pay for extra work. Freight-han-dlers ,at the Chicago, Burlington and 1 Quincy and Chicago and Alton' freight houses struck work in consequence of a refusal of the companies to adopt the eighthour system. The workmen in different mapufacturing establishments had either struck or were threatening strikes on the same ground. The demands made by-la-borers were not uniform, nor were the answers of employers to the propositions of the employes. The Furniture Manufacturers’ Association at Grand Rapids, Mich., decided to refuse the demand for a redaction of hours of labor to eight accompanied by a 10 per cent advance in wages. It was decided to treat with employes only fto individuals. The Woodburn-Sarkeii Wheel Company, of Indianapolis, the largest establishment of the kind in the country, refuses to pay ten hours’ wages for eight hours’ work. The 6,000 miners and laborers in tbe Clearfield(Pa.) region were ordered ' to'stop work if the scale adopted by the Columbus (Ohio) convention was not signecLThe army of idle men at Milwaukee haw created apprehensions lest an. outbreak should result, and arrangements had been made to swear in sevei al hundred special policemen. A New York dispatch of tho Ist inst. says: An extended inquiry by BracUtreet's as to the details of the agitation by labor unions generally to secure tho adoption of tho eiaht-hotur day shows that the unions have already gained: some ground and that the members will btrike jif necessary in large numbers to enforce | the dewed rule. The 35,000 anthraciteminers An Eastern Pennsylvania demand the S eight-hfrur rule and threaten to strike. They : would do so to-day were they sure of the Lni zerne and Lackawanna region men, where the- ! organization is not as perfect as elsewhere. I Missionary work is being done at tho north. to the end that the demand may jbe enforced. From Chicago word cornea I that a careful canvas reveals 62,000 ! members cf various trades who will strike if the demand for eight hours is not granted, including 35,000 packing-yards employes. Associated ioundrymen and metal-workers in New Ybrk and vicinity to the number of 20,000 promise troumo if nine hours are not granted them, as a full day's werk. At Baltimore, Milwaukee.. Chicago, and Detroit there is promised a very general demand for tho eight-hour day, .and 'in - the event of its refusal strikes will follow. Itis noticeable that the furniture, wood-worker*,. , and building trades unions are those most prominent, as a class, in the demand for fewer hours of work per day. At St. Louis, Louisville, and Philadelphiaconcessions have been mad* by manufacturers, and In a number of instances compromises have been piade at nine houradaily at ten hours’ wages. In most all directions it is reported that many manufacturers will make concessions if it comes to the quesI tion of a strike. There were to-<iay over six | thousand men striking for eight hours per day, ! two-tbirds of “Whom" were at Chicago and Mil- | waukee. There.aife records of thu eight-hour j day having been granted to at least thirty-twer ; thousand workmen, two-thivdsof the total being at Chicago, and one-half cf the remainder at ! Louisville and Philadelphia -There are also-twenty-five thousand workmen at Chicago who have upkod for eight hours per day, without as yet threatening a strike, fifteen thousand at New York City, and ten thousand scattering. - Excluding the six thousand men now striking I for eight hours, there arc reported to be one [ hundred ani five thousand' men, exclusive of i many at Baltimore and Milwaukee not enumer- ! ated, who will promptly strike if the request is not granted. This total includoa the 85.000 anthracite miners, the 50,000 mentioned at Chicago, and G.OOO at New York, but does not covori the 20,000 metal-workers in the vicinity of New i York who demand nine hours. At least 12,000 j skilled workmen throughout the smaller industrial cities in Pennsylvania have asked for eight : hours, and will compromise on nine hours per ! day, At many points the subject haß not become actively prominent, notably at Pittsburgh, i where so much of the work is piece-work, not i dependent on hours of labor, and at Wheelingh j W. Va. In suoh lines at Pittsburgh as the dei mand has been made, there has been a comi promise of nine hours. There is apparently 1 very general demand for reduced hour* |of daily labor among trades unions. It ! is probable that tho largpr proportion of ! the employes’ demands will be settled by ; compromise or mutual concessions. In others, [ to a significant degree, tbe demand for eight i hours with ten hours’ wages will be pressed ! with strikes. The nine-hour compromises have generally been paßsed JMI ten hours’ wages, I amounting to an advance of 10 per cent, in pay. i Active resistance is promised by many manufacturers to pay 20 per cent, advanced wages, or ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. In brief Bradstreet’s reports 105,000 men who . will strike —85,000 for eight hours and 20,000 for nine hours —6,000 men now on strfke for eight hours, and that eight hours have been granted 32.000 employes at various points. There are additionally 75,000 men who have asked for tho eight-hour rule; bat who have .not. stated thoy will strike. At leading centers alone it is probable that over 225,000 industrial employes are actively interested in the movement.

History of the Eiglit-Honr Movement. - It is difficult to fix an exact time at which the eight-hour movement can be said to have begun. Previous to 1866 twelve hours constituted a day’s work. In that year the working hours were decreased .to ten, and, generally speaking, have remained unchanged up to the present. The eight-hour day was established in Australia thirty years ago, and one' day in each year—April 21—is celebrated in commemoration of the event—just as it is proposed to celebrate May 1 in this country hereafter for a like reason. The eight-hour movement in this country received its first noticeable impetus just after the war of the rebellion, and a million and a half of men, mustered out of the army, were thrown upon the labor market, overstocking it to a distressful degree. Eight-hour leagues were formed throughout the country with the avowed purpose of securing a decrease of working hours, in order that there might be a corresponding increase in the number of laborers, thus affording the idle soldiers an opportunity of earning a living. In 1866 a labor convention was held in Baltimore, at which delegates were present from alf parts of theLJnited States. It pronounced in favor of an eight-hour working day. Very little was said concerning any change in current wages. The stone-cutters’ craft was the only one which, at that time,. secured the eight-hour day. The agitation of the movement has continued more or less actively ever since. A novel reform was dictated in the wiJL of a Pennsylvania minister. After directing the establishment of a “Bible temperance school for the thorough classical education of both sexeß,” he provided that a pastors land for goats be prepared, “in order to encourage the use of the’r flesh in the place o 1 that of swine as an article of food.” Dr. Lucy C. Waite, of Chicago, has been admitted to the University of Vienna pn equal terjus with the male students^ Senator Hawley is said by stenographers to be the most rapid speaker in Congress.