Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E.MARRR ALL, - '

THE NEWS CONDENBED.

THE EAST. Charles A. Budoenslek. of New York, the builder of mud houses. has joined JaehiM, Ferdinand Ward, etal. in Sing Sing, on a ten years’ aentenee. The wealthy contractor, who gained his riches by erecting rotten tenements for the poor, regardless of life and limb, and who reached his limit by the death of a workman in the falling walls of a half-finished structure, has been brought up with a round turn... Harry Dunham, aged 18, residing in the family of Austin Waite, about four miles south of Oswego, N. Y., shot Mrs. Waite in the head, inflicting a dangerous wound, and then shot himself dead The “white mill” of the Wasren Woolen Company at Stafford's Spring. Conn., was burned. Loss, SGS,000; insurance, $35,000. At Reading, Pa., Frank and Charles Seabel, brothers, quarreled about some money affairs and a young woman, when the former drew a revolver and fired three shots at Charles. Two balls took effect in the stomach and another iu the region of the heart. Frank then fired two shots into his own body; one taking effect in his lungs and the other iu his head. Both are expected to die.... The works of the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Company, the largest of the kind in the country, were burned at Lebanon, Pa. The loss is about $150,000, and is covered by insurance. About three hundred and fifty men are thrown out of work... .The funeral of John Kelly occurred at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Corrigan, and the sermon was preached by Monseigneur Preston. The attendance was very large, and Judge Hilton and August Belmont were among the pall-bearers.

THE WENT.

The condition of spring wheat in-the Northwest has very much improved since May 30, rain having fallen in four-fifths of the area and stopped the operations of the cbinchbugs. The oats crop has suffered seriously from drought, rain falling too late in Southern Minnesota and Northern lowa to save many fields... .Mrs. Emma Molloy, the noted temperance lecturer, and consort of George Graham, murderer, recently hanged by a mob at Springfield, Missouri, has been indicted as an accessory after the fact to the murder of George Graham's tflfe.... At a summer resort near Akron, Ohio, where nine hundred Knights of Labor went on an excursion, the eon of a leading merchant named Rice was shot dead by Perry Saunders.... Heavy floods are reported from Southern New Mexico. Many rail-, road bridges have been washed away and other property destroyed.. „ Captain Murdock, of the Sixth Infantry, while crossing Grand River with a part of his command, was drowned... .Geronimo is killing many Mexicans and Americans in Guaymas, Mexico... .The United States courts in Colorado are out of money and must suspend. One of the men who robbed the County Treasurer's safe at Perryville, Mo., of $6,000, has been arrested in Grand Tower, and $1,326 of the stolen money has been recovered. He has confessed, and his accomplices will soon be caught. - The Grand Jury, after a three weeks' investigation of the Anarchist conspiracy, at Chicago, completed its labors last week and submited its report. The general result of the investigation has been the indictment of ten Anarchist leaders, seven indicted for murder,'and the indictment of about twenty others for conspiracy, riot, and unlawful assembly. The report affirms the existence of a band of conspirators numbering not more than 100, and perhaps not more than fifty, whose, object was murder destruction, and arson-,- and-- that the* massacre of the 4th of May “was the result of a deliberate conspiracy.” The report proves further that the conspirators cared nothing about the labor movement. They simply tried to utilize it. They planned the use of dynamite bombs for the time of excitement incident to the eighthour agitation. They calculated on taking advantage of whatever ill-feeling should arise then between employes and employers to aid in carrying out a plan of devastation in Chicago unequaled except in Paris during the reign of the red terror of the Commune; ... .The United States Grand Jury,at Seattle, W. T., has indicted a number of men for participating in the Chinese riots there, and also claims to have unearthed a treasonable organization, which exists throughout the country,- the objectrof whictris arson, robbery, and murder. The name of the organization is “The Red American International Workingmen’s Association."' ....Robert Schilling, who was indicted along with the Milwaukee rioters, returned and surrendered himself to the authorities, and subsequently gave bail in the sum of $3,000... .The jury in the Maxwell case, at St. Louis, after being out fifteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.On the first ballot three of the jurors were in favor of acquittal. The prisoner was taken back to jail more dead than alive, but received assurances from his counsel that the judgment could be reversed on errors. His face was ashen in its pallor, his eyes sunken, and his whole appearance that of a man who had received a severe nervous shock. He anticipated the verdict

THE SOUTH.

A severe drouth prevails in Louisiana. ... .Mrs. Hughes, a young and handsome woman of Louisville, was followed from store to store by a detective, who saw her steal silk stockings, gold rings, and lace. When arrested at her residence, it was found that she had constructed with great ingenuity a bustle and pockets sufficient to hold all her plunder. She is from a good family in Marion County, Kentucky. W. E. Wooten, County Judge of Red River County, Texas, shot himself at his residence, in Clarksville, dying instantly. He had been accused of appropriating $650 of the county's money. . J James Baxter was executed at Lebanon, Tenn., for the murder of Mrs. Lane. Wesley Honesty and Tabley Banks were hanged at Winchester, Va., for killing Joseph McFaul. -■

POLITICAL.

G. Bbaike's home-rule speech at Portland, Me., is ridiculed by the London press, which characterizes it as merely a bait to the Irish. Mr. Blaine has written a letter denying that he applied the words impudent, insolent, and brutal to Lord Salisbury. and says that they were used only in reference to his policy. The short-

hand reporter who took down Mr. Blaine's words, however, asserts that the report was strictly correct... .The New Jersey House of Representatives rejected a local-option liquor bill by a vote Of 22 to 31... .Illinois Republicans will hold their State convention at Springfield, Aug. 26... .The Republicans of the First Maine District hate nominated Thos. B. Reed for Congress. CORRESPONDENCE between Mr. Manning and the President is made public. It shows that the Secretary of the Treasury wrote to Mr. Cleveland May 20 last, staling that the full recovery or his health had been pronounced an affair of weeks, and a longer period of rest, especially during the hot months, was prescribed. Under these circumstances Mr. Manning was of the opinion that he should stand aside and make way for one immediately capable of fulfilling every requirement of the public service in », department of the Government so difficult and so important. The President's reply, dated June 1, after expressing the warmest friendship for Mr. Manning and praising him for the sentiments of devotion to public duty as well as fidelity to the administration contained in his letter, asks him to postpone for a while any insistence upon his resignation, and earnestly requests him to take a leave of absence* until Oct. 1 next, when, if Mr. Manning still desires to step aside, action will be taken in the matter. To this proposition the Secretary assented, and Assistant Secretary Fairchild will continue to act as head of the department until the specified time. A Wilkesbaßre (Pa.) dispatch says a local, paper has information that Mr. Powderly will tender his resignation ns General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor if he is opposed by the Executive Board, and enter the Congressional race in that district.

WASHINGTON.

The decrease in the public debt for May was $8,828,506. The interest-bearing debt is now $1,220,650,312. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst; • ’ INTEREST BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4% per eent * J 250.000.000 Bonds at 4 per cent ' 737.759.i00 Bonds at 3 per cent........ 154/ 59,109 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 204, 00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal $1,2.0,659,312 Interest 11.5H6.832 Total $1.23'.237.14 i DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. ■-===; Principal $7,097,5 5 Interest. 218, ,93 T0ta1....... $.,316,295 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738.486 Certificates of deposit 13,955,000 Gold certificates 80,120, 25 Silver certificates 8,914,1'4 Fl-actional currency... 6,954,017 Principal .. 536,951,727 Principal 11,746.699.544 Interest. 11,805.622 Total . 7. '.. $1,776,595,161 Less cash items available,or reduction of the debt 292,164,274 Less reserve held for redemotion of U. 8. n0te5...... 100,000,000 Total 1312.164.174 Total debt less available cash items $1,474,340,8)2 Netcashinthe Treasury.;.. 73,142,611' Debt less cash iu Treasury June 1. 1886 .............51,398,108,281 Debt less cash in Treasury May I, 1886, ry f.y Hur- 1,407,026.847 Decrease of debt during April 5'.)24.566 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for sold certificates actually outstanding A $80,120,025 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 89,184,129 V. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 1?,965.000 Cash neld for matured debt and interest unpaid.......... 14,90 *,127 Fractional currency 1 9 >2 Total available for reduction of the debt $392,164,273 RESERVE FUND. ■ Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the Fractional silver coin $28.9129277 Minor c0in...... 455.453 Total $29,3.7,739 Certificates held as cash 82,731.686 Netcaahhalance on hand. .. 76,142,611 Total cash in Treasury .as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $490,406,390 A Washington dispatch gives what purports to be a partial list of presents received by President Cleveland and his bride:

Secretary and Mrs. Whitney gave a brooch in the shai»e of a branch with leaves and flowers, jdl formed in diamonds. Postmaster General and Mrs. Vilas’ present was a breastpin in the form of a bow-knot of Etruscan gold, with its edges bordered with diamonds. Secretary Lamar gave aeut-glass smelling-bottle studded with diamonds. Secretary and Mrs. Endicott, four massive solid silver candlesticks. Mr. E. R. Bacon, of New York, magnificent diamond star set in silver, to be worn as a pendant or attached to the gold hair-pin which accompanies it; Collector Hedden, of New York, a platinum salt dish on solid gold legs, with seed jWartS studding the feet; Surveyor Beattie, of New York, diamond bracelet; ' Congressman Timothy J. Campbell, solid gold horse-radish dish ; Governor Hill, of NcwYork. elaborate jewel case with a French music-box attachment; Mrs. M. B. Braden, a rare-designed silver epergne with cut-glass dish fdr table; John R. McLean, oxidized silver and gold ice-cream freezer; E. H. Butler, of Buffalo, a solid silver soup ladle; Mr. Edward Cooper, a silver ale pitcher and mugs ; Hubert O. Thompson, jeweled Chinese clock, made in Pekin, arid valued at $900; Mr. Bisseil, large diamond flower, to be worn as a pin or as a pendant. Land Commissioner Sparks’ order suspending (he operations of the preemption and timber-culture laws has been recalled... .About one thousand cards announcing the marriage of the President were sent out from the White House on the 4th just, by mail, by messenger, and otherwise. The cords are exceedingly simple and plain, and engraved in heavy lines on a full sheet of fine note paper, reading as follows: Mr. Grover Cleveland. Miss Frank Folsom. MARRIED, On Wednesday, Juno second, eighteen hundred and eightv-six. Executive Mansion, ■" _ ■ . These announcements were sent to the members of the "Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court. Senators and Representatives in Congress, the Diplomatic Corps, the Lieutenant General of the Army, Admiral of the Navy, and other officials in Washington, and to personal friends of the President and Mrs. Cleveland in Albany and Buffalo. Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, who is urging a territorial form of government for the purchased , region, predicts that there will be a white population of ten thousand before Congress can make the desired change. No one can now buy a foot of land in the district, arid there is no way to obtain wood for the mines except to steal it from the public domain. The House Committee on Territories hesitates to favor the pending bill because of fears about the policy of Indian suffrage.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES The workmen on the, new Government building at Erie, Pa., struck because the contractors were not prompt in paying wages... .Frank Lux and James McNally, members of the Executive Board of the Knights of Labor; William F. Shroeder,

Henry Vogt, John Thomas, and aeven ‘ other* were afreated at Milwaukee on indictments for conspiracy in connection with the recent boycotts and labor troubles. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor held a three hours' session at Cleveland and divided ita immediate work into districts. Mr. Barry was sent to Milwaukee to look into the labor troubles in that vicinity. From Milwaukee he will go to Yonkers, N. Y., to investigate the carpet-weavers' strike. Secretary Turner and Mr. Hayes will go to Troy, N. Y., where there is a lookout of collar-makers and laundrymen. The conference committee of five to treat with the trades unions has not yet been appointed. and it is probable that Mr. Powderly will wait until officially notified of some grievance of trades unions before naming the committee. ... The demand of the Allegheny County (PaJ brick-makers for an advance in wages of 20 per cent, has been granted.... Mr. Powderly said in an interview at Cleveland that everything hie asked for was granted by the Cleveland convention: Speaking of the Home Club, he said: “So far as I can discover anything in the Home Club, it ia simply a little circle of men in the order who are more intimate with one another than with other members. These men claim that their object is to build a home for each of the members, and they have between $3,1)00 and $4,000 in their treasury.” Mr. Powderly expressed himself as opposed to Federal interference in arbitration. Congress might as well undertake to regulate the manneraef conducting strike's. “When we have thorough organization,” he added, “we can do without legislation. The scale conference of the iron manufacturers and workers is a form of the arbitration which we advocate/’ - “Ten days ago,” says a Cleveland special, “ Mr. Powderly was the Moses of the Knights of Labor. He stood so high above the order of which he is the official head that there was none to dispute his sway. His- wish was law.' He was the embodiment of all that was praiseworthy in the order. To-night he is only an ordinary Knight of Labor. He has fallen from his pedestal. He has been tried and found wanting, but his fall has been so sudden, so complete, and his surrender to au element which he has always professed to despise so thorough, that his warmest adherents are dumfounded. He seems utterly demoralized by the success of a faction which has for years been struggling to obtain the maungement of the order, to advance its private amis, and seemingly threw reputation to the winds in order to secure its support.”... .A general strike of street-car employes in New York and Brooklyn was inaugurated last week.... Th’e first union meeting of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ever held assembled last week in Jackson, Mich. The attendance was large, there being twenty-three special carloads of delegates.

GENERAL.

It is reported in Washington that an English syndicate stands ready to give $300,060,000 for the Northern Pacific land grani, if the railroad can get its title confirmed. .... The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church has deckled in favor of the use of instrumental in worship. A dispatch from Digby, N. S., says that two of the police cruisers have gone to Newfoundland to watch the American fishermen. Word has been received at New York from St. Johns, N. F., that two American schooners, heavily armed, were in that vicinity boasting that they would sink any police-boat sent against them. The man-of-war Bellerophon has been sent to St. Johns to look these combative Americans up. The report that a large number of British troops had been sent to Halifax is untrue.... At the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton, Ohio, a resolution was adopted enjoining all members to abstain from connection with any association which might lead to acts of violence or to the invasion of the rights of property or interference with the liberty of men to work for whom they may choose... .Yellow fever is now- epidemic on the Isthmus of Panama, andforty deaths, daily occur. The total number of failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s for the~week was 159, against 170 the previous week, 162 in the opening week in June; 1885, 182 in 1884, 148 in 1883, and 104 in 1882. Canada had 16 failures last week, against 15 the previous week, and 15 in the same week of last year. Total failures in the United States from Jan. 1 to date were 4,795, against 5,514 in a like shareot 1885, a decline of 719, against 4,687 in 1884,4,569 in 1883, and 3,125 in 1882. Special telegrams to Bradstreet’s do not show any marked change as to the condition of general trade.' A Deer Park (Pa.j-special says “Presi-. dent and Mrs. Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lamont, ex-Senator and Mrs. Davis and two children, and John,. W. Davis attended church at Oakland, six miles from Deer Park, on Sunday. They witnessed the baptism of an infant girl which was named Frances, though not as a compliment to the President’s bride. The President and wife have been putting in time opening letters and telegrams of congratulation. It is said they went fishing on Saturday, and tha the President caught twenty fish, but that Frank only got three nibbles.”

FOREIGN.

The Shah of Persia has refused to join with Turkey in a universal Mussulman alii. ance.... The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies haring in charge the expulsion bill has decidecf that the measur shall be compulsory, not permissive, and that it be applied to all members of a 1 families which at any time reigned ii France. The Committee of the French Chamber by a vote of 6 to 5. has adopted the proposal in favor of a general and compulsory expulsion of the princes, and by a vote of 9 to 2 has decided to postpone discussion ol the question of confiscation...rLord Salisbury, in the House of Lords, severely criticised James G. Blaine for his Portland speech, charging that the latter glaringly misquoted and grossly misrepresented his( Salisbury’s) public utterances. ... .The Liquor Commission of the German Reichstag has rejected the entire spirits bill on its second reading... .There is agitation in Scotland for a home-rule system similar to that proposed for Ireland",. .A bill for an international copyright law has been read the third time in the British House of Commons... .United States Minister Pendleton has obtained leave ol absence... .The eruption of Mount Etna has ceased and Nicolosi is considered safe. The British House of Commons has agreed to an amendment to the liquor bill closing publie houses in England, outside of London. on Sunday.... The Jesuits art making' purchases of real estate in Rome and putting up buildings... .The Frenck Ministry rejected the proposal made by the committee bf tire Chambot

of Deputies to amend the expulsion bill tt make the expulsion of the French prince* mandatory, general, and immediate.... Much excitement prevails in London in consequence of the progress,of the alien land bill in Congress. Many negotiations for the purchase of Americar lands now pending have been.completely There has been grave examination by bankers of , their securities and leases on American real estate. English owners do not understand that the Federal act can only apply to the Territories, and will not affect existing titles. One man owning 197,000 acron in Wyoming is frantically trying to sell.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Alfred Long, who was charged with murdering and robbing* A. J. Mcßride and wife and burning their bodies in their house, was lynched neat Lexington, N. C. He made a full confession of his guilt.... A mulatto named Charles Whittle, aged 18, was lynched at Prince Frederick, Md., for brutally assaulting a 5-year-old child. .-.. A Northeastern passenger train fell through a trestle near St. Stephen’s Station, South Carolina. Six persons were instantly killed And many others wounded, some of whom can not survive.... The Davis Block, at Louisville, Ky., valued at SIOO,OOO, was nearly destroyed by fire. The Grand Theater was located in the building and it was there the fire started... .The Supreme Court of Arkansas has affirmed a decision making the conducting of bucket-shops a misdemeanor. —. ’. ; • '■ Maxwell, the St. Lonis murderer, expresses sorrow at his conviction because he had expected to enter a dime museum and acquire sufficient money to repay the heirs of his victim and then return to England to practice law... .The press stand on the ' St. Louis Fair Association fell during the ! progress of a race, severely injuring many persons. Mr. Joseph McCnllagb, managing editor of the Globe-Democrat, was badly hurt... .Frosts are reported from Northern Minnesota and Dakota, doing considerable damage to grain. An incendiary fire destroyed the frame buildings Nos. 731 and 733 South Canal street, Chicago. The corpses of nine peraons were taken from the ruins—among them being Michael Murphy, his wife, and four children. The President, says a Washington special, will not spend the summer at Forest Hill, nor will he remain in the White House or go to the so-called President’s cottage at the Soldiers’ Home. The first reform that the wife accomplishes will be to take him away from his desk. It is determined that soou after the adjournment of Congress he will make a journey through the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, and visit 805t0n.... The Secretary of State has accepted the resignation of F*. H. Wiuston as Minister to Persia, which was forwarded soon after the latter arrived at Teheran. .After being before the British Parliament and the greater tribunal of civilized opinion for two months the Irish home-rule bill of Gladstone has been defeated by the decisive majority of thirty iu the largest vote ever in the House of Commons. Out of a possible C7O members G 52 passed between the tellers in a division upon the most momentous question that has been submitted to a British Parliament in cur generation. The scenes of intense popular interest that attended the introduction of the bill by Mr. Gladstone last April were more than repeated at Westminster during the'closing hours of the struggle. The United Kingdom watched the closing hours of the debate with that absorbed interest which attends a life-and-deat-h operation. In the estimation of the nationalists of Ireland, the fate of their beloved country hung upon the vote. In the view of the conservatives and their liberal allies the integrity of the empire was at stake... .Prince Jerome Napoleon has published a protest against the expulsion bill, predicting that it will lead to civil war. Thf. copsulor and diplomatic appropriation bill passed the Senate on the 7th inst The oleomargarine bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. The Committee on Public Lands made a favorable report on Mr. Stanford’s bill to crant the Seal Kocks in" trust to the city of Sun Francisco. The Senate, -in executive session, confirmed the nomination of A. P. Swineford ta be Governor of Alaska. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to establish a military fort near Denver ; to grant a pension of 8100 a. month to the Widow of General Durbin Ward ; to prohibit the employment of convict or alien labor on public works ; to erect a monument in Brooklyn to the victims of prison-ships, and to prohibit tho obstruction of interstate railroad business. Judge Pavson's bill repealing the pre-emption, desert laud, and timber laws, and amending the commutation provision of the homestead law, was passed by ii vote of 183 to 40. A resolution was presented 1 for an inquiry into the Pension Department, and to report upon the propriety of continuing the excessive expenditures under the present system. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, apologized for a “warmth of expression" in the House in regard to Mr. Holman, of Indiana. The apology was frccepted.

THE MARKETS.

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A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

John Kelly, the Chieftain of New York’* Tammany Society, Passes Away. His Death a Peaceful One, His Faculties Remaining Intact to the Last Moment. r* • - “I have tried to live the life of a good Catholic, and die in the comfort of that faith,” were the last words uttered on earth by John Kelly, the noted 1 Tammany chief of New York, who passed away peacefully at his house in that city on the afternoon of Tuesday, the Ist inst. He had been sick for a long time—in fact, his illness dated back to the dose of the last Presidential campaign—-but it was not believed by his intimate friends that he was so near death’s door. His mental faculties were bright and clear to the last. His death was painless and peaceful. He held the hand of his wife Until his bold relaxed in death. Mr. Kelly leaves two children, a girl and a boy, aged respectively 9 and 7 years. His widow is a niece of the late Cardinal McCloskey. Mr. Kelly expressed a wish that his funeral should be private and pimple, consequently there was no public demonstration. Dr. Edward L. Keyes, who attended Mr. Kelly throughout his illness, says that his patient had been in failing health for two years. The nerve forces were impaired, and all the functions were deranged in consequence. He made strong efforts to regain his health, but they were futile. He finally acknowledged that it was useless to hope for recovery, and for six or eight months past he had confessed he was dying. •At times Mr. Kelly was much depressed in spirits, but at no time was his intelligence impaired. He retained that throughout, and at all times had full control of his senses. His physical deterioration was great. His hair and beard became perfedtly white. He lost at least sixty pounds in flesh. His heart and other integral organs were very much affected, although he had no organic disease. He seemed to show no regret, but appeared to be willing to let go his grip on life.

BIOGRAPHICAL. “John Kelly—Grate Setter,” was the sign which hung from a modest two-story house in Mott street, New York, in 1844. It indicated the humble beginning of one who, twelve years later* was a member of Congress, and who, for thirty years since then, was one of the most prominent political figures of New York. His name was familiar to everybody, and his features have been portrayed so frequently by the caricaturists that even children recognized it. It is said that the editor of an illustrated paper at one time instructed his artists to remember that when timely subjects did not present themselves a cartoon on John Kelly was always in order, and Kelly has been seen on a street-car perusing this very paper, his eye twinkling merrily when he found a humorous representation of himself. John’s strong characteristic was his unostentatiousness, and for that reason people know very little about his private John Kelly was bom in New York City April 20, 1822. His father died when he was 8 years old. When the New York Herald was in its infancy young Kelly walked into the office one day and asked the elder Bennett if he wanted an office boy. Bennett was a good judge of character and quick in deciding. He talked with the youth a few minutes, and then told , him to go to work. He became a great favorite with Bennett, and when at length he grew older and determined On learning a trade, so as to better support the large family that was depending on him, Mr. Bennett offered him strong inducements to remain, and on parting with him predicted that he would succeed anywhere. The elder Bennett was as ra&ng a friend of Kelly’s as the present Bennett was a bitter enemy. Kelly leamed-the trade of soapstone cutting and grate-setting, at which he afterward made a considerable fortune. He proved to be a remarkably shrewd business man, and his faith in the future of New York City was so great that with every S2OO or $309 he would get he.bought a lot up-town; these lots are worth to-day from $5,000 to $10;'000, and. Mr. Kelly has died a millionaire. Though his charity was distributed most secretly, it is estimated that he dispensed $250,000 in that way. When a young man John was notable as an athlete. The notorious John Morrisey said of Kelly that he had the build of ap ideal pugilist. Though the cartoonists have always represented him as a dumpy man, he was nearly six feet in height and weighed about 240 pounds. He ran with the “fire laddies” in his early days, and made hosts of friends, who elected him Aiderman in 1853. ‘Tweed, of ring fame, afterward said of this body: “There never was a time before that you could not buy the Board of Aidermen, and if it was not for John Kelly’s severity - you could buy it now.” In 1854 he was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress. He resigned his seat before his last term was comnleted to take the office of Sheriff, to which he had been elected. It was while in Congress that General Cass, President Buchanan’s Secretary of State, spoke of. him as “Honest John Kelly,” which he has been commonly called since. In 1868 he was chosen the candidate for the Mayoralty in opposition to Bill Tweed’s Tammany Hall candidate, but an awful burden of domestic affliction in the loss of his wife and son compelled him to withdraw and take his two daughters—all that was left of his family—to Europe for his own health as well as theirs. He remained away three years, and during his absence New York City was given over wholly to the plunder of the Tweed ring. Prominent men like Mr. Tilden, Seymour, Hewitt, and Belmont sought Mr. Kelly to help ihem in this crisis. He had vowed never to again enter politics. Their importunities continued for a year, till at last he entered the fight, and while Mr. Tilden and Charles O’Conor attacked the Tweed ring in the Legislature and in the courts Mr. Kelly had a hand-to-hand tussle with them in Tammany Hall, their citadel, and routed them, as is well known. This gave him a prestige which he held since. An idea of the tremendous power which this ring wielded may be obtained from the fact that it gave employment to 12,000 persons and disbursed $30,000,000- annually. In 1876 Mr. Kelly was appointed Comptroller of the city, and not only stopped the debt of the city increasing, something unprecedented, but actually reduced it $12,000,000 during his term of office. A London restaurant-keeper paid $75,000 for the privilege of catering at the Colonial Exhibition, now in progress. Sam Jones, the evangelist, lives on oatmeal, milk, fruits, and occasionally meats. He seldom drinks coffee. i _ . ■ Ex-Pbeswent Fish, of the New York Marine Bank, is now an assistant to the Auburn Prison chaplain. Mbs. Tbexanion, the sister of the Baroness Burdett* Coutts, died in London * few days ago.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Tbs W<Mk of the Senate and Hbow of Re|M eseulstives Mr. Habbib, of Tennessee, introduced a bill In the Senate, on the Ist inst, providing for the payment to Mrs. Eliza H. Brownlow of |MO for Government advertising in the Knoxville Whig, published by her husband, the famous “Parson* Brownlow Mr. Beck introduced a bill making It unlawful for any member of either house to abt as railroad attorney, and fixing the minimum punishment for violating ita provisions at a fine of $5,000, or iiuprisoninont for one year. Bills were passed to prevent aliens from acquiring land in the Territories, and extending the eight-hour law to letter-carriers. The President vetoed another pension bill upon the ground that it was nut based upon substantial merits. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: David L. Hawkins of Missouri to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice George A. Jenks, resigned; Joseph E. Johnston of Virginia to be commissioner In the district of Alaska, vice Cheater Seeber, resigned; John B. Riley of Plattsburg, N. Y., Indian School Superintendent, vice John H. Oberly, appointed a Civil-service Commissioner. The House again wrestled with the oleomargarine bill, and the opponents of the measure gained a point by securing the adoption of an amendment reducing the tax from ten cents to eight cents a pound. Mr. Weaver, of lowa, arose to a question of privilege and with some heat denied the charges of an lowa newspaper that he was unduly influenced to oppose the bill. He had been, and still was, in favor of the oleomargarine bill, and it was false that he had been influenced improperly in bis course in regard to that measure. Mb. CuLLom, of Illinois, introduced in the Senate, on the 2d inst., a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment in regard to polygamy. Mr. Morrill submitted a proposed amendment to Senator Platt's open executive session resolution which makes this resolution apply to reciprocity treaties instead of to nominations. Tne House of Representatives, in committee of the whole, finished the oleomargarine bill. Mr. O’Neill, from the Committee on Labor, reported a bill to legalize the incorporation of trades unions. A bill for the payment of the awards for Alabama claims was signed by the President, after consultation with the members of the Cabinet as to ita constitutionality. Mb. Dawes presented a petition in the Senate on the 3d inst., from the City Council of Gloucester, Mass., that retaliation be ordered against the Canadian Government for the seizure of American Ashing-vessels. Mr. Edmunds expressed the hope that a ship of the United States Government would soon appear in the northern seas to encourage the fishermen. The Senate passd Mr. Van Wyck’s bill for the taxation of railroad-grant lands, the object being that the corporations shall bear equally with, the settlers the burden of paying the taxes. The House of Representatives passed the oleomargarine bill, after amending it to make the tax five cents per pound. The vote on the passage of the bill was 177 to 99. Of the 177 votes the Democrats contributed 81 and the Repblicans 96. The negative votes were cast by 84 Democrats and 15 Republicans. New England cast 17 votes for the bill and 4 against; New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware 48for and 13 against; the Southern States, including West Virginia and Kentucky, 21 for and €6 against; the "Western States, including Missouri, 84 for the bill and 15 against; and the Pacific Coast .States 7 for and 1 against the bill. lowa, Kansas, and Minnesota voted solidly for the bill. Wisconsin gave 1 nay—Van Scnaick; Michigan 7 yeas and 3 nays—Maybury, Tarsney, and Fisher. Illinois stood 15 to 4—Dunham, Lawler, Morrison, and Ward voting against the bill, and all the rest of them in favor of it except Eden, who was absent. Indiana voted 8 to 3—Cobb, Browne, ’ and Ford voting against the bill. The foL lowing are the main features of tho bill, as it passed: Butter is defined to be a food product made exclusively from milk or" cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without coloring matter. Oleomargarine is defined as all substances made of oleomargarine, oleo, laraine, tallow extracts, etc., in imitation of butter, or when so made calculated to be sold as butter or for butter. Special taxes are imposed as follows : On manufacturers, $600; on wholesale dealers, s4fo; on retail dealers, S4B. The existing internal-revenue laws, so far as applicable, are made to apply to these special taxes. Penalties are imposed on any person who shall deal in oleomargarine without paying the special tax. Provision is. made for the proper stamping and labeling of every package of oleomargarine. A tax of five cents a pound is imposed on all oleomargarine manufactured and sold, and a penalty is prescribed for the purchase or reception for sale of oleomargarine not branded or stamped according to law. A number of sections of the bill are devoted to providing machinery to carry the law into effect.

The report of the Committee on Indian Affairs on its investigation of tbu condition of the Indians in the Indian Territory and other reservations was submitted in the Senate on the 4th inst. Touching the claims 'of the Creeks and Seminoles in Oklahoma, and the pretenses of a right of entry upon these lands by bands of colonists, the committee unite in the conclusion that the United States has no right to dispose of the ownership >f the soil in that ceded tract without further agreement with those tribes, except for the p trpose of settling other friendly Indians upon those lands. The Senate passed the Chinese indemnity bill, appropriating $150,000 to cover damages inflicted by rioters at Hock Springs Wyoming. Senator Cullom submitted the Hennepin canal bill as an amendment- to the river and harbor approprirftion bill. In the House of Representatives Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, made a bitter attack upon Mr. Stanton for his action when Secretary of War, which excited some comment. The Secretary of War sent a communication to the House recommending that 850,000 of the amount appropriated by. the act of March 3, 1883, for the armament of fortifications, be reappropriated, and made available for the construction of guns. The Ingalls resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for the authority for the issuance by the Land Commissioner of an order suspending the receipt of applications for public lands under certain acts, passed the Senate on the sth Inst. The private pension bills rushed through numbered 220. The oleomargarine bill being brought to the Senate from the House the question of its reference was postponed and the bill was allowed to lie on the table to await the return of Mr. Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Beck gave notice that he would , insist on its reference to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Blair reported favorably from the Committee on Labor an amendment to the sundry civil bill, proposing an appropriation of 100,000 Bland dollars to aid in the establishment of a school in Utah under the direction of the Industrial Home Association of Utah. The object of the amendment is stated to be to aid in the suppression of polygamy. The House of Representatives passed bills appropriating 8100,000 each fur public buildings at Sioux City and ZanesviHe. During a debate over the Union Pacific bondextension bill an exciting controversy took place between Mr. Holman (Indiana) and Mr. Crisp (Georgia). Mr. Holman insinuated that the Pacific Railroad Committee was unduly influenced in favor of the corporation, and Mr. Crisp's indignant denial and recriminations, caused considerable of a sensation. On motion of Mr. Holman an amendment was adopted increasing from forty to fifty per cent, the amount of theneteamings to be paid into the sinking fund in case the companies refused to accept the provisions of the act.

Egyptian sculptures and wall paintings often represent the interior of well-to-do private houses and palaces; they show the plans of dwellings and adjoining vegetable gardens so well that the very products of the latter can be distinguished, but, though these plans designate the separate rooms and their entrances, it is still impossible to comprehend the general arrangement of an ancient Egyptian or its interior arrangement. Thebe is nothing new under the sun. Commercial travelers, called circitores, were employed by certain Boman manufacturers and tradesmen, to carry round and dispose of the goods they made. ——. “Ah, me," soliloquized the tramp, “how often have ‘I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, ’ only to awake and' find myself in a stone-shed." Bemobse is the pill that gripes the stomach of our conscience.