Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — Page 2

"'■l 1 • The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA- , O. E. MARSHALL,, **- - Pumjwren.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The flour and grain received in New York City last year, reducing flour to ita equivalent in wheat, aggregated about 130,900.000 bushels, being 4,272,000 bushels in excess of the total received during 1885. Of this enormous quantity the New York canals delivered, in the seven months comprising the season of navigation, 44,000,000 bushels, or a little more than one-third, against a trifle less tlinn 30,000,000 bushels in the corresponding time a year previously. In the summer months of last year the railroads only delivered some 4,182,000 bushels more than did the canals. The female department of the State Indnstrial Home at Rochester, X. Y., was ruined by fire, creating a loss of SOO,(KM). ....Hugh Trainer. James Smith, Jr., and Peter Mack were killed by a train at Hyde Park, Mass. Another of the loodle Aldermen of New York, named O’Neill, has been convicted of bribery in connection with the Broadway Railroad franchise. “Prof.” John Dr. Lf.ox, the “astrologer,” who wa6 convicted in New Y'ork City of inducing young girls to Panama for immoral purposes, under the pretext of finding employment lor them, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ at hard labor in Sing Sing. Nearly fifty people lost their lives in a disastrous railroad accident near White River Junction, Vt. Twc* sleeping-cnrs and two passenger coaches left the fore part of the train on ttie bridge and were pitched over the abutment atid down to the ice fifty feet below. The stoves in the ears soon set fire to the woodwork, nud in half an hour’s time only a mass of ashes and twisted iron remained of the great wreck. "Only about thirty of the passengers thrown over the bridge esea]>ed with their lives.... Boston gamblers are frightened over' the prospect of the passage by the Massaphusetts Legislature of a law against gambling in that State... .John L. Sullivan put in an appearance on the New York Stock Exchange. but his awkward attempts at the ways of speculators were met with howls of derision, from which he escaped in a convenient cab.

THE WEST.

At a justice's office in the township of Jefferson, adjacent to Chicago, Niun Van Zandt and August Spies were married by proxy, the latter being represented by his brotter, holding a power of attorney. Leonard Swett, counsel for the anarchists, pronounces the marriage illegal... .The aggregate annual product of Illinois coal mines, according to the State Hoard of Labor Statistics, shows a decrease for last year as compared With the previous year. Industrial depression and Eastern competition are the given causes. A revival is anticipated. Mrs. Langtry has had the satisfaction this week of playing to very nearly Jhe capacity of McYickers Theater, says the Chicago Morning -Yfirs. Her illness on Monday night was unfortunate, but so great was the desire to see her that less than $25 was returned, the disappointed patrons gladly accepting seats for other nights during the week. Mrs. Langtry-'s performance of Lady Ormond is a discriminating and carefully drawn piece of work. Next week the “Lady of Lyons” will be played. The third week of Mrs. Langtry’s engagement at McVicker’s will be devoted to a produc.ion of “Clanearty,” Tom Taylor's drama. A dispatch from Miles City reports the cattle scattering on the ranges or crowding to the river for water... .Mrs. Emma Molloy is conducting a revival at Vancuover, where she went in search of Mrs. Graham, generally supposed to have been murdered in Missouri. „ Several distinct shocks of earthquake were experienced throughout Central Illinois and Indiana on the morning of the 6th inst. A heavy rumbling noise was heard at first, followed by several violent vibrations of the earth, shaking houses, rattling windows and doors, and causing a panic among live stock herds. At Springfield, : 111., the citizens were aroused by the rattle of crockery,windows, pictuies, and at otte house, wirere the people were up 1 ait.nding the wants of a sick person,-tiro swaying was so distinct as to cause alarm, and the invalid insisted on being removed to the open air and placed as near mother earth as possible. At another place the glass doors of the wardrobe were thrown violently open. and the case tottered as if to fall. At about the hour these shocks were felt in Indiana and Illinois, the people of Owatonna, Minn., were startled by thunder and - lightning lasting an hour, with the mercury, below zero. NrAßTolono, 111., the engineer of a fast . Wabash train discovered three young men dimbling over the tender toward him. They ordered the train stopped and made the fireman holu up his hands, saying that they were going through the express car. The engineer quietly drew a revolver from his tool box and forced the would-be robbers to leap off one by one.

THE SOUTH.

Uxdek decrees of the Federal courts, the property of the Southern Telegraph Company was sold at auction at Richmond for §400.000. The main and branch lin.es cover eighteen hundred miles between Washington and Selma. Father Lawler, of Louisville, has excommunicated from the Catholic Church a grocer named Michael McCoy, who maltreated his first wife until she secured ai dhorce. whereupon he married a young woman living next door. All members of the Church are forbidden to recognize the offender . John D. Lisle, discount clerk in the First National Bank at Baltimore, is a defaulter for an amount in excess of § SO,OOO. He deceived the Bank Examiner by substituting forged notes for genuine ones, destroying! the bogus paper when the examination was completed. ~ farms in Marshall County, Illinois The Illinois Central bridge at Cairo will require 3,000 feet of. trestle. A commencement has been made wiih seventy-five feet, and the work goes rapidly forward. Father F- C. Jean, of Lyons, lowa, has been awarded §20,000 damages against Bishop Hennessey, of Dubuque, who deDosed him from the rectorship of St. Irene’s parish at Lyons fifteen years ago. .... The three Cemmissioners of Archuleta County, Colorado, were seized by a mob, headed by the Sheriff, and driven from the county, with j threats that should they return their lives should pay the forfeit. A ]

•I ' i •_" Ahotel owned by one of the victims was burned by the mob. The Legislature will investigate the matter. -i; At a funeral in New Orleans, the police nabbed Margaret A. Murphy, who had; been seeutppkk. the jxx'ket of tt mourner. Tt waa soon learned tbnt she had practiced this game for many years without arousing suspicion, and had lived respectably on the proceeds. One hundred coiuplaiuts hod ; been tiled uith the police.

POLITICAL.

Tm Republican members of the In- ! diana Legislature held a joint convention at Indianapolis on the .'ld inst, Seven He- ! publican Senators declined to nttend for fear of expulsion by the Democratic Senate. After (he adoption of a resolution reciting the illegality of the election of Mr. Turpie as United States Senator, a committee of live was appointed to maki an investigation and prepare a memorial of contest to be presented to the j United States Senate, .. A bill in the line ,of the Interstate Commerce bill has been' introduced in the Texas House of Representatives. It requires railroad companies to jH>st their rates, and prohibits changes without due notice. It also contains a "long and short hand" prohibitory clause,... I The bill graining suffrage to women, j j passed by the Washington Territory Legislature in lKs'i, pas been declared unconstitutional by the Territorial Supreme Court. I . . . . The Pennsylvania Senate has passed ] the bill providing for the submission of the | prohibition amendment to the State Consti- I tution to a vote of tbe people. CoxTJtAKY to their intention, the Indiana Republican legislators held no joint convention on tbe 4th inst., and in consequence the Senatorial strug.le was brought tic) an end. Speaker Sayre will refuse to sign Turpie’s certificate of election, and ! the Secretary of State will refuse to attest | it.. The Alabama Senate passed, by a vote j of 26 to 1, a joint resolution providing for ] subn: tting a constitutional amendment prohibiting tbe liquor traffic to the people at the next general election.... After n prolonged debate in the Texas Senate, a bill passed prohibiting dealing in futures in that State under a penalty of a heavy fine and imprisonment in the county jail six months, each day the business ; is conducted to constitute a separate offense. The bill will pass the House, ill spite of a powerful lobby working agnihst it...... The New Mexico j Legislature lias passed an act providing for a strict quarantine stock law, and restricting the admission of cattle from other States and Territories. . .Ajointresolution passed the Colorado Legislature requesting President Cleveland to appoint under the interstate commerce bill one commissioner from the section west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains. . A BHJi has been introduced in the Dakota Legislature appropriating $150,000 to purchase seed grain for needy settlers whose cjops were destroyed by drought last year .. . .Speaker Carlisle has. written n letter to Representative Randall, in which it is understood he expresses the entire inability of the tariff; reformers to accept the internal revenue features of the bill prepared by, the protection Democrats, and their desire for a much larger reduction in customs duties than the bill contains. The. Speaker then, in behalf of his wing of the party, advances propositions upon which to unite the party in favor of a bill to reduce the surplus revenue....A caucus of Republican Senators was held last week to consider the policy to be pursued with regard to a reduction of the revenue. No conclusion was reached.

WASHINGTON.

It is stated that George 11. Pendleton returned from Berlin at the request of President Cleveland. This gave rise to a rttmor that he will be tendered the position of Secretary of the Treasury. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: INTEREST-BEARING DEB". Bonds at 4'._. percent 5 250,000,000" Bonds Ht 4 per cent. 737,786,600 bonds at 3 per cent 63,0*13,030 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 186,350 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,003,000 Pacific lailroud bonds l at 0 per cent. 04,6*33,312 Principal $1,120,619,462 1ntere5t.........;..,.................. T,i'60,U70 Total ;.V. .ti.iM,ataxia DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATIT.ITV. Principal $ 7,310,335 Interest 20:i,7»7 Total ...S 7,514,112. DEBT BEARING NO IN I E..KST. Old demand and legal tendor lit tes.i 340,738,341 Certificates of deposit :.7.V 8,723,000 Gold certificates 1059163,107 Silver certificates....... ••....... 118,315,714 Fractional currency dess 1 8,375,931 estimated as lost or destroyed f*.. 6,950,974 . Principal.. .' ,S 586,399,138 -- TOTAL DEBT, Principal , 81,723,319,925 1ntere5t......... ... .7,863,858 Total. . .51,731;M 1,783 Less cash items available’ior reduction of the debt .. .5 270,934,924 Less reserve held for redemption of United States n0te5............... 1C0,000,090 Total * 5 370,*334,921 Total debt, less available cash •items ................. >1,360,248,859 Not cash in the Treasury 27,783,053 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Fi?b. 1, 18-7 -. #1,332,4GJ,509 Debt, ets cash in Treasury, Jan. 1, 188,' ......" 1,341,984,435 Decrease of debt duriujg the month . $ 9,515,681 • , CASH IN THE TP.KA-tT.V. Available lor reduction of debt: Gold held for cold certificates actually outstanding,.,,,,,.,, ~, ..,.,.5 105,635,107 Silver held for silver eeititivates actually oulstamlmg- ; 118,315,714 United States notes heid for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 8,720,001. Cash held tor matured debt and interest unpaid;............... : 23,013,419 Fractional currency..........'...... 3,533 Total available for reduction of the debt... 527*0,934,923 Reserve fund held for redemption qf I'nited States notes, acta J an. 14. 1875 Did July 12.1882 5 100,930,001 Cnacailable for reduction of the debt: * Fractional silver coin 26,323,521 Minor coin 10C903 Total .7.:. .5 26,430,427 Certificates hell as cash -'25(681,020 7L t cash balance on hand 47^790,051 Total cash in the Treasury as - shown bv 't ie tncc. ’ii.t' : a . Secretary Manning has sent to the House Committee on- Foreign Affairs it long reply to the request of that committee for his viewg wittrregard to the House and ‘ Senate retaliation hills, and for any sug- j gestions that he may "desire to make with j i reference thereio. The -Secretary regrtts that the tariff laws of the I'nited SiateslotJ the non-interaeution policy of Canada : should b*» tie “divided disgrace of our com- ! mon civilization.” He cautions legislators l to enact laws looking forward to the event- ' nal merging of the two countries into one, ' and submits a new bill to the committee which provides that whenever the President shall be sati-fied that I'nited Slates vessels are denied any of their rights or inivilegesin Canadian wat.rs or ports, it shall, in his dis- - ■ * * "7 ; ■ y

eretion.jlse his duty to issue a proclamation closing jibe ports of the United States against ! vessel* owned wholiy or in part by n subject of her Britannic Majesty, and coining or arriving froifi any port or place in the Dominion of Canada, or in the Island of ; Newfoundland, whether directly, or having touched at any Other port, excepting sn h vessels as shall he in distress; "aml'every vessel thus excluded that shall enter or attempt to enter any port of the United States shall be seized and forfeited, or the value thereof shall be recovered from the person attempting to make the entry. Titr. delay of definite action on the antipolygamy billliv the Congressional coni ferrees threatens the defeat of the bill*'.... The Commissioner of Patents has presented his annual repprt, which showed that the receipts had been $1,154*551, the expenditures $31)2,503, and that there was $3,11)7,453 to the credit of the patent fund in the Treasury.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

I 1 A New York dispatch says “the extension of the.etrike to ihe freight->handlerson tbe railroad piers of New York is the most I serious blow to commerce that the union 1 men have struck. The effect of it on one I road, the Jersey Central, was an almost I complete suspension of business." A Lowj ell (Mass.) telegram says “the strikes in : New York City seriously affect the business i interests of this city. If they continue 1 much longer the loss to mercantile and | manufacturing industries will ,be disasi trous." A Chicago dispatch says the Knights of Labor, in pursuance of their intention to exterminate Philip D. Armour, tbe great meat packer, “have placed a boycott on' nearly 30U Chicago tirms which are using his goods. A move of this kind is stu- ! pendous, and it is one of the most importI ant ever made on the part of the Knights since the establishment of their organization. They recognize in Armour the power that crushed them in the stock-yards strikes, and by forcing him to succumb they think | they would only be exercising justifiable ; retaliatory measures. They do not care so | much about the other influential packers, ! but in Mr. Arniour they say they have | found an avowed enemy to their cause, and in the hope of- crushing him they have not only boycotted his firm throughout the country, but they now propose to trea j similarly those wholesale and retail dealers • who purchase and sell his products.” Ax a meeting of window-glass manufaet-" urers, at Pittsburgh, the Eastern and Western organizations consolidated, perfected a pooling arrangement, and decided to at once advance prices sto 74 per cent. .. .A New York dispatch of Friday says: “The liver fronts are practically in a state of siege. One thousand police have been massed in reserve at four different points. Patrol wagons have been stationed at each place, so that the whole force can be concentrated at a given point in a short time. The 1,000 men can handle many times that number of rioters. One thousand more are in reserve at police headquarters." .Seven hundred _ men employed at Sharpsville, Pa., struck for an advance of twenty-five cents a-day. An offer of a 10 per cent, advance was refused. The meltem in all the crucible steel works in Pittsburgh have made a demand for an advance in wages of- - I~> per cent. Five theus rul men are interested. An order has been posted in Philadelphia clothing hons'es locking out all the cutters. The order affects several thousand employes. .. .Testimony is being taken in New York as 'to the cause of the present strikes. The strikers contend that the troubles were precipitated bv an attempted reduction of the wages of topmen at F.lizabetliport and Port Johnson, and that it would be remedied-by restoring Elizabethport rates. _____

THE RAILWAYS.

A Single firm has made contracts for the delivery of two million railroad ties in Nebraska this year, mainly for the Northwestern and Union Pacific Roads, and the Burlington is about to arrange for another million. . The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad is reported to have leased in perpetuity the tracks of the Wabash Road between St. Peters and St. Louis, including all the terminal facilities of the Wabash in the latter city. The Railroad Commissioners of Illinois report that but eleven roads in the State pay dividends, twenty-eight yield only the fixed charges, and four fall short of paying operating expenses and taxes. The net income of all the roads is but 1.1 per cent, on the capital represented by their securities.

GENERAL.

Sir Xdoll’h Cabox, Minister of War for Canada, said man interview at Montreal thrtf .in his opinion there was no probability of a rupture between Canada and the United States, that the war talk was all nonsense, and that the difficulty would be amicably settled. The Canadian Deputy Minister of Fisheries says that no war vessels are to be sent from Great Britain to the Canadian coast, but three or four British ships on tbe North American station have been ordered to cruise from Cape Sabine to the Bay Chaleur this season, preeisely as in 1870. The school-house at St. Monique, Ontario, was destroyed by tire and four young girls who were in it perished in the flames. Three daughters of Mr. Ambrose, aged 10, 11, and I‘2 years, and a daughter of Mr. Joseph Forge slept in the place during the night. The origin of the fire is unknown. The charred remains of the four young found among the ashes.

FOREIGN.

Ox the London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna Bourses there is intense excitement, prices all goiug to pieces owing to war rumors A London cablegram says: “There are indications that Germany modi-' tates inviting France to consent to a reduction of the armies of both nations to a low peace basis.” r. A jßf.sU.ix cablegram states that the German Government will negotiate a loan of i s7.>.OlkM' : oo for military purposes..-. .The i physicians of Charles S. Purnell believe [ that he is afflicted with Bright's disease of ! the kidneys,.. .King Theebnw has advised j the Burmese to submit to British rule. ! Dispatches from all the European t capitals indicate a more peaceful outlook. [ A decided improvement is noted on the i Stock Exchanges, prices having materially ! advanced. Gen. Boulanger is on a; visit to the fortified towns along the French froni Both Emperor William and Prince , Bismarck JjaVt informed ~tfae Carr that [ Germany has no intention of attacking : France. William O’Brien published a letter 4eclining election to Parliament on the ground that he could be df more service outside of Parliament t an in it. ...T. M. Healey was elected to rill vacancy in the north division of Longford County eansed by the • J' ,

decision of Justin McCarty to occupy, the seat belonging to Londonderry city.... A mob at Tipperary .after burning a house fro*i which a tenant had been dragged, declared that they would hereafter tolerate no evictions. Mr. Parnell's reticence is being ascribed by his enemi 8 to consumption, impending insanity, etc.... A Y r ienna dispatch announces that Bismarck has succeeded in establishing a coalition between Austria, England, and Iptly against Russia. Germany will join the coalition if France supports Russia.. .. .The FrenchMinister of Foreign 'Affairs has informed the Cabinet that the outlook for internatiofial affaire is peaceful.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Exprf.sk Messenger A. S. Robbins. who was one of the six peiaoiis on hoard tbo wrecked Vermont Central train, and who had passed over the bridge before the accident occurred, said: “It is probabiy one of thet worst accidents that ever took place in the United States. When we were fairly upon the bridge we felt tne shock and heard a clash belind. When we ipoked behind we saw the four rear cars piled upon each other over the edge of the bridge. They pitched over so fast that it hardly scratched the edge of the bridge, anti in a few minutes they were all on Are, with nil the people in them,. Oh. it was awfnl; the woist thing I ever saw or heard of.” A peculiar cash lias arisen over the matter of the idc-ntifieation of a body claimed by, two parties, one alleging that it is the body of a female, and the other that it is that of a male. Even the doctors are equally divided on the question on account fit the charred condition of the corps *. Clolhing, watches, keys, etc., belonging to each of the victims, were found on the remains in such a manner as to indicate that two persons died together, and that one body was entirely consumed. There is nothing left of the other but a portion of the trunk, minus the head, arms, and legs. A bill has b en introduced in the Nebraska Legislature providing that all railroads doing business in the State, shall, on the Ist of January of each year, issue annual passes to the State officials ana members of the Legislature.. .. A bill to punish strikers who interfere with the lawful employment of other persons by a fine of SSOO aud imprisomueht -for six months passed the Texas Senate with only three dissenting votes... .The Sunday law passed by the last Louisiana Legislature has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of that State. The German postoffice authorities aro making extensive experiments with a view to connect the whole of Germany by the telephone... .French communders on the German frontier have been ordered to avoid all exercises of their troops likely to be falsely interijreted by Germany.... Spanisn republican immigrants residing in France ‘have decided to form a volunteer force of 2,1)00 men to assist France in the event of war with Germany. Several members of the Anti-patriotic League in Paris have been arrested for phicardtug the city with an appeal to the soldiers to desert or shoot their officers. A Berlin dispatclqsays that Gen. von Moltke, in receiving a deputation

ot conservative electors, declared that the political situation v. as most serious* and authorized the deputation to give publicity to his statement.

Rf-solution's of the Kansas legislature for the opening of the territory of Oklahoma were presented in the Senate on the 7th. The Senate passed twenty House bills. Among them were the bill to amend the act of Fob. 20, 1885, to prohibit the importation and. immigration of . foreigners and aliens under contract so perforin labor, and the hill to amend section 6 of the act of June 10, LlaU, in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The Senate also passed bills to . encourage the manufacture of st el for modern army and navy ordnante and to erect gun factories at Watorvliet Arsenal and the W ashington Navy Yard.'''The sum of 821,000,t00 is appropriated for these purposes. A memorial of the National Board of Trade in favor of a general bankruptcy law was presented. Senator Ingalls’resolution regarding tjie rejection by the Senate of Matthews (colore.li to be Recorder of Heeds of the District of Columbia was udopted by a party vote of 20 to 18. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: E. C. Lore, of Slissouri, to bo Consul General at the City of Mexico. J. M. Needham of Franklin, Inch, to ho agent for the Indians of the Lemhi agency, in Idaho. Mrs. Margaret M. Tyrrell to bo .postmistress of Akin, Franklin County, 111. Tho- House of Representatives passed bills granting a right of way through Indian Territory to tho Chicago, Kansa- and Nebraska Railway, and appropriating ilii.GOO for the completion of the public building at Detroit. Those who expected that Speaker Carlisle would recognize Judge Kelley or some other member to move to suspend the rules and phss a lull abolishing the tax on tobacco were disappointed. The Speaker, in his correspondence with Mr. Randall in reference to getting before the House a revenue measure, plainly intimated, that he would l ot give recognition to any member to pass, -under suspension of the rules, any bill to change tue internal revenue laws that did not include changes' in the customs laws, and to those gentlemen who on the 7th inst. applied for recognition to make such a motion, tho Speaker gave respectful but positive refusal.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House Of Representatives. A bile won introduced m Uio Senate on the j lit inst. to reimburse tho aulivrew by the failure of the Freodin&n'B Savings & Trußt Company, Senator Cnllbin intro lucj<l ati amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill directing the Secretary of War to cause a survey to be mode of tho Illinois and lies Plaines llivors from La bullo to Joliet, with a view to tho improvement of the rivers so as to maintain a waterway 100 feet wido and seven feet deep between tho places named; also to locate a canal from Juliet to Lake Michigan at or near Chicago, and t 6 take other specified steps, including a survey for a canal eighty feet wide und seven feet deep from the IHlprTts'Rivor. at or near Hcnneptn, to the Mississippi River, at or above the mouth of Rock River—for all of whioh purposes Sit)), 03 is appropriated. President Cleveland vetoed a bill grouting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Dunlap, oi Missouri, the ground of tho President's Objection being that the death of tho soldier (for which the pension is given) was not Caused in the line of duty, but in a quarrel with a comrade. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions reported adversely op the bills for the relief of Mrs. John A. Logan and Mrs. Frank P. Blair, but indorsed tne bill to ullow Walt Whitman £25 per monih for life for bis services as a volunteer nurse among the soldiers. K. garming the pension for Mrs. Logan, tho committee says that should Congress puss the bill, and tho precedent set by it should be carried out, it would increase the pension roll £345,000 annually. In a majority of the cases, as in this case, no relief from actual embarrassment orpoverty would be allordeu. It was well known that thousands of poor and aged widows of brave and worthy soldiers were denied the pittance of £l2 per montn because of their inability to connect tho death of their husbands with j their military service ; vyhile iu this caije no sort of claim Was advanced that the death of Gen. Logan was attributable to his military service. It was a well-known fact that Mrs. Logan was in possession of an ample estate, and while the committeo entertains the highest regard for her, both on account of her Jiigh character and personal wortn, as well as on account of the brave and gallant record of General Logan as a soldier, and his useful and spotless record as a civilian and statesman, it believes that the passage of this and all similar bills would be in the direction of building up in this country an aristocracy contrary to the very principles of an equal government for all, for which General Logan so gallantly fought in war and so ably contended in time of peace. Similar reasons are set up for opposing the nonsion to Mrs. General Blair. The Republican meinbereof the committee present minority reports recommending the passage of both bills. After describing General Blair's career, the minority says : “We but echo the voice of history when we say that General Frank P. Biair saved Missouri to tho Union. To place u money value on such services is not possible, and the committee only aska that his cherished companion, who was made a widow by his sacrifice of himself to his country, shall be tenderly cared for as long ns she lives. ” The minority report, recommending a pension for Mrs. Logan,, after reciting the brilliant career of Gen. Logan, says that it is reasonably certain that his death was a direct result of his military service, and that his transcending achievements wero the voluntary contiibutions of his splendid military genius, inspired by convictions of duty and patriotic impulses seldom equated and never excelled. The House bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River between Omaha and Council Bluffs passed tne Senate on the 2d inst The sundry civil,, appropriation bill was passed by the Senato. Just before the passage of tne bill Mr. Allison stated that the Treasury surplus for next year is not likely to exceed £15,000,100, but Mr. Beck contended tiiat it wtuld be nearer £00,000,000. By a vote of 34 to 15 tho Senate passed the House bill appropriating £IO,OOO for the distribution of seeds in Texas by the Agricultural Department. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to lowa railroad land grants The House of Representatives passed bills to authorize the construction of a passenger briago across the Mississippi liiv6r at Dubuque, and to defino the Ohio collection districts of Miami and Sandusky. By a vote of 136 to 115 the House refused to repass the vetoed, pension bill of Carter W. Tiller, the father of a soldier who died in Andersonviile Prison. The bill to prohibit the appointment of Congressional funeral committees was laid on the table by a decided majority. The House Agricultural Committeo reported back the Senate bill for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations, and it was referred to the committee of tho whole. A measure calling for an appropriation of £20,-, 000,0)0 for the manufacture by Americans of first-class modern guns was introduced in tha House. A resolution, offered last sassion by Mr. In-

galls, to discharge the Pensions Committee from the further consideration of tho bill removing the limitation on applications for arrears of pensions, was adopted in the Senate on the 3d inst. by a vote of 27 to 26, Senator Evnrts introduced a bill appropriating £112,0)0 for the purchase of John Ericcson’s Destroyer, and £1,000,00) for ten enlarged steel vessels of tho same type for defending the harbors of the United States. Mr. Evarts addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill to prohibit members of Congress from acting as attorneys for subsidized railroad companies. The Secretary of the Treasury reported to the Senate that he had no information to report as to whether any national banks were 'lending money to be paid in gold only. The House of Representatives tabled a bill to provide a clerk for each member. The legislative and executive appropriation bill was reported. It sets aside t‘2),286,910. The bill to credit aud pay to the several States and Territories, and the District of Columbia, all moueys collected under the direct tax levied by the act of Aug. 5, 1861, was passed in the Senate on the 4th fnst., with hut one dissenting vote (Mr. Van Wyek’Bj. The Senate also passed, by a vote pf 39 to 14, tlip bill te prohibit members of Congress Irom sowing as attorneys for railroads. The vote on the hill stands recorded as follows ; Yeas—Aklrieh, Allison, Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Butler, Cheney, Co ;, rell. Coke, Conger, Cullom, Dawes', Dolph, Eustis, Fair, Frye, George, Gorman, Hale, Hawley, Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Jones iNeva-la*, 'Manderson-, - Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill, Palmer, Itiddleberger, Sherman, Spooner, Van Week, Vest,VoOrhees, Walthall, Whitthome. Williams,.Wilson (lowai, Wilson ;Mdj—39. Nays—Call, Cameron, Farwell, Gray, Hampton, McMillan, Mahone, Mitchell (Oregon), Payne, l’ngh, Ransom, Sawyer, Stanford, Teller--14. The following is the text of the bill: “That it shall be unlawful for any member of either house of Congress to'i cccpt employment as attorney at law or payment for service of any kind in opposition to tho United States in any case to which the United States may be a party or in which its interests may be concerned, or from any* railroad company, if such member shall have reasonable cause to believe that measures specially affecting the interests of such company are pending before Congress, or are about to he so pending during his term of office. Aiyy person who violates the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one'vear or by fine not exceeding £5 )0, or by both, iu tiio discretion of the court.” The President sent to the Senate the following nominations ; Richard -A. Jones of Oregon, to be Chi f Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory; Frank Allyn, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory: James H. Wright of Missouri. 1 1 be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona; Ernest A Man of Florida, to he Consul at Gothenburg. The House of Representatives passed thirty pension bills. oLXTY-six pension bills were passed by the Senate on tho sth inst., granting among others a pension of £SO a month to General T. F. Meagher’s widow, and an increase in pension to the widow of Colonel J. H. Jones of tho Marine Corps. Tho Indian appropriation bill was passed by the Seuat 1 without discussion. The House of Representatives paised a Lill appropriating £l3-',090 for tho payment of what are known as tho Fourth of July claims. The Presi-. dent vetoed several pension bills. In the case of Cwthbert Stone he quoted from the army records to show that the claimant had spent most of his time iu.deserting or in prison for desertion, and in the case gt Abraham T. Grigg he quoted from the fiSkpitat records to show that the claimant was not sick, but “completely worthless, obese, and lazy.” A Chicago railroad man and a Cliicajgo reporter both say that it is becoming fashion able for young men of that city to kiss each vigorously Nvhen they part for any length of time and when they meet again. The railroad man says it makes him sick to see tho fools. —Colfax Clipper. Boys! boys! is it so bad as this? “New-Yorkers spend $7-6,800,000 annually for beer. This is based " Hold on, you are off the track. Debased is the word you were after.

AUGUST AND NINA.

_A Marriage by Proxy Contracted Between Anarchist Spies and Miss Van Zandt. * A Socialistic Jnstice Performs the Cere-mony-*-Spieß\Brother Acts as Proxy. [From the Chicago Tribune.j f. ver since Sheriff Matson declared that Mis* Van Zandt should not marry August Spies tbe young lady has been more than ever resolved that she would do it. The determination was chiefly on her side, Spies being measurably indifferent on tho subject. So she set her wits to work, and has kept them at Work ever since the marriage ceremony was forbidden, to devise gom» way in which to deceive the adversary. She spread abroad tbe report that sho was going South or going to Europe, in order to throw thu Sheriff off his guard, and all the while kept up her plotting aud planning. Among others whom sho consulted as to how to circumvent Sheriff Matson was Just.ce Lngelhurdt, of Jefferson, who is somewhat of a Spies sympathizer, and who made a speech at a meetin; at Jefferson a few months ago, which was rather stronger than common sense would have dictated. Justice Engelhardt, being wise Uovond his generation, studied up tho law, helped by an unknown attorney, ana Cttiuo to tho conclusion that the only way in which the Sheriff's veto tould be evaded was by a marriage by proxy. He figured it out in some way that that would constitute a valid marriage, probably misled by his recollections of various royal personages whom he had read of atone time and another as being married by proxy. Ha was directed or authorized to draw up a proper lorm or power of attorney, and after much laboring he succoedod in getting it ready last Friday. Saturday morning Miss Van Zandt and Miss Spies got the document and took it to the t'ounty JaH, w here Mrs. Ferdinand Spies and a Mrs. Wend land witnessed Spies’ signature to the paper, by which he authorized his brother Henry to represent him at the ceremony. Then they—Miss Van Zandt’s parents and Henry. Chris, and Ferdinand Spies, brothers of August —went out to Justice Kugelhardt’s house in Jefferson, and the eeromony was performed, after the -Justice had again thought over the matter and satisfied himself tnut, he was correct rn his position. It went off just as it usually does in a Justice’s office, except that Henry Spies, armed with his proxy or power of attorney, answered to tho name of August; Vincent Theodore, and, as his representative, said that he took Miss Van Zandt to be his wife. It was late at night when this interesting ceremony was performed and midnight before the party got back to their various homes. As an act of defiance to Sheriff Matson the thing is well enough, but when Justice Engelhurdt comes to return the marriage license to the County Clerk, as he is required to do, and c rtifies that be married the parties named in it he will be apt to hear something from that official, for a marriage by proxy is a thing unknown to tho laws of the Unit d States, or to the law of England. The form of marriage by proxy was never itself the marriage —was never anything more than a betrothal —and was always followed by a religious ceremony in due course of time. In this caso it is nothing more than a contract of marriage which lias been entered into. If either of the parties breaks tho contract the other has the right to sue for damages, but not for specific performance. Should Spies be .hanged in a few months Miss Van Zandt would not be his widow; sho would have no right to boar his name ; sho could not inhorit his property; she would have no dower right in his estate ; she would stand on precisely the same footing as if he had written her a proposal of marriage, and she had replied accepting it only that and nothing more. “Marriage by proxy” sounds well, but it is not marriage by. common, statutory, or canon law.

THE NEW PENSION BILL.

Pensions for Disabled - Soldiers and Dependent Parents. The bill for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and dependent upon their own labor for support, Which recently passed Congress, reads as follows: Be It enacted, etc., That in considering the pension claims of dependent parents, the fact and causes of death, and the fact that the soldier left no widow or minor children, having been shown aB required by law, it shall bo necessary only to-show by competent and sufficient evidence that Buch parent or parents are without other present means of support than their own manual labor or the contributions of others not legally bound for their support. Provided, That no pension ailowed uudor this act shall commence prior to its passage, and in case of applications hereafter made under this act the pension shall commence from the date of the filing of tho application in the Pension Office. Sec. 2. That all persons who served three months or more in the military or naval service of the United States in any war in which the United States has been engaged, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from mental or physical disability, not the result of their own vicious habits or gross carolessness, which incapacitates them for the performance of labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, and who are dependent upon their daily labor for support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and. regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide in pursucnoo of this act, be placed on tho list of invalid ; pensioners of the United States, and be 1 entitled to receive, for such total inability to procure their subsistence by daily labor, sl2 per month; and such pension shall commence from the date of the tiling of tho application in the Pension Office, upon proof that tho disability then existed, and com tinue during the existence of the same in the dogree herein provided : Provided. That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending hi the Pension Officei may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such forms as he may prescribe, receive the benefits of this act; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow more than one pension at tho same time to tho same person, or pension to commence prior to the passage of this act: And provided further, That rank in tho service shall not bfe considered in applications filed thereunder. Sec. 3. That no agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in the presentation und prosecution of a claim under this act shall demand or receive for his services or instrumentality in presenting and prosecuting such claim agreater sum than ;5, payable only upon tho order of the Commissioner of Pensions, by the pension agent making payment^of the pension al.owed, except in cases heretofore prosecuted before the Pension Office, when, in the discretion ol the Commissioner of Pensions, a fee of SlO may be allowed in like manm r to the agent or attorney of record in the case at the date of the passage of this act; and any agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in tho prosecution of a claim under this act who shall demand or receive a sum greater than that herein provided for, for his service in tho prosecution of the claim, shall be subject to the some penalties as prescribed in section 4 of the act of July 4,1834, entitled “An act making appropriation for the payment of invalid and other pensions of < the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes.” Sec. 4. That section 4710 of the Kevised Statutes is hereby modified so that the same shall not apply to this act: Provided, That this act shall not ajjply to those persons under political disabilities. And no person shall be pensioned under this act for any disability incurred while engaged in the military service against the United States. The extraordinary De Poicliers was thir-ty-six w hen Henry 11., then Duke of Orleans, and jost half her age, became attached to her, and she was Held as the first lady and the most beautiful woman at court tip to the period of the monarch's death . and the accession to power of Catherine de Medicis. Mrs. Minks —ls there is so much trouble, getting honest officials, why not have rej course to palmistry? Mr. Minks—Palmistry! “ Why, yes. - The palmists claim that ! they can distinguish the hands of a thief at j first glance.” “No use; politicians never show their hands until after election.” Ninon del’Enclos, the most celebrated wit and beauty of her day, was the idol of three generations of the golden youth of France, and seventy-two when the Abbe de , Bonds fell in love with her. I Lons XYI. married Mme. deMaintenon when she was forty-three.