Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

diphtheria is raging at Catlin, 111. Coffee continues to advance in price. Hot Springs authorities are driving the gamblers ont of town. General Butler voted the Republican ticket in Lowell, Tuesday. Extremely heavy falls of snow are reparted from Western Texas. Natural gas has been ttruck at Fair- ' view, near Santa Anna, Cal. Hon. Joseph Bodwell, Governor of Maine, died at Hallowed, that State, on the 15th. St. Augustine, Fla., had a $200,000 fire on the South side of the plaza, Thursday. A hotel at Crescent, Cal., was blown Sown, with sixteen occupants. Two were killed. Milwaukee had a hundred-thousand-fire Saturday morning, in I.' C. Iverson’s pioture-frame factory. A flowing oil well was struck Wednesday night upon Samuel Craig’s farm, three miles northeast of Noblesville. Chester Bellows was hung Friday at Charles -City, lowa, for the murder of his niece, Alice Waterman, July 8,1886. A United States fish commission car has reached the city of Mexico with 1,000 carp and gold fish, a gift to Mexico. Ghicage officials had to use force to get possession of the offices of Hyde Park, which recently voted for annexation. Minnesota dairy-men will ask Congresss to prohibit the manufacture of fcaudulent butter or have it solored pink. Joseph Knight, book-keeper of the Manufacturers’ National Bank of Philadelphia, has been arrested for embezzling $70,000. General Longstreet has applied for a pension under the Georgia law providing for such relief to wounded Confederate soldiers. The court house at Mayfield, Ky., together with all the county records, was destroyed by fire, Sunday, causing a loss of $50,000. The Ohio State Grange, in session at Canton, O.,Thursday, opposed putting raw materials on the free list, or reducing the wool tariff. ‘The National Merino Sheep Register Association" met in annual session at Jackson, Mich. Earnest opposition to Cleveland’s tariff policy was expressed. A movement in favor of George W. Childs for the presidency' has been started in Philadelphia, for the purpose of splitting the Pennsylvania delegation. _ Trouble is expected among the Knights of Pythias, the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge refusing to conform its constitution to that of the National Lodge. John Banister and Robert W. Terril were shoe from ambush by moonshiners, last Saturday, at Russelville, Ala. They had given information against moonshiners. General Mahone was Wednesday night nominated by the Republicans of the Tirginia Legislature to succeed Senator Eiddleberger as United States Senator. Clinton A. Snowden and James W. West, of the Chicago Mail, have secured a controlling interest in the Chicago ISmes, and the policy of the paper will [ be materially changed. Murders are reported as daily occurr rences in the Public Land Strip, and the Texas Pan Handle people are clamoring for Congress to place it under law. Desperados are flocking there. A report comes from Eldorada, Kan., that a well organized movement is to be j Made on Oklahoma in the Spring. A leader says 100,000 men will go on, enough to keep the troops ofl. Three negroes who assaulted two white ladies in Pemberton County, Fla., were caught by a mob, hung up on a tree and tortured by a fire built under them. They were ihan shot to death. The official statement of the vote on division of Dakota showß that in the northern portion the [majority against division is 10,000; in the southern por | tion the majority for division is 13,938. I The Edison Electric Company’s boiler at Westchester, Pa„ exploded Friday, killing Superintendent Embire, three laborers and Hattie Jones, who was on theatreeta biock away. Others were / badly scalded;; — , ■ ■ —-—— ~ An old unsatisfied mortgage, dated 1840, has been found which affects the title to about one-sixth of the real estate of Shamokin, Pa. The sheriff has notified the landholders that he will self the property December 30. The Tortilla Gold and Silver Mining Qompany has sued James Gordon Bennett for an alleged libel in a recent article saying the company was a colossal bunco scheme. The damages claimed are $500,000. The President of the com. pany also sued for $250,000 damages. The feud between the Adams and Caswell factions broke ont again last Sunday night in Rock Castle county, Ky. Frank Adams was killed by one of the Caswells* *nd since then Frank Haslon, James Townsend. Tom Jackson and two others, names unknown, have been killed, while many others have been wounded and several houses have been burned. Justice Kilbreth, of the Tombs Police Court, New York, Saturday, dismissed the ease against Henry 8. Ives, who was charged by J alius Dexter, of Cincinnati, with stealing a draft for. SIOO,OOO from

the Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton Railroad. Ives says he will at on;e institute proceedings gagainst President Dt xtor, claiming ’sloo,ooo for malicious proeecuiion. J rOKKUIM. " l'"“~~ No news hes been received from Stanley, and there is much uneasiness in London. Annie Bark,- of Toronto, Ont, has confessed to poisoning her mother, who died Thursday. The Newfoundland bait act, forbidding the sale of bait to foreign fishermen has received royal assent. The assistance of the Catholic church is believed to have been secured by the Government in Ireland. Mr. David Sheehy, M, P., who was arrested in Limerick, after evading the police for a long time, was Friday sentenced, at Ballyran, to three months’ imprisonment at hard labor. The Marquis of Fly, who recently refused the tenants hisWexford estate a reduction of 25 percent, has just granted a reduction of 50 per cent, and easy erms of payment, and will reinstate ah tenants evicted. As Vienna dispatch, Saturday morning, states that a strong feeling exists there in favor of sending to It. Petersburg immediately Austria’s ultimatum, followed, in case of an unsatisfactory repiy, by rapid march by German and Austrian forces on the Russian frontier. It is feared that war is imminent, and can in no wise he postponed longer than the spring. The feeling in Vienna, the dispatch says, is intense.

A Terriable Disaster In China.

The steamship City of Snyder arrived at San Francisco Deckmber 16, from HoDg Kong and Yokohama. Chinese papers give details of a disaster occasioned by the Yellow river overflowing its banas in the province of Honan, and describes it as «ne of the most appalling occurrences in loss of life and property recorded in recent times. The river broke its banks on the evening of September 28, southwest of the city of Ching Chow, and not only inundated that city, but also ten other populous cities. The whole area is now a raging sea, ten to thirty feet deep, where was once a rich and densely populated plain. The former bed of the Yellow river is now dry, and the present lake was the bed of the river centuries ago, The loss of life is incalculable, and the statement is made by missionaries that millions of Chinese are homeless and starving. Yellow river has long been known as China's sorrow, and the present disaster has served to reassert its right to the terrible title. As yet details of the disaster are very meager. It has occurred in a district where but few foreigners are, and the report furnished by the officials,published in the Pekin Gazette, conveys a very inadequate account of the extent of the loss of life and property and the sufferings of the survivors. The Governor in Honan reports to the throne that “nearly all the people have been drowned in the district reached by the water, the survivors being those who escaped to the high ground or took refuge in trees, where they remained until they were rescued.” This gives but little impression as to what the extent of the disaster really is. Already considerable sums have been contributed toward relieving the sufferers. The Emperor or China has gi ven two millions of taels, and the Chinese have started subscription lists in Shanghai to which foreigners have liberally contributed. Millions have been rendered homeless and. entirely deprived of all chance of earning their livelihood, for their fields will either become permanent lakes or uninhabitable swamps. It is stated that the Yellow river no longer flows toward the sea, but converts eastern Honan and northern Nganwhi into a lake. - --- ---

ST. JOHN’S OPINION.

He Takrs Exceptions to Mr. Blafrie’a Views and D««la»8 Him a “Monster.” Ex-Gov. John P. St. John addressed the Manhattan Temperance Association in Cooper Union Hall, New York, Sun day afternoon. His subject was “Unclean Things.” The whisky traffic, he said, was an “unclean thing,” and there was no middle ground for the coward. He extolled Mayor Howland, of Toronto, and the text which was above his office door, thus, “Except the Lord Veep the city the watchman wake in vain.” Mr. Bc. John excited derisive laughter by inquiring bow that text would looi over the office-door of Mayor Hewitt, in this city. “The greatest men make the greatest mistakes, quoth the speaker, and then added: “If this is true,Jamas G. Blaine’s [great cheers from the audience] reputation has been vindicated by his greatest blunder.” He then dissected Mr. Blaine’s recent interview with the President’s message, and ridiculed his expressions relative to the tobacco and whisky taxes. He declared that when Mr. Blaine advocated the abolition of the tobacco tax he led the yonng into evil paths, and when he declared that tobacco was a necessity “he proved himself a monster.” Mr. Bt. John gloried that Mr. Blaine said he favored destruction of high license in all the States, and exclaimed, “Thank God we have smoked him out on that at last.” Resolutions were then adopted arraigning the Mayor and police officials for the alleged open sale of ttun in New York city on Sundays. :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

J. F. Studebaker, one of the’ well known Studebaker Erothers, of wagon fame, died at Chicago, Sunday, silted 43 years. He was buried at South Bend, Wednesday. " The barn of W. A. Cover, located one mile east of Birmingham, was burned on Thursday. The live stock was saved,but hay, grain and implements of the value of $2,200 were destroyed; partially injured. A ten-thousand-dollar damage slander suit was filed in the Circuit Court in Union county Friday by Peicy Loviston, a hardware merchant of Liberty, against bis former partner, Samuel Crist. Representative iid Conger, of Shelby conntv, the leading poultry breeder in the West, telegraphs from St. Louis that in the,poultry show there he secured eighty : hree premiums of eighty entries. He al o won the SIOO “Busch” cup and one package of the “Loyal Legion” fine old Bodibon. " T. E. Murphy, the temperance orator, closed his Shelby ville meetings, Wednesday night, in the presence of one thousand people. He delivered a magnificent address, and at the close the list of signers wag increased one hundred, making in all about thirty -two hundred. ®furphy will work in Indiana all next yeap. Engineer Elwood, of Huntington, was killed ina collision last Christmas between two freight trains on the Chicago & Atlantic railway, near Kenton, Ohio. Suit was begun in the United States Courts, at Toled >, by his wife (cr slo--008 damages. Saturday a compromise was effected by which the company pays the widow $4,000 in full of damages. Afi astonishing trial was held in ’Squire Keigwin’s Court at Jeffersonville, Thursday morning. A Mrs. Seiler charged John Wahl with assault and battery. He stated that she was a witch and had caused sickness and death in his family. He hung a cross on the gate in the name of the Trinity, hence she was unable to enter, and fell and bru>s ed herself. The suit was dismissed. Architect B S. Tolon,known through out the State as the designer of court houses in Kosciusko, Delaware, Parke, and Whiiley counties, male an unsuccessful attempt at suicide in a hardware store at Fort Wayne, Wednesday. He had asked to see gome revolvers, had slipped a cartridge into the chamber of one, and pointed the weapon at his head,when the clerk disarmed him. On Sunday night Henry Faeset, junior member of the milling firm of Fasset <k Sons, of Hillsboro, lost a pocket-book at or near the restaurant of Bly & Crayton, which he claimed contained cash to the amount of $785. Failing to find it, a great sensation was created by the swearing out of a search warrant, and causing the premises of Dr. W. R. Stout, a prominent citizen and leading physician, to be thoroughly searched. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Eli Beghtel, Huntington, portable sawing machine; Marvin Campbell, South Bend, ham-mock-stretcher; William A. Krag, Indianapolis, coffee-pot; Darius Patterson, Richland, combined ham-hitch and col-lar-fender; James J. Turner, assignor to Mmself and J. F. Miller, Richmond, device for actuating signals, switches, etc.; William M. Waltman, Bean Blossom, mole trap. , , The cases against the Knox county fair directors came up for hearing in the Circuit-Court at Vincennes last week, and a judgment was rendered for $25 and costs against the president of the association J. W. Emison, and J. B. Kelso, superintendent of space, two of the leading ciiizeils of the county. The indictments were for allowing a wheel of fortune and other gambling devices on the fair grounds. The litigation has created a great deal of bitterness, but effectually ends gambling and beer privileges at the Knox County Fair. State Statistician Peelle has prepared that part of his forthcoming report which relates to the agricultural products of the State for the past year. It shows a decided decrease from 1886 of all the cropß, the result of the protracted drought. The average total production, average and estimated value of the various crops this year are as follows: 1 Wheat, 2,794,196 acre 5,3,909,657 bushels. 13.9 average to the acre and $30,104,426, the estimated value. Corn, 3,-39.914 acres. 70,017 604 busheis, 31.6 average to the acre and tctal value $31,507,922. 0at5,885,927 acre 5,23,378 984 bushels,27.7 average to acre and $7,313,695 value. Barley, 17,311 acres, 340,663 bushels, 18 5 average to the acre and $220,630 value. Rye, 33,871 acres, 460.750 bushels, 13 6 average jo the acre and $250,020 value. Buckwheat, 6,469 acres and 69,375 bushels. Flax, 14,870 acres and 20,729 bushels. Clover, 201,284 bushels of seed and 1,728,776 tons of hay. Timothy, 4 338 bushels of seed and 1,543,558 tonsof hay. Potatoes, J 7,306 acres, 2,216,130 bushels and 30.2 average to the acre. Tobacco, 7,150 acres, 3,3*2,148 pounds. There are 21,028,087 rods of drain tile in the State, an increase of 1,560,805 rods over 1886. The total drainage of the Stato is 65 712 miles. .Judge Taylor of the Marion Circuit Court ruled on demurrer Thursday in the case of Robertson, Lieutenant Governor, vs. Green Smith, and Messrs. Cooper and Black sureties on his bond, holding that the complaint showß v* cause of action. Originally, Smith filed iniunjrtioc proceedings ageinst Robert-

son to prevent, him from assuming theduties of Lieutenant Governor,to which he bad been elected,' and the suit was defended by Robertson to final action in the Supreme Court. Then Robertson brought suit against Smith, and the sureties on the injunction bond, torecover the expense to which he had been subjebted in the printing of briefs, employment of attorneys, etc, in fight ing the case, claiming $2,500 damages, snd to this a demurrer was filed alleging that it did not state facts suf- • . .vi* i •“ flcient to constitute a cause of action, being the assigned statutory cause. The precise ground of the demurrei was, however, that tha complaint did not ’show that thesole object of the suit was to settle the legality of the election for Lieutenant Gove - nor, and the injunction was a mere incident auxiliary to the main action. Judge Taylor, in his ruling,goes over the ground exhaustiveIy, ahcfhe”cont3lude3 with the expression that the facts stated in the com plaint and admitted by the defendant are sufficient jn law to constitute a cause of action in plaintiff, and the Court adds that there is now no necessity for atf expression of opinion relative to the merita of the original controversy. The decision is regarded as a victory for Robertson, and the case will be tried on its merits. The directors of the prison South have made their report, which shows an improved condition of affairs. Repairs 'and improvements were made costing $5,273.49. The directors find claims against the prison, incurred during the previous administration, to the amount of $14,621.50. The*" allowed $11,330.73, and referred $378 50. They also found back pay-roll claims of officers amounting to 18,738.59. Thb conduct of prisoners ... was found generally uellent; they are Well fed, well housed and comfortably bedded, and few complaints are made by them. A classification of convicts shows that 171 are confined for crimes against persons, IG4 of them for murder or manslaughter. Crimes arainst property number 327, while 40 are incarcerated in consequence of unbridled lust. The report also shows that 240 of the prisoners were under twenty-one years of age when sentenced. The prison is now about self sustaining for the first time in its history. When Warden Patten took hold the income trom convict labor was near $4,000 a month, now it is near $5,600, with ahout S2OO from other sources. The earnings per week average $1,350. Warden Patten states that he will hardiy use the entire appropriation of SBO,OOO for current expenses, and with what remains on hand will probably pay off one-half of the old, salar claims during the first quarter of ■ e fiscal yrar. During his administr ,on he has introduced a cheerful ature, the “musical hour.” Daring t .s hour, after the day’s work is done, the prisoners are permitted to play on musical instruments, and they gladly avail themselves of the privilege. It works well. Many of the prisoners prefer task work to day labor for the contractor, and being thus enabled to do extra work accumulate quite snug sums, the warden having now in his hands $3,000 belonging to convicts made by overtime.

A Gamy Prize Fight.

A heavy weight contest between Jack Kilrain of Baltimoreand Jem Smith of England, took place on the LJaqd of St. Pierre, in the river Bein§, France, Monday. Darkness ended the fight in a draw after 106 vicious rounds had been fought lasting two and a half hours. Kilrain was evidently the better man of the two. The fight was the gamiest fought in thirty years. Kilrain took the lead at the start Smith hit short repeatedly, and after a while became merely a chopping block for Kiirain. Toward the middle of the fight, Smith made a desperate effort to turn the tide of battle in his favor and for a while fought very stubbornly, ont Kilrain, who was remarkably cool, met him every time, and his superior quickness, height and reacn enabled him to land before Smith, and the latter then fell off again. Kilrain gained first blood and first knock do wn, and was only thrown twice. He threw Smith one bursting fall, and several times went down with him side by side. During the last twenty rounds Smith wentdown on the slightest pretext to avoid punishment. He could hardly respond to the call of time, and his seconds delayed as much as poss.ble hoping for darkness to end it In this they succeeded, for at last it was bo dark that the men could hardly see one another, and the referee called a halt. He intended to have the fight continued in the morning, but the men met and agreed to call it a draw. Kilrain has a bad eye and several bumps and contusions. Smith is badly marked. Snllivan will challenge Kilrain for SIO,OOO. Mr. Fox says he will match Kilrain against Sullivan for either $5,0000r $lO,000.

Rum Subjects.

Four underground distileries were seized near Jasper, Ga., Saturday and Bunday night. Tnese stills have been running five and the dephtiek calculate that in that time they must have made at least 10,000 gallons of whisky. Collector Renehaw states that never before since the revenue service was established has sc extensive a seizure been made in-the Soil'll. Arkansaw Traveler; It’pears like de mi anes 1 men has de moe’ ’fluence obei de ’bes women.

WASHINGTON.

Representative Holman has requested that he be not zeappointed to the appropriation committee, bntthatbe be given a place on some committee having no control whatever over the expenditures of public money. He expressed a preference for the public lands committee, and it is probable that the chairmanship of that committee will be given him. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, has prepared a.bill which he will introduce, which is of special interest to farmers: It establishes a uniform system of weights. The present standard of weights of iarih products makes great inconvenience. In Indiana a bushel of onions is 57 pounds, while in Michigan 54 pounds makes a bushel, in Massachusetts 58 pounds, and Illinois 56 pounds. A bushel of beans varies from 58 to 62 pounds, and of buckwheat from 42 to 48 pounds.

Senator Palmer, of Michigan, it is reported; has come ont in favor of prohibition, and has advised the Republicans of that State to make that the nextissue. The administration tariff bill which will go before the ways and means com raittee with the indorsement of Speaker Carlisle, after the holiday recess, as the basis of revenue reform, contemplates a reduction of $62,000,000 annual revenue. Of this amount, $50,000,000 is' to come from reductions'of duties, chiefly on manufactures, and $12,000,000 from adding wool, salt, lumber, coal, etc., to the free list. The Bill aims, at a very extensive revision of present methods of administering the tariff law, and at remedying inconsistencies and irregu larities in the law as welt as a general revision of the high rate of tariff taxes. It proposes the substitution of specifi ■ for advalorem rates where the latter at 0 difficult of enforcement. In the chemical, earthen and glassware schedules,numerous judicious reductions are proposed. In metals,material reductions on iron and steel are recommended. In the wool and woolen schedule, raw wool being made free, the rates on woolen fabrics are so reduced as to take away about $10,000,000 upon the basis of last year’s importations. Inconsistencies as to rates on worsted and woolen cloths are corrected, and there occur some of the most important changes proposed in the bill. The hill embraces the schedules prepared for Congress last winter by Secretary Fairchild, substituting specific for advalorem duties on silk, gloves and embroideries. It also * includes the Hewitt jplan for reform of the customs administrative service, with some changes and additions suggested bv treasury experience since Mi. Hewitt’s bill was first introduced. Secretary Fairchild has decided to appoint Mr. Perry C. Smith, of New Jersey, as chief of the appointment division of the Treasury Department, in place of Mr. Eugene Higgins, resigned. Mr. Smith is a cousin of the Secretary. Seventy-nine Indianians hold positions in the Interior Department, ap pointedduring the present administraion.

A mild sort of panic has been caused in certain sections of the West among postal clerks by the receipt of blanks from the division superintendent,calling for the age, birthplace, etc., of the railway mail employes. Quite a large number of letters have been written here by the railway mail clerks inquiring what this new onslaught means. It seems to be pretty generally understood that the older employes are to be removed to give place to young men. Superintendent Nash said, Wednesday, that there was no danger to any of the old employes whose ages and health did not interfere with their physical and mental abilities; that any and all men who perform their duties satisfactorily would be retained. Those whose ages and physical condition interfere with their work would, of course, be dropped. No appointments are being made now to the railway mail service of men above thirty-four years of age. The idea is to fill np the service with active young men. The research for the ages and records of old employes will have the effect of producing some agility, no doubt, and a erial mat ini provement in their work.

Cyclone in Arkansas.

A cyclone visited Armstro. g Academy Indian Territory, and Fort Washita and Green, Arkansas, Saturday morning, causing great destruction of property and loss of life. Half the houses in Washita were rujned and the damage was very heavy at Green. Seventeen houses and a etore were carried away bodily. The damage to stock was very great. So far as reported, eight persons were killed and many others injured. The cyclone, as is usual, approached as a heavy black fnnnel-Bhaped cloud, aad traveled at the rate of a mile a minute.

An Election in Mexico.

Advices received from Jamauve in the State of Tamulipaa, state that there was much trouble and a riot during the election, Sunday. The ballot boxes were overturned or destroyed, and eight men were killed and over forty wounded. The reanlt ia that the old Mayor will hold over for another term ; —- The National Prohibition Committee have issued a formal call for their con vention to meet at June 10, 1888, to nominate a National ticket for President ana Vice President. All who believe ini a temperance party are inv ud :o oarticinate. ipcluriint adi-a. *

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

On the 14th the Committee on Flections retorted to the Senate in favor of Chits. J. Faulkner, elected at a special nea-don Of the Legislature, as agaimt Daniel 11. Limas, appointed by the Governor, as U. 8. Senator from West Virgin* v ia. and Faulkner was sworn in. A hill was in trodueed to protect Innocent purchasers es patented articles. Morrill’s bill th fegulat* Immigration nas taken up, and the Senator advocated t,hetpns»ttt;eof the bfil. Its main object was to have .the chamber of frirefgn Immigrants ex kinined flrtthy the U. H. Cotoni (it the ports of deparprtfe instead of at the port of arrival. The foreign idea, be said, was that theU Sited 4 8ja|j»_ Trivited fit eTm irSlgrn t ion, regardless of thtf char-

acter of the immigrants; but the American idea was ti'at it rcully never offered an asylum to convicts, to irreconcilable enemies of law and order, or to the openpauts of the Old World’s insane asylums and workhouses. The doors were lett open only to persons of good moral moral character, The,- fact that nearly 5,00;',000 immigrants had come to this this country within the la*t teu year*, proved that the question was one of very great Importance. The great American, principle of free admission of immigrants w*s not proposM to be ’ abandoned; but the prinoiple had always been on the condition that the immigrants should be of good moral character and should bo able to support themselves. Seventy per cent i f the population lof Boston was composed of persons., of foreign birth and foreign parentage: eighty percent, of the population New York and nine-ty-one per cent, of tho population ,of Chicago, and these figures might'be aggravated by futare immigration. By the census of 1880 the population of foreign birth anfffs'arentaee was about IS,SOO,OOOj_AUd the immigration sin e then 4.5;4,C*0, so that, without including the children born oI foreign parentage since I*Bo, that was now in this country a foreign population of 19,340,00#, er neatly one-third of the entire population, k*- The Senate devoted the 1 th largely to routine business. Stewart’s bill to provide for tne issue of coin certificates to circulate as money was taken up and that Senator spoke in its favor. A resolution was taken up,: offered some days ago, directing the Attorney General to investigate the issue of a pntent to Magnus Swenson, last October, in connection with the manufacture of sugsr from sorghum, and, if invalid, to commence suit to have the patent canceled, the poiDt bei-»{ that Mr. Swensbn was an employe of the grl-. cultural Department while making the experiments out of which the patent resulted. Adopted Bills were iutrodu'ed in the Senate on the 19ih, to i equiie a residence of five years in this country before an alien can become, a eitizen or vote; granting pensions to Union prisoners iu confederate prisons; providing a pension boss the day of discharge from service of so'diers wbojlost 'a limb; to extirpate boinapious p europneumonia, foot and mouth disease, and rinderpest among cattle. The Blair educational bill was favorably reported to the Senate. Senator Pugh offered a resolution declaring that to revise and amend existing internal tax and tariff - laws was the most impoitant and pressing business before Congress, and that the Senate would concur in no joint resolution for final adjournment until after the passage of suck re medial laws. Mr, Pugh made a lengthy sj/wli in.jsupport of the resolution. “The House transacted no business.

BUSINESS QUESTIONS

Matters Which Need the Immediate Attention of Congress. At the New York Board of Trade meeting Wednesday resolu'iens were adopted calling npon the National Board of Trade to carefully consider the following questions: 1. That the business men of all parties, both Protectionists and Free Traders, should unite in demanding early action by Coagreß3 to reduce the present enormous revenues in a wav to least eniparrass existing indu'dricys. 2. While desirable to reduce internal taxes, it was not desirable to abolish the internal revenue system as a whole. 3. That the Government should give subsidies to American steamship liner. 4. That every legitimate means to forward the merchant marine should be used, including the enactment of the law now pending in Congress known as the tonnage bill, applying alike to sad and steam vessels engaged in foreign commerce. 5. The necessity of a judicious National anti-adulteration law. 6. That the internal revenue tax upon alcohol used in the arts and mansfactures should be abolished. 7. The adoption of a postal telegraph system, and to urge its consideration upon Congress. 8. The consideration of the subject of commercial union with Canada. 9. The question of refunding a sufficient portion of the National debt to constitute an adequate basis and security for a permanent National currency under the present National banking system. 10. That the to the Constitution of the United Slates to allow the President to veto separate tem, in annual appropriation bills should be adopted. 11. The Congress should be urged to enact a bankrupt law embodying the general principles of the Lowell bill.

THE MARKETS.

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