Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Smallpox is epidemic at San Francisco. Nearly all the steel rail mills in the »untry are idle. Heavy snow in New Mexico has (topped traffic on the Atlantic A Pacific toad. ” • Six hundred miners struck Wednesday morning on the Baltimore A Ohio fiailroad, for the Columbus scale, j The church of the Redmen Unversa Ist, at Minneapolis, was destroyed by Ire on the 15th, causing a loss of SBO,JOO. 1 The Cigar-makers’ Union had won its Ight against the manufacturers of New fork, and the men returned to work Wednesday. j The forty-seven Arabs,who arrived at |few York several weekß ago, have been declared paupers by Collector Magone, .nd will be sent home. | After four days straggle over seats in [..he Louisiana Democratic Convention, "t was organised Friday and nominated Francis T. Nichols for Governor. | A fire in the office of the Advance and Vbor Leaf, a workingman’s paper, Detroit, Saturday, revealed the existence jf an organised secret military company. Howard Douglass, Supreme Chancelor of the World, Knights of Pythias, |as suspended the entire jurisdiction of jhe Grand Lodge of the State of Pennsylvania, for disobeyance of orders. Nineteen of the twenty-one reaper, «ower and bidder manufacturers in the -Jnited States succeeded, Friday evening, in organizing as a National Association, for “social purposes only.” Lewis ’Wilier, Of Akron, 0., is president.

j Mrs. Parmlee died of heart disease in I New York assignation house Sunday •fternoon. Her companion escaped' She was a woman of ,*ood reputation, living in Brooklyn,and |er husband is said to be on his death |ed,. |a There were 2,049,638 gross tons of tessemer steel rails produced in this buntr? last tear, 487,228 tons more than jp 1886. The new year does not open uspiciously for steel rail men. Many large orders are still withheld, and the Vorks which closed down in December fee still idle. 1 8. F. Tolsma, citizen of Michigan, has lomplained to Secretary Bayard that Canadian authorities illegally interfere iith his fishing in the St. Lawrence fiver. The questionlies on the position If the boundary line. Tolsma claims 180.000 damages. Bayard will ask Engrind to investigate. j Capt. W. L. Couch, of Okhahoma in- * Sion fame, said Friday: “There is no pith whatever in the stories»that a fege secret organization is being form- * ir. finntbam or anywhlre else Ir-tac-purpose ox ioPßtny entering Oklahoma, nor is a large quantity of rms being raised for resisting the army.” At the meeting of the Michigan Sta‘e ■jf >oard of Health, Tuesday, Professor aughn reported a successful experiment of producing in a cat a disease milar to typhoid fever in the human §mily, by the us i of the germs found in later used by 300 victims of the scourge & Iron Mountain, Mich. It is believed ■s be "the first discovery of this nature in ie world. [I The printers on the Louisville CourierImrnal struck, Friday, against the use ■ type setting machines. On Sunday, »e 15th, the proprietors notified the Jlintere that if they did not return to pork within a certain time their pestpns would he permanently filled. They |d-not return, and new men were .pot | everv case and permanently employed, |id the strikers are without prospect of Vrk. Friday night the shed attached to the bite of John M, Evertt, at Gardenerlie, N.Y., becomming unsafe by reason lithe snow on the roof, a rumber cf !hn undertook to brace it up, when it fddenly gave way, killing three and jnring seven. Those killed were |wie Wright, a carpenter and an old jsidenf of the neighborhood; John ithill and David K«lly. One or two tEpse Injured arenotlikely to recover.! (A great deal of distress is reported bm the country tributary tofit. Joseph, o.j, owing to the recent cold weather, it ween that city and the lowa line and ‘ Southern Nebraska and Northern uasas farmers are reporting great loss pive stock, which froze to death in the ,11s. Two stock trains that had been layed arrived at St. Joseph Friday |;ht with every head qf cattle dead, hst of the passenger trains are abanpned. The Missouri Pacific, between paha and Kansas City, is closed, and is the Burlington & Missouri River ad between St. Joseph and Denver. Sev. Thomas P. Byan, a noted Methot minister living in Roan County,

Va., was brutally the presence of hie family and at hie n home in October last. He had jpst urned from conference with some 0 and the purpose of the murder was dently robbery. Within two orthree '8 after that three young men—Eoband Georce Duff and Chester Coon irere brutally lynched for the murder, has been the prevailing opinion that t lynchers and murderers were the oe parties, and they lynched inndt men to cover their own crime, itatiopa by detectivea conflrm this ricion, - f ? l 1 . _LT7 yoKKian. Uphold lever is raging violently' in

the village of Iverie, Scotland,and many of the inhabitants have already died of the disease. The'Tories are determined that they will not resign their control of the English Government even in the face of a vote of want of confidence. The outlook of the opponents of the Ministry for return to power is very poor at present. Prnce Ferdinand, during a reception of the officers of the Sofia garrison,spoke energetically of the situation, and said that events might soon force Bulgaria to defend her rights. “You will then see,” continued Prince Ferdinand, “that I can die in defense of our country,” The Pope lately received several Irish bishops and priests, whom he questioned concerning the condition of Ireland. After hearing their replies the Pope exhorted them to use their influence to restore quiel and respect for the law in Ireland, and told them that the Irish people could not obtain what they asked by violence. A dispatch from Rome says that England will accept in principle the Pope’s mediation in regard to Ireland, based upon Mgr. Persico’s report. The Pope demands moderate home rule, and advises the Conservative to take the wind out ot Mr. Gladstone’s sails by adopting his programme with the support of the Irish clergy. Winfred Blunt, M. P. makes the astounding statement that Chief Secretary Ireland Balfour told-him of his intention to arrest and imprison Home-rulers physically unable to endure prison life, so that they would die off, and it has created widespread indignation and comment. Balfour denies making the statement.

LAMAR CONFIRMED.

Riddleberger, Stewart and Stanford Vote With Democratic Senators. The Senate went into executive session at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon, and three-quarters of an hour later took up the nomination of Mr. Lamar. Its consideration lasted until 4 '.o’clock, at which time the nomination was confirmed by a vote of thirty two to twentyeight. Senators Riddleberger, Stanford and Stewart voted with the Democrats. All the other Republicans voted, or were paired, against Mr. Lamar, and all me Democrats were in his favor. The discussion was almost entirly confined to the Republican side. The principal speakers were Senators Edmunds, Evarts, Cullom, Sherman, Allison, Hoar, Hale, Hawley, Ingalls and Riddleberger, the last named making two speeches. The line of opposition covered the official and political record of the nominee, as well as his age, business habits and legal qualifications. It is understood that no speeches were made by Democratic Senators. The voting began at 3 o’clock, but was

interrupted and nearly an hour’s argument intervened before the roll call was finished. The nominations o f Messrs. Vilas and Dickinson were at once taken up and confirmed without debate, and it was ordered that the President be notified of the three confirmations. The following is understood to be the vote in secret session on the confirmation of Mr. Lamar: Ayes—Bates, Beck, Berry, Blodgett, Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Collquitt, Daniel, Falkner, George, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Harris, .Jones, of Arkansas; McPherson, Morgan, Reagan, Riddleberger, Saulsbury, Stan ford, Stewart, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall and 'Wilsoiu of Maryland—32. • Those voting in the negative were: Aldrieh, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Cameron, Chase, Cullon, Daves,Dawes, Dolph, Edmundß, Evarts, Farwell, Frye, Hale, Hawley, Hiscock, Hoar, Ingalls.Mitchell Paddock, Palmer, Platt, Plumb, Quay, Sherman, Spooner, Stockbridge—2B. Those paired in the affimative were; Blackburn, Eustis, Gibson, Hearse, Kenna, Pasco, Payne, Ransom. Those paired in the negative were: Chandler, Jones, of Nevada; Manderson, Morrill, Sawyer, Sabine, Teller and Wilson, of lowa.

A Socialist Recruiting Agent.

A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., says: “A man named Barnean, hailing from Fort Wayne, Ind., is in this city to get Socialist recruits to go to Chicago. He has succeeded in enlisting ten men, who have been furnished by the Socialist clubs of Chicago with railroad tickets and llfi in cash to go onto that city. Barneau claims to have been present at the Hay market riot, and save the Chicago Socialists are adding to their numbers recruits from all over the country. He leaves for Birmingham Monday, where he expects to obtain not less than twenty or thirty new men. He says there will be a terrible Socialist uprising in Chicago in less than ninety days-

Cardinal Manning an Anarchist.

London Cable Special. Another Manning, the Cardinal, has astonished his friends tiy announcing himself a convert to the teachings of anarchy. “Every man,“says this singnlar prelate, “has a right to Ufa and in the food necessary to sustain life. So strict is this right that it prevails over all positive laws of property. Necessity has no law. A starving man has a natural right to his neighbor’s bread.”

Discussing the Dessert.

Mr. WaHcTfat~adinner party)—May I pass yon the cheese, Miss Breezy? Miss Breezy (daintily)—Thanks; a small hunk, please.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Parke county has only eighty-four names upon her delinquent tax list this year. —— On Friday night, late, at Mudsock, Madison county, ’Squire Adam Gesse was called to his door and shot dead by some unknown person. < This fish story comes from “The Lakes,” five miles west of Montpelier: Muskrats have perforated the peatv soil in all directions, forming chambers in which lake bass have congregated in large numbers and are easily taken, one hole yielding over a hundred fine fish. Joseph Reibel, a hotel proprietor of New Albany, was robbed,Tuesday night, of over $25,000 in bonds, notes, checks and other valuable papers. His house was entered from a rear window. Wednesdays young negro named Grant Walker, was arrested, and the entire lot of stolen Government bonds, etc., re-

covered. The Portor county Central Committee on Prohibition have organized for active work in every township in the county. They have, like other central county committees throughout the United States, 'decided that all third party voters must support the National Prohibition ticket, while State and local offices are to be left optional. The probability is, ho«ever, that nominations will be made, even to road officers. The first ton shipment of silver bullion from Haysville, Dubois county, created quite a sensation. Over 5,000 people witnessed it. The last three week’s run of the Hartsfeld smelter poured out 1,500 pounds of bullion per day, and 800 tons of ore now at the smelting works averages, according to the United Btates mint reports, fiftyeight ounces oi silver and four and onetenth ounces in gold per ton, with 5,000 tons of ore in sight. Henry Shunway, A 1 Oaston, Otis Bozzel, George Hil» and Scot Bedgood, of Jonesville, Bartholomew county, have been arrested for outraging the person of Mrs. Samuel Tilford. Each waß held in a bond of $5,000 for his appearance. They do not -deny their visit to her house, but claim consent. She is a comely young woman, has been married only three months, and has borne a good reputation. The Tilfords have commenced a civil suit claiming $lO,000 damages. Some of the accused belong to highly respectable families. Patents have been issued to' * James Collins, Crawfordsville, wood joint;Wallace H. Dodge and R. D. Smith, Mishawaka, manufacturer of woolen boots; Isaac N. Elliott and P. A. Reid, Richmond, fence machine; Daniel C. Ganter, Indianapolis, device for steaming and cooking purposed; Henry A. Goetz, New Alhany, seed tester; Arfoos E. Kundred, Corunna, animal trap: Hugh S. Null and J. B. Bussard. Huntington, plow attachment; Herman Nye, Corydon, liquid measuring faucet; Henry B. Pitner, assignor of one-hali to J. F. Croft,* Laporte, carriage top; Joshua Sandago, South Bend, drop hammer; Joseph E. Schooley, Kyle, band cutter. The Hon. Oscar B. Hord, exAttorney General, whose affliction with paralysis was noted in these columns two weeas ago, died at bis home in Indianapolis, on the 15th, aged 58 years. He was born in Kentuckv and came to Greensburg, Indiana in 1849. He was a personal friend of the Vice-Presilent, Hendricks and supported him in all his ambitions. Mr Hord was an ardeut Democrat and was prominent in all the councils of the party. Asa member of the law firm of Baker, Hord & Hendricks, he was also recognized as one of the most profound lawyers in the State. There were many Occidents in Indiana, Monday. Mrs. Annie Lyons, of Ft. Wayne, aged 89, fell down stairs, fatally injured. Unknown man killed by a train at South Whitley. Two-year-old son of Joseph Bonhomme, near Vincennes,’fatally burned. John R. Meredith, hrakeman, had both legs and an arm taken off near Terre Haute. J. W. Jackson, of Ft. Wayne, fell from his wagon and fatally fractured his Skull. This is the fifth fatal accident at Ft. Wayne within a week. Six men injured by the falling of a scaffold at the Studebaker Wagon Works at South Bend. One will hardly recover.

Early on the morning of the 14th Indianapolis was visited by one of the most destructive conflagrations in the history of the city, flames broke out in the wholesale dry goods house of D. P. Irwin & Co. on South Meridian St., and Hpread to adjoining buildings and across the street. Ail" the stocks destroyed were of wholesalers, and included Geo. W. Stout’s, grocer. Tanner &, Sullivan, tinner’s supplies, 0. B. Cone, Son & Co, overall factory, McKee A Branham, boots and shoes, and Pearson A Wetzel, queensware, and several other buildings were damaged more or less. The loss will reach $1,000,000 with nearly as much insurance. The flames raged for several hours notwithstanding the efforts of the entire fire department. John Deaver, who, with his wife, was taken into the Firet Methodist Church of Richmond on probation, two or three weeks ago, soon developed as “not wanted.” They were so noisy as to sadly interfere with the progress of every meeting they attended, and it was few, if any, they missed. Admonition, even

from the police, had no effect. So Sunday afternoon, Deaver was refused admittance to the church, and when he expostulated, on the outside with the

same pitch of voice with which he had exhorted inside, he was arrested. He was released on his own recognizance, and when he and his wife presented themselves before the Mayor, Monday, to explain matters, Deaver promised to desist in his going to the First Methodist Chuich and was allowed to go and sin no more.

On Saturday evening Allen Fuller, a batcher at Moscow, twelve miles east of Bhelbyville, shot and killed Lafayette Barlow, a brother of McClellan Barlow, whom Fuller had shot and killed in that place on the 12th day of last December in a dispute over ten cents’ worth of meat purchased by Barlow of him. The grand jury refused to indict Fuller for the killing of McClellan Barlow, the evidence showing that he acted in selfdefense. Lafayette Barlow, the brother of Fuller’s victim, has made threats that he would take Fuller’s life, Meeting Fuller on the street he began to throw stones at him and fired several shots from his revolver. He finally chased Fuller into a store, where the latter picked up a &un, and, as Barlow came in the door, discharged the gun in his face, killing him instantly. Some few months ago Mr. Archibald Hamilton, bachelor, aged about fifty-Bix years, and one of the best known and wealthiest citisen in Delaware county, unknown to almost every one, was married to Miss Hattie Fleming, a highly respected lady of Muncie. Mr. Hamilton had for a number of yearn occasionally kept company with Miss Julia Gilbert, daughter of O. J. Gilbert, of Mount Pleasant township, and one of the sub-, stantial citizens of the county. Since Mr. Hamilton s marriage to Miss Fleming, Miss Gilbert brought suit against him for breach of promise, claiming $12,000. Without any legal proceedings whatever, Mr. Hamilton paid her the amount without allowing the case to go into court. Without a doubt, this is the largest breach of promise suit ever settled outside the courts in that county, and has been a topic of much conversation.

At Wesley Chapel, three miles from •Westport, the most remarkable revival ever known in that section is in progress. It started about two weeks ago, and has daily increased in interest, whicn is so great now that long before day the church is surrounded by crowds eager to get inside. The first service is much the same as that of other revivals. The pastor preaches, then a hymn is sung, and then is inaugurated one of the wildest scenes imaginable.. Men dance, women fall in a faint, and children five and six years of age shout themselves hoarse and fall in trances, which last for hours. Almost every night Eva Myers, a seven : year-old daughter of A well to do farmer, in astonishingly eloquent language,preaches for fifteen and twenty rmnutes. exhorting the people to repent of their sins. Scores of people have fallen to the floor in a dead faint while she was preaching. Some of the most reckless men in the neighborhood have professed conversion, and a new order of things has been ushered in. Some of the children relate wonderful stories of what they saw in their trances. Many people believe little Eva is inspired and almost worship her. Over 300 people have professed eonversion, and sight seers come for miles to see and hear.

WASHINGTON.

Mr. Caswell, of Wiseousin, who has been a Congressman for the last ten yea-s, and is counted one of the leaders on the Republican side, does not believe that there will be any modifications of the tariff thin session. “The whole question will drag along here in the House until next August, and nothing will be done. One proposition after another will be brought out and retired. Randall is j ust Btrong enough on his side of the House to confuse and thwart all the attempts of the administration members to get a general tariff bill to a vote. At the last minute there will be a spasmodic movement to pass a short

bill ana send it over to the Senate. Probably not a dozen articles would be affacted by such a bill —sugar would go on the free list, salt, lumber, hemp and the tobbacc tax would be removed, but I don’t believe that this House would dare to send such a bill to the Senate, and I think that the attempt in that direction will fail. It was by sending' a short tariff bill to the Senate in 1888 that the House put itself into the power of the Senate and a general bill came back which we were finally obliged to pasß As long as the Benate cannot originate tariff legislation, and the Democratic majority in the‘House is divided on this question, it is reasonable to exoect that no tariff bill will pass this year.” The New York correspondent of the London referring to Mr. Samuel J, Randall and his connection with the American tariff, describes the Pennsylvania statesman as an “ignorant and illiterate man, the pride of whose life in

his supposed resemblance to the great Napoleon.” * The President sent to the Senate, Thursday, thmomination of Edward 8. Bragg, of Wisconsin, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico.

Excelent Advice.

New York Tribuae. Happy thought. Don’t Ihmwr yen, calendars for 1887 in the ash can. Send them to the Man Who Doesn’t Advertise. Bei d g behind the times he naturally will find them timely.

A WESTERN BLIZZARD.

Over One Hundred Persons Perish in a Snowstorm. , The Weather Moderating and Brmqa Appalling Reports of Ca«aalitl«a—The Storm Hateudn from Dakota to T«io—- . Uacqaallrd Binao ISS4. | r

The terrible storm which has swept over the Northwest, blockading railroads in five States, is now over, and the victoms of its fnry are being count ed. The pitiful.list is growing almost every hour. It is not improbable that when the record is com plots it will show 900 livea sacrificed to the awiul fury of the blizzard. Next to this, the worst blizzard that the Northwest ever had occurred January 7, 8 and 9, 1873. In that storm seventy persons were frozen

todeath, and thousands of dollars’ wor.h of property destroyed. The storm came without warning' at sunriselaet Wednesday. Dakota never had more lovely weather. The air was was as clear as crystal and every object about the horizon was distinctly visible. The wind was from the south, warm and balmy, and before the sun was high in the sky a decided thaw had set in. Farmers too a advantage of the beautiful weather to go to town, to draw wood, hay, etc. About noon a cloud was seen along the northwestern horizon, lying close to the ground, bat stretching from the west to north in a dark semieircle. Little attention was paid to it, but in an hour the cloud had swept over the country, the sun was obscured, the snow was falling fast, and a gale was sweeping from the west with terrible fury. The blizzard had begun. The mercury fell rapidly and by 5 o’clock it was 5* below zero, and the next morning it registered 30“ below, and all the while the wind increasing in fury. The snow fell thick, and the large amount of snow that was already on the ground was blown into powder and hurled along by the wind. On the prairie an object forty feet distant could not be seen. A man’s voice could not be heard six feet distant. The air was full of snow as fine as flour, and the roaring of the wind and the darkness caused by so much snow in the air made the scene the most dismal, dreary and forsaken that man ever looked upon. ’ v Every railroad in Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba, Nebraska and Wisconsin was blocked. „ Telegraph wires everywhere were down, and it was not until Saturday that the full extent and awful results of the storm became apparent. The telegraph hourly bringj.the most pitiful stories of suffering, terrible struggles for life and heroic deeds of the brave men and women of the storm stricken section that have never been equalled. Saturday and Sunday night were the coldest ever experienced in the vicinity of Kansas City, the thermometer registering It* below zero Sunday morning, and no time Sunday did the mercury get above 4“ below. The reports that come from Western Kansas are appalling. The blizzard that raged through that section a few weeks ago, left the people in such bad condition that they were unable to stand more severe weather and & large number of deaths from cold and starvation areknown to have occurred.

A car-load of provisions was started Friday from Wichita to Ashland, Clark county, but the storm stopped the train. It is estimated that three thousand people in Clark county are in a destitute condition, and unless immediate relief them the number of deaths will be fearful to contemplate. Th&pastor of the Presbyterian church in Hartland, Kearney county, writes for assistance forf the people of that section, saying that if belief does not soon come hundreds must die. The casualties among stock have been greater than ever known in the State of Kansas. Horses and cattle have perished in their stalls, and the owners have been badly frozen while attempting to care for them. On the Missouri Pacific Railroad two train loads of cattle coming in from the West were caught in the blizzard and every animal was frozen to death. In Indian Territory the entire range is frozen over and the cattle are drifting badly. The wave reached as far South aa Texas. The dead body of a man was found near Sioux Falls, Dak., Saturday night, frozen solid, as also was the team'of|horses with him. His face was so bloated as to be unrecognizable, and he has not been identified. The horses had been unhitched from the sleigh with the harness on, and the man had no overcoat on, and it is supposed that he, with othera, wasridingand that he unhitched the team to go for help, leaving the others in the sleigh covered by his overcoat. Hunting parties are out. Another heavy snowstorm is now in progress.

Three young men living on the Jim* river, east of Mitchell, D. T., are still missing. Trains will be blocked for a 1 r ’ *; • The school at Inwood, la., was dismissed in the midst of the blinding blizzard, and two Fitzgerald children were” lost in the storm. Others are likely to have perished. Two farmers started from Bridgewater to Marion Junction, and perished on the way. Up to the 17th 184 deaths had been reported fro» the excessive cold. Chicago is in quite a fever over the gas trust there—a sort of gas trick fever, bo to speak. J

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

In the Senate on the 11th the re*e ntton offered t»y Mr. Hale, on the 12th o( December, for • select eommitteo to examine fully Into the present condition of the civil ervlee, was takes up, and Mr. Halo add rowed the -pnate in ex- 1 planation and advocacy of it. He doOhtrod that' his object in offering it we# to secure an invectigation. with a since'e purpose of bringing before Congress the present actual condition of tht civil-service of the country, and also certain performances of certain high and low officials of the Government. Mr. Hale then reviewed the eivll-sorvioe under various administrations. He then labored to expose the claims of reform by the present administration, observing by a table of figures that but few officers remain In the service now that had not been appointed by this administration. M. Hale also devoted himself, to the rubjeet of political assessments in #hieh he argued the Democratic administration had flagrantly violated the law. Mr'. Coke spoke inopposition to the Blair educational bill The House referred the President's message ta ' the Ways and Means Committee. The '‘little deficiency bill” was taken up. A long debate ensued, ana during its prcgiess the question as to where the responsibility for the defeat of the deficiency bill at the laat session rested, was » fully discussed. The custom of holding bask appropriation bills also received considerable attention,, On motion of Mr. Burnes an amendment was adopted, appropriating *100,006 for the payment of judgments and awards against the Unite 1 States on account of damages caused by reos nos the impiovement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. The bill was then passed. Tho Senate on the 12th passed a bill authorising the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river/at Sti Charles, Mo. Mr. Chandler made a brief speech in the Senate on his resolution for an investigation of the Jackson, (Miss) election, and offered several letters from citisens charging that the election was Interfered with both by private citizens and federal officers. He was followed by Mr. Riddleberger, who wanted to knew whether this was intended as an attack upon Mr. Lamar, to affect his confirmation, saying that If this was the case, the matter should be considered in exeontive session. If he thought this attack was intended for such a purpose, he, for one, would vote to confirm Lamar, Senator Maxey spoke briefly, claiming that as the ejection referred to was not for any United States official it was not within the jurisdictioe of the Senate to inquire. into it. Mr.. Walthall and Mr. George opposed the resolution for ths same reason. The resolution was then adoptedyeas 29, nays 24.' Mitchell called up his bill abrogating all treaties operative between China and the United St-ites and advocated its passage, as did Stewart also. The bill proposes to absolutely prohibit the landing of any Chinese whatever except consular officers. ’ The House passed a bill to punish robbery, b urglajy and lareeny in the Indian Territory. It fixes the maximum punishment for those offenees at 81,000 fine and fifteen yeais imprison ment. Wilkins of O. called up the bill providfn lor the issue of circulating notes to National banking associations. Wilkins statod that nn- . der this measure the National banks, if they saw fit, might increase their circulation. There wst in the Treasury security ior a circulation of 816',, 000,0 00-'-Uniied States bonds to the amount of >189,000,600. If this bill should become a law, the circulation of National banks would be Increased in round numbers sil.ooo 000. Mr. Wilkins demanded the previous question on the third reading of the bill. The yeas and nays were ordered, pending which the opponents of the bill resrrted to filibustering tactics, which consumed the remainder of the morning hour, in which the bill was being eensldered, and the matter went over. The resolution Calling upon Secrerary of War for information concerning the “rebel battle flag order” was adopted. The bill fixing the salary of the Commissioner on fisheries at 85,000 was passed. Mr. Riddleberger made two futile attempts la the Senate on the 13th to go into executive session, to consider the Lamar case, but failed in both insiancos. Mr. Vance favored the Brown resolution abolishing internal revenur taxation. The Blair educational bill was also discussed. The House passed a private bill. On the 16th Mr. Blair presented in the Senate a memorial and resolutions of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor in favor of an investigation into the management of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and for such legislation as will prevent the debasement of currency note-/, etc,, and also for-an inv.stigatioa as to the present method of 'supplying postage stamps, etc. He asked that the memorial (covering twelve sheets of type-writing) be printed in the Record, but as Mr Harris obj.-eied, he proceeded to state the chief allegations contained in -it. In executive session the appointment of Lamar as a Judge of the Supreme Court was confirmed, the vote standing yeas 8?, nays 28. Riddleberger, Stewart and Stanford voting with the Democrats in the affirmative. The appointment of Don M. Dickinson as Postmaster-Genera and W. F. Vilas as Sooretftf y of the Interior were confirmed without division. in the HouseJ Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee from the oommitte© on merchant marine and fisheries, reported the Dingly resolution calling for information relative to discrimination in tolls against Amorican vessels passing through the Welland canal. The resolution was adopted. A,long discussion arose over the delay in the printing of the Record and other public documents by the public printer, and a resolution to investigate the matter fully and completely was defeated by a vote of 136 to 140. Perkins of _ Kansas offered a measure providing for a clerk for every member of the House, which measure was defeated by ayes 64 nays 181. The man who imagines that his exist* ence is necessary to the movement of the world is generally buried in a pine coffin without trimmiogs.

THE MARKETS.

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