Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A sorghum trust is the latest Mrs. Beecher is going to Florida. Michigan’s partial prohibition laws are'constitutional. A new gas well at Findlay, 0., flows 8.000,000 feet a day. A family of seven as Sidney, 0., are sick from triehinaasis. Colorado has been proved to be a good tobbacco growing State. Sutter Creek. Cal., lost the large part of business placer Thursday. Loss SIOO,OOO. One of the most severe snowstorm ever known occurred in northern Michi* gan last week. There is general dissadisfaction in Louisania sugar localities over the proposed tariff bill. *•' Seven hundred- painters struck at Pittsburg Saturday lor dine hours work at ten hours pay. The New York Court of Appeals has decided that a bequest for masses for one’s soul is invalid. Amos Bronson Alcott, founder of the famous Concord School of Philosophy, died in Boston, Sunday. A fire, Thursday noon, in New York destroyed several factories on Lexington avenue at a loss of $1,000,000. The ghost of a murdered man has induced a religious revival among the inmates of the Birmingham (Ala.) jail. Alaysius Fayout has been given a verdict for $27,000 against the Boston and Albany railroad for personal damages. Jack Ravelin, of Boston, knocked out Johnny Farrell, of New York, Thursday, in seven rounds. They were light weights. All the saloons in Kansas City, Mo., were closed Sunday under the new law and efforts of the Law and Order League.

Horace Murphy, of Kalamazoo,Mich., aseaulled hie 8 year-old cousin,, and has been sent to the penitentiary to serve a fifty-year sentence. . The Mississippi legislature has passed a constitutional amendment limiting the Governor’s term to four years without right of succession. All employes in the Federal building at New York have had their salaries cut 20 per cent., and some will be discharged, for lack of appropriated funds. The Missouri deat and dumb asylum at Fulton, Mo., was burned, Tuesday morning. Tne building was a massive structure, costing the State over half a million dollars. Tbe&urnace men of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys will bank their fires unless railroad -freight rates are reduced. They say they cannot compete with the.Bouth.

Mrs. Maria Woodworth, the trance evangel'st, is at Chambersburg, Pa., and has worked up a great opposition on the part of the preachers, especially the Catholic priests. The indictments against Mrs. Emma Molloy, at Ozark, Mo., charged with being accessory before and after the fact of the murder of Sarah Grafiam, have been nolle prosequied. Booth and Barrett opened at San Francisco, Monday. Senator Fair has engaged the entire theater for one evening for an exclusive theater party. He paid fl 2,500 for the same. Government receipts during February aggregated $31,151,981, ■ a million and a half more than in February, 1887, while expenditures were but $9,898,468. or five and a half million less than in February, 1887.

A fire in New York on the Ist. caused damage as follows: Pattier & Styrnus, furniture, $175,000; Powell, Weneyman & Smith, cigar makers, $300,000; W. H. Estell, furfiiture,sso,ooo, and Armstrong, carpenter, $20,000. The Ohio Legislature has passed a township local option bill,which is a law, and the lower branch passed a bill providing for scientific temperance instruc; tion in the schools and other public institutions of the Street. Mrs. Judge Terry, of San Francisco, who, according to the decision of the California Shpreme Court, was declared legally married to the late United States Senator Sharon, thinks her share of the estate will be $20,000,000. The Union Square theater,New York, with all its contents, was <lestroyed by fire on the 28th. The damage will amount to over $300,000. The Morton House adjoining was btidly damaged. Several firemen were injured. At Culpepper, Va., Thursday, Edwin Barbour, eon of Hon. James Barbour, shot and killed Ellis Williams. The shooting grew out of a newspaper controversy. Barbour is a nephew of United States Senator-elect Barbour.

The venerable banker, Valentine Winters, of Dayton, 0., at a family dinner, Thursday, distributed a half million dollars of his estate among his children and the heirs of two others. In theyear 1882 he gave them four hundred thousand. A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas, Thursday afternoon, and though lasting but a few minutes, did much serious damage. The total damage to property is estimated at (50,000. Two person* were killed, and many Others more or. less seriously injured. Oscar F. Beckwith was hanged at Hudson, N. Y., Thursday morning foi —the murder of Simon VAttdef cook ~aT Austerlitz, on the 10th of January, 1882 This case has become celebrated from the fact that the condemned man had

been sentenced to death six times. He had two triads and his case had been twice passed upon by the general term of the Sup'reme Court and Court of Appeals, and finally application was made to the Governor for executive clemency,which Was denied.

Homer Hart and Oliver A. Hart (father and.son) residing near Mt. Pleasant, Mich., have been arrested ou the charge of criminally assaulting Jesse Hart, the five-year-old daughter of Oliver. The case is unprecedented in the criminal annals of the country.

There is a big breach in the strike in the Lehigh region. Many assemblies of K.of L. have notified the strikers to return to work. The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company have ordered the mules back to their mines, and by next week 20,000 strikers will beat work. A train robbery was perpetrated on the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroad near Pine Bluff, Ark., on the 29th ult. The robbers took possession of the train and compelled the express messenger to open the safe, the contents of Which they carried away, but the amount is unknown. Pete McCartney, the “king 'of counterfeiters,” released from the Michigan City prison only a few months ago after serving an eleven years’sentence, and who intended to settle down on his farm in Illinois and lead an honest life, has been arrested at New Orleans for some of his old practices. The wife of James McElmore, living et Texarkana, Tex., has given birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. The couple have been married only three years, and this isthe third set of triplets that has beeu born during that time, and all alive. The McElmore settlement is indifferent to an immigration movement.

Four colored men were [drowned at Oldtown creek, Mississippi, last week. The first to lose his life was one who attempted to ford the stream a week ago Wednesday, and was drowned. On Sunday 300 negroes were searching for his body, when a canoe containing six of them was capsized and three of its occupants were drowned. The Hondo bridge, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, gave way Thursday, while a freight train was crossing, precipitating the cabaose and a couple of cars of live stock into the river. Captain E heridge, the owner of the live stock, was instantly killed, as was also Robert Hardesty, a brakeman. Conductor Davidson and Lem Hall, a brakeman, were fatally injured.

George Perry, a Kansas City restaurant keeper, who died, Saturday night, turns out to have been J. J. Pendergast, defaulting cashier of the Citizen’s National Bank, Springfield. As Perry he paidep all his shortage?, lived a blameless life, was admired by many friends and regarded as a philantrophist. John Roxy, a striking engineer was shot and killed at Brookfield Mo., Saturday by George H. Bostick, the Burlington bridge foreman who claimed to be a sworn deputy sheriff in charge of an engine. He alleges that Roxy and others endeavored to take charge of thn engine An altercation ensued and’Roxy drew a pistol and refusing to put it up Bostick shot him. Bostick claimed he and Roxy were warm personal friends. It is believed Bostick shot without sufficient provocation. Great excitement prevailed.

A bloody tragedy was enacted at a settlement known as Spanish Camp, about sixty miles west of Houston, Tex. Spanish Camp is composed of Mexicans, negroes and desperate whites, and is remote from railroads and telegraph lines, and od this account only meager reports of the facts are obtainable. On Sunday morning, about two o’c’ock, a negro cabin was set on fire and the occupants brutally shot down as they ran, half awake, from the burning bouse. Five were killed outright, one severely wounded and two others consumed in the burning dwelling. In the same neighborhood, the dead body of a negro named William Battle was found hanging to a tree, and it isThought that he was hanged on the same night the Other negroes were shot or burned. The affair is said to be the outcome of a suit over the title of the land where the negroes lived, and which they had purchased. The suit was decided in favor of the negroes at the last term of the District Court in Wharton. So far as heard from no arrests have been made, although the sheriff and a po’se are on the ground. ~ rOBEIGM. A sarcophagus containing the body of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Saida. A comet, now visible in South Africa, will be visible in our southeastern horizon in about two weeks. Bulgaria has informed the Porte that she will reject all proposals interfering with tbe present state of things. The House of Commons has voted $32,500 to pay the expenses of Joseph Chamberlain, the Fisheries Commissioner. Tbe French schooner Fleur de la Mer foundered, Friday, off the Island of Cayenne. Sixty passengers were drowned. : —— .................. The negotiations between the Vatican and Russia have proved fruitless. Russia demanded impossible concessiors, stipulating that Catholic bishops throughout Russia shou d be appointed by the Czar; that the Russian language should be exclusively used in Catholic churches

in Russia, both in preaching and catechising; and that the offspring of the mixed marriages should be educated in. the orthodox Russian church. -

TARIFF REDUCTION.

The Democratic Bill Reported to the Committee- $55,000,000 Knocked Off. The chairman of the ways and -means committee submitted to the full committee, on the Ist, the tariff bill upon which the Democratic members have been at work for several months. The

free list section is to take effect July next. Among the more important ,*articteß which are placed on the free list are: Timber of all kinds, salt, flax, hemp, jute, etc., cotton bagging tin plates, beeswax, gly cerine, glue, isinglass, soap, hemlock, indigo, licorice, petroleum, alum, all artificial mineral waters, cement,copperas. potash, tar, benzine, logwood, turpentine, ocher, umber, etc., “all wools, hair of the alpaca goat and other animals; wools on the skin; woolen rags, shoddy mengo, waste and flocks,” and a duty of 40 per cent, on woolen and worsted cloths, shawls, etc., etc. All beans, barks, berries, balsams, etc., china, clay or kaoline, opium for medical uses, needles, copper ores, n’ckel in ore, mineral substances in crude state, brick, vegetables, chicory, and all other articles used as coffee or substituted therefor not especially provided forjdates, figs, etc., meat, game and poultry; pulp for paper makers use, bibles, books and pamphlets in foreign languages, bristles, feathers, grindstones, hair, hatters’ fur, seeds, marble, (plaster of Paris 'tags, paintings. The new tariff proposes to fix the duties upon leading commodities named as follows: Pig iron IS, railway iron sll, iron for rails sl4, chains 2c per pound, axes lie per pound, lead l|o per pound, hollowware 21c per pound. The entire wood schedule is subject to a 30 per cent. duty. All grades of sugar are reduced by an amount varying from one-fifth to one-fourth of the present tariff. Cotton yarn is reduced about 35 per cent.; bleached linen 25 per cent; cotton cloth 40 per cent. The manufactures of wool are reduced as follows. Woolen and worsted cloths to 40 per cent.; flannels, blankets and knit goods 40 per cent.; dress goods, partly of wool, 40 per cent.; ready-made clothing 45per cent.; cloaks 45 per cent.; webbings 50 per cent; carpets 30 per cent. Estimate of reductions in revenue enacted by the bill hava not beer completed in detail, but the aggregate, according to the bes- information in the hands of the committee, is fixsd atsss,000,000. Tnis total includes about $22 - 250,000 on account of the free list, $17,250,000 on account of woolen goods, sl,600,000 for china and glassware, $750,000 in the chemical schedule, something less than $590,000 on cotton, sl,500,000 on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar about $11,000,000. There are no internal revenue changes proposed by the bill. This subject was purposely left, for lack of time, to the consideration of the full committee.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington special says: The internal revenue reductions were agreed on Friday by the Democrats ofvthe Ways and Means Committee, and will be reported to the full committee early next week and considered with the tariff bill. They effect a total reduction of about $24,000,090 or $25,00.0,000. The tax on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes is repealed, reducing the revenue about $10,000,000. Licenses abolished will make a further reduction of between $4,000,000 andss,ooo,ooo. There is no reduction on spirits of any kind. The manu facturers of fruit brandies are allowed their product in bonded warehouses and take warehouse receipts for the same time as the whisky distillers now have. Some extreme penalties have been lessened. “ '

Colonel Bliss gave a list of trusts that the New York Senate investigating committee had been unable to investigate. It includes a lead trust, a leadpencil trust, cartridges and shells, watches and watch cases, carpets, nails, undertakers’ supplies, coffee, brewers, cordage, planes, silver plate, plated ware; steel rails, and the hog slaughtering trust.

A petition’has been prepared, signed by all the mail clerks on the lowa division of the Burlington Riad, asking General Superintendent Nash to have the Government compel the railroads putesmpetent engineers on the mail trains.

It is probable that the Senate will pass a bill to p ace telegraphic lines under control of the interstate commerce law. The public debt was reduced $7,756,306 during February.

Had a Halo Round Her Head.

Ceder Rapidsffa.) special. A Sensation was created here to-night in one of the revival meetings when Belle Brone,a colored girls, aged seventeen, who had never spoken in berlife, suddenly rose to her feet and cried out. “Behold!” so loud that every one in the room heard her. This was followed by a peculiar halo of light illuminating her faee and head. This is testified to as a act by scores of eye-witnesses. There is an Indian womaffiliving near Mitchell, Dak., who bears the remarkable name of ‘‘ \Votnan-who-goea-ou t-of-the-house-five- times.” | Saint Boodle is gittin party nigh as ' tall as the Gudesa of Libherty.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Peru is to have a base ball club. Bemhamer was taken to Michigan City, Tuesday. The Petersburg blue ribbon club has established a reading-room. C. F. Holliday. Secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, died, Monday. The clothes of the six-year-old child of Clint Gould, of Lawrence county, caught Are, Tuesday, and she was fatally burned. A judgment has been rendered in the Huntington Circuit Court against ex-Treasurer Henry Beavet and bis bondsmen for $14,140. Harrison county Republicans at their convention indorsed Gresham for President, and those of Johnson and Randolph declared for Harrison.

Fire destroyed the Phoenix flouring mills at South Bend, “'Tuesday night. Hawley Bros, are the owners. The loss is about $30,000, with $20,000 insurance. The fruit prospect in Southern Indiana, one of the great fruit regions of the United Stater, is fine. Fruit-growers say that only twise in their experience have crops been ruined by weather later than this date. Albert West, colored, an inmate of the Indianapolis workhouse, attacked the guard, Annanias Stewart, Friday, and dead by Stewart. West had hit Stewart over the head with a piece of gas pipe and caused probably fatal injuries. Conrad Eberhardt, coroner of Decatur county, fell under a train at St. Paul, that county, Monday, and had both feet cat off and received other and probable fatal injuries. He had been to St. Paul to hold an inquest on a man found dead in bed. Bertha, the nine-year-old daughter of John D. Clark, of Seymour, while on her way to school Thursday afternoon was run over by a train on the J*. M. & I. Road while making a running switch. She had both hands cut off and will probably die.

The gaq well just finished at Portland for the Centennial Mills have developed enough gas to run all the mills in the town. The large factories locating there will necessitate the building, it is said, of five hundred dwellings this summer tor the mechanics to live in. James Archer was arrested at B'noals, Friday,’charged with complicity in murdering Jackson Ballard twentyfour years ago. County Commissioner John Jones and two other highly respected citizens are implicated. A confession was made, hence the arrest. The Northern Indiana and Southern

Michigan Swine Breeders’ Exhibition Jjtuilding Association has just organized at Warsaw, and arrangements are being completed for holding annual exhibitions of swine and sheep in that place. The capital stock of the association is $5,000.

Rev. M. E. McKillop, late pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Charlesto nn, is dying of a cancer. Two years ago he was returning home from a trip and was met little son, who', in his efforts tn kiss his father, caused an abrasion of the skin upon his father’s chin. From this the cancer developed. The jury in the Odd Fellows slander suit, at Bloomington, that has been on tiial for the past week, in which Samuel D. Noel was sued for $5,000 damages for making serious charges against Abraham Donaldson in rejecting his name from Odd Fellow membership, was dischargat 11 o’clock Tuesday, after being out since Saturday at 9 o’clock. They were evenly divided.

The Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the dental bill in its entirety. This gives the 8 sate Board of Dental Examiners the right to refuse license to practice dentistry to any person who can not produce a diploma from a reputable college and give satisfactory evidence of proficiency in his profession. The board consists of the Governor of the State, the President of the State Board of Health, and three persons named by the S ate Dmtal Association.

Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, aS follows: Louis Adams, Terre Haute, balanced slide valve; Henry Ader, Somerset, valve; trank Brougb, Indianapolis, handle attachment; Charles G. Conn, Elkhart, wind instrument; Lavi P. Fodrea,Westfield, slate pencil holder; Wm. A. Frashoar, Umana, fence; Raymond O. Piton, Terre Haute, stove for burning light fuelj George W. Rodeeap, door closer; Ralph Stuckmisch, Cory, egg tester; Alvin W. Vandursten, South Bend, car bumper A Jarmer in Wbite county, who owns 840 acres of land, has lately put in twenty-six miles of tile drains, every rod of which he had leveled by a civil engineer. He says that in no other way can an effective and profitable system of drains be obtained, and insists that it is a mistaken economy to spare the cost of survey,and then be compelled to re-lay tile before the desired results are obtaihed. He has an accurate map of his lands, ehowexact location of all mains and laterals, size of tile and depth of cut. Harrison Hogan, of Jeffersonville, the man of seven wives, tandem, dead or divorced, recently devised all his property to his seventh loye, to escape creditors, and the lady, bring weary of the old man, got a divorce. Hogan faced about and got possession of the house, and ejected his wife and threatened to annihilate,everybody who attempted an

entrance. He was finally dislodged by the officers. He is the person who, on a former occasion, held the sheriff’s posse at bay with a shotgun from a second story window. He invited the posse in and gave them a dinner, but prevented a service during the truce. Indianapolis had another' tragedy Monday night, which are getting to be of weekly occurrence. Harding Venable, colored, was standing at the counter of a Malott avenue saloon, listless and indifferent to. his surroundings, when Gus Williams, also colored, entered with a shotgun, pointed the muzde at Venable’s head and fired, almost blowing the man’s head to shreds. Williams escaped. In an attempt to capture him a policeman mistook a brother of Williams for the murderer and fatally shot him, after the latter had refused or neglected to comply with the policeman’s order to stand.

The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor met at Indianapolis, Tuesday. James W. Jacobs, Grand Reporter, submitted statistical reports showing receipts of Grand Lodge from the beginning to the present, $59,380.25, expenditures, $57,136 76. There are ninety-six lodges in the State; total membership, 4,151. Total deaths for the year, forty-nine. These deceased members paid the fund $7,837.40 and their beneficiaries received $95.000. The ratio of deaths per 1,000 members was 96. The grand total of deaths in the organization, closing January 1, 1888, ware 406, and these members paid to the fund $34,289.10, while their beneficiaries received from the supreme treasury $795,000. Attorney General Michener has rendered an opinion of interest to delinquent tax-payers of the whole State. An act passed in 1883 required county treasurers to list and advertise separately all lands and lots which had been advertised for the succetsive years prior to March 29, 1881, and remainder unsold for want of bidders. If such lands and lots should not sell for cash at the regular tax sales of 1884. this statute provided that they be forfeited to the State. The Auditor, if the property remained unredeemed, was empowered to execute the warranty oi the State after two years to purchasers at such special sale. The following is the opinion: “When land is sold for taxes under the act of 1883, and the sale fails to satisfy the'delinquency, lam opinion that the amount due can be collected from the original owner, if responsible. See section 6,449.”

Mrs. Hooker, a well-known woman who has made Elkhart her home for a number of years, has appeared before the pension board there, and applied for a pension on the ground that she was a regularly-enlisted soldier of the late war, served three years, and was twice wounded while in service. She had been married but a short time when the war broke out, and was determined to accompany her husband, who was a first lieutenant. To facilitate the matter, she induced a young man who resembles her in general appearance (she is a decidedly masculine looking woman) to undergo the examination, and when the opportunity offered reported for duty in his place. Her enlistment took place in Ohio, and her assumed name was Brown. Mrs. Hooker is familiarly tnown as “Colonel*” and her application excites much interest. She talks of preparing a book of war reminisences.

The Supreme Court decided, Tuesday, that Harrison, Gapen, et al. are legally in possession of the trusteeship of tbe State Benevolent Boards, and that the Governor has no right to make appointments to these offices under the circumstances existing. Attorney General Micbener seems to have been prepared for the decision of the Supreme Court, for be went-at once to the County Clerk’s office and instituted three new suits against the trustees of the Hospital for tbe Insane. There are eleven paragraphs in each complaint, and the allegations against the three trustees are substantially the same. The proceedings are »n the nature of quo warranto, and the titles of the cases are tbe same except as to the names of the defendants, being “State ex rel. Louis T. Micbener, Attorney General, vs. T. H. Harrison,” etc. Information is in this manner lodged with the Supreme Court against the three trustees for malfeasance in office and dereliction of duty, the object being the forfeiture of the said offices and their removal therefrom. The cases were assigned to Judge Howe, of Superior Court No. 2, and the defendants will doubtless demand a joint trial by jury The complaints, summed up, state that Thomas H. Harrison, B. 11. Burrell and Philip .fl. Gapen were elected member of the Board of Trustees of tbe Indiana Hospital for tbe Insane by tbe General Assembly of 1883, and continued toehold eaid offices. Following this statement of fact, which, in moreelaborateiorm, constitutes the introduction to each complaint, are eleven separate allegations against the officials. (1) that Harrison has drawn a salary of $1,600, when the law allows him but $900; (2) they failed to adopt rules for the government of inmates and employes; (3) that later they adopted rules but failed to publish them; (4) that for one year Gapen was absent from the] State, being engaged in business in Arkansas, and attended but one meeting of the board, yet he was allowed and drew the full amount of his

salary; (5) that the Trustees did not solicit competition for goods and articles needed by the institutions, that they kept no open statement, that they did not give their personal attention to bids and that they made purchases privately; (6) that purchases were made by the Trustees for private use and presented to employes; (7) that ornaments were purchased and presented as gifts’to the inmates; (8) that Trustee Gapen received from Mellen & Co., of New York, $64.77 as a rebate, which he has failed to account for; (9) that in purchasing supplies the Trustees failed in many cases to accept the lowest bids; (10) that inferior supplies were purchased; (11) purchasing and accepting as sound eight boilers which were defective and unsafe.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

In the Senate, on the 28th, the resolution offered by Senator Hoar to continue the investigation of certain events alleged to have taken place in Texas (in the petition ol Stephen Hackworth and others) was agreed to. Senator Paddock addressed the Senate on the subject of inefficient postal service in the western States. He denounced the management oi the Postoffice Department for the last three years as a failure—probably a more conspicuous failure than any of the other shortcomings of the present administration. The bill for the purchase of asite and the erection of a government building in New Orleans, to cost *1,20-0,030 was passed. The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated from the performance of manual labor, and providing for pensions to dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors, the question being on Senator Call’s amendment, making the bill apply also to those who served in the war of Mexico (for thirty days), or in any of the Indian wars. A lengthy debate ensued relative to the action the President would take, and some emphatic expressions were made as to the indifference of the Senate of the President’s opinion. The G. A. R. was characterized as a political organization by Blackburn. The House passed bills for the erection of public buildings as follows: Omaha, Neb., *400,00); Bar Harber, Mj., *2),000; an appraiser’s building at New York, *1..'.00,C00; an interstate building at Texarkana, *100,600; for the purchase of additional ground at Indianapolis, *125,000, Bay City, Mich., *150,000; Milwaukee, Wis., *400.00).

In the Senate, on the 29th, Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution, which was agreed to, instructing the committee of public lands to inquire into the advisability of making a national park of Mt. Hood, Ore., and several surroundingtownships. The bill to establish a national art commission was taken from tbe calendar and passed with little discussion. The bill to provide for the compulrory education of Indian children was taken from the calendar and discussed. The House amendments to’he bills for public buildings in Milwaukee and Omaha were" noa-eoncurred in and a committee of conference asked for. The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill granting pensions to exsoldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for the performance of labor, and providing for pensions to dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors. Wilson, of lowa, moved an amendment to Insert the words "from the Infirmities of age.” so as to pjnsion all ex-sol-diers suffering "from the infirmities of age or mental or physical disability.” Then fallowed a lengthy and warm debite on the bill, but the Senate proceeded to executive business without takings vote on the bill or pending amendment.. The House passed bills as follows: Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to> purchase bonds with the surplus revenue; relating to postal crimes, dividing the State of Minnesota into two collection dinricts, making St. Paul a port of entry and St. Vincent a sub-port. The House then preceded to the special order, being the delivery of eulogies on tbe late Seth C. Moffatt, of Michigan, and appropriate speeches were made by Messrs. Cuteheon, Ford, Oates, O’Donnell, Whiting. Cannon, Hayes, Allen, Wade, Osborne; Chipman, Gillinger and Conger. The Senate, on the Ist of March, continued the debate and controversy on the pension bill and amendment of yesterday, but adjourned until Monday without a vote on either. The House, after some delate, passed a resolur tion to accept the invitation of France to participate in the international exhibition in Paris in 1&9, and appropriated $25,000 to pay for the promulgating to tbe French people at that time a few tracts on how the American hog is raised, dressed and shipped. After other minor matters were discussed the House adjourned. In the House, on the 2d, McKinley secured unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a memorial signed by tbe glass-blowers, protesting againsta redaction of duty on imported window glass, as propose! by the Mills tariff bill. The lemainder of the time was occupied in the consideration of the “omnibus” bill, which provides for the payment of thirty odd claims for supplies used for the army during the war, reported by the Court of Claims under tbe provisions of the Bowman act No action. A night session was held for the con dderation of private pension bills. In the Senate, on the sth, a bill was reported favorably to regulate the Inter-State commerce carried on by telegraph co mpanies. Several petitions and memorials were predated. The urgency deficiency appropriation bill was taken up and several amendments adopted. In the House, White of In liana, introduced a resMutiou calling for a committee of five to inyestiga'e the C., B. <1 Q. strike. A bill was introduced to declare trusts unlawful. Several other bills were Introduced. Tne McDuffie-Davidson (Ala.)contested election case was discussed. A bill wss passed authoriz ng the city of Chicago to erect a c lb in Lake Michigan for water works purposes. __

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, March 6, 1888. GRAIN. Wheat,No. 2 Med.... 84 I Corn, No. 2 White, 51 No. 8 Med.... 88 No. 2 Yellow 49 No. 2 Red.... 82 [Oats, No. 2 WhitftzStV Wagon wheat 80 I Rye UVE STOCK. Cattle—Extra choice steen 4.f0a5 00 Good to choice steen : 4.20*4.56 Extra choice heifers ....J.OOaISS Good to choice heifer5................1.75*2.75 Good to choice cows 2.80e8.25 Hoes—Heavy packing and 5hipping......_.5.40a0.60 Light and mixed packing 5.05*5.65 Pics and heavy roughs B.if>*4.Bo Sheep—Extra choice ..4.75*4.8$ Good to choice BOOS, BUTTER, POULTRY. Eggs..... 16c I Poultry,hens per lb 8; Butter, creamery....22c I ‘‘fancy country„..lsc I —Turkeys.....9 “choice country-.lOc | r MISCELLANEOUS. Wool—Fine merino, tub washed...., ,?Ca32e “do unwashed med ........ 20a22a “ very coarse _l7*lßo Hay,choice timothy 1436 Sugar cured ham 10«12 Bran MSO Bacon clear sides.—loc Flour, patent....4.4W.65 Feathers,prime goos3se Extra fancy 4.00a4.10 Clover see*. 44P . —~~ Chicago. Wheat (March):. ..ft .1 Com " j Lard ——7.2 a oats » —..aEg | —7.aL_. Cattle—Beeves 3.60*515 l-Hoos—LighU.4Bo*s.2s Cows. ...\.l.7sali<j -Rough.pack_s.osas.3s Stockers .2.46*3.70; -Mixed packing & sh'pSheep .3.MMUOI ing.„......_5.85a5.71 Vtnetunau -Family flour, 8.40*3.75; wheat, 89: com, 52; oats. 8•; rye, 64; pork, 14.50; lard 7.55; short ribs. 7.7s;butter creamery,23*3s; eggs 18. . 4.. c -_7. .. -A- .