Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Joseph W. Drex*l, the New York banker, died on the 25th. William Halford, the well-known manufacturer of .Halford eanoe, is dead. Owing to persistent prosecution every iquor saloon in Concord, N. H., is closed. A flood as great as that of 1832 is expected along the Missouri River this spring. The relief fund for sufferers of the Mt. Vernon (Ill.) hurricane amounts to « 100,000. * Senator Gorman, oi Maryland, is sup posed to be cultivating a small Presidential boom. Mrs. Richard W. Thompson, wife es ex-secretary of the navy, died at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 25th. The Btate of Pennsylvania is suing ' the Pennsylvania Muttfkl Life Insurance Company for $308,000 back taxes. There is a general movement pending in Eastern Pennsylvania to reduce the wages of iron employes 5 to 10 per cent. Under the influence of ihe Supreme Court decision, Bell telephone stock advanced from 185@220 to 260 Monday. Two New York pilot boats, with fourteen men—the Enchantress and Phantom—have been missing since the great storm.

A train struck a carriage containing Margeret and Annie O’Riley at Waterford, Conn., Sunday, killling them both almost instantly. Great floods, doing much damage to railroad property, were reported on the 20th from Mercer, Neb., Billings Mont and Mason City, lowa. Prohibitionist Green Clay Smith will run for Congress against the present incumbent, Hon. James B McCleary, in the Eighth Kentucky District. An impression is growing that Auditor Hewitt, of Kentucky, needs invest grting. It is charged that he was ergaged in speculations with Treasurer Tate. The friends of Gen. Hancock have succeeded in purchasing in Washington a fine residence property, which they will present to his widow about Aoril Ist. A hurricane of great magnitude visited Atlanta, Georgia, on the 22d, unroofing buildings and doing much other damage. Several fatalities are reported. The Marine Band gave a concert at Philadelnhia, Saturday night, and at its close serenaded G sorge W. Childs, the first time it ever honored a private citizen.

An axle of a ear in a Pennsylvania freight train broke at Barre, Pa., Thursday,causing a bad wreck, killing a tramp and two unknown boys, and fatally injuring a brakerr an. A number of German citizens of Portland, Ore., have subscribed a fund of a thousand dollars to purchase singing birds in Germany, to be turned loose in that city and vicinity. Jeff. Curry, a negro working near Birmingham, Ala-, who had been arrested for carrying concealed weapons, was taken from the officers by a mob and riddled with bullets. From Northern Michigan come reports of the recent snow-fall, showing that the blockade is one of the worst in recent years. • Trains are badly delayed, but no one has been frozen. Up to date, the great strike on the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy has cost the company $1,05 i,203. A loss of $300,204 has fallen upon the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. It has been agreed in New York State that ex-Senator Raines will present the name of Cleveland to the National Convention. Senator Raines is considered the silver-tongued orator of the Empire State.

John T. Hoffman, Governor of Ne £ York from SB6B to 1872, died on the 26rh, .while on a visit to Wiesbaden, Germany. He had held many positions of honor in his State, and was never defeated for any position he sought. jiff n n eßC ab, Ki"grhan'counly,”Kahsap, was almost completely destroyed by a tornado on the 26th. Only three houses in the place were left standing. Three person? were killed and seventeen others maimed. In the First District Court at Provo, Utah, Saturday, sixteen Mormons were sentenced for living with more than one wife, contrary to the provisions of the Edmunds law. The most of them were given six months in the penitentiary and fined ]3OO. At a meeting presided over by Gen. Ciinton B. Fisk in New York, Sunday night, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster said she regarded high license as worthy of encouragement only as a step toward prohibition, which had worked so well in lowa that fifty-nine county jails were empty. All the switchmen on the C., B. A Q. system went out on a strike, Saturday morning, and the brakemen are expected to follow suit. The move is undoubtedly made to help the engineers. The cause assigned is that many of the new engineers employed are incompetent and too much danger attends working with them. A general tie up of building operations is threatened in Chicago. Mill 'men are worken ten hour? a day, and in consequence their managers can take work away from contracting carpenters, whose employes work fyut eight hours a day. The mill owners will be asked to make their day eight hours, and thirtyfive cents an honr demanded for all employes. y

Michael O’Shea, of Chicago, one of the “Q - ’ strikers, was put under |S,I’(X) bonds, Wednesday, to answer the charge of malicious mischief. He dropped a huge rock from a viaduct on the cab of a Burlington engine passing beneath him. The; stone broke through the roof of the cab, but did not injure the engineer or fireman. The stone missed the engineer by only a few inches and was heavy enough to have instantly killed him. Mr. J. Z. Weist, represents g the Chicago Board of Trade, has returned from a tour of inspection of the growing wheat of Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas, and has issued a circular embodying the conclusions at which he has arrived. In the circular he says the crop is “badly injured,” and doubts if, under the most favorable conditions during the remainder of the season, the yield can possibly equal the average of the past five years. Alexander Arnold, alias “Old Aleck,” one of the worst horse thieves the West has yet produced, has been released from his fifth term at Joliet. Aleck has also served terms in the penitentiaries of Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri,and is now wanted at Champaign, 111., and Terre Haute, Ind., on an old charge. Soma years ago he got away with two of the most valuable race-horses owned in Kentucky, and during the last thirty years he bas probably stolen {over 300 horses.

John Dold & Son will champion the cause of Kansas City packers, accused by William G. Burtie, of St. Louis, before the house committee of rgriculture Saturday of packing cholera hogs. They refute the charge as a base and slanderous falsehood. They will at once proceed to have him indicted for perjury, and bring suit for $60,000 damages, based upon the possibility of tudr being damaged to the extent of at least 10 per cent, on their business of the Kansas Citv establishment alone. Sunday, at Findlay, Ohio, Hudson Chaplin was arraigned on a charge of bigamy and pleaded guilty. A special; grand jury will be impaneled to fiftd a bill against him. so that his case can be disposed of at this term of court. Following is the list of the women whom, under various aliases, Chaplin is charged with marrying: Miss Cora Carson, Greenville, Ind.; Miss Nellie Webster, living in a small village in southern Illinois; Miss Clara Jones, Fresno, Cal.; Miss Carrie E. Blank, Osage, Ill.; Mrs. Bnell, Bowling Green, Ky.; Miss Flora Freyberger, Bowling Green, O. In addition he married a wealthy woman of Columbns, O. and a planter’s widow living in Baton Rogue, La. From most of these women he obtained sums of money ranging from slt)s to $3,000.

rofusion. A freight train and snow-plow collided near Grovenhurst, Ont., Thursday, killing George Wilson, road master, and four employes. Three others were dangerously injured. Suffering among the people in the rural districts of Spain, owing to severe weather, are reported. Many peasants perished in the snow, and cattle and sheep were lost in drifts. The late Emperor’s will shown that his total savings do not exceed, $12,50C,000. The larger portion of tfie property is left to increase the crown treasurer general fund of the crown established by his father. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at White Chapel, said it was useless to think of returning to a protective policy. “We must look,” he said, “to, an extension of English markets for the betteiing of our business.” The situation throughout Hungary is appalling, owing to the floods. The dykes at Bakes are rapidly giving way, and the town is doomed, Fifty more houses have collapsed since the reports, and many move are rained. At Zem-jdfitU-Jthfl- floating.Jca-Jhaa destroyed. many houses, and all the country Btores of com and food are lost. Ms. William O’Brien addressed the tenants of the Ponsonby estate, at Doughs], Ireland, early Sunday morning, and attempted to organize a meeting which the government, by proclamation, had forbidden to be held. Subsequently he mounted a ear and began a speech to the assembled crowd, but the police dragged him down and charged upon the people with drawn batons. A serious meiee ensued, during which several were wounded on both sides. It is alleged that many of the police were stabbed. Captain Plunkett, in charge of the police, was thrown down and severely beaten and cut about the head. Mr. escaped to the house of a priest, and later harangued a crowd in a t table.

Hewitt and the Irish Flag.

Mayer HeWitt, Tuesday, sent to the New York board of aldermen a communication defending his action in refusing to permit the Irish flag to be raised on the city hall on St. Patrick’s day. In it he says he is of the opinion that no flag bat the American has any right to float from puhlic buildings in this or any other city. He cannot see why, if Germany has to be ruled by Germans, and France by Frenchmen, America ought not be raled by Americans. It might be consl rued, he Bays that his action showed a feeling adverse to the Irish citizens of this city, bnt it is well known that their struggles ano aep r tiona for home rule always had, end always will have my heartiest support and sympathy.

WOMEN IN COUNCIL.

The flr>*t International Gathering at Washington.-Distinguished Women Present irum nil Part* of the World. “The most distinguished assemblage that ever gathered under one roof in this or any other country” describes the International Council of Women that convened in Washington on the 26 s h. The venerable Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided. Every branch, every feature of woman’s work for the advancement of her sex and the welfare of the commnnity at large—temperance, snffrage, education, philanthropy, social pnrity, prison reform, trades unionism, the pnlpit. law, journalism—all and more were represented by women who through their life work have made their names known and honored throughout the world. Right at the end of the second row from the stage, her eyes fixed upon the presiding officer, sat Pundita Ramabai, who for years has labored in the cause of her sex in India, and seated next to her was Mme. Isabelle Bogelot, delegate from France, and chief of the council for the aid of the female criminals of * Paris. White-haired, calm and sedate, she looked like a nun of the earlier ages. Across the aisle was a distinguished group, of which Mrs. Ashton Dilke, delegate from the Manchester Liberal League, and one of the moat noted woman of England, was the central fi jure. Next to her sat Helen Taylor, stepdaughter of the late T ohn Stuart Mill, and herself an ardent exponent of the teachings of the great politico-economist. Near by wdre Mrs. Armiston, of Edinburgh, chief of the social parity movement, and Mrs. Alice Scatchered, of Leeds, who, thirteen years ago, took an active part in promoting the success of the National Union of Working Women, the first trades union oi women that ever existed in the world, and which was brought into existence by Henry M. Hunt, now a resident of Chicago. Away back in the rear was the Baroness Gujpenberg, and Mrs. Alii Trygg, representing the Women’s Societies, of Finland; Mrs. Ada Frederikson, of Chicago, who, at the request of the Crown Princess of Denmark, represents the Danish Women’s Suffrage Association; Mrs. Groth, representative of the Norwegian Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Muller, the first lady member of the London School Board. The American representatives sat, for the most part, to the right of the stage. Suffrage was represented by Susan B. Anthony, Rachel Foster and Lucy Stone, among othere; the pnlpit, by Revs. tPncebe Hannaford, Olympia Brown Willis, Ada C. Bowles, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Louise S. Baker, Annie H. Shaw, Amanda Devo and Florence Kolloch-. education, by Rena A. Michaels, of the Northwestern University; temperance, by Frances Willard; kindergartens, fay Mrs. Sarah Cooper, of San Francisco, cousin of R. Ingersoll; philanthropy, by Jen aie Fowler Willing; the Red Cross, by Clara Barton; the National Granges, by Anna M. Warden, Worthy Master of Vineland Grange, No. 11; journalism, by Mrs. Frank Leslie; medicine, by Sarah Hackett Stevenson; law, by Lillie Devereaux Blake; and sq on throughout an almost endless list. All the principle cities in the country are represented. Mrs. Stanton made an address of welcome and Susan B Anthony stated the object of the council. A committee on permanent organization was appointed, and at night papers were read as follows: S swell, “Higher Education;” Pundita Ramabai, “Women of India;” Sarah B. Cooper, “Kindergartens.”

A BLOW AT PROHIBITION.

The United S'ntea Supreme Court Holds the lowa Law Invalid In One Respect. The decisioir bf the DnitedStates Supreme Court, on Saturday, in the case of Bowman against the Chicago A Northwestern Railway Company, involving a construction of the prohibitory liquor law of lowa, establishes a point of more importance than appeared on the surface. The case strikes at the root of the lowa prohibitory law, and tne decision will be received in lowa and other States with prohibition laws with unusual interest. The lowa law prohibits the introduction of liqnor into the State, as well as its sale therein. Railroads, as common carriers, are paiticnlarly enjoined from bringing liqnor from other States. Bowman is a brewer at Marshalltown, la., and in order to test the question whether the Idwa law preventing the railroads from delivering liquor wonld be upheld in the courts, he ordered a quantity of whisky in Chicago. It was delivered to the Chicago A Northwestern railway. That company declined to r aceive and transport it. Bowman thereupon began suit for $5,000 against the company. The case came to trial before Judge Blodgett, in the United States, District Court, abont fourteen emonths ago. The railway pleaded the prohibitory iaw of lowa as an exeuse for its refusal, but Blnm A Blum, who were Bowman’s attorneys, then and subsequently in the Supreme Court, attacked the law as unconstitutional and void, upon the ground that it was an attempt to regulate interstate commerce. Blum A Blum were pitted against W. C. Gondy and J. E. Honors,who represented the company, while the Attorney general of lowa appeared for the State of lowa. Judge Blodgett decided in favor of the company, that the law waa valid,

bui Bowman’s attorneys took the ease to the United States Supreme Court, with the result that the lowa law is declared unconstitutional and void. Oat of nine justices th(re were three who dissented from this opinion, one being Chief Justice Waite. The railway company is held to be liable to brewer Bowman for its refusal to deliver his whisky, but a more important result is the declaration in the decision that railroads can carry liqnor into lowa. “The effect,” said Mr. Blum, Tuesday, “is to render nugatory the prohibitory- law. The Attorney general stated before Judge Blodgett that it would be impossible to maintain prohibition in lowa if the authorities were denied to prevent the shipment of liquors into the State.”

A THEATER HORROR.

Score* Burned at Oporto—The Building Catches Fire Daring the Performance of .WJM Rush For Life. During a banquet which was being given in the theater at Oporto,Portugal, Tuesday night, at which the galleries as well as the tables were crowdei, the theater caught fire and was entirely destroyed. Many of those inside perished in the flames. Hundreds escaped with their lives, bnt were more or less injured, being burned or braised. The number oi lives lost is unknown. ’ The rains are being searched, and bodies are being found. Ten had been recovered up to 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. The ruins are too hot to prosecute the search further. Many people known to be in the theater are missing. The ruins are surrounded by an immense crowd, and the suspense is awful. The fire occurred daring the performance of a play in which a banqueting scene was being presented on the stage. The play had progressed to the last act when the cry of fire was heard and flames were seen bursting from t’-e stage. An accident had occurred to the gas and the scenery had ignited and flashed up instantly. The flames spread rapidly to the auditorium and a terrible panic followed. The audience rose in an instant and rushed ior the exits,which were quickly choked, hundreds of men, women and children being trampled npon and clothing torn from them in the wild struggle for life. The number of dead taken from the ruins of the theater is 119. Sixty-six oi the bodies were identified, the remainder being merely lamps of charred and blackened flesh.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

There was a huge sensation in the House committee on agriculture Friday. W. G. Bar tie, a St. Louis pork packer, testified that hogs which were affected with hog cholera were often cat up and packed in slaughtering houses. He had often done it himself and had no donbt every pork packer of the country nad done so. He' did not know that any harm came of it. At any rate,there was no use denying or attempting to conceal the fact. His testimony created a great sensation, and the committee are making vigorous efforts to suppress it, as they fear its effect on foreign countries. The Interior Department officials disposed of a pension claim, Friday, that for years has been a veritable cause celebra. It was the claim of Cyphert P. Gallette, of What Cheer, Keokuk county, lowa, for total blindness. The amount which Gallette will receive is $16,000 in arrears as well as a monthly pension of $72. Speaker Carlisle is not confident tha the Mills bill will pass the House as now constructed. He expeets some reductions in the tariff schedules before Congress adjourns. The Texas election outrages and the alleged mutilation of Rebellion recci-ds are being investigated. Secretary Bayard and Judge Niblack are Banned in connection with the

Destructive Storm in the South.

A humcanepassed over Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia Tuesday night, leaving death and destrnction in its wake. Near Lenoris, Tenn., the honse of J. H. Williams was completely swept away, and his wife, who was in bed, blown into the Tennessee River. The home of James Linginfelter was reduced to kindling wood. In it were John R. Smith, who was killed, and a littie daughter of Linginfelter, who had a leg broken. The dwellings of Wm. King and John Gideon were blown down. Seven members t f the King family were badly injured and two of the Gideons were so seriously hart that they can not recover. At Louden, Tenn., the honse of Geo. Moses was completely destroyed and every member of his family were badly hurt. Andrew Worlev’s honse was also carried away and the members of his family barely escaped with their lives. ,Th®y are all seriously injured. The bacon from Worley’s smoke-house was blown two miles away. Calhoun suffered most in North Georgia. Every bnilding in the path of the storm is either destroyed or damaged. The southern arm of the storm passed eastward through Telefair county, taking everything in its path, 400 yards wide. The turpentine works of Whitten A Holland, two miles north of Lumber City, were completely demolished and the ownhr and two other men killed. Fairburn, Anstelle and Gainesville suffered and several negroes were killed.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

In the Senate on Hie 20th Mr. Blair discussed bis bill giving preference for eivlUservice appointments (among man who bad been disloyal during the war) to those wh« had served la the confederate army and who wove suffering from wounds or ditabl ities. Mr. Blair snid he had introduced the bill In entire good faith. He understood that in the one State of North Carolina there were to-day twenty thoufaod er-soidlers of the Confederacy who had lost limbs in the service, and that a very large number of them were in poor eirenmstanees. It seemed to him that if the government, under this admiuisisteation, ot under any other administration, gave opportunities to men who had boon disloyal, preference should be given to those who had served in the confederate army and were now disabled, other things being equal. Mr. Hale inquired of Mr. Blair as to the purpose of the bill.' Was it to be applied to disabled soldiers of the •onfederaey as against other soldicts of the Confederacy who were Hot disabled, or was it to be applied to disabled seldiem es the Confederacy as against individuals living in the South who had been disloyal, but who had net served in the army? He for one, would not not consent to any sueh dieerhnihation in favor of confederate soldiers as has been made In the statutes in favor of federal toldtots. Mr. Hale said it was very clear to him that the fame discrimination now made by statute for the loyal soldier was to be made, under this bill, for the disloyal soldier. The crowning me tit of the fetter would be that he had served and been wounded or disabled in the army of the Confederacy; and that was to place him above the man who had been disabled in the Mexioan war for the whole Republic. It is made a merit by this bill that the applioant ior office bad served in the confederate army and bad th»re been disableo Mr. Beny raid the wounded soldiers of the South had not a-ked for such a bill, though they would recognize the generosity es the proposition. Any intimation that the confederate soldiers were not equal in point of love es country and In every other particular to any other man, was unjust, unfounded and unwarranted. Mr. Platt replied that when the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Berry) Bald that tire confederate soldier was the equal and peer of all men in love of country, some objection should be made to such a statement in the. Senate es the United States. He would not sit in his seat and have the confederate soldier s loyalty, devotion and love of country put upon a par with those of the soldier who had fought to maintain the Government Mr. Daniels said that all ihe confederate soldier asked from the United States was that he should stand equal before its laws and should have a fair opportunity to work out his own salvation. He would venture to say that there was not a town or hamlet from the Potomac to the Rio Grande where a confederate soldier was to be toon' in rags or tatters, or beggieg his brood in streets. There was not a palace or hut where the confederate soldier was not always a welcome gna-t. There was no danger of aoy honorable and true man, however humble be might be, or however small his fortune, dying on the roadside, because no good Samaritan would come by to lend him a helping hand. All that the ex-con-lederates asked was, not special privileges, bnt to be respected in their rights of Amerioan citizenship, which they pad assumed knowingly and intentionally, and which they intended to abide by (God helping them) in sueh a manner that no man could justly lift against them the finger of scorn, or apply to them an insulting epithet. Mr. Hawley and others made speeches and the bill went over. The enate then took up the calendar and passed eight bills, including the following: For relief of the Mission Indians in California (providing for allotment in severalty oflands); to provide for warehousing fruit brandy; for construction of a bridge across the St. Croix river; bills for the relief of Iron clad builders (the Perins and the Mackays.) The House passed a bill creatine a port of delivery at Grand Rapids, Mich., and a bill appropriating 175,00} for a fire proof workshop at the National Armory. After a lengthy debate March ffOthand 21st, April 18th and May 16th were set aside for the consideration of labor bills. Bills were passed for the protection of the wages of mechanics, laborers, and servants in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and extending the provisions of the eight hour law to letter carriers.

The Senote, on the 21ad, passed bills as follows: Providing for an inspection of meats for exportation, and prohibiting the importation of adnlterat ed articles of food or drink. (It provides for retaliatory proceedings by the President); to establish a United States eonrt in the Indian Territory to allow soldiers and sailors who have lost both hands, or the use of both hands, a pension of $l6O a month; the House bill to amend the laws relating to navigation as to fees of shipping ommJsj sioners; House bill to facilitate the prosecution of works projected for improvement of rivers and harbors; granting a railroad company the right-of-way through the Cceur D’Alene Indian re er vation; Honse bill for relief of the volunteers o the Fourth Regiment of lowa Infantry; authorizing construction of a bridge across the Red river of the North; authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi at or near Natchez Miss.; granting a railroad eompany the right of way through the Silctz Indian reservation in Oregon; to modify and amend the provisions of the dedication to public use of Dearborn Park in Coica<o; to grant to the State of Oregon certain lands in that State for a public park; for the erection lof a public build--72g at Springti eJ <i, Mo.; to amend the statute as to the disposition oI property of the United S ates, such as landi or property acquired from sureties or under the revenue law; granting 840 acrei of public land In the Territory of Wyoming for a fish hatchery; to authorize the juries of the United Stites circuit ani district courts to be used interchangeably, and to provide for draw iog the taletmen; to provide for holding terms of the United Slates courts at Mississippi City; regulating fees for exemplification of patents; House bill to divide the great Sioux Indian reservation into separate smaller reservations. The Honse considered the bill leferring to the Court of Claims for adjustment the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanlcs ’.arislng under the eight-hour law, and after debate it went over. Bills were passed to prevent the product of convict labor from being furnished to or for the use of any department of the Government, and from being used in public buildings or other public works, and to prevent the employment of alien labor on public buildings and other public works an i in the various departments of the Government.' Toe bill to establish a department of labor was considered at great length and several amendments were adopted.

On the 22d. Mr. Sanlsbnry addressed tbe Senate on the subject ot the President’s message. The following were amoDg. the thirty-one bills passed: To prevent the obstruction of navigable waters,., and to protect public works against trespass.or lDjury : to authorize the construction of a bridge over Cumberland nver, near Burnside, Ky.; to authorize the construction of a bridib across the Mississippi river near Oquawka.lll; three other bills authorizing the construction of bridges in Arkansas, over the Tennessee river 1 etween Bridgeport and Sheffield in Alabama, and over tbe Caney Fork river, between Rock Island and Carthage, in Tennessee; providing in certain cases for the forfeiture of wagonroad grants in Oregon; the House Dill appropriating SI,OOO to reward Esquimaux natives of. the Asiatic coast of the Arctic ocean for acts of humanity to shipwrectrcd seam in, House bill authorizing the President to arrange a conference between the United Stales and the republics of; Mexico, Cotit'aland South America, Hayti, San Domingo, and the'Emplre of Brazil; to aid the Btate-oPColorado to support a school of mines;

to amend Eeetioa 7,806 of the Revised Statute*, m •a to allow oath* to be administered by notaries public; granting to the city of Grand Forks. D. T., the right to bnlld two free bridge* acn>» the Red river; authorizing (he oonalruction of * high wagon bridge across the Missouri at or near Sioux City, la.;'Houae bill rcgnlitlng the construction of bridge* overthe Muskingum river, Ohio, with amendments; fixing the stattu es cadet engineers of the classes of 1881 and 1882; to create ports pf entry at Tacoma and Seattle, W. T.; reducing the pis'age on seeds, bulb* root*, etc., to i cent for four ounces. The House passed the following bill*: Amending the statutes so aa to provide that the record of u fctate court may be certified by the presiding magistrate or any other judge of eouit; regulating the time ior holding terms of the United - tates courts in the Northern district of Iowa; extending the protection of the United Suites offloials executing processes in the Indian Territory; to transfer the county of Audmin from the Eastern to the Western district of .Missouri; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit ail duties eoL leoted upon all animals heretofore imported for breeding purposes, whether for importers’ own use or for sale; anthorzing united Stater marshals to arrest offenders and fugitives from justice in the Indian Territory;to change the Eastern and Northern districts of Texas; a bill providing that on the trial of all civil and criminal cases in circuit and district courts the judge shall charge the jnry in writing,if so required by either party; amending Section 988, Revised Statutes, so a* to read a* follows: "That where, by ihe laws of a State.defendants in the' courts entitled o a stay of execution, defendants in the courts of the United States held therein shall be entitled to a like stay upon the same conditions, including the giving and enforcement of bond or other securities for the performance of the judgment thus stayed;" amending Beetion 2117, Revised Statutes, so as to provide that tho penalty recovered from persons unlawfully driving horses and cattle over lands belonging to Indians shall be paid to such Indians, less costs and 10 per cent ; providing that judgments and decrees of United States eourts rendered within any States shall be liens on property in the tame manner and to the ime extent as judgments and decree* of the eourts of that State. The Senate, on the 20th, passed a bill appropriating 15,006 to aefruy the fnDeral expenses of the late Chief Justice Waite. The House bill authorizing the purchase of Government bonds with the surplus was considered. The House passed the Senate bill appropriating 65,000 to defray the funeral expenses es the late Chief Justice Waite. The business of the House, aside from this, was strictly of a routine character.

CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE DEAD.

He Passed Aw ty tn Washington, Friday, Unexpectedly. The Hon. Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at his residence in Washington, D. C., at 6 o’clock Friday morning--While indisposed for a week no fears of his death were entertained until almost, the last moment. He attended a reception on the evening of the 17th, and returned home so ill that a physician was called. He improved in a day or two. His trouble was in the nature of pneumonia. His daughter and son were with him when be died. His wife was in California, whither she went a week previous. He will be buried at Toledo, Ohio. The Sapreme Court and both Houses of Congress adjourned as a mark of respect. The President wa» very much shocked on learning of the event. Quite an intimacy had sprang up between the two officials since the President’s term began, and the latter had often been heard to express himself in terms of the highest praise of the Chief Jns ice’s character and ability.

Morrison Renish Waite was bora at Lyme, Conn., Nov. 29,1816. His father was Chief Justice of the Sapreme Court of Connecticut. Morrison entered Yale college in 1833 and graduated at the age of 21 with honor ih a class which included Wm. M. Evarts, Edwards Pirrepont and others since distinguished. He was admitted to the bar at Maumee City, 0., in 1839, and soon moved to Toledo. He was a successful prac-’ titioner. He was one of the Geneva Award Commissioners. He was appointed Chief Justice in 1874, abont a year after he had been admitted to practice in the Federal Sapreme Coart. Caleb Cushing had been rejected by the Senate for the position. He was eligible to retirement in 188&af a salary of SIO,OOO a year but preferrd active service. He was married in 1840 to Amelia Warner, of Lyme. He leaves an estate valued at $200,000. The House Committee on the revision of laws has decided, by an almost unanimous vote, to report a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution for the election of United States Senators by the direct votes of the people. The Honse Territories committee will report a bill for the organization of the of the Territory of Alaska.

THE MARKETS.

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