Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — Page 6

£ht 6m E. Mamhxll, Publisher. BKNBBELAKR, INDIAMA

Sinck sympathy for murderers, became the fashion no life now fai* so well guarded by the law as the man's who has taken another's from him. Superstition lurks in high places. The baby King of Spain is the thirteenth of his name. His mother is in sore trouble about him. She fears ill late may overtake him. Writing a book, painting a picture or bringing up a child are only different ways of doing the some thing, ns in all of them we are influencing mind and shaping character. ’ Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world! —yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world. To toss a loafer a nickel because he quickens his pace and mutters in your ear that he wants one is not charity, and the act of giving will not do you or him any good cither in this world or the next. ‘•The Bard of Avon," as the affected call him, still retains his popularity, especially with the people of this country. More people visited the home of Shakespeare last summer than ever before, the majority being Americans. Prof. Rosenthal, who devised the Meisterschaft system of learning languages. and who speaks fourteen tongues fluently, lias become a naturalized American citizen. His next move will be to attempt to learn pure, un adulterated Ken Uicky. „: If the English would read more widely they would know more. Sir Julian Pauneefote is devoting a good deal of time to the study of American literature. He says that he had no realization of the richness and varietjof tfi-Jwork of our men of letters. A Cleveland chemist says that people who use kerosene lamps for a number of years become so permeate 1 with the oil that their bodies after death scarcely need any embalming fluid to preserve them. That chemist is evidently undertaking to pmbalm himself in lie. ' ' A new style of horseshoe has been patented. The shoo is made in sections, with elastic cushions between and rivets connecting the sections, making a shoe in which there will be a vertical yielding or.spring, avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while traveling over hard pavements or loads. Thk only conclusive evidence ol man's sincerity is that he gave himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, arc comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession oi him. Aleck Smith, of Bull Creek, neat Jeffersonville. Ind., is probably the only farmer in the bnion, perhaps in the world, who devotes all his time and territory to the raising of butter beans. He owns a small place and has on this for years grown the butter bean, realizing a comfortable living therefrom.

: The Rochester Post-Express says;. “The fountain pen is a great institution, but nine out of ten men who are not used to it are utterly lost if they don’t see an inkstand within reasonable ' dipping distance.’’ With nine pen? out of ten the inkstand must be within ' reasonable dipping distance or there will be ho ink. Ax American who spent ninety-twc ' in France says he saw only two Eies in that whole country, and tlyjse ere in Paris and had no upper crust. The pie was about the first thing invented after the Puritans landed in America, and we all believe that it has done its full share towards making this the greatest nation on the globe, i ’ Dr. Meade, of Cincinnati, left his horse untied and it ran away. The doctor sent messages all over town and had about given up all hope of ever peeing his rig again when he was called to the telephone. He recognized the voice of his affianced, and was re-• joined to learn that the animal was : standing patiently in front of her resi- 1 dence. In the olden days, whan heretics' and witches were burned, drowned or flung from cliffs, it never occurred to those engaged in the work to shut a woman and a mouse up together in a small, dark room, with no window sill for bqr to stand on. Perhaps they had no mice in those days, or else they didn’t want to kill their victims all of a sudden. The population of mummies is quite large. Amelia B. Ed wards says nc one need think that the field of Egyptian exploration is limited; it is practically unlimited. Authorities are ol the opinion that in 2,500 years nearly ; <OO million mummies were entombed, and that hundreds of thousands ol buried cities and temples yet remain to be dlsrorared.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Influenza has reached Boston. Springfield, 0., has natural gas. Some places in Ohio report influenza. Montana’s legislative muddle continues. Hanlon, the oarsman, challenges the world. Luther county, California, was damaged $250,000 by overflows. Dr. D. Ayers, of Brooklyn, givess2so,ooo to Wesleyan University. \ John W. Bookwaiter of Springfield is a , candidate for the Ohio Senatorship. Two Minneapolis clothing houses have failed because of the warm winter. The body of a woman, badly mutilated, was found in Boston Thursday morning. j A warrant has been issued for Powderly’s arrest in the Callaghan conspiracy case. Doc. Jones, colored, was lynched at Owensboro, Ky., Thursday morning, for murder. j Since 1882 $100,000,000 worth of government timber has been stolen in northern Minnesota. j About twelve miles of electric light wire . was cut down in New York, Saturday, by the authorities. I The New York Mail and Express is making an effort to raise funds to complete the Grant monument. I Mrs Margaret Medill, mother of Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, died at Canton, 0., Monday. The iron-clad prohibition measure passed both Houses of the North Dakota Legis4ture Wednesday. Jehu Baker has deeided to contest the seat of W. S. Forman, member of uCon. 1 gross from the Belleville (Hl.) district. One thousand four hundred and ten del lars was snatched and stolen from the State National Bank at Pawtucket, Thurs day. i Aiderman Donohne descended from the • bench at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and soundly thrashed a man named Shiner, for wife- : beating. | An effort is being made to bring Jake ■ Kilrain and Vaquelin together. Jake says ! he would like to have another tilt with Sullivan. I A call has been issued for a meeting of ■ the temperance women who favor nonpartisan temperance work at Cleveland, January 22. I A heavy fog greatly interfered with New i York business Friday, but no serious ac_ I cidents were reported. Baltimore reports the same state of affairs. A committee of the Virginia Legislature will visit Mrs. JefferSbn Davis to urge her to permit the remains of her husband to be buried in Richmond. I A. E. Mack, late Secretary of the Arcanum Building, Loan and Homestead Assoi ciation, of Chicago, is missing with about I $7,500 of the association’s money. Max Mantwell was called to his door At Chicago and literally hacked to pieces with aknife. Brano Eberliag, an admirer of Mrs. Mantwell, is under arrest. Milo Ballabasich, mad from a terrible griping in his abdomen, committed suicide at San Francisco, Thursday,by cutting out his intestines and throwing them away. Edward and George Werley and Henry Knecht, prominent young men of Adrian, 0., were sent to' jail for twenty days for driving off another man’s horse as a joke. L Judge Brewer decides that Kansas counties cannot tax Pullman sleepers running through them, as such a proceeding inter seres with the freedom bf interstate com merce.

The Civil Service Reform Association will open an office at New York, with William Dudley Foulke in charge, and go into a general investigation of the country’s civil service. Dr. Edson, of the New York Health Board, Monday reported that there had been discovered in that city several cases of influenza, of the same form as has lately spread over Europe. Thus far eight eases have been reported. A charitable shop lifter was arrested at Kansas City-for stealing. Her name is Maud Curran, and she was one of the supposed. most faithful workers oftwo charit able associations of that city. She had stolen SI,OOO worth of goods. It is said the Illinois railroads are trying to get the contract for the Chicago drainage works, which they will then construct, so that lake vessels caunot reach the gulf through the canal and the Mississippi, as is intended. For stealing $lO from a Chinese laundryman, at Buffalo, Charles Farwell was on Monday sentenced to thirty days in jail. The prisoner is a son of the late Judge Farwell, has already squandered $20,0J0, and has a $60,000 legacy due in a short time. George Guenther, .aged seventy years was fatally beaten by his son, Emil Guenther, at St. Louis, Tuesday. The boy bears a bad reputation, and is but seven teen years old. The quarrel arose over the refusal of his mother to furnish him with money. John Gallagher died at Butte, Mont, Tuesday, from the effects of a fight on Sunday morning. G. H. Warte and Gallagher had a difficulty and agreed to this mode of settlement. They fought for 105 rounds. Gallagher was frightfully pounded.

The Columbus Press, Thursday, published interviews with sixty very prominent Democrats who stoutly oppose the election of Brice, or any other millionaire to the United States Senate. The list in eludes Allen W. Thurman and W. W. Medary. The jury in the casa of Miss Flora Look, who has been on trial at Montezuma, la. on the vharge of killing a man engaged in a charivari serenade in Chester, Powe sheik county, last August, has returned a verdict of acquittal on the ground that the homicide was justifiable. Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has ssued a proclamation calling a spccia session of the Legislature to convene on the third Wednesday in January, and specifying thirty three matters on which legislation may be enacted. The most important one is the settlement of the contest between A. B. Fleming and Nathan Goff for the office of Governor. Mrs. Joseph G. Can nos, wife of Hon. J. G. Cannon, was found dead in her bed at 6 o'clock, Monday morning, at Danville 111. The deceased was la her usual health ij. ofgM previous, and retired at

— . Miss Mabel, the yflunger daughter, going I to Chicago at that time. Word was sent t Mr. Cannon in Washington,and he arrived Tuesday. Mrs. Cannon was forty-nine years of age, and was an untiring worker in the M. E. Church, of which she was a member. She was also engaged in all benevolententerprises of thecity and county. Nelson Jones, of Valdosta, Ga., is being pursued to death by White Caps. Some time ago be was attacked by a band near the Florida line, and left for dead. He was discovered by friends, and was being nursed back to life, when another attack was made on him, Friday. This time a volley of buckshot was fired at him, while lying in bed, but only four or five of the missiles entered his body. He thinks he will five to furnish another target for his would be assassins. FOREIGN. An attempt was made to kill the King of Corea. The Czar refuses to recognize the Brazilian Republic. The British barque Tenby Castle was wrecked in the Irish sea, off Holyhead, Tuesday and eleven of her crow were drowned. There are 3,000 cases of influenza in Hamburg, 5,000 in Stockholm, and many Senators, Deputies and others in Madrid are ill. Emin Pasha, who was injured by falling from a window at Bagamoyo, is entirely out of danger and is making rapid progress towards full recovery. The influenza epidemic is spreading in Central and Southern Germany. A large number of cases are reported in Munich, Mayence, Cassel and Leipsic. At the Queen University jubilee banquet, at Kingston, Ont., Wednesday night, Sir John Macdonald spoke strongly against any severance of the British connection. It is reported that many persons area Tiflis who have been exiled from Erze roum by orders from Constantinople in consequence of their being suspected of having given information of the Armenian atrocities.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

The executive session of the Senate,Tuesday afternoon, lasted mo r e than two hours. The principal topic of discussion was the nomination of Judge Brewer, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This was called up by Senator IngaUs upon the favorable report of the committee on judiciary. Although there was no minority report, confirmation of the nomination was opposed by Senators of both parties. it is said, who based their objections upon two grounds: First, decisions in the prohibition bases in Kansas, which wefe afterward reversed by the Supreme Court; second, that the statement of facts in Judge Gresham’s review of the appointment of receivers of the Wabash system of railroads by Judge Brewer, whose orders in the case Judge Gresham vacated so far as it affected the roads within the limits of his circuit, justify suspicion that Judge Brewer is the friend of corporation interests, as against these of the public; and that the facts, as stated in Judge Gresham’s review, warrant an investigation. The friends of Judge Brewer, it is said, denied that hs was in any wise influenced in his action In the Wabash receivership, but adjournment came before the case was disposed of. It is believed, however, that the nomination will be con firmed. Wednesday the nomination of Judge Brewer was confirmed—s 2 ayes, 11 nays.

Mr. Brown (Ind.) introduced a bill proposing to give the widows of soldiers of the Mexican war the same rate of pension now allowed to the widows of Union soldiers. The tariff bill introduced by Mr. Dockery includes those sections of the Mills bill relating,to timber ana wood, wool and woolen fabrics, carpets and clothing. The leading chiefs of the Sioux nation had a conference, Wednesday, with Secretary Noble in the presence of the members of the Sioux Commission, the Indian Bu< reau officials and several Western Senators. The Indians ask for a resurvey of one of the boundary Tines of their reservation, and that they be compensated for ponies appropriated by the United States troops during the Custer war, in 1876. They also ask for more schools, and that Indians be employed in positions about the reservations when practicable. A bill containing bhe outlinesofa National school law was introduced by Mr. Ingalls. It provides for the appointment of a National Board of Education consisting of one member from each State and Territory and the District of Columbia, which shall have charge of all the machinery of a school system, the districts of which shall be established wherever the parents of twenty-five children ask for the appoint, ment of a teacher. All instructions shall be in English; the age of pupils maybe from four to twenty-one years, and the curriculum shall include the arts and sciences.

The House committee to Investigate the Silcott defalcation Thursday reported that the loss should be sustained by the government. The joint resolution for a recess from Saturday to Jan.« was concurred in bythe Senate Thursday. A bill for a bridge over the Missouri at Kansas City wae placed on the calendar. The treasury wai instructed to investigate Qilifornia'i claims growing out of Indian wars. Thi resolution calling on the Navy Depart meat for information whether naval eu ployes were organized and paying money for legislation, after much debate, waa agreed to; also the resolution calling foj ' information as to the disposition of aban 1 doned military reservations. Mr. Pluml offered a resolution calling for informa Ilion as to the legal status of Indian Terri tory, and as to the instructions given tin Cherokee Commission. The resolutioi 1 calling for information regarding Judg Terry’s killing went to the Judicial Con mittoe. . -e-

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Muncie is moving for a new pork. William Zunn, aged 45, of Terre Haute, committed suicide, Monday. The iron sever pipe works at Vincennes were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss, $27,000. Miss Rebecca Ryuerson, near Osgood, a brilliant young lady, has suddenly become insane. Leeper & Reid, brickmakers, of South Bend, are preparing] to use crude petroleum as fuel in "TZT-ZinZ The farmers of Ripley township, Mont gomery county, organized a rabbit hun and killed 400 of the bunnies. The Indianapolis Wheel Works were destroyed by fire, early Thursday morning, causing a loss of $125,000, with very small insurance. George Smith, city meat inspector of Muncie, has resigned because Judge Lotz has declared the law under which he pcrated unconstitutional.Mrs. Anna Ferry, of Floyd county, has been arrested on indictments ‘charging' larceny and false pretenses, by which several merchants in New Albany lost heavily. James H. Wilson’s bam, near Washington, was burned by an incendiary, Tuesday night, together with six horses and several head of cattle and sheep. Loss, $4,500. Mrs. George Maxwell, of New Albany, discovered Wednesday morning that during the night, in her sleep, she had rolled upon her babe, aged two months. The little one died soon after being taken up. The Christian Church Sunday-school at Kokomo is claimed to be the largest of that denomination in the United States. The average attendance for the past six weeks was over six hundred. Affairs are in a bad way at Washington. The Gazette says that ‘ fights are of common Sunday occurrence; rowdyism is ram pant, and drunken toughs boldly parade the streets without attempting to mask their condition.” A covey of white quail has been discovered on ajarm near Hartford City, and whether they are Albinos or the Mediterranean quail imported to this country several years ago from Egypt, is a question that is puzzling sportsmen. Walter K. Freeman, inventor of the incandescent light system in use at Goshen and other points, taking exceptions to something appearing in the Elkhart Sentinel, waited upon the editor of that paper with a club, but was knocked out. John Lenyan, night watchman in Helfrich’s mill, at Independence, laid down in front of a furnace and went to sleep. In some way his clothing caught fire and ho was horribly burned before he awakened, dying in a short time. He succeeded John Donohue in that position, and Donohue was burned to death in a similar manner William Marquis, the eighteen-year-old lad arrested for wrecking the Wabash pas senger train at Kellar’s Station, has made a confession, and it is shown that, while there was a malicious attempt to destroy property, there was no malicious thought of imperiling human lives; nor did the boy realize the gravity of his offense until the doors of the jail closed on him. There was a natural gas explosion at Shelbyville, Wednesday. A. L. Sparks, fruits and confectioner, was preparing to use gas, and the explosion first occurred in his store, and the mischief spread to Cas totter & Thralls, barbers; Peter Tettig, harness maker, and C. W. Cheney, saloon. The building was badly damaged, doors and windows being blown out, and the floors ripped up.Tiietroublewas caused by a leak, and the loss foots up severa hundred dollars.

’Squire H. C. Hammdntrec, of Logansport, is dangerously ill. Thursday night, while his daughter, Lulu, was in attendance at his bedside, a noise outside attracted her, and she raised the window and peered into the darkness. Immediately she was struck two stunning blows in the face, the last one knocking her down, and she was afterward found in an unconscious condition by members of the family, while the blood streamed from her nose and from an ugly cut on her head. Miss Hammontree did not seo her assailant. The appointment of Nicholas Ensley as Pension Agent for the District of Indiana, was announed from Washington Wednesday afternoon. Ensley lives at Auburn, DeKalb county. He is forty five years old, and was commissioned Lieutenant in June,’6s. He served a term as State Senatorin 'BS-87 and is pretty well known among Republican politicians. The office is the second largest in the country, and will soon be the largest. There are already 46,814 pensioners in the District, and up to Saturday last Colonel Zollinger had paid out/in the four years of his service $30,617,525- Since the new quarter opened 277 names have been added to the list of pensioners. Colonel Zollinger’s commismissioned term will expire January 13, but his successor may take the office at

any time. There are sixteen clerks in the office and it is not under civil service rules. The salary of the Agent is $4,000 ’ without foes. Gen. Reub Williams, of Wartaw, was a prominent candidate for the position. Sam B. Sweet, of Fort Wayne, was also a candidate. The Dial well at Terre Haute is dally producing about eighty barrels of oil, wbich is equal to fifteen tons of coal, while the Staunton and Thompson wells have proven failures, as well as the Guarantee. No 1, and, and Phoenix investments The drill in the Guarantee well, No. 2, is still going downward, and it is estimated that it baa two chances of failure to one of suo cess. If it fails, the accepted theory will be that the oil field trends east and west from Terre Haute, and future wells will be drilled on that basis. Terre Haute

capitalists are not discouraged over the failures which have been made, and will continue the search until successful, or else it is demonstrated that the field is entirely embraced iu the territory covered by the Dia. Company. Memories of the Pollard school furfii ture swindle are revived in a suit at Greensburg, in which Freeman Pmlard seeks to recover $2,500 from Elmer Hill and wife. The plaintiff is a son and the defendant a brother-in law of R. B. Pollard, and the former claims that his father sent him from Canada some Government bonds, and that he invested $3,500 with Hill in A farm, placing the deed in the of Mrs. HilL Tho Hills deny

the trust, and allege that the bonds were sent to Hill as commission while he was in business with R. B. Pollard. Col. C. G. Conn of Elkhart, proprietor of the Elkhart horn factory, and Joint representative from Elkhart, Noble and Steuben counties, has been indicted by the grand jury for blackmailing. He is charged with writing a letter to Henry B. Sherwood, his confidential clerk, charging him with having appropriated SIO,OOO in chattels, cash and securities, and threatening prosecution toi the fullest extent of the law if not returned by Nov. 1.1889. The tetter also implicates the wife of Sherwoou in the matter, and states among other things that the money was used for the education of his daughter. A bitterly contested ease will ensue. Evansville was cursed with a gang of gamblers, who plundered right and left and played all sorts of swindles with seeming impunity. Finally the Evansville Journal scored the authorities so roundly that the police were spurred into activity, and the first gambler captured was fined $25 and costs by the Mayor. This alarmed others, and while some hastily left the city, others contented themselves With sending threatening letters to the representatives of the paper in question, only to find themselves still further roasted in print. The course of the paper has worked a wonderful change in. public sentiment, and it illustrates the salutary Influence to be exerted in a community where once a fearless Journalist sets his face in the right direction.

STANLEY DEFENDS HIS COURSE.

He Only Executed Four Men—Why Bar. tielot Died. Sir Francis De Winton has made public a long letter written to him by Stanley, dated Osalala, August 31. In it Stanley objects very strongly to the batch of newspaper cuttings he had received, which commented, with an utter lack of common sense, and a total disregard of accuracy, upon his expedition. He dwells upon Emin’s indecision, which cost him a journey otherwise unnecessary of 1,300 miles for Bartielot. He justifies the payment of a salary of £3O per month to Tippoo Tib as a means for avoiding a desolating war, and declares that if both parties are honest in the maintenance of their agreements peace may continue for an indefinite period. He rebukes those persons in England who had lost faith in his steadfastness of purpose to such a degree as to give credit to rumors that he was marching in the direction of Khartoum. He dwells at sdtae length upon the case of Barttelot, and removes the impression produced by previous tetters reflecting upon the major’s conduct. He says that Barttelot only needed to cextricate himself from his dilemma, qualities that will not be gained save by long experience in Africa; and oeulogizes his courage and high character. He knew the major was a man as Jlittle forbearance, and had intended to keep h(m with himself, but ner ceasity compelled the change that "caused him to leave himj behind. Barttelot was ignorant of the language of the people, and his interpreterjjmay ghave been false and occasioned the coolness between the men and the major, which was never overcome and led to his death. Stanley recites in detail the instructions given to Barttelot, and dually denies with much emphasis the alleged Congo atrocities of the Manyema, . the cannibalism and the story of photographing women during execution. During the whole expedition he executed only four men. ■

TWO OFFICIALS KILLED.

The pay car, containing all of the general road officers of the 0., I. & W., went west at 7 o’clock a. m., Monday, and reached Veedersburg, west of Crawfordsville, in safety. Between Veedersburg and Covington the track is for the most part good. Upon a straight stretch am axle of the car broke, and in the crash following Superintendent Wilson and Trainmaster Cummers were ground to death. A strange feature of the catastrophe is the fact that the four other persons who were upon the car were not even inured. They were W. W. Lynn, auditor and cashier of the road; John Sloan, roadmaster; J. H. M. Clagget, car accountant, and Frank H. Wilson, clerk to Superintendent Wilson. Between the Uo places named there is sharp curve and a steep grade. Mail clerks say they often have to suspend work while rounding this curve rapidly. But the wreck occurred on a smooth piece of track, three miles east of Covington, and, so far as known, was due solely to the broken axle.

The Governor of Kieff, Russia, has closed twenty Catholic Churches. No reason is given for this proceeding.

THE MARKETS.

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NATIONAL CONGRESS.

t Among the various memorials and peti titions presented in the Senate Monday were several for the passage of the service pension bill, one (from Iowa) for the se lection of Chicago as the site for the exposition of 1892; one for the admission of ■ Wyoming as a State; one in favor of the Blair educational bill (from the Chicago ,-bdard of trade), for one cent letter post age, and several for the passage of the Sunday rest bill. The House resolution for printing 40,000 copies of the agricul toral report, at a cost of $200,000 passed. Many, bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar, among them one giving to California 5 per dent, of the proceeds of public land sales in that State, j The new committees were announced. Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution, inquiring t whether Chinese laborers can, under the law, pass through the country; also a resolution calling on the President for all corj respondence with China regarding the 1 exclusion act. The Senate decided to ad journ from Dec. 19 to Jan. 6. The resolution for recess from December 20 to January 6 was referred by the House. The bill appropriating $150,000 to meet the deficiency in the Printing ! Office and $250,000 in the Census Bureau > was passed after Mr. Bland’s amendment, for finding out what farmers are house ; owners and what renters, had been ruled out of order. One year’s salary was appropriated to Mrs. Neal S. Brown, widow of the late reading clerk. A resolution to offer $5,000 reward for the Arrest of Silcott was referred to the Commissioner on Ter ritories, which kills it. Mr. Coleman introduced a bill for a navy yard at New Orleans. A resolution was adopted to investigate the murder of Clayton in Arkansas. In the Senate, Tuesday, Senator Hampton took his seat. The direct tax bill and the treasury relief bill were reported favorably and placed on the calendar. The deficiency bill, appropriating $150,000 for printing and $250,000 for census printing passed. A message from the President recommended that the time of the International Marine Conference beextended till March 1. A resolution was offered asking if naval officers had combined to procure legislation and had used money for that purpose. The Secretary lof the ' Interior was called upon for information regarding the disposition of abandoned military reservations. The House resoln tion to pay members their December salaries on Dec. 20, passed. The Alabama mineral lands bill was briefly discussed and laid over. The refusal of the Pension Office to furnish papers in oases to Congressmen was discussed. Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution calling on the Post master General for estimates of the cost of extending the free-delivery system to towns of 3,000. In the House a few bills were introduced. A motion to call the States for the introduction of bills was beaten by a reference to the committe on rules. In the Senate Wednesday, a resolution passed extending the life of the Marine Conference k to March 1. A resolution was finally referred, providing for stenographic reports of arguments before the I World’s Fair Committee, caused much de- ' bate, the general sentiment being that it would be a waste of money. The resolution called for estimates for extending the free livery postal service to towns of 8,000 was agreed to. Coke called for information regarding the Terry killing. Morgan introduced a resolution recognizing the Brazilian republic. , v

In the House the resolution to adjourn from Dec. 21 to Jan. 6 was agreed to; also to extend the Marine Conference’s time. The Committee on Elections was author ized to sit during the recess. The roll of States was called and over 1,000 bills introduced. A resolution offering $5,000 for Silcott's capture was adopted. Out of respect for the late members—Laird (Neb.), Cox (N. Y.), and Townshend, (HL.)— the House adjourned to Friday. Mr Hoar has introduced a bill to give jurisdiction in certain pension cases to the District Courts of the United States. It provides that whenever any application for a pension, or for an increase of a pension, has not been acted upon within one year from its date, or has been rejected, the applicant may file his petition in the District Court, praying for the allowance of such pension or increase that the District Attorney shall appear for the United States, that the Judge shall proceed to adjudicate the matter, and that] (if the ap plication be allowed) the decree of th court shall be certified to the Commissioner of Pensions, who shall cause the name of the pensioner to be placed on the pension roll. Evidence is to be taken orally or by deposition. p In the Senate, Friday, after the intro duction of several bills, the Morgan resolution for the recognition of the Brazilian Republic was taken up, discussed and finally referred to the committee on for eign affairs. An executive session was held. A bill for the reduction of the Round Valley Indian reservation (California) was referred. Chief c Justice Fuller was thanked for his centennial address. New committees on expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, on irrigation and on immigration and naturalization were authorized. Isaac R. Hall was made the Democratic assistant Doorkeeper. The unexpended balance of SIIO,OOO was made available for immediate use in the Sacramento and Feather rivers. A resolution that Mr. Leedom turn over to Sergeant-at-Arms Holmes money and other assete,aftei some discussion, went over.

Josh Billings' Philosophy.

Sosiety iz made up ov the good, bad and indifferent; and what makes so much trouble iz, the indifferents are in the majority. When a man has done a charitable thing without letting the world kno it, he buz done all that an angl.? can da in the premises. Too much ov the religion in thy world konsiste in confessing our sins to ourselves and to each other. I don't si'nnosG there has ever lives a man without p single virtew. Evei Judas Iskariot •went and hanged himself?’ ■- . 'ilia vanity ov most men iz so "nitci more than u match for their experienU .that they seldom learn enny thing bi experience.