Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — Page 2

Republican.

Th* people of South Stockton, N. Y., have unanimously elected a complete School Board of women; at Centralia, N. Y., a woman has been elected chool trustee and another woman tax collector, and at Perry, X. Y.. the Board of Kducation stands, three women and four men. All this is in aeoord with the growing conviction tha women, who are peculiarly charged with the nurture and training of chil dren, ought to be the fittest persons to control public-school affairs. Under that conviction women have been authorized to vote in school elections in many States, and many of them have been appointed in cities to Boards of Education, Unfortunately experience in Boston and elsewhere seems to show that after the novelty of voting loses its charm the greater number of women become indifferent to the elections and to the grave interests involved in them

Now that the Knights of Labor have joined hands with the farmers, they would do well to assume a little of the horse sense of the latter, and hang out A 1<?8S gli tier ing~shingle.. It is far too loud. and vulgar .jfor plain, practical: men. There are no more knights now. In days of old, when knights were numerous enough, most of them were donkeys. High-sounding titles arc gradually getting erased in Europe; they should be stamped upon in America. When the gallant Knights of Labor rellect for a moment that the honest and plain farmers dorrt cali themselves Knights of the Plough, that poor clerks hate to be called Knights of the Quill, and that ragpickers get angry when they are called Knights of the Bag, they must see, like sensible men, that their society is lowered by a name better left to the blatherskites.

TltK Portuguese think their flag has been dishonored by King Gungunhana, who lords it over an immense territory south of the Zambesi. They recently told his Majesty that his country had been plnced under Portuguese protection, and presented him with a number of flags to give his town a gala appearance while celebrating the joyous eviont. They have just discovered that the King, who is of a practical bent, has cut up the flags to make wearing apparel for his numerous family, and ho has given notice that perhaps lie will usk for Portuguese protection if the day ever comes when j he is unable to take care of himself. He is not the only African potentate who has lately devoted a foreign flag to unusual purposes. When the King of Dahomey invaded Porto Novo last year a man rushed out of his hut waving a French flag, to indicate that ho was a subject of r ranee. His head was promptly out off, rolled upjn the flag, and Thus the trophy was borne to the capital.

The question of German in the public schools is beiiisr discussed in Cleveland, O. Ihe Press of that city makes this contribution to tho subject: -We believe that were the question of continuing the teaching' of German in the public schools left to the Germans themselves, there would be great doubt about getting a majority vote for it. so thoroughly arc most of them disgusted with not only tho way then language is taught in the schools today, but also with tho fact that its pretended teaching stands so much in the way of theirchiidren's accomplishing ail that they might in English, the language of the land, and forever to be tho language of the land. There is only one thing that can stand in the way of reform in this matter, and tluri is making it appear to be an assault upon Germans as Germans. This can be brought about by reckless English opponents of .German in the schools, or by the misinterpretations of those Germans who have « financial interest in continuing the status quo. All such foolishness should be discountenanced. If the going custom bo unprofitable, it damages Germans along with all other nationalities which make the total of the population, and should be discontinued because it does such damage. When the final struggle comes cn we are much mistaken if the leading Germans be not found in the fore front of the battle for English alone in the schools. They havs come tc this country to be Americans. They want their children to look upon this nation as their own. while cherishing natural and proper sentiments of respect for the fatherland. The United States can no more have two national languages than it can have two national flags. Thoughtful Germans know this, and will help in all reasonable ways to an ending of the unprofitable exploit of trying to educate the people in two tongnes.'*

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The population of Washington State is given at 343,566. Governor Gordon, of Georgia oomes out squgrely against the Farmers’ Alliance. The JeffersonJron-works, at Steubenville, 0., was burned on the 18th, causing aloes of SIOO,OOO. Woman’s suffrage is receiving serious attention by the Constitutional Convention at Jackson, Miss. A detective claims to have located Craven E, Silcott, the absconding Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, at Silverton, Col. * A wild freight on the Wisconsin Contra collided with a stray flat car. Brakeman James W]. Emley was killed and Engineer Lessard and a fireman injured. ■■■■■. ■ Mrs. Grant says she has no objection to the removal of the remains of Gen. Grant to Washington if provision is made for all others of the family by his side. Oil .exchanges were opened Monday at Lima and Findlay. The transactions at the former place were 468,060 barrels at the latter 40,000. Prices ranged from 40 to 44% cents. , ■

A negro crazed by liquor kept the author itiesof Racine, Wis., at bay lor a longtime on the 18th with a stone and a razor. Three persons were injured by the negro, ne of them seriously. No now developments in the New York Central strike.' Mr. Webb, third vicepresident, said the road would expend $2,000,000, if necessary, to win the strike. Everything is quiet at Albany. Charles Seidell, at Blue Island, a Chicago suburb, on the 21st Attempted to open a can of powdbr with an old file. The powder was exploded, Seidell killed, three' others fatally and twelve seriously injured. The family of Aaron Thompson, 1 ving Branch Hill, 0., was poisoned by drinking coffee made from berries that had not been sufficiently roasted. The poison that should liuve been eliminated by perfect roasting was distilled by the steaming. Seven persons were killed or fatally in jured and four Others seriously injured at Philadelphia on the 21st. Duing a heavy storm they had taken refuge in the street car stables. The walls of the stable were blown down with the result above stated Friends of JobirL7"Sullivan,the pugilist are trying to buy a cottage at South Hingham. Mass., with the intention of presenting it to him. The bluebloods of that place, however, don’t want him for a neighbor, and will throw every obstacle in the way to prevent him coming there. The goods an# real estate of Henry R. Rogers, doing business in Hyde Park, 1 Mass., and R. S. Draper, Mary A. Draper and Gertrude H. Draper, of Canton, have been attached in the sum of $20,000 by Horace Dodge and J. Wheatley Baker, copartners as Dodge’s Advertising Agency "oTßoston.

There were no new developments in tho Central sirike. On the 18th Powderly sub. mitted tho matter of arbitration to Vice president Webb, who declined that course of settlement, claiming that no employe had been discharged because lie was a Knight of Labor. The force of Pinkerton men was increased to GOO.

Representative Hansbrough, of North Dakota, has introduced in the House a loint resolution proposing anamendnrent to the Constitution providing that neither -he United States nor any State shall pass » law authorizing the establishment or maintenance of a lottery, or any schern® for the distribution of prizes by chance. Four masked burglars entered tho house of Michael Shelby, an aged farmer living near Wooster. 0., on tho 20th, battering the door down with a plank. The old man was bonnd and gagged, and his ten-year-old grandson bound to a chair. Mrs. Shelby promised to remain quiet and was not molested. The burglars then took ft,ooo from a bureau drawer and escaped. — —-- — Early on the morning of the 17th Samuel Jacobson, a prominent business man of San Francisco, was shot through the breast and probably fatally wounded bv foaipnrU Htrwus stopped by two men just as lie was about to enter his house and ordered to throw up his hands, but before he could obey the order one of the meu fired, the bullet passing almost through liis both, the men ran away.

FOREIGN. The Queen prorogued Parliament on the lkth. Salvador and Guatamala have signed a treaty of peace. The Sultan of Morocco lias vanquished the rebels at Zemmour, beheading eighty of them. The situation in Armenia is daily becoming more deplorable. There has been a wholesale massacre of Christians at MooshThe French mronaut, Hesanson, and the astronomer Hermite, propose to make a balloon expedition to the North Pole, start ing from Spitzbergon. Tib* Mount Athos Monaster, at Belgrade, was partially destroyed by tiro ou the lt'tli. Several buildings were gutted. Twelve monks lest their lives. The Figaro says that the Count of Paris will probably abandon his proposed visit to the United States owing to the feeling tie has against the McKinley bill. A dispatch from Salvador, via Galveston says: Don Galindo, the Salvadorian agent at Guatemala City, telegraphs to President Ezeta that a peace honorable to Salvador has been arranged. A freight train on the Q. &C. was wrecked near Faulkner s Station. Ky , by the spreading of rails, from which spikes had been drawn. It is believed it was designed to wreck tW last mail. The Governor of New Mexico has asked the government for troops to suppress the White Caps. The President declines to furnish troops until other measures of m fintalning order are exhausted. The London News says the Behring Sea bine book shows the pitiftil sophistries to which Mr. Blaine is reduced in trying to justify a high-handed proceeding. ‘ America's claim is repugnant to common sense and only needs to be stated to defeat itself." The hatred of Jews in southern Russia is unabated. On several occasions of late Jewish lawyers, merchants and others have been qxpelledjn large numbers from Odeaaa and other places, and within a few

days f>ast there have been wholesale expulsions of Hebrews from bathing resorts in that vicinity.

THE GUATEMALAN WAR.

The recent Central American mail brought letters from Dr. G. W. Cool, formerly a well-known physician of San Francisco, who has been in Guatemala during the past year. He says a proclamation has been issued that all men who were not ready for military service would be shot- Nearly all the men who first went to the front have been killed ‘in battles With Salvadorians. “If Ezeta marches to the city,” the letter says, “he will probably sack the town. Americansrare safe, for they receive protection at the legation. Every servant, even those on the coffee plantations, has been drafted into the army, and there ace not enough left to supply food. Provisions bring enormous prices. Business is at a standstill, and the city is under martia law. “Twenty Americans and as many Germans and French offered their services to Barillas, but they were refused. About 25,000 soldiers have already left the city for the frontier. Men are attracted to public entertainments and are then seized by the police and drafted into the army.”

POLITICAL.

The Republican campaign in Ohio will be opened at Urbana September 20. The Farmers’ and Laborers’convention at Sedalia, Mo., declared for free trade. Congressman Parrett was renominated on the 21st by the Democratic convention at Canneiton. California Democrats met at San Jose on the 20th and nominated a ticket. The ■platform approves of the St. Louis platform and denounces the majority in Congress for the passage of the election bill, and on the tariff question, Speaker Reed is severely condemned. Wisconsin Republicans renominated Gov. Hood on the 20th, The platform f orcibly reaffirms the position of the party in that State on the educational question, and declares that the party is unalterably opposed to a union of church and State. The plat form further indorses the policy of the Republican party in the federal election bill protection to labor and in all else. Ex-Governor J. B. Foraker has written a letter giving a brief statement of the nature of the proposed federal election law, and the purpose of the Republican party enacting it. Mr. Foraker says it is not thte outgrowth of sectionalism, hatred of the South, nor even of partisanism. Its sole purpose is to give effect to the consti. tutional provisions with respect to the exercise of the right of suffrage and to secure honest congressional elections; but the whole outcry against it is because its provision are such as ai-e likely to accomplish its purpope. He predicts its enactment would bring material prosperity to the South, and that ten years hence its opponents will be ashamed of their opposition. The Democrats of North Carolina mot at Raleigh on the 20th and nominated a State ticket. The convention unanimously Indorsed Senator Z. B. Vance and urged his re election to the Senate by the General Assembly in 1591. The convention adopted a platform reaffirming the princi. pies of the Democratic party. It favored the free coinage of Silver, an increase of the currency and the repeal of the internal revenue laws. It denounces in strong language the McKinley tariff bill as qujust to the consumers of the country, and promotive of trusts and monopolies which have oppressed the people, and emphatically denounces the increase of tax on cotton ties and tin. It denounces the fed- • eral election bill, “whose purposes are to establish a second period of reconstruction in the Southern States.” It denounces the .“tyrannical action of Speaker Reed and his abettors who have changed the federal Houso of Representatives from a deliberative body into a machine to register the will of a few partisan leaders.” It advocates and recommends an increase of tax for public education and incorporates the Farmers’ Alliance demands.

EIGHTY MILES AN HOUR.

Terr.ble Accident on a Gravity Railroad at Reading, Pa. A horrible accident occurred shortly be fore 11 o'clock on the morning of the 22d' ou the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, a mountain route encircling Mount Penm 3 W feet above the city of Reading. The road was opened Jive months ago and has been doing a good business eversinee. The ears were taken from a point on the outskirts of the city to the top of the mountain, a distance of five miles. On returning the cars were allowed to go down the mountain by gravity by way of another route to the point of starting. At about 10:80 o'clock a,ear containing eighteen passengers was taken from the station to the top of the mountain. There are different stories as to the cause of the accident, but it appears that when the tower was, reached, the point where tho gravity portion of the road commences, the engine was detached, when tho car ran away while the passengers were still on board. The distance to the point of starting is live miles, and it is estimated that this was covored by the runaway car in about three minutes, the ear attaining a fearful speed, estimated at eighty miles an hour It remained on the track to the foot of the plane, going around ail the curve-, while tho passengers shrieked in their fright and several jumped off. When the ear reached the station at the foot of the p)a»o it}Wiped the track and rolled down a fifty- foot embankment, where it landed upside down, with the passengers imprisoned inside. Tho greatest excitement prevailed, and soon a large crowd gathered. Doctors and ambulances were sent for, and the dead and Injured removed. In addition to Edgar Levan and Charles Rettew. who Were killed, the others killed were Mrs. Rosa Pfeffcr. a young lady of this city’, and Miss Harriet Hinkle, of Philadelphia. The following will die: Mrs Hiram Schittler and Mrs. A. W. H, Selim el. Among the other injured are Sailie Bye and Mary Guthrie, Wilmington, both badly hurt, aud Willie Schmsor, this city both legs broken.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Quail are reported abundant in the southern tier of counties. The drought in Elkhart county has been partially relieved by rain. The Madison Gaslight Company has refused $70,000 for it s plant. Mrs. Sarah Hunt, of Andrews, aged seventy, committed suicide by hanging. The Fort Wayne Hendricks Club will attend the State Democratic convention in a body.

Rushville has organized a company to pipe natural gas from the new fields near t,hat city. Ap incendiary’s toren destroyed $15,000 worth of property at North Manchester on the 18thi James Ashby, aged fourteen and weighing 215 pounds, was one of the “sights” at the Jefferson county fair. The Laporte Herald charges that Logan sport has the reputation of being the wickedest city in Indiana. Newcastle, Pa., parties have contracted to erect a ten-pot glass factory on the Vandevenderfarm, near Anderson. A thief stole $403 in gold which the daughter of Jackson Miller, a farmer of Delaware county, had saved up. David Hall, a successful merchant of Elkinsville, committed suicide Monday by shooting himself through the head. S. F. Henry, the retiring Republican trustee of Union township, Montgomery county, is a defaulter for about $3,600. A pair of mules was stolen from Jacob Hazlebaker’alarm, near Muncie, Tuesday, and the barn burned to conceal the theft. Natural gas set fire to the residence at Greenfield occupied By Mrs. J.~li. Ctrr and E. A. Rumrill, causing a loss of SI,OOO. Wm. Ellis, of Wabash, found a burglar in his house late at night and undertook to thresh the scoundrel, but was badly worsted in the recontre. John Whitlatch, of Lexington, employed in a flouring.mill, while adjusting machinery, caught his arm in a belt and it was torn from hisshoude r. Another crime wave is sweeping over Indianapolis. Sunday there was one murder, another almost resulting in murder, and robberies without end. Mrs. Joyce, of Terre Haute, whose husband is a traveling salesman for an Indi. anapolis house, was suddenly seized of heart disease and died in fifteen minutes, j Willie Maney, aged six, son of T. C. Maney, of Clarksville, was accidentally shot to death by a Flobert rifle in the hands of the twelve-year-old son of James Smith." While Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, was boarding a train at thief stole liis pocketbook, containing S2OB. The theft was detected and the rascal was

caught. Henry Brown, of Allen county, who has served seven terms in the Northern Prison, has been caught stealing a mule just across the Allen county line in Ohio, and lie will spend his eighth term in the Columbu a (O.) prison. Moses Decker and Louis Puston, two men making Middletown their home, became intoxicated on tho 21st and while walking on the track were struck by a railway train and killed.' Both were frightfully mangled. J. S. Ferguson, a traveling map, is lying at North Vernon with his face horribly torn and his left arm and elbow broken. He was enroute to St. Louis, and while trying to pass from one coach to another he fell off and struck against a fence. T ho late Mrs. Jane M. Swisher, of West Lebanon, bequeathed a fortune of 670,000, one-half to DePauw University and the remainder to church extension, Preachers’ Aid Society of the Northwest Indiana Conference and the Freedmen’s Aid Society. Geo. Taylor and Wm. Barker, both colored, of Warsaw, are rival lovers, and on Sunday night, while Barker was escorting the young lady in question, Taylor stabbed him with a large knife, inflicting several desperate cuts. Barker will scarcely recover, and Taylor is under arrest. The Pan-Handle Company has been enjoined from ballasting the double track laid on Canal street, at Logansport, and numerous affidavits have been filed for street obstruction. The company is trying to effect a settlement with property hold' ers. but little progress is making. The sa'e in W. S. Shislt’s jewelry store, at Anderson, was robbed some months ago. and among the valuables wpro diamonds belonging to Dr. S. C. Burr. The latter has brought suit against Mr. Shirk to recover their value, and he alleges that the defendant converted the diamonds to his own use. Forty stalls on the Linton Fair grounds were destroyed by tire Monday-, and three valuable horses belonging to L. M. Price & Son, and Webster Lucas lost their lives, as well as "Judge P., 1 ' a two-year-old pacing colt, owned by J. B. Terhune and valued at SI,OOO. The Agricultural Society' sustained scoo loss. Joseph Lamb, of Mouroc county, was convicted of larceny and was sentenced to the Prisdn South, where he remained for six months and then escaped. On Saturday he was recognized as a delegate in attendance upon the Farmers 7 Alliance Convention at Bloomington, and was again placed behind the bars. Joseph Gaw, the Union City well-digger who wouldn 7 t answer the census questions, because he believes the government is a bloated monopoly, was fined $5 and costs by Judge Woods to-day. He couldn't pay and the Judge sent him to the Noblesville jail. This is the first man in the State to be imprisoned for the offense. Farmers in the of the State report that young qnail were never so abundant in the stubble-fields as they are this season, and fine sport is predicted when the season opens. Young squirrels see also plentiful in the woods, and rabbits can be seen bounding along every unfrequented country road late in the afternoon Mr. Wm. Reade WUd, of Oldham, Lancashire, England, a young man of ability and enterprise, who has been on a tour of Canada and the United States for the last five years, has just started upon his return journey home for'a vfcit of three months with his parents, intends return* ing to Indianapolis, expecting to make it his home. * ; Joseph Wilkey, a young .farmer near Epsom, in the northern part of Daviess conn

ty» early Saturday morning was assaulted by “White Caps,” but was not seriously injured. The alleged cause was undue intimacy with a neighboring woman, which is denied by Wilkey and his friends. The accused is a man of family,a Methodist and stands high. Frank Wiseman, of Porter County, is experimenting with English full castor wUeat, and his entire crop has been en gaged by farmers for seed wheat. Last year the yield averaged thirty-five- bushels per acre, and this year over thirty,with the kernel plump, red, very hard and overrunning in weight. 'Last year he sold his entire crop for $1 per bushel. Jared Bickell is president of one of the Farmers’ Alliances in Carroll county, and differences having arisen over his decisions, Bickell being a Democrat, Bruce W. Shoemcker, John Graham and Bailey Hali, Republicans;, ejected him from the chair by force, and the Alliance adjourned amid great excitement. Bickell is* now prosecuting these parties for assault. A quarrel between two white men and some negroes occurred on the Big Four accommodation that left Cincinnati at 11 o’clock on the night of the 16th. It began near Coal City, between Delhi and North Bend. It led to a revolver duel,as a resul of which Mrs. Queen Crooks (colored) was killed, George Singleton (colored) and George Godfrey (white) fatally wounded, and two other men seriously injured. Mrs. Sadie Sizlove, of Point Isabel warned Emory Shields, druggist, not to sell liquor to her husband, and the 21st she demanded $25 damages because Mr Sizlove, after drinking the druggist’s liquor until Intoxicated, received a dangerous in - jury in a fall. The money not being forth, coming, she secured a ball bat and wrecked the interior of the drug store, leaving bottles, show windows and what not, in one common ruin. The damage exceeds S2OO. Alf. C. Mayo, a traveling salesman of Indianapolis, has hied complaint against tho Lake Erie & Western Railway Company, claiming SIO,OOO damages. Mr. Mayo was forcibly ejected from a train on the sth nst., en route from Muncie to New Castle, for refusing to pay ten cents extra because of failure to purchase a ticket betore entering the cars. It took the whole train’s crew twenty minutes to put him off, and it was only accomplished after a hot tussle. Lyman Needham was captured at Fort Wayne on the 22d, charged with impersonating a postofflee inspector. He is accused of visiting small postoffices in northern Ohio and figuring out the frightened postmasters from $5 to $lO short, which he would collect and pocket He was form - erly connected with Grannan’s Detective Bureau, of Cincinnati, and Captain Grannan assisted in running him down. An unknown disease has fastened upon several fine horses in the stables of James V. Mitchell, near Martinsville. Tho horses were apparently healthy in everyway when their throats began swelling and have continued until breathing has become very difficult and painful. Nothing as yet has been found to alleviate the suf sering. The swelling is attended with no other sickness. Farmers throughout the neighborhood are using disinfectants, burning brimstone and exercising grept caution to prevent the disease spreading. During the coronial investigation of the causes leading to the death of the little

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, of Shultztown, a suburb of Logansport, testimony' was had allowing that the child was given no medicine until the day it died, the parents believing in witchcraft. Their mode of curing was by the ‘'measurement" plan. i. e.: The body of a man; woman or child should be seven times as long as its foot. As soon as the little child fell ill it was measured, when it was found that its body was not seven times as long as its foot. The next step was to strip off all the clothing, and with a tow-string measure the body three times, after which the string was hung on the gate-post all night. . This .was done,,but the child continued sick and finally died. It is said there are auLta-A.number of this queerbelieving people in Mr. Davis’s neighbor hood. The Governor, through his private secretary, W. B. Roberts, on Friday issued the following proclamation: “A proper custom having been established for tho observance of one day in eaeti year as a holiday for all branches of labor, and with a desire that cioser relationship between all classes of producers may be established and harmony be maintained between the wage-worker aud the employer, and that a better general condition of labor and needed industrial and social reforms may be obtained, and that labor may bo elevated, and with the belief that whatever can be done to better the condition of the laboriug man will tend to the elevation of our whole people, and with still sympathy with all legitimate efforts of wage-workers in every portion of our State to better their condition, I. Alvin P. Hovey, Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby proclaim and set apart Monday, September 1, IS9O, as Labor Day, and respectfully recommend that the day be observed as a holiday, and that business be so far suspended as to per. mit all who may desire to participate in the exercises of the day.

FARMERS' ALLIANCE.

The Farmers’ Alliance of the FjLCth Con gressional District of Ohio, in convention at Lima, decided not to put a candidate in the field, and refused to indorse the Prohibition candidates, Henry Price. The Farmers’ Alliance has joined with the labor organizations in Knox county, in nominating a ticket, headed by J. E. Swope, Democrat, lor Representative.and the other offices equally divided politically

The Bad Boy Again.

“Oh, Mrs. Jones,” said tho small boy, “how funny your teeth look with (fold caps on them!” “Yea” q “Eddie,” exclaimed the mother, “you should not mako remarks about people.” - ■•No, ma. But, Mrs. Jones, is what papa said true, that the reason your teeth were out on top was because of the. incessant (fiction from your tongue?” “Eddie, go to the nursery at oncer —Wasp

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 16th completed apd passed the river and harbor bill. It also agreed to the conference report on the' Chiekamauga national park bill, which has already been adopted by the House, thus finally passing the bill. In the House the McKay bill was finally passed. It has been before congress twenty-three years. Tho anti-lottery bill was debated until 4:4oand then passed by a -rising vote, which wag practically unanimous. ' The Senate, on the 18th, passed the deficiency appropriation bill. The committee inserted an item, which was agreed to by the Senate, appropriating $12,000 for a steam vessel on Puget sound to prevent the violation of the Chinese restriction act and of the custom laws. The amendments appropriating an aggregate of $1,239,688 for the payment of the French spoliation claims were opposed by Mr. Plumb, who denounced the claims as essentially fraudulent and as intended not for the benefit of the claimants, but of attorneys and assignees. All the amendments were agreed to. The tariff bill was considered. The House adopted the joint resolution providing that nothing in the diplomatic and consular appropriation bills shall be construed to interrupt the publication of the reports of the international American conference. Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, facetiously inquired whether the publications would contain a certain recent letter of the Secretary of State on the subject of reciprocity; and, on Mr. Hitt replying that they: would contain only the pro* ceedings of the Mr. Breckinridge sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read Secretary Blaine’s second letter to Senator Frye. Mr. Breckinridge said that he did not entirely agree with Secretary Blaine, butthe Secretary was getting on the right track; and so far as he went he; [Breckinridge] agreed with him. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. rdmarked tSat the only objection he had to the Secretary was that he was getting so near to th,e gentleman from Kentucky. A bill was passed restoring the wages of 1874 in the government printing office. The contested election case of Chalmers vs. Morgan was decided in favor of Morgan. A minority report in the Breckinridge case was submitted. In the Senate the bill granting a right of way through certain lands of the United States in Utah, and the House bill to aus thorize the Secretary of the Interior to procure and submit to Congress proposals for the sale to the United States of the western part of the Crow reservation in Montana, were taken up, amended and passed. A resolution offered Monday by Mr. Plumb, instructing the committee on rules to issue orders that will prevent the sale or drinking of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in the Senate wing of ♦he Capitdl, was taken up. Mr. Gorman moved to refer the resolution to thecommittee on rules. Mr. Blair called attention to the fact that Mr. Plumb was not present, and said something as to his (Mr. Plumb’s) making a four hours’ speech on the resolution rather than have it referred to the committee and defeated by delay. Mr. Gorman withdrew his motion of reference, and the motion went over till the next day. The tariff bill was then taken up, the pending question being on Mr. Plumb’s

amendment reducing the duty on tin plate from 2 2-10 cents to 1 cent a pound and allowing a bounty of 1 cent a pound oa American tin plate. This amendment ivas very objectionable. After some discussion Mr. Plumb withdrew his amendment with the Understanding that he would offer, it again. Mr. McPherson's amendment placing tin plates on the free list was rejected. The Senate on the 20th took up Quay’s resolution designating the legislative business to be taken up at this session. Mr. Hoar offered a substitute providing that when any bill or resolution shall have been considered for a reasonable length of time it shall be in order for any Senator to do* mand that debate thereon be closed. Mr, Hoar then made a lengthy speech in opposition to the Quay resolution. Other Senators participating in the debate were Pugh. Frye, Edmunds, Hiscock and Spooner. The Senate bill was consideredThe House amendments to the meat in. spection bill were concurred in. Tho House passed the Senate meat inspection bill. When the measure was taken up for consideration Mr. Funston, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture,said that it was proposed by this measure to open foreign ports to American meats. By opening those ports millions and million' of foreign gold would be brought into the country,and would relieve the embarrassed condition of all classes cf industry. Mr. Hitt said this bill would remove the pretense upon which foreign governments excluded our hog products. He objected to unjust discrimination being made against American pork under the pretense that it wbb unwholesome. The provision for inspection would remove any cause iorthat pretense. It was a measure in favor®tlie farmer, and it was time that such legisla tion should be enacted. Other measures relative to agriculture were then considered. The Senate on the 21st concurred in the conference report on the bill to increase the clerical force of the pension office. Theresolutiontopreventthesaieof liquor* in the Senate wing of the Capitol was dis Cussed. A bill was introduced, by request of the Farmers' Alliance, to provide for banks of deposit. The tariff bill was considered. \ The House considered unimportant routine matters and debated the uniform land bill. *

Regular Harness for Dogs.

The remarkable strength vs the dog* of Belgium and Holland is utilized. They are made to take the jrtfcca of hones in the shaft A regular set of harness, made on a diminutive scale, is used, exceipt that the bridle is with* out a bit and is made to stand a strain of about four hundred pounds, which is considered a fair load for one dog. who will draw it without the leait bit of urging. These dog* are some* «nes helped along by men or women, who are also harnessed with two straps placed over their shoulders. Tue men and women show no concern in doing Uni nf work.