Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — Page 2

The Bensselaer Union. —•— ' £■ ÜBIMIUn, . . JKW ASA.

CURRENT PARAGEAPHS.

on Aeßba v (ttiA »«■. -it ' 1 Tu Colorado potato-beetle bu been dl^ Bremen v cn goodnbrou^ li^wtrtwrai-Tiiwobi^^ ku beep nominated and confirm Collector «f AePgtfttaffcrtW.Mfiiio iibrt . 1 " r "> Alt I*|plltt cruising In the Wt olftnti reeeady took fire end wu deotroTcd. Twenty persona perished. Tnn <Xn»rdicßt Legislature has lately passed iMM making the legal rate of intereat six per cent In'the absence of s contract SxcaxTftßT JCvakts has appointed Frederick W. Seward, «an of the late Secretary Wra. CL Seward, lnd>S< First Assistant Secretary-of t State. ,v*ic « ill fi» »..•■• Tnn Kfcodive of Egypt has promised ts place 80,009 troops sad four raen-of-waT at the disposal of the Sultkn in the event of war wi A Russia. i<« j «li i»' • —rrrrz - A LSTTnnshssJjeen received from Stanley, the African nnplnrer, announcing, under date of Au«t JStttiu* he had completely surveyed Lake Tanganyika. ,-/ ‘H . A laws’ fire in St Johns, N. 8., destroyed property valued at #BOO,OOO. Eight persons ire re knMets have Men killed, being buried beneath «A«a building*. ioorWi ii. -a- r-d Tnn of the victim* of the recent panic In the St Francis JCsvler Church, New York City, nip said by the examining physician to have died fawn shack or fright , j - 1 * . JxxNyfjHfsu*. a N«w York speculator in lard and atheamoftisioM, and an occasional operator in atokks, has recently railed, with liablfitia WStimatßdat #1,000,000. ,c! Siti■; t«* mo • --<i ■i. A cinansf Hoboken, N. J-, named Joseph H. Lewis, has bequeathed his entire estate, amounting to over #1,000,000, to th# National Government to help pay the National debt

At i mM meeting of the Cabinet in Washington, Mgasra. Everts and Schnra were appointed a committee to frame civil* uervioe role* for adaption by the different departrnmU. r ’ .„n.bl i b-i* v. Tnn second trial of Alexander Sullivan tar the murder of Francis Hanford, in August last, waa concluded in the9th, by a verdict of V hot guilty.” jury was out Are hooV. Mr. SulUvan was discharged tromeuatody*,,’;. -,' t • ... : t T ** ordered CoL Despotovijkh, who w«a sent during thefiervian war 4° Bosnia to foment insurrection, to return to Sorvia. Qeepotovitch refuses to obey, and declares his intention to keep up the disturbance. Tn contest over tie will of thSlate Commodore Vanderbilt waa ended, on the 18th, by all tbwMUfcatentr withdrawing their objections, ■ Tttf'flHlerences between Wm. H. Vanderbilt bud the contestants were arranged outside of court. ‘ ! ' til *«> - r . The Treasury Department has lately is, sued the forty-second call for the redemption of 5-90 bonds' of 1865. The amount called in whs 810,000,000-8T,003.000, coupon and 83,000.000 registered, interest and principal payahleJunel^^ Tn United States Supreme Court has decided adversely to the. plaim in the celebrated Ckorpennhag n**«,o* an appeal from the Court of Claims. The Court holds that the duty devolved upon the Postmaster-General, under Umlacd 'ot Congress,is wholly minis, terisi, end ton©-sense judicial, on that of any arbitrament. i, a. i • -uti f■■ *C'v . . •

Tn Butter,-Egg-abd Cheese Association, lately in seMkm at Chicago, adopted resolutions denouncing .the product known as oleo-maiyarinc, and recommending: that its sale be dtecoontemtn6ed by all dealers. The resolutions also t&fmmend that State Legislatures bb petitioned to pass laws against its manufacture, the ob]ect being to prevent its Bailing under false COtera ms genuine batter. A DwnaMlbM recently been rendered by the United States Supreme Court relating to the RigbtHhunttw enacted by Congress, to the effect that <Ute mat Is In the nature of a direction by the SnHed States to its agents, and is not * cOtrtrafct with the laborers to that effeett'anjdbeh'not prevent the officers of the Gothmtebht from making agreements with laboferk by which the day’s labor may be made •more or less- than eight hours, The act does hot prescribe the amount of compensation t6be paid for the labor of eight hours or of nuy ,hther tijne. 1

A Floor of Silver.

On the dosing up of the Smith & Rogers silver-plating concern in New Haroom wa* take* up, banted, and the ashes analyzed, with ti»e result of procuring pure silver *o tfceamauni of mi . This result is aotsoUtranigwkfc apponn at 4rst sight. Tks-preotonaTaetols amrrepaWe of extreme vo*atiH»ition Und*r heat, becoming mere vapors, which may be condensed, resulting is the production of the metal in a puns form. u&ut. even without heat, the pardoles of gold and silver are made so exceedingly fine, m the processes of thakinufacfagfrof gold ana silver foods, whether solid or plated, that no devices for saving the material abraded or thrown off In the manipulations are entirely effectual, Bven In the Gov. ernment assay offices the soot deposited in the chimneys from the melting of the crude mJMlMt|fiabie; and in most manufactories of articles and ail. vw die proprietors do not allow the workmen to retain their work-clothes when wo ? c o&t2L fFlZL*** erallv suffideii.U) procure new trarraeuts -anoldtapw# iwt belonging to a bench Zploy^Tvtten^^m

EPITOME OF THE WEE K.

GL vtL T 4 * Frovideuae, nomit. -aadt for Governor, A.C. Howard for V M U»**UioMor, and the present Incun geertaary o< State, Attorney-U' j#e|m , ||4 Ty^ur^. Th * C /orooer’s Jury which for some month investigating the Ashtabull -ns s SL- lUL -■ a wurilin# •> .. # ■ WMwMTf wHUN OUi, IuDuBTIHI la vCnJlvv, f®’ jsnrlng the Railroad Company, andchargthat the bridge fill m consequence of defects and errors in design and construction. : 'V''

A lstb London dispatch declares that Lord Derby, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs had told her representative that Turkey could not expect help from England in case of war. An alarm es fire in the Roman Catholic Church of 8L Francis Xavier, on Sixteenth street, near Fifth avenue, In New York, on the night of the Bth, caused a stampede from the galleries, and; In the rush that followed, six women and ode boy were trampled under foot and' killed. No one qlse was very seriously hurt. ( ( A mass mbktinq of business men w*f* hold. In front of the Treasury Building in Wall street. New York City, on the Bth, to protest against nay attempt on the part of the Senate to abridge the Constitutional rights of the President, his proposed policy of pacification In the South, and reform In the lie sendee. Resolutions wore adopted declaring that the policy indicated ln< the im augural message In favor of the permanent pacification of the South, with equal, protection to all citizens, of thorough reform In the civil service, and of an early return to specie payments, commends Itself to the country as entitled to the fairest trial. A utvrrso of the St.,jLoqlß Merchants’ and Cotton Exchange was held on the 9th, and a resolution adapted heartily approving the course thus fap-tparked out by the President, and, urging .Missouri Senators to rise above all party feeling and, give him a generous and patriotic support The LeavenWorth (Kan.) Board of Trade met on the same dap, and adopted resolutions Inflowing President Hayes' Cabinet appointments. On the'Btb, the Turkish Minister of Fori eign Affairs published the reforms' which Turkey proposed to inaugurate throughout the Ottomjin Empire. A Bucharest dispatch of the same date says Roumanla would ally herself to Russia, in the event of war, uulese, the European Powers would guarantee her neutrality. A Pxxa correspondent of thq London Timer of n recent date says Turkey, under Buitan Abdul Hamid, waa fast relapsing into anarchy. The Palace issued orders without consulting the Forte, and the Porte transacted business without guidance from or communication with the Sultan.

) At the Rhode bland Prohibition State Contention, recently held in Providence, Charles C. Van Zandt was nominated for Governor; A. C. Howard for LieiitenantGovernor; J. M. Adderman for Secretary osf State; W. R. Fierce for Attorney-General.: and Samuel Clark for Treasurer —the Republican nominees With the .exception of Pierce, t President Hates’ new , Cabinet wss •warn into office on the 12th, and assumed charge of the . several departments of the Government. All took the iron-dad oath exempt Postmaster-General Key, who took the oath in the modified form. A London telegram of the 12th reports the appearance of the rinderpest near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and the foot and month disease in Cheshire, Somersetshire and Flintshire. . ' " The Nicholla Louisiana Legislature ha? adopted a resolution accepting the declaration pf non-interference with the affairs of the State by the President as a happy, augury for the future, and. deriving “tbia General Assembly wifi earnestly cooperate with President Hayea in every ef* fort to restore confidence and fraternal relations among the whole people of this. great: country;” Got. Packard stated to a report, er, On the 12th, that he had full confidence In the final success of his Government, but that he was' “annoyed at the persistence with which the most glaring misstatements are repeated, even by Journals usually well Informed.” 11 : Simon Cameron resigned the Uuited States Senatorship from Pennsylvania, on the 12th, and Gov. Harfrann at once'notified the State Legislature of (the fact The resignation of John Sherman as Senator from Ohio was received by Gov. Young, sad Sent to the General Assembly, on ,the same day..,,: . .

The latest intelligence from Bosnia reports that murders and outrages were on the increase iu that country. Many Christiana were fleeing to Austria, leaving thilr prop, erty to be plundered by bashbbazouks. 1‘ ■' A ConstanVtnorlb dispatch of the ' 13th says placards had been potted In Stambonl, calling on the Pbrtc' to declare war against Russia, and threatening the Ministers if thfey make any further concessions to Montenegro. ‘ Exßecretart-of-War Cameron was, on the 13th, nominated by. the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature for United States Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of SUnoh Cameron, his father. Reports from the Ninth Georgia Ccmgres* elonri District, received on the 13th,Indicate the election of Bell, the regular democratic nominee, to fill the vacancy caused bv the election of B. H. Mill as'United States Sena-* Secret art - pir - the,- Navy Thompson -reached Washington on the morning of ihei ISth, and, after an interview with the President, was sworn in and assumed the duties of his Department. , The elections in New Hampshire, on the 13th, resulted to the election at the Repub. Hean candidate for Governor by about S,WO majority. The Republicans elected : Congressmen certain,'and the'third was' In doubt . SI-*;, ;• t • l 1 I The conflicting, claims of Hampton and Chamberlain. , Governorship of. South Carolina came up in the Circuit Court at Charleston! 8. C., on the IStb, in: a case in* .valving the validity of a commitment by a Trial Justice appointed by Gov. Hampton. Judge Reed decided that the authority ©fthe Trial Justice must be respected us that of a de/aeto and de>* State officer. The other Gatuit Judges throughout the State have made similar decisions. Tun majority of the Sdtrtte Committee on KelW to the from Louisiana, but it was believed, on the 13th, that report would not be presented at the present cession of the Senate.

EXTRA SESSION OF U. S. SENATE

nnauStourl 1 adored titift John t. Morgan ba tworp Tg-nii fffitatorfrta* Alabama, tad h* froktbe oalk of iifflc<A The Cftne qf L. B. rorove# oftireson, WM farther eansidoMd, and Mr.JSonkltng advocated bfr light (0 be sworn In. clalfcrnt Sal the case waa not ana logout to that of Mr. Kellogg, of LoniMana. the two claim* involvin, entirely dUfareut principles. Mini,Mori an. wad .that the ease or Mr. Kellogg w» regular on its (See, and that be earn* with the jwojxr certificate Signed by the Govehidr. and tferefore had S prime foci* cam. which waa not Invalidated be* cause there were another pr*t,uilo<l Legislature he was authorised to say A* l H was Mr. Grover's Intention, should he beiHmftteil, to call for the fullest investigation of*the charges agalu.t him. The resolntlon that M be svforn in was then agreedfto without division, and he took the outbIn' -Kxecutlve session, the nomination of Mi. Sherman to be Secretary of the Treasury waa Woafirmed, al! Ae Repnbucsn Senators voting tor confirmation, and twenty-six Democrats voting against ft. Friday, March 9.— The Standing arid Select Oommlltees were announced. ResohiUona were , agreed to, without division, referring the credentials Of J. B. Knetls, diluting a seat from Louisiana, to the Committee on Privileges and KtecrionsFreferring (on motion of Mr. Grover) to the same Committee the memorial„ useean;ed hy Mr. Mitchell, purporting to be signed by S ;« cltiseds of Oregon, wcitlng ihet it was currently toported and generally believed that Mr. Graver's election to the Senate was obtained by bribery, corruption, and other nnlawfnl 1 means, and that Mr. Grover did wrruptly and fraudulently issue a certificate of el- ci ion to Cronin as a Presidential Klentop, and did beer false witness before the Senate.Commlitee—with instructions to tbe Committal ti thoroughly iovesrignte snd report upon such charges against Mr Grover. In Ksecutive sessionAe Cabinet Hopointments.were referred to committees—Scborz to the Committee on Finance; Devens, Judiciary; McCrary. Military; Thompson. Naval; Key. Postofflce and Post Roads; Kvarts, Foreign Relations. SATDBDAy, March 10.—Tha; yice. President presented a communication from Mr, Orton, President of the Western-Uhlon Telegraph Company, requesting the return of. the messages (about M.flOO) di-livered to Ad Chhirfn&n of (he Committee on Privileges and. Keotlonfi. somd weeks before, ih* aCCordsttCe wlth Ae Orders ol the Senate—which communication was laid on tbe table. In Executive session, all the Cabinet nomi-nation--1 were confirmed hy a nearly unanimous vote. Adjonrbdd to the 13th. • Tcksdat, Match 13.—An order was 1 submitted AM the telegraphic dispatches referred to lu Ae letter of Mr. Orton, President of Ae Western Union Telegraph C,.mp my, read on the 10th. be deposited in the office of the Secretary of Ae'Senate, to be by him delivered to Mr. Orton apou his giving a. receipt for Ae same. Ames sage was received from the President, and an Executive session was held, and several nomination* made by Ae President Was considered—among Aose confirmed being that of 1 ot M. Morrill to be Collector of Customs for the District of Portland and FalmonA, Me. WBDNBSDATi March. iA—Messre. AnAony and Whyte were appointed a couunittee to ' wait upoq the President and inform him that Ae Senate was ready to ad}oum, unless he had sbmb further communication to make. The President Informed such committee Aat he desired to com muuicate with the Senate before Ae adjournment took piece. The order relative to Ae delivery of certain telegraphic dispatches to Mr. Orton was agreed to. An Executive session was held, bnt no business was transact pd.

A PANIC.

Fatal Results of a False Alarm of Fire In u New York Ctty Chmrck—Six Per* soma Ctruaked to teeatk. ' New York, March 9. At the time of the alarm last evening, in St, Francis Xavier Church, which resulted bo disastrously, Father Langcake war preacblng on ‘i Hell and the Horrdrs of the -Downed,” and perfect .stillness prevailed, Suddenljyirs the preacher whs picturing the torments of purgatory, a young woman in' the northern coper of the west gallery, overcome by her feelings, fainted, and gave utterance to d hysterical scream, startling the worshipers, and causing them to spring to theit feet. The next moment some redness person cried “Fire!” and this gave rise to a panic. Fkther Langcake, who was nearing the end pf his. sermon, stopped and implored peopje to .keep their seats, as there was absolutely Do cause for alarm. Fath dr Merrick, the pastor, heard screams, aud rushed into the sanctuary. He called upon the congregation to.keep theit seats, as there was ho: tire, no cause for .alarm. The sexton also endeavored to. stop the panic. These efforts were 'partially successful Father Langcake then retired to the vestry-room, and in a few moments returned attired in his cope, And uttered the. benediction, diamissing the congregation, and the organ began tq_playj , ‘ ♦ f The in the main bodvof the church • and in the east gailfcry parsed out in an orderly manner, and QOt a bipgls person ia the portions of the church last named, was in*i The people occupying that portion pf tfre gallery where the commotion ha<f begun and centered, listened to neither priestjmstor. sexton, benediction nor organ. They rushed toward the exit, from the gallery, and, almost crazed with and fought their way into the narrow stairway Ip a drug to Sixteenth street. The stairway is bu' four feet wide, and within three or four steps of the bottom* makes a sharp tarn before it reaches,the vestibule. The crowd of maddened women rushed down-stairs, and would probably have all reached the street in safety, but .at the ,bend in the stairway an aged and very stout .woman, in her eagerness to reach a place of safety, fell headlong down the stairs. .Before she: i could regain her feet, the frantic ■ crated, pressed on toward the vestibule, dame upon the prostrate form, and those hi the foremost rauks fell upon her, J!n a mo-, meat th6‘* passage-way* was choked, and a scene of the. wildest confusion asdic tense excitement ensued. The crowd iu the rear pressed on vflth almost irresistible force, and nothing could be done to stop their advanete. 'Sue crazed women fought their way c « t So t '-tess's'' l s, p a crushing the life outof.thorn. They screamed and fought like maniacs, aud every effort to hold them back so that the stairway could be cleared was of nef avail. " '*

Father Whyte Md several other priests, who were in the church parlor* at the time the panic occurred, rushed round to the front of the church, and, assisted by patrolmen, by main force (fragged out some of the women who;:were lying on the stiirt. A number of womeu were then got out alive 5® fife « clothing. As the priests and police, aided by a lumber ( of citizens, made. their yay up the snurcastf, they found lying on the steps fopr other women and a small boy. These were taken out to the open air, but life was extinct, Qua woman, Ann Forbes, was, brought out alive and apparently not much lUiumd. She Walked, with Ute assistance of A poUcemaa* to the drug store on Sixth W& n :rj'ZT£ir?:ir * k ' » Wer ?*J? 40 A gentleman stahdihg outside of the church informed Sergeant Douglas he saw a man in the vestibule; of door SSjWssA: s*sis“; %Mftg imminent danger of joeing their Uvea never go to acoun3£***kanjMiclergyman. fTlalto sewing accounts.” ..»l°?,T ll L aild ’, Bu ''” #aW 016 clergyman, j toSeS^ a i^.. j , Udgment

The Ashtabula Horror—Verdict of the Coroner's Jury.

Jh« LijaAtft Ashtabula special any* the uw,a^, * f^ low -- Tbat Ae fall of Ae bridge was the result of defects and errors made A designing, 'constructing and erecflngfif; toafa great defect, and one which appear* In maqy parts of the rtruetbre, was the 'dependence. of every member for Ha efficient action upon the probability Aat all. or nearly nil, the erthera would retain their position end do the duty for which Aey were designed, Instead of giving to each me#>f>er n positive connoo. tiou with the rest, which noAlng but n direct rupture could sever. The mem* ben ot each truss were, Instead of being fastened together, rested one upon Ae oAer, Us Illustrated by Ae following particulars : The deficient cross-sections of portions of tbe “T” chords sod some of Ae main braces, and.the iueufflclcnt strength and bad arrangement of boA Ae horizontal and vertical transverse bracing in Ae construction of the angle blocks, as nnully modified, with, out sufficient Idgs or flanges to keep Ae ends of Ae main and from slipping. Out of place; in the construction of Ae pocking ana yokes used in binding together Ae main snd counter-brace* at tbe points where Aey crossed each other; in Ae Shimming of tbe top chord* to com* pensate the deficient ltng'h of spine of Aeir members; in tbe placing during tbe process of erection of Aick beam* where Ae plan required Ain ones, aqd thin one* where It required thick, ones. That the Railway Company used and continued to use this bridge for about .eleven years, during all of whkn time a careful inspection by a competent bridge engineer could not have failed to discover, all Ae defect*. For the neglect of such careful inspection the Railway Company is alone responsible; Jhat the respousibility of this fearful disaster and. Its consequent losb of life' rtSW upon tbe Railway Company,-' which, by its chief executive officer, planned and erected Ais bridge; that tbe cars Rrfrhich the deceased passengers were carried into the chasm were not. heated by heating apparatus so constructed Aat the lire in them would be immediately extinguished whenever Ae cars were thrown from the track and overturned; that their failure to comply wiA Ae plain requirements of the law places Ae responsibility of Ae origin of Ae fire upon Ae railway company (see act of Mayl4, 1809); Aat the. responsibility for not putting put the tiro at the time it first made -Ha appearance in Ae wreck rests upon those who were Ae first U» arrive at Ae scene of the disaster, and who aeeined to have been so overwhelmed by Ae fearful calamity Aat they lost all presence of mind, and failed to use the means at hand, consisting of the steam pump in the pumping-house and the fire-engine “ Lake fehore" and its hose, which might have been .attached to Ae steam-pump in time to Bave -life. The steamer belonging to Ae Fire Department, and also the “Protection” fire engine, were hauled more than a mile through is blinding snowstorm and over roads rendered almost impassable by drifted snow, and arrived on the ground too late to save human life; but nothing should have prevented Ae chief engineer from making all possible efforts to extinguish what fire there remained. F6r his failure to do this be is responsible. That the persons deceased whose bodies were indentitied, and Aose whose bodies snd part* of bodies were unidentified, came to their deaths by Ae precipitation of Ae aforesaid cars in which they were riding into the chasm in Ae t#lley of Ashtabula' Creek, left by the falling of the bridge as aforesaid, and Ae crushing and burning of Ae cars aforesaid, for all of which Ae Railway. Company is responsible.

Senate Committees.

The: Standing and Select Committal of the United States Senate were announced, on the 9th, as follows: Privileges and Elections—Morton, Chairman: Intchejl, Wadleigb, Cameron (Wis.), McMillan, floptyr'aulsbury, Merrimon, Hill. Foreign Relath'ns— I Cameron, Chairman; Morton, Hamlin, Howe, Cockling, McCrcery, Bogy, Eaton, Jobnson. Fintnce—Morrill, Chairman; -Dawes, Ferry, Jones (Nefik Alliaoh, llowe, Bayard, Kernaa and Appropriations—Whidom, Chairman; Sargent, Allison, Dorsey, Blaine, Davis;; W. Va), Withers, Chairman; Spencic, Burnside, McMUI n, Patterson, Gordon, Dennis, Hansom and Randolph. Manufactures—Booth, Chairman; Brace, Robigs, Johnston and McPherson. ,;Agricaltnre— Paddock, Chairman; Sharon, Hoar, DavU (W. Va. land Gordon. Military Affairs—Spencer, Chairman; Wadletgh, Cameron (Pa.), Burnside, Teller, Plumb, Randolph! Cockrell and Maxey. Naval Attains—Sargent, Chairman; Anthony, Conover, Kirkwood, Blaine, Whyte and MciPherf*sv6lcia»y Edmunds, Chairman; Conkling, Howe, Christlancy, Davis (Ill.), 'ihmman and MoDonald. Postofflcerand Post Roads—Hamlin. Chairman; Ferry, Jones (Nev.), Paddock. Conover,. Kirkwood, Saulshniy, Maxey and Bailey. Fttblic Lan®—Qglesby, Chainnain; Paddock, Booth, Chaffee,'numb; McDonald, Jones (Fla), Grover and Garland. Private Land Claims—Thurman. Chairman; .Bayard. Bogy, Edmunds and Chrietiancy. Indian Affairs—AllHon, Chairman; Oglesby, Ingalls, Sanndere, Hoar, McCreery,and Cook. tensions—lngalls. Chairman; * Brace,. Teller, Kirkwood. Davis (ill.). Withers and Bailey. . Revolutionary Claims - Johnson. Chairman; Jones (Fla.), Hill. Dawes and McMillan. CMiins—McMillan, Chairman: Mitchell, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Hoar, Cockrell, Hereford, Harris and Morgan. '*, District es Columbia—Dorsey, Chairman; Spencer, Ingalls, Rollins, Saunders, Merrimon and Baraum. 1 Patents—Wadleigh, Chairman; Booth, Chaffee, Kernan and Morgan. Territorilb—Patterson. Chairman; Christiaqcy, Chaffee. Saunders, Garland, Grover and Hereford. Railroads—Mitchell, Chairman; Howe, Dawee, DbrsAy, Teller, Ferry, Morton, Ransom, Bogy, Barnum and Lamar, . Mines and Mining-Sharon, Chairman; Chaffee, Kirkwood, Plnmb, Hereford, Cook.and Hill. •si Revision of Laws-Chrletlancy. Chairman;,ln- • Civil Service aud Retrenchment—Biaine,iObalrPatterspn, Booth, McCreery, ))’byte TV) Audit and Control the Contingent Exeiense of the^Senate—Jones (Nev.), Chairman; Rollins and Dennis.' Printing—Anthony,. Chairman; Sargent" and SMs&:.zff3ns mod , !(•*! i Engrossed Bills-Bayard Chairman; Withers and Anthony. Enrolled Bills--Conover, Chairman; Paddock -ftte man; Blaine, Conover. Cockrell and Harris. ’ To Examine the Several Branches of ths Civil Service—Chaffee, Chairman^ Ooakllng, Wlndom, Xerrtmon and Baton. ,i : . Transportation Rates to the Seaboard—Caraero* SPis k Chairman; Wlndom, Conover, Bara Bide. innders, Haris (W- Va ), Harris, Lamar and Beck.

How to Lay Shingles.

correct way for laying shingles of third the lehgth of the shortest shingles. »SSg®Kiß WMrtHer vHto 'kurirty ot farming A good roof. ' The shingles’ mhst be three thicknesses over the entire foot If they are not three how and then 4 shingle Mchsk quarter or hqlf an inch of beinglong enough to make three thickhessea—there will in all probabiiity be a leaky place in mb roof at such a point. Moreover, when the lower courses lack half «& iltoh of kntendtng tip fer enough to receive the rain from the. outermost course, in case the middle course were re-

moved, it would be Just as well to lay thep seven or eight iaehes to Ae vftalhef as to , lay onl wffive ft five and m k&lff Many|phteglek%» tatiy sixteen inked long, Intßmanvsfriat tike sold for |ixfr« a lncfrcs loftg wQj haMDy measure Ikfteen Inches. In AIS case—-irAe roof beratber flat, say about one-quarter pitch—four and a half inches is as Caras they ahniM T m to TBe'weaffier. in case a roofwere .quite steep it might answer to lay the cmirsea fipnr and three-quarter inches to Ae weather. When buildings are erected by the tab, pwprvatore- atamlti-gi»«iWbii» personal attention to Ihis subject, npd aee Aat jobbefr ijo'nqt lat Me coUfbeslalM inch tdo fir to Ae weather. Tlrerfe other important cOnaidemftdn wffiih'ii men will often breat Jofvft frHhin fcfilfin inch of eqoh qAer.' When Ah©! JriifiW cf the Afferent courses come, so , close -ton gether, Aeroof will,most certajitiy Why should it ppfc? ■ There is nothing to prevent it during a, heavy rai#. Unless a roof fa steeper Aan a quarter pitch, much care should b# token to break joints net lees Aan one and ft quarter inchw?T*lfet ail workmen and helpers ,be taught Ae vast importance Qf rejecting every poqr shingle, except when Ae .uppeir cOuAe# ore being laid.— OlnaduA, MiWlnto? Magazine.

From Twelve to One.

To the workman, “ from twelve-tarme” means lunch, a newspaper aqd rest—per-, haps a dive into a restaurant and a hurried meal. For the apprentice it is Ae awpl, lowing of a sandwich and a piece of pie, 1 with an hour’s loafing. To the business man Of Ae cities it may I 'mean lunch ti&e near the middle of Ae day’s lahor, we will let it represent Ac noonday meal, the noonday rest and Ae smronndings. Easing is the most imbeirtant of the duties which have‘to be performed during this midday feat. We had afmost written, pleasure for duty, but to apply the term pleasure to eating, performed as ■ she American too frequently does it, would.be an absurdity. We are hardly free, from, Ae imputation that dyspepsia is the American disease, and although of late, years Ae improvement Tn boA qoaiity and variety of Ae food we eat has done wonders for our National' digestion, it will he many years before Ais disease is reduced to its normal limit#..! . i+. -> -:!q In Ae shop, at Ae restaurant, or wbetJ ever Ae meal fa taken, it should be eaten slowly and lefaurely, as Aough it were a pleasure to be! enjoyed. The alderiqaqii; indignation at having "swallowed that mouAful of turtle wiAout gettmgL the full flavor of }V’ is rieht #nd,pronej. and, might form a text for a sermon upon eating. As a contrast to this, many meiShtwefc discovered that if a person eats steadily and continually for five minutes, he has taken in about all thq nourishment that he can bear. .The ill effects of food takeb in Ais Way are so great and far-reaching ,'that we cannot here speak of them. As we said before, it is desirable to enioy the irpoarible!^^ wonderful aid to digestion. As Ae rule, the jovial h#ve the best digestioh.j While good digestionwhelps to makefial man happy, jollity will dp ponders toward’making a dinner " sit well upon! Ae stomach.” ““ i To the business man, Ae relaxation at ! noon mar be exceedingly valuable if made an absolute rest frofn. business cares, and noAlng will so effectually do Ais as conversation. Next to Ais is pleasant reading, interesting and light; for brain and body both need rest when Ae stomach is at work. Probably If the Spanish custom of a nap after the Monday meal ' wete adopted, we should be gainers by it; qs it is not, we most make Ae pest of our present customs. To commence severe manuah or mental labor, , the moment lunch is over should be dfar couraged. It is alipost aa bad in its effeetr as haste in eating. ,

•' To the working man; the lunch time can be made both valuable and pleasant; especially when the lunch is taken in,ti*e shop. Instead ;of glamly fzdttlng xw in a corner and bolting his tihiof :tea and the contents of thp dinner-pail, he should make more of a' social affair qf .lt. He wjll plways find his Companions re ady to bear him cOmjpany, if he manifest a desire to be sociable. Something at once interesting and profitable can be found for discussion, and the thouskn(f and one conundrums of the (rade brought up for Solution. -> At such time this 1 pyentiee should come in’ for .his sharS, and, if werkmen-we kim! and boys show any- aptness for learning; a great deal of good can be done with the spare time of the hour at noont * In spiallcr shops, th weather when play fe not when Work is hard | And rest u> needed, reading' is'ff resourdfe'tipon which Ohe can fan for amusement*. We do not mean tire dime novel, JU. pleasure ana profit are to be combined, ■ something should he taken up that has a bearing upon the frade; if jt is desired to, have light literature, stories, novels and the likej’bv all meaha let them be !firstclass. The injury done by reading r'eaily first-class woVks Of fiction is, very flight, and when a person has acquired a taste 1 , it there isvery llttle dtogtjr bf harm from the cheap trash. At the present time good literature is as easily afctbssi-' ble as poor,-and an employer, could hot 1 do better for the young men undelr his care than, to -place their -reaeh a ■cheap, well-seleeted ’library b# •standard works. The cost of such a library ,is at tiie present time small, and the labor of getting it.togetker.a mere nothing. Some mffnufacturers that ye ; know regulaHy: 'suppfy their workmen with books and have the best of uses;fpr their, hour at noon, in reading, the. euwnt. literature or lh studying nooks, for the discounts obtained for them,.they would hard- 1 ly benble tofafford. 1i e i-. . •<’

Fof these means of improvement'the manufacturer, the proprietor, superintendent cr foreman of the shop is responsible. The men, even if they thought of such things, would hardly propose it;, but,they, are usually very willing to improve any opportunity of the,, sort whicJM* offwpdi to them. But whether 1t be WOfkftieh br Hatnploycr, the question of the'hottr be- ' tween twelve and one is worth thinking about. Is 4t as pleasantly end ehe«r|u*iy spent as bfcT Are as mucßTrest andcomfbrt gahfed fttaih ft W afe desirablurt Ina Word.'eiih any imsftivemt&t be made in it that Will 'increase otfrpleasure, onr knowledge or oof health ? lrknch improvement can be secured, certainly 4 great effort should bp made for its atMnment. — Iron Age. * J iVfbOa SAftl .. NT b^adh^hilh^eirty^uS 6 and rendered twenty-five years of his own life miserable before he discarded it.

The Story of One Roast Pig.

YNaks jflindc, £ remember • capital Ae disoovery of Ae I lu*(flbiiHn& of Ata roasted infant porker IfaUK Cffiwtial. Jbngdoua. How many centuries since that discovery was made I dou’t know, but doubtless, though, it, was to CIIO -ilutiUi 4*i tl OiHMI Ae birth Of Susan B. AnAonv. The gist of Ao story was Ala: A ceftaitflJhmar man, wheAer to secure Act MsWabwSor through Ae careless use of Er— or from some cause of which d«w tiom were several .hrootfa; oj fc young pigs, ssesiisfoufi destroying,, Ummu. i asrlving at tfle burned building sfioray afterward, discovered piggies in: Ais com ditionj" Tatring Aem to lifa house, he' (Ding Dong), with Ae Tittle Ding Dongs,' aided by teeA, ehop-sticks and Angers, devoured ravenously one of Ae delicious roasters. . Several remained. -Ding lton*,, was enAusiastically crazy about Ae rare of Ae dish,’so he start word to filljbis neighbors'4o cbme and, .pftrtake’pf the remainder of Ae ybung porhers. They' quickly arrived. They! partook" In a few weeqs buns of China containing young pigs were flred byi their ownere. Thdt<»dfah fa a burning slander on Ding< Dong ' and his countrymen or mot, I aid; unable to sky, but.will nevertheless sQlemnlv alSrui Aat a young pig, properly stuffed, >wiA ftn apple in his mouA, and roasted to -a delicate, rich brown makes a dish not to be despised by piAer King or bum-! mer. Jerry -Foster Aought so. (Now, • Jtriy was an exceedlhglT' psreimflhtous man, whife> feeder. He was a native of New Jersey, living some thirty miles east of, JPhiladelphia, and attended markqt ii> rffperson lie vtas a great, lanky-built felrow, arid where all Ae provisioifa he devoured at one sitting went to it would requite a Medical Bqard sto determine. Well, one jerry started iwiAv’hUi wagon .to tbe>«i(y. toaq oonafated oibutter, eggs, potatoes and a few-’infant swine, handsomely drtaded 'tor tlto table. J AU of his rtnftrketlng Wris disposed of early in Ae morning-pd# one pig,! and Aen Ae farmer drove round to a small tavern on Second street, Vrtmre ne proposed stopping ford toner, Ae plied Aeto'i , «f, in Aose cheap times, bdirtg twenty'-flvfr ' cents. He. sold Ae roaster to Mr! Ran'* 4 dotoh, Ae tavern-keeper, for seventy-five., cents. About two o’clock, Jqrry appeared for his meal. There happened that :dayi to be no guest al the table bnt him. 1 The dinner was broUght to. The rtrifatdr sold Randolphjin Ae morning, all /orfap and;. Jbronm, stood before his former owner. \kidt as the trio were proceeding to wtTkl Mr. #nd Mrs. Randolph were 'Arid&enly called away to care for one of the children Jerry “wadeain.** Piece after ptabe oi Ae porker waa devoured with -emoterbfrties, potatoes, turnips, and brfedi arid 1 butler, ad libitum. In probably quarters of an hour Mr, aod Hrst R. returned. tlie - table, Acre was ferry, but where were Ae grovissons—,Where especially Ae pigt Ther jereey: man Was leaning back m h.s chair complacently picking his "teeA. 'The pair sprveyea hitii with an expresel.riri 0/ St spoke: “Why —well, stratiger,*!* say you were tmrisually * fbna ;q¥ lc foist pig.” “ Yes. yqs, .J;m#AayTami land i real, fat, .good-sized one makes-me, wiA tfimmm’mrjHßt. a fair meal”-'%sid’' Jerrjr, heaving a sigh.'''ltAn4riTph was : riitf fifty cents cri'fHe 'pig^alorfe, l Arid triaVbe as’touch morefrirAe Other pvovitatAri eeesumed by the; Jerteyman, but yotitoay te ’ sure Foster ate rio m<wa dinners Htftri’' 'dolph’B for a quarter. — N. Y. MeH rtfay?*!* 1

The Remains of Washington Petrified.

We visited! Washidgtbn’s tqihjti at Mount Vernon, Va.fsome twehre sailes frttm this city, down the Potqmaq me had the unusual ptfvilegq of tile mortal remains of the imhiort'Al WashIngton. fenib'wni WfnMf ber that the wbst Wdll‘ ofrhe hfis* ftf several yehrs been irf J ’A "’fifiU'fik cdfldltfcki ,jp|| in great need of repair. *‘A fc# diys siqce part of it tumbled into ..tbt WffPil I completely covering thp, earoophagus of Washington, alsq that : ot Hajth4 Washington. Jn order.,’iP. repa\r.t|ie (Jam- v age ip a competent manner, it wasitound: fsefisary po tieniqgp them % fflW .feeiftwa eirresting-pjaqe., conWrung;: ittm&ins of Martha Washington .v«a> removed first, but attracted no attention. „Butthe unusual weiritt: i dfi' tbie onli A ■tsining the remains of Wnshington dfbused the curiosity of the official who Waseupw-'W intending the,worfc of removal; and it was'f decided to open sarcophagus in order-; toittscertaia the cause. This was drae. and the remains were found to me petni* 1 ' fled, iff fact, a solid’ Resembling a status, the'teatdresperfectly tfatortd, With the exception of eyeshnd ehrs 1 , nri irddo bf' .which can be seen. The body is of A difttr ledthS'ly c °lor, and may be sajd to he, a, , soft safd-stone,,which wouMlrkfily break .shouid'an attempt be‘made* io fmqve *it from* the sarcOpbAetis. Ed>vafa jphker, do 61oreil‘man, "wbo upon,the farm since he was ,a. V»r, . and WHO Insisted in the femainsirinn thffcßd tomb to the present one, mfown?*, ’ nsYMCit Is tbirty-joight'jyeam' pMP e At. Jhat time thfty,,hiuA•. jiUhe old,toh)h thirty.mghtyearew wd.. vtfeWexhpmed in,a prqserwW.r beyond all expectation, being .a. sOJid it Compact mass, with the skin drawn tightto file tomb will be completed to-day, and ■thA*sarcophagus is not Jli hlrty to be opte^d Sim for a century to‘*xome, unless, tskf, isl the casotof. an accident, as inthev present instance, and petrifaction will complete its and the remuina of the ; immortal Washirigtoit,>»Wf*hß*Wefc W during as his ton Cor,. San Francisco (/ArohiAJk

/'L!_««Sjp%at iave I done—oh, wlSat have I clone,, thatKdris trial should come <npdtf tb<sfl»!” wsshie >l to^and g And yet, w£en the good pair, wM ibmdm tirf 1 wiving thanks--for the’timely af>nvhi'6f‘ ‘ —After plowing, the farmer divides his forces into harrowing details.