St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 March 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . - - INDIANA. MALADY OF - FCHILD. THE VICTIM OF A TRICHINIASIS AFFECTION. Fatal Row Between Kansas Farmers—A Fund Being Raised for Mrs. Windom— Adventure ot a Belle with a Burglar. ONLY NEEDS SIGNING. The Senate Has Passed the Postal Subsidy B 11.

Dll. On the 2d the conference committee on the sundry civil service bill reached a conclusion on world’s fair matters. The committee preserves secrecy, but Senators told Mrs. Palmer that the committee gave the ladies all they ask for, except the one item of $15,000 for a meeting in 1891. Both houses met at 9:30 o'clock and began business with a rush. The first business of importance was the adoption in the Senate of the postal subsidy bill passed by the House. The Senate also passed the postoffice ap- ™ amendment mails. What ^Tskiiown as the “army reorganization bill”’was unexpectedly passed by the Senate. The bill is one of great importance to the army. It reorganizes the artillery and infantry arms, adding two regiments to the former and gixjng the latter three battalions, with a range for each, thus adding two Majors to each of the twenty-five regiments of infantry and providing for the promotion of fifty captains and twice that number of lieutenants. The House amendment to' the Senate bill for a public building at Saginaw. Mich, (reducing the amount from 8250,000 to $200,000), was concurred in. House bill relating to the treaty of reciprocity with the Hawaiian Islands was passed. Also, House joint resolution appropriating $1,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi River, to be immediately available. Also, Senate joint resolution authorizing the State of Oregon to construct a railroad at the cascades of the Columbia River. The House has agreed to the conference report on the bill to repeal the timber culture law. The conference report on th“ Indian depredations bill has been agreed to by the Senate. Senate bills were passed for the erection of a new custom house at New York, and a new mint building at Philadelphia, the latter not to cost more than 82,000,000. Hie Center of Fopn'ation. A Washington special says: Illinois will soon be the center of population of the United States, as her chief city is already becoming its business center. The Census Bureau announces that the, center of population for the past decade traveled from Cincinnati to Greensburg, Ind. This central point has followed the thirty-ninth parallel of latitude decade by decade, starting near Baltimore a century ago and never traveling more than eighty-one miles or less than thifty-six in a decade. The next census will find it near the Illinois line, perhaps in the State of Illinois itself, in the vicinity, probably, of Paris. Mint Gat Out of the Strip Ex-Chief Bushyhead and John Jordan, who have figured as speculators in the Cherokee outlet, have received a letter from the Interior Department in- . iVisC'leaving the Cherokee strip. Bushyhead and Jordan leased a stone quarry in the strip, near Arkansas City, Kas., and have been working it. They protested against being removed, and this letter is in reply to their protest. Secretary Noble incloses a long opinion by Assistant Attorney General Shields, sustaining his position in the matter. He Married a Mm. Henry Sewers, of Chicago, was married to Johanna Sebus Immediately after the ceremony the bride was called to her father’s home, out of the, city, borrowing $l5O of Henry to pay her expenses. Afterward she returned and endeavored to have her husban I give her §2,000 he had recently inherited. He refused and a fight ensued, when il transpired that the “bride” was a man. He married Henry for his money. A Kansai (hod’s Misfortnm. The child of Anton Rudolph, at Cneida, Kan., is in a deplorable condition from the effect of binding raw n rk on its nock. The little one was suffering from sore throat, and the parent) bound'it up with a piece of bacon, which was infested with trichinae. Krom a slight abrasion in the child’s neck grew a fearful sore, which has spread around the neck and over the breast.

A $50,000 Fun I f>r Mrs Win’nn The New Yoik committee bavin r in charge the raising of a fund for the widowof the late Hon. William Windom, Secretary of theTreasuiy, have io eivcd subscriptions amounting to .*3O,OWL It is the intention of the committee to raise 820,00) mote during the next few days, making a total of §50,000. This sum will bo given to Mrs. Windom at a;, early date. , uoow ‘a d I s P j eA 069> Buidbs*.---^ ‘ OUM *■"- / E O*X ;r... .. At Kansas City, Mo , a burg ar aG r tempted to-rob Mi-s Clara Moore, a so^ciety belle, in her father’s reside: ce. the intruder attemptng to t ar rings from her fingers and bracelets from her wrist . Miss Moore has, s ure the outrage, been in a lethargic slate, but in moment- of delirium has declared that a well-knowa society man was he, l ' assai ant /.fur tie 1 A3<”” The Kansas Hous: has passed the Senate bill prohibiting alit ns from ho fling lands in the State, and prividing that all lands held by aliens at the end of seven years shall revert to the State. The bill now goes to the Govern r. Fatal Row BHw-'m Farnv'-s. Isaac Dowkel shot ami ins’antly killed J. H. Wharton near Council Grove, Kan. Both Dowell and V barton were farmers, and th: shooting grew out of trouble over a farm which both claimed to have rented. Died with H r Babe. At Lima, Ohio, Mrs. Fred Ncihansmyer jumped into a cistern with her ailing babe, both being drowned. The long continued illness of the child cau-ed the mother to become insane. I' u a in»sa in Germany. Great uneasiness is felt in Berlin over the strained relations between Germany and France. Gov. Oglesby's Hom’' Barce I Gov. Oceesby’s residence at Elkhart, TIL, was destroyed by lire.;. S

I EVENTS OF THE WEEK. I EASTERN OCCURRENCES. —— ’ James Dougherty, the insane lover of Alary Anderson, who shot and killed Dr. Lloyd, the physician at Flatbush, N. Y., Insane Asylum, was sentenced to Sing Sing State Prison for life. Gen. Robert McAllister, widely known as the commander of the “Bloody Eleventh” of New Jersey, died at Belvidere, N. J., aged 78. A brick building on Federal street, Allegheny City, Pa., fell with a crash. At least one person is buried in the wreck. Rumor says that several persons were caught and buried under the falling walls. At Rahway, N. J., Thomas Hall, tho

inventor of the turbine wheel, was killed by an Eric train. The United Slates secret service agents arrested three men at Johnstown, Pa., on a charge of making and passing counterfeit standard dollars. Between 2,000 and 3,000 foreign and American strikers at Scottdale, Pa., forced tho reluctant employes of Rainey to strike. About the same time a howling aggregation of strikers, estimated at 1,500 to 2,000, descended on the Paull plant, where a few mon were at work. These wero compcl ed to boat a hasty retreat. At Huntingdon, Pa., Mrs. Curtin S. Bear was sitting by a window sewing when sho heard a sharp, ringing noise, and felt a tug at her hair at the back of her head. In the coil of her back hair, and lying against the skull, from which it had separated a lock of hair close to the roots, lay a flattened bullet that had not oven broken the skin. At Philadelphia, the weavers at Dobsons’ Plush Mills have struck because of the refusal of the firm to grant them a 15 per cent, increase in wages. Unless an agreement is effected, over one thousand hands vzill be thrown out of employment. At New London. Conn., the trial trip of the gunboat Bennington was unsuccessful. An accident to one of the boilers caused the steam to drop. John Copeland, a wealthy storekeeper of Parnassus, Pa., fatally shot his wife and then tried to kill his two children and himself, but was prevented by the neighbors from carrying his designs into effect. Copeland is 32 years of age, and about a year ago he showed ' symptoms of insanity. Copeland is a raving maniac now. The big mine run colliery, operated by A. Taylor, at Ashland, Pa., shut down for an indefinite period. This suspension will affect 300 men and boys. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A dispatch from Yuma, A. T., says Yuma is entirely under water. The river broke the levee. One hundred thousand dollars damage is already done. ! The Missouri Supreme Court rendered a decision in tho case of the State ex rel. O’Malley vs. the Secretary of tho State, which firmly establishes the authority of tho State Central Committee of either political party to interfere, arbitrate and adjust political difference within a party. In the case brought by Marshall Field > & Co. to test the legality of the United । States revenue law. Judge Blodgett, at i Chicago, decided in favor of the Govern- । menL The case will be taken to the Su- I preme Court At Clarks, Neb., the charge of murder was withdrawn against Banker Cowles by the County Attorney for lack of evidence. The theory that burglars committed the crime is now accepted. Prof. W. 11. Scherzer, of Houghton, Mich., has been appointed to succeed Prof. Alexander Winchell, deceas 'd, in the geological chair at the Ann Arbor University. At Minneapolis, fire in the five-story brick block owned by Sol Smith Russell, the actor, destroyed the building, besides a four-story brick block owned b/ J. M. Roberts. The building owned by Russell was valued at §87.00 t. It was occupied by the Cl -Speaker Company, paints and oils. Ihc loss of the latter is §OO,OOO. Roberts’ building was valued at §40,000, occupied by H. B. Gaynor, hardware, loss, §35,000. Mrs. Rceson's apartments on the upper floors, will lose §5,000. Counsolman’s elevator in Chicago was burned with 00,000 bushels of grain; loss §IOO,OOO. Fennville, Mich.,

giaui' stxvv, juu. <TiiinHiv, . for the second time in fourteen months, I was almost completely wiped out. Loss will reach §IOO,OOO. . A terribee accident occurred on the Pan-Handle road at Hagerstown, Ind., in which three persons were instantly killed and one mortally wounded, two seriously, possibly fatally, and thirtytwo more or less injure^ II Ui sp JB A Z2 p I WR®* ™ ) UQ wwjrr between Chicago ami (mein | noth which was coming down a steep grade into the town when the framework of the engine—No. 4'.'4. in charge of W. W. Bartlett ami Noah Dunn, fireman—broke and derailed every car. 1 he cars caught tire, but the blaze was quickly extinguished. The scenes about the wreck were most heartrending, the cries of the unfortunate victims mingling with । the shoots of the rescuers, who were j quickly on hand and did heroic work. As | fast as* the injured were taken from the wreck they were carried to houses near at hand, where every attention was given them until arrangements could be made for their removal to St. Stephen's Hospital at Richmond, and all that could possibly be moved were taken there at once. Gen. John Lawer, who was stricken with paralysis some days ago, died at his home in Prairie, du Chien, Wls. He was for many years a director of the St. Paul Railroad Company. Near Los Angelos, Cal., many persons have lost their lives in the floods. The worst of the flood was probably at Downey and vicinity. The Old and New San Gabriel Rivers broke from their banks and ran together, a|d made a great inland sea six to ton miles wide and seventeen miles long. Many houses were swept away, and a number of families occupying the territory inundated have not been heard from. 5 uma, A. 1., and West Point, Miss., are great suffer- ■ ers also. r The town of Utica. Ind., was flooded by the Ohio and the inhabitants had fled for their lives. Immediately after a , cyclone destroyed many dwellings and did enormous damage.

The Hon. 11. C. Ayors, a member of ! the Board of Trustees of the University i of South Dakota, fell dead at Plankin. ton, S. D., after delivering a speech. Five laborers were caught in a severe I I storm while in Two Medicine Mountains | Dakota, and four were frozen to death’ j Tho survivor reached the town of Two i Medicine alive. Ar San Francisco, Superintendent ; Fillmore, of tho Southern Pacific, re- . ceived a dispatch from Yuma, A. T stating that the town is doomed to destruction. Three-quarters of tho city j s flooded, and the water is g,lso threatening tho last quarter. Tho operator closed by stating that he could not keen his place another half hour. The twelve hundred inhabitants of Yuma have taken refuge in the penitentiary on high ground. The railroad track for a distance of twenty-two miles east of Yuma has been washed out of sight, and when the water subsides it will take over a week to put tho track in running order, From all over tho State comes nows of disastrous floods. About 1,000 Wichita, Caddo, Delaware } and Kechis Indians, near Andarko, I.J T., are reported as continuing tho ‘Luck ’ which commenced during the SiotN troubles. They have recently gained new impetus by the arrival of their lead-m er, “Sitting Bull,” who has been absent several weeks, and tho situation is considered critical. * I Mrs. Ed Clarke and child, Superintendent Ropell, and Engineer B. F. Smily were buried beneath a snowslide over the Bullion King Mino at Irwin, Cola The 8-year-old daughter of Frank Lawler, of Salem, Ind., died a week ago, but as tho corpse still retains a lifelike appearance tho body has not been buried. At Portland, Oregon, Victor L. McKibben, depot master, was arrested, charged with embezzling §877 from the Northern Pacific Express Company. Seven companies of tho Fir t Regiment started from Pino Ridge for San Francisco. At Pine Ridge there now remain four troops of the Ninth Cavalry in winter quarters, and three companies of Indian troops at tjie agency. Ex-Judge of the Circuit Court J. R. Bobo, of Decatur, Ind., while under the influence of liquor, slyit his son Roland, aged 23 years, inflicting a wound that may prove fatal. Judge' Bobo ordered his son from the house. The latter not । obeying immediately, the father drew a revolver and fired. - At Sedalia. Mo., Mrs. Lizzie Dulin’s residence burned to the ground. Mrs. Dulin, who was nearly 81) years of age, and her grandson. Moses Heywood, 2 years, were burned to a crisp. Dispatches from Yuma, Arizona, say that every building in town except tho Southern Pacific Hotel and penitentiary was destroyed by the flood. A Yuma, A. T., special gives further details of the awful work of the flood. It says: Over 250 houses ate in ruins from tho ' flood and 1,400 people are homeless. N^^Ml single business house rvmnhw and It Is feared that hundreds of lives have been lost in the Gila Valley. The telegraph wires are down In the valley, and as all bridges are down and roads impassable, no reliable reports can be had frtmi there. The rivet- above town is seven miles wide, and below the town in places the water ‘ covers tho country in one great lake over I fifty miles acro-s.. The railway company ! Will Mtot have the blockade raised for i west-bound trains for four days, and ’ it will be ten days or two weeks be- I i fore they can get east. The town has pro-, i visions sufficient for eight more days and the Southern Pacific Hotel is feeding a thousand people a day. Reports from Jakuno, 15miles above here, are t > the effect that the flood drove the people into the tree tops, and tmtny became exhausted from cold and hunger and dropp d into the water and were drowned. Reports from reliable sources put the loss of lives In the valley anywhere from thirty to 100. All along the valley for 200 miles everything is in desolation. Costly houses and barns have been washed away like playthings, while stock and fences have been carried down by the fl tod, leaving the country as bare as a desert. Men who ten days ago were wealthy are now homeless and paupers. The boiler in a saw-mill, near Charleston, Mo., exploded, killing Jeff Cobb, Charles Cobb, and Thomas Dowdy. Charley Cobb was literally blown to pieces, one leg and foot being found a hundded yards away. Seven other mill hands were hurt and the building badly wrecked. William Barth,'a miner, was fatally crushed under three tons of falling slate in mine No. 6 at Rosedale, Ind. Minnie May Mabbitt, of Flora. Ind., who was charged with killing her infant, was acquitted of tho crime. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A'mob of masked men attacked the jail at Abbeville, Ga , and took Allen West, a colored prisoner. out ajj phot - A? I'l. aTiT. '■ At Windsor, Vt., the Windsor Nation- | al Bank, capital §50,000, has gone into ' liquidation on account of heavy western I losses. It is stated that tho. depositors i will be ] aid in full, and that the stockholders will realize about one-half. | At Covington, Ky., W. Winchester ; was indicted for arson. He recently set I fire to his chemical works, containing a I stock worth §3OO, on which he carried j §12,000 insurance. A receiver was appointed for the Belknap & Dumnesncl Stone Company, of Louisville, Ky. The stock is §50,000, and the company is believed to be ab>c I to pay in full. At Fort Worth, Texas, L. B. Imboden, the prospective President of the New England Savings Bank and Trust Company, was convicted on the first of ; the charges of forgery against him, and given three years iu the penitentiary. An incendiary fire at Scottsville, Ky., caused a loss of §25,000, insured for ’ i §5.000. Several business housesand rcs--1 | idences at Greensboro, Ind , burned. ' I A high gale prevailed in Jacksonville, . I Fla. The front of the St. James''stables was blown out, and the warehouse > roof on the Clyde Pier was demolished. ■ A hole was blown in the Sub-Tropical . Building and two houses in the suburbs I were completely wrecked. , Word comes from Florida that Senator ' Quay is quite ill there, and that his friends apprehend that he is not likely 1 to improve. It is very probable that he 1 will resign his chairmanship of the ( | Republican National Committee. I • A horrible homicide is reported from 1 Kcmier county, Miss., near the Alabama

i line. Frank Watson, an Alabama ' farmer, and Dick Sibley, Constable of । Kemper county, were matching dollars when a dispute arose, mid Watson called ; Sibley a liar. Sibley struck him in tho face, and Watson pulled his pistol and shot Sibley. The wound proved fatal. As Sibley lay on the ground he called M n and said: “It was a cowardly act, Frank, but I forgive you.” Watson escaped. The men wero friends, and whisky caused the quarrel. A special from Gainesville, Texas, says: Joo M. Dixon shot and instantly killed Milt Benson, at Henrietta. Tho two mon were quarre ling over some trivial affair, when Dixon drew a revolver and fired two shots at Benson, one of which entered his heart. Dixon escaped. The cable of tho incline at the coal mines at Whitewell, Tenn., broke as tho miners wore go ng to work and the car dashed down the mountain. Two mon wero killed instantly and elevon seritously hurt. Seven of those, it is thought, I will die from their injuries. I POLITICAL PORRIDGE. >3|A.CTIon on extreme usury and mortJOSgo foreclosure bills was indefinitely 1 postponed by the Nebraska Legislature. Tho stock-yards bill passed the House , by a vote of 87 to 7. The Kansas House, by a vote of 72 to 27, defeated the proposition to resubmit tho prohibition amendment. Republicans and Alliance members voting against tho measure. The President has accepted tho resignation of United States Treasurer Huston and has selected J. A. Lemcke, exState Treasurer of Indiana, as his successor. James A. Lemcke wqs born in Germany and came to this country when a boy. He commanded a transport during the war. He became paying teller of the First National Bank at Evansville, Ind., and later bookkeeper. Ho has tilled the positions of City Clerk, City Treasurer, Sheriff, and Police Commissioner, filling more than one term in nearly all of them. FOREIGN GOSSIP. At London, the failure of Prior, Wotton A Co., timl or merchants, is announced. Their liabilities are estimated at £390,000 M. Fortune de Boisgobey, the wellknown and popular French author of sensational fiction, is dead. Advices from China says: An attempt was made on the night of Jan. 21 to set on tire the China Navigation Company’s steamer Pekin at Shanghai, and it is now believed the burning of the steamer Shanghai, whereby 200 people lost their lives, was the work of some incendiary. FRESH AND NEWSY. At Rio Janeiro the election of General Deodoro Da Fonseca as President of the United States of Brazil took place in tho ■ Federal Congress. He received a nall^rity of 23 votes. General Da Fonseca th?' oatb <>f office as President in tl l^ic^ nce of the two houses of Congress. lie received tho individual congratulations of the members and afterwtirds reviewed the troops. The British ship Jesomenc put out to sea from San Francisco, but was driven within 2( 0 feetof the rocks. The anchors alone saved the vessel from destruction. The tug Relief took the ship in tow, charging §12.000 for the service The vessel and cargo were worth §175,000. William West was hanged at Washington, Pa., for the murder of tho Crouch family May 14. 1890. He attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of iron just before the execution. Henry Marsh was hanged at Ebensburg, Pa., for the murder of Clara Jones at Gallitzin July 6, 1890. Charles Ford was sentenced to be hanged March 21 at Ottawa, 111., for the murder of David Moore June 23, 1890. Authentic advices received at Washington indicate that the Russian exhibit in the coming World’s lair is likely to be the most extensive and varied of al! the foreign exhibits. A company has been formed of leading citizens, bankers, merchants and manufacturers of St. Petersburg and Moscow, who have already subscribed £500,000 for this purpose The Russian Government has been asked to, and it is understood will, contribute another£soo,ooo. The steamship France from Liverpool reached New Y’ork four days overdue and badly battered. A succession of gales was encountered throughout tho passage. The second officer was swept overboard and four men were badly hurt by a heavy sea. The aggregate production of flour by Minneapolis mills for the past week was 112,000 barrels, against 123,330 barrels the preceding b&rrehri ffp-n.- . orTes^Hmdiiig p ‘Tie I in 1890. i-'-W'iii: President has sent to the Senate I the nomination of Henry W. Bair, of NvJW Haini shire, to be Envoy Extraor li- I n'lV anti Minister Plenipotentiary ui uno I iTncfl states to China. Postoffice officials decide that Koch s lymph can be imported in the mails only when consigned to hospitals. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: There is not much change In the condition of trade, but there is a little more dullness at the South and in tho Northwest, with a little more stringency In money markets and complaint about slowness of collections. In general, business is still hesitating. The la rger cause is undoub edIv the partial loss of crops, which has left a great many farmers without means for the* usual purchases. At the same time tho collapse of the real-estate boom which so wildly inflated prices through<iio West and South has affected ! business more than has yet been realized. To this influence is added at the South the extremely low price of cotton, which affects farmers the more because so many of them tried by holding back their crop, to force a higher level of prices. There has been an advance in the average prices of all commodlties, amounting to half of 1 per cent, for the week, but it has been almost exclusively in products of which crops were short The business failures during the last seven days number 290, as against 297 last week. For the corresponding week of । last year the figures were 301. ; The steamer Pennland, which has arrived in New York, reports having • seen the steamer lowa disabled, and the t crew being transferred to an English • vessel. It is thought that she had col- , lided with an iceberg. > Thomas Baker, accused of having killed six men, five whites and one coli ored. in Kentucky, was arrested at Ani tigo, Wis. 4

SENATOR HEARST DEAD. CALIFORNIA’S MINING KING PASSES AWAY. Story of the Millionaire Statesman’s Rapid Rise from Obscurity to Wealth and Fame —He Endeared Himself to Rich and Poor Alike. Senator George Hearst, of California, died at his residence on New Hampshire avenue in this city, says a AVashington, D. C., special. He had been ill for a long time, and in December last went to New York City to consult with Dr. Charles Ward, in regard to his condition. The physician found that he was afflicted wi/;h a complication of diseases, and resulting primarily from a serious derangement of the bowels. Acting upon the physician’s advice he returned to his family in this city, and yielded himself entirely to medical treatment. Absolute quiet and rest was strictly enjoined, and his official duties were lightened as much as possible. Notwithstanding the fact that he received the benefit of tho most careful nursing and the most skillful medical attention, a steady and uninterrupted decline was observed, and it was seen several weeks ago that his case was i a hopeless one. The remains will be I taken to San Francisco for interment. George Hearst was born in Franklin County, Mo., Sept- ?. 1820. His father had gone to that State from North Carolina in 1819. Tho son received only such a limited education as tho common schools afforded in that day. He worked on his father’s farm until 1850, when he caught the gold fever and went to California. For several years he was a miner and prospector, and subsequently by location and purchase, he became the owner of valuable mining interestsand a large employer, having at one time as many as 2,C00 men at work in his mines alone and operating quartz mills that crushed 1,000 tons of ore per day. The increase of his wealth was steady and rapid, and for some years past his Incomi has been something like §I,OOO per day. He has been for a long time chief partner in the extensive mining firm of Hearst, Haggin, Lewis & Co. He owned above 40,000 acres of land in San Luis Obispo County, California, a ranch of 100,000 acres of grazing land in Old Mexico, stocked with a very large herd of cattle, and a fine stable of thoroughbred horses. He was also interested in a large tract of land near Vera Cruz, and in railroad building in Mexico. His fortune at the time of his death was estimated at §20,000,000. Senator Hearst leaves a widow and but one child, William R. Hearst, proprietor of tin San Francisco Ertimlncr. The following tribute to the late Senator is from tho pen of a well-known Californian: “For thirty years or more George Hea’ st has been one of the vital men of the West, one of the individual forces which have inspired and given direction to that quick and vast development of its resources which is one of the material miracles of the century. But it is not as tho mining expert, tho organizer of gigantic enterprises, or the possessor of a great fortune that he will be mourned. It is not an obituary commonplace, but the simple truth to say that his death will bring sorrow t > thousands of hearts. Change of fortune made no change in the man. As a Senator < f tho United States he was the same simple, unaffected, clear headed, warm-hearted George Hearst, who mined on the Feather and Yuba Rivers in the fifties, and took his share of the rough, free life of the claims and cabins To the thousands of the comrades who knew him he remained always as a comrade. Ostentation was abhorrent to a man formed on his rugaed lines, and it will never be known how many successful men owe their beginnings to him or how many broke i lives were made easier to live because of his hidJe i, helping l and. To hundreds upon hundred of the associates and even the a 'quaintanccs of pioneer times he was a good nroj idence. scTthorough a CaliI forniai Mr. Hearst tvas held in affection by all Californians whose experience I reached back to the days when railroads | and the sharp < ompetltion of commercial years" oi” n’Wh "A’.W’A 'J is gling with men of every soT'IWr SKiSt ifluJl^ ■ lertual grade gave him a knowledge of human nature and a sympathy with its defects and weaknesses which kept him free from tho pride of pur c and hardness of feeling that sometimes go with the riches of the. self-made man, and while he had a singularly keen perception of character, and a shrewdness that baffled all pretenders, his heart was tender, his charity groat, and his capacity for forgiveness inexhaustible. “His death is a serious public loss not only to California but to the entire Pacific coast, and peculiarly to Hie miners, ■whose special friend and advocate he was. In the deatli of George Hearst a strong man, an able man, a good, and very humble man lias been taken away. He had a manly, a gentle, and a loving heart. There, will be moist eyes in thousands of Western homes, grand and humble, at the news of his death, and the sorrow will not be least in the cabins dotting the canyons and streams of the Sierras. ” For Sober Tboiight. TVe sadly need to be touched by the power of a great spiritual regeneration; . this common life is pivoted upon two great and radical errors fiom which we ’ can find no refuge except in the spirit of ! the gospel of Christ These are that 1 enjoyment of some kind is the true end ' of life, and second the belief that pain and sufferings are life's greatest calami- ; ties. And when we attempt to con- - struct a theory of life or a plan of so- . ciety upon the basis of these mistakes, we see nothing but inexplicable changes and dismay.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed and Acted Vpon-Gist of the Business. AV hen, in considering tho sundry civil bin on the 24th. the Senate reached the AVorld’s Fair paragraph’, Senator Farwell moved to so amend the bill as it came from the Senate Committee on Appropriations as toIncrease the whole amount appropriated and ex P en Bes fr <h'i 840,000 to $120,000. The motion was lost, however, and the appropriation remains at SIO,OOO. The ^enate confirmed ex-Governor Foster as Secretary of the Treasury. The direct tax bill was passed by the House, after considerable discussion. The bill has already passed the Senate, and now needs the President’s signature to become law. The shipping subsidy bill got another backset, and It. Is now exceedingly doubtful if its advocates will be able to get it before the House again this session. Ihe immigration bill was taken up on the 2.>th. The bill as passed directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide rules for inspection along the Canadian frontier so as not to impede travel between the two countries, and provides tlmt nothing in the act shall be deemod to exclude persons convicted of political offenses, notwithstanding such offenses shall bo denominated as felonious, infamous crimes, a turpitude of the laws of the land from which th© immigrants come or by the court convicting them. The clauses relating to tho admission of other classes of convicts and of paupers and incurables are even more stringent than in the existing law. Senator Gorman announced the death of his colleague in the Senate as soon as the journal was read and offered resolutions expressing the great sorrow with which the Senate had heard of the death of Mr. Wilson. Tho Senate, out of respect, adjourned until the : following day. In the Senate, on tho 25th, tho House amendment to tho direct tax bill was presented and was laid on the table for tho present. Among tho papers presented and referred were numerous protests front cho northwest portion of Nebraska against the ; neglect of the Government in the matter of | disarming the hostile Sioux and asking protection from Indian depredations. The sundry civil bill was then taken up and its consideration resumed. All the amendments were agreed to, and the bill was then passed. The legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill was taken up. In the House there were less than-twenty-five members in attendance. The Senate bill authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Ark., was passed; also the Senate bill for the relief of the assignees of the late John Roach. The House then proceeded in committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) to general debate on the shipping bill. The Vice-President, on the 27th, laid be fore the Senate a message from the President returning without his approval the bill to establish the record and pension office of the AV ar Department. The President states his objection to Jie bill at some length, to the effect, generally, that It is not competent for Congress to nominate a particular person to till an office created by law. The message was referred to tho Committee bn Military Affairs. In the House the Senate bill ivas passed amendatory of the law providing for the selection of school lands. A bill was passed authorizing the Fort Gibson, Tahlequah and North eastern Rai road through the ThiTian 'rerr. —'7 tie— —- House, then in committee of the whole, resumed the consideration of the shipping bill. The House substitute for the Senate bill was read by paragraphs for amendment. The Senate on the 28th agreed to the conference reports on the bills to establish a United States land court, and to define and regulate the jurisdiction of courts of the United States. The House substitute for the Senate tonnage bill was laid before the Senate, and Mr. Frye moved for the appointment of a conference committee. This motion was resisted on both sides of the chamber. In the House Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin. supported the conference report on the bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and after a short debate it was adopted. The conference cn the bill establishing a private land claim court was also agreed to. Conference held between Republicans and Dem ocrats resulted in a tacit agreement that none of tho contested election cases should be called up, and that the Democrats should not place any obstruction in the way of the appropriation bills. In pursuance of this agreement the sundry civil and legislative appropriation bills were sent to confidence© without objection. Took Her or Bric-a-Brac. At a reception recently given by a well-known citizen a young society blood was earnestly engaged in a conversation, and, wi/h his hands behind him, was playing with what he supposed was a piece of bric-a-brac or the arm of a chair. But instead of that it suddenly moved, and he turned to find that he had been rubbing the gloved c”m of a lady, aud moved up as far as u.i elbow. He is a nervous fellow', and in the explanotic>B-f’i&Fdonowed he “Pardon me, madam, but I thought it was a piece of bric-a-brac.” The explanation amused her so greatly that she fell into a convulsion of laughter, and the young man, continuing, and presumably referring to id f ' ■■ .ma.—, lieved me of my extreme embarrassment.” Perhaps it has, but it hasn’t relieved him of the torture of his friends, who are now asking him the price of gloves, and how he is succeeding with his collection of bric-a-brac. — Buffalo Courier. 2 His Father's Trade. “Yes, sir, I am the son of a tanner, like General Grant.” , “The deuce, you are! I don’t suppo e your father understood his business very well.” _ “What do you mean, sir? “That your father didn’t tan you half enough ” — Arco'a Kecor I. “Look at that rabbit, ma.” said little Tot as she curiously watched the peculiar “twinkle” of the animal's features; “overv time he stops to smell anything he seems to stutter with his nose.” Proverbs About Thunder. 1 Thunder in the north indicates cold weather. 1 TnuNDEi: in the norilt indicates dry i weather. Two currents in summer indicate I thunder. T i Much thunder in Jul^ injures wheat ■ and barley. Thunder in the fall indicates a mild, open winter. 3 Wn*EN it thunders in the morning it will rain before night.