St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 February 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. - INDIANA MORE MONEY ORDERS. BETTER FACILITIES FOR RE- * WITTING YOUR DEBTS ' . ' i Memphis, Tenn., Visited by a Most De- ‘ structive Fire-Killed His Tenant lor a | Trifling Cause—British Blab—Transfer of Pine Lands. •

At Washington. In the Senate, on the Bth, a bill was reported and placed on the < alendar for the construction of a boat railway at The MHe Ce ? to Falls Ten and for ° f the Columbl a River wi » A he lm Provement of Three Mile Rapids (appropriating $2,860,356). Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Coma u a bHI to re » eal “ct reso far « J al>pUances °n steamers, so far as .t applies to the carrying of linn Project Hes and the means of propelling I on plyin ’ exclusively f ? of the lakes, bavs. or sounds • The^enV^t!' 1 States ’ and n was P aßs ed. 1 the Senate then went Into executive session. When the doors were reopened the mnv-d' re sumed consideration of the bill . in- li d *7 tor the public printing and binding, and the distribution of public docu- < ]tithout disposing of section 77, • which had given rise to a good deal of dis- < cussion, the Senate adjourned. j '

Million Is in Ashes. At Memphis, Tenn., a fire broke out in Rosin A Hurst’s auction store, No. 322 Main street, and in three hours the entire block was in flames, with most of Hie buildings burned to the ground. The burned block is in the very heart of the city, and the buildings were largely £ houses - The iosswili reach News in a Nutshell. Fire in Larned, Kan., destroyed $125,000 worth of property. The mines at Bilboa, Spain, closed by a strike, have been reopened. Five cases of small-pox have been discovered in Bordentown, N. J. Talton Hall, of Bristol, Tenn., has been sentenced to hang, March 14. • ‘!X° Indians have carried off a young girl from Flagstaff, Ari. A posse is in pursuit. Zenneb > who shot his | sweetheart in New York, recently, took his own life. j at an 8 -y ear -° Id boy living ' hv ' dS Pa ” was boldly abducted by some unknown man. Jl?ry ° f Ban & or > Me -, has 1 naicted eyery liquor seller in that city ; two hundred in all. ■ , wanted at Cllaiborne ■

parish, Louisiana, was killed while resist’ng arrest at Marcell station. Ark. \ The President has recognized Adolph Rosenthal as Consul General of the German Empire at San Francisco.

A t,abge steamer, presumably a Read- : ing ctMipy, went ashore on Brigantine : Shoals, N^ Jersey. No lives were lost. 1 The Supreme Court of Texas held i that receivers of railway companies were not liable for damages resulting in death. b i Cablisle W. Harris, the New York . medical student who murdered his wife by morphine poisoning, has been sentenced to death. । C. C. Dunn, of Minneapolis, has sold to Chicago men 640 acres of pine and timber land in Jackson County, Wiscon- : sin. The price paid was $17,500. Andrew County, Mo., farmers offer S2OO reward for the death of a beast resembling a panther, which has killed and injured a good deal of stock. There was an accident to the mail train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at South Beach, and two brothers, named Adams, were killed. Joseph Hamel of De Soto, Mo., shot and killed his tenant, William Beatty, because the latter refused to return some farming implements that Hamel had loaned him.

Spotted fever is raging near Daingerfield, Texas. Five deaths have been reported, more new cases are develop- ' ing, and the people throughout that sec- ; tion are greatly alarmed. The Adams Express Company is said ' to be discharging members of the Express Brotherhood from its employ. Members of .that union state that it was ! organized for benevolent purposes. English papers say that the action of the United States against Chili has per- ■ manently estranged the whole of Latin America from us, and that the occurrence marks an epoch in the history of the two 1 Americas. The town of Kokomo, Ind., has accepted the Chicago Gas Company’s $lO,- 1 000, and it is expected that gas pipes will be laid as soon as the weather permits. ' The company is required to supply Ko- ' komo with gas at 5 cents per 1,000 cubic ■ feet. | ,

Postmaster General Wanamaker has issued an order giving money-order facilities to all postofllces where the compensation of the postmaster reaches S2OO per annum. Taking the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania. Ohio, and Indiana as a basis, this order of the Postmaster General will not only double the present number of money-order offices but give an excess of about 25 per cent, in addition. Thirty members of a Polish Catholic Church at Beading have been arrested for participating in a fight which broke up the services. Six Philadelphia boys playing with i stolen dynamite were badly injured by ■ the explosion of the stuff; Charles Hawas, i aged 17, is dead. The hanging of Charles A. Benson, of I Leavenworth, Kan., for the murder of Mrs. Mettman, did not take place. A ; stay of proceedings was granted instead, ! pending an appeal of the ease to the Supreme Court, j

I EASTERN. I Gov. Flower has signed the law amending the electrocution act, which provides for the presence of reporters at executions. I Three men lost their lives and four others received dangerous injuries in an explosion of an alcohol condenser at 1 Newark, N. J.

' John Elmer, a country merchant of I Bennett’s Mill, N. J„ died a few days ago, and his heirs have found $50,000 which he had secreted. Pittsburg looms up as the latest candidate for honors. The city authorities have arrested some harmless von th

: and aver positively that he is Tascott. । Benjamin Blum, of New York, has a broken neck, but will live, thanks to the skill of a surgeon who snapped Ben’s vertebra into place after it had been dis- ; located. i New 1 ork legislators have been asked ■’ to pass a bill prohibiting the employment of barmaids by saloons. They are driving men out of the business, it is claimed. t Democrats and Republican legis- ( lators of Connecticut are in a wrangle and the latter left the House the ither day allowing the Democrats to run the । whole business. Johnstown’s gratitude to the world . for favors during the flood was voiced I i at the opening of the memorial hospital. < Resolutions of thanks and other forms ( WPFP fl.anntozl

n ere aaoptea. I A Pittsburg electric-car, containing t thirteen of the non-union employes of . the company, was wrecked by dynamite, j but fortunately no one was seriously inf jured. Strikers did it. ■ | Employes of the Oxford Nail and . * ron Company at Trenton, N. J., who l have been locked out for three months, are actually starving, but their former j employer is indifferent. I The explosion of an alcohol condenser in the hat factory of the J. I Rummell Company, Newark, N J , caused the death of three persons, inI othors > an d partially de- ,' mohshed the building. | One of the most diabolical pieces of train-wrecking that ever occurred in the j West took place on the Chicago and ' Alton Road near Larrabee, Mo. costing three lives. The west bound limited express was sent crashing into a freight, ! both head on, by a misplaced switch. I Market Clerk David Hastings, the first of the Allegheny city, Pa., officials j indicted for embezzlement to be tried , was found guilty of all the counts. He was remanded to jail for sentence. The case of Mayor Wyman for embezzlement and extortion will begin at once. The hearing in the cases brought ’ against Pittsburg (Pa.) newsdealers by 1 the Law and Order Society for selling 1 5 ■ —~ ay Pl ac <' before

, N. Y., were anxious to raise funds to ■ pay off the debt and to buy coal to keep ; the saints and sinners from freezing. So i J they got up a social and six of the pret- . tiest of them sold kisses to the men at ।25 cents apiece. Abia sum was raised

but the social broke up in a fight, for some angular women who weren’t kissed tore their husband’s hair for kissing the pretty ones. Charles Pietri, Jr., a Buffalo res-taurant-keeper, being stricken with a sudden and suspicious illness, left his family in Buffalo and went to his father’s house at Erie, Pa., -where he died in great agony. The coroner held an autopsy, which shows that death resulted from poisoning. The peculiar feature of the case is that Mrs. Pietri’s mother and sister accuse the young wife of the crime. The Hotel Royal, that well-known New York landmark which has stood for more than a quarter of a century at the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Fortieth street, was burned to the ground and a large number of people were burned, suffocated or crushed in the ruins. At the time of the disaster there were nearly 150 guests in the house. The hotel employes all told number fifty-five. The number of dead will probably exceed thii y. WESTERN.

Twenty-five saloonkeepers of Ottumwa have been caught violating the internal revenue laws. Two miners in Deer Lodge, at Buck’s . Gulch, Col., have been imprisoned in a j coal shaft by a snow’ slide. | Depositors of the Kearney (Neb.) bank, which recently stiled, will receive about 80 cents on the dollar. Omaha had an earthquake in which part of a hill toppled over and crushed Saloonkeeper Green’s house. St. Louis carpenters have boycotted the millers of that staid old town who employ non-union carpenters. Clerk Knapp of the Hawdey House, Cleveland, Ohio, while keeping books stole all the profits, amounting to SB,OOO. ' An engineer on the Chicago and Erie Road had his head crushed by a freight • train while leaning out of his cab ; window. ' Farmer Heap, of Hastings, Neb., i worked a shrewd game on his neighbors , 1

and borrowed $7,000. He has been forced to disgorge. From Yankton, S. D., a $523 cash contribution from the Bussian farmers was sent direct to Northern Russia to the famine sufferers. i Joseph Whitcoup, a rich farmer, aged 70 years, committed suicide at Corydon, Ind., by hanging himself in । his smoke-house. i A company of Sioux infantry has been taken to the fort at Salt Lake, ! Utah, to be educated in English and : military tactics. I Joe Mariscano, a fruit merchant of Evansville, Ind., has been bitten by a । tarantula concealed in a bunch of ban- ' । anas. He may die. James Donovan, of St. Paul, held for burglary, John Wilson, a Chicago tramp printer, another alleged burglar, and Chester Bell, a boy under sentence to the Reform School for burglary, broke , out of the Eau Claire, V is., jail and are

hiding in the woods with officers seeking them. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has granted leave to have suit brought to test the apportionment bill passed by the last Legislature. j , A Kansas farmer claims that four j bad men” in Chicago have a cinch on I the wheat market, and are manipulating j deals to suit themselves. Actor Curtis or “Sam’l of Posen” is playing the chief role in one of the last acts of a tragedy. In San Francisco he is on trial for killing Policeman Grant. A most disastrous fire occurred at Morganfield, Ky. The business portion

of the town was destroyed. The total loss was $60,000; insurance about $4,000. The unknown man who has lain at an undertaking establishment in Cincinnati for four days has at last been identified as Newton Mowery, a kidney-cure agent

". H. Maunsell, an Ada, Minn—s^“°ByaPher, was arrested on a charge of forging Judge Mills’ name to a bill Coun^S^^ n° rk in the No ™an County (Minn.) Court. The Commercial and Savings Bank at Kearney, Neb., has been forced to thewall by the withdrawal of public funds, v . ass ets are exceeded by their liabilities to the amount of $25,000. At Omaha the Union Pacific Railway is resting upon a sleeping volcano. Already there are faint mutterings of an one ofth ’ if R COmes thcre wiU one of the biggest strikes known tn rail-

road history. , Over 500 new wells have been c< ■ tracted and stakes driven in the Mo , Peher, Ind., oil field. Derricks t spnnging up like mushrooms Cc servative men think the field is in as; way to rival the Lima, Ohio, fields. L. P. Hunt, Superintendent of t Minnesota Word’s Fair Commission, d Clares that by the first of next mon the commission will have succeeded pledging 75 per cent, of the counties raise their respective portion of the fun o 118 thc aetual subscription . the added SIOO,OOO. At Helena, Mont., Judge Knowles, < the United District Court, decided thi beer is not an intoxicating liquor. 1 was in the case of a man arrested so j selling beer to a Crow Indian, and th decision was that that liquor does no come under the statute which read spirituous liquor or wine.” At Des Moines the lowa Columbia! Commissioners met in joint session witl the Senate and House World’s Fair com mittees, and the conference was addressed by Chief W. I. Buchanan, whe spoke upon the scope of the Expositor as a whole, as ■well as upon the Agricul tural Department in particular. As ai lowa man his address is believed to hav< impressed upon the legislative commit tees the importance of a liberal appro pnation. 1 r At Zarley’s, one mile south of Joliet, Hl., the boiler of Engine No. 47, on thj Alton road, blew up. The "'homas, of Rrightc^. 1

Au rvfvoi^as in iHan >’ I of Bloomington, who had one leg biokeS, head and face crushed and scalded. He is in the hospital alive. The engine was the last new, one turned out of the Bloomington shops—a mogul. An army teamster named Jack Dalton is at Los Angeles, Cal., trying to get anew head of hair. Jack was teamster near the Mexican line when renegade Apaches captured his outfit, shot and scalped him and left him for dead. He made his way to the nearest settlement, but his head was so neglected that he lost all his hair except a little fringe near the ears. Surgeons believe the skin of a dog may be grafted on his head, and Jack is now looking for a doctor who will guarantee the operation. SOUTHERN. J ive deaths from “spotted fever” are reported from Texas. . A. McKemie, station agent at A\ abbeseka, Ark., was assassinated. Engineer Brogan, of Covington, Ky., betrayed Letter Carrier Richard Gray’s daughter. Gray killed Brogan. David Porter, Deputy Collector for the port at Savannah, Ga., was shot and killed by his son for beating the boy’s mother. Miss Johnson, confined in jail at Memphis with Alice Mitchell, who murdered Freda 'Ward, is thought to he going insane. The Turner-Parton factions are warring again, and the hills of Tennessee resound with the merry crack of the rifle j and revolver.

Leon Obregon, editor of a Spanish paper at San Aotonia, Tex., is insane from the effects of grip medicine made from a poisonous herb. C itizens of Duval County, Tex., met and petitioned the Governor for more troops, to ward off such outrages as the recent asassination of Rufus B. Glover. A mob near Hendersonville, Tenn., attacked two negroes who had been ac - quitted of a charge of barn-burning, shot through the window of their cabin and killed their aged mother. The historic old Appomattox CourtHouse was destroyed by fire. The McLean House, in which Gen. Lee signed the terms of surrender to Gen. Grant was at one time threatened with destruction.

At Shelbyville, Texas, five of the men who participated in the lynching of J. O. Shields are in jail. There is fear of lynching the accused and the jail is guarded, as is also the old lady Binson who is protected by guards for fear of ioul work to keep her out of court as a witness. Ihe Louisiana lottery has thrown up the sponge and quit the fight. At least : that is what John Morris and the people i associated with him in the game declare. Its present franchise expires j n 1894, and a renewal will not be asked, ihis is all on account of the recent federal Supreme Court decision that the anti-lottery law is constitutional. William Puckett was hanged at irvine, Ky., for the murder of William Hall. 1 uckett s crime was committed November election day, 1890. Robert Charlton, colored, was hanged at Henderson, Ky., for the murder of his mistress, Minnie Hoskins. He killed her on the night of Nov. 27 because she refused him money with which to play I .

craps.Klush was hanged at Rtanfi^B murdered his wife at Claw 1890 - He tried to implidßmifh, saying his wife knew^Bof Smith’s devilment, and vB talk. Kitical. Tißts carried the municipal electyth. wß^rohibitionists will hold thelßvention in Madison, May’ 31 aW T Jaon declaring Senator Call leg J|d to his seat was unanimoi®ed by the Senate. Twrats of the lowa Legislatur »miy by their old liquor act. Thß^l institute war on private detj n»YER, of Nebraska, will attejrrve bimself from being re-

<--MovW lft administrative chair by Ehe State Supreme Court. j-ME is not a candidate for the r T He makes this official annoiJh in a letter t 0 Chairman Ci Jof the Republican National the opening paragraph O s sis as follows: “I am not a c le for the presidency and m y Kill not go before the Republica/unal Convention for the nominaut make this announcement in duF°n. To those who have tendef their support I owe sinoert thfnd am most grateful for theii cqFO. ”

f FOREIGN. son- f >n ^’ ter is current that Minister Porart tJltaly is investigating the Mafia fair Jeral services were held at Menthe ©France, over the remains of Rev. de- Spurgeon. ith (stria will not permit any penniless in sto cross her borders unless they be to erica-bound. id. ;T Pressburg, Hungary, an explosion a smokeless powder factory cost three Bi their lives. The will of the late Cardinal Manat ng shows that he possessed less than 8100 B 100 at his death. Chinese insurgents are being surO founded and slaughtered without mercy ls>n the border of Manchuria. German divers have examined the rhull of the steamer Eider, and assert Ithat the craft can never again sail. i- Italy and Belgium, and possibly I- Switzerland, propose to retaliate < France’s course in raising tariff rates by 1 following suit. IN GENERAL By Justice Bradley’s will his wife is given the use of his entire property. American trunk lines will transport free of charge all donations to the starving Russian peasants. The eo^y'V^tiyas triumphed at Toin the j 1 TY • — v ,.,, OAWI .

, ^TW^WesTn Louisiana, was shot dead ' while resisting arrest. The anti-lotteryites fear some trick may be played to defeat their scheme for the dissolution of the octopus. The Standard Oil Company will compete with the Bell telephone people after 1893, when the latter’s patents expire. Milliam E. Lee, patentee of a seedseparator, has secured a verdict of sl6 - 000 against the Pillsburys for encroachments on his patents.

Canadians have sent the captain oi the steamer Glendon a new union jack in appreciation of his conduct in refusing to haul down the British ensign. The big iron-beam trust f rmed two years ago and embracing most of the immense rolling-mills of the East and some of the West, has been dissolved. M innipeg people are all wearing stiff, high collars, and keeping their eyes open for some miserrant who is following in the footsteps ot New York’s "Jack the Kipper. , The representation of the United States in the approaching negotiations on the Behring Sea matter has been placed in the hands of John W. Foster of Indiana. ’ The Government contemplates the location of a new meteorological observatory at some suitable point in Indiana, and -will possibly place it on the new State fair grounds. MARKET REPORTS,

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TOLEDO. ’ ' 2 Wheat—New @ 94 Cohn-No. 2 Yellow 59 41 Oais—No. 2 White 31U;@, .32'4 .84 * BUFFALO. Beef Catil-: 4.00 5.75 L veHogs 3.75 ( „ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 99 i.Oj Cohn—No. 2 43 @ 45 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 8G @ 18 Corn—No. 3 37 , 38 Oats—No. 2 White 31V. $ .32'4 Rye—No. 1 88 @ .81 Barley—No. 2 53 @ 57 Pork—Mens 11.75 @,12'25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.(0 Hogs 3.00 (tt 4.75 Sheep 4.10 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1,07 Cohn—No. 2 50 @ .52 Das—Mixed Western 35>£© .377 Butter—Creamery 22 : 2 ' Pure—Mess 0.75 @10'75

HOLOCAUST IN A HOTEL. NEW YORK HAS ANOTHER FIRE HORROR. At Least Twenty Were Killed and Twice That Number Injured in the Hotel Royal Conflagration—Some Burned Alive, Others Dashed to Death on the Pavement. i Victims of a Fire Trap. | A fire began in the Hotel Royal, in ' New York, at the northeast corner of Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, at 4 o’clock the other morning, and caused the loss of many lives. It swept through the building like lightning. The guests had no warning of their danger until awakened by the crackling of the flames and by the suffocating smoke. They rushed to the halls and were driven back by the fire that even then was buring through the w’alls and doors of their rooms. They ran to the windows. There was but one stationary fire escape. Not all the rooms were furnished with the rope escapes that the law requires. Because of almost criminal slowness in sending out the alarm there were no firemen with ladders to aid the frightened people when they’ came to the windows. Numbers leaped out. Five were killed instantly’ outside the walls. Dozens were hurt. There were 165 or 175 persons in the hotel when the fire started. Not ail ’ their names are known, because a thief j stole the register when the fire first J . broke out. But even the register would not tell the story, for many of the transient guests at the hotel were of the kind

who register under aliases. The list of dead is not complete, nor will it be for some time. The walls fell in, and the bodies of those burned are under the debris. It may be that the dead will not number more than twenty. They may number twice as many. The list of missing telegraphed numbers forty. A large proportion of these persons are probably safe, though they may never be publicly accounted for. It ith five corpses in the morgue, eighteen persons recorded as injured, forty as missing or inquired for, and fifty-two as known to be safe, there are fifty persons still of whom nothing has been heard of one way or another, if there were 165 persons in the house. It is probable that nearly all of these fifty escaped. The flames seemed to break out of the whole roof at once and th dr glare lighted . the street like day. There were one or two frantic persons at every window in ■ the house. They held out their hands : appealingly. They It aned out and over the sills, clutching at the air. Here and there was a cool cne, prolably a dozen in - the lot. They knew enough to use the rope fire-escapes that were in the ' rooms and clambered tut and slid down them. Here and there a man or woman leap d upon a window sill and stood a moment and then sprang wildly off. Two men dived head first from the third s floor on the fortieth street side. One fell flat on the pavement and was picked up + with every bone in his body apparently broken. The other struck sidewise on his head and that was smashed and crushed shapeless. Two women leaped * from one window on the third floor on the e same side. They had stood a moment ’V’ arms. They PrlOfcil. IkA.i-f. ... . i

f« 11 apast, one dead, one unconscious on the pax ement. 1- rom the same window leaped two men. One shrieked wildly as he cut through the air. He did not move after he fell, and he was dragged away dead. His companion landed on his feet and sank down and fell over. He writhed about on the pavement just a moment. Then he leaped to his feet and dashed off across Fortieth street. He was not seen again. Probably his mime or his alias is in the list of missing. The fate of those who fell could be

if seen by those who clung to their places k in the windows, and made some of them . hesitate to follow. Some who leaped escaped unhurt. Some of them turned and shouted to the others to hold their o places and not to jump. The excited e crowd in the streets shouted “Jump!” 1 and "Hold on!” in turn. Ihe ladders reached only to the third floor at first. One that touched the fourth floor was put up finally, and men and women were eaAried down that. 1 But there was no help for the unfortun- > ates on the fifth floor. Little could be seen of them from the street. I The smoke that came from the lower ; floor seemed to rise to the top and hang i there like a great cloud. Occ sionally a gust of wind would clear it away for a moment, and forms could be seen , hanging from the windows. The people there screamed to the firemen, but their cries were not heard. In the excitement on the other floors every one seemed to forget that there was a floor not reached by the ladders. Once, when the smoke cleared away, a woman was seen to dive headforemost out of a window on the top floor. Her companion, a man seized her skirts. They held a moment, and then slipped from her. She fell on the balcony. The man climbed out of the window, hung from the sill, and then dropped. A rope escape was hanging from the window under him, and he managed to seize that and checked the force of his fall. He landed on the balcony beside the woman’s body. Picking her up, he climbed on the ladder and was coming down with it. A policeman took the body from him. He leaped then himself from the ladder and dashed across the street. He was AV. L. Harmon. He was nearly suffocated, but was otherwise unhurt. This couple were the last that got out of the building. There were no more faces at the windows. Indeed, it was not possible that any one could be in the building and be alive The whole house was a mass of flames' The building was a fire-trap, Chief I Bonner said. The lightning rapidity with which the flames ate up the inte- ' rior and the readiness with which the , walls fell down go to prove the statement. The New York Building Bureau was stricken dumb by the disaster. - ^asculii i ies.

A new finger ring is of seven fine gold wires. If any* love is blind it is a mother’s love tor her only son. 1 aking a gentleman’s arm, and vice versa, is going out of vogue. I he latest feminine fancy is steaming the cheeks for the complexion. I-or every foot of stature a man should weigh twenty-six pounds. The devil never falls out with a man who is well pleased with himself. Young women are not allowed to graduate from German universities. A dose of cod liver oil can be nicely disguised in a swallow of tomato catsup. KE is no P arti ™lar harm in riding 1 I

THE NATIONAL SOLONS SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. thir National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing; for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussedj ; and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. 1 Tn the Senate, the 2d, House bill to amend the act for the construction of a railroad and wagon bridge across the Mississippi River at South St. Paul, Minn., was reported and passed. It extends the time and changes the location about one mile. The Committee on Privileges and Elections made a report in the case of the Claggett-Dubois contest for , a seat in the Senate from the Stateof Idaho, in favor of Mr. Dube s. The report and resolutions lie ou the table and will be taken up at an early day. Mr. Palmer introduced a joint resolutionto amend the Constitution so as to liavfi United States Senators elected by popular vote, and gave notice that he would O|> some convenient occasion address the Sens ate on the subject. The following bills were then passed: Appropriating §100,003 for a public building in Grand Forks. N. D. To increase the endowment of the Louisi- , ana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Southern University of Louisiana. (Granting 02.160 acres of the public lands in Louisiana.) ' The Senate then went into executive ses- ‘ sion, in which some nominations were re- ' ferred to committees, and adjourned. The b House is still discussing rules. I ! The House spent another monotonous • day in the discussion of the rules on the j 3d inst., but it was marked by the adoption I of an amendment which provides that all

UIUVGUIIIVUU Senate amendments to House bills, othe’ - than appropriation bills, shall be considered as soon as laid before the H<»use by the Speaker. In the Senate the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating so marriage and divorce was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate bill for the creation of a fourth judicial district in the Territory of Utah was passed. The Mil appropriating $350,000 for an extension of the public building at Los Angeles, Cal., was passed, also the bill to pay the State of West AHrginia the sum due it under the direct tax law. The bill for postoffice buildings in towns where postoffice receipts are $3,000 a year was discussed and went over without action. The public printing bill then came up and was amended by adding the words, “but the provisions of the eisht-hour law shall apply-” Without disposing of the bill the Senate adjourned. I In the Senate, the 4th. Mr. Brice introiuced a bill for the erection of a monument it Put-in Bay, Ohio, to commemorate the aat.le of Lake Erie in 1813. Referred. Mr. Peffer offered a resolution, which was agreed to, changing the day tor holding special services in raemary of the late Senator Plumb to Thursday, Feb. 18. The report as the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the case of the Flor1 ida Senators (declaring Mr. Call entitled to the seat) was taken up for action, and the report was read, aiosing with the sentence: “The appointment of Mr. Davidson was an act of mere irrelevancy, which it is not necessary further to notice.” After a long debate the resolution was agreed to without a division. The Senate then adjourned till the Bth. . Thc House agreed ts .E <X,e ri * le3, Mr Dickerson, of Kentucky, offered a 1 resolution directing the Committee on Ju- ’ iliciary to make an investigation and report 1 whether Congress has the con-tituUoual ; -iggi. hnn. u

i Senate bill was passed * y and creation of a Fourth Ju. / the Territory of Utah. ' XA Horse’s Weight. . Many people, even among those who 1 requently make use of horses, have ittle idea what an ordinary horse weighs ind would have hard work to guess whether a given animal, standing beore their eyes, weighed five hundred or Mteen hundred pounds. Yet they would have no such difficulty with a

s nan, and would probably be able to i guess, especially if they were good 1 Yankees, within ten or twenty pounds of 1 his weight. r The governments of Europe have 1 long been purchasing and weighing horses for the military service, and transferring them from carriage or draught employment to the various * branches of the cavalry and artillery’. The animals are ordinarily assigned according to weight. The French military authorities find that an ordinary light carriage or riding horse, such as in the United States would be called a “good little buggy horse, weighs from 380 to 400 kilogiammes say from 850 to 900 pounds, Such horses as these are assigned to the light cavalry corps. The next grade above, which in civil life passes as a “coupe horse,” or carriage horse of medium ’weight, ranges ‘ n ? e *gßt up to 480 kilogrammes, about l,ouo pounds. This horse goes to mount the cavalry of the line. Next comes the fashionable “coach aorse” of persons of luxury, which weighs from 500 to 580 kilogrammes, or from 1,100 to nearly 1,300 pounds. Thesehorses go to serve the purposes of drill tor the cavalry belonging to the reserve military forces. Above these there are still two grades of heavy horses. The first are those used for ordinary draught purposes and are commonly found drawing the omni^aris - These weigh from 500 ° 700 kilogrammes—l,loo to nearly l,aoo pounds. The heaviest horses are the Clydesdales and Percheron , which are oxen stren Kth, arid which weigh B °°’ and some times even up to 900 kilogrammes; that is, from 1 300 up to nearly 2,000 } ounds. None of these Percherons of the aeayiest weight are employed in the military service; but some of the lighter ones are used for draught and artillery purposes. J About Men and Women. AA ithout noble desires no man can lead a noble life. The Earl of Dudley has his life insured tor $6,000,000. A New Haven man has worn the same eoat for thirty-five years.

The Austrian Emperor receives a yearly salary of $3,750,000. No man is so ignorant that you cannot learn something from him. Harri y . Wood, of Lansing, Mich • Cd hIS shoulder while stretching himself. 0 * Other people are least satisfied with those women who are best satisfied with themselves. Silver articles are called “plate” nom the Spanish word plata, which means silver. A Colorado cat viciously attacked a burglar and forced him to withdraw seriously wounded. If an old man only knew as much as > * young one thinks he does, how this aid globe would whirl.