Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 April 1896 — Page 2

FULL TICKET NAMED. SPAIN MUST REFORM. SENATE AND HOUSE. THE ILLINOIS PROHIBITIONISTS CHOOSE CANDIDATES. OLNEY CABLES INSTRUCTION TO MINISTER TAYLOR. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. JLYKOUTH. INDIANA.

(Efyc3nbcpcitbcnt IM-"I121t3IA' SMITH, Publisher and Prcp-ie'.ors

HAINES LAW IS WEAK.

NEY YORKERS EASILY EVADE ITS PROVISIONS. Kctnlts in Opening Scores of Alleccil Hotels-Unfavorable Weather Has Adverse liffect Upon Trade-Gould Boye the Kailroads Are Throttled. Drink Go with Beds. The Haine law 1 ii not give New York A dry 'Sar.day. It only reduced the namLit of places whero liquor could bo oltainod to the city's 7t hotels, and added the price of r. sandwich to the cost of a drink. The whole question of Sunday prohibition depended 0:1 whether the proprietor had ten bedrooms somewhere about his place of business or not. In most of these room the necessary furniture had simply In on thrown in. and if any man upplied for hedging in those subterfuge hotels he would bo turned away. But of the city's 7,w lmrrooin saloons not one was open. The screens Mere thrown lark and the bars plainly exposed to view fnni the streets. No policemen stood guard at side doors. In Frookyn all that the thirsty desired to drink vms obtained hi the samo manner. There were mere evidences of drunkenness on the streets there than in New York, however. A inmilT of arrests of saloonkeepers were made, but as the law is coming to Ik? letter understood its infractions lire decreasing. It is; evident, however, that tlie opon sesame to cold bottles ia New York is the inoffensive sandwich. Gould Wants the Law Kcpealed. (Jcorge Could, who was at Dallas. Tex., to fitt nd the annual meeting of the Texas uml Pacific, in an interview on the subject of railroads, said: "What we need is some legislation looking to the relief of the railroads. Two-thirds of the railroads of the eountry sire either in the hards of receivers or have recently loen reorganize! and ::ie trying it again. I attribute this bankruptcy of the railroads of the country almost entirely to the operation of the interstate commerce law. That law has paralyzed the railroads, and they will never prosper again until it is rejtoalcd, nor will you see any more roads building while that law is in effect. The laws are too oppressive on invested capital. The repeal of the interstate commerce law, for instance, would help the country amazingly by permitting existing roads to prosper and by encouraging the building of other roads. This would throw life into the railroads and other collateral industries at once." No Life in Trade. R. C. I;:n A: Co.'s Weekly IVview of Trcdo ss:ys: "The volume of business has not en the whole increased, nor have priees appreciably advanced since April 1. when the range for all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. Hrendstuffs and iron products have risen slightly, but some other articles have declined, and the rout of the matter is that demand for consumption is still below exlactations. The number of hands employed has loen slightly lessened by strikes in some establishments and by stoppage or reduction in force in other?, but the charge during ihe last week has not teen relatively important. The weather has not favored active distribution of spring goods, and uncertainly as to continued employment affects the purchases by hands in u large number of establishments."' Taken to His Own Morgue. While trying to take n man to prison In October, lbt0, Solon lloydston. coroner of Wayne County, (., was killed at Orrville. The prisoner resisted and both men fell on the track of the Cleveland, Akron find Columbus Railway, where they were (truck by an engine. The prisoner, a tramp, lost n leg, while Koydston was killed. That the man cut to pieces was lloydston was not discovered until after the remains had lain in IJoydston's own undertaking rooms for two hours. His wife, Kate Iloydston, now of Chicago, cued the company for $0,mni damages for causing the death of her husband. The first jury awarded her $1.rH) and the second .1M(0. lloth erdiets were set aside. The third trial emlel 1'riday morning. wl.cn the jury Ottilie in wiih a verdict allowing Mrs. liovdstoii .."i.mjo. Death of Jno. A. Cockcrill. Col. John A. Cockcrill. widely known as an editor and newspaper writer, died mddenly at Cairo, Fgvpt. Friday from iijx.Iejiy, wliiL' he was in the K-irhcr shop of Shcphc-.l's Hotel. Col. Cockcrill was in the service of James Cordon Heimelt of the New York HeraM, for whom lie had lecn in Ftrypt for tl'ice weeks. He left New York in January, IMC, to become the IleraMV sjK-cial correspondent in Japan. NEWS NUGGETS. lit. Iter. Itishop Hyjin .f the Catholic diocese of Huffalo, died Friday at the episcopal residence in Raffalo. At Imluth, Minn., William Verill and Joseph Soular were sentenced to he hanged for the murder of Samuel de Mars at Itcwal.ik on Jan. !. last. Verill is IS years of age and Soular 17. The murder was a most brutal one, and was delib erately planned. At Cleveland. Justice Hart has dec ided that Itishop Wiilinm 15. Camplicll, of the African Fvangclieal Mission Chunh, is not guilty of em!o:'.zlen:ent, upon which charge he was arrested some time ago at the instance of a men her of elders and deacons of the church. It was alleged that the bishop had coHvetod JfrWMI for the establishment of a training school and had failed to aceount for the same. ton. John I'. Jones, of Nevada, died lit San Francisco Friday evening. Sov. Jones had been ill for several months. Schlatter, the healer, after fasting forty days on a ranch near Sorooeo. X. M.. was discovered ty a croud anxious to bo heal ed and immediately disapicarcd, travel Ing westward on his white horse. Hall & Ciarrison, Philadelphia, mann facturers of picture frames and molding, mnde nu nnsigntneut to Senator John C Grady for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are estimated at $'27 U , while the assetb are supposed to le us much.

COST OF PRODUCING SILVER. WE are told that silver is cheaper than formerly because it (-cms less to produce it. This is a IkiUI assumption. No one knows what it costs to produce either gold or silver in the aggregate; but Intelligent investigators believe that they both cost a great deal more than tbey are worth after they are produced. Mining for the previous metals is very largely a game of chance. Occasionally there Is a rich lind, and the lucky miner amasses a fortune very quickly. This stimulates others, who waste both time and money iu vain search. Every estimate of the cost of production is based upon productive mines onl.v. No record has ever been kept of the countless days of labor spent in prospecting, or the untold millions of money expended upon so-called "mines" that were simply shafts aud tunnels. Nothiug could more conclusively demonstrate the recklessness of the gold champion than the attempt to show "that silver has fallen in value becauseof reduced cost in producing, when there is not an authoritative record extant which pretends to give the cost. There is no doubt that a given amount of mining development can now be performed with less money than twenty years ago; but that is owing rather to the general fall of prices, than to im provements In mining processes. Moreover it applies to geld mining just as much as to silver. A very large propor tion of the gold and silver produced av found together in the same mine, in the same ore, and are extracted by tin? same identical process. Still they tell it that gold is worth SlM an ounce because it costs that amount to produce it. while silver is only worth OS cents. "because it can be produced at that ClSt. A lew years ago prominent gold advocates were busily engaged proving (V) that silver could, be produced for from "14 to 41 cents an ounce."' Ac cording to the theory of labor cost," it should only have been worth 14 to 41 cents an ounce. Hut it so happens that it was worth about W. In 1 &.. the Fast Indian mint closed, and silver dropped in two or three days about one-fourth of its entire market price. "What becomes of the "labor cost'' theory in view of that fact? The truth is That the actual cost of mining a given amount of silver is Increasing rather than diminishing, for two reasons: First, because the richest deposits are 'generally worked out, and the mines are now operating upon ores of lower grades; and second, the older mines are all the time becoming deeper, and more powerful machinery is required. It is very singular that reduced cost tof production should make silver so much cheaper, while gold produced in the same way and with equal improve'meuts Is constantly becoming dearer. ' Hut the claim has no foundation either of fact or sound economic theory to rest upon. The labor cost does not fix the value of anything. That is controlled by the supply relative to the demand. The cost of producing only has an incidental effect. It influences production, and production affects the price. If a given article sells for $1 and can lw produced for 00 cents, of course the profit is very great. Many people will engage in that work. As n result the supply will be increased and the price will fall. When a thing can be produced practically without limit, of course the supply will be increased right up to the full measure of the demand, and at the lowest cost that will pay for production. Hence there is, in general, sonic con neotion between the cost of production and the price of the commodity. Hut In the case of the precious metals "the labor cost only has :i very remote bearing. A man cannot take his pick and shovel, start our and dig up gold and silver at will. All he can do is to search for them, and he may scratch a lifetime without success. National Iiitnetallis:. How Very IuttcnioiiK. It is customary for the gohlbug press to denounce everything looking toward bimetallism as inflation aud to conjure up all the horrors imaginable and possible whenever Inflation Is mentioned. The Johnson biil has been favorably rciirted iu the House. It permits national banks to Issue circulating notes to the par value of the bonds deposited as security. The obsequious Boston Advertiser asserts that there Is "no reasonable objection to the measure," and further that: "The argument sought to be based upon alleged danger of an 'inflation of the currency' is totally fallacious. So long as the security that every paper dollar will be redeemed in coin is perfectly ample, :iim1 so long as the gold standard is fully ma intaiiyd the volume of national bank currency never can be duly 'inflated;' for the moment that volume exceeds the legitimate wants of business the batiks will lind there is no demand for the oxees. therefore will lind their Interest In curtailment rather than in expansion." How very ingenious! Every intelligent citizen knows that the present ciirrency system Is not adapted to the wants of the country; that It Is unsafe; that it Is not elastic; that it Is a system Of false pretenses. Pray, how will It help the country

to silll further place the national currency in the hands of a few men. whose private interests come lirst and are looked out for lirst: who could produce a bankers panic every year, as they did in 1M:5: who might curtail or expand the circulation, as they found it would serve their own interests? Co to.-Ftley's Weekly.

A Senseless Claim. The claim that England's wealth and commercial supremacy are owing to the gold standard is just as senseless as the one concerning China, etc. Every student of history knows that England's financial power long antedates her adoption of the gold standard. When America was discovered, and its colonization began, the commercial front of Europe was shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. England's insular position naturally made her a commercial nation. Englishmen have always ltoon bold and determined seamen. Nearly 4x years ago her conquering career on the ocean began. The destruction of rhe Spanish Armada In löss virtually made her mistress of the seas, and gave her the commercial supremacy she still enjoys. During the Napoleonic wars, although using paper exclusively, she furnished the money which finally enabled the allies to overthrow- France, and she never adopted the gold standard until Napoleon's power had been broken aud he was an exile upon the barren rock of St. Helena. In IMG for the first time she adopted gold as the base of her monetary system, and it was several years after that before she resumed specie payments. Iu fact, England was never actually upon the single gold s'andard i except in name) uutil 1873. The action of France in coining bot it metals freely at the ratio of ö'-. to 1. made the whole world, England included, practically bimetallic. She used gold for circulation nt home, but for her foreign trade, she employed silver at the French ratio, w'henever it suited her convenience t j tio so. Kut while the adoption of the gold standard was not the foundation of England's financial strength, there can be no question that the demonetizatiou cf silver has added enormously to the wealth of her creditor classes. England is the great creditor nation C the world. All moneys payable to l?r iu England, of course, must be in Sold, and with silver demonetized in other countries, that gold is made more valuable. Any debts due England payable here, irviy be paid in lawful money of the United States, unless otherwise stipu lated. Therefore, if the "lawful money of the United States means rhe equivalent of gold, that Is also made ul'ore valuable by outlawing silver ji't as winter wheat would be raised i value by prohibiting the use of spring w'heat. This is why England stands like a stone wall in the why of an intcrnationa". agreement for the restoration of silvvr. She Is dominated by her creditor classes who are interested in making u'juey "dear." Vhey are not afraid of being a etna 11 r pid in silver, but they know that if tin vJiite metal is completely reinstated a? money, it will reduce the value of U eir gold. Five Yearn' Gold Movement. Iu discussing the scramble for gold ajjüong the European nations, Watson &, Gibson present compilations from IEconomiste Europeeu of the gold holdings of twenty-two large and small banks abroad, as well as the private tnnksuf emission ot Sweden and Sw itz erland, on Dee. Ill of the following years: lso, $;7o.iHjMW; 1MH, .M, 112.400.000: lSr $l.LiLtJo.0o0: is!3 .?i,i:i7,(Hio,otH; i.v.M, $i.4oo.oon.tuo; ISOo, $lr3LVXJ0,000. In fin? years these European banks have increased their holdings of gold .Umkunhi. In this country on Dee. 31, 1SIK), the United States Treasury held net gold amount ing to $148,07L(00, and the New York City banks held $77,N12.mm specie, a total of srjO,7.S1.000. On Dec. Ill, S, the treasury held $H.1!üL.0m) net gold, and on Dec. L'7 the New York Kinks held $7,114,000 specie, a total of $l.",0,.17G.0OO, or a loss in five years of $(.!,- 40S,0oo. The Manufacturer. According to the above figures, those twenty-two European banks, tho United States Treasury and the New York banks hold more than two-fifths of all the gold coin known to exist. The probabilitj' is that they hold a gnat deal more than that proportion, because of the aggregate of more than four thousand millions, there nie many hundreds of millions that cannot be located at all. Aside from the known deposiJo in the banks, the figures are lojse os'.':natci. For example, by the last mint report the amount in the United Srates 1 placed at six hundred and thirty-five millions of dollars, but v.o authority has attempted to show the location of even four hundred millions of It. No doubt considerable sums are hoarded away, but money hoarded does no good in business. It might as well not exist. The irreal bulk of the available gold is eltficr held or absolutely controlled by the great banks of the world. No wonder they want the gold standard. What n vast deal of time and ease that man gains who is not troubled with an impertinent curiosity about others.

Ilnle Johnson the Nominee for Governor Second IMnce Goes to Wind! Alonzo E. WiIsonf of Chicago, Bee retory of State; A. J. Itarrett, Auditor

Declare for Free Silver. The Prohibitionists of Illinois in State convention assembled tit Springfield adopted a platform declaring for the prohibition of the liquor traffic; giving the. right to vote to women and men; extension of the civil service system to all grades of public service; free schools to children; observance of Sunday; a tariff commission representing all political partie?; election of Fnited States Senators by direct vote of the people and free coinfife of siivcr. A lively light was precipitated on the adoption of the financial plank of the platform. The majority report c was in favor of "issuing gold, 'silver and paper by the Government only in sufficient quantity to meet the demand of business and give fuli opportunity for the employment of labor and to be full legal tender for all debt?, public and private." The minority report added the words: "That the Government should not discriminate in favor of gold as against silver, and that its mints should be open up n equal terms to both at the ratio now established by law." After ft heated discussion, in which about 100 delegates participated, the minority nport was finally adopted by a vole of f2V2 to 10'J. Dr. Hvane. of Uedding College, was selected to take charge of the campaign fund, and S-AM) was subscribed by the delegates present as a starter. After the adoption of the platform tho convention adjourned until the following morning, when a full State ticket was nominated as follows: Governor Hale Johnson Lieutenant Governor C. A. Windle Secretary of State . . . .Alonzo F. Wiison Auditor A. .7. Hassctt Treasurer K. K. Hays Attorney General Itobert II. l'attou University Trustees Miss Lucy 1. Gaston. Mrs. Carrie L. Grout, Mrs. Klla, M. Orr. United Stairs Senator Han It. Sheen A resolution was adopted requesting Congress to pass a law to prohibit the manufacture, sale or importation cf liquor into the District of Columbia, the Territorics?and military reservations of the United States and to repeal ull tax and license laws. THE SAILORS' FRIEND. Samuel riiniBOll, Who l!af Spent His Life for Seafaring Men. Samuel ITunsoll, who is now seriously ill in Lond-n, has spent most of his life in trying to help the seafaring man. For many years he has been called the sailors' friend. He is the fourth son of Thorn and Friscilla riimsoll, and was born at Hristol in lb-4. When he was but a small child he removed with his parents to Penrith, and it was liere he was given his early education by the curate of the parish. He was later sent to Sheffield to attend a private school fit that place, lie started out in life as a clerk in a solicitor's office, then tried clerking in a brewery and was promo to J o the position of manager. In that capacity he remained until 1SÖ3, when he went to London and opened a business for himself. He successfully contested Derby in tho liboral interest in 108 and 6a t for that town in 1SS0, when the. pave up his seat to Sir William Vernon Ilarcourt. This was nn act of great unselfishness on -the p.irt of the man. lie 3ad gone into Parliament for the express purpose of helping the sailors and gave up his seat from the Fame moiive. He was convinced that a cabinet minister would le able to rentier herter service to the cause of the sailors than n private member, and hence made way for Ilarcourt. His career in Parliament was useful, and he was instrumental in passing acts for the amendment of the shipping' laws in 1S71, 1S73, 1S75 and 1STÖ. In 1S77 Mr. IM im soli published "Our Seamen," and since then wrote and published a sequel to it.. In 1SIX) he published a -work on "Cattle Ships." When the National Amalgamated Sailors' and Firemen's Union of Great llritain and Ireland was organized in 1S1) Mr. LMimsoll accepted the presidency of the union, but afterward retired. Sparks from the Wires. Newell Dutehe and Frank Moore were drowned by the capsizing of the oyster boat Mattic L. Ford at Ikidgeton, N. J. George F. Dowling, aged 50, a wealthy banker and lumberman and past grand master Mason of the State, died at Montague, Mich. All hope of saving the sixty miners who were entombed in a mine at llrunnerton, New Zealand, by an explosion of firedamp, which killed five men outright, has been abandoned. Judge Gibbons, nt Chicago, declined to Appoint a receiver for the National Liutoed Oil Company and dtMiiisscd for want of equity the bill filed by Louis A. Coquart! asking for the receiver. John Meltoberts and wife and their 7 year-old daughter were run over by a witch engine at Topekn, Kan. Meltoberts and wife were instantly killed. The daughter was severely injured. The grand national steeplechase of 2,500 povcreiffns was run over the Ain tree course and was won by D. CI. M. Campbell's The Soarcr; Färber OTTynn was second and Biscuit was third,

"Wh? S. ri.IMOM..

Calls Attention to Ilroken Troinlee Awful Kecord of a Murderer in a Michigan Town Ancient German Scandal Keenltet in a Duel.

To Intercede for Cnba. An important olfioial dispatch bearing on Cuban affairs has been sent to Madrid from the State Department. It was signed by Secretory OIney and addressed to Minister Taylor. In it was laid down the attitude of the cdminUtnition in the Cuban question. The dispatch is a long one. Its four principal points are: 1. The President proposes that Spain accept mediation on the part of the United States looking to a settlement of existing differences Itetween the Spanish Government and the Cubans. 2. It refers to the correspondence between the State Department and the Madrid authorities in 1S70, in which Spain promised to inaugurate governmental reforms in Cuba, which promise, it is said, has not been fulfilled. . It says the present rebellion ia Cuba is more serious and widespread than any which have arisen in recent years, and that the insurgents coutrul practically all of Cuba except Havana and the near neighborhood. 4. It assures Spain of the kindliest motives on the part of the United States in seeking to bring about a pacific condition of uffairs in Cuba, and urges tbat the good offices of this country be accepted in the spirit proffered. Shoots Five Dead. A bold attempt Mas made on the life of William It. O. Sands, president of the Sands & Maxwell Lumber Company, of Pentwater, Mich., Thursday night. Mr. Sands had been at the office of the com1 pany engaged in work and left for his home shortly after 0 o'clock. When within a few yards of his home a man jumped from behind a corner of a street and commenced hring nt him with a gun. Mr. Sands ran across the street to his home, tho would-be assassin following and keeping up a fire. Five shots were fired in all, three finding resting places in Mr. Sands' right arm and one in the log. Suspicion pointed to II. . Minehall, a local insurance agent and attorney, and it was decided to place him under arrest. The officers found his residence locked and broke in the door. A horrible sight was presented. Mrs. Mine hall was lying upon the floor of the sitting room with a bullet hole in her temple. Near her was the dead body of her daughter Ruby, ubout 10 years of nge. Ina corner of the same room lay Minchall w ith an empty revolver clutched in his hand. He, too, was dead. In nn adjoining bedroom were found the bodies of George, aged 4, and his infant brother. They were in bed together and death had evidently come upon them while they slept. The motive for Minchall's crimes is Mill a mystery. Minchall came three years ago from Chicago. Ancient German Scandal Kevivetl. There was a sensation in Berlin court and military circles Friday morning when it was announced that another duel growing out of the great coitrt anonymous-letter scandals had taken place in the woods near Potsdam, nnd that Baron von Schräder, master of the ceremonies of the Prussian court, had been shot and seriously wounded by Count von Kotze. The latter was formerly court chamicrlain, and was acquitted on thegharge of being the author of the anonymous communications alluded to. Itaron von Schräder was taken to a hospital, where his wound was pronounced to be of a most serious nature. Count von Kotze" s arrest has been ordered, and his friends say he will surrender to the authorities whenever nnd wherever called upon to do so. This is the third duel of the series of about a dozen for which challenges were sent out last April by Count von Kotzo, and he repeated Friday his announcciuent of his determination to keep. on lighting his enemies, one by one, until he has settled accounts with all on his list. Those who know Count von Kotze fool confident that he will keep his won!. Iltidget for Fortification. The Houive Committee on Appropriations Friday reported the bill for fortifications and other works of defense, for their armament, and for heavy ordnance for trial and serviee, fur the fiscal year which begins next July. The bill recommends specific appropriations amounting to J?..S PJ.OlKi, und in addition authority is given to the Secretary of War to make contracts for the further expenditure of $r,ri4i!,0HJ by the engineer and ordnance departments, making a total authorized expenditure of $11,:M.imh. BREVITIES," Affairs look so serious in Spain that American tourists are leaving the country. King Mcnelek, of Abyssinia, is reported to be negotiating for an alliance with the dervishes. A New York delegate to the BepuWican national convention proposes to go to St. Louis on a bicycle. Troops B and K of the Seventh Cavalry have leen ordered transferred from Fort Sheridan to the department of Colorado. It is stated that glanders are rife in the quarantine for imported horses at Liverpool, and it is reported that out of 100 Canadian horses in one depot forty are Buffering from the disease. United States Senator Klkins is the father of n bill to place a disc riniinatim; duty of 10 per cent tut all goods imported into this country iu vessels not sailing under the Fnited States flag. John Hays, a clerk iu the general store of 1. T. Hays, his brother, at Puento. Cab, was shot and killed by two masked robbers. John Pugsley was found dead in a New York tenement. He had lived in abject poverty, but left more than .Sl.oOO,tKKJ in real estate in ltrooklyn, Baltimore and Florida. Measles is running its course in the President"? family, and Friday morning Buth, the lirst horn, contracted the disease. Little 1'sther i.- progressing rapidly toward recovery, and so far Haby Mariou has not shown signs of the ailment. Henrietta Grossman, leading holy for the Frohmans, has legun suit for divorce at YouiiKstown, Ohio, alleging nonsuppoi t nnd drunkenness. The garrisons which were !oleagued by the Aehincpc insurgents on the island of Java have loen n lieved. Forty Dutch soldiers were killed or wounded.

A Week's Proceedings n the Nell of Congress Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon An lnip.:r tial KceMimc of the liuincr.

The National Solons. The Senate spent the entire any on the p"stol!ici appropriation biii, bit did not complete if. After a brief but very spirited debate the House passed tut river und harbor appropriation bill. The action was taken under suspension of tho- rules, in spite of the vigorous protest-? of the minority against the continuing co-r. r.u t s stein. The opposition was uu.ib'.c to muster votes enough, however. cail for the yeas and na 8 on the susit-:js:on of the rules. ' The Senate did but lit: Tuesday, except to pass the iKst office appropriation biil. Tho conference report on the agricultural bill was agreed to. It carries S8.fi02.7irj. The House spent the day debating a bill to lis The t:u:d.rd 'f weights and measures by the adiption ot the metric yetem on and af:er July 1, lbt'S. jui l a proration that tho (ojvernment share with the District of C oluinbia the expense of creating and :n.-'.ataiiiij.g a public library in the city of Washington. The latter was defeated. 'i:i to jL'7, and the fate of the metric system Lin st:ll hangs in the balance. Quite a breezy uiscussiou ar-ise in li.o Fernste Wednesday over the r.:t ii,jii reserve question. Senator Teller made u spirited attack on the present system lis detrimental to the interests of the West. The discussion arose on his rcjuest to semi a bill requiring banks to keep their reserves in their own vaults t" the Finance Committee. Much of the day an given to the Indian appropriation hill, which was not completed. Fi.animoutt consent was secured for taking up the resolution for a Senate Inquiry into recent bond issues Tuesday. The bill to j.d"j t the metric system of weights and iotasures was sent lack by the Ho-ise to tho Commit teo on Coinage, W e i ts and Measures for further consideration. t;n the lirst vote it had a majority of "J. b'.t the opposition was aggressive, and after a series of votts it was recommitted l y a vote of 1ÖO to ot). The remainder of t?.o day was devoted to debate on the 1 ill to exempt sailing vessels engaged in tho coastwise trade from comp llsory pilotage laws. - The tariff-silver bill and a lively t;.ii discussion occupied the Senate Thursday.' n the House the bill to abolish compulsory pilotage on sailing vessel engaged in the coastwise trade was defeated iiays, 117; yeas, .77. The IIov.se i. ? concurred in the Senate amendments to the postellice appropriation bill Mid agreed to a conference. Messrs. Loud (Hep.) of California, Smith !(;. ) of Illinois, and Kyle (I)cni.) cf Mississippi wero nppoi n t cd ct n f t rees. Iliiilge of IM nk Marble. A tiling of beauty and a joy foivvt-r will be the colossal bridge of pink marId o over rhe Tennessee Hiver at Knoxville. It -will ctrst J?lKH,ouif nnd M be built entirely of the famous pink marble which aloiiU's in Knox County. It will be l.CiOO feet long, and tho span of the main arch will be 'Jio feet, which is said to bo twenty feet longer tiiän the longest span iu the world. The height of the center arch aUtve tho water will be ltd feet. Th- roadway will be fifty feet in width. The piei of the bridge will all go to the solid nx k. The parapet walls will be ovTistructcl of sawed marble slabs, with hwivy blocks of pilasters every fifteen feet, projecting above the wall proper, th is giving a Kcini-oasteilated eft'e'-t. The Crow. A fanner near Patchogue, Long Island, has a tame crow, which while it has perfect freedom, seldom goes far from the dooryard. The crow wa -::p-turod widle quite young, and is thoroughly domesticated. It roasts at night with the hens In the henhouse. With the imitative instincts of its kind, it has learned to reproduce exaetly tho cackling of the hens, so that stranger passing often stop and lok upward with amazement at what .seems to bo the cackling of a hen tlyiijg about i:i the air. A Hilde Curiosity. There is a verse in the Hildo wl.P-h contains every letter In the alphal et except j, and it is said there is oniy one 4uch. It is the twoiny-lirst vrse of the seventh chapter of Fzra, ai.il leads: "And I, even I. Artaxerxes, tho king, tio make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Kzra, the priest, the s-rilt. of the law of the Cod of heaven, sh.iil require of you, it Ih done speedily." i The l ish Itcvivcd. A curious instance of roa munition occurred In the case of a large pike, which had been out of water k:x hour.s, at a recent reunion of the Fnglish 11catorial Society. Apparently tjuitj dead, it was handed by its captors t one of the waiters to Ik' washed in cold water. It had scarcely been immersed when, with suddenly returning lire, It bit tho waiter's linger through almosjt to the bone. (Jrant in Itron.e. A heroic bronze .statue of Cmi. (Irnt.t Is being constructed at Chioopee, Mass. The Union League Club of Provident has ordered the statue, which it wil. place in front of its club house. Tho total cost will be alKnit .S'10m0 whcti constructed. The iieeo will be thirtytwo feet high, and will have a pedeslni of Cjuinoy granite. The figure of Jen. Cmut will be about sixteen feet high. His Last Call. Lieut. F. (i. Fisher, w ho took part the Chitral campaign, savs that at Ma la kahi nd there was a man with th enemy who had been a marker in a i:a tive regiment. When the attack devclopod he stood on the top of a sungnr with a red flag In his hand. Fvory one. of course, took pot-shots at him, nd as the bullets whistled past he signaled "MUs, by the right T or "by the left!' until one caught him full In the chest.' He staggered for a moment, signaletl Uulre-eye," and then dropped dead.