Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 February 1884 — Page 2

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HLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER & BItADFUTE, - - PoBifflm, THg NEWS CONDENSED. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. MK8SSS. Shkrmak and Venaieton eaca protented naotatlons In tbe Senate, on the 28th H-, from wool-growers In Ohio praying for tho restoration of the former dnty on wooL Beferred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Boar, from tbe Committee on Judiciary, reported the original bill relating to the enforcement ot the law in Utah. He said he did not himself favor that clause of the bill which reqnirea the exclusion of women from suffrage in that Territory. A message was received from toe Boose announcing the death of Congressman Mackey, of South Carolina. Ibe Senate, after the appointing of a committee en its part to attend the funeral, adjourned. In the Boose, immediately aftr reading the jour al. the death of B. W. M. Mackey, C South Carolina, was announced. The customary resolution was adopted, and the Bouse, as a mark ot respect to the memory of the deceased, adloomed. Mb. Sbkbxah's resolutions on the Vir. glniaand Mississippi elections were taken np In the Senate on the 39th nit. The galleries were toll, in anticipation of a fiery political debate. Messrs. Sherman and Mahone made speeches denunciatory of the Southern Democracy: bat, to the disappointment of the galleries, the .Democratic side Of the Senate observed a policy of silence. The resolutions were thereupon passed by a strict party vote S3 to 2). Mr. Vest reported formally a bill to repeal the timber-culture law. Mr. Cameron introduced a bill to establish the Territory of North Dakota. Mr. Piatt offered a resolution ot inquiry as to the effect ot the stock dividend of the Western Union Telecraph company, its consolidation with competing lines, or its regulations for the transmission ot press news. The House resolution for aid to destitute Indians at the Crow reservation was adopted, the amount being raised to $100,000. House rails were pased appropriating $3,790,000 to pay rebate on tobacco and $21,965 for the expenses ot the Legislature of New Mexico. The . Hoase of Bepresentatives passed a resolution, offered by Mr. Hopkins, ot Pennsylvania, for the appointment of a special committee of five members to investigate the charge made by ex-Speaker Keif er that H. V. Boynton, a correspondent, attempted in a corrupt manner to influence his action on the McGarrahanciaim. Mr. Keifer caused to be read a letter which he had written to the offender. Bills were introduced to prevent the adulteration of sugar, to bridge the Mississippi at St. Paul, to prevent the intermarriage of whites and negroes in the District of Columbia, to secure the stability of the paper currency, and to purchase additional ground for the erection of a vnblic building at Galveston. Petitions signed by several thousand citiaensof the Territories ot Washington, Dakota, and Idaho, and of the District of Columbia, asking for a prohibitory liquor law, were presented in the Senate on the 30th ult. After some debate on the question ot volunteers tor the Greely relief expedition, the Senate adjourned, to attend the funeral of Representative Mackey. The House of Bepresentatives voted to enlarge thepowers ot the committee investigating affairs at Hot Springs, Arkanas. Bills were reported to establish a Bureau ot Animal Industrv, to retire H.J. Hunt with the rank of Major General, to make postage on seccnd-claas matter two ents per pound, making. farther appropriations Cor public buildings at Erie and Council Bluffs, and to provide that no Territory shall apply tor admission as a State unless it has sufficient population to entitle it to representation in Congress. Tbe obsequies of Hon. E. W. M. Mackey were conducted by Bev. Drs. Huntley and Bhippen. A iabge number of petitions for a prohibitory liquor law tor tbe Territories and the District of Colnmbia were piesented in the Senate en the Slat nit. Bfflla were introduced to pay employes of the Government the wages withheld in violation of the eight-hour law, and to relieve commercial travelers from license taxes. Mr. 8ewell reported a bill providing that no regimental or company officer shall be detached for more than three consecutive years. Mr. Coke pi letnted a joint resolution from the Legislature . of Texas urging the improvement of Galveston hart or in the manner proposed by Cant. Bads, A communication from the Attorney General stated that his clerical force was insufficient to supply the papers called for by Congress. Adjourned to Monday, Jan. 4. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking the Becretary of the Interior to explain by what authority 189,000 acres of land were certified to the State of Kansas for the benefit of the Atchiso o, Topeka and Santa Fe road. The bill forfeiting mndenrantedtothe Texas and Pacific Bailroad aompany was passed by a vote of 259 to 1. A message from the President was received, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State in regard to the restriction of American hog prodnots by Germany and France. Aim three weeks' deliberation and five days of debate, the House of Bepresentatives, on the 1st Inst, passed the bill for the relief ot Fftx John Porter by a vot of 184 to 78. Strenuous efforts were resorted to by the Republican leaders to stave off a vote by filibustering, but when at 8 o'clock the Democrats conceded an hour for debate the opponents of Porter accepted the situation. Mr. Wolford was the first speaker. His arguments were in favor ot the bilL Following him Mr. Calkins made a speech against Porter. Mr. Phelps next spoke at length in favor of the measure. Several short speeches were made, and then Mr. Curtin closed the argument. The galleries were crowded, and intense interest was manifested when the Hotfce proceeded to record Its verdict. An analysis Ot the vote shows that 164 Democrats, 38 Republicans, and 2 Independents voted tor the passage of the bill, and 77 Republicans and one Democrat (Converse, ot Ohio) recorded thete name against it. A bill was introduced to prohibit the removal of House employes during vacation, except for cause. Conference committees were appointed on the special TifHi appropriation and the Greely relief scheme. The Senate was not in session. SHE EAST. Thb sale by the Oregon Transcontinental company of 60,000 shares of Northern Pacific and preferred stock and 10,000 shares of Oregon Navigation to a syndicate composed of Gould, Sage, Field, and others, caused a sharp, advance in the Northern Paine system shares. J. M. Rifobds and his -wife and two daughters left Moriah,N. T., weeks ago with a good team to visit friends at Warren, Vt. As nothing has been heard from them, it is feared , that they broke through the ice in Lake Cbamplain or were frozen to death in the Green mountains..... A bill, making void contracts or sales of shares or stocks, except where actual delivery is made on the spot, or the party selling is possessed of the property, has been introduced in the New York Legislature..... An agreement to buy no French goods until the embargo on pork has been removed, has been made by twenty-seven cltilasens of Greensburg, Pa. At Batavia, N. Y., E. Newton Bowell was acquitted of the murder ot Johnston L. Lynch. The people gave the liberated man an oration, lighted bonfires in tbe streets, and burned Palmer, tbe chief witness for the Btace, in effigy. A bill for the freedom of -worship, which has been introduced in the New York Legislature, provides that the managers of very house for the support of the poor or for tbe reformation of juvenile delinquents shall permit the visits of clergymen of all sects, nd arrange for such religious services as are desired by Inmates. T90C WEST. No clkw to the murderer of Amelia Gteen, of Chicago, has been discovered, and the crime is as dark a mystery as ever. Her dead body, it will be remembered, was found on the prairie, within a few rods of her home, two or three weeks ago. The Coroner has completed hie inquiry, the jury finding that the unfortunate girl was the victim of assault and strangulation by parties unknown. Owwato faults ia construction the bridge oyer White river some seven miles from Indianapolis collapsed under an airline passenger train. Three cars plunged into the water, but only part of the wreck was submerged. The overturned stoves caused fire to break out, and sir persons were roasted to death, two were fatally injured, and two others, together with a gang of

workmen who were repairing the structure, were wounded. The coaches and bridge were entirely consumed. Of some of the victims a few bones and pieces of flesh were found.... Patrick Hartnet, a laborer in Cincinnati, who has long been regarded as insane, killed his wife with an ax and endeavored to hide the body under the floor. When the patrol wagon arrived he defied the police, and they were compelled to pin him to the wall with a scantling before he would surrender his ax.... A party of fifty-five men, who were cutting 100 cords of wood daily on Government land near Fort Lincoln, were captured by a detachment of the Fifteenth infantry and imprisoned at the fort.... The District Attorney at Omaha has been Instructed from Washington to bring suit against the Brighton Ranch Company of Wyoming for Inclosing 02,000 acrcB of public land with wire fence. The explosion of a barrel of gasoline in the store of Frank Orr at Alliance, Ohio, completely wrecked that structure and the building adjoining, the upper floors of which were occupied by families. Fire broke out among the debris, and before it was subdued three other business houses were in ruins Great excitement still characterizes popular comment on the Emma Bond case in Christian county, Illinois. The judge who tried the case was hanged in elilgy at Pana. A passenger-train filled with excursionists bound for an indignation meeting narrowly escaped wrecking at the hands of the friends of the persons lately accused of the heinous crime.... A new sheep disease in the Montana ranges is decimating the herds. The animals suddenly swell up, bleed at the nose, and expire in a few minutes. Hundreds die in a day, and there is no means of diagnosing or preventing the malady.. . . ,E. . Johnson, agent of the Northern Pacific road at Ainsworth, was arrested at Walla Wulla for embezzling a package containing SlS,G03.....An explosion of gasoline in the store of E. M. Orr, at Alliance, Ohio, killed eight persons and damaged property to the amount of $75,000. THE SOUTH. A man named Webb got in a "difficulty" in Jackson county, Ala., with three brothers named Wilburn, and killed two and fatally wounded the third. The Mississippi Legislature has passed resolutions providing for the removal of the Confederate dead from Mumf ordsville, Ky., and inviting Jefferson Davis to deliver an address on the life of 8. S. Prentiss. R. E. Lee camp of confederate veterans, of Richmond, sends out a circular appealing to Union soldiers to aid in raising a fund for the indigent and wounded soldiers of the lost cause. A fair to further this object will be held in February. WASHINGTON. EX-CONGBESSMAN RoBEBON, of New Jersey, says a Washington dispatch, was examined by the House Committee on Accounts, and fully substantiated the statements of the stenographers Tyson and Dawson that Keifer forced Tyson to give up his place, with its salary of $5,000, to Keifer's nephew. Mr. Robeson was familiar with all that occurred in relation to the row about the stenographers. One of them was a friend of his, and it is said he spoke his mind pretty freely to Mr. Keifer when Tyson was removed against his protest, and it was even feared at the time that their quarrel over the "spoils" would lead to an open rupture between the two statesmen who controlled that Congress. Repbesentative Wood, of Indiana, has introduced in the House a very important bin. It provides that no agent, employer, or contractor of any railroad or sleeping-car company shall require any engineer, fireman, conductor, or other person to work on passenger or freight trains longer than twelve consecutive hours, nor any person to watch switches or crossings or act as flagman for more than twelve hours out of twenty-four. The penalty named is a fine of not less than $600, nor more than $1,000. United States attorneys are to give special attention to this matter, and cause offenders to be Indicted and tried in United States district courts.... The excess of the value of exports over imports of merchandise for the month ended Dec 81, 1883, was $81,598,142; for the six months ended Dec 31, 1883, $81,988,885; for the twelve months ended Deo. 31, 1883, $108,071,884. There were twenty-one courses and eight kinds of wine at the President's state dinner last week. The House Committee on Public Lands has decided to report a bill to forfeit 1,280,000 acres of land between Astoria and Portland granted to the Oregon Central road. Dr. Norvln Green was again before a Congressional committee last week. He could not bring himself to believe that the Government ought, to go into the business of postal telegraphy. POUTXCAi. A resolution asking Mahone to resign his seat in the United States Senate, has passed both branches of the Virginia Legislature. The claims of Chicago on the National Democratic convention receive warm indorsement at the hands of Senators Bayard Lamar, Vest, Gibson and Colqult, and the gentlemen engaged in behalf of tbe great central city feel much encouraged. A committee of New Jersey legislators recommend the adoption of the "piece system" in State prisons. By this method, when a contractor secures a gang of convicts he is forced to pay the price current for tne same work outside the penitentiary. It is suggested that convicts be given two-thirds of their earnings over 75 cents a day, aud that at least two hours daily should be devoted to their mental improvement.... President Arthur has nominated Richard S. Tu thill and James A. Connolly as attorneys for the Northern and Southern districts of Illinois The prohibitionists of Ohio have issued a call for a State convention to be held at tbe Sate capital, March 6, to select delegates to the national convention at Pittsburgh, May SI, to nominate a State ticket and to transact other business. Senatob Mahone has secured for his son the post of distributing clerk in the office of the Secretary of the United States Senate, ousting Maj. Gilman, correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch. THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD. A hotel and other property at Buena Vista, Col., loss $20,000 a fertilizer factory near Baltimore, $50,000; Freton's woodworks, Philadelphia, $40,000; the Union block, Xenia, Ohio, $75,100; a warehouse in White street, New York, $75,000; the main portion of the Minnesota State Prison, at Stillwater, $50,000; Johnson's fluid-beef factory, Montreal, $100,000; Baldwin Aborn's flouring mill, Waupaca, Wis., $16,000; two shops in the Ohio State penitentiary at Columbus, $50,000; a business building at Cincinnati, $15,000; three frame stores at Oilman, 11L, $10,000; the opera house at Marion, Ohio, $15,000; Perkins' slove foundry, Troy, N. Y., $15,000; seven business houses at Norborne, Mo., $15,000; a saw and grist mill at De Pere, Wis., $12,000; a busi ness block at Wood Haven, L. I., $60,000; a block of business houses at Arkansas City, Ark,, $75,000; the office of the Spectator at Hamilton, Canada, $60,000; Ruhman, Ernst fc Co.'s clothing store,Canton,Ohio, $30,000; a woolen mill at Cleveland, Ohio, $80,000; a coal breaker at Ashley, Pa., $100,000; the St. Lawrence sugar refinery, Montreal, $150,000; a hotel and block of stores at Cornwall, Canada, $150,000; a tannery at La porta, Ind., $10,000; Henry Berth's flouring mills, Lenzburg, 111.. $35,000; a hat stock manufactory, Bristol, Ct,, $40,000; three tenement houses, at Minneapolis, Minn,, $10,000 ;, a bank and a church, St. Johnsbury.Vt., $40,000; Gaydy's belting manufactory, Baltimore, $25,000; a furniture factory at Connersville, Ind., $30,000; office of the Telegraph, Oahkosh, Wis., $10,000; the office of Dun's Commercial Agency, St. Louis, Wo., $10,000; a business structure at Lockport, N. Y-, $10,000; Greenwood's hardware store, Duluth, Minn., $35,000; eleven business houses at Dalles, Oregon, $120,000; St. Paul's Episcopal church, Fond du Lac, Wis., $20,000; a stave manufactory at Minneapolis, Minn., $18,000; several small shops at Washington, Iowa, $13,000; a build

ing at Peru, Ind., containing a number of menagerie animals, $10,000; three business houses at Galesvllle,. Tex., $30,000. COMMERCIAL FAILURES. Failubes reported by telegraph during the week were as follows: Liabilities. 0. T. Comins, prison contractor, Concord, N. H $140,000 W. P. Bard, lawyer, Reading, Pa 60,000 J.B.&W. H. Anderson, grain, Mendon, Mich 40,000 A. W. Underwood, dry goods, Terrell, Tex 2o ooo John Borden, boots and shoes," Phila- ' delphia 60,000 Heald & Jones, axle manufacturers, Philadelphia, 85,000 Leopold Steiner. boots and shoes, Philadelphia , 2'.,000 Joseph Kuhn, money broker, Detroit. . 200,000 M. Gossett, dry goods, Independence, Mo. 81,000 Van Slicker's cotton mill, Pitteneld, Mass. 70,000 J. B. Pond, lecture manager, Bos'on... 11,000 Kble Bros., stock traders, Vincennes, Ind 1(1,000 Cleveland Paper company, paper manufacturers, Cleveland, Ohio. ...ft 200,000 Daniel F. Beatty, organ manufacturer, Washington, N. J 175,000 James B island, cotton goods. New York. 50,000 D. M. Hawkins, tobacco, Cincinnati. . . Wi.OOO E. J. Beame, shoes, Providence, R. I... 100,000 B. Dn' Co., dry goods, Angnsta, 0a. 36,000 J. H. Betting, general store. Manor, Tex. 40,000 J. B. Wadswoith, cheese manufacturer, Morrlsville, N. Y 72,000 Wilcox fe Co., boots and shoes, Detroit. Haworth & Co., commission merchants, Liverpool, England 2S0,000 J S3. Alexander, millinery, New York . . . 200,000 Forbes, Wright fc Co., dry goods, Boston Bitting A Co. , dry goods, Aurora, Tex. . 40,000 N. W. Taylor, paper dealer, Chicago 150,000 American Lumber Co., Toronto 1,000,000 Thos. Swan, restaurateur, Dotroit 23,000 Jackson Bros., leather, Montreal 40,000 Taylor & Moore, queensware, Cincinnati 20,000 Perine & Co., woolens. New York, 100,000 Merchants aud Mechanics' Bank, Leadville, Colo. 75,000 Pope Iron and Metal Co., St. Louis, Mo. 60,000 Mallory Bros., dry goods, Watertown, Wis 30,000 1. H. Baxter, dry goods. Blrdseve. Ind . 20.000 NECROLOGY OF THE WEEK. Hon. John Letcheb, who served as Governor of Virginia during the war period; Hon. Joseph Bond, of Waukesha, one o f the pioneers of Wisconsin; John B. Wood, prominent in New York journalism; Judge E. Hassenmuller, a leading German citizen of C loveland, Ohio; William Myers, a pioneer settler of Dubuque, Iowa; George T. Jenkins, of Baltimore, nearest surviving relative of President Madison; Giles B. Slocum, one of the oldest citizens of Detroit; O. F. Bump, a prominent Baltimore lawyer and litterateur; Commodore Francis Bleecker Ellison, one of the oldest officers of the United States navy; E. W. M. Mackey, Congressman from South Carolina; Prof. Klinkerfus (by suicide), an eminent German astronomer; Judge John I. Campbell,an eminent lawyer of Rushville, 111.; Jonathan Lundy, a pioneer settler in tho Maumee valley of Ohio; Henry D. Bannard, a prominent citizen of Detroit. GENERAL. Trade and labor notes : Iron mills at Troy, N. Y., and Allentown, Pa., resumed work, employing 1,600 men, while a pipe mill at Reading shut down for the winter, discharging 800 workmen. Several duck and cotton mills in New England have begun running on half time until the market for their products improves. A large force of nail-makers, a short time since, went from Wheeling, W. Va,, to work in the nail mills at Oakland, Cal., under a pledge that they were to receive Pittsburgh wages. They are now on a strike against a reduction of 18 !4 per cent. The contract is let for the rebuilding of the extensive glassworks at LaSalie, I1L The Exeter (N. H.) Manufacturing company has ordered a reduction of the wages of its employes. The Cleveland Rolling mill has received enough orders for steel rail to keep it running for the next eighteen months. It is announced that the window-glass workers and manufacturers, after a lengthy conference at Pittsburgh, effected a settlement of the wages question. The strike of the window-glass workers ended last week, after seven months of idleness. While both sides have made great concessions, the terms at which work will be resumed largely favor the workmen The famous brood-mare Midnight, the dain of Jay-Eye-See, died in California on the farm of Leland Stanford. The Cincinnati Price Current has made a special examination ot wheat stocks in the country, and publishes tbe result, showing a total supply of wheat of 175,000,000 bushels. To this is added 35,000,000 in flour in the hands of dealers, making a total of 210,000,000 bushels for the remaining half of the crop-year. The estimated requirements for that time are: For domestic food, etc., 138,000,000; exports, including flour.57,000,000; leaving a surplus of 27,000,000. This is upon the basis of 120,000,000 exports this year, against 148,000,000 last year It is announced that the key to the Aztec writings has been discovered by Rev. Father Soto, of Concordia, Mexico. The first legal execution in Claiborne county, Mississippi, since 1848, took place last week at Port Gibson, where Simon Bonner was hanged for the murder of James R. Light. J. C. P. Collins was executed at Nevada City for robbing a stage in 1879, and killing a banker named W. F. Cummings. Tbe latter was carrying bullion valued at $7,000, which his murderers sold in New Orleans and Louisville. Hon. Jcdah P. Benjamin telegraphs from London a denial of the letter published in Thurlow Weed's autobiography, and attributed to him, in which he proposed that the Southern States might, under certain circumstances, conclude to return to their allegiance to Great Britain. The letter is printed in another column. The failures in the United States for the week numbered 385, being 55 more than during the preceding seven days. About 89 per cent, were those of small traders. FOREIGN. Reports of disasters by the storm in England show that the ship Juno foundered in the Mersey, and the crew of twenty five men perished; the Austrian bark Cviet was wrecked off Land's End, two persons being drowned; a church at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was unroofed and the spire damaged; a train was overturned in Ireland, and a large portion of the Northern Railway embankment was swept away. An intended uprising of peasants in Little Russia and a plot to poison tho Czar have been discovered by the Russian ixuioe, who have arrested many persons.... A refugee from El Obeid asserts that he saw Ma. Von Seckendorf stabbed to death in an hospital; that the correspondent, Edward O'Donovan, was killed near Gen. Hicks, and that after the battle El Mahdi sold large numbers of watches and jewelry. In a speech at Birmingham, England, John Bright assailed the land-reform theories ot Henry George saying they were an insult to the intelligence of England, and that their practice would be as great an outrage upon landlords as it would be to again make slaves of the negroes freed by the American civil war.... The recent storm leveled 200,000 treeB within a radius of ten miles ot Ayr, in Scotland. Owing to fears of Socialistic disturbances, the Austrian Government has proclaimed a kind of martial law in Vienna and two other districts, and trial by jury has been suspended Every available steamer, barge, and boat on the Nile controlled by Thomas Cook & Co. has been engaged to convey troops, storos, etc., to Upper Egypt, and will also bring people down from Khartoum in case that city is evacuated..... The Canadian Government has placed before Parliament resolutions authorizing a loan to the Pacific railway ot $22,500,000 cash, payable in 1891 at 5 percent, interest, $7,500,000 to be advanced immediately "Chinese"

Gordon is hi tbe deserts of the Soudan, bearing a large sum of money, aud absolutely without protection. Sir Sumuel Baker inslats that Gordon is actually challenging as asslnatlou. The Commune is still raging in Vienna. The efforts of the police seem to be directly and entirely against fanatical work lngmen. Many of these have been arrested and many expelled. The scenes now reported are simply a repetition of Louis Napoleon's contest with tbe Internationale just before the Franco-German war To a delegation which waited upon him, Prince Jerome Napoleon said he believed the time had come to begin agitation for the promotion of the Bo napartiet cause,

ADDITIONAL NEWS. A Virginia gunboat stole into the midst of fleet of Maryland oyster dredges, near the mouth of the Rappahannock, rid. died many of the craft with cannon-shot and bullets, and captured one vessel, which carried a crew of nine men, and had 1,300 bushels of oysters. The crew has been imprisoned and the boat will be confiscated Bandy Robinson, negro who had murdered a Deputy Sheriff, wag taken from jail at Crockett, Tex., by 100 masked horseman, and hanged to a tree. The United States Government has died a bill in equity in Lincoln, Neb., against tbe Brighton Ranch Company for the possessk n of 52,000 acres in Custer County, Nebraska, which the corporation has unlawfully fenced in. . . .Andrew Johnson, a Danish lad of Racine, Wis., killed Bertha lirassman and himself with, a revolver. He was jealous of tho attentions she received from Charles Binkman. The girl was employed in a restaurant, and the tragedy took place in the oooking-room. A lad at Auburn, N. Y., obtained judgment against the Central road for $10,500 or the loss of a foot. Three London theaters have been placed at the disposal of Mary Anderson at the termination of her engagement. Fatti has been offered 1,000 a night for a concert through England and Scotland..... William Meagle,who was a witness in the Phoenix Park murder trials, complains to the Dublin authorities that frequent assaults and continued persecutions have made his life miserable.... The imperial family is greatly disturbed at the renewal of matrimonial differences between Prince Frederick Charles and his wife, the Princess Marie Anna. The Princess has returned to her family in Anhalt, and has refused for once and all to live under the same roof with her husband. . . . A number of agricultural bodies in England have passed resolutions calling on Parliament to restrict the importation of foreign cattle in order to check the spread of contagious disease among native stock Capt. Austin, an American marksman, is giving exhibitions of his skill in England. At Leicester he twice shot a potato from the head of his daughter, but at the third attempt the ball plowed the scalp, and he was placed in arrest. Washington telegram: "Mr. Morrison's tariff bill provides for the top limit Of protection on certain schedules, as well as a reduction not below the .tariff ot 1861 on woolens not to be above 60 per cent, and on cottons not above 50. Silk rates are not to be touched. Hewitt's plan is to take the lowest rates to be found either in the report of the Conference Committee of the last Congress, of the Tariff Committee report, or of the House or Senate bills. All being Republican measures, he thtnks Republican opposition could be successfully met. Hewitt and Morrison are not agreed.".... The Special Examiners of the Treasury Department at Washington have been placed at the disposal of the House Committee on Expenditures to investigate the alleged irregularities of United States officials. .... Secretary Folger instructs the Inspectors at New Orleans to examine Mrs. Mary Miller as to her qualifications as master of a steamer, and, if they find her competent, of good character, and duly experienced, "though clothed in skirts rather than breeches," they are directed to issue her a license in the usual form. A recent dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona, says: "A messenger has just arrived from Oposura, Sonora, and reports that the Apaches are murdering and ravaging that section. Four men have been killed since Jan. 25. The savages are thought to be a portion of Geronlmo's band, for whom Capt. Rafferty, with troops, Is on the lookout." Russian papers are discussing with much concern the rapid destruction of the forests. The beautiful oak forests are becoming extinct; only the borders of the celebrated chestnut woods of Vassilgoursk, which date from the time of Peter the Great, now exist; the forests which once reached from the banks of the Volga and the Bon far into the steppes toward the Ural mountains have been destroyed, and in many central provinces wood has become so expensive that large consumers are considering the importation of coal or the use of petroleum. Ladies of fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Colton.

THE MABKET. NEW YORK. Beeves 7.50 8.00 HOO.H 6.W C 6.75 FiXJUR Superfine a 75 ( 3.50 Wheat No. 2 White 1.01 OS 1.05 No. 2 Bed 1.04 e$ 1.00 Corn No. 2. fig .67 Oats No. & .14 POBK Mess 1".2) g13.75 Lard oaJ4S .oajfi CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fanov Steers.. 6.75 7.25 Common to Fair 0 25 & 6.75 Medium to Fair 5.50 6.25 Hogs 6.75 S c.75 Floub -Fancy White Winter Us a.i!5 ai 5.75 Good 10 Choice Winter. . 6.00 u$ 5.75 Wheat No. 2 Sprints l $ .92 No. 2 Red Winter. s)0 & 1.01 Corn No. a 52 m .5:1 Oats No. 2. 3tt & .87 flTB Ho. 67 $ -68 BAULEI NO 1. 02 (9 .04 Butter Choice Creamery 32 3 .34 Eggs Fresh. 34 .35 Pork Moss ifi.oo io.no Lard .09 & .outf MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 91 & M Corn No. 2 52 $ .53 Oats No. 2 36 3 .37 Rye No. 2 68 .69 Barley No 2 59 & -60 Pork Mess koio ai6.50 Lard 0 9.25 Si'. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 Red. 1.02 1.06 Corn Mixed 47 & .48$ Oats No. a 32 m .33 Bye 63 & .55 Pork Mess 16.00 trtl6.50 Lard 03 & .09J4 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red i.3 & 1.01 Corn 60 (r .52 Oats .37 Rye 62 & .63 Pork Mess 16.00 gl&50 Lard 8?4 .oJ4 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 97 (si 1.04 Corn No 2 52 W .54 Oats-No. 2 .35 & .37 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 & 6.25 Wheat No, l White l.oa & 1.04 Corn No. 2 53 .55 OATS-Mixed, 37 .38J$ Pork Mess n.oo &17.60 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red. 99 1.00 Corn No, 2 47 & .48 Oats Mixed 34 .35 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTTE Best 6.25 7.25 Fair 6.50 igi 6.25 Common 4.75 ($5.76 HOOS 6.50 & 6.75 . Sheet 4,75 & 5.25

DOLLS. Of High, and Low Decree One Cent to Eighty Dollars. "How much are these babies, please?" inquired a very small and ragged-looking girl of a clerk behind the counter of the toy department of one of the largest stores in Philadelphia as she held up a little wooden figure, innocent of clothing, but capable of moving its arms and legs and wearing a bewitching smile upon its rosy-cheeked countenance. "A cent," was the reply. "Oh, is that all ! Well', I'll take two," and placing a 5-cent piece upon the counter with the air of a grand dame purchasing a $10,000 diamond brooch the youngster waited for her change. Beside her an old lady, who had every appearance of being the doting and worshiping grandmother of some child of luxury, was looking at wax dolls that in point of beauty, had they been supplied with wings and life, might have passed very easily for first-class A No. 1 angels of the juvenile type commonly depicted on Christmas cards. "I think I like this one," she said, picking up one that was really life size and the model of a little girl of about three summers, "Just have it sent to me and the bill to my husband in South Third street. How' much did you say it was? Eighty dollars? Ohl all right," and she went away, while the little girl beside her stared at the $80 doll until her bright blue eyes nearly .popped out of their sockets. The cash boy, who had gone for her change, eame back with the three cents and the two dolls wrapped in paper, and as the little girl started away, said with a chuckle: "Say, sis; look out that them gals don't catch cold when you get outside; they ain't got their sealskin sacks on, I notice."

"Bather a difference in the price of those dolls," remarked the dealer to a reporter, as the youngster disappeared ; "but we have to supply the wants of everyone here, and probably that little girl is almost as much pleased with her wooden twins as the other child will be with that splendid wax doll. Speaking of dolls," he continued, "the fashions in them change with nearly every season, and those we had a year or two ago were very different from those now in the cases. For instance, last years short-haired dolls were the craze, and they were made with sheepskin wigs. Now, short hair has gone out of fashion in the doll world, and we have to supply them with long tresses, and, in many cases, Langtry bangs are insisted upon by our little customers, and they are supplied, too. Where do most of the dolls come from ? Europe ; there are hardly any dolls made in this country. France and Germany send us our largest supplies. The finest wax dolls come from Germany, and the best china and bisque from France. Do we sail manv rlnlla? Wall. no. not many; but wean get them up Kf cost a gieat deal more than that, with full outfits of clothes and real jewelry, and have done so once or twice. Which would be the most profitable to sell, one $80 doll or 8,000 1-cent dolls? Well, I fancy the 1-cent dolls." Philadelphia Record, Queer Notices. Chamber's Journal mentions the following whimsical notices that have appeared from time to time. The following perspicuous notice to engine-drivers was exhibited at a railway station : "Hereafter, when trains moving in opposite direction are approaching each other on separate lines, conductors and engineers will be required to bring their respective trains to a dead halt before the point of meeting, and be very careful not to proceed till each train has passed the other.'"' Equally lucid was the placard announcing a pleasure-trip to Warkworth one day during the summer of 1881, in which was the following passage which implies that the crew adopted the light and airy costume of our primitive ancestors. "The Gleaner is one ot,the finest and fastest boats on the Tyne ; her accommodation is in every respect good and comfortable, her crew skillful, steady, and obliging, being newly-painted and decorated for pleasure trips." We are assured of the genuinness of the following curious notice, addressed, quite recently, to the members of the Friendly Society which need not fear a "run" upon it, if the procedure therein described be rigidly adhered to : "In the event of your death, you are requested to bring your book policy and certificate at once to the agent, Mr. , when your claims will have immediate attention." A few days previous to the beginning of a session, this brief notice was affixed to the notice-board at the entrance of one of the class-rooms of Edinburg University: "Professor will meet his classes on the 4th inst." On the opening day, a student erased the letter c of the word "classes." A gioup of youths remained in the vicinity of the entrance to observe how the professor would receive the intimation, which now set forth that he would "meet his lasses on the 4th inst." As the professor approaceed he ob served the change that had been made, and quietly taking out his pencil, made some further modification, and passed on, a quiet smile overspeading his features. The notice no finally stood : "Professor will meet his asses on the 4th inst." Railroad Rates iu America. The passenger rates on some railroads in this country are undoubtedly exhorbitant, but the average rate for all the lines $2.33 for 100 miles is much less than the average for similar accommodations in Europe, where firstclass ranges from $2.24 in Norway and Belgium to $7 in Roumania. In Great Britain it is $3.11 to $5, in France $3.38, in Germany or Switzerland $3.11 or more, in Italy $3.50, in Greece $2.82 aud in Turkey $5.66. The European first-class, however, should be compared with our rates for the palace-car accommodations, the real though not the nominal "first-class" in this country. In Europe third-class or lower rates are by far the most popular, while here

more than nine-tenths of the travel kl the so-called first-class, . the average fare being less than $2i45. The comparative low travel in this country ia made possible only by the enormoua freight traffic of the railroads. Europe's ratio of population to railroad mileage is decidedly the highest. Great Britain has 1,777 inhabitants to each mile of road, Germany 2,000, France 2,312, Belgium 2,300, Italy 5,360, Roumania6,000, Turkey 31,000, and Greece 200,000, against 450 in the United States. Telvet from Sheepskin. An exceedingly interesting process has lately been discovered by Puect in Mazainet, by means of which the wool on sheepskins can be converted into a. sort of velvet, which is described as follows: Up to tbe present time sheepskins tanned with their wool on have been used exclusively for mats, etc., and the wool, on account of not being especially treated, has either a curled or tangled appearance. Now, sinoe the innumerably number of wool fibres isnaturally arranged in a perfectly regular order, which is especially adapted for the manufacture of velvet, Puect got the idea to free the skin and wool upon it from all the impurities thereon in such a manner that the wool would be perfectly preserved. After many preliminary experiments the following: mode of procedure was adopted, as itgave the desired result. The whole process may be divided into ten operations, as follows : From the first to the fourth operation are for the cleansing" of the skin on the wool side and the removal of all adhering fleshy particles. The fifth to the ninth operations relateto the tanning and preparation of thehide in such a manner that perfect adherence of the wool to the skin is insured. Finally, in the last operation, the hides are' subjected to a special treatment in newly-contrived machines,, by which the wool is worked into velvet. This is the general view of the process, and as the details are at hand, we give as full as possible.

xne sKins are nrst carertuiy mspeciea as to their soundness, etc. They are then placed in a large tank of ordinary construction and allowed to soak in a. very warm caustic solution, fresh hides from three to five minutes and dried ones from eight to ten minutes. They are then removed, and, after being well rinsed off, passed through rolls excitingsufficient pressure to remove the impurities of the skin ; they are then asrapidly as possible, and while still warm from the first bath, placed in a. machine where they are subjected to apowerful beating while hot water is. drenched upon them. They are then reversed so as to have the flesh side to the beaters, and further subjected to the action of them ; then they are laid away for an hour in hot water, and allowed to soak and pass through the rolls, to remove the excess of moisture, leaving from 15 to 20 per cent, behind. They are now thoroughly softened and pliant, and are ready for tanning. This is accomplished by hand or machine, and the process is without any peculiarities. After tanning they are sponged, off, and before being allowed to dry arepassed through the rolls again. In soaking and under the rolls and beaters, the wool is perfectly preserved, and each single fiber remains in place,, but if it should become disarranged, the last passage through the rolls readjusts it properly. After these treatments the hides are placed in the combing machine in which the wool iscombed up. It is then sprinkled with, water on the wool side and the hides, beaten with rods either by hand or machine. This is one of the principal operations, for while the wool is damp the beating with rods effects the standing up of the wool fibers and accelerates the formation of the velvet. Finally it is dried and shorn with cloth shears or other apparatus and finished, by peculiar manipulations. Is Water Power Disappearing in Keir England? The steam engine is the coming power, for tne long-vaunted waterpower of New Jbngland is giving out. Various causes have appeared to make the water power less, and these causeshave been working all the time and in creasing m practical effect, so that now it is giving out almost in every place of any account, with some very few exceptions,vwhere the timber has not yefc been cut off back in the sources of supply on the hills or mountains. Let us look, therefore, to steam with a clearer eye, and learn more of it, and how tohandle it, so that we can keep up the busy wheels of the million of cotton spindles and thousands of sets of woolen machinery. Water power in the Eastern States is doomed, and it will not be long until we are a steam spinning section of the country. Spring-' field Republican. He Had 'Em There. "Did any one drop a 50-cent pieeehere in the straw?" inquired a man on a horse-car. Like chain-lightning several men feltin their pockets, and replied in a cho rus: "Yes, I did." Then the man walked out upon th platform, so that he could get off and run, if necessary, and said : "Then why don't you get down and look for it before some one picks it up? That's what I do every time I drop money." And as he skipped off the car, the men who said they had dropped a 50cent piece keyft well screened behind their evening papers. Ex. "Hobson's Choice." Tobias Hobson was the first man in. England that let out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable where there was a great choice, but Hobson obliged him to take the horse which stood nearest the stable door ; so that every customer was alike well served, accordingto his chance, from whence it became s proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you to aay,. "Hobson's choice." Sampel Cabsok, a son of Kit Oarson, has struck a rich mine in California.