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cokcbessional fkoceedungs. Two isaitrnoKS for a constitutional fiinriMiBwt to mako only gold and silver a legal tender vere offered tn the Senate on the 10th wt A bill was reported for the sale of the 1 Cherokee Indian reservation in Kansas, at.d a aneasnre was introdncod to dispose ot the Kckapoo diminished reservation in the same State. Three hoars were spent in debate on the Mexican teeatr b secret session. In the Boase ef Bepresentatfves, bills were inUmluped to iacocnorate the Yellowstone Park and the Spokane Falls and Coenr d'Alene Boada, and to grant the right of way through Indian Territory to the Kansas City, Fort Scott asd Gulf, the 8t. Louis and Baxter Springs, and the St Joseph and Rio Gra nde Boadsv Two constitutional amendments were proposed, fivtes; Congress the power to make only gold and surer coin a tender in payment of dettsi A bill was Introdnoed granting copy tight to newspapers. A message was received from the President transmitting documents from tto Secretary of State relative to the resoration oa the death of Herr Lasker. Mr. Gnentfcer asked that it be immediately read, thooffh If r. Cassidv naggested in an undertone thctrt might be better to wait until the new steel cruiser were completed. After the documents had been read Mr. Hiscock offered tho following preamble and resolution, which was referred to the Committee cn Foreign Affairs ; "Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of the House that a communication from it to the Parliament of the German Empire, entirely friendly in its intent, respectful in its character, and sent through the regular channels of international communication, has been arbitrarily intercepted and returned by a person now holding the position ot Chancellor of the German Empire; there 1 ore be it Resolved That this House cannot but express surprise and regret that it should be even temporarily within the power of a single too powerful subject to interfere with such a utmple, natural, and pontaneons expression of kindly feeling between two great nations, and thus to detract from the position and prestige of the crown on one hand and fgna the rights of the mandatories cf the people on the other. Resolved That this House does hereby reiterate the expression of sincere regret ft the death of Eduard Lasker and its sympany with the Parliament of the German Empire, of which for many years he was a distinguished member. A resolution offered by Mr. Deuster reciting that the United States Minister to Germany has been assailed by semi-official newspapers at Berlin, and csHrng on the Secretary of State for copies of any communication s and official correspondence which he may have on this subject, was also referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Arm prolonged debate, the Mexican tr eaty

ratified by the Senate on the 11th Inst. The

vote stood 41 to 90 one vote more than the necessary two-thirds. The treaty would have failed but for the action of Senator Van W yck, who. though opposed to it, abstained from voting; because, -as he said, the great majority of the people were in favor of the measure. Mr. Allison presented a memorial from the Legislature of Iowa asking the passage of a law to regulate fares and freights by railroad. A favorable report was made on the bill to ratify the agreement with the fthoshones and Bannocks for the sale of a portion of their lands. A bill was passed appropriating to Louisa Boddy, of Oregon, 5,400 for property destroyed by Mo Iocs. Bills were introduced to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars for two years, for a pubHe bull cling at Sacramento, and to improve low-water navigation on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Cairo. In the House of Representatives, majority and minority reports were made on the Morrison tariff bilL An act to place the name of George W. Getty on the retired list as Major General was favorably reported, as also a measure for the sale of &be Kickapoo reservation in Kansas, An adverse report was handed in on the bill to construe a macadamized road from Meiuphis to the adjacent national cemetery. Debate in committee et the whole on the postoffice appropriation hiB consumed the balance of the dayn session. THnlargest and moat attentive audience gathered in the haUs cf Congress the present

ibled in the Senate chambfT on

the 13th inst. to listen to the opening debate on the bill for the relief of Gen. Fits John Porter. Two speeches were made by Mr. Sewell, of New Jersey, in favor of the measure, and Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, in opposition. A joint resolution was introduced for a constitutional amendment nxinsr the term of the f resident at six years and making him ineligible to re-deotJon. Bills were introdnoed to establish forest reservation'? at the head waters of the Missouri and Coronbia Rivers, and for the erection of a public building at Boulder, Colo. Favorable report were made on bills for the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to Fortress Monroe, and to authorize the return of private boxes deposited in the Treasury vaults Mr. Coke spoke on the pleuropneumonia bill. The House of Representatives, in committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill struck out the clause limiting the salaries of Postmasters to $4,')eo, and rejected an amendment increasing the items for clerics by $125,030. At the time of adjournment a proposition wa? made to increase by $400,000 the appropriation for carriers. A bill was introduced for the admission of Washington Territory as a State after the 4th of March. 1885. Ahotuzk large audience assembled in the Senate galleries on the 13th inst to listen to the debate on the Fit John Porter bill. Mr. Manderson first addressed the Senate in opposition to the buX He was followed by Mr. Logan In a lengthy speech on the same side, after which the measure was read a third time and passed by a vote cf 36 yeas to 25 nays, live Republicans and Kiddleb rser voting in the affirmative. Mahone was absent. Following is the vote in detail: YeasBayard, Brown, Butler, CaD, CockreU, Coke, Colquitt, Fair, Farley, Garland, Gibson, Gorman, Groome, Hampton, Harris, Hoar, Jackson, Jones (Fla.), Jones (ev. , Lamar, MePherson, Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Pike, Pugh, JUidleberger, Sabrn, Saulsbury, Sewell, Slater, Vance, Voorbees, Walker; and Williams 3ft. Nay Nays--AMrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Couger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Harrison, Hawley, Hill, Intralls, Logon, McMillan, Manderson, Miller (CalJ, Mitchell. Merrill, Palmer, Piatt, Sherman, Van Wyck. Wilson 25, During the vote the following pairs were announced: Beck yea with Hale -nay, Cameron (Wis.) yea with George say. Miller (N. Y.) nay with Camden yea. Plumb nay wi th Vest yea. Sawyer nay with Eenna yea. The preamble to the bill passed recites that the board of officers convened by the Pres. dent to examine and report upon the case of Gen. Porter stated that justice required the President to annul the findings and sentence of theoourtmaitial in Gen. Porter's case, and restore him to the position of which sentence deprived him, such restoration to tak? effect from the date of dismissal from service; that the President had remitted so much of the sen: e nee as disqualified Gen. Porter from holding office, and that in order to do justice to Gen. Porter it was enacted, etc The bill thea authorizes the President, by and with tjie advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Gen. Porter to the position of Colonel in the armv of the same grade and rank held bv him at the time of dismissal, and authorizes the I 'resident in his discretion to place Gen. Porte r on the retired list as of that grade; Gen. Porter, however, to receive no compensation or allowance prior to his appointment under the act. A joint resolution was submitted appropriating 135,000 for the suppression of the foot-and-mouth disease among cattle in Kansas. A bill was introduced for a public bniloing at Akron, Ohio, A favorable report was made on the bill for the admission of Dakota. The House of Representatives, in committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill, adopted an amendment increasing tte amount for the freedelivery service to $4,000,000. The Committee an Pcbtto Lands was directed to report whether the. grant to the Lake Superior and Portage Lake Canal Company la liable to forfeiture. Tan Joint resolution appropriating 125,000 for the evatneatkm of the foot-and-mouth dis-

ni co-operation with the authorities ol

was called ud in the Senata on th 11th

inst. by Mr. Plumb. Mr. Sherman stated that the people of Illinois and other States were becoming alarmed, and argued that the appropriation should not be confined to Kansas. Mr. CuUom thought $50,000 should ba set aside, and at once. Mr. Sherman said the question was a national one. and he favored action by the General Government. Mr. Garland defended the measure as constitutional, and Mr. Maxey argued that citizens of States could not bo deprived of their property without due processor law. Mr. Ingalls explained that a large proportion of the cattle in Kansas were not owned by its people. Mr. Conger said contagion was spreading over the country w He Senators discussed constitutional principles. Mr. Bayard thought the Government could not enter the States and kill ani ray for diseased cattle. Mr. Ingalls ere 1 ted. a rood deal of laaghter, in whieh the Democratic1 ride of the chamber joined as heartily aa the Republicans, by the remark that

tney would soon have to consider the suppression of the ::oot and mouta disease in the Democratic party, as it never op mod its mouth without putting its foot in it. The House, in committee of tl.e whole, discus $ed for hours the bill granting a ension of $,60i) per rear to the sole surviving jrrandchili of Thomas Jefferson, too objection twiug thai the precedent would establish civil pension list, and flnallVitrnck out the enacting clause,- by vote af rjdtoGO. The Speaknr presented, communication frotn 'tlic Secretary of War.vniskin t 1 he ..appropriation or 22G.0B for the erection in Han FianclBro of nrL-

liitionpl buttdipga to: the military heaquarte

E EAST. Nathan P.katt, 73 years old, convicted of embezzling the funds of the Reading (Mass.) Savings Bank, while Treasurer, in 1879, has been sentenced at Boston to four years, at hard labor, end has already been five years in Jail. Pratt's &on, Sidney PM who disappeared at tho time, was tho principal culprit. Thbse members of the Salvation Army were fined $17 each for parading the streets of Bridgeport, Ct....At Christ church, Oswego, N. Y., Lieut. John W. Danenhower was married to MIbs Helen L. Sloan. THE WST Fabmkrs in the vicinity, of Hillsboro, 111., claim that winter wheat has been greatly damaged by the recent changeable weather, the roots being generally exposed. On the contrary, a Milwaukee grain exporter hxs received advices of the excellent condition of the growing crop In half a dozen States, with some slight damage In Michigan. . . .The Supreme Lodge Keener Shel Barzol, a Hebrew order, endowed a home for aged and infirm Israelites at Cleveland, Ohio, as a tribute to the Jewish philanthropist, Sir Moses Monteflore. The district in Kansas where the foot and mouth disease has appeared has been quarantined. A Topeka dispatch reports a movement on foot to purchase and kill the infected stock and burn the carcasses. Wyoming rock-growers were aleo taking steps to prevent the disease from gaining a foothold in their rerrritory. The foot and mouth disease has made its appearance in other section a of Kansas besides Woodson County, and cattle men fear the male dy will make groat inroads on stock. The excitement growing out of the gold discoveries in the Caeur d'Alono region in Montana continues. Thousands are nocking toward the district, and marvelous stories of the riches hidden there are being circulated. Chicago dispatch: The foot-and-mouth disease is reported to have broken out near BfBngham, in this State, among the cattle of a farmer named Chariest Dubrock. It is feared that the distemper is not confined to that point. Pbentiss Tiller, -who robbed the Pacific Express at St. Louis, was arrested at Milwaukee, and $H),000 of the money recovered. In purchasing a trunk at that city, Tiller asked the clerk to put into it a valise, which he carried, and ship it to Detroit to a certain address The clerk let the valise fall, when it burst, disclosing a number of packages in Pacific Express wrappers. This clew led to the arre?t. The great spectacuJ ar drama Jalma, "

with its gorgeous costumes and dazzling scenery, is in the fourth week of its run at McVicker's Theater Chicago, but the rush to see it la as great as ever, and each performance is witnessed by audiences limited only by the size of the house. The piece will be continued for two weeks longer. The Indian chief Sitting Bull, visiting St Paul with Agent McLoughlin, expresses surprise at seeing so many houses on top of each other. . . .1 rederick J. Dietrich the teller of the Laclede Bank of St. Louis, is a defaulter to the amount of $30.000 Matt Lewis, a colored citizen of St. LouLs was executed for killing his wife seven years ago. He enjoyed one year of liberty by breaking jail, and has been tried four times. In view of the existence of the foot and mouth disease in Kansas and Illinois, the cattle-breeders of Central Illinois urge Senators Cullom and logan to press jJ?e passage of the animal industry bill," anwto oppose the House amendments, which, they assert, destroy the usefulness of the measure. It is reported that the foot and mouth disease has broken out in Adair County, Missouri. The

swine plague has appeared in Effingham County, Illinois. TUB socxa. Ben Thompson, the noted desperado and untamed Texas terror, was shot, and killed in the Vaudeville Theater, at San Antonio, Tex., by King Fisher, Deputy Sheriff of Uvalde County, and a desperado of the first water himself. Fisher was also killed in tho melee. A third party was shot and dangerously w ounded. A cyclone damaged the Agricultural College at Starkville, Miss., to the amount of S12,000, and wrecked every cabin on a plantation near West Point. . . . Vm. Spence, formerly United States Marshal for the Middie District of Tennefsee, fatally shot liis pon-in-law, Edward S. Wheat, at Nashville. The shooting grew out of business difficulties. One of the most appalling mine disasters on record occurred near Pocahontas, Tazewell County, Va, A gas explosion took place in the Laurel Creek Mine at that point, where 150 men were employed. Every man of them was instantly killed, and the engines, cars, and machinery were shattered into atoms. Most of the victims of tte awful cala nity were fathers of large families. Ben Thompson, the notorious Texas desperado, who, with his companion, King Fisher, was killed in the Vaudeville Theater, at San Antonio, had a big funeral at Austin, his home, whore he leaves a famiy and property valued at $16,000. The Coroner's investigation revea.'ed the fact that the two men were slain by police and theater employes. Thompson, a year beiore, had in the same building murdered Jack Harris, the proprietor of the place, and on tho present Occasion went to the theater for tho purpose of raising a row. From 1 he moment of his entrance to the death scene he was a doomed man. His persona! bravery was herculean, and his caution equaled his courage. He and his, game companion were crowded down by the police an1 theater employes and butchered like stuck pigs. It Is the only way in which be could have Veen killed. He had thirteen authenticated deaths to his score. Fisher was the younger man, but the greater desperado. His murders were innumerable, and in every town 011 the Rio Grande his name was a synonym for fear. Fisher's remains were tiken to Uvalde and interred. A lliipatch from there informs us that the funeral was the largest Over seen in Uvalde," and that tbalesperadt "would undoubtedly have been the next Sheriff." Frank Slag el was executed at Somerset, Ky., for murdering and robbing a man named Adair. WAHHXNGTON. WiLLUM A. Cook, one of the Government counsel in the star-route prosecutions, testified before Mr. Springer's committee that ho regarded the compensation paid Bliss as extravagant, unjustifiable and unearned in every respect: that the cases were improperly handled, and that the Attorney G eneral recei ved th rent en ing anon y mous letters before Oarlleld was shot. In the United States Supreme Court the motion to advance a number of cases known as the "drive-well cases," which involved the validity of tho drive-well patent, was denied. This action will force the cases over a year or more, A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Senate, consisting of Messrs. Miller (CaJ.), Edmunds, Morgan, and Pendleton, appointed some times ago to consider tho question of the ox elusion of American product from foreign markets, has reported favoring tho enactment of a measure authorizing the President, wnenever

r.o pnau we sausnoa tuat ine exclusion is unjust and vexatious, to issue a proclamation

'i suspending the Importation of all prod- ; ucts from tho discriminating foreign

nation ; also authorizing the establishment of a . system of inspection aud certification of our meat produots at ports of exportation. The sub-committee also favors legislation prohibiting the importation of adulterated wiues and other articles, in 'certain emergencies, and the inspection, at the ports of entry, of articles

&uspectc4io be adulterated. It is thought

that the full Committee on roreign relations of the Senate will favor giving full ettect to the aggressive recommendations Eibove set forth A circular to till United Stages Attorneys and Marshals has been sent out by Attorney General Brewster, calling attention to the statutes regulating the shipment of explosives, and urging vigilance to prevent the perpetration of heinous crimes at foreign ports. POLITICAL. The Morrison tar; ff bill, reported to the House, would place lumber, salt, and coal, as predicted,, on tho free list It is now averred that Mr. Morrinon has lost hope that fhe bill will be passed bv the House. He will, however, make an elaborate speech in its favor, combating the arguments of the protectionists that free trade would reduce wages. In opposition to the wishes of the supporters of Blaine, the Maryland Republican Committee decided to have tho delegates to the Chicago Convention elected by district conventions. . . .Tho Vermont Bepublican State Convention for the election of delegate to the Chicago Convention will bo hold at Montpelier April 30, and the Gubernatorial Convention at Burlington June IS, . . .The Call fornia Democratic State Convention will be held in Stockton June 10.... The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention will assemble at Madison May 36. The Democratic State Committee oi Iowa met at Des Moines and fixed the date of the State Convention to select delegates to the NaJonal Democratic Convention for Thursday, April 24, at Burlington. The Arkansas Democratic Convention will meet at Little Bock on the 25th of June. The West Virginia Bepublican Convention is called for April 13, at Martinsburg. By a vote of 144 to 60 the bill extending the suffrage to women was defeated in

the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Iowa Senate, at about the same hour, declared in favor of granting the ballot to woman, by a vote of 2t$ to 24. The Governor of Kansas, on the 13th inst., issued a proclamation calling a special session of the legislature for March 18, to take action iu relation to the cattle plague. Obio Republican Representatives at Washington say that their State will send an unpledged delegation to the Chicago Conven tion. Congressman McKinloy says that Senator Sherman will not be a candidate. THE WEEK'S FIRS! RECORD. The thriving little city of Allegan, Mich., has been visited by a disastrous conflagration. Between thirty and forty nlaces of business were burned, includ

ing three of the best blocks in the city the Sherman House block, the Empire

blockt and the Union block. Forty stores and a number of dwellings fell victims to the flames. All the newspaper offices, the Journal and Tribune the Gazette and Democrat, are destroyed, a few fonts of type being all that was saved. Tho loss ' will aggregate nearly, if not quite, $40,000, while tho insurance, it is believed, wilt amount to $150,000. The business men of Allegan take tho tire very philosiphocally, and the burned out places will be speedily rebuilt. Fire broke out at Grand Rapids, Mich., during the prevalence of a high wind, and, before the flames could be checked, destroyed property of the estimated value of $200,000. The sufferers were the Bisseli C'crpetrSweeper Company; Frank Maybee, brooms; E. G. Studley & Co., leather belting; Grand Kapids Feit Boot Company; R. E. Butterworth's building; Clark & Ocher, sash, doors, and blinds; Stadon's woolen mill: Novelty Manufacturing Company; Comstock's saw-mill, and Richmond's box factory. Two men perished in the flames. East St. Louis, 111., was visits edbya $350,000 blaze, nearly all of which was caused by the destruction of an elevator m which was stored 300,000 bushels cf grain. Several saloons and boarding-houses were reduced to ashes. The town of Port Spain, in the Island of Trinidad, West Indies, was almost wiped out by fire, the loss being placed at $500,000. Other fire losses for the week were as follows : A saw-mill at Heed City, Mich., loss $15,000; several stores at Memphis, Mo., $40,000; a school-houso at Cadillac, Mich., $10,000; several stores at Cassviile, W.Va., $15,000; a block of business houses at McComb, Ohio, $:0,C00; eight stores at Cleburne, Tex., $60,000: Muel cr's stone-yard machinery, Cincinnati, 10,000; the buildings and machinery of the Fishville Coal Company, near Oskoloosa, Iowa, $.i0,000: eight business houses at Pittsburg, Kan., 530,000; nine stores and otijees at Vandalia, Mo., $0,vOO; a shoo factory and other property at Brockton, Muss., $20,000; a livery stable and contents at Pembina, Manitoba, $15,000; a grist mill at Thornport, 0., $15,000; a busiuess block at Utica, N. Y., $30,000; newspaper and five stores at O'Neill, Neb., $10,000; six business houses at Seeor, 111., $15,000; a wool store at Worcester, Mass., $40,000; Baugh & Son's fertilizing works, Philadelphia, $30,000; a railway depot at Middletown, Ohio, $20,000; a cooptr shop at Pittsburgh, $10,000. GENERA1 Tee deaths of the week include the names of Bishop Robert H. Clarkson, of the Episcopal Church, at Omaha, Neb., aged 53 years; Amos P. Morrill, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas; Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohft, a brother of the Senator-elect; Capt. John Archer, a retired shipmaster, of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor; Ab rail am Breath, of Alton, 111., one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves to defend Owen Lovejoy in the riots of 1837; Gen. James K. Moor head, of Pittsburgh, ex member of Congress from Pennsylvania; A.! M. Sutherland, Secretary of tho Proviuce of Manitoba; Rev. John 8. Inskip, of Asbury Park, N. J., editor of the Christian Standard; Cardinal Pietro, of Home, Italy; Rev. Dorus Clark, eminent Congregational divine of Boston; George Cragin, of Utica, N. Y., one of the founder? of iJie Oneida Community in 1848; Jo?iT. Griffin, an old resident of Omaha, who was Postmaster in 1870. Fast mail trains are now running from New York to Chicago, from Chicago to Omaha, over the Burlington road, and from Chicago to St. Paul over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road. America is about to have suoh honor as can be conferred on it by a visit from Degaleff, the Nihilist, charged with the murder of Col. Sudeikin, at St. Petersburg. Brj sines s failures in the United States for the week numbered 186, 25 less than the preceding weuk, and a decrease of 47 from the corresponding period in 1883. In Canada and its provinces there were 42 failures reported. FOREIGN Oxford University, England, has decided in favor of coeducation. Young women will be edmittod on equal terms with young men. " Bismarck, in defending his course in the Lasher affair in the German Boichstag, said he could not without stultitlcation have presented the House resolutions to tho Kciohstug in the form tney had reached him. It was not confined, he said, to an expression of sympathy. Lasker's political course had been eulogized, and that was equivalent to censure of his policy. Ho accused I.askor's adherents of trying to make political capital out of the chiefs death, and with carrying on a political intrigue at his grave. Dr. Haenel, of tho University of Kiel, replied. Ho thought that tho iorm of the resolutions should not have been examined too closely, and accused Bismarck of descending to tho meanness of abus:ug tho dead. The debate throughout was of an exciting nature. . .. Gen. Graham defeated Ostium Dignaonthe 13th inst., after a stubborn light of two and

one-half hours duration. The rebels fought with such desperation that they one time broke tho second British square. The rebel lot-s is estimated ot 4,000 killed and 6,000 wounded. .Bacninh, has been captured by the French forces. Tho Chinese garrison mado bub a feeble resistance and lied in all directions. The French loss was seventy. Xhe lo&i pf $he Celestials was quite heavy. Twoeditors and. thirty-six otjiet persons were arrested at Pesth, Hungary, on the charge of compUcity in the schemes of the Anarchists Triohiniasis, engendered by home-bred pork, has developed at several places in Germany. Tho Lyons Chamber of Commerce entered a protest against the embargo on American hog product. ADDITIONAL NEWST Mr. Simon Beatie, an authority on the subject, telegraphs from Effingham, HI.; that the cattlo alleged to be infected with the foot-and-mouth disease are simply suffering from foul in the foot," and he feels assured thet the dreaded malady does not e.t i st iu Illinois. Reports" to the Muscatine Journal say three animals have died of the foot ttd-mouth plague near Wapello, Iowa. Surgeons at Neotsho Falls, Kan., assort that the disease affecting the cattle in that district is "genuine epizootic aphttw" and seem surprised that it is so slightly contagious. The Colorado Cattle breeders Association asks tho Governor to call a special meeting of the Legislature for the enacmont of quarantine laws..,. The rush of miners and prospectors to the vicinity of the Caeur d'Alene gold discoveries continues. Every train on the Northern Pacific Koad carries hundreds. In Eaglo City there are 3,000 people waiting. It is believed at the Treasury Department that a coterie of counterfeiters are about to flood the Southern country with bogus $:W silver certificates. One of the cer tincates has been received, aud the paper is thick, greasy, and stitf, and tha note an eighth of an inch shorter than the genuine. Two mail-robbeus in jail at Sandwich, Ontario, killed Jailer Leech, inflicted fatal wounds upon Turnkey Davis, and made their eseape. Minister Saugent accepted from Uismarck an invitation to dinner, in honor of Emperor William A number of high military officers have been nrre sted at Madrid, charged with conspiring against the Government,... M. Waddfngton, the French Ambassador at London, has telegraphed to Prime Minister Ferry that MarquU Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, has asked Earl Granville, the English Foreign Secretory, to mediate between China and France. Miss Carrie Thompson, daughter of Gov. Thompson, of South Carolina, died from the effects of severe burns inflicted the night of the 4th lust., while reading before an open grate. The session of the House of Representatives on March 15 was principally devoted to consideration of the postoffice a appropriation bill. It was agreed to include within the 50 per cent, limitation clause the Northern Pacific and V nion Pacific Roads. The Committee on Public Lands reported a bill to forfeit a cert in grant niade for the construction of a railroad from the Central Pacific to Portland, Ore. There was no session of the Senate. The Usual Way. "My dear," said a lady, meeting a friend on the street; "have you read the last translation of the latest French book?" "No, not yet, but I have heard that it was too abominably dreadful for any decent person to read. Have you read it yet?" "Oh, yes, and enjoyed it very much. It is positively shocking. I do wonder why they allow such things to be published. They really ought to be suppressed. " "That is so; the officials ought fc do something about it. I should think the publishers would be ashamed of themselves. 19 "Oh, they don't think of the morals of the community ; their only idea is making money." "Well, if it is really as dreadful as you say I must gx and get a copy at once. Good day, love." "Good-by, dear." Texas Siftings. Her Culture, "Ah, good evening! Icomo to ask yoti to go roller-skating this evening," "So sorry, but I I don't roller- skate any more this sea&on." "Indeed! But why? Iamsuteyou are the embodiment of grace when you skate." "Perhaps you mean when I zniapilarotate, lieginald, do cultivate elegance in conversation. It is roller-skating no more. It is zampilarotation. " And the young man leaned a&ainst the casement until he had gathered strength enough to say "Good night." Hartford Post l,-,-,, 1 1 1 r r " New knowledge often sets men thinking, but chiefly among those who were in the habit of thinking before. THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves $ 5.50 $ 7.21 Hogs 6.UO ;ti 7.00 FLOUR Western 6.25 & 7.00 Wheat Whit? 9 1.03 No. !lte?- 1.07 m? 1.11 Corn No. 2 W .05 Oats Mixed 4i .40 Pork Mess 17.7 .ia23 Laud .10 CHICAGO. 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NOT SUPERSTITIOUS. BY OPIE HEAD. "I un'erstan's," said old Ike to young Mulkittle, "dat yer fodder's gwine a little way outen town ter preach ternight, an` wants yer to make yer 'rangements ter go wid him. Kep yer mouf shut, doan' say a word, fur he's gwineter see a ghost ez ho comes 'long back. It won't be no sho' 'nuff ghost, honey, but one what I'se gwineter iix up fer de 'casion. Yer know dat he got inter a mighty argyment wid me 'bout ghosts tuther night, an' mark my words, honey, when a man says dat the niggers uster tell him 'bout ghosts an dat it made a'pression on him eben airter be was done growed up, dat man's er feerd o ghoats, ez sho's yer live, an' ken be made ter flip his coat-tails through de a'r jis de same as de nigger what ain't got 'nuff sense tier tote a chicken un'er his arm, an' I ain't foun' dat sorter nigger yit. Doan' yer git skeerd, honey, iur I'll take yer home case'n de boss .runs 'way an'leabs ver." "Do you think my pa would run from anything, Uncle Ike?" "Jis' like I teila yer. See dem coattails layin' back like a rabbit's years. Yer go on wid him now, an watch out yer comes back." Sir. Mulkittte had teen requested to preach at a small church situated near town, and had decided to allow the boy to accompany him. As they walked along the youngster pondered over what old Ike had told him, and wondered if his father would really runHe pictured to himself the spectacle of his fleeing parent, and laughed outright. "What amuses you no, my son?" "Nothing I was jus' laughinV "But what are you laughing about?" "Something that old Uncle Ike said." "I want to caution you against that old man. I don't want yout to believe any of his stories. He is an old crank." "Is he a crank 'cause he turned the grindstone when you sharpened the hatchet?" "Oh, no." "Well, what's a crank? Is he one 'cause lie's crooked Y "You have come very nearly hitting it, for he's a crank because his mind is crooked ?J After a sermon, the reverend gentleman and his son started immediately for heme. The full moon seemed to surge in a billowy sea of clouds, throwing tangled beams among tho trees of the w ood through which they walked along. "Pa, was there ever a ghost?'' "Certainly not, my son." "The Bible says there is!" "There may have been at one time, mv son, but there aro rone now." "What went with 'em?" "Oh, I don't know." "Then how do you know there ain't none? "Hush." They walked along in silence. Mr. Mulkittle meditated on the subject which seemed to have filled the mind of his son, and decided to write a sermon embodying his idea of ghosts and what he knew about negro superstition. The narrow strip of woods, stretching along iu the flighty moonlight, seeme; in isself a stretch of embodied lonliness. The path ran along a fence, bordering and old cemetery, where slept an old pioneer. With the shifting light the tail, ghostly stones seemed to come and go, and the shrill cry of a night bird flying over the old-time :!ield of death, did not add to the cheerfulness of the scene. Over the path, just in front of 'the father and boy, hung a stubbed, bending tree, and as the pedestrains came up, a tall white figure, at least ten feet in the air, suddenly appeared be

fore them. Mr. Mulliittle uttered an exclamation of sudden fright, leaped over a log and ran like a deer. The boy, also frightened, cried out in alarm, when a voice from the tree said : "Doan git skeered, honey, fur de ole man is wid ver. Did'n I tell ver dat 1-

yer fodders coat-tails would stretch out? Comeheah now quick, an' les' take dis nearcler shoot home. Come on, an' when yer fodder says anything, jes' say dat yer wan't wid him. Do whut I tells yer an eberytbing -will come right." The old man took the boy, went a nearer "shoot" and was at home. Pretty soon Mr. Mulkittle, puffing and blowing with his exertion, came up. The old negro secreted himself, and the boy who met his father, said: "Where have you been, pa? "Don't you know where I've been?" "Didn't you go with me?" "No, sir, for you wouldn't let me go," "Do you mean to say that you were not with me ?" "Cose he wad V replied the old negro, who appeared on the scene. He's been with me all Ao ebening." "Didn't he go to church with me?" "Cose he didn't." "This is devilish strange," mused the reverend gentleman. "I would have wagered anything in the world he was with me. It cannot be that I was dreaming. There must be something in the old negro after all." "Dat ghost was let down frum de tree wid a rope. A pillar case an a 'par 'o white britches stuffed wid straw, honey. Doan say a word, chile. We'se got do bulge on dis thing. Tole him dat he'd git skeered." Before going to bed, Mr. Mulkitde mused long before the Are. "Do you think there ain't any ghosts?" asked the boy, when his mother was not near. "Tut, tut, what put such foolishness into your head? If you keep on pitying attention to that old negro you w ill lose what little sense you inherited," and turning, he added to himself; "It's devilish strange all around, and I don't understand it. I don't known whether the boy wasn't with me or w hether I didn't run. There is a perplexing mixture somewhere. If people would pay more attention to fact, and less to superstition, the world would be in u much better condition. Arkansas Traveler. More than He Usually Paid The ordinary mortal, when he goes to obtain a license to be married, shows by his buoyant step and his general appearance of light-heartedness, that he

feels as though a $10 bill -was a Hm price to pay for a document permitting him to enter upon what he believes wilr be an era of iuHojd bliss; but thatthere are per4&s w jp are disposed to look at the pftcbicar Vnide of things is shown by a ludicrous incident which occurred recently at the office of the City Kegistrat, of Cleveland. A man whb is well known hi City Hail circles applied for a license and expressed an intention to get married, when the following colloquy endued: Applicant 1 looking at tho license) "How much will this be?" Clerk "The usual charge is fifty cents," 'Fifty cents? Fifty cents? Why, I've been getting them here riht along, and I never paid more thajn twentythree cents." Clevelaml Herakl A Japanese Temple. By slow degrees we reached the temple step and stood under the shadow of its overhanging roof. Before the temple is a red wooden structure of twpefories, designed as an entrance gate. A number of large sandals are hnng before images of the two heavenly kings. These are placed there by persons who desire to become good walkers, and hereby avoid the necessity of ordinary training. Close by was a iraall altar erected to Ji-zo, tho helper of those who are in trouble a large class in Yedo as elsewhere. Three prayer-wheels, attached to as many posts, where in momentary use, men and women patiently awaiting for their turn. Some of the Japanese have the comfortable doctrine that any sin which may beset them is due to actions accomplished in a former state of existence. Wishing to be quit of this sin they come and tun the wheel, praying to the little bronze monstrosity squatted above the wheels, and evn as the wheels revolve this evil influence may speedily rim its course to the end. A heap cf small pebbles are disposed about the image. I thought tnis was the work of a rival sect, who had been stoning Ji-zo. But our learned . guide informed us that these had been brought here by the loving hands of childless mother, yearning for the wellbeing of little ones they had lost. It seems that in the other world there is a hag who haunts the river So-dzu-kawa, and whenever a little child appears in sight robs it of its clothes and sets it to the task of piling up stones on the river bank. These pebbies are the mothers offering to lighten the child's task. Presently (it must be some time in the dead of the night) fhe good Ji-zo will move his inadequate little lejs beneath his great paunch, get some expression into the inanity of his smooth bronze face, and hie him off with the load of pebbles to cheer the little children. Tokiacor. London Daily News West India Ifeieta. Dueling in the West Indies, exeep upon Hayti and the islands under Spanish rule, used to prevail to a great extent, although the custom has pretty nearly died out; and "pistols and coffee" are not called for at the present day, either by quarrelsome youths or "old stagers," with that same reckless demeanor they used to le in tho days of yore. Upon the small French islands, particularly, the "code of honor" was held in high esteem, both by foreigners and "estate! gentlemen." some thirty, forty and fifty years ago; and it was no uncommon thing in those times to witness two or more duels a month, on an average only a few of which, however, w?re attended by fatal consequences. Many a hostile meeting has been precipitated by the wine cup at the "Cirque," Ihe famous club house of Eassetere (the capital of Guadaloupe), a resort of French army and navy officers, and by resMent planters and merchants of wealth and respectability. There was then no law in force against dueling, so the custom was practiced without municipal restraint or fear of legal consequences. It was generally understood throughout select society upon St. Martin that every gentlenfan must, hare emphasized his polite breeding either by being

'called out, or of having challenged his man, unless his social life and business transactions had ben phenomenally serene and satisfactory. There was an air of perfect ref nement and absence of cruelty, however, in tho deportment of St. Martin duelists, and the bowie-knife, rifle or double-barreled shotgun was seldom ever used as a weapon the invitations were generally "pistols and coffee," and the terms "ten paces and balls thirty-two to thepound." Alta California. Under the Dead eo. The well-known writer Gregorovius has published, under the nitle "A Hide to the Dead Sea," an interesting sketch of the famous lake. He substantially confirms all the traditional, characteristics, except as to the appe;urance of the landscape and some other minor particulars. He declares that no Sicilian bay nor the Oulf of Corinth presents more varied or beautiful coloring, only the water seems darker, as if of molten metal. He denies the general statement that no bird flies over its waters, and that its shores are withont vegetation. But he confirms th4 tradition that no living thing is found in it; fish coming down by the Jordan die at once on coming within its bonnds. The water is so thick that he moved in it with difficulty; its bitterness was terrible; the bottom was slippery like soap, and one can scoop up with the Land a slime like mortar. The touch of it causes great smart to the iyes.: 1 While the temperature of the atmosphere was 60 degrees Fahrenheit that of the , water in the Dead Sea was 04 degrees. t On coming out of it the ImxW- was thickly incrusted with crystals salts of magnesia and soda. 4 - A Chicago Wife's Warning "Will you be home to dfnnerV aakel a Chicago woman of her husband as he was about starting for business. "No, I think not,1' he answered. I expect to be very busy, ltesidcs a new saloon is to be opened ji,t around the corner from my office, an 1 1 will drop in there and get a little freo lunch." "Well," said tne wife, while a wave of iear swept across hr fcice, "bo direful not to gat hurt in the rush." FAifo dell lit a c&

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