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in favor of the plaintiffs. The railroad charged the plaintiffs a higher rate for the

transportation of oil than the Standard;

Oil Company was obliged to pay..".. A verdict for $50100 was rendered at St. Paul against theBurlington, Cedar B&pids and Northern Railroad, in favor of C. L. Dunn, who was injured in an accident in February last near Green, Iowa Elisha Hoyt, of Washington, Ind., assigned owing to embarrassment caused by the failure of the banking firm of Hyatt, Levinga & Co. His assets are reported at $250,000, and liabilities $ 100,060.

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Maryland Democracy gav a banquet to Senator Gofo&aUi in th Baltimore Academy of Music; whfc& was elaborately decorated fo f the occasion. (Senator Bayard was among the speakers. Ix is thought (hat the portfolio of the Interior Department will be offered by Gov,

Cleveland to Jar. William t AVhitney of

New York.

The enraged! Italian laborers at Port Rowan, Ontario, S seized Col. Collier, and carried him by f pce to one of their camps. His release was Jfecurecl by the magistrates,, who swore in flpirty citizens to patrol the streets. ....Gkers' union throughout

the have subscribed 8oG,000 to aid

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Wbstcott & Co stock-brokers at Syracuse, N. Y., made an assignment, giving preferences for $32,377, and the assets will just about cover the latter sum. S. D. Biehardson, dry goods retailer, of the same city, also failed. Both were caused by the suspension of Wilkinson Brothers bank Uncle Silas Savage was buried at public expense last week at Hartford, Conn. His chums under the French spoliation matter were $175,000, and he died the very day the United States Senate referred the question of claims to the Court of Appeals. Miss Newman, whose supposed dead body was taken from a grave in Egremont, Mass., to Albany and was restored to life on the dissecting table, is now perfectly sane and wedded to a physician nephew of one of the men acquainted with the facts of her resurrection. She proposes to visit friends in the Berkshire Hills within a short time. H. J. Goodwin, dealer in woolens, at New York, made an assignment, his preferences amounting to $100,000. . .A fire at New Bedford, Mass., destroyed the arygoods store of Haskell A Tripp and injured other buildings, causing a loss of $88,500. Thb New York Leaf Tobaeeo Board of Trade resolved by a unanimous vote to protest against the ratification of the pending treaty between Spain and the United States.. ...The imports at the port of New York for the week were $8,133,000, of which $6,430,000 were general merchandise, and $1,703,000 dry goods.

In self-defense, John P. Martin killed Floyd Tolliver at Moorehead, Ky., on

,0ii. v U&e Pittsburg strikers, and have agreed to Farmers Station by "relators, ;uid ndY give, if necessary, the proceeds of one day's

uica t iaa uuuciMi ... .uiuiuwu iu 1410 XJrkota exhibit at New Orleans is a minitiire working elevator, eight by ten feefc with glass sides and roof, which cost $1200. Maby Bbannak, who four years ago was a favorite in the highest eociaj-' circles of Baltimore, was released from tc bridewell, and ended her career by flinging herself on the track before a passenger ffrain. It is estimated by the co-respondent of the Louisville CourierJoumal that 400 people have perished in tljiree counties of Kentucky by the pestilepce. It is also declared that within the tost three months 200 people have died, chiefly by pestilence, in Harlan County alon-e. The population of Harlan County ia 5,278, and that of the three counties specified Harlan, Bell, and Knox tt 21,420, and 400

deaths would give a df&tn rate oi. iv per 1,000 in three months, more than Che average annual death rate in the United States. The figures given for 'Parian Coumry would make the mortality jfor the quarter more than twice as great as the average mortality for the year. The ravages of the pestilence in Kentucky have betjn at least as great, in proportion to the population, as those of the cholera at Marseilles and Toulon. At least twenty nerces lost their lives by the capsizing of oyster-boats in the Bappahanock Biver Weiring a storm Lewis Fox, manager of fihe Tate plantation, near Little Bock, ws tfebot dead while sit

ting at a table writing, tlie assassin having

fired through a window

Six convicts confined in the convict camp

at Coal Creek, Tenn-i nade a break for lib

erty. They were surroiunded by a strong

cordon of guards, bflt ing a bold dash they confusion. They htf

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Stjbtkxs have been made foxy an iron bridge across the Mississippi ' Biver at Prairie du Chien, to take th' place of the pontoon structure. The rater has paid from $35,000 to $50,000 jfix annum. The new bridge will be bft by a stock company, at a cost of $800,000 or mere, and win be near&y a mile in length..... "Omaha Charles (M a desperado, whose real name was Cttaries Stevens,- was taken from the jail? at MaryviUe, Ma, by a mob and hangefi from the railroad bridge. Stevens shc&Hubert Kramer at Maryville, Dee. 3. An6fter lynching occurred at Daggett, OaLj where William White, charged with kiWmg Josiah 6. Harris, Dec 5, was hanged

.to a tiBlegraph pole by a party ex regulators

.... it . juub swoon &t jrew jrana, Ana.,

.as oescroyeu oy incoiaianes, wno were

opposea to naving anquorsnopintnetown. Thb citizens of AndersonviUe, Ohio, tamed out in great numbers and dispatched a tiger which had escaped from his winter quarters in a menagerie. The animal had killed hogs, sheep, and cows along his route, but attacked no human being. . . . Beuben B. Springer, of Cindnnati, known throughout the country for his gifts to pubHe institutions, died in his chair, from paralysis of the heart, in his 85th year The wheat yield of California, this year, officially reported, is 57,420,188 bushels, leading all odxer States in the Union. This is the product of 3,587,864 acres, being an average vield of 16.4 bushels.

AH indictment has been rendered by the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago against Jos. C. Maekin, Henry Biehl, and Arthur GleaBon, and another against Strausser, Hansbrough, and Shields, judges of election in the Second Precinct of the Eighteenth Ward,' and Kelly and Sullivan, election clerks in the same precinct. Biehl and Gleason were arrestedand put under $5,000 bonds each. Maekin gave himself up, and was also put under brads in a like amount With the rendering of the indictments the investigation comes to an end The horrors connected with the Crouch murders at Jackson, Michigan, received reenforoement last week by the attempt of a witness to cut his throat. Thb sudden breaking out of fire in Gray, Toynton & Fox's candy factory at Detroit caused, the girls employed in the second story to rush for the fire-escape, in descending which one young woman fell and was slightly hurt Three girls were seen at a window, but a sudden burst of the flames drove them back, and they were burned to death. When James M. Leary stopped down to a hotel parlor at Logansport, Ind., to be married to Ida Hostetter, it was found that Ida had fled with Burton Weaver. Leary had purchased a marriage license, feed the parson, and expended $60 toward the faithless one's trousseau.... Forty-five lodges and 4,000 members were added during the year to the Good Templar phalanx in Dakota Two Idaho cowboys tied their left hands together and fought a duel with knives until both fell dead. Nzixih MoKvaoue, who gained notoriety in connection with the murder of Mr. and

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just been sentenced at St Catherine's, Ontario, to six months' mrprisonment at hard labor for assaulting a clairvoyant, who "revealed" some unpleasant things in his past life. .... Orrin A. Carpenter, who was acquitted of the murder of Sura Burns, at Lincoln, HL, has fled horn that place to avoid assassination by the girl's father. His once ample fortune has shrunk to a quarter section of fanning land. A tobdic was returned at Cleveland, Ohio; by the jury in the fmght-discrim-.ishtkm suit of Scofield, Shurmer A Teagle jdnstthe Lake Shore Boad for $5,000

short distance, and

called to the prisone:

tinned straight ah

guards opened fire.

of the fugitives

surrendered. Tw4

killed bv the fire, and two more mortally

wounded. . . .TW Supreme Court of West Virginia hesf decided that a railroad eharteris merely a license, the right to freight and passenger charges being vested only in the Legislature HezekMh Brown; a colored preacher, of ClfttWsville, Md., was lynched by a mob for mairrying a weak-minded white girl 17 years

Lfd Judge T. J. Ford, his brether-in-

Jaw, ana three others were indicted at New Orleans for the assassination of A. H. Murphy Twenty -five thousand children participated in the Sunday-school celebration of the Methodists at Baltimore.

WAsniiraToar. Opposition to the Mexican trea iy seems to have gained strength in the Bouse of Bepresentatives since the publication of the terms of the proposed treaty with Spain. Suboeon Wymajj, of the Marine Hospital Service, has been given leave of absence for four months to investigate the germs of cholera with Prof. Koch at Berlin. Mb. Banbalii intends to rush the ap. propriation bills through the House as fast as possible. When these have been disposed of the interstate commerce bill will be called up for continued discussion. Friends of the Mexican pension bill will make an effort to secure action upon that measure next in o:rder. . . . Capt Howgate the absconding exChief Signal Officer, has been het jrd from through a letter addressed to Lieut. Greely asking for a small loan at 10 per cent interest The Comptroller of the Currency hag authorized tie Mercantile Bank, of Cleveland, to begin business with a capital of $1,000,000 Secretary Chandler has been advised by cable of the outbreak of a revolution in Corea.

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In connection with the visit of Senator Bayard to Albany, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Daily News telegraphs that journal as follows: There is a report comJnv from New York to the effect that Cleveland will not select Bayard lor a Cabinet position because Tilden is bitterly nofltile to him. It is claimed by Tilden's friends that he and they nominated and elected Cleveland, and that he cannot go back on them or disregard Tilden's wishes. Cn the other hand it is asserted by Democrats high in the party that Cleveland owes Tilden nothing. It is stated by :nen who were in New York during the canvass and who are familiar with the Democratic management, that Tilden gave only a few thousand dollars, and really made no sort of effort in behalf of the ticket "It was," said a leading Democratic Senator, "Tilden's friends who cut Cleveland so badly in New York." It is also believed by many Democrats that Tilden is trying to put Randall at ths head of the Treasury, but the latter prefers to remain injthe House. The almost universal opinion on the Democratic side of the Senate is that Mr, Bayard can have the Secretaryship of State if he wants it. The cause of Tilden's hostility to Bayard is said to be the former's belief that the Delaware enactor and Thurman wrre mainly responsible for the electoral commission bill. In answer to this, friends of Mr. Bayard say that he and Thurman used every exertion to get an escpression of opinion from Tilden about the electoral bill, and that finally the late C. K. Potter and several others, who were said to represent Tilden, accepted the electoral commission bill. Chables G. Bebd, Citizens candidate for Mayor of Worcester, Mass., defeated the Bepublican nominee, Samuel E. Hildreth. The city voted for liquor license by two to one. . . .Wade Hampton has been re-elected United States Senator by the South Carolina Legislature, receiving all the votes but those of five negroes.... Chauncey M. Depew declines to be a candidate for United States Senator in New York. . . .The fact has developod at Washington that Senator Bayard mad a trip to Albany last week, remaining at the Executive Mansion with the President-elect for more than twenty-four hours. L. Z. Leiteb, the Chicago millionaire, now in Washington, is spoken of in connection with a foreign mission. Mr. Leiter says he will only accept a Cabinet position. ... .A prominent New York Democrat says Boscoe Conkling can have the full Democratic vote for Senator. Fourteen additional votes are necessary, however. ...A delegation of the County Democracy visited Mayor Edson, of New York,and urged the appointment of Hubert O. Thompson as Commissioner of Public Works. The request was indignantly refused. . . ,Thp

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worK eacn weeK tor the same purpose . . . William Wannemacher, the yoitug temperance orator, is dead. D crxno navigation season this year 1,823,117 tons of iron ore were delivered at Lake Erie ports, 130,428 tons in excess of last year's record Warren Price was hanged at Wrightsville, Ga. for killing his son-in-law, B. F. PeiTy. George Cook met a similar fate at Laramie City, Wyoming, for the murder of James Blunt, his brother-in-law. Business failures for the week numbered 316, against 296 for the previous week, and 249 in the corresponding period of 1883. Special dispatches to BradatreeVa (New York) from leading trade centers report "the holiday purchases are exhibiting a contrast with the inactivity previously noted, yet the volume of such sales is almost uniformly below the total for 1883. Aside from the continued firmness in the New England cotton goods markets, due to the recent firmness in the price of raw cotton, and with the exception of a slightly improved distribution of goods at Boston, Memphis, Wilmington, and Savannah, general trade at all points is at as low an ebb as ever. A more conspicuous feature is found in the long-continued and pronounced dullness of mercantile collections. This is reported in almost all directions. Bates of exchange on New York at interior points have declined in most instances. There is no gain in the industrial situation. In all lines of manufacturing wages continue to go lower, in 5 to 10 per cent, drops. Actual stoppages of factories and mills are less frequent, but conspicuous." A fbiend of Gen. Grant has been expressing the fear that his financial future is not the brightest His assured annual income for the future is fixed at about $30,000, and his friends count that amount inadequate to maintain him. . . .Boston capitalists have contracted for eight thousand tons of steel rails for the Arizona Mineral Belt Bailroad, and work will begin forthwith on the section from Flagstaff to Green Valley. . . . Muriate of cocoaile, the newly discovered anaesthetic, has been successfully applied to dentistry. .Nearly the whole of the business portion of Brookville, Ind., was burned. The loss is variously estimated at from $50,000 to $100,000. .... The Calumet Sewer-pipe Works, near Toronto, Ohio, were burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $40,000 Eight stores at St Mary's, Kan., were burned, causing a loss of $48,000. . . .Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the depot of the Traction Company; loss, $40,000. . . .A fire at Johnstown, Ohio, destroyed a block of buildings, including a hotel, and the Masonic and Odd Fellows' Hall, causing a loss of $30,000.... Fire at Asheville, N. C, causedaloss of $38,000. . . .Fire in New York destroyed a six-story brick building on Ninth avenue. Loss on building and contents about $30,000.

FOREM3I.

Capt. Dudley and mate of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed a boy named Parker while on the wreck in order to eat the flesh, have been sentanced to death. The Secretary of State for the Home Department advises the Queen to respite them The Nihilist chief at St. Petersburg has issued a manifesto condemning to death die Minister of the Interior, Count Tolstoi The Bt Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, ex-Privy Councilor of" England, is dead Lord Dufferin, the new Yiceioy of India, has been well received nt Bombay. The condition of affaires in Spain is believed to be worse than af; any time since the killing of Gen. Prim in 1880. The situation is one of riots and conspiracies, trade is at a standstill, cholera is raging, the treasury is bankrupt, and a revolution is impending.... China will continue the war against France and will secure 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferry has abandoned all hopes of a successful issue of the mediation between China and France. A dispatch from Odessa, Bussia, says : The Turkish atrocities in Macedonia are increasing. Two hundred Christians have been murdered within the past few weeks, and three villages burned. Kidnaping is common, and the inhabitants are afraid to leave their houses A panio has been caused on the Vienna Bourse by the suspension of the Bohemian Mortgage Company A deficit is shown by the Prussian budget of 22,000,000 marks. AlTj London was intensely alarmed the other day by an attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. The attempt, however, proved an utter failure, as far as the design to demolish the structure was concerned. About 50 worth of window-glass was broken in tho vicinity. The bridge itself escaped without injury. A strong force of police was put on guard, and others sent out to search for the parties who planned the destruction of the bridge, but no arrests were made or clew discovered. Owing to the excitement and the fear of a repetition of the explosion, traffic was suspended for a time. The English press is filled with indignation at the advance of Geiman influence in Africa, as indicated by the publication of the German White Book, at the expense of England's interests, which, it is claimed, have been sacrificed by dhe indecisive action of Lord Granville. . . .Miss Fortescue, who was awarded a verdict of $50,000 against Lord Garmoyie for breach of promise, has been re-engaged to Mr. Quilter, whom she jilted for the nobleman. . . .The English Secretary of State for Home Affairs proposes to suppress prize fighting in the future. . . .The prospects of the Nile expedition for the relief of Gen, Gordon are not very encouraging, and it is now said that it cannot reach him before next week. . . .Unusually severe snow storms are reported in the Alpine regions of Switzerland. . . . The District Court of Zafingen, Canton Aargun, Switzerland, has fined and imprisoned two Mormon apostles, and forbidden them to enter the Canton for three years Louise Michel, the French anarchist, will be released Jan. 1 . . . .Mme. Colombier is serving a fortnight's imprison

ment for the authorship of Sarah Bar-

uum. . . , A revolution in Corea is reported, i

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threatens resignation. It is also reported that there is a movement to restore Ismail Fnsha to the throne. .. .The London Petroleum Association has refused to put Russian petroleum on the same footing with the American product. . . . The French Chamber of Deputies passed the naval estimates and recommended the building of cruisers and torpedo vessels, and the speedy completion of Large men-of-war ....The sentence of Captain Dudley and his mate, Stephens, of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed the boy Parker in the boat to keep themselves alive, has been commuted from hanging to six months imprisonment

ADMTIONAI NEWS. The mysterious disappearance of an organ from the Union Sunday School rooms at Struthers, Ohio, has led to a disgraceful row. . , .Father McGee was locked out of a French Catholic Church at Fall Biver, Mass., and complaint will be made to the Pope Ninety members of the First Baptist Church at Keokuk forced the dismissal of the pastor, Bev. A. C. Peck. On a dredge-boat in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Captain Edward Daley knocked Patrick McGuire senseless, then chopped the body to pieces with a pick-ax, and threw the mangled mass into the hold. Iowa farmers indulge bitter feelings toward the railways, which charge them freightage of 17 cents a bushel on corn to Chicago, while the value of the grain is but 13 to 15 cents. The Railway Commission has taken the matter in hand, and if not vested with full powers already, it will ask the Legislature to enlarge the scope of their duties.... The late Reuben R. Springer, of Cincinnati, left an estate valued at $3,000,000. His will, entirely in his own handwriting, has been probated. While the bulk of his property is given to the childred of his sisters, he makes seventeen bequests to schools, churches, charities, and household servants, the largest being $75,000 to the Music Hall Association, and $100,000 to St Mary's Seminary of the West. . . . The Miller Company, of Canton, Ohio, manufacturers of mill machinery and iron novelties, was closed by the Sheriff on executions by Toledo iron merchants. . . .Fred H. Winston, a well-known attorney and politician of Chicago, brought suit for $100,000 against the Inter Ocean Company for libelous statements. Richard Bbocken, of Philadelphia, President of the Wolfe Tone Club of Irish Nationalists, who recently inherited a fortune of nearly $1,000,000 by the death of his uncle in Brazil, has contributed $100,000 "to be scientifically used for the cause ef Ireland in the heart of England..... The Edgar Thomson steel-works, at Pittsburgh, with a monthly pay roll of $150,000, have suspended operations for an indefinite period. The Bepublic iron works in that city have resumed work at a reduction of 10 per cent in wages. .Henry Levy & Son, importers of fancy goods in New York City, have made an assignment The liabilities are $300,000. .... The City Bank of Schenectady, in New York, with a capital of $100,000, has cloned its doors. A bill for the erection of a statue to Lafayette was reported favorably to the Senate by Mr. Sherman, on the 15 th inst Several petitions from tobacco manufacturers and tradesunions apainst the ratification of the treaty with Spain were presented by Mr. Logan, as also petitions by hosts of Union soldiers for the purchase of a portrait of Gen. George H. Thomas for the CapitoL During discussion of the Dakota bill, Mr. Garland submitted a proposition for a popular vote in that Territory on the question of its division. A debate on e silver issue followed, mainly between Messrs. Hill and Sherman. A bill was passed for a public building at Akron, Ohio, to cost $100,000. A communication from the Postmaster-General was laid before the Bouse of Bepresentatives asking an appropriation of $100,000 for postalcar service and $75,uO for the pay of postal clerks. Among the bills introduced were the foUowing : One by Mr. Oates declaring forfeited all unearned land grants; one by Mr. Pefl granting una right of way through Indian Territory to the Kansas Citv, Arkansas and Fort Smith Railroiid; another by Mr. Blanch ard for the creation of a Red River Commission; another by Mr. Willis to give encouragement to the proposed agricultural, mining, and live tock exposition, to be held at Louisville, Ky.; and another by Mr. Buckner to refund the public debt nd secure the stability of the national bank circulation. toy a suspension of the rules Jan. 16 was set apart for the consideration of the McPherson and Dingley bills, both of which are expected to pass. A resolution was offered by Mr. Holman providine: that all speeches printed by permission of the House shall be subject to the rules governing debate. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a preamble and resolution requesting the Secretary of the Navy to inform the House in regard to the case of Cadet F. S. Strong, of the A'.napalis Naval Academy, who is reported to have died in consequence of cruel treatment received at the hands of senior cadc&s. Mr. Lacey, for the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, xaoved to suspend tshe rules and pass the bill prohibiting the issue of Treasury notes of denominations less than $5,

and providing for the issue of $1, $2, and o (silver certificates. The motion was lost Mr. Peters, for the Commerce Committee, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to promote the efficiency of the revenue-marine service. This motion was also lost. A motion to suspend the rules in favor of the bill to establish a Department of Agriculture, proponed by Mr. Aiken in behalf of the Committee on Agriculture, was agreed to. " THE MARKETS." NEW YORK. Beeves $7.25 8i 75 Hog:? 4.50 Floub Extra. 4. 50 6.10 Wheat No. a Spring. hi r .f-a No. 2 Bed 78 .bo Corn No. 2 81 .55 Oats White 3U .as Pobk New Mess 12.50 (gia.oo CHICAGO. Beeves Choce to Prme Steers. 6.50 7.50 Good Shipping 5.23 & 6.75 Common to Fair. 4.00 w 4.50 Hons 4.00 4.60 hLOun -Jrancy White Win ter Ex. .75 t$ 4.25 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.25 4.C0 Wheat No. 2 Spring 71 & 72 No. 2 Bed Winter. 72 & .1 Ccbs No. 2 :n i .3 Oat. No. 2 23 .25 Rye No. 2 51 & .S3 DARI.KY No. 2 54 & .56

Butte iChoiofi Creamery. !24 .27 Fine Dairy 1J .so Cheese Full ( ream. .12 .13 Bkiwined Flat 0 & Eggs Fresh .21 .22 Potatoes New, per bu 3fi .as Poke Mess 10.75 i&ilxo XiARD W)jt TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red. .67 .68 Corn No. 2 i9 .u Oats No. 2 26 .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No 2 71 3 .12 Corn No. 2 37 & Oats No. 2 25 & mq Barxey No. 2... 49 Jil Pork Mess 10.75 c$ 11.00 Lard a 50 6.7336 ST, LGUI& Wheat No. 2 Red ,70 & .77 & Corn Mixed 34 (t .35 Oats Mixed 24 .25 Rye. 47 & .18 Pork Mess n.00 011.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red .74 & .76 Corn. 37 & .38 Oats Mixed 27 .20 Pore Mess 11.25 U.75 Lard 06&S .07 DETROIT. Fi our 5.00 5.50 Wheat No. 1 White 76 & .78 Corn -Mixed 40 .41 Oats No. 2 White. .28 & 2D Pork Family 12.00 (&12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red, New 71 .73 Corn Mixed 35 & .36 Oats Mixed 25 & .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Boat 5.75 6.2s Fair 4.75 8ft 5.25 Common 3.75 0 4,25 HOOS 4.25 (4.50 8HE3P , 4.60 & 5.00

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Old Times in Washington. Ear'y in 1854 there was a powerful combination at Washington among the proprietors of several large and lucrative patent rights, to obtain, from Congress, by spe iai act, an extention of ttieir respective monopolies. Formost among the applicants was Col. Sam Colt, the net profits of whose patent had amounted to $1,000,000, after the deduction of $60,000, which Mr. Colt had put down for his expenses, loss of time, eta Then there was the Woodworth planing mach ine, whose case was engineered by Senator Seward ; several patents for the manufacture of India rubber, and the Morse telegraph patent. In all these cases the commissioner of patents had refused an extension, but money was unscrupulously used to influence Congress. Adroit lobbyists gave dinners and suppers, and the hessians among the correspondents reaped a rich harvest Beau Hickman, as he called himself, made his appearance at Washington towards the close of the Tyler administration. He was of middle size, with long hair and an inoffensive, cadaverous countenance. It was his boast that he was born among t he slashes of Hanover County, Virginia, and he was to be seen lounging aboui; the hotels, fashionably, yet shabbily, dressed, generally wearing soiled white kid gloves and a white cravat It was considered the proper thing to induce strangers to the Beau, who thereupon unblushingly demanded his initiation fee, and his impudence sometimes secured him a generous sum. He was always ready io pilot his victims to gambling houses and other questionable resorts, and for a quarter of a century he lived on the blackmail thus levied upon strangers. Mrs. Madison $are a large party on the evening of May 21, 1844, which was numerously and fashionably attended, a supper with rare old wines added to the enjoyments of the occasion. Just after the supper, the following conversation, it was reported, took place between Mr. Pakenham. the British Minister, and Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, a Washington gentleman, formerly the American Secretary of Legation at Mexico, who was describing in glowing termti to Mr. Pakenham the beauty of a lady of New York, who, he said, was ono of the most splendid women he had ever seen ; so much so that she reminded him of what he supposed a queen might or ought to be. "She makes one thinkf said he. ."of such a magnificent creature as Queen Zenobia. "But," said Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, "what was her Majesty, Queen Zenobi&s color? Might it not have been the subject of an animated correspondence between Mr. Pakenham, and Mr. Calhoun?'" "Yes," rejoined Mr. Pakenham, addressing himself to Mr. Ingersoll, "and you, perhaps, would have written a report upon it Presently after, his excellency added, "You bore very hard upon us in that report" "O, no,w said Mr. Ingersoll, Myu nmst not think so." "Yes you did," repeated Mr. Pakenham, "you bore very hard upon us.w Joseph B. Chandler, a native of Cape Cod, who went to Philadelphia, and was for five and twenty years the editor of the United States Gazette, published there, was for six years a representative in Congress. He was a zealous Freemason, having been initiated in Columbia Lodge at Boston. Subsequently, after his removal to Philadel

phia, he held the office of Master of Phoenix Lodge No. 130, Master of Col

umbia Mark Lodge, High Priest of

the Grand Chapter, No. 52; Grand

High Priest of B. A. C. chapter all in

that city; and of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for two

years ; also the subordinate offices m

each body. He has, besides, delivered

numerous addressee to the Masonio brethren, which were characterized by great ability and pure and elevated sentiments. His adherence to Masonry continued steadfast during the antiMasonic period, though his prominence marked him out as a direct object of personal attack. He met his assailants nobly, and triumphantly vindicated and sustained that institution, of which he was one of the brightest ornaments. Later in life, however, he became a convert to the Church of Borne, and was obliged, with great regret, to renounce his connection with "the mystic art" He was a fine-looking, gentlemanly man, ready in conversation, and a pleas ant after-dinner speaker. Ben: Perley Poore. Picks the Crocodile's Teeth. In the case of the great saurian of the Nile, all that Aristotle tells us is borrowed from Herodotus, with the exception of the number of eggs it is said to

lay, and it is curious to notice that he even tells the story of the little bird (trochilos) which eai;s the leeches out of the crocodile's mouth a story long discredited, but which has been to a great extent corroborated by M. Goef-froy-Saint-Hilaire, the eminent French naturalist, who long resided in Egypt, and had repeated occasions to ascertain that thejstory of Hero lotus was correct, in substance at least. He found that a little bird, the black-headed plover (pluvianus legyptius) flies incessantly from place to place, searching everywhere, even in the crocodile's mouth, for insects, such as gnats, which attack the great saurian in innumerable swarms, and, entering his mouth, cover the inner surface of the palate with a brownish-black crust The little plover comes and delivers him from his troublesome enemies. That curious friends bips exist between animals widely different from each other in form and habit is well known to nat

uralists; we may instance the case of the rhinoceros and hippopotamus, which are often attended by little birds, wbich feed on the tick and other parasites that infest these beasts, and which serv as well to warn them of approaching danger; the great pachyderms fully understand the bird's warning and doubtless appreciate its good offices. Edinburgh Review. The Philadelphia Clinical Record says that three women and one man have visited Dr. Pancoast for the purpose of having their great toes cutoff, in order to make then feet smaller.

AnvERsi'rfY has the effect of eliciting talents whiah, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant

Horace.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

Brier Summary of the Proceed ings of Ceagreis The Chair laid before the Senate on the 10th inst. an invitation to that body from the Commissioners of the New Orleans Exposition to participate in the opening of the BxposUI&i on Dec. 16. The communication was laid on the table, that being the usual formal disposition of snch documents in the Senate when no special or immediate disposition is demanded by any Senator. Mr. Vest, on behalf of the Committee on Commerce, requested that the committee be discharged from the consideration of the interoceanic ship railway bUL Mr. Vest stated that he had received a letter from Capt. Eadea saying certain chancres had been made in the concession from Mexico, which made it necessary to withdraw the bUl. The committee was accordingly discharged from the ootisideration of; the bill, which was ordered to be withdrawn from the files of the Senate. Mr. Vest presented several memorials from Dakota in opposition to its admission as a State, and 3lalmed that the movement was engineered by ambitio us Territorial politicians. A bill was introduced to increase to $5o,000 the appropriation for a pa bus building at Minneapolis. The Inter oceanic ship-, railway measure was withdrawn from the filet. The House of Representatives Taesed the West Point appropriation bill. A joint resolution was introduced setting aside $100,000 for American representa tion in the Exposition at Antwerp next year. The interstate commerce hill was discussed. The Oregon Central land forfeiture bill was again taken up in the Senate on the llth inst., and the amendment of Mz. Dolph was agreed to protecting the right ef settlers on the forfeited lands. Further discussion of the measure was postponed,, and consideration of the bill for the admissoa of Southern Dakota was resumed. Mr. Harrison replied to Mr. Vest's attack upon the bill, and inquired of Mr. Vest what number of inhabitants should in his opinion entitle a Territory to admission to the union. Mr. Vest replied that the spirit of the Constitution required at least a population sufficient to entitle it to representation in the House; but even If Dakota had a population sufficiently large to fulfill this condition other circumstances inmt of necessity enter into a decision of the question of its admission as a State. Mr. Cockrell expressed himself as opposed to the admission ox new Territories with large area and small population. He would not be satisfied to admit Dakota, if it had four times the population necessary to entitle It to representation in Oongnms. Mr. Van Wyok: offered a resolution that as tne com merdal treaty negotiated with Spain had been given to the public, a rule be adopted for its consideration in open session A Joint resolution was adopted appointing the 21st of February for the ceremonies connected with the completion of the Washington monument. Adjourned to Monday, the 15th. In the House, Congressman Hancock of the Committee on Appropriations reported the invalid pension appropriation bill. It was referred to the committee of the whole. Consideration of the interstate commerce bill being resumed, Mr. Glascock attacked the railroad-pool system, and advocated its strict prohibition. A general understanding was arrived at that thedebate shall close the next day the subject is taken up as between the substitute of Mr. Began and the committee bUL Mr. Began baa modified his motion, and now offers his preposition only as a substitute for tlie remedial features oi! the committee bilL Mr. Hiscook offered a resolution for the appointment of a Joint committee to investigate the capacity or the canals of the State of New York and ascertain if they are sufficient for the requirements of taterHtfttA nmniOTG6- A renoliitloik w&a adont-

ed calling noon the Secretarv of tite interior for

information concerning the fees of claim-agents in pension cases. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th inst, a concurrent resoluUon was passed regretting the inabiUty of Congress to be present at the opening of the New Orleans Exposition, and requesting the President of the Senate, together with a committee of thirteen Senators and the Speaker of the House, with one Representative or Delegate from each State or Territory, to be present at the Executive Mansion on Dec 16, when the President would open the exposition by telegraph and start the machinery thereof by electricity from the White House la thepresence

powers. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, offered a preamble and resolution reciting that Mr. J. D Taylor of Ohio, having obtained the permission of the Houso to extend in the Me.cord certain remarks of his mad' July 6, had printed instead a written speech containing improper reflections on members of the House and other matters not a legitimate part of the grooeedlngH of the House. Mr. Taylor urged in is own defense tho plea that he had only done what was customary. Mr. Rogers joine d in the attack upon Mr. Tavior and a row ensuL The Ohio election drifted into the discussion and some sharp language was employed on both sides of the House. Mr. Warner's resolution was passed. Adjourned to Monday, 15th.

The Story of an Ontoelfau We were living up in the mountains and had quite a herd of cows, among them one, an old cow, who wore a belL The cows had been missing for f leveral days, and the boys were oat searching, and ono afternoon I thought I would try what I could do. So I mounted' a pony and rode quite a distance, vhen I thought I heard the old cow's bell. I dismounted and started to prowl around among the rocks and bushes. "It had been raining during tho early Eart of the afternoon, and I had fin nmrella. After I had gone a short distance I caught a glimpse ef the cows. As I started toward them, suddenly they liftefl their heads, crooked ttieir tails, and started away on a dead run. I was just wondering what frightened them, when I heard a rustling in the bushes behind me. "I turned around, and there, not ten feet away, was a big mountain lion standing on a rock staring at me. I assure yon I never felt so bashful in all my life. I hadn't a gun or even a jackknife, and there was that beast staring and getting ready for a spring. Ail at once I thought of my umbrella, and as quick as thought I raised that much borrowed article and spread it right in Mr. Lion's face. He didn't stop to examine, bnli made one great jump clear across the gorge, and when he lighted gave a yell that shook the hills. "I daw no more of him. When I got home the cows were there, Gen. F. Sickles, of Colorado

The Colonel's Maxim. Col. Bumgardner stumbled into a party of gentlemen who were discussing old maxims. "Zat's my ban', too," said Bum; ftI alius (hie) sticks to myfav'nte maxim!" "Which one is that, Bum? "Yit's never put (hie) off till to-mor

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now?" Tin go-ho-ing to take a drink if you'll set 'em upT Which was very promptly done.--Georgia Cracker.

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