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THE NEWS CONDENSED. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Congress reassembled after the holiday adjournment, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and at once opened baainess in a lively fashion. Numerous bills were introduced in. both houses. In the Senate the credentials of John W. Daniel, of Virginia, were presented. A bill was passed to legalise the Ninth Territorial Assembly of Wyoming. Bills were introduced to substitute silver dollars for gold coin and currency in reserve funds of the Treasury; to increase pensions for total helplessness; to facilitate promotion sjn tBe army ; to adjust accounts of laborers under the eight-hour law, to provide for the

iCTwuuoi iuuuumexibB in wasningcan to ADraam Lincoln and U. & Grant, at a cost of 31.000.-

000 each ; to establish a national university in the District of Columbia by a grant of 15,000,000, bearing 5 per cent, interest ; to provide for the allotment of lands to Indians in severalty. A resolution was adopted accepting from the State of Ohio a marble statue of ex-President Garfield. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting the President to take measures for including cases of embezzlement in extradition treaties. Mr. Wilson, of Iawa, called up the resolution heretofore

offered by him calling on the Secretary of the jr-Interior for a copy of each report made by the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Rsil- ( road from the first appointment of such direetors to the present time. In support of his resolution Mr. Wilson reviewed at considerable length 1 the action of the Government Directors, of whom he had himself been one, with a view to I showing that had the Government paid attention to the information conveyed and the recom

mendations made by the directors, the relations of the Government to the roads would to-r'.av be better. The bills introduced in the House of Representatives numbered TOO. The more notable were: To remove restrictions on the coinage of the standard silver dollar; to abolish Internal revenue taxation ; to appropriate 5200,000 for a monument to General Grant in New York; to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs; to provide for the constraction of the Delaware and Marvland solo canal ; to reform the civil service ; to repeal the duty on sugar; to prevent fraudulent entries on the public doma in ; to repeal the tobacco tax ; to create an loXe s' ae commerce commission; to tax the man u tact ire and sale of olexaargarine ; to give honorably discharged soldiers and sailors preference in public appointments ; to authorise the President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico and Arizona, for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and to deprive polygamists of the right of suffrage. The Presidant sent the following nominations to the Benue; John J. Higgins, to be Collector of Customs in the District of Natchez, Miss. ; James Curran. of Maryland, to be Supervising In spec tor of Steam Vessels in the Third District ; Wiley J. Tinn, to be Surveyor of Customs for San Fran-

laco; William H. McArgle. of Mississippi, to be

sju of the United States at San Juan del

orte ; Willis H. Patch, of Maine, to be Consul

of the United States at St Stephen, New Brunswick; H. M. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to bo Consul at Sivas ; Orlando V. Powers, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme

uoutcot ucan. Ms. Hoab introduced in the Senate, on the 6th in st., a bill for longer sessions of Congress, making proceedings commence alternately in October and November. The silver question was raised in the Senate on a discussion of the Beck

- resolution. Bar. Gray contended that persistence n compulsory coinage would bring the counrv to a silver standard. Mr. McPherson denped that in the opinion of the best authorm the world, a point had been reached beyond which it would be dangerous to go. and produced advertisements by Jay flCooke that the bonds would be paid in pold. The Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the

a recent Senate resolution in respect to

appointment of Postmasters in Maine, al

to have been procured through the influ-

S. S. Brown, Chairman of the Dem

ittee of that State. Mr. Hah -of

'd the Postmaster General had Earned Aers of appointment over to hts assist-

4ied upon Mr. BrowrJontrt the Posteral hatr-nor made a complete ,e resolution of the Senate. In 4 Aorhees and Vest defended

policy of President Cleveland.

in the House of Kepre-

limit it, ard suspend it ; to force national

ks to keep a larger reserve of Bluer; to re-

5 the traie dollar, and to direct the calling in

at $50,000,003 in 3 percent, bonds, payment to be made in coin of standard value. The President Bent the following nominations to the Senate : James Shields, of Montana, to be Col-

Montana. Postmasters Thomas Ryan, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. ; Charles Holiday, at St. Louis, Mich ; J. C. Morgan, at Kearney, Neb.

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A second "Attempt was made Sunday to burn down the town of Tarentnm, Pa. The incendiaries took every precaution to make this attempt a success, cutting the ropes of the two alarm bells and rendering the pumps useless. The flames were discovered and extinguished by the citizens with a loss of only $9,000. The previous attempt entailed a loss of $50,000 A stage coach was upset near Burlington, Vt., and set on fire by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. All the occupants were badly burned, one of them, Mrs. Bevar, receiving probably fatal injuries. Fob the two-year-old Futurity stakes, to be run at Sbeepehead Bay, in 1888, there hare been already 633 entries, and a number of prominent breeders are yet to be heard from. The winner of the stake will probably get $50,000 The upsetting of a lamp by a dog resulted in a fire which destroyed Dunlap's hat works in Brooklyn, entailing a loss of $250,000 Symptoms of pleuro-oneumonia have been discovered in twenty-five beeves on a farm near Mason -ville, Pa. J. B. Leppincott, the veteran Philadelphia, publisher, is dead Henry Cabot

to be publisher of the Boston Ad-

Evening Record, George H.

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Mahanoy ValleyWere flooded by heavy rains and rising streams, and large sections of Willliamsport and Lockhaven, Pa., were inundated. Tracks were washed out, telegraph poles leveled and several million feet of logs swept away by the floods. In the mines near Hazelton, Pa., twenty -three mules were drowned, and the pumps lost. The fires in the Bethlehem Iron Works were put out, causing a suspension of operations, and coal and freight trains on the Susquehanna Road were abandoned. In the Wilkesbarre district a violent rainstorm

vailed for twenty-four hours, resulting

in a rapid rise of all streams. John G. Stevens, President, of the United New Jersey Bailroad and Canal Company, shot himself at Trenton and died a few hours later. It is reported that he attempted suicide several times before, and that the act was caused by financial difficulties, . . .The wholesale hardware firm of Thomas Birney & Co., of Pittsburgh, was wrecked by supplying skates to rinks on credit, snd is saddled with judgments for $95,000. The jewelry houses of Hiram Weber & Co., of Boston, and Adolph Goldsmith, of New York, have suspended payment. . . .It is estimated that the damage by flood in the vicinity of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, will amount to $2,000,000.

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Mexico of an outbreak of Navajo Indians. Wood ride beat the best American bi-

;le record at Minneapolis, having made 1 miles in twenty-six hours. .. .There jvrty convictions for unlawful cohabiTup Edmunds law in Utah last .JL is being made by

Cherokees

ille. oflici. had ri : recent i family, x. , by the i whose skui tured Ijxk filed at Top, and Nebraska . of $15,000,000, line and six b.

miles in length.

ier Vhe jioch allowed mother, Deerj frichave been icago, Kansas a capital stock poses to build a aggregating .700

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lioad. The main track is to run from Larkin, Kan., through nine counties, including Eeno. Haks Peterson, 60 years of age, who lived near Greenville, Mich., shot and killed his wife, and then sent a bullet through his own heart. A KEVIEW of the cattletre.de of Montana shows that during the past year that territory received 100,000 head by trail from the South, and the Northern Pacific bi ought in 27,000 calves from the East and 38,000 from the West The Governor of Arizona reports that Territory as paying JO per cent, interest upon warrants for 120,948, and the indebtedness of the several counties is $1,101,625. When all the appropriations of the last Assembly are provided for, the territorial debt will be $700,000. . . . The Adjutant General of Indiana reports fortyseven militia companies in that State, with an average membership of fifty men.... The insane people cost $6 per week each at the asylum at Stockton, California The Bock Island Road will this year lay no

track in the Northwest, but will guard its interests in that quarter while engaged in the construction of over four hundred miles of rail in Kansas Four physicians of Detroit caused the release of the Knoch brothers by certifying that their mother died from pneumonia, the fracture of her skull having been caused by the surgeon who removed the top of her head to examine the brain. The trial of Apostle Lorenzo Snow, at Ogden, Utah, on the second and third indictments for unlawful cohabitation during the years 1883 and 1884, resulted in a verdict of guilty. .From July 1 to Dec. 31, 1885, the gross earnings of the Northern Pacific Bailroad were increased $142,003 over the corresponding period of 1884. OnIiY six inches of snow has fallen on Western cattle ranges, and ranchmen do not anticipate any losses, as the wind has drifted the snow, exposing plenty of grass to feed the herds. Heavy losses aro anticipated, however, on the ranches around Springer, N. M., and cattle ore reported to be drifting from the ranges Miss Sarah Althea Hill, plaintiff in the celebrated Sharon divorce case, was married at Stockton, Cal., to David S. Terry, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, her leading counsel in her proceedings for divorce. Terry was the slayer of Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. ....On claims for promissory notes, indorsements, etc., judgments aggregating $85,000 were taken in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul against Senator M. Sat.

THE SOUTH

SevekaTj members of the Cabinet have hit upon aa happy scheme to avoid the trouble imposed upon them by persistent autograph fiends. They have had stamps prepared having on their faces the name of their respective departments and a facsimile of their signatures. All autograph books are turned over to the private secretaries, who apply the stamp to the page selected, and after blotting the nipression it has the appearance of having been written by the Cabinet officers. No thought of a stamp enters the autograph n timer's mind, and he leaves with his book in his pocket, happy in the belief that he has add "id the signature of one more great man to k s list. The people of South Carolina report having in the last five years paid off $500,000 of the State debt, added $66,000,000 to the wealth of the State, and built 240 miles of railroad. A numbeb of the Morgan County, Tennessee, officials were found short in their accounts. Among them is a member of the Legislature, who is a defaulter to the amount of $27,000 The Southern Hotel at New Orleans, La., was totally destroyed by fire. One man is known to have perished in the flames, and it is believed that others were buried under the debris. Several firemen were injured. By knocking down two guards, five desperate men escaped from jail at Charleston, W. Va The engineer of a passenger train approaching the trestle near Bocky Mount, N. C, discovered that the structure was in flames some fifteen yards ahead of him. He pulled the valve wide open, and leaped the fire at the rate of a mile a minute, the jar extinguishing all the lights. At a party in Clay County, Ky., Dun and George Gray, Sam Benge, and Dink Stivers engaged in a fight, in which Dan Gray, Stivers, and Benge were killed, and George Gray fatally wounded. Three years ago Stivers and his brother waylaid and shot Dan Gray near the same place where this tragedy occurred, which Mas the cause of the trouble. A tbain on 'the Chesapeake and Ohio Road came upon a tunnel in West Virginia where a rail was being replaced. Before the laborers could escape, four of them were killed and another was seriously injured. POLITICAL.

Thomas Acton, Sub-Treasurer at New York, was ordered to surrender his office to N. C. Jordan, Treasurer, of the United States. He at once solicited an opinion from George Bliss and Elihu Boot, who advised him not to turn over his trust to any person not nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. He therefore sent Treasurer Jordan a kindly protest against his assumption of the control of the office. But Mr. Jordan relieved the bondsmen by breaking the seals and commencing business. The Ohio Legislature organized by electing John C. Entrekin, Republican, Speaker of the House, and John O'Neil, Democrat, President pro tern, cf the Senate. At the municipal election in Toronto, Ont., women voted, and took a deep interest in the contest, supporting the temperance candidate for Mayor, who was elected. Washington special: "A compromise is to be offered by Democrats in Congress on the Dakota question. They have prepared a bill, which will be introduced this week, proposing a division of the Territory on a north and south line on the 101st meridian, which runs immediately east of Bismarck,

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own as Lincoln, and naming Aberdee the capital of the east half, which will retain the name of Dakota. The line leaves the Missouri River north of the Fort Rice military reservation. It is believed that this compromise will be accepted by all parties, because it throws the agricultural portions and mineral sections into separate territories, and while the eastern Territory will be Republican the western Territory will be Democratic, the Black Hills country being a Democratic stronghold. After the Territory is thus divided an effort is to be made to admit both to statehood."

WASHINGTON. The total amount of the national debt Jan. 1 was $1,843,713,715. The debt, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,452,544,706, there being $404,361,054 on hand, as shown by the Treasurers general account. The debt decreased $9,080,940 during December. Following is a recapitulation of the monthly statement: INTEIIEST-B EARING DKBT. Bonds at 44 per cent $350,000,000 Bonds at 4 por Cnt ? 87,743,250 Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190.500 Refunding certified tea ut 4 per cent. 221,400 Navv pension fund at 3 pr cent 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 0 por cent. 04,023,512 Trine ipal $1, 200,778,fr02 Interest 13.258,339 Total 1,274,037,001 DEBT ON WHICH WTEREST HAS CHASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal.. $3,447,088 Interest 333,213 Total $3,649,688 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. 346,738.806 Certificates of deposit 13,790,000 Gold certificates. , 105,353,601 Silver certificates 93,179.465 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, est1' mated as lost or destroyed) .... 6,959,153 Principal 506,027,025 Total debtPrincipal $1,830,253,163 Interest 13,460,552 Total $1,843,713,715 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 229,240.016 Less reserve held for redemption of U.S. notes 100,000,000 Total $329,240,016 Total debt less available cash items$i,514, 473,098 Net cash in the Treasury 71,016.872 Debt less cash in Treasury Jan. 1. 1883 $1,443,454,826 Debt less cash in Treasury Dec. 1, 1885 1,452,544,706 Decrease of debt during the month. $9,089,940 CASh Hit THE TREASUBY AVAHABIiE FOB SEDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for cold certificates actually outstanding $105,359,601 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding. 93,179,465 TJ. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 13,790,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 16,908,028 Fractional currency 2,922 . Total available for reduction of the debt $229,240,016 HEflERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U, S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and Julv 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for rettuction of the silver coin $27,796,430 Minor coin 526,844 Total $28,323,275 Certificates held as cash 65,779,790 Net cash balance on hand 71,018,872 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $494,361,954 The register and receiver of public lands at Pueblo, Col., reports to the general land office that he recently had a hearing in twenty-four cases of illegal homestead entries which had been investigated by special agents of the department. None of the claimants appearing i the entries were canceled. It is understood that Secretary Whitney is entirely satisfied of the seaworthiness of the Dolphin as shown in her recent trial trip, and will formally accept the vessel as soon as certain preliminaries can be arranged. It is not thought necessary to have another sea trial.

5131$ EZRA Em During its latest trial trip the Dolphin encountered a gale which made the officers and crew seasick. The ship averaged twelve knots an hour during the storm The Canadian Minister of Customs has decided that the patent-medicine firm of Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, must pay duties of $150,000 on products entered within three years at several ports far below their real value A steamer sailed from Ban Francisco for the Arctic regions in search of the crew of the missing whaler Amethyst. The visible supply of wheat, as computed by the New York Produce Exchange, is 58,645,325 bushels, an increase of 213,512 bushels; corn, 10,255,357 bushels. A sub-committee of the Master CarBuilders' Association of the United States held a conference at Harrisburg, Pa., with representatives of the brake companies, and arrangements were perfected for tests of the various brakes at Burlington, Iowa, on July 13, 1886, and April 13, 1887. The brake proving of greatest value will be indorsed as the standard for use by all railway companies, and will be worth millions to the inventor The Canadian Government has seized and will sell at auction $80,000 worth of patent medicines belonging to J. C. Ayer & Co. The firm had been fined $147,300 for evasion of customs dues.

FOREIGN.

There was the customary annual pilgrimage to Oambetta's tomb on New Year's Day. . . .The English Government will oppose the revival of the channel tunnel bill. Mr. Gladstone received 1,000 letters and telegrams of congratulation on his birthday. . . .The Pope has sold $100,000 of personal presents and donated the proceeds to the College of the Propaganda. . . ,T. D. Sullivan, Dublin's new Lord Mayor, was installed with great ceremony on New Year's Day A number of Liberal members of Parliament have, it is said, requested Mr. Parnell to formulate the demand of the Home Rule party, with a view to negotiations for a coalition. Mr. Parnell stated pretty plainly during the recent campaign what he and his colleagues wanted, and in a recent letter admonished the Nationalists that their cue was to play a "waiting game," and make no move until events so shaped themselves as to call for definite action. He will doubtless adhere to this programme, and refuse to enter into any negotiations with either Salisbury or Gladstone for the present, leaving himself free to go to the party which, when the proper time arrives, makes the highest bid for his support. A "waiting gome" is still the wisdom of the situation for Mr. Parnell. Prince BIsmark has already received over 200 petitions from farmers' and peasants' unions asking for the restoration of sill .Mr. John Buskin, the art critic, in ' '. of the Irish question, sas tha It -a. are wiffv iAl utiWtion .

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Green Isle i from the Daily Express of Dublin, ar : organ of the Loyalists: 'British rule 1 is virtually ceased to exist in the eouthv stern district of Ireland. From West Ctf k threugh the counties of Kerry and Claije the National League is the only government recognized by the people, and it is ruling them witii a rod of iron and incredible tyranny. The disclosure of the victims' namfes would jeopardize their lives." , MakpaTjA", the capital of Burmah, is said to be t ureatened by a force of 10,000 natives, who 4re not satisfied with the absorption of tlj jiir country by the British. ij . ADDITIONAL NEWS. Australia has 90,000 tons of wheat available for export At the request of the Panama -Canal Company, the French Government will send M. Rousseau to inspect the cut, preliminary to advancing sufficient money to complete the work or dropping the scheme into oblivion. Gladstone's bill is to give Ireland a National Ministry and an Assembly elected by the people, incorporating O'Connor's plan for a Viceroy, who would most likely be the Duke of Connaught, a favorite in the Green Isle A telegram has been received by the French War Office from Gen. de ' Courcy, commander of the forces in Tonquin, which says that during the latter part of December the inhabitants of Ughoan, a town in Annam, destroyed the Catholic missionhouse at that place and killed 500 native Christians. Prompt punishment was inflicted by a column of French troops. Within a few weeks wheat has dropped seven cents per bushel, and small dealers in Minnesota and Dakota anticipate that they will be "frozen out." Minneapolis milling films are said to be carrying large stocks, and a certain millionaire, who, with two friends, has been buying for a rise, now has a million bushels on his hands, and values are still receding. It is feared that losses in the Northwest will be heavy, . . . .Miss Ina Norton, a well-connected young woman of Cleveland, Ohio, has created a sensation by marrying a negro barber. Db. Gunn, chairman of the special investigation committee of the Constitution Club at New Tfbrk, states that the Trinity Church organization owns some of the worst tenements in New York City; that it never makes any repairs; and that com plaining tenants are told to quit the premises if they do not like them. The Doctor also alleges that the Trinity tenements are of the foulest possible character, and that even the church rents as a saloon a portion of its Laight street property. The Democratic caucus of the Mississippi Legislature nominated Messrs. Walthall and Geary for re-election as United States Senators The Bepublican legislative caucus at Columbus, Ohio, unanimously nominated John Sherman for Senator. .. .James G. Blaine, at a legislative banquet in Augusta, made an argument against the biennial system of elections and sessions recently adopted in Maine. Jeff Davis recently received a circular containing a paragraph which declared that ''Benedict Arnold, first traitor to American liberty, learned his patriotism in Hiram Masonic Lodge, No. 1, New Haven, Conn., and died a Freemason in good and regular standing. Aaron Burr, another traitor to the Government, plotted his treason in .Royal Arch cipher, and also died a Free and Accepted Mason in good and regular standing. Jefferson Davis, a Free and Accepted Si a s on, led the great rebellion, and the fact did not even taint his Masonic standing, but did have much to do in securing his pardon." To this Davis replies with a letter, in which he defends his course as a rebel, and declares that he is not and never has been a Mason.

A resolution originally introduced by Mr. Harrison calling for an investigation ot the Pension Commissioner's office was adopted by the Senate on the 7th hist., after the incorporation Of amendments offered by Messrs. Voorhees and Logon. As it now stands the resolution provides fir an inquiry as to the truth of Mr. Black's statement that under his predecessors party tests wero applied to pmsion claimants and "as to the present incumbent's management of his trust There was v. lon dot into on the Utah bill, and Mormons came in for a share of bitter denunciation at the hands of Senators Morgan and Culloin. Mr. TeilOi opposed severe reprodive measures, and acted us the apologist of the Saints. Tho House of Kepiosentalives listoiio I impatiently to the intro.litctiou of bin's for the admission of Dakota and Washington Territories, to create a postal telegraph, to repeal the tobacco tax, for a commission on the liquor traffic, for volunteer regiments in the Southwest, f r thirteen public buildings, for the Hennepin Canal project, an unlimited silver dollar, and for a hundred or two other things. Speaker Carlisle announced his committees, with Morrison as Chairman of Ways and Moans, Hand till of Appropriations, Bland of Coinage, and. Belmont of Foreign Allah's.

THE MARKETS. NEW OBZL Beeves $4.50 6.25 Hogs 3.75 4.25 Wheat No. 1 White .94 9d No. 2 lied. 90 .91 Corn No. 2 49 .50 Oats White 38 3 -43 Poke Mess 10.00 i0.50 CHICAGO Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 5.25 & 6.00 Good Shipping 4.25 W 5.00 Common 3.25 gi 3.75 Hogs 3.50 425 I'Loue Extra Spring 4.U m 5T25 Choice Winter 4.50 i 5.03 Wheat No. 2 Spring 82 -82-M Conx No. 2 30 .m Oats No. 2.... .27 (4 .2J ltYENo. 2 57 (i .59 IUkley No. 2 62 vw Buttkic Choice Creamery 8 tf? --2 Fine Dairy .S3 Cheese Full Cream, now 10 .11 Skimmed Fiats 00 & .'7 Kggs Fresh .) 19 Potatoes Choice, per bu 54 .00 Poke Mess 9.5U (510.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 .2 Cohn No, 3 36 Y .?C Oats No. 2 27 2 ! Kyk-No. 1 57 fJ .59 Poke New Mess 9.75 '10.26 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 8T S .90 Cokn No. 2 8 f .59 Oats No. 2 29 .31 ST. LOUIS. . Wheat No. 2 Bed 00 .G0J$ Cohn Mixed 33 l .34 Oats Mixed 29 4.2ht PoiiK New Mefis 9.75 155 CINCINNATI. Wheat No, 2 Hed 91 3 Corn No. 2. 35 t .3V Oats No. 2. 30 & .30 Poiik Mess 10.00 $10.50 . Live Hons 3.75 4.25 DETROIT. Beef Gatxle 4.50 if? 5.50 Hoas 3.50 (3 4.00 Sheep 2.50 & 3.75 Wn eat No. 1 White 87 & 8J Corn No. 2. 37 S JJ8 Oats No. 2 & -30 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat-No. 2 Red. 90 .92 Cobn New 33 $ .34 Oats No. 2 2 iSAST liberty. Catti-k BeBt 5.00 0 5.50 Fair 4.50 9 5.75 Common 4.00 (3 4.25 Hogr 3.75 4.25 Sheep 2.55 3$ 3.50 BUFFALO. Wheat No. I Hard 1.01 1.03 Corn YoUow 40 t$ .43 Cattle... 5.00 15.75

REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN.

BY BEN : PERLEY POORK. Gov. Alexandor It. Shepherd, better known as "Boss" Shepherd, was the great-nephew of Frank Shepherd, one of the mates of the privateer lion Homme liichard, when commanded by Paul Jones. His father was a lumber dealer at Washington, where his mother kept a boarding-house, and he, after serving as a clerk, saw that with the introduction of the Potomac water, soon to be made, there would be a demand for good plumbing. Going to New York, he learned the trade, and was thus able to make considerable money while a young man. Interesting himself in public mutters, ho was made president of a board of public works, and at once began to transform lines of mud-holes into well paved streets bordered with sliade trees. He found that during the previous seventy years the United States Government, although it owned every street and avenue in Washington, and every alternate building lot besides, had neglected its duty and obligation most shamefully. The property which it owned had been deeded to it with the condition that Congress should improve it. Yet, up to the year 1871, it had spent on its half of the whole area of- the city only $2,500,000, while the citizens had spent $15,000,000 for public improvements. The citizens had taxes to pay. The Government paid no taxes whatever. The board endeavored to carry out the law which provided that in making improvements the property which abutted on the avenue or reservation improved should pay its due pro portion of the cost. In 1871 a new District Government was organized, and Mr. Shepherd, at the head of a Board of Commissioners, formed a plan for the general improvement of the metropolis at a cost of $6,000,000. Work was commenced, but Judge Wyle at once issued an injunction against its prosecution, and a provision in the organic act required that in the case of such enjoinment the whole question should be submitted to the people of the District. This was done. The people sustained the commissioners by a vote of 16,000 out of a total vote of 18,000, and the work was therefore commenced in August, 1871. In the November following the Court in Ban que reversed Judge Wylie's decision and the work went on. There was, of course, much opposition, as some of the regrading involved alterations that to many property-owners seemed outrageous. To sink a street from five to twenty feet below its former level was to leave rows of dwellings away up on a hill. And in some places it became necessary to raise the street levels up to the first and even the second-story windowjambs of houses alongside. To appease the angry householders left high and dry, the banks before their dwellings were graded and sodded, and, along one row of houses, pwned by Messrs. Edmunds, Bayard and others, a new carriage-way was made Houses below the grade were raised by screws to the new street line, and new sewers were laid in accordance with a new plan of drainage. There was, however, much discontent on the part of tax-payers, and in February, 1872, a committee of investigat:on was ordered by Congress. .The investigation lasted four months. The committee vindicated the Board, reporting that is had be9U guilty of no evil practices, etc, and the report was sustained by the House in open session. The Board cum me need operations anew, and worked through the whole year, 1872, with a great deal of vigor, having generally 5,000 men employed. In March, 1873, Congress showed its appreciation of what had been done by voting about $3,500,000, and during the res:t of 1873 the improvements were pushed hard. In February, 1874, another Congressional committee of investigation was ordered, and it sat for five months. About 4,000 pages of testimony were taken. The result was the abolition ot the District government on the ground that it had exceeded its authority in making the improvements, and the enactment of a law placing the government of the District in the hands of

three commissioners. Gen. Grant, who was personally cognizant of Mr Shepherd s labors, nominated him as one of the commissioners hut a clamor has been raised against him. and the Senate rejected him. Favorites of Congressmen had undoubtedly profited by contracts, but notwithstanding the reckless charges made against Mr. Shepherd, no one accusing him hud been abie to put his finger on a single specific fraud. For three year all the papers relating to the work in every part of the District passed through his Lands. He thus frequently examined more than a thousand papers a day, and io kept himself familiar with every detail. In that way he was tble to prevent fraud or theft, and to choke scandals which were not kept alive by sheer falsehood. The amount of work performed under Gov. Shepherd's direction was enormous. It included the grading for and laving of twenty-five miles of stone pavement, thirty miles of concrete pavement, fifty miles of wood pavement and 200 miles of brick sidewalks. The original!1 defective sewerage was made complete and thorough, and many thousands of shade trees were planted. Soots and squares iorraerly occupied by tumbledown and useless tenements, or for half a century surrendered to filth and garbage, were turned into pretty parks. Waste and marshy lands in the city and suburbs were reclaimed. The street lamps, which used to make darkness more profound, were multiplied until l hey really light the citizen on his way. This wonderful transformation was the work of Gov. Shepherd, but in accomplishing it he lost his own, property, and was forced to oxile himself to Mexico, where he is en gaged in mining operations with his accustomed energy, I mfc is coming to Washington to attend his daughter's wedding. The people of Washingten owe it to themselves to 2rect two statues, to stand in two of the small parks at the intersection of the avenues. One should repree nt Mnj. L'Erifant, the French engineer who planned 4e metroi olis, and the other C0y Shepherd, who executed those Piftns, ftni mci Wanhington worthy oj its name and a fitting me-

tropoiis for the United States of America, Carl Schurz, when in the Senate, was blessed with a devoted wife, two lovely daughters and a baby boy. After one of the Senator's great speeches, a lady said to bis wife, WI am sure you feel proud of your husband ?" You can imagine that I do," replied Mrs. Schurz, with a slight accent, her expressive eyes lighting up. "My husband tells me that I am his severest critic, but hie last speech was tome very satisfactory. He was in the . mood to speak hie voice, everything, was in accord. And eighteen years ago we came to America, and he did not speak a word of En glish. We were in . Philadelphia, but my husband felt the greatest desire to visit Washington. He did come here, and some one took him on the floor of the Senate, and he wrote to me: 'My dear, I nave had the honor to goon the floor of the Senate, and I feel that one d ty I shall stand there and speak, and you, my dear, will be in the gallery listening to me.9 I wrote to him; 'O, Carl, how can you think it possible for you to speak one day in the (Senate, when now you speak not one word of

English? But nowtn she added, "it

has all come true, and you can imagine bow happy I am when I sit in tho galleries listening to him. n

When Mr. Sumner was passing away, Mrs. Schurz came to his house and sent upstairs for ma Leaving the bed side of the dying statesman, I went down into his parlor, and had to tell her there was no hope. "How sad! how sad!" she exclaimed, the tears glistening in her eyes, "to think that he is dying, with no woman to smooth his pillow." To those who knew the story of Mr. Sumner's unfortunate marriage, her womanly remark was deeply significant. It was not long before Mrs. Schurz followed him ocrosa the dark river. Bes.oring Shafcspeare. This is an age of restorations, and, to any one who looks back upon the history of the British drama, he will find it has caught the same moving spirit which has impelled our Church-in fact Church and stage is no newfangled conjunction, they have both been unconsciously moving on the same iiaee for the last fifty or sixty years; the Tractarian movement and Macready's revivals were nearly contemporary. "Scrape off your plaster! Awake from the unaccountable mania which seized our respected ancestors for whitewash ing their churches as well as their Shakspeare." Restore the primitive beauties of fresco and coring in our puritanically defaced temples of worship. Clear off and purge from our Shakspeare the disfigurements from the bedaubing brash of a Tate, a Cfuber, or, alas ! of a Garrick, under the approval of Dr. Johnson. Such have been the two calls to which there has been a prolonged response a gradually swelling but undying echa We are emerging from a long darkness of depraved taste to an era which has given and is giving us Shakspeare pure and undefiled, just as the church has awakened from its long slumbers of dullness and whitewash to restore the primitive beauties of our services as well as our church architecture. Yet

all honor to those dramatic giants of J$ old, for in their own generation they"-rT; .T

were the precursors of reformation so much alive to the true beauties of Shakspeare, that their strange perverr sity of blindness in understanding him is all the more astonishing. Garrick restored his dramas to their proper position at Drury Lane, performing annually some eighteen or twenty of them; whereas.in Charles IL's time only six or eight were played in twenty years, and only about six or eight annually under Wiiles, Booth, and Qnin yet even that might put onr generation "to shame. "Like a hawk,1 a contemporary magazine says of Garrick, "who fiies directly at his prey, he seized the most finished and difficult parts of our great bard, and made them his own" -

that is, cut nnd altered them aceordin

to f ancy omitting the praye-cu

from "Hamlet" ana mmctiug on

stacre for the next fifty years Ta

miserable perversion of "Jvinr L

till Macready, to his honor, put on

original Lear, and reinstated his Comhill Magazine.

industrious destroyer ofTM cts, he has been given the 'ft?. r"

ThA Tout! sa a Hinmr.

0 .. .

j. no Humuie irunu, wtuu uiv UKigfi Yl

warfcv skin, slufircrish movements and

generally unattractive appearance, was

for a long time doomed to calumnyv and persecution. Writers maligned him nnd bovs nersecuted him. Roma

observing poet brightened his life a.

nine uy no Ling sue jewexs in uis neoa, his lively and beautiful eye. Later, since pains-taking naturalists have

studied his habits and described him

as a most

noxious insects,

freedom of the garden and the lawn.

whflrA ho ftinnlv navs for the riroteotinn

i - i x i &y----s v - which hii acquaintances among men

It is not generally known to the public that he has no mean vocal powers. His song is fully equal in melody and surn&saes in power that of his cousin.

tha frog, to whom hii shrill but not un-

jpiCJMBtlUV UvVva mow w-u unucu credited. He begins his music in spring, shortly after the peepers have $ung their opening choros. It consist of a prolonged, rather monotonous, but not unmusical trill on a high key, which resembles somewhnt th Hiiorter, well-known note of the treeto.id, so called; treefrog, or, to be more exact, hyla is the proper name of the latter. There is but slight difference in the pitch of the song of individual toads. When about to perform he first inflates the skin or membrane beneath his chin until it is distended like a large bubble, and then elevating his head sends forth his invitiug cry, usually responded toby 6ome near or distant fellow. The sound, which is mostly heard in the evening, penetrates to a long distance. It is heard most frequently about mating time in spring, although occasionally throughout the summer, especially before ram. The margin of a shallow pond.is the most favorable locality to find these performers. The writer recently saw dozens of them swimming about, sinking, challenging, sporting and quarreling, in a litte pool on a warm Mav evening, an l pent a pleasant half hour iu watching their clumsy ft olios. Ttie Litde JhritliW-

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