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In Paris they arrest and punish any one
who throws a banana peel on the side
walk.
It is understood that it will cost $300,
000 to render the old Treasury vau.,s ai
Washington secure.
More than two thousand farmers have
applied to the Agricultural Department
at Washington for seeds of the sugar
beet.
^ The United States Patent Office is
more than self-sustaining. On the books
of the Treasury it has to its credit some
thing like $3,000,000.
A postal convenience in Mexico is an im¬
mense insurance company which guaran¬
tees the senders of valuable letters and
package against loss in the mails.
1 It is an open secret, avers the New
York Commercial Advertiser, that tin
German Army has not that affection foi
the Kaiser that existed between Paul and
Virginia.
The pet names for four baby States are
as follows: North Dakota is the “Flick
ertail State,” South Dakota is th(
“Swinge Cat State,” Washington is tht
. > Chinook State,” and Montana is tht
“Stubbed-Toe State. »
Now that Canada has been scratched
off the list of safe resorts for American
rogues, remarks the New York Telegram ,
Australia looms up as a non-extraditable
paradise, The length of the journey in
volved may prove a handicap in ras
cality.
Mr. Foster, of Buckfield, Me., thi
largest manufacturer of toothpicks in the
world, says of his make alone there are
now enough in stock to supply the United
States for two years. When running, his
mills will produce in twelve months more
than the total American consumption for
' twice that time.
Poverty has driven many persons to
suicide, observes the New York Herald,
but the story from Moscow of the widow
of an army officer and her five daughters
locking themselves in a room, turning on
the gas and dying from suffocation on
account of dire want excels in horror
most cases of the kind.
French scientific men and engineers
are discussing the feasibility of a rail¬
road across the desert of Sahara. It is
claimed that such an enterprise is neces¬
sary to confirm the hold of France upon
her possessions on the west coast of
Africa and to develop the north African
provinces that she holds.
The unmarried women of Massachu¬
setts, according to the reports of its sav¬
ings banks and other institutions, have
$29,000,000 in deposit. Perhaps this
will explain, hazards the New Y’ork Hews,
why tire women of Massachusetts have
the reputation of being so independent,
as nothing contributes to the feeling of
independence like a good bank account.
“The Southern States,” says Hate,
“should make a grand display at the
World’s Fair. Each State should have
an exhibit which would show the world
just what her resources are, and what
the capitalist and immigrant can expect
to find, when they seek her borders.
The Southern expositions held in Louis¬
ville, New Orleans and Atlanta have
been of incalculable benefit to the South,
having brought millions of dollars to our
mines, quarries, cities and manufacturers.
The outside world must see what we
have, aud the World's Fair will be the
place to advertise our resources.
Those who spent the year 1889 in New
Y'ork will not be surprised, says the Ob¬
server, to learn from Sergeant Dunn,
Chief of the New York Signal Service
Bureau, that the year 1889 was the wet¬
test on record. The total rainfall for
that year was 58.68 inches. Sergeant
Dunu describes it not only as the wet
test, but the warmest and wettest. A
singular incident about the weather of
the past winter is that the coldest and
warmest days of the wunter were each
found in the month of March. On
March 7 the thermometer dropped to six
degrees. On March 12 it reached seven¬
ty-one degrees, the maximum and min¬
imum thus occuring within five days of
each other. Last year gave us the warm¬
est Christmas day we ever had so far as
records shows, the thermometer reaching
sixty-five degrees in the afternoon, Ser
geant Dunn argues that the conditions of
the weather have been such as to make
it tolerably safe to expect a cool summer.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OP THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUH
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
On Wednesday, when the house weni
into committee of the whole (Mr. Gros
venor in the chair) on the tariff bill, Mr.
Baker, of New York, offered an amend
ment providing that all articles of im¬
portance into the United States, whethei
embraced in the free list or otherw ise,
shall be subject to and pay a no less rate
of duty than is or may be imposed by
the country of export on like articles ex¬
ported into the United States. Mr. An¬
derson, of Kansas, and Mr. IJutterworih,
of Ohio, opposed the amendment. Mr.
Wheeler, of Alabama, appealed to the
house in these closing moments to adopt
the amendment proposed by him tc
gradually reduce duties which are in ex
cess of fifty per cent. During this brief
discussion the house was in turmoil. De¬
mands of the chair for order were un¬
heeded. in the midst of the confusion,
the hour of noon arrived, and in accord¬
ance with the special rule adopted, and
without a vote being reached on Sir.
Baker’s amendment, the committee rose
aud reported the billl to the house. The
house then proceeded to consider the
amendments agreed to in committee of the
whole. The amendments were all rejected.
The engrossment and third reading of
the hill having been ordered, Mr. Carlisle
offered the following amendment: lie
solved, That the pending bill be re-eom
mitted to the committee on ways and
means, with instructions to report the
same back to the house at the earliest
possible day, so amended by substitute or
the otherwise, as to reduce the revenues of
of government by ; educing the burden
taxation on the people, instead of re
(hiring duties by imposing prohibitory
rates of taxation upon imported goods.
The resolution was defeated, The bill
was then those passed offered without an amendment,
save 142 amid applause by McKinley—yeas both 104,
nays , on sides oi
the house. Mr. Coleman, of Louisiana,
and Mr. Featherstone, of Arkansas, were
the only republicans who voted against
the bill on its final passage.
In the senate, on Wednesday, the
vice-president tion presented a communica¬
from Mr. Canady, sergeant-at-arms
of the senate, tendering his resignation
of the office and thanking the vice-presi¬
dent and senators for their uniform kind¬
ness and courtesy. The resignation is tc
takeeffect June 30th next. Mr. Wilson,
of Iowa, made an effort to have the bill
retaining liquors imported into prohibi¬
tory states takec up and considered, but
he was forced to yield to the prior claim
of the silver bill, which was then taken
up, and on w hich Mr. Stew art of Geor¬
gia. made a free silver-coinage speech.
The silver bill was then laid aside, and
the hill in relation to liquor imported
into prohibitory states was again taken
up. After brief arguments, pro and con
by Messrs. Evarts, Hiscock and Wilson,
of Iowa, the bill went over. After the
executive session the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, Mr. Dun
ncll, of Minnesota, from the committee on
amendatory census, reported a bill to the house
of the census act passed. (It
prescribes a penalty upon any supervisor
or enumeiator who shall receive or any
person who shall pay any fee or other
consideration in addition to the compen¬
sation of such supervisor or enumerator.)
Conferences were ordered on the army ap¬
propriation bill and the military academy
appropriation Henderson, bill. On motion of Mr.
of Iowa, (from the committee
propriating in appropriations), $90,000 a bill supply was passed defi¬ ap¬
to the
ciency in tlie appropriation for public
printing into and binding. The house then
went committee of the whole (Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan, iu the chair) on
the river and harbor bill, -Mr. Ilender
son, of Illinois, chairman of the commit¬
tee on rivers and harbors, explained the
provisions of the hill, stating that upon'esti- they ap¬
propriated $20,932,000, based
mates Latchings, aggregating of Mississippi, $39,500,009. Mr.
made a com¬
prehensive aud exhaustive explanation of
the plans by which the government was
undertaking sissippi the improvement of the Mis¬
river. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama,
described the improvement of the Ten¬
nessee river, and urged that congress ap¬
propriate $500,000'for completing the
Muscle Slioals improvement and removmg
the liar to the navigation at Colbert
Shoals. The committee then arose aud
the house adjourned.
In the senate, on Thursday, Messrs.
Allison. Dawes and Gorman were ap¬
pointed on the pension appropriation
bill. The silver bill was then taken up
and Mr. Daniel addressed the senate in
favor of silver currency. Mr. Daniel
spoke for three hours, and was listened
to with closest attention and interest by
a pretty full attendance of senators. As
he took his seat h^ was applauded from
the galleries. The silver bill was laid
aside w ithout any action, and the naval
appropriation bill was taken up. All
formal and minor amendments reported
by the committee having been agreed to,
the amendment was taken up which
strikes out or the bill an appropriation of
$50,000 for repairs to the dry dock at
Boston navy-yard. After an executive
session the senate adjourned.
Iu the house, on Friday. Mr. Flower,of
New Y’ork, introduced a bill subjecting
oleomargarine to the provisions of the
laws of the several states. Referred. The
house then went into committee of the
whole, 31 r. Burrows, of Michigan, in the
chair, on the river and harbor bill. Mr.
Hitt, of Illinois, moved an amendment to
give the city of Galena, 111., the right to
take up the work of harbor improvement
there dropped it, providing by the that government the city shall and
complete
then receive *100,000. Adopted. When
the paragraphs appropriating $500,000
for the construction of the Illinois and
Mississippi Turner, (Hennepin) canal made was the reached
Mr. of Georgia, ]K)int
of order that the committee on rivers and
harbors He said had no jurisdiction April 'Jth communica¬ over canals.
that on a
tion from the secretary of war, transmit¬
ting the report on the survey of the ca¬
nal, was referred to the committee on riv¬
ers and harbors, and there might be a
question as to whether jurisdiction. that reference
gave the committee Pend
ing a decision, the committee rose. The
speaker appointed McMillin, of Tennes¬
see, as referee on the customs administra¬
tive bill, in place of Mr. Carlisle, ex¬
cused. The house then, at 5 o’clock, took
a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses¬
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
In the senate, on Friday, consideration
of the naval appropriations bill was
resumed. The discussion was participated
in hv Messrs. Gorman, Call, lilair and
Hiscock. Pending discussion the silvei
bill was, at 2 p. m., taken up as unfinish¬
ed business and laid aside informally.
The tariff bill was received from the house
and referred to the committee on finance.
Ten thou and eopieswere ordered printed
for the use of the senate. Mr. Stanford
addressed the senate in advocacy of the
bill introduced by him some days ago,
providing for loans by the government on
agricultural lands. At the conclusion of
Mr. Stanford’s speech, upon his motion,
the bill was referred to the finance com¬
mittee. Mr. Pugh gave notice of his in¬
tention to speak on the silver bill when it
comes Uj>. The naval appropriation bill
newed, was again taken up. Discussion was re¬
lic utility going over questions of the pub¬
of navy-yards, of political scan
dles to which their management has given
rise, of coast defenses, and of the policy
of ried building up a strong navy. It was car¬
on by Messrs. Blair, Hiscock, Haw¬
ley and Dolph. A bill was reported by
Mr. Pasco, and placed on the calendar,
for the protection of actual settlers in
Florida on lands on which deposits of
phosphates entries have been discovered since the
were made. Mr. Faulkner gave
notice of amendment to the bill relating
to liquors imported into prohibitory states,
providing sidered that incorporated such liquors shall be con¬
as as a part of the
common mass of property within the state
and subject to regulation, control aud
taxation in the exercise of the state’s
powers. Mr. Call offered a resolution call¬
ing on the president for information as to
landing of an armed force from the revenue
cutter forcibly McLane, at Cedar Keys, Fla., the
entry of houses and the pursuit
of citizens in the surrounding country
and asked for its adoption. The resolu¬
tion went over. After executive session
the senate adjourned.
The house went into committee of the
whole Saturday. Mr. Burrows in the chair,
on the river and harbor bill. The pending
question was the point of order against
the Hennepin > canal proposition. Mr.
Hatch, of Missouri, warned the gentle¬
man who represented the Mississippi
river, that an appropriation for the Hen¬
nepin canal would be the death knell to
appropriations for the Mississippi river in
the future. The amendment was adopted
reducing from §3,1100,000 to $1,000,000
the appropriation for the improvement
of the Mississippi river from the head of
the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river.
Mr. Blanchard explained that his amend¬
ment was due to the fact that congress
had, a few weeks ago, made an urgent
appropriation of $L000,0.)0 for the im¬
provement of the river on the understand¬
ing that a reduction of that amount would
be made in the river and harbor bill.
Pending further action, the committee
rose. Public business was suspended at
4 o’clock, and the house proceeded to
pay a tribute to the memory of the late
David \\ II bur, of New York. Eulogies
were pronounced by Messrs. Tracy, 'McCor¬ Sher¬
man and Farquhar,of New York:
mick of Pennsylvania, aud McRae of Ar¬
kansas. The house then adjourned.
In the senate, on Saturday. Sir. Wil¬
son , of Iowa, asked and obtained unani¬
mous consent that on Tuesday, after
routine morning business, the bills sub¬
jecting imported liquors to the provisions
of the laws of the several states shall be
taken up and continued until disposed of.
Mr. Stewart, at first objected to the
displacement of the silver bill, but finally
interposed no objection. Mr. Blackburn,
of Kentucky, then presented the creden¬
tials of John G. Carlisle as senator from
the state of Kentucky, for Beck’s unex¬
pired term which commenced on March
9, 1889. Read and placed on file. The
naval appropriation bill being was taken up,
the pending the question on an amend¬
ment to report from the committee on
appropriations—to strike out the item
of $50,000 for the improvement of plants
at the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard.
After a long discussion the amendment
was disagreed to. Mr. Cockerill moved
to strike out the provision for three sea¬
going than coast-line battle-ships not to cost
more $4,000,000 each, Debate on
this amendment consumed the remainder
of the afternoon and without action upon
it, or the bill itself, the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
The secretary of the navy has accepted
the dynamite cruiser “Vesuvius.”
The secretary of the treasury has ap¬
pointed commissioner Henry C. Thrower as shippin
at Mobile, Ala.
The brewers’ national convention held
a short session Thursday morning and
adopted resolutions against the increased
duty on barley.
Unanimous consent will be asked to
take up at once the Grosvonor bill pro¬
viding battlefield for the purchase of Chicaraauga
and the laying out of a na
tional military park.
Thursday Representative Clarke, of Alabama, on
introduced a resolution in the
house to instruct the ways and means
committee to rejiort to the house for its
consideration by Monday the Farmers’
Alliance sub-treasury bill, and that Tues¬
day June 10th be fixed for its considera¬
tion.
The house committee on commerce has
directed a favorable report to be made on
the hill amending the interstate com¬
merce law so as to permit railroad com¬
panies to give reduced rates to veterans
attending extending encampments, with an amend¬
ment the same privileges to
veteran confederate soldiers.
The house committee on elections, on
Friday, acted upon three of the pending
contested election cases, aud the result
will probably be an increase of the re¬
publican majority in the house by two
members. The cases decided were those
of Virginia Langston vs. Venable, from the fourth
district: Miller vs. Elliott, sev¬
enth South Carolina district, and Chal¬
trict. mers vs. Morgan, second Mississippi dis¬
In the first two cases the commit
mittce will report in favor of seating the
republican Miller; but in contestants, the Mississippi Langston the and
case re¬
port will be iu favor of the sittieg mem¬
ber, Mr. Morgan.
V* k nout holding any formal conference,
the democratic senators have decided that
Mr. Carlisle should succeed Mr. Beck on
the finance committee, and the assign¬
ment committee will recommend to the
vice-president that he be assigned to that
committee. Coming to the senate, equip¬
ped. to deal with the tariff question, and
coming the over to the senate in company
with tariff hill, which he has studied
to attack, the democrats at once recog¬
nize at once, in defiance of senatorial
traditiou, that the proper place for him
was on the finance committee, where he
can lead in the tariff fight. There has
been no controversy over the question,
and Mr. Carlisle will lie given an oppor¬
tunity to distinguish himself that uo man
before him has had on entering this dec¬
orous tion. body, wedded to form and tradi¬
the kemmler case.
THE SUPREME COURT DENIES APPLICATION
FOR A WRIT OF ERROR.
The A dispatch from Washington, says;
supreme court of the United States
writ on Friday denied the application for a
of ciTor in the case of Kemmler, un¬
der sentence of death by electricity. The
court quotes the opinion in the Hurtado
case on the meaning of the phrase “due
process of law.” The change in the form
of death was within the legitimate sphere
of the legislative power of the state. The
legislature of the state of New York de¬
termined that it did not inflict cruel or
unusual punishment, and its courts have
sustained that determination, This court
cannot see that the prisoner has been de¬
prived of the due process of law. In or¬
der to reverse the judgment, this court
should be compelled to hold that the
court of appeals had committed an error
constitutional SO gross as to deprive rights. the prisoner of his
The court has no
hesitancy is yi saying it cannot do this. It
stated that Lawyer Sherman will furth¬
er delay the execution of Kemmler by an¬
other appeal to the supreme court of the
United States, He claims that there was
no ruling in on the writ of habeas corpus
case Judge Wallace’s court.
THE COMPANY SUSPENDS
because their PENITENTIARY-MADE
SHOES W ERE BOYCOTTED.
For a year the Wetmore Shoe company
has employed city convicts, at the peni
fentiary at Raleigh, N. C., in the manu¬
facture of shoes, On Wednesday the
company rendered its suspended operations and sur¬
ployed under convicts, which were em
(tc-’dilv lost by contract. the Money had been
use of this labor.
A number of firms will not handle peni¬
tentiary-made shoes, and there was a
considerable boycott. The plant will all
be removed to a private factory, and the
convicts will be put on railroad work.
All the shoes made by this company were
sold in other states.
A SHAVE AND A DRINK.
NOVEL SCHEME OF AN ALABAMA BARBER
TO DRAW CUSTOM.
Ed llobinson opened a barber shop at
Columbiana, Ala., last week and hung
out while a sign, “Shaving 25 cents: a drink
you wait. ” Customers were given
a shave and a drink for 25 cents. Co¬
lumbiana is a prohibition county and
Robinson was arrested charged with vio¬
lating the revenue law. He was carried
to Birmingham, on Friday, for trial. lie
made a strong case, claiming that he
charged nothing for the liquor, but gave
it away to his customers. lie was bound
over to the federal court.
FLOORED THE DANCERS.
THE EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
IN MONTANA.
A dispatch from Billings, Mont., says:
At an early hour Friday evening a very
severe earthquake shock was felt all over
this county. There were two separate
visitations. The inhabitants w T ere con¬
siderably alarmed, but the disturbance
was not shaken repeated. down Two brick houses
w ere and considerable glass
shattered. A dance was in progress at
the hotel. The severeity of the shock
floored several dancers and left the party
in fright.
Ex-Governor Morton, of Nebraska,
says that in his State more than 600,«
000,000 trees have been planted by human
hands.
TELEGRAPH AND M
WHAT IS GOING ON
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AIT
DENSED FROM NEWSY n
FROM UNCLE SAM'6 DOMAIN
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The “original package” bus;
in Lewiston, Me., Wednesday.
It is generally understood at’
ton that the Behring sea
have failed.
Collection of internal revem
ten months of the fiscal year n
30, 1890 amounts to $114,546,21
I he V niteel States Brewers’ a
began Washington, its thirteenth annual ;
D. C., on IVcdnesd
One of the New York Central
houses, at Albany, burned ]
known. night Loss $125,000; asm
by Eight passengers wereslightl;
an accident at the crossms
Alton and Pacific tracks, at j
Mo., Thursday.
It. T. Freeman, a colored rep
the Boston Qhibt, was on Tuesa
the noon unanimously elected a na
Boston Press club.
Elzo Allan, confidential eltfi
Austin investment company
City, disappeared Thursday t.j I
000 of the company's money.
An “original package” cast a
made at Henning, Minn,, by
keeper, who had no license,
original laws. packages iu defiance of tl
A dispatch from Kansas suspend Ci;
City Treasurer Peak was
day evening, a shortage between disc
and $20,000 having been i
his accounts.
In consequence o! over-specs
timber and decline in prices in E
the leading lumber firm of Smith
it, Co., of Quebec, is in fintodd *5
ties. Liabilitit s about $2,000,000
Chilian A Washington members of special the fta-li «n j
conference have filed their fomn
tion to the compulsory arbitration
ed by the majority of the conferefl
George Francis Train arrived at
ma, Washington, at i o'clock s
night, having completed hi* trip
the world in sixty-seven days, I
hours, three minutes and thro set
An attempt was made, Frida; 9
blow up the Havmarket nitre-?' mom®
Chicago. A tin can of
was placed on the base of the nm
and the fuse lighted, but the Xu
The Paris Circle publishes giving the a dj t<
from St. Petersburg, of which j
a conspiracy, Berlin, the center the orgauuiti
to be in for Bam
rising against Russia iu tlie
vinces. TtuiwM
A London dispatch of
Advices from Buenos Ayrn mm
there has been an outbreak ml
Allegro. In the conflict twenty -,
diers injured. were killed. Forty soldieij
J. Monroe Shellenbergcr, s~j
whose forgeries recently Thursday- caustoj -d
sensation, was, on Dyl^'l
by Judge Yorkes, at at hard lab”
to twenty-two years
penitentiary.
A young woman commit! 1 ■
a vestibule train, near MoaoBJ
Wednesday night, by tying 3 "’W
her neck, fastening the from otlu' UB <■» j
railing and jumpfng u
one knew her.
An earthquake shock wa< felt
vicinity of Tribes Hill, X.' Th<
7 o'clock Sunday morning,
ings trembled, dishes in >■’■
rattled, and the inhabitant?" 0,
erably alarmed. The duralt 1 - ■
bration was one second
A dispatch of Thursday jfiteft :
Mass., says: Clarence F.
dent of the (’. F. Jew< tt
pany, has disappeared, and t ", 1 '
transactions in the matt? nMg"'" ”• :
issue of stock in the
$75,000 have come to light.
A dispatch of Wednesday fro’
ton, Maine, says; A car load of B
beer arrived there from New Hi
C P ,,
and was hauled to a store iinces * - w ;
known citizen, who beverage anna
tion of selling the 1
to all commas, lie say? 3
brewer of Portsmouth will back
legal proceedings that may rt
any CYCL0I
A KENTUCKY
'
GREAT DAMAGE TO pkofekti
LOSS OF LIFE
A Cincinnati dispatch
counties of Kentucky of * “ y]
more southern counties j J
were swept Friday night “J
Reports from Mount htw -v
Lexington, Maysville, and otl * p0 1 ii
Cynthiana, Corinth
to the effect that danger 0116 5
, .
at Nicholasvillc. Thonsan ' In Hi
worth of damage was done
county, the tobacco crop was
tirely ruined, and the l° s ^ ® ^- e9
great At Guyanuo “ ^
sum.
ginia, the road leading
w ashed away, together «'> * pa
the front streets, and mooo a rf pj
lot*. It will cost steamboa
damage. All y(
were compelled houses. to ™ eT blo wn
sons four 0 f ti
Lexington tells of a 6 , f r0I n S
violence. Indefinite re- an! ;
set. Richmond, dam£- to b
points tell of great of ‘
property, but no loss