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' NEWS SUM MAR Y/
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Pueblo Ex-Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado, died at
of consumption.
Counterfeit fa) silver notes are re¬
ported as in circulation.
The Grant monument fund in New
York has reached 9123.729.
Subterraneous detonations continue
in the region of Summerville, South
Carolina.
Secretary Lamar has gone fortho
holidays to his stock-farm near Ox¬
ford, Miss.
The French factories of arms and
ammunition are being worked to their
utmost capacity.
of London $2,000,000 bankers for King have Kalakaua placed a loan at 5
per cent premium.
Gen. Logan is down withrheum>
tism at Washington, and is projecting
a trip to Hot Springs.
Captain S. P. Shannon, the oldest
Odd-Fellow in Illinois, expired Tues¬
day at Bloomington.
John T. Rich, of Elba, Mich., will be
appointed railroad commissioner by
Governor-Elect Luce.
The the officers governor of Oneida Wisconsin appoint¬ which
ed ot county,
will be formed January 1,
A full railway postoffice has been e,>
tablished over the Northern Pacific
road from St. Paul to Mandan.
1 The citizens of Eaton, Ohio, made a
determined Mussel, the murderer attempt of to Daniel lynch William Christ¬
man.
A jury at Peoria awarded Thomas
Londiergan of $3,375 damages the Rock for Islair th?
loss an arm on
road.
Wesley t, the forger and
bigamist to arrested have five at Janes* living
viiie, is known
wives.
The Colin resulted Campbell divorce case in
London in a verdict that
neither party was proven guilty ot
adultery.
Tltu average number of inmates ir.
the Soldiers’ homes is 8,946. Tlie ex¬
penditure for the fiscal year wa3 $1,-
669,709.
■ The collapse Francisco of the mining-stock, has carried
boom in San
Consolidated California down to $21
per share.
Alabama, J. T. Perry, lias been mayor lined of Greenville, costs
$60 and
for assaulting R. S. Cheeves, a temper¬
ance lecturer.
aldermen A. J. McQuade, of New York, one of the fined hoodie $5,
was
000 prisonment. and sentenced to seven years’ im¬
A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet
in thickness, lias been discovered on
the line of the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad.
De Lesseps assures the French Geo¬
graphical society that the Panama
canal will be open for traffic in 1889,
without the locks.
The bonds of T. M. Cooley as re¬
ceiver of the Wabash road have been
signed by James McMillan, of Detroit,
and Governor Alger.
Judge Sloan, of Milwaukee, sentenc¬
ed Paul Crottkau to thirty days in jail
for the publication of a poem reflect¬
ing upon the court.
Preparations to impeach Alderman
Le Grand, of Milwaukee, had the ef¬
fect to call out his resignation, which
was promptly- accepted. New York, -
posed At Penn Ian, criminal relations, when Dorr ex¬
in their
M. Hamlin fatally shot himself and
Miss Muriel Alderman.
Two children have died of diph¬
theria at Negaunee, Mich., schools in tne last the
three days, and all the in
village luive been closed.
The executive comruitteeof the Irish
National league acknowledges United the States re¬
ceipt of $26,000 from the
within the past fortnight.
At Newton, Connecticut, in a fit of
jealousy. William Warner killed Mrs.
Mary Lynch, and a few hours subse¬
quently shot himself dead.
A guaranty the of right Atchison of way and depot to
grounds for extension
Chicago has been signed bv one hun¬
dred citizens of Galesburg, 111.
During a lire at Cheboygan, Michi¬
gan, which consumed the opera-houso
and city hall, two prisoners in the
lock-up were burned to death.
Judge Blodgett imposed a flue of $2,-
600 upon Jonathan Peacock, a pleaded brewer
of Rockford, Illinois, who
guilty of selling umstiunped beer.
About 250 feet of the freight wharf
of the Pennsylvania road in Philadel¬
phia caved into the Delaware goods. river,
with a large amount of valuable
Henry Willis, chief advocate a famous of the civil Michi¬ engi¬
neer, the
gan and Erie canal scheme, died at
Battle Creek, Michigan, at the age of
86.
The citiz.ens of Iowa City raised
$20,000 cash as a bonus to anyone to
come there The and property run the idle worth packing¬ $55,
house. is
000 .
Dispatches from Arkansas report
that colored people from South Caro¬
lina are arriving readily in large numbers, employ¬
and ail of them fine
ment
Burchard A. llayes, an attorney of
Toledo, the eldest son of the ex-presi¬
dent, will next week be married to
Miss Marv N. Sherman, of Norwalk,
Ohio.
Seven brandies in Nebraska are to
be constructed by the Frernou Mis
sissippi Valley and Elkhorti railway,
an extension of the Northwestern
system. Overwork farm in Will county,
on a
111., together with the labor of rearing
seven children, sent the wife of a
asylum. wealthy farmer to the Kankakee insane
The Chicago, Santa Fe and Califor¬
nia company, Chicago having and St. taken Louis possession road, lias
o£-the
appointed F. E. Hinckley general
manager.
Archbishop Leroy, of New Orleans,
in consequeuce of past disturbances by
drunken men, has prohibited the cele¬
bration of midnight mass on Christ¬
mas eve.
Claries Allen is under arrest at
Gr&fid Junction, Michigan, for deliber¬
ately murdering John Crocker, with
whom be was at enmity. Lynching is
tened.
J. Caliadine. a stamper in the
Chicago postortice, bas been held in
92,000ror from the stealing money to the letters larger sent dry
goods bouses. country
II. H. May, one of the original colo¬
nists of Galesburg. Ill., and Samuel
Patrick, Democratic the Twentieth representative- Illinois
elect from dis¬
trict, died Thursday.
As the New York Central Sleeping
Car company runs coaches in twenty
six states and territories, it is proposed
to change its name to the Wagner
Palace-Car company. ___
The Federal court at Cincinnati has
ordered the sale of the Kentucky Cen
tral and Cbatteroi roads by a special
comtuissioner. The former bas an
indebtedness of $6,OiX),000.
lt is reported that Dr. McGlynn has
engaged passage for Europe on the
steamship Alaska. The Pone, it is
said. strongly disapproves of Father
McGP’nn’s course of action.
A voung attorney of Indianapolis testify he
named Perkins, refused to
fore Commissioner Van Bren in the
election fraud cases, and was commit
ted to iail for Ihree months.
James E. Dryden. a well-known
stock-raiser of Troy, Kan., was killed
bv an engine running backward on the
rflre go Kansas and Nebraska road,
He was buried at St. Joseph, Mo.
At Columbia, South Carolina, the
House Judiciarv Committee has re
ported adversely on the Senate hill
nroli biting tlie formation of negro
assemblies for the Kmglrs of Labor.
Daniel Pine, who was born within a
few \ards of the old state-house at
Jive the grand jury the source* of cer
? n, ° motion regarding an indict
mm York
Judge Beckham, of the New
Sui rerne court, has decided tl.at the
repeal of the Broadway railroad
charter was constitutional, and that
tlie mortgages * 8 are a lien on tlie prop
ertv
George It. Seaton, ex-sergeant of the
municipal court for the at Minneapolis theft of United .has
been indicted repubii
States flags strung from the
can headquarters 1 during the late cam
p al2n
The stock of tlie Dubuque and Sioux
r’ifv Qwirpri nrt advance in Vew
York from 85 to LK) on
rumors that tlie Illinois Central is en
t0 P urcha8e a compiling
Obev E. Owens, once a bank teller
in St. Louis, where he embezzled *200,
S' h fll be ~SSy^Tr™SeS
jtexler *E. Fay, the »on aheady of a mired well
merchant of Boston, and hi, about
known m thecnminal wor ^
^
m loyes of
the St. Paul road.
meeting of coal operators and ,
A
miners iron) ail of the mines m the
Mahoning valley was held at agreed Youngs- to
t°wn, O.. at which it was
submit all questions in dispute to ar
bitratiou committees.
The Woman s City, Christian has Temperance purchased
union of Sioux la.,
a lot 90 x 150 feet, on which they pro
pose to erect to the memory ot Rev.
George C. Haddock a building costing
not less than $500,000.
Rev. W. M. Barbour Yale university, has resigned after
the pastorale of
ten years’ service, ltev. Dr. Charles
Mennigrode, rector of St. Paul’s church
at Richmond, has given up his pulpit
on account of old age.
Colonel Northup, well known in rail
way circles Gifious throughout the tlie drill-master Southern
states, and as
of the IWP Molay commandery of
Knight Templars, of Louisville, has
been adjudged a lunatic. touncil passed
The Cherokee has an
order extending the time for driving April
cattle 1 to May in 1, Indian and also Territory allowing from the ship
ping of timber out of the territory
upon payment of a royalty.
the The shipment governor into of that Michigan state forbids of
Cook Illinois, any
livestock unloading from and county, feeding of cat
and the
tl# in transit except at points where
other cattle will not be exposed.
The trial of the 100 pickets of the
Knights of LabOr arrested at Amster
dam, N. Y., a short time ago, began
Tuesday. The city attorney for arraignment presented
about twenty names
for the violation of a city ordinance.
The supreme court of Alabama has
decided that all sales of lands made by
the Alabama and Chattanooga road be
fore its completion are void. Millions
of dollars’ worth of territory in the
richest mineral districts are involved.
An old man in Washington was sent
to jail for six months for stealing five
chickens; but on the same day the men
who wrecked the German-American
?flawin'Hffi a flaw in the U bid?c?ment indictment P found found 1 acaiiist against
theffi
The governor of New York , is about
to commute to life imprisonment the
sentence who Bliot of her Mrs. husband Druse, dead ot Warren, for lus
brutality. Her daughter is now m the
penitentiary for participating in the
murder.
..The steamship Werra number brought of pheas- to
New lork a large
ants, canaries, and wild rabbits, and
twelve wild boars. The latter are to
be set tree at various points, some of
them at Judge Catou s farm near Ot
tawa, Illinois.
The purchasing committee of the
Wabash road has applied to Judge the
Gresham for permission to take
Chicago and St. Louis branch from
the hands of claims. Receiver The Cooley matter on pay- will
ment of all
be argued next Tuesday.
Mrs. Before Harriet Judge Hubbard Garnett, Ayer in Chicago, appeared
Saturday to prosecute for suit tor di
voice against Herbert merchant, C. Ayer,former
ly a prosperous iron whom
she cnarges with desertion and with
living in France with a woman.
Mayor Ames, of his Minneapolis, absence learn- hun
ing dred that indictments during had been one found
against keepers of brothels and sa
loons, threatens to make the aristoc
racy of that city a stench iu the uos
trils ef the northwestern people.
At the rate of one mile per day the
Mexican International roadis pushing
southward to a connection with the
Mexican Central at Lardo. It is claim
ed that the distance from Chicago to
the Mexican capital will next summer
be thereby lessened six hundred miles,
A New Haven (Conn.) dispatch says
that Edward Irving Brenner of Smitn
burg, class of Md., the theological a member department of the junior of
Y’ale university, was drowned in Lake
Loomis Whitney of Charlestown, while skating. O., also Charles broke
through the ice, but was saved.
morning, At Medina, five O., worked early three Thursday hours
men
on the safe of the county treasurer,
which contained $30,000, and were
compelled to abandon their attempt.
During that time they held Marshal
Frasier as a prisoner, bound and
gagged, in a eoroer of tlie office.
Application has been made to Com¬
missioner Lester A. Bartlett, Sparks by of an Washington, attorney for to
locate with Girard scrip about ninety
acres of land in the heart of Chicago.
1\ Stafford states that the gov-
<$ r nment souf these tafias frT 1839, a&d
that the deeds are still in existence,
_^t a farm-house near Blair, Nebl as
ka, an unknown man fired a shotgun
through a window and killed II. Bui¬
tenebon at the supper-table. The as
sassin then broke in the front door and
struggled for some time with Mrs. But
tenchon, with the intention frightened of taking
her life, but her courage
him away,
Lord Randolph Churchill’s resigna
tion from the British Ministry has
caused a sensation, reported. although no of other the
resignations are One
rumors, however, is that Lord flart
ington will be asked to assume the
office of Prime Minister; another that
he will be pressed to take Lord Ran
dolph Churchill’s place as leader of tlie
Government party in the House of
Commons.
The Indian commission has returned
from Fort Berthold 10 Bismarck, D.
T.,. having concluded an agreement
with the Gros Ventres, Mandan, and
Arickaree Indians to cede all their
MS’** sssasriS
The eleven lines of the Brooklyn
^ Rmlroad
that the company has railed to carry
put the agreement made with the men
last March m regard to the somewhat hours of
work. The strikers were
boisterous during the day anddeiiel
the P ollce - The sinke was ot short
f -»«>tumoied $ YelmTrumorod
that the company gave in.
I he discovery forty of oil miles and north gas at of Tip- In
ton, Indiana, created much
iianapolis, has that excite- place,
ment among the people ’of depth ot 1,000
the vein was stiuck at a
feet. Gas blazes up from a six-inch
P‘Pe Wi-Ms^dav* 1 f
‘fso beTshKLd gund? The of
^gl ^bottom may be80Stlatterca
for the fluids.
ffSVnKcu' terminated'at The
a ijiy be nothing once. from the prison state
1)as drawn
tem provided for by tlie act of 1867 is
an evaS j 0I1 0 f tlie the recently-adopted state constitu
aIne ndment of
tion, and he says it will not be adopt
©d at the prison adoption. unless the legislature
directs its
Chicago Michael Monday, DaviH who said passed he through not
that was
at a u a i a rmed at tlie condition of af
f a j ra \p Ireland. The arrests were
made f further simply legislation, to show an apparent the indica- need
or anil
tions were that the Tory leaders would
not make another attempt at coercion,
Both tlie league and Ireland were quite
to prepared believed for that the struggle, English, and Scotch lie firm- and
Welsh popular feeling would be with
the Irish and against the course of ac
tion of the Tories,
General Master Workman Powderly
has written a letter to tlie secretary ot
a good templar lodge in Brooklyn know in
which he says: “I am pleased to
tjiat my humble efforts in behalf of the
sacred cause of temperance meet with
your approval. I have never said any
thing upon the subject that I did not
mean, and tlie sentaments that I have
expressed fail to convey tlie full depth
of what I do feel of upon this drink subject. I
regard the use strong greatest by men that
and women as tiie curse
can belall them. * • * While our
working-people are be always held by up as
those most likely only to because injured through the
use of rum, it is
poverty their faults are more easily
discovered than those of the other side
who drink lully as much and are as
much the slaves of drink as are the
working people.
A mass-meeting of landlords and
their colored tenants has been held in
otd lscussing B e fitnn'tfnn situation l and nn taking
aajon which which would lead, it pos
Bible, to the lehef of tlie suffering “’orej
Peop e Qf the county.. 1 he
^ f Xat “i®.' 1 without n monev sCk’
t . meal-in 1
llfe necessary Iminff for bid Die
of Tbe floods
devast ed tlie country. Tlie landlords
present informed their suffering coior
ed friends of their inability to help
them, as their condition was almost
equally unfortunate. A committee
wa8 {lie condition appointed of to the investigate and further
people to ap
p ea [ t0 a p s t a t e governments for aid,
au j jf such appeal was not successful
to apply to the national government.
wreck Fifty of thousand the whaler people Atlantic visited the
on the
oceau None of beach the at twenty-five S;m Francisco, sailors, Sunday, still
missing, have been found, although
(be beach has been searched for miles,
The Atlantic was a fair sample of the
vessels composing the large whaling
fleet which sails out of San Francisco,
she looked as seaworthy lies as any of the
fleet, but as she on the beach
broken into matchwood it is plain that
she was a floating coffin. The surf on
tlie sandy beach beat her into nieces as
if she luvd been pull stuck the ringbolts together with
glue. her One timbers. can Her out of
rotten shattered boats
show the same criminal disregard of
life. The boards of which they are made
are of the poorest material loosely
tacke< together with the cheapest
nails defects. and A painted prudent over to hide the
man would not
select the boats for a duck hunt on a
tiou pond, in much the less Arctic. fqr a whaling The climax expedi- of
uegligeuce equipped vessel was reached drifted when the ill
iu upon the
tide aIui drowned her crew on a calm
“°raiug k*Life-Saving within 100 yards Station. of the It United
is said
minutes ^. at R took to shoot tlie station line men the twenty wreck,
a over
after the first line broke the at
tempts at rescue were abandoned.
has An been organization founded in with Europe. a noble A purpose society
has been formed whose aim is not
only to protect strangers, but girls of
all nationalities who are beset by any
difficulties, materia], moral or spiritual.
The general headquarters society has are at branch Neuf
chatel, but the
offices all over France, in Algiers, Ger¬
many and England.
Keeper White of the New York
morgue says there are a great many wo¬
men who appear to hare a passion for;
seeing corpses, and that while any re-,
speotsble inftitutiou person nearly is permitted all visitors to visit the
deception by protending be attempt looking
to
(or the rtoiaia* (4 a 4s<*W«<i frith d. J
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The first comptroller of the treasury has
decided that General Mosby can not be
given the fees he returned as consul at
Hon? Kong, amounting to 35,000.
President Cleveland declines to interfere
in the ease oi J. O. P. Burnside, a default¬
ing clerk of lie- post-office department, asylum for
now confined m the government
tlie insane.
Edmund Jussen, consul eenerai at Vien¬
na, informs the State department that a
lucraiive business awaits any electric light¬
ing company prepared to extend tlie neces¬
sary credit to its customers.
Tlie naval board of inspection which sur¬
veyed the United Slates steamer Tennessee
has v ported to the navy department that
the vs-el cannot be repaired within the
statutory limit of 20 percent) and will have
to be condemned- The Tennessee will
probably be used ns a receiving ship in
place of the Minnesota.
LAND DECISION.
Ill t lie case or Charles H. Robey Woodbury, and ad¬
ministrator of Charles II. the
Ashland town company, involving certain
lands in tiie Garden City land district,
Kansas Actins Secretary Muhlrow has de¬
cided ih it under the act ot May 28, 1880,
the authorize qualification and condition tiie Osage required Indian to
diminished an entry upon lands is
trust and reserve that
the claimant must be an actual settler on
the land at tlie date of entry and have the
q lalific itions of a pre-emptor. This over¬
rules a decision of Secretary Teller, in addition which
he'd not only as above, but
thereto tiiat the claimant must show that
he had in effect complied with ail die terms
q£ the pre-emption law.
A SESSION IN THE SPRING.
One of the high officers of tlie treasu fy
says lie has no doubt of an extra session
unless this Congress shall deal with tiie
surplus question. He added that the Presi¬
dent would accumulating not permit tlie people’s tlie money
without to go on m again putting treasury
any legal way of it
into general circulation until tlie subject
could be reached by the nejjt Congress at
its regular session next year. This official
expressed die opinion tiiat die President
would thirty convene days tlie March4 Fiftieth should Congress nothing with¬
in after
be done in die way of relief for the treasury
by tiiat time. He pointed out the evils that
would attend a regularly increasing .sur¬
plus, and remarked that the President
could neglect put the responsibility against for these continued dangers
Congress; to provide that would call
upon lie an extra
session and admonish in a plain, that Congress straightforward do its
duty. message Then, if diverse views the tariff
continued remedial upon legislation,
blame could to prevent attacii administra¬
no to tlie
tion. Some members say an extra session
would follow a failure to legislate at this
session for a reduction of revenue, but
many of them are be quite neglected. positive There that
tliis duty will uot
are members, the however, wiio fully appre¬ I
ciate lation difficulty of any such Tney gis
point by tlie present Congress.
out tlie fact that any measure
relating the House to will tlie bring revenue the brought tariff before
up impossible ques¬
tion, and that it seems the But it to is pass
any bill changing tariff. rea¬
sonably certain that, notwithstanding the
Treasury does official’s opinion, calling the President
not look forward to an extra
small session. majority, His party would proportion only have which a
would be material. a large Irreconcilable of di¬
raw
visions on the tariff and the currency would
spring mand up. New Tlie subjects labor would people also have de¬
attention.
been calling foran extra session that labor
measures might be discussed, and tins
would add to the embarrassment of tlie
dominant party.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.
Dec. 20. —Among the petitions presented
in the senate to-day and referred were sev
#al in favor of tlie reduction of tlie tax on
Oleomargarine. Mr. Aldrich offered concurrent
a resolu¬
tion requesting the president to enter into
negotiations with the governments of the
several principal sugar-producing countries
of the world with a view of securing mu¬
tual agreements by which tlie United States
shall agree to admit free of duty sugar and
their molasses, colonies, tlio produce transported of such countries in vessels or
when
under the flag of either contracting party,
and on which sugar and molasses no ex¬
port tax or export charge has been levied,
on condition that such government shall
admit into their respective countries or su¬
gar-producing mineral, agricultural, colonies, ami free manufactured of duty, the.
products of the U nited States.
A resolution vras unanimously the adopted
land authorizing Higliwood, tiie acceptance Illinois, of tract of
at donated by the
Chicago A bill Commercial introduced club for tor a military
post. pation was diseases the extir¬
of contagious among cattla
Mr. Vest introduced .a substitute for the
bill to incorporate the Atlantic & Pacific
simply Ship Railway provided Company for naked and incorporation stated that it
the a
Of company without any guarantee by
the Go-ernuient. It was made the special
order for the second Tuesday in January.
VDec. 21.— Mr. Cultom called up the con¬
ference report on tlie interstate commerce
bill in til; Senate lo-day. He said tiiat he
did so for the purpose of giving the Senator
from Iowa (Mr. Vvilsoii) an opportunity of
making some remarks upon the bill; aftei
which, in accordance with the suggestions
of many Senators on both sides as to the
impracticability of action on it before the
holidays, he would let tne bill go over until
after the holidays. He announced, how¬
ever, that when tlie Senate resumed its ses¬
sions lie would again i all up tlie conference
report, and insist upon its consideration
from day to day from until disposed of.
Mr. Morrill, tlie nuance committee,
reported back, favorably, a bill to fix tlie
charge for passports at $1, and it was im¬
mediately Mr. Morgan passed. offered resolution, calling
a
upon the President for correspondence with
the government ship of Nicaragua, canal, relating to
tlie Nicaraguan or pending to the treaty
on that subject, which was in tiie
Senate on tlie 4th of March, holiday 1885. Adopted. from
The resolution for a recess
to-morrow to January 4 was presented and
agreed to. Uniou
Dec, 22.— At the request of the
Veteran Army of tlie Republic Senator
Biair to-day introduced a bill making com¬
prehensive changes Dally in tlie pension limitation laws.
The bill prac removes tlie
of arrears of the pension act and makes t lie
fact of enlistment into the service of lha
United States evidence enlistment. of physical It enlarges sound¬
ness iu the time of
tiie classes of persons to lie entitled to the
benefits of the pension laws so as to include
all who may have been disable while
actually engaged in the service of tlie
United States, whether they were mustered
or not. It also grants a pension to all
female nurses in the late war who shall
have arrived at tlie age of 50 years and are
without tlie means of comfortable support
It provides that there shall be two classes
of pensionable disabilities—viz., Non-specific disability specific is
and defined non-specific. the degree of
as one nature and
which cannot be determined without the
aid of evidence or of medical examination.
Tiie pensionable disabilities are graded
from one to twenty, according to the de¬
gree of injury incurred.
A resolution instructing the committee on
finance to inquire into and report what
specific reductions can be made m tin e cus
toms duties and internal taxes that will re¬
duce taxes to the necessary and economical
expenses of the government- without im¬
pairing the prosperity of home industries
or the compensation of to-day. home labor, was
adopted in the Senate
House.
Dec. 18.—The House refused to consider
Mr. Morrison’s tariff bill by a vote of 154 to
consideration 149. Six Republicans and twenty-six voted in favor Democrats of the
voted against. Owing to the deaths of
Messrs. Dowdney, Arnot and Price, the
membership of the House is reduced to 332.
There were 903 votes cast and seven pairs
announced, showing that six members were
absent without pairs. These were Aiken,
of South member Carolina of the (who has never House; qualified Eils
as a of Ohio; King, present ot Louisiana; Rea
berry,
gan, "of Texas, and Held, of NortfT CSifblTha.
Tvreiity-aix Democrats voted in the nega¬
tive. Of these New York contributed five
(Bliss, Merriman, Muller, Spriggs and
Siahlnecker), Pennsylvania Randall five bowden), (Boyle,
Cnrtin, Ermentroul, and
Ohio 7 (Foran, Geddes, Campbell), Le Fevre, Louisiana Seney,
Warner, Wilkins and and Wallace),
4 (Gay, Irion, 86 Martin
New Jersey two (Green and and Ward), McAdoo), and Ala¬ Il¬
linois two (Martin). (Lawler
bama one votes for the bill
The only Massachusetts Kepuulican and Minnesota,
came front
Hayden and Stone of the former state, and
Nelson, strait, Wakefield, and White of the
latter, voting for the consideration. T. J.
Campbell, Pendar, and Viele, of New
York; Findlay, of Maryland, and who Stone last
and Hayden, of Massachusetts,
year voted against the consideration of the
bill, New to-dav York, voted who in the last affirmative. voted James, to
of year con¬
sider, to-day reversed his vote.
General Bragg, bill in reporting House of the Represent¬ army ap¬
propriation atives, stated that to the the of the
managers
military prison at Leavenworth had
within a year drawn §160,815 from the
clothing fund, wiili which to purchase ma¬
terial. The committee has decided to limit
tlie amount for next year to §125,000, and
expresses the hope tiiat tlie business of
shoe-making as a penalty for desertion will
soon be abandoned.
The naval committee of tlie House has
Instructed a sub-committee to draw up and
present to the House a resolution increasing
to §1,: 60.000 the appropriation for the con¬
struction of cruiser No. 1.
Secretary Manning sent to the House of
Representatives some deficiency They estimates
for the signal service. aggregate
§37,0; 0, of which §25,000 is for the observa¬
tion of storms.
Dec. 20.—Mr. Morrison, in the House
this afternoon, introduced a resolution tor
holiday recess from Dec. 22 to Jan. 4. Re¬
ferred his to
Mr. Hiscock then called up motion
suspend the rules and pass the bili relating
to duties on Sumatra tobacco. The motion
was voted down by a vote of 90 yeas to 162
navs.
Mr. Dingley introduced a long naval resolution affairs
Instructing tiie committee on
to inquire into Hie expediency of the Sec¬
retary of the JNavym tlie const rue, ion of
vessels for the navy hereafter to invite pro¬
posals on such terms as will best secure tlie
establishment of new iron ami s;eel ship¬
building yards at desirable points outlie
Atlantic, Pacific, and gulf coasts.
Mr. “ox offered a joint resolution direct¬
ing tlie committee on appropriations suitable of to
present to tlie house a plan
coast defense: also a resolution correspondence calling
upon the president for all
between tiie department of state and our
ministi; to Russia, or between that min¬
ister a.,d tne Russian government, in tlie
treatment and expulsion of S. MichelM ch
er, an American citizen, who of Ins was being expelled He¬
from Russia on account a
brew, and all other correspondence Russia, relation between
our government and in to
tlie condition <>r expulsion of Hebrews \vho
are American citizens from the territory of
Bus-in; §100,
Bills were introduced of to appropriate
0»o for tlie erection a monument to
negro soldiers and sailors who lost their
lives in ilie rebellion, to forbid the sale ot
liquors within tlie limits ot any Soldiers’
home, amt to punish the passing of confed¬
erate money. committee
Mr. Forney, on behalf of tlie
on militia, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the Senate bill amending the statutes
m iking an annual appropriation militia, to provide with
arms and i quipments for tlie
an amendment proposed by the House com¬
mittee making the annual 198, appropriation 49.
§40 Mr. ',000. Weaver’s Agreed resolution to—yeas calling nays the
on
Secretary of the Treasury for information
regarding the issuing of treasury notes of
large denominations in lieu of smaller notes
destroyed or canceled Townshend was adopted. introduced
Congressman of Treas¬ a
resolution that the Secretary the
ury be requested to ascertain whether any
National Banking Association in New
,York City lias during tlie present month
loaned Us surplus funds to stock jobbers
without security and merely upon receipt of
of interest on the same for the purpose
enabling the speculators to lock up and
prevent tiie use of money in business trans¬
actions, and thereby produce a scarcity of
money and greatly increase tiie rate of in¬
terest on loans.
Dec. 21.— After the reading committee of the jour¬
nal Mr. and Morrison, reported from tlie back tiie on
ways means, con¬
current resolution for a hoiidayrecess from
Dee. 22 to Jan. 4. Agreed to—132 to 24.
Tlie House then went into the committee
of the whole (Mr. Cox in the chair) on the
army appropriation bill. There was no
general debate, and the bill was immediate¬
ly read by paragraphs for amendments.
On motion of Mr. Bragg an amendment
was adopted providing that when any
officer traveling on duty travels on any
railroad on which United States troops are
entitled to be transported tree of charge he
shall be allowed only 4 cents a mile as a
subsistence fund. The bill held then to-night passed. by
Another conference was which Messrs.
the Randall Democrats, at
Randall, McAdoo, Warren, and Wilkins of
Ohio, Martin of Alabama, Gay of Louisi¬
ana. and others were present. Tlie consul¬
tation lasted for several hours, and those
present were pledged to secrecy. It has
transpired, however, that they in agreed that ot
the sentiment ot the House favor a
reduction of tlie revenue was strong enough
to assure the passage of a biil which pro¬
poses to accomplish this by a repeal of the
tax upon tobacco and fruit braitdy and a
reduction of tiie tax on distilled spirits.
The preparation of such a bill was lutrusted
to Mr. Randall by general consent.
In the ways Mr. Hewitt and means called committee, ins bill this iu
regard morning, to the anticipation of interest up ou*the
public debt, and explained its then provisions referred
and probable effect. It was
to a sub-committee composed of Messrs.
Morrison, Breckenridge, of Arkansas, and
Kelley. Incidentally Mr. Hewitt’s admin¬
istrative bill was touched upon ill the
course of discussion and Mr. Hewitt stated
that lie would have prepared for the use of
the committee a report of his bill embody¬
ing additional suggestions improvement by the Secretary of the
of tlie Treasury for the
customs service.
Dec. 22.— The House passed bills grant¬
ing tiie Manitoba road Montana right of way and through Dakota,
Indian reservations in
and giving to tiie city of San Antonio a
certain portion of tlie military reservation
at Tlie that House place. then went into dommittee of
the whole and resumed consideration of
tlie Oklahoma bill. Mr. Springer, in ad¬
vocating tlie bill, declared that the great
obstacle to the passage of the measure was
the lease of the Cherokee strip to a cattle
company. Tnat company leased it for
$100,000 and sub-leased it for which $500,000, leav- 1
ing a margin ot $400,000 with to cor¬
rupt the Indians and The to send question a powerful be
lobby to Washington. whether tlie land should to
settled now was people for the
be held for the white or
special benefit of large cattle syndicates.
At tlie conclusion of Mr. Springer's re¬
marks the committee rose and the matter
went over, and the House at 3:30 adjourned
until Jan. 4.
The House foreign affairs committee has
restored to the diplomatic and consular ap¬
propriation Chiuese mission bill the to the provision first-class, raising at sal¬ tne
a
ary of $17,500.
Sheehan, the New York sculptor, and
Colonel Knox, the proprietor of a Tex¬
as share newspaper, they took are now principals lamenting the the
as in
mock duel on Long Island a short time
ago. Sheehan sorrowfully admits that
the hoax has nearly ruined his busi¬
ness, and his harlequin antagonist does
not see that, even as an advertisement
for his paper, it has done him any
food.
A Memphis girl was committed to
prison at the request of her parents,
for persisting in running after *a bas
singer belonging Jailed to a colored mius.rel
troupe. for fishing (or black
bass.
IN MORMONDOM.
Domestic Barbarltes of the Polygamous
System.
In about three weeks the wife return¬
ed and found the hired girl, who had
been left in charge of the house, install¬
ed as wife Number Two. Naturally,
there was quite a scene, and, as the
husband disliked scenes, he divided the
family, that he taking owned, the several new wife miles to from a ranch
the
city. fondness He had not for previously life, developed but
any country he
now spent all his time at the ranch,
merely stopping at his former home for
dinner when he came into town on busi¬
ness.
On one of these trips he found his
wife hanging distractedly over the cradle
of her baby, who was in the worst
stages of malignant disorder. As the
house was not in holiday trim, and no
one had much time to devote to him,
he thought' he would make his visit
brief, but as he turned to go out his
wife said:
‘•You will surely stay with us to-night.
The doctor says the baby cannot live
till “Oh, morning.” it’s bad that, I hope;
not so as
doctors don’t know everything, and to
me the liitle fellow seems to be getting
better. Anyhow, 1 must go back. Jane
would be frightened to death if I should
leave her alone on the ranch. Besides.
1 to-night.” have promised to take her to a dance
He went, ( and the wife and mother
were left alone with the little sufferer.
Jane was duly escorted to the dance,
but while the husband was paying her
this attention his youngest born was
struggling when morning in the agonies the of mother death, and
came sat
alone beside a little waxen figure, whoso
tossings and moanings were ended for¬
ever. And yet tlie man who furnished
this exhibition of utter heartlessness was
no worse naturally than his fellows.
Perhaps if he had been told, ten years
before, that he would spend the night
at a dunce while his child lay dying, he
would have said: “Is thy servant a
dog, that he should do this thing?”
A friend of ours who had been a de¬
voted wife for many years, and who
had borne all manner of ill-treatment
from her husband and his second wife,
was driven at length by the tortures she
endured to attempt suicide. It happen¬
ed that she took an overdose of the pois¬
on that she hoped would end her misery,
and the attempt was unsuccessful.
While she was at death’s door her hus¬
band cursed and reviled her, and when
she was so far recovered as to be able
to totter about the house he told her
with an oath that he wanted her to
make sure work of it next time, and
that ho wished she was dead and out of
the way.
“And yet,” said had the kinder unhappy husband wife,
“no woman ever a
than he was during the first , twelye
years of our married life, and even after
we came to Utah he was never unkind
to me until ha became infatuated with
that giri. Then, as Mormonism not
only gave him the privilege his duty of marry¬ do
ing her, but made it tq ‘light so,
he began obstacle to regard happiness, me in the though of
an to his
Heaven knows I proved how far I sot
his happiness above my own when I
consented to the marriage.”
“I believe my husband was one of the
best men living when I married him.”
So said tiie first wife of a Mormon
Apostle. “I know that he loved mo
above everything on earth, and Mormon¬ nothing
but the baleful influences of
ism could have made him what he is
now. He was one of the few sincere
fanatics who upheld Brigham Joseph, Young’s and
claims after the death of
Young’s word was the same to him as
the voice of the Almighty, wife, So when felt ho
was told to take another he
that he had received a command from
Heaven that he dared not disobey. I
know his sufferings dreadful were almost equal
to mine on the night that
preceded his marriage with the them), girls
chosen for him (there were two of
but having once surrendered his man¬
hood and his conscience to the keeping
of Brigham Young the downward course
was easy. When he took additional
wives (and he continued to do so long
after his hair was gray), it cost him no
struggles of mind,” and no thought of
my broken his heart and blighted he life would mar¬
red happiness; yet once
have borne anythingto save me an hour’s
pain .”—Boston Commercial Bulletin .
Gallantry.
Okl Mr. Snooks is an inveterate wag.
He lives at a large boarding-house In the on
West Fourteenth street. same
house live a couple of young dry-goods
clerks. They are both of the genus
dude, and aftect an air of extreme and
feminine languor which Mr. Snooks
declares makes him sick at the Stom¬
ach.
The other morning, just after Mr.
Snooks had taken his seat at the break¬
fast table, the two youag exquisits their
lolled into the room anti sunk into
chairs.
“Geawge!” drawled one of them to
the waiter, “wait on ns immediately.” Shooks
“But,” said the waiter, “Mr.
was in ahead of you, sir; I’m waiting
on him.”
“Weah in a huhwy, Geawge, and must
be waited on!”
In despair, George turned to Mr.
Snooks. “What shall I do, sir?”
“George!” said Snooks, severely and
audibly, “always wait on the ladies
first!”
The dudes now express the brutal opinion
that Mr. Snooks is a coarse, man
—“sells potatoes on Chambahs street,
y’know.”— Life.
The Trouble with His Shins.
A young fellow went to a doctor to
have his legs examined, and there came
near the being a consultation of physicians black
over case. His shins were
and blue in spots, and he didn't know
what was the matter. He said when
attending dances, and was waltzing, he
often felt peculiar sensations on the
shin bones as thofigh he had been
struck with something hard, but he
didn't know but it was nervous pros¬
tration.. The doctor went to the next
dance, and when the young man felt
the peculiar sensation he whistled,
stopped waltzing, It and led the discovered girl up
to the doctor. was soon small
that the trouble arose from the
leaden bullets that girls wear in the
bottom of dresses to make them set
well. The young man only dances
quadrille* now.—Peck's Sun.