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' NEWS SUM MAR Y/ 4 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.