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NEWS SFZIAEY. fit./Ill The Chicago boarder trade re-elect¬ ed A. M. Wright president. Omaha erected 1,600 new buildings last year, at a cost of $5,024,000. married Secretary Macon, Lamar and Georgia, Mrs. Holt Wednes¬ were at day. The Missouri House elected J. W, Alexander, speaker. of Daviess county, as E. Duncan Sniffen, an advertising agent ot New York city, has failed for $ 100 , 000 . John L. Sullivan is said to have cleared $12,000 from his sparring tour in Montana. James W. Reid has resigned Fifth his seat in Congress for the district of North Carolina. The Pennsylvania company has ar¬ ranged to heat two*hundred of its freight-cars with oil-stoves. The Minnesota Republican legisla¬ tive caucus selected ex-Governor Davis as its candidate for senator. Joseph Tosso, the violinist who com¬ Thursday posed "The in Arkansas Covington, Traveler,” Ky. died New York is threatened with a fam¬ ine in fuel, on account ot a strike of coal-heavers in New Jersey. ! Judge Samuel F.Greer died suddenly at Decatur. III., where he had been on the bench for twenty-five years. The Dolores Land and Cattle com¬ pany of Texas has made an assign¬ ment to secure debts of $500,000. The foundry of E. P. Allis & Co., at Milwaukee, The was burned Thursday eve¬ ning. loss is estimated at $250, The Republicans of the Michigan legislature Stockbridge, have of Kalamazoo, nominated tor F. Sen¬ B. ator. John R. Webster, the nominee ot the independent speaker democrats, North was elect¬ ed of the Carolina house. Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, reports an increase of $10,199,500 for the ban past year in the deposits of savings KSt Benjamin F. Brooks, a leading mem¬ ber of the Boston bar, expired very plexy. suddenly on Tuesday night, from apo¬ A temperature registered of by 40 degrees spirit thermo¬ below zero was night. meters at Fort Keogh on Wednesday ' Charles Godfrey, Indians, a son of the chief of the Miami living near shotgun. Wabash, Ind., killed himself with a I 1 It is positively stated that at Aitkin,, Minnesota, during registered Thursday 60 degrees night, be¬ the thermometer low zero. Rev. A Waldo jury at Messaros Philadelphia of the charge acquitted of feloniously assaulting Mrs. Mary Coulston. A solid bed of red hematite ore, said to be as has pure been as discovered any on the Wausau, Gogebic range, at Wisconsin. So firm is the ice in the St. Lawrence that teams Cape are crossing Vincent,, between distance King¬ of ston and a twelve miles. James Ryan, the newlv-appointed postmaster of Appleton. Wisconsin, and is one of the pioneers of that town, a veteran editor. Sharp earthquakes Charleston were and felt Summer¬ Tuesday morniug ville, 8. C., at but damage to build* no ings resulted. The contract tor the construction of the naval cruiser Charleston was awarded to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. The attorney general of Ohio has brought suits in ejectment against Akron squatters on canal property in valued at $590,000. On increased wages of nearly 20 per cent the Edgar Thomson steel-works at Braddock, Pennsylvania, has re¬ sumed operations. The Illinois legislature organized by electing Mr. Berggren president pro tem. of the senate and W. F. Calhoun speaker oi the house. The thermometer dropped to 22° in sections of Northern Florida Tuesday morning. places Orange damaged. trees in exposed were itentiary A dying confessed convict iu having the Missouri murdered pen¬ and robbed JudsouC. Armstrong, near Odessa two years ago. The chief aspirants for the Texas Senatorship Terrell, are Ireland, Maxey, Rea¬ gan, and with the probabili¬ ties favoring the former. The New York chamber of com¬ merce ing S. S. has Cox’s adopted bill appropriating resolutions favor¬ $30, 000,000 for coast defences. James Spencer, of Whitehall. New York, has Keen nominated by Presi¬ dent Cleveland to be associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota. There are five or six inches of snow at sissippi. Macon, In Geoi^ia, the latter and Jackson, Mis¬ filled with improvised city sleighs. the streets are The governor of Indiana reports the total The debt of that state at $6,006,000. one-fourth insane the hospital entire consumes about revenue of the state. In each house of the Missouri legis¬ lature a bill has been introduced for the submission to the people, of the question of prohibiting the liquor traffic. house During a prayer-meeting Eldorado Springs, at a school- Mo., near a man named Oakes raised a disturb¬ ance, and then killed a worshiper with a knife. John Roach, the famous ship-build¬ er, is kept in bed under the influence of anodynes. His physicians regard his this cancer month. as likely to cause his death i In the Federal court at St Louis, on a sentenced plea of guilty, to three Joseph H. in White was years the peni¬ tentiary for counterfeiting Brazilian •hank notes. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Haul road has secured a right of way into Kansas City from the north, in addition to entrance over the belt line on the sooth. ( Two butterine factories at Pittsburg -were of decision permanently sustaining dosed, the on account law a state .oleomargarine. against the manufacture or sale of : J ostm A. Jacob*, for the past thirty yean city clerk at Cambridge, *' •chueetts, it committed known suicide rather •than have that he wasade lauiter legislature for pi.sn i The C. Lounsburjr of Connecticut elect .•d 'JamasI* P. governor and Howard lieutenant governor. They were the BepubUoaa candidates to » fisheries Reports from the New England show that the Twenty-six past year was a very disastrous one. ves¬ and sels were lost, valued at 9152,000, 137 persons were drowned. John 8 . Newberry, whose death at Detroit is reported, was interested in railway, steamboat, and banking 006 en¬ terprises to tiie extent of 93 , , 000 . He served one term in Congress. M. 8. Quay is the nominee of the Republican caucus for senator from Pennsylvania. The Democrats in the Maine legislature will support Will¬ iam H. Clifford for senator. Three members of the Salvation army at Sedalia, Mo., were heavily fined for a brutal assault upon a coun¬ try lad who attempted to escort home a female soldier at the close of a serv ice. The Henry Clay Mine, the most ex¬ tensive property of the Reading Rail road ant ii employing 1.800 men, is on fire. Frequent gas explosions have been are re¬ ported burned. anu four men severe¬ ly and Weaver, the Wittrock, Haight, pleaded guilty Tues¬ express robbers, sentenced; day at St. Louis, and were Wittrock and Weaver Haight five to seven in years the penitentiary. each, and to years Charles C. Wheeler, formerly of Bloomington, Illinois, was arrested at Willimantic, Connecticut, from for grand Gov¬ larceny, on a requisiiion loan agent ernor Oglesby. people. He was a for eastern The judges of twenty-one counties in the drouv,ht-affUcted region of Texas met at Albany and issued an appeal to the country at large for $500,000 witli which to relieve thirty thousand destitute persons. The surrogate at Buffalo decided to admit to probate the will of the late Frank Tracy, and virtually made the contestants bear their own costs. Tiie only child was cut off fight with $100,000, and there is 81,000,000 to for. Mrs. Logan expressed to an intimate friend of her late husband her opposi¬ tion to the burial of the remains in the space set apart on the lake front at Chicago and tier willingness to parks ac¬ cept a location aloug the South or boulevards. The message of the governor of Min¬ nesota, in dealing with railroad ques¬ tions, suggests the free storage of grain, urges legislation the against of water¬ and ing stock and giving passes, recommends fares. the general cheapening of passenger The French minister of commerce announces that for the first time in history wheat of excellent quality and superior weight has been exported by Russia from the Caucasus. Large car¬ goes have been sent from the ports of Poti and Batoum. The trade review for the past year shows that the steel and iron industry has been particularly prosperous, but the prediction is made that unless prices stop where they are the present year foreign will see ntaterial. a flooding of the country with The members of the troublesome St. Albertos’ church, in with Detroit, which recently contributed $2,000 to send two Poles to Rome to confer with the pope. The delegates were last heard from at Chicago, whence each. they wrote back foi $300 more President Cleveland received a call from a young man penitentiary, whom he recently who desired pardoned to from a his gratitude and express of future good offer assurances with con¬ duct. . lie was treated courtesy and given encouragement. A leak in a naturai-gas main at Youngstown, O., caused block, an explosion South in the new Andrews on Market street. Flames burst out at once, and the entire building destroyed. and the First The total Baptist loss is church $100,000. were The Nebraska with N. legislature V. Harlan organized speak¬ Tuesday, of the House, and George as D. Mc er Keljohn, Harlan is president friend of of the Senator Senate. Van As a Wyck, the latter thinks his prospects for re-election look bright. The Montana Central road has been graded the entire length from Rimini to Great Falls, but the rates demanded by the Union and Northern Pacific roads for the transportation of rails and materials have utterly months. blocked the project for eighteen Moses C. Nixon, residing near Mat toon, tive engineers Illinois, arranged to put with his two loco up farm as the chief prize in a lottery. They were convicted in the district court at costs Springfield, imposed and a fine each of $100 of them. and was upon The Paris correspondent of the Lon¬ don and Germany limes again have asserts concluded that Russia direct a alliance, binding the former to remain neutral in the event of war between France and Germany, and the latter in a possible conflict between Russia and Austria. A man claiming to be the perpetra¬ tor of the recent dynamite outrage on a cable road in San Francisco has writ¬ ten to a newspaper in that city that the responsible parties are members of an organization formed in Chicago directly sion. after the Haymarket explo¬ The vault of the bank of Wick Brothers & Co., at Youngstown, Ohio, the became filled with gas during double holiday. When a match was struck, which tore there out occurred the front an and explosion side of the building and seriously burned the bookkeeper. in Annie Toledo O’Connor, hotel, employed received last informa¬ year a tion that a vast estate in publication England had of been left to her. The the story called out a letters from James O’Keefe, a prominent citizen of Pittsburg, whom she met and married a few days ago. assist¬ George Keck, for many years infirmary ant superintendent of the at Akron, O., has been arrested for criminal intimacy with an insane in¬ mate. He that intends bodies to retaliate of deceased by a statement the paupers are regularly sold to a medical college in Cleveland. serving William life Poole sentences and at Joseph Sing Port, Sing, for the murder of John Ryan, m New York, Hill. The have policeman been pardoned whose by Gov. tes¬ timony they had been upon convicted bad on bis death bed confessed that he committed perjury on their trial. evening, At Ban Francisco, dynamite on cartridge Wednesday a was plaoed in a slot on the Sutter street cable road. A lady saw a man lift the trap and lower a lighted package. The explosion shattered the masonry and the broke man-holes the pulleys. The blown iron plates two hun¬ on were dred feet, ▲ state convention of mini in¬ terested in forest culture has b celled by the Illinois State Board of Agriculture to meet at the stats ho oaths 12th wet. It Is proposed 3 farm * nhrmnn ewf wtitf to mM tion"orntKTIT5rforeilain<r Oie*caltIVa tiou of native trees. The Republican nominate Congressional candidates for Con¬ the vention to vacated by the short and long terms, of Wiscon¬ death of William T. Price, of sin. resulted in the nomination Hugo A. Price, son of the late Con¬ gressman, to fill the Norwegian, uuexpired term, and N. P. Haugen, the long a was nominated for term. In the Rhode election Island contest of Page majority vs. Price, a from the Election case, a Committee report held that neither is of the House while the en¬ titled to a seat recommend in Congress, the seating of minority Price, the Republican sitting member. In the case of Kidd vs. Steele of In¬ diana a unanimous report was made in favor of Steele, Republican. the Judge Gresham has given to Nodaway Valley bank, in Missouri, Preston, judgment for $18,000 Chicago, against for not tak¬ Kean & Co., of of bonds deposited by tiie ing proper former care institution collateral. as The securities were stolen by Frederick M. Ker. The evidence allowed that Mr. Kean had heard of Ker’s gambling city. operations before he fled the In the federal court at Cleveland the decision was made that the first mort¬ gage on tlie Nickel-Plate road only is general illegal tiie bondholders being of $15,000,000. creditors to the amount The road was therefore sold under the second mortgage for $10,000,000. The validity of car-trust certificates for $4,000,000 was affirmed. Tne consoli¬ dation of five state pronounced corporations illegal. into one company was The decision is a complete victory for the Vanderbilts. The fishery troubles and the recent elections in Canada have tended to bring about a Cabinet break-up, and John Costigan, Minister of Internal Revenue, and Mr. Poster, Minister of Fisheries, will probably resign. It is ♦ettled that unless the United States makes some overtures looking toward « settlement of the fishery dispute back the Canadian Government will go io Die old system of The licensing foreign will fish¬ be ing vessels. license cnarged, as formerly, upon the ton¬ nage of the vessel. Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, in in calling attention to the fact that August 267 convicts at Joliet will be relieved from contract labor under the ronstiutional amendment recently adopted, asks legislation to the provide ;or the contingency. During canal past year the Illinois and Michigan expenditures, yielded $50,547 over all l'he governor recommends early steps toward the eradication restoration of pleuro-pneu- of the live¬ monia and the stock trade. The receipts ot the state treasury for two years were $9,591,342. While the “Modoc” express from Chicago, on the Boston and Albany road, was passing a freight train early T tesday morning of near wheels West Spring- of the •b.d, Mass., broke, one throwing the the train against <xpress the freight, and ter¬ causing a rible wreck. • One man was burned to death, another was fatally wounded, Of two and several were injured. corpses on the express, one was cre mai ed, and fourteen first-class western mail pouches and seventy-three bags of second-class matler were destroyed. lias A. accomplished C. Flora, of the Campbellville, remarkable Ky., feat of eating sixty quails in thirty conse¬ The cutive davs. and is still eating. >irds, with a small quantity of water, each aie liis only diet. lie eats two day, and lias them cooked in differ¬ ent ways—stewed, fried, or fricasseed, John It. Davis and W. O. Haskins have put up $500 on the result. Has¬ kins bets that Flora while can Davis eat eighty birds in fort >rty days, says he cannot . Flora experiencing already shows feeling signs of giving out, manifest¬ a of nausea. Great interest is ed and bets run high that Flora will give out. Bodwell, of Maine, Governor was inaugarated Thursday. His address recommends prevent a rigid the enforcement introduction of of the law to Dleuro-pneumonia, and suggests the establishment of a national guard in place of the state militia; the preven¬ tion of children under fifteen years of age from working in factories; the restriction of labor in all corporations of ten hours a day, and the enactment of a law establishing He "arbor recommends day” as an annual holiday. also as a simple remedy for the fishery troubles the levying of such increased duties on what fish Canada sends to the not United wholly States exclude as would Canadian partially fisher¬ if men from our markets. An east-bound freight, while run¬ ning on an up-grade, Tuesday the village morn¬ ing, within halt a mile of of Republic, Ohio, gave out ou and was unable to make the grade, The con ductor ran forward with a signal to flag the fast train, No. 5, oi the Balti¬ more & Ohio, which left New York at 9 A. M . Monday for Chicago, but it wsis too > lsito late. The fast train was less than a quarter of a mile distant, run¬ ning at the rate it of crashed sixty-three into miles the per hour, and freight, the baggage, wrecking both smoking engines and and express, of the one passenger car passenger train. Within an almost incredible short space of time the wreck was in flames, and burned. the injured Tiie passengers were being sleepers and passengers coach in the two one fifty. escaped, numbering about Fif¬ teen passengers m the smoker are thought to have been killed. The engi¬ neer of the passenger dislocated jumped knee. The and escaped fireman with a pinned between two was beams, crushing his hips. He lived three mortal hours in that position and then died. Nine charred and blackened bodies, with the limbs burn¬ ed off, were removed and laid in a row on the floor of the undertaker's room. The sight was a horrible one, and there was no resemblance to hu¬ man bodies in the remains. At At least least six and more are entirely supposed burned to have perished There been up. is nothing about the bodies which can help to identify them. It is claimed by some or the passengers that there were eighteen people m the smoker. If this in all De have true been it is loot, thought only fifteen three lives as are known to have escaped. A large item in the expense of main¬ taining* bill. The sleeping-car Pullman Company’s is the washing entire outfit includes 50,000 sheets, 48,000 pillow slips, IS,000 blankets, 16,000 hand towels and 6,000 roller towels. A oar is entirely emptied and cleaned ns soon as it reaches its destination, and laundry. the linen The it Wagner sent straight Company's to the to¬ tal equipment it 4,000 woolen blankets, 5,740 13.85! hand linen.sheets, towels and 18,802 t,S47 pillow roller slips, tow ala. Comps The expense ay's bedding of keeping clean the is Wag- $60, 000 a year; the Pullman Company's Is larger. WASHINGTON NEWS. Representative Springer, after a careful study of the Pacific railsoad question, the Outh- has decided to offer an amendment to waite refunding bill requiring the com¬ panies to discharge their debt to tne gov¬ ernment In twenty-six years, by annual in¬ stallments, of 63,877,410. debt during December The decrease In *9,353,202. the public Tiie interest was bearing bonds now amount to *1,130,494,462. stead¬ The treasury stock ot last, gold and lias is been *170, ily gaining since J uly holdings now of - 812,413. have The rapidly government’s fallen off for silver some months, the aggregate being *75,998,944. The paymaster-general of the army, m a circular publishing the recent act for the relief of tiie West Point graduates affected by the controller’s decision iu the Rod man case, states that claims presented by officers who have not been paid in accordance with the act referred to, and that are chargeable last fiscal to the appropriations of the two years, will be paid by tiie officers of the pay department with the pay accounts of the current quarter. Claims be chargeable settled by the to prior appropriations will accounting officers of the treasury. About 300 officers will have money retunded to them under the act. MOVEMEYT OF GBAIY. The report of the Senate committee on transportation routes to the seaboard on Die subject of railroad other countries freights in makes the United States and 500 pages of printed matter aud contains many valuable tables and much informa¬ tion on the subject of transportation, in gath¬ the ered from nearly every country indicates world. Tiie first table United presented States for the progress of the a gen¬ eration. Thirty-three bushels years of ago wheat we pro¬ and duced 100.000.000 bushels Twice about 600,000,000 ot corn. in recent years we have readied 500,000,000 bushels of wheat, and in l'8o the corn crop reached 1,800,000,000 bushels— a fivefold in¬ crease in wheat and a threefold increase iu corn. The increase in otiier cereals has not been so rapid. In tiie export trade wheat ranks first in value, $2,600,0 and in fifty eight years has added Kt ,000 to the value of our national production, a sum equivalent to four times the value ot ex ported corn and cornmeal during the same period. The report shows that the difference in the prices of corn between tiie Atlantic ports and the lake ports has steadily de¬ clined from 21 cents per bushel in 1873 10 cents per bushel iu 1883; between the Atantic ports, and the western river ports, from 19 cents in 1873 to 11 cents in 1888. This in a measure shows the tendency of freight rates to decrease. Regarding the question of long and short hauls the committee came to the conclusion that local freight rates “are evidently levied on the somewhat will general The principle of what the traffic bear. bushel report says tiie cost of nearly transporting equitable a in Massa¬ of wheat is more chusetts than m any other slate represent¬ ed, although there it finds a lesser rate for thirty-six miles than for fifteen. The re¬ port continues: In Pennsylvania Massachusetts. local In rates Oiiio are the higher than m rate is about the same oil 60 miles as it is ou 80, while the long haul of 216 miles, instead of being relatively less, is relatively greater. In Massachusetts iu 18-3 it cost 4.6 cents to transport a busheiof wheat 64 miles; the cost m Connecticut. tor transporting tiie same quantity of grain 62 miles was7cents; in Pennsylvania, 60 miles, 4.2 cents, aud iu Ohio, 69 miles, 5 cents. Of course the con¬ ditions may not have been the same. Farther west we find Kansas paying 4.2 cents per bushel miles, for anil transporting Massachusetts, a bushel for of wheat 40 the same service, 36 miles, 2.2 cents, while California pays 5.3 cents per bushel for £0 miles. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate. Jay. 4.—In the Senate journal to-day, as concluded, soon as tiie reading of the was Mr. Cullom took the floor and said: “Mr. President, the angel ot death stalks through the unexpected land, and during his visitation the brief lias been of most the recess Senate, imposing on me a duty perform—the which I have scarcely the heart death to duty of announcing the of my dis¬ tinguished olleague. At his home, which overlooks tins Capital city, at 2:27 o’clock ou Sunday, tiie 26th day of December, flight the spirit of John A. Logan took its to the unknown realms fuueral ot ceremonies eternity; and on Friday last his were conducted by the senators and representa¬ tives present in this Senate chamber, and the his mortal remains were conveyed to silent tomb. “We are cailed upou to mourn the loss of one of the bravest and noblest of men—a state man and loved of by the the nation; patriotic people Known of his to a man his country and to the civilized world, and for nearly fourteen years I a distinguished member of tiiis Senate. shall not at this the time, Mr. President, attempt due the to pronounce of words which are to memory one who for so conspicuous many years performed in tiie so important and a part affairs of this republic. At an early day I shall seek to introduce appropriate I be resolu¬ best tions aud shall speak, as may able, of the character and public services of our associate; when an opportunity will be & iven to the senators Mr. to President, Kay fitting tribute of n, ids memory. out respect for the memory of tiie deceased Senator Logan I move that the Senate do now Tiie adjourn.” motion agreed to, and the Sen¬ was ate adjourned. Jay. 5.~In the Senate Mr. McPherson offered a resolution Treasury for calling statement on the Secre¬ of the tary of the a indebtedness of the Pacific railroad com¬ panies to the government Jan. 1,1S87, with details of all payments inade on account of t.ie same; also as to the sums due or to be¬ come due (principal and interest) under existing laws severally, and what differ¬ ence would result to the treasury if the pending funding bill should become a law. Mr. Hoar moved to amend tiie resolution by adding to it these words: “And a state¬ ment of ail existing debts questions in dispute iu regard between to •mount of such said McPherson companies argued and tiie against government” tiie proposed Mr. amendment as tending toward delay, and suggested that if Mr. Hoar would promise not to bring up the bill at the present ses¬ sion lie would withdraw his resolution. Mr. Hoar expressed but offered his great surprise to at call tiie proposition, the bill until the information to agree not asked uu was obtained. Plumb introduced bill to fix the Senator a amount ot United States bonds to be re¬ quired of National banks. An appropriation bill for $600,000 to pro¬ mote tiie Colored People’s World’s Exposi¬ tion. to be held in Birmingham, Ala., from Sept. 22, 1887, to Jan. 31, 1888, was intro¬ duced by Mr. Blair. Senator Sherman introduced a bill to provide that all persous on the pension rolls for loss ot limb or limbs shall be en¬ titled to receive arrears of pension from the date of Mitchell, discharge or direction disability. the pension Mr. Dy of committee, of reported John the Logan bill granting pension the of widow A. a objected *2,000 a year. Senator Cockrell under a misapprehension, and afterwards withdrew his opposition. objection Senator and Coke, tbe bill however, had renewed until the to-morrow. It will to go over undoubtedly be passed by a large vote, but regret colleagues is beard in the that Senate any should of Gen. feel Logan’s called upon to oppose Is the MU. Senator Coke’s opposition said to fee a far-fetched fear that the bill would be a precedent for a civil pension-list. Us does not question Gen. try, tat Logan's the military General, services unlike to Grant ths coun¬ and as Hancock, did nos *dls nr. officer of the regular way, the Texas Senator is fearful of making provision for his widow. This was dons, however, In the cess of Gen. P. Blair and the spectre of a civil pceatoa-tist did not frighten any oas. , Jam. 1—The Senate today r esumed een» ot Umi inter*«I aH Mr Piart haring ths 6a that a rats of oenytag ss HI SB! oThfer busliifes,Was mappJciibiAErnils TTuiT uess and of railroads. unprofitable How did the railroads presidents at¬ managers ot tempt now to make money? Not by the business of their roads, but by stock-job¬ bing. bill because he Mr. Morgan opposed the thought any measure which forced tiie rail¬ road companies to raise thoir charges or freights for long hauls would be inimical to the best interests of his state, and because the both the sale market of his for constitueuts purchase at market of were a great distance. Mr. Cullom gave notice that he would ask the Senate on Tuesday uutii or the Wednesday bill next to remain in session was disposed In executive of. session the Senate passed bills granting pensions of $2.0 0 per annum to tiie widows of Generals John A. Logan and Frank l’. Biair, and to carry into effect the treaty with China for tiie suppression of the opium traffic. The Senate agreed to Mr. McPherson’s resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for Pacific a statement roads of tiie indebtedness of the to the go.eminent and the probaole effect of the funding bill. Jay. 7.—In the Senate in favor to-day several petitions were presented of tiie ex¬ perimental agricultural stations bill. Also a remonstrance signed by many business men of Dayton, 0.. Men's against ami petitions from the Business club of Kenosha, Wis., ami from ihe Wisconsin State grange in favor of the interstate commerce bill. Mr. Call offered a resolution declaring that certain in Florida lands shall granted be forfeited, lor railroad and pur¬ poses in¬ structing the Attorney General to briug suit against all corporations attempting to ell or advertise where public lands embraced iu railroad grants bill for forfeiture are pending before Congress. He asked to have it laid hereafter. ou the table, and said he would c ill it np The S mate then proceeded tiie following to business bills: on the calendar, and passed Te settle and adjust the claims of any state for expenses incurred by it in defense of the United States. • Mr. Manderson, from the committee oil military providing affairs, for reported back the House Dill a seiiool of instruction for cavalry aud light artillery at Fort Riley_ struction Kansas, and for the completion the and con¬ of quarters for army at cer¬ tain posts. The bill was amended by ap¬ propriating $30,000 for Fort D. A. Russell and $55,COO for Fort Robinson, Nebraska, nd was Beck passed. Mr. inquired of Mr. Evarts as to the bill to prevent members of Congress acting as attorneys for subsidized railroads, ana suggested tetscate that it be bill. taken up after the in commerce Mr. Evarts said that that would suit him. After an executive session the Senate ad¬ journed until Monday. House. Jay. 4.—In the House Mr. Thomas offered unanimously the following adopted: resolution, which was Resolved, That tiie House has heard with great sorrow the announcement of the death of tiie Hon. United John A. Logan, late Senator of the States from the state! of Illinois. for “As the a further deceased evidence statesman,” of the respect said Mr.j felt Thomas, “I move that the House do now! adjourn, giving notice that at a later House day I will ask that the proceedings of the 1 be suspended in order bear that testimony his colleagues his and trieuds may to WOJ’tll* The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned. Jay. 5.—In the House to-day the call ot the Mr. committees Davidson, having behalf been of the dispensed committee with, on on, railways and canals, called up in the morn¬ ing hour tiie of the bill Erie for the and permanent Oswego canals iuH provemeut and to the freedom of the tot secure same the commerce of the United States. The! bill was considered in committee of the whole, Mr. Crisp in tiie chair. The bill provides the Treasury for the of issuing bonds bearing by tiie Secretary of 2K per cent interest to an amount not ex¬ ceeding *5,000,000, to be delivered to the state of New York upon the completion of certain the improvements lias pledged therein itself specified, that said' and after state canals shall be maintained the United by said States, state free to the commerce of or in event that these canals shall cease to be free to tiie commerce of the United States the state will repay so much as shall have been so received. Mr. Weber, the introducer of the meas-, ure, advocated its passage, which the dwelling freedom upon ot the important factor the .Erie and Oswego canals to the com¬ merce of the country would form in pro¬ viding cheap transportation for the The pro¬ ducts of the west to the seaboard. provisions of the bill were fair to the nation and to the state of New York. The House passed the Indian appropria¬ tion bill, covering *5,115,000, as also the military academy appropriation bill. Jay. 6.—The of House whole to-day (Mr. Springer went into in committee the bill, the chair) which ou appropriates the pension *''6,247,500, appropriation being only $5,000 below tiie estimates—the reduc¬ tion being in the item for the rent of offices for pension agencies. Without amendment or discussion and the bill was read, reported to the The House, naval reorganization passed. bill debated was by Mr. Sayers, of Texas, who advocated tiie bill and weak drew a fight deplorable aud picture slow to of a navy too to too run away, and of navy-vards useless and worn out and utterly incapable and, of constructing the first-class war vessels; in tracing causes of this worthlessness and decay to the cumbersome organization of the navy, he fortified his position with extracts from the expressed opinions of Secretaries Whit¬ ney and Chandler. Mr. Boutalie opposed the bill. The ex¬ isting organization of the navy was aud adequate to ail demands of the present all the probable requirements of the future. Under the organization as it stood to-day the United States navy department, confronted in 1861 by a more gigantic foe tiian it was likely to meet iu the immediate future, had been enabled in the twinkling equipment of an eye te call into existence a naval great! and effective in power and resources. Mr. Henderson introduced a bill author¬ izing Ijie construction of a bridge Iowa. across Re- thei Mississippi river at Dubuque, furred reform the Tiie House committee on in civil service lias adopted without amend¬ ment the bill recently passed office by the Senate repealing the tenure of act, and has instructed Mr. Cox, of North House Carolina, to call it up for action in the at the earliest The possible then moment adjourned. House Jay. 7.—On motion ot Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, tiie House to-day passed the Senate! bill amending and the Fox act and providing Iowa Indian for the sale of the Sac The amend¬ reser tion in Nebraska and Kansas, ment provides lor the allotment of lands in severalty to minors and orphans. Mr. Hatch made an unsuccessful effort to have private business dispensed with for tiie day for the purpose the consideration of enabling of thei the House to resume of bill for the creation of a the department agriculture and labor, whole but (Mr. Mouse MeMillau went, into committee of the in the cnair) on the private calendar. The committee soon rose aud half a dozen bills; were {Hissed by 7:30 the House, which then took a recess until p.m. At the evening session the House passed; forty-two 930 pension month bills, to including the widow one of grant¬ Gen. Durbin ing Ward. per Queen Victoria, Mrs, OU phantsays in The November Century, w mere she writes of “Queen Victoria:" “We hold it oneof the most absurd of poetical fallacies that ‘love’ in the ordinary sense of the word is •woman’s whole existence,’ yet it is very true that the history of a woman is chiefly the history of her affections and the does relationship in which her dearest interests are always traded. It is true also of a m h these lie the real records of his hwnh THE ACADIANJWILD MAN.« Down in the rich ailnvi&I delta of Louisiana there winds to the sea a slow brown bayou called the Terrebonne from the fertility of the black loamy land through which it flows. Big sugar plantations the lie along its ccpirse, but near mouth are the homes of many Acadians, for this was one of the Louisiana. streams along which they settled in They cultivate little rice farms and orange groves, and live in summer upon their gardens fishing in winter—upon and the produce the of their abounds in the game that marshes. Since their exile they, like the Bourbons, have for¬ ing. gotten Their nothing language, and have customs learned noth¬ identically and manners are the same as the day when With the turn of the tide the ships sailed out of the harbor. And the coasts of their beloved land grew misty with distance. In among these thriving little farms weedy Is a large tract Great of land, a melancholy, waste. forest trees have grown up in the midst of what were fair fields that waved with golden rice. Fences .and boundaries long ago rotted away. The ditches are choked with grass, and young willows grow alon<* their line. The whole is matted witt the tion tangled brought"up growth from of the lavish vegeta¬ this fertile soil by the tropical suns and wild rains. Some¬ times at dusk you will catch a glimpse of a bent figure skulking away from the door of a ruined cottage whose chim¬ neys have fallen in, whose roof is a green pulpy mass of lichen, and whose walls totter forward to a fall. The old neighbors Allandin, will the explain wild that it is only man. ' If you will lie in wait about this hour of the day, concealed iu the underbrush, you may catch a closer glimpse of him. He looks seventy, but is not really so old. His once tall form is bent, and he walks with the quick, creeping move¬ ments of an animal. Long gray hair hangs in filthy matted locks to nis waist and mingles with his great sweeping from beard. Two wrinkled, large pallid dark face eyes gaze through out a the rough hair with a glare like a cat. His hands are like rough, knotted •Jaws, and his whole body has a growth of coarse hair upon it His only cover¬ ing is a pair of brown blankets, through which a hole has been torn to admit his head, and he creeps silently away every is night into the the forest tell: swamps. This the story neighbors Thirty years ago there parish was no more prosperous farm in the than that of Etienne Allandin, and no more respected man than its rich young owner. He was alone in the world with the exception of some distant cousins, but his friends were many, and he was betrothed to a pretty young g if! who was to marry him in the next Ma arch. splendid His face dark was plain, except for his eyes, but he had a warm, gentle heart, and was a fine parti, so that he would not have asked any parent around for twenty miles for their daughter in vain. According to old Acadian usage, he built a new house that winter, that spending hold loving little care upon ihe nest was to his mate. The wedding day approached. The happy -bridegroom eorbeille, made usual, ready only the marriage his gifts the as was splendid were most ever seen wedding in that simple neighborhood. real white silk, The gown was of the veil, wreath of wax orange flowers, with all the the white shoes from New and Orleans. gloves, had come way March He rose early that lovely morn¬ ing, and arrayed himself carefully in his" black, shiny clothes, casting tender, amused glances at tile little feminine garments Acadian lying woman’s on that heart, pride of plump, every a strong bed with ruffled pillows. He was making ready up be a earned parcel of these the bride gar¬ ments to to when an embarrassed and sympathetic delegation bride had disappeared. came to inform him had that eloped the She with a handsome young good-for-naught who had been refused by her parents, and had left not a word for‘her be¬ trothed. Allandin stood like a man, stunned; then he turned every one out, and shut himself in with his ruined happiness. whispered Soon the neighbors that the new house was empty and Allandin' had gone away to the swamp. From that day he never spoke to any hid human in his being. All day the man the iouse, and with nightfall went to forest, and like a wild beast sought his food. Crawfish, lizards, field mice, and birds, eaten raw, were his sustenance. His hair and beard grew long and tangled, his clothes fell to pieces, and a blanket became his only garb. In all these thirty years he has never spoken, and now he knows no human inarticulate language. His only sounds are a few cries ,' and he shuns his kind like a haunted dians have animal. disturbed The sympathetic him, and Aca¬ at never nights when they hear a faint echo from the swamps of a wild human cry, they look sadly at each other and sav: “C'est ejmurre Allandin cal!" — N. Y. Sun. Origin of Card Games. TV probably The origin be traced of card with games certainty. can not It has been generally any believed that “playing cards, 7 ’ as they are known at the present day, were invented by a French painter named Gringonneur, for the amusement of his imbecile king, the Charles VI, and it is evident from following extract from an account of this king’s treasurer, that this artist did make for his weak-minded “Paid sovereign Jac some el egant sets of cards: quemen Gringonneur, painter, for three packs of cards, in gold and colors, of divers devices, to present to said lord and king for his amusement, sixty sols parises.” Bat it is claimed that he merely made copies, possibly in new de¬ signs, of cards cards already well-known, from the east, and that playing lost came in remote anti¬ their " ori quity. The Gypsies may have been the first to introduce them into Europe, but these were very different in design and purpose from the cards used in France. They had in the incidental combination of their emblematical figures, a fancied interpretation of the will of the un¬ known Gods, the garnet being a series of questions addressed to fate, ami bowed to the results reverential of which the As players early A with awe. as