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NEWS SUMMARY.
The Maj-or of Allegheny for City standard vetoed
the ordinance providing
time.
T. B.- Mills, of Jackson Wisconsin county, was
elected speaker of the as¬
sembly. post
Nat II. Young, for many years
trader at Fort Sully, died at Pierre,
Dakota.
The Republican caucus at Hartford
re-nominated Joseph It. Hawley for
the Senate.
A vein of natural gas was reached
at Marion, Ind., Thursday at a depth
of 518 feet.
Jacob Stbltz is the fifth person ren¬
dered insane by the antics of the Sal¬
vation army at Maryville, Mo.
The Democratic legislative Judge caucus at
Indianapolis selected David
Turpie as its candidate for senator.
The consulship at Leith has been
tendered son-in-law to of Dr. William Willoughby II. English, Walling, of
Indianapolis. Mcllrath.
Mayor J. P. at one time
chief of police at St. Paul, shot him¬
self dead at Cleveland, because of con¬
tinued i’iness.
The St. Paul road has declined to
extend its tracks from Merrill to the
Lake Tomahawk Superior. river, and ultimately to
The screw steamship Celtic Monarch
was on January 2 abandoned at sea,
after the passengers aud crew had
been transferred.
In the supreme court at New York,
Judge Barrett refused Jacob Sharp,
tbe Broadway railroad promoter, a
change of venue.
Ulcers in the throat, caused by to¬
bacco, bid fair to force Congressman
Thomas, this of Illinois, winter. to take a trip to
Bermuda
An attempt to reduce P. Lorillard. wages in Jer¬ the
tobacco factory of at
sey City, caused a strike by thirty-five
hundred employes.
About 4 o’clock Tuesday morning
the city of San Francisco was for
seven seconds rocked from cast to
west by an earthquake.
The live-stock commissioners of Illi¬
nois have made a scorching reply to
the recent attack of N. J. Column, the
commissioner of agriculture.
Alexander of Duluth, Crawford, is an of iron five manu¬
facturer one broth¬
ers who are to receive £1,000,000 by the
death of a cousin in Australia.
The election of ltoscoe Conkling as
United States Senator from New York
by publicans the joint is vote urged of by democrats the B’orid. and re¬
There were several shocks of earth¬
quake at Charleston and Summer¬
ville, S. C., the Monday evening, sound. accom¬
panied by usual roaring
A board of engineer officers has
made to the secretary of war a report
which is in tbe main favorable to the
construction of the Hennepin canal.
ing Even the active railway part companies in the senatorial are tak¬
an
campaign in New Jersey between
Governor Abbett and Senator Sewell.
II. T. Blackstone, bank in who Portland, embezzled Me.,
$70,000 captured from a Winnipeg by
was in a
sheriff, who followed his wife from
home.
Ttie lord lieutenant of Ireland, while
declining to abate rentals on his es¬
tates in the coun y Down, offers to sell
his tenants their holdings at reasona¬
ble rates,
Mr. Phelan, consul general of the
United States at Halifax, Dominion predicts a
lively Ume when tlie pro¬
tective fishery fieet commences op
erations.
Fifty lodges of Crow Indians, in a
condition next to starvation, Yellowstone. are camp
ed at Clark s fork of the
They are eating cattle perishing in the
suow-drifts.
A syndicate of Amsterdam bankers
ing purchased nine hundred square
miles of timber land m western
Florida, on which to louud a colony of
IIoHamiers. '
The ocean shore along the South
Carolina coast is covered with dead
fish to the depth of one foot, which is j
the result, it is thought, of some vol
canic disturbance.
Frank James, the reformed train
robber, has gone to St. Louis to obtain
a clerkship in a large retail store, and
in the event of failure he intends to
keep a cigar-stand. Roach, held in
The funeral of John
New York Thursday, was attended by
four hundred employes of the Morgan
iron-works aud sixty-six leading citi¬
zens of Chester, Penn.
Ranking high among the recent
transfers of mineral lands in the south
StoSStollStoft JaMSK!?
bama, for *6,000,000
A Lutheran clergyman of Oshkosh
devoted his last sermon to the Knights of
of Labor, aud warned the members
tiievclingtotlmorLr 111 ^ eXPeUeU “
*
The mountaineer gathered in of Wayne numbers county,
Kentucky, Montieello to witness great the execution
at of
of William Pruitt, the murderer
Jarvis Buck and wife.
"Buffalo” Miller predicts the col¬
lapse of of the Kentucky whisky pool competition before May, and
because
the assessment of 8 cents per bushel to
keep certain distilleries closed.
William 0. Allen, one of the pioneers
of southern and Wisconsin, political well and known financial on
the bench in
circles, died at Racine on Wednesday
night, in his seventy-third year.
Frank C. Haddock, an attorney at
Oshkosh. a son of the clergyman as
s&rca^«h^uijii CitThS abandoned 1 ’SfeXvand'ac* dac
fiudS*the"‘stock 0 ot 'w P h£t C fn«. C e 3
S^OwlSnZ^whteh^SStoS available for shipment toEurope.
are
There are iieniiy fouiteeii liuudiedi
veteran soldiers in the National home
moi^»re more are a ex^»’ted expected U on on th^oomntetuyn the completion
of the barracks in course of construe
| An agent for European purchasers
d
SS^ASSSSi Panhandle scffl
I Jay Gould, in an interview at St
Louis, in which he favored a revised
inter-stale commerce bill, said the
present measure would be of incal
cuteble advantage lo the Canadian
J. N. Matthews, proprietor of the
Buffalo Express, was arrested and held
in bonds to answer the charge of crimi
nal libel preferred by Colonel John
Byrne, the owner of a detective
agency
ACBsmsasK suitable building
court?to to remodel into a
ytc-regal be occupied when-
ever Parliament is not in session at
Ottawa.
Dr. William Perry, the oldest grad¬
uate of Harvard college, and tlie last
mirvfvor of Fultonk steamboat ride
down the Hudson river, expired Tues¬
day at Exeter, New Hampshire, at the
age of 98.
It is understood that negotiations
with China for such modification of
tlie introduction treaty as of to cooly entirely labor prevent into the the
United States have just been success¬
fully concluded.
Three cable-railway strikers at San
Francisco have been arrested for caus¬
ing Sutter the street dynamite road. explosions Rewards of on $1,250 the
have been offered for the conviction of
the perpetrators.
Pennsylvania, Robert McGeorge, usually of Luson carries Valley,
who his a
large amount of money head on and person, breast
was shot through tbe
by three masked robbers in the pres¬
ence of his family.
An Irish landlord named Rea. who
lately had an annual income of £6,000
from rentals, has applied for admis¬
sion to the workhouse atKillarney, either
being unable to get money from
trustees or tenants.
T. J. Cluverius, who was hanged his at
Richmond for the murder of cous¬
in, Fannie L. Madison, died without
executed making a confession. Fort Smith Four for killing men were
at peo¬
ple in Indian Territory.
The district attorney of Boston has
filed a biil of complaint by the govern¬
ment against the Amerienn Bell Tele¬
phone company. It is essentially the
same as that dismissed at Columbus
for lack of jurisdiction.
John U. Norristown. Wilson was Thursday for
hanged at Penn., Dealy the
murder of Anthony W. three
years ago. The crime had been for¬
gotten when Wilson mads a confession
to the police of Chicago.
The government of Newfoundland
has fifteen hundred men at work on a
railroad from Harbor Grace to Placen¬
tia, in the hope of developing the
transatlantic commerce of St. John’s,
tbe nearest point to Great Britain.
Alice Oates, the well-known comic
opera singer, died Monday husband evening at Phila¬ at
the residence of her
delphia. painful She had complication wasted away of greatly dis¬
no aer a
eases, and death came as a welcome re
lief.
A machine which is likely to revolu¬
tionize the method of making Trout nails
has been Philip perfected Leonard, by of Carver Penn¬
and Sharon,
sylvania, who propose to build a large
factory either in Chicago or Indian¬
apolis.
The governor of Iowa has certified
back to the federal government 2,641,-
731 acres of land in the counties of
Plymouth, granted Woodbury, to the Sioux and City Oscela, and
once
Pacific road, but forfeited by that
company.
itentiary The convicts of found the [ New with with Jersey jewelers’ ieweii p en
ltenciarv were were rounc
saws, which had been smuggled led in to
them in plugs the of bars tobacco. preparatory They to were
sawing wholesale when the plot a
discovered. escape was
.
Governor Rusk, labor of Wisconsin, directs in dis¬
cussing the question, at¬
tention to the fact that in the great
majority of troubles the rights and in¬
terests of the whole people are rudely
enforce affected, and they have the right to
peace.
The strike of coal-handlers at east¬
ern shipping mining points has all collieries caused a sus¬
pension pendent of tbe Lehigh in Valiev road de¬ for
on weeks’
cars. ears There T i ie reisoniv is amf only two supply
at Providence various cities in
^ e w England,
g am Illinois ue i jjysart, board the agriculture, new president of
f( fj ie of says
iat organization toward favors an eradication appropria
tion of $25,000 the
0 f pleuro-pneumonia,and has appoint¬
ed a legislature. committee to urge its passage by
t b e
Being afflicted with a bowel com
plaint, Illinois, Mrs. Henry forty-seven Winn, of days Oak
Grove, went
without food or drink, dying on Wed
Hesday Hundred evenlug, pounds From she a declined weight o? to
three
a mere skeleton. •
John died Roach, Monday the famous morning, ship-build- New
efi m
York, in his When seventy-ninth lad 16 year, he from
cance r. a of came
from Ireland, without friends employed or capi¬
tal. Before his failure he
three thousand men.
Rev. John Patterson, of Cambridge,
Wisconsin, was the early show Friday infr front mftrning of the
found lying in snow in
public library at Milwaukee, with a
fatal cut in his throat. He had become
m.,rnm, ment ail unbutacedI™.—
received last summer.
Three brewers in Detroit have re¬
solved to take back their men and end
the strike inaugurated more than three
months emSloyes^ave'been ago. It is said that the idle
rereiving a liberal
percentage ™™ outasra 011 on aU all sa!es sales mad made in that
city by outside brewers.
In a libel suit brought against a Chi¬
cago newspaper by a Connecticut damages pat¬ for
ent lawyer, asking $20,000 the defend¬
being filed pronounced demurrer, a crank, giving the diction¬
ant a
ary definition of crank as machinery
having a circular motion.
Evidence Utah, taken showed by the that grand in jury three- at
Ogden, house iu that city liye William a
room
Bmgham, two wives, married twenty uumar- with
lied children, live sons,
their wives and fifteen children, and
two hired men in the attic,
Miss Fannie V. Baldwin, a second
cousin of the San Francisco million
aire - "Ikhu »*>e "nee attended a as to kill
^£31“
ch^es Chartes 6 if 1L Van JJ^ktad^fig-one Wyck* *had ^Tty^ne
AnnAnnAAmAiv^nAQ ^nouncemer^wM made mRup Mond&v Monday that
osen
Hemocratic congressman, will enter
£b e field ^ as a Jlol, party candidate.
Al William Cros
^ m^&lwo ream alfand^hl
father’s estate. Just previous duein t t the
S aU a < ttumw-a^nd
oMte t track bet 7 reen faid o mites^of
K*naa<| Jiiu f’itv Through and ttoT forty
^ g Souff^rn rivafrvofthe
Aretoann °^utoern the CaHfSi Pacific
ro a d 3 is teing
(-^tizens Illinois, Kentucky, SuSv‘and and
Texas have secured at Springfield a
U ^ 0 adueah ®. 119 ®. and incorporate New Orleans the Railroad Chicago,
dfeejssut company, with a capital stock M of $10,
Th® strike of the New A ork coal
SS?!«MpMSS , u&SSl
a’coal famine may ensue. The strikers
are well organized and have strong
allies in the Brotherhood of L>como
o/Brakemerf. 13 United ° rder
The new British cabinet comprises
Lord Salisbury for foreign affairs, J. W.
II. Smith for the treasury, S. Gos
chen Edward for chancellor for of the exchequer, Sir
Ifenry Holland Stanhope for the colonies. war, ana The
earl of Iddesleigh refused the offer of
the privy seal.
JobrfG. Rogers, one of the judges of
the circuit court of Cook county, Illi
nois. fell dead in a dry-goods store on
State street, TTn Chicago, Monday he after
noon iS tn Perfect that moment h^alto He'wM annear
ed ea to lo be oe in perfect nealtn. ne was
born m Kentucky m 1818. He leaves
a widow, two sons, and two daughters.
The bill to give Mrs. Logan a pen
Sion of $2,000 per annum meets oppo
sition from General Matson, of Indiana
chairman of the House committee on
invalid pensions. A check for $1,000
ington for the Logan Monday fund by was John sent Fitzgerald, to Wash
president of of the Irish National League
America.
_A SEJES b o “ t .-° (in. i ?.° | g?L“J fi« r s£j!KKi»
« an into
the gorge below, changing precipice very mater
ially Canadian the formation side. ot The the break on
the was
near the spiral stairway, and 150 feet
c«rildTwn n “ enfc K ° Q ramne WaS
carriea aown.
Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, . has
bers been of selected the Illinois by the legislature republican mem- their
as
candidate for senator. A native of
New York, he removed to Illinois in
1838, nearly and has resided in Chicago his wide for
experience forty in years. political During life he served
two terms in congress.
The Indiana Honse, with the assist
uioe 91 nineteen republican Lieutenant Senators,
canvassed tha vote for
Gtwamor and Witnessed the swearing
in of IL s. Robertson by Judge Walker.
aaaidit official the delivered greatest his confusion, inaugural
address
COnTentl0n ad *
rs^'Kr^rfnS'o? Friday,
tta'Hn. tamM br Ito ggrara
sa^*i«Ji£oSift. reictistag, SS“
and la! mwsage decree dissolving, issued the for
eral a elections was February soon 21. gen
on
Mrs. Cleveland has set a good ex
amp> theaters against the big-hat the nuisance Na- at
tionr'Theater by appearing at Washington at new without
a bonnet. The other ladies oi the
party were^similarly attired. Mrs.
Clev ’and began her mornmg recep
tions in the Green Room last week,
SKT- b ’ Mrs ' FolM,n ' tor
Lord Iddesleigh, the while residence ascending of a
stair-case in official
Lord Salisbury at London, Wednesday,
fell m a faint, and expired in twenty
minutes. For many years be had suf
fered from cardiac affections. He was
born in 1818, and commenced his politi
cal career as private secretary to Mr..
Gladstone in 1843. He recently with
drew from the conservative govern
merit.
There is yet no sign of a settlement
of the trouble b«ween trio Jersey eod
EssrsMs’JS ss
laid off because of lack of empty cars
and tbe fact that the tracks at til©
Jersey crowded ^Bnd of loaded the lines are whhsh already it is
with cars
impossible to have discharged. ha^ An been ad
vance of 75 cents per ton
Tniidn made since sinnft last last x Fridav riday morning. mnrnim?
, The International Union of Masons
and Bricklayers met at Washington
£e«T£7rPup5rt,o%e were present, representing_25,000 ? mem- u„try
bers. Commissioner Webb welcomed
the delegates to the city. Among the
questions which, it is said, will relations come
up for consideration, are the
of the union to the Knights of Labor
and and the ine hours nours of or daily aany labor xaDor.
The troubles which have existed for
sometime between the beei'-brewers
and the Knights of Labor, of Philadel
JSSSwSdSSS Board, tlS.;® having by been the S
trict Executive re
instated by the General Executive
Board. This the brings all and the the striking Dis
brewers into order, take
trict Executive Board will charge
of tlie strike aud endeavor to perfect a
settlement sett lempiit of or rue the existing existing trouoies. troubles
CEKEAL STATISTICS.
The department product, of agriculture’s and es- of
timates of area, value
corn, wheat, and oats for permanent
record are completed. The official
work of the year has been thoroughly
adon prmTucttom mid W al and^tbe ‘ available e data o°fTop C
aggregates are
SU Tlte corn crop,“in^ouU bushels, numbers;
pKW«fy,5Ai aggregates 1,665,000,000 grown
of over 3 per cent, and a decrease in
product of 14 per cent, while tlie aver
age price has increased 12 per cent, or
from 82.3 cents to 86.6cents per bushel.
Tbe aggregate product of wheat is
457,000 vnlnfF 0U0 Imshels from an area of
\cilue S' ot 1 SEStfSS?' v 314,000,000. 1U T'he average
value is 68.7 cents per bushel, j , against
77.1 cents for the previous crop and
64.5 cents for the great crop of 1884.
This is 35 per cent reduction from the
average value between 1870 and 1880.
The vield Of the spring-wheat centers
is better than and. was expected the Pacific early in
the season, on coast
much worse. The general average nearly for
winter and spring wheat is o/ 12.4
bushels per acre bushels—5,000,000 Tl,e product bushels oats
leas is 624,000,000 than last year—from of
an area
over 23,000,000 acres, The" producing yield a value is
of $186,000,000. bushels, against 27.6 average last The
26.4 year.
average value is 29.8 cent3 bushel per last bushel,
against S8.5 cents ^ per year, ‘
- -
The Burial of a Giant.
At it ci Shinn al in .i. the west of England,
there was buried recently a man of
grand stature named J. L Stubbs,
His coffin measured thirty-seven inches
across the shoulders, seven feet in
quired length, and united two feet strength in depth. of It re
the ten men
to lift it when the corpse was against placed in
it Ptonks were piaced, coffin lower- the
bedroom window, and the
ed down to a truck, was thus wheeled
to the church-yard. The groun4 was
cut away at the head of the grave to
form slide an into lnclme.permitUng its resting place. the coffin The
to >
weight of Mr. Stubbs was about 875
uounds. pounas '
congbe^ional.
»««ate.
Jai*. 10.—To-day was the first when any
on'ffinteJ-steto ?o.n“ bill t^natol
mu!e!'%roteif bill before proceeding with
visions of the followed Mr.
the arguments. The Senator
Beck, and was frequently sod,George, interrupted fha by
Mes srs Hrer, Aldrich, 'oh
^.eiatoto tw,lc excel’ 11011 “Stored
«' ^“"^'ion «mt tllS mret was
shown. remarks prin
m r . Cu'lom confined his
cipally to the fourth section as to the long
an/l short haul. He said: undertakes to lay
this section isimply
down in specific terms a rule or principle
which ’ a8 1 ' lav « alwa >' s ?°" te,,ded ’ is aI ‘
rt > iM iy contained in requirement other pro
visions of the bill. The first
0 f L |, e bin on the subject of rates is found
in the first section, ami is that all rates
shall be “reasonable and just. This m in
effect a declaration tha t
XigS? i^HFhLSHlijSSrn disS, because ra'shor^r*thaiffor mfder
such ch
c umst*neea it would not be “reasonable
ami jus*,” u> make such a charge. The
next requirement of the bill that affects the
question * is found in the first part of the
“J72&KS .K'&Jlf.uS
iiEJlk VJKffif than for
shall not be charged under ior similar a shorter circumstances
a longer hsel such charge
and conditions, because a “un
would be the making or giving ot an
simject seme ether particular prejudice “locality” to
an “undue <>r unreasonable or
disadvantage." Renriy ail Mm Senators present and
were
paid §em»j«r strict attention to the arguments. interested
Bracts was particularly J5Fil!2?£t in^
^^a.^^T(inT?(o«». Senator Stanford
goil-owod Ca to**. Ilia speech consisted
mainly of reiterations of ancient pleat for
the g»ver«u«aut of railroads a* tuey tknra
■*»«* f **««**“ *?™^**; Tor tj f
Mr. '**•“*«*••'J* 1 ® bdl tke re
[Li UroNebraska luid^K*»sas of 1 i.ids mi
£*‘SJE* ‘i^SSSSSfJS «SSSS
being up-.n tee substitute te'reimiStr'the reported by the
SSKMOST nur
ggSSL S
teizzsxrsrsa^vst n.-ead bjli tfiua
ammaied to,-rare 41, says passed aed the eeateremre mi
was a
J .Jlfi a ____ .. . 1»vMr^l»hdirert- , .vsmlutioa
n teZJ&ffw/r to e«mflie L'ut
portaste tea nsoessitv foe the improve
ment of timt portom of toe Columbia river
known as the Uaiies by the rwnoval of ob-
2L2 w^Ku^obftruc^ £ESim steamboat
rLliwav of a *rtololi
bvMr iu
same line, the resolution went over without
action.
‘..o.Aiv J‘p,^M^mwMU^ adtoTrnmi dl aud^Mb» “
q .
,.„V -in olfclmms, the Senate refortS Mr Hoar ?he from
Wen
a te bill to extend the time for filing claims
in tbe court of claims under the French
spoliation act for twelve months addi
tional. On his motion the bill was con
9 e ,y P ^ S3
n mou, \rr inwalls 'lfh ot^ the fiie Senate hill
n ™ V^„^ S ,9 “ J!r^36S Revised
ra 5
Bar- ' ,ro, “ ly ' ” uka, ‘ “ t “
Tim inter-state commerce bill was dis
cussed.
After an executive session . the . G Senate . ad- ,
journea. .
JAN. the comraunicatlons __
^^‘f.^thfBeeretwvohl was one lro» the Secretary oxtne eTreasury lreasui y
calling attention to the importance of cor
rectmg the unhealthy condition of the
treasury building.
8 ation for carrying the mail from Charles
ton, S. C., to Havana, July, I860, Cuba, taken between
October, and I8.j9, and was up
Senator passed. resolution calling the
Vest s itemized on
Secretary ,, of the treasury for an
l federal c T w \ l criminal of - ^ 01, , ey paid out adopted, after
cases was
bemg modified so as to include civil cases.
Senator Cameron introduced a bill for
the appointment of commissioners to rep
SS£X“*" Wilson, the committee
Senator from on
postoffices, reported favorably a bill pro
viding that no third-classpostoflice be
chang J to fourth-class if it appears that
the th** receipts the for tha year and commissi-m* amount to $1,900,
or box reots cou
stitulmg amount to the Sl.OOt) postmaster’s for coinp-’i-Wtion
Plumb or more tlie year.
senator introduced a bill pro
viding that whenever any attempt is made
I^oTrok^ E 1 ®^ and/s^.i,^ Mender
^uu'the nldlans the treaUes
Uffited Statem the shall
be entitled to all t0CiU the rights before UUlted the
&“° W “ rUUte ' 1 * eUS ° £ Uie
^i e'Inter-state commerce bill was dis
^^i^Hous'e^ulstitotefhavhig'“bem b
j Er&uHi3rs WLy“from the 8 House tVc fniendment re
J vx. 14.-The Senate to-day, on motion
of A'*-. Wilson, non-coucurred in the House
amendment to tlie Senate biil foruoiding
Serins Mich, -t (subs ynited .itutrng states East courts Saginaw in ii. tor Lity, Bay
C, ^ r ; sew^fSlm conterenc-* commit
tee "" t V e , ' il1 !*] akln - ai1 annu;i1 a t>I«ro
to provide and . ts
pnauon the militia, made arms report, reduces eq fcne
tor a
appropriation which from S6JO.OOO to $ '70,')00,
was Eustis agreed introduced to. amendment
senator an
tK^j^^S’pi^iden^totSe'^mt . «*}, mvStieate the^metho Htceed
0 0 to and" t urao
tired in Mexico Brazil of prev ntiug
yellow The fever by Inoculation. resolved dispose of
senators were to
the inter-state commerce bill to-nigat, and
' 'niiht oS anTi uo^
w ^t-hes P fo a ab^nt Gre
lem ^ud and uncertamtv ^Interestto the^Lt. th“ result
a kee n TC generally Itwas
to the «.d
lieved outside of the chamber that every
hour of delay added strength to the oppo
sition, and that the bill would certainly be
Ca b ton,vh^ The'
[ret came vote wn retod beobtimed Ur ^Frye’i pr'o^sitioii to
recommit the coufereuce report with in
structious, which was defeated by a much
larger majority than had been expected long
by ‘? ‘ anybody. £Lt The final £„* vote was not ,1 h ^
e a 0 en * to r9 ^ ^
h h ro?isimuto
ofthe P
respect to long and short hauls and pooling the
voted finally with the majority upon
Quretton ^nTyTS of adopting the conference report
Blair, Brown, Tl^s^weref Cameron, Chare, Ald^ Cheney,
Evarts. Hampton, Hoar, Mahone, Mitchell
(FA), Morrill, Payne, Piatt, Williams.
. Mr “*'“?• ..
House a hill for the purchase of a tract of
land near Salem, Oregon, for the me of
the Indian training school lteferrvd to
the committee of the whole.
Mr. Nelson Introduced A bill faith providing has
that any person indemnity who in good lands, and made pur¬
chased railroad when
valuable the improvements thereon, restored may, to the
lands from anycause if are such
public domain, he can not enter
lands under the homestead, permitted pre-emption, to make or
timber-culture laws, be
private entry within one year at the price
of 8125 per acre. revision of laws
The committee on bill on
Congress congressional reported favorably committees on a attend¬ pro¬
hibiting funerals public and limiting
ing at expense,
the exuense of sueh funerals totheactua
cost of burial. amendment
which Mr. Springer presented offer an to tbe Pacific
be proposes to
railroad funding bill when it come up for
consideration. It proposes to strike out all
that portion of the bill companies which prescribes shad
tbe inode in whicli the pay
their indebtedness to the government, and
to insert in place thereof a series of pro¬
visions, the principal of which is that tlie
companies snail the thereafter, first day of October, into the
and semi-annually States pay to the
United treasury United a sum States equal is
amount which the re¬
quired to pay semi-annually advanced as interest the said on
tlie companies subsidy until bonds tbe of to said bonds,
maturity made by
less the amount of any during payments six mouths
the said companies tlie
previous to any such payment of their in¬
debtedness under any act of Congress here¬
tofore passed.
Jan. 10.—Bills were introduced in the
House to forbid the use bf stoves or oil ou
passenger trains, to protect forest lands in
California, to investigate the destruction of
oysters by starfish, to place lumber and salt
on the free list aud reduce tit, duty on su¬
gar, to grade taxes mi the basis of income,
to make ten years’ residence of aliens a
prerequisite to naturalization, large steel vessels for the pur¬
chase of eleven to de¬
fend the harbors of the United States, and
to devote the treasury surplus to public
school purposes.
to Jan. spite 11.—On of tile* motion antagonism of Mr. of Hatch, Mr. Willis, and
with the liver and harbor bill the House
to-day went into committee ef the whole on
tlie bill creating a -department ef agricul¬
ture and labor.
on motto. of Mr. Forau an amendment
was adopted increasing from **,M to labor, ®V
the salary of the commissioner of
The committee then rose and the bill was
^r^^uT^of «“*».* **' «CrSt‘ ^uowu an
SfwdTSte to be m S« the
SKTSf SfjwjwrarArgaB
SrS&SSiH <« * fSEHtoag SSS US
i^Ury collect at «,aoe inforuiatwu a y^. The bomwiesLer the subject
ih all upon hours
* f '• bor ’rolatmu to capital, the
of Ub«r, tu* rate of wages, the oust ef pro
*
* 1. tee
»i nJusuarity mevViTL'ci- amt Uie
d^ts ether places i» mtoS^kshops. of industry. The fM^ies, secretary and is
empowered to inquire into tbs cuus-sof <iis-
53SSSS * frol / both sucli parties concerning
th( , matters in controversy.
Jan. Vi. -The speaker of the Hou^e an
nouuced the appointment of Messrs. Skin
ner . Peel - au<1 Pt!ritius as conferrees on the
{««*““» allotment ot lands in severalty
to i? d -'V®?- ei fmitree . under special order
»°wrded to the the^committoe <»n onthe the ju imlicUrv iiciary.
f0 r ai, additional circuit jud-e in thesecoi^
judicial circuit. After some discussion it
was .S'.KSJIgfSiSSUIjS*!® passed. . “
”5
* g utlli j , habiution
ni or wfu CO a coin
i>et<ent witness against the accused, and
farther marriages, provides making for it the registration misdemeanor of for all
a
any person to violate the provisions rela
«vc to such registration. It annuls *1 t r
ntonal laws providing for the identification
of tlie votes of e ^ CU)rs a c any election, and
also aU law3 conferring on the territorial
courts the power to determine divorce
S5SttT and JSSRn6a«»S than of
«f one sex more one person felony,
another sex and is declared (o be a the
The financial corporation known as
Church ot the Latter-Day Saints and the
p er p e tual Emigration Fund company are
dissolved, and the Attorney General is
to wind them up by process of
anU all iaws £or t | 10 organization creatiou ot
the IU ,iitia of the territory aud the
of the Nauvoo legion are annulled. Polyg- and
amists are made ineligible, to vote, a
i s j p original Edmunds The
t lis an( ttl acr.
bili provides for the immediate judges appoiat- and
meat by the president of all
selectmen of the county and prooate courts,
and by the governor of all justices of the
peace, district sheriffs, constables, The and bill otlier amended county
and officers. as will
by the adoption of the substitute now
be transmitted to the Senate for tlie action
of that body,
Jan. 13.-Mr. Bland, from the committee
011 coinage, weigins, and measures, re¬
“^tS^monthlv'coiniwe toMufZna\tou
of
?ess bas been Umiil^^o.ooo^orth'or^UvM complied witli. Adopted. bullion
5SSS
process f issued by any territorial court with
u jn(ii ail an q military reservations and the
Yellowstone National park; amending the
j aw re g U i a ting tbe removal of causes from
state to federal courts. .
'fhe House committee mi naval affaire
amend the'^bdl for°tlie reorganization of
naval bureaus now pending in the
House so as to allow the Secretary of
the Navy t0 seleet the i ie ads of certain
bureaus from either the iiu8 or stuff
officers.
Jan. 14.-Mr. Caldwell submitted the
conference report on the electoral-count
bill, and it was agreed to without debate or
mHre^ A l «2?Vh„ b l“to „«
rennrts o/thff’ the House sTcMiiliu went corn
“h alitor whole (Mr W^natobilll in too
upon tlie private calendar,
At 4 o’clock the committee rose and the
House P assed half a dozea private Senate
1 the w wk f tU steame -
AS “™S til 7>gt
The T House t| then t took t a recess uotu 7.at
^At Its evening session the House passed ad¬
*!L e “*S four Pe ,l8ion bllls i at 10:20
Journea.
Good societ y » Fult « B . Ky., was
somewhat shocked a week-ago by the
announcement that Sam Clevina had
killed his step-father, but it was decid
ed to let the law take its course. In a
c ti™ e bo ® n committed with a hoe.
'‘Killed him with . a hoe; exclaimed the
astonished citizens, “what’s the matter
with a Derringer?" And they ffme blacked
who had disgraced the ffiir fair name of o“f
alt. of their beautiful state.— Brooklyn Ea
v
Oil on the Waters.
A patent for casting oil upon the
troubled waters is certainly a novelty
but will hardly occasion surprise in this
day and generation. The wonder will
rather be that we have been so lono' jn
finding phor out that literal the fact Scriptural m e ta
was a deduced from
experience. From time to time j a
have occurred .
stances of where, in ex
treme cases, as a sort dernier resort,
oil has been poured out as a placating
libation to an angry sea; and but a
short time ago we recorded the fact
that an Atlantic merchantman had
been saved from the fury of the tem
pestuous ocean by of emptying to th e
windward a cargo sperm-oil. The
oil floated out and subdued the waves
to tlje extent of giving the vessel a
clearing free from the reach of the
booming, the breaking the waves. We ven¬
tured opinion at this time that there
might come practical from scheme successful ma¬
neuver a for future
ts+O rotection. A step in this direction
as been taken by a Mr. Shields, o!
London, who has obtained a patent on
an apparatus for oiling the ocean to
mitigate his storm invention dangers. through He has ex
hibited an exer¬
cise of its powers in the English waters,
effectually subduing bf perturbations
of the covered compass the channel.
By this machine oil is forced through
pipes under the water surface, and ris¬
ing quickly seems to calm tbe commo
tion in its struggle remarkable. to the The top. The
effect was rough,
chopping waves were subdued to a
gentle, undulating motion in which the
life-boat rode lightly, while before it
»had been dancing about like a cork.
Mr. Shields has an “oil shell” that
may be used as ship. a projectile, In to be stor¬
ed on board an emergency,
its time fuses, made water-proof, are
lighted, itlfc flung and from an the ordinary
six-inch mortar, sent to point
of delivery with reasonable accuracy.
The shells burst, and almost immedi¬
ately there is formed an area of undis¬
turbed water described as the "oil field”
and the radius covered by a gallon of
oil may be approximated that drop with will the basis
of calculation one diffuse
itself over a square yard. Another
feature of the invention is a line of gut¬
ta-percha tubing This pierced be at attached intervals
with valves. may by
lanyard to a solid shot and laid by the
discharge of the projectile. intended for When shallow the
tube—end this is
water—has settled, oil is pumped into
it from the shore or ship end, forced
through the valves, rises to the sur¬
face, and produces comparative smooth¬
ness on the water surface.
The several experiments the were satis¬
factorily made, and greatest inter¬
est is felt in more extensive tests that
will be made in ocean disturbance. If
the results are equally decisive there,
the perils of ocean travel will be so
materially reduced that those remain¬
ing will not be allowed to count. It
might be interesting possible advantages to carry to a gained con¬
clusion the
by a liberal use of these machines for
a term of years. The oil appears to be
an economic force, since a drop is
equal to the surface of a square yard
of water. How many gallons would
be neepssary to give the entire ocean a
repressive coating, and what would bo
the (vastk by absorption to be over¬
come in maintaining the covering once it
was secured? This most turbulent and
demonstrative ocean might the jn a term
of years be reduced to most ap¬
proved pacification, serviceable at all
seasons and under all conditions of
travel. This would particularly be an
equivalent to bridging the Atlantic,
uniting Europe and America by a sub¬
stantial pontoon of oil, along which tbe
sharp-prowed Cunarders could move
as gracefully and securely as a steamer will in
on the Mississippi. Mr. Shields
ail probability be knighted before he is
many years older.
Yokohama, Japan.
In this commercial capital of Japan
everything struck us as curious, every
fresh step afforded increased novelty,
every new sight was a revelation,
while all about us impossible were tangible pictures repre¬ of
sentations of the
the cheap fans, the lacquered ware of
commerce, and the school-books. The
partial nudity of men, women and
children, the extremely simple archi¬
tecture of the dwelling-house, the vege¬
tation, the extraordinary salutations
between the common people the who trading; meet :
each other upon the Btreets,
booths of bazaars, and the queer, toy¬
like articles which filled them, children
flying kites in the shape pf hideous yel¬
low monsters—each subject became a
fresh study. Men propelling vehicles
like horses between the shafts, and
trotting off at a six-mile pony gait
while drawing after them first one or twO| sin¬
persons with ease, was at a
gular aspect to a stranger. So were
the naked coolies, by fours, beariug
heavy loads of merchandise swung
from their shoulders upon stout bamboo
poles, while they shouted a measured
chant by which to keep step. No beg¬
gars were seen on the public seeming streets,
the people without exception remarkably
neat and clean in their
scanty The houses covering. special examples of
were
neatness and of toy-like size, being sel¬
dom more than twenty feet square. AU
persons, foreigners or natives, took off
their shoes before entering upon their
delicately-lacquered or polished floors, j
This we not only did out of respeet to
the universal custom of the country,
but because one did not feel nailed like;
treading upon those floors with
heels or soiled leather soles. The con
’viction was forced upon us that such
universal neatness and cleanliness'
must extend even to the moral char¬
acter of the people. A spirit of observ¬ gentle-:
ness, industry and thrift was
able everywhere, imparting an Arca¬
dian atmosphere. We saw at first no
domestic animals except a tailless cat,
with an attempt at that ignominious appendage
which was a decided and
failure. These creatures were fre¬
quently tied to the house-door like a.
dog, but for what purpose who can say
A cat confined after that fashion else¬
where would strangle itself directly
Later on we saw specimens of the curi
ous lap-dogs of the country, so dimin' 1 '
tive as to be quite remarkable, amt
which were highly prized, attraction though one m
could see no beauty and or big, bulging
their snub noses
eyes.— Ballou's Due West.