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VERY LATEST.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The blizzard continues in Montana,
and cattle are reported perishing in
large numbers. public debt for
The decrease in the
January is estimated by treasury of¬
ficials at $9,000,000.
Congressman Reagan was elected to
the United Texas Legislature. States Semite Tuesday by
the
Four girls were burned to death in a
school-house Wednesday at Ste. night. Monique, Quebec,
during Lewis
Natural gas was struck-at
burg, Ky., Thursday, feet day. the flow being
half a million per
"While traveling F in a sleeping-car
from Austin robbed to ort of $350. Worth, Senator
Maxey was
Anthony Behme, an old merchant at
Evansville, Ind., was killed in his back
yard by a stroke of lightning.
It is rimorted that the street-car sys¬
tem of Minneapolis for has $3,000,000. been sold to a
Boston syndicate
The physicians of Charles S. Parnell
believes that he is afflicted with
Bright's disease of the kidneys.
The yacht Alva, built by W. K.
Vanderbilt at Wilmington. New Del. is
about ready to sail for York.
Stanley’s expedition fo r the relief of
Emin Bey will comprise twelve hun
dred men, including eighty blacks.
Chandler J. Wells, one of the pio¬
neers of Buffalo, who served one term
as mayor, died in that city Friday.
The czar has received from Emperor
William a declaration that Germany
lias no intention of attacking France.
Sharp thunder and vivid lightning,
accompanied a heavy sleet-storm Tues¬
day, in the Moweaqua (III.) section.
In the Delaware river near Shawnee,
Pennsylvania, ice is piled fifty feet
high and the lowlands are overflowed.
George Milwaukee, Godfrey, the leader a veteran of the journalist
of green¬
back party in Wisconsin, died Wednes¬
day.
The German socialists at Chicago
have forwarded $2,000 to aid in the re¬
electing social democrats to the reielis
tag.
The revival in progress in Dr. Tal
mage’s resulted church in two at Brooklyn thousand has thus
far conver¬
sions.
English stockholders adopted in the resolutions Pennsyl¬
vania road have
favoring larger dividends from the net
earnings.
Hoke, the Peoria forger, left Mont¬
real Tuesday for his former home in
charge of Sheriff Hitchcock and a
detective.
The German Savings bank of Jersey
the City disappearance lias closed its of doors Cashier oiraccount Schroeder of
with $30,000.
Nearly three hundred citizens of
Racine. Wis.. attended the silver wed¬
ding of ex-Mayor Secor and wife, Fri¬
day evening.
Dr. William Thorndvke, Milwaukee, one of the
oldest practitioners in died
from typhoid pneumonia contracted
from a patient.
Tiie senatorial ballot in the West
38 Virginia each legislature. for Flick, Saturday, republic an,and showed
votes
Camden, democrat.
Trustworthy reports from the ranges
of Dakota and Wyoming are to the
effect that there has this winter been
no unusa! loss of cattle.
Edward Unger, of New York, has
confessed the murder of August Bohle,
whose mutilated body he shipped to
Baltimore in a trunk.
In the Emihons lunacy trial at Wash¬
ington the jury rendered :■ verdict that
the lady is sane, and is capable of
managing her own affairs.
It is expected that Secretary Man¬
ning Slay, w ill give that up the treasury portfolio will be
ov and his successor
William L. Scott, of Erie.
been A stay of execution the until April 1 has of
Missouri granted by 11. supreme L. Maxwell, court the
to W.
murderer of Arthur Preller.
filed Articles Springfield, of incorporation 111., for the have Chica¬ been
at
go. Oquawka and Kansas City road,
with a capital stock of $2,000,000.
Justice Merrick, sitting Tuesday, in the Equity
Court firmed at Washington findings of on the jury declar¬ con¬
the
ing Mrs. Emmons of sound mind.
Eagle Engelke Homestead I), lteimers, association, secretary of of Chi¬ the
cago, has been the arrested three for embezzling
$2,500 within past years.
The governor of Ohio has .appointed
William II Taft to the vacant seat on
the bench of the supreme court. His
father formerly held the sapie position.
A jury at Madison, Wisconsin, gave
Sarah A. Angle Chicago, judgment for $351,965
against the railroad, Portage violation and Lake
Superior for of con¬
tract.
The resignation of General P. M. B.
Young burg has as been consul accepted general at by St. President Peters¬
Cleveland, named. but no successor has been
An anarchist from Wisconsin visited
the jail in Chicago and offered a deputy
sherff $50 to allow him a glimpse at
August Spies. He was ordered out of
the building.
Under the recent act of congress ex¬
tending plications the for free-delivery carriers have system, been ap¬
made
by fled ninety-five qualifications. towns having the sped
For being deposed from a pastorate
Father at Lyons, Iowa, fifteen been years awarded ago.
F. C. Jean has
damages Ueunessy. of Dubuque. $200,000 against Bishop
of
The brakemeu of the Atlantic and
Pacific caused road, Superintendent by a determined Polk to cancel front,
an order that they must hereafter ride
on top of their trains.
Dr. T. D. Bancroft, of Texas, has
been Republican engaged league by trie organize Anti-Saloon clubs
to
all over the United States, commenc¬
ing in Connecticut.
In an insurance case tried in the fed¬
eral court at Cincinnati, Judge Jack
son decided that a geueral agency can
be terminated without giving its bold¬
er a claim for damages.
The British ship Kapunda, loaded
with sunk oft emigrants the Brazilian for Australia, by colli¬ was
coast
sion with an unknown vessel. Three
hundred lives were lost.
A verdict of $10,000 damages has
been awarded to a Philadelphia news¬
boy Traction who was pushed off a car ot the
tbe company of and had to puffer
amputation a leg.
Catholic Archbishop church Elder has denies that the
sanctioned the
organization funds to of a theatrical off the debts troupe to
raise pay or the
lute Archbishop Purcell.
Frieuda of Dwight L. Moody In New
York are actively raising money with
which tn couuncnmtalc his -flSUetb.
blrthdafby efftKWDig his Scl^oTs at
Northfield, Massachusetts. old citizen of
John Dahlman. an himself barn
Milwaukee, hanged in his
Sunday afternoon, after suffering from
a paralytic stroke. He left an estate
valued at $500,000 or more.
The judgment for $200,000 damages against
recenty given to Father been Lyons set aside,
Bishop Hennessy had not has been given time
as the latter
to plead or notice of trial.
The citizens of Springfield, Ky., took have the
lynched Ludlow Cornish, who
life of Lulu Green because she refused
to marry him, and also undertook to
kill her mother and sister.
The Illinois Central bridge at Cairo
will require three thousand feet of
trestle. A commencement has been
made with seventy-five feet, and the
work goes rapidly forward.
Charles Whitney, now lying in a
critical condition at Athens. Ga., was
one of the victims of the whose Haymarket partial
massacre in Chicago, miracle.
recovery was almost a
The Texas Senate passed a bill to
prohibit dealing in futures, the six penalty months
for each day's offense being The House
in jail and a heavy fine.
will probably adopt the measure.
Charles Talbott, the captured absconding in
Memphis hotel-clerk, was
Kansas City. On his person were
found the diamonds left m his charge
by the husband of Fanny Davenport.
About 9 o’clock Wednesday darkness morning, like
during a heavy rain, settled a the city
that of midnight over creating
of Louisville for one minute, colored
consternation among the peo
pie. the proposed Omaha
A feature of
city charter that arouses is opposition the require¬ in
the Nebraska legislature
ment that no citizen can be an aider
man until he owns property worth
9500.
In a card to the public the wife of
Joseph C. Mackin states that no steps
toward his pardon have been taken
w ith liis or her sanction, and that a
release obtained by scheming is not
desired.
The resignation has of accepted, Governor and Pierce, tbe
of Dakota, been
governor Monday turned the office
over to the territorial secretary, who
will act until Judge Church is con¬
firmed.
In the Missouri penitentiary Fred
Wittrock testified innocent that Messenger of the
Fotheringham brought is against him in
charges with the San Francisco train- con¬
nection
robbery. leading physi¬
Dr. Matt Alexander, Tennessee, a commit¬
cian of Knoxville,
ted suicide Tuesday with of the morphine.
He left a note, two sentences
being. “I go to hell. Tell my son to
go to heaven.”
When the interstate commerce law
takes effect, the Michigan Central road
will virtually remove in order its general make freight the
offices to Detroit, in the to of do¬
required ing business. changes manner
The jury in the case of ex-Alderman
O’Neill, charged with accepting a
bribe in connection witlv the granting
of the franchise to the Broadw ay rail¬
road, brought in a verdict of guilty on
Tuesday evening. that
It is stated by llenri Roclieford
seven nihilists were Odessa, recently others hanged
in the prison at ten are
being tried at hundred Wilna for killing a colo¬ late
nel, ly sent and two Siberia. more were
to
John De Leon, of New York, who
styles himself an astrologer, recently girls
convicted Panama, of kidnaping has young sentenced to to
ship fifteen to years’ imprisonment been at Sing
Sing at hard labor.
The interstate commerce bill was
signed by President and the Cleveland attorney Friday
afternoon, as be gen¬
eral consider it free from the objec¬
tionable features of tbe measure pro¬
posed two citizens years ago. of Clinton, la., have
Nine stock of
subscribed $250,000 to the a
company desiring to build a wagon
bridge across the taken Mississippi. toward Steps
have already federal been charter. secur¬
ing a has forbid¬
The Russian exportation government of horses. Tho
den the
French are purchasing the in cavalry, Russia large and
quantities or oats for
have chartered steamer to take them
from the Baltic ports.
A Chicago constable, armed with an
attachment for the box receipts of a
masquerade ball, disguised himself in
Japanese costume and made his way to
thmcaah, but was prize. compelled to flee in
order to retain his
A water-spout at Chestnut Mound,
on the upper Cumberland river, raised
the branches fifteen feet in a few min¬
utes. One residence was lifted from
its foundation and torn to pieces while
the inmates were asleep.
A single firm has made contracts for
the delivery of two million railroad
ties in Nebraska this year, Union mainly Pacific for
the Northwestern and
roads, and the Burlington is about to
arrange for another million.
The oil excitement transactions at Findlay, in land. O.,
has led to large
A tract of one hundred acres In the
southern part of and the eighty city changed in
hands at $25,000, quarter brought acres $35,000.
the northern
Major M. S. Gordon, an Indian
fighter who became famous at the time
of the Custer massacre, lias recently
$800,000 received in from casii an for English the cattle syndicate and
horses on his ranch near Decatur,
Texas.
In the denied Circuit court petition at Chicago of Judge Mrs.
Tuley Maria P. Storey the for rehearing in the
a
matter of her alimony, for the reason
that Mr. Storey's agreement did not
bind his heirs to pay alimony after his
death.
A receiver has been asked for the
Monarch Insurance company, of Des
Moines, which is unable to raise $65,000 has
to pay accrued losses. B. F. Allen
for two years and been will president continue of the
institution, as re¬
ceiver.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati rose
four feet in twelve hours, Thursday, of
the anniversary of the great flood
1883. At 9 o’clock in the evening the
water stood three feet above the dan¬
ger line, having flooded the cellars in
“the bottom.”
bill The granting Oregon legislature the Oregon has passed Railway a
to
flSfcSW The majority is ample to Portland the 6
^ threatened pass of
the^ovenm/ vet0
ta, Ten Georgia, tubs of by butter P. shipped Moran & to Allan- Co., of
Chicago which had been declared
oleomargarine by the Georgia State
chemist,Tuive just been decided to be
pure iu butter by United States chemists
Washington.
James An unknow W. Fitzgerald’s n mau went residence to Judge
at
Cincinnati Tuesday uislit and shot at
the- .Pudge, tvlio answered The belli
The bullet Immediately grazed firing the Judge’s his revolver, right
side.
the assassin tied.
In the criminal Ford court at New Or¬
leans the charge Dr. T. at J. manslaughter pleaded in guilty killing to
J. C. Shreveport Kirkpatrick, with who the had doctor’s eloped
from
wife. The plea excited great active surprise, efforts
and will no doubt cause
for a pardon.
Two gentlemen largely interested in
the oil-fields of Pennsylvania, after
ity prospecting of Marion. for Ind., petroleum have begun in the vicin¬ nego¬
tiations for the lease of several hun¬
dred acres of land. The region has
already developed an unlimited supply
of natural gas.
As a funeral procession was crossing
the Bee Line road near Cincinnati,
Wednesday, the Thunderbolt train
dashed along, knocking a carriage out
of the line and 100 feet away from the
track. The horses and occupants of
the hack escaped, but the driver was
seriously injured.
The secretary of the interior reports
to the senate that forty-four of the
older Apache children at Fort Marion
have been transferred to the Indian
school at Carlisle, and that sixty of the
younger ones are to be educated at St.
Augustine each by the Sisters of Charity at
$7.60 per quarter.
Early Sunday morning , at Leaven
worth, into the thirty-five jail, took masked men ravisher broke
out a negro
named Richard Wood, and dragged
him attached to death the in the saddle streets of by masked a rope
to a
horseman. No effort is likely to be
made to arrest the lynchers. of
The Canadian deputy minister
fisheries says that no war-vessels are
to be sent from Great Britain to the
Canadian coast, but three or four
British ships on the North American
station have been ordered to cruise
from Cape Sabine to the Bay Chaleur
this season, precisely as in 1870.
Rebecca Buck, aged 35, who had been
suffering from melancholy for some
time,- hanged herself Monday Hanover, morning Pa.
at her home near East
Her mother, 72 years of age, was
rendered insane by the act. and a few
hours later hanged herself in the same
place where her daughter’s body had
been found.
The three Republican commissioners
of Archuleta county, Colo., were seized
by a mob, headed by the sheriff, and
driven from the county, with threats
that should they return their lives
would pay the forfeit. , A hotel owned
by one of the victims was burned by
tbe mob. The legislature will investi¬
gate the matter.
Charles Talbott, night clerk at thq
Gayoso Hotel at Memphis, Tennessee,
has disappeared, taking with him a
jewel ‘casket belonging containing to Fanny
valuables Davenport, the actress,
worth $35,000. Talbott also
carried off about $350 in cash belong¬
ing to the hotel. There is no clew of
his whereabouts.
Mrs. Walter Mead, aged 29, of
Adrian, Mich., who has suffered for
ten years w r ith an abscess in her faith. side,
claims to have been cured by
Her death was Tuesday momentarily morning expected her
Monday, physician but found her sitting eating
her Lord, she up said,
breakfast. The re¬
sponded to her prayers.
The river fronts at New York are
still practically in a state of siege, and
one thousand policemen are massed at
four points with patrol-wagons. A
party of forty-six laborers, picked the up
In Cincinnati, City docks. are being It is taken said that to
Jersey general strike of the Reading railroad a
freight-handlers will be ordered.
Cassius M. Clay has called the atten¬
tion of President Cleveland to the pub¬
lished report that a cargo of Austra¬
lian rabbits is on the way to our
shores, and he gives warning of the
ravages to be expected. The matter
was refel'red to the submitted treasury departs the
meut, and will be to
committee on ways and means.
Miss Nina Van Zandt has taken
time by the forelock by Spies, marrying the
August Vincent Theodore
condemned anarchist, by proxy. The
ceremony was performed late on Sat¬
urday night at Jefferson, Illinois, by
Justice Engelhardt, a socialist, Henry
W. Spies, August for the Spies’ condemned brother, act¬
ing archist. as proxy an
At the Belmont residence on Fifth
avenue. New York, early Belmont on Monday under¬
morning, practice Raymond shooting in gallery
took to His sole companion a
in the basement.
was a night watchman, who was clos¬
ing sent a door bullet when through Belmont his own suddenly skull.
a
The coroner pronounces the case one
of accident.
Applications have been made for
over $4,000,000 of stock bank in of the New proposed York,
Western National
but the capital is limited of to the $3,000,000. United
Mr. Jordan, treasurer that Secretary Manning
States, states
is to be president of the institution, is in the
and that President his resignation Cleveland. Mr.
hands of
Jordan is to be vice-president of the
bank.
David A. Turpie Wednesday, was elected senator
from Indiana, by the vote
of Representative Robinson, of the
labor party. Mr. Turpie served two
terms as judge of White county, filled
the unexpirea term of Jesse D. Bright
as United States senator at the out¬
break of the rebellion, and was speak
dV of the Indiana House in 1875.
Speaker Sayre Wednesday announced
that there bad been no election, but
President Smith, of the Senate, de¬
clared Turpie elected.
Harry McMunn, charged with the
robbery of a fur store m Cleveland,
was arrested in Pittsburg and handed
over to Captain Hoehn and Detective
Mulligan, of the former city, on a re¬
quisition from the governor of Ohio.
Just before midnight on Thursday the
officers handcuffed their prisoner and
took him on the train for Cleveland.
At Alliance five men entered the smok¬
ing-car, and at Ravenna assault they the com¬ of¬
menced a murderous on
ficers, in which the latter were very
seriously injured. The thief and his
friends leaped from the train and have
not yet been captured.
Double footed cats, says the Lewiston
^? (Me.) Journal, are not found everv day.
,ic6 ! uaa odiiu had aa offer one
He wrote^ha? he didV’^want^u ® Ho
had cats enough. The other day iu
Each of her ^ fore paws was pla nly sub
divided into two separato, well-marked
feek making that six his feet relatives in all had It is written not tho
same cat
to him about It is altogether another
The cat has lived with them ever since.
They Double-footed can’t drive her away good if they would.
Hie grandmother*. oats are a sign, sa j
CON GRESSIO NAL. , ,
Senate.
bill Jan. changing 29.—The the Senate boundaries to-day of Yellowstone passed t‘-e
park. •The rallroaiattomey bill was , laid .. over.
The Pacific railroad funding bill came uv
as the next special order, but was, on motion
of Mr. Hoar, postponed as a special order
tii! Monday, Feb. 7. railroad „ . .
On motion of Mr. Beck the at¬
torney bill was again taken up so as to be
tne unfinished business for next Monday. ad¬
After a secret session the Senate
journed.
Jan. 31.—The sundry civil appropriation to-day, and
bill was taken up in the Senate
Jn the course of an elaborate debate Mr.
Beck said as a Democratic Senator he did
not think any party capital was to be made
out public of service. that economy He believed which the impaired House had the
made mistakes in reducing o’clock many the appropria¬ railroad
tions of the bill. At 2
attorney bill was submitted as unfinished
business, but 4 was laid aside informally,
and the sundry civil bill discussion was con¬
tinued. Mr. Allison said he had been
tempted many times to let the House ex
p-riment on its economy. The Senate had
been gibbeted on the cross-roads of public
opinion for increasing the appropriations in the of
the House. There was an of attempt the
present bill, on the part He referred, House, to
break up the coast survey. in¬
cidentally, to the part of the President’s
message which showed a great against saving in
yiblic expenditure in 1886. as thediffer- 1885,
and wenton to show in detail that
ence of expense in two years was due to
causes entirely beyond the control of party
or of tiie Executive. that the present
superintendent Mr. Hawley deplored coast not
of tne survey was
a gentleman of high scientific attainments;
that this was a great administrative mistake,
and a most practice. extraordinary departure from the
uniform
Feb. 1.—A message from the President
was laid before the Senate, vetoing a bill
♦ranting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Dun¬
dent’s lap, of objection Missouri, being the ground that the for death the of Presi¬ tiie
soldier (tor which the pension is given) in was
not caused in the line of duty, but a
quarrel with a comrade.
Mr. Plumb presented a petition of citizens
of Kansas for improved railroad mail ser¬
vice— which service, lie declared, was now
simply disgraceful received in that state. from the House
A message was furnish the House
requesting the Senate to
with a duplicate engrossed copy of the
benate bill forfeiting certain lauds of the
Northern Pacific railroad grant
In connection with conferrees, the message made Mr. Dolph, state¬
one of tiie Senate a
ment, giving the history of the matter. He
moved tiiat tne request of the House be
•’omplied with. Mr. till Ingalls objected, and
the matter went over to-morrow.
The railroad attorneys bill was at 2 o’clock
presented as the unfinished business, but it
was laid aside informally, and the Senate
resumed consideration of the sundry civil
appropriation bill.
The Senate subsequently adjourned.
Feb. 2.— In the Senate a message was
presented from the President with a com¬
munication from the Sclieutz’s Secretary of in State
transmitting Lieut. report re
g-rd to liis distributing testimonials of the of Jean¬ the
preservation of the survivors
nette expedition. The President says that
the report is interesting alike to the people
of the United States and tiie subjects of
Russia, and wilt be gratifying to all who
appreciate the generous and humane action
of Congress in providing for the testi¬
monials.
The request from the House of Repre¬
sentatives for an engrossed copy of the lost
bili to forfeit certain lands of the Northern
Pacific was ordered to be $10,c0J complied for with. seeds to
A distributed bill appropriating destitute Texas farm¬
be among
ers was passed. offered resolution calling
Mr. Wilson a on
the Secretary of tiie Treasury for certain
specific detailed information as to railroad
land grants in Iowa. Adopted.
Mr. Teller called up the Senate bill pro¬
viding for a military post near Denver, Col.,
(passed by tiie Senate and amended by the
House,) and moved that the House amend¬
ments be concurred in. Carried. The bill
as passed appropriates 8100.000.
Tiie House bili to bridge the Missouri
river between Omaha and Council Bluffs,
reported from the committee on commerce
with amendments, passed was the passed. bill authorizing the
The Senate
Temoval Mississippi. of the quarantine It appropriates station from $45,000. Ship
Island, The Senate then adjourned.
Feb. 3.— There were thirty Senators pres¬
ent at prayers this morning. The creden¬
tials ot Senator Whitthorne, showing his
election by the legislature of Tennessee for
tiie unexpired term ending March next,
were presented, and lie took the oath of
office under them. Up to governor’s this time appoint¬ he had
held liis seat under tiie
ment. credentials of Senator Sawyer, of
Tiie full commencing
Wisconsin, for the term
March 4 next were received and placed on
file. presented the Secretary
A letter was from
of the Treasury stating that there was no in¬
formation in the reports as to whether any
banks are lending money to be repaid in
gold only. This was in answer to Mr. Van
W Mr. vek’s resolution.
Evarts introduced a bill for “the pur¬
chase of John Ericsson’s Destroyer and ten
enlarged steel vessels of the same type, for
defending the harbors of the United
.States.” The bill appropriates $113,000 and
52 000,000 for these heretofore purposes, respectively. offered
The resolution pro¬
viding that each day after the morning busi¬
ness the Senate will proceed to the con¬
sideration of House bills on the calendar
was Miscellaneous adopted. business considered,
was
and tin Senate went into executive session.
Feb. 4.—In the Senate Mr. Hoar reported
the resolution for investigating Pacific rail¬
roads, and asked for immediate considera¬
tion. Mr. Hale objected to the immediate
consideration of the bill, and it therefore
went to the calendar, Mr. Hoar giving no¬
tice that he would call it up at the first op¬
portunity. The bill to credit and to the several
Territories, and pay tiie District of
States and
Columbia, all moneys collected under the
direct tax levied by the act of Amr. 5, 1861,
was passed with but one dissenting vote
(Mr. Van Wyck’s). committee of tile Senate,
ported The judiciary bill for sweeping investigation re¬ of
a a
the accounts of the subsidized Pacific roads,
and providing that 40 per cent of their net
earnings be hereafter placed in the sinking
fund. It authorizes the President to protect
tne interests of tlMUjovernment by redeem¬
ing any of the first-mortgage bonds.
The railroad attorney bill was taken up
and passed—yeas 39; nays 14.
The following is the text of the bill:
“That it shall be unlawful for any member
of either house of Congress to accept em¬
ployment as attorney-at-law kind in opposition or payment tiie for
*ervices of any to
United States in any case to which the
United States may be a party or in which
its interests may be couce ed, or from any
railroad company, if such member shall
have reasonable cause to believe that meas¬
ures specially affecting the interests of such
company about are be pending pending before. during Congress, bis term or
are to so
of office.
“Any person shall be who guilty violates the misdemeanor provisions
of this act ot a
and exceeding may be punished by bv imprisonment fine exceeding not
one year or not
$500, or by both, in the discretion of the
coil .rt.” ^ettohx ..... SSBytotE
merce MU
meeting of the electors of President and
Vice-President, and to provide for tor President and regu
late the counting of the vote
sussassut - — -
Jan. oo 29.— In the House to-day, on ______■ motion
of Mr. Lantmm, a biii was passed appro
peating $10,009 to enable the commissioner distribution
of of seed agriculture in the to drought-stricken make a special counties of
'^Richardson submitted the report of
the select alleged committee violations charged rule with 34, regulating inquiring
into ot i-..,:.—..i |
adinissiouatu the flow —i —
to tlie committee on rulesi ''The committee
recommends the amendment of the ride so
as to admit to the floor only such ex-mem¬
bers as are not interested in personally, claim or bill as
attorneys before or agents, Congress. any or
pending Mr. Steele attempted to call up for con¬
sideration the bili for the reorganization of
the army, suggesting that, as war had been
declared, it was important that action should
be taken on that measure. The suggestion
raised a laugh, but the House declined to
take up tile special order, and went into
committee of the whole (Mr. McMillin in
the chair) which on the reported postoftice appropriation House and
bill, was to the
D3SSfi(j bill
The House cable railroad was re¬ of
ferred to the committee on the District
Columbia. protection of the
The Senate bill for the
morals of minors in the District of Columbia
was reported from the District committee
and placed on the calendar.
The House again went into committee
(Mr. Blount in the chair) on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill.
After a brief debate the committee ro6e,
the bill was passed, and the House ad¬
journed.
Jan. 31.—The House went intocommittee
of the whole on the bill to consolidate cer¬
tain bureaus of the navy department, and
was addressed by Mr. Herbert, who bill ex¬
plained that the chief object of the was
to consolidate under one head the bureaus
concerned in the building and equipping of
ships. As an instance of the abuses which
existed under the present system, he said
that the construction of the New York, a
wooden vessel, was begun in 18<H and the
last stroke of work done upon her was In
1868. For thirteen years she lay upon the
stocks in Brooklyn, and then in 1881 the
bureau of steam engineering built boilers for
her, which l/nder remained the to-day pending in the bill Washing¬
ton yard, be responsible for construction one man and
would
engineering, and he would not start thirteen
years after work had been stopped upon a
vessel to make the boilers for her.
At this point the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
Feb. 1.—The speaker laid before the
House a resolution requesting the Senate to
furnish tiie House Senate with bill a duplicate forfeiting engross¬ certain
ed copy of the
portions of the Northern Pacific land grant,
the original having been lost or mislaid.
Adopted, Mr. Bynum, from the committee com¬
on
merce, reported bills authorizing the con¬
struction of bridges across the Missouri at
Kansas City and across the Mississippi at
Memphis. Mr. Herbert, from the committee naval
on
affairs, reported the naval appropriation
bill. committee,
Mr. Tanlbec, from the same
reported adversely the Senate bills Hogan granting
pensions to the widows of Hen. ana
Gen. Blair. Private calendar.
On motion of Mr. Cobb, a resolution was
adopted calling upon the Secretary of the
Interior for information as to the names of
all persons who have heretofore been and
are now employed in the office of ttie geo¬
logical survey, distinguishing civil-service rules between and those those
app tinted under
who were not.
The House passed—yeas 129, nays 95— a
bih providing an additional justice for the
Supreme court of the District of Columbia.
Tne morning hour tuen expired. After
filibustering ou a question of consideration
the House took a recess till evening.
The following bills and various military
measures were passed at the evening ses¬
sion : right of to
House bill granting and Arizona the Railroad way
the Prescott military com¬
pany across the Whipp.e barracks
reservation. Elk
House bill authorizing the Railroad Fremont,
horn and Missouri Valley the Fort company Meade
to build its road across
military reservation in Nebraska.
Senate bill granting to the Rio Grande
and Ei Paso Railroad company tne right of
way through the Fort Bliss military reserva¬
tion in Texas. of
House bill authorizing the Secretary
the Treasury to return the Twigg swords.
Feb. 2.—The speaker having to-day laid
before tiie House tiie reply of the Secretary tiie
of the Treasury to the resolution of
House asking for information as to the re¬
demption anil issue of U nited States notes or
small denominations, upon motion of Mr.
Weaver it was ordered printed in the Rec¬
ord. Mr. Weaver then said that if the
communication was what, from a reading thought of it
the newspapers this morning, he
was, lie would at tiie proper time rise to a
question of the highest privilege, in order to
ascertain what steps were necessary to com¬
pel an observance of the law.
On motion of Mr. Henderson a bill wa
passed authorizing the construction of •
passenger bridge across tbe Mississippi river
at Mr. Dubuque. Taulbi privileged .question,
, as a
called up the message of tiie President veto¬
ing the bill granting a pension to Carter W.
Tiller. The pension was granted on tiie
ground that Mr. Tiller was tiie dependent Anderson
lather ot a soldier who died in
ville prison. The veto is based ou tiie Presi¬
dent’s belief that Mr. Tiller is neither de¬
serving Mr. Springer nor dependent. raised the question of
con¬
sideration, but tiie House decided—yeas
135, nays 10S—to consider the refused pension case.
After debate the House to pass
the bill over the veto—yeas 136, nays 115—
not the, constitutional two-thirds in the
affirmative. agricul¬
Mr. Hatch, from the committee on
ture, establisuwent reported back the Senate bill for the
of agricultural whole. experiment
stations. Committee of the
After considering several bills the House
adjourned.
Feb. 3.— The speaker to-day laid before
the House a message from the Senate trans¬
mitting a duplicate engrossed copy of the
Northern Pacific land-grant forfeiture bill.
On motion of Mr. Laffoon a Senate bili
was passed appropriating $50 000 for tiie
erection of a puoiic building at Oiveusboro,
Air. Holman, from the committee on ap¬
propriations, reported appropriation tiie legislative, biii. execu¬ Com¬
tive, and judicial
mittee Mr. of the whole. the
Tucker, from the committee on
judiciary, reported back the Senate bili ex¬
tending tiie time tor the filing of the French
spoliation claims. Houee calendar.
Mr. Rogers, from the same committee, re¬
ported adversely their a bill to enable Laid the people
to name postmasters. on tne
table.
The House subsequently adjourned.
Feb. 4.—Mr. Randall, from the committee
on rules, to-day reported a resolution dis¬
charging tiie committee of the whole from
the further consideration of ttie Senate bill
for the retirement and recoinage of the trade
dollar, and making tiie bill a special order
in the House for leb. 12 immediately after
the reading of tiie journal.
After the reception of a few committee re¬
ports of t private character the House went
into committee of private the whole calendar. (Mr. Hatch in
tbe chair) on the
The House disposed of a few private bills
held over as the unfinished business from
last Friday, and then took a recess until 7:3Q
p. m.' passed
The House at the evening session
thirty pension bills, and at 10:40 adjourned.
A Cure for Laziness.
The following singular treatment was
f toipieriy m . nipr i v applied m Dutch n„tch workhouses workhouses
to indolent and apathetic individuals:
large The patient tub, into was which placed in a sort kept of
water was
t“ at: l P order order to* to keen^Ls^if keep himself ?rom from
drowning he had to-turn a crank which
pumped srapjjua the water out inrsss again. The
and endurance, and the amount grau
tialJv increased etery day. In t„ one re¬
port it says: ‘The Inactive limbs are
suppleness, soon brought and to the the required degree be of
men very soon
giutooskfor some less irksome labor,
which they afterwards perform in a
urdummtr, most satisfactory manner. Atk*~
TRAIN TRA VEL IN VIRGIN!*,
One of the “Darned Folks From Up
North” Wakes a Switchman.
Time and in Virginia it is the has universal no value what,
over, as practice
there never to do to-day what can be
put off 1 until tomorrow, little i nc o n
venience arises. The railways are run
on a happy-go-iucky diverting schedule, those which is
extremely to who hav
time in abundance, Rnd the few who
are pressed for minutes, being j n 8
hopeless minority, rather afford occa.
sion for mirth when they begin to kick
at Virginia methods. The railway tim e
tables are in perfection in the rural <fi s
.
trims. Not long ago a night train with
a party of New Yorkers on board was
miles-an-hour bumping along gait comfortably through at a ten
a remote
part of Virginia, jerk, when it all at once, with
a tremendous came to a stand
still. Tbo natives in tho sleeping-cat
did not think it worth while to asit the
reason of the sudden stoppage; the
aliens did, though, and when the con
duclor strolled through the car a roar
of indignant inquiry went up. The
conductor soothingly explained that
they always stopped at a switch fot
fear it might not be set,
•‘But, good Yorker, gracious,” exclaimed an
irate New “where is the switch
man?”
The conductor explained that the {
particular switehman they then needed
was probably asleep. Followed by ob¬
jurgation, the conductor got off the j
train, went vigorously, to the station house, and I j
pounded time: shouting at the
same
“Git up, Jim; the train’s here, and a
passei o’ them durned folks from up
North is raisin’ a breeze ’cause the
switch ain’t set.”
j£ in called back, “I’m a cornin’,"
and evidently turned over and went to
sleep again. The Virginians on the I
pathy train began entirely to chuckle. with Jim Their and sym- the j
was
conductor. The latter continued to
urge Jim, who was The always “cornin’,”
but didn’t come. conductor, at
first apologetic, being goaded by the
New Yorkers, now became pressing.
“Do, Jim,” he anxiously said, “git
up and by.” set the durn thing so the train
can go continued obdurate until
Jim one ol
the New Yorkers arose from his berth,
and, clad in rage and a checked ulster,
got off the car and threatened to set
lire to the station house and make a
burnt offering of Jim if that switch was
not set in ten minutes. Within the
specified time Jim appeared, boiling
with indignation, and threatened tore
sign if he were again subjected to simi¬
lar inconvenience.
cial It roads is the to custom the along tram these at provin¬ point
signalled. stop People any
upon being off anywhere can they be
taken on and put
like. A fast train—that is, what they I !
call a twenty-mile-an-hour plantation train—was month I
going through a a or
so ago, and the passengers observed I
three little girls on the wayside waving
their conductor. white The aprons train, frantically of at stop-1 the ]
course, I
ped. The tallest of the girls, a 10-year re-1
old, with Ion? “Won’t eyelashes, please bashfully give I
marked: you me I
and Katie and Fanny and promptly the doggie con-1 a
ride?” The conductor I
seated, and assisted Miss Eyelashes, doggie I
her companions and the on I
board. They rode on for a mile or
two, and then they announced their I
readiness to get off. The train was I
stopped, and they jumped down and I
scampered off. Just as the train had I
started Miss Eyelashes scampered wild-1
ly back. I
“Oh, mister, if you please, don’t go
away doesn’t till we let get ’cross go over the it creek. ’less some- Mam- j j
ma us j
body’s watching us, and we have to
carry the doggie.” I
The conductor waited until a final I
waving of white aprons on the other I
side of the creek signified that his pas-1 the I
senders were safe. Nobody in
train ex :pressed surprise except the I
aliens, Nobody who has ever been I
there before rushes to meet a train in I
Virginia. When the first railway train
went through'the ancient town of Will
iamsburgh in October.-, 1881, it was ad
vertised for 9 o’clock. It was the time
of the Yorktown Centennial, and the
town was full of strangers. These rash
ly appeared at the station at 9 o’clock
precisely. The natives meanwhile went
about their business. Toward 12 o’clock
those of the natives who meant to board
the 9 o’clock train assembled. After
waiting awhile they went off and sat on
the Court house steps, leaving orders
rith a negro to call them when the
train came. It did come some time m
the afternoon, and the negro, running
about the town, informed the passen¬
gers when the train would start.
An Anecdote of Tom Ochiltree.
The other day Tom Ochiltree went
to the department of justice. There
was no messenger in the hall. He went
into the room of the chief clerk, which
adjoins that of the attorney-general. Ocnfi
The chief clerk looked up, but
tree did not regard him at all. h e
made straight for the door leading to
Brewster’s room.
“You cannot go in there now, saw
the chief clerk. moment
Ochiltree stared at him a
and said: “Ah, I guess I can.” ••
“Sorry to but can not, ,
say so, you
was Then the reply. Ochiltree elevated his
“You "iou don’t non i know snow who wno I i am, am, evident
ly,” he said “I am a member of
„—, representatives. M
present house of
name is Tom Ochiltree, and I represen
the Galveston district of the state
Texas. As a member of congress, I hoi
I have a right to enter tbe office of an
member of the cabinet without tn
formality of an announcement. I aB
going in there now (pointing to
door) to see Brewster.” placed him¬
The chief clerk quietly and said: “I
self in the doorway You
you had better wait awhile.
the attorney-general conference is at with present notfl
gaged in a /
member of the cabinet. Ho has
instructions that no one be admitte 4
until the conference is through.’ life, w.
Oehiltree, for once in his
almost embarrassed. He turned
his heel and walked away, saying m
loud voices 4:
messenger outside iStetell to tell mo so.
His red hair was real mau.—
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