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j, w. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor. S; i —era gC. PRYSTALiSED / IE MM MARK 1 Voice from the Executive Mnusion, jg. a. W. Hayvkes— Dear Sir: The itiscopic glasses you furnished IV time since, give excellent satisfac B . I have tested them by use, 8 t say they are unequaled in clearness 1 brilliancy by any that I liayc )rn Respectfully, John B. Gordon, Governor of State of Georgia. j linsims Man's Clear Vision. New York City, April 4, 1888. 1r. A. K. Hawices— Dear Sir : Your ent eye glasses received some time ce and am very much gratified at the Jerful change that has come over r eyesight since I have discarded my I glasses and am now wearing yours. Alexander Agar. cretary Stationers Board of Trade of w York City. HI eyes fitted by J. M. lsavy, Coving- 1 , Ga. [jiese glasses are not supplied to ped irs at any price. A. W. HAWKES. Wholesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga. ranklin 8. Wright, COVINGTON, GA. bsident Physician & Surgeon. (Gynecology, lildreii, Obstetrics, diseases of women ami and ail Chrome peases of a private nature, a special I. I have a horse at my oommand, pith | the will surrounding enable me country, to attend we) calls las as y city practice. FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. U. 11 A Remarkable Potato. We have bcca called upon of late to ptice some big potato stories, vouched bv by American growers, and now we lire au English contribution to sw ell the i ‘ XS;V ‘M V ' V. r IP 1 Ns //,' MS, .'S MS? s;.y sj / m sr-» fig® »' A M. ... A CURIOUS POTATO. The remarkable sample, a genuine one, hat cannot be matched, and shown in in: cut hero presented, was dug by an widish gardener and originally photo rraphed by the Mark Lane Repress. This - unlike most potatoes in that it is a per ect likcm raan’s head. In most loratoes the eyes arc well represented— loo much so fo the thrifty hot eeper; but in this vc have the nose, mouth and i'Mu /double) Tho illustration is a eor o i reproduction of this sample of the kcn.is sol■.‘mi:;! tuberosum, reduced about (■ne-third in size. Ah Eigiit-Ytar-Ol;! Bride. T picture pnolished herewith is that ’> the daughter o i an American consular igent at Fez, Morocco. She is only -'-fit years old, but is already engaged ■ K ' Married and will soon be n bride. Jsi - mh. •v )'i !' 3 7. \\ / f u H t .i ( iiMif 0m wi: p&y: El’ii* . ii fipii fWii w’trn.VSiv.sit mm ii r’X <y •ipl ft. t i-v , if ip fousiri l* A ii i is? TIIE ElGUTfiiEAK-OI.D BRIDE. la all warm climates the marriageable epoch is exceedingly advanced, and a ' • em of ehiiu-uiarriagcs has prevailed during brides many generations. Infantine the are simply bought and sold to suit ; convenience of the interest of their i'arciifs. HAI L FROM CUPID'S DARTS. ' fritor (at studio)—I do not tee how an artist could paint such a beautiful ;"man without falling iu lore with Her. Great Artist—1 a.- ure yon, madam, ‘bat while paint; IV that ietuve 1 never wire '‘Is (bought it of Io\ . possible es, yon o the model was my V.l.f Xev, York WeckP . LAX OF Hr l so iu in v hr -baud prize,** J. , d Gtavn, tbat [ may bo “is hue he now,” i I W1H Molly said, >' i bow he's changed since” you he y,etl.” The Covington Star. COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1890. POSTAGE STAMPS. A Few of the Most Famous Col¬ lections in Existence. Enormous Prices Paid for the Rare Specimens. S x years ajo a business man in this city, says the P-iiladelphu News, who had p;cn y of money, determined to collect a magnificent assortment of for¬ eign postage stamps, For six years he has done little else than pursue this oc cupatiou. lie became connecte 1 with all the leading dialers in the world and left with them orders to secure rare va riuties at any price, lie ha, already ex _ pended $2o, 033, and has now a collec. tion of about 14,00) stamp), This may include all the “adhesivea,” as there are but 8030 of thorn in existence. 0> casioaaily you r/ai, and so do I, of postage-stamp collections containing millions of d ffjront stamps, Such things are myth), uaici? they consist of innumerable duplicates. Perhaps dealers and advanced collect¬ ors consider the collection of M. Fer¬ rari, son of the Djchos of Galatea, the finest collection of postage stamps in the world. It is said to outrank even the famous Rithschild collection. The Ferrari collection is worth $250,000, and its happy owner employs a well educated secretary who does nothing whatever but attend to it. This secre¬ tary classifies and paste? the stamps, and corresponds with all the lea ling dealers of the world, endeavoring to obtain what collectors call ‘'unattaina¬ ble?.” The stamp dealer? frequently obtain specimens of rare stamp; in queer ways. Not long ago a bookkeeper employe! by a Philadelphia merchant entered the firm of which Mr. Hanes is a member, and throwing a stamp on the counter asked whether it was worth anything. Thi) ivas one of the first stamp? issued by the city of Baltimore many years ago, and (he bookkeeper said ho had found it on a letter of an old eorre spoudent of the firm for which he worked. Apparently tho min did not t.hiok the stamp would bring mire than 53 cents or a dollar. You can judge of his aimzimeat, therefor, when he was offered a sum very far beyond (his, and which seemed (o him fabulous. lie parted with the stamp gladly, and hurried out of the oflica as if he were afraid the money would be asked back. Several days liter this stamp was sold jor $260. One of tlie most famout collectors of the world is Mr. Tapling, an English member of Parliament. He lives at Dulwich, not far from London. His collection, which is valued at $200, 00), is mounted on cardboard and includes a long list of what connoisseurs call the “unattainablcs.” Dozens and dozins of Mr. Tap’ing’s stamps are worth from $100 to $150 apiece. Several weeks ago a very small boy who has bsen selling stamps at inter vuls to a local dealer called upon him with a United Slates stamp—I think it ivas one of the old “eighty cents I I — aud asked how much it was worth. This was a slamp which sells readily for $10. Butthe lad had never eeived more than five or six cents apieee for his stamps before, and the denier ivas afraid of frightening him at first by mentioning a high value, so he told tlie boy “it was a mighty goo l stamp. II Then offering $5 for it, he asked the lad avhether he would sell it at that figure, Tiie boy became scared, picked up the stamp, ran away aud has nei’er returned. 1 to probably has au idea that it is worth a fabulou? sum. Utilizing the Air. The atmosphere is employed to a eonsiderablo extent, but not to the one mdlionih part that it should be. It is u?cd for respiratory purposes, for the driving of sailing ships, for the throw¬ ing of dynamite projectiles in the Zalin ski gun, for the turning of some wind¬ mills and a few other purposes, but with respect to its quantity, its sircugth, it? pliability, its ea?e of har¬ nessing and handling, it is doing abso¬ lutely nothing. c It is time that something be done with this pervading and potent energy. Until within a few year? lightning, from the very creation, was permitted to roam in a savage stale. It was a brutish creature, frightening human be lng; and rending rocks anil forests from pure excess of vigor and lack of something useful to do. Modern set ence gave some attention to this cavort tug, brilliant, rending, roaring, blind iog phenomenon, and speedily discov ered that it was no howling, angry demon, as was supposed by earlier ages, but an available, powerful energy which could bo haltered, brokea to harness and made to work with the steadiness of a plough hor?e. Far thou«ands of centuries electricity was simply a member of an untamed family of wild beasts; and much the same is true of the atmosphere. It has been untamed, destructive. It Ivy gamboled idly among the flowers as t zephyr. It lias scurried across the prairies and uplands as a breeze, ecuI ded over the waters as a gale, wrecked ships as a tempest, and corkscrewed over the pi ains, uprooting forests and prostrating houses as a cyclone. Here are motors, powers, eneig.es, forces, absolutely without limitation. Ia some cities in the old world a lim¬ ited use is made of tho air. It carries parcels from point to point; it takes the letter dropped into the street postal box, and in a jiff/ delivers it to a cen¬ tral station. But these are nothing. Why, arc there not in Chicago score) of pneumatic dynamos from which is dis¬ tributed condensed air for tho running of sewing machines, lathes and other machines now worked by hand and treadle? Why cannot detachable mag¬ azines of condensed air be provided by whose agency street cits can be pro¬ pelled, and a light, iucomluitible mi tor be provided for b;c/cle3, road wagons and a thousand similar pur poses} A Nose Upside Dow n. The presence of mind shown by an Ohio physician saved a man a nose. That useful member was severed by a fall upon a sharp corner, and tho at¬ tendant M. D., by promptly placing the sundered piece where it belonged, se¬ cured a healing “by first intention” and the subsequent restoration of the organ, plus an ugly scar. Less successful was the replacing of a nose by a young min of Pittsburg many years ago. While engaged in playfully i i fencing” with a companion a reckless pass cleanly cut off tho young fellow ’3 nose. He had not studied physiology for nothing and, acting upon this knowl edge, grabbed the, severed orgau and clapped it on the bleeding surface it had just quitted. Then his nose was bound firmly on and nature was left to take her course. She did this admirably. When the bandages were removed the two parts were found to be grown to¬ gether beautifully. Nothing could bo nicer, except that the unfortunate young man had put his nose on upsids down 1 The nostrib stool as opm lo heaven as tho flues at the apex of a chimney. The memories that come down through a vista of thirty years, sinco this sad affair took place, are a trifle misty and unreliable as to tho subse¬ quent career of the man with the in¬ verted nose. He is believed to be dead. During his life, however, he was known lo declare that, for purpose? ofonuff taking, he had the very finest nose in the world, but that to be caught in a heavy shower, without au umbrella, wai tantamount to drowning. Those that are suddenly deprived of a nose should be careful to replace it with the perforu- 1 tions down. Human lifo is made up of i trifles, and some of these have power to engender discomfort when it comes to ; an upside down nose .—Pittsburg Press. , WJbl Elephants at Home. \ correspondent on a four through India says: Tho mysterious sound? of night give place to the voices of the awakening birds, the crow of the jungle-cock, the shrill screams of flocks of parrots flaih j in ? like meteors thiough the air, and ; the varied notes of inauy others hidden from our sight. As the sunrises the i full beauty of the forest becomes re j vealed. On every side are huge trees, ; SO rne hung with festoons of thin, snake- like creepers; others destitute o f leaves, but covered with beautiful tulip¬ like scarlet flowers; others, again, a blaze of crimson foliage. Wild pig. deer aud peacock run across our path; and on the road iu j front I see what is apparently the fa \ miliar barndoor cock scraping a? vigor ously as if he were in the faimyard at home, although he is in his native avilds. Toe most startling spectacle is, however, Yvhen, after much crashing of branches has been heard, a herd of a dozen wild elephant? cro3sos tho path about fifty yards ahead, deigning to notice their captivo brother only by a disdainful glance and flourish of their trunks. ! A Mother-in Law’s Paradise. it Among the Piutes,” says the Vir. j gini» father-in-law City Enterprise, that makes “it is tho always trouble, the Every married Piuie is always glad of a j visit from his mother-in-law, He wel j comes her with his broadest grin. The i arrival of tin mother-i#-law gives bun a double team, whirr before he had only j one animal. He hails her appearance with j delight and piling a jackass-load of wood upon her willing ol ! hack, send? J her into town with his wife (similarly packed) to pedd e o.it iho fuel and j bring back to him a supply of nio’iiey for his favorite game oi poker. The Piute father-in-law is of no use as a wood-packer, nor will ho gather gras 3 seeds or pineauts. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Faste mi and Middle States. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the noted Brooklyn divine, Holy lias Land. returned from his pil¬ grimage to the Hon. Seth Low ex-Mavor of Brooklyn, was installed eleventh President of Columbia New College at tho Metropolitan Opera House iu York, with impressive ceremonies. The Gloucester fishing schooner Alice M. of Stouple was reported lost at ..oa with a crew fourteen souls. 93 The New York Presbytery, by by a vote of to 43, accepted the report the special committee in favor of revision of the Con¬ fession of Faith. The New Boston. England Agricultural Society met at General John D. Anderson, of Augusta, Me., has been elected Commander G. A. R., Department of Maine. The advance sheets of the Controller’s re¬ port in New Jersey showed a serious defici¬ ency in the finances of the State. The Grand Army of the Republic in Mas¬ sachusetts began its convention in Boston. The Justices of the Supreme Court were entertained the City of by New the York. Association of the Bar of The British ship Thanemere reached Bos¬ ton, with one-half of the crew of tho Nor¬ wegian The ship other Josephine, who were rescued at sea. seven Scandinavians were lost during the prevailing hurricanes. Mrs. Wong Ah Tuck, the young wife of a Chinese merchant in San Francisco, arrived at New York city disguised as a. hoy, iu com¬ pany York with Lo the Bug. The Wongs in New took runaway woman in charge until structions they can get an explanation Tuck. and in from Wong Ah Two workmen employed in a wire mill at Trenton, N. J., were pierced by red hot wires and suffered shocking and fatal in¬ juries. Two which Brooklyn factories 143 were Spencer destroyed by a fire started at street. Two firemen were injured and about $100,000 damage done. Sarah Rice and Amelia 1 allancourt were fatally burned in the one-story waste house of the Tremont and Suffolk Company’s mill, at Lowell, Mass. A fire which broke out at Rochester, N. Y., caused a los3 of naariy $10 ),0,)). J. K. Hunt’s large box factory and two adjoin¬ ing building were entirely destroyed. South and West. land The Township, three sons Ind..were of James Bright, of Kirk found dead in theii beds. They had neen suffering from influ enza, but when they retired tho previous night their condition was not considered dan¬ gerous. vision The Chicago the Presbytery Faith. declared for a re¬ of Confession of Meningitis has become epidemic in many parts The Belcher of Texas, and people are dying rapidly. district has already lost thirty, and many attacked more by were disease dying. has Not a single person the recovered. The house of William D. Ellis, of Chicago, was burned in the absence of Mr. aud Mrs. Ellis, who returne I just iu time to save a nine months’ old baby from death. A ser¬ vant burned and death. a two-year-old dauguter were to Rev 8. R. .Frazier, pas'er of the 8,-rijnd Presbyterian Churcn of Youngstown, Ohio, and well known as an eloquent orator and successful lecturer on Japan, has suddenly become insane. Cora and Annie Bpdck ate a poisoned cake intended for rats in the Schietz bakery at St. Louis, and both died. John Kelly, of Marianna, Ark., mur¬ dered his wife, from whom he had been sep¬ arated, and a young man with whom she was living. He then forced a neighbor named Owens to accompany him to the woods. Neither was seen again. A freight train crashed through a bridge at Peoria, 111., and the cars were precipitated into the Illinois River. The engineer, fire¬ man and brakeman w ere killed, A great sensation has been caused in Cin¬ cinnati Hayman, by a public announcement that Theo¬ dore Superintendent of the crema¬ tory, has been for months stealing and sell¬ ing the coffins of those brought for crema¬ tion. A north bound passenger train struck s hand car near Clear Lake. Minn Three sec¬ tion men on the hand car were killed. An important vacancy in the Ohio Senate has been filled by the election of a Democrat. Had the Republican candidate been success¬ ful the Senate would have been a tie, with a Republican Lieutenant-Governor to give « casting vote. An oil still belonging to the Standard Oil Company Patrick exploded at Lima, five O other do, killing Ryan and injuring men. Aurora, 111., has been quarantined owing to a smallpox scourge. Bury Frank Chapman, Fred while Young and James were drowued attempting tc cross the St. Clair River at Marine City, Mich., in a skiff. F. A. Walton, a trusted employe of the Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Texas, absconded with a package containing *35,990. A writ of error has bean granted to the Chicago Anarchists in Joliet Penitential. brought , so that their case may again bo before the United States Supreme Court. Five Chinese on their way to Dutch Flat, Cal., were overwhelmed bv an avalanche and killed. The Navajo Indians in San Juan County, New Mexico, have been harrassiug the set¬ tlers Indian. on account of the hundred recent killing of au About five warriors left their reservation, and the settlers were great¬ ly alarmed. After the adjournment, of tho Montana Senate, eight Democratic Lieutenant-Governor Senators, incensed ftt the ruling of Rick¬ ards in counting them pre-ent when they re¬ fused to vote, took trains going in different directions. They said they were of going beyond the State line to get out reach of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Their absence blocked ill legislation. Washington. Owing to the calamity which befell Secre tary Tracy's family President Harrison and the other Cabinet members abandoned their intended visit to New York to participate in the exercises in celebration of the Centennial of the United States Supreme * Court. ^ The Senate ^ Committed ,, . on Agriculture $ • ia de- j cided to refer tue blU traus erring the M eather Bureau to the D^artm.mt of Agri culture to Chief Signal Officer Greely for his views on the subject. The report of Adjutant-General the United Skelton Statoa upon the militia force of has been sent to the Senate. It shows the strength of the militia to consist of 8053 officers. 103,393 men, and 7,353,171 men not organized but available for duty. > Rear-Admiral Stephen F. his Quacken bush. U. S. N. (retired), died at residence it Washington, aged sixty-seven. Senator Sherman and Murat Halstead. the Cincinnati editor, succeeded Governor Campbell, of Ohio, as witnesses before the House Committee on the Ballot Box Forgery. Nominations by the President: James s tv. . Remick to be United States Attorney for the Districtof New Hampshire; Paris Kilbourne. to be Survevor of Customs at San Francisco; Collectors of Customs—Alansou n . Beard, district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass.: George B. Edmonds, at Fairfield, Va.; Conn.; Louis McKenzie Bell, at Alexandria. J. H, Pinkerton, at St. Marks, Fla., F.ank A, Vaughan, at Saluria, Tex. The Colored Convention elected P B S. Pinchback President of the new organ,xa tion and adjourned after issuing an address to the cou nt''” ^ It is claimed that we unport over $1,500,000 worth of egg* annually. Foreign. John Rruo & Co., one of the oldest ship building with firms on the Clyde, Scotland, hav< failed, heavy liabilities. On the steamer J.a Plata during her voy¬ age from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp $170,OW iu specie and bonds were stolen. Hf.rr Schmitz, editor of the Cologne Gazette, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in a fortress for publishing calumnies against the Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William. Portugal has been notified that England will agree to a conference to settlo the dis¬ pute between the two nations. Ax American officer lias arrived at Mo Leod, in Northwest Canada, to try and re¬ cover tho white girl held captive there by the Blackfeet Indians. Emperor William, of Germany, Bismarck sent and a sensational rescript to Prince an order to Minister Berlepsch regarding measures for workingmen. The Pope has issued a decree empowering the Bishops in all countries recently visited by the influenza to absolve the faithful from fasting until further notice. The municipal authorities of Lisbon have given 100 contos to the Portuguese national defence fund. The Archbishop collect convened the clergy and directed them to funds for this purpose in every parish. The Colonial Federation Conference was opened at Melbourne, Australia. James Service, Prime Minister of Victoria, was elected manifested. to preside. Much enthusiasm was NEWSY GLEANINGS. The edged-tool manufacturers have formed a trust. A severe edit against the practice of duel¬ ing has been issued in Japan. The total revenue of France for 1889 was *614,300,000, and the total expenditures *631,400,000, Prolonged droughts and frequent fires made Cuba’s sugar crop a very small one this season. A tunnel will be constructed under the Chicago River forty feet below the surface of the water. The Supreme Court has affirmed the con¬ stitutionality quired Morman of the oath proposed to be re¬ of voters in Idaho. A census of the Americans residing in Berlin shows the number to be now 4900. Five years ago there were only 3000. A bill was introduced in the Canadian Parliament to abolish French as tho official language in the northwest territories. The national flower campaign is finally over, and of all the votes sent in seventy percent, were in favor of the golden rod. The fashionable exodus to Europe is open¬ ing early this year, there already bein^ a large sailed. number of New Yorkers who have Corn lias beau adjudged a fuel by a Wic lira (Kan.) Justice, in a case of attach¬ ment for debt, and it was then declared ex empt. The now passport regulations that recently came into force in Russia oblige travelers to carry their photographs annexed to their passes. Five warships for the Turkish Navy hav< been launched a, Constantinople. One ol these was a oovette, three were gunboats, and one was a torpedo boat. The Italian East African Company will organize extensive factories and whatever establishments may be necessary to work great plantations in Africa. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, in hit recent Legislature message forcibly recommends t,h« to take steps to put an end tc the carrying of concealed weapons. The exhibit of American Indian corn, that was to have been given at the Paris Ex¬ Exoibition, position, will which take place in at May the next. Edinburgh opens The Bulgarian Government, displeased at Senna for declining to conclude a treaty of commerce, has decided to fortify the Bul¬ garian frontier along the valley of the Timok, and is to commence works immediately at IViddin and Coula. The committee of the African Anti-Slavery Conference of Brussels, to which the subject was referred, has agreed upou the establish neut of measures of surveillance over the caravan routes in order to prevent the over¬ land transport of slaves. France produces annually 20,000,000 tons of 165,000,000. coal; Germany, The 70,000,000, and England, annual consumption of -'Vane* amounts to 1560 pounds for every in iabitant: iu Germany, 8000 pounds; iu Bel ;ium. 4300 pounds: and in England, 740C pouu.U. In tlie room of the United States Senate Committee on Naval Affaire hang the antier 5 of two deers, mounted to serve as wall orna¬ ment!'. They were by sent to Senators Gray ind McPherson Senator VVade Hampton, of South C-rolina. who killed the animals ou a recent hunt in his native State. _--- GREAT MINE DISASTER. A Hundred and Fifty Men Entombed in an English Colliery. A cable dispatch from London says: An explosion occurred in a colliery at Aoersy ehan, in Monmouthshire. Three hundred min¬ ers were imprisoned and for several hours no communication couid be had with them. An opening was finally effected, and at noon many of them had been rescued. Rescuing parties are still searching for tnose remain¬ ing in the mine. It is feared that it will be impossible to rescue the miners who are still imprisoned. Up to 4 o’clock in the afternoon forty bodies have been taken from the mine. The cause of the explosion was the flooding of pits adjacent to that in which the explo¬ sion occurred. By the flooding of these pits pit, gas was dislodged and forced into the where work was in progress, and there it ig¬ nited and exploded. There must have been a great quantity of gas, as the explosion had tremendous force. It was heard at a distance of a mile. All the gearing in the shaft was thrown into the air as if from the mouth of a volcano, and simultaneous^ a vast bright volume ot flame stiot upward, followed bv dense heavy column of smoke, 'lhe first party of rescuers organized en leavored to penerate the pit through Jie ^ workings. They got far enough to be able to see groups |. of the dead, out cou , d each th and w „ re . 0 „- ^ Ued to retreat by suffocating volu es of smoke tfmt rose ln that d(rectiion Upon the first appearance of a diminution iu the volume of smoke rescuers went down the main shaft and reached the scene of the catastrophe. They rescued a targe number of miners yet alivj, but all very badly burned, and they brought multilated out sixty dead bodies, nearly all so that the recognition of their identity is im possible. The latest estimate of the dead is 150. Kot Well Acquainted. s % k * r •s. •'( i H ■ : ■ I E j j The Camel—‘ Herd keep ycur tail out ( j of my fodder!” | The Elephant—“'Well, you aecdn t get I your back up!”— Puck, VOL. XVI. NO. IB. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 31 ST Day.— Immediately after the reading of the Senate journal, Mr. Cameron an¬ nounced the recent afflictions in the families of two members of the Cabinet, Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, and moved unanimously. an adjourn ment, which was agreed to 83d Day.— Mr. Westcott introduced a bill providing for the admission of the Territory of New Mexico. Referred____In executive session Mr. Sherman called up the Samoan treaty, and for over three hours it was under discussion. Senator Eustis led tho attack upon the treaty, asserting that by its terms the United States was placed at a disadvan¬ tage compared with the other treaty powers —Germany and England. The discussion continued until 3 o’clock, when the roll was called upon the question of ratifying the treaty. The motion to ratify was adopteu with only 13 negative votes____Confirmation was announced of the nomination of John M. Clark to be Collector of the Port of Chicago; Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts, ' to be Consul General and Minister Resident t« Corea, and William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be Solicitor General. 33d Day.—A debate took place on the sub¬ ject of .The providing bill additional committee rooms .. to aid in the establish¬ ment and temporary support of common schools was taken up as the unfinished busi¬ ness, and Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in advocacy of it____Mr. .Sherman, from tfic Committee on Foreign Relations reported the following joint resolution, which was placed on the calendar: Resolved, That the United States of America congratulates the people of Brazil on their just anrl peaceful assumption of the powers, duties and respon¬ sibilities of self government, based upon the frea consent of the governed, and in their recent adoption of a republican form of gov¬ ernment. 34th Day".— The Senate took up the bill to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Oklahoma, which and the Clerk finished tho the reading previous. of the Various bill, had amendments been begun day offered agreed to____Mr. formal Blair were and re¬ sumed his speech on his National Educational bill____Mr. Gibson introduced a joint resolu¬ tion providing for an appropriation of $4,000, 900 for the improvement of the Mississippi River and the harbors of New Orleans, Nat ihez, session, Vicksburg and Memphis____In Mr. Edmunds execu¬ tive a motion of to re¬ consider the vote by which the Samoan treaty was ratified, was called up and laid on the tabL by a vote of 39 to 13. In tlie House. 33d Day.—T he heated debate over tht Speaker’s action in certifying disorderly a quorum taking was continued, the same scenes Finally place as in the two previous days. Mr. Dalzell began his argument on the West Virginia Jacks contested election case of Smith against Day. —The on. election of 34th contested case Smith against Jackson wasagain considered, but the day’s session was only a faint reflec¬ tion of the boisterous scenes of the previous (lays. Day.— The election of 35th contested case Smith against Jackson, which wa* the cause of the big row in the House of Representa¬ tives. has ended. After a long debate it was voted to award the scat iu the IVth Wost Virginia contested election caso to Mr. Smith, Dayl—I the Republican mmediately contestant. House 36th upon the being called to order the Democrats < if raanded the reading of the Mr. journal in full, and when it was completed Springer de¬ clared that a part had been omitted and de¬ manded the reading of the omitted portion. The Speaker paid So attention to Mr. Springer, but recognized Mr. McKinley, who moved the approval of tho journal and de¬ manded the previous none....The question, Speaker which then was ordered, 105 to laid before the House various Senate bills ... .Without accomplishing anything the House, at 4:15, —There adjourned. under¬ 37th Day. being a tacit standing between the Republicans and Demo (Tats that no effort would lie made for the t ransaction of business (a large number hav¬ ing gone to attend the funeral of Mrs. and Miss Tracy), the Clerk was permitted to reau the journal in its abridged form. The Demo¬ crats did not wisn to go on record as approv¬ ing the journal, and consequently demanded the yeas and nays on that motion. The jour¬ nal was approved—yeas —The Democrats 150, nays 0. 38th Day. carried out their policy of silent protest against the rul¬ ings of the Speaker bv declining to vote upon the question of approving the journal. It was, however, 0—the approved constitutional by a vote of yeas. be¬ 153: nays. nuorura ing counted by the Speaker... .Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on Rules, reported the new recommitted____Mr. code of rules, and it was Tursney ordered printed snd offered n resolution reciting that it is charged that many hundred individuals entered Oklaho¬ ma m violation of the act of Congress, and directing the Speaker to appoint a committee to investigate the Rules matter. Referred to the Committee on ...A bill for (lie relief of the survivors of the Samoan disaster wa 1 ! passed. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, William S. Gilbert, the librettist, says that he never reads criticisms of his own works. London’s theatres are said to have had a ‘•flat, stale and altogether nupiofitabla” winter. Karl Merz, known throughout the United State* as an eminent musician, recently died at Worcester, Ohio. “The Gondoliers,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s latest comic Munich. opera, will shortly be sung in German in William Craxe in his new play, “The Senator, is said to make up so as to re of Kansas. _ semble Senator Fiumb, M r^s Adelb aus der Ohe, the eminent pianist, has been playing and a Providence. number of suc¬ cessful recitals in Boston The production of “As You Like It” at the St. James’s Theatre in London was jxist i ioned in consequence of the illness of Mrs. jangtry. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian critics playwright, is thought by some good of the to be the most original dramatist nineteenth century. A play at one of the Engiish because theatres has just had to be modified the actors had a superstition feathers against the appearance of a peacock or its ou the stage. Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor, is liv¬ ing in London, at the ago of seventy. It is said that while his voice is apparently unim¬ paired, lie docs not wish to sing in public any more. Wilson Barrett was offered $1000 to give a performance of “The Silver King” in Chi¬ cago on a Sunday it would night, be but refused affront on the ground that an to his Sabbath observing friends. The most note i colored actress of tho day is Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore. She made her debut received in Washington, in such in 18S3, and ha= been well roles as Juliet, Desdewona, Quean Elizabet i aal Leah. It has been determined to give a concert iu London during the ensuing season, which Dr. Joachim will he asked to conduct. The pro¬ ceeds wiil be devoted to the general fund for the establishment,in the house of his birth, ot a Beethoven museum. Mr.*. Erving Winslow, the Boston ac¬ tress .uni elocutionist, has been giving read¬ ings of Ibsen s pays, “A Doll’s Homs, "Pil¬ lars ot Society,” “The Lady of the Sea,” etc., which have been received with much pleas¬ ure by the admirers of tho Norwegian dra¬ matist. In four vests about 14,000 new manu¬ facturing and mining enterprises hare been organized iu the South, aud thou ?auds of old plants greatly enlarged. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General W. T. Sherman is just seventy years old. Senator Hawley practices on the violin every day. Mr. Gladstone keeps six private secre¬ taries at work. Spain s little King has an income of on* million dollars a year. The White House will soon contain a por¬ trait of Grover Cleveland. Chief Justice Corliss, of North Dakota, is only thirty-one years of age. Senator Gorman is an expert on baseball, and was formerly a noted amateur player. In June next King celebrated Leopolds jubilee will be appropriately at Liege, Be! giurn. Cardinal clear-headed Newman is and eighty-eight physically years old, but still spry active. Postmaster-General Wanamaker never permits wine to be served at any of his en¬ tertainments. James Whistler, London’s eccentric American painter, is confining over for avisit in the spring. Calvin S. Brice, Ohio's new Senator, New¬ will James Gordon Bennett’s villa at port next season. Prince Bismarck’s friends are ag.j/i about his health, which is said to much impaired. Senator Ingalls's daily luncheon at the restaurant consists of nine oysters from the shells. Dr. McCosh, ex-President of Prineetou. stop teaching until he had educated college Presidents Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, is a man who talks in a writing. sharp, quick wav. is tired of humorous Among the Secretary many messages Tracy of cablegrams sympathy by Victoria and the were King Italy. Queen of Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, will, ac¬ to a London journal, shortly wed “an immensely wealthy American Catho lie. The richest man in Alabama is H. F. De Bordeieben, a Birmingham iron manufac¬ who is supposed to be worth aoout Oliver Wendell Holmes always retires the same hour, eats dinner in the middle the day and walks at least two miles every twenty-four hours. Money is being raised for the erection of a monumental statue of Commodore Vander¬ bilt on the campus of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn. Charles Dudley Warner has a full beard, dresses better than most authors aud lives at Hart, ord, between Mark Twain aud Harriet Beecher Stowe. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connauzht. and his wife will have receptions in every Cana¬ dian city and town they visit during tnair tour through the Dominion. Buffalo Bill is quote 1 as saying that he does not wonder that Christopher Oolumous wanted to get away from Spain, as he felt much that way himself. Senator Wade Hampton comes from at and formerly wealtny Southern family. the outbreak of the war he had from to 3000 slaves on his plantations. The Khan of Khiva and tho Emin of -Bok¬ are to make a torn- through Europ, stipu¬ year, but tho Russian Government that they are not to visit England. The Emperor of Russia has been in a state of insane panic, tue resuit being taut Ua has sunk into the deepest despondency, and con¬ stantly insists that nis end is approaching. ple Astonishment is expressed Mr. Blaine by many and peo¬ Mr. Randall upon learning studied that law. began hii never One career as a merchant, and the other as a jour lialist. The first cash John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was twenty-five cents, wific no earned by work¬ ing for a farmer so that he might go to the circus. John Jacob Astor, the millionaire New Yorker, is a burly-iooking man of weighty moustache and well- seasoned countenance, and walks up Broadway every fine afternoon three inches shorter than his sou, who is six foot-three. Emperor William, of Germany, has is¬ sued au order that in future no paintings or statues or busts of himself or of any mem bers of the royal family either alive or dead, are to be purchased with any public Lauds for galleries or public institutions. THE LABOR WORLD The South’s manufacturers employed 48$,- 360 persons last, year, aud 315,438 in I860. Michigan lias seventy-eight furniture fac¬ tories, half of which are iu G rand Rapids. On the Hudson River aiono 10,009 men usually employed on the ice harvest have been idle. The postal They clerks of Chicago have orgy uized. sa.aries. want eight hours a day anil graded Pennsylvania’s master painters a»J de-orators have declared th :ir opposition to the eight-hour movement. The Massachusetts Federation of Labor will hold a convention in Boston on March 13 to boom the eight-hour movement English mine owners are preparing to form a federation to protect their interests against tno organizations of employes. AN eight-hour badge lias been adopted by the American Federation of Labor. It is simply a figure eight made of nickel plated metal. Christopher Union Woods, No. Treasurer of of the Switchuieu's 4, Kansas City, Mo., has disappeared with $1000 of the union’s money. The New York State branch of the Amen an Federation of Labor seems to be in a prosperous condition, as the per capita tax could be reduced one-fourth of ono cent. The journeymen Allegheny plumbers County, and steam and gas fitters of Penn., numbering 3000, are Federation arranging of to Labor. affiliate with the American The cigar making industry of San Fran CISCO is almost dead, because of Chinese com petition, and goods from they Pennsylvania are sold cheaper there than can be made at home. There are at Sheffield, Ala., enterprises now under construction or contract to be com¬ pleted there within six montus to the extent of $ti60,000. inciudiug a $300,000 robing mill, $200,000 railroad shops, etc The London owners of docks, wharves and warehouses have formed a union to combat the demand of labor unions. Lockouts on one hand and new strixes on the other will probably follow in quick succession. Women employed on the Volga River in Russia work from four o'c.ock iu the inoru inv till sunset. Thev carry 140 pounds of freight up high ladders. Men get twent-y two cents per day. women eighteen cents. Moses Boyd, of Dedham, Mass., has been a Boston and Providence Railroad conductor for forty-six years, and he is said to be the oldest conductor in active service ou any road running out of Boston. He is seventy four years old. Dti Island, which which contains the the granite granite for uuarries from came the New York and Philadelphia rostoffices, the Treasury Building at Washington sold and the Brooklyn Bridge has been to an English syndicate, which is to reopen the quarries. Miss Frances E.Williard, who has lived! for many vears in a Chicago suburb, says there are women in that city who make a do: i skirt* for seventv-ffve cants, and find their own thread. Also that there are chil¬ dren who work twelve hours a day for a del tar a week.