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The Magic Touch OF Hood’s Sarsaparilla Too smile at the idea. But If you are a gufferer from Dyspepsia And Indignation, fry * bottle, and be¬ fore you have taken half a dozen done*, you will think, and no doubt exclaim “ That Just hits it l" “ That J-|ood’s Sarsa¬ parilla soothing touch!" Is a magic Hood's effect (2ures Bars a pa r 111 a gently ach and tones digestive and strengthens Invigorates the stom¬ organs. healthy the liver, creates a natural, desire for food, gives refreshing sleep. Hood'S Pills are prompt nnd efficient. CURRENT FACTS. Win n tho daguerreotype was a new Invention tho faco of tho sitter for a portrait was dusted with white pow¬ der. Connecticut has 30,000 farms. Tho tobacco product in 1880 was 14,000, OOO pounds. In almotit every country the greatot number of divorces is granted at the iHdition of tho wife. Dj .Slant lint first wife may bo divorc¬ ed, but cannot bo sold, tho other wives may bo both divorced and sold. In Atlanta tho police raided an old shanty in which fifty negro meu and women had established a Morman temple and wore conducting a sorvico of the rankest blasphemy. When suddenly frightened, lizards will often drop their tails and scurry away. Tho discarded member bounc¬ ing up nnd down, attracts tho atten¬ tion of tho enemy and enables an es¬ cape to bo effected. Hera Toloia was tho principal guar¬ dian of Greek and Roman wives. Her festival was hold in tho spring, and tho principal ceremony was that of array¬ ing her statue in bridal raiment and crowning her altar with bridal flow¬ ers. The United States hns 4,504,fill separate farms, averaging 137 acres each. Almost half tho farms aro said to lw mortgaged. There is a market in Brooklyn for the purchase and slaughter of worn out horses. New Yorkers aro protesting against confectioners selling brandy-drop can¬ dy to children. About 201) drops will yield a teaspoonful of brandy. In Persia, among tho aristocracy, a visitor sends notice an hour or two l>eforo calling and gives a day notieo if tho visit is olio of great importance. The East Indian whipworm will, in a few months, destroy any vessel by eating out tho interior of tho beams nnd planks. They Avill bo left a mere shell that can l>o shattered by tho fist. So great is tho echo in one of the rooms of tho Pantheon that tho strik¬ ing together of tho palms of tho hands is said to make a uoiso equal to tho leport of a twelve-pound cannon. Thomas Edison thinks n great deal of time is wasted in sleep. That may l*e true, but while a person is asleep he is harmless; something that cannot always bo said while ho is awake. Hidden Simula Wreck Ntron* Shlpi, The good bark health, with the bravo mari¬ ner hope at the holm, Is drifting on concealed r«ef* if you nre troubled with inactivity of the kidneys. Shift your course by the aid of HoatettcrVi Stomach Bitter.-*, which will pilot you into the harbor in saft ty, nnd save you from Bright's disoisc, diab-tos or dropsy. The Bittern checks malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia and liver complaint. It i« more blessed to die happy yourself than to make others happy by your (lying. Dr. KUmcr’a s w a m p - It o ot cures all Pamphlet Kidney and and Consultation Bladder troubles. free. • laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. On tho sen of matrimony is frequently heard the moan of the tied. Hall’* Catarrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. Herein the South! * One can get Engravings equal to anything done in the North, and at a much cheaper rate. Whenever you want any kind of cut to Illustrate patents, books, plans, catalogues, letter head*, etc., why, don’t send up North, but keep it? the Why money in tho South. \\ hero can you get have right in Atlanta, Go. All you to do is to write to the Atlanta En¬ graving Co., at S Drool St . ami they will furnish you with all Information. Their Half¬ tone Engravings aro equal to Photographs. No sorrows are heavy enough to be drowned in liquor. >*4 m W KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to nersonal enjoyment when rightly used. and The enjoy many’who life live with bet¬ ter *flan others more, less adapting expenditure, the world’s by best more products promptly to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of tlio pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the re pied ruedy, Its excellence Svrup of is Figs. due its in the form acceptable to presenting and pleas¬ most ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax¬ ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling ana permanently colds, headaches curing constipation. and fevers It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid ening nevs, Liver and Bowels without weak¬ them and it is perfectly free from every Syrup objectionable of is for substance. all drng gists cuts in in 60c 60c and and rip f f 1 1 bottles, bottles, sale, but but by it it is is man Co. ufactured only, by tho California printed Fig 8yrup whose name js on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not teil 21 ■ i REV. DR. TALMAGE. TIIK BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN* DAY SERMON. Subject: “Another Chance.” Text*: “If the tree fall toward the south ot toward the north, In the place where the tree falleth there It shall be.’’—Ecclesiastes xi., 3. There Is a hovering hope in the minds ot a vast multltudethnt there will bo an op¬ portunity mistakes In the next world to correct the of this ; thnt if we do make com¬ plete shore, shipwreck of our earthly life it will bo on a up which we mav walk to a pal¬ ace ; thnt, as a defendant mav lose his case in the circuit court nnd carry it up to the su¬ preme eburt or court of chancery and get a reversal of Judgment in his behalf, all the costs being thrown over on the other party, so, if wo fail In the earthly trial, we may In D»e higher jurisdiction of efernfly have tho judgment of the lower court set aside, all the costs remitted, (l nd wc may be victorious defendants forever. My object in this ser¬ mon is to show that common sense ns well ns my text declares that such an expectation Is chimerical. You say that tho impenitent man, having got Info the next world nnd seoingtho disaster, will, as a result of that disaster, turn, tho pain the cause of his reformation. But you can find 10.000 in¬ stances in this world of men who have done wrong, nnd distress overtook thorn sud¬ they denly. Did the distress heal them? No; Thnt went right on. man wns flung of dissipation*. “Yon must stop drinking,” said the doctor, “and quit destroy tho fast life you are leading, or it will you." Tho patient suffers paroxysm after paroxysm, but under sklllftll medical treatment ho begins to sit up, begins to walk about the room, begins to go to business. And, ]o, ho goes back to the same grog-shop for his morning dram, and his evening dram, nnd tho drams botwoen Flat down again? Hama doctor! Same physical anguish ! Same medical warning ! Now tho Illness is more protracted, tho liver is mote stubborn, the stomach more jrritahle, and thedigestivc or¬ gans are more rebellious. But after a while he is out again, goes back to the dramshops nnd goes the same round of sacrilege against his physical health. Ho sees that his downward course is min¬ ing his household ; thnt his life is a perpet¬ ual perjury against his marriage vow ; that that broken hearted woman is so unlike the hopeful her young wife whrtm lie married that ohl schoolmates do not recognize her; that Ids sons aro to bo taunted for a lifetime by the father’s drunkenness ; thntthednugh ters are to pass into life under the scarificn tlon of a dlsreputahlo ancestor. Ho is P ,he ! r hR .PP ln ? s8 - their prospects for this life, u# and perhaps fortho life to come, Bometimes an appreciation of what he is do ing comes upon him. Ills nervous system is fUl (Mangle. Froni crown of head to solo ol root he is one aching, rasping, crucifying, 'UR torturp. Where is he? In hell on 0 After * J* awhilo ^ A ho rf 'f has orm delirium him ? tremens, with a who o jungle of hissing reptiles let out on hls pillow, and his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, cry ing, Tako these things off me! ’ As he sits pal© and convalescent the doctor sayss Now, 1 want to have a plain talk with you, my dear follow. Tho next attack of this kind you have you wiil bo beyond all modi Cal skill, and you will die.” Ho gets better anfl goes forth into the same fight again, J his timo modlclne takes no effect. Consul tntlou of physicians agree in saying there is Doftf h ends the scene. That process of inebriation, warning and dissolution Is going on within a stone's throw of you, going on In all tho neighborhoods of Gtiristendom. Fain does not correct. Suf rering does not reform. What is true in one sense Is true in all senses nnd will forever be so, and yet men are expecting in the next world purgatorial rejuvenation. Tako up tho printed reports of the prisons of the Unitoa States, and you will find that the vast majority of the incarcerated have been * times. With 1,000,000 aaaViV illustrations 3 ™. fo . ur ’ all ,l r e work- - 8ix ing the other way in this world, people aro expeoting that distress iu the next state will be salvfttory. You cannot imagine any worsj torture in any other world than that which some men hnvo suffered bore, and without ^r>" I* urthermoro, ® ^consequence. the prospect of reforma a t on in the next world is more improbable than a reformation here. In this world the life started with innocence of infancy. Iu the case supposed the other life will open with nil the accumulated bad habits of many years upon him. Surely it is easier to build a an strop old i. ^ hulk ^Pontoi that has new been timber ground than up iu out the of breakers. If with innocence to begin with In tills life a man does not become godly, what prospect is there that in the next world, starting with sin, there would be a seraph ovoiutoar Surely the sculptor has more prospect of making a fine statue out ot a block of pure white Parian marble than out ° U ^ rook seamed and cracked with ui .u the norms i of a half century. Surely upou a clean white sheet of paper it is easier to write a deed or a will than upon a sheet of paper all scribbled and blotted and torn Iu that, 0 ? 1 though L*c>ttt)ra. the life that \et men began seem here to think com P,, y P e Hect turned out bndly, the next life will succeed, though it starts with a dead But, says some one, “I think we ought ohave a ohanoe iu the next life, because this life Is so short it nllows only small op portunity. Wo hardly have time to turn around between cradle and tomb, tho wood ° * ouc * 1 * n R> Die marble of the u B' 1 * 4o you know what made the an clent deluge a necessity? It was the longe vity of tho antediluvians. They were worse n the second century of their lifetime than In the first hundred years, and still worse in the tliird century, and still worse all the way on to 700, 800 and 900 years, nud the earth had to be washed and scrubbed and soaked and anchored clear out of sight for more than a month before it could be made fit for decent people to live in. Longevity never cures impenitency. AU the pictures of Time represent him with a scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of Time with a case of medicines to heal. Beneca says that Nero for the first five years of his public life was set up for an example of clemency and kindness, but his path all tbe way descended until at 63 A. D. he be came a suicide. If 800 veaxs did not make antediluvians any better, but only made them worse, the ages of eternity could have no effect except prolongation of depravity. “But.” says some one, “in the future state evil surroundings will be withdrawn and elevated influences substituted, and hence expurgation and sublimation and glorifiea tion.” But the righteous, all their sins for given, und have passed on into a beatific state. alone. consequently It the unsaved will be left cannot be expected that Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Hindoos the way to heaven, and Dr. Abeel. who gave his life fh the evangelisation of China, and Adonlram Judson, who toiled for the re demptton of Borneo, should be sent down by *ome celestial missionary society to educate those who wasted all their earthly existence. Evangelistic and missionary efforts are ended. The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt salvatory influences by themselves, where are the to gome from? Can one speckled aud bad apple in a barrel of dis eased apples turn the other $pples good? Can those who aro themselves down help others up? Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can a million wrongs make one right? Foneropolis Thracia was a the city where King Philip of put all bad people of his kingdom. If any man had opened a primary school at Poneropolis, I do not think the parents from other cities would have sent their children there. Instead of amendment In the other world, all the associations, now that the goo f are evolved, will be degeuera ling and down. You would not want to send a man to a cholera or yellow fever hospital for his health, and the great lazaretto of the next world, containing the diseased and plague struck, will be a poor place for moral recovery. If the surroundings in this world were crowded of temptation, the surround ingsof the next world, after the righteous have passed up and on, will be a thousand more crowded of temptation. The Count of Chateaubriand made his lit tie son sleep at night at the top of a castle turret, where the winds howled, and where specters were aatd to b»ant the place, and W with -lw fright the son tells us *^5*. that the Rlmost process died that S°^ ld °.°* “® ver fa, 5 ered * Boll dont ?iL kn,a ” V* d th * JteF* ' sMno. I wonder whnt lathe curriculum ot that college of inferno, where, after proper preparation by the sins of this life, tho can¬ didate enter*, passim? on from freshman class of depravity to sophomore of abandon¬ ment, and from sophomore to junior, and from junior to senior, and day of gradua¬ tion comes, nnd with diploma slimed by satnn, the president, and other professorial demoniacs, attesting fhat the candidate has been long enough under their drill, ho passes up to enter heaven ! Pandemonium a sion preparative ! course for heavenly admis¬ Ah, my friends, satan and his eoherts have fitted uncounted millions for ruin, but never fitted one soul for happiness! world Furthermore, it would not be safe for this if men had another chance In the next. If it had been announced that, how¬ ever he wickedly a man might net in this world, could fix it up all right in tho next, society would bo terribly demoralized, and the human race demolished in a few years. The fear that if wo are bad and unforgiven here it will not bo well for us in the next ex¬ istence is the chief influence that keeps civil¬ ization from rushing back to semibarbar¬ ism, and semibarbarism from rushing into mighty savagery, and midnight savagery from extinction, for it is the astringent im¬ pression heathen, that of there all nations. is future' Christian chaneo and for no those who have wasted this. Multitudes of meu who are kept withid bounds would say : “Go to. now ! Let me get all out of this life there is in it. Come, gluttony and inebriation and uucleanness and revenge and all sensualities, and wait upon me! My life may be somewhat short¬ ened in this world by dissoluteness, but that will only make heavenly indulgence on a larger scale the sooner possible. I will over^ take tho saints at last and will enter the heavenly temple only a little later than those who behaved themselves here. I will on my way to heaven take a little wider ex¬ cursion than those who were on earth pioxis, and I shall go to heaven via gebenna and via sheol.” Another chance in the next world means free license and wild abandon¬ ment in this. Suppose you were a party in an important case at law, and you knew from consultation with judges an 1 attorneys that it would be tried twice, and the first trial would lie <>f little importance, but that the second would decide everything, for which trial would you make the most preparation, for which retain the ablest attorneys, for which be most anx¬ ious about the attendauce of witnesses 1 ! 1 You would put all the stress upon the second trial, all the anxiety, all tho expenditure, saying, everything.” “The first is nothing, tho last is Give the race an assurance of a second and more important trial in the subsequent eternity would life, and all the preparation for bo “post mortem,” pi ost fu neral, post sepulchral, and the world with oue lessuess. jerk be pitched off inV> impiety and god should Furthermore, given let me ask whv a chanc# be in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Sup pose you give a banquet, and you invite a vast number of friends, but one mau de dines to come or treats your invitation with indifference. Yon in tho course of twenty years give twenty banquets, and the same man is invited to them all and treats them all in the same obnoxious way. After a while you remove to nnother house larger and bet ter, and you again invite your friends, but send no Invitation to the man who declined or neglected the other invitations Are you to blame? Has ho a right to expect to be invited after all the indignities ho has done you? God in this world has invited us all to tho banquot of His grace. He invited us by His proyi dence and Ilis spirit 865 days of every year since wo knew our right hand from our Jeff, If we declined it every timo or treated tho invitation with Indifference and gave twenty or forty or fifty years of indignity on our part toward the banqueter, au l at last He spreads the banquet in a more luxurious and kingly place, atnid the heavenly gardens, have we a right to expect Him to invite us again, and have we a right to blaino Ilim if He does not invite us? If twelve gates ot salvation stool open twenty years or fifty years for our admis sion, and at the end of that time they are closed, can we complain of it and say: ‘‘These gates ought to be open again. Give us another chance?” If thesteameristosail for Hamburg, and we wart to get to Ger many by that line, and wo read in every evening and every morning newspaper that it will sail on a certain day. for two weeks we have that advertisement before our eyes, uud then wo go down to the doeka fifteen minutes after it has shoved off into the stream and say. “Come back ! Give me another chance! It is not fair to treat me in this way l Swing up to the dock again and throw out planks and let me come ou board ! ’ Such behavior would invito arrest as a madman And if, after tho gospel shin has lain at anchor before our eyes for years and years, and all tho benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us to get on board, as 8 he might sail away at any moment, and after awhile she sails without us, is it common sense to expect her to come back? You might as well go oiit on the highlands a t Navesink and call to the Majestic after she has been three days out and expect her to return as to call back an opportunity for heaven when it once has sped away. All heaven offered us as a gratuity, and for a lifetime we refuso to take it, and then rush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler de manding another chance. There ought to be, there can be, there will be. no such thing as posthumous opportunity. Thus our common sense agrees with my text. “If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the placo where the tree falJeth there it shall be.” You see this idea lifts this world up from an unimportant way station to a platform of stunendous issues and makes all eternity whirl arouudthis hour. But one trial for which all the preparation must be made in this world or never made at all. That piles up all the emphases and all the climaxes and all the destinies into life here. No other chance! O’j, how that augments the value and importance of this chance! Alexander with his army used to sujrround acityandthen would lift a great light iu token to the people that if they surrendered before that light went ont ali would be well, but if once the light went out then the bat tering rams would swing against the wall, and demolition and disaster would follow. Well, all we need do for our present and everlasting safety is to make surrender to Christ, the King and Conqueror—surrender of our hearts, surrender of our lives, sur render of everything. Aud He keeps a great light burning, light of gospel invitation, light kindled with the wood of the cross and flaming up against the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Surrender while that great light continues to burn, for after it goes out there will be no otheropportunity of making peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of another chance ! Why, this is a supernal chance! In the time of Edward VL, at the battle of Musselburg. a private soldier, seeing that the Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took eff his own helmet and put it upou the head of the earl, and tho head of the privato eol dier, uncovered, he was soon slain, while his commander rode safely out of the battle, But in our case, instead ot a private soldier offering helmet to an earl, it is a King put ting His crown upbn an unworthy subject the King dying that we might live-* Tell it to all points of the compas*. Tell it to night and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven, Tell It to all centuries, all ages, all millennf urns, that we have such a magnificent chance in this world that we need no other chance in the next. I am in the burnished judgment hallo! the last day. A great white throne is lifted, but the judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I hear immor tal spirits in conversation. “What are you waiting here for?” says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that ascended from America. The latter says. “I came from America where forty years I heard the gospel preached and Bible read, and from the prayer that I learned in infancy on my mother's knee until my last hour I had gos¬ pel advantage, Christian but for some reason I T diet not make tho choice, and am her« waiting for the judge to give me a new trial and another chance.” “Strange!” says the other. “I had but one gospel call in Mada gascar, and I accepted it, and I do not need another chance.” “Why are you here?” says one who on earth had feebleet intellect to one who had great brain and silvery* tongue and scepters of influence. The latter respond* • “Oh. I knew more than my fellows. I mastered libraries and had learned titles from col lege*, and my name was a synonym for eloquence and power. And yet I neglected my soul, and I am here waiting for a new “Strange.” says the one of the feeble earthly capacity. “I knew but little Worldly knowledge, but T I knew Christ (SK3*, Now the ground trembles with th« ap¬ proaching chariot. The great folding - loon of the hall swing open. “Stand back?'* cry the celestial ushers. “Stand back, a ad lot the judge of quick and dead pass through V' He takes the throne, and looking over the throng of nations He says, “Come to judg¬ ment, the last judgment, the holy judg¬ ment? ’ By one flash from the throne all the history of each one flames forth to tho vi¬ sion of Himself and all others, “Divide!” • says the judge to the assembly, “Divide!” echo the walls. “Divide!” cry the guards angelic. And now tho immortals separate, rushing this way and that, and after awhile there is a great aisle between them. arid a great vacuum widening and wtdenin p, and the judge, turning to the throngoaone side, says. “He that is righteous, let him be right¬ eous still: and he that is holy, let him ba holy still,'* and then, turning toward the throng on the opposite side, he savs. “Ke that is unjust, fet him be unjust still,” still: and he that is filthy, jet him be flithy and then, lifting one hand toward each group, he declares, “If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.” And then I hear something jar with a great sound. It is the closing of tt«e book of judgment. The judge ascends th e stairs be¬ hind the throne. The hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high, court oi eternity is adjourned forever. CONGRESSIONAL. DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE. The Discussion of Important Measures Briefly Epitomized. No timo was lost by the house Thursday in getting to work on the Indian appropriation bill, and ten minutes after meeting, the house went into committee of the whole on tho Indian bill. In the house, Friday, a resolution was reported from the committee on rules directing tho immediate consid¬ eration of the Indian appropriation bill, beginning with page 52, under the five minute rule, until 3:30 o’clock when the previous question would be considered as ordered on all pending amendments, and on the pas¬ sage of the bill. Tho resolution was passed as amended, fixing 3 :30 o’clock Saturday as the hour for closing the debate on the bill. After ten days’ consideration of the measure, the house, Saturday, oper¬ ating under the rule adopted Friday, finally disposed of the Indian appro¬ priation bill substantially as reported to the house by the committee on In¬ dian affairs. There were numerous minor amendments agreed to in the course of the debate upon the bill, but tho most important, probably, was thnt offered bv Mr. Coffeen, democrat, of Wyoming, dire cting the secretary of the interior to detail a special agent to negotiate with the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians for the purchase of a portion of the Shoshone reservatiou in Wyoming. The house spent the day Monday on Mr. Hatch’s anti-option bill. An effort was made by its opponents to prevent its consideration, but they lost, the vote standing 132 to 81. Tuesday morning, in the absence of Speaker Crisp, Representative Baily was appointed speaker pro tem of the house. Tho house proceeded in com¬ mittee of the whole to the further con¬ sideration of the anti-option bill. Coombs, of New York, was the first speaker in opposition to the bill, THE SENATE. The tariff bill was taken up at 10:30 in the senate, Thursday, the fiist para¬ graph in the wool schedule being the one under consideration. Mr. Lodge made an argument against placing wool on the free list. Mr. Teller also opposed placing wool on the free list. The tariff bill was laid before the senate Friday and Mr. Dolph took the floor and resumed the speech he was making against free wool when the sen¬ ate adjourned Thursday night. Mr. Carey also spoke against putting coal on the free list, and was followed by Mr. Kyle in favor of it. Among the business of the morning half-hour in tho senato Saturday Avas the passage of a senate bill releasing and discharging the sureties of Osias Morgan, land office receiver in Talla¬ hassee, Fla., from 1 866 to 18TO. The tariff bill was taken up at 10:30 o’clock and fair jjrogress was made in its con¬ sideration. No business of general interest was transacted in the morning half hour in the senate Monday. At 10:30 the tariff bill was taken up, the pending question being on the first two para¬ graphs or the silk schedule—298 and 299—which had been reserved on Sat¬ urday. At tho request of Mr. Platt, the paragraphs went over without ac¬ tion until Tuesday. The tariff bill was taken up in the senate at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday, and the free list reached at noon. No ac¬ tion was taken on the paragraph as to when the bill is to take effect, that question being left open. The amend¬ ment offered by Senator Jbnes was agreed to, adding a paragraph putting on the free list cattle, horses, sheep, or other domestic animals, that have strayed or been driven for pasturage across the border line between the United States and Mexico. Fifty par¬ agraphs of the free list have been gone over with very little delay or friction, except in the matter of books, and the action of tho finance committee on that, as on all other subjects, has pre¬ vailed. A PROMISE OF FULL PAY. Mobile and Ohio Railroad Men Re¬ ceive a Pleasant Notice. President and General Manager Clarke, of the Mobile and Ohio, has addressed a circular to the engineers employed on the entire system, and to the conductors, brakemen, firemen and switchmen employed on the system south of the Ohio river, in which he notifies them that, although they ac¬ cepted a redaction of 8 per cent from the let of Mayi the railroad company will not hold • the engineers to the agreement which they made on May let, but will only ask them to accept a reduction of 4 per cent for June, July and August, after which time the full compensation agreed upon is to be re¬ stored. To the trainmen south of the Ohio a similar restoration of one-half the reduction formerly agreed upon is made. This restoration will equalize all wage reductions with the arbitra¬ tors’ finding in the case of the en¬ gineers north of the Ohio, who agreed upon a 4 per cent cut for three months. Un a tsaapooaftil of ammonfe to o&« ttttnpfil 9t wit* to ctoaiac Irjr, * , NATIONAL CAPITAL. NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASH¬ INGTON CITY. Brief Notes Concerning the Business of Our Government. On the 20th and 21st of July exami¬ nations will be held under the aus¬ pices of the United States civil service commissioners for matrons, teachers and superintendents in the Indian schools of the country. Senator Gordon has introduced the Atlanta exposition bill in the senate and it has been referred to the commit¬ tee on education and labor. Senators Gordon and Walsh will urge tho com¬ mittee to act upon it at once nud both are sanguine that it will be attached to the sundry civil bill by the senate. The senatorial sugar investigation committee has decided to summon ev¬ ery member of tho senate before it to ascertain whether ho had any connec¬ tion with the sugar trust meu, whether he has speculated in sugar, and whether he knows anything about the efforts of the trust to secure a change in tho schedule. The lighthouse tender Maple, with President Cleveland on board, return¬ ed from her errise down the lower Chesapeake bay and outside capes Tuesday morning. The president re¬ mained on board until the white liouso carriage and Private Secretary Thur ber arrived, and was then driven to the executive mansion. He lias been much benetitted by the trip. The senate committee on education and labor unanimously decided to fa¬ vorably report the bill providing for an appropriation of $200,000 for r government exhibit at tho proposed Cotton Exposition to be held at At¬ lanta, Ga., in the autumn of next year, and decided to recommend that the bill be appended to the sundry civil appropriation bill as an amendment. Coxey and Browne, of the common¬ weal movement, were granted a hear¬ ing by the senate committee on edu¬ cation and labor, Friday, to advocate their “good roads” bill. They urged the passage of the bill on the ground that, if passed, it would provide em¬ ployment for the idle men of the coun¬ try. The hearing was not completed, and it will bo resumed on the 27th instant. In the gerneal deficiency bill, re¬ ported to the house Monday, an ap¬ propriation of $1,700 is made to Thomas E. Watson to pay the expenses of his contest foi Major Black’s seat. A similar amount is appropriated to Major Black. Both gentlemen put in an itemized account of their expendi¬ tures in obtaining evidence and in lawyer’s fees to the committee on elec¬ tions and that committee recommended that the appropriations committee al¬ low them $1,700. The Nicaragua canal bill, which will be reported to the house, lias so far assumed tangibility that only one point remains to be settled. That is the question of tho kind of funds to be issued by the government, and it has been discussed at great length by tho sub-committee, a most imjwrtunt proposition being taken up which in¬ volves the coinage of silver to defray in whole or part the expenses of tho work. The idea of issuing silver met with great favor from the committee¬ men. The testimony given by Senator Vest before the senate investigating committee telling how the finance com¬ mittee had been held up by six demo¬ cratic senators and forced to make the sugar schedule to suit tho trust, has aroused many of the democrats of the house to a pitch where they would rather have no tariff legislation than the senate trust measure. It now seems probable that the senate will send the bill back to the house by the 1st of July. Then there will be a long and bitter fight in the conference com¬ mittee. The senate refused Monday by an almost unanimous vote to put coal on the free list. The amendment was of¬ fered by Senator Hill, He and Sena¬ tor Irby, of South Carolina, were tho only democrats who voted for it. The three populists, however, voted with them. Thus coal remains in the bill with a duty of 40 cents a ton on it. The senate made good progress on tho bill, and the managers predict that a final vote will be reached this week. With the wool, coal, iron and sugar schedules passed over, the income tax is the only feature remaining in the bill which is expected to excite a con¬ flict. After more than a week’s de¬ bate the house finally passed the Indian appropriation bill. This closes up the list of appropriation bills in the house with the ex¬ ception of the deficiency bill. The only other important matters pending before the house unacted on are the anti-option bill, which will come up in a few days; the Cotton States and International exposition bill, which is expected to go on the sundry civil bill in the senate, and the bankruptcy bill. The house could adjourn within two weeks were it not for the delay caused by the sen¬ ate. The banking and currency com¬ mittee has elected Messrs. Cox of Ten¬ nessee, Cobb of Missouri, Culberson of Texas, Henderson of Illinois, anil Hanger of Wisconsin as a committee to prepare a banking bill. They will, however, probably not be able to pre¬ pare it in time for action by congress at this session. SALE OF THE R. & D. The Property Bought by Drexel, Mor¬ gan & Co., for $2,030,000. The Richmond and Danville railroad was sold at Richmond, Ya., under a de¬ cree of the United States circuit court. The sale was conducted by the special commissioners. The only bidders for the property were Messrs. C. H. Coster and A. J. Thomas, repre¬ senting Drexel, Morgan k Compa¬ ny reorganization committee. The property was first put up separately, a bid of $25,000 being offered for the West Point Terminal, and 82,000,000 for the Richmond and Danvill, Messrs Thomas and Coster making both bids. 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