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The Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. CflA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA Entered »t the postoffice at OtwfordTille, Georgia, as second-claas mail matter. W- - ; — ..... . ..... ................ ------------- - SI NDAY SCHOOL ixrri;\ atjo,\a /. lesson run AUGUST lit. l.rsson TriD “Tin* »* Tiibfran **!«•«. 9t xxiib, SI<1-44 -4*#ldi , n Ti*m !’*• cxviU., !•» ( fiinuirninn' onllir Lfbuon. Thi* chnpter nmy well lw called “The Chapter of the Fwiku of thft Lord” or “Tho f.'haptfpr of tho Holy Convocation*,” tha fortnor i*xpr««sion and ending: th© chapter, and found aim in verne* 4, 37, while tho latter ik found no le*% than cloven time* in this chapter. The word “feast” in then© four verges referred to HignifteH “a set or appointed time or wiasmi. and in tho ex ptexKion “taliurnacle of the corntrogation” and round t-o otUtn in KxodiH, te?vj|l uh >uii»U*i k it is the n'iiiio word there translated “congregation.” ('oilvocation signiiieH an asfM*nii»ly or calling togetln r of the rendered people, and in Keheiniah viii., h, it is “reading” or that which caused the peo¬ ple to come to/ether. We have then before us an account of the set times in the year when (*<»d wouhl have His p:*»ple IsrarU Pi fome lx Jo re Hun to remember Him merci¬ ful dealing* with them, to seek and obtain the forgi veiicR* of their sin*, and to rejoice ItectiuHr of their manifold t lesHinj;* 1.7, eujoveri at Hih iiaiids. in Kx. xxiii . II we fl in-i thntthn*<‘ tirmsf in the year they were nil the to keep a fount unto Him, nt Tl»i* which command times i* i»etj mitet be preuent. re ix'Apvl in Kx. xxxiv., “ Dent, xvi., Pi; find le*t they might tear any harm coming to their thus apparently unprotected homes in their abseii' e, Hod « sjir-’K tliem that when they go uptyi apiHMir Indore Hun, He will to the safety of tlieir pOMHomious. (Kjl xxxiv., oh. “And the I/>rd *|»oke,” How little we are apt to think of this most weight y state¬ ment. It ought to cause us to give heed with nil our i>ower* a* we remeuiiMir that while other things pas* away “the word of our God shall stand forever. ’ This statement i* found in verses L U, ‘SA, ICl, of one chapter, thus dividing it into ilvn sections, the last, of which i* our lesson. We do well to keep in mind that the Lor 1 *|ieiiks to Mohom from off the mercy s«*at. Imtween the cherubim, that blood sprinkkwi mercy neat which we saw In last week** lessen. *M. “H|*Mik unto the children of I •rank M was simply th»« Lord * mouthpiece to the jH'Opie and hud only to *uy what the Lord told him “Sp ak with My words unto them * ♦ hear the word nt My mouth and give them warning from me * (Erek. Hi,, 4, l<i, was the command to Ezekiel, and when we hear our Lord Jesus saying “The Father xvho sent me, gave me ncommandment, wlmt J xii., should say How and what careful I should all teacher* speak” (John and 4*J), their preacher# *hou!d i*» not to utter own word*, lie but *c©k speak. to yield unto the Holy Spirit fh*t may , “The llflecnth day of the wvanth month.” It .is lor (ted t< api*Oint the day, and for us to be oiiedtent. It wr* on the first day of this niout-h that they blew with the trum t**ts, and on the tenth day we* the great an¬ nual ntitficinetit of l««t week's ie.«son. The fiftieth year or year of jubilee was ushensi in by the bl oving of truinjoiison th© atone tlKUli (XXV., 11, tOl, “Tin* feast of faliernaclti* seven days unto the Lord,” In Ex. xxiii., Hi; xxxiv., *J*J, it 1* culled the fo ist of all ingathering fruits U'causo of they the had gathered in their out field (also v. lid of our loss »n). Verse* 4u to 4’i t(*ll tis why it is called the feast of the talxrnncli'S; brunches of They and all made took booth# bough# which and hi they dwelt seven r#fnetiils«r«sl day*, rejoicing their Indore days the Jiord, ns wilderness, th •}’ when they had forty in the no crop* to gather in, butt-hoy dwelt in tent* and God fed th m. Ill Nell vili., 14 btiijfc 18, we rend that a* they kept this feast they their booth* on th-* roof* of their houses, or in their courts, or in the street*; 1ml we also read there that the nation Joshua great y neglected Neheminh this command, for from to they kept not this feast. Who can tell how itun h t he uege t of this and other command* Im l to do with the downfall of the nation f .’15, “An holy convocation,” Isvaus© it was a gathering unto, and in the name of the Holy Una of Israel. He was their holiness, ©veil as he is ours, and apart from Him there is no holme**. “No servile work.” Nine tinu** in this chapter are wo told servile of no work, work or no li, man¬ 7, S, ner of work, or no (v* V\, ”5, >, IU, ;k\ *M\\ in iHxmoction with these holy days. All true servi n* ought to be joy¬ ful M*r\ KH*. a glad thank offering to Him who s(s*nks from off the tnorcy seat, who Himself is our mercy All slavish work, or work done because ws ought to do it, or must do it .shmdd lta\e no place in the nervir© of such h Uttln'imr, “whose aervica i* jwfwt free dom. ” V ;y\. “An Oflfering made by fire unto the l ord.” Twice in tins verse, and five time* idsewher© in tin* chapter do we tlmithisex (tression tvs 8, Id, is, V5, “Ii. It was l»o caus»' ot non otTeviug V*v but t\i*e that th- ri' vvn* to be no w rvile work only j»iy iu the l ord, with ibaiji humility of otfeivd st«ul Every* day in all the year there was th# contin¬ ual burnt offering morning and evening, nechl i*e Mir the special offerings of ad (HH'AXSOItl and if you would now h**w imi h lalior dm olved upon the priest* on the *1 MS'ial OiX^doii «»f the fo.-iM of talwis«ii’\ vou have only tv» read «mvfuHy Num. sxix. 1.' i\ *1*, "Kvsrvthinj: upon His dny, w Hac i and the number »f them f,■..-!< and the onter ot them all appointed hy ticsl and every Mime; upon Hi* day, the priestaand the pe»pli' had on oontmand I v to in‘ a I aright “To ami I** oU'4i- th© ent, anti the was: writ© words of the l»ay by taw day very plainly/’ in thwit. Him \xvii., \ we are to tx-st who for all l© aim» our *a«’rifiiv; dav by liveth day we are to rejoin* in Hun who ever to make iuU*r\vs*u»n tv*r us. no t day findtbdo, by day we are t*» do joyfully what onhaui* "every! lung uik'n 11 - day' . xx ye unto the lA»r,l ' Israel wa- re pimsl t,i g ve mite the 1a»i\1 for hi* worship and for their own great good, l,,M,ies every -, v,-nth ,lav in the wlnile year, ttu-M- three annual S'AMiiii of from (Mia to M‘Vt*ii or more da vs. when everything ordinary had t-> I* 1 laid Mid©; they had also to give on* U'ittii of all their increase besitie* thrir *}»e :al nifts ami study vows and frt*© lesson will oflfermgv 1/4 all wh ' this oonsuler whether with all our *rneat anything jxrivUejfos like Israel ami m *mistsi light w-y* of are m the matter fad kfulness or untaithfulnevv m roft reius* u> worship •M Having or Ififta glanced all the now at vere ' in fiw liMQn (twwt neni touchel ti[io* id connection w.th verse ^4 let us look at tS.e feast* of the l/ord in their referent to Christ ami Mosm to deolar.-* us. ami tliem max tie* spirit that n ' «as iu unto tis. i I If * —~ une sfurit in 1‘aul derlarw* that lay* x . feast dav* m*w iiwoiih »n l Sal bath <U\ > arv a tshatiow of thiturs to th ill It*. Iwii ItL 17 Ttiat v bruit our Pmaiawr has MtTjfi'wi ft»r us ami that «. ar© to Ww; p tiw» with th© uuV©av©n©d tvrva-l of wnctTsfv axid truth imriring out all Ui** iv!«i kaax'au of itialu*:.* aijii «Ki He aloe U IK us that Christ Hs*n frxifti th© dead is the* fir**! frut Is of th^tn that luhotanc© ■loaf I. Oor. xv , *.*i. Hart* then is iltt* of th© first throw of tiw senn feasts. Christ the true naasover, Chn*t the THE DEMOCRAT, CRA iRDVTLLE, GEORGIA. true unleavened bread, and Chrint risen from the dead the true first fruit*, Now the fourth of the seven feasts, in the thirl month, called the feast of weeks because it was jnat seven week* or fiftv day* after the last feast, called a‘so the feast of harvest or first fruits of wheat harvest, clear 1 y points us to that which occurred fifty days after the resurrection of Christ, viz., the conversion of thousands of Jews when the spirit was poured out at Pentecost. But all the first fruits are not in yet, and the reaping at Pent -cost was only a beginning. In James i., IS, writing to the twelve tribes of the dispersion, he «f>e ika of the believe™ as “a kind of first fruits;” and In Rev. 14, 4, the ]44,00.» of the sealed ones of the seventh chapter are calle I “a first fruits unto God and to the Lamb;” then, in Kov. xlv.. 15, we have the gre.it hnrvstor r-aping time, after the fall of Babylon, which is then opened Rev. ur> more xix., fully in Rev. xvii., xviii,; in xx., the marriage of tfio binding Lamb, of tho judgment after of which the nations, the Ha tan, comes the thousand years when least Israel, in their own land, shall, from the to the greatest, know the lord for they shall /is a nation have been converted by the appearing of the Hon of Man in power and g ory, accompanied by His saints (Zech. xii., xiii.i: and then shall the true fea >t of taborimolee \to kept, when “the lord shall be Ring over all the earth,” ami shill “those that from are hit of the nations go up year to year to Jerusalem to womb** - the Lord of Hofts, ana u> ke«-p th feist of tftfK*rna les. Z*ch xiv,, *K 1<’», 17, The*©feasts of the Ix>rd are Jewish feasts and carry us forw ard to the redemption of Israel as a na¬ tion. and the restoration of all things of whirl! tiie prophets have spoken. Would you see that day and lx* one Of tho«o who ran truly say, even now; “When Christ, who Is rnv Iif<*. shall appear. then shall I apjiear with Him in glory f’ Then see to it that you are, by faitli in Cnritt, one of the righteous, in whose laxly is seen, day by day, salvation for¬ and rejoicing, because your sin* are given, because you are by His grace to have all leaven purged out of your life, and because you are Joyfully looking forward to apart in the first resurrection at His coming. Go 1 grant to every reader a gio r ouk foretaste of the f *ast of tabernacles by giving : “My bolovod is inino and I am Hi*;” “He is the ehief-*st ten thousand, and altogether lovely;” “My soul doth wait for Him, and in His word l hope .”—Lesson Helper. LABOR NOTES. Denver produc©* 1JKK),000 brick* atiay. W ELDf N(j by electricity ha* come to stay. American nilk munufacturinK i* crowd¬ ing out foreign nilk. Hoyk g»*t tl « day and their keeping for picking fruit in California. Tiik industry of nur^ical instrument mak ing ho* doubled in thro*' years. The Federation of Labor ha* added .‘*0,000 to it# meml*#r*hip within a year. The campaign badge industry at Attleboro, Mhvm., has liicrewd twofold him e 1BMI. Ost- of the 1 k*h( paid trade* in the United State# is tlmt of the green glass blower*. Armim ii, the Chicago packer, i« said to be ttm greatest Individual employer in the world. It i* asserted that there is not one farm hand in ten thousand who knows how to feed live stock. Bhakkmrn on the Duluth and Iron Itansjft railroad have struck for » per month, an increase of 110. Tiiiikk hundred and forty Japan, person* in are making con¬ stantly employed at Kiota, playing cat d*. York In the several carpet mills of New there are 2700 female* employed who aver age $8 per ww^k. A 9m sun(f fa» fcorv. the only one south of Hie Ohio river, is in course of erection at Nashville, Term. Tine street laborers’ strike at. Duluth, Minn., ha* Im*ou settled, the men returning to work at #1.75 a day. Tiik *hop« of the Reading Hni’road at Heading, Penn., run nearly the length of tho town on each #ide of the river. Pittshchuh Knight* of Labor are agita¬ of ted by the (juration whether members baseball nines are workingmen. Till v nr** using Connell#villa tre.ui.) coke in .Newfoundland. England lias heretofore supplied this market exclusively. Gkiuuan. ami English manufacturer* tlnd American wares so popular that they have Iteguti to use American trade marks. At Salvador, Central America, they make umbrellas, carpets, lied*, bridle reins, lariat* ami ropes from the lll>er of the banana tree. Tur. Uigelow Carpet Company Mil's have at Clinton, Mass,, employing 1 i<H) hands, shut down on account of the scarcity of work. The Government of China has ordered *i\ locomotive* of home manufacturer*. They will each cost £2l,(KRI in gold, and will lie like our engines. Tiik Old Colony Railroad and Steamboat Company of Mussschusett. Itus over (U)00 men in iU employ, an 1 the i*av roll for hist mouth amounted to over $J00,tHK). Thkuk are paid #4,NGd,000 annuaUv, in Troy, N T Y., for wage<, in the shirt an I col¬ lar industry. Annual sales amount to $10,* (HIOJHH); numlw’i of employes 15,740. (*xko( Philadelphia * biggest manufactur¬ ing (*oiK'«»rns of textile machinery, i* to go to Augusta, bn., where fifty acres of land htdp nav« it been donated and $.5",000 raistsi to along. about (M the 5<K)0 10,oo0 live piauomake* New York. in this Kach country, in one makes about $1S n week, and rareot licriong# members to an organisation which takes \te when sick or out of work. Labor wark in rru«*iA days in is the rapidly week, being the form! old st*v«m /or xvages, and the I’russiau Oovernmaiit has now under iamsid©ratioti a bill to restrict lattbor to six days out of seven. Indiana n»prx»**»nti»ig is reported the investment as having over 1 000 mills, of $'.\5(k\ (nki, ami using over H'AMfcki.OOfl xvort-h of raw material yearly. It. taxes nearly 40.M em* plovet to operate the mills, nmi they draw «u>ve 81,.MlO,iiOOannually in wages, .——-—-* — — DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. \ Fatal Aorldenf •>u mi In,liana Railway A passenger train on the Fair land and Franklin railroad met with a frightful ^ Atel baggage ™ ear* «-«««-»• and |nreenger >*•«- era h wore •«*•*« thrown d,,«n a st«vq, emhauktnent, and twenty on,- |.aw».m* were injured, ten of them *Ated> Apevi was running at its usual rat' of w!u-n the aroi ienl ,wurr,sl The Ire ** hnti jviss*» t a h*','koii rwd, t*ut th*» engme«'r did not notice it \Y hen Uie lw»g rege car struck the defect it jumfasi from the track dragging aft *r it the mail car and one passenger coach The t :* ours worn plunged down an embankiuout , »f fifty four fe<>;. .. 1 . he hurletl violeuGy tlieir , pns^pn^.rs were out of seat*- The ear furniture *»« wrenched from u> fastenings and thrown atiout, strikinjc several of the }*i>s ngers and \ «n n * ns ™ m to °* khe c*ar. The twi 'h turned oxvr three or four t-me* in its tie Not a passenger m th oar csca i ssi injur lli©r v mx lacilita^ for caring for the wooihW, »* th «• OAvnlaiit ocnumxi in a sfttiaJ knatioa wh<*r© u >^ra|»b:« ami I'tbi'* la lif-t*-* arv* \©r> Mt v Mary Ra it.ms an old womait uvty yuars ot a^v, ha* Uwu taken to the n *aa© vioVmiy asylum m l ittsl *ugU”* ^ was made ituuw thr 1CKII « ivsultilg from oatuig >li* -av^i fruit an i vt^j©tahhs© taken from garbrnra t*iiivk NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle State*. Colomx Carroll D. Wright has re sixwl as Chief of the Bureau of Labor Sta¬ tistics of Massachusetts, and Horace 0, Wad Mil haa been appointed to succeed him. Tiik firm of John Taylor & Co., Trenton, the leadin'? pork packers in New Jersey, has failed, with liabilities estimated at *250,000. F irk broke out at an early hour Wednes dav morning; in trie ba-einent of a crowded New York tenement house. The family of top floor/were 'uZTt ’e^'Xm £ iiames and were burned to death. They were Gustave Berg, aged forty years; his wife, aired thirty six; Mrs. Kranss, his moth er in-law, ami his daughter, Lizzie, aged s v.-nUy-.n. Tiik residence of William Graves, at Pitt* burg, was struck by lightning during a re¬ cent severe storm. The current was attract¬ ed to the steel springs of the tied on which Graves and his wife were sleeping, and both ■■■• ere killed. in F; the n Delaware R women and River, a little opposite girl were Penns drowned Grove, Del., by the capsizing or a little sloop that hod 1-o.ei struck by a waterspout during a heavy thunderstorm. I'T.l.iS Coi.i.kok, Aurora, N. Y., where Mr- Cleveland was educated, has been destroyed by lire. A rich discovery of gold-bearing quartz is reported from Center County, Penn. Diphtheria is epidemic in Everett, Mass. There has been an average of one death a day therefrom for the past month.) I.rri in iiii.i). Conn . was visited by a di» ast roug fire which consumed the new Conrt House and a large portion of her business blocks, ill- Joss is estimated at *150,000. Son (I. and West. A a niKANTiiOi sgtorra . . has visited ...... the cen trill section of Missouri. Crops were greatly damaged heavy In and the losses on town Glasgow property are the vicinity of crops are I ju red fifty j>er cent., while the damage to t5i 8 l«^iu business bne i.ounty houses the damage will exceed will reach * 00,000. iho loss at Norbone vicinity reaches *1(10,000 At Water baptist church and two business houses were destroyed. I v the Choctaw Nation a family named murdered Myers—man. wife and two children—were ten days ago on tho Red Rivey forty miles above Denison, Texas, by a Viand of half breed marauders. Two hundred imported Italian laborerson the new railroad at Findlay, < »hio, have lieon placed on cars tor shipment back to Italy. ii, ..... l-........... ,,, , er S. ... raa,m and - ' ihJ. iu' ten 1 ! nil ? aaoO'iui'd R'sler, wer at * gumey, in 111., while i . robbing his apple orchard < HAiif.F.s 1 ‘krkinh, a noted horse thief ami murderer, shot and killed two deputy marshals and a citizen at Marshall’s Ferry, lndiau Territory, while they were attempt ing to arrest him. The Rev. J. W. Hanford, Indian teacher and missionary at Ht. Stephen’s Mission, Dakota, was thrown from a mowing machine and so badly mangled that he blod to death before assistance could lie procured (iKnjiiiEN. Mu,i.mt fell into a vat of licit liquor boiled at death. Salem Mass., and was literally to Gkohok Stamper, a trtinnt, on the farm of Rev. John Giddens, in Bradley County, TVnn., hiul a quarrel with his landlord, dur¬ ing which he totally cut the preacher’s throat. The Kioux Indians, who have been holding • shim- council the at proposition Standing Ro of k the Agency Government to con to throw o)ieii their reservation to settlers, huve adjourned, after number threatening who Bhould to kill the ffrst one of their sign tho treaty. Ukti'hkk from the AlabamnState el show that the Democrats have ticket by a majority of 100,000. The Regia lature is overn-helmingly Democratic in both branches, while Governor Seay and the Democrutic State ticket carriedevery county by considerable majorities. Tm; State Convention of Indiana Republi cans ted nssembled full state at ticket, Indianapolis headed by and General nomi na a ^miSalSs Alvin 1* 1 Invftv for (invurnor SSKSr. and itocA Trn T II '' Mas. Francis A. Scott, widow of a dis tiiipmsliwl Gonfoilerata Gencrul, has com of mittod her suicide at Memphis,T hUI., on extremo poverty. Fike destroyed tho inimonso lumber rail)* of (’. See & Co., nt Saginaw, Mich., causing a loss of over $*>00,000. Tiik Alabama Democratic State Conven¬ tion met at Atlanta and renominated John U. Gordon unauimously for Governor. All the State Olliers were renominated and an electoral ticket was selected A demkxtkd oinplove of the Achland.after Rockwood pottery at Cincinnati, William ouarreling with the engineer, fatally shot James him. Flyer, drew a revolver an 1 The fireman, Joseph Bailey, then interfered, and Achiand killed him and then committed suicide. A bold mail robbery has been committed on the Missouri Pacific road, betweeu Joffer son Uitv and St. Louis, in whichever $17,000 was stolen, of which $.'>000 was from the Missouri State Treasury. The Republicans of Michigan assembled in State Convention at Detroit and placed in nomination a complete State ticket headed by Cyrus G. Lure for Governor. The Na tonal teu.,Wmice -publican platform added was favoring indorsed an.l a plank was s 1™->»1 not 1 ion Washington. Prksiiwxt Cl.EVKLA.VD has approved the art making Decoration Day a legal holiday in tin- District of Columbia and the act to extend the Government the leave of printing absence office of employes thirty of to days each year Bhoh D the bill granting Mrs. Irene Ruck er Sheridan, wid -w of General introduce,!’!!! Sheridan, a pension of f-teA) per annum, the Senate bv Mr. Farwell, become a law.it will 1« the only case where this r • „• &&V a*ssj t: s „ *» ‘ The question of the sncv«sor to General ssas.'s.’s* i&!8sa«aa com man-1 1 he President lias approved the warehouse act for the erection of an appraisers <a Chicago and the act tor the relief of certain settlers upon tlie school lands of »> ashing toti Territory. News has been received at Washington that Hon > R. Breckinridge, Means a Committee, prominent member of the Wavs mid was recently lvnominatsi for Congress by the 1\ mocrats of Arkansas. Foreign. Tiieiik is a great deal of yellow fever in Cuba and fourteen deaths have recently oo cure 1 therefrom. Tin charter of the American Foresteni has hem rccke-l by the parent or . nutation In England until discrimination against cob omi jvrsgm'in * the onier was stopivd. ' _ The tepamsh , , . Government _ . has decided ,, , to inipose a heavy poll lax upon Chinamen im> migrating to the Philippine Islands L vyy-RENC* M. Doxotax, the jumper who made himself famous by leaping from the ford Brooklyn Bridge. Bridge, jumped from the Hunger London, a few days ago, and w-as drowned in the Thames, one hundred feet beiow. The bill providing for a commission to examine into tiie charges ma le by tb*» I/xn don Anws H|jainst Mr. Famuli, the Irish loavler. ami other mcmfvrs of Pariiaraeiu, has {vvssc* l th© House of Commons by a vot© of 150 to Gi. StRiors conflicts took pi a'© in Paris be¬ tween th© police and striking na^Hw. •merous cafe? were sacked and sixteen t .-son* were badly injured. ’d^cKisG a severe gale two large barks, one English and the other French, sank in the nar'i hr of Valparaiso. South America, after having been in collision. The crew of the Kng ish vejpel, consisting of seventeen hands, sna •even of the French crew.were drowned. yj ve other vessels were blown ashore and dashed to pieces. , residence of the widow of George Co ’ . tte , in the parish of St. Ignatius, chil- Ca ™ has tef . n burne , an(i five of her perished in the flames. TH* relative Assembly of the Sand wich Islands has passed a military bill mer the King,Kalakaua s veto. By this bill the naval «fnWwhmenl; is abolished and the army nviuced to arty-live, exclusive of tiie mUitary band. _ CONGRESSIONAL. Senate Proceedings. 146th Day.—M r. Vance spoke in favor of ratifying the Fisheries Treaty... .Mr. Jon s offered n resolution instructing the Commit¬ tee on Finance to inquire into the alleged combinatio >r pool bill of the presented producers of urging cot¬ ton bagg nj,. .. A was that the i resident be requested to oprn ne.ro with the Government of Her Britan¬ nic Majesty (in which the Dominion of Canada and the several political sub-divis thereof shall lie represented) with view to the settlement of all dif¬ ferences between Her Majesty's Gov¬ ernment and the United States... A message was received from the Presi¬ dent announcing the death of Genera! Fb-ri Wan. Toe reading of the message was list to with respectful attention, and upon th" motion of Senator Edmunds the Beuate the following resolutions: Reso'ee d. That the Senate has learned with profound regret of the death of Philip H. Hheridan, lato General of the Army of the United States That the Senate hereby ex L . ises it , g rate ful sense of his great and {Jj riotic service in the cause of his country, Jeep sensibility of the loss which the Na t , on has sustained in his death, and its syrn ;i Resolved, thy with his family in th-ir bereavement, That a copy of these resolutions ^ forwarded to the family of the deceased, U7TIt Day.-T he House bill placing Gen „ral William V. cTialdy") Smith on the re tired list as Colonel of the army, with an Amendment changing the grade of Colonel to that he of Major of Engineers, the rank which held when he left the army, was ind passed... occupied .Mr. it Sherman during the then entire took day's the floor sos -'-'on while delivering an address against the ratification of the I ishery Treaty. 14STH Day.—T he concurrent resolution to print 1«J 100,0011 Mills extra bill copies of recently the tariff law of and the as passe 1 by tho U prepared yfouse, with a comparative statement to by the Committee of Ways and Means was adopted....Mr. Stewart moved the regular business (billson th^ calen Jar) lie laid aside and tho Chinese Prohibi { jon bill be taken up. Agreed to—Yeas, 40; says, 8. Tho bill was then passed without a 6ivision.... The Senate then proceeded to the «pnsideration of the Fisherieo Treaty in open *veoutive session, and was addressed by Mr. H urts in opposition to its ratification, 140 th Day.—T he .Senate resumed the con sderation °f *he Fisheries Treaty in open executive session, and Mr. I'.varts continue l h.s speech against its ratification. H-- spoke Jour hours, and was followed by Messrs. Call, Morgan and Frye, who delivered short addresses on the same measure... .Mr. Pal rier introduced a bill appropriating $.450,000 pr tho purchase by the United States of the Jortago Lake and River Improvement Com jany Canal, and the Lake Superior Ship 'anal Railway and Iron Company Canal in Michigan. 150 th Day.—T he bill for the ascertain aient of the amounts expended bv the States f California, Oregon, and Nevada for mili tary purposes during the Civil War was re .Tho bill for the relief of attend ants at the Hospital for the Insane in the district of Columbia introduced was reported adversely ,. .Mr. Faulkner a bill provid og V for a public building than at Martinsburg, 8100,000 W. a., to cost not more ... Mr. Stockbridge introduced a bill providing f ,2 r the •*&?“, of a , t0 /Y *"*’<* ®- '» • r Y- Lm" mi iHont to tho Deficiency Appropi lation bill more than the rate for dav service.... Mr. Call introduced a joint resolution to appro¬ priate of *'JOO,0()0, to be paid of out the in Treasury, the discre¬ tion tho Secretary for the prevention and the suppression .The bill of yellow fever in the United States... to reg¬ ulate interstate commerce by telegraph was passed. The act is to take effect and be in force from November 1, 1888. Hons© Procood i n ir#. 1Wrn Day ,_ a joint ,solution Was ro f erre d authorizing the Postmaster-General to appoint a commission of three persons to in vestigate the subject of the rapid transit of mails in the city of New York and the udja cent postal districts.... A bill was introduced to establish an interstate minimum rate of ii wages in tho United States. The rates of wages nro to bo p ace,! ns follows: ! wry male citizen or alien over twenty-one, who may bo employed ns a laborer and in any shall capacity, bo shall less be than entitled Sl.oO to hours; paid not par day of ten every woman of over eighteen shall be paid not less than si. and every minor over fourteen and und-c eight een 8htU1 pwdnot Ires ffian seventy five f? nts , P er ''•*?; fho Inter-State ( mnu.erce «onsof jA»n«m«Km theact, is to and assume sl.OOJ charge U(W is appropriated ot thepera to carry it into effect. . A message was ro ceived from President Cleveland announcing the death of General Sheridan. On motion ot General Hooker the House adjourned out «* respect. A committee of seven was ap¬ pointed funeral, to confer and with the family in regard to tha to take such other action the ** may circumstances. sePI1 ' appropriate or necessary under 181 st Day.—T he resolution instructing the ^ommittee Won '.' f on bitten-nagg-nc Kuian- e to make i-ol an w is investiga, adopted members • - • .TheSpeaher the then Mil.tary app >mted the fokowmg su Comnuttc-ns the 5.°'“ pnat fcfc-j-sss, on mnv bill: Messrs, ' lo\vn>^n ° A , I, rn \r Mush > l,|,r,> and ,' sarsss rs? at the, tffiio tVntennial Exposition *— «• iv’n Day.—'T he bill to abolish trusts was debated....The French .-p- li rt oa Claims section of the Deficiency bill was ,x»tis;deivd but no action was taken .. .The b 11 granting permission New York to to beautify the Idii Governor's k Commissioners Island of was 1(S3 dDay.—A nother ».vno was voted for the expenses of the Committee on Manufac tares which is investigating the trusts.... Tho President returnxi to tiie House without his approval five pension bills . . t onsi l, ra tion of the Senate Chinese Restriction bill was attempted, but Mr. Springer rais -d ©b ject.ou. an>l the measure was referred to the Foreign Affairs i immittea. JS4TH Day.— The PjP inference report on the granting a d t > M i , :n> - or disabled volunteer* was ag, .si t ..The Pres,dent v et<vd nine private Dension bil’s. ab.d which oruina„d in .ne Ho,.s ' Toon t House into tVnuu i:te- cf the Whole Mr. Hatdi of Mfeaevin is. the chair on th,-private L a i.. n -.lar, erel ws-isrei numerous’ tw-'.-Mk, Word*. Words. Words. *l?o, 1 aura, you want to marry that fellow that play- :n a band, eh;’’ “Adolphus does not piav in a band, papa." “Then what does he do i a in “Adolphus is a member o rc tra, pa;«. ”— 2., ,er. Thk A ;<trian govarmnect has that it will loin the Sugar Bounties Cc uen if xh* lasted Stews and fcnru do. 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