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JOHN K. HANCOCK, Publisher. TALMAGE’S SERMON. The Ago of Swindle Exemplified From Pa»t to Present. Xr»«ts, Syndicates and Ilank .Directors Need Watching Hadly, Because They are Departing in Alany Instances i ron, the True Course. As, last Sabbath, Rev. T. DeWitt Tal niage, 1). I>., the pastor, bad baptized by sprinkling, he this morning baptized by immersion those who preferred this mode, a baptistry having been built under the pulpit. The subject of his sermon was: “The Age of Swindle,” and the text, Job viii.j 14: “Whose trust shall be a spider’s web.” Dr. Talmage said: The two most skillful architects in all the world are the bes and the spider. The one puis up a sugar manufactory and the other builds a slaughter-house for flies. On a bright summer morning when the sun comes out and shines upon the spi der's web, bedecked with dew, the gossa mer structure seems bright enough for a supension bridge for supernatural beings to cross on. But, alas! for the poor fly v hich, in the latter part of that very day, ventures on it and is caught and dun geoned and destroyed. The fly was in formed that it was a free bridgoand would costuothing, but at the othor end of the bridge the toll paid was its own life. The next day there comes down a strong wind and away goes the web and the marauding spider and tho victimized fly. t>o delicate are the silken threads of the spider’s web that many thousands of them are put to gether oefore they bccoma visible to the human eye, and it takes four millions of them to make a thread as large as the hu man hair. Most cruel, as well as most iu genious, is the spider. A prisoner in, the Bastile, France, had one so trained that at the sound of a violin it every day came for its meal of flies. Job, the author of.my text, and the leading scientist of his day, had no doubt watched the voracious pro cess of this one insect with another, and saw spider and fly swept down with tho same broom, or scattered by the same wind. Alas that tho world has so many designing spiders and victimized flies. There has not been a time when the utter aud black irresponsibility of many men having the financial interests of others in charge has been more evident than in those last few years. The unroofing of banks, and disappearance of administrators with the funds of large estates, and the disor der amid post-office aceouuts and deficits amid Uuited States officials, have made a pestilence of crimo that solemnizes every thoughtful man and woman, and leads every philanthropist and Christian to ask: What shall be done to stay the plaguei Thoro is a monsoon abroad, a typhoon, a sirocco. 1 sometimes ask myself if it would not be better for men making wills to bequeath the property directly to the executors and officers of the court, and ap point the widows and orphans a committee to see that the former got all that did not belong to them. The simple fact is, that there are a large number of men sailing yachts and driving fast horses and mem bers of expensive club-houses and controll ing country seats, who are not worth a dolnir if they return to others their Juki rights. Under sonic sudden reverse they fail, end with afflicted air seem to re tire from the world, and seem almost ready for monastic life, when in two or three years they blossom out again, hav ing compromised with their creditors — that Is, paid them nothing but regrets— and the only difference between the second chapter of prosperity and the first is that their pictures are Murillos instead of Keu eetts, and their horses go a mile in twenty ceconds less than their predecessors, nnd instead of one country seat they have three. I have watched and have noticed that nine out of ton of those who fail in what is called high life have moro means after than before the failure, and in many of the cases failure is only a stratagem to escape the payment of honest debts and put the world otf the track while they practice a large swindle. There is some thing woefully wrong in the fact that these things are possible. First of all, I charge the blame on care less, indifferent bank directors and boards having in charge great financial institu tions. It ought not to be possible for a president or c shier or prominent officer of a banking institution to swindle it year niter year without detection. I will under take to 6ay that if these frauds are carried on for two or three years without detection cither the directors are partners in the in famy and pocketed part of the theft, or are guilty of a culpable neglect of duty, for which God will hold them as respon s ble as Ho bolds the acknowledged de frauders. What light have prominent business men to allow their names to be published as directors in a financial insti tution So that unsophisticated people are hereby ihducpd to deposit their money in or buy the script thereof, when the) - , the published directors, are doing nothing for the safety of the institution! It is a case of deception most reprohensible. Many people With a surplus of moneynot needed for immediate use, although it may be a little further on Indispensable, are without friends competent to advise them, and they are guided solely by the character of the men whose names are associated with the institution. When the crash came, and wi h the overthrow of, tb6 bank went the small earnings and limited fortunes cf widows and orphans, and the helpless aged, the directors stood with idiotic stare, and to the inquiry of tlie frenzied depositors and stock holders who had lost their all, and to the arraignment of an indignant public had nothing to say except: We thought it was all right. We did not know there was any thing wrong going on.” It was their duty to know. They stood in a position which deluded the people with the idea that they were carefully observant, call ing themselves directors, they did not di rect. They had opportunity of auditing accounts and inspecting the books. No „une to do sol Then they had no business to accept the position. It seems to be the pride of some moneyed it an to bo tiirec- tors in a groat m my institutions, and ah they know is whether or not they get their dividends regularly, and their names are used as decoy ducks to bring others near enough to be made game of. What first of all is needed is that five thousand b ink di rectors and insurance company directors resign or attend to their business ns di rectors. Tho business world will be full of fraud just, as long as fraud is so easy. When you arrest the president and secre tary of a bank for air embezzlement car ried on for many years, have plenty of sheriffs out the same day to arrest all the directors. They are guilty either of neg lect or complicity. “Oh,” some one will say, “better preach the Gospel and let business matters alone.” 1 reply: If your Gospel docs not inspire common honesty in the dealings of men the sooner you close up your Gospel and pitch it into the depths of the Atlantic ocean the better. An orthodox swindler is worse than a hetti ldox swindler. The recitation of all t.. 0 catechisms and creeds ever written, and drinking from all the communion chalices that ever glittered in the churches of Christendom, will never save your soul unless your business char acter corresponds with your religious pro fession. Gome of the worst scoundrels in America have been members of churches, and they got fat on sermons about Heaven when they most needed to have the pulpits preach that which would either bring them to repentance or thunder them out of the holy communions where their pres ence was a sacrilege and an infamy. We must especially deplore the misfor tune of banks in various parts of this country in that they damage the banking institution, which is the great conven ience of the centuries, and 'tidispensa ble to commerce and the advance of na tions. With one hand it blesses tho lend er, and with the other it blessos the bor rower. The bank was born of the world’s neces sities, and is venerable with the marks of thousands of years’. Two hundred years before Christ the Bank of Ilium existed, and paid its depositors ten per cent. The Bank of Venice was established in 1171, and was of such high credit that its bills were at a premium above coins, which Were frequently clipped. Bank of Genoa, founded in 1315; Bank of Barcelona, 1401; Bankof Amsterdam, 1699;8ank of Hamburg, founded 1(519, its circulation based on great silver bars kept in its vaults; Bank of England, started by William Patterson in 1042, up to this day managing the stupendous debt of England; Bank of Scotland, founded in 1095; Bank of Irelan I, 1783; Bank of North Amer ica, planned by Robert Morris, 1771, with out whose financial help all the bravery of our grandfathers would not have achieved American independence. But now we have banks in all our cities and towns, thousands and thousands. On their shoulders are the iuteVests of private indviduals and great corporations. In them are the great arteries through which run the currents of the nation’s life. They have been the resources of thousands of financiers in days of business exigency. They stand for accommodation, for fa cility, for individual, State and National relief. At their head and in their manage ment there is as much interest and moral worth as in any class of men—perhaps more. How nefarious, then, the behavior of those who bring disrepute upon this venerable, benignant and God-honored in stitution. AVe also deplore abuse of trust funds, because they fly in ttie face of that Divine goodness which seems determined to bless this land. We are having the eighth year of unexampled National harvest. The wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and the corn gamblers got hold of the corn. The full tide of God’s mercy toward this land is put back by those great dikes of dishonest resistance. AVhen God provides enough food and clothing to feed and ap parel this whole Nation like Princes, the scrabble of dishonest men to get more than their share, and get it at all haz ards, keeps every thing shaking with un certainty, and every body asking, “What next?” Evexy week makes now revela tions. How many more bank presidents and bank cashiers have been speculating with other people’s money, and how many more bank directors are in imbecile silence lotting the perfidy go on, the great and pa tient God only knows! My opinion is that we have got near the bottom. The wind has been pricked from the great bubble of American speculation. The men who .thought that judgment day was at least five thousand years off found it in 188 S, 18.87, 188<i; and this nation has been taught that men must keep their hands out of other people’s pockets. Great businesses built on borrowed capital have been obliterated, and men who had noth ing have lost all they hau. I believe we are started on a higher career of prosperity than this land has ever seen, if, and if k aud if. 11 the first mou, aud especially Christian men, will leai n never to speculate upon borrowed capital. If you have a mind to take your own money and turn it all into kites, to fly them over every commons in the United States, you do society no wrong, except when you tumble your helpless children into the poor house for the public to take care of. But you have no right to take the money of others and turn it into kites. There is one word that has deluded more people into bankruptcy and State prison than any other word in commercial life, and that is the word borrow; that one word is responsible foralltho defalcations andenibezzlements, and financial conster nations of the last twenty years. When executors conclude to speculate with the funds of an estate committed to their charge, they do not purloin, they say they only borrow ;when a banker makes an over draft upon his institution, he does not commit a theft, heon!| borrows. When the officer of a company, by gaming adver tisements in some religions papers, and gilt certificate of stock, gets a multitude of country people to put their small earn iugs into an enterprise for carrying on some undeveloped nothing, he does not fraudulently take their’money, he only borrows. When a young man with easy tuet >s to his employer's money drawer, oi TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1888. tho conlidei..:a! clerk bcl >so propinquity to the account books, takes n few dollars for a Wall street excursion, ho cxpoc s to put it buck; he will put it a’.l back; he will pat it all back very soon. He only borrows. What is n 'edud is some man ot gigantic limb to take his place at the curb stone in front of Trinity church, and when that word borrow comes bounding along, kick it clean through to Wall street ferry boat, and if, striking o:i that, it bounds clear over till it strikes Brooklyn Heights or Brooklyn hill, it will be well for the City of Churches. Why, when you are going to do wrong, pronounce «so long a word as borrow, a word of six letters, when you can get a shorter word more descriptive of the re ality, a word of only five letters, the word steal! There are times when we all borrow, and borrow legitimately, and borrow with the divine blessing, for Christ, in IDs Sermon on the Mount, enjoins “from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.” A young man rightly borrows money to got his education. Purchasing a house, and not able to pay all down in cash, the purchaser right ly borrows it on mortgage. Crises coine in business when it would be wrong for a man not to borrow. But I roll this warn ing through all these aisle 3, over the backs of all these pews, never borrow to specu late; not a dollar, not n cent, not a farth ing. Young me i, young men, I warn you by your worldly prospects and tho value of your immortal souls, do not do it. There are breakers distinguished for their ship wrecks —the Han ways, the Needles, the Caskets, the Douvers, the Anderlos, the Skerries—and many a craft has gouo to pieces on those rocks; but 1 have to tell you that all the Han ways and the Needles and tho Caskets and the Skerries are as nothing compared with the long line of breakers which bound the ocean of com mercial life North, South, East and West with the white foam of their despair and the dirge of their damnation: The break ers of borrow. If 1 had only a worldly weapon to use on this subject I would give you the fact fresh from the highest authority that 9) per cent of those who go into speculation in Wall street lose all: but I have a better warning than a worldly warning. From the pl ace where men have perished—body, mind and soul—stand off, stand off! Ab stract pulpit discussion must step aside on this question. Faith and repen'ance are absolutely necessary; but faith and repentance are no more doctrines of the Bible than commercial in tegrity. Render to all their dues. Owe no man any thing. And while I mean to preach faith and repentance, more and more to preach them, 1 do not mean to spend any time in chasing the HUtites and Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times, when there are so many evils right around us destroying men and women for timo and eternity. The greatest evangelistic preach er the world ever saw, a man who died for his evangelism—peerless Paul—wrote to the Romans, “Provide things ho-test in the sight of all men ;” wrote to the Corinthi ans, “Do that which is honest;” wrote to the Phillippians, “Whatsoever thing* are honest;” wrote to the Hebrews. “Willing, in all things to live honestly.” Tho fible says that faith without wort is duad, which, being liberally translated mfars that, if your business life does not corre spond with your profession, ycur religion is a humbug. Here is something that r.;ieds to be sounded into the ears of all the young men of America, and iterated and loiteratod, if this country is ever to be delivered from its ealamit ; C 3, and commercial prosperity is to be established and perpetuated, live within your means. 1 have the highest commercial authority for saying that when the memorable trou ble broke out in Wall street four years ago there were $225,0.)0,000 in suspense which had already been spent. Spend no more than you make. And let us adjust all our business and our homes by the principles of the Christian religion. ** Our religion ought to mean just as much on Saturday an l Monday as on the day between, and not be a mere periphrasis ot sanctity. Our religion ought to first clean our lives. Religion is not, as some seem to think, a sort of church delegation, a kind of confectionery, a sort of spiritual caramel or holy gumdrop, or sanctified peppermint, or theological anaesthetic. It is an omnipotent principle, all controlling, all conquering. You may get along with something less than that, aud you may deceive yourself with it; but you cau not decoivo God and you can not deceive the world. The keen busi ness man will put on bis spectacles and will look clear ' through to the back of your head and see whether your religion is a fiction or a fact. And you can not Hide your samples of sugar, or rice, or tea, or coffee if they are false; you can not hide them under the cloth of a cAmmunion table. All your prayers go for nothing so long as you misrepresent your b inking institu tion, and in the amount of the resources you put down more specie and more frac tional currency, and more clearing-house | certificates, and more legal-tender notes, and more loans, and more discounts than there really are; and when you give an account of your liabilities you do not raeu tion all the unpaid dividends, and the United States bank-notes outstanding, and the individual deposits, aud the obli gations to other banks and bankers. An authority more scrutinizing than that o( any bank examiner will go through and through and through your business. The world waits on ns 'dint we may do it good, and we all have a mssion in that d - rection. But onr benevolence is not rl ways confined to specific acts of religion and charity; these, indeed, may constitute the smallest part of It He who, in a good c.uß3 or work, no matter what it k, does his best, is making his contribution ‘o the world’s highest Interests. United ttrian. If the regrets which too often Pert tho end of life con’d be put into Vrm resolr. t’O.i* at the beginning they would alter tho affairs of-Lie GERMANY MOURNS. Her Eelovecl Ruler Finclb Everlast ing Peace. Prince Frederick William, tlie New Em peror, »( Once Departs From it«mo for the Imperial Palace* Beri.iv, March 9— JSmperor William died at 8:3) o’clock this morning. Berlin, March 9.—When tho Reichstag met to-day Prince Bismarck, with deep emotion, informed the members of the death of the Emperor. Hea’.si announc ed that the new king would assume the ti tle of Frederick IL Berlin, March 9.—At the-meeting of the Lower House of thß Prussian Diet to-day, Her Von Puttkanier, Vice President of the Prussian Ministerial Council, arose and said: “1 have the sad duty to make a most painful communication to the House. It lias pleased God to tall His Majesty, tho Emperor, iu the twenty eighth year of his glorious reign, from his earthly existence by a peace ful death at 8:3) o’clock this morn ing. You will not expect me at this most solemn moment, when sorrow and care so deeply stir our hearts, to attempt to depict the feelings with which the whole nation is filled through the loss of or.r most beloved, exalted and venerable ruler. 1 may, however, safely and confidently say on this day of soro trial that tho Prussian people and their representatives wiil now, moro than ever, be penetrated by tho con sciousness that the sorrows of our exalted sovereign’s house are theirs and that the deeper the universal pain at tho decease of cur ever-remembered King the stronger and more indissoluble will be the link uniting Prussia’s sovereign house and Prussia’s people in good and evil days. 1 leave it to yourselves to take such resolu tions as are suitable to tho gravity of tbo situation.” Herr Von Koeller, the Presi dent of the House, closed tho sitting with the words: “God protect the Royal Hcuso and tho fatherl nd.” San Remo, March 9.—The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany will leave San Remo immediately for Berlin. San Remo, March 9.— Tho Emperor of Germany (Frederick William) passed a fairly good night. During the early part of the night he was restless, but ho slept better afterward. Berlin, March 9.—Tho Staati » Atizirger publishes the following proclamation : “It has pleased God t.o call His Majesty, tbo Emperor and King, our most gracious master, from life, after a short illness and after a r chly blessed reign. The whole Nation mourns with tho Royal Houoo tha decease of the deeply beloved and vener able monarch whose wisdom has ruled so long and gloriously over its fortunes iu war and in peace. [Signed] “Tiie Minister of State.” Berlin, March!?. —Eye witnesses of the scenes at the death of the Emperor state that, during the last few hours of his life, he suffered no pain. Shortly after 8 o’clock all the members of the family staying at the palacciWhe court dignitar ies, Generals and Ministers of State were summone 1 tc the chamber in which the Emperor lay dying. The Emperor was in a half-sitting position on a camp bedstead. All the members of the Royal family took places at the bedside. The room was crowded. Brines William stood nearest the Emperor, half bending over the couch. He earnestly watched the face of the dy ing monarch until ho expired. London, March 9—Q icon Victoria and the Prince of Wales were informed of th 6 death of the Emperor at 9:80 o’clock this morning. The news reached the clubs be fore the members assembled. Special messengers informed the Ministers, the Prince of AVales, the foreign ambassadors various members of the House of Lords and persons prominent in political circles. The excitement of yesterday has been re newed, and the German Embassy is be seiged by callers. In consequence of yes terday evening’s conflicting rumors the definite news of the Emperor’s death was at first received cautiously. The flag-, on the public buildings were place 1 at half mast and the notice of the Emperor's decease was posted on the bulletin boarJs of the newspapers. Flags are at half-mast generally throughout England on account of the death of Emperor William. At 11:15 o’clo -k this morning Prince Henry, of Bittenberg, con veyed a message from the Queen to Count Von Halzfeidt, the German Ambas sador, expressing Her Majesty’s sorrow at the Emperor’s death. The balls which were to have been hold at Dublin*Cast!* to-night and on B‘. Patrick’s Day have been postponed. Largo crowds gathered about the new paper offices, and many were the expressions of sorrow and regret mingled with sympathetic remarks ns tc how the death of the Emperor would ; ff ;ct the new Emperor, Frederick William. The Queen has sent telegrams of condolence tc Berlin and to San Remo. Berlin, March 9. —Tho evening papers contain what ore reported to be the last words spoken b_:tbe Emperor. They arc: “Alexander has promised me that ho will not make war against us.” It is reported that the Emperor also sa ! d: ‘I am con vinced that we ought not to go to war with Russia, toward whom the most friendly attitude ought to bo adopted.” Washington, March 9.—The official an nouncement of the death of Emperor Wil liam was received at the Germau LegatioD early this morning. The telegram was sign ed by Prince Bismarck. Baron Vo iZadtwilz, Charge D’ Affaires, when questioned upon tho subject of the succession, said that Crown Prince Frederick William became Emperor of Gormany aud King of Prussia immediately o:i the.death of his father, aud that now, ns always, if the question ol the incapacity of the sovereign is raised, it will be decided by the two Cham bars cl Prussia. Bt. Petersburg, March 9. —The Imperial theaters have been ordered closed out oi respect for the memory of Emperor Wil liam. The newspapers generally express the greatest respect for the late Emperor. Some uneasiness is felt regarding the pos sible political consequences of his death. Rome, March 9.— The Chamber of Depu ties will adjourn as a mark of respect Tor the dead Emperor. The genera 1 impres sion is that there will be no change in the political situation sa long as Prince Bis marck lives. SNOW-BOUND. The Beautiful l ying in Depth From Four to Twelve Feet in New York City. New York, March 13.—For the combined fury of tbo hurricane, the duration and depth of the snowfall and the lowness of the temperature, yesterday's storm lias r.o parallel in the h’story of this section of the country. If people who read of the terrible blizzard iu the Northwest this winter will picture the same con ditions on this densely populated slip of an island, they can form some idea of the ex tent of the knock-down blow New York has received. Fancy a man dug out of a ten foot snow-drift, in Broadway near New York’s post-office, or a woman dropping dead from cold and exhaustion at the cor ner of Fulton street and Broadway, tbo greatest thoroughfare in New York City. The blockade in tho streets is so ba 1 that when n firo alarm sounded to-night it took fifty men with shovels and four horses to pull ono of tho engines out of a snow-bank. Dozens of railroad trains are snow-bound iu huge drifts on all sides of the cityj and no idea can as yet be formed of the loss of life. Not a train left the Grand Central Depot yesterday and but one came in. Tho wait ing-rooms were crowded with travelers an l all anxious to depart, and persons waiting to hoar from friends who were an route to this city. The only means of trav el in tho city itself is by the elevated roads, which have at last got into some kind of running order. Oa the surface roads not a whoel moved to ri ay. The snow and ico is frozen solid over tho tracks to a depth of several feet, and snow-plows are useless. Evon the great Brooklyn bridge failed for a timo yester day, and to-day live thousand people walked from Brooklyn to New York over the East river on a solid ice bridge, which had formed between the two cities. All Sta ten Island was snow-bound to-day, and people living in the interior of tho island were unable to leave their houses. The snow in many places is fifteen feet high, and the Staten Island railroad is completely block aded. The snow in this city is lying iu depth from four to twolve feot. Tho list of ihe casualties caused by the storm, as reported by tho police, number about forty. 'That it is not longer is probably due, in some measure, to the instructions given to the police to arrest all persons not able to take caro of themselves. The arrests for intoxication last night were un usually large. The money loss to the city will be over $2,500,000. Dropped Sixty Feet. Leavenworth, Kas., March 13.—List night John Sheridan, an employe on tbo Missouri and Kansas bridge, while cross ing that structure, stepped off tho edgo and fell sixty feet to tho water below, which is very shallow. When ho recovered coruMsiousness he found that his left arm waPbroken below the elbow, an 1, although badly shaken up, managed to crawl to tbo bank, where he remained all night. He was found by the carpenters and taken to eaqu>. The broken arm and a few bruises wore the only apparent injurios lie .sus tained. Convicts Carried Oft by Dynamite. Atlanta, Ga., March 13.—A premature blast of dynamite thive miles from Bre men buried four convicts beneath a hugj pile of dirt, and when exhumed three wero f- uud to bo dead. The fourth is not ox pccted to recover. The convicts wero from the yards of the Chattahoochio Brick Com pany, which li is the contract for building the Chattanooga, Columbus and Southern railroad. The fuse was too short, for the men had barely started when tho explo sion occurred. ♦ The Horse-Thief’s Enemies. Champaign, 111., March 13.—A grand councilor tho Illinois division of tbeAVa bash Anti-Horse-thiof Dotective Associa tion open>“d here to-dav with a large at tendance, and delegates from numerous independent associations of a similar na ture are participating in the proceedings, and it has been decided to effect a combi nation and form the State into one general association. Death of “The Bee Woman.” San Francisco, March 13.—A dispatch received here to-day says: “Mrs. Ellen Tupper, known as “The Bee Woman* ” and one of the foremost entomologists of the world, died suddenly this morning at El Paso, Texas, where she was visiting her daughter. She was widely known in the East and throughout Europe. Freight Trains Collide. Pittsburgh, March 13. Two freight trains on the West Pennsylvania railroad collided near Freeport, Pa., this morning and were wrecked. Jas. Hamil, a brake man,was fata!lv injured, and three or four others were s ightly bruised. Embezzler Sentenced. Washington,- March 13.—Cyprus P. Ben edict, an employe of the Adams Express Company for twenty-one years, this city, pleaded guilty of embezzlement and was sentenced to three and a-half years in the Albany penitentiary. - ♦ -*- Bridge-Keepzr Assaulted. Columbia, S. C., March 13. —The bridge keeper of Broad river his wife, both aged over seveuty years, were as saulted, brutally beaten, robbed and the house sot on tire. The old man will proba bly die. Snow-Drifts Twenty-Five Feet Deep. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. March 13.—Reports from the interior of Hudson river counties show tho country roads terribly blockaded. In some instances drifts a-e twenty-five feet deep. Stock of every description suf fering. Illinois State Convention. Chicago, March 13.—Tho Democratic Slate Central Committee met at the Palm-' er House to-lay, and decided to hold the State Con veution-at Springfield, May 23. Killed by Snow-Plows. Tboy, N. Y., March 13.—Three men have been killed near here to-day by snow-plow accidents. Two men foun l d'ead m the snow at Arnoldsville. VO],. V.-NO. 3. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. First Session. Washington, March 7.—Senate.-Mr. Beck ?ave notice lie would reply to Senator Sherman's denial regarding silver demonetization on Tues day next. Bills were introduced, including one to provide for more efficient mail service between the United States and South and Central Amer ica. Bills were passed of a local character. The urgent deficiency bill was taken top and the House provision to enforce the eight hour law In the Government Printing Office was stricken out. Mr. Payne offered an amendment appro panting $60,010 for Ihe pay of assistant custo dians and janitors of public buildings, tt was rejected in committee of the whole and again in the Senate. KOt’SE —A resolution was adopled request ing the President to send to the House all cor respondence relating to the disputed boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. Outh waite's bill extending tho bonded period for the Union Paddo railroad was reported. A bill was reported authorizing the establishment of sundry life saving stations; also to authorize the loan or articles by the department for ex hibit at the Cincinnati Centennial Exhibition; also to pension prisoners of war; also to create a Department of Agriculture and Labor. A public building bill was passed appropriating (50,000 for Sedalia, Mo. Washington, Marchs.— Senate.— A petition was presented against the admission of Utah as a State. A bill was reported for a joint celc oration by sixteen American Republics of the Centennial of the United States. The Senate resumed consideration of the de pendent. pension bill, which was passed—yeas 44. nays 16: Mr. Blair introduced his bill of. former sessions to pension all soldiers who served three months in the army during the war. A resolution was adopted calling for cor respondence between the United States and Venezuela in regard to tho seizure of the American steamship IXero. Ats:3op. in tho Senate adjourned until Monday. HOUSE.— A hill was passed appropriating $lO,- 000 for the purchase of certain swords belong ing to the widow of General James Shields. Bills were reported to establish a Government postal telegraph. Public lands business was then considered, and at 5:15 p. m. Ihe House ad journed. Washington, March 9.—Senate.— Net in session. House.—Friday being private bill day, tho omnibus war claim bill was taken up and an amendment agreed to appropriating WO,OOO for the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Theologi cal Seminary nnd High School of Virginia, for its occupation during the war. The bill then passed. After a few private bills had been passed, the House at 5 p. m. took a recess until 7:.SOp. m.. tho evening session being for the con sideration of private pension bills. Washington, March 10.—Senate.— No ses sion. House.—The dependent pension bill was re ceived from the Senate, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Reports wore tw-eiwA fvorn opmoiittfloß on bills of minor im portance. Tarsney. of Michigan, entered a mo tion to reconsider the vote by which the House last evening entered an order making the hills granting pensions to Mrs, Logan and Mrs. Biair a special order for the 23d inst. The remainder of the session was devoted to Indian affairs. Washington, March 12.—Senate—Tariff pe titions from the National Association of Wool Growers and the New England Association of Wool Manufacturers were presented asking for protection Among bills introduced was Sher man's making an appropriation for the Execu tive Departments to participate in the Ohio Centennial celebration in September and Oc tober. Colquitt, of Georgia, made u long speech indorsing tiie President's message. Dolph fol lowed, mid, after an executive session, the Senate adjourned. House.—Bland, of Missouri, made his usual objection, and protested against log-rolling. There was a tilt between Cannon, of Illinois, and Bland, because the former questioned the sincerity of the Missouri member’s objections in certain cases. Under the call of the States several bill 3 were introduced, including Ran dall's tariff measure, which was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Bain, of Pcnn s lvania, started a lively row by offering a reso lution declaring that petitions for hearings be fore the Ways and-Means had been refused, and referring inquiry on the subject to the Com mittee on Rules. Breckinridge made a point that tho resolution was not in order, and Reed spoke to a point of order, stating a hypothet ical case in which he gave Democratic methods of secrecy full exposure. This roused Mdls to a great exhibition of anger, but Cutcheon, of Michigan, made an interruption that enabled Speaker Cox to call Mills to order and decide against Bain. The rest of the day was devoted to District of Columbia affairs. House adjourn ed at 4:19. Washington, March 18.—Senate—Bills were reported and placed on the calendar. Mr. Hale called up his resolution to examine into the civil service branches of the Government. An amendment was offered to extend the investi K#:ons into the elections of ISO and ISR4. After considerable discussion the amendment was defeated and the original resolution adopt ed by a strict party vote. Mr. Beck spoke in advocacy of his bill or the retirement of U. S. legal tenders, cte. He attacked Mr. Sherman for his responsibility for the demonetization of silver. Mr. Sherman responded in his own de fense. HoufE.—Mr. Bland reported a bill limiting the coinage of the double eagle to twenty pet cent, of the gold deposited in the mints, and discontinuing the coinage of the thrcc-dollar and one dollar gold pieces—calendar: Mr. Springer reported the omnibus bill for tho'admis slon into the Union Dakota,Montana, Washington and New Mexico—referred to committee of the whole; bills were reported for the erection of public buildings at Galesburg, 111., and Daven port, la.: for an appraiser’s warehouse at Chi cago; for a public building at Ft. Worth, Tex.; the Grosvenor resolution relative to rebellion records was reported back and adopted. -•- Tiie m'ners’ strike iu the Lehigh Valley has been declared off. A train on the Erie railroad jumped the track at Scio. N. Y., killing one passenger and injuring twelve others. Grant Pouter and John Burkel, colored prisoners in the Athens (O.) jail, over power d the sheriff and escaped. The Boston Stock Exchange has de cided to prohibit members from dealing with bucket shops under penalty of SI,OOO for the first offense and expulsion for the second offense. Marietta, O.,Titusville and McKeesport, Pa., will l ave free mail delivery system after April 1. Members of the Canadian Parliament who have been interviewed on the subject of bucket-shops are unanimously in favor of their abolition. By the fail of an elevator in a grocery house at Portsmouth, O , Lawrence Veu ! dorfer reciive i injuries which arc thought ' to be fatal.