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ft VAVILYD 4 BON, *«* «*«*• Xn body of Dennis Coppeni was timo •go refused burial in Calvary Otaif- r, New York, on the ground that he waaa M VHOD and % Protestant The lower court a a«ei»ion on this case adverse to the aUc Truster <>f tlv? <-enit>tory, wit Mt»» ${cn- „ jofta of the Supremo Court ban jiwt nnant- nooafr decided that those who control thg ' mav malt" conditions Ib $> the pcrnoflfl to be buried there, and that the burial (rf Dennis ' Ooppen in Calvary Cemdtory cannot be oom- T * »r FOREST fires still prevail in the coast 11 Monties of New Jersey, in somo of which the jfeetraction of property has been almost total The people have feu'ght the flames for weeks are now exhausted and disheartened... - A N originated bv friction, broke out in the Mfttt bouse of a Philadelphia brewery and dam- Jged the concern to the extent of $200,000. . FORTT houses have been destroyed by fee at Condersport, Potter county, Pa. Loss estimated at $200,000. A planing mill and ]mnber vard at Pittsburgh were also burned, in- . pairing a loss of 9100,000. FT- 'A DECIDED sensation has-been caused ftl speculative circles at the East by the an- #mnoement of the failure of the Philadelphia *pd Beading Coal and Iron Company and the fiilroad company of the same name. kno The cou- «arne were Known to be heavily in debt, but their collapse was not looked for at this time. -< ^ van WKanr. «i£iTw*BTMrn men from Deadwood, in pnrauitof the murderers of John Deffen'o&ch, the wealthy herder, have had a if ht with a partv of eighteen Indians, on a Sbntaxy of the little Powder river. The con­ flict lasted two hours, and resulted in the death of one white man and four savages, the scat- ••ring of the remaining redskins, and the re­ capture of about eighty of the ponies stolen ftom the slaughtered frontiersman lh the contest for the base-ball championship «f 1880 the Chicago Club leads all competitors. . .A drunken man attempted to force «i entrance into the house of Miss Char­ lotte Joiner, of Huron, Ohio. She called on Um to desist, but he refused, whereupon she took down her shotgun and lodged the con­ tents of it in his body. The intruder died of the effects soon after... .David Fry and three were burned to death near Fort Wayne, * ' REPORTS from the troops in pursuit of Victoria, the hostile Apache chief, show that Hl>r the last month the savages have evaded the . Muecoats and killed and robbed settlers in all ' Erections. More soldiers will be sent against ' ttie raiders A Kansas City youth who went to • beer-gard«p to take charge of his brother, who was lying there in an intoxicated condition, ' gbt drunk himself, and on the way home late at Sight was shot and killed by a desperado. :R BISHOP WILLIAM STANLEY, of the • IJnited Brethren Church, has just died at his in Westerville, Ohio. He was one of the era of Otterbein University. He was the ther of the author of "Nellie Gray." : • TELEGRAMS from Santa Fe, New Mex- . feo, state that a band of Indians, numbering ^ about 100, attacked Lumas' ranch, about sev- ' ( eoty-five miles from Rito Quorado,-and killed * Hfeven--two men. three women and two chil- I, .4ruu. They also carried away two girls as cap­ tives. On the same day the band killed three ^ Of Placido Romero's "herders. Gen. Hatch * Was following Victona. The horses of the , command having given out, the soldiers were \ talking afoot, sore and shoeless. Many of them ; . .i were still plucky and persevering Dakota wheat is 20 per cent, bettei' tiiau at this time last year, and the wheat acreage along the Una Of the Northern Pacific railroad is about 10,- fl®0,000 against 6,000,000 last year., ^... THERE is a prospect that &ll£he Navajo Indians in New Mexico will begin hostilities of "tri- a Republican, anil was one alter toe war. He was dele- lioea National Convention in for G*n. Grant's nomination, in the convention, $*d ac.yag ns for mitral IWB. He is Coaptation ,TT. Theflreeiv tion of Iowa wan ix-ld at I>es Moines May'JO. G. W. Walker, of Polk, was nominated for Secretary of State ; Matthew Farrington, of Bremer, for Treasurer; G. W. Swoaringen, of Eremont.. for Auditor; W. A. Spurrier, of Adams, toroey General, and Thomas Hooker, of Dallas, for Register of the Land Office. The delegates to the National Greenback Convention at Chi­ cago were instructed to vote for Gen. J. B. Weaver for Pr*#u4oi»fc .. .... ,*»****»,. IT is L?elie\;ed that the Spofford-Kel- logg resolutions in the Senate have been laid away with the Fitz-John Porter bill, and that they will not be again considered at this session. THB Illinois Republican State Conven­ tion, , after a stormy [three-days' session at Springfield, selected forty-two uncompromising Grant men as delegates to the National Con­ vention at Chicago, and adopted the following resolution, offered by Sen­ ator Logan, who led the Grant cohorts in the convention: " Resolved, That Gen. U. S. Grant is the choice of the Republi­ can party of Illinois for the Presidency, and the delegate* from this State are instructed to use all honorable means to seenre his nomination by the Chicago Convention, and to vote as a unit for him, and the said delegates shall have power to fill all vacancies." The following resolution was also adopted: "Re­ solved, The Republicans of Illinois, m conven­ tion assembled, declare that they will support the nominees of this convention for State oftioes, and the nominees of the Chi­ cago Convention for President and Vice President." Senator Logan heads the delegation at large to the Chicago Convention. The delegations from the nine Congressional district?, that were favorable to Washburae and Blaine protested against the action of the con­ vention in choosing the district delegates, but as the Grant men were in the majority they were overruled. The following State ticket was placed in nomination: Governor, Shelby M. Cullom : Lieutenant Gov­ ernor, John M. Hamilton; Secretary of State, H. D. Demtmt; Auditor, C. P. Sweigart; Treasurer, Edward Rutz; Attorney General, James McCartney Alabama Republicans have instructed their twenty delegates to the Chicago Convention to support Grant. CBKKH*!- IN the Whittaker investigation at Weat Point, all the five experts in penmanship expressed the belief that Whittaker wrote the note of warning, and one of them created a sensation by testifying that the note of warning was written on &. piece of paper torn from a sheet on which Whittaker commenced a letter to his mother. Whittaker still stoutly main­ tains his innocence. A^PARTY of filibustering patriots has landed in Cuba. They are said to be provided with large quantities of dynamite and blasting powder, and a goodly number of excellent rifles. There is a pretty fair percentage of Americans reported among the party. THE General Assembly of the Northern •ays, are Imng en a few scanty root teen persona conoersAd in wrecking a train in one of the 8paninh provinces have been sen­ tenced to death, and thirteen others to itnpris* onmeirt for twenty yean each. CABLE dispatches indicate that the last extremity of distress has been reached in the itrtSken regions of Northern Hungary, ndfaaor to* ns no IOHH than LM|.£bople to be without other net­ tles, Mushrooms, and grass. *2*" ^ THE British Parliament met on the 20th of May. Tlio Queon'a speech promises early ateps to compel Turkey to fulfill the <I|j*r- lin treatv, and assiduous efforts to establish an independent government in Afghanistan; in- viteacHpocial attention to the Indian limmcoH,, and announces that the South African colonies .have been advised to form a confederation. regard to legislation, the speech utates that Par­ liament will not be asked to renew the Peace Preservation act for Ireland ; it will be invited to pass an act for the settlement of the burial question, to renew the Secret Voting act, and to enact laws giving more effectual protec­ tion to occupiers against injury from ground- game, for the determination of the liability of employers for accidents mintained bv their work­ men, and for the extension of tne borough franchise in Ireland. WHEN Mr. Bradlaugh presented him­ self at the bar of the British House of Com­ mons, May 21, to take the prescribed oath, a Conservative member objected on the ground that Bradlaugh was an atheist and a revolution­ ist. The question was then discussed, on mo­ tion of Gladstone to refer the case to a select committee, but no action was taken. • THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session on Saturday, May 15 By a vote of 121 to 90 the House of Rep­ resentatives adopted a resolution to adjourn May 31. The reeolution was vigorously opposed by some of the low-tariff members and by the friends of some pending bills which do not relate to the tariff. Al­ most all the Republicans voted for the resolution, and a majority of the Democrats voted against it. Copies of reports upon Alaskan affairs were received by the Senate on the morning of Monday, May 17, from the Secretary of the Treasury, in re­ sponse to a request. A communication from the Secretary of War was received, transmitting the petition of officers of the army for the onactment of such legislation as will entitle all Lieutenants of the army who have served fourteen years in the grade of Lieu tenant to tlie rank ol Captain. A bill pa****! for the construction of H public building at Peoria, 111. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the bill lately introduced by him, regulating the pay and appointment of Deputy MurshaK Mr. Vance submitted a resolution directing the Sec­ retary of the Treasury to inform the Senate what method is observed in the revenue service In sub­ tracting tare on foreign sugars imported in boxes. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Pendleton, the Senate passed the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish artillery, tents, etc., for use at the soldiers' and sailors' reunion at Columbus, Ohio, in August, 1880. The Postofflce Appropriation bill was taken up and passed, as amended. A mes- I sage from the President was received, inclosing a synopsis by Secretary Evarts of the correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain in relation to tlie Fortune bay outrages. Mr. Hayes and the Secretary agree that it is the imperative duty of the United State* to consider what measures should be taken to maintain the rights of Americans under the treaty of Washington, and to ob­ tain redress for the denial of those rights. Mr. Evarts advices the Pi cHideut to recommend that Congress reinferce tt«o dutio* on fish and fish oil, the Preabvterian Church was opened in Madison, | PKrod,'ct °/ provincial fisheries, as they existed before . tne treaty of Washington came into operation. Wis., on May 20, with a sermon by Dr. Eels of Cincinnati, and Dr. Paxton, of New York, was elected Moderator. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met at the same time in Charleston, 8. C., listened to a sermon by Dr. J. P. Wilson, and elected Dr. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, Moderator By a vote of 229 to 139 the General Conference of • the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Cin­ cinnati, decided not to elect a Bishop of African descent. THE contest at Creedmoor for the honor of representing the United States in the coming international rifle match in Ireland ended in the selection of Messrs. W. H. Jackson, W. F. Farrow, S. I. Scott, H. F. Clark, J. 8. Brown, H. Fisher, and R. Rathbone Several vessels are said to have been sunk in attempting to force their way through the immense tields of ice on the New Foundland ceast. The seventeen-year locusts have made their ap- ' pearanee in the vicinity of Wooster, Ohio .. .A ' 4 telegram has been received at the War Depart­ ment in Washington from Gen. Pope stating that he succeeded in arresting Capt. Payne and followers for violating the President's proc- Uttnation against invasion of Indian Teiptoiy for mining purposes, etc. The prisoners will be held until instructions are forwarded from Watihingteii. ii.t »•. • t«B Mwnm* « 1*-; *I» SENATOR .GORDON, of Georgia, has re- fH; 4igncd, and Joseph E. Brown has ixjen appoint­ ed his successor.... .Ex-Gov. Hqpry S. Foote, ^Superintendent of the United States Mint at Kew Orleans, died at his home near Nashville, Term,, a few days ago. Foote has been a prom- 3 ^t figure in Southern politics for nearly fifty ~ . He was formerly United States Senator Mississippi, and defeated Jeff. Davis for governor of that State thirty years ago. , SEVEN Mexican* recently crossed the ^ Bio Grande into Jexas, robbed a store, mur­ dered the storekeeper and outraged a servant girl. The Mexican commander Was notified, •nd he has arrested five of the MoanAels MM ,4opes to capture the other two. PRESIDENT HATES and Secretary Bchurz made addresses at the graduating exer­ cises of Hampton Normal School, Va., last WWlk*. VOUTIGAU A una has been sent to Pen Cameron, Chairman of the National Re­ publican Committee, signed by 118 Republi­ cans of the Senate and House, asking that seats be provided at Chicago for seventy-six women citizens, delegates of the State and National Women-Suffrege Associations. A similar letter to the National Democratic Committee is in circulation on the Democratic side of the House. THE California Workingmen'S Con­ vention adopted resolutions favoring the nom­ ination of Senator Thurman fer President THE Minnesota Republican Conven­ tion, held at St Paul, May 1», instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Sena­ tor Windom for President. A lresoutiou de­ claring Blaine to be the second choice of the convention was voted down. An anti- third-term resolution was referred to aJ committee and not reported back. The Dakota Republicans have selected two delegates to the Chicago Convention for Win- •dom fin»tj and Blaine second The Virginia Democratic Convention selected twenty-two delegates to the National Convention at Cin­ cinnati. They are uninatructed, but are under­ stood to be favorable to Judge Field. THE Minnesota Democrats held their State Convention at St Paul May 20. The delegates to the National Convention received no iuhtructions. The resolutions declare that tlie State delegation should act as a unit. that the Democrats of Minnesota would "never again submit to a reversal of the pop- alar will by fraud or violence," and that no President should have a third term The California Greenbackers have elected four delegates-at-Large, headed by Denis Kearnev, to the National Convention to be held at Chicago. ... .The Mississippi Greenback Convention was held at Jackson on the 20th of May. Delegates to the Chicago Con­ vention were appointed without instructions The Democratic State Convention of New Jersey, in session at Trenton, Mav 20, adopted resolution* denouncing centralization and the presence of troops at polls, favoring hard money and opposing monopolies of alUkinds, favoring the two-thirds rule in con­ vention and declaring that Mr. Hayes »Oceana, the Presidency by fraud/... i; The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, at their State Convention, held at Altoona, nominated a State ticket, elected delegates to the National Tem- vF™"* Convention, aud nominated Presiden- , Electors, A. resolution was adopted condernn- jn? Par(̂ on of the Legislative bribers .The California Democrats elected an unpledged OeJenration to Cincinnati, and adopted resolu- declaring that Mr. Hayes was seated by ' and that the issues of the present gn are the right of self-government lance of the reaerved righto of States resistance to imperialism and Chinese mraigration. Thurman was the favorite Residential candidate by a large majority ! THERE is a good deal 6f dissatisfaction : Georgia Democrats at the appointment Gev. Joseph E. Brown to succeed Gen. i in the Senate. At a large Democratic in Columbus, Gov. Colquitt was de- for appointing Brown, and declaring he (mown) in not a representative WASHlTfCnrOIT. A REPORT transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior concerning the fnrads and corrupt practices of Indian Agents, mentions the names of eight removed or sus­ pended on account of frauds, corrupt practi­ ces, etc. : George W. Frost, at the Crow Agency, Montana; W. H. Danilson, at the Fort Hall the to so continue nntif the two Governments shall arrive at an agreement iegarding the interpretation of the treaty In the House bills were introduced: By Mr. Cox, request­ ing the President to communicate to the House all correspondence in regard to the persecution of the Jews by the Russian Government; by Mr. Young (Ohio), to tax and regulate the njanu- facture and sa!« of glucoae or grape sugar; by Mr. Young (Tenn.), calling on the Secretary of the Interior for copies of the written testimony taken by the commission to investigate the charges against the Indian Bureau ; by Mr. Turner, propos­ ing a constitutional amendment prohibiting Con­ gress pacing a bill appropriating more thun $10,000, except by vote of a majority of the members elected; by Mr. Whitthorne, for thfl adoption of a suit­ able meter to accurately measure the quantity and text the gravity arid temperature of distilled and malt liquor. After a short debate, the motion to suspend the rules and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation biil waa agreed to--yeas. 179; naya, 4*. The bill authorizing national bants to loan money on mortgages waa defeated. A bill was passed providing times and places for holding Uni­ ted 8tates Circuit Courts for the District of Xo«». Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Judiciary Committee, reported favorably to the Senate, May " 18, on the bill to establish a District and Circuit Court at Chattanooga, and to add the county of Grundy to the Eastern district of Tennessee. The bill passed. The bill for a public building at Pitta- burgh waa passed, as were the bills for an additional land district in Kansas, and to construe and deAne the act to cede to the State of Ohio unsold lands In Virginia, the military district of that State. A reso­ lution was agreed to asking what action had been taken in regard to the claim of Kansas for 5 per cent, of her sales of public land. Messrs. Withers, Beck and Booth were appointed members of the conference committee on the I'ontofflee Appropria­ tion bill. Messrs Saulebury and Morgan spoke in favor of Spofford in the coHteuted-electlon from Louisiana. It wae resolved that on a. m. en leave to sit during tlie daily sessions of the Senate for the remainder of the sessien. The President nominated Nathan Goff, Sr., of Clarksburg, to be United States Attorney for West Virginia, and Andrew J. Evans, of Waco, to be United States Attorney for the West­ ern district of Texas In the House, Mr. Loring introduced a bill to give effect to the message of the President relative to the outrages upon our fishermen under1 the Washington treaty. An act to place colored persons who enlisted in the army on the same footing as other soldiers as to bounty and pension waa paseed. The Pension De­ ficiency bill wag passed. The Agricultural Appro­ priation bill was referred to the committee of the whole, where it was discussed at length and amend­ ed. An evening session waa held, when the Court of Pensions bill was debated. On the meeting of the Senate on Wednesday, May 19, Mr. McMillan presented various communica­ tions favoring the bill for establishment of a school of forestry. Mr. Cameron presented the petition of the widow of Gen. Heintzelman praying a pension of (00 per month. A short debate upon the Political Assessments)bill took place. Senator Butler, of South ̂ lecided to appoint Horace Maynard, at present Carolina, opposed reopening the Louisiana contest- Minister to Turkey, to succeed Judge Key as ed-electiou case in a speech. The President nomi- Postmaat^r General. nated Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, for Post- THB President has nominated Horace S£SSSMXSi tohfSSft Maynard, at present Minister to Turkey, to be ' Pil!t?,(rt Jnd«e for th® Eastern and . n. ~ i n r x \ . ! M'ddie districts of Tennessee In the House, rostmastel General ; Gen. James Longstreet, I the Agricultural Appropriation bill passed with sev- of Georgia, to be Minister to Turkey, and ex- | eraJ smondmcnts, and then, by a vote of 106 against Postmaster General Kev to be District Judee 97i <-he Hmwe went into committee of the whole on «--ii. T-*_ -a j ii:Ili „ o [ motion of Mr. Tucker, who stated his Intention to call up the Tariff bill. The opponents of the others are at Livingston, liridgcman, White- <««nl and Hart. THE President threatens to call an ex­ tra session if Congress shall adjourn without making some provision for counting the elect­ oral vote One J. M. George, a contractor, makes serious charges of corruption and briberv i and after Thursday next the S mate meet at 11 a g a i n s t s e v e r a l C o n g r e s s m e n a n d S e n a t o r * i n j s ? ' . v e V connection with the Texas and Pacific land- n.„ u t grants. He says $300,000 in money and $200,- 000 worth of land-grant bonds were used to in­ duce Senators to vote for the land-grant, and about $1,000,000 was distributed among the memberw of the House to influence their votes. DURING the debate on the Agricultural bill in the House of Representatives, Sir. Gil­ lette (of Iowa) offered to amend by setting apart 860,000 to be expended in experiments for the manufacture of sugar from corn-stalks. He made the utartling statement that after the corn has been gathered the stalks will yield a sngar crop equal in value to the corn crop at 50 cents a bushel. In the Northwest, where corn is worth 20 cents a bushel, the sugar crop from the dry stalks would be worth from two to three times that of corn itself. This inimen.se capacity to produce sugar, if taken I'd vantage of, would put the countiy beyond the necessity of im- ' any HUgar a!) The President has What it What It l« Not. [From the American Agriculturist] When oleomargarine was first manu­ factured we described the process, but that was some years ago. Recent in­ quiries make it necessary to say some­ thing more about it. JPrej»rod beef suet, the membranes, etc., » chtirned with milk to give it the flavor Of butter. It has nrtt the mechivnical te*tui*> 0# or the chemical composition of, and i« in no respect, butter.. So far as it is sold as butter it is a»miserable fraud. Tbfe makers claim that it is as good as any butter and much 1 letter than a large share of the butter sold. That is a point with which we have nothing to do. It is not butter, as that is the product of the oow, obtained through the medium of the milk, and contains several constit­ uents that the fat of the cow does not, and which cannot be added. Several of the States have passed laws directing that all the packages of oleomargarine shall be distinctly marked with the word in letters of a given size. This is well, so far as it goes, but does not prevent the retailer frein serving it as butter. As oleomargarine can l>e made at much less cost than butter can be produced, the sale of it as butter is injurious to the dairy interest, and every dairyman and every farmer is interested in preventing its sale as butter, and to this end a pe­ tition is being circulated for signatures asking Congress by a general law to place restrictions upon its manufacture and sale. But the capitalists who have money invested in the manufacture of olemarga- rine are not idle. They have invited the Committee of Agriculture of Congress to visit their factory ; they have also invited a number of prominent chemists to do the same; their guests have been steam- boated and dined and we suppose wined, after the approved fashion. We do not know what the effect will be upon the Congressmen, but we are very sure that the chemists will say, as they might have said before : " Gentlemen, your stuff is not injurious, it is as healthy as beef-fat need be, we see no objections, if people wish beef-fat with their bread, why they should not buy yours, but it is not butter and no amount of steamboat or banquet can make us say that it is." We see no reason why colored aud salted beef-fat, or colored and salted liog's lard, or puri­ fied and salted palm oil should not be eaten if one's tasttf runs that way, but they should not be sold as butter, or given out to one who asks for butter, and the penalty to one who does it should be most severe. We notice of late a dis­ position to change the name of the stuff to butterine--no, gentlemen ! you chose your own name at the beginning. Oleo­ margarine is quite ji pretty name, and as distinct from butter as the stuff itself, and we do not wish a name that may lead to the confounding the two very distinct articles. Butter can stand on its own merits, with its own name ; let your stuff do the same, and may there be laws enough to make you do it. and removed to the faintly burial-plac After some delay the request waa grant­ ed by President Johnson, who wan final­ ly appealed to, and Mr. Weaver took the Doily to the cemetery in Baltimore and buried it beside the elder Booth and others of the family. The removal was ooBilm'ted with ^reat secrecy, and was CTea . - from Secretary Stanton, .who. retried to giveijft eonfuetit. eeal< for the Eastern and Middle districts of Tennes­ see The Hanlan-Courtney rowing match oc­ curred at Washington last week. Hanlan won in thirty-six and a half minutes. Courtney did not complete the course; he h%d been com­ plaining of headache all day. WM. MAOLENNAK, an expert, chief of the warrant division of the treasury, testified before the Carlisle investigating committee that in^s^oginion Finley wrote that anonymous FOHEIGFf. QUEEN VICTORIA has been on a few days" visit to London. She drove in Hyde Park through an immense concourse of people and carriages. The Qneen was in an open barouche with outriders, John Brown occupying the dickey. She drove from Hyde Park corner to Victoria gate through a double lane of carriagex filled with fashionable people, and dense crowds of lower classes concentrated at different points. Gentlemen raised their hats, ladies bowed, but not a single cheer was given along the whole route.... A boiler explosion in Lon­ don killed twenty-five persons and injured twenty others, several of whom will die. THE Italian elections have resulted in the triumph of the Ministerial party The revolutionary patriots in the island of Cuba have formed a provisional Government, with Oen. Yniguez as President; P. O. Bosad, Min­ ister of the Interior and War; Benor Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; and lienor Laina- drid, Diplomatic Commissioner to the United States.... A letter from Aleppo states that tlio famine now raging there in appalling. Hun­ dreds of men, women, and children throng the streets in the vicinity of the Governor's resi­ dence praying _ and fighting for bread Resintance to eviction seems to lie the ordor of the day in the West of Ireland. Bailiffs and constables and Sheriff a have a rather rough time, and retire from the field with heads need­ ing surgical treatment. The peasants usually retire to their intrenchments behind shillalahH, ... .There itt a prospect that the war in Afghan­ istan will goon be brought to a close. The tariff succeeded in postponing confederation of this bill, and the House adjourned till evening, when a session was held for consideration of the District Code. In the Senate, on the 20th inst, after reports from the majority and minority of the select com­ mittee on counting the electoral votes, the bill to es­ tablish a retired list for non-commissioned army offi­ cers was taken up, and amended so that when an en­ listed man has served aa such fifteen consecutive years in the army honorably and faithful­ ly, and the ^.last five years thereof aa a uon-comniiKHioned officer, he shall be eligible for appointment as Second Lieutenant in the army corps of the line iu which he has served, and paased. Sir. Cockrell introduwsd a bill donating twelve con­ demned cannon to aid in the erection of a monu­ ment to Oen. Janicfi Shields. Mr. Garland spoke in lavor of unseating Mr. Kellogg... .In the IIOUKC, the bill regulating the Municipal Code of the District was passed, as was the bill to carry into effect the second and sixteenth a'-ticles of the treaty betweon the United States and the Great and Little O.^aoo Indians. The iiout>e went into committee of the whole and considered several reports from the Committee on Public Lands, and oontinsied the same order of business at the evening wjsfion. a The Marshals bill was taken up in tho Senate on the 21st inst, at the request of Mr. Bayard, and, after amendments, was passed. The Committee on Commerce was given leave to sit during the session of the Senate. The bill loaning tent*, etc., to soldiers' reunion at Muscatine,' Iowa, was passed. The Legislative Appropriation Mil was paased, after a short discussion In the House, a bill mslring appropriations for the payment of certain claims reported allowed by the accounting officers of the treasury was taken up and passed; also, « bill for the relief of John D. Defree*, Public Printer. Mr. Cox,.Chairman the Commit­ tee on Foreign Affairs, reported back a resolution call­ ing on the President for information in regard to the expulsion of Israelite citizens of the United States from St. Peternburg by the Bussian Govern­ ment. Adopted. The House then considered bills reported yesterday from the committee of the wbo'e relative to public landn, and the various bi'Is agreed to iu committee of thu who e were passed. Mr. Colerick, from the Committee on Elections, re­ ported a resolution relative to the contested- f?? °(_ »uffy vs. Mason, Twenty-ninth native tribes evince a desire tomakeaaluiiiaaiou > of New York, declaring Mason, the sitting --i:i._ M-i. x member, entitled to the seat. The resolution which on anything like fair terms. THE Bev. Mr. Larabee, an American missionary residing in Persia, sends the most alarming accounts of the extent and severity of the famine in the northern provinces of unanimous report of the committee, was * be Pension bill was passed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported to the House appropriating $20,729,087. The aggregates submit­ ted to the committee aggregated $24,374,026. The FlSt6!114 pxceeds tho amount appropriated for 1880 by fl,255,1*63. Mount Vernon. Whence Mount Vernon derived its name is told by the New York Times. It says: The unfortunate Duke of Monmouth had a private secretary named Vernon, a prudent, sensible man of business, who, after the Duke's death, found fa­ vor in influential quarters, and under William U. became Secretary of State. He left a son, Edward, born 1684, who, greatly against his father's wishes, en­ tered the navy, and, serving with early distinction, rose to the rank of Admiral. In 1722 he was returned to the House of Commons, and having in July, 1739, declared there that Porto Bello might lie reduced with six sail of the line, and he would stak&< hi9)Nife |and reputation on the success of the expedition, he was sent with a squadron to do it, succeeded, and gave his men $10,000, which had just arrived to pay his troops. On returning home he -received the thanks of both houses and the freedom of the city of London^ From that time, however, his star declined.' An expedition to Carthagena, made two years later, signally failed. It wan in the land force at Carthagena that Lawrence Washington, George's eldest brother by fourteen years, had served, and, apparently, he esteemed Vernon, as he gave his name to his home on the Potomac, and procured a Mid­ shipman's appointment for George, but his mother's interposition ultimately pre­ vented the boy's availing himself of it, albeit she at lirst consented. Vernon's popularity was so great that his unlucky expedition does not seem to have affected it, as he was actually elect­ ed to Parliament for three places at once on his return. Probably his known hostility to the Government had much to do with this. In 1745 he was detailed to watch the North sea, in view of a movement of the Pretender's adherents. The next year a serious squabble arose between him and the Government, resulting in his producing two pamphlets, which so exasperated the authorities that, by the King's express command, he was struck off the list of Admirals. He died in 1757, at his seat in Suffolk, and, notwithstanding his disgrace, a handsome monument Mas erected in Westminster Abbey. It was Vernon who brought into use the custom of mixing water with the ra­ tion of rum, which got the nnme of grog from his habit of wearing a grogram waistcoat, and henca his nickname of "Old Grog." Altogether, the man who invented grog is buried at Westminster Abliey, commemorated by Smollet, and gave a name to Washington's home, must be regarded ns no ordinary person. Where Booth Is Buried. The Washington correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial writes: It was only after some patient inquiry that I could ascertain the facts, which are interest­ ing, and, so far as I know, are yet un­ published. Booth died, as will be re­ membered, in a barn in Maryland from a wound received from the musket of Boston Corbett. His body was brought to Washington, and, after having been identified by the court-martial before which his fellow-conspirators were tried, was dissected by the Surgeon G -neral of the army. The brain and heart tind some other parts of tho body were pre­ served in alcohol, and are now on exhi­ bition in tlie medical mus um of the Surgeon General's oflico. The building in which the assassination occurred was Ford's Theater. The Government con­ fiscated it, but afterward Ford was paid its full value, and it has since been used as the headquarters of the medical corps of the army. The brain and heart of Booth are in jarrf,' standing in a case that is situated very near the actual scene of the assassination. After the surgeon had done with Booth's body, it was buried in a grave in the ArseimJ grounds. Only half a dozen penio^s kne'w tne exact spot, which was unmarked. In 1867 Edwin Booth the actor, sent Mr. Weaver, the sexton of Christ's Church, Baltimore, to. Washington, with a request that the re­ mains of his brother might be taken up The Old Morgan Story. ̂ A '^Sahphlet has been issued entitled : '* Aiuerican Political Anti•"•Masonry, with Good-Enough Morgan." In ordor to give the reader an idea of tlie narrative it may be well to state that in the year 1826, a Freemason, by name ol William Morgan, then residing in Batavia, attempted to make an expose of Masohry. He was kidnapped on the 12th of Sep­ tember, of that year, and was supposed to have been drowned in the Niagara river. When he disappeared he was quite bald and wore no .whiskers. More than a year after this time the body of a man was found forty miles east of the Niagara river on the shore of Lake On­ tario, and an inquest declared it to lie the body of an unknown man. The clothing was taken care of by one of what was then known as the Morgan Committee. Soon after this inquest Thurlow Weed, who was chief of said committee, pro­ fessed to believe the body might be that of Morgan. He, therefore, had it dug up and a second inquest held. The body, being thus disinterred, was found to have a full head of hair upon its head and full side- whiskers on its face. All this Mr. "Weed well knew, for, in a letter to the New York Herald, written in 1875, he X: " The head was covered with long sn hair of a chestnut color." The second inquest declared the body to be that of Morgan, and it was buried as such. But, doubt having arisen as to whether there had not been foul play by Weed and others, the body was again disin­ terred, and a third inquest held at Ba­ tavia. The head of the body this time appeared very bald, and with no whis­ kers on tlie face, although the proof showed that the head when found on the shore was well coveretj. with hair, and the face covered with whiskers. It was also proven that the body was four inches taller than that of Morgan, and was that of one Timothy Monroe. Citizens of Batavia, where Morgan had resided, testified that the body was not Morgan's, and the third inquest so decided. After this Ebenezer Guffind said to Weed, " What are you going to do with Morgan now ?" to which it was said Mr. Weed gave the celebrated re­ ply: "It is a good-enough Morgan till after election." Henry O'Reilley, the editor of the Daily Advertiser, pub­ lished some statistics intimating that Weed had disfigured the head and face of the corpse of Timothy Monroe so as to make it look like that of Morgan. For this Mr. Weed caused O'Reilley to be indicted for libel. The suit remained untried thirteen years, thus harassing O'Reilley, but was finally nolle prose- quied, and lately Mr. Weed has publicly stated that the case was sworn off by O'Reilley, so that he could not get a trial. To this statement of Mr. Weed, Mr. O'Reilley now replies : " A lawyer familiar with prominent legal proceed­ ings at that time kno^ that Weed's in­ ability for twelve years to cause trial to be had against us on his indictment is in itself a libel upon our judiciary system, and as to his declaration that he urged tlia trial while he had been swearing it onf it may be repeated by us that it would require as much hard swearing as it would to make the public believe that Morgan's corpse had grown four inches in length and crept into Timothy Mon­ roe's breeches twelve months after his death."--Exchange.. Paid Him His Own Measure. Righteous punishment comes sooner or later to pesterers and practical jokers. They should expect it any time. Says a contemporary: Years ago, in Penobscot, Me., there lived a man by the name of H , whose greatest pleasure was in tormenting oth­ ers. j His own family were generally the butts of his sport. One cold and blust­ ering night, he retired to bed at an early hour, his wife being absent at a neigh­ bor's. Some time after, she, on return­ ing, finding the door closed, demanded admittance. "Whoare you?" cried Mr. H . " You know who I am ! Let me in-- it's very cold." " Begone, you strolling vagabond! I want nothing of you here !" " But I must come in !" . y' " What is your name ?" ^ . "You know my name--it is Mrs. H !" " Begone ! Mrs. H is a very like­ ly woman. She never keeps such late hours as this!" " If you don't let me in," replied Mrs. H , "I will drown myself in tlie well!" "Do, if you please," he replied. She then took a log and plunged it in­ to the well, and returned to the side of the door. Mr. H , hearing the noise rushed from the house to save, as he supposed, his drowning wife. She, at the same time, slipped in and closed tlie door after her. Mr. H , almost nude, in turn demanded admittance. " Who are you ?" she demanded. " You know who I am. Let me in, or 11 shall freeze !" i "Begone, you great rogue! I want : nothing of you here !" I " But I must come in !" j " What is your name ?" j "You know my name. It is Mr. " Mr. H is a very likely man--he don't keep such late hours." Suffice it to say, she, after keeping him in the cold until she was satisfied, opened the door and let liim in. j Shall Suicides Be Cremated) i The proprietors of the cremating fur- nuce at Washington, Pa., have been a j crood diMil exercised over the question j whether they shall cremate the bodies of suicides. At first they decided, with- ' out any apparent good reason, that they . would not give suicides the benefit of | their furnace. Now, equally without ! any apparent reason, they have changed | their minds and consented to cremate ! the particular suicide concerning whom | the question was raised. It used to be i the custom to deny suicides Christian ; burial; but that custom has long since I become obsolete. Is it to be revived > again when cremation is substituted for i interment? IT is to be decided by legal authority iust what constitutes a " gentleman " in England. The eleotion of Mr. Thomas Wood as member of the Local Board of Stapleton, near Bristol, has been ob­ jected to on tlie gitraid of misdescrip­ tion on the voting papers, he having set himself down as a " gentleman," whereas he is an eating-house keeper, and waa so described at last year's election, when he was beaten. Ostrich feather fans will be the high novelty of the summer. The Moon Not a Bead Mar. Dr. H. J. Klein, who years ago an­ nounced a hew crater in that world of extinct volcanoes, the moon, has a brief article in La Nature, in which he gives reasons for believing that the moon is not dead. He has recently examined drawings of the neighborhood of the new crater bJ Gp#™)an, ^duakptrongly confirm'the tneSbfy flpi^ee&^Miatiges on the lunar surface, and -cites also tho drawings of Messrs. Nelson and Green in further proof thereof. Prof. Klein adds that he announced the new depress­ ion near Hyginus as a crater from anal­ ogy. It is a crater funnel, and even one of the largest. Toward the south there is a shallow spoon-shaped hollow, which terminates in a second small crater. In" full sunlight, when the interior of the large hollow of the crater is no longer in shadow, the spoon-shaped hollow may still be seen as a gray spot. By the use of high powers it is remarked that the environs of the new crater appear to be fissured in a bewildering manner. Two fine furrows, like clefts in the soil, which extend from N. toward the Snail mount­ ain, are the finest objects on the moon. Itis impossible as yet to decide whether this formation is really volcanic. There is one curious fact, however, which Would seem to indicate that a mountain of smoke has at one time been seen on the moon. On July 2, 1797, Schrotear and Orbers examined a mountain situ­ ated in the Sea of Vapors. This mount­ ain, which was ascertained to be 3,450 feet high, has been seen neither before nor since, and was probably merely a mass of vapor. The formation measured by Schroter has disappeared from the moon, and nearly in the same spot there is now a crater. There sometimes occur, too, on the surface of the moon, nebulous strata of very long duration, which have no analogues on the earth. He who ex­ amines carefully the materials furnished by the numerous observations made on lunar formations from the time of Gruithuisen up to ourown day, says Prof. Klein, will arrive at the conclusion that things are going on upon the surface of this neighboring world which we as yet can know nothing about. Buck Beer. Buck beer is demoralizing in Its ten­ dency when it moveth itself^ aright. It layeth hold of the intellect, and twisteth it out of shape. My son, go not with th^m who go to seek buck beer, for at last it stingeth like the brocaded hornet with the red- hot narrative, and kicketh like the chol­ eric mule. Who hath woe ? Who hath babbling? Who hath redness of eyes? He that goes to seek the schooner of buck beer. Who hath sorrow ? Who striveth when the middle watch of the night hath come to wind up the clock with the fif­ teen puzzle ? He that kicketh against the buck beer and getteth left. Verily, the buckness of buck beer bucketli with a mighty buck, insomuch that the buckee riseth at the noon hour with a head that compasseth the town round about, and the swellness thereof waxetli more and more, even from Dan to Beer--Slieba. (Current joke in the Holy Land.) Who clamoreth with a loud voice and saith : "Verily, am not I not a bad man?" Who is he that walketh un­ steadily, and singeth unto himself: "The Bright Angels Are Waiting for Me ? " Who wotteth not even a fractional wot, but setteth his chronometer with the wooden watch of the watchmaker and by means of a toothbrush ? " Go to. Is it not he that bangeth his intellect ferninst the buck beer unto the eleventh hour?--Bill Nye, in Denver Tribune. The Invasion of the United States. The greatest question of the day for the Ignited States continues to be that of European emigration, as may be imag­ ined when it is considered that nearly 1,500 emigrants daily arrive in the har­ bor of New York alone, and that statis­ ticians estimate the, net profit to the country of each emigrant at $1,000, rep­ resented by the monev, be it more or Itfes, they bring with tfiem; and by the " sinews" and physical force applied to industry and agriculture. For the last six years emigration has comparatively diminished, as was previously the case from 1863 to 1870. More than 500,000 emigrants are expected this year. The annual arrivals from 1870 to 1879 were as follows: 1870, 356,303; 1871, 346,- 938; 1872, 437,750; 1873, 422,545; 1874, 260,817; 1875, 191,231; 1876, 237,991; 1877, 141,857; 1878, 138,469; 1879, 177,- 826, giving a total amount for the last ten years .of 2,711,724. European statesmen will do well to notice whether or not the years during which emigration to the United States was the largest do not correspond either to the periods succeed­ ing wars in the Old World, or to those in which, as now, the commencement of hostilities upon a large scale is seriously apprehended.--American Correspond­ ence. Drinking Ice Water. There is no more doubt that drinking ice water arrests digestion than there is that a refrigerator would arrest perspira­ tion. It drives from the stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric juice and shocks and weakens the deli­ cate organs with which it comes in con­ tact. An able writer on human diseases says habitual ice-water drinkers are usu­ ally very flabby about the region of the stomach. They complain that the food lies heavy on that patient organ. They taste their dinner for hours after it is bolted. They cultivate the use of stimu­ lants to aid digestion. If they are intel- ligent they read upon food and what the I WHKAT--NO. 2spring...." physiologist has to say about it--how | CoBi»--.3 long it would take cabbage and pork and j OATH--NO. 2. beet and potatoes and other meats and j Na'a other esculents to go through the process j BUTXEK--Choice'Cwimery of assimilation. They roar at new bread, -| Eoos--Fresh hot cakes and fried meat, imagining ; these to be the cause of the maladies, j MILWAUKEE. But the ice water goes down all the : Wh*ai--s same, and finally friends are called in to j CO*N--No. a. take a farewell look at one whom a niys- ! OAT»--NO. a.. terious Providence has called to a clime where, as far as is known, ice water is not used. The number of immortal be­ ings who go hence, to return no more, on account of an injudicious use of ice water can hardly be estimated.--Balti­ more Sun. fumed over his electric light until he hast made for himself every variety of failure-, that other men had Wade before him. Meanwhile, his Wall street friends have put stock on the market, sold it at a high figure, and are now stowing away the difference between said figure and the present,; which is somewhere along in the • laiitudg^of the Keely-motor quotations.. ' Liverpool. , Liverjxtoi, 'England, has been created, a city and erected into a Bishopric. During the early part of the last centu­ ry, Liverpool, which was a poor, de­ cayed town, leaped suddenly into activ­ ity and trebled her population, from ' 4,000 to 12,000, and has' fiince yearly'*^ (grower -in prosperity. It • derives, f" its name from a bird, named a liver, tlieiH « only one of his species which dwelt in a. potM on the banks of the Mersey, tuid is: represented on the corporate seal, after a. portrait taken 600 years ago, as having ' two le^s and only one wing. Whether' he took flight over the ancient city said, to have stood in the days of the Ptole­ mies where Liverpool now stands, is not. certain, but he must have existed at a. very remote date or he could not have found his way into the arms of the old­ est families of Lancashire. Naturalists, say that this liver is the blue duck, which is also found in the Ribble. ;•! : . ' A Home Thrasti', "William Cullen Bryant, wTien chal­ lenged once to fight a duel, contrived to fasten the charge of cowardice on "tho other fellow " very neatly, and with little* trouble. His reply having been incor­ rectly reported in the notices of his. death, his son-in-law, Parke Godwin, publishes the facts as follows : Mr. Bryant was challenged by a Dr. Holland, now deceased, on account of some offensive words that had appeared. in the Evening Post, but, remembering" that Dr. Holland had been previously challenged by William Leggett, without taking any notice of the challenge, he> replied to this effect: "MY DEAR SIH : I am not familiar* with the code of the duelist, but I be­ lieve that, according to its provisions, no- one has a right to send a challenge to fight a duel so long as an unanswered challenge hangs over his head." Then the matter was dropped. A Miserly Senator. To illustrate the penuriousness of Me- Creery, once one of Kentucky's Senators, a Washington correspondent relates that one bitter cold day in midwinter a mes­ senger was sent to his apartments on business, and found the Senator with liis. great coat on, and his hands thrust down into his pockets, trying to worry along without incurring the extra expense of fire. Thorougldy chilled by the long, tedious ride (some three miles from the- Capitol), the boy sat shivering while waiting for an answer, observing which the dear soul compassionately said: " You look cold, my lad; here, let me give you something to warm you," and, crossing the room, he reached to the top of the wardrobe, took down a glass jar, from which he handed the messenger--a- glass of Kentucky " moonshine?" Bless- you, no, but a cucumber pickle, well sea­ soned with cayenne pepjier. . ' Sponge Underclothing. A Berlin inventor has patented a new kind of cloth, which consists principally or entirely of sponge. The sponges are- first thoroughly beaten with a heavy hammer, in order to crush all the min­ eral and vegetable impurities so that they can be easily washed out. They are then dried and pared like a potato, with a sharp knife, the parings being- sewed together. The fabric thus obtained is free from all the danger which some- j times arises from the absorption of pois­ onous dyes into the system ; it absorbs- without checking the perspiration, so as to diminish the danger of taking cold ; it is a bad conductor, and, therefore, helps to maintain a uniform surface tem­ perature ; it can be more readily cleaned than the ordinary woolen garments, and its flexibility diminishes the liability of chaling. ,1 . f • Ancient Petroleum. Prof. Skeat has called attention to a- passage in North's translation of " Plu­ tarch's Lives " (1631, p. 702), from which it appears that petroleum was known in the time Of Alexander the Great. Tho Sassage runs as follows : " For a Mace-onian called Proxenus, that had charge of the King's carriage (baggage), as ho digged in a certaine place by the riuer of OXUB, to set vp the King's tent and hip lodging, he found a certain fat and oily veine, which, after they had drawn out the first, there came out also another clearer, which differed nothing, neither in smell, tast, or savour, from natural oile, having the glosse and fatness so like as there could be discerned no difference between them ; the which was so much the more to be wondered at, because in all that country there were no oliues." AMERICA has now nearly 100 varieties of native grapes under cultivation, and more than 800 varieties of pears. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKEVKS Hoo« COTTON FLOUB--Superfine WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--Western Mixed OATS--Mixed LABD A CHICAGO. BEXVES--Choice Graded Steen... OOWH and Heifers Medium to Fair HOQR FLOUB--Fancy White Winter Ex. RYE--No. 1 ! BAB LET--No. 2 i ST. LOUIS. ' WHEAT--No. i Red Fall Cons--Mixed I OATS--No. 2...., RYE Puck's Estimate of Edison. There is Edison, for instance. Edison is not a humbug. Far from it. He is simply a man of a type common enough in this country--a smart, persevering, sanguine, ignorant, show-off American. He can do a great deal, and he thinks he can*do everything. As a matter of fact, he is so smart that he is the tool of the first scamp that comes along. He would invent to-morrow, in perfect good faith, a three-legged stool. He would let spec­ ulators organize a stock company to float that three-legged stool. Tli#n, wlien he found that three-legged stools were in oominon use before he was born, he j Po*x--clear would cheerfully go to work to invent something else, honestly unconscious of having done anv mischief. That is just his position to-<lay. He has fussed and CINCINNATI. WHEAT. COBN. OATS RR* PORK--MAM LABD. F*..... TOLEDO. WKIA*--Amber Michigan Ma 2 Bed CoM--No. 3 '. OATS--No. 2..... 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