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"':v . H" enter l&LXNOia . * I' lfe: V&,v: m WS> r8 CONDENSED. KSEiiiwr. A ram which started in G. A. CoBn k Co.'* wooden shoe factory at Lynn. Mass., •pread tothe buildings of the Smith Manu- ftwMni OtMptDV, Charles B. Tebbetts A Co., M 4»o other shoe manufacturing fflhWWillfilitn. causing a loss of $100,000, wi thwevaoce in excess of that amount. ». .SMMSI CJanlwell. a director of the MMWWT HiH Bank, was garrotedat New York and robbed <tt bank stock certificates --$15,000, $150 in money, and Bipdf fitly valuable to the owuer.,.. Three ffitw loaded with cotton were burned at Se fix* of Christopher street, New York. Theloes if estimated at $50,000 An ex­ plosion of gas in the Hillman mine, near WilkerfMute, Pa., killed one man and seri­ ously injured ten others. IK East Cambridge, Mass.. ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment foT obtaining money under false pretenses. Moses made an appeal for mercy, alleging that his mind had givm way nnder his troubles.... The elevated railroads of New York have de­ cided to pay $300,000 in taxes and bring their offioes back from Jay Gould's plaae on the Hudson. ' FIB* at Troy, N. Y., destroyed $100,000 worth of property. The building burned adjoined the Everett House, and the guests were panic-stricken. An attempt was also made ta fire the hotel. Two arrests were made of supposed incendiaries... .A valua­ ble business block in Philadelphia was burned, causing a loss of two lives and $850,000. Nine large busi­ ness houses, between Second and Front streets, on and near Chestnut, were gutted, and several more were damaged.... One of French, Palmer A French's spice mills in Fairport, N. Y., was burned. The loss is estimated at $40,000; insurance, $26,000. ... .A medical journal of New York states that all alarming symptoms in Gen. Grant's tongue and throat have entirely disap­ peared. ' " ' THEWEIT. • 'Damon? telegram: "The meeting of Socialists drew a large audience at Ger- maaia Hall to discuss the dynamite ques­ tion. Two German speakers led off de­ ploring the use of explosives, and declaring that peaceful and constitutional methods were the best eoqise for the Socialists to Eursue. This elicited some applause, ut when three other speakers openly defended dynamite violence and in­ dorsed the Irish conspirators the applanse became deafening. -Lyman E. Stowe cursed the present civilization, and said capitalist* were waging a deadly war on the people. If the dynamiters had sent to heaven the hankers assembled in Saratoga last fall; if they would blow up a few rail­ road monopolists and send them to Satan, and it both oar own Senate and the En­ glish House of Lords were dynamited to kingdom come, it would be a glorious thin* for the masses. The meeting broke ap ia confusion without adopting the anti-dynamite resolutions prepared by these who called it" Judge Prendeigast, of Chicago, having learned that a verdict for $10$ against a landlord was reached by a jury by the foreman flipping a penny, promptly granted a new trial Mrs. Sanh Althaa Hill-Sharon has been awarded by the court in San Francisco $2,500 a ael fee*. alimony and $55,000 coun- Stato Encampment, G. A. A membership of 90, - lOS posts being added i resolution was nnani- the Illinois Congres- to urge the passage of the Grant... •seed at in her the flames spread Anchor 11 three 'he loss commit- loading a cargo of cotton and Memphis, Tenn, <ire was hold. All (flMHts 16 were unpuoieisfi to a wharf-boat and Line steamer of Helena. were burned to (fee water's edge. will exceed $196,600. ELIZABETH BONY. 96 years ol ted suicide by burning herself to death in Lor house near Falmouth. Kv.... A woman, representing herself as Mrs. Seoville, sister of Guiteau, has been delrauding merchants and others at Cameron, W. Va. NEAR Princeton, W. Va., Arthur Jackson (colored), 18 years old, concealed himself behind a clump of laurel bushes and shot Mr. Perry, killing him instantly. He robbed the body of several dollars and part of the clothing. That night he attended a dance, where he was arrested. The follow­ ing day he had his preliminary examination, at which he confessed his guilt. At night a mob took him from the jail and banged him to a tree A negro named Babe Elli­ son was lynched at Shelbyville, Tenn., for assaulting a white lady Brown's whole­ sale grocery house at Fort Worth, Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.... A fruit-schooner, the E. V. Olive, went ashore on Dixie Island, at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Five lives were lost. One sailor was taken from the rigging next morning, but died soon after. WAiHOCTOH. BUTLKB MAHOXE, son of Senator Ma- hone, of Virginia, created a sensation in Welcker's Hotel, at Washington, by getting drunk and Shooting at several servants who attempted to quiet him. He was arrested, and his father afterward deposited $50 col­ lateral for his future appearance The Minnesota House has agreed to appropriate $5,000 for an encampment of ex-Union soldiers at Lake Minnetonka next Septem­ ber. THE Secretary of the general postoffiee in ' London solicited information at Wash­ ington in regard to the construction of pos­ tal cars and the manner of handling the mails, and Postmaster General Hatton sent a oomple:e description. A WEST POINT cadet named Wright, who recently resigned from the Military Acad­ emy because he was unable to keep up with his class, has been confirmed by the Senate as a Second Lieutenant in the army. Wright comes from New Jersey, and his appointment by the President and subse­ quent confirmation are thought ta- have been due to social influence. POLITICAL. retiring Gen. Grant Geo. aged resident of Gibson City, a yanng woman whose clothes on flee and carried her to a snow­ drift. saving her life and losing his own. . . .Frederick Hempel, a prominent citizen at Beaver Dam, Wis., with whom a number of poor Germans deposited their funds, ! has tailed for $30,000, with assets of but $4,060,.... Bray Bros., grain commission menefeaats at San Francisco, failed for $50.- 000, with assets as large, but not readily convertible. Kit wanants are to be issued for the arrest of Couch and other Oklahoma boom­ ers, to be made returnable March 5, the day which has been set apart for another mid upon the territory. General Hatch will make arrangements for preventing any fu­ ture m vement that may be attempted..... The annual report of the Chicago and Alton Boad for 18W is given. Gross earnings amounted to $8,709,274 22, against * $8,810,610.38 in 1883, a de­ crease of $101,336.16. Mr. Arm­ strong, of the Crow Agency, in Mon­ tana, has secured from the Secretary of the Interior an order for the imprisonment of three Indian chiefs who are turbulent char­ acters .... P. S. Shelly 4 Sort, wholesale and retail glass and crockery, at Peoria, HI., have foiled for $26,000... .Half the busi­ ness portion of Marshall, 111., was destroyed ' by fire, m ating a loss of $40,000 The business portion of Bisbee, Arizona Ter­ ritory, was swept away by fire, the loss reaching $100,000 The ministers at Shelbyville, 111., have begun a crusade against progressive euchre. TWELVE bodies of the rictims of the anowalide at Alta, Utah, were brought to bait £a£e. /oar of those reported dea<3 were rescued alive, after being buried for $9turs. By other avalanches in the vicinity six persofiS have perished. THE Grannis Block, one of the finest of- Boe buildings in Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire. The firemen fought the flames for hours under the most trying oucnmstances. The cold was intense, and the streets were flooded with water, which threatened for a time to invade the base­ ments of the neighboring buildings, where gnat dtmage might have been done to per­ ishable -stock. Two banks and one pri­ vate hanking firm were among the suffer- eta. The total loss is estimated at $250,- 660. One fireman was badly hurt by a fall­ ing icicle A plow factory at Hamburg, Ipwa, with its contents of manufactured arm implements, wagons, etc., was con­ sumed by fire Loss, $40,000; insured for #*0.000... .Mrs. Mack, of Janesville, Wis., Who was tried twice for murdering her hus­ band, being convicted once, has check­ mated file prosecution by marrving the principal witness against her, and, the other witnesses being scattered, it is not prob­ able that the case will be called again At IfAcksburg, Ohio, new petroleum wells «e b*ing opened daily. Three spoaters, averaging seventy-five barrels each, were •track in one day, and the population is nkpidly increasing Horses and cattle are tiing in large numbers in the Caldwell (Ohio) section from a mysterious epidemic, the loss to farmers thus far reaching $20,- ' 666... .The Western Export Association, at a prolonged session in Chicago, re-estab- whisky pool. IBEiOVm WASHINGTON telegram to Chioago Trib­ une : "Inquiry among leading Republicans on the House side of the Capitol develops only good opinions of Messrs. Garland and Lamar. The case of the former was stated tersely but forcibly by an old-time Repub­ lican to-day. 'I think,' said he, 'that Mr. Garland's name has been cut in the Cabinet slate with a jack-knife, while the others are in pencil and liable to eras­ ure.' Several Representatives whom the correspondent talked with, although de­ claring that they had not the honor of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Garland, seemed impressed with his fitness for a Cabinet position because of his known con­ servative ideas. As to Mr. Lamar, an opinion generally expressed was that he had a reputation as a scholar and deep thinker, but not much was known of his executive ability. Ex-Speaker Keifer thought Mr. Lamar far above the average Democrat in . liberality of spirit and feeling. Mr. Garland he regard­ ed as one of the foremost men of the country, and his conduct in any depart­ ment would reflect credit upon a Demo­ cratic administration. Representative His- cock was not very familiar with Mr. Lamar, but had been frequently brought in con­ tact with Senator Garland. He thought the latter was a strong, fair man, and in his intercourse with him the more he saw of the Arkansas Senator the better he liked him." A CONCUKKENT resolution has been adopted by the New Jersey Senate to sub­ mit to the people a prohibition amendment to the State Constitution. In the Michigan Legislature the House committee of the whole agreed to a similar constitutional amendment. THE first genuine ballot for United States Senator was reached in the Illinois Legislature Feb. 18, there being but two absentees. John A. Logan received 101 votes; W. R. Morrison, 94; E. M Haines. 4; James H. Ward, 1; Frank Lawler, 1; and John Smith, 1. THREE ballots for United States Senator were taken by the Illinois Legislature in joint convention at Springfield, on Feb. 19, with the following result: Logan, 100; M o r r i s o n . 9 4 ; H a i n e s , 4 ; s c a t t e r i n g , 6 . . . , The Dakota Council has passed a bill for a constitutional convention for the southern pertion of fhe Territory, to be held next September at Sionx Falls Knights of Labor of Jackson, Mich., have petitioned the Legislature to memoralize Congress to make of Alaska a penal colony. «BNEBU» 80MB dissatisfaction having been caused M Dallas, Tex., by the recent action of Jostiee Schnhl in introducing colored jurors ia^O.hia court, the Hon. James B. Simpson, a leading Democrat, has published a card 'fat which he says that "our courts do not realise and our fashionable churches have oouvenieatiy forgotten that slavery has been Mown hell ward from the commonwealth." 'The Mardt-Gras festivities at New Orleans attracted an unusually large number of vis­ itors, and the decorations were of a high Order of merit < WHIM the steamer Ida Dana^h was un- FlBK damaged the corset factory (ft M. K. Bortree, at Madison, Wis., to the amount of $18,000. The burning of Shee han's cotton warehouse at Eufaula, Ala. caused a loss of $100,000. Three factories at Salem, Mass.; Cole's hotel at Wellsboro, Pa., and eight stores at Caledonia, Ontario, were reduced to ashes. The sash factory of Mills, Spillmire & (o., in Cincinnati, wojrth $<^000, was bnjra$d. X CHICAGO dispatch reports that THE embargo on railroad travel, caused by the stormy and frigid weather, is very serious. Travel between Chicago and St. Louis was almost stopped. The postal officials report greater annoyances than have previously been endured In the Dubuque section the embargo is reported as the worst in eighteen years, and from various points come reports of trains six to ten hours late, and of others imbedded in mountainous drifts. Superintendents make announcements that they ^ill not attempt to clear the tracks until the wind subsides. Thermometries! readings average 20 below zero, a few towns reporting one of the cold­ est nights of the winter. For 100 miles around Dickinson, D. T., a fierce snow­ storm raged, with the temperature at zero, making all Northern Pacific trains several hours late. Snow and rain fell in Pennsylvania. Snow fell at Wilkesbarre reaching thirteen inches. Six inches of snow, followed by torrents of rain, fell in the Port Jervis (N. Y.) district. Heavy rain and high tides flooded streets in New York. The butcher stands in Washington Market were inundated, and every cellar in West and South streets was submerged. A hurricane along the Atlantic coast dud heavy damage at Cape May, Atlantic City, and other points. At New York two men were fatally hurt by a fall­ ing shutter, another man being blown from a building and killed. A wind-storm at Denver, Col., unroofed several structures, and wrecked plate-glass fronts, resulting in a loss of several thousand dollars Heavy rain following a snow-storm flooded the streets in Baltimore, in some thorough fares the water being two feet deep. CHABLES M. WEED, the absconding book-keeper of Milmine, Bodman & Co.. of Chicago, was held up by detectives in Toronto and forced to disgorge $25,000 which he had embezzled The Canadian voyageurs who took Gen. Wolaeley's boats up the Nile have arrived at Queenstown on their way home. and rit^JpSSte* OoL Bullor. who evacuated Gabat staft withdrew to " Klea Wefts, fees alaotmaived «*£•» back oa Kogti. WoleelejwJH *>ly coooeoteate Sis entireannj at s a . of Geo. W olseley's Yetirement WiH fee tralized by the coftte re plated a6tS6n irom Snnlrin--The British Parliament reas- t.»i Jlu Ivllt ul Lii iiousfe o£ Loidb, Earl viikuvllle allied thai the Government left Gen. Wolseley to decide whether to attack Khartoum at once or delay antU the au> tpmn. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone disavowed responsi­ bility for the death of General Gordon, and remarked that overtures could not he made toElMehdi. Sir Stafford Morthcote gave notice of a motion for an address to the Queen praying for decided measures to­ ward stable government in India... .A bat­ talion of the Coldstream Guards, 840 in number, have started from London for Suakin. A detachment of Hus­ sars has left Aldershot for Egypt.... Advices from Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia report a revolt among the Russian exiles, which was quelled with great difficulty. Nine soldiers and thirty exiles were killed. The wife of James Russell Lowell, Minister to England, died in London, Feb. 19. • ADDITIONAL HEWS. A COLLISION on the Virginia Midland Railroad, afew miles from Washington, D. C., resulted in the death of five men, all train hands. All the passengers, seventy in number, escaped serious injury. The safe of the express-car had been opened shortly before the accident, and the names made such headway that the express agents could not close it Its contents were burned. On account of the way-bills hav­ ing been bnrned, it cannot now be told just how much money was in the safe, but it is variously estimated all the way from $75,000 to $150,(KK>. About a bushel of silver dol­ lars were taken out of the wreck. They were badly burned, afad many more were melted into a solid lump. The loss of the railroad company is estimated at $25,000. Postal officials say the collision caused the largest loss of mail matter of which there is any record in the department. The fire which resulted from the col­ lision destroyed thirteen through regis- tered mail pouches....A party of snow- shovelers at the Chicago Stock Yards was run down by a Northwestern train. Two of them were killed. A Eienger and a colored porter were killed ,n accident on the Ohio and Mississippi d, near North Vernon. Ind... .Two hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment by the burning of the Marvin Safe Company's factory, which was de­ stroyed by fire in New York. The factory was an eight-story build­ ing. The tottering walls of the stiucture threatened the surrounding tene­ ments, which were cleared by the police and hundreds of half-clad women and children turned into the streets. The loss is esti­ mated at $230,000.... Fire partially destroy­ ed St. Michael's Orphan Asylum and St Joseph's Convent near Pittsburg, Fa.... Several structures were burned at Gaines­ ville, Texas, with a loss of $12,0J0. MILTON MOBTON, a Cleveland business man, suspecting'that his place would be robbed, fixed a revolver so that it would be discharged if a certain window were opened. That night Michael Murray at­ tempted to invade the place, and re­ ceived the bullet in his chest..... Roswell Miller has been called to the St. Paul Road. Joseph F. Tuckcr has ac­ cepted the position of Assistant General Manager, with entire supervision of freight and passenger traffic. ON the Palouse River, Washington Ter­ ritory, a desperado, named Calvin Pierce, quarreled with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb, and subsequently crept up behind him and split his head open with a pickax. The murderer escaped, but an alarm was given, and he was speedily cap­ tured. *A vigilance committee, composed of miners, tried Pierce, condemned him- to death, and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left sus­ pended some time, but was finally buried. o A LETTER from the Secretary of War con­ cerning the estimated cost of the new^ock for the Sault Ste. Marie Falls Canal in Michigan was laid before the Senate Feb. 20. It is esti­ mated that the lock will coet $1,2(3,400, and ad­ ditional improvements for deepening the canal, etc., A memorial from the Illinois Leg­ islature was presented urging Congress to ac­ quire the ownership of the ship-canal connect­ ing the waters of the Kewe. naw Bay with those of Lake Superior, audio make the canal fre3 for the comlnerc3 of the lakes. The Com­ mittee on Agriculture reported favorably witn amendment the House bill for the protection of forests on the public domain. The Des Mo.nes Hlver bill was further considered, and several amendments offered by Mr. Lapham were re­ jected. The agricultural appropriation bill was parsed substantially aa it came from the House. A resolution was adopted calling on the Sec­ retary of the Interior for information whether the snbsldized Pacific roads are operating their telegraph lines in the interest of the public Notwithstanding the recommendation of the Appropriations Committee against it, the Senate decided by a vote of 33 to is in favor pf the Houne amendment reductng the postage opon drop letters to two cents an ounce. The House of liepresentatives passed three bills for public buildings, appropriating $100,000 for Council Eluffs, $50,000 for Clarksburg, and $1/00,00J for ouisville. When the river and harbor bill came up, the friends of the measure, to expedite matters, yielded to the Mia- Bissli>i>i Rivf r clause. The Chair ruled that the Hennepin Canal paragraph should be stricken from the bill on the ground that the subject came properly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Railways and Canals. Mr. Hen­ derson, of Iowa, appealed from the decision. The naval bill was discussed at length. Mr. Lone called the navy "an alphabet of wooden washtubs," and said that scarccly a nation was so poor as to do it reverence. People, he said, laughed at the navy and relished the sinking of the Tallapoosa by a coal barge as a FatstalBan burlesque. BKEVKS HOOR .. WHEAT- POBEICm. IK consequence of the fall of Khartoum and G^n. Gordon's death, the whole plan jOf the campaign in the Soudan been ..j 't THE HEW YORK is.50 5.X .00 .91 .S3 .as U.00 C.80 4.00 6.00 4.00 a. BO .•1 .as .77 .*> .06 No. 1 White ....... No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--White POBK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime 8teerm. Good Shipping. Common to Fair HOGS FIX)UK--Fancy Red Winter Ex.. Prime to Choice Spring "WHEAT--No. 2Bed COBN--No. 2 OATS-- No. 2 RYE--No. 1 B ABLEY--No. 2 B UTTEB--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy . CHEESE--Full Cream Skimmed Flat. Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--New, per bn POBK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--NO. 2 COKN-NO. S OATS-- No. 2 RYE--No. 1 B ARLEY--No. 2 . . PouK--Mess. TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2..... OATS--No. 2 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed........... RYE PORK--Mess CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. i Bed. COBN OATS--Mixed POBK--Meaa. DETROIT. FlXHJB 4.80 WHEAT--No. l White 37 CORN--Mixed «a OATH--No. a White. .Si Pork--Family. . . 1 2 . 6 0 INDIAN APOLia WHEAT--No. 2 Bed, New .S3 COBN -Mixed M OATS--Mixed .» BUFFALO. . WHEAT--No. 1 Spring M COBN--No. 2 *1 OATS--No. 8 EAST LIBERTY. @ 7 . 5 0 ft. 00 (§ .91H m M' @ .M* & .42 @14.90 @ 7.00 & c.00 <9 4.7S & 5.60 ® 4.50 <(# 4-00 & .81}* & .»'J w.m .29 .63 .64 .$» & .65 .28 & .89 .IS & .23 .12 @ .13 .08 «« .00 .28 <9 .80 .42 & .4ft 13.00 @13.23 I 13.00 0 .19 .42 .U .7814 .aB'i. .31 .67 .56 13.50* .80 .44 .92 K».! and tk* body was banal. a bush was Wbat 1* Being KuMlluuil Smntlngs of Svfryte vm Etota-fa Wins. ; > < IUN ft Umul Incidents ui Aed' • •c&pte, interspersed wttfc ftnr Anecdotes. • A HAKD Ieig Uwd Sofend From tram SIMM**. For the first time In ten years, saya a New Yprk dispatch. Lung Island Bound is frozen over. A solid field of ice extends from Hell Gate to New London; '1 he powerful Sound •teamen are the only boats that have been able for several daya to .cut a channel through, and one Of them--the naminnsett--was fast in the _ for twenty hours. She wae released this afternoon, a Rood dealdamaaed by her struggle vnth the heavy toinloes. Navigation ot the Stand la now practically suspended, and is likely to rem am so foraome time. The embargo to navigation will cause a serious loss to ship­ ping interests. A large number of craft of every description are loe-botnd, some severely dam­ aged thereby. , £. • Two Hen Froaen to Death. . . ; . (East Tawas (Mich.) special.] liast Thursday morning John and Johnson, Flnlaudera, left here for Gardner's Camp, and on Holiday three others left for the same plaoe. About three mi es from there they found John Johnson lying in the snow unable to rise. Both his legs from the feet to the knees, and both his handa were frozen. He was brought here and died during the night. He said that feeling tired he told the other man to go ahead, and he would soon follow. He had been out two nights with the mercury at 20 de­ grees below zero. The other man was found Qead one mile farther on. Uncalled ta, 11 to.. then relating a Joyful experience during hia transitory stay ia the other world, lb. wla- bolm, it ipem ̂TILED FOR KUUU luil tritir. "fclUT now rests beneath tlio snow. I*ke Michigan Froaen Over. Milwaukee dispatches state that Lake Michi­ gan is frozen from shore to shore, the ice rack­ ing from nine tnohea to three feet in thickness. The propellers City ct Ludiugton and Wiscon­ sin are frozen in somewhere in the lake. Some distance north ot South Haven seventeen men of the missing ateamer Michigan came ashore, having traveled on the ice a distance of twenty-* three miles from the vessel, 'l'hey left thirteen aboard, with rations for a month and nine­ ty tons of coaL _______ The Severest Ever Experienced in Montana. A reoent dispatch from Helena (Montana) says: "This is the moat severe winter that has been experienced here since the first visit of Lewis and Clarke, and has no parallel in the history of Montana. Killed Himself Shoveling Snow. .Frank LaVesee, of Bosooe, near Boekford, I1L, strained his Bystem so severely in shovel­ ing snow during the late blockade that he died from the effects. Coal Famine In an Illinois Town. The scarcity of fuel at Saybrook, 111., caused the citizens to seize forty tons front a train go­ ing through on the Lake Erie Road, for which they offered pay. ; Michigan Fruit Injured kgr Frost. The lnlury by intense oold to fruit trees In Michigan has been aa severe that but half a crop is anticipated next season SOUTIIlBRN SENSATIONS. Fiddled torn n haaoe with a Bullet In His Head. A negro named Edward Goode, while full of benxine, undertook to show how he could tire a blank cartridge Into his mouth,says the Charlotte (N. C.t Observer. Unfortunately the pistol was loaded. He called the attention ot tils com­ panions to the fact that he was going to commit suicide and pulled the trigger. He reeled, and as be gaspedr for breath smoke rolled from :his month and blood trickled down on each side of his chin. At the time he fired he hid about an inch of the pistol barrel in his mouth, and his head was thrown slightly backward. The doctors say that it WHS the most marvelous escape from instant death on record. Wounded aa be was. Goode re­ turned to Mount Holly and played the bass fid­ dle for the dancers until' vast midnight, when the bullet began to make Itself felt in his head. His mouth Is badly bnrned by the powder, and this gives him more pain than does the bullet. A Horn an tie Kentucky Tragedy. [Louisville special.] As a train trom Louisville to Shelbyville waa crossing the junction at Hansborough the en­ gineer discovered the dead bodies of William Adams and Tenn Wiltnouth lying side by side on the track. Between Adams' legs was a re­ volver with three chambers empty. Near them stood the buggy in which they had been riding. bad each been shot in the head. All were stone dead and cold. William Adams was but a youth and the dead girl bad not yet gone through her teens. They had long been sweethearts, but parental objection had prevented their union, audit is supposed that they agreed to die together rather than submit to separation. Desperate Fight with a Mad Dog. A mad dog was killed, after a desperate fight, at the residence of Mr. H. 3. Lewis, in Eastatos Township, this county, last Tuesday night, says telegram from Richmond, Oa. The dog was black hound, and fought Mr. Lewis' dog for nearly thirty minutes before he was killed. Mr. Lewis and Messrs. W. E. and J. M. Nlmmons : >oanded the dog with hoes, guns, and sticks, finally a sharp-pointed iron bar, weighing about ten pounds, was thrust clear through the dog, and a load of shot sent through his car­ cass. After all this he sprang up and jumped on Mr. Lewis' dog again before he.dled. The dog never made a particle offtoise during the' light, except when shot. No damage was done by the dog, except the biting of Mr. Lewis' dog. A Hen, a Hawk and a Man. The following comes from Cochran, Oa.: P. M. I tolomon, of this place, was at T. J. Kenfroe's, in ] janrens County, and while sitting in the bouse he heard a fuss among the chickens outside. Upon looking out he discovered a large hawk and a hen engaged in a desperate combat. They fought like two gamecocks about fifteen min­ utes, when Mr. Solomon put a quietus on the hawk by putting a load of shot under his feath­ ers. The hen seemed to realize that she had a friend, and strutted around her victim and gave vent to her joy in vociferous cackling. The hawk had devoured all of her brood but One, for the safety of which she wa« fighting. " .86 « .87 .87 @ .38'2 .29 m .30^ .64 @ .66 18.15 @13.50 MM ,46 M | .*4M 13.2S 013.71 e 5-C 0 .8 » .43 0 .34 £13.00 49 «* <9 f CATTLE--Best Fair ..... Common Hoos 6.7S 6.75 4.75 5.IW 4.50 M 7.80 m e.5O & 6.60 (<i 5.75 m o.oo A Boy and His First Cigar. A 14-year-old son of Mr. B. Bunch, of Econo­ my, Marlon County, Mo., reports a 8t. Louis telegram, smoked a cigar and died from tobacco poison in about half an hour. The bov was smoking in a score and soon began vomiting violently. He was carried home and his father went for a physician, about 100 vards distant, but when he returned with the physician the "ittle fellow was dead. •» Killed by Kerosene. A few days ago in Hawkins Conntv, Tenn., says a Knoxville dispatch, .lames Reynolds put kerosene oil on the tops ot the it ads of his three little children, aged 2, 4. and 6 years, for the purpose ot killing vermin. Two of the children died within two hours, but a physician saved the other. REMINISCENT. LIFE IN TEXAS. Cool D«HI of Two Highwaymen. ' i i rHarwood (Texas) dispatch ] ' Two men got on a passenger train of the 8*1- veston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Road at Luling, Tax., a id when the train was about half-way between Luling and Harwood the passengers in the flrst-clasa eoach were sur­ prised on beholding their two supposed fellow- pas<engers standing up In the oenter of the oar with handkerchiefs over the lower portion of their faoes, revolvers in hand. They quietly demanded cash from the passengers In this coach, carelully avoiding all jewelry. They made no attempt to go through the remainder of the train, out jnmped from the plirtfarn while the cars were in motion. t Train- Wreckera at Work. A Marshall ̂ Texas) diapatcB reports that bn attempt was made to wreck and rob a passenger train from St. Louis, near Wayne, between Jef­ ferson and Texarkana, by removing a rail A freight train running in advance o( the passen­ ger fell Into the trap, and the engine ana eight freight cars were wrecked. No one was*hurt. Caught In the Act. A dispatch from Luling, Texas, states that officers discovered two negroes obstructing the track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San An­ tonio Railroad for the evident purpose of wreck­ ing the approaching train. In arresting!; the miscreants one negro was instantly killed and the other mortally wounded, who afterward died. Overtaken and Lynched. News is telegraphed from Dallas that the two Ralneys, who murdered Offlcsr Johnson and badly wounded Officer Floyd near Marysville, in Cook County, Texas, while they were serving processes, were overtaken in Indian Territory", by a party ot Cook County citizens and lynched 4 ; : TALES OF THE FOREST. A Faithful Dog and an Heroic Boy. [From the Portland (Ore.) News.1 There are some interesting side points relative to Fnnk's poor, starved babies, who wandered away in the hills of Mehama Bunday morning, which we previously published in the News. They were not found tul Monday noon. A shep­ herd dog, which was a household favorite, fol­ lowed and guarded them during the long, dark hours, when the rain came unceasingly down. No doubt the faithful creature protected them from the many wild animals in the deep woods, But the heroic deed of the older child, which the wires failed to correctly record, remains to be added. He took hi* own little coat from his shivering body and nut it on his weaker brother, saving htm from freezing, while he endured in a cotton «hirt, hours after hours, the keen blasts of that mountain storm. Think of this from a child but <> years old, and let any who can Say he is not as much of a hero as any of the full- grown Spartans of old, of whom the classics so eloquently tell. He Killed a Red Bear. iTroy (Pa.) dispatoh.] Peter Brow, of Liberty, Tioga County, while in the woods a few days ago discovered the track of an animal which was strange to him, al­ though resembling a bear's. He followed the track, and came upon the animal and shot and killed it. It was a bear, but no one in this re­ gion ever saw another one like it. Its legs are much longer and thinner than those of the na­ tive bear, and its nose is longer and sharper. Its fur is nearly red. The animal is much smaller than the black bear, although it is evi­ dently a full-grown one. old hunters say it is probably a specimen of what is known in Michi­ gan as a cranberry bear. This is a bear occa­ sionally killed in the marshes in that State. NEW WAI TO COLLECT ©LB DEBTS. The Novel Contrivance Introduced In Chi- cago. rChieago telegram.) A debt-collecting firm atyled "The Retail Mer­ chants' Protective and Collection Association" has started a "Black Maria" collectors' wagon In Chicago. This will fill a long-felt want. The "Maria" is a large,-four-wheeled vehicle, some­ thing of a cross between a grocers' wagon and a wagon and a hearse. It partakes largely of the characteristics of the famous "Black Maria" prison vans of England, and also of the dime museum advertising wagons of this country. The purpose of the wagon is to attract attention, and thereby shame the debtor into paying, consequently it is necessary to have something nnique. The Maria re­ cently started here Is a large Mack box. with openings at the front and sides. At each side and on the back the follbwlngieaerid is dis­ played In large white letters: "Old bills collected promptly by this association." The plan ot operation is simply to keep the wagon standing before the debtor's house a certain time every day uutU the debt ia paid. The manager speaks proudly of the success of his firm in Cleveland and other cities. He says Cleveland is able to keep two "Marias" constantly employed, and he does not see why Chicago should not have half a dozen. He intends building a splendid new "Maria" for Chicago in a very short time. He says it will have grand mirrors on the sides and back, and plumes or waxworks on the roof, just like a circus wagon, and will be such a contriv­ ance as any landlady or housekeeper will be prou<i |iO flee at th3 door. IN THE TOILS. The Notorious ex-Gov. Moses Again In S*rison. [Boston special.] In the Superior Criminal Court at Eqst Cam* bridge the case ot cx-Oov. Moses, of South Carolina, charged with obtaining $34 under false pretenses from T. W. Higginson, of Cam­ bridge, came up for sentence, the defendant having pleaded guilty. Moses made an eloquent appeal for mercy, reviewing his past career, and said that his mind had given way nnder his troubles, instancing the palt.iness of the crime in proof thereof. He was sentenced to six months in the Honse of Correction. A Congr«M«man Killed hy Chagrin.' Senator Vest's reference to the two Represent­ atives from Ohio who brongnt from a news- Mper man and had published in the Recunt be same identical speech w.ttiin two weeks has Stirred up some reminiscences of Congressional plagiarism. It is told by one of the old-timers «t the Capitol that Speaker White, of Kentucky, came to his death as the result ol exposure for doing something of this kind. Whi c he was Speaker ot the House, in the Twenty-«eventU Congress, and was an able man. h; waa so prefixed with' business that when he liad to deliver his valedlc ory he got one of these men wl o are always on hand to make a little money to write hW address. It was handed him just a little while before the time he had to deliver It, and he put it into his pocket without reading. Wuen tne time came he rose, and, slowly unfold Intr the manuscript, read the address, it wat very brilliant, but it was Aaron Burr's famous valedictory to the Senate. The Speaker never recovered from the shock. He went home, was taken very ill, and it is supposed he killed him-ielf tor shame. The R<-nper'H Knath. [Washington telegram.) Ex-Vice President Hamlin, who U here to at­ tend the dedication of the Washington monu­ ment, said to-day that only nine inen arc now living who were numbers of the Senate in I8*s, when that body attended the laying of th« oorner stone of the Washington' monument. These are Yulee of Florida, George W. Jones of Nevada. Uradburn and Hamlin or Main \ l-itch of Michigan. Jefferson D vis of Mississippi. Atchison of Missouri. Simon Cameron ot Penn­ sylvania, and Hunter of Virginia. ORAVE STORIES. Oram Opened by Ohouls. Three miles south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., la a church called Plsgah. attached to which is a rural buryiug-ground. The other morning, says a telegram lrom Point Pleasant, when the sex­ ton wen; to dig a grave, he was horritie i to find half a dozen graves open. The corpses had been taken from their cottons and stretched on the ground. In one or two instances limbs were severed from the body. The graves had been opened without regjurd to family. The bodies lay in one place, arranged in the shape of a Greek cross. There Is no clew, and no reason waa assigned for the horrl le act The bodies I had evidently been exposed for a day or two. Blushing In Her Coffin. i The vault in a Baltimore cemetery, aaya a dls- I patch from that city. In which the remains of Indicted. [San Francisco telegram.) O. W. Tyler, leading counsel for Mrs. Hill- Sharon in the Hill-Sharon divorce case; Max Oumpel, the handwriting expert: T. C. Cash- man, and J. F. McLaughlin have been indicted by the State Grand J ury for implication in ob­ taining 125,000 from Senator Sharon's counsel for the spurious document known as the Tyler- Oumpel contract. McLaughlin has absconded with the money. The three others have surren­ dered, but were released on ball. PERISHED BY FIRE. A Gave His Life for Another. > .' George Scott, 70 years of aze and a We!t- known resident of Gib«o"n. III., seized a young lady who had set her clothes a tiro ut a red-hot stove and carried her out into th2 snow. She escaped with sligtit injury, but he was so badly burned that he lived only a few hours. Two Miners Burned. An explosion of gas occurred at Packer Col­ liery No. 2, near Girardville, Pa. James Laffer- ty, of Girardvi le, was fearfully burned; Daniel Kerwick, of Lost Creek, nis partner, was badly bnrned and so mangled that he can not recover; DRIVING OCT GAMBLERS. Crusade at Shelbyville, Ind. --Progressive Euchre Discoiintenaneed. [Shelbyville (Ind.) dispatch.] Some time back, through the united efforts ol tbe ministers in this city, the Sunday laws were caused to be more strictly observed, and, en­ couraged with thcic success, they have opened their batteries on the gambling-rooms and even condemning social and progress­ ive euchre, and throwing hot shot right and left among the sinners. Tbe results so tar hav« been the raiding of one gambling room a few days ago and the arrest of thre'j promi­ nent bu»iue-H men, who own business houses, for Tenting the.r vacant rooms lor gambling purpos H. Tte protracted meetings which have been and are beincr held here have stirred up the community, ana the harvest is be.ng reaped in abundance. lbs Disaster tat a Beqtul to Often ' ' Duft Have Mttle Haae. [Salt Lake special.) For tbe fourth time in its brief history Alts, a mining town at the head of the Lit­ tle Cottonwood canyon, has been swept awny by a snow-slide. At 8:30 o'clock last night the lights of a miner in a shaft in the Famous Mine were extinguished by a sud­ den gust of wind. Bunnmg to the surface the miner's eyes met R scene of destruction similar to that he had witnessed a year ago the finst week in March, when the same man's light had been similarly extinguished. A snow-slide had passed over the mouth of the mine aud descended on the little town below, burying it, only seven houses re­ maining standing, and some of these badly wrecked. The snow broke loose about three-fourths of a mile up Emmet Hill, and the entire mass, from the Vnllejo Mine to Grizzly Flat, fully three-quarters of a mile, rushed down with a terrific roar, carrying every­ thing before it, and only resting in tbe gulch. The avalanche passed over very nearly the name ground swept by that of March last, but the snow being eighteen feet deep on tbe mountain side, the de­ struction was greater. As soon as the min­ ers could be notified, they turned out, and at the risk of their lives bravely begun the work of rescue and recovery. The search was kept up all night, and four persons were taken out alive, while two bodies were also found. In the morning three men on snow-shoes came down the canyon eight miles, where they found conveyances for this city. It is known that sixteea persons were killed, and the following are their names: James Watson, Andrew S. White. Barry Gilson, Mrs. Ford and child, Jerry Reagan, David P. Vance, Tim Madden, Fred Culli- nan. Matt Hickey, four children of Ed Ballon, two Chinamen. The few people remaining in Alta are greatly alarmed, fearing another avalanche, but they can not get out until relief reaches them from here. The news has shadowed this city with gloom, ns many of the dead had friends here. A meeting was held this evening^to arrange for a relief expedition to open a track through the canyon and bring the dead here for burial. Probably a hundred men, with appliances for cutting snow, will form the relief party. There are plenty of volunteers, though the trip is ex­ ceedingly dangerous, as slides are occur- ring at all times. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A press dispatch from Salt Lake SOTS: It has been snowing for a week, and it is twelve feet deep on a level. It is still storm­ ing hard. Last night, soon after 8 o'clock, a tremendous volume of snow swept down over the Emma Mine works at Alta, doing no damage there, except to lake the smoke­ stack along. Then it struck the town, crushing about three-fourths of it, but, for­ tunately, many of the houses were deserted for the winter. The place is built at the foot of converging gulches, and the slides have a fair mark. Tucker's boarding-house was swept away and his hotel crushed. The Yallejo works, including buildings and tramways, were crushed. Two men at this mine happened to be in the drift and escaped injury. Btickley's and Tucker's and Wallace's stores were in jured slightly. Powers' butcher-shop and Simpson's drug store are the only buildings that eutirely es­ caped. A large portion of the lost were in the boarding-house and hotel. Twenty- eight in all were buried, but twelve were dug out alive this morning. The rest are all undoubtedly detd. The men from the City Bocks Mine and the Evergreen formed a digging force to get out the bodies. Three were taken out at last accounts, amid much difficulty and in a heavy storm and severe cold. Timothy Madden was not dead when broright out, but died soon after. The bod­ ies of James Watson and Mrs. John Ford was also taken out dead. . DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. Demise of a llfl Woman at the Age of Years. [Wilmington (HL) special to Chicago Timss.1 "Auntie Wilmore," as she was familiarly called, or Nancy Cass Wilmore, as her real name was said to have been, died in this city Wednesday at the age of 116 years. She was undoubtedly tbe oldest person in this State, if not in the United States. Hei early history was not clear to. hei until on hor death-bed, when hei whole life seemed to pass in review before her; and a person who was present wrote down her history as sh9 related it She was born about the year 1769, in North Carolina; her father, Samuel Cass, then re­ moved to Sliakertown, Ky, Her. mother's maiden name was Sally Wales; she died at the age of 30, leaving nine children. Hex father soon married Nettie Taylor, by whom he had seven children. Of the six­ teen children all were boys except herself. Her father lived in Kentucky for eight or nine years, and then moved to Alabama, though she remained in Kentucky, li ing with a family named Andrews, and married as her first husband a man named Keeney. OP INTEREST TO CORONERS. A Ceart Declalou Affecting Their Rights. • I Philadelphia dispatch.) The duties and rights of the Coronsr are aet ont by the l'ennsylvanta 8ui rerae Court in the case of the County of Fayette vs. Batton. The question arose ont of the simultaneous death of seventeen persona by violence. The au­ thorities of the county contend it was the duty of the Coroner to hold onlv one examination on those bodies, and swear the jury only once, thereby saving separate fe~s in the case of etch death. The Htuireme Court thinks differently, however, and hmd'* (attlimiiig the court below) that it is the duty of the Coron' r to hold an inquest* eupcrvisum corporis, when he has cause to sus­ pect the deceased wa* feloniously destroyed, or death waa caused by violence. • .. MOST TALK. * * * > \>.1 A mood-an<l-Thun<ler Anar<4t4il« 9ft«*tag In New York. The anarchist*, led by Herr Moaf\ met eight hundred strong in Concordia Hall, New York, says a dispatch from that city, and talked blood and thunder mixed with dynamite for two hours. The meeting wan to commemorate the death of August Reinsdorf, but very little was said about him. One man said it would be a very good thine to kill a million .women and children, even if they were innocent, provided the cause were advanced one week by so doing. Herr Host also thought it might be wett to kill that number of people, and spoke very strongly In favor of dynamite. ONE AGAINST SIXTEEN. A Iffree Contractor Fights a Gang of Men Slnglelianded. [Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch.) Last Monday J. M. Jackson, a levee con­ tractor, had a difficulty with a gang of men in his employ near Sun Rise, Miss. The men, numbering about sixteen, tried to kill Jackson, who was armed with a six-shooter. He was fired upon by the crowd, who tried to close in upon him. Jackson, who is a sure shot, discharged his pistol with deadly effect. He fired six shots and struck a mwj each time, throe of whom have since •If*®* After emptying his pistol Jackson fled, but returned Thnrsday and surrendered himself to the officers of the law. At his trial that afternoon he was acquitted by a jury, as the pi oof showed he acted iu self-defense. - • . - r-m ^ THE UNEMPLOYED, Over Seventy-five Thousand Itm attd Women Out ot Wo'k la New York. [New York special.) It is estimated at the lowest calculation that there are at this time over 75,000 men and women unemployed in this city. These are classed as follows: Women 30,000; 'longshoremen, 3,000; Italians, 6,000; cloak- makers, 10,000: tailors, 6,000; artificial flowers, 1.500; bricklayers, 4,500; carpen­ ters, 1,400; framers. 1,500; plasterers, 400; plumbers, 1,250; stonecutters. 2,000; fur­ niture workers, 3,000; iron workers, 3,0W; printers, 1,003; bookbinders, etc., 1,500; K hoe maker a, 500; cigarmakers, G.JHKI; brut- era, 800; waiters; 1,"00; other trades, 2,000. STRANGE PHENOMENON. ; , T Wee Suns Visible •» Oafce. ! ' [Clinton (Wis.) special.] At 11 o'clock yesterday five sons were visible in various parts of the heavens at the same time. These were connected by an exceedingly large and brilliant circle. The oldest inhabitants admit they never saw anything like it, wh le the wise ones predict a storm such as we have never be­ fore had. . A UTAH Judge has deoided that in that Territory wives have no rights in court The men may dispose of their property as they please. A MINNEAPOLIS firm has ordered 1,000 boxes of chewin^gum from Bangor, Me. i the Legislature of Ait-' -fialda to the White -Ms Tnflfcm K--uuatfcoa be segregated from ths.reservattoaaa»iherl«faieof thedl»- pnawm bin next earns up and wae re­ ferred. Constdecatton of tbe Indian appro- Erlatlon bill was then proceeded with. waa stricken out, and the bill tlally as report̂ from the i substasr Committee. ^Bepresentativea tbe priation bill were non-concurred"1an^°fc conference committee waa appointed. Mr. Ho- cum a motion to suspend the rules aad nam tbe bttl Placing Cknmprpnnt on the <e5»d list was loat by a vote of US yeaa to 108 nava. the necessary two-thinte not being obtained. Bills oon-were passed to reflate theletttag of «gatl < tracts, and to appropriate $MO,W» for i m« library building nt Wkahtnctoau and *75.00? natoa, and $75,003 fir a postoffiee at Aberdeen. Miss. THE hill authorising the sale of part of the lands of the Winnebago Indians in Nebras­ ka was passed hy the Senate Feb. 17. A favor­ able reporttwas made on the House bill to per­ mit the building ot a horse railroad over Itock Island, to connect with the Iowa shore. The anti-foreign oontract labor bill was up, and an animated disct&sion ensued, in the course of which there was a lively passage at-arms between Senators Sherman and Vest. The latter advocated the passage of the measure, saying he had no doubt of its constitutionality. It waa an exer­ cise of power and right to preserve the lite of our Institutions ana our civilization. It was not intended to exclude anv self-reliant man from coming to the United titates. He was glad to see that Mr. Sherman and o her Republicans favored this bill. Mr. Ve-?t said that Mr. Sher­ man was himself the father of a bill to estab­ lish the office of Commissioner of Immigra­ tion, one section of which- provided that all contracts made abroad for the repayment of passage money by intending emigrants shall be binding here, and be a Hen on their wages and lands. According to news­ paper accounts, there were ls.oto men out of employment in the streets of New York. "And this," Mr. Vest exclaimed, "after twenty-four years of Republican ascendency atid protective tariff." Senator Sherman, entering the cham­ ber at this juncture, explained that the immi­ gration act of 1NH, to which Senator Vest had alluded, was a temporary meas­ ure. It was passed at a time when our labor had been taken irom onr homes to put down a formidable re­ bellion. The gentleman lrom Missouri (Vest), being engaged in attempting to break up the Government, was not familiar with the motives which influenced Congress in passing the act. The bill was unanimously passed, receiving the votes of Republicans and Democrats aitir» Soon after the war the act was repealed. Sena­ tor Sherman concluded with the statement that all measures adopted for the protection of our laboring classes had emanated from tbe Bepubllcan party, and that it was the policy of th<> Bepubllcan party to elevate the laboring men of this country. Senator Vest replied tartly that, so far as Senator Sherman's remarks bore personal allusion to his (Vest's) status during the war, he would only say that whatever the opinion of others in that regard he had no sort of apology to offer the Senator from Ohio. He had heard Senator Sherman condemn in toto the principle of "contract labor." The Senator from Ohio was now compelled to admit that that principle had been appli d bv the Republican party to meet the contingencies of the war. The act had never been expressly repealed either. If it were merely a temporary measure, intended lor the exigencies of war, how did it happen to stand on the statute books unt>l 1874, when it was omitted in the revision? Senator Sherman explained that he thought the law had been repealed In an appropriation bill as early as lHtHi. Two amendments to the river and harbor bill were proposed in the Senate by Sir. Cullom, in cas9 it should be deter­ mined to consider the bill in the Commerce Committee as offered by Mr. Morgan. One ot these amendments is the Hennepin Canal pro­ vision and the other proposes to appropriate $60,000 for a canal from Calumet River to Calu­ met Lake, below Chicago. The House of Rep­ resentatives passed the legislative appropriation bill. Mr. Dorsbelmer introduced a bill to regu­ late the coinage, providing for the Issue of cir­ culating notes redeemable in silver dollars of 480 grains. A bill was passed for the erection of a public building at Wichita, Kansas, at a coat Of $50,000. THE Anti-Foreign Contract Labor bill passed the Senate Feb. 18, by a<vote ef 50-to 9. Briefly summed up, the measure forbids the im­ portation of aliens into the United States on contract to perform labor. Ailsuch contracts are declared null and void, and punishment ia provided for violation ot the law embodied in the bill Exceptions are made iu fa­ vor of artists, actors, lecturers, sing­ ers and domes tic Mrvanta. A bill was introduced to set aside the St; Clair flats in Michigan as a hunting and fishing reserve. The Committee on Indian Affairs re­ ported a bill to enable tbe President to nego­ tiate for the opening of Oklahoma, providing a penalty of line and imprisonment for entering upon the lands without authority of law. van Wyck introduced Mr. , a bill to appropriate $~o,ooo for the improvement ot the Mis­ souri River oppoelte - Nebraska City. Emery (•Ipeer, of Georgia, was confirmed United States District Judge of that State by a vote of 26 yeas to 25 nays. All the Republicans except Mr. Hale of Maine voted for him and all the Democrats except Mr. Brown of Georgia voted against him. The House of Rep­ resentatives passed the Senate bill for the erec­ tion at Chattanooga of a public building to cost Sioo.ooo. Consideration of the river and har­ bor bill was resumed. Mr. Potter opposed the Hennepin Canal provision on the ground that It wonld benefit the State of Illinois alone. Mr. Reed spoke aaainst the Mississippi River ap­ propriation. He said that tbe improvements, if carried out on the plan proposed, would cost $150,000,000. The pending amendment offered as a substitute for the Galveston harbor paragraph was adopted. It appropri­ ates $.r>O0,GOO for the improvement of the harbor and directs the harbor board to examine the plans and specification* for the proposed improvements and report to the Sec­ retary of War. A report was submitted to the House by the Elections Committee on the Mis­ souri contested election case of McLean vs. Broadhead, accompanied by a resolution con­ firming the right of the sitting member. Broad* bead, to his seat. ' ' THE House bill forfeiting lands granted to the ̂ Texas Pacific Road passed the Senate Feb. 19. Fifty-six Senators voted for and only two --Blair and Bowen--against it. Despite the efforts of the obstructionists, all amendment* which militated against the effectiveness of the bill were vote 1 down. It declares forfeited all lands granted to the Texas I'anific Rail­ road Company under the act of 1871, and re­ peals the act of 1875 "for the relief of nettlers within railroad limits." While the 1)111 was under discussion there was a sharp inter­ change of amenities between Senators Keck and Morgan. Mr. Beck made some severe remarks about the difficulty of getting -any legislat on inimical to the railroads through the Senate, and reflected particularly upon henatora on the Democratic side. Mr. Mornan took this as )>er- sonal to himself, and replied ihat he had always tried to do his duty unawed by public clamor. He had not tried to earn applause by making himself conspicuous on the popular side of everv eiuestion. regardless of riirht and wrong, and, as he had been a Democrat longer than the Senator lrom Kentucky had enjoyed the privileges of American citizenship, he did not intend to take any lessons in Democracy from that- gentleman. The Scotch have often been accused of intellectual inertia, and Mr. Beck took this alius !on to his being a natural­ ized citizen as an affront. There is no doubt Mr. Beck 1* proud of "cakes and britber Scots," but be appeared to be exactly the reverse, for he excused himself tor being born in Scotland by saying that he had no chanoe to exercise his choice in regard to the place of his nativity, and he declared that Mr. •Morgan's allusion to his b rtb iu Scotland waa ,-very unworthy of him and unworthy oC the JSenate. He added, loftily, tnat in wha he had -»ald before he had no thought of the Senator from Alabanoa. He did not think the Senator from Alabama was so important a pengni RH that gentleman thought tint he was. ' In the House of Representative i Speak­ er Carlisle took the chair for tlr> first time since his recent sickness. He was wel­ comed back with hearty applause. Consideat- tion of th ? river and harbor bill beina resumed an amendment was adopted increasing the appropriation for the improvement i:f the Mississippi River, between the Illinois and Ohio Rivers, from $4(H),0ti0 to $COI',OIK). An amendment was also sgreed to providing that no portion of the Mississippi appropriation shall be expended in repairing or building levees, un­ less for the puEpose of benefiting navigation. Several honrs were spent in com mi tte 3 of the whole on the naval appropriation biU. SAID a man who had made and thought that he had turned out fe Jretty good job: "When I was a boy so thirsted for knowledge that £ worked all night to bnj books, and then got up before daviight to read them." A MAN was lately fined $10 over in the Dominion for beating his wife. Ji few days after another man was fined $iiO for vagrancy. From this it be.inferred that it is better for a man to beat his wife than to do nothing. MINERS and married women are na«R allowed to open accounts in Frenoh Government saving banks without the authority of their parents or husbands. THE pel aversion of » Japanese it ^ the fate of being buried at sea. . . .. '