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V« T ~ -j ' f ; ' * / * ' • * \ : !>*•" 9?';S cuvrr 'lauidcalct j. VAN SUKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENRX, ILLlNOia W *"" i'p THE NEWS CONDENSED. '" " _jj^}y '\ , i " «» ;;|||^; , V' % < - . ' THE EAST. TSJKW YORK telegram: "Ex-AM. ^TKHO'S arrival in town and his statement of his j connection with the Broadway franchise steal has raised a rumpus in this city that is hardly shaded by the row over the Tweed ring thefts. Inspector Byrnes arrested ex- Ala. Kirk to-night and took him to police central headquarters, and, althongh he is ftoid to be worth in the neighborhood of $500,000, he had not got bail tip to a late hour. Judge Gildersleeve issned the war­ rant for Kirk's arrest. Mr. Kirk was Pres­ ident of the Board of Aldermen at the time of the steal." NATHANIEL S. FERGUSON, the wealthi­ est citizen of Reading, Pa., became insane because of the loss of seven lives in one of his furnaces. Trustees have been appoint­ ed to manage property valued at $700,000. THE WEST. THE Union Pacific Road has cut passen­ ger rates of both classes to $5 net from the Missouri • River to San Francisco, with a guarantee of a return ticket at the same price within thirty days. The Canadian Pacific managers state that they will actively compete for the east-bound traffic out of Chi­ cago, through their connections with the Michigan Central Road at St. Thomas.... Seventeen buildings, with a number of horses, mules, and cows, were destroyed bv fire at Columbia. Mo., entailing a loss of $63,450. The insurance aggregates #18.700. Fire at Bronson, Mich., burned four stores, a woman and her daughter per­ ishing in the flames, while other persons were badly burned or wounded. A PASSENGER train from Louisville, on the Air Line Railroid. was thrown from the track between Huntingburgh and Fer­ dinand, Ind., by a broken tie at the junc­ tion of two roads. There were twenty-two passengers in the coach, fourteen of whom were injured badly and the others slightly. The coach took tire, but the flames were soon extinguished. The train hai*ls and passengers who were not badly injured gave prompt assistance to the sufferers and the badly iujured were taken to Hunting­ burgh for medical aid. THE SOUTH. Exposition closed at New Orleans on the 31st ult., and suit was begun by the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition Company against the North, Central, and South American Expo­ sition for a writ to sequestrate the Exposition Buildings for non-payment of $86,439. a portion of the amount agreed to be paid by the defendant company for the buildings.... Laura May Sorter, an abandoned woman of Memphis, killed a traveling salesman named A1 Ben­ nett, with whom she was living.... Between 4,000 and 5,000 persons were thrown out of employment by the fire at Key West, Fla. W. G. MITCHELL, of Galesbnrg, S. C., recently found on his land a crude diamond which has been estimated by the State " " $100,000. =*= WASHINGTON. SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, ap­ peared before the Pan-Electric investiga­ tion committee at Washington on the :tl st ult., and gave testimony as to the organiza­ tion of the Pan-Electric Company, which agreed with the statements already made by other witnesses. When asked if there was ever any suggestion that the com­ pany should profit by the official position of any of the stockholders, he replied em­ phatically but slowly: "I answer no. And I answer further that if it had been inti­ mated to me that my official action as a Senator was to be invoked, directly or indi­ rectly, it would have ended forever all ne­ gotiations." The witness went into the whole subject at length, but there were no paints brought out not covered in previous testimony. & THE House has postponed consideration Qf the measure providing that the Chinese involved shall be indemnified for the out­ rages perpetrated at Rock Springs, Wyo. This is done because the California mem­ bers of Congress insist on contemporane­ ous consideration of their bills for restrict­ ing immigration. THE following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the 1st inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4)4 per cent 9250.000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 7S7.7.io.^OO Bonds at 3 per cent Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 21~>.050 Navy pension fund at a per cent 14,500,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal ~ Interest . .$1,2 lO,GWl.1(i'2 1 Total »1.2V2.513.7S5 DEBT ON WHICH INTFBEST HAS CEASED SINCE MATUBITY. Principal $j,3fi7,F65 Interest. 20i/n»-> Total... 85.571,9 i0 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. (346,738. G < 1 Certificates of deposit ' 1 ,92 ,000 Gold certificates < 0,1->V,421 Silver certificates. L0.775 oi'} Fractional currency (less (8,375,934, estimated aa lost or destroyed).... 6.953,012 Principal 5 Hi, 517,717 Total debt- Principal fl,™ .>,567 014 Interest.. 12,036,41:' * T0taLv* ; 11.8:4,603,413 IJCM cash items available *or reduc­ tion of the debt 210,233 128 Less reserve held for redemption of U. B. notes ,gi 100,000,000 Total... •310,-230,128 Total debt leaa available cash item»8i,i<t4.H7.;,3:« Met cash in the Treasury 7d,i-.8l,0B9 Debt less cash in Treasorv April 1 niwies.-^ii-^aryil^hW,4l7-m235 1,M86' 1,432,080,119 ills' ps;. ®*f*auol debt daring March $14,067,884 CAM IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB BEDUO- , , , , T1°N °* THE DEBT. Gold held for pold certificates actu­ ally outstanding Silver held for silver certificatesndi. Bally outstanding V. K. notes held for certificates of' deposit actuallv outstanding.. Caab neid for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid fractional currency. Total available for reduction of" toe debt N.U - _ BE8KBVE FUND. " Held for "demptionof U. S. notes, acta Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, ^debt^8*'** *°f Auction of the Fractional silver coin.... IIinor coin Total Certificates held as caah!!!""""* >»et cash balance on hand.!!*!!!!!!! Total cash in Treasury as sho^i by the Treasurer's general account.. C. Miner find Mile G. Dodds, Democrats, ami (leai^e 11. Xopp and Repuolieans. * , -CffiNERAK* CONFERENCES between Jay Oould and T. V. Potfderly at New York, on Sunday and Sunday evening, March 28. resulted in orders from each of them to the parties to .the Southwestern strike, directing immedi­ ate resumption of work and traffic pending Arbitration. A New York dispatch of Mon­ day says: The great strike on the Gould system of railroads is ended, and work has been resumed on its 8,(KM) miles of road. In response to an invitation from Jay Gould, Mr. Pow- derly. Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, went to the railroad magnate's resi­ dence yesterday morning. Mr. Gould and Mr. Powderlv disenssed-the strike from its very beginning. The conference lasted until one o'clock and was again renewed in the evening. During the conference the railroad king intimated that ho was tired of strikes, and hoped for another meth­ od of settling labor troubles. Mr. Powderly told him that the Knights of Labor had long since dis­ covered a method in the shape of arbitration. Mr. Gould finally consented to arbitrate the present difficulties and abide the decision of the arbitrators. Ho also said that in future this would be the method employed to settle all disputes between his company and its employes. At the close of the evening talk, Mr. Powderly called a meeting of the Executive Board of the Knights, J. W. Hayes, of New Jersey, and W. H. Bailey were present. The ses­ sion was brief, and at the conclusion of it the following dispatch was sent: Martin .T. Irons, of St. Louis, Chairman of Ex­ ecutive Board District Assembly 101, Knights of Labor - President Jay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration and so telegraphs Manager H. M. Hoxie. Order men to resume work at once. By order of the Executive Board Knights of Labor. T. V. POWDERLY, General Master Workman. Mr. Powderly also sent the following or­ der to the strikers: To the Knight* of Labor now on strike in the Southwest: President Jay Gould ha* consented to our proposition for arbitration and has so tele­ graphed to Vice President Hoxie. Pursuant to telegraphic instructions to Martin Irons, Chair­ man of the Executive Board of District Assem­ bly No. 101, you are direct ;d to resume -work at once. By order of the Executive Board. Knights of Labor. T. V. POWDKKLY, General Master Workman. Jay Gould wired the following message to Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, at St. Louis: . , , , „ In resuming the movement of trains on the dama«e to Prol*rty by the recent floods. Altogether twenty-live persons are reported the Powers that Russia will take no part in coercing Greece.... The Greek and Turk­ ish armies on ths Turco-Greek frontier have lost 10 per cent, of their men by ex­ tremely cold? weather The roof of a the­ ater iu lieromal, Japan, gave way under a weight of snow while a performance was ift progress, and fell upon the spectators, 150 of whom were seriously hurt or killed.... The King of Corea lms issued an edict nbolishing slavery in his kingdom. It is es­ timated that over half the population at Corea were slaves... A vessel was wrecked at Baku, Kussia, by an explosiou of petro­ leum, and the entire crew of thirteen per­ sons perished. .. .The German Reichstag has voted to prolong the *inti-socialist law two years. KEI'OBTS come from A nam that 442 per­ sons Were recently massacred at Catholic missions.... Advices from London are to the effect that a British Cabinet council was held to discuss the warlike out­ look iu the East. It is admitted that the situation is very grave, fand Earl Rose- bery, Foreign Secretary, conferred several time* with the diplomatic representatives of Russia and Turkey. It was announced in Parliament that the policy of the pres­ ent Government would be of "the same de­ termined. though conservative, nature as that of Lord Salisbury, and it was also stated that England had every assurance from Bussia of her friendlv intentions. BELGIUM'S LABOR RIOTS. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THERE were 200 failures in the United States last Week, against 191 the previous week, 225 in( the corresponding week in 1885, 143 in 1884, 190 in 188!*, and 129 in 1882. The total number of failures in the United States from January 1 to April 2 is 3,339, against 3,911 in a like portion of 1885, a decline of 572, against 3.190 in 1884, 3,ll>0 in 1883, and 2,14(5 in 1882. Canada had 360 in three months of 1880. against 4£< in a like share of 1885, a decline of 07. Special telegrams to liratbitreet'H report a less satisfactory condition of general trade than last week, due in large part to the continuation of strikes at various cen­ ters, as well as to the interruption to rail­ way traffic in the Southwest. Floods in the Central. Southern, and Western States have helped to depress trade through the destruction of bridges and the overflowing of country roads. At the large Eastern cities{ the volume of merchandise moving is of only moderate proportions. ADVICES from various sections of the South report much loSs of life and serious 100,775.643 90,122,421 11,925,000 17,404,284 2,780 •210,230,128 flOO,000,000 123,822,037 615,313 8),048.302 76,3H0,199 Missouri Pacific, and in the employing of labor­ ers in the several departments of this company, give preference to our late employes, whether they are Knights of Labor or not, except that you will not employ any person who has in­ jured the company's property during the late strike. ** Nor will we discbarge any person who has taken service with the company during said strike. We see no objection to arbitrating any differences between the employes and the com­ pany, past or future. JAY GouL,n, President. THERE was a prolonged conference be­ tween Jay Gould and T. V. Powderly at New York on Thursday, March 30. "The whole discussion," a New York telegram re­ ports, "was on the subject of arbitration generally, upon which a unanimity of opin­ ion was expressed. Mr. Gould is in favor of arbitration, but, its the matter of adjust­ ing the difficulty on the Missouri Pacific Railroad had been referred ,to Mr. Hoxie, the following telegram was sent to him at the request of Mr. Powderly: To H. M. Hoxie, General Manager, SL- Louia: Will you meet the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor, orthe committee of your employes from the Knights of Labor, for the purpose of making a settlement of present diffi­ culties alike honorable to both parties, either on the basis of arbitration or by mutual agreement, the same to be binding on all parties ? In answer to thia^flr. Hoxie telegraphed tha following from 8t Louis: A. L. Hopkins : Replying to your inquiry of this date, I have to 9ay that yesterday I rteaived from Mr. Gould the following message there is quoted the mes­ sage beginning "in resuming the movement of trains," etc.], to which I sent the following re­ ply : v Bay Gould : I have your message in relation to your inter­ view with Mr. Powderly, and also the letter of instructions, and will carrv out the same to the best of my ability. 1 am, there­ fore, willing to meet a committee of onr em­ ployes without discrimination, who are actually at work in the service of the company nt the time such committee is appointed, to adjudicate with them any grievance that thev niav have. H. "M Hoxik. The Executive Committee of the Knigh s of Lab >r thereupon telegraphed to Martin Irons, at St Louis, as follow*: Have your executive committee order the men to return to work, and also select a special com­ mittee from the employes of the Missouri Pa­ cific to wait on Mr. Hoxie to adjudicate any grievances. Do this as cjuicklv a* j»>rsiL>le. "A SERIOUS hitch exists between the Executive Committee of the Knights of •Labor and the railroad officials regarding the terms on which the knights are to be taken back, and from present appearances the strike is as far from settlement as ever," says a St. Louis tel­ egram of the 2d inst. A committee of Knights waited upon Master Mechanic Bartlett at the Missouri Pacific shops and tendered him the services of the old shop employes. A list of fifty-two names was handed to Mr. Bartlett, who. after scan­ ning it, checked off seventeen of them the names of the men ..whom he would employ. .The others, he said, could not be taken back. Attempts of a similar nature were made by committees of the strikers at prominent points all over the Gould system. In every instance, the Ex­ ecutive Board claims, the committees re­ ceived the same reply to their offers. Re­ ports of committees, received by telegraph, determined the Executive Board to issue an address to the pjifclic, and to continue the strike until the roads consent to tako back all of the strikers. The address is as fol­ lows: As showing the sincerity of the railroad mau- agerj in their treatment of the Knights of La­ bor, we respectfully state that pursuant to the order of our general executive board we this day sent a committee to the managers of the several railroads, offering to return the men to work, and in no instance would they b« re­ ceived or treated with, each official in turn either refusing them a hearing or evading them with specious subterfuges for direct unswers, or re­ fusing them employment. Mr. Hoxie has agreed to receive a committee of employes to ad­ just any grievances which mav exist. He refuses personally and through hia subordinates to recognize any of us as em­ ployes and refuses to receive any but. such as he calls employes. In short, after himself ami Mr. (iould have conveyed the impression to the world that they are willing to settle, they refus » to settle. Now we appeal t ) a candid and suf­ fering public, on whom is falling all the weight of this pre at conflict, if we have not been de­ ceived enough? How much is long-suffering labor to bear? This great strike never would have been had Mr. Hoxie condescended months ago to hear our complaints. We do not claim to be more than human. It should not be ex­ pected of us to be more than human. In this country position makes no man king or slave, and imperious refusal on the part of one citizen to confer with other'citizens with whom he may have business connections, when such refusal begets great business and social revo­ lution, is not only a mistake but a crime agninst the public. Mr. Gould is invoking the law agaiiiHt little criminals who are made desj>erate by his policy of duplicity and oppression, and yet a terrorized public does not invoke the law against the arch-criminal of the land. If we cannot be allowed to return to work the strike must go on. THE Secretary of War has received a dis­ patch from Gen. Crook confirming the re­ ports of the surrender and subsequent escape of Geronimo and part ot his band. .... Fire damaged the Mail Jtmilding at Toronto, Ont., to the extent of $50,000. 1495,997,711 to have been drowned in Alabama alone, the greater number of them being colored. A special from Opelika. Ala., says that Johnson Bridges, engineer of the construc­ tion train which went down on the Talla­ poosa River, died after his leg was am­ putated. Six hands on the same train have already died or been drowned. Thousands of horses, mules, cattle, and hogs have been swept awav, and all corn, cotton-seed, and stocks of provisions within reach of the flood have been destaoyed. At Montgomery, Ala., the flood has been un­ precedented, the water having reached six feet above the highest ]>oint ever known. A dispatch from that city says: The ice fac­ tory, water works, soap works and gas works, electric-light works, fertilizer works, iron foundries, oil mills, railroad shops, and the freight depot of the Wes'ern and Central Railroad, stock yards, and brick yards, all have several feet of water in them. In most of them the damage will be con­ fined to machinery. The only illnmiiiation in the city is by candles an oil. Viewed from the dome of the Capitol, the highest point in the city, a lake of water lies to the north and west fully ten miles square. Specials from Rome. Georgia, place the loss there at $1,500,000. Selma is entirely in darkness, A steamboat /cached there with 150 rescued negroes. Nine negroes were drowned on one plantation. Great damage is reported at Chattanooga. The gas works were inuudated and the city was in darkness. More thun 5,000 people were rendered homeless. Several persons were reported drowned. T. A. CANTY, City Clerk of EaBt St. Louis, and D. J. Canty, County Recorder, have been indicted for conspiracy, and with being accessory to burglary and larceny, in inducing certain persons, now in the peni­ tentiary, to rob the City Clerk's office in East St. Louis over a year ago... .Jeff Wil­ son, a colored man, was executed at Lex­ ington, Mo., for the murder of his mistress, in presence of five thousand persons. THE Labor Committee's arbitration bill oocu- • pied the exclusive attention of the House on the •id inst. Various amendments were offered, nearly all of which were voted down as fust as they came up. Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri,* said that lieople were suffering for fo».d in the West on account of the strike. while con­ stitutional cranks t-tjod quibbling on the floor of the House. He begged the House to crush out the obstructionists. Mr. Lawlerof Illinois spoke in siijipurt of the bill. He said that its opponents ba l had three long months to prepare something upon the question and hod not done BO. Hut now they insulted the intelligence of the well-meaning men on the Committee on Labor who hud civen it their attention. Passing on to the considera­ tion of the strike on the Missouri Pa­ cific, he declared that . without wish­ ing to become communistic in his utter­ ances he was free to say that if Jay Gould was hung to a lamp-]>oKt in New York it would be a blessing to the community known as the United States. | Laughter. I The action of Jay (iould might cost hundreds and thousands of lives throughout the Western States. The death of a man like this was nothing com­ pared with what might occur if the diffi­ culties wov not settled in those State*. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, supported the bill. Mr. Glover, of Missouri, declared that it- was a constitutional al>ortion. He denounced it in the name of capital. He denounced it in the name of Inl>or. because it offered a stone, and not bread. The first four sections of the bill were adopted, with slight amendments, and pending consideration of the tlfth section the House ad­ journed. The Senate was not iu session. POLITICAL. V*' " " • Ex-SENATOR WILLIAM H. BAKNUM has retired from the position of general man­ ager of the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York Reports have reached Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and tLat the police at Edmon­ ton and Saskatchewan bia defiance to th6ir officers. THE Governor of Ohio has appointed as ftgice Commissioners of Cincinnati Thomas 4= fobeigx Two IMPORTANT changes have taken place in the British Cabinet. The Rt. Hon James Stanfield, Radical member of Par- Hament for Halifax, has beep appointed President of the Local Government Board in place of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, re­ signed, and the Earl of Dalhonsie has been named to succeed. Air. G. O. Xrevelyan bh Secretary for Scotland. .. .Payment has been suspended by Devot's bank, at Calais, r ranee, which has liabilities of nearly SM)0,000. \ THE Russian Government has notified THE MARKETS. @ 6.25 & 5.00 C5 100 C«> .95 ft 4H <& .45 (.411.00 & 6.00 (4 5.23 & i.'i'l <g> 4.75 ((': 5.25 & .7!) .30 M .llVJt<i: .06 (3i • lO'.jK* gh (a ;.V7 .aa .31 .21 .12 '4 .07 NEW YORK. BKEVES |4.50 HOGS, 1.50 WHEAT-No. L Hard 98 No. 2 lied COBJS--No. 2 .4# OATS-White 40 PORK--Mess 10.25 CHIC.MH). BKUVKS--Choice to I'rime Steers. 5.5!) Good Shipping 4.50 f'ommon 3.75 Hotis--Shipping (trades 4.25 KLOUK--Extra tSprinc 1.75 WHKAT--No. I Spring 78 Cons-- No. 2 OATS--No. 2 .80 BLTTKU--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy C'IIKKSK-- Full Cream, new...... Skinuned Flats .... Kaon--Fresh I'OTATOKS--Choice. |>er bu PoitK --Mess 9.00 D.30 MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--Cash.... Con\--No. 2... OATS--No. 2 * RVE--No. 1... ; PORK--New Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--No, 2 CottN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CoitN--Mixed. OATS--Mixed POBK--New Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBS--No. 2 OATS--No. 2,.. PORK--Mess LIVK Hoos '/ DETROIT. BF.EP CATTLIC Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 White COBN--No, 2 OATS--NO. 2 INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTLE Hoos WHEA"T--No." i BID.'.'.'. '. COBX--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 EABT LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best Fair...,.,.. Common................ Hoos... SHEEP BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard COKX--Yellow Cattu^ .79 .36 .31 .61 9.00 .90 .38 .30 .H8 .38 .30 10.00 .90 .36 .31 10 50 4,25 4.90 3.50 3.00 .87 .88 3.G0 3.75 3.00 6.23 4.75 a76 4.23 4.50 @ .HO .37 (5$ .1)2 .63 Id 9 51 .91 .40 .32 @ .8.) <§ .34 © .30'£ (£10.50 .91 al .:w («> .33 @11.00 <£i,4.73 & 6.00 & 4.50 (<£ 5.00 & .89 @1 .40 & .36 (9 5.50 4.50 & 5.00 & .84 & JJ6 & .30 @ 5.75 (fit, 5.25 <4 4.50 M 4.75, <& 5.60 A Bloody Encounter at Xon% Fourteen lives Axe Lost v. H, in iJS •• Seventeen More Killed at tlie Resalx CftUfnrtes--Anarchists StlrrUp lTp Strife. * ' ICable dispatch from Brussels.] Three hundred strikers made an attack on the Marlemont colliery at Mons, and were fired upon by troops. The number of killed and wounded is fourteen. The entire reserve force has been called out. With these additional troops the army will number 62,000 men. The strikers stopped work at the Resaix collieries to-day. They were thrice ordered to disperse, but refused to do so, and began to throw stbnes at the troops. The latter fired upon the rioters, killing and wound­ ing seventeen. 'Jttie miners at Antoing, three miles southeast of Totirnay, struck to-day and went rioting. They formed into a body and marched toward Tournay for the pur­ pose of looting the place. Troops sallied ont from that place to meet them, and a conflict followed, in which many persons were wounded. The strikes are spreading in the coal- mining districts of 1'lenn and Borinage and the authorities there fear trouble. The miners in the latter district receive but $3 a week. They have destroyed the resi­ dence of the mine manager by dynamite. In these districts there have already been several conflicts l>etween the strikers and the troops and many have been killed on both sides. Re-enforcements havo been sent to the scene from MonS. In a fresh fieht between the rioters and infantry at Carnieres two persons were killed and many wounded. The Socialists are greatly enraged be­ cause of the energetic action of the military in suppressing disturbances. As an act of revenge they threaten to raid the extensive cloth-works, which are a conspicuous fea­ ture of that town. Larcoyer, the leader of the Socialists, has been arrested. It has been proved that the riots were not due to political causes. Of the 100 persons arrested here in connection with the disturbances one-half are old con­ victs of the worst kind. At a meeting of the Cabinet it was de­ cided that the Premier should explain the situation to the Chamber of Deputies. A Government Inspector is examining the depots for dynamite iu the Charleroi district. Rioters attacked and burned a pot- ten- manufactory at Bandour, near Mons. They succeeded in resisting the gendarmes, who, however, shot and killed three of the rioters. The citizens of Fleures, seven miles northeast of Charleroi, have armed them­ selves with pitchforks, dubs, and guns, and have thus far succeeded in defending their town from pilU-ge. They drove one army of rioters awav by main force, dispersing it utterly. Vigilance committees are being formed by the citizens in other places threatened by the strikers. The workmen in the cloth factories at Verviers have joined the strike. Charleroi is a vast military camp from which flying columns are operating in all di­ rections. It is believed now that the worst is over. The Government has authorized the peaceable inhabitants of the city to arm themselves and use every means in their power to defend their domiciles. There is a more confident feeling. The civilian pa­ trols and the troops are overmastering the rioters. One hundred arrests have been made, among them several Anarchist leaders. The burials of the rioters who were shot by troops are proceeding quietly at Ver- viers. Several French newspapers accuse Prince Bismarck ofv having incited the riots in Belgium and warn' Belgium to beware of him. The Belgian Republican League ol Paris lias called a meeting of the Belgian work* ingmen of France to assist their brethren in Belgium. *.ON<; TALKS BY TELEPHONE. An Oili» Man's Wonderful Invention Which Tlircaiww to I»riv« I'rol. Jteli Oft" the Truek. iYoungstown ((>.) special.] Some time ago Lucien Rose came to this city from Palmyra. He is an electrician. He interested som* capitalist in a telephone which he claimed to be no infringement on Bell's patent, and capable of operating long distances successfully. The company has worked very quietly.' and guarded its se­ cret with great care. Yesterday a practical test was made of the invention. The in­ strument was placed in the fifth story of a building, another in the basement, and connections were made with the telegraph wiies to Freeport, 111. The circuit was 9'.M> miles. The two wires of the circuit were sixty miles apart. A conversation was carried on between men in the two apartments of the building over the im­ mense stretch of wire. At no time was it necessary to laise the voice above the pitch used in common conversation, and the re­ ceiver brodght the .sound to the ear in a similar tone. A guitar played in one remm was distinctly heard in the other. The company is now p'anning for greater ex­ periments. One of the instruments will be taken to New York City and attached to a Chicago wire. The other will be placed here and connected by the way of Chicago, making a circuit of i.HOO miles. Applica­ tions for patent have been filed to protect the invention. There is a large amount of money back of the enterprise, and the in­ strument will be put on the market us rapidly as possible. BLOWN FROM A BATH-TI B. THE GREAT WEST. .9t>k<&I .93^ . .41'.jtf> .42';, The Kemarkable find Uncomfortable Kxpe- rience of a Kebranka Judge. !Huntings (Neb ) dinpatcli.1 A remarkable accident occurred at Mo- Cook, in this State. Judge Lucas had gone into the bath-house of the town, and was comfortably enjoying a hot-water bath, when suddenly a terrible noise was heard, and one end of the bath-room went flying across the street. Lucas was hurled for­ ward after it. and driven head foremost into a huge snowdrift, where he remained a momeuLcninpletely dazed. Believing him but slightly iujtmd, the crowd that had gathered around heartily enjoyed Lucas' predicament. The l>oiler in the basement had exploded, breaking mirrors, furniture, and other articles into fragments and knock­ ing ihe chimney to pieces, which fell into the tub so recently occupied by Lucas. The boHer wn« hurled with terrific fore J aci qss the street, alighting on the building occu­ pied by the Democrat, crashing through th'e roof, and ruining the forms and other ar­ ticles on which it fell. The damage was consideiable, but no one was seriously in- juied. MR. WINSTON'S L0YE AFFAIR. A CSrandilanghtor ol John C. Calhoun Ae- ffeept* tlie Minuter to Pernla and the Step- ,motlierMhlp of Hia Nix Children. The New York World prints a special from Washington telling about the romantic love affair of Minister to Persia Winston of Chicago. The story goes that Mr. Winston met Miss Calhoun, granddaughter of the famous John C. < alhoun of South Caro­ lina, while on shipl*oard crossing the Atlan­ tic. She is aged '2<> years, and beautiful. Mr, Winston made love to her, and at Paris Miss Calhoun accepted Mr. Winston's ante­ nuptial gift of $1<W,00<(, his hand, and the stepmothership of hw si* children, some of whom are older than she. Miss Calhoun is now eu route to Constantinople, where the marriage will take place shortly. Mr. Winston's eldest son and Count 'W olf von Schierbrand acting as groomsmen. BptrndM Inducement* to Permanent gat- tier* Iu Northwestern Iowa, Soutli- - ' fl»trni jHiiiiiewota, KmteTU • and Central Dakota. j? •, ^ l- ffrrom the Chicago ft* 4' <' The winter just past, with its "cold wave," depression in many branches of trade, and reduced wag^B to employes, has pressed heavily upon the working classes of the Eastern and Middle States. Thou­ sands have been idle, and in many instaqt ces actual suffering has occurred. Good me­ chanics become disheartened at the dismal prospect of an opportunity to expand their energies and ambitions. Many have fami­ lies to support, and are anxious to become permanently settled where they will not be deprived of employment that brings good returns, through strikes and dissensions among their fellow-workmen. Their only salvation is to GO WEST and locate in some of the numerous grow­ ing towns constantly springing into ex­ istence, where their skill and genius will be recognized, and where, in a short time, by careful management and economy, they will become employern instead of em­ ployes. ' .! To those that prefer agricultural .to' mechanical pursuits, the gr at belt of States and Territories from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast--including Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Utah, Idaho. Washing­ ton, and Oregon--invite the occupancy of millions of acres Of the most productive lands in the world, at a nominal cost. Those already located in this vast aud fer­ tile section are fast accumulating fortunes, and there is plenty of room for more who have the nerve and determination to work and win. The intending settler need not expect to find tilled farms fenced in, with barns, fruit-trees* and live stock, waiting his-acceptance. But he can take his choice of fertile, well-watered, virgin soil, where all the conditions are favorable to success, and where one, two, or three years at most of industry and, ecouomy will place within bis reach a home of his own, with pleasant surroundings; a farm well stocked and in an advanced state of cultivation, and all the advantages that independence and easy circumstances affort^ A COMPARISON. The Eastern farmer who pastures his stock on meadows valued at $50 to $100 per acre cannot compete with the Western farmer who gets the same service from IM­ PROVED LAND which cost him only $t'», $ 10, or $20 per acre. The owner of one hundred and sixty acres costing $100 per acre must first lay by as interest $1,(500 be­ fore he can reckon up any profit on his labor. On the other hand, the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of improved land at $("> per acre has to provide only !?W>; at $10 only $lf>0; aud at $20 only #320 in­ terest on his original outlay. The Eastern farmer--to put the case more plainly--must, on the same amount of ground with the same amount of labor, raise two thousand five hundred and sixty more bushels of corn at fifty (rents a bushel than the Western far­ mer does, to make his chances even. The further fact should also be considered that Western prairie needs no preparation, but is always ready for the plow, and that sod crops yield enormously, not only of wheat, com, flax, barley, etc., but root crops of .every description. The home seeker or intending settler who wishes to take up Government land under the homestead or pre-emption, laws, can find millions of acreKof the most desirable quality, scattered all over the Western States and Territories, but those who want to buy aiid settle upon improved farmn in really choice localities, cannot select from an area so diversified aud extensive. We can confidently recommend such, however, to carefully investigate certain sections of land situated in Northern Iowa, Southwestern Minnesota, aud Eastern and Central Da­ kota, where there are not (inly two million acres of land yet unoccupied, but hundreds of finely cultivated, stocked, and fenced farms, where the soil is of the best, the cli­ mate healthful, educational and social ad­ vantages first-class, markets near at hand; railroad facilities unsurpassed, and ALL the conditions favorable to longevity, good morals, rapid wealth, independence and happiness exist. Farms of this kind can now be had there all the way from $4 to $12 or $20 an acre, and each and all will prove liARGAlNS to Eastern purchasers, es­ pecially those why have had some experi­ ence in farming. REASONS *'OK SKLUXtl. Because Western farmers are all, to a greater or less degree, of a migrating nature -- and there is an illimitable and inviting field Mlill further irent of them to which they are ever turning their covetous eyes. They possess also, to an eminent degree, the true pioneer spirit, and the dangers, hardships, or privations which would daunt an Eastern man have no terrors for them. Hence they are prepared to liberally dis­ count to incomers the actual'value of their property, to gratify the insati.tble hunger that impels them to conquer new homes iu some Arcadia ou the borders of a remoter civilization which has not as yet been en­ croached upon by the tidal waves of emi­ gration. "THE LAND OF PLENTY." A new and interesting pamphlet, bearing the above title, has recently been published in Chicago, which gives a 'detailed descrip­ tion of the country above referred to, its soil, climate, water, yield of grain and vegetables, statistics of stock raising, dairy­ ing, timber and stone supply, railroad com­ munications, etc.. which will be mailed free to any one who will take the trouble to write to E. St. John, Chicago. 111., and ask for it. The information to be found in this publica­ tion is of great value to any one who desires a correct pract ical knowledge of the country it describes, whether he has any intention of changing his location or not. Lo»v-N>t'ke<l Dresses. An indignant lady, in reply to the criti­ cisms of Miss Cleveland's decollette cos­ tume at the White House evening recep­ tions made by certain special correspondents in Washington, has taken up the cudgel in behalf of the President's sister. She quotes from a letter written by Miss Cleveland to a friend who was indignant at the printed comments: "I approve of evening dress which shows the neck and arms. I don't approve of any dress which shows the bust. Between the nock and bust there is a line always to be drawn, and it is as clear to the most frivolous society woman as to the anatomist. This line need never be passed, aud a fashionable woman's low-neck even­ ing dress need never be immodest. If it is so, it is because she prefers it to be so. It is wholly false, so far as I have observed, that a 'shocking scarcity of waists and sleeves marks tho gowns of society women.' This is sadly and pain­ fully trae of a few 'society women,' aud it is indeed shocking, nauseating, re- voltiug, and deserving of the utmost denun­ ciation on the score of morality, beauty, health, and many other considerations, which good men and women should con­ spire to preserve and exact. Any American woman can wear the waist of her evening dress up to the lobes of her ears if she likes. There is no queen to command her appearance in low corsage. Between the two there is an appropriate, beautiful, and modest mien, which all can, if they will, follow." SPEAKING of superstitions a writer says the old notion that there is luck in a horse­ shoe finds support in one case at least. When Maud S. did her first really fast mile iu Cleveland in 2:1(>A, Captain Stoue, of Cincinnati, Who owned her, pulled off her shoes and stored them in his desk, and sold the'mare to Vandorbilt for a snug price. He has been making money ever since, and capturing the best tilings of life. The Captain kept only one of the shoes. He gave one to Mrs. Swain, aud she gave it to her larger brother. He hadn't had it a week before he was married to one of the most charming ladies in New York. He has been prospering like a green bav tree ever since. POWDERLY AND K. OF L. The Man and the Organization Which j He Represents--Alms of the ' VV-: Order. if 1 i>. Terrenee Vinoent Powderlv, author!t&tiv* loader of the Knights of Ij&bar organization (says the New York World), was born at Carbon* dale, Pa., Jan. 24,1849. He went to school tot Bix year%, and when 13 years old went to work aa a switch-tender for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. When 17 he went into the ma­ chine shop of the company. He went to tic ron­ ton and found employment in the shops of the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western Railroad Company. In 1670 he joined the Machinists and Black­ smiths' National Union. He soon became Presi­ dent, and began to study the labor problem in tho whops by talking to his fellow-workmen, watching the endeavora and aims of employers and employes. In 1872 Mr. Powderlv married. The trades-union was too narrow to suit his views. His father had been a day laborer, and he learned thift no labor organization could thrive until it took in every class of laboring men. The machinists did not take kindly to Mr. Powderly'B suggestion that they tako "in the laborers, the carpenters, painters, and every other trade. In November, 1874, a friend invited him one evening to come to a labor meeting. He went without any idea of what sort of a gather­ ing it was. It was Local Assembly No. 88 of the Knights of Labor, and he at once joined it. He found there men of all trades and all crafts. It waB his idea of a labor organization, and he at once entered heartily into its plans. The pauic of 1873 left Powderly without em­ ployment. He went west into Ohio looking for work, came back into Western Pennsylvania, and in Oil City found a job, and was sent by the Machinists and Blacksmiths' Union of that city as a delMCgts to the General Convention held at Louift viJHkii September, 1874. St on after he was back in^|P employ of the Dickson Manufactur­ ing Company at Seranton, and it was on this re­ turn that he joined the Knights He soon induced the entire union to join the KnightB, and the union was disbanded. In 1877 tbe railroad strike took many from this section, and about five thousand inen went from that district. Many of them were in the order of Knights, and, when they pushed on into the West, were instrumental in building up new local assemblies. Up to this time th? Knights of Labor had no General Assembly, and many of the leading Knights were in correspondence oil the subject. M. F. Turner, Secretary of Dis­ trict AsHBUibly No. 1, Philadelphia; Mr. Griffith, of Chicago; Charles H. Litchnmn, of Marble- head, MHHK. ; and Mr. Thomas King, of Heading, Pa., had been writing one to another, und the result was a call for the first General As­ sembly at Reading in January, 1878. A constitution was adopted at this time, and Uriah 8. Stevens, the founder of the order, was chosen Grand Master Workman. At the St. Louis Convention, held in St. Louis January, 1879, Mr. Stevens was re-elected, and Mr. Pow­ derly was chosen to the Second position as General Worthy Foreman. The time of the meeting of tho General Assembly was changed to September, aud in September, 1879, a conven­ tion was held in Chicago, when Mr. Stevens sent a letter declining re-election as Grand or General Master Workman, and suggesting Mr. Powderly, in strong words of praise, for the position. That choice was made, and each suc­ cessive September, at the general assemblies, he was re-elected. He had continued to reside at Seranton, and in April, 1878, his fellow-workmen put his name in nomination for Mayor and elected him. His first act was to discharge the entire police force. This he did because he feared that his enemies would seek to create disorder aud possibly (lc damage, and he wishe-.l to have by him men in whom he could trust to repress any uprising. In 1880 Mayor Powderly was re-elected aud in 1882 again chosen on a Democratic ticket, but the labor element showed its strength by giving him a majority in several strong Republican districts. Since his Induction into the order of Knights of Labor, Mr. Powderly has given it his entire attention and a vast amount of study. He has virtually reorganized the order. He"found it a close, oath-bound body, but at the Detroit Gen­ eral Assembly, in 1881. he urged the abolition of oaths and the removal of the obligation of secrecy. Mr. Powderly has filled the }>osition of constant instructor for seven years, and has not had a single dav off, not even a whole Sun­ day. Mr. Powderly in 1875 went somewhat into the study of law, and while Mtuyor of Seranton got a very good legal training and habit. He started the Labor Advocate in Seranton during 1877, but this publication, he said, "died easily while 1 stood by its bedside." By What methods It* Members Hope t« Solve the Labor Question. The four men who, with General Master Work­ man Powderly, comj ose the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor form a strong combination. Kach one is a man of earnes: conviction, and has been called upon in the past to sacrifice much ta sustain his principles. Frederick Tnrntr, the Secretary- Treasurer of tbrje terms, was a gold-beater, who served an apprenticeship in Philadelphia, and because of his activity in organizing his ft llow-workinen into a union and standing fot what he considered 1 i-t rights lie was "victim­ ized" and "blacklisted" in New York, wliithet he had removed. John W. Hayes, of New Brunswick, who lost hiS'arm in the service oi tlie Pennsylvania Railroad Company and after­ ward learned telegraphing, was a leader in the great telegraphers' btrike of 1883, and has never touched a key since. Win. H. Bailey, of Sliaw- nee, Ohio, a big six-footer, was a. thorn in tbt side qf the coal combination of Hocking Valley, and His fellow-citizens hud to make him Chief ol Police to keep him in their midst, the tompa- nies refusing to either employ hini or permit him to run a small mino of his own. Tlioims B. Barry was a broadax-maker? anil a reward ol $5,000 wa-i once offered in Cleveland. Ohio, foi evidence that would'convict him of a conspir­ acy, and he was finally driven out of the city. His exertions on behalf Of the lumbermen oj East Saginaw. Mich., his prosecution of the lumber companies, bis trial for conspiracy, and acquittal are yet fresh in tbe memory of readers. Contrary to the general un lerstnnding, the board is not clothed with autocratic powers, nor can it enter a "district" without solicitation, unless it considers that tho organization is in danger. It has a general supervision over the whole order, and can act in all things fcr tht: good and welfare of the organization. The Gen­ eral Assembly, which meets annually the first week iu October at a place designated the prev­ ious year, may indorse or disapprove of the ac­ tions of the board. The District Assembly is composed of tlire* delegates from each local assembly in its juris­ diction, and is the highest tribunal within its dominion. There aro what are called "trade districts" and "mixed districts." The former, af the noma donates, are composed of those ol any one or afiUiateil trades. Thus a district ol printers contains stereotypers, type-founders, compositors, pressmen and feeders, book­ binders and sewers, lithographers ami plate printers. A district of shoemakers has within it every person working at that business ir any capacity. A mixed district is formed ol assemblies of every trade having less than five locals, which number- is necessary before « trade can be organized as a distinct district There aro several trades in the order whict have national districts, and it is hoi>cd by man; a Knight that in time every national and in­ ternational trade union will 1 e covered with tha shield of the ordor. It is said that if such was possible it would inure to the strt n^th ol the trade union, as it lias b?en found thai every trade is dejK'iident on all the others. Lociil assemblies can be formed of men anc women, or men or women n spectivi-lv, of any one or more trades, or no trade whatever, except­ ing lawyers. bankers, brokers, and rum-sellers, who are cons-'dered to be drones in the human hive, or seeking always their own preferment first, last, and all the time. In every local assembly a half-hour at « act mcet'ug must be devoted to the discussion ol "labor in all its interests." It is during these moments, that the "declaration of principles' is taken up and enlarged upon by some one designated for that purjiose. In locals ncwlj founded tbe declaration is taken up section by section, beginning with the following para­ graph • "The alarming development and aggress!venes of f: re lit capitalists and corporations, unlest checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperiza­ tion and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses. It is imperative, if we desire to eujov the full blessings of life, that a check be placed upon unjust nccumulation Hnd the power fot «Til of aggregated wealth. This much-desired object can be accomplished only by the united efforts of those who obey the divine injunction, 'In the sweat of thy faco shalt thou eat bread. Therefore we have formed the order of Knightt of Labor, for the purpose of organizing aud directing the power of the industrial nmsses." She aims of tho order are declared to be: 1. To make industrial and moral worth, aot wealth, the true standard of individual and na­ tional greatneBf. 2. To secure to the worker the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisinv in which to devtl >p their intellectual, moral, and Kooial faculties ; all of the benefits, recreation, and pleasures of association; in a word, to ena­ ble them to share in the gaius and honors of al- vant-ing civilization. To secure these results certain demands arc made upon the State and National Legislatures, in addition to which the Knights of Labor will endeavor to associate their own labors. "Tc establish co-operative institutions such as will tend to supersede the Wage system by tbe in­ troduction of a co-operative industrial system; to secure for both sexes equal jpay for equal work ; to shorten tho hours of labor by a gen­ eral refusal to work more than eight hours; to persuade employers to agree to arbitrate at differences which may arise between them and their employes, in order that the bonds of sym­ pathy between thein may be strengthened and that strikes may be rendered unnecessary. 'Ihe Knights of I.at.or have attempted to in- troduee in the order distributive co-->i>eration a-id life insurance on tho assessment plan, but thus far without anv success. The credit of founding this great order is due to Uriah S. Stevens, who died in Philadelphia in 1882. The idea cf the Knights of Labor, a secret broiherhood, was many years in developing it- self, and did not take practical form until 18G9, when Mr. Stevens wan working as aclothinv-cut- ter. For vear-i it was a J^rictlj- secret tociety. CONGRESSIONAL. * The Work of tbe Senate and UM Representatives. ' WHEN the bill for the increase of the army came up in the Senate, on the '29th ult., Mr. Logan had the clerk read an indorsement of the measure by General Sheridan. Mr. Plumb argued that if the army were to be used to put down local troubles it was because public opinion hail not done its perfect work. Mr. Logan aroused enthusiasm in the galleries by defying the Powers of Europe. Mr. Teller opposed the increase of the army. Violence in the States should be *uppressed by the States, he said. Iu the House of Representatives, bills or reso­ lutions were introduced direc ing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish artificial limbs to Con- federate soldiers or sailors who lost legs or arms in the war; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to take a conveyance of the cottage at Mount McGregor, where Gen. Grant died; calling for information as to the money loaned bv the Government to the Cotton Centennial at New Or­ leans, and whether any of the sum has been re­ paid. Mr. Reagan objected to the introduction of a resolution for an investigation into the massacre of negroes at Carroilton, Miss. Mr. Belmont offered a joint resolution appropriating $147,748 to the Chinese Government for losses sustained by its subjects at Rock Springs, Wyo­ ming. A new measure to aid in the establish­ ment of common Bchools was referred to the Committee on Labor. Four propositions were investigation of the cause of the made for an ___ labor troubles. Mu. VOOEHEES introduced in the Senate, on the 30th ult., an enabling act for the people of Montana, preliminary to the admission of the Territory to the Union. Gen. Logan's bill to in­ crease the efficiency of the army was debated. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 for the erection in Washington city of a monument, with appropriate statuary, to commemorate the illustrious public services of the late Abraham Lincoln. The nomination of O. O. Howard to be Major General in place of John Pope was confirmed by the Senate. In tho House of Representatives Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, asked unanimous consent to offer the following resolution: Itesotyed, That a committee of five members be appointed, whose duty it shall be to investigate tbe circumstances and causes attending the kill­ ing on the 18th of March. 183C, in Carroilton,Miss., of a number < t colored citizens of said State. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, objected, on the ground that Congress had no jurisdiction over the mat­ ter. Mr. Randall then asked to have the resolu­ tion referred, but Mr. Reagan objected, notwith­ standing the request made by Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, in behalf of the Mississippi delega­ tion, \that there might be no objection. The House indulge:! in a long debate on the post- office appropriation bill, during which time there was a lively interchange of personalities be­ tween Messrs. McMillin and Houk, both of Tennessee. MR. DOLPH, of Oregon, addressed the Senate on the 31st ult., in support of the bill for tbe ad­ mission of Washington Territory. Mr. Vance spoke in support of his bill to repeal the civil service law. When the army bill came up, Gen. Logan took occasion to deny the reports that there was a coolness between himself and Senator Hale, of Maine, because at the letter's opposition to the army bill, which, it had been further reported, was inspired by Mr. Blaine. The Illinois Senator denied that he was .standing in the way of anv man's Presi­ dential . candidacy. In executive session the Senate confirmed a large number of nomina­ tions, and rejected three--those of John C. Wise, to be postmaster at Mankato, Minn.; II. N. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to be consul at Sivas and tho postmaster at Webster City, Iowa. In the House of Representa­ tives of Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, reported from the Committee on Labor a bill for the voluntary- arbitration of differences between common car­ riers engaged in interstate and territorial trans­ portation of property or passengers aud their employes. The bill was referred to the com­ mittee of the whole and the House went into committee, with Mr. Springer (111.) in the chair, for its consideration. Mr. O'Neill spoke in support of tne measure, which w as the best one the Labor Committee could formulate. It provided simply for a vol­ untary arbitration. He knew that this was dis- ap]R)inting to many meml.ers of tli t House, but if they would but reflect they would realize that the first thing to consider was how far they could regulate the disputes by an appeal to pub­ lic opinion. If this method failed, then he could see but one other, and that was the strong arm of the Government to take tbe giaut corporations by the throat and tell them that they must yield to arbitration ; that the (rovernint nt could not have tbe condition of affairs that to-dav pre­ vailed throughout five States of the Union--a practical revolution--all business suspended, and the people of great oitieB suffering from the increased cost of ford and fuel. Messrs. Ham­ mond (Ga.l, Weaver (Iowai, Brunnn (Pa.t, and Daniel (Va.l opposed the bill. Mr. Weaver thought that the cure of all labor troubles toy in the increase of the currency. Mr. Rengaii (Texas) opposed the bill because it would take from the local tribunals where it belonged the adjustment and settlement of a local question. THE bill appropriating $500,000 for tbe erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln at Wash­ ington, passed the Senate on the 1st inst. Messrs. Dolph and Morgan addressed tbe Sen­ ate in support of the bill to admit Washing­ ton Territory into the Union, after which the amendments proposed by the committee and another affecting the school'lands were adopted. President Cleveland nominated to the Senate for the vacant brigadier generalships Colonel Thomas H. Ruger. of the Eighteenth Infantry, anil Colonel Joseph H. Potter, of the Twenty- fourth Infantry. The House devoted tbe day to the discussion of the labor arbitration bill. Sailors Who Don't <io to Sea. A naval officer, in speaking of an as­ sociate, said to our correspondent: "He is a good fellow, but he is a Coburger."' When asked to explain the term, he replied: "There is a certain class of men in the navy who have always held soft berths, and whom it seems impos­ sible to dislodge. They are official favorites, and we call them 'Coburgers.' There are scores of them in the navy department here. I know of one who has attained the rank of full command­ er, and his boast is that 'he never stood a watch.' He was graduated from the naval academy near the close of tlie war, and promotion was actually so rapid .that' his boaBt is the truth. * He has been floating round Washington ever since I can remember, and will probably-be here when I am gone. There is a choice assortment of soft things in connection with the Judge Advocate General's bureau; Judge Advocate General Remey himself lias a pretty easy time of it. He is only a captain in the marine corps, but his total sea duty is very small. He has been so long in Washington that people have almost forgotten his real rank. I knew of another case which is even worse. A certain officer, now stationed at the League Island navy yard hasn't been more than twenty-four hours'ride from Washington for the last sixteen year?. The navy department here is full of just such. How do they manage it ? Petticoat influence. I can mention five women in this town who can keep me h4re until I'm a rear admiral if they only ibid tbe word." I'M of the Power at a Dbtavn. French experiments on the transmis­ sion of power by electricity have re­ sulted less successfully than was hoped. Theoretically the plan is feasible, but it is found to be more economical and practicable for manufacturing pur­ poses to use the power directly at the source of supply. Modern railway facilities make it cheaper to transport goods than power, with its attendant loss of 50 per cent, --not to mention itB uncertainties. DOCTORS do not appear to have n^W'LI faith in the idea that odd-shaped bot­ tles or peculiar labels will prevent mis­ takes in the taking of drugs. An En­ glish physician relates that he once gave a man, for external use, a little croton oil liniment in a blue liuted bot­ tle, with a red label. One night the man, being troubled with a cough, thought he would take some of his wife's cough mixture, which was in a bottle having raised letters. He mis­ took the flutings on his own bottle for the raised letters on his wife's, and swallowed the croton oil. He soon dis­ covered his error, and was very ill for many hours. In a similar case a man recently died from a heavy dose of liniment.