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flip #<f <«! f uiiudealer MCHENRY, •?S? - J /M C't * *• • I. VAN4LYME. Eflter art PMMMMT. ILLINOIS. %'< JR ' ; P"3&', ' IA?JI /? . OTB HEWS CONDSPBP. •*«•' THE EAST. ^ ABDITIONAI frauds and forgeries HAW "S ^been disoovered in connection with the i ^Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. ; v-TWilson, the defaulter, has taken over g^$3i)0,<l00 of the company's money. The < vi-jshortaRe of R. J. Lane, the Bockland, v ;lMass., defaulter, amounts to $247,000. Of this sum $112,000 is in his accounts as trnstee of the Washington Reed estate. DB. VALENTINE MoTT,of New York,has performed upon the son of a Jersey City physician the first inoculation for the pre- : Vention of rabies.... A suspicious shooting ' occurred during the celebration at Provi­ dence, Rhode Island. A lad named Nolaa fired a single-barreled shot-guu.i|fa tfce feces of two girls, probably blindjipgonti ?'"^>f them forever. While he clin&¥vth«i ,:'t)lea of accident, there is reason to believe ' that he was actuated by jealousy. JOHN WARNER, of New York City, shot his 14-year-old son, and then killed him- felf... .At a meeting held in New York "Hinder the auspices of the Central Labor ;.l tlnion, resolutions were adopted deriounc- . Ing Judge Barrett and the jnry in the - ahiers boycott case, declaring their con- "fiction to be a brutal outburst of class . • jhatred, and asserting that it was the sacred v ifluty of every workingman to discontinue All personal and business relations with the linen who secured the verdict. THE use of natural gas in the factories at Pittsburgh has thrown out of work about five thousand coal miners in that district.... Ex-Alderman Waite, of New York, re­ quested a commitment to the house of de­ tention as a witness against the indicted al­ dermen. He had been so annoyed by the Snblic that he preferred to be locked up. [e was accommodated... .In the trial of /' Ihe seventeen Bohemian boycotters of Mrs. kj, Aandgraf, the New York baker, the jury .•'•>"--s'i)rought in a verdict of guilty against six of , • {hem. Four of the prisoners were sen- • -' fenced to ten days' imprisenment and two dS *>f the most violent ones to thirty days. LUE WEST. FROM various towns in Dakota come re­ ports of a temperature of from 105 to 115 degrees... .Crops in the Northwest are re­ ported seriously damaged by drouth.... A jury at Milwaukee, after thirty-one hours' deliberation, convicted the anarchists, j- t'rank Hirth, Carl Simon, and Anton Palm ^, Af conspiring to burn the court house and destroy the records. The maximum pen- is one year's imprisonment or $500 line. Hirth is a cigarmaker, Simon s barber, and Palm a hardware fin­ isher. The two latter cannot speak Eng­ lish. All of them have large families.... A Little Rock dispatch details a huge fscheme for the leasing to cattlemen at a ,!,*• Nominal figure of nearly all the valuable frazing land belonging to the Osage, onca, Pawnee, and Otoe tribes in Indian Territory Charges are made at St. Louis that members of the Municipal House of Delegates accepted bribes for the passage , ^v.'-^f certain ordinances. It is stated that one fnember received $1,000 in cash and $5,000 ^n stock to vote against the Electric Rail- 'vlvay bill... Harry Primrose, the leader of the Salvation Army at New Philadelphia, Ohio, whose arrest for bigamy has been fhronicled, was about to marry a girl of 18 years, who would hare been his third liv­ ing and undivorced wife. His matrimonial Operations ended the labors of the army in that section. THE Academy of llueic Building and and McClintoc Blocks at Den- destroyed by fire. The jte $180,000, with about Isurance. Thomas Enright, an perished 'fin the flames loses and Daniel Knsworm, cigar manu­ facturers, of Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, have failed for $75,000 George B. Corkhill, an attorney who won national recognition by his prosecution of Guiteau, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, last week, of hemorrhage of the stomach. Seventy citizens of Coultersville, 111., were poisoned at a picnic by eating ice­ cream. Several persons have already died- THE swamp land in the southeastern part ... of Allen County, Indiana, is to be reclaimed by the Little River ditch of forty-four miles. The contract was let for $137,000, bids hav­ ing been received from all parts of the country... .The motion to dismiss the case against the anarchists charged with unlaw­ ful assembly and indorsing the action of their Chicago brethren during the Hay- market riot was argued in the CourLof Criminal Correction at St. Louis. Judge j^oorian sustained the motion, hold­ ing that there was nothing to show that the alleged unlawful resolu­ tions, as offered, were adopted... Seven men who were boycotting a bakery at Cincinnati have been held to the Grand Jury in $1,000 bonds each on a charge of blackmail The motion for a new trial in •the case of Brooks, alias Maxwell, who . killed Preller, was overrated at St. Louis. A forest fire reached and destroyed Romeo, Wis., reducing to ashes saw and planing mills, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, a boarding-house, and dwellings. The loss is $150,000, with $50,000 insurance. HENBY YOUNG, A man of respectable standing, shot Mary Discher dead at New Richland, Minn., and then blew out his own brains. Miss Discher was eighteen years old, and Young thirty-four. The latter had long sought the girl's hand, and had been repeatedly refused. The dead girl's mother and sister were eye-witnesses of the tragedy. MBS. THSBISA TCBPIK, who lived near Princeton, Indiana, cut the throat of her 7-year-old daughter, hanged her baby daughter, and then went to the barn and ' hanged herself. The youngest child is still living. The woman left a note stating that the devil had been after her, and she couldn't get away from him. THE SOUTH. GEOBGE PABKEB was lynched at Pearl- ington, Miss., for assaulting a white woman. Josephine Costa, a Cuban girl aged 15, was killed at New Orleans by Felix Alvez, aged 13. The children were playing together, when the girl commenced teasing the boy, who became angry and hurled a pair of scissors at the girl, one blade entering the carotid artery, inflicting a wound from which she bled to death in forty minutes. 1 • • • -L1 a fight at New Orleans between two colored boys, Joseph Ellis, aged 14, and Zeptime Ferguson, aged 11, the former was stabbed to death by the latter. THE people of Shackelford County, S. Texas, are said to be in a starving condi - • tion from the almost total failure of crops, and cattle are rapidly perishing. No rain has fallen for fourteen months. The set­ tlers in that region were mainlv from the NORTHERN States... .Paul H. Ilayne, the poet, died last week at Augusta, Georgia. POLITICAL. THI Connecticut State Prohibition Con­ vention will be held in Hartford July 28 to ^ nominate a Governor and other State of ? f fleers The Sixth Illinois District Re 4 publicans renominated Congressman Hitt at Freeport without opposition John A. Donncll, of Sigourney, Iowa, was ; nominated for Congress at Newton on the ll'ith ballot by the Republicans of the Sixth Iowa District The result of the primary election held in Georgia in- ettns OwttoAlMttm of Out, Gordon (Or Governor. The Democratic convention meets m. July 28 in Atlanta. Tax President has approved the act to forfeit the lands granted the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and to restore the same to settlement The Republican State Central Committee of Miaeouri ac­ cepted the resignation of Chaonety i. Fil- ley as Chairman and feleoted General D. P. Grier to the* vacancy The Prohibition­ ists of Minnesota, in convention'at St. Paul, nominated J. E. Childs for Governor and J. Finkham for Lieutenant Governor. OHIO Republican cditott, at 'A meeting in Columbus, adopted an address review­ ing the election of Henry B. Payne to the United State Senate and asking that body to reconsider its action in refusing to inves­ tigate the same... .The Republicans of Kansas, in convention at Topeka, renomi­ nated Governor Martin, Lieutenant Gover­ nor A. P. Reddle and Secretary of State E. B. Allen. D. M. Valentine was nomi­ nated for Judge of the Eleventh District. The platform indorses a protective tariff and prohibition, and expresses sympathy with the Irish home-rule movement. Tras re elected from Newcastie-uppa-Tyae by a vote of 10,681. WASHINGTON. SECRETARY MANNING and family, in passing through Washington for New York, last week, received in their car the con­ gratulations of President Cleveland and several members of the Cabinet. The Secretary has apparently recovered entirely f r o m h i s r e c e n t s t r o k e . . . . T h e h e a d ­ quarters of the national legislative com­ mittee of the Knights of Labor in Washington are being flooded with petitions from local assemblies, to be presented to Congress, urging action upon the measures named in the re­ cent list submittted by the national committee. These petitions ART alike in form, having been printed and distributed to the local assemblies for their signatures, but many of them are accompa­ nied by letters of the most vigorous sort. Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the legisla­ tive committee, declares it to be the pur­ pose of the Knights to test the sense of Congress on the measures named, and to find out whether the politicians mean to pass measures for relief of the people, and whether the right of petition is to be re­ spected. LIEUT. GBEEIIY'S friends, says a Wash­ ington special, were disappointed by the President's nomination of Capt. Theodore W. Schwan of the Eleventh Infantry to be an assistant adjutant general in the army, vice Benjamin. This was the place that Greely's friends had been trying to get for him. Schwan is a very meritorious officer, who entered the service in 1857 from Germany as a private soldier. He was a sergeant when the war broke out, and was gradually pro­ moted for gallant conduct until, at the close of the war he was a brevet Major. He has < been in active Bervice on the plains ever since the war. He had no social or politi­ cal influence and was selected by the Presi­ dent purely on merit. Schwan is probably the only man, except Adjutant General Drum himself, who has risen from the ranks to a place in this corps of the regular army. DUNCAN C. Ross, the ex-wrestler and athlete, and Sergeant Walsh fought a tour­ nament at Washington, with cavalry sabers, on horseback. Up to the end of the eighth bout the Sergeant had the best of it, he having made five points to three for Ross. That his opponent had received all the ap­ plause appeared to anger Ross, and in the ninth bout, while Walsh's horse, which was growing restive and unmanageable, was backing away, the Captain struck Walsh a terrible blow across the shoulders, which made him reel in his saddle, and, as he whirled half around, Ross struck him in the back. Walsh's horse, which was still backing, reared and fell, carrying his rider with him. Ross, heedless of the signal of recall which had been given, rode down upon Walsh as if to strike again, when an excited bystander drew a pistol and threatened to shoot him. A police­ man ran forward through the crowd and dragged Ross from his hotse and arrested him William H. Cole, Representative in Congress from the Third Maryland District, died last week in Washington. GENERAL. A TELEGRAM from Shelbume, N. S., says that the collector of customs, under instructions from Ottawa, has imposed a fine of $400 each on the seized Portland schooners, C. B. Harrington, City Point, and George W. Cashing. The fines have not yet been paid and the vessels are still in the possession of the customs authori­ t i e s . . . . A W i n n i p e g d i s p a t c h f r o m G l e i c h e n , the headquarters of the Blackfeet Indians, says that Chief Poundmaker died suddenly at Crowfoot camp from the bursting of a blood vessel. The old chief has languished since his release from the penitentiary, where he was confined nearly a year for his connection with the Riel rebellion. "THE wool market continues to boom," says a Chicago dispatch. "The latest news from the East is to the effect that dealers there are following in the lead established for them by Chicago, and that the legitimate demand by manufacturers is supplemented by speculative purchases. The manufac­ turers are now buying as if satisfied that the higher prices have come to stay, and are insisting upon correspondingly higher figures for the product of their mills. Lon­ don continues to send advices which favor a farther improvement on this side of the Atlantic. Eastern buyers are reported to have gone out in force as far West as Mon­ tana, where shearing is now in progress,in­ tending to pick up the product as soon as it is ready to ship away. DWIGHT L. MOODY has opened a sum­ mer s c h o o l f o r t h e s t u d y o f t h e B i b l e . . . . Dr. Gatling will soon exhibit in Washing­ ton a gun specially devisod for the suppres­ sion of riots. Its weight will be fifty pounds, and it will be capable of firing one thousand shots per minute. The intention is to place the weapon on police patrol wagons. THE half-breeds now in the penitentiary for taking part in the uprising in North­ west Territory are to be pardoned. FOBEIGH. A LONDON dispatch of the 6th inst. says "The total number of members of Parlia­ ment elected up to date is 312, of whom 207 are Tories and Unionists and 105 Glad- stonians. The Tories and Unionists have made a net gain of fourteen seats. The position presages a crushing defeat for Mr. Gladstone unless he obtains a larger county vote than in November. The boroughs are declaring against home rule. Most ominous is the revolt of the Glasgow Radicals. Of the seven contests in Glasgow the Unionists carried four." MB. PENDLETON, the American Minister, has returned to Berlin and resumed his duties Workingmen's riots have oc­ curred at Lyons. Seven hundred striking glass-makers attacked a factory and were, resisted by the police. A number of the strikers were injured A Munich cable­ gram states that there has been a startling revulsion in feeling there with regard to Wagner, and that the composer, who was once a god, is now an object of execration. IN the British elections, up to Wednes­ day, the 7th inst., the Tories had made net gain of thirteen seats, and had elected 184 candidates, the Unionists had elected 41, the Gladstonians 83, and the Parnellites 34. George J. Goschen, one of the bitterest op­ ponents of Mr. Gladstone, was defeated in the East Division of Edinburgh by a ma­ jority of 1,339. Sir Charles Dilke was de­ feated at Chelsea by a Conservative. C. E. Lewis, Conservative, was re-elected at Lon­ donderry over Justin McCarthy, Parnellite. John Murky, Chief BOC/CLARY FOR IRELAND# THE British and Colonial Chamber of Commeroe passed, by a rote of 28 to 15, amid great excitement, a resolution declar­ ing that the remonetisation of silver would relieve the depression under which trade is now staggering. The meeting is regacded as highly important, and its influence upon the coming silver demonstration in Lan­ cashire mast necessarily be very strong. ...."The new Parliament will meet Aug. 5," says a London dispatch. "The: Wesley an ministers throughout tho country I are signing an address expressing sym­ pathy with Mr. Gladstone and the hope that he will be spared to give such self- government to Ireland as will satisfy the claims of justice and hasten tho reign of peace and good-will.'*. .. .Fresh complica­ tions are reported over the Afghan frontier question, the Russians now claiming Kha- miab, which is alleged to have been an A f g h a n p o s s e s s i o n f o r t h i r t y - f i v e y e a r s . . . . Rioting broke out during the polling in Cardiff, Wales. The police charged the crowd and wounded over one hundred per­ sons, twenty of thfm seriously... .The Turkish Minister of Marine gave a gland dinner, at Constantinople, to Minister Cox and the officers and men of the Ke irsarge. .... Prince Luitpold, regent of Bavaria, has written a letter to Emperor William ex­ pressing his loyalty to the German Empire. •A', 'ITF-S UNCLE SAM. NATIONAL LAW FANCY MARKSMANSHIP THE POLITICAL CAULDR0 How an Accomplished Young Bponfr man Pat Hit Companion to Death. It Is Bsginning to Boil and Brtfclo, for Candidates Th«ri'« Whose Members Were Together with OMOEB : » Toil and Trouble. ADDITIONAL NEWS. BUSINESS failures for the week number 179, against 157 the previous week. In its weekly summary of the business outlook, Bradsireet'a remarks: There is a conspicuous absence of labor troubles throughout the country, and leading textile and metal industries are busily em­ ployed. Mercantile collections have notably improved at nearly all the distributing centers. The demand for funds is active at New Orleans and Boston, where money has been tight and interest rates higher, and iB increasing at Philadel­ phia and St. Louis. The supply exceeds the demand at Chicago and Kansas City. But the visible signs of the reported improvement are found in the hardening tendency in grain, pork, lard, wool, cotton, brown and bleached cottons, and print cloths. Iron and ste<*l are firm, and, while not higher, are not likely to go lower. In fact, there is some gain to the tone of the mar­ ket. Higher prices for wheat were based large­ ly on reported damage to the spring wheat crop by drought. Chicago operators magnified the damage, and, with others, unduly ad­ vanced quotations. Heavy reductions in stocks of wheat here and abroad and less favorable crop prospects abroad helped the advance. Corn sympathized. Oats were higher ou poor crop prospects. Pork and lard have lost some of their advance on speculative sales under cover of the advance in grain. Raw cotton is cent higher on better demand and unfavorable crop reports in the South Atlantic fetates. Wool remains firm at previous advances, and manu­ facturers are buying more freely. Higher prices for new makes of brown and bleached shirtings and sheetings and for print cloths characterize the firm tone and confidence in the dry-goods trade. THE safe in the postoffice at Minneapolis was drilled by burglars, who took $100 in currency and $18,000 worth of stamps. The mail-carrier's horse and a mercantile delivery wagon were seized by the thieves to carry their booty to St. Paul.... A terrific electric and wind storm, with torrents of rain and hail, swept across McLean County, 111. It was a genuine cyclone, the funnel- shaped, gyrating cloud, and the green sky peculiar to twisters being present... .The populace were thoroughly frightened, and many rushed out into the street in the rain. Hundreds of trees were wrecked and blown into the street and across the street car tracks. Tin roofs were stripped from buildings and small buildiugs demolished. A peculiar turtle, with neck and tail-eight inches long, and the head of ,a snapper, fell into the street from a cloud. MIGUEL CHACON, a Cuban negro, was hanged in New York for killing his para­ mour while trying to murder her husband. Sam Archer was also executed at Shoals. Ind., thus ending the career of the fifth of a gang of desperadoes who had been guilty of many crimes.. ..Fifty-five railroads earned during June $19*908,863, an in­ crease over the same month in 1885 of $2,133,998. THE report that Jay Gould has been a loser to the. tune of some $(5,000,000 in "Wabash" will possibly be far from exciting profound sympathy in the breast of the great public. A few of those who regard themselves as his victims may even mani­ fest an unchristian joy at the thought that their losa is not his eternal gain.... Charles Marsh, the Boston dry-goods merchant, died from a stroke of paralysis, in his fifty- seventh year. His estate is estimated at $10,000,000, including life insurance for $250,000. MR. HOAR offered a resolution in the Senate on the 9th inst., calling on the President for inl formation as to the seizure or detention in any foreign ports of any American vessels, the pre­ texts or alleged causes therefor, and what efforts have been made to provide redress for such seizures and to prevent their recurrence. The resolution went over. Mr. (Jail offered a resolution calling on the President to direct the Ainertean representa­ tive in Mexico to investigate the truth of state­ ments made in tho newspapers that citizens of the United States are confined in Moxican dun­ geons without trial for alleged offenses against the laws of Mexico, and that their final trial has been postponed without cause, and requir­ ing the United States Government (if such statements are found to be. true) to demand the trial of such persons and their humane treatment. The Senate, in executive session, rejected the nomination of John Goode, of Virginia, to be Solicitor General of the United States. In the House of Representatives a motion to refer to the Committee on Invalid Pensions the mes­ sage of the President vetoing the bill granting a pension to Sarah Ann Bradley gave rise to an animated debate, in the course of which tfae Executive was arraigned by Messrs, Grosve- nor, Barrows, McOomas, and Boutelle, and defended by Mr. Springer. The message was referred--130 to 118. The President sent to the House a message vetoing the bill for a public building at Dayton, Ohio, on the ground that the Federal officials at that point are well ac­ commodated at a rental of $3,850 per annum. THE MABKETS. S4 60 4.25 .•9 .47 .38 11.00 5.25 4.50 3.50 4.25 4.25 .78 .30 .30 @ .14 ® .10 <# .06'£(<® .08 (<i .11 @ 1.25 NEW YORK. BEJCVBS HOGS WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2 OATS--White POBK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEKVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common Hoos--Shipping Grades FL/OTM--Extra Sprfng WHEAT--No. i Spring CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTEM--Choice Creamery .Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new, Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--New, per brl POBK--Mess.. 10.00 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--CASH 78 COEN--NO. 2 .37 OATS--NO. 2 30 RYE--NO. 1.... 00 1'OHK--Mess ? 10.00 TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. S 82 COBN--No. 2.. OATS--No. 2 8T. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POBK--New Mess ..; ; » CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 PORK--Mess. LIVE HOOS DETROIT. BEEF CATTLE HOGS WHEAT-No.' 1 White."!.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".' CORN--No. 2. OATS---NO. 2 INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ; F EAST LIBEBTT. CATTI4E--Best Fair Common Hoos SHEEP . ^ _ BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--No. 4....... @#.25 @ 5.80 (?) .91 51 @ .44 @12.00 @ 5.75 <9 5.00 <$ 4.00 C'd 5.25 @ 4.75 <§ .79 .37 .31 .15 .11 .07 >4 .08^ VD .12 m 1.75 '̂ 10.50 S.79 .87 ft ® .31 .61 (&10.50 .38 .28 .78 .33 .28 10.50 .76 .36 .29 10.00 4.50 4.00 4.00 3.50 <<4 .84 .385* .30 A '-Grieving Committee" ant t&e Tre- mendottB Power Delegated to It » . - tjjr the Onlar. .37 .30 3.50 4.50 2.25 .75 .33 .26 <3 .78 & .32 & .28!$ ©U.OO & .77 & .364$ <$ .30 @10.50 5 5.25 6 5.50 & 5.00 & 4.50 g* .82 'J & .38 & .35 @ 5.50 & 5.00 (3 4.25 & .76 & .34 & .26}$ [Chicago telegram. I The secret constitution and work of the Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks show it to be in many respects a most re­ markable organization. From the liistpage to the last there are traces of a vast scheme of boycotting the Government. The broth­ erhood seems formed solely to find a place for a Grievance Committee, which, so far as the Government is concerned, becomes the brotherhood, and has full and arbitrary power to speak and act for every clerk on its rolls. The objects of the order are stated to be for "mutual aid and protection, and for a more perfect union, that we as a body may be the better enabled to resist encroach­ ments made upon our rights as oitizens and our manhood as officials by indiscriminate removals from office of any of our mem­ bers without sufficient cause and upon charg­ es filed and faiilyand fully investigated, and that we may also be the better enabled to administer to the wants and necessities of sick and indigent brothers, and in othsr respects to cultivate a more fraternal feel­ ing among our members." The first annual meeting of the Grand Lodge is fixed at Indianapolis, July 13, and its composition is entered upon in painful details. But its presiding officer, known as the Grand Chief Clerk, is shorn of all ex­ ecutive functions, which all appear lodged in the Grievance Committee. There is a per capita tax of $1 upon all members of the brotherhood, which, together with the usual fees for lodge charters and the sale of rituals, will bring in a fair income if the membership is reasonably large. The by-laws define the regulations of membership, and state that no person 6hall be admitted to membership in this brother­ hood whose reputation for honesty, sobrie­ ty, and industry can be seriously assailed, and all applicants must be recommended by two members of the lodge as in every way worthy of membership. The initiation fee is $2. It is provided that a member who shall die in the service, or who shall be discharged from his position for alleged causes upon which there has been no con­ viction, shall be entitled to a sum from the benevolent fund of the Grand Lodge equal to an amount to be raised bv an assessment of $1 each upon all the members of the brotherhood, said amount to be paid to his widow or heirs (if a married man) or if an unmarried man the same M*Y be disposed of by will or be paid to those dependent on him for support. The following language is nsed: "To all the by-laws, rules and regula­ tions we bind ourselves by the most solemn pledges of honor, uniting ourselves in the traternal bands of brotherly love. We pledge to each other our lives, our honor, and our lasting fidelity and fealty, admon­ ishing our brethren to be true to the princi­ ples that characterize true manhood. Con­ tinue to give the work your most faithful and honest efforts, and this important branch of the Government service, which your skill and genius aided so largely in consummating, will go down the ages as an imperishable monument to your memories." The officers of the lodge are rather pecu­ liarly named. They are the Chit f Clerk, the Second Clerk, the Third Clerk, the Transfer Clerk, and the Short Stop. The Chief Clerk is the presiding officer, the Second Clerk LL the secretary, the Third Clerk is the treasurer, the Transfer Clerk is a sort of general utility man, while the Short Stop is supposed to stop interlopers at the door. The power of the presidiug officer, following the lead of smaller socie­ ties, is practically unlimited between the meetings of the lodge, and he can do about as he nleasea. ^ To becomPjn6ember it is necessary to have received a permanent appointment as- B postal eleriv, a commission from the Post­ master General being evidence of that fact, and also to be in active service at the time of application. The usual procedure is carried out in the way of initiation until the candidate has taken the oath, then he, "by further attesting his allegiance, will sur­ render to the lodge, through the Chief Clerk, his resignation as a postal clerk, which will be placed in the hands of the Grievance Committee, to be used by said committee under the orders of the lodge only in case of extreme emergency and in concert and conjunction with all the mem­ bers of the same." This Grievance Committee, while it* is but one of the three standing committees in the lodge, thus becomes the most im­ portant one of the lot, being closely modeled after the Executive Boards of the Knights of Labor. Their duty, as laid down in the constitution, is to take charge of all matters relating to the official relations of the Brotherhood of Bailway Clerks with the Postmaster Gen­ eral and other officials in the Railway Mail Service; .and when in the opinion of the committee an exigency shall exist for the exercise of arbitrary action they shall at once take the necessary steps to prosecute any plan or scheme that may, in their judgment, be the means of consummating a desired ob­ ject. They shall not, however, resort to extreme measures until an amicable ad­ justment of all difficulties may be deemed impracticable, and without the knowledge or consent of the lodge. This goes further than any trades union ever thought of going, and makes one com­ mittee, armed with the resignations from the service of every member of the lodge, the autocrat of its affairs. It is, perhaps, as dangerous an arrangement for the clerks under any regime as can well be imagined. The whole scheme of the brotherhood seems built up around the central id' a of this irresponsible Grievahce Committee. The leaders who contrived the machin­ ery of the brotherhood were solely planning a huge strike to coerce the Postmaster General into the agreement, for it seems scarcely possible that a body of men who intended founding a permanent society would have placed such unlimited power in the hands of one committee and effec­ tually gaged a minority by holding over tho heads of its members their forced resigna­ tions ready to be turned over to the Post- office Department the moment the com­ mittee determined to strike. The entire plan shows the hands of good organizers and bears the marks of months of study, which it doubtless received. In the meantime, however, so it now appears, the department was kept daily informed of the progress of the incubation of the brotherhood, and the twenty-nine clerks who were mainly instru­ mental in its formation were dismissed from the service inst at the moment it was prepared to act. The constitution they left behind gives full evidence of the faith­ fulness of their labors, which the secret zeal of the members who are still in the service may yet prove not to have been wholly in vain. : Little Drop* of Water. In Limestone, Ky., the water is so hard that the inhabitants use plates of it for window-glass. The drouth in Arizona is so severe that the water in a mint julep rustles like a bunch of dried leaves. It is so dry in Wheeler County, Tex., that the people have to sprinkle the water before it is wet enough to drink. The drinking water in Philadelphia in summer is so thick that it is customary to slice it with a knife and serve it with ice. There is a stream in North Carolina so clear that A stranger walked right into it and was drowned before he knew the stream was there. The ducks which frequent a water-course in the, drouth section of Mississippi have bees laying hard-boiled eggs for the last INew York speeity "Guilty of manslaughter in the eecond de|tee, with a recommendation to the mer­ cy of the court," was the verdict against Dr. Theus Taylor, of Merrick, Long Island, in the County Court at Long Island City this afternoon. "Doc" Taylor is a solid young Southerner of about' 26 years. He graduated a few years ago at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, but about a year ago he inherited $200,000 from his mother, and since then he been a gentleman farmer, fond of pleasure and dissipation, and proud of his skill with the pistol. April 15 Thad- deus Griffin, his companion rather than his servant, fell a victim to confidence in his master's marksmanship. That day Taylor and Griffin met two sisters named Chawman at Sayville. The men had been drinking, and they all filed into the "doc­ tor's" two-seated carriage to make a day of it. Off they went into the spnrsely set­ tled country near Hempstead, MID Griffin began to boast what Taylor coujld do with the pistol. The girls urged him ON'by feigning to doubt the big stories, and fin­ ally the men dismounted. Taylor took out his big revolver and at ten paces broke a bottle in Griffin's hand. This was repeated at intervale on the journey, varied with the Bhooting of coins from Griffin's fingers. Finally a tomato can was placed on Griffin's head. "Doc" hit it twice, and then refused to shoot any more. Griffin urged him, finally brought him a cartridge, and then faced him. "Are 5'ou ready?" asked "Doc." "Let her go," was the reply. Just then, the girls say. the can began to wobble, and Griffin raised his hand to steady it. The fatal bullet was already on its course, and it crashed in the frontal bone and lodged in the rear of Grif­ fin's skull. I11 twelve hours he was dead. The Coroner's jury exonerated Taylor from blame, but the grand jury brought in a bill charging him with manslaughter in tho second degree, and on this he was tried and convicti A. A MOTHER'S AWFUL CRIME. She Sails One of Her Children, Attempts the Life of Another, and Com­ mits Suicide. [Princeton (Ind.) special.] A horrible murder and suicide was com­ mitted on a farm about five miles northeast of (his place. Asa Turpin, with his wife, Theresa Turpin, and four children, two of them by a former wife, lived in a small frame house near what is known as Sev­ ern's Bridge. Mr. Turpin is a young farmer in moderate circumstances, and has always provided well for his family, and to all outward appearances the family was a contented one. This morning, after the family had eaten breakfast and Mr. Turpin had gone to his work about a quarter of a mile away and the oldest stepdaughter had been sent blackberrying, Mrs. Turpin told the youngest stepdaughter to carry some food to the hogs. Mrs. Turpin then took a razor and almost severed her seven- year-old daughter's head from her body, and placed the body on a bed. She then took her one-year-old child and hanged it until she thought it was dead, and placed the body on the bed with the other. She then went to the barn and, climbing into the hay­ loft, hanged herself from one of the raft­ ers. The little .stepdaughter came back from her errand, and, finding the bodies of the children in the bed, gave the alarm. The youngest child when found yet showed signs of life, and is stilf alive. Mrs. Tur­ pin left a letter in which she said that no one WIS to blame for the deed but herself; that her husband had always treated her well and provided \yell for the family; that the devil had been after her for two months, and that she was unable to get away from him; that for the last two weeks she had been planning the deed, and HRD finally worked herself up to committing it. She closed by asking her husband to for­ give her, and place trust in Jesus. She also gave directions for the burial of the bodies. . CORA PEARL DEAD. The Fauioiia Courtesan's Life Ended In Paris--A Checkered Career Closed. A Paris dispatch announces the death of Cora Pearl, the famous courtesan, and says that she died poor, her recent "memoirs" having a poor sale* She was an English woman, bom in one of the outlying districts of London nbout fifty years ago. Her real name was EM- nieline Crouch. In the heyday times of the Second Empire she went to Paris. From then until Sedan she was--excepting scarce the Empress--about the best-known woman in F1 ranee. Cora led a score of nobles of the Empire a pretty dance, as well as some princes of royal blood. She had a splendid villa, called Beausejour, 011 banks of the Loire, one of the love-thi liest spots in France. To enumerate the guests she used to entertain there would sound like a CL apter from the "Almanach de Goth a." There is good hunting in the country around there, and Cora used to join her guests in that sport. She under­ stood horses and dogs and was A capital shot. She paid personal attention to the breeding of "hunting-dogs, and one of the favorite strains now in vogue in Fiance originated in her kennels. The last ad­ mirer w ho occupied this villa with her was a very wealthy young man, son of a Paris money-king. He spent more than $3,000,- 000 on her. Finding himself ruined, he appealed to her to restore him a small por­ tion of this wealth, enough to give him a decent start in life. She refused, where­ upon he tried to blow his .brains out. The shooting was done in Cora's boudoir, and the poor fool fell at her feet seriously wounded. "Beast!" she cried, "do you take this for the abattoir? See how you have spoiled my pretty carpet with your nasty blood!" ' LOST IN THE MAMMOTH CATS. Thrilling Kxperieilce of Nine Persons Who, Separated from Their Companions, Wan­ der Through Intricate Tunnels for Eight Hour*. (Louisville (Ky.) special.] This afternoon a party of men and women returned from the Mammoth Cave, where they had a thrilling ex­ perience. On Tuesday twenty-seven per­ sons traversed the cave, taking the "long route," nine miles in and nine miles out. During the evening, while in the winding passages beyond Echo River, nine of the number became separated from the main body. The only guide was at the head of the line, and the absence of the rear guide was not noticed. The unfortunates were lost for eight hours. They were fiuber Ringgold, John Graham, the Misses Ida Culp, Jodie and Bettie Claypool, of Oak­ land, Ky., two studfnts from Brazil, and a professor from Philadelphia. To add to the terror of their situation their lights went out and they shouted themselves hoarse in the horrible darkness. The main group did not notice that any one was missing until they all gathered in the hall at the end of the long route. Then their anxiety was great, and they began a vigorous search. The lost wanderers final­ ly adopted the plan of leaving small arti­ cles of clothing in the path as they walked along, and by this means they were final­ ly found sitting on the banks of Echo River, at which they had finally arrived. The women in the party suffered greatly from nervons excitement. COLONEL FBEP GRANT has presented to George W. Childs a fine Kentucky mare and colt. The mare was a great favorite with GENERT# Grant. CoATentlons li a Number of the State* Assemble and Indorse the Party glatt* " Iowa Democrat*. Th® Iowa Democratic State Convention, at Des Koines, was temporarily organized, with A R. McCoy, of Clinton, Chairman, and W. C. Miller, of Buena Vista, Secretary. The con­ vention was in session two days. Nothing was done the first day beyond the appointment of the customary committees. Upon coming to­ gether on the seoond day a permanent organiza­ tion was speedily effected by t he election of the following officers: O. W. Bell, of Hamilton County, President; C. W. Miller, of Bremer; John F. Franly, of Pottowattamle; W. B. Hol- lingsworth, of Keokuk; J. S. Root, of Floyd; and M. J. Keeley, of Iowa County, Secretaries ; Tim O. Walker, of Marshall, Beading Secretary. The Committee on Besolutions mode a report, the substance of -which is aa follows : "The Democracy of Iowa announce the follow- ing platform of principles : That the clean, pure, and honest administration of Grovcr Cleveland is a matter of just pride for every American citizen without distinction of party, and we most cordially and heartily approve and applaud the noblo, determined, and successful efforts of the President in the interests of good government, and we pledge him our continued support in aU such efforts. That the noble and manly efforts of Gladstone in behalf of representa­ tive government for Ireland commands our unqualified approval. That we most heartily express our appreciation of the services of all Union soldiers and sailors, and recom- mend the fullest reqpjjnition of their services in defense of our country by ample and liberal pension laws making allowances to all who re- ceiyed iniurios or disabilities in the service, and to those dependent upon them. To that end we condemn private bills and special legislation, •which favor a few to the detrimentof the many. * * * To Impose taxes for any other purpo- Befl than the raising of the necessary revenuo for the support of the Government is unconsti­ tutional and wholly inconsistent with our boasted freedom. We therefore call upon Congress for the immediate re­ vision of the tariff laws to a revenue basis, to the end that every industry and every section may enjoy perfect equality under the law. That we favor the repeal of the present prohibitory law of this State, and thfc enactment in lieu thereof of a law securing to each county and municipal corporation the right to deter­ mine for itself the prohibition or licensing of the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage providing by proper legislation for the enforce­ ment of prohibition where prohibition is adopt­ ed, and where license is adopted for a license fee of not less than§500, withsuchlegislativere- strictions as will promote sobriety and suppress free whisky. We cordially invite all persons be- . lieving in the foregoing principles to unite in overthrowing the party in power in this State." A minority report was offered for a local-option law confined to cities and towns, without limit as to license. The platform, down to the liquor plank, was adopted, when a lively discussion ensued, eon- eluding with the adoption of the majority re­ port, which declares in favor of local option lu counties and cities, and where a license is voted for it shall be not less than $500. The convention then proceeded to select can­ didates for State offices. Cato Sells, of Black- hawk County, was nominated by acclamation for Secretary of State, and Paul Guelich, of Burlington, was named for Auditor. Word be­ ing received from the Greenback State Conven­ tion, sitting in Lewis' Opera House, that they had nominated Daniel Cnmpbell, of Monona County, for Treasurer, and William Theophilus for Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Democratic Convention completed its work by nominating for Attorney General C. H. Mackey, of Keokuk County, ana Frank Bradley, of Audubon Coun­ ty, for Supreme Court Ke porter, and then ad­ journed. Iowa Greenbacken. The Iowa Greenback Convention was called to order in Lewis' Opera House, Des Moines, by H. S. Wilcox, Chairman of the State Commits tee. The body was organized without any hitch by the election of the following officers : Chair­ man, W. H. Hobb ; Vice Presidents, A. J. Eanna, W. J. Pass, A. S. Busserman, W. J. Strickland. W. H. Weller, B. E. Mann, D. Bamsey, E. H. Gillette, J. E. Dicks, L. B. Gunning, Dr. Arm­ strong, Nat F. Robe; Beading Secretary, E. Vincent; Assistant Secretaries, H. U. Worster, S. Kirkpatrick. In the absence of Chairman Bobb, Vice President Wel­ ler presided. The Committee on Confer­ ence then reported. They had had some difficulty in dividing up the ticket, especially in the matter of the Auditorship. The ticket was fixed satisfactorily, the Democrats to nominate four, one of whom should be a Knight of Labor, and the Greenbackers two, the latter being the State Treasurer and Clerk of the Supremo Court. And having thus arranged for fusion the com­ mittee awaited the decision of the convention. The question was then put to vote, and the re­ port almost unanimously adopted. Daniel Campbell was nominated for State Treasurer, and William Theophilus for Clerk of the Supreme Court. ' Pennsylvania Republicans. The Bepublican State Convention, at Harris- burg, was one of the largest ever held in the State. Gen. Wagner, of Philadelphia, presided. A resolution favoring the submission to the people of a constitutional provision prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants gave rise to much debate, and it was finally referred to the Committee on tho Platform. Col. D. H. Hastings nominated James A. Beaver for Gov­ ernor in an eloquent and eulogistic speech, and tho nomination was carried by acclamation. The ticket was then completed as follows : For Lieutenant Governor, William T. Davies ; Aud­ itor General, A. Wilson Norris ; Secretary of In­ ternal Affairs, T. J. Stewart; Congressman-at- Large, Gen. F. A. Osborne. The platform adopted by the convention favors the repeal of the pension-limitation law; approves the Cullom interstate commerce bill; demands legislation to prohibit the importa­ tion of foreign contract labor; opposes convict labor; de clares in favor of laws to prevent the lululteration andj counterfeiting of dairy and farm products ; denounces the Morrison bill and advocates "a tariff for protection only," and re­ quests the enactment of national and State laws to facilitate the settlement of labor troubles by arbitration, and the fostering of the shipping industry. • The following resolution was incor­ porated in the platform: "WHEREAS, There is an evident desire on the part of a large number of the intelligent and respectable citizens of Pennsylvania to amend the constitution by inserting a clause prohibit­ ing the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks as a beverage within the limits of (his commonwealth; therefore, "Resolved, That it is the opinion and judgment cf this convention that tho Legislature of the State should «.t once adopt measures providing for the submission of this question to a vote of the people in accordance with the true spirit of our free institutions." The convention adopted along tariff address reviewing the hiBtory of the tarin, netting forth the growth of American commerce Mxica 1800, and attributing that growth to the «<T»cts 'of the Morrill tariff. Mew Hampshire Democrats. Col. Frank G. Noyes, of Nashua, wielded the gavel in the New Hampshire Democratic Con­ vention at Concord. Five hundred and thirty- seven delegates were present. Thomas Cogs­ well was nominated for Governor ou the first ballet. A resolution expressing sympathy with Mr. Gladstone in his home-rule struggle was unan­ imously adopted. A resolution was also adopted indorsing the efforts of President Cleveland and Congressman Morrison and Carlisle and their Democratic colleagues to revise the ex­ isting tariff laws. The platform pledges support to Mr. Cleve­ land's administration, ana congratulates him upon its success ; declares devotion to the doc­ trines set forth in the last I>« mocratic na­ tional platform; that Federal taxation shall lie exclusively for public purooses, and shall not exceed the needs of the Government eco­ nomically administered, and a readjustment of tho tariff is asked for on that basis ; demands that the rights of labor be fostered, and all laws prejudicial to labor be repealed; favors the principle of arbitration in the settlement of differences between labor and capital; demands a ten-hour law, and weekly payments in all manufacturing estab­ lishments ; denounces lawlessness and anarchy, and the importation of cheap servile labor; charges the Bepublican party of New Hamp­ shire with hypocrisy in dealing with the liquor question: declares in favor of a judicious li­ cense law; recognises the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the war for the Union, and pledges efforts to secure them a deserved reward. Arkansas Democrats. Nearly all the present State officers were nominated for re-election by the Arkansas Democratic Convention, at Little Bock, includ­ ing Simon P. Hughes for Governor, William E. Woodruff for Treasurer, Cobbs for Land Com­ missioner, Dan W. Jones for Attorney General; and B. B. Battle for Supreme Judge. Besolutions expressing sympathy with tne efforts of Mr. Gladstone, assisted by Mr. ParnelU, in behalf of Irinh home rule were adopted by acclamation. . . The platform indorses the national adminis­ tration ; reaffirms allegiance to the Democratic party ; maintains tl:e riylit of local self-govern­ ment ; regrets the depressed condition of the agricultural interests of the Slate und the strained condition of capital and lalor, and traces these conditions directly to the operations of a high protective tariff; commends the Ar­ kansas Congressional delegation for supporting the Morr son bill; favors unlimited coinage of both gold and silver, and demands that both told and silver coin ba received in payment of 5orcn>iaentd4PK> < . on Pensions presented a re- on the 3d inst., reeommend- over the President's veto of the session to Marv A. Nottage. The report condemns tike President for hisvStoes of Private pension Mils, asserting that he acts up- , on lack of information; that some of his mes- are «*Pre«|ed in unjust and unexampled •tyle; and that derision Of the committee's labors "can originate only In a wise and noble nature which is misled, or In one that, if in­ formed, sadly needle feconstruction or recreation." The Jpesident Bent to the Senate his veto of tWMll for the relief of Martin L. Bundy. veto message the President says: "Thagpttiinant, who was a Quartermaster, after Wis settlement of his ac­ counts was found to be Indebted to the Govern­ ment. Thereupon he put in a claim for forage more than sufficient to offset his indebtedness. There is no suggestion that he had or used any horses, and if he did and failed to make a claim for forage at the time he settled his accounts, then he presents a case of inccedible ig­ norance of his rights or a wonderful lack of that disposition to gain every possible ad­ vantage which is usually found among those who deal with the Government." The claiuMa not allowed on the ground that it would set a precedent which could hardly be ignored, and which, if followed, would turnieh another moans of attack upon the Treasury quite as effective as manv which are now in operation. Tne Senate, in considering the river and harbor appropriation bill, approved of an item of $1,000.0:10 toward a thirty-foot channel at the Sandy Hook entrance to New York. The House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating fc7t;,0i)0 to pay damages on account of the over­ flow of tho Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. When the general deficiency bill was under considera- tjon by the House of Bepresentatives on the 5th inst., Mr. Springer stated that the decrease in Federal expenditures during the fiscal yoar just closed was $22,500,000, accord­ ing to statements by Treasury officials. An amendment to the general deficiency bill, offered by Mr. Cannon (III.), appropriating S'22.- 00!) to refund taxes illegally collected from rail­ road companies on account of alien bond and stockholders, was adopted. A resolution was introduced in the House by Mr Springer calling on the President for copies of all correspond- ence between the Government and the Bepublic of Nicaragua, since 1876, in relation to the con­ struction of an interoceanic canal by way of Lake Nicaragua, The Senate was not in ses­ sion. Ma. INGAX.LI8, at the request of the Social Purity Allianse of the District of Columbia, in­ troduced three bills in the Senate on the 6th inst. for the protection of women and children in the District. A very large number of peti­ tions gotten up and signed through the evortions of the Hnights of Labor, praying for the passage of the bills forfeiting railroad land-grants, were presented. A bill was introduced by Mr. Cockrell to regulate the pay of army and navy officers who refuse or neglect to provide for their families. The Senate spent some time in discussing an item of #150.0i/0 in the river and harbor bill for tho purchase of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, but reached no con­ clusion. The President nominated Fitz John Porter to be a Colonel on the retired list of the army, in accordance with the terms of the act recently passed for his relief. The House, in committee of the whole, reached the end of the general deficiency bill, and re­ ported it back to the House. The President transmitted to the House messages announcing his disapproval of twenty private pension bills. In vetoing the bill granting a pension to Fran­ cis Doming, who claims that he contracted blindness, the result of rheumatism in­ curred in the servioe, the President says that there seems to be no testimony showing the soldier's condition from the time of his discharge to 1880, a period of fifteen years. The President continues: "I am satisfied that a fair examination of the facts in this case justifies the statement that the bill under consideration can rest only upon the grounds that aid should be furnished to this ex-soldier because he served in the army, and because, a long time thereafter, he became blind, disabled, and depend­ ent. None of us is entitled to credit for extreme tenderness and consideration for thOBe who fought their country's battlos; these are Sentiments common to all good citizens. They lead to the most benevolent care on the part of the Government and deeds of charity and mercy in private life. The blatant and noisy self-as­ sertion of those who, from motives that may well be suspected, declare themselves above all Others the friends of the soldier, can not dis­ credit nor belittle the calm, steady, and affec­ tionate regard of a grateful nation. Legislation has been at the present session of Congress perfected which considerably increases the rate of pension in certain case's. Appropriations have also been made of large sums for the sup­ port of national homeB where sick, disabled, or needy soldiers are cared for, and within a few days a liberal sum has been appropri­ ated for the enlargement and increased ac­ commodation and convenience of these in­ stitutions. All this is no more than should be dono. But with all this, and with the blunders of special acts which have been pushed, granting pensions in cases where, for my part, I am willing to confess thatavmpathy rather than judgment has often ledtoasie dis­ covery of a relation between injury or death and the military service, I am constrained by a sense of public duty to interpose against es­ tablishing a principle and setting a precedent which must result in unregulated, partial and unjust gifts of public money under the pretext of indemnifying those who suffered in their meaus of support as an incident of military service " IN considering the river and harbor bill, on tho 7th inst.. the Senate adopted an item appro­ priating 8150,000 to make the Sturgeon Bay Canal free of toll to commerce. A Presidential veto was sent to the Senate of the bill authoriz­ ing the construction of railroads through the Indian reservation in Northern Montana. Tho Speaker laid before the House of Bepresenta­ tives twenty-one pension veto messages from the President. Mr. Jackson, of Pennsylvania, attacked the veto policy of the Execu­ tive, who, he said, was not actuated by regard for the worth and merit of private pension bills. Mr. Bragg (Wis.) said that the?re seemed to be an idea in the House that it was the duty of the President to abdicate his office in favor of a majority of the Committee on Invalid Pen­ sions. Whenever, in the exercise of his constitutional prerogatives, he examined legislation to see whether or not it was Srovident and wise, it was charged that e had perpetrated an outrage on the American people. He (Mr. Bragg) was glad to find that at last there was a man in the execu­ tive chair who had the nerve and courage to place his hand upon legislation when he thought it improper, whether it were pension or ruilroad legislation. Congress had gone alto- fietlier tco far in the way of pension legisia-ion. Before the House went further in pensioning the dead-wood of the army it should make some provision for the men who went to the front in 1861. Mr. Browne (Indiana) criticised the action of the President, and invoked God's mercy on a man who had the heart to veto a bill for the relief of the widow of a man who died in the line of duty to his country. His Excellency belonged to that class of men who. during the war, were afraid of nothing but danger. Mr. Cannon (111.) read in the vetoes the story that while Cleveland was President there would be no further pension legislation. There were great questions in this country calling for the attention of the executive, yet the President brushed them all aside, and appeared anxious to cater to nobody except that little solid knot that came from the solid South. There he stood, looking through a gimlet^ hole with a magnifying glass, hunting for ex­ cuses and heaping derision upon the heads of poor men who lost their health in the •ervicb the country. He assured the gentle­ men 011 the. Democratic side that they would have to defend President's actions before November. Mr. showed that n©arlv all pension legislation of n.-jgrtanco had been en­ acted by Democrats, and nearlv all of these bills bad been vetoed » Bepublican Commissioner of Pensions years Afcrv • THE Hennepin Canal amendment to river and harbor bill was taken up in the Senate-®, the 8th inst. Senators Logan and Cullom both made speeches in its favor. A bill was intro­ duced authorizing the Secretary of War to have published additional volumes of "The War of the Bebellion" sufficient to supply all Grand Army posts. Tho resolution for open ex­ ecutive sessions was made the special order for Wednesday, December 8, thus practically disposing of it at the present ses­ sion. The Senate passed the bill to establish a forest reservation on the headwaters of the Missouri Biver and ou tne headwaters of Clark's Fork of the Columbia Biver. Besolutions in­ quiring into the authority under which a so-called State Legislature had been organ- , ized in the Territory of Dakota wero indefi­ nitely postponed. The Commerce Committee of the Senate reported unfaveirably upon the nom­ ination of Captain H. F. Beecher, son of the Bev. Henry Ward Beecher, to be Collector of Port Townsond, W. T. It is charged that ho appropriated to his own use funds intrusted to him for others. The Hous9 met, but immedi­ ately adjourned, on account of the death of Representative. Cole, of Maryland. Light Diet. Mose Scliaumburg and Ike Levison are rivals in trade, but personally tliey; are very friendly. Being in a good ha- ; mor, Mose said to Le'vison: "Come home mit me and have din­ ners." "I vas much opliged put I has ehoost had some dinners, Mose." "Ishdotso?" MYa, I has ehoost dined." "I don't believe dot?" "I have chooat dined--upon my of honor." "Veil, den, come along and eat some more. Yen you has ehoost dined upon your vord of* honor, you must be hun­ gry. ash dot vash very light diet."--