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MH M I of Mr.'Tnrpie M United «MN * 1 1 S e n a t o r , a v o a a i t t * * o f f i v e w a s a p p o i n t e d to make an Investigation and prepsiirs a «M<. inorial of eontest to be presented to line ILLINOIS. HIW8 CONDENSED. EAST. I»r*MJOKJrcE has b«en reeeived ttt Wilkesbarre, Pa., by Alderman G. S. V thftt his family have fallen heirs to in Holland, worth $76,000,000. its of the original owner of the are said to be scattered over the States Raymond Behnont, son Wast Belmont, the banker, accident* •hot and killed himself in the shoot- lety In the basement of his father's i, on Fifth nvenne, New York. THS floor and grain received in New i York City last year, reducing floor to its ' tqwtaalent in wheat, aggregated about 130,900,000 bushels, being 4,272,000 fcxhelg in excess of the total received - taring 1685. Of this enormous quantity the New York canals delivered, in the seven sncntfas oomprisinR (he season of naviga­ tion, 44,000,04)0 bushels, or a little mote than one-third, cgainst a trifle less than SO.000,000 bushels in the corresponding time a year previously. In the summer months of last year the railroads only de- V livered some 4,182,000 bushels more than •did the canals. ANOTHER of the boodle Aldermen of ^K«tw York, named O'Neill, has been con- •victed of bribery in connection with the Broadway Railroad franchise. L THE female department of the State In- dustrial Home at Rochester, N. Y., was : rained by fire, creating a loss of $60,000. ; „.. .Hugh Trainer, James Smith, Jr., send Peter Mack were killed by a train at Hyde v Park, Mass. "PROF." JOHN DE LEON, the "astrolo­ ger," who was convicted in New York City ' of inducing young girls to Panama for im- Inoral purposes, under the pretext of find­ ing employment lor them, has been sen­ tenced to fifteen years' at hard labor in Sing , - . <« »• ... f IgfTME WESPf. % j A PORTLAND, Gre.. dispatch says that **a high wind sprung op on the west slope of the Cascade Mountains, east of Tacoma, . Washington Territory; about eleven miles : from Jhe west end of the Northern Pacific ' tunnel, it blew a large tree down into a camp where a number of Chinese laborers ' twre sleeping. Nine bodies had been re­ moved at last accounts, and a dozen or iinore were injured. There is three to foor feet of snow on the ground, and several bodies are still supposed to be buried in tttow nnder tLe fallen timber. At Hunt's ; Map, a few miles west of the Chinese Camp, a similar accident occurred among , white laborers, and six were severely ih- , jured; none, it is believed, fatally." AT a justice's office in the township of Jefferson, adjacent to Chicago, Nina Van Zandt and August Spies were married by s, nroxy, the latter being represented by his mother, holding a power of attorney. - Leonard Swett, counsel for the anarchists, pronounces the marriage illegal The aggregate annual product of Illinois coal mines, according to the State Board of Labor Statistics, shows a decrease for last year as compared with the previous year. Industrial depression and Eastern compe­ tition are the given causes. A revival is Anticipated. Miss NINA YAK ZANDT has just issued " -at Chicago the first copies of her book, en­ titled "A. Spies' Autobiography; His Speech in Court; Notes, Letters, etc." Jute covers are a bright red, and forty of file ninety-one pages are devoted to proofs *t>f the anarchist leader's philanthropy and Miss Van Zandt's unselfish and unswerving affection. The preface, bv the voung ladv herself, details at length the origin and growth of her tender affection, which re­ sulted in her marriage by proxy, which has Special notice in a postscript. Fifteen or twenty pages bear the Spies trade-mark •nd were written and "edited by himself, asking the labor of love a partnership ar­ rangement. In the appendix is found an article entitled "A Lady's Views of the Trial,* which was refused publication by a Philadelphia paper, although subsequently «sed anonymously by the Knight# of La­ bor. It is only at this publication that Hiss Van Zandt admits the authorship, i ..The hand of Spies is discernible ' mat most of the book. United Ststes Senate. A bill in th of the Interstate Commerce' bill has introduced in the Texas House of Repre­ sentatives. It requires railroad companies to post tbeir rates, and prohibits changes without due notice. It also contains a -long and short hand prohibitory clause The bill granting suffrage to women, Cissed by the Washington Territory Legis-ture in 1885, has been declared unconsti­ tutional by the Territorial Supreme Court. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed the bill providing for the submission of the prohibition amendment to the State Consti­ tution to a vote of the people. WASMixcrroif. PotliOwiNO is a recapitulation «f1fce debt statement issued on the 1st inst.: IKTKREST-BKABINQ DXBT. Bonds at 4^ percent... g 250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent. 797,786,600 Bonds at 3 per cent 63,023,000 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 186,350 Navy pension fund at 3 net cent.... 14,00),0JO Pacific railroad bonds at 0 per cent. 64,623,911 Principal Interest .... .. .$1,139,619,462 7,(160,070 Total *1,137,279,532 DEBT ON WXXCH XtrrZRKSV KAS CBi&KD ante* Principal.....i. ,7^.. i 1 7,810,823$ Interest....*;..#^.. • : ao3,7(j7 Total.7,5U,ixa DEBT BRARING KO IXTKUKST. Old demand and legal-tender notes.8 346,738,341 Certificates of deposit 8,7!i),000 Gold certificates ^ 105,063,107 Silver certificates 118,815,714 Fractional currency (less 18,375,931 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,950,974 Principal. !.....# 586,300,138 _ TOTAL DKBT. Principal........... .f1,723,319,925 Interest... ..i....v......... 7,663,858 Total. $1,731,183,783 Less cash item* available for reduo- tion of the debt ...... 270,934,924 Less reserve held for redemption at United States notes. 100,000,000 Total... . $ 870,934,9a! Total debt, less available cash items ; *1,360,248,359 Net cash in the Treasury 27,78s),050 Debt, lees cash in Treasury, Feb. 1,18*7 $1,382,463,800 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Jan. 1, M87 : 1,841,984,435 Decrease of debt daring the month... $ 9,515,ti9j CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of debt: Gold held for gold certificates actu- ally outstanding $ 105,665,l(f7 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 118^315,714 United States notes held for certifi­ cates of deposit actually out' 1 standing 8,720,003 Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 23,056,419 Fractional currency ..... 3,500 Total available for reduction of the debt. $270,934,923 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, acta J an. 14. 1675 ind July 12, 1882. $ 100,000,003 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: • Fractional silver coin.. 26,323,514 Minor coin .... 106,903 Total Certificates held as Cashv. Net cash balance on hand 26,430,427 25,681,020 27,780,050 Total cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer's general account 450,820,4^3 BY request of the War Department, rail­ roads having headquarters at Milwaukee recently sent to Washington a list of their rolling stock, and a statement as to their ability to carry troops to points on their lines..The President has accepted the resignation of Gen. P. M. B. Young, of Georgia, Consul General at St. Peters­ burg, bat has not yet selected his succes­ sor. . THE SOUTH, I' UNDER decrees of the Federal courts, ^ ft* property of the Southern Telegraph £ t Company was sold at auction at Richmond ^ for $460,000. The main and branch lines ©over eighteen hundred miles between " Washington and Selma. Father Lawler, of |; Louisville, has excommunicated from the < Catholic Church a grocer named Michael McCoy, who maltreated his first wife •ntil she secured a divorce, whereupon he [fe teamed a young woman living next door. * An members of the church are forbidden % • to recognize the offender... .John D. Lisle, -discount clerk in the First National Bank • " it Baltimore, is a defaulter for an amount t $n excess of $80,000. He deceived the & Bank Examiner by substituting forged , Botes for genuine ones, destroying-the £> . bosruR paper when the examination was ^j,;'.;;:.^(omplet?cL ^ • GWSPERS has broken out on twenty & <arm8 in Marshall County, Illinois The f " Illinois Central bridge at Cairo will require 8,000 feet of trestle. A commencement Jias been made wiih seventy-five feet, and the work goes rapidly forward.... father F. C. Jean, of Lyons, Iowa, has ijieen awarded $20,000 damages against Bishop Hennessey, of Dubuque, who de­ mised him from the rectorship of St. - Irene's parish at Lyons fifteen years ago. ... .The three Commissioners of Archuleta County, Colorado, were seized by a mob, lieaded by the Sheriff, and driven from the County, with threats that should they re- .- torn their lives Bhould pay the forfeit. A hotel owned by one of the victims was tmfned by the mob. The Legislature will investigate the matter. AT a funeral in New Orleans, the police Ribbed Margaret A. Murphy, who had feeen seen to pick the pocket of a mourner. Hire* soon learned that she had practiced #i* Same for many years without arousing iMUliffiinii and bad lived respectably on (feeprooeeds. One hundred complaints had the police. POLITICji. A HItJS-IiICEK8E bill has passed bofii 'iMtmses of the Minnesota Legislature. It .;||x«itbe license in cities of 10,000 or more •opolatioh at not less than $1,000, and in IMIIM' places at not less than $500. Mu- iMpd authorities can make the licenses m Bach in excess of these amounts as they i The Michigan brewers and liquor * have decided to hold a State c&n- , at Detroit to take steps to fight the tory amendment at the ensuing elec- Thej will spend a good deal of money to defeat prohibition -- Br. T. D. Bancroft, of Kansas, has been engaged by aafcl-saloon Republican league to Mganise anti-saloon Republican IKDIJ8TBIAL ROTES. A CHICAGO dispatch says the Knights of Labor, in pursuance of their intention to exterminate Philip D. Armour, the great meat packer, "have placed a boycott on neprly P00 Chicago firms which are usiug his goods. A move of this kind is stu­ pendous, and it is one of the most import­ ant ever made on the part of the Knights since the establishment of their organiza­ tion. They recognize in Armour the power that crushed them in the stock-yards strikes, and by ford­ ing him , to succumb they think they would only be exercising justifiable retaliatory measures. They do not care so much about the other influential packers, but in Mr. Armour they say they have found an avowed enemy to their cause, and in the hope of crushing him they have not only boycotted his firm throughout the country, but they now propose to treat similarly those wholesale and retail dealers who purchase and sell his products." AT a meeting of window-glass manufact­ urers, at Pittsburgh, the Eastern and West­ ern organizations consolidated, perfected a pooling arrangement, and decided to at o n c e a d v a n c e p r i c e s 5 t o 7 | p e r c e n t . . . . A New York dispatch of Friday says: "The river fronts are practically in a state of siege. One thousand police have been massed in reserve at four different points. Patrol wagons have been stationed at each place, so that the whole force can be concentrated at a given point in a short time. The 1,000 men can handle many times that number of rioters. One thousand more are in re­ serve at police headouarters." Seven hun­ dred men employed at Sharpsville, Pa., struck for an advance of twenty-five cents a day. An offer of a 10 per cent, advance was refused. The roelters in all the cru­ cible steel works in Pittsburgh have made a demand for an advance in wages of 15 per cent. Five thousand men are interested. CfefaNn Army.*... .A seat fa the BritMi Parliament, to be made va­ cant by the resignation of Lord Algernon Petegy is likely to be accepted by Mr. Ooscoen, Chancellor of the Rxehequer Three hundred emigrants, bound from England _ for Western Australia, were drowned bp the sinking of the British ship Kspunda, which collided with the bark Adia Hillmore off the coast of Brazil. A CABLE dispatch from Berlin says: The committee of the National Liberal party has issued a manifesto to the electors. They say: "Never since the Franco-Ger­ man war has the danger of a great con­ flict been so near. No statesman oan form any certain conclusions as to the future, even for a few weeks. The peace of En- rope rests at this moment solely upon the strength, readiness for action, and moral trustworthiness of the German army. The National Liberals are confident that the voice of universal suffrage .will pronounce the right decision. An unpropitious issue of the elections will bring down upon the country war with all its terrors, and, even witB the best results, heavy losses." A BERLIN cablegram states that the Ger­ man Government will negotiate a loan of $75,000,000 for military purposes... .The physicians of Charles S. Parnell believe that he iB afflicted with Bright's disease of the kidneys King Theebaw has advised the Burmese to submit to British rule. „ ,, MMisa -- SENATORS ELECT. Iteitobss of Some of tin Saooessfiil A* pirants for Sanatoria! .-.."v,. fionon. ' •e» fffe* Im Risen froift l Life to Exalted Official Station. C^fcr DAVIS, or HDWESOTA. V; fee-Governor Cashman K. Kavis, of St. Paul, has been chosen Senator from Minne­ sota, in the place of Hon. S. J. R. Mc­ Millan. He received an almost unanimous support from the Republican press before the meeting of the Legislature, and at the first ballot m the caucus, on the withdrawal of Mr. MoMillan, received 93 votes out of 94, the nomination afterward being made unanimous. He is a man in the prime of life, about 50 years of age, a practicing lawyer of high repute in St. Paul, a good debater, and much respected by those with whom he is brought into professional con­ tact. He was popular as a Governor of the State, and has been devoted largely to the intellectual work of his profession, hav­ ing been engaged in many important suits. SPIES WEBS BY PROXY. the Dooaod AnarelilBfc 46ii Another Chanter to Hi* litoJifcfltl. 6ENERAL. m AN Ottawa (Canada) dispatch says: "IA prominent official confirms the report thftt the imperial government will send out men-of-war next season to assist in pro­ tecting Canadian fisheries. The reason why aid was not rendered last season was due to the long correspondence which had taken place between Canada and England on the matter, and by the time the imperi­ al authorities had settled on their policy the fishing season had nearly expired. There is no foundation for the report that the dominion government has receded from the position it has taken all along as to its rights, based on the treaty of 1818." The Canadian Deputy Minister of fish­ eries says that no war vessels are to be sent from Great Britain to the Canadian coast, but three or four British ships on the North American station have been or­ dered to cruise from Cape Sabine to the Bay Chaleur this season, precisely as in 1870. J SIB ADOLPH CABOW, Minister of War for Canada, said in an interview at Mon­ treal that in his opinion there was no prob­ ability of a rupture between Canada and the United States, that the war talk was all nonsense, and that the would be amicably settled. the country, and will probably work in Connecticut. I ^ R e p u b l i c a n m e m b e r s o f t h e I n - 1 Legislature held a joint convention on the 3d inst. Seven Re- Senators deelined to attend of expulsion by the Demo- After the adoption of FOKEKGII, THB Dominion Government, says a New York special, is determined to enforce the crusade against American fishing vessels encroaching upon its reserves. If the fishery question is not settled before the fishing season opens several men-of-war clubs dispatched to enforce existing reg- • • . NLOFINNE TKA _• I«« < ibe (be j Puis ov« ulations. ^ The Canadians are jubilant over the situation, but the possibility of the sus­ pension of commerce with the United States is creating alarm in commercial cir­ cles. The Senate resolutions on the sub­ ject were regarded as bluster at first, but since the vote on them there 1MS been a change of opinion. THEBE is considerable excitement in ADDITIONAL NEWS. . :iy TREASURER JOBDAN, says a Washing­ ton dispatch, admits that Secretary Man­ ning is to be President, and that he (Jor­ dan) is to be Vice President of the West­ ern National Bank, of the city of New Yoik. The resignations of both officials are in the hands of the President, and will be accepted in due time. It is ex­ pected that Mi-. Manning will be relieved soon after the adjournment of Congress. It is even said by some that his successor will be nominated before the adjournment. Department officials say that everything now points to the promotion of Assistant Secretary Fairchild to the head of the de­ partment .... The President has signed the interstate commerce bill. His action was in full accord with Attorney General Gar­ land's opinion, says a Washington special, and is understood to be in accord with the views of the Cabinet. Mr. Garland re­ fused to give to an interviewer his views in regard to the bill, but it is learned from trustn orthy sources that the President and Mr. Garland both consider the bill free from the objectionable features of the Senate bill of two years ago. The Attor­ ney General is said to hold that the present bill does not confer judicial powers on the commission, but puts them jn the courts on reports from the commis­ sion, and that it does not confer legislative {>ower except in the fourth section (the ong and short haul clause), and that this is warranted by numberless precedents in the legislative history of the government. Ths President also approved the act to fix the day for the meeting of the Electors of President and Vice President, and to pro­ vide for and regulate the counting of the vote for President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. THE school-house at St. Monique, On­ tario, was destroyed by fire and four voung girls who were in it perished in the flames. Three daughters of Mr. Ambrose, aged 10, 11, and 12 years, and a daughter of Mr. Joseph Forge slept in the place during the night. The origin of the tire is unknown. The charred remains of tie four young girls were found among the ashes. Mas. LAXGTBY has had the satisfaction this week of playing to very nearly the ca­ pacity of McVicker's Theater, says the Chicago Morning News. Her illness on Monday night was unfortunate, but so great was the desire to see her that less than $25 was returned, the disappointed patrons gladly accepting seats for other nights during the week. Mrs. Langtry's performance of Lady Ormond is a dis­ criminating and carefully drawn piece of work. Next week the "Lady of Lyons" will be played. The' third week of Mrs. Langtry's engagement at McVicker's will be devoted to a produe ion of "Clancarty," Tom Taylor's drama. THE bill to credit and pay to the several States and Territories, and the District •( Columbia, all moneys collected under the direct tax levied by the act of Aug. 5, 1861, was passed in the Senate on the 4th inst, with but one dissenting vote (Mr. Van Wvck'8). The Senate also passed, by a vote of 39 to 14, the bill te prohibit members of Congress Irom serving as attorneys for railroads. The vote on the bill stands recorded as follows ; Yeas--Aldrich, Alli­ son, Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Butler, Cheney, Coci.rell. Coke, Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, EustiB, Fair, Frye, Geo -ge, Gor­ man, Hale, Hawley, Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Jones (Nevada), Maiiderson, Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill, Palmer, Riddleberger, Sherman, Spoon- cr. Van Wvck, Vest, Voorheea, Walthall, Whitt- horne,Williams, Wilson (Iowa), Wilson (Mdj--3B. Nays--Call, Cameron, Farwell, Gray, Hampton, McMillan, Mahone, MStchell (Oregon), Payne, Pugh, Raniom, Sawyer, Stanford, Teller--14. The following is tho text of the bill: "That it shall be unlawful for any member of either house of Congress to accept employment as at­ torney at law or payment for service of any kind in opposition to tho United States in any case to which the United States may be a party or in which its interests may be concerned, or from any railroad company, if such member shall have reasonable cause to believe that measures specially affecting the interests of such company are pending before Congress, or are ubout to be so pending during his term of of­ fice. Any person who violates the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one vearorbyilne not exceeding $.500, qr by both, in the discretion of the court." The Presi­ dent sent to the Senate the following nomi­ nations: Kichard A. Jones of Oregon, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wash­ ington Territory; Frank Allyn, to bo Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of Washington Territory: James H. Wright of Missouri, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona: Ernest A. Man of Florida, to be Consul at Go­ thenburg. The House of Representatives passed thirty pension bills. THE MARKET^ NEW YORK. " , BBEVBS.. 9 5.50 Hoog 5.25 & 8.75 WHEAT--No. I White .93 .93^ No. 2 Bed .98^ # .95 COBN--No. 2 .49 & .51 OATS--White .88 43 POBK--Mess .7 13.73 TT 18.113 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 & 5.50 Good Shipping 4.00 & 4.50 Common 8.00 <a, 8.75 Hoos--Shipping Grades 4.75 & 5.50 Ftoca--Extra Spring 4.25 <<® 4.75 WHEAT--No. 2 Red .79 ($ .80 COBN--No. 2 .36 & .87 OATS--No. 2 5. 26^ .27)$ BOTTIR--Choice Creamery...... ,2i c<$ .27 Fine Dairy .20 & .22 CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. 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CT (A> 5.00 & 4.00 & 5.50 Unlike several of the new Senatorŝ from the West, Governor Davis is not a rich man, although he has a large income from his 1 aw business. MAHONE'8 SUCCESSOR. The retirement of Mahone on the 4th day. of March will bring to the United States Senate John W. Daniel, who has for many years been prominent in Virginia politics. Mr. Daniel was born in the Lynchburg district, the great tobacco-pro­ ducing section of Virginia, in 1842. He is tall, slender, and handsome, with a high, broad forehead, surmounted by black, curly hair. He was a soldier in the Con­ federate army, and is a trifle lame from a wound received at the battle of Gettysburg. One of bis ancestors was a Justice of the United States Supreme Court during Van Buren's administration, aDd another was a member of Congress from Yirgfhia while Andrew Jackson was President. Mr. Daniel is said to be a very fine lawyer, and enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He is the anthor of several law books, which are re­ garded as excellent authorities by the legal profession. He is married to a lady of wealth and culture. Mr. Daniel delivered the address at the ceremonies attending the completion of the Washington monu­ ment. P. C. CHENEY, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Ex-Governor Person C. Cheney, who has been elect jd United States Senator from New Hampshire, is a native 6f Ashland, N. H., having been born in 18*28. He was educated in the common schools of Peter­ borough, N. H., and ParBonfield, Me., Seminary. At an early age he took charge of a paper-mill, and worked it BO success­ fully that in eight years he was able to build a new and more ex­ tensive one in company with two other gentlemen, but eventually became sole proprietor of it. He is also'interested in large timber tracts near Washington and the Amoskeag Indurated Fiber Ware Com- pente engagements atid received honora­ ble mention for his skill as a commander. After the close of the war General Bate practiced law at Gallatin and Nashville, and acquired the reputation of being a first-class criminal lawyer. In 1882 he re­ ceived the nomination for Governor and was elected. He was re-elected in 1884 by ^a reduced majority, due to his support' of ^the candidates for Railroad Commission­ ers, who were defeated. He was twice beaten for United States Senator--first by 'Andrew Johnson in 1875, and in 1881 by Howell E. Jackson. He is for free trade, and strongly opposed to the Blair educa­ tional bill. <• F, ST. COCKKELL, OF MISSOURI. Francis Marion Cockrell, recently elected United States Senator from Missouri for the third time, was born in Johnson Coun­ ty, that State, October 1, 1834. He was ambitions to become a professional man, and, after due preparation, en­ tered Chapel Hill' College, Missau- ri, as a student. After his graduation in July, 1853, he read law and was admit ted to the bar. He began practice At War- rensburer, Mo., and pursued it with success and undivided attention until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army. Before the end of the war he attained the rank of 7. -; v. , pany at Peterborough. Mr. *Cheney has faithfully served his fellow citizens in many responsible public positions of- trust. He represented Peterborough in the lower house of the Legislature in 1853; he was Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. H. V., from 18G2 until 18(53, Railroad Commissioner from 1864 to 1867, at which time ('67) he took up his residence in Manchester. In 1871 he was eleoted Mayor of that city, declining a second term. In 1875 he was elected Gov­ ernor of the State after at red-hot contest by (he Legislature, and for a second term the following year by the vote of the people. Senator Cheney is largely interested in the capital and moneyed institutions of the State, being President of the People's j Savings Bank of Manchester; of the I Amoskeag Fire Insurance Company; of the ' Manchester Electric Light Company; Vice President of the New Hampshire * Insur­ ance Company at Concord Miurafactoiy; and a director in several other moneyed in­ stitutions. WILLIAM B. BATE, OF TENNESSEE. General William B. Bate, who has been • chosen Senator by the Tennessee Legisla- i ture, was born in Sumner County, that State, sixty-four years ago. He took part 1 in the Mexican war, enlisting in the service as a private. He was promoted to a lieutenancy for bravery, May 5, 1861, he rae elected Colonel of the Second Confed­ erate Tennessee Regiment, which vas IBU- t«N& Into serviee at Lynchburg, Va.# aeon "J'.'f'i: A" Btfgttafer General. His first civil office was that he now holds, to which he was elected as successor to Carl Schurz, in 1874. He was re-elected in ^880, and again in 1887. W. C. WHITTHORNK, OF TENNESSEE. Washington Curran Whitthorne, who has lately been chosen Senator by the Tennes­ see Legislature, was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, in the year 1825. He was carefully educated, and a graduate of East Tennessee University. Having de­ termined to follow the legal profession, Mr. Whitthorne became a student of law nnder James K. Polk, of whose office he was an inmate when that statesman was elected to the Presidency. Shortly after his admission to the bar he" began to interest himself in State politics. He was a mem­ ber of the Legislature of Tennessee for six years prior to the war, and once--1859-60-- Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Whitthorne was on the Breckenridge electoral ticket in 1860. Upon the break­ ing out of the war he became Assistant Adjutant General, serving in Western Vir­ ginia. Governor Isbam G. Harris, of Ten­ nessee, made him Adjutant General of the State in 1861, an office which he held until the close of the war. He then opened a law office at Columbia, Tenn., where he soon built up a large practice. His politi­ cal disabilities were removed in 1870, and in the following year he was elected to the House of Representatives. He served bis district during six Congresses, until the close of the Forty-seventh. His work as a member of the Committee on Naval Af­ fairs, of which he was Chairman six years, made a marked impression on pnbiic opin­ ion. JOHN H. REAGAN, OF TEXAS. Hon. John H. Reagan, who has been chosen as the successor of S. B. Maxey in the Senate from Texas, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., October 8, 1818. He re­ ceived a limited collegiate education, stud­ ied law, and settled in the Republic of Texas in 1839, where he became both farm­ er and lawyer. He was Deputy Surveyor of the Pnbiic Lands from 1839 to 1843, and was elected to the Legislature in 1847. Five years after he was made Judge of the District Court, re­ signing in 1856, when he was re-elected for another teim, ,In 1857 he was elected Representative to Congress, and re-elected in 1859. In 1861 he was a member of the Texas Secsssion Convention, and was a Representative of that State in the Con­ federate Congress. He was at the close of the war Postmaster General of the Con­ federate Government, In 1875 he was a member of the Texas Constitutional Con­ vention, and was elected successively to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses. Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow. There have been many yesterdays, bnt one to-day, and no to-morrow. Yesterday we were, to-day we are, and to-morrow we may be. Yesterday was growth, to-day is decay, and to-morrow mysteir. In to-morrow there is hope, in yesterday proof. Yesterday is history, to-day a gazette, <0 morrow a poem. Yesterday we gained, to-day we hoard, to-morrow will scatter. Yesterday was a visit, to-day is home, to­ morrow an air-castle. We believe in festerday, we expect to­ morrow, but to-day only do we know. Yesterday sugges's, to-morrow promises, but to-day accomplishes. We owe everything to yesterday, but we slight its memory in the expectation of to­ morrow. If there is no to-morrow, life is worth but little; if there had been no yesterday, life would be worth nothing. To-morrow is as near to-day as yester­ day; yet to-morrow has accomplished noth­ ing, while yesterday has accomplished everything. To-day is the storehouse of all the yes; terdays; to-morrow may destroy the store-* house, but tbe yesterdays it cannot destroy. THE Emperor Augustus was unable to resist the fascination of the fair LIVM, al­ though she had seen thirty-three summers and as many winters when he first met her. ' OHIO is called the Bnekeye State back* eyes A tree of that MM flourishes there. - • the ftlfl Brother Acta as HIi Represen* tatlve ii the Stranpre Mar- Wit riage Ceremony. ^ - "'Jtfrf !*»• the CUeacoTrtb«nie.*'̂ "a Ever since Sheriff llatson declared Van Zn.n<U Bhould not marry August Spies young lady has been mora than Sver resolved that •he would do it. The determination was chiefly on her side, Spies being measurably Inatffeient on the subject. So she set her wiW to work, and has kept them at work ever since the mar­ riage ceremony waa forbidden, to devise some way in which to deceive tbe adversary. Hhe spread abroad the report that she was going South or going to Europe, in order to throw the Sheriff otf his guard, and all the while kept up her plotting and planning. Among others whom she consulted as to how to circumvent Sheriff Matson was Justice Engelhardt, of Jefferson, who ia somewhat of a Spfes sympathizer, and who made a speech at a meeting at Jefferson & lew months ago, which was rather stronger than common sense would have dictated. Justice Kngelhardt, being wise beyond his generation, studied up the law, helped by an unknown attorney, and came to the conclusion that the only way in which the Sheriff's veto could bo evaded waa by a marriage by proxy. He figured it out in some way that that would constitute a valid marriage, probably misled by his recollections of various royal personages whom he had read of atone time and another as being married by proxy. He was directed or authorized to draw up a proper form or power of attorney, and after much laboring he suoeeeded in getting it ready last Friday. Saturday morning Miss Van Zandt and Miss Spies got the document and took it to the County Jail, where Mrs. Ferdinand Spies and a Mrs. Wendland witnessed Spies' signature to the paper, by which he authorized his brother Henry to represent him at the ceremony. Then they--Miss Van Zandt's parents and Henry. Chris, and Ferdinand Spies, brothers of August --went out to Justice Engelhardt's house in Jefferson, and the ceremony was performed, after the Justice had again thought over the matter and satisfied himself tnat he was cor­ rect in his position. It went off just as it usu­ ally does in a Justice's office, except that Henry Spies, armed with his proxy or power of attor­ ney, answered to the name of August Vincent Theodore, and, as his representative, said that he took Miss Van Zandt to be his wife. It was late at night when this interesting ceremony was performed and midnight before the party got back to their various homes. As an act of defiance to Sheriff Matson the thing is well enough, but when Justice Engel- bardt comes to return the marriage license to the County Clerk, as he is required to do, and 'certifies that he married the parties named in it be will be apt to hear something from that official, for a marriage by proxy is a thing unknown to the lawB of the United States, or to the law of England. The form of mar­ riage by proxy was never itself the marriage --was never anything more than a betrothal --and was always followed by a religious ceremony in due course of time. In this ease it is nothing more than a contract of marriage which has been entered into. If either of the parties breaks the oontract the other has the right to sue for damages, but not for specific performance. Should Spies be hanged in a few months Miss Van Zandt would not be his widow ; she would have no right to bear his name; she could not inherit his prop­ erty ; she would have no dower right in his es­ tate ; she would stand on precisely the same footing as if he had written her a proposal of marriage, and she had replied accepting it -- only that and nothing more. "Marriage by proxy" sounds well, but it is not inurriage by common, statutory, or canon law. Sheriff Matson looked disgusted when a re­ porter told him what the Van Zandt woman had aone. "I had hoped," he said,"tliat this extreme­ ly silly creature would get over her romantic notions when Bhe became conscious of the shume and degradation into which her folly has led her, but this last act strengthens my con­ victions tliatjsho is morally as well as mentally incapable of realizing her position. What she expects to gain by it is more than I can com' prebend. As I understand the law she is no moro the wife of Spies than Bhe was two weeks ago. The farce that she has gone through does not bind them any closer together than would an oral acknowledg­ ment that they are willing to live together as man and wife. Cohabitation is essential to make a common-law marriage valid, and, under the circumstances, that is impossible. Consequently, if she insists on calling herself a wife sho con be a wife iu name only so long as Spies remains in jail. But, without going further into the details of this ridiculous farce, let me simply say that it will result in lessen­ ing Miss Van Zandt's chances of ever again en­ tering the jail while I am Sheriff. If she had shown any sense of propriety, and consented to let the marriage question drop until after the Supremo Court passed on the anarchists' case, I mi^ht have restored to her the privilege of visiting the jail, but since she persists in out­ raging all laws of decency she must stay away. I think Chicago has had about enough of Uiis, and I hope the newspapers will let the woman Sink into obscurity." "I don't thiuk it is legal," said Leonard Swett when asked his opinion of the marriage. "I don't think people can marry in that way. I have nothing to do with this marriage; I am not retained in it, but have some care about it. There are two kinds of marriage. One is called a common-law marriage, which is an agreement of the parties coupled with cohabitution, hold­ ing each other out as man and wife, and living in the relations of matrimony. The other is a ceremonial marriage, which is going before an officer of the law in their proper persons and executing the contract of marriage. I don't think this is either, and I don't know of any de- cisi n on the subject of marriage by proxy like this. It#as been hold that a nuked agreement is not m arriage, but an agreement to live in the relation of husband and wife, and actually liv­ ing in that relation, has been held to be mar­ riage so far as to legitimatize the children of such marriuge. This is just like a marriage by letter or by contract, and tho decisions are that such a marriage Is not valid. That is my recollect-on of them. This is an 'option'--a very foolish performance. I have nothing to do with it. It Earties will make fools of themselves I ican't elp it." THE NEW PENSION BILL. Pensions for Disabled Soldiers and. De- prmU-iit Parents. The bill for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and dependent upon their own labor for support, which recently passed Congress, reads as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That In considering the petition claims of dependent parents, the fact and causes of death, and the fact ttiut the soldier left no widow or minor children, having l»een shown as required by law, it shall be necossary only to sliow by competent and suffi­ cient evidence that such parent or parents are without other present means of support than their own manual labor or tbe contributions of otners not legally bound for their nupiiort. Pro­ vided, That 110 pension a lowid under this act shall commence prior to its x'assage/and in case of applications hereafter made under this act the pension shall commence from the date of the filing of tbe application in the Tension Office. Sec. 2. That all persons who rerved three months or more iu the military or naval ser­ vice of the United States in any war in which the United States has been engaged, aud who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suf­ fering from mental or physical disability, not the reBIIIt of their own vicious habits or gross carelessness, which incapacitates them for the performance of labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, and who are dependent upon their daily labor for sup­ port, shall, upon making due pro f of tho fact, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide in pursu­ ance of this aot, be placed on the list of invalid pensioners of the United Sta'es, and be entitled to receive, for sitch total in­ ability to procure their subsistence by daily labor, $12 per montb; and such pension shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the Pension Office, upon proof that the disability then existed, and con­ tinue during tho existence of the same in the degree herein provided : Provided. That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are {tending in tho Pen­ sion Office, may, by application to the Commis­ sioner of Pensions, iu such forms as he may prescribe, receive the benefits of this act; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow more tban one pension at the same time to the same person, or pension to coin- mence prior to tbe passage of this act: Aud provided further, That rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed there- ender. Sec. 3. That no agent, attorney, or other per­ son instrumental in the presentation and prose­ cution of a claim under this act shall demand or receive for his services or instrumentality in presenting and prosecuting sech claim agreater sum than 45, payable only npon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions, by the pension agent making payment of the pension al.owed, except in cases heretofore prosecuted before the Pen­ sion Office, when, in the discretion of the Com­ missioner of Pensions, a foe of £10 may be al­ lowed in like mann r to the agent or attorney of record in the case at the date of the passage of this act; and any agent, attorney, or other person instrumental in the prosecution of a claim under this act who shall demand or receive a sum greater than that herein provided for, for his service in the prosecution of the claim, shall be subject to the same pen­ alties as prescribed in section 4 of the act of July 4, 1881, entitled "An act making appropria­ tion for the payment of invalid and other pen­ sions of th© United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S85, and for other purposes." Sec. 4. That section 4716 of the lie vised t-tat- utes is hereby modified so that the same shall not apply to this act: Provided, That this act shall not apply to those persons under political disabilities. And no person shall be pensioned Under this act lui any disability iuuuireu while in- tbe • against ths it bill extendfnf the limits at the Yellow* stone National Park on the east sad west, anS ': OftafnUMng them by two miles on the nertfc*. - passed the Senate <m the 99th inst. The Re»*t* by a vote of Si to 9Q, placed at the toot of the special orders the Juaieiary Committee'̂ »nt»- •titute for the Beck railroad attomU Mr. Beck, with some show of atSer • notice that the measure must be 'vote* on, and he should call it up from day te-dav. The House of Bapresentatfvee passed a bfil setting aside flO.axffo* a special otstrihutMn at seed In Texas by the Commissioner of Agrlenl- tnre. The portofflce appropriation bin* M whieh there la an Increase of 4100,000 over laafe year's figures for the investigation of mm<% depredations in fourth-class postoffices, waa Passed. The committee on alleged violations of She rate regulating admissions to the floor recommended that the rules be so far amended as to admit to the floor only such ex-membeea as are not interested personally or as attorneys or agents in any claim or bill pending befooia- Congress. JOINT resolutions of tbe Tennessee Legisla?- v ture were presented in the Senate on the Slofe nit in favor of an. appropriation for the World'it- Fair of Colored Industry at Birmingham, . A resolution oalling on the Secretary of . Treasury for a report as to whether any natioiw banks are loaning money or discounting notes, requiring payment in gold coin only, waa adopted. Bills from committees \tern reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar ad fok, i. lows: For the construction of a build. •' Ing for the use of the officers of the- . House of Representatives; for an addi* » - tional Associate Justice of the Supreme • • Court of New Mexico; authorizing the ccnstruq^ - 1 tion of a bridge across the Red River of th# North; also across the Tennessee River at Chati ' ' tonooga. The Senate adopted resolutions of ii*4v- quiry as to the Apache Indians held in confine. ment in Florida, and Senator Beck introduce# a bill to 1 amend the national bankins laws.- The President sent the following nominations » „ to the Senate: Postmasters--Big l: lipids, : ' Miob., Joseph H. Kilbourne; JoiiesvilleL' Mich., Maria S. Hewlett: GulIiptM^t; lis, Ohio, W illiam CI. Brading; Beardstowri' : HI., August E. Kammerer; Chico, Cal., Robin^'.'^i son M. Jones ; Gnlena, Kan., A. M. Mcl'herson t J 'U Atkinson, Neb., Willard A. Wheeler; Milbank, s D a k o t a , G e o r g e C . M i d d l e b r o o k . O r . J r 1 u u c 1 * 1 Department--Lieut. Col. James H. Whittew Wi .more, to be Colonel; Capt. John A. Kress, to bo ' " Major. In the House Mr. Lawler presentee!'. * ^ resolutions reciting the possibility of war' ? ' with England, calling attention to out" " * defenseless sea and lake ports, and' asking tho President, as Commander-in-Chief - - of the army and navy, to report what steps are. necessary, in his judgment, to provide for thii emergency. The resolutions were referred. Mr, Bontelle also offered a resolution directing the Foreign Affairs Committee to report back forth­ with the Senate retaliation bill. Representor " '• tive Crain of Texas introduced a resolution-' proposing constitutional amendments changing!, mauguration day to tho last Tuesday in April{" providing that the Fiftieth Congress shall ter» ' minate on Dec. 31, 1888, and the Fifty-first Con- gress then begin, and providing that senators whose term of office would not expire until - March 4,1889, shall continue in office until their successors are appointed or elected. Mr. Mc- ; ' Rae, of Arkansas, introduced a bill in th$ House prohibiting Congressmen from acting aA,\' attorneys or employes for railroad companies^ ' J- holding charters or having grants of lands or • pecuniary aid from the United States. - . Gen. Bragg introduced a bill in the House pro- hibiting the wearing of badge decorations* "•*".1 etc., of any kind, by unauthorized persons* : indicating military or naval service during thdf ?« late war. Representative T. J. Campbell of New York introduced a bill in the House in­ creasing to §15,000 the salaries of the Supreme " * Court Justices and the Cabinet officers. The v , *•' Senate concurrent resolution for the appoint- * • ' ment of a joint committee to take into consid­ eration the expediency of holding an inter­ national exhibition in 1892 in commemoration of the discovery of America was reported to the House and placed on tbe calendar. A bill was introduced in the Senate on the 1st inst. to reimburse the sufferera by the fail­ ure of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Company • .* Senator Cullom introduced an amendment te the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill directing* , .f _ ? the Secretary of War to cause a survey to be - made of the Illinois and Des Plaines Rivera from La Salle to Joliet, with a view to the im­ provement of the rivers so as to maintain e- waterway 160 feet wide and seven feet „ deep between the places named; alsc to locate a canal from Joliet tc Lake Michigan at or near Chicago, and to take- other specified steps, including a survey for a canal eighty feet wide and seven feet deep*,' - -JS from tbe Illinois River, at or near Hennepin to the Mississippi River, at or above the mouth>, " 1 of Rock River--for all of whieh purposes $1(>J,(0> «• • is appropriated. President Cleveland vetoed & hill granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Dun- . lap, of Missouri, the ground of the President's objection being that the death of the soldier (for which the pension is given) was not- caused in the line of duty, but in a quarrel with, a comrade. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions reported adversely on the bills for the relief of Mrs. John A. Logan and Mrs. Frank P. Blair, but indorsed the bill to allow Walt Whit­ man S25 per month for life for his services as a volunteer nurse among the soldiers. Regard­ ing the pension for Mrs. Logan, the committee says that should Congress pass the bill, and; the precedent set by it should be carried out, it wonld increaae the pension roll $345,000 an­ nually. In a majority of the caBes, as in thisi case, no relief from actual embarrassment or poverty would be afforded. It was well known that thousands of poor and aged widows of brave and worthy soldiers were denied the pittance of 812 pier month because of their inability to connect the death of their , husbands with their military service ; while in this case no sort of claim was ad­ vanced that the death of Gen. Logan was attributable to his military service. It was a well-known fact that Mrs. Logan was in possession of an ample estate, and while the committee entertains the highest regard for her, both on account of her high character and personal wortn, as well as on account of the brave and gallant record of General Logan as a * soldier, ana his useful and spotless record as a civilian and statesman, it believes that the pas­ sage of this and all similar bills would be ip the direction of building up in this country an aristocracy contrary to the very principles of an equal government for all, for which General Logan so gallantly fought in war and so ably contended in time of peace. Similar reasons are set up for opposing the pension to Mrs. General Blair. The Repub­ lican members of the committee present minor­ ity reports recommending the passage of both bills. After describing General Blair's career, the minority says: "We but echo the voice of history when we say that General Frank P. Blair saved Missouri to the Union. To place a money value on such services is not possible, and the committee only asks that his cherished companion, who was made a widow by his sacrifice of him­ self to his country, shall be tenderly cared for as long as she lives." The minority report, recommending a pension for Mrs. Logan, after reciting the brilliant career of Gen. Logan, says that it is reasonably certain that his death was a direct result of his military service, and that his transcending achievements were the voluntary contributions of his splendid mili­ tary genius, inspired by convictions of duty and patriotic impulses seldom equaled and never * " excelled. ..j,,;- THE House bill authorising tne construction ' of a bridge across the Missouri River between Omaha and Council Bluffs passed tne Senate on the 2d inst The sundry civil appropriation bill was passed by the Senate. Just before the passage of the bill Mr. Allison stated that the Treasury surplus for next year is not likely to exceed *15,000,000, but Mr. Beck tended that it wt-uld be By a vote of 34 to con- nearer £90,000,000. 15 the Senate passed the House bill appropriating $10,000 for the distri­ bution of seeds in Texas by the Agricultural Department. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for informa­ tion as to Iowa railroad land grants Tho House of Representatives passed bills to authorize the construction of a passenger bridge across the Mississippi River at Dubuque, and to . define the Ohio collection districts of Miami and Sandusky. By a vote of 136 to 115 the House refus- ed to repass the vetoed pension bill of Carter W. Tiller, the father of a soldier who died in An- » 1 dersonville Prison. The bill to prohibit the ap- pointment of Congressional funeral committees " * was laid on the table by a decided majority. '5 The House Agricultural Committee reported back the Senate bill for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations, and it was .v. referred to the committee of the whole. A ;) measure calling for an appropriation of ¥30,- Is 000,030 for the manufacture by Americans of |j. first-class modern guns was introduced in the House. A RESOLUTION, offered last session by Mr. In- 6alls, to discharge the Pensions Committee from the further consideration of the bill re­ moving the limitation on applications for ar- ; rears of pensions, was adopted in the Senate on the 3d inst. by a vote of 27 to 'J6. Senator Ev- arts introduced a bill appropriating $112,000 for - the purchase of John Ericc son's Destroyer, ' ; and f.'.OOO.OOJ for ten enlarged steel ves- * sels of the same type for defend- ing the harbors of the United States. .; Mr. Evarts addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill to prohibit members of Congree* 0 from acting as attorneys for subsidized railroad ' companies. The Secretary of the lreasury re- ; ported to the Senate that ho had no informa­ tion to report as to whether any national banks were lending money to be paid in gold only. ®* The House of Representatives tabled a bill to > provide a clerk for each member. The legisla- tfye and executive appropriation bill was re­ ported. It sets aside $20,280,910. A CHICAGO railroad man and a Chi- t oago reporter both say that it ^ * becoming fashionable for young 1 *, ~£, men of that city to kiss eacn vigorously when they part for any f length of time and when they meet "*»' \ again. The railroad man savs it makes him aick to see the fook--Colfax Clipper. Boys! boys! i« 'f so bad as i t " * • " • •vs , £