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3. '•b&i I0i! \ • , i ILLINOI& NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. "" 'TTOMBTWI MSSSENGEB A. S. BOBBINS. who «u one of the six persons on board Jv the wrecked Vermont Central train, and VfcO had pawed over the bridge before the MDcklent occurred, said: "It is probably •9M1 of the worst accidents that ever took miaou In the United States. When we were upon the bridge we felt the shock and fce«d % crash behind. When we looked be* hind we saw the four rear can piled uuon Mi oh other over the edge of the bridge. The J pitched over so fast that it hardly scratched the edge of (he bridge, and in a few minutes they were all on fire, with all the people in them. Oh, it was awful; the 'worst thing I ever saw or heard of." A peculiar case has arisen over the matter of the identification of a body claimed by two parties, one alleging that it is the body of a female, and the other that it is that of a male. Even the doctors are equally divided on the ques­ tion on account of the charred condition of the corpse. Clothing, watches, keys, etc., ? belonging to each of the victims, were found on the remains in such a manner as to indicate that two persons died together, 'and that one body was entirely consumed. • There is nothing left of the other but a portion of the trunk, minus the head, arm6, and legs. SECRETARY MANSDTO has been elected President of the new Western National Bank of the city of New York. ... John C. Leighton, ex-Clerk of the Municipal Crim­ inal Court at Boston, is a defaulter for a large amount, some placing it as high as $200,000. He held the office for nearly twenty years, and was appointed last De­ cember, but immediately resigned. AT We6t Suffield, Conn., Rose Daly de­ capitated her illegitimate child, threw the ̂head in a stove, aw^placed the body in a cellar. The head, wjjich had been cut off with a table knife, was ntften from the fire ,in a cooked condition. it ' t THE WEST. 1 : has been arrested^ Ifce murder of the Dunham family near War­ saw, Ind. Dunham's pocketbook and $80 in money were found in Plew's pockets. AN ice-gorge at Lyons, Mich., resulted in the flooding of the town. Several fam­ ilies were driven out, and the water in­ vaded the second stories of many manu­ facturing buildings. An ice-gorge also formed at Owosso, necessitating the clos­ ing of all the factories. The streets of Lansing were navigated by boats, and all the mills along the river shut down. The bridges imperiled were secured by cables, and dynamite was used successfully to scatter the ice. INDIANA, Illinois, end Wisconsin have been invited to participate in the celebra­ tion of the centennial anniversary of the formation of the Northwest Territory, whieh will occur at Marietta, Ohio, next spring.... An oil well yielding one thousand barrels daily has been developed in the North Baltimore field, near Findlay, Ohio. Prof. Ashburner, Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Natural Gas Company, believes there is a large deposit of natural gas under the city of St. Louis Besides the pecuniary loss which resulted from the destruction of Jesse Arnot's livery Btable at St. Louis, one loss was suffered which is irreparable. The hearse in which the re­ mains of Abraham Lincoln were conveyed to their last resting place was consumed in the flames. It was built by Mr. Arnot for that special ptupose, and since that day had never been out of the building. Mr. Arnot had received many offers for it, but had always refused to part with it, preferring to retain it as a sacred relic.... The walls of a burning building at San Francisco fell, killing one white man and fatally injuring three others. It is be­ lieved a number of Chinamen perished. THE SOUTH. THE blaok stallion Ellerslie Wilke% 4 years old, was sold at Lexington, Ken- tacky, for $12,000 The convict system in Georgia will be antagonized by a com­ pany now being formed at Atlan­ ta to purchase the furnaces mines belonging to Senator Brown In Green County, Ky., the remains of John Keith, wrapped in a blanket, were found inside the carcass of a horse. The body had been partly devoured by dogs.... The recent protest by Cassius M. Clay against the importation of Australian rab­ bits has developed the fact that two lots were in December placed on the farm of John Morris, near Independence, La. The native animal has been exterminated in that vicinity by the negroes and their dogs. THE Governor of Virginia^ in addressing an agricultural convention at Richmond, remarked that there is now less money in the hands of Virginia farmers than at any time since the surrender at Appoma- tox... .It is estimated that the cotton crop of the year is 6,640,000 bales. The quality is very superior. WASHINGTON. roads doing business in the -Stale, shall, on the 1st of January of each year. issue annual passes to the State officials ana members of the Legislature... .A bill to punish strikers who interfere with the law­ ful employment of other persons by a fine of $600 and imprisonment fsr six months passed the Texas Senate with only three dissenting votes The Sunday law pass­ ed by the last Louisiana Legislature has been declared constitutional Dy the Sn preme Court of that State. A BILL to prohibit conviet labor after the expiration of present contracts has been introduced in the Wisconsin Assem­ bly Both houses of the Nevada Legis­ lature have passed a bill to disfranchise Mormons The Minnesota House has passed the high-license bill, and it is probable that the Governor will approve of it The Ohio Senate unanimously adopt­ ed a resolution offering $10,000 reward for the arrest of the Ravenna outlaws, but the Boase defeated it.... A bill has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature to prohibit dealings in futures in stocks, grain, or provisions The Mur­ ray bill amending the prohibitory law has Eassed the lower branch of the Kansas legislature.... The Pennsylvania House has passed a joint resolution for submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment. THE resolution for the submission of a prohibition amendment to the people has been signed by the Governor of Pennsyl­ vania The upper branch of the Dakota Legislature defeated by an emphatic ma­ jority a bill giving incorporated cities ex­ clusive control of the liquor traffic within their limits. The same body passed a lo­ cal option law. The friends of the bill say its passage by the House is assured. I9ll>1jisTBlAX< ROTES.' A NEW YORK dispatch says: "That the present year has opened most inauspicious- ly for the cause of labor is shown in the statement prepared by Bradstreet's of strikes begun during January. Within that limited period there occurred sixty-six strikes in various parts of the country, a very large majority of them being in East­ ern cities. By these strikes 78,000 work-­ people were left without employment. One- third of the strikes were successful or were settled by compromise, and nearly one- sixth of them failed. The others were still unsettled at the end of the month. During the present month the number of strikers has been largely augmented, so that now about 88,009 persons have struck since the beginning of the year. Over 14,000 more have been left unemployed through the closingof factories because of strikes elsewhere. AT the Champion mine, forty miles north of Marquette, Mich., 500 men quit work because of the refusal of the superin­ tendent to discharge a foreman. The Sheriff swore in deputies to preserve order. Owing to a difference of opinion with ths 6nprintendent the employes of the South Boston Horse Bailroad struck in a body. THE Western Nail Association has ad* vanced the price of nails 10 cents... .The Western Packers and Canners' Association he ld i t s annual convent ion a t S t . Loui s . . . . The manufacturers and furnace m»n of the Shenango, Mahoning, and Wheeling dis­ tricts met at Pittsburgh and entered a pro­ test against the advance of coke, and asked that the prices be put back to $1.75 A general strike of silk-dyers has commenced at Paterson, N. J. Another Boston street railway--the Cambridge line--has been tied up. The strike of the 6,000 Mononga- hela River coal-miners is practically set- tied, as also the 'longshoremen's strike in New York. THE RAILWAYS* FREIGHT officers of the Pennsylvania Road, at a recent conference, agreed that the company would be benefited by the operations off he interstate commerce law, although six hundred contracts will be daily copied and sent to the commission. CALIFORNIA has been flooded with visit- on from the East, during the past three months, most of whom have taken advant­ age of the liberal excursion rates offered by the various failroads which reach the Pacific coast. Over ten thousand of these excursionists who are now seeing the sights in the Golden State will return home within the next sixty days via the Denver and liio Grande and C., B. & Q. railways. This route is selected for the return trip on ac­ count of the beautiful Colorado mountain scenery that it often* to the traveling public, an attraction which seems to be irresistible during the spring and summer seasons. . . THE delay of definite action on the anti- polygamy bill by the Congressional con- ferrees threatens the defeat of the bill The Commissioner of Patents has presented his annual report, which showed that the receipts had been $1,154,551, the expend­ itures $992,503, and that there was $3,107,- 453 to the credit of the patent fund in the Treasury. SECRETARY MANNING has sent to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs a long reply to the request of that committee for his views with regard to the House and Senate retaliation bills, and for any sug­ gestions that he may desire to make with reference thereto. The Secretary regrets that the tariff laws of the United States or the non-intervention policy of Canada should be tbe "divided disgrace of our com­ mon civilization." He cautions legislators to enact laws looking forward to the event­ ual merging of tbe two countries into one, and submits a new bill to the committee which provides that whenever the President shall be satisfied that United States vessels are denied any of their rights or privileges in Canadian waters or ports, it shall, in his dis- .. cretion, be his duty to issue a proclamation closing the ports of the United States against vessels owned wholly or in part by a subject of her Britannic Majesty, and coming or arriving from any port or place in the Do­ minion of Canada, or in the Island of Newfoundland, whether directly, or having touched at any other port, excepting such vessels as shall be in distress; and every vessel thus excluded that shall enter or at­ tempt to enter any port of tbe United States shall be seized and forfeited, or the value thereof shall be recovered from the person attempting to make the entry. SENATORS on the Foreign Relations 'Committee do not believe that the non- intercourse bill prepared for the considera­ tion of Congress by Secretary Manning will be accepted by that body. THE President signed the Indian land seveialiy bill and the "backbone" land- grant forfeiture bill Citizens of New 1 * ' €>E^EBALI Alfel&iglish company, with acnpital of £1,300,000, has arranged to work ten farms of ten thousand acres each, scattered along the Canadian Pacific Road. Thorough­ bred stock will be brought over from Eng­ land. A DRAMATIC and sensational episode oc­ curred at the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, where Adelina Patti was giving her farewell concert: While the diva was singing, says a San Fran­ cis o dispatch, a crank attempted to throw a dynamite bomb on the stage. The matter ex­ ploded in his hands, injuring him severely. Although the house was crowded there was no panic. The police immediately rushed into the gallery and arrested the dynamiter. It is supi- poBed he objected to Patti's high prices. The diva immediately afterward sang "Home, Sweet Home," apparently unaware that an attempt had been made on her life. When tbe bomb exploited a panic was narrowly averted. People in the gallery were rushing about seekinc the quickest'means of exit, ana it was only by the self-possession of the news­ paper men present in the box, coupled with that ot the diva, that a stampede of the entire house for out-doors was prevented. The bomb- thrower said he had stooped to pick up his hat and cone and found a package under the seat, which he picked up, and that as he raised it to see what it was it exploded. Though he was badly burned about tbe face and hands, be re­ ceived no serious injuries. He gave his name as Dr. James Hodges, a dyspepsia specialist. His age is 71. LORD LANSDOWNE, when presented with the freedom of the city of Montreal, expressed in his speech friendly sentiments toward the United States, and was loudly applauded. FOREIGN. political situation was most serious, and authorised the deputation to give publicity to his statement, MICHAEL DAVITT, speaking at Edin­ burgh, mid that under other than the exist* ing conditions ip Ireland the plan of cam* paign would be neither desirable nor perl missive, but it was better to have a plan of campaign than a plan of blunderbus and revolver A Berlin newspaper claim* to have authentic information that General Boulanger, the French War Minister, is preparing for the movement of troops to the eastern frontier Bombs were exploded before the police headquarters in Lyons and St. EtienDe, France. A number of arrests were made. A company nas been formed for the construction of railways in the Congo State and the settlement of that territory German agents are baying horses in Eng­ land. THE Northumberland miners, now out on a strike against a reduction of wages, have asked the labor onions of Great Brit­ ain for contributions of $40,000 per week. ..The Serpette soap factory of Nantes, France, valued at $400,000 was burned.... Mrs. Henry Wood, the novelist, is dead. She was bom in Worcestershire about 1820. Her principal novels were " East Lynne," " A Life Secret," " WittuaUte Maae, and " Oswald Gray." ^ ADDITIONAL NEWS* A BiUi to prevent pooling by grain deal­ ers has passed the Nebraska Senate The Alabama Legislature has adopted a joint resolution urging the Congressional delega­ t ion to vote for the B la ir educat iona l b i l l . . . . A bill to prohibit boycotts, and attaching a penalty for the violation of the law, if adopted, of live years :"n the pqpitentiary, or a line of $2,000, or both, has been in­ troduced in the Illinois Legislature.... A committee of architects appointed by the Minnesota House to investigate the condi­ tion of th9 Capitol reported that the roof is liable to fall in at any moment. An ad­ journment to Market Hall was immediately advised. GREAT damage was done in Ohio, Penn­ sylvania, and West Virginia by the gale last week. A number of buildings at Wheeling were unroofed. Several build­ ings were wrecked at Wooster, Ohio. The spire of the Lutheran Church was blown through the roof of the new Methodist. The loss will . be heavy. The Lutheran Church and many dwell­ ings at Greensburp, Pa., were wrecked. The Third Presbyterian Church at Wheel­ ing, W. Va., was unroofed and the Mound City Hotel at Moundsville, W. Va., was partially destroyed. At Louisville, O., the cyclone unroofed the Catholic Church and convent aud many houses, and leveled trees and fences. No lives were lost, but the cit­ izens were panic-stricken. Four Hungarians were killed at Tyrone, Pa., bv the falling of a tree under which they had taken shelter. DR. HOWARD CROSBY lectured on temperance, Thursday night, before the students of the Theological Seminaiy at Rutgers College. He said he didn't be­ lieve in the pledge, and created a great sensation by remarking that a man who could afford to drink claret with his beef­ steak and refrained from using the wino was a fool... .Ex-Alderman O'Neil, of New York, one of the Broadway railroad jobbers, has been sentenced to imprison­ ment for four and one-half years and or­ dered to pay a fine.of $2,000. Tiie hog-packing of the entire West for the current winter, up to date, is estimated to be about 270,000 hoss less than for the same time a year ago--the falling off being fully 4 per cent. At Chicago the decrease is more than twice as many in number, and amounts to a very much larger per­ centage than that of the whole West. The other points have increased their work by about half as much as Chicago has fallen behind in the race. THE Senate Committee on Education and Labor has been authorized to continue its investigation as to the relations between capital aud labor during the recess. IN 4the House of Commons ,Powell's amendment to the address in reply to the Queen's speech was defeated, 352 to 246. .... One third of the German army is al­ ready armed with the new repeating rifle, and by the end of the month 230,000 men will ue completely drilled....A Paris cablegram chronicles the death of Edgar Raoul Duval, a politician who became the chief of the young Imperialist party in 1875. SENATOR STANFOBD introduced a bill in the Senate on the 11th Inst, to provide mortars and heavy guns for tbe armament ot the forts, coast defenses, and vessels of the Unite! States. Bill* were passed to repay Thomas A. OsOorn, formerl/ Marshal of Kansas, *8,70.) public money lost by him through the failure of "a pri­ vate bank; to give the State of California five per cent, of the net proceeds of land sales with­ in her limits, and to grant railroad rights of way through several Indian reservations. A resolution was passed by the Senate calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the existence of a rule in the Pension Office whereby hearings are refused to appli­ cants because they have applied to Congress for relief. A message was received from the President transmitting without his approval the dependent pension bill.' The House passed thirty-Ave pension bills. Lexington, Ohio, have memorialized the j JSenate to initiate negotiations for the ac- -OTfrttfnt of Canada. "WILLIAM O'BRIEN published a letter de­ clining election to Parliament on the ground that he could be of more service outside of | Parliament than in it T. M. Healey was elected to fill the vacancy in the north di­ vision of Longford County caused by the decision of Justin McCnrty to occupy the seat be long ing to Londonderry c i ty . . . . A mob at Tipperary,after burning a house from which a tenant had been dragged, declared that they would hereafter tolerate no evic­ tions. Mr. Parnell's reticence is being ascribed by his enemie s to consumption, impending insanity, etc A Vienna dis­ patch announces that Bismarck has suc­ ceeded in establishing a coalition between Austria, England, and Italy against llus- sia. Germany will join the coalition ii | France supports Itussia The French , Minister of Foreign Affairs has in- < formed the Cabinet that the outlook for international affairs is peaceful. I THE German postoffice authorities are I making extensive experiments with a view to connect the whole of Germany by the telephone French commanders on the German rrontier have been ordered to avoid all exercises of their troops likely to be falsely interpreted by Germany Spanish republican immi­ grants residing in France have de­ cided to form a . volunteer force POLITICAL. • BILL has been introduced in the Ne- Legislature providing that all rail- of 2.000 men to assist France in the event of war with Germany. Several members of the Anti-patriotic League in Paris have been arrested for placarding the city with an appeal to the soldiers to desert or shoot their officers. A Berlin dispatch says that Gen. von Moltke, in receiving a deputation of conservative electors, declared that the ALMSGIVING never made any man poor, nor robbery rich, nor prosperity wise. ' , WE ought to aim at such pleasures as follow labor, not at those which precede it A MAN may be great by chance; but never wise, 'nor good, without taking pains for it. THE MARTKET8. NEW YORK. BEEVES N.SO @ 5.50 Hoos 5.25 ;<p 6.00 WHEAT--No. 1 White .81;$ .92 No. 2 Red. 91 ><a .9214 COBS--No. 2. .47U«J< .49 OATS--White 88 ^ .42 POBK--Mess 13.23 @14.50 CHICAGO. BBKVES--Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.53 Good Shipping 4,00 4.50 "Common 3.2J @ 3.75 Hoos--Shipping Grades 5.00 5.50 Fi.oun--Extra Spring ;. 4.25 & 4.75 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring .76 .70!$ CORN-- No. *2 35)$® .36 OATS--No. 2 Spring .24 & .24*$ BUTTM--Choice Creamery 25 •<$ .26 Fine Dairy 18 .20 CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. .12)63 .13 Full Crenui, new 13U 4 .13$( Eoos--Freeh .18 <4 .19 POTATOES-- Choice, per bu 48 & .52 POM--Mess 13.50 «14.00 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash 76 ® .77 CCHN--No. 3 36H$ .37 OATS--No. 2 AOJ&<A .31 RYU--NO. 1 53 & .65 PCBK--Mess 13.50 ($14.00 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 82 G* 32FT COBN--Cuh SS & .39 OATS--No. 2. 32 <a> .82)6 DEXltOIT. BEEF CATTLE 4.50 <$ 5.25 Hoos 4.25 (S 6.75 SHEEP 4.75 C* 6.53 WHEAT--Michigan Ked 8) 0 .83 COBN--No. 2 .38 <3 OATS--White 32 & .33 BT. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 79S$® .30^ CoitN-Mixed 84)«2i<9 .35 OATB--Mixed 28 («• .29 POHK--Mesa 13.75 vi 14.25 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 84 & .84Sj> COBN--No. 2 .89 .30 OATS--No. 2 30 .31 PORK--Mess 13.75 ® 14.25 LIVE HOOS 4.75 ($8.50 BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 .90 CORN--No. 2 Yellow 4$ A .44 CATTLE 5.25 & 6.03 INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTLE 3.00 FT 5.00 Hoos 4.75 v«t 5.50 8HEEP ; 2.50 <4 4.50 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 81 (9 .81^ COKN--No. 2 "5)6 ^ .30 OAXM :.. 28 (9 .29 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--BEST 4.75 FAIR 4.25 COMMON. 4.00 H O O S . . . . . . . . . . 5 . 5 0 SHEET.. 440 >fC 5.00 & 4.75 & 4.25 (4 0.00 & 150 President Cleveland Disapproves „ jQf the Dependent Pei* sion Bill. His Reasons Therefor--Text of .the !--Former *'r4 <loa Acts* XB the National House of Representativesv 11th inst., a message was received from the 'President transmitting without his approval the dependent pension Mil. The text of tbe mes­ sage is M follows: "To the Houte of representativet: I herewith return without m; . approval Honse bill No. 10457, entitled 'An jit for the relief of depend­ ent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now disabled and depend­ ent upon their own fibor for support.' "This is the flrstseneral bill that has been sanctioned by Confccss since the close of tbe late civil war pernrtting a pension to the sol­ diers and sailors wt 1 served in that war upon the ground of service and present disability, alone, and tbe entjp nbsenoe of any injuries received by the casllalties or incidents of such service. I "While by almostlconatant legislation since the close of this wtshere has been compensa­ tion awarded for evSy possible injury received a result of miliftry service in the Union army, aud while a gftat number of laws passed for th t purpose htcfv been administered with Uave been supplemented - acts to reach su cial great liberality an, by numerous privj cases, there has no ~ departure from th to respecting Unioi the Government generously bestow, who, in this milit military duty, havi been disabled. "But it is a mist pensions, such as section of the bill to our legislation, the close of the K granted to the sti gle, conditional u war. or for a te and requiring ever be one 'who is, or " duced circunastan of assistance from1 other law of like cl requiring service olutionary war,' ai 1832, provided for t the previous statur at some time durii portion ate sum to less than six mont "A Bervice pensir benefit of the sold fifty-six years afte required only sixtj was passed in ln7< war--requiring onl "The service pen sion of Congressjm close of the Mexicl soldiers of that v gree of disability claimant under its of age ; and in eithi served sixty days 01- battle. "It will be seen th; Mexican pension bilj the close of the wari were engaged than years and the other termination of sue: who were quite adva: comparatively few i cumstanees, depend* jow, been an avowed da thus far adhered that the bounty of y of pensions' is rant d to those aud in >ine ' of cer or less extent lppose that service tted by the second isideration, are new iirty-tive years after try "war, they were 'aged in that strug- • -to the end of the s than nine months, .ary under the act to i by reason of his re- fe shall bo, in heed try for support.' An­ as passed in 1828, close of the Rev- another, passed in rsons not included in :ho served two years ar, and giving a pro. who bad served not ' vas passed for the 812 in the year 1871-- je of the war--which ; icrvice, and another , three years after the m days' service. vl>ftssed at this ses- .nine years after the ior the benefit of the uires eitLer some de- :ndeucy or that the JUS should be 0i years * that he should have actually engaged in a 3 bill of 1818 and the eing thus pass.1 nearer which its beneficiaries e others--one thirty-five rty-nine years after the ars--embraced persons ed in age, assumed to be number, and whose cir- . . _ie, and disabilities were clearly defined and could be quite easily fixed. "The other laws referred to appear to have been j>assod at a timVso remote from the mili­ tary service of the*>ersous which they em­ braced that their exwme age alone waB deemed to supply a presunfttion of dependence and need. 9 "The number of enlistments in the revolu­ tionary war is stated to be 309,701, and in the war of 181-2, 576,1)22; but it is estimated that ou account of repeated re-enlistments the num­ ber of individuals engaged in these wars did not exceed one-half of the number represented by these figures: In the war with Mexico the number of enlistments >s reported to be 112,230, which represents a ggeater proportion of indi­ viduals engaged than the reported enlistments in the two previons \iura. "The number of pAsious granted nnder all lawB to soldiers ot the revolution is given at 62,069; to soldiers of the war of 1812 and their widows, 60,178, and to soldiers of the Mexican war and their widows, up to June 30, 1885, 7,619. This number of pensions was granted to the soldiers of a war involving much hardship for disabilities incurred as a result of such service, and it was not till within tbe last month that the few l-emaiuiug survivors were awarded a service pension. "Thewarofthe rebellion terminated nearly twenty-two years ago; the number of men fur­ nished for its prosecutiou is said to be '2,772,403. Under these statutes 5'jl,57t» pensions have been granted from the year iwi to June 30, 1886, and more than 2,600 pensioners have been added to the rolls by private acta passed to meet cases, many of them of questionable merit, which the general laws did pot, cover. On July 1, .1886, b6o,(i7M pensioners of all classes were upon the pension rolls, of whom 303,6J5 were survivors of the war of the rebellion and their widowa and dependents : for the year ending June 30* 1887, $75,01)0,000 have been appropriated for the pay­ ment of pensions, and the amount expended for that purpose from 1861 to Julv 1,1886, is 8608,624,811.51. "While annually paying out such a vast snm for pensions already granted, it is now proposed by the bill under consideration to award a ser­ vice ponsion to soldiers of all wars in which the United States has been engaged, including, of course, the war of the rebellion, and to pay thoso entitled to the benefit of the act $12 per month. 80 far as it relates to the soldiers of the late civil war, the bounty it affords them is given thirteen years earlier than it has been furnished to the soldiers of any other war, and before a large majority of its beneficiaries have advanced in age beyond the strength and vigor of the prime of life. It exacts only a military or naval service of throe months, without any requirements of actual engagement with an enemy in battle, and without a subjection to any of the actual dancers of war. "The pension it awards is allowed to enlisted men who have not suffered the least injury, disability, loss, or damage of any kind incurred in or in any degree referable to their military service, inc-Iudins those who never reached the front at all and those discharged from rendez­ vous at the close of the war if discharged three months after enlistment. Under the last call of the President for troops, in December, 1864, 11.303 men were furnished who were thus dis­ charged. "The section allowing this pension does, how­ ever, require, beside.* a service of three months and an honorable discharge, that those seeking the benefit of the act shall be such as are n:>w or may hereafter be suffering from mental or physical disability not the result of their own vicious habits or gross carelessness, which in­ capacitates 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 support. "It provides fuither In at such persons shall, upon making proof of tile fact, 'be placed on the list of invalid pensiorAs of the United States, and be entitled to rSve for such total ina­ bility to procure thei^Kbsistenoe by daily la­ bor $12 per month, ani mence from the filin. Pension Office, upen then existed, and con' of the same in the degl persons who are now existing laws, or WIIOB the l't nsion Office, m Commissioner of Pen may prescribe, receiv "It is manifestly o: that i-tatutes, which, if be liberally administe1 nevolence in behalf should admit of no uti eral objects and couson "Upon a careful cons of the section of this to me to bo so uncertai flicting constructions, unjust and mischievouj famish sufficient groi proposed legislation tbe pension provided now or hereafter-- "1. 'Suffering from 1] bility.' "2. Such disability their own vicious habi "3. Such disability [ch pension shall com- the application in the [of that the disability e during the existence herein provided, that ving pensions under 1ms are pending in y application to the r., in such form as he ; oeneflt of this act.' "o utmost importance pension laws, should id as measures of be- worthy beneficiaries, ":ainty as to their gen- :uces. iration of the language above given, it seems ,nd liable to such con- to be subject to such iplication, as to alone ^'or disapproving the JUS seeking to obtain this section must be |tal or physical disa- St not be the result of ;r gross carelessness.' kst be such as 'inca­ pacitates them for the performance of labor In such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support.' "4. They must be ̂ dependent upon their daily labor for support.' "6. Upon proof of thes1* condition they shall be 'placed on the list of invalid ]>ensioners of the United States and be entitled to receive for •uch total inability to procure their subsistence by daily labor 812 per month.' "It is not probable that the words last quoted, 'such total inability to procure their subsistence by daily labor,' at all qualify tbe conditions presoiibed in the preceding language of the sec­ tion. The 'total inability spoken of must be '•uch' inability; that is, the inability already described and constituted by the conditions already detailed in the previous parts of tbe fcection. It thus becomes Important to consider tbe meaning and the scope of these last-inen- tloned conditions. "Tho mental and physical disability spoken of has a distinct meaning in the practice of the Pension Bureau, and includes every impair­ ment of bodily or mental strength and vigor. For such disabilities there are now paid 181 different rates of pensions, ranging from SI to •100 per month. This disability must not be the result of the applicant's "vicious habits or gross carelessness.' Practically this provision is not important. The attempt of the Govern­ ment to escape the payment of a pension on such a plea would, of course, in a very large majority of instances, and regardless of the merits of the case, prove a failure. There would be that strange but nearly universal will­ ingness to help the individual, as between him aad the public treasury, which goes very far to insure a state of proof In favor of the claimant. "The disability of applicants must be snch as to 'incapacitate theui for the performance of labor in suoh m dsffee as to Nader to earn a sapgMMK,' It will be observed _ ssSfffflSsMssisas; be stub a de«reeof disability nram aayeaase as renders tbe claimant nnabfa to earn a sop. port by labor. It seems to me tbai the *support' here mentioned as one whWh cannot be earned ia a eomplete aud entire support, with no dim­ inution on account of the Mast impairment ot physical or mental oonditlon. if ft had been intended to embraoe only those who by disease or injury were totally unable to labor, it would have been very easy to express that Idea in­ stead, ot reoognislng, as It has done, a 'degree' ot such inability. "Whatisa support? Who is to determine whether a man earns it, or baa or has it not? la tbe Government to enter the homes of claim­ ants for pensions and after an examination of their surfoundlngs and circumstances settle those questions? Shall the Government say to one man that bis manner of subsistence by bis earnings is a support, and to another that the things his earnings furnish is not a support? Any attempt, however honesty to administer this law in such manner would necessarily pro­ duce more nnfalrness and unjust discrimina­ tion, and give more scope for partisan partiali­ ty, and would result in more perversion of the Government's benevolent Intentions than tbe execution of any statute ought to permit; "if, in the effort to earry out the proposed law, the degree of disability as related to earnings be considered for the purpose of discovering if, in any way, it curtails the support which the ap­ plicant, if entirely sound, would earn, and to which be is entitled, we enter the broad field long occupied by the Pension Bureau, and we recognise as the only difference between the proposed legislation and previous laws passed ior the benefit of the surviving soldiers of the civil war the incurrence in one case of disabili­ ties in military service, and in the other disa­ bilities existing but in no way connected with or resulting from such service. "It must be borne in mind that in no case is there any grading of this proposed pension, onder the operation of the rule first suggested, if there is a lack in any degree, great or small, of the ability to earn snch a support as the gov­ ernment determines the claimant should have, and by the application of the rule secondlv sug- fested, if there is a reduction in any degree of he support which he might earn if sound, he is entitled to' a pension of $12. "In the latter case, and under the provision of the proposed bill permitting persons now receiv­ ing pensions to be adrolttSB to the benefits of the act, I do not Bee how those now on the pen­ sion roll for disabilities incurred in the service, and which diminish their earning capacity, can be denied the pension provided in this bill, "Of course none will apply who are now re­ ceiving $12 or more per month. But on June 30, 1886, there were on the pension rolls 202,621 porsons who were receiving fifty-eight different rates of pension, from 81 to 911.75 per month. Of these 28,142 were receiving $2 per month, 63,116 $4 per month, 37,254 86 per month, and 50,274 whose disabilities were rated at €8 per month. "As to the meaning of the section of the bill undor consideration there appears to have, been quite a difference of opinion among its advocates in the CongresB. The Chairman of the Com­ mittee on Pensions in the House of Representa­ tives, who reported the bill, declared that there was in it no provision for pensioning any one who has a less disability than a total disability to labor, and that it was a charity measure. The Chairman of the Committee on Pensions in the Senate, having charge of the bill in that body, dissented from the construction of the bill announced in the House of Representatives, and declared that it not only embraced all soldiers totally disabled, but in his judgment all who are disabled to any considerable extent, and such a construction was substantially given to the bill by another distinguished Senator, who, as a former Secretary of the Interior, had imposed upon him tbe duty of executing pen­ sion laws and determining their intent and meaning. "Another condition required of claimants un­ der this act is that they shall be dependent upon their daily labor for support. This Inn- guago, which may be said to assume that there exists within the reach of the persons men­ tioned 'labor' or the ability in some degree to work, is more aptly used in a statute describ­ ing those not wholly deprived of this ability than in one which deals with those utterly un­ able to work. "I am of the opinion that it may fairlv be con­ tended that under the provisions of this section any soldier whose faculties of mind or body have become impaired by accident, disease, or age, irrespective of his service in the army as a cause, and who by his labor only is left incapa­ ble of gaining the fair support he might with unimpaired powers have provided for himself, and who is not so woll endowed with this world's goods as to live without work, may claim to par­ ticipate in its bounty; that it is not required that he should be without property, but only that labor should be necessary to his support in some degree, nor is' it required that he should be now receiving support from others. "Believing th s to be the proper interpretation of the bill, I cannot but remember that the soldiers of our civil war in their pay and bounty received such compensation for military se vice as has never been received by soldiers before since mankind went to war; that never before, on behalf of any soldiers, have so many and such generqus laws been passed to re­ lieve against the incidents of war; that stat­ utes have beJn passed giving them a prefer­ ence in all public employments; that the really needy and homeless Union soldiers of the rebellion have been, to a large extent provided for at soldiers' homes, insti­ tuted and supported by the Government, whero they are maintained together, free from the sense of degradation which attaches to the usual support of charity, ana that never before in the history of the country has it been pro­ posed to render Government aid toward the support of any ot its soldiers based alone upon a military service so recent, and where age and circumstances appeal^ so little to demand such ai<^ "Hitherto such relief has been granted to sur­ viving soldiers, few in number, venerable in age, after a long lapse of time since their mili­ tary service, and as a parting benefaction tendered by a grateful people. I cannot be­ lieve that the vast peaceful army of Union sold ers who, having contentedly resumed their place in the ordinary avocations of life, cherish as sacred the memory of patriotic service, or who, having been disabled bv tno casualties'of war, justly regard the present pension roll, on whieh appear their names, ns a roll of honor, desire at this time and in tbe pres nt exigency to be confounded with those who, through such a bill as this, are willing to be objects of simply charity and to guin a place upon the pension roll through alleged dependence. "Recent personal observation and experience constrain me to refer to another result which will inevitably follow the passage„of this bill. It is sad, but nevertheless true, that already in the matter of procuring pensions there exists a widespread disregard of truth and good faith, stimulated by those who as agents undertake to establish claims for pensions, heedlessly en­ tered upon by the expectant beneficiary, and encouraged, or at least not condemned, by tbOBe unwilling to obstruct a neighbor's plans. "In the execution of this proposed law, under any interpretation, a wide field of inquiry would be opened for the establishment of facts largely within the knowledge of the claimants alone, and there can be no doubt that the race after the pensions offered by this bill would not only stimulate weakness and pretended incapacity for labor, but put a further premium ou dis­ honesty and mendacity. "The effect of invitations to appiy for pen­ sions, or of new advantages added to causes for pensions already existing, is sometimes startliug. Thus in March, 187D, large arrearages of pensions were allowed to bo added to all claims filed prior to July 1, 1880. For the year from July 1, 1879, to July 1, 1890, there were riled 110,673 claims, though in the year immediately previous there were but 3G,8J2 filed, aud in the year following but 1J,455. "While cost should not be set against a pa­ triotic duty or the recognition of a right, still, when a measure proposed is based upon gener­ osity or motives of charity, it is not amiss to meditate somew/iat upon the example u Inch it involves. Experience has demonstrated, I be­ lieve, that all estimates concerning the prob­ able future cost of a pension list are uncertain and uureliable, and always fall far below actual realization. "The Chairman of the House . Committee on Pensions calculates that the numberof pension­ ers nnder this bill would be ;h <,105, and the in­ creased annual cost H,767,410. This is upon the theory that only those who are entirely unable to work would be its beneficiaries. Such was the principle of the revolutionary pensiou law of 1818, much more clearly stated, it soeuM to me, than in this bill. When the law of 1818 was upon its passage in Congress, the number of pensioners to be benefited thereby was thought to be 374, but the number of applicants under the act was 22,237. aud the numoerof pensions actually allowed--20,183-- costing, it is rej>ort- ed, for the first year, 81,847,900, instead of 840,- 000, the estimated expense for that period. "A law was passed in 1853 for the benefit of tbe surviving widows of revolutionary so'diers who were married after Jan 1, 1800. It was es­ timated that they numbered 300 at tbe time of the passage of the act, but the number of pen­ sions allowed was 3,472, and the amount paid for such pensions during the first year of the operation of the act was $180,000, instead of 9^4,000, as had been estimated. I have made no search for other illustrations, and the above, being at hand, are given as intending to show that estimates cannot be relied upon in such cases. "If none should be pensioned under this bill except those utterly unable to work, I am sat­ isfied that tbe cost stated in the estimate re­ ferred to would be many times multiplied, and with a constant increase from year to year; and if those partially unable to earn their support should be admitted to the privileges of this bill, the palpable increase of expense would he al­ most appalling. "I think It may be said that at tbe eloso of the war of tbe rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northern counties and cities were burdened with taxation on account of tlio large bounties paid our soldiers ; and the l>ond- I ed debt thereby created still constitutes a large i item in tbe account of the tax-gatherer against tbe people. Federal taxation, no less borne by tbe people than that directly levied upon tneir property is, still maintained at tbe rate made necessary by the exigencies of war. If this bill should become a law, with its tre­ mendous addition to our previous obligations, I am thoroughly convinced that further efforts to . reduce the Federal revenue aud restore some part ot it to our people will and perhaps should I be seriously questioned. I "It has constantly been a cause of pride and j congratulation to the American citizen that his I country is not put to the charge of maintaining i a large standing army in time of peace. Yet we are now living under a war tax which has iwa» Uaus to° West' His' production has IMIWM in vol volume Jeet, sad whieh, moreover, will have the effect otdiWPo'ntin* the expectation ot she paople fn<LV",6f, «Uslre and hope for relief from war taxation in time of peace. In my last annual message tbe following language was nsed: * 'Every patriotic heart responds to a tender consideration for those who, having served their country long and well, are reduced to destitu­ tion and dependence, not as an incident of their ser.ice, but witb advancing age dr through sick­ ness or misfortune. We are all tempted bv the 1 sick- eontemplation of sueh a condition-to supply re­ lief, and are often impatient of the limitations of nubile duty. Yielding to no one in tbe desire to indulge this feeling of consideration, I cannot rid myself of tbe conviction that if these ex- soldiers are to be relieved, they and their eause are entitled to the benefit of an enactment un­ der which relief may be claimed as a right, and that such relief should be granted under tbe sanction of law, not in evasion of it; nor should such worthy objects of care, all equally entitled, be remitted to the unequal operation of sympathy or of the tender mercies of social and political influence, with their unjust dis­ criminations.' "I do not think that the objects, the condi­ tions, and the limitations thus suggested are contained in the bill under consideration. I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed. But the evil threatened by this bill is in my opinion such that, charged with a great responsibility in behalf of the people, I can not do otherwise than to bring to the consideration of thiB measure my best efforts of thought and judgment, and per­ form my constitutional duty in relation thereto regardless of ail consequences, except such as appear to me to be related to the best and high­ est interests of tbe oountry. "GIIOVEB CLEVELAND. "Executive Mansion, Washington, Feb. 11, 1887." The Honest Han. I Once knew an honest man; this is no fable. I knew him; he was honest. He was Eoor, of course. Not that all poor men are onest; I have known some wretchedly poor men who were dishonest and very mean. Neither would I have you under­ stand me to say that all rich men are dis­ honest. Some, you know, have inherited their fortunes. This honest man lived in a small frame cottage in an unfrequented street, and regu­ larly on the first Monday of every month for years he settled with his landlord for the rental due. His name was on the tax duplicate, but the figures that told of his personal prop­ erty were small, and twice in each year he borrowed at least half the money with which he paid Lis taxes. I never knew him to give a wine supper, and the wealthiest banker in the city had ten friends to his one. Very few, indeed, of the distinguished visitors to his city were introduced to him, and most of them left the place knowing nothing of him--only as a unit which, added to many other units, made up the sum total which the census-taker returned. Now and then the poor itinerant minister stopped with him, preferring his frugal board to the paying of a bill at the hotel. He was hard of hearing, but he occupied a pew ne ir the back part of the church, for the ones in front were needed foe the rich members of the congregation. The band never serenaded him, yet he never re­ fused to help those poorer than himself, even though the beggar be a poor--a very poor--musician. By and by, when he was old and full of years, he sickened. His next-door neigh­ bor brought him dainty food to tempt his appetite, and the physician made but one hasty call a day, so he lasted several weeks. But finally he died. The casket in which his body was placed was a very plain one, and the attendants at his funeral were very, very few. Many had intended to be pres­ ent at his funeral, but somehow they were so very busy when the time came that they could not get away; yet one week later, to the very day, when the gilded coffin that held a wealthy man's remains entered the same gate, to tbe same burial-ground, it was followed bv carriages in which rode all those very busy men. A few years passed away. I visited that burinl-ground. I looked in among the lofty monuments for the name of this de­ parted honest man, but I found it not. I asked the sexton if he could point me to the grave, but he had forgotten where it was. could only find it by looking np the record, and had no time for that unless it was a matter of importance. But I fpund it by-and-by. Here, in this piece of hallowed ground, dedicated to the dead of men but to the living God, I found tbe grave of this departed honest man, still in the rear, while the wealthy occu­ pied the front. No shaft or slab of marble, chiseled in his praise, told who it was that slept beneath the mound, upon which was planted a dainty flower, cared for by poor but honest hands and watered by the tears of honest love. Al l o thers had forgot ten h im but she who knew him beBt, and thought him great and good because of honesty. This, all this, in a community that talks of honest men.-- Chicago Ledger. For Strong Minds Only; SOME claim that the pulley is the oldest mechanical invention, but probably the crow-bar has a pryer claim. THE altitude of an orchard in California is over six thousand feet. No wonder, then, that California apples come high. As HEK father was hanging around, he merely said, "I will see you in dew time," and she knew he meant in the evening.. A MAN having fullen down in a fit in a tailor's Bliop, an envious rival said: "That's the only fit ever seen in that establishment." CARTER HAKKISON says when he is run­ ning for office he would accept the devil's vote. But the devil has never been natural­ ized, and accepting his vote is an imp- possibility. "THE boys have an appropriate name for the pastry cook at our boarding-house," remarked the snake editor. "What is it?" asked the horse editor. "She's a darky from Virginia, and they call her the old dough minion." SHE was looking for pieces for a crazy quilt. "Could you tear off a few little pieces from those silk patterns?" "I should be delighted to do so," replied the clerk, "but you see this house is in favor of a tear-off for revenue only." UNCLE JACK (from whom Bob has ex­ pectations)--Very enjoyable, Bob. Wish I didn't live so far awav, so that I could have the pleasure of dropping in to have a snack with you and Mnry oftener. Bob--Quite so. But then, my dear uncle, the less fre­ quent your visits are the more we appreciate thum. The Ituling Passion. "Well, old boy, yon seem in good Spir­ its," said Jones to his friend Jolly boy, who was in the last stages of consumption. "You are determined to keep up your heart, live or die, I take it." "You bet! I'm bound to prove one of those confounded old Bayings false, any­ how." , t . "Which one?" ,VM "Laugh and grow fst. I laugh enough to weigh a ton." "How s your appetite? Here's some Cal­ ifornia grapes. Can you digest them?" "I'll tn it once for luck. Just hand over that pepsin bottle." "What's that for?" "Like all that blasted bad-tasting 'pothe- cary stuff there, merely to help a poor chap to die-jest." . It Will be Red Next Tear. "Did you hear that Tom May was mar­ ried last week?" s. "No! Is that so? He didn't marry that red-headed widow on Chestnut street, did he?" "That's what; only he doesn't put it just that way." "What shade does he make her out?" "Well, I met Tom to-day, and inquired what he had been up to, and his answer was that he had been 'ringing the chestnut belle.' "--Chicago Ledger. AMONG the students of medicine In the University of Naples is Miss Sophie Baku- nin, daughter of the famous Russian agi­ tator. Wfcat Ia Beim »oa« bp ths Ns* BtWMtt pension bills wag* passed toy t|j)k Senate on tbe Sth last* granting among othetft apenaton otSSOamoott to Oeneral T. F Met- House of I?eptoaentativM jNUasft a till aimc ̂ plating flifc.000 for the Payment of wfaatai* known as the Fourth of July claims. The Presi­ dent vetoed several pension bills. 1» a,. of Cuthbert Btooe be quoted front the anw records to show that the claimant had moat of his time In deserting or iu prison fSr desertion, and in the oase of Abraham T Oriav he quoted from the Hospital records to show that tbe claimant was not sick, but "oompletew > worthless, obese, and lasy." RESOLUTIONS of tbe Kansas Legislature flip the opening of the* territory of Oklahoma wer* presented in the Senate on the 7th. The Senate passed twenty House bills. Among them wes» tbe bill to amend the act of Feb. 26, 1885. to prohibit the importation and immigrationaf foreigners and aliens uuder contract to perform labor, and the bill to amend section 5 of the aefc of June 10, I83O, in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The Sen- •to Also |i«tSRed bills to encourage manufacture of steel for modern army and navy ordnance and to erect gun factories a* Watervliet Arsenal and the Washington Nav Yard. The sum of $2i,00»),(i00 is appropriate, for these purposes. A memorial of the Nationi Board of Trade in favor of a general bankruptcy- law was presented. Senator Ingails* resolution regarding the rejection by the Senate of Ma*, thews (colored) to be Kecordor of l)eeds of th* District of Columbia was adopted by * party vote of '26 to 18. The President Beofc the following nominations to the £etiate : £ O. Lore, of Missouri, to be Consul General afc the City of Mexico. J. M. Needhitm of frank­ lin, Ind., to be agent for tbe Indian** of tlw Lemhi agency, in Idaho. Mrs. Margaret If Tyrrell to be postmistress of Akin, Franklfi County, 111. The House of Representatives passed bills granting a right of way through In­ dian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Ne­ braska Railway, and appropriating ; 1^5.00® for the completion of the public build* ' ing at Detroit. Those who ex- pected that Speaker Carlisle woufil recognize Judge Kelley or some other member to move to suspend the rules and pass a bill aboli shing the tax on tobacco were disap­ pointed. The Speaker, in his correspondence with Mr. Randall in reference to getting btforia the House a revenue measure, plainly int niateS that he would rot give recognition to any mem­ ber to pass, under suspension of the rules. anT bill to change tbe internal revenue laws thai did not include changes in the custom* laws, aud to those gentlemen who on the 7th inst. apt > plied for recognition to make such a motion, *>*§'• Speaker gave respectful but positive refusal. ̂ A MEMORIAL of citizens of New Lebanoij^ Ohio, asking the initiation of negotiations fdtf the acquisition of Canada, was presented i|t the Senate on the 8th Inst. Bills were passdl . for the settlement of ascounts with the Mobile and Ohio Road, to prohibit any agent of th* Government from hiring out the labor of prisoners, and to ascertain the extent anil® value of the vessel fisheries of the United State!. The President sent the following nominations of postmasters to tho Senate: At Aurora, Ind., Sanford G. Given; Chenoa, 111., Sylvanus Chapman; Earlville, 111.. Berkley G. Barratt; Monroe, Mich,, Henry R. Noble; Plainwo% Mich., Jacob V. Rogers ; New Richmosvl, Wis., Ezra A. Glover, Jr.; Fort Howard, Wis., Peter V. Cottrell; Benicia, Cal , William H. Foreman £ Buffalo, Wyoming, Leollie Simmons; Butt* City, Montana, Patrick Talen. The Hous* * of Kepresentatives passed bills to iiuleou nify certain Chinamen for losses sustained by a mob at Rock Springs. Wyo., and to prtK hi bit tho importation of opium by any subject of the Emperor of China; for a public building at Houston, to cost 575,000. nnd to grant the SeM Rocks to the city of San Francisco. Addresses eulogistic of the "deceased Representatives from New York were delivered by Messrs. MillurdL . Van Katon, Felix Campbell, and others. ML., MEMORIAL services in honor of the late Gen ­ eral John A/Logan were held in the Senate oik' the Sth inst. The Senate chamber was packe^ with attentive listeners--Mrs. Logan and fan' ily being among the number. Fifteen membs delivered touching eulogies on the life and vices of tha dead Senator. In the House of resentatives eulogistic addresses relative t* the death of the late Congressman Price Of Wisconsin were delivered by Representative* Caswell. Thomas of Wisconsin, Hudd, Petti* bone, Henderson of Iowa, and Breckinridge of Kentucky. The House passed a bill authorizing' the Fort Worth and Denver Road to lav tracS through Indian Territory The Senate bills ap­ propriating $21,030,0.x) for coast defenses ana cuu foundries were sent by the House to th* Committee on Appropriations. p:. JOINT resolutions of the Republican membeii Of the Indiana Legislature were presented if" the Senate on the 10th inst., protesting against the validity of the election of David Turpie aa United States Senator. The Senate amended and passed HOUBB bills relating to the importing Of mackerel caught during tho spawning sea- son, and for the erection of a branch Soldiers' Home west of tho Rocky Mountains, as also a Senate measure giving rieht of way through tbe Cteur rt'Alene reserw tion to two railways. Unfavorable report* were made on bills for a sub-treasury at Louis­ ville and for the erection of a Federal prison* A bill was reported for the division of the Statist of Illinois into judicial districts. Senator Cufe lom introduced a bill providing that no prisoner- Shall be debarred from receiving a patent nqlr any patent be declared invalid by reason of it* having been first patented in a foreign country unless it has been introduced into public use the United States for more than two years priORp " to the application. Tne President sent th* following nominations to the Senate: Post­ master--At Mlllinburg, Pa., Cyrus A. Eaton;. Houtzdale, Pa., G. W. Dickey ; Lewisburg, Pa&g ' William Himmelright; Brownsville, Teni*,,. Daniel Bond. To be Register of Land OflicfL Samuel E. Byrne, at Marquette, Mich. To tip Indian agents, at Fort Belknap agency, Mon­ tana, Edwin C. Fields, of Maryland; Colorado .River agency, Arizona. George W. Busey, Ot Illinois. The House of Representatives p issed bills appropriating $57^),0J0for a public building at Denver, and granting a railroad right-of-way acro s the Ft.Douglas military reservation, Utah. The House Judiciary Committee reported ad­ versely the bill for tho erection of a United States prison for the confinement of United - States prisoners. The Republican members ot tho commttee made a minority report recom­ mending the passage of the bill. A bill was favorably reported to convoy to the city of AS- rora, III , a five acre islaud in Fox River never surveyed by tbe Government, but which has es- • cited the cupidity of a citizen. 1 "Killlktnick" Tobacco. The American Indians never smokd pure tobacco, says a recent number of the Agriculturist. It is always threfrv quarters adulterated with "red willow J? common along the Western streams, or. an herb called larb, which grows in th^ Koeky Mountains. They can not smoke tobacco as a white maa ran, as it a tou strong for them. The larb hus a small leaf, half as long as a willow, and grows on the side of the mountains as a sm all shrub. That is merely spread out tg> dry in the sun, and is then crushed ii the hand. But with the red willoir they cut switches or sticks three feet long, and, scraping off the red bark on the outside, they whittle the inner bark up in curls all along the stick, and the* toast it over a fire until it is perfectly hard and dry. Then they crumble it in their hands the same as they do th* larb. They very often make immens* quantities of this to use, as it is always preferred in the spring of the year, when it is frefch. It has a very swe*& flavor and odor, and is very much sought after try the Indians. This, re­ marks the Mobile Register, may be all correct so far as it relates to very mod­ ern Indians, but the "killik nick" of forty years ago was something very different. It was a mixture of sumaon leaves with tobacco. This writer, who often saw Indians in those long past days, remembers all about it In the fall of the year, when sumach leaves, were red, you seldom saw an Indian, squaw coming from the woo Js who was- not loaded down with sumach bushes She was going to mix the leaves witb tobacco to make killikinick. The an-, mach leaves always had to be red, they are in autumn, before tney would do "for the mixture. How they were mixed was something of a secret with the Indians, but we well remember that they drove quite a trade with tl)tf white people "swapping" their very popular killikinick for bacon, corn* turnips, and 'such other products as they needed. Now, it might be possi­ ble that there is something for tbe white man in mixing red sumach leaves with tobacco and making killikinick. Why not somebody try the experiment ~ The sumach is a very common product of the South. St..... * > 1 ̂ . J. t