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I. VAN SLYKE. Editor an* FMMMMT. ILLINOIS* THE NEWS CONDENSED. . THE EAST. j f Sin N«w York Presbytery adopted reto- . lotions emphatically declaring that the Scriptures and New Testament are the word of God. The preamble recited that "loose views touching the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures have become current in certain parts of the Christian Church." WILLIAM T. BRIO HAM, a prominent lawyer of Boston, has been arrested for the embezzlement of $17,000 from two old ladies for whom he was trustee. He in­ vested the money in anon-paying enterprise in the South... .James W. Foshay, indicted for bribery in connection with the Broad- wav Railway franchise, has just died at Haw ¥«tfc. . THE WEST. , THE Governor of Iowa has issued a proclamation forbidding the importation of cattle from Illinois.... The executors of the estate of the late Cyrus H. MeCormick, of Chicago, in their final report to the Pro­ bate Court, acknowledge the possession of $4,978,154.05....There are 18,(MM),000bush­ els of wheat in store at Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth. The best hard wheat is 10 cents per bushel lower than a year ago The Rev. Dr. Bloch, rabbi of a wealthy Jewish congregation at Youngs- town, Ohio, has left for parts unknown, after committing forgeries for large amounts. THE final adjustment of the estate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., has just been made at Chicago. Annie Fowler Mc­ Cormick and Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., the executors, reported the total value of the estate to be $4,5^6,484 and the discurse- ments since the filing of the will $183,200. ... .Boston Corbett, who killed J. Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Lincoln, has lately been assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives. He be­ came violently insane and held the Speak­ er's gallery with two revolvers. He will be sent to an asylum... .JThe Wisconsin En­ campment of the G. A. B. unanimously adopted a resolution censuring President Cleveland for his recent pension veto. PATRICK TCLLT, an- expressman at St. Joseph, Mo., long since secreted $2,000 in his cellar, with the knowledge of his wife and daughter. When he failed to find it, a negro fortune-teller told him it had been stolen by his son-in-law. In the quarrel which ensued, Mrs. Tully died and the children removed to Kansas City. The old man has lately discovered his treasure, and is delirious over the ruin it wrought... . At the meeting of the Illinois Department, G. A, R., the action of President Cleve­ land in vetoing the dependent pension bill was condemned, and members of Congress were asked to pass the measure over the veto. A tribute to the late General Logan was adopted. Captain A. C. Sweetser, of Bloomington. was elected Department Com­ mander, and Springfield was chosen as the meeting. t THE SOUTH. A POLICEMAN in Atlanta, having noted that a colored man was regularly calling at residences with a large basket, made the discovery that it contained whisky, sugar, glasses, and teaspoons, arranged in a framework... .Block, Oppenheimer & Co., wholesale dry goods and footwear at Gal­ veston, Texas, transferred their entire stock and business premises in payment of local debts aggregating $*226,000. Their total liabilities are placed at $750,000, principally dn« in the East, nearly all of Which is said to be unsecured. THE citizens of Harrison. Miss., finding that the negroes were steadily being in­ duced to emigrate to the swamp countiy, cave a business man named Hammond twentv-fonr hours to leave town, and he fled to Vicksburg. The people of Fayette took the same course with H. B. McClure. The defalcation of Thomas M. Joseph, Treasurer of the Texas Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, is $23,185, which was lost in mining speculations four years ago. Mr. Joseph is nearly 70 years of age, and was formerly Mayor of Galveston. The order intends to send him to the penitentiary. THE Masonic Lodge Building, the Globe Hotel, and several stores were burned at Augusta, Ga. Loss, $185,000; insurance, $124,000. A movement is on foot to re­ build the Opera House, and a subscription list to build a splendid hotel on the site of the old Globe Hotel has been started Robert Roman and S. L. Theard. young men of leading Creole families, fought a duel near New Orleans. The weapons were Spanish rapiers, and the latter duell­ ist was twice wounded in the arm..... Thomas M. Joseph, of Galveston, Tex., is reported as short from $12,010 to $30,000 with the Grand Lodge ,of Odd Fellows..., The gambling-houses of New Orleans are dosed for the first time in the history of tlie city, pending a grand jury investi- gation. _ . ; H , H A S H I ^ U T O X Senate. Committee on Printing, by • vote of two to one, has decided to report adversely the nomination of Public Printer Benedict, and he will probably be rejected. The fight against him, says a Washington special, has been made by the Typographical union through its local representatives, and tbe objections advanced have been many. Mr. Benedict is not a practical printer in the mean­ ing of the law, which requires that the man at the head of this great institution shall be one, Be has been the publisher of a country newspaper, but never learned tho trade and never worked at it, although in pi' business he has picked up a general knowledge of the art. He is not a member of tho union. Ha has not recognized the union In the management of the office, and has got the whole labor elemeut down on him be­ cause of some petty indiscretions. He has ap­ pointed to positions under him as many as thirty persons from the town where he lived when he pot this office, a little village in New York, and has dismissed old and influential members of the union to give them places. He has had the big-head to an unlimited extent, and, coming from a little country weekly news­ paper office to be the manager of the biggest printing institution in the world, he has an idea that he is as great a man as the Presi­ dent of the United States. He has treated the Senators like ordinary applicants for office, end they do not relish Huch conduct after the defer­ ential manners of Hounds and his staff. An­ other mistake Benedict has made is to attribute •Jl the bad management at the printing office to the condition in which things were left by his predecessor. It could not be expected that a new man would come in and get on without motion, and complaint was natural, but Bene­ dict tells every one, and wrote a letter to Con- Sess, charging all the blame to Hounds, and 0 latter has a good manv friends in the Ben- ate, who have resented this sort of •Mwrnt -foulness, and they are for rejection. CAPTAIN GREELY, the Arctic explorer, has been appointed Chief of the Signal Service, with the rank of Brigadier Gen- eral.... The Attorney General has decided that the fencing of contiguous corners of sections of railroad lands in such way as to prevent the passage between of settlers , upon the Government sections is unlawful. ... .Land Commissioner Sparks will recom­ mend to the Secretary of the Interior, at an early date, the restoration to settlement entry, under the public land laws, of the 26,000 acres of land formerly patented to the State of Iowa for the Sioux Citv & St Paul Railroad Company, and recently reconveyed by the State to the United States. THE President and Mrs. Cleveland Rave A state dinner last week in honor of the Supreme Court. The guests were the Chief Justice and Mrs. Waite, Justice and Mrs. Miller, Justice and Mrs. Field, Justice and Mrs. Bradley, Justice and Mrs. Harlan Justice and Mrs. Matthews, Justice Gray, Justice and Mrs. Blatchford, Senator and Mrs. Edmunds, Senator and Mrs. Vest, Senator and Mrs. Evarte, Senator and Mrs. McMillan, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Col­ lins, John E. Develin and wife of New York, ex-Mayor Grace and wife of New York, the Hon. Francis Lyude Stetson and wife of New York. POLITICAL. THE Nebraska House passed a bill pro­ viding for a bureau of industrial statistics. ... .An Indianapolis dispatch says: "David Turpie's certificate of election as United States Senator from Indiana was delivered to him to-day by the Governor, the Secre­ tary or State having consented, on the ad­ vice of the Attorney General, to attest the signature of the Governor to the docu­ ment, as the law makes this his duty. In a footnote he says that his name is not to be regarded as an indorsement of the cer­ tificate." , THE Missouri Legislature defeated a bill to establish and maintain a State militia. .The Michigan House refused to repeal the Baker conspiracy law, designed to pre­ vent strikes The Missouri House adopt­ ed the joint resolution providing that the question of prohibition be submitted to a vote of the people of the State Mis­ souri's Solons have killed the bill prohib­ iting the acceptance of railway passes by State officials. > A RESOLUTION, for the punishment and prevention of boycotting is pending before the Wisconsin Legislature. The New Yerk Senate has passed a bill granting women the right to "vote at municipal elections. The Indiana House defeated a motion to suspend the rules and appropriate $200,- 000 for a soldiers' monument. The Governor of Kansas has approved and signed the bill con erring mu­ nicipal suffrage upon women. A bill repealing the black laws and the statute providing for separate schools for colored children passed the Ohio Senate. Upon defeat in the Minnesota House of Donnel­ ly's bill fixing a maximum rate for grain freights, the author of the measure created a sensation by declaring that he had been informed that members could get $250 for voting against the bill, and $250 more for opposing the Emery railroad bill. PrBiiic sentiment in Missouri oaused the House to reconsider its vote refusing to provide for the maintenance of the State militia. A country member of the New York Assembly has introduced a bill to prohibit the custom of treating to drinks in saloons. The Ohio House put through a measure for the abandonment and sale of the Wabash and Erie Canal, but the Sen­ ate promptly tabled it. Walter and Tur- ley, the Democratic members of the New Jersey Assembly whose seats were con­ tested by Republicans, were seated, after a furious and protracted struggle, hy the close vote of 30 to 29 in each case.... Major W. W. Armstrong, who has just been appointed Postmaster of Cleveland, to suc­ ceed Thomas Jones, Jr., was for years editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer..... President Cleveland states that many nrem* bers of the present Congress have been recommended to him for places on the in­ terstate commerce commission, and there is none of them whom he would so gladly nominate as Colonel Morrison. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. THE longshoremen's strike at New York having been declared off, there was a rush to secure places on the piers The brass- founders'strike at Cincinnati has come to ail end, the strikers agreeing that their em­ ployers should hire and discharge whoever they pleased... .Nearly two thousand em­ ployes of an iron mill at Middlesborough- on-Tees have withdrawn their demand for an advance in wages and resumed work The Knights of Labor have purchased for their general headquarters a building on North Broad street, Philadelphia, for $65,000. THE great rolling-mill at Wheatland, Pa., is being repaired by Pittsburgh capT i|alists, and wilf be converted into* an tensive pipe iron mill, employing hundreds of men. is expected... .Greece has given to Franoe permission to excavate Delpni for remains of the temple.... The fortifications of Ca­ diz are being strengthened Unusual activity is reported at the Austrian nfie factories. A BILL has been introduced in the Reichsrath by the Austrian Government appropriating 12,000,000 florins for the equipment of the landwehr and landsturm. Large appropriations for similar purposes are asked from the Hungarian Diet. SIXTY British members of the House of Commons held a conference and adopted a resolution to call the attention of Parlia­ ment to the alleged packing of juries in the cases against Nationalists in Ireland.... A conflict occurred yesterday between a force of police on their way to execute a number of eviction orders and a part of the popula­ tion of Dingle, a seaport town in County Kerry. A number of men and women were injured. PBINCB BISMARCK emphatically denies the stories circulated by the opposition, as­ serting that the Government, in event of securing a majority in the new Reichstag, will introduce monopoly bills, measures extending military service to seven years, and suspend universal suffrage and even the Constitution The steamship Great Eastern was sold at auction in London for $130,000. She originally cost $4,000,000. THE RAILWAYS. THE Northern Pacific Road is building a car to Bupply light, heat, and pure water to passenger trains. It is to be placed imme­ diately behind the locomotive It is re- Korted that the Denver and Rio Grande oad is negotiating in London for funds to extend its track from Green River to Santa Cruz, 800 miles. AT an election held at Dubuque by the stockholders of the Qubuque and Sioux City road Edward H. Harriman and his as­ sociates of New York were chosen direct­ ors. All the votes cast by proxy were thrown out, and the ousted party are likely to appeal to the courts. OFFICIALS of the St. Paul Road are testing two system? of heating cars without stoves, one being the dissemination ofi steam from the locomotive through the* coaches by pipes. GE»EBAI. GENERAL FAIBCHILD, Commander-in- Chief of the G. A. R., has issued a circular recommending posts and comrades every­ where to immediately pass resolutions on the veto of the dependent pension bill,, and write to their Congressmen expressing their views on the President's action i The Boston Ball Club, bv the payment of $10,000 to the Chicagonifie, lias secured for next season the services of Michael Kelly, the best all-round player in the country.... A Winnipeg telegram states that "Alexan­ der McArthur, who has made a special study of Arctic exploration, and who has been in communication with the Smith­ sonian Institution, has started for Selkirk w th one companion and 1,400 pounds of supplies, their destination being the Nokh Pole. From York Factory they will travel by dog train. They have secured assist­ ance from American newspapers.".... Ar­ rangements are about to be made in New York for a race next month from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, between the schoon­ ers Coronet and Dauntless, for $10,000 a side. Each boat will carry twenty-four men. THE Minnesota Thrasher Company has been organized at New York with $5,000,- 000 and these officers: President, D. B. Dewey; Secretary, R. A. Kirk; Treasurer, F. A. Prince of Stillwater, Minn. It is understood that the company controls the credits of the Northwestern Car Company of Stillwater, Minn. FOBELTI^R A GENERAL European war is now re­ garded as imminent. Offensive and de­ fensive preparations are being made, and it is said that Bismarck is anxious to begin hostilities. Germany's alleged intention is to swoop down on France through Belgium. German officers are in momentarv expecta­ tion of being ordered out for parade or campaign, and have no doubt of the reality of the intention to commence war. The whole tone of Belgian talk is said to be in favor of Germany. An attempt was made to retire Gen. Boulanger, and while this action would have been entirely satisfactory to President Grevy, the Radical leaders brought pres­ sure to bear on the Cabinet which over­ ruled its intention, A popular revolt was hinted at by Gen. Boulanger's friends The French Government is purchasing: timber in Bohemia for the construction of barracks. All forts in Belgium along the frontier of France have received a complete war armament IN the British House of Commons an amendment to the address in reply to the Queen's speech offered by a Liberal mem­ ber in favor of an inquiry into the condi­ tion of farm laborers in Scotland was re­ jected by a vote of 198 to 96 Dispatches from the Soudan state that a prolonged : war between the Italians and Abyssinians ADDITIONAL SEWS. PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT'S nomina­ tion has been acted on adversely by the Senate Printing Committee. A Washing­ ton special to the Chicago Times says; The immediate ground for deciding against him is that the law requires that the office should bo held by a practical printer, and Mr. Benedict is not A practical printer. His busi­ ness is that of a publisher of a country paper. But, aside from this legal objection, he has not made a vi ry good impression here. He went into tbe office with tho idea, which he aired on every possible occasion, that everybody who ha.1 been in the office before him was a rascal* and that he had come on to institute reform with a capital It. Ho discharged several hun­ dred employes at once, on the ground that the pay-roll bad been run up far beyond' what the appropiiations warranted, but he hat since been gradually filling up the office again, until it is said on good authority that there are more people employed in the office than there' ever were before. When people have gone TO him for employment and presented letters from Senators he has intimated with an indiscreet degree of frankness that if they would gettheif hena'orlnl friends to confirm liini he would BED 1 what h S could do about making places for them, It isu t political etiquette to talk about swaping influence in this open and undisguised man? nor, and Senators do not like to be told thai they must bustled round and vote for the Pub* lie Printer's confirmation before he will treat their letters of recommendation with respect. These letters are sometimes given to really needy persons who are of no possible use to Senators, but whom kind-hearted Senators are wtlliug to help to find places where they can earn a dollar or two a day, are not exactly if position to go to Senators and make them vote for the Public Printer's confirmation. THE Knights of Labor and the Amalga­ mated Association of Iron and Steel Work­ ers are in conflict at Mingo, Ohio, regard­ ing a strike in the Junction Iron Works. The leaders of the Knights have ordered their men back, while the association will not permit its members to return until their demands are conceded. A conflict be­ tween both orders is imminent.... The Meier Iron Works, erected opposite South St. Louis at a cost of $1,500,000, are about to be started up, after having been idle for several years. THE anti-polygamy bill, whiuh had previously gone through the House, passed the Senate February 18, by 377 yeas to 13 nays. The first six sections of the bill apply to prosecutions for bigamy, adultery, etc., and make the wile or husband a competent witness, but do not com­ pel either to testify. Sections 7 and 8 give pow­ ers of Court Commissioners and of the Marshal and Deputy Marshals. Sections 9 and 10 apply to the marriage ceremony. They require a cer­ tificate, properly authenticated, to be recorded in the office or the Probate Court. Section 11 annuls all Territorial lawB recognizing the capacity of illegitimate children to inherit or be entitled to any dis­ tributive share in the estate of the father. Section 12 annuls territorial laws, con­ ferring jurisdietion upon Probate courts (with certain section* 13 and 11 make ifi the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute proceedings to escheat to the United States the property of corporations obtained or held in violation of section 3 of the act of July, 1862, the pioceeds of such escheat to be applied'to tbe use and benefit of common schools in the territory. Sections 15 and 1ft annul the charter of the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company and dissolve that cor­ poration, and forfeit all property and assets of the company in excess of debts and lawful claims to the benefit of common schools in the. territory. Section 17 dissolves the corporation of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and makes it the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute legal proceedings to wind up the affairs of the corporation. Section 18 pro­ vides for the endowment of widows, who are to have one-third of the income of the estate as their dower Section 19 gives to the President the appointment of a Probate Judge in each county. Section 2J annuls tne acts of the Leg­ islative Assembly which permit female suf­ frage. The next four sections make provisions for elections, and require of voters an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution and obey the laws, especially the anti-polygamy act of March 22, 1882, and this act. 8ei:*tion2» abolishes the office of Territorial Superintend­ ent of District Schools, and makes it the duty of the Supreme Court of the Territory to ap­ point a Commissioner of Schools. Section 20 gives to all religious societies, sects, and con­ gregations the right to hold, through trustees appointed by a Probate Court, property for houses of worship and parsonages. The 27th and last section annuls all Territorial laws for the organization of the militia, or for the creation of tbe Nauvoo Legion, and gives the Legislative Assembly of Utah ;>ower to pass laws for organizing the mill. ;ia, subject to the approval of Congress. General officers of the militia are to be ap­ pointed by the Governor of the territory with the advice' and consent of the council. A bill appropriating 84.663,101 for tho payment of Mexican and other pensions was favorably re. jjorted to the House. The House non-concurred :.n the Senate amendments to the invalid YEN* sion bill, and asked for a conference. Tlie House refused--yeas, 142 ; nays, 98--to pass the pension bill of Simmons W. Hart over tho Presi­ dent's veto. An evening session of the House was held to consider pension bills, and a large number were passed. THE MARKETB. NEW YORK. HKEVE8 Boas WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2. OATS--White PORK--New Mess f7..... CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common Hoos--Shipping Grades FIXITM--E.\ tra Spring WHKAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTEB-- Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE --F u l l Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new Eoos--Fresh 1'OTATOKS--Choice, per bu. POIIK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. 3.......*.,.... OATS--No. 2 RVE--NO. 1.. $4.30 5.30 5.65 @ 0.00 .90% .<« .91 .88?$,.# .89 .49>4 « .50 .38 & .42 14.00 e 11.2 J 5.23 4.60 3.35 5.35 4.25 .74 H <1 .3394$ .2394 .24 it .18 .1234 « .12J44 .15VJI5) .60 14.0) @ 5.50 (<# 5.10 (FT 3.70 @ 5.75 (J« 4.60 .75 PPIRJYRLJ •31* .25 .2514 .20 .13 .13 .16!$ .52 (314.25 PORK--Mess... WHEAT--No. A . COIIN--Casb ... OATS--No. 2.... TOLEDO. DETROIT. .74 .36 .31 .54 14.80 ® .741$ S* .AS<4 .315$ & .56 ($14.35 .80 & .38 & .80 BEEP CATTUE Hoos T-UKKP WHEAT-No. 1 White.... COBS--No. 2 OATS-White 4.50 4.50 5.<M .81 .88 .83 ST. LOCI& WHEAT--No. 2.... 77 C<.KN--M ixed 83 OATS--Mixed 27 PORK--Mesa 11.50 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 3 Ked 83 CORN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 - POHK--Mess. 14.00 .81 .88!$ .80»$ «* 5.0ft & 5.75 @ 5.50 ** .81/4 & .80 <3 .33!$ (A .78 @ .34 <SS .27!$ 615.00 4.55 .87*4® .43 ~ 4.50 LIVE HOO* BUFFALO. WHEAT--No 1 CORN--No. 2 Yellow CATTLE...: INDIANAPOLIS. BEEP CATTLB Hoos SHEEP WHKAT--NOW 2 Bed CORN--No. 2...... OATS EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best 5.00 Fair 4.50 Common 8.50 Hoos.. k YJ w............. 4.75 ,88 .30 ® ,3J @14.25 @ 5.55 .88 .44 <& 6.60 AUSTIN CORBIN/ The Railroad Magnate Secures Control of the Jersey^ .. ' Central. ^ k New Company Organized for the Purpose of Developing the . 'A ^Property. , [New York special.] It was mmored in railroad circles to-day that President Little of the New Jersey Central might resign before the date of the annnal election, in which case he would be succeeded by Austin Corbin. The latter and his friends are supposed to hold enough stock to control the May election, and why it should be held if not for that purpose is a mystery on "Change. Cor- bin's brokers have had another block of 10,- 0011 shares of Jersey Central stock tranferred to their name. This makes about 40,0(10 shares now held by them, ana it is under­ stood that, with the holdings by parties friendly to themf is sufficient to give them control of the rfad at the coming election. preparations to continue definitely, as a company ,ed under the title of the provement Company, the to provide means for the rsey Central, in which cannot be invested, s $1,000,000, and $350,- n issued in payment of of the Cumberland and which was lately added 1 system, • There seem to b, the receivership has been orga Jersey Central object of which development of the receiver's The capital stocl 000 has already stocks and Maurice Bailroi to the Jersey Ce: Austin Corbin ing Railroad Hampshire, am President of the Read- is a native of New bout seventy years old. 2.86 .79 .86 .20 (9 6.1S & 8.95 & 4.6) & .80 & .36!$ & .30 f6.15 4.73 & 4.00 & 6.W 0 6.03 His father was a lawyer with a small prac­ tice and after he had given his son an aca­ demic education, hf left him rely upon him­ self for his law studies. Like many an­ other great and successful man, he taught school for awhile, Aid out of his earnings as a pedagogue he saved money enough to pay for a coursdt in the Harvard Law School. He graduated with high honors and began the practice of bis profession at Newport, Rhode Island. He soon per­ ceived that the West afforded bim better opportunities for advancement and he went to Davenport, Iowa, intending to practice law there. He soon saw there were great opportunities for making money through loans to Western farmers, and, procuring capital from New Hampshire friends, he engaged in the business very successfully. He became interested in railroading, and in 1881, unsuspected by anyone, secured from the bands of MeeMML Drexel & Morgan a controlling intfliePv>NI <Abe Long IBIUUII Railroad system. -He also became largely interested in the I. B. & W. Railnoud, of which he is at present President. Ix>r years he has been interested in a scheme for rapid transatlantic travel, and believes that steamers oan be built which will run from the terminus of the Long Island Railroad, at Montauk Point, to England, in six days. Mr. Corbin has made his way from poverty up to his position as the owner of $25,000,- 000, and still he works hard, and will have to work hard, as Reading's President. WIZARD EDISON. Some of His Wonderful Inventions--What a Cincinnati Man Te.ls About the Work of the Great Electrician. ICincinnati special] A gentleman who has just returned from Florida, where he spent a month with Edison, said, in an interview to-day, speaking of the recently reported invention of artificial food: "He has already per­ fected this discovery so that an army need carry no food. All it needs is to take along two or thiee of Edison's machines and turn the elements into food, as it is needed. But he has been doing other things. For instance, he has invented what he calls the miragephone. It is like a telephone, only you look in it instead of putting it to your ear, and you see what is going on at the other end. By putting a mirage- ; )hone on the end of a telegraph wire at St. Louis, fixing the corresponding instrument at this end, you liave a perfect picture of what is going on there. He has also in­ vented a telegraph transmitter that writes its own message in typewriter. You put your message in a box at this end, turn a crank, and at the other end the typewriter rattles off with lightning speed. "To amuse his wife Be rigged up a buggy with electric motors in the hubs of the wheels. It would go at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Then he invented a new way to catch fish. All he does is to run a wire out on the bottom of the sea or river, and he has some electrical effect or other so that every fish that swiuis above it immedi­ ately dies and comes floating to the sur­ face." UNAUTHORIZED BOYCOTTS. Grand Master Powd«rly Says They Are Getting to Be a Nuisance, and Must Stop. [Philadelphia dispatch.] A local paper tmblishes a long article in reference to KnightB of Labor boycotts, in which it is stated the indiscriminate boy­ cotting by local assemblies is to be pro­ hibited by Mr. T. V. Powderly. "The increasing lack of high discipline in the big order," it says, "and the failure of the various district assemblies to keep close to the suggestions of the General Master Workman and his board have made Mr. Powderly's face anxious, and worried all his lieutenants. It is now certain that Powderly and his executive aids will 6oon direct their attention to curing these trou­ bles. Most of them exist the worst in the West, and most of all in Chicago." The article contains an interview with Mr. Powderly, in which he says his views on the subject of boycotting are well known, and he agrees with the members of the executive board, who declare that the boycotts against Phil Armour and others in Chicago are totally unauthorized. It is ad­ mitted that there is a socialistic element among the Chicago Knights, and it is hint­ ed that repressive measures will probably be &c&comin". ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. THE Senate held the shortest session on record on the 14th inst It was oalled to order at 5 o'clock by Senator Craw ford, end, at the in­ stance of the chaplain, pra^ar was dlstvensed with. Tne reading of the Journal was also dlsj pensed with, and an adjournment was moved and carried. Only fifty members answered to roll-call in the House. Bills were Introduced as follows: By Mr. Reynolds, providing that any person who shall fraudulently embezzle, remove, conceal, or dispose of any goods or chattels leased or let to him by any written lease or other instrument in writine intended to operate as a lease, or any personal property of another in his possession under contract of purchase not yet fulfilled; and any person in possession of such goods or chattels, knowing thorn to be subject to such lease or contract of purchase, who shall so embezzle, remove, conceal, or dispose of the same with Intent to injure or defraud the lessor or owner thereof, shall be deemed guilty of lar­ ceny and punished accordingly; by Leo P. Dwyer, requiring all storekeepers to close their respective places of business on Sunday--ex­ ceptions are made in favor of druggists and restaurant^lfeepers, who may keep open Bhop all day--bakprs, butchers, and cigar-dealers can do business up to Sunday noon; by Mr. George, requiring county assessors to collect and Bend the Adjutant General for publication the names and addresses of all ex-soldiers of the rebellion in the Stata ; by Mr. Kohrback, adding a section to the con­ spiracy law, punishing those who combine to corner the market in bt:iple articles of food, fuel, or clothing--be attempts to reach non­ residents as well as citizens of Illinois by the provisions of the bill; by Mr. Tagunrt, prohib­ iting nepotism in the appointment of officials at State institutions--the bill is intended to work the discharge of all relatives of trustees, super­ intendents, etc.. in the employ of the State ; by Mr. Crawford, abolishing grand juries and legal­ izing presentments or * informations tiled in criminal cases by prosecuting attorneys. THE Senate bill providing that the President Of a town shall not hereafter be elected by the Board of Trustees nor be entitled to vote as a Trustee except in case of a tie vote, but shall be elected by the people, passed the Senate on the 15th inst. The bill contained an emergency clause. Mr. Curtis' Senate bill 4 passed the Senate. It amends the act to exempt the homestead from forced sale. Senator Funk's pleuro pneumonia bill, forming a board of Live Stock Commissioners and nettina forth its powers, was put on its final passage. It contains an emergency clause, and failed to get the necessary 34 affirmative votes and was recommitted to ttie Agricultural Committee. Mr. O'Connor of Cook introduced A bill appropriating £5,000 for tlie erectlcn of a statu-J to the memory of General James Shields, to be placed in the old Representa­ tive Hall in Washington. There are consti­ tuted as a Board of Commissioners for the pur­ pose : Austin L. Patterson, Bernard Callaghan, Melville E. Stone, W. P. Bend, and Martin J. Russell. Another bill by Mr. O'Connor prohib­ its superintendents and other employes of Stata charitable institutions from being eligible to the office of Secretary of the Board of Trustees or the institution in which they act. Mr. Schoene- wald presented the bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Leman to prevent and punish the adulteration of drugs, food, etc. Mr. Schar- lau'S bill appropriating $35,000 for the payment of damages for animals killed by order "of the live-stock commissioners passed. Senator Bell introduced a bill for a general banking law. It authorizes the incor]>oration of associations to do all kinds of banking business except issuing money. One feature of the bill is the provision that each shareholder shall be liable in a sum double the amount of stock for all the debts of the association. Bills were also introduced by Mr. Hill, to compel all rail­ roads to run exclusive passenger trains each way over their lines once a day ; by Mr. Burke, to regulate the drawing 'of contracts between laborer and employer; and by Mr. Humphrey, to provide for the incorporation of metropol­ ian towns. The Senate confirmed the nom­ ination of William Mitchell as Agent of the Humane Society at the Chicago Stock Yarils. In tbe House Mr. Wells called for the third reading of the HOUSE bill appropriating #4 >,000 for the expenses of the Quincy Soldiers' Home to July 1. The bill passed by a vote of 118 yeas to 1 nay, Campbell of Hamilton voting no. Bills were introduced in tho House, by Mr. Faxon, to prevent gambling in stocks, bonds, etc., providing that ULL appeals from justices of TILE peace shall be taken to the Coun­ ty Court except In Cook Count- ty; by Mr. Herrick, requiring railroad companies and all other common carriers upon the arrival at the destination of goods carried by them to give notice of the arrival to con­ signees, and the liability as common carriers of such companies shall continue for twenty-four hours after giving the notice ; by Mr. Fisher, to tax dining and sleeping cars ; and by Mr. Con­ way, providing for the assessment and taxation of telegraph companies. The House PASSED the bill to reimburse owners of catt'e killed during the pleuro-pneumonia Bcare. SENATOII BACON, of Will, introduced a resolu­ tion in the Senate, on the ltith, providing for the appointment of a.committee of five bv the chair to investigate the pay-roll of employes of the Senate, ami report as to how many can be dis­ pensed with. The resolution was adopted. Sen­ ator Bell introduced and bad READ for informa­ tion a resolution reciting the fact of the declina­ tion of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to appoint a court of cllaims, and providing for the appointment of a joint committee to investi­ gate tbe • claims now on file in the Auditor's office, and to recommend to the General Assem­ bly the payment of such as appear to be just. Senator Cochran introduced a joint resolution which recited at great length tho fact that the amendment to the constitution prohibiting con­ vict contract labor, adopted at the last general election, was not sufficiently published and properly understood by tho people, and provid­ ing for submission to tho people of a constitu­ tional amendment ty return to the contract sys­ tem. A message was recoived from the Gov­ ernor nominating Dr. John Casewell of Chi­ cago, to the position of State Veterinarian. Sen­ ator Washburn introduced an amendment to the constitution changing the time of holding elections for Circuit Judges, and to make their terms of office six years. Senator Hilt intro­ duced a bill to prevent fraud against hotel- keepers by prescribing a penalty. The follow­ ing bills were also introduced: By Senator Berggren, revising the law covering co-operative life insurance companies; tbe bill was prepared by Auditor Swigert and prominent insurance men ; by Senator ADAMS/ appropriating J to pay convicts to work in manufacturing blank books for the use of town, city, county, and State officers; by Senator Leinan, making seduction a criminal offense In the House of Representatives there was a long debate on the bill to reduce the rate of interest. Mr. Fuller offered an amendment fo his original (> per cent, bill, which changed 8 per cent, wherever it occurs on the statutes, and inserted 7 per cent, instead. The umendment was finally adopted, and the bill, as amended, was ordered t> a third reading. Mr. McMillan introduced a bill requiring wardens of penal institutions to keep records of the inmates and their histories. SM.ATOR KEINHAKBT introduced a joint reso­ lution in the Senate, Feb. 17, tor a committee of inquiry into the proposed Chicago drainage and the danuer to the people on the Illinois River in case the same should be adopted. Bills were introduced as follows: By Senator Organ, to do away with the holding of coroners' inquests in caseB where no doubt exists as to the manner of deuth; by Senator Darnell, to prevent the bringing into the State of pauper children to be bound out; by Senator SlcGrath, giving the militia $2 a day when ordered out to suppress riots. The Senate bill fixing the pav of members of the General Assembly at $1,0)0 after 1881) was read a third time. Tho section in regard to a member being allowed mileage unless BO traveled upou a pans was looked upon as nonsensical, and a motion was made to recommit to the committee to have that cause stricken out, but it failed to carry. Tlie bill was then placed upon its pass age and killed because of its being unconstitu­ tional, as alleged, in that it would change the compensation of those Senators already elected, which is strictly prohibited by constitutional enactment. The bill fixing tho age of consent at 14 years was ordered to third reading An amendment to make the age lf> was rejected--'L> to la. Tho age of guilt in males was raised from 14 to 1G years. Mr. Crafts introduced A_ bill in the House pro­ viding for six additional'judges in Cook County. A very important bill slipped into third reading in the House, without discussion or debute. ITI fact, none of tho members appeared to know the meaning of tho measure. It prohibits tho confession of judgment 011 cognovits in the va­ cation of judges of courts of record. The pro­ ceeding nniHt take place in open conrt . A b i l l providing for the release from arrest (.f insolv­ ent debtors gave rise to an extended debate. The original bill limited tbe imprisonment to six months. A substitute made a .limit or'one year. The bill was ainendtd limiting the im­ prisonment to six months, requiring a schedule, and made to apply to all persons under arrest for debt . I f i t becomes a law Mr . Chapman wi l l work out of the Cook County jail on filing a s a t i s fac tory s c h e d u l e of h i s in so lvency . A d i l l was sent to third reading providing tliut in ease the lessee of any house or building is convicted of keeping a disorderly house tbe lessor has the right to void the lease. A second convicti 11 renders the lease nugatory without action on the part of the landlord. , RETIREMENT OF MANNING. The. Correspondence on the 8nb- • ject with President "<K- ' Cleveland. • A Negro Murderer Lynched* Kavasota (Texas) special."| Monday Deputy Sheriff Upchureh was shot by Jim Richards, a negro, at Dediaa, thirty miles from here. tTpchurch had Kichnrds under arrest, aud the latter, watching his opportunity, jerked IJp- church's pistol out of its scabbard and in­ flicted the fatal wound. About sundown Monday evening over seventy-five masked men, armed to the teeth, took Richards from the custody of the guarts and swung him to a neighboring tree. The Secretary elves His Reasons for Vacating His Place itt Ow Cabinet#. . " '• PoMcrtdttg Is Ihe correspondenfie between the President and Secretary Manning <in regard to the latter's withdrawal from the Cabinet: MANNING'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION. MY DEAR SIB : In view of the near adjourn­ ment of Congress, and in order that time may suffice for the selection and confirmation of my successor, I desire again to place my resigna­ tion of the office of Secretary of the Treasury in your hands, and trust that you will now deem its acceptance no detriment to the public serv­ ice. When you requested me last June to delay insisting upon the aeceptance of my resignation as again in our conference last October, you honored me with such terms of personal consid­ eration and exprissed so grave a decision in respect to the requirements of the public serv­ ice that it was as impossible to question my duty as to forget your kindness, I have not spared myself in the endeavor to comply with your wish and to contribute to the support of the policies which have illustrated your admin­ istration. The approaching end of the Forty- ninth Congress marks a period in your own term of onice and in the divisions of our polit­ ical calen .iar. If a change must occur in tho heads of departments and at your council board it is clear that your personal convenience and the public interests are best subserved should it occur now. Moreover, the financial situation is to be seriously different from that which opened before us when the present Con­ gress entered upon its life and upon the opportunities created by transfer of the people's trust to new hands. In this most critical condition the circumspect execution of a w se fiscal policy, or of administrative reforms in the collection and disbursements of our collosal revenues, is not alone demanded, thou eh labors such as these have exacted una exhibited the abilities of our foremost statesmen Bince the constitution of the Government. But there is also an exhausting ground of daily administra­ tive tasks which, however subordinate and clerical, an efficient Secretary of the Treasury cannot, or should not, evade. These are tasks beyond my present strength. I there­ fore submit to your considerate judgment that in asking release by the 4th of March, or as soon A£ you may select my successor, I fulfill a duty to my family that may now be permitted to outweigh the duty of accepting longer that as­ signment of public service which, two years ago, you did me the honor to make. Iteturning to the ranks of that great party which has called you to its lead, I shall st 11 hope to follow its fortunes, under your successful guidance, with a fellow-citizen's loyal pride. Very respect­ fully yours, DANIEL MANNING. CLEVELAND TO MANNING. Mr DEAR SIR : Your formal letter of resigna­ tion which I have received, though not entirely unexpected, presents the reality of a severance of our official relations, and causes me the deep­ est regret. This is tempered only by the knowl­ edge that the frank and friendly personal rela­ tions which have unbrokenly existed between us are still to continue. I refer to these because such personal relations supply, after all, whatever of comfort and pleasue tho world affords, and be­ cause I feel it to be almost superflous to speak of the aid and support you have given me and the assistance you have furnished to the ad­ ministration of the Government during the time you have directed the affairs of the exact­ ing and laborious office which you now seek to surrender. Your/labors, your achievements, your success, ANFT your devotion to public duty are fully seen.'and known, and they challenge the appreciation and gratitude of all your coun­ trymen. Since I must at last relinquish my hope of your continuance at my SID-) as coun­ selor and colaborer, and since I cannot ques­ tion the reasons on which your request to be re­ lieved is based, it only remains for me to a3- cept the resignation you have tendered, and to express my profound thanks for all that you have done for me in shar­ ing manfully my labors and perplexities of the last two years. I feel that I may still ask of you that the 1st day of April next be fixed as the date at which your resignation shall take effect, and that you will so regulate what re­ mains to you of official duty in the meantime as to secure that measure of freedom from vexa­ tious labor which you have so justly earned. With the earnest hope that in any new path of life you may hereafter follow there may be al­ lowed to you more of comfort and of ease than a conscientious discharge of duty here permits, I am very sincerely your friend, GRQVEB CLEVELAND. The Succ«8»lon. [Washington telegram.] The President will nominate a snocessor to Secretary Manning before the adjourn­ ment of Congress, bnt the appointment will not take effect, however, before April 1. Secretary Manning's resignation will not change the Treasury bond-call policy. The department will continue to call the three per cent, bonds as rapidly as the revenues permit, at intervals of not more than thirty days, and extinguish tbe three per cent, funded debt within three or four ihonths. It is understood that the President has been entirely satisfied as to the legality and propriety, of the actions of the Treasury which were called into question by Messra. Weaver, Warner, Bland, and others. Pierre Lorillard'K Great Slide. Through the instrumentality of Pierre Lorillnrd, America has the longest toboggan slide in the world, being over 4,000 feet in length from end to'end, while the Orange chute is only 1,004 feet long, the Saratoga The Submarine Boat. With reference to the submarine boat, which has attracted some atten­ tion in the daily papers, it may be as well to point out that the idea is cer­ tainly more than two hundred anil fifty' years old, for in the reign of James ?. a Dutchman named Drebble, constructed a boat which traveled un­ der the surface of the Thames. Since then many submarine vessels have been designed, bnt none of them as yet accomplished what lias been done by Prof. Tuck's Peacemaker in the Hudson 1 liver, New York. That ve»<- sel apparently dives with ease, and re­ turns to the surface as desired. A very Eowerful submarine vessel is being uilt to the designs of Mr. Xerdenfelt, with engines of J,U00-horse"power, and it will probably be ready for trial in Southampton watyr the spring.-- Enalish Mechanic. 1,200 feet, and tbe much vaunted Montreal slide is bnt 1,(500 feet. The Lorillnrds are known to fame through their immense tobacco enterprise, and also ns being en­ thusiastic turfmen. The Lorillard stables are world-famed, and Tuxedo Park, which Pierre Lorillard has instituted in Jersey, is a swell thing conducted on English plans, ideas and principles. Mr. Loiillard's retirement from the Ameri- ban raciug track iu the year 1884 was one of short duration, and the recent talk that his farm, llancocns, would be sold with the sale of tbe horses had no foundation, as Mr. Lorillard has Raid (hat Bancocas would not be sold, and that he would keep ull the foals of this year of the horses sold--some fifty in number--and that Pierre, Jr.. would keep all the geldings, so that in all proba­ bility father and son will enter and run distinct stables. Mr. Lorillard, Sr., spends lavishly not only upou himself and friends but also upon the employt s of his factoty. A recent addition to ihe privileges enjoyed by his workmen is a large library erec ed for the free use of auy employe on the presentation of the factory card. A school is attached which seat* three hundred chil­ dren, and the entire expense of tho estab­ lishment is borne by Pierre Lorillard & Co., who feel a just pride in the success of this work. War In Europe. The threatening clouds of war are gath­ ering over Europe, and any hour may bring to our ears the opening thunders of such a tempest as that continent has not known since Bonaparte's star went down at Water­ loo. Everything points to an early clash of arms, and when it does come it wiil bo such a struggle as may considerably alter the com­ plexion of the map of Europe. Franoe but waits the opportunity -to repay Germany for the humiliation of Sedan, and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine; Russia has the old score of the Crimea to settle with England, and the dream of years to crystallize into a realty in the possession of Constantinople and the Bosphorus; Austria cannot remain idle in such a conflict, therefore when war does come it will be a battle of the giants. That it has been deferred thus far is only a stroke of diplomacy to gain time for more perfect preparation. \ NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. Whs* 1» Betas Doae by the tional Lcgistrture. A RESOLUTION was adopted by tbe Senat* oct the 14th requesting the President to furnish. copies of all correspondence relating to the Cutting affair. Senator Butler introduced a bill for the erection of a national memorial bridge over the Potomac River from Washington to Arlington. Mr. Cullotn presented a memorial in the Senate from the Illinois House of Repre­ sentatives in favor of pensioning soldiers over60 years of age. The Senate adopted a resolution re­ questing the President to search the records for information as to the services rendered in the Kevolutionary War by Count 1'ulaaUi. A peti­ tion was received from colored citizens of Mississippi asking S1U0 each to transport them to Liberia, on the ground that "the country can very well dispense with their presence." The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Keceiver of Public Moneys, Everett B. Sanders, of Klroy, Wis., at Wnsau. Wis. Surveyor of Customs, John Vanderlinge, of Missouri, for the port of St. Joseph, Mo. Post­ masters--At White Haven, Pa., Alvin Ar­ nold ; Glasgow, Ky., James A. Smith ; Bellevue, Ohio, Gustave Dangeleisen; Delphos, Ohio, Charles E. Shenk; Kevauee, 111., Andrew F„ Bigelow; Poqtiac, III., Mark A. Kenoe; Mar­ shall. 111., Peter Conohy; Princeton, 111., Jamea M. McConihe ; Muskegon, Mich., Frank H. Hol- brook; St. Ignace, Mich., Michael F. Mulcrone; St. Charles, Minn., Hiram W. Hill; llussel, Kan., Hoy 8. Gi.ldings; Wilson, Kan., C. F. Keyner; Schuyler, Neb., Levi C. Smith. Thomas B. Connery, of New York, was con­ firmed as Secretary of Legation at the City of Mexico. Tho House of Representativea tabled a resolution calling for certain informa­ tion in regard to employes and materials in the various navy yards. Bills were introduced fOr a commission to revise the pension laws, for full reciprocity between the United states and Canada, and for a constitutional amendment requiring tho election of Senators by the people. Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, offe -ed the following resolution: "That the Secretary of State be re­ quested to inform tbe House whether the treaty of Ghent, by which peace was consummated be­ tween the United States and Great Britain in. December, 1814, and ratified by the Seuate in February, 1815, is construed to inhibit the Uni­ ted States from maintaining an eft'ecti\e navy 011 the Northern lakes bordering the Dominion of Canada; and, also, whether the construction by Great Britain of the Welland canal is not in effect a violation of the treaty of Ghent, and, in case of war with that country, a menace to the safety of our lake-board cities." The resolution was referred. SENATOR MITCHEM, (Oregon) introduced a. resolution in the Senate, on the 15th inst., di­ recting the Attorney General to advise the Sen­ ate whether the Union or Central Pacific Com­ pany has violated the provisions of the Thur- man act, and if so whether any proceedings have been instituted by the Attorney General for the purpose of judicially enforcing the for­ feiture of all rights, privileges, grants, and franchises. The Senate refused to acoept. the House amendments to the trade-dol- lar bill, and appointed Messrs. Jones, Morrill, and Beck as a committee of conference. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Capt. Adolphus W. Greely. Fifth Cavalry, to be Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of Brigadier General. Postmasters-- George W. McDonald, Attica, Ind.; Hugh Mc­ Laughlin, Iron Mountain, Mich.; \V. W. Dekay, Red Wing, Minn.; It. M. Scotr, Ashland, Neb.; J. L. Hanna, Oakland, Cal. Mr. Thomas of Illinois reported to the House from the Commit­ tee on Naval Affairs the bill to increase the naval establishment, aud it was referred to the committee of the whole. MB. CAMERON'S bill for the construction of ten steel-protected cruisers passed the Senate on the ltith. The credentials of David P. Turpie as Senator from Indiana were laid before the Senate. The Senate retaliation bill, with a substitute therefor, was reported back to the House. A bill for the organization of the Ter­ ritory of Alaska was reported from the House Committee on Territories. Mrs. Logan aud her children occupied seats in the Speaker's pew of the House during the delivery of eulogies upon the deceased Senator. More than fifty mem­ bers desired to spuak, but only a few found the opportunity. A message from the President vetoing the bill appropriating tfio.uoo for the distribution of seeds in the counties of Texas that suffered from drought. Tho President says : "I feel obliged to withhold my upproval of tlie plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds for that pur. pose. I can find no warrant for such an appro­ priation in the constitution, und 1 do not be­ lieve that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benottt. A prevalent tendency to disregard tbe limited mission of this power and duty should, 1 think, be steadfastly re­ sisted to the end that the lessou should be con­ stantly enforced that, thouuli the people sup­ port the Government,the Government should not support tbe people. The friendliness and char­ ity of our countrymen can alwuvs be relied up­ on to relieve their fellow-citizens iu misfortune. This has bocn repeatedly and quite recently demonstrated Federal aid in such cases en­ courages the expectation of paternal cat e on the part of the Government, and weakens the sturdi- UCBS of our national character, while it pre­ vents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthen tbe bonds of a common brotherhood. It is within my personal knowl­ edge that individual aid has to srt'me extent already been extended to the sufferers men­ tioned in this bill. The failure of the proposed appropriation of $10,000 additional to meet their remaining wants will not necessarily result in continued distress if tho emergency is fully made known to the people of the country. It ia here suggested that the Commissioner of Agri­ culture is annually directed to expend a large sum of money for the preparation and distri­ bution of seeds and other things of this de­ scription, two-thirds of which are, upon the re­ quest of Senators, Representatives, and dele­ gates in Congress, supplied to them for distri­ bution amouc their constituents. The appro­ priation of the current year for this pur­ pose is $100,000, and it will probatdy be no less in the appropriation for the ensuing year. I understand that a large quantity of gruin is fumishea for such distribution, and it is supposed that this free apportionment among their neighbors is a privilege which may be waived by oiir Senators and Representatives. If sufficient of them should request the Commis­ sioner of Agriculture to send their shares of the grain tlius allowed them to tho Buffering farm­ ers of Texas tliey might be enabled to sow their crops. The constituents for whom, in theory, this grain is intended, could well bear the tem- l>orary deprivation, and the donors would expe­ rience the satisfaction attending deeds of char­ ity. " A BILL providing for an additional Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of the Territory of New Mexico, passed the Senate Feb. 17. Mr. Hale's bill appropriating 915,10J,0J0 for the con­ struction of gun-boats, torpedo-boats, and heav­ ily armored vessels for coast defense, and an act for the delivery to their rightful owners of certain boxes deposited in the Treasury Depart­ ment by the Secretary of War, were also pasBed. Mr. Vest offered a substitute for the Eads Tehuantepec Ship-Railway bill, which provides for the incorporation by Jauies B. Ends and some eighty other persons named of the Atlan­ tic and Pacific Ship-Railway Company, with a capital stock not to exceed tlOO,OJO,dOJ. The substitute was passed--yeas 46, nays 7--with an amendment thereto offered by Senator Van Wyck providing that 110 certificate of stock shall be issuea until it shall have been fully paid for in money at par value, aud pro­ hibiting the issuance of bonds in excess of the paid-in capital or the disposal of tbe same at less than their par value. Mr. Wilson presented a petition from citizens of Iowa in favor of a National Board of Arbitra­ tion. The President sent the following nomi­ nations to tho Senate: Samuel N. Aldrich, of Massachusetts, to be assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston; John M. Mercer, of Iowa, to be Surveyor of Cus­ toms at Burlington, Iowa; Owen Mc- Glouglilln, of Iowa, to be Surveyor of Customs, Dubuque, Iowa; Arthur K. Delaney, of Wisconsin, to De Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska; postmaster at Cleveland, William W. Armstrong ; Charles E. Broyles, of Colorado, to be Register of the Land Oiiice at Del Norte, Col. The House of Representatives passed the diplomatic and consular appropria­ tion bill. By a vote of Hi to 100 tho Texas seed bill failed to pass over the President's veto. Tbe votu against consideration of the pension veto was 140 to 113. The conference report on the anti-Mormon bill was adopted by a vote jaX AU2 to 40. Didn't Want to Be Alone. ' • A young man who called on a yoting lady one eveniug was surprised to hear from the hall staircase--"Sister, have you caught the cat?" The little girl replied, "I'll have her in a minute !• In a few minutes the child appeared in the parlor, and, sitting by the stove, laid the cat 011 a rug. Pussy seemed to be content with its nest, for the parlor had been warmed in expectation of tlie coming man. When the yonng lady appeared the little sister bowed polite­ ly and went out of the room. Once during the evening the cat started toward the doorway, but its owner hastily closed the door and sent it back by tlie stove. The visitor's curiosity could be curbed no longer and he in­ quired why she was so anxious to keep the cat in the parlor. No answer waa given at first, but one was insisted upon, when she said: "Y011 remember, my dear, that at the 'Mission' two weeks ago one of the fathers said that no young woman should be alone when she received a young gentleman. I did not want any other person around when you called, so 1 have determiued to avoid being alonie by having the cat al­ ways with me--at least as long as we remain single!" Tlie explanation satisfactory it is needless to say.