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1 VM tOrtlL Editor z«i PaMMtt. IBT, - ~ *- """ ILLINOIS. *&&&&&mm vmmvxmx'm. a AIMED AT SBNATBAN SB IS NOT ENCOURAGING. MNitt BUSINESS SITUATION, ' LESS SATISFACTORY. IS #rinni «*per M|r ®iy Good* Houh Burned--It'i Mot V{Mu*>PnenmoiiU -- Many Towns in ' ftaagsi --Indians l>xlng of 1a Orlppt --•» bvMtl|ato a Keeley IwUMfc • f« The ta«mak«ri< . Owing to the fact that the Congressional Mcuralon to Chicago was to start early In the afternoon of the 19th few Senators were ereeemt, aad the Senate adjourned early. A Nil appropriating $*00,000 for a public bkiMing at Tacoma, Wash., was passed, "n auk Was also on© granting the right of way f In the Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Com- riy across the Fort Pembina Reservation North Dakota. In the House the an­ nouncement of the purpose to call un the tariff question about the first of March wad in*de in the Ways and Means Committee, at a brief session of the full committee.!; Republicans did not object- Mr. Bland of­ fer ed|a resolution providing for a reprint of the silver bill and for printing 10,000 ad-' dftlonal copies of the majority and minor­ ity reports. Both Senate and House ad­ join net; until the 23d. < Dun 4 Co.'s Weekly Review, ffi/^ G. Dtrs * CSo.'s Weekly Trade lito- view says: The business situation Is not so satisfac­ tory or encouraging as it has been. While the gradual increase in distribution of Stany Hues of merchandise continues, there. Ssshrlnking demand and much depression in Iron. A further decline in cotton blights hopes of revival in the Southern trade, v; and the speculative mania, stimulated llf cheap money and by the great •access of the coal speculation, now ex- ' tends to wheat and threatens to restrict ex- j ' p o r t s . N o t w i t h s t a n d i n g t h e f a c t t h a t e x - *. 1 PWts of wheat have been diminishing, and j". ifor four days of the present wees have tieen only 800,000 bushels from Atlantic *; . ports., while Western receipts continue if, large, speculation at Chicago has lifted fc the price 6J^ cents during the week, and •ales have been 57,000,000 bushels. An advance from any cause which cuts' off exports of breadstuffs at a time when , ; Europe has heavy for stocks riy taarked here would not be wholesome. Corn .•v. lias declined half a cent, with large ex- V i; parts, but large receipts. Pork products, oats, and coffee are substantially un- ? changed, and oil Is 1% cents higher on small transactions. Cotton is a shade !; • lower, receipts being 24 per cent better for ,,,, jreek than l«»i year, but «uerts $ *****' ! -- - Condensed News, "' , C THE West Missouri Stock-growers' Association was formed at Dickiitson, - N. D. PERSISTEKT rumors reach London of disturbances in Brazil, but no authentic news can be obtained. - • THE ice gorge in the Allegheny River extends from Bed Bank to Foxburg, a [£v, distance of twenty-nine miles. ! GOLD fever is running amuck in Col­ orado. Every one is making a mad ,r *ush for claims in the new diggings at Ouray. I' THE striking miners at Coal Creek, Tetin., were frustrated in a grand plan of rushing an attack on the troops and gvards. INDIANS are preparing to hold a grand council at Pine Ridge, 8. P., to fix the boundaries of the South Dakota reser­ vations. THE Canadian Pacific announces that It will double track its road between Innipeg and Fort William, on Lake rior. THE New York Senate has ordered that the methods and system of the Xeeley Institute at White Plains he in­ vestigated. THE Immense dry-goods house of F<( IK. McGillen & Co., at? Cleveland, wan totally destroyed by fire. The loss will .reach $600,000. THE Indians about Osage Agency are dying on every side from the grip, and Hie disease is playing fearful havoc among the braves. THE regular annual proclamation of Ike President warning all persons •gainst illegal sealing in Behring Sea 'teas been prepared. / , ST. Lotus hotels declined to give apartments to Sarah Bernhardt unless ahe would forego the company of her snakes, dogs, parrots, etc. THE disease said to be pleuro-pneu- ttenia, which has broken out among the oattle of the Northwest Territory, turns out to be something else. There is no danger of its spreading. THE American bark Tamerlane was Wrecked on the rocks off Puna, Sand­ wich Islands, and the captain and sev­ enteen men were drowned. The officers bad lost their reckoning. Two BBOTHEBS named Rump, one a cooper at Gadebush and the other a Joiner at Hamburg, have inherited 1,100,000 rubles through'the death of a distant relative by marriage who died In Russia. "HOME 8EC»ET A»* MATTHEWS denies Ifeat Dr. Gallagher, the Irish political prisoner, is insane, and states that his health is satisfactory. Communica­ tions from other Irish prisoners assert the direct contrary. MB. VOOBHBES presented a petition from citizens of Veedersburg, Ind., in Hie Senate, praying that the Pinkerton detective force be either abolished by law or incorporated into the military forces of the country. HABKY DALEY, aged 9, has Just died at Baltimore from the effects of a mos­ quito bite last summer. A swelling of. the leg ensued, and when the doctors declared that an operation was neces­ sary the boy was too weak to stand the . *bock. THE Bossick mine at Silver Cliff, Col., lias been sold to New York and San Ipranclseo parties for $1,000,000. FBIEXDS of Senator Quay in Phila­ delphia luKe recently received letters from St. Lucc, Fla., where the Senator, la staying, that his health lias not been IflB} >roved by his sojourn there. It is paid that he is threatened with pneu­ monia. This, coupled with tho news from Washington that Mrs. Qua)' had Started for St. Luce, Fla., to be with her husband, causes uneasiness among tho Senator's friends. 4 4. ^EASTERN. • •' . \ • - o *4-1 •• :A PASSENOEB train crashed Inio a horse-car at the Broad street crossing to Jfawark from New York. Seven persons teoelved dangerous injuries. . FIVE men were badly burned, one (totally, at a foundry at Pittsburg, Pa., bjr tB explosion of molten metal caused t>y cold water dropping into the metal. INVESTIGATION discloses the fact the building in Pittsburg, Pa., oc- J by Saftta and Fergaspi, Italian dealers, which burned sir weeks wadset on fire aapp an " " ̂ perished . a mecsber of Ifaftbu, and; lofeA Mazza, at employe, are held on the charge of manslaughter and arson.- FIKE in the extensive works of the Tygert-Allcn Fertiliser Company, at Greenwich Point, Pa^ destroyed most of the buildings, causing a loss estimated at $50,000. JOHN AND AXDBBW BOAHOCH, Hun* garians engaged as oil-drillers at Mc­ Donald, I^a., were run down by an ex­ press on the Pan Handle Railroad and instantly killed. CORONER SHBA, of New York, is con­ ducting an inquest upon the seventeen victims of the Hotel Royal Are. Night Clerk Underwood has disappeared and cannot be found.' * ' " . ' / TUB Massachusetts G. A. St., by unanimous vote, has indorsed the general order of Commander-in-chief Palmer protesting against the use of the Con­ federate flag on any oocasion. JOHN W. Hi ACHAT has filed a notice of appeal to the New York Supreme Gourt from the judgment of-$90,166 ub- t*in?d by EdTTm4 5. Swkcs la utd otiit growing out of the telegraph deal. e \ 1" WESTERN. . if4"^etdeen, S. D., six members of the Executive Committee of the State Bankers' Association decided, to hold the annual meeting of the association at Madison May 25 and 26, The associa­ tion is testing the constitutionality of the new banking law in court and ex­ pects a favorable decision in a few days. If unfavorable it will be appealed. THE machine hands employed in the Panhandle s||ops at Indianap lis, Ind., went out on a strike on account of a difference regarding work. Heretofore the men have been employed by the day at an average compensation of 23 cents an hour. The company determined £o place the men on piece work, and when the men were notified the sixty-five machinists laid down; their tools and walked out. ! Mits. CHIPPEWA, the largest woman in the world, died recently at Dog Lake Indian Reservation, on the shore of Lake Menitoba,5 distant from Winnipeg a lit­ tle over one hundred miles. The avoir­ dupois of deceased was phenomenal. She tipped the scales at over seven hun­ dred pounds a few days before her death. She was 5 feet and 11 inches in height, and a lull-blooded squaw. The body was placed in a coffin seven feet long and five feet across. She was married to an Indian weighing less than one hundred pounds. EMMA and Julia Cassidy are daughters of Sarah Cassidy, who died at Law- renceburg, Ind., leaving an estate worth about $4,000, over which there has been much litigation. Recently the two girls obtained judgment for $1,000 against the estate. Several nights ago the home­ stead in which the girls were living was burned to the ground and the girls took shelter in a friend's house. One night last week this was set afire, but the girls escaped with their lives. They believe that someone is trying to murder them, and the matter will be brought to the attention of the grand jury. THE story from Chicago to the effect that Carl Peterson had made " a state­ ment that Carlyle Harris' wife, Helen Potts, used morphine for her complex­ ion, and that probably an overdose, self- administered, caused her death, is not genevallv credited. The dispatch de- icribes Peterson as a friend of Harris, who is now engaged to Miss Molly Meek­ er, of Asbury Park, an intimate friend of Helen Potts, and says that at the time of the morphine incident Peterson, Carlyle Harris, and Miss Potts were "all at Asbury Park together." An As­ bury special says: "Miss Meeker and her mother say they know nothing what­ ever of Mr. Peterson. None of the mem­ bers of the family of Harris' wife know anything about Peterson." SOUTHERN. Congress THE National Real Estate convened at Nashville, Tenn. •* SEVERAL slight earthquake shocks were felt at Louisville. The movement was from east to west." WII*IIIAH CABTEB, son of a well-known horse dealer at Gallatin, Tenn., was shot dead by a, tough citiizen. A MASS-MEETING was held at Mon­ terey, Mexico, and the universal choice seemed to be Diaz* re-election. ANOTHEB Republican and anti-lottery State ticket has been nominated in Louisiana, with John E. Breaux for Governor. ' FIVE men lost their lives in a Louis­ ville, Ky., fire while trying to rescue a man supposed to have been in the structure. THE Memphis fire caused $10,000 damage to the stock of Mrs. A. K. Sloan, milliner. Mrs. Sloan, her mother and young son were rescued with difficulty from the third floor of the building. In attempting to succor the imprisoned in­ mates the firemen cut all the Western Union wires running to the North and East and shut Memphis off from the rest of the world for a time. AT New Orleans, fire broke out in the drf*goods stora "of A. ScKarz k §on§, corner Canal and Bourbon streets, and in less than ten minutes the place ablaze from ground to roof. The sky­ light gave way and the flames shot up more than a hundred feet above the walls and the heat was so great that the fire­ men could not go near the burning building. In half an hour the place was completely burned and the walls fell in. The fire then spread to adjoining build­ ings and before finally subdued had de­ stroyed property to the amount of $2,- 000,000. , , he staT«s eoiitalnb% aem or upwaid in flax. Wisconsin had the Mgheet aver­ age ytald of llax seed per acre, 1K.48 bushels, and the highest average value per aclre of all flax products. 7 >OLITiGAU~ THE Florida Democratic State Con­ vention will be held at Tampa on June 1 next. T&E Cleveland Democrats, according to a St. Paul dispatch, had everything their own way at the fttate meeting there. At the Democratic Association of Minnesota meeting, a count of noses indicated that all present except half a doa»n were enthusiastic for the ex- President. A proposition of amalgation from the North Star Club, the alleged Hill organization of the State, was re­ ceived and discussed at some length without action. The State Central Committee met with all tho mem­ bers present except two. In­ terviews with all the committeemen showed sixteen for Cleveland, two for Hill, and one for "the nominee." The Cleveland men expressed a preference for March 31 as the date for the conven­ tion, and that day was named. H. R. Wells, of Preston, said the indications were that the New York fight would take both Hill and Cleveland out of the contest, and thatthe Minnesota delegates ought to be elected with this state of things in view. In a general exchange of views the conclusion toas reached that Cleveland slfould have the S.tate delega­ tion, but that it would not be; best to in­ struct them. In the event of Cleveland's nomination the feeling was unanimous that Boies should have the nomination for Vice President. If matters should so shape themselves that Cleveland could not secure two-thirds of the C cago convention, about half oL-thbse present were in favor of Boies/or first place, two were for Villas, two/ror Pal­ mer and three for Flower., """FOREIGN. • THE British war ship Victoria* flag ship of the British Mediterranean fleet, which was recently ashore off the coast of Greece, has arrived safely at .Malta and is to be docked immediately. THE returns issued by the French Board of Trade show that during the month of January the imports increased 181,314,000 francs and that the exports Increased 38,324,000 francs, as compared with those of the corresponding month last year. SIXTEEN ^THOUSAND mdre persons from the famine-stricken districts of Russia have taken refuge in St. Petersburg, and have been quartered on various householders. Typhus fever is raging at Kazan, and a cordon has been estab­ lished there for the purpose of prevent­ ing any of the inhabitants leaving the place, and thus spreading the disease in other places. 8THEBE are rumors flying ro«nd that the Irish tories are opposed to the Irish local government bill. Some landlords go so far as to declare that they prefer Gladstone's home rule, as the power will then be vested in the superior men of an Irish parliament, rather than those chosen by a local board in Ireland, just now. IN a hotel at Cannes, France, Mr. Ed­ ward Parker Deacon, an American, killed M. Abeille, a French diplomate, whom he found in the apartments of Mrs. Deacon., The latter is the mother of four children. It is alleged that the liaison has been going on for some timet Owing to the prominence of the parties the American colony there is terribly shocked. %A1D DRIVEN " SPliftlTUAUSH, - She Wotod XiUint Insfta»* Ab* H«ar* [ Vote* from th* Othm-Wo*M thiMfk >•. B»nak«rfhfrf- PL»«fl4 Vadn '4M «• 4k«r*klc*~-PL»c«4 nlat by Friends. T IN GENERAL. HENRY WELLCOME, an American, has been installed Master of Fidelity Lodge of Freemasons, in London. THE combined claims of the Balti­ more's crew who were wounded in the Chnian riot reach $1,305,000. IT'is stated by Major General George H. Bonebrake, of California, that he has private assurances that he will shortly be appointed Minister to Japan. QUEEN'S COTTNTY, Nova Scotia, has elected Frank G. Forbes, Liberal, to the Dominion Parliament on a platform of unrestricted reciprocity with the United States. CATHABINE RHODES, a girl of 18, w^s arrested In Toronto on a charge of ut­ tering counterfeit money. Her plan was to cut up a number of bills and fasten them together again, minus a small por­ tion. Of these pieces she made a -new bill, making one extra out of every eight. She was remanded for trial. FOB the first time in many years Mon­ treal has experienced a regular blizzard. In fact there has been a succession of snow-storms and blizzards. The wind blew at the rate of seventy miles an hour, and snow hps fallen heavily. The country roads are blocked to traffic. Some of the drifts fire as high as twenty feet. All railway traffic is demoralized, some of the trains being many hours b«^ hind time. At St. Lambert Junction an engine became detached from the passen­ ger cars and toppled oyer an embank­ ment. No lives were lost, but the paesmgers had/to be brought back to city. / ^ MARKET REPORTS. THE Committee on Foreign Affairs re­ ported favorably Mr. Geary's 'bill to absolutely prohibit the coming of Chinese into the United States. Mr. Hooker and one or two others will make a minority report. CONTINUED heavy expenditures have reduced the treasury cash balance to $37,247,000, of which $14,693,450 is in sub­ sidiary coin and $408,733 is in minor coin. The amount on deposit in nation­ al banks is $12,948,760. The Superintendent of Census has sent to press a bulletin on llax produc­ tion, prepared by Special Agent Hyde, in charge of the division of agri­ culture. It shows the total area of land devoted to the cultivation of flax „ " CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime... H GK- -- Shipping Grades SHKEP--Fair to Choice.......... WHKAT-KO. 2 Red CORN--No. a J O TS-NO. 2 KTK--No. 2 !. BUTIKB--choioa Creamery...... CHFKSE--Full Oreatn, flat * . . EGGS--Fre»H. ; I-OIAiOK8 -Car-loads, per bn... INDIANAPOLIS. CATIXE--Shipping. H OK Choice Ligut.. WASHINGTON, , H^r-Con^ u> Prime WHKJCT--No. 2 Red COBN No. 1 Mbite.......i.... OA.TB--No. 2 White „ ST. LOU 18. CATTLE Hooft.„ * WHEAT--No. tB>d.. I"*."* COBN--No. a ** OATS--No. 2 liv ji--No. 2.... *' CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hoo* " Bhkkp WHEAT--No. 2 Bed ' Conn--No. 2 OATH--NO. 9 Mixed DJSTK01T. CATTLE Ho«s ' KHKKF WHitAT--No. 2 Red... " COBN--No. 2 Yellow OAJ(*-NO. 2 White ...\.. 'i OLEOO. WHEAT--New Coax--No. 2 Yellow In the United States in 1889 to have been 1,318,698 acres, the production BUFFALO**"" BEEF CATTLE Live HOGS ;.... WHUAT-NO. 1 Hard CORN--No. 2 f... MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Bprina.... ... Cons-- No. a i OATS--No. 2 White.. ,.?* BYE-NO. I v........... * BARLfcT -No; 2;. Poax-lleM. HEW YOBK. CATTLE. Hoss II".... SHEEP. WHEAI>-NO. iBed,..;,.. Coitjr--NO, 2.... €3.50 a so 8.00 .39 .2d .84 .28 .12 .18 .30 8.25 8.50 8.00 .90 - .40 . .82 «.so 8.M .92 .86 .30 .78 8.59 8.0J 8.00 .93 .41 3i 8.00 ' 8.0 i 8.00 .93 I & 5.75 <& 5.U0 & 5.75 90 41 M .80 & .85 & .80 0 .18 0 .19 & .40 @ 5.00 & 5.10 <9 S.25 @ .90}$ 0 .41 How « Physical Wreefc. Sarah Althea Terry, who gained p-uch notoriety by her divorce suit against ex- Setoator Sharon I and her subsequent marriage with Juige Terry, has become insane over splrltjtiaJlsm. She has been, very eccentric ever since Terry was shot down by Officer Naegle at the Lathrop eating iftation the moment af4 ter he slapped Justice .Field's face. Th» fact that the cotlrt held Naegle blame­ less drove her nearly insane, and this feeling was aggravated by troubles which she had with her attorney in Fresno. She clntmcd this attorney: made love to her and she produced Sev­ eral amatory letters he had written] Th{s enraged him, and when she calleq at his office to get her law papers h<j »F~ *V.~ VJVVVVXA **VA, aw «MV of the Fresno courts, they held that hid action was justifiable. ' The doctor says it is a clear case o! dementia due to worry over her affair^ and dabbling in spiritualism. She eiti for hours in one place with a pocket handkerchief rolled up and placed to he} car like the holder of a telephone. Sh( saya^she gets all kinds of message! TMItY SAY ANTI-OPTION LAWS WOULD HURT HIM. President Hatalll and Other CUMIWUH Attempt to Slum that Feadln* Neu- Would OtptMt Mfw of Grata M* I4» Mock and. Doramge JSualiMttk Speculator* Talk. President Hamlll and four other mem* bers of the Chicago Board of Trade ap­ peared before the Senate Committee on Judicary to protest against the legisla­ tion contemplated by the Hatch and Washburn anti-option bills. President Hamlll made a long address, and was "Wright SARAH ALTHEA TEREV. through this handkerchief from her ,friends in the spirit land, and shehaifed the handkerchief to a reporter who jaw her and asked him if he didn't tear whispers commg through it. She ifjks very old and haggard, and her pale jace is flushed with fever. Her pulse funs high, but she seems insensible to feat or cold. i At night Safoh becomes very vifent and calls loudly for Judge Terry an for Porter Ashe, whom she says she bves dearly, as his father was a bpsom friend of Terry in early days an<jjwas. arrested and confined by a vigihnce committee for opposing them. Barter Ashe married Amy Crocker, but sl| se­ cured a divorce after much Scandal He is well known on the turf, as he i the owner of Geraldine and other' fast horses. He befriended Mrs. Terryafter the shooting of her husband aid is about the only one of Terry's old fiends who has been able to endure nr ca­ prices. 1 The poor woman is a physldl and mental wreck, although she is nit oyer 40 years old. She had only a rennant of property left, Judge Terry's estate having been heavily mortgage^ and badly managed When the Shafon di­ vorce suit began in March, 1884, tie was a remarkably handsome woma, and since then she has been almost cqistant- ly before the publio. i Some months ago Mrs. Terry ftported to the police that $7,000 worth If silks and laces had been stolen fn>m her trunk. It was found that she n4er had any such goods. ! , Unless her brother, Morgan Sill, in­ tervenes she will be sent to an|asylum in a few days. No intervention s prob­ able, as she was disowned by all her relatives long ago, and, besi&s, her mania is of too violent a ty>e for her to be at large. Once haidsome, in a dashing, brilliant way, Mrt Terry is now a wreck in body as well s mind, and bears on her face lines thai tell of fierce passions, a life of storm {ad vio­ lence, and of bitter'defeat. THE MISSISIPPI. Ap- .4WJ& .84 & & 4.75 ® 5.0J & M At & .31' & .SO . « 4.53 0 6.00 & 5.2S (9 .93 9 At & #4.78 & fi.OO & 5.25 & .94 TO IMPROVE A Bill Appropriating: 915,000, proved by a Senate Commit After hearing from engineers,officers of the government, and delegatiins ap­ pointed to lay the matter befot) Con­ gress, the Senate Committee o< Com­ merce has decided to recomm^id the adoption of a most liberal policyfor the improvement of the great intern alwater- way furnished by the MississipplBiver. It was decided that the bill receitly in­ troduced by Senator Gibson, ofpLouis- iana, was better adapted to securj satis­ factory results than any other. ; As it will be reported to the Senate, he bill makes an appropriation of $15)00,000 for the improvement of the Mis^ssippi River, whereof $10,000,000 sliall be ex­ pended under the direction of thejSeere- tary of War, in accordance with such plan of the Mississippi Rlvej Com­ mission as maybe approved by tli chief pf engineers, to build^ repair and stend the levees, dykeS, and other wc ks on the river from the passes to the Inouth of the Ohio and for the paymentjof the salaries and expenses of the cdnmls- sion. There Is a proviso that noa more than $2,(^00,000 of this appropriation shall be expended in any one yea:; that it shall n^»t be expended longer thji the State and local authorities continue their present contributions for levie im­ provements; and that none of the honey shall be used for the purchase of sites for levees or damages for their coifctruc- tion. The second section of tte bill provides that $5,000,000 of the appropri­ ation shall be expended by the Secietary of War on the same section of theriver, in accordance with the plans of thi chief of engineers, the yearly allotment not to exceed $1,#00,000. The bill cqnmits Congress to the levee system ofTriver improvements. It was reported |o the Senate by Senator Gibson, Its autkor. .95 0 .41 0 •W<i& .80 .91 M Jf*. of flaxseed 10,250,410 bushels, the pro­ duction of liber 241,389 pounds, the amount of flax straw sold or so utilized as to have a determinable value, 207,757 tons, and the total value of the flax products $10,43G,238. Although flaxseed is reported from thirty-one States, Min­ nesota, South Dakota, Iowa and Ne­ braska produced 80.06 per cent, of the total amount, or 1,045,613 bushels, in excess of the entire production of the United States at the census of 1880. Flax is now cultivated, almost exclusive­ ly for seed, ana in the did Ab^r-prodho- ing States its cultivation is almost en- 4.09 8.75 .98 .4> _ jsn .as , .81 .58 11.75 8.50 8.00 4.00 1.07 & 8.75 & 5,50 1.0J » AT 0 JS <m •>> « .si 012.2# & BJ00 OATB--No. 2 White...v.,'i.* BUTTKR--Creamery. ^ POMK--Mess m e.5a ... S'S ; Vn-T' #io.n Maaeulinltie*. THE wrath of brothers is the devils. THE recording angel never st balance on his books by what is £ man on his gravestone. . AIIBINUS, the Roman, at one break­ fast ate 500 figs, 100 peaches, 10 onions, 100 small birgs, and 400 oysters. ; No HATTER what its professioi may be, the love that halts and turn a back when it sees danger comkig is a sfyrn. THE man who begins by walkingarm- in-arm with the devil will soon ha*e to carry the old fellow on his back, j A FRENCH officer has invented ihlp- pometer which will register the |aces and ground covered by a horse. , IF some men could only be conv(iced that It pays to be good, they couldqt be kept out of the church with a gun. EVERY man who does not labor ajwt lay up a fortune may cause absoluterfuf- ferlng to his daughter's future husband. NAPOLEON, like everybody else, ihad his likes and dislikes. He was font of sensational novels and abhorred catt THE Shah of Persia has more $35,000,000 worth of ornaments, and ^retflbus gt6ne*4i#o;»f strojig "followed by Thomas Michael Cudahy. "Speculative bodies," urged Mr. Ham- ill, "are necessary to adjust the dela­ tions between the supply and demand of products. The advance in prices checks consumption and stimulates production, and the fall in price checks production and increases consumption. There is some price at which they are perfectly adjusted, and this is termed 'prop­ er price/ xne speculator makes the actual market value conform to it. He cannot influence it, since the supply and demand do that, but he merely determines the actual market price and makes it coincide as nearly as possible with the proper price." Fluctu­ ations should be as little as possible, and the tendency of speculation as con­ ducted by the boards of trade is to keep the market in a state of equilibrium. The movement of wheat last fall was enormous. Under the existing system the dealers and exporters placed wheat for delivery in the future at high prices. The orders were filled, and by the time the farmer was able to deliver it the machinery of commerce was in motion, and the crop moved off easily at good prices. No glut ensued, and the sellers as well as the buyers were benefited. The speculative supply, as a third ele­ ment, prevents undue enhancement of prices. The speculator is also an im­ portant factor in distribution. Buying in a market relatively cheap and selling in a market relatively high prevents ac­ cumulation at some points and undue depletion at others, and this equalizing process helps distrihution." Mr. HamiU continued that the bill would have the effect of prohibiting mer­ chants from handling products in legiti­ mate channels of trade. While it would allow the farmer to sell his products for future delivery, the merchant who bought of him would bo prevented from selling until the actual delivery was made. "The result Is," he continued, "that while the farmer has the naked right to dispose of his property, even before he has raised it, he can really dispose of his wheat only, and th's to the miller alone. His corn, rye, and barley must be sold, if sold for future delivery, to a dealer who, under the provisions of the bill, would be prohibited from disposing of such property until its actual deliv­ ery! It entirely eliminates all legiti­ mate competition in the purchase from the farmer of his products, for the reason that the miller and maltster alone re­ main unhampered as possible buyers from him. It discriminates solely in favor of*1 the miller and maltster, and creates a monopoly for their advantage by driving out every other dealer and warehouseman." Under the bill, said Mr< HamiU, the packer of hogs, now the only important buyer in that line, would be prohibited from contracting for future delivery of pork products. As the result the packer would be compelled to insist upon a larger margin to cover the additional risk of market while manufacturing. This would tend to reduce the price to the, grower or farmer. Asa final objection to the bill Mr. Hamill urged that it would result in overturning and unsettling to the extent of the total destruction of long and well understood usages in the handling of agricultural products. The restriction placed upon the business of buying and selling would prevent men from engag­ ing in a legitimate trade. Thomas A. Wright followed in a long argument in which he 'eited the legal phases of the situation and quoted from various decisions to show that contracts such as were made on boards of trade were legitimate and recognized as such by the courts. In closing he claimed that the effects of the passage of the law proposed would be to drive capital out of the business of handling agri­ cultural products. To prohibit futures Would be to" "remove the only insurance afforded the dealers. He thought the measure was intended solely for the benefit of the big millers. Senator Washburn, the author, who was in the milling business himself, made no ob­ jection to this intimation. Mr. Wright produced some statistics recently gathered by S. K. T. Prime, of Dwight, showing that many farmers as well as millers and grain merchants throughout Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota were opposed to the anti-option bills. It was also shown that selling future de­ livery was a practice coming into vogwa in many agricultural districts, and the farmers were taking the same advan­ tages as the grain dealers to insure themselves against loss by selling for delivery ahead. Tlie Salvation Ariny. THE strange spectacle of a band of rioters making au attack on the Salva­ tion Army was witnessed at Eastbourne, England. A number of its membere were severely handled and the bannei taken from them. What use has such a crowd "for a salvation banner?--Louis­ ville Times. THE Salvation Army had a pitched battle at Eastbourne, England, in which, apparently, they had to nght both the mob and the police. Their bravery •showed that they possessed the courage of their convictions and tha treatment they received indicated that there is need of some kind of an army in that locality.--Indianapolis News. SALVATION ARUV reports shows that there are nearly 1,400 corps, 3,700 of­ ficers and 2,500 local officers connected with the army in the British Isles. And .still baccarat scandals, aristocratic di­ vorces and general rottenness among Britain's upper classes are rampant. The army should change its. base and order a general assault on Satan'e strongholds in high places where he is most strongly Intrenched.--Gfand Rapids Democrat. Oltd 'While Dancing. ;A *OTJNO woman fell dead at Pitts­ burg while dancing. Tho moral is: Girls, don't--but, like the theatrical "gag " at rehearsals, this moral had bet­ ter not be spoken.--Kansas City Journal. STILL another woman has dropped dead while waltzing. This is the third case reported within a fortnight, and still the dance goes on. The social toe is bound to be fantastic If it dies In the attempt.--Boston Herald. SOME people will use the ease of the Pittsburg young lady who died while waltzing as a warning against dancing, -but it will not be a fair illustration. Dancing in Itself is not wrong, and only the abuse of it is an evil.---Baltimore American. > • - '.V- Strange Symbol. Among the most extraordinary pieces of symbolism known to have becn<Tised by, the-early Asiatics was a figure of a donkey's head used as a representative of ^hc Deity. V-:'? "H 'V*- A FINE DISPLAY OF THB* AU­ RORA BOREALIS. ***• Korthern Heavens UmlMtMl M Bm Net Been Before In Many /' Phwiomw M Bee* in OlttM--MarreUme «ncee»len of iHilinn Hoe*. Shone Over the tud< borealls was generally vis­ ible the other night, and was witnessed of People. Many stood 8tfck still in the streets and gased with all their eyes at the sky, while others looked from their windows until they had erlcks in th**ir talked about it. , The cause of all this commotion was notan ordinary, everyday northern lights by any "means, but an aurora borealls the like of which nobody but the oldest inhabitant ever beheld. In the first place, it was magnlcently large. It filled a full quartet' of the heavens, extending over the segment of the circle between the northwest and uvi UiotiBi,. lie base extenaea nearly to the horizon line, and its apexes at times touched the zenith. The rapid shifting of &e great tongues of light was an added feature, but, the crowning glory of the aurora hQreaUs was its color. Many have been seen, but they have iiBuuIiy been of tho clear white light one is usually wont to asso­ ciate with the crystal seas of the frozen north. This one was a display ©J gor­ geous coloring. The light varied from pure white to the color of a fall sunset. One minute the whole northern sky would be vestal white and the next as angry as the low-hanging winter clouds over & big fire. In fact, at times the tongues died away, leaving only a fierce red glow that made people in the south­ ern suburbs think that a tremendous conflagration was raging down town. Then the glow would soften and lose its angry hue and turn to lovely pink, and ofter passing through marvelous grada­ tions of hue become vestal white again, with tongues shooting to the very zenith. The aurora departed as suddenly as it oame, and left the Btars "doubly serene after such vivid and varied brilliancy. The ir>i6i6stlug phenomenon was ac­ companied by an electrical storm which, while not severe, was widespread. The exact connection between the two and their origin are mysteries Which elec­ trical science has as yet been unable to clear up. The appearance of this particular storm was first noticed early in the af­ ternoon, when thft telegraph wires be­ tween Ghloago and St. Poul began to work imperfectly. Its influence was felt in the working of the telegraph instru­ ments for a few minutes at a time. Then they would respond to the operator's touch in regular manner again, thus in­ dicating that the styrm moved in waves. The storm was at its • height from 5 p. m. to 7 p. m., during which time it was found necessary to abandon, in some cases, the duplex system, which requires a nice adjustment of batteries, and confine the sending of messages to the single or ordinary method of tele­ graphing. This was especially true of lines between Chicago and Washington and Chicago and Pittsburg. The magnificent aurora borealls was scientifically observed at the University of Michigan by Astronomical Director W. J. Hussey, who reports as follows: "The brilliant red rose aurora visible to-night i^as not altogether unexpected. In a general way auroras have been pre­ dicted for about this time. To-night's display naturally follows the appearance of the great sun spot which has been visible during the last week. Other auroral displays may be expected in the near future." Dispatches show that the phenomenon was witnessed at New York, Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, To­ ledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, and at Illi­ nois and Iowa points, but not at St. Louis, Kansas City, or Memphis. At Cincinnati it was first supposed that the city of Hamilton, twenty-five miles north, was on fire. Though not seen at St. Paul or Minne­ apolis, the aurora was plainly witnessed in Milwaukee. THE..GRIP BACILLUS IS CAUGHT. Shaped Like the Letter H and One-Twen­ tieth tt* SLnrge afe a SIM CsrpaMle. According to a Paris dispatch the mi­ crobe of influenza has bee? at last cap­ tured and dragged out to the light of day. The discoverers are Profs. Cornel and Chantemesse, who have just made a communication to the Paris Academy of Medicine on the subject. The Ger­ man doctors attributed the grip to a bacillus which permeated the blood of tie respiratory organs, but nothing further was known on the subject until now, when these French physicians have succeeded in capturing some of the bacilli and cultivating them in bouillon after the Pasteur method. It is now found that these organisms are formed like the figure H, and the largest are in size barely the twentieth part of the diameter of a blood corpus­ cle. Experiments have been made on rabbits and monkeys, and the inoculated animals showed every symptom of In­ fluenza soon after they had been injected with a preparation obtained by the pro­ fessors from the cultivation of the mi­ crobe. It is expected that the experiments conducted by the French savants will assist the medical faculty in providing an offlcacious method for the prevention and treatment of the malady. Told in a Line or Two. NOTHING comes out of the mind as it goes in. SCHEMES are all right so long as they are your own. MOST of the things longed for by men have no existence. DID you ever notice how hard it Is for two people to get along? LIMIT the number of your secrets, tod you limit the number of your trou­ bles. , IT is said that a cross, competent woman is the best to live with lor* life-, time. It is a very rare man who ean't lay all his misfortunes on Providence or his kin JSVEKTr time you do a thing that is worthless, you fulfill the prophecies of those who dislike you. THE trouble is that when a man is at the right age to leant, he thinks he knows everything. A MAN never knows until after he has married a woman what sacrifices she made in marrying him. • IT would be easier to love the Lord if men did not know they were loving some one who loves their enemies. ' How VERT few people there are who have enough sense to refuse to eat and drink that which they know is not good for them. "I AM willing to admit the depravity of the race, but I am*not willing to adimit the depravity of men only."--Parson Twine. SOME men, when they become old, im­ agine that however busy their acquaint­ ances may be, they are always glad to see them. Stir is like giving a note at a high rate of interest. It is so easy to spend the money you reoeived inm the neta, aad so hara topeyit back. ̂ ** * -***>* * * . T ̂ i. ( ^ •v "i isK.v *s >SE OF RBPFC*-^F "IVES. - * Owr WaUenal tawiaafcere Mid What Tfcqr" An Dote* for or the Count ry-- Vaitewt Mmmmum iTnfiiftf . »v and Aeted Upon. • • "• sT1 Doing* ot Congreaik : T'-,* Both houses ot Congrats have authorised Inquiry Into the cause* ot aclcnftaral" depression. The resolution direetin# Ifc St Hatch's Committee on Agriculture tomato* au investigation passed the Bouse on the 15th. The only dissenting voiCar' - C. was that of Mr. Funston, a Be. momhAf from Kansas. But ib» passed and the committee ^iil &eght its la- qulry early next week. The Senate resolu tiors directs the Agricultural Committee of ̂ that, body to ascertain If any thing Is needed to i*aprove the existing conditions. ? ^ In the Senate the Inquiry will be ccftduct«d ® 3*T^ b y t h e t w o s u b c o m m i t t e e s . M r . G i b s o n r e - ; ^ , 4 ported a bill appfoprlatlng $18,09#,WW fop >v - •. the improvement of the Mississippi . • - i River and it was placed on t«ro vuviitmi. Ten millions of the airount is for the river®- 'Vyip **"• from the head of the nasses. near it month.! "it to the mouth of the Ohio River (not more* f V ' than 12,000,000 to he expended in T WS i' any one year). and f5,000,000, ; is for the river from the inouth of? the Ohio to the mouth of the Illinois.' The Senate then resumed consideration nr. - the bill providing for the public printing; and binding and the distribution of publ*" ^ documents. The bill was xeported t(f ' Senate and passed. Mr. Haddock's bill preventing the adulteration and misbrand-„ •AS) ing of food and drufrs was then taken up^'J as the special order. After a brief execu- m tive session the Senate adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Sherman's credentiatoi,<f,""0 were read and placed on file, on the 16th. ^ Mr. Vance, from the Finance Committee., . -1 reported back adversely the bill introduced "•,£* ^ by Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, to pro viae an income tax to pay pensions^ and the salaries of post masters, i' . ? ^ Mr. Pfeffer rjoved to increase the item for; ,> *•,/£ the census work for the "division of farms, "•! f homes, and mortgages" from 150,000 to.,.- ' 8100,000, and the Tlfll nroa *^(1 coatl It adds to the bill was $200,000 deficiency for the census $50,000 for the "divi-t > V* sion of farms, homes and mortgages. It increases the item for subsistence of the • r Sioux from $115,514 to 8143.914. The Senate' 1 ' 4 from then passed the following bills: Ap-5 •"?*<, - J propriatlng $60,000 for the construction ofU ^ a military store bouse and office tor purposes at the Omaha military department. "• P Appropriating $500,000 for a public build- p "2 ing at Salt Lake City, Utah. In the House,V ' <• ** '. * on motion of Mr. Montgomery of Kentucky,^ j-' J the Senate bill was passed extending to'* ': J || Sandusky, O., the privilege of the act for..' "c \ the Immediate transportation of dutiable V merchandise without appraisement. ^ ' j) On the 18th Inst. Ahe House went Into ' x; j~' committee of the whole (with Mr. Bynum of - ' , Indiana In the chair) on the Indian appro-• v priation bill. Mr. Peel made the open-pm^w tag speech and explained <tt*e- biu'st^y,- provisions. After an animated debate; '.*• the committee rose. In the Sen »te»; Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on^' Foreign Relations, reported back fav-f^ v"*/| orably the joint resolution introduced' by Mr. Perkins requesting the Pres- * ,'-f " ident to return to the Republic of MexlcoC s ' ,>,-J twenty-one battle-flags, which were cap- tured by the army of the United States; / V during the late war with Mexico. The res- **' • i"'. olution was passed. A bill inc-eafing the'frJ -A limit of cost for public building at. St. \ , i Paul, Minn., to $1,400,000, was passed, as* y' was also one increasing to $800,000 tho ap- ^ proprlation for a public building at Omaha. " 4 Senator Palmer of Illinois spoke in the Senate on the 18th on the subject of an a!- ' teratlon of the Constitution of the United l; States which shall provide for the election^ of Senators In Congress by a direct vote of: ' t h e p e o p l e o f . t h e s e v e r a l S t a t e s . I n • • ^ » L - . the House the free coinage bill 'h J ' was discussed at some length. Mr. Bland, ,v *"/. of Missouri, spoke enthusiastically In favor 4P " of the bill, while Mr. Harter, of Ohio, as vigorously opposed it Mr. Harter. in the : course of his talk, said ho would like to- E 11 J pay members of Congress with the 70- ' " J cent dollar and see how they would like it If anything should be .made a >. ' legal tender it should be the corn of Kan- ..<'1' <"• sas and not the silver of Colorado. Silver ** | "j was then laid aside for the nonce and the'4 consideration of the Indian bill was re- ' *'f, *\i sumed. Mr. Smith, of Arizona, criticising • | some of its features, especially the appro- ' j prlations for the Carlisle schodl. Tho In- " A dian appropriation bill was generailf dl^* cussed until adjournment his interview* telling justj^L^Ji snubbed by his patient host. Snubbed. Tennyson has been accused of a cer- tain surliness in his manner of receiving* r _1 visitors; but who can wonder at that, when four-fifths of the number are lion," hunters or newspaper people in search of facts? One of these double-barrelled - v' ( bores has been so foolish as to write an ^ " account of his interview* how he was This is his description of the beginning • I. of the affair: "He laid down the book • * he was.reading and eyed me through!* ! his glasses with a searching, scrutiniz- - i>* ing glance, as he is extremely short- ' sighted. Then he nodded. 'Pray down,' while his frail white fingers; toyed absent-mindedly with the paper- • , ( cutter. 'Have you also taken the ' Kl trouble to come out here, simply to tell i me that I am a great author? Pardon v ^ "J me; but be assured that the honorary'" " visits of a grateful public can reach in- || credible dimensions.' The beginning of ;q| our interview v\& not very encouraging." » ™ Quite undismayed by this palpable fact, the unwelcome visitor remained and ! teased the old poet witfi quests ns. report continues In this strain: "I.j - y <T - "t ^ •M thought it time to leave, and rose. 'Ifryfe hope I have not disturbed you.' 'Not" in the least, but you will oblige me by leaving now,' he replied. 'Would you allow me to call again?' 'You will bes welcome if you have anything particular^ to communicate to me, but otherwise i would, most: likely, be unprofitable to b o t h o f u s . D o y o u t h i n k y o u c a n f i n d f ' i . ̂ | your way? Oblige me by ringing the, bell.' Then a dapper servant with a'fife k * this gentleman the nearest way to the, , railroad station.'" Like Mark Meddle,"^;. >;4, this "gentleman" will not be satisfied ^ until he has received the kick he courts. - >.-« set smile and faultlessly brushed hair ; noiselessly mode his appeal ance. ' Showg ^ Tan People and Event*. Archbishop of Canterbury can- m ters about London on a fine cob. ~ ^ J. A GiRiL in Norway must be able to --f|^ -M bake bread before she can havo a beau, i o , CKICKET was played under the name> of "club ball" as early as the fourteenth .> / j r- century. * i THE proportion of Anglo-Saxon words ?i -4 in the English Bible is 97 per cent, of t h e w h o l e . ' ' . " ^ 7 ^ C % DRIED fish was formerly, and is «tni..-.»^w" *; to some extent, a medium of exchange "f'l in Iceland. ' i WITHIW the last three years the dlans have di^osed of 2,500,000 acres of£ci:4: their lands. • % . V $ A BABY bori} in Georgia < a few weeks : ? i ago has two grandmothers, two great- < >,, + , grandmothers and one great-^freat-vV ' grandmother to nurse and pet him. -- ^ ^ NKAL DOW is 87 years old, and vigor- S. .'j':,/* ous enough to get in a rousing whack for prohibition now and then. He live? in the house he built in Portland, He. sixty-five years ago. .MRS. VIRGINIA THOMPSON, a daugh- 4 t e r o f A l e x a n d e r C a m p b e l l , w h o f o u n d e d . ^ • the "Campbellite" sect, has been post-'y,.' mistress of Louisville under five admin-*' " -* ; istrations, and is not only a clever and reliable official, but a matronly looking. beauty of fine presence and excellent ^ ' manners. * > THE Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, who sue- ceeds the Rev. Brooke Herford in his - ^ BoBton pulpit, is one of the youngest 4 ^ clergymen In the country. He is but 29^/ j'^'% years of age, and a second son of Presi- r • dent Eliot, of Harvard, whom he re- ,? sembles. He has been* preaching '^»r" Denver during the past two years. ? /. . • . - ** * ^ ̂ *• ̂ * * " i . .1 ..id y