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~V' - « r ifr* , . ; ^ • y j ^ L .- ?^:-r ». t -'V ; ~ * y/:^;;;- '#* ' ' • rn^flaintlealw ""*' \J MftHKbTOY, I. VAtt SUfXE, filter tad PuWsfm* ILLINOIS. ,i, ; t|MALL NOTES FOE GOLD J&lBHiCAGO BANKERS ASSIST THE ?y*» - : -TREASURY. - -> " ; pfc fm-' &. yWtlW Wrtowimt In Boston-^O'iCI »mwty . ->/ - Lives Lost-Foar and a Half Millions In Prsparty Destroyed--Whipped a Preacher j^y fay Uptake. ' f /> Stemming the Crisis. ; , SECRETARY CARLISLE has reclined of- w' fere from Chicago bankers to exchange s:| $3,000,01)0 of gold for a like anqpunt of |}mall Treasury notes of the denomina­ tions o' $•"), $10 and $20. Intimations iKrere made that the amount of small totes that will be needed will reach 10,000,000, for which gold will be paid, [e will forward the email notes at once. ;>Y<- Fire-Stricken Boston. BOSTON'S great carnival of fire was Continued Friday afternoon in the Wholesale business district, and at night tlhete were three and one-half acres of • Srscki:ig ruins where once stood some of the finest business blocks in the city. ,4the financial loss is in the millions, but the saddest feature is the loss of life, ^rhich cannot be definitely known now but Jphich is thought to be at least twenty- : live, and which may be much greater. The scenes of tbe big Thanksgiving %laze of 1889 were repeated with all the thrilling incidents which attach to fuch ^calamities. But the danger leeraod greater th n at tfeat Ume. and, in addition to calling »llor outside help to flgh,t the fire* It seemed best to call out the militia to fcgplst the police in preserving order. The excitement in the street was in* tense. The firemen spread their fire llets and caught many, but the human -ikxlie" dropped so fast that it was im- ssible to catch all. Those who landed the nets escaped with sprained limbs d a general shaking up. The i~oor Tellows who struck the pavement were Cither dead, dying or crippled for life, ^hose who witnessed the awful scene #rill never forget it. The pitiiul cries "*! girls im«ri« ned in vipj er stories •tirred the pulse of every spectator, but "Jit was impossible to render aid. The J' rineipal buildings turned were the mes Building and Emergency Hos- gitai. The property loss is about $4,500,- i . NEWS NUGGETS. WTVIDEXD of $3 per share has been .declared by the Bell Telephone Com- * . jpuy. payable April 15. COLUMBCS, Ind., was torn up by a *'», '.0!riall cyclone, which tore off roofs and ».„j4hrew down old walls. Damage about f?,000. ' JCIIIA FOBCE, who mui dered her two Bisters at Atlanta, Ga., has been in* dieted, notwithstanding the verdiot of fjie insanity trial. r-\ AT La Crosse, Wis., the Grand Army ttf the Bepublic State Encampment Elected E. A. Shore, of Ashland, Com- joander on the third ballot. . ii THE annual convention of the saddle Ibid harnessmakers will be held at St. ||<ouis at the beginning of ApriL Prep­ arations for the entertainment of the ^delegates have already byegun. FREIGHT age me in session at Santa Barbara, Cal., have agreed to the forma- lion of a "Transcontinental Freight Bate Committee," with a Secretary, C; |lrhose office shall be in Chicago. . •; " THE Bomadka trunk factory of Mil­ waukee, sustained a loss of $25,000 by . fire. During the progress of the Are SVfifiht of the fire laddies were injured by y falling wall. Insurance $11,500. * •' SUIT has been commenced against the ifchicago and Northwestern Road for $10,000 by the relatives of Michael Gaff- fiey of Elgin, who was killed at Elburn. !Fhe company's offer of §1,000 was re- fused. THE British bark Alice M. Craig has t>een wrecked at Bosario, on the west bank of the Parana, about 230 miles by %ater from Bueno3 Ayres. Captain "JSoss, master of the \ essel, his wife and -Jtiight of the crew were drown dd. . ' THE Chinese or San Frandseo have broken out in bloody war and, two of '"Dthe tongs have undertaken to assassi $'\iiate merchants who re' use to depose to • f false statements. So far the shootings S||have taken place in the open streets. Y/.V THE Bev. D. A. Strutton of Elmott, an evangelist of the Christian Church, was robbed, stripped naked and • iflogged within an inch of his life by i 'moonshiners in Winston County, Ala., ,• -who mistook him for a revenue agent of •I the United States Government. , Aiiii the prominent officials in the / 'Treasury Department, Including the . "two Assistant Secretaries, the Commis- *&«fcmer of Internal Revenue, the three ^Comptrollers. and all the Auditors, ex- '„';«'.ept Messrs. Patterson and Fisher, have . -verbally tendered their resignations. Ax imperial ukase in Russia author­ izes the issue of an internal loan on Immediately ttteirir&rd hftnged himself to a rafter in his barn. Loss of money is supposed to hav« unbalanced his mind. - IT is semi-OiTieiftlly stated that the directors of the Lehigh Valley Railway have decided to accept the offer of a 5 per cent, dividend made by the Reading receivers. The capital Stock is $40,01 m,- 000, so it will require an outlay of $500,- 000 to pay the dividend which is due In April. - •i-> _ y-* 4:^S8T»rm?' A FB^tolkT train on the Chicago and Erie Road went down through an iron bridge a mils and a half west of Lima, Ohio, taking twenty cars with it AT Kansas City, Mo., no blizzard this winter has been felt as much as that which raged Friday night. There is no snow on the ground- to protect the wheat. , THE I ody of Stanley Hott, 5 years old, supposed to have been murdered by Oliver Johnson, 14 years old, has been found in the canal at Columbus, Ohio. Hott is white and Johnson colored. C. D. MCLELIJAND, a Chicago real estate dealer, manager for Bass, Kess- ler A Co., of that city, was attacked by two highwaymen, Wednesday night, while in Niles, Ohio, and was terribly beaten. .<» THE Swedish jubilee festival to l e held in Minneapolis in commemora* tion of the three hundredth anniversary of the granting of religious liberty td the Swedes has been postponed until May 22. W. M. HCDSOX, a irail carrier at Fort Gibson, 1. T., was held up by masked; men. The highwaymen secured two pouches of mail containing valuable matter from the Tahlequah and For? GibaoiM^ces. ----- WASHINGTON. SECRETABT CARLISLE has accepted the proposition of the clearing-house of Denver to exchange $1,000,000 of th« Treasury notes of the issue of 1890 for $1,1:00.000 in gold. This will increase the free gold in the Treasury to $'2,120,-' 000. Secretary Carlisle has taKen nO steps to issue bonds, and has not indi* cated what policy he tvill pursue. ALL the States have chosen new Senators, either by election or appoint­ ment, except Montana and Washington.' The Republican Governor of the foriper will appoint a Republican to serve until the next Legislature elects, and a Re­ publican is assured eventually from Washington, the Legislature of that State beina largely Republican. Count­ ing the Senators from these two States, therefore, as Republicans, the new Sen- ate will be composed of forty-six Demo­ crats. thirty-eight Republicans, and four Populists. A MAZE OF SWITCHES. HANDLING THE CROWD% THE WORLD'S FAIR. Complex System of Interlocking: Switches tor Thirty-live Tracks Mahes It Passible to Lotd 13,099 PamgnpTu H.t Onen In file flrnwnilii' FOREIGN. Sflcent. The loan is to be placed by the " sale of bonds by the Imperial Bank. The Imperial Bank has given notice fffjthat it will undertake henceforth the purchase and sale of foreign drafts, and ' the Issue of bills of exchange for places . abroad. ? CHEYENNE is excited over accusa­ tions made against Dr. Wm. A. Olm- etead by Gov. Osborne, whom the Gov- ^5' • ernor accused of having stolen his trousers. The two men roomed in the same house and when the garment dis- fesp1- • appeared Olmstead, who is a candidate for Adjutant General, was accused of LfV" the theft. The trousers have since been dis: overed in a closet in the Gov- # V ornor's room, but not $200 alleged to 1 chave been in them. The end Is not yet. FF':' THE BEV. SAMUEL L. BEILEB, D. D„ • l-t, has been elected Vice Chancellor of the i* American University at Washington. . INDIANAPOLIS Is excited over grave ' ) robberies, and a watch has been placed l® «ach cemetery to capture or scare off uf'C the ghouls. FBEDEBICK HENDEBSON, a member of the London County Council, a poet : * • of some renown who has received the '• patronage of Gladstone, was found 4/ ' guilty of robbing a woman of 3 shil- p ' .;.' i lings and sentenced by the court to four r . ' months' Imprisonment. •/,. ^ EASTERK. IWcKTON, Pa., has been Invaded by a herd of wolves driven from the moun­ tains by the snow. COLONEL STBEATOB, of the Tenth Begiment, Pennsylvania National Guards, got into trouble with Captain Brozer of another Pennsylvania regi­ ment at Washington during the inaugu­ ral and struck Krozer. The latter will prefer charges against Streator. GOULD COOSWBLL, a wealthy farmer living near Havana, N. Y., fhot and In Mftfttly killed his invalid daughter and THE religious ceremony uniting May McClellan, daughter of the late Gen. George B. McClellan, to Paul Desprez, an attache of the French legation at Washington, took place in the nuncia­ ture in Paris. THE Legislative Assembly of Jersey, England, has declared by vote that quarantine is not a preventive of chol­ era, and has therefore refused to estab­ lish quarantine against vessels from ports alleged to be cholera infected. A SERiors collision, involving the probable loss of a number of lives, oc­ curred in the English Channel. A Ves­ sel called the Cacique was sunk by an unknown steamer. Ten of the survivors landed at Dover in a boat, and it is stated that thirteen others are missing, and it is feared have been lost. LATE the other night the land at Sandgate, county of Kent, England, rocked for a while, then settled several feet. Gas mains were broken and water has been cut off. The disaster was caused by a landslide. The town is built on a comparatively low cliff close to the sea. The waves are believed to have undermined the cliff, which then settled and slipped toward the water, carrying with it the town. Two hun­ dred houses were destroyed. IN GENERAL CATILLO COCMO, Savannah's only represehtatlve of the Mafia, carried his bulldozing methods so far that he was killed by a compatriot In self-defense. •TAMES DUNCAN and Engineer Legett were killed and another man named Mackenzie fatally injured by the ex­ plosion of a boiler at Marthaville, Onfc THE Government of Brazil has seized six cars of artns destined for the Bevo- lutionists, who are besieging Santa Anna. The cargo of the schooner Car- melita has also talien into the hands of the Government troops. THE steamship Runic, of the White Star Line, has arrived in New York, bringing no news of her sister ship, the Naronic, now twenty-two days overdue. The Rome's captain said he feared the Naronic'8 engines had broken, driving her pUton through tbe bottom. In such case and owing to the terrific weather, the crew would be unable to launch any of the boats and the ship with her en­ tire crew of seventy would go to the bottom. Controlled by One Chicago correspondence: Arrangements for handling the daily crowds of visitors to the World's Fall" after May 1 are completed. There ia considerable work yet to be done on thos new railroad depot, and many other de­ tails require finishing touches. Every­ thing will be in readiness, however, before the Exposition opens. Six months later it will doubtless be the proud boast of the Fair managers that the largest continuous crowds that have ever been massed together In this coun­ try were taken in and out of Jackson Park at the minimum of inconvenience and the maximum of safety and com­ fort } Visitors will enter the grounds through either of the four arteries of communication--the gates, the water piers, the alley elevated and the grand central railroad terminal. The latter has cost the Exposition officials more thought than all the other modes of in­ gress combined. Of the twenty»two oh a level with the rails. The pi attorns will be protected by loglf umbrella awnings. The system-6f unloading passengers and taking them into the grounds is based on th© supposition that all the tracks and platforms are really outside the grounds. The visitor is not supposed to be inside the park until he passes through the turnstile tralnshe^ Into ywf ,i iBjrui. h unif n ijnnHftn H r 'i" ""' RECORD OP CONGRESS. WORK OF THE FIFTV-SE^OND NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. fe*sSi? PART or MICHIGAN'S MINERAL EXHIBIT. one or another side of the grand cen­ tra! court, or passes into the depot bui^ng and enters the grounds in that way,. 3$ connectton with tho terminal facil- • *:' ;•> 4 JV/.J a , 4r> > J % • > J WAITING-ROOM, TERMINAL STATION. roads entering Chicago it is probable that all will run more or less excursion trains direct to the Fair before the end of the season. To caro for this volume of passengers the Fair managers found It necessary to evolve a system that ESQUIMAU SNOW HOUSE. would bring the trains directly to the center of the grounds without trans­ shipment. Early in the preliminary />lan8 the loop system was abandoned and a stub terminal, with interlocking ltles, probably the most notable feature is the ratensive interlocking switching system which controls the movements of all trains in the yards. The system embraces all the latest Improvements in yard arrangements. The main yard is controlled by 160 levers from a central switch tower. One man controls the yard, gives all the signals, throws the switches, and direc's train movements. In the main house 120 of the levers con­ trol the switches*the remaining forty op­ erating the semaphore signals used. The whole apparatus of the latest improved interlocking variety, which prevents absolutely any accidents from open switches or collision. In the tower the power used is steam, but in the yard system the switches are opened and closed'and the signals operated by hy­ draulic pressure. The steam furnishes the pawer which is transmitted by the water column. From each switch and signal there runs to the tower an elec­ tric wire which automatically registers every movement made and informs 1he switchman whether or not the apparatus is working properly. Given Positions of Honor. Michigan and Missouri have been given positions of honor on the Ameri­ can side of mines building. They will stand for the mineral interests of Amer­ ica. while just across the way Germany and England will represent the old world. Both Michigan and Missouri will build handsome pavilions to offset the elaborate decorations of the Ger­ man and English sections. The Michi­ gan plans show a pavilion 49 by 62 feet of sandstone and marble. Tho pavilion is of the Florentine style of architect- ^ "ii MARKFET REPORTS, #3.28 3.50 4.G0 .73 .41 .30^0 .80 © .25 VM .16 (0 .70 3.3$ 3.50 3.00 .67 .«1 .35 3.00 3.00 .67 .38 CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.. HOGS--Skipping Grades SHEEI---Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN- Xo. 2 OATS--Xo. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery EGGS--FreBh POTATOES--New, per BU INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOGH--Choice LIGHT SHEEP--common to Prime...." W H E A T -- N o . 2 H e d . . . . . COBN--No. -i White......... OATS--No. 2 White *' ST. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBN--No. 2 OATS-^NO. 2. RYE--Xa 2. CINCINNATI.' CATTLE HOGS ..WI.. J., J,"" SHEBP WHEAT--No. 2 Red : ! | COBN--Xo. 2 • OATS--No. 2 Mixed "! RYE--No. 2 . . DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP, ... / '.'./"I" WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No, 2 White _ „ TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 2 Yellow ! " OATS--NO.^ White BYE BUFFALO."" CATTLE--Common to Prime 3.60 TF? C.2.-> & 8.2o & 6.00 <# .74 .42 .31*4 .50>j .17 .76 & (§ 5.90 (4 8.2S .75 .OS .41^ .36 & 4.7 & .C (9 *.oo & 8.00 & .68 _ @ .83 TON® .33VJ .53 & .64 3.00 @ 5.25 3.00 & 6.T5 3.00 & 6.50 .70 <§ .IQVJ .*$ M & ,»7 8.00 3.00 3.00 .72 .43 M & 4.75 © 8.25 (S *.15 & .73 0 .42* & ,3U .73 & .42 & .06 & .71 .43 .36 H .58 HOGK--Bent Grade WHEAT--No. l Hard COBN--No. 2 Yellow MILWAUKEEI' WHEAT--Xo, 2 Spring COKN-NO. a. OATS-NO. 2 White.!.'.'.'.'.' KYE--No. 1 4.00 .82 .46^(3 & 5.90 & 8.25 .83 .47 % M <9 .37 V.® .34 ~ % .66 .3»Vj .35 .50 63 BARLEY--XO! '2'.'.'.'.'.*.".'.".'.'.".'.".'.'.".".! '.61 PORK - Mess 18.w @19.25 . NEW YOBIL CATTLE UOGH SHEEP !!"" WHEAT--No. 2Bed .....T.. *OBN--No. 2.... .J.. %#ATS--Mixed Western.... ,»j.... furTKB--Best rosK--New Mess 1% & 5.50 & 8.50 & 5.75 .78'V® .7934 .53 " " .89 .26 19.76 |j OUKP8E OF TOWERS IN THE NORTH END OF THE GROUNDS. switching facilities, was agreed upon. This terminal is near the main foot en­ trances to the grounds, and the hand­ some terminal depot Is being built in the central court, facing Administration Building. The staff work is already being placed in position, such of it as is ready, while large molds In a low, squatty, dusty building just back of the great frame-j work are filled with sections of classic columns, grinning gargoyles, pediments with allegorical groups in bas-relief and other ornamental work in process of conversion into pseudo-marble. When this big square building is completed and throbbing with the breathing of scores of steam locomotives next sum­ mer this same staff will give it a reasur- ing air of solidity and tend to inspire the suspicious visitor with a sense of security. The inquisitive country cousin, however, may dispel the allusion iy tapping the sham masonry with his umbrella. The resulting hollow sound will set him to wondering why such ap­ parently light construction holds up against the wind. There are nine systems of two stand­ ing tracks and one switch track each. Inhere are also four systems of two tracks each without the switch track. This makes thirty-five tracks in all. The switch tracks are placed in the cen­ ter of each system, and enable a loco­ motive to "run around" its train and hitch onto the rear. Each different road entering the grounds will have one of the systems set aside for its special use. The capacity of loading passengers, during rush hours, at the ter­ minal is not less than 43,001) inside of a very few minutes. Thirty- five distinct trains of thirteen ears each, holding sixty passengers zach, with locomotive attached and ready to start, will stand side by side. This is a capacity ot 27.300. No sooner are these trains out of the way than others will be tacked in. The storage- yard has a capacity of twenty trains of equal length to those mentioned. Add­ ing the loads of the twenty trains to the other thirty-five gives a total of al­ most 43,000 passengers that can be loaded aboard the cars and sent home within a very short period. The tracks in the storage-yard are of tho same length as those at the terminal--about 85o feet--so that any train arriving at the terminal can also find apace in the storage-yard if necessary. Between each system tracks there will be continuous fences, so that pas­ sengers must pass along into the train shed before going through the turn­ stiles. All the tracks will be floored ure. The entire mineral display of Michigan will be put in this pavilion. One or the features of the building will be a huge globe of copper. This globe, twelve feet in diameter, will have an outline map of the world etched on It. The Michigan mineral pavilion will cost about $15,000. Missouri's house in rninetf building Is now being set up. It was shipped in pieces from St. Louis. A New Plash. Commencement has been made In England within a comparatively re­ cent period upon the manufacture of of what 19 regarded as an important new fabric, that is, an inexpensive weft pile plush, with either single pile or pile on both, sides. A rever­ sible pile plush has in times past been made in the factories of Germany, with hand-looms, at the rate of six yards to the loom per week, but bj means of the newly contrived appara­ tus, which has been devised by a Bradford manufacturer, and can be fixed to ordinary dress and coat looms, it is said to operate at seven times the speki of the German hand- loom, and tb make goods ot equal quality at a less price. The new goods have a weft pile, and conse­ quently a very much cheaper yarn can be used.--^few York Sun. THE first pair of silk stockings tatade la England wire finished in 1564. EE *r THE SWITCU HOtrnm. Silver, Tariff, Autl-Options, World's Fair and Economical Scheme t Figure H the Leading Questions--No Great Ketrench- ' meat Noticeable ia tb« Appropriation*. Dldr't Reduce Expense*. Th* silver and tariff questions, the anti-option bill and the reduction of ap­ propriations were the leading topics of consideration by the JLIId Congress, and secondary only In importance to theBe matters were measures relating to the World's Fa.r, equipment or rail­ roads with automatic car-couplers, na­ tional quarantine and immigration, Behring Sea and Hawaiian annexation. Nothing of an affirmative nature, except to prevent two items in the McKinley act taking effect, was actually accom­ plished so far as respects silver, the tariff or anti-options, the action taken on each of those questions in one branch of Congress being negatived by the ac­ tion or non-action of the other branch. The result of the agitation of the ne­ cessity for a retrenchment of expendi­ tures is not apparent in any consider­ able change in the aggregate appropri­ ations carried by the national supply bills, for they amount to about as much as in the List Congress, laws on the statute books provonting nO&sc largo reductions which otherwise possibly would have been male, while the de­ creases which it 's'as possible to effect were offset by increased appropriations for pensions and rivers and harto:s. The condition of the public T.easury, however, though it did not result in the Llld Congress getting below the bill­ ion-dollar iimit, undoubtedly influenced legislation to a considerable extent, and prevented the authorization of many proposed net? expenditures for improv<yMei;t of the vubljs vice, for public buildings, payment of claim?, and for'other purposes. A notable in­ stance of the operation of this influence is seen in the fact that not a single public building bill passed the House, and it was only by putting a nuniber of them on the sundry civil appropriation bill that any appropriations whatever for public buildings were secured. Struggle Over Silver. The Silver question was kept steadily before the attention of Congress by the alternate advocates of tree coinage and of the repeal cf th£ Sherman law. The coinage committee of the House in the first session reported a freo-sliver bill, which after an exciting debate was saved from defeat by the casting vote of the Speaker, but was afterward fili­ bustered to death, the friends of the bill failing to secure the signatures of e majority of the Democrats to petition for a cloture rule in its behalf. The Senate then passed a free-coinage bill, but when the free-silver men renewed their fight in the House they were out­ numbered by fourteen votes, and, of course, failed. The anti-siiver men met a similar fete in their efforts to secure a repeal of the present law, the Senate refusing by a decisive vote to consider it, and the House killing the Andrew- Cate bill by declining to vote so as to give its friends the parliamentary right to move cloture on it, without which it concededly qould never be forced to a vote in tbe closing hours of the Con­ gress. Tactics Regarding Tariff. On the tariff, accoiding to a Wash­ ington correspondent, the dominant party in the House adopted a policy of attacking the McKinley act in detail largely for political reasons and partly for tho reason that in view of the political complexion of the Senate it was practically out of the question to pass a general tariff-revision bill through the Senate, while special measures might stand some show of passage. The result was the enact­ ment into law of two bills continuing block tin on the free list and line linen at 35 per cent ad valorem. Under the McKinley act large duties were to take effect on those items in the near future. Other separate bills were passed through the House, only to be pigeon­ holed in the Senate, as follows: VFree wool and reduction of duties on woolen manufactures, free cotton-bagging machinery; free binding twine; free silver-lead ores, where the value, not the weight of the silver exceeds that of the lead in any importation; free tin- filate, terne-plate, taggers' tin, and the imitation to $100 of the amount of personal baggage returning tourists may bring into the United States. The anti-option bill passed both houses, but was killed by the refusal of the House to suspend the rules and agree by a two-thirds vote to the amendment put on the bill by the *Sen- ate, the opponents of the measure maneuvering so as to prevent Mr. Hatch making effective his majority in favor of the measure and forcing him at the last moment to try suspension of the rules. The pure-food bill, the running mate of the antl-optlon bill, passed the Senate, but was never able to get consideration in the House. World's Fair T.e^lslatlon. World's Fair- legislation comprised the grant of $2,500,000 in souvenir half- dollars In aid of the Fair, the closing of its gates on Sunday, the appropriation of various amounts for different Fair purposes and the passage of sundry acts of a special nature and minor im­ portance. An automatic car-couoler bill shorn of its drastic features was enacted into law, as was also a national quarantine bill Increasing the powers of the marine- hospital service to meet the threatened dangers from cholera, and an Immigra­ tion law imposing additional restrictions on immigration, but not suspehding it entirely. The Senate averted the bill over the Behring sea seal fisheries by ratifying a treaty of arbitration. It also rati ned extradition treaties with Eussia and other countries, but still has before it a treaty of annexation of the Hawaiian islands. The opening of the Cherokee outlet was provided for in the Indian bill under a clause appropriating $8,295,- 000 for its purchase from Indians. $295,000 to be paid in cash and $8,000,000 in five equal annual installments. Put on the Stitutc Ho iks. Approximately 425 House and 236 Senate bills and joint resolutions be­ came laws, making 660 acts put on the statute books as the result of the work of Congress. A majority of these measures were of interest only to indi­ viduals or localities, being for the relief of citizens, for the bridging of streams, for the District of Columbia, for rights of way, eta. An unusual proportion of the claims bills were for the relief of Southern men. • • . The House passed in round numbers 625 bills, of which 200 failed of passage in the Senate, and in the neighborhood of 625 bills passed by the Senate failed in the House, including a long list of public-building bills, many private pen­ sion bills and other measuies Involving increased expenditures. ' t Vetoed by the Presldertt. Three bills were vetoed by the Presi­ dent, viz., to refer the McGarrahan claim to the Court of Claims (a second McGarrahan "bill failing of action In the House), to amend the v. ourt of Appeals act and in relation to Marshals in the United States Courts in Alabama. This last bill became a law by passage over the veto, Senator Hoar stating that It had been vetoed through a misunder­ standing of its provisions. The Presi­ dent subjected three bills to a "Docket" veto and two other bills failed of en­ grossment in time for presentation t« him. All were of comparatively small importance. The Pension and Census offices, the whisky trust, Panama t anal and Paciflo Mail company, the Watson-Cobb charges, the Pinkerton system and Homestead troubles, the Maverick and Spring Garden bank failures, the Ellis Island Immigration station were inves­ tigated by Congressional committees, but notfling came of the reports sub­ mitted. Election Content* Kettled. The Senate passed on two election contests in favor of the sitting mem­ bers, Dubois (Idaho) and Call (Florida), the conte^taiUs being Claggett and Davidson, respectively. The House unseated Stewart, the Re­ publican sitting member from a Penn­ sylvania district, and gave the place to Craig. In the Noyes-Kockwell contest from New York it refused io follow the recommendation of the elections com­ mittee that Bockwell, the Democratic sitting member, be unseated, and by a majority vote confirmed Eockwell's title. In the oases of McDuffie vs. Tur- pin from Alabama, Reynolds vs. Schonk and Green vs. Scull from Pennsyl­ vania, and Miller vs. Elliott from South Carolina the elections committee re­ ported ih favor of the sitting members. SMOTE HIM ON THE JAW. Bob F IsImmoM Knocks Out Jim Hall in Four it iiind* at New Orleans. Bob Fitzsimmon3 smote Jim Hall on the jaw with his right in the fourth round at the Cresbent City club's arena, and that settled it It may have yibeen a chance /blow,but chance ' blows are in the g a m e . T h e Australian Is for the time being the great­ est *man south of the Ohio and, according to a New Orleans d i s p a t c h , t h e crowd that jour­ neyed from the North to bet BOB FITZSIMMONS. their money on Hall and see him pull it off will go back the best way they can. Up to the time the knock-out blow was delivered Hall had slightly the bet­ ter of the sparring. His purpose was to cross-counter his rangy pountryroaii and put him out and Fitz caught htm at his own game. In the flush of victory Bob does no know what to do with him"- self. He is $37,500 richer for his fifteen minutes' exercise to-night, and Hall gets the loser's end, $2,500, and ac­ knowledges that Fitzsimmons can hit a harder punch than any other lighter alive. The referee awarded the contest to Fitzsimmons, who, Graying the United States flag over h'is head, walked over to his op­ ponent's corner and shook his hand, and as he, was leaving the ring received a tremendous ova­ tion. The fight was the easiest Fitz­ simmons has had in America, and the blow which knocked Hall out JIM HA . was universally said to be the hardest that any one of the old ring habitues ever had witnessed. When the knock-out blow was deliv­ ered the crowd rose to Its feet and a tremendous shout went up. Hall, how­ ever, lay unconscious on the carpet, a look of agony on his face, and the crowd feared he had suffered serious in­ jury. Hall's second, with a club official and Dr. Betts, ran quickly, to the pios- trate pugilist, and applying restoratives gradually brought him back to con­ sciousness. Fitzsimmons also ran to the center of the ring, and, pulling off his gloves, helped to resuscitate his con­ quered toe. When Hall had been brought to he was carried limp to his chair, where he remained until able to to go to his dressing-room. Fitzsim­ mons was frenzied with delight over his comparatively easy victory. After Hall had been brought back to consciousness, Fitzsimmons skipped nimbly to his room, and, without put­ ting on his clothes, drew on a heavy overcoat and jumped into a carriage with his wife and drove to his quarters. Mrs. Fitzsimmons, unobserved by the throng, had witnessed the fight through the crevices of a room up-stairs. A great crowd congregated in front of the winner on Canal street, giving him a rousing welcome as he drove up. After he had gone up-stairs the cheering con­ tinued, and Fitzsimmons came out on the balcony and made a modest speech on the victory. How to Clean Brass. Brass, to be kept In proper order, should be cleaned at least once a week, while it is the custom in house­ holds with well-trained domestics to have brass and irons, fenders and other fireplace furniture given a light rubbing every day. In cleaning brass it must first be relieved of all canker and other spots to which the metal is subject from contact with acids, exposure to water or other causes. An application of alcohol, spirits of terpentine, benzine or kerosene will generally remove all ordinary spots on brass, unless very old spots, the metal in some cases seeming so per­ fectly to absorb foreign substances that the removing of them amounts almost to an impossibility. Spots removed, there is no more certain cleansing and polishing application for brass than rotten stone and oil. Rotten stone usually comes in lumps. Before using for polishing brass it must bs reduced to powder, and in this state is quickly disolved to a smooth consistency when mixed with olive oil. A thin paste of the prepar­ ation should be rubbed lightly on the metal, and when perfectly dry it ! should be rubbed off vigorously with a flannel cloth, the finishing polish being given with the powder dry, and subsequent rubbing with* clean flannel cloth or chamois skia, Boon to Jack. The British steamer Bawnmore, which recently visited an American port, has a novelty aboard in the shape of a stockless anchor. In fact, she has two of them, and they are hauled up "chock-a-block" to the hawseholes in a way to make a sailor feel like kicking himself for all the the risks he has run in the way of catting and fishing anchors in years gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no flukes. It consists of a heavy semi-circular mass of metal fastened directly to the chain and furnished with two attachments very j similar to the old-time flukes, but ' twisted like the flanges of a screw ! propeller. The anchor «an be let go j and grounded inside of ten second) , and hoisted in less than half a minute, j It will tarke hold of the hardest bofc torn, and the anchors, starboard and J port, will keep a ship In poaittoo ii ' the worst weather. INAUGURAL ADDRESfc DELIVERED AT WASHINGTOlf.•.'4;-* • BY PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, i " Fall Text of tho Customary js^ee^i of thfF Incoming: Executive--Sajrs Tariff" and Fi­ nance* Should Receive Attention to Av<Mr* ,. Dangers That Menace the Cooniry. ":J " •4 Talked to Thousands* 1 Immediately after receiving the oath ' from Chief Justice Fuller, Fresident, Cleveland delivered his second inaugu­ ral address. It was as follows: » My fellow-citizens, in obedience to tlui mandate of mv countrymen I am about todedi-j cate myself to their service under the sano-; tion of a solemn oath. Deeply moved by the expression of confidence and personal attach-' merit which has called me to tnis service I no, eure my gratitude csn make no better return' than the pledge 1 now give before God audi these -witnesses of unreserved and com-j plete devotion to the interests and wel-, rare of those who have honored me. X deem it fitting on this occasion, while in41-) catlnir the opinions I liold concerning publlo i questions of present importance, '• to alao) briefly refer to the existence of certain condl-| tions and tendencies anion# our people which* seem to menace the integrity and usefulness' of their government. "While every American) citizen must contemplate with the utmost! pride and enthusiasm the growth and expan­ sion of onr country, the sufficiency of our inH Btitutions to stand against the rudest, shocks of violence, the wonderful thrift and enter-! prise of our people, and the demonstrated superiority or our free government, it be-. ' icoTGs us tc courtar.t!y wstch for sveryv symptom of insidious infirmity that threatens ©ur national viaror. The strong man who. ia tho confidence of sturdy health, r.oarts the •terncBt activities of life and rejoices in the' hardihood of constant labor, may stilt have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse. It cannot be doubted that our stupendous achievements as a people and our country's robust strength have given rise to a heedlessness of those laws governing onr national health, which we can no more evade life can escape the laws of God ana nature.' J Tackles the Money Qaentkn. Manifestly nothing is more vital to onr su­ premacy as a nation and to the beneficent pur­ poses of our government than a sound and stable currency. Its exposure to degradation should at ouce arouse to activity the most- en­ lightened statesmanship; and the danger of de­ preciation in the purchasing power of the wajces paid to toil should furnish the strongest in­ centive to prompt and conservative action., In (^»titii]- wit.h our "resent sit--' nation, as related to this subject, we -will be wise if we temper our confidence and faith In our national strength and resources with the frank concession that even these will not per­ mit us to defy with impunity the inexorable laws of finance and trade. At the same time, in onr efforts to adjust differences of opinion, we should be free from intolerance or passion and our judgments should be unmoved by al­ luring jihrases and unvexed by selfish Inter-' est.<v 1 n.m rOTiflrtpTit, that, Ktich nn n.mirnnoHtO the subject will restilt in prudent and" effective1 remedial legislation. In the meantime, so far as the executive branch of the government ciaii' intervene, none of the powers with which it i» invested will be withheld when their exercise is deemed necessary to maintain our national credit or avert financial disaster. Concerning; the Tariff. Closely related to the exaggerated confidence" in oar country's greatness, which tends to adai-i regard of the rules of national safety, another danger confronts us not less serious. I refer to the prevalence of a popular disposition to ex-, pect from operation of the government especial' and direct individual advantages. The verdiqt; Of our voters, which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection's sake, enjoins upon the people's servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome prog-i eny of paternalism. This is the bane of re­ publican Institutions and the constant peril of our government bv the people. It degrades to the purposes of wily craft the plan of rule onr fathers established and bequeathed to na as an object of our love and veneration. If perverts the patriotic sentiment of our coun­ trymen and tempts them to a pitiful calcula­ tion of the sordid gain to be derived from their government'® maintenance. It undermines the self-reliance of our people and substitutes in its place dependence upon government favor­ itism. It stifles the spirit of true American- Ism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship. The lessons of paternalism ought to be nn-: learned and the better lesson taught that, while the people shonld patrioticaly ana cheerfully support their government, its funo- tions do not Include the support of the peo­ ple. The acceptance of this principle leads to a refusal of bounties and subsidies which har­ den the labor aud thrift of a portion of onr citizens to aid ill-advised or languishing en­ terprises in which they have no concern. It leads also to a challenge of wild and recklesa pension expenditure, which overleaps the bounds of grateful recognition of patriotic ser­ vice and prostitutes to vicious uses the people's prompt and generous impulse to- aid those disabled in their country's defense. Stands by Civil Service Reform. One mode of tbe misappropriation of publla funds is avoided when appointments to ottloe, instead of being the rewards of partisan activ­ ity, are awarded to those whose efficiency prom­ ises a fair return of work for the compensation paid to (hem. To secure the fitness and com­ petency of appointees to office, and to remove from political action the demoralizing madness for spoils, civil service reform has found a place in our public policy and laws. The ben­ efits already gained through this instrumen­ tality and the further usefulness it promisee entitle it to the hearty support and encourage­ ment of £Cll who desire to see our public serv­ ice well performed or who hope for the eleva­ tion of political sentiment and the purifica­ tion of political methods. » The existence of immense aggregations ot kindred enterprises anil combinations of busi­ ness interests formed for the purpose of limit­ ing production and fixing prices,is inconsistent with the fair field which ought to be open to • every independent activity. Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combi­ nations that have the power to destroy; nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness, which usually results fiom whole­ some competition. These aggregations and Combinations frequently constitute conspir­ acies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and OD- Sosecl to our American sense of fairness. To. ie extent that they can be reached and re­ strained by federal power, the general govern* merit, should relieve our citizens from their interference and exactions. Forbearance with Indians. Onr relations with the Indians located with­ in oar borders Impose upon us responsibilities we cabnot escape. 11 umanity and consistency require us to treat them with all forbearance,' and in our dealings with them to honestly ana considerately regard their rights and interests. Every effort should be made to lead them, through the paths of civilization and eduoation, to f elf-supporting and independent citizenship. In the meantime, as the nation's wards, they elieald be promptly defended against the 6a- pCaitv of designing men, and shielded from ey- ery influence or temptation that retards their advancement. The people of the United States have decreed that on this day the control of their govern­ ment in its legislative and executive branches shall be given to a political party pledged in the most positive terms to the accomplish­ ment of tariff reform. They have thus deter mined in favor of a more just and equitable syBtem of Federal taxation. The agents they have chosen to carry out their purposes are bound by their promises nut less than by the command of their masters to devote thesrf*. •elves unremittingly to this service. While there should be no surrender of princi­ ple our task must be undertaken wisely and without vindlctiveness. Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrongs. If in lifting burdens from the daily life of oar people we reduce inordinate and unequal ad­ vantages too long enjoyed this is but a nec«#>„ aary incident of our return to right and justioe. Must Redeem Pledges. Anxiety for the redemption of the pledge* which my party has made and solicitude few the complete justification of the trust the people have reposed in us constrain me to re­ mind those with whom I am to co-operate that we can succeed in doing the work which has been especially set before us only by the most sincere, harmonious and disinterested effort. Even if insuperable obstacles and op­ position prevent the consummation of our task we shall hardly be excused, and if failure can be traced to our fault or negleot we may be anre the people will hold us to a swift and e*» acting accountability. The oatli I now take to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the Tt ited States not only impressively defines the jjreat respon­ sibility I assume, but suggests obedience to constitutional commands as the rule by whioh my official conduct must be guided. I shall - to the best of my ability and within my sphere ot duty preserve the constitution by loyally protecting every grant ot federal power It contains by defending all its restraints when attacked by impatience and restlessness, and by enforcing its limitations and reservations in favor of the States and the people. Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me, mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me. 1 an, however, saved from discouragement when ] remember that I shall have the support and the counsel and co-operation of wise and patriotic men who will stand at my side in cabinet places or will represent the people in their legislative halls. 1 find also much com­ fort In remembering that my countrymen are Just and generous, and in the as­ surance that they will not condemn thoee who by sincere devotion to their service de- •crve their forbearance and approval. Above all, I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men, and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the AmertcRfl " people, and I know Ue will not turn from a* now if we humbly seek His powerful aid. i' .a i £ : a? r* 5*