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fttE's IPcfftnro flainitalct v J. TAN 8LYKE, EDITO* AW» PUBUSBER. HoHENRY, HALINOIS. 1 Win Nllli -- i THX FAST wees, domestic .vxrft - r*« Xm»t, v .V ^ Daring a storm at Asbury Park, N. the house of the Rev. George Clark mi siftrnck by iigfetaing and two paifttwm killed. At Koohester, N. Y., Peter Peters • Murdered hi* wife and then committed stticide. v •^ At Philadelphia, Edward Parr has * îtieen sentenced to death for the murder of his Mrs. Susan Irwin. Jffciee young men, Charlea lifldd, ^Olkum D. Pink ham and William Bo well, wen (Irowned la Salem (Maes.) harbor, the other jiay, by the capsizing of a sail boat. )J Wednesday, June 11, was the fiftieth s . \t|nnivett»ry of the marriage of the Emperor ' jiad Empress of Germany, and the event was , s:' ijalebrated with great pomp at Beciia. fi: if Parr, the Philadelphia fiend who mut­ tered his daughter and was sentenced to death, ^heated the hangman by taking a dose of strych- After twelve lscura' &uffenc£ he died in most horrible agony. s i, Commodore L A. Parker, Stperin* fendent of the Naval Academy, at Anifapolis, lid, died at Baltimore, last week, Aged 56 •; A mysterious and horrible murder is Imitating the people andpiusling the detectives |̂gjf Kew York. Mrs. Dr. Hall, an aged lady of : Wealth and respectability, living with her hus- *si»d in an aristocratic mansion in West Forty- aeocod street, was fonnddead in her bed, with « gag in her month and a handkerchief tied ieross her eyes. The deed was probably ĵbMMitted by bnrglara, for tbepwpose of rob- is - i The little town of Mcintosh, Liberty ̂ #onnty, Ga., was the other day the scene of a . " terrible riot between * party of negro excar- Konists from Bryan oonnty and those belong- "f Ibg to the place. It began in a fight between |wo negroes, wherenpon John Randall, #f the negro militia company from I Bryan connty, a part of the excmrsioiusta, Ordered hie company to oharge, which they did, " Jkayoneting everybody within reach. The Oap- ' I iMn himself killed one man, by running him 4 Ihrough with his sword There was intense f f Incitement at this outrage. The Liberty county Jegroefs rallied and drove the military com- . .. yany into the cars, opened fire on them, killing 7 fo«r sad woandiBK saany more, only stopping .: Ibe shooting wheta the train got out of the way, : ,4Adch they tried to prevent by tearing up the % ĵKraek. All th« parties engaged were negroes. X At Huntsville, Ala., the other day, •'* * While a body of ebnvicts were marching to din- I' Mr, sis of them broke away. Two were ehot 4ead by the guards and the other four escaped. , ,t v,. - **• Wwt*<:' ' 9 Two highwaymen perpetrated a bold Wbbeiy in Chicago, a few days ago. Two ! ' toesseogers were sent from the Illinois Central xaOroad ottee to one of the banks with a pack- , - age of money. While walking along Washing- - j|»n street, in the*very heart of the city, they were attacked by two footpads. The messenger who parried the package was knocked down with a aud-dub, while his companion was blinded ^wWi pepper; the padfage, containing about •8,000, was aeiaet, and before the passers-.by •OHM realise the nature of the transaction the b̂ievee, with the money, had driven out of îght in a buggy which was waiting for them. Advices from the Upper Missouri re­ port that Sitting Boll sad a small band of his r adherents have gone #»e Maskatohewan. It is said that before his departure he advised his £ tribe to return to the United States and Bubmit the Government A dispatch frosa the West reports Jb*t "the ooach from Dead wood* for Sidney %as stopped near the Cheyenne river by five •> ^basked robbers. The passengers, four in •amber, were robbed of their money and valu­ able*. The mail-sacks were cut open and ̂ fheir contents thrown on the road, the robbers ,̂'||jfcking the roistered packages. Having made s, if successful "clean-up," the robbers allowed î e coach to proceed ott its northward journey. I ' U "i* We read in the Chicago papers that ^contracts have been made within a few days •§or the transportatfam of wheat from Chicago f1p Liverpool at the rate of 90 cents per 100 jHounds, whidi is equal to 18 cents per bushel." vi; The footpads who recently knocked rj 4own a messenger of the TUiuoia Central rail- load in the streets of Chicago, in broad day- 1' Ifeht, and robbed him of #10,000, have been t arrested and a conaiderable portion of the • ,f |Honey recovered. *ii The twenty-first saengerfeat of the ; Vorth American Saengerbund bpgan at Cincin- ' > aati on Wednesday, the 11th of June, and, last- * log five day®, wound up on Sunday, the 15th, *' an out-door musical fete. The chorus was '• pearly 2,000 strong, comprising all the local so­ cieties, and visiting climbs from all over the West, besides some from the East • One of the most furious railroacTVafs known for years is being waged between . Southwestern lines. A recent tele- igram from Kansas City says tickets were being *4'r Cold there for Si Louis and Chicago at 80 cents tQrieoe. Just before the starting time of the *[ trains one of the roads put the prioo down to 5 - aents, while the Chicago and Alton offered a ,,'free ride to all who would go. Henry Schlenoker, sentoneed to fee « ̂ Ifcanged in Nebraska, ha* boss respited until " *aly 18, to allow the Supreme Court to pass ' ̂ pon his case. Schlenoker is a young printer ̂ Jjrom Illinois. i- Chicago Timet prints extensive ft: telegraphic reports of ths condition of the crops , |hponghout the West and Northwest, from s'. trhich it appears that In the great wheat-gxow- * hg States of Minnesota and Wisoonain the r' -? i|»ro«pect is more favorable than earlier in the Reason wap anticipated. The late rains seem to *' |̂uive removed all unfavorable effects of the Ibrought The late-sown grain has taken vigor­ ous growth. An increase of about 10 per cent. In the acreage over last year is reported, and ̂#he present estimate of the yield is about . $4,000,000 : ̂ The Nafiotial Greenba îF^ t̂e:'̂ Bh- £:• *Hation of Hinnesora was held at Si Paul on ,.. the lOtti of Ju&e. Ignatius Donnelly presided. •fM-Tbe following ticket was nominated: Gover- . nor, Ara Barton, of Faribault; Lieutenant Gov f WlluS&i jfcGheu, of Fiiizuore countf; ', Andrew Nelson, of Meeker county; of Plata, A.̂ f. Lan ,̂ of Heuu^a ** a.3 '* . Mi* v ^ ' " eounty; Attorney General, William L. Kelley, of Si Paul; Railroad Commissioner, Sbeneasr Ayreŝ of Wiwhington county. HM Prohibitkm party of Minnesota Md their Stats Oonvsntfon at Minneapolis on the 10th insi, and placed the following ticket in the field: Governor, Eev. W. W. Satterlee; ttaatSDSBt Governor, & B. Williams; Secretary of State, L CL Stearns; Treasurer, H. D. Brown; Attorney General, A. W. Ba^nga The lows Republican Convention as* sembled at the State capital June 11, and or­ ganized by electing ex-Senator Harlan to pre­ side. Gov. Gear and Lieut Gov. Campbell were nominated for re-election by acclamation; Judge Beck was renominated for Supreme Judge, and Mr. Van Coelln for Superintendent of Public instruction. A hose-cart, while being rapidly driven to a fire in Chicago, a few nights ago, was plunged into the river, the bridge being open. Of the four firemen on the cart, two saved themselves by leaping from the vehicle, the other two going down. One succeeded in swimming out, the other, together "with the hoissb being drowned. 7 , ̂ j\I*3 Nothing will b© done at ttiJs session by the House Military Committee, it is said, with the Fitz-John Porter case. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, at a mooting last week, consid­ ered the case of Senator Ingalls, of Kansas. Two Democrats (Hill and Vance) and two Re­ publicans (Cameron, of Wisconsin and Hoar) expressed the opinion that, in view of the in­ vestigation by the Kansas Legislature, there is not enough of the case to put Mr. Ingalls again on the defense, and, therefore, they would not recommend an investigation by the Senate. The remaining four Democratic members were of the opimon that an investigation ought to be or- *»d. ^ JfiteeeltaMeoMS. A reet^ telegram from Btgfefass, on the Rio Grande, in Texas, says that a com­ pany of Mexican infantry at Piedras Negras, on the Mexican side, mutinied and fought their way through the guard at the gate. About fif­ teen crossed to Eagle Pass under a heavy lire from the loyal troops, who continued filing after the deserters landed. The fugitives sur­ rendered their arms to the citizens, and were subsequently returned to Mexico. A number of the mutineers were killed on the Mexican side. The cause of ths desertion is that the troops have been six months without pay and have nothing to sat Montreal, St. Johns and other por­ tions of Canada experienced a severe earth­ quake shock 00 the 11th Of June. The sixth Annnal Conference of Charities of the United States was held at Chi­ cago last week. A large number of distin­ guished men from various parts of the country were in attendance as delegates. Gen. Brinker- hoff, of Ohio, presided. M. W. Iieffingwell, the well-known burlesque actor, is dead. At a meeting of railroad managers in New York last week, freight rates were ad­ vanced 5 cents per 100 pounds on grain, fourth class, flour and live hogs from Chicago to New York, and in equal proportions from all other points. Gold is again going abroad in ooosid- erable quantities. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Solovieff, the assassin who attempted the life of the Emperor of Russia, on the 14th of April last, has just been executed at Bt Petersburg. The Afghan treaty has created a strong impression in Persia, greatly increasing the British preetiga Forty thousand camels belonging to the British transport service died during the war in Afghanistan. The famine in Cashmere is taking its oourse, and people are reported dying by hun­ dreds. A riot against the collection of taxes has occurred in the district of Catania, in Italy. Several soldiers sad peasants have been killed. Mrs. Howard Paul, a well-known En­ glish actress and singer, is dead. It is s&id that the Czar of Russia re­ nounced his visit to Berlin because the German police had received intelligence that it was highly probable his assassination would be At­ tempted there. Thr.ee employes of the Government book depot at Poonah, India, having confessed that they set the recent fires in order to destroy the evidences of their defalcations, two were sentenced to life-long transportation and the other one to ten years' transportation. A correspondent of the New York Herald, at Alexandria, Egypt, says: "After a seven months' campaign, Capt Geeai returns north completely victorious. The revolt has been crushed, and with it must go down the slave traffic which has outraged civilization for half a century. In all seven pitched battles were fought on the Gazelle river, the slave- traders and rebels combining against Gessi All the slave stations were destroyed, and the establishment of civilized rule will prevent any further raids from the region of the Gaidla" John Ennis, the American pedes­ trian, who went over to England to walk for th© Astley bolt, recently saved the lives off two ladies at one of the locke on the river Thames. Ths Britens unanimously vote him a great hero. A fire at Point Breeze, on the Schuyl­ kill river, just above Philadelphia, destroyed several factories, a large amount of shipping, and 1,000,000 gallons of oil The loss will reach more than a million of dollars. The Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, is dead. A dispatch from St. Petersburg states that ths Governor General of Moscow has found it necessary to extend ]** to five adjacent provinces. Beports have reached the Govern­ ment of India of fresh massacres of royal Princes at jfaadajsj, pronapted by ths King of Burmah. The cause of the recent advance in Jsflver in London is attributed by the Times to the fact that the German Government is hoarding coin with a view, it is believed, to its early remo»etiz*tion. The Great Council of Geneva, Switz­ erland, has refused to discuss the re-establish­ ment of capital punishment Sot a single voice was rained in its favor. It is rumored that tbe Khettv* of Egypt will abdicate. - -1 *'» »- • CONGRESS. Ttaawas no session of the Butts on ths Tth Inst, tad Utile or nothing wss done to the Meae*,fhe daybetec devoted to the Ml making addttMbsl appropriation* tot the VesMlce De- 'TEZSiZXSS'iA. Mr. 0*.'. resolution to the Flnaaee Committee from further liftajfilin ntlnn of the Warn* Sllrer bill, end to deel|W It before the Senate ft# ectton, waa 1*M v.efoM.tke ftenato, but on mottaa of Mr. Voorhees was laid over. The McDonald hill au­ thorizing the employment of the mtUtia and land and naval foroee of the United States ii» certain cases was taken up, and Mr. Harris,made a speech in support of the bill. The House made short work with the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. It WM reported by the com­ mittee, and immediately p#«Bed, under a suspen­ sion of 'the rales, by a vote of 188 yeas to 81 nayn. There was a caucus of Democratic Senatorx. m the evening, to conoider what action should l>e taken on file Warner Silver bill, but no deflnlte agri^raent was reached. The nilver men expressed great indignation at the refusal of the Finanoe Com­ mittee to report the bill. The Senate, on the 10th, unanimously passed the House resolution appropriating $3,000 to erect a monument to mark the birthplace of George Washington. The bill relating to vinegar factories established and operated prior to March 1, 1879, was passed. It provides that such factories may be operated for the manufacture of vinegar by al­ coholic vapor within (W0 fc-pt of a distillery, under regulations by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate, by the close vote of 21 yeas to 28nays,refu8ed to take up Mr. Coke's resolution discharging the Fi­ nance Committee from further consideration of the Warner Stiver bill, and declaring it before the Nut­ ate for action.---In the House, Mr. Morrison, from ths Committee on Way* and Meaiis, reported a res­ olution, which wart adopted, providing for the final adjournment of Congress at noon on the 17th of June. The Judicial Appropriation bill was paseed by the House In the same shai?e in which it was pre­ pared by authority of the Democratic. Advisory Com­ mittee and reported by the Appropriation. Comm't- teo. It makes no provision for tbo payment of elec­ tion Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, and speci­ fically prohibits the payment of any part of the ap­ propriations to these officers, snd the makinir of any engagement to pay them. Various amend­ ments by the Republicans were promptly voted down by the Democrats. The bill passed by a strictly party vote. In the Senate, on the 11th, the Committee on Appropriations reported back the Legislative, Ex­ ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill aa passed by the House, with a large number of amend­ ments, the aggregate effect of which Is to make it conform substantially to the recently-vetoed bill of the same title, divested of the political seotions, and omitting, also, the appropriation for judicial expenses contained In that measure, and all in­ crease* of salaries therein propused for the benefit of clerks and bureau officers in ths various ex­ ecutive departments. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, addressed the Senate at length, in reply to i>ir. Blaine's late speech. The House, after a warm debate, pasited the Democratic Caucus Army Appropriation bill. A number of amendments were ottered--including one reducing the army to 15,000 men--and promptly rejected. Only SI votes were recorded against the bill, to 172 yeas. Mr. Stephens, from the Coinage Committee, reported a bill for the adoption of the metric system of weights, measures and coinage, which was ordered printed and recommitted. The biU previously passed by the Senate relating to vinegar factories was passed by the House. Mr. Carlisle reported the bill directing ttg» Attorney Ueuerat to aujust or compromise the claim of the United States under the will of Joseph B. Lewis. Passed. This is the case in which Lewis, formerly of Hobo- ken, N. J., left an esUte of about $1,000,000 to be applied to the reductioa of the national debt. Mr. Knott, from the .Judiciary Committee, wubmltted the report of that committee on the veto message of tlid President. Printed and recommitted. The report begins with an allusion to the danger to bs appre­ hended from tha presence of armed troops at the ballot-bos, and says: "Even the author of the message uuder consideration himsolf admit) that any military interference whatever at the polls is contrary to ».is« *pirit of our institutions, and would tend to destroy the freedom of elections. The present Congress, In the exercise of its un­ doubted right to prescribe the purpose for which the land and naval forces of the Government shall be used, saw proper In making appropria­ tions for the snpport of the army to en­ act that it should not only be a clearly unlawful, but penal, offense for any Federal officer to employ troops or armed men at State elections for any purpose whatever, except to repel armed enemies of the United States. That bill the President re­ turned to the House of Representatives without hi» signature. Hia reasons for objecting to the bill seefi to have been these: First, that, in his judgment, the repeal of the clause in question SM unnecessary:.second, because it would "pro-bit all civil officers of the United States from employing the only adequate eivll force to enable tliem to preserve the peace and exe­ cute certain laws at Congressional elections;* and, third, because the manner in which the repeal was proponed did not happen in that particular instance to be in harmony with Execu­ tive taste; and was therefore considered by the au­ thor of the messsge as furnishing a suitable occa­ sion to deliver to the House of Representatives a gratuitous lecture upon the methods in which it should discharge It* constitutional functions. As the President has twice called the attention of the House to these objections, the first two may be re­ ferred to hereafter, but with regard to the third It ia. perhaps, sufflci- nt te say that the manner in which Congress chose to repeal the clause in ques­ tion was not only in strict conformity to the con­ stitution and rules of the two houses respectively, but justified by numerous precedents in the annals of Federal legislation. Impressed with the importance of removing the last shadow of a pretext for any Interference with State elections by armed forces of the United States snd detfrlng to obviate. If possible, the President's objections to the measure already pro­ posed for that purpose, the House of Representa­ tives promptly paw»»d a separate bill, which was as promptly concurred in by the Henate, simply pro­ viding thai it should not be lawful to bring to or employ at any place where a genera! or special election is being held in any State any part of the army or navy, unless such forces should b- neces­ sary to repel armed enemies of the United States, or to enforce section 4, article 4, of the constitution, and laws made In pur­ suance thereof, and repealing all provisions inconsistent with the purposes of the bill. This bill was speedily returned with a message from the President, designing his objections to its ap­ proval, which are now to be considered. The first of these objections is a simple repetition ^of the one assigned in the message vetoing the Army Ap propriation bill. No one can read the two mes- saees together without being struck by the marked difference in tlin tone of the two documents in re­ spect to this objection." Mr. Kuott points out the difference between the two meHsasTMs. and continues: "Ihe entire argument against the necessity ot the bill In left to rest upon the President's reiterat­ ed assertion that troops have not been and will not be used to interfere with any State election dnring his administration; that the assertion was no doubt sincere, but. unfortunately for its validity as a reason for refusing to approve a bill designed for the protection of future generations, as well as this, the official term of the present Executive Is limited, and he may be succeeded by one who will feel a less scrupulous regard for the freedom and purity of the ballot than he profesMes himself to entertain. The next objection to the approval of the bill as alleged in the meshage, is that it would abrogate on certain days and at certain place* a number of laws, but espe­ cially section 5,MS of the Revised Statutes, which is reverently referred to as • an ancient and funda­ mental law which has been in force from the foun­ dation of the Government,* and seems to be re­ garded by the President as invested with some pe­ culiar sanstity, not pertaining to any other pro­ vision in the entire system of American jurispru­ dence. He enlarges upon the statement that this section was sanctioned by Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and contains the principle whicti was acted upon by the four Presidents more eu- teared to the 4m fican people than all others at She iiioxt critical periods in their respective udmin­ istrations. If be had examined the facts coc- nected with ths transactions to which he alludes, he would have found that neither of the four illus- trious patriots and statesmen to whom ha refers clitioi did or proposed to do anything which would not nave been pei<>«tly lawful under the strictest letter of the bill he returned to the Houxe. had it been in force at that time. He would hav« dis­ covered. moreover, that neither of them ever construed either of the acts cited by him as con­ ferring upon the President or any of his subordi­ nates any arbitrary or extra-leva! power, but mere­ ly as authoririrg ths use of the necessary means tor securing the execution of the law in the regu­ lar methods, and through the agencies prescribed by law." In support of his assertion, Mr. Snott refers to the action of Washington In the Whisky insurrec­ tion, of Jeffsrson in the Aaron Burr esse, of Jack­ son in 188*, and Lincoln in the outbieak of ths Civil War, and adde: •' Owing, perhaps, to the limited time he allowed himself In wh ch to prepare his message, the Presi­ dent failed to observe the fact that the various statutes to which be refers, including section 5.*>8. are as completely abrogated or suspended by the act approved by President Lincoln on the S?th of February, lr6S. as they pos­ sibly could be by the bill to prevent military in- feRirsass with sltsttssi, hau he returned it to the House with his approval. Be seems to have totally forgotten that toe law amoved by Lincoln so the Wth of t ebruary, 1I4S. making it a ugh mis dMPUI|NME Sg ~ MlMPt^lfE-"4$^ r -*w | vr - ̂ ^ H •• • >f '< t! r 'v . ' '• States to employ srassd Ken at a State election ex* ccpt for two specited purposes, was still iu force, and that it was as much US duty under hl« official oat* to see thtt it stool*** faithfully executed as Any ether pravastat in ths stetotea.* Tha report sittrtts that ths power to establish polios negation* whldiaugr he neotasary tor the preservation ot domsetlo order tifcd ths pre­ vention of violence And erime affedting the lift or property within their respective limits bs- longs exclusively to the States, «psd the Federal Government can only Intervene t* protect the state in the execution «C its own lawa for the purpoae upon appllciatlon of the Legislature or Governor, where ttoe Lstfjstetuiw cannot be con­ vened. enpreme Court jeuMfem are quoted in support of this position, and fh* foHowiag extraet from a letter of the present Sscretary of State while Attorney General under a former administration, sent by him to the Marshal si Florida on the 30th of August, 1866: " The special duty and authority in the execution of a process issued to you mu>>t not be confounded with the duty snd authority of suppressing disor­ der and preserving the peace, which, under our Government, belongs to the civil authorities of the States, and hot to the civil authorities Of ths United States/* The report continues: "To prevent the substitution of the petty discre­ tion of superserviceable Federal officials fur the law, the soldier with his bayonet for the civil offi­ cer with his warrant, and other dangerous abuses to which the recent experience of our country has shown It to be liable, wss the sole object and would have been the only effect of the bill to pre­ vent military interference at the polls, which the President found it lmpossibls to approve. ••The third and final objection offered by thePred- dent to the bill is, to use his own language, * its discrimination in favor of the State and against tha national authority.' Under the oonstltt\|lon, the Federal Government has not, and no law of Con­ gress can give it authority to preserve the peace in a State, either at the polls or elsewhere, unless called upon by proper State authorities for that purpose under the circumstances for which the constitution was provided. How, therefore, there could possibly be a discrimination against an authority that does act and cannot ex­ ist, it is difficult to see. It is equaUy impossible to discover how a distinct reservation of ths power ot the President to suppress en insurrection against ths Government of a State at any time or place when properly called upon can be said to derogate from the authority of the United States. There is a single consideration sufficient in itself to show that the fears ex­ pressed by the President that ths bill would subor­ dinate national to State authority were totally un­ founded, but which seems singularly enough to have escaped his observation. Under the law as it now stands, and has stood since 1796, the Presi­ dent is not bound to call for the militia, or to em­ ploy the land or naval forces of the Unit­ ed States to suppress every riot or popular tumult in a State, although called upon by the Legislature or Executive for that purpose. If the President should have reason to believe that force was not called for in good faith, to suppress an in­ surrection against the Government of the State, but to be used for any purpose in any manner inimical, to the United States, it would not only be his right, but hli duty, to withhold it." Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Appro­ priations , reported to thn Senate, on the IStb, with-, out amendment, the House bill making appropria­ tions for certain judicial expenses. Mr. Beck of­ fered an amendment, in the nature of a substitute, for the Legislative, Executive snd Judicial Appro­ priation bill. It was ordered printed. The hill, continuing ths pension of the late Gen. Shields ($100 a month) to his widow asd children, with an amendment grant ing a pension of $50 a month to the widow of the l#te Fletcher Webster, was passed. The Army Appropriation bill was received from the House. Mr. Maine addressed the Senate on tha McDonald bill, his remarks consisting chiefly of a reply to the speech of Mr. Hill, of Georgia. In the House, a>bill was reported from the Committee on Civil-Service Reform, prohibiting officers of, claimants against, or contractors under the United States from contributing money for political purposes. The Senate bill repealing the jurors* test oath was called up in the House, but the Republicans filibustered to prevent action on the bill, refusing to vote on the call for the previous question. The Senate Judiciary ComtnitUe has referred to the sub­ committee, consisting of Messrs, Garland, Bay­ ard, ConkMng and Carpenter, an important question raised in regard to Secretary McCrary's nomination for the Circuit Judgeship which Is to be vacated by Judge Dillon next September. The novel question is whether a nomination can constitutionally be confirmed to fill a vacancy not yet created, if at the same time it be stipulated that the person so nominated is to continue to oc­ cupy another office until the position to which he is prospectively appointed (hall have actually become vacant by resignation or otherwise. The commit tee defer action upon Secretary McCrary'u nomi­ nation until after they pass upon this general question. The LegisltUve, Executive and Judieitl Ap­ propriation bill waa passed by the Senate, on the ISth lnst., with a number of amendments, which necessarily sends it back to the House. The House passed the bill, prepared by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, allowing any telegraph com­ pany to land ocean cables on the coast of the Unit­ ed States, subject to the terms of such grants as have been heretofore made by Congress. The bill is designed to upen the way for an increase of tele­ graph facilities between America and Europe. 'lhere were two caucuses of the Republican Sen­ ators during the day. Both were devoted to an Interchange of view s concerning the proper course of action to be taken in regard to the pending ap­ propriation bill, and at the latter an important agreement was reached. It was agreed with substantial unanimity thst tile passage of the Army Appropriation bill in its present terms should be opposed by the Republican party in the Senate, unless the majority consent tp the addition ef a proviso to the sixth section declaring that it shall not be construed to prevent the use of troops to execute any existing law. The Judicial Expenses bill was discussed very briefly, but. as it also con­ tains clauses in the nature of conditions precedent to the use of the money which it appropriates, the caucus agreed with absolute unanimity that pas­ sage should be opposod, unless these conditions are eliminated. • SPAmriXG THE SAHARA JDMeitT The project of a railroad across the Sahara is still discussed in France, and the plan some time since proposed by M. Duponchel--namely, a line running from Algiers to Timbuotoo, a distance of 2,500 kilometres--still appears to be regarded with much favor. He asserts that the principal portion of the line which he favors would rest, during its whole extent nearly, on layers of sand, and, toward the encl, on primitive vol- canio rocks, granite and gneiss, and no mountainous obstructions would have to be encountered. The average heat does not appear to exceed 73 2-5 degrees, or 75 1-5 Fah., though account has to be taken of the great variations which oc cur in the twenty-four hours--for in­ stance, occasionally, a very cold night succeeds a temperature of 104 degretts Fah. in the day time. The great diffi­ culty to be overcome will be the want of water, which is not to be procured in that region. M. Daponchel calculates, however, that for three trains daily the amount of water required wotild be 4.000 cubic metres, and that the engi­ neering science of the day is quite suf­ ficient to supply even a muoh greater quantity. THS Jews bora in Servia having hitherto been permitted to settle and carry on business only in the towns of Belgrade, Posurevatz, Semandriit and SchabatE, are now, in consequence of a petition they addressed to the Home Minister, allowed to settle and trade in other towns of the principality, where they may also build synagogues and schools. Publio grants will, moreover, be made to the teachers of Jewish schools in the new settlements aa hith- TOPICS. Tttl̂ dacmbalism of thex Aui&inin iboxigteis is un^eaiAble. But ithas its Umftatioos. The line must be dxtitrn aomfrwkere. A father may not eats the flesh of his child, nor the child thai of its father. Yet motheril eat their chil­ dren, and children their mothers, and in other degrees the same horrible cus­ tom is followed. The reason assigned for it by the natives is that relatives are thereby enabled to forget their deceased kindred, and will not oontjaae tomeaaa for them too long. ,<,i ED WARD ALEXANDER GUY, of Cincin­ nati, was in 1862 possessor of $40,000. He was a well-educated, intelligent young man,, and particularly pious. Convinced that the scriptural text, " Sell all that ye have and give alms," was a binding injunction, he began to dispose of his property and give the money to the poor. He bestowed the gifts slowly and carefully, and it was not until 1870 that the last dollar was gone. He is now a religious missionary in Cincinnati, pennilegs, bit completely absorbed in hia work* ^ , ' * f „* 11 n THX erection of a statue to Thomas Paine, in St. Louis, is characterized by Bishop Coxe as "hyena worship." He goes on to say, in the Independent: "Here is an epoch in the history of fanaticism. There have been dog- worshipers and calf-worshipers and snake-worshipers. It is left for athe­ ists on the shores of the Mississippi to out-Herod the superstitions of the Nile; to set up a hyena and cry: 'Such be thy gods, O Republic of America!' Paine was not an atheist; but he was, morally, a hyena. His habits, his feat­ ures, and his character were those of thin foul animal." THX slave trade on the east coast of Africa is no longer flourishing. News reached Zanzibar the other day that three separate gangs of slaves were on their way to the coast, but before the intelligence came the Sultan had caught one of them, and Dr. Kirk had dropped upon another. The Kilwa road, former­ ly the most frequented for slave-dealing, is almost entirely closed. The trade now is barely enough to keep the coast plantations going. The export trade has been at an end for several years, and it is years since a man slave has been taken by the cruisers on the station. Dhowp are still taken and condemned, but it is for the illegal transport of old slaves, not new. No BITCH career of triumph has been secured by any other owner of horses in the annals of the English turf as by Lord Falmouth. He has been twelve times successful in the great classic iaces. He has won the "Derby" twice with a son of Blair Athol and a son of King Tom; the "two thousand guineas" twice with two sons of Thormanby; the "one thousand" three times with the children of Macaroni, Blair Athol and Adventurer; the "Oaks" three times with Queen Bertha, Spinaway and Jean- nette; and the "St. Leger" twice with Silvio and Jeannette. All these, except Queen Bertha, were trained by Mathew Dawson. Archer, who rode Parole, is his jockey. He has never made a bet. THX Presbytery of Ogdensburg has ousted the Rev. J. L. Waugh from the pastorate of a church at Brasher's Falls. He habitually maltreated his wife. He Whipped her soundly before the honey­ moon trip was over, and finally choked her until she was insensible. Her father interfered, and the clergyman pledged himself to reform, making the promise solemn by reading a chapter of script­ ure and calling on God to witness the vow. But that made no difference. He soon knocked her down, bit one of her fingers, and threatened to kill her with a razor. On being accused, he made a vigorous denial from the pulpit, but an investigation exposed all. INCLUDING! the ten new Cardinals re­ cently created, the Sacred * College numbers sixty-four members, thirty-two of whom are Italians, and thirty-two foreigners--namely, ten Frenchmen, one Corsican, three Englishmen, one Amer­ ican of the United States, lour Aus- tfians, three Hungarians, one Belgian, one Pole, two Portuguese, one German, four Spaniards, and one Bavarian. Leo XIII. has restored the college te exact­ ly the same number it oounted at the time of his election, but in doing so he has increased the foreign element to an most, if not an altogether, unprece dented extent, and given to the college a European as distinguished from an Italian character it never before pos­ sessed. A DELAWARE parallel to the Pooasset tragedy has been unearthed by the Wilmington Every Evening. Gilles Hitchens, now living between Concord and Laurel, in Sussex opunty, one day in February, 1857, cut his child's throat because "the voices of the Lord had commanded him to offer him as a saori- fioe, and no voice said, 'Stay thy hand.'" "Gillie" was a farmer, a blue-eyed, sandy-haired man, who read the Bible a great deal. He had attended a Meth- ore the tragbdy. When he reached hone his wife observed that he was laboring under great eauilMMMt. Dnr» ng the night "the voices M ®«d com­ manded that he should kill his dearly- beloved little son and offer his blood is a sacrifice." In the morning he went to the woods and once more heard the command. Then he prepared akeea knife to slay his son--a babe 18 months old. Taking the child to the woods he threw himself on the earth by it Boon » dog began to sniff at his fqefc Supposing that, like Abraham's ram, the dog had been sent to take the plaoe of fhe child, he waited for God to qp command. Hearing no command he dew the child. In May, 1857, Gillie was put upon trial at Georgetown, Judge George P. Fisher, now of Wash­ ington, being prosecutor, and Senator Willard Saulsbury defending. When the State had closed its case Mr. Sauls- bury arose, but was so overcome he burst into tears, and the jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty. Gillie has since lived an upright life, kind andj. loving to his children. He does net dare to read the Bible, however, as he becomes crazed. >; , ^XTMATMB BT | For nearly two years past a young man wearing the garb of a Highland piper has been wandering about in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, playing his pipes in the streets, attending pic­ nics and dances, and apparently depend­ ing on his instrument to earn him a lif- ing. A few days since he was playing in a mining village on the outskirts of Scranton, Pa. A crowd had gathered around him, among them a mine laborer named Braidy. Suddenly the piper ceased the music, and, stepping frMt the crowd, seized Braidy by the shoul­ der and announced that the latter wte his prisoner. At the same time he pro­ duced papers which he said were his au­ thority for making the arrest. Braidy seemed entirely overwhelmed by the at* rest, and made no opposition to the au­ thorities when it was revealed that the piper was a detective. For two years he had beeh on the track of his prisoner, who is charged with having murdered a wealthy man named Findlay, in Scot­ land, in January, 1877. Braidy was.in the employ of Findlay. Early one morning the latter was found dead by the toadside, his skull crushed with 'a club. Braidy had been discharged the morning before for drunkenness. He had been heard to make a threat that he would get even with Findlay. He was nowhere to be found, but was traced to Glasgow, where it was believed he had taken a vessel for America. William. Male, detective, was employed by the relatives of the murdered man to come to this country and search for Braidy,. who, it was thought, would bring up in. the Pennsylvania coal regions, where he- had friends working. One of Braidyr& peculiarities was his love for the bag­ pipe, so the deteetive, being a pipe*, adopted the disguise of a Scotch piper, and played about in the coal towns in the hope of some day attracting the (in­ tention of the man he was seeking, he being sure, from information he had! re­ ceived, that Braidy really was somt^ where in the coal regions. The rr^se succeeded, after two years of patient trial. Male is now on his way to Soot- land with the alleged murderer.-- ford (OnL) Era. ^ * j rt. i • A FEW kilograms of darbon desutphxde.. burned on the hearth of a chimney that, is on fire, has been found sufficient to- extinguish the fire without injury to- the house or furniture. THE MARKETS. A •'? --------- N&w YORK. Bwtos.. Ho®s COTTON PX.OUB--Superfine WHEAT--NO. 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