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|sr * g.r ^ 1 '> «% • 7Vrrmfhlr ,> > *« *,fr ^•,'• "v < S, "J: ••*"- ' **; '"• > '̂ '"' . i"--- : ?#• ". v- 1 j EDITOR AND PUHLXSHSR. H»L1N0I8. I* f.VV*' T ra® PAST WEEK, DOMESTIC mSWSf : ,*'f r »• **?*! *Brf ,** wi t *m *f»8 M JT3 eMt ><vr ?( *m eii ,'. mot*)' -•*»*'! i •••*r •: swif Mont-, *" atrike" in Pittobugh hat , jrnt* to in end. The workmen employed in fam^iring glam chimneys hm agreed to resume work, after oontwning their strike tor two yews. Two children of Mr. Wiswall, of the Harlem Railroad Company, were killed by lightning, one afternoon last weSk, in firout of their home in Morrisania, K. Y. •' ' Oeorge Bancroft, the historian, was • terkwialy injured by being thrown from his librae at Newport, B. L, a few daya ago. A ladle ot molten steel upset in a ^,fJ ,„5%pranton (Pa,) rolling mill, fatally burning two ^ **"' . ""j^imrod!, Sjpottenhuber, convicted of tha murder o" John Iveaon, at l«banon, Pa., last December, has juat been hung there. ' Four horrible murders vrere commit* fed in New York and vicinity July 4. Th» ttdfct prominent wag t*hat of John F. Seymour, a ooBfcin of Bishop Soy moor, of the Diocese of • 8pitaigfleld, Hi Two friender engaged in quarrel at Staten island over a trt*al matter. Both carried loaded re­ volvers, and one ahot the other before he had a chance to draw his weapon. The third case was the shooting of a man by a former employe in the streets of Nyack. Final­ ly, t>rie member of a steamboat excursion party ishot another throtagh ttebaad iorzefnaing to dciii k with him. ' Among the accidents and catastro­ phes occurring on the Fourth, one of the most ( melancholy was the partial overturning of an overloaded excursion steamer on Lake Quin- slg&mond, near Worcester, Mass., whereby a 'large nuinber of the passengers were pitched into the water, and seven were drowned. A somewhat similar accident occurred near :»f£ ' Jfcenton, N. J., where the breaking down of Kr^ I* ail overcrowded wharf gave a crowd a wetting frfeare, besides drowning three persons. iwiij-.'"- « **•»'«*• -• t The pleasure steamer May Queen ex- a boiler on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., the e&er day, fatally wounding four persons, and _ seriously injuring some half a dozen others. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has re­ voked the licenses of several of the disreputable Mas of ioiijaityln that city, and threatens to •41ose up many others if their owners do not ..•MPKI their way®,. - A aeventy-fi*» hoora' pedestrian coh- tsst far flOitiW, at the Exposition building, in Chicago, between Dsn;e! O'Leary, of OMc*go, and Peter Ofossland, of London, was won by he former. O'Leary made 850 miles and the Londoner 225 miles. '"In the Chicago Directory for 1879j m issued, there are 161,212 names, being ~%9b& more than were shown in the same book lint year. Supposing that these names, most i«f them heads of families, represent an average i«f,fow persons each, the population «f Chi- if.wii , A v. Si#l nitiun'> .A 4wateb f*om Sntroi ;N<*» «nr- >e <»*<"» l-*? * ' trmneL. for the reception of water from tap ?} \o .13. • laxQes. As an engineering work the - . t a r t l y ; a l i ' © J t p e c t a t i o n s . i n e i g h t •IttO . k hbuiis the Water to the Hale A Macros* and ' • <8avage mines was lowered 100 feet, demonstrat- »: log the capacity of the tunnel to perform all the work ever claimed for or expected of it Hk great undertaking has oost #6,000,000. % W ̂ 1' .*.«» yj> • ff? • j. |H<I" i ' t- • C* *** v f »«.! Is', Ml VI-• g1-®' 0p- te; ^I v - kltfiHiV, tm« i«v Hi"? n %i*.. fit** tr *|1C> MUi. .w * A. F. Clark, a member of the Cincin- ms the road was Interfered with only about six or • ven hours. The cost of the change will not fall short of #8,000,000. ; ' • WatMnf&n* The exoees of expofts^ of merchandise in twelve months ended Ma* 81,1879, was #269,709,87(5; for twelve months ended May 81,1878, #241,859,989. The excess ©f experts over imports of gold and silver coin sod bullion was for the twelve months ended Hay 81,1879, #5,284,615; for twelve months ended May 81,1878, #7,248,901. ,t v < . The receipts from internal revenue during the last year amount to #110,083,968; tor the fiscal year, over #113,036,000, aa in­ crease of over #3,000,000, daspits the reduction of the tax on tobaooo. Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-five bills were introduced in the House during the late session of Congress. President Hayes, with his family and members of his Cabinet, left Washington on the Sd inst., on a Potomac steamer, for Portress Monroe and a short cruise on the ocean. A letter of instructions from Attor­ ney General Devens is to the effect that the refusal of Congress to appropriate money for thoir fees does not prevent United States Marshals from ® performing all the duties of their office. They will, however, be com­ pelled to take their chances of ever getting paid through an appropriation hereafter. Jfatiannl FiMtnte. ; 'J; rrmt DEBT KTATKMBHT. Urttfejnthly debt statement for Ji follows: «x per cent.bonds.......#310,988,800 Five per cant, bonds tHtS,9u5,5U0 Four and a half per cent. bonds 850,000,000 Four per cent, bonds..... 6«7,029,«00 Refunding certificates... 13.842,¥10 Navy pension fund 14,WW,000 Total coin bonds #1,901,71 A,110 Matured debt 87,076,630 Lesal tender* A346,'748,488 Certificates.of deposit....* 80.370,000 Fractional currency 15,854.605 Qold and silver certificates 17,880,650 Total without interest.... 410,885,741 Total debt......... Total interest......... Cash in treasury .;... ..#t,m567.M8 ........... 80,7irt,6»l 853,152577 Debt less casta in treasury .§#,027,307,956 Increase during June 34,788 Decrease since June 90.18TC 8,579,575 CURRENT LIABILIXM. Interest dne and unpaid # 4,897.641 Debt on which interest has ceased.... 97,075,690 Intercut thereon 3,l6rt,768 Ovid and silver certificates 17,6fc0,660 United States notes held for redMnp> ' tion of certificate# of deposit....... 80,870,000 United States notes held for redemp­ tion of fractional currency 8(876,084 Called bonds not matured for whioa 4 « per cent, bonds have been issued... 104,078,410 Casta balance available July 1, 1879.. 148 478,558 ..# 853,158,577 ...# 858,153,577 City Council, has been sentenced to twelve ^months' imprisonment for tampering with elac- tion returns, while acting as judge of election v Zinnia.- f"" ^ 1' ;A Deadwooddi8pfltoh8ay*tKA#*Ijam0 *y, ' *, ode of tbe paVties tdrfo Yobbed the t!»l< sdacim®a!f'Bafrali»(lap,s short time ago, while > • on the way frottold itMiSotii Agsney to Rqptf §v, ' rn% ©t S>tPfiir Shetiir Sinitbr «f 1 ̂poach, * few f: ^9 ̂â 0' f wJbere t̂ »e iphbery pii- ' was committed, by three masked men, and a tree nearby. !\ ~ i;V | ; *n',! The census of Nebraska returns a I'iifafal population of 884,410, being an increase y luia a< yf ̂ 2,dG2 auioe laal • year. The increase ainoe gJ.J is261»417. •- ~ \ ~ A pair of tbiAtres,̂ who took advantage fc - of the absence of* all biut the osshier at dinner, 8^ ; lobbed a bank at Oalesburg, 11L, of about . 000 in money. , |Oneof the heaviest storms ever ex- .tfwieoced in that section occurred on the Sd inst The storm extended all over the States of Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Southeastern Dakota, doing much « dartiagr to buildings, railroads and crops. the former State reports of casualdes j ve I'bceivtd as follows: At Yasa, Goodhue u*ue persons weye killed and thirty« injured by hgtitning and the fall of a build- ing. At Wmuebago. the wife of Nathaniel Bte- . ven was tulied by lightning. At Mountain Lawrence LaWless was killed by light- Ked VYiiig reports #'t00,c00 damage to «tt > i property in the dty. Every town in the south t&tM . and east of thebnuo suffered heavily, butde- . r#k»ila are warning. AtMenommiee, Wis., a house pii-i:"it. .F*8 curie4 *w*J by the flood, with two per- n(tt u. f*M», not since heard from. At \Varrenton, Hmi *l> '̂•"t.thereskteuceof William Rush was carried " . ^fty. and with it the family, in- ^ ' wuduig Jlr. Hush, wife and daughter, a young ill .1. ' lldy a^Kiut 20 years of age, all being4c.owned. at ssi , 'Another !jouug lady, daughter of Mr. John ipm-g - jSavis, of lluau river, was drowned in »ttempt- Itaa ii'tfiptl to get out ot the house, which was floooed .less Jva,fer to the depth of several feet Ten 41 fast n ^^t^west of Lemurs, Plymouth oounty, _ . . , *Io*'a, two youug men named &uss were killed. • . J^fhey saw the siorm (ionung and rau into it-*.- bam for shelter, when the wind oilvf ; ' u^ruck the fcuildiijg with terrific foroe^ com- Xifv tii fflstely dwnolwhij«g it tad crushing them ^*th in , the ruius. The aggregate loss of life by disasters connected with the storm <ir»Hdhi»Hfi>.M»iBsaota will approach tw||»ty. will prpbably reaeh fifty, thirty- ^ Kt y .ffct jbeing.teiiirBd by the wrack of the Orphan VVr l\i,e jt. Vasa. The danags to jwoperty is ^ ; bat there is no data for exaet asdhiatet .: 3PM /Smith. * One of the most remarkable feata % t S - *f«*8ttSmpli«hed iu railroading was performed Pr. 4P»# is** fpsterday, June 28, by the 8t. Louis, b»n ,- '̂tnti ' Mountain and IJouthero, in a chmge of gau^a -' b* 700 yailes of road. Heretofore the giuge bV9immtoi Total..... IVAIUKl Cash in treasury Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in law­ ful money: Principal outstanding..# 64,838,519 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,MM,705 Interest paid by the United (nates.... 41,778,745 Interest repaid by tauasptirtatisii ot mails, etc lt£M,Q58 Balance ot ^terestpaid by th« TTattsd States. W.177.601 APPROPRIATIONS. The following memorandum of appropriations has been furnished by the Treasury Depart­ ment: For fiscal year 1877, #134,122,011; for 1878, #114,669,438. Appropriations for rivers and harbors were omitted for this year, and the Postoffice Appropriation bill wss #3,000,000 less than in 1877. For 187ft #146,304.909. This in­ cludes increased deficiencies, increased river and harbor appropriations, and the Halifax fisheries award. SILVKB. The treasury issued #13,359,9*2 In standard silver dollars.. Of this amount #6,518,912 has been returned. The amount now held in the treasury is #28,147,351. BKCEIPTS AND EXPBNDITURBS. The total receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30 from all sources amount to #276,250,227. The total ordinary ex­ penses, not including interest on tho publio debt, amounted to #164,593,384 GOLD COIN. The total amount of gold coin and bullion in the treasury Jan. 2, the date of resumption, wss #135,383,639. The amtfunt in the treasury Juas 30 is #lu5,236.474.6L COOfAQK. Cjoin^ge at mints daring June, 1979: "Ttenomlhatlon. . x G f e u D . i # , s , i n • • Double-e isles........... Hai£-ekiflJ77... .M. iV^t. • • PUcu* 135,880 IS,580 • i*ota] gold.., Valvt. #3,707,600 111,000 157,SOU #3,8i8,6U0 roimrni. BMJISS.... 10.841 #1081.440 Half .-agliw *18.446 1,44*. 130 Three dollars. 80,8*4 li^.ltS Quarter eagles 466,720 1,166,bOO Iwllars 8,030 8,030 Total gOld...i...i..... S,76V,431 #40,W6,913 SlL,Vl.K» ^ Dollars .*7,1*7.060 #37 JS7.050 Half dollars . 45M »5 Quarter-dollars 860 113 Diuie^ 450 4!i dents ashore; lbs previous twelve months, 47. In 1875 the number of livestoston steam­ boats wsa 007; in 18TO, 894; in 1877,824; la 1878, 203. PM<W<P<*'. The Maine Democrats held their State Convention on the 1st inst, and renominated Gov. Garoelon by acclamation. The Democrats of California have nominated Dr. Hngh J. Glenn, the great Qolusa county farmer, for Governor. Total 37^38,440 #37,397.433 Standard silver dollars coined to date.... 85,801,000 Coinave curing the year ending June, lfiTtt-- Gold double ssgles 1,861,717 87^84^40 Miteelltmeeug. "Fatinitza" is retained at McYicker's, in Chicago, for the first half of the presen week, followed by "Pinafore." The former opera has been growing in favor at every per­ formance. Mr. McVicker has now secured a company that pleases him for the presentation of Gilbert's "Epgaged," which follows the Opera company. This piece is likely to create a furore, as it has in the East The steamship City of New York, bound from. New York for Havana, ran into and sunk the iron bark Helen, of Dundee, Scotland, on the coast of New Jersey, on the night of the 28th uit Five of the crew of the sunken bark, including the Captain, were lost At a meeting of the nail manufact­ urers, hold at Wheeling, W. Va., the other day, the price of nails was advanced to #210, eard rates, equivalent to an advanoe of 10 cents per keg on the present card. Aleck Stephens and Ben Hill, who have not spoken to each other for about twenty years, made up the other day, and buried their old animosities. Mr. Stephens challenged Mr. Hill many years before the war, .but the latter declined to meet him on the field of honor, and iu doiog so said: "l have a family to protect aud a soul to sate, and you have neither." Frtw that day the two Southerners never exchanged a word until a few days ago. Capt. Eads is entitled to draw $500,000 from trie Government on account of a twenty- six-feet channel at the mouth of the Missis­ sippi, according to a raoent -decisiQa of the ^Attorney General. New money-order offices were opened on the 1st inst at 327 places in this country. From various causes 105 lives were lost on steamboats the part twelve months, against LjGg the preceding twelve. During the ftattwvtv»noaibft8l Uem wift lost fcjaoct- FOMEXGN IN TELLIGENCE. The French Government has deter­ mined on the occasion of the distribution of new colors to the army to require the Generals to take the oath of, allegiance to the republic. This action, is owing to the faot that a number of Generals attended the requiem mass for the Prince Imperial V Dispatches from South Africa report that the Zulus are suing for peace. Lord Beaconsfield is suffering from a severe attack of the gout. A Berlin correspondent reports that there is a mysterious coolness between Russia and Germany, and the Czar, in consequence of it, will not visit the empire. A Paris dispatch states that the editor of the Triboulet has been sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment and 3,000 francs fUie for caricaturing President Grevy, Ministers Ferry, and Lepere, and M. G&mbetta. Bod weather is reported in England, seriously damaging the harvest prospects. Fortunately America will be able to supply all deficiencies in the British markets. Crops in all parts of France have also been injured by rains. % A Constantinople dispatch says Tur­ key will not appoint cpmmissioners, but leave the powers to decide upon the new boundary between Greece and the Turkish provinces, hoping that the powers will not be able to agree. Paris dispatches indicate that the Bonapartist party in France is fast going to pieces. It is said that Prince Jerome, who has been named as its leader, will openly pro­ nounce in favor of the republic^ after the funeral of the Prince Imperial. Paris papers publish the codicil to the will of the Prince Imperial It says: The duty which onr house owes to our country will not lapse by my death. The arduous and glo­ rious task vof continuing the work of the First Napoleon will depend, in the event of death, upon the oldest son of Prince Jerome Napoleon, who, by the laws of succession of our house, iB my heir. I trust that my beloved mother, by seconding him in the discharge of the responsibilities and duties which in the event of my death will devolve upon him, will give to me. when I am no longer upon this earth, this last and supreme proof of her affec­ tion for me and of her love of France. Matters are becoming interesting in Bouth America. The Chilians, to the number of 10,000 or 15,000, are preparing a descent on the Peruvian capital Such an expedition is made possible by the absence of the Peruvian army in the Bouth, and the faot that the Peruvian transports are blockaded in the har­ bor of Callao. Cable reports of the condition of crops on the continent of Europe are of such a character as to promise a good demand for American grain. In all the Governments of Southern Russia--the great wheat-raising belt of the empire--the wheat is reported as almost totally destroyed by drought, hail, grasshop­ pers and beetles. In Northern Italy and other wheat- growing countries tho prospects are de­ plorable. Characteristic dispatch frotn Kings­ ton, Jamaica: "Advices from Pott-au-Prince, Hayti, state that the populase fired upon the Senate. The Senators fled. Many were shot Fighting continues." 4 A dispatch front Odessa, Rutuda, states that the trials of forty-five Nihilists have been concluded. Six were sentenced to terms from two to three years' imprisonment The rest wtere aoquitted. The contemplated international in­ dustrial exhibition at Moscow, Russia, is postponed from 1880 to one year later. Another coal-pit disaster took place lately near Glasgow, Scotland. Thirty-one per­ sons were in the mine at the time of the ox- plosion. Four persons were burned alive. Twenty-one corpses have been recovered, and it is probable all in the mine are dead. t The ex-Khedive of Egypt has been arrested at Naples. A dinner was given by Prince Bis­ marck, at Berlin, in honor of Hon. Andrew D. White, the newly-arrived United States Minis­ ter, on the 2d. The Cuban Government has asked Spain to send to that island and distribute among the sugar plantations about 40,000 troops, to be employed in the doable capacity of guards and field-hands. CONGRESS. The Senate, on the 28th nit, discussed and again postponed the resolution of Mr. Vest declar­ ing in favor of the free coinage of silver. The bill making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their deputies was passed after a brief discussion, Mr. Logan making the principal argument against the bill. The House passed the bill exempting from license and enrollment fees vessels not propelled wholly by sail or in­ ternal motive power of their own. and the joint resolutien providing for a further treaty with Mexico. Tlie Senate, in executive session, re­ jected the a nomintion of D. T. Corbin as Chief Justice of the Supr* me Court of Utah. Mr. Vest's resolution for the complete re- monetisation and free coinage of silver was finally disposed of by the Senate on the 30th nit. The res­ olution. on motion of Mr. Allison, was referred to the Committee on Finance, where it will sleep until the next session. The President's mecsage calling attention to the failure of Con­ gress to appropriate money for the necessities ot the Government was read in the Senate and re­ ferred to the Committee on Appropriutions. Mr. Wiudom introduced a bill making appropriations for Iho payment of Deputy Marshals, mi­ nus tho political clauses. The bill was Indefinitely postponed by a party vote. In the House, a message was received from the President announcing liis approval of the wtioial Expense bill: also a moasaKo vetoing the bill making appropriations tor the pay of Deputy Marshals. Tli* House refused to pass the bill ovtr the veto, the vote standing: yeas, 83; nays,«>2 not the necessary two-thirds voting in the affirmative. The House, by a vote of 185 yeas to 23 nays, passed the hill putting salts of quinine and sul­ phate of quinine on the free list. Mr. Cannon moved to susrMWd t»m rules and pass the bill ap- propi-iatinir fOliO.UUO to pay the tees of United Ktates Marshals and their general deputies outing »!*« fiscal year ending June 3U, I860. Selected by a party rote--yeas, 61; nays &S. SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THX MKSinENT. Following is the text of the President's special message sent to Congress on the 80th u)t.: To the Senate and House of Bepresentatlves: Tho bill running an appropriation for the pay- m- at of the fees of Uul'ed ntatts Marshals and their general deputies which l have thin day re­ turned to the House of Representatives tin which ttoriffisatwl),with my otyMttons, bavlag «ilts reconsideration by that body failed to be­ come a law, I ietp ctfully call your at­ tention to the immediate necessity ot mak­ ing s«w arteqapt* provision for the dne sad efBdeut rxeontion by tht Marthas and Deputy Marshals of the United States of the constant and important duties enjoined upon Uiem by existing laws. All app opriatlous to provide for the per- formsnes of these indispensable duties explra to-day. Under the laws prohibiting public officers from involving the Oov«rnm< nt to cot.tract liabilities beyond the actual appropriation*, it la apparent that-the means at the disposal of the ex­ ecutive department for executing the laws through the regular ministerial offlc«rs will, after to-day, be left inadeq ate. The suspension of necessary func­ tions in the ordinary sdm nls*ration <«f ti<e Srst du­ ties of the Government for the shortest period is in consistent with the public Interest, ami at any mo­ ment may prove i neons is ent, wifi pub ic safety. It is impossible for me to look without grave concern on theststeof things which leaves the public service thus unprovided for and public interest thus un­ protected, and I earnestly ur. e on your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the m intenance of the service of Marshals and Deputy Marshals for the fiscal yesr which com­ mences to morrow. M. B, Hans. JUNK 30,1&7U, Very little was dofce in the way of legislation by either house on the final d >y of the extra ses­ sion, July 1. In the 8enate, the House bill placing quinine on the free list was passed by an almost unanimous vote. No further effort was made to pa-s the Marshals' Appropriation bill in either house, but ' in the 8enate Messrs. Windom and Eaton argued the question of responsibility for the failure of the bill. After the passage of the customary resolu tlons of thanks to the Vice President (Wheeler) and Vice President, pro tern. (Thurman), the latter at 5 p. m. arose and said: "senators: thank­ ing you sincerely for the respect and ap­ probation expressed in your resolution adopted to-day. and for the kind aid you have uni­ formly given me, while temporarily performing tli '1 duties of the chair and wishing you all sate atxi pleasant return to yoisr homes. 1 now. in obedlei ce +.o the concurrent resolution of the two houses, de­ clare the Senate adjourned without day." In th* House, Speaker EandalX, at precise­ ly 5 o'clock to. m., rose in hia seat and spoke as follows: "Oentlemen of the House of Representatives: Before we separate, I desire to return my thAuks as presiding officer of this House to the members of this Hons.-, of every no itical division, and to say to tbem that I appreciate their uniform kindness aud conduct; and now. in o. edi- ence to the terms of the concurrent resolution of the two houses fixing the time of final adjournment of the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress, I dedans this House adjourned without day." BONE CAVES IK IBELAND. The bone cave at Shandon, near Dnn- garvin, in the eonnty of Waterford, acci­ dentally discovered some twenty years ago, was the first Irish cave which pro­ duced animal remains belonging to the pleistocene period. In it were found the remains of the mammoth horse, bear, wolf and reindeer. Prof. Leith Adams, in his report on the exploration of this cave (1876), surmised that it was an enormous shelter Bhed where the wild denizens repaired to end their days, or for the purpose of dragging in their prey, and he suggested that it required only funds and some enterprise to dis­ cover other caverns in the neighbor­ hood of this one containing abundance of pleistocene animal remains. One such has within the last few days been discovered near Cappoquin, at a dis­ tance oi about seven miles from the Shandon cave, by Mr. Ussher, of Cap- pagh. This new cavern is of large size, and appears to have been occupied at a very remote period by bears, portions of whose skeletons are to be met with in the lower deposits of the floor; but the chief interest in this discovery rests in the fact that remains of the great Irish elk (Megaccroa Hibemicus) were found in it, in conjunction with the bone3 of other deer and of bears, and along with a polished greenstone celt (neolithic) and several stone rubbers. There were also some very remarkable and strong evidences met with of the association of man with the great Irish elk, for, on the authority of Prof. Leith Adams, in whose presence these remains were taken out of the cave, and by v; hom they were packed up for further obser­ vation, we learn that many of the bones of the megaceros were evidently split for their marrow, and several elk cannon- bones were found fashioned into awls and gauges, showing that man was not only contemporaneous with one giant stag of Ireland, but also may have in pome measure helped to exterminate it. The explorations of this cave are still going on, and they promise to open out a new era in the prehistorio history, of Ireland.--London Times. |HS VETO POWEB. HP? BEDSTEAD SUPERSTITION IN OJU- MANY. Having ordered a neatly-constructed single bedstead, says a correspondent of London Notes and Queries, with somewhat high and ornamental sides, I was surprised when it was brought home to find that the ornamentation of one side of the bedstead was not re­ peated on the opposite side, it being, in fact, quite plain. I expressed my sur­ prise %nd dissatisfaction to the maker, saying that, when a bedstead was placed with its head against the wall of a room, the sides, then showing, will appear quite unlike--one ornamented and the other plain. At this the maker expressed his surprise that I should be ignorant of a German custom and prejudice; "for," says he, "in Ger­ many single bedsteads are only placed sidewise against a wall or partition; and only removed from this position and placed with the head against the wall to receive a dead body." And the worthy maker assured me that nowhere in Germany could a native be induced to sleep on a single bedstead which had not its side placed against a wall or par­ tition. The same objection does not hold against placing two single bed­ steads side by aide, with their heads against a wall. THKRE is every probability that the Gothard tunnel will be completed by the end of November.' The point now reached on the Airolo side is 4,100 feet, that on the Goeschenen side 2,120 feet from the center of the mountain, and it- is expected that the junction of the two galleries will be made some 800 meters from the oenter, on the southern si#* R I s The principal provision on the subject in the Bvised Statutes is as follows: Ono* More by tho President fta tlM CM* or the MUTI-ahals' Bill. To the House of BspssssntaUves: I return to the House of Bepresentatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled" An act making appropriations to pay the fees of United Btatea Marshals and their general depu­ ties," with the following objections to its oe- comixig a law: The bill appropriates the sum of #600,000 for the payment, daring the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, of United States Marshals and their general deputies. Th® officers thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws. They were created and their powers and duties defined by Congress at the first session att«r the adoption of the constitution, in the Judiciary act, whioh was approved Sept. 24, 1789. Their general duties, as defined in the act wlii -h originally establishes them, were substantially the same as those prescribed in the siatutea now in force. The Re Section 787. It shall be the duty of the Marshal of each dist-ict to attend the District and Circuit Courts when sitting therein, and to execute throughout the district all lawful precepts directed to him snd issued un< er the authority of the United States; and he shall have power to com­ mand all tbe necessary assistance In the execution of his duty. The original act was amended Feb. 28 1795, and tho amendment is now found in the Revised S atuten in the following form: Section 788. The Marshals and their deputies shall have in each State, the same powers in exe­ cuting the laws of th" United States as Sheriffs and their deputies in such St^te may have by law in executing the laws thereof. By subsequent statutes additional duties havo been from time to time imposed upon the Mar­ shals and their deputies, tho due anc! regular performance of which are required for the effi­ ciency of almost every branch of the public service. Without these officers there would be no means of executing warrants, decrees, or other processes of the courts, and the* judicial system of the country would be fatally de­ fective. Tbe criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive. Crimes com­ mitted within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States are all cognizable only in the courts of the United (States. Crimes against public justice; crimes against the operations of the Government, such aa forging or counter­ feiting money or securities of the United States; crimes against the Postal laws; offenses against the elective franchise; against the civil rights of citizens,; against the existence of the Gov­ ernment ; crimes against the Internal Revenue laws and Customs laws; crimes against the laws for the protection of the Indians and the' public lands. All of these crimes, and many others, can be punished only under the United States laws, which, taken together, constitute a body of ju­ risprudence which is vital to the welfare of the whole country, and which can be enforced only by means of the Marshals and Deputy Mar­ shals of the United Htatea. In the District of Columbia, all of the pro­ cesses of the courts are executed by the officers in question. Iu short, the execution of the criminal laws of the United States, service of all civil processes in cases in which the United States is & pwty, and the execution of the Rev­ enue laws, Neutrality laws, and many other laws of large importance, depend on the main- t* nance of the Marshals and their deputies. They are, In effect, only polios of the United States Government Officers with corresponding powers and du­ ties are found in every State of the Union, and in every country which has jurisprudence which is worthy of th© name. To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish Sher­ iffs, constables and police officials in the sev­ eral States. It. would be a denial to the United States of the right to execute its laws, and a denial of all authority which requires the use of a civil force. f The law entitles these officers to be paid. Funds needed for this purpose have been col­ lected from tbe people and are now in the treasury. No objection is, therefore, made to that part of the bill before me which appro­ priates money for the support of the Marshals and Deputy Mart-hals of the United States. The bill contains, however, other provisions which are identical in tenor and effect with the second section of the bill entitled "An act making appropriations for certain judicial ex­ penses." which, on the 23d of the present month, was returned to the House of Repre­ sentatives with my objections to its approval. The provisions referred to are as follows: SEC. 2. That the sums appropriated in this act for tliH persons and the public service embraced in its provisions are in full for such persons and pub­ lic service for the fiscal year ending June 8(1,1880, and no department or officer of the Government sha!l, during Haid fli-cal year, make any contract oi incur any Lability for the future payment of money under any of the provisions of title 26 mentioned in the section of this act until an appropriation suf­ ficient to meet such contract or pay such liability shall have first been made by law. Upon reoonsideration, in the House of Rep­ resentatives, of the bill which contained these provisions, it lacked the constitutional majori­ ty, and therefore failed to become a law. In order to secure its enactment the same measure is again presented for my approval, coupled in the bill before me with the appropriations for the support of the Marshals and their deputies during the next fiscal year. The object, manifestly, is to place before the Executive this alternative, either to allow necessary functions of the public service to b© crippled or suspended for want of appropriation required to keep tbem in operation, or to approve legislation which, in official communications to Congress, he has declared would be viola­ tion of his constitutional duty. Thus, in this bill the principle is clearly embodied that by virtue of the provision of the consti­ tution which requires that " all bills for raising revenue should originate in the House of Representatives," a bare majority of the Home of Representatives has right to withhold, any appropriation for the support of the Govern­ ment, unless tbe Executive consents to approve any legislation which may be attached to appro­ priation bill*. I respectfully refer to the communications on this subject which I have sent to Congress dur­ ing its present session for a statement of the grounds of my conclusions, and desire acre merely to repeat that, in my judgment, to es­ tablish the principles of this bill is to make a radical, dangerous and unconstitutional change in tlie character of our institutions. (Signed; RuTiu^oito B. Him XXXCUTXVB MAXUOX, June 3U, HEW SUBSTITUTE FOR LUMBER. A. gentleman of Bushnell, 111., recent­ ly exhibited some samples of lumber that have attracted much attention among the lumbermen, and which, if it possesses all the virtues that are claimed for it, is certainly one of the most im­ portant inventions of its kind ever brought to notice. If it is a success it will form a new era in the art of build­ ing. To make hard-wood lumber out of common wheat straw, with all the ef­ fects of polish and finish which are ob­ tainable on the ha dest of black walnut and mahogany, at as little coat as clear pine lumber can be made up for, is the claim of the inventor, and the samples which he produces would go far toward verifying his claims. The process is as follows: He takes ordinary straw board, such as is usually manufactured at any paper mill used for the purpose. As many sheets are taken'as are required | to make the thickness of lumber de- aired. These sheets are passed through j a chemical solution which softens up the fiber and completely saturates it. The whole is then passed through a | succession of rollers, dried and hard­ ened during the passage, aa well as polished, and then comes #ut of thn other end of the machine hard, dry lumber, ready for use. The inventor claims that the chemical properties hardening in the fiber entirely prevents water-soaking, and renders the lumber combustible only by a very hot fire, Tho hardened finish on the outside, alao makes it impervious to water. The samples on exhibition could hardly be told from hard-wood lumber and in saw­ ing it the difference could not be de­ tected.--Oshkosh {Wis.) Northwest* em. . >k /t l44':5l;: PLAID WEAMnrto. so long a favorite article of Soottish costume, once came under the censure of the Town Council of Edin­ burgh, who condemned them as a "bar­ barous habit." This was in 1637. It appears to have beeib. customary at that period for the females to wear plaidw aa an article of dress, which, for some un­ accountable reason or other, had given, offense to the magistrates,and occasioned their passing several acts against the practice. These having been little re­ garded by the ladies, the act of 1637 was published, in which the Town Coun­ cil state that "such'has been the impu­ dence of manie of them that they have continuewit the foresaid barbarous hab- itte; and hes added thairto the wearing^ of their gownes and petticoats about their heads and faces, so that the same is now become the ordinar habitte of all women within the cittie,to thegenerl imputation of their sex, matrones not being able to be discerned from lowse living women, to their awne dishonor and the scandel of the cittie." The penalty attached to the infringement of this act was, to ladies of quality, heavy; fines and censure, and for the lower or­ der, fines and banishment. The act, however, does not appear to have been much regarded. A traveler who writes from Edinburgh in the year 1729 says: "I have been at several concerts of music, and must say that I never saw in any nation an assembly of greater beau­ ties than those I have seen in Edin­ burgh. The ladies dress as in England,, with this difference, that when they go- abroad, from the highest to the lowest, they wear a plaid which covers half of the face and body." An exchange says? "A trdtW flttit has been instituted in a Cincinnati court. Mr. James L. Byman, proprie­ tor of the late Sunday journal known Ba­ the Breakfast Table, has sued Mr. E. B. Brown for $5,000. When Byman became the proprietor of the paper he employed Brown at $10 a week to fur­ nish a column of funny paragraphs. Brown soon afterward knocked off, and the paper not being able to produce a. smile withered and died, very much to> the disgust and damage of the proprie­ tor, who was not a funny man, but, on the contrary, quite the reverse. Hence the serious suit. A trial of this cause will not only establish the value of the funny man as a part of the social sys­ tem, but it will demonstrate that Arte- mus Ward understood himself when he said that it helped a comic paper very- much to insert a joke in it now and then." ,. (j THE recipients of the honorary de­ gree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford this year are: The Duke of Connaught, the Bishop of Durham, Lord Dufferin, Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the Royal Acad­ emy; Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P.; Mr. W. H. Smith, M. P., the original " Mon­ arch of the Sea;" and M. Tourgenieff, the Russian novelist. THE MARKETS. •fc: NEW YORK. BKEVU. HOGS C'orroN FLO UB-Superfine................ WMKAT--No.8 OOBN--WT8TERN HIND; OATH Mixed RXK-- Weatam « POHK--Mess LARD CHICAGO. BKEVXS-Choice Grad d Steers,... Cows snd Hol ers Medium to Fair Hoes FiiOua--Fancy Wt ite Winter Ex.. GOIK* to Choice Spring Ex WBEAT--No. 8 Spring •. 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