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IN the Pittsburgh crematory, by the use of natural gas, the remains of Milton Fisher were reduced to ashes in less than an hour.... The German heirs of George Rapp have instituted proceedings in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to bring about a di­ vision of property of the Harmonist Soci­ ety^ estimated to be worth S17,000,000.... The referee in the case of Ferdinand Ward and William S. Warner filed his report, at New York, which finds that $1,395,752.54 is due Ward's assignee by Warner, who, with his wife, is directed to make out the neces­ sary conveyances and releases within thirty • days. IN New York, Alderman Henry W. Jaehne was arrested chat&ed with having received a bribe, in consideration of which, he voted for the franchise to build a street railroad in Broadway, after the resolution had been vetoed by the Mayor. Jaehne was released in $20,000 bail. The affair created great ex citement in club circles, and rumors were alioat of the arrest of a number of other Aldermen.... A dispatch from Scituate, Mass., reports the death of Miss Abigail Bates, one of the two heroines Tcho in the war of 1812 drove away the British by playing a life and drum in the trashes. THE WEST. pi" THE Pacific roads now sell first-class limited tickets from Chicago to San Fran­ cisco or Los Angeles for $34.50, with a re­ bate of $5 at the western terminus. The Presidents of the roads are corresponding with a view to the restoration of rates. The Atchison Road proposes the formation of two pools, with Ogden as the dividing line.... The remains of ex-Senator Chaffee were interred at Adrian, Mich., with appropriate {^services. At the vault the little daughter of U. S. Grant, Jr.; grand-daughter of the deceased, placed a bouquet of water-lilies upon the case Judge Tuley, of Chicago, holds the belief that under the law of Illinois no court has the power to suspend a sentence formally imposed by a jury as Eirt of its verdict... .Ex-Governor William win, of California, died at San Francisco. TCTHILIJ KING, one of the pioneers of Chicago, who recently married at the age of 81 years, died of pneumonia at Thomas- ville, Ga. After giving large sums to char­ itable and religious associations, he left an estate estimated at $1,000,000. He once owned the tract on which the city of Joliet is built... .James I. Waddell, Captain of the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, is dead. THE imitation batter and cheese bill has passed the Iowa Senate. Manufacturers must plainly mark all packages, and hotel or restaurant-keepers who use the at tide must attach to it a plain label, giving its p»p er name. Violation, of this provision will be deemed a misdemeanor. AT Greencastle, bid., three men jumped on the platform of the private railway car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, theatrical people, and attempted to force an entrance, but were driven off by a brakeman. It is believed that the trio in­ tended robbery, as one of them remarked, upon seeing Mrs. Florence, "That's the woman with the diamonds.".. .Harlan P. Tracy and J. B. Tracy, bankers at Elm- wood, 111., have made . an assignment The assets are $!i3,000, with liabilities about $00,0000.... It has been discovered that Lewis Township, Clay County, Indi­ ana, has been swindled out of $3,000 by Pollard, the crooked trustee, on a light­ ning-rod deal. Payment of the notes will be resisted.... That the natural gas area of Ohio is extensive is shown by the develop­ ment of the strong flow at Piqua. MBS. BOHKMAX, residing in a suburb of Cincinnati, became deranged from financial losses, killed one son with a razor, fatally injured another with a hammer, and then cut her own throat Robert E. Rivers, scion of a wealthy Buffalo family, was tried by court-martial at Fort Wayne, Mich., found guilty of desertion and forgery of ~ paymaster's checks, and sentenced to twelve yean in the Leavenworth (Kan.) Prison. payment of indemnity to China for out­ rages perpetrated on that country's subjects in the United States. DR. J. W. ROGERS testified before the Telephone Investigating Committee at Washington, March 17, that there was no intention of deriving advantage from the official positions of the men to whom Pan- Electric stock was donated. The object was to bank on their names and reputation. Witness wished * to secure the co-operation of men of integrity and of national repu­ tations. Without the names of such men the stock could not be sold. The incorporators of the Pan-Electric Com­ pany paid nothing for their stock. Two meetings were held in the room of the Sen­ ate Judiciary Committee for the organiza­ tion of the telephone company. There were present Money. Rogers, Jr., Senators Har­ ris and Garland, and Gen. Johnston. At the first meeting a general agreement was reached. Senator Garland prepared the papers and submitted them at the second meeting. A charter for a telephone company was obtained in Tennessee, and one for a telegraph company was obtained in New York. There never was any Pan-Electric stock issued. Witness declared that he had no idea when the company was organized that Mr. Gar­ land would be Attorney General; but he had done his best to make him Attorney General after Cleveland's election. He had dedicated a book to Attorney General Garland, and predicted that Cleveland would select the wisest, purest man in the country to elevate the judiciary of the country. On May 24 he had sent a letter to Attorney General Garland asking him to institute a suit against the Bell corppany, but received no reply. THE House Ways and Means Committee has instructed that a favorable report be made on a bill to authorize the establish­ ment of tobacco factories for preparing the weed exclusively for exportation, under Government regulations..... .President Cleveland, celebrated his forty-ninth birth­ day on the 18th of March.... The Treasury Department has received a report from Special Agent Jerome in re­ gard to the alleged fraudulent importation of cattle from Mexico. He says that calves are taken in large numbers from Texas into Mexico, where they are kept several years, and then returned as beef cattle. In this way. he says, great frauds are perpetrated, which can only be prevented by extra vigi­ lance on the part of the customs officers on the border. Instructions have been sent to thoSe officers to guard against any viola­ tions of the customs laws in this respect. DB. J. W. ROGERS testified in the tele­ phone inquiry at Washington, March 18, that he never sold any stock to a member of Congress. He had applied for a consu­ lar place, and had written to Attorney General Garland about it. Money had also seen the Attorney General in further­ ance of the application. Witness said that he had no hard feelings against Mr. Garland, although he thought the Attorney General acted meanly. When asked if he had not written satirical poetry directed against the Attorney General, he replied, drawing out a pamphlet: "Just got it this morning from Baltimore. Here it is; want to see it?" The cover of the pamphlet bore the follow­ ing inscription: "The Great Mugwump; Canto 1. Pan-Electric Sale of Gov­ ernment Property; To Be Followed by Parthenon; Congressional Whitewash and the Last of the Dog-Catcher. By J. W. Rogers of Parthenon Heights. Pub­ lished by Puck it Bottom, Parthenon Heights, Bladensburg, Md.; 1880." Dr. Rogers besought Mr. Oates to read the pamphlet, but several members threw up their hands in eloquent protest. POI*ITICAI~ Ex-SENATOR WILLIAM H. BARNUM has retired from the position of general man­ ager of the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York Reports have reached, Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmon­ ton and Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers. A NEW YORK correspondent alleges that Congressman Frank Hiscock will try to capture the New York Senatorship. THE President has nominated Zepheniah Q. Hill to be Marshal of Colorado, Richard M. Stadden to be Consul at Manzanillo, Lewis, W. Attel of Pennsylvania to be an Assistant Surgeou in the navy, and Freder­ ick W. Yerbarg to be Postmaster at Abing­ don, 111. THE following important nominations have been made by the President: William L. Trenholm, of South Carolina, now a Civil-Service Commissioner, to be Control­ ler of the Currency in the place of Henry W. Cannon, resigned; John H. Oberly, of Illinois, to be Civil-Service Commissioner in the place of William L. Trenholm, nom­ inated to be Controller of the Currency; Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, now Chief Examiner of the Civil- Service Commission, to be Civil-Service Commissioner in the place of Dorman B. Eaton, resigned. THE SOUTH. v i.*> m & > • NEARLY successful attempts at suicide by poison were made in New Orleans by Patrick Ford and John Murphy, two of the assassins of Captain A. H. Murphy, who were to be" hanged at noon of the 12th. When the fact became known, the Sheriff asked instructions of Governor McEnery, who ordered the warrants carried out. About noon the inanimate bodies of the doomed men were taken to the scaffold, held erect while the nooses were adjusted, and swung off in accordance with the sen­ tence. THE fight has been resumed against the Baltimore <fc Ohio Railroad's proposed ele­ vated road through Baltimore in connection with the Philadelphia and New York exten­ sion. A bill is now in the hands of a com­ mittee of the Maryland Legislature to re- quire, the company to define and locate its route. The company two vears ago indi­ cated two routes. This was done to prevent property-owners from demanding exorbi­ tant prices. The elevated road will BO through a thickly settled part of the citv and more than $1,000,0<K) worth of property- will have to be purchased A mob rode into Carrollton, Miss., and repaired to the Court House, where thirteen negroes were on trial for murder. They shot ten pris­ oners dead and mortallv wounded the other three Old Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's war-horse, died at Richmond, Va., the other day. He was 32 years old. AT a conference betweep L. A Sheldon one of the receivers of the Texas Pacific Boad, and Knights of Labor, at New Or­ leans, it was decided that the question of the dismissal of Hall, which provoked the strike, be submitted to the arbitration of the United States Court, provided Hull and the Marshall (Texas) Assembly agree to the plan. In the meantime work will be re­ sumed A train was wrecked near 'Mar­ shall, Texas, and the railway bridge span­ ning Fossil Creek, near Fort Worth, was Krtially destroyed by tire, the structure viug first been soaked with coal oil. The a*e charged with the crimes. - WASlII.\Gm\. THE House Committer ON Foreign Affaire bis postponed consideration of the Morrow Chinese bill, and will give precedence to the President's message recommending the GENERAL. VICE PRESIDENT HOXIE, of the Mis­ souri Pacific, refused to hold a conference with the executive committee of the Knights of Labor. Sixty-seven men have re­ turned to work in the shops of the Texas and Pacific Road at Marshall, Texas^ and sufficient hands are at work at three other points to meet pesent wants. A St. Louis dispatch of the 16th says: "Strikers came in contact with a Sheriff's posse at a suburban station, and several shots were fired during the melee. No one was hurt, however. The general situation remains unchanged, all efforts to run other than mail trains over the Gould lines proving futile. The demand of the yardmen and switchmen of East St. Louis for an increase of pay has been ac­ ceded to by four of the railroad companies, and it is thought the others will also come to terms." JUDGE THCRMAN says it has been de­ termined definitely to bring the Bell Tel­ ephone patent suit in Columbus, Ohio, and that the papers will not be filed in any court for several days, as they have not been completed.... Iron of all descriptions, with the exception of bar, is in good re­ quest, and prices are steady. Bessemer ore is firm, and the railmill product is sold for several months ahead... .Montreal, with debt of $12,000,000, proposes to add there­ to $1,000,000 4 per cent, bonds to j>ay the deficit caused by the smallpox and improve the siuiitary condition of the city. A SCALE of wages and rules, formulated by the Knights of Labor, were signed by the cigar manufacturers of Milwaukee. A'gen­ eral advance in wages is conceded, and after May 1 eight hours shall constitute a day's work. Fifteen hundred cloakmakers in New ^ ork City have gone on a strike. They do not ask for increased wages, but demand that the contract system be abolished. Nearly fifteen hundred men and boys em plovtd in the National Tube Works, at McKeesport, Pa., struck for an advance of 15 per cent, in wages. A strike of the street-car employes at Columbus, Ohio, was begun on the l$th inst. an opportunity for a personal discussion of the question at issue before final decision. The subject of dispute is Mr. Gladstone's Irish appropriation scheme. The sum which will be required to buy out all the land­ owners of the country, according to the Premier's plan, is £i50,000,000 sterling. The proposition to increase the public debt of Great Britain in order to purchase peace in Ireland is claimed by the Radical leaders in the Cabinet to be asking too mnch for what will be obtained." THE adoption of Mr. Gladstone's Irish land scheme will increase the British pub­ lic debt 25 per cent. When the Premier's Elan is fully developed Mr. Joseph Cham-erlain will formulate what ho conceives to be insuperable objections to the land-pur­ chase clause, and leave Mr. Gladstone to choose between dropping that feature of his Irish policy, thus driving out the Whig support, or maintaining it at the cost or losing the support of the Radicals. SENTENCES of imprisonment have been passed upon a police commissioner and sev­ eral officers at Frankfort, Germany, for ex­ ceeding their authority in dispersing a so­ cialist funeral party. A BERLIN paper, commenting oh the supposed wish of France to attack Ger­ many, says: "Germans who desired to con­ ciliate France will now hope that Frenchmen may find the opportunity they long for." ADDITIONAL NEWS. IN answer to the communication of Grand Master Workman PowjJerly requesting a conference. Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Road, tleclines, stating that' as previous arrangements wjth the Knights had been violated bv them no guarautec could be given that future ar­ rangements would be of a stable character, lb' reiter;Us the statement that the Mis­ souri Pacific had nothing to do with the discharge of Hall, of the Texas and Pa­ cific line; but is willing to meet Mr. l'ow- derly or other citizens, not, however, as representatives of the Knights of Labor, to discuss the present difficulties.... An ad­ vance of $.j per month, demanded by striking farm laborers in Pettis and Sa­ line Counties, Missouri, has been conceded, and most of the men have returned to work. ^ ARTICLES of incorporation of the Wis­ consin, Illinois and Iowa Bridge Company have been filed at Dubuque. The company purposes to build a steel bridge across the Mississippi one mile north of Dubuque, aud is backed, it is alleged,- by the Chicago, Burlington, and Northern Railway A Milwaukee citizcn, whosfe wife give birth to still-born twins, who were joined by a liga­ ment, sues a physician for $2,000 damiges and the recovery of the bodies. The claim is made that the doctor has preserved them for scientific purposes The Supreme Court of Illinois has refused a rehearing of the case of J. C. Mackin, the election conspirator. RUSSIA has informed Prince Alexander of Bulgaria that he will not be allowed to hold a life-title to the Governorship of Eastern Roumelia, and that he must re­ nounce that claim and content himself with the Governorship for a single term of office....The Berlin newspapers continue to print editorial articles bitterly attacking France Gladstone, in the House of Commons, stated that he hoped to be able during the coming week to name a day for presenting a statement of his Irish pro­ posals. A GREAT novelty in the field of opera is afforded this week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, in the shape of a Juvenile Mikado Company. It embraces t"ftb famous Holly­ wood children, and a chorus of fifty artists of tender years. The, cast is as follows: The Mikado. Master Martin Haydcn; Nanki-Poo, Lizzie Hollywood; Ko-Ka, Little Dick; Poo-Bab, Master James Rudolph; Pish-Tush, Master Gus Williams; Nee-Ban, Master Hannibal Myers; Yum- Yum, Little Baby Clara; Pitti-Sing, Lotta Hojywood; Peep-Boo, Little Myrtle Lor- ing; Katisha, Miss Marion Fleming. BILLS to establish a national live-stock high­ way, for the relief of heirs of cavalry recruits killed by guerrillas at Lawrence, Kansas, and to anthorize the retirement of Lieutenant Will­ iam P. Randall, of the navy, as a lieutenant commander, passed the Senate March l!t. A Dill was introduced to increase to WiO.iHK) the appro­ priation for a postoffice at Minneapolis. Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, continued bis speech in support of the Duskin resolution ins the Senate. He maintained that the tenure-of-ollice act is un­ constitutional. In discussing the civil-service views of the President lie declared that "honest partisanship is honest citizenship." Every man suspended from office, ho said, had a ri*ght to know why he was suspended. Senator Spooner did not Btippose the l'lt sident meant to submit his fellow citizens to serious injustice, but the system he had adopted in the matter of sus- ;>enaious inevitably tended to cast a shadow on ;he honor of honest men. Senator Saulsbury (Del.) opposed tho resolutions. The President had suspended, up to the time Congress met, only 1543 out of 17,000 officials subject to his control. Notwithstanding this magnanimity, President Cleveland's nomina­ tions had been allowed to slumber for now three months without action, because the Republican side of the chamber laid set to work deliberately to devise SOUK; scht me to prevent the removal of their partisan frit-ndB from office. Senator Saulsbury said the Republicans had converted themselves inti an obstruction party, hindering the due exercise of executive power. The House of Representatives passed a bill directing the Secretary of War to grant an eonorable dis­ charge to Francis H. Shaw, who was a captain in the Fifty-fiiftii Illinois Infantry, and was summarily dismissed by General Howard for misbehavior before the enemy. The bill to pension the widow of the late General Hancock came up in the House, and was strongly op­ posed by Mr. Price of Wisconsin. On the quo - tion of passing the bill tho vote stood 2~> to 4, Messrs. Price, Xach Tay.or, Johnson of Indiana, and Winans voting nay. Air. Price then raised the question of uo quorum, but the previous question was ordered on the bill aud it went over. SENATORIAL HONOft A Lively Interchange of Personalities Between Messrs. Beck and f-, >, * j Edmonds. p ~¥M FOKEIC2X. MK. PXKNELI,, the Irish leader, is in poor health... Moukhtar Pasha, on behalf of Turkey, opposes the reducing of the army of occupation in Egypt... .Bismarck's spirits-monopoly bill has b -en rejected by thf* committee of the Reichstag to whicil it was referred. .. A London dispatch states that "Mr. Gladstone has declined to accept the resignation of Joseph Cham berlain, President of the Local Government Board, and Mr. Trevelyan, Secretary for ocotland. He has asked and been granted THE MARKET8. NEW YORK. BEEVES HOGS WHEAT-No. 1 Wnite No. 'A Red CORN--No. 2 OATS-White POKE--Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choico to Prime Steers. Good Shipping.. Common HOGS--Shipping Grades 1' LOUII--Kxtra spring Choice Whiter WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. i< „ OATS--No. 2 !!!.'.'.*! RYK-NO. i BAULKY--NO. 3. - BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... Fine Dairy CBEEBE--Full Cr>-am, new Skimmed Flat* KGGS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu POBK--Mees MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. 2 OATS--NO. 2 IIVE--No. 1 PORK--New Mess.... . . TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 „• ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red '..... Co HN--Mixed OATS--Mixed 1'oitK--New Mess CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 . . POBK--Mess, LIVE HOOS ] DETROIT. $5.00 4.25 .97 .99 -47JV<RT> .40 " 10.0) @ 7.00 @ 4.75 .97'/, (ft ,9TT * .48 FC & .46 CLTLO.50 5.75 4.30 8.75 4.0) 4.75 4.5J .37 & .28 (" 59 <J's .58 .2H v]> .20 m ® 0.23- ($ 5.-25 <<i t.'ii (!< 4.50 lib 5. a (S 5.0) •W.. .11 •oo va .12 .55 9.75 .61 .37 .'.7 .00 9.75 .91 .37 .30 .91 .34 .28 10.25 .38 .30 .00 .30 .24' •121! .07 .13 .58 (£10.00 .si's © .37 .<2 <£il0.U) .93 .31) .32 .91V .35 .30 ! tJ. 8. Senate proceedings.] Mr. l^eck did not wonder that Duskin was not here tot himself. Everybody knew, Mr. Seek said, that Duskin was nominated in Mamh, 1881, and the Senate did not see fit to confirm. He was again appointed after the adjournment of the session, and nominated at the October term of the same year, and tho Senator flnm Ver­ mont (Mr. Edmunds) had not felt justified in even reporting him to tha Senate for coufirma* tion. Mr. Edmunds rose, as a matter of duty, to a question of order. The Senator from Kentucky^ * he said, was violating the duty of a Senator in respect to proceedings in executive session. Mr. Bock denied this. The records and the public papers, he Raid, showed three nomina­ tions of Duskin, and it was because the Senator from Vermont knew that he was unworthy that the papers wore asked for--because he expected to entrap tho department. Mr. Emnunds insisted that the Senator from Kentucky was out of order, nnd asked the Chair to decide the question. The Chair stated that the Senator from Ken­ tucky had an undoubted right to refer to public facts, but Mr. Beck (interposing) remarked that he had, and that to-morrow he would prove the public facts by the press of tho country, and also prove by tho records of the House of Representatives, which were public, that Duskin was an utterly unfit man to hold the place from which he was removed--among other reasons, because of his connection with Fishback, the Marshal, and tho Senator from Vermont himself knew the facts. And Mr. Beck thought he would produce tho records from the Attorney General's office--the Republican Attorney General, Brewster, verify­ ing tlie fact stated by him. He hoped als.> in executive session to get a vote of the Senate to compel tho Sen­ ator from Vermont to produce evidence which he had before his own committee to show Duskin's unfitness. He hoped to prove that this effort to make an issue in regard to Duskin was because the Senator from Vermont believed Duskin's caso so bud that the Democratic ad­ ministration would be glad to prove how bad he wes; a':dtlun the Senator wo;i!d claim it as a precedent in good casan. "Aud I hope to prove," continued Mr. Beck, "that this move, not made with such a flourish of trumpets--I Will nob say what I expect to prove, fori could not do it, per­ haps. in parliamentary language." Mr. Edmunds said he would have to leave en­ tirely in silence what tho Senator from Ken­ tucky nad stated in regard to affairs in executive session. "I feel bound in honor," he said, "not to make any allusion to any such subjects. The ideas of Senatorial honor, under the rules, of the Senator from Kentucky, and my own, are entirely differ­ ent. Every Senator is sworn to a faithful per­ formance of his duty as Senator, acceraing to regulations of the Senate that are made un­ der the Constitution. If the Senator from Ken­ tucky thinks it is honorable to garble and mis­ state the exist mce of circumstances in closed doors, of course I have no criticism to make upon his sense of what is honorable and right. I can not make any reference to what has tnJken place under any circumstances, when, under the rules of the Senate and by oath, the doors are closed. Therefore, I can make no reply to what the Senator from Kenct'.icky has said on the subject to which he has alluded aB in executive session. As to Mr. Beck's reference to the re­ ports in the Attorney General's office about Duskin and what they would show " Mr. Beck said his reference had been to the Committee on the Judiciary, of which the Sen­ ator fr >m Vermont was Chairman. Mr. Edmunds reminded Mr. Beck that he had referred to papers in the offic ; of Attorney Gen­ eral Garland and what they would show. He (Mr. Edmundsi could not allude to what the Ju- diciarv Ccmmittee had or had not until he should have permission. "I shall not violate my oath or my honor," Mr. Edmunds said, "by doing it now, whatever other gentlemen may choosa to do." If there were rejx ris in the At­ torney General's office concerning Duskin they wore precisely what the Senate desired when it passed the resolution calling for the papers. "It appears," Mr. Edmunds continued, "that the Senator from Kentucky enn get at what the Attorney General and the President of the United States consider to be confidential snd private communications when the SonatJ of the United States cannot; and that is tho advantage that the Senator has over the body of which he is a member ; and that is an advantage which the administration considers to ba, as all the Democratic Senators do, I prssume, an un­ doubted advantage. But what the Senator from Kentucky gets it appears the Senate cannot get. If it weie true," Mr. Edmunds continued, "that Duskin had been a back officer, it was of the highest importance not only that the Senate, but the House of Representatives should know it, and what his misconduct had been." Senator Beck said he had not seen any paper in the Attorney General's office relating to Dus­ kin, nor had he ever asked to see oue ; nor had he ever spoken to the President in regard to Duskin. "And as ^uny honor and oath," ccn- tinned'Mr. Beck. "Wope itis as saor.id as that of the Senator from Vermont. If it was not at least as good as his T would not have as n.ush regard for myself as I have now. I propose to stand upon lily integrity as a man and a Sen­ ator ; and I say that a fort y-parson power would not do justice to much of the hypocrisy that is now presented to the Senate in pretenses of a desire to establish public justice." Duskin. Mr. Betk said, was known to be an unfit man for the place he occupied, and nobody knew it better than the Senator from Vermont. Tho Senator from Vermont spoke of his honor and oath and integrity, and compart d them wjth his (Mr. Beck's), and Mr. Beck was willing to stand by the comparison. "Thank God," said he, "whatever I Bay I say boldly und open­ ly. I mean what I say. I db not stand on the corners of streets and tfcank God I am not as other men. and pray aloud to make men be­ lieve that I have all the virtue and all the in­ tegrity and all the godliness extant. When I see a great public question I meet it--I meet it fairly. I may make blunders and I may make mistakes, but I have more respect for the man win meets his enemy in the open field and either knocks him down or takes a fait knock-down himself than I have for the uiatt who stabs his brother under the fifth rib while shaking him by the hand and asking him, 'How is it with yoii, my brother:' I do not believe in secret ways; I do not believe in phariseeism ; I do not believe in hy­ pocrisy ; I Uo not believe in circumventing any­ body. I will move now, in order to see whether I am telling what is true or not--and if I cannot move it now I will do so the first opportunity-- that all the proceedings in March, 1881, October, 1881, and December, 1881, and all the papers filed with the Judiciary Committee and all the proceedings had before the committee in the case of the nomination of Duskin, shall be made public, so that the country can judge whether what I say is true or not. If I have falsified anything I will take it back, and if I have not I want a chance to prove it, since comparisons are made between the oath and the honor of the Senator from Vermont and myself. I make that motion now and will let it lie over until to­ morrow morning, or I will do it in the first exec­ utive session if it is not in order to do it now." The Chair decided that the motion was not in order new. Mr. Edmunds--I shall undoubtedly agree with the Senator from Kentucky as I do in a large part of what he has said. When he at least says that he is not better than other men, I am bound t<* agree with him. When he tells us that he compares honor, I agree with him about that. He has his own views of what is honorable, and I have mine. I suppose both being Democrats I laughter', we are both entitled to opinions as to what is honorable. I supposed that all I said was in reference to a plain, manifested--I will not say intended--violation of the rules and or­ ders of the Senate in the Senator's references to reports of committees in executive session. Perhajm the Senator is not yet conscious that he has violated the rule about that. I doubt if he is, because I believe the Senator to be a man who means to do the right thing in the right way. But he did that, and it was in respect to that that I called the attention of the Chair to his remarks. Mr. Beck inquired where Mr. Edmunds had Sot the Thurman matter that he read the other ay. Mr. Edmunds replied: "From the committee minute-book, upon an order of the Senate with­ drawing secrecy from it. Perhaps the Senator from Kentucky can see the distinction." "I can see a barn," replied Mr. Beck, "but I can not see a fly on the barn-dcor without seeing the barn." Mr. Edmunds--Undoubtedly; and UM Sen­ ator has seen a good many barns undoubtedly. I am inclined to think he has not seen much of anything < lse. [LaughU r. j Mr Beck--I have not seen the fly. Mr. Edmunds--No, the Senator never takes anything on the fly. 'Renewed la igliter | Mr. Bejk--Nor on the lie, either |Uproarious laughter on the floor and ill the galleries. | Air. Edmunds admitted this. No.Senator from Kentucky, he said, regarded the resolu tion, as he had now discovered, as a device to entrap the President and the Attorney Gener.il wished to show the public that he had gajd grounds for all he had asserted. Mr. Edmunds disavowed all Intention to east any aspersions upon the honor of the Senator from Kentucky, whom he held in the highest esteem. Mr. Conger proposed an amendment to the resolution of the Senator from Kentucky, pro­ viding that the resolution should not take effect until the Attorney General or the President should have sent in the papers in the cas?. Thereupon the resolution and the amend­ ment were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. SHOT 0EAD IN THE COURT-ROOM. The Express Messenger Killed While Bravely Defending His Trust.' v ; Two Negroes Killed and.Three Mortally Wounded by a Mob. of Armed Men. * ' t [New Orleans telegram.] Information has been received here of a sickening tragedy in the court-house at Carrollton, Miss. It is impossible, owing to the isolated character of the town, to give full particulars, bat the following facts are gleaned from different points within tele-f graphic reach: About a month ago James M. Liddell, Jr., a young lawyer of Carroll County, was shot and wounded by three ne­ groes in ambush. The wounds were pain­ ful but not serious, and Liddell suffered only temporary inconvenience. The negroes were Arrested, but made ia counter charge against Liddell, and both casos had been fixed for trial to-day. At the opening o£ court this morning the negroes were on hand with their witnesses and a number of spectators. . ' About one O'clock a party of forty or fifty' white men, armed with carbines and re-* volvers, rode up to the court house, dis­ mounted, leisurely bitched their horses, and entered the court-room. Scarcely any words were spoken before the party opened fire on the negroes, riddling them with bullets, nnd shooting -them down as they attempted to escape. In an incredibly short space of time ten negroes had been killed and three mortally wounded, none of the nefjroes in the court-room escaping. Having finished their work the party withdrew, mounted their horses, and left the town by the same road thev came in on. Those at the court house who witnessed the affair claim not to know the attacking party, and all say none of the men live near Car­ rollton. Carrollton, where this tragedy occurred, is the capital town of Carroll County, and in the interior, away from any railroad or telegraph line, but on the line of the pro­ posed road from Greenville to connect with the Georgia Pacific. It is twenty-four miles south of Grenada, and about" eight miles west of Winona. The Illinois Cen­ tral runs across the southeastern portion of the county. The population of the county is about evenly divided between white and colored. The county takes good care of her schools and churches, and the people have been regarded as exceptionally law-abiding. In fact, it is in tho S3 portions of the State that have heretofore borne good repute where the informal taking of human life has been most notable in fhe last few months. The people there charge it to the unreasonable leniency of Gov. Lowryiu commuting death sentences. Some very important convic­ tions of both white and black murderers have taken place in the last few years, but in nearly all, if not in every instance, the executive power has been interposed to save the condemned from the gallows. The people have wearied of this and have, in half a dozen cases, lately done their own lynching to save costs of court. This may not be a case in point, but is doubtless an outgrowth of this sentiment. A later dispatch from Winona throws a little more light on the assassination. At the trial about twenty colored men were present. The fifty white men, well mount­ ed, and each carrying a Winchester, came riding up and surrounded the court-h®use. They then fired into the building, instantly killing ten negroes and wounding three others so that they died soon after, and, with the exception of a few who escaped through a window, all the other negroes in the building were wounded, some seriously. The trouble between Liddell and the ne­ groes occurred three weeks ago. Lidcfcll had interfered in a row between two ne­ groes. and afterward heard the crowd curs­ ing him. He walked up to them and in­ quired why they were abusing him. An altercation ensued and a number of shots were fired, Liddell being severely wounded. WAS DYNAMITE USED? The Mystery Surrounding the Loss of the Canard Ocean Steamer Oregon. [New York telegram-] Ramon are afloat that the Oregon did noC collide with a schooner at all, or any other craft, bat that the holes were made in her by soipe powerful explosive. The Herald says in an editorial: There is a mystery about the details of the great calamity which it seems difficult to clear up. And the greatest mystery is that there should be any mystery at all. In another place the same paper pub­ lishes the following: Along the water-front, where maritime people most resort, explanations of the disaster take a mysterious turn. "What do I • think of the collision?" asked a brown-faced man with the prefix of Captain to his n£me. "Only this--there wasn't any. Why, what is there to show that a schooner or any other kind of a craft smashed into the Oregon? Who saw her? Not a soul, so far as I have heard. The first officer saw a light; some one else dreamed they saw some letters on a bow whisking past a cabin wipdow. This is simply bosh. I was close enough to the ocean myself at the hour of the disaster to know what kind of a night it was. I've rarely seen a clearer one. You could notice a vessel's sails away off. She couldn't come afoul of you without being under your eye for ever so long. I don't think there was any schooner at all. It was either some obstruction of a nature no ona has guessed, or else it was a torpedo, or dynamite, or some other deviltry." THE SECRET OF THE OREGON. . To the question: Could a schooner sink the Oregon? experienced seamen answer both yes and no. One says it must have been a coaler without bowsprit or spars, because the Oregon was not scratched much above the water-line, and no spars were left floating by the mysterious vessel. One even goes so far as to suggest that it was the work of some submarine vessel of war similar to the "Nautilus" described by Jules Verne. So far about 140 of the (?((() bags of mail have been recovered. Most of the remaining bags are on deck, aud if the vessel is right side up it can be nearly all recovered by divers. Large sums of money and securities are known to have been in the @10.78 .93 @ .37 .31 10.00 4.00 .91 ,3B'« .33 («;10.'25 & 4.50 BEH.F CATTLE. Hoos WiUi'vr-No.'i White! COKN--NO. 2 OATS--No. 2 INDIANAPOLIS. WHKAT--NO. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTfcK--Best Fair Common Hoos (JHKKP BUFFALO. WHEAT--Mo. 1 Hard CPUN--Yellow CATTLE 4.50 3.30 3.50 .90 .87 .33 .30 & 5.50 <G> 4.50 % 5.50 & .92 .90 .34 .30 5.00 4.50 3.50 4.25 4.50 .97 .42 6.00 & .92 # .35 @ .31 @ 5.50 & 5.00 ® 4.25 @ 4.75 5.50 @ .98 & .43 & 0.90 registered pouches, and numerous inquiries „„„ have already-been received at the Postoffice into ruportint- tho official fact.^ on tile, which j[about it for bankers here and in other cities, showed Duskin to be an improper ^ officer, j fhe fact is, that the losers can recover nothing, as neither England nor the IJ nited States undertakes to insure registered mat­ ter. The Cunard Company is compromis­ ing as fast as it can with the immigrant passengers on the Oregon by sending them to their destinations. Many of the claims in order that they mi^ht be compelled to re­ port in other cast'B where they had »launhtered a man uj.on charges, on tho invitation of the VoKtmaster General or somebody else, that were false and fabricated. The point was. therefore, th it the administration' was goin^ to be unveiled before tho people by being en­ trapped into telling the truth about a bad officer, and no bo led to tell the truth of cabin passengers are large and will not *V.L be settled so readily. Mrs. E. D. Morgan worth of dia- HIS LIFE AND HIS MONEY. Masked Robbers Attack a West-Bonad Train oiMhe &ock I4&&4 Boad. } v . : . - EdmundB xaid, v.-an an amazing attitude for the admiuiHtration to occupy--and he to >k it that the Ktnator from Kentucky represented the administration in the matter. We were asked to assist in removing an officer, and because we asked for official information in order to be uble to act in that ma'.ter, we were not to get the in­ formation for fear that in another inotanco where an accused officer had been accused falsely, and by invited perjury, of offenses that he had never committed, the conduct of the ad­ ministration had been brought into reproach. "I will leave the position just there," concluded Mr. Kdmi.nds, who then moved an execuUvo session. > * When tjie galleries had been cleared and the doorn closed Mr. Beck offered the resolution which he gave notico of. He said that be did not wish to rest under the imputation passed upon eadily. claims to have lost $3(I,(MH) monds, and it is said her lawyeis will base their case on the ground that the accident could not have happened except through negligence. The first officer of the steamer Dorset, of the Bristol Line, which arrived in port to-day, and three Sandy Hook pilots talked with, do not believe, alter a careful perusal of the published accounts of the collision, that the Oregon was struck by a schooner. THF. Duke of Portland, with $1,250,000 . ... annually from ground rents alone, is the his honor by the Senator from Vermont, aud [ richest nobleman in Britain. fChicago telegftn.) A train-robbery which equa)s In its dar­ ing and exceeds in brutality most of the robberies common* a few years ago on Southwestern roads was committed early yesterday morning between Joliet and Morris, on the Bock Island Boad. None of the so-called Jesse James gangs ever went to work more coolly and deliberately to plunder, and,4* if necessary, to kill, than did the robbers who mardered Kellogg Nichols, messenger of the United States Express Company, and robbed his safe of $21,000 in money and several packages of jewelry, supposed to be worth at least $5,000. Kellogg Nichols, an old employe of the United States Express Company, was in charge of the express car of the night train from Chicago for Davenport nnd the West, and N. H. Watts, a man about 25 years old, was baggage master for the trip. When the train arrived at Morris the con­ ductor of the train, F. L. Wagner, jumped onto the depot platform, and at the same moment, Watts, the baggageman, jumped off, his face deathly pale, and with tremor in every motion. When asked what was the matter he could not for a moment explain, so great was his terror and ex­ citement. The agent at Morris, on going to the express car, .was surprised to find the door of the car locked. Here­ tofore he had always found Nichols stand­ ing at the door ready to receive or deliver packages. After waiting a few minutes he knocked at the door, and, getting no response, opened it with his key and jump­ ed in the car. After calling out for Nichols and looking around the car he was struck with horror to sew the express messenger lying covered with blood and battered to death in ft corner of the car. A glance into the car next in the rear showed him that the safe in the adjoining compartment had been opened and most of its contents, in the shape of papers, packages, and en­ velopes, scattered near and around it. By this time Watts, the baggageman, had re­ covered enough composure to tell his story. He said: "I was sitting in the car; the chains were np on the door which went bacl to the train, but the door in the front part of the car was not locked, as the car ahead was the one in which was the messenger. He was checking up his runs. 1 sat on a trunk, and just after they had whistled for Minooka I heard a sort of scraping sound on the floor, but not much--just as though some oue had rubbed his foot on the floor. Before I could turn around a big gun wa6 poked over my shoulder, and a man said: 'You open your mouth or move a muscle, and I'll blow your brains out.' I could only see the lower part of his face; it was sev­ ered with some cloth or paper. I sat look­ ing toward the back part of the car toward the fear of the train, when Ihenrd some one at the safe, which was behind me, and could hear the rustling and tearing of papers. This went on for a while, and the man who stood over me said to me, ' If you move or stir hand or foot before the train stops at Morris that man up there will blow the top of your head off.' I rolled my eyes up, and there was a man's hand stuck through the ventilator with a gun in it. In about five minutes, as it seemed to me, the train slowed up for Morris, and I looked up. The hand was gone, and I jumped out of the car. I heard no noise, nor any shoot­ ing. The first I heard was, as I said, the man speaking to me, and at the same time putting the gun over my shoulder. They must have gotten into Nichols' car first, and got the key to the safe before they came in to me." "Why didn't you jump and get out of range?" was asked Watts. "The motion of the train would make his aim unsteady, anyway, even if he had fired." "O, the outlook was too dangerous, and. besides, I did not suspect anything horrible would have been committed if I kept quiet." As soon as Waits had told his story Con­ ductor Wagner went forward to the en­ gineer, C Woods, telling him that Nichols had been murdered. The engineer grabbed a wrench and together they went into the car where Nichols lay. In a statement made at Davenport, Engineer Woods said: "The distance from my place in the cab to the spot where the dead messenger lay was about twenty feet. There was a door in the end of the car next the engiue, but that end was piled full of goods, which would serve to deaden the souud of the shooting, if any occurred. There was a strong wind blowing from the west, and be­ sides we were iunning pretty fast. From the looks of the car a desperate and bloody battle had been fought. Nichols, the mes­ senger, was dead, but his hands were not cold. He had evidently tried to reach the automatic valve on the south side of the car at the right hand of the door facing outward, and by this means stop the train. There was a chair at the farther'end of the car. Nichols lay on his back, the head toward the engine, his feet tangled in the chair, and hi* face and body cut all to pieces. There, was a bent piece of iron afoot long and seven-eighths of an inch thick. From appearances he had been beaten with this and cut with some shalp instrument like a hatchet. He was horribly mutilated. He might have been shot, but of this I am not sure. It was reported that Nicholas' right hand clutched a lock of rather long, sandy hair, which was the only thing in the shape of a clew that developed during the day. P. Briggs, the fireman of the train, however, says that he is positive that there was noth­ ing in the hands, as he took hold of them to feel the pube. The key of the safe in the second car was sticking in the door, and-the packages and torn envelopes were scattered about the floor. This key was usually on Nichols' key ring. In Nichols' vest pocket was found the watch, which had been detached from the chain, and from the bloody marks on the watch and crystal it is evident that the murderers had had the watch. The loose end of the chain had been carefully placed back in his vest pocket. Everything in his pants pocket had been taken out and replaced, as e\idcnced by the blood on them. All of his keys except the safe key were found in his hip pocket, including the keys to his car and to the next one, so that the robbers must have had a duplicate key, or have deliberately turned the body ovei and put the keys hack in his hip pocket. "As to the night and speed of running," the engineer continued, "it was snowing a little and the night was very dark. It ia mostly a prairie country from Joliet to Morris, but west of Morris there is a heavy belt of timber. From Minooka to Morris is down, so I could run fast, and I did so. I came into Morris at a high rate of speed, and when the train stopped it simply dropped. I do not believe any person could have left the train a block from the point of stopping with safety." According to Engineer Woods computa­ tion the robbers did not have more thao thirty-two minutes to do their work. HELENA, M. T.. has a lady superin­ tendent of schools who h%s Indian blood in her veins. She is highly educated, and has a decided dramatic talent. THERE are in twenty-two States of om Union 308.478 more women than men. D»» kota has 29,415 more men than women. Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONT claims thai twenty-six members of the United States Senate are in favor of woman suffrage. Wiwm---- : ,v , % CONGRESSIONAL. ̂ Wo£k< <af Baiuta qrfS. of Representatives. petitions from local assemhitas^ of Knights of Labor throughout the country, favoring the building of the Hennepin Canftl, were presented in the Senate on March 15. Alto memorials of the Knights of Labor protesting against tin denial of the extra pay which had been provided for by law for workingmen in the Government service who worked more than eight hours per day. In presenting one of these memo­ rials, Mr. Inaalls said the complaint was a just one, and the nation had been disgraced by the vi­ olation of the law complained of in the memorial. Mr. Ingalls presented a joint resolution pro­ posing a constitutional amendment providing that the BOth of April shall be the day for the beginning of the successive administrations of the Government hereafter instead of the 4th of March The Senate adopted, by a vote of 25 to 22, an amendment of the widows' pension bill offered by Senator Van Wyck, providing that the pensions of children who are idiotie or insane shall continue durin? the ex­ istence of such idiocy or ' insanity. THE bill to increase the pensions of soldiers' widows and dependett relatives from SB to 912 a month passed the Senate on the 16th inst., jnst as it came from the Rouse. Senators Morrill, Cullom, Maxey, and Dolpli addressed the Sen­ ate on the Duskin resolutions. Senator Morrill supported the resolutions in a verv brief speech. Senator Cullom made a long argument in sup­ port of the resolutions. The refusal of the At­ torney General to furnish tho papers called for by the Senate, he said, was a denial of the right of the Senate to inquire into the management of a public office. Senator Maxey opposed the res­ olutions. However much the issue might be disguised, he said, the real object was to ascer­ tain the President's reasons for Husjieiisioas or removals of officers. Complaint, he said, was made in that majority report that fiiH suspen­ sions had been made under this administration. The complaint made by the people, Mr. Maxey said, was that there had not been ten times 643 removals. Bills or resolutions were .introduced in the House to pay to Mrs. Thomas A. Hend­ ricks the salary of the Vice President for one year, to establish postoffice savings banks, to provide for a conference of American nations on a common standnrd silver coin, and for a com­ mission to investigate the war claims of loyal citizens of the border States. The House passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill for the closing of the business of the Alabama Claims Court; also the Sennte bill authorizing the Comptroller of the Currency to permit the re­ ceiver of a national bank to UB« tho trust funds for tho purchase of property upon which the bank holds a mortgage or other evidence of in­ debtedness. MB. VAN WYCK offered the following resolu­ tion in the Senate March 17: "Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be directed to ex­ amine the nature and extent of the alleged mse and destruction of timber on the public lands adjoining the lin6 of the Southern Pacific Rail­ road, particularly by the Montana Improvement Company, and report what", if any, additional legislation is necessary to protect timber on the publio domain, and that the committee have power to send for persons and papers." The resolution was agreed to. The Chair laid before the Senate the new electoral count bill. Mr, Hoar addressed the Senate on the bill, and at the conclusion of his remarks the bill was passed without division. Mr. Dolpli addressed the Senate in support of the Kdmunds resolution. Mr. Coke and Mr. Wilson, of Muryland, spoke upon the resolution, and then Mr. Beck look the floor in opposition aud ho and Mr. Edmunds had quite a wrangle upon a question of order, during which Mr. Edmunds moved an executive session. In secret session a motion was entered to reconsider the vote by which It. S. Dement was confirmed as Surveyor General of Utah. In the House Mr. Bumes, of Missouri, reported back the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, with Senate amendments. Concurrence was recommended in some amendments, and non- concurrence in others. The report was agreed to. Mr. Dorgan, of South Carolina, from the Com­ mittee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to re­ place unserviceable ordnance issued to the militia of States and Territories. Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, from the Committe on Indian Affairs, reported back a Senate bill granting the right of way through tho Choctaw and Chickasaw lands to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. WHEN the Duskin resolutions came up in the Senate on the 18th of March, Mr. Van Wyck moved that these words be added to them,: "And in all such casos of removal the matter of confir­ mation shall be considered in open session of the Senate." Mr. Brown, of Georgia, opposed the resolutions and made a long argument to show that the power of removals is vestsd by the Constitution in the President alone. Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, followed Senator Brown with a long argument in support of the resolutions. The power claimed by the Presi­ dent would enable him, at his will, to shut out tho sunlight of investigation from the public offices. He did not think that because papers were written by private citizens they were therefore private papers. Their contents deter­ mined their character. The Senate passed with­ out debate the bill providing for a oominissioe of five persons t) investigate the al­ coholic-liquor traffic, its relations to revenue and taxation, and its general, economic, criminal, moral, and scientific as­ pects ; also the bill providing for tho study in the schools of the Territories and the District of Columbia of the nature of alcoholic stimu­ lants and narcotics. In the House, the Com- mittre on Ways and Means made a favorable report oil a bill t) authorize the establishment of factories for the manufacture of tobacco ex­ clusively for exportation. Fine Strings of Pearls. The increased favor given by fashion to low-necked evening dress has encour­ aged the jewelers to put together some very beautiful and costly necklaces. Three strings of pearls recently shown in this city were valued at $3,200, $2,200 and $1,500, respectively, without the pretty diamond clasps which fastened them. The pearls were graduated, and of beautiful color and shape, but as one must be a poet to love Spenser, one must be accustomed to jewels to appre­ ciate the refined beauty of pearls, and half the women who saw the three necklaces and some rival diamonds which blazed near them in another necklace would have chgsen the dia­ monds if not informed of their compar­ ative cheapness. The cost of this pretty bauble was $750, and it was a pretty band of stofles in a light gold setting, but it had a star pendant, with a great sapphire in the center, which added two-thirds more to its price, and was a beautiful ornament by itself. The combinations of diamonds and colored stones are also very fine this season, not only in pendants but also in rings. One of the latter, in which a turquoise as big as a hummingbird's egg is surrounded by diamond sparks, is pretty enough to figure in one of Mrs. Spofford's stories. --Boston Tran­ script. Frozen to a Depth of 600 Feet. Scientifie men have been perplexed for many years over the phenomenon of a certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. A Russian merchant in 1828 began to dig the well, but he gave up the task three years later, when he had dug down thirty feet and was still in solidly- frozen soil. Then the Russian Academy, of Science dug away at the well for months, but stopped when it had reached a depth of 382 feet, when the ground was still frozen as hard as a rock.. In 1844 the Academy had the temperature of the excavation carefully taken at various depths, and from these data it was estimated that the ground was frozen to a depth of 012 faet. Although the pole of the greatest cold is in this Province of Yakutsk, not even the terrible severity of the Siberian winters could freeze the ground to ft depth of 000 feet. Geologists have de­ cided that the frozen valley of the lower Lena is a formation of the glacial period. They believe, in short, that it froze solidly then, and has never since had a chance to thaw out. Drinking Two Centuries Ago. In illustration of the drinking of the seventeenth century, Dr. Fraser, in a report ̂ ust published by the British Manuscript Commission, quotes from the household account of the sixth Earl of Eglinton an entry of the con­ sumption of ale Thursday, Nov. 26, l(i4ti: "To your Lordship's morning drink, a pynt; for my Ladies morning' drink, 1 pynt; to your Lordship's den- ner, 2 pvnts; mair. 3 pynts; to the letter meal, 2 pyntis; efter denntyr, 1 pynt; at foure houres, 1 pynt; ane other pynt; to your Lordship's supper,̂ 3 pyntis," etc. '