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I. VM SLYKB. i I Publisher. HcBtENRY, ILLINOIS. ireWBCOHDSHSp. IBEKUt. f SCHOOL boys refused to retain to school " H Green Point, L. I., upon the principal rejecting their proposal for longer recesses, and blocked up the entrances to the build­ ing* The mother of the ringleader forced him into the school-room, and then the others quietly marched after. The youths attending the Eleventh Ward School at Troy,N. Y., struck for shorter honrs, and Qveatened violence to boys who would not Join them, and the presence of policemen was necessary to afford the lads protection. .... Thaddens Fairbanks, the scale manu­ facturer, died at St. Johnebuiy, Vt, at the age of 90. THE will of the late Ann Jane Mercer. : wko died recently in .Philadelphia, be­ queaths her estate in Montgomery County to establish a home for the support and maintenance of selected clergyman of the Presbyterian faith who are' de­ cayed by age or disabled by infirmity, and who do not use tobacco in any form or shape. It further bequeaths the sum of $100,000 to maintain the home. The residue of her fortune goes to her executor, to be appropriated by him to such religious and benevolent uses and purposes in the glory of God and the extension of His king­ dom in the world, and for the welfare of humanity, as he may see fit ... The grand jury at New York has brought indictments for* bribery against fourteen members of the Board of Aldermen of 1884, in con­ nection with the granting of the Broadway Bailroad charter. All the accused were ar­ rested by the police and locked up at head­ quarters. Recorder Smyth fixed their bail at $25,000 each Dr. J. H. Arnett, aged 70 years, Superintendent of the American Express Company, died at Niagara Falls bom the effects of a stroke of apoplexy. . MB. T. V. POWDERLY, in the 'course of Ml interview with an Eastern newspaper man, said he would not reply to Jay Gould's letter. He denied the statement of llr. Gould that everything agreed to was sarried out. He claimed that Vice Presi­ dent Hoxie refused to comply with Mr. Gould's instructions, and would not meet a sommittee of th^ strikers, nor would he meet a committee from the men who were at work for the company. No boycott has Wen issued against Mr. Gould or his roads. "The General Executive Committee," said he, "has not considered the matter at •U, and if assemblies are passing reso­ lutions to boycott they are acting without authority from the board. This matter is BOW in the hands of the General Executive Board, and nothing must be done without their consent so far as the Knights of La­ bor are concerned. We will not coun­ tenance anything likely to lead to violence. Mr. Gould makes a mistake when he as- snmes that I or the Knights of Labor intend to single him out and follow him up in any way. In the event of his suing the Knights of Labor for damages, we axe willing to meet in the courts, not only on Bitch cases, but in all cases where the law lias been violated." » THE Governor of Pennsylvania has urged (he Attorney General to prosecute persons Who have been systematically defrauding 'he State in the soldiers' orphans' schools. He draws a terrible picture of the un­ washed clothing, poor food, and contagious THE WEST. UNDER the Clark liquor law all the sa­ in Waterloo, Iowa, permanently closed flaeir doors. The saloon-keepers of McGregor sent their liqnors into Wiscon­ sin, and pulled down the blinds until the Clark law can be carried to the Supreme Cqnrt. HENRY H. POBTEB has organized in In­ diana a company with $5,000,000 capital to operate the Chicago and Great Southern road, which he recently purchased under foreclosure for $501,000. The directors •re all Chicagoans Milo Coll, a young farmer of Kelloggsville, Ohio, died under suspicious circumstances. His wife reluc­ tantly consented to a post-mortem, but when the physicians arrived she went up stairs under pretense of taking a nap, and there hanged herself. * J. Q. BIGGS, a clerk in the office of the Lake Erie Road at Bloomington, Illinois, Stole 285 California and Western tickets, worth $10,000 or more. Those remaining misold were found in his house. He was <saught by using a false name for registered .letters. A ST. PAVII dispatch says: "Reports ftoom the cyclone disaster at St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, Minn., show that the loss of life will reach nearly if not quite 100. Bodies are being brought in hourly, but there is great difficulty in identifying them. The remains in the majority of instances are blackened and mangled, and the scenes attendant upon their recovery are heart­ rending. Medical and other aid is pouring in from all directions. Reports from Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas tell of destruction to • life and property." travel he will take a sea voyas® and that he will then be appointed Minister to Austria... .The House Committee on Territories has agreed by a vote of 6 to 5 to report favorably a bill to provide for the organization of the Indian Territory and the public-land strip into the Territory of Oklahoma. The bill provides that nothing in H shall be so con­ strued as to disturb the existing property or treaty rights of the Indians; that the pub­ lic-land strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of Ike homestead laws only, and that as soon as the Greek, Semi­ nole, and Cherokee tribes shall give theii assent the unoccupied lands ceded by these Indians to the United States shall be opened to settlement under the five years' settlement laws. THE House Committee on Indian Affairs have agreed to a favorable report on the bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Dawes to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians..... The Senate Committee on Commerce has agreed to a favorable report on Representative James' bill to regulate commercial-trav- elers' sales of goods and merchandise. The bill, as agreed upon, reads as follows: "That residents of each State and Territory may, within the other States and Territo­ ries and within (he District of Columbia, solicit from dealers or merchants orders for goods and merchandise by sample, cata­ logue, card, price-list, description, or other representation without payment of any li­ cense or mercantile tax. A SPECIAL agent of the land office re­ ports that 99 per cent, of the homestead and pre-emption entries in Minnesota are made as pretexts for obtaining the timber on the land, with no intention of perma­ nent settlement. suited in a verdict erf the defendants were all di Josef Victor von Scheffel, died at Carlsrtihe, Germany, of drops*. He was one of the most illustrious graduates of Heidelberg, and was the author of the hymn tobif sung at the coming celebration of the 400til anniversary of the founding of that institution.... What is believed to be the origttial manuscript of the "Waofct am lihein has been discovered in Germany. IN the Briush House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 13th inst., after speeches by Harcourt and Gladstone in favor, and Goschen and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach against the Irish home-rule bill, a motion that leave be given to introduce the bill was put by the Speaker, and agreed to without a division. Mr. Gladstone then stated that the second reading of the bill would be fixed for the 6th of Mav. THE Earl of Shaftesbury, while riding in Regent 'street, London, drew a revolver and discharged the contents of all the barrels into his body, dying almost instantly. He had been greatly depressed bv illness. He leaves a widow, a son, and five daughters. THE French Government proposes to donate 200,000 francs to the Pasteur fund for the establishment of a hospital for the treatment of persons who htfm been bitten by rabid animals. t u ; POLITICAL. THE SOUTH. *. JOHN C. BELL, of Pine Bluff, Ark., who failed to pass a medicaid examination at a : Hew Orleans college, committed suicide by taking prussic acid, morphine, chloral, and bromide in separate doses. , ' IN the colored Methodist conference at Richmond a minister undertook to boycott ft candidate for admission solely because he bad voted a Democratic ticket, but the at- .. frowned down. ^ WASHIHGTOIf. ¥>•• ;•' WATSON VAN BENTHUYSEN, of New '/Orleans, President of the National Im- : ' proved Telephone Company, testified be­ fore the Pan-Electric Telephone Investi­ gating Committee that his companv owned, v but did not use, seven of the Rogers tele­ phonic inventions. Witness testified that be and Secretary Young, of the Pan-Elec- v trie Company, agreed at Memphis to bring a suit against the Bell Company. Each p. . party was to furnish evidence and ' J model, and divide the expenses, but was to furnish its own lawyers. Kotes of this agreement were made, wa8 never reduced to writing' Witness having applied to the Attorney general to bring suit against the Bell Com- ®any, the Attorney General replied on July 14, 1885, that the matter had been referred |o the Secretary of the Interior, to whom it •JV Should have been referred" originally, j.ar V hen witness afterward called upon At­ torney General Garland, that gentleman bad courteously, but firmly, refused to hear THE majority report of the Committee on Ways arid Means asserts that the average rate of duty last year was $47 on $100 worth of imported goods, which is higher than during the war.. . .Congressman Pu­ litzer; of New York, has resigned his seat in order to give his time to his private busi­ ness. MAJORITY and minority reports of the Payne invesfigating committee have been submitted to the Ohio House. The major­ ity claim that the testimony adduced is suf­ ficient to have the matter referred to the United States Senate, while the minority simply present arguments impeaching the most damaging witnesses. GE^ER^ FIVE thieves entered the magazine at Colon, Cuba, for the purpose of stealing powder. During their operations one lighted a match, causing an explosion, which killed seven persons outright, wounded thirty- eight others, and wrecked twelve houses. ... .The April report of the National De­ partment of Agriculture shows a reduction of five per cent, from last year in the area seeded in winter wheat. Illinois leading the . decrease. California exhibits the best con­ dition. The damage by the Hessian fly has been very slight. A RF.ITIU.ICAN VALLEY Railroad train was wrecked near Oketo, Neb., two coaches leaving the track and plunging into the Blue River. Fortunately the cars burst open in their descent, permitting the rescue of the occupants. A little girl was killed, a babe fataljy hurt, and fourteen other per­ sons were more or less injured. J. W. WALTERS, Company F, Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guard, while patrolling the Vandalia yards at East St. Louis, was fired upon by an unknown man, who immediately afterward ran. Walters fired after him. but he escaped. A second shot raised another man, who also escaped. Orders were immediately issued to patrol all the yards, in the hope of capturing the men, but the search proved futile In the Criminal Court at St. Louis, Judge Noonan discharged J. J. McGarry and other Missouri Pacific strikers who had been charged with obstructing traffic, basing his decision on the ground that a coupling-pin is not part of a railroad... .The furniture factory of F. Mayer & Co., in Chicago, em­ ploying nearly three hundred men, has been closed because of a demand for 20 per cent, advance in wages and an eight-hour day. THE authorities of Montreal have begun a crusade against the nude in art. Action is to be taken against one of the wealthiest gentlemen in the city for keeping in his house copies of the "Venus of Milo," the "Venus di Medici," Canovas' "Venus," Powers' "Greek Slave," the "Laocoon," and other works! GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDER- LY of the Knights of Labor has addressed the following circular to members of the order: "Noble Order of the Knights of Labor of America: "To the order, wherever for nd, greeting: You have all read of the great strike on the Gould lines of railway in the Southwest: its his tor v is being wr:tteu day by day. It makes bat little dinerence now whether the men of the South­ west acted wisely or not. Li t us pass that part of the affair o\er, for it, too. has passed ink) history. The general Executive Board of the order attempted to settle the trouble and restore harmony. Agreements were made with them by Jay (jould, Esq., but when the board reached St. Ijouib Mr. Hoxie would not treat with them ; not that alone, but h"5 positively refused to em­ ploy Knights of Labor, -w hether they had been active in the strike or not. "It now becomes the part of every tnan and woman in the country to take up the fight of the men ol the South wist, and HBsistthem to the full extent of their means. They have been idle for nearly two months. They have had a most try­ ing ordeal to go through, and are in need of funds. It requires no eloquence or rhetoric to plead the cause of these suffering peoi>Ie. They require aid, and it becomes our duty to extend that aid as quickly as possible for "us to do no. Send every dollar you can spare to the general Secretary-Treasurer, who will at once forward it to the men at St. Louis for distribution. Re- nif ruber the men out tjhere do not ask fcr chari­ ty ; they do not ask at all. It is your Executive Board that makes the appeal in their behalf. He who gives quicklv gives doublv. Act at once. " i "Another appeal may be sent to you, and we ask of you t > prepare for it now. Wo must be judged by our, i:ct!< ns in this matter. Do not pass resolutions condemning capital, for we are not fighting capital. Do not antagonize the con­ test we have before us. Let r.s make a friend of every man who has suffered through monopoly. This battle against the mini who represents monopoly muse be fought out manfully. Watch his a;tions everywhere. Keep un ejo on the doings of Congress. Urge the Committee that has been appointed t> do its duty fearlessly; strengthen their hands; give them every aid. "In conclusion, let us again ask that you send at once every dollar you can at present raise to uphold the men who are now out along the lines of the Southwestern system of Gould's railways. Do not delay, and at the same time, Jiiake ready to bring the whole power of the order to bear upon the man who wrecks railroads, homes, fortunes, and lives in his grtod for gold. Let us determine to have it go into history that the meu of 1880 struck as grandly for lib­ erty as the men of 1770. The men of 177B broke the jJower of monarchy and dethroned the king. The power which they wrested from the bands of a king was not so great as that which is now h^ld by one man. who, through the corrupt' use of money, has brought manufacturer and work­ man to ruin. The power of the king has passed away, and it must now be determined w nether "'a*1 ""all rule or whether illegitimate wealth shall rule. T. V. POWDERLY, "General Master Workman." ADDITIONAL SEWS. 4L TELEGRAM from St. Cloud, ^linn., says: "The list of the cyclone's victims grows longer. Mary Tarbout, 12 years old, has died at Rice's Station, and Abner St. Oyr at Sauk Rapids. The funeral of the dead took place from the in this city* with impressive Catholics' cathedral ceremonies. All stores were closed and the bells were tolled. The sky v.as overcast, threatening rain, as if to add to the gloom which has settled over the city. Others of the dead were buried later in the morning. Enough physicians from Minneapolis, St. Paul and other places are on the ground to give the injured the best attention. Relief in the shape of beds, provisions, money and nurses is constantly coming in from Minneapolis and St. Paui, but still more is needed. A corrected li-t of the dead shows eighteen killed here, thirty-three ut Sauk Rapids, ten at Rice's Station and two at Bnckman. Seveial more will die. Two big gr.ives in the Catholic Cemetery each received ten bodies. Nearly all the dead are now buried." BY a close vote--6 to 5--the Educational Committee of the House directed a favor­ able report on the Senate bill to provide for the s4ndy of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, in connection f with the several divisions of the subjects of physiology and hygiene by the pupils in the public schools in the Territories and the District of Columbia, aud in tha milir tary and naval academies and Indian and colored schools of the Territories... .The Pres-ident has signed the act authorizing the erection of a building for the Con­ gressional library; also the act for the con- striution of a bridge over the Mississippi River near Alton, 111., and the act for tile construction of a dam across the Mississippi mar lirainerd, Minn. A BUFFALO special to the Chicago Times says: "The statement of Rev. William Cleveland, brother of the President, that the latter will marry Miss Frances Folsom, the lovely daughter of the late Oscar Fol­ som, leaves no doubt of the fact that the White House wedding will take place. The wedding, it is said, will be of the most quiet character possible, and it is to be solemnized in June. There will not l>e a dozen persons present, and, if it is possible, the time of its occurrence will be kept secret until after the ceremony. Miss Folsom is modest, retiring, and sensi­ tive, and her wishes are that there shall be no display. In this it is understood the President concurs." A MEETING of the Millers' National As­ sociation is called for May 12 and 13 at Milwaukee, Wis.... A largely attended pub­ lic meeting was held in Montreal, Canada, at which resolutions were passed indorsing Mr. Gladstone aud his Home Rule bill. The Mayor and city officials took part in the demonstration. SENATOR DOLPH (Oregon) made a speech in the Senate on the ICth inst. on his Indian depre­ dations bill and a bill appropriating £5,000,000 to compi nsate citizens for losses suffered by them through such depredations. Senutou Wil­ son reported from the Judiciary Committee the House bill closing up the business and paying, the expenses of the Alabama Claims Court, with an amendment providing for increasing the priucipal sum of the Geneva award by the amount of all the interest received thereon by til" I'uited States, although that interest was received on bonds of the United States. Sen­ ator Call (Fla.i offered a resolution providing for the restoration to the roil of Senate employes of IS. A Finelle, a Dem­ ocrat,, removed by the Sergeant-at-arms to make a place for a Republican; and also providing that the Democratic minority be allowed the same number ofrtrmployes. with the same pro­ portion of salaries, as wrere allowed by the Dem­ ocratic majority to the Republican minority in lHT'J. Senator Voorliees find.I made a speech in opposition to the Weil-Labra treaty in the execu­ tive session of the Senate. Senator Geerge (Miss.) was apiiointed a member of the Judiciary Committee to succeed Senator Jackson iTenn.), resigned. President Cleveland nominated John C. It iley fcr Postmaster at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Virginia C. Thompson for a similar i>osition at Louisville. He also named as Government direct­ ors of the Union Pacific l&ad Franklin Mac- Veagh, of Chicago, and James \V. Savage, of Omaha. The House of Representatives passed tl.e Senate bill empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the Chicago Bridewell property, after its appraisal by three commissioners, to the Great Western'Railway Coinpanv, and with the proceeds purchase a site and erect a build- in',' for the Appraiser of Customs. The House adopted the Dingley resolution calling on the President for information concerning the al­ leged exclusion of American ships from Cana­ dian porta. FORE1C;]*. THE appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received witness had called again with Mr. Brierson, , an attorney, to secure a promise from the Ig&tv Attorney General that he would promptly m ^ make application for suit against the Beil Company if referred to the department jvf. through a district attorney. Still the At- * torney General had peremptorily refused to touch the matter. AY'). THE nearest friends of Secretary Man­ ila.. tiing say that it is settled that he will not V attempt to resume his duties at the Treasury Department if, as happily now beeme probable, he shall partially recover rj, •, Ilia health. One of his near friends is of [ J. , Ike opinion that when he shaU be so far %• --y jMtoxed that his physicians -will per- •";x * • " * '***'#t* *'• *>••*%- -election at Newcastle, Mr. Par- Irela°d 1:8 a constituency in AT Monte Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stopped for a few davs at Monaco, commit­ ted suicide after ruining himself at the gaming tjible.... The cable announces the death of the llev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool, who in early life ran a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. THE trial of Burns. Hyndman, Champion, and Williams, the Socialist leaders, on the the charge of having incited the Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park riots, THE MARKETS. © 6.50 # 5.00 © .96 ® .98 .46 J* .16 <3.11.00 • 6.00 5.00 400 4.25 4.75 .73 6.50 @ 5.5J & 4.50 & 4.75 <$ 5.25 @ .76 .33 !$($ .36}$ .28 (Si .29 .28 .20 .12 & .05 (<I .10 Uj(S) <&• .30 .23 •12', .07 .11 .56 .75 .36 .90 .64 9.00 S.76 .37 t<« .38 & .05 & 9.25 .85 @ .87 .38 & .40 .30 & .33 £ NEW YOBK. BEEVES 55.00 HOOS ' 4.50 WHEAT--NO. 1 WHITE... ~ .94 NO. 2 BED 92 <<J CORN--NO. 2 OATS--WHITE .40 POBK--MESS 10.60 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common Hoes--Shipping Grades FLOUR--Extra Spring. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BCTTER--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEKSK--Ful 1 Cream, new...... Skimmed Flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu POBK--Mess #.00 9.50 MILWAUKEE. WHKA,T--Cash. CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BYE--No. 1 .' POKK--New Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 sr. IJOUIS. 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Powtlerljr to'Gonld, The foltowina manifesto was written by G«n eral l aster Workman Powderly on the lltn inst,: „ "SIRANTON, Pa., April 11,1886. •To Jay Gould, Escj., President Missouri Paciflo Railway, New York : "DEAR SIR: The events of the past forty-eight hours must have demonstrated to you the abso­ lute necessity of bringing this terrible struggle in t!ie Southwest t > a speedy termination. You have the power, the authority and the means to 1 rins; the rtrike to an end. I have done every­ thing in my iwwer to ond the strike. The gen- tiemen associated with me on the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor have done the same. Everything consistent with honor and jnanhood has been done in the in­ terest of p ace. No false notion of pride or dignity has swayed us in our dealings with you or the gentlemen associated with you. In the conference with you on Sunday, March 28, I understood yon t > mean ttiat arbitration would be iH-r.H d to. The only method of arbitration tiiat was discussed was in line with that Suggested in the letter which I sent t:> you iii the name of our board the day pre­ vious. There was nothing particularly agreed njK ii, as you well know. Yon said that in arbi­ trating the matter the damages sustained by the company during the strike ought to receive con­ sideration. I said to you that it would not be the part of wisdom to bring that question m> in the Settlement of the strike. When I called on you that evening you had prepared as the result of your understanding of the morning's interview a letter which vou intended to give me. That letter included a telegmm t > bo sent to Mr. Hoxie, and in thn t tele gram you said that the damages sus­ tained by the compnny would be a proper sub­ ject for the Arbitration Board to discuss. This latter part of the letter or telegram you agreed to strike off. After we had talked the matter over for some time, I left you as you were about to go to your room to rewrite the lotter, which you afterward placed in the hands of Mr. McDowell to be given to me, for I had to loavo at that tiuse in order to keep an appoint­ ment at the hotel where I stopped. Ttio state­ ment which you have since then made, to the effect that you had prepared that letter before I called, is not quite correct, or, if you did have it prepared, you changed it after we had talked the matter over for some time. This, I believe, vou will admit to be true. In the conference held between the mem­ bers of our Executive Board and the directors of the Missouri Pacific Company on March 30, you said you understood me to sav that the men along your lines would be ordered back to work at once. I then reiterated tho statement which I made to you, and I now repeat it: 'The men out along the lines of your railways can be or­ dered back to work, but if they are given to understand that they are deserted, that we do not take any interest in them, it will not in any way mend matterB ; on the contrary, it will make things worse. There are all along the roads out there a great many men who have no rfegard for organization or law; men of hardy spirit, en­ ergy. and daring. Such men as have left the East and have taken mi their homes out in a wild country, will not submit so quietly as the men they have left behind in the East. They are apt to do rasher things than they would do else­ where, and I have no doubt we have some of them in onr order.' "Both you and Mr. Hopkins heard me make that statement, and I believe the latter agreed that was his experience also. The danger of the strike spreading was also discussed, and I said to you that it would not spread; that an effort had been made to havo the men of the Union Piicific take a part in it, but that the Knights of Labor on that road had a standing agreement with the management of tha road that there was to be no trouble or strike until the last ef­ fort to effect a settlement had failed, and not then until the court of last resort had been reached. "It was my firm belief when I left you that night that you meant to have the entire affair submitted to "arbitration at the first possible moment. That belief is share! in by Mr. McDowell, who was present during the en- tiro interview. When you sent the tele­ gram to Mr. Hoxie, you sent it as Presi­ dent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com­ pany. You sent it as the chief sends his message to an inferior officer, and it meant as much to a sensible man as the most imperative order could possibly mean. When I, as the chief officer of the Knights of Labor, send a message such as that, it is understood to be my wishes, and those wishes aro respected by the subordinate officer to whom they are sent. " It is Hot his place to put a different construction on them and give them his own interpretation. His duty is to obey the spirit of the instructions. The man in power need not be an autocrat in order to have his wishes respected. "I would like to see it done,' eomMwith as great a force from the man in autbc#lty as -I must have it done.' "You can settle this strike. Its longer contin­ uance rests with you, and you alone. Every act of violence, every drop of bloo l that may be shod from this time forth must be laid at your door. The Knights of Labor were not founded to promote or shie'd wrong-doing, aud to-day the order of the Knights of Labor stands between your property and ruin. We are willing to absolve the men along j'our railways from their allegiance to our order; we leave that ti themselves. We will not allow any claims which tho order may have on them t:> stand between them and their restoration to their former positions. The order Of the Knights of Labor asks if no man to re­ main a member if it is not to his interest to do so. You may deal with them as citizens if you will. We will surrender our right to claim these men as members if tUev wi*h, but we will not stiirender our ii'.!lit to see this affair thoroughly lnv< stigated. You have said that the order of tne Knights of Labir was a conspiracy, a secret menace, etc. I am willing, as its chief officer, to lay everything connected with <mr order bare to the world if you will, on the other hand, lay open to th) public the means and methods whereby you have piled up th« wealth which you control, and allow the tribunal of public opinion to pass .iudgnient on the two and say which is tho con­ spiracy. Do you accept the challenge? Yon have instructed your legal adviser to proceed against every man connected with tho Knights of Labor forth* damages sustained since the strike began. Two weeks ago I said : 'Do not dV> this to-day I say begin at once ; lay claims for damages in every court within whose juris­ diction a Knieht exists. Proceed at once, and in every State w here you can recover damages do so if tne law will sustain you in it. It is just and right that it should be~so. We are willing to face you before the law ; we will fight you with no other weapon. "There are people who say that this struggle is tho beginning of the war between capital and labor. That statement is fals >. This certainly menus war, but it is a war between legitimate capital, honest enterprise and honest labor on the one hand and illegit'mate wealth on the other hand. This is a war in which we court the fullest imestigation of our acts. Do you daro to do the same? This war means no further strike, no shedding of blood. It is a war in winch every business man, every commercial man, every professional man, every working- luan will by invited to enlist. It will not be a war upon the innocent, and the battlefield upon which it will be fought out will be before the courts of law, and that which makes law, pub- lie opinion. There will oe no mobs in this su­ preme hour to silonce^any man's opinion. No converts will be made by physical force. 'Th it Hag which floats over press or mansion at the bidding of a mob, disgraces both victor and vic­ tim,'and under such a flag as that wo will not wage tho battle; but this battle of the people against monopoly may as well be fought out now as ten years from now, and what field S J eminently proper in which to fight it out as before the courts? Let us know whether laws wi re made to be obeyed or not, aud if they were not so framed "then the people must make laws that will be obeyed. No man, whether he be rich or whether he be the poorest of the poor, shall in future shirk the responsi­ bility of his acts and shield himself behind the courts. It was to sed that the laws were obeyed that tho order of tho Knights of Labor was founded, and if the day has come to make the trial, so let it be. •You havo been warned that your life is in danger. Pay no attention to such talk; no man who has the interest of his country ut heart would harm a hair in your head, but the system which reaches out on all Bid' s, gathering in millions of dollars of treasure and keeping them out ol the legitimate channels of trade and commerce must die, and the men whose money is invested in the enterpiises which stock gambling has throttled must make com­ mon cause with those who have been denied the right to earn oriouph to provide the merest nec­ essaries of lifo for home and fa-niiy. "When I say to you that we will meet you iu the courts I do not speak rashly or ill-advisedl v. I have taken counsel from the best legal minds of the United States. We arc prepared to face you before the courts, and now await your action in the matter. This is no threat. I play no game of bluff or chance. I speak for '»(*),OOIL organized men, who are ready to pay out the last farthing in order that justice may prevail. Yon have ic in your power to make friends of these men by acting the part of the man ; by taking this mat­ ter in your own hands. Will you do so, and end ti is strife in the interest of humanity and our common country? It is your duty to brush aside every obstacle, assert your authority, and take this matter in your own'hands, settle every grievance, restore every man to his place e>cept those who have been engaged in the destructien of proj>erty, or who have broken the laws. Will you do this? You can then make rules and agreements with your men which will forever preclude the possibility of auother such disas­ trous conflict as this one bas proved itself to be. I remain, very truly, yours, "T. V. POWDERLY, G: M. W. K. Of L" Gould to Powderly. YoUcrwlng is Mr. Gould's reply: "NEW YORK, inrll 14. *T. V. Powderly, Esq., G. M. W., IC. of L.: DKAR SIR--At 12 o'clock to-day I received from Mr. William O. McDowell, whom vou liwnnhtinHli Mrwi<intil<ishtimt • m. ter in whleh ba says: % neeived a letter written by Mr. Po>wderlyad dressed to yon, ineJeaed lnalettsr addressed to me. With this I hand you I9» letter addressed to you by Mr. Powderly, and » oopy at Mr. Pow- derlv's letter to me inclosing the same,' "The following is a oopy of the letter Mr. Me- Dowel l sent me as coming from yon: " -GKNERAL ASSKKBLT, ORDEB or KKXOHT* or LA noii or AMERICA, Omts or QINUUL MASTER WORMIAN, SCBAMTON. Pa., April 13. "MY DBAB MR MCDOWELL--I inclose yon a letter which yon are to read and deliver to the man for whom it is intended. I do not care whether yon deliver it in person or through the medium of another; I only ask that it be placed in his If you have succeeded in effecting a settlement with him do not give it to him. U you think there is a prospect for an immediate settlement do not give it to him; but if such is not the case, then I want it plaoed in his hands. Allow him to either consent or make a reply. H he consents to an honorable settlement, then the letter will never see the light of day; but if he does not so act, then it will be published to the world, and from the time he opens up the ball in a legal way we will continue to wage the battle with him. His wealth cannot save him if this fight is begun. Let no one kuow of the existence of this letter until after 5 o'clock of tho day you deliver it; then if he makes no re­ ply let it go to the world. Let him know the limit of time allowed. I sincerely hope that thero will be no mire necessity for its publicity. Hoping for the best, 1 remain, very truly yours' " 'T. V. POWDERLY. ' " 'To W. O. McDowell, Esq., New York.' "I thus received your letter to me dated 'Scranton, Pa„ April 11, 1886,' at the same time and by the same agency that I received your foregoing letter of instructions to Mr. Mc­ Dowell. "The animus and purpose of your letter to me cannot be fully understood without knowing the contents of that one, I was peremptorily no­ tified at the same time that I must answer your letter by 5 o'clock to-day and I was graciously given until that hour to respond. "Your letter to me embraces two subjects, one relating to me personally and the other to the /relation of the Knights of Labor t« a railroad company of which I am the President, and in some degree the representative of its public and private duties. I shall refer to the first subject very briefly. The circumstances above given under which your letter was delivered, as well as its tenor and spirit, place its purpose in writing it beyond any fair doubt. It would sesm to be an official declaration that the Knights of Labor had det rmined to pursue me personally unless the Missouri Pacific Company should yield to its demands in what you call the strike on that road. "In answer to these personal threats, I beg to say that I am yet a free American citizen. I am past 4!) years of age, and was bom at Roxbury, Delaware Countv, in this State. I began life in a lowly way, and by industry, temperanoo, and attention to my own business have been success­ ful, perhaps, beyond tho measure of my deserts. If, as you say, I am now to be destroyed by the Knights of Labor unless I will sink my man­ hood, so be it. Fortunately I have retained my early habits of industry. My friends, neighbors, and business associates know me well, and I am quite content to leave my personal record in their hauds. If any of them have aught to com­ plain of, I will be only too glad to submit to any arbitration. If such parties, or any of them, wish to appoint the Knights of Labor or you as their attorney, such appointment is quite agree­ able to me, but, until such au election is made, it will naturally occur to you that any inter­ ference on your part in my personal affairs is, to say the least, quite gratuitous. "Since I was nineteen years of age I have been in tho habit of employing in my various enter­ prises large numbers of persona, probably at times as high as 59,000, distributing often three or four million dollars per month in different pay rolls. It would seem a little strange that during all these years the difficulty with the Knights of Labor should be my first. Any attempt to con­ nect me personally with the lato strike on the Southwestern roads or any responsibility there­ for is equally gratuitous, as you well know. It is true I am the President of tho Missouri Pa­ cific, but when the strike occurred I was far away on the ocean aud beyond th© reach of tele­ grams. I went away relying on your promise made to me last August that thero would be no strike on that road, and that if any difficulties should arise you would come frankly ti me with them. Mr Hopkins, the Vice President of this company, who was present and cognizant of this arrangement with .you in my absence, sect you promptly when the present strike broke out the following telegrams: " 'NEW YORK, March C>, 1886,--To T. V. Pow-' DERLY. SCRANTON, Pa.: Mr. Hoxie telegraphs that Knights of Labor on our road havo struck and refuse to allow any freight trains to run, saying they have no grievances, but are only striking because ordered to do so. If there are any grievances wo would like to talk them over with you. We understood you to promise that no strike would bj ordered without consultation. "'A.L.HOPKINS.' Then follows a series of dispatches between Messrs. Gould, -Hopkins, and Powderly. Mr. Gould continues: "When, in spite of all this correspondence, you desired to see me personally, I cordially met you, and, having put myself in communication with Mr. Hoxie, arranged for arbitration. Ever since then Mr. Hoxie has stood ready to receive any and all persons in the actual employ of tills company, as a committee or otherwise, and confer upon or arbitrate any matter of dif­ ference or complaint either between the com­ pany and themselves, or between the company and its late employes, and for that matter be­ tween tho company and anybody else. No such committee or individual employe has, so far as known to me, ever made such application. In this connection it will bo remembered that they left, not because of any complaint whatever of this company's treatment of themselves, but only because of the company's refusal to com- l>ly with their demand that this company refuse to do what the law requires in the way of inter­ change of business with another company With which senile of your order bad a quarrel. "In the meantime this company has of neces­ sity gone on to extend employment to such of those persons who recently, and without even alleged provocation, left its service, us saw fit to return. These returning employee have beon very many, and in this way its rolls ar j alreudy, if not quite, as full as its shops aud equipment, crippled by acts of \iolcnco attendant upon recent action of yO'.ir order, can employ. Air. Hoxie advises me that every such person ap­ plying to bo received back has been emploved unless believed to have taken part in recent a:ts of violence. This company still stands ready to make good, in the fullest sense, its agreement as expressly set forth. In the face of all this you notify me that unless by 5 o'clock I personally consent trj some­ thing--precisely what I do not see--then per­ sonal consequences of a sort vaguely expressed, but not hard to understand, will at the hand of your order bo visited upon me. Let me again remind you that it is an American citizen whom you and your order thus propose to destroy. The contest is not between your order and me, but between your order and the laws of the land. Your order has already defied those laws in preventing by violence this company from operating its road. You held then that this company should not opiate its road under conditions prescribed by law, but only under conditions proscribed by you. You now declare, in effect, that I hold my uidhidual property and rights, not as other men hold theirs, but only at t ie peril of your letting loose irrevocably, after 5 o'clock, your order upon me. If this is true of this company, and of me, it is true of all other men and companies. If so, you and yot.r secret t r ier are thn law, and an, Amer­ ican citizen is such only in name. tAlreudy for weeks your order has, in your at­ tack upon this company, not hetitat^d t > dis­ able it by violence froih rendering its duty to the public and from giving work and paying wages to men at least three times your own number, who. working as tiiey were by your side, wore at lra-»t deserviug of your sympathy. Having pushed this violence beyond even the great forbearance of the public, and found in this direction cause to hesitate!, you now turn upon me and propose that the wrongs you have hitherto inflicted on the public shall now cul- minatj ill an attiick upon ail individual. In this, as I have said, the real issue is between you and the laws of tho laud. It mav be, before you are through, that those lawn will efficiently advise you that even I, as an individual citizen, am not beyond their care. Very respectfully, "JAY (jroi'LD." Mr. Powderly Interviewed. , [Scr.wton (Pa.) special.] Grand Master Workman Powderly's attention was called to a dispatch which represented Jay Gould as saying: "This c( mpauy will have nothing further to do with either Mr. Powderly or any other mrtuber of his committee. We have been deceived enough by them, and wo do not propose to have ujiything of the kind occur again." ' If Mr. Gould used that language," said Mr. Powderly, "he simply avails himself of the words I used iunn< diately aft< r the New York conference. I then told a man. who "afterward carried what I said to Mr. Gould, that I would have no more dealing with him through any third party, anil that, if I should have any occasion to confer with him again in this matter, I should deal with l.im direct, and in such away ns to leave no reason for misunderstanding. As to the deception with which he charges us, I have only to say that if tho published interview With Mr. Gould is c irrect he does not tell the truth. The Executive Committee practiced no deception, and Mr. Gould know) it well enough. He likens thy labor b aders to king without a scepter. It is proper to say that Mr. Gould will find out befor^ the trouble is ended that the la­ bor leaders are not wholly powerless. This is not a battle between c pital and labor, but a great fit?ht against tho system of oppression which Mr. Gould represents and which menaces the countrywelfare." Jay OouUI Denounced. [Youngstown (O.) dispatch.] At a meeting of the loci! Trades Assembly, resolutions condemning Jav Gould were passed. The Assembly blames him for the death of the people at East Kt. Louis. It resolved that the cow ardly and murderous assault of Gould's hire­ lings deserves and should receive speedy and just punishment. The At'Beuiblv pledges finan­ cial aid to the strikers. A SOCIETY of bachelors has been organ­ ized in New York, and each member is to receive $500 on his wedding day. It is for the purpose of encouraging marriage. TWENTY-FOUR tons of snnff were thrown into Dublin Bay for non-payment of • duty STORM-SWEPT. St Olond and Sank Minn., Devastated by a Whirlwind Aft iiDtmense Destruction ofPrep- • J3§rty and Loss of Life ; ^ 4 Reported. Forty or Fifty PersontHllIlei MM! ? Rouble That Number Badly V r Injured. _ . [St. Paul telegram.] Imports received here give meAger details of a eyelone, the moat destructive that has appeared in the Northwest for years, which passed over feauk Bapids and St Cloud this afternoon, car- rying death to fully fifty people and destruction to three times that number of residences and other buildings. The day had opened balmy as a Rr,ri"<? <Jav, and at noon the sun shone unghtly. Soon after clouds began to lower and 'tne atmosphere to change from b ilmy to sti­ lling. About 4 o'clock a fatal black cloud ap­ peared apparently two or three miles to the Southwest of the city aud moving with great rapidity. It came in a northeasterly course and swept aw.iy everything in its track, which was some 000 yards wide. It lasted but for a few minutes, but in those few minutes it caused destruction which, in the confusion and dark­ ness that followed, cannot be told as Vet. In St. Cloud the havoc was the samo. Among the structures wrecked are the Manitoba freight house, Sanborn's flouring mill, Briggs & Co. 's hardware store, the Central Hotel, and tho Court House at Bauk Iiap ds. They all lie in splinters and level with the ground It is re- S jticA that twenty-five are killed at Sauk apids and as many more at St. Cloud, and that lip in all are injured. Tho following ace kil led at St. Cloud: Nick Thiemann, a farmer; Mrs Meisman, an old lady, and a little girl; a son, 4 railroad man; Van Hoser, a railroad man; two goung children of Mrs. Cens ; a baby of August The following were killed at Sauk Rapids • J Berg, merchant, and two children ; John Kinard, County Auditor; George Lindlay, County Treas­ urer ; two children of C. G. Wood, merchant; Abner St. Cyr; a child of P. Carpenter, Clerk of Court; President Edgar Hill, of the German- American National Bank. Forty are missing and aro thought to be buried in the debris. Freight cars on the Northern Pacific tracks were lifted from the ground and smashed to bits. The appearance of the cyclone, its course, and prog­ ress are told by the following graphic special from St. Cloud • A few minutes alter 4 o'clock, the skies became overcast by a dark cloud, and a great black mass rose over the hills southwest of the city, and coming with terrible velocity toward the western out­ skirts in a direct line for the Manitoba freight yards. Tho clouds hung low and rolled over and over like smoke over a battlefield, and were accompanied by a loud roaring and crack­ ing sound that resembled a conflagration in its fury. The cloud was funnel-shaped and the point dragged along the ground like the tail of »• huge aerial beast lashing everything that canie in its path into atoms. « Citizens had hardly time to flee to their cellars and seek other points of refuge before the whirl­ wind was on them, and the air was filled with flying boards, shingles, bricks, and other debris, that were strewn over the country and piled in promiscuous heaprf. It came from the south­ east and moved in a northeasterly direction un­ til it reached the riyer, where its course was di­ verted, and it followed the river banks until it reached Sauk Kapids, where it divergod to the left, passing directly through the center of the town. The utmost excitement prevailed. Women and children fled from their houses and rushed aimlessly about in the midst of the dark cloud of dust arid an avalanche of boards aud brick. Men lost their presence of mind and stood in silence and inactivity iu the. presence of the wind demon. It was hardly noticed before it was on the city in all its fury, and psople were not warned of their danger before it was upon them, and they fell like grain before a reaper's tackle. 3$fae,portion of St. Cloud struck by the cyclone was the southwestern, and was the residence portion occupied by the laboring class of people, a majority of them being foreigners employed on the railroads. Their dwellings were light- built houses, and became an easy prey to the monster that had so viciously pounced upon them. They were like cockle shells in the grip of the whirlwind, aud were picked up and tossed in the air and rent into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds of heaven. The earth was plowed up in the line of the cyclone, and the path over which it passed, to a width of nearly a quarter of a mile, looks as though it had been upheaved by a terrible volcanic eruption. It had hardly begun its terrible work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted the eyes of those who had escaped its fury was one that c-uised the stoutest heart to shudder. Cries and shrieks of wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of the dead. Among them wero stalwart men, weak women, and weaker children. Citizens almost to a man rushed to demolished districts, and, summoning physicians, began their work of rescueing those who were still living from beneath the piles of dirt and fallen buildings. Brainerd was prompt­ ly telegraphed to for medical assistance, and she immediately responded by sending a dozen physicians and surgeons by a special train, but it was lat3 in the evening wli^p thev arrived on the scene. St. Paul and Minneapolis were also appealed to, and a sp jeial car was sent out with twenty-three surgeous and physicians for the scene of the disaster. The scene on the streets after dark was im­ pressive. Knots of men stood on the comers discussing the disaster, and speaking touchingly of their friends and acquaintances who had eithe r been killed or terribly wounded. On the grounds the scene was a ghastly one The rain poured down in to-rents, and hundreds of men wandered over the ground, many of them car­ rying lanterns, searching for bodies among the ruins. The hotel lobbies were filled with ex­ cited citizens, many of wl:om yet suspected that some portion of their families or their friends had fallen victims to tha terrible disaster. Gov. Hubbard at once sent messages t'i the Mayors of all cities and large towns in the State, asking that steps be taken at once to secure money and things needed, and forward them as speedily as possible to Senator Buckman for the destitute. Brief dispatches have just been re­ ceived, saying that between forty and fifty bodies have been recovered from "the ruins at St. Cloud, and the search not completed. The town presents a scene of the utmost desolation as seen "by light, flickering lant 'rns, nnd the groans of the wounded and the lamentations of those who have lost relatives are heartrending in the extreme. Not until davlight will the full extent of the havoc be known. The Cyclone In Iowa. |Omaha dispatch.] The cyclone struck tho town of Coon Rapids, Iowa, and completely demolished most of the place. One boy was killed and numerous per­ sons were injured. Twenty-five houses, two churches, one sch iolhouse. and several bouses were destroyed. A freight train--except the lo­ comotive--was blown from the track and demol­ ished and tho contents ruined. The cyclone swept over Western Iowa, doing considerable damage. It started about three miles east of Griswold, then passed rorth and slightly east, then going about nine miles north­ east of Atlantic, and passed two and a half miles east of Brayton. The cyclone had the appearance of a funuel-slia -ed cloud. Southeast of Atlantic about four miles Henry Rogers' house was blown away, and his hired man was badly injured. John Kirk's big stable, ttOO feet long, was de­ stroyed, together with his house. In Benton Township ten houses were totally destroyed and one woman fataliy injured. Near Brayton the dwellings of James Reynolds, William Brintner and Donald Brintner were destroyed, and also the Brintner school house. Tho p.ipils escaped, however;' by running with the family into Brint'ner's cave, or cyclone cellar, they having seen the cloud coming. Mr. Northgraves, in that vicinity, was dangerously huit. Much stock has been killed. Reports fr< ni the cycloue are very meager so far, but it is believed that ^reat damage has been done and many lives SCHOOL-BOYS ON A STRIKE. -- f> , • 3^L<*.... They Want More Time tor Keoreation wad' Ball-I'laying. [Columbus (O.) special.] Considerable excitement was created in local educational circles to-day by the pu­ pils at the Fifth Avenue School going on a strike for one session of school a "day and less time for study. They sent in a peti­ tion that the time of year had arrived for the shortening of time, and that the present arrangement did not give them'sufficient time for recreation and ball-playing, from which sport they were entirely de­ barred by being kept so late. The teachers found the building this morning placarded, "One session a day or strike." The usual recess hour is 10:30, and when that hoar came none of the pupils moved. At 11:30 o'clock, the time which they had fixed for the recess, they were about to pass out in a body, and the teachers held them by locking the doors. At 12:30 the teachers used whips to drive the strikers out. They had intended to remain until '2 p. m., when they would close the session of tho day. Only about half of the students came back in the afternoon, and those who failed to Eut in an appearance have been suspended y tho Superintendent. A number of po­ licemen were sent to the building at the be­ ginning of the afternoon session, expecting trouble, but no demonstration was made. It is learned that there was a general move among the Schools of the city for a strike, but it took no definite form except at the one ulaee. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. - B l y X c J T - j . lag* «f Coagrefi. THK bill authorizing tha formation of a omr ; Stale to be eampoaadof parts Washington and Idaho Tarritoriea, to be known as tflo State of Washington, passed tha Senate on th* 10th inst. ' by a vota of U0 to 13. Senators Butler. S. C. Georse, Miss.; Jones, Ark.; and Morgan, Ala., voted with tbe Republicans in the affirmative. Senator Heant, Cal., cast his Hints vote with his party in the negative. The '• - * President Bent fifty appointments to the Hcnate. They include the successors of "suspended" officials whesa terms have expired since their names wero originally presentad. They are now sent in to fill "vacancies." The House': passed a bill authorizing the establishment of i sixteen new life-sav.ng stations. Bills were passed authorizing tbe construction of bridges ! as fo.l;»wifc Across tho Mississippi Kiver near " Alton, 111,; across the west channel of the Detroit River, tooonnect Belle Isle Park with the main land ; across the Tennessee River, by the Nashville, 'Jacks >n and Memphis Railroad Compnay; across the Missis- s ppi near Keithsburg, Dl.; across the • Illinois and Des Moines, by the Newv • York and Council Bluffs Railroad Company;. over Bayou Barnard, Mississippi; across Red . . River near Brown's Forrv, Texas ; across the St. Croix at some accessible point between Pros- ' cott. Wis., and Taylor s Falls, Minn. : across the , Mississippi at Winona, Minn.; across the Mis­ souri at (it. Joseph, Mo.; across the Missouri at Council Bluffs; across tho Missouri at Saline City, Mo.; across the Kansas by the Interstate Rapid Transit Company; across tho Missouri in Clay or Jackson Counties, MissouVi; across the Missouri above St. Charles, Mo. ; across the Yellowstone in Montana; across the MiK8issippi at Red Wing, Minn.; across the Missouri near Atchison, Kan.; across the Tom- bigee, Warrior, Tennessee, and other navigablo rivers in Alabama, by the Gulf and Chicago Air-Line Railroad Company; across Youngs Bay, Oregon; acrosB the Missouri near Cham­ berlain, Dakota; across the Missouri at Pierre, Dakota. '• / THE Indian appropriation bill, including an - item of $20,003 for schools in Alrska, passed the Senate on the 12th inst. Mr. Sherman offered " an arbitration bill in the shape of an amendment to the House bill {lending in the Henate. Mr. Chace reportod adversely from th? Committee on Postoffices a bill to increase the rate of post­ age on fourth-class matter to two cents an ounce. A resolution offered by -Mr, Beck was agreed to appoint Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, to the membership of the Senate Committee on Commerce in place of Mr. Jones of Florida, during the absence of the latter from the Ben- a»t3. The President sent the following nomina­ tions to the Senate: Howell E. Jackson of Tennessoa, to ba Circuit Judge of the United ' States fur the Sixth Judicial Circuit, vice John Baxter, deceased ; Frank H. Dver, to be Marshal of the United Stat?s for the i'eiritorv of Utah. The President withdrew the nomination of Orlando W. Power3 of Michigan as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utab. Repub­ lican Senators and Representatives at a joint caucus in tha evening adopt ad resolutions authorizing each State delegation to select a representative on tae Con­ gressional Campaign Committee. In the House of Representatives Mr. Morrison, of Illi­ nois; from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the appointment by the Speaker of a select committee of seven members to in­ vestigate the causes and extent of the disturbed conditions now existing in the relations between railroad corporations and their eiuployos. The committee shall have power to send for persons and papors, to sit during the sessions of tbe House, and to visit sueli pine >s as may be nec­ essary in order to facilitate the investigation. It shall report during tho present session, with such recommendations as it may deem proper to make. Tha resolution? wai adopted without divis on. The Morrison-Hewitt tariff bill was reported to the Houso with majority and minor­ ity reports. SENATOR FBYE'S resolution, stating that, in the opinion of the Senate, the appointment of a commission in which the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall bo rep­ resented, charged with tho consideration and settlement • of " tho fishing rights of the two Governments on the coasts of the United States and British North America, ought not to be provided for by Congress, was adopted Dy that body on the 13th inst. Senator Frye reported favorably irom the. Committee oil Commerce an amendment in­ tended to bo proposed to the postoffiee appro­ priation bill. It increases the appropriation for transportation of foreign mails irouj a35<>,000 to 91,000,(100, and provides that this amount shall include cost of railway transit across the Istrv mus of Panama. The President sent the fol­ lowing nominations to the Senate: Post­ masters--Edward Dolan, at Troy, N. Y.; • Geo W. Langdon, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Lathrop S. Tuvlor, at Clyde, N. Y.; C. F.Coliner, at East New York, N. Y.; Samuel H. Wagener, at San Jose, Cal.; William E Baker, at Fair- bury, 111. ; Charles H. Brown, at Sterling, Kan.; Marshall Birdsall, at Kmi o ia, Kan., and P. B. Gavin, at Corning, IOwa. The President with­ drew the nomination of H. P Albert to be post­ master at Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa. Tha House spent the day discussing the Ohio con­ tested case of Hurd vs. liouicis. MB. CULLOM, Of Illinois, called up and ex­ plained the provisions of his Inter-State Com­ merce Bill to the Senate an the 14th inst. Mr. Palmer, of Michigan, also spoke In favor of the measure. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, ad­ dressed the Senate in advocacy of open ex­ ecutive sessions of that body. In the House of Representatives, the Ohio con­ test of Hitrd vs. Rome is was decided by a majority of C2 in farvor of Romeis, the sit­ ting member. The sore stsad 105 to ICS on a resolution declaring that Romeis was entitled to the seat. Messrs. Hatch, Gtveu, of North Carolina and White, of Minm sota, were ap­ pointed a sub-committ >o of tho House Commit- to:? on Agriculture, tj draft a bill regulating tbe sale of olec m irgarine. THR Venezuelan treaty was ratified by the Sen­ ate on the 15th inst. Tho consideration of the treaty with Hawaii was postponed for two weeks. Bills were reported to accept from tha Vanderbilt heirs and Mrs. Grant certain objects of art presented by foreign governments to Gen- . eral Grant; to establish a sub-treasury at Louis­ ville, and to organize the Territory of Okla­ homa. Mr. Logan made a speech supporting the motion for open executive sessions. He de­ clared that there was not now and never had been any necessity for secret sessions. The Hoar electoral-count bill was reported to the House with several important amendments. The river and harbor bill was taken up by the House and explained by Mr. Willis (Ky.l. Mr. Anderson (Kas.) criticised items of the bill as wasteful. Messrs. Hepburn (Iowa) and Reed (Me.) attacked the appropriations for the lower Mississippi and Galveston harbor. Mr. Jones lAla.l and Mr. Stewart (Tex.) defended the bill. Speaker Carlisle appointed tho following com­ mittee to investigate the causes and extent of the labor troubles in the West: Messrs. Curtin (PaJfcjDr.ain (Tex.),. Outliwait (O.), Stewart iVt.J, Parker (N. Y.), and Buchanan (N. j.). A Wonderful. Kerned j. Any young folks who are suffering from the same complaint as the little prince in the accompanying anecdote, are recommended to try the same medi­ cine. It costs. very little, and is sure to effect a cure. Once on a time there was a king who had a little boy whom he loved very much. So he took a great deal of pains to make him happy. • • He gave him beautiful rooms to live in, and pictures and toys, and books without number. He gave him a grace­ ful, gentle pony, that he might ride when he pleased, and a row-boat on a lovely lake, and servants to wait upon him wherever, be went. He also pro­ vided teachers who were to give him the knowledge of things that would make him good and great. But for all this the young prince was not happy. He wore a frown wher­ ever he went, and was always wishing for something that he did not have. At length one day a magician came to the court. He saw the scowl on the boy'* face, and said to the king: "I can make vonr son happy and turn his frown into smiles. But you must pay me a good price for telling him the secret." "All right," said the king; "whatever vou ask I will give." So the price was agreed upon and Eaid, and then the magician took the oy into a private room. He wrote something with a white substance upon a piece of white paper. Next he gave the boy a candle and told him to light it and hold it under the paper, and then see what he could read, i hen he went away. The boy did as he had been told, and the white letters on the paper turned into a beautiful blue. ° They formed these words: "Do a kindness to some one every day."--Becord. SCNDAY-SCHOOL Scholar (to teacher) --"Did you say that the hairs of my head were all numbered ?" Teacher-- "Yes, my dear." Sunday-school Scholar--" Well, then,"--pulling out a hair and presenting it--"what's the number of this tmmih : •_ > iLtoitri&Ai