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Publisher. J. VAN SLTKC, ILLINOIS. McHENRY, Hi ^:»- .« , v */« HEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. ."» } !$*, FFY THERE is A "boom" in die domestic glass- Hare trade at Pittsburgh. The factories are raiming full time, and prices have advanced five percent The collapse of the Mud Pond Reservoir dam let loose the water, Hie seething torrent being precipitated upon Ike village of East Lee, Mass., tearing away every form of movable farm products. Eleven bodies were found in the track of the flood, and other persons are missing. A number of mills and manufactories were rained, entailing a loss of $220,000, and hundreds of people were thrown out of em­ ployment. THE jury in the case of Gen. Shaler, on trial at New York, disagree, and was dis­ charged. They stood 8 to 4 for acquittal. At Trenton, N. J., State Prison Keeper Laverty has been found guilty before the State Senate of mismanagement of the prisoners, and improper intimacy with a female convict, and sentenced to be dis­ missed from his position, and disqualified from holding any office of trust in the State. WHILE Mrs. Albert Neff was planting vegetables in her garden, at West Newton, Pa., the house canght fire and before she conld rescue her four children, who were sleeping np-stairs, they were terribly burned, Two of the little ones are ex- S?cted to die....The six-story building os. 58 (ft 6(5 Crosby street, New York, was damaged by fire to the amount of $100,000. It was occupied mainly by importers of ds. . , THE WEST. Gov. OGLESBY was summoned to Chi­ cago on the 20th inst., where he held a pro­ longed conference with Sheriff Hanchett, certain railway officials, and some repre­ sentative business men in regard to the strike of Lake Shore switchmen, the result being a decision that the situation did not justify the calling ont of militia. The Governor addressed the strikers, warning them not to place themselves in a position where the law would be compelled to pro­ nounce against them. THE river suddenly overflowed its banks at Trinidad, Col., destroying many dwell­ ings and driving the occupants in their night-clothes to seek places of safety. One man was drowned, and property worth $18,- 000 was ruined. LJETT. GOT. MOBBIS, who is Acting Governor of Missouri during Gov. Marma- dnke's absence in New York, has refused to issue a warrant cm Gov. Oglesby's requi­ sition for the Deputy Sheriffs who firnd on the mob in East St. Louis. 111., two weeks ago. and who are now confined at St. Louis. They will be held until the charges against them for killing the man Thompson on the bridge the same day they tired on the mob are disposed of... .The furniture works of A. H. Andrews ft Co., in Chicago, were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $100,- 000. SOUTH. 4 " . AsdtttER dime museum freak has been discovered in Lawrence County, South Carolina, a boy twelve years of age, with spinal column prolonged into a wagging tail covered with a thick growth of hair.... , Robert Smith, nineteen years old, colored, was executed at Nicholasville, Ky., for the murder of his stepfather, James Sea. The 1 enforcement of the constitution, among murderer sold his body to a physician for others the provisions intended to limit causes leading to the strike, which, he re­ marked, was unexpected. His theory was thatf exactions upon the men were the re­ sult of attempts to enable railway managers to pay dividends on watered stock, and al­ leges that the recent labor troubles through­ out the country were the outcome of the successful strike of street-car employes at New York in Fobrunry. The witness denied that ho had any dealings with Gould of a stock-jobbing nature, and expressed the be­ lief that Hoxie was responsiole for the con­ tinuance of the strike. Mr. Powderly, who was recalled, stated that the member­ ship of the Knights of Labor did not ex­ ceed 500,000. Mr. Powderlj gave a histo­ ry of the origin of the Knights of Labor. The organization was intended, he said, to take in not only the man who worked at the bench or the mine, but eveiy man who toiled, by hand, or brain, in any honest oc­ cupation. "We left out one or" two honest occupations -- lawyers and bankers--be­ cause we felt they were fully capable of taking care of themselves," he said. THE House Committee on Agriculture has agreed on a bill to regulate the traffic in fraudulent butter, which is substantially identical with that framed by the American Agricultural and Dairy Association. The committee has tabled all food adulteration bills as unconstitutional. JAY GOULD, in his testimony before the Congressional labor inqtiiry, at Washing­ ton, stated that the Missouri Pacific Boad has at this time no differences with its men. He said that after the strike last March the Knights of Labor took forcible possession of the railway, and of eight cities on the line. He declared that he had always been in favor of arbitration, and had given no secret instructions to Vice President Hoxie. Gould recited his interview with Mr. Powderly Ind the committee prior to his West Indian cruise, during which, he said, the Knights declared that the Missouri Pacific had lived np to its agreement, and that they agreed not to strike again, but to come to him, "'man-fashion," and settle any future grievances they might have. Then the strike came, after his departure; "yet," said Mr. Gould, "our men told Mr. Hoxie they had nc> grievances, and were told to strike." "What followed the strike?" asked Mr. Gould, showing signs of deep feeling. "They seized St Louis, Kansas City, Sedalia, Taxarkana, and our terminal facil­ ities; they took possession and 6aid: 'No man shall run a train over that road.' That is what they said," exclaimed Mr. Gould in a voice exhibiting traces of strong agitation. "Our loyal employes could not run a train and were deprived of the power to earn their wages. That was what followed the strike--forcible possession; I can't call it anything else--something the Czar of Russia would hesitate to do with his millions of soldiers behind him." The chairman inquired why Hall had been discharged. He would like to know what the man had done. In reply Mr. Gould requested Gen. Swayne to read Receiver Brown's statement, to the effect that Hall had been guilty of absenting himself from duty without leave. Gould expressed him­ self in love with arbitration, but said he would not arbitrate with the Knights of Labor. Mr. Hopkins, Vice President of the Missouri Pacific, then took the stand. He favored compulsory arbitration,and said that he thought that a strike on a railroad should be made a criminal offense. SECRETARY LAMAR has returned from his Southern trip improved in health.... The Secretary of the Treasury has issned a call for $10,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds. POLITICAL* A COMMITTEE of the survivors of the Pennsylvania State Constitutional Conven­ tion of 1872 has prephred an address to the people ol that State, asking that action be taken looking to the selection of members of the Legislature at the next general elec­ tion who will provide regulations for the $25, which he expended for fruit. A TORNADO swept over a portion of Butherford County, N. C., says a Raleigh dispatch. It struck near Island Ford, on Broad River, in the southwestern part of the county, and traveled •with the river for miles in a northwesterly direction. Dwell- ing-houses, barns, stables, fences, sheds, etc., were swept away, large trees were torn up by the roots, and the wake of the storm for miles presented a scene of devastation and ruin. A«number of horses and other stock were killed. Many persons were in­ jured, but none were killed. The aggregate loss is very great Kellis Moorman (col­ ored), who asssaulted and robbed awhite man, was lynched at Axton, Va. A DEPUTY sheriff at Little Rock, Ark., who was badly beaten by the strikers while guarding property of the Iron Mountain Boad, has received Jay Gould's check for $300. FATHER RYAN, the "poet priest of the Confederacy," died at Louisville of organic disease of the heart. Father Ryan was bom in Virginia, in 1840. grp FTASHOGTOIV. restrict corporations, railroads, and canals in the interest of the citizens. WASHINGTON telegram: "There is strong probability that the Senate Judiciary Com­ mittee will report unfavorably the nomina­ tions of all the newly appointed Justices of the Territorial Supreme Courts. Senator Edmunds (Vt.), as well as the other Repub­ lican members of that committee, takes the ground that removals should not be made in such cases except for cause, and then only by and with the advice and con­ sent of the Senate.. Senator Mitchell (Ore.), Bowen (Colo.), and Van Wyck (Neb. ), who were not in sympathy with Ed­ munds in his recent bout with the adminis­ tration, are in full accord with him in this matter, and so conservative a Senator as Mr. Pugh (Ala.) is authority for the state­ ment that upon this proposition the Repub­ licans of the Senate will present a united front." THE special committee appointed by the House of Representatives to investigate the labor difficulties in the Southwest com­ menced operations at Washington \?.ith the testimony of T. V. Powderly. He stated certain abuses along the Missouri Pacific Road in the way of exactions for a hospital fund; declared that nothing of a violent nat­ ure was ever counseled by the Knights of Labor, and thought he should soon, be able to suggest legislative remedies for existing evils. Mr. Powderly said that the dis­ charge of Hall was not the sole cause of the strike under investigation, and in proof ©f^ bis statement he read the declaration of grievances published by the St. Louis Knights. Continuing. Mr. Powderly said: While I was In tbe West I heard from the men of little abuses which I do not think the mm.. ger of the Missouri Pacific Kail road knows any­ thing about Along the Iron Mountain Railroad tney have a system of taking 25 cents a month ftom the wages of a man who receives II a day. ftnd 60 coutfl from the wages of a ma.n wbo receives $2 & <Xay, and so on to proportion, for what they call a hospital fund. Then the men claim that as soon as they are taken sick they are discharged, and are denied the right of entering the hos­ pital. Then there are instances, which can be proved, where men have made contracts to buy land from the company on regular monthly in­ stallments, and where, having paid all but the last installments, they were discharged from ibe employment of the company. In that Mction of the country it <g different from the riaBt. Witness said that tbe men had asked in yain for redress, the General Superintend­ ent of the Missouri Pacific Railway refus­ ing to agree to a conference. Continuing he said: 6' I am told, also, that along the Iron Mountain Bailway, and along the other roads in parts of Texa&, the superintendents and foremen are In­ terested in company stores, and teat the men •re compelled to deal in these stores. The em­ ployes are not told, in so many words, that they must deal there, but they are reminded that it la to their interest to do so. If a murmur of com- plaint is to reach the ear of the President of the Company it must go through the Superinten­ dent, and a man will be discharged as boon as be utters a word of complaint. The men whose j8. invested in the railroad know nothing aoout this. In many places double prices are Charged in these stores. l|r. Powderly Baid that the committee would find proofs of all these things. The men complain, also, he said, that convicts are brought from the penitentiaries in Texas to work on the railroads, and that striped suits may be seen Bide by sidf* with honest men engaged in track repairing MR. WIIILIAM O. MCDOWELL, a Knight of Labor, testified before the special Con­ gressional Labor Committee, and detailed the objects of the organization. He gave a •ynopsis of Powderly's interview with Gould, and the tacit agreement to arbitrate which fell through, he said, because Mr! Hoxie rode a high horse and objected to oarrying out the directions of Gould. Wit­ ness stated the men would have promptly resumed work had Hoxie obeved Gould's rv&mt and gave a lettgthy aftboont of the GENERAL. THE SheriiF of Cook County sent two hundred deputies by special train to the Lake Shore yards south of Chicago, where injunctions were served upon twelve strik­ ing switchmen. A car load of new em­ ployes was taken along. An engine was run out from the round-house, guarded by ten Deputy Sheriffs, but the engineer was quickly persuaded by the strikers to reverse < the wheels... .The Chicago Typographical Union has advanced the rates of composi­ tion from 40 to 45 cents on morning pa­ pers, and from 37 to 40 cents on even­ ing papers. The Union also reduced the working hours from seven to six.... The strike of six thousand men in the sugar refineries on Long Islan d was followed by a riot at Green Point, in which three police­ men were injured. Several wagon loads of sugar were dumped into the street.. „ .On an order from an assembly of Knights of Labor in St. Louis, five hundred employes of the Missouri Car Company quit work because repair material was being supplied to the Missouri Pacific shops Ihe independent coke manufacturers of Pennsylvania, operating nearly 800 ovens in the Connellsville region, and employing 6,000 men, have followed the example of the coke syndicate and advanced wages from 5 to 16 per cent Twenty-two ser­ vant girls at Tarrytown, N. Y., walked out of their mistresses' kitchens. The girls de­ manded an increase of wages, which was not granted, and a strike ensued. C. P. HUNTINGTON has bought control of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company. The road is 354 miles long aod Reaches Cincinnati, Toledo, In­ dianapolis, and other important points. It has about $4,000,000 stock outstanding, and is bonded for about $4,000,000. This brings Mr. Huntington within 183 miles of Chicago. Huntington now has a line from the Atlantic to the Pacific and controls a line which practically covers the country from Indianapolis and Chicago to Toledo and Cincinnati. To get a New York outlet now and an entrance to Chicago is com­ paratively easy. ^driving the expedition back. Mandal«y dispatches say also that the reb­ els have captured the Meegandet police station* They bound the garrison with cords and Massacred twenty-three persons. ... .Lord Salisbury, in a published letter, says he is convinced Gladstone's "desperate scheme" for governing Ireland will be in­ dignantly rejected by the nation. A SHERIFF and an armed posse attempted to evict some tenants from a house on Mr. Urt8on Gun's estate, near Listawel, Ireland, bnt they were prevented by an angry mob, which was called together by the ringing of bells and the blowing *>f horns. During the excitement a bailiff was stabbed.... Mr. Shaw-Lefevre's election at Bradford to suc­ ceed the late Mr. Forster is a triumph for Gladstone and home rule. The sueg^ssful candidate was a Home-Ruler before his chief announced himself as such, and has been more radical in his advocacy. His elec­ tion for the Bradford district is particularly significant, because Mr. Forster, the late member, was a determined opponent of Mr. Gladstone's new Irish policy, and, whether true or not, it has been indus­ triously stated that the ex-Secretary's dying words were: "No home rule." This death- be l declaration must have had a very con­ siderable effect on the constituency, yet Mr. Lefevre got a majority of 780 against a ma­ jority of 1,543 given Mr. Forster on a much larger poll. ADDITIONAL NEWS. • BUSINESS failures throughout the conn- try for the week were 169 in the United States, and 25 in Canada, a total of 194, as against a total of 182 for the week previous, and 215 for the week before that. Tele grams to Bradstreet's from leading trade centers show moderate gains in the movement of general merchandise at Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Mem­ phis, Peoria,, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kan­ sas City, and San Francisco. The greatest activity, relatively, is at Kansas City, De­ troit, and Cincinnati. The heaviest move­ ment of products is eastward by the lakes, including nearly 7,000,000 bushels of wheat and half as much corn. At Eastern centers trade is irregular, but generally of moderate volume. The general industrial situation is more aggravated than a week ago, there being at least 43,000 strikers reported, against 31,000 last week A great lawsuit has just been decided in the City of Mexico. It was that of Andres Tello against the Maravillas Mining Com­ pany of Pachuca, the ownership of mines of immense value being involved. The mining company wins the case. The ex­ penses of the suit have amounted to $500,000. THE Secretary of the Knights of Labor, Frederick S. Turner, appeared as a witness before the House select committee at Wash­ ington, and testified that there were twenty- one District Assemblies of the Knights of Labor in the United States, with about 0,000 local assemblies. In these local assem­ blies there were from 10 to 3,000 mem­ bers. The Knights of Labor had no polit­ ical object, and did not seek to influence legislation. He had known of no such movement on their part. He knew nothing of the petitions to Congress for unlimited coinage purporting to come from Knights of Labor. He thought they could be traced to societies outside of and uncon­ nected with the Knights of Labor. Mr. Turner described the interview which he and his colleague, Mr. Bailey, had had with Mr. Hoxie in St. Louir. He said that Hoxie's treatment of them was very dis­ courteous; that he stated he would have no conversation with them as officers of the Knights of Labor, but that he would receive them as Ameri­ can citizens. They informed him that they did not desire to stand on their dignity, and were willing to talk with him as private citizens; that all they wanted was to have the trouble settled, peace re­ stored, and the men set back to work. Mr. Turner said that the general organization had the right to approve or disapprove of strikes. The present strike had ngt been approved. Witness indorsed the arbitra­ tion plan suggested by the President in his message to Congress. THE strike in the Lake Shore yards at Chicago was finally ended through a com­ promise, and all the switchmen resumed work energetically. It is understood that within sixty days the objectionable men will be transferred by the company to an­ other field of labor. BARTHOLDI'K colossal statne of Liberty will be unveiled in the harbor of New York next September. The last stone in the pedestal was laid last week. THE President's message on the labor ques­ tion came up in the House on the 23d, and was referred to the Committee on Labor, with in­ structions to report on or before May 15. Mr. Butterworth moved its reference to the committee of the whole, but the proposi­ tion was rejected by a vote of 147 to 77. The struggle over the reference of the bill gave rise to a lively debate. Mr. But- terworth attacked ttie Pre-iident's message and charged the Democrats with fishing for votes among laboring men. Mr. Kandall defended the President. Ho declared that there was not a word in the message that appealo l in any particular to any party, or any set, or any class of men in the United States. On the contrary, it appealed to CiSigress as a body of Americau citizens wishing for the public welfare. Messrs. Weaver ilowai, Gibson i.W. Va.), O'Neill (Mo.), McCreary (Ky.), and Springer (111.) supported the motion to refer to the Committee on Labor, and Mr. Heed (Maine) opposed it. The House, at the instigation of Mr. Voorhees, delegate from Washington Territory, adopted a resolution for the appointment of a solect com­ mittee to inquire whether any ex-member of the House having the privilege of the floor is agent or attorney for any corporation interested in any claim or bill now pending. The Senate was not in session. SWEPT INTO ETERNITY. THE MARKETS. FOREICR. A VIENNA dispatch says that sixty-eight charred bodies have been found in the ru­ ins left by the fires at Stry, and twenty in­ valids, who were taken into the country to escape the flames, have died in the fields. The total loss at Stry is $2,500,000. Only $200 has been subscribed at Vien­ na to a relief fund, and h&p will be solicited abroad. The looting by the peasantry has been suppressed. Alooft of destitute and starving people are raiding the farm houses in the vicinity of Stry for food, and the farmers are com­ pelled to barricade their homes to escape being plundered. Struggle* for food, re­ sulting in bloodshed, have taken place. Advices from Mandalay say that a British expedition Bent against the Kachven tribe has been compelled to retreat. The rebels, in overwhelming force, made a desperate attack on the British, charging into a battery of the mountain *4.50 ® C.23 4.50 (3 5.00 .04 6) .96 .91V&@ .92'$ .45 <& .47 .34 & .42 10.50 @11.00 5.00 (a, 5.5.) 4 00 & 4.50 4.00 4.75 4.73 (' 5.25 .78 («; .78V, •»^(<? .37'.. .29 (& .30 .24 Hi .25 .16 (ol .18 .11 .12 .06 % .07 • 12 <3 .129* .48 (G .53 0.00 <£ 9.25 .TO <® .80 .m .38 .29 (<a .29'g .MS ALI .07 0.00 !£* 0.25 .88 & .89 NEW YORK. BEEVES Hoos WHEAT--No. % White... No. 2Red....... COR;*--No. 2 OATS--Western PORK--Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers 6.00 <?l 6.2> Good Shipping Common HOGS--Shipping tirades PLODB--Extra Spring : WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... 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The persons responsible or owniug the privilege of its water supply had been notified, but nothing was done. The pond covered many acres of swamp, and was in­ creased from its original limited size by extensive dams built by a club of manufact­ urers as a storage place for water. The torrent where the dam burst gushed forth in a resistless stream and rushed down the valley, gullying ont a channel from fifty to two hundred feet in width. The villagers got their first ne^s of the accident by see- .ing the flood pouring down the street, the water being from four to1 five feet deep, and bearing with it trees, parts of houses and blu'ns, fences, wagons, and every form of movable property. The people fled to the slopes of the valley, along which the tor­ rent was pouring, and saw the houses moved and toppled about like chips on the river. There was not much of life or many buildings to be lost till the village was reached. Here it wrenched Edwin Sturgis' barn, swept away a bridge spanning the brook, which is but small as it runs natur­ ally from a small pond, and then rushed down the channel of the stream on which the dwellings and manufactories are located. Couch & Oakley's millwright shops, John Dowd's manufactory of paper maohinery, and A. N. White's carriage shops were all destroyed. Mr. White's family consisted of himself and wife, 48 and 45 years old, respectively, their daughter Ida, and baby son. They were in bed when the flood stnick their house, and were all killed by the crash of the building and also sunk in the waters. Theodore King and wife and Mrs. Chas. King rushed from their house to escape, and were carried off by the flood and drowned. The house was not destroyed. Simon Dowd, 60 years old, was drowned. Further down the stream John McLaugh­ lin's machine shops, Harrison Garfield's "Forest," and Farmer Decker Sabin's place were ruined. The boilers and all basement machinery were taken out by the flood, and, though weighing tons, were carried like corks. John Veran's paper mill was also gutted in the basement. The flood passed East Lee and went on down rhe road, destroying lawns, gardens, fences, and moving, smaller buildings, but had not power to utterly wreck a large house, though the damase done amounts to many thousands of dollars. Probably the total loss will exceed $170,000. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. Brief* Summary ®f the ProeoQA* Ing* or Congreis. IRELAND FOR THE IRISH. Gladstone's The Main Features of Mr. Xand Bill. Following is a summary of Mr. Glad­ stone's speech in the House of Commons, explanatory of his land bill: The land act was intended to go into effect on the same day on which the home-rulo bill would beoome operative. It could not go on without the operation of the other, which would provide a legislature in Ireland to appoint statutory authority to deal with the landed estate, and act between vender and purchaser. The purchases would be wade through the issue of £180,000,000 of three per cent, stock issued at par. These new Irish consols might, with the consent of the Treasury, be commuted for stock of a lower denomination. If the stock could be Issued forthwith, scrip of equal value would be issued for the same purpose. The act was to give the landlords the option to sell out under its terms. Its actions were con­ fined to agricultural holdings, and did not in­ clude mansions having demesne and woods. The state authorities, acting between the peas­ ant and land-owner, would purchase the land from the latter and put the peasant in posses­ sion as absolute proprietor, subject to an annual rent charge, until the total payments equaled the purchase money. The state would not force the small occupiers to become proprietors. In districts where the population was congested the state would have the power to decide whether expropriation of the too crowded land should be compulsory. Nobody except the im­ mediate landlords would have the option to sell to the incumbrancer, and then he must sell by foreclosure, and not at an option for himself. Applications to sell would have to be made by all the tenants on an estate, and all theBe appli­ cations and sales would be registered. Applicants would be required to give security for costs In certain cases. The land commission would bo empowered to refuse applications. * The basis of prices would depend upon the rental for a fixed period. The judicial rental of 1845 would be the standard in all cases wherein the rent of the land to be sold was then fixed. In all other cases the land commission would have the power to arrive at a price bv comparing the other judicial rentals with Griffith's valua­ tion. The land commission would also be al­ lowed to examine the state of books concerning estates for ten years back. ' Twenty years' rental would be a nominal pur­ chase ; in exceptioual cases twenty-ono years rental would make a purchase. Applications for sale would not be received after March 1, 1890. Ten millions of pounds of the stock would be issued during 1887, £20,000,000 in 1888, and £20,000,000 in 1889. When the proposals were first placed before the speaker's colleagues, he proposed to raise £130,000,000 immediately. Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Trevelyan both objected to this as a wholesale issue which would depreciate values. The speaker therefore thanked both gentlemen for having given him occasion to reconsider that original proposition. He now thought it was an error to aBk forthwith for anything like the outside estimate, and believed that by appointing a receiver for the general rents, armed with sufficient authority to collect them, but without coming into contact with the new proprietary, the repayment of the purchase money would be amply secured. The charge upon the Irish exchequer would be .£2,000,000 per annum, to meet which it would be able to levy for rents amounting to £2,500,000 per annum, and this sum would be the first charge on the rents and taxes raised by the Irish Government. Adding to this the imperial con-, tribution, the sum paid to England by Ireland would be £6,242,000 per annum, secured on a revenue amounting to £10,850,000, no portion of which would be applied to any purpose until £6,000,000 was paid into the Knglish exchequer. The present contribution of the Irish taxpay­ ers to England was £«,*>80,000, of which England paid back in the Irish civil service and in the service of collections £4,840,000. The residue, which seemed to represent an imperial contri­ bution for army, navy, national debt, and im­ perial civil charges- was £'2,085,000. What did England do with it? As an instance, she sent an army of 26,000 men to Ireland and kept them there at an annual cost of S3,000,000, £915,000 more than the balance mentioned. That was a specimen of the economy of the system the Bpeaker wanted to root up. STATESMEN TALK OH LABOR. Senator* and Congrniianieii Address s Workingraen'ft Meeting at Washington. [Washington telegram.] A mass meeting was held in this city, nnder the anspices of the Knights of Labor and Co­ lumbia Typographical Union, for the pur­ pose of listening to addresses delivered by members of Congress and others on the labor question. Representative John M. Farquhar (N. Y.) was elected chairman. In reference to the strike in the West, he asserted, and the assembly warmly applauded the asser­ tion, that no more blood would be shed in labor troubles- in America. The posse comitatus might murder, the workmen, wonld not, but, instead of the bullet, the workingmen of America would settle their battles with the ballot. Frank M. Fogg, a representative of the Genetal Assembly of the Knights of Labor, said that the workingmen were the people, and intended to run the country. Jay Gould, W. H. Vanderbilt, and Tom Scott had taught them communism, agrarianism, socialism, organization, defense, and, by the eternal living God, they would profit by that teaching. He summed up the civiliza­ tion of the present day by describing the men of America as Christianized, civilized, Harvard College educated cannibals. Senator Voorhees (fcid.) urged the work­ ingmen to organize, and promised his vote and infiuenc to secure such legislation as they desired. He was followed by Repre­ sentative Weaver (Ioin& '7wJ»o •OT«W>d about the none ground.:. THK House of Representatives, at Its session «n the 17th inst, passed a bill to authorise the establishment of export tobacco manufactories nod to allow them drawbacks on imported pia- teriats. There-was a spirited exchange of sen­ timent on the bill to appropriate 9150,003 for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of rivers In Alabama, but no action was taken thereon. The Senate held no session. Ms. CULLOM, of Illinois, offered a bill in the Senate on the 19th inst. to increase the pension for total disability to 172 per month. A favor­ able report was made on a measure for the erection of a fire-proof hall of records in Wash­ ington. An adverse report was submitted on the bill to grant full pay for life to all Federal judges who may become seventy years of age or resign after thirty years' service. The House of Kepresentativrs, under the leadership of Messrs. Browne and Hatch, refused to fix a date for the consideration of the Hennepin canal bill. On motion of Mr. McRae, of Arkan­ sas, from the Committee on Public Lands, the rules weie suspended and a bill was passed pro­ viding for tho sale of the Cherokee Reservation in tho State of Kansas. Mr. Henley, of Cali­ fornia, introduced a resolution for an inquiry by a select committee on the relations of tho Union Pacific Railroad Company to tho United States. Mr. Carey introduced a bill to authorize th® Union Pacific Railway Company to make run­ ning or traffic arrangements with or to become the lessee of any railroad which connect* with its lines of railway, Mit. liuTLKit introduced a bill In the Senate on the 20th inst. authorizing the President to retire certain army officers. The Senate, in executive session, rejected the proposed treaty to reopen tho Woil and I/Abra claims against Mexico. Among the Senate confirmations were a number of Western men for various offices. Included in the. same was Zacli Montgomery to be Assistant Attornev Gen­ eral of tho Interior Department. Tho majority of the Ways and Means Committee reported to the House of Representatives a joint resolution to give notice of the termination of tho Hawaiian treaty. The minority only expressed its dissent. Mr. O'Donncil, of Michigan, from the Committeo on Education, reported a Senate bill to provide for tho study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and thoir effects upon tho human system in the Military and Naval Academies, aiul in the Indian and public schools of tho Territories and of the District of Columbia. A bill to give honorably discharged soldiers the preference in public appointments was introduced in the House. A favorable report was mado on Mr. Anderson's bill for the adjustment of Kansas land grants. SENATOB MORGAN, of Alabama, introduced in the Senate, cn April 21, his bill of last December directing the Attorney General to bring suit in equity against Benjamin Weil in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to determine whether the award made by the United States and Mexican Mixed Commission, or any part of it, was secured by fraud, and to recover the money which may have been paid to Weil; also a similar bill with respect to the awards made to the L'Abra Silver Mining Com­ pany. By a vote of 45 to 15 the Senate con­ firmed the nomination of William C. West, of Kentucky, for Governor of Utah. In the House of Representatives a bill was reported to pension Union soldiers who were prisoners during the late war. The Library Committee reported to the House a bill for the erection of a monument over the grave of Gen. Daniel Morgan. The House adopted a resolution calling on the Com­ missioner of Agriculture for information as to the amount of wheat and corn on hand in this country, whero it is located, the number of acres of winter and spring wheat now in the ground, file amount likely to be required for ex­ portation, and other information on the subject. A HILL appropriating $15,000 in aid of a na­ tional monument at Plymouth, Mass., passed the Senate April 22. The bill taxing railroad lands was discussed without action. The Sen­ ate confirmed, among other nominations, those of W. S. Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury, and E. Gross, Governor of New Mexico. Tho nomination of A. B. Keith, Postmaster at Denison, Iowa, was rejected. The Senate removed the injunction of secrecy from the report in the case of George Wise, nominated to b£ Postmaster at Hamburg, Iowa. Wise brought charges of partisanship and inefficiency against Coolbaugh, the incum­ bent, and the latter was removed. The commit­ tee's report submits evidence furnished by Coolbaugh, which, it says, completely disproves Wise's charges. The committee advises the re­ jection of Wiae's nomination. The House ol Representatives, in committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, adopted a clause appropriating $121,200 for tne im­ provement of the Monongahela River. The House passed the Adams bill relating tc tho oaths of ship-masters, owners, or factors on making entries or reports. President Cleveland sent to both houses a special message urg­ ing the creation of a commission of labor, charged with the consideration and settlement of controversies between capital and labor, tc be engrafted upon the Bureau of Labor. The Jews In America Americans. It is a mistake and a blunder to make Judaism in America anything but American. Maintain it as Polish, Ger­ man, Portuguese, Hungarian, or Rus­ sian, according to the ideas of foreign rabbis and laymen who continue for­ eign, and you alienate young Israel. Young American-born Jews and Jew­ esses, as a rule, will never sympathize with a foreign phase of their faith. There may be a certain pietat for their parents' sake, but warm conviction and enthus'asm will be lacking. Here, on American soil, we propose to drop what is local and provincial. We shall carve out as good a record as our an­ cestors in other lands. We do not wish to concern ourselves with foreign shibboleth. We shall maintain Jewish essentials, but we shall think for our­ selves and act for ourselves; for Eu­ rope has little to offer toward the solu­ tion of problems which it, too, finds of profound difficulty. American con­ servatism should not allow itself to be measured by the foreign rule.--Jewish Messenger. British Races. Dr. John fieddoe has published the results of thirty years" study of the races which make up the population of Britain. He takes county by county from the Shetlands to Cornwall and examines all available statistics after personal acquaintance with the inhab­ itants, measuring heads and noting the color of skin, hair, and eyes. He places great reliance on the latter, thinking that "the color of the hair is so nearly permanent in races of men as to be fairly trustworthy evidence in matters of ethnical descent; and that nearly as much may be said for the color of the eyes." Artists will find a curious con­ clusion in his volume--namely: tha| the darker-skinned portion of the pop­ ulation of Britain is gaining on the blonde. Ho holds that the Gaelie and Iberian races of the West, mostly dark- haired, are tending to swamp the Teu­ tonic of England by a reflex emigration. This may account for the wide differ­ ence found by the tourist between the average Briton whom he sees and the typical Briton of the pictures. A VERMONT correspondent who evi­ dently appreciates "sugaring off" says: "This is the season of the year when the farmer yokes his oxen, * and with his bob sled, a bundle of hay, jug of cider, a hunk of pork, and several loaves of brown bread starts \n the morning for the sugar orchard. The 'hired man' he takes with him to gather the sap, while he contents himself in attending the evaporator, boiling the pork, and having a bard time generally. By 12 o'clock the two sit down and sur­ round enough to start a first-class boarding-house. Then they 'sugar off,' and the farmer draws a"long breath when he realizes that he can not get over eight cents a pound for his sugar, although he buys his granulated for six. When he goes home and enjoys a warm supper and gathers his children about him with a pan of butternuts and more cider, he looks up to the partner of his joys and sorrows and says: 'Mother, ain't these awful hard times ?'" NEAR Jena, Germany, there are beds of phosphoriferous gypsum, E. Reich- arat says that these deposits contain 2.94 per cent, of phosphoric acid, of which .52 is soluble in water, .78 soluble in ammomnm, citrate and the remainder hot attacked by that solvent. CLEVELAND'S PLAN, The President Favors a Federal Cam- mission to Adjust Industrial IMiagreementi, | Ami Addresses a Message to Congress Embodying His Views--Text of the Document. The President sent the following mes­ sage on the subject of the labor troubles to Congress on the 22d of April: To THE SENATE AND HOT/BE OF REPRESENTA­ TIVES : The Constitution imposes on the Presi­ dent the duty of recommending to the consid­ eration of Congress from time to time Bach measures as lie shall judge necessary and ex­ pedient. I am so deeply impressed with the importance of immediately and thoughtfully meeting the problem which recent events and a present condition have thrust upon us, involv­ ing the settlement of disputes arising between our laboring men and their employers, that I am constrained to recommend to Congress leg­ islation upon this serious and pressing sub- jeet. Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctlv recognized, and the welfare of the laboring man should be regarded as especially entitled to legislative care. In a country which offers to all its citizens the high­ est attainment of social and political distinction its workingmen cannot justly or safely be con­ sidered as irrevocably consigned to the limits of a class and entitled to no attention and showed no protest against neglect The laboring man, bearing in his hand an in­ dispensable contribution to our growth and progress, may well insist with manly courage and as a right upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen having a valuable interest in charge and his reasonable demand should be met in Such a spirit of appreciation and fairness as to induce a contented and patriotic co-operation in the achievement of a grand national destiny. While the real interests of labor are not pro­ moted by a resort to threats and violent mani­ festations, and while those who, under the pretext of an advocacy of tho claims of labor, wantonly attack the rights of capital, and for selfish purposes or the love of disorder sow seeds of violence and discontent, should neither be encouraged nor conciliated, nil legislation on the subject should be calmly and deliber­ ately undertaken, with no purpose of satisfying unreasonable demands or gaining partisan ad­ vantage. ' The present condition of the relations between labor and capital are far from satisfactory. The discontent of the employed is due in a large de­ gree to the grasping and heedless exactions of employers and the alleged discriminations in favor of capital as an object of governmental attention. It must also be conceded that labor­ ing men are not always careful to avoid cause­ less and unjustifiable disturbances. Though the importance of a better accord between these in­ terests is apparent, it must be borne in mind that any effort in that direction by the Federal Government must be greatly limited by constitu­ tional restrictions. There are many grievances which legislation by Congress cannot redress, and many conditions which cannot by such means be reformed. I am satisfied, however, that something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise by disputes between employer and employed, and which at times seriously threaten the business interests of the country; and, in my opinion, the proper theory on which to proceed iB that of voluntary arbitration as the means of settling these diffi­ culties. But I suggest that, instead of arbitra­ tors chosen in the heat of conflicting claims and after each dispute shall arise, there be created a commission of labor consisting of three mem­ bers, who shall be regiilar officers of the Gov­ ernment, charged, among other duties, with the consideration and settlement, when possi­ ble, of all controversies between labor and cap­ ital. A commission thus organized would have the advantage of being a stable body, and its members, aa they gained experience, would constantly improve in their ability to deal intel­ ligently and usefully with the questions which might be submitted to them. If arbitrators are chosen for temporary service as each case of dispute arises, experience and familiarity with much that is involved in the question will be lacking ; extreme partisanship and biaii will be the qualifications sought on either side, and fre­ quent complaints of unfairness and' partiality will be inevitable. The imposition upon a Federal court of a duty foreign to the iudicial function, as the selection of an arbitrator in such cases, is at least of doubtful propriety. The es­ tablishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and oi its right to be represented in the depart­ ments of the Government. So far as its concil­ iatory offices shall have relation to disturbances which interfered with transit and commerce between the States its existence would be justi­ fied under the provisions of the Constitution which give to Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. And in the frequent disputes between the laboring men and their employers of less extent, and the consequences of which are confined within State limits, and threaten domestic violence, the interposition of such a commission might bo tendered upon the ap­ plication of the legislature or Executive of a State, under the constitutional provision which requires the General Government to protect each of the States against domestic violence. If such a commission were fairly organized the risk of a loss of popular support and sympa­ thy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its inter­ ference and abide by its decisions. There would also be good reason to hope that the very exist­ ence of such an agoncy would invite application to it for advice and counsel, frequently result­ ing in the avoidance of contention and misun­ derstanding. If tho usefulness of such a com­ mission is doubtful, because itmightlack power to enforce its decisions, much encouragement is derived from the conceded good that has been accomplished by the railroad commissions which have been organized in many of the States, which, having little more than advisory power, have exerted a mc«t salutary influence in the settlement of disputes between conflict­ ing interests. In July, 1884, by a law of Congress a bureau of labor was established and placed in charge of a commissioner of labor, who is required to col­ lect information upon the subject of labor, its relations with capital, tho hours of labor and the means of promoting their material, Bocial, intel­ lectual, and moral prosperity. The commission which I suggest could easily be engrafted upon the bureau thus already organized by the addi­ tion of two more commissioners, and by supple­ menting tho duties now imposed upon it by such other powers and func­ tions as would permit the commissioners to act as arbitrators when necessary between labor and capital, under such limitations and upon such occasions as should be deemed proper and useful. Tower should Jalso be distinctly conferred upon this bureau to investigate the causes of all disputes as thoy occur, whether submitted for arbitration or not, so that in­ formation may always be at hand to aid leg­ islation on the subject when necessary and de­ sirable. GBOVKU CLEVELAND. Executive Mansion, April 22, 1886. IRISH LAND-PURCHASE BILL. Some Farther Point* of Mr. Gladstone's Measure--How Property Can Be Sold. The bill is divided into five parts. There are fifty-three clauses and four schedules. The bill provides that a landlord who is desirous to sell his property shall apply to the stcite authority; the latter shall refer the application thus made to a land com­ mission, which, after making an inquiry, shall fix a price at which the property shall be sold, unless (he landlord and -the state authorities shall have previously come to an agreement. If the landlord objects to the price fixed by the commission he may with­ draw his application on paying the costs. When a sale of property has been ef­ fected the commission shall pay ihe creditors before making any other distribu­ tion of the purchase money. Certain rent charges may be bought outright by the state authority, or payment may be con­ tinued from ihe tenant s repayments. In cases of property whereon there is reason­ able cause to suppose that valuable minerals exist the commission shall add to the purchase money a fair sum therefor, and the minerals realized from said property shall be vested in the state authorities or such local body as the Irish Legislature may provide. The Irish Receiver General and deputies who arejto execute the financial part of tho act shalrbe appointed to hold office as per-, manen't civil servants, subject to the authority of the Treasury. They shall be paid from Ihe Imperial Exchequer, but the Irish Government shall appoint the actual collectors. The measure empowers the treasury to create three classes of permanent annuities bearing interest respectively at 3, 2£, and 2J percent., and which shall be charged to the imperial consolidated fund. Strict rules are provided by the bill which forbid tho snb-dividing or sub-letting of a hold­ ing so long as it is subject to any state charge, but the state authority is em­ powered to relax these rules where he may think it advisable. The other points of the bill were fully covered by Mr. Gladstone's speech, a synopsis of which has been here­ tofore printed. ~ • - • V ^ ; •- 1 . ;L h h rnmmmmmrn M&HAHICAL. " «, f | THE British experiments to test ilk* '% relative merits of oil, gas and electricity f for lighthouse illumination have re- ' suited in demonstrating the , superiority ^ of electricity over all other lights, even, as has been generally doubted, in dense H® fogs. A FIBM which makes a, specialty of the erection of shafting states that its ^ experience teaches that the loss of ; power due to improper conditions in - the line shafting amounts to fifty per cent, of the engine power employed, and that the defects most commonly found are as follows: Shafting too light for the duty, crooked shafting, hangars top far apart, hanger bearings too short, pulleys too heavy and not properly balanced, hangers which are 5 not adjustable and not self-adjusting, and sometimes tilled with spurious bab- •< bitt metal, and improper proportion be­ tween the two pulleys connected by the same belt. IT is reported that a steam engine in which the dead center point is obviated lias been invented by a German en­ gineer. In this engine a block con­ structed with a slot through wlaeh a crank-pin passes is fastened to the . piston-rod. The slot is diagonal and has concave edges facing each other; at each end of it is a recess. The slide valve has attachment with a rod fur­ nished at its lower ends with tappets, ,; against which the ends of the sliding blocks strike, thus reciprocating the \ slide-valve rod. The necessary ex­ pansion is imparted by Spring arms at­ tached to the levers from which the rods are suspended. THE Franklin Institute recently made a competitive test of dyamo-electrie machines, but the contest finally nar­ rowed down to one between the Edison and the Weston machines, in which the latter showed a small percentage of superiority. These two machines are the ones principally in use in this country, and except under the test of five hours of heavy loads did not vary much. Under the long test, however^ the Edison machine did not so nearly meet requirements as did its competitor^, Several experts already declare that the tests are _ not infallible, and this is probably true, but to the Eranklin Institute is due much credit for an im­ partial test which has proven both ma­ chines capable of anything required of them in ordinary electric lighting. DURING the last few years, says an English paper, it has come to be gen­ erally understood that large machines, iriven at a comparatively low speed, are the best for electric-lighting pur­ poses; but the lighting at the Lincoln's Inn Dining Hall and Library must be considered as an exception to this rule. The dynamo here is driven at no less Lhan 12,000 revolutions a minute, by a Parsons high-speed engine, which iustifies its title by running at the same rate. It requires some mental effort to take a statement of this kind seriously, vet there is no reason to regard the Parsons motor as a toy. It Avas shown in action at the Inventions Exhibition, running with unimpaired steadiness from the beginning to the close of the thow. It is, in reality, a combination i f turbines driven by steam, and con- lists of two series of parallel flow tur­ bines to the right and left of a central '..team inlet, the steam exhausting di­ rectly from the first turbine into the (second, from the second into the third, and so on through twenty turbines in each series. The steam parts with a portion of its energy in each turbine, and finally escapes at a pressure not much above that of the atmosphere. It is claimed that this is the first motor that has ever been made to work at the actual velocity of the steam as it cscapes from the boiler. - Love and Ear-Muffs. A young lady was discovered in tears l>y her bosom friend. "What is the matter, darling?" ques­ tioned the latter, anxiously. - "Oli, it is all over between John' aie," was the answer. * "And why?" "He--he--wears ear-mutf*!" S^.nd the breach was justified. The love that could stand firm against the wight of a beloved object in ear-muffs would be passion lifted to a heroic plane, to which few earthly loves at­ tain. Try to picture yourself the he­ roes and cavaliers of history walking abroad in these hideous little objects. Imagine Romeo in ear-muffs! Julius C:esar, Othello, Napoleon Bonaparte! Hannibal crossing the Alps in ear- muffs ! Washington fording the icy- Delaware, neatly protected from the inclemency of the weather by ear-muffs! The thought is maddening. Day after day I see them--men with high silk hats and dear little ears underneath tucked into downy muffs. Men with intellectual foreheads, meek noses, and inoffensive features, trotting through the streets protected by those awful mutt's, until I feel like crying aloud, "Oh, race of water-blooded, thin- skinned, effeminate man! where will you end at this rate of retrogression V* Gum shoes are bad enough, and muf­ flers and mittens are sufficiently sug­ gestive of girlhood and tender infancy, but when it comes to tucking your ears into muffs, w e n^ty look for veils next, and sunshades and hot-air cushions to sit upon. They toll us that the race started with an eight-foot stature and an average longevity of 000 or 700 years. We have retrograded already to an av­ erage of five-feet-and-a-half stature, 3<fc years longevity and ear-muffs! At what infinitesimal point shall the race end?--Chicago Journal. Safely of Registered Letters. "Some people imagine," said a post- office official, "that if 'they register a letter it is the same as putting money in a bank--it's safe. Then there are those who believe tli%t registering is no guaranty. ' They quote the backwoods maxim that 'the Government will traoe up a lost .Registered package and tell you where it is lost, and you can get it yourself--if you can.' That is a mis­ take. The understanding now is that the man who can be proved to have handled the package last before it was lost must make it good. If he doesn't he may hand in his resignation and let his bondsmen get out of it the best way they can. Only last week a package was lost here. There wore but two men in the department when it arrived and the agent got Ids receipt from them. The people who sent the pack­ age ma!.e affidavit that it contained and the two men made it good rather thau lose their places and be dis­ graced. I guess you'll find the regis­ tered mail pretty safe." THERE are many truths which are salf-evident, and upon which our feet cannot be too flfmly planted. Bnt while there are points which we may not yield, it is always well to remem­ ber that there «M two aides to every question. * MMM.