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ntg flaiutlcalcr J. VAN SLYKE, Editor mi Publish*. McHENRY, ILUXOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE E4iT. r YORK dispatch says that "since the sadden death of Hubert O. Thompson, the leader of the County Democracy, ru­ mors hare been afloat that he did not die a natural death, but committed suicide. AVitlyn the last few days the rumor gave place to the open assertion that such was the case. The statement is based prin­ cipally on the suddenness of his death and the fact that he had lost a great deal of money in speculations, and was deeply in debt. His income was scarcely $3,000 a year, while he was living at the rate of about $0,000." A YACHT containing eight persons was caught in a sadden squall off Portland, Me., and capsized, seven of the unfortu­ nates being drowned. Five of the, victims were children and two adults. Their names were: Wellington Masters, aged 70; Jane Masters, his wife, aged fit); Benjamin Whit- ten, aged 7; Maud Whitten, aged 11; Harry Cleveland, aged 7; Emma Clevelaud, aged 11; Jane Masters, aged 9. All were related, Mr. Masters being grandfather of them all. Little James Cleveland, aged 15> leaped overboard and escaped the suction that car­ ried the party down. His father rescued him. When the yacht capsized Mrs. Cleve­ land, in the other yacht, fainted, and when her husband got on board again he found that the shock had deprived her of her rea­ son. THE WEST. SAX FRAXCISCO'S streets resounded with £be inarch of 11,000 men of the Grand Army of the Republic. The parade was witnessed by 350,000 pedple, and never be- • fore has there been such an enthusiasm displayed at the Golden Gate. General Sherman's carriage was successfully stormed by 6ix young ladies armed with roses. THE Kansas State Board of Agriculture estimates the production of the State: Win- ' ter wheat, 12,360,000 bushels; spring wheat, 926,000 bushels; oats, 32,194,000 bushels; corn, 120,000,000 bushels... .Reports from Nebraska show tliat there will be about three-quarters of an average crop of corn • in the eastern portion, and that wheat will average thirteen bushels to the acre over the whole State. The farmers are well satisfied, believing that any short­ age will be made up in better prices.... A baggageman on a Louisville and New Albany train opened the door of his car near Bainbridge, Ind., in response to a knock, and was shot in the breast by a masked robber. The express messenger, Frank C. Perkins, instantly sent several bullets after the intruder, who lenped from the platform. The wounded baggageman, John P. Winchester, is a brother of the Minister to Switzerland, and lies at Craw- m » critical condition. TOE SOITH. AN El Paso (Texas) dispatch states that "a mass meeting of 1,000 people adopted resolutions indorsing the action of Gov­ ernor Ireland and denouncing Mexico. Great excitement prevails. The secret trial of Cutting has been concluded, but instead of being sentenced he was informed that a public trial would be held later, ana that Medina would trans­ late the laws of Texas regarding libel and slander for use in the trial. Americans are insulted and abused daily by the Mexi­ cans, even going so far as to beat a horse which a small American boy was driving, causing him to run away." An Austin spe­ cial states that Gov. Ireland "has directed the Adjutant General to order Capt. Jones' company of rangers, now in Uvalde Coun­ ty, to proceed at once to Eagle Pass. The Governor continues to receive appli­ cations both by wire and mail to raise troops. Gen. Henry E. McCulloch, an old Indian fighter and General in the Confederate army, has offered his ser­ vices. Col. Smith, of Cleburne, offers a brigade of ten regiments."... .An Eagle Pass dispatch says that by Order of Gov. Ireland, County Judge Hoffstetter, Sheriff Oglesbv, and Deputy Sheriff Diaz have r been arrested, charged with beiug concern­ ed in the illegal capture and delivery of Francisco Arresures to the police of Piedras Negras. They were released on $1,000 bail each. IN a remote corner of Montgomery County, Georgia, masked and armed men carried away the safe of a miser named Wiseley, from which they took $6,000 in currency and a like amount of negotiable notes. Four of the robbers are in custody. An amendment to the Georgia Consti- tption will be voted upon at the State elec­ tion in October providing for the pension­ ing Of toe-Confederate soldiers. POLITICAL. from sharing in the sentiments and manifesta­ tions which tire natural and fitting on the death of a political leader and statesman so able and distinguished as Mr. Tildeu. A DISPATCH from Jackson, Miss., Bays •that county (Hinds) is convolsed with ex­ citement growing out of the approaching election under the local-option law passed by the last Legislature. Nothing like it has been seen in the history of the county except the political revolution of 1875. The blacks outnumber the whites two to one, and <the prohibitionists, finding that the bulk of them are going to vote the 'wet tick­ et,' seem determined that they shall not exercise that privilege. An anti-prohi­ bition meeting in the county last night was visited by a body of armed Prohibitionists, who interrupted the speaker to such an extent, denouncing him as a liar, etc., that the meeting had to be abandoned. From fifty to one hundred pistol-shots were fired in the darkness as the Prohibitionists left, not with the intention of hurting anyone, but doubtless to intimidate the negroes and prevent their voting. The excitement over this question is running the people mad, and the coolest heads fear bloodshed daily." THE Republicans of the Terre Haute district of Indiana have nominated James T. Johnston for Congress. Captain A. D. Van OBdell, Inspector General of the Grand Army, has been placed in the field by the Bepublicans against W. S. Holman, in the Tenth Indiana District... .The Rev. Daniel B. Gurney, of Peru, was nominated for Congress at Morris by the Prohibi­ tionists of the Eighth Illinois District.... The Democrats of the Third Indiana Dis­ trict have placed two candidates in the field for Congress-- Jonas G. Howard and D. M. Stockslager The Democrats of the ; Second Georgia District have renominated Hon. Henry G. Turner for Congress.... A Lowell (Mass.) dispatch 6ays "the ru­ mor that Gen. B. F. Butler intends to<» become a candidate for a seat in the next Congress is defi­ nitely confirmed. He desired at first to sit for the Eighth District, but, inasmuch as he had promised Congressman Allen, with whom he is on the most friendly terms, that he would not run against him, he will seek a nomination in the Seventh District, which he represented for several years pre­ vious to 1874."... .Ex-Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, is a candidate for Congress in tue Second District. THE South Carolina Democrats met in convention at Columbia and nominated the following ticket: Governor, John Peter Richardson; Lieutenant Governor, W. L. Maiding; Secretary of State, W. Z. Leitner; Comptroller, General W. E. Stoney; Treas­ urer, I. S. Bamberg; Attorney General, Joseph H. Earle; Superintendent of Edu­ cation, J. H. Rice; Adjutant and Inspector General, A. M. Minigault. The adminis­ tration of President Cleveland was ap­ proved, and a civil-service resolution went through by the small majority of four vates. ... .The Executive Committee appointed by the Arkansas State Wheel Convention, held last June, has made the following nomina­ tions: For Governor, C. C. Cunningham; Secretary of State, J. J. Bell; Auditor, O S. Jones; Treasurer, T. J. Andrews- Su­ perintendent of Public Instruction, A. B. Marberry; State Land Commissioner, C. E* Tobey: Attorney General, J. M. Harrell The Kansas Republican State Executive Committee has appointed thirty-six dele­ gates to attend the anti-saloon convention turn in Chicago The editor of the Fremont (Ohio) Democratic Messenger re­ quested an interview with Rutherford B. Hayes on the death of Mr. Tilden, but the request was refused. Subsequently Mr. Hayes addressed the following note to the editor: Tour request for an interview on the occasion Ct the death of Mr. Tilden was declined in &c- WASHIlGTOlf. EIGHT bills and resolutions were in the hands of the President When Congress ad­ journed. One was the surplus resolution and the others were measures of private interest. Col. Lamont is reported by a Washington telegram as saying, immedi­ ately after adjournment, that the President would sign none of these, and that they would all fail toJbecome laws. The Secre­ tary of the Treasury, therefore, will be un­ hampered by any instructions to pay out the surplus faster than his discretion sug- ts. The refusal of the President to sign the private bills is not to be inter­ preted as evidence of hostility to them, but he did not have time to examine them before adjournment, and did not care to raise a legal question as to the validity of a signature after adjournment. The sur­ plus resolution he would not have signed in any event. TKEASUEER JORDAN reports that the public debt was reduced during July to' the extent of $9,000,000. Following is the official statement: INTEHP9T-BEARIXQ DEBT. Bonds at 4>«> per cent f830,WW,'<tf*0 Bonds at 4 per cent 7H7,7G0,450 Bonds at 3 per cent 140,011,0.50 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 20-2,400 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal Interest .11,206,004,112 8,297,922 Total. $1,214,902,034 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $5,374,185 Interest 203,128 Total : *5,577,313 DKBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. t346,7:J8.4:tC Certificates of deposit v 19,105,0^0 Gold certificates W 74,718,517 Silver certificates . 87,5fi4,014 Fractional currency : (i,953,702 Principal > 535,079,099 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,747,057,990 Interest 8,501,051 Total $1,755,559,047 Less cash items available for reduc­ tion of the debt 195,2j5,443 Less reserve held for redemption of V. S. notes 100,000,000 Total 9295,265,443 Total debt less available cash items$l,460,293,004 Net cash in the Treasury 80,206,325 Debt less cash in Treasury Aug. 1, 188C $1,380,087,279 Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1880 1,389,136,383 $74,718,517 87,564,044 * 19.J8S, 000 Decrease of debt during the month. $9,049,104 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUC­ TION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding Silver held for silver certificateajtc- tually outstanding J.. U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding...... Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 13,875,237 Fractional currency 2,647 Total available for reduction of the debt RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882. Unavailable for reduct on of the debt- Fractional silver coin Minor coin Total ; ('< rtificates held as cash...... Net cash balance on hand $195,205,443 $100,000,000 $28,584,024 343,292 $28,927,910 8 >, 457,218 80,206,326 for India, Sir J. E. Gorst; Under Colonial Seoretary, Earl of Dnnraven; Financial Secretary to the War Office, H. S. North- cote; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, W. L. Jackson; Surveyor of Ordnance, Mr. Brodrick. . „ THE Grown Prince of Germany opened the celebration of the five hundredth anni­ versary of the founding of Heidelberg University, giving the institution credit for fostering faith in the principle of national unity. ON the reassembling of the British, liament Mr. Gladstone took a seat on the front opposition bench. Sir Arthur Peel was re-elected Speaker. The British Lib­ eral-Unionists met and agreed to take seats on the Liberal side of the House and act with that party, but not to follow Mr. Gladstone's leadership, regard­ ing Lord Hartington as their leader. Mr. Parnell proposed a motion at the meet­ ing of the Irish National League, in Dub­ lin, warning the Government that the depreciation in the price of farm products made it impossible for tenants to pay their rents, and suggesting an immediate re­ vision; also recommending the suspension of evictions The Marquis of London­ derry has reached Dublin, and taken the oath of office as Lord Lieutenant... .Fur­ ther riotous demonstrations are reported from Belfast. IIISY Lll% ENDEI Sadden Death of Sanuel J. Tlldm at The Last Hours of the Deceased Statesman Peaceful and Painless. Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $484,856,933 6EKERAL. THE House Foreign Affairs Committee at Washington, at a meeting on the 3d inst., adopted resolutions to the effect that, while appreciating the disposition of the Mexican Government to carry out its international obligations, it can never assent to the doc­ trine that citizens of the United States may be prosecuted in a foreign country for acts done wholly upon American soil, and requesting the President to renew the demand for Cutting's release. At Cabinet meeting the action taken by Secretary Bayard was fully indorsed. The business men of El Paso, Texas, have signed a protest against the resolutions passed at a mass meeting there. The pro­ test says that "while we heartily concur in so much of the resolutions as urge the ne­ cessity of prompt measures on the part of the Government, we trust that all pending difficulties may be amicably settled, and that the friendly relations between the two republics may be continued." WASHINGTON dispatch: "Public Printer Hounds says he grudgeB the time until he shall be relieved of his present duties and located in Omaha as a newspaper proprie­ tor. He is very enthusiastic about the metropolis of Nebraska. He says it re­ minds him of what Chicago was thirty years ago, and thinks it will ultimately be the largest citv west or south of Chicago. He says he has asked to be relieved not later than Sept. 15, but hopes his successor will be appointed and qualify two weeks sooner if possible." THE National Encampment of the G. A. R. at San Francisco was the most numer­ ously attended in the history of the organ­ ization. Commander Burdette's annual address shows that 20,641 comrades have joined and 3,020 have died during the last year, and that the cash bal­ ance on hand was $300,000. Colonel Fred Grant applied for member­ ship. Ten thousand people listened to the grand welcome concert given by the San Francisco and Oakland societies. There were 700 voices in the chorus... .Atthe So­ ciety of the Army of the Potomac banquet there were present Generals Sherman, Lo­ gan, and McMahou; Gov. Stoneman, Cali­ fornia; Mayor Bartlett, San Francisco; Gen. James A. Beaver, Pennsylvania; Col. Horace C. King, New York, and Col. Slyer, Missouri. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE returns from the Tennessee State election show a majority of 35,000 totes for the Democratic ticket.... The Prohibition­ ists of the Thirteenth Congressional Dis­ trict of Missouri unanimously nominated Hon. John Sobieski, of Neosho, as their candidate for Congress... .Hon. James B. McCreary has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Ken­ tucky District At conventions held at Ocala and at Brooksville, Florida, Messrs. Dougherty and Davidson, both sitting members, were renominated for Congress. .... The Democratic Congressional Con­ vention of the Fourth District of North Carolina, nominated John W. Graham. He is the eldest son of the late Hon. Wm. A. Graham, who was Secretary of the Navy under President Fillmore. As THE Senate failed to act upon the nomination, the President has appointed Thomas Cooper to be Revenue Collector for the Eighth District of Illinois... .A Washington dispatch is authority for the statement that "the President has repented of his pocket veto of the surplus resolution, aud will order a bond call of $15,000,000 at ou«e, and calls for the same amount montaly for the next three months, in ac­ cordance with the provisions of the resolu­ tion. Of the first call of $15,000,000, $5,000,000 are to be called on account of the sinking fund." A large number of railway freight agents representing the principal lines in the Middle and Western States met at San­ dusky, Ohio, and organized a permanent society for social and beneficiary purposes. AT Belfast, Irclaud, while 500 workmen were going home, a bottle was thrown among them from a window. The work­ men retaliated with iron bolts, and a fu­ rious tumult ensued. The police and soldiers hastened to the scene and charged the rioters, but without dispersing them. The police then fired upon the crowd, se­ verely wounding seven persons The police at Hamburg raided a beer-cellar where a socialistic meeting was in prog­ ress and arrested eight persons. The search showed that the place was a ren­ dezvous of the most extreme socialists.... The historical procession at Heidelberg comprised nine hundred persons in various costumes, about half the number being mounted... .By the explosion of gasoline in a cellar at Stuttgart, six persons were killed aud many wounded... .Queen Vic­ toria has sent a beautiful laurel wreath to Bayreuth, to be placed on the tomb of Liszt. THE number of business failures in the United States reported last week was 124, against 102 the previous week, 192 in the like week of 1885, 241 in 1884, 16G in 1883, and 105 in 1882. The total number of failures in the United States this year to date is 0,257, against 7,2(17 last year, a decline of 050; (5,427 in 1884, 0,004 in 1883, and 4,230 in 1882. Telegrams to Brudstreet's do not indicate any gain in the distribution of general mer­ chandise. Reports of earnings of thirty- five railways for July aggregate $17,()'.)(),131 in 188G, against $14,543,500 in 1885 (thirty- four roads). Bradstreet'n advices from the spring wheat crop are more favorable than previously anticipated. Heavy re- ceijlis continue to depress prices. Tin damage to com from drought is also less than was recently reported, the probable yield being nearly 1,000,000,000 bushels, against 1,040,000,000 last year. There has been slight damage to tlio cotton crop from shedding. The plant has improved in the Carolinas, Georgia, aud Alabama. Hot weather has threatened central and western Texas. The Louisiana rice crop promises to be heavy. The weather of late has been 'unfavorable to the growth of the cane in that State. The price of sugar has gone to the lowest point on record, with a light demand and with heavy probable supplies. The tea market is de­ moralized, under large visible supplies and heavy Eastern exports. WIIIIIIAM FOOTE'S celebrated Millennial Minstrel Company, embracing 101 per­ formers, continue to delight Chicago ad­ mirers of burnt-cork- opera by their fine representations at McVicker's Theater. A feature of the programme is the acrobatic performances of Fox and Van Auken, which surpass anything of the kind ever seen in the West. How the News Was Received in Demo* oratio Circles Throughout the Country. . , THE MARKETS. NEW YOIiK. BEEVES HOGS WHEAT--NO. 1 White No. 2 Ked Conx--No. 2 OATS--White 1 POBK--New Mess 11.50 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common HOGS--Shipping Grades FLOCK--Extra Spring..... WHEAT--No. 2 Ked. CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ibUTTEB--Choice Creamery . Fine Dairv CHEESE--lull Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per bri POHK--Mess MILWAUKEE. W HEAT--Cash COKN--No. 2 FOREien. A GEBMAX firm, it is reported, has ob­ tained an eight-years' monopoly of supply­ ing rails for Japanese railways Rioters made a fierce attack upon returning Catho­ lic excursionists at Belfast, Ireland. The sufferers were chiefly women. The mob then drove back the police, and stoned and wrecked a number of buildings. The lat­ ter then fired upon the mob, killing a young man and wounding seven others. A detachment of soldiera charged bayonets and cleared the streets. The police suffered severely. Some shots were fired from the mob, but without fatal result.... The following appointments under the new Government are announced from London: Charles Thompson Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board; Col. W. H. eordaace with mv uniform habit on the subject ^ro"d aud Sidney Herbert,Junior Lords «( Interviews. I wish, however, to say that of.l'ie Treasury; the Duchess of Buccleuch, been nothing in the relations of Mr. I Mistress of the Robes; Under Foreign Sec- I myself which would prevent me | retaiy, Sir J. Ferguson; Under Secretaiy J4.00 600 .8) ,H5 .50 .40 4.75 4.00 3.25 4.50 4.25 76>£«t .43 & .5.7 .10 @ .11 @ .07 & .OS & .10 @ 1.50 0.25 & 5.75 @ 5.50 LFL> .90 & .86 (<$ .51 @ .47 @12.00 @ 5.50 <S> 4.75 <S 3.75 <!3 5.25 4.75 .77!$ .43}* & .28 @ .18 @ .13 @ .07 ̂ & .08 @ .11 & 2 0 ) 'S 9.75 OATH--No. 2 , KYE-- NO. 1 PORK--Mess ... As .27 .55 9.25 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2 OATS--No, 2 DETROIT. BEEF CAITLI HOGS SHKEF WHEAT--No. 1 White COHN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 New ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POBK--New Mess 1&00 CINCINNATI, WHEAT--No. 9 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 PORK--Mess LIVE HOOS BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 White CORK--No. 2 Yellow . CATTLE INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTX<K 3.50 HOGS.... 4.35 SHEEP 2.25 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 73 CORN--No. 3 .39 OATS--Mo. 2 .26 EAST LIBERTY, CATTLE--Best.... 5.00 Fair 4.25 Common. 3.25 Hoos 5.00 SHXKF 4.00 @ .75 & .43^ & .28 <29 .50 & 9.73 .79 .43 .28 4.50 8.75 B.25 .77 .14 .28 .76 .40 .2U .75 .13 .28 10.00 4.50 & 5.25 «S 4.7J & 4.25 m .78 .45 .29 •76}* Hx-OofWhor BeSmel ,T. TiI<Jen df«§ an/Merity' at his country residence, Greystone, near Yonkers, N. Y., on thetmorning of Wednesday, August 4. His death, tboupli possible at any time on account of bis u^e, was entirely unex­ pected, He had been Rotlering for a few hours from nausea and diarrhea, ami was attended by l)ra. Simmons ami Swift. From this at*ack he partially recovered, but following shorily aftoi' came a sudden stoppage of the heart's action, and death ensued. The last hours of the de­ ceased statesman were peaceful and painless. For several months past Mr. Tilden had en­ joyed unusual health fur him. He had gained tn flesh thirty-five pounds in six monthB. Ho used his yacht Viking frequently, and took long carriage rides daily. His face was familiar to the people of Yonkers, and he frequently drove through the streets of the city. The last time he went out was on Sunday, the '2d, when he was driven out by his faithful coachman, Denis O'Haia, attended by his valet, Louis Johanis, both of whom have" been in his service for years. Saturday, 31st ult., Mr. Tilden was taken with a slight chill while sitting on a porch overlooking the Hudson River, and was re­ moved to Lis room, where he. was attended by his friend and phvsician. Dr. Charles E. S-Imiiions, of New York. The cold settle 1 in Mr. <rilden's bowels and stomach, causing vom­ iting and purging. He felt much better < n Sun­ day, Monday, aAd Tuesday. On the ul^ht t f Tuesday Mr. Tilden wap.Anken again with ti e same symptoms while il? the parlor, and was supported to his room br his valet and private secretary. On reaching his room the ex-Govern- or had much trouble in breathing. This alarmed his friends, and Dr. Simmons was called. The patient was in great distress. The difficulty In breathing ceased after a while, aud he was placed in bed. Later he was assisted to an easv- chair. Dr. Simmons remained with him all night. Early Wednesday morning Mr. Tilden began to grow worse, and was again placed in bed. The generatitn of gases in his stomach and bowels distended them and interrupted the action of the heart. A second attack of the difficulty in breathing recurred, and Dr. Swift of Yonkers was called in consultation, hut- when he arrived at Grey stone Mr. Tilden was beyond the reach of all medical skill. No words were uttered by Mr. Tilden after Dr. Swift's arrival. He remained conscious to the last. The labored breathing grew fainter and more feeble, and at 8:45 a. in. the ashen pallor of death slowly crept over the counte­ nance. Five minutes later Mr. Tilden breathed his last. The President Hears the News. President Clevelaud was the first man in Washington to receive telegraphic news of Mr. Tilden's death. Speaker Carlisle and Senator Beck were with the President when the news reached him. and observed that he was visibly affected. The President sent out word that he would see no more callers except members of the Cabinet. The Cabinet officers called one by one as promptly as they heard the news from Greystone, and in conference with the President an announcement of Mr. Tilden's death was prepared. The President 6ent to Col. S. J. Tilden, Jr., at Yonkers, the fol­ lowing dispatch: I have this moment learned of the sudden death of your illustrious relative, Samuel J. Tilden, and hasten to express my individual sorrow in un event by which the State of New York has lost her most distinguished soil aud the nation one of its wisest and most patriotic counselors. GKOVKH CI.KVEL.ASD." @10.50 @ .75 U & .43 & .29 @10.50 & 5.25 .86 & ,f6 •47}$(3 .48tf 4.25 <0 4.75 @ 5.25 & 5.00 & 4.00 & .73 U & .41 & .27 & 5.25 £> 4.75 & 4.00 & 5.25 & 4.75 Sketcli of Governor Tilden's Career. Samuel Jones Tilden was bori: at Now Leba­ non, Columbia County, N. Y., in 1814. His an­ cestors were among the early immigrants to Massachusetts, where they settled in 1(134. As a boy Tildtn was rather indicate in physique, and received his early education at homo. When IK years old, in 1835. he entered Yale in a class wit J Chief Justice Waile, Senator Evarts, and Judge Pierpont, but left 011 account of his heal:h. He graduated at the University or New York. At this time, in 1884, party feeling was run­ ning very high over the heated issues raised by the Jackson tuhninistrntiou, and Mr. Tilden, who already displayed considerable ability aud was a born Democrat, had taken an interest in polit­ ical affairs, his writings, receiving much public attention. Being of a somewhat studious nature he adopted the legal profession, aud entered the law office of Mr. John \V. Kitmuuds, of New York City, although continuing to take an active interest in ]K>litical affairs. His first appear­ ance as a public speaker was when he was 24 years old, and bis maiden effort is said to have been very creditable both in matter and manner. The'great financial panic of 1837 had then just taken place, and in the Presiden­ tial campaign of lH-lu Mr. Tilden, who had be­ come a prominent politician, assumed a position on financial questions which he never aban­ doned. He condemned tho money (juacks who advocated inflation, irredeemable currency, and irresponsible credits, and his discussions on the subject were published as campaign documents, aud gave Mr. Tildeu a national rep­ utation. In 1844 he engaged as a partner in the publi­ cation of the New York Duiltt Situs, and in the following year was elect d, without personal effort, to the New York Assembly, where he used his best efforts to secure a ciiil for a Stnte convention. At the convention Mr. Tildeu bu- came a prominent figure, ami many of ttso most important reforms in the Constitution, with a view to secure an honest administration, were made at his suggestion. Owing to the growth of his legal reputatiou and the consequent increase in his clientage he spent the next twenty years in tho practice of his profession, taking part, however, in political matters at recurring elections. This devotion to his legal profession and his successful busi­ ness investments having made him wealthy, be soon after tho close of the war again begun to interest himself in politics, and in 18ii<>, when Horatio Seymour was the Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York, Tildeu was Chairman of tho Democratic State Committee. It was at this time that he displayed his shrewd­ ness as a political manager, for the victory of Seymour in the midfft of the general disaster was due as much to Tilden as to the pjrsonul popularity of the candidate. Tho great fight against the old Tammany crowd--Tweed, Sweeny, Geuet, and others--was the next event in the history of Mr. 'i'ilden. His training as a lawyer admirably fitted hiin for the work, aud although Tweed and his Tam­ many Hall associates controlled the State con­ vention of 1809, Tilden obtained a hearing, and when finally hooted and hissed down, shouted his prophetic words: "You may refuse to give me an audience, but the people of New York whom you have robbed will hear me." Subse­ quently, after consultation with ex-Governor Seymour, Charles O'Conor, and others, the re­ doubtable "committee of seventy" was formed, and Tilden led the attack. With a view to stopping the supplies, the first attack was on Connolly, the treasurer, who, after consultation with Tilden, turned the treasury over to a deputy named by the committee, and any attempt of the corrupt judges to oust him on Tweed's order was prevented by an opinion by Mr. O'Conor sustaining the appointment, which was confirmed by the corporation coun­ sel, O'Gorman. Then followed tho examination of the Broadway bank, and Mr. Tilden's dis­ covery of the percentages that seemed to be added to the accounts of the ring, exposing Sweeny and Tweed, as well as the smaller scoundrels. The fight was continued In the next Demo­ cratic State Convention in 1871, at which a ticket was nominated which was favorable to the Tam­ many ring. Mr. Tilden was elected by tho As­ sembly, however, and there secured some amendments to tho famous "Tweed charter" which rendered robbery by public officials less easy. The result was, as known, that the ring Judges were impeached, and its members, ex­ cept those who escaped, served time in the peni­ tentiary. To Samuel J. Tilden is due, more than any one else, the success of the raid on Tammany. Mr. Tilden then entered upon his career as Governor. In the fall of 1874 the Democratic State Convention nominated him for that posi­ tion, and it was the "still hunt" policy which afterward made him famous that gave taim his 51,000 majority over his popular opponent, General John A. Dix, who had at the prior election defeated the Demo­ cratic candidato by 50,000 votes. Tilden's reputation in the crushing out of the Tweed regime brought him many Republican votes. The success of Mr. Tilden as Governor had in­ creased the fame he had acquired bv his disrup­ tion of the Tammany ring, and as the spring of 1870 approached his availabilitv as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency was very generally canvassed. Believinu there was an Augean sta­ ble to be cleaned out in national affairs, Mr. Til­ den expressed his willingness to attempt its pu­ rification with aB much hope of success as in the other cases. He carried the delegation from his own State, and 011 the first ballot in the convention at St. Louis received 403 votes. A two-thirds vote being necessary, he was nomin­ ated on the second ballot by 508 votes, and an enthusiastic campaign was entered upon, con­ ducted by Mr. Tilden in uerson. On the morn ing after the election the success of Mr. Tilden was generally conceded, he having carried all of the Southern States, and New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indiana, the popular majority being over a quarter of a mill­ ion. The question whether Mr. Tilden favored the Electoral Commission or not at the time was not clear, and has been the subject of much controversy since. It was learned some months afterward that he had strenuously op­ posed the adoption of the extra constitutional •cbeme recommended by the joint committee, and that he had told some of tho Democratic leaders that he might lose the Presidency bug that h^ would not rattle for It. The proceedings of tho electoral SOmmlHiOO are common history. THE CUTTING CASE. Secretary Bayard's Correspond­ ence with Minister Jackson & Sent to the Senate. Action of the Mexicans Denounced --No Additional Troops on the Frontier. • ^ pi i ""--'I ,, . 1 ' [Washington dispatch.] - In response to the resolution or the Senate asking for information concerning the alleged illegal detention of A. E. Cut­ ting by the Mexican authorities at El Paso del Norte, the President transmitted to the Senate the report of the Secretary of State, together with a voluminous mass of correspondence relative to the case. Fol­ lowing is a summary of the report: Under date of July 1 United States Con­ sul Brigham at El Paso del Norte forward­ ed to United States Minister Jackson at Mexico a full statement of the facts at­ tending the arrest and imprisonment of Cutting, and an announcement of his (Brig- ham's) failure to secure any reply to his ap- Elication for a fair trial or the release on ail of Mr. Cutting. July 6 the United States Minister sought from M. Marescal, the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, proper relief for Mr. Cutting. The follow­ ing day M. Marescal replied that he had recommended the Governor of Chihuahua to see that prompt and full justice was ad­ ministered. July 17 Counsel Brigham stated that Cutting was still a prisoner and nothing had been done for his release. The Secretary says that the imprisonment of this American citizen having thus continued for a full month without explanation or prospect of a release, he (Secretary Bay­ ard), July 19, addressed a telegram to Min­ ister Jackson instructing him to demand of the Mexican Government the instant re­ lease of A. K. Cutting. This was followed July 20 by instructions of the Secretary to Minister Jackson, reciting all the precedent correspondence and facts, and stating the legal position assumed by this Government as a ground for demand­ ing the release of its citizens. Minister Jackson July 22 telegraphed the refusal of the Mexican Government to accede to the telegraphic demand of Secretary Bayard for Cutting's release, which was followed by another telegram giving a statement of the Mexican reasons. Consul Brigham July 26 telegraphed that the Governor of Chihuahua was pushing the trial of Cut­ ting, who ignored the proceedings. July 27 the Secretary mailed additional instruc­ tions to Minister Jackson. The Secretary in this letter refers to the claim of the Mexican Minister here, based on the Mexi­ can laws, whereby jurisdiction is assumed by Mexico over crimes committed against Mexicans in the United States or any foreign country, and his contention that under this law " the publi­ cation of a libel in Texas was made cognizable and punishable in Mexico. The claim of jurisdiction by Mexico was peremptorily and positively denied bv^Sec- retary Bayard,who declared that the United States would not assent to or permit the existence of such extra territorial force to be given to Mexican law. Mr. Romero, he says, finally assured him that Cutting would be released in a very short time. Con­ vinced of the friendly and conciliatory spirit influencing the Mexican Govern­ ment, the Secretary informed the Consul that in his opinion all questions of con­ flicting interests between the two Govern­ ments can without difKculty be amicably, honorably, and satisfactorily adjusted. In his report the Secretary says, touching the Mexican laws cited by Mr. Romero: This conflict of law is even more profound than the literal difference of corresponding statutes, for it affectB the underlying principles of security to personal liberty and freedom of speech or expression, which are among the mitin objects sought to be secured by our frame­ work of government. The present case -may constitute a precedent fraught with the most serious results. The al­ leged offense may be--and undoubtedly in the present case is--within the United States held to be a misdemeanor, not of a high grade ; but in Mexico may be associated with penal results of the gravest character. An act may be created by a Mexican statute an offense of a high grade which in the United States would not be punishable in any degree. The safety of our citizens and all others lawfully within our jurisdiction would be greatly impaired, if not wholly destroyed, by admitting the power of a foreign state to define offenses and apply penal­ ties to sets committed within the jurisdiction of the Unit< d States. The United States and the States composing this Union contain the only forum for the trial of offenses against their laws, and to concede tho jurisdiction of Mexico over Cutting's case, as it is stated in Consul Brig- hum's report, would be to substitute the juris­ diction and laws of Mexico for those of the United States over offenses committed solely within the United States by a citizen of the United States. The offense alleged is the publication in Texas, by a citizen of the United States, of an arti­ cle deemed libelous and criminal in Mexico. No allegation of its circulation in Mexico by Mr. Cutting is made, and indeed no such circulation was i>racticable or even jiossi- ble, because tho arrest was summarily made on tho same day of tho publication in the Knglish language of Texas. Tho coming of the alleged writer or publisher into Mexico, and the Mexi­ can correspondence accompanying Mr. Mares- eal'8 refusal to release Cutting found in the ac­ companiments to Minister Jackson's dispatch of July £1. 1880, show that the lC-tith article of tho Mexican code is the ground of the jurisdic­ tion claim. Under this pretension it is obvious that any editor or publisher of any newspaper article within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States could be arrest­ ed and published in Mexico if the same were deemed objectionable to the officials of that country, after the Mexican methods of adminis­ tering justice should be found within those bor­ ders. Aside from the claim of extraditional power thus put forth for the laws of Mexico, and extending their jurisdiction over alleged offenses admittedly charged to have been committed within the borders of the United States, are to be considered the arbitrary and oppressive proceedings which, as measured by the consti­ tutional standard of the United States, destroy the substance of judicial trial and procedure to which Mr. Cutting has been subjected. In transmitting the document to Con­ gress the President in a . brief communica­ tion says: As to the inquiry contained in the resolution, "Whether any additional United States troops have been recently ordered to Fort Bliss," I an­ swer in the negative. The papers w re referred to the Commit­ tee on Foreign Relations. Gov. Ireland Is "Tired." [Dallas (Tex.) special.] Gov. Ireland has telegraphed Comity Attorney Kelso at Eagle Pass as follows: "I desire that you take immediate step* to prosecute all persons engaged in the illegal arrest of Arresures, who was mur­ dered in Mexico." Arresures declared his intention in 1873 to become a citizen of the United States. Gov. Ireland says: It mal.eB no difference whether Arresures was naturalized/or not. It is the sovereignty cf the States that is insulted. The reason ih«t I have not interfered in the Cutting case is that I liavo not been asked to. In the Eagle Pass cas j Judgo Ware appealed to me, and just as I completed lny letter I saw an account of the man having been shot. I understand some people object to my language to Secretary Bayard as being too crisp. I cam ot help th.it. I have used words of per­ suasion in trying to protect our border until I am tired, and from this forth I intend to use the most forcible English at my command. I am not asking favors at Washington. I am demanding what the Federal compact entitles us to. TRIPLE TRAUEDT IN NEBRASKA. An Unwelcome Suitor 1'ut* to Death Hl« Inamorata, Her Father, and Himself. [Lincoln (Neb.) special.] Fred Ihde, a young farmer living near Marysville, in Seward County, forty miles northwest of Lincoln, had been for some lime wooing the 19-year-old daughter of a farmer named Ruthke. The young man's attentions were disapproved of by Ruthke, and the couple met clandestinely. Yes­ terday afternoon yonng Ihde, his mind having evidently become unsettled by the affair, went to Ruthke's house, and being told that Ruthke and the girl were in the pasture followed them thither. Neighbors were soon after attracted to the «pot by several shots in rapid succession, and upon their arrival found all three either dead or dying. Ihde had evidently met with a repulse from Ruthke or the girl, and had in his desperation killed both of them and taken his own life. A coroner's jury returned a verdict in accordance with-tii#- facts. WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE. Eleven Hundred Bills Went Through Both Houses, and 887 came Laws. .Ji list of the Principal Measures Passed, and Those Post- ITow that the forty-ninth Congress has adjourned, a review of its work will prove interesting. The first session began Mon­ day, Dec. 7, 1S85, and covered a period of seven months and twenty-eight days, or 241 days, exclusive of Sundays. Of this time the Senate was in session 164 days, and the House 185 days. During; that time there were introduced in the two houses 13,202 measures, of which 10,014 were House bills and 214 House joint resolu­ tions, and 2,891 bills and 83 joint resolu­ tions of the Senate. The measures pro­ posed for enactment into laws exceeded in number by 2,949 those introduced at the last session of the Forty-eighth Con­ gress, which sat for seven months and four days, or 105 days of actual working time. Of the entire number comparatively few were of what may be termed national importance. The greater number were measures of a private • nature or of merely local importance. The total number of measures that passed both houses was 1,101, being 241 Senate bills and 800 bills which originated in the House. Of this total 800 became laws with the President's approval, 181 became laws by limitation (the President failing either to approve or disapprove them within ten days after their presentation to him), 113 were vetoed, and one failed by reason of adjournment with­ out action by the President. Of the new laws 746 were House measures and 241 Senate measures. Of the measures vetoed by the President thirty-six were Senate bills and seventy- seVen bills of the House. Twenty-eight of the Senate bills vetoed were private pen­ sion bills, three were for the erection of public buildings, one to grant to railroads the right of way through the Indian reser­ vation in Northern Montana, and one to quiet title to settlers on the Des Moines river lands. Of the House bills disapproved by the President seventy-four were private pension bills and three for the erection of public buildings. The number of measures vetoed during the session was four more than have been vetoed from the foundation of the Govern­ ment to the beginning of the session just closed, and while nearly all the vetoed Sen­ ate bills were reported back with the recom­ mendation that they pass over the veto, and similar action was taken on a number of the House bills, only one--that grant­ ing a pension to Jacob Romiser--was so passed. The Des Moines River bill passed the Senate over the veto, but failed to receive the requisite two-thirds vote in the House. Motions to pass the bills to grant pensions to Mary Anderson and Andrew J. Wilson over the President's veto were defeated in the House. The consideration of the otheft* veto messages has been postponed until the next session. Among the measures of general impor­ tance that have been enacted into laws during the session, in addition to the regu­ lar appropriation bills, are as follows: The Presidential succession bill; to provide for the study of the nature and effoct of alco­ holic drinks and narcotics ; to remove the charge of desertion against soldiers who re-enlisted without having received a discharge from the regiments in which they had previously served; to legalize the incorporation of national trades unions; accepting the Grant medals and tro­ phies ; to provide that surveyed lands granted to railroads shall not be exempt from local tax­ ation on account of the lien of the United States upon them for the cost of sur­ veying, selecting, or conveying them; , the oleomargarine bill; the bill for the increase of the navy; to provide that homestead set­ tlers within the railroad Kmits restricted to less than 100 acres shall be entitled to have their additional entries patented without any further cost or proof of settlement and cultiva­ tion ; to reduce the fees on domestic monoy or ders for sums not exceeding &> from 8 cents to 5 cents ; to allow steam towing vessels to carry, in addition to their crews, as many persons as the supervising inspector may authorize ; for the relief of Fitz-John Porter ; to enable nation­ al banking associations to increase their capital stock and to change their names or locations ; providing that after July 1, 188G, no fee's shall be charged to American vessels for meas­ urement of tonnage, issuing of licenses, granting certificate of registry, etc.,. and amending the laws relative to the ship­ ping and discharging Of crews, tho lia­ bility of owners, the licensing of vessels, etc.: to forfeit the lands granted to tho Atlantic ana Pacific ltailroad Company ; to increase to 81'2 a mouth the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors; to amend the Revised Statutes so as to require brewers commencing business to give a bond in a sum equal to three times the amount of the tax which they will be liable to pay during any one month, and to execute a new bond whenever required ; to direct the Commissioner of Labor to make an investigation as to convict labor; providing that manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars may be removed for export without payment of tax, and repealing the law providing for inspectors of tobacco, EDITOR CUTTING. Conclusion of the Trial Before the Mexican Court--Cutting Found Guilty. [El Paso (Texas) dispatch.] Cutting's trial has been concluded. By the advice of Consul Brigham he denied the jurisdiction of the court. No evidence was introduced, but the prosecuting attorney addressed the court in Span­ ish, demanding that Cutting be sentenced to two years' impiisonment at hard labor, that being the longest term given by the statutes of Texas. He also demanded that Consul Brigham be censured for officious interference. Medina spoke in Spanish, demanding a speedy punishment. Then a law student, appointed by the court to de­ fend Cutting, spoke a few words, claiming that Cutting did not know he was break­ ing the Mexican laws by publishing a statement in Texas, and asked the court to assess the lowest penalty. Cutting was then offered the floor, but sim­ ply stated that he could not recognize the court, and that he was in the hands of his Government. The court took the matter under advisement and said he would give judgment within fifteen days. The people in all this section are excited over the affair, as such outrages are of daily occurrence. Everybody is anxionsly awaiting the action of the Government. Senator Teller's Vlewi. [Interview in Chicago Timet.] "What will be the outcome of the troubles upon the Mexican border, Senator? I pre­ sume your experience as Secretary of the Interior made you well acquainted with that section of the country?" asked the re­ porter. "I do not apprehend that it will result in anything serious, and in saying that I ex­ press the common feeling at Washington. Texas is a Democratic State and the Exec­ utive of the National Government is also Democratic. That should and will serve as a check upon rash conduct which might develop under the same surround­ ings If the National Government was in different hands, and the Texans should be­ lieve that they were not receiving sympa­ thetic as well as practical protection at Washington. I read in a paper this even­ ing that the President of the Mexican Re- pulic can pardon a criminal convicted in any of their States. It couldn't be done by the President here, and I don't know if it can there. If it can, however, that will doubtless be the outcome, and Cutting will be allowed to recrosB the border. The Mexicans are exceedingly anxious to main­ tain friendly relations with the United States. They know that they couldn't hope to successfully fight us. We could tripe them oat in no time at all, and they know we are able to do it." NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. Wfcst Is Being IK>n« by the ttaudLcflristu^ XM iMpona* to »resolution at the Senate - •tag for information concerning the alleged m«_ ; gal detention of A. K. Cutting by the Mexioaa authorities at El Paso del Norte, the President transmitted to the Senate, on the 2d inst the | report of the Secretary of State, together with a voluminous masB of correspondence relative to the case. Secretary Bayard explains that he has no reason for making twice a demand for Cutting's release, because if his offense was committed in the United States Mexioo has no jurisdiction, and Mr. Bayard after pointing out that he has done every­ thing within his power, says that he turns over not only the papers but the caa j to Congress. It is an open invitation to Congress to take some action--to back him up in something more substantial than demands. The Senate passed bills to tax fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits, and to provide for the in­ spection of tobacco, cigars, aud snuff. The Sen­ ate in executive session rejected the nomina­ tion of RichiAond S. Dement to be Surveyor General of Utah. The nomination, of E H. kmman to be postmaster at Jacksonville m was also rejected Fitz John 'Por- „WaS confirmed without debate, i The House of Representative*, by a vote of 167 to 51, passed the Senate bill increasing the pen­ sion of soldiers who lost an arm or a lee in the service. The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the naval establishment bill. An agreement was reached by the conferrees on the river and harbor bill providing for a survey of the Hennepin Canal route by a board of Gov­ ernment engineers and striking out tho appropri­ ation for construction. President Cleveland sent a message to the House of Kepresentativea stating that he had signed the oleomargarine bill, and giving his reasons for approving it lhe President says that many communications • have been addressed to him for the purpose of influencing his action t'icreon, the greater number being influenced by local or pe'-sonal considerations. The bill, upon its face, and in its main features, he Bavs, is a reve­ nue bill, and while he might doubt tne present need of increased taxation, he defers to the judgment of Congress. He believes the selection of an additional subject of taxation, so well able to bear it, may be consistently fol­ lowed by relieving the country of some other unnecessary revenue burden. In regard to the argument that the purpose of the bill was to destroy one industry for the protection of another, the President says: "If this article has the merit which its friends claim for it, and if the people of the land, with full knowledge of its real character, desire to purchase and uio it, the taxes enacted by this bill will permit a fair profit to both manufacturer aud dealer. If the existence and profits of the commodity depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else, which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry; and if it cannot endure the exhibition of its real character, which will be effected by the inspection, supervision, and stamping which this bill directs, the sooner it is destroyed the better, in the interest of fair dealing." Mr. Cleveland notes several changes that would im­ prove the bill, and suggests that it is not too late for them to be acted upon. There io dan­ ger, he says, of the fourteenth and fifteenth sections being construed as interfering with the police powers of the States. THK Senate passed, over the President's veto, on tho 3d inst., by a unanimous vote, the House bill granting a pension to Jacob Komiser, after Senator Wilson had explained that the Presi­ dent had acted under a misapprehension, he haying been informed that no application had been made to the pension office, while, in faot, an application had been made. The bill grant­ ing a pension to Mary J. Kottage failed to pass over tho veto by a party vote, except that Senator Wilsen (Md ) voted in the affirmative. Senator Hoar, in objecting to the consideration of a resolution providing for an adjournment, said he thought the bill reported by him provid­ ing for "inquests under national authority"' should first be considered. He referred to the massacres in the Southern States during the last few years, and said that so far as shown by the press a negro and a Hepublican was tho vic­ tim and a Democrat and a white man the ag­ gressor. Senator Kenna protected against the introduction of a bloody-shirt campaign doc­ ument into the closing hours of Congress. Senator Gibson said tha bill was an indictment against the entire iiopulation from the Potomac to the liio Grande. Ho compared tho peace and quiet of his own State with the turbulent state of society in Chicago and the country adjacent to it. These nominations w ere rejected bv the- Senate: Adclard Guernon, to be Collector-of Customs for Minnesota; George P. Sanford, to be Postmaster at Lansing. Mich.; and H. H. Porter, to be Postmaster at Dowagiac, Micb. Frank J. Mott was nominated for liegis- ter of the Land Office at Denver, and Thomas Cooper to be Revenue Collect­ or for the Eighth Illinois District. THK Morrison surplus resolution, after being stripped of the clause providing for the recep­ tion or redemption of trade dollars, was adopted by both houses of Congress, on the 4th inst. In the Senate the House bill to restrict the owner­ ship of real estate in tho Territories to American citizens wai taken up and passed, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. A conference was asked. The Senate adopted a resolution accepting from W. H. Vanderbilt and Julia Dent Grant various articles presented to Gen. Grant by foreign governments. A bill extending the system of immediate dolivery to all articles bearing an immediate-delivery sta'iip was passed by the Senate. The following nomina­ tions were made by the President: Wil­ liam G. Bowman, of Illinois, to be Surveyor General of Utah. Postmasters: Leonard W. Chambers, at Jacksonville, 111.; William Car­ ter, at De Kftlb, 111. Edward Hawkins was con­ firmed as Marshal for Indiana. The nomination of H. A. Heecher to be Cust mii Collector at Port Townswid was withdrawn by the President. The House took up the resolution requesting tho President to renew tho dem md for the release cf A. K. Cutting by the Mexican Government. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, of the Foreign Affairs Com­ mittee, said he had signed tho report on the. belief that the Moxican Government had re­ fused to release Catting on the demand of our Government. Since then he had read the correspondence, which showed that the Mexican Government had shown every spirit of compliance. Catting, he said, had re­ fused to be released on bail, declaring that his case was now an international affair. This was the work of our mischief-making Consul, who made speeches to crowds in the streets about vindicating the rights of bis country. Messrs. Crain, of Texas, and King, of Louisiana, de­ fended Consul Brigham. Pending further dis­ cussion the House adjourned. CONGRESS adjourned sine die at 4 o'clock p. m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. Senator Plumb, from the conferenoe committee on the bill for the repeal of the pre-emption and timber-cul­ ture acts, reported a disagreement. The usual resolution of thank* to the Presi­ dent of the Senate (Senator Sherman) waa unanimously passed. Consideration of the bill to prevent Congressmen from acting as counsel for subsidized railways was fixed for the second Monday in December. Tho Hou9e bill for the lelief of certain dishonorably dis­ charged soldiers of the Twi lith Michigan Vol­ unteer Infantry was amended and passed. About forty nominations were left unaoted upon by the Senate. A large number were confirmed in the closing hours. The House adjourned without taking any action upon the resolutions in regard to tha case of Editor Cutting. The Democratic leaders seemed to have decided not to permit the matter to become the subject of a partisan debate on the last day of the session, when it would not be possible to discuss and determine with proper deliberation what, if any, action was de­ sirable to bo taken by Congress. The State De­ partment had not requested any action by Con­ gress. Mr. Bayard had simply submitted the correspondence, and it was generally felt that the statement of facts presented in the corre­ spondence submitted to the Senate and House did not show that the case had arrived at the point where the interference of Congress waa either necessary or prudent. Congress having adjourned sine die, the whole matter now rests with the State Department. Bills passed the Houso appropriating an additional sum of 135,- 000 for the selection of a site for the Congres­ sional Library, &0.i00 for completing the public building at Fort Scott, Kan., and SISO.'XM for a public building at Los Angeles, Cal. The Pres­ ident did not sign the "surplus" resolution be­ fore adjournment, aud the probability is that it will not bo allowed to go into effeofe. The committeo appointed by the House to investigate the labor troubles in tho West was given permission to sit during tho recess of Congress. The fortifications bill, after passing both houses, failed in conference. A brief sum­ mary of the work of the session is as follows: It was in session 241 days; 13,20-2 measures were Introduced, 10,828 originating in the House and 2,981 in the Senate; 1,101 passed both houses, 241 being Senate bills and «f>0 House measures; 806 became laws with the President's approval, 181 became laws by limitation, 113 were vetoed, and one failed by reason of adjournment with­ out action bv the President. Squire Hobbs'Philosophy. It atn pekuleyer how much takt yung man displaze wen out wawkin' wid hiz gal, in promenadin' all ober town, an' at de same time steerin' klar ob all de icekream pariahs. Ef yo' wan' tu tes' de tegrity ob er frien' jes' lend him er five-dollar Wfl- yum; It wil be er sumwot ekspensibtt wa ob 'sperimentin', but it wil effekfca- ally impress de fak' upon yo' mind. l)e man dat sets aroun' an' wates fo' Dame Forchun tu kum 'long an' pop do kweschun wil be pow'rfully disappinted; an' lie wil also be s'prized tu fin' dat she wil smile on menny fellahs who am hiz inferiahs. She am er werry kokett- ish maid, an' rekwiahs er monstrous site ob kourtin'.--Chicago Ledger. etk^A. £ds2is