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4 VM tUKE, Mtor «* faWMtar. ILLINOIS. THE NEVS CONDENSED. vovrt^tiifiitoiiGBm fMlpUMlM of the Senate Chtmbtr mn •M with apectatora, when, fct 13 noon on Mon­ day, Dte, ft, tb* Mooad teuton of the Forty- liitt Ooograaa «M opened. The preciding ot- tmm, l(r. Sharmta, laid before the Senate sev­ en! 4t4iW annual reports of the heads of de- |lff1BII'lrt rL «fet«h were ordered printed. Ksso- nttiM MM adopted fixing the daily hour of •IjhlWllH *1 linrai . informing the House that the OwilW Waa ready to proceed to business, and tattwu pointmeot of a committee to wait on •to PrMiMUt for the like purpose. Messrs. Ed- mnnda and 8aalsbury were appointed such com- The eredentialf of senator Williams, at California, were presented aud the oath of oAoe ml adminiatored to hiin. Several bills we-- introduced and referred. At 2 o'clock the President's message was received an<i read, ibortly after,which the Sonnte adjourned. The HOnae was called to order precisely at noon, Ml members responding to their names. Oat motion of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, a resolution I adopted directing the Clerk to inform the " i fcnat the H >uie was ready to proceed to business. On motion of Mr. Reagan, of Texas, a resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee of three members to join a similar committee appointed by the Son- ate to wait upon the President and inform him that Congress was ready to receive any commu­ nication he might desiro to make. Messrs. fan, Breckeuridge of Kentucky, and Heed appointed as such committee. At 12 :40 • recess was taken. Upon the- re- amembling of the Hoime the com- anittoe appointed ti -wait upon the President announced that it had performed ita duty, and that the President would conununi- oate in writing with Congress forthwith. Mr. Prndeo. the I'resilentH Assistant Secretary, Was then announced, and presented to the Bouse the President s annual message. It waa Immediately read t>y the Cleik. Shortly after­ ward the House adjourned. AMONG the new bills presented in the Senate oo the 7th inat. waa one by Mr. Van W'yck to exempt from duty imported sugar and molasses, and also imported boards, lumber, and timber. Senator Beck introduced a bill to provide for the retirement of United States legal-tender aud national-bank notes of email denominations, and for the issue of coin certificates. Senator Xnffalla introduced two billa amendatory at the pension laws: (1.) To increase the pension for loss of an eye to tao per month, and for partial loss of sight to a proportionate amount. >2.) To increase the pen- Man for IMB of one hand or foot, or for total dis­ ability of the same, to V-t > per month; for loss <Bt an arm within five inches of or above the elbow Joint, or IOSB of a leg within six inches of Of above the knee joint, or total disability of the same, to $40 per month, and for loss of an arm within six inches of ti e shoulder joint to 145 per month. Senators Morrill and Dawes «ach introduced resolutiona looking toward a revision of the tariff. The House of Repreaantatives passed a bill appropriat­ ing SHW.OoO for a cavalry and artillery school at Fort Beilly, and $17">,00) for quarters at Forts D. A. Russell and Robinson. Mr. Cox, of New York, laid before the House ft bill repealing the statute which authorizes two salaries, one to a Congressman and the oth­ er to an officer such as a Minister. Mr. Parker, of New York, introduced a bill in­ creasing the tax on oleomargarine to six cents per pound. Mr. Lyman presented a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs. Bills were also introduced to provide for the deposit of coin or bullion as security for bank circula­ tion, for the issue of greenbacks in place of re­ tired bank notes, and to reduce the amount of bonds required as security for circulation, and to compel cattle companies to pay the Govern­ ment for the use of public lands. THE President transmitted to the Senate, on the 8th inat., a communication from the Secre­ tary of State and correspondence relating to the rights of American fishermen in the British North American waters. In his letter accom­ panying the documents the President corn- " to the favorable consideration of Con- Ba "the suggestion that a commission be au- 1 by law t:> take perpetuating proofs of the losses' sustained during the last year by American fishermen, owing to their un­ friendly and unwarranted treatment by the local authorities of the maritime provinces of the Dominion of Canada." Memorials were presented in the Senate for a constitutional * empowering Congress to pass a 1 divorce law, against permitting i large tracts of lands, and for ehalf of the Chine--e laborers, luced for a monument to negro kilors who died for the Union and > retired list the mmsraf General r 8. Webb. Resolutions were offered tot information in regard to the oleomargarine traAc, for an inquiry into the power of Congress to legislate for the protection of food fish in Marigable waters, and to limit the price of gas in the District of Columbia. In the House of Hepreeentatives, Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, asked for unanimous consent to put ujxm its passage a bill admitting free of dutv material to be used in rebuilding the town of Eastport, Me., which was deatroyed by Are Oct. 14, 1886. Mr. Breck­ inridge, of Arkansas, objected to the immediate consideration of the bill, expressing the opin­ ion that the people of the country were as much In need of relief from taxation as die people of Eaatport. He was glad to find the gentleman from Maine confessing that the tariff waa a tax, and he would insist that the bill should take the regular course and be sent to tiu OOkiiUittee which bad charge of the subject of taxation. The bill was referred to the Com- tnltleo on Wayi and Means. Mr. Dockery (Mo.). • behalf of the Committee of Postoffices and Post Boeda, called up the bill extending the dtofth-bed, be copied in oil, aiuNrahg upon tike walls of the college. TUB most violent magnetic disturbance since that following the great Charleston earthquake waa noted last week at Bochefl- •er, N. Y. A magnetic needle, two feet in length, moved over an area of live degree*. AT a meeting of the Ne# York Munici­ pal Council of the Irish National League two of the speakers denounced the proced­ ure ef the present board of the league in Ireland as a worse slavery of the people than English rule Under the decrees of the Plenary Council at Baltimore, the Arch­ bishop of Philndclph a has prohibited balls for charitable purposes. The managers of the annual Catholic ball in the latter city will be compelled to refund subscriptions amounting to over $3,000. THE WEST. NXAB Minneapolis a large eagle, meas­ uring nearly ten feet from tip to tip, at­ tacked two surveyors, Professor W. F. Carr and Samuel Chute, severely wounding the former, and making a desperate effort to bear him away. Timely aid arrived, and the bird was captured. His (alons are over four inches in length Reuben Hill and his three sons, residing at North Liberty, Ind., were instantly killed while attempting to drive across the Grand Trunk tracks. His daughter had a leg broken.... Judge Gresham of the United States Cir­ cuit Court in Chicago has dccided to re­ move the present receivers of the Wabash Railway and to foreclose tbe mortgage on the system east of the Mississippi River. Fred Joslyn, a school teacher at Hen­ derson, Mich., killed a citizen who at­ tempted to thrash him for whipping his boy. Joslyn proceeded to Owosso ana sur­ rendered Co the iailer. Gov. HUBBABD, of Minnesota, issued a proclamation declaring the oounty seat of Traverse County, Minnesota, to be Wheaton, in accordance with the result of the recent election, chang­ ing it from Brown's Valley. On receipt of (he news of this decision at Wheat­ on the County Commissioners, sent a party of about one hundred men, with teams, to Brown's Valley to remove the records. They were proceeding to do so, when tney were attacked by residents of Brown's Val­ ley. and a lively fight took place around the Court House, in the course of which axo6, hammers, and revolvers were freely used, and the records and*furniture were scattered about the streets. The Wheaton men were finally driven off without getting the rec­ ords. Several persons were seriously, but none dangerously, hurt. THE SODTtft. - " THE South is experiencing unusually severe winter weather. Last week snbw fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Carolina and Virginia. At Asheville, N. C., "the beautiful" was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. The roofs of the Asheville Tobacco Works, the Shelton factory, and of Dickson A Watson's whole­ sale provision house were crushed in, en­ tailing heavy losses. In Virginia the depth of the snow ranged from twelve to twenty inches. In the vicinity of Columbia, S, C., sleet fell for three days, and the ground was covered with ice from three to six inches. ^ THE sheriff at Hot Springs, Ark., raided every gambling establishment in town, and burned the tables and chips in the street. COAL, in immense quantities, is report­ ed to have been discovered in Henderson and Smith Counties, Tex. One vein, twenty feet thick, is but thirty feet below the surface. *' • WASIIIMGTOIV. ^ * DELEGATE TOOLE of Montana appeared before the House Committee on Territories and made an argument in favor of the ad­ mission of the Territory as a State The Commissioner of the General Land Office has recommended that proceedings be commenced to compel the removal of fences unlawfully inclosing public land in Colfax County, New Mexico, amounting to about 165.000 acres. The Commissioner also recommends that the fences inclosing about 22, (KM) acres in the public laod strip south of Kansas said to have been built by the Western Cattle Company, be removed by the military. THE report of the Comstock Board of Engineers on the Hennepin Canal is in the main acceptable to the friends of the project, says a Washington telegram. rnvmm iwwam, i»ui» uj, me um exicnumg me But tllere are some parts of it that do not twa delivery ayatem to towna having 10,<H0 1 euit them. The report presents in a very strona J --• *I :--* • light the commercial importance of the canal, and shows that there are no serious difficulties in the way of its construction. The board makes no estimate of its cost. Its cordial in­ dorsement of the canal on commercial and military grounds will prove a inateri il help to th«j friends of the c&aal. The board, however, leans to the Mariaa d'Oaier route. Thia is the shortest and cheapest, but much of it lies through such low flooded lands that when Major ISenyaurd made his survey of ft three years ago in the drvest month of the year the surveyors were unable to pa- s over a good part of the line. Besides, there are no commercial lines at this end of this route to make use of the canal, and the inouth of the canal would be in the middle of a long reach of rapide. Boats might easily go down tbeae rapids to enter the canal at Kock Island, but they would hardly care to go to the rapids to enter tbe canal at Marais d Osier. In his re­ port Maj. Benyaurd, without strongly deciding in favor of any of the routes, plainly gave the Kock Island route the preference for commer­ cial reasons. The Handbury report, made a year ago, preferred the Marais d'Osier route on account of its lesser cost, but the commercial reasons for haviniz the canal end at Kock Island were so obvious that Gen. Newton, then chief of engineers, prefixed to the Handbury report a strong argument for the Kock Island route, and Gen. Benet, who was then Acting Secretary of War, transmitted the reports with a very em­ phatic indorsement of the Kock Island route. There is good reason to expect that (ien. Duane, the* present chief of engineers, and Secretary Kudicott will both cast their influence in favor of the Kock Islan I route. population, and where the revenne of the poet- eflee amxmta to §10,000 a year. 8KKATOB SKWELL introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 9th inat., for the redemption of trade dollars and the recoicaga of the same into standard silver dollars. Benator McMillan in­ troduced a hill to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Red Kiver of the North. 1 he Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Xorrijl'a resolution, whioh declares that the promise of making any revision of the taiifl in a spirit of fairneas to all interests appean so obviously boneless and impracticable that any further at­ tempt* at revision by the present Congress are to be regarded aa inexpedient, and detrimental to the revival at the trade and industry of the country. Mr. Merrill said the Democratic can­ didate for President in U«4 would have been defeated but fen: the tariff plank in the plat­ form. He ridiculed Mr. Morrison's schemes for a horizontal (eduction of the tariff, and said that their effect could only bo to let a flood of foreign productions pour in and overrun the American market Mr. Beck aaid that when the leader in the Senate on financial questions--the Chairman of the Committee ou Finance--gave out in advance, in a resolution and speech, that nothing could !>e done tj improve exiting conditions, it was like rallying his friends in advance in opposition to every movement. At the present rate of taxa­ tion the surplus revenue- after all the public debt that was payable was paid--would be «b!5,0(W,0J0 a year. Therefore ttie Democratic President and Secretary of thj Treasury de­ manded and insisted that the taxation on the people should be reduced. There was na other way to get clear of the surplus revenue honestly. It might be locked up in the treas­ ury, but that meant bankruptcy. Extravagant appropriations wight be indulged in, out that meant corruption; or a premium of &>, 30, 40, Cr 5st per cent, might b© )>&id ou bonds, but that meant extravagance and swindling of the tax­ payers for the benefit of tbe few men who held the Government obligations, so that it the legislators were honest meu and in­ tended to deal honestly with the people thev were compelled to reduce taxation to the point that would suffice for an economical ad­ ministration O; the Government. That did not involve any question of free trade. He (Beck) believed that with duties reduced to the ncces- aities of the government the manufacturers of the United States could reach the markets of tu6 world, and that tti6 laboring men of th© country could be employed twelve months of to© year instead of five or six months as now, MF« Sherman believed that the revenues col- lected were too large and that the public safety and the public interest demanded a careful re­ duction of taxation. There was no dispute be­ tween parties on that subject. But the Demo­ cratic party had been intrusted with the power cs legislating in the House. They bad promised in their nationH1 platform to reduce taxation, aad to do it in such a manner as not to injure the induetries ot the country. But the trouble WM that the Democrats could not agree among themselves. The proposition* that had been UMle in the House had been so diverse and various, and some of them had been so al>- aolutely contrary to the interests of the county ttiat the party itself had revolted at them! In conclusion, he said tliat until the Democrat- 16 party conld nr.r"- ainons th«mselv « aU(l •OBULpreaent to the Senate a plan by which the Democrats were willing to stand, thnv v.«yi AmettMfcn soil. The newn>ip«n of all sha4*s of opinion stand by tat government in 'lltis matter, on the ground that tha pnadplt is a sound one, and approved by some ofthe most highly civilized nations Of t. •F roREiei*. 'M THE Catholics of Lurgan, the t?6tinty of Armagh, Irclaud, formed in procession and marched through the streets to show their joy at tbe acquittal of some of their number who had been tried on charges of rioting. The Orangemen of tbe towu re­ sented the demonstration, nnd attacked the parade. A fierce liot ensued, and sticks, stones, and revolvers were used. The light­ ing lasted several hours, and was finally quelled by a troop of dragoons, which had to be called upon. A score of persons were wounded and several houses were partially wrecked. THE Porte has issued a circular to the Powers to the effect that the Sultan assents to the candidacy of Prince Nicholas of Miu- grelia for the Bulgarian throne, and invites the Powers to co-operate for u speedy set­ tlement of the Bulgarian question. A MAJORITY of the Powers have replied to the Porte's circular asking advice as to the solution of the Bulgarian difficulty, but the responses are all either evasive or indefinite. ADDITIONAL NEWS. X REVENUE bill passed by the lower house of the Alabama Legislature levies a tax of $5,000 on all persons who dfal In future contracts on commission... .Gov. Ireland, of -Texas, has issued a piooiama- tion quarantining against all ports in South America aud elsewntro where cholera ex­ ists. THE average December prices of wheat, according to the National Department of Agriculture, is (">'.) cents--8 cents below the value of the last crop, and 4.J cents higher than li»84. The farm value of coin is 37 cents--4 cents higher than last year. The average condition of the whe.it plant in Michigan is '.<7.100, against 'J5 last year. Live-stock are reported in a healthy < on- ditiou. Ten per cent, of tha potato crop in southern counties and five per ceut. in the northern counties has been destroyed by rot. THE business failuras during the week numbered for the United States 252, for Canada 22, a total of 274, against 242 the previous week. The increase noticeable is mainly in the Southern States, wheie the casualties are far above the average in number, if not iu importance. Brad- street's reports "wool weaker, prices yielding a little at the London sale. In goods the tone is generally strong, but foreign worsteds are offered at lower figures. The drug trade is growing inactive, without loss in prices. Prices harden in sugars, spices, tea, and canned goods. Sugar con­ sumption has increased largely abioad, it id claimed, overtaking the supply. Money is generally reported in good supply, though the demaud is large. Collections generally are very satisfactory, except in some southern sections, and bank clear­ ings continue less than last year in that section, a little larger on the whole in New England, smaller at St. Louis, and about the same at Chicago, but greatly increased at many other Western points." HABVY PASH, the negro murderer of Felix Adams, expiated his crime on the scaffold in the jail-yard at Bardstown, Ky. He went to the gallows singing and pray­ ing. but became calm at the last moment, and heard the priest's benediction quietly. ROBERT GRAYOR, the murderer of Berry Evans, was hanged at St. Louis, Mo. He partook heartily of a breakfast of ham and eggs, fried oysters, and toast and tea. No man ever died more gamely. Not once while he stood on the gallows could dven a quiver be noticed in him Oscar A. Bimonds, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a wealthy and influential citizen, who had been a ter­ rible sufferer from nervous prostration, killed himself with a revolver. His death is due wholly to overwork in eiyring i'pr his large interests. ^ C. B. CCMMINGS, of Chicago, baa j^een elected President of the Lak^ Eri§ (and Western Road. It is stated that • the assessments on the stock yielded over $900,000, which will discharge the floating debt and pave the way for the receiver's exit The Missouri Pacific stockholder*, at a special meeting in St. Louis, voted to increase the capital stock $1,000,000 aud the bonded indebtedness $1,000,000. A PERMANENT reduction of 35 per cent, in his Irish rent-rolls is announced by the Dnke of Manchester. It is reported in financial circles that a pressure has recent­ ly been brought to bear to induce England to coin a silver dollar to meet the needs of foreign circulation, especially in India and Burmah. The Mexican dollar has been largely used, but it is so much debased that it has lost character in. many silver-using countries. No BUSINESS was transacted by the House of Representatives ou the 10th inat. After the reading of the journal Mr. Campbell, of New York, announced with sorrow and regret the death of his colleague, Mr. Dcwdney. and of­ fered resolutions expressive of the regret with which the announcement ot tho death had been received by the House, and providing for a joint committee of the Senato and HOUHO to attend the funeral. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, aud the House, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned for the day. Tho Speaker appointed the following committee to attend the funeral: Messrs. Camp­ bell, Viele, Morriman, and Muller, of New York, O'Neill of Missouri, Scranton of Pennsylvania, and Brady of Virginia 1»01<KTICAI«. JAMES MCMILLAN has withdrawn from the United States Senatorial fight in Michi­ gan. This, it is said, practically insures the election of Col. Frank B. Stockbridge. APPOINTMENTS by the President: Thos. Moonlight, ef Leavenworth, Kan., to be Governor of Wyoming Territory, vice Bax­ ter, declined; Arthur L. Thomas, of Penn­ sylvania. to be a member of the Utah commission; Naval Constructor Theodore D. Wilson to be Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and Chief Constructor in the Department of the navy, with the relative rank of Commodore; Pay Director James Fulton to be Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster General in tbe department of the navy, with the relative rank of Commo­ dore; Pay Inspector Bufus Parks to be Pay D'rector, Paymaster James E. Tolfree to be Pay Inspector; Assistant Paymaster John Corvine to be Passed Assistant Pay- master. ttENEBAL. THERE are in sight 59,558,521 bushels of wheat and 11,738,755 bushels of corn billing to fitdnd, they h&d no r,. chide complain of Republicans. I Since last report wheat decreased 13,557 t&lUheer • i?a85ei8' whirt coti bas fered 3,10'7 ̂to reduce taxes, and the Senate would 1 bnshels.... The schooner Edith was lost off £ K > p o s e a m e a s u r e b y w h i c h t a x e s * - - - - - -- . . . reduced without crippling trial or decreasing wages. The t-enate adjourned to Monday, the 13th. The House pMaed the benute electoral count bill with Slight amendment*, and the bill extending the IrM-dalivery aystem. Mr. l'ayson reported his Mil with benate amendments to restrict the owserahip of real estate in the Territories to American citizens from the Public Lands Com­ mittee. The amendments were non-concurred iilB§ad a6onfereuce or lered. 4; THE EABT. E. PRICE GREEN LEAF, a miser, of Bos- iniyiit ; Miquelon Island, coast of Newfoundland, indus- with a crew of thirteen men. THE man whs swindled the people of the City of Mexico by the sale of bogus Patti tickets is believed to be Charles Bourton, formerly a journalist in Paris. He has been captured by Mexican detect­ ives. ^ p A CITY OF MEXICO dispatch says: "It is generally believed here that diplomatic questions of grave importance will soon arise between the United States and Mexi ten, *ho died last week, bequeathed $500,- j ®°> growing out of the position taken M0 to Harvard University. Greenleaf re- President Cleveland against the right of THE MARKET8. NEW YOBK. Bmvzs..... Hooa WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Bed CORK--No. 2. OATS--White POKK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVKB--Choice to Prime Bteera Good Shipping......... Common Hoo»--Shipping tirades JtocB--toxtra wpring . ....v..... WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 1 OATS--No. 2 BOTTEB--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar. Full Cream, new Boos--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu PORK--Mess... MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Caah CORN--No. 2. 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CATTLE--Beat 4.50 Fair 4.W Common........... 3.24 i if9? .SKKE*..». £13 i ' 't : , f • , • - , • THE NAVY. -^rr . ' ' . A t v ' FT .89)4 @ .45 & 4.00 0 5.00 <» 4.23 & 4.0) .77)4 & ,8ti .29 (ft 4.73 & 4.21 8.75 A 4.">) m 4.25 ,,X The Animal B»pert and Beoomine&da- tiooa of Stontary Whitney. The report of Secretary of the Kavy l^hifney renews Lis former recommenda­ tion for a consolidation of the bureaus so as to insure responsibility in the purchase and care of supplies, snd says that so far as his power extended he had consolidated in one bareau the general purchases of the de­ partment, the care and custody of stores, and had created a system of book-keeping by which the responsibility for the care and disposal of property can be had. To show tliat there is at present no real responsibility for properly be­ longing to the department, the Secretary quotes from the report of a board appoint­ ed by him to make au inventory at the dif­ ferent navy yards and naval stations. The inventory shows an accumulation of stores and supplies aggregating over $20,000,000, nearly $3,000,000 of which is obsolete and useless. Among other items there are 46,- 506 augers and bits, of which 25,274 are at closed ^ards where no work is likely to be done. The Secretary confesses that the experi­ ence of the depaitment in its first attempt to create modern vessels of war has been disappointing. He says: "One character­ istic which an unamiored cruiser must jossessls great speed. This is determined >y tho iunction which she is expected to perform in modern warfare. She is a 'commerce destroyer.' She must be able to escape from iron-clads nnd outrun, so to overhaul, merchantmen. If slower than iron-clads she could not keep the sea, and if slower than merchantmen Bhe might as well stay in port, • * • When the Dolphin, Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago were projected and contracts for their con­ struction entered into it was well known what speed ought to be attained, and what weight and character of machinery per ton of displacement was necessary to obtain it. Commercial vessel* had at that time at­ tained speed ranging between sixteen and nineteen knots, and cruisers were built in oth°r countries attaining the same speed." The Secretary compares the trial trips of the Dolphin and Atlanta with those of En­ glish and French boats only recently com­ pleted, to tbe disadvantage of the former. The Dolphin was designed for 2,300 indi­ cated horse power, and developed less than ",300, while the Alacrity and Surprise, En­ glish boats of 3,000, developed 3,173 and ,07'J respectively. The Atlanta was de­ signed to attain 3,500 horse power, bnt her engines develop less than that. The report gives the bids and awards of the new cruisers, and says regarding cruis­ er No. 1, for Which no bid was rece ved within the limit set by Congress, that orders had been given to re­ duce her size to bring it within such limit, $1,100,000. The report treats of armor and guns for monitors aud armor clads at great length, and deprecates the fact that this country should be content to be de­ pendent on the manufacturers of other nations for the fabrication of armor and high-powered guns. In this connection the Secretary recommends the appoint­ ment of a commission to formulate a scheme of naval construction, and continnes: "If Congress should at its next session make provision for the manufacture this country of armor-" and of high-powered guns, and should take steps for securing a broader and more in­ telligent consideration and treatment of the general subject of construction proper to be undertaken, no time in the end will be lost, and mistakes will be avoided. Mean­ while it is my duty to call attention to the urgent necessity for immediate action." The Secretaiy says that if the estimate of the Chief Constructor of the Navy is correct, in six years only three of the serv­ iceable cruising yssels now on the list will be left, and, unKss a new navy shall be created, there will be none in existence after that lapse of times Concerning expenditures, the report says: "In the adjustment of accounts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, after pay­ ing all liabilities for the year, it is believed there will be an unexpended balance of from $600,000 to $650,000, about one-half, which is for the pay of the navy and the murine corps, showing a total expenditure of about $13,500,000, or upward of $500,000 less than the appropriations. These amounts do not include the expenditures for steel cruisers and the competition of the double-turreted monitors." The report cites that this is the tlrst time for many years that the ex­ penditures have been kept within the estimates. Secretary Whitney recommends that the naval academic course be shortened to four years, instead of six, as at present, and aiso urges that apprentices be admitted to the academy. Tbe remainder of the re» >oit is devoted to detailed reports from the lead* of the various departments. HORACE GREELEY. The Famoua Editor Believed the North Should Have Paid for the Slaves. [Richmond (Va.) special.] The Rev. Dr. William Norwood, a prom­ inent Episcopalian clergyman of this city, was the minister who performed the mar­ riage ceremony on the occasion of the wed­ ding of Horace Greeley, who was then an unknown young man, thongh giving promise of future prominence. Dr. Norwood was at the time rector of a church in North Carolina, and the future Mrs. Greeley was a school-teacher living in the same parish. When Mr. Greeley visited North Carolina on his courting ex­ peditions he and Dr. Norwood struck up an acquaintance which la-ted to the close of Greeley's life. At the end of the war, when Greeley visited Richmond to go on Jefferson Davis'bail bond, he sought out Dr. Norwood, his old friend, and discussed the late war very earnestly with him, each trying to convince the other. The sub­ ject of this debate is made public to­ day by Dr. Norwood. The point which caused their warmest expres­ sions of differing opinion was Dr. Nor­ wood's assertion that the North was legally and morally bound to pay the South the full market value of the liberated slaves. Greeley at iirot treated the proposition as monstrous, finally, however, saying: "I will think over the subject as you have pre­ sented it and see you before I leave Rich­ mond, when I will let you know my con« elusion." When Mr. Greeley returned later in the day, hp said to bis old friend: "Doctor, I have thought it over, and, after weighing the matter calmly, am convinced that the North ought to pay the South for the •laves." 1S,«00 MILES OF CABLE. Australia and Canada to Be Connected by Wire--A Great Enterprlae. (Ottawa (Ontario) special.] One of the greatest enterprises which Canada has ever undertaken is about to b» inaugurated, which, if consummated, wil] not only still further enhance the general importance of Canada as a section of the empire, but will make it the imperial channel of communication between Great Britain and her antipodean possessions, as well as with India. This scheme con­ sists in the laying of a cable between Van­ couver and Australia, via New Zealand, and thus establishing direct communication through British territory between England and Australia, as well as with India, by means of the cable at present extending between Australia aud that country. The coming session of Parliament will be asked to incorporate a company for the purpose of carrying out this scheme. The Prince of Wales will be the honontQT President,and Sir George Stephen,Baronet* President of the Canadian Pacific Tele* graph Company and Railway, President. In Borrowed P!mMg«. There isa curious brokerage business carried on in a suite of well-furnished rooms in a prominent office building oil Walnut street. There is BO sign out and no display made, but tHlre ie * fre­ quent coming and geing of well-dressed ladies, and every indication of a flour­ ishing business. A brisk little man, with an off-hand manner and a pro­ fusion of jewelry, is the manager of the establishment. His assistants are all women, for the place is the agency of a New York house which makes a business of hiring out costly dresses for summer, seaside, or mountain wear, and even to parties who are making a trip to Europe. Equally as common a thing is the renting from evening to evening of ball-room costumes for ladies who can't afford to buy expensive dresses f£r one or two occasions. They can hire a ball-room dress, Bhoes, stockings, and lace shawl, which would cost $200, for from $5 to $25 a night. If tliey are known tliey are not re­ quired to leave a deposit, otherwise the price of the outfit is left with the cos- tumer to be returned when the dress eomes back. One costumer in the city, who does a very large business in a quiet way for the fashionable people, has in his possession $25,000 worth of dresses, robes, shawls, and other fe­ male finery which has come to him in various ways. Many rich people, he says, sell their ball-room dresses at the end of a season. They will not use them a second season, and get back a part Of the cost in this way. These dresses are hired out to less particular people, who are thus upon special occa­ sions able to appear in finery as elab­ orate and rich as that of the most elegant ladies. "How do you manage it?" the dapper little brbker was asked. "Very easily. We have in New York hundreds of dresses which are prac­ tically new. Some of them are entirely new. A lady customer who wants to spend two months at the seaside comes in and tells us what she wants. Per­ haps it is four fine dresses. Ordinary walking and lounging dresses she has. We don't hire such. It would not pay. We take her measure, and, if we can fit her, even by altering the dresses we have on hand, we fix her up with one or two elaborate ball-room outfits, a dinner dress, and so on, as she may de­ sire. If she should attempt to pur­ chase such an outfit as we could furnish her it would cost her not less than $1,500. We charge her $500. • She don't wear the dresses often enough to do them serious injury, and at the end of two months she has had her full of finery, and would not wear them a second season if she owned them, while i we have our $500 and our outfit, dam­ aged probably $250 worth. She has saved $1,000; we have had a profit of $250. Ain't that all right. Now here is another instance "^hich actually oc­ curred in Philadelphia not * very long ago. A lady who has a very fair for­ tune was about to take a trip to Europe. She proposed to travel on the conti­ nent, to do it in good style, but as cheaply as possible. But the cost of a wardrobe of fine dresses, which she thought necessary, made her hesitate. The outfit she desired would cost her, in addition to the every day dresses needed, about $6,000. The upshot of the matter was that we furnished her the outfit, new, made to her order, charged her $3,200 for the use of them for fourteen weeks, and got the dresses back almost as good as new. Since then those dresses netted us more than they cost, and we sold them to a cus­ tomer recently for $500."--Philadelphia Record. ' Nearly as Bad. He was making his first call and all the formalities of the season were in full blast. She toyed with her fan as she conversed about the gayeties of the wjnter time. Leisurely strolling into the elegant drawing room came the family dog, a large and elegant type of the Newfoundland breed. It was a warm evening and the dog came in with his mouth open and his tongue pro­ truding from his mouth. He made di- reotly for his hostess, who manifested great uneasiness at the first sight of the unexpected animal. As he came nearer the young woman dropped her fan, mounted first the heavy upholstered chair and then the centre table. Seeing the unusual performance, the young man followed suit and was soon +on top of the marble mantelpiece, to which place of safety he invited his hostess. Meanwhile the dog, the caulie of the commotion, crawled under the sofa, preparing himself to take a nap. "When was he taken?" asked the young man, as he balanced himself amid the mantle ornaments, "Oh, he's been that way all summer," replied the young woman. "It's strange lie doesn't try to bite As, isn't it?" continued the young man, "Oh, he wouldn't bite anybody," re­ marked tbe young hostess. "Why, hasn't he got the hydropho­ bia?" "No," replied she, "he's got fleas, and that's pretty near as bad." *; # 1 Animal Poisons. Dr. Buisson recommends a warm bath combined with all other available means for producing perspiration when the usual specifics for animal poisons cannot be at once procured. It is cer­ tain that the virus of many contagious diseases can thus be eliminated, and a communication to the Paris College of Surgeons mentions a case where the same method cured and probably saved the life of a child that had been at­ tacked by a swarm of wasps. Its face, neck, and arms were swollen in a way resembling the effects of a fearful in­ flammation, and the delirium and other0 febrile symptoms resisted all sedatives, till the patient was placed in a vapor bath of 130 degrees F. In less than twenty-five minutes the pulse had be­ come normal, the child fell into a deep slumber, and on awakening com­ plained only of a slight headache. The pulse remained* normal and the in­ flammation subsided in the course of the next five hours. Had a Right to Langh. "Hello, Charley! What's up ? Never siw you looking so jolly and happy." "My best giri just got married." "Got married! Why, man, is that anything to be gay and festive over? You ought to be in the last stages of melanciiollv." "That's all right. You see I'm the fellow she married. I'll take a little sirup in mine."--Merchant Traveler. PALEONTOLOGY furnishes an interest­ ing sttfdy of the progress of the horse through six stages of evolution, in which the animal gradually loses its toes and ends in a hoof which represents the union of all the toes. ( WHY is the vowel O the only one sounded?--Because all the others are in­ audible. •""I V r; Scenes In Vogue. A big dealer in pictures, such as en­ gravings, chromos, etchings, pastels, oil paintings, all moderately cheap, in conversation trith a reporter the other day, said that battle pictures sold the best. He added: "The general pub­ lic, which is not educated in high art as a rule, is fond of war subjects, repre­ sentations of battles, fights, or narrow escapes. Now if I put outside for in­ spection four pictures, the one that represents a battle or some war epi­ sode attracts the most attention. A little group constantly stands before the war picture and the others are scarcely noticed. One of the pictures that always attracts attention is 'The Beturn of Napoleon from the Island of Elba.' The great general is repre­ sented as surrounded by hiB staff, members of the old guard, and his soldiers rushing forward to greet Him and kiss his hand. "Even tramps who pass along the street stop and gaze in admiration at the 'Little Corporal.' They all seem to know the picture of Napoleon, and have some slight acquaintance with his history. The 'Battle of Waterloo' also comes in for a popular share of interest. The troops of the Union army parading through Washington, the battle of Gettysburg, and such like pictures are mostly admired by the uncultured, who are fond of pictures because they are pictures. These, of course, are not the original oil paintings, simply the en­ gravings of them. The prices range from $3 to $20 apiece. The sum of $15 will buy a fine engraving, and $20 will simply get a first-class picture in our trade. The'Affair of Honor,'a duel between two women, soils well and comes under the general head of war pictures. MIf I were a great painter I should devote my time to battles and his­ torical events, where guns, swords, and cannon figured promiscuously. If the uncultured are fond of such pictures, I am sure those who have great artistic taste will appreciate them in a greater ratio. Engravings of Fortuny's 'Choos­ ing the Model' are admired, but not with the enthusiasm of thrilling battle scenes. I have dealt in cheap pictures a good many years, and my experience is that they act as educators and have a tendency to refine and improve. I know poor people who Qnce bought cheap pictures of me, that have ad­ vanced so in the selection of engravings from great painters that I often get pointers from them as to what I should buy. They studied up and became thoroughly posted ontuodern painters." -nXew Xork Mail and Express. The Train Boy's Death. The little train boy was dying. On his death-bed the sufferer lay, his ema­ ciated face and hands exciting pity and concern. No mother's hand smoothed his brow. No mother's tears and sobs marked the going out of his young life. Father, brother and sister, he had none. A waif upon the world, he from childhood's tenderest hours, had made his own way. Alone he had waged the battle of life, and from newsboy and bootblack to train boy he had worked his own advancement. An accident in which he had lost hie leg placed him in the hospital. The amputation proved to much for his con­ stitution, and slowly but surely his life flickered and was going out. A brave little patient, he bore all his sufferings without complaint, save that he was anxious to get up and take his "run" as he called it. No one told him that hiB days as a train boy was at an end. A fever set in, and he became delirious. Train talk lie constantly indulged in during his delirium, and made many imaginary "runs" into Si Paul on the Milwaukee road. Weaker and weaker he became. The nurse and physician watched beside his couch. His brow was covered with the dew of death. His last "runs" on earth was soon to end. "De box is on boar," said the dying boy addressing an imaginary conductor, "and ver can't start too soon ter suit me."' They bathed his brow, these strangers--the nurse and the physician, and listened to his strange words. "Dere's jest one thing," exclaimed the little sufferer, as if talking to a companion, "if I should get kilt in ary of dese here collision, dat silver tickei --oh, yer know my watch--goes tei Cully. Oh, what 'er yer givin' me: Don't yer know Cully? Why, Cully's my old pard. Him and me done worked together too long fer me ter forget him." "Dere's Winona," he said, as if os his "run." "I'll take der peaches frougb fer luck. Oh, it's no good. Der won'f buy of me. Til try der orange racket. 'Tain't no better, and here we is af Hastings--" "De mist is on; I can't see der river/ he said, hoarsely, "and here we is af , St. Paul at--" Little "Peanuts" was dead---St. Pau\ : 4 ^ - " A Cheap Distnfectai|> Take of nitrate of lead one heaped teaspoonful and dissolve in a quart ol boiling water; then take four heaped teaspoonfuls of common table salt and dissolve it in a bucket nearly full oi cold water; now add the quart of boil­ ing water containing the nitrate of lead; mix up with a stick, and the article is complete. The purificator is useful tc throw into cesspools, water-closets, de­ caying offensive substances creating o nuisance, to neutralize the effluvia from scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, and typhoid fevers, dysentery, Small-pox; in fact, in all diseases of an infectious or contagious character. It is as clear as water, and can be sprinkled around the room and over the bed clothes oc­ cupied by persons laboring under in­ fectious or contagions diseases. This disinfectant is equal if not superior to chlorides, bromo-chloralum, chlo­ rides of lime and soda, and is free from any unpleasaut odor. It is very cheap, costing only about two cents a bucket­ ful the nitrate of lead can be obtained at nearly every drug store, and the salt being m every house costs almost nothing.--Alltntown (Ga.) National Educator. Kiss Me, Too. But, if there was diplomacy aud pres­ ence of mind shown in this answer, how much more was there in the case of the young lady who sat in an alcove at an evening party with a bright young mili­ tary man, lier little niece on her knee to play propriety. Suddenly the com­ pany is electrified by the exclamation of the child: "Kiss me, too, Aunt Alice!" But the sudden shock is suc­ ceeded by . a feeling of relief as Aunt Alice calmly replies: "You should not say 'kiss me two,' dear; you should say 'kiss me twice.'"--Pittsburgh Dis­ patch. BABIES are not to monopolize bibe any longer. Their mothers will wear them, but they will be made of delicate point lace. THE STORY OF MUSTAPHA. ' 1 AM Old Banaaca ef Bordette** " Q«MOIK Now In the sixtib month in the reign of the good Caliph it was so that Mus- tapha said: "I am worried with much, •work; thought, care, and worry have worn me out; I need repose, for th» hand of exhaustion is upon me, antf death evennbw Ueth at the door." And he called his physician, who felt his pulse and looked upon his tongue, and said: "Two-dollahs!" (For thla was the oath by which all physicians swore.) "Of a verity, thou must have rest. Flee unto the valley of quiet and close thine eyes in dreamful rest; hold back thy brain from thought and thy hand from labor, or you will be a can­ didate for the asylum in three weeks." And he heard him, and went out and put the business in the hands of the clerk and went away to rest in the valley of quiet. And he went to his Uncle Ben's, whom he had not seen for, lo! these fourteen years. Now, hi* Uncle Ben was a farmer, and abode in the valley of rest, and the mountains of repose rose about him. And he was- rich and well favored, and strong as an ox and healthy as an onion crop. Oft- times he boasted unto his neighbors that there was not a lazy bone in his body, and he swore that he hated a lazy man. And Mustapha wist not that it was so. But when he reached his Uncle Ben's they received him with great joy, and placed before him a supper of homely viands, well cooked, and piled up on his plate like the wreck of a box car, and when he could not eat it all they laughed him to scorn. And after supper they sat up with him and talked with him about relatives whereof he had never, in all his life, so much as heard. And he answered their questions at random, and lied unto- them, professing to know Uncle Ezra and Aunt Bethesda, and once he said ho had a letter from Uncle George last week. Now, they all knew Uncle George- was shot in a neighbor's sheep pen> three years ago, but Mustapha wist not that it was so, and he was sleepy and only talked to fill up the time. And then they talked politics to him, and he hated politics. So about 1 o'clock in the morning they sent him to bed. Now the spare room wherein he slept was right under the roof, and there were ears and bundles of ears of seed corn hung from the rafters, and ho bunged his eye with the same, and he hooked his chin in festoons cf dried apples, and shook dried herbs and seeds down his back as he walked along, for it was dark. And when he sat up in bed at night he ran a scythe into his ear. And it was that the boys slept with him, for the bed was wide. And they were restless and slept crosswise and kicked, so chat Mustapha slope not a wink that night, neither closed he his eyes. And about the fourth hour after mid­ night his Uncle Ben smote him on tho back and spake unto him, saying: "Awake, arise, rustle out of this and wash your face, for the liver and bacon is fried and the breakfast waiteth. Yoa will find the w ell down at the other end of the cow lot. Take a towel with you.'" When they had eaten his Uncle Ben spake unto nim, saying: "Come, let us* stroll around the farm." And they walked about eleven miles. And his Uncle Ben sat him upon a wagon and taught him how to load hay. Then they drove into a barn and they taught him to unload it. Then they girded up their loins and walked about four miles, even into the forest, and Ins Uncle Ben taught him how to chop wood, and they walked back to supper. And thus were the morning and even­ ing of the first day, and Mustapha wished that he were dead. And after supper his Uncle Ben spake once more and said: "Come, let us have some fun." And so they hooked up a team and drove nine miles down to Belcher's branch, where there was a hop. And tliey danced until the second hour in the morning. When the next day was come, which wasn't long, for already tlie night was far spent, his Uncle Ben took him out and taught him how to make rail fence. And that night there was a Wedding, and they danced and made merry, and drank and ate, and when they went to bed at 3 o'clock Mustapha prayed that death might come to him before break­ fast time. But breakfast had an early start and got there first. And his uncle Ben took him down to the creek, and taught him how to wash and shear sheep. And when the evening was come they went to spelling school, and they got home at the first hour after midnight, and Uncle Ben marveled that it was so early. And he lighted his pipe and sat up for an hour, and told Mustapha all about the forty he bought last spring of old Mosey Stringer to finish out that north half, and about the new colt that was foaled last spring. And when Mustapha went to bed that morning he bethought him of a dose of strychnine he had with him, and he 6ai<3 his prayers wearily, and he took it! But the youngest boy was restless that night, and kicked all the poison out of him in less than ten seconds. And in the morning while it was yet light, they ate breakfast. And his uncle then took him out, and taught him how to dig a ditch. And when evening was come there was a revival meeting at Ebenezer Methodist Church, and they ail went. And there were three regular preachers, and two ex- hortcrs, and a Baptist evangelist. And when midnight was come, they went home and sat up, and talked over the meeting until it was bedtime. Now when Mustapha was at home, he left his desk at the fifth hour in the afternoon, and he went to bed at the third hour after sunset, and he arose not until the sun was high in the heavens. So the next day, when bis Uncle Ben would take him out into the field, and show him how to make a post-and-rail fence, Mustapha would swear at him, and smote him with an ax-helve, and fled and got himself home. And Mustapha sent for his physician and cursed him. And he said he was tired to death, and he turned his face to the wall and died. Mustapha was gath­ ered to his fathers. And his physicians and his friends mourned and said: "Alas! he did not rest soon enough. He tarried at his desk too long." But his Uncle Ben, who came to at­ tend the funeral, and had to do all his weeping out of one eyo, because the other was black half way down to his chin, said it was a pity,* but Mustapha was too awfully lazy to live, and had no get-up about him. But Mustapha wist not what they said, because he was dead. So they divided his property among them, and said if he wanted a tombstone, he might have attended to it himself while he was yet alive, because they had so time. r, ..WN..