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penrwf liuiidralw J. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENRY, - - - ILLINOIS. THE HEWS RECORD. SVENTFUL HAPPENINGS HERB AND THERE. Mttfaii Commercial and Induetrial Howl from All Over the I^uad--Fires, A ©ol­ den ts ud Crimes--Tho <M«t of the N«wi In m F#w Lines. oov. WINXNS SERIOUSLY ILL. lB» Is Attacked with Hiccontrhs, and Fears of Heath Aw* Fxpr<-wrt Gov. TVIXAXS is thought to be dying. He has had hiccoughs for thirty-six hours. A dispatch says; Gov. Wlnans, of Michigan, has been af- with hiccoughs, from which his W'^.physlcian^have thus far been unable to ~ give him more than temporary relief. Unlike these at­ tacks. which are usually the result 'of nervousness, the Governor's trouble jreturns after h o has had long sea­ sons of refreshing sleep. The attend­ ing physicians ex- pres:e.t considera­ ble alarm at th;o Governor's condi­ tion. They fear that there is sonje- BDWIW B. WINAKS. thins serious back jr>f the hiccoughs. be< ause of their constant .'•* * * Incurrence. In December last Gov. Lilians was very sick for several t/>r "treeks with a stomach trouble, and the - . doctor? apprehend that the present difficulty ' Is due to the same cause. There is no con- » dealing the fact that both the Governor's /" physicians and his family fear that the L A1 Alarming feature of his illness has not yet iully appeared, and it is not improbable * 'that he is afflicted with a fatal malady, and t may never again enter upon the active dis­ charge of duties. „ Vv F,/ EXPIATED HIS CRIME. jy*- t-ka Twrlinfton, th> Murderer of Sheriff ' Cranwr. Hanc*d. JOHN OSCAB TCKLIXGTOX was hanged »i , »t Boonville, Ma, for the murder of v* Sheriff Cranmer, of Cooper County. <>-. .. Turlington's neck was'broken, A year ago while going through Missouri *?', - It" irllnsrt' m was ordered from a freight train. 4 V hile jumping off the car he fired at the t> akeman and ran away, lie was arrested .. 4i:id lodge! in Boonville jaii. On the night M June 14, as Sheriff Cranmer was unlock­ ing his cell. Turlington drew a revolver and <1 it) ot the Sheriff, who died the nest day. i •' Turlington escaped from the jail, but- was V *\iptured the following day a few miles (fj, from Boonville. On the trial he was con- v-.ned of murder and sentenced- to b# jk- li .nged on Sept. 17. The case was taken on rL *' appeal to the Supreme Couit. On N'ov./l |&it T rlington escaped from jail, but was ca)p- •' ts red in Kentucky Nov. 12. On Jan. 27 last Ss-jV'*. "'e Supreme Court rendered its decision §sS - sustaining the decision of the trial court •'"* ami fixing the d ite of the execution. JN; ; ONYX IN MISSOURI. 6 ~" ? Eleh Drposlts Discovered in Caves in Pn'askl (•, v and Oawforil Cou-'tle*. S^'V, F FOB some time ret>orts have been in fej:' ^^circulation concerning wonderful onyx ,y. deposit in Pulaski and Crawford coun- ht f., t'es, Missouri. A syndicate of St. Louis - capitalists was formed, and their in- Lf-' vestigations led to the se uring of an fte/ .. option on a large body of land in which p - there are caves containing the onyx. & Mr. Guy H. Reynolds, of Rutland, Vt., proprietor of the only exclusive onyx polishing and dressing works in the country, visited the deposits, and has ^ pronounced them far beyond what he ever imagined existed. He explored a i - cave for a distance of two and a half W, miles. A company has been formed, r.A • with 0300,000 capital stock. Mr. Rey- 'W nolds says he will transfer his entire .*» plant to St. Louis. -$•% • -- f '* , DemorallB^ioT in Chili. ~r/% 3JEW YORK firm engaged in South' |y American trade received advices from ^ Chili to the effect that business there ./• - • generally suspended. The coast towns |A _ have been deserted to a large extent; ffV the citizens have taken to the% hills, |il* » fearing bombardments. A woundej . sailor from the man-of-war Esmonda who is in the hospital at Valparaiso, Er, pays twenty-six men were killed and in-. ' jured from a small shell from the shore batteries during the attack. The run- ning of trains on the various railroads * > • has been almost ent-'rely stopped. It is j/. rumored that Santiago is threatened • with a water famine. is thn Intention of the committee to raise $20,(i0l more during the next few days, Staking a total of $50,000. This sum will bo given to Mrs. Windom at an early date. « TITK big mine run colliery, operated bv A. Taylor, at Ashland, Fa., shut down for an indefinite period. This sus­ pension will affect 300 men and boys. THE fact has been made public that the remains of Emma Abbott were cre­ mated at Mttsburg. Her ashes are now in a safe deposit vault at N'e^v York, where they will remain until a monu­ ment is erected. A MINE car, DMWN by two mules, jumped the rails on the Turkey Run, Pa., Colliery dirt bank. Joseph Powell and Harry Reatile, together with the car and mules, went over the bank forty feet to the creek below. Powell and the mules were instantly killed, and Rcadle was fatally injured. f THE schooner Elsie Smith, of Port­ land, Me.reported lost with all on board on the beach Cape Cod, be­ tween Nowcomb's Hollow and Kausett On board were eighteen men, and the latest report is that twelve bodies have been washed ashore on the teach. A sritciAi. from Franklin, Pa., says: Thoruas Moore, an old and prominent citizen of this place, shot and instantly killed his wife in a , fit of insanity. He is upw a raving maniac and has been takch into custody. THE Hazleton, Pa., rescued miners are improving. The company is socking a 8ettlQ©ent with all disaster suiferers. ]#V ' Condition of Miosisxippi Leveec. * A KATCHEZ (Miss. ) special says: Cap- .' tiln H. F. Douglass, in charge of levees, reports the Kemp levee completed with the exception of sodding and saro , against any Water that may be expected this year. Bedford is also completer!, while Gibson's, Deer Park, and Ferri- day's will all be completed in a few days. Ail of these new levees are three feat above the high water of 1890. The Tensas and Black Rivers^ are both fail­ ing rapidly, but the Mississippi is rising slowly. No danger, however, is appre- iieadcd. Predicament of a Boomer. T PAT O'COXNOB, who is the recognised leader of the O'Connor and Dili colony of strip boomers in Kansas, is considerably agitated over the fact, that Congress took no action looking to opening up the Cherokee Strip. He has several hundred families wiio have made every prepara­ tion to move into the strip. He must either find them homes or pay back to t them their membership feo* which i amount to a large sum. Moonshiners Caught. A RAID upon the moonshiners of South Alabama and Northern Florida has been completed, and resulted in thirty arrests being made and thirty-nine stills capt­ ured and destroyed. The notorious Yon brothers are among the captured. •fx ||f:; Killed by an Avalanche. 1^,. I* a snow slide one-fourth of a mile '•^'t^toW Alta, in Emery Gulch, Utah, niue men were caught Hans Olscn and Bar- , ney Cast were killed instantly; the body of the latter was recovered August Hausman and John Ford were badly hurt, but got out alive. The other live were unhurt Hanred for Assault SHAKSPKAKE REEVES, a colored man gntity of felonious assault, was hanged at New Castle, Del. . RASTERN OCCURRENCES. ! Johh CoPEtAND, a wealthy store* keeper of Parnassus, Pa., fatally shot hie wife and then tried to kill his two children and himself, but was prevented by the neighbors from carrying his de­ signs into effect. Copelard is 32 years of age, and about a year ago lie showed •jtyptoms of insanity. Copeland is a raving maniac now. TJIE New York committee having in charge the raising of a fund for the widow of the late Hon. William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury, have received ; subscriptions amounting to 830,000. It -'Milt'..: WESTERN HAPPENINGS. MB. PAVH) J. BRYAN*, of Indianapolis, reported to the police that he had been robbed in a street car on his way up town of £10,000 in bills. He said there was one $1,000 bill in the package and other bills of large denominations. THE big pontcon bridge across the Missouri river at St. Charles, Mo., was totally destroyed by the heavy flood and ice. and swept down the river. Four men were carried away with the wrqek. A WOMAX named Mrs. Carrie Teneyck of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, took rough on rats and died in great agony. She had been married but a short time. MAXY deaths from small-pox are re­ ported from Chautauqua County, Kansas. DELMER WARREN* was sentenced to prison for life at Marshalltown, low*, for the murder of Conductor O'Neill, of the C. and W. N. Railroad, recently. IN* the contest case at Guthrie, O. T., between the old county officials (Repub­ licans) and the newly elected officials (Farmers' Alliance), Judge Green de­ cided that the old officials should turn over their offices, books and papers to the new. Miss Cora Diehl, elected by the Farmers' Alliance to the office of Register of Deeds, called with friends upon the County Commissioners and de­ manded her ofEee, together with the records, etc. The Commissioners on a technicality refused to order the present Register to comply with her demand. Miss Diehl's friends became indignant, and one of them called for a rope. All her friends agreed that there might be a hanging if she were kept out of office. THE remains of Ted Hedricks, an oil- well pnmper near Lima, Ohio, were found lying in a derrick. Uhe right side of his skull was crushed and a section of iron tubing was lying across his body. A bloody wrench was found in the grass near the derrick, which fitted iuto the wound in the dead man's head. It was covered with clotted blood and hair which matched that of Hedricks. He had only been married a few days. His wife had other suitors who made threats against Hedricks. As one of the men is missing, the murder theory is strength­ ened, and a complete investigation is in progress. * < ' A SUICIDE of two young students of the Hebrew Union College occurred in Cincinnati. The young men were Isador H. Frauenthal and Ernst Saliinger. They boarded in the house of Max Scholtenfeldt, who heard a heavy fall in their room, ̂ and soon after another. Being unablexto open the door, he got a police officer And broke in. They found Frauenthal/hadshot himself in the head. inger took the pistol and fired a ball into his chest. He was alive when found, but died in a few minutes. Saliinger said they had agreed to die by their own hands. T.*JE mystery surrounding the shooting of C. A. Hegglund, President of the Second National Bank, at McPherson, Kan., was partially cleared away by his recovering consciousness and saying that as he passed along Kansas avenue he was confronted by a man who, in the darkness, placed a pistol to his breast and fired. He knew no more until con­ sciousness returned after being taken to his home. As THE abandonment of the military post at Phainix, A. T., caused a feeling of general insecurity, a bill was intro­ duced in the Legislature declaring In­ dians leaving San Carlos^ Reservation with arms outlaws, and offering a re­ ward of §200 for every such Indian killed, the money to be paid at Coroner's inquest upon proof that the Indian had arms. AXDERSOX BOSWEIX, the negro who murdered Mrs. Bass at Winchester, Ind., was located by officers but esc aped. THE Supreme Court of Nebraska overruled the demurrer in the quo war­ ranto case of ex-Governor Thayer against Governor Boyd, and ordered that the attorneys for the relator file an answer in the case. E. SHAW, an organizer of the Patrons ol Industry, defrauded a liveryman at Laporte, Ind. A CAVE of unknown dimensions has been discovered on the farm of Daniel Beetn near Spencer, Ind. 8QUTHERN INCIDENTS. ' near the town every night and fir the passengers with Winchester rifles. , The waiting room of the depot was fired into, and a dozen homes have been ; robbed. Sheriff Shepatd says lie is. I powerless to stop it. Throats have been ; made to kill leading citizens, and Super-' i intondent Whitfield is there to take somo j action in the matter. , I HEAVY snow and intense cold have ; killed peach-buds throughout Maryland, ' and will result in heavy losses to farm­ ers, who last year suffered from failure of their crops. The outlook is gloomy and is likely to have an ill effect on busi­ ness. FIRK was discovered in tho Monroe (N. C ) . Higl. School. The students were at once aroused. Thomas Pem- berton, of Little Rock, Ar<k.,"and Albert Bost, of Post's Mill, N. C., perished in tho flames. At the first alarm the young ladies, who roomed on tho ground floor, made their escape. The young men roomed on the third ficor, and when the a'arnt reached them the means of escape were partially cut off. A. C. Rhodes managed to escape after being severely burned about tho neck, head and arms. Thomas Peinberton's re­ mains were found on the wire springs of ; his bed, leadintr to the belief that he did not awake at all. The building was completely destroyed, together with the school furniture. The origin of the fire is not known. NEAR Rocky Springs, Miss , Dottle Dibson slew her husband by plunging Ja> knife into his neck. The couple had been separated, and the murdered man had attempted to coerce his wife into a reconciliation by using a club> , ^ HEARST PASSES AWAY. WHAT LAWS IT HADE. THIS MILLIONAIRE STATESMAN IS NO MORE. TTL« Long and Painful 1)IBOH--Short Mtoxy of Hh Life--His Mining Advestaroa, and Rapid Bi«« from Obscurity- Senator George Hearst, of California, died at his residence on New Hampshire avenue in this city, says a Washington, D. C., special. He had been ill for a longtime, and In December last went to New York City to consult with Dr. Charles Ward, in regard to his condition. The physician found that he was afflict­ ed* with a complication of diseases, and resulting primarily from a serious de­ rangement of the bowels. Acting upon the physician's advice ho returned to his family in this city, and yielded himself entirely to medical treatment. Absolute quiet and rest was strictly enjoined, and his official duties were lightened as much as possible. Notwithstanding the fact that he received the benefit of the most careful nursing and the most skillful BILLS THAT RECEIVED THE AP- PROVAL OF BOTH HOUSES. \ POLITICAL PORRIDGE. A POM. of the North Dakota Legisla­ ture on Presidential preferences gave Blaine 57 and Cleveland 10. Ix the Pennsylvania House, the bill permitting pool selling on race tracks was reported negatively. THE lower house of the Indiana Leg­ islature passed a bill reducing passenger fares on all railroads to 2 cents per mile. THE Kansas Housa has passed the Senate bill prohibiting aliens from hold­ ing lands in the State, and providing that all lands held by aliens at the end of seven years shall revert to the State. The bill now goes to the Governor. FOREIGN GOSSIP. ADVICES from China says: An attempt was made on the night of Jan. 21 to set on fire the China Navigation Company's steamer Pekin at Shanghai, and it is now believed the burning of the steamer Shanghai, whereby 200 people lost their lives, was the work of some incendiary. GREAT uneasiness is felt in Berlin over the strained relations between Germany and France. , ADVICES from Madagascar tell of a horrible massacre. Ramiasatra, Gov­ ernor of the Province of Beranond, re­ senting a petition from the populace to the government to defend them from cruelties, massacred 278 persons, includ­ ing men, women, and children belong­ ing to the leading families. The slaugh­ ter continued for several days. Tho agonies of the victims were in many cases protracted. Sometimes their limbs were gradually dismembered, their heads were sawn off and their bodies wero thrown to the dogs. The survivors were forced to erect a trophy composed of the heads of the victims. FRESH AND NEWSY. A WASIIIXGTON special says: Illinois will soon be the center of population of the United States, »s her chief city is already becoming its business center. The Census Bureau announces that tho center of population f<fr the past de­ cade traveled from Cincinnati to Greens- burg, Ind. This central point has fol­ lowed the thirty-ninth parallel of lati­ tude decade by decade, starting near Baltimore a century ago and never trav­ eling more than eighty-one miles or lesr? than thirty-six in a decade. The next census will find it near tho Illinois line, perhaps in the State of Illinois itself, in the vicinity, probably, of Paris. THOMAS BAKER, accused of having killed six men, five whites and one col­ ored, in Kentucky, was arrested at An- tigo, Wis. A DISPATCH from Chili by way of Buenos Ayres states that three battal­ ions of infantry and the entire Fourth Regiment, all forming part of the Chilian j Government troops stationed in the I neighborhood of Pisagua, have shot their I officers and declared themselves, in favor j of the revolutionists. Dwara Elison, aged 70, was carried in a starving condition from the steamer Umbria on her arrival in New York. The ship's food was not cooked Jewish style and she would not partake. SECRETARY NOBLE has approved the recommendation of the Indian agent at Yuma, A. T., that ¥1,00') be expended for the relief of those Indians who sus­ tained losses by the recent flood. COMMISSIONER GKOFF, of the General Land Office, has sent to all registeA and receivers of land offices the following telegram: "The timber culture and pre­ emption laws were this day repealed. Aliow no further entries thereunder of claims hereafter initiated." MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime., HOGS--Shipping Grades i BHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Hod | CORN--No. 2 I OAXS--No. 2 J BYE--NO. 2 I BCTTXB--Choice Creamery CHEKSK--Full Cream, fiats EGOS-- Fresh POTATOES--Western, per Wti... .•3.35 © .. 3.00 & . . 3.00 & .. .OH ^.3 .. .57 & .48 (<« .87 & .30 <[» .17 ® 1.10 S.75 3.75 6.60 .99 .68 .485$ .35 .11 ̂ .18 & 1.03 TESTIMONY is being taken in the trial of the murderers of Chief Ilennessy at New Orleans, and in a sitting x>f over seven hours about twenty witnesses were examined. Poiitz was identified as one of the men who brought some guns in sacks to an Italian grocery on Poydras street two days before the shooting. He was also identified as being present at the shooting and slipping and falling while running away, his gun going into the gutter, where it was picked up the next day. When arrested he had a wound on his wrist as if it had been scraped. Poiitz stated that he was in­ nocent; he also said that he was present at the meeting before the killing, and divided up the money between those who were to do the shooting, though he failed to say who the conspirators were. The fact that the State did not ask for severance in Politz's case, but kept him on trial, was regarded as an indication that his state­ ment was either not credited or that it was not important Scafifedi was identified as the man in the oil-cloth coat who stood at the corner and fired at Ilen­ nessy, and Scaffedi, Poiitz, Sinceri, and Hatali are recognized as tho men Who stole away In tho darkness. AN alarming condition of aflTairs exists at Carbon Hill, Ala., the scene of the recent riots. Numbers of the gang who started the trouble with the miners last month secrete themselves in the bushes stern, per bu.... INDIANAPOIilS. CATTLE-- Shipping 8.50 Hons--Choice Light 3.00 SBEEP--Common to Prime...... 3.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Jled 97 Con.v--No. 1 White 64 OATO--No. 2 White 47 ST. LOUtS. CATTLE 4.00 HOGS 3.00 WHEAT--No. <t bed.... v» CORN--No. 2 54 OATS--No. 2 46)&@ BARLEY--Minnesota 68 & CINCINNATI. CATTLE 3.00 Hoog 4,oo FCHEKP 3.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed es CORN--No. 2 50 OATS--No. 2 UUed DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White 50& <# .62J4 TOLEDO. WHEAT 1.00 COR*--Cish 66 OATB-- NO. 2 White 48 CLOVER SEEO 4.55 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Conftnon to Prime.... 4.03 Boos--Light 8.25 SHEEP--Medium to Good 4.00 LAMBS 4.50 MILWAUKEE. WnKAT--No. 2 Sprigg. 95 CORN--No. 3 JJ & 5.25 & 3.75 & 5Jl> & .55 @ .48 @ 6.23 <3 8.75 <m 100 & .55 .47!$ .71 A 5.00 4.OJ (31 5.5) @ 1.03 m .68 .49% 8.00 3.00 a.00 1.00 .54 0 4.50 (« 3.75 t<« 4.75 & 1.01 @ .55 & 1.02 <£ .58 © .60 & 4.05 & 5.00 @ 4.00 ® #.00 0.50 04T8- No. 2 White... RYE--NO. 1 BARLEY--No. 2 PORE--Mess NEW YOBK. CATTLE, BOON. TJ'.............. |] SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2Red.'. CORN--No. 2 OATB--Mixed Western Burr KM--Creamery Eooa--Western... rows--New Mesa. .48 .88 .87 V.75 & .97 .65 .49 & .89 (A .68 @10.00 4.00 8.26 6.00 l.tt Jtt .08 M medical attention, a steady and uninter­ rupted decline was observed, and it ^as seen several weeks ago that his case was a hopeless one. The refnains will be taken to San Francisco for interment. George Hearst was born in Franklin County, Mo., Sept. 3. 1820. His father had gone to thai State from North Car­ olina in 1819. Tho son received only such a limited education as the common schools afforded in that day." He worked on his father's farm until 1850, when he caught the gold fever and went to Cali­ fornia. For several years he was a miner and prospector, and subsequently by lo­ cation and purchase, he became the owner of valuable mining interests and a large employer, having at one timo as many as 2,COO men at work in his mines alone and operating Quartz mills that crushed 1.-000 tons of ore per day. The increase of his wealth was steady and rapid, and for some years past his income has been something like $1,000 per day. He has been for a long time chief partner in the extensive mining firm of Hearst, Haggin, Lewis & Co. He owned above 40,ud0 acres of land in San Luis Obispo County, California, a ranch of 160,000 acres of grazing land in Old Mexico, stocked with a very large herd of cattle, and a fine stable of thor­ oughbred horses. Ho was also interested in a large tract of land near Vera Cruz, and in railroad building in Mexico. Ilis fortune at the time of his death was es­ timated at £20,000,001). Senator Hearst leaves a widow and but one child, William It. Hearst, proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hearst was in person tall and slender, with blue eyes and long, gray beard. He was a typo of the old Cali­ fornia pioneer. He was warm-hearted, impulsive, and generous, popular with his associates in tho Senate, and had many devoted friends. The following tribute to*the late Sena­ tor is from the i>en pf a well-known Call- fornianf **\ "For thirty years or more George Hearst has been one of tho vital men of the West, one of the individual forces which have inspired and given direc­ tion to that quick and vast de­ velopment of its resources which is one of the material miracles of the century. But it is not as tho min­ ing expert, the organizer of gigantic enterprises, or the possessor of a great fortune\that lie will be mourned. It is not an Obituary commonplace, but the simple truth to say th*),t his death will bring sorrow to thousands of hearts. Change of fortuno made no change in the man. As a Senator of the United States he was the same simple, unaf­ fected, clear-headed, warm-hearted George Hearst, who mined 011 the Feather and Yuba Itivers in the fifties, and took his share of the rough, free life of the claims and cabins. To tho thousands of the comrades who knew him he remained always as a comrade. Ostentation was abhorrent to a man formed on his rugtred lines, and it will never bo known how many successful men owe their begin­ nings to him or how many broken lives were made easier to live because of his hidden, helping hand. To hundreds upon hundred of the associates and even the acquaintances of pioneer times he was a good providence. "Because he was so thorough a Cali- fornian Mr. Hearst was held in affection by all Californians whose experience reached back to tho days when railroads and the sharp competition of commercial life were unknown on the coast. His years of hard work and intimate min­ gling with men of every social and intel­ lectual grade gave him a knowledge of human nature and a sympathy with Its defects and weaknesses which kept him free from the pride of purse and hard­ ness of feeling that sometimes go with the riches of the self-made man, and while he had a singularly keen percep­ tion of character, and a shrewdness that baffled all pretenders, his heart was ten­ der, his charity great, and his capacity for forgiver.e-s inexhaustible. "His death Is a serious pub'ic loss not only to California but to the entire Pa­ cific coast, and peculiarly to the miners, whose special friend and advocate he was. In the death of George Hearst a strong man, an able man, a good, and very humble man lias been taken away. He had a manly, a gentle, and a loving heart. There will bo moist eyes in thousands of Western homes, grand and humble, at tho news of his death, and the sorrow will not be least in the cabins dotting the canyons and streams 6f the Sierras." & 5.75 & 8.75 @ 6.50 & 1.14 .68 <» .67 (9 .36 .17*0 .18* 10.00 611.2S How the Work Compare* ta TeluuM with That Accomplished by the Preceding1 Session-- An Interesting Study. The working or business feature of the Congress just closed, says a Wash­ ington dispatch, may be studied with In­ terest Threo measures, any of which in intrinsic importance and popular in­ terest would be sufficient for a national issue, stand forth pre-eminent among all others. First, the McKInley tariff bill, which became a lawr second, the silver bill, on which, during the first session, a compromise was effected, based on a monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver, and which, in turn, was fol­ lowed by a more radical measure that failed of passage; third, tho Federal elections bill, which, after a protracted, bittir, and hotly fought and intensely exciting preliminary struggfo, failed in thoSenate to reach a decisive vote on its merits. Even in its mortuary record the Con­ gress was remarkable, the call of death having summoned no fever than "twelve of its Representatives and three of its Senators. The list contains tho names of Senators Beck of Kentucky, Wilson of Ma­ ryland, and Hearst of California; and Representative* W. I). Kelley, Samuel J. Randall and Lewis F. Watson of Penn­ sylvania; S. S Cox, David Wilber and Newton J. Nutting of New York: Rich­ ard Townshend of Illinois, J. M. Burnes and James P. Walker of Missouri, James Laird of Nebraska, Edward J. Gay of Louisiana, and James Phelan of Ten­ nessee. The total appropriations for this Con­ gress will probably reach '81,000,000,000. During the Fiftieth Congress 1,(511 bills were vetoed, and during the Fifty-first Congress fourteen. In the Fifty-first Congress 14,033.bills were introduced in tho House and f>,129 in the Senate. In the Fiftieth Congress 12,654 bills wero introduced in the liouso and 4,000 in th ; Senate. In the Fifty- first Congress 297 joint resolutions, or twenty-eight more^thaiKtlie number in­ troduced in th^Fiftieth, wero intro­ duced in the House. In the Senate 169 joint resolutions, twenty-four more than in tho Fiftieth, were introduced. The bills that became laws during the Con­ gress just ended numbered 2.186. In the Fiftieth Congress 1,894 bills were enact­ ed. The number of bills, etc., intro- ducod in the Fifty-first Congress ex­ ceeded by 20 per cent, the number intro­ duced in the Fiftieth. Among the bills which have become laws are theypo: The copyright $b1U,-the private land- court bill, the Indiai> depredations claim bill, the timber and pre-emption law re­ peal bill, tho customs administrative bill, a general land forfeiture bill, the bill to relieve tho Supreme Court by the.estab­ lishment of intermediate courts of ap­ peal, tho United States judicial salary bill, the World's Fair bill, the Wyoming and Idaho admission bills, the anti-lot­ tery and anti-trust bills, the reapportion­ ment bill, the immigration bill, the bill to ratify agreements with various Indian tribes and to pay tho friendly Sioux 8100,000, to reduce the fees of pension agents, to pay tho French spoliation claims, the meat inspection bill, the postal subsidy bill, the bill to prevent the Importation of adulterated food and drink, tho live cattle and hog inspection bill, the bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the improvement of tho Mississippi River, to uermit torghum sugar manufacturers to use alcohol without payment of tax, to limit to 60 per cent, of tho rates charged private parties the rates tho land-grant railroads shall charge for transportation of government troops and supplies, to authorizo tho construction of a tunnel under the waters of the Bay of New York, for the construction of a deep- water harbor on the coast of Texas, for the relief of settlers 011 the Northern Pacific Railroad indemnity lands, to per­ mit the export of fermented liquors to a foreign country without the payment of a tax, to apply the proceeds of tho sales of public lands and the receipts from certain land grant railroads to the sup­ port of agricultural and industrial col­ leges, joint resolution congratulating Brazil on the adoption' of a republican form of government, bills to establish the Chickamanga military park, pro­ viding for town-site entries in Oklaho­ ma, authorizing the uso of the Louis­ ville and Portland canal basin, to amend the interstate commerce act eo as to give the commis­ sioners fuller powers in respect to making inquiries, providing that appli­ cations to purchase forfeited railroad lands shall begin to run from the date of the restoration of the lands to settle­ ment and sale, for a military post at San Diogo, Cal., for an Alaskan census, to extend the time of payment for public lands in cases of failure of the crops, to issue 1,000 stands of arms to North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska, to set aside the big-tree tract in California as a public park, for the inspection of cattle steamers in order to secure more humane treatment of cattle, providing that the life-saving appliances act shall not apply to the lakes and bays of the United States, to enable the Post­ master General to expend §10,000 to test free-delivery system in small towns, to create the customs district of North and South Dakota and I'ugct Sound, and for the erection, repair, or enlargement of many public buildings heretofore noted. ijat&f' Wl*I For Sbber Thoujpht. THE mind may be so exclusively exer­ cised in one line of thought that it is not even able to pursue that lino intelli­ gently; for everything to be thoroughly known must be seen in Its relations to other things. He who studies nothing but law is not the best lawyer; nor is he who understands nothing but business tho best business man. Even for the success of a single pursuit, or in the search for one kind of truth, the mental faculties must reach out into other fields of thought and inquiry. FROM self-respect a thousand other things are derived--such as the care of the person, of the language, of manners; watchfulness over the body and over the soul; dominion over the instincts and the passions; tho effort to be self-suffi­ cient; the pride which will accept no favor; carefulness not to expose one's self to any humiliation or mortification, and to maintain one's self independent of any human caprice; the constant pro­ tection of .one's hono*"and of one's own «ood fame. Useful Knowledge. A BIT of soda dropped in the cavity of an aching tooth will afford relief. HANG a small bag of charcoal in the rain water barrel to purify the water. CARPETS will look much brighter after sweeping if wiped off with a damp cloth. SALT and vinegar bright M brasses as well as ar.y more modern and expensive portions. EGO shells crushed and shaken in glass bottles half-filled with water will clean them quickly. To POLISH nickel-plated goods after becoming black and not worn, use rouge or whiting on a rag with a little oil. WHERE a daily bath of water is not well borne or not obtainable, a good sharp rubbing with a dry towel is next best A VERY thin coat of what is known as French picture varnish will restore chro- mos and oil paintings to their original brightness. To DARKEN light mahogany and cher­ ry, bichromate of potash dissolved in wkter is excellent, and gives it the ap­ pearance of age. TEA or coffee stains will come out at once if they arc taken immediately and held over a pall while boiling water is poured upon them. THIS matter of bathing cannot be made to fit any rigid rules, for it is rare to find two persons who are affected alike by contact with water in a bath. IT sometimes costs less to have ajbadly soiled room repainted after a moderate use of the mop and brush, than it does to have it scrubbed and scoured. ALL advice to the contrary, tho best brush to use !s the one that suits your teeth; usually too large a brush is chosen and tho corners of the mouth arc hurt. IF the gum3, as frequently happens after illness, become very sore a gargle of myrrh in a little water is to be com­ mended, and as this has a good, whole- tome odcr one need not mind using it. STEl'NFAK SAYS IT'S SO RUSSIANS ARE BANISHED WITH­ OUT CAUSE. Are Given a Trie], and Many Are Harried A*»y Without Knowing Their Destination or tfco Mature of Their Offence. Sergius Stepniak, who is a nihilist in Russia but not in the United States, is now lecturing in this country and has recently spoken in Chicago, St. Paul and Milwaukee: The great question in Russia tq-day, htf says, is to throw overboard the au­ tocracy and substitute a constitutional monarchy, the same as that found in Italy, England and all European coun­ tries except Turkey. This movement began in Russia more from a religious spirit than a political one. Russia to­ day is passing through a period similar to what France passed through before its great revolution. Nihilists in Russia who are sincere and earnest as a general rule in their work for a better govern­ ment are compelled to submit to the most extreme suffering from the heavy penalties inflicted upon them by public officers. The speaker, in a recent lecture, gave in detail the manner of organizing nihi­ list societies among tho workingmen. Nothing was done that was considered violent at first. The societies heard lec­ tures 011 all scientific and social topics for their educational benefit. The ideas of better government wore sown in a quiet way. There wa3 nothing political or revolutionary. It was a religious movement in the full sense of tho word. But it had in time assumed a political dress. Officers of the government, see­ ing the drift of the ideas taught by tlfe f SERGIUS STEPNIAK. nihilists, soon began to arrest them on charges of organizing revolutionary so­ cieties dangerous to the Czar's dynasty. The prisoners were sentenced to ten, twelve and fifteen years in Siberia. The speaker told of his own arrest with three others, and the four were marched off to prison. But one prisoner was a nihilist, and managed to get the prison guards drunk during the night, and the four prisoners escaped. After two hours of hard walking the prisoners reached almost the point from which they had started. They had lost their way in the dark and had missed the road to the railway station thirty- five miles from the prison. The fugi­ tives saw a light in a small house and ventured in, only to be received by a constable. But the speaker had a copy of an old song in his pocket, which he palmed off on the illiterate constable for a passport. The prisoners forged their own pass­ ports, and, escaping from the "country, Stepniak found refuge in London. The speaker then referred to the sys­ tem of trials, by tribunal and by ad­ ministrative justice, so called, in Russia. Men wero allowed a jury in the tribunal system, and sometimes were acquitted. But in the administrative justice system they were arrested, convicted, and ex­ iled to Siberia without even knowing what charge had been placed against them, or knowing the names of their ac­ cusers. They were often taken away by officers to Siberia without knowing the point of destination. The speaker gave a graphic description of the in­ quisitorial inflictions on the prisoners in Siberia. Two young women who wero confined in jail were forced to disrobe before a crowd of brutal men from the fortress. One young offi­ cer was arrested for being a nihilist, who went insane while in jail, but he was tried and executed while in his demented condition. Out of 193 prisoners at one place in 1877, seventy-four died from privations in Siberia, and now there were only five or six. of them alive. These prisoners wore simply propagandists who had committed 110 crime, but had simply spoken what they believed. Where one prisoner gets a trial there are twenty- five who are convicted without a trial. If there is nothing found against a man he is likely exiled simply to prevent him from committing somo offense in the future. The government now exiles even chil­ dren. In 1887 319 boys and girls under age were exiled to Siberia. The speaker cited one case of a little girl 13 years of age, who had been noisy at a public demonstration. The police arrested her. She called on tho crowd to rescue her, and tho crowd obeyed her appeal. She was afterward rearrested and exiled to Siberia, whero she committed suicide in prison. Many of the men who are ar­ rested are exiled to satisfy political re­ venge. A man of influence can place a charge of nihilism against a poor enemy and get him out of the way. In conclusion the speaker said nihilism used peaceful means when proper, but was oftentimes compelled to use de­ structive methods. But tho day was coming when the army would support tho nihilists, and a general uprising of tho people would overthrow tho Czar's dynasty. Where there are one hundred prominent leaders there are thousands upon thousands of dissatisfied people who never take an active part in fight­ ing for the doctrines of better govern­ ment. Nihilism was spreading among them. The opinion of America, which was decidedly against despotism, had great weight with the intelligent classes In Russia. THE NATIONAL SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE Of* REPRE­ SENTATIVES. 1 « The Data far Easter. The fact that Easter falls on a very early date this year (March 29), has caused a "friend of facts and figures" to collect some curious statistics. In 1883, he says, Easter fell on March 25, and it will only once again this century, namely, in 1894, fall on so early a date. In tho three fol­ lowing centuries it will occur only eight times on the same date, namely, in 1951, 2035, 2040, 2057, 2103, 2114, 2125, and 2198. The earliest dato on which Easter can fall is March 22, and this only in caso the moon is full on March 21, when this dato happens to fall 011 Saturday. This combination of circumstances is extreme­ ly rare; it occurred in 1390, 1761 and 1817, and will happen again in 1990, 2076 and 2144, while during the threo follow­ ing centuries it is not once "on the books" at this early date. On the other hand, Easter never falls later than April 25; this was the caso in 1666, 1734 and 1886, and will only happen once in the next century---namely in IMS.--Pali Mall Gazette. Oar'Rational Lawmakers and VkatMA' Are Doing for the Good of tho Ctoun;ry3S 2>iacusao<t>: and Acted Upon. THE Senate on the 28t!I agreed to thecott~ ference reports on the bills to establish « United States land court, and to define ait& regulate the Jurisdiction of courts of th£ United States. The House substitute for the Senate tonnage bill was laid before th* Senate, and Mr. Frye moved for the app:>in|& ment of a conference committee. This me- . tlon was resisted en hot,h sides of the rhara- ber. In the House Mr. Caswell, of Wiscon­ sin. supported t'-ie conference report on the bill to -Jefine and regulate the .i of the courts of the 1'nltert States,""an< after a short debate It was adopted. Tli» conference on the hill establishing a private land claim court was also agreed to. Con­ ference held between Republicans and Dem- o<vats resulted in a tacit agreement that, none of the contested e'ection cases should be called up, and that the Democrats should not place any obstruction in the way of th<^ appropriation bills. In p"rsuance of thto agreement the sundry civil and legislative appropriation bills were sent to confrence* without objection. , • ON the 2d the conference committee oft. the sundry civit service bill reached te conclusion on world's fair matters. Th» committee preserves secrecy, but Senator#- told Mrs. Palmer that the committee gave: the ladles all they ask for, except the on# item of $15,000 for a meeting \in 1801. Roth, houses met at 9:30 o'clock an&vbegan l>ustL ness with a rush. The first business of.iirl- ; portance was th 3 adoption in tho Senate of the postal subsidy bill passed bv the House). The Senate also passed the postofHce ap­ propriation after adding on an ameiKlmetiifc appropr iating 81,250,000 fcr the trans­ portation of foreign mails. Whai k) k'lo'm as the "army reorganiza­ tion bill" was unexpectedly passed by th» Senate. The bill is oneof great Importance to the artiy. It reorganizes tho art 1110?* and lnfartry arms, uddfng two reglmen» to the former and giving the latter three battalions, with a ranjre for each, thus add­ ing two Ma |ors to each of the twonty-flvfce regiments of infantry and providing f*r tha promotion of fifty captains and twice that number of lieutenants. The House amend­ ment to the Senats bill for a publl® building at Saginaw, Mich, (redutfng th# amount front 8250,000 to $200,000), was con­ curred in. House bill relating to the treaty of reciprocity with the Hawaiian Island* was passed. Also, House joint resolution appropriating $1,000,000 for the improve- , ment of the Mississippi River, to be Imrner- diately available. Alsb, Senate joint reso^ lution authorizin ? the State of Oregon construct a railroad at the cascades of the Columbia River. The House has agreed to the conference report or: the bill to repeal the timber culture luw. The conference, report on the Indian depredations bill hal been agreed to by the Senate. Fen ate hiila were passed for the erection of a now cus­ tom house at New York, and a new mintk building at Philadelphia, the latter not to cost more than 82,000,000, ON the 3d, the conferrees ON the pnst- olBce appropriation bill reached a final agreement on the disputed pciints in th#- bill, including the Senate appropriation foi4 carrying the postal subsidy into oft'ect. The House conferrees receded from their disa­ greement to the Senate amendment increas­ ing from 8750,000 (the amoupt appropriated by the House) to $1,250,000 the appropria­ tion for carrying the foreign mails. The postal subsidies are to come out. of thta. sum. Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, introduced (by request) a bill to compel an ad­ judication of all debts and (D require- a presentation of all bills or claims against the United States. In ihe Senate all ihe amendments that had beeb agreed to In committee of the whole were Mjrreed to in bulk, including the French spoliation* claims and the Pacific railroad claims. Afi amendment by Mr. Plumb, appropriating- $50,000 for the relief of citizens of Okla­ homa who have been rendered destitute by the drought of the past season, was agreed to. The reserved amendments as to pay­ ment of Pacific railroad claims were agreed to. It is said that the President, in discuss­ ing the Congressional outlook, said that there did not appear to be any necessity for an extra session of Congress. ON the morning of the 4th, botfei houses, rushed business. lathe House the confer­ ence report on the legislative appropria­ tion bill was agreed to. Senate bill was passed authorizing Gen. Thomas F. Casey to accept from the French republic the ' decoration of the legion of Honor; als#.' Senate bill to incorporate tho National Conservatory of Music of America; alsS^ Senate bill for the erection of a public building at Clarksville, Tenn., with an amendment fixing the limit of cost at $35,000. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was pre­ sented and agreed to; also the conference report On the bill for a public building at Saginaw. Mich., reducing the cost to $150,-. 000. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, hav­ ing taken the chair, Mr. McKinlejf : offered the following resolution: "That the thanks of this House are presented to Thomas B. Reed for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over the deliberations and performed th» arduous and important duty of the Chair.» Mr. Mills demanded the yeas and nays. The resolution was agreed to by a strict party vote--yeas 152; nays 116. The House1 adjourned promptly at 12 o'clock with a wild hurrah on the floor and in the galleriejfc The Republican members sang: "Marching1 Through Georgia." the Democrats attempted "Dixie" and the Occupants of the reporters* gallery sang the long meter doxology. In the Senate, the House amendment to the bill for a public building at Clarksville, Tenn.. reducing the amount from $50,000 to $35,000, was concurred In; also the confer­ ence report on the general deficiency bill; House bill for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories was passed. The- Senate adjourned at 12:15, Father Bassett having thrice performed his annual task of turning back the hands of the clock. -1^ ^'"M Took Her or Bric-a-Braa. At a reception recently given by & well-known citizen a young society blood was earnestly engaged in a con­ versation, and, with his hands behind him, was playing with what he sup­ posed was a piece of bric-a-brac or th© arm of a chair. But instead of that it suddenly moved, and he turned to find that he had been rubbing the gloved arm of a lady, and moved up as far as the elbow. He is a nervous fellow, and in the explanation that followed h» said: "Pardon me, madam, but I thought it was a piece of bric-a-brac." The explanation amused her so greatly that she fell into a convulsion of laughter, and the young man, con­ tinuing, and presumably referring to her funny-bone, said: "Your sense of the humorous has re­ lieved me of my extreme embarrass­ ment." Perhaps it has, but it hasn't relieved him of the torture of his friends, who are now asking him the price of gloves, and how he is succeeding with his col­ lection of brie-a-brac.--Buffalo Coui*- ier. Do Not Worry. About the hardest achievement Is to live without fret and worry in th# midst of uncertainty. A business man doesn't know how the vital venture i# going to turn out. A housewife %- placed in such circumstances that her position to-morrow is utterly unforsee- able. What shall be done? Let to­ morrow alone. Attend to the nearest duties. Above all, don't chafe. YOOL will need all your vitalitv, perhaps, and all your courage, to meet thos» dreadful contingencies. But nothing; wastes vitality, nothing depletes cour­ age like apprehension. Provide, if you can. If you can't, go on calmly;, in the round of present occupation* Tackle to-morrow when it beoomes t<|»' • day. Don't crow the bridge beforit you come to it. •* . ft'