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<gr«r| Vbiudealcr iicHENOT, ILLINOIS P?; WEEKLY 1EWS REVIEW. . • «***«• • toWCRiOESTS in the free colored eera- - - itery «t HarrlfVmrg-, Pa, have been made so ' ' (Carelessly t.liat many bodies are exposed to * *' "I'tUe air, and dops have been feeding- on the ••in •' *"*•. 4*mX for many years.... .The . . . . . . . 7 t < 1 - u C a n a l s t r e e t , N e w Y o r k , t, • ,• 'leccupiwd by the Manhattan Suit anil Cloak *4j/• Couijianv and Powers 4 Co., was damaged r* •*' • •••' l-! ft »!-!«'* THE indiscretions Langtry l-,: n ! to 1»e the chief taple of eouverwition •», > , / .alouy the Atlantic seaboard. FYed Gcb- kardt, the woalthy youag New Yorker who t- followed her to Boston, and has been so I? I*' *• \ lunch tn her company, is understood to have ?;*. * • ^ , £c«n driven away from the theater by Man- ' ' Fper Stetson. MXK Lantftry suffered an at- i •, *.'• - >tn,ck of nervous prostration while playing Boston, and was quite iH The Tro«t«E* of TI>e great E«*t river ? s*' v , ,> jjkridpw, oonneciingNew York and Brooklyn, ^xpect to have the structure ready for foot BRPKengers bv Jan. 15 A copper still oon- !£ I famine- twenty-tive barrels of whMky ex- ' r. ; .--•lotUxl in the'Gibwrnton distillery, at Belle ' yernort Pa., injuring one man fatally, wrcck- tx Nr t»e building-, and destroying the United ; \ /.States warehouse, which contained many . thousand barrels of whisky. The distillery -I " tnel&rgost in the country. The loss is J? * ,*, .̂ #rtinuited«6fn>m $500,000 to $700,IML John J. KINNEDY was sentenced at ;;|ew York to two yean in State prima for . , ffcealing a pair of kid gloves... .The Enter- jprize cotton mills at Manayunk, Pa, burned . •*" Tately. The employes escaped bv desoend- »s i-hlng arope -ut*ide the blazing building, hav- , fag to, let themselves drop to the ground Hi it '-froin the recond story. Many were injured, inlKit onlv one, a young girl, fatally. ThtloM stock and building is 975,00U ? * 'THE New York lio »rd of Trade is op- ;r ' ' poeed to any change of the tobaooo tax; i»- **AM4nest« Congress to pass an equitable bank- »'• 5 ittaiitcV law; a«ks Government supervision of Hi - nsrrieta «f inter-State business and urges * , the establishment of postal telegraphy. fit no 4* THE WEST. ' K worts of the Saginaw (Mich.) *•«'* Bfcrre! OoiSpatny, together with dry kilns, t1J v honse, ?aw mill, a quantity of product v H> 1#nd feet of lumber, were oonsumed J The lose is placed at 91T5,0(XX ... The Denver pire Insurance Ccti^anv. which was organ­ ized in"TSSD with" ia capital of #1,000,001', has \ Oil j4PP«»P«ed- .•nqr 'fHE Marietta and Cincinnati rail* - " |>flMfoad, having '£>a . miles of traek, ww , aold to Robert <rarrett, of Battlsosa, ** ^ihe only bidder, for $4,375,000. - V't/ ^ SCUWL tpiicU^r at Cumberland, Chio, named William Prarier, wat assaulted kfsy *$ *' two pupils, named John Hayes and CSiarleS Lu^e. Hayes was killed with a knife, jcii ( iijitad Luse got badiy cut Josiah A. Noonan, _ sAwejl-known citizen of Wisooiwin, died m ® iHie insane asvlnm at Milwaukee, at the a^e "lo #f 8ti....TketedwBTdiiOotmty Bank, stEiu- ^jijlej, Kaa, was robbed of $ls!,uuu r Gr-ant countv, New Mexico, the . jCaifton stage was robbed by Mexican road Tgents, who killed two Chinese passengers. I>T!« PATRICK HLATTLRY, aged 22, shot his iCfefi-Tiiother dead at their home near Mount J '̂eHehsattlt, Iowa, and then put a bullet through =4s«ii!?S?5 8r5M. I Wot* i«ft bribe nnicide States the tragedy was caused by whisky. THE corner-stone of tlie new Chicago icture will cost $1,500,000, is intended to > the finest building of its kind on the con- ent, and is to be completed by Maj 1, THE BOOTH, OKN. SIPKEY BURBANK, a retired OFFI- pn of the United States army, died at New- Jport, Ky. He was an officer in the Black*- 1 «iawk and Seminole wars, and served in the «i9tgknay of the Potomac....The Wilev block of nsiueas houses at Columbia, a C., wai al- jnost totdlly consumed, entailing a loss of i «M()0H,.. Eleven comncts at work on the .. Xittle. Eock penitentiary disarmed a guard and escaped. They killed three out of a <Mi%umber of bloodhounds sent in pursuit JTA*» THE authorities 01 Lonisville h ive got fi /^traces of an embezzlement in 1879 amount- -cjfcg to about $100,0011. Those implicated are ,,,,^formerTax Collector and late Deputy A DISPATCH from Opelika, Ala., says Ti>ihe two factions, the old and the new City V' Councils, which have been quarreling for •everal days, rawed a riot In which the Mayor and police were involved Nine white JPen one negro were shot down, -«ven of whom will die Owing to the , troubles the Alabama LegiftJaturen passed an Ikct vacating its charter and authorizing the 1 < governor to appoint a local Government un- ,; JM a new one can be elected llobert J. 5LANLPt-on, for live years cashier and pav- «> faster of the Little* Kock and Fort Hinith ((nilwnj', has disappeared with $lc,0ix) of the , . mI)an., s funds... .tiov. Stephens, of Geor- •' •». M" pardoned out Capt Edward Cox, to life imprisonment for the mur- ller of CoL Robert A. Alston in 1S7U. . j THE new ron and steel bridge on the Mexican Pacific extension, near San Antonio, 'Texas, fall while over a hundred workmen uiNere on & Beven were killed and nianv grounded. NfBJIMt CALAMITY Tom IJiwllH'ini and Bell Cephas, both white, fitn(taber% Veek tnnwel, tw*Btv--tvfOimiles Wentof Hnnton, W. Va, noolWonl^iWa a freight and a passenger train resulted im the JbJllintr of three persons anil the Sterioua inj u'n-' of Jivo others. ... The fafiun* report­ ed to the mercantile agencies for the week ending Dec.numbered IVKt, l>eing the largest of any period during the year. MONTREAL has suffered ap IRREPARABLE loss by the death of Sir Hugh Aflan. ilia came there from Scotland when 14 years of age, and acquired a fortune estimated • at $15, IM>,IXKI. lie was President of one of the largest Canadian bunks and oi tweat,v-tw«« other corporations, and gave each his per­ sonal attention He was engaged to be mar­ ried to a lady in Quebec as his second wifa He leaves eight daughters and four sona THE Riverside rolling mill and the Triton cotton mill at New Castle, DeL, closed for indefinite periods. The Delaware roll­ ing mill at Phillipsburg, N. Y., which has been idle for a month, fired up. and the South Chicago steel rail mill extinguished its furnaces... .The Governor General of Canada, upon his arrival in San Francisco from British Columbia, applied to the Uni­ ted Htates Government for an armed escort as far as San Antonio, and Secretary Lin- coin detailed a lieutenant and ten men to ^potect them, THE inmates of the Manitoba peni­ tential y were given fifty luhm each for making an attempt to escape... .The Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio rail­ road elected John W. Garrett Presi­ dent of that road. This makes Mr. Garrett's twenty-fifth consecutive year of service in that position ... .'The Northwestern railroad rate war is at. an end. an agreement having been reached by a conference in New York. Bates of fare have been put back to the old figures and the business is to be divided up among the roads. The Triton cotton mills, at Newcastle, DeL, have resumed operations, the em­ ployes submitting to a reduction in wages. The steel-rail, guide and bar departments of the Ailentown (Pa) rolling mill are also in operation... .Of the lifci.ooo immigrants who arrived at Canadian ports thus far this year. i. v r i r-*-- - The Capita! City of Jamaica in fei liOiii *) m 1 •• 1 ii: • Valued at Wiped Out. TO1522 were destined for the United POLITICAL IT is reported tiiat Congressman Maiming, of Mississippi, who ran against Chalmers, refuses to accept a certificate of election from the Governor of that State, aa he believes he was not fairlv elected. The Governor, however, still refuses to give a certificate to Chalmers, and says he will or­ der a new election in case Manning persists in refusing the certificate. JAMF.S 0. I ROADHEAD, of St Louis, has been given a certificate of election Congress fi dm the Ninth district of ICissouri Albert Palmer, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Boston, defeating Mr. Green, the Eepublican and Citizens' candidate. RUMOES are floating about Washing­ ton that within sixty days Secretary Lincoln will be appointed Minister to England, Gen. kt: Hartranft be made Secretary of War, and y Attorney General Brewster be given Justice Bradley's teat on the Hupreine bench. A stalwart Republican from the West has been selected for Attorney General Congress- rflRn Blagkburn k a candidate for the Bpeak- F_J<I BY the burning OF;Singleton James* pffi00*® near 8tockbridge Ga., Thomas Knlgttt, who was intoxicated, and two ahiidnm M! Vs * -TO' two ®www® i**- WAHHtKOnON. . SacHETABT FOLGEB has ordered the nteoallation of bonds to the amount of $'W8lA,600, bequeathed to the Government by «t4ke Jate Joseph L Lewis, of New York. rifli jfHK United Htatos liailroad Commis- 1 signer reports favorably on the condition prospeots of the land-grant and bonded . road.^, and notes many improvements in the •pa^t vear. Important su^prestions arc made ,n#«u<*iiug disCTiminatlons. wars about rates «lfcliC^ ^unding of bonds, and the Commis­ sioner recommends the adoption of a imi- Mvorm system of mgnals. ,f)i 'In hi* annual reixwt the Comm<«t WlAoner of Pennons reeomniends the remod. ^ of pensions according to disability Jjr»tJ>er tlian raak. At prewnt there are 117 Trades of pensioners. The Cominbyiiouer the fact that no enumeration of the -s • |u'n' iow population was made In the la*t census, batman approxiiuation shows that «ut of 2,< ^i.:?.)l soldiers enlisted in the war of the rebellion, only 26 per cent have ap- .^pliedi for pousiona • 1 Ijt tlfe utoriea told to the Citizens' ommittee are true, as alleged byO'Leary id Murphy, convicted bunko and monte 1, then the detective force of the city of Washington Is about a.t crooked aninstitu- as «euld well be imagined. These men liege that detectives "stood in" with the rec who robbed the Government Print- |u»d who carritni off Minister 's diamonds, and shared in the 1 of these and other thefts... .Senator pn aays that .hewill oppose to the bitter a '̂btD fof the relief of Fitz John Por- H* Claims that Gen. Grant does not low as much about the case as he himself THE «ogar refineries we trying to Arteract the evident tendency to termin- H|e reciprocity treaty with Hawaii it &understood that Postmaster General Howe, anticipation of the adoption of the bill toupoftlftg a reduction of letter postage to 2 ®ent«, has taken preliminary steps for the pisnnfutoMie of 'i-oent stamp* '• / : ' ' | •* '"J' GBKKUAL. Ffr* mnrderers were sent into^terni- kgr the public executioner on Friday, Deo. Will Porter, white, at Perry, Ga; Ed recLat Swainsboro, Qa; Gnstav aft VonaUUKHiviUe, La; Albert voRiaoif. • . ;i" Aw entft^ B^bck of heart of London, occupied by three whole­ sale firms--Foster, Porter & Co., hosiery; Rylands, dry goods; and Silver & Flemming, bronzes, clocks, watches and fancy goods-- was swept away by the Are, the flames rag­ ing for ten hours before the tire brigade could get them under control. The houses burned out were among the largest in London. The o«suiuut«u oi $i;>,duu,0Gu . . .Tiro fes­ tival of 8t. George was observed by the Russian court with much ceremony. At the peror Wiitiam of 73ermany... .^ftiougfi the principal seaports of Germany, through their Chambers of Commerce, have protest­ ed against the embargo on American pork, still the Government is resolved to prohibit its importation.... Arabi Pasha will hereafter reside in the island of Ceylon. SEVERAL thousand members of the foreign colony at Alexandria assembled the other day before the consulates of the great powers and demonstrated their impatience of the delay in paying indemnity for losses by the bombardment A thief 'in a thea­ ter at Barcelona Spain, raised a false alarm of fire One person was killed and eighteen injured in the panic which followed. BERR BICHTER, in the German Reichstag, said the interdiction of the im­ portation of American pork was more of a protectionist scheme than a sanitary meas­ ure Cablegrams announce the death of Sir Joseph Napier, of London, and of Will­ iam Galignini, the last member of the well- known Joiiraaiistic family of Paris The Lord Ueutenant of Ireland has 00m- mutod the sentence of death imposed on the five murderers of the Joyce family to iin- Srisonment for life... .Parnell has petitioned le land court for the sale of hi** property in tin County Wicklow. THE Duke of Sermoneta, who was President of the Provisional Government after the entry of the Italian troops into Rome in 1870, is dead The War Office at Madrid was destroyed by fire, with the library and part of the archives. King Al­ fonso assisted in fighting the llames. Twei*.y persons were injured, one seriously. PATRICK Htuoiss was found guilty, at Dublin, of the murder of the two Huddys, and sentenced to death, and at Connaught a rarmer named Kllmartin was sentenced to Cenal rorvitrode for life for assaulting a ailiff A Constantinople dispatch says the Sultan has had built tor his use an armored carriage, bullet and grenade proof. The palace is practically in a state of sitjge Nobody is allowed to enter unless sum­ moned. 'lite Sultan's alarm is owing to se­ dition among the troops, who are angry at the way the palace guards are paid, while thev are in rm;s Mr. Gladstone celebrated on Wednesday, Dec. 13, the fiftieth anniver­ sary of his entry upon public lite. The En­ glish papers generally reviewed his life and services at length and in com­ plimentary terms, and he was Che recipi­ ent of numerous addresses from polit­ ical associations and other bodies.... Lord Derby has accepted the Indian portfo­ lio in the British Cabinet Deaths l»v sui- d^'ing are becoming frequent in the German army.... Cetewavo has signed the agreements with the chiets, and will re­ turn to Zululand in January. Female Beauty. The ladies in Japan gild their teeth; and those of the Indies paint them red. The pearl of teeth must be dyed black to lie beautiful in Guzurat. In Green­ land the women color their faces with blue and yellow. However fresh the complexion of a Mnncovite may be, she would think herself very uglily if she was not plastered over with paint. The Chinese must have their feet as dimin­ utive as those of the shc-goat, and to render them thus, their youth is passed in tortnre. In afieieMt%ersia an aqui­ line nose was often thought worthy of the crown; and if there was any com­ petition lietween two princes,' the peo­ ple generally went by this criterion of majesty. In some countries the moth­ ers break the noses of their children; and in others press the head between two boards that it may l>ecome square. The modern Persians are warm odmir- eru of this stvle. [London Tclrcram t > < hicago IHily News.] £dtttet were focehr&f fftm Kingston, Ja­ maica, announcing that a terrible fire de- L+frrt"' ̂ MS8 portion of the city. «liw loss is estimated at not 4saa4faaa>tMt*ll|!*0& The origin of the Are is not known, but the flames gained such the effort* of the firemen to subdue thetn were without avail, and the fire only stopped when there was nothing more to burn. Beside business houses manv dwellings were destroyed, and hun­ dreds are homeless All the wharves, ware<- houses, stores awl banks burned, and all the provisions in t he city have been destroyed. In consequence, food and supplies are sadly needed by the people, who will soon be in most destitute circumstanoes unless relief is sent to them speedily. Immediately after the fire a local Relief Association was organized, with W. K. Azbill as Secretary. He has sent out telegrams to this country and America appealing for aid. | Among the buildings swept away by the ! llames are the large victoria market arid the public lauding place at the foot of King street; the Court House in Hoxbor street, which was a handsome building; the public hospital; the law library; the Chancer;.- Reg­ ister's office; tiieoourt of the Vice Admiralty, and the public library and museum, all in East street There were but two banks in the city, and both are destroyed--the Colonial Bank and the Government Savings Bank. The city was built on a plan which rises with a gradual asoeut to the foot of the Liguanea mountains, and the business por­ tion was packed closely together along the shore The wholesale houses were close to­ gether on Port Royal street and the retail es­ tablishments on Harbor str eet The build­ ings were without any means of protection against tire, and burned like THE CITY. Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, is built in the form of an amphitheater, with rude and irregular streets; the houses mostly of two stories, are solidly constructed of brick or wood and painted "green and white. The houses in the center of the city formed blocks or squares and in the "principal streets were furnished with verandas below and covered galleries above Among the notable buildings are the En- plish church, a Scottish, several Methodist, and a few Roman churches, a penitentiary, theater, barracks and jail, but none of them possess much architectural beauty. The town was founded in 1MH. after the destruction by earthquake of Port Royal. It has before suffered from confla­ grations. It was almost completely de­ stroyed by tire in 17i££, and was vtsited'again bv another disastrous tire in lt¥>2. The pop­ ulation of the place is about 50,000. It is an important commercial point, and its ax- ports and imports arc large. m "JtDDlTtONAli MASIA APPLET, one of the thirteen girls who represented the States in Washing­ ton's funeral procession in New York, died at Morristown, N. J., aged 101 years, in full possession of her faculties Four children were drowned while skating at Falls of Schuylkill, Pa Hanlan, the champion, and Jonn A. Kennedy, of Port­ land, Ma. signed " iron-clad" articles in New York to row a three-mile race for $2,5UU a side. A STRANGER entered a diamond store in Cleveland, walked behind the counter, and offered the proprietor a cheap watch for repair. The unknown then managed to seize a package of iewels worth $10,000 and walk slowly out, in the presence of six clerks and scores of customers. The goods wore 88^5^offfrtfi8IVni^1'aci^iT& W. hunting nearF 1 more Station, Neb., perished in the snow and was devoured by wolves. MR. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, who the other day oelebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into Parliament- has resigned the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is succeeded by Mr. H. C. ChiMers, heretofore Secretary of War. Mr. Gladstone will still retain the Treasury portfolio... .A section of the famous Hamp- .ton Court, near London, containing many valuable works of art, was destroyed, in­ volving a loss of about $150,000. 'The Co­ operative Store at Dublin was also burned, the family taking care of the struct­ ure being burned to death .Twenty-two persons were drowned by the flooding of the Australiasian mine. New Brunswick, Victoria... Sixty persons were re­ cently killed by the explosion of a powder magazine in Guayaquil Two arrests were made at Dublin of alleged participants in the Phcunix Park assassinations. One of the parties was identified as occupying the car on winch the murderers escaped. THE deaths irom cholera in Chiapas, Mexico, were so numerous that the bodias of the victims were burned, it being found impossible to bury them. In Tonal a sixty deaths per day were recorded The loss by the Kingston (Jamaica) tire is now placed at $15,<*A>,<JOU. live persons perished in the flames A fire at Winnipeg destroyed the Canadian Pacific Hotel and the Johnston House. One ladv was severely bur ued in rescuing a child. * The total lose is $75,tM) The Manhattan Beach Railroad Company suff ered a loss of $500,000 by the destruction of rolling-stock and buildings at Bay Ridge, N. Y The frame cabinet factory of the Remington sewing-machine works, at Dion, N. 1'., valued at $5o,uuo, was swept away by flames. MUS. SAKAH WOOD died at Buford, Ga, aged 12L She was born in North Caro­ lina in lioa, and lived in Georgia 100 years. ... .A tract of 100,000 acres of cotton lands in Arkansas has been purchased by Benja­ min Newga-ss, of Liverpool, and other British capitalists, to be worked on the syndicate plan. SENATOR EDMUNDS propones to amend his Utah bill by making the lawful wives of Mormons competent witnesses in cases of bigatnv or polygamy brought against titeti? husbands. 1 of soldiers and sailors who lost an arm or leg in 4 he servioa Mr. Van Wyck offered a rottohitton of inquiry whether a railroad is ben.jr constructed across the Niobrara mili­ tary rtserwition without authority from Congress. The Bankruptcy bill pre- pared by Judge Lowell and recom­ mended generally by Eastern Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, was substituted for what is known as the "Equity bill," which was championed by the Western and Southern Senators. The vote stood ;i4 to Jio and the substitute was sent to the Ju­ diciary Committee for revision. A motion to take np Mr. Pendleton's Civil Service bill was carried; but the Senate dismissed and defeated a scheme to release the Memphis and Little Rock road from its obligations to carry troops free and mails at a reduced rate. The Senate confirmed the nominations of Gen. Pope and CoL Mackenzie, to be Major General and Brigadier General respective­ ly. In the House, Mr. Springer intro­ duced a joint resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution which shall extend the terms of the President and Vice President Uyux years and render them ineli­ gible for re-Acfion It also fixes a three- years' term fflr Congressmen, and provides that, beginning with the year 1885, the Con­ gress elected in November previous shall meet on the first Wednesday of January. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, introduced a resolution reciting the efforts of certain, railway managers to prevent the construc­ tion ot competing lines in the Northwest, and directing the Committee on Commerce to report a bill to prohibit and punish such combination. Mr. Waite introduced a bill to stop the coinage of silver dollars until the stock is reduced to $50,000,000, and Mr. Ellis offered a measure to authorize the State of Louisiana to establish quarantine stations. Mr. Dibreli presented an act to abolish internal-revenue taxes and allow a rebate on whisky and tobacco, and another to reduce the specie in the treasury to $150,- 000,000. A bill was passed to authorize brevet commissions for distinguished oon- duot in Indian campaigns A memorial of the Chicago Board of Trade in favor of the Lowell Bankruptcy bill was subjpitted in the Senate on the 12th inst On motion Mr. Hoar, the Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury were directed to transmit reports made on the administration of the Federal offices in New York. Bills were introduced to grant a pen­ sion to thle widow of Gen. Revere; to pay certain Indian war bonds of Colorado, ana to prohibit officers and employes of the United States from contributing "money for political purposea Mr. Vest offered a reso­ lution instructing the Committee on Terri­ tories to report what legislation is necessary to protect publio property, preserve the game and enforce the laws in Yellowstone Piirk. Mr. Pendleton explained the provis­ ions of his Civil Sen-ice bill, and an ex­ tended debate took place, participated in chiefly by Messrs. Sherman, Allison and Pen­ dleton. Numerous amendments were of­ fered, but no definite action was taken. In the House the Postoflice, Military and Agri­ cultural Appropriation bills were reported and referred to the committee of the whole Mr. Randall offered a resolution requesting the President to furnish a complete state­ ment of the expenditure for the improve­ ment of rivers and harbors since the begin­ ning of .the Government. The Congression­ al Library bill was not taken up. It was , .agreed that the building shall not cost in |M|iexcess of $2,000,000, and that it shall be erected on land belonging to the Govern­ ment. XLYUTH CONGRESS. Several petitions were presented In the Senate, at Its session on the 8th Inst, action on the tobsooo tax and urging the P®fja*e ot a bill to increase the pensions of soldiers who have suffered the loss of an arm or •Je<s. A Mil was passed to establish title to the site of the military po«t at El Paso. '1 here was prolon » d debate on the resolution as to political aswjwnents and on the Bankruptcy b-ll. An attempt to strike from the bill k 11 pro A FEW days since a pupil in the state normal school at Castleton, Vt., waa discovered to be crying very hard. Inquiry by the principal elicited the fact that the girl had just received a letter stating that her sister Mary was dead. School was stopped and prayer was offered. A second perusal of the letter showed that the girl was mista­ ken ; that it was not sister Mary but & favorite family horse named Mary, that was dead. Then thanks were offered that the news waa no worse. - vinion f r involuntary bankruptcy was defeated, but Mr. M-reran secured an amendment to in- cl de option trading in st > ks, Brain, tc., tn sets of bankruptcy. On motion i f Mr. Morrill, th'; internal revenue bill, with its pending iim<-i(imeiitrt, was recommitted to the Ci.mftiitfc-e on Finance. In the House. Mr. Hurrowa rr-ported the eon«u ar ap- proprintlo", whictise f aside $1, 6S, M. In com- j> It'ce of f he whole, the t .111 lor the re ief of he officer* and men of M e moni or which tovg t t! e Herri mac wa« defeated. Mr. BingUam re- por.«d a bill to Ntiooe latter postage to a esnta. Mr. Pendleton gave notioe to the Senate, at the s ssion of the 9th inst, that after the Bank­ ruptcy bill was disposo-1 ef be w ould move to take up the Civil Bervioe bill. Mr. Vance se­ cured the passage of a resolution directing the Secretary o- the Treasury to fnrnis a detailed s-atement of t he cost of collecting internal rev­ enue in each <li-trlct. Mr. Haw ev intoduoed a bill to prevent officer* of the Un ted States from col octine suLacriptions or iisneninients from each other. A brief executive session waa held. Petitions from tobaoco- <1. alrrs we e presented t>r a rebate equal to sny reduction that mav be made to the tax. In he House of Representatives, Mr. Paue reported a resolution oailine on the Secretary of War tor in forma ion whether the funds set asid • bv 'he River and Harbor bi;i were appropriated for works n"t ot interest to ennnmeroe or navica- yoti. »iid, it xo. tequ- stiuit that np-cl- flcauons I* furnished. An exciting debate fi llowed. in which McLnne and Hoheaon sup­ ported the resolution and Cus. and Kasson op­ posed it, but it was adopted. Mr. Kannon re­ ported a bill to improve tlicjcivil service. A bill was passed to rec ify tlie title to the military pe st at El Psso. Mr. McColcl introduced » bill to regulate in eratate oouunerou. Mr. Slater introduced a bill In the on the 11th inst., to forfeit *-hj» unearned lands of the Oregon Central road. Mr. Ferry presented a measure to Increase the pension Numerous petitions to fix the tax on to­ bacco and to increase the pensions of sol­ diers who lost an arm or a leg in the war, were offered in the Senate on the 13th and referred Ingalls introduced a bill to com­ pel the prosecution of proceedings in bank­ ruptcy to a final decree The resolutions offered by Mr. Beck and Mr. Hale to investi­ gate political assessments were referred to the Judiciary Committee Mr. Pendleton's Civil Service Reform bill was taken up. Mr. Logan secured an amendment providing that examinations shall be practical in their character, and Mr. Sherman caused the defeat of the perma­ nent appropriation for the expenses of a civil-service commission. Air. Gariand in­ troduced azbill to grant a right of way tin uli iMf"!"""! 1 reservation at Scott «or*TSe Bt lotus and SanPrancisco road. The f£esident sent to the Senate the name ot J. C. Bancroft Davis to be Judge of the Court of Claims. The House, on motion of Mr. Springer, passed a joint resolution athorizing the payment of $25,000 from the Virginius indemnity fund to Mrs. Eliza Dunn, of Chicago, the mother of Gen. W. A C. Ryan, who was slaughtered in Cuba The Congress­ ional library bill was recommitted, with instructions that it be changed to provide for the erection of a building on Government land in Washington. The Mili­ tary Aoademy Appropriation bill was passed. A resolution offered by Mr. Randall was adopted, requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to report the estimated amount paid for ocean freights during the fiscal year. Mr. O'Neill presented a petition from tobacco jobbers, asking a rebate equal to the reduction to be made in the tax. The session of the Senate on the 14th inst was devoted almost wholly to debate on the Civil Service bill introduced by Mr. Pendle­ ton. Mr. Hoar expressed a belief that the passage of this bill would mark an import­ ant era in American politics, and would be regarded in the future as almost equal to the adoption of a new and better constitu­ tion. Mr. Brown opposed the bill, and did "a little plain talking to, the Democrats.* The object of the bill, he said, was to give the Republican party u permanent tenure of office, and the Repubiican party was clearly a minority of the people of this country. Mr. George thought there was reason in the objection that 1 he bill did not permit competition by all for offices of every grade, and" expressed hir) rcKTet that Mr. Brown had broken its force by coupling it with an argument that the bill would do the Democratic party in­ justice. He was not so coniident as' Mr. IJrown appeared to be of Democratic tri­ umph in l&a, and he thought the reverses of the Republicans this year were to be attributed 111 a large meas- ure to that party having occupied the very position upon this question whioh Mr. Brown now wished the Democrats to take. He agreed with Mr. Brown that this bill, if passed, would not prevent the Democratic President, when he did come in. from fol­ lowing Jefferson's rule. In a colloquy be­ tween Mr. Brown and Mr. George, the latter admitted that he would have the Democrat­ ic President turn out every office holder who had responded to political assess­ ments in the last campaign. The House consumed the day, in Committee of the Whole, in considering the Postoffice Appro­ priation bill. After adjournment the Dem­ ocratic Senators held a caucus, and resolved to oppose the admission to the Union of any new Territory at the present session of Con- gress. . Miss Anthony a Philanthropist. ' A St. Louis paper states that as Miss Susan B. Anthony was leaving that city recently, on her way to Leavenworth, with two medium-sized trunks, the bag­ gage-master objected to check them both 011 a single ticket, and dematidod pay for extra weight. "But," said she, "they together weigh less than the or­ dinary-sized 'Saratoga.' I distribute the weight in this way purposely to save the man who does the lifting." The clerk looked at her incredulously, "And you tell me seriously that von do this simply out of consideration for the baggagemen?" "I do." "How long have you done it?" "All mv life. I never purchased a large trunk for fear I might add to the overburdened bag­ gageman's afflictions." The "'->rk walk­ ed off and conferred wi h the >o-ul of thf department. Then the two r iurned together. "Do I understa. d," «ti<l tlio chief, "that you, of all women, luivo been the iirst to show humanity toward railroad people?" "That is a tenet of my creed." "Check that baggage," said the chief, with empliasis, "and when you run for office, Miss Anthony, you shall have my vote." _ A NORTH CAROLINA court has a pecu­ liar question to decide. A person against whom a civil action was ]>ending died, but no notice of the fact was giv­ en to the court, and, on the caso being calVd before an administrate had been appointed, judgment was taken by default. The oontroversj- now is as to the validity of the judgment under such circumstances. HAVOC BY EXftOSIM. Ektift Workmen Blown to lies at Ehawneatown Dl. V -V 1 ' Their Bodies Shockingly Mutilated by the Bursting Boiler. A boiler in the saw-mill of JL J. Vinceift & Co., at Shawnee town. III, exploded the other (lay, killing eight men and fatally wounding another., The victims were seat­ ed around the engine eating lunch. Rem­ nants of the boiler and portions of the bod­ ies of the employee were found 800 yards away. The details o&the shocking affair are embraced in the following telegram from Shawneetown: It appears that the men were seated around in various positions in the cicinltv of the boiler, eating their noon luncheon, when the boiler exploded, creating terrible de­ struction. There were eleven men in the mill at the time, and of those the following eight were instantly killed: v Wiliiam Montgomery, Charles Blosn, Henry Hughes, Charles Baker, George Price, W. P. Grove, James McLaughlin, Samuel Kennedt! Several of these were blown into frag­ ments. The sawyer was blown to piecas, no that scarcolv a common pailful of his re­ mains could be picked np. One corpse was blown into the river, and two others were thrown a distance of fullv SJOO yards. Wade Kee, another employe, was thrown a long distance from the mill, and had his legs and arms broken and otherwise Injured He was picked up shortly afterward and died in less than an hour. The other two men are hurt, one probably fatally. The' mill Is a complete wreck, portions of the boiler lying in different directions and at various distances, ranging from 100 to COO feet The accident is the worst ever recorded here, and has created great excitement Several of the victims leave families, some of them in comparatively destitute circum­ stances. Nobody is left to give any clew as to the probable cause of the accident, and nothing apparently can be known but that the dis­ aster is appalling and complete^ KEETIXOS AXI) ASSOCIATIONS. National Agr cultural Convention. . The third annual meeting of the American Agricultural Association was held at Chica­ go, lasting four days The attendance was large, embracing representatives from all sections of the country and of all branches of agriculture. President N. T. Sprague, in his annual address, advocated the extension and development of free water communica­ tion and the enactment of a Federal law reg- •ulating inter-State commerce that will re­ move the evils resulting from inharmonious Scale legislation. He approved the bill for the appointment of a National Railway Com­ mission, to whom all questions of 'difference between the people and common carriers shall be referred. He also pronounced in favor of a modification of the tariff, and di­ rected the special attention of the conven­ tion to the evils of adulteration of food Pa­ pers of interest to agriculturists wore read and many valuable ideas presented by vari­ ous speakers. Street Hallway AsaoclaUnn. Representatives of the street tranri^f In­ terest assembled in Boston and formed an International Street Railway Association. Moody Merrill was elected President, and said there were 415 street railways in the United States and Canada, which employ 35,000 men, run 18,000 cars, and carry annually l,;jl2,400,000 passengers The cap- tal invested exceeds $!50,0o0,000, and the trucks operated cover 3,000 miles. Cotnmereiax Travelers. The national convention of merchants -ana oommeroifir trfev«i«an> wua b^id at Battt-. mora The association desires the abroga­ tion of State taxes upon "drummers" and the effecting of free trade between all the States. Stat* Groago Meeting*. The State Grange of Miohigan met at Lansing, and Grand Master Cyrus G. Luce delivered an address pointing out the neces­ sity of legislation to protect the producers against the extortions of railroads. The movement is makfng headway in Michigan, and new granges are being formed. THE Wisconsin State Grange convened at Madison. It is reported that the grange Is about holding its own in the State, there be­ ing now 131 subordinate grange^ with a membership of about 4,000. THE Ohio State Grange held its annual ses­ sion at Mansfield. The reports showed the order to be in a flourishing condition and growing in membership. THE Pennsylvania Grange met at Harris- burg, over 100 delegates being in attend­ ance. At a public meeting, addresses were delivered by Gov. Hoyt and others The grange throughout the State was repre­ sented to be in a healthy condition. THE ninth annual session of the Maryland State Grange was held at Baltimore, lasting several days. Every county in the State was represented, and the delegates were enthu­ siastic over the flourishing condition of the order, as shown by the reports. THEKE was an important gathering of the Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers' Association at St Louis, representatives being present from all the Western and Northwestern States, and from New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee The address of President Coleman reviewed the sorghum industry, which, a delegate claimed, would keep $«><>,- 000,000 to $So,000,000 yearly in the country If its culture proved to be a success. Reports were presented in relation to the growth of sorghum and tho manufacture of sugar and sirups therefrom. It was shown that great success had already attended the production of sirup, and that there was no dilliculty in finding a market for the pro- difcot ab remunerative figures. .tiiS * How Dom Pedro Rides. Hark! Do you hear that racket? Clear the track! Get out of the way there! Hero comes a cavnlcado that won't stop for anything. Don't stop to look until you have dodged into the shelter of a doorway, but when you are safe you will see --first, a half-dozen horse guards with drawn sabers flash­ ing in the sun; then a couple of mount­ ed clianiberlniiute then an old black coach drawn by six brass-mounted mules (harness brass-mounted), ridden by postillions, two gaudy footmen standing at the bock of the "trap;" in­ side the carriage sits a white-haired, white-bearded, handsome man in mili­ tary costume, his kindly face beaming on the startled people who had so hast­ ily taken shelter. When the coach and the company of cavalry following it have passed with all the speed that mules, and yellow mules at that, are capable of, I draw a sigh of relief. I have seen this turnout almost every day since I have been in Bio, but you wiil probably have to be informed that it was His Majesty Dom Pedro IL, "Con- stitntional Emperor and Perpetual De­ fender of Brazil," who had just passed. Although Dom Pedro is rather morn progressive-minded than most of his countrymen, he still retains an affectod display of pomp and power which he really does not posaess.--Cor. Norrin­ to urn Herald. The Father ef the Bean-Blower. The bean-blower with wh eh the mo lern school-boy loves to torment the ehildren routad about him ani his teacher on the platform is only a feeble imitation of the "s'-mpitan," wit'i ivhu-ti the original Dyaks of Bo:neo go to var. The sumpitan is a bi w-p pa, about five feet long, and the arrows whit hare made of wood or fish-bones, are thin and fhvrp, and a®;1 general v dipped in the poison of the upas tree, which, though virulent, is not always deadly. This singular weapon is used with the greate t accuracy at a range of twenty yards, bat it will carry a .hundred. --~v™ dap-sucker Several of the smaller American woodpeckers are sap-suckers; but only one kind, the one of which I am w riting, ever pecks holes for the purpose of get­ ting at the sap. He is named by natur­ alists Centurns Carolinur,. He is a very cunning bird. One of his habits is to move around the bole of a tree just fast enouf h to keep nearly hid from you as you w alk around trying to get a good look at him. This he will con­ tinue to do for a considerable length of time, but, finally getting the tree-trunk fairly between you and him, he takes to his gay wings and flies in such a line as to keep hidden from your eyes. Usually h© says good-by with a keen squeal as he starts away. Down in the mountain valleys of Northern Georgia I used to amuse myself with watching the little half-naked negro boys trying to shoot sap-suckers by means of their blow- guns. Such a blow-gun as they had is a straight reed or cane about six feet long, through the whole length of which a smooth l»ore is made by pnncli- out the jointe. The arrow used in this gun is made of a sharp p;e«3 of cane- wood not longer or larger than a knit­ ting-needle, with a ball of cotton-lint bound on the end opposite the point. The arrow is blown out of the gun by the breath from the shooter's mouth. It flies with so great force that I have seen a bird killed at a distance of forty yards. Some of the little negro boys were very skillful in using the blow- gun, and as sly as cats in creeping up close to a bird before shooting at it. Many people in Northern Georgia have China trees on their lawns. The berries of these trees intoxicate or render drowsy the robins which feed upon them, and then the poor birds are killed very easily by these blow-gun Nimrods; but the sap-sucker never eats berries of any kind, so he keeps sol>er and gives his persecutors great trouble, nearly al­ ways outwitting them, for birds, like people, succeed better by keeping clear of everything intoxicating. In our Northern States, when the winter is very cold and all the maples and ash and hickory trees are frozen so that their sap will not flow into our bird's pots, he is compelled to depend upon the cedar trees for food, since their resinous sap is not affected by the cold. Often I have seen him pecking away at the gnarled bole of an evergreen when the thermometer's mercury stood ten degrees below zero, and the air was fairly blue with winter's breath. Even in Georgia it is sometimes so cold that he clioses the pine trees, finding l>e- tween their bark and the underlying wood a sort of diluted turpentine upon" which he feeds. While busily en gap; oil pecking his holes on cold, windy days, lie is not so watchful as in tine w eather. At such times I have seen a little negro "blow-gunner" stick three or four ar­ rows into the soft bark all around the bnsy bird before it would fly, and have been just as much surprised at the boy as at the bird; Ijecause, if it was strange how the bird could be so busy as not to notice as arrow "shucking" into the tree close by him, it was equally strange how that little negro could "Rtaasul it" to be out so long in such a cold, raw wind with nothing 011 but a shirt!--Maurice Thompson in St. Nicholas. Finish in Natnral Wood. Richness of effect may be gained in decorative woodwork by using woods of different tone, such as amaranth and ambovna, by inlaying and veneering. The Hungarian ash and French walnut afford excellent veneers, especially the burls or gnarls. A few useful notes on the subject are given by a recent Amer­ ican anthority. In varnishing, the var­ nishes used can be toned down to match the wood, or be made to darken it, by the addition of coloring matters. The patented preparations known as "wood- lillers" are prepared in different colors for the purpose ef preparing the surface' of wood previous to the varnishing. They fill up the pores of the wood, ren­ dering the surface hard and smooth. For polishing mahogany, walnut, etc., the following is recommended: Dis­ solve beeswax by heat in spirits of tur­ pentine until the mixture becomes viscid; then apply by a clean cloth,and rub thoroughly with a flannel or cloth. A common, mode of polishing mahogany is by rubbing it first with linseed oil. and then by a cloth dipped in very fine brick-dust; a good gloss may also bo produced by rubbing with linseed oil and then holding trimmings or shavings of the same material against the work in the heat. Glass paper, followed by rubbing, also gives a good luster. There are various means of toning or darken­ ing woods for decorative effect--log­ wood, lime, brown soft soap, dyed oil, sulphate of iron, nitrate of silver ex­ posed to the sun's rays, carbonate of soda, bichromate and permanganate of potash, and other alkaline preparations are used for darkening the wood; the last three are specially recommended^ The solution is applied by dissolving one ounce of the alkali in two gills of boiling water, diluted to the required tone. The surface is saturated with a soft sponge or flannel, and immediately dried with soft rags. The carbonate is used for dark woods. Oil tinged with rose madder may l>e applied to hard woods like birch, and a red oil is pre­ pared from soaked alkanet root in lin­ seed oil. The grain of yellow pine can be brought out by two or three coats of japan much diluted with turpentine, and afterward oiled and rubbed. To Eve mahogany the appearance of age, ne-water used liefore oiling is a good plan. In staining wood the best and most transparent effect is obtained by re] >eated light coats of the same. For oak satin, a strong solution of oxalic acid is employed; for mahogany, dilute nitrous acid. A primary coat or a coat of wood fillers is advantageous. For mahogany stains the following are given : Two ounces of dragon's blood dissolved in one quart of rectified spirits of wine, well shaken; or raw sienna in beer, with burnt sienna to give the re­ quired tone; for darker stains boil a half-pound of madder and two ounces of logwood chips in one gallon of water and brush the decoction while hot over the wood. When dry paint with a so­ lution of two ounoes of potash in one quart of water. A solution permanga­ nate of potash forms a rapid and excel­ lent brown stain.--Building News. WKRE I to make trial of any person's qualificat'ons for a union of so much delicacy, there is no part of his conduct I w uld sooner single out than to ob­ serve h>m in his resentments. And this no upon the maxim frequently ad- v «nc<d, "that the b-at friends make the bitterest enemies," but o*i the con­ trary, because I am |>ersnaded that he who is capable of bein r a bitter enemy can never IKHMCSS the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend.--Melmoth. A Southern California Ylneyard. J It was the mature vintage season no# -f in the country around San Jose. Santfe ' Glara County, of which San Jose is th«*lu3 county-seat, boasts of a number of acre* -1 of grape-vines under cultivation {some- - thing over eleven thousand) larger than; any but one other in the State, that of I Sonoma. Napa, however, also to the- - north, and Los Angeles, to the souths S greatly surpass it in the number of gal- If Ions of wine and brandy made. ^ We visited the Le Frank vineyard^ *1 which d°tes from 1851, and was" thek | pioneer in the way of making wine- | growing, a regular business venture.. 1 Here there are about one hunt^red andL ;3 seventy-five thousand vines set out 1 --a thousand, perhaps, to the acre. The« 1 largo cheerful farm buildings are upoa f a gentle rise of ground above the areas. 1 of vines, which is nearly level. An Al- sacian foreman shows us through thet 1 wine-cellars. A servant-maid bustling- 1 al»out the yard Is a thorough French. J peasant, only lacking the wooden shoes, "f The long tables set for the forty hands, 1 employed in the vintage time, are spread 1 with viands in the French fashion.. 1 Scarcely a word of English is spoken., J At other places the surroundings are», g exclusively Italian. One feels very; much abroad in the soenes of this new industry on American soil. A certain- romantic interest attaches to it where-. ever found. The great tuns in the wine- cellars, and all the processes, seem de-_; lightfully clean. It is reassuring to see^ the pure juice of the grape poured out in such floods, and to know that at this; source of supply there is to be no need* founded in scarcity at least, of adulter­ ation. Heavy loads of grapes are driven up„ across a weighing scale, and lifted to an, upper story, and put into a hopper„ where the stems come off, and the fruit ^ falls through into a crusher. It is light- ' ly crushed at first. It is something of a discovery to find that the first product of grapes of every variety is white wine. Bed takes its hub from the coloring mat­ ter in the skins, which are utilized in a subsequent rougher treatment. It is. not necessary to describe all the various processes of the work, the racking off, clarifying, and the like, though, having been favored with so much of the com­ pany of persons who spoke with author­ ity on these matters, and were continu­ ally holding up little glasses to the light- with gusto, like the figures in certain popular chromos, I consider myself to- yield in knowledge of the subject to but few. Immense upright casks contain­ ing a warm and audibly fermenting mass, and others lying down, neatly var­ nished, and with concave ends, are the- most salient features in the dimly lighted wine-cellars. 1 They are not cellars, properly so- called. They are wholly above-ground, and the casks rest on wooden sills up­ held by short brick posts. Three to four tons of grapes to the acre are counted upon here; while further south, where irrigation is used, it is from eight to twelve. But it is claimed, in the standing controversy on the subject, that the irrigated grapea are watery, while those of the lesser yield excel them in quality. The best- results here, we are told, are secured • from such vines as the Mataro, Carig- nane, and Grenache, imported cuttings from the French slope of the Pyrenees. There are; on the Le Frattc place, less than sixty different varieties under probation, many others of which will, no doubt, give an excellent account of themselves in time. They are from Greeoe, Italy, Palestine and the Canary Islands, the remotest sections of the earth, and each has its own interest, historical as well as botanical. Every phase of the subject, too, has its at­ tractions, from the rude preparation of a few hundred gallons each for their own use by the Italians and Portuguese to the manufacture of American cham­ pagne on a great scale by the Hungar­ ian, Arpad Harasztliy, at San Francis­ co. The pure American families have , not yet acquired the habit of looking upon wine as a necessity.-- W. H. Bi&l*- op, in Harper's Magazine. Onr Presidents. We print below a list of dates of^tho birth and death of each President of the- United States down to the present time: President*. Born. Died. Washington.....Feb. 22, 1TW Doc. 14,1799. Adams Oct.. 30, 1736 July 4,1826. Jefferson April 2, 1743 July 4, 1S26. Madison. March 10, 1751 June 28,183d. Monroe April 28, 1758 July 4,1831. Adam? July 11, 1707 Ffib. 23, 184& Jackson March 15, 1707 June 8, 1845. Van Buren ..Dec. 5, 1782 July 24, 1802. Harrison Feb. 9, 1773 April 4, lHtL Tyler March 29, 1790 Jan 17,1802. Polk Nov. 2, 1795 June 15,1849. Taylor Nov. 24, 1784 June 9, 1850. Fillmore Jan. 7, 1800 March 8,1874. Pierce Nov. 23, 1804... .Oct. 8.1889. Buchanan April 23, 1791... June 1. IDAS. Lincoln Feb. 12, 1N09 April 15,1865. Johnson Dec. 29, 18m... .July 31,187S. Grant April 27, 1822 ...... 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