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' m VM ^nHwntlt ILLINOIS • ) « > , ?,fv . tf •.' >'/i few'iw &4 ;*»«****«• #h&i 4*1 $»,*"! W* ,' -}*'> **it< * »*'f. smi* »f«„ii.n* y#; > •. 's-m *j.' t<0# . ».*fe #$«•» J* r-»tl •-• *' -n • ' .'-|ff i/.-tt toWMSBSmiL PBOCEEPUGS. Ma. Ooombbj. piwmtH * memorial laths ( Deo, frecn tin MNkMta) wuntest- imen of St. Louis opposing tot WwTi»oriil»| law of mt, wfcka tMgaraukkars to m4nn low irini of making vtMgw without pay- ka Tfcs Senate oon: of Both General of t. ikg H»U^> aSf % t Ml before the Hones k *m itingthe transmitting report ot **«, and tb« man relating litMi, Mid exeontien of the onnell. Laid ob tho table for Efedca Ciillilt announoed the oommittees, and the House adjourned ipany oraft bearing the American mi »nan illi'lii0"'>^!u a Director of that oom- ?l?;w -nisfi-K «»WW» arose and said the corporation was ne- , ^toSattug for the sale of their steamers, as ' could net be run with profit under the *T' i, *tara^ aod stripes, but oould be under Kn- nOEKAST. At the New England society's ban- qmt tn Philadelphia after Prealdent Arthur isMpendedto a toast, and while 8eoretaiy qwaktaf of the American V> 4^5-jBtoaanatolpoompany as being the only line of ^ > *.* *•• «* '* ^.' i£. •" • "v :/?% ^gland's ensign. J i f f C * . » v U « • ^ I C K a n d D y d e B r i g h t f o u g h t •» « . j eighty-seven rounds near Wiikeebarre, « 4if *, hi '""chrfttmas day,for $200 a aide, Pedler winning If • - ' i4' ? "M the contest, In which gnat brutality and en- S».m ^^ownoewerediap'ayed.. »'• THB WICffTs \ J* * A tsbbible railroad accident on the ' "* t' Louisville, New Albany ft Chicago railroad ?l*m 'occurred Christmas eve, near Salem, Ind., * '•* *tv "'** 'JrvtJi 'ft resulting In the death of seve& persons and wounding of a number of others. The -t i; • ,'l# -HI where the aooldent happened Is the F bridge over Blue river. The stream is a nar- "je"'1' * 1 ;!"rtw one, and In the summer time is an in- tbS^* •& ii" '"" '^significant brook. The speedy melting of , L ^now and the heavy rain following had swol- W" ^?>n}^fllen It to undiic proportions. The flood had 4h*t 5*i;iWMl,ed away the earth from under U. "i, <*1>® shore-supports Of the bridge, ren- the structure weak and shaky '^afJiaCfce train coosistad of a baggage car, amok- r #* : j, tag car, ladies' car, and the Pullman buffet W#* ?'f%ar Eecarla. Just after the engine-had i$i safely across the bridge suddenly feci': "' 5 :*®ttted. The awful crash followed. The sK}4> !>^hum is about forty feet deep. The bag» ' i oar pM«W' headlong into the river; t!: t ,!'•*•« s, .:. while the other ears telescoped and were : v«i® ;VV smashed. Some of them, however, re- 1* i- ,v' &*. partially 00 the track, although what was left of the cars waa scarcely anything *' • ";•'** but debris. The brk^g^ was only about half Jv'tfsf 4««galn as long as a paaaenjrer coach, so that V- 1116 cars not *° tato'" the water. A *»• %? rltzvi"^W*;#'®aoene of excitement and confusion ensued, *tt tfie passengers, many of whom were "braised and otherwise injured, began crawlfeg out of the coaches. Some were •deep lit' the bullet car, but managed to get out all right. Through the overturning ef the stoves the wreck caught fire, and all that was above water burned. Chabum Haxvxy was taken from the at Petersburg, Ind., by a large but orderly j , mob of dtlsens and hanged in sight of the Jan. He was Charged with the murder of Henry Costfn, Jr., and was also suspected of / being responsible for the incendiary fires ' s which IMttlj dNtM^cd the town, ifj. dispatch fiynn Telluride, Cola, fefey* that "a snow-elide oame down Marshall carrying off a shaft-house at f 5 the Mendota mine containing fourteen • *men' eight of whom were killed Two were wounded if •.* Qlt V^teii h wff t r • - V " - • ' tMU, ¥^"f^f0ur duir themselves out." >t.« ;(<3aL) telegram reports that -•-'v'^occurred near Montezuma, and Alma snow-slide oocuiTed near Montezuma, which carried :'.w9,•$*f,J Jtikn Headstrom, John Ahlstrom and John three miners, half a mile down tho _ mountain. Ahlstroni and Ling were badly frmeh and will probably die. Headstrom Is ~ most have been killed." In the streets of Yazoo, Miss., a party si of negroes fired upon a band led by John P. V4 * wWt0 business man, killing Posey two others and wounding two more. U f* jr J Posey had been insulted by a negro and went t off to oollect his friends. The negro did the ikk*' t • f ' l i > ja same thing, and his band unexpectedly y*.*™opened fire as soon as the Posey party out in Ii-jzi an appearance. The negro leader was killed while mMuur arrest, and the City Council, after an Investigation, resolved that the con­ flict was entirely personal, and not the result -i'Jt " of race rancor or political difficulties.. *' Fifty armed men took three persons of bad ;; reputation from a saloon at McDade, Tex., V carried them to the outskirts, and hanged £ them. The following day, friends of the r lynched men came to McDade, and picked a v •*«*»• WL»»>T aV quarrel, when a fight with shot-guns and re- 'J" volvers ensued. In which three men were Mfpi killed, and one badly wounded.... if nx *' H jt ^ band of desperadoes are terrorizing the 4 * *>• * ' V northern section of Grayson county, Tex. r »* f • * 'j& Tfcey recently killed two persons and burned aehurch and school-house A turkey sfeoot near Paris, Ky., aided In the killing of two tftt ..I , negroes by another netrro. |$£-« i.W * A Tamily named Boss, the parents • H : i r n . ; ' " i ^ f } a a d f i v e c h i l d r e n , w e r e d r o w n e d I n a s u d d e n ?•,- ^ rise in Hardy creek, Trimble county, Ky. a* The neighbors heard their soreams, but did - " ^ not venture out In the nifrht. The following L- »«,-* •• - - " • 'wzB-pfet* ifi0 mif : : Oi* it ' '<• w.ufKi'A •>*$ >f- i it" j' •> . t*i %4_i «fc,' •*!,« '1: :<&$*•> i* - % % H r % • '*>|̂ • f* as ar •tOiMM prsswa sne snpe tendftff flit right Of mfftkji Would ijwssM ia Ptfttittasat. .7 ,lfc> have assared tbeMtaBtf^nqr that AnMuu wfltcoMlame kqntiteliliB. aadtkat the# Will have nothing to do wHhthe false Pro^iet--In the French Chamber, M. Bexk was victorious on the park question, the re­ sult of whicfa will be the witMmwuof the deore\ recently pubUahed, permitting the imoortatlon of rtiaafifian meats.... Steee the visit of the German Crown Prince to the Pope, t*>e Bighth corps of the German army has been placed In command of Gen. von Loe, a Catholic Fifteen students were burned to death In a Jewish school at Galata, a suburb of Constantinople- Lotta ap­ peared for the first time in London last week, fM was hissed and guyed unmercifully. The London< critics are very severe on the iin actress. It is ststed that Franoe will not be­ gin negotiations for peace until her forties occupy Bao Ninh, and thit the Itenoh loss of life at Sontay was greater thanreported. Ito Chinese are active in the Bed Biver delta oon- Structlngdefenses ....ftrtythomand looms are Idle In Lancashire, Bngland. There threatens to be an equally oolossal strike of miners In Torkshlre. fla Ironworkers tn yranoe are also dtooontenteA ADDITIONAL HEWS* The banks of Providence hold 1767,000 of the paper of A. D. Smith.* Co., the bankrupt manufacturers..... In slighting from his coupe at his resldenoe in New Tork, Gen. GChnt slipped and fell upon the icy Side­ walk, being painfully wounded near the hip. No bones were broken, but the sciatic nerve was bruised and the General is compelled to keep his bed... .S. C. Blodgett, recently Treas­ urer of the Providence (R. I.) Institution for Savings, is a defaulter and fugitive from Jus- t cs. Ho had served the bank for thirty-sev­ en years, and closed his oareer by the theft of &0,lKH). Bishop Warrxx, o? the Methodist dlooeae of Georgia, was married to Mrs. Iliff, of Denver, Cotb., at that oity^iwt weok. Bishop Simpson pfficiated..,.Johti A. Clark was hanged at Boseman, Montana, for the murder of Thomas Rogers. The Atchafalaya bridge of the Texas Pacific road, a structure 1,015 feet in length, has been completed, and trains are now cross­ ing. The construction of this bridge was begun in September, 1681, and the cost ap­ proximates $5(10,000.... Archbishop Perche died iu New Orleans last week. In the. riot at Harbor Grace, New­ foundland, two Orangemen and,two Catholics were killed, and eight persons mortally and about twenty slightly wounded. Col. Henry R. Rathbone, of Albany, N. Y., while traveling in Germany, killed his wife in Hanover Christmas day, and then at­ tempted suicide. Col. Rathbone and the lady he has murdered (in 1865 Miss Harris) were slttin? in the box at Ford's theater when the assassin Booth entered and killed Abraham Lincoln The French Government has instructed Ad­ miral Courbet to follow up his victory at Sontay with the utmost haste compatible with safety Bussian Nihilists are quarrel­ ing among themselves. * %tL mm-- v. #•' uW " '^*'4•«,**./ ,.,4 ' - • : •• - <*-; • "*•) - ' ' ti'Jif *$??• - • « } - * f r morning the cabin and inmates were all miss­ ing. WASHINGTON. Jraoi Wylie, of the Washington Criminal court, rendered a decision in the case of ex-Senator Spencer, charged with contempt of court in failing to appear in the star-route trial. The Judge hela that the subpoena was not a subpoena because there was no penalty to it; that it had been im­ properly served and returned, and therefore be held the case was not one of contempt, and discharged the prisoner. Mb. Buckner, Chairman of the Com­ mittee on Banking and Currency, is prepar­ ing a bill to Introduce when Congress recon­ venes. It provides for the Issuing of Treas­ ury notes without the legal-tender quality to take the plaoeof bank notes going out of ex­ istence. The purport of the measure is the same with that of the bill introduced by Mr. Buckner during the first session of the last Congress. Secretary Teller and a party of agents and inspectors will soon go to Mus- eogee, Indian Territory, to investigate the Creek troubles and make """"mirttotnln feting about a settlement. CUENEBA&. A. D. Smith & Co., of Providence, It. 1., operating ST^MO ootton spindles, have failed for f1,000,000. The crash is a highly disastrous one, carrying with it the suspen­ sion of three great companies besides the five mills run by the ruined firm. Other failures of the week are as follows: Bomann & Von Bermith, worsted goods, New York, liabil­ ities $75,000; Willis Bronson, real estate. New York, liabilities •250,000; J. W. Woolfolk, cotton factory, Columbus, Ga., liabilities 1200,000; J. P. McAfee, hardware, Cellna, Ohio, liabilities $20,000; W. H. Kingsley, grain, AllenSvllle, IU., liabilities $26,000; Don­ ald Gordon, dry goods, Rochester, Oswego and Mexico, N. Y., liabilities 1200,000; Lockhart & Strlght, dry goods, Albany, Ind.,llabilitie,$12,- 000; S. Jacobus, dry goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities, $40,000; Gordon, Barker & Co., millers, Sparta, IU., liabilities, $160,000; Geo. Brooks ft Bro., hardware, Allerton, 111., liabilities$18,000; H. S. Gilbert & Co., grain and commission, Ottawa, 111., liabilities, $250,- 000; 80per & Co., auctioneers, Baltimore, liabilities, $35,000; French & McKnlght, dry goods, Erie, Pa., liabiilt es, $34,000; Horatio E. Davis & Co., dry Koods, Boston; Lamborn ft Gray, bankers Alliance, Ohio; J. B. Lam bert, dry goods Chuttanooga, Tenn-, liabili­ ties $53,000. VOBE1QH. Prince Bismarck is urging the Emperor of Austria shall visit the King of Italy to give external confirmation of the triple alliance. If the programme is carried out the Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain will meet in Rome in the spring, and the King of Italy and the Emperor of Ger­ many at Berlin.... King Humbert and the Italian office's pro represented «« very much annoyed at the German Crown Prince's teeent visit to the Vatican. The Italian inon- How the Son Sets Officially. At Governor's Island the sun is not only made to go down with a big bang 'at the nation's expense, bnt the opera­ tion is preceded by an astonishing amount of red tape. By a regulation of the War department the management of the affair must be carried out by the corporal of the guard. One corporal of the guard, as noon draws near, fixes his eye upon the Western Union time-ball, over in New York, which can be dis­ cerned with the unassisted human eye from the guard house. When the ball falls the corporal says as much to an­ other corporal, who instantly sets the guard house clock. The second cor­ poral then tglls a third corporal to set all the clocks on the island. While the third corporal is setting all the clocks the second corporal hunts up the hour provided for sunset in the almanac and writes it down on a slip of paper. A fourth corporal carries this slip to a fifth corporal at Castle William. The fifth corporal waits until his clock, as corrected by the third corporal, marks the hour designated on the slip of paper furnished by tlie second corporal, and then gives a signal to a sixth corporal, whereupon a bugle is blown, the gun is discharged, and the sun has gone down officially.--Buffalo Express. He Swore Himself, San Francisco Chronicle: A Mon­ tana Postmaster, who arranges the mails for the little town of Birney, lives eightj miles from a notary public. When he sent in his first quarterly report he administered the oath to him­ self and then certified to the correct­ ness of the account. A reply soon came back from the red-tape head­ quarters in Washington that he had violated a sacred precedent and must get a notary to swear him. His retort was that he knew no preoedent which would insure him mileage and traveling expenses for 160 miles in order to get a notary's signature. This left the de­ partment not a leg to stand upon,' and they have since preserved a discreet silence and allowed the Montana pa^ to swear as he pleased. : W- ; @ 6.75 & 1.10 & 1.1s 15.25 & 7.00 & 6.00 & 6.50 <0 6.(50 ®i 5.00 ® 5.50 & 1.02 013.75 pus MABKET. NEW YORK. BttV*S.». Hoos Floub--Snperfine •.... Wheat--No. 2 Chicago No. 2 Bed Cobs--No. 2 Oats--No. X Pork--Mesa Labd .09 CHICAGO. Beeves--Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.00 Common to Fair. B.2S _ Medium to Pair >.00 Hoos. COO Floub -Kancy White Winter Ex S.25 Good to Choice 8pr'g Ex 5.00 Wheat--No. 3 Spring No. 2 Med winter. Cobs--No. 2 ;..... OATS--NOL % liTi:--No. 2 Hai:i.ey--No X B LTiKii--Choice Eogh--Kresh.... l'ORK--Mess. Labd MILWAUKEE. Wheat--No. 2 Cobn--No. 2 Oats--No. 2 Rye--No. 2 Barley--No 2 Pork--Mess Labd sr. LOUIS. Wheat--No. 2 Bed. Cobn--Mixed Oats-- No. 2 Rye. Pork--Mess Labd CINCINNATI. Wheat--No. 2Red ;... Corn Oats Eye Poke--Mom Labd TOLEDO. Wheat--No. 2 Bed Corn Oats-No. 2 DETROIT. Flour Wheat--No. 1 White Corn--No. 2 Oats--Mix jd Posk--Mess INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat--NC. 2 Bed 09 Cobn--No. 2. 59 OATS-rMlxed 82 EAST LIBERTY, PA Cattle--Best 7.00 <9 b.s<> Fair 6.50 & 7.00 Common 4.60 (9 g.oo Hoos S.60 #6.60 4.50 & 6.00 IBeootd of tie mm of Oocor- to th® nil'm tear. & .87 & Ml .33 & .Si .68 & .69 M & .63 14.00 <$14.60 a 60 u.oo 1.02t 0 1.04 •4S & .49 .80 & .32 .64 .56 14.29 @14.75 ,O8>&0 .09 1.04 & 1.05 .53Ht« .54H .83 0 .34 .60 .61 14.26 <416.00 .0S»« .08* 1.03 .64 .83 4.78 IM .64 .86 14.75 & l.OiKj & .56 0 .34 0 6.50 & 1.06 «• .56 0 .87 @916.25 0 1.01 -§ :S JASVAnr. 1. Ferry-boat sinks near Frankfort, Ger­ many; thirty-five people drowned. Several white men killed by blacks in a riot at Oco­ nee, Ga. f ttwrrjr-boat tn Jackson county, N. C., up­ sets, drowning nineteen negro convicts. 8. Destructive Hoods atony the rivers Hhlne and Danube; nearly 100 lives lost. Bark Star of the West lost In the Atlantic ocean, fifteen people perishinar. 4. Four men killed at Muskegon, Mich., and three at Black Horse Landing, W. Va., by boiler explosions. United States Senate passes the Civil Service Reform bill. 6. Dteoovery of a heavy defalcation by State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee. 6. Remains of John Howard Payne Shipped from Tunis to the United States. 7. Steamer City of Brussels sinks in the English channel; ten persons drowned. 0. Ten men killed by a mine explosion at CoultervlUe, 111. Five men killed by a burst­ ing boiler at Bethlehem, Pa. Ship Empire sinks at sea; sixteen lives-lost. 10. Burning of tho A'ewhall house, Mil­ waukee; nearly 100 lives lost. Terrible floods In Hungary; over fifty people drowned. 18. Over 800 people burned to death in a circus building at Berditscheff, ltunsla. 14. Twenty people killed by a railway acci­ dent at Oamerlata, Italy. Pour persons lost their lives by a fire in the Planters' house, St. Louis. 15. Attempted assassination of the Sultan ot Turkey. 16. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrested in Paris for issuing a manifesto claiming the throne. Five persons burned to death in a London tenement house. 17. Eight people killed by a boiler explosion on a steamer in Port Susan Bay, Pacific coast. Meeting of the National Republican commit­ tee at Washington. 18. Iowa Supreme Court pronounces the State Liquor law unconstitutional. Four men killed by a boiler explosion at Mansfield, La. Phenomenally cold weather in the far West. 19. 8teamer Cimbrla sinks in the German ocean; nearly 400 people drowned. • Forty people killod by a powder explosion at Mui- den, Holland. Bobberies in Southwestern Nevada, involving the killing of five citizens and two highwaymen. 20. Six men drowned off a Gloucester fish­ ing schooner. Twenty-five people killed by a railway accident near Los Angeles, Cal. In tensely cold weather throughout the North­ west, lasting five days. 21. Nine peopl ® drowned by the sinking of ship Forwarts, off Lisbon, Portugal. Several persons killed by a boiler explosion at Elkton, Md. Thirty Chinamen blown to atoms by an explosion of giant powder near San Fran­ cisco. 22. Several lives lost by the sinking of the German bark Meta, off the Mexican coast. 23. The French cabinet resigns in a body. Twelve persons killed by a railroad smash-up near Keyser, W. Va. A mother in Milwaukee murders and carves in pieces her threo little children. Eight persons drowned by tne sink­ ing of the brig Mariposa In Long Island sound. Political excitement in France; ex- Empress Eugenie ordered to quit the repub­ lic. 24. News of the butchery of forty ship­ wrecked sailors by savages in New Guinea. Davitt, Healy and Quinn found guilty at Dub­ lin of using seditious language. 25. Burial at Milwaukee of the forty-three unidentified victims of the Newhall house horror. 28 Four men accidentally drowned at Shreve- port, La., and four killed at Beading, Pa., by the caving in of a mine. 27. Wreck of a steamer near Swansea, Wales; nineteen lives lost. 28. A caving mine at Buoksvllle, Pa., kills five laborers. A now cabinet formed in France. 20. A family of nine persons in Laurens county, 8. C„ eat a goose that had been bit­ ten by a mad dog, and all of them die of hy­ drophobia. Five negroes drowned while try­ ing to cross Georgia river. A hurricane at Denver, Col., destroys 1200,000 worth of prop­ erty. The steamer Black Watch lost on the Welsh coast; twenty-six persons drowned. 80. Eight men killed by snow-slides in Colo­ rado. Seven men killed by a fire-works explo­ sion at Arnecameca, Mexico. 81. Four children burned to death at Das- sel, Minn. Disoovery of; a defalcation of 9250,000 by the Alabama State Treasurer. Steamer Ansonia lost on the coast of Tripoli; twenty people drowned. FEBKCAHT. 1. A panic in a woolen factory at Bombay (•suits in the death of thirty people. 2. The steamer Tacoma lost on the Oregon coast; twelve people drowned. The steam­ ship James Gray founders on the English ooast; twenty-four lives lost. 8. Disastrous floods throughout the Middle States. News of the lynching of ten men in Montana Territory. Failure of the Union Iron and Steel company at Chicago. 4. Thirty-two lives lost by the sinking of the steamer Kenmore Castle, in the Bay of Biscay. Oapt. "Oklahoma" Payne and his follow- !S arrested in the Indian Territory. 8. A steamer wrecked-off Harwich, Eng., •nd all on board, twenty-six in number, lost. 9. Seven men killed by a boiler explosion at Taylorville, 111. 10. Brig Zion lost in the Atlantic; ten peo­ ple drowned. Five lives lost by the burning of the steamer Gem, on the Oregon coast. The authors of the Phoenix Park (Dublin) murders brought to light. 12. Fourteen fishermen drowned at Tar- mouth, Eng. » 18-15. Floods cause great destruction of property along the Ohio river. 10. A mine flooded by a cave-in at Braid- wood, 111., causing the drowning of eighty colliers, Four children burned to death at Brackett, Texas. 17. Dr. Hugh Glenn, the largest farmer in the world, murdered in California. 19. A panic in a Catholic school in New Tork, results in the death of 19 children. 20. Fourteen eailo'rs drowned by a collision on the Scotch coast. Dorm an B. Eaton, John M. Grogoryand L. D. lhoman appointed Civil Service Commissioners. 21. Jules Ferry organizes a new ministry hrFrance. U. S. steamer Ashuelotsunk off Hongkong and eleven of the crew drowned. Germany prohibits the importation of Amer­ ican pork. Perry H. Smith, a Chicago mill­ ionaire, adjudged insane. 24. The freight steamer Glamorgan lost in the Atlantic; eight persons drowned. 24. Three children burned to death at Mon­ tague, Mich. MARCH. I. Jim Elliott, tho prize-fighter, killed at Chicago by Jerry Dunn. The long Senatorial contest ended in Michigan by the election of Thos. W. Palmer. Marriage at, Washington Of Senator Tabor, of Colorado. 8. Steamer Yazoo sinks In the Lower Mis­ sissippi; 10 lives lost. 4. The Klddleberger law dcelarod unconsti­ tutional bythe Virginia Legislature. United States Treasurer Gilflllan resigns. 7. Train robbery near Foit Smith, Ark. Marriage of ex-Gov. William Sprague, of Rhode Island. Imprisonment for debt abol­ ished in Nov la Scotia. 7. Three persons oremated at Frederick, Md., by the burning of a house. 9. Seven men drowned opposite Jersey City by tho sinking of a ferry-boat. 10. Eleven men cremated by the burning of a boarding-house at Bi owasville, Dakota. II.-The day set apart by Prof. Wiggins for his great storm, which fulled to materialize. 12. Patrick Egan. Treasurer of the Land league, arrives at New York. 18. The Missouri Lo.l*luture enacts a Stringent high-license liquor law. 14. Judge David Davis married to Miss Burr, of North Carolina. 16. Startling explosion In London, attrib­ uted to Fenian agents. A. N. Wyman ap­ pointed United States Treasurer. 17. Excitement In England over the al­ leged assault on Lady Florence Dixie. 90. Tennessee enacts a law abolishing pub­ lic executions SI. Six lives lost by the sinking of an oyster boat at Baltimore. , 22. Mount Vesuvius in a state of eruption. 23. Six men killed in a fight between caitte hetdcrs In Arieona. Indian outb euk in Ari­ zona. Several people ulau. hterecl. The re­ mains of John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home," arrive at New York from Tunis, Africa, whe.e ho died in 1852. Six miners killed by a gas explosion at Lost IWNBM 'Sf if.&»> tour for the benefit of his w poisons burned to death at Hart- I. Y., and three at Elsbury, N. T. a great fire sit fnuiiiue, Peru. News of raoeeon the aneof the Panama Micbaer Davitt writes a letter de­ nouncing the dynamite policy of the Irish. 5. The Coroner's jury in the BraidwOod mine disaster exonerates the mine owners front blame. ^ 7. Disastrous floods in Austria and Poland. 8. A hotel burned at Greenville, Texas, and eight guests cremated. 11. Judge Gresham, the new Postmaster General, enters upon his duties. The bill for lOSal self-government in Ireland defeated in the British House of Commons. 12. Prohibition defeated in the Connecticut Legislature. Earthquake Bhocks in Southern Illinois. Wisconsin's first cotton factory opened at Sheboygan Falls. 13. Six negro children poisoned to death at McDSHnott, Ark., and three burned to death in Grant county. Ark. Discovery of rich silver nines In East Tennessee. The first iron tailing vessel ever built in America liuMtMd at Philadelphia. Charles Smith, of Delaware county, Iowa, kills his wife and two chiMifenand commits suicide. Brady, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, sentenced to death at Dublin. 14. First tornadoes of the season felt in Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska. 15«^Burning of the Atlantic House and threedrueste at Albia. Iowa. 16. Twontv-si * Nihilists sentenced at Odessa, Russia. Three children burned to death at Portsmouth, Texas. 17. .Prohibition killed in the Delaware Legislature. The Scott liquor license law pasaed by the Ohio Legislature. 10, 'Eighteen Nihilists sentenced at St. Petersburg. 20. Four men drowned at Seattle, W. T., andfttur at Wllliamsport, Pa., by the upset­ ting Of boats. Prohibition voted down by the Pennsylvania Legislature. Eight people killed by a falling wall at Sacramento, Cal. 21. Bloody fight between citizens and cirous men at Dover. Del. Five persons drowned at New Bedford, Mass., and seven at San Frandteco, by the upsetting of boats. 27. Michael Fagin sentenced to death at Dublin. Congressman Phil Thompson kills Walter Davis at Harfodsburg, Ky. MAT* 1. Spur men killed in a riot at Marshall, Tex. 2. Aoquittal of Fits Harris, the fifth man tried at Dublin for the murder of Lord Cav­ endish. 8. Four people run over and killed by a train at Gowan, Mich. Seven men killed by a mine accident at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Severity Chinamen drowned by the wrecking of the steamer Grappler oil the Pacific coast. 0. Moody and £ankey return from Europe. Battle between Mexican troops and Apache Indians, in Mexico. 7. Arthur 8ullivan, author of "Pinafore," made a Knight. , 11. Suielde of Amasa Stone, the wealthiest man in Cleveland, Ohio. 18. Destructive tornado in Missouri. Bo­ nanza Fair, the Nevada Senator, divorced from his wife. 14. Joe Brady, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, hanged at Dublin. 10. Fitz Harris, the cab-driver, convicted at Dublin. Meeting at Washington of, the So­ ciety of the Army of the Potomac. Congress­ man Philip Thompson acquitted at Harrods- burg, Ky. A series of cyclones in Illinois and Wisconsin kills upward of seventy peo­ ple and destroys much property. Daniel Curley, one of the Phoenix Park assassins, hanged at Dublin. Stejuner Granite State burned on the Connecticut river; five lives lost. 10. Carey, the informer, turned loose at Dublin. l 20. Heavy gale on the Northern lakes; many vessels wrecked, with considerable loss of life. 22. The Czar enters Moscow with great pomp. The ceremony of blessing the Bussian imperial flag performed at Moscow. * 24. Opening of the great East Biver bridge. JUNK. 2. Destructive cyclone at- Greenville, Texas. Thomas Caffrey, the fourth of the Phoenix park conspirators, banged in Dublin. Healy and Davitt released from Imprisonment in Ireland. 6. Democratic State convention of Iowa. Republican State convention of Ohio. 7. Lynching bee at Waverly, Iowa. «8. One hundred and fifty people killed by. a ofltfHwxplosiootat Scutari, Albania. 9. Timothy Kelly hanged at Dublin for the murder of Lord Cavendish. Suleiman Daoud executed at Alexandria. 10. Five men killod by a boiler explosions t College Point, L. L 11. Five persons drowned at Benjamin. Utah, by the capsizing of a boat. Violent storms In Iowa and Wisconsin. Gen. Crook returns to Arizona from a successful Indian hunt in Mexico. 18. N. L. JJUkes killed by young Nutt at Unolntown, Pa. Greenbaok convention in Ohio. Arguments concluded in the star- route trial; the jury render a verdict of ao­ quittal. 14. The dynamite oonaplrators, Gallagher and others, convicted and sentenced at Lon­ don. 15. The high llconse liquor law passes the Illinois Legislature. 16. Meeting of the Ohio Prohibition con­ vention. Great excitement on the Chicago Board of Trade, caused by the failure of Peter MoGeoch. 17. Destructive rain and windstorms in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Over 200 children killed at Sunderland, En­ gland, by a panic and rush in a public hall. Fourteen people drowned by floods near Seneca, Kas. 21. Ohio Democratic convention. Destruc­ tive tornados in Missouri and Kansas. 22. Four train-robbers executed in Ar­ kansas. Two men lynched in Tennessee. 23. Twenty-five lives lost by the sinking of the steamship W altar a, off Portland, England. 24. Great damage in the region of St. Louis by an overflow of the Mississippi river. 26. The Oh o Supreme court decides the Scott Llqnor law constitutional. The Cabinet at Washington decides to a!d in preventing the landing of "assisted" emigrants at New York. 29. A family of five persons drowned near Madison, Ind., by the upsetting of a boat. News of the drowning by floods of seventeen persons in Nemaha county, Neb. JULY. 1. Duel between two Kichmond (Va.) ed­ itors, Beirne and Blam. Terrible ravages of the cholera at Damietta, Egypt. Six persons killed by a railroad accident at Boselas, Fs. 2. Opening of the celebration, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, of the 883d anniversary of the settlement of the town. Tornadoes in Wis­ consin, Connecticut and Massachusetts. War waged on the trade dollar. 8. About 150 people drowned by an accident while launching a new steamer at Glasgow, Scotland. Six persons run down and killed by a trail near Cincinnati. 7. Female suffrage rejected bythe British House of Commons. Alarm in Europe over the spread of cholera la Egypt. 10. A British Parliament committee re­ ports against building the channol tunnel. Pe Lcsscps arranges with tho English Gov- %ernment for a second Sues canal. Destruo^ lve storms in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kan­ sas. 11. Thirty people drowsed a'- London, Ontario, by a sudden overflow, In tfcs night, of the river Thames. 12. National convention of colored editors at St. Louis, Mo. Andrew White, a wealthy citizen of Dwight, 111., while insane, murders bis wife and children and commits suicide. 13.~ Destructive tornadoes In Missouri, Kansas, Iow a, Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana. 14. Twenty pcoplo burned to death during afire In a Hungarian village. Exciting and bloody hunt for the assassins of Postmaster Clingan. of Polk City, Iowa. It!. Disastrous storms in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. 17. News of the sacking of the American oonsulate at Monterey, Mexioo. 18. Accident to chief Justice Waite, In Montana. Frost in some sections of Iowa. 19. Inauguration of the great strike of telegraph operators throughout the country. 21. A cyclone kills a number of people and destroys much property in Dakota and Min­ nesota. 'orms*|Mned in Sooth Afrlea. : ' A%ST. . 4 Eight people JUllwl by a railroad collision n^Jtowmai. Vt. -,r- New Hampshire Legislature elects Austin 9. Mint U. S. Senator, after balloting nearly twoinonths. 8~fi. Heavy ttottjins to the leather trade In the New England cities. 0. Serious revolt in Spain. Formidable anti-Jewish riots in Russia and Hungary. 8. Thirteen sailors drownec*. by the sinking of a bark off Dover, England. Four Irish dynamite conspirators sen­ tenced for life at Liverpool. 11. Burning of the Kimball house, the largest hotel in the South, at Atlanta. 12. Twelve men accidentally killed in a fall road tunnel in Montana. 18. Suicide of the wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa. The Mayor and other officials indicted at Baltimore for malfeasance. 15. Twenty men killed by a mine accident at Cornwall, England. 17. Seven persons killed by a railway col­ lision atLexington, Ky. 14. End of the long strike of the telegraph operators. 21. A tornado kills upward of forty people and destroys a vast amount of property in and about Rochester, Minn. Opening of the Knights Templar triennial eonclavfe at San Francisco. 22. News of a fearful massacre of Indians by Chilians In Peru. Completion of track- laying on the Northern Pacific railroad. 28. Five men perish in a burning building at Boston. Eighteen sailors drowned by a collision in the English channel. 27. News of the death of the Queen of Madagascar. 28, 29, 80. Volcanic eruptions in the island of Java cause frightful destruction of life and property; upward of 100,000 people killed. 81. Tho Czar of Russia visits the King of Denmark. The steamship Ludwlg, from Antwerp for Montreal, with seventy people on board, given up as lost SBPTEMBEtt. 2. Six persons killed by a boiler explosion at Franklin, Dakota. 8. A single highwayman robs the passen­ gers on a Utah railway train. A priest and six of his congregation killed by a thunder­ bolt in a church at Lagos, Mexico. Eleven working girls burned to death in a factory as Cincinnati. Over forty people killed by a railway train near Berlin, Germany. 4. King Alfonzo issues a proclamation restoring the constitutional guarantees in Spain. 7. President Arthur returns to Washington after an extended trip to the far West. Ac­ quittal of Frank James, the Missouri outlaw. 8. Formal opening of the Northern Pacific railroad. 9. Sale of the Horace Greeley farm at Chappaqua, N. T. 11. Serious riots at Canton, China. 12. Oklahoma Payne again arrested In the Indian Territory. 13. News of the disaster to the Greeley Arctic search expedition. Tvrelve people drowned by the sinking of a Norwegian snip in the English Channel. Celebration in Germany of Martin Luther's 400th birthday. 15. Prof. Swift, of Bochester, discovers the new comet. 16. The seventy-third anniversary of Mexi­ can Independence celebrated in the City of Mexico. 17. Yellow fever epidemic in Mexican cities. Bark Britannia lost near W^nf»y| N. S.; twelve people drowned. 18. King Koffee defeated in Ashantee after a bloody battle. 19. Great weavers' strike at Ashton, En gland. National convention of postal rail­ way clerks at St. Paul. Hurricane in Ba­ hama Islands; many vessels wrecked and sixty-five people drowned. 20. Fifteen coal minors killed in Westphalia by fire-damp explosion. Statue of Zachary Taylor unveiled at Louisville, Ky. Seven persons killed by a;boller explosion at Pitts­ burgh. 21. Roturn to Sweden of Nordenskjold, the Arctic explorer. Lord Chief Justice Cole­ ridge, of England, banqueted at Chicago, 22. Franoe torn up over the Chinese ques­ tion. 28. A boiler explosion at Shreveport, La., kills seven people. Extensive military prep­ arations in Russia. 21. Return to England of the family of Carey, the Irish informer. Agitation by tho Land Leaguers reopened in Ireland. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, heard from. 25. Destructive gale on Lakes Ontario and Erie. The Emperor of Germany appoints King Alfonso, of Spain, Colonel of a German regiment, whloh causes much ill-feeling in France. Terrible railroad accident In Bou­ rn an i a. New York morning newspapers re­ duce their prices. Heavy express robbery on a %raln at Laketon, Ind. 29. Attempted train robbery in Western Kansas. Snow-storm in Minnesota. 80. Forty Chinamen killed near San Fran­ cisco by the explosion of a powder-mill. The Spanish King hooted by a mob in Paris, which causes much excitement in Spain, ocrossn. 1. Snow-storm in Maine, 2. Evangelists Moody and Sankey sail for Ireland. Burning of the Pittsburgh Expoil- tion buildings. 4. A woman at Lampasas, Mexico, murders her five children and kills herself. The en­ tire Ministry of Norway impeached. 7. Nihilist proclamations issued in Buaala sentencing the Czar to death. 9. The pacing horse Johnson makes the fastest time at Chioago ever known, a mile In 2:10. News of the discovery in Alaska of an immense river. 10. Earthquake in California. Snow-storms in Nebraska and Colorado. 14. Seven persons drowned by the founder­ ing of a sehooner near Boston. War prepar­ ations in Prussia. Mysterious murder of Zora Burns, at Llnooln, 111. 15. The United States Supreme Court de­ cides the Civil Bights law unconstitutional. Forty women killed in a crush in a Jewish synagogue in Russia, caused by a false alarm of fire. 16. Epidemic of trichinosis in Saxony. Dis­ astrous storms on the English coast. 17. Over 200 lives destroyed by an earth­ quake in Asiatic Turkey. 18. Reappearance of the cholera in Egypt. 19. Twenty-five lives lost by a mine explos­ ion in England. 20. News of the signing of a treaty of peace between Chili and Peru. 21. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrives at New York. Snow-storm in Minnesota. Discovery of gold deposits at Lisbon, Dakota. 22. Heavy snow-storm in Colorado. 28. The Marquis of Lansdowne, new Gov­ ernor General of Canada, arrives at Quebec. Ten girls lose their lives by the explosion of a squib factory at Kingston, Pa. 261 News of the loss of five vessels on the Now England coast, and the drowning of twenty-seven persons. 26. News of war preparations in Russia and Germany. 27. Intelligence of more earthquakes in Asia Minor. Chief Justice Coleridge sails for England. 80. Mysterious explosions in the under­ ground railway tunnels in London, England. 81. Loss of the steamer Holyhead and fifteen lives in the Irish sea. Disastrous conflagration at Savannah, Ga.; ten lives lost. NOVEMBER. 1. Capture of a large gang of counterfeiters n Pike oounty, Ind. Orange disturbances at. Londonderry, Ireland. Conclusion of the Coroner's inquest into the Zora Burns murder mystery at Lincoln, 111. Snow-storm In New York. 3. Moody begins a six months' evangelis­ ing engagement in London. Political riot at Danville, Va., in which seven negroes are killed. 0. Eeven people killed and <200,000 worth of property destroyed by a cyclone at Spring­ field, Mo. 23. Eight men killed by falling brioks while repairing a blast-furnace at Syracuse, N. Y. Disastrous tornado In ln^toam county, Mich. 24. About eighty people drowned by the giving way of a steamboat pier near Baltl- r . p more, Md. Oapt. Webb, the famous swim- w li^rArv fit the bodies of a larire num- mor' drowned at Nisgara Falls. Hardy, one 26. Keoovery or tne ooaiesor a large num- f th r lb. ber of the victims of the mine di-aster on Feb. 10, near Braidwood, 111. 28. The Massachusetts Legislature passes a law providing for blonnlal elections in that State. 29. Count Von Szekbely, President of the Hungarian Court of Cassation, murdered. 80. News of tresh Indian massacres In Arizona. Several persons killod by a col­ lision on the dncinnu 1 Southern r llroid. 81. 'fwenty-tn ree pouj to drowned by a ship- Wreck at Holyhead, Englana. of the Folk county (Iowa) assassins, executed , by a mob. 125. Eight colored people drowned at Clare-mont, Va.. 26. Ex-Treasurer M. T. Polk sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn. 28. Thirty-six persons killed by a mine ex­ plosion in Sicily. Over 6,000 people killed by an earthquake on the Italian Island of Isetua, 2£. Twenty S~c paoplc killed bya railway accident near Albany, N. Y. Ten oolored If. JL • Train-: W|t Mason, tin '«f Chrtteau, pardoned by the _T. . ..... of the steamer Borne and gwynl|rq* twenty people in Lake Geneva, 28. OHhrstion In New Tork of the centen­ nial ualversary of the evacuation of that city by the British. Loss of the steamer Kolipsa, on Lake Ontario; eighteen people drowned. 80. Bloody fi ght between burglars and oOeers at Shelby, Ohio. Mrs. Riall, of Bal­ timore, kills her two children and commits suicide. DECXXBER. 1. Patrick O'Donnall, the -slayer of In­ former Carey, convicted and sentenced to death at London. 2. Eighteen people killed in a railway col­ lision in France. 8. Meeting of Congress at Washington. 4. loss of the steamer Princess Louise and nine of her crew, on the coast of Newfound­ land. 6. Attempted train robbery near Memphis, Tenn. 6. Dynamite explosion in Toronto;' Canada, loss of a pilot boat and ten persons in New York harbor. 7. Earthquake shock in Arkansas. Four men lynobed in Brown oounty. Neb. News of the loss of seventy sailors belonging to the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet. 8. Four Mexicans lynched at Fort Davis, Tex 12. Meeting at Washington of tile National Republican committee. 9. Steambarge Enterprise and eight per sons lost on Lake Huron. 11. An oyster sloop and ten men lost In Chesapeake bay, 12. Meeting of the State granges In Michi­ gan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Franoe decides to make war on China. 18. News of the murder of the King of An- nam. Defeat of the False Prophet's foroes at Suakim, in the Soudan. 14. Bloody political riot in New Orleans. 17. Patrick O'Donneil, the slayer of thai Informer Carey, hanged in London. 10. Sarah Bernhardt creates a sensation in Paris by horsewhipping Mile. Coloinbier. 20. News of assault and capture of Sontay, In Tonquin, by the French. 21. Bloody riot in the City of Mexico, caused by the introduction of the nickel ooin. 23. A family of six persons drowned while trying to cross a stream in Logan county; Ark. 24. Lynching of three men at McDade, Tex., and of one at Petersburg, Ind. 25. Bloody affray between whites and ne­ groes at Yazoo, Miss. 26. Another snow-slide in Colorado kills eight men. 27. An Orange riot in Harbor Grace, If. F.; four men killed. The Greek and the Christian Ideals* The Greek could not conceive a spirit} he could do nothing without limbs; hiS' god is a finite god, talking, pursuing and going journeys; if at any time he was touched with a true feeling ef the unseen powers around him, it was in the field of poised battle, for there is some­ thing in the near coming of the shadow of death, something in the devoted ful­ fillment of mortal duty, that reveals the true God, though darkly; that pause on the field of Platasa was not ope of vain superstition; the two white fig­ ures that blazed along the Delphic plain, when the earthquake and the fire led the charge from Olympus, were more than sunbeams on the battle-dust; the sacred cloud, with its lance light and triumph singing, that went down to brood over the masts of Salamis, was more than morning mists among the olives; and yet what were the Greek's thoughts of his god of battle? No spirit power was in the vision; it was a being of clay strength and human passion, foal, fierce, and changeful; of penetrable arms and vulnerable flesh. Gather what we may of great, from Mm chisel or pagan dream, and set it beside the orderer of Christian warfare, Miohael the Arolian^ gel, not Miltoat with hostile brow unit visage all Inflamed,* not vrm Milttiii's in kingljr treading of Mm Mil* of Para­ dise, not llaftMM'i with tit* wings and brandiahsd Npmwi but mt> gin<vs, with hto triple MPMt m tHM*l«M ptaaa nnsbakM in hMVM. m InimI fallen on hi#oroaalsted «wur<(, M* truth girdle binding hit undinM arwan IIihI has put hi* power nptw kirn. mMkIImin radiance is on hU limbs, no Itamf ttFeii there of earthly strMftn | m tmw>» the divine feawrea or eartlibr Muter | trustful and th«Mgbtfttli tiwiTt* ihiI full of love, ine*p*bl* sipopt w the t*»> i pose of eternal oonqnast, vani^ «m4 if, 1 strament of OnmlBMMM*, MIUnS 1M»m a cloud with tha victor liffliit tlta h| principalities and powers beftNtlu lii«j feet, the murmur of hall against Mm heard by his spiritual tar Uk« tka wind* ing of a shall on the far off sea ubiu ti, --Buskin's -Modern Painter*,* Corporal Panlshaieni Corporal Banishment, for so many years regarded as an indispensable feature in publio schools, seems to be giving way to a milder and more rational treatment. The change comes slowly, as might be expected after the hundreds of years under the old regime.' The poet Horaoe, in the few glimpses he gives us of school life in ancient Borne," leaves no doubt in our minds that the efficacy of the birch prescription was as thoroughly believed in then as it has] been at any time since. He speaks in* one of his poems of his own school­ master as the "flogging Orbilius," and undoubtedly had felt the touch of that good man's stick many times. But within the last few years there has been a growing conviction that teachers who had the temporary care of pupils could find some other way of enforcing their instructions than by inflicting corporal punishment. The right of the parent, in this particular, has never been questioned, although opinions differ as to the expediency of the practioe. The place for moral training is, primarily, the home, and parents are the divinely appointed teaahers. As far as they can consistently, publio schools should supplement this work. But no parent has the right to let out by contract to other parties the moral education of his child. We look to our public schools, first of all, to furnish the children with the rudiments of a plain, practical education, and, it is time to ask if it is necessary, right, or expedient to resort to flogging and other forms of corporal punishment to secure this. Solomon's advice did not . A colliery explosion in Lancashire, Eng. contemplate our public school system, JA i-111 _ _* A. *.! a • ^ ® «4n vi/\nA wnmiriAoriAtia *TV> land, kills slxtv-thrce men. Adellna Patti ar­ rives at New York. 8. 8evcral persons killed by the falling of a Sortlon of the roof of the Wisconsin Capitol nilding at Madison. 11. Orrin A. Carpenter, arrested for the murder of Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111., dis­ charged froia custody. Celebration of Luther's 400th birthday. 12-14. Disastrous gales on the chain of lakes, resulting in the wrecking ot over thirty craft and the drowning of upward of fifty people. 15. Destructive storm on the Ohnmnnakn Bay; many lives lost. ' 4^2fCS?.S£r""*"n IS. Lynching of Jacob KelUng at Oxford. Ind., for the murder of Ada Atkinson. IS. Loss of the bark Ptormanden, with eleven of her crew, off Halifax, Nova Sootia, and of the steamers Condor and Hymethus. in the English channel, forty people going down. A hurricane on the Newfoundland coast wrecxs many vessels and causes • loss of life. «•«--•ram* 21. Ex-Senator Spencer arrested In Mevata and taken to Washington. Disastroflb rate* storms in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. A cyclone in Missouri and Arkansas kills sev­ eral people. 22. Jacob D. Crouch, a "»»«»'«» faimw with its various ramifications. To maintain order in school, and to secure creditable work from pupils, is a very hard task sometimes, and very trying to the nerves and patience of teachers, who, as a class, are long-suffering and kind; but not a few believe, and know, that it can' be done without resorting to the ferule. More patience, tact, and self- control will be needed, but scholars will less often suffer from a teacher's im­ pulsiveness or lack of judgment.--Iowa State Register. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think; rather to Improve our minds so as to make us think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. ( The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the noose where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have muse to envy the gilding. - *" i . J * ^ ? • ' • ' ' , - • • ' ^ w l*e Mkmtegtaa foil list of the of tfce HattoantSoasBof made up by the Speaker: of jo**, Oaanon. Byaa, Galttaa. Oolbsmm phy, Bayi sistts§|lax cilbwa, and Hooper. D-d, Belford, Laeey, Chaee. Kverfattt. and Luna. Coramsrae--Beagao* Clardy, Turner ot r FroyylrSS&w of ilUnols, Wadawovtti, Long, Stewart ot Ve mont, and Peters. Rivers and Harbors--Willis. Bit of Alabama, Gibson, BaaUn, Breckittidge,Ms wmu. Henderson ofT „ *ne. Kownson of Ohio, Ghaoe, Burleigh. Agriculture--Hatch of itinw 1 rell, Williams, Beach, Green, WlnanaTWe Patton, Cullen, Wilson of Iowa, White of : nesota, Ochiltree, Hovey, Stephenson, and mond of Dakota. Foreign Affairs--Cortln, Belmont, Denst Clements, Cox of North Carolina, G. wise i Virginia, Stewart of Texas, Lotnb of Ind PbeiP* and Hitt. MiSttair Affa^BcsMKM Blecnm, Dibr Moreau. Wolford, Nkbolls, Mnrsay, Dane Steele, Bayne, Lyman, Laird, Onteheon and 3 ginnls of Montana. n Naval AUairs--Cox of New York, Morse.1 bott, Buchanan, Eaton, Ballaatorne, M Harmer, Thomas, Gofl and Bontelle. Postomnes and Post Roads--Money, tucky, Wakefield and McCormick. Railways and Canals--Davidson, HobU Murphv. Paige, Caldwell, Turner 3 Kentu. Wemple, Culbertson of Kentucky, James, klnson, and Hatch of Michigan. Publio Lands--Cobb, Scales. Oa*es, Shai Lewis, Henley, Van Eaton, Belford, Strait, An, derson, Payson, and Brents of Washington TerJ rltory. Indian Affairs--Welbom. Graves, Steve. Peel, Pierce, Flnerty, Skinner of North Carolin Smith, George, Perkins, Nelson, and Oury Arizona. Territories--Evins of South Carolina, Pryc Arnot, Hardeman, Lanham, Alexander, Carle ton, Foran, J. D. Taylor of Ohio, Kcliogrg, Johal son, Lawrence, Strable, and Poet of Wyomin Territory. ..Msnutactnres--Bagley, G. D. Wise of Virgin. Mitchell, Caldwell, Crisp, Lewis, Brewer of Ne Jersey, Mackey. Ellwood, and Campbell of Ne York. Mines and Mining--Warner of Tennes«. Cassidy, Alexander, Skinner of North Carolim-- Miller of Texas, Wood, Stevens, Breituni?, Call bertson of Kentucky. O'Hara, and Slngiser Idaho. Levees and Improvements of Mlssisslr River--King, Dunn, O'Neill of Missouri, 1 Campbell, Jones of Wisconsin, Henley, Thoi_ J. 8. wise of Virginia, Howey and Whiting. MlQtia--Mnller of New York, Covington, Mo Adoo, Peelle, Boyle, Ballentyne, Strait, Mone Valentine and Cutcheon. Claims--McMiilin,*Dowd, Tillman, Warner < Ohio, Van Alstyne, Dockery, Wood, Loru Snyder, Bay of New Hampshire, Price, OchilJ tree, Ellwood, Brown of Pennsylvania, and Baa of New York. War Claims--Geddes, Jones of Wlsconsfi Stone, Tnlly, Rogers of New York, Weller, Fe rell, KeUogg, Everhart, Bowell and Bowen. Revision of the Laws--Oates, Buchanan, L Millln, Hill, Clay, Ward, Hemphill, Brown Pennsylvania, Bayne, Spooner andMcComas. Public Buildings ana Grounds--Stockslas Young, Dibble, Reese, Hopkins, Pusey.Wemj Worthington, Brainerd, Holton, Keen, Breitoi and Milliken. Pacific Railroads--Cassidy, Throckmor Cabell, Thompson Jr., Jordan, Crisp, Wilson ot Iowa, Millard, Dunham, and Ha bar It Expenditures of the War Department Thompson, Ferrell, Taylor of Tennessee, Ell' Mayo, Johnson, and Hanbaclc. Kxpsndltares of the Navy Departme . . Hewett of New York, Shaw, Davids ok, Davis of Massachusetts, and Law] "lores of the Department of Jna • mphlll, Van Alstyne, Fyan, St lit Bowsa.iad Stephen itayss ot Public Hidldl •ofWise •nmaor nlldiags--Bel Wisconsin, Ha 'tttmspji L|H |i mtiaAn I », tTsnwa mn ofWmi Ida M Midi aw, MitcheU of J . jnrov*. KlitrediP, Lowif, tyo and Weaver. [«alth--Beach, Otavaw, ntsi-a,* Fielder, Davli of Maasachusi t', Kvans of J sylvania, Llbbyo aad !%tttboni<. Ventilation and Acoustics Hardy, Green, Shelley, Jeffords, Evans of ttsansylvs and Brewer of New York. Enrolled Bills--Neeoe, Warner of Tennc Snyder, Yaple, Peters, Holmes. SGLCCT COMMITTOR. Reform of the Civil Service--Matebler, Col Clements, Hoblltcel, Flnerty, Barksdale, Seyl mowr, Robertson of Kentucky, Bingham,Thelpel Millard, Lvman. Hlti. Alcoholic Llqnor Traffic--Hitt, Bland, J Carleton, Evins, Davis of Illinois, Qnenther] Goff, Campb* ll. American Shipbuilding and Shlpowning--81c cum, Deuster, Dibble, Throckmorton, Hunt Findlay, Lore, Dingley, O'Nell of Pennsylva George, Long. On the Law Resrestin? the Election of Pre dent and Vice President--Eaton, Springer, 1 Jordan, Pryor, Bennett, Kleiner, Fin! Parker, White of Kentucky, Peters, Halt,' On Payment of Pensions, Bounties, and 1 Pay--Warner of Ohio, Connolly, Pierce of ' nesssc, Rogers of Arkansas, Greenlee!, r of New York, York, Whiting, Anderson. jonrr skucct comarrKcs. Printing--Scales, Rogers of New York, I Library--Singleton, Woodward, Nutting. LOTTA. TlM Uttto AetTMs Ooyed sii« ';«BsMl London. [London Dispatch.] Lotta made ber first appearance in Ton last night. Her success was not sueti as1 hoped. Her play, "Musette," was vc hopelessly dull. Yawns, jeers, aad calls accompanied it throughout, ourtain fell amid a hurricane of hi The fault is attributed to author rather than to the Public expectation had been raised to a pitch. The PaU Mall Gazette publishe portrait of Lotta and an interview, in wL she said: "My style and ways may not bit 1 taste of English playgoers. I am dreadfullj oh, dreadfully nervous." Lotta soon teu her forebodings true. Her treks, 1 and gait wero displeasing because were strange to the audience, genuine comic powers passed unt ed. Her duet with her lover was culed, and her subsequent selections fr Harrigan and Hart provoked no app'c The play wont gradually to pieces, and! make matters worse the part of the Baroa, was assigned to Arthur Dacie whose reoM divorce case has made him unpopplar. the ruin was complete. The mis kief dc by Marsden's play may be repaired wfc Lotta appears in her iamil ar parte of Marohionsas, and Little Nell. 5J A CURIOUS lawsuit is now pending Lausanne. A dog chnerd a cat, which down the air shaft leading from the str Into a wine vault. The dog followed, and ti two iell against the tap of a large <ask 1 Yvorne, and the wine bop an to flow, wine merchant claimed he bad a gu action for the ioss of his wine, and ai owner of the eat was not known, ho Me dog. PLYMOUTH church, Brooklyn, reoctvedj - ' '• ~ • j |