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tg ftomdralrr I. VAN tLYKE, Etfittt aM M>llsli«r. McHSNfBT, ILLINOIS. K, »- WAgHixcrroiv. V ABRAUGKMENTS are being made at the Treasury Department to supply the de­ mand for email notes, silver certificates, and United States notes, which is large and increasing daily... The clerks of the Senate and House Committees on Ap­ propriations find that the BUI§S actually aet aside by Congress aggregate f 247,387,- 144. Under the Mexican pension law 7,716 claims have been filed. THE March report of the National De­ partment of Agriculture of the distribution and consumption of wheat and com shows that 36 per cent, of the crop is still in farmers' hands. The estimated remainder is 603,000,000 bushels. The estimated pro- ?ration held for home consumption is ,377,000,000 bushels, leaving 28*,000,000 for transportation beyond county lines. The proportion of merchantable corn is 86 per cent. The amount of wheat on hand Is 27 per cent, of the crop, or about 122,- 000,000, against 107,000,000 last vear and 169,000,000 in March, 1885. The propor­ tion held for local consumption is 194,00(1,- 000 bushels, and the proportion to be shipped beyond county lines is 263,000,000. The quality of the crop is unusually good in the principal wheat-growing sections, the average wheat being 58.5 pounds per bushel. POLITICAL. NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. WILLIAM C. HICKMAN, of Boston, has 1 to Canada, after swindling capitalists out of $60 ,000 by a scheme to manufacture an article called "sugarine" out of common starch. Hickman has rich and influential relatives at Philadelphia. AT Philadelphia the other evening, when John A. Niblock returned home he was horrified to see the body of his 13-year-old daughter, Annie, hanging by a rope attached to the transom of a door communicating between the two rooms of the first floor. It was but the work of a moment for the horror-stricken parent to draw his knife and sever the cord, but the girl was cold and stiff ia death, and had evidently been dead for several Hours. It appears that the girl stole a couple of handkerchiefs, and that her father told her he would whip her if she did not return them before he returned from work... .Samuel F. Beese was hanged for murder at Plymouth, Mass. THE WEST. t DtttUXO a gale last week pollen from the Southern pine regions was scattered over the ground at Princeton, Ind., to tlie depth of half an inch Ruben Small, an In­ diana pioneer and a leading member of the Society of Friends, died suddenly at Wa­ bash, aged seventy-six... .Lucy B. Par­ sons, the! lecturing anarchist, was refused a hall by a Columbus (Ohio) military com­ pany, where she proposed to speak. She called on the Mayor to protest against such action, and became so abusive and demon­ strative that she was locked up..... The action of the Congregationalist minis­ ters in Chicago in voting against sending a message of condolence to the stricken wife of the dying Mr. Bee "her has excited much comment among Minneapolis people. The clergymen of that city all voice their con­ demnation in the strongest terms. The Congregational ministers united in sending a message of sympathy to Mrs. Beecher. AT St. Paul, Minn., the Daily Commis­ sioner seized 1,300 pounds of bogus butter belonging to a dealer named Bray ton John Harrison and William Majors stepped from one track to another to escape an ap­ proaching freight train at Independence, Mo., and were killed by an accommodation train....Official announcement is made that the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Quincy, 111., is ready to receive its guests. Preference will be given to dis­ abled veterans who are now inmates of poor-houses. A DISPATCH from Garden City, Kansas, says: "The Coronado-Leoti trouble was practically terminated by the arrest of fourteen of the ringleaders by Sheriff Ed­ wards of Wichita County, assisted by a posse of fifteen men and accompanied by Adjutant General Campbell and Colonel Bicksecker, of Sterling. The names of the Srisoners are: J. W. Knapp, Jack Leahy, oe Offenger, M. Walton, W. A. Frush, Charles Flack, William Moore, C. A. Hare, Charles and Julius Lecrish, W. Matson, C, H. Wheat, Lilley,and Howard".... At ColnmbuB, Ohio, Lucy Parsons, the wife of the Chicago Anarchist, was ar­ raigned before the Mayor on a charge of disorderly conduct. The Mayor decided to place her under $300 bonds to keep the peace. Mrs. Parsons could not give oond and was sent to the County Jail. She made a speech to the large crowd which had gathered, saying that this was the end of liberty. THE SOUTH. GEXEBAT MAHOXE declares himself as unalterably opposed to the repudiation of one cent of the just indebtedness of Virgin­ ia, and hopes to see the amount ascertained by the employment of outside financiers. ....Alex. Crawford,'who killed a promi­ nent merchant at Winona, Miss., was taken from jail and hanged from a railroad trestle. THE boom in real estate at Fort Smith, Ark., has carried fanning lands near town from $100 to $500 per acre In Lawrence County, Ky., Samuel Smith, aged 16, shot and killed Stephen Hammond and his wife and wounded their two children. Smith fled to the mountains, and has not been captured. Coi>. P. B. MEANS, an ex-member of the North Carolina Legislature and a prom­ inent politician, entered the Charlotte Times printing office at Concord and cow- hided John B. Sherrill, the editor. \ | licans M from Democrats. The chief ar­ ticle of faith of Pennsylvania Republicans is protection, and the protectionists gener­ ally believe that Mr. Randall nerves them better than any Republican could. Nine- tenths of the manufacturers of Philadel­ phia would put up money to elect liandall against any new Republican, if Randall's election was in danger. Local politicians say that at a consultation between Singerlv and William R. Leeds, a local boss and the leader of the Philadelphia Republicans in the Legislature, the scheme to freeze out Randall was formally agreed upon, and they also say that the scheme will sucoeed unless Cameron interferes to prevent it." branches of the Mnin ̂ Legisla­ ture failed to give the necessary two-thirds Tote on the passage of the amendment to the constitution providing for female suffrage The woman suffrage bill wis killed in the New lork Legislature it fail­ ing to pass its third reading in the House. ... .In making the removals of James D. Bowie, Collector of Customs at Peters­ burg, Va., and John Menshaw, Supervising Architect oi Steam Vessels for the Third District, the President has taken advantage for the first time of the repeal of the ' tenure-of-office act. EX-CONGBEBSMAN FREDERICK, of Iowa, has declared himself out of the race for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next House, as he found Leedom practically in possession of tile field.'.. .Charlton H. Way, of Georgia, has been appointed Consul General at St. Petersburg. It is reported that Solicitor McCue, of the Treasury Department, will be placed at the head of the Interstate Commerce Commission The Massachu­ setts House of Representatives by a vote of 97 to 61 defeated the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution Phila­ delphia telegram: "William M. Singerly, the proprietor of the Record, a Democratic newspaper, which is bitterly hostile to Congressman Randall, is understood to be at the bottom of *the scheme to freeze him out, and James Mc- Manes, the most powerful of the local ting of Republican bosses, has said public­ ly within a few days that he favored redis- tricting the city so as to make all of the districts Republican. It is doubtful wheth­ er the scheme will succeed, because it is apt Îpnise as much opposition from Repub- THE RAILWAYS. AT the annnal meeting of the Stock holders of the Pennsylvania Road, held at Philadelphia last week, President Roberts spoke at length on the interstate commerce law. In his opinion inland lines not sub­ ject to water competition would not be seriously affected. He predicted that "if the law does not work there will be violent strife, as the system of pooling is abolished, and no means left to counteract the cutting of rates except at the end of a struggle. I may say there are quite as many &ood features in the law for the railroads as /or the public, but it is likely that there will be greater injury to the public outside of the railroads, as one is dependent on the other for mutual prosperity. There will prob­ ably be no serious results." In resi ouse to an inquiry President Roberts saia that the local business would bis affected as well as the through traffic by the operation of the law. A NEW YORK dispatch states that the control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has passed into ihe hands of Alfred Sully of Now York. Negotiations with President Garrett had been in progress for some time. This is the greatest and bids fair to be the most influential railway deal that has taken place in this country within many years. It throws other affairs of tho sort into the shade. The possibilities of this new control are beyond estimating. By the acquirement of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the one railway of the land that has ever been considered out of the market--Mr. Sully and his friends become controllers of what is prob* ably the most extensive railwa^" sys­ tem in the world. It stretches from New York to almost the uttermost portions of the South and far into the West. It includes the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Philadelphia and Reading system, the Richmond Terminal and Rich­ mond and Danville properties, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia lines, the Central Railroad of Georgia, and now, last of all, the Baltimore and Ohio. And of all these properties there is to be made one great trunk line, with 16,000 miles of track. THE Hlinois Board of Railroad Commis­ sioners has decided that the St. Louis, Al­ ton and Terre Haute Road must increase its passenger facilities between Benton and Duquoin, a train to make a round trip each day. ' GENERAL. • THE National Department of Agriculture reports that thirty-six per cent of the last corn crop and twenty-seven percent, of the wheat yield are still in farmers' hands.... The extraordinary demand for revenue stamps to be used under the oleomargarine law indicates that there will be a larger production of oleomargarine this year than was anticipated when estimates were last made..'..The acting Secre­ tary of the Treasury has received about one hundred letters in answer to his circular inviting suggestions for the better protection of life and property from fire in case o? accidents io railroad cars and steamboats... .The increased appropriation by Congress to provide arms and equip­ ments for the militia does not become available until July 1, but may be regarded in the nature of a permanent annual ap­ propriation. * * JAMES B. EADS, the constiuctor of the St. Louis bridge and the Mississippi jetties, died at Nassau, in the Bahama Islands, in his sixty-seventh year. From a biograph­ ical sketch before us we learn that-- Mr. Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., Hay 23, 1820, and his early education was ao- quired in the schools of Louisville and Cincin­ nati. Before he had succeeded in mastering the rudiments, however, his father experience 1 re­ verses which necessitated the boy 's withdrawal from school, to which he never returned. At a very early age he developed a taste fo^ mechanics and a fondness for experiment­ ing with machinery, which afterwards becamo the ruling passion of his life. In Septem­ ber, l(j43, when only li years old, he axrived in St. Louis. The steamboat on which bis father' with his family had embarked to seek a home farther West had burned, and the family was destitute. Young Eads sold apples on the streets to coatribute something to the support of himself. In 1812 he entered into partnership with Case & Nelson, boat-builders, for the pur­ pose of recovering steamboats and cargoes which had been wrecked, and the firm pros­ pered amazingly. In 18 >5-'50 he submitted to Congress a proposition to keep the Western rivers open for a term of years by removing all obstructions and keeping tho qhannels free. The bill embodying his proposal passed the Honse, but was defeated in the Senate. He retired from active busi­ ness in 1857 on account of ill-health. During the war Mr. Eads received the contract for building the first seven vessels ot tue Missis­ sippi gunboat flotilla. From the close of the war to the time of construction of the great St. Louis bridge Mr. Eads was engaged in no great public works. Upon that bridge his fame as an engineer was firmly established. The bridge project was first conceived in 18)9. Various Sites were selected for the bridge, and the proj­ ect met with varying fortune* until Mr. Luds began to take an active interest in it in 18U7. In that year he was elected Engine^r- in-chief of the company then formed. He at once secured tho services of Colonel Henry Flad and proceeded to develop plaus which were subsequently followed wheii bridge was con­ structed. It was completed anj opened In 1871. In 1875 Mr. Eads began the construction of a system of jetties for increasing the depth of the water at the mouth of the Mississippi under contract with the Government. His plans when proposed were scouted at first by prominent engineers, but proved eminently successful. His last great project was the Xehuantepeo Ship Canal. FOREIGN. THE recent earthquake at Nice caused such a panic that hotel-keepers are selling out at a great sacrifice v .. The Dublin mu­ nicipal council adopted a resolution to ap­ peal to the free people of the world to pre­ vent the British government from carrying out its "threats of outrage against the Irish people." Lord Mayor Sullivan and others violently denounced the government. THE troubles in Bulgaria, which, it is al­ leged, have been fomented by agents of the Czar, may possibly lead to the outburst which has been almost daily anticipated for months. While the English have been looking upon Alexander of Battenberg as a young Napoleon who wanted to found a dynasty in Bulgaria he has been giv­ ing assurances to Germany that he would not under any circumstances return to Germany or be drawn into a position hostile to Bussia.... It is asserted as an absolute fact that Italy has concluded a treaty with Germany and Austria, which, however, does not bind her to offensive operations unless either of her allies is in a prt carious state. She is to at­ tack France m the event of the latter mak­ ing war upon Germany in concert with Bussia, and is to help Austria with her fleet in case of a serious Russian conflict. In return she is to get at least Trentino, and, if a general war ensues, Corsica, Nice, and Savoy.... The events of the last week or two have conspired to put Boumania into position of open antagonism to Bussia, and it seems clearer now than before that Turkey must from the start throw herself into the field against Bussia. Nine of the Bustchuk rebels have been sentenced to death. A crowd cheered the sentences _ and threatened to lynch the prisoners if the sentence was not carried out....The Chief Secretaryship for Ire­ land, vacated by Sir Michaei Hicks-Beach has been accepted by the Bight Hon Arthur W. Balfour, a nephew of Lord Salisbury.... One hundred and forty-four miners were killed by an explosion rof fir* damp in a mine at Mons, Belgium* wmmm BCBsiAhaa Government Balh subject of the mo _ Hon of troops... .It! sia and Austria hat for the settlement < ... A foreman in j Chatham, England giving to foreigne improvements in: "MARVELOTTSLY jj quartz veins," the been discovered fields, and whichi will prove among i THE Egyptian has resigned in disgrace. lotions to all the transporta- d that Bus- agreement troubles. works at missed for Regarding rich gold- say, nave aal gold- developed, the world, ihe Interior .The Stanley expedition for the relief of Emin Bey has arrived at Cape Town Christine Nilsson has been married to Count Miranda, and it is reported that she will retire from the lyric stage The rail­ way being constructed by the Rus­ sian government from the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea has reached Charjui, on the River Oxus.... M. de Lesseps, who is now in Berlin, where the Emperor has treated him with marked consideration, de­ clares that France is decidedly in favor of peace... .The Shah of Persia has granted a concession for the erection of a hospital in Teheran under the direction of W. W. Torrence, physician of the Americaft Presbyterian Board of Missions. DEATH OF MR. BEECHE R. The Great Preacher Expires in Uncon­ sciousness, Surrounded by k - • Wis Family. . His Death a Painless One--Expressions of Sorrow--Sketch of His life. Rev. Henry "Ward Beecher was stricken with apoplexy at his home in Brooklyn on Saturday, March 5, and lingered until the following Tuesday, when death relieved him of hi6 sufferings. During these three days the great preacher lay in & comatose condition, surrounded by the members of his family and physicians. His faithful wife was by his bedside almost continuously from the hour he was stricken by the fatal ADDITIONAL NEWS. A SEBIOUS accident occurred on the Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad, between Virden and Girard, 111., by which two passenger coaches were derailed a id tumbled down an embankm int about eight feet high, and several persons were I adly hurt. The list of injured is as follows: Senator Elizur Southworth, of Litch­ field, severely injured intern illy, p r- hajw fatally; Senator L. B. Stephen­ son, of Shelbvville, bruised; Senator J. J. Higgins, of Duquoin, bruised; Senator T. L. McGrath, of Mattoon, bruised; Senator R. L. Orgtn, of Carmi, bruised: Representative G. V. E. Fletcher, of St. Elmo, bruised; Representative J. R. Campbell, of McLeansboro, head cut and badly bruised; Miss E. B. Russell, of Car- Unville, hip severely hurt; George lioch, of Girard, face badly cut; L. M. Sm Ih, of Litchfield, severely hurt. Sena­ tor Southworth, who was in the smoker, was thrown across the car. Me fainted away and had to be h mded J'rom the car. After stimulants had been admin­ istered he was taken iu the bagyage-car to his home at Litchticld. It is said that the wreck was caused by running at a too high rate of speed. The train on the Jackson­ ville Road and one on the Cbica o and Alton lload, which runs parallel with the Jacksonville Road for a distance of four miles, were racing, it is charged, MILWAUKEE dispatch: "The strike of the printers in this city is at an end, the Typographical Union having allowed^its members to procure work wherever they can get it. The blow is a heavy one to the union, and it is doubtful if it can hold to­ gether under the strain." THE Common Pleas Court at Columbus, Ohio, refused to discharge Mrs. Lucy Par­ sons on a writ of habeas corpus, but re­ duced her bail, to $100. She subsequently obtained Dondsmen, and left for Cincin­ nati. It is said that she received $50 from the anarchist relief fund of Chicago. THE United States Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has indicted a dozen or more of the Washington County election intiraidators, all white. Among them is the County At­ torney, one Constable, and a County Com­ missioner. They gave bond in the sum of $1,000 each The hanging of Henry Artis, at Goldsboro, N. C., was witnessed by a very large assemblage, tbe jail walls beiug too low to hide the gallows Charles Phelps and Jack Howell, who have been ai enmity for many years, met near Somerset, Ky. Phelps placed his knife against' Howell's" breast an'd r&narked: "I've a notion to cut your heart out." Rowell placed his knife against Phelps' throat and coolly replied: "Cut away." Phelps did cut away, but, unfortunately for bim, his knife-bldde broke off at the second thrust. Howell cut Phelps' taroat, inflicting a fatal wound. Howell was not badly injured. THE first act in the investigation of Coak Connty frauds at Chicago was the seizure of the books and papers of the Commis­ sioners, the Hospital, the Insane Asylum, and the Infirmary. The documents were taken to the Grand Jury room... .The cus­ toms authorities at Detroit have recovered loss to the Government of $80,(10 l by the smuggling of opium through British Columbia ami Ontario. The drug was usually shipped to California as glassware. R. A. West was arrested and held in $10,- 000 bail as a smuggler... .For the year ending with February the only gold and silver mine worked in Michigan yielded $43,153. Six HUNDEED men who Btruck for 10 per cent, advance in pay at the American Wire Works at Cleveland were paid off and discharged. Many of them have gone to Altoona, Pa., and the remainder will seek employment elsewhere... .The strike of the brakemen on the New York, Pennsyl- ania and Ohio Road stopped freight traffic between Youngstown and Cleveland.... Marquette, Mich., dispatch: "The rumor of a great strike of construction laborers on the east division of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad proves true. All workmen on the Sault branch struck, demanding an advance of from $1.40 to $2. The laborers of the middle division also went out. siriking from sympathy but making no demand-:. Tbe total number out is abmt five hundrel." Dr. Searle made the following statement in regard to the distinguished di­ vine's last hours: "Mr. Beecher began to fail decidedly at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. His respira­ tion was rapid. At 4 o'clock the family was summoned. Death came slowly and stealth­ ily. His respirations gradually became faster and faster until they reached sixty a minute. His pulse was variable and often reached 140. He still remained in the same condition except as to breathing, his eyes closed, and he was entirely unconscious. The motions of the right arm became less frequent, and were finally stopped almost entirely. About 9 o'clock in the morning we could detect the first symptoms of im­ mediate death. His pulse ran up still higher, flickered, and fluctuated until 9:28, two minutes before his death. His pulse ceased almost entirely at the wrist, being so faint that it could hardly be detected, and then stopped alto­ gether. Tfaere was a rattle in his throat, Sinful to those around him, but un­it by him owing to the failure of the nerve center of the respiratory organs, to­ gether with the failure of the heart's action. His death was very easy, as painless if not as pleasant as death from suffocation or by drowning is said to be." The Dnatli-betl Scene. (New York telegram.) The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning surrounded by all the members of his family except those for whom distance or sickness made it impossible to reach his bedside. S. V. White and E. A. Seacomb of Plymouth Church and Maj. J. B. Pond were also present when death's summons came. The family had been summoned to the death bed early in the morning by Dr. Searle, who detected the signs of rapidly approaching dissolution. At about 8 a. m. Mr. S. Y. White announced to those gath­ ered before the house that the end was very near, and even then the sobs of the sorrowing family could be heard all through the house. At 'J:30 o'clock Dr. Searle, who had been holding one of Mr. Beecher's hands, said: "M^Btecher is no more; he is dead." • M, k . ) It is difficult to describe tbe scene at this moment. Notwithstanding the fact that his death was looked for, that it had been ex­ pected hourly, it seemed to come with Buch crushing force that the family were completely prostrated with grief. They could not br.ng themselves to the ead re­ alization that the kindly voice of the husband, father, and grandfather was forever hushed in death, and that they had only the remembrance of his kind admonitions. Mrs. Beecher, who had borne up so bravely from the first, and who had watched so constantly at the bed­ side of her dying husband, was utterly broken down, and when supported by her son Harry, as she tottered from the room, looked as if it would not be long before she would follow her beloved husband. Tlie House or Sorrow. No crape was hung on the door of Mr. Beecher's late home to announce that the great orator was no more. Mr. Beecher had always expressed a dislike of this cus­ tom and of the gloom associated with crape in the presence of death. Instead a magnificent wreath of white and red roses and lilies of the valley tied with white satin was hung at the left side of the doorway. Many telegrams of condolence were re­ ceived by the stricken family, among them the following: ' "EXECUTIVE MANSION, I "WASHINGTON, D. C., Alarcb (J. F "Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher: "Accept my heartfelt sympathy in this hour of your bereavement, with the hope that comfort may be vouchsafed from the heavenly source you know so well. "GROVER CLEVELAND." @ 5.50 <3> 6.25 .98 .80 .87 15.25 & THE MARKETS. •NEW YORK. BEEVES, , $4.50 HOGS g.75 WHEAT--No. L White No. 2 Red CORN--No. % OATS--White POBK--New Mess CHICAGO BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers 5 00 Gorxi Shipping 4.25 Common 8.50 HOOS--Shipping Grades 5.50 FLOUB--Extra Spring 4.25 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring 79 CORN--No. 2 88& OATS--No. 2 28 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery 29 @ Fino Dairy .23 CHEESE--Full Cream Cheddar.. .11% 4 Full Cream, new 13 Eoos--Fresh .14 & POTATOES--Choice, per BU 55 <9 PORK--Mess. 20.00 «4 20.25 MILWAUKEE WHEAT--Cash. CORN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 I'ORK--Meaa.... •92}$(£ .93'$ ~ ~ .94 .51 .43 016.00 & 5.50 (4 4.75 & 4.00 (3> 6.25 «» 4.75 & .80 .39 .30 .31 .25 .12U .mi .63 WHEAT--No. 2... CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 TOLEDO. 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It is half a century ago since Henry Ward Beecher, then boyish-lookiug and aged 24 years, preached his iirst sermon, and his maiden effort was delivered before an ex­ tremely orthodox congregation of Presby­ terians in a little white frame church at Lawrenceburg, Ind. It is probable that from the first he gave great promise, for, after remaining in Lawrenceburg for only two years, we find him promoted in 1835) to a much better position iu Indianapolis, where he remained several years, and where he first attracted national attention. His Presbyterian beliefs seem to have gradually become weaker during this time, and in 1847, his Indianapolis congregation becoming convinced that he was wandering into forbidden paths and inclined to over-> turn well-established dogmas, it be­ came necessary that he should find another and more liberal flock. Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn wanted a pastor, and Mr. Beecher w#s taken on trial. He pleased the congrefjltion so well that he was soon installed as regular pastor, and from that day to this he and Plymouth Church have been so closely identified with each other that it is impossible almost to think of a time when he was not the regular occupant of its pulpit. Mr. Beecher came from one of the most remarkable and most talented American families--the same family which has given us Charles and Edward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. He Was the fourth son of the eminent Dr. Lyman Beecher, and received most of his theological train­ ing at Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, O., under his father's eye. He was born at Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813, and after attending some public Latin schools en­ tered Amherst College, from which he was graduated. It cannot be said that he had the educational advantages of his eldest brother, nor of Charles, who was born two years later, but what he lost in education was more than compen­ sated for by his natural ability and his energy as a student. At any rate he en­ tered the ministry the most scholarly man of tbe three, and from the very first sermon preached by him Defore the Congregation- alists of Brooklyn to the day of his death he made his power felt, not only in the church to which he became attached, but his ideas exerted a wonderful influence upon all other denominations. Mr. Beecher's faiqe became familiar through out the length and breadth of tho land in • short time, and the Plymouth Church, which soofc MwHi known to "Bwelicrti church," was enlarged to aeoommodate the tremendous crowds which gathered to he*r the eloquent preacher. He spoke on all topics of cui rent or national interest; 1M at­ tacked abuses and criticised politicians; he opened up his battery of satire upon the institution of slavery, and denounced the American Govern­ ment for not wiping out tbe great stain upon the nation; took hold of the abolition movement, and invited the slaves of the South to strike for liberty, declaring that every one of them who entered New York would be protected; ridiculed the slave party in Congress; called the slave­ owners vulgar traders in human flesh, and, in a word, did everything within his power to bring down odium upon the South, and to raise the feeling in the North to such a pitch that a clash would be inevitable be­ tween the two sections and the slave ques­ tion finally settled forever. He had no doubt as to the ability of the North to bring the South to terms, and he looked forward to the inevitable struggle with con­ fidence. Beecher's name, became famous among the abolitionists and obnoxious among the slaveholders. He was admired by half the country and thoroughly hated by the other balf. But enemies as well as friends thronged to hear him, and although the ^ Plymouth Church had. seating ca­ pacity for 3,000 persons the aisles were often tilled, and hundreds of people stood up in nave and galleries during tbe delivery of what may be appropri­ ately termed his great religio-political lect­ ures. During the years of excitement which preceded the Southern rebellion, and dur­ ing the rebellion itself, he maintained that slavery must be abolished at any cost. When the war broke out he did perhaps as much a9 any other man in the country to inspire the people with patriotism and en­ thusiasm, and his discourses always con­ tained more politics than religion. After the war he settled down more close­ ly to the discussion of purely religious top­ ics, but now and then he departed from the well-worn scriptural paths, and launched off into politics, political and social econo­ my, questions of international law and trade, and, in short, there was scarcely a topic before the public upon which he did not give his views, whether it concerned the local government of Brooklyn or the claims of the United States against Great Britain. Mr. Beecher had for a number of years been a regular contributor to the columns of religious and family newspapers, and out of one of these connections a scandal arose in 1874 which greatly impaired his influence and for a time threatened to destroy it en­ tirely. Mr. Beecher was a prolific and alwavs an interesting and instructive writer." He began by contributing to the Cincinnati Journal, a religious weekly, of which he afterward became editor. He was a con­ stant contributor to the Independent from the date of its establishment in 1858, and from 1861 to 18G3 he was its chief editor. He wrote also for the Farmer and Gar­ dener, and contributed to other agricultural newspapers, farming being one of his numerous hobbies. For a number of vears he edited and was part proprietor of the Christian Union, which, under his man­ agement, became a valuable property, and he contributed weekly sketches and a novel to Mr. Bonner's New York Ledger. His principal published works are: "Lectures to Young Men," "Life Thoughts," Sermons on Liberty and War," "The Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes," "Royal Truths," "Eyes and Ears," "Star Papers," "Norwood, a Novel," and a large number of volumes of "Plymouth Sermons." His greatest and most pretentious undertaking was a life of Christ, which was never completed accord­ ing to contract, and which resulted in a large amount of litigation between himself, his publishers, and their successors. The changes which have come over Mr. Beecher's theological views during the last ten years are so fresh in the minds of the people that it is not necessary to particu­ larize them here. It is enough to say that he has been at times on the very verge of infidelity and at times in the very core of orthodoxy. His congregation was not » particular one respecting ques­ tions of religion. It cared more for the man than the doctrines which he preached. It was a sensational congregation, and it admired him because he satisfied its demands for something at once unique, sensational, and interesting. They are few who can call his doctrines sound, and there are many who will pronounce his teachings pernicious, but he was always assured, no matter how radical or how liberal his views might be, of the support of that portion of the American people who have no settled opinions of their own about religion or a future state. He became popular wiih a large class bv denying the existence of, a hell and making the sinners of his congre­ gation feel as comfortable as passible for the time being. Mr. Beecher visited Europe thrice, but has never traveled extensively abroad. As a lecturer he was very successful, and ac­ cumulated a large fortune in this way alone. He was a man of fine appearance 1 in early life, but of late years ho became rather corpulent and lost considerable of that sprightliness which his congregation so much admired. Anecdotes and Incidents. Ex-Postmaster General Horatio King of Washington, among other reminiscences of Mr. Beecher, tells the following: "He was a wonderful man, charming in his sooial relations, and always an interesting and de­ lightful companion. Mr. Beecher stopped here once in my house when he was in this city for a day or two. I remember that he sat at my desk and wrote an article for the Ledger. When he sat down he took an old shawl of mine and wrapped it about his feet and legs, saying he could not write unless his legs were warm. Some physician speaks of his do­ ing this lately, and noted it as a sign that he was breaking. It was twelve or fifteen years ago that he was at my house and he was then in vigorous health. Years before that, before I knew him personally, I met him on a train between Portland and Boston, and he then had his feet thrust into a seal­ skin bag made for the purpose. That seemed to have been a habit of his. His Friday evening talks--informal talks--to the Plymouth Church people on all sorts of topics were especially interesting. Yes, it was wonderful the great amount of worii he did, writing and speaking. Some believed it was inspiration. He should have stopped and taken a rest. What has killed him. in my opinion, is 'The Life of Christ.' He should not have undertaken it; it was too great a task." . ; In Mr. King's collection of autographs is an interesting scrap from Mr. Beecher's pen illustrating bis manner of work. To it is attached a ticket to the platform at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, on the occa­ sion of the address of Mr. Beecher on "Is­ sues of the Canvass," Friday evening, Oct. 9,1868. The scrap of writing contains the headings made by Mr. Beecher for his ad­ dress. They are written in a bold hand, apparently with a quill pen, and many of the words are underscored. The headings are as follows: First--Origin of party--historic logic of our history and principles. Second--What has it done to deserve well of the people? Third--what charges are brought against it? (1) Not restoring the Union--delaying for party reasons. (2) Oppressive taxes. (3) It is refreshing to hear Mayor Hoffman express his conscience on extravagance in public moneys. Fourth--By whom are they accused? Who is it that proposes to take their places and finish tbe work of liberty? (1) Their relation to every event and step gained by the war. (2) Their proposed remedy-- overturn all that Congress has done; reverse legislation; throw down State enactments; send back Senators and Bepresentalives; remand Southern States to turmoil and confusion. Upon the platform Mr. Beecher with these few notes, under the inspiration of the moment, delivered a splendid address, talking two hours or more. 1THE present style of ladies' bate is so tall that it is said they are felt on high. N0TAXB9IQB D8UltHER8 The Halted States Hupreate €e«rt Rea­ ders a Decision la Their < femwl 1 Hie Tax an Interference -with Interstate Oommeroe--Other Important. Derision* The Supreme Court of fhe ^States has rendered a decision setting aside the State law of Tennessee which imposed a special tax on traveling salesmen. The de­ cision rests upon th? doctrine that the stat­ ute iu question was 4n interference with interstate commerce, and hence clearlv un­ constitutional. Traveling salesmen are agents and instrumentalities in commercial transactions between the States, and a special tax laid on them because of their occupation is held to be a restriction on commerce. Following is an abstract of the opinion: Sabine Bobbins, plaintiff in error, against the taxing district ot Shelby County, Tennessee: in error to the Supreme Court of Tennessee. This case arises out ot tbe following state of facts; Bobbins was engaged in Memphis iu soliciting orders for stationery for a stationery firm, and in exhibiting samples for tho purpbse of effect­ ing sales. Af t ilo luw, applitubio only to tnis one taxing district, was in force, subjecting "drummers" ana ull persons not having 11. regu­ lar licensed house of businoas in the district, offering or selling goods by sample, to a tax of 810 a week or t'ia a month Kobbins. who was unlicensed, wus arrested, trieu, convicted, and fined, and on appeul tbe iiuigm. nt was affirmed. 'I'be case nud bee 1 biought to this court on a writ of eiror-uoon the ground that ine law imposing ti.e tax is repugnant to that clause of the Constitution of tbe Unite.1 Ktutes which tdelares that Congress Bball bave the power to regulato commerce cmonx the several States Tbe principal question involved is as 10 the constitutionality of the act which imposed the tax, and it ij, in the opinion oi this court, a question of great importance to the people of the United States, bo.h as respects iheir business interests and their" constitutional rights. In a long and carefully prepared opinion by Justice Bradley, this court holds that the Constitution gives to Congress the power to regulato com­ merce among the States, and that power is nec­ essarily exclusive whenever the subjectsof.it are nat onal in their character or admit only of , one uniform system or plan of regulation. Where the power of Congress is exclusive its failure to act indicates its will that the subject shall be left free from any restrictions or im­ positions, and any regulation by the States, ex­ cept in matters of local concern only, is re­ pugnant to such freedom. The only way in which commerce between the States can be legitimately allotted by State laws is when, by virtue of its police power and its jurisdiction over persons and property with­ in its limits, a State provides for the security of life, limb, health, comfort, and property, or when it does those things which may incidental­ ly affect commerce. But in making such in­ ternal regulations a State cannot impose taxes upon a person passing through or coming in merely for a temporary purpose; nor upon prop­ erty imported and not yet become part of the common mass; and no discrimination can be made by any such regulation adversely to the persons or property of other States, and no reg­ ulation can be made directly affecting interstate commerce. In the matter of interstate com­ merce the United States are, in the opinion of this court, but one country, and are and must be, subject to one system ot regulations and not to a multitude of regulations. It seems to be forgotten that the people of this country are cit­ izens of the United ^Uie* as well as of the indi­ vidual,States, ana that they have some rights under the Constitution and laws of the former, independent of the latter, and from any in­ terference or restraint from them. To deny the State the power to lay the tax or require the license in question, will not. the couit belieyes, in any perceptible degree dim.nish its resources. Goods when brought into a. State, in consequence of a sale by a drummer, will be liable to taxation, and as much will be realized as if the tax were im- 1 oaed before the sale. To tax the sale of goods under euch circumstances before the sale, is, in the opinion of the court, clearly a tax on inter­ state commerce itself. If the employment of drummers injuriously affects local trade Con­ gress may be appealed to to make such regula­ tions as the case may demand ; and Congress alone can do this. The confusion into which the commerce of the country would be thrown by being subjected to State legislation on this sub­ ject would be. tho court says, but a repetition of the disorder which prevailed under the old articles of confederation. The judgment of the Supreme Court of Tennes­ see is reverse:!, and the plaintiff in error is ordered to be discharged. Opinion by Justice Bradley, the Chief Justice and Justices Field and Gray dissenting on the ground that the law in question is applicable to drummers coming into the Shelby County district from other parts of Tennessee, as well as to those from other States, and to relieve the latter from taxatidn imposed 011 the former would be a discrimina­ tion against the citizens of the State. OTHER SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. The decision of the United States Distriot Court of California in refusing a writ of habeas corpus to Thomas Baldwin was reversed, and the case was remanded for further hearing. The case involves the rights of the Chinese under Federal laws. Baldwin was one of a party of citizens who drove a number of resi­ dent Chinese out of the mining town of Nicolaua, Cal., in February, 1886. Baldwin was arrested and charged with conspiracy to deprive these Chinese of the equal protection of the laws and of equal privileges and immunities under the laws. Baldwin applied to the Circuit Court for a discharge upon a writ of habeas corpus, but it was refused, and he appealed to this court upon the ground that the charge made against him was not sufficient to justify his detention. The opinion, which was a long and elaborate document, was rdod by Chief Justice Waite. Justices Field and Waite dissented from a por­ tion of the opinion. Justice Field is of the opinion that a forcible deprivation of rights se­ cured by treaty to the subjects or citizens of any nation is a prevention by force of the exe­ cution of a law of the United States. If this is not so, then there is a law of the United States which can be evoked for the protection of the subjects of China notwithstanding the lan­ guage of the treaty with that country; and the same rule must apply with reference to the rights of the subjects or citizens of any other nation resident in the United States. Their only protection is to bo found in the laws of the different States. In the case of the Accident Insurance Com­ pany of North America, pla'intiflf in error, against I.oretta M. Crandall, appealed from the United States Circuit Court of Hlinois, this court affirms the judgment of the lower court. The suit presented the question as .to whetner a policy of insurance against "bodily injuries effected through external, accidental and -vio­ lent means," and occasioning death or complete disability to do business, and providing that "this insurance shall not extend to deafth or dis­ ability which may have been caused wholly or in part by bodily infirmities or diseases, or by the taking of poison or by suicide or self-inflicted injuries," covers a death by hanging one's self while insane. The court held that Crandall did not die by suicide or self-inflicted injuries, be­ cause he was an insane person, and the killing was not his act--not tho act of himself. The words "bodily infirmities or disease" do not in­ clude insanity. Regarding the clause insuring Crandall "against bodily injuries effected through external, accidental, and violent means," the court holds that thiB sentence does not speak of what the injury "iB caused by," but looks only to the "means" by which it is effect­ ed. No one doubts that hanging is a violent means of death. As it affects the body from without it is external, and, according to the de­ cisions as to suicide under policies of life in­ surance, it cannot, when done by an insane per­ son, be held to be other than, accidental. TROUBLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. Possibility of a Rebellion Against the An* thority of the Imperial Government--An­ nexation Agitation. No subject has ever so thoroughly agi­ tated the people of this island as the exist­ ing trouble with the French fishermen. The passage of the bait bill by the Legis­ lature regardless of tbe rebuff that the first bill received from the Imperial Government has caused such a popular clamor against the home authorities that ever-ready agita­ tors have seized upon the opportunity to use the old cry of secession that is being caught up by the. fishing element. Public meetings have been held within the last few days in all the towns and the policy of con­ ciliation pursued by England toward France has been loudly condemned. The Imperial Foreign Office is charged with cowardice and want of patriotism. Pamphlets have been circulated in the sections advocating annexation wi£h the United States, which idea is rapidly gain­ ing popularity regardless of the fact that the United SStates has no means of succor­ ing the island in case of hostilities arising from such treasonable proceedings. The Ministers all express the hope that the bait bill will receive the imperial assent, as the disaffection is so spreading that the most disloyal senti­ ments everywhere prevail, ana it only needs a straw to precipitate an outbreak that, while not materially benefiting the people, will prove a sad jar to the celebra­ tion of the Queen's jubilee, when peace and quietness in the colonies is desired. The way the authorities ignore the pub­ lic attacks made upon the Queen and the Imperial Government is generally com­ mented on, and tbe belief is that the pres­ ent generation will see another mall pieco of the empire sliced off. TBE RECORD Resume of the Work AccdP jtffefcdbythe National Legislature* • - -4 A?' "I * ••• Bills Passed and Defeated tie President's Numerous ; ' ^toesjP%";' ' • £ \ ', r ' * W C [Washington special.] The total number of laws enacted by the Forty-ninth Congress was, approximately, MU,' of which 1,093 originated in the HOUBS and 338 in the Senate. Two hundred and sixty-four of these became laws by the expiration of the con­ stitutional ten days limitation. Fifty bills failed to become laws, owing to the adjourn­ ment of Congress, nine of them a& the close of the first session. There were 132 bills vetoed by the President, or twenty-one more than had been vetoed from the foundation of tbe Govern­ ment down to the beginning of this Congress. Of the vetoed bills ninety-four originated in tbe House Mid thirty-nine in the Senate. But one private bill, that granting a pension to Joseph Bomeiser, and one public bill for the erection of a Government building at Dayton, Ohio, suc­ ceeded in passing both houses over tbe Presi- dent s veto although several others obtained the requisite two-thirds vote in the Senate, only to fail in the House. 3 Of the 1,033 House bills which b?came laws 27o were of a more or less public nature. Of the remaining 778 bills (granting pensions or relief to specially designated persons;, I5ti became laws without the approval of the President. The following is a list of more important House bills which have become laws : To forfeit the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad l&nd grant; lo increase the pensions of widows and dependent relatives from S8 to £12 per month- the Dingley shipping bill; to require the Pacific roads to pay the cost of surveying and convey­ ing their land grants and subject the land to tax­ ation so soon as the companies are entitled to them; to increase the naval establishment; to pension tho Mexican war veterans; the oieomar- gaiine act; to authorize the transfer of High- wood tract, near Chicago, to the United States for military purposes ; to protect homestea i set­ tlers within railroad limits ; to enable national banking associations to increase their capital stock and change their name and location ; to grant a license to towing vessels to carry a lim­ ited number of persons in addition to their crews; to forfeit the "Back-Bone" land grant- to reduce the fees on domestic money orders for sums less than $5; to extend the immediate-de­ livery system ; to prohibit the passage of local or Bpecial laws in the Territories ; to provide for closing up the business of the Court of Alabama ClainiB ; to establish additional life-saving sta­ tions ; for the construction •( aliitional light­ houses ; extending the free-delivery system to towns of 10,0j() inhabitants ; for the sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkansas ; to amend the statutes so as to require brewers to give bonds for three times their estimated monthly tax; for tho issue of postal notes in sums less than $5 ; to validate the general laws of Dakota re­ garding the incorporation of insurance com­ panies ; to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars, and snuff, and to repeal section 3151 of the Bevised (Statutes; to make St. Charles, Mo., a port of entry; to allow underwriters to be recognized as consignees of merchandise on abandoned vessels ; to restrict ownership of lands iu the territories to American citizens; to amend tho act dividing Missouri into two judi­ cial districts, and to divide it into eastern and western divisions ; to prohibit Government em- p'oyes from hiring or contracting out the labor of United States prisoners ; to amend the duti­ able-goods act so as to allow merchan­ dise to be transported in bond on passeuger trains in Safes, pouches, and trunks, and in parcels ; to amend the act prohibiting the im­ portation and immigration of foreigners under labor contracts ; for an additional associate Jus­ tice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming ; provid­ ing for the location of a branch soldiers'home west of the Bocky Mountains; for the relief of the Jeannette sufferers ; amendatory of the act dividing Illinois into judicial districts, and pro­ viding for the holding of terms of court at Peo­ ria ; relative to contested elections ; to loan arti­ cles in the Government departments to the Min-* nesota Industrial Exposition ; to regulate the jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts ; for the adjustment of land grants and tiie forfeit­ ure of unearned lands ; to add a number of cities to the list of national bank reservo cities, and to allow a part of the reserve to be kept in cities other than New York; for the relief of settlers on the public lands in Kansas and Nebraska; to provide for bringing suits against the Government; for the erection of public buildings at Los Angeles, Cal., Springfield, Mo., El Paso, Tex., Santa Fe, N. M., and Jefferson. Tex.; t'J increase the limit of cost of "public buildings at Peoria, 111., Gal­ veston, Tex., Clarksburg, W. Va, Keokuk; Iowa, Chattanooga, Tenn., Detroit, Mich.; for the completion or improvement of public build­ ings at Dallas, Tex., l)es Moines, Iowa, Jack­ son, Tenn.. and Hannibal, Mo., for the purchase of additional ground for the building at Fort Wayne, Ind.: for the purchase of a site for a Federal building at San ErancisCo, Cal. Forty House joint resolutions became laws, the principal ones being as follows : Directing the Commissioner of Labor to make an investigation as to convict labor; authoriz­ ing tiie Secretary of the Interior to use certain unexpended balances for the relief of the Northern Choyennes of Wyoming; to authorize' the President to protect American rishing and trading vessels atid American fisht rmen in Can­ adian waters; authorizing an investigation of the books, methods, and accounts of the Pacific railroads. Of tbe total number of bills which passed the Senate 320 became laws, including 115 of a public and 205 of a strictly private nature. The following is a list of the more important: The Presidential succession bill; the inter­ state commerce bill; for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar; the electoral count bill; for the allotment of lands in sev­ eralty to Indians ; to repeal the tenure of office act; to increase the annual appropriation for the militia; to establish agricultural experi­ ment stations ; to legalize the incorporation of trades unions; authorizing the transmission of weather reports through the mails free of post­ age ; to increase the pension for loss of an arm or leg; to indemnify tho Chinese for losses sustained by the Bock Springs (Wy. X.) riot; for the relief of Texas, Colora­ do, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Washington Territory, and Ida­ ho; authorizing tbe sale of certain Gov­ ernment property in Chicago ;• for the holding of terms of the United States Courts at Bay City, Mich.to remove the charge of desertion from the records of soldiers who re-enlisted without h iving received discharges on account of first enlistment; to establish two additional land districts in Nebraska ; to amend t'»e laws relating to patents, trade-marks, and copy­ rights ; to extend the time for the completion Of the records of the Court of Alabama Claims; to credit Kansas with certain money 011 ordnance account; to bridge the MUsifisippi Biver at St. Louis ; to allow receivers of national batiks to buy 111 trust property on the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency; to prohibit the importation of opium; for the ere tion of pub­ lic buildings at San Antonio, Ttxus. Houston, Texas, Osbkosh, Wis., Fort Smith, Ark.. Owens- borough, Ky., and Milwaukee, W.is.; to increase the limit ot cost for public buildings at Oxford, Miss., und Denver, Col.; for the completion of public buildings at Fort Scott and Wichita, Kansas. The Senate bills vetoed were thirty-nine in number, eleven being of a public and twenty- eight of a private character. The public bills vetoed were as follows : To quiet the titles oi settlers on the Des Moines Biver lands (passed over the veto in the Senate, but failed of tho necessary two-thirds in the House); for the erection of public build­ ings at Zanesville, Ohio, Lafayette, Ind.. Sioux City, Iowa, Dayton, Ohio (passed over the veto in both houses), and Lynn, Mass.; to extend the provisions of the immediate traus}K>rtation act to Omaha, Neb.; to grant railroads right of way through the Indian reservations iu Northern Montana. Tho ninety-three House bills vetoed in­ cluded eighty-seven private bills and six bills of a public nature. The public bills vetoed were: For the erection of Federal buildings at Springfield, Mo., Duluth, Minn., Asheville, N. C., and Portsmouth, Ohio; to distribute $10,000 worth of seeds among tho drought-stricken peo­ ple of Texas ; to grant pensions to dependent soldiers and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers. Tho regular appropriation bills which failed' of enactment were the fortifications bill for both Congresses, the river and harbor bill of the itrefent session (which was not signed bv the 'resident), and tho deficiency bill, 011 which the conference report was not submitted in time for action. Fifty bills wero "pocket vetoed" by the President. Tho most important were: To prevent tho employment of convict und alien labor 011 public works ; too^en to settlement tbe public land strip south of Kansas ; for the con­ struction of l-'eueral buildings at Monroe. La., and Saginawi Micb. ; tho O'Neill labor arbitra­ tion bill; tho Morili-on surplus resolution; to annex a part of Idaho to Washington Territory; for holding term* of court at Duluth, Minn., and Corinth, Miss. Tho Northern Pacific forfeiture bill and the pre-emption repeal bill failed in conference, while the bill to create a Department of Agri­ culture and Labor waH killed by the inability of its friends to send it to a conference commit­ tee. About one hundred and fifty bills and res­ olutions which passed the House fuilcd in the Sonate, and about seven hum 1 red and fifty measures which passed the Senate were defeat­ ed in the House. The most important bills de­ feated were • The Blair educational bill, the Cameron-Hale twin bills for the increase of the navy; the Mo- AdoO fortifications bill; the Dakota and Wash­ ington Territory admission biils ; the Chicago Dearborn Park bill, the Eads bill, the Nicara­ gua Canal bill; the Morrison and other tariff bills ; the Pacific Railroad funding bills ; to es­ tablish a uniform bankruptcy ISw ; the Pacific funding bill; the Hennepin Canal bill; the Ok­ lahoma bill; the Dunn free-ship bill; to repeal the civil-service law ; to grant woman suffrage; the postal-telegmpk Wife aaJihll- nitnirnateucal «>P}right bill " - .v »:w - •JkA'