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RIBUN VOL. II. HERIXGTOX, DICKINSON KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1386. NO. 11.

THE T7 IT" i 1 1 "sh T7 TV Ni TT Vl "TV T- ill THE CHINESE QUESTION. KANSAS STATE NEWS. CURRENT COMMENT. NEW LAWS. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Tbeee men were found frozen tc tleath in the streets of Hew York on tbe morning ol the 2d. A strike occurred the other day among the employes of the Dry Dock, East Broadway Battery Railroad Con'pany at New York and all the cars stopped running. The cause was because the company took on new men, intending to discharge the old ones as soon as the new men understood the work. J. H.

the embezzling Xew Orleans sub-treasury clerk, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Chester (111.) penitentiary and to pay a fine of eo.fiOU. The laborers on the Annapolis Baltimore Short Line railroad struck for higher ages recently. Two men were killed and one seriously injured by a train jumping the track at Inland Pond. while trying to force the enow blockade recently. Secretary Whitney has ordered the commander of the United States steamer Galena to deliver to the United States Marshal at Key West.

the steamship City of Mexico, seized for being engaged in a filibustering expedition against Honduras. George W. Lake has been convicted in the Richmond County CS. court of having ruined his own illegitimate daughter, by hom he had five children, four of these being idiots. The associated chambers of agriculture of Great Britain have adopted a resolution favoring the imposition of import duties on foreign grain.

A Brazilian loan of t3.CnO.000 has been Boated by the Rothschilds. The Russian Government has ordered the Polish poet Kraszeivski to return to prison on May 1. The poet says that his return will soon be followed by his death, is now in feeble health. a he Chinese at Canton were greatly excited on hearing of the ejectment and violence offered their countrymen in America. The Governor of the province, in a dispatch to'the Chinese Minister at Washington, stated he feared violence would be offered to Americans if the reports of the affairs in America were confirmed.

There ere reports in London that Egypt would shortly be evacuated by the British troops. The rumor was confirmed that the Pacific Mail had been ordered out of the transcontinental fight. A boat in which John Walker and Eustace Burnham were riding near Digby. recently upset during a squall and both were drowned. Fiue started the other afternoon in the second level of the Hickory Ridge mine near Shamokin, and was burning fiercely.

The miners all escaped. BtKNES. Hyndman. Champion and Williams, the four Socialist leaders in the recent London riots, have been committed for trial on the charge of inciting subjects of the Queen to riot. Br an explosion of dynamite near Yonk- entitled "An act relat'ng to the organ't'on ol new counties." Approved 1, 1ST 3.

H. B. 22, an act to amend section 6 of chapter 153 of the laws of iNd, being an act entitled "An act concerning County Superintendents of rubl Instruct on." and art.cie 2 of chapter 123 of tbe Session Laws of lT. B. B.

an aet to create tbe Twenty-third Jud District, to provide a judge therefor, nd for holding terms of court mere n. H. B. 2t-a. an act to iegaii.e certain ordinances of the cit of WinUeid.

Kan. S. B. 17ft. act authorizing the Board of County Commiss.

oners of Ciay and Jewell Counties to provide a fund and appropriate the same for the purpose of erecting county buildings in sa counties. S. li an act author-z ng the erection of a jad in tbe county of Mitcheii, and provid. ng the means therefor. S.

B. Ta, an act raak'ng appropriations to the State Board of Heaith. and for the payment of the saiarr of the secretary, and to carry out tne provisions of chapter 12d, of the ses-s on laws of creauug State and local boards of health, for the fiscal years ending HO, l-vsi. and June 3U. Iv7, and for ttie fiscal year ending June 1N5.

S. B. l.ti. an act to authorize school No. 3.

in Gove County, to issue its bonds for the purpose of erecting a school houe. S. 1st i. an act to regulate and fii the terms of the district court of the Fifteenth Judicial 1 strict, and to repeal chapter tv, of the laws of lNii. S.

B. 4-1 an a to legalize the acts of the Wilson Cmon Cemetery Company and of its officers in conveying real estate to the city of Wilson. Kan for cemetery purposes. S. U.

So. an act to make the general and numereal of certain records of Cherokee ounty the State of Kansas, evidence before courts and ail other tr bunals. S. li 31. an act to legalize the issuance of certa: bonds of school district No.

1, Comanche County. S. It an act authorizing Center township, Wilson County, to subscribe to the capital stock of the Kansa. Oklahoma Texas Railway Company, aud to issue the londs of said toivRshio In payment for such stock. S.

B. an act to enable certain municipal tow to subscribe for stock any railroad company, and to bonds in payment theretor. S. B. 3, an act In relation to building and maintaining bridges in Cowley County, Kansas, and prov ng for ievj injf and coiiectiUfr taxes for such purposes.

S. B- 3s. an act to legalize the tax levy of three and one-haif mills for county bridge fund, and one mill for county poor fund in the vear lstl. and one 11 lor county poor tund in the year 1M, as made by the Board of County Commissioners ot Atchison, Stat? of S. II.

an act legalizing certain roads and hihwas in Atch.son Countv, and making the record of such roads and the phirs and survey of roads evidence of the val.d.ty of the same. H. u. 4. an act to amend section 4 of article 14.

chapter of tbe session of being entitU-d "An act forthe regulation and support of common schools." Approved March 4. IsT'i. and to provide for the punishment for violation of the provis ons of this act. H. ti.

4'-'. an act relating to fugitives from justice, and'repealing section a of chapter 44 ot the general statutes of l.i. H. B. 17ft.

an act to amend section 10 of chanter I'M of the sess on laws of of an act entitled ''Ad act provid na for the organization and controUtf Mutual Life Insurance associations in this State, approved March 7, lssi. and to repea sa section 10." H. it. 97. an act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Jewell County, to levy a tax upon the taxab property of Prairie township ui countv.

far The purpose of bmiding a br.dge In tad town-shrp. S. 33. an act authorizing Avonia township. O-age County.

to vote bonds not exceed. ng I.ttju tor a town hall. H. B. an act author zing the Board of County to bui and repair a bridge across the Arkansas river, near tbe city of Kinsley, and to issue bonds and to levy a tax to pay for the same.

Lecame a law under the constitution, without the sia-narureof the Governor. H. B. bti. an act to legalize the issuance of bonds by school district No.

63 of McPherson County Kan. H. ti. 2S. an act relating to certain bridge in Montgomery Countv and to provide tor levying and collecting taxes therefor.

Became a law under the consntut.on w.tbout the ot the Governor. S. IS. an act in relation to billiard tables, pool table and bowling alle and to provide for licensing the same. S.

B. 7. an act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Butler County to appropr ate money to build a certain bridge in that county. It. an act to remove the political disability of certain persons therein named.

S. B. 54. an act amendatory of and to repeal H. B.

an acttocreate tbeTwentT-frmrt judicial distr ct. to prov de tor a judge there-and for holding terms of court therein. H.B.I, an act providing for the seievtiom and summoning of grand petit jurors tn special cases. S. an act to amend sections 3.

7 snd 8 of chapter 117 of the sess on taws of 1S7T, r-lat ng to tlsh. S. B. 2u7, an act entitled an act legalizing the acts of the Mavor and Counc.l ot ihecityof Well ngton in curb ng and guttering Washington avenue and other streets in sa Ctty. S.

ti. an act to suppress and prevent the printing, sed ng. ad vert is ng, ving away or expoiug to ew. or showing or taking subscr pt on for. anv indecent or obscene literature, print, etchings, draw ncs or papers, or anv amce or instrument of immoral use.

and presenting a pun snment therefor. S. B. Y.a, an act to author ze the City of Osage Citv, to transferthe snk ng fund to the general improvement fund of said citv. Substitute for H.

B. an act to establ sh boards of arbitral. on aud denning- their powers and duties. H. V.

an act mak'ng appropriations for the State pen tentiary for tbe flscai year ending June i. lv. S. B. iei an act in relation to railroads, S.

B. 4 an act to author ze cities to estate Ush and maintain free pubi.e libraries and read ug rooms. S. B. 4-v an act mak appropriation to 'rank Bacon for Ui services as Commissioner of Kansas at the World's International Cotton fcxpostt-on at NYw Orit ans.

P. B. 7. an act relating to appo ntment and empiovment of persons who served anal have been houorabiv discharged from the army and navy of tue I ted States. 8, B.

17. an act author zing counties and Incorporated ties to encourage the development of the coal, natural gas and other resource of the locality by subscribing to the stock of companies organized for such purposes. S. B. 219.

an act to amend sect on 1 of chapter liy of the laws of and ttxing terms of court In the Sixteenth judicial district cou rt. S. B. S3, an act making an anrmpr ation for the Commissioner oi l.abor Statist c. S.

B. iS. an act to amend AS and of chapter of the laws of 1jTH. entitled "An act to provide for the assessment aud collection of taxes." S. B.

h. an act to amend sections 2, 3 and 4 of chapter 115, session laws of 1M, being an act entitied "An act for protection of birds and to prohibit hunt ng on certain lands thout consent of owner; providing at what season same may be shot, and prescribing pumshmeuts for the vioiat on of this act and to repeal chapter 110 of laws or" ISM." B. fK an act authoriz ng Mound Valley township. Labette ounty. to invest or uae a certain fund as therein provided.

H. B. 225, an act providing for the enforcement of contracts made by rad road com pane in eons derat.on of municipal, county and township aid. S. T4.

an act to legalize certain levies and assessments of taj.es in the city of Atchison. S. 1. an act providing for the disposition of surplus taxes in the hands of county treasurers. B.

Is4. an act to legalize an election held in the city of Cheney, in Sedgwick County( Kansas. 3. B. 330.

an act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the twentv-second judicial strict, to provide a Judge therefor and for holding terms of court therein," approved Februarv 17. lsa. b-o. an act to legalize a certain levy and tax imposed by the Board of 1 ounty Commissioner of the couuty of Sedgwick for the year ISisV H. lit, an act to establish the times of hold courts in the Feveral 10unC.es of the seventeenth judicial district of the State of Kansas.

H. B. 17, an act to amend sections 1 and 3 of an act ent tied "An act to enable cities of the second ciass to extend their corporate limits, and to repeal section of chapter KU of the laws of lfT2. and chapter T3 of tne laws ot 1-75." approved March 4. 1 wo, and to repeal said orig nai sections 1 and d.

H. B. a. 5, an act author ng the Board of Countv Commissioners of the county of Russell, to levy annually a special tai for brldg-e purposes. H.

B. I2s. an act to authorize the County Commissioners of Chae County, State of Kan-a. to buiid certain bridges therein named H. B.

3W. an act to provde for the erection of a certain bridge in Graham County. H. B. 27, an act to legabze tax sales of lota in the town of Altoona.

Wilson Countv. sold for taxes of the years 172, K'i, r74, IhT.V. 1-T'i. 177, l7.i, oM. 1-4 atid Substitute for B.

143. an act authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of the county of Jefferson to pav the expense of the ki-t sickness and funerai expensesof the The G. A. R. encampment closed at Wichita with the installation of officers of the three branches of the order.

Additional resolutions were adopted favoring the appointment of one person to take charge of the different commands at State reunions; indorsing the actios of the Legislature in making an appropriation to secure the National Encampment in Kansas in 17; appointing a committee of arrangements for the encampment at San Francisco; thanking the people of Wichita for their hospitality favoring the pensioning of all soldiers fifty years old who are disabled from any cause, and that those who have reached the age of sixty-five years and are poor be allowed a pension of eight dollars per month, regardless of disabilities favoring the holding of the encampment of lss7 in Kansas; recognizing Sedan camp Daughters of Veterans; regarding the death of Grant, Mc-Clellan, Hunter, Hancock and others, and that the Council of Administrntion should provide some methods for the permanent preservation of the records of the order. Five prisoners escaped from the county jail at Topeka the other day. Among them was the murderer Kellum, who, while attempting to rob a Santa Fe train at Coolidge, in lss3, shot and killed Engineer Hilton and wounded the fireman. The escape was made during the absence of the jailor at dinner. A larga posse of men went in pursuit and three were captured, among them the murderer Kellum, ho was captured nine miles north of the city by a colored man named Davis.

In reply to a letter of inquiry from L. A. Emerson, general freight manager of the Missouri Pacific road at St. Louis, the Board of Railroad Commissioners announce that "yellow pine lumber should be classified in the schedules of freight in the same grade as white pine or soft lumber, and not as hard The effect of this declaration, it is said, will be to cheapen the cost of this lumber, which is being extensively used by the people of Kansas. PosT-ornrE changes in Kansas for the week ended February 27: Established, Grover, County, William H.

Christian, postmaster; Horace, Greeley County, Fred C. Flory. postmaster; Kiimer. Shawnee County, John H. Mullendore.

postmaster: Melior, Barber County, Lottie E. Griffin, postmistress; Snokoma, "Wabaunsee County. James D. Dallas, postmaster; ITn-ion, Osage County. John J.

Kaub, postmaster. Discontinued, Sumner Ceunty. Name chanzeih Newcastle. Cherokee County, to Stippsville, Joseph Williamson, postmaster. The Board of Railroad Commissioners recently rendered a decision in the ease of A.

Kihvorth vs. the Southern Kansas railway. The complainant had shipped I.O'W pounds of mill machinery by the above railroad to Claymore, a station on the 'Frisco road in the Indian Territory, the agent of the Southern Kansas road at CheiTyvale charging 3 for switching tha car to the 'Frisco road. The complainant, deeming the charge excessive, appealed to the commissioners, who decided that the -Vlaim that the railroad company per-formed extraordinary services in this instance is not e-tnblisbed by the facts presented. A railroad company does but its duty when it attends to its bu-iness promptly and wi.out unreasonable delay," and that the railroad company should return to Mr.

Kilworth the sum of The board has decided that ordinary switching charges should be Twenty-six shackled prisoners were loaded on a car at the penitentiary the ether morning and taken over to the Union Pacific road to Santa Fe. where they ill be placed in the Territ rial penitentiary. Before leaving pardons for ten of those who had the time to serve, ar rived, and they were turned out to graze upon the prairies of Kan-as. C. A.

Stevfns was recently arrested at the Union depot at Kansas Citv on the charge of playing a confidence game on a man at Leavenworth. The arrest was made in the ladies waiting room. Stevens being accompanied by his wife, a modest looking young woman. When the officer placed his hands on the man's shoulder the wife pave a loud scream and fell on the floor. She.

being in a delicate condition, was taken care ot while her husband was taken back to Leavenworth. The capacity of the Government Indian School at Lawrence is placed at There are nowSo pupil- in the school and twent five applications for admission are before the superintendent, who is compelled tc refuse them until additional accommodations have been rovided. As a result of the collapse of the pool the Santa Fe and Union Pacific roads recently reduced the from the Missouri river to San Francisco to firt class and JO second-class. The fare heretofore has been and The charter of the Henry Electric Rail way Company was filed at Topeka recently. The purines of this corporation are to acquire all letters patent that are granted to John C.

Henry, of Kansas City, for his inventions in electric railwavs and electrical locomotion, to develop and introduce such inventions in connection with such other inventions as may come into the possession of said coiroration to build and equip railways, canals and all vehicles and vessels used for the transportation of passengers and freight with the said inventions. The capital stock is placed at The livery stable of J. C. Crall. at Atchison, burned the other morning, and thirty-six horses, besides harness, were lost One man.

F. Gherett. was seriously injured. Another fire badly damaged the hardware store of J. W.

Lowe. Loss by both fires about 125.000. Kansas postmasters lately commissioned: Elihu P. Forrey, at Chandler; William Galle. at Christian: George Lent, at Greenwich William Wielers.

at Herkimer: John Belaud, at St. Joseph: Andrew B. Jardine. at Streator: Samuel Warnock, at Sugar Valley, and David M. Lauber, at Wade.

Several Kansans have passed the Senate, Latesy patents issued to Kansas invent ors: Lyman V. Loomis. McPherson. wind-wheel gearing: Alvin N. Montrose.

Clay Center, metallic shingles; James N. Morrison, Fort Scott chain pump; Harvey Worralh Topeka. music-sheet and book supporter for pianos and organs. The warden of the Territorial penitentiary of New Mexico recently the Kansas penitentiary for the purpose of taking the New Mexican prisoners who have been confined at Lansingto the prison at Santa Fe. The Territory owes this State about 4.0.O for the maintenance of these men.

The St Paul road it is said be built to Leavenworth. The Grand Lodge. A. O. U.

W. met at Topeka and elects the following officers: W.D.Gilbert, M.W.-.J. J. ire-Feeler. G.

F. W. H. Greenwood. G- O.

H. L. Tavlor. G. It; C.

Steel, G. J. VT. Stuttard. TT.

Dr. Humphrey ville vas chosen medical director and George VT. Heed representative to the Supreme Lodge. Hexht Hii-oes, who had but a few days before enlisted in tbe United States army, was recently arrested at Fort Leavenworth and taken to St. Clair County.

to tried for" murder ccrrriutTe! at the lattpr place. Special Message or the President in Regard to th Recent Oat breaks Responsibility to Protect Chinamen. Washington. March 3. The Pnsident sent the following message to Congress yesterday: To the Senate and House of RepresentatiTea: It is made the constituticnal duty of the President to recommend to the consideration of Congress, from time to time, suca measures as he judges necessary and expedi ent.

In no matter can the necessity of this be more evident than when the food faith of the United Stales under tbe solemn oblig-a- tion of treaties with ore gn powers is con cerned. The question of the treatment of the subjects of China sojourning: within the jurisdiction of the United States presents such a matter forthe urjrent and earnest consideration of the executive and Congress. In my first annual messape. upon the of the present Congress, I adverted to this question. At the time I wrote th the shocking- occurrences at Kock Springs, in Territory, were fresh in the minds of all and had been recently presented anew to the attention of this Government by the Chinese Minister in a note which, while not unnaturally exhibiting some misconception of our Federal system of administration in the Territories while they as yet are not in the of the full measure of that sovereign self-government pertaining to the Ptate3 of the Union, presents in truthful terms the main features of the cruel outrage there perpetrated upon inoflensive subjects of China.

TBI ROCK SPRINGS OUTRAGE. In the investigation of the Kot-k Springs outbreak and the ascertainment of the facts on which ne Chinese Minister's statements rest, the Chinese representatives were aided by the agents of the United States and the reports submitted, hav nir been thus framed and recount i) facts within the knowledge of witnesses on both Aides possess an impart al truthfulness which could not fail to give theni great iiupressiveness. The facts, which so tar are not controverted or affected by exculpatory or mitieating test mom-, show the muraerof a number of Chinese subjects in September last at Hock Springs, the wounding of mary others and the spol at, on of tbe property of ail when the unhappy survivors had been driven from their habitations. There is no allegat on that the victims, by any lawless or disorderly act on their part, contributed to br.ng about a collision. On the contrary, it appears that the law-abiding deposit ios of these people who were sojourners our in.dst under the snnct on of hosp tabty and express treaty obi gatmcs was made" the pretext for the attack upon thra.

TLis outrage uon law and treaty engagements was commuted by a lawless mob. None of the aggressors happily for the national lame-appear by the reports to have been citizens of tbe Un. ted States. They were aliens, engaged in that remote district as min rtg laborer, who became excited against the Chinese lal orers. as it would see m.

I e-cause of refusal to join them in a sir ke to secure hizher wages. The oppression of ibjects by r.vals -n fr does not differ in v.oienee and illegality from thut applied to other ciae-os of native or alien labor. All are equally under the protection of the ia'v. and equally entitled to cujoy the benefits of assured public order. TKEATY FIGHTS.

Vrs there no treaty in existence rferr'ng to the r.fts of Ch nee subjects? Did thev enme tber as all other strangers ho resort to th land of freedom, of Fe.f-government and of laws, here peaceably to win their bread and l.ve their l. ve-, can -e no quet-on that they would en-t tled still to the same measure of protect on from violence an 1 the same free forum for tne redress of their gr evances as auy other al en. So far as tht; treanes between the Stat an I China stipulate for the treatment ut the Ch. nese subjects actually in the Un.ted State as thecitizensorsubectsof the most favored nation are treated, the. create no new statu for them.

They s-mp and conform to a general and existing rnie, applicable to alt aliens al ke. lor none are favored above others by riomct law and none by foreign treat es unless it be the inee themselves in some respects. ttio third of the fcreatv of No-ve ter IT. 1nJ, between the United Stales an; China, it provrdes that: "Article ii- If Chines-e laborers or Chinese of any other class, ther permanent or temporarily re-s d.nir in the territory of the Untied State, meet w.th iil treatment at the hand of any other persons the Government of the United states exert ail its power to dev.se measures for their protection and to secure them the same riirhts. privileges, immunities and exemptions as mav be enjoyed by the subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are en-t tied by treaty This article roiv be heid tc constitute a special privilege for Cn nese subjects in the United States a compared th other alien; not that it create any peculiar rights wh ch others do not share, but because, in cae of treatment of tne Ch'tiesc in the Un ted State, this (iovern-ment is bound to "exert all its power to de-Vfse measures tor Ihetr protect on" by se-cur is to them the rights to wh-ch, equally w-th and ail other fore gners, they are entitled.

WHAT CHINA WAXTS. Whether it iS now incumbent upon the United States to amend the general laws or devise new measures in th regard, do not censider in the preent commun cation, but confine myself to the part cular ra sed bv the outrage and massacre at Kock Spnnes. The note of the Chinese minister and tbe documents wh ch accompany it ve. a I bel-eve. an unexargerated statement of the lamentable inc.

dent and pre-'ent the regretable circumstances that tne "proceed ng, in the name of just ce. f.ir the ascerta nment of tbe nod fixing the respon b.nty therefor were a ghastly mockery of just ce. So long as the Chinese min ster. under instruction, mases this tbe basis of an appeal to the principles and convictions of mankind, no exception can be taken. Hut when he goes further and takinsr as h'S precedent the action of the Chinee government in past instance, where the lives of Amercan tfzens and their property in bar been endangered, argues a rec procai obliga-t on on the part of the United Stales to indemnify the Chinese subjects who snGered at hock Sprtng.

it became necessary to meet argument and to deny most emphatically the conclusions he seeks to draw as to the existence of such a liability and the ght of the Chinese Government to insist upon it. INDEMNITY WANTED. I draw th? attenCon of Congres to the latter part of the note of tbe Secretary of State of February 1. in reply to the Chinese Minister's representations, and invite esp-cal consideration of the cocent reasons by which he reaches conclusion, that whiist the United States Government is under no obligation, whether by the express terms of it treat es with China or the principles of international law. to indemnify these Chinese subjects for losses caused by such means and under the admitted circumstances, yet that in view of the palpable and dicreditable fa I-ure of the authorities of Wyoming Territory to bring to justice the guilty part es or to aure to the sufferers an impartial forum in which to seek and obtain compensation for the losses which these subjects have incurred by iack of poiiee protect on; and eoo'dtTing further the absence of provocation oi contribution on the part of the vict ms.

the executive may be induced to bring the matter to the benevolent consideration of Con-gres in order that that body, in its hirh d.scretjon. may direct Government aid of innocent and peaceful stranger, whose mat-treatment has brought scredit unon the country wlh the distinct understanding that such action is in no wi to be held as a precedent, is wholly gratuitous, and is resorted to in a spirit of pure genwositv toward those who are otberwie helpless. The correspondence exchanged is herewith su bit. tied lor the information of Congress. Grover Clevelamx Executive Mansion, March 1, lb6.

A Terrible Jump. Chicago, IIL, March 3. G. O'Hara, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Cat Company, while delirious from erysipelas which affected his Lead, overpowered hi two colored attendants this morning and, deliberately raisin? the window of his room in the sixth Story of the Pa'mer House, jumped ont into the rotunda. With nothing to arrest his fall, be would doubtless have been killed, bat in his descent he encountered four skylights, each protected by wire netting and passing through ail these obstructions he reached the bottom with slight injuries, so far as could be as- certaJned.

i John Kelly Won. "zw Tobk. ilarch 2. A rumor was cir culated about the city yesterday thit John Kelly was dead, but It wa found to be wholly untrue. He is auffering from nervous prostration ana insomnia, ana for several weeks has been un-a to digest any food except mi fc, which is given to him in small quanti ties.

He has become greauy reaucea in fiesh, and his lack of nourishment and sleep have made him very weak. Although his condition has not materially changed from what it was some weeks ago he is daily be coming weaker, and has lost his strength of mind, and Jus is oos many cayi Exteets declare that there are autograph letters of Mahomet among? the papyri acquired in Krpt by Ptnier. The President has approved the acts removthg the disabilities of Alexander Stewart, of Mississippi, Edward G. Butler, of Missouri, andThomas L. Korser, of Virjrfnia.

The fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of Texas" independence was generally observed as a holiday throughout Texas on the 2d. At sunrise the Galveston artillery fired a ralute of thirteen guns in hoimr of the day. A dispatch from London pays: Lord Itosplierj-, Minister of Foreign Affairs, lias given instrue; ions to British afrent-s in China to assist English manufacturers and merchants to secure control of the Chinese mriikt. and to conduct their treatment of the claims of the Chinese Government to suzerainty over Burmah with thrit end in view. Secketaky Manning has answered the resolution of the II' 'Use calling for a statement of the moneys seized at Xew Orleans ly Generals Butler and Banks, between the dates May 1, 102, and May 1, The Secretary says General Busier seized and accounted for taken from Xew Orleans banks, while General Banks seized i cash.

At Chicago recently Judge Grcsham entered a decree in the case of the Third National Bank of Chicago, against the Chicago Pacific Railway Company and the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Bailway Company. The latter was ordered to pay the bank's judgment in thirty days. In default a receiver will be appointed to operate the St. Funl's leased property.

A committee of the temperance party in the English Hou-e of CVni-mons has prepared two memorials to the GovcrMix nf. one demanding that the Goven.ment support the Sunday closing bill and the other favoring local option, under Mr. Chamberlain's County Govenner.t bill. It is expected that three hundred and twenty mm-lers of will sign the local option memorial. At a meeting of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions recently it as agreed that the bills extending the arrears of pen-ions acts, should be reported to the llu-e.

Three reports will be made out; recommending the extension of the arrears until IS: another it as to include all applications on tile at the present time, and the third will be adverse on both of these propositions. PiirNf Krai-otkine. the Anarchist, delivered a lecture in the Salle Levis. Paris, the other evening. He predicted a revolution at the end of the century wbich would away government, permanent armies, religion and all abuses interfering with the liberty of subjects.

He avoided political allusions. His speech was applauded. He was followed by Louise Michel, who delivered a similar address. The total values of the iport of merchandise during the twelve months ended January 31, lsso. were and durinr the twelve months ended January 31.

1 $017.172.41 1. an increase of 13.o7'3.HiO. The values of the exports of the merchandise during the twelve months ended January 31, lSMi. were and during the preceding twelve months a decrease of 232, 029. At the closing session of lie convention ot the department of superintendence.

National Education Association at Washington. February 2i, Mr. Wr.rn.rt Higlev, of New York City, read a paper on '-Forestry in Education." He spoke of the wanton destruction of forests in all parts of the v.orld, and strongly urged the importance of instruction in the elements of tree culture in the public schools and the observance of arbor days in all cities and towns in the country. Senator Vance, who recently went to Detroit to bring Senator Jones back to Washington with him. failed in his mission.

He saw Jones, and remonstrated wish him about his conduet, but it did not produce the slightest effect. Jones told him that he was capable of attending to his own private affairs, snd his matrimonial aspirations were included in that category. Vance gave him up as a hopeless case. Senator Fair says he was with Jones in Dublin several years ago, and that he had a fimilar adventure there, pursuing the beautiful Irish maidens with his importunities to such an extent as to disgust everybody, and to make himself the common talk of the town. I An association was incorporated in Washhisrton reccntlv under the name cf the Clerks' Beneficial League.

It is composed of Government clerks, and its object is to assist dis-! uai i. i4 two hundred dollars when removed. The association was formed a year and a half ago, but was not incorporated because of the change in the administration, the projectors being fearful that it would not succeed on account of the sweeping discharges that ere expected. The present administration's policy has been so conservative in that respect that it was thought safe to go ahead. Each member is required to pay an initiation fee of two collars, and whenever a member is discharged a sufficient sum to make up the two hundred dollars is assessed upon the remaining members.

Branches will be established in all the large cities for the post-office and custom bouse clerks. A Complete List of New Laws Passed mt the Special Session of the Legislature. Following are the enactments of the special session of the Legislature, which met January 19 and adjourned February 20. These bills were all approved by the Governor, unless otherwise noted: S. 1, in relation to railway corporations, and author zing and confirming change of gauge in certain cases ana municipal am in i such cases.

B. i authorizing the Board of County Commissioners ofWah ngtoo County to provide a fund and appropriate the same lor I the purpose of buiiu.ng county buildings in said couutv. S. B. 41.

cedinir lurisdiction to the Tnited States over certain lots in the city of Wichita as a cite for a Federal building. IS. 11.3. authoriziog the establishment and maintenance of county high schools. H.

B. li t. authorizing and directing the County Comm ssKners or hawnee County to levy an esment to bund a jail and ja lers residence. H. H.

i. authorizing and directing the County Commissioners of Shawnee County to levy a special tax to build abutments and bridge at Hichiand H. B. Hi authorizing and directing the Board of County Comings oners of Shitwnee Couutv to issue bonds to fund certa indebtedness of that county. H.

B. TT, author ng an empowering- Ottawa township. Franici Lountv. to lease cr purchase a ite and erect a town-h'p hail and io provide fur the payment aud manage me ut of 'he same. H.

B. nC. author z'ng the Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee Count to build a court house and to build and pay for ridges sa ti county and to provide a tund iiercfor. H- H. 115.

providing for the building and reia ng of brdije in Sumner and Barber Couni.es and proVid ng a fund therefor. H. B. M. re-stor ne the county of Kiowa and defin nir its oundarie and the boun- iiar.es of Edwards and Commanche S.

B. Srt.authorii.insr the Board of Education of the city of McPhero.n to issue bonds tor the purpose of erecting and fur-n shmg a h-gh school building: and author-7. na- said board to donate to the couutv of MePiu-r wm a certain block in sa csty for a county ch school site: ami to donate to sa city lwnds lor the nurpose of erecting a si-hooi bu idtog on said se for a Srhool buiidmg. II. it.

--to, providing for the consolidation of cit e. S. B. lfi. an appropriation as a dona-natlon to St.

Vinceut'sorphan Asvium. S. B. authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Labette County to levy certain taxes for bridge purposes. S.

B. 14-, making an appropriation for tne expense of the Mate helurtn School for the fiscal year enuing June oU, lv6 and Juneau, l.T. S. B. 3.

to regulate and fix the terms of court in the Twr ntyflrsc Jud.ciai Distr.ct of ttie State of Kansas. H. II. 31. relating to the jur sdlction and procedure lfore justices of the peace in civil cae and amendatory of section 84, chapter si, statutes of S.

B. ss. provid ng for the transfer of cer-tfl moneys from the State nkmg fund to the State irem-raJ revenue fund and to repeal ItWk of law of lL S. It. iO.

to amend section 1 of article 14 of eiiHpter 1J2 of session laws of IftTrt, entitled act for the regulation and support of Common schools." S. B. 'Si, relating to the support of schools In cit of the second cla-s and amenda'ory of chanter 1 of session laws of lsSJ, and to Tergal safd chapter. U. B.

4. tr detach the counties of Thomas and Shertnitn from tbe county of Sheridan and attach Sherman to Thomas for judicial purposes. H. B. 52.

relating to the codeof civil proceed ore and amendatory of section I1)? of chapter Nt general statutes of 1-sci. s. B. lift, to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, government and compensarion of the State militia and for the pubnc S. B.

to legalize the action of the Board of County Commissioners of MorrisCounty in "ietiniiiK th boundary line of Council Grove t'-wnship in Si-iti county. H. B. l-'tt. certain roads and highways of Mitchell County, and making the record of Mich road and the plats and surveys thereof evidence of the aadityof the same.

H. B. 4i. to legalize the tax levje made by the Board of County Commissioners of Aden nuitv for bruize purposes for tbe years li and S. B.

to further endow the State Xormal School, and to provide for the s-ale of certain Mate land. H. JIT. to roads and highways in the county of Chautauo.ua, laid out and or-f acred to be opened prior to January 1. lv-tf.

H. B. tii'. to enable the ofbeers of Stanton 1 County, to build br dge abutments therein named, and use road fuuds i of the year in-4. H.

B. 2-9. supplemental to an act tn diaor-l gan ze io nt choo( ct No. 3 in Edwards and Pawnee Counties, and to attach a portion of sa joint district lying iu Pawnee County, to dir in snid count-. H.

i. to authorize school strict No. 95, in Srn th County, tn issue its bonds. H. B.

Al. to legalize the act of the township officers of Elk township in the county of b.ud in issuing certa bonds for the purpose of build-rig a bridge across Elk creek, and to provide for the registration of the (tame. H. B. H.

relating to the business of joint stock fire insurance companies organ zed under the laws of tbe State and defining their power vnd duties H. change the name of certa person thf-rein named. H. B. ITT.

authorizing the Mavor and Coun-c imen of the citv of Minneapolis, Ottawa Countv, to sell certain property. H. B. I'JU. autnorizing Lola township, in Cherokee County, to Uj-c if surplus bridge itind to l.uid bridge exceed in eo-t.

H. hit, to the issuance of bonds by hool district 'o. Ci, in McPherson County. S. ti.

authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Kcpubl Countv to build a jfl.l and jailer dence in said county, and to levy a tax therefor H. ii VK to extend the time for building a bridge In Douglas County. S. B. 144.

to regu'ate and fix the terms of court in the d'strct court of the fifth judi-c di-tr et and to repeal chapter ll'i of the of ltvi. S. B. to change the lines of Coffey and yon Counties. B.

to create the twenty-second jndi-c al district and to provide for holding terms of court tnere n. 1 H. B. 44. relating to switch connections at the crosiug of railroad, and providing, for the construction and maintenance.

H. B. -i'. to legalize the organization of the city of Meade Center, in Meade County. H.

B. 34 S. makmg an appropriation for tie legislative department and general ex- 1 penses incident to the special session of the Leg.siature of 1S. S. B.

1VT, to fix the time of holding the terms of the strict court of the fourth judicial district and to repeal ail acts inconsistent with this act. H. B. 14-i. declaring the 9hh day of Maya legal holiday.

H. B. 3. amending sections 1, 2 and 3 andSHof chapter of the laws of 171. and amended by section -i of chapter V'-o of the laws of and seetion 2 of chapter the laws of ls-J.

providing for tiie organization and government of c.tle of the third Cia-s and the extension of the corporate limits thereof and to repeal iaid sections. If. B. tci. relating to citie of the first cia-s.

and to authorize the Mayor and Council to issue bonds for the purpose of pros-pet-ting for coai within the limits of such cities. H. B. 172. authorizing the Auditor and Treasurer of State to transfer the moner in the State Treasury known as the military fund to the militia fund, and appropriating the same to other purposes.

H. B. I7L ent Tled An act making appropriation for the current expenses of the State Asylum for Id. otic and Imbecile Children, for the nscai year ending June 1H7." H. B.

4. to amend section 4 of article of chapter of the sessions laws of 1-76. being entitled "An act for the regulation and suj-port of common sehoots." approved March 4. 176, and to provide punishment for violation of the provisions of this act- S. B.

13. to authorize Lowell township, in Cheroke-? County, to ue it surplu funds tn bundmg approaches to certain brdges. H. B. 4.

entitled "An aet ni ng tne terms of court in the ghteenth jud cial dj-Tnct. aid amendatory of section 2 of chapter of the laws of InsI." H. B. I0. attaching the counties of Scott, Wichita, Greeiey and Seward to Kinney for judicial purpose4, and legalizing ail acts and part? of act heretofore been done or commenced by virtue of section coapter 1)9, session laws of H.

B. Z. to arsend section f. chapter session law of ls7G, being an act in retioo to ra irada. 5.

B- 217, an act supplemental aud amendatory to an act eutit.ed "Ad act to consolidate cities." A pD roved February 11, 1 vi. S. B. 209. an act authorizing M'ssion township, Neosho County.

State of Kansas, to ad in the construction of ra i. roads. H. B. 2ft.

ao act to restore or re-create and define the bonndarie of tbe counties of Sew ird, Stevens and Morton. In tbe State of and repealing aU former iaws reiat-ilig to the boundaries thereof. H. B. -Vj in act to amend chanter 23 of the General Statutes of Kansas.

l9s, entitled, "An act concerning pr 'ate corporations-" H. B. aa act to compel the reccrd-cg of tax dee3a. H- B. 40.

an act relating to the organization of new eounties. the same bemr amendatory of section 1 ot chapter 6-i of the Ses on 1-4 of lr 6, being- an act to am-ud an act Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail. COXG EESS I Ai. The Senate was not in session on the and tbe House went into Committee of the Whole for general debate on the stare of the Union. The leading subject of derate, however, proved to l-e the aH-ar-surleDjr s.I-rer quest hen the committee rose the House adjourned.

Is the Senate on ilarch 1 Mr. Pugh submitted a report from the Committee on Judicial- in relat on to removals and suspensions. The fV-nate went into executive session, and when the doors wore opened lenirthy mesfsRjfe was received from the President upon the rlaht of removal mm nthee. Atter another executive session the Senate adjourned In the House everat h.iiswere introduced and pendiufr on the Mexican Pension bill the House adjourned. Is the Senate on the id Mr.

Van VTjck reported favorably, with an amendment, the House bili to increase the pensionsof widows of deeed soldier. At one o'clock the Senate took up the Eduraiion bdl. ltetate on the il continue until adjournment In the House Mr. Morriil. of Kansas, from tbe Committee on Invalid Pens.

oos. reported the bill extending until July isss, the time ithin which applications for arrears of pensions may be At tbe expiration of the morn ns hour the House went into Committee of the Whole on the Pens on Appropr a-t on bill. hen the committee rose the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 3d several petitions were presented, one from many New York banks asking for the continuance of silver eomHire. Mr.

Heck offered a which was airreed to. cali.nu on the i rMary of the Treasury for certain information in reirard to the payment of tbe public dei-u and after the transact on of minor bus nesg. the Educat on bill came up and was di-cussed until adjournment In the House Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, from the Committee on Agriculture reported a bill to esttt.l sii agricultural experiment stations in connection with the coiiejres of the several State. At the expirat on of the morn Off hour the House, in committee, resumed consideration of the Pension Appropriation bill.

the comm-ttee rose Mr. Itraijr. of Wisconsin, reported the Armr Appropriation bill, and the House adjourned. Afteii the presentation of petitions in the Senate on the 4th the bill passed accepting from Mrs. (jrant the tokens presented to the late flenero! tirant by foreign countries.

The Education bill was'then taken up and ptfer del the Senate adjourned in order tliar mem! rs mitrht attend the funerai of the of Senator Hawley The House, at the expiration of the inornine hour, took up the Pensum Appropriation biil. and atter de-bale, the speaker announced the spec ai committee to investigate ttie tacts concernmir the ownership of the Pan-Klectric telephone stock by certa public officers as foiiows: Hovce. fates. Eden. Hall.

Ha e. Kan-rey. Miller. Hnnback and Moffatt, and the House PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Pkince Bismarck wan recently reported suffering from an attack of sciatica.

As lr. Blowitz, Paris correspondent of the London 7Vmr. was ascending the staircase of bis home the other night a shot was fired at him by some unknown person, but missed him. Cakiiin.il Ant.fxo jAronrsi is dead. He was born at Genzano April 25.

I-C). and was created a Cardinal on March 27. Iss2. Tke President has withdrawn the nomination of Edw ard B. Briggs, of the District of Columbia (at his own request), to be Consul at Santos.

Jacob Cnit.o. of Richmond, has been nominated Minister to Siam. The Rev. lr. Samuel Ramsey, who led the split in the Presbyterian Church which ended in tbe establishment of a Southern branch, died at Louisville, Ky oi: the 3d, aged sixty -eight.

The President has nominated Alfred H. Terry to the vacant Major Generalship held by the late W. S. Hancock. The wife of Senator Joseph R.

Hawley. of Connecticut, died at her home in Washington on the 3d. The Chinese Minister at Washington denied recently that his Government was meditating decisive action because of the anti-Chinese riots. The pallium was conferred upon Arch-hop bisCorrigan at St. Patrick's Cathedral New York, on the 4th, with imposing ceremonies.

The French Chamber refused to order the Orleanist princes to leave France by a vote of e45 to 17ti. A test vote recently in the English House of Commons showed Gladstone with to lr'O. General BorLANOEO. the French Minister of War. has decided in favor of destroying the forts of Paris.

Freii DoroL.iss. the well known colored leader, has tendered his resignation as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Colum- bia. Colonel E. H. Mi Pherson, a graduateof West Point and a well-known Indian fight- er, who at one time gained a great reputation by rescuing two young women from the Indians on the Platte river, committed suicide at his boarding house at Evansville, by taking morphine.

Indulgence in strong drink led him to tbe dogs. Ex -Congress man Finerty, of Chicago. was the orator at the Robert Emmet cele. brationnttheNewYorkAeademvof Mu-dc March 4. He predicted ParneU's success in I his labors for home rule.

MISCELL.ANEOIS. Mr. Henrt Stevens, the American bibliographer, died in London recently after a long and painful illness. Tue President recently informed an office seeker that he had something else to do better than hunting offices for even his Democratic supporters. There was no truth in the report that a syndicate of Belgian financiers had entered into contracts for the construction of railroads in China.

Heavt snowstorms were reported raging in Iowa and Wisconsin on the 2th. The snow drifted badly and traffic for a time as blocked. The President, on the 2d. sect a message to the Senate requesting adequate legislation for the protection of Chinese residents. A fire at Point Perry.

recently, proved very destructive. The fire caused a quantity of gunpowder to explode. A number of persons were lifted by the force of the explosion six feet in the air, but no one was seriously injured. The Senate, in executive session on the 1st. refused to confirm the nominations of Pilisbury and Chase, to be collectors of in ternal revenue in Boston and Portland re- spectively.

Great crowds assembled at the McCor mick reaper works at Chicago on the morn- ing of the 1st. Threatening demonstrations were made against the firm and the men who returned to work, but no serious collisions tock place. The dry house of the Miami Powder Com pany at Xenia. exploded recently. Three men were blown to atoms.

The Chinese of East Portland and Albany, suburbs of Portland, to the number of ISO, were driven out by a mob on the 1st. Tke eight hoar movement is assuming formidable proportions in Chicago, and promises to be very general among the wage workers, both, organized and unorganized. Tee Canadian Pacific railway depot at Winnipeg was burned down recently. Loss, 20O.0u); insurance. The House Committee on Public Lands by a test vote has put itself on record as in favor of the repeal of the pre-emption land law.

Dcxise a heavy gale the entire roof of the Rockland County (N. almshouse was blown off. The building, which is a large one, contained many inmates, but none were injured. ers, the other night one workman in the new Croton aqueduct was killed and four were injured. Roman Nose- the Cheyenne chief, in cus tody at Fort Leavenworth, recently at tempted suicide by hanging, but the rope broke.

A c.trrrs of Republican Assemblymen was held at Albany, NT. recently, and it was stated that a constitutional prohibition amendment as adopted as the sense of the Republican majority. F. W. Nickersos extensive West India merchants, of Boston, failed recently for The assets were not knowp.

The Knights of Labor have ordered a bovcott on the Detroit Fret rrw. The strike on the Dry Dock street railroad at New York, broke into violence on the 4th. Street cars were recked and the police were attacked. Many persons were injured in the riot. The schooner Virginia Dare, of Gloucester.

has been given up for lost. She had a crew of fourteen men. The wall of a house at Front and Norris streets. Philadelphia, that was being torn down, suddenly fell the other day, burying several laborers. Daniel Quinn was killed, and James Keegan was seriously injured, probably fatally.

Goodbody's tobacco factory in Tulla-more, Kings County, Ireland, burned recently, causing a loss of In the Kentucky House of Representatives at Frankfort, recently, a dispute took place between two members. Robert G. Thomas and Jackson, of Louisville. Thomas drew a pistol and became very demonstrative, but was subdued bv friends. Holland has decided to convert its 4 per cent, securities into per cent, stock.

ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. The street car strikes in New York end Brooklyn ended on the 5th in the triumph of the strikers. There was a general 'tie of the cars, and no prospect but rab- mission appeared open to the companies. The strikers were reported jubilant over success. The Amoskeag mill striBe at Manchester, N.

ended in a failure. The strikers accepted the terms of the proprietors and went to work, excepting a number who werehut out. The English House of Commons refused to abolish the House of Lords, on the 5th, by a vote of 302 to 1S6. Assolaxt. the French author, is dead.

Cholera has been discovered on board a Greek brigantine at Venice, which has been ordered to quarantine. The Senate, on the 5th. passed Blair" Educational bill by a vote of Xi to 1 1. The Urgency Appropriation bill was passed by the House. Tue trial of James T.

Holland for killiug Tom Davis, the confidence man, at Sew York, ended in his acquittal on the 5th. Eight of the men convicted of having taken prominent parts in the recent London riots, have been sentenced to from one to five years of penal servitude. The grand jury recently ignored the bill against the strikers recently locked np, charged with riot at Bradford. Pa. The costs In the cases were assessed on B.

F. May, the representative of the syndicate of coke mannfactnrers. The Knights of Labor have ordered a boycott against the wagons and sleigha made by Gage, Hitchcock W. N. Brockway and the Homer Wagon Company, all of Homer, N.

Y. The firms are accused of discharging men because they were Knights of Labor. Tbe Knights of Labor employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad yards at Denison. recently refused to handle any freight destined for points on the Texas Pacific road. They claimed they had received orders to that effect A sensation was cansed in the Paris Bourse on the 5th by a crazy man throwing a bottle of explosive liquid among the brokers and brandishing a revolver.

Ha was arrested when he proved to be an Anarchist named Petrovitch- Tbz business failures for the seven days ended March 4 numbered for the United States, 207; for Canada, 39; total 26 against the week previous. The Cuyahoga Paper Company at Cuyahoga Falls, made an assignment recently. Eighty men were thrown ont of employment The fire losses for February as estimated by the Commercwl EuUet' of New York were to.500.000 In the Cstited States and Canada. This was about the average for February losses for the last eleven or welva section lu of chapter 4i of session laws of lt. an act en.tit.ed "An act relating to bridges in Anderson S.

It. JJ. an act provid for the building and repairing of hr.dges in Sumner and Barber i ountits, and providing funds therefor. H. B.

'M. an act to authorize and empower the board of education or the city of McPherson. in McPherson ounty. to i--ue the bond of it- fchool di-trut ior the purpose of erecting and furni-hing a school bulid.ng for a high hooi. and to authone and em power board of educat on to donate and convey to the county of McPherson, in the State of Kan-as a certain block in the city ot McPherson for a site for a county gh scl ool.

and to donate to said county the proceeds ot said bonds for the purpose of erecting a school building' on sa.d block for a county high school. II 120. an act authorizing lola townsh'p. in Cherokee Countv, to us. us surplus bridge fund to build bridges, exceeding ncot.

II act to authorize the Board of County Commissioners ot DecHtur Countv to build l-r dges and levy the tax therefor. Became a law under the on without the signature of the Governor. H. B. 75.

an act to authorize school di-trict No. in Smith Count to isuc its bond 3. H. B. an act ieka.

certain roads and highwavs cf M.teheil County and making iie record of such road and the n.unt an si.rve-s thereof, eviuence of the va.iJity of the same. H. It. 321. an act to authortz the township of Park.

Sedgwick ounty. to iue bonds for the purpose ot buud.rig a bridge therein. No 27, an act tor ttie mcorprnt on of mutual livestock insurance companies, and defining their powers and dut e. H. an act authorizing Sh r'er township in loud County to vote bond not to exceed il'i tMi ior bui.ding a ton nsh house.

H. B. 3. au a to attach Sherman ounty to Thomas County for jud ai purposes audio deteh said Thomas and herman Counties from Sheridan H. B.

1.13. ao act to prevent the selling rutin ng at large of domestic an mai aftl ct-ed with any infectious or contagious dis eue. H. B. 12.

an act to amend an et of article 17(. section 3. or the laws of iT2. chapter 37. amendatory of chapter of the laws of of an act tor the encouragement of agriculture, took effect March 7.

1-7J. H. B. an act providing for the drainage of swamp. bottoins.or othr low lands.

H. 12(, an act mak ng aupDiementarv appropriation to pay the per diem and mileage of the trustees of the State charitable in-ri-tutions for the fiscal year end ng June -lb, l-i. and the fiscal year ending June l7. H. B.

71, an act to amend section 1 of arrcte I. of an act entitle! "An act re.atmg to stock." approve! March 2. the same being chapter lo. General Statute of l-v. H.

ti. an act in reat.on to garni-" ments and attachments for wages in certain ca-e. H. 3, an act for ther of Muo Carieion. Substitute for fT.

B. 59, an act to punish ma-1 eious mischief. H. B. 2:1.

an act makiDg an appropriation for the legislative departments and general expense incident to the special session of the Lgi-iature of H. B. 13. an act to prevent hunting and booting on the flrt day of the weck.com-rnonlv called Sunday. H.

h. l-i. an act to amend an act entitled An act to create a Board of County Commissioners of Highways." prescribing their dut.es and flying tne compensation, and amendiirg chapter lift of the general statutes of H. B. 91 an act to amnd sections 9 and a of chapter ti of the genera! Matures of the same being an act entitled "An act for the pubi catfon and distribution of the laws and joumai." H.

ti- 3TV. an aet to certa' levies and taies imposed by Tne Hoard of County tomm sioners of the county of Lyon for the yer l-i- H. B. an act to prevent the spread of d.seajie among swine. H- B.

3. an act to punih mirepreenta-t on and deeept.on in the naie of fruit, shade or ornamental trees, vines, shrubs, points, tuibs and roots. H. 312. an act to enable the County Com-mis- oner of Barber (ounty.

to iue bonds to buiid a school bouse and jail in said County. H. B. 300, an act entitled "an aet increasing the salary of the Attorney General and amendatory of chapter 1-3. laws of 12.

5. B. lan act to section article 14. chapter 122. of the session iaws of hZ being act fr the regniauon and support of oaamon caoOiS." 5.

B. 12v. a act to provide facilities for the derartment of pharmacy in the Cni-vere ty and to provide for salary of the pro-fe-sorof pnannacy. 3. aa act to repeat chapter 4 of tbe ess on laws of lv4.

entitle -an act to au-uiorze cities of tne to provide parks and grounds for tbe inhabitants thereof. H. B- W5. an act to amend an act entit.ed -an act to regulate we ghts and measure and to repeai an act eoutied "ao regular ng 1 we-ga aid naeai-ires," approved 3, liw. H.

an act authorizing and requ r'rg the buiiang of a bridge across tze Ca.cii.a river in Harper H. B- 96. an act to amend an act entrt'ed aa 1 actio author.ze tbe sa of certain stock of tne of Cioud. Stare of sas, to appy the proceed thereof. 1 late Simon HhII.

H. B. s7. an act to amend Session Law of lvo. which is amendatorv of an act to amend article 2.

chapter lt, laws of l7tt. B. au. an act author ng Bala townsbfp in ley County. Kanas.

to vote bonds not to exceed for the purpose of anting la the erect on of a county school rudd-ing in or adjacent to tbe of Sewardviile in sa county, and st pul tt ng the condition upon wh ch the proceeds thereof shad be delivered to sa county. H. 314. an act supp'emental to an act entitled "an a-t to amend sect on 3. chapter 2, session iaws of ls7', being an act in reiat on to railroads," of tue extra session laws of 1-sH.

H. B. lif, an act to amend section 1 of chapter VT, of the laws of ls72. ent tied "in act amendatory of a'd supplemental to an act defining the boundar es of count es, March 3, lTti. and chang ngand defining the boundaries of ce Countv.

H. B. 3ni. an act to authorize cit es of the first and secjnd class to i-sue banda for tne purpose of aiding railroad compan-es 'n M-cur ng and paying for land for ght of way, depot grounds and terminal facilities. H.

B. 315. an act concent' ng terms of court in certa str ct therein named, and amendatorv of section 1. chapter and seet.on 1, chapter 11, of the seas, on laws of B. 311.

an act to change and establish a I ne tetw-en the townh.pe of Montana and O-wego. Labette Countv. H. B. an act concern ng irrigntjoo-H.

B. 237, an at to amend sections I. 3 ard 7. of an act entitled "an act to enable the ounty Commissioners of Ford Countv to fund the county indebtedness," approved March H. B.

21.3. an act reiat ng to the jurisdiction of jrfVnee judges in cit.es of tne th rd eta-, and amendatory of section 33, chapter eo, of the laws of 171. H. i. an act amendatorv of section chapter genera! statute of bing an a'f entif ed "an act in reaon to marringe." H.

B. 3211. an aet to attaeh certa count to certain other count es therein named for jud cial purpose. H. B.

322. an act relating to steam threshing; maeh ne. saw mills and steam tract on en-g ne and ttKir passage 00 the puulie highway. S. B.

323, an aet to detach Oree'ey Countv from Ne County aud attach said county freeiey to Hamilton County, and to detaci Wichita ount, from Ness County arid attach the county of Wichita to Kinney County, for judicial purposes. B. IBS. an act in relat on to State officer and agents ami defin ng certain crimes and prov ding punishment tnerefor. S.

B. 11. an act reiat ng to the selection and summoning of grand and pet jurors, aad amendatory and supplemental to chapter hA of th- on of l.T. H. 3Xi an act to apportion the Stat fer Senator and Repreentat ves.

H. B. an ai.t mking appropriations fcr miscehaLeous expenses. OF INTEREST TO FELONS. Convention of Hemp Growers and Spinier at Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. 23. The club ronm of the Grand Pacific Hotel was filled this mominic by gentlemen from different parta of the country wMo had corue to Chicago In response to an invitation from the Flax and Hemp Spinners' and Grower Association of the United States, for the purp of promoting and en arin the industry. On the tab es ranged amuiei tli rrxjm were samples of fix and he.Ti? in various stages ot manufacture and also samples of these fibers in straw, also rotted, setitched and otherwise prepared--these, exhibits havine been prepaiext for the purpose of showing the manufacturers wha the growers are now doing. The meeting was exiled to order by by A.

B. Ittnwr, of Boston, president of the National Asso-eiat on, who briefly reviewed the jeers of the F. A. J. Smita, of 2w Yoric, was elected secretary.

Horse Thieve Snw F.ght. MAC05, Mo Feb. 36 A. bi? sensation was caused by the arrest of Frank and WJ-llara Wright, two men living with then brother near Caiiao, this county. They were arrested on a requisition from the Governor by Sheriff Green, of Cay County, Kaiu charged with stealing- a number ol valuable horses and with Jail breaking.

They showed fizht when sarroended their brother's houe by Green and eral citizens, who aided io making the arte. A number of shots were fired on torn side, and the men were finally captured, faandr cu2ed and sfceo to KaxAas at noon to-day. Jley axe extremely character The Chinese on three ranches near Wheat land, CaU wre recently driTn by 1 mob. After their nlsion from one ei the nmchw their quar.er were ureU years, i.