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PALMER WEEKLY GLOBE. I ft I. F. PALMER, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1884. VOL.

I. NO. 18. OF GENERAL INTEREST. good margins on stock, charity funds, all KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A WEEK'S NEWS. PERSOSAL AND RIPE It SOX A L. Rubenstein, tho musician, always closes his eyes when he plays. Ho says he doesn't wish to see how ninny rude pcoplo there are who aro not paying attention to his music. Joel L.

Morse, rich, became poor, was disappointed in love and forty-two years ago went into a cave and lived a hermit at Leominster, until ho died recently, agod seventy-three. Boston Fost. Charles O'Conor left twenty thousand dollars in money and a portion of his library to tho Law Institute of New York, ten thousand dollars each to four ladies, and two-thirds of the residue to his sister, Eliza M. Sloano. N.

Y. Hun. One of the most accomplished ladies in Kansas City is Mrs. F. 1).

Hourly, who scolds her husband in eight different languages, sings her baby to sleep with tho grand operas, and shoves the servant girl out of tho houso as Richard III. Chicago Inter Ocean. John Hengcl ran away from lila father at Bergen, N. four years ago, because ho opposed John's marriage to a poor girl, lie returned recently to find his girl still true and waiting for him, and to learn that his father had died and left him seventy-five thousand dollars. Newark Register.

Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, once so celebrated as a chess player, is only forty-fivo years old, but is a menlnl wreck. He goes up and down the streets of New Orleans, always neatly and stylishly dressed, muttering; incoherently to himself. His insanity results from tho loss of a lawsuit. N. 0.

Times. In 1877 Abram Meyers, of Syracuse, was sent to prison for twenty years for burglary. His two daughters liave tried three Governors in search of pardon. i The matter was Vkbsel agents in Chicago are hopefnj of a material advance In freight rates, Engagements were made one day recently for over half a million bushels of grain. Frank Arhucklb caught his arm in some of the machinery of Nathan Ar- buckle's mill at Rushville, recently, and had the flesh literally torn from the bones.

He lived in extreme agony until he was relieved by death, THE SOUTH. Tub Copiah County, Democrats hold their convention recently. They in dorsed Governor Dowry's administration, E. Barksdale for renomination to Congress and Tildon and Hendricks. They con demned the majority report of the Senate Investigating Committee in the Matthews killing, and indorsed the minority report.

The cadets accused of hazing at Annapolis have boon ordered aboard the ships. This, it was supposed, would end the mat ter. Thk doors of the State Bank of Charles ton, West Virginia, closed on the 12th. Liabilities, assets reported at $115,000. The principal losers are poor people who had small sums deposited.

Mrs. Mary Lono, a widow of some prop erty. of Carrollton, committed suicide the other day by taking two phials of laudanum. Hlie left her money on a table beside her, divided into three parts, for her three grandchildren. A recent Corsieaua, special says: The extraordinary hot weather of the past few days culminated in a small cyclone and heavy rain storm.

Two business houses were unroofed, many houses blown down and a number of residences somewhat damaged. Hunt, Stewart cotton factors of New Orleans, failed recently. Stewart states that the failure was caused by misunderstanding concerning the acceptance of drafts. ti EN Kit A Henry G. tho weather prophet, died in Montreal on the 8.h, aged forty-four years.

Daoaefk, the assassin of Sudeiken, wai arrested at Berlin. Ho will be surrendered to Russia. Baron Nordensk.iold, the Swedish explorer, is seeking subscriptions to meet the expenses of an expedition to the South Pole. The Huron estimates that the expedition w.ll cost The Spanish Government has promised to pay part oi the expenses of the enterprise. Failures for the past seven days in the United States were Canada or an in crease of 13.

Casualties were lighter thai u-ual in the New England and Western States, but there was an increase in the Middle, Southern nnd Pacific States and Canada. Tiiekdaw, King of Burmah, recently poisoned the Queen nnd her mother and married the Queen's sister. Three dynamite cartridges exploded at Genoa, Italy, recently two in front of the Church of the Conception, the other in close proximity to the Church of San Lor enzo. A London dispatch of the l.ttb says I Tbe Tichborne claimant (Arthur Orton will be released on a ticket of leave. THK LA K.ST.

By a collision with an excursion train on the Camden Pacific Railroad, recent ly, near Camden, Engineers Palmer and Bax'er and Conductor Smith, Bag- gageniaster Vaughn, Mail Agent Wy lie and Fireman Barber were killed. Many per sons were injured. The excursion party were of the Camden Presbyterian (. hurch, Frank Fenton, Supervisor of the road, and G. wards, were also killed.

The acci dent was caused by tbe non-reception of telegraphic dispatch. The Popo has instructed Monsignor Ri- naldinine at Brussels to negotiate for the restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Belgium. At a recent game of lacrosse at Belfast, between the American and United Kingdom teams, tho score was: United Kingdom, 5 goals; American, 3 goals. There was a severe frost "in various parts of New England or. the Many farm crops were absolutely ruined.

Egyptian advices say there was an Arab at Korosko who claims to be the sole sur vivor of the Berber garrison. He says he was present when the rebels attacked Ber ber on May 23. The garrison defended the town two hours, but the rebels forced their way into the city, where they immediately massacre I 1,500 men of the garri son and 2,000 of the male population. Tbe women and children were spared. The Senate was not in session on the 14th.

Tbe House continued it work on appropriation bills. The Post-office Appro priation bill was completed. A committee report on the site for a public building at Brooklyn exonerated the Secretary of tbe Treasury and subordinate officials from charges of corruption. A Frankfort, special says the Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the lower court in tbe case of Thomas Crittenden, of Missouri, charged with and sentenced to the penitentiary for killing a negro. Illegal evidence was the grounds ot tbe reversal At Butler, a boiler used in pump ing Coldridge oil well No.

13 exploded the other morning demolishing the boiler and engine house and killing tbe engineer, Richard Walker. His son, who was near bis father, was thrown fifteen feet, receiving fatal injuries. The skeleton of a boy was found in a pond at Avondale near Cincinnati, with a rope around bis neck and a stone tied to the rope. No clue to his identity or bow he came into the pond. The necessary papers to secure the re quisition of John C.

Eno, the defaulting President of tbe Second National Bank of New York, were made out and officials left with them for Canada. The State Depart ment formally notified the Minister that a requisition bad beeq made for tht iHrrtader of Sua, thrown into the river, dug investigated. at the deposits, and in fuct everything, had been swept away and used by this nrui until it is doubtful if it pays a cent or even a mill on the dollar. The remains of ex-Justlee Noah H. Swayne, of tho United States Supreme Court, arrived at Washington from New York recently on a specinl car, and wore interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

The House Committee on Ways and Means agreed to report favorably a bill to admit free of duty articles intended for exhibition at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. THE KAST. SAMUEL J. Tildkn has written a letter definitely declining his proposed nomination as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. His reasons were that he was physically unable to bear the burdens of Government or to make the nocessary canvass.

At the celebration of the semi-centennial of the corporate existence of Rochester, N. the throng was the greatest ever known in the city, and the procession formed was over two hours passing the reviewing stand. The entire cifv was illuminated. William G. Mokhan, defaulting agent of the New York banking firm of Putnam fiarle, was sentenced to three years in State's prison.

A storm, accompanied by a wator spout, visited the Cumberland Valley, re cently. From Newville east the railroad runs on a high embankment of made ground. Directly after the cloud passed over a portion of the road the storm bust, and in the presence of passengers in the rear cur carried halt a mile of rails, ties and embankment away. The water spout was about half a mile wide and very des tructive. Georob D.

MonoAN has been elected di rector of the AVestern Union, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Augustus Sehell. In the United States District Court, at Philadelphia, recently, Judge Butler made an order in the suit of Rowland Hazard against tho Credit Mobilierforthe removal of Oliver Ames, receiver, and directing the receivers to close the testimony against granting the petition within ten dnys. The schedule of tho firm of M. Bogart bankers and brokers, of New York, showed the Ann's debts to be nominal assets, actual assets, An extensive (li was rnging in the build ing occupied by tho Nut tonal Rubber and New Brunswick Rubbor Companies, on Congress street, Boston, on the I2tli. An explosion of naptha on the second floor burned three firemen named Hodgsod, Hal sey and Littleton, who were tuken to the hospital.

Others injured were as follows: John Flavnl, District Engineer Cunning ham, Captain Willaril, Captain Frost, Lieutenant Grady and Lad rinan Sweet- zer. The loss would ue heavy, insurance, 4110,000 on stock and on building. THE WKST. The Western Nail Association mot at Pittsburgh and reduced the card rate from 2.00 per keg to Vi-W. This action was taken in order to get uenrer the actual sell ing figure, which has been $2.25 in car lots at sixty days.

Trade was dull. The specinl agent of the Mexican Gov ernment intrusted with establishing the Zona' Libra, has returned to the City of Mexico without visiting Piedra Negras, and the Zona Libra idea ended in smoke. A fhfiqht train was wrecked on the In dianapolis Vinconnes Railroad, near Martinsville, the other niht, caused by a washout. The engineer was badly in jured. Micharl Murphy, aged about forty-five years, was ruu over and killed by a Balti more Ohio yard engine at Newark, recently.

He had started home somewhat under tbe influence of liquor, and it was supposed laid down on tbe track. Philip Klitz, who lived near Youngs- town, 0., was killed the other day while out hunting. His lifeless body was found by a fence, which be bad climbed, causing bis gun to explode, the charge entering his brain. The disappearance of Alfred Sheldon from Kansas City several weeks ago was creating considerable talk. Charges of ab duction and murder have been made, and counter charges that he embezzled funds and skipped out have also been made.

Sheldon was an Englishman, reputed wealthy, and tbe British Government has instituted in quiries. Sheldon was a partner in the Blue Hprings Milling Company, of Jackson County, Mo. Mrs. B. F.

Nichols, wife of a traveling man, formerly a resident of Mount Pulaski, 111., while out with a Ashing party at Ce dar Rapids, Iowa, foil out backwards from tbe boat into the river and never came to tbe surface again. Her husband was but a abort distance away, and two or three of the party saw her go under. Isaac A. Stanley, paying teller of the National Bank of Commerce, of Cleveland, was jailed recently on the charge of embezzling $100,000 from the bank. He in vested the money on a grain deal.

Mexican newspapers xxjntinued discuss ing the nomination of Blaine, which was generally regarded as a threatened evil for Mexico. La Libertad says it hopes for the election of Blaine, for Mexico has more to fear from a friendly President than one bo is avowedly hostile, regarding it as more to the interest of Mexico to deal with her neighbor in the spirit of wanfcof confl. dence and reserve than to hobnob with traitors who pretend to be friends in order to become masters. Frask L. Loiuso.of Chicago, who wss sentenced for using the mails to defraud, surrendered himself to District Attorney Tuthill, and was sent to jail for twelve months.

The dead body of a young man, whose widowed mother lives at Bardstown, was found Salt River, near Santa Fe, Monro County, a day or two ago, his arms bound and his neck broke. It was be-Uered that ha was brutally murdered and. State Horticultural Society. The State Horticultural Society at its lata meeting, unanimously adopted the following preambles and resolution: AViikheas, The Cotton and Industrial Exposition that opens in New Orleans, on December lltli, 1881, promises to be of greater inaguitiule than any other exhibition of like character in the history of. tiie United States; and Wiikiikas, The State of Knnsas desires to retain tho laurels so meritoriously won in past horticultural contests; therefore be it Itnsulved, That the State Horticultural Society, of Kansas, pledges its liest etforts to secure tho best display possible, Rtid requests the hearty co-operation of district, county find local societies, nnd that of all our fruit growers, to the etui that this object be attained.

Miscellaneous. The Grand Army of the Republic has secured a rate of fifteen dollars from Missouri River points to Minneapolis nnd return for those who wish to attend the National Encampment, July 23. It Is announced that all Kansas roads will give the boys in blue a rate of two cents per mile each way between all stations to tho Missouri River, tickets nt these rates to be sold in connection with tickets of conneetinir lines. The township assessors of Clay County have completed tho statistical work for the past year nml make the following excellent showing: Present population of I lay County, 15,758, being a gain of over 2,000 population of Clny Center, 4,182, a gain of 1,300. The county has in line condition 37,483 acres of winter wheat, 6,000 acres of rye, 93,000 acres of corn, 10,000 acres of oats, and acres upon acres of potatoes, sorghum, beans, broom corn, grasses, etc.

This county cwns over 20,000 cattle, 1,500 horses, 0,000 sheen and 30,000 hogs. Both county and city enjoy nn unusual state of prosperity, and the prospects tor a bounti ful harvest could not be better. Jehomk Williams, a carpenter of Atchl son, was sent to do some work at a residence recently, and by means of misrepresentation secured money from the parties of the house. Then feigning sickness, he was allowed to lie down In a room to rest, which he plundered of its valuable contents and made good his escape. A dispatch from Topcka says: The Railroad Commissioners have determined that Superintendent Faynn will have to put the Central Branch road in decent shape or they will make it warm for him.

A letter was addressed to that gentleman staling that many people feel compelled to travel over his road, nnd there can lie no reason for sub jecting them to a risk of theirlives upon Win its present condition. A mketino of the officers nnd Executive Committee of the Denver, Memphis Atlantic Railway CompatLV was held nt To- peka recently. Business relating to the early construction of the road was considered and disH)sed of and it was reporkd that a corps of engineers were nt work lo cating the line and work was to he com menced on the grading right away. Subsidies amounting to $2,200 per mile had been secured from Baxter Springs to l.ai ncd and three hundred miles of the rond will lit constructed this year. The same corporation has also organized the Excelsior Town and Mining Company.

Whilk Rev. C. N. Reggie, Methodist minister of Teeumseh, was absent from home the other night, his bum was burned by an incendiary and a valuable hone perished in the flames. Whilk Mr.

Joel Huntoon, City Engineer of Topcka, was descending from the hayloft of bis barn in that city the oilier evening, hta foot slipped ujsm the ladder, causing him to fall to the floor below. A fracture of his right arm at the elbow nnd between tbe elbow and wrist was the result, R. W. Wvlik, well known In commer cial circles of the Missouri alley, was bound over by Justice Dntry at Atchison recently to appear in the District Court to answer the charge of stealing groceries from the jobbing house of L. Holliss, of which he was manager.

Dt'uixo recess at the West Sido School- housn at Parsons recently, a girl, about twelve years old, was seriously shot by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of some boys not far off. The ball entered her left cheek, and lodged in her mouth. It was not thought to be a fatal wound. The boys, were arrested. I) Uoloomiik, the State Veterinarian, reports that the glanders exists nniong the horses In twenty-nine counties of tho Stale, nnd is becoming serious In its proportions.

The disease, it is believed, was brought into this State from Missouri, where it has ex isted for some time, and has been spread throughout the State by "horse jockeys," who brought over their infected animals and traded or sold them. Davip Briooam recently came Into To- peka from Strong City, lie hail one thou sand dollars in his ixissessiou. He fell in with an old chum named Barnes, and after carousing around a little while they jiarted. Shortly after Briggam missed bis jiocket-book containing the money and Barnes was arrested. The money, however, was not found in his possession.

The United States Fish Commissioners' special car passed through Topeka the other day over the Santa Fe road attached to the Cannonball train. It had on board George AV. Moore, of Chicago, in charge; F. L. Don nelly, W.

A. Bennington, ML. Tune and John T. Moore. They were returning from the Needles of California, where they planted 800,000 shad fish in the Colorado River.

Id his talk with a reporter, Mr. Moore said he thought the farmers of this State ought to build ponds and go into the cultivation oi carp. Tbey are a good, hardy fish, well adapted to this climate, and if properly cared for. grow in a year's time to weigh from one to five pounds. Mat 28, J.

McCarty and twenty-eight other persons filed petition with the Board of Railroad Commissioners asking permis sion to construct a spur or switch two miiet from Baker 6tation on the Missouri Pacific Road in Brown County, but the Board did not think, in its decision, that the inconven ience caused to a few persons in an sgricul tural district by having to haul their produce two miles further to the station at Baker was sufHciei.t to counterbalance the addi tional hazard which would be caused to till traveling public by allowing a switch put in said place, and for thee reasons the ap plication was denied. This wa the tlilrV A Washington Territory womnu named Johnson, and her two children, a jon and a daughter, wero all married on the same evening a short time ago. An Indian mortar, about eight inches in diameter and nvo inches deep, has been taken from tho top of a hirge bowlder, just north of JMiiuslicIil, Conn. Thomas Murray dropped his cigar while smoking in his bed-room in JSew York. It fell on a powder flask, and the explosion blew ins right hand oil.

A spring of blood-red water, smelling like creosote nnd having a very puu-gent taste, has been discovered in i mine near Virginia, Nev. Denver Trib une. Woodstock, Ulster County, N. has a snow-ball quilt which is a curiosity. It consists of 7,650 pieces, anl is the handiwork of a yopng lady named Miss 1.

Shultis. A Chambersburg (Pa.) Ilorist lias a rosebiisti from which, during tho last three years, over ten thousand buds wero plucked, which sold for liftccn dollars a hundred. Business is pretty poor in the dia mond holds of South Africa. A man who refused for his claim two years ago would be willing to sell it now for live dollars, An exchange says. "John Glasscock was run over by a train near Jones Junction yesterday, and being deaf ho was killed." Wepresumo that men who are not deaf can be run over without being killed.

N. Y. Graphic. A Mormon missionary has been arrested in Vienna and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Ho tried to propagate tho Mormon faith, and baptized a man nnd woman in tho Danube canal in such cold weather that the man took to flight and the woman fainted.

In tho days when branding was a punishment for crime in England, murderers were stamped with nn makers of frays with an and vagabonds with a V. The left cheek near the nose was tho place selected for marking, by an act passed in tho tlmo of William "and Mary. A seven-year-old son of Robert Tappindcr, of Kingston, N. left his bed in the night and wandered over fields and fences in his night dress, a long distance from home, recently, lie says that when he first awoke ho found that ho hud just fallen from a fence. ilbany Journal.

Some packers nt Annapolis, are investing very extensively in tho cultivation of oysters. Many acres of irround in the Severn liiver wero being covered with old sl.ells to receive the spat as it lloats in tho water, and largo and permanent plantations are expected to lie established. Camels uttorlv wild mav bo seen on tho desert lands at the head of tho (iulf of California, where they find a conge nial homo and multiply steadily. These are a remnant of a head which many years airo was imported by the (lovcrnment to act as beasts of burden for the army in New Mexico and Ari zona. Han Francisco Call London TrtUh finds the following in the Hcotx MagaziiicMarch, 1755: "There was lately presented to the Empress of Russia a laboring man who bad two wives, tho first of whom brought him four times four children at a birth, seven times three, and ten times two.

The second wife once brought forth three children, and the other six times two. The whole number of children by the two wives amounts to seventy-two. A Hoston boy, tvelve years old, was arrested in Portland, Mc, the other day, and in his pockets were found a quantity of cheap pamphlets containing Indian stories about "One-Eyed Dick, the Giant Scout," a revolver, a bag of cartridges, two brass watch chains, a cheap nickel-plated watch, worth, perhaps, two dollars: a toy pistol, two old a quantity of strings, a piece of leather, a strip of calf-ski a with the hair on it, a button or two, a ragged handkerchief, several pieces of woolen cloth, some candy, a lot of dirty, broken lozenges, half a dozen filthy raisins, and a handful of line dirt Boston Transcript. The Chicago Time publishes the following: "A man in Wilcox County, has a remarkable tree growing in his yard. It is of the China species, is ten feet in circumference, and its top has been blown away by a storm, but six and one-half fect up the trunk of this tree two more China trees have sprouted, taken root, and grown up as high as the old tree is; and just half a foot further up the trunk of the old original tree a peach tree has taken root, grown up to fair dimensions, and is now filled with fruit.

At another place there is a blackberry vine and also an elm bush, all in a flourishing condition." A negro recently passed through our county, says the Piedmont (Ga.) Press, representing himself as the second Christ; that he came to atone for the sins of tbe colored race as the first Christ came to atone for the sins of the white people. He claimed to be the identical Christ that was crucified by the Jews, and showed scars in tbe palms of bis bands and soles of his feet where he was nailed on tbe cross, and the bole in his side which was pierced bv the soldier. He created a exeat deal oi excitement wherever he stopped; bad crowds of people both white and colored, to visit him. He is very intelli gent, had an enticins- way, and will no doubt make an easy dne of the credu- i lous negro. At each place where he is known to have stopped the negroes fell down and worshipped hint, placing im plicit confidence id the wonlsof tliedar- in ig imposter, Gleaned by Telegraph and Mall CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate, on the flth, insist'-d upon its Rinenilinonta to the Labor Statistics bill ami appointed a Committee of Conference. Mr. Vunce submitted the views of the minority of the Committee on Privileges ami Klections re- pariunir tne imnvllle Investigation. The Mex ican Pension bill whs taken up and i ne (ilikm riv iinicnuuicm was lam on mo tame. lie iiineiiiliiieiit was Mr.

mil ohrnrcr Hiiieniliiient to strike out tho phrase "for the suppression of the rebellion" from Air. Hoar's mm providing- pensions for soldiers who totiirlit in the Into war for the sun. prrssiou of the rebellion. Mr. Williams moved to lay Mr.

Hoar's amendment on tho table. Carried. Ayes, 20. nays, 15. Sev- erai amendments were ottered arid laid on the table and lurthor consideration of the bill went over The House went into Committee of the Whom on tho Hiver and Harbor bill.

Without action tho committee rose and the floor was accorded the Committee on the Dis trict of Columbia. At tho evening session of the House numerous amendments Increasing-appropriations for various improvements of nvcrs aim nuriiors were onereii ami vmeu down. After completing eonsiilernt ion of six or tne rorry-Roven piijrns or tne tun, the com- uiitieo rose ana tne House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 10th, a large num ber oi petitions woro presented opposing a Governmental telegraph. Mr.

Deck withdrew bis resolution concerning tho removal of po litical disabilities, and tho Senate resumed consideration of tho Mexican pension bill. he amendment offered by Mr. Harrison, intended to limit the beneficiaries of tho bill to those who had seen service, was laid on the talile; yeas, nays, 'M. The Consular and Di plomatic Appropriation bill was taken up mid tho Senate wentlnto secret session on the por tion relating to tho enforcement of the Neu trality act in-the House, Mr. Morrison, Chairman of Ihe Committee on Ways and Means, reported a concurrent resolution pro viding for tlnal adjournment of Congress iuonuay.

tno or at tiiree p. m. without division. Mr. Payson, from the ommitteo on Public Lands, reported bill forfeiting part of certain hinds granted by jowa 10 aiu in ine construction 01 railroads in that State.

The House, at its evening session, took up the bill dircctiim- the Secretary of the Interior to obtain from the Ked Lake Chippewa Indians a relimiulshmont of their title to the Ked I. ukc Reservation of Minnesota. After long debate and without action the House iidjourned. The Senate, on the 11th, went into secret legislative session on the item In the Consular ami Diplomatic Appropriation hill appro priating fXiO.OeO to cover the necessary ex penses attendant upon tho execution of the Neutrality act. Nothing definite was accomplished, as when the doors were reopened a quorum was not present The House went into Committee of tho Whole on tho liiver and Harbor bill.

The clause for the construction of tho Hennepin canal having been reached, Mr. Jones, of Wisconsin, raised against it the point of order inat i ne i omninice on Hiversaait iitiriiorsiinil no urlsdietioii over the subject, and that a bill with substantially the same provision was penning in the lloute. i no Chair overruled the point of order, and was sustained on an appeal by imi to Mr. Hnhnan then moved to strike out the Jfennepiji canal clause. Mr.

Potter uTrMiorlod tuciiiotnm.tuit It was lost by a vine or i to in. itr. i osgrove moved to tu- rrease troiri s.iIki.ihki to hki.ihki he aimrnnr a- ion for the improvement of the Missouri from itsmoutii to tsioux i ty. Lost. After con cluding the appropriation portion of the bill the committee rose and the Houso adjourned.

The Senate, on tho 12tli, took a flnal vote on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria tion bill, and the bill was passed by thirty eight yeas ami two nays (Vance and Van Wyck). The bill as passed Is almost precisely ns reported from tho Senate Committee on making an addition ol shoo. nun to the bill as reported from tho House. The Mexican Pensions hill was then taken up. A Iter debate, the Senate, without reaching a conclusion on tho bill went Into executive session, and when tho doors opened, adjourned Tho House met in continuance of Wednesdays session, and went into Com mittee of the Whole, on the liiver and Harbor Appropriation bill.

The appropriation for the ice harbor on the Itiverwns increased from KIUKKI to The committee rosoand reported tho bill to tho House. Mr. Oates moved to strike out the Hennepin canal clause. The motion to strike out was airreeil to: veas. let: nays, 123.

Mr. Murphy then moved to lay the i 'i ii nn pending amendments on tne tame. The motion was lost yeas, W7; nays, lfifl. The tun was Mien passed by a vote ot yeas, li nays, 1112. The Speaker announced that the vote on the motion to strike out tho Henne pin canal clause bail not been correctly Miueu; i mil uic Hctiitu voic was: j-eas, Hii; nays, 1112.

Mr. Katon then culled up the Sen- nte bill regulating the electoral count. After some discussion, the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Brown ob- tained unanimous consent to take up the bill to require the payment in cash to the State of Georgia of appropriated forthat State by act of Congress, passed March 3d, to refund to (leorgia certain moneys expended tor the common defense in 1777.

Mr. Dolph moved an nnieiidmoiit to include fur Oregon and fiui lor alitornia to refund moneys expended tiy nose states in thesup- pression of the Modoc hostilities. After a long discussion, Mr. lngalls moved to recom mit tne lull to tho Committee on Claims. It was then discovered hat no quorum was iircs- viii uiiii me mTiiuif niiiuiii iicu iiiiru tne inrn In the House the Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic and Kevenue Appropriation bills wero non-concurred in.

Mr. Pryor then took the Uooron the Electoral inn. ai mo conclusion oi Mr. Pryor speech jtir. jownsnonti, oi Illinois, siiinnitted a con- lerence rcKirt on the Post-olllce Appropri ation mil.

ne saiu mat ine items upon which no agreement Had been reached were, first, iiicrraslng tho appropriation for the pay of Ictfr carriers; second. Increasing by Sl.flUl.iluU the appropriation for mail iransMiriiition on railroad routes; third, srriKTngoin rue clause regulating ine compensation to hind gratit muds; fourth, appro priating IKI.tMi for special mail facilities, and nttn, increasing tiv tne appropriation for railway post-office clerks. The conference toport was uilnptcd as far as the items are concerned upon which tho agreement had been arrived at. The House at its evening ecssioit ituspcu ncvcniy-sn pension urns and adjourned. WASHINGTON NOTES.

Tng record of the Court of Inquiry in the rase of General 8 a in. Judge Advocate General of the Army, reported the facts as developed by the evidence, and concluded as follows: "The court is of the opinion that whilo it is not prepared to say that any specific act developed by the evidence is actually fraudulent, yet the evidence does show a series of transactions dis creditable to any rfficer of the army." The Kecietaiy of War laid the report before the President and it was decided to orders court martial trial for General Swaim. Senator Vest submitted to the Senate an amendment he proposes to the Legisla tive Appropriation bill to provide that no money tbU be paid rut of tbe Treasury, or from any public fund, for printing in the Congrensionnl Record any speech which has not been actually spoken or delivered in either Senate or House, Tub Washington Stur says: Late disclosures show that the failure of tbe banking house of Midilli Co. was no only disgraceful, but one of the most disctroui firi record. Pro pert left for safe k-ting, but without avail until recently, when Governor Cleveland granted tho boon, and one of tho daughters fainted away when it was given her.

Syracuse (N. Journal. Dist'nguished scholars and leading journals in England and America have taken a deep interest in the important arehaiologieal work now in progress a Zoun in the Delta. The preliminary excavations have dislocated tho great foundation walls of tho temple, tho Necropolis, and a great many interesting relics, such as tho broken obolisk of tho Pharaoh who oppressed tho Israel ites. Oliver Wendell Holmes recalls the fact that sixty years ago three little Hoston boys might have been seen in patchwork costumes rf melodramatic heroes performing in a garret theater before an audience of young acquaintances.

As ho remembers them tbev had remarkable aptitude for acting. Hut they rtid not stick to tho stage, for they grew up to bo Wendell PhilRps, Thomas G. Appleton and John Lathrop Motley, Boston Herald. In 1879 John Maginnis was torn from the arms of his young wife at a camp meeting near I'attle Creek, and a charge of illicit distilling; persuaded him to go West and grow up with tho country. His wife, not hearing from him, recently consented to a fresh espousal with a former lover, but, just as tho nuptial arrangements wore completed, tho long-lost Maginnis returned, with a fortune, to reclaim his wife.

N. O. Picayune. "A LITTLE NOSSEXSE." The undertaking industry is increasing in activity. A North Carolina man has invented a machine for muking two hundred cigarettes a minute.

An agricultural exchange in an article on "How to Feed Horses," mentions feeding "corn in tho ear" as one way. This may be "an economical way, but it must be excessively painful to the horse. N. Y. Graphic.

A noble lord who had a great an-tipbathy to music was asked why he did not subscribe to a certain scries of concerts, it being urged as a reason for his doing so that his brother subscribed. "Aye," replied his lordship, "if I was as deaf as my brother I would subscribe too." They got mad at each oilier on tho iv ay homo from school, and as one of them turned in at Windsor street she called out: "Hump! Who cares for vou! We are going to have the electric light in our house." "You dasn't!" "VhyP" 'Cause it would show the pimples on your mothers lace: uaroti j-rtt Press. An English journal calls the people of this country "a nation of pie eaters." If this writer could sit down to a cold apple pie such as "mother used to make, smothered in thick cream, he would make use of some other name witTl which to abuse us. We have rate pie that was almost religion. Philadel phia Call "Have j-ou got fifty cents?" said beggaf to a surly passer-by.

"No, I haven got hfty cents." "wen, nave you got twenty-nve cents." "sso, i haven't" "Have you got ten cents?" "No." "Have you got any sense at all?" "No yes what's hat? Get out or I'll knock votir face off." The beggar got out, chuckling. Merchant Traveler. A resident of Boston, who lives In a fashionable thoroughfare, observed a man whom he did not care to see com-inr towards his door, and hurriedly di rected Bridget to tell the person that be was not at borne, "All right, air," said Bridget, as she made haste to answer the door-bell. "Is Mr. at home?" inquired the caller." "Faith, 1 1 L.

an ne gone out, lopoiuieit mo bedient servant. "When will he be at home?" aked the man atUedoor. "Honld on a minnit." put in Bridget, I'll as him!" UoHon ffcwf, time Ilia same case had been dunned o..