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mi ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1885. NO. 33. VOLUME XXIX. || THE YEAR'S CONSOLATIONS. When January's cold is here, And all the days are chill and drear; When air and oarth are thick with snow, Leaden abovo and w hi to below. Then let us, as wo face the blast, Give thanks for blessings in the past, And lovingly remember Dear days of sweet September. When February's sleet and hail Cause men to shiver and to quail; When on the ico and through the snow, Slipping and stumbling mortals go; Then as wo grumble and complain, Let us, to soothe the biting pain Of days so dull and sober, Remember bright October. When March is February's heir, And snow and slush is everywhere; When fierce winds hustle us about, Putting our hopes of spring to rout; Then, let us sweeten every day With thoughts of blessings passed away, And thankfully remember That golden, fair November. When April, foster child of March, Sullen instead of gay and arch, And giving frowns in place of smiles, On agony fresh sorrow piles, Prolonging winter's gloomy reign;. Then let us, as we bear the paiii, Look backward and remember Bright days of mild December. ?Sew York Sun. REBECCA'S PLAN. "I wouldn't mind losing the money," said gentle Mrs. Orme, "if it wasn't for Clara's music." And she wiped a tear or two from the eyes that were still blue and bright. "Well, I would, then," said Rebecca, who stood in the middle of the kitchen floor, brandishing her china towel as if j it was an aggressive weapon of warfare. "Nobody wants to sec their little savings ; made ducks and drakes of. If you had took my advice, 31 rs. Orme, you never would have give it to your city cousin to invest, but kep'it in the county bank, where it is safe and sound, even if it didn't draw such a high interest. But you always was foolish about money." At this Clara Orme tired up, as a dove j might resent the attack of some warlike i hawk on the maternal nest. "Rebecca," said she, "be silent! You : shall not speak so to mamma." "Well, isn't it the truth?" said Rebecca. "Mamma," don't mind her," pleaded Clara, putting both arms around the gentle widow's neck, aud laying her velvet cheek agafnst the Hushed forehead, j "Let the music go. After all, what does a little money signify?" "Child, you speak like a baby,"said! Wm Hrmfl trtnana a nrrpof rlnal I JJ?lO, VlUlVi MAXSii \*J lUVMUg w ?vw? | more than you think.'' But nevertheless she was instinctively | comforted by the magnetic touch of her i child's cheek, the coaxing sweetness of her voice. And although Rebecca, the "hired help,*' still stood there scolding, the sting had all gone out of her reproofs. Rebecca had lived with them since Clara was a baby. It was her way to scold. And in spite of the sweet sophistry of ClaYa's excuses Mrs. Orrne admitted to herself that Rebecca was more than half | right. She never should have given ; that thousand dollars to her cousin, the i city broker, to invest in South Central Pacific when South Central Pacific was running up to such a dazzling figure that everybody hastened to share its splendors. "What goes up must come down," her j old uncle Lemuel had always said, and j she should have known that South Cen-1 tral Pacific wasn't "sound." But there ; was no use crying for spilled milk. The money was gone in the South Central Pacific collapse, and all the city cousin's regrets couldn't bring it back. And after all they didn't mind a little economy, if only it wasn't for Clara's musical education; the lessons from Madam QuescBi would have to be stopped now, and how \ could Clara ever expect to be a great! pianist if?" But just then the kitchcn door swung ; ' open, and little Bell came in, carrying | her apron full of wild grapes, with a i glory of laic sunshine around her, and a j fringe of blue asters stuck like deep; amethyst plumes in the shabby ribbon of her old straw hat. "Oh, mother, mother," she cried, i breathlessly, "see what I have got! And j there is a city lady down at old Mrs. | Nickelsa's buying all those funny wooden | chairs that Peleg was just going to split j up into kindling wood, and the broken j clock too, and the spinning-wheel up i garret." Mm /"Wmn on/1 lrtftVArl i ililOl VlUiV Miiw AkVWVVVW 4VV*hV\? M? V?*VM I other with a sudden brighteniDg of their i eyes. "Old furniture, eli!" said Rebecca. ; "4pd you was a-talkin' of sellin' yourn at auction, to go up to town, and be , near the womau that gives lessons to our Clara. It ain't noways likely they'd I fetch much at a vendoo sale. Ain't this a good chance for you. Mrs. Orme?" "Ye?cs, I suppose so," said the meek widow, with a doubtful flutter at her I heart. "Put on your hat, Rebecca, and ! go down to Mrs. 2si:kelsa's and see what j you can do." "Mamma!" cried Clara, "surely you ! never will sell the old chairs and bed- : steads!" "My dear, something must be done," ] said Mrs. Orme, with varying color in j her soft face. "It will cost me a pang j to part with the old things, but, after | all, I deserve to bepur.ished for my folly in that South Central Pacific business, I and you know we couldn't do anything | with such a lot of old furniture in a city ' flat, llush. Don't make me a coward , when I need most to be brave." But as she sat there in the low-ceiled, i brooding old kitchen, with the yellow, September glow around her, the vine : leaves whispering at the casement, and j the locusts winding their tiny bugles in the maple trees outside, it seemed as if all the golden air was full of the ghosts of departed days. Poor Mrs. Orme, the world was very hard to her in these times. ? Rebecca presently returned, accompanied by a portly lady elegantly dressed " in surah satin, jetted lace, and a scented valley cashmere shawl. Yea, Mrs. Van Voscelin was buying old furniture. i?he doted on real antiques; indeed?with a simper?she might almost say that she was crazed on the subject. Had Mrs.?Mrs.?oh, yes, Mrs. Orme?anything that she wished to part with? ''Yes," said Mrs. Orme, rather abashed by so much splendor; ''I nm talking of giving up my house here, and I should like to sell the old claw-legged table, aud perhaps the hall clock, and the curious carved chairs iu the parlor. These last," she added, with modest pride, "are, I believe, quite rare. They were given to my mother, before she was married, by the captain of a Holland trading vessel, who brought them direct from Antwerp, and they have been much admired by artists." "Oh, indeed!'' said Mrs. Voscelin. "But there is so much imposture about these things, you know. However, I don't object to looking at them." Clara had grown scarlet at the cool insolence of the city lady's tone, but Mrs. Orme smiled deprecatincfly as she led the way toward the best parlor. Rebecca expressed her feelings by scrubbing vigorously away at the yellow paint on the window-sill to remove an infinitesimal fly-speck therefrom. "Tin ftn'd down sas9v. ain't she?" said she. "I don't see how mamma endures it," cried Clara, tightly clinching her little fist. "Hard words uever yet killed nobody," observed Rebecca, who had the soul of a philosopher within her gaunt form. Presently Mrs. Van Yoscelin and the Widow Orme came back, still debating. "I'll give you twelve dollars for the four chairs," said Mrs. Aran Yoscelin. __ "They are rather pretty in their way, but nothing remarkable. And we'll call the clock, say, ten. and the claw-legged , table?claw-legs jye really quite common nowadays?eight. Make the lot thirty dollars." " Oh," cried Mrs. Orme. recoiling, "I couid not possibly Bell them for that!" "It's all they are worth," said Mrs. Van Vo?celin." "People put an entirely fictitious value upon such things now. And you'll iincl that no one else will ! give you such a price for the old rattletraps." "Mamma!"' pleaded Clara, piteously, ! laying her hand on Mrs. Orme's arm. "And," added the remorseless iconoclast, "I have my doubts about their being real antiques sifter all. People do \ get so imposed upon in these days. No j one knows what to believe.'' Mrs. Orme drew herself up. "Idon't think you need entertain any scruples on i that score," said she. "These articles , have been in the Orme family for three- ( quarters of a century at least." "Say thirty-two dollars and fifty | cents," said Mrs. Van Yoscclin. "It's; more than they arc worth, but I don't i like to be hard on reduced ladies." *'I should not be willing to sell them j for less than eighty dollars," firmly i maintained Mrs. Orme. blushing and un- i comfortable. The city lady turned on her heel. I "Mantini himself don't ask such prices," said she. "I think you must be crazy, j Good-morning." And she swept out, ! i C xv _ ?>. 1 tnrowing uown iue purrui s siuuu ?uu chair in her way, and dragging the kit- j ten along in the maelstrom of her satin | flounces, liebecca chuckled. Mrs. Orrae j burst into tears. Clara was absolutely t specchless with iudignation. " Now, look here," said Rebecca. " Don't mind 'em. I've got a notion ' that has just popped into my head. And j [ mv notions are sometimes worth some- I thing. That there Mantini as she tells | about married a second cousin of my ; stepmother. I'll go and have a talk with j him when I'm in town the day arter tomorrow. lie's a clever chap enough, if it wasn't for his furrin' way of pronouncin' words." " But, Rebecca," sighed Clara, " what will be the use of it?'' " "Wa'al, I don't know," said Rebecca. "You'll sec. Or p'r'aps you won't sec. It'll be jest as it happens. Nobody can tell which way luck is goin' to jump in this world." Whether we are glad or sorrowful the inexorable wheel of time revolves just as steadily on : its way. and so Mrs. Orme found it in her experience. And almost before she could realize the progress of | days and weeks, gray November was 1 upon them with its mists and shadows, and the first snow-flakes came eddying through the air. Mr3. Orme and Rebecca had been in the city pricing cheap and convenient rooms for the winter. Mrs. Orme was tired out by a succession of battles with the average landlady, and had resigned herself to the pilotage of her faithful , deputy, and somehow they arc returning i to the Grand Ccntral depot by the way of 1 M. Giulio Mantini's "Old Curiosity Em- ; porium" in a shady little street just out j of the roar and glitter of upper Broad- j way. " Wa'al, I declare ef we ain't here, jest i in front of Mantini's door!" exclaimed Rebecca. "S'posewe iest step in and | see ef Mantini has sold that there old j furniture of yourn? lie's hed time ; enough, I'm sure." Mrs. Orme drew back, with her foot on the threshold. " Don't let us go in just now," said ; she, shrinkingly. "There is that Van ' Voscelin woman standing by the desk." i "What of that?" said Rebecca, i "Haven't we as good a right to the use of the store as she has, I'd admire to know?" Rebecca was the strongest both physically and of will, and so they went in. Mrs. Van Voscelin recognized them at once, although Mrs. Orme would fain have glided past her unobserved. "Oh, it's you, is it:" she cried, putting her eyeglasses exultingly up. "Well, I really, it's quite providential that I met you just now." "Indeed," said Mrs. Orme, shyly. "I jnly want you to understand," went on the stout matron in the valley cashmere shawl, "what a very exorbitant rate you put upon those old things of yours up in the backwoods, when I have been buy- ' ing real treasures, imported no doubt j from the wainscoted halls of some old | English manor-house, of this excellent and discriminating person," witha move- j ment of her gloved hand toward the proprietor of the establishment. "At madamc's ver' hon'ble sairveece," j said M. Mantini, with a profound j obeisance. "Thor wr?rn snnf home over half an i hour ago,'" added Mrs. Van Yoscelin, ! "and I have just settled my bill." (At ' which words M. Mantini gave a second ! series of salaams.) "But if you will call j at my house, No. 44 Paragon Park, I shall be glad to have my housekeeper } show them to you. Perhaps it may be a lesson to you not to be quite so grasp- i ing in the future." And she bustled off to her carriage. "Humph," said Rebecca, looking after her with a curious elevation of the eyebrows, "I guess we haven't time to go j to Paragon Park to-day. "NVa'al, Mr. Mantini," turning sudenniy to the dapper little proprietor of the emporium, "liev you sold them there articles o' vertue that I sent up from Grexburv Hollow?" "I have, ma cousine," answered the j smiling Frenchman. "Everyar-r-ticle!" j "Eh{"cried Rebecca. "I'o the same person? AYa'al, that was a stroke o' luck." i "Vraiment," bowed Mantini, "to zc ver' elegant miladi who has just made her- ; self depart in xat coupe of zc most ravissant?to Madame Vocc-leen, for fur hundred and twenty-five dollaires, of which, wiz your leave, *1 sail keep zc twenty-five pour la commission." "Four hundred and twenty-five dol- j lars!" cried Mrs. Orme, with a little gasp j of mingled ecstasy and doubt, as she clutched at Rebecca's arm. "But that can't be possible. Didn't you hear her? : She said that tli^v were treasures from ! an old English manor-house!" Tlio Frenchman shrilfrrred his shoulders as only a Frenchman can. "As for treasures, c'est ca," said he. "As for zc old In?lais maison de manor, it was what madamc herself made of re- | mark. I said nozzing? nozzing at all. : Was it pour moi to interrupt a lady?" "Rebecca, I don't understand," said i Mrs. Orme. "Does M. Mantini mean to : say that Mrs. Van Vocelin has paid him four hundred and twenty-five dollars for the very things that she would not pay : me forty dollars for six weeks.ago?" "So far as I can see, that's just the j long and short of it," said Rebecca, i | shrewdly. "And she thinks she's got a j bargain, because they came from .Man- ! tini's. Good gracious me! the folly that j : a fashionable woman is capable of!" "I never heard of .such i. thing in m^ ] life," exclaimed Mrs. Orme, with a long breath. j "Nor I," said Rebecca. And the two women went home rejoicing to carry the good tidings to Clara. "We can go on with the music lessons i now, and not feel extravagant," said j ; Mrs. Orme. exultantly. "Oh, mamma! but if any one had got the dear old chairs but that Van Vocelin woman!" said Clara. "What does it matter?" said Rebecca. "The money will pay a year's rent;" for she was of a calculating nature, and was ' already reducing things to a linancial i i basis. "Yes, yes; I thought I could \ i monorrn " | While all Mr3. Van Yo?celin's friends i lifted their hands as thev viewed the new j ! possession in Paraxon Park, and cricd j out: "Dear! dear! "What exquisite things! And so cheap!''?Bazar. Faith in One's Self. Queen Elizabeth once said to a couri tier: "Those succeed best in this life ! who passover it quickly; if we stop we sink." This saying might oft be repeat| eil, and with profit, too, if oftener prac! ticed. Life being short, we should make the most of it while it lasts. Let one ! trust himself, let him exert his capabilij ties to their fullest extent, and sooner or j later success will be his. To fail is abI solutely impossible, if a man is fully determined to succeed and has an estab| lished purpose in view. The sorrow which appears to us nothi ing but a yawning chasm or hideous precipice may turn out to be but the joining or cement which binds together the fragments of our existence into a solid whole. That dark and crooked j path in which we have to grope our way I in doubt or fear may be but the curve ! which in the full daylight of a brighter world will appear to be the necessary I finish of some choice ornament, the inevitable span of our majestic arch. i SENATE DOCUMENT ROOM. 1 BUST DEPARTMENT OP CONOBESS IS THE CAFXTO&. rhc Place Where Senatorial BUI* , and Document* arc Filed Away ?How They arc Kept in Order. A Washington Hatche* man had occasion to go into the Senate Document Koom the other day and was so struck with the busy and peculiar scene presented that he naturally fell to pumping Captain Thomns II. McKee. the assistant superintendent. lie said it was one of the most complicated departments of the Senate, or Houso either, for that matter. This branch has been presided over by many meu of peculiar litness and ability, said Captain McKee. "It is very complicated and requires great experience to assure fitness. "There is a mass of bills and documents here," continued he, "and L .1 ,1 ? 1 it rucjllirca H ??U??U UWill \Jt uuun-nwv|/.u^ and not a short memory to keep people in humor. The bills presented in Congress up to the last year aggregated 99,014, of which 01,108 were introduced in the House and 38.50G in tbe Senate. But it is only a small item of the work to keep run of the bills, as the miscellaneous and executivo docurrents, together with committee reports of the two Houses, form one of the most composite and varied collections of literature, history and statistics to be found in any portion of the world." "I shouid think it would require great effort to keep in hand this completo mass, and yet be able to find any given bill, document or report?" the Ilatchet remarked. "It requires five clerks, but it i9 done," replied Captain McKee. "I have given the work four years' study, two years of which were in the House, and Mr. Smith, the superintendent, has been here twelve years." "Do you not reoeivc many peculiar requests?" "Oh! yes. Very many people simply ask for a report, or document, or bill, without mentioning the number, Congress or session, or even the correct title, when in fact, there are two or three hundred of the same kind of documents, and they wonder why we cannot hand them out. Again, some give the title without naming the number.or Congress, and tho same title, you see, may apply to a bill, 1 -- r\y* micodllnnnnnq an execuuvc uutuiucm, ui uuaw..?..w?, document, or a report of a committee, and that of either House." "What can you do in such cases?" "Well, we have very many ways of working out these difficult problems. It is a kind of instinct that exercises and tells us better than they, what is wanted." "Are you not annoyed by those who want documents?" "Xo, for the great porlion who call know what they want. The great difficulty with this class is, however, they generally want too much. There are many professionals who call, but they usually have private claims pending, are quiet and easily satisfied. There is a Mahomedan here with a private claim who is a crank. He calls every few days to see if there is not some new document issued in his case. Then we have a number of lady callers. They are usually undemonstrative and not so exacting as the gentlemen. A few of them, though, who are playing the role of lobbyist, are nuisances. They would bore the man in the moon by their questions ' and importunities. A few days ago, one of these lady lobbyists came into the document room and requested that we < give her a copy of her bill. We inquired for the name in the bill and were given a name commencing with W. I examined over six thousand pages of , index matter, and informed her ! Kill oror Koon hofnro I ? mill IIU DULU 1/1 ii. UU-A vut v-w** p/v?v.? Congress. Then she asked me to try another name beginning with R, and again I carefully examined the index matter, but without finding any such name. 1 then asked the nature of her claim, and upon being informed, I cited a claim. It commenced with A. ''Oh!'' exclaimed she, "that is the one I meant ail the ! lime; that is my claim!" I had spent ( just two hours of hard searching of old, musty papers, and to my utter disgust was informed that a claim which 1 could have found in ten seconds, was what was j desired! It came near trying my patience; ( but we must be patient, you know." "From what source do you receive the ( greatest number of calls?" "Clerks and messengers from committees, then agents and attorneys. The . latter give us much trouble, and are about the most ungrateful of all who call. They seem to think the Senate is ( under special obligations to support n document-rocm with its complement of tiles and men to keep them supplied with all they want?several copies of everything issued." "Do Senators make many calls?" "Yes, and they are peculiar to one branch of the work. They usually want ft precedent lor 6ome proposition, or iae complete history of some act. This requires special work. Superintendent Smith is a specialist iu this branch of the work. Ilis methods are -as peculiar to his success as are those of Pinkerton or Davenport in working up a complicated nase of crime. In his absence this branch of the work falls to me, and I assure you it tells upon the brain and nerve, it being the most laborious of all the duties. The Senators are the most industrious of all public men." "The newspaper men come often?" "They come and go at will. We have special arrangements for them, and I must say it is a pleasure to wait upon them. They arc the most practicable of all in the use of documents. They tako a, document for what it is worth, and not because it is given to them, merely. No, we have no holidays. Our work is on the order of perpetual motion. It never stops. "There is almost a train load of all sorts of public documents in the document rooms of the Senate and House, and they number away up over the hundreds of thousands. It requires a good many active minds to keep them in order to be plucked out at a moment's notice." A Nation Ruined By a Spider. t oo.m *, of u-lwm c>\w!a(*o ni'/t I :rawling more abundantly and conspicuDusly than usual upon the indoor walls Df houses rain may shortly bo expected. But the following anecdote intimates lhat some of their habits are the equally certain indication of frost being at hand: Toward the end of the last ccntery Quartermaster Disjonvai, seeking to beguile the tedium of his prison hours at Utrecht had studied attentively the habits of the spider, and eight years of imprisonment had given him leisure to bs well versed in its ways. In December of 171)4 the French army, on whoso success his restoration to liberty depended, was in Holland, and victory seemed certaiu if the frost, which then raged with unprecedented severity, continued. The Dutch envoy had failed to negotiate a peace, and Holland was in despair, when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exulting, and the French generals prepared to retreat; but the spicier warned Disjonvai that the thaw would bo of short duration, and he knew that his weather monitor never deceived him. lie contrived, accordingly, to communicate with the French general, who duly estimated his characI ter, and at once relied upon his assurance that within a few days the water i weuld agaiu be passable by troops. The i retreat was delayed. "Within twelve I clays the frost had returned, and the I French army ttiumphed. Disjonvai was I immediately liberated, the spider having brought down ruin on his Dutch op: pressors. j Thirty years ago an clin on the farm ol I f. wanner, or renn ian, i., uicw down, and the trunk, which remained in the soft ground and ran along fifty-eight ! feet, began to sprout. Now twenty-six ! trees, well grown, pcrfcct, and some ol them fifty feet high, are the result. They j are not branches, but have roots, and are , independent of the original trunk. Key West, Fla., the seat of the great 1 cigar manufacturing industry, lias a ! population of 13.500, and is the thirteeuth port in the United States, having one of the best harbors on the Gulf coast, with an average depth of twenty-eight feet. j HEALTH HINTS. "When a splinter in the eye cannot be removed bathe in cold water and bandage loosely, so as to keep the eye as quiet as possible until the surgeon arrives. When a fishhook has entered any part of the body cut off the line, file off the flattened end and pass the hook on through the flesh as you would a needle in sewing. In frost bites use gentle friction in a warm room, using enough cold water to prevent too rapid reaction and consequent pain in the affected part. If very severe a physician should be called, as gangrene may follow. Children are apt to shove up their noseB small bodies of different sorts, o-hirh mftv pause serious trouble unless boon removed. This may bo affected by vigorously blowing the noso or by repeated sneezing, produced by snuff, or by tickling the nose with a feather. ] If these fail a hairpin may be carefully tried. "When persons have fainted lay them down with the head as low as possible; loosen the clothing; keep back crowding that would interfere with plenty of fresh air; sprinkle water over the face; apply hartshorn to the nose, and if too long in recovering consciousness place heated cloths or plates over the stomach. Croup attacks children at night, and is distinguished by a peculiar barking sound. One of the earliest symptoms is hoarseness. ' Apply hot water to the throat for fifteen or twenty minutes with a sponge or hot c'.oth, and civo powdered alum mixed with syrup in halfteaspoonful doses, repeated every twenty minutes until vomiting takes place. Keep the child warm, so that sweating may be induced. WISE WORDS. Tiflanoi?? nn.3 nr?ef tm">nnmr>f. nrA rnward Ice and defeat/ Men were bom to sue-1 ceed, not to fail. The family and friends of the drunkard Bhould be protected from the Bhame and dangers of his drunkenness. The more ab'.e a man is, if he makes ill use of his abilities the more dangerous will ho bo to the commonwealth. Let us begin our heaven on earth; and, being ourselves tempted, let us be pitiful and considerate and generous in judging others. Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. The most influential man, in a free country, at least, is the man who has the ability, as well as the courage to speak what he thinks when occasion may require it. Man is continually saying to woman, " Why arc you not more wise?" Woman is constantly saying to man, "Why are | you not more loving?'' Unless each is | both wise and loving, there can be no < real growth. Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice; it is less a matter of will than of habit; and it is doubtful if any occasion can be trivial j -rvnpmita rh/> nmrHpfi n.nd formation ; of such a habit. The gentle progression and growth of j herbs. Sowers, trees, gentle ana yet irrepressible, which no lorce can stay, no violence restrain, is like love that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any | human power, because itself is divine power. Carrying the Electoral Votes to Washington. The law requires that two certified copies of the electoral vote of each State shall be forwarded to the president of the Senate, one by mail and the other by a messenger, who must come to Washington and deliver it in person before the first Wednesday of the succeeding January. This is to guard against the possibility of accident by which one might fail to reach its destination. The law allows no compensation to these messengers for their time, but pays each of j them twenty-five cents per mile for the j distance, according to the usual mail- j route from the capital to his State, tho meeting-place of the electors, to Washington. * At the treasury writes a Washington correspondent to the Cleveland Herald, more out of curiosity than anything else, I procured from the disbursing clerk the figures below, showing the distauco from Wushington to the various capitals, and the amount paid to each messenger. The mileage was fixed manv years ago, in the days of the 6tage-coacli, and has never beeu changed. The luckiest man is the Oregon messenger, who receives $770.50, und the unluckiest the Maryland man, who has to be content with $10.50. The distance ligurep are interesting, j conveying as they do a pretty clear idea j of the extent of this country of ours, j From the capital of Florida to the capital of Oregon by the way of Washington, j which is but a little out of the line, is i more than four thousand miles?nearly a j sixth of the circumference of the globe, i The figures are arranged with reference i to the distance from Washington: Mile.! State. Capital. Miles. aga I Maryland Annapolis.... 42 $10 50 1 Virginia Richmond.... 11(5 20 03 Pennsylvania..... Harrisburg... 123 30 75 Delaware Dover 157 30 25 New Jersey Trenton 171 42 75 North Carolina... Raleigh 300 75 00 Connecticut Hartford 840 85 CO ! West Virginia.... Charleston... 353 8S 25 j New York Albany 370 U2 50I Rhode Island Newport 435 108 75 ! Massachusetts Boston 4 45 111 25 Ohio Columbus.... 4S7 121 75 | New Hampshire..Concord 4!U 122 75! South Carolina. ..Columbia 403 123 25 j Vermont Monbpelicr ... 555 13S 75 i Kentucky Frankfort.... GC'G 151 00 , M?ina Auausta Git) 154 03] Indiana Indianapolis.. 044 101 00 j Georgia Atlanta G54 103 50 i Michigan Lansing 00$ 107 00' Tennessee Nashville 770 104 00 Alabama Montgomery. 82!) 207 25 Illinois Springfield... 886 200 00 Wisconsin Madison 010 227 50 ( Florida Tallahassee... 0S0 284 75 Mississippi Jackson 1,010 254 00 J Missouri Jetl'erson City],010 254 75 ! Arkansas Little Hock... 1,070 207 50 j Iowa Des Moines... 1,120 280 0 J Louisiana Hnton Rouge. 1,205 801 25 i Kansas Topeka 1,2'JO 80150 J Minnesota St. Paul 1,222 305 5U i Nebraska Lincoln 1,285 82125 Texas Austin 1,575 803 75 I Colorado Denver 1,700 34150 ' Nevada Carson City. .2,880 724 25 California Sacramento..8,028 757 75 j Oregon Salem 8,103 770 50 | The aggregate number of miles trav-1 erscd by the messengers is 43,874 and j the total mileage paid $8,408.00. The j average distance of the thirty-eight cap- j itals from Washington is 891 miles. To ! bring the 401 electoral votes to Washing- J ton costs an average of $21.12 apiece. Blaine and Logan carried the most re- I mote States, and the cost of bringing their 183 electoral votes was $5,200.75, j an average of $28.01 each, while the 218 ! votes for Cleveland and Hendricks cost i but $3,1G8,75, or $14.53 each, a small! fraction more than half. Making Pictures Uuder DifTercultlcs j iVU ai list 1UI au lllUOllU(V/\l in, ?in|r?^v,4 | thus describes his dilliculties during the | Franco-Prussian war: " Of the trouble I ! have taken to get these sketches you can have no conception. The plau I have been obliged to adopt is this: I walk about quiet, apparently noticing all the goods in the shop windows. When I see anything I make memoranda on small bits of tissue paper, perhaps in a cafe, or while appearing to look at the water at the top of a bridge, or on the side of au apple, with a big knife in my hand, pretending to peel it. These little meins I roll up into pills, place them handy in my waistcoat pocket, to be chewed up or swallowed if in extremis. "When I get homo at night, first making sure that I am overlooked by way of the window, I unroll these little pills, and from these mems make a complete outline on a thin piece of white paper; then paste these sketches face to facc, trim the edges, and it looks like a plain picce of paper; but hold it up to the light and the sketch shows. So I make memoranda all over it?the times of trains starting, prices of articles, or extracts from newspapers. When I get to a place of safety, I soak these pieces of paper in water, pull the sketches apart, and from them have made the sketches 1 have forwarded to you.'' He is a great man who can Bacrifico everything and say nothing. NEWS SUMMARY Fnmlcrn and iWlddlo States* A Mrs. E. H. Green*, who is said to botbo richest woman in America, had $26,000,000 in first-class bonds and securities on deposit with the recently suspended New York banking house of John J. Cisco & Son. Mrs. Green called for her property the other day, I and upon the assignee's refusing to give up | tsuo.ooo worth of the securities, claiming they must bo held as collateral for the loan of I80I),000 made to her husband, the lady made j quite a scene, bursting out crying, throwing herself upon the floor and refusing to be com| forted or quieted She finally left, threatening to appeal to the law. I Philadelphia's famous old Liberty bell was started on its journey to New Orleans with imposing ceremonies. * All along the lino of march big crowds cheered the revolutionary relic as it was convoyed toward tho special train which carried it to the New Oreans Exposition. J A fire destroyed the Hudson river steamI boat St. John, while lying at her pier in Now York. The St. John was one of the largest and finest river steamboats over built. Xho cost of the boat complete was f 550,000. A T,?T T +SN ltoo Wn introduced in tho New York senate. A great religions revival is going on in Central Pennsylvania; Methodists, Mennonites and Salvation Army people are making hundreds of converts among all classes. Engineer Melville, of Arctic fame, wants to go on another exploring expedition, ind has issued nn address from Philadelphia ieclaring thnt the timo is ripe for themuking of a final and successful voyage to the North Polo. He wants some wealthy man to furnish tho means to pay for the fitting out of another expedition. A resolution condemning tho attempt to blow up the British parliament buildings was passed by the Connecticut assembly. Three Italians drank what they supposed was anisette in a Brooklyn barber shop, and were taken with violent symptons of poisoning. Two of tho men died in a few moments, ind tho third man saved his life by rushing into a neighboring grocery and drinking of sweet oil, which brought on a violent fit of vomiting. Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, tvas takon to prison at Cambridge, Mass., for obtaining $34 by false pretences from Colonel T. W. Higginson. Moses has been in similar icrapes numerous times of late years. South and West* Tom Dudging, an old hunter, was killed ind eaten by wolves near Metropolitan, Mich. Tho hunter killed thirteen of tho fierce brutes oefore he succumbed. A man has just died in Chicago whose oones had become quite soft, except the hips ind kneo joints. Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow, of Newport, Ky., killed her seven-year-old son, fatally wounded her ten-year-old daughter and then . onimittod suicide. She had been undergo,ng treatment for insanity. ana f^iuuu juij niw inlicted 24'J judgps of election for complicity in !rauds on the ballot in that city. Five strangers entered a house in the Inlian Territory in w hich a dance was going >n, and soon began firing off their revolvers. I'he lights were put out and the men began Dring indiscriminately, while the women ran screaming from tbo house. When order was estored it was found that two of the strangers and tbree guests had been killed and two Dther guests were mortally wounded. Anthony Walker, a colored preacher, .vas hanged in public at Marshall, Texas, for :he murder of a white man named Henry. He confessed that Henry's wife had hirod him :o commit the murder. The Tennessee supreme court has confirmed ;he sentence of death passed by a lower court ipon Colonel William Spence, aged seventy t*ears,formerly a banker,merchant and United States marshal, for tho murder of Colonel Edward S. Wheat, his son-in-law. arid successor to the position of marshal. The murder jrew out of disagreements over the marshalihip. The arrival of the old Liberty Bell from Philadelphia was made the occasion of a holilay in New Orleans. Jefferson Davis took Dart in the recention ceremonies and made a ;peech. Tho New Orleans streets through .vhich the train passed overflowed with spectators, and at the Exposition grounds a large :rowd gathered to witness the arrival of tho oell. Several sharp earthquake shocks have oeen felt in San Francisco. While "wake" services wero being hold )ver the bo:Iy of Delphia Cccke, a colored tvoman, at Lynchburg, Va., the supposed -orpse disarranged the preparations for her funeral that were going on by suddenly siting bolt upright in her coffin. At last ac?ounts sho was alive and well. Colonel SpooNEn (Republican) was elected to the United States Senato by tho Wisconsin legislature. The Oklahoma boomers and land prabbers, oecoming alarmed by the arrival of United States troops sent to oust them, left the Inlian Territory in a body for Kansas. Through>ut Kansas the sentiment is almost universally in favor of the would-be settlers. John J. Inoalls has been re elected to the United States Senato by tho Kansas legislature. The California legislature has elected I.oand Stanford (Republican) a United States Senator. Every member of the seven persons comprising Christian Krall's family, residing near Lebanon, Penn., wero taken withsymnioms of poisoning soon after eating breakfast a few mornings ago. Mi-s. Krall and threo children soon died, and the other member! of the family were not expected to rower. A renewal of extremely cold weather is . * J. ... 11 r 1 A* reported irom me west miu nuiumrou Chicago the thermometer marked 15 degrees below zero; at Burlington, Iowa, 25 below; it St. Paul, Minn., 20 below, and at Muscatine, Iowa, U4 below. In Oregon many persons have been frozen to death, and cattle, horse?, sheep and hogs have perished by thousands. Charles J. Roc.ers, tho penitentiary warden who murdeml Sterry, another warden, in October last, was hanged at Portland, Ore. Washington* Further nominations by the President: Henry 8. Hiudekoper to be j>ostmaster at Philadelphia; Stanford E. Chaille, of Louisiana. to be a member of the national board of health: Lucius H. Foote, of California, to bo minister-resident and consul-general of tho United State* at Corea; Nelson A. Dunning, of Michigan, to bo consul of the United States at Auckland; Andrew S. Draper, of New York, to be a indgo of tho court of commissioners of Alabama claims; John F. Rartranft to bo collector of customs for the district of Philadelphia: William A. Baldwin to bo collector of customs for tho district of Newark. N. J.; and William S. Steele, of Pennsylvania, to be coiner of tho mint of Philadelphia. The House committer on ]>ostotiicos and post roads adopted a resolution to recommend to tho committeo on appropriations that legislation be embodied in the postoflice appropriation bill providing for the reduction of postage on newspapers from two cents to one cent per i>ound. F. B. Sashorn, who was convicted of pro seating fraudulent claims 10 ine uureuu ui medicine in the navy department, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a fino of $">00. James D. dimming was sentenced to two years in jail and to pay $2,000 line. The House wing of tho cnpitol has had a narrow escji|x? from destruction by lire. Flames were discovered near the roof, but wero extinguished before they had mailo much headway. Fart of tho roof was destroyed. The President has nominated CommoJoro Samuel F. Franklin to be lvar-admiral. Mr. liuRCH/iHD. director of tho mint, says that last year there was obtained from tho mines of United States gold worth nearly $31,000,000. The national board of traile has been in session at Washington. Foreign. An avalunche of snow at Metoulles, France, crushed a church, in which a number of i>ersons were worshiping. All wore buried under the snow, as wero also twenty men who wero working in a marble quarry near by. Germany and Russia lmvo agreed upon measures for the extradition of persons guilty of violence or attempted violence toward tbo members of the royal houses of both countries. A collision between two trains at Brussels, Belgium, resulted in injuries, in somo cases fatal, to twenty persons. The republicans havo mado considerable j gains in the senatorial elections in Franco. | Two nihilist* emptied their revolvers nt the j superintendent of police in St. Petersburg, | but failed to hit him. Their arrest followed. Thomas C. Fields, a prominent member' of New York's Tweed ring, died the other day in Canada. Victoriana Nievez, an old Mexican rei siding in Carmen, Mexico, is worth several I million dollars, and has just celebrated his J golden wedding. In honor of that event he 1 gave a grand banquet and scattered money j j in every direction, sending $.7JU,0U0 to the | locust eaten district in one lump, and con- j I trihntimr SIO.UOO toward Having olf there j public's 3ebt James Gilbert Cpnnixoham, tho man nr j rested in London Tower soon after the dynfi" I j niito explosions, was comtnifcted for trial af* i tor examination. He is described as an Irish| American, nbout twenty-five years o'd. Tho i | London police considered his arrest very j ; important. All the public buildings in Lori- I don are guarded by jKilico and military, and ! j special detectives aro watching out-going steamers, especially those destined for Amerj icn. At least 300 lives have been lost through the recent snow avalanches on tho Italian Alps. Work has been commenced to repair the damage dnno by tho dynamite explosions in tho parliament buildings and the London Tower. Mr. Bradlaugh, the member of the British house of commons who was expelled for refusing to tako theoath of office usually pre* scribed, has beon granted a new trial in the case which the government won against him for taking his seat without taking the oath. | In a blizzard on the Newfoundland coast j twenty-three fishing boats were driven to sea j and sixty fishermen are supposed to have I drowned. LATER NEWS Hexuy Smith,of Union county, Ga., went jn a spreo, taking his sevon-year-ola son with him. The boy drank a pint of whisky on a .1 .1 l :M rm.? oiiu uuuu iu uvu iiuuu, iuo father was arreste:l. Another of the Hocking Valley (Ohio), mines, belonging to a syndicate, has been tired. Every mine except one owned by the syndicate is now burning. Gas and smoke from the burning mines fill the air at Now Straitsville, and citizens owning property there are afraid the town will be ruined if the fir?s are not extinguished soon. A national silver convention has been in session at Denver, Col. Secretary Teller sent a tolegram saying that he was in full sympathy with every effort to secure silver all the advantages conferred by law on gold. The postofllco appropriation bill as completed'by the House appropriation committee provides for a total appropriation of $52,25T2U3. The estimates as prepared by the postoftke department amounted to $56,009,169, and the appropriation for the current year amounted to #49,040,400. Ix executive session the Senate confirmed Lucius H. Foots, of California, as minister to Corea, and Commodore Samuel R. Franklin as rear admiral. Til a conference committees of Che two houses on the bills to regulate the counting of the electoral vote are in a hopeless deadlock, and have voted to disagree. The crow of the British bark 'Wellington mutinied off Cornwall, England, and killed the captain and severely wounded tho mate. Tho captain and mate, in defending themselves, wounded three of the crew. The mutineers, who were arrested, charge that tho captain had become ferocious beyond endurance through continual drinking. At the Montreal ice carnival there was a grand parade of sleighs, more than 200 being in line and 50,0J0 spectators filling tho streets. ____ LATPJl CONGRESSIONAL. NEWS. Senate. Tho Senate refused to ratify the treaty with Nicaraugua by 02 yeas to 23 nays?not the necessary, two-thirds majority....Mr. Harrison reported adversely the bill to facilitate promotions throughout the army by retiring from active service, upon their own application, officers who served in the civil war.. ..Mr. Miller reported a bill for the protection of New York harbor. House. Mr. Deuster reported a bill to prevent and punish the prosecution, under the protection of the United States, of fraudulent claims against foreign governments Mr. Rosecrans reported a bill to establish a branch soldiers' home in California....Mr. Singleton reported adversely bills for the arection of monuments to Edward Buncomb, of North Carolina, lud Pierre C. L'Enfant the French engineer, who is generally credited with having originated the plan upon which Washington city is built..,. Mr. Tucker re* ported a resolution instructing tho committee on appropriations to include in sundry civil bill, items appropriating $20,000 to pay Hallett Kilbourne on account of a judgment recovered against J. G. Thompson, paying Thompson $2,650 and paying Shellabarger and "VVilson $2,000 for professional services. THE ICE CARNIVAL, Opening Srenc* at ITIontreal?Thonlaudt of Vi?l!or?. Thousands of sti angers were present during the opening ceremonies of Jhe ice carnival at Montreal On the Place D'Armes a monster ico lion of exquisite sculpture had been constructed, which was unveiled. During the afternoon a boulevard on the ice was opened. There were two tracks for trotting hordes and one for spectators. The best specimens of the Canadian pony were exhibited. On the island toboggan sleds were used by many. Close by an ancient trapper's camp added to the natural appearance of the scene. Toboggan slides in ull parts of the city and on the mountain were opened. Provision was also mado for children, while strangers were heartily welcomed. On tho Champ do Mars, what is called a condora, resembling an old-fashioned cairn, all of ico, was constructed. It was surmounted by figures of snow-shoes and by a trapper, fifteen feet high, holding a torch. In the afternoon a highly sticccssful promenade concert was held in the Victoria Skating Riyk. where in the evening a hockey match 011 skater, took placp. The rink was crowded, and tho best local and outside talent took part. At night the formal illumination of tho Mount Koyal toboggan slide took place. Tho governor-general arrived in tho evening, and was accorded a hearty reception. At 8 o'clock the ice palace was illuminated bp electric light, while tha ice lion and condora were exhibited under tho same conditions. The ice palace is a much much more massive structure this year than last, the major axis being 100 feet long and 120 feet in width. The ground plan is elliptical in form, and on each ond of tho major axis are two oblong towers, each thirty-eight feat high, with an entrance to the buiiumg. vuiwj " new thing in this year's palace are the two round towers at each end of tho minor axis,' with arched entrances. Tho main tower is flanked 011 one side with singlo towers about seventy feet in height, and 011 the other with double towers rising to a height of forty and fifty feet, respectively. It is exceedingly graceful in outline, and its proportions are well balanced. It is wonderfully beautiful in tho daylight,but it is not until evening that one sees to perfection this enchanfed castle of gleaming sea-green united ice, when with the moon shining in the heavens above with that clear brilliancy seen only in extremely cold countries, and with the*electric illuminations glittering through its towers and turrets, it seems much more like tho marvelous imaginings of some opium sated dreamer than a real tangible thing, a huge dazzling gem. NEWSY GLEANINGS. More than 200,030 Americans are winter- ! ing in Europe. California grows large crops of the sueculent peanut. Ok tho o2,000 Indians in Dakota 50,000 I peak English. Des Moines, Iowa, is bankrupt ana us em- i ployes are unpaid. | Georgia's cotton factories have more or- i ders than they can fiJl. The United States uses three times as much | paint as any other country. The invitations to the presidential inauguration ball will number 12,0J0. The highest priced pew in Grace church, New York, is $:J,U0U per year. Fifteen republics of Spanish America have exhibits at New Orleans. Barnum says his show took in $1,400,000 during the past tenting season. Kit Carson's monument at Santa Fe is to bo u 11 veiled on Decorationjday. A Massachusetts physician has induced forty young men to stop smoking. A pearl has been found on tho western Australian coast valued at $ JO, 1)0 J. A reversible boot, which may bo worn indifferently on either foot, has been patented. The fire record for 1831 shows losses in the United States and Canada to tho exteut of Jlia.OOO.OL'O. Nearly 5,000 patents on churns have been issued in this country alone, aud yet butter is as hard to get as ever. Mexico maintains an agricultural collego at its capital, tho appropriations for which last year were $339,:i43., F. G. Fikander, a Finnish ciergymon, is in Michigan looking for land on which to place a colony of 3,000 Finns. Leprosy is increasing so rapidly in Honolulu that government action is about to be taken to prevent its spread it' possible. The losses by strikes in England in the Inst ten 3'ears have been $134,600,000 to the workingmen, nnd to the employers $:21,0j0,000. The Congregational Year Book of England just published shows that there aro now 1,347 Congregational churches in England and Wales. Nine New York defaulters, fivo from Chicago, four from Boston, and several from other American cities, are said to bo living in Canada. Floating sawmills aro common on the Lower Mississippi. They pick up the drifting logs, turn them into lumber, and sell tho products to planters along tho shore. It is statod that since the November election a hundred boy babies have been christened Grover Cleveland, to each one of which tho President-elect has sent his photograph. A Rochester (N. Y.) patent medicine firm has made a contract with a class company in Philadelphia for 7,20J,000 I bottle3. This is the largest contract of the kind ever known. TIE LONDON EXPLOSIONS. Ha?oc Wrought by Dynamite in the British Metropolis. The Parliament Buildings and the Tower Badly Damaged, The attempt to blow up three of London's most prominent buildings by dynamite was so nearly successful, and did such great damage to life and property, that it created unparalleled excitement throughout Great Britain. From cable dispatches to the New York papers wo make up the following graphic account of the scenes immediately succeeding the explosions and the damage wrought by them: London went wild with anger this afternoon over tho most daring and disastrous attempt on the public safety yet made by t he dynamiters. Three infernal machines at least, and perhaps four, were exploded?one in the houses of parliament, one or two in Westminster Hall, which adjoins them, and one in t.ho t/iwnp nf Tj-mrlnn fr>nr milcc nvcnv down the Thames. The explosions were evi- I dently designed to be simultaneous. They actually occurred within a few minutes of each other, at about 2 o'clock in tho afternoon. Saturday, when there is no session of Parliament, is tho usual visiting day At the Houses of Parliament. As a rulo there is no crowd of visitors. There were more to-day than usually come, and the attendants recall that tho number of women was unusually large, and that many of tho women carried parcels upon which they seemed to bestow uncommon care. Tho suspicion has arisen that the seeming women were men in women's clothes, seeking an opportunity to deposit infernal machines and leave them to be fired by time fuses. Mr. Edwin Green, a civil engineer, was visiting the housos of parliament on a sightseeing trip with his wifo and sister, who, by the way, aro both Irish women. They were | in Westminster hall. As they wero about going down tho stairway leading to tho crypt, Mrs. Green saw a parcel that looked like a roll of clothing lyin? on onoof the stone steps. Smoke was issuing from the roll. Mrs. Green exclaimed: "What's that? It looks like dynamite!'' The party ran back, calling to the first policeman they saw. His name is Colo. Ho seized the bundle and ran up stairs with it, meaning to carry it out of the building. Just as he reached tho top step leading into the hall he dropped the bundle and it exploded The ladies were thrown to tho ground, bruised and half stripped. They both fainted. Mr. Green was hurled a dozen feet and dashed violently to tho stone floor. Several of his ribs were broken, and his clothing was torn to tatters. Policeman Cole was fearfully wounded, and another constable, named Cox, who came to his assistoueo, was almost equally injured. A large quantity of explosive matter bad beeg placed inside "the great ornamental gates leading to the crypt under "Westminister Hall. Those gates were blown off their hinges and thrown to the ground. All the windows on tho north and south sides of the im- j menso building wero blown to atoms. Tho concussion shook down from the grand oak root or tne nan tue accumulated soot or centuries. This in its downward movement made such a dense cloud that the officers on guard became alarmed and dared not enter the rcom. In the lobby the splinters were for a timo as thick as flakes in a blinding snowstorm. They were propelled in many cases with dangerous force, 'lhey cut ana ripped the leather from the s^ats and tore out and scattered the horse-hair stuffings all over the hous>. A man who happened to be standing upon a scaffolding near the crypt when the explosion occurred was knocked forcibly to the ground. The great window over the main entrance to Westminster Hall was smashed to atoms. Three minutes had hardly passed when another explosion completely demolished the lobby of the house of commons in the parliament buildings adjoining and opening into Westminster hall. Here the dynamito must have been deposited under the peers' gallery, back of the speaker's chair and to the left of | it Gladstone sits to the right of the speaker; Bradlaugh's favorite seat was to the left. Tho explosion came from under either the peers' gallery or the strangers' gallery still further to tho left, and very close to the seat usually occupieJ by Bradlaugh when he visits the commons. The lobby was completely wrecked; the strangers' gallery was torn down, a chip was torn off tho top of tho speaker's chair, and Mr. Gladstone's seat was badly broken. The western extremity of the house is a total wreck. All the woodwork in that part of tho building was shattered, and a wide holo was made through the floor. The gallery was displaced, ana even the solid stonework of the doorways was either pulverized or shifted from its position. Every pane of glass in the house was smashed to atoms. The gallery benches were overturned and broken, and the gallery generally dismantled. The force of this explosion was exerted almost entirely on the side of the room where the members of the government and their Liberal followers have seats. Had the commons been in session at the time of the explosion it is believed that no less than two hundred members would have boon instantly killed. This number would necessarily have included Mr. Gladstone and several of his ministers. Even more strange, if possible, than this is the fact that, under the same circumstances, neither Mr. Parnell nor any of his followers would have been injured at all. for recently they have been sitting on the opposite side of the house among the conservatives, and the tory quarters escaped almost undisturbed. The police affect to see in this singular coincidence a carefully planned warning to the government The glass roof of the house of commons was completely shattered. The clock in the house stopped at precisely 2:13 p. m. A heavy beam which formed one of the supports to the gal* !ery, under which Mr. Charle3 Bradlaugh is accustomed to sit when he visits the house, wae projected into the speaker's chair, seriously injuring it. The statues of King William IV. and of King George IV., in Westminster hall were overturned. The explosion of the Tower of London occurred at exactly 2 p. M. According to the earlier reports it was the most successful which has yot been made upon any of the public buildings since the inauguration of the present era of dynamite warfare. The famous old building was crowded with visitors at the time of tho explosion. The wildest rumoi's were circulated as to the number of persons who had been injured by the crime. worn onrriivi thrmipil the citV and constantly exaggerated by the visitors who were present at the time. Up to 4 o'clock sixteen persons had been officially returned as having been injured by the explosion. None of these are reported as mortally hurt. A large number of children were among the visitors. Many of these little ones had their faces and hands very badly torn by tha broken glass and flying splinters. The most piteous sight in the large crowd of innocent persons temporarily detained within the tower walls was affordol by these little ones with their palo faoe3 and bleeding heads. The crowd outside tho walls was wrought up to a 'state of frenzy against tho perpetrators of the outrage, and there were cries of "Lynch tho villains!" "Iloast the fiends!" The attack was made on that part of the building known as tho "White Tower." at the southeast angle of the building, on the river front. It was fairly filled with visitors at tho time, and most, if not all, of thosa who are known to have been hurt were moving about in tho tower at tho time of tho explosion. Tho police, tho momont they realized the nature of thecxplosion,effectually barred all egress from tho Tower and grounds, and subjected every person whom they succeeded in detaining by this manoeuvre to a most rigid search upon tue i thoory that tho attack was perpetrated by I some person or persons inside tho premises. ! Surgeons were promptly summoned to the | assistance of tho wounded. Tho investigations made by tho police lea I to th > conclusion that the explosives used in the attack on tho Tower were handled by persons who gained access to the structure as sightseers. Tho explosion occurred on tho second floor of tho White Tower. All authorities agree that dynamite was used. Three floors were j thoroughly wrecked, and the explosion damaged many hundred stands of arms. j The report made bv the explosion was 1 terrific. It was heard for miles up and down tho Thames, and at on?e attracted an lm! mense crowd to tho scene. The number of thoso injured by tho exploj siou is as follows: At tho Tower, six injurod , seriously and fourteen slightly; at tho parliament buildings, four seriously and ten slightj ly. The worst injuries were sustained by , Constables Cox and Cole and Civil Engineer I Green, who was visiting parliament buildings. I Over a hundred visitors wero in tho house of | commons when the explosion' occurred in I Westminster hall. Most of them rushed out of tho building to ascertain lha causo of the | report, and thus many lives were saved. Tho tower was fairly filled with visitors, j One man had one of his legs smashed. AnI other's ear was completely severed from his j head. | The favorite theory of the polico is that the J dynamite which caused the explosion was car( riod to tho place in each case concealed under the long cloak of a woman. j Tho city is in a frenzied stato of excitement, j The whole of the polico force is on duty, and ! tho troops in and around the city are under j arms. Polico patrols aro stationed evcryi where in close proximity to each other and a j cordon of jwlice has been drawn around every public building. Chief Superintendent W'il| liamson, of Scotland yard, lias personally iu; spectod the scene* of tho explosions, as have ! also Inspectors Livingstons ami Iv>:lly. Tho queen has telegraphed lor particulars of the explosions to Sir William Ilarcourt. All tho persons who wero arrested during | the afternoon on suspicion were released this j evening, there being no facts against them rullicient to warrant keeping them in custo ly. Tho polico aro completely nonplussed. They are incapable of oven forming a theory, and appear to be dazed at their own inefficiency to prevent such outrages or to discover their perpetrators when they have been committed. Popular indignation ran so high and the clamor of tho crowd for some one upon whom to wreak vengeance was so insatiate that the persons arrested on suspicion narrowly escaped lynching when they were set at liberty. Wherever Then congregate, at tho clubs, tha ' coffee houses, the hotels, on tho street, at home, everywhere, the one tsptc or conversation throughout London, throughout the U?ited Kingdom, has been this last instance of the dynamiters' activity. The one relief to tho terrible excitement which agitated tho metropolis the whole afternoon was the cablegram s?nt from Washington announcing the introduction in the United States Senate by Mr. Edmunds of a bill aimed at the suppression of the manufacture and possession of dynamite for murderous and treasonable uses abroad. This cablegram contained the text of thi bill, and the substance of the speech made by Mr. Edmunds in advocacy thereof. It was posted up in front of the Cable News office in New Bridge street, and attracted such a crowd that the street was soon blocked, and Ludgato circus, adjoining, crowded with people. When the contents of the dispatch were made known to tho entiro crowd, a cheer was given for the United States. The cablegram was used in the lata editions of the evening pat"*rs, and was tran mitted over the tickers of the Electric News company to over two hundred of the late city clubs, in most of wliich the Ludgate circus scene was re-enacted wilhin smaller confines. The prompt action of the American Senator hrus produced a most favorable impression, and will undoubtedly draw out strong encomiums from the English press. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate. The Oklahoma lands qnestion was again discussed. The resolution of Mr. Vest was called up, which requests the secretary of the interior to ascertain upon what terma the Creek, Cherokee and Seminole Indians will surrender their remaining interests in those lands. Mr. Plumb offered a substitute, which requested the President to enter as speedily as possible into negotiation with such Indian tribes as may be in possession of more land than enough to give each head of a family ltJO acres, with a view to using such surplus land for actual settlers only. After discussion the resolutions were referred to the committee on public lands. Mr. Bayard introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That the Senate of the United States has heard with indignation and profound sorrow of the attempts to destroy the houses of parliament and other public buildings in London, and hereby expresses its horror and detestation of such monstrous crimes against civilization." Consideration of the resolution was postponed for a day.... Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill in the Senate this morning providing for the punishment of persons unlawfully using dynamite and other high explosives. Mr. Bayara called up his resolution of the previous day, expressing the Senate's indlgna* tion and sorrow at the attempt to blow up the parliament buildings in London. It seemed eminently proper, said Mr. Bayard, that a law-making body of the American people should express its antagonism to a spirit which, by destroying law, would necessarily destroy all hopes of the liberty that could only exist under law. Mr. Riddlebe:ger moved to refer the resolution to the committee on foreign affairs. The motion was lest by 58 nays to 2 yeas. Mr. Lapham moved to so amend the resolution as to cover the idea that the explosions imperiled the lives of innocent and unsuspecting persons, and Mr. Bayard agreed to the amendment Mr. Riddle berger then moved to postpone consideration of the resolution until the following Wednesday, and Messrs. Hoar, Ingalls and Gibson spoke in favor of its immediate consideration and passage. Mr. Riddleberger spoke against the resolution and Mr. Hawley in its favor. The motion to postpone was then put ajid lost, Mr. Riddleberger's vote being the only one in its favor. Ihe resolution as amended was then agreed to?yeas, 63; navs, I 1?the negative voto being Mr. RiddJobergerc. The resolution as agreed to is as follows: "Resolved, That the Senate of the United States has heard with indignation and profound sorrow of tho attempt to destroy tne houses of parliament and other public buildings in London and to imperii tho lives of innocent and unsuspecting persons, and hereby expresses its horror and detestation of such monstrous crimes against civilization.".... On motion of Mr. Aldrich the oath of office was administered to Jonathan Chace, the newly elected Senator from Rhode Island Tne Chair laid Sefore tho Senate the credentials of J. D. Cameron, re-elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania to be United States Senator. Mr. White, cf Kentucky, arose to correct the journal of the House, and demanded that his resolution offered on the previous day for the abolition of the office of commissioner of internal revenue be read. The Speaker said that the journal was correct, whereupon Mr. White complained that tho text of th? resolution was not printed in the Record. Continuing his remarks, Mr. White said he thanked God he was "not responsible to this creature who Ls made the Speaker of the House." Mr. Whites last remark was greeted with hisses, and he added : "I mean it in no disrespect to the Speaker." Mr. White went on with his speech, and after he had succeeded in reading his internal revenua vncninH.tn nnrt- thus insuring its Dubli cation in the Record, he withdrew his resolution concerning Speaker. The Speaker then said thfir ho had not assumed any control over the Record, but he had advised the official reporter on his application that bills and joint resolutions introduced for reference, whether read by the member from his scat or by the clerk, did not properly go into the Record. That advica he would give again under the same circumstances The Military Appropriation bill was passed. Several messages from the President wore laid before the Senate transmitting informa tion called for regarding the landing of foreign cables in the United States, the awards of tbo Venezuelan mixed commission, and the status of the Oklahoma lands, which lands, the Presi-ient maintains, under existing treaties, cannot be openei for settlement by law. Home. Mr. Hurd offered a resolution which led to a long debate. It recited that the Blair Educational biil, and other bills appropriating money, which had originated in the Senate, were on the Speaker's table, and directed the judiciary committee to inquire into the Senate's power to originate such bills. Mr. Hurd said, in support of his resolution, that the question directly presented was whether bills i appropriating money from the treasury were bills for raising revenues, and he upheld the affirmative of the proposition. A bill for raising revenue included a bill appropriating money; for until the appropriation had been made it was not revenue to the government. The resolution was finally tabled. Mr. Hewitt offered a resolution calling on the secretary of state to inform the House whether the department is in possession ot any information tending to connect any person or persons resident in this country and enjoying the protection of its laws with attempts to destroy lifo and proprrty within the dominion of any foreign power with whicli we have treaties of peaco and amity, and requesting him to make recommendations as to what legislation may bo desirable or needed to be enacted into law for tho punisnment of such outrages. Re* j rerred to tho committee on foreign affairs. Mr. Findlay offered a resolution which was referred to the committee on foreign affairs calling on the secretary of state for information as to whether any" citizen of the United States or persons domiciled within the same wore concerned or participated directly or j indirectly in bringing about the recent I explosions in London, provided the transmission of such information is compatible with tho public interest. Mr. Dorsheimer offered the "Edmund's" bill for tho punishment of crimes committed by means of explosive compounds. Referred .... Mr. Forney from tho committee on apo ; propriations, reported the army appropriation bill and it was referred to the committe| of tho whole. It provides for an appropriation of $24,424,033. Tho j estimates amounted to $2(5,110,490. I ....Eulogistic addresses were made in com* .-i i_. - n T>,,? i memoration ot me jaie w'|iau'iiiainc uun! can, of Pennsylvania, by Messrs. Ennentrout, ! Swope, Atkinson, Post, Bayne, Hopkins and Randall. Mr. Morrill, from the finance committee, | reported favorably, with some amendments, ! the House bill to retire and recoin the trade j dollar. The amended bill provides that un| til July 1,4S&5, United States trada dollars, if not defaced mutilated, or stamped, shall be received at tho ofllee of the treasurer I or any assistant treasurer of tho ! United States in exchange for n like amount, | dollar for dollar, of standard silver dollars of the (Tnited States; that tho trade dollars so received shall not bo paid out or in any other manner issued, but, at the expense of the I'nite l States, shall be recoined into standard silver dollars....Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, from tho committee on military affairs, reported favorablv a bill to authorize tho establishment of a retired list for I non-coinniis-iioned officers and privates i of the United States army who have served I for a period of thirty years and upward motion of Mr. Dawes" it was resolved to place a marble bust of the late Vice-President Henry Wilson over the tablet which had been ordered to be put in tho room in tho capitol in which ho died Tho conference iopcrt on tho Naval Appropriation bill was adopted, j It appropriates $<>,1:J(1,000 lor the last half j of the fiscal year ' Mr. Clay." from tho committee on prcsij dential laws, reported to the Housa a conI current resolution providing that the elec| toral vote shall bo counted by the two Houses I of Congress r.t noon on February 11, KS80; liiai lilt' [UtamtUI. Ul IUD OVIIUUi O..OU |..?iuv | and do"laro upon the list of the votes as i made by the tellers the result of the vote and ! the persons elected President and I Vice-President of the United States I A communication from the secretary of the ; navy was received recommending action by the government in recognition of . the service, official and personal, extending ! in Russia to tho survivors of tho Jeannette ! and to the search parties subsequently sent to | Siberia Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, pre. sented the credentials of J. \V. Reed as memi lwr-elect from the Fifth district of North l Carolina, to succeed A. M. Scales, and Mr. j Reed took tho cath of office. William Fcllehton. a son of Judge FulI lorton. of New York, has just completed a ' three-act comic opera, which is about to be Eraiented at one of tho lea ling West End, ondon, theatres. The great event in the world of dress is Mine. Bernhardt'* toilets in M. Sardou's new play, "Theodora," in Paris. They are trulj magnificent, and it is reported that on one o'l them no less a sum than $1,500 has be;n expended. GEN. STEWART'S VICTORY. >| Another Fierce Battle on the Road to Khartonm. The Arab3 Fighting With Desperate Valor,. ? ; H Advices from London state that the anxiety concerning the fate of Goneral Stewart ' -"/H and bis troops was relieved by despatches t iJzM from General Wolselcy and other source#, announcing tliat Stewart had won another victory and advanced ai far as Metemneh, nnd had even opened communication with General Gordon at Khartoum. After his fight with the Arabs for the po?session of the Abu Klea wells on the 17th ' . inst, General Stewart established & strong post at the wells, and 011 the afternoon of the next day, Sunday, began his march toward Meteinneh. His force consisted of about 2,000 picked fighting men. The native* at - 'f jfi oo?e began to resist his progress, though they did not offer regular battle, but skirmished upon his front an^. flanks. On Monday the English reached a point about fivo miles south of Metemneh, /where the Arabs were evidently stationed in / '* force, as they hovered about the invaders oa all sides within short range. When they began to surround him and press in Ifora all fce sides General Stewart ordered his men to di?- * .V mount and form a zareba, or sort of breast work, mado mainly with saddles and baggage. . - . During its construction the Arab riflemen drew nearer, and kept up a Lot fire from bebind ambushes and such biding places as they could find in the bushes and high grass. This fire was very well directed, and was most disastrous in its effect upon the British ' troops. Twelve men wsre soon shot dead ^ and forty others were badly wounded. V'J Among the first killed were Mr. Cameron, the special correspondent of the London Standard, and Mr. Herbert, the special correspondent of the London Post. General Stewart ^ -fta was shot in the thigh. When he was struck the work of making the zareba was about completed, and the army had been put In motion to form in battle array. When Stewart fell wounded Sir Charles Wilson assumed command; and the troops formed in a hollow sauare in the following ' . order: In front, the Naval Brigade and the /'/ ^ Grenadier Guards, on the right flank the Coldstream Guards and the Scots Greys, on the left flank the mounted infantry, and on the rear the Sussex Regiment and the Camel corps. As soon as it was completed the square advanced under a steady ambush fire a distance of two miles. Then the enemy began tomove ' upon tbe square in two farce echelons. These were directed against the British right front, which stood unmoved During the charge of the natives t he English troops forming the assailed front delivered a terrific fire aimed right at the enemy's middle, mowing down men in such numbers that tbe heaps of dead bodies interfered so serf- yS ousfy with -the evenne^ of march neces- ' [3 sary to the success of the onslaught that the ' ^ center line of the Arabs was brought to a standstill about sixty yards from the British front line. Tbe force o: tne general inorw -gg ment threw the unimpeded parts of the line like the ends of a broken timber around the corners of the square, and tbe Arabs thn* < displaced in position were simply cut to ' pieces. After this the fight was moat diaav -'-7' - ' trous to the natives. During tbe advance of the main body of the M English from the zareba, the garrison left be* . '. hind at that point kept up a heavy fire from their guns ana rifles. An effort was made to i erect a small redoubt soma fifty yards to the -Sj right of the zareLa under the protection of the steady fire from th3 zaraba. During the erection of the redoubt one man waa Killed and three were wounded. Lord Cochrane, ^ with forty men from the Life guards and the >s Scots Greys,hold the redoubt and maintained a heavy fire throughout the battle. "When the enemy's line was broken tbe ijg Arabs seemed to break up into bonds, each of which waged war on its own account. A large detachment, mostly on horseback, went back to attack the zareba. There the English sustained the attack for two hours, when the enemy was compelled to retreat. During the general attack upon the Square only six men wero killed, and twenty-three .. wounded on the English side. Captain Norton worked the guns during thLj fight, and * . lJ his firing did terrible oxecution. The loam of tbe Arabs during the whole day are eeti- . * mated at 2,000 killed and wounded. They ? lost five emirs. W Among tlie enemy % were many slaves, several of whom have ? submitted to the British. They say the Mahdi sent them from Khartoum. . The British square reached the Nile at sun- i setpon Monday and encamped for the night. Njjfrly Tuesday morning scouting parties ps made a reconnoissance aud destroyed some ^ empty villages, the reccnt inhabitants of which watched the operations from a distanco and afterward retreated : ^"3 to Metemneh. The British then advanced through the villages around Metemneh and stationed themselves at Gubat, on the Nile. On Wednesday they made a reconnoissance, an J found Metemneh fairly >;3 well fortified Hhots were exchanged, but the Arabs kept out of sight Sir Charles Wilson reports that lie could have carried Metemneh, but ho thought it not worth risk- - ing the loss of tlia men which its capture might have involved. The ground around is sandy, with depressions full of grass and . v'syg bushes, affording good cover. ' 5^1 General Stewart's wound, while not fatal, is so serious that he will be. disabled for the remainder of the present campaign. General Wolseley considers the deprivation of his service a national loss. He characterizes Stewart as tne ''ablest soldier and most dashing commander he ever knew," and r ecommeodi him to the queen's most favorable consideration. Four steamers from Khartoum, under Nusri Pasha, arrived at Gubat on Wedneo- . ^ day. They brought the latest news from General Gordon, who says he could hold out at Khartoum for years. ? ?- . m THE CONGO CONFERENCE, Why (be I'nlfofl State* Participated In It. Tim PrAsidnnt has sent to the House the secretary of state's reply to the request for information respecting the participation of the Uuited States in the Congo conference. Mr. Frelinghuysen says that in the spring of 1*81 the President, in obedience to the request of Congress, rocognized the flag , of the International association of the ? Con^o, and appointed a commercial agent for the Congo basin. In so doing tlje government recorded its share in the already general conviction that tlii prospective i ich trade of tin Congo valley should be open to all nations 011 equal terms. On October 11,1884, the (Terman government,through its minister, invited tho Lnited States government to take . part in a conference to bo held iu lieriin toar1 ange conditions which would assure the development of commerce with the Congo region. The state department at onco asked Mr. Kasson, United States minister to Germany, to report the nature of tho measures to be proposed at the conference. Mr. Kasson reported that the subject before the conference would be tho development of tho various nations' commercial interest with the Congo valley; that each government wou!d hav? the right to ad >pt or reject the conference's conclusions, and that our participation appeared to be advisable and consistent with our precedents and policy. The government thereupon determined to accept the German government's invitation, 011 the understanding that questions of ter- . ritjrial jurisdiction should be excluded by the conference. Minister Kasson was directed to represent the United States, and afterward Henry S. Sanford was made his associate delegate. Mr. Frelinghuysen compliment^ Mr. Kasson for the manner in which he has '. 'i represented us. Attached to the report is a letter from Mr. * Kasson, dated January 7, 1 tsS5, in whi :h he says that all through the Conference he has insisted that no declaration should bo agreed upon which would bind any government which did not agree to it. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The salary of the emperor of Russia is said to lie fV-'10,00 ' Theoooiuj Tilton expects to make his permanent hom in Paris. ? .. -J-V-J Leopold Von Ranke, tho aisun^uiauou Herman historian, lias completed his four score and ten years. Congressman Townsend, of Illinois, who is described as "talented, irritable and vain," was once a page boy in the House. Among the recent Presidents neither Lincoln or Hayes smoked. Johnson, Grant, Gartit-Id and Arthur did, and Cleveland will. Sixtv-nine army officers, including Generals l'ope, Hancock, Augur, Drum and Newton, will rtach the retiring age during Mr. Cleveland's term of office. Grover Cleveland will bs the fifth president inaugurated on Wednesday. The othert were Tnomas Jetfcrson, A uJrew Jackson, Millard Fillmore and James iluehanan. John C. Eno, the fugutivo New York bank president, is popular in (Quebec, visiting the Lesi people und giving lushionabie dinners. Ho has been uiadu a member of the Merchants' dub. Mr. Vail, the "cattle-kiug" of Nevada, L ' * u-ith a caD oegan uusintjss nvcmj . ital of $.'.0 K Ho pa.d $oOJ lor a Durham cow anil from that cow ho lius sold $40,0! JO worth of high-bred calves. Miis. General Diaz, wife of tho president of Mexico, is only twenty-five y< ar old. Sh? is a tall, saltow-complexioned v.o.nau, slender ' in figure, with a Jong, Roman uo-.o and a pointed under jaw. Prince Edward and George, sons of the i Prin'-e of "Wales, are writing an account of their voyago around the world. Tho work is based upon the diaries kept by the princes, and will be ready for publication 111 April. It i will be in two volumes, tvnd will be proiuseiy illustrated.