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The value of the diamonds in America | to-dav is estimated at $1,000,000,000. j The most valuable gem in the country was owned by Mrs. E. D. Morgan, and was worth $36,000. It weighed twentytwo carats. An eminent German oculist, Dr. H. Cohn, thinks that reading and writing are much more likely to produce shortsightedness and othewise impair the eight than watchmaking and other minute industries. Diamonds are found in Virginia, [North Carolina, South Carolina and California, the last State furnishing the finest specimens. Five hundred dollars has been paid for a California stone in the rough, and a good many have sold for $100. That the roller-skating mania is running out is shown by the great decline in the price of boxwood, of which the skatewheels are made. Last year this wood commanded from $20 to $40 a ton, but # now it can be had for $18, and is likely to go lower. The statement is made that all the varied machinery of Great Britain, now operated by steam-power, is capable of performing more work, and hence of creating more products than could be produced by the labor of 400,000,000 ablebodied men, a greater number than al* the able-bodied men on the earth. ; There are now twenty-four chaplains Sn the United States navy. Their salary during the first five years after their appointment is $2,500 when at sea and *2 ,000 when on shore duty. After the | expiration of five years the salary is $2,800 while on sea duty and $2,300 *ehile on shore duty. They are appointed t>y the President on recommendation. ! A report on the progress of the leper settlement at Molokai, one of the Sand rich islands, states that the settlement ' ?pened in January, I860, with 131 lep. ?ts, of whom 103 were males and thirtyleight females. Up to November last, there were admitted 1,101 lepers, of whom 1,985 were males and 1,116 females. The largest muster roll from the foundation of the settlement was in August, 1884, at which date it stood at 841, comprising 512 males and 321 females. There is a biennial appropriation of $100,000 for the maintenance and care of the sufferers. Some interesting facts were developed at the recent electrical convention in Baltimore. Among these was the information that there are about 5,000 arc lights in New York, and about 3,000 in Boston. Over fifty towns in the United States have each over 100 lamps. Tower lighting meets with great favor in some parts of the West, as at Detroit, Michigan,and "P.lrrin Tllinma Tinmocti/^ lirrlrfinfir Virr A4AliiVi^? X/VHJIV^ViV KJ J electricity has not advanced much so far on account *of the expense, and meets with more favor in Europe than in America. There are now in use in the United States 95,000 arc lights and 250,000 incandescent lights, and the money invested in the electric light industry amounts to $70,000,000. ] What may be the secret of many lost ocean vessels never being heard of is given in the following: Some weeks ago, in latitude 41.05, longitude 63.02, the contain nf a frAnc Qtlnntir> cfpnmpr nV? served indications of shoal water, and, upon sounding, found sixty fathoms, the lead bringing up fragments of shells and sand. After running nineteen miles another sounding was taken, but no bottom found at 200 fathoms. On September 3, 1885, a sounding showing 1,791 fathoms was made by the steamer Albatross in latitude 41.02.30, which is westsouthwest three-quarters west and barely five miles from the spot mentioned. The position of the shoal is directly in the (path of transatlantic steamers during part ' of the year. 4 The citv of Mexico, for a number of months past, has been afflicted with a scourge of mosquitoes. These insects prevailed to such an extent that they have been a constant theme of discussion, and have, in a number of instances, caused sickness, and, it is said, even death, by their poisonous bites. Official "bulletins have been issued by the director of statistics, Dr. Penafiel, as to their habits, natural history, etc. Singularly, says Science, the species, which is a large one,, has not been known, or has not at tracted attention before the past year; and fears are entertained that the pest is of recent introduction. The varying abundance of different kinds of insects during different years renders such a view improbable; yet it is significant that the present species is new to science, v never having been described by entomologists. Quite a valuable industry is now carried on in France, in the utilization of the various kinds of feathers formerly treated as worthless, especially those obtained in plucking ducks, chickens, turkeys, and those of wild fowls and other "bird3 killed as game. The plan pursued consists in trimming these, particularly the larger ones, off the stump, which may be thrown away, the plumes being then made use of in the manufacture of a feather cloth or blanket which possesses the essential quality of being exceedingly light and at the same time very warm. The plumes which are separated from the stalk are placed in a bag, closed tightly, and then subjected to rubbing between the hands, as in washing clothes. In a few miq|ites the fibers are by this means separated from each other, and form a perfectly homogeneous and very light down, applicable by simple operation to the production of quite a variety of coverings and other household objects, ^t a reasonable cost. | The ' 'preacher" is the latest swindling dodge being worked in Central Iowa. He | calls on his way distributing Bibles, and often presents the family with a handsome book. He then asks for dinner or other meal, and takes a receipt for twenty-five cents paid for it. A few months later the neighboring bank calls for the payment of a note for $150.25. ''Mandolins are the latest craze," said a dealer in music to a New York Sun reporter. ''They were brought to public notice several years ago by the traveling company of Spanish students, but they did not become popular until this winter. Pianos are neglected and banjos are tossed aside, and young ladies now wear out their fingers on these shrill noted guitars. They are more like guitars than anything else I know of. The body is made of wood, and is the shape of a pumpkin "cut in half. It has four j strings, and has frets like a guitar. The fret-board is short. A mandolin is played "with a thumb-piece, and is a romantic and really musical instrument. We are having a big sale of them. It is easy to learn to play on them." A London paper prints a very witty letter from one of its fair readers anent an unfair discrimination which custom has decreed against married women and in favor of their husbands. She asks very pertinently why, when a woman marries, she should be compelled to publicly exhibit the badge of servitude li nrvtirn oo <<\Cy-cs "RlonL- VuiQ AUVTTli ag ?atCi X/IUUUL^ (f mmv MV* band is allowed to go scott free as simple "Mr.,"without any outward and distinguishing mark of his new, and of course, improved condition. "If it is necessary," she says, "that the wife should be labeled 'Sold,'why should not the husband also bear the red ticket?" The title of "Mr." is entirely too comprehensive. There is no danger-signal in it to catch the eye of the unwary, and a young married man can do a great deal of mischief if he be so inclined. Anderson H. Jones, a colored man, who went to Liberia six months ago from Missouri, writes home from Brewersville, a village fifteen miles from Monrovia, giving some account of the country. He says that there are no horses, no mules and no oxen in the whole settlement. All the farmwork is done with the hoe, the rake and the axe. He says: "I have been all over the settlement, and I found the largest number of people in a suffering condition for something to eat and for clothes to vrear. There isn't any doctor in this settlement?the settlement is too poor to support one. Calico is twenty-five cents per yard. A common laborer, when he can get any work to do, is paid twenty-five cents a day. Pickled pork is twenty-five cents per pound; shoulder meat twenty-five cents per pound. All the flour and meat used here is imported from England and America. Corn meal is ten cents per quart. C ommon Hour is $15 a barrel. The only way noft ItnnA 4-vmamatt A?A {a i lilt; Ul4vu iu in tin. o liiuucj jicic ao by raising and selling coffee. It will take a newcomer like myself from five to six years to get a coffee farm in trim for selling coffee. The public schools are poor. There is a class of people over here who do not want the true condition of things written back home." The Astor Estate. A New York letter to the Utica Herald says: John Jacob Astor leit tne duik oi his property to William in trust for his two sons, William and John Jacob, this being as extended an entail as our laws permit. William was a very faithful trustee, but in addition he accumulated a half dozen millions of his own. This he bequeathed to his sons in trust for their children, thus repeating his father's plan. On William's death the two sons made a division of their grandfather's es tate, this being the most imoportant act of partition that ever occurred in Amer- , ica. The most curious feature of this af fair is the secrecy with which it was \ done. It was an immense task to divide ,such a vast and varied estate into two equal parts; but it was effected in a manner that must have been i mutually satisfactory. It is supposed that the property was carefully in- [ ventoried by the clerks and then separated into two portions as equally as possible and then the choice drawn by lot. At any rate the Astor house fell to John Jacob, who is generally thought to have the best slice. The brothers always preserved amity, and when the dissolution took place they erected adjoining J offices in Twenty-sixth street. John < Jacob soon afterward placed all his property in the hands of Waldorf, who is now the richest man for his age in America. The advance on the valuation mav be given as follows: John Jacob ; died worth $20,000,000. When William died (twenty-seven years afterward) the estate was worth at least thrice that sum, and its increase since then will make each of the brothers worth $50,000,000. This may be considered certainly well to do in the world. One reason why the Astor brothers have adjoining offices is found in the common ownership of the deeds, maps and leases belonging to the estate which cannot be divided. These form a library in themselves and are very interesting to the antiouariari. as showing how New York was laid out in the olden time. A still greater curiosity is the little fourwheeled wooden wagon which is used in bringing the old books into the office for reference. It is made in the rudest and cheapest manner, the wheels being sawed out of a board, but it has served this purpose for more than half a century, and old John Jacob loved his ''book wagon" more than his coach. This collection of maps and leases is of much value in real estate searches, but only a lavureu lew are permmeu to cauwiuc them. In the Parlor. SHE. Anticipation. HE. Exultation. BOTH. Osculation. FATHER. Indignation. HE. Gyration. AI.L AROUND. Sensation. --Tid-Bits. NEWS SUMMARY! Eastern and Middle States. \ A fire at Troy. N. Y., destroyed six buildings, causing an aggregate damage of about $o0,000. Pour men were hurt by leaping from buildings and by falling walls, and a number of girls employed in a collar factory were injured. The heaviest wind storm ever felt in isew York visited that city and vicinity on the 26th. The wind atone time blew with a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour, and averaged fifty miles an hour during the day. Signs and shutters were torn from their fastenings, carriages upset, horses nearly blown off their feet. The storm also leveled the spires of churches at Westfield, Mass., and Port Jervis, N. Y., and disturbed the equilibrium of another in Philadelphia. Houses were unroofed aud other damage was done in various localities by the force of the wind. The publishers of General Grant's memoirs have just given his widow a check for $200,000, the first installment of her profits on the work. It is estimated that the total amount she will ultimately receive will reach $500,000. A notable sale of thoroughbred horses took place the other day at Pierre Lorillard's stock farm, Jobstown, N. J. Mr. Lorillard has lately retired from the running turf, and sold at auction twenty-seven of nis horses, the prices received for the lot aggregating $149,050, or an average per head ol $5,523.71. The highest price paid was for the three-yearold filly Dewdrop?$29,000. The 123 savings banks in New York State had on January 1st l,aus,u73 depositors; cue resources were $534,536,633, ana the liabilities $457,253,744. A large chimney fell during the fire at Nashua, N. H., and six persons were injured; two with probabl v|fatal effect The pecuniary loss is about $100,000. By a succession of accidents to trains forcing their way through heavy snow drifts in Maine three men were killed and four injured. In the town elections just held throughout Maine, the Republicans were successful in Lewiston, Bath, Rockland, Saco and Portland. The Democrats carried Ellsworth and Auburn, and the Knights of Labor elected their ticket in Gardiner. South and West. The Houston (Texas) savings bank has failed. Wilbern Wartena, a Hollander, was hanged the other day at Rensselaer, Ind., for tne murder of John Dreger, a farmer. George A. Peet, manager of the Gullete Cotton Gin factory at Amite, La,, was seized by a crowd of masked men, tied to a tree and terribly flogged. The reason assigned by the men for the act was that Mr. Peet had discharged a number of workmen. On Friday, April 23, eight murderers are to be hangesd in the Indian Territory. During the past winter no less than 100 children have" been burned to death in Georgia. The majority of them were left alone in the house of their parents. On January 26 Mrs. Fannie Rich, of Cobbleskill, N. Y., fled with Dr. H. S. Gale to the West, and finally took up quarters at St. Paul. The other day her husband arrived at the hotel where they were stopping, and after a stormy interview Rich shot his wife dead and then killed himself. Another heavy snow storm in the Northwest has blocked the railroads and greatly retarded business. An* explosion blew up the Miami Powder mills at Goes station, Ohio, and three men inside were torn into fragments. Work has been resumed in the McCormick Reaper works. Chicago. A Western syndicate with $30,000,000 capital is stated to have secured a monopoly in the manufacture of cotton seed oil. % Washington. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of William Way land Sutton, of Ohio, to be assistant United States treasurer at Cincinnati: Henri W. Young to be receiver of public moneys at Independence, Kan.; Benjamin H. Greene, to be surveyor-general of Montana; H. P. Kernochan, naval officer at New Orleans; R. P. Hammond, Jr., surveyorgeneral of California. During January the number of emigrants who arrived in the United States was 8,74!), against (5,021 in 1885; for the seven months ended January 31, 1880, 147,027; 1885, 107, 942. During February the national debt was 1 -J M I?nn 1CO oi 4-Un fnfa 1 reauceu iuo.oi. imo iciu uuc ium?l debt oa the 1st at $1,432,080,319.(30. The cash in the treasury was $494,489,985.52. In Executive session of the Senate the nominations of Pillsbury and Chase, to be collectors of internal revenue at Boston and Portland respectively, were rejected. President Cleveland on the 2d sent a message to Congress on the recent attack upon Chinamen in Wyoming Territory. The President takes the ground that while the government is not bound by treaty or statute to make reparation, it" is morally bound to right the wrong because of the utter failure of the authorities to give the peaceful aliens the protection to which they are entitled. He suggests the granting of ah indemnity to the Chinese sufferers as an act of generosity. Democratic Congressmen have been hold ing a caucus and arranging for the selection of a Democratic congressional campaign committee. ADDiTiONALnominations by the President: To be consuls of the United States?Henry Albert Johnson, of the District of Columbia, at Venice; Mortimer A. Turner, of Arkansas at St. Thomas. uommoaore wiiiiam j IYuxton, to be a rear admiral in the navy\ Elmer Clark Tracy,of New York, to beau assistant surgeon in the navy. Foreign. Count De Lesseps has been on a tour of inspection of his Panama canal. Great distress from famine and fever exists in several villages in Ireland. Many people are ill from lack of food. Many houses in Port Perry-, Canada, have been destroyed by fire. Ths loss is about $100,000. Servia refuses to accept the treaty of peace drafted by Bulgaria. Mrs. Phelps, wife of the United States minister to England, was received in private audience ^by Queen Victoria at Windsor castle. An express train fell forty feet through a bridge near Bellville, Canada. Many pei-sons were injured, four fatally. A Paris dispatch says that M. Pasteur hopes to be able to treat diphtheria an.i other diseases successfully by a method similar to that of his treatment of rabies. wmmltoain. The Cars Ditched and Train Hands Maltreated by Outlaws. An El Paso (Texas) dispatch says: A freight train on the Mexicau Central railroad in charge of Conductor Narl bound north, was ditcherl and robbed at Kilometre, north of San Francisco station. on Tuesday night jby a band of sixty Mexican outlaws. The train consisted of seven cars, which were all ditched. The outlaws first robbed all the train hands, then stripj>ed them of their clothing and *:?.l Knnrla liollinrl thpm nnd ill this tin.1 turn uauu.i condition tbe men -walked into San Fran- | cisco station. No one, however, was | hurt. The cars were broken open and a large amount of freight was taken by the robbers, in search of whom trooj>s are now scouring the country. It is believed that the outrage was committed by the same band which some time ago robbed" a stage in the Stato of Zacatecas. There were in the stage, beside the driver, three men anl one voujig woman, all belonging to the best families of Chihuahua. _ The outlaws robbed tnern ot tueir \ niuouiw and every particle of clothing, aud in that condition allowed them to proceed in the.stage. The robbers, out of consideration for the young woman, pave the people in the stage a sheet which they used in common as a laprobe, and thus made their way to the nearest station. Charlotte Crabtree, better known on the stage as Lott*, is undoubtedly the wealthiest woman in the world who follows the profession of the stage. Most of the money is held in the name of her mother,who has been her manager ever since she first appeared as a little girl in California. They are not far wrong who estimate Lotta's possessions at a good deal over a million dollars. Year after yesr she has earned from $50,000 to $70,000. STRIKING CAR DRIVERS. Unusual Scones of Violence in New York City. An Army of Policemen Aid in Running a Car. Unusual scenes of violence and disorder followed a strike of car-drivers in New York the other day for a reduction in the hours of labor. The company refused the men's demands, but in order to save its charter from being taken away it was obliged to run a^ least one car a day over its route. The attempt to mm this car and the efforts of the strikers and their friends, aided by the Knights of Labor, to prevent the trip from being made, resulted in the police being called out. and much disorder followed. A summary of the trouble is given by a New York paper as follows: Since 4 o'clock on Tuesday inorniug last the employes of the Dry Dock, East Broadw.av nnH Rpfcterv Rfcvppfc Car cnmrmnv?t-.tip company that operates the line on Grand street, from river to river, across the cityhave been on strike. It is the most general of any of the street car strikes in the history of the city. Every employe, outside of the office itself, of the company? from conductors down to water-boy?stopped work at the word, 750 in all. For the two days preceding yesterday the strikers had full possession of the road. On Tuesday a lame attempt w as made to send a car across, but the strikers drove it back into the stables. On Wednesday the company tried to force a way through the obstructions heaped by the strikers upon the tracks, but a thousand men put themselves along the line, overturned the car, and, in spite of the police compelled the company to give up tne effort. Tuesday night there was a conference between State Railroad Commissioner Kernan and the officials of the road. Finally Commissioner Kernan gave it as his ultimatum that the company must run at least one car a day along its line or forfeit its charter. If they were prevented by mob violence from doing so then the city au- i thorities. the company holds, are responsi- j ble for tne failure aad its consequences?including consequential damages. Theappar- i ently bona tide efFort of Wednesday was j frustrated by violence. Yesterday the \ police were massed iu great force along j the line of the road, and one car was run , from the East to the North river and back j again. A hundred or more cars of other \ street lines had been taken from their own , tracks by the strikers, and overturned at in- 1 tervals along the Grand street line: as many mnm t.riir>k-s rlrovs hrfvwarv wncrnns and i carts were likewise used as obstructions, and these, with loads of brick, coal and ashes dumped by the strikers along the line, the police had to remove before the one car could complete its trip. Police Superintendent Murray had a small army of JKK) policemen did the work. Along the street there was a good deal of riotous conduct and the police had to do some clubbing. But there was no serious trouble and no one was seriously hurt. The strikers themselves were not very violent; the immense crowd of idlers and lookers-on was in the main good natured and the police were remarkably cool Dur. determined, Kept wen in hand by the new chief. After the ear had been returned to the stables the many platoons of police were ordered back to their stations,a few only being left to guard the buildings of the railroad company, and the great crowds that had watched the slow procession across the city and back again quietly dispersed. There was no disorder last night. Late in the evening tbe executive board of the Empire Protective associations, which include in their membership practically all the employes of all the street car companies in this city and Brooklyn, and which are assemblies of the workinj^men's organization known as the Knights of Labor, ordered a genenal "lay off" on every railroad in the two cities. This step was taken avowedly with the intention of forcing the Grand street company to ar,cede to the demands of its striking employ?. e,\ The general strike was to begin at 4 o'clock a. m., and after that hour not a street car could be seen in the two cities. . LATER NEWS. Hexry F. Nickerso.v & Co., Boston merchants and steamship agents, have failed, | owing $900,WO. The art event of the season in New York has been the auction sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's paintings. Eighty paintings were sold on the first night of the three days' sale, and they brought $171,20.'), the highest?a' picture by Meissouier?bringing $10,525.' Two traveling hucksters?John Miller and Joseph Dunkfeller?were found frozen to death in their wagon near West Milton, Penn. William HrooiNS, who died a few days since at Tamaqua, Penn., in his eightysixth year, was the first locomotive fireman in America. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Collector Hedden, of New York. * The Chinese claim for indemnity for losses to their people at the Rock Springs massacre, in Wyoming Territory, last September, foots up over $147,000. Mils. Hawley, wife of United State*; Sen ator Hawley, died the other night in Wash, ingtou after a short illness. A rich vein of coal has just been discovered at Bloomington, 111. The British government has notified Lord Dufferin to definitely annex Burmali. Fifteen socialists have been sentenced at Padua, Italy, to ten months' imprisonment for trviux to incite the populace to civil war. The manufacturers of Rhode Island hav0 combined and subscribed a fund of $1,000,000 to fight the labor organizations. Two members of the Kentucky legislature, one of whom had obtained a pistol, became so belligerent on the floor of the House that the Speaker caused their arrest. The Chinese are beginning to leave the ^ ^ 1 4fu\ "West in large numbers, uue nau-n ol j,-* sailed the other day from Sau Francisco for China, and many hundreds are entering the Southwest The President has nominated James C. Matthews (colored) of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, vice Frederick Douglass resigned. Goodbody's tobacco factory, Tullamore, Kings County, Ireland, has been destroyed by tire. Loss. $401),<100. The first tilt between the Gladstone government and its opponents in the British house of commons ha.s remlted iu a victory for the former, owing to the votes of the Irish home rule members. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Jennie Lind is announced to appear in concert next season. United States Senator Hawley is said to play very well on the piano. Henry Irving prefers the Bible and 8hakespeare to all other books. Carlotta Patti will presently give up singing and go to Florence to live. John Owens, the famous comedian, who has been so long an invalid, is slowly convalescing. * Minnie Maddern, the actress, has taken to wi lting tor w estern magazines, in auuition to her dramatic duties. Ellen Terry, the English actress, gets $375 a weak fifty-two weeks of the year, with a vacation whenever she chooses. Lor*sa M. Alcott,author of ''Little Men, Little Women" and the rest of a popular series of books, is reported at work on a comedy. The law and order league, of Cincinnati, has finally triumphed over Sunday theatricals. A vigorous war on the concert halls has begun. Miss May Tift, the daughter of a New York banker, has made a brilliant success at private soirees in Paris, and has been offered i an engagement at her majesty's theatre in London. SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS Senate Sessions. Forty-fifth Day.?Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, addressed the Senate on the bill recently introduced by him to provide for the abrogation of all treaties permitting the emigra tion of Chinese to the U nited States.... Consideration of the educational bill was resumed, Mr. Allison speaking in favor of his amendment, to the effe'/t that where separate white and colored schools exist the money should be paid out for the support of such white and colored schools "in the proportion that the illiteracy of the white and colored pei-sons aforesaid bear to each other as shown by the census." Mr. Miller (N. Y.) also spoke in favor of the bill. Executive session. Forty-sixth Day?Mr. Pugh,of Alabama, submitted the minority report of the judiciary committee on the Duskin case, involving the question concerning nominatioas at issue between the President and the Senate. The report was not read in the Senate,but was ordered printed and placed on the calendar. It upholds the President's right to refuse to furnish private papers relating to suspensions from office.... Mr. Blair introduced a bill to legalize the incorporation of national trades unions. Executive session. Forty-seventh Day.?Mr. Hoar presented a petition from workingmen in the government workshops since the enactment of the eight-hour law,1 asking compensation for overtime or a reference of their claims to on ma nnmrmhuit f-rihnnnl MV Hflftr favored the petition, and it was appropriately referred Mr. Edmunds from the judiciary committee, reported adversely the bill providing for the collection of marriage and divorce statistics. The bill was indefinitely postponed....Mr. Van Wyck, from the pensions committee, reported with an amendment the House bill to increase pensions to widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors. The amendment provides for the increase of pensions to minor children from <2 ?the amount fixed in the House bill?to $4 per month. Mr. Van Wyck said he would ask an early consideration of the bill, and said he would ask the Senate to make further increases to cmiaren. jar. .Logan iavorea the bill and amendments, but thought some of them should be in a new bill. Placed on the calendar... .The consideration of the .Educational bill occupied the session until 6 p. it, when the Senate adjourned. Forty-eighth Day.?The Education bill ?ras taken up. and Mr. Harrison spoke in idvocacy of the bill and in opposition to Mi*. Allison's amendment. Mr. Eamunds offered the following as a substitute for Mr. Allisjn's amendment: "And in each State and Territory in which there shall be saparate schools for whitte and colored children the money Eaid in such State or Territory shall e apportioned and paid out for the support of such white aud colored schools respectively, in the proportion that the white and colored children between the ages of ten and twenty-one years in such State or Territory bear to each other, as shown by the census of 1880. The foregoing provision shall not affect the application of tne proper proportion of said money to the support of all common schools wherein no distinction of race or color shall exist." ^J on ornrtimonf ir? ULl . UUU1ULLUS bUOU mwic uu un^uiuvuw favor of the constitutionality of the bill. Mr. Blair was willing to accept Mr. Edmunds' substitute, and it was agreed to. Mr. Dolph moved an amendment tliat the bill shall not take effect until two-thirds of the States shall have accepted its provisions. On a viva voce vote it was rejected....Mr. Evarts presented petitions of officers and trustees of savings banks of New York State representing 1,165,000 depositors and $437,000,000 of deposits in favor of suspension of silver coinage. Referred to the finance committee. Executive RAosinn. Fortv-mnth Day.?Mr. Sewell, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably the House bill for the relief of General Fitz John Porter, with a report giving the views of the majority of the committee. Mr. Sewell added that Mr. Logan would, later, submit the views of the minority Discus <ion of the education bill was resumed. Mr. Logan offered . au appropriating $2.000,000 to aid in building school houses in communities of sparse population, among people who would find it comparatively difficult to erect school houses. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Piatt, the Senate a ljourned to give Senators an opportunity to express their sympathy with Senator Hawley in his sad affliction, the deuth of his wife, by attendinT the funeral service*. House Sessions. Forty-ninth Day.?Mr. Morrison, from the committee on rubs, reported a substitute for the Hanback and Pulitzer resolutions directing an inquiry into the Pan-Electric telephone matter. The substitute is as follows: Resolved, That a select committee, consisting of nine members of this Housi, be appointed, and when so appointed the committee is hereby directed at as an early a day as possible to make inquiry into any expenditure on the part of the government incurred relative to the rights of the .Bell ana .fan-.Electric ieiepnone companies to the priority of patents, said inquiry to include all organizations and companies that have sprung out of the Pan-Electric Telephone compan v, or for any other purpose, and also to make full inquiry into the issuance of stock known as the Pan-Electric Telephone stock, or any stock of any other company, companies or organizations springing out of the ran-Electric Telephone company, to any person or persons connected with either the legislative, judicial or executive departments of the government of the United States; to whom, when, where, and for what consideration in money or influence said stock was delivered; also as to what opinions, decisions and orders have been made by any officers connected with the government, and* by whom, and all the circumstance? connected therewith and arising therefrom. And the said committee is further authorized and directed to ascertain and report whether either of the telephone companies herein mentioned, or their officers, agents and employes have in any manner improperly influenced or attempted to influence officials or official action by or through the public press, and. if so, when, by whom and in what manner such influence wa? exerted, or attempted to be exerted, and what newspaper or newspapers were so used or attempted to be used by them. The said committee shall have the right to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to sit during the j session of the House, to employ a stenographer and incur any and all such necessary and reasonable expenses as may be required for the purpose of conducting the said investigation, not to exceed the sum of $1,000, which shall be paid out of the contingent I fund of the House upon proper vouchers certified by the chairman and one other member of the committee, and mav report at any time. The resolution was approved by Mr. Gibson, (W. Va.) on the ground that no specific charges had been made in the resolution and that an investigation brought no good to auy one. The resolution was passed without a vote Mr. Byrnes, of Missouri, ironi tne coiimuiu^ uu appi v|/i lamvuoj * v ported the immediate deficiency bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The speaker then proceeded to call the committees for reports.... At the night session the House passed twenty-eight pension bills, and at 9:30 p. m. adiourned. Fiftieth Day.?The House discussed silver. Mr. Clements (Ga.) thought the true test of the value of silver was its purchasing capacity. Mr. Jones (Tex.) advocated free coinage. Mr. Perkins (Kan) opposed the suspension of silver coinage and denounced the demonetization of silver. The speaker also attacked the part of the administration in relation to appointments, naval and interior affairs Mr. Evans, (Peun.) said that for every silver dollar in the pocket the people mid twenty cents profit to the government. Tho truth "of the claim that plenty of money would benefit the labor- I 4"" 1 ? ?4-kev 1-in/l nf mnnov" t jug Classes ueptuiuou wo n.>uu vi ...v^vj , cheap money Denefited no one. Fifty-first Day. ? Mr. Butterworth (Ohio) introduced a bill to create a department of iudu.stry and a bureau of labor? Mr. Springer (111.) introduced a resolution directing t(ie committee on expenditures in the fi/innt.^nionf. *-/-> invAvf.iVfltfl the exoen 4UM:ilUI uuiuuu w . w.'..p ? 4 ditures aud management of the pension bu- I reau during the present and previous admin | istrations, and also to ascertain what founda- I tion there is for the statement in the annual report of Commissioner Black, in reference to iwirtisan management a?d extravagance of that bureau during the term of office of his predecessor. Fifty-second Day.?Mr. Morrill (Kan.) from the committee on invalid j>ensions, reported a bill extending to July 1. 1S88, the time within which applications for arrears of pensions may be Hied, and providing that the fact of enlistment be accepted as - * ? Rrt. prima iacie evidence ui wmimu^.. ferred to committee of the whole Mr. Belmont, from the committee on foreign affairs, submitted to the House the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, with an accompanying report. The amount appropriated is #1,280,415.... Discussion of the pension appropriation bill was resumed. i Fifty-third Day.?The speaker laid before the House the President's message on the Chinese troubles. Referred to the committee on foreign affairs. Mr. Hatch of Missouri, from the committe3 on agriculture, . reported a bill to establish agricultural experimental stations in connection with colleges established in the several states. Committee of the whole. Mr. Weaver of Iowa, from committee on expenditures in the interior department reported a resolu- 1 tion directing that committee to inquire into certain charges of extravagance and mismanagement of the pension oureau prior to General Black's administration....Mr.Bragg (Wis.) reported the army appropriation bill from the military committee, and it was referred to committee of the whole.... The pension appropriation bill was dismissed. Fifty-fourth Day.?After a hot discussion the pension appropriation bill waspassed ?yeas, 541; nays, 1. Mr. Bennett (N.C.) cast the only dissenting vote....The Speaker announced the special committee 1 'to investigate the fact concerning the ownership of PanElectric telephone stock by certain public officers'' as follows: Messrs. Boyle, Oates, Eden, Hale, Ranney, Millard, Hanback and Moffatt. DEATH ON THE RAIL. Three Successive Accidents to Trains in Maine. Fatal Catastrophes Resulting From Heavy Snow Drifts. * >"> a1 j \ j." OA ootto. A rurutuiu uispau.u vi uw ?u n>jm The heavy snow drifts caused no le3s than three accidents to snow plow this morning, involving the death of three men and the injuring of four others. The names of the unfortunate are: N. D. Martin, fireman; James Smith, laborer; Thomas Shed wick, laborer; L. "W. Philbrick, fireman; John Kilpatrick, laborer; Ly don, laborer; Robert Stimson, engineer. The three first were killed. The train known as the "snow plow special" left Portland at 1 o'clock, consisting of a snow plow, two engines, a scraper and a conductors van, in charge of A. E. Hanson, conductor. The train was run to within one mile above Bryant's Pond, where a side drift was met about eight feet deep. It was so hard that it crowded the plough against the outer rail, throwing it across the track by the spreading of the rails. This caused the enfine to jump the embankment, about six feet igh, into a ditch, striking on its side. Engineer F. 0. Mitchell stuck nis hand out of tne winHow Rnd hftld on to the cab when he went down, thus escaping injury. Fireman N. D. Martin, in the act of jumping, was struck in the middle of the back. His hip was dislocated and other serious injuries inflicted. When told that he could live but a short time he said, "I want to see mother." This was an impossibility, as he was too near his end. He then said, "Tellher lam not afraid to die." A little later he said; "I am | willing and anxious to die," but his suffering became so great at last that he begged the doctor to give him something to take away his senses and let him die quickly. He lived until tarty minutes past 11 o'clock, retaining his mind fully to the last. Just before ne died he asked, "Were any of the boys hurt?" and then remarking, "I want to sea mother," he passed away. Fireman L. W. Philbrick, of engine IS, . that was just behind the engine (312) that went over the embankment, crawled under the engine through steam and hot water to the side of Martin and Ill tea Dim out iruiu uuuer CUB tvieun, irueic he must have been tortured beyond description had he remained. Philbrick hud scarcely got Martin out when he fell senseless by Ms side. The cold was most Intense, and the garments of both were froze on them. Philbnck was taken to the saloon car and thence to Bryant's Pond with Martin. He was unconscious most of the time until to-night, when he revived, and will live. The wreck plow special left Island Pond yesterday noon, commg this way to clear the track, with the Montreal passenger behind it. The train consisted of a flange, a wind plow, two engines and a J conductor's van. A crossing caused tha plow to jump the track, and, striking a large rock, it turned bottom up. The plow had in it at the time eight men. James Smith, from Island Pond, had an inch bolt driven into his forehead and was killed. John Kilpatrick, from Island Pond, was injured about the head and shoulders. Thomas Shedwick. also from Island Pond, was injured internally and died at 3 o'clock. Lydon, from Gorham, N. H., was badly hurt about the head. Another snow plow train on the Grand Trunk, in charge of Engineer Robert Stimson, was at Pleasant river this morning when the engine left the track. Stimson jumped, as he supposed the engine was going over the embankment, and was struck by the second eDgiue just behind his. He was badly bruised and cut, but may probably live. EXPELLING THE CHINESE. The Celestials Being Driven out o! California by Force. The expulsion of the Chinese from the Pa ciflc slope continues and seems to gaiu strength daily. A San Francisco dispatch says: While comparative quiet has returned to Washington Territory and Oregon the antiChinese movement shows an increased activPIaca nn i nf t.hfl I by 1X1 L'Q.lllUl Iiia> vivov vu iu?/ uvvo/ - expulsion of Chinamen at Nicolaus has come equally determined work by a masked gang in Yuba county. In the dead of the night thirty men from Wheatland, with masks over their fa_'es, broke into a house where eleven Chinese hop pickers were asleep. They marched them to another ranch, when a second house was broken into and the Chinese dragged out. They then proceeded to a third ranch, took several more Chinamen from their cabins and then walked all their captives into Wheatland and turned them loose. To emphasize its sentiments the mob severely pummelled an old Chinamau over the head with a revolver and made a bonfire of all the cabins. For a long time the movement was confined to the northern and middle parts of the State, but it has now spread south and reached San Diego. At Chico a blackboard has been erected on the principal - street, wnereon are msuiuou names of those refusing to discharge the Chinese. At Red Bluff over a thousand names have been pledged to th? boycott. The Stockton hotel and restaurant i men agreed to send away all Chinese help and an outbreak is to be expected at PetaTuma Calusa, Rocklra, Spanishtown, Martinez, Nevada City, Pentz, Cherokee Flat and Grass Valley have organized boycotting clubs and passed pledges. These are nearly of the same character, the following being a representative example?"Believing it to be the duty of all citizens who desire good to their country to use all moral, civil and rightful power to drive the Chinese from this coast, we therefore pledge our honor and integrity not to encourage the Chinese among us by patronizing or giving them work or employment in any capacity whatsoever, or by purchasing or buying any goods, wares or articles, mermnmifnrt.nrpd or Droduced in LuajivAiovj ?? _ . A whole or in part by Chinese labor performed in the United States or bv patronizing Chinese laundries or Chinese laundry wort" "KTT.T.Tm OB TTJ.TTTRjRD. Fatalities During the Recent Heavy Wind Storm. Cornelius Coughlin, a brakeman, while shifting cars on the Boston and Lowell Rail road, near Craigies Bridge, Mass., was blown from the top of a car into the Charles river and drowned. At Lawrence, Mass., Edward Luscomb died the other morning from in juries received by being blown from a milk wagon. At Salem, Mass., two girls were thrown down b3r the wind, one of them being badly hurt. Evcrard Russ, a custom house clerk at Portland, Me., was blown from the platform of a Maine Central train an d thrown down an embankment, receiving severe injuries. Charles McGinley, of Easton, Penn., an engineer on the Lehigh and Susquehanna road, was instantly killed near Treichler's station, JPenn. rne storm oiew aown a n ee, which fell on the cab, smashing it and crushing McGinley. Archibald Meyers was frozen to death while walking from Newburg, N. Y., to Montgomery. The Long Island sound steamer Idlewild was blown ashore during the heavy gale. One of the steamer's lifeboats containing eight meu who had started to row ashore could not be found, and ft was believed all on board had perished. ..-v.*-. ,x v?' if > IRECK1D OH i EE?;. V-Loss of the Steamer Saxon During a Heavy Storm. The Captain and Five of the Crew . . Lose their Lives. """ The Cunard steamer Beta arrived at Hallfax the other morning from Jamaica, Turk's Island, and Bermuda, after a very stormy passage. She brought from Turk's Island the second engineer and seven men belong" ing to the steamer Saxon, which was wrecked at Birche's Lookout Reef, Caicoe passage, on the 4th ult, the captain and flva men being lost. Charles J. Mason, second '?. engineer of the unfortunate ship, who belongs to Halifax, furnishes the following particulars of the disaster: # The Saxon, Captain Wynian, left New York on January "i9 for Cape Haytien with an assorted cargo. Hie first three days out the weather was very stormy, with head winds. On the night of Thursday, February 4, at 8 p. k., the snip struck the reef off toil , Caicos, (Birche's Lookout,) the weather at tb? time being moderate. The engines were immediately reversed and kept at full speed all night. At daylight on Friday the crew commenced throwing over the cargo, which was accomplished before night. At nine P, X. Friday, with heavy sea on, the engines be] came useless rrom me vessel oreaicmg in two. The boat which had been launched was swamped alongside, when the second mate and the cook were drowned. At this. time, ten p.. jl, the first and second engineers, two firemen, and two sailors left for the shore in a small boat, leav* ing the captain, mate, steward, three sailors and one fireman on board. Two of the men who remained on the steamer subsequently "> jumped into the sea, and with the assistance of a plank managed to reach a schooner near by, from which they were afterward trans- . . f erred to shore by a boat. During the night the mate (the captain's son) jumped overboard and attempted to swim ashore and was drowned. Shortly after this the steward became crazed and jumped overboard and was lost, while one of the sailors'; * was washed overboard and also drowned. The captain became delirious and soon died, leaving only the fireman of all who remained on , the ship. On Monday morning the wreck was bearded by the schooner, who rescued the fireman and took the captain to West Caicos, where it was buried near the shore. A Turk's Island paper in speaking of the affair says: "We learn from several sources that Constable Dean and others did their best to persuade the captain to leave the vessel, knowing the dangerous position she was in, but their efforts were of no avail. All ' that is known of what took place after the chief engineer left is taken from the statement of the fireman who was rescued from the wreck. A portion of the cargo has been saved in a damaged condition and will ortl/1 #/vr +b& Koneflt nt all mnfftrnftd." ug JVAU i.VA VMV v? ?? ? ? ? ). HANCOCK'S SUCCESSOR. _ ?_ ; \9 ' Brigadier-Geueral Alfred H. Terry Nominated. The President on the 3d sent to the Senate the name of Brigadier-General Alfred H. Terry to be major-general, vice Winfield Scott Hancock, deceased. Geneal Terry was born at Hartford; Conn., November 10r 1827, and was educated at Yale. He afterward studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. Prom June, 1854, to J woe, 1860, he was clerk in the New Haven county cowts. He commanded the New Haven /?r*iTifir Rtwmrl and in Anril. 1881. led it to the field, serving at Bull Eon, retiring in good order when the day was lost, bring up in the rear and thus saving a large amount of government property. fie then raised the Seventh Connecticut regiment, which was attached to the expedition under General Sherman. On November 7, it occupied Hilton Head, and was employed in the investment of Fort Pulaski, and on its capture was placed in charge of it. . During toe summer of 18(32 he had command of the ports and forts on the Atlantic coast of Florida. He was made brigadier-general on March 24, 1862, and led a brigade m the bat* tie of Pocotaligo. Later on ne commanded a division of the tenth corps, and was engaged in the operations in Charleston harbor, also, in the * army of the' James, and was engaged at Drury's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, Deep Bottom, siege of Petersburg, actions of Newmarket and Williamsburg road. On January 15,1865, he was placed at the head of the first division, twenty-fourth corps, and, aided by the fleet of Commander Porter, earned Tfnrt liScW Kit- noniill' Hb was breveted major-general after the capture of Wilmington, N. C., and at present is in command of the department of Dakota, division of Missouri ? NEWSY GLEANINGS. There are thirty colored students in th* Freshman class at Yale. ' Italy has three ^jcomotive factories and three railway repair shops. Massachusetts sharpshooters are to set up a granite shaft at Gettysburg. So scarce have wild elephants become in India that they are now protected by law. As many as six hundred standard English works have been translated into Chinese. In Levi county, Florida, strawberries ar? ripe, and peaches are as big as hickory nuts. tctt* ivmnio nf tViic cnimtrv raid IastTvear JIX1A V* n.w mm more than $9,000,000 for imported precious stones. South Carolina produced last year 409,103 tons of phosphate of lime, valued at 12,659,169. The little town of Searsport, Maine, boast? of 131 sea captains among ;ts population, or one to every three voters. The Pillsbury flouring mills at Minneapolis, divided $35,000 surplus profits among 1,100 employes last Year. There has been more snow the past winter in London than for fourteen years, and there is great distress in consequence. Petaluma, Cal., has two Chinese farmers. One has 150 acres under cultivation and the other 100 acres. They are very successful grangers. There are 150,000,000 tons of coal waste piled up in the anthracite coal regions,which, under a lately discovered process, is now being utilized. The fossil remains of an archaeopteryx,tbe oldest known bird, which seems to form the connecting link between birds and reptiles, has just been sold to the Berlin museum for $5,000. Last year nearly one hundred and fifty mills were erected "in the Southern States, Kentucky leading with thirty-one; Tennessee, twenty-four; Virginia, twenty; Texas, eighteen; Georgia, seventeen, and North Carolina, ten. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The second volume of Mr. Blaine's "Tvrenty Years in Congress'1 has jusc been issued. Edison, the inventor, took his second wife, the daughter of an Ohio millionaire, a few days since. Not less than seven German generals will complete their fiftieth year of active service during 1880. The widow of General Santa Anna is in Mexico, spending her declining years in a rocking chair, smoking cigarettes. Thomas P. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is ninety-four years of age and blind. Parnell's friends say that the Irish leader is absolutely penniless, having given away all his cash ami realty to the Irish cause. Whittier, the poet, is color blind. Ha says that yellow is his favorite color because this is the ouly one he can distinguish. Miss Lydia Bull, of St. Louis, has been appointed stenographer to Attorney-General Garland. She Is the niece of his deceased wife. The widow of ex-Governor John Hubbard, of Maine, still lives in Hallowell in the same house where he died seventeen years ago. She is ninety years old. Captain Boycott, whose experiences originated the term "boycotting," has been appointed agent lor the Flixton Hall estate* of Lord AVaveney, in Suffolk, England. [ IW1MI