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At every session of Congress the United | ft.itcs government publishes more liter- j a tare of one kind and another than an j average lifetime of reading could master. The most of it is used for trunk lining or reconversion into paper stock. The woman question is looming up even in China. Formerly no Chinese lady who valued her reputation allowed herself to be seen in rmblic at all, but " " X now ladies are to be met with in theatres and all other places of public resort. This exercise of -vornan's rights, however, excites the hostility of lovers of the old customs, and the governor of Pekin is endeavoring to put a stop to the alarming innovation. A Pennsylvania nursery-man declares that he can grow apples without cores. First off, says Harper's Weekly, that may seem to be worth while, but on reflection it will be foui?d to be a scheme full of disadvantage. All that would be wrong about a coreicss apple it might be tedious to rehearse, but let it not be torgotten that opportunity for the exhibition of one of the most beautiful and most common forms of human generosity would be lost in case apples had no cores: the world would be without the most usual offering which it is the boy's pleasure to lay before his friend. The New York police justices report that last year there were 75,042 arrests made, of which number 64,350 were males and 20,692 females, the usual proportion. Of these 53,683 were held for trial and 108 cases are still pending. The rest were discharged as innocent. The justices in their prefatory remarks complain that there has been little or no improvements in public morals during the past year. "It is the same sad "> story," to quote their words, "again . repeated, of misery and suffering wmcn ever attends crime, and emphasized by the aggregation of figures suggestive of i/- its extent." There is no such word as diamond known in the trade for the article in nature. The word used for diamonds is bort. It is a Dutch word. The rough diamond looks like a piece of alum with a little glazing about it. It is harder on the outside than within, and seems to have a core like a knot in a piece of very fine wood, which is softer than the out circles of the wood. Sometimes it is impossible to cut a diamond of great prom- 1 ise because there is a hard place within it. The art of cutting the diamond is \ ? one of long practice, and requires the exercise of economy and taste as well as mechanism. By the new process of toughening timber, it is claimed that the effect produced upon whitewood is such that a cold chisel is required in order to split it. This result is accomplished by a special niethod of steaming the timber and submitting it to end pressure, technically i "upsetting it." By this means the cells i and fibres are compressed into one com- 1 pact mass; and it is the opinion of i those who have experimented with the i process that wood can be compressed to ' Ae extent of 75 per cent., and that some i vv? of the timber now considered unfit for use in such work as carriage building, fpr instrnce, can be made valuable by this means as a substitute for ash, hickorv. etc. The Hon. Hamilton Fish, a member of the Grant memorial committee of New York city, thinks that a million of dollars is too large a sum to raise, and that the hundred and odd thousand dollars already obtained will suffice to erect a suitable monument. Senator Hoar's bill for a national monument to General Grant at Washington appropriates only $250,000. "It seems tome," he said in his speech to the Senate, "that we must take the thing as settled by the general judgment of mankind that civilized nations are wanting in due and decent honor for their great benefactors, unless by monument or statuary, or in some other public -way they put up in their public places the tokens of their regard." "What is the natural term of a carp's iife? The question is suggested by the announcement by the Berlin papers that a fish of this kind has been taken from the Spree at the age of 2G8 years. Some days ago a fisher was plying his vocation when, like his olden predecessors, he was favored with a mighty draught. His catch consisted of a carp beneath whose mouth * a ring was found attached. Scratches upon the ring, we are told? make it clear that the fish was placed in wn.ti?r in thf? rear nr noorW and three-quarters centuries ago. This venerable inhabitant of the Spree weighed thirty-six pounds, and measured & hundred centimeters in length and *eventy-cight centimeters in circumfer?nCe' The American birds will feel an unwonted security this summer on account of the efforts made for their protection. *'Perhaps the most sensible move made against the slaughter of birds for millinery purposes," asserts the Boston Traveler, "has been started by the Ornithologists' Union, which has organized a committee on the protection of North American birds for the purpose of obtaining statistics and facts on the subject as well rp-U * m no wi /l n V?1 n HB lu U^ILULC. JIUM 13 tULUIUCUUilUlt;, | Before denouncing every hat trimmed i with feathers it will be well to investigate whether the birds are in reality American songsters or are not charming imitations manufactured from the plum age of the American hen. Most of the gorgeous real birds in the millinery trade are imported from South America and -other tropical countries, and their feaihers are wrought into many different shapes by skillful designers. But there is nothing more highly appreciated i? millinery than the American cock." A Chautauqua county (N. Y.) cheese--' maker went to Buffalo lately and brought home a fine imported Swiss cheese. All praised it but his wife, who, after r the praise had ceased, said she had found her husband's private mark on the cheese. He had paid thirty-three cents a pound for the very cheese he had made and soli J for six cents. Tn \Tr>tit "\rnvi/>a rnV? ot*a oVi orn Vftnf A" -LI V/H UUtiU mv uv^/v away from habitations, it is always the 3 custom to have many goats with the ewes 1 and billy-goats with the rams. They are fine guides, protect the herd against dogs and coyotes, and give the herders a i Ettle milk for their coffee. But around j towns or fields, especially in the neigh- ? borhood of orchards or planted fields, the f goats are a nuisance. They not only 1 jump fences themselves, but also teach ] the sheep to do likewise. ? _______ J. The statement is made in some Euro- * pean papers to the effect that the Russian c Alisma, or water plantain, is a remedy t for hydrophobia. The roots are collected a in August, dried, grated and spread on 1 bread and butter. Two or three doses -v are taken in this manner, night and ^ morning, and a cure is supposed to be t effected. The efficacy attributed to this h remedy is wholly imaginary. The Alis- v ma family is a group of aquatic plants, which grows in still water, with tapering t leaves resembling those of plantain, and ? rather handsome flowers. Twenty years h ago Rev. C. A. Johns, an accomplished h English botanist, wrote of this plant: t "The solid part of the root contains u farinaceous matter, and, when deprived a of its acrid properties by drying, is eaten b by the Kalmucks. From some fanciful i ? ? ^ ^iaAAMa VI IlUilOU UlUb LUC ll'UUUl UiOUMtj ?x\\*M.ss- ^ phobia, could be counteracted by water plants, Alisma was idly pitched on as a h specific by empiries, but it is now no tl longer in repute." ? Much interest has been excited in rail- P way circles at the West during the past a winter by the performances of the new Leslie rotary steam snow shovel, on the c Chicago and Northwestern Railroad a company's lines. The head of this ma- b chine is provided with angular cutting * Marlrxj whiVh rot.atfi with enormous u velocity and cut and loosen the snow, y which then passes behind the blades, c, where it is received on the flat spokes of & ? another wheel, turning in a contrary a direction, and is thereby thrown out side- ? wise from the machine with tremendous h power. The snow is delivered in the ^ form of a great stream, forming an arch ei through the air, and strikes the ground v at a distance of from one to two hundred t< feet from the track. The machine, when ' n in operation, is said to be a wonderful t: sight to behold. It is mounted on a ? special car, which also carries an engine I for driving the mechanism. During the j heavy snow storms, when tracks were r blockaded with from three to ten feet of ? snow, packed so hard that the ordinary slow plows would make no impression oil it, and could not have been cleared cxcept by hand shoveling, involving i several days' delay, this machine went through some of the worgt drifts at the rate of a mile an hour, and through the n resstfr drifts at much faster speed. u v Hu-Tow-Tai, a great Chinese specula- ii tor, and probaly the richcst merchant in the empire, died recently at Hang Chow, a His progress through life may have' been ? as prosy and uninteresting as that of any b other common millionaire, but his funeral " g was the loudest and one of the grandest p on record. At the head of the proces- ? sion a number of coolies trudged along v carrying little scraps of paper upon which short sentences full of wisdom and sound advice were traced in pencil. Then fol- P> lowed a crowd of lantern bearers, the o lanterns fastened at the end of long tj bamboo canes. After them came a small a army of musicians with gongs, symbals ^ and trumpets, making noise enough to l> scare the sulphur and brimstone out of p all the wicked spirits within range. Next came a few hundred little boys, each | holding in his hand some weapon of f< strange form intended for the slaughter g nf pvil-disnosed devils. The bearers of s1 the family tablets with the names of the 0i ancestors of the deceased marched after tl the boys. Next in the procession, altars on wheels appeared loaded with choice fruits, the last one bearing the portrait of the deceased. After these altars, two groups of priests presented themselves, the first dressed in white robes, richly embroidered, and the second in scarlet H and yellow. Between these two groups tc there was a crowd bearing lanterns, flagsv ^ parasols and fans, together with all sorts of queer things. The master of cere- m monies rode on horsebaek, and was jjj dressed from head to foot In white, the ai Chinese mourning. Behind him was a bj i ?i?j. j i i. tj large wuLiie tciit uuincu aiuug uj on vug men, and in this the relatives concealed ^ their woe. At last the coffin came in se sight mounted upen a magnificent hearse ^ ornamented in the most gorgeous style, ! R j C( and borne along upon the shoulders of tl twenty-five men. A large number of si mandarins dressed in their official robes, j ^ and carried in Japanese chairs, closed the j " procession. j The Shriek of the Guillotined. The "Mikado's" lord high executioner ! sings: "Oh, never shall I forget the cry, I or the shriek that shrieked he, as the j * sabre true cut cleanly through his cervi- j cal vertabr?." Nicholas Gurnot was a guillotined at Mczieres, in France, recently. As the sabre true cut cleanly j r through his cervical vertabrae he uttered j a terrible cry. The executioner says it p was the most appalling shriek he ever ' Ci heard on the scaffold. In 1871 at Le ; ]\Ians the victim gave a shriek that froze n the blood of those within hearing, but i d the cry of Gurnot is on record as being, | next to that of Nanki-Po, the most ? bloodcurdling one on ' record.?Detroit P Free Press. , n Paper slippers are a novelty in the j * world of invention. | Ti I si * SMG M TB1ES. fhree Desperadoes Summarily lieait with in Indiana, i i Father, Brother and Son's Murderous Career. Three leaders of a gang of desperadoes in Martin county, Ind., have just received sumnary punishment at the hands of a midnight >andof lynchers. Details of the affair are ts follows: Precisely at 11:30 o'clock a vigilance comnittee of about 100, composed of men from tfartin and Orange counties, surrounded the [ail at Shoals. The lynchers were very quiet ind orderly, and the sheriff was first j iroused by the barking of his dog, ollowed by a knock on the door. : le asked who was there, and the answer vas a crashing in of the front door, folowed by heavy blows which completely lemolished it. The mob then went to the ail door and knocked off the lock and were lismayed to find another which would lot yield to blows. After about wenty minutes a man in the :i owd was fou#d who understood opening he cell door. It yielded to his efforts .nd the lynchers rushed in and grabbed ,11 three of the intended victims, Thomas, ' lartin, and John Archer, the latter the on of Thomas, the ringleaders of 1 vhat is known as the Archer gang. ?he mob was provided with thj necessary ools, both to get in and to capture them if hey made any resistance. Several of them tad long iron hooks with which to grab the prisoners around the neck if they resisted without endangering their own lives. When the Archer gang saw the lynchers i hey offered no resistence, and when asked if hey had anything to say they refused to peak. Their hands were tied behind their tacks, and they were taken over to the court louse yard. They were again asked if they iad any confession to make, ana, j till no reply being given by any of them hey were unceremoniously strung p to young maple trees. Tom Archer, the ] ldest one of the gang, about sixty years of j ge, was hanged first. Martin Archer, rather to Tom, aged about forty-five years, r-as suspended next. John Archer, son of 'om Archer, who was about thirty years old, ras hanged to a tree with his hands tied be- , ma mm, aoouc cmrty ieec irom nis iauier. ( The crimes for which the three men were anged comprise almost everything in the riminal calendar from murder tD petty 1 bieving. For twenty-five years they had een a reigning terror, botn in Martin and )range counties, and had terrorized the 1 ommunity in which ftiey lived until the eople did not know when they went ? bed at night whether they would he murered before morning or their houses burned own. They never failed to visit vengeance | or a fancied slight, and many a farmer in Grange and Martin counties has lost consider- \ ble sums of money by daring robbery, the heft of cattle, or" the burning down of , arns and houses. Martin Archer had , family living in Southwest Town- J hip, Orange county. who are fell thought of. Two of nis children are UUiig muics wrawmuji otuwi m uuau ocvviv/u f the country. Ola Tom Arqjier, as he was ; ailed, lived in Martin county, Columbia jwnship, and had a large family, every one f whom are under indictments for larceny, rson and murder, and bear a bad name enerally. John Archer formerly lived 1 Columbia township, and in the past year i ad been living seven miles east of Vincenues, 1 rhere he was captured two months go and brought to Snoals by Sheriff Padg- 1 fct. The chief cause for their being hanged ras the confession of John Lynch, another lember of the gang, who is in the Washingan (Daviess county) jail. He made a con- , ession and told where the bones of a man amed Bunch, one of the vicims, were. They were found in two differ nt graves, the body having been cut lengthwise, and each piece being buried separate, t seems that unknown parties followed the fficials when they went to the place where lunch was buried and saw them exhume the emains. Word was immediately spread ver the country, and the vigilants prepared hemselves accordingly. EXTENSIVE STRIKES. 'wenty Thousand Coal Miners and Railroad Men Quit Work. An extensive strike of the coal miners of le soft coal districts of the East was inaugu- ' ited on the 8th for the uniform scale of ages adopted at the Cumberland conen tion of February" 19. The scale lvolves a general advance of ten cents per >n. In the district are 10,000 miners. SecBtary Davis, of the Miners' Amalgamated ssociation, says: "The men may not couio* at to a man at the start, but the feeling cfnAn rv f> % ncn f Ua cf f . > ouiAiViouuij atiuug ?.v i/uc oiuac uv.' ecprae geueraJ in a few days." The present ; especially noteworthy as being the first eneral demand by all the districts com- ! eting in the Eastern market for an advance f wages, and also as the first effort to carry 1 ut the principle laid down by the joint conentions of operator and miners at Colum- 1 us, Ohio, the establishment of relatively niform rates in competing districts. ; At Irwins, Penn., the 2,200 miners emloyed in the mines of the Penn Gas and 1 Westmoreland County Coal companies came ut for the increase. In compliance with the order of the execuve committee of the Federation of Miuers ud Mine Laborers, which organization iniudes all the employes in the several bitu- y linous coal regions, the 5,000 miners and la- j orers in the Cumberland (Md.) region struck ] Ji an an uuvaui'B iroiii luruy 10 iuty cents j er ton. < A St. Louis dispatch savs that the strike of ( part of the Knights of Labor on the Gould 1 outhwestern system of railways has been ( )llowed by a general suspension of work by Inights until the number reached between , ,000 and 10,000, and included shopmen, ; pitchmen, trainmen, brakemen and firemen. : Many other strikes and boycotts in vari- * us sections of the country, generally under le direction of the Knights of Labor, are lso announced. AN EDITOR'S SHOTGUN. axttuv snooting inree men ano Fleeing on Horseback. i At Kingston, Texas, a few days ago, W. B. { oward, editor of the Hunt County Chron- , le, shot City Marshal A. R. Russell, oward fired both barrels of a otgun, and stray shots struck spectator named Overholt and a boy j lined Kirkpatrick. Howard immediately ] ed on horseback and was pursued half an 1 our later by the sheriff. Russell, Overholt ad Kirkpatrick were all fatally wounded. Howard was an eccentric young editor. He itterly assailed the saloon-keeps in his paper. ' .e also charged Marshal Russell and other Beers with being gamblers and otherwise as- i liled Russell's character. Owing to this. Rus- i ill aud a couple of saloon-keepers visited Ho wrd's office and chastised him. Smarting under ] le assault, Howard threatened to attack < .ussell on sight and several times both men j ime near drawing weapons. Russell was rexrning from the postoffice when Howard , lddenly emerged from his office and fired ( och barrels of his gun at Russell's back. ^ [any citizens defend Howard's action, say- , ig that he was driven to desperation by the ifoon-keepers and their friends. NEWSY GLEANINGS, More than 300 Mormon missiouaries are at rork in the South. Large herds of wild horses are reported orth of Denver Junction, Col. The British military authorities are conjniplating the use of pigeons as messengers i 1 war. i S?ty wrimon rlnnf.Ut.s TcerA oTatliiafcad at the hiladelphia College of Dental Surgery reentry. , Texas has just celebrated the fiftieth an- ' ivei-saiy of iu? declaration of indepenence. European papers remark upon the good nitationof celluloid now manufactured from otatoes. the diamonds and other precious stones nported to this country last vear cost over 9,000,000. A cable message can be sent from New fork to London and an answer received in isnygutes. ...... _ NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Archbishop Corrigan, the successor to the late Cardinal McCloskey, was installed at New York the other day and invested with Ihe "pallium,"' the loftiest symbol of his ftate. The Catholic cathedral was crowded, and the installation was accompanied with imposing ceremonies. At the auction sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's paintings in New York $45,500 was paid for .Tillas Rrpfyin'a "fYtmmnnip/mfcs." This is the largest sum ever paid for a painting at public sale in this country. The sale lasted three nights, and the 340 pictures sold realized $885,300, many of them bringing $10,000 each. Fire which broke out on the wharf of the Monarch Line Steamship company at Jersey City, N. J., partly burnea the large steamer Lydian Monarch, the milk depot of the Erie railroad and other' property, causing an aggregate estimated damage of $300,000. Mrs. Horatio Seymour died a fe\>? days since at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, in Utica, N. Y. She had been very low since the death of her husband, Governor Seymour. A New York senate special committee which has been investigating the alleged bribery of New York city aldermen in connection with the granting of the Broadway surface railroad franchise has made a Inner ron/iH- TVia ronnrfc nllpwpvi t.h ft t the investigation unearthed gross violation of law, public plunder, bribery and corrup tion, in which railroad speculators, aldermen and others are implicated. Swift and summary justice, the report says, should be meied out to the guilty ones, and the franchise wrongfully acquired should be restored to its rightful owners?the people. At the sa'e of the late Mrs. Morgan's art treasures, which followed the sale of her paintings in New York, a porcelain vase eight inches high, made in China about 300 years ago, brought the enormous sum of 818,000. n Ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee died a few days since at the residence of his son-in!aw, Ulysses S. Grant, Salem Centre, N. Y., aged sixty-one years. He was bom in Niagara county, N. Y,; went West in his youth; amassed a fortune in Colorado, where he entered the legislature, becoming speaker of the house: served two terms in Congress as territorial delegate, and when Colorado became a State in 1876 was elected United States Senator as a Republican. He lost $500,000 by the Grant & Ward failure. His son-in-law was General Grant's youngest son. The wife of ex-Attorney-General Brewster, of Philadelphia, is dead. The schooner Robert Byron, from Portand, Me., for Cape de Verd, seven men on board, has been given up as lost. South and West. Frank McGonigle and James Sheadv engaged in a brutal prize light near Fayettevilie, W. Va. Sheady was so terribly beaten that he died. Near Milledgeville, Ga., Frank Humphries murdered his niece, Eila Humphries, and hia sister-in-law, Came Raines, after brutally assaulting one of the young ladies. Humphries was arrested. A large meeting of Mormon women who are contented with their polygamous life, was held a few days since at Salt Lake City. Many speeches were made and resolutions protesting against any interference with them were adopted. Two men?City Councilman M. E. Hill and Master Machinist W. C. Allen?were killed, and nine other men more or less ser iously injured at an Augusta (Ga.) factory fire. Akron, Ohio, has just suffered heavily by fire, the flames destroying a large mill, a railroad depot and other property; estimated damage, $1,000,000. The men employed on the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest struck a few days since because a shop foreman, a prominent Knight of Labor, was discharged. About !),OOU men were affected by the strike. A body of 200 miners threatened to burn the property at the mines at Greenwood, Ky., if the convicts employed there were not removed. Governor Knott sent a special message relative to the matter to the Kentucky legislature, and ordered five troops of State militia to Greenwood. Charles Burgess shot and killed Mrs. Emma Simons and then put a bullet through his own heart at East Portland, Oregon. Unrequited love was the cause. Mardi Gras was celebrated this year at New Orleans with the usual ceremonies. There was a gaily costumed procession headed bv the Kiner of the Carnival: the citv was profusely decorated; thousands of strangers thronged the streets, and jollity ruled. Nineteen men have been arrested within two weeks near Portland, Ore., by United States authorities on the charge of attacking Chinamen. "Washington. The collections from internal revenue during the first seven months of the fiscal year rtndiug June 30, 18SG, amount to $&>,87.S, 117, which is $1,535,157 more than the collections iluring the corresponding period of last year. The-House committee on levees and itn provements of the Mississippi river has agreed to i-eport favorably a bill to appropriate p:;,000,000 to close gaps in aua strengtnen tne levels of the Mississippi river, for the pur[>ose of improving and giving safety to navigation ana preventing destructive floods. The diplomatic correspondence on the subject of the outrages on the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, in September, 1885, has been made public. The Chinese minister, Cheng Tsao Ju, writing to Secretary Bayard, called his attention to these lawless proceedings, which he described in deSail, gave a list of the murdered and maimed Chinamen, with the total estimated amount it damage sustained ($147,748.74), and asked that the perpetrators of the attack upon his countrymen be punished. Nominations by the President: Samuel E. Wheatley, of Washington, to be commissioner of the District of Columbia; V. O. King, of Texas, to be secretary of legation ind consul-general of the United States at Bogota; Rule Letcher, of Missouri, to be conmi of the United States at Rio Grande do Sul. Postmasters?Jas. A. Wall at Methueu, Mass.; unas. J. .Porter at iietuei, uouu. ; Henry Van Scoy at Kingston, Penn. Foreign. Mount Etna is reported to be again in a state of eruption. Cinders and stoues are continually being thrown up,and light earthquake shocks have been felt at the foot of the mountain. Mr. Henry Labouchere moved in the British house of commons a resolution "that a hereditary chamber of legislature is inconsistent with the principle of representative government." The resolution was directed against the house of lords. The motion was rejected by a vote of 202 to 100. Pasteur is still daily inoculating persons bitten by dogs against hydrophobia at his laboratory in Paris. Thit Rnccinn crnvarniik.tif-. l?nc oytviIIaH fl large number of foreigners, principally Germans, from the province of uourland. Eight men convicted of taking prominent part in the recent London riots have beeu sentenced to penal servitude for from one to Sive years. Fearful storms occurred during the la^t royage of the British steamer Acton, just arrived at Queens town from Baltimore, and two sailors were washed overboard, while mother was killed at the wheel. STARVING ISLANDERS, Terrible Distress Existing Along- the Western Irish Coast. The British government has placed gunboats at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him in his work of relieving the distress among the inhabitants of the islands aloug the western Irish coast. Indescribable distress has l>eeu ilevelopel amoug the iieople inhabiting the Arrau Isles, off Gal way, who, beside having hardly anything but moss and sea grass left to eat, are without fire and often without clothing and shelter. It is not rare to find girls of seventeen and eighteen years of age kept in enforced hiding during the daytime because rney are Dereit 01 every inreau 01 ciouiing, which has loug ago been bartered away for seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller children with. People are slowly dying of starvation by the score, and measures of relief on a large scale have been taken in Ireland. Money has been sent from America to aid the sufferers. ' , A BOTS HDBB1SLS CMK f Butcherincr his Father. Mother, v Brother and Sister. ' S c The Youthful Assassin's Story of S the Terrible Affair, ^ s Particulars have just been received of the r murder of the Sells family by its youngest 9 mpmhpiv A. hnv sevf>nfcfi#>n vp/irc nf oca np?r b Osage mission, Neosho county, Kan. The ^ crime is one of the most horrible on record- y Mr. Mendel, living thirteen miles northwest d of Osage mission, was awakened about 1 ^ o'clock a. m. by a scream, shortly followed by u another coming from the road in front of his o house. He went to the door and was met by s] Willie Sells, the son of J. W. Sells, living ^ about a quarter of a mile up the road. The ^ boy cried out: "Mr. Mendel, a man is at our house with a hatchet and has hurt father and ^ mother. I don't know how badly." Mr. d Meudel went with the boy, arousing J. I. 6 Rice, another neighbor, on the way. Upon P reaching Sells' house a most horrible sight s] met their eyes. ^ In the bed in the north room lay Walter, n Willie's eldest brother and bedfellow, aged ?| nineteen, his throat cut and the entire top of his head chopped off, exposing the brain. Passing into the main room, where a light j* was burning, they stumb'ed over the form of Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost sever- 5; ed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells. * aged forty-three years, her head mashed and b a fearful gash in her throat. On the bed in P the southeast corner of this room lay Ina, ^ Willie's sisterj aged fourteen, killed in the b same manner as the other three. Near Mr. a Sells' head was a bloody butcher knife and ^ on a chair a hatchet, matted with hair and e blood. 01 The boy said that he had been awakened by P something, and looking up, saw a low,heavy- ei oaf mnn with dnrlr tiA.il*. rnf, rln<5?. stnriflinc in C1 the door. This man stepped in, and reaching ? over Willie, struck his brother, who lay in " the back of the bed. Willie jumped out ? and dressed while the man was still ? in the room. This operation, be j* claimed, took him just half a minute. The h man rushed out of one door, while Willie ran S] out of the other, and started up the road on * a run after hi m. A short distance off stood a r! man on horseback, holding another horse, cl upon which the man vaulted, and both made ? off. Willie then went on to Mendel's. n After the bodies had been discovered Rice ^ took Willie home with him, where he slept n soundly till morning. A coroner's jury was f' impanelled and an investigation begun. Suspicion rested upon the boy and he was put on 11 the stand. He swore that he had not washed c< his hands since the murder, but inspection M showed that while his hands and wrists were clean there was a water mark about his wrists, J1 and his forearms were deeply incrusted with f blood which appears to have spurted up his . sleeves. Around his finger nails, also, there j? was blood, and upon removing his pants his " drawers were found to be saturated ~ with spattered blood and his bare feet were 9, ftlfA TTia faaf all fhfl ^ a>lD\J U1WU JW*IUVU. J.VWU UVI/UU M?4 VMV bloody footmarks to be found. M The boy stoutly denied being the murderer, j" and throughout all the tiring ordeal main- ! tained a bold front The boy was smuggled 0 into a buggy by Police Judge Lon Cambera c and Deputy Sheriff Locke, and driven to jail in Erie, for fear of lynching, which ap- H peared imminent. On the way to Erie he said to Mr. Cambern: "Those fellows ^ tried to get me to say that I did it, but I thought it would be best not to admit it." There is hardly a doubt but that the boy com- H mitted the dreadful crime, though no motive is known. Mi*. Sells had in his pocketbook t, $100 in gold and $170 in bills, which were not disturbed, beside three watches. John Hall, " of Erie, has been appoinKid guardian of the boy. The coroner's jury was in secret session all a day, and at 4 o'clock p. M. returned a verdict n charging young Sells with the crime. The 01 boy was remanded to jail, where he was 1' visited by a correspondent. He protested his ,J innocence and showed no more feeling than if it ? had been so many hogs he had butchered. He is five feet six inches high, weighing 145 J pounds. He has a rather intelligent face, al though it werrs a stubborn expression. His " complexion is fair and his moderately hteh ? forehead is crowned with a shock of light r< hair. He has hazel eyes, a straight, well- P' formed nose and large mouth. His hands JI and arms are large and muscular. 1 RpIIs fnmilv were hichlv-resoected I 8 country people. Tiaey were all members of the Methodist church. Mr. Sells was a school j, teacher. Willie, the son, is undoubtedly the r murderer, and the only motive he could have had was tnat his brother Walter had been at- ~ tending school away from home, and he had b become jealous. Walter had just returned n from school and Willie, after murdering his 111 brother, probably thought it necessary to kiU u the others to conceal his crime. ^ LATER NEWS. g Miss Belle Finch, residing near Ithaca, N. Y., has been suffering from some nervous r< disorder for two years, and is said to have gone without food for the last eighty-five 11 days or more. {J M. E. Gra.ce, a young lawyer, and J. M. ii TJfrt" o nvAtninonf Kucmooo mart irt IT uUi u ui viiuucuv uuiau. iiicu IU IUO Or' clerk's office of the United States district e: court at New Orleans, and quarreled about a rr case which the former was conducting ^ against a friend of the latter. Pistols were ^ drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly si killed, and Brou mortally wounded. ii Senator Vest, of Missouri, has made a . j' statement to the House committee of mves- j, tigatiou concerning his relations to the Pan- n electric Telephone company. He states that sj he purchased 100 shares of stock for $1,000, ^ as a regular business transaction, and has 0 received one dividend amounting to $10 or 81.1. c: Viscount Dupplin, heir of the Earl of ^ Kinuoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day, R and is supposed to have committed suicide on rx account of losses at the gambling table. 9 Valparaiso, Chili, has lost an entire busi- ^ ness block, including the city's principal p shops, by fire; damasre estimated at $1,000,- p 000. . t] It is announced from Rome that two p, American cardinals are to be created?the k Archbishop of Quebec and the Archbishop of tl Baltimore. f a At least 100 of the 105 inmates of the county poorhouse at Lebanon, Penn., were pois- u oned the other morning by partaking of cof- ^ fee which contained Paris green. At night e; twelve persons were reported in a dying con- o: dition. o: The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate _ veterans, Richmond, Va., has contributed < ] $ro to the fund for the late Genei'al Han- II cock's widow. 4 A colored boy of thirteen years, em- jj ployed bv Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at is Ennis Cross Roads, S. C., attacked his t. employer with an ax, knocking her senseless, ^ aud then robbed the house. He was cap- p turcd and lodged in jail, but a crowd of citi- c /ens took him out and hanged him to a gate post. " Thk Presidcut has vetoed the bill to quiet fi title of settlers on the Des Moines river lauds a: in Iowa. He says that the point at issue in ^ this case was fully settled years ago, and if g reojMMuvl now it would produce legal strife a and lawsuits. * Frank Mi; ho at royd, of Philadelphia, sneezed so hard in bed the other morning \that he ruptmvd a blood vessel, and in a few g minutes was a corpse. , Kivk persons?three passengers gtid two c, railro-nl employes?were killed ami twenty- c< six iKi-sengui-s injured?thirteen of them tl ?. n ftrvlli^iAlt lvtt-M'tlfln f.Wrt ^ uail^ciuumjr ill u wv/w??v..m V?V traius near Monte Carlo, the notorious Eu- ? ropean gambling resort. ? Thk Princess Helene Je Ypsilanti, of Vi- ? enna. is announced to be a bankrupt. She is jj a (laughter of the late millionaire banker I Baron Sina, and widow of the late Greek ii envoy and minister plenipotentiary to Aus- ^ tria. Her father at his death left eac h of his a three daughters $15,000,000. o: * z}">f. ' a'. vx*&?** Tyy':' A* c"* $*? '1 * . <. SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS 11 Senate Sessions. \ | Fiftieth Dat.?The Blair educational f ill was discussed further, amended, and t nally passed by 36 yeas to 11 nays....The Senate took up the report of the judiciary ommittee on Attorney-General Garland's re* J sal to comply with the request for the apers relating to the office of United States < istrict-attornev for Southern Alabama, j Vithout any debate on tha question the , ienate adjourned. ( "H * XT Von/v\ AffAnorl a i *ri j.-i-ixw4 X/A x . Alii , f auvc unci cv* u ] esolution directing the committee on civil j grvice reform to report forthwith the bill efore them providing for the repeal of the < ivil service law. The resolution, at Mr. , rance's request, was for the present laid on 1 tie table. He said he would soon ad- , ress the Senate on the subject.... Ir. Bowen obtained, unanimous consent to ddress the Senate on the subject of his bill 1 To provide a new basis for the circulation 1 f national banks." At the conclusion of his , peech Mr. Stanford announced to the Senate j tie death of his colleague, Mr. Miller, of lalifornia, and out of respect to his memory tie Senate at once adjourned. j Fifty-second Day.?The resolutions of i tie judiciary committee, formally expressing < isapproval of the refusal of the attorney- < eneral to furnish information in regard to ' residential appointments, came up as the . pecial order. Mr. Edmunds spoke for over tvo hours in answer to the recent argu- , lents advanced by the President in his ] pecial message. He said it was forty years .nee an issue of this kind had come between , ie executive and the Senate. Instances evinc- i lg reluctance on the part of the President or le departments to furnish information such j s was desired in this case were few. , he Senator argued that Mr. Duskin had not een removed but only suspended, and the reposition to the Senate was that he should e removed and Barnett appointed. The enate had asked for the official papers 1 Qd the documents on file relative to the case 'ere of necessity official. The attorney gen- ] ral was the custodian by law. The removal . f an officer was an official executive act. Every j aper, therefore, addressed to the officer ex- ( rcising that official function must be an offiial paper, no matter how vile or false it may ! e. It did not belong to the man, whether ' resident of attorney-general, but to the , fficer in his character as an officer. The flnofo \x, oc r?ol 1 ar\ nrv?n fn oacicrf- in f.tio vruauv "tw v^uigu uwvu wv uoouu im vuv *v loval of Duskin, and the papers relating to is conduct of his office were necessary to nable the Senate to act intelligently, [r. Edmunds, toward the close of his speech, ead a copy or a letter from Mr. Thurman, as hairman of the committee to the attorneyeneral,dated March 24,1879,calling for"such lformation as may be in the possession of our department concerning the following | , ominations, together with any ingestion you may be pleased to note." On the 7th of April," continued Mr. Edluhds, "there came in a horse of a different Dior." Accordingly on that day, the speaker ; lid, a letter was written to the atfcorneyeneral by Mr. Thurman, as chairman of the ] idiciary committee, requesting the attorney aneral to communicate to the commit- . ? any papers or information \ i his possession touching on ( le propriety of the removal of Michael , chaeffflr, chief justice of the supreme court ! Utah, and the appointment of David T. orbin in his place. Congress made the law, ( ad the President had only executive power, ( iH oithnr "HViiika nf Prmirivws! hart a rio-ht to now everything that was in the departments E the government. In conusion, Mr. Edmunds said it did not sem to him that the Senate could fail to get te papers on the ground that the statute on lis suDject had become obsolete or gone into state of "inocuous desuetude." The Presient had sent to the Senate 643 instances of bedience to that law?643 nominations made nder it?and Mr. Edmunds therefore thought ae law was still in force. Mr. Pugh said he 'as ready to reply to Mr. Edmunds when je latter finished his speech, but yielded to a lotion to go into executive session, after rhich the Senate adjourned. Fifty-third D at.?The urgency deficiency ppropriation bill was passed....Mr. Pugh jplied to the speech of Mr. Edmunds con jrning presidential appointments and susen dons. Mr. Pugh began by saying that le main object he had in addressing the Sente in reply to the Senator fromVermont was j prevent, if it was in bis power to do so, mt Senator from changing the character of ae question between the Senate and the Resident. The real character of that con'oversy could not be misunderstood or misjpresented, as it had arisen upon facts aparent upon the record and reported by the lajority of the judiciary committee, lie facts by which the Senate should be uided were few and simple. Mr. Duskin, ie district attorney, was suspended on the ?th of last July, and on the same day Mr. ;urnett was designated by the Presient to perform the duties of that [fice. The 14th of last December, the enate being in session, Burnett was ominated to the Senate to get its ivice aud consent to his appointment. That omination was referred to the judiciary Dmmittee, and it lay there over a month. 11 the mean time, on the 20th of December, 580. the tarm of the office of Duskin exired. On the 25th of January, 1886, e monm aiu?r tne terra 01 uuskiu naa icpired, aad when he was no longer n incumbent of that office, a ^solution was sent by the Senate to the atjrney-general, calling for the papers 1 the Duskiu case. For what purose, he asked, was that information sought' y the Senate. The use the Senate itended to make of the doculents and papers sought from the ttorney-general was to enable the Senate to xercise the power of revising the act of reloval of Duskin by the President. In regard 3 the point made by Mr. Edmunds concernlg the demand by Allen G. Tiiurman and is associates ou the judiciary committee for imilar information, Mr. Pugh declared that' lformation was sought for in the case of bo suspension "of a territorial adge. Mr. Evarts had held reviously that the President could not relove a territorial judge. It was a proper ibjei't for inquiry and not a parallel case to lie Duskin one. Mr. Pugh contended further iiat the Senate had no power over removals xcept in the case of Federal judges, and ited authorities to justify his position. In onclusion, Mr. Pugh said his object had eeu to define the character of this conflict of uthority between the President and the Sente, and to fortify the view that had always eeu taken by the Democratic party, and to artify it by authorities commencing in- the rst Congress and running down to the latest eriod. Mr. Cleveland Had no tear or an apeal to the people. He was responsible to hem. He supposed the majority in the Sente had no fear of appealing to the people in avor of the omnipotence or the Senate. He new the minority had none in appealing to be people upon the omnipotence or the Contitutiou and the integrity of Mr. Cleveland's dministration. Fifty-fourth Day.?Mr. Wilson contined the discussion in relation to suspensions y the President. He said that for the first me in the progress of this government its jcecutive power is now being used as a means f assault on the character and reputation f its citizens. He would not stop to etermine whether it was the jsult of purpose, inexperience, want of loughtful action or other cause whatsoever, t was an unexpected fact, however, and oubtless it would have beeu guarded against t' the framers of the Constitution had beeved such a result possible in un adminfliA AT<i/iiifivA twwor nnHpr >f 1 UllIUU Ul 1>UW CAbVUbirv |/v >i v* UUV.V* lie provisions of that iustrunient as roposed by them. Who could ave anticipated that from the olitieal protoplasmic presence which floated n the bosom of the Democratic platform of SS4, and whose indefiniteuess was expressed 1 the words, "We favor honest civil service jform," could have evolved a result so harmil to the character and reputation of a citizen s the practice of the present national adminitration? Every stage reached by the peculiar lovements of this strange political evolution ave promise of a better result than we have ttained or the citizen experienced. Mr. Wil 3ii then quoted from the utterances of Mr. 'leveland as presidential candidate, Presieut-clect and President in favor of civil serices reform, and said that the people had iven Mr. Cleveland generous credit or sincerity, but they could not pconcile his actions in suspending ompetent and faithful public oftiers with his repeated assurances that such hings would not bs done. Mr. Wilson rgued at soiue length the question as to the rivacy of the papei* 011 file in the departlents, maiutaiuing that they were not the 'resident's private papers. It was uother instance, he said, of the inannerv 1 which the President confounded the' idividual with the public official, t was probably the most pronounced istance, the speaker asserted, of "personalsm" to be found in the history of our governlent. and showed how one false step led to nother ... Mr. Logan, from the committee n military affairs, presented to the 1 ? ' k mmuiity J cpOJt UU toe fttz JOtm 1 Porter bill, opposing the passage of the bill ...Mr. Stanford offered resolutions appointing a committee of five Senator.* to.accom- '? >any the remains of Senator Miller to' Caliornia, which were agreed to, and the Senate hen adjourned. House Sessions. Fifty-fifth Day.?The House took up in committee on the whole, the Urgent Deficiency bill. The'bill appropriates $834,452,the preat bulk in compensation for the services ot treasury agents in examining the sub-treasnrv arw?iinf-?* *17?? flflfl was fnr artificial limhfl for wounded soldiers; $185,000 for jurors and witnesses, caused by the Utah trials, and 1251,000 for cruisers1 armament. After aa animated discussion the bill was passed?229 bo 20?The House, at its evening session, passed fifty pension bills, and at 9 p. M. adjourned. Fifty-sixth Day.?The House went into bhe committee of the whole on the state of the Union for general debate. Nothing was discussed but tne silver question. Mr. Millard (N. Y.) contended that the only way out of the difficulty was to establish an international ratio between the two metals, and until that was done he was opposed to the free coinage of silver and in favor of the suspension of the act of 1878. Messrs. Fun3ton (Kan.). McCrary (Ky.), Lanham (Texas), ana Rowell (111.), opposed the suspension of silver coinage. rifty-se venth day.?mx. uiancnara (La.) as a question of personal privilege, denied that he had been arrested in Louisiana in 1874 by order of Major Merrill, who was recently nominated for promotion and whose nomination was subsequently withdrawn. ' L Mr. Blanchard said the charge that he had been instrumental in causing the withdrawal of Major Merrill's nomination was also untrue. The secretary of the navr, f> .'3?| in reply to the resolution of Mr. Boutelle, adopted on January 22, , transmitted to the House a letter from Commodore Truxton, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, in which he says that there never were any honorable inscriptions upon any cannon captured Dy tne united states and placed in the Norfolk navy yard ? obliterated by his order. "In fact," he adds, "no such obliteration has . >$. at anv time taken nlaee. The eiDOSure from 1 the weather and time had somewhat obliterated the inscriptions placed thereon, but they j* were renewed Dy my order last June, and are J now plainly visible."... .Numerous billk and resolutions were introduced....Announcement was made of the death of Senator Miller, of California, and out of respect to ^ his memory, the House adjourned. Fifty-eighth Day.?The House resumed consideration of the bill requiring Pacific " railroads to pay the cost of surveying their t lands and to take out patents thereto. After some discussion the bill was passed without .. . i opposition On behalf of the committee on labor. Mr. James (N. Y.) called up the bill to prohibit any officer, servant, or agent of the government to hire or contract out the labor * of prisoners incarcerated for violating the laws of the United States government. 1 Mr. / James said that the bill was in th& interest of ' v the honest mechanic. The system which :.j prevailed at some of the peniten- ( - ^ tiaries of the country of ' hiring out convict labor had worked great hardship and injustice to the honest mechanic. In his own district a great industry?the manufacture of hats?had been entirely crushed out because it could not compete with convict labor. The bill was passed?yeas, 249, nays, 8....The House then went into -'/I; committee of the whole on the Indian Appropriation bill, and, pending further dis- < cussion, adjourned. Fifty-ninth Day.?Mr. Herbert (Ala.) from the committee on naval affairs,reported the bill to increase the naval establishment. Committee of the whole... .Mr. Pulitzer (N. Y.) from the committee on civil service reform, reported adversely the Seney bill to repeal the civil service law. Mr. Stone, of Missouri, asked leave to file a minority report The Indian appropriation biU was dis- ' cussed in committee of the whole. v Sixtieth Dat.?In committee of the whole, the House continued the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Weaver urged that there was need of a thorough overhauling of the present Indian policy. During his speech he charged that the Cherokee Strip Live Stock association had procured a lease from the Cherokee nation of the entire ' Cherokee strip in the Indian Territory, for which it was paying annually $100,000; but the association had subleased the lands to other cattle companies, and was receiving from those subleases about $500,000 a year. The white men occupied the strip in defiance of law. ,32 A DEFAULTING TREASUEEE. A. New Jersey Savings Bank Compelled to Suspend Payments. The New Brunswick (N. J.) Dime Savings bank has been compelled to suspend on account of a defalcation amounting to nearly $80,000 in its accounts, the defaulter being ' its treasurer, Arthur G. Ogilby, who is also the city treasurer. When the defalcation was discovered Ogilby was at home suffering from an attack of acute mania. When Charles Hill, cashier of the New Brunswick National bank, committed suicide, a year or more ago, after nearly ruiaing the bank, the people said during the excitement that followed that Mr. Ogilby was the only honest man left in New Brunswick. He was then engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and was considered such an exceedingly upright man that no position was thought too good for him. When the Dime Savings bank got run down he was chosen treasurer, and under his management its deposits increased from a few thousands to over $166,000. The first suspicious circumstance connected with Mr. Ogilbv's management of the bank's affairs occurred, recently, when Assistant Secretary John Wyckoff or the bank reported to Willard P. Voorhees, one of the managers, that Mrs. Ogilby had been taken ill in church, and reminded Mr. Voorhees that Mr. Ogilby was also ill. The gentlemen then remembered that the annual statement of the bank had not been ready on February 1 when it was due. On February 3 a statement of the bank's condition was published: No affidavit showing that the board of directors examined the accounts accompanied the statement Mr. Ogilby is one of the managers, but his mania Keeping him at home, the remainder of the board began an examination of the bank books. This work when completed showed a deficiency of nearly $80,000. When the condition of the bank had been ascertained, six of the managers sent a petition to Chancellor Runyon, saying that depositors could not be paid unless the asset* were sacrificed. The chancellor returned an order for the bank to cease receiving deposits and making payments, and that the managers send him a true statement of the affairs of the bank. There has been no run upon the bank, and the people of New Brunswick have accepted the situation very quietly. A great manv of them even sympathize with Mr. OgilDy, who is still looked upon as a man of great financial ability. It was rumored freely about New Brunswick that Mr. Ogilby had been dabbling with stocks in Wall street, and that the rem estate that stands in his name, which includes a number of valuable places in New Brunswick, is heavily mortgaged. Mr. Ugiiby has a wire ana two aaugnters, both young ladies, who move in the best society in New Brunswick. Mr. Ogilby is one of the State Riparian commissioners, a vestryman of Christ's (Episcopal) church, and has been secretary ana treasurer of several building loans, the last of which was the Citizens', which was wound up some time ago. He is a heavy stock- ? holder in the New York and New Brunswiok Steamboat com >any. All political parties had such faith in him that his selection for the office of city treasurer gave universal satisfaction. A few weeks ago Mr. Ogilby sent in his resignation as city treasurer, and the authorities of New Brunswick were still busy trying to induce him to withdraw it when his present attack of acute mania was announced. MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC. Manitee, Mich., has an orchestra?composed of fourteen young women. Salvini closes his season in America in May, when he returns to his native country. Gough's last letter was written to the temperance organization of the Haverly minstrel troupe. Queen Victoria has engaged a London circus pompany to give a performance at Windsor Castle. Anna Dickinson contemplates returning to the stage, and is negotiating with London managers to that end. I