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1^7''v.* . * " f\ * Should M. Pasteur succeed ia curing | diphtheria by the same methods that he can cure hydrophobia, he should have a monument of marble in every country in the -world. He claims that it will be accomplished. The largest land sale ever effected in Arkansas, or in the Southwest perhaps, was the recent sale of all the land belonging to the Little Rock and Fort Smith "Rail-ccnTr mmmnr?RflO flOfl ftrreS- It sold at $1.25 per acre. L ' It was the duty of English coroners 111 olden days to hold inquests not only on deaths, but on fires, burglaries and robberies. Inquests on fires are still held in Northumberland, and it is now proposed to reintroduce into London the ancient "crowner's quest law" in the matter of fires. Tm _ I ~ F Flour barrels are a source of great expense to the people of this country. Say there are 50,000,000 of barrels of flour consumed in this country each year, and there are 12,000,000 of people who buy it by the barrel, there might be saved to the people of this country $2,400,000 when twenty cents per barrel is 6aved by purchasing flour in sack9. _ The American Humane association will distribute 100,000 copies of the num ber of Science which contains the report of the committee of the American Ornithologists' Union for the protection of birds. The report shows that unless immediate measures are taken to prevent the present rate of destruction our woods and fields will shortly be without birds. Just before the outbreak of the war Stonewall Jackson, then a professor in the Virginia military institute at Lexington, organized a Sunday school for colored xchinh is still sustained bv lead ing citizens there. This Sunday school has now set on foot a subscription for a monument to Jackson, which is meeting with a lively response among the people, black and white, of the South. 'v'V f ^=^^=5^== ' "God help the stranger that is taken sick there," writes an officer of the United States steamship Galena, speaking of Aspinwall. "It is not uncommon for people to lie down in the street and die in broad daylight, and when dying receive nn offer of assistance, even in answer to an appeal for a drink of water. The people appear to be heartless, as if their familiarity with death had made them callous." In the Chinese language there are sixty characters and meanings to the syllable Ling, seventy to Sing and seventy-five to Ing. The Chinese child has a pretty 01 endearing nickname given it soon aftei 1 ty its birth. Then the boy has a sch'oo1 name when he goes to school, a marital name when he takes a wife, a business name when he goes into business, an official name if he takes an office, and a death-name to be put on his tombstone and to go down into history. The Chinese prefix "Ah" so common in this country is an endearing diminutive, equivalent to Sarn-my, John-ny, Tom-my in the English language. An examination of a map of the United States will show a strip of land several millions of acres in extent, marked "public land," lying between the States of Kansas and Colorado and Texas. This strip of country was left out by mistake in the original surveys, and is not included in any State or Territorial jurisdiction. Neither is it reached by United , States law. It is whollv without a iu- , dicial authority, and is, consequent^, j the abode of the very worst classes in the ( country. Cattle thieves and criminals of : all kinds resort to it as a refuge, and lately cattlemen have partly taken pos- 1 session of it to evade the action of the President excluding them from the Indian Territory. There they have established i _ their ranches without molestation. , * ] Senator Miller has introduced in the United States Senate a bill requiring all * - -z. c ? j ,1 i? maniliae Hirers ur uuu ueaieis iu wicumuigarine, butterine, lardine and suine to display signs in a conspicuous place at , their places of business indicating that they manufacture or sell such articles, imposing a special tax of $500 on manufacturers, $250 on wholesale dealers and $100 on retail dealers in such products and requiring them to take out annual linonoo tr\ r><irrxr nn ?nr?Ti V?n??npc?s nnflpr penalty of fine and imprisonment, and requiring all persons engaged in such business to keep books and enter therein an accurate and detailed account of all imitation butter manufactured or sold by them, such books to be subject at all times to the inspection of the treasury officials. It is the belief of the Boston Cultivator that "the most popular measure that Congress is likely to pass upon this session is in the question of prohibiting alien land ownershin. It has been found that some of our most valuable properties in the West have been lodged in the ownership of foreigners, and that a great many estates in our large cities arc thus controlled. The sentiment of the people, voiced in both political platforms in the last presidenial canvass, is against such holdings, and there is now considerable headway to an influence to declare prop- I n^tr midor alian nwnprsTnn hplnnorinor fn I w "J r c--o such American residents abroad as do not once in two years spend a twelvemonth on their native heath. It is said thatthere arc over 12,000 American families living abroad supported wholly "by incomes from estates owned in America, who have not been in this countryl for over ten years. They are said to include some 65,000 persons, and are at no personal inconvenience for the duties of citizenship that follow the citizen who responds to the jury, the military, political, religious and social demands.*' A onrpocnnn/ipnt. fmm 'Whit'.lev ! Court House, Ky.,to the New York World as follows: "There are only 1,000 people ?men, women and children?in all of this county, yet the murders and assassinations during the year outnumber the births two to one. To anybody who has ever lived for a time in this section of the country, or who has ever traveled through Harlan, Bell, Knott or Fletcher counties, the statement is too common to excite comment. But no one ever travels 4-Vi orT\ 4-V? mAilnfoino frtT tllPTA J1TP i/uivu^u incog mvuui/uiuo aw* v^w.v . not any railways to travel by?and no newspaper correspondent ever writes from Harlan county, so the murders, and feuds, and assassinations and brawls are not made public. There are courts here, ol' course, and judges and juries, as there are in civilized communities, but where every juryman is related to the murderer on trial, and where the judge has his own life to take care of in a lawless community, the idea of convicting a prisoner never occurs to those in court." Some time since reports reached this country that a new textile had been discovered in France, which was likely to take the place of wool to a large extent. Of course this report created a good deal of sensation in certain quarters where the wool interests are important. Accordingly, United States Consul Williams, of Rouen, France, was requested to make a complete investigation of the matter and report at his earliest convenience. This report has arrived at the state department. He says that the new textile is called Berandine, from the name of its inventor, a Maestricht workman, named "Roranr? TTip "PrpTinh have made verv glowing official reports. Mr. Williams says that in the opinion of experts who have since made careful examinations of this textile, it is safe to say that it is not likely to take the place of wool, or even the poorest quality of wool or cotton. Its presence in a mixture of textile material increases the difficulty of spinning to such an extent that in no instance could it be spun fine. Its use in fabrics of mixed thread diminishes its value by imparting roughness and harshness to the touch. The consul thinks that while this textile may take a modest place hereafter, it is not at present calculated to diminish the price of wool. Bcrandine is claimed by experts to be the direct ' * ^ * _ - ?1 _ product of certain peat grounds, ana is thus cheaper by far than any other known raw textile material. The consul draws the conclusion that the inferiority of the textile surpasses its cheapness, and thus places it low on the list of textiles. But of course it is subject to improvement by inventive skill, and may in the future be an important element. The editor of Turf, Field and Farm, in the course of an editorial on the horse, pays this eloquent tribute to man's equine friend: "The horse plays an important part in the industrial projects or me world. Draw a chair close to one of our sanctum windows and look out upon the streets which surround the postoffice block. The surface cars roll up and down with scarcely a break, and the mind grows weary in the attempt to count them. Each car is drawn by two horses, and the ceaseless tread tells upon feet, sinews and wind. Express wagons, drays, carts and other vehicles moved by horses choke the thoroughfares, and even shallow thinkers ara impressed by the fact that the one-toed quadruped has her.ome a necessitv to commerce. "Wo leave the city and take a run across the country. The line is immaterial. We may continue the journey day after day and night after night, and not get outside of the domain in which the horse is a power, is essential to the civilization of man. He draws the plow and the reaper, and carries the bag to the mill, The fuel which keeps bright and warm the winter hearthstone, the bread with which fast is broken, and the garments with which nakedness is covered, are brought to each village and farm-house door by the horse. The doctor, the post- 1 11 i. J J < man, ine sxuuu uuucsmau auu iuc iuagatherer also recognize our four-footed friend as an important agent in keeping up communication -with isolated homes j and scattered communities. The wheels 1 of agriculture and commerce "would move painfully slow were it not for the IiArco \WorAvor rrrr? rrr\ tto CPA fTiaf. fhprA UVIOV. 1 iauv?v/i II V ?* xy WW i?wv is a great practical want to be met, and we are compelled to laud tlie efforts of those who try to fill this want." The Oat-Meal King. 1 'Yes, I know Schumacher, the oatmeal king who has lost his big mills by tire," said the Ohio passenger, "and an odder little man you never saw. He?s a German, of course, about sixty years old, about as big as a grasshopper and just as lively, talks dutchy and writes the most vigorous English, hates whisky and beer as he does a liar and works sixteen hours a day. He came to this country as poor as a church mouse, started a little grocery and beer saloon, run that awhile and then began making oat meal by a hand-mill in his wood-shed. Finally he sold his saloon,? peddled oat meal and farina from a hand-cart, -which he wheeled' about town himself, and in thirty years built up the largest factory of that kind in the world. He won't hire a man in any capacity who drinka whisky or even beer, and has about him several hundred employes, who are mostly Germans, and. strange to say, zealous prohibitionists like himself. He once brought over from Germany a workman who was master of a new process. This man came under a two-years' contract at a large salary, his expenses being guaranteed. The second day after he began work Schumacher learned tha-; he was a beerdrinker. In two hours the workman left the mills, never to return, and with a check for nearly $5,0C0 in his pocket. Tliia wilt tVir? Vin/1 A * "V J iVVUUmUUIlVA 1JUV4 paid for upholding his principles and enforcing his rules to the very letter."? Chicago Herald. In the Parlor. She?Anticipation. He?Exultation. Both?Osculation. Father?Indignation. He?Gyration. All around?Sensation.?Til-Bits. SHOT DOM IN COURT. Details of the Slaughter of Negroes in Mississippi. A Dozen Colored Men Killed and Others Wounded. Details of the tragedy at Carrollton, Miss., by which at least twelve negroe;-. were killed and nine or ten others wounded, are given in a special dispatch as follows: From statements of white and colored alike, it shows that the immediate cause of the affair was, that a short time since, a gentleman from La Flore county, while visiting Carrollton, being decidedly under the influence of drink, was hit over the head by Ed. Brown, one of the deceased, with a jug of molasses, inflicting a dangerous blow on a man not able to take rare nf himself. At a meeting iusfc after this between Lawyer Liddle and Edward Brown some harsh words passed. Subsequently Liddle was ambushed by the Brown brothers, shot and slightly wounded. The two Brown brothers and John Johnson were arrested and gave bonds to appear for trial. On last Frirlay, Edward and Charles Brown made affidavit before the mayor, aeainst Mr. Liddle and six others for assault with intend to kill and murder them on the 18th day of February, as stated above. The accused in the affidavit included some of the best citizens, who were not present at the time of the shooting and knew nothing whatever of the difficulty. All the parties wore arrested and the case cam? up for trial yesterday. > On the morning of the trial, and before the court convened, Ed Brown boast ?d on the streets that he would carry his body guard with him in court, and true to his word, when the case was called the court house was filled with negroes. The case being called at 12 o'clock, Messrs. Somerville and Askew, and Capt. D. N. Esten appeared as attorneys for the defendants, and were proceeding to investigate the charges asainst Liddle. Just at 1 o'clock about one hundred well armed men rushed into town on horseback, heavily armed with Winchester rifles. At this time Ed, seeing the crow 1 from the window, arose from his seat, drew his pistol, and began firing on Mr. Liddle. That caused great consternation and excitement and the firing became promiscuous. The room was at once completely enveloped in smoke. The crowd, consisting of 100 armed men. with everv conceivable kind of firearms, double-barrel breech-loadins: shot guns. Winchester rifles, pistols of all calibres, including the long horse pistols, with their immense balls, had ridden into town at the same moment from different directions. Dismounting, they proceeded to surround the court-house, placing themselves in between the fence and the court house to prevent any escape, and as the Browns tried to escape "a portion of the liorl linon ctot.irvnpH in thfi hall opposite the court-house rushed up the steps and filed "down the right aisle, which is on the east side, and then fired on the southwest corner where the negroes were. The negroes nearest this army were innocent men who fell a prey, falling four'or five on top of each other. The Browns were reached and wont down in ths twinkling of an eye before the volley of musketry in the hands of the determined men. There was a general stampede of those who would escape the missiles of the crowd, thinking to reach the window, thirty feet high, and jump to the ground: but the crowd around the court-house all being stransrers. supposBd each man trying to escape one of the Browns. Peyton Hemingway, a confederate in the plot and one of the loading backers of the Browns, jumped from the second story of the court-house, and running toward Mrs. Aldure, had twenty-five or forty shots fired at him, but onlv received one slight wound and escaped. One , young negro jumped from the second story jury room, striking the ground without injury and ran away with several guns turned on him, only one shot striking him any where, and that in half of his shoe sole. Balls were lodged in the walls, ceiling, doors, and window-sasli, pierc ing the class and mutuatin? tne oencnes All this occurred in less than ten minutes. The aimed forces retreated down stair.?, heard two remainiug shots, and hurried back to find that Captain D. N. Esten, Avho was addressing the court when the firing began, was trying to assist several old faithful negro friends in their last hours, and that Ed Brown, who was supposed to have been killed, was resting on his elbows,not having rt':rcngth to rise further, and had aimed two deadly shots at Captain Esten, who was unhurt, no doubt, owing to the feeble and dying condition of the leader, who in his last extremity had this bitterness in his heart. Theso shots brought back those who were slipping away, but they found their work incomplete, and' turned a whole volley into the body of Ed. Brown, riddling him from head to "foot. The Browns received not leiis than ten shots each. A number of negroes jumped from the second story of the courMiouse ana escaped without a bruise from jumping, and were unhm*t from the flying missile?. In ten minutes all this occurred, and those who rode by the city limits into town returned by the same route in twenty minute?. They were not citizens of Carroll county, for there were three good o'd negroes killed whom all the white people of that county respected and would have protected. But these strangers, friends of the parties on trial, coming from a distance and supposed to be swampers, knew not who the man was who attempted to jump from the window, unless it was one of the Browns, or a friend who had gone there armed to shield and protect them, and thence they became a prey to the iudiserimjnatiug ;hots. Twelve negroes were killed aud nine wounded, one or two fatally. CaiTolltou is a small interior town, with a iozen or more merchants and about <S(J0 people, and the home of United States Senator George and State Treasurer Hemingivay, of Mississippi. BLOWN OYEBBOABD. A Mississippi Steamer's Boiler Explodes with Fatal Result. The steamer Ike Bonham, which left Vicksburg for Bayou Vidal the other day, exploded her boiler when eleven miles below the former cicy, and a short distance from Bedford Point, on the Louisiana shore. William H. Andrews, the mate, and several colored men of the deck crew, were blown overboard and drowned. E. P. McElroy, the pilot, ami Charles Girard, the engineer,white men,were seriously scalded and bruised. The steamer L. H. Sargent of the same line, bound for Davis Bend, was about a mile distant from the Ike Bonham when the accident occurred. She im mediately headed for the Bonham aii-1 reached her as the wreck drifted on the ba; and settled down in three feet of water. Engineer Charles Girard of the Ike Bonham makes this statement: "Pilot McElroy was in command and Mrs William Sargent was in charge of the office. I had just tried the water in the boiler and found scant two guages. I had left the wheel and gone bade to the cabin to dinner, leaving Andrews steering. In an instant the shock came. I was knocked down and hot bricks from the furnace almost covered me. They were calling for help. The explosion tore away the ofhce, pilot house, chimneys, forward boiler deck, aud all the forward part of the cabin, throwing them into the river. Six deck hands were blown overboard, only one of whom was recovered. All on board were scalded except Mrs. Sargent. Immediately after the explosion she took command of the boat, went below, helped to launch the yawl, und commanded those who were able to rescue those in the river. By this time the debris arouud the boiler had caught fire, and she seized the draw bucket, drew water from the river and quenched the flames, after which she took n shovel aud threw all the rid-hot furnace bri<-k overboard. Mrs. Sargent by her heroism saved the wreck from burning, and with it my life and those of the other wounded on board.'' Joseph Arch, the agricultural laborer who is a member of the British house of commons, says his attention was first strongly drawn to politics by the reduction of his own wages from eleven to nine shillings per week- .. . _ I \T"n TTrn r>t tt-t-m m-~n. M~ t -*--r SUM-MAKX Eastern and Middle States. Frank Murgatroyd, of Philadelphia, sneezed so hard in bed the other morning that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in a few minutes was a corpse. An aged farmer at Ware, Mass., hanged himself to end his sufferings from nervous ?rostration; another, living near Catawissa, fcnn., stabbed and shot himself to death because his housekeeper would not marry him. Francis Mahedy, chief of the fourth battalion of the New York Fire department, was run into by an engine wnile going to a fire in his buggy and killed.. Mrs. Mary Wilesian was found guilty by a jury at Little Valley, N. Y., of murdering her husband by poisoning, and sentenced to be hanged on April 3a Dr. Austin Flint, one of the most prominent physicians in the United States, president of the International Medical association, died suddenly at his home in New York a few days since, aged seventy-four years. The five-day international billiard match played in New York,between Jacob Schaefer of that city, and M Vignaux, of Paris, was won easily by the American, who made a total of 3,000 points to 1,805 for the French champion. A street railroad car in New Haven was demolished by colliding witk a freight train, and twelve persons were injured more or less seriously. The miners of the Clearfield (Penn.) region have joined the strikers, and work in the soft coal regions of four States was at last accounts entirely suspended, between 10,000 and 12,000 men being idle. The entire collection of the late Mrs. Morgans pictures, specimens of oriental art, modern ceramics, books, etchings and engravings, sold at auction in JNew York, realized il,ii07,0.>2. The total losses incurred by the sinking of the Cunard steamer Oregon in a collision with a schooner off the Long Island shore, are estimated at over $3,000,000. A telephone now connects New York city with Washington, the distance between the two cities being 228 miles. 31ns. Bancroft, wife of the aged histor lan, (Jeorge iiaucroit, js dead. THE^Grant national monument fund committee so far has received $120,000. Sonth and West. Pat Ford and John Murphy were hanged at New Orleans on the 12th for the murder of A. H. Murphy on December 1, 1SS4. The men were carried to the gallows insensible from poison they had taken, aud they were hanged while apparently dying. Both murderers and their victim were prominent New Orleans politicians at emnity with each other. Strenuous and repeated efforts were made to obtain a commutation of the sentence, and at the last moment, to avoid the disgrace of perishing on the scaffold, both men took poison. A train left the track near Marshall, Mich., and one passenger coach was capsized into a ditch. Ihe thirty passengers inside were all hurt, some mortally. Robbers entered the express car of a train Kofn*Af?r? Jnlinf. onH Mnrri'c Til mi IT* tiered Express Messenger Nichols after a desperate struggle, robbed the safe of $'21,500 in money and at least $5,000 worth of jewelry, and then escaped. Heavy rewards lor the capture of the thieves were offered, and the brutal murder caused great excitement in the West. Ex-Governor William Erwin, of California, died at his home in San Francisco a few days since. He was born in Ohio, went to California in 1852, and was elected governor on the Democratic ticket in 1875. Captain James I. Waddell, commander of the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, died t.lie other day at Annapolis, Md., aged sixtyb vo yeai*s. Washington. The Blair Educational bill, recently passed by the Senate, has been practically killed in the House by postponement to the third Fri day iD April. In Senate executive session Mr. Edmunds from the judiciary committee reported back the nomination of Zach Montgomery to be assistant attorney-general for the interior department, with a recommendatiou that it be rejected. The House committee's examination into the affairs of the Pan Electric Telephone comj>any Iwgaii on the 12th. Congressman Pulitzer, the New York editor, and J. Harris Rogers, who is the inventor of the Pan Electric patents, were examined. Rev. Charles Dewitt Huntley, chaplain of the United States Senate, has resigned, having been appointed pastor of a church in nnrvHioi* Ex-Governor Michael Hahn, the only Republican member of Congress from Louisiana,was found dead in his room at Williard's hotel, Washington, on the loth, death result- ! ing from the rupture of a blood vessel. He was born in Bavaria in 1S31. The cost to the government of the conduct of the funeral of tfie late Senator Miller, of California, is estimated at $20,000. The House committee on agriculture approves of an item iu the appropriation bill of $250,000 for the destruction of diseased cattle. Out of the 7,000 bills introduced in the present Congress three up to recent date nad become laws. Tin President has completed the reorganization of the civil service commission by the appointment of John H. Oberly, of Illinois, to fill the vacancy caused by the nomination of Commissioner Trenholm to the comptrollership of the currency, and by the appointment of Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, to be civil service commissioner in place of Dorinan B. Eaton, resigned. ? .' IU Striking Toronto (Canada) car drivers came into collision with the police, and nu- I mcrous heads were broken. Mme. Patti, the well known opera singer, was hissed during. a performance in Valencia, Spain. She left the theatre at once under police escort and followed by a turbulent crowd. | British troops have had a skirmish with the Arab rebels near Suakim, and the latter were defeated with a loss of thirty killed. Wiesbaden, the notad German watering place, has been disturbed by a violent earthquake shock. The city of Granada, Spain, had a similar experience on the same day. AT T VTC* rr*T7? %T X? nooi'nn -CJ 1m n xcaooi.au i.Mujmo uavc anivcu in Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf i bites. AU the men were terribly mutilated by wolves. Desperate election riots have occurred at Huacbo, Peru, thirteen persons being killed or wounded in a struggle for possession of the voting tables. A disruption of the English cabinet is threatened on account of the opposition of some members to Premier Gladstone's Irish, policy. THE PRESIDENTIAL TEEM, A ITOpOSlllO!) U) nave II LIC?1I1 April :50. In the United States Senate ou the 15th Mr. Ingalls submitted the following joint resolution: Whereas, The tlr.it President of the United States was not inaugurated until the mil day of April, in the year 178'.), and Whereas, The day Which was chosen by the Continental Congress for the installation of the new government then established by the constitution, the 4th day of March, does now cause public inconvenience in unduly curtailing and limiting the second session of every Congress; and W hereas, It is fitting that the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of tho T ln'hwl ftf-fifo: \u\ \n mwtiiini'u frwl Kir fho iuauguration of his successor in 1 *89 ujwu the same day aucl that this should be the day hereafter or the begiuuiug ol' successive administrations of the government: therefore, be it Resolved, etc.. That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as part of the Constitution. namely: Art. XvL That tl e t r.n of offl *e of the President and the second .session of the Fiftieth Congress shall contiuue uutil the :50th day of April, iu the year and the 30th of April shall thereafter be substituted for the 4th of March as the commencement of the official term of the successive Presidents aud Vice-Presidents and Congresses of the United States. The resolution was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. A GREAT STRIKE, ' i 28,000 Miners in the Bitnminons , Coal Regions Quit Work. j Uniting in an Effort to Obtain an I Increase in Wages. A Huntington, (Penn.) dispatch of the 16th says: "A general strike of the miners in the competing bituminous coal regions was formally declared to-day and has been swiftly carried into effect. A great mass meeting of -u n l t J j tne BuriKere ui cue i/ictu uein, ^umuei mau ana Broadtop districts, in conjunction with the members of the executive board of the Federation of Miners and mine laborers, was held at Houtzdale to-day to determine upon the question of accepting the conditional proposition of the operators, offered yesterday, or to decide upon a continued strike. Delegate? were present from all the districts in Federation No. 3, including a large number from the Pocahontas, Virginia; Elk Garden and Garrett, West Virginia, and George's Creek, Maryland, disfn'nfo nAnir?ricin?r in oil n vnnrnconf.nt.ir\n nf 28,000 miners. Notwithstanding its immense proportions, the meeting was conducted quietly and orderly, and after a brief discussion concluded in a unanimous declaration for a general strike. "In all tbe districts shipping to the seaboard the miners are now all out, united and determined. As the operators maintain that no advance in wages is possible until coal advances in price, the issue is practically centered between the strikers and the consumers. The general sentiment of the operators is expressed in this sentence delivered by a leading Clearfield operator to-day. 'The miners have struck and so have we. We can look out for ourselves.' The present great strike bears as strongly against the mine order system as in favor of an advance. "At to-day's meeting it was revealed that merchants dealing in mine orders and divvying with operators take unfair advantage of the miners, who are compelled to deal with them, by charging excessive prices. Though the strikers have already experienced untold suffering and privation, their unyielding determination and concerted action prevent the slightest hope of their flnxnnrt- in Tlio nrDCflnf. />nt.lnnV i? rlnrV fliifl giTliig pi WVUW VUV4VVM enveloped only in conjecture." The great strike on the Gould system ct railroads in the Southwest, under direction of the Knights of Labor, was still in force on the 16th, both sides remaining firm. lateOewsT The Connecticut assembly has passed a bill prohibiting the employment of children under thirteen years of age. Laura A. Miller, a pretty nineteen-yearold girl of Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide because she was not permitted to attend a skating rink. The "New York senate passed resolutions favoring the passage by Congress of a bill to reimburse the State to the amount of $5,000,000 for canal improvement. St. Patrick's day was celebrated by the New York Irishmen this year with an unusually large procession, banquets and speeches. In other nlaces. too. the dav was observ ed more than ever on account of the present agitation for Irish home rule. A New Orleans dispatch of the 17th said the strike on the Gould system of railroad? was likely to ba settled by arbitration. A Carrollton (Miss.) dispatch says that during a trial there in the J. M. Leddell case fifty white men rode up to the court house and fired into the room, killing instantly ten negroes. Three othei-s died soon after. Seven others were injured. Leddell, a young lawyer, had been wounded in a quarrel with some negroes weeks before in which shots were exchanged. Governor Murray, of Utah, has resigned at the President's request. The secretary of the navy has dismissed four cadets from the naval academy at Annapolis for "hazing" another cadet The Irishmen in all parts of Great Britain rolAhrntpd fit;. Patrick's flav with narades. banquets and addresses. At the banquet in London, many Parnellite members of parliament paticipated, but Parnell was absent, owing to illness. Alderman H. W. Jaehne, of the New York board of aldermen, has been arrested upon the district attorney's complaint that , he had taken a bribe of $30,000 for voting to give the Broadway horse-car company its franchise. The arrest was the culmination of the legislature committee's investigation into charges of bribery against several aldermen and ex-aldermen,a number of whom left the State to avoid examination. The arrest of Jaehue was made upon what was considered conclusive evidence of his guilt It took piace on cue lscn, ana otner arrests were ( then imminent. Three oil tanks on a freight train near Reading, Penn., caught fire and six employes 1 of the road were severely injured. j The wife of Eugene Bohrman, of Avon- | dale, Ohio, while deranged, killed her four- < teen-year-old son, Albert, dangerously wounded another son, and then committed , suicide. i President Cleveland celebrated his ' forty-ninth birthday on the ISth by attending a performance of "Mikado"' at the New National thsatre. I The Senate, in executive session, on the j 18th confirmed the following nominations: , Johu D. Anderson to be pension agent at Augusta, Me.: Cornelius Voorhis to be collector of internal revenue, fourth district of Missouri; John Woassner, of Texas, to ba ! consul at Saltillo; Henry W. M> j Corry to be attorney for the Western ! district of Tennessee; William C. Jon96 to be marshal for tlio district of Kausas; ]( Robert W. Hutchins, of Eureka, Cal., to be < receiver of public monies at Humboldt, Cal.; j Daniel O. Barr to be purveyor of customs in ! the district of Pittsburg; V. 0. King, of j Texas, to be secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota; Brigadier-General A1 fivirl W Tqwv tn Ko inn inr-crflnftrfll. fll 1 "",l" " '"V ? J? o J ? j successor to the late General Hancock; An- , drew Welch to be collector of internal rev- j enue for the second district of Illinois. A number of postmasters were also coufirmed. J Thh treaty of peace between Servia and < Bulgaria has bceu ratified by the powers interested. ____ 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. ! 1 m t < , ? n 1 _ _ M T? 1 i he eldest son or me snaa ui reism making a tour through Europe. ( James Buchanan and Zachary Taylor are members of the present Congress. ' i All the colonels of Senator Mahone's old ( Confederate brigade are still living. t Mr. Parnell entered parliament eleven i years ago, at the age of twenty-nine years. 1 Vice Chancellor Bacon is the oldest I judge on the bench in Eugland. He is eighty- J eight. j The Prince of Wales is reported to have in , contemplation a visit to Canada and the f United States. i General Sheridan is fond of walking t about the streets of Washington with his j four little girls. 1 Nelson Dewey-, Wisconsin's first gov- j eraor, at the age of seventy-two is plaintiff" s in a divorce suit. [ Rev. Sam Jones, the Southern revivalist, J has recently accepted several lecture engage- ^ ments at &500 per night. Adelina Patti, the singer, is credited j with once having said she wondered what a i half-breed theatre looked like. She is living i to see it, they say. j Lieutenant-General Sheridan, who i was fifty-five years old a short time since, is, t with the exception of General Miles, the j youngest general officer in the army. 1 / , / , \ 3 - - ? . SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS Senate Sessions. Fifty-fifth Day.?The debate upon the esolution of censure of the President's policy 11 declining to furnish papers relative to the Duskin case was continued by Mr. Kenna, who arpued in favor of the stand taken by the administration. "Reviewing the controversy in all its facts and details," he said, "the one and only question involved is this single one whether the President shall be allowed, in fulfillment of his obligations to the people, to administer the government by agents of his own choice, or Sill Jill ha nnmnrtlla^ +/ ? nco o rron+a TiAf. of bis own choice, not having his confidence and often engaged in brineins him and his administration into disrepute. Yon may modify your demands as you please, still the issue is the same, whether a Democratic administration shall perform its functions without the obstruction of opposition by the Senate. The election of a President means a change in officers, which the people are powerless to effect except by electing a President. Mr. Cleveland's election involved the choice of men and instrumentalities to carry on the government; it involved that collectors, consuls and postmasters shall go. They all ought to go." He then went on to read from old congressional reports what Messrs. Edmunds and Sherman had said in discussing the first and second tenure of office acts. He read from Mr. Blaine1s sees ond volume the account of how Mr. Edmundhad demanded the passage of the first tenure of office act "for all administrations and for all time," and, when General Grant came in, had headed the demand for its repeal, to give (rfiTlfirnl frrnnt, nrvwor tn snrmn nut nt nffir'fi nil persons then in office. Mr. Edmunds, said Mr. Kenna, "was working for his political friends like a Turk in 1867 and like a beaver in 1869." He quoted also General Logan's proposed amendment in 1869, that all offices filled by Mr. Johnson previous to the 4th of March, 1869, should be held vacant on the 30th of June of the same year, thus legislating a complete sweep. Continuing, he said: "Under the act of 1867 the President was obliged to send to the Senate the reasons why he had suspended a man. This .provision was repealed in 1869. It was nowhere re? enacted, nor is it anywhere else commanded. It is no longer a law. The present motion of the .Republican Senators is an attempt to re-enact it by the resolution, not of Congress, not even of one house of Congress, but of a majority of a nAUimiffAiinf A?A Urtiifrt H TM /t/sn/?! 1*.^T? WUIIUUUCCVI. JLX^UDU. lUUUUUUOlUUf iIU? Kenna expressed his conviction that President Cleveland would maintain every prerogative of his high office and transmit them unimpaired to his successor. Fifty-sixth Day.?There was no business, the funeral of Senator Miller?the first ceremony of that kind in the Senate chamber since Senator Sumner's death twelve years ago?occupying the attention of the Senate. The galleries were filled. On the floor of the Senate were seated Senator, Representatives, many members of the diplomatic corps, the judiciary, President Cleveland and nis cabinet, excepting Secretary Whitney and Attorney-Geueral Garland, and many prominent citizens and public men. The casket containing the remains of the dead Senator was brought from his residence to the capitol at noon, escorted by a committee of the loyal legion, acting as honorary pallbearers. President Sherman called the Senate to order. The congressional pallbearers entered the chamber surrounding the casket, which was borne by ten capitol policemen, followed by . the Loyal Lecrion and honorarv oall-bearers. The casket was preceded by Rev. Dr. Leonard of St. John's church.and was placed upon a simple catafalque in tne open space in front of the president's desk. The reading of the brief liturgical service lasted ten minut3s,the chaplains of the two Houses participating. When it was finished the casket was borne out of the chamber and the Senate adjourned. The casket was carried to the hearse and driven to the Baltimore and Potomac depot. 6receded by the Marine Band and followed y a long procession of Senators, Representatives ana citizens on foot. Arriving at the depot the remains were placed in charge of the Loyal Legion, who acted as guards until the departure of the special funeral train for San Francisco, accompanied by the congressional committee. Fifty-seventh Day.?Upon resolution of Mr. Edmunds Rev. J. G. Butler, rector of the Memorial church, Washington,was appointed chaplain of the Senate as successor to Rev. Dr. Huutley, resigned Memorials of the Knights of Labor were presented protesting against the denial of the extra pay which had been provided for by law for workingmen in tne government service wno worKea more than eight hours per day. In presenting one of these memorials, Mr. Ingalls said the comElaint was a just one, and the nation had een disgraced by the violation of law complained of in the memorial....Mr. Ingalls introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment changing the day on which the presidential term begins from March 4 to April 30 A message came from the House of the death of Representative Hahn, and on motion of Mr. Eustis the Senate adjourned. Fifty-eighth Day.?The Senate passed the bill to increase from $8 to $12 per month the pensions of widows and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors just as it passed the House.... Messrs. Morrill and Cullom resumed the discussion on the majority report of the judiciary committee relative to the Senate's right to call upon the President for papers relating to suspensions in office, and argued in favor of such right. Mr. Maxey opposed vfciv? inajvi itj xcyui u auu ucjlouuvu uuo a a vov dent's right to withhold papers. Fifty-ninth Day.?Debate continued on Mr. Edmunds' resolution relating to the right of the President to withhold papers called for by the Senate and referring to the suspension of officials, Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, saying that in the particular case under discussion the suspended officer, Duskin, district attorney for Alabama, had made no complaint, but had assumed that he was suspended for political partisanship. Mr. Beck >poke next, defending the Pre ident, and while speaking Mr. Edmunds remarked that the speaker was violating the duty of a Senator in respect to proceedings in executive session. Mr. Beck denied this, and thereupon a long personal discussion between the two Senators occurred upon the question of senatorial ennor. The Senate anwndel electoral :*ountJoill was passed withcu; a division. House Sessions. Sixty-first Day.?Mr. Swope, of Pennsylvania, from the committee on invalid pensions, reported a bill granting a pension >f $2,000 a year to the widow of General W. 8. Hancock. Private calendar. [The report which accompanies the bill gives a brief resume of the services rendered to the country by General Hancock.] The Speakjr announced the appointment of the following committee to accompany the body of Senator Miller to California: Messrs. McKenna, Spriggs, Loutitt, Morgan, Hepburn, Laffoon and Millikin. Sixty-second Day.?Immediately up< n issembling the House in a bo:ly proceed d :othe-Senate chamber to take part in tie ;uneral of Senator Miller. A'terthe cereuony the House adjourned without doing iny business. Sixty-third Day.?The chaplain in his prayer alluded feelingly to the death of Representative Hahn and the affliction of Representative Wood burn in the loss of his wife. \ftsr the journal was read Mr. St. Martins La.), informed the House of the death of his X)lleague and offered resolutions of regret, providing for the appointment of a select Committee?seven Members and three Sena:ors?to escort the remains to their pla?e of jurial, and adjourning the House as a mark )f respect They were adopted unanimously. Sixty-fourth Day.?A long preamble md resolution by Mr. Browne (Ind.) was idopted, providing for an inquiry by the committee on civil service into the charges ;hat officers of the House had collected money froin persons interested in the passage ot' a t)ill appropriating $50,000 for Ohio river improvements near Jeffersonville, Ind....Mr. Bland under instruction from the coinige committo) moved to suspend "lie rules and adopt a resolution Ti?lHr?<r Housp hill 5.900 "for tha free coiu I'je of silver,a special order for Saturday, March 20th and 27th. and April "> and <i and hereafter until disposed of. M,. Hiscock opposed the resolution, but it was carried by 7J yeas to b7 nays....Bills introduced: By VIr. McComus (Md.)?To establish postoffice a ings banks as a branch .of the postoffice lepartmeut. By Mr. Gates (Ala.)?Amendng the rules so as to prohibit the anfai4ainmor o vocnliifinn 11U111 CUW/I wiu.u0 i* ivovutWAVU vliich authorizes the appointment of a eomnittoe to escort the remains of a deceased Senator or member beyond the corporate imits of the District of Columbia. By Mr. ' v'oorhees (Washington Territory)?Projosing a constitutional amendment prohibng polygamy The House passed the bill o provide for closing of the business and laying the expenses of the court of comnissioners of Alabama claims. i V ' v ' ' ' *:,Y - '^ .! JUJ'JVi.lw ' ' J 1 ' Sixty-fifth Day.?The committee ou appropriations reported back to tha House > to-dav the urgent . deficiency- appropriation bill With the Senate amend men to. Concurrence was recommended in several Senate amendments, and in .several others non-concurrence was recommended, among them the one appropriating $30,000 to pay the expenses of the funeral of General Grant. The committee found neither law nor constitutional authority for this appropriation, but it had found precedents and felt constrained to recommend an appropriation for all legitimate expenses ap proved Dy ueneral Man cock.... In committer of the whole the House considered the Indian appropriation bill, Mr. Wellborn (Texas) making an elaborate defense of the measure* SEEKING EEVENGE. V ? . ; # An Ex-Minister Kills a Man and Boy, and Wounds Others. * Information has been received at Parkersburg, W. Va., of the killing of a man and boy and the wounding of others at Spaulding, a small village in the remote interior. It appears that Mr.' Preston Bennett, a well known citizen, was attending an exhibition at the Tillage, '< and while the show was in progress J. M. Pickelsheimer, an ex-Baptist minister, who had fallen from grace through inordinate love of whisky, came np and engaged in a controversy with the proprietor. He was insulting and abusive and was refused admit tance, and eventually was ordered off the grounds. He went away muttering ven- *; Seance, and in a short time returned with a ouble-barreled shot-gun, and when he got within a few feet of Bennett he suddenly drew his gun and fired. Bennett fell dead in ' r, the arms of Professor Gordon, who stood near him. The assassin then emptied the other barrel into the crowd, killing a little boy named Hamilton and severely wounding William Baner and a young woman. Before the * // people recovered from the horror of the tragedy Pickelsheimer escaped, but soon after a few determined men started in pursuit. He was tracked in the direction of Tug Fork. . ; ' * and after a long chase was overtaken ana surrounded in the wildest partof that region. Several officers were witn the posse which captured the murderer, to which fact he certainly owed his life, as the people were bent on lynching him. THE IRISH AGITATION. ' J ' <. ''Jh1 Position of Parneil and His Followers in Parliament. v! The nrominent members of the Nationa party held their annual banquet in honor St. Patrick at London on the 17th, " <> JoO persons being present Many tale?rams of congratulation and expres- V . sing confidence in Mr. Parnell and his colleagues were received from all parts of the United Kingdom and America, and their reading provoked the wildest enthusiasm. Mr. rarnell's absence, because of illness, was much regretted- ^ Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray. . M. P.y eplying to the toast, "Ireland a Nation,^ . y ; aroused the enthusiasm of the gathering to the highest pitch by declaring that Ireland was never more determined than now to obtain her rights, and predicting that the ,day was not far distant when Ireland would take her place among the independent nations of the earth. In conclusion, Mr. TJray expressed the hope that Mr. Gladstone might speedily be enabled to solve the Irish problem, but said that its solution could not much longer be deferred Mr. William O'Brien, M. P., presided over ,y a meeting of 4,000 Irishmen held in St. ,. George's Hall, Bradford, England In taking the chair Mr. O'Brien said that Ireland's prospects were never brighter than now, and it would not J. be the fault of the Parnellites if the most promising chance of effecting a reconciliation between the Irish and the English peoples which had ever been presented should be nadly and wickedly destroyed MUSICAL* AND DRAMATIC. Sylva, the tenor, has been engaged for the next season of American opera. Patti has had an offer of 18,000 per night for a series of concerts in Brazil. Joseph Jefferson will begin a spring , tour April 23, under the management or his son Charley. It is reported that Clara Morris is obliged to take recuperative medicines on the stage while acting. The music-loving people of Toronto are making preparations for holding a great musical festival in June. Young men who play on the flute or clarionet in Santa Barbara, CaL, are ruthlessly fined by the authorities. Theodore Thomas, conductor ot we American opera compiuy in New York, receives a salary of $5,000 a month. Sara Bernhardt says that she expects ' to make 1,600,000 francs, or about $800,000 during her coming engagement in America. Mrs. Dinah Moloch Crate, the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," and other / famous novels, is reported to be writing a play for Mary Anderson. William J. Forguson, one of the prominent eccentric comedians of the American , stage, was twenty years ago a newsboy on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Forepaugh and Barnum have renewed their last year's agreement not to interfere with each other's circus territory. Forepaugh will show for the first time in Brooklyn. Mrs. Langtry is busy storing awav her wealth here. She has gradually been adding to her investments in mortgages in New York city until she now holds over $150,000. Count Miravallo and his three sistere, Senoritas Mariano, Ortiz de Zarata and Dona Carmen Garcia Trevella, are the living de?r?pnHants of the last Mexican Montezuma. Their pedigree is undoubted and unbroken. The family have been pensioned ever since the Aztec overthrow, and the Mexican republic new pay* over $7,000 per annum among tbem. . ' THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 10 Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w ? Calves, com'n to prime veals 5 @ %% Sheep Lambs 6 @ Hogs?Live Dressed, city 5#<a 5^ Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 8 60 @ 4 25 West, good to choice 4 00 <g 5 45 Wheat?No. 2, Red 91 92>* Rye?State 64 @ 65)^ Barley?Four-rowed State... <9 85 Corn?Ungrad. West, Mixed 45)?(3 51 Oats?White State 89 @ 41}? Mixed Western 36 @ 89 Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy. 91 @ 95 Straw?No. 1, Rye 80 @ 85 Lard?City Steam 6 20 @ 6 40 Butter?State Creamery.... 33 @ 85 Dairy <3 f* West. Im. Creamery 20 @ 24 Factory 10 @ 19 Cheese?State Factory 7 @ lj|/ft Skims 5%@ 7 Western 7 @ 9/a Eees?State and Penn 20 @ 20,* BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 35 @ 4 75 LaniDs?Western 4 25 @ 6 25 Steers?Western 4 (50 @ 5 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 00 @ 4 15 Flour?C'y ground n. process 5 25 @ 6 50 Wheat?No. 1, Hard Duluth. 94 @ 94% Corn?No. 2, Mixed New? @ 43% Oate?No. 2, Mixed Western 37#@ Barley?Two-rowed State... ? @ ? BOSTON*. Beef?Ex. plate and family. 11 00 @11 50 Hogs?Live 4 4% Northern Dressed '*%(& o,'S Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...lO r>0 @11 00 Flour?Winter Wheat pat's. 5 25 @ 5 50 Com?High Mixed 50 @ 50>? Oats?Extra White 43 @ 44 Rye?State 67 (?| ? WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 5 75 @ 6 00 Sheep?Live weight 41>f@ 5 Lambs 7 Hocrs?Northern, d. w PHILADELPHIA. ?! Flour?Penu. ex fnmiJy, good 4 25 @ 4 50 Wheat-No. 2, Red 90%@ 90# Rye?State @ 75 Corn?State Yellow 52 @ 5.5 Oats Mixed 40 @ 41 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 20 @ 22 . Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 1!K@ H