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Companies that insure against loss by j wind storms are fast being organized in tbe West. One of them lias this adyer tis:'ment in a Kansas City newspaper: J 4*Tne black monster of the air has already j appeared in 1^86. Take out a tornado policy in the Pioneer Cyclone and WindBtorm Company." Of the twenty original families in the rinnl'orfl r?rv1r?ntr Vnrtnn r?'?nnfV T\ 51II ftflfi. only five remain. They are rolling up wealth. The colony now covers a territory of eight square miles. Each farmer has on an average 100 acres under cultivation. Some have 200 acres. A windmill may be seen on nearly every farm. Meteorologists, it is said, have found | that there can be no thunder and lightning without rain. When thunder is heard beneath a clear sky, the report must either come from distant clouds or be the result of some other cause than a discharge of electricity. Harvest or heat lightning is produced by a distant storm. In the little German village of Scgeberg there lives a humble shoemaker named Honelach, who has collected 2,563 different kinds of beetles, 1,3'JO being native and 1,173 foreign. They arc all scientifically arranged and classified, and the collection is an exceedingly valuable one from a scientific point of view. Although he is now eighty years of age, Homelach is still an enthusiastic student of toetles, and he probably knows more about these insects than any man living. Texas has a new industry. The Clear Creek Crab Canning Company lias been organized in Galveston county, and is doing a big business in catching and canning crabs. The shells are removed entire except the claws, ground in a mill, and shipped to France, where they are manufactured into a dentrifice. The oil that arises on the vats where the crabs arc boiled is used in making soap, and is Baid to be equal to cocoanut oil for this purpose. The crabs themselves are packed in five-gallon cans, and are reckoned good. ?>VFew people will accept the remarkable views on opium smoking expressed by Mr. J. G. Seott, the traveler, in his book on Tonqu'n. lie asserts that opium used moderately is at least no more harmful than tobacco or alcohol, and that the opium pipe is a positive blessing after a hard day's march, or in countries where fever fumes rise thick out of the marshes and jungle. He says that it is only when a man puts himself to sleep with a half dozen or more pipes that it bccomes a curse. The opium habit is very prevalent among the French soldiers in Indochina. At the meeting of the Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia recently the Rev. Dr. W. P. Roberts delivered an address on "Suicide, its Causes, Laws and Cures." He said that the publication of the suicides of the world by the newspapers caused weak-minded and sick persons to tend toward suicide. In France the first part of the week predominates largely over the latter part in number of suicides, because Saturday is pay-day, Sunday drinking day, Monday repenting day and Tuesday the day of suicide. The remedy, he argued, against the suicidal inclinations is for all people to bccome devout Christians and fully believe in God. SV'l ??? An animal whose identity is at present unknown there, was landed in San Francisco lately from the interior of Japan, where it first saw the light of day. At a glance the curio?itv might bg taktn for Either a or a monkev. It is shaped ?O V * like the former about the head and neck, but otherwise somewhat resembles the monkey. The animal's favorite position is on its haunches, but with a little urging it stands ou its four feet, the body sloping downward from the head like a giraffe. The claws on the four feet are like those of a dog, but two extra pairs are furnished on the hind legs a couple of inches above the balls of the feet. The animal appears to be gentle, but has a strong, high-keyed bark, which it gives when spectators attempt to stir it ???_ The tongue, says a medical writer, is the indicator of the system. A whitecoated tongue indicates febrile disturbance; a brown, moist tongue indicates disordered digestion or overloaded prima: tiae; a brown, dry tongue indicates depressed vitality, as in typhoid conditions vid blood poisoning; a red, moist tongue indicates debility; a red. dry tongue indicates pyrexia, or any inflammatory fever; a "strawberry" tongue with prominent papillie indicates scarlet fever or rotheln; a red, glazed tongue indicates debility, with want of assimilative power of digestion; a tremulous, flabby tongue indicates delirium tremens; hesitancy in protruding the tongue indicates concussion of the brain; protrusion at one side indicates paralysis of the muscles on that tide. One of the small, rocky islands of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, is alive with rattlesnakes. It is supposed that the progenitors of these snakes were wafted to the island on bunches of floating reeds or rafts of driftwood. There are thousands, if not millions ?the people about the lake say millions?of the rattlers on the island, and their right to it there is "none to dispute." The reptiles have their homes among the rocks and feed upon the eggs and young of waterfowl and dead fish that are cast on the island. Stories have been told of these snakes rushing forth in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any one landing upon the island. The rattlesnakes of the island, when disturbed, glide away and hide themselves in the crevices of the rocks, just as would similar snakes on the mainland, though they halt and /;how fight when hard pressed. I A United States Treasury expert says that it is very difficult to detect counterfeit gold coin. He says: "Those filled with platinum have a fair ring and the joint in the edge is effaced by rcmiliing. | Platinum is worth only ab >ut one-third j of the value of gold, weight for weight. | I have $20 gold pieccs out of which $14 ! worth of gold had been taken and re- j placed by platinum, making an exceed ingly dangerous counterfeit, which only a good jud::c of coin can detect. The ring is good and the weight is there, while the whole outside of the coin is genuine." Farm lands in England continue to decrease in value so much in extent as to cause serious alarm over there. The loans made on mortgages by large moneyed institutions are above the value of the estates, so that they cannot be converted into cash, and the credit of some of the institutions is in consequence gradually though steadily being impaired. Even the best property of that kind is affected by the financial depression. A very desirable estate near Castle Howard was lately offered at auction, and ?7,000 was the best bid, although, 6cven years ago, it sold for ?12,500. A singular fact, that, notwithstanding the troubles in Ireland and the depreciation of agricultural interests there, land in Ufl ie 5n rv%Arn rlomnn/l litlU \JX 1 kO UtObilVbO AO AAA Uiv^v VkV4Ut?u%? . than in the English counties. Some of | the local newspapers, indeed, declare j that the primary cause of all the agrarian disturbances of Ireland is due to the overbidding for land. But there are so many and so contradictory opinions concerning the present adversities in Great Britain that it is impossible to tell to what they are attributable. This is a great country, and in nothing greater than the diversity and remarkable originality of the names bestowed on some of the towns. Sometimes these are embarrassing, but the San Francisco Chronicle shows how unpleasant suggestions may be avoided: "Some day when the people begin to study the nomenclature of this country they will be puzzled considerably to tell where some of the names came from. Quite likely they will go clear away back centuries before '49 and prove that Amcrica must have been known to ihe ancient Assyrians. There i will be lots of fun for the future archjeologists. There is a station on one of the railroads, and a town with a church, a saloon and the usual camp followers of civilization, which bears the euphonious name of Eltopia. The ancient Greeks ; may, perhaps, be held responsible for it in the future, but the plain fact is that a , congregation and a minister wandered out , to that place and found it all too incon- 1 venient to address their religious reports from a place bearing the name given to | it by the miners of '"Hell to Pay,'' so they changcd it into Eltopia." ??. _ i Police Sergeant Brooks, who nour- J ished the Department of Information at j infancy and brought it up to be a necessity at the New York Police Headquar- j tors, has compiled a statistical table, i which is interesting as tending to show ' now erratic are me uauiis 01 some 01 i Gotham's people. It is to this depart ment that all mysterious disappearances ] re reported. The method adopted to 1 discover persons lost is to telegraph a description to all police precints, exam- i ine the records at the morgue and hos- ( pitals and inform the press. From Ser- i geant Brook's table it is learned that J about GOO persons are reported as miss- i ing each year. Of these 100 are between the ages of fourteen and twenty, 200 be tween twenty ana imrry, iuu Detween , thirty and forty, 100 between forty and fifty and 100 fifty and over. Alout seventy-five per cent, are males and belong to the poorer classes. An average of ninety per cent, is accounted for. The causes of disappea-ar.ce are domestic difficulties, home restraints, lack of work, debauches, mental aberation and occasionally defaults and embezzlements. Feeding His Flock. The Rev. Freeman "Wills, Yic.ir of St. Agatha, Shoreditch, London, pitying the poor people who have to pay exorbitant prices for butcher's meat, bought a couplc of frozen New Zealand sheep, had them cut up in a Finsbury school-room, and 6entthe schoolboys round to tell the people what he was about. He sold his stock at a profit of two shillings a sliecp, and next week bought six. Very soon he set up a regular shop and engaged a trustworthy manager, who soon perceived that it would be just as easy to buy for several shops as for one, and more profitable. Accordingly, four "Eastward Ho meat stores" have been established?one in j r.1 J!i-L i_ TT 1 I Dnoreuucu, one iu xiuiKiiey, uiiv ni ouimford Hill, and another in King's Ho:id, Chelsea. The trade at these four shops averages about ?'200 a week, or a business of some ?10,000 a year. They ju>t pay their way and enable Mr. Wills to give five per cent, on the capital some of his friends have intrusted to him, while the patrons of these new establishments get prime English legs of mutton at 8d. a pound, frozen imported legs at 7d., and shoulders at fid. An inerease of such stores would help to relieve purchasers from the extortions of ordinary butchers, and the tax paid to intermediate salesmen.?London Neu:?. A Bridegroom Injured by Rice. The danger of throwing rice at weddings has just been exemplified. Th? Vicar of St. James the Less. Bethnal Green, has for many years solemnized the ceremony of marriage free to any who chose to avail themselves of his kindness. It is usual for the friends to wait | outside and give the couples a reception i with a shower of rice, and to such an ex- I tent has the practice grown that the ! neighboring grocers keep parcels ready i packed for the occasion. The brides are ' generally protected by the veils; but the : brigegrooms arc less fortunate, and th'.i other day one of them received several j grains in his eyes. After a vain attempt . ito clear his eyes he was led to a surgery ' adjacent, and he will now have to pa.k8 i in the ward of a hospital what would i have been his honeymoon. It appears that this is not by any means the first | serious accident caused in this way.? | Pall Mall Gazette. i I NATURE'S CONVULSIONS. Violent Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption in Central America. The Capital City of Nicaragua Partly Destroyed. Mr. John Hot: likiss, a prominent manufacturer of Birmingham, England, arrived at Albany, N. Y., a few days since from Real jo, Nicaragua. He says that the day before be sailed (May 22) there was a terrific eruption from the volcano Moinotombo. Telegraphic information was received at Realjo on the ?id to the effect that the city of Managua, the capital of the country, bad been practically destroyed by the violent earthquake* which" accompanied the eruption. The earth upon which the city was built suddenly sank, soon after the convulsions be^an, three feet below its former level. All buildings of any considerable value were completely wrecked. It was reported that there was loss of life, but how great was not known when the Pacific Mail steamer sailed. Telegraphic intelligence from a town at the terminus of a railroad forty miles from Realjo was even more star-ling. That place was being fast buried beneath hot volcanic ashes, and many lives had been lost. In response to the appeal for help from the survivors, a train was made up at Realjo and seut out about two hours before the Pacific Mail steamer left the port. The situation in Realjo besan to crow somewhat threatening, and the departure of the steamer was somewhat hastened on that account. The sky became dark and of a strange gray tint. Fine volcanic a' hes began to fall, and the atmosphere became oppressive and breathing painful. Mr. Hotchkiss says the fall of ashes increased as the ship left the harbor, and they continued to sift down upon the ue.-ks until the vessel was fully forty miles out. Over the interior of the country toward the volcano there appeared to hang a dense dark cloud. The decks of the ship received a coating about half an inch deep of tho volvanic ashes before getting beyoni reach of the shower. Mr. Hot 'hkiss brought with him a spe; imeu. The ashes are a dry gray dust ?r powler. Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which is said to be destroyed, is a city of about 10,000 inhabitants. It had a national palace, several churches, City Hall, and other large buildings. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Detroits are making a gfcrong fight with Chicago for first place. This has been a season of surprises so far. Not a prediction has been verified. The Southern clubs are now playing good ball and all are pretty evenly matched. Bennett ha* caught in twenty-five out of twenty-seven games played by Detroit. The Kansas Citys are known as the stormy petrels of the league. They seem to carry bad weather in their wake. It is not an unreasonable guess to say that about 50,000 persons paid to see the various ' games on the professional grounds in or near 1 Hew York on Decoration Day. Trrnrnw fV?A Viaowiocf in tllA TA^7U6 ' are first basemen, two are pitchers, one a catcher, one a third baseman, another a short stop and the others outfielders. Manning, of Detroit, had played without an error in twenty-one games previous to an 1 accident in New York which will incapaci- i tate him from playing for some time. I It is singular that of the first dozen leading batsmen of the Association no less than six are pitchers. Of the remaining six four are < outfielders, one an infielder and one a catcher. I In Tate, Poorman, Sam Wise, Nash aud 1 Johnston the Bostons have a fine quintet of great base runners. They keep the pitcher "guessing" as to their next move when on j bases. Centre-fielder Bill Crowley, of J Charleston, recently accomplished the feat ' of catching a ball muffed by Left-fielder Gil- ' man ere it reached the ground by a wonderful dive. Over 25,000 peopb attended the first six j james played by the Bostons at home, which ( is pretty good support of a team that had, ] up to that time, lost thi ea out of every four , james played. *t ~ *? ? ? vtnll famri Tt* | IXEW I Urtli. 13 a tvuuucum uwi WM. the three New York-Dotroit games the De- t troits received fifteen cents for each ot' the 34,000 spectators who paid to see the game, ] the New Yorks' share being thirty-five cents each, beside the proceeds from the sale of ibout 15,000 grand stand seats. Ball players in Pittsburg are talking j about the catcher of an amateur club, who j <vas remarkable for catching many batsmen out on foul tips, even when the bat didn't . 5eem to strike within three or four inches of ' the ball. An investigation revealed that the catcher had a gum band attached to his glove, and when he desired to foul out a man Be would raise the band with one finger, and when the ball passed under the bat release it. ! Tne band would snap against the glove and 1 nil within bearing would hear a supposed foul tip. national league record. ; t!ron L'wt. Won Lost ! Detroit 30 6 Philadelphia..17 14 ' Chicago 24 7 Boston 11 22 New York...21 12 Washington...6 22 i St. Louis 11 23 Kansas City...8 18 I american association record. IWw Lost. H'ou Loft. St. Louis ...26 19 I Pittsburg,...25 19 Brooklyn. ...24 16 | Cincinnati... 19 27 Athletic 22 18 Louisville.. ..22 23 Baltimore... 17 23 | Metropolitan. 15 25 southern league record. H'on Lost. Ifon Lost Atlanta 25 18 | Macon 21 20 Augusta ia m | oavannan... zi 10 Charleston... 15 24 | Nashville 27 15 ) Chattanooga . 15 20 | Memphis....22 22 EASTERN LEAGUE RECORD. With tha games played by the Long Island and Providen-e clubs, who have disbanded, thrown out the contest for the mastery ol the Eastern League is as follows: Won Lost. Woii Lost. Bridgeport... 7 13 Meriden 4 14 Hartford 11 9 Newark 12 7 Jersey City... 8 9 Waterbury. ..15 5 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Wan Lout. Won Lost. Utica 12 10 I Binghamton. 7 lti Toronto 15 10 j Buffalo 10 13 Syracuse... 18 (5 I Hamilton?12 II Rochester .. .12 10 | Oswego 7 1? NEWSY GLEANINGS. First quality of butter sells in Minnesota at sixteen cents a pound. A bunch of oats eight feet three inches in height is displayed at Winter, CaL Crystallized violets at Stt a pound are the very latest things in confectionery. "Azov" wheat, recently imported from Russia, is doing splendidly in Manitoba. A wooden dish manufactory at Mancelona, Mich., ships a car load of dishes a day. A Methodist missionary has been appointed chief physician of the Chinese army. More than 45,000,000 persons have passed over the Brooklyn bridge since it was opened to travel. A swarm of bees attacked a freight train in Nebraska, and it was fully an hour before the engineer could proceed. There are 179,000 bicycle riders in Great Britain, SO,030 on the continent of Europe, 1 * r/i/i auu i j'juu iu cuo vmuvu Millions of small jelly fish are being cast j upon the California coast. Why so many appear at this time is a mystary. New York was astonished recently by the arrival of a cargo of ice from Norway. The article is sometimes taken from Maine to India. Less than thirty years ago ice from Alaska was retailed in Sacramento. Mrs. Margaret Arnold, of New Holland, Ohio, is lO-J years old. Her youngest son, with whom she lives, is a sprightly young man of seventy-two. She has two sisters living in Iowa, one of whom is IOC and the other ll:{ years old. A new cotton-picking machine has been invented and patented, which, it is claimed, fulfills all the conditions required of such an arrangement. It is the work of a Georgia inventor, Owen T. Bugg, and, though perfected too late to do any work on the late crop, will be put to work to test its capacity on the next one. NEWS SUMMARY Fa.stcrn an<l Middle States. Sixty New York car-drivers have been arrested for rioting during the recant tie-up of the various lines. Eight young men. while fishing on Long Pond Lake, near Hazeltoo, Penn., were thrown into the water by the capsizing of their boats. Two of them were drowned. At a meeting of prominent Irish-Americans in New York, held for the purpose of raising money to aid Parnell ana his Irish Hnnifi KuIp frillnwftrs S14.0.10 was immedi ately subscribed, and an appeal "to all lovers of liberty'' was issued. Winfikld B. Thompson, twenty-four vears old, a me.lical student, of Kansas City, Mo., shot and killed his bride of two weeks in their room at a New York hotel, and then sent four bullets crashing into his own body, inflicting fatal wounds. He rafused to assign any reason for the act The sloop Friscilla won the first of the series of races given by the New York Yacht Club to see which vessel would contest with the English for the America's Cup in the next international race. The Puritan, which defeated the Genesta last year, came in last Twentt-three miners recently convicted of riot and conspiracy have been sentcuced at Washington, Penn,. :o eight months' imprisonment. South and West. The Al abama Democrats have nominated Thomas Seay for Governor, together with a full State ticket comprising the present officials. Mad dogs have bitten many cattle, horses, hogs and dogs in and about Yankton, Dak., and fifty cases of hydrophobia among animals are reported. Stock is dying at a rapid rate. Jenkins Wright (colored) was hanged at Hampton Court Hcu>e, S. C., for wife murder. and Dennis Boyd (colored), w;is hanged at Belleville, Bossier parish, La, for the murder of David Hfias. A fire at Muscatine, Iowa, has destroyed a space of six blo:-ks filled with lumber, a sawmill valued at $1/0,000, four dwellings and four bridges. Officer Hansen-, the seventh Chicago policeman fatally wounded by the bombthrowing Anarchists, has just died in the hospital. r\- 11 ?1 -* i UK. j\H iu.l ^ r unu, CUI'ui uj. iuc Kansas City (Mo.) Times, the leading paper between St. Louis and San Francisco, was shot and r?riously wounded while riding in a street car at Kansas City by W. L. Carlisle, a lawyer. Two other passengers in the car? a prominent merchant named Hale and a young laciy?were wounded by Carlisle. The shooting grew out of attacks upon Carlisle in the Times. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company has refused to transport 5,000 barrels of b3er from Chicago to a firm in Marshalltown. Iowa. The firm has brought suit for $10,0ti0 damages. Washington. The Sonate Committee on Public Lands has ordered a favorable report on the House bill to repeal the pre-emption timber culture uud desert land accs, with an amendment submitting the provisions of the Senate bill an the same subject for thus a contained in the House bill. President Cleveland has accepted the honorary presidency of the American Exhibition to lake place in London in May. 1NS7. He will open the Exhibition from the White House by cable. The grandson of i:he Emperor of Brazil, now on a visit to th is c ountry, made a call upon the President a few days since, and the following evening attended the State reception. As agreed upon in committee, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill appropriates #21,J.Vi,822. The estimates aggregated $32,554,MK). The appropriation for the present year was $20,205,747. Additional postmasters nominated by i-*"* .?1T. Qlooiuir \ot iplf Mass., Edward P. Kunbuil, inswich, Mass.; Uharles Kieth, Green:3eld. Mass.; Miner Samons, Catiisteo, N. Y.: Herman Baumer, Johnstowu, Penu.; Th3tna> Brady, Bergen Point, N. J.: Edward MeClune, Fairfield, 111.; Julia D. Young, Wright's Grove, [II.; Henry W. Clenaennin, Sprinzfield, [11.: David W. Flours, Newton, Iowa; Tohn C. Logue, Central City, Neb.; H. H. Dolen, Brownsville, Neb.; Charles E. Morrell, Kirwiu, Neb.; Isaac T. Carr, Neilsville, Wis.; Wilson 0. Lyon, Elk Horn, Wis.; Consider A. Stacey. Teeumseh, Mich.; AnIrew Phlegar, Bodie, Cal.; B. F. Mahon, Anaconda, Mont.; William J. Brynan, San Francisco. * Foretca. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted :o expel from Franca the heads of families ieretofure reigning in l;hat country. Terrible storms and floods have prevail?;! In the French provinces. Three shocks of earthquake visited Poictiers. At Rouhaix lightring destroyed a number of houses and killed several people. One hundred natives and ten English jersons lo-.t. their lives and several villages tvere destroyed through the erupl;ion of the .ol.ano of Tarawera, in New Zealaud. Additional riotous demonstrations have occurred at Sligo, Ireland. The British jrovernn ent has put Ulster und>;r martial [aw. 1 A Chilian bark was wrecked. atVf.lpa ai90 during a storm, and thirteen persons on board, including the captain, nis wile ana their three children, were drowned. The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, is in ashes. Threo thousand people have been rendered homeless. The suicide of the late King Ludwig has caused great excitement throughout Bavaria, and a full investigation of the manner of his death is demauded, assertions having been made that it was not a case of self-murder, but of assassination. musical and dramatic. "Nanon" is said to have earned for Mr. Conried ?10,000 in royalties during the past season. The American Opera Company had a great financial as well as artistic success in Chicago. Fanny Davenport will begin her next ?11 urifK ix t'onort/irv flf . SCtt^UU uu uv-uyucj. 11 niuu M - ?v.. J ? eight plays. Sara Jewett, the favorite Boston actress, was at on*i time a Treasury girl at Washington. A Frenchman has invented an automaton which plays upon the piano with expression and brilliancy. "Ermixie," the aew comic opera, is enjoying an unprecedented financial success tit the Casino, New York. Mrs. Linotry is negotiating for the purchase of a site for a theatre which she proposes to build in London. Seven sweet girls of Pleasant Lake, Mich., have organized a cornet band and have been serenading Jackson people. jMmk. Path, who will come to this couutry next JNovombjr tor a concert tour, win ume Mme. Scalchi and Signor G&lassi in her company. Belle Bovd (Mrs. r. B. Hammond), who figured during the war as a Confederate spy, is about organizing a company to appear in a war pie ce. "The Khedive'' will be the name of Gilbert and Sull van's new opera. It will probably be produced in New York 1he early pari of November Salvint, the Italian tragedian, is wort! $000,000, over one-third of which he made it) this country. He lives in the most ecDuorn ical me.nner in his Italian homo. Mme. Nilsson has engaged tc make a faro well tour of Euro]>e next season, beg uning October l."> and ending April 15. 188?. Sh< will v?sit all the priucipal cities from St Petersburg and Constantinople to Paris and Madrid. The receipts of the "Mikado"' performances at one theatre in New York during an engagement of thirty-eight weeks were no les than $i8o,000, these being the ;performances in whi?h Gilbert and Sullivan were financially interested. Mtsfi Margaret Mather Las played 985 times in public during the past four years She hes never during that time missed an en gagement, been late at a performance oi caused a stage wait London has a musical com poser twenty two years old named Eugene cl'Albert H? talks contemptuously of "Papa Beethoven,' and has produced several symphonies. Ht is a Scotchman, a.nd people regnrd him a; < musical prodigy. '?*: \'X":~ *y THE TARIFF BILL BEATEN. Its Consideration Defeated in the House of Representatives. A Majority of Seventeen Against Taking Up the Measure. The Morrison Tariff bill has been defeated , in the House of Representatives. Its opponents had determined never to let it reach a i debatable point, and it was only a matter of ] a roll call. The vote was not on the passage J of the bill, but on a motion to go into Committee nf the Whnio ty-i mncirlor it. 1 Such a motion cannot be debated and the 1 country was spare 1 a flood of tariff speeches. At 10:3 p. m., Mr. Morrison rose in his place < and in a moment the House was as still as 1 if the chamber had been empty. Mr. Morrison moved that the House go into com- , mitteo of the whole on the revenue bills. On j this motion he demande 1 the yeas and tiays, ] and Mr. McKinley, on behalf of the oppo- 1 nentsof the bill, joined in the demand. The yeas and nays were ordered unani- , mously, and the motion was defeated?yeas, , 140: nays, 157. | The following Republicans voted for the motion: Messrs. James (N. Y.), Nelson, Strait, Wakefield (Minn.), The following Democrats voted in the negative; Arnot (N. Y.), Bliss (N. Y.). Boyle (Penn.), Campbell (Ohio), Campbell, Timothy (N. Y.), Curtin (Penn.), Dowdney (N. Y.), Ellsberry (Ohio),Ermentrout (Penn.), Findlay (Md.), Foran (Ohio), Gay (La.), Geddes (0.), Green (N. J.), Henley \ (Cal.), Lawler (HL), Le Fevre (Ohio), j Martin (Ala.), McAdoo (N. J.), Merriman (V V * ixr -v \ t>:a 1. ,vr t > ? \A1# A . / J 111. X . / , 1 IUWI h. U.J, Pindar (N. Y.), Randall (Penn.), Seney (Ohio), Sowden (Penn.), Spriggs (N. Y.), Stahlnecker (N. Y.). St. Martin (La.). Viele (N. Y.), Wallace (La.), Ward (111.), Warner (Ohio), Wilkins (Ohio). Messrs. Bragg. Jones (Ala.), Aiken, Reid, Hall, White, (Minn.), Eldridge. Dockery, Cox, Collins, Murphy, Eden and Hatch, who would have voted in favor of the motion, wtxe paired with Pierce. Burleigh, Hanback, Van Sehaick, Bunnell, Heist, Houck, White, (Penn.), Havnes, Stevenson, Hitt. Pettibone and Caswell, who would have voted against it Of the members paired, Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, has never taken the oath of o^ice, having been ill since the beginning of thu session. Ihe only member absent and r unpaired was Mr. Frederick, of Iowa, who j was confined to his home by illness. t The roll call was watched with great inter- ? est both on the floor and in the galleries, and an unusual silence prevailed as the r clear tones of the Clerk enunciated each \ name. The only break in the silence r o.-eurred when Mr. Holman, who had B juiit returned on an afternoon train ? from a visit to his district, responded c in the affirmative when his name was called, t Ho was greeted with a round of applause, j which broke out afresh when Speaker Car- j lisle directed the clerk to call his name, cast t his vote in favor of the motion. e There was loud clapping of hands on the ? Republican side when the vote was an- -\ nounced. Mr. Morrison rose, cool and unruf- t fled, ahd said: . t "I desire to give notice that I shall move to t taVe up the bill on Tuesday next." < Mr. McKinley gave notice that the op- j ponents of the bill would try and be present j ou that day. ( Mr. Morrison said he was not disappointed ] in the result, and that he had forseen it for i many months, but this was a thing to which \ the party and the Administration were j pledged, and he lihad to make the fight, hit or ( miss." When asked why he intended ti again attempt to call up the bill he said with a ornila- "Tf will ffivn ham o nn fn pent," but ho declined to express any opinion ? as to whether he expected a change in the re- J suit. 3 LATER NEWS. t Tuf. Vermont Republican State ticket is F headed by IS. J. Ormsbee for Governor. The [ resolutions adopted by the convention ar- a raign the Democratic party and the Admin- v istratioii in relation to the disposal of Federal J offices in Vermont; condemn the Morrison a Tariff bill; take a radical stand against in- t temperauce; favor Gladstone's Irish Home Rule measures, and urge Congress to legislate l a^aiu^b victual gat IUC. x The large provision packing-house of c Sporry & Barnes and its contents, on the Long Wharf, New Haven, Conn., have been burned. The loss will amount to $350,000. The house was the most extensive of the kind in New England. Alfred A. Taylor has been nominated for Governor by the Tennessee Republicans. The Indianapolis Democrats have renominated W. S. Holinan for Congress. An attempt has been made to blow up M. M. Secor. ex-Mayor of Racine, Wis., by placing a bomb in front of his house in such a position that his carriage would pass over and explode the instrunnnt of death. The bomb exploded while Mr. Secor wa-t indoors, and badly wounded a Bohemian named Jambor, who was arrested on suspicion. Tjtit finnntfl has reieeted the nominations of John C. Shields, of Michigan, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, and Abraham Rose to be postmaster at Vin. ton, Iowa. Prominent confirmations are: A. P. Swineford, of Michigan, Governor of Alaska, and Joseph C. Hendrix, postmaster, at Brooklyn. During an election at Santiago, Chili, a great riot occurred. Forty persons, including a prominent member of the Radical party, were killed and many injured. Vast crowds viewed the remains of King Ludwig as they lay in state at Munich. In a railroad accident near Macagua, Cuba, caused by a train running off the track, fourteen persons were wounded. Contrary to expectations, Gladstone is to be vigorously opposed by the Conservatives in his contest for a seat in t&e Mouse or tornmons from the Midlothian district His opponent is Colonel Campbell Walker. An engineer, two brakemen aud a fireman were killeJ and a conductor seriously injured by the breaking of a car axle near Foxburg, Fenn. The Maine Prohibitionists have nominated Aaron Clark for Governor. The sloop Priscilla won for the second time in the New York Yacht Club's regatta. The Senate has rejected the nomination of John L. Handlcy to be Postmaster at Fairfield, 111. According to a statement of Secretary Iarnar, transmitted to the Senate, there are employed in the Interior Department in re ceiving, folding aud distributing public doc uments au average of twenty persons at a cost of between $ 15,000 and tl(i,(XKi a year. The Secretary ?ays there ought lo be establish^l some better s}*stem of distribution of tbe publications of the government. Among the documents which have bee i submitted to the Belgiau Diet to prove the insanity of the lat'3 King Ludwig is a decree of the deai monarch sentencing all the Min. inters to death, copies of which were sent to s.ll the memltcrs of the Government, and a de.-reo sentencing a number of the Ministers to banishment to America. The affidavits of thirty persons have also been subinitt?d, in which it is said that the King injured them by throwing at them knives, china and glass. There is also a document relating to a pro{>o<al of the King to form a Cabinet, with his >alet as President. 1 France has taken possession of the New J Hebrides Islands. t Gladstone's journey from England to c Scotland, to enter upon his campaign for a i return to Parliament, was a continuous ova- c tion, immense crowds greeting him with j hearty cheers at every railway station. i i ' ' r '/ : .1 SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS Senate Sessions. 119th Day.?The Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill was taken up, and Mr. George spoke in l'avor of it. Mr. Sherman argued that Congress had no right to forfeit lands where the road had been completed, even after the time fixed for its completion. After further debate the bill went over. 120th Day.?After routine morning business, Mr. Whitthorue took the floor in favor of Mr. Frye's bill '"to promote the political progress and commercial prosperity of the American nation. ' The Army Appropriation bill'was parsed. The amount name! is$35,850,874....Mr. MilInr nrn-onf o natifiAn tVia Vour VArl Chamber of Commerce praying for au appropriate n of $1,000,000 for deepening the water over Sandy Hook bar to thirty feet at low tide. 121st Day.?The Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill was taken up and Mr. Call took the floor and resumed his remarks in support of the proposition to forfeit all lands not earned within the time prescribed by Congress. Mr. Maxey held that all government grants of railroad lands should be forfeited that had not been earned within the time prescribed by the granting acts. Mr. Mitchell offered au amendment to exclude from forfeiture the lands co-terminous with the completed portion of the Cascade branch. 122d Day.?The Northern Pacific Forfeiture bil< was debated further, and finally passed by 42 yeas to 1 nay (Mr. Blair). The bill as passed declares forfeited so much of the lands granted to that company as are 2o-terminous with that part of its main line which extends from Wallula Junction in Portland, and that Dart of the Cascade branch which shall not have been completed at the iate of the passage of this bill, and makes the right of way in the Territories subject to taxation. Nothing in the act is to be construed to waive any right of the United States to forfeit any other lands granted to them, for failure, past or future, to comply with the conditions of the grant isou jjay.?Mr. uawes presented a memorial of the Massachusetts Legislature. It rentes that the "General Court" of Massachuetts views with deep concern the recent in;erferances of the Government of Canada vith the rights of fishermen of the United States, and urges Congress to secure mmediate" relief for that class of sitlzens. Mr. Dawes introduced a bill au;horizing the President, when commercial privileges are denied to United States vessels n foreign ports, to prohibit all commercial privileges in United States ports to vessels of he power so denying,or to vessels of any provnce,colony,or dependency of such power Che Invalid Pension Appropriation bill was passed as reported by the Senate Committee >n Appropriations The Military Appreciation bill was passed?*2 yeas to 4 nays.... klr. Wilson addressed the Senate on the Posal bill, advocating the increase of the rate of postage on merchandise. 124th Day.?A large number of bills were passed. Among those of national importance vas that providing for the inspection of >ork products exported to foreign countries ind prohibiting the importation of adulterited foods. 'Ihe bill authorizes the Pj ?silent, in his discretion, by proclamaion, to place an embargo upon the mportation of articles of food from counties that shut their ports against our prodict-5. Another bill that was unanimously idopted was Mr. Frye's proposition for a :ongress of American nations to be held in tVashington for the purpose of considering neasures tending to promote the peace md commercial intercourse of the na,ions of this hemisphere. This bill carried in effect the recommendation of ;he South American Commission. The bill ? appoint a temporary Assistant Secretary 3f the Treasury to act during the illness of Mr. Manning was also passed The Legisative, Executive and Judicial Appropria;lon bill was received from the House of Representatives, and referred to the Committee 41 Appropriations. HonseSessl ons. 138th Day.?The Senate bill to legal iza he incorporation of trades unions was >assed The Legislative, Executive and fudicial appropriation bill was discussed urther. Mr. Allen (Miss.) offered an amendnent, which was rejected, providing that tone of the money appropriated for the coningent funds shall be used in paying the extenses of the funeral of any member of Conjess. Mr. Findlay(Md.)made a speech defendng the Civil Service law, and engaged in an Jtercation with Mr. Compton (Md.), during vhich the House was in an uproar. The yivil Service section of the bill having been eached, Mr. Morrison made a point of order .gainst the provision changing the rules of he Commission, and pending a decision the ^ommittje rose. 1314th Day.?The House resumed debate ipon the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Lpppropriation bills. The discussion was :onnned to the civil service clause. Mr. iolman defended it, and Mr. Morrison enewed his attack upon the Appropriaion Committee, The latter made a point if order against the clause that it was new egislation, and therefore ought to be subnif+Asl f/\ flia Wnncn in t.So chfvnfi nf A .QPnA ate bill. This point was debated at length, ilr. Reed (Me.) attacked Mr. Holman and Mr. ieagan and said that the Appropriation Committee, instead of making an iffort to properly reduce taxaion, had dirscted its attention to [nibbles and petty affairs about the few alaries. Mr. Morrison's point of order was nentioned The evening session was demoted to the passing of pension bills. 14uth Day.?The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the Atlantic and Pa:i9c Land Forfeiture bill....Mr. Wheeler Ala.) offered a resolution reciting the resoution offered some days ago by Mr. Keley, of Pennsylvania, directing the public >rinter to omit from the permanent rec>rd the speech delivered by Mr. Wheeler ipon Edwiu M Stanton, saying that the AKolution is so fram?d as to render it im >robable that the House will adopt it, and isking for the appointment of a special comnittee to examine the speech and expunge herefrom any unjust reflection upon Edwin >1. Stanton, or any expression in regard o Abraham Lincoln which is not ommendatory and eulogistic.... Mr. lewitt (N. Y.) offered a resolution for he appointment of a joint committee of hrea Senators and five Representatives to consider in what maimer can best be cele>rated the centennial anniversary of the or;anization of the Constitutional Government if the United States, the first meeting of Congress, and the inauguration of George Vashington as President, which will occur in April 30, 1SS1). 141st Day.?The House, after routine busiiess, went into Committee of the Whole on be Legislative Appropriation bilL The pendDg amendment was that offered by Mr. )'Neill of Missouri restoring the salary of the Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis to $4,500, be amount appropriated by the bill being 4,000. Mr. O'Neill's amendment was greed to, as was al?o an amendment offered ?y Mr. Felton, of California, increasing to ?i,000 the salary of the Assistant Treasurer t San Francisco. Mr. Laird (Neb.) moved o strike out the clause appropriating 110,000 o pay the per diem of inspectors and clerks >f the General Land Office to investigate raudulent land entries. Rejected. On notion of Mr. Throckmorton (Texas) the alary of the Commissioner of Pensions was ixed at $4.<HX). 142d Day.?Mr. Morrison (111.) from the Committee on Ways aud Meaus, reported jack adversely a resolution declaring in avor of the restoration of the wool tariff of .8(57, and a resolution expressing the sense of Congress as adverse to any change n the present wool tariff, and hey were laid upon the table....In Committee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropriation bill, Mr. Cannon (111.) offered in amendment, which was agreed to, increasng the appropriations for the Bureau of ^abor in the aggregate so as to make he appropriation equal to the estimates of he Commissioner of Labor. Mr. Caball (Va.) )ffered an amendment reducing from $2,(150,100 to $1,IKK),000 the appropriation for the claries and expense* of agents, surveyors, jaugers, aud storekeepers in the Bu eau of Internal Revenue. Agreed to" ["he committee then rose and reported the bill ;o the IIou.<e. The ameudments agre.'d to in onmiittee increasing the compensatiou of he Assistant Treasurers at Chicago.Sr. Louis, Boston and San Francisco were rejected. The intendment appropriating $10,00(1 for additional emergency clerks, messengers and watchmen at the Sub-Treasury at New York vas also rejectetl. The other amendments ivere agreed to iu grosss and the bill was lassed. H:Jd Day.?Mr. Randall reported from the Appropriations Committee tue Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The bill appropriates i-J1,0.>S,K-*J.04, being $12,500,77$. 55 less linu the regular estimates, and $15,l00,T78.ty> Jess than the aggregate regular in t supplemental estimates considered by the committee. The appropriations for the curent year aggregated $26,205,747,Oii. or $5,51,'J25.02 more than is recommended in the lew bill Consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill was beeun. - V* rza A CITY 1AM ,5 Vancouver, in British Columbia, Swept Away by the Flames. , . Numerous Lives Lost and 1,000 Persons Rendered Homeless. The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, has been destroyed by fire, every building succumbing to the flames. At least ten per- ' sons lost their lives. A dispatch from the .> stricken city gives the following particulars: All day Sunday there had been a steady wind from the northwest, and the brush flr? on the Canadian Pacific Railway lots were fanned to such an extent as to fill Vancouver with smoke. Nobody, however, had any idea of danger. Shortly after 1 p. u. several persons began to consider the situa- ' tion threateniug, but the smoke was _ so dense that they found it impossible to direct their steps to the exact location of its source. Soon a stable near th6 Colonial Ho- ~J~ tel was seen to be on fire. The alarm was given, but the people raid no attention for some time. The wina by this time had increased to a gale, and fanned the flames to ? mass of raging fire. One of the tirst buildings to go was MacCartney's drug store, followed by the office of the Vancouver Aews. The flames shot across Abbott street with astounding rapidity, and almost before the people realized it the whole western portion of the city was in a blaze. The excitement was intense. Water street was filled with smoke and flying cinders, and people were hurrying with what effects they could gather in their baste to a. place of safety. . . . In less time than it takes to describe it the fire had reached Carroll street. Some merchants attempted to remove their goods to a. place of saftty, but before their horses were ready the teamsters themselves were obliged to fly for their lives. All hope of saving much property was now abandoned. The falling timber and stumps on each side of the road proved as serious a menace to the fugitives as the burning houses of the doomed city. yM JJuring the confusion, when rowdies and roughs saw that every one was leaving, thiy entered the saloons, which had been left unprotected, and commenced drinking. Many a one was seen staggering along the streets * with a keg of beer on his shoulder, and carrying as many bottles of liquor as he could appropriate. Men were seen sitting completely hemmed in by the fire, and apparently oblivious to their surroundings, drinking liquor. The steamer Dunsmuir was at the wharf to receive people,and, with several other steamers, conveyed a large number over to Moodyville. The fames subsided as suddenly as they had risen, and by 6 p. M. some venturesome persons had already made their way along the roads of the destroyed city, and before dark the work of searching for the bodies of the victims began. In a short time the remains of several persons were discovered,and up to 10 o'clock on Monday morning nine bodies, some of which were burned beyond recognition, bad been found. There is some uncertainty about the exact number recovered, as in some cases only a handful of charred bonts was found. The people appear to be hopeful, and they are determined at onco to begin the reconstruction of the city. Some have already got building material on the ground. The total loss is estimated at $1,000,000. One thousand persons are homeless. A thousand men are at work clearing np 1 ; debris for the railroad company. Many men lost thei-e all, but are determined to start )' again. The property loss falls directly oa the pioneer element of the new city. Hundreds of people are camping out There are meagre faci lities for the relief of the suffer^ . ' -2 ers. Families were compelled to abandon their homes at a moment's warning and flee for their lives. Business men in search of valuables were forced to rush through flames and smoke. The whole populace were panic stricken. A number of persons sought refuge in the water. One man was found in a well, where he had lowered himself to escape the flames. Few of the people have more than the clothes they stand in. Of the ten bodies recovered only three have been identified. THE WHITE HOUSE BRIDE. Mrs. Cleveland Dnly Installed at a Grand Official Reception. A great crowd of civil and military dignitaries was preseut at the. White House upoD the night of the 15th, the event being the first official reception in honor J of Mrs. Cleveland. There was no formal reception of any one section of the officials, as upon New Year's Day. All came in as they could and were presented haphazard as they succeeded in fighting their way in. Some of the prin?ipal Diplomats, the Justices and the Cabinet officers wire hroueht in the Drivate wav. but the majors ity fought their way in through the m&ia doorway. No refreshments were served. Promptly at 9 olclock the President, with Mrs. Cleveland upon his arm, came down the west stairway and entered at the main Blue Room door. He wore his wedding suit of plain broadcloth and she her wedding dress of white satin, with the high corsage of that evening replaced By a low, sleeveless corsage, pointed at the back and front. Her only jewels were the diamond necklace given her by the President and a small pearl comb in her luxuriant brown hair, which was worn high. A bunch of white roses was fastened at her breast and i long white mitts reached above her elbows. Members of the Cabinet with their wives followed the bridal pair. Mr.--. Endicott, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Vilas took their places at Mrs. Cleveland's right, and the Cabinet officers, Colonel aud Mrs. Lamont and several of the wives of a<sistant Cabinet officers were in the rear of the receiving line. These were early joined 1?L'?-?*????/? Mieo Ifamin fihommn (t^TI. Dy OtfLlttiUi auu xixjoo uLiMuiv umv* , vVM eral Sheridan and wife, Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, the early-coming members of the Diplomatic Corps and many Senators and others of prominence. After first paying their greetings to the re- & ceiving party, Mrs. Cleveland's beauty and affable manners won praise from alL She has matured much in the year since she first visited Washington. Early in the evening the Minister of Bra il, escorting the young grandson of Dom Pedro, wearing full dress naval uniform, entered the Blue Parlor, and having paid respects to the President and party, held a little impromptu reception behind the line. Scarcely a Senator or Member apparently was absent, but many of them ca-ne alone.as their wives have gone from the city. Tfce Army, Navy and Marine Corps were fully represented. Shortly before 11 o'clock the President gave his arm to Mrs. Cleveland, and escorted her on a round tl ^ugh the Green and East Parlors the promenade corridor and back to the door of the Blue Parlor, the Cabinet officers and their wives following in the order first given. At the clo-e of the President's reception, the Marine Ban J proceeded to tho hotel and serenaded the Brazilian Prince. IN BLACK AND WHITE. The Official Certificate of the President^ Marriage. The following is the official certificate of marriage of President Cleveland and Miss t Folsom, as received by the Washington Health Officer: CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE. To the Health Officer of the District of Columbia: 1. Date of marriage?June 2, 18S?). 2. Full name of husband?Grover Cleveland. 3. Age?49 years. 4. Color?AN hite. .r Dtn. a t-nciiinnrw?Executive Mansion. (i. Occupation?A ttomeyat-la w. . ] 7. Husbands birthplace?Caldwell, New Jersey. 8. Number of husband's marriaye?First. 9. Maiden name of wife?Fiances Folsom. 10. Age?21 years. 11. Color?hite. 12. Place of residence?Buffalo, New York. 13. Wife's birthplace?Buffalo, New York. 14. Number of wife's marriage?First. We, the contracting parties,do certify that the foregoing information is correct. (Signatures.) Grover Cleveland. Frances Folsom. This certifies that on the second day of June, 1SS0, I joined in holy matrimony the parties above described. B. Sl'.vderlaxd. ' Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C.