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A memt?r of Congress is reported to have said to some of his constituents who were sight-seeing in Washington: "Go first to the Smithsonian institution, where you will see all that God ever made; go thence to the Patent office, where you will 6ee all that man ever made." From an examination of several skulls found in North and South America and believed to have belonged to inhabitants living before the glacial period, Dr. Kollman concludes that the races of that ancient epoch are those of to-day, the eame cranial and facial forms being found, in spite of lapse of time and change of environment. Manufacturers within easy reach of Niagara Falls expect to use that waterfall snnn A rnmnanv has been incor porated with a capital of $3,000,000 to develop this scheme. A great pipe or 6haft is to be cut through the rock closc by and parallel with the Niagara River, 160 feet deep, and running half a mile or more back from the falls. It is said a wheel as big as a man's hat will supply 200-horsc power. The cultivation of olives is one of the undeveloped industries of California. There are but four orchards of any extent in the State, but an excellent quality of oil is produced. Though the olive tree does not begin to bear till it is from seven to ten years old, the fact that when it does begin to bear it continues for centuries, makes its cultivation highly profitable from the time of fruiting. Trees are in bearing to-day in Syria which were planted before the Christian era. A statistical expert calculates that if 1,000,000 babies started together in the race of life, 150,000 would drop out in the first year, 53,000 in the second and 22,003 in the third year. At the end of forty-five years about half of them wou'd still be in the ra:e. Sixty years would see 370,000 gray heads still at it. A.t the end of eighty years there would be * 07,000 remaining on the track; fifteen years later the number would be reduced to 223, and the winner would quit the track forever at the age of 103. First Comptroller Durham has decided that the President can set apart but one day in the year a* a day of thanksgiving, or order but one day as a public holiday. There was a wager in the Senate on the question, and Judge Durham was made referee. The question arose upon the proper construction of a section in the law which, after naming the legal public holidays, authorizes the President to set apart "any day" for fasting or thanksgiving. It is understood that Senators Evarts and Edmunds and other legal authorities were of the opinion that the President could direct as many thanksgiving days under the law as he chose. The popular impression that cutting the hair short tends to increase its growth is doubted by the Herald of ISealth. It says that "women rarely become bald: yet they never cut their hair off, as do men. May not their immunity from a shining pate be partly due to the fact that they do not patronize the barber, nor wear tight headgear? If, in early life, our young men would look after their scalps, even while they do not appear to need attention, it might save them the trouble of looking after them in sorrow at a later period, when it will do less good. If they do not, the time will come when we shall have a race of human beinga without hair." It is firmly believed by many good authorities that there are not now more than from fifty to 100 buffaloes in the whole of Montana, outside of the National Park, where there are probably from 200 to 300 head. Hunters lie in wait outside the lim;ts of the National Park, -waiting for the animals to cross the line, when they lose no time iu dispatching them as boou as possible. A stampede may occur at anytime, which may result in all the buffaloes now in the park leaving, and if such were the case, very few, if any, -would escape. Skins of buffalo heads are now valued by taxidermists in Dakota at $50 each, from which it may be assumed that they have given up all hope of procuring any more Chaplain Edgerton, of the prison at Sing Sing, sees to it thiit the convicts get 110 reading matter that is liable to contaminate their minds. All the books sent by friend# have to pass his censorship, and he has about 6,000 volumes in the library that are in large part the results of his careful selections. About three-fourths of them are good works ot fiction; the others a:e histories, biographies and philos?phic, scientific and religious works. Most of the real good books, outside of fiction, are quite nice and clean. To a considerable extent the Dott "\f y TTcl rrnrfnn ia inflnonnnrl in li*o 1VV, T . lull JUU^Ul IWH AO 1UUUVUVVV4 ?U iitc selection of books, when he has not time to read them, by the reputation of their publishers. The windows of some of the South street (New York city) ship chandlers' stores contain this sign: "Marine oil." "It is an oil specially prepared to smooth an angry sea," said one dealer. "Boiled oil or animal oil will do pretty well, but this oil "will stand a greater degree of cold without congealing than ordinary oils. The demand for it has recently arisen through the publication by the bvdroOTanhic office of the value of oil in ?j o a breaking sea. It has become the fashion to use oil. It is a singular characteristic,but many old ship captains boast that they arc not book sailors, and take a pride in refusing to do -what the books recommend and in refusing to take up jwith what they call new-fangled notions. |They hav e heard about the value of oil lever since whales were first captured ofl |Nautucket, but it was not the fashion to use oil, and so they let the shies sink." I The practicability of providing at small expense reservoirs sufficient for storing , enormous quantities of -water for irrigation during the summer is shown by a recent enterprise in Nevada. By the construction of a dam across a narrow can yon in Elko county a reservoir two tnousand acrcs in extent has been made which, when filled to a depth of but thirteen feet, contains 8,500,000,000 gallons of water. Twenty-eight miles of irrigating ditches have been made and enough water stored to supply twenty-six thousand acrcs with all that can possibly be utilized. This serves to show that there are many localities wheie the construction of storage reservoirs is perfectly feasible at a small outlay, and that in this lies in a large measure the final solution of the wuter difficulty. Professor Lesley, of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, estimates the amount of coal in the Pittsburg region at 30, 000,000,000 tons. About ll,uuu,uuu tons are now taken annually from its bed, of which two-thirds are bituminous coal and one-third anthracite. Professor Lesley believes that the oil and gas supply will practically cease ten or twenty years hence. To which the gas journal of Light Ileat and Poioer says: ''Let it cease. If the gas supply of nature holds out at a fair rate for ten years there will be a dozen aiffereut methods of making as good a gas just about as cheap on the spot as the natural gas can be piped for, and if preferable to pipe the new gases from place to place the cost will not be much. A sudden stoppage of the natural gas supply will uot banish the general use of fuel gas." In Germany, says the New Haven Journal, the hours of labor average per week, in textile factories, 72; iu machine factories, 60. In France, in textile factories, | 72; in machine factories, 60. In Aus' x _ nn 1. T? T>.J iria, UU 1U CUUIl. 1U 1VU331U, IU ICAUIC factories, from 72 to 84; in machine factories, 72. In Switzerland, 66 in each. In Belgium, in textile factories, 72; in machine factories, 62. In Italy, in textile factories, 67 to 90; in machine factories, 72. In Holland, in textile factories, 72; in machinc factories, . 64. In the United States, 60 in each. In Great Gritain, in textile factories, 56; in machine factories, 52, In England factor' ies generally close at 5:30 o'clock in the evening and at 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, while in the silk factories of 1 Northern Italy the factories are open from 5 o'clock a. m. to 10 o'clock p. m., the hands working 04 1-2 hours per week, or 15 3-4 hours per day, exclusive of meal hours. Investigations are still going on, particularly in France, with a view to utilizing the heat of the sun as a source of power and warmth. One of the most interesting and practicable methods in this line is that devised some time ago by t*?t?? ir Ca1aM I .TTUIOBUr 1T1UISC, VI caiuili, IIIUOO., biiv limitations of which, it is hoped, may bs overrome by future improvements. This device consists simply of a shallow box, the bottom of which is of corrugated iron and the top of glass. This is placed outside the building in such a position that the 6un shines directly upon it, the heat rays of the sun pass through the class, and are absorbed by the iron, heating it to quite a high temperature, and, by a system of ventilation, a current of air is passed through the apparatus and into the room to be heated. By this means the air was heated, on uleasant davs. to about ninety degrees in passing over the iron. It is admitted, however, that the chief difficulty in all these methods of solar heating, as a substitute for the ordinary or artificial means, is yet to be overcome, being available only in fair weather; though, in connection with the customary system, a solar apparatus may effect a saving in the quantity of fuel usually consumed. A Scene in London. Leander Richardson in his book on "The Dark City," as he calls London, describes this sceue in the British metropolis: "One night I was going with a countryman of mine through one of the street? lnnrlinrr nut of T.p.iccster Smiare. A burlv fellow was engaged in the legitimate L'nglish pastime of thrashing his wife, when the eye of my friend fell upon the scene. He then took the braw ny Briton by the throat and threw him nearly across the street. The bruised and battered wife slunk away, and the husband came back foaming with rage. A crowd soon gathered, and it looke l as though there would be carnage. The mob urged the fellow to avenge the insult of the foreigner who had interfered in his constitutional right to beat his spouse. The man bl^tercd for a few moments, hesitated and stood irresolute. A bystander said: 'Why don't you 'it 'im, Bilt?'. The man replied, hclple sly: 'I would, only he's an American, and he'd 'it me when I'm down.' Then he actually began to cry. The crowd looked rather threatening, and my friend picked up a heavy stone. 'You bet I would!' he exclaimed; Td kill you deader than a herring!' I honestly think that it was one of the funniest pictures I ever saw. There was not a man in the crowd who could not have \ ulverized both of us. singlehande 1, and if we had been their wives they would probably have done it. But the mere fact that we were Americans, and that Americans are supposed to come of a family who kill, cleared the way for us. To tell the truth, we were pretty glad of it." A Ghastly Sight A gentleman from Eastern Orepon o m o gives an account of lather a singular procession he saw in Umatilla County. It was an Indian funeral procession. The desunct liad been set upon a horse and a stick lashed along each side of his body to keep it in an upright position. The head was not supported in any way, and as t'ie horse trotted along the body seemed to swing in every direction, the head shaking in a horribly grotesque manner. The widow, dressed in her mourning paint, trotted behind on a lazy cuitan, to which she kept vigorously applying the whip. As a spectator remarked: "The Indians are dying off [for lack of proper medical treatment." I "When one gets sick and is taken charge of by a medicine man, it is "good by, John." NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The annual four-mile, eight-oared boat lintujoan nwmtc Mnnimn?iniT VnlA flFlfl Harvard Colleges, rowed at New London, Conn., was won easily this year by Yalo iu tbe fast time of 20 minutes 41% ssconds. The New York authorities have stopped a contemplated open-air "slugging match'1 between John L. Sullivan and Charles Mitchell. Four persons?John Measure;, Mrs. Frederick Measures, aud two children of the latter?were all instantly killed at Wakefield, Mass., by a train which struck their wagon. The five New York workingmen found guilty of boycotting and extorting a fine of $1,000 from a concert hall proprietor have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from three years and eight months to one year and six months. Secretary Manning arrived in New York a few days since on bis way home from the Hot Springs, Va., where he has been siowiy getting over me eneccs 01 ms recent | severe illness. The total assessed valuation of real and personal estate in New York city, is $1,420,968.286, an increase of $49,851,283 over that of 1885. For the first time in America inoculation as a preventive of hydrophobia was performed a few days since in New York, according to the Pasteur method, by Dr. Valentine Mott. Harold Newell, seven years old, was the subject of the operation. Ho was bitten by a pet dog t3u days previous t3 the operation. Sonth and West. Heavy rain storms have prevailed throughout Virginia, overflowing rivers carrying away bridges, causing washouts and seriously impeding railway traffic. Richmond was partly submerged. Jeff Teagce, County Attorney, was killed in a quarrel at Longview, Texas, by Chief of Police George E. Tabler. Sixty parsons were poisoned at a celebra tion at Anthony, Kansas, lay arinKing lemonade made with tartar emetic. All were made dangerously sick. Seventy persons were poisoned at Coulterville, 111., by eating ice cream at a picnic. Four died and several, at last accounts, were in a precarious condition. A fire at Denver, Col., destroyed the Academy of Music, a newspaper office and several stores. One man was burned to death. The losses aggregate $175,000. Colored Knights of Labor have struck for higher wages on Arkansas plantations near Little Rock. Colonel George B. Corkhill, the United States District Attorney who prosecuted Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, died the other day at Mount Pleasant, la. A prospective shortage in the wheat crop has sent the price up with a jump at Chicago. Washington. During ths fiscal year just closed 81,423 pension certificates have tmen issued by the Pension Bureau, a larger number by ri,72L I than was ever issued in any previous venr. The Senate Committee on Pensions in its report recommending the passage of the bill granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage charges the President with an unwarranted use of the veto power, declares his vetoes were sometimes rudely expressed," and asserts that the motives of Congress in passing the private pension bills have been misrepresented. H. A. Whitney, cashier of the United States Treasury, dropped dead of apoplexy, the other day, at his residence in Washington. He had been a Treasury employe for about twenty-one years. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: J. W. Komeyn, of Detroit, Consul at Valparaiso; J. L. Camp, Register Land Office at Prescott, Arizona. The President has signed the Pension Appropriation bilL At a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee it was ordered that the Randall Tariff bill be reported adversely. All the Democrats voted in the affirmative. The President on the Oth vetoed twentynine private pension bills and the bill providing for the erection of a public builaing at Duluth, Miun. The last-named bill is vetoed because in the President's opinion the buildingis unnece;sary. Theprivate pension bills were vetoed mainly because, the President says, the claimauts are not entitled to a pension. A statement of the result of the President's examination into ca h case accompanies the vetoes. The Senate on the Oth confirmed the nominations of Governor Hugh Thompson, of South Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and H. J. Wynto be Postmaster at Birmingham, Ala. Foreign. Rev. Henry Ward Bejicher preached to an enormous congregation in Dr. Parker's church?the City Temple?in London. Thirty-five persons were injured by a collision between two express trains near i uiasgow, ocouanu. The Conservative Club house in Dublin was attacked with stone.* by a crowd during; the elections. Tha members replied witn bottles and firearms, injuring twenty of the rioters and killing one. its the crowd was about to set fire to the building the police arrived and prevented its destruction. The inmates were arrested. Late election returns indicated a defeat for Gladstone and Irish Home Rule. Heavy gains for the Conservatives and Unionists, who were opposed to the Gladstonians ancl Parnellites. were reported. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Facts and Figures Showing Marked Improvement. An important document has been issued bv the New York Mercantile Agency of R. GDun & Co., showing a marked improve" ment in the national business outlook. Not. withstanding the severe strain iu all co mmercial and industrial circles recently from labor troubles and other disturbing factors" it is shown that for the six months jusi closed there has been a marked decrease in the number of failures in the country. For the first half of last year thi number of failures was twenty per cent, greater than for the six months just ended Then they amounted to 6,004; for the first six months of 1886 they are only 5,150. For the first half of 18S5 the aggregate amounts involved in failures was $74,722,000; for the same period this year they aggregate only $50,433,000?a difference showing that last year the money involved in failures from January 1 to July 1 was nearly 50 per cent, greater than for the same period this year. Comparison made by the mercantile agency in the .-aine report shows alsu the pleasing fact that as this year goes the conditions show continued improvement. Thenumbo* of failures in the country for the first quarter of this year was 3,203, involving ?2!l,t>81.720: for the second Quarter insfc Bndpil tin? number falls down to 1,953, with only ?~0,752,7:i4 involved. These figures, says the report, indi<ate that the trade of the country is in a state of surprising prosperity, considering the slrniu that ha< had to be borne incident to the loss of confidence because of the widely extended labor trouble? of the last few mouths. The country received this strain "in a condition of preparedness," and, continues the report, "in some respe.ts the six months under review have been fruitful of gOoi results. Tii i labor-capital conflict has l>een in a measure decided. The labor organizations and their power of resistance against the ordinary laws of trade are not so seriously estimated as thej- were six months ago. Confidence has been largely restored, aiid there is a manifest disjKisiticu to extend business operations. The foundations of the business fabric aiv solid. For the remainder of the year evon better things are probablo; the prospect is more than usually good. 4.uu:u avciiia \aj uu iowur UlStUIUIUg trie* ments than ever bafore, abundant harvests are woll assured, anl the autumn season is now looked forward to as likely to yield very liberal returns in trade and banking circles." It is pointed out in the rei orl that the earning power of great corporations has been largely increased, and the railroads have ended their famous wars and have now larger tonnage and better rates that yield fair returns. Cheap money, the natural outcome of the growth of wealth and money-earning capacity in tha couut.ry, and the consequent decline in the rate of interest, is quoted as an important and influential factor in the improved situation. The conclusions of the report are upheld by a comprehensive synopsis of the condition of business at all the leading points in tho country. A PITCHED BATTL? : Three Brothers Killed by Three Fence Builders. A Dispute Over Land in Texas Leads to Bloodshed. Three brothers?Lewis, Elmer 8,id Jr.nu8 (Smith?were killed five miles from Henrietta, Texas, in a, fiijht resembling a pitched lmttle, in which shotguns loaded with buckfihot and six-shooters were the weapons. Neal Butcher, manager for the Clay CountyLard and Cattle Company, ouo of the biggest live-stock concerns of the West, bad employed Sterling Dawson> Doc. Thompson and Jack Doutbitt to fence a tract of laud with wire. The ownership of the land was a matter of dispute between the Smith brothers and the company; and the brothers had warned But.her not to proceed with the work of fencing it. Butcher j nViavorl n?>( I niv o n/1 mif TU/miitmiam vvcjvu Viugia auu ^;uu iUUiiijOUU, i/UUf | bitt aud Dawson to work, but when tho latter received threat* of violence from the Smiths,they stopped and reported to ButcherUnder instructions from nim the men resumed the work of fencing, and Doutbitt sent word to Lewis Smith thai; if he came within 300 feet of the fencing gang there would be trouble. The Smiths resumed their threats and th? Doutbitt crowd went on with their work, and beside their tools had trusty six-shooters. They seemed to have made a safe estimate of th) determination of their enemies. The latter rode in a wagon to within 103 feet of where the Doutbitt crowd were at work. The signal for the battle was the raising of a shotgun from the wagon-bed by one of the Smiths. The Doutbitt crowd drew their weapons aud fired. Shots passed in quick succession, uutil the Smiths were stretched out on the ground, two dead and one dying, while their team bolted off in a run to the Smith farmhouse near by. Mrs. Smith, the mother of the young men, when she heard the shooting ran toward tho place, which was about a quarter of a mile from the house. Half way she met the team running home. She stopped thera and drove back rapidly to the spot whero the boys were lying. James and Elmer were both dead, but Lewis was still alive. He told her that Doutbitt had shot both ol! his brothers, and that Sterling Dawson Lad I shot him. The Doutbitt crowd surrendered to the Sheriff and a-e now in custody. LATER_NE?S. Judge Barrett, of New York:, on the 7th ordered the prosecution of the Voiles Zeilung, a German newspaper, on the charge of publishing articles designed to intimidate jurors, thereby interfering with the administration of justice. The articles were writtm in connection with the trial of seventeen Bohemian bakers, indicted for boycotting Mrs. Landgrafs bakery. Drunke.v desperadoes took possession of a !;rain at Somerset, Ky., intimidated the passengers and killed the conductor and a colored porter. Forest fires in Northern Wisconsin have done great damage. Th> village of Romeo has been entirely wiped out. A recent hurricane at Apalaehicola, Fla., resulted in the loss of six lives and heavy damage to shipping and other property. Paul H. Hayne, the noted Southern poet, ' " 11 -? a t-i n Ti:il aiea ine otner aay at ms uome, v^ujioo nm, Ga. He was a native of South Carolina, and was fifty-five years old. Asiatic cholera is on the incrijaso throughout Italy. The heat has been so overwhelming in Madrid thattheSpanishCorles?tho national legislature?was obliged to adjourn. Six of the seventeen Bohemians indicted in New York for boycotting the lmkery of their countrywoman, Mrs. Landgraif, thereby destroying her business, were found guilty and sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. Three boilers exploded at the colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, uear Wilkesbarre, Penu., wrecking the building and fatally injuring the engineer and fireman. Rev. Sam Jones, the Southern revivalist, bas been preaching at Chautauqua, N. Y. The Minnesota Prohibitionists have put a full State ticket in the field. ThE Ohio Renublirftn eo itnrs in Mmrontirtn at Columbus jassed resolution!! repeating the charges of bribery iu the election of Henry B. Payne to the United S ates Senate. Seven salmon fishermen were drowned by tho upsetting of their boats during a gale off tho entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon. Deming, New Mexico, has lost ite principal business houses by fire. The Kansas Republicans have renominated Governor Martin. Mrs. Theresa Tcjrpin, wife of a farmer living at Princeton, Irid., in a moment of insanity killed her two young children and herself. The Senate has rejected the nomination of Harry Hall to be Postmaster at Catskill, N.Y. The Senate Committee ou Commerce reported adversely on the nomination of Her. fcert F. Beecher, a son of Henry Ward Beecher, to be Collector of Customs at Pore Townsend, Washington Territory. Congressman W. N. Cole, of r,he Third Maryland District, died on the 8th at his residence in Washington, aged forty-eight years. News has been re?eived of a destructive tornado on the Island of Jamaica. Low lands were inundated, great fields cf bananas destroyed, and many vessels torn from their moorings. The estimated loss is $500,000. An immense congregation heard Henry Ward Beecher preach his second sermon ic the City Temple, London. A political riot at Cardiff, Wales, wa< broken up by the police, who charged the crowd and wounded over 100 persons, tweutj so badly that they had to be taken to the hospital. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Them: are 0,000,000 widows in India. Philadelphia has a saloon that took in $325,000 last year. Corn eight feet high is reported from the southern counties of Kansas. A Chinaman at Vancouver,B, C.,fattened a 400-weight hog in his laundry. A vein* of iron ore discovered at Negaimee, Mich., turns out to be loO feet in thickness. The catch of lobsters off New Brunswick does uot exceed one fourth of that of last season. John N. IVeyman, a rolling mill operative in Pittsburgh,has just fallen heir to property in Germany valued at $2.">0,C00. The Conference Committee of Harvard recommends expulsion from college as the peualty for cheating at examination. Cincinnati policemen who served in the war will wear on their Wt sloove a red tape, to distinguish the soldier element of the force. The four most important towns or Australasia are now Melbourne, population U47; Sj'dney. 224,211; Adelaide, 103,804, and Auckland, (i0,000. The English census returns show that while in iNil only 1,931 women were employed in the civil service of that country, the number has risen in 1881 to 7,370. At Marietta, Mich., the other day. two young children ate several nutmegs. They woro taken ill, and beforo morning the younger, a boy about six years old, died. A paktv, under direction of officers of the United States Geological Survey, is about to make an extended exploration of Crater Lake in National Park. It will be necessary to lower them 1,000 feetdownthe stoDy crags in order to reach water. SUMMARY _0F^ CONGRESS Senate Sessions. 135th Day.?Mr. Miller presented a petition of the Daniel L. Schenck Post, G.A. R., of Fulton. N. Y.. askine that the bill to pen sion the widow of Captain Daniel T. Schenck may become a law, notwithstanding the veto of the President.. ..The Legislature Appropriation bill was passed.... The Seoata took up the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, but the bill gave place to eulogistic resolutions upon the late Representative Hahn, of Louisiana. 130th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill was reported from committee. It appropriated *12,*83,234, being a net reduction as compared with the House bill of $46,800 .... An amendmout to the River and Harbor bill appropriating $1,000,000 for New York harbor was agreed to after a long debate. Other amendments were also agreed to. 137th Day.?The Senate took up tho bill to secure to the Cherokee freedmen and others their proportion of certain proceeds of lands. Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a substitute lor this bill, it appropriates mo,<jov ior j the purpose, and directs how the amount shall be distributed. The substitute was agreed to, and the bill was passed.... Tho River and Harbor Appropriation bill was again considered....Executive session. 138th Day.?Mr. Plumb presented the petion of John A. Kirkpatrick?a pension bill in whose favor had been vetoed. He asks the Senate to pass the bill over the veto. Referred? The Chair laid before the Senate the message of the President vetoing the bill authorizing the construction of railroads through the Indian territory in Montana. The message states that similar bills had been presented to him daring the present session and had received his reluctant approval, but he had hoped that each of them would be the last of the kind presented. This bill invited a general invasion of the Indian country. It did not sufficiently guard against an invasion of the rights of the Indians;nor was he satisfied that the Legislation proposed was demanded by anv exigency of the public wel fare. On motion of Mr. Dawes, the bill and message were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 139th Day.?The resolutions under which a so-called State Legislature had been organized in the Territory of Dakota were inaefli nitely postponed.... The resolution for open executive sessions, on motion of Mr. Piatt, was made the special order for Wednesday, December 8....The Senate resumed consideration of the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, the pending amendment being to reduce the appropriation for the Kentucky River lrom $250,000 to $100,030. Messrs. Beck and Vest argued against the amendment, which was lost The amendment appropriating $350,000 for the purchase of the Portage Lake Canal and the Lake Superior Ship Canal was adopted without division. The Hennepin Canal amendment appropriating $300,000 was stronglv ndvo.atea by Mr. Cuuom and opposed by Mr. Vest. Pending action the Senate went into secret session, and when the doors were opened Mr. Gorman announced the death of Representative W. H. Cole, of Maryland, and, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned. House Sessions. 15fiTH Day.?Mr. Payson (I1L), reported ba?k to tha House the bill forfeiting lands granted to certain Southern States to aid in the construction of railroads, with a Senate amendment excepting the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad from the terms of forfeiture. The amendment was agreed to?yeas, 154; navs. 27 Senate amendments to the bill repealing Pre-emption, Timber Culture and Desert Land laws were non-concurred in and conferees appointed....Notice was given that the vetoed bills granting pensions to Andrew J. Wilson and another would be called up for passage over the veto The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed. 157th Day.?The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President di?apf>roving the bill granting a pension to Wlliam Boone. Referred....Mr. O'Neill (Penn.) presented a petition signed by 1,000 Knights of Labor of the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania urging the passage of pending bills for the protection of the interests of labor. Referred.... The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was again discussed. 158th Day.?Mr. Belmont (N. Y.) offered a resolution calling on the President for copies of the correspondence relating to the imprisonment and release of Julio Santos, a cituen of the United States in Ecuador. Referred.... Bills were introduced as follows: By Mr. Warner (Ohio) ? Requiring all the expenditures of the Post-Office Department to be passed upon by a Comptroller aud an Auditor. By J. M. Taylor (Teun.)?For the transfer of the medical records of the war from the War Department....The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was discussed. 159th Day.?After tearly all the morning hour had been devoted to a discussion of one - ? - ? :? OL LUO pnvube peilSIUll Uliu loiuvu UJ vuu President, a motion was carried postponing further consideration of the matter till the following Friday.... The House went into Committee of the Whole on the General Deficiency Appropriation bill, Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, in the Chair. Mr. Cannon offered an amendment appropriating $37,IW8 to meet deflciences in the salaries of Ministers and Charges d' Affaires; agreed to. Several other minor amendments wore also agreed to. 160th Day.?'The Speaker laid before the House the twenty-one veto messages transmitted by the President yesterday. The first message read was referred without comment to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, but the disposition of the next message vetoing the bill granting a pension to Edwin M. Harrington c6nsumed more time. Mr. Jackson (Peun.) attacked the veto policy of the President, who, he declared, was not actuated by any regard for the worth and merit of private pension bills. His reason for vetoing the bills was not that they were unworthy. His reason was apparent on the face of his messages. He was in sympathy with a party opposed to pensioning Union soldiers, and he did not propose il'"* oaU {a ohnnM Via TV?11 LIlUb UUJ \J LXKJH oyjuioi a ouwiwv* ^ sioned if he could avoid it. Mr. McMillan (Tenn.)?The President has signed more private pension bills than any other President in the same space of time. Mr. Jackson? And he has vetoed ten times more good ones than all other Presidents put together. Mr. Bragg (Wis.) was glad to find that at last there was a man in tho Executive chair who had the nerve and courage to place his hand upon legislation when he thought it was improper, whether it was pension or railroad legislation. The message was referred to tho Committee on Invalid Pensions. An animated debate also took pla.e on the message vetoing the granting of a pension to Catherine McCarty. which was also referred. lfllsT Da v.?Mr. Swinburne (N. Y.) sent to the clerk's desk aud had read a letter from Mr. Glass, of Tennes-ee, stating that he had be.*n paired with Mr. Swinburne on the Bartholdi Statue amendment, and that had he been present he would have voted "no" on that nronosition Mr. Coinpton (Md.) submitted* a series of resolutions exEressing the regret with which the louse had heard of the death of Win. H. Cole, la'e a Representative from Maryland, and providing for the appointment of a commits of seven Representatives and three Senators to superintend the funeral ceremonies. The House then, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned. FIRING ON THF FLAG, A Proccssion in Chicago Assaulted by Anarchists. The American flag was fired on at Chicago ' a few days since by Anarchists as it was Hying over a procession in the northwestern I part of the city. The flag was carried by a I procession of Norwegian? from the north j side. They were on their way to a pi-'tiic | giYon by the Norwegian Sa 'ngoifest. A; one point ivhero tho sidewalks wer>? crowded j with {oople, men in the-crowd suddenly : drew thftir revolvers and fired directly* at the nag. Bix bullets went through ' it. Emil Nelson was lilt in the nock 1... _ i. l.?11 ? dinlif j uy a *pCUb unu. ? UIV-U luimivu c? j flesh wound. Tho inarching Norwegians started on a double quick, holding the stars ! aiid stripes proudly aloft. Several bullets whizzed past them aud they were much ! alarmed, fearing another riot like the Hayi market. There were no police iu sight. Tho j profession made a rapid march to the park 1 iu Jed'erson. There the affair was reported j to the authorities. I It is estimated that 1,000,000 tons of j paper are manufactured in Europe annually, j The value of the materials used is placed at I about ?2,000,000, and the value of the paper I at ?40,000,000. WINDS OF M A Simoon Sweeps Across North western riains. Vegetation Destroyed in Dakota, and People in a Panic. Particulars of an unprecedented hot wave that has been visiting sections of the Northwest are given in the foUowing dispatch from St. Paul, Minn.: People in Dakota thought the world was coming to an end yesterday. The intensely hot weather of the past week culminated in a regular old fashioned Indian simoon. The air was as hot as from a baker's oven. Birds flew about wildly and beat their lives out against the trees in their frantic efforts to escape unseen danger. Horses and cattle broke from their fastenings and plunged inuj streams uuu wuuiu iiuu ue xiiu> cvu av many places in Dakota and Iowa the mercury has been up to 100 degrees. Tuesday was the hottest day ever known in Minnesota, the mercury ranging from S4 to 96 degrees, with an average of 85 degrees during the day. At midnight the thermometer stood at 83 degrees. The simoon in Dakota was severest at Ashton. At 4 o'clock in the morning the people were awakened by a roaring noise and oppressive heat, which almost stifled breathing. On going to the door your correspondent was driven back into the house by not air from without, which felt like that from a furnace or an oven. There were at the time heavji dark clouds in the southwest, from which direction tho wind came. Fear seized upon the people that a bad cyclone was forming? and they began to congregate in the neighborhood of cyclone cellars. Many fathers and mothers on awakening and feeling the heated air seized their children from the beds and rushed into the street, believing that their houses were on fire. One citizen describes his fear that the earth was being precipitated into the sun. A farmer who was on his way to town, states that it was comparatively cool when he started out, but was soon struck by a hot wind which he could not face. The perspiration oozed from him in large drops. The hot wind lasted about half an hour, and the temperature was 120 degrees. Your correspondent has lived here nearly five years, and been out when the mercury stood 100 degrees in the shade, but never before experienced such heated atmosphere as that of this morning. Had this wind continued for two or three hours there would not have been left a vestige of living vegetation, and it is doubtful whether animal life could have withstood it. As a general rule the nights are very cool, and this freak of nature is a mystery to every mu~ i?* ?;?A uuo. 1UO liuu muu noo lutiuouutbvij lowed by a cool breeze, but now, at 9 p. m., the mercury stands at 100 degrees in the shade. Farmers and merchants generally are feeling very blue over the gloomy prospects of crops, as this makes the sixth day of excessive heat A special from Pierre, Dak., says: Pierre citizens have just passed through one of the most remarkable and thrilling freaks of the elements ever experienced in this section. For the last three days the mercury has averaged about 103 degrees, but last night capped the climax. About nine o'clock the western heavens were suddenly illuminated, and in a few moments wind swept down the streets, blowing down several houses and doin* other damage. The wind was red hot ana people were compelled to seek shelter in cellars to avoid the intense and suffocating heat. The wind continued until 4 o'clock this morning, and at 2 o'clock the thermometer registered 105 degrees. Passengers who ram* in from Montana nn Northern Pa ciflc say the air was almost unbearable. If a band was thrust out of a car window the rushing air felt like a blast from a furnace. The trainmen had their faces blistered and swollen by the hot air. The letter from Aslitcn was referred to Signal Office Observers Lyons and McGinnis, and for a moment both were amazed, and at first neither could believe it possible that the thermometer had reached any such altitude as 120 at 4 a. m. With an eagerness of two scientists they began to seek to account for it. Mr. McGinuis was inclined to believe that it was similar to the terrible Sahara Desert simoon which, like this hot air storm, is accompanied by a dark cloud, and seems not only to be hot but deoxygenized so that it acts on the lungs almost like carbonic acid or devitalized air. Sergeant Lyons assented to this partially, but)suggested that it might have been the heat from a huge meteorite. Both agreed that it was one of the mysterious weather dispensation of Divine Providence which could not be predicted. THE NATIONAL GAME New York defeated St. Louis nine straight games. As near as can be learned, baseball grew from the old English game of rounders. The Atlanta; have made eighteen home runs this season in championship games. Briody and Hackett, are both doing big work behind the bat for the Kansas Citys. The New Yorks won every game in St Louis and Kansas City on their second trip west. Anson, of the Chicagos, has made more errors than any other first baseman in the League. Gardner, of Charleston, refused to play owing to the hot weather, one day recently, and was fined 8300. More than twenty-five thousand witnessed the three recent games between Detroit and Chicago in the former city. Seery, of' St Louis, is considered one of Via lwct. loft. fl?1r?prs: in the Leflirue. He covers lots of ground, and is a sure catch. Mathews, of the Athletics, has been pitching for nearly twenty years, and is yet the peer of many of the twirlers of to-day. McGarb, the short stop of the Haverhills, is making a great reputation, and next season will undoubtedly find him in some League or Association team. The boy mascot fever is spreading. Chicago started it, Detroit and New York followed suit, and now we suppose all the other clubi will fall into line. Connor and O'Rourke, of New York, and Richardson, Brouthers and Thompson, of Detroit, are the League batmen who have made sixty or more safe hits apiece. The glorious uncertainty of the national game was never more forcibly demonstrated thau in Brooklyn recently when on one day demoralized Baltimore was beaten 21 to 1 and yet the next day turned around and beat their whilom conquerors by 7 to 5. In a Chicago-Washington game at Chicago, Paul Hines gi\e Mike Kelly a dose of Chicago tactics. In the first inning Kelly made a sneak for third base on a careless ground throw of Gilligan to Barr. The latter fielded the ball to Hines, from whose hauds it caromed ten yards away. Hines and Kelly fell in a heap on the bag. When Kelly attempted to ris?, Hines held him by the leg. Despite the shouts of the players and spectators, Hines refused to relinquish his lock until FfefTer dashed up and pulled him away by the head. Meanwhile Force had gathered in the ball, bu*, Umpire Connelly gave Kellv a run. national league record. jr?H Lost. TToa LwL Detroit .7.) 9 Philadelphia..-! zu Chicago 34 13 Boston IS 31 New* York...$5 10 Washington...9 30 St Louis 17 33 Kau.sasCity.il 32 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION' RECORD. J rim Lost. Won Lo?t. St. Louis....41 22 Pittsburg.... 04 27 Brookh*n. ...32 20 Cincinnati. ..30 36 Athletic 26 2$ Louisville.. ..30 33 Baltimore... 21 35 Metropoli:nn.24 31 SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORD. Tl'oii Lout. lfon Lost. Atlanta 33 25 I Macon 2S 25 Augusta 21 30 | Savannah... 30 21 Charleston...22 32 J Nashville....29 21 Cfcu'.tcnooga .21 35 | Memphis....29 21 EASTERN LEAGUE RECORD. lion Loft. Won Lost. Bridgeport.. .10 22 Meriden 12 24 Hartford IS 15 Newark 25 11 Jer?ey City... 19 15 Watorbury...23 10 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. H'om Lost. Won Lost. IJtic.1 21 13 I Binghamton . 9 29 Toronto -S 12 Bultalo 10 20 Syracuse... 22 15 | Hamilton....22 if} Rochester .. .22 15 | Oswego 9 29 Crude carbolic acid,applted externally,has been discovered by "VV yoming ranchmen to be an effective remedy for rattlesnake bit?3 among cattle. BLOWN TO ATOMS ? m me race or xen Men in a, new Jersey Dynamite Factory. At the Atlantic Dynamite Works, Mo? Cainsville, N. J., there occured at 7:40 Ju v., the other morning, the most disastrous explosion that has ever hap? pened in the northern part of New Jersey. McCainsville is a beautiful little village situated on a plain at the foot of the hill*, against the sides of which the works were built Nearly every house, holder in the village is an employe of the works, and among these households there were many scenes of terror when the crash of the explosion came, jarring the plaster from the ceilings, and breaking the panes of tha windows. The terrified women and children rushed at once for the works, filled with forebodings for the safety of husbands, fathers, and brothers. Just how the explosion ocenrred will never be known, for every person in the building was blown to atoms. It is doubtful If even these knew how it occur re i A grain of sand in the nitro-glycerine faucet or the scraping of a foot over a particle that had fallen to the floor would have caused it. me men entered me ouuamg at a do at 7:30 o'clock, and had only been at work ten .rrminutes when the disaster happened. Alfred Love!], tha superintendent, passed through kut a few minutes before and saw that everything was all right He. was not more than 500 feet away whan the crash came. There was a light report, followed immediately by a tremendous roar. A cloud of smoke rose from where the mixing house was, and when it had cleared away there was not a vestige of the building remaining. The wooden structure, 50x30 feet in dimensions, had vanished. In its place was a circle of pulverized earth about 100 feet in diameter. With this earth was mingled & mas; of broken timbers, pieces of pipe and machinery, and twisted scraps of the metal ~~ tanks. The trunks and limt>s of the birch trees in the thicket were stripped-of bark from the root (o the raps of the branches. No foliage was to be seen upon them, and the ground was covered with a green mould, composed of the fall^stand pulverized Jeavei Not one timber of the building was left standing, and several acres of ground was strewn ae thickly with splinters as if there had been a shower of matches. There were 2,500 pounds of nitro-glycerine in the reservoir of this building, and the wonderful force of the explosion may be imagined when it is remembered that the explosion of a single ounce of it would wreck a building of this size. ./ One large building, 500 feet away to the southwest, withstood the effects of the onfrward blast, but was blown down toward the crater by the Inward rash of air that fot lowed. A force of employes at once began- to- 11 search the thickets and the open flela to the south for the remains of the ten workmen who were killed. Like the fragments of the building, bits of flesh were strewn everywhere, and these the searchers picked up aw put in pails. All that was found of the re* I mams of the ten men nuea 01117 lonr wawr buckets. Five of the ten victimi were mar' ried. ... . . ? The remains were burial in a single coffin provided by the company in its lot at Suocasunna. . ."rji: MORE FISHERY TROUBLE. Several American Vessels Taken at a Nova Scotia Port. v- ^ A Washington dispatch says: When the- -f fishery troubles first began, Gloucester,-. -j Mass., seemed to be more concerned in them v than all other American towns put together. But thus far it is perhaps Portland, Me. ^ that has suffered most The Ella M. Doughty, seized in Digby basin, was a Portland craft, and now during the past week alone no fewer than four Portland vessels became victims to Canada's policy, th? City Point, theG. W. Cashing, and the C. B. Harrington having been seized by the commander of the Dominion cruiser Terror at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and the mackerel seining steamer Novelty warned away from Pk> tou harbor. A Halifax (Nova Scotia) dispatch says:Great excitement was created here this afternoon by reports of the seizure of three American fishing schooners at Shelburne. This came like a thunderclap after the recent changes in the Ottawa instructions. A correspondent visited the United States CounsulGeneral, Mr. Ph?lan, and inquired about the truth of the reports. He said Shelburne wa9 200 miles from Halifax by stage coach and it was difficult to get full information about the matter." "But," he continued, "the reports of seizures which reach me are such that I am. j loath to believe that any responsible official could seize vessels of a friendly nation by wholesale for any such trivial offences as these alleged against these three Portland. vessels. There does not appear to be any substantial violation of any law in either the Dominion customs laws or even the eld statutes made when George III. was King. Take the case of the City Point; she put into Shelburne for repairs and water. One boat was sent ashore for water. Two of the boat's crew were natives and residents of the place. They embraced the opportunity to visit theirfamilies and remainedhome all night. These men, it must be remembered, are not under naval or even mercantile discipline. They 6hip on shares and the Captain has no control over them. But these men undertook to visit their friends while the Captain had gone up the harbor to report at the Custom House and make arrangements for getting repairs effected when ne was met by the Captain of the cruiser, ordered back and his vessel taken possession of by the Dominion authorities. How that fact can possibly be construed into violation of the treaty of 1818 puzzles me. Shecame into port late on the afternoon cf the 30th and was taken possession of before the Captain could reach the Custom House. Thecharge against the vessel is that the men took some clothing ashore,probably to get washed at their homes. As regards the other two vessels I have just received the following dispatches from the Captains. * " 'Our schooners were seized to-day, charged with seeking bait and not reporting at the Custom House. Have not purchased anything. Was boarded and seized eight miles from the Custom House.' " A later telegram from Shelburne says that the Collector of Customs, under instructions from Ottawa, imposed a fine of $400 each on the seized Portland schooners C. B. Harrington, City Point and George W. Cushing. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Dr. Talmage gets $5,000 a year for an advance copy of his serm ins. Temperance Advocate Murphy is gathering in converts in Cincinnati. Herr Singer, a Social Democrat and a member of the .Reichstag, has been expelled from Berlin. Secretary Manning is reported to be much improved in health since his vL?it to Hot Spriugs. Chang, the fa-nous Chinese giant,has gon? back to China, it is said, for the purpose of selecting a bride. General Buckner, the onco fierv Confederate soldier, now leads a quietand peaceful life on his farm in Kentucky. Mr. ANd Mrs. Beecher expect to be absent until the 1st of October. They will spend their time in England, Ireland and Wales. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, who is coming to this country to lecture, v.ill begin in the British provinces next October. Senator Kenna. aged thirty-eight, is the only Congressman iu the upper House under forty v ears of age, and there are only fourteen otters under l:fty. Since bis arrival at New Londi.n, C'onn., ex-President Arthur has been enjoying muchimproved health and his physician is now hopeful of his recovery. Mr. Hyndman, the English Socialist, who was connected with the lato London riots, is coming to this country to lecture and rcon Avllrtlicfflil OYphii'JllAr. > yn.-lliau Lillian Smith, of California, fourteen years of age, is having her praises sounded by the trump of fame because she has broken in succession 32-J glass balls with a rifle. Charles Webster, whose firm is publishing General Giant's book, says that within two years Mrs. Graut will have realized fully $000,000 from the sale in this country aloue. Of R. B. Hays' children, Webb is a trunk1 maker at Cleveland, Burchard is practicing law at Toledo, Rutherford is teller of a savings bank at Fremont and Fannie and S?ott I are at school, . . -