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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, . . -