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The ominous fact is stated that the navigation of Lake Champlain is so injured, owing to the cutting down of the forests, that acccss to some cf its chief ports is difficult, and that every year the lake is becoming more shallow. A newly-di'scoverel Mexican flower is quite a wonder, if reports be true. It is said to be white in the morning, red at noon and blue at night; and is further credited with emitting perfume only in the middle of the day. It grows on a tT<*Q o.f i'ie Isthmus of Tehuantepec. London Lancet records the case of & girl who had attacks resembling delirium tremens from the act of chewing tea leaves. Science believes that many persons could be cured of their dyspepsia and of palpitation of the heart by discontinuing the use of this favorite beverage. An agent for a parlor organ says it pays to give an organ outright to some farmer in a neighborhood where there arc no instruments. As soon as it is known that he has one every other farmer's wife exclaims: "Well, if that isn't cheek! If that family can buy an organ, we shall certainly have one, and we'll get a better one than they did." From fifteen to tweuty sales are the re suit. Araminta Hollinger, an old colorcd woman, has just died in "Wheeling, West Virginia, at the age of ninety. She was considered the best cook in that region of country, and prepared the bier dinner given Lafayette when he was entertained there. She also superintended State dinners given to Clay, Webster and other notables in times past. She never claimed to have been George Washington's nurse and was also remarkable in other respects. It is estimated that the material contained in the Chinese wall would build a wall around the world six feet high and two feet thick. Its cost was probably equal to that of all the 100,000 miles of railroad in the United States. A nation that would begin and complete such a stupendous work as that rather than figh t its enemies from its boundaries lacks -*-1 1 ? torl trn nr?r*m onf: iuu enjuiuuta IUI <???> ??<>* * v "" The Chinese wall is an everlasting exponent of the Chinese character. The appearance of a "blizzarded" train is thus described by the Bismarck (Dakota) Tribune: "As the train came in, with her twj handsome engines puffing and snorting and glistening, she was admiieibya crowd of Bismarckers, who ore ever ready to applaud the beautiful and picturesque. The most interesting sight of all was the white-capped snow plow which came just ahead of the train.'The plow was loaded with several tons' of pure white material, and the engine was a gigantic moving ie'ele, of curious shapes and exquisite beauty. The drivewheels, tho boiler, the bell and the smoke btack were handsomely plated with ice and snow, and the cab was a perfect little crystal palace." A lad who recently brought his father's chooncr safely into port at St. Johns, New Brunswick, unaided by any other person, is a youth who should be dear to the heart of Oliver Optic and the editors of young people's magazines. It seems that of the original crew of three who were on the vessel the mate was knocked overboard and lost and the skipper le.'t the schooner in a boat to search for the unfortunate seaman. In so doing he was himself separated from the ship and obliged to make his way as best he could to land. Meanwhile the lad took the rudder, and in spite of head winds and heavy seas managed to make a harbor. Here is material for an entertaining tale, ontiflfifl "The Bov Navigator: or. Alone at Sea," which should have a wide circulation. An English writer, diseasing the low condition of English agriculture, says "the great difficulty is to get men to work on a scale suited to their means. At present the custom is universal for a man who has the means to do justice to 100 acres of land to try to work 300, and so starve himself and the farm too." This, adds the New York Times, is sound sense and a great economical truth, for waste of labor is waste of money and material, and where there is waste there is want and loss, which must be paid for without any return. The above remark is applicable to our own circumstances, ior, nn tue average it is a positive fact that thousands of American farmers would be better off were they tocultivate well one-fourth as much land as they now work in a poor and profitless manner, and so produce a9 much from ten acres as is now made from forty, and at one-third of the cost, By the application of gun cotton, three immense and lo'ty chimneys be longing to tnc nuuaeioi esiuuiiMimuiic, Berlin, have been successfully destroyed to enable important changes to be made in the factory. The largest of these was about 147 feet high, and ten feet diameter at the base. In order that it should fall outward from the city, the charge of gun cotton, about fifty-seven pounds, was attached in portions to the side next the city and to the adjacent sides, and all three were exploded simultaneously with a magneto-electric apparatus. The chimney, intend of falling obliquely, collapsed vertically, and on inspection the four walls of tnc peaestai were found t* have been driren outward: the bricks were all detachcd from each other, and nearly all entire, and the ddbris was thrown a very little distance. The two other chimneys, treated eioiilarly, fell as was expected, that is, obliquely away from the city, and one of th?m, in falliDg, broke in two at About the middle. The organ grinders of New York city have a trade-union composed of eight hundred and eighty-two members. They parcel out the city into routes, as newsnaDer carriers and milkmen do, and r * when a man dies or goes home to Italy his route is sold to the highest bidder, the proceeds going into the general fund. The organ tunes are graded, according to the routes, the classic organs taking Fifth avenue, Murray Hill and other high-toned localities, Avhile the simple and more popular tunes are sent to the humbler sections of the city. The grinders average $3 or $4 a day in pennis. ' Here is something of a concession for John Bull to make. It appeared in the London Globe, and the vanity of the men at Harvard will be more than ever tickled: ' Whatever many of us may think of many American institutions, political, financial, social, and so forth, there is one department ef life and learning in which nobody who knows anything about the matter can deny that the United States stands, if not absolutely first, yet second to no nation in the world?that is to say, both in the study and in the practice of law. And the reason will not be found far to seek by readers of the speeches I /Ucfinmiiclinrl tVlO rpilnioil of the members of the Harvard Law School Association during the celebration of the quarter-millenial (new and ominous addition to the -enaries!) of their alma mater. Teachers and students of law alike will be well advised to procure a report of the proceedings, to which it is impossible within the limits of a short note to do more than the scantiest justice." An instrument known as the the Barrett-Xelms telephone, invented by two residents of Houston, Texas,has just had a successful trial at Gaveston. The test consisted in talking over a wire 830 miles long, that being the distance to New Orleans and return.The articulation was far more distinct and perfect than over the ordinary short circuits by the Bell telephone. The new invention differs from the Bell, Edison and all other telephones, inasmuch as it combines the cttects oi an induction coil and the helix of a handphone, causing them to act simultaneously and in concert with each other by winding the coils in the samo direction and using a carbon diaphragm with three carbon contacts, providing for the use of a larger amount of battery. The recent test was made with three cclls. For a short distance no battery whatever is required, the automatic dynamo-current being sufficient to articulate with great distinctness and steadiness. The inventors claim that thoy can talk from New York to San Franscisco with the sam distinctness as for a distance of 803 o 100 miles. The Galveston (Texas) News tells this story of buried treasure: "Some eight miles southeast of Kemp, on Twelve Mile rrairie, lives a family by the name of Godfrey. In 1875 old man Godfrey /\rilr oirtl- on/1 /linfl in n olinrf with congession of the lungs. The old man was in fine circumstances, had considerable stock and a good deal of money. He was in the habit of keeping his money buried, and had it all buried at the time he was taken sick. His wife being dead, he told no one where he kept it except his oldest son, a boy seventeen years of age, and, as recent developments have proved, this boy did not know where it was all buried. Aft?r the old man's death, the boy in company with his uncle repaired to the place where he knew the money was buried, and they got up several thousand dollars. Many of the old neighbors, and even hio own children, have always believed that there was more money buried around the premises, and time and again have searched for it without finding anything. The old home has been rented out from year to year to various individuals. It I +V\io +r> o mnn }w ftifl ?U3 ll'UttU IUU JWU4 WV M U4MW Wj ?MV name of Ashton, who moved the fence from around the plum orchard, and in plowing in oats last April his plow struck an old coffee-pot, which, upon investigation, proved to contain a quantity of gold pieces, estimated at something near one hundred $20 gold pieces. Ashton kept this a secret from all except a young man coming homo with him from town. One day when he was full of the oil of gladness he told the young man he had plenty of gold, and if he would go with him he wonld show it to him, which he did. Time passed on. Ashton, who was a man of limited means, spent money the past fall rather recklessly, and on last Thursday morning the prool of the Godfrey family had, connected with all the circumstances, caused the arrest of Ashton, who now is under heavy bond, for the money he found, which beyond all doubt is the money old man Godfrey buried some i fon nr twnlvp vonru Horn " iVU v .. w. . ? J O Definitions of the Day. Before the mast?The bowsprit. Wash- Uay?February twenty-second. A fish horn?Cod-liver o:l. A cold cut?A cake of ice. Lit out?The kerosene-kindling servant. A s:gn of prosperity? A bird fancier?The cat. A tea-party?The Chinese. A smoke-stack?A package of cigar ettes. Highly incensed?The smoking-car. Tripped up?The Alps. A volume of smoks?The history of Pittsburg.?Pud-. Home. Home never seems more sac ed and pleasaut than after a separation from it. Distance from it only enhances its value?intensifies its sacrcdness. There is no sweeter place in this world tnnn 110111c. ah oi me, iovc uou uopc arc bound up in it. Wc may enjoy ourselves temporarily e'sewhere, but our greatest joys will ever cluster around home. John Howard Payne was right: 'Tisj ''home, ewee* home!"?St. Louis Maga J '.inc. j MR-STATE COMMERCE. Prospccts of the Bill Regulating Railroad Traffic. Senator Wilson's Speech in Favor of the Measure, Among the most important measures before Congress this session Is the Inter-State Commerce bill, which provides for the supers vision of railroads and freight rates in the various States. The bill has been before Congress several years, but its promotors have been unable heretofore to secure its passage. This session the Conference Committees of both Houses agreed upon a repoil in its favir, and on the last day before the holiday recess it came up in the Senate, but after a speech in its favor had been made by Senator Wilson the bill went over until after the holidavs. Senator Cullom announcing that he would then ask the Senate to take it up daily, and lieep it up until a vote was reached. A Washington special said of tho bill: While it is evident that the views of many representatives have changed since tho Reagan Inter-State bill passed the House at tho last session, it does not seam protable that tho report of th3 Conference r% A I v_/Uiimijlll'o win uc iqjcv vou. a &??? extromo members complain that the House conferees yielded too much and, threaten to vote against the report, but it is not likely that many of them will do so, Some of the Western members who were among the most earnest supporters of the bill, now say that they are in doubt as to whether the measure will not injure rather than benefit the farmers and stock growers of the West, but that the sentiment in their districts is so strong in favor of action b> Congress that they will be constrained to vote for the conference report. The truth is that when the bill passed the House not one man in three undemood its provisions or care 1 to. One thing which^ gives n;any of the supporters of the conference report considerable uneasiness is the suggestion that the ' lon^ haul and short haul" provision, if enforced, will bo likely to divert the transcontinental traflc, as well as a large part of the grain and meat traffic, from the United States to Cauada. But there seems to be no reason to expect that any or all of the considerations involved will receive weight enough to defeat the conference report. In the Senate to-day Mr. Cullom called up the conference report on toe bill, and Mr. Wilson, of Iowa," thereupon addressed the Senate in favor of the adoption of the report. He referred to an interview published in the New York Tribune, in which President King, of the Erie, recommended five boards of commissioners to examine all the questions involved. That, he said, simply meant a delay. The public demanded action. Nothing, said Mr. Wilson, had been done more to demoralize railroad managers, officers and agents than poils. Under the present system losses on through business were unloaded on the business of the intermcdinle or local points. This practice was, in itself, an outrage. As the bill came from the House it authorized, by I imr.hVjjf.inn railroad companies to charge as much for a short as for a long haul. " But not so under tho conference report: because it provided (hat nothing in the bill should be construed as authorizing a railroad company to charge and revive as groat compensation for a shoit a3 fcr nJong distance. The people recognir.ed the he&thful aid which ra'lroads had given to tho development and progress of the country; but they insisted on the enactment of a law which would aid them in the recovery of someof their lost rights. They were wii ing that the railroad companies should proper and should bo reasonably paid for their services; but they did not recognize them as their masters. As an illustration of the injustice of tho present system, ho stated that on the 16th of this month coru was selling in Western Iowa,where it hnd been n good crop, at from 150 to 2"> ceuts a bushel, in Chicago at 36 cents a bushel, and in Southeastern Iowa, where the crop had been a failure, at 40 to 42 cents a bushel; so that Western Iowa corn was being sold in Chicago at from 4 to 6 cents a bushel loss than in Eastern Iowa. NEW COUNTERFEIT COINS. Dangerous $2.50 and $."> Gold Pieces ?Counterfeit Half Dollars, Below will be found an accurate description of three new and dangerous counterfeits j of Ameri an cains: A COUNTERFEIT $2.50 GOLD PIECE. In various parts of tho country a counteri feit ouarter ea?le of the date of 1857 has made its appearance. It weighs only 38 o-S grain3i while the genuine weighs 04.5 grains, and il; is thicker than the genuine. It is composed I mainly of brass and is heavily gold plated. NEW COUNTERFEIT HALF EAGLES??5. j The new counterfeit half eagle is composod | of platinum, and is heavily gold plated. It j is dated 1W2. and resembles the counterfeit half eagles of the date of ISIt is known as size lifteen. All genuine half eagle> of the date 18.52 are sized fourt?eu, thesama size as is mintoi at the present time. This counterfeit weigh? 1*22 grains and is seven grains lighter than the genuine Reeding and mill| iug very defective. Tno date or iiguros are a trifle smaller than the figures ou t'je genuine. The eye of the head of liberty is defective, giving a diiFerent expression to the goddess. The rin^ is fair: geueral appearance excellent at first sight; but will Dot bear a close examination, as will be observed by the above description. It bears the fc'au Francisco miut mark, (S). COUNTERFEIT IIALF DOLLARS. A largo number of counterfeit half dollar3 have rec ently been put in circulation in Boston aud other New England cities. These * * . count?rie.t nait aouars aro u.vuevuiugij dangerous. The die3 ef the obverse and reverse are an exa:t imitation of the genuine dies. The milling and reeding are well done; the riug is good. Tne composition used is lead a id antimony. A few have a soft app?arauee, but most of th ;m are verv brittle. They present an old appearnn :e. This is to give them the appearance corresponding with their dates, most of them beiug old dates, as follows: 1857, 18-VS, 1 Soli, 1800, 1801, 1803, 1863, 1871, 1874, 1875. 1S70, 1877 and 1878. Other dates thau those given above are no doubt in circulation. Thase counterfeits vary from thirty to forty grains lighter than the genuine, and present to the touch a slippery or groasy appearance. THE NATIONAL GAME, There will be lots of new races in tne League clubs In 18S7. The veteran pitcher Bobby Mathews is now coaching the Pennsylvania University team. It is estimated that the pay roll of the Detroit club will reach nearly 840,000 next season. President Spaulding has challenged the St. Louis Browns to play a series of seven or nine games in April next for the world's championship. The California people are delighted with tho brilliant style in which the Louiiville club is playing. Their trip to tho Pacific coast is proving a grand financial success. The St. Louis Maroons' management announce that they will give a bonus next year to every member in the toam if the club stands as high as third in the League race. A Southwestern League is talked of to embrace the representative clubs of Little Rock, Hot Springs, Fort Smith and Pii:e Bluff, Ark.; Vicksburg, Miss.; Shreveport, La.: and Galveston, Dall is and Fort Worth, Texas. The National League of colored baseball ?layers was formed in Pittsburg recently, ilubs will be placed In Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington Cincinnati, Louisville aud Pittsburg. Applications were also received from Boston and Cleveland. during the year ended on December 1, 3,018,717 foot passengers crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and 2i,0 J 1,2 ?7 persons wjre carried in the curs. The receipts from tolls were $743,&S0. It). The total number of passengers using the bridge from its opsuing to December 1 is t?,427,8J&. Eggs and poultry command a better pric? in the cities and mining tamps of Colorado, take it the year round, than in otiier place in the United States. Eggs are said to be worth thirty-flve cents a dozen in the Denver (Col.J markets. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle Statea Moiie than five acres of land above a coal " mine in Shenandoah, Penn., cavod in suddenly, throwing' about sixty houses out of place, driving upward of a hundred families into the street, and causing a loss of more tnan sw.u w. ins wrecKea nouses ware situated above a coal mine. Christian Schau, a merchant tailor of Erie, Penn., in a drunken frenzy attempted to kill his wife, murdered one grown daughter and fatally wounded another. The will of the late Samuel J. Tilden is to be contested by a nephew, George H. Tilden, who objects to those provisions which give the bulk of his uncle's portion for the endowment ol' public institutions. McQuadb, the New York Boodle Alder- i man convicted of taking a bribe, was sen- ( tenced on tha 20th to seven years' imprisonment aud to pay a fine of 15,000. The: Rev. Silas Wiggin, of Sutton, Vt., aged iaventy-five years, committed suicide by hanging. Aldex Goldsmith, the famous horseman who brought out and developed the great trottor Goldsmith Maid, died the other day at Blooming Grove, N. Y., in his sixtyseventh year. The 32<ith anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers was celebrated in Boston by the Congregational Club, the principal speakers being Governor Robinson and Hon. James G. Blaine. Banquets in celobration of the day also took place in New York, Brooklyu and other cities. South and West. Thk people of Texarkana, Texas, took from jail aud banged a man named Howard, who had brutally treated his child-wife, his cruelty culminating in branding her flesh with a red-hot iron. Joh.v G. Swilling, of Franklin County, Ga., his wife anJ three children, tte oldest aged six years, were murderod by Frank Sanders, who fired the dwelling after committing the diabolical crime. He was arrested and confessed. A crowd seized Sanders, conveyed him to the scene of his crime and burned him to death. Thirtt-five persons were injured by an explosion in a pas well at Kokomo, End. Frederich W. Pitkin, a native of Connecticut, elected Governor of Colorado in 1878. diec^ a few days since in Puello, Col., aged forty-nine years. Peacock Brothers, of Colorado City, Texas, have mad? an assignment of all their cattle and ranch interests. Liabilities about $300,000. Vilonia, Ark., has been partly destroyed by fire, the work of incendiaries. Counterfeiters are flooding thj Northwest with bad money. William Mussel was taken from the Eaton (Ohio) jail by a crowd and hanged. He hid killed Daniel Christman, an aged farmer. , Washington. Warning has been sent out that t txo counterfeit $20 Unitad States silver certificate issued; in 188J has again made its appearance. Confirmations by the Senate: iibner B. Williams, of Arkansas, to be a mnmber of T fomnnn fcrt I LllO UUt'J UU1U1111..VI1UU1 A/UUlVI v. vuu.^M ?? bo Collector of Customs at Detro.t, Mich. Postmasters?Kittie Bo.twiek, Wesson,Miss.; Willis J. Beacb, Litchfield, Conn.; Willis Lang, Vadosta, Ga.; C. B. Pe?uei, Paris, Texan; Orval A. Manviile, Whitehall, N. Y. Salary expenses of the Senate during the past liscal year were: Salaries ani mileage of Senators, SoJJ4,Gi!7; salaries of officers and employes, $.'{.>4,200. Over $15,000 ?ero expended for newspapers and stationery, $">0,U00 for miscellaneous items, and $il,00C> for special select committees. Tns PresiJent has approve! ther.ct retiring Vire-Admiral Rowan and Rear-Admiral \\'orden with the highest pay c? their grades. Th:5: President has pardoned Tampa, ' Lowish aud Hietitct, three Pima Inr ians undergoing a sentence of five years' i:nprisonment in tho'Aruona Penitentiary for a murderous assault on two white men in ;hat Territory iu 1S83. Congressman Reid, of North Carolina, has bjcn missing a long time, and is believed | to have gone to Canada. He is in financial difficulties. TfiB House Committee on the Judiciary will report adversely on Mr. Swinburne's bill to erect a United States penitentiary. The Ponsion Appropriation bill as reported to the House provides for a total expenditure of $7(5,254,500. The estimates were $7fi,2j4,r?00, and the appropriation for last year $7G,075,200. The name of James Matthews (colored) to bo Recorder of Doeds for the District of Columbia has again been sent to the Senate, although on;e rejected by that body. Confirmations by the Senate: Postmasters?Mary McAtoe, Bard:>town, Ky.; B. P. Church, Calvert, Tex.; John McQuiiid, Clinton. Mass. W. S. S jhrook, Receiver of Public Moneys, Lamar; Colonel A. P. Arbuckle, Register of the General Land Office, Denver. Foreign. " In conformity with an agreement with England, the German government has annexed several of the Solomon Islands. j Dcrinq a heavy gale at Marin, Spain, a church was unroofedf, and the flyinj; timbers killed five persons. i Salvator Mortabellt, a native of Malta, has begun a seventv-two days' fast 1 at PhiliDpeville, Algeria fie was formerly 1 in the British navy. Being shipwrecked once he was cast upon a desert island and tasted no food for seveuty-two days; A Glasgow company has receivijd orders to build a steamer which shall surpass in ( speed and size any vessel afloat. A band of seventeen smugglers who were i hiding in a cave near Viceuza, Italy, were < killed by an avalanche. < The steamship Lianelly, sailing from Liv-. erpool, has foundered at Holyhead, Englaud. Twelve persons were drowned. ' U1JLJ. XlJLt >Wi , 'Governor Hi ll, of New York, ha sgranted a respite until February 28 to Mr'. Druse, sentenced to bo hanged for husband murder. A recent movement is said to huve been started in Chicago to depose General Master Workman l'ovvdorly, of the Knights of Labor, for declaring the recent port packers' strike off. Obey E. Owens, receiving teller of the Third National Bunk, who in 1?05 embezzled $2IX).(X)J from the bank, nnd who has been serving a sentence in the Chester (I1L) penitentiary, has bcon pardoned by the President. Lord Randolph Chuchill has resigned from the British Cabinet Gladstone is opposed to the aut;-rent campaign of the Irish Home Rule leaders. A great snow storm has been raging over Germany, causing at many places a complete suspension of railroad traffic. COEBCIONIRntELAHD. The Government Proclaims its AntiRent Plan of Campaign. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has formally proclaimed the Anti-Rent Campaign. The proclaiming of the Anti-Rent Campaign in Ireland is accept? 1 by the leaders of the Irish National League a? a step on the British Government's pa:t toward the suppression of the League. The funds of the League have already been transferred to Fi ance, in order to prevent their seizure by the authorities, and tho rent moneys deposited with trustees will also be se reted to guard them against government designs The government proclamation warns all persons that the inciting of tenants to refuse to pay or to withhold rents is an illegal act, and tbat the anti-rent movement, by whatever means carried out, is a criminal conspiracy. In addition it says that all moneys, receipts or documents given or received for tha purpose of such conspiracy are liable to seizure, and that pr-rsons in whose possession the same are found Khali be arrested. This sweeping measure is the production of Lord Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and assent to its promulgation wa9 obtained at a meeting of the British Cabinet Council. The Unionist papers now clamor for the immediate suppression of the National League, and even demand that trial by jury be suspended in Ireland if the juries refuse to convict tha advocates of th3 anti-rent movement. A STEAMER'S PERIL Encountering a Terrific Gale on Its Way to New York. A. Quartermaster Killed and Three utners or tne urewuaaiy nurt, The steamship La Champagne, of the French line, rerontly left Havro for New York, on what proved to be a most eventful voyage. For the first three days, says the New York Herald, she experienced heavy storms and head seas, but the fourth day out the wind veered, the weather was bright and clear, and the thousand souls on board began to congratulate themselves on the probability of the remainder of their trip bemg pleasant. JBut they had reckoned without the "Roaring Forties." On the 15th heavy clouds loomed yp on the horizon, the barometer fell rapidly, and the wind began to blow with great violence till at four o'clock in the afternoon a whole gale was blowing and the head seas were very heavy. The ship was in that region known to sailors as the "Roaring Forties," about latitude north forty degrees and longitude west forty degrees. As the night wore on the gale increased to a hurricane, and Captain Traub was obliged to lower the speed of the good ship so as to keep only enough steerage way on her to point her head to the wind. In fact she had to lie to in the same way a sailing vessel would. This, considering the fact that La Chamlmtrnfi is nnfl of the larcest and finest steamers afloat, should give somo idea of the force of the hurricane and the size of the waves. While the storm was at its worst, about nine o'clock p. M., one of those fa'l accidents occurred which will happen in spite of all the care and vigilance of officers. The masthead light had been slewed around to leeward by the force of the wind, and a couple of hands were sent forward on the turtleback to adjust it. Owing to the darkness and the tossing of the vessel thoy were a little slow in this, and the boatswain's mate and a quartermaster went forward to hurry them up and to assist them. While all four were standing together on the forward turtleback the vessel made a dip and a mountainous wave rushed over her, carrying the men off their feet and grinding tbem against the deck fixtures, so that when, immediately afterward, assistance reached them, the quartermaster was found to be dead and his companions not much better off. All night the storm continued to increase in violence, until at 5 o'clock Captain Traub admitted that in all his experience at sea he had never before seen anything like it. One wave in particular is declared by all who witnessed it to be a phenomenal one and to justly merit the title Monarch of Ocean Waves. It was d'scernible a long distance ahead lifting its white crest many feet above its fellows. It was the supreme effort of the storm, and shortly after the wind was perceived to be abating and La Champagne was soon pursuing her way at the usual rate of speed. On the morning of the 17th burial services were read over the body of the unfortunate quartermaster, and it was then consigned to its water grave. The quartermaster's name was Jean Marie Pbillippe, and he leaves a widow and S2veral children, for whom a generous subscription was at on:e taken up by the cabin passengers. The remainder of the voyage was unusually nleasantand La Champagne reached New York on the 20th without further mishap. La Cham; agne is the crack ship of the line and one of the largest and most handsomely appointed of transatlantic steamers. Frequently she carries from twelve to thirteen hundred passengers. THE TARIFF IN CONGRESS. The House Refuses to Take Up Mr. Morrison's Bill. Tho endeavor to bring up the Tariff question and to mako changes in the revenue laws has again besn defeatel in Congress. A Washington special gives these graphic details: It was half past 1 before the smaller business of the Hou>e was out of the way and Colonel Morrison's opportunity came. Members suspended conversation and spectators in the gallery leaned forward to listen as he rose from his seat over on the Speaker's right and got recognition from Mr. Carlisle. The scene was al most the counterpart of that of last summer, when Mr. Morrison made his second attompt aad scored his second defeat. Even the language used by the Illinois Frea Trader on the two occasions was the same. Ho said: "Mr. Speaker, I move that the Hou^o resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union .for the purpose of considering revenue bills.'' Mr. Randall, the leading Democratic Protectionist, who sat in the same row of seats with Mr. Morrison, the leaiing Democratic Free Trader, looked a ross the .half dozeu intervening desks at the Illinoisian without changing a muscle of his face. Then he slightly turned his head to look across to the Republican side as McKinley, of Ohio, the Republican Protectionist leader, ro.se to get the Speaker's eve. This, too, was a repetition of last session's proceadings. Then, as on this occasion, McKinley's part was to say: "And on that I demand the yeas and nays." There was no opportunity under the rules for debate, and all that remained to bj lone was to order the roll call. Several members had tally sheets on their deslcs and followed the clerk through the list. Morrison and Randall sat unconcernedly in their places as the roil call went on, and carelessly chatted with stray members who passed down the aisles. After alltln mo libera present, including the Speaker, had responded to their names, the pairs were read and the vote was announced? 14!) members had voted for Mr. Morrison's motion and 154 asainst. This re suit was accomplished by the vote o 12S Re- j publicans and 20 Democrats, agtinst the ! votes of 14.'5 Democrats and fi Republicans, j The Republicans who voted with Morrison are Nelson, Stratt, Wakefield and White, of Minnesota, and Hayden and Stone, of Maseachusetts. The Democrats who voted against the motion are Bliss, Merriman.Muller, Springs and Stahlnecker, of New York; Boyle, Curtin, Ermentrout, Randall and j Sowden, of Pennsylvania; C'ampb?ll, Foran, Geddes, Le Fevre. Seney, Warner nnrl Will;ins. of Ohio: (Jav. Ir- I win, St. Martin and Wallace, of Louisiana; Green and McAdoo, of New Jersey ; Lawler and Ward, of Illinois, andJMartin of Alabama. Pidcock, of New Jersey, and Henley, of California, Democrats, were paired against the motion, as were the following Republicans: Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Whiting, cf Massachusetts: Brown, of Indiana; Warner, of Missouri; and Little, of Ohio. Pindar, "Tim" Campbell and Viele, of New York, and Findlay, of Maryland, who voted against Morrison in June, stood by him this time, and Ellsberry, of Ohio, who voted with Randall in June,did not vote on this occasion. Three Democrats were absant who were not paired?King, of Louisiana; Reagan, of Texas, and Reid, of North Carolina. All of them would have fnr thfl mnf.inn whinh avaii f~.ll An. would have been rejected by a majority of two votes. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Seven' oil of biroh distilleries in Connecticut are making wintergreen. The 1,003 convicts in Sing Sing prison eat twenty-one barrels of flour daily. The estat9 left by the lato Charles Francis Adams is estimated at $1,2.30,00J. Edward Gould, the younger son of Jay Gould, is an expert stenographer. Last year more than 100,000 emigrant* went to the Argentine Ropublic from Italy. Stamp-collecting cranks pay $400 for a postage stamp of the Islaud of Mauritius for the year 1647. A national military drill and encampment is announced to take place at Washington next May. The prizes to be offered will aggregate 820,500, Dogs ran a fine deer into the yard of Ed. Cole, on Big River, Missouri. One of Ed.'9 dogs caught it, and while he held it Mrs. Cole killed it with an axe. A bottle of purple ink was mistakenly opened for port wineat a Detroit supper,and fourteen guests filled their mouths with the liquid in pledeing the host. SUMMARY J0FC0NGRE8S. Senate. IOtii Day.?Among the petitions presented were several in favor of the reduction of the tax on oleomargarine, and one by Mr. Vest from the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, asking legis'ation for the increase of trade with Central and South America ? Mr. Aldrich offered a resolution requesting the President to negotiate reciorocitv treaties with snzar nroaucine countries. Tabled....Mr. Blair introduced a bill to allow soldiers and sailors who have lost both arms an increased pension. Referred? The Senate passed the House bill for the relief of the survivors of the exploring steamer Jeannette and the widows and children of those who perished in the retreat from the wre.k of that vessel in the Arctic seas....Executive session. 11th Day.?The House bill malting appropriations to supply the deficiencies for the public printing, with an amendment requiring the money to he expended ratably, was pacsed?Mr. Morgan offered a resolution calling on the President for correspondonce with the Government of Nicaragua relating to the Nioaraguan Ship Canal, or to the treaty on that subject, which wa? pending in the Senate on the 4th of March, 1885. Adopted The resolution for holiday recess from December 22 to January 4, was agreed to. 12th Day.?Mr. Edmunds reported a bill to provide for the execution of Article 2 of the treaty with China of November, 1880, oa tbe subio^t of the opium traffic?Mr. xioar onerea a res>iuuuii unecung ubwui- I mittee on Corayierce to report in the River and Harbor bill as to each public work tor which an appropriation is made therein, the [ facts which render su: h appropriation advisable and of national importance and th?. J condition of the work, if begun. Adopted, ' .... Tho resolution introduced by Mr. Dawea on the second day of the session instructing the Committee on Finance to report what specific reductions can be made in th3 customs duties and internal taxes that will reduce taxes to the necessary and economical expenses of the government without impairing the prosperity of home industries or the compensation of home labor, was adopted .... Adjourned until January 4th. House. 12th Day?On motion of Mr. Ward, of Indiana. the Senate amendments tithe Housa i bill authorizing the employment of m lil mes-1 sengers in the postal service were non-concurred in and a conference ordered....Mr. Morrison (111.) moved that the House go into Committee of the Whole to consider the Revenue bill. Mr. McKintey (Ohio) demauded ' the yeas and nays, and the m >tion was de- J feated by 14'J yeas to 154 nays. Yeas were cast by 143 Democrats and 6 Republicans, and the nays by 128 Republicans and 28 Democrats. 13th Day.?Bills and resolutions introduced: By Mr. Townsend (111.)?Requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain whether the New York ban'.cs had been illegally fostering speculat on. By Mr. Taulbee (Ky.)?Asking the Secretary of the Treasury by what authority he prepared interest on the public debt. By Mr. Dingley (Me.)?Instructing the Secretary of the Navy so to arrange his contracts for new ships as to foster the building of private iron and steal yards at various points on the coast. Also a bill to protect the inmate; of the national homes for disabled soldiers 'and forbidding the sale of distilled and fermented liquors within th3 limits of any home. By Mr. Cox (N. Y.j? A resolution calling upm the President for all correspondence between the Depa: tme it of State and our Ministar to Rusua, or between that Minister and the Russian Gov ernment, in relation to tha conduct or tne Russian Government in the treatment or expulsion of 8. Miehsl Bacher, an Aonri-an citi en who was expelled from Russia on accouut of his being a Hebrew; and all other correspondence between onr Government and that of Russia in relation to the condition or expulsion of Hebrews who are Americau citizens from the territory of Russia. Also a joint resolution directing the Committee on Anpropriations to presant to the House a suitable plan of coast defence. By Mr. Willcins (Ohio)?To reduce the amount of deposit of United States bouds to be required of national banks, and to restore to the channels of traie the excessive accumulations of lawful money in the Treasury .... Mr. Hiscock's motion to pass the bill fixing the duties on tobajco was opposed by Mr. Morrison, and was lost by 90 yeas to li? nays ....The Senate bill amending the statutes making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia was * " * JA ? ?v? ?v* AW f pflSS6d"*l'J3 CO uu uuicuuiucu u making the annual appropriation *400,000. 14th Day.?Mr. Morrison (111.) from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back the concurrent resolution for a holiday recess from De?ember 22 to January 4. Agreed to?132 to 25.... The Senate amendment to the bill for the relief of the survivors of the Arctic exploring steamer Jeanuette was concurred in Mr. Weaver (Neb.), as a privileged ques tion, called up the Presdent's veto on the bill granting a pension to Simmons W. Harden.<* Mr. Bragg; (Wis.) raised the question of a consideration and the House refused?yeas 101, nays 110?to consider the Pension Bill ....The Military Academy, and th3 Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bills were reported and referred to Committee of the Whole. 15th Day.?A bill was passed granting to the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company the right of way throuch certain Indian_ reservations in Noithern Montana and Northwestern Dakota.... Mr. Warner, of Ohio, from the Committee on Postottices and Post Roads reported a bill requiring all land grant railroad companies to construct, maintain and operate telegraph lines.... The Oklahoma bill was debated until adjournment, the House ad journing until January 4. MANY SAILORS LOST. A Whaling Vessel Wrecked in San Francisco Bay. At 2:33 o'clock, the other morning, the whaling bark Atlantic was driven ashore a mile and a half below the Cliff House, San Francisco, and went to pieces in a few minutes, not a spar remaining standing. Wreckage was strewn along the beach for three #r four miles. The Captain and mate, wift eight or ten men, were saved out of tie forty-two men on board. At the time of the disaster there was a* dense fog, and a heavy sea was running. The Atlanta uai left San Francisco to? a cruise in the South Pacific, aftjr wbish she was to proceed to the North. Th? Atlanta was au old vessel, having bsen built in 18 >1,and was of 251 tons register. She was owned by J. nni W. R. Wing, of New Bedford, Mass., and co nmanded by Captain Thomas P. War reu, wuosuiu; "We were towed out to sea yesterday. There was a heavy swell and no wind, and I the currents were so strong that we could not ! get out of the swell We let go both anchors, but the sea swept our deiks, aud was so heavy that the anchors could not hold. We dragged ashore, aud struck at 1:30 a. it. Tha men were being washed off during all this time by the immense waves that washed over us. Th9 vessel weut to pieces an hour and a half alter she struck. Thirewas a very heavy fog and it was pitch dart "We su?ceedo:l ia lowering two boats, but both were capsized before getting two boatlengths from the ship. The first boat con-1 taiued Z. H. Doty, first mate, Anton Perry, tuira mate, ana lour or jive 01 tue crew i That was the last we saw of them. In tU second boat were myself. Second Ma# Ring, oni five men. When we weJ swamped the sea carried us in untd \1 touched bottom, when we draped ourselv* ashore. Wo made no signals of distress, ( it wast 10 foggy for any to be seen" The Captain and crew numbered forty-tv* , persons, and only eleven persons were know to have baen saved. It is charged that, large portion of the crew were intoxicate and that twenty-five men were below sleo ( ing off the effects of liquor when the voss ( sti'uck and thus met their deaths. TEE POWER? ARMING. j Significant Preparations in Franc ] normnnv illld Itiily. . Uneasiness is felt in Paris over therapidi ( with which tbo French Government is wot J ing to place the armament of France in t coniplete.-it condition possible. The Str ? manufactories of arms and amunition are ? being worked to their utmost capacity. It I ? repoited from Rome that Italy is armir I * .Aavices from Berlin state that Germany increasing her troops in Alsace-Lorraine. * ?ii V J On* of the largest stores in Paris claims (~ have sold more than $1,000,000 in gloves 0 American visitors the past year, outside ^ the wholesale orders from importers. jl C 1 i I I 1IIIMS OF L K ' A Wo l^Rdcr Sentence of Respited, ? Story e JBrime for Which She ^ Was^nced to be Hanged, G?veifl| bos granted a reprieve until . * Fobruai^K Mrs. Roxalaoa Druse, whoseexccuti<B^rid otherwise have taken place on Dec29, in the courtyard of the county wfit Herkimer, N. Y. In giving > his reaVj for hu action, the Governor is impejjt by the simple fact tnat toe m womauTOecution was fixed for an un- V seasonabjime, a day intervening between ^ the twoi-eateat holidays of the year? Christna and New Year's. Detailing tato-' reasons* granting the respite the Governor says th/pdence shows that while Mr. Druse was at/ttable his wife went into another room ?Pfcot a revolver.' She sent her boy? out, n jd Vr daughter Mary then put a rope aroufl ft- father's neck, and the prisoner fired tbejrevolver at him once or twire; woqidinj him so that he fell over side* wajs iu,the chair. Sh3 then compelled het neplw Frank to ta'ie the revolver am fife her husband, and when Druse j rqied orpe chair she seized an axe and hit VI hm onJtfc head with it, h3 exclaiming: fl Ob, Rixi don't," and Bhe continued hitting . / Km 011 thieek until she chopped his heal >ff?savjr^g it completely from his body. ?he then caused th9 head, as well a? .'the bodyhxj be take a into the parlcr, anq during tbat nday and evening ttybody was cut up with an axe and was btrned'iu the stove. She tbreatenedr to kill the bys if they told 'what had occurroJ, bated all her husband's clothe and V male ever]possible effort to conceal the crime. eating ths ashes in the stove where- * the tKKlylJd b.?en burned to be taken up and tbrowj in a swamp, and the revolver r and axe tope thrown in a pond, and had telegram* * at to friends in otherplaces making fali? fcd misleading inquiries as to her-' - husband^afecompelled the boys to tell every one that Hr husband bad gone aww from hoire, shwbersjlf telling har neighbors falsehoodsiof every description as to- ' ; her husbaoTs whereabouts. During theevening, while Irs. Druse and Mary were burn- ' v iug the ! idy in the parlor, the two boys were amu ng themselves playing checkersia^ an ad joini j room where the murder bad been. 1 committe* thus showing the unconcern and utter lack [feeling of the whole family. Mrs. Druse hoc previously made threats agaimt thedeceas l,and boasted that she would be rid of him sorfeday. The revolver had been pro bured audfrought to the house under peculiar and suspiious circumstances, indicating felonious purnses. These and other facts, almost tx> horribfe for description, mark the case as l plain oii of deliberate and premeditated tiurder. 'jhere seems to ba scarcely a initilatiug oirtsmstance surrounding it Ij , ' MUStAL AND DRAMATIC. Jouxot is to write a comic opera instead?, a an orafcrio. tlR. GiBERT say3 that the title of his ae%- : oj?ra is At yet decided upon. .deliIa Patti has been singing her way; ac )ss ta continent to Mexico. ; iss Adelaide D etc if ox, the reader, has be? cacning everything before her in lbs lai o cities of Scotland. /f.Ll.SH 3 uovv uwuu; upciu. iud ? bon." fiktlie success cf the season iu Berlin. It Idictiles official life in Russia. The life of Louis Hiel, the Canadian rebel, ba'Jiem dramatized, and will lie produced at be fbeatre Royal, iu Montreal. Burn Mauteau, a French boy twelv*years of ige, has fem>t forth in Germany as a rasica prodigy. He plays the violin. Jrmc ;ets $230 anight in Paris for sing- ' i iug n "la Belle Helene," while Schneideiv wlit created the famous role, only got $3X Tib movement to induce ladies to remove* tbeii hats in theaters has taken definite shape in far York and Boston, and there seems no doujt it will now become general I ,T?-average organ grinder in England j earilabout S4 a day. and but for the time ' 1 lost u traveling from city to city he wou!d I averse (5 over and above his expenses. I Bit* Opkrti, the widely-known composer 1 and tf rector, died of congestion of the Drain I a shot time since at Leadvillo, Col., where he wq on tour with the "Clio'1 Company. Mm: Hastreiter, last year's prima donna- 1 of t&kuierican Opera Company, is travel- fl ! i'-g artund the provinces in England as a C mem or of Colonel Mapleson's organization. 1 . Xi.<9 Griswold, the niece of Bret Harte, who Ms just made her debut in comic opera 1 v&h the McCaull Company in Chicago, is ntfaaovice, but has sung with success in En-opa I. I* Higgixson, of Boston, has given. I 4-V.o CtrmnhAnv flpohacfim Of tbftt'. f<U/VW yu VUG Ujuii/uvu; v.vMyw..^ v. ? citjjfor the purchase of first-class instrument for those members who cannot afford tp*yti6#aL "Metier Palmer thinks "Jim the Penmail' "will have the longest run at the Madison Square Theatre, New York, of any play ever produced in America. It is now in the eecotd year of its career in London Hit. James E. Murdoch,the veteran actor, appeared recently in "The Stranger" in one or tie suburbs of Cincinnati. He was sup-~? ported by amateurs. Mr. Murdoch is past 83T*nty years of ago, ani this was his first appearance on the stage in some time. I?.' the month of December some great tiofitre fires have occurred. 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