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A scientist has been making a careful estimate of the many millions of birds in America, and says that if even 5,000,000 were destroyed annually for the purpose of obtaining ornaments for ladies' bonnets, the loss -would not be pereeptiblv noticed. ~-+ _____________ The Chicago Railieay Aqe says that during the year 1886, 8,010 miles of new railroad were built in the United States. More road was built in Kansas than in any other State. Allowing thst the road cost $20,000 per mile, the expenditures (or construction las year were $1 GO, 000,000. [ A curious mistake has been made in Mexico. The people of that country have mistaken a Frenchman named Thiers, who is visiting the Republic, for the late President of France. The presiding officer of the Mexican Chamber made him au address ana a dinner was given in his honor. The carrier pigeon service in Paris is now most carefully organized, and the latest census shows that there are 2,500 trained birds, which can take dispatches , in and out the capital in the roughest * */ "weather. Some are taught to go to the |T neighboring forts and towns, others to distant parts of the provinces. Some eighteen months ago an English farmer successfully amputated one of . the hind legs of a valuable and wellbred shorthorn cow, the object being to retain the cow for breeding purposes, while a wooden leg was affixed to the stump. The cow is now a mother, and has a fine bull calf running by her side. _ _ 3 3_ General Grant was an excellent draughtsman, but the only oil painting be put his name to is a fiontier land?ao*\a Tn/^inn Pmicuo V*n rrOi*a Di-ajjg niiu Jiuuiuu u^uivcj >< uiv*i uv v to ex-Secretary Borie. Mr. Borie's nephew, who has become the owner of the picture, has presented it to Mrs. Grant. It is the only specimen of her husband's art work in her possession. ' A Georgia paper publishes as truth the story of a Marion county farmer who became satisfied that he had a tapeworm. So he carefully baited a little fishhook^ tied a short line to it, swallowed the hook, and tied the line-to his buttonhole. Then he waited for a bite. By and by he thought he had one and yanked the line; the hook caught in his throat and bad to be dugout. He didn't catch the worm. Every nation, every city, every town, every community is just what the people make it. A live, progressive people -will build up a prosperous town or city where the natural conditions are even unfavorable, while a careless, indolent population will accomplish little, however [ great the natural advantages of their localities may be. An intelligent traveler can form a correct opinion of the character of the people of a town by passing through it. Queen Victoria has had no less than thirty-seven grandchildren, and she also has five great grandchildren. Her living grandchildren are thirty-one in number ?viz.: Prince and Princess of Wales, five; Duke and Duchess of Edinburg, five; Duke and Duchess cf Connaught, three; Duke and Duchess of Albany, two; Imperial Prince and Princess of Germany, six; Grand Duke and Ducbesa of Ilesse Darmstadt, five; Prince and Princess Christian, four; Prince and Princess Henrv of Battenberer. one. The Prussian army has a watch dog battalion which is carefully trained for service. Thes3 canine soldiers are intended primarily te convey intelligence from the advance posts to the main army, and are taught to trot to and fro with small portfolios of dispatches around their necks. A part of their duty is to warn the outposts of the approach of enemies during the night, and they are also trained to hunt up tho wounded. Two dogs are attached to *<?ach company of chasseurs. Now if this principle could be extended a little further and the whole business of settling international disputes be delegated to the dogs, what an advance toward the millennium we should make. Frank Weigman, who died in Cincinnati recently, was born in 1781 in "Westphalia. When a boy eighteen years old he entered the English army, and subsequently became a soldier of Frederick II. of Prussia. He fought in the war against Napoleon, and -was one of Blucher's men at the battle of Waterloo, when he received a sword thrust which marked him for life. He came to America when I he was ninety years old, and on the 2Gth of last October he celebrated his lOoth birthday. He was but four feet and a few inches in height, and as spry and active as a boy of sixteen. His hearing, eyesight and appetite were excellent. He left twenty-three grandchilren and eighteen great-grandchildren. His brother died some time ago in Germany at the r * r\n J V. * 4.V. ? J!-J - * age ox iuo,aou mswumei uicuut uiuci)nine. Dr. Frank Hamilton, acknowledged to be the most skillful specialist of his time in the treatment of gunshot wounds, located the bullet from Guiteau's pistol in President Garfield's body at a point more than a foot from that at which it was actually found, according to a report Of the autopsy given by an eye witness, and now published for the first time. And Dr. Hamilton had the testimony of the electric induction balance to guide him, and had also experimented upon a cadaver at one of our mcdicnl colleges to dctermiue the penetrative power and probable coursiB of the ball after it entered tho body. All of which shows, Frank Leslies Kcw(q>a}>er sagely remarks, how little doctors actually know of what is going on inside of the human bod}*. It is no discredit to them that they don't know more; but those thatemploy them should remember the limitations to which they are necessarily subject. a mum uuLLioiun. | A Lightning Express Crashes Into a Freight Train. Many Persons, Wedged in the Ruins, Eoasted to Death, About 2:15 o'clock a. it. the other morning as a Baltimore and Ohio freight train, east I bound, was pulling up a grade of nine miles | near the village of Republic, Ohio, the engine | gave out, so the conductor, #W. J. Fletcher, ; says, and the train could go no further. The j conductor, knowing that the limited express | west was about due. grabbed a red lantern and ran forward. He had not gone more than twenty car lengths when he saw the express coming. He sigualed it, but it was then too late. It was impossible to stop the train. In less time than it takes to say so,the two en gines had como together with a terrible crasr and telescope.!. \Y lieu the passenger engineei saw the freight he shouted to the fireman: "Jump! jump! jump!"and set the example by jumping through tbe cab window. He alighted in a snow bank, dislocating his knee, but being otherwise uninjured. The fireman, William Fredericks, arose to jump, but was too late, and two iron beams caught him at tbe hips, crushing him, and holding him ten feet in the air, where he was suspended three hours, when death came to his relief. Within five minutes after the collision the wreck was on fire and the baggage and express and the smoking car, which had been completely telescoped, were enveloped in flames. The scene now beggared description. From tbe smoking car issued cries, groans, and prayers. The passengers in the regular coach were all thrown from their teats, more or less injured. One young lady fell on a stove and a man had his hand terribly burned in rescuing hex*. A bride and groom of two weeks were in , thecal*. The man was rendered insensible by the shock. His bride did not leave ^im, however, but grasping him by the feet puuea aim irom me car, ana laus saved mm from a horrible death. He recovered in a short time, and they took the Pennsylvania train for Detroit. .' The two sleepers did not leave the track, and wvre uncoupled at once and pushed back from the fire. All of the rest of the passenger train burned, and when daylight dawned nothing was left of it but a lew hot wheels and rods. '1 hero were fourteen or fiftesn persons in the smoking car, and all of them perished in the flames and their bodies were burned to unrecognizable masses. One man alone escaped from the smoker. He was thrown through the roof of the car into the air. His spine was injured and bis head badly burned. He had the appearance of an Irish emigraut, and was delirious when taken out. He could not give his name, and, just before dying, beiug asked where he lived, s-aid he had no home. Among those who perished in the smoker was a man named Joseph Postlethwaite, aged fifty-seven, and his two sons, Spencer and Henry, aged respectively eighteen and eleven. He was on his way to Chillicothe, Mo., near which place he had a brother living. He came from Xew Martinsville, Ya., where he had sold a farm. He had the proceeds of the sa'e in his pocket, and the money, amounting to $l,5t>0. was burned. His wife and three small children, who were in the other car, were saved, and taken to the village of Republic. A correspondent found the mother heartbroken and bemoaning her terrible loss. The children played artlessly around, not knowing what nad befallen them. When the passengers who had escared from the rear cars came to their senses they commenced at once to try to aid those imprisoned in the burning baggage, express and smoking cars. C. P. Bradley, of Washington, was hanging out of a car window, and was found to b-3 fastened by the legs so that he could not be taken out In this position he was burned by inches. He gave his watch and papers to a bystander and sent word to h's family. He was a prominent Knight of Labor, and was on his w?v t > the West to lecture. Nine charred and burned bodies were taken f rom the debris 1 of the wreck, bat none of the others could be 1 identified. The sight of these headless and limbless trunks, blackened aud charred, was a horrible one. A number of bones and pieces of bodies found later in the wreck indicated 1 that several bodies were entirely destroyed, and swell the list of killed to sixteen. A number of persons were injured and about a half dozen seriously. The accident is the most fearful in loss of life which has happen?! in Ohio since the great Ashtabula disaster. The engines of the two trains reared into the air like a pair of enraged living monsters, and then settled down up:m the track, driven iuto each other until the clyiuders touched. Ths force of the impact jammed the baggage and mail car into the tender of the fast line, the express car into the baggage, and the smoker iuto th? express. The passenger train was in charge of Conductor Tom Haskett, Engineer Lssu Fastman, and Fireman William Frederick, and consisted of engine No. a mail and baggage car, an express, a smoker, a coach, and two sleepers The freight train was in charge of Conductor Fletcher, Engineer Kiler, and Fireman W. J. Cullison, and consisted of engine No. 925 and sixteen and onehalf loads and a few empty gondolas. The smoker contained from twelve to fifteen passengers, some of whom were immigrants. All of these perished. The only relic found of Joseph Postlethwaite, the man who was killed with his two sons, was a half-melted i medal. 1 KILLING A KEEPER The Hippopotamus in a Paris Men- 1 a carle Kills a Man. An exciting incident has just occurred at the Paris Zoological Gardens, resulting in ( the death of one of the keepers. The 1 hippopotamus was observed to be acting in f an unusual manner, and a keeper entered the \ cage to endeavor to discover the cause of the j brute's evident uneasiness. He bad been in \ the cage but a moment or two when the animal ap|>eared suddenly to go mad. ( Tbo keeper tried to escape, but befoie , he coutu roach the door of the cage , the animal attacked bini furiously. Other assistants rushed to the rescue and endeavored to beat back the iufuriated brute. Their efforts were finally successful, but when they drew their comrade from the cage life was extinct. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Lawrence Barrett played Cassius, Mac beth, etc., at 17. i r emale pertormers nrst cook tne leroaie < parts in plays during the reign of Charles II., | ' of England. One enterprising firm controls fourteen I ' theatres in as many different cities of thy ' United States. ' The sales of tickets for the Patti season of four concerts in the City of Mexico amounted to nearly j>45,UOO. Mlle. Schneider, who created the leading roles in nearly all of Offenbach's operas, j is rich and lives in retirement near Paris. * New York has a new pianist who is making a good deal of a stir, Adele Aus der Ohe, a young German womau and a real pupil of Listz. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, imbibed his musical tastes from his fatter, i who was royal bandmaster at Sandhurst. Ho spent most of his boyhooi in his father's bandroom. It is stated that Strauss receives ?1,000 for eacn waisz ne composes xrom a puonsner in Germany, who buys every work he writes and gives him an extra sum for every new edition. "The Blue Danube"' has had twentysix editions already. The firstjpiano'which left Erard's manufacfactory, liusi, is in the market. It was bequeathe 1 by tbe daughter au l heiress of Garat, the singor, to M. Blavat, with instructions to sell it for the benefit of tbe poor at her native city. C. W. Couldock, after fifty years upon the stage, will retire some time in the spring. Prior to doing so, however, he will be given a benofit in New York, tn which, it is said, Edwin Booth, Lawrence aud Wilson Barrett, Joe Jefferson and Mine. Modjeska will appear. georfie Hexschel, well known here formerly as a singer and musician, is giving a series of symphony concerts in L.-ndon, which are described as one of the most attractive features of the musical season in that city both for novelty of productiou and excellence of performance. I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Samuel Smeltzer, of Red Lion, Penn., was taken from the grave just at the moment of interment, at the request of his son, found to be alive, and is recovering his health. Horatio Potter, for thirty-five years Bishop of tbe Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, died a few days since at his home in the Metropolis in his eighty-fifth year. During the past year the Gloucester (Mass.) fishermen lost twenty-six vessels, valued at $152,300. The number of lives lost is lo7. Fire- destroyed S. S. Messinger & Son's large agricultural works at Empire City, Peun., with five new dwellings and a farmhouse. Loss about $50,000. According to Bradstrecfs, the business failures in 1S60 numbered 10,003, against 11,llti in 1S85. The liabilities jn 1SSG aggregated $113,(300,000, against $ 110.100,000 in 18S5. The failures last year were divided geographically as follows: New England, i,o5o; miaaie otate-soouvuei u owica, 2,170; Western States, 3,450; Pacific States, 877; Territories, i>7. John* Roach, the well known ship-builder, is dying in New York of a cancer similar to that which killed General Grant. A train of six cars left the track at Mittineague, Mass., the smoker and passenger coach dashing ir.to two loaded freight cars on a siding. One man was instantly killed and eighteen were injured more or le3S severely. South and West. Mp.s. Susan* Roman's, of Warren county, Kentucky, after living to be 102 years old, was burned to death the other day by her clothes taking fire. The official vote for Governor of Minnesota, just published, shows the following: A. R. McGill (Rep.), 107,0(J4; A. A. Amei (D?m.), 104,4<>4; T. C. Childs (Proh.), lb,DOC. It is estimated that 25,000 negroes have recently left the hill country in Mississippi and settled in the river bottom lands. Two heavy shocks of earthquake, sufficiently strong in many instance* to ro?k house-, have been felt throughout Western Maryland and in Pennsylvania towns bordering ou Mason and Dixon's line. Dr. A. A. Ames, late candidate for Governor of Minnesota on the Democratic ticket, appeared before Judge Corrie, of St. raui, ou tue -itu ana tooK tne oatn oc ontce j is Governor, it was understood that this i proceeding was preliminary to contesting the seat or Governor-elect McGill. Washington. Commissioner Coleman, of the Agricul tural Bureau, complains that there has been iereliction in the matter of lighting pleuropneumonia at Chicago. TriK public reception of President and Mrs. Cleveland in the White House on New ? years Day was largely attended. Mrs. | Cleveland and the Cabinet ladies who helped i n:r re-eive were elaborately* drosse I. The ct eption room was handsomely decorated, and tho Marine Baud played at interrals. The President shook hauds with about 5,000 persons, including the Diplomatic I Corps, Supreme Court Judges, Senators and j Congressmen, Army and Navy officers, army veterans and tho general public. The President has approved the act for ho relief of the survivors and relatives of j fictims of the Jeanette expedition, the act j X) modify the pcstal money order system, md the act to extend the free delivery sys?m of the Postoflice Department The total receipts of the United States 1 luring December were $28,814. Oo; total j jxpenditures, $18,48-1,714.85; excess of receipts, $10,139,000. 80. President Cleveland has recovered from his rheumatic attack to such an extent ;hat he has been able to resume work steadily, md to attend Cabinet meetings. The President has commuted to five years' mprisonment th3 death sentence of John W. Parrott of Arkansas, convicted of murder . md sentenced to be hanged on January 14. The death of Colonel Julian McAllister, ivho was the senior Colonel of Ordnance, Dromotes Lieut-Colonel James M. Whittenore to that position. Foreisn. The British steamer Dragoman, from Sarannah to Liverpool, collided with and sank in unknown vessel off Bardsey, England. Fourteen persons were drowned. A British sea captain has been convicted it Yokohama, Japan, of mauslaughter for eaving twenty-five passengers and six of his lands to perish on his fouudering ship. Ten miners were killed by the falling of a :age in a Durham (England) coal mine. The annual fair was in progres? at the People's Park in Madras, India, when a fire , broke out, and in tho panic which ensued | 500 natives lost their lives. EMPEROR WILLIAM, or uermany, uu.5 ueeu > i soldier just eighty years. The arrival of ; tbe eightieth anniversary has been elaborately celebrated in Berlin,and the a^ed warrior was the recipient of many congratulations from all parts of Germany. Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, the Duke of Westminster, Canon Farrar, Professor Tyndall, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others have signed an appeal to the English press not to publish the details of divorce and criminal trials. An alliance and definite treaty are stated to have !?>een formed between Germany and Russia. Thirty-seven miners were killed by an jxplosion in a coal mine at Mons. Beleium. i A HEAVY EARTHQUAKE, Western Maryland Shaken?The People Desert Their Houses. Between 2 and 3 o'clock the other morning ;he residents in Westminster and throughout Western Maryland were rudely awakened rom their slumbers by a violent earthquake, rho houses rocked backward and forward and many of the inmate?, believing them about to tumble, grabbed up their children and in their night robes rushed out upon the street, only to meet their startled neighbors, who stood in little groups,chattering with the cold, and in terrified tones asking one another if it was over. The thermometer was only 8 degrees above zero, and the scanty clothing of many rendered it impossible for them to remain out of doors very long. One after another ventured to return to their homes. There they found everything topsy-turvy, dishes of every description scattered over the floor, and broken pieces of china mingled with the shattered frames of pictures which had been shaken from the walls. Tbe first intimation of the first earthquake shock were two terrific reports following in quick succession. Immediately after these reports the houses began to rock This lasted for a minute or two, after which there was a low rumbling sound Many people from the country surrounding Westminster reported that t heir experience had been similar to that of tho town residents. nmnn/iTr titt i mn A tat BTI&UUA J3I A I-KiLLIN, A Sleiffh Full of Young People Ruu Into With Terrible Results. At S o'clock p. m. the other evening a fast express struck a sleigli containing about twenty young people who wore crossing the tra-k of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayno and Chicago Railroad, two miles east of Fort Wayne, Iud., en route to a country residence for the purpose of attending a dance. Miss Liz/ie )x*pper and Miss Tina Minecker. aged seventeen, were instantly killed. Miss Lottie Eix bad her right leg broken. Miss Lizzie Kanning had several ribs broken. Miss Lena Uai;:ljt had an arm broken. Miss Emma Scliulnr, a leg broken; Miss (Susta Heyne, her bale badly Injured; Miss Lizi'ie W'eibke and Miss Belle Bishop, badly bruised and suffering from nervous prostration. The party was being driven by Byron Westromb, who saw the train, approaching rapidly, and was implored, by the gentlemen to stop, but did nol; linnH thorn Tim f*Antloi?o.? l'nrnnarl /*1lf linl*. the ladies did not succeed in doing this. The scene just after the accident was heartrending. A relief train was promptly sent to the s^one with a corps of surgeons, and tho dead aud wounded were properly cared for. joe jjemones, lifteenyears old, and black, went down to the landing at JetTersonville, Ky., to see a boat so out. As he stood looking she blew her whistle viciously, and immediately the boy lost the power of speech and hasn't spoken since. J A GHASTLY CRIME. A Scvcnteen-Year-Old Boy Murders His Employer. Scattering the Dismembered Remains Along the Wayside. James E. Nowlin, a boy who was arrested for killing his employer, George A. Codman, a Somerville (Mass.) milkman, and scattering the dismembered body along the highway in two towns, has made full confession of the crime. Nowlin says he killed young Codman at 3 o'clock in the morning. The deed was done in Codman's stable. He says that he had bean thinking of it for somedays, excited thereto by Codman's boastful way of showing money, and expected to secure about $(i00, with which he intended to leave that part of the country. He slipped up behind the victim and stabbed him in the side of the neck with a butcher's knife. He severed un artery aucl Codman fell to the floor aud died almost instantly. He then put the bod}' under a pung, covered it up and went on his milk route, taking his brother with him. He returned about 11 o'clock, put up bis team ami went to dinuor. Alttr dinner h.i went to the stable, cleaned lip the traces of the crime as well as he could, and then deliberated as to the disp sitiou of the body. He finally decided to take it away in the pung and se:-rete it somewhere until he could safely get rid of it. He considered the weight of the body, and to mako it easier to handle and to hide the traces of his ghastly load he concluded to dismember it. Then he took an ax and first chopped off the left log close to the body and then the right arm. Thinking that with these members gone he could easily liandlo what was left, he placed the body aud the severed parts in the back part of his pting and covered it with the rubber horse blanket which was subsequently found near the'body, and also put the axe into the sleigh. Before starting lie tidied things up in the stable, destroying what he could of the marks left after his rough modo of dissection. He concluded then to secure the money for which he had committed the crime, and started off with the turnout and the body for Codrnan's boarding house. He left the team standing a few doors from the house aud then went in, t3lling the landlord that Codman was going away for an indefinit3 time with a man and .had sent him for his money and other things. He was allowed to go up to Codman's room to get articles ot apparel, and from tnere lie carried off the desk containing about in money and other articles of value. Ho returned to the team and drove oil' tjward Lexington. After driving awhile he began to realize the enormity of hi< crime and became 0)01*3 and more frightened as ho drove along, imagining that all who saw him knew of th'i dreadful burden he was carrying. His fears worked so much upon him that when he came to a lonely part of tho road and was free from "observation he took the body out of the puug and, half frenzied by bis fear of detection, seized the axe and chopped the head off and smashed the face until he thought it would be unrecognizable. Ho thon turew the head and an arm over a wall, return d to the road, lifted the body into tho pung and started o.T again. After driving about a mile and a half he again alighted and threw the boly into some shrubbery, where it was niterward found. Tho left leg he secreted in some bushes near by. After depositing tho body he took the rubber blanket which had hidden the remains in the pung and throw it, as he thought, over the dismembered body, jumped into the pung and drove ofF. The blanket, however, fell short, of its mark and left tho body exposed. His hideous mission occupied him alxnit four hours. James Edward Nowlin is a handsome young man, little ovjr seventeen years old, and is intelligent looking. Ho'is one of four brothers who live in Somerville. While nothing really bad is known of the brothers, they have the reputation of being hot-blooded and wild. The father of the family, it is sts.ted, hanged himself in the penitentiary iu the provinces. His departure from Somerville a few years ago was hastened by somewhat questionable acts. t imnn vrrMTTCl LAI VAi i\ l!i VY 0. The Massachusetts Leg slature organized with the selection of Ilalsey J. Boardman as President of the Senat?,and Charles J. Noye;i as Speaker of the House. The fragments of a human body were found strewn along the roadside in Lexington, Mass. They were identified as the remains of George A. Uodtnan, a Somerviilo milkmau. Three othor milkmen were arrested, charged with Codinao's murder, the motive being robbery Prominent Chicago shoe manufacturers are being boycotted by the Kuights of Labor for a'leged violation of contracts with the Knights. Mtss Kate Nicholson, of Maysville, Ky., twenty years old. wa; kneeling in front of the fire tc say her prayers, when her clothing took fire and she wa* fatally burned. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Thomas Moonlight to be Governor of Wyoming, and T. A. Riley to be Postmaster at Tic onderoga, N. Y. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill, as presented to the House by the Committee, appropriates $7,158,2/0. The death of the Marquis de Roys, a wealthy Parisian, so affected the mind of his beautiful widow that she committed suicidi; by throwing herself out of a third-story window of her residence. Another American schooner has been seized by the Canadians for alleged violation of the revenue laws. Fikty-six men arrested for resisting eviction and rent collection in County Galway, Ireland, last August, liave just been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment ranging from twelve to eighteen months. Governor Bodwell, of Maiue, recommends a prohibitory tariff on Canadian fish in retaliation for the seizures of American fishing vessels. John* E. Grace, a carpenter, shot and killed his wife in a Brockton (Mass.) hotel, and then committed suicide. A Fort Worth daily paper says about 4,000 families are destitute in the droughtstricken region of Texas. An explosion of natural gas at Youngstown, Ohio, caused a fire with a damage es. timated at S100,0t;0 and the supposed loss of a human life. Nominations by the President: Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, Envoy Extra[ ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to | Mexico; Hugh A. Dinsmore, of Arkansas, Minister Resident and Consul-Lfenerai to Corea; Robert E. Culbrcth, of California, Consul at Ap!a: Thomas Q. Bashaw, of Missouri, Attorney for the Eastern Distric of Missouri. the"deadly"Eed. Many Boys Killed or Injured While Coasting. The following is one day's record of accidents in the East caused by coasting* While three boys were coasting in "VVentworth, Mass., their sled rau into a load of lumber, and two of them weie instantly killed and the othor so seriously injured that he is not expected to live. Twcnt" boys were coasting down South Main street, Rutland, Vt, on a traverse sled, when the sled struck the side of a bridge at the foot of the bill, throwing the boys head first into the stream. Cyril (See, fifteen !.vears old, was fatally injured. John Kingsley, twelve years old, was in* 1 ?uriil nrr?lablv die. I i/eruaiiy lujiiieu auu ..... r ? ^ Thomas Shields, twelve years old, was picked up unconscious. Tlie remaining seventeen boys were more or less bruised, but none sori-. ously hurt. I John Knox and James Brooks, each aged about teu years, were seriously, and it is thought futally injured at Concord, N. H., by running into a coal team while coasting. ' . ksi SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Sessions. 13th Day.?As soon as the journal had been read in the Senate on the opening day after the holiday recess Mr. Cullom announced the death of Senator Logan, his colleague. Afterspeakinga few words of eulogy, Senator Cullom said that at an early day he should introduce appropriate resolutions and speak of the character and public services of his associate. Out of respect for the memory of Senator Logan, he moved that the Senate should adjourn. Agreed to. 14th Day.?Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Pensions, reported a bill grant ng a pension of $2,000 a year to the widow of General John A. Logan, and asked for its immediate consideration; but, under objection of Mr. Coke, the bill went over for a day?Among the bills introduce! were the following: Mr. Sherman?To provide that all persons on the pension rolls for loss of limb or limbs shall be entitled to receive arrears of pension from the date of discharge or disability. By Mr. Cadi?Providing that the Commissioner of Agriculture shall establish in each of the several States not less than one agricultural experiment station and farm, for which purpose he is authorizod to purchase not exceeding 200 acres of land in each State. The sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated to carry the act into effect. By Mr. Blair?To appropriate $600,000 to promote the Colored People's World's Exposition to be held in Birmingham, Ala., from September 22, 1887, to January 31,18&8.... A number of petitions wero presnted praying for an appropriation, and in some cases asking the definite sum of $100, to enable colored citizens to emigrate to Liberia....Mr. Piatt opposed the Conference report of the Interstate Commerce bill. ]5th Day.?Mr. Manderson (Nebraska,) brought before the Senate tbe case of the claim against Mexico for the killing of Captain Emmett Crawford by Mexican troops in January, 18815, saying that a stronger and more urgent demand for indemnity should be made, and introducing a bill for the relief of Captain Crawford's heir?. The bill was referred.... The bill introduced on the previous day pensioning Mrs. Logan was passed, as' was a bill increasing tbe pension of tbe widow of Francis P. Blair to 52,00 > a year The Inter-State Commer e Dill was discussed further... .Executive se.sion. House Sessions. 16th Day.?There was quite a full attendance of members on the opening day in the House after the holiday recess. After the Chaplain's prayer the Speaker laid before the House a communication from the Hon. A S. Hewitt, announcing that he has forwarded to the Governor of the State of New York his resignation as a Representative, to take effect on January 1; laid on the table. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, offered a resolution announcing the death of Senator Logan, ami move 1 that the House should adjourn. The motion was agreed to. 17th Day?The bill for the permanent improvement of the Erie and Oswego Canals, and to secure the freedom of the same to the commerce of the United States was considered in Committe3 of the Whole. Mr. Weber (N. Y.) advocated its passage.... The Indian Appropriation bill was passed without discussion or division. It appropriates $5,115,OUO.... The Military Academy Appropriation bill was then taken up, and iifUltin n fin thfl pa?ocu njtuiu a ijuai ici ui au uvu? , , , a uo resignation of James W. Reid as Representative in the Forty-ninth Congress from the Fifth North Carolina District was received and tabled. 18th Day.?The House resumed in Comxnittee of the Whole the consideration of the bill for the permanent improvement of the Erie and Oswego Canals, and to securo the freedom of the same to the commerce of the United States. Mr. Weber (of New York) concluded his argument in support of the measure, urgiug that in a commercial point of view the canals were national in their character....The Pension Appropriation bill, which appropriates $7f>,,.M7.r>0UJ below the estimates, was passed with jut amend ment or discussion The Naval Reorganization bill was discussed FEDERAL FINANCES, Statement of the Condition of Uncle Sam's Cash Roy. The following is a recapitulation of the National debt statement for December: I Intercut Reariny Debt. Bonds at 4 1-2 per cent $250,000,000 00 Hiinds at 4 per cent 7:17,781,8V) 00 Bonds ut 3 per cent 0:j,399,000 00 Refunding certi ficates at 4 per cent 100,100 00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000,000 00 Pacific railroad l?onds at 0 per cent 64,023,512 00 j Principal $l,130,4!>4,4fi2 00 I Interest 11,838,720 00 Total $1,142, .'533,182 00 Debt on which interest has ceased sincc maturity: Principal $S,874,855 00 Interest 21J,330 00 Total $9,080,192 00 Debt. Hearing no Interest. Old demand and legal tender notes $340,738,341 00 Certificates of deposit 0,510,000 00 Gold certificates 5*7,215,005 00 Silver certificates 117,216,070 00 Fractional currency, less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed 6,953,702 00 -I Xfi74.ftfi4.31S oo Total Debt. Principal $1,714,033,035 Interest 12,050,057 Total $1,725,033,G'J3 Loss cash items Available for reduction of the debt $011,002,554 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 341,902,504 Total debt less available cash items $ 1,384,1 SI, 12$ Net cash in t he Treasury 42,100,032 Debt-, less cash in the Treasury, January 1, 1887 $1,341,084,495 Debt, less cash in the Treasury, December 1, 1SS0 1,351,342,098 Decrease debt during the month $9,353,202 Cosh in the Treasury. Available for reduction of the public debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $97,215,005 00 Silver held forsilvercertificates actually outstand ing 117,^40,01 u uu United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding .... 0,510,000 00 Cash held for matured debt "and interest unpaid 20,924,912 00 Fractional currcncy 5,370 00 Total available lor reiluctiou of the debt $241,902,564 00 Jifservn Fund. Held for redemption of United States notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875. and July 12, 1SS2 100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of tlie debt: Fractional silver coin $25,000,9:55 00 Minor coin.. 131.422 00? 25,792,357 00 Certificates held as cash.... 35,024,230 00 Net cash balance on hand.. 42,190,032 00 Total cash in thcTreasury as shown by Treasurer's general account.. $444,915,791 00 The Russian Government has discovered the existence of an extensive Nihilist organization, the members of which are princi" lovrra fnnts\riaa in Slf p&Iljr wui wirou iu iuo *?ww ivo ... Petersburg, in Moscow, and in Vladimir. Many members of the. organization have been arretted. ' J The salaries r Uniied States Senators for tb " amounted to $384,<W7, and t! -ere and employes to $334 ') was ex: j pended for ne^ $50,000 for miscel.' 000 for J special select c I V LOGAH'S FUNERAL The Body Placed Temporarily in a Tomb at Washington. The funeral services over General Logan's remains were held on the 31st in the United States Senate Chamber at Washington. The Senate Chamber had been prepared, as is us uai on sucn occasions, uuairs were piacea between the [Senators1 seats, and the small areas in the rear were closely packed with seats. There were few mourning draperies, but the display of flowers was very large. The clock over the southern entrance,save the face, was covered with black, long streamers hanging down nearly to the floor. The desk of General Logan in the front row, near the centre aisle, was wholly covered w ith black, and the chair was festooned with crepe. At 11:45 the army and navy officers entered, followed by Masonic officers from Chicago, the Governor of Illinois and his staff, the diplomatic7"corps, all the members of the United States Supreme Court except Justice Woods, and members of the House. The members of the diplomatic corps, many of whom came in dress uniforms, were ushered to seats upon the right, and behind them came the representatives of the Adminstration?Secretaries Bayard, Endicott, "Whitney, and Attorney-General Garland?who were placed in the front row upon the right The President was not able to be present, for, although in improved health, his physician had counseled him not to expose himself to the inclement weather. The chair assigned to h'm was left vacant. The seats reserved for the family of the President were occupied by Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsora, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Lamont. At 12 o'clock, as the procession of mourners entered the north door of the Chamber, every occupant of a seat upon the floor rose to his feet, Mrs. Logan, heavily veiled, was supported by her son, John A. Lo^an, Jr.: Major and Mrs. Tucker and their son, Lo^an Tucker; Cornelius and James V. Logan, brothers of the General; Miss Andrews, affianced of John A. Logan. Jr? and Mary Brady, a cherished friend of the family and for years a member of the household, composed the mourning procession. Following the mourners came the funera] procession, headed by the Rev. Dr. Newman, the Rev. Dr. Butler, Chaplain of the Senate: Bishop Andrews, of the Methodisl Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany of Philadelphia. The honorary pall bearers were General Sherman, Roscoe fiannfnr Sfnn f/-** /} Pncfm q oh>r. ouu'?4-vi U , m. WV. . .w.ww? General Vilas, Gen. Lucius Faircnild, Mr. C. H. Andrews, Col. Grant, Mr. M. D. Leggett, Dr. McMillan, and General John C. Black. They wore sashes of black, with shoulder knots of black and white ribbon. They formed in two lines as they came within the bar, between which passed the pall bearers of Grand Array men bearing the cjffin. The Congressional Committee won wide sashes of white. The honorary pal, bearers and the committee were conducted to seats on the left centre. Senator Shermat and Speaker Carlisle occupied chairs at the President's desk, and the clergy were at th? desk of the Secretary. The solemn services were begun by ths reading of the 90th psalm by Bishop Andrew. Dr. Butler read as the burial service a portion of the 15th Corinthians, and prayei was offered by Dr. Tiffany, and the funera: sermon was delivered by Dr. Newman. Th< silence of the great gathering was most im pressive, broken as it was only by the un controllable sobs of the widow, who leaned as if for support and shelter toward her son, in whose firm clasp her hand remainec throughout the ceremony. At the close of the funeral oration the benediction was pronounced, and then the procession reformed and filed out of the Senate chamber. As the casket, preceded by the pall bearers, was borne slowly down th< steps of the eastern front, the Marine band ---J "? I V. Un fLul fcn piayeu lutj ujrmu. .icaim, ... Thee." Every head was uncovered ai the coffin was placed in the hearse anc the military came to a "present arms.' Then the procession began its march to Rock Creek Cemetery, four or five mile: distant. At it3 head rode Lieutenant-Gen eral Philip H. Sheridan iu full uniform. He was followed by four members of his staff, and the band of the Artillery, with mufflec and crepe covered drums, playing a funera march. The guns and caissons of the batteries moved in double line, and the dismounted artillery, with theii red-lined cloaks thrown back, marched ir platoons as infantry. The marines, headed by their band and drum corps, carried armi reversed, as did the militia organizations, which came next The colors of all the organizations were furled and draped it black. The Grand Army Posts and all uniformed delegations, with six carriages containing the mourners, the clergy and the pallbearers, preceded the hearse. This was drawn by four spirited black horses, covered almost entirely with sombre trappings and oloths, and moved in the centre of a nollow square formed by the Grand Army escort. A long double line ol carriages closed the procession. The procession arrived at the cemeterv at 3:40, and after the coffin had been placed on a bier at the entrance to the vault, Depart ment Chaplain Swallow began to read the burial service of the G. A. R. Surrounding the casket stood members of the Cabinet, Senators and Representatives, army officers of higb rank, and gray-haired veterans of the war, with uncovered heads. After the Chaplain had finished, the Rev. Dr. Newman stepped I forward and delivered the Lord's Prayer concluding with the beneJiction. As the pall bearers bore the casket into the vault c trumpeter, standing at the entrance to the tomb, broke the dead silence with "Taps' (Lights out). The casket was ther uncovered, and some of the dead Senator's relatives and friends passed throuch the entrance and took a last look al ms ream res. 'men the cover was replaced ami the case enclosing the casket fastened. Meanwhile tho procession had started. After the ceremonies at the tomb were ver, arrangements were made to have a guard of honor from the Soldiers' Home, and later from the regular army, maintain s watch over tho body until its final removal to Iilinois. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The people of Paris eat 2,000,000 larks everj year. During the past year 647 duels have been fought in Franoe. A turkey hanging in a Chicago butchei shop weighed 3'J 1-2 pounds. The l.boo convicti in Sing Sing prison eaf twenty-one barrels of flour daily. Buffalo has natural gas now which ii brought eighty-seven miles by pipe.% New railroads to the length ot' 7,000 mile | wei e built in the United States during the past year. The silver mills of Montana represent an investment of $20,000,000, and her mining machinery as much more. f King kalakaua,of the Hawaiian Islands, has gambled away $74,000 deposited by poor people in the Postal Savings Bank. I Granville, Mass., is the centre and heart of the drum making business of the United States. It turns out daily about 1,^00 drums. Moke than lifty colored men hold clerkships in the departments at Washington at salaries rangiug from $1,000 to l,u00 per year. During the year 1880, American mills have produced 1,:>50,000 tons of steel rails, valued at $40,000,0 )0. The prospect for 1837 is said to bo better. Hyacinthe Boter, an aged basket maker at Ottawa, Ont., has received notice that by the death of an uncle in Fiance he is the sole heir to $?,000,000. During the past year 2>,00Q articles have accumulated in the Dead Lotbei ornce. These included all sorts of necessaries, from E^t^r eggs to seer-sucker suits. E. Cooper, of banta Barbara, has proved that olive culture cau ba made to pay in California. He has a grove of (3,0J0 trees which yearly yield .')0,0'JJ bottles of excellent oil, which ho sells for $1 a bottle. The Pionk family, ia Liocolnton, N. C., is long-lived. Joseph is now ninety-eight year old; his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is on? hundrec years: and Mrs Weaver, another sister, L one hundred and two yeai-s of age. The Patriot's League, of Chicago, orga nixed with the avowed purpose of combatinj the efforts to spread Socialism and Anar chism, has issued an addre s to the public asking the co operation of all good citizen in the movement. An Eastern zoologist recently paid $500 to four crown id pigeons. They are of a delicat afceel blue color, are almost as large as tur toys, and the crest is composed of a row o * gray feathers standing upright. *T 1 f-. ??? ?? WEDD.HG BELLS. ~ The Secretary of the Interior Takes a Wife. 1 * Married Quietly in Georgia to a Former Sweetheart, Secretary Lamar was married the other day in Macon, Ga., to Mrs. William S. Holt, formerly Miss Henrietta Dean, by the Rev. William Park, of Sandersville. The wedi ding, says a Macon special tD the New York Sun, has been looked for and various hours had been fixeJ, but it is now known that the parties did not really agree upon the date until the day before the ceremony, when the minister was telegraphed for and the license Srocnred. Ten o'clock a. m. was named, and le wedding partv restricted to the immediate relatives. The first to arrive at the Holt mansion was Mr. and Mrs. Virgin, , the latter tue daughter of Mrs. Holt. Then came Secretary Lamar aud W. H. Ross, with whom he has been stopping while here. Then came Col. J. E. Jones and wife, the latter a sister of Mrs. Holt, aod these were followed by Dr. K. M. Patterson and wife, the latter also a relative. At the appointed hour tbe minister took his position in the recess of a bar window in the parlor, in which had assembled the family ' , Mrs. Holt, droned in ste?l gray silk and leaning on the arm of Captain R. E. Pork, her son-in-law, left the sitting-room fol-> lowed by Secretary Lamar and Colonel Boss. Reaching the hallway the quartet separated, the Secretary joining Mrs. Holt, and the two walking with right hands joined to a position in front of the clergyman. The ceremony lasted only two minutes, after which the minister ana the bride's two daughters tendered congratnla' tiona The wedding party then went to the breakfast room. The bride presided over the table with ease and grace. Champagne, | fruit, and cake formed the principal part of the breakfast. Friends dropped in during [ the morning to tender congratulations, and many telegrams of like import were received. , At dinner, which was given at 2 p. m. , only ; the family and a few friends were present ( Secretary Lamar and bis bride left Macon at r>:20 p. m. for Atlanta, where they rei mained at the Governor's mansion with Governor J. B. Gordon and fatuilv. They left Atlanta the next morning for Oxford, Miss., to visit Mrs. J. B. Ross, a sister, and Mrs. A. W. Mays, a daughter of tbe Secretary. They i intended spending a few days in Oxford and then starting for Washington. Some very romantic stories have been put [ into circulation with respect to the relacions i which existed between the bridegroom, who . is now 61, and his bride, wWo is 58. When 1 they were quite young, 42 years ago, I* Q.C. [ Lamar, of Putnam County, Ga., then i years of age, was a law student in ) the office of Absalom H. Chappell, s of Macon, who was at that time one of the leading lawyers of the South. He became " i acqua:n'.e I a short time after she came here with Miss Henrietta Dean, a beautiful and > accomplished young lady of sixteen. It ha? been a matter of common report that the I bride and groom of the present came very " > : V i near assuming that relation to each other - soon after they met, and it is generally believed at Macon that the marriage I is tbe result of the attachment which , began long years ago. The story gcee that I vuey were eugaxuu, uou buoiucTiM?uigiv?oi9 quarrel, and parted iii anger. At this juncture, it is said, another suitor for the lady's hand appeared in the person of Win. S. Holt, also > or this place, and that he obtained her i consent to become his wife before Mr. ) Lamar was able to mase up the quarrel, and I that, overwhelmed with grief, mortification i and disappointment, he saw his lady lore ; made the wife of another from a seat on the I bough of a tree near by. It is said that ' Secretary Lamar, in years gone by, has told i this story himself; but be tnat as it may, he ) now denies it in most emphatic language. The truth is that they were engaged for a short ) time, that the encasement was broken tome. , time before Mr. Holt became a suitor to the I lady, and that he never was in any sense Mr. I Lamar's rival. The bride has a handsome ) home in Macon and a sure income of $10,0.10 I or $12,000 a year. No determination has been ' reached as to the future home of the couple, i but the impression prevail; among intimate 1 friends that it will be in Washington. ! W' _______ I THE NATIONAL GAME ) Pittsburg ha3sixteen men signed for next ) season. ' Next season the trick will be to steal third i base instead of second. ' A wmn a Innt* HmA HC J XLf-mn UUIUIU^ VU ( ivug ?UMW y Flint has again signed with the Chicago champions. ; James O'Rourke, the lawyer ball player i of the New York League Cluo, is reported to . be worth some $13,000. 1 Is San Francisco the baseball fever is 1 spreading among the gentler sex, many of i whom attend the exhibitions regularly. 1 The Olympic Clab, of Philadelphia, ae! cording to the statement of the Call, was the i .first team to play basebalL It was organ| ized in 1S40. ! It is prophesied that the strife for the peni nant in the International League will settle . down to a contest between Syracuse, Newark : and Rochester. > The Brooklyns will make ah effort to secure the services of Burdock, of Boston. I The latter says that he would like to play : third base for the New Yorks. ' Erastus "Wim.v.v, who is a baseball manager as well as a man of extensive interests, says that at least $2,500,000 is spent t yearly in baseball in this country. In order to keep in practice an Ishpeming [ (Mich.) nine plajrs ball when the snow is two i feet deep on the leveL The players use snow shoes and a ball large enough not to get lost in the snow. Very little sliding to Dases is indulged in, however. The defunct League members are Worcester, Troy, Providence, Buffalo, Clsve, iand, Cincinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee. Tue American loses Pittsburg, Columbus, Indianapolis, Washington and Richmond. The loss o( Pittsburg, however, was a greater loss than the Leugue felt in all their * losses combined. THE MARKETS. i new york. 1 Beef cattle, good to prime... 7 @ 8.'$ Calves, com'n to prime > .... 4}^ '? LamEs fwM 4" , B^-u?7. $f $ ' Flour-Ex. St, good to fancy ? 00 @ 4 TO West, good to choice > <0 &o ? Wheat-No.'if Re<l ? f Rye-State ? . Barley-State......... ? | Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 41^ 1 Oats?White State *0 @ 41 Mixed Western #? ? Hay?Med. to prime 5o @ N> ; Straw?No. 1, Rye *> @ ?? Lard-City Steam 6 @ 6 .J* Butter-State Creamery.... -4 & -<j Dairy -<' ? :? . West. Im. Creamery ~'4 @ -? Factory * ^4 @ , Cheese-State Factory 113 Skims |0Mf western n ku. jEggs?State and Penu ? (? 34 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @4 00 Lambs?Western 5 00 5 73 Steel's?Western 4 40 @4 !K) Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 35 1 @ 4 45 Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 7'heat-No. 1 ?1 J?1J^ , -No. 2, Mixed - @ 44 Rn.fflv1' S- Mixed - & Bai ley?feu?e -y ^ Beef-Good to eh??s *> Hogs?Live r. I Northern Dressy' * * J, , : Pork?Ex. Prime, ner bbl::\A ?A * Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. ''. 't Corn-High .Mixed U % ? Oats?Extra White 42 {?. \.n, - Rye?State 00 <&, 5 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKK. - Beef-Dressed weight 0)4C<p. >y , Sheen?Live weight 4\ s Lamts 5 ? ? Hogs?Northern '% \ PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn.extra family... 2 75 @ 3 00 Wheat?No. Red 93 (6} 05 r Rye?State 57 <6} 58 0 Corn^-State Yellow 45 <ti} 48 '* Oats Mixod 37&@ 38 * Butter?Creamery Extra... 31 (g 32 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. lg?i@ 13X