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The swine census as compared to the fcuman is as eighty to one hundred. Thak is, according to Statistician Dodge, of .'he Department of Agriculture, "\Ya*h? A-- 11rirr. avnrv lD?lOIl, tlicit (lit vigu.j ? j 100 of population of the United States. It is said that if the silk-reeling machinery now being tried at "Washington works successfully it will put $50,000,? 000 a year more in the pockets of farmers. The United States Commissioner of Agriculture will buy cocoons from those who wish to sell them. That "knowledge is power"' has recently been shown in Upper Michigan, where a poorly-dressed day-laborer a few months ago offered 2 ? cents a ton for the refuse and worthle-s rock heap3 around the iron mines. It has panned out one-half gtod ore, and he has already realized about $>,000,000 from his purchase. Some months ago the natives of a certain district in Australia predicted the approach of floods, and left their lowlying villages for the higher country. The floods camc several weeks later, and the natives said that their information had been gathered from the ants, which had built their nests in the trees, instead of, as usual, on the ground. If any one wishes to prove to what a great degree hi> own perceptions depend upon his surroundings, let him hold the ficcrers of one hand in a barrel of ice wa* ter, and those of the other in a bowi of water as hot as he can bear it, for say one minute, and then plunge both hands into a third bowl of water at the temperature of an ordinary living room. This water will be cold to one hand and hct to the other. It is an amusing and instructive experiment. The latest idea in England is to tax foreign workmen $25 a year. The proposition is aimed at the German servants and artisans, who are found be be formidable rivals of the native article. German and other foreign competition in ocean commerce is also seriously impairing the prosperity of Liverpool. Its chipping statistics for 1S8C show a decrease of 100,000 tons. The coastwise trade r" )ws an increase, the falling off being in the foreign trade. The following table shows the number of murders per 10,000,000 inhabitants in each of the principal countries: UDited Kingdom 237 Belgium 240 France 205 Scandinavia 260 Germany 270 Austria 310 Russia 323 Italy 504 Spain 533 United States ??20 Dr. Brown-Sequard is quoted as saying that one has only to harden the ncck and feet and destroy their sensitiveness to prevent takiug cold. This is done by daily blowing a stream of cold air, by means of an clastic bag, upon the neck, and by immersing the feet in cold water. The air is at first only slightly cool, but is each day made colder, until the ncck can stand an arctic blast with impunity. The feet arc immersed in water at first at a temperature of ninety degrees, and this is gradually reduced to thirty eight degrees. According to the calculations made by a scientiGc writer, it requires a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, the estimate being that it would really take 3,000,000 years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The United States has an area of between 1100,000, and 400,000 square miles of coal fields, 100,000,000 tons of coal being mined from these fields in one year, or enough to run a ring around the earth at the equator live and one-half feet wide and five and one-half thick, the quantity being sufficient to supply the whole world for a period of 1,500 to 2,( 00 year^ __ The nature of the potato has been thoroughly exposed in an exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of the introduc tion of the potato into England. 3Iethods of storing, preserving and using potato products were shown, and the history was exhibited in an historic and ecientific collection, including maps showing the European knowledge of the New World :500 years ago, and the proximity of potato growing districts to the ports most frequented, and illustrations of potato disease and works on the subject. The potato was found to be more than a prosaic tuber; it was a subject of history, botany and travel. In 171)1) the population of Spain scarce ly reached 10,000,000, but at the end of 1882 it exceeded 18,000,030, this being tantamount to an increase of 8.40 per 1,000 inhabitants every year. The agricultural population, which was only 3,013,000 cighty-tivc years ago, is now !>,328,003, and the area under under cultivation has increased faom 5:!,C00,000 to 193,700,000 acres, while there arc now 38,000,000 head of cattlc as against 'just half that number at the beginning of the century. The industrial population of Spain has risen from 2,035,000 to 3,038, 000, and the number of manufactories, etc., iro:n ooo 10 i-t,vn. i liu iruue 01 the country lias increased in proportion, the p ogress during the last twenty-five years being particularly remarkable, as, while the imports and exports together amounted to only L'2">,s0.,,00 > in 1SG0. they have been gradually increasing and now reach itft'jOOO.OOO. The increase extends to all branches of trade, for while Spain now produces 4til/MO,000 gallons of wine, of which about twothirds are consumed in the country aud the remainder is exported. Her railway pvstem, which but five years ago did not reach 4/200 miles, is now not far short of mile?. ...1 France now has a total debt of about J $7,200,000,000, or twice a9 large as that ?Vin 1'niforl Stotf>a nf tVir> rlose of the war, and six times as large as our present interest bearing debt. The French debt is nearly $20.') per head of her population. while that of the United States is less than *'20 per head. There is an interest 'charge of $140,000,000 a year, besides annuities and other burdens not clearly stated, amounting to nearly as , much more. The annual revenue wrung ' from the people is $050,003,000, and yet j this is insufficient to meet the necessities J of the government. A novel ice-boat has been invented | which ought to be of service in Polar expeditions. The object of its construction, however, is far more practical and useful. It is for the Michigan Central { Kailroad, and is to have a capacity of! thirty cars, to run across the Straits of j Mackinaw. It will be of peculiar construction, designed especially to overcome the hitherto quite insurmountable obstacles that have been encountered in the Straits of Mackinaw in midwinter. I'y an ingenious expedient the new boat breaks its own way through an ice floe by immense screws at either end. It is estimated that under the most adverse circumstances the boat will be able to make the passage in one day, where a trip of nine days ha> been not uncommon in bad times heretofore. The separating tendencies of the white and colored Methodists at the South are attracting the attention of the leaders of the denomination. At a recent preachers'association the Rev. O. H. "Warren, of the Xorthern Christian Advocate., opened ihe discussion, and said the subject was brought before the country by the recent action of the Chattanooga I'niveisity in refusing admission to young colored men. Dr. Warren reviewed the work of the Methodist Church in the South sincc the close of the war. At first the work was carried on without regard to color, and soon ths - 0 - , fictwa? developed that separation of the races was deemed necessary, aDd now there are very few, if any, mixed congregations or conferences in the South, and thus caste or separation exists. Dr. Warren contended that the division was natural and necessary. The American Grocr furnishes some interesting figures concerning the "tomato pack" of the year, showing to what enormous proportions this comparatively new industry has grown. The total pack for the year is 2,303,700 cases of two dozen cans cach. The total for 1885 was 1,434,000 cases; and the average forthe past four years has been 2,190,031, showing that the pack of 1880 is very much above the average. New Jersey takes the lead in the business, nearly one-third of the total pack coming from that State. Delaware comes next and then New York. Michigan contributed 3:^,105 cases to the mass. It will be gratifying to consumers as well as packers to learn that all the old packed goods have gone into consumption, and that the spring will see the stock lighter than it has been at any time for six years. Although the efonrl in nnt' pli mate and last a lifetime, everybody pre. fers them reasonably fresh and modern. The newest and greatest mining camp in the "West is said to be the Butte Anaconda, in Montana Territory. According to a correspondent of the St. Louis GloU-Democrat there are eighteen companies in the district, most of which are doing well. The population is about 2'?\0'J0, and the town "supports four daily newspapers, five brass a :d string bands, three variety theatres, one opera house, any number of gambling and drinking establishments, is out of debt and has $14,0JO in the treasury. The mines in the district for the year 1883 produced close on $21,000,000. To stand on any of the j>eaks and eminences around Butte and take in the surrounding country at a glance would convince the most sceptical that here are gathered more mills, smelters, shaft houses and more producing mines to the acre than upon any other portion of the known inhabited globe. The amount of pros . 1 5 U-J nntt peeling now DUIIlg pilSUUU ciiiiJJaco anything that Virginia City and the other great Nevada camps could boast of in thsir palmiest days." The hostilities that have been going on more or less in the northern part of Sumatra for the last thirteen years between the Dutch and the Achincsc are no nearer than ever to a conclusion. Acheen is the principal native sovereignty on the island, and has kept its independence against European efforts to subjugnte it for nearly four ccnturies. Through a great part of the time commercial treaties have been maintained with the Sultan of Acheen by European occupants of the island, but the piracies indulged in by his people and his alleged violations of faith have of late greatly exasperated the Dutch. An expedition sent from the Netherlands in 1873 to crush the Achincse was defeated with much loss. Sincc then the war has been prosecuted with varying success. Of late the natives have begun to smuggle in rifles and even artillery, so that they have | ut the coast fort at Segli under siege. The Dutch troops also suffer severely from disease. Altogether Sumatra has c ost the Netherlands much iu money and men, with a prospect now of costing much more. mill Pnitl For. VVI"V" - ?* Young man (to publisher)?"Did you accept that little matter I mailed you lust weekf" Publisher?"Ye*.'" Young man ? "I didn't know. I received no check for it.'' Publisher?''Vou didn't put any pricc on it." Yo.injj man?"I said to send me what you thought it was worth." Publisher?"Well, that's what I sent. ?AT<<r York Sun. mm INTERESTS. Value of Last Year's Crops of Corn, Wheat and Oats, Doings of the Farmers' National Congress in Washington, 1 The National Department of Agriculture estimates of the area, product, and value of corn, wheat and oats for permanent record are completed. The official work of the year has been thoroughly reviewed, with the aid of Stato co-operation and all available data of crop production, and the aggregates aro substantially those recently reported. The corn crop in rouud numbers aggregates 1,065,000,000 bushels grown on 75,000,000 acres, and has a farm value of ?''>10,000,000. The yield is twenty-two bushels per acre, four aud onehalf bushols less than last year. There is an increase of area of over three per cent., aud a do Tease iu product of fouitean percent., while the average prico has increase* 1 twelve per cent, or from tfiS cents to 30.0 cepts per bushel. The aggregate product of wheat is 457,000.00) bushels from an area of nearly 37,001,000 acres, having a farm value of $314,000,00). The average value is 0\ 7 cents per bushel, against 77.1 for tho previous, crop and 04.5 cents for the :rre:it crop of 1SS4.. This is :*> per ccut. reduction from the average value between 1*70 and lSS'h The yield of the spring wheat centres is better thau was expected early in the season aud on the Pacific Coast much worse. The general average for winter aud spring wheat is i.eirly 12. 4 bushels per acre. The product of oats is 024,003,000 bushels, .1,("0,000 less than last year, from an area of over 3i,090,000 acres, producing a value of $ I SI5,000,000. The average yield is 20 4 bushels, against 27.0 last year. Theave: a^e value is s cents per bushel, last year 2>'.5 cents l>er bushel. Tlio F.inncrs' Congress. In the Farmers' National Congress, hel 1 at Washington, President Beverly appointe 1 a committee as follows to confer with the Senate in relation to tho secretaryship of agriculture: R. S. Duke, chairmau, of Virginia: J. W. Stryder, of West Virginia: H. L. D. Lewis, of Virginia; Springer Harbaugh, of Minnesota, and W. L. Parkinson, of Kan-as. L. W. Corbin, chairman, of Virginia; J. C. Walsh, of Maryland: J. O. Saxton, of Pennsylvania: ,T. W. Miles, of Iowa, and D. M. llinsell, of Mississippi, were appointed to confer with tho Senate and House Comtnitteo on Agriculture and the State Department Among the resolutions reported by the Committee on Resolutions and passed was the following: "That tho clause in the charters of the National bank? whii-h fo; bids their loaning money on real estate works a great in jury to the farmers of the Unit >d States by denying them banking privileges and thus causing them to pay a higher rate of interest than other class of citizens, and that we, the farmers of the United States in congress assembled. do most respectfully, but urgently, ask the Congress of tin United States to repeal the same." The members of tho Congress called in a body upon tho President The Congress finally adjourned to meet iu Chicago on the Tuesday before tho meeting of the Fat Stock Show in November, 1887. A MARINE DISASTER, Twenty-Two Sailors and Five LifcSsnvers Drowned, A most disastrous shipwreck occurred at 2 o'clock the other morning near the Little Island life-saving station on the Virginia coast, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry. Twenty-seven lives were lost, among them flvo life saving men, who, in the discharge of their duty, were drowned. Tho morning was bitterly cold aud a blinding snow storm prevailed, with the wind blowing a ga'.e from the northeast During a lull in tho st jriu the life-saving patrol from Little Island life-saving station sighted a large ship stranded on the bar about 80 J yards from tho shore. Whon he saw the vessel he was on his way to meet the patrol from Dam Neck Station aud exchange checks showing that both patrolmen had been to the end of their beat. The Dam Neck J atrol was only a few yards distant when the vessel was sighted, and both fired rockets to notify the crew of the stranded ship that she had been seen. They hurried back to their respective stations aud gave the alarm. In a little while both crews, with lifebmts and apparatus were abreast of the wreck, and the boom of a mortar announced that a line had been shot out to the ill-l'ateJ vessel. The shot was unsucces ful, and a se oud was firei with like result. After firing six unsuccessful shots, the life-saving men determined to brave the furiI pa?? o m/1 fit/* + TrViI/*h seemd certain to await their venture. The word of command being given by Captain Belauza of Life Saving Station No. 4, known as Little Islaud, six of the most expert boatman mauned each boat. At his comxand thj men gave way with a will, and in a moment both boats were breasting the furious waves They reached the ship in safety, and iive of the ship's crew were taken in a lifeboat and teu in a ship's boat, which was launched for the purpose. The boats were headed for shore and not a word was spoken, for each man realised tho awful peril which surrounded them. With a steady pull the two boats were m il:ing good headway for shore, when a wave of great power struck both bort-i, capsizing them instantly and pitching their twenty-two occupanls into the boiling sea. Then began a desperate struggle for life, and with many of the men it was a prolonge 1 one. The horrified life savers on the bea h were powlerless to assist their drowning comrades or the unfortunate strangers. Tho drowning men were carried southward by the seas, and some of them were washed ashore. As they came within reach they were picked up and endeavors were made to revive them, and in two instances with success, although one of the two is badly injured. Tho vessel is tho German* ship Elizabeth, Captain Halberstadt, from Hamburg to Baltimore, and not one ef her crew of twentytwo men survived her wree!;. Of the life-saving crew the following were lost: Abel Belanza, Captain of No. 4, known as Little Island: J. \V. Land, same station; Geo. W. Stone, same; J. A. Belanza, of L-am Neck station, and brother of Abel; Joseph Spratley, of Dam Ne;k. I John Etheridge and Frank Tetford, of No. 4 station, were washed asiiore and resuscitated. ___ CHINESE PIRATJjB. French Troops on the TonquFn Frontier Wiped Out. Advices from Hong Kong say that the trouble on the frontier of Tonquin and China has assumed most serious prcywrtions. News has beeu received at Hong Kong from Pakhoi lhat large bodies of Chinese pirates attacked the French garrison at Hakoi, and alter a three days' siege annihilated the town. They also attacked Mon^kio, with a similar result. The latter is a town ten miles from the coast on the border line of China and Tonquin. Hakoi is about thirty miles south of Alongkio, on the const. The French had a small fortification there, with a garrison of sixty men, under Lieutenant McAlahon, a nephew ~~~ ------ **4. of Marshal AlcMation. Alter n luiruuaja i siege only twentv-threo of the garrison re- j warned alive. Th^se nia ie a sortie, but not one of thoin survived. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A Clare (Mich.) man owns a six-legged calf. j i The Hudson River ice crop will be very . j large this season. Storms on tho Gulf have occasioned seri j ons loss to the 1 ico planters. The losses by fire in this country during ! 1SS0 will figure up about $ 110,000,000. It is estimated that California has 9,600,00 ) bushels of wh at available for export.^ ! The Florida orange crop this season is es- | timated at 750,000 boxes of 128 to250 orange3 : each. During 1885 American mills produced ! 1,350.000 tons of steel rails, valued at $40,- ! 000,000. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State* A strike of employes in the coal carrying trade in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has thrown 30,000 men out of employment. w illiam ifi. JDizan, of W heelock, Vt. has been held for examination on the charge of murdering five of his children soon after their birth. Two old misers, Joseph Perry and Robor Price, were found in a dilapidated building in. Philadelphia starved to death. An extensive fire at Hartford, Conn., gutted a large business blo.-k, causing a loss of over $175,000. Thomas R. Lawtou, a reporter, was burned to death. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, the prominent Catholic priest summoned to Rome fro n New York, because of his open championsh ip of Henry George in the recent mayoralty contest, has refused to obey the summons. The assessed valuations of real estate : n New York City are $1,2-57,275,903, an increase of $53,3ill,S3S over 1866. Two horse thieves named Caldwell and Johnson attacked John Walters, turnkey of the Waterloo (N. Y.) jail, in an attempt to escape, but were secured before they could get away. Walters died of his injuries. Dr. William Perry, oldest graduate of Harvard College and solo survivor of the passengers on Fulton's first steamboat ride down the Hudson seventy-nine years aro, died a few days since at Exeter, N. H., in his ninety-ninth year. The Clinton Powder Company's factory near Plattsburg. N. Y., was demolished by an explosion of 1,200 pounds of nitro-glycorne. The sho:k was felt thirty miles away. South and West. The Michigan Republicans, who control the Stata Legislature, chose Francis B. Stockbridge, a wealthy business man, as successor to Oiner D. Conger in the United States Senate. Jacksonville, Fla., has been visited by an earthquake which caused buildings to shake and windows to rattla. The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, a cra?k Southern military organization, contemplated making a tour of England next summer; but their application for permission to march through that country has been refused by the British authorities. Delaware City, Del., a thriving village, has lost nearly its entire business section "by fire. Loss, about f 100,003. A fire at Fargo, Dakota, destroyed a portion of the Jfortharn Pacific Railroad's shops, causing an estimated damage of $200,000. Tiie Chicago Trades Assembly and the machinery of the Labor party in that city have been captured by the Socialists, who now fill the prominent olfices. The officers of the steamer J. W. Martin, burned on the Mississippi River De-ember i:j, have been indicted for manslaughter in causing the loss of many lives. Henry Meyers died a few days sinca in Vermillion Parish, La, and it is claimed that at nis aeacn no uaureacueu tee anvanct'uuge of 120 years. Vergho, Rithling & Co., of Chicuzo, until recently the largest toy house in the West, have failed for f 100,(xx>. Owing to tho complications arising ic Indiana from the election contests ana claims of both political parties, the inauguration of Lieutenant-Governor Robertson (Kep.) at Indianapolis was accompanied with scenes of great disorder. The Democratic members of the Legislature energetically protested against his presiding over the joint session, and a motion to adjourn was declared carried, but when a rush was made for the doors they were found locked. The LieutenantGovernor's inaugural could not be heard in the din that was raised. San Francisco has been visited by an earthquake which lasted seven seconds but did no damage. Washington. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Herbert F. B.-echer, a son of Rev Henry Ward Beec-her, to be a special agent of the Treasury Department. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations; A. E. Lewis,of Pennsylvania, Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; L, N. Buford, of Mississippi, Deputy Fourth Auditor of the Treasury; Colonel 0. H. Willcox, Brigadier-General; LieutenantColonel John Moore. Brifiradier-General and Surgeon-General: Colonel J. C. Duane, Brigadier-General and Chief of Engineers; also a number of postmasters. Consuls nominated by the President: Isaac R. Diller, of Illinois, at Florence; Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, at Cognac; Willoughby Walling, of Indiana, at Leith. The Senate Committee on Pensions decided to report favorably to the Senate a bill which provide, that persons permanently disabled in the service shall hereafter receive, in lieu of all pensions now paid them, $72 per month. Poreltrn. The census of Franca for 1886 shows a total population of 3S,2i.S,r03, against 37,672,WS in 1SS5. Four of the young men condemned to death recently for an outrageous assault upon a servant girl at Sydney, Australia, have been hanged. The village of Djeme), near Tunis, North Africa, was severely shaken by an earthquake. A number of houses fell down and seven persons were killed and many hurt. A number of peasants at Smolensk, Russia, have rebelled and overpowered and disarmed the garrison. Troops from Charkoff cuelled the insurrection. Avalanches in Switzerland have destroyed some houses and killel many tattle. TEN persons wore injured by an explosion of gas in a tenement house in Glasgow, Scotland. A great snow storm has been raging through the midland counties of Ea;lancT causing an almost completa interruption or traffic. Germany is reported to be storing etor mous quantities of provisions in the strongly fortified town of Mete in anticipation of war with Franca Several changes in the British Cabinet are announced. English naval pensioners have boon ordered to hold themselves ready for active duty?an announcement not calculated to allay the apprehensions of a great w&r in Europe. The famous royal Alcazar Pa'ace" at To* ledo, Spain, has bea;i completely destroyed by fire. Twenty persons were injured. The ancient edifice had been restored at a. cost of f],000,000. Prince Bismarck in debate on the Army bill bjfore the German Reich3tas: told the members tiny must pas? the bill or the Reichstag would be dissolved. A NEW DEPARTMENT, Features oTIl?o House Bill Creating a Secretary of Agriculture. The National House of Kopre>entalivo3, by a vote of '.HI yeas to :J0 nays, has passed a bill creating a Department of Agriculture and Labor. It provides that there shall bo an oxociitivo department to bo known as the Dopaiimeut of Agriculture anl Labor, uudor the control of a .Sieretary of Agriculture and Labor, who shall he a jnemlior of tlio President's Cabinet, aud an Assistant Secret try. There shall bo in the Department of Agricult iro ami Labor a division which shall l>e under charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who shall hold his o.'lioo for four years and unlil his sueco?sor shall bi appointe I, unless sooner roniovi-d, and shall receive a salary of $'),Qi)0. Tin Commissioner shall collect information upon th3 subje.-t of labor, its relation t > capital, tha hiursof labor, the rat j of wa^es, the co.t of production of tho article* produced. the earnings of laboring mon and women, the means of promoting their material, so.'ial, intellectual and moral prosperity, and tho best meaus to protect lifo and provent acident in mine;, workshops, factories, and other place; of industry. Tha Secretary is empowered to iuijuiro into tho cat ho 5 of discontent which may ovist bo twoau employers am employe? wnuiu mo United States, and ho may invito and hoar sworn statements from b>tb such parties concerning the matters in controversy. A PiTTSBCRfin nntura!-gas company is the largest one in the country. It supplies over 40 > manufactories and over 7,000 dwellings, with tlio entire amount of fuel consumed. The total area of pipe leading into Pittsburgh is given as 1,311,602 sjuare in -hes. A LEGISLATIVE TUMULT. Wild Scenes of Disorder in the Mew Jersey Assembly. A Struggle for Possession of the Speaker's GaveL A Trenton (N. J.) special gives the following dotails of tho terrific and extraordinary scones of disorder which prevailed at the opening of tho Assembly, and which culminated in almost a free light for possession of the Speaker's gavel: Twenty-six Republicans, three Democrats, and two Labor men organi/od tho Assembly here to-day by electing William liaird, of Warren couuty, Speaker: Joseph Atkinson, Labor Democrat, of Newark, Cierk; Terence McDonald, Democrat, of Hudlon, Sergeunt-at-Arms, and other officers divided between the two parties. The incidents of the occasion were somewhat animated. Half an hour after tho proper hour for opening tho session tbo tlio Republican members stormod thp Assembly chamber, where the Democrats were holding a caucus. A squad of police, acting under orders from Governor Abbett, entered tlio chamber ancl forcibly removed those [ persons pointed out by tho officers of the | democratic caucus, including tho Clerk i and Kergeaut-at-Arms of the last ! House, who were present to assist j in tho opening of the new session, as well as some of tho reporters. Tho police then guarded tho chamber while tho Democratic As-emblyinen refused to permit ! the organization to proceed unless the Republicans would withdraw uutl their caucus was over. The Republicans thereupon withdrew to the Speaker's room in tho roar of the Assembly chamber, and were accompanied by Donohio i and Carroll, the Labormen. and Wolverton, | Arnwine, and Baird of the Democrats, maj ing thirty-one in all, ju?t a majority, ] io the little back room. Tiio . doors were then locked, and the | Domocrals. with tho police stillon guard,pro- j ceeded with their caucus. The Republicans I meantime proeeoded to organize for them- | selves, tho officers they elected bei"g boosted in to them through a high window, the only j means of access to tho room. When the Democrats knocked on the do r | and informed tho Republicans that the can- : cas was ovor, and they could enter the large room, the Republicans marched in, and tho j officers they had ele ted took their places and attempted to proceed with business ju t j where they had left off in the Speaker's I room. The Democrats were thunderstruck, and a riot at onco began. They declared James S. j Beckwith temporary Chairmau, and ho rushed t/? tlio desk. A terrific strufrcrle fo! loworl between Beck with aud Haird'for the possession oP tlio Ravel, members on both sides rushing forward to join in tho fipht. Shouts, oaths and execrations fdled tho chamber. The dense crowd in the galleries howled and swore. Fran c McDermot.t, a member from Newark, shook his fist across tli.s de-:k in liaird's face, and threatened to put a bullet through him if lie didn't get out. of the chair. The Speaker's secretary was knocked ofT tho high dais and his chair smashed. Some cool-hoad moved to adjourn until to morrow, and both Baird and liockwith declared the House ad journe 1. The excitpment was sub-siding when tho police again entered the chamber, and one of them seized Sergeantat-Arms McDonald anil attempted to eject him. There was a terrible struggle iu thenrenain front of tho Speaker's desk, which ended in tho policeman retiring without his man. About this time the trowd outside biirst open the doors and surged into the chamber, but the members dropped hostilities, and comparative order was soon restore.!, although it was an hour before the chamber was cleared. The Republiran Senators, pending the settlement of the trouble in the House,refused to orgauize the Senate, and the election of a llnited States Senator is thereby postponed ono week, or until threa weeks from to-day. The trouble arose from tho refusal of the three Democrat.! above named to units with the remainder in the organization of the Assembly, tneir reiusai osin? oaseu ou iuo claim that they bad uot been recognised in the apportionment of tbe o.Tices. As the Assembly is clcse the three Democrats and two Labor men, by uniting with the Repulicans, were in the majority. LATER NEWS, , Robert M. Taylor, a prominent resident of Reynoldsville, Penn., shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Sickness, financial troubles, and the death of a child by drowniug it is thought unsettled Taylor's reason. For the first time in the history of the city two ladies, appointed by the outgoing Mayor Grace, took their seats on the 12th in thq New York Board of Education. Ten firemen were thrown thirty feet by the fall of a roof at a fire in Baltimore. They were all injured in various degrees of severity. It is .bought that the bill to amend the Anti-Polygamy act, passed by the House and sent to a conference committee of both Houses will, if it bocomes a law, be the death hi aw fcn Afnrinrmis'yv lord Iddesleigh, a member of the British Cabinet holding the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, dropped dead while making a call at th^ official residence of Prime Minister Saulsbury in London. He was born in 1818, and was better known to the world as Sir Stafford Northcote. Missionaries report the massacre of 100 native converts to Christianity in Ugauda, Africa. Most of the victims were burned aliveJohn* M. Wtr.soj? was hanged at Norristown, Penn., for th3 murder of Anthony VV". Dealy. The late Seuator John A. Logan's successor in the United States Senata is ex-Cougre sman Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, the Legislative caucus of Illinois Republicans having chosen him on the second ballot. Additional nominations by theSeuate: John T. Campbell, of California, Consul at Auckland: Heurv H. Pendleton, of West Virginia, Consul at Southampton. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Hugh A. Dinsmore to be Minister Resident and Consul-General at Corea. The first evening reception given at the White House by tho President and Mrs. Cleveland, assisted by tho Cabinet ladies, was attended by a throng of people, including Supreme Court Justices, foreigu Diplomats, Army and Navy Officers, Senators and Congressmen, et \ Seven different kinds of invitations were issued. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Chicago players will report for duty at the Hot Springs on April 1. I* tho sir caines he played while in Cuba lately Sam Wise, of the Bostons, had a batting average ot The University of Pennsvlvania will be I coached by Henry Boyle, the gentlemanly j pitcher of the St. Louis Maroons. There aro about fifty basoball players I wintering in Cincinnati, a? many more in ! Philadelphia and a few less in Detroit. Ferol-sox, pitcher of the Philaielphia j Baseball Club, lia-i been engaged to coach j the Princeton College nine during the winter. TnE Metropolitans'now have two men?Es a?i 1.?j r\? i i?,i Aoo?_ ! lermuuu UIIU U11 ?WUU uarci(.u iuw nwu* I ciation batteries, the former in 1S81 and the i latter in 1880. No loss than forty-six of the minor league ! players will be found in the ranks of the | League and American Association for the season of 18S7. Carpenter, of tbe Cincinnati team, is contemplating organizing a team to ro to Now Orb ans in February to play with tbe Southern League team there. The National League has signed an even 100players; American Association, 70; International, 106; Northwestern, 40; Western, 44; Southern, 20: Eastern, 10; New England, 27?a total of 441 for the principal professional organizations. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Sessions. 16th Day.?Mr. Call offered a resolution declaring that certain lands granted for railroad purposes in Florida snail be forfeited, and instructing the AttorneyGeneral to bring suit against all corporations attempting to sell or advertise public lands embraced in railroad grants where bills for forfeiture are pending before Congress....Mr. McPherson proposed an amendment to the Inter-State Commerce bill A bill was passed appropriating $30,000 for the widow and daughters of Erskine S. Allin, formerly Master Armorer at Springfield Armory, the inventor of the Springfield breech-loading rifle musket, in compensation for the use of the invention by the government Executive session. 17th Day.?A memorial was presented < from the New York Chamber of Commerce ' presenting objections to some of the pro- 1 visions of the Inter-State Commerce Bill.... Mr. Hoar, from the Select Committee on the Centennial Celebration, reported rerolutiona dclaring it expedient that action be taken by ; Congress for the due celebration in Washington about April 30, 1889, of the centennials of the adoption of the Constitution and of the 1 discovery of America, and directing the ? '**??? AM/) TM?/\rvAC?A fV(Q Kflof CUlIlIiiilltD LIS V UUoiuot auu y* K/yKtiju vuo wow mode of celebration. Adopted.... Messrs. Beck and Cullom spoke in favor of the Inter- 1 Slate Commerce Bill Mr. Stanford spoke in opposition . ..Executive Session. 18th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration of the Inter-State Commerce bill, and was addressed by Messrs. Coke, Harris and . Saulsburyin favor of the measure.... Thd Senate went into secret session and passed a resolution advisiog the President to enter into negotiations with Nicaragua for concessions for an interoceanic canaL Urn Day?The bill to extend the time for filing claims in the Court' of Claims under the French Spoliation act for twelvemonths was passed The Army Appropriation bill was reported with amendments. It appropriates $23,737,718, being $?).>, 10.) in excess of the bill as it came from the House.... The Pension Appropriation bill was reported. It appropi iates the fame amount as the House I bill?Mr. Call spoke in l'avor of, and Messrs. Brown and Mitchell (Oregon) agains> the Int?r-Stato Commerce bill. 20th Day.?The Senate took up the resolution oTered by Mr. Vest directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish a full and itemi.'.etl statement of all money paid out on account of prosecutions of criminal cases in State Courts by Federal officials of the departments, from July 18751, to December 1, 1880, with a list of officials, agents or employes engaged, the amount paid them, for what specific services, etc. The resolution was made to apply to civil cases also ami then adopted A ruuning discussion on the Inter-State Commerce bill took* place, I the debaters boinsr Messrs. Harris and George | in favor of. and Mr. Hoar against the measure. Mr. Evarts also opposed the bill, d3j nouncing it as unconstitutional Conferees j were appointed on the Anti-Polygamy bill I passed by the House. House Sessions. 19th Day.?The Public Printer's annual report was read.... A communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue was received requestin>. in immediate addit'onal appropriation of .$50,003 for salaries and ex! penses of collectors of internal revenue for ! the current fiscal year The House spent the remainder of the day on the private calendar, and then took a recess until 7:30?the evening session being for the consideration of pension bills. 20rn Day.?The bill appropriating $500-' 000 for a public Mildine at Charleston weat . over after debate.... The Houss went into i Committee of the Whole on the bill consoliI dating certain bureaus of the Navy Depart! mpnt. Messrs. Buck (Conn.) and Thomas j (ill.) favored and Mr. Lord (Del.) opposed the measure....Mr. Hiscock (N. Y.) introj duced a bill reducing the duties on raw I sugar, providing 'for the payment of bounI ties on domestic sugars, and abolishing the j tax on tobacco and spirits used in the arts j and manufactures Mr. Willis (Ky.) reported the River and Harbor Bill, and it I was ordered printed and recommitted, j 21st Day.?Bills introduced: By Mr. Tars! ney (Mich,)?Providing for the erection j or upward, the cost of the building | the United States of If),003 inhabitants | of a public building in each city of j to vary according to the population, from i $25,00) for 10,000 inhabitants to $140,| 033 for .50,003 inhabitants By Mr. Brec'ienridge?Making certain forms of j speculation unlawful. By Mr. Mayi bury (Mi - h.)?Amending the Civil Ser; vice a t so that no person shall be disqualified from appointment by reason of a?e. By | Mr. Merriman (N. Y.)?For the purchase or 1 John Ericsson's "Destroyer,'' and ten eni larged steel vessels of the same type for de1 fending the harbors of the United States. 22b Day? Mr. Oates, from Committee on I Revision of the Laws, repot ted to the House a bill to prohibit the appoint nent of Con; grossional committees to attend funerals I at the public expense outside the Disj trict of Columbia, and also to prohibit | the draping of public buildings in mourni oTPAnt unon the authority cf the President Hcire calendar..... On motion of Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, the House went into Committee of the Whole ' on the bill creatine a Department of Agrxi culture and Labor. On motion of Mr. *o| ran. of Ohio, the.salary of the Commissioner of Labor wasincreasad from $4,000 to$o.0J0. The committee then rose and the bill was tassed?veas 222. nays 26. 20d Day?The Tucker substituta for the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy bill was discussed I and passed without a division. The bill makes the lawful husband or wife of any person prosecuted for bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation a competent witness against the accused; provides for tha registration of all marriages, making it a misde; meaner for any person to violate the provisions relative to such registration; annuls all Territorial laws providing for the j identification of the votes of electors ; at any ele. tion, and also all laws conferring 1 on tli'3 Territorial courts the power to de: termini divorce c ases, and abolishes woman suffrage in the territory. Penalties are prescribed for unlawful intercourse, and polygamy is defined as a marriage between one person of one sex and more than one person of another sex, and is do .dared to be j a felony. The financial corporations known as the Church of Latter Day Saints and the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company are dissolved, and the Attorney- General is directed to wind them up by process of court; and ail laws for theorgani;ation of I the militia of the Territory and the creation j of the Nauvoo Legion are annulled. Polygj amists are made inoligible to vote, j and a test oath is prescribed to all persons desiring to vote that they will obey the laws ! of the United States, and especially the laws t in respect to tha crimes defined in this and the original Edmunds act. The bill provides fVia onrvM'nfmrtnf, hv thft PrPSi dont of all Judges aud Selectmen of the County and Probate Courts, and by the Governor of all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables and other county and district officers. 24tii Day.?A bill was passed giving tee consent of Congress to the agreement Between the New York and New Jersey Commissioners respecting tho boundary line between those .States.... The bill amending the law regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal courts was passed.... The bill providing for the bringing of suits against the Uuited States was passed. SHIPWRECKED,~ Three Saved of a Crew of Twentyfour in the Pacific. The crew of the ship Harvey Mills, which foundered at sea while on a voyago from Seattle, Washington Territory, for San Francisco, numbered twenty-four. The thrco survivors say that when all hope of saving the ship was abandoned the Captain nn l three men attempted to leave the ship iu a small boat, but as soon as thoy left the ship's side the boat was capsized by a heavy sea, and they were drowned. Four others took to a raft, but have not sim o been heard of. Mate Cu.-hman and three of the orow also left the ship on a rait, but uoiore u.ey wero : picked up 0:10 of the men went cra'.y and jumped overboard. Tho other twelve of tho crew stuck to the ship, and, as the survivors saw her go down, nil 011 board must have perishe 1. Tho three rescued men have arrived in San Francisco. THE most heavily endowod educational inBtitutioni in the United States are: Girard Colloge, $10,Columbia, $.->,001,0)0; Johns Hopkins, $4,00.1,0(10; Harvard. $a,i00,000; i'rinceton, L.-high, $1,S10,000; Cornoll, $1,400,000. During the past year ?13,2S4,0S6 was expended for educational purposes in the State of N<?w York. Of this amount $!?,102,268 was for teachers' wages. There are 31,325 school teachers and 1,735,073 school children *n the State. \ THE LABOR WORLD. Report of the New York Bureau of Statistics and Labor. Investigations and Inquiries Into the Workingman's Position. New York State Commissioner Peck, in the "Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor," says: The year LS86 has witnessed a more profound and far more extended agitation among the members of organized labor than any previous year in the history of our country, and while such agitation in our owq State has not been characterized by the wholly unwarranted and criminal excesses that startled with horror the populace of several of the Western cities, it has nevertheless been earnest and pronounced. With but rare exceptions, organized labor has continued in this State, with greater success and vigor tban ever before, to agitate, to strike and to boycott during the past year, and 188(5 will be remembei ed as one of the greater importauce in the battle waged between capital and labor, the signal failures and successes of which will not be lost or fail to servo a3 les ous of value to the sturlent of social and economic questions. < The subject of apprenticeship is treated at groat length and in a most exhaustive manner. Among other tbiugs the Commissioner says, in discus-ing the question: "As a very prominent feature of tho labor nnocfinn it hns hffn fnnnri PTnedif-nt and neccssary to look into our apprenticeship sy&em?the means at hand of renewing and rerpetunting oar lab >r supply. The broad result is tl at we a;e largely dependent upon foreign skilled labor. Our supply of native mechanics is daily augmented by the skilled labor of Europe, and while this foreign element is not eoua!' to the skilled labor which is retained in Europe, it is in the main vastly superior to that produced in our own country. Whether unrestricted emigration be or be not a national blessing may bo disputed, but a visit to the workshops of the State will demonstrate the truthfulness of the statement that the large majority of our tradesmen and meebauics are foreigners. Indeed, in many trade and industrial esiablishments there is not a si ogle American at work. Nearly all positions of trust and responsibility in the mechanical do; artments are in the bauds c f foreign-born worl ers, and most of the I oys and young men learning trades are either fore'gn born or the sons of foreign born workers. And the opinion is now very generally expressed aul accepted, that most of the labor troubles of thelast few years have been precipitated, not by whale' trades, but by sections of them, and that these sections were largely controlled by loreigners, or natives who bad from association imbibed foreign ideas on the labor question." The Commissioner argues in favor of manual trainiug as a means of keeping up the supply of trained la :or and preventing the coming maa from becoming the slave of the machine. The conclusion at which the Commissioner arrives in regard to "Shorter Hours of Lar bor" are thus summed up:?' As predicted in the last report of this bureau, a very general movement was made on the first day of May last looking to the reduction of the hours of labor from ten to. eight per day. The organization*, of New York arid. Brooklyn seemed 11 have acted more in con . cert than those of other cities in the States, and were by far more successful, having won a majority of the cases where demands were made. It is true that while a large percentage of all engaged in the movement asked for a redaction of two hours a r'ay, very many of the organizationsdid it with a view of compromising on nine hours as a day's work." He next giv >s brief histories of the leadingstrikes in the State during the year, notably those in tha Troy laundries, the sugar refineries, and on the street railTVio lnecac Vitr fchfUA different strikes, boycotts, Re.', ho is unable to give in total, but iifty-eight firms alone report an aggregate of $3,000,000. On theother hand, the losso3 of wages to striking employes are represented by tne sum of $2,858.1'Jl. JOHN K0A0H, Death of tlio Most Noted Ship* Builder in America. John Roach, the most celebrated shipbuilder in this country, died a few days since at his home in New York. He tad. been suffering for some time from cancer of the mouth, which finally terminated fatally. Mr. Roach was born not far from Corkr Ireland, December Si, 1813. He came to this country alone when sixt en years old. He w.irked four years in a New Jersey brickyard. Then he was apprenticed for three voars to the Allaire Iron Works, of New York, to. learn the trade of an iron, founder. After a while he went into business for himself, and in course of time became the leading ship builder in the country.. In 1871 h; built h's famous shipyards at Chester, Penn. Mi-. Roach was an earnest Republican and a firm believer in the doctrine of protection. When the Democrats came into power in 1885 he held entrants to build four steal cruisers. All his available^ capital was invested in the work. His friends, too, wero on his bonds for large amount?. Mr. William C. Whitney, the Secretary of the i\avy, aaopiea a new line of policy regarding jrovernment contract work, and he de-line.i to make any payment upon the Dolphin, the first of the vessels which Mr. Roach had tinder contract, or upon any of the others, v.util the Dolphiu had been approved by the Naval A lvisory Board The first trials of the Dolphiu were "not satisfactory. Mr. Roach's mean- were all invested in the vessels, and the Secretary's refusal to make advances upon the work forced the veteran shipbuilder to make an assignment. This \vas in August, 18S5. During his operation of the Chester shipyards Mr. Roach built eighty ircn ships there with a total tonnage of 210,000 tous and valued at $:ir>,0?,000. He employed from 1,800 to 2,000 men. The fortune which he left is estimated at $1,000,00?. The assignees appointed after his failure state that they have paid sixty per cent, of his liabilities, which amouuted to nearly t2,250,? 000, and that in February the balance will probably be paid THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 2 Beef, good to prime 6)^(35 8 Calves, com'n to prime 5 @ 9 Sheep 4%(g 0 Lambs 7 @ 8 Hogs?Live 4)^@ Dressed 3 Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 00 @ 4 10 West, good to choice 3 70 @ 5 20 Wheat-No. 2, Red !? @ WJX Rye?State 57}$ @ 5'J Barley?State @ 70 Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 47}^<@ 47$? Oats?White State 39 @ 40 Mixed Western S5f$@ 37 Hay?Med. to prime 55 @ Straw?No. 1, Hye 45 @ 70 Lard?City Steam 0 35 @ C 75 Butter?State C:eamery.... 24 @ 2!) Dairv ? @ 2$ West Im. Creamery 24 @ 20 Factory 14 @ 17 Cheese?State Factory ? @ 13 Skims 10K@ 11X Western 1 il4& V~]4 Eggs?State and Penn 33 @ :A BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @ 4 00 Lambs?Westeru 5 00 (m. 5 75 Steers?Western 4 40 @4 K) Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 35 (ffj 4 4> Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (& 44 Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? (<s !> Barley?State 70 (<? 72 TiOSTOV Beof?fioo.l to clioi.e 6}10 5 Hogs?Li. e >-+& " Northern Dressed.... Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl. ..10 o0 (oil 0'j Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 11 (A 40 Corn?High Mixed 50 (? *>1 Oats?Extra White 41%<i? 4 2 -3 Rye?State 00 ({f. ?> > WATERTOW.N* (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. A Boer- Dressed weight 5 6k 7% -~Ti Sheen?Live weight 4>4^ \Y% I .amis 5 (it: i v .?? Hogs?Northern 4Ji(:S 4>? . rniLADELl'HIA. Piotir?Ponn.extra family... 2 To (ft. :) 00 i Wheat?No. lied K <a *>"? > Rye?State fi7 ($ .VJ -M Corn?State Yellow 45 (<c 48 OatsMixel ?* Butter?Creamery Extra... :JL "<$ Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. lsJtf? 13>f