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a yrr.uvt exhibition, or " World's Fair,*'
will be held in Paris, France, in 18S9.
A gigantic iron tower is to be a feature
of it. The State will contribute $1,200,000,
and $1,200,000 will be furnished by
?nnfro/?frtro tpV?r\ will Vi?jtti? nnccnccinn nf
the tower twenty years. It is to be three
times the heighth of the famous Arc de 1
Triompho.
There are now 1G,000 colored teachers i
in the United States, 1,000,000 pupils in !
the Southern States alone; 13,000 in the j
male and female high-schools, and 3,000,000
worshippers in churches. There
are sixty normal schools, fifty colleges
and universities, and twenty-live theological
seminaries.
As nearly every one in Europe is now
talking about war, let us see how many
men each nation can bring into the fray:
Russia, 4,000,000; France, 2,435,000;
Germany, 2,500,000; Austria, 1,770,000;
Italy, 2,400,030; Turkey, 800,000, mak- i
ingatotalof over 13,000,000 men. If |
all these arms were employed in agcul- j
ture and commerce!
The London papers, commenting on !
the wheat situation, says that America j
has the reins entirely in her own hands, j
Europe wants something like 2,000,000 j
bushels per week from the Atlantic
ports during the next five or six months.
The stock of English wheat is reduced to
10,000,000 bushels, against 27,000,000 at
the same time last year.
Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of the
United States navy, has letumed from
Paris, where he looked into the Pasteur
6y6tcm of fighting hydrophobia, with a
view to its introduction into a government
hospital in this country. He says
that medical opinions in France differ as
to the efficacy of the inoculations, but
that the record of cases seems to establish
the value of Pasteur's work.
There is no dearth of physicians in I
this country. A statistician declares
that while the annual increase of the
population is less than two per cent, the
annual increase of physicians is more
than five and one-half per cent. It is
eaid that there are nearly two thousand
more physicians in the State of Illinois
than arc necessary. No wonder many of
them are drifting into other callings.
A chimney on fire called out some of
the .Baltimore firemen the other day.
When they reached the house one of
them tfrewa big pistol and, standing below,
fired five shots up the chimney.
Instantly the soot and fire dropped
down, and the fire was extinguished.
The concussion loosened the accumulated
soot. The police and firemen of j
that city say it is an old practice with
them and has never failed.
Mrs. Julia D. Grant recently received
from the Treasury Department at Washington
$982.50 for back pay due her husband
as First Lieutenant and Quartermaster
in the Fourth Regiment of Infantry
during the Mexican war, and al<o
for the amount due for arrears from July
1 to July 23, 188.3, as a retired General
of the United States army. Mrs. Grant
has forwarded the two checks to the
Grant Monument Association in New
York to aid the funds of that body.
Attracted by the profits that have been
derived from the rearing of ostriches and
the sale of their feathers, enterprising
persons have at various time3 exported
these birds from the Cape of Good Hope
to such divergent quarters as India,
South Australia, the River Plate and
New Zealand: and in all these it is said
the birds are thriving, notably so in she
last named colony, from wh ch a first
consignment of feathers was recently
taken to England. The Gape will,
therefore, no longer be able to boast of
monopolizing thisindustry.
Dr. T. D. Crothcrs is working hard to
prove that inebriety is contagious under
certain circumstances. He has just
printed a paper entitied: "Cer.ain
Hereditary and Psychical Phenomena in
' Inebriety," to illustrate his doctrine that
intoxication may be imparted by contagion
when hereditary defects predispose
the system to such influences. That is
to say, a perfectly sober man, brought
in contact with drunken men, may be- '
come drunk himself to all practical intents,
or an equally sober person whose
parents, one or both, are hard drinkers,
may, when exposed to some mental
shock, apparently become fully intoxicated.
There is a new fad among the swells
of New York city, whose love for the
picturesque is not satisfied with the
sombre raiment of the conventional dress
guit. These scintillating individuals
now appear with two waistcoats when
arrayeu ior ljiu evcuiu^. juc uut w&isi- i
coat is of white pique or silk, and the
under \cstmeut is of a gorgeous blue or
crim>on silk, the edge of which just
protrudes beyond the lapel of the overwaistcoat.
Any desire for conspicuousness
is thus gratified, as the effect is
suggestive of the "orders" and insignia
of potentates and foreign diplomats.
The haberdashers are delighted at the
prospect of the innovation.
Some scoundrel played a fiendish
joke upon a little girl named Ilettie
Johnson, at Lancaster, Ohio. He met
her in front of the residence of John C.
Hite, which is inclosed with an iron
fence, and told her to touch her tongue
to the frosted post. This she innocently
did, and of course it stu k there, when
the dastardly wretch who induced her
. to do the thing ran up the street and
disappeared down an alley. The little
girl, only five years old, was held tight,
with her head to the post, but a gentleman,
happening along, discovered her
misfortune, and procuring a pitcher of
water released her, not, however, without
leaving a strip of her tongue adhericg
to the cold iron. j
The water power at Niagara Falls is
to be developed at an expenstof $3,000,000.
A poetaster said, long ago:
"And what a tremendous water power
Is wasted o'er its edge;
One man might supply all the world with
liour.
With a single privilege."
Montana cattlcmcn are greatly alarmed
for the future, owing to the overstocking
of the ranges. Last year witnessed a
heavy influx of cattle brought there to
winter. Large herds were brought over
the parched trail from the Rio Grande,
and in their famished condition placed
on ranges already so fully stocked that
only a phenomenally mild winter could
prevent heavy losses. To make matters
worse the calf crop was unusally large.
l"p to Christmas the weather was favorable
and all was well, but 6incc then,
the temperature ranging as low as forty
below and blinding storms,before which
cattle drift in spite of the cowboys' efforts,
reduce the cattle in flesh and so
weaken them an to make heavy losses
inevitable if the cold weather continues.
A ill; ?~\ C? 1 Via. V(/?w/iv/wcuv 4AWW. v?w. |
says: "A Paris letter relates an anecdote
that we commend to the consideration of
injured wives. A certain M. Perrin, a
gentleman of wealth and high social
position, was in the habit of beating his
wife, who was a proud woman and made
no complaint until his brutality became
unbearable. Having decided to leave
him, the lady, whose capabil'tv of hatred
would have endeared her to Dr. Johnson,
felt that she could not be happy
afterward unless she obtained some
Blight revenge upon her husband. Accordingly
she waited until the offender
camc home one night in a state of inebriation,
and then, after he had fallen into
a drunken sleep, she sewed him up in the
bed clothes so that he could not move.
When M. Perrin awoke in the morning
his wife came in and gave him a thrashing
with a broom that made him weary
nf lifn Thpn sliA went to her Barents.
and now divorce proceedings have been
begun. The French woman's process for
punishing a brute is even better than the
whipping post."'
John T. Xorris, of Springfield, Ohio,
is one of the most famous detectives of
the West, and the jails are full of men he
has brought to justice. He is not at all
the sort of man, however, that we find
playing the hero in detective literature.
He is very singular in appearance and is
vain and loquacious to a remarkable degree.
Soys the St. Louis Globc-Democrat:
"Nori is is a peculiar species of the genus
detective. His methods of conducting
his business are essentially different from
those of every other member of the fraternity
known to fame. When he strikes
a town he generally proceeds to let everybody
in it know who he is and why he
is present. He assumes no other name
than Norris. His personal appearance
is so easily described that it would seem
imnosaihle for anv crook whom lie pur
sues not to know it. A stiff leg makes
any successful disguise impossible. He
has no assistants so far as knowo, and
yet he hns bad success in catch'ing and
convicting criminals, which has made
him a terror to the crooked people in the
Territory in which he works.
Prince Pierre Krapotkine, the Nihilist,
whose brother recently commited suicide
in exile in Siberia, has just concluded a
work that ha9 been sent to the printersto
be entitled "In French and Russian
Prisons." Krapotkine has seen the inside
of the prisons of both countries,
and, but for his escape from the fortress
of St. Peter and St. Paul, he would
probably be at work now in the mines
of Siberia, or else dead. The story of
his escape, as told by him to Stepniak
and related by the latter, is very romantic.
KnpotKinc, who had been dangerously
ill, affected to be very weak during his
convalsence, and, therefore, was allowed
to walk in the yard of the Nicholas
hospital under guard of a single soldier.
His friends planned his cscape, and, as
tney were ulmc tu uumuiuuiuuiu wim mm,
carried out their plans. A fast horse
was kept in waiting on the next corner
from the hospital. One Nihilist hiied a
room overlooking the hospital yard and j
the road, and the signal when the coast
was clear was to be a certain tune played
on the violin. The violin began just as
the hospital yard door opened to admit
a load of wood, and Krapotkine knocked
down his guard and escaped.
Home Life in the Country.
Too many of our farmers' homes arc
merely so in name. They are not homes
?only places to stay. Do not think we
arc insinuating that you must rush right
off and spend $1,000 in buying new furniture,
carpets and an organ. Not at all.
One of the "homcicst" places we ever
saw was one that.was entirely innocent
of any extravagance in that line. Three
hundred dollars would have covcied the
cost of all the furniture in the house, but
it was a place wc always enjoyed visaing.
The head of the family was always
jolly and readv to take a hand in a game,
and his nine children, always hearty and
full of fuu, did not care to be out in the
evenings. Th'j girls did sewing and
knitting as they grew old enough, and
the boys were often found "making
something;" but no evening passed that
one did not have something to read to
the others?an anecdote or a story?
something cither to amuse or instruct.
But the main secret of their happiness,
if it was a secret, lay in the fact that
worrying and fretting were banished.
One growler or fretter will spoil a whole
family. Fathers, mothers, don't allow
a fault-finding spirit to spoil the pleasure
of yotir family circle. Don't indulge in
it yourselves. Have as co'.v and comfortable
home as yon can atlord, but
don't mourn over what you have not.
Rather rejoice in what you have and be
4i i.r.. i c
ill mi mm.?
A Life of Trials.
" ( ome in, my poor mnn," said a benevolent
lady to a ragged tramp, "and I
will pet you something to eat."
"Thanky, mum; don't care if I do."
'I suppose," continued the lady, setting
a square meal before him, "your
life has been full of trials?"
"Vis, muni; an' the wust of it wuz I
alius got convicted."?Jud^e.
FROM FOREIGN LAUDS.
Some Matters of Importance in
Other Countries.
Queen Victoria's Speech at the Opening
of Parliament
The British Parliament is again in session.
The scenes were duller than those which usually
attend this event. Queen Victoria's
speech from the throne excited but little interest.
She tells "My Lords and Gentlemen''
that her relations with foreign
powers are friendly, but no allusion
is made to the question of the Canadian
fisheries:. She deplores the events which compelled
Prince Alexander to retire from the
Bulgarian throne, but states she will not interfere
with regard to his successor until her
assent is required by the Berlin Treaty,.
Egyptiau ani Burmese affairs, though
not highly satisfactory at present,
give good promise, aud then the
"gentlemen of the House of Commons" are
remiuiied that they hold the purse strings.
With regard to Ireland the Queen says: "Tho
condition of Ireland still requires your anxious
attention. Grave crimes iu that country
have happily been rarer in the last
few mouths than during the similar
period of the preceding year, but tho
relations between the owners aud occupiers
of the laud, which in the early autumn exhibited
signs of improvement, iinvo since
been seriously disturbed in some districts by
organized attempts to incite tho latter ck*ss
tocomb;n? against thefullilment of their legal
obligations. The efforts of the
government to cope with this evil
have been seriously "impeded by the dillieultios
incident to the method at present
prescribad by statute for dealing with such
otleives. Your early attention will bo i
called to proposals for the reform of
legal procedure, which seems neces ary
to secure prompt and ellicient adiniuistration
of the criminal law. Siuce I j
lust addressed you the Commissioners directed
to in piiro into certain subjects of great importance
to the material welfare of Ireland
li.ivo been actively prose nitinj their labors.
Tim lviiurt of t in? commission on the opera
tion of the recent acts dealing with" the
tenure and purchase of land will shortly bo
laid before you. and will doubtless receive
from you the early and careful attention
which# the serious importance
of the subject demands Bills for
the improvement of local government
in England and Scotlaud will be laid
before you. Should the circumstances render
it possible they w.ll be followed by a
measure dealing with the same subject in
Ireland. A bill for improving and cheapening
the process of private bill legislation for
England, Scotland and Ireland will be submitted."
"War Prospects in Europe.
A communication from Berlin which is
assorted to be from an authentic source
states that war between G ermany and France
is regarded as more probable at Berlin than
is to be inferred from the information which
is permitted to be accessible to the public.
"It is erroneous," says the letter, "to suppose
that thesemi-oflicinl press of Germany
publis'i the details of French armaments
merely for the purpose of influencing the
people in the coming elections. We happen
to know that Prince Bismarck,
recently, when he had that view
of the case presented to him, quoted, in reply,
ft om Faust, the words: "Thou resemblest
the spirit whom thou comprehendest;
not me." The Prince added that the statement
made in behalf of the German Government
respecting French armaments were
uot put forth as any part of elec- ,
tion manoeuvring, but as a warning, and he I
said the cold douche had been turned on with
less force this time in order not to provoke
the |>eople too much, but it would bo turned
on witn greater streugiu 11 mat ,? as iuuuu
to be ne:essary.
"We once averted war," continued the
Chancellor, "by appealing against it at the
proper moment.He alluded to the position
of affairs in 1SS4, when the German
seaii-oflicial press called attention to tho
fact that Russian cavalry were 1>oing massed
on the German frontier. Then it was
understood that an alliance existed between
Russia a:id France, and it was shown that
warlike action on tho part of Russia was positively
imminent. The present condition of
affairs is not exactly analagous to that
which then existed, 110 Frauco-Russian alliance
being now feared, but there is ample
authentic evidence that General Boulanger,
the French Minister of War, is persuaded
that Franc e will be prepared and able by 1SSS
at the latest to enter unaided into a great and
decisive struggle, if quiet were maintained in
the East until that time. If Russia, however,
should speedily take action, or if an outbreak
should occur in the Balkans, there was evidence
that General Boulahger contemplated,
in that event, a campaign against Germany
within a few months. Germany, therefore,
was compelled to consider the expediency of
awaiting inactively for the French attack.
The communication above alluded to concludes
with these words: "President Grevy
ami Prime Minister Goblet both unsuccessfully
have tried to remove Gen. Boulanger
from control of th9 military affairs of
France."
Kmiii Pacha Reported Safe.
The Egyptian Government Las received n
report that Einin Pacha, who has been beseieed
by rebels for some time, is already on
his way to the eastern coasc of Africa, having,
after desperate fighting, cut his
way through the Uganda Territory.
Henry M. Stanley, who recently left
America in a great hurry to head an expedition
for Emin's release, has started for
Zanzibar. He considers that the money
placed at his disposal is insufficient, but he
trusts that, if the news of their escape be
true, he will be able to complete tho
relief of Emin and his party. He declares
that he has no intention of
allowing himself to be sacrificed
by the Egyptian Government, and that if
difficulties are placed in his way he will
abandon the present enterprise and undertake
an expedition on his own account, talcing his
own route.
Gladstone on the Fisheries Question.
Ex-Premier Gladstone made a long address
at tho opening of the British Parliament on
important issues of tho hour. Alluding
to tho Canadian fisheries question,
bo" assui e 1 the House that the Government
was most anxious to do everything
in its power to effect a satisfactory
settlement of the dispute. Tho Deminion
hail assumoi a most moderate attitude
on this subject, said the speaker. The
policy of England had ever been to maintain
its colonial rights, but in this case there were
two countries honestly desirous of arriving
at a settlement, and no effort would bo spared
011 the part of the Government to effect that
settlement in a fair, e [uitable and amicable
spirit.
Fishing Vessels to bo Released.
The Canadian Customs Department has
decided to tuleusi tlie American fishing
schooners Jenuclte and Maggie Mitchell,
which were seized by ttie cruizer Middleton,
nt St. Andrews, N. 15., on payment of lines
of $.'jU and slou respe.tively.
CANADA AND IRELAND.
Gladstone and Chamberlain on Their
Likeness and Diflcrence.
Mr. Chamberlain writes to the London
Times at considerable length to show tho
practicability of the adaptation of tho Canadian
Constitution to Ireland to meet the
fundamental conditions of Lord Hai tington's
plan for the government of Ireland. In concluding.
Mr. Chamberlain says he never pretended
that the Canadian Constitution could
be bodily transferred so ns to settle the rela- '
tions ot Ireland and Ureat brita n. The evact
nature of the adaptation which would be 1
suitable for the want-! of Ireland is one of the j
Questions on which hchooes that further dis- I
cussion will throw light."
Mr. Gladstone, writing to a Glasgow paper,
snys there are many circumstantial differences
between the cases of Canada and Ireland,
but within and under them there is a
strong analog}'. Iu the main they have the
same friends and f'les. Toryism has not supported
freedom in Canada and resists it in
Ireland.
A herdkr drove 2,000 sheep into a corral
at Tie Siding, Wyoming Territory, and, after
banking the fire in an adjacent cabiu, i
went to sleep. A spark Hew into the straw |
of the sheas, and while the herder slept the
corral and all the sbesp were destroyed by I
fire. i
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Officer Adams, of the New York police,
while in pursuit ot a prisoner who had
escaped from his clutcties, fired twice at the
fugitive; the second shot struck and killed a
young man named Canale.
Thirty-nine West Point military cadets
were found deficient at the annual examination
and dismissed.
Small-pox cases are becoming unusually
freque nt in New York City.
Michael Davitt, the Irish Home Rule
agitator, has sailed for Engla ad after holding
a large and enthusiastic farewell reception
in >iew York.
Floods resulting from sudden thaws and
overflowing streams have caused considerable
damage in portions of Ne w York and
Pennsylvania.
General Charles; P. Ston;?,known from
his military service inEgyptas Stone Pasha,
died a few days since in Wew York. He was
born in Massachusetts, entered the army in
1845 and served through the Mexican and
Civil wars, subsequently entering the
Khedive's army in Egypt and attaining high
rank.
Four young children of H. L. Ross were
burr, d to death at Fern City, Penn., during
the absence of their parents.
The pilot boat Francis Perkins was lost
in a gale off Barnegat, N. J., and two of her
crow were drowned.
Mrs. L. E. Southwici:, a prominent music
dealer, and a boy named Guy Ferris,
were thrown from a wagon by a runaway
horse at Corry, Penn., and both fatally in
jured.
South and "West.
A. S. PaddocIc, who was Unite;l States
Senator from Ifebraska, preceding C. H.
Van Wyck, has been elected as tho letter's
successor.
A locomotive boiler burst at Carmi, 111.,
killing the engineer and fireman and injuring
several passengers, 'xhe five cars belonging
to the train were wrecked.
A one-year-old child was being takea to
a cemetery at Louisville for burial when a
noise in the coilin led to an investigation, and
it was discovered the little one was alive.
A remarkable business boom exists in
Tennessee. Twelve railroad charters have
been granted within five weeks.
Ex-Goverxor TV. B, Bate has been elected
to the United States Senate by the Tennessee
Legislature.
Woahlnffton.
Mrs. Voorhees, the wife of Senator Voorhees,
died at their residence in Washington
the other afternoon.
A Treasury Department call has been
issued for the redemption of $i:J,SW7,0D0 of
the three per cent, loan of 1882, principal
and interest to be paid March 1.
The Pension office has information that H.
P. Metcalf, of Denver, Col., has been arrested
at Norwich, Conn., charged with
raising a government pension check i'rom $18
to ? 1,280.^0.
A daughter has been born to Secretary
and Mrs. Whitney.
Advices received by the State Department
from Buenos Ayres state that business
there had been entirely suspended on account
of the prevalence of Asiatic cholera.
At Rosario the deaths sometimes reached
tifty a day.
Last year's emigrartion into the United.
States amounted to :>SC,755 persons, an increase
of more than G0,000 over the year
1885.
The value of exports from the United
States last year was $7 lo, 281), GOO, against
$088,249,7!i8 in 1885. The imports to this
country in 1880 amounted to $00j,417,:d0,
against $587,808,073 in 1885.
Foreign.
Rcjiors of war in Europe are increasing
daily. Germany and France are making
elaborate preparations along their respective
frontie rs for a mighty struggle.
Joh.v Patten*, Jr. & Co., lx>ndon managers
of the Monarch Steamship Line, have
failed :?or a large amount.
From Melbourne. Australia, comes intelligence
i;hat the tail of a lirst-elass comet has
put in au appearance.
Cardinal Jacobini has resigned the office
of Pontifical Secretary of State. His successor
will be the Nuncio at Lisbon.
The British steamer NeDaul collided with
and sunk a Chiue.-e^tranj;port. One^hundred
soldiers uuu so \ ei u& x muuai mo ??ci wutv ?? mw??.
A bill for the suppression of drunkenness
has been introduced in the Belgian Parliament.
Lord Doneraile and his coachman were
bitten in Ireland by a tame fox that had become
rabid. They have gone to Paris to be
treated by Pasteur.
European advices from prominent sources
state that the probabilities of approaching
war are not so groat as the din of preparation
would indicate.
Mr. Foster,Canadian Minister of Marine
and Fisheries, says that if the United States
severs commercial relations with Canada
the latter country will suffer least because
it sends only $40,000,000 of products across
the border annually to $.j0,000,000 worth sent
across by Americans.
The schooner C. Graham, from Bermuda,
was driven ashore on the Nova Scotia coast,
and all hands on board, consisting of a crew
of six men and possibly some passengers, were
lost
LATER NEWS.
Jake Van Woert, a farmer living near
Stokesdale Junction, Ponn., was shot dead
by his child-wife, scarcely fifteen years old.
Ho bad been beating his wife, and threatened
her life with a Iknife, when she ended his
existence with two revolver shots.
Secretary Manning has appointed Jesse
B. Abrahams, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Comptroller of the Currency.
A Committee representing the Knights of
Liberty addressed a letter to President Cleveland
requesting him to veto the Inter-State
Commerce bilL
Mr. Goschex, appointed to succeed l^orci
Randolph Churchill as British Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has been defeated by eleven
votes in an election for Parliament at Liverpool.
An order has been issued forbidding the
exportation of horses across the German
frontier.
The origin of a recent fire aft Yverdon,
Switzerland, has been traced to Anarchists,
who set fire to many buildings with the object
of making work for unemployed per.
sons.
Andrew Craig, a bachelor, aged eightyfive,
and Mrs. Mary Martin, n widow, aged
eighty-three, were married near Deerfield,
Penn., a few nights ago. They are both
rich.
Ali, the longshoremen in New York city
struck on Thursday for the purposo of
forcing the coal companies and Old
rinmininn Ste niispliii) Company to
make a settlement with their striking
employes. About thirty tboiisnud
men, comprising longshoremen, boatmen,
coal bat)(Hers ami kindred workmen, went
out, and many vessels bad great dilliu.ilty in
getting freight and i'oal aboard.
Goverxok McExeky, of Louisiana, lias
just pardoned twelve convicts in one bat .-h.
A heavy flood at Port Deposit. Md., owing
to an ieo gor^c in the Sus ptehanna, ma 1?it
necessary to a.ichor manv of the houses hy
running cabhs to trees on the high laml ad"
jaeent.
The second oflicial reception givon by the
President and Mrs. Cleveland tjok place the
other night. It was in uonor ui
and tho White House was filled with members
and others.
Dr. Rohkutso.v, of Brighton, Kngland, a
new member of tho British Parliament, is
U) i n J
The V'tal output of Lake Superior iron
mines in 18SD was estimated at 3,502,015 tous
of ore, ajrjv-ast 'J,427,837 tons the year preceding.
total product from the opening
of the first mines in 1851 up to tho end of
1SSG was 31,120,70'.! tous.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Debate in the United States Senate
on the Question.
Defeat of the Proposed Constitutional
Amendment.
A hundred or more women from all parts
of the country, leaders in the "Woman's Suffrage
movement, were in the Senate gallery
at Washington on Tuesday when Senator
BJair moved to postpone the pending business
for the purpose of discussing the proposed
constitutional amendment giving the
right of suffrage to women. The following
is the text of the proposed amendment:
' Ihe right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by a State on account '
f of sex. Congress shall have power, by ap- p
I propriate legislation, to enforce the provis- 3
i ions of this article.'1 a
I *\AA41ia cflMofa in nnrvnQu
> IU1 , UX UU U UUU1 C.^OUU UUU OCUMUW iu vp|/vw? -<
tion. It was doubtful, he said, whether the
man or the woman bad now the most influ- 3
ence in government affairs. The intelligent, i
noble, cultivated woman was a power .
behind the throne. She now exercised s
an imperceptible influence in public af- *
fairs, much greater than she could if 1
( female suffrage were enacted. It might be 1
' a gratification to a small minority of women, 1
but it would be cruelty to the large majori- >
ty of them. The most ignorant and less refined
portions of the female population (to 1
say nothing of the baser classes) would flock '
to the polls; while refined, intelligent and 1
virtuous women would stay at home 1
Mr. Dolph said he had been for many 1
years convinced that the demand made by i
women for the right of suffrage was just,
and that of all the distinctions in the regu
lation of suffrage the distinction of sex was 1
the least defensible. The stage of ridicule of <
the movement was past. The time was not 1
far distant when in every State and Terrl- 1
tory womeu would be admitted to an equal 1
voice in the Government. '
Mr. Eustis inquired of Mr. Dolph whether
he did not think that if woman had the right t
of suffrage, she ought also to be required to I
erve on juries. I
Mr. Dolph said that there was no conn?c- s
Unn hotwnon ilirv cnrviV>A nnfl the riehfc of I
suffrage. But in Washington Territory, c
where women had the right of suffrage, Ihey j
also served on juries?aud to the great satis- f
faction of judges aud lawyers. s
Mr. Vest s;)oke in opposition to the resolu- 1
tion. If this Government, he said (the f
dream of philanthropists and patriots), were *
ever destroyed, it would be through inju- t
dicious, immature, or corrupt suffrage. It s
was not on the sparsely settled prairies t
of the West that an ultimate test of the t
merit of female suffrage could be I
had. Suffrage there remained pure 8
when it was corrupted everywhere else. Tue f
danger from suffrage was in the cities. Did I
the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr.
Blair), who last session shocked the Senate
with his statement as to illiteracy in the
South, propose to give suffrage to J
the colored women of .the South* The ~
great danger to-day was in emotional suf? jj
frage, in excitable suffrage. Women were J?
essentially emotioual in their nature. He ?
gent to the Secretary's de-k and had read a ?
printed petition remonstrating against the
extension of suffrage to women, also a letter y
from Mrs. Clara T. Leonard, of Springfield, * '
Mass., presenting arguments against female ?
suffrage. ?
Mr. Hnnr remarked that Mrs. Leonard
herself was the strongest refutation of her 1
argument She had been herself exercising ?
for years the most important public functions
in the Commonwealth ot Massachu- n
setts, as a member of the Board of Lunacy n
and Charity. ?
Mr. Blair made an argument in favor of 1
the resolution. The real question for the
Senate, ho said, was not whether it favored P
female suffrage, but whether it would con- r
sent to submit the question to the Legisla- ?
tures of the several States. He presented ,
the petition of the Woman's Christian Tem- 1
perance Union. !'
The vote was taken on the resolution and
it was rejected by a vote of lb yeas to 34 ?
nays as follows: ?
Yeas?Blair, Bowen. Cheney, Conger, Cullom,
Dolph, Farwe!), Hoar, Manderson, 0
Mitchell (Ore.), Mit-hell (Perm.), Palmer,
Piatt, Sherman, Teller and Wilson (Iowa) a
?Hi. *
Nays?Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Erown, ?
Call, Cockrell, Coke. Colquitt, Eustis, Evarts,
George, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Haw- J
ley, lugails, Jones (Nev.), McMillan. McPhersou,
Mahone, Morgan, Morrill, Paine, j
Pugh, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Sewell, Hpooner, ^
Vanoe, Vest, Walthall, Witthorue, Williams "
and Wilson (Md.)?34. ?
THE SENATE PUGNACIOUS. I
t
Warlike Talk Over the Canadian i
Fisheries Dispute. *
The passage in the Uuited States Senate,
with only one day's debate and by the prac- c
tically unanimous vote of 40 to 1 (the one j
being Senator Riddelberger), of the bill 1
authorizing tbo President by proclama- J
tion to close our ports to Canadiau l
vessels and goods, shows just where r
one branch of Congress stands as to <j
the fisheries dispute. \
Senator Edmunds, who had charge of the \
bill, usod all his influence to hurry up the
vote,and defeated two attempts at postpone- t
ment. Senators differed somewhat in the g
reasons assigned for supporting the bill, but t
all agreed substantially thatit was a measure t
of retaliation, intended to force the Domin- c
iou of Canada to accept our interpretation e
of the fishery c lauses of the treaty of 181S. q
It was declared by Messrs. Frye, Ingalis, c
Hoar and Hale that the Canadian construc- tl
tion was eutirely wrong,and the only remedy r
for this country was retaliation. Senator In- _
galls said t e proposed legislation was notice y
to Great Britain that tliere would be war
if the policy of the Dominion authorities ]
adopted this year was adhered to next year, j
and that it proceeded on the theory of an ,
eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth, a fish for j
fish, a wrong for a wrong and an insult for ]
an insult. ,
Messrs. Hale and Frye spoke, the former ,
saying that persistence by the Dominion au- ]
thorities was death to negotiation, and that
we had reached the end of negotiation. Mr.
Frye said that we had been overreached in j
our reciprocity treaty, and wanted no more '
of them. Senatois lidmunds. Morgan and 1
Evarts insisted that while the legislation was (
retaliatory, or "responsive," as Evarts called J
it, Great Britain could not object, since there
was no commercial treaty between us and (
Great Britain relating to Dominion trade,
and that we could legislate as we pleased, or
" use our sweet will," as Morgan put it.
While every Senator who took the floor
spoke of the possibility of war, all seamed to f
bo confident that by shutting our ports *
against Canada, as proposed by the bill, that
country will soon bo glad to accept our construction
of tho treaty of 1.S1JS. Senator
Frye expressed tho general opinion when he
said tho moment Cauadian fish are kept out
of our markets the outrages will cease.
It is upon this theory that tho bill passed
with such unanimity. The debate was generally
confined to a review of the outrages
on American fishermen anil the eflicaey of
the proposed remedy.
1 resident Cleveland, realizing the dangers
and possibilities attending a settlement of
the controversy, called to Irs counsel the
Democratic members of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, with whom he discussed at
considerable length the situation. The sen- :
timeuto: the sjiee -hes by Senators was very
generally concurred in by the members of
'he Committ e.
GIANT POWDER'S WORK.
One Man Kf Mod and Fifteen Cars
Wrecked by an Explosion.
About hi cases of giant powder expioaea j
while in transit over the Missouri Pacific ,
Railroad a half mile west of Fort Scott, ,
Kan., at 1 o'clock the other morning. The
train consisted of twenty-three freight cars, <
nud fifteen of them were completely do- 1
molishcd, and the magazine car was blown to
atoms. Scott Hooker, a brakemau, was instantly
killed. I
A great hole was blown in the roadbed and j
the rails and ties ground to powder for several
rods distant. The shock from ttie ex- ,
plosion was simply territio Ten thousand ,
dollars' worth of fine plate glass and win- :
dow glass was broken in the bulldiDgs
throughout the central and western part of
Fort Scott. Many thought it an earthquake !
I and left their beds and ran from their houses 1
I panic stricken. The explosion was felt '
j tvreuty-tive mil?s away.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.
26th Day.?Mr. Spooner was appointed on
he Committee on Privileges and Elections,
o fill the vacancy caused by the death of
General Logan.... Mr. Colquitt presented a
jetition from the Women's Christian Temicrance
Union of the District of Columbia
t charges the Commissioners of the Dis;rict
of Columbia with disregarding the
)urity, saiety, aua raorai interests ana ngats i
if the people. Referred.
2?th Day.?On motion of Mr. Edmunds
he Senate took up the bill retorted
from the Judiciary Commitee
authorizing the President to
wotect and defend the rights of American
ishing vessels, American fishermen, American
trading and other vessels, in certain
ases. After a long debate the bill was
)assed with only one dissenting vote?that
if Senator Riddelberger.
28th Day.?Mr. Farwdll. successor to the
ate General Logan, took the oath as Senator
rom Illinois The Conference report on
he Army Appropriation bill was agreed to.
'he bill appropriates $215,724,718.... A proosed
woman suffraee amendment to the
onstitution was debated and defeated by 34
ay-5 to 1(J yeas..)..The conference report
n the Indian Saveralty bill was agreed to.
23th Day.?Mr. Miller reported the
Elouse bill to create an executive department
to be known as the Department of
Agriculture and Labor. It contains
several amendments put on by the i
Senate Committee. One of them pro- |
rides for the transfer of the Bureau of Labor
:o the proposed new department. It also conains
an additional section transferring the
Signal Service Bureau to the new department
Mr. Mitchell (Oregon) introduced a bill
providing that settlers who paid $2.50 an
iu:re for public lands because they ad joined
ands granted railroad companies shall be entitled
to reimbursement at the rate of $1.25
per acre whenever the grant to the railroad
is forfeited A resolution was adopted I
by 31 yeas to 2(5 nays instructing the
Committee on Privileges and Elections to in- |
restigate the allegations made by three resi- i
lents of Washington county. Texas, as to |
;heir be:ng driven from their homes, com- '
pelled to abandon their property, and deprived
of the right of suffrage in that county....
Secret session.
50th Day.?Mr. Cullom offered a resoluion,
which was adopted, directing the
finance Committee to examine into and re>ort
whether additional legislation is require
to make the fractional silver coin now
leld in the Treasury a part of the available
ash balance, and also whether it will be
udicious to provide for having such
ractional silver coin recoined into standard
ilver dollars.... A resolution offered by Mr.
r J?1 5 ? ? Canute hfiS
loar, ueCJttnu^ luavairai - - used
its advice and consent to the appointaent
of any person to office it is conrary
to the spirit and intent of the Contitution
to designate th9 same person to
he same office immediately thereafter, was
eferred to the Committee on Privileges and
elections The Dependent Relatives Penion
bill was passed The bill providing
or Agricultural Experiment Stations was
lassed.
Honsc Sessions.
31st Day.?The conference report on the
nter-State Commerce bill was agreed to?
19 to 41, The bill next went to the Presient....The
following resolution proposed
y Mr. Belmont (N. Y.) was referred to the
tommitteon Foreign Affairs: That the Presient
be re luested to transmit to the House copas
of such correspondence up to the present
ay between this Government and the British
rovernment as he may decide can now proprly
be mode public in regard to the deprivaion
inflicted in Canadian portson American
ishing vessels having the ris?ht to touch and
rade, of the liberty heretofore enjoyed by
ueh vessels to enter Canadian ports open to
oreign vessels and buy and sell, and to translit
merchandise therein, and which is perlitted
in such ports to American trading
essels and to vessels of all other nationalises.
33d Day.?The District of Columbia Apropriation
bill, the third of the six bills
rom the Appropriation Committee, was reorted?A
oill to open land commuoicaion
with Alaska was adversely reported and
lid on the table... The resolution of Mr. Walice.
whether the action of the Senate exsnding
the Hawaiian treaty was valid withut
legislative concurrence, was referred to
he Judiciary Committee....The River and
farbor bill was taksn up and general debate
n it closed.
Day.?Mr. Lawler. (111.) introduced
. resolution directing the Committee on Naal
Affairs to inquire into the expediency
f immediately appropriating $50,000,00,
to be expended under the direcion
of the Socretary of the Navy,
or the construction, equipment ana armaaeat
of such new vescels of war a<? may bo
ieemed necessary.... Mr. Thomas (111.) introuced
a bill authorizing the construction
f two steel cruisers, at a cost, excluive
of armament, of not more
han $1,300,000 each; five steel gunboats
it a cost, exclusive of armament, of not
aore than $520,000 each, and six steel
orpedo boatsfto cost, exclusive of armanent,
$10U,000 ^each. An appropriation of
.5,800,000 is made by the bill....
L bill was passed abrogating the power of
xecutive officers in allowing indemnity loations
or scrip for confirmed or unsatisfied
irivafce land claims, and vesting tbat power
n the United States courts....Mr. Belnont's
motion, requesting the President to
urnish the House with the correspondence
etween the United States and Great Btitain
egarding the deprivations inflicted in Canalian
ports upon American fishiug vessels,
vas passed The River and Harbor bill
vas further considered.
34th Day.?The enrolled copy of the Iner-State
Commerce Bill was signed by the
Ipeaker, and after it had be?n signed by
he presiding officer of the Senate was sent
o the President Mr. Turner, of Georgia,
ailed up the Rhode Island contested
lection case of Paee vs. Pirce.
'he majority resolution declares the seat vaant,
while the minority resolution confirms
lie right of Pirce to the seat. The minority
esolution was rejected?yeas 108, nays 130
-and the ma iority resolution agreed to?
eas 180. nays 33.
35th Day.?The Senate Fisheries bill was
aid before the House, and on motion of Mr.
Rfllmnnfc (V V * it: was rfifnrrpd to the Com
nittee on Foreign Affairs, and that c^mmit;ee
received leave to report at auy time ...
Sir. Bragg (Wis.) submitted the conference
report upon the Army Appropriation bill,
ind it was agreed to The River and Harbor
bill was discussed further.
SGth Day.?The River and Harbor Apiropriation
Bill was pa-^seJ by 154 yeas to
(4 nays Mr. Hammond (Ga.) reported adrersedly
a joint resolution providing for the
ilection of United States Senators by the
leople of the States. At the request of Mr.
Weaver, of Iowa, the resolution was placed
m the calendar.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A thirteen-ybar-old boy of Benton,
?al., weighs 250 pounds.
It is figured that strikes and lock-outs cost
he land $25,000,000 in 18itt.
Immigrants arrived in the United States
ast year at the rate of 1,000 a day.
The Queen of Greece takes her airings in a
:arriage for which she has paid $5,000.
The debt of the Union and Central Pacific
lailroad companies amounts to $157,332,015.
Iff some gardens in San Leandro, Caliornia,
raspberries and strawberries are
ipening.
It is said that the area of winter wheat is
lecrea^ing and area of spring wheat inTeasing.
An Albany (N. Y.) toboggan chute sends
;he passengers down at the rate of ninetytbrec
miles a:i hour.
A Washington lady has presented Mrs.
Cleveland a little marmoset, a small spe ies
)f monkey, eight inches long.
Japanese orange trees are being introluced
iuto California. They will give a new
ind excellent variety of fruit.
The total shipments of anthracite coal for
I8<ti are given at about ft3,42lS,0(K) tons,
igainst about 31,SitiJ,000 tons in 1S-S5.
Ti an Goxiez. a Portuguese, has lived oyer
fifty years among the 10,000' islands off tho
joast of Florida. He is lol years old.
It is estimated that it will cost about $4,)0'J,000
to establish the boundary line be*
;ween Alaska and British North America.
Tre increase in the value of property in
Alabama in the la?t four years amounts to
!he respectable sum of $:r>,oi;0,000. Much of
it is due to the iron industry.
A lajigi? manufacture of paper bottles is
to be entered into, patents having been
secured in all probable fields of competition.
It is an American invention.
l.\ the lower Brule agency in Dakota the
Indians have a church and four chapels.
One hundred of their number are members
of the church, in which they take great
pride.
J
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
. v.vs
Some Matters of Public Interest '?
From Washington.
Department of Agriculture and
Transfer of Signal Service.
r
A House bill reported by benator Miller
to enlarge the powers of the Department of
Agriculture and to create an executive department
to be known as tba Department
of Agriculture and Labor, contains several
amendments, put on by the Senate com*
miLtee. uue ot mem pro vjuea iui mo wcumfer
of the Bureau of Labor to the proposed
new department, and fixes the salary of the
Commissioner of Labor fit $4,500. The bill
also contains the following as an additional '
section * ?
"Section 7.?That the United States Signal
Service Bureau is hereby transferred to
the Department of Agriculture and Labor,
aud shall consist of one chief and such subordinate
officers and employes as may be necessary
to efficiently manage said bureau. Until
otherwise provided by law the present orfanization
of the subordinate force of said
ureau shall continue as at present The
chief of said bureau shall receive an annual m>
compensation of $1,000 and be appointed
by the President by and with the advice
and consent ot' the Senate; and the moneys
appropriated for said service and hereafter
appropriated shall be disbursed under the
direction of the Secretary of the Department
of Agriculture and Labor." ?
Mexican ^Pensions.
Estimates for the payment of pensions
under the Mexic an Pension bill have been
transmitted to the House by the Secretary
of the Treasury. In a letter from
the Commissioner of Pensions
accompanying the Secretary's
communication the officer say s that the probable
number of surviving enlisted men of the
classes described in the bill is :J4,748, and the
probable number of widows 13,$3U. The.
amount which will be required for making
the first annual payment is $4,063,104.
which the Commissioner requests be
made immediately available. He also says
that to disiwse of the work created by the
bill before June 30 next will reqmire an
additional clerical force of one Assistant
Chief of Division at $1,800, fifteen Section
Chiefs at $1,400 each. l.r>0 clerks of class one at
11,200 each, fifteen record clerks at *1,000
each, thirty-five clerks at *1,01)0 each, and
five messengers, making an aggregate in- y
crease in the force of 221 employes and an
addition to the pay roll of $257,0J0.
/
Postal Telegraphs.
The Senate Committee on Postoffices and
Postroads has authorized Senator "Wilson, of <
Iowa, to report an original postal telegraph,
bill as a substitute for that introduced
by Senator Edmunds. The new bill
is made up of the first eleven sections of that ' ,
framed by the same < ommittoe in the last
Congress and reported by Senator Hill,
of Colorado. These sectious provide for
the establishment by the Postmaster-General
of a po3tal telegraph system. by con- ^
trading for the performance of the service
with existing telegraph companies. The
government is required to furnish the offices
and make provision for selling stamps to
cover the charges.
Mr. Matthews Rejected. i
In the secret session of the SenateWednes- day
the nomination of J.C. Matthews,of Albany,
N. Y., the colored Recorder of Deeds
of the District of Columbia, was
reached an 1 discussed for an hour,
a majority of the Senators . present
giving their reasons for the vote they were
about to cast The nomination was rejected.
The vote is understood to have been 17 to
31. This is the second time that Mr. Matthaws
has been nominated for this office bj
the President and rejected by the Senate.
An Ingenious Claimant.
The Pension Office receives queer applications
for pensions sometimes. A letter
has been received from a woman in Little
Kock. Ark., asking a pension on the.ground of
nervous debility.. She says during tlie war a
wounded Federal soldier was carried into
her mother's house, where his leg was amputated.
The sight tnrew her into convulsions,
from whit h she ha3 never recovered. She
asks the Commissioner to grant her a pension
of $o0 a month as a compensation.
FODE BOELEES EXPLODE
Large Iron Mills Wrecked and Two
Men Killed.
A battery of four steel boilers in Spang,
Chalfant & Co.'s steel and iron works at
Etnaborough, Penn., exploded with terrific
force at five o'clock Monday morning,
completely wrecking the bar mill
department, killing one man instantly, and
seriously injuring a number of others. The *
concussion was so great that it shook the ,
houses for miles around, shattering windows
in the vicinity of the mill, and awakening
the residents of the borough, who rushed in
terror from their houses, scantily clad. It I
was ascertained that four boilers of a battel^of
six had burst, spreading destruction in
their path. George Patterson, firemaD, was
instantly killed, and William Corville, an
employe, was so badlv injured that he died
soon afterward. Twelve more persons were
in-'ured.
The ruin wrought in the mill by the explosion
was complete. The building was laid
low, and the machinery broken and scattered
in all dire.tions. The force of the explosion
must have been terrific, as large t j
pieces of boiler iron were found hundreds
of yards from the scene of disaster. One
piece, weighing at least one thousand pounds,
cut its way throuzh the entire mill, and fell
? nnhii,, rnnH fnllv five hundred yards
UU IUO puw?v - ?
distant. The damage to the mill will exceed
$30,000.
PROMINENT PEOPLE j
President Cleveland is assessed for
17,750 in the District of Columbia.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington philanthropist,
pays takes on $9,100,00u.
Ex-Govkrnor William Smith, of Virginia
(Extra Billy), is ninety years old.
Hon. P. C. Lolnsburv, Governor of Connecticut,
owns aJarge hotel in Macon, Ga.
Mr. Stockbbidoe, the new Senator from
Michigan, is one of the lumber barop-> ?f
chat State.
A fund is being raised in Maine for the
relief of Solon Chase, once a prominent
Greenbacker. , i
The wife of Senator Sabin, of Minnesota,
having no children of her own, has adopted
a family of nine.
James C. Flood, the California million1
l** * .?? nolntinc^ in New
aire, recently uuugui ?.?* r? e
York forVj^OOO.
Jorda^t B. Noble, who was a drummer J
boy at the battle of New Orleans, is still living
in .Philadelphia at the age of eightyreven.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin had a brother
named Julius Cupsar Ciucinnatus, and his
four sisters bore the names of Europe, Asia,
Australia, and America. ,
The Emperor and Empress of Austria
will meet the King and Queen of Italy at
Venice in March, on th) occasion of the
unveiling of a monument to Victor Emanuel.
Michael D.witt,the Irish Home-Rule agitator,
now iu this country, ha< traveled over
10,000 miles, delivered forty-eight speeches
and been married all in a period of less than
ten weeks.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, of >"ew York,
has a pearl no kla e which consists of 346
Oriental pearls set in a gol ien chain that
once belonged to the Empress Eugenie. It
cost $130,000.
Ex-Goverxor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, ,
recently had a?i operation performed ou his
right eye that had been sightless for more
hon tirontv voars. and his sight has been
completely restored.
Miss Bessie White, who, by the decision
of a Kentucky court, is allowed to dispense
medicine in that Statr, is a sister of ex-Congressman
White, of Kentucky, and is a pro- ' '
found mathematician.
Miss Clara Bartox, President of the
American National Ked Cross Association,
has gone to Texas to investigate the condition
and needs of the sufferers from the 4
drought of last summer and the preceding
year.