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. -a; B2 The most conscientious brass band in 1 the country graces Mobile, Ala. Its members go several miles into the woods to practice, and consequently enjoy the esteem of the entire community. The latest prison reform idea is that of mrollincr of prisoners, or the system of conditional liberation. It was begun in England so long ago as 1853, and is now practiced in Germany, the Netherlands and France. At the school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, called"Ramona," in memory of Helen Hunt Jackson, twenty-five bright Indian girls are gaining a practical education. The Government supplies everything? food, clothing, etc., but the salaries of the teachers are paid by the American Missionary Society. It appears that the value of the tobacco of all kinds consumed in the United States amounted last year to about $235,000,000. The increase in the production of cigars for twenty years is something enormous. In 18CG it was about 350,000,000, and twenty years later the consumption had reachcd nearly 3, GOO, 000,000. The Crcmatorial Association of Philadelphia is preparing to build the largest v and costliest crematory chapel in the world. It will have a front of sixty-six feet and a depth of 105 feet; the distance will be ninety feet to the top of the dome, the material will be granite, pressed red brick and terra cotta, and the cost will be $40,000. Another illustration of the diversification of the productive powers and industrial interests of the South is brought prominently forward by the fact that a Florida company has built a perfume factory at Jacksonville,and will open a flower plantation next spring. The company has already one plantation,and thousands of flowering tube rose bulbs, rose geraniums, roses and other sweet-smelliDg plants. It is expected that the busines * will be very profitable. An old Philadelphia detective is authority for the statement that the world __ is growing better. Most of the expert thieve?, burglars and safe-breakers arc now in jail, he says, and many of them are dying every year in prison, while the old sneak-thieves arc disappearing. There is much less crime than a few years ago. Smart thieves arc not taking the places of big criminals, and rogues generally . have much less chance of escape than formerly. J A St. Louis type founder has discovered a fact which he seems to "view with alarm" to a ccrtain extent. '-Ilerc wc are," he says, "on the eve of 18S8, which creates a triple demand for the figure eight. This triple use of figures in .the annals of time will not occur again until 1911, 1999, 2000, 2022, 2111, 2122, 2202, 2211, 2222, etc." It must be a matter of congratulation to the type founders that the extraordinary demands for special figures, as in the case of 1888, do not come upon them with great and overpowering suddenness. They would seem to have an abundance of time, for instance, to prepare for the unprecedented tax upon their machinery by the time the year 2222 comcs round. On a reccnt morning another camel, the second, was born in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore. It was a male, the first one having been a female. "It is a comical looking arrangement,"says the Baltimore Sun, "and is composed mainly of legs and neck; it is about five feet tall and four feet loDg, and but for the two extra legs and its light brown color would look somewhat like an ostrich. But as it is, one could allow his imagination to stretch a little and say it has the appearance of a dude looking for his collar-button which had rolled under a bureau. The little thing made several attempts to rise, but not having been in this country long enough to know how to manage its long legs, its efforts did not meet with any great success!" Senator-elect Reagan, of Texas, when he speaks is never at case, it is said, unless he has a string in his hand, and lie keeps pulling this through his lingers as he talks. His favorite position, when listening to a discussion in the House, is sitting back in his chair with a piccc of white letter paper in his hands. This lie folds up carefully, and with his jackknife cuts through the folds. The two pieces of paper he then lays togher, folds them, and cuts them in pieces. He reduces these pieces still smaller in the same way, and when he has used up one "piece of paper lie takes another. So he goes on for hours at a time, until his desk is littered with scraps of paper and the floor surrounding it looks like that about the scissors editor of a newspaper. The official report of the recent battle !>etwccn the Italians and the Abyssinians at Saati, in which every Italian officer and soldier in the engagement was killed, is a talc of hardihood and bravery. The Italians were entirely surrounded, but they formed a hollow square* and fough ' to the last man and the last cartridge. The relief party is said to have found the bodies lying in ranks in the ^ position in which the men fought. It is a significant fact that wherever an advanced civilization has invaded a le*.s civilized or a barbarous country, the invaders have taught the others a lesson in courage. A prominent instance is the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava,the bravest and most desperate feat of military daring on record?in which COO men rode to what they knew to bo certaiu death to most of their number, knowing, too, that the order to charge was the result of a blunder?which occurred during the invasion of the Crimea by England and France. L 1 ~ TIE VETO SUSTAINED. " The House Refuses to Pass the Dependent Pensions Bill. A Vigorous and Acrimonious De~ bate Before tlie Vote. The National House of Representatives ou Thursday refused to pass the Dependent Pensions bill over the Presidents veto by a vote of 173 yeas to 125 nays?not the necessary twothirds in the affirmative. In the prolonged debate which followed the reading of the committee's report, Mr. Bragg (Wis.) said that thus was one of the most scandalous bills that had ever l?ecn sent to a President for his signature, and the people of the country, without regard to party, had every reason to l?o thankful that it had been presented to an Executive who had backbone enough to meet the situation. In a few years the soldiers of the country inot the bummers) would have arrived at an age when they could come to Congress and demand as a right, not ask as a charity, that provision be made for tliein. Let not (,'one-ress bankrupt the treasury before that time arrived by yielding to the demands of deserters, coffee coolers, and bounty jumper. It had been charged that he was not n friend of the soldier. To that, he replied that no mm who had served with his troops in the field for four years, who had followed the flag in fifty or sixty pitched battles, would forget them" It was for that class of soldiers that he stoo I here to-day?to defend them against the imputation cast upon them by the jwssnge of a painter pension hill. The men who advocated this bill were not the friends of the true soldier. Mr. Henderson tlowa)?I pronounce that false. Mr. Bragg went on to analyze the bill an<l point out what he regarded as its vitally e\ il features. It would, he said, grant pensions to the men who had served from December, 1SG4, to June, l!S0->. Who were those men! They were the scum of the earth. They stayed in their homes until they were Ixnight?bought by men who sjteculatcd in blood?paid from $100 to SSOO, with the private assurance that they were physically so defective that all they ha l to do was to go to the hospital and not endanger their precious carcasses.. Gentlemen talked about soldiers being in almshouses. The men who were found there were the men who had come from them and who, when they left the army, had lapsed into their old condition. No true, brave soldier need ever go to the poorhouse. Mr. Warner (Ohio) said that no class of men should Ik? more grateful for the veto than the veteran soldiers who went into the war in 1 SOI and JSO'J, and stayed there until they had achieved success. This bi 11 would not reach a man in a regiment of those who went out in 1*01 and ISO.'. They would not become the beneficiaries of this "act, but the pension roll would be degraded below the level of pauperism. The bill set a premium upon pauperism and improvidence. Mr. Curl in (1'enn.) said that if the construction of the President was correct the bill was not favorable to tlic t ruesuhlier ot ilie countrv. and he would therefore vote to sustain the veto. Mr. McKinlev (Ohio) said that if he believed that the beneficiaries of the bill were scoundrels and vagabonds he would not vote for its passage over the veto of the President, but he did not believe with the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Bragg) that the beneficiaries were either shirks or vagabonds, or good-for-nothing scoundrels. lie believed that there were thousands scattered over the country who fought as bravely as Gen. Bragg, I though they were not here to tell of their deeds of courage ami glory. Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), commented on the fact that every memlwr who had sj>oken in opposition to the bill, savo one, had voted for it originally. A large number of them, like himself, terminated their ollicial lives on the 4th of March, and a large number of them, unlike himself, were now about the White House ''bending the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning.'' Mr. Walford (Ivy.) said that as a Democrat he honored the 1'resident, but that he did not agree with him that the i>oor starving soldier should die without a recognition of his services. Mr. Rockwell (Mass.) would vote against the veto and declared that as a legal and patriotic document the report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions far outstripped the veto. Mr. Matson (Ind.) closed the debate. He said he had been asked whether the President had ever signed a petition asking that a {tension be granted to all soldiers ot' the late war. He held in his hand a petition, drawn up in 18S4, which was too long to rearl now. It was numerously signed, and in sulistaneo asked that a pension of at least a month be granted to all honorably discharged soldiers. It contained this endorsement: UI am sure that the subject of tin's p tition is worthy of the prompt and careful consideration of Congress, and the fullest .justice should be (lone to tne parties 111 whose interests this movement is made. Grovkr Ci.evklaxd." The question was then put: "Will the House uiK>n reconsideration pass the biii, the President's objections to the contrary notwithstanding?" and it was decided in the negative?yeas 175. nays 125?not the constitutional two-thirds in the affirmative. The vote for the hill consisted of 187 Republicans and o-S Democrats, including; the. Greenback Democrat, "Weaver of Iowa. The vote against the bill was cast by Democrats alone. The 3S Democrats who voted with til? Republicans were: Messrs. Bliss By mini J. E. Campbell, Carleton, Eldredge, Ford, Frederick, Geddes, Hale.Holman, Howard, Kleiner, Landes, Lawler, I A} Fevre, Lore, levering, Mahoney. Matson. Maybury, Merriman, Murphy, "Xeece, J. J. O'Xeill,Pindar, Randall, Riggs, Seney, Spriggs, 8\vot)e, Tarsney, Taulbee, Townshend, J. H. Ward. J. B. Weaver, Wilkins, "Wolford. Worthingtou. The Democrats who voted for the hill on its first passage and who changed their votes to the negative in order to sustain the veto of the President were 28 in number out of C>7 in all. as follows: Messrs. J. J. Adams, Bacon, Boyle, Burns, Cobb, Curtin, Dougherty, Eden, Ermentrout, Fisher, Gay, C. H. Gibson, Hall, Hill, Hatch, McAdoo, Morrison, Outhwaite, Scott, Seymour, Shaw, Sowden, Springer, Stahlnecker, W. J. Stone, of Missouri, Viele, T. B. Ward, A. J. Warner. The result of the vote was received w ith applause on the Democratic side of the House, nd with hisses oil the Republican side. DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. A Bridge Blown Down, with IjOS9 of lafe?Trains Overturned. A high wind from the south swept down the Gonesee River channel at Rochester on Friday. It caught two large poles which carry elegraph wires across the Court street bridge, and when they fell they carrier! two spans of the bridge down with them. Persons in au oltice oil the bank of the river saw Annie Graham go down with the wreck into tho flood. The river was high, and the torrent carried her rapidly away. The last they saw of her she was passing beneath the canal aqueduct. Other porsous saw a man carried away with the bridge. He was seen going down the river, making frantic but unsuccessful efforts to catch a plank floating near him. Three other employes of W. S. Kimball <fc (Jo. were missing, aud there were fears that they too were swept down the river. In Denver, Col., on the same da}', the wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and many buildings were unroofed, smokestacks, chimneys, and telograph and telephone poles leveled with the ground, ami plato-glass windows broken. On the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, four miles north of Colorado Springs, tho north bound ir'alt Lake express, consisting of two sleepiug cars, two passenger coaches, anu a uaggage aim man car, was mown irom the track at three o'clock a. m., and the mail car and its contents were destroyed by lire. Had the accident happened while the train was on a high embankment a short distance further on, the loss of life would havo been , great. Fortunately no one was iujired A freight train of tweuty cars on a side track waiting for the express to pass was also derailed by the wind, and the cars were ba lly damaged. The pa-senger train of three coaches which left Denver on the Denver and South l'ark lioad for Morrison, at eight o'clock, was lilted from the track by a terrific blast and hurled down an embankment twelve miles from the city. One passenger had bis lfg broken, and others were bruised. Near Comn, on the same road, the l.eadville express was blown over a bridge and nearly all of the passengers and train men were severely injured and the coaches badly wrecked. All incoming trains on th>? various roads were from Gve to ten ! hours late on account of the storm. t NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The Inter-State Commerce law was discussed in New York at a conference of practical railroad men from all parts of the coantrv. The first steps were taken toward formulating general freight and passenger tariff schedules not in violation of law. Sheriff Rowen, of Philadelphia, has been removed from office on the ground 01 insanity. Six policemen were injured and nine men arrested in a collision between officers and striking horse-car employes at Cambridge, Mass. Much talk has been created in New York by the announcement of a contest of the will of the late Mrs. A. T. Stewart, widow of the merchant prince. Charges of fraud are made against Judge Hilton, one of the chief beneficiaries of the will. Rev. Charles "W. "Ward, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Englewood, N. J., while suffering from insomnia quarreled with his wife, and because she refused to speak to him he fired at her, inflicting a dangerous pistol wound. Then he fired twice at his little daughter, missing both times, and wound up the tragic episode by putting a bullet into his own head. The round of political campaigns has begun again with the nomination of a State ticket by the Prohibitionists of Rhode Island. South and West. The father and mother of State Representative Baugh, of Ohio, were burned to death in their house at Dalton. "Jack"' Howard, warden of the Southern Indiana Penitentiary at Indianapolis, is short in his accounts $00,000. The wheat crop of South Australia shows a surplus of 175,000. Twenty-five more Mormon elders arc in the South engaged in making converts. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has been severely censured in the verdict of the Coroner's jury for the loss of life by the collision at Republic, Ohio, on January 4th last. Edwin* Jovrdax, a drunken desperado, after throwing two children who were in his way on a Cincinnati sidewalk, shot and fatally wounded their mother, who had come to their defence. The Merchant's National bank, of Deadwood, Dakota, has suspended. "Washington. Admiral Porter says this country nced3 more floating defenses, and ho advocates a fleet of heavily armorea iron-clads. The President sent two messages to the Senate on Saturday vetoing an act granting a pension to Charlotte O'Neal, widow of an Indiana Colonel, and an act granting a pension to John Reed, Sr. A C'hicagoan* says he swallowed a f 1;000 United States bond, to prevent its falling into the limuls of burglars, and wants the Govern nient to make good his loss.. The Treasury Department has the claim under consideration. Confirmations by the Senate: Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, Minister to Mexico; T. B. Connery, of New York, Secretary ol' Legation, Mexico; Fred Ellison, of Indiana, Consul at St. Helena; E. W. Mealey, of Maryland, Consul at Munich; E. C. More, ol Missouri, Consul-General at Mexico, and E A. Man, of Florida, Consul at Gothenberg. Foreign. England wants a joint commission on the Canadian fisheries dispute. LATER NEWS. A Presbyterian preacher in Pittsburg, Peiui., has begun to illustrate his sermons with largo oil jwiintiiigs. The first tornado ever reported wast of the Rocky Mountains occurred the other day near Oroville, Cal., destroying cabins and fences. There has been a big drop in the Chicago wheat market. The German Government has a majority of about forty-five members in the new Reichstag. French and German Government agent* are visiting all tlio fail's in the north of Knggland, and making largo purchases of horses suitable for military purposes. Two immense fly wheels in tho Brison roll" Ing mills at Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium, flow into fragmeuts, totally wrecking tho Works. Throe workmen were killed and thirty-two injured. At an Inter-Stnte Agricultural Convention in Lake Charles, La., seventy-five delegates, representing "Western and Southern States, were present. Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, made an address, and papers were read on matters pertaining to emigration and agriculture. Tiik Indiana Supreme Court has decided that the eontcst between the two parties for the Lieutenant-Governorship should bo left to the Legislature. "When the decision was made known Wednesday, Green Smith (Dcm.), who liad been presiding over the Senate, told the doorkeepers to admit no one to the Senate Chamber without his permission. Colonel Robertson (llep.) on Thursday entered the Senate and stated ho had been elected Lieutenant-Governor, and demanded his scat as presiding officer. Smith ordered Robertson's removal, and ho was ejected by doorkeepers amid great cxcitemeut. Just previous to this S'ene inside the Senate Chamber there had been a terrific nieleo outside between the doorkeepers and somo of the Senators. One Senator struck another, a fierce struggle between the contending factions followed, and for a time there was great danger of bloodshed. Smith continued to preside over the Senate, and all the Republican Senators followed Robertson. A National Industrial Labor Conference, navmg iur its ouject uie loriuuuuii ui a new p.irty, has been in session at Cincinnati. The delegatus represented the Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, Woman Suffragists, and Workingmen; and these various elements were merged into an organization to be called the United Labor Party. Senator In'Galls was chosen on Friday to preside over future deliberations of (he Senate, Mr. Sherman having resigned his position as presiding officer. The striking miners of Lancashire, England, have submitted to their employers' terms. Three Russian officers implicated ii: a recently discovered militai'y plot have been hanged at St. Petersburg. VERY OLD PEOPLE. In* Galveston, Antoine Irvine died recently, aged UK). Hron McCast.ix. of Donnellson, 111., is whooping with the whooping cough as he did lust ninety-one yeais ago. A Major-General of the old Maine militia still lives in Windsor, N. S., in the j>erson of Hendel Whidden, aged ninety-six. Ho is a pensioner of 1812. "When* John C'roestnan died at China. Me., recently, at the age of ninety-six, ho left six Kims mid oiip trrni ?1 < 1 n 11 chh>r f.hirtV-tWO <rrail(l children awl "forty grcat-grandchildren" At a recent Baptist Church festival in Now Haven Mrs. Naucy Gorman, who is ninetyone years of age, sung a song of her childhood, and received an overwhelming ovation. Christina Osmokx. of "West Point Pleasant, Va., was suppiwea to have died a pauper at the age of eighty-six, but in a drawer of her ricketty bureau was found an old apron in which was wrapped $8,000 in gold and silver. Charles Kixo, of Middleton, Mass., was the liveliest piest. at a reception at Danvers recently, although he lias just passed the KMith anniversary of his birth. lie occasionally takes a five-mile walk, and enjoys the best of health. He was born in Ottawa on January 15,1781. One of his brothers lived to lie 107, and another saw his 104th birthday. He is drawing two pensions, one for service I in the British arm}', in 1812. and the other for service in an Indian war. EAMOIMJ! IN DIMPI * Hundreds of People Killed Along the Mediterranean. Famous Watering Places Violently Shaken by Successive Shocks. An earthquake has devastated the whole of that section of Southern Europe known as the Italian Riviera. At Noli, on the Gulf of Genoa, and not far from Savona, several houses fell and fifteen persons were killed. Six persons were killed and thirty were injured at Oneglia, also on the Gulf of Genoa. At Diano-Marino. near Oneglia, scores of people were killed, and himdnxls were injured. Fully one-third of the town was destroyed. Second and severer shocks of earthquake occurred in Genoa, Pavia, Lucca, Cuneo, Albissola, Porto Maurizio, Oneglia and Noli. At Savona eight persons were killed and fifteen others injured. Immense damage was done to property. At CerT. o. near Diano-Marina, ?500 jxrsons were killed by being buried in the ruins of falling buildings. Railway traffic was suspended beyond Savona. The prisoner!! in the Government jail at Finalborgo, alarmed by the earthquake, attempted to escape, but were overcome by the guards. At Genoa the shock was very violent, and the Ducal Palace and man}- houses were seriously damaged. There was an enormous crowd at the Carlo Felice Theatre to witness a gala performance, and the greatest alai m was manifested when the shock came. At Turin the churches suffered severely. In the neighborhood of Dordigera many houses fell, killing the inmates. Two shocks of earthquake were felt at Nice France, the celebrated watering place, a t (5 o'clock in the morning. Houses rocked, walls cracked, and in some cases frail tenements were thrown to the ground. The people rushed from their houses and fell upon their knees in the streets, praying for deliver! ance from sudden death. Visitors to i flin rntv lvipnmo tliArnntrlilv frlrrht kUV WVWMW wvr* ened and left the place. Many persons were injured by falling debris. The Prince of Wales, who had been in Nice a few days previous witnessing the festivities which precede the Lenten season, had taken his departure and was safe at Cannes. Shocks wore also felt at Monte Carlo and Monaco, at which places they were so severe that rocks were detached from the cliffs and precipitated into the sea. The disturbances extended to Genoa. There was also a slight shock at Marseilles, France. The walls or a number of houses in that city were cracked. Shocks were also felt at Leghorn and Milan, and at several places in the province of Genoa. At the time of the earthquakes the Riviera was crowded with English and American tourists, and persons of distinction. When the first shock occurred the streets of Nice were fairly thronged with j>ersons in ballroom costumts, returning to their homes from tho last carnival ball of the winter season. To these tho earthquake came with peculiar terror. The shocks yere felt with great severity The Prince c f Wales being at Cannes, the Queen became exceedingly anxious concerning him when she learned of the earthquakes. Her Majesty at once telegraphed him. The Prince immediately telegraphed a reassuring reply, saying that lie was well and uninjured. The'Britlsh Government, taking into consideration the popular concern about the safety of the Prince, requested him by telegraph to return to England, as soon as he could conveniently, "to allay anxiety." Two Tlicnsand People Killed. A la tar dispatch from Rome, Italy, reports an appalling increase in tho number of earthquake victims. Says the dispatch: Accounts of the earthquake disaster continue to arrive. The total number of deaths reported up t<> the present time is about 2,0J0. Shocks were felt at Parma, Turin and Cosen! za. Uiululal ions of the earth were noticed at Catania, in Sicily, at the foot of Mount Etna. The most startling news comes from Ihe Genoese Riviera. Over 1,500 people were killed i?i that district. At the village of Bajardo, situated at the top of a hill, a number oi uie in ham turns iook reiuge in n i-nunn when tin- si locks were fii"st felt. A subsequent anil greater shock demolished the church and :?<) of the people who were in it were killed. The destruction of property in the regions of Italy visited by the earthquake was immense and widespread. Another shock was felt at Mentono. It was so severe that houses were shaken. No one was injured. Additional details concerning the damage done show that in some cases villages built on the mountain sides were toppled into the valley. Three railway trains have been dispatched with food for the sufferers. Soldiers have also been sent to assist them. Reports show that the disturbances killed two persons and injur.-d ten at Nice; killed four and injured two at Bar; killed two and injured twelve at Bollcue. At the Chateau Xeuf many were injured. At Savonatwo houses fell, killing niue people and injuring fifteen. The whole population of Savona is bivouacked about the town. Sixty houses at Nice are totterirg and ready to fall. Many others are much damaged, and in most residences more or less of the furniture is damaged. Fugitives fled in cfery direction. The people were afraid to re-enter their houses and hotels, anil the heights back of tlio city were covered with refugees. Two thousand English,- American and Russian visitors were cami>eJ out during the night on the elevated ground. Six thousand persons have left the city and started for Paris. The son of Allx?rt N. Hatheway, the American Consul at Nice, was seriously injured. The Prince of "Wales remained at. Cannes. King Charles and Queen Olga of Wurtemburg remained in their villa at Nice. There have l>een 110 further disturbances at Monte Carlo. The place is filled with fivmi ( ''tntipy tin;iraiiin vl iuiijjccn ii?>m , Nice, Mantua and San Rcmo. It was difficult. to find sh"ltor for the number of people, and many of thorn were compelled to camp out. Gaming- was suspended. and a band played on the terrace for the puii*i>ose of restoring confidence to the frightened people. MtJSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Jenny Lind siugs occasionally in church. Edwin Booth has baen playing in New Orleans. Wilson Barrett expects to return to this country in the fall. Thk "Wild West" Ind an and cowboy show will shortly be taken to England foi three years. Manaoer Stanto.v, of the Metropolitar Opera House, New York, says that Wagner'i works draw the largest houses. Anton Seidl, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, has accerted an offer of the position of conductor of the Royal Opera at Berlin. Lestkr Wallace, who has been suffering greatly of late with rheumatism, will soon depart for Florida, where ha hopes the balmy air will aid his recovery. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poet, is ? ? % 1. -..i -? JTb ;a ?umg tu urnucu uuu a uiauiobisu, *.u az said that shy is engaged in preparing the book for a new American opera. The largest theatre in the world is the new opera house in Paris. It covers nearly three acres of ground; its cubic nia-s is 4,000 feet; it cost about 100,00j,0j0 francs Miss ('aiuiie Duke, the daughter of the Confederate General, liasil Duke, is a wonderful player on the violin, and has been entertaining' lier friends at the National Capital. I Citizen's of Monrovia, Cal., who*wished tc hear Patti but could not srnnd tbe live-dollar admission, offered her tho use of a hall free, entertainment at the-hotel free, deeds of two lots aud *10'j cash if sbo would sing there. She refused. At the rocent second performance of Verdi's "Otello," in Milan, the groat composer was called before the curtain twentyeight times, and at the close of the second act was presented with a wreath of solid silver by the l.ttle daughter of Tamaguo, who sang in the title role. Cornetist Lew, who went to Europo with a company of musical artists for the purpose of playiug in tho principal cities, i had. planned to desert the company be; au?o I the newspapers devoted more space to Camilla "(Jrso, one of the number, thau they did to him. By some means tho latter's hustand heard of his intention, found out that it was true and soundly tbrashed the fickle tooter of "he golden voiced cornet. He left after that, and the company is getting along with* , out him. ' "T r~ v - ... -- . r. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Sessions. 40th Day.?The Anti-Poly gamy bill \va* agreed tn as reported by the Conference Com- I mittee, ami went to the President for his approval or rejection. 50th Day.?The River and Harbor bill was iunuer considered. ... i ne araue Dollar Redemption bill was agreed to as reported by the Conference Committee and went to the President for his signature or rejection. oIst Day.?Petitions were presented from a large number of Grand Army Posts of Ohio for the passage of the Dependent Pension Bill over the President's veto. Similar petitions were also presented by several other Senators .... The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments increasing certain items....A bill incorporating the .Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, was passed....Executive session. 53d Day.?Memorials from thirteen Grand Army Posts of Ohio were presented for the passage of the Dependent Pension bill over President's veto, and like memorials were pre seated by several other Senators. . . . Mr. McPherson moved to postpone consideration of the bill creating a Department of Agriculture in favor of a resolution of investigation into the Pacific Railroad affairs. Lost by $3 nays to 23 yeas....A conference was ordered in the House amendments to tho Sunday Civil Appropriation Bill. 53d Day.?The bill to croate tho Department of Agriculture and I -nbor was taken up. Tho several amendments reported by the Senate Committee to the House bill were agreed to down to the one providing for the transfer of the Signal Service Bureau to the Department of Agriculture and Labor. Mr. Morgan (Dein., Ala.) moved to amend by limiting it to "the weather service" of tho Signal Service Bureau. This was agreed to, ami tho section was further amended by including in tho "subordinate forcc" the Second Lieutenants now in the service of tho bureaus. The bill was then passed and a conference was asked Mr. McPherson's motion to postjxmo the Pleuro-Pneunionia bill in favor of tho resolution to investigate tho Pacific railroads was defeated... .A bill allowing arrearages of pension to Thomas S. Hopkins, of .Maine, was, upon motion of Mr. Fryc, passed over the Presidents veto?55 yeas to (j nays. 54tii Day.?The House substitute for the Fishery Retaliation bill was disagreed to. and a conference asked. Messrs. Edmunds, Frye, and Morgan were appointed Senate conferrees. . . . Mr. Van \Vyck offered a resolu-1 - J4- 4.v K-? fViA nf 11UII UCVJiU IJI^ II tW uc tuv juu^ittvMv ? I Senate that a constitutional, amendment should Ihj submitted to the people for the election of Senators directly by the voters... .The Senate considered tho bill to extii*patc contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease. and rinderpest among cattle, and to facilitate the exportation of cuttle aud ths? products of livestock. House Sessions. 5-jtn Day.?A bill appropr'a'ing $4,6:JCJ1W to pay Mexican pensions was reported... .The Sundry Civil bill, as reported by the Conference Committee, was further considered.... The Senate amendments to tho Invalid Pension Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and a conference ordered... .The Hoiise refused to pass the bill granting a pension to Simmons \V. Hart over the veto of the President. Tho vote was: yeas 142, nays 98?not the necessary two-thircs vote. ofiTH Day.?A report was received and read from the Invalid Pensions Committee, unanimously favoring the passage of the Dejiendent Pensions bill over tho President's veto. Further consideration of this matter was postponed to the following Thursday.... Tho Sundry Civil bill conference amendment was further considered. 57th Day.?A report on the contested election case of Kidd against Steele, continuing the right of tho contestant to the seat, was laid over a few days... .A discussion followed on the conference report?a report of disagreement?relative to the bill repealing the Preemption and Timber Culture and Desert Land Laws. Mr. Perkins (Kansas) attacked and Mr. Payson (111.) defended the Land Commissioner. The report of the Conferees was ac cepted?% to ob. Mr. (Jo no (Ind.) then moved tliat the House refuse to recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendments and agree to the request for a further conference. Agreed to, and a further conference was ordered. !i$TH Day.?Mr. Bland (Mo.), as a privileged question, called up the vetoed bdl increasing the pension of John AY. Farris, and asked that the Houso pass the bill over the veto. The Houso refused to pass the bill?yens 132, nays 93, not the constitutional two-thirds vote in the affirmative.... Mr. Bragg, (Wis.) from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the bill wliich is intended as a substitute for the McAdoo bill "to provide for the manufacture of first-class modern guns for the navy and seacoast and other defences." Referred to Committee of the Whole. 5'.hn Day.?Mr. Belmont (N. Y.) reported the House substitute for the Senato Retaliation bill aud, under the sjiecial order, asked for its immediate consideration. Mr. Belmont said the important question was whether the United States was willing to acquiesce in a repeated violation of a treaty. Soon alter the adjournment of Congress the fishing season would begin, and in self-defense the power of defensive retaliation should lie conferred upon the President. There had been 110 quest ion in the Senate as to the advisability of giving this power, but the bill as it came from the Senate was open to certain objections. Mr. Dingley moved vo amend the.substitute by the addition of a section rendering liable to seizure and forfeiture any vessel of foreign nationality found engage 1 in taking lish of any kind within three marine miles of any of the marine coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of the United Stales, or within sea, lake, or river waters of the United States. Agreed to. The substitute was Uieu agreed to?yeas, lob; nays, 123?and the bill, as thus amended, was passed?yeas, 252; nays, 1 (Mr. Dougherty of Florida)....Mr. Brccfcenridge (Ark.) submitted tlio conference report on the bill making a close season for mackerel, and it was agreed to.... Messages were received from the President vetoing four more pension bills. tvjtii Day.?a motion to pass the Department I'-M-si, in bill over the President's veto was defeated alter a spirited debate by 17.1 veas to 12") nays?not the necessary two-tlnrds in ( the majority... .The House, by a vote of I AO to 157,refused to concur in the Senate amend- j ment to the Postoffiee Appropriation bill promising a subsidy of $500,000 to American vessels carrying; mails to Central and .South America. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Ttie Iudiaus still bold 131,000,000 acres in the United States. A biu, to give convicts a college education is before the Wisconsin Legislature. There are 10S members of Congress, but only 2S;> are connected with churches. A tixy boat with two-inea in it is making tho voyage from tne Cape of Good Hope to London. TtiE wheat crop of Washington Territory for 1SS6 is placed at 5,SU0,0UJ bushels, from an acreage of 445,00J. Indian* corn israissiin somepartsof Ger many, but the farmers make no otner use 01 it than to fe?d it to their geese. The dome of tlie United States Capitol i? feet hitjh. The freight of the iroc alone in tho dome is pounds. A w'oxdkrhut. gold mine has been discovered in Sonora, Mexico. The minors get pure metal by breaking the quartz with hammors. T. S. B.vr.mvt.\*,a San Francisco aeronaut, rc.'cutly made a successful descent from a halluon in 'hat city by means of a parachute j from a h -ightof 1,000 feet Tiik busin ss of exuorting apples i? iucreas j ins;. Txvo vcars ?-o '^JU.OOO barrels wen sliippel from the port of New York: it :;0?,000 barrels, an 1 last year j barri'K Tiik::k are in Switzerland 1,000 hotels con I taining jiptjs and employing 10,000 servants. Tho uross incomo from these hoteb I is considerably more than the annual budge' ] of tho C onfeileratiou. There are about lOlgypsy families cpiar(ore 1 at Butlulo, and about ever}' tribe in th< United State; is represented One trilx largely represented at Iiiill'alo is ruled by the oiliest gypsy Queen in tiia world. Oxk of the most expensive works architects have now in hand is the new Congress Ha.'l for Buenos Ayres. This is to cosr sH>,0:M,( 00, and to bo built in four years. Its dimensions will bo 1,300 l'ejt by '.iOOieet The site co\ ers twenty acres. There are 1-r>0 rooms in the new State Department at Washington, and 173 rooms in tbo new War Department. Tho former building cost $i>,100,000, the latter f'2,500,003. BISMARCK VINS. The German Government Successful in the Elections.A Majority Secured For the Seven Years' War Measure. The elections to the new German Reich, stag were regarded with extraordinary interest throughout the civilized world, because it was believed a Government defeat would hasten a European war. The result has been a positive victory for Prince Bismarck, so far as the passing of the Septennate bill is concerned. The greatest gains have been made by the National Liberals (Government supporters), who will have 90 seats, as against 49 in the old Reichstag. They are reported to have been successful all through Germany. The new German Liberals, who opposed the Septennate or seven years' war measure.have suffered disastrous defeat everywhere. Eugene Richter, their leader, is reported as admitting that the prospects of his party are very gloomy. The Socialists, though casting an immense vote, lose a few seats. The Centrists (Clerical party] will be returned in their old strength, but, on account of the abolition of the Falk laws, with decreased vigor in opposing the army bills. The defeat of Herr Liebknecht, the oldest and, with Bebel, the greatest leader of the German Social Democrats, is somewhat of a surprise. As a majority of all the votes is required in the district, many new or secondary elections will bo held. The Socialists, Bebel and Vollmar, have yet to pass through the ordeal of secondary election. Bennigsen, the leader of the National Liberals, has been elected. Herr Meier, National Liberal, President of the North German Lloyd at Bremen, will be pitted on a second ballot against a New German Liberal. Court Chaplain Stoecker has been elected by the aid of the National Liberals, though his party has suffered defeat. Count Moltke has been returned by an immense majority from Meinel. Prince Leopold, Weill an ?<->! lorn wtlACA pftndidfttlirfl was SUD Sjrted by the Kaiser, has been defeated at usseldorf by the Clerical Lucius. The Berlin National Zeitung, commenting upon the election, says: "The results, as far as known, give presage of a brilliant Septennist victory. The results ascertained this afternoon include 26 seats won from the Reichstag majority of January 14, while the National Liberals have wrested from their opponents twenty-three districts, of which twelve were lost by New German Liberals, three by Centrists, five by Socialists and three by Democrats. The New German Liberals have veritably suffered a crushing defeat. ' A WOMAN GUILLOTINED, The First Scene of the Kind in France in Fifteen Years. A woman has hoon guillotined in France, for the first time in fifteen y< ars,says a Paris letter to the New York World. The circumstance! attending the execution were horribly revolting, as were also the circumstances attending the crime. The woman had murdered her old mother, whom she considered a burden on her. She took every precaution to insure the success of the murder. She first saturated the old woman's clothing with oil, then set fire to her, and held her down with a long stick while the decrepit old creature was roasting to death. The old woman cried piteously for mercy, but the heartless daughter held her down till she was burned to a uriap. nuu turn, LV uunu xiiuiuci wiiu blasphemy, she placed a lighted candle before the statue of the Virgin, as an act of thanksgiving, for tho successful issue of the murder of her mother. The inhabitants of the town, Ramortin, in which the crime took place were thrown into a state of unspeakable excitement. The authorities had much difficulty to prevent the people from mobbing the prison and lynching the prisoner. A speedy trial? and trials in France are always speedy?alone satisfied the populace. The woman was promptly condemned to death. Tho French, as is known, are repugnant to the death sentence, and French juries come in for much ridicule, apropos of "extenuating circumstances.But, in this case, the trial was over liefore other trials would have been b2guu. Filial love in France is one of the strongest characteristics of the psasantry,and any one who abuses a parent is relentlessly tabooed from society. In the present instance the repugnance of the people in regard to the execution of a woman was overcome by the atrocity of tho crime, and President Grevy, who is opposed to capital punishment on principle, and who b'JUUS JUiie UUt vl ten ixiui UC1 ci r> iaj ?icn V/aicrdonia instead of to M. Deibler's machine, signed the death warrant without question. When the arrival of M. Deibler became known to the people of the town, the evening before the execution, there was general rejoicing. The people remained up all night to witness th^xeoution in the morning. Most of them were on the ground outside the prison as early as midnight. When, about 5 oclock in the morning, the tumbril or cart appeared bearing the murderess to the place or execution the assembled multitude sent up a joyous, shout. The distance from the jail to tne execution ground was long, but the entire populace of the town followed the death cortege. All along the way the people hooted and jeered, the women especially, and pressed at times so threateningly around the vehicle that the gendarmes had to draw their weapons. On arriving at the fatal spot a dead silence fell on the multitude. The woman was ordered to descend from the vehicle, but she did not respond to the summons. She had fainted. The Officers removed her and earned her to the guillotine, which was grimly standing in the morning light. On her way she recovered her senses and screamed and resisted. She was promptly placed on the fatal instrument, with her head thrust through the bascule. Her screams were drowned by the shouts of tha assembled people. They crushed around the instrument despite the efforts of the gendarmes to keep them back. Mothers held up their babies ana men held up their little boys at arms' length to let them witness the execution of the murderess, that they might remember the lesson for life. M. Deibler, who is a humane man, as far as sneh may bo said of on executioner, did not prolong the scene. He touched the "button" while the culprit was screaming and the assembled people shouting. The head dropped into the basket; the body was thrown, with the dissevered Jiead, into a wagon, and hurried off to the cemet?ry. The attendants of M. Deibler washed the "blood from the flags and machine with their sjwnges, and the immense crowd returned home satisfied that justice had been meted out to the unnatural daughter who' had so cruclly murdered her aged mother. It is seldom "such a ghastly scene is witnessed in Trance. A SHOWER OF MUD, A Phenomenon in a Nebraska City? Raining Dirt. A strange phenomena occurred in the sec- | tion of country surrounding Lincoln, Neb., the other afternoon, the country being treated to a veritable shower of mud. The mud came down in small v-arliclos and gave every tiling I lio appoaran of having been s,.."ashed l.y trains crossing streets. A strong windstorm liar) prevailed 'JO'l miles away and the theory is that I he (Inst raised by th s storm floated over Lincoln ami was finally precipitated by becoming saturate.!. A light shower prevailed at the time. A TERRIBLE FALL. T wt'lve Ilrirk layers Tu inlili* Si fly-live Feel-Five beu<l, Two Dying. A gang of bricklayers, employed by Wintering & Dixon, of Pittsburgh, were engaged Wednesday morning in lining the stacks at Valentine's furnaces, Hellefout. lVnn., when the scaffolding gave way. precipitating twelve men to the bottom of the stack, sixtylive feet. Five men were killed and two others fatally injured. The scaffold had been weighted"down with .S,(KK> brick. All the men killed were single. A rich syndicate has purchased C,000 acres of Pennsylvania coal lands. A remarkable fact about the purchase is that $50 and 160 per acre were given for land right alongside of tracts that sold for $!<K) per acre twenty years aco. * M : l . - y - .v.;. ' " f'': J THE NATIONAL GAME. Baltimore has now nineteen men under contract Salaries of the Colored League will average about $50 a month. '' - j The baseball fever has struck Vermont, and a State League is to be formed. The Boston League Club has purchased Kelly, Chicago's crack catcher, for $10,000. The Baltimore Club has been strengthened v more than any team in t?e American Association. It is said that there are 616 professional players now under engagement throughout the country. At present the Boston Club controls nineteen players, including those on the raerr* list who have not yet signed. The League staff of umpires next season will receive $1,00;) and their traveling expenses. The staff is as follows: Joe Quest. PhiL Powers, Herman Dorscher and John A. v Wilson. Gerhardt, New York's famous second I baseman, says he once played ball for ten dollars a week, aud thought himself a i ich man on pay day. That was some time ago, however. It is astonishiDg how much good baseball talent there h unengaged in the country, and at what a low price it can be secured. Managers of new and uncompleted teams are being overwhelmed with applications from players. The Philadelphias have signed a ne.v catcher?George Staling, of Jacksonville, Fla. Staling is about twenty-one years of age, and is six feet in height aod is a physical beauty. He has won numerous prizes in athletic circles. A prominent Philadelphia base ballist, who denounces the nreaant svstem of bai ter and sale as worse than slavery in its worst form, quotes the price of the leading League players as follows, but doubts if they could " - J be bought even at that: Brouthers (De- - 'j troit), $5,000; Denny (St. Louis), $5,00tt> Dunlap (SC.. Louis), $5,000; John Glaasrock (St Louis), $7,000; H. Hichardson (Detroit), $5,000; Kelly (Chicago), $5,000: McCormiclc ?. (Chicago), $4,000; Ewing (New York), $3,000. . ; :;i Some idea of the magnitude of baseball' can be shown by these figures: There are r twelve Leagues and Associations now unier - T the national agreement They are the National, International, Western, Northwestera, Southern, Eastern, New England, Ohio State, Michigan State and National Colored Leagues, and fie American and Pennsylvania Associations. Nearly 100 clubs are in these League*, and they employ nearly 300 players. As there are several other minor Leagues in elisten: e, who will probably joia in tne national agreement, it is safe to say that there will probably be 150 profesiional clubs in the United States and Canada, employing about 2,000 players, and paying at least $1,50.),000 in salaries. PROMINENT PEOPLE Reagan, of Texas, will be the only fanner lH the next Senate. Ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce,coloredr has turned lecturer. . Susan B. Anthony has just had her sir. ty-seventh birthday. .. Boston Corbett, who shot Booth. th* -J T i. Wblraanu tUBWIg.il Ul JJlUWiU, U fl03i0W?flX WVV-ttwjA.. in the Kansas Legislature. One of the offerings to Queen Victoria on ' ' her jubilee is to be a co.le?tion of fifty tales- <. by th? great English novelists. August Belmont's real name i? Schoenberg. When he came to this country from. 7. Germany he assumed the name he now bears. W. H. Smith, the leader of the House of" Commons, is described as a cold and hard* ^ hearted business man, incapable of moving an audience. The suggestion that Americans rhould erect in Algiers a tablet to the memory oI Commodore De.atur seems to meet with general favor. Lord Cranbrook Is the oldest of the British Cabinet Ministers, at peventy-twoyears, and Mr. A. J. Balfour, at thirty-eight, is the youngest The Indianapolis Xewa reports that th fund to erect a monument to Mr. Hendricks "is slowly climbing its way above its tenth- v. thousand dollars." t.) Whittaker, whose hazing when a colored cadet at West Point became a national t ipic,. is now-the junior member of a leading law firm of Charleston, S. C. "William Savage Burns, of the class of, . ; Yale, '87, has a remarkable memory. He can give the full name and address of th? 1,100 students in tha University. Prince Albert Victor, of Wales, hascompleted his twenty-third year, but is stilJ one of the least-known members of the royal family. He seldom appears in public. General N. P. Banks, who is now ?3venty-one years of age, still holds the office of United States Marshal in Boston, and rans / an experimental farm of sixty acres just outside the city. President Depew, of the New York Central Railroad, has offered a prize of #5,CO) for the best device for heating cars without' , putting fire in them. The offer remains openfor six months. Dr. Thomas A. Emmet, of New York, who owns one of the finest collections of Washington's letters and manuscripts in thecountry, is a grand-nephew of Emmet, tb?famous Irish patriot. John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, grandson of the great nullifier, has tha sec- "x ond largest cotton field in the United States. He was a Captain in the Confederate service at eignteen. ne is now ioriy-ona Ex-Governor Bate, who is to represent Tennessee in the Senate, was at Bull Run. was dangerously wounded at Shilob, had three horses killed under him at Chickamauga. and was again wounded, and is now a poor in sin Twe.vtt-one years ago the steamer Brother Jonathan weut down off the Oregon'coast with $2,00i',000 specie on board. Various unsuccessful attempts have been made to get the money, and now another effort on an elaborate scale is to be made. In Prussia more than one-half of the wealth of the country is owned by people whose yearly income rauges from $225 to $112, and eighty-five per cent of the property is owned bv those wno are comparatively poor. THE MARKETS. new tork. 8 Boef, good to prioio 7 (5$ S Calves, com'u to prime 6 @ 9'rf Sheep .VX Lambs 6 @ Hogs?Live 5X(4> Dressed 7 Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 CO @ 4 00 West, good to choico 3 05 @*5 00 Wheat-No. 2, lied 90'/ Rye?State 53 (g Barley?State (<$ 70 ? rCoru?Ungrad. Mixed 47;/@ 4M Oats? White Stato ? @ 40 Mixed Western 85J?@ 37 1 Hay?Med. to prime 77}$@ S2>j Straw?Na 1, Rye 70 @ 75 Lard?City Steam 7 35 @7 55 Butter?Suite Creamery 27 @ 2$ Dairy I'J @ West. Iin. Creamery 16 @ 20 Factory 12 (55 20 Cheese?State Factory 11 @ 14 Skims 11#@ 12 Western 125?@ 12}^ Eggs?State and Penn l#,!a@ BUFFALO. Sheep? Rood to Choice 4 7? @ 4 00 Lamos?Western 4 75 & 0 25 .steers?Western 4 30 @ 4 70 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 bO @ G 25 Flour 4 75 (& 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 83%@ S!> Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (ft ?> Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? (<t Barley?State. 02 (<j >H BOSTOX. Beef?Hood to choice 7 @ 7 >? IT., ..o r:..,. r.1//:* ?: ""ri' ?v"< v Northern Dressed.... *>%(<? < ? Pork?Ex. Prime.per bbl...12 00 @12 .50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 & 5 50 Corn?High Mixed 51; j'(Sj 52}? Oats?Extra White US @ 41Jf Rye?State GO (# ?>> " WATERTOWX (MASS.) 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