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. THE INCOME TAX BILL ITS PROVISIONS MADE PUBLIC BY THE COMMITTEE. A Tax of Two Per Cent, on Incomc* Ol inuiviuuiti>, vur|juinuuii? aiiu i Civil and Military Oillcials Exceedlng $4000?Tax on Whisky $1 Per Gallon. Tho Internal Rsvenu? bill, including the Income tax. was submitted to tho full Ways and Means Committee and then made public. The title is, "A bill to impose a tax on corporation and individual incomes, to increase the tax on distilled spirits, and for other purpos96." The first section provides That from and after January 1, 1895, there shall be levied, collected and paid annually upon the gains, profits and incomes of every person residing in the United States, or t?ny citizen of the United States residing abroad, derived in each preceding calendar year, whether derived from any kind of property, rents, interests, dividends or salaries, or from any protession. trade, employment or vocation, carried on in the United States or elsewhere, a tax of two per centum on the amount so derived, over and above $4000, and a like tax shall be levied, collected and paid annually upon tne gains, profits and incomes from all property and of every business, trade or profession, carried on in the United States, by persons residing without the United States, and not * ' *? ? A- J it- ~ A -U.1I citizens tnereor. auu iuh ku. aumi uc ?osessed and paid upon the Rains, profits and incomes for the year ending December 31 n?xt preceding the time for levying, collecting'ind paying said tax. The definition of profits is specified very broadly, so to cover all incomes from notes, bonds (other than United States bonds), real estate, sales of live stock, pork, sugar, wool and other productions, ''except that portion of the salary or pay received for services in the civil, military, naval or other service of the United States, including Senators, Representatives and Delegates to Congress, from which the tax has bona deducted; and except that portion of any salary upon which the employer is requ red by law to, and does, withhold the lax. and pays the same to the officer authorised to reoeive it." Provision is also made for deducting losses by fire, shipwreck and by trade depression, from the aggregate of profits. Section 3 makes it the duty of all persons having an income of over 53500 to render a return. All guardians, trustees, etc., must [ make similar returns for their charges. JLQS mum IS lu uo luauu IV/ iud i/gjjuij Collector of Internal Revenue for the District, who i9 specially charged with levying the tax. The return is to be verified by oath or affirmation. The bill farther provides: And in case any person having a taxable income shall neglect or refuse to make and render such list and return, or shall render a false or fraudulent list or return, it shall be the duty of the deputy collector to make such list, according to the best information he cflu obtain, by the examination of such person, or his books or accounts, or any other evidence, and to add fifty per centum as a penalty to the amount of the tax dne on sued list in all cases of willful negleot or refusal to make and render a list or return; and in all cases of a false or fraudulent list or return having been rendered, to add 100 per centum as a penalty to the amount of tax ascertained to be due. Appeal from the decision of the deputy collector is provided. Tha tm-r 4a njvnhlo Julv 1 Anntinllr. and after that tea per cent, is immediately added on sums in arrears over ten days, and also one per cent, per month while the tax remains in arrears. section 5 includes noa-residents owning property in the United States within the law s provisions. Section 6 imposes a uniform tax of two per cent, on dividends of stockholders in insurance oompanies. banks, trust oompanies And other corporations and associations. The bill continues - "And said banks, trust companies, savings institutions and insurance companies and other companies and all other corporations shall pay the said tax, and are hereby authorized and required to deduot and withhold from all payments made on account of Any dividend or sums of money that may be due and payable as aforesaid the said tax of two per cen > turn." The corporation makes the return to the deputy collector, verified by the oath or Affirmation of its officers. A corporation falling to make r9turn is subject to a penalty ol ArifWl KnaMoo *ha innraaaa in ita tarflc Section 8 provides for taxing dividend? from railroad, canal, turnpikes, telephone, telegraph, electric light and gAS companies, water companies and street railway com paniee. Section 9 subjects to a two per cent, tax so much of any salaries, public or private, as exceeds #4000. Government disbursing officers and private paymasters, cashiers or employers are compelled to deduct the tax from salaries and pay it to the internal revenue collector. Stringent provision is made against disclosing to the public any ? i detail of private business or of amount of income. Elaborate provision is made for assessing the tax on those who fail to make returns in special cases. Every corporation is compelled to furnish a list, under oath or affirmation. of information on the following points: First?The gross profits of such corporation from all kinds of business ot every name and nature. Second?The expense of such corporation, exclusive of interest, annuities and dividends. Thtrd?The net profits oi such corporation, Irithout allowing for interast, annuities or < diridends. Fourth?The amount paid on account ol interest, annuities and dividends stated separately. Fifth?The amount paid in salaries ol 94000 or less, to each parson employed. Sixth?The amount paid in salaries o?'mora than #4000. Sections 17 and IS provide t'ae psnalties o! perjury for false returns, etc. The balance of the luternal revenue bill oovers whisky and playing cards, etc. Playing cards are taxed two cents per pack, The tax is payable by the manufacturer by stampa. The tax on distilled spirits is made $1 per gallon after the first day of the second g- calendar month after th-j passage of the bill. ? The bonding period is fixed at sight yea~. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Jules Yebse is sixty-flve years old. GovxBHon Pekxoteb, of Oregon, is a rich man. Louis Kossuth is blind, as the result of Influenza. Reed's piolure ha3 just been hung up in the Speaker's corridor. Da. Hall, the State geologist of New York,Is over eighty years of age. William Pottkb. the retiring United State? N Minister at Rome, has givaa 1000 lire to the poor of that city. The British Royal Astronomical Society hne conferred its gold medal on Professor 8. W. Burnham, an American astronomer. It is said that the Kins of Siam has become so addicted to the use of stimulants that he is practically a mental and physical wreck. The Qu"en has conferred the dignitv of . knighthood uoon William Lann Booker. Oousul-Geusral of Great Britain at New York. M. Casimir-Pebiee, the new President of the Council of Ministers of President Caraof, of France, is the third of his name to All that high place. Chief Justice Wiixku Penw* Ltox, o* the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has retired from the bench after a continuous service of twenty-two years. Samoel Laycock. the Lancashire dialect po?t who die ! recently, learned tho trade o? cotton spinner and got his education by reading after his work. Governor Altgeld. of Illinois, fin lint; that he "could not per/orm j>is social duties while ignorant of the art ol dancing" has learned how to waltz. Senator Ishath G. Harris, of Tennessee, is the only public man in Washinfitfoc now who was there when Galusha A. Grow first went to Congress, in 1851. >' The Commissioner of Patents has adopted a plan of publishing each day a list of the patents which expire on that date; heretofore this important information has neve* been made known to the public. : ^ ' v i | THE FiWS EPITOMIZED. Eastarn and Middle States. .Tohk E. Butleb, a disbarred iawyer, whc was recently found guilty of forcing his mother's mark vo a deed, was sentenced, at Boston. M33** to State's prison for Ave years. Johi: G. JoHi.*Jo>r, at Long Island City. N. Y.. obtained a verdict of $5000 for the death of his son. who was killed in the accident to the returning race train on the Long Island Railroad, at ":he Parkville - tunnel ou June 20 last. t . 4.^j vm? u:n4. X1.1KVAKU UOJtr HOU lain iu IUC juiut ucuaio at Cambridge. Mass. The United States cruiser Montgomery, on hertrialrun in Long Island Soun'J, made nineteen knots an hour, two knots more than her contract required, the builders will get a bonus of $200,000. Superior Court Judoe Chables P. Thompson. of Gloucester, Mass., committed suicide by shooting. Abthur and Flotd Griffin, aged eighteen and sixteen respectively, sons of Burleigh Griffin, and also James, aged sixteen, son of Aaron Fltcher, were drowned in Otsego Luke, N. Y., while skating. Seven children dead with dipbthoria is the misfortune that has befallen the family of Andrew Albert, of Delaware Water Gap, Penn. The last to succumb was George Albert, aged eighteen. One was a young woman of twenty and a bride of two months. Thieves tried to wreck and burn a train and then plunder it on the New Jersey and New York Railroad. The steamer Andes, of the Atlas Lino, was stranded on the New Jersey coast, and will probably be a total loss. South and West. Mrs. Anna Austin has been elected Mayor of Pleasanton, Kan., by a majority of eight in a total vote of 338, of which women cast 123. Mas. Maby De Itoox was tailed by a lowing bed. which collapsed, at San Francisco, Cal. The National Farmers1 Alliance in session at Chicago, 111., has adopted resolutions requesting Secretary of Agriculture Morton to resign because he had denounced their organization. John Habdy was hanged at Welch, W. Ya., for the murder of Thomas Drew. Wilson Howard was hanged at Lebanon, Mo.. for the murder of a deaf mute. Albert F. Bamberger was hanged near Cando, North Dakota. for the murder of six members ot the Kreider family. Ernst Lacore was hanged at Joliet, III., for the murder of Nellie Byron. N. L. Odell, an aeronaut, was killed while making an ascension in Washington, N. C. The balloon burst when it had reached a height of 300 feet. Odell's body was badly mangled. A h0rbica.ne swept over Oak Cliff and South and East Dallas, Texas, destroying property to the extent of $100,000 and killing a boy. Its path was 100 yards wide. Thbee men were killed and eighteen injured in a wreck on the J. E. Potts Lumber Company's tram road, ten miles south of Camden, Ark. The disaster was caused by the giving away ol a trestle. Thomas Benvett, colored and an ex-convict, pleaded guilty in the St. Clair (111.) County Court to the burglary of an office, from which he stole two oigars valued at ten cents. He was sent to the penitentiary for six years. Mas. Louis A. Lancaster met a frightful death by Are at Milwaukee, Wis., in trying to &ave th<j life of her two-year-old child. A memorial window in honor of the naval heroes who died in the Samoan storm ot March, 1889, was unveiled at the Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy. All the banks of Helena, Montana, whioh closed during the financial panic last summer are now open. The First National Bank of Helena during the first day received deposits aggregating $200,000 Washington. The official trial board of the new United * ? * ? ? ? ^ * ? ? ?I? Kn? Dwiles eruLSot auuvuuuou uu oyvcn_* as 21.69 knots, earning a premium of $300,000 for her builders. Offebs made for the new Government bonds led Secretary Carlisle to think subscriptions would reach 200,000.000. and tha price go to 120, thus reducing the interest to 2)4 per cent. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations : William I. Buchanan, of Iowa, to be Envoy Extraordinary ana Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Argentine Republic ; Allen Thomas, of Florida, to be Consul of the United States at Laguayra, Venezuela; Edward W. S. Tingle, of Montana, to be Consul of the United Stated at Brunswick. Germany. St. Gauden's World's Fair medal has been rejected by Secretary Carlisle because of the nudity of the male figure in relief which u represented on it. Bids for the new bonds were received by i the Treasury Department in remarkably large numbers. The Hon. LorinE. Thurston, the Hawaiian Minister, reached Washington after his long trip across the continent, and at once went to the legation. The hard times have st.-uok Washington sooiety pretty hard, and the gayeties of the winter are on a much more moderate scale and much less numerous than they were last season. Some of the biggest houses ar? closed. Mas. Cleveland *jid her first public re? ception. There were no cards required, and the attendance was, of course, something enormous. The reception began at 3.30, and lasted two hours. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, will act as counsel for the Knights of Labor in the effort to enjoin the issue of bonds. He will :k?. t.. J? ~? ta.. *33131 O UUge VsUAO, Ul IVWtt, Hawatian Royalists sent a tfwaorial to ths President, who transmitted it \o Congress with other Hawaiian correspondence. Foreign. Firrt man of the Nictheroy garrison wer* killed in the bombardment of that place by the Brazilian insurgents. Over 100 native nomads, with their flocks, were killed by earthquakes in Urga, Mongolia. There was rioting by Anarchists in Berlin , the police charged the mob; many parsons were hurt and a large numbe* ot arrests were made. The Provisional leaders have made all preparation for declaring a Republic in Hawuii; a constitution has been drafted and a flag chosen : a royalist lobby has been sent to Washington. The Government troops were repelled by the Brazilian insurgents on Conollcao Isl-J and, in Rio Harbor, with a I033 of 120 killed. After four days of continuous fighting the army of President Yasquez, ot Honduras, has been completely routed by the revolutionists and their Nlcaraguan allies. Admiral de Mello has been deposed from his position of leader of the forces operating against the Brazilian Government. because he failed to bring troops from ttie South to aid the insurgents in the l.ay in making their proposed land movements. Heavy gales in the bay at Bilbon, Spain, have caused the lo9S of twenty-five fishermen. A Feexch force in Tonquln. China,was attacked* from ambush by pirates and lost twenty men killed and wounded. The cloth and yarn markets in Manchester. England. have been paralyzed by tha latast developments in regard to Indian currency. Lujan* and twenty-five of his outlaws were killed and the survivors dispersed in Chihua hua, Mexico. The New York State Federation of Labot In session at Albany, by a vote of twentythree to seventeen, adopted a resolution thanking Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, for pardoning the three Anarchists. Neebe, Fielden and Schwab, Imprisoned for complicity in the Haymar<cet dynamite massacre, Cotton* has been picked in Arkansas. Seventy-flve per cent, of the crop of the State has been marketed. Not over 800 bales remain unsold in Little Rook. Indications point to a total crop not exceeding 7,000.00'J bales. The anathem annually pronounced against the Frenoh since the invasion of 1812 at the Christmas mass In the St. Petersburg churches i was omitted last year on account of the franco -Busaian entente. LHTEBS FBOM EAWAH MESSAGE TO CONGRESS WITH THE CORRESPONDENCE. Willis Asked to Explain?President Dole Wants to Know Whether He Intends to Enforce His Demands With Arms?Willis Says Dole Insulted President Cleveland. President Cleveland, in a brief note of transmittal, sent to Congress the latest correspondence relating to Hawaii. It comprises some brief notes of Minister Willis to Secretary Gresham, which are unimportant, but the chief features of it are letters passing between Minister Willis and President Dole, in one of which the Minister complains of an utterance of President Dole as reflecting on the President of the United States, and a letter from President Dole, in which he specifically inquires if Minister Willis's instructions authorized the use of force. Both these matters appear to have been settled by the receipt of the last message of the President to Congress and the last instructions of Secretary Gresham to Minister Willis. The-interest felt in Hawaiian affairs wag manifested in a striking manner when PresU dent Cleveland's message, transmitting the latest diplomatic correspondence on the subject, was laid before the House of Representatives. The House Insisted on hearing till the correspondence read?a most unusual thing? and every word was heard in the remotest corner of the hall, so absorbed was every oue in listening to the clerk as he read. The following is the letter of transmittal: To the Congress: "I transmit herewith dispatches received yesterday from our Minister at Hawaii, with certain correspondence which accompanied the same, including a most extraordinary letter, dated December 27, 1893, signed by Sanford B. Dole, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government,and addressed to our Minister, Mr. Wlills, and delivered to him a number of hours after the arrival at Honolulu of a copy of my message to Congress on the Hawaiian question, with copies of the instrt cions given to our Minister. "Gboveb Cleveland. ''Executive Mansion, January 20, 1894. The letter of December 27,. to which the President refers, was sent to Minister Willis by Mr. Dole, and part of the language is herewith presented * "I desire to call your Excellency's most serious consideration to the dangerous and critical condition of this community, arising, I must respectfully submit, out of the attitude which you have assumed, and the language which you have used in public, and in communications to the Government, and also out of the published letter of the Secretary of State of the United States and the President's message on the subject of the restoration of the Monarchy. "This Government has most earnestly sought from you and through our representative at Washington, from your Government, some assurance that force will not be used, and has failed to obtain it. Your action has unfortunately aroused the passions of all parties and made it probable that disturbances may be created at any moment. "I am informed by military authorities lhat white the foroe at your command is sufficient to destroy this city, it is insufficient to suppress any general rising and conflict of armed forces and insurrections, or to pre vent rne ioss 01 mo aau prupony. ''This Government is reluctant to believe !:bat this condition of affaire was contemplated or expected by yourself or by the President of the United States. "I have therefore to ask you to inform me. with the least delay, whether you hold infractions to enforce your policy with the use of arms in any event." Minister Willis was more than surprised at receiving auch a letter, and in reply asked the charges so unjustly put forward should be made more specific. To this Mr. Dole answered that the special message of the Pres ldent of the United States had rendered any further correspondence on the subject unnecessary. Believing that the charges, whether so intended or not, reflected upon the President. Mr. Willis again insisted that the desired specifications be furnished as soon as convenient, but up to the time of the 3tearner's departure, no answer had b?en received. In a letter to Secretary Gresham, Mr. Willis says. 'This delay in answering is a great surprise and regret. I am fully prepared to show that every step taken by the reprcsen , tatlvesofour Government ha3 been in the direction of peace and good order, and that the military preparations of the Provisional Government were in progress at the time of my arrival." Toe remainder of the correspondence consists of the full text of the letters, ot which the material portions have been quoted. ITFTY-THIBD CONGRESS. The Senate. 23d T>at. -The Clerk read a letter from Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, resigning his seat in the Senate, to take effect on January 24. The reason for the resignation Is that Senator Walthall's health ha=? not been good for several years and he thinks the climate of Washington does not agree with him. The bill appropriating $50,000 for a monu- . ment to General John Stark was passed bv a 1 vote of S2~yeas to 15 nays. Messrs. PofTer and Allen introduced resolutions denouncing Secretary Carlisle's proposed bond issue. Mr. Vest spoke for repeal of the Federal Election laws. oa t\ ? ?? tu.ti .1 i in i/Ai.? x 110 jrrcBiucui .icui in auuiuuu.n Hawaiian correspondence, including an appeal from Royalists. President Cleveland nominated Wheeler H. Peckham lo be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The day was devoted larcrely to a discussion of the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds. 25th Day?The vetoed New York Bridge bill was referred to the Committee on Interstate nnd Foreign Commerce. It is proposed to renort a now bill. Mr. Cullom deliv ' red a speech on the Hawaiian question. Debate w.'is continued on the Federal Election laws and the PefTer bond resolution. 26th Day.?A Ions: discussion took place over Mr. Turpie's Hawaiian resolution. Mr. Lodge spoke on the proposition to repeal the Federal Election laws. The House. 29th Day.?Debate on the Tariff bill was continued; Mr. Burrotvs's amendment substituting the wool schedule of the McKinley bill for that of tho Wilson bill was defeated. 30th Day.?Debate on the Wilson Tarifl Dili continued ; there was a sharp personal controversy between Messrs. Dalzell and Johnson. Mr. Johnson's proposal to put ste?l rails on the free list was defeated. 318tDay.?The amendment to substitute the agricultural section of the McKinley bill was beaten, sixty-three to 116. At 11.17 the House went into Committee of the Whole, with Mr. Richardson in the chair. Brief speeches on the Wilson bill were made by Mr. Grosvenor. Mr. Coombs. Mr. Mercer and Mr.Simpsou.The amendment proposed by Mr. Ilitt provided thut when a country imposed a tax on American products which this country imported free, the existing rates be imposed. The hour of 5.30 having arrived the House took a recess without acting on Mr. Hitt's amendment. At the evening session the speakers were Mr. Talbert, Mr. Charles W. Stone and Mr. Wheeler. 32d Day.?President Cleveland sent in another message and moro correspondence on the Hawaiian question. The debate on th?Wilson bill was continued. Mr. McRae'fl amenlmentto the Tariff bill, striking out the bounty on sugar was adopted by tho Committee W the Whole. The amendment putting refined sugar on the free list was adopted. 33d Day.?Tho New York and New Jersey Bridge bill, together with the voto message, was referred to the Committee on Inter-State and Foreien Commerce. In tho Committee of the Whole amendments to the Wilson bill putting a duty on coal were voted down. Both refined and raw sugars were put on the free list. 34th Day.?The Internal Revenue bill was reported. All amendments to the iron ore schedule of the Wilson bill were rejected. The speakers at the night session were Messrs. Ryan, Swanson. Baldwin, Ikirt, Cummings, all Democrats, and Baker, Populist, in favor of the bill: and Messrs. Wanger. Johnson, Moon, Kieferand Blair, all Republicans, in opposition to it. LATER NEWS. Tstz Republican Senate at Trenton, N. J., rejected Governor Werts's proposition ror quo warranto proceedings to settle the Senate controversy; the Benate and House will meet in joint session on February 6. William T. Zell, Treasurer of the Lehigh and Wllkesbarre Coal Company and of the New York Athletio Club, is a fugitive defaulter. a shortage of $10,000 or more having been found in his cash accounts with the coal company. The Hamburg-Amerioan Line steamer Normannia. bound for Genoa, relumed to the Port of New York for repairs, having beer damaged by a tidal wave; several of her crew were injured. A blizzabd raged in Kansas and othei Western States. Mas. Aska Lixdgrex was crushed to death at Chicago, 111., while struggling for bread H/Mt fenaVtnrwl waa fftf) at u rtmtu mhuuu. uci weak to go into the crowd and her children were starving. A baxd of train robbers was captured by police in the Indian Territory; one of the gang was killed and. another mortally wounded. The Mirz and Daniels brothers fought to the death in Arkansas. Of the four tbrec were killed. Committee resolutions on the Hawaiian question favoring strict non-intervention were brought into both Houses. Ik response to a Senate resolution the Secretary of the Treasury sent to the Senato a statement showing that from the year 1875 to 1891 the United States has paid for the prosecution of criminals in the Territory of Utah the sum of $725,555, which amount was due the United States from that Terri tory. Seceetart Hebbert approved the recommendation of the National Stability Board with reference to the lengthening of the gunboats Machias and Castine in order to relieve top-heaviness. President Cleveland, accompanied byjhis sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, and Private Secretary Thurber, left Washington for Hartford, Conn., to attend the funeral oi Henry E. Hastings, the President's nephew. Mr. Hastings was the son of Mr. Cleveland's sister. At iredencKton, JNew ijrunswicii, .mu^e Barker sentenced the deaf mate Edward M. Wheary to be hanged on Friday, April 20, for the murder of his sister-in-law, Bertha Wheary, Kaiseb William has made a peace offering to Piince Bismarck in the shape of a case of old wine and the ex-Chancellor has promised to personally thank His Majesty for the gift in Berlin. All Germany rejoices at the reconciliation. Lace of work and scarcity of food are causing many acts of brigandage in Spain. The Brazilian insurgents recaptured Mocangue Island, with three small cannon and 130 prisoners The killed and wounded number fifty. The insurgents lost fourteen killed. Striking employes ol the Bridgeport (Conn.) Traction Company returned to work# Union women hat makers of Danbury Conn.. prevented resumption in four fac tories by refusing terms the union men accepted. Mb. asd Mas. Gcstave P. Tyson and Miss Minnie Chapman, teachers in the Sac and Fox Indian School, at Guthrie, Oklahoma, were drowned while attempting to ford Deep Fork Creok. Fiftt convicts confined in the branch State prison at Coal Creek, Tenn., escaped by crawling through the bars of the water gate leading into the stockade. The annual Pension bill reported to tho House appropriates 4150,000,000. The State Department is advised that the death of United States Consul Meade at San Domingo was caused by yellow fever. Pbesidext Cleveland returned to Wash, ington from Hartford, Conn., where he attended his cousins funeral. The ship Willie Rosenfeld, jit Queenstown, Ireland, had two of her crew killed and the captain and eight othera badly injured in a hurricane. The gallery of the Ducal riding school of Gotha, Germany, collapsed during the rehearsal for the festival when the new Duke will make his formal entry into the city. Four of the persons were killed, and twelve I were so seriously injured that they were thought lively to die. PEOKHAM FOR JUSTICE. | Cleveland Nominates Him for the Supreme Court Bench. The President sent to tne united states Senate the name of Wheeler H. Peckham, of New i'ork City, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Wheeler H. Peckham, nominated for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, is a brother of Judge Rufus Peckham. of the New York Court of Appeals. He was appointed District Attorne by Mr. Cleveland when he wa9 Governor, but subsequently resigned. Although the New York Senators deiined to talk. it was understood that the nomination was distasteful to them, but they would have been glad to have seen the name of the brother sent in instead. The indications seemed to be that the Hornblower struggle would be renewed against this nominee. Wheeler H. Peckham,who has been named for Assooiate Justice of the Supreme Court, was at one time District Attorney of New York City. Mr. Peckham was born at Albany in 1833. At school he won the reputation of being a careful student and won several medals for proficiency. After receiving an academic education, he entered the Albany Law School, from which he graduated in 1854. The yeung lawyer at once op9ned an office In his native city, and followed his profession with varying success until 1857, wheu his health began to fail and he went to St. Paul, Minn. He still continued his law practice, however, and was interested in a number of cases which attracted general attention in that newly settled territory. In 1863 he returned to Albany with hi* health renewed. In 1864 he went to New York, and rapidly rose to a position of prominence in his profession. H<j gained much popularity by his connection with the famous Tweed ring suits in which he was instrumental in procuring the conviction of Tweed and his co-conspirator3, with the assistance ot Judge Lyman Tremaine, of Albany. and John Parsons, of Neiv York City. In November. 1883, Governor Cleveland appointed Mr. Peckham District Attorney ol New York City, upon the death of John MeKeon. After serving but a short time Mr. Peckham wa3 compelled to resign the office on account of ill health. Since then Mr. Peckham has been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City. DYNAMITE IN A STOVE. Two Persons Killed and Six Injured on u Texas Train. A stick of dynamite which some person had placed in the smoking car stove on the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad at Marco#, Texa8, exploded as the train was leaving that place. Ed. Binding, a traveling agent of the City Brewerr of San Antonio, and J. C. Heidelman. a merchant of Austin, were instantly killed, and six other passengers in the car seriously injured. LDNATICB BOBN TO DEATH A SCENE OF HORROR IN AN IOWA MADHOUSE. Eight Human Beings Perish Miserably?Penned in a Little Building on a Poorfarm ?The Flamed Break I Out at Night While a Blizzard Rages. The building on the Boone Coun ty (Iowa) poorfarjn used as an insane asylum was burned, and eight of the nine inmates lost their lives. The Are started about 10 o'clock p. m., and when discovered wa3 under such headway that nothing could be done to save the unfortunates in the building Six years ago Boone County decided to take charge of its incurable and harmless Insane who had before baen kept in the State asylums. For that purpose a two-story frame building was erected on the poorfarm near the poorhouse. In this building the insane were keot. The steward of the poor farm is Henry Holcomb, who lived with his wife in the poorhouse. . They retired at about the usual time last night and were asleep at 10 o'clock, when they were awakened by Mrs. Hibbard. one of the nine insane persons, who came into the house and said that the madhouse was on Are. Mr. Holcomb rushed to the burning building, which he saw was aflame inside, and burst in the door. He could not enter, owing to the intense heat, and no sound except the crack ling of the flames was-heard. The unfortunates were already dead, eiu suffocated before they awoke or Jacking intelligence to make their escape. Four of the poor creatures who-were not considered perfectly safe were locked in their cells at night and could not have escaped if they would. The tragedy was over in a half hour, when the roof of the madhouse fell in. The victims were seen in the coals, burned beyond recognition. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the furnace, which was overheated on account of the intensely cold weather. Mrs. Hibbard. the only one who escaped, is uninjured, but is not intelligent enough to give un account of the discovery of the fire. The victims and their ages are Thomas Leper, forty-five; Joseph Craig, eighty-one; Sarah Scott, eighty-two ; Chris tian Peterson, eig?tty-3even; unnsuana Anderson, twenty-eight; Anna Sodderberg, thirty-eight; Johanna Briggs, thirty-live; Nancy Tucker, forty-eieht. TALMAGE WILL EESISN. He Startles Hlsfongregatlon by the Unexpected Announcement. The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage at the close of the Sunday services announced to his congregation in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Tabernacle that he Intended to resign, and that his resignation would go into effect on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day he took charge of the church. The church was crowded to the doors, and when Mr. Talmage made the announcement men and women were almost speechless with surprise for several minutes. There had been no intimation of such a thin;;. His text was from Revelations vii., 17?"And He shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." * When the sermon was finished Dr. Taimage said: "I have an announcement to make which may be of some interest to this congregation." He then leaned over and, picking up several sheets of paper, began reading as follows "This coming spring I will have been pastor of this church twenty-five years. A quarter of a oentury is long enough for any minister to preach in one place. At that anniversary I will resign this pulpit, and it will be occupied bysuch person as you may select. 'Though the work has been arduous, because of the unparalleled necessity of building three great churches, two of them destroyed by fire, the field ha3 been delightful and blessed of God. "No other congregation has ever been nnllori iinnn t-rt hnllrl thrftn phnrnhftfl. And T hopo no other pastor will be called to such a fearful and tremendous undertaking. "My plans after resignation have not been developed, but I shall preaob, both by voice and newspaper press, as long as my life and health are continued by the grace of God. "Prom first to last we have been a united people, and my fervent thanks are to all the Board of Trustees and elders, whether of the present or past, and to all the congregation and to the people of the city of Brooklyn. I have no vocabulary intense enough to express my gratitude to the newspaper press of these cities for the generous manner in which they have treated me and augmented my work for this quarter of a century. "After such a long pastorate it is a painful thing to break the ties of affection, but I hope our friendship will be renewed in heaven." As Dr. Talmage finished speaking he seemed almost to break down. He nervously clutched at a glass of water which was beside him, and after taking a long drink seemed to regain his strength. He tried to join the congregation in singing the closing hymn, but could not do so. After the hymn was sung he pronounced the banediction, and then hurriedly left the church for his home. When Dr. Talmage was seen at his home he refused to say anything about his cause for resigning from the church. "I have nothing further to say to the public now beyond what is contained in the announcement that I made at the church this evening." It is suggested that Dr. Talmage Intends to resign because he is opposed to the Board of Trustees, who are anxious to charge an adTyWacion fao r\t fan tr% .all vlaitnrs who at" tend the church. For several years Dr. Talmuge has beet greatly worried by the financial condition of the Tabernacle. I Ills Shlary is $12,000 a year, but during the past four years he has not received anything for his preaching. Dr. Talmage, in his set mons, often made the anaouncement that he dedicated his salary as pastor of the church to the cause of God. He often went on lecturing tours, as he explained, to get money to defray the expenses of the Tabernacle. One year ago he announced from the pulpit in the Tabernacle that the church was in such a condition financially that unless $20,000 of the floating debt were raised by April 1. 1S93, he would be compelled to resign. This sum was raised. Russell Sage holds a mortgage of $125,000 on the Tabernacle, with interest which amounts to $15,000. This interest Mr. Sage thinks ought to be paid, and recently he has oeen stirr'ng up the trustees. THE LABOR WORLD. Boston has fifty-three labor unions. Pittsbubo has a trade school for girls. i Thf. Federation claims 652,300 members. Tex trade organizations work eight hours. Ohaha (Neb.) packing houses employ 4500. The British miners' strike co3t $150,000,000. Michiqan has6000 union commercial drummers. In Great Britain 1000 miners are killed an- ' nually. < Cobxellsville, Penn.. has 9000 coke ovens running. j European laborers are emigrating from \ America. Fabkeb, Penn., ia to have a co-operative glass mill. Railboad trainmen paid $2,243,000 in bene J fits in a decade. Milan, Italy, is to have an international ^ workingmen's congress. < The labor troubles in the Black Hills are 1 growing more and more serious. , Weavebs held a convention in New Bed- < ford, Mass., to discuss proposed labor laws, j Matebno (Spain) weavers" co-operative society owns a mill, club house and fitty houses. Mechanics at Mare Island (Cal.) Navy ' Yard have had their pay cut from twenty-flve < to flfty-slx cents per day. , The English inhabitants of Canada do not j take kindly to Lord Aberdeen, their new ' Governor-General. He is a Scotchman and 1 bjproud rather than ashamed of the fact. __ j WOMAN'S WORLD. ? qu PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR wo FEMININE READERS. a I th< Mi A PAD FOB PHTECOOKOMT. ' . mc Professor Annie Oppenheim seems ^ to be making qnite a good thing over Q& in London ont of the proverbial curi- gp] osity which people feel abont them- ^ selves. She is a physiognomist, and ca^ has "delineated" 9000 people in five g^fl months, hundreds being turned away because she had not time to read them. Miss Oppenheim disclaims any con- er nection with palmistry or pretension a j. to psychical powers, ana eays ner sys- W(, tem of face reading is purely scientific. -New York Sun. . P? THE HANDBAG. ^.c That old-faehioned and dainty little adjunct of a woman's dress has again &Q appeared, and to many whose dress makers have proved obstinate in re- ^ gard to pockets it is a boon and bless- ^ ing. It is quaint looking, and when prettily made is a real embellishment to a handsome dress. A pretty one is of rose silk, brocaded in cream and gold. The shape at the bottom is tri angular, and old pink velvet is used to b1' bind it. The bows at the three corners and the drawstrings are of rose ribbon sh and the lining is of gold surah silk. ? sp New York Mail and Express. br SUSAN* B. ANTHONY'S SILKS AND LACES, ha If Susan B. Anthony has a weakness it is black silk, with point lace. The fai memory of this generation runs not as gr far back as the time when this famous lady took to wearing these costly, ele- {.rj gant textures. Although a very busy eg woman, she is quiet and restful. Her clothes never wear out, and, as she scorns to follow the fashion, her 8a dresses and ruffles and lace capes and s. scarfs last forever. None of her gowns ?re trimmed, the flxnense for that item being put in the material. As a result, ca some of the straight, round skirts are made of satin and silk thick enough va and stiff enough to stand alone. She ey wears nothing but black. When she wishes to change the character of her co toilet she changes the lace at her ^ wrists and throat and the little shawl A that drapes her shoulders. Miss An- th thony reads no newspaper but the bl marked copies sent her by her friends. She alleges that newspaper reading is th a great waste of time, and a great sti detriment to the mind, making a sieve su of the memory and perverting the wl literary taste. She depends on gossip vii for the news, and upon her friends for the advancement of thought. ?Detroit pj, Free Press. m( th lOV^G 01318' DRESSES. Sp Pretty styles for young girls' dresses kn are always most difficult to find and dressmakers generally do not like to 8h make for girls younger than eighteen. an Two pretty dresses recently seen were wc * " J .hi.. i.; particularly nauy anu at wc wmc viuic comfortable and serviceable, two very jn< important points for growing girls. ^ The first was a gown of dark-colored woolen stuff, its yoke, belt and cuffs braided with soutache. The skirt was mt of straight breadths and gathered to ^.n the yoke. The bodice had a fitted lin- 1 ing and full fronts and back join-ad to reJ the lining with side seams.. The dress ^ hooked behind, the opening being 00 concealed by the full folds of the stuff. The sleeves had a fitted lining and very 18 full puffs ending in long tight cuffs. ra: In the other dress the bodice was worn de inside the skirt and hooked in back. It had a fitted lining over which the stuff was draped, and was trimmed lit with two lace ruffles, the lower one a 1 ending at the armholes and each headed by a narrow plaited band of white no silk. The skirt was gored and trimmed co with three gathered bias ruffles. The an skirt was made of half a breadth of wc surah hemstitched at the edges and foi hooked in back. The sleeves have big M< puffs and lace epaulettes. The mate- pa rial used was a yellowish pink woolen be suiting. ?New York W orld. i toi SPRING TAILOR DRESSES. ?0] A number of models for spring tailor ba dresses show the back of the jacket cut up with flaring basques and the fronts in th Eton shape open on a bengaline waist, Ye under the belt of which is an added trf basque, which has somewhat the effect mc of a short overdress or tunic. This is a style becoming to tall, slender wo- feg men. On some gowns these basques eo] are sewed permanently to the belt, on ^ others it is adjustable and when added pi, converts a house gown into a street costume. There is a leaning toward feg basques, real or simulated by trim- Qf ? -"J t)iaro ia s>nneir)prn.VtlA r IlllUg, QUU nuuo HUViv *w style about a basque bodice it is not a ^ youthful model, imparting always a , severe, prim appearance to even the graceful, youthful figure of sweet "six- T teen. A Russian blouse bodice, a 811 Princess May corsage, pointed waist, Breton corsage, Spanish corselet, baby ^ 13 bodice?any of these styles is far more attractive. The basque bodice is said ?. to be pre-eminently suitable for state- 19 ly, rather short women. This is not so; the arched hip seam of the basque 0 outlines and emphasizes the fullness of the figure just here and besides gives an unjrraceful, short-waisted ap- * pearance. Even the slim-figured ma- Cl trom looks better in another style of | bodice. A closely-gored skirt and a | deeply-pointed corsage is the very best | ~8 style of dress a stout woman can 3elect "is for day costumes or evening toilets JT" with train.?St. Louis Republic. X? He WOMEN OF EUROPE. eaC The celebrated man of letters, Paolo ^ Mantegazza, of Florence, is airing his opinions through a German newspaper on the women of Europe, says the Philadelphia Times. He gives the palm Tor beauty to the Spanish woman, thereby showing keen discrimination and judgment. His praise is not, howjver, wholly unmixed. "'The Spanish Roman," he says, "is bewitchingly beautiful. She has small hands and feet, and large eyes like the open winiows of a sunburnt marble palace. A figure full of grace and life, and long, tvavy, dark hair. She is very religious, yery ignorant, very jealous, sensitive, idle and proud." The English woman, he thinks, is beauty itself. "Her hair is like gold. 3hehas heavenly eyes, a peach-like ;omplexion, a delicately-formed nose ?nd good teeth. She is reserved, a I ittle hypochondriacal, very active and his generally a slave to etiquette." But thii ;he French woman is "a cat and a ser- Elli pent, a palm aad_ a violet, aad even aut ien she is not pretty she is charmj. She is amiable, a dreadful co? ette, and generally false." The men of Germany are not graceful aa ace, but are strong and withstand i ravages of time. They are "blonde, le-eyed, with white skin, and ave >re suited to play the part of wive# in lovers. They are naive, goodtured and industrious, and make lendid housekeepers and mothers. ,ey are, on the whole, the best eduted women in Europe." The Rnsn woman is an Oriental type which s been prematurely transplanted to trope. "In her are combined the traordinarv charms of a savage and . ughly civilized woman." The Italian >mpn is fond of art, sentimental and )deet, bnt is generally ignorant and d is often false. Two important ints in forming the character of the men of different Nations are, acrding to Mantegazza, the religion d the amount o^f freedom they enj. The greater the freedom allowed e more virtue. This last will please nericans. FASHION* NOTES. Some of the handsomest fans for the nter social season are developed in ack and gold. A fine striped velvet that is both ot and moired is a novelty among ring dress fabrics. A dark-gjeen broche called Persian ocatelle is shot with pale blue, and 8 trefoils in turquoise blue and gold. Bayadere stripes of old rose and int sea green appear on lustrous ounds of fawn-colored corded silk. Silver bead galloon is a popular imming for ball dresses, especially "n/>firra nn nnwna r>f tvink or white. ^ ? jr 0 New striped gauzes to be made into y little gowns show black satin' ripes of a greater width than theii ;ernate lines of colored gauze. Small cone-shaped glasses of delitely tinted Bohemian ware are own for holding violets, and tall ses of pressed glass for ferns and ergreens. Everything now being served in urses, the new "corn set" is really acceptable addition to table service, platter and a dozen plates comprise e set ;the decoration very rich?ears, &des and stalks of corn. One of the handsomest novelties of e season is a tripod of carved wood inding about three feet high and pporting a huge Dresden china bowl, iich is meant for .a receptacle for siting cards and invitations. Hand-painted frames lor cabinet totographs are presented in china, ?ny of them very beautiful, Around e face a friend, a garland of violets, rays of forget-me-not or a gracefully lotted ribbon holding a single rose. Among the freaks of fashion appear oe tips and heels in sterling silver d perforated in a pattern. The >man who "does not know what to i with her money,'' having never been trodaced to charity, will be the lling victim of tbis snare. A doable reversible shot silk has a mve ground with pale green spot on e side and a vi6let one on the other. >vel English silks are woven in fine ps in white on pale tinted grounds, th a cross-stitch row between each rd that matches the background. Fashionable by way of gift-making the "trinket get."In almost all the re chinas the decorations are very licate in flowers with gold introced. The articles included in the ; are comb and brash tray, three tie covered boxes, a ring stand and ?in tray. Among articles of home adornment thing is more sought after and veted than the beautiful pedestals d tabourettes made from teak >od. Hand carved, with top of rare reign marble and crowned with a sorish bowl holding a graceful lm, it is difficult to eqaa} them in autiful effect. The latest novelty in silver, the "salt ngs," is very small, like those used r bon-bons. A perforated hollow 11 which opens in the.center to take > the salt, then closes and is sifted rough the perforations in the sides. 1'-J- ^ Trail/19 a ry dainty ?uu uacim n? ly, but on the dinner table "one >re*thing to be in the way." (Jntil recently the shaded ostrich ither with darker or lighter tip was asidered quite a novelty, and now is already beginning to be sup-' inted by a new sort of shading, e novelty consists in the enstre ither showing several similar tones different colors, or else in different ides of one color, so arranged as to 76 the effect ot snot sii&. Photograph holders, to hang like a 11 panel, are suitable for the bed or ting room. They are made of jteboard covered with Japanese silk, ish or velvet. Slits io hold the pho.Taphs are cut horizontally, one >ve the other, the edges being fined with gold or silver cord. These ;rtures must be just wide enough to .d the picture upright. Washington as a Singer of Songs. general "Washington and Chief Jusb Ellsworth, of Connecticut, were imate friends. On one occasion ishington dined with Ellsworth at residence, in "Windsor. During visit he was taken into the nursery, ere were twojtwin boys, afterward vernor Ellsworth and the Hon. nrv L. Ellsworth. He took one on :h knee, and sang to them this song, i words of which are preserved, but, fortunately, not the music: THE DEBBV (DA3BY) BAX As I was going to Derby Upon a market day. I spied the biggest nra, sir. That ever was fed ou hay. Tow de row de row, Towde row de da. He had four feet to walk, sir, He had four feet to stand, And every foot he had. sir. Covered an acre of land. Tow. etc. The wool upon his back, sir, It reached unto the sicy. And eaglos built their nest.s there, For I heard their young ones cr^. Tow, etc. The wool upon his tail, sir, I heard the weaver say. Made three thousand yards of oloth, sir, For he wove it all in a day. Tow, etc. t is not often that the Father of his Country appears in this role; but i anecdote was handed down in the sworth family, and is undoubtedly! heatic.?The Wifcaeaa, ' '