Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DmotU U Aft huHmt?, BoHimJtmv, Dommtie Rexmomf, JMWaa md *4 OmrmU Jfewa of the Dmy. K- VOL. XXIV.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FjlpAY, SEPT. 8,1893. NUMBER :!<!Crime ia ramdlv incfMuino ?H ?? I > - Argentina. Statistics show that it 1: pi more than doubled during tho pi tiro years. The Greek Style of building, moi fled to modern needs, has been mc successfully used in Paris, where mai palaces are seen of this constructio The Sehool Board of Auburn, , v has deoided that it takes six ohildri to make a school,' and thoy intei closing up all schools having less thi that number. BKS|^ The Chicago Times is of the opini< that there is not much farm limd this country so situated or so po< that it will not pay reasonably for tl cultivation; that is, if it is cultivate properly. It may need some mauu 1 .. ing first, or draining, or moro tho anorh wnrVin/* *! ?" -A * . ?o? "o ?? ?" u?fj ever na< bat given these and it will pay. t Prlnco Henry of Or leans, who is nc of much account in moat things, h? . _ shown wisdom in advising tho scion ? of French royal houses to assist in tli colonial development of France, sine they can bnt add confusion to confu sion if they take part in politics. 1 was upon hiB advice that the youn; Duke of Uzeo went on the Congo es peditiou, which proved fatal to him. & . A California man offers to give,with 1 out charge, to tho city of San Fran cisoo a flow of water amounting t< ! , 190,000,000 gallons daily and bring i about 120 miles from tho forks o North and Middle Yuba Rivers. Hi ''S-' only condition is that ho should hav< the privilege of leasing for a porio.l ol twenty-five years tho horse power to ba developed from the water. More than eight thousand persons? the exact number is 8180?committee suicide in Paris in 1891. The propor> tion is twenty-onq to every 100,000 oi tho inhabitants, and the increase ovct itwi IB twenty-five per cent. What has caused the enormous percentage of inorease in self-destruction in ten jjU years, wonders the New York Mail couracing than they were ten years ago. ' Bays the Boston Herald: "The oountry taverns are reported to be getting a good deal of custom from bioycle riders this summer, who make long journeys into tho country, put up for a day or a night, and then kee;? vm or return home. Any town in the rural distriots that has good roads is sure to be benefited by this sort of oustom, and in time it will more than make up for the losses which the oountry hotels and boarding-houses are likely to experience on account of - the prevailing business depression. Let the town authorities bear in mind that good roads are tho prime requisite for encouraging this business, how ever." JNo tttate in the Union has botte roads than can be found in New Jer sey's more populous counties, remark Frank Leslie's. Essex County, whicl includes Newark, the Oranges am other growing towns, has thirty-eigh miles of roads laid with twelve-incl Telford pavement, and varying i |f width from eighty to one hundred feet * These roads, which cost $1,700,000 fo i construction and right of way, hav C added greatly to the valuo of propert in all the region reached by them, an which is filling up with handsom homes, many of them palatial in ohai W ' aoter. Union County, adjoining Ei ^ sex* has also made great progress i ? . improved road-making, and is reapin{ the fruits of her enterprise in enhanoe - realty valuations. The experience t \ these and other New Jersey countu v constitutes an unanswerable argumei in favor of liberal expenditures an ?/ coherent system in road-making. |S The English, who are trying ( anglicize Egypt, are very much ai V noyed by a recent decree of the youn Khedive to the effect that the Arab '} . language must be used in all branoh V' of the curriculum of the Govern mei mttnnU Thn atudv of this lancraa< * hM klvtya been required of evei pupil, and they attain oonsiderab profloienoy in it, in order to pass tl Br.- - neoesaary examinations, but under tl t present order it will beoome pracl j;."' ' oally the vernaoular. The Engli w?gnsider this a long - step back war t \ And aay that ^jhe text books on t language* of Barope, and that all ? 'tempts to teaeh them in the Aral 'v- have rosulted badly. This, per ha] 9 was due to the fact that the teach< were not so familiar with the langua as they might have been. At \ areata, no one oan blame the Khedi i for using all the means in his power fjm'. keep alire the National institutk and feelings of his people. Egypt i?fe ftlBKft* ? British oolony now. H z THAT TERRIBliE STORM i as _ ?t Death and Devastation Along At lantic Coast. 1i* The Seacoaet Strewn With Flotean and Jetsam. ^ reads i.ikk a 8tort. " Savannah, Oa.?The steamship Citj of Savannah left Boston Thurodiy after '* noon. It never will reach Sivnnnoh foi 3U it was wrecked 0 miles south of St. Helena u* lighthou-e. Part of the passenger? in reached St. Helena Island by the sfiip'i boa's. Toe stenraor was then going rapidly to pieces when she was sighted Tu?sday evening by the City of Birmingham, who anchored near by, and 0T Wednesday morning amid the breakers res ued the balance of the passengers and crew, who had resigned fli em selves to r* death. The Birmingham then headed for r* Savannah, arriving there in safety. The wrecked p&ssongors of the Savannah lost everything, some being even without )T hats and coats. only six rsrsons killed in chari.r*fe>n. vs Cnaklrston, S. C.?The cyclono is ended. The city has started to replace drmag. s whilo yet (hut off from com0 muuication with the outer world. The l" sight presented was a familiaroDC * to the people of this city?a city ? almost in ruins; the streets and thorough?* fares strewn with debris from the roofs of stores and dwellings; tin rond-ways blocked up by the hundreds of giant trees uprooted from the earth ;s'dcwalks s'rewn with crurabl:ng brick nnd mor'nr; the 2 courts and nlh-.js and by-paths under ' water; a mngnificint water front wi h its ' costly dock?, where the fl ct of a con'i' ncnt could bo ancV red, piled with * wreckage; some of its church's unroofed f nnd almost every residence in the city ? more or less injured. Water and wind have played havoc in the old City by the 8ca, and laid was'c I "ome of its plcisantcst plac.s and 4,deso lation saddens all her green." It began | in the wee small hours of the day. When and while the fiery gale was still howling through the town, threatening almost total annihilation along the by-wnys and 1 on the thoroughfares, you could see tho hewera of wood, tho African-American with a "provident eye for extra nrc-woou. A rough estimate of the loss places it gjt something overs million dollars. There are no lights in the city, both gss and electrie lights having gone out, and there has been no railroad communication south of us. The loss of life is six people. half the islanders drowned. ^Sanannau, Ga.? Beaufort, 8. C., suffered fearfully from the storm. Capt. Finnie, of the steamer Bessie, which arrived from Beaufort, St. He'ena and t BlufTton half an hour before the City of > Birmingham, says that Beaufort is wreck i ed and that on the 8ca Islands the loss of ! life among the negroes is very great. Fully one-third the population of the i islands is drowned. , 7u dkad bodirs kodnd. Augusta. Ua?News from the storm wept districts of Port Royal and Beaufort ia, a till very meagre, the ooly news r obtainable being by mail. Seventy dead and swollen bodies were taken from the ft Coos iff river by searching parties Not b one-half of tho horrors of the storm has & yet been told. t The result of the work of the relief b party puts the number of missing at over a hundred, but owiog to poor means of communication the correct list of the r dead cannot be obtained. In several e places along the Coosaw river were y found their bodies lying ou the bank close together. Graves were hastily dug ^ near the places of discovery and without ceremony the storm victims wire placed beneath the earth. Many of the dead were so far advanced in petrification u that the sight was sickening asid revoltI >f A Newspaper at War With a City. ms Litti.k Rock, Auk At a in-ctlug of it the City Council he'.d Monday n:ght a d resolution was passed by an utmost unanimous vote instructing the Chief of Policj to suppress the L ttle Rock bo Tribune, a wcvkly paper edited by Kela logg O. Gould, a for.a-r St. Louis priutig er. Oould has applied to tho County io Court for an injunction to prevent the oh city from carrying out us threat. The at Tribuno wss stated about three months (0 aS?> ftiacc which time it has waged bit,y tcr warfare against Mayor Ha l, the je Board of Aidertnen, and the Polic i Deliu partmcnt. it charged among other things that the administration "stood in" with tie gamblers and the saloon element. Alder^ man Paucctte Attacked too editor in bis office a fen days ago and broke two ' chairs over bis head Seven Attorneys k* have volunteered to ssiist Gould in his dght with thu city. The Chivf of Police has received lost ruetior s to arrest every "c person csuglil attempting to sell Gould's *? paper. iza ?i ge Cattle Killed by Anthrax, all Dm.awarb City, Dbl.-?The diseas ve anthrax has made ita appearance hen ^ and inany cattle and horses have die >na 411 houra after being attacked ( j( In one heard eighteen cows were lost i a few hours. The State officials bav taken the nutter in hand, ALLIANCE RESOLUTIONS. Got. Tillman Asked to Convene the Legislature to Pa?s a Stay Law. Columbia, 8. 0.?The farmers ere bsi coming alarmed at the likelihood of having to market their cotton at present prices end the Merchantville Alliance unanimously adopted the following: r "Whereas, The money sharks and guld-bugs have contracted the volume of r money so that there is practically no k ineney in the country to move the cotton 1 crop; and whereas, Congress does not 1 soc-n to intend to give the necessary relief in time to save us from bankruptcy, therefore be it "Resolved, firs'-, That we earnestly appeal to the Governor of South Caro Una to call an extra eessioi of the Leglishturj hoTlaler that! September -W-Hgrparsi* ttay law on all deb?s falling due on or b.-forc Novemb r 15, so that we | may be enabled to pay our debts without bankrupting ourselves and starving our wives and chilJren. "Resolved, second, That under the drescnt conditions there is no way whereby we can meet our debts without sacrificing our homes and property, which we d ) not hope to do. T- kc our liver but do not starve our wives and children." Can't Have "Palmetto." Wabhington, D. C. ?The Commissioner of patents has rendered his decision in the matter of the appeal to him of tho State of 8outh Carolina from the refusal of the examiner to rogister a trade-mark ' applied for in the namo of the State, con j eisting of the word "Palmetto," to be ' printed on its liquor labels, together j I with the coat of arms of tin State and ' the Dame of the liquor. It was stated to I be the intention of the State officers of ' South Carolina to ontcr markets oulsido of the State, and outside the Union as a vendor of liquors for pr -fit and that tho authorities had-cold a caco of its liquors bearing the trade-mark in Canada. It was claimed by tho appellant that the State posaested the full rights of a trading corporation, and that it migh'. under take a business of this character to be conducted outside, as well as within, the OX- A " * omic limits ana that authority for this . jvas found in the provisions of its recent tue tviuuiiMiuuiri iftcr rsT !f!ij monopolies enjoyed by Franco and Belgium, holds that a State of the American Union, having all tho powers of an inde pendent sovereign State, except those , surrendered to the Federal government, has the inherent right, as a State, to engage in trade, domestic or foreign, but the commissioner also holds that a lawful trading in liquors outside tho 8tate must be established in some effectual manner before the State can become the owner of a trade mark which would bs entitled to registration in its name in the Patent Office under the law of 1881. He cons'rues the South Carolina liquor act as a measure for the suppression of the liquor tr?ffic in South Carolina by private individuals, and to substitute therefor its complete control by the State through local public dispensers-, and holds that only by strained construction could any phases in the act be held to look to the establishment of an outside traffic of any kind, excepting in the purchase of the liquors to be dispensed; that there was nothing in the general or special objects of the statute to show that the Stito intended to descend to the level of a trading corporation outside its own limits. The commissioner closes his decision by saying: "It is considered that the State of South Carolina, notwithstanding the act of its Governor and State board of control, has no authorized trade in liquors outside of its own limits, is not the owner of any trade-mark, has not at th's time the right to the use of the trade*mark seught to be registered, end therefore the application is denied.'* Banks Resuming Business. Washington, D. C.?The following national btnks which recently suspended payment have been permi ted to open their doors for business: The American National Bank, of Nashville, Tenn., the First National Bink, of Grundy Centre, lows, and the First National Bank, of Hnrri'ionville, Missouri. Dknvkk, Col ?The 8tato National Bsnk, the last but one of the city's six national banks to suspend, opened its doors Thursday. Tho Commercial National will resume in a few days. Of the scores of national banks in Colorado which wore compelled to close th?ir doors a few weeks ago all have resumed save three, and it is said that they wiil again bo doing business before the middle of tho moLth. kckki.fl is ifotrkul. Chicaoo, III.?James II. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency, passed through Chicago on his way to Ottawa, III., where he will enjoy a two wcek'i re>t at his home. Mr. Eckels spoke vers hopefully. He would not predict how long it would bo beforo matters had * resumed their normal condition, but th< >, bottom had beea reached, so far as th< d banks were concerned, and financial af< i. Mr? were on the up grade. 0 They ar8 proposing to pension toacue era in England. 4 TO COIN GOLD BfjSsfo. Philadelphia and San ywpra Mint to Be Worked to FullaWtppftcity. Washington, D. 0.?flpsretary Car lisle has ordered that theJBjkitpd State mint* At Philadelphia, fa, and Sai Francisco, Cal., be fully flnwsd and th< full capacity of both mintfMhfttiUzed ii the coinage of gold bullioil ^3The Treas' urv Department possesses |mI #85,000,000 to #00,000,000 of goldwailion,whict is part of the gold rosorvejaic #100,000, 000. Gold bars cannot Hfctited aa'currency, so it has bean djftded in th< present need to co!n the union on hand. This bu'lion will be coin<w$tito #10, #5 and #2.50 gold pieces, mtftunce beipg given to the first two deuMMnktions. Tho coinage capacity.Philadel-, #5,000.r,00 and month. The Son Franc-?jwW^^^*1B be utilizjd but unfortunalW^je irly all | the bullion possessed by tjygovernment is in tho East. There ardjn0,000,000 of gold bullion in the Phiwelphla mint, #15,000,000 of it being ?!n one vault, where it has remained (untouched for fifteen years. Acting Director FrostfC visited Philadelphia Saturday and Completed arrangeincuts with 8up rintenfient Bosbyshcll to begin work at once,,' PThe Treasury is now paying out gold (!coln all over the country and as a consequence stands more in need of gold/ttfm heretofore. Writers and TWr Work. When people look :St tho numerous volumes written by Wbtt, Dickens and Thackeray it strikes, them that these great writers -did an dnormous amount of work. i'K''-' ' Tho moclianicnl libdr of producing so many books is in itself something remarkable, but a bi&v newspaper man writes more in a yeotshan a successful novelist does in tvpaty years. Au activo reporter gri?uifc out, at the low cat estimate, 1600 Words a day, 42,000 in a month, 504,00^ in a year, cqnivalont in quantity to the reading matter of nearly six three-/mndrod-page novels. Homo reporters have been at work from twenty to forty years At lO^nrnon w?>rilH uiny vewrs 120,000 words, ai/l in forty years 20,160,000 words, o? au amount of matter equivalent to 22W novels of 300 pages each, the work oi ?ny fifty industrious novelists. It is very evident fiom these figures that newspaper writing represents hard work. But let us go a little further with these statistics. In order to write twenty words a man's llngeru travol over the space of a foot with two or three distinct movements in the formation of each letter. At this rate it will bo seen that, as there are 5280 feet in a mile, a newspaper man in forty years makes his penoiT travel about 195 miles with a vertical and a lateral motion. This work is aside lrom tlio reporter's time and labor spent in getting his facts, but even this superficial calculation should mako it plain that the meohanical or physical labor of writing is much greater than the general public supposes. We have had in our mind a writer who gets up only a collumn a day, but there nro mou who average two or three columns daily. To figure out the produce aud tho labor of such toilers would stagger belief and would oauso many young men to give up their journalistic aspirations. ?Atlanta Constitution. THE LABOR CONGRESS. Herbert Burrows Tatls a Pitiful Story and Draws Tears. Chicago, III.?At the session of the Labor Congress, Kate Field read the firs) paper before the Congress. It was written by Lady Emilia Dylkc, of London, tell log of the frightful condition of women in the labor market of the United Kingdom. Herbert Burrows, a representative of the English Social Democratic Fedcra tion, led the discussion which followed. He told of women who worked 12 hourt a day for $1.25 a week in the rail ant chain forges of Cardleigh Heath, ant there were many damp eyea in the hal when he said that they hang the cradle containing their little babies over th forges to prevent the little ones fren freezing or starving at home for want o care. He demanded equal pay for wo men who do the same work as men, am declared the woman question must b settled in labor circles before the labo question can be satisfactorily settled. Mi Burrows was vigorously applauded. , Louisville Banks Reopening. * Louisville, Kv.?The Fourth Na , tional Bank, one of the five Louisvil I banks to suspend payment during tb s recent panic, has resumed business. Tb , City National and the Merchanta'Nation will also resume within a few days. A informal meeting of the stockholders < the Kentucky National Bank .will 1 held to discuss the natter Qf reepenii 'bit ipfitution, . ^ FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. b bones as food. There is no doubt about the val of bone meal for promot ing tho^prow 8 of chickens; but for old fowls, to i 1 crease the egg supply, fresh boi * crushed or ground up should bo giv 1 occasionally. Tho fresher they a the better, because there is always certain amount of fatty animal matt about thorn which is highly nutrition and this is not to bo found in the c ( dinary bone inoal. Tho bono fo< should only be given occasionally, n more than twico a weok at the outsid , and in pieces not larger than a pea. . '' ~ Ibt* LAND. mmbbhp t m., . direct men nee rest oKho farm. Tho taxes and th interest on its cost go on just tl same as if it were earning something and this dotracts from tho net profl of tho whole. Often these idlo an waste places aro but a harbor for vei min and weeds, or if they do not be oomo bo it is because there is a con stant expenditure of labor to keep i clean, and this labor might be fn better expended in tho cultivation o some crop. It will pay better to cleai such places up once for all and pu them to some use. Most of them ar capablo of somo good. Not infre quently they would serve admirabl; for a timber tract.?Chicago Times. wood balls in lambs* stomachs. The presence of foreign substance: in the stomachs of animals is not at al infrequont. Tho Bawwon ryi it vary, Sometimes they aro duo to the animnli licking themselves or each other in the spring, when the hair is shedding, and lambs often pull the wool from the shoepa' udders in tho act of sucking. But sometimes it is duo to indigestion, by which an abnormal appetite is produced and the animals pull the woo! or bite off the hair tr? u?tinfv till* nr.. the stomach with undigested grass 01 hay. This, of co\?rse, increases th< disease of the stomach and soon produces failure of appetite, emaciation, diarrhoea, or prolonged constipation Then follows the common partial par alysis duo to tho disorder of the norv ous system resulting from maluutri t-ion, and the animals stagger about falling and lying disabled, or unabl to stand ou their fore or hind legs The remedy is difficult, as tho collet tion of hair forms a ball or wad ths cannot pass the opening into the bowel or collects in these and stops the past age. Tho only remedy is proventio by olosely watching tho stock, clippini the wool from the udders of tho shee and thoroughly carding and brushini the cows and horses to removo th loosened hair and prevent it from bt ing licked off.?New York Times. FARU AND GARDEN NOTES. Never buy a delicate horse. The Guernsey is loss nervous tha tho Jersey. Most trotting-bred colts havo to 1 taught to trot. A cow should not go dry for moi than threo or four wcoks. There are two kinds of money pr duoing sheop, tho mutton sheep ai the wool shoep. Improved quality is in demand. is quality that fills tho pocketbo< and not quantity. The lioe on tho colt can bo got r of by brushing the animal down wi a little kerosene emulsion. Water for young chicks should bo I arranged that only tho beaks c enter the drinking vessel. Two handsome, well-matched hors will always sell for moro than doul tho price eithor will bring soparatel 1 The soot of both wood and coal ^ very valuablo manure, on account j the sulphate of ammonia which it c< tains. a Every weed draws some moist) j from tho soil, and at this time of i f year the vines need all they can get - ripen the fruit. - * If tho hens stop laying at this s ? son it is boat to lot thorn rest, as e| r are cheap, and thoy will lay more wl ' eggs are higher. An exoellent fertilizer for oabbi Is nitrate of soda. If mixed with we and then applied, the effect will le noticeable in a fow daya. te Keep everything abont tho poul is house oloan at all times. Moro < al ease is caused by tho filthy condi 1 .n of the house and yards than by a thing else. ^ Corn, potatoes, and other small 01 >8 should not be plowed after they at any size, as the damage done the r ^^^iJfnJNW^thT^Unt more than tho plo ing helps it, but very shallow cultb tiou can be eoDtinned for somo tii ne yet. This will keep tlowu tho wet dh and make the soil mellow, in ICS . HBCTPBS. en Raspberry Cream?Put six ounc re raspberry jam to a quart of erear H pnlp it through a lawn sieve; add *r it the juice of a lemon and a little s "*> gar, and whisk it till thick. Servo ,r" in a dish or glasses. _>d Lemon Custard Pie?Oroto the rii ot of a lemon and squeexo tho juice on e, toacupful of sugar and a table Hpoo ? ful of flour mixed together. Beat to froth the yolks of three eggs and st into them a cupful of new milk, tht ^ mix in the sugar, flour and juice, ac replace tho juice with a generous ha h cupful of swcot cream. Add a bit < it butter, pepper anil salt. Pour wnil d hot over golden brown slices of we buttered toast and nerve without ih - lay. Alexandre Pudding?Pla^o a jell; 't mold on ice. Put a layer of plain jel ,r ly on tho bottom. When set add layer of pink jelly, made by adding i 11 drop of prepared cochineal; when se * put a lining in tho mold. If you liav< e not a centre mold, use a small (in bak '* ing-powder box instead, placing in tin y center of tho mold. Add alternati layers ot tbo plain and pink jellie: about this until the mold is full s When set take out the powder box am j All in with custard cream the space i leaves. When all is quite firm turt , out on a fiTFTr nrrrt?mrv? with whipped , cream around tue p-i j;| Macaroni with Tomato Sauce?Boil . nnfl-nnftrtur n( a nminfl "f iinnnriiir in plenty of boiling, waited water foi twenty minutes or until tender. Druii *n a colander, thon throw in cold wa I ter for tlve minntew to blanch. Drait again. Stew one pint of tomatoes foi -IpMteajin minutes t.heu nross tliroucli i r smootn; men anil tuu lummw-o ...... 3 stir until it thickonw; season with sal and pepper; add the macaroni, sti gently until heated, and serve. newspapers in japan. Thero are liiO newwpapers am . magazines published in Tokyo, th most important, from the t.tandpoin e of circulation, being the Asabi Shin ! bun, or Morning News, Asabi moauin morning and Shimbuu meaning new ^ This paper enjoys a circulation of luO jB 000 copies daily, while at Osaka a pap< of the wamo name prints over 130, OG n papers every morning. The Daily News of Tokyo has a cii p culatiou of 30,000 copies, but in spit ^ of thin small circulation it probabl e has fully us much weight with the h tolligeut rending community as liav those papers which circulate mot largely. The circulation of the Mori ng News (Asabi Hhinbum) is grcatl due to the fact that it prints from da n to day continued serial stories ? fiction, and on this account is lnrgel bought by the women in Tokyo an vicinity. Tho Daily News does n< adopt this feature?which, 1 think, ro American?but on the contrary devot its space to all the news happenings the day. The reporters of tho Daily Nc "cover" all tho murders, suicidi It firee, court trials, receptions ai >k social, theatrical and sporting evei in a similar manner to the grt id American newspapers. It is also mo th fearless in its editorial utterances i garding politics, and while Japan is hjj Empire, it must be remembered tl aa the people elect members to the Hoi of Representatives. og In addition to the Morning Nt )jt) and the Daily News, there aro thir ly tlireo other daily j?apers in Tokyc largo majority of which* are morn: papers. Japan has not as yet adop to any extent the American custom m printing evening papers, either sepai or in connection with tho mom 310 edition, tho > to The Parrot Industry. The steamship Heneca, which roacl eft- port the other day, was converted ii ggs a regular aviary by 850 Cuban parrc iou whioh were consigned to a bird fane in thin city. Tho parrots made ] miserable for all on shipboard dur kter the voyage, for they had gono throt be ? course of training under tho tntel of Cuban women. All tho parrots try young, some less than eight weeks < (liB. and fully two-thirds of them have ( lion *? 1,6 '*y hand. Imagine the ta kny. These birds are taken from the n when very young and practically h ,opH less, and are reared by the Cuban ^ n men for the market.?PhiladaL oots R?oord- ? . "" . FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. " h . v mo The Semite. ids 15th Dat.?Tho final voto was tnken in the Cose of tho Senators appointed t?y tlis Governors of Montana ami Washington to fill vacancies caused by tho expiration of regular terms, and tho Senate decldod adversely to tho right of tho ies Governor of n Stnto to mnko suoii nppointments. The bill nllowitig National 11 J' banks to increase thoir circulation up to i tho par valuo of tbo bonds deposited by them to secure circulation, was taken up ; u- and Mr. Cockreii's amendment for tho redemption of $25,000,000 two per cent. l>onds to be pai<l for by a new issue of legal tendor notes, was rejected. A bill Was ro, ported from tho Judiciary Committeo by Mr. Hill for tho repeal of tho Federal Election a law, and it went on tho calondor. Tho JIouso bill to repeal tbo Rbormnn net was rou" ported and referred to tho Finance Comn inittoo. ICth Dat.?Tho Finance Committee ro'F ported tho House Repeal blll.wlth an amend)n mcnt substituting tho Voorhoos bill. Mr. Hill spoke in favor of Mr. Stewart's rosolulu tion of Inquiry into tbo alloged deficiency in the'Treasury, nod Messrs. Sherman, Mills,. . 17th Dat. Several petitions cubing iol m 1 'w } tho immedlnto passago of tho bill repealing 10 the purchnso clause of tho Sherman act wero J1 presented. Mr. Stewart (Nov.) offered a resolution which was, on his own motion, -- referred totho Finance Committee, directing tho Secretary of tho Treasury to inform tho Senate how tho revenues slneo tho beginning y of tho present fiscal year compared with tho estimates. Mr. Sherman mndo a long speech in favor of tho repeal of his silver purehaso act of 1R90, asserting that that act was by no means tbo solo cause of financial it depression. Mr. Teller finished his speech . in favor of freo coinage. Executive session. o 18m Day.?Mr. Fry (Mo.) offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing tho " Secretary of tlio Treasury to furnish to tho L) Senate a statement showing for tho last two years tho exports ami imports carried e under tho sovernl flags engaged in foreign carrying trade.??'Tho IIouso bill for tho repeal of tho Sherman act was taken up, and Mr. Woleott (Col.1 spoke in opposition to, and Mr. Cnffcry (La.) in favor of, its 1 passage. Mr. Feffor's resolution as to . National banks refusing to pay depositors checks in currency, by a voto of 35 yens und i 21 nays, was referred to the Committeo on . Finance. Resolutions of sorrow for the 1 death of Representative Mutch lor, of Pounsylvanln^wero passed. _ I 1 speech ?gainst"fno ffwsoa, .OK -J2.5JUlwJws^ . I - -Notice was given by Mr. White (Uftl.J I I Ihnf ~cr?- ' -* ...... nvit.u viivi Il'MUIUI IUI13 r touching tho doath of tho Into Senator Stanford, of California, nnd would nak for their 1 consideration. Executive session. l Tho House. v 18m Dav.?The various amendments to\ ItW Wilson bill repealing tho purchasing I i clause of tho Sherman silver law wero do"* * vfltoolu^s] Ummi nuntiiil liv . t Maine, wanted his old rules. Speaker Crisp loft tho Chair and ropliod to Mr. Rood. r After further debate tho mnttcr was dropped. ?? Mr.Springer, of Illinois, introduced a bill to provido for tho coinago of tho seigniorage silver in tho Treasury. Roforrod. 20th Day.?Mr. Talbot (Mo.)askod unan. lmous consent to introduce a bill ropoaling ' the statutes nuthoitaing tho appointment of ,> marshals and supervisors of electlou, i hut Mr. IMnglcy (Mo.) objected. Mr. t j Ure.-ic nrldge (Ky.), from tho. Com. ! imttee on Appropriations, reported tho Ur1 pent Deficiency Appropriation bill, which, ;? r ppropriat< s *300.000, and it wits passed. The '.t'-ms ".r<*: $25,000 for bank-note paper, j" 200.000 'or coinago oi subsidiary coins, aud , $73,000 lor clerks to Representatives.??Tho Hons * resumed tho consideratiou of tho uowj code of rules. 10 21st Fay?Mr. Goodnight (Ky.) introduced n bili to create tho Eastern Judicial District of Kentuc >* *. Referred. Mr. Flynn(Ok.) r. introduced a bill granting to settlers on certain lands in Oklahoma tho right to hotneO stead entries. The House resumed tho eonv sldcration of tho rules without action. y 22i> Dav.?Tho House spent the day in disl cussing tho rules. Several amendments to tho rules, designed to prevent filibustering, 0 were introduced and lost. Mr. Dingley (Me. ) 'o declared himself as opposed to filibustering. . Mr. Morse's amendment, prohibiting tho smokiug of tobacco upon tho floor of tho jy House, was carried by lllty-iivo yeas to llftjfaiouuvs. l-v A Voracious Blackbird. >f 1 A remarkable occurrence, the killing 1(j find devouring of a sparrow by a black^ bird, was witnessed the other morning ? l?v n larire crowd of business men and IN o- - -- CH street pedestrians. The blackbird was 0f first noticed standing on a limb of a tree near its nest. A few feet below, vva on another limb, was perched tho ,s sparrow, whicli every moment or so [u| ' would ffy^toward the blackbird's nest, i(h as if to invade it. ;ftt The blackbird, with a fluttering of iro its wings and a few shrill notes, would ro. rush to tho defense of its nest, when an the sparrow would retreat. Tho sparlat row, however, was not to be scared isc away, and, with tho impudence characteristic of its kind, it was no sooner ?wa settled down safely on tho limb than f y. it was again threatening an attack on tho blackbird's nest. jng This continued for probably ten minted utes, when tho blackbird, greatly *ocof cited and unable to longer control its .ftf0 anger, flew down toward tho sparrow ing as tho latter ascended, catching tho back of its neck in its bill and bearing it to tho pavement. Reaching the pavement, the blackbird released ita 1C(] hold and dealt tho sparrow a blow on ?* 5 e il. i j x ? ix q^0 lac 81UO oi iuu ncaii, turning n. over on itu bock. It thon placed itM foot on iier tlio sparrow'H breast and tore it to life pieccH, dovouring the flesh with groat ing avidity and evident rolish.?Philadeligb pbia Press. ago Willing to Condense. are ??j?j m,l8t not listen to you, Mr. Capphead," protoBted tho bluBhing dill girl, with oyes downcast. "Y011 are ^ ' only trifling, and?and, besides it is ??ts getting late." elp- "Please hoar mo out, Miss Helen 1" pleaded tho infatuated young reporter, phis ??I'H cut it down to two hundred and fifty words!"?Chicago Tribune, $?! 3 *