Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Crossing the Bar* . fliwMt and evening star, And ont clear cali for me? And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put ont to sea. But such a ?de as moving seems asleep, Too foil for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the bound less deep, Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, \ And after that the dark ! And may there be no saduess of farewell When I embark ; For iho* from out our tourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.* ?[Lord Tennyson. A WAR STORY. TOLD EY AX EX-CONFEDERATE. ! It was about 10 o'clock at night and ihe Federals nuder Geu. Hunter were lying in front of Lynchburg. Why they did not enter we did not know and never learned, but they must lutvo overestimated ihethiu line of Confed erate defenders, as they hesitated to advance. Be that as it may, they -,. could easily have walked over us that ?i?ght, for we bail but a few hundred hungry, tired and worn-out Confeder ates to bar their advance. Conditions changed, however, before morning. About.lO o'clock that night I was on picket, posted behind a hillock, from which I couhl sec the Yankee picket about 200 yards away. Just behind me there was a thicket of underbrush or fow bushes, following the low ravine along the foot of the hill. I had kept a suspicions eye on that long scattering line of underbrush for over au hour, for 1 knew that it led around the little hill and out in front of the Federals, and thought how easily the Yankees could creep up aud around in our rear if they only knew of it. About ten o'clock I heard some ? one making bis way through the brush, coaling iu my direction. Whoever he was he did not try to conceal his advance, but came along stumbling aud crashing through tbc I rush, mut tering and grumbling as though he was considerably out of humor over something. The nature of his advance relieved me of any alarm 1 might otherwise have felt, but as I knew that no one had any business tramping and crash ing about iu the brush and making noise enough to attract j t the attention of the enemy. I fell back a few paces and waited until the fel low struck the little opening fifteen or twenty feet away. instead of a drunken Confederate, which I more than half expected to see, a blue-coated Yankee kicked ids way through the last brush and came to a halt as if he had been shot at the command, "Halt! Throw down that gun!** "Well, 1*11 be blessed if you ain't a rebel !** "Yes, and you arc a Yankee. Step out aud hold up your hands.*' He ? ^ had dropped his gun, and when I saw ' that lie had no other arms I told him to sit down on the grass. The fel low's surprise and astonishment was too clearly apparent for a mistake, bet I conclude I to question him. and asked: "How did you get in here aud what were you after?" ? "After! what do you 'spose a fel- j f low'd be after who hasn't had any* !. thing to eat for two days?" . You didn't expect to get a Iuuc'i ; j down on Red Kow over lucre, in j . Lynchburg, did you?** j t "Not by a big sight ; I xTMu't know ! I was outside ot our lines, but then 1 j c must have been so 1 ungry that J ! t didn't notice, and 1 expect our pickets j v _ are too blamed hungry to keep a sharp j j |f lookout, and so they didn't see me. j ? ^JJt?n'tfiee how 1 got in here. Say I j c su re you're a reb ? ' I 1 told him there was no doubt on i g that fcore, anyhow, and that our fel- j lows had not beeti in?danger of loun- j t dering from a superabundance of 1 > good tftings. or very ordinary, com mon, cvery-day son of food cither for months, but as I had a pretty good chunk of cornbread in my haversack, j l; I would divide. j , "Sit where you are and help your- j ^ self.*" said 1, as I pitched the grub ! ? sack down beside him. It does me j ^ good today to shut my eyes aud see I that lit tie white-headed Yankee eat. ? _ It did me so much good even then that j t 1 stood and looked down on him as he J J; rammed a handful of coarse cornbread j ? into his mouth, then turned up his j r canteen and filled up lite inteislices j - with water ani wund up by gulping j down the mass as quickly as muscles j and ravenous energy could perform ! I hat function. f kept on looking and i \ tho Yankee kept on eating until the j c confounded frilow had eaten his share j g mid mine, too. "WelJ; I'll be banged?M i was beginning in constei nation (and I was about te finish by ' f (swearing a little, I'm afraid, as 1 think i \ over it at this late day), when my t prisoner seemed also suddenly struck s with the knowledge of having imposed upon my hospitality, for as soon as he could gulp down the last mouthful he j eiid, "Blame my button**. Johnny, if ? a I hain't eat up the lot. Ym sorry, | a but I was so hungry ? didn't know?" c lie we looked at each other and i ihe whole affair struck us so ludicrous \ that we both burst into a h??rty laugh, t 1 sit down and laughed until the tears ? i ran down my chcck*,and that Yankee ! rolled over and laughed aud m:?.de such ! a racket that I wa? afraid some of the j t pickets in front of us would op?n fire, j 1 but rhey didn't. j ( While we v.ctc siili laughing the ? t relief came, and tbe officer iu com- j 2 inand said to me: --Where did you get that fellow?"' . t The fellow's good nature and his" j \ enjoyment of the joke (an unconscious \ 9 one, of course) was so great ih&l I tic- j c (crmiued, on the impulse of the mo- j 1 .meut, to fifct better acquainted with \ e bim before turning him over as a prisoner, if possible, and when I re* ported to ray superior I added that tbe prisoner came from Ohio, not a great distance from my old home in West Virginia, and that I would like to have a talk with him. [In explana tion I will say that the prisoner had told me that he belonged to auolher regiment.] Of course, under ordinary circumstances, such a thing would have been impossible, but just as our lino was filing into town tho whistle of locomotives and rattle of drums announced the arrival of re-enforce mcnts, and while the attention of the sqnad was attracted I nudged my pris oner and slipped into camp with him without attracting atteution. Lying under a dog tent wc talked for several hours. I told him where ? came from, and fonnd that he had actually been born aud raised not thirty miles distant from my o?d home, although in a different state. Ue knew many of my acquaintances, and I had known many people with whom he had been familiar. Any one listen ing to us would have thought we were old acquaintances and old friends, and We certainly became friends, if not old ones, that night. My Yankee friend began to show a great deal of uneasiness before a great while, and I soou learned that he had a terrible dread of being sent to Lib by, but as I had succeeded thus far in running things to suit myself, I told him not to be uneasy, but to lie still until I came back. First I made him take off his blouse ind hie cap, and these I rolled up ami carried out of the tent under my arm. in fifteen minutes I had exchanged the hluc jacket and cap for the gray jacket ind ffiav slouch hat of a Confoderate [ its owner was asleep. From another sleeping soldier I borrowed a big chunk of com bread. Returning to [he tent I told my prisoner to put on the jacket and hat?a mighty risky , business for both of us?and then led ( iiim down over the hill, keeping in the . iark, until we struck the same ravine nrbere I had captured him, but at a , point 100 feet distant from the picket, j Ai ter guiding him to the opening be tween the hills, I pointed out the di- , -ection of the camp of his friends, and ifter telling him that they had proba- < )]y retreated (which I learned after- , ward was a fact), I toid him to keep , >n going, a* our fellows would make , ;hings lively that morning. We then diook hands and parted. Five years ago, while sitting in a ; jig country store in Ohio with about a , lozen ex-Union soldiers, swapping ? arar storie?, 1 toid of the foregoing oc- - ?urreuce. When I got up the next norning a half dozen horsemen had < ust arrived, and at their head was a uiddie-aged gentleman whose air aud < jarriagc betokeued prosperity and lappinese. lie sprang from his horse tnd walked?almost ran?to the porch >f the hotel where I was standing, , ;eized me by both shoulders with a , >:tir of trembling hands, looked me in ? he eyes a moment, as if in doubt, and hen actually hugged me as the tears an down his cheeks. "God bless you, ( Johnny. I have always hoped, but ? lever expected ;o s*e you ag ?in. (ret , :our things and come along," and, , ictually, before 1 could recover my < ?uses or catch the first glimpse of the < neaniug of the strange scene, 1 was ? tcated on a hogse in the midst of the ?, srowd and on mv way somewhere be r * "ore I found oiit that the gentleman Tho had met mc so affectionately was ny quondam prisoner. What a talk we had, and how many [uest ions each of us asked 1 can not now elf, but they covered the lapse of the , ears between the time when the bul ets sang requiems aud the shell and , hrapnet shrieked, down over decades , >f peace and prosperity. Our ride aided in front of a fine, large two- j tory brick country residence, about | vhieii everything indicated the in- j elligcnt cultivated taste of its own rs. An o'a\ but sweet-faced and ? tande?me lady stood at the stop step of he veranda, und as my conductor led | ne up to her and said: "It is he, {I nether,"' sue placed her arms around ny neck and kissed me. and while ' < he tears fell from her eyes, she said: < God blest you, my son ; may lie al* yays prosper yon." j 1 did not get away that day, nor the j icx', and when I did leave on the i bird day. forced by pressure of busi- j ics?, 1 left behind rae friends whom j t is one of the greatest pleasures of ] ny life to visit.?[T. Boxo, iti New ? fork .Sun. People Who Live Long. j "What occupation tends most to ?rolong life ?'* asked a reporter of the , hicf ma'hematican for one of the icat life insurance companies. i ( ' That is a difficult question," he re- j j died. ?* cati only answer it by re- ! , erring to the occupations of persons | vhosc lives are and have been insured j ? ty us. Inasmuch as they number evoral hundreds of thousands they j vili afford a pretty good basis from j, rliich to draw conclusions on the sub- ? ec'. According to this evidence it j ippears that commercial travelers and j igents live longer than men in any tber kiud of business, notwithstand- | ng the hazards which attend trans K>rtalion by rail and water. Next to hem c?me dontists, teachers and pro- j lessors, including music teachers." "Ami who after them?" I < "Next to them iu longevity arc hat- j 1 ers, clergymen and missionaries. The i ? ast may occasionally furnish food for j I he larder of untutored savages, but i ] hey aie a first-class risk nevertheless, ] sText come bankers aud capitalists, j ? vbo seem to live just a trifle longer j ? hau butchers aud marketuieu. Law- ! i ere and jewelers foilow, aud they are ! ucceeded on the list by merchants, ped llers, milkmen and pawnbrokers, j I'hen come gardener*, laborers, civil \ ! ngiuecrs and canvassers. Perhaps ! tbe treatment which canvassers are apt to receive in the ordinary course of their business shortens their lires." "Where do newspaper men come in?* "Oh, they don't live so long as any of the people I have mentioned. Even bookkeepers and bank cashiers, as well as artists and architects, are ahead of them. They come in next with the printers, physicians, and gentlemen who are not engaged in any active employment. Then follow lb* apothecaries and photographers, and them iu order bakers, cigarmak ers, real estate agents, army officers and soldier?, liquor dealers, mariners and naval officers. Shortest lived of all seem to be the auctioneers, board inghouse keepers, barbers aud dt iv ?re." "Do you take into consideration the question of a customer's occupation in granting a policy?1* "Not unless it is more hazardous lhau any of those I have mentioned, though if he were in doubt about ac cepting the man as a risk for other reasons, such a point might turn the scale."*?[Washington Star. Aesthetic Birds. The most remarkable instance of aestheticism among birds ?3 that ex hibited by the Australian bower birds, who bnild long galleries in which to play, adorning them with shells, feathers, leaves, bones, or any colored or glitt3ring object which comes in their way. Capt Stokes described one of these bower birds as taking a shell alternately from each side of the bower and carryiug it through in its beak. Lumholtz describes several of these play houses of the bower birds; he sr y s they are always to be found "in small brushwood, never in the open (ic*d; and in their immediate viciuity the bird collects a mass of different kinde of objects, especially snail shells, which are laid in two heaps, one at each entrance?the one being always much larger than the other. There are frequently hundreds of shells, about 300 in one heap, and 30 in the other. There is usually a hand ful of green berries partly inside and partly ou?side the bower." In his : interesting book, "Among ? Cannibals," Lumholtz describes a play ground of what would appear to he a different species of this bird, showing ?ven a greater aesthetic taste. He says: "On the top of the mountain I heard in the dense scrubs the loud and un ceasing voice of a bird. I carefully approached it, sat ou the ground and shot it. It was one of the bower birds, with gray aud very modest plumage and of the sizs of a thrush. As I picked up the bird my attention was drawn to a fresh covering of green leaves on the black soil. This was the bird's place of amusement, which be neath the dense scrubs formed a square about a yard each way, the ground basing been cleared of leaves and rubbish. On this neatly-cleared spot the bird had laid large, fresh leaves, one by the side of the other, with considera ble regularity, aud close by he sat singing, apparently extremely happy aver his work. As soon as the leaves decay they are replaced by new ones. On :his excursion 1 saw three such places of amuscme tt all near each other, and all had fresh leaves from ihe same kind of trees, while large heap of dry, withered leaves was lying close by It seems that the bird scrapes away the mold every time it changes the leaves, so as to have a dark back ground, against which the green leaves make a better appearance. Can any one doubt that this bird has the sense of beauty?"? [Chamber*? Journal. Warning in Breams. "I am a great believer in dreams," said Richard C. Mason, a guest of the Laclede. "Call it superstition, if yon please?we are prone to sneer at what we cannot comprehend. One day in the summer of '79 I lay down on a iouugc in my office and took a nap?a vevy unusual thing Tor me. 1 felt ompelled to do it. I dreamed that I was called homo to attend my mother, who had been taken suddenly ill. I found her dead, and in her hand a piece of paper upon which was printed iu large letters, ?1 have entered the yates of the Now Jerusalem.' I was iwakened by a messenger boy, who landed me a dispatch ajinouncing that my mother had just died of apoplexy, that might have been a coincidence, rou say. Four years ago 1 had a brother killed in a railway collision in Massachusetts. I was at my home in *t. Joseph, Mo., at the time. The next morning ? told my wife that my mother was dead?tiiat he had both egs crushed off in a railway accident. [ had dreamed it?seen the accident as plainly as though I stood by his side. [ had just reached the office when 1 received a dispatch announcing his leath in the manner I had dreamed. Naturally I have taken a great iuterest in dreams, and I know of hundreds of jases almost as remarkable a* my own. People ate chary about telling their ? reams, because they have a horror of jeingcalled superstitious."? [St.Louis r? lobe-De ino erat. Rebuking a Tenor. tenor iu a Brooklyn church often mdeavored to cause fun in the choir L?y making Uroll faces at the other siugcrs. There was one member of [he congregation who considered his levity idioti';. In the collection bas ici be dropped a paper containing ^ese words: "To the Pastor:?Tbo services would bo much more interest ing if you could persuade your tenor io act more like a man, and less like a monkey." The paster handed the sSp to the tenor, and since then, during service, his face has been as gravo ?s that of a high-priced ee.\t?*k? QUEER REMEDIES. Remarkable Things a Druggist Must Keep in Stock. Dried Pigs Liver as a Sure Cure For Hysterics. The other day a reporter of the News relaxed himself from the weary strife of life by spending a few hours iu a drug store, where he has a friend m the shape of a prescription clerk. In the intervals of applications for seidiitz powders, epsom salts, court plaster, patent medicines and such other exciting episodes as diversify the existence of poor pilgarlicks, he commenced to divert himself by an investigation of the stock of the store. He began by being curious only, aud ended by becoming interested. It should be remarked right here, in order to explain certain things which he discovered that this special simple dispensary is located in a neighbor hood largely populated by persons of foreign birth, meagre education aud hard-working lives?the class, in short, most prone to superstitions and to adherence to old idea* One of the first oddities of the stock which drew the reporters attention was rattlesnake oil. It came from Pennsylvania and Connecticut princi pally, said his friend, the expert, and was called for as a lubricant in cases of rheumatism. So was skuuk-grease, which was another item in stock. Most of it was furnished by a man out West, who kept a skunk farm and killed his stock to sell their skins and grease. Opossum fat was another rheumatic remedy, which could be had to order, and alligator grease was kept on hand as a remedial agent against fits, much in favor with our colored population. Peanut oil aud cotton seed oil were kept as substitutes for olive oil, and, said the expert, were infinitely superior to the common quality of that oil sold to the ordinary domestic trade here. Mouy eating houses used nothing else. Lauoliu was a grease extracted from the wool of sheep. It had the pro perty of mixing with water, and was a favorite-basis for certain salves, as it did not grow rancid. Dog fat was another specific, and goose grease still another. This latter was believed by many to be a sure cure for the croup. Among the vegetable and herb medi cines, the assortment of simples was simply amazing. Nearly every root, plant and flower known had been con verted into curative service. Wayside weeds were conveiled to medical use, and pretty garden flowers made to answer similar purposes. There were tinctures and extracts of all sorts of things, from cow-itch to poison-ivy, which under portentous Latin titles, figured in prescriptions, said the ex pert. Cow-itch was a rjmedy for worms. Considering its general quali ties, perhaps it really does rperate on the principal description by the medi cal student in Aloert Smith's once famous sketch, by tickling the worms to death. Two centuries ago the list of con coctions or creations supposed to be of utility in restoring human health in cluded some of the most wonderful humbugs superstition could by any possibility induce a man to swallow. Dried crabs' eyes, powdered pearls, ground oyster shells, mos* from dead men's skulls, the fat of human corpses and blind puppies mashed up in a mortar were but a few of them. To this day in tropical countries people bitten by scorpions kill one, mash it up and drink the juice in alco hol as an antidote: a barbaric version of the remedy for being out too late of a night, known as a 'hair of the dog that bit you.*' It only goes to illustrate what a grip blind belici has on the human mind that, iu this en lightened age, an intelligent pharma cist must keep up a stock of empirical and useless material, because there is a demand for it which he must sup ply. "The fad is," said the prescription clerk to the reporter, "that a good half of the drugs iu this store are su perfluous. No druggist can prosper who carries a complete stock. If he makes a living he is lucky. Most of them work like doifs and die about as poor. But what can a man do? Some doctors put a whole row of ingredi ents in a prescription. These often include expensive ;..ngs for which there arc not half a dozen calls a year. But you must have them on hand. You have got to run a whole line of patent medicines, for instance, because many physicians u?o them in their prescrip tions, (rood evening, madam/" to an old woman with a shawl over her head, who spoke in German. "Dried pig'*s liver powder, madam? What do you want it for? A case of hys.erics, sh? Well, wc have nono in stock. Win not try a bromide instead.'' But the old lady concluded to go to the opposite store and tec if they had not got ^oine of her sovereign specific in stock there. ? fNcw York News. Humor on the Stump. It must have been rather disconcert ing to ?he declamatory speaker who, despising all technicalities, tried to storm hi> bearers by sheer force of eh % tencc, but who, on uttering the words, "In the book of Nature if is written,"' was interrupted by quiei ; coking gentleman with ;? mild re quest that, he would name the page.'1 Some:inte?, however, the interruptor receives a '-retort courleoiu" he hatd ly bargained for, and a capital story iiiusirativc of lids is told of Lord l'nliitri>i.ou. Ilii Lmlship, who was m inveterale leer, possessed a roadl hess of repartee and a quaint sense > hum ?r that often stood him iu good - ? ad. Once, wlic?i canvassing Hamp shire, iu conjunction with Sir George Staunton, ho held a meeting at a hotel which was but dimly lighted at each end by two small windows. During the noble Lord's speech he was frequently interrupted by cries of "l<o, no!" proceeding from a fat ; little man in one of the windows, who was butler to an old admiral in the neighborhood. There were loud calls to bring him forward; but Lord Palmer s ton promptly said: "Pray don't interfere with the gentleman. Lot him remain in the window. Providence has de nied him any inteliecutal light; it would be hard, indeed, to deprive him of the light of heaven!'' Again, when electioneering at Tau ton, he was greatly troubled by a butcher who asked him to support a certaiu Radi cal policy. At the end of one of his Lordship's speeches the butcher called out: "Lord Palmerstou, wili you give me a plain answer to a plain ques tion?'' After a slight pause Lord Palmerston replied, "I will." The butcher then asked, "Will you or will you not support this measure?"?a Radical bill. Lord Palmerston hesi tated, and then with a twinkle in his eye, he replied, "I will- ?." Then he stopped. Immediatey the Radicals cheered tremendously. "Not"?con tinued his Lordship. (Loud Conser vative cheers.). When these ceased Lord Palmerston finished his sentence ?"tell you." Then he immediately retired. Fox was seldom, if ever, at a loss for a retort, and a story is told how, when canvassing Westminster, he ap plied to a shopkeeper for his vote aud interest. The man produced a halter, with which, he said, he was ready to oblige him. "Thank you," replied Fox, "for your kind ofler, but I should be sorry to deprive you of so valuable a family piece.?[London Staudard. To Suspend Animation. "It has been frequently said that truth is stranger than fiction," re marked Dr. Henry Powderly to a lit tle party that were discussing Wash ington Irving's romantic story of Rip Van Winkle iu the Lindel! rotunda. "1 often think that I would like to go to sleep and wake up in the full enjoy ment of my faculties a century later ?say, about the year 2000. I believe that this will be successfully done. Cases of suspended animation for con siderable periods of time frequently occur. I havo myself pronounced people dead who are now in the full enjoyment of vigorous life. I have no doubt that thousands of people have been entombed alive after having been examined by reputable aud care ful plrysicians. If the life force may be so completely suspended for a day or two and then resume, why may it not be taken up again after the lapse of a century or more? Irving makes Rip Van Winkle age dnriu g his twenty years' nap. That is, I think, wrong. Should the life force be so completely suspended that a man would not require food there would be little or no waste, and he would wake upas youthful and vigorous as when he dozed off. I believe that it will yet be possible for a man, by tak ing century naps, to enjoy a few years of life during every century for 1000 years or more. 1 can see no good easou for believing that the nineteenth century has witnessed the high tide of scientific achievemeut."?[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Great Irrigation Scheme. The San Joaqu?n ranch is to be irri gated, aim 20,000 acres now producing barley will be made susceptible of cul tivation. The scheme is a prodigious one and means the expenditure of $500,000 in the work. Men and teams are at work excavating a ditch, which will be thirteen miles long aud graded around the base of Hie San Joaqu?n hills. The Santiago Creek, which flows a large supply of water the year round, will be dammed up iu what known as the narrows of the Santiago Canon, and from there the water will be led by ditches to all parts of the San Joaqu?n ranch. The dam will be 00 feet thick at the base, 120 feet high and 3G? feet wide, and will be built of masonry and in the most substantial manner possible. This dam will back up the water of San litigo Creek a distance of over a mile and nearly three miles wide, and this lake will be one of (he largest artificial hikes in the state. The work is being vigorously pushed along, and its completion will be hailed with de liyht !>y all our people. It means the development of a large area of land now sparsely settled and but poorly cultivated; hence the great advance ment of the country's wealth.? [Los Angeles (Cai.) Herald. Humble Origin of Precious Stones. It is a singular fact that, the most I precious gems arc composed of the j most commun substances. The dia mond is the purest form of carbon ami is identical in composition with ordinary charcoal without llie impuri ties of the latter. The ruby, on the I other hand, is nearly pure ?ilumina, a j substance found iu profusion in every j clay bank- The sciedtific name for I crystalizcd alumina is corundum, and j the gems comprehended under this i designation are sometimes more valu ? able than diamonds of the same I weight. The rubv, the sapphire, the f j orienta! emerald, the oriental topaz. ! ihn oriental amethyst, the oriental aquamarine, the oriental chrysolite, j the hyacinth and other precious stones ; arc all alumina, the varieties of color being caused by inappreciable quanti, ties of metallic oxides.? [St. Loui* Republic The total acreage of Scotland is :,\94<i,u:M O? this comparatively ! small lauded area one nobleman owns j ,326,000 acres and h h wife 11!',879 j Rc.'ce more. IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS The Second Session of the Fifty-second Congress Coraes. Daily Routine of Business Transacted in the Interest of the People. The solemn and quiet appearance which the national cap?tol his worn for the last few montili was al! rone Monday. Every hing was instiet with life and live'y congratulation?. A beautiful, cri?p winter day u-hered iu the second session of the Sfty second congress, and long be fore the hour of noon, spect stori began to arrive at the house w*mg of the cap?tol in order to secure advantageous seats in the galleries. The members also began to arrive early and the scene presented on the floor was a livelv and bustling one. Condolences as well as congratula tions were the order of the dav, and po litical friend and foe greeted one another with every manifestation of personal good feeling. Ex-Speaker Reed was amoDg the first to appear in the hall and afrer he took his seat he was greeted by men of all political opinions and by ubiquitous newspaper men, all of whom he received with a twinkling eye, pleasant smile and hearty handshake. The democrats, as a rule, congregate in the space in the rear of the democratic side of the hall and in dulge in a conversational love feast. Handsome floral tributes decked many of the desks. As the bands of the clock pointed to the hour of twelve Speaker Crisp ascended to the Speaker's chair, and *8 his gravel dropped, a solemn hush ?ollowed the noise and confusion. The blind chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Milburn, delivered a brief ;md ingressive prayer, in which he returned thanks to Almighty God that so many of the r embers had been permitted to resume their duties in safety and in health. The first legis lation of the session was a petition pre sented to the house from John D ivenport, chief supervisor of elections for the southern district of New York, for a hearing before the bar of the house of representatives. It was referred to a select committee to invps'igate tbe ad ministration of the United Spates elec tion laws in the city of New York. The attendance of members of the house Tuesday was about the same as on Monday. Several absentees arrived, among tbem Bourke Cockran,Tammany's leader and orator. The session was de voted to hearing the message. When the reading concluded, Mr. Outhwaite. of Ohio, announced the death of his late colleague, Mr. Warwick, and the house adjourned. The house had a brief session of but little general interest Wednesday. It adjourned earlv out of the respect for the late Mr. McDonald, of New Jersey. Isaac M. Wise, a Jewish rabbi from Cin cinnati, who is a delegate to the Hebrew congress at Washington, made the open ing prayer. After the opening prayer and the read ing of the jouranal Thursday morning, the annual report of the secretary of the treasury was laid before the house and referred to the committee on ways and means. The call of committees for re ports was barren of results. In consider ation of the morning hour the pending business was the motion made by Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, to lay on the table the motion made by Mr. Holman, of Indiana, to reconsider the vote by which the house Wednesday passed the bid ter minating the reduction in engineering eorps of the Davy. Mr. Herbert's mo tion was agreed to. Yeas, 110, nays, 83. So the bill was passed. the senate. Eighteen senators were absent from their places at the opening session, in cluding Gibson, of Louisiana, and Kenna, of West Virginia, both seriously ill. Hill and Hiscock, of New York, Allison, of lows, and Jones, of Nevada, who is in Brussels attending tbe monetary confer ence. Senator Proctor, successor of Ed munds, was sworn in. The senate ad journed at 1.30 o'clock after a committee reported that the president would send his message Tuesday. The chaplain, in the opening prayer, feelingly alluded to the recent ? ffliction of the president. The reading of the message, presenta tion of petitions and intr- duction of bills and joint resolutions occupied the whole session of the sena' Tuesday. The vice president established what was thought a new departure by laying before the senate certificates, as far as received, from several states as to the choice of presi dential electors by those states. It is anticipated that the fight on the anti option bill will be early developed in the shape of petitions for and against the measure, but before the bill could be called up, as unfinished business of the last session, Mr. Sherman secured an ex ecutive session at which the president's recess nominations were referred to the appropriate committees. Immediately thereafter the senate adjourned. In the senate, Wednesday, Mr. Vest precipitated Indian debate by calling up his joint resolution for the appointment of a commission to negotiate with the 68,000 Indians of the civilized tribes for the r-irrender to the states of 45,000,000 ?t" s of land occupied by them, after re ta. Tng enough for homes in severalty for themselves and their belongings. Mr. Vest drew an animated picture of law lessness prevailing in the Indian Terri tory and of the feeling prevailing in Missouri, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas in favor of the absorption of the territory by the states. Mr. Platt, of Connecti cut, who has been looking into this question during the summer, as one the sub-committee, announc ed that he would continue the debate at an early day. An unusual incident in the proceedings of the senate was the offering of the opening prayer by Rabbi Joseph Silverman, of Temple Emanuel, New York, who is attending the rabbi convention. Dr. Silverman did not fol low the custom of orthodox Jews by cov ering his hea'l, but stood bareheaded during the proceedings. Mr. Miller, of Wisconsin, offered a joint resolution di recting the presi lent of the senate and speaker t f the house to appoint a com mittee of three senators and five repre sentatives to investigate as to the pro priety ot changing the revenue laws aud report to the next congress. he senate, after reading the j ournal Thursday, agreed that wheti it ad journed it be until Monday. Mr. Turpie, of Indiana, and Mr. Gibson, of Mary land, who had been on the list of absen tees for the lnst three days, took their seats. There are now but nine absentees. Mr. Allison, Mr. CVquitt, Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, Mr. Irby, Mr. Jones, of Ne vnrta, Mr. K>nna, Mr. Stanford and Mr. Warren. The senate then at 12:30. ? n the motion of Mr. Sherman, proceeded to executive business. A half hour later the doors were reopened and a message pre sented from the house. The executive ses-ion ratifie ? the convention concluded between Chili aud the Uuited States for a settlement of tbe long existing claims of the United States against Chili; confirmed the noru ination of William M. Stone, . commissioner of general laud office; Da- ? vid P. Thompson, of Oregon, minister to Turkey; William Pot ter, of Pennsyl vanir, minister to Italy; Edward C. Little, oi Kansas,agent and co? sul general at Cairo, | Egypt; Louis A. Dent, of District, of j Columbia; cod su I at Kingston, Jamaica; - Louis E. McCamar. assistant justice of the supreme court District of Columbia; John H. Gear, of Ohio, assistant secre tary of the treasury, and Revera! ethers, including promotions in the revenue, inaline aud marine hospital service. Upon announcing the death of Represent ai?ve Warrick, of Ohio, the customary resolutions of regret were offered by Mr. Brice and adopt-d, and then as further mirk of respect for the memory of the dead member, the senate, st 1 p. m., ad journed till Monday. NOTES. The Davenport investigating commit tee has decided to take .no action on the petition of Chief Supervisor Davenport asking a hearing by congress in the de fense of the election law. The president sent to the senate Thurs day the following nominations: Mrs. Mary P. Dixon, postmaster at West Point, Ga. ; Mrs. Alice P. Bussey at Cuthbert, Ga. ; Jesse M. Littlejohn at Winchester, Tene, and Anna Durham, Clarksdale, Miss. Chairman Blanchard, of the river aud harbor committee says there will be no river and harbor bill passed at this ses sion. The sundry civil bill will carry about $167,000,000 for continuing the work od contract improvements author ized by the last session, but no new work will be contracted for. The republic m senators in caucus Monday afternoon, decided that, as Ari zona and New Mexico were certain to be admitted into the union by the d< mocrats next congress, it would be advisable for them to admit these territories and re ceive at least a part of the credit. Both bills having passed the house, it is prob able they will pass the senate before the Christmas holidays. Congress at this session will probably take some action to prevent cholera in the United States next year. Senator Chandler, chairman of the committee of immigration, has prepared a bill for prohibiting immigration into the United States during the year 1893. The idea si ems to be a popular one and it is prob able that a bill of this character will be adopted. The president's message sent to cong ress Tuesday met with hearty approval from the republicans of both houses. Many of them have been afraid that he would not be sufficiently vigorous and to tbem the message was a pleasant sur prise. The democrats look upon it as an utterance of the same character as Reed's closing address to the house of representatives two years ago. Mr. Boatner, of Louisiana, chairman of tbe special committee investigating Tom Watson's charge of drunkeness in the house, says he will call the special committee together within a iew days and see what its members desire to do in regard to the report submitted to the house the last day of the last session. The report states that Mr. Watson's charges were false and it leaves the mat ter to the house to decide what shall be done to Mr. Watson for making such false charges. Of course, some action must be taken. The result of the recent elections will have no effect on the work of the senate committee on finance, which has for al most two years been examining into the effect of the tarife laws upon imports and exports, the growth, production and prices of agricultural and manufactured articles at home and abroad, and upon wages, domestic and foreign. The ap proaching change in the administration will, however, hasten the report and cauce it to be submitted in its entirety at this session instead of going over until the fifty-third congress meets. The present reports from Montana, Kansas, Wyoming and Nebraska look like the democrats might not control the senate. That is, tnat they might not have an actual majority. Yet the gain of a senator each from New York, Wisconsin and California, with Mr. Kyle, of South Dakota, who calls himself an "indocrat," would give the democrats forty-three. The control of the senate would then turn on the votes of Peffer and Stewart, both of whom are third party men. The democrats are a little nervous over the situation, though they believe they will be able to organize the senate. The vice president laid before the sen ate, Tuesday, the report of the Nicara gua Canal company. Of the capital stock 10,145 shares have been subsciibed for and $10,014.50 paid thereon; receipts from other sources amount to $39,299.90; expenditures have been $815,049 cash and 31,990 shares of capital stock of the par value of $3,199,000. Work on the canal began June 3, 1889. Nineteen miles of the route have been cleared; sixty miles of telegraph line has been erected; a telephone system established; six miles of railroad constructed through swamps to enable the contractors to be gin work on the big cut at the eastern divide. THE IAMSCASE ENDED. The Defendants Won, But must Pay Costs. A Pittsburg, Pa., special of Sunday says: Final disposition of the celebrat ed lams case has been made. The court decided that the defendant should not pay the costs, thereby setting aside that part of the verdict d reeling that the costs of the aggravated assault and battery case should be equal ly divided between Colonel Srea Streator and Colonel Hawkins, imme diately after the verdict was rendered, Attorney Braddock moved ih it that part of it referring to costs should be set aside. The court granted a rule on the prosecu tors to appear and show cau*e why this shou'd not be granted. The case was argued several days a.o. THE TREASURER'S ESTIMATES Of the Money Needed to Bun the Gov ernment Next Tear. The secretary of the treasury has sub mitted to congress estimates for the fiscal year 1893 and 1S94, as follows: Legis lative establishment, $3,748,414; execu tive establishment, $21,528,301; judicial establishment, $054,600; foreign inter course, $1,787,079; military establish ment. $26 301,855,86; naval estimates, $23,671.815; Indmn affairs, $8,123,211; pensions, $166,831,350; public works, $18 030,678; miscellaneous, $35,507.189; permanent annual Appropriation, $115, 468,273. Funeral Services Over Gould. A New Voik spec al say>: Several j tin usuel people, morbid ?rom curiosity, ? stocd in the cold to see Jay Gould's fu- ? nera! emerge fr m the mansion Monday afternoon. Within the house wj:s a gathering of capitalists, railroad mag nates and others distinguished in the financial and c- mmercial world. About a hundred were present, including Chauncey Depew, Whitelaw Reid, Rus- j sell Stge. Judge Dillon, General T. T. Eckert, J. Piet repent Morgan, William H. Kisiam, Dr. rvin Green, R. C. j dowry, John Van Horn and others. LAID TO REST AT WOODLAWN. Jay Gould's fuueral occurred Tuesday. ! Nme carrioges followed the body to ! Wood lawn, where, after religious service the coffin was enclosed in a sarcophagus which was hermetically scaled and the family with their few friends drove home. There will be a temporary, guard placed around the mausoleum. The Panama Scandals. A Paris c ablegram of Thursday states that M. B' urge?is, minister of justice, has ordered the immediate arrest ot the members of council of the Panama Ca ?al company who are charged with a breach 'of * trust. The members of the company new ucder indict dictmeut are M. Ferdiuand De Lesseps, chaitman of the board of directors, M. Charles De Lcsseps, vie- chairman and M. Fontanes and Barton Cottu, direc tors. TELEGRAPHIC GLEAMS. Tie News of ?le f orli (Moused Into Ply and Pointed Paragraph Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers? The city armory at Columbus, Ohio, burDed Thursday. Several regiments lost their uniforms and accoutrements. Prof. John Strong Newberry, one of the most eminent geologists of the coun try, died in New Haven, Conn.. Thurs day. The New York grand jury has found two indictments against Gardner, agent of the Parkhurst Society, for extorting money. Wilson G. Hunt, a wealthy capitalist, of New York died Wednesdsy, aged eighty years. He was a director in more financial institutions than any other man in this country. Jacob B. Crowell, an aged and wealthy citizen of Greencastle, Pa., lost $5, 000 by a three card monte man Thursday. It was the usual game of a stranger want ing to buy his farm. A special of Tuesday from Hot Springs, Ark., states that Senator Gibson is slowly but surely sinking, and his relations and friends are calmly waiting the end. He still remains conscious and has given in structions regarding his burial. A broken tire on the Wagner sleeper Alva, on the New York and Montreal express bound north, threw the cars into a ditch twenty miles south, of Burling ton, Vt., Wednesday. Of ten passengers in the two coaches, seven were injured; none killed. A Baltimore special says: The annual congress of the national prison associa tion of the United States adjourned Wednesday to meet in Chicago a year hence. The session has been interesting, though nothing of unusual importance was done, A new York special of Monday says : It is reliably reported that the United States will interfere with the Cuban scheme to farm out its custom's revenues to a French syndicate. The secretary of state has warned the authorities of Ha vanna that the states are strongly op dosed thereto. The supervising architect of the treas ury, in his annual report, requests j amended legislation that the United States courthouse and postoffice at Sa vannah can be sold. An act of congress on January 21, 1892, contains an erro neous description of the property re ferred to. A London cablegram of Thursday says : The master cotton spinners of the South ern Lancashire, have convened another conference in view of south and north east Lancashire joining the lockout. The southeast masters are endeavoring to bring other masters into their movement. In the meantime there is increasing suf fering among the cardroom and other works in the amalgamation. Henry P. White, of Kansas City, Kansas, a member of the board of trade, has bought 1.000 acres of land near that city, on which he proposes to colonize ali of the negroes of the town into a self-supporting village. The colored clement of Kansas City, Kansas, is in a baa way, and with the coming of bad weather will be almost all dependent on the city. The houses probably will be put up at once. A Washington dispatch of Thursday says: Orders have been issued at the Navy department placing the warship Chicago out of commission. She is now at the New York Navy yard and will be placed in the dock to undergo a general overhauling. New boilers will be placed in her. The New York has been ordered to proceed to Cramp's ship yard, Phila delphia, to be fitted out and then as signed to the North Atlantic station as the flag ship of ihat station. A New York special of Wednesday says : In the matter of the Central Bail way and Banking Company of Georgia, full conferences having been held be tween tbe committees appointed, and the receiver and counsel for both sides, the plan of reorganization of the syst-m has been agreed upon. This plan will make the stocks and securities of greater value than the present quotations, and contem plates putting the road in good physical condition, and the whole system on a sound financial basis. Meagre reports of a fearful cyclone have been received from Macogoches, Texas. About 8 o'clock Tuesday after noon a terrible storm swept over Egg uogg valley, which is two miles from the city of Macogoche9. The wind blew with fearful velocity, carrying everything before it. Huge trees were blown as so much chaff, and houses, barns and fenc es razed to the ground. As far as heard from but one life has been lost, ta at of Frank Pariin. It is feared there are more fatalities and casualities to be reported. A special cable dispatch of Thursday ! from Brussels says: When the interna i tional monetary conference adjourns at ? the end of next week, it will probably leave the resptctive governments repre sented to decide whether or not it shall reassemble in January. The American and other bi-metalic delegates will try to obtain from the conference a recommen dation to all the governments to allow from a year to eighteen mouths to elapse before taking any active measures to ward changing the present currency pol icy. One of the most important sales of Washington relics in years occurred at Philadelphia, Tuesday. The relics be longed to the estate of the late J. B. Mc Guire, of Washington, and included a large proportion of the correspondence between Washington and Madison, nota bly a letter written to Madison in 1792, containing the outline of the draft of a proposed farewell address, written when Washington entertained the idea of de clining renomination for the presidency. It was sold for $1,325 to an agent who declined to state for whom the document was bought. A Washington special says : Memben of the intestate commerce commission are somewhat surprise ! on account of the decision of .Judge Gresham rendered Wednesday, declaring unconstitutional that part of the interstate commerce law which provides for compelling witnessei to answer questions asked them by th? commission in its investigation. Th< decision was rendered in Chicago in ans wer to a petition that certain witnesses be compelled to testify in a case where nrominent railroads were accused of un j just discrimination favoring large Chicagt ? ehippers. I GEORGIA BANKS. ! Their Status as Set Forth in the Report of the Comptroller of Currency. A Washington special says: The re port of the comptroller of currency is sued Monday, shows the following sta j ti>tics relative to Georgia banks: Total j number of banke, twenty-eight Num ! ber organized during the year ending j October 81st, one. Total capital, de I posits, etc., $S0,828,876, an average per j capita of $16,24. Total capital of na ! tional banks, $4,538.800. Total capital ! of state banks, $5,961,595. Total capi tal of savings banks, $568,700. Total capital of private banks, $336,880. To tal capital for the state $11.405.984. Hiiie Bordea Indicted. A special of Friday from Taunton, Mass., says: Lizzie >rdcn has been in uicted by the grand jury of three courtl.