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JOB WORK, SUCH AS ' , CASES, UBiflS, CECITIES, POSTIES, Etc., Etc, Eto., EXECUTED TO ORDER, rm mm LATEST AND BEST STYLES, ' Am ax REASON ABLE RATES. PTApplr Hen Bfkre Ordarlac Bwwkew. limrmr 1 IP PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, J W. HOUGHTON. WW OflN, Tat Has of lVBi Square TEBM3 OF . BUBSCBIPnOK: OMp,guv- tt BO Ona ovary, six stoats. -- 75 Ounnr.Uimmtte 60 If not paid within Um rear 20J A Family Newspaper, Devoted to Home Interests, Politics, Agriculture, Science, Art, Poetry, Etc. VOL. XII. WELLINGTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1879. NO. 24. ft V BUSIlfESS CARDS. ATTORNEYS. J. H. DICKSON, ATTORSET-AT-LAW. Wellington, 0. Office U Bank Building, 2d Boor. W. F. HERRI CK, ATTORNEY and Counsellor t Law. Benedict's Mock. Yd floor, Wellington. PHYSICIANS. MB. J. 1EUST, H 0M(E0 PATH 1ST. Residence and of. fiee, Wert Side Public Square. DR. R. HATHA WAF, HOMCEOPATHIC PhysicUn and Sur geon. Office, at residence, west aide Kelly 8tnet, Wellington, Ohio. FLOUR, EEEO. ETC. H. B. 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HOLLENBACH, M ZRCHANT TAILOR, in Union Block, Jtoom a. 28.tr. BANK. FIRST RATIONAL BANK, Wellington, Ohio. Does general banking busi ness. Bays and sells N. Y. Exchange, Gov. eminent ends, stc H. o. Warner, Fi dent. R. A. Hon, Cashier. PHOTOGRAPHER. W.F.SAWTETJ . PHOTOGRAPHER. Gallery in Arnold's Block. Wellington. Ohio. J. W. HOUGHTON, KOTAKY PUBLIC. Office in Hough ton's Drag Store, East Side Public Bq PRINTING. ' BRING YOUR PRINTING to the En terprise Office. All kinds of printing done neatly and promtly. Office Weat Side Public Square, OTer Houghton's Drag Store. HARNESS, SADDLES, AC. J. M OTTEEBACKER, Msnnfactarer of Harness, Baddies and Collars, employes none bat the best of workmen, ana usee none bat the beat Oak Tanned Leather. A Urge stock of harness) constantly on hand. All work warranted. Shop south side Liberty street. . ---. E.WELLS, SADDLER AND HARNRESd MAKER. The beet workmen employed, and enly the best stock used,' AU work done under my immediate wperviaion. North side Me chanic street. - 11-1 6-1 y BUILDER. MlaVaJf AXXTS. FISHER ck ALLYN, Builders, Shop In Wadsworth's Planing MilL Many years ex perience enables them to compete for first class work. Their motto is "Honest work, rood materials and fair prices." Plans spec locations and detaila a specialty. BOOTS AND SHOES. . .. W. H. ASHFORD, MANUFACTURER and Dealer in Boots and Shoes snd all kinds ot first class custom work. AU work and materials fplly warranted. . Shop, south ride Liberty Street, one doer east of Otter backer's Harness Shop, Wellington. Ohio. 11-9-ly JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. HZ" K GOODWIN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND GEN ERAL INSURANCE AGENT. Col lections, Conveyancing, Firs and Lil Insur ance will be done nromptly at reasonable rates. Office, in T. Kirk's Boot and Shoe Store, north side Liberty Street. 11-9-ly MEAT MARKET. ,r ;r ; E. Q. FULLER, DEALER IX Fresh and Salt Meats, Bo logna and Pork Sanaa. , Highest market prue in eah paid for Beeves, Sheep, Hogs, Hides, Ac Market, south side Lib erty Street, on door west of Otterbecker'a Harness Shop. -.s. . v -. 11-9-ly LI VERY STABLE. WM CUSHION t SON, LIYERY AND SALE 8TABLE. Choice turnouts furnished, and charges rea sonable. ' South aide Meehanie street, one door east of American House. - U-15-ly COAL YARD. M. MclONNEY, TSEALER IN BLOSSBURG COAL, the I 9 finest article known for Blackanii th ing. Horse shoeing, repairing, Ac, prompt, ty dona, and satisfaction guaranteed. South side Mechanic street. 11-15-ly READ THIS! Ho assise te Ctothuw. Hats. Pais or OeatlssM furalaala ,ooseaa aa-or ssaowlthoat TDEClOTQIli& HITTER t ALT8ell!utnted 30-ptje paper, Men ranifassa smis ssoala an the news snd f of the trade indicates. Sana lor saaipia soyy to BOOT ft TINKER, Auunn. a. General News Summary. CwmnrveMlonial. Senate, Feb. 25. The Vice-President submitted a telegram from the California Constitutional Convention thankine Con (trees for the triumphant passage of the bill restrict ing the Innaisrvatioa of the Chinese, and de claring that Senators and Congressmen who supported toe -bill will receiTe toe lasting gratitude of the people In Calif r-nia. By a vote of jeaa 25, nays 36, the Sen at 1 refused to take no the resolution declaring: David T. Corbln entitled to a seat as Senator from South Carolina In place of M. C Butler, the present incumbent. Messrs. Cameron, of rennsvlvanla, Conover. Matt news and rst- teraon Toted with the Democrat In the negative The Senate then pro ceeded with the consideration of the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and the amendments proposed by the Committee on Appropriations were agreed to. The House resolution announcing the death of Mr. Frank Welch, late Representative from Ne braska was called np by Mr. Paddock, and resolutions of respect to his memoir were agreed to, after which the Senate adjourned. Bouse A motion by Mr. Monroe to suspend the rales and pass the bill apply ing 30,000,000 of the proceeds of the sale of certincatee ol deposit authorized to be issued in aid of funding the pub lic ueut to we payment oi ar rears of pensions was defeated yeas, 116; nays. 173. The House then went Into Com mittee of the Whole on the Legislative Ap propriation out, ue question oeing on Mr. Southard's amendment rcpealina: the law creatine the office of Electoral Supervisor, etc After a prolonged discussion a vote waa taken and the amendment waa adopted Teas, 135: nave. 110. The bill sa amended waa re ported to the House, and then passed yeas, 143; cars, 117. A committee of conference was ordered on the Armr Appropriation bilL Senate, Feb. 26. Mr. Conover intro duced a bill amendatory of and supplementary to the act to incorporate the Tezaa Pacific Railroad Company. Referred. Mr. Bayard, from the committee on the bill to amekd the Internal revenue laws submitted a report which waa agreed to and the bill passed. Mr. Edmunds, in accordance with a resolution adopted some days ago, reported the bill to farther protect the constitutional right of citlxena and to Danish violation of the same. Placed on thecalendar. Consideration of the De fidency Appropriation bill waa then resumed. A loog discussion ensued upon the amend ment to strike oat the clause appropriating 250,000 to supply deficiencies of the Depart ment of Justice, payment of deputy marshals, etc, and It waa finally rejected, and the bill men paasea. A oui was passed autnonxlng the Secretary of toe Treasury to ascertain and report to Congress the amount of monev ex pended and the Indebtedness assumed by the state of Kansas In repelling Invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, and enabling the Secretary of War to purchase land to en large and protect the San Antonia arsenal. Souse. The Census bill after being- amended so aa to vest the appointment of su pervisors In the President by and with the consent of the Senate was passed. The sugar bill was token up. Consideration of the bUl was Interrupted in order to let Mr. Springer ask for the order In the Seward case. Mr. Con ger objected and moved to adjourn. Pend ing the question Mr. Tucker, from the Conference Committee on the tobacco bill, presented a report, and explained it. A sharp colloquy ensued between Mr. Conger id Mr. Tucker in relation to the action of the committee regarding the tax on matches. Mr. Tucker finally moved the previous question- Mr. Conger showed a disposition to In terpose dilatory motions, and In order to pre vent that be was allowed five minutes; but when he took the floor to speak on the sub ject of the tax, a motion to adjourn was made on the Democratic aide and carried. Senate, Feb. 27. Mr. Teller, from the special committee to inquire into tbe al leged violation of the constitutional rights of eJUseos daring the hue elections, submitted a report of tha majority, and said Uie minority reserved the right to submit a 'report. Mr. Teller also submitted a resolution continuing the committee until next session, and author izing It to ait during receea. Objected to by Mr. Bayard and laid aside. The Senate re fused to take up the Geneva Award bill and took np tbe House bill making appropria tion for the pa) man t of arrears of pensions. Amendments were sgreed to providing mat pension agents shall receive for their services in paying arrears, etc. thirty cents for each payment: that In no case shall arrears of pensions be allowed and paid from a time prior to tbe date of actual dis ability. Mr. Ingalls submitted an amendment from tbe Committee on fensioas providing for dividing the Slates and Territories into districts not to exceed seventy-six In number. Pending discussion the bill waa laid aside tern poraruy. jar. n liners cauea a pine Mouse reso lutions In memory of the late Beverly B. Dong- las. Suits ble remarks on the life and charac ter of tbe deceased were made by several Sen ators, and the Senate, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, ad journed. House. Mr. Randall made a personal explanation In regard to the charges made against him m a letter written In September, 1876, by Special Agent Williams to A B. - Moore In regard to appropria tion warranto issued to the Bureau of En graving and Printing, and offered a resolu tion for tbe appointment of a special commit tee to inquire into auch charges. Messrs. nau, auuiev ana inompson, Mepuoiicans, paid a very fine tribute to the integrity of the speaker, and scooted the charges as uu worthy of serious investigation. Mr. Randall, bow ever, insisted that a formal inquiry and re port was ane to mm sua to tne country, ana therefore by unanimous vote tbe committee waa gran ted. The conference report on the amendmenta to tbe tobacco bill waa agreed to. sir. Dpnnger rose to a question oi privilege and desired to call np the resolution from the Committee on Ex penditures In the State Department for the arrest of George 8. Seward aa a contumacious witness. A number of dilatory motions were Interposed, but the resolution waa finally adopted. A bill waa passed amending section 3,607 revised statutes of the United States, providing uat interest on Donas called under the provisions of said section or surrendered. theprov shall ces cease after thli tv days from the date of surrender or call instead of three months as the law now stands Senate, Feb. 28. A communication from David T. Corbln, contestant for the seat from Booth Carolina, withdrawing from the contest, was read and laid on the tabic After passing a number oi private bills on the cal endar the bill making appropriations for the oavment of arrears of pensions waa taken up. The amendment ouereu oy air. mgaiis on tne 97th waa rejected. Tbe amendment providing that pensions shall commence from tbe death or discharge from service of tbe person on whose account granted, providing that appli cation be filed prior to July 1,1860, was agreed to. Jar. eoieiua ouerea an amena ment that the law granting pen Ions to sol diers ot the war of loU, approved March 9, loTO, Is hereby made applicable to soldiers ana sailors in the war with Mexico in 1846. The amendment was agreed to yeas, 36: nays, 21. vuesuon was men lanen on tne um auu it waa passed yeas, 38: nays, 30. The Sundry Civil Appropriation Dill was then taken op and a number of amendments were submitted snd agreed to but without further action tbe Senate adjourned. House. Mr. Blount, of the Com mittee on Appropriations, reported back the Poet-office bill with recommenda tion, which waa agreed to, that the Senate amendmenta with two excep tions, the Brazilian subsidy and classification of mall matter, be non-concurred in in gross. Tbe committee also recommended that the two excepted amendmenta be non-concurred in, bat desired that they should be voted upon separately and some time allowed for debate After a long debate tbe amendment providing for Brazilian mail subsidy wss rejected yeas, 8; nays, 157. Pending action on the Senate amendmenta for classification of mail matter, the 8ergeant-at-Arma appeared at the bar f the House, having In custody George F. Sew ard. After a heated discussion. Mr. Seward 'a case waa referred to the Judiciary Committee to report what action should be taken, and on motion of Mr. Butler. Mr. Seward waa dis charged from custody on his own recognl- Senate, March 1. The amendments proposed by tha Committee on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were agreed to and tbe bill was passed. The ' Legislative, Execu tive and Judicial Appropriation bill was then taken np, and tbe Senate remained In session until four o'clock Sunday morning. when the bill was finally passed. A recess was taken until two o'clock, p. m., when the Senate resumed consideration of the River ill Harbor bli. A large number or amend ments were offered and agreed to, and the bill then passed yeas, 29; nays, 18. The Senate took up the motion hereto fore made to reconsider tbe vote by which the bill making appropriations to pay arrears of pensions was psssed. ' Mr. Windom said that when the bill waa before them, on the 28th ult , many Senators good naturedly voted for tbe amendment of Senator Shields placing tbe soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war upon the same footing aa the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812 as to pensions. The beat estimate be could obtain showed that this latter amendment so generously adopted would take from 30,000,000 to 940, 000,000 out of the Treasury. Tbe Senate, yeas 2S, nays 27, reconsidered the vote by which the bill was passed, and then recon sidered the vote by which the Shields amend ment was agreed to, yeas, 87; nays, 84. Tbe Senate at four o'clock Monday morning was still In session. House. Bills passed: Extending the provisions of the act of 1874 for the relief of settlers on railroad lands; Senate bill grant ing Unds to Minnesota In lieu of lands hereto fore granted; extending the time for payment of pre-emption on public lands In Minnesota; for protection of settlers on public lands, providing that settlements nnder pre-emption or homestead laws shall be deemed to create a contract between tbe Government and aettlera ; establishing a land district In the Black Bills; for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers. The Senate amendments to the Deficiency Appro priation bill were non-concurred In and a committee of conference ordered. Tbe Sugar bill was withdrawn. A motion to suspend the rules and pass tbe Senate bill amending the patent laws, was rejected. Tbe Senate Yellow Fever bill was, after some discussion, laid on the tabic Mr. Springer, aa a ques tion of privilege presented (from the Committee on Expenditures in the Stale De partment) a report and resolution for the im peachment of George F. Seward, late Consul General at Shanghai and now United States Minister to China. The House refused 109 to 126 to consider the Impeachment ques tion. Tbe President's veto message of tbe anti-Chinese bill wss then read. The ques tion being put by the Speaker: "Shall the bill pass, tbe objections of the President to tbe contrary notwithstanding ;" tbe vote re sulted, yeas, 109, nays 95; there not being two-thirds in the affirmative the bill waa re jected. Senate, March 3. The question re curring on Mr. Shields' amendment, Mr. Mitchell moved to amend so that no person who served in the Confederate army, or occu pied a civil office coder the Confederate Gov ernment, shall be entitled to a pension nnder this act. Disagreed to, yeas, 24; nsya, 26; a party vote, with the exception of Conover and Patterson, who voted with the Demo crats In the negative Mr. Hoar offered an amendment providing that no pension shall ever be paid under this act to Jefferson Davis, late President of the so-called Southern Confederacy. Thia amendment led to a long and acrimonious debate at the con clusion of which tne amendment was sgreed to yeas, 23; nays, 23. Tbe bill then passed yeaa, 44; nays. A Mr. Allison made a re port from the conference committee on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropri ation bill, that they were unable to agree He said the committee could agree npon every question In the bin except the po litical questions. Another committee was appointed. On motion of Mr. Ferry the Sen ate bill exclusively establishing poet routes in various States passed. The Teller Committee waa authorized to sit during recess to con tinue Inquiry into alleged violations of tbe Constitutional rights of citizens during the late elections. Tbe amendment of the House to the Census bill were agreed to and the bill passed. Bills passed: For the relief of soldiers and sailors becoming totally blind In the serv ice of their country ; the Fortincation Appro priation bill ; making appropriations for tbe payment of claims reported by the Southern Claims Commission; House bill to promote the education of the blind. Tbe House amendments to tbe Sundry Civil bill and the River and Harbor bill were disagreed to. House. BULj relating to homestead settlements on public lands within railroad limita were passed. Tbe conference report on the TWUficaMon MB was agreed to. By a strict party vote tbe report of the Committee on Expenditures in tbe State Department for the impeachment of George F. Seward waa taken up. Tbe report of the majority of the Com mittee on Expenditures la tbe State Depart ment waa then read. It presents seventeen articles of Impeachment against George F. Seward. The views of the minority were also read, recommending that the whole subject be referred to tbe Judiciary Committee The discussiou waa interrupted a number of times to allow members from tbe Conference Com mittees on the River and Harbor bill, the De ficiency bill and the Post-office Appropriation bill to present reports, and the House finally adjourned without action. Wsvatitaisxtatm. Tbk National Workingmen'a Assem bly of Washington, on the 25tb, appealed to tbe President to sign tbe bill restricting Chi nese immigration, declaring that it is the only means that will prevent a terrible calam ity and utter annihilation of the Chinese of the Pacific coast, which is sure to follow a veto of the bill. Tbe President bsa received many appeals from the people In the West to sign the bill and also petitions from tbe same aud other sections not to sign it. The census bill as it passed the House provides that enumeration shall commence on the first Monday In June, and returns shall be forwarded to the supervisors on or before tbe 1st of July, 1880, snd In any city having over 10,000 Inhabitants enumeration shall be taken within two weeks from the first Monday in June The President, by and with tbe con sent of tbe Senate, la to have tbe appointment of supervisors, whose number is limited to 150, and who are to receive a compensation of 9500 each. The sum of 93,000,000 U limited aa the maximum coat of tbe census. lx answer to a letter of Representa tive Wood asking to be informed as to the cash balance In the Treasury Feb. 15, how much of tbe amount was held for resumption urpoaes, now mucn ior otner purposes, ana tow mucb in coin. United States notes and other available resources. Secretary Sherman repuea: I nave to lniorm you mat irom tne latest returns received there was in the gen eral assets of tbe Treasury upon the date mentioned, of gold coin and bullion, 9133, 377,271 ; of silver coin and bullion, 935,5o5,- s; in an, sie8,W3,7W. Alter deducting the amount of current liabilities from the amount of entire assets, the balance available for re sumption at the same date waa 15, 467,364, but no separate designation of particular moneys for this purpose hss been Kept, nor hss it yet been determined whether the re sumption fund can be considered as moneys In the Treasury not otherwise appropriated." The Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the National Greenback party ad dressed a letter to tbe Secretary of the Honest Monev League on the 27th ult.. refusing to enter Into proposed debate unless tbe Honest Money League can ahow that It ia authorized to speak for one or both of tbe regularly or ganized political parties. Professor Mordecai Yobnell, of the Navl Observatory at Washington, died suddenly on the night ot the 27th nit. of apo plexy. Thb National Congressional Green back Committee, on tbe 28th alt., resolved that It ia not advisable to call a National Con vention prior to the holding of such to nomi nate candidates tor President and Vice-Presi dent. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in bis seventh monthly statement of tbe cur rent fiscal year in regard to the imports and exports of the United States says the excess of exports over imports of merchandise ap pears to have been as follows : For the month ending Jan. 31, 1879. 925.876.864: for tbe month ending Jan. 81, 1878, 933,539,829; for the seven montns enaing dan. ai, lain, sua, S&S.357: for the seven months ending Jan. &L 1H78, (135,699,538; for the twelve months ending Jan. 81, 1879 9297.680,063; for the twelve montns cnaius: oau. oi, ioo, tiw,ioi, 274. The debt statement issued on the 1st shows the following: Increase of the debt for February, $311,411; cash in Treasury, 9447, 293,498; gold and silver certificates, $10,087,- osu; inlted States notes neia ior redemption of certificates of deposit. $46,100,000; United States notes held for the redemption of frac tional currency, $3,519,740; called bonds not matured, ior wnirh four per cent. Donaa nave been issued. 9216.628.200: outstanding legal tender notes, 934A.6S1.016: outstanding frac tional currency, sia,uso,412. The subscriptions to the four per cent, bonds during January were $158,904,100, and in February $90101,750, making a total of $349,005,850. Five-twenty bonds to the amount of 9250,090,000 were called in durin g the same time. Mrs. Belt a A. Lockwoqd, of Wash ington, haa been admitted to practice In the United States Supreme Court. Lx the Supreme Court at Washing ton, on the 3d, in tbe case of the United States against tbe Burlington A Missouri River Rail road Company to annul certain patents Issued by it to tbe company for 1,200,000 acres of land In Nebraska, a decision was given in fa vor of tbe company. The Estat, The Prohibition State Convention of Rhode Island, on the 25th, nominated tbe present State officers (Republican) for re election. While digging a cellar on the 25th, In Brooklyn, the earth caved in burying three laborers. William Mabony waa killed and John Burns probably fatally injured. At Philadelphia, on the 26th, Sidney T. Thomas, election Judge, John Boyd and Mark Seldon, inspectors at the recent elec tion In that city, were held In $3,000 ball for misdemeanor and conspiracy in conducting the election. Kets livery stable at New York City, burned on the morning of tbe I27th alt., with a number of carriages and forty-three horses, some valuable Loss a boat $100,000. Judge Donahue has refused to vacate the order of arrest In tbe case of Frederick A. Freeman of New York City held in default of $300,000 ball. He Is charged with obtaining improperly $250,000 from tbe Guardian Mu tual Insurance Company. Pliny Freeman, father of Frederick, haa resigned the Presi dency of tbe Globe Mutual Insurance Com pany. The manufacturing property of the Atlantic Delaine Company, of Providence, R. I., was sold at auction on tbe 27th ult., for $300,000. Tbe property cost over $2,000,000. The New England Commissioners of Inland Fisheries recommend that the taking of salmon be prohibited In Vermont, New Hampshire Massachusetts and Connecticut until July 1, 1882. Captaik Sawter and wife and three seamen of tbe schooner David H. Tolch, which went ashore at Barnegat, N. J., on tbe 26th, were drowned. A daughter of the Cap tain, aged two yeara, the first and second mates and three seamen were saved. Robert O'Kxllet, a recently re leased Fenian, arrived at New York on tbe 27th alt. The Secretary of the Treasury has Instructed Collector Beard, of Boston, to for bid the landing of neat cattle from England, pleuro-pneumonla having broken oat at HulL IxvESTiOATioK into the affairs of the late Horatio K. Richardson, of Attleboro, Mass., show a deficiency in accounts of the several corporations of which he was treas urer. Richardson was oue of tbe best known and most respected citizens of Attleboro. Bassett, who with Mrs. Alexander waa charged with tbe murder of " Stuttering Jack " at Bridgeport, Conn., and attempting to sell the body to a physician, waa found Eiilty of murder in the second degree on tbe t and sentenced to imprisonment for life It was reported in New York City on the 2d that Mr. Stewart's remains had been found. Walker, Democratio-Greenbacker, waa elected Msyorof Portland, Me, on the 3d. Rev. SajrroRD Htnrr, of Buffalo, has been chosen senior book sgent and publisher in charge ot tha Msthodlit Book Concern at New York. TTestt avwd Semtnu The State Senate of Indiana has passed a bill authorizing the city of Evans vllle to change Its name to Lamasco. Tatlorsvuxe, Texas, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 25th. Sev eral blocks. Including all tbe principal busl- ss houses and Post-office were consumed. Loss estimated at $50,000; insurance light. Two-thirds of the business portion of Bamberg, 8. C, waa burned on tbe 25th. Loss, $50,000; Insurance, $15,000. Nineteen buildings in the business portion of Pensacola, Fla., were destroyed by fire on the 26th. Six more buildings were burned at Taylors ville, Tex., on the 26th, making a total of thirty-three, and leaving but four business houses In the town. Many families were left homeless and destitute Charles W. Amgell, defaulting Sec retary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, pleaded guilty In the criminal court at Chi cago on the 27th nit. of the two Indictments sgainst him for larceny aa bailee, and embez zlement, ana .waa sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary, the full extent of the law. A coal oil lamp explosion occurred In a house at Baltimore on the evening of the 27th ult, occupied by Mrs. Sharp, her daughter, Clara, the latter's son Harry, and a man namea i nomaa aones, au coiorea. uiara Sharp and her eon were burned to death and the other two seriously injured. The build ing was destroyed. A New Orleans dispatch, on the 27th ult., stated that the indlctmenta found some time sgo by the Grand Jury against J. Madi son Wells and A P. Dumas, have been filed but not given to the public Wells is charged with accepting a bribe for procuring an office for a certain party. A special to the Columbus (Ohio) Democrat from NelaonvUIe Athena County, Ohio, states that a terrible accident occurred at Carbon Hill, two miles from tbat place, on the night of the 27th ult., by which seven persons were lost. A boarding house occu pied oy at. j. i,anaiora caugnt are aoout midnight and burned very rapidly. Mr. and Mrs. Lunsford and one child slept on the first floor, and six children np stairs. The parents were awakened by the smoke and rushed out doors, taken the youngest child with them. Mr. Lunsford, remembering the elx children upstairs, rushed back into the bouse to save them, when the roof suddenly fell, burying all seven in the avalanche of fire, where they perished. Deputy United States Marshal Rab on the 27th alt., arrested some fifty per sons of Pekin and Peoria, 111., nnder Indict ment at Springfield for complicity In whisky frauds. Five County Court Judges were in dicted in the United States Court at Danville, Ve, on the 27th nit., ' for withholding from negroes the right of serving on Juries. An extensive conflagration at Paoli, Orange County, Ind., on the morning of the 1st, destroyed $40,000 worth of property. The demurrer filed by the counsel for Wells, Caasenave and Kenner was argued in tbe Supreme District Court at New Orleans on tbe 1st. Judge WhltAker decided the de cision of the Supreme Court in the Anderson case binding, sustained the demurrer and dis charged ineaauaea. id is enas tne Hemm ing Board case Reno, Nev., was almost entirely de stroyed by fire on the morning of the 2d. Tbe loss is estimated at $1,000,000, with only about $150,000 Insurance Five persons per ished In the flames, and a number of ethers were injured. FerelaTaa lattelUcetiee. The Prussian Reichstag has approved the International treaty relative to registered letters. A St. Petersburg dispatch on the 25th stated that the committee appointed to superintend the burning of infected bouses In the plague districts haa began operations. Severe shocks of earthquake were felt at Rome on the 25th, and also at Sienna. At the latter place two churches were over thrown, and the priests and several villagers killed. The motion in the House of Com mons, on the 25th, that the summary prohi bition of importation of cattle from the United States was calculated to destroy an Im portant trade and deprive England of the ad vantage of cheap meat, waa postponed for lour weeaa. The London Times says: Neither England nor France would be disposed to wit ness with Indifference the success of a amp d'etat which would place Egypt again nnder the personal rule of the Khedive At a meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board in Liverpool on the 20th It waa decided to apend 35,000 in erecting slaughter aheds and lairage necessary to the continuance of tbe American cattle trade The Khedive of Egypt was shot at on tbe 20th, the ball passing close to his head. The number of ship-builders on a strike in tbe Tyne ship-yards haa been In creased to 8,000. Negotiations between China and Russia are at a standstill, the latter refusing to surrender Knldja. A petition from the workingmen of Austria, asking for universal suffrage, haa been presented in the Lower House of the Keichsrsth. A number of young citizens of Zu rich have started for Georgia, where it la pro posed to establish a Swiss colony under the auspices of the workmen's society. Others will f ollow. Tranquility has been restored at Cairo, Egypt. . The Italian Government has prohib ited the Importation of American swine or any preparation of their flesh as a precaution against tbe trichinosis. A Calcutta dispatch on the 21st states that great consternation prevailed at Mandalay in consequence of the royal murders. The victims numbered eighty-six. Tbe de taila of the massacre are reported horrible The thermometer at Toronto on the 21st fell from aero to 38 deg. below. Bismarck's speech in the Reichstag, on the 21st, was coldly received. Tremendous storms prevailed in the South of France on the 26th. Hundreds of people were thrown on public charity by the destruction or Inundation of then bousee In Spain the tempest lasted four days and there waa much damage and loss of life A dispatch from Rome reports that the sea inundated a Urge portion of Venice Tbe coast from Ge noa to Naples waa strewn with wrecks. A dispatch from Vienna on the 27th nit. stated that an avalanche near Marburg killed twenty-one persons and destroyed nine hooses. Prince KROPOTxufE, Governor of Charkoff, Russia, who was shot by an un known assassin, haa died of his wounds. A Paris dispatch, on the 27th ult, stated that of forty-nine persons on board the ship Adriatic wrecked near Dunkirk a few days before, seven only were known to be saved. An outbreak of yellow fever of a very severe character, has occurred among the shipping at Rio de Janeiro. The Mayor of Sheffield, England, on the 28th ult., stated that In one district of that town there were 4,000 persons destitute and 400 families actually starving. Twentt-threx Spanish sailors, on their way fssna, Jaraal.oa thaJJottv.nlt, to spend a carnival in their native villages, were drowned. Their boat wss capsized by a squsiL The publication of the Russian secret press declares the Governor of Charkoff had been condemned to death by the Russian 8o- clsllst party for Inhuman treatment of politi cal prisoners. Tbe act of assassination waa consequently executed by one of tbat party. The publication charges the Governor with beating students nearly to death, and con cludes with the declaration of "death, for for death, terror for terror. Thia ia our an swer to all threats and persecutions of the Government." The Viceroy of India has received a letter from Yakoob Khan, son of 8here Alt, Ameer of Afghanistan, announcing the death of the Utter, which occurred Feb. 2L A Mannm dispatch, on the Sd, stated that Prime Minister Canovaa had presented and tbe King had accepted the resignation ot tbe Cabinet. A new Cabinet under Senor Canovaa will be formed. Apprehensions exist in German of ficial quarters that the returning French Com munists will unite with the German Socialists. It is rumored that the British Gov ernment U about to Uy a cable to Zanzibar, Mauritania and Natal from Aden, where It would Join the Eastern Telegraph Company's system. REPORTS OP THE POTTER COM MITTEE, majority Report. WaSBTHOTOH. March 2. On tbe 1st Mr. Potter. Chairman of the In vestigating Committee, submitted a report which he bad prepared to tne committee ana it was adopted br a vote of elx Democrats to three Republicans. General Butler being ab sent. The three Republicans, Hlscock, Cox and Reed, will prepare a minority report. Mr. Potter's report is necessarily long, as It deals with all the points tbat have been before the committee except thecipher dispatches, which will be made the subject of a separate report, and will be presented to the committee to morrow. Tbe report or Mr. rotter, in tne opening, sets forth wbst It waa proper for Congress to investigate and what not. and tbe difficulties ot conducting an Investigation Into conspira cies which hsve been successfully carried oat, while the successful party remain in power. It admits tbat tbe confession of conspirators, shn have become dissatisfied. U worth little but points to tbe fact not generally under stood mat aoout tne essential ieatures oi tne election and canvass in Florida and Louisiana, there ia no substantial dispute before the committee, tbe Republicans having called no witnesses in Florida and Louisiana, except as to the conduct of visiting statesmen, and In cidentally about Intimidation. It dismisses entirely tbe testimony of Anderson, Jenka, Mrs. Jenka, Weber, and that class of wit nesses, and deals with tbe case upon tbe gen eral and controlling facta alone The report Is divided Into three parts, the first of which refers to Florida, tbe second to Louisiana and the third to the forged Electoral certificates. Beginning with Florida It cites tbe Uw direct ing the 1'realdentltl Electors to be appointed by votes cast, and tbe Canvassing Board to canvass the votes cast, and claims that tbe Tllden Electors, having received a majority of the votes cast in tha State, were thereby necessarily entitled to be declared elected, and that the Canvassing Board, by rejecting without warrant of Uw a portion of the votes so as to show a majority for Hayes, unlaw fully counted Tilden out. It states that the canvassers delayed this announcement until the morning of the day the Electors were to meet snd vote, so that, although action was instantly taken to oust the Havea Electors, no decision could be had until the Hayes Electors had met that same day at noon and voted. Tha report then recites tbe Judgment of the Supreme Court, which subsequently decided that the Hayes Elect ors were not elected nor entitled to east the vote of the State, and that the Tllden Electors were, and also tbe Judgment of the court in an action brought by Drew, tbe Dem ocratic candidate for Governor, to obtain a recanvass where tbe courts directed a recau vass, and decided that the canvassers, in re fusing to count tbe votes cast, had defrauded Drew and unlawfully seated Stearns. Tie LegisUture of tbe State thereupon directed a recanvass of the Electoral vote in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court, the Judgea of which were Republicans, and the recap rasa showed the Tilden Electors chosen. The Governor then Issued his certificate to tbe Tllden Electors as tbe true Electors, but tbe Electoral Commission refused to consider the judgment of the court, the action of the LegisUture and the certificate given by the Governor in favor of tha Tilden Elect ors, and held that It could not take notice of any action by tbe State after the 6th of De cember. In regard to Louisiana tbe report be gins with a reference to the anomalous power possessed by the Returning Board, which it says never before existed elsewhere Under It Electors and Returning Officers held the grossest power over the receiving and count ing of votes. Under the pretext that the color line divided political parties they had used this power to fraudulently count the State for tbe Republicans, and had been ex posed by a Republican committee of tbe Forty-third Congress, which hsd reported that the whites and blacks of the State being equal and some of the blacks and all the whites hav ing voted for tbe Democrats in 1874, the State had necessarily been carried bv them, although counted for the Republicans. Hereupon the Republicans set about a false census in wblch they made it appear that there were 25,000 more black voters in the State than white, and as Illustrating the fraudulent nature of this census tbe report refers to the fact tbat while thia census reported but 57,000 colored men, women and children In New Orleans it made out of them nearly 25,000 voters. It then Instances the fraudulent registration that was based upon the fraudulent census, whereby It was made to appear that the registered Repub lican voters exceeded the white voters in the State more than 23,000, while actually there were no more, and the refusal of the authori ties to correct thia false registration in cases where Its falseness wss pointed out. From here tbe report recites the direction by the Republican authorities to the supervisors of parishes requiring them to return tbe votes according to the census, that is, stating that tbe colored adulta by that census in their parishes were so many, and that they were expected to return a Republican vote cor responding to that If they ever expected any reward or preferment. Notwithstanding this organized fraud, aays tbe report, when tbe selections were over the Democrats had a majority as returned by the Republican elec tion officers of some 10,000, the vote polled being tbe largest ever polled in the 8 '.ate, and larger in proportion to the population than that of other States. The Republican officers made returns of the vote accordingly, and declared that the election was perfectly peaceful and fair. The Republicans, in order to overcome this msiority, then usurped powers not given to them. In support of tbU tbe report cites the find ing of tbe Hoar, Wheeler and Frye com mittee that the Returning Board had no power to discard votes where protests, required by Uw, had not accompanied the returns, no In stance of which existed at this election. Not withstanding thia the Returning Board de cided to discard the necessary number of Democratic votes. As a pretext for thia usur pation they obtained protests- frem certain parishes which they picked out as the parishes In which to pretend that intimidation had taken place These parishes were all largely of negro population, which the Democrats bad fairly carried. Tbe Florida portion of the report Is followed by a list of all the persons counected with the election there who have been appointed to office, and to Louisiana by a still longer list of persons in that State appointed to office The third part of the report deals with the forged Louisiana Electoral certificates. It tells how the Vice-President having refused the first certificate, the Republicans secretly manufactured another, ante-dating it, and made it in paper and printing to resemble the one previously made; how having very little time to prepare it, and It being impossible to get all the Electors to New Orleans to sign It within that time, it became a necessity to forge tbe signatures of two ab sentees; that thua there were put to the triplicate paper eighteen forged signatures, which were attached on December 29th In a small upper room in the State building, then in charge of Conquest Clarke, how the making of this second certificate waa con cealed until It waa produced before Congress: bow, when It was referred to the Electoral Commission, it was not read but ordered to be printed, and tbe printing was changed, and the Electoral Commission were served with two printed copies of tbe forged certifi cate perfect Inform and no copy of the genu ine but a defective certificate; bow, after the Commission had given its decision the record of tbe Commission waa changed so that the forged certificate, copies of which were really before tbe Commission, were suppressed snd Hie luuid suads to show aa if the genuine de fective certificate bad been considered and passed upon ; how this was not an accident, but design,and tbat not only in one of the published records of the proceedings of the Electoral Commission but in both, although made months apart; how the Republican managers were informed by Kellogg that there was something wrong about the second certificate, and bow all the way through there lies a thread of design to impose the forged certifi cate npon Congress, and then he suppressed it, so that If discovered the record might show ss If it had never been produced. It concludes with finding that full effect was not given to the Electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana; that Noyea, Sherman and others encouraged this result; that the second cer tificate from Louisiana was forged ss to two of its namea, Kellogg and Clark being privy to it, and that Tilden and Hendricks received a true majority of the Electoral vote and were the real choice of the people of the United States at the last Presidential election. Inllnorltr Report. Washington. March 3. The minority of the Potter Investigating Committee, Hlscock, Cox and Reed, presei -ted their report this afternoon. In It they diss t from the views presented in the report of tL majority, both as to the pertinence of the same to the investigation and to the conclu sions expressed upon the testimony taken. They then referred to the origin of the com mittee, pointing out that the original resolu tions for its sppolntment did not ask for gen eral Investigation of all frauds connected with the last Presidential election, but only what might be found in the acts of officials and persons of one political party in only two ot the States in which fraudulent practices were charged. They took this view in the committee and treated the investigation as one wholly unnecessary, made without proba ble cause so far aa tbe Individuals named were aimed at, snd likely to add nothing of value to the public information on the general sub ject. They confined themselves, therefore, to the task of trying to make the inquiries in stituted by the majority something more than a Democratic investigation of Republicans, so that whatever waa put before the world might have some of tbe elements of an ex amination of both sides. Thia would explain why they did not move for original inquiries beyond those com menced by the majority, and did not ask for new Investigations of the frauds In Oregon, South Carolina,. Mississippi, and the other Slates. When the Florida investigation was begun they offered a resolution that alleged frauds at tbe ballot-box, as well ss those charged upon tbe canvassers snd Returning officers, should be examined. This was voted down by the majority, although It was a mat tor of notoriety, and waa bv them brought to the attention of the majority, that both kinds of charges were made They understood the majority to base their action npon the limita tions they thought were put to the Investiga tion by the original resolutions, and did not auarrel with their Judgment, though this would now the original resolutions to be unfair and partisan In their character. They have con ducted the examination on the Interpretations thus given. Bat whst surprises them, and what they desire most emphatically to dissent from waa the action of the majority In affect ing to report for whom the vote of Florida was actually given, after they have thus re fused to examine both sides of that very qnestlon. While their work was In progress a publi cation was then made in a leading Journal of cipher dispatches. The startling character ot the revelations made in the action of the minority appears singular in this case, but they quietly waited to see what coarse the majority would feel It necessary to take They had learned that the majority treated these dispatches as a separate matter of in vestigation and report. They could not so regard it. A report upon the frauds of Flori da with the cipher dispatches omitted would be like the play ot Hamlet with Hamlet left out. The facta were too notorious to be left oat, and therefore they dissented from the method of makingup the report auggested by the other aide The majority report that they would have preferred to sit with closed doors, but S elded to tbe wish of the minority. This was ue, and they saw no reason to regret their coarse They thought the same also of the ciphers Investigation, that publicity was necessary, and that the public judgment Is Just. Upon the cipher dispatch investiga tion, the minority report that they present their views under the disadvantage of not pos sessing sny Indication of what tbe views of the majority will be. They would confine them selves to the investigation they themselves had made, with regard to which it might fair ly be aald that tbe whole investigation rested upon what tbe enterprise and wonderful skill of tbe translator brought to light. The orig inal eubiect of their Investigation was the honesty or dishonesty of the election in Flor ida. Louisiana and South Carolina for two years prior to October, 1878. Mr. Tilden and his agents, in season and out of season, had Iterated and reiterated charges that the Can vassing Boards of the doubtful States had acted fraudulently and corruptly In discharge of sworn duties. If these chargea had been fortified by any proof the characters of those who made the charges would be of no conse quence whatever. But In fact the whole investigation, with Its 3,000 pages of hearsay and falsehood, bad not afforded tbe slightest proof of what waa asserted. No man. had come forward to aay that any bribe was ac cepted, or that any member uf any Canvass ing Board Indicated any desire to betray bis trust. Every intimation of that kind had been traced to some Democrat and there ends, and that Democrat bad never been brought before them. Mr. McLin, to whose testimony Mr. Tilden referred, although goaded by sick ness and Imaginary wrongs, never for a mo ment admitted improper conduct at the time. He only thinks from after knowledge that he may have been mistaken. As to the South Carolina Board, tbe full, free and uncontradicted testimony of Mr. Dunn satisfied every man who beard it of tbe absence of fraud in South Caroline These charges, then, of fraud and corruption with which Tilden and his agenta had filled the air were nothing but the unsupported assertions of litigants, against whom the courts have de cided. -Tbe next question to be. considered was whether either the Florida or South Carolina Returning Boards were for sale The South Carolina part is quickly disposed of. The tes timony of Dunn, uncontradicted, clearly shows that Smith Weed was played with by shrewder men than himself for purposes entirely proper, snd in a manner entirely Justifiable As to Florida, Woolley bad not been called, aid Marble had probably not given the full facts of his attempt. So far, however, as he indi cated tbe source of hia proposition (or "dan ger signals"), it ended this way: Mr. Dyke, the party named, telegraphs that he never knew anything about it himself. He was told by a Mr. Robertson that a Republican Con gressman said they could be bought. Mar ble's statement amounts then to this: A man told him that a man told him that a third man told blm tbat the Canvassing Board could be bought. This may not be consistent with his preparations for bribery, but it la all the evidence be vouchsafed. The truth waa that all this clamor about fraud was made be cause the canvass changed the " face of the returns." Now there was nothing sacred about the "face of the returns." The very existence of the Canvassing Board Implies that the face of the returns are not a safeguard or a final arbiter of elections. In Florida the "face Of the retains" gave bat ninety-one ma jority to Tilden on tbeir most favorable con struction. The fact that the final count gave the State tbe other way surely could be no ground for charging corruption without other evidence As to whether there were any Re publican dispatches similar in character to those of Tilden's agents the report says there U little evidence on which such an inquiry can be founded. But from the first there haa been going on a kind of shadow hunt for same dispatches supposed to be destroyed. This hunt has not been successful. In reference to the election In Florida the report reads: "The Democratic party was composed in main of native white voters of Florida. On one side was arrayed the North ern emigrants, many of whom were Union soldiers, snd the lately enslaved colored men; on the other side the former masters. Confederate soldiers, or contributors to tbe lost cause, and if Florida elected Tilden Electors tbe colored men mast be won to their support, and we desire most em phatically to deny that it was even at tempted by peaceful methods. Resolu tions of conventions for Northern con sumption were passed, but fraud and violence were resorted to and even death Inflicted. We assert that the supporters of Tllden to carry that election did resort to the most open ille gal voting, fraud, and personal violence" After reciting the duties of tbe Returning Board the report goes on to criticize the con duct of tbe Florida Board. Threats of per sonal violence it stales were made against a member of the Returning Board by Demo crats and be was followed by armed men at night to his house from sessions of the can vassers, and a distinguished representative of the Democratic party endeavored to influence his action by an offer of money. As to tbe result of the Florida election, adopting the rule contended for bv the major ity report, that tbe Canvassing Board could only canvass county returns by aggregating the vote appearing upon their face for the re spective candidates, the Hayes Electors had forty majority; following the rule hud down by the 8upreme Court tbey had 200 majority; purging the county returns of fraud accord ing to the decision and advice of the Demo cratic Attorney-General, they had 900 major ity. With regard to LonUlana affairs tbe report devotes most attention to the Sherman let ter. The majority report, it states falls to report explicitly wheiher the testimony sus tained the charge thr.t such a letter, as An derson and Weber state, had been written. They (the minority) emphatically declare that it does not. The last point the report touches upon is the Wormly conference, in regard to which it distinctly and altogether denies tbe alleged "bargain to seat Hayes." Tbe report con cludes: "We are not aware that anything has been found more significant of wrong than the notorious circular of the Demo cratic campaign committee of 1876, in which tbey advise a parade of Demo ctatic clubs on horseback, and tbeir march ing as organized bodies to tbe "central ren dezvous," for the purpose of impressing negroes with the sense of their united strength. The recommendation of systematic warning to negroes that "we have the means to carry the election and we mean to use them," and the like To Ignore this aa tbe majority have done forces us to conclude tbat the time baa not yet come when a fair review of the case and a Just judgment in regard thereto Is possible The minority regret tbat tbe result of the investigation in which the taking of testi mony continued till tbe last day but one of Congress, snd is still Incomplete, must be a report that in obedience to the directions of the House a great mass of evidence haa ac cumulated which can neither be considered or acted npon by Congress, snd the sdvan taire gained bv the nubile in the dally consid eration of it, upon which the minority in sisted. Is the only matter oi prom to any one LEGISLATIVE. KmtntA. Pfti 95. A communication was re ceived from the Governor nominating Barna bas Burns, of Mansfield, Richland County, to be trustee of the Soldiers' snd Sailors' Or- Shana' Home for the term of five yeara from an. 1, 1879. Referred to the Committee on Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Houte. Petitions were presented praying for the passage of local option and other tem perance U ws ; asking for the pssssge of House bill No. 580, creating tbe office of County Su perintendent, and for a law giving each coun ty supervision and management of its school affaire Tbe Speaker laid before the House a statement from the Auditor of State's report, showing balances to tbe credit of each fund now lying in the Treasury- Laid on the table and ordered printed. StnaU, Feb. 26. Bills passed: To allow wit nesses in rrobate uourta iees, toe same as allowed by other courts; repealing the clause of the trespass set compelling property own ers to put np warnings against nunting tres passers; to protect the rights of sepulture Senate Joint resolution No. 77, memorializing Congress In regard to the deepening of 8u Mary's River, waa taken from the table and placed ou Its passage It was lost by a vote of 10 to 14. Upon motion of Mr. Richards the vote wss reconsidered snd the bill laid on the table Bills intro duced: Providing for the immediate acknowledgment aud recording of deeds upon their being made; to exempt the regalia of secret societies from seizure and sale on ex ecution; to enable creditors to collect, by judgment, so much of a claim as msy be in excess of offsets brought in by a debtor. Tbe Committee on Public Lands and Public Works reported In favor of the adoption of House Joint resolution No. 94, granting the General Government right of way through certain State works. The resolution waa adopted by a vote of 18 to 1. The nomination of Barna bas Burns to be Trustee of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was confirmed. Bourn. Nearly forty petitions asking for the passage of a local option Uw and for tem perance legtslation,represerting 5,298 signers, were referred to the Committee on Temper ance Bills Introduced: To establish a board of examiners of insecure and unsafe build ings and to provide for tbe appointment of inspectors of buildings; to amend section 19 of an act for the incorporation of town ships, providing for the renewal of the bond of township treasurers snd other officers when In the opinion of tbe township trustees the bond shall become in secure or appear insufficient; allowing the Councils of incorporated villages to impose upon the Marshal of such village the duties of street commissioner, and to provide for additional compensation therefor; making it unlawful for any attorney, except the Prose cuting Attorney of each county, to have his omce in any room oi a coon noose, any deputy or count? officer or clerl k In any county office to practice law in such county; authorizing the Probate Courts to settle" differences between legatees and parties Interested. Senate "Jill allowing the subdivision of real estate sold at Sheriff's sale was read the third time and passed. Senate, Feb. 27. Bills passed: Granting police powers to officers of agricultural socle ties; to preserve the purity of elections. The bill makes it a felony for any candidate for public office to bribe a voter, the penalty being from $500 to $1,000 fine and Imprisonment from six months to three years in the pent- tentiary, and vacates the office of sny such official If elected; the bill' also provides by a fine of from $50 to $300 of any voter who shall seek money or articles of value from any candidate, or offer to sell him tickets to any entertainment. iome, BiUa passed: Senate bill, No. 213, to give the Probate Court concurrent juris diction in certain cases in certain counties; Senate bill No. 55, to provide for the better regulation of sales on execution and orders of sale Mr. Dodd's bill to tax the sale of liquor, after a lengthy discussion, was put upon its passage and was lost by a vote of 44 to 44. SenaU, Feb. 28. Mr. Steedmsn offered a res olution asking Congress to provide for sn in come tax. It was laid on the table and or dered to be printed. Mr. Worley's House bill authorizing a compromise by the County Com missioners of Stark County with then-defaulting Treasurer, George F easier, was read tbe third time and passed. Mr. Owens' joint res olution, providing for an amendment to the Constitution by which Township Trustees , shall be elected for terms of three years, in stead of one aa now, was taken up and adopted. Billa passed: Authorizing the establishment or vacation of any street or alley when, in any village or hamlet, in the opinion of the trus tees or council, it shall conduce to the public welfare; Senate bill No. 253. providing that a penalty of six per cent, shall be added in case a tax Is not paid the year it to assessed, snd a repetition of the penalty every year the tax to not paid: provided that when a person to sentenced for felony and the execution of the sentence is suspended the court shall order him into the custody of the Sheriff, and, if such per son escapes, when again recaptured he shall be resentenced upon the same verdict, and the former sentence shall be set aside Billa Intro duced: Amending tbe Uws relating to the va cation of town plots; refprminr the Girls' Industrial Home, and providing that it shall hereafter be more of a penal than a reforma tory institution. .Howe. Bills passed : Providing that taxes for public improvements shall not be levied ia villages of 5,000 population, unless carried by a two-thirds vote of the village council; mak- -tng appropriations for deficiencies which are . payable out of the several revenue funds: making appropriations for deficiencies out of the asylum fund. SenaU, March L A bill was introduced for the better protection of head contractors and material men. The bill provides that the owner of a building in course of erection, may be made responsible for the pay for ma terial used by the contractor, on notification by the' party furnishing the materiaL Mr. Johnston, from the Committee on Rail roads and Telegraphs, reported a sub stitute for Mr. Carson's Senate bill No. 160 In regard to palace and sleeping car charges. The substitute provides a fine ot from $100 to $300 to be inflicted npon any agent or employe of a palace or sleeping car who charges sny more than the following rates : For a distance of 300 miles or less, chair for use of berth or sofa, 25 cents; for a section, 50 cents; for a state room, fl, with 25 cents extra for each berth made up in ths same The bill also provides that when a pas senger holding a first-class ticket on a train to which a sleeper or palace car U attached cannot, on account of tte crowded condition of other coaches, get a seat, he shall have a right to ride in the palace car free of charge until a seat in another coach can be provided fer him. Laid on table and ordered printed. House. There waa the usual list of local option and temperance petitions. Those in favor of Quinby's Local Option bill were signed by 4,139 petitioners. Bills introduced: Authorizing township trustees to borrow a vault in anticipation of a tax assessed there for; to define liability and pleadings in civil actions; providing fora system of fixing the compensation and fees of county of ficers in certain cases; providing for the depositing and safe-keeping of county funds; to allow administra tors to serve on defendants notice of the intended sale of Unds In place of by the Sheriff and summons as at present; re pealing the Uw allowing the appointment of a messenger for the Supreme Court; making punishable by from one year to ten years' im prisonment a felony for an officer to create a debt by or in behalf of the State ; to regulate the letting of convict labor; to regu late public warehouses; providing Ior the inspection of steam boilers and forbidding incompetent and unqualified per sons from managing steam boilers, engines or apparatus; authorizing County Commission ers to construct free turnpike roads ; fixing the compensation of members of the General Assembly at $5 per day, but not allowing it to exceed $300 per year, and deducting from the pay of each member tbe pay for the days which he Is absent ; authorizing County Audit ors to refund over-paid taxes within four years. Senate, March 3. Bills introduced: To re peal sections 7, 8 snd 9 of chapter 1 of title 4 of the Uws reUting to error, mandamus and quo warranto; amending section 10 of an act relating to crimes against persons. Bmiee. A number ot petitions were pre sented remonstrating against tbe passage of Dodd's insurance bill; also a Urge number of petitiona asking for temperance legislation and the passage of Quinby's and Ey tar's Lo cal Option bills. Bills introduced: To pro vide for the disposition of life Insurance pol icies payable to the wife of the Insured in cer tain cases of divorce; for the maintenance of public libraries In certain cities; amending section 62 of the exemption act making the homestead liable for debts incurred before the purchase of the same, and amend ing section 63 of the ssme act making personal property liable for the purchase prite thereof on judgment; permitting mu nicipal corporations to license doge Bills passed: Allowing Bachelors of Science the same rights as Bachelors of Art in the elec tion of alumni association trustees and Uni versity trustees; to extend the sittings of the -Morgan Raid Commission another year; re lating to the pay of talesmen. Senate bill No. 241, to prevent courts from appointing Uw partners of Prosecuting Attorneys to defend criminals, waa passed after being so amended as to prevent such partners from aiding in any prosecution. Why Glass is Broken by Hot Water. No person could be so foolish as to hazard the breaking of a glass by pour ing hot water npon it, if he understood the simple means of accounting for the breakage. If hot water is poured into a glass witn a rouna Donom, tne ex pansion produced by the heat of the water will cause the bottom of the glass to enlarge, while the sides, which are not heated, retain their former dimen sions, and consequently, if the heat be sufficiently intense, the bottom will be forced from the sides, and a crack or flaw will surround that part of the glass by which the sides are united to the bottom. If, however, the glass be pre viously wetted with a little warm water, so that the whole is gradually heated and thereby expanded, boiling water can then be poured in without damage If a silver spoon is placed in the goblet or glass jar, boiling water can then be poured in without danger, unless the article has been taken from a frosty closet and is very cold. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. A pair of drawers straws in lem onade. Puck. A pair of pants two dogs after a long chase. Philadelphia Chronicle. A pur of slippers two eels. Albany Argus. A pair of shoo's two women chasing a hen. Rochester Democrat. A paro "docs" two phy sicians. Whitehall Times. A pair o' dies two drowning kittens. Yonhers Oasftte. A pair ? twins Tom and Jerry !Fef Jersey Press. Parachute a double-barreled gun. The Graphic ' Topic: Geological disoussion. Principal: "Was it colder or warmer a hundred years ago than at presentP" Pupil (honestly): "I really can't re collect, sir." and also ' making it - unUwful : for