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rr Ay VOL. XXII. tidLlVAli, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1887, NO. 20. Y7 M0 v NEWS IN BRIER CempllA from Yariv&i Source. CONGRESSIONAL. rtOCEKDING In the Senate on the 18th a jit resolution yma passed providing (or a -committee of both tiouses to consider the xpdlency of holding a world's exposition la 1J. A resolution was introduced authortetng the President to pro hibit the passar through the United States of mgines. cars or Teasels coming from Caia. The bill forfeiting lands granted o the New Orleans, liaton Kouie & Vtattsburg railroad was considered, and tin bill having been Amended, was pirmh1. In the House a con ference report m submitted on the Lands-ln-everalty bill. A bill was introdii-ed for establishing aids to navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi. The bill te Increase the pen sion of soldiers and sailor who have lost both arms from to (HO was discussed; also the hill to cause investigation into injuries lhfllcted on American tnfjaRed in the fisheries. A reso lution was. passed authorising an investigation of Pacini: railroad accounts. The conference report on the Inter-State Commerce bill was considered. The Post-Oftlce Approrr'ktton bill as reported iviid referred. TVaaferees were ap pointed on the Army .Appropriation bill. Ad lourned. In the Scout tin the 19th a bill wag report eA Tor the prortion of American fishing TTsscla. (A conference committee was appointed on the Forfeiture of the Ifcfekbone I.and-Orant bill. A bill authorizing the construction of a brldfra Vver the Mississippi river, between Kads' toridne and the mouth of the Missouri river, was 3tmeix5l and passed. Conferees were ap iwinted on the Army Appropriation Ui. The bill appropriating t.'i00,ooo lor the Charleston jetties was passed. An executive session was held. Ad journed In tho House the resolution net ting apart a day for consideration of the Ulalr Kducattonal bill was Uiscussod. The Inter ijtateConimerce bill was considered. The bill authorizing the coniniption of a brirtpe over The Mississippi river at St, Louis was passed. A resolution v;a offered calling on the Secre tary of the Treasury for information regarding the 1'acUle railroad debt. Adjour& In the Senate on the SutU a message was ro peivrd from the President Vetoing a pension bill. A petition from Manufacturers and mer chants of St. Louis tor the repeal of Internal Revenue laws was presented. The bill w63 re ported for tho completion of the monument to the mother of WashinRton; also, the bill to amend the act authorizing the construction of the Arthur Kill bridge. Notice wos given th n Tuesday, the -J'tth, the resolution prolong a woman suffrage umenanient '! be called up. The conference, report Vu the Klectoral 'ount bill was ar! o In the House a resolution was atfrj'f d calling on the Secretary f tho Tre:-.airy for a statement of the Gov ernment's, founts with the Pacific railroads. Ueport from committees on a number of bills were fesented. The Senate bill passed umend ingtie law regarding patents, trade marks and OT'.vriKhts. An agreement was made to vote m the morning of tho tflst on the adoption of the conference report, on the Inter state Com merce bill, after which the bill was take up and .discussed. In the Senato on the 21st Mr. -Spooner wa appointed, to succeed General logan on the committee on privileges and electkwi. A peti tion was presented from the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union of the Ibstric bt Columbia for protection against vice thd law lessness. A resolution was adapted calling for the correspondence regarU'.ug the seizure of the .American schooner Ki'oecca lit Tampico, Mex ico. After sec- session the Senate adjourned until the tlth In the House the Inter-Siali Commerce bill was voted on nd pxs"jif(l yeas, yi'J; nays, 41. A resolution was offered and referred calling for the corre spondence regarding the Canadian fisheries. T"je conference report on the bill for allotment of lands tn severalty to Indians wns agreed to. Private business was considered in committee of the whole. An evening session was held and several pension bills were passed. Tilt Senate was irot in session on the S2d In tho House the committee lh judiciary re ported adversely the resolutions of Inquiry as lo the Union Pivciilc, consolidation. The Dis trict of Columbia Appropriation bill was r ported. The Senate amendments to the Mil for forfeiture of the New Or leans, llaton Kongo & Yicksburg Rail road lands were Vimcurred in. The resolution with rr-ferenee to the Hawaiian treaty, asking the judiciary committee to re port wbei-her a treaty involving a rate of duty in valkl without concurrence of the House, was adopted. A motion to go into committee f the whole on the Kiver nud Harlor bill was carried, and the bill was taken uo and Uis :ussed. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Zaxkock, loader of the Russian party in Bulgaria, bus arrived at Constantinople. Tommy Dankoktii and Jack Hardin?, Jipht wcljrhta, fought cloven round near Nv"k, '. II., on the l'-'lh, the former win ttinj on a foul. D.N tho I'.ith an address to Kmperor Will iam was udupted by tho upper house of the Prussian Diet, expressing the willing ness of the Prussian people to vote the means necessary for defending the em pire. The President and Mrs. Cleveland, with llieyounp ladies of tho Cabinet, will at end the charity bull at Baltimore on the -Mth. The presidential party jjoe at seven o'clock nod returns at two in the morning. SiiEKirr Matson, of Chicago, positively refuses to admit Mis. Nina Van Zandt, to the jail, thus frustrating her marriagj to Spir. Sfi'iirtaht Mnsini h's modified exist ing relations no as to allow free entry of naturally frozen fish, imported iu the oon litiou iu which thv are caught, without laving been salted or otherwino pro nerved. Os tho lth Mrs. Clevelaod shook linruls with threo hundred and t vonty-neven per sons in one hour. Mrs. Fo'.som, Mrs. loodyear and Mrs. Kicurd gave their pres ence to the midday reception, hut could not take part in tie handshaking. Mrs. Cieveland says sh tloes not find th exor cise at all laborious, but e lj y it greatly. Hon. Khank Hisc.kk wus elected United States Senator by the New York Legislature on the li.'.t h. On the v!0th Judge Hush-iw was confirm ed by the United StnteH Senate as district-attorney for the Kastorn district of Missouri. Stam.kv. the African explorer, has ifTers from inanv gooil men who wish to iccomp.itiy him on his present, expedition. A committee of the upper house of tho 1'riissiaii Landtag who culled on Kmperor IVilliain on tl 'JOth. were repeatedly 'hankeil for their loyal assurances. Cot-NTT COMMISSIONFR Kl.KHM, Of Cook ,'ounty. 111., captured in tho wootls on the -VMh, Alphonso Keese, of San Francisco, Cal., who was demented, being under the impression that ho was pursued by jr hosts. On the aoth Mrs. ilas cave a breakfast rf fourteen covers at Washington in lion orof Mrs. Cievelan 1 and Miss Hoy no, of Chicago, who is Mrs. Vilas' guest. I'aI'ton Kaos, Colonel Andrew and Mr. Alex. tt. Cochrane are in Washington to secure hii amended bill givii' u charter to tlicTehuuntopoc Ship Hallway Cniuiiiy. Cajda'n Kads has with him his daughter. Mis. Hazard. On tho until the President sent to tho Senate tho following iKoninations: Oney Carstarphen, of Colorado, to 1h Snrveyor (ieneral of Coloiado; Albion S.Keith, of Massachusetts, to be an ensign iu tho navy on the retired l.st. Kuiknos of Congressman HincwK arc ominonling upon tho fact that bo'-h Car field ami Hlaine were elected to the Sen ate while occupying the chair in the wavs tnd means committee now o"cupiod by the lucky New Yorker, who has just cap ured the United States S.Miutorship. On tho liOth every body who was out Cabinet callingin Washington went up th steps of Secretary Kumar's h.u.o, and ;very body, like tho King of Uranco. narched down again without seeing the bride of the Cab'uet. Mrs Lamar wan too nuoh warid by her rui'road journey Irom the South to o any one. Mrs. VoOunrKs, wife of Somtor Vooi i.ees, of Indiana, died at Washington i. theaist. Ooionei. DrtOAunrAii, of Missnuri, i applicunt for a pjace on tho lutei- Ht ur Ceinmoroe Commission. FtltCB Alexander ot Battenburg has started on his proposed tour throughout Egypt. Hox. A. H. PadhooK haS been elected United State Senator from Nebraska to suercd Senator Vran Wyck. Hbxbt M. Staslet embarked at London on the 21st for Brindisi, en route to Suez, from whence he will proceed to tW relief of Emin. Bey. Mrs. Mart toret, of Chicago, is not intlled to a dower interest in any of the late Editor Storey's property acquired after the divorce, according to a decision of Judge Tuley, rendered on the 2l9t. Stojaxoff has been hastily summoned to Sofia by the regency. StojanofT states that important events may soon bo exoct ed in Bulgaria, as the .4rovr?ui!aent is in tending to take energetic measures. Sf.ciaUt Endicott has transmitted to L'ongress an estimate of $15,000 for the building of a foundation for log signal structure at SpectociJ iteef light-station, Mich. Os the 22d the Marchioness of Queens berry knocked her husband out in ."no round in the divorce court a,t Edinburgh. Jay Gotri-f) is rrp?rtea to have offered $100,000 for tho Dallas (Tex.) Court-house ad grounds for a union depot. Peter McOeocii has won tho famous suit brought against him at Milwaukee bv Daniel Wells, Jr.. on matters growing out of the great lard deal in which Peter was involved. Pechetart Makxixo hu designated S13,SS7,000 threo per rnt. bonds for which the cash will M ready for their redemp tion on March 1, after which date interest Will cease. In the event, which is likely, of Mt thews being again rejected by tte Wntifi as recorder of deeds for fce District of Columbia, Wm ll 3imth, assistant libra rian of tfcn ?ii3use of Representatives, who wa iurn a slave in the District, will prob ably be tho nominee, with assurance in advance of his speedy confirmation'. Kev. John Pattkusc'. b Cambridge, Wis., who cut r", toroat during a tempo rary fife? insanity, died on the 22d. T'iie funeral of Mrs. Voorheea took placj at Washington on the 28.1. Silt Joseph WjiitVukth, the eminent English Mffteir and fire-arms inventor. die. t.1 Monte Carlo cn the 221. Of the fifteen Republican Senators to be sworn in on the 4th of March, four are ex Confederates. Justices Mirhat and Gray, of the United State? Supreme Court, it is said, will rc fuso to sit in tho telephone case? on aV count of intorst of relatives. CRIMES AND CASTTALTIES. On the 2Jth four men were killed by a boiler explosion near Washington, Ind. Seven persons have been arrested in KwoX County, Ky., in connection with the murder of tho Poe family in October 5ast. At Delhi, N. Y., on the lSth, tlie remains of John OrifTen were exhumed for ex amination) DVing to the suspicion that he was poisoned by his wife. iir.OHOE Fhankmn Anderson has been arrested at London charged with swindling Charles Deakiu, of Susquehanna, Pa., out of J 30.030. On the 19th tho safe of the Belmont Sav ings Bank at Belmont, Mass., was blown open, and $1,500 was carried oft. On tho l'Jth the baggage-car on the New York limited express was blown to pieces near Altoona, Pa., by dynamite contained iu a trunk. On tho night of tho ISth Judge Noonan, of Ilutttingburg, Ind., fell between two cars of tho south-bound train on tho Louisville, New Albany oi Chicago rail road north of Crawfordsville, ind., and was ground into fragments. On tho 2it.h Silas Philbaok and wife, of Stephens Point, Wis., both died of trichina-. On tho 2)th, Thomas Hogan, a sixteen-year-old boy, was shot and killed by Pinkerton men at Jersey City, jf. J. On the th Mrs. James Cab-tick, of Cleveland, O., whi'e iu a lit of insanity, killed three of her children, fatally wounded two others and then hung her self. Bt the explosion of n boiler in a Chesa peake & Ohio grain elevator at Newport News, Va., on the 20th, Samuel Robinson wns killed. A reward has been offered for the dis covery of tho person who gave tho false alarm of fire at the Prince Street Theater, London, on the night of the recent panic. On tho 23th Win. E. Meade was mur dered in cxld blood by two men at White Plains, N. Y., who, upon, beiug overtaken by officers, committed suicide by shooting themselves. Preston Valentine was hanged for murder at Augusta, (ia., on the 21st. The four Pinkerton men concerned in tho shooting of Thomas Hogan at Jersey City, N. J., were examined on the 21st, and were remanded for further hearing. Policeman Chari.es D. Aiums shot at an escaping prisoner in New York on the 21st and killed Poutainclla G.inale, who was standing in his father's doorway. It is now stated that the two burglars who shot William K. Mead at White Plains. N. Y., did not commit suicide, as reported, but were shot by the police. The house of Culvin Bass, ot Kershaw County, S. C, was destroyed on the 2hh by an incendiary fire. Bass' wife, who was sick iu lied, and her two small chil dren perished in the flames. Bass is sus pected of having fired the house. Fire destroyed the Lucknow Pa nor mills, at Bridgeton, N. J., on the 2d. Tho works wore- valued nf f4'i.'hi0; insurance. lV-?50. On th 22d Wm. Uwver. Walt-T Shaw and another boy. name unknown, were fatally injured while coasting in Boston, by col lating with passiug vehicles. On tho 2:td a man named Moser was killed bv a boiler explosion at Van Meter, Id. On the 23d train robbers did a very floe job near Cordon. Tex. Eight of them stop ped a train and robbed the express and mail cars. The amount of their plunder is not known. A Cheer Indian boy named Seabron, charged with threo murders near Eufaula. I. T, has been captured and carried to Fort Smith. MISCELLANEOUS. Dow, Jones oi Co.'s news agency, of New York, charges that tho West am Union Telegraph Company has been fur nishing private dispatches to a rival agency. On tho 19th two German spies were ar rested at Lyons. France, for attempting to bribe French soldiers. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank ot Beaver City, Neb., to begin business with a capital of .V,0iM. Tn v. Secretary of the Treasury h;is de cided that no drawback can be allowed on tho exportation of imported bottles ft i led with beer manufactured in tho United States from domestic materials. The Western Iron Association held it annual meeting at Pittsburgh. Pa., on tho 19th. Both houses of Congress passed the St. Lou.s Bridge bill on tho 1S h. On tho l'Jth the funeral of four of the victims of the Baltimore oi Oho wreck a' Republic took place al Republic. O. Canadian officials claim to look up mi the Be'.mont Fisheries bill us a game i f bluff. O.Nthe-JOth the live stock exchange .' the West held a meeting at Chicago. Cti-ENBiKo, County Kerry, Ireland. Wie the scene of more eviction on the 2oth. The Lake; Shore switchmen aro on stri ' -it Toledo, O., for nn increase of wage-?. France has recently b,c-n buyiuir la;-.' ;uautities cf timber in Ais.vc-i.ri-.u.io TllI following post-ol'u-er l:iv" .Hen '! continued : Big For. P..l. Count r. Aw i ial! to Bi . Ite.nl ; Muricu CoiM'.ty, Mo. Maxwell, Collin Cou Saxio. Fab. us J iinet i ttii'ii to Pai;n.Vi. ..t.v, Te., lu-ui Ths negotiations for the settlement of tho Bulgarian (Juestidh are said to be pro gressing favorably. Reports have been made on the appli cations of Washington Territory and Montana-favorable to their admission into tha Union as States. , On the 20th the National Board of Trade, in session at Washington, declared itself, by a close vote, not in favor of Govern ment subsidies to American-built vessels. Alt, the fishermen caught in tho break up of the ice at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 21st, were rescued. Thk House committee on agriculture has completed, its regular annual appropria tion bill. It appropriates about $550,000, It makes no provision foe continuing the experiments by diffusion in sugar making from sugar cane in the West, those of last year having proven failures. It is denied at St. Petersburg that Gen eral Kaulbars will return to Sofia. A conference of the Powers is to b held shortly on the Bulgarian question. Tjis Per'- Is endeavoring to bring about a coalition between the Zankofiltesand tho Bulgarian regents. A company has leased lands and made preparations for lead-mining on a large scale in Pettis and adjoining counties of Missouri. The board of poor law guardians at Dublin have adopted a a resolution con demning the executive of the National League at Dublin. The amended budget presented by th Minister of Finance has been rejected bj the French Chamber of Deputies. The Canadian Govrhtyefti is Juoilant over tbo isn'ouf agement given tho seces sion, aha repeal movement by Mr. Glad stone. The Missouri State Board of Health, at the meeting on the 21st, at Jefferson City, elected officers and recommended to the Legislature that an emergency fund of 10.000 be provided in case of epidemic. The annual examination at West Point was completed on tho 21st. Thirty-nine cadets were found ocicdl, and have been d is n i sici. 'ns Agricultural Appropriation bill was agreed to by the committee on agri culture of the House at Washington on the 21st. It appropriates an agroarate of ?5x5,oO, $10,000 more than last roar; Amoxb the historic army posts selected for abandonment Under the plan for the concentration of troops by rejriments at large posts near railway rehttrs are Forts Lyon CoL; Union, Jf. M., and Hayes, Kas. The garrisons of these posts will be sent to Denver when the post is established there iext summer. Toe final dress rehearsal of tho latest work of Sir Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert, which is to be made known to tha world under the suggestive title of '-Rud-tfygore; or, tho Witches' Curse," took place on the 21st in the Savoy Theater, London. The Secretary of the Navy says there will be no Arctic expeditions during the present administration with his advic? consent; the United States has something else to do with its vessels ai;d officers. Dispatches from Buenos Ayres have been received at the State Dcprtrtuicritj stating that the deaths from Asiatic chol era in that city dur.'ng November last numbered ninety-three, and that business was virtually suspended th re. The brewers at Detroit, Mich., have won in the contest with thjir workmen, iho latter having returned to work under tho old conditions. Thk White Plains (N. Y.) murderers, Whn Either committed suicide or were killed by the oQieers pursuing them, prove to be two New York bo3-s, named Bi-iabaa. The Court of Appeals at Mo::tre '1, Can.f has refused a writ of habeas corpus to Hoke, the Peoria (111.) defaulter, and ha will bo surrendered to the United Statea bfiieer.!. Peremptory orders have been issued in Russian Poland forbidding the exporta tion of horses to Austria or Prussia. The Montreal ice castle is nearly com pleted, and a preliminary illumination and pyrotechnic display on the night of tho 22J, demonstrated the beauty aud effect iveness of tho design. The strikers in the Lorillard tobacco factory at Jersey City, N. J., determined to return to work on the 24th. The firm, will not increase wages and will reduc the force fully ten per cent. The long-continued drought in Central Illinois has been broken by copious rains. On the 24th an expedition of Swedes and Belgians left Antwerp for the Congo country. Spain is said to be willing to grant anx nesty to Zorilla and other political exiles, who will return home. A hkcideo sensation in social life at Washington was created on the 23d when a party of uninvited guests at a private en tertaiument at tho residence of the British Minister were invited to retire by the Misses West. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Cholera is making frightful ra-vages in South America- New Yok City is threatened with a small-pox epidemic, and it is believed ihe publication of tho fact will cost Wie city $10,000,000 of trade. Prof. Hopkins and Dr. C. II. Meade of the national prohibition executive com mittee lectured at Jackson, Miss., on tae Coth, taking the ground that to make pro hibition effective a third party devoted to its interests must be organized. The Governor of Ohio on tho 25th ep pointed ex-President Hnyos to be trustee of tho Ohio Stat University for the term of seven years. T. B. Pahnelt,, sheriff of Muhlenberg e-mnty, Ky., was shot and killed on the 22d, while attempting to arrest James A. Hopkins, who is charged with murder. The Governor of Ohro has issued a proclamation quarautin ug against cattle from Illinois. Ex-Gov. W. B. Bate was elected United States Senator by the Tennessee Legisla ture cn the 25th. In Yellow sto no county, Ga., five men in ambush fired upon Andy Howard. The men having emptied their guns1 without death resulting, rashed upon Howard an 1 stamped him so badly that his bowels pro truded, and death ensued in t w euty-four , bouts. The imports of dry goods fir the week ending on the 22d amounted to 2,879,141. The amount thrown on tho market was $2.955,20S. At Memphis, on the 22 1, fi,300 bales of cotton were destroved bv lire. Loss 2So,- ooo. Jackson, Miss., is to have the special delivery system. A freight tkain on the Iooisvillo and Nashville road was wrtc'-ied near Hum boldt, Teon., on the 2Ji. THERE was a demonstration at New New York on the in compliment to Michael llavitt and his wife. Nearly 10,00v) persons were present. The British govei uniit.t. is alarmed on account of its having beard that lirniianv is lik.ly to ask Fr.iticn to expla n the ' meaning of the French militury move- ! meats ou the frontier. I Since November 1st over COO loronioiive i engines have been ordered, oim-e January j 1st over 4000 freight, lumber nnd cool cars. ! The annual examination at West Point . has just been oomph-ted. TLirty-ninu ca- ; dets were found deficient and have been . dismissed. A SUIT JOT .f-JiWymO d-uoag.'s was filed in -tbeCiiOiiit C urt at St. Loai--, u the 22 !, ; by the St. Jcep:i aud St. i.oiiis rail rend against the St. Loui-. Ir n Mountain a-id Southern, and the Missouri Pacitlc Kail- road Companies, J INTER-STATE COMMERCE. Balleat Features of th Inter-State Com merce Bill Passed by Both Houses ot Congress and Now Awaiting: the Presi dent's .Signature. WUhiwoton, Jan. 29. The Inter-Statfl Commerce bill, as agreed upon by both Houses of Congress, provides that all charges made for any service rendered in the transportation of passengers or prop erty by common carriers shall be reasonable and just, and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service i9 prohibited and declared to be unlawful. Section two makes it unlawful for any common carrier to charge or receive directly or indirectly from an persons a greater or less compensation for any ser vice rendered in the transportation of passengers or property than it charges, or receives from any other person or per sons for doing a like and contemporane ous service in the transportation of a liko kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions. Section three makes it lawful ior any common carrier to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality or any particular description of traffls. Sections four and five (the long and short haul and pooling sections) are as follows I SBCTlOX 4. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act to. charf e or receive, ariy greater com peHssti'on in the aggregate for the transporta tion of passengers or of like kind of property under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer dis tance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common earner within the terms of this act to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance; provided, however, that upon application to the commission ap pointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after in vestigation by tho commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter dis tances for the transportation of passengers or property; and the commission may from time to time rre?crili$ tha extent . to which such Hsignat,ed commoii carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act. Sec. 5. That it shall tie unlawful for any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, to enter into any contract, agreement or combination with any other common carrier or carriers for the pooling of freights of differ ent and competing railroads, or to divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroads or any propor tion thereof; and in any case of agreement for the pooling of freights as aforesaid, each day of iti continuance shall be deemed a separate offense. Section six requires that after ninety days from the passage of the act every common carrier subject to its provisions shall have printed and kept for public inspection schedules showing rates, fares and charges, and in addition to requiring the railroads to give publicity at all of the depots on their several lines, it gives au thority to the commission, where it is proper and necessary, to require them to give publicity to their rates to other places beyond the lines of their several railroads. It also provides that the rates, fares and charges shall not be raised ex cept after ten days of public notice, but that they may ba reduced without pre vious public notice; the notice, however, shall be simultaneous with the reduction itself. Section seven makes it unlawful for any common carrier to enter into any combination or agreement to prevent the carriage of freights from being continu ous from the place of destination. Section eight declares that any common carrier violating the provisions of the act shall be liable to the person or persons in jured thereby for the full amount of dam ages sustained in cousequenceof any such violation, together with a reasonable counsel or attorney's fees. The ninth section provides that persons claiming to have been damaged Dy tho action of common carriers may proceed for recovery of thoir damages either in the courts of the United States or before the commission, but hot before both tribunals. The totith section makes it a penal of fense to violate any of the provisions of this act, and puts the maximum of the fine which may be imposed at the sum of five thousand dollars. The seven following sections contain the commission features of the bilL They provide for a commission to consist of five persons, appointed by the President by, and with tho advice of the Senate, whose term of office shall be for six years except for tho first appointments, which are to be for two, three, four five and six years. Their principal office shall be in Washing ton, but they may hold sessions at other places than Washington, and a single member of the commission may take testi mony any where, as maybe direcied by the commission. These commissioners have salaries of $7,500 each. Tho commis sion has the power to appoint a secretary with an annual salary of 5,500 and has ifuthority to employ aud fix tho compensation of such other employes as it may find necessary to the proper performance of its duties, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. It is also provided that nothing contained in the act shall abridgo the remedies now existing at common law or by statute. Section twenty-three appropriates $100, 000 for the purposes of the act for tha fiscal year ending June 30, Section twenty-four provides that tho provisions of the sections relating to the appointment and organization of the com mission shall tako effect immediately, and that tho remaining provisions of the act shall take effect sixty days after its passage. j m m m ! The Nebraska Seuatorshlp. j Omaha, Neb., Jan. 21. Ex-Senator A. S ' Paddock was nominated by tho P-epublican caucus this morning at half-past four. ; Van Wyck went into caucus at midnight, : imposing only the one condition, that the vote be taken viva voce. On the fifteenth ballot the straight Republicans combined oo Paddock and he was nominated, receiv ing sixtj- votes, which is fifteen more than is necessary. By the caucus agreement the Van Wyck men must vote for Paddock at noon to-day, insuring his election. The , result is a great victory for tho straight Republicans. Paddock was in the Senate preceding Manderson. He is the first man ! the State ever returned to the Senate. A Three Days" Snow Blockade. Grand Ha vex, Mich., Jan. 22. A Lan caster (Wis.) dispatch says a three days' snow blockade on tho western end of the Madison division has just been raised. The Galena passenger train was snowed in near Reevy. A snow-plow sent to ex tricate it was disabled, and also snowed under. Two engines were stuck about five miles ast of Lancaster, and a whole day was consumed in shoveling them out, the passengers being transferred to Lan caster by sieighs. The Galena passenger train was snowed in for threo days, and the pay car also delayed. Four engines with snow-plows were derailed endeavor ing to cut through thci f now banks. Landlord and Tenant. DcBbis, Jan. 21. Two of the tenants evicted at Glenbeigh yesterday were re stored to their houses as care-takers. One eviction, which was to have been enforced, was postponed, pending negotiations be tween Mr. Roe, the agent of the Wir.n estate, and the Commoners, Conybeare and Shechan. Roe, on condition that the tenants surrender their holdings, offered to accept a year's rent in lieu of arrears and give ecch tenant paying that sum a new letting of his farm. Mr. Convbeire efferwd, on behalf of the tenant s,t- pay half year's rent on the basis cf tiie judicial rents, provided that no costs should bttach to the teuaats. hnd that they receive permission to enter the land court. HAULING IN THE NET. A Memorable Day at the Broolc lyn Tabernacle. Over Three Hundred Keir SfettSe-N lie celved by Rev. br. T. De Witt Tal noage An Impressive Sermon by the Eminent Divine BHOOKLTiTi N. Y.4 Jaru 23. Over threa hundred hew members were received at thd Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. in com memoration of thi3 event; Dr. Talmage preached the following sermon, choosing forhiste-t the eighth verse of the six-; tieth chapter of Isaiah : " Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows!" He said: When God would set fast a beautiful thought, he plants it in a tree; when Ha Vvould. put it afloat, Ha fashions it into a fish; when He wPuld hare it sriide ..through the air, He molds it into a bird. There 13 to many of us a complete fascination in the structure and habits of birds the blackbird, floating like a flake of darkness through the sunlight- the meadow lark, with head of fawn and throat of velvet, and breast of gold; the red flamingo, flying over the Southern swamps, liko sparks from the forge of the setting sun: the pelli-ah, white and black, morning and night, tangled i its wings they seem not more of earth than Heaven, ever vacHlat ing between the two. No wonder the.t Audubon, with his gun, tramped through all the American forests In search of new specimens. Geologists have spent years in finding the track of a bird's claws in the new red sandstone. There is enough of God's architecture in a snipe's bill or grouse's foot to confound all the universities. Musicians have, with clefs and bars, tried to catch the sound of the nightingale and tho robin. Among tho first things that a child notices is a swal low at the eaes, and grandfather goes out with a handful of crumbs to feed the snow birds. The Bible is full of ornithological allusions. The birds of the Bibie are not dead and stuffed, like th ise of the museum, but liv ing birds, vnt.li fluttering wlrigs' arid plum age. "Behold the fowls of the ait-," says Christ. "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagl, ard though thou set thy nest among ths stars, thence will I bring thee down," exclaims Obadiah. "Gavest thou the goodly Tings id the peacock?" says Job. David describes his desolation by saying: "I am like a pelican of the wilder ness; lam like an owl of . the desert; I watch, and am as a sparrow on the house top." "Yea, the stork in the .heaven knoweth her appointed timet and , the turtle and the crane and the swallow4 observe tho time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord," says Jeremiah. And in the text Isaiah looks ahead and sees the gathering of many people unto Christ and the Church, and it makes him think of a Sock of pigeons alighting on their coop, and all at once try ing to get in at the window of the coop, and he cries out? "Who are those that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their win dows!" , This is one of the memorable days cf the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Oh other Sundays tve drop the net; to-day we haul it ih. On other days we send out the invitations for a King's party; to-day we sit at tha banquet. On otiier days we fight the bat tle; now we claim victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, Ye who have toiled and contributed and prayed for the success of this institution take unto your souls tha ! grand satisfaction of this hour. To you, O, ! men and women, is fulfilled the promise I " Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy." Wake up, O, Church of God ! and bring ' garlands and music and let us celebrate our ; "harvest home." ! Oh, this mercy of God ! I am told it Is an ocean. Then I place on it four swift-sail-Ing crafts, with compass and charts and I choice rigging and skillful navigators, and tell them to launch away and discover for me the extent of this ocean. That craft puts out in one direction, and sails to the north ; this to the east; this to the south ( this to the west. They crowd on all their canvas and sail ten thousand years, and one day came up the harbor of Heaveri; and a shout to them from the beach: "Have you found the shore?" And they answer: "No shore to God's mercy 1" Swift angels, dis patched from tho throne, attempt to go across it; for one million years they fly and fly, but then come b ick and fold thoir wings at the foot of the the throne, and cry : "No shore I no shore to God's mercy 1" Mercy! Mercy 1 Isirgit; I preach it; I pray it. Here I find a man bound hand and foot to the devil, but with one stroke Of the hammer of God's truth the chains fall off and he is free forever. Mercy I Mercy I Mercy! There is no depth it can not fathom; there is no height it cannot scale ; there is no infinity it cannot com pass. When persons apply for membership in to any society, the question is asked: 'Who are they, and where do they come from?" aud as this multitude of people pre sent themselves to-day for membership it is right that we should ask: '-Who are these that come as doves to their win dows?" They are captives, whose chains have been broken; they are soldiers, who have enlisted for a thirty years' war they 'are heirs of Heaven. 1 They come as doves to the -windows, first, because they fly low. The eagle darts ;up, as if to strike its beak into the sun. SThere are birds that seem to dwell under ithe eaves of heaven ; you see them as lit tle specks against the sky, so far off that yiu can notguess the style of their plumage er the shape of their bodies; they float so far away that if the hunter's gun be dis charged at them they do not Change their course. Not so With the doves or pigeons. they never take any high excursions. They fly around your roof and alight on tho fence, and seem to dislike great altitudes. So these souls who come to Christ and to His church to-day fly low. They ask no great things; they seek an humble place at the feet of Christ; they are not ashamed to be called beggars for mercy; they are willing to get down on their knees, and to crawl under the table, and to pick up the crumbs of the Gespal provision. There were days when they were proud and punctilious and inexorable and puffed up; but not now. The highest throne on earth could not tempt Mary away from Jesus' feet. Stoop, O pardoned soul, if thou wouldst enter Heaven. A high look and a proud heart God hates. Fly low. It is a mercy that thou canst fly at alL Remem ber all the years of thy sin; thy days of youthful wandering; thy days of manhood transgessions; thy sins dark, brooding, dreadful sins against thy soul, against thy Bible, against thy God. In one of tho benevolent institutions of Europe where the destitute are provided for the new comers have their photographs taken while in rag3 before they are washed, so that they may always have in the pict ure a reminder of the degradation from which they were lifted ; so in his book God keeps before thee a picture of thy former destitution and raggedness of soul. Fly low. It is an offended God before whom thou com est. Thou deservest His wrath. He scat tered the one hundred and eighty-five thousand Sennacherib's host in a night; He abhors sin; He will judge the nations. Holy, holy, fcoly, is thj Lord God Almighty. Fly sow. A thousand years ago an emperor plant ed a rose bush from which roses aro plucked to-day. At tho foot of tho cross nearly nineteen centuries ago a rose was planted which blooms to-day; stoop down, if thou wouldst pluck it. O, for more of the cnild-Uko spirit' I rejoice In tha be lief that those who come to Christ to-day, come aware of their sins and their wants, and have learned bow to fly low. Again, these persons who come to-day are like doves on their way to the dove-cote because they fly for shelter. The albatross makes a throne of the tempest; the sea gulls find tht ir grandest frolic in the storm -their merriest hour seems to be that ti) which the surf of the sea piles" most hlgnl. Not so with doves. At the first blow of the northeaster they fly to the Coop. Eagle contends with eagle in mid-air, and vulture1 fights vulture oja the bosom of the carcass,, but doves at the iirSt dah of the bird of prey speed for shelter from fiefV eye andi iron beak and loathsome talon. So teday these souls come here for shelter. Every 6rd has a besetting slny that sin is always after you. Ths robber watches you when you come out of the bank; sees in what pocket you put the money; notices where you go to dine, and where foU sleep", and what kind of a lock you have oh your door SO there is some sin ever oh a toah's .track. It goes with him to the store?' it sits oh the in oney Safe; it looks over his shoulder lh'ile he makes' out the bill of lading; it goes out wit!" him tt? dine; it walks home with him at night. As tc some dog that you do not want to follow you t?St persists, , you say . to , it; "Back home with youi'' Yoif stone .it away and, start on. After awhile, casiiaSy. turning your, eye, you find it close after you with" S sneaking look Wherever you go, fc!ri g Qeai where you; stay, sin stays. You have watched tha hawk above the barnyard; it sails around and around over the brood of chick ens around and around, now al most down to the flock, then back again, until at last it drops and seizes the prey. There is a hawk ready to pounce cn every dove, and that is the reason that these doves' c6m"e to-day to the windows they want shelter in! the' grace of God and in Christian associations. They sayf, ," If there be any power in your prayers, let met have them; if there be any virtue in good counsels, gi?e them to mej if there be any thing elevating in Christias associations, let me feel their influence." "Where' tho dwellest I will dwelL Thy people shall be my people, thy God my God I" Open your doors, oh, Church of God! and let them come in "as doves to their windows." Christ is the only shelter of the soul in trouble. What can you do without him when sorrow comes? Perhaps at first you tako valerian to quiet your nerves or al cohol to revive your spirits; but have you found any thing in the medicines or phys ical stimulants sufficient? Perhaps in the excitement of the money market or in the merry-making of the club you have sought relief. This world has no' balsam for a wounded soul, no shelter for i braised 6pirit. The dove in the time of the deluge flew north, and it was all water, in which were tosse'd t,h3 carcasses of the dead world, and the first solid thing that the dove's feet touched was the window Ot the ark. So the soul in trouble goes out in one direo-' tion and finds-nothing "substantial to re3t upon, and in another direction and every thither, but there is no rest for the dove save the ark. ' Substantial comfort will dt grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toll. But where the Lord has planted grace. And made His glories known. There fruits of Heavenly Joys are found. And there alone." You lost a parent; some one said that it was in the" regulor course of nature that your father should ixpire. Did that Conv fort you? You lost a child; soniebody' said if that child had lived it might have turned out badly; Did that comfort you! You lost ybur yroperty ; they told , you , that riches were very uncertain1; You knew that before. You were sick; they e plained to you that the difficulty was m the secretions or in the sciatic nerve. l)id that soothe you? O, the despicable quack ery of earthly comfort! But when Christ comes to the soul and says : "I took your estate because I wanted to give you nioi e f aluable treasures ; I made you sick in body that your soul filight be brought up to eternal health ; I took your loved ones away because I have a bettor and brighter place for them in My own presence" then tho wound heals; then the tears dry off the face; then God has become the everlasting portion of the souL Oh, the air is full of black wings and ravens' beaks. They join their wings of darkness Until they shut out the light of the sun. They have fattened on the car casses of men; Their clangor is horrible to the ear trouble and disease and death fcoming down on the wind. No wonder these souls have come ,for shelter "as" doves to their windows." What does' the pigeon in the coop care for the hawk in the sky? Safe in Christ, safe forever. The mountains may depart, and the hills be re moved, but Thy loving kindness shall never fail. Again, these souls, like doves, fly home. Most of the winged denizens have no home; now they are at the north and now at tho south, as the climate indicates. This year a nest in one tree next year a nest in an other tree. The golden oriole remains but three months of the year in Germany, and is then gone; the linnet of Norway crosses the ocean to find rest from the winter's blast; the heron, the goldfinch and the grossbeak are migratory ; the cranes call each other together a few days before go ing, choose their leader, arrange them selves in two lines, forming an angle, and are gone. But the pigeons alluded to In the text, summer and winter and always, have a home in the dove-cote. And so Christ is the home of those who come to Him. He is a warm home; they rest under the feathers of the Almighty." Christ tells Us that chickens find not a Warmer place under tho wing of the hen than we in Him. He is a safe homo; our fortunes may go down ten degrees below zero; the snows of trouble may fail; the winds of persecution may howl; the jackals of death mav stalk forth all is well, for " great peace have they who trust in God." From this home we shall never bo driven out. The sheriff may sell us out of our earthly house, or the fires may burn it down, or the winds carry it away, but that home shall always ba ours. Men talk s though starting for God were putting out on a trackless moor, or wandering through tho sands of a great Sahara. No, no; it is coming to the warm est and best of homes, "as doves to their windows". Again, these souls to-day gathering for membership, are like doves, because they ccme in flocks. The buzzard, with dripping beak, fluttering up from the carrion is alone. Yon occasionally look up against the wintry sky and see a solitary bird winging past But doves or pigeons are in flocks; by scores and hundreds do they fly. You hear the loud whirr of their wings as they pass. Bo to-day we see a gTeat flock coming into the Kingdom. It is not a straggler trying to catch up with his regiment; it is a solid phalanx, taking tho Kingdom. It is not a drop on your hand or check that leaves you in doubt whether it rains or not, but the rush of an unmistaka ble shower. There are all ages in this flock. Some of them are young, and the very first use t!-y make of their wings is to fly into the Kingdom. Some of them are old, and their wings have been torn with shot and ruffi "d with the tempest, and they had al most dropped into the sea. Some of them have been making a very crooked course; they dipped their wings in fountains of sin; they wandered near tho gulf of perdi tion, but they saw their danger they changed their course. They have come at last "as doves to thoir windo s." I thank God that I have lived to see this day; to my dying hour I shull not cease to praise Him for this manifestation of His grace. Praise to Him, sun and moon and stars I Praise Him, Church militant on earth! Praise Him, church triumphant in Heaven! Let the church beneath raise up Its right hand of gratulation, and the church above reach down its right hand of joy, and while the two are clasped, let the ciders of the church put to our lips the wine of earthly celebration, and the cup bearers of Heaven bring up out of the vaults of eternity the oldest wine, pre pared by Him who trod the wino-press alone, and so let two worlds at once keep jub.lee! Who ax tbeea wt eocoe to us to-davl Many are1 young". Until Robert Ralkea came there' was- o orgaaizsd effort for saving tho youn. We spenftall our strength trying to' bend old trees, wherr a little press dfff would have beett sufficient for tha sapling. We let men go down to the very bottom of sin before w'e try to Iif them up. It t at ptreat deal easier to keep train on the track thsrt to get it on1 when it Is off. The experienced reiu'?Tan checks tho fiery teed at the first jump, for Tfben he yet fifll swing, the swift hoofs clicking Ire from the ptfrement and the bit between hl9 teeth, his momentum1 is- irresistible. It is said that the young must be" allowed to sow their "wild oats." I have noticed that those who sow their wild oats sold om try to raise any other crop. 1 went through the heaviest snow-storm i have ever known to sea a dying girl. Her cheek ori the pillow wa ft9 white as the 6now off the' easement. Her large round eye had not lost any of its luster. Loved ones stood all around tho' bed trying to hold her back.- Her mother' CooU! not give her up; bf' father could not give her up, and one nearer t? her than either father ot mother was frantic With grief. 1 saids "Fanny, how do' you feel?" ''Ob," she says,' "happy, happy, Mr. Talmago. Tel all the young ?Hrs' that religion will make them happy." As I came out of tho roon'J, louder than all the sobs and waitings of grief, I heard the sweet, clear voice of the dying girl: "Good night; we shall meet again on the other side of the river." The next Sabbath we buried her. We brought white flowers and laid them" on' tWe coffin. There was m a'll that crowded church1 but one" really bap-py and delighted face, dod that was the face o'f Fnny. O, I wish that to day my Lord Jesus woU'U go through this audience arid take all these floWoTaefyonth and garland them" on His brow. But while a g'rt'at flock this day comes to tho dove-cote of mercy, the Ingest flock is going the other way. It i3 a Vr ea?y thing to tame doves. Go out with a hand ful of corn to feed pigeons and they will fly on your shoulders and hands, so tame are they. God has fei those who are before me with "the finest of wheat," and yet you have flown from Him all your lives long; yon havo taken your clothas out of His wardrobe1 an'd your bread out of His hand. God's spirit will hot Always strive In the morning you have gone out, after a se vere night, and seen the birds dead On the snow; Sd; after awhile, God's mercy will ease, and the earth -ml! be covered with the bodies of those who perislmd in tha storm. That storm is coming; it will shiv er tho mast of pride; it will drive into the white reefs of death every cargo of sin. The Cedars of the mountain will split in tho hurricane, and the islands shall be moved Out of their places, and the1 continents shall be renu arsjnder, and tha hemisphere Shall whirl like a top Itt tho fury Of that day. The mountains will be" blasted and the beasts, in affright, be pitched from the cliffs in an avalanche Of terror. Tho dead shall rush forth froirf thoir sepulchres to see what is the matter, and lt those who de spise God shall horribly perish. Now, do you suppose that 1 can st:tnd here and know that that day is comin? without telling you about it? My last rest ing place Will probably bo near yours. What if, when I get up in tho resurrect. on flay,-1 should see you rushing at me across the lots of the eemetery, and hear you cry: "Whv did voU not tell me of this? If it Lad not been for your neglect I should have been On the way to glory." i can not pre nare fnvsa'.f for such a consternation. "Can you tell roe bow far it is to hell V said a young man, as, cm Sunday, on hors.o- back. he dasuaa past a gcou iviirisiian deacon. At the next turn in the rood the horse threw the scoffing rider, and ha wai dead. He wanted to know how fur it was to hell, and found out witht the deacon's telling him. to thou art mounted on a swift bk'eif, whose hautS ftrike fire from tho pavemonfi as he dashes past, and i?in cry out: "iiow far is it to ruin 1" I answer: "Jsar, very near I" " Perhaps this very day Thy last accepted time may be; Oh! shouldst tfcoa giievo Him now away. Then hope taay never bcum on tliej." Oh that my Lord God would bring you now to see your sin and to fly from it ; and tour duty, and help you do it, so that when the last great terror of earth shall spro.id its two black Wings', arid clutch with its b oody talons for thy soul, it can not hurt thee, for thou art safe in the warm dovw cote of a Saviour's mercy! " Come iil ! come lrt t Etornal glory shait thoa win.- MOURNING EMBLEMS. Various Colors I'sed In IJiflerent Coun tries, and Tlielr Sicm'trance. The recent death of Bishop Potter and the dfapillg of the church ?s in tho dio -cse in purple and black us emblems of mourn ing, the former belnff tho appropriate color for a Bishop, have occasioned Considefabla inquiry as to tho' various colors used fof mourning. The following facta, arc, there fore not without interest. Black is intend-' ed to express the absence of light and joy the midnight gloom of sorrow. It is the color of mourning in Europe as well as in this country. It was also use i for the same purpose in ancient Greece and in tho Roman Empire. Black and whit : striped is the mourning of the South S -a Islanders, signifying sorrow mingled with hope. Tho Romans during the republic worj dark blue for mourning, and purplo and violet to express royalty "Kings and priests to God." The Cardinals and Kings Of Franco have always been mourned for by the use of purple, and this use of the color has been handed down to the present time. It is said that the purjde signifies the ' blu f" r aristocratic blood of tho deceased. Whit a is the emblem of hope, and st;ll prevails for all mourning In China. In England an 1 this country it is used for children, to da note purity. Henry VIII. wore white for Anne Boleyn. The ladies of ancient Romo and Sparta also woro white when occasion required, and up to tho year ll'.is it was tho emblem of mourning in Spain. Iu England it is still customary to wear wh to silk hat bands for tho unmarried. Grayish brown is tho color used in Ethiopia tho color of tho earth to which the dead return. Iu Persia palo brown is used, while sky-blue, to express the assurance that the deceased has gono to Heaven, is tho color use 1 in Syria, Cappedocia, Armenia and Turk'-y. A deep blue is used in Bokhana. Yellow is the sere, and yellow leaf, the, color of mourning in Egypt and Biirmi.h, where it is also tho color of the monastic orders; while in Brittany the widows' caps unions! the peasantry are alj made of yellow. It will be remembered that Anne Boleyn wore yellow mourning for Catharine of Aragoru A. I. Mail and i'xprts. True Charity. Tt Is an lnadequnto intei tir-tatlin cl charity to think of Has m"re a!ms-;i;i:i4, You speak of a certaiu person known to be a friend to the poor. "There is Mr. X," you say. "He is a very gen.'.-rou mao. He can't keep money. He doesn't know the value of money. Ho would five away his lust cent." Your friend r p'i'-s: "Yes, and ho is one of society's mo'it dangerous enemies. He gives indi ?ci iiuinato'. y. He gives because be hasn't tho couriig.j to say no! And hundreds an 1 thousands of shirt less and crafty bummers, frauds, tramps, cranks and other vermin Just live and jmt petuate themselves on that kind of benev olence," and that is true. Uosging is a business. People get i i' h at it. Crime is encouraged by it. Only recently a poor English woman left alouo with a little nick ly babe found that the cnihl ex iu-d Ihe sympathy of tha people, aud she can i vi IV. poorly clad and hungry, in her arms frc bouse to house. Money poured in. Ba made quite a little fortune. But tho cvuttt heartless exposure, and low? conlinuHJ hunger slowly murdered the child Every cue that gave so much as a penny holpod to kill that baby. So, if chai ity meant simply alms-giving, you could cosily imag ine conditions and circumstances wh.-reio it would be an injury to the world. JUm 'oar te C'aa. 1 AMONG THE MUTES. Carious Superstition and Beliefs Existing Among: the Native of Alaska. A belief in the presence of evil spirit constitutes tho only religious idea among the Mutes. There are among them individuals called toonrachs, cor responding to the shaman of tho Sibe rian tribes. If a person ia sick before the whaling season commences, or a child is born before going on a journey or building a house, tho services of tha shaman is called into requisition. Tha liiodus operandi In every case is simi lar. The shaman, after a long spell of silence, suddenly begins to roll his eyes, convulsive snakes prevade his frame, and he gives utterance to vari ous groans and sighs intermingled with sentences pertaining to thd subject upon which he is engaged. During tho time of his performance a continuous beating upon a drum is kept up. Toward the end paroxysms, or rather convulsions of exultation similar to what have been described as prevailing at the finale of a shaker meeting, aro exhibited by the shaman. Froth exudes from his month, his eyes glare and roll, and his whole frame is eon tented. Perspiration poms from his face, and he is entirely exhausted. The loud invocations to the evil spirits to vacate the body of the sick person or to drive them away from the sea to ena ble the whales or seals to arrive, be come gradually subdued, dying away ffifo incoherent m titterings. Then after awhile he regains his composure, complacently smokes his pipe, and re ceive?! jiis pay for services performed. If the operation is jwrformcd over a sick person and recovery does not en sue the payment made Is returned, a custom that might be advantageously adopted among civilized persons. Some curious superstitions are also to be noted. If a person is sick, iron tools, such as axes or knives, can not be used in the house. Upon a man's grave his sled is placed, but broken to pieces, and his kyack meets similar usage. Furs, spears and ritlcs are also deposited, while if the individual has killed many whales the long jawbone of the balaena aro placed in an upright position to mark the spot. Those peo ple bury their dead upon tho ground, raising a number of pieces of driftwood in the shape of a tent over tho remains. Owing to this insecure mode of burial the wood soon falls down and affords entrances to foxes and dogs, which make havoc with the body. Hut little regard is paid to the burial places, although these Mutes are very much incensed whenever attempts are made to take away any skulls or bones from the graveyards. They also make a long detour in passing the resting place of the dead, and will on no account touch any thing once deposited at a bti rial. A woman's grave has her clothing, sewing gear and various household utensils placed upon it. One of tho most peculiar acts I heard of took place in tho month of Ma-, during tho whaling season, at Point Hope. A woman died aud her body was carried out to the edge of tho ice. Three old women cut her heart out, wrapped it in a eotffingof seal intestines and threw it into the !ea through a hole in the Hoe. This was done in order to bring good luck to the c:itvh.-dla3ka Cor. Han Francisco Chronicle. SPLENDID EXERCISE. Fcnrlnir a Sport Which Closely Kquallr.o tlie I'owors of Mun ami Uouihii. The charm of fencing for beginners is that when you take position before a good swordsman you need not bo hope J,9 Of making a point. After a reason able afrfouni of practice with the foils yon are ahfc occasionally to slip through his guard rind enjoy the simple vanity of touching tho supposed un touchable. Tin's comes from tho per fection of fair play reached after Kev eral centuries of minute changes in tho jwsi lions, wen his and aoeouteimcnts of the masters of fence. No other ath letic sport equalizes so closely the powers natural to a man and ;i woman, a gray-beard and a boy, a Hercules and a consumptive. Ladies in the best ranks of life fenco more and more as they discover its value for health and good looks, instead of leaving it entirely to actresses, who have always used tho exercises for learning how to plant and move their feet intelligently. All over Europe the universities f osier sword or foil play of one kind or another, and in that nation apart which we call the city of London, a club for fencing h.us existed these twenty years. Tho London Fencing Club, under the patronage of tho Prince of Wales, and having on its list many Peers of the realm, is as aristocratic in its aim as the Fencers Club of New York, is democratic. It was founded in 18G,'J as a club of fencing and gymnastics with a membership of three hundred. and helped to its present quarters by a paternal government. It has two French and three English teachers, and from iU nearness to St.. James' is of practical use to tho officers of tho Queen's household troops. Ou this tilde of the Atlantic a few laro cities have always had professors of the irt, but like unhappy Hulett of New York in 1770, seldom has one been ablo to make a livingfiom lessons in fencing ilone. At rs!W Orleans the chances have been belter, owing to the large Creole and French population: there oftenor than elsewhere havo duels in this century L-3en decided by tho sword. One rmibt not forget, more over, that the German Turn Verein of Ne v York makes something of fencing. and that at West Point and Annapolis it is a branch of study employing a number of instructors, a study which, unfortunately, officers of the army and the navy promptly forget. Century. Mrs. Howell, of rauldinc. Ga.. was passing her husband, a few days ago, just as ho tried to light a match by striking it on the wall. The head of the match flew off and lodged in her car. In one minute she became blind, began to vomit, and was pros trated for an hour and a half. m ' -Fashionable note paper must have the addresy stamped upon iU Chicago llvruld. J