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TUESDAY EVENING. APSIL S.
The tkick. the republican membera of the
TJ S. House of Representatives played on
tteir democratic colleagues yesterday, by
?w )icb tbey tried to get the necessary two
thirds majority to enable tbem to pass an?
other pension bill that would have added at
least fif:y million to the already enormous
pension appropriation, fortunately for the
ta^ ridden people of the country, did net
succeed. Tbey authorized the statement
that the day was to be devoted to the con
sic eratlou of local bills for the District of
Columbia, sothat the many democratic mem?
bers who have no interest in such bills
might not deem their presence necessary.
Bu tbey took care to have as many of their
ov n members present as it was possible to
as emble. The democrats, however, were
informed of the intended cheat by a news
pe per correspondent in time to muster a
sufficient fjree to defeat it. There are some
old, dignified and reputable men among the
republican members of tbe Houje, men, it
Wf.s supposed, who would not lend them
ge'ves to ench low partisan trickery ; but
they all, with one accord, followed their
leader yesterday, and thereby showed that
tbey will hesitate at Dothiog when the order
ccmes from Mr. Speaker Reed.
In a recant sermon, Rev. Mr. Boynton, a
Congregational preacher of Boston, said that
st the last Presidential election "two million
Totes were ca?t by men who could neither
I9ad nor write, of whom a million and a hall
vere negroes.'1 Mr. Boynton's statement
T'as probably under rather than over the
true mark. And yet It is by the votes of the
trillion and a ball negroes who could neither
road nor write that the intelligent people ol
the country are now taxed on the necessa?
ries of life, that they are compelled to pay
hundreds of millions of dollars on accoaot of
fraudulent pension claims, aod that negro
postmasters and customs officers are im?
posed upon the people, not of the country,
but of one part of il?the South. And it is
to such ignorant people that Mr. Harrison
and the republican Congress would entrust
e-'ery interest of every southern community,
ti wn, county or Slate, in which they have a
b ire numerical majority.
Me. Huston, who holds the office of treas
rx. er of the United States, left that office last
week, as he publicly announced, for the pur?
pose of going to Indianapolis and doing all
tl at lay in his power to secure the election
o* the republican ticket in that city. Well,
ti e election was held yesterday, but tbe en?
tire democratic, not the republican ticket,
was elected. Mr. HuBton might as well
h ive stayed in Washington and attended to
tl e duties of his office, so far as the accom
p ishment of the object of bis visit to Indian?
apolis was concerned. 80 far as relates to
civil service reform, he would have done
zruch better if he had kept his mouth Bhut
a) d Baid nothing about tbe object of his vis
it. People with mouths iike Mr. HustonV
?je always in imminent danger of making
tl emselves ridiculous.
As \\'A3 anticipate.!, Judge Hugbep, of
tl e U. S. district court for the eastern dip
tr et of Virginia, has decided that the law
pissed at the late eeaeion of the legislature
ti xing fresh meat brought into Virginia
from other State?, erroneously called the
b-ief inspection law, is unconstitutional, and
t) erefore null and of no ellect. Tbe mem
bits of the legislature were informed before
they pas.-ed tbe law referred to, that Buch
would be tbe case, but, of course, though
n any of them are as ignorant of the Con?
s'itution as tbey are of the solar plexus,
they knew better,
Thk Hon. Me. Kelly, a distinguished
republican from the State whose soil has
b >en enriched by the blood of innocent
southern men, Bpilt by that apotheosized
* retch, John Brown, made a speech in
V/ttBbiogton laet night, in which he said he
"considered separate Bchools for blacka and
whites criminal nonsentV'aod that "a white
school girl was as good as a black one, if
el e be! aved fcereelf." The strangest thing
ahout Mr. Kelly is, not that be is a white
zr an, but that he was elected by tbe voteB of
v hite men.
Canada, like all the other countries in
the world except the United States, thinks
canals, instead of beiog obliterated, should
b > improved, and thereby prevent railroad
monopoly. It has recently determined to
expend ten million dollars to deepen its
ctnalB. It is hoped the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, notwithstanding the recent ac
tii? of the Maryland legislature, may be
preserved as a water way ; and the present
indications are that it will be.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
[6.eclal Correspondence of the Alex*. Gizirrij
Washing ton , D. C. April S. 18S0.
General Lae eays be doesn't go around
tie departments ofteu now in quest of places J
for bia constituents, for the reason that be
jound out soon after the incoming of the
present administration that such quest must
ntcessarily be unsuccessful. Afcer a Jong
re3t, however, be thought he would make
at other trial yesterday, but though he was
treated courteously enoogh everywbfrehe
went, be found that tbe seme fate awaited
him, and that there was no chance for a
"Virginia democrat.
Pennsylvania republicans here to day say
the people of that State are as much dis?
gusted with Boss Q lay as those of Virginia
were with Boss Manooe, aod that unless be
subsides, withdraws his man Ddiamater as
$e candidate for governor, and allows the
republicans of the State to nt ruinate whom
they choose, the party wiil sustain as seri?
ous a defeat there as it did in Virginia last
November.
The House committee on military affairs,
to whom was referred the Falls Church and
Potomac Railroad bill, make the following j
report: "The bill proposes the give tbe Falls
Church and Potomac Railway Company a j
license to construct sod operate by horse,
cable, compressed air or electric power a
railroad across tbe government lands in Vir?
ginia known as Arlington and Fort Meyer.
Such a railroad would he a convenience to
those who desire to visit the National Sol?
diers' Cemetery at Arlington. The bill,
with tbe amendments proposed, will be well
guarded. lie general form and scope have
been approved by the Secretary of War.
The committee recommend that the bill pass
as amended.
The House elections committee this morn
iDg appointed a eub-oommittee to go to Ar?
kansas and investigate tbe charges made
against the fair and legal election of Repre?
sentative Breckinridge of that State, whose
con estant, Clayton, was shot and killed.
To-day was the time appointed for the com
mittee to vote on the Langaton-Venable
contested election case from Virginia and
the Cnalmers-Morgan case from Mississippi,
but they were not ready to do so in either
case, which showed that tbe republican ma?
jority of the committee i3 divided on both.
Both cases, it will be remembered, were re?
ferred to the same sub committee. A3 the
committee has reported in favor of ousting
one Virginia member, Mr. Wise, it is proba?
ble, as previously stated in this correspond?
ence, that they may allow Mr. Venable to \
retain the seat to which he was fairly and
legally elected.
In tbe Senate yesterday Mr. Barbour in?
troduced bills to ptnsion Aon Mercer
Siaughter of Cu'peper, and for the relief of
A. B. Carter of Fauquier county, Va.
It was reported at tbe House this morn
iDg that Mr. Randall was dying. Enquiry
at his house received the following reply:
Representative Raodatl, who for the pasi
two days has been somewhat depressed
owing to the unfavorable condition of tbe
weather, is reported as having bad a good
night's rest and beiog better to-day.
A bill will be introduced in the House to
day extending tbe time for bringing suits in
the court of claims for captured aod ab*c
doned property, including the period of the
war as well es subsequent thereto.
Representative Louge, of Massachusetts,
to-day presented tbe petition of 1310 mug?
wumps of Massachusetts, asking for an in?
creased appropriation for tbe civil service
commission. A similar petition signed by
1200 citizens of Pennsylvania was presented
by Representative Bayne, of Pennsylvania.
A favorabie report baB been ordered by
tbe Senate committee on finance on the bill
to pay the htirs of the late Prof. Joseph
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution,
^-i'O.OOO for his services a3 a member of the
light bouse board.
Mr. Bowden wd? the only Virginia mem?
ber who voted for the service pension bill
yesterday.
Democrats a' the Capitol to day note and
comment upon the fact that tbe only break
in the list of democratic victories in the
locai declines in tbe Ntrtb yesterday was
at Hartford. Connecticut, where that bane
of democracy, the Australian system of
yoting, was in oporatioa.
The dt-mocruti'j members of the Senate
held a caucus this morning on the resolu
tion to adroit tbe republican contestants
from Montana to seats in t*:e Senate. They
looked upon tbe passage of the resolution ae
the rape of p. northern State, but could de?
vise no means to prevent it. They determ?
ined, however, to debate it at length aod lay
all the facts of the case before the people,
with the hope that they may see and realize
the length to wbich partisan republicanism
wiil go even in tbe U. S. Senate.
Mr. Speaker Reed eays that though the
service pension bill failed to get through tbe
House yesterday, it will come up in its reg?
ular order phortly und be passed, by his
counting a quorum, if necessary.
The Attorney General has noti?ed tho
House that be will not appeal from tbe de
cision of the court of claims in the suit for
the payment of tbe members' salaries, lost
by the Silcott defalcation. The members j
will therefore scon be .in possession of their
money.
Senator Bate and Rsprpsantative Holman
both ?ay tbey do not expect the republicans,
will atternpi. to pass tbi-ir proposed election
bills, as such bills would disgust the voters i
of their own party. This is about tho way
tbe average democratic congressman ta'ks
about his republican colleagues, and lha',
to-*, in tbe'face of tho outrages the latter are
daiiy committing. There are none so blind
ts those* who will not see.
Mr. Sp?aker Ree I is a j )ker. When Mr.
Tucker rose in the House ye-terday to move
to take up tbe bill to repeal the tobaoco tax,
he occupied Mr. Venahie's seat, which ie
nearer the Speaker's chair than his own.
Mr. Reed looked straight at him, but recog
ni/fd a member fr^m Tvxb^ hack of biro.
This mornit'g Mr. Eimunds atked
the Speaker to reeogn 7.9 him at an
early opportunity in order that he
might move to take up bis bill for a
public building at Roanoke, and snid be
hoped he wouldn't see some body else
through him, as he had ? een through Mr.
Tucker yesterday. Mr. Reed laughed and
said : "I wish you would tr-ll Mr. Tucker. I
have made it a rule never to recognizaa
member out of his own seat." Bur. he
would not have reco^n zed Mr. Tucker if he
had been in bis own seat, and eo told au
enquirer yesterday, before the test was
made.
As anticipa'od in this correspondence the
House committee on military affairs tc-rlay
ordered favorable reports upon one of the
bills providing for tbe construction of roads
from Alexandria and Culpeper, Va., to the
miliiary cemeteries near these points.
The Senate committee on pensions has
reported favorably bills to penrion the wid?
ows of the late Rear Admirals Hugh J. Pur
viance, and John I,?e Davis, at $00 a
month.
Tbe House judiciary committee to-day
ordered a favorable report on the bankrupt?
cy bill. Tbe commerce committee decided
there was nothing in the charges that have
been brought against Superintendent Kim
ball, of tbe life saving service.
The advoca*es of Mt. Vernon Avenue are to
havo a hearing before 1 ho Senate appr .p. iations
cominitteo at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Vaey will
be accompanied by Senator P.arbour.
Mr. W. W. Warden, private secretary of Presi?
dent Andrew Johnson, died here to day.
Down Wknt WILSON.?At Westminster, South
Carolina, Saturday, Warren Wilson was sitting
I astride hia horso near the railroad track, when
tbe train rolled up. Tho horse became fright jued
and began backing. Tbe animal backed on the
rotten plank covering of an old woll, and the
planking gave wav ana down went horse and rider
to the bottom of the woll. Tbe well was tiny feet
deep. An old rail was kicking np in the mud at
the bottom. On thi-the hor6e was impaled. The
man was brought ont more dead than alive. He
had been pinioned between the walls of the cavity
and tho straggling hor*o, nover having Jcftl
hia saddle in tho tumble. His injariesaro fatal.
It is reported that Mrs. Dudley, wife of "Blocks '
of Five" Dudley, rosen's President Harrison's i
treatment of her husband, and. to "get even," de- ' '
liberately snubbed Mrs Bani?on br refusing to !
recognizts hor when Mrs. Harrisoa addresied her '
in a store in Washington recently. 1
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Mr. A. T. Gilkeson died suddenly of heart ,
disease at Staunton, yesterday. ]
- FEW3 OF THE D 4Y.
Er-3ecretary of the Navy Gttf, of Weat
Virginia, baa made a personal appeal to
seat McGjnnis itstead c-f Alderson.
The first cargo of ice ev&r received at Bal?
timore from the British Provinces arrived
from St. Andrew's. 2s. B., yesterday.
Mr. Robert Garrett has presented to the
city of Baltimore a brocza statue of George
Peabody, which will be placed on Mount
Yernon Square.
The House committee on war claims have
authorized a favorable report on tbe bill ap
propriating $10,000 for tbe relief of Dr.
Mary Walker.
Eoenezar Nicholson, "Littie Mac," the
weil known minstrel and variety performer,
died of acute aathma in the New York hos?
pital yesterday.
Harper's Ferry, Henry county, Ky . has
been almost completely destroyed by a tor?
nado. Several people were killed and seven
or eight injured.
Senator Stanford will to-morrow resign
his position as president of the Southern
Pacific company and will be Succeeded by
C. P. Huntington.
The members of the International Amer?
ican Conference will leave Washington on
tbe proposed southern tour, Friday, April
lS:b, and return to Washington May 10i.b.
Senator Gorman says the question of a
successor to Mr. Archer aa chairman of the
Maryland State Central Committee will not
be discussed until after Mr. Archer's case is
disposed of.
It ia reported that Prophetstown, lila.?
has been swept away by a cyclone. Twen?
ty freight cars were blown to atoms and the
whole town has been wiped from the face
of the earth.
In New York on Sunday two pickpockets
set fire to tbe clothes of a man on the street,
and then while one waa engaged under tbe
pretext of putting out the flames, tbe other
stole the victim's watch and cbaiu.
At Harlan Courthouse, Ky., ye?.erday,
tbe Spurlock?, Days, and otoers, of tbe
Howard Turner feud, held a conference and
agreed to lay aside their quarrel. They
agreed that in case of any further assassina
tions both sides should turn out and bring
tbe murderer to punishment.
The police of New York are looking for a
mysterious and malicious person whose fav
orite pranks are to steal behind well-drtssed
women after nightfall and smear their ap
parel with a powerful acid, mixed with dye,
the result being destruction to the fabric
tbnsj treated. His performances are on a
par with those of the person who once made
a practice of slyly cutting women's dresses
with a sharp knife or pair of sheara.
Tbe republicans in the House of Repre?
sentatives yesterday expected to make some
campaign capital out ofthe passage of the
dependent penaion bill, and they counted
upon tbe northern and western democrats
voting with them. Many of the independ?
ent republicans declared afterward tbat
they were glad the bill had failed, because
they did not approve of passing such an im?
portant measure under a suspension of the
rules. These same men said tbat they were
obiiged to vote with their party or sutler tbe
const quencea.
M. P. Conference.
Tho appointments of the Methodist Pro?
testant Conference at Chtstertown, Md.,
will be announced to-day, after which the
conference will adjourn to meet at Lafayette
Avenue Cburcb, Baltimore, a year hence.
Tbe explanation of a plan for the foundation
of a great national Metbodir-t Protestant
university at Kansas City took up a large
portion of the morning session. The matter
was referred to a committee, of which Mr.
J. R. Caton, of thia city. Is a member, wbo
reported in favor of indorHing the plan In
the most urn'ialilied manner.
The last item of the report of tbe commit?
tee on president'* address brought out a live?
ly discussion. It approved of the recom?
mendation of tbe president as to tbe eligi?
bility of women to the offices of atewards,
superintendents of Sunday scboolaand class
leaders, and asking that the conference ruleB
be so altered as to secure tbat object. This
was rtrongly opposed by Dr. Murray, of St.
John's, Baltimore, because, he said, such
important matterH should not he adoptsd
without serious consideration. A commit?
tee of preachers and laymen was appointed
to consider the matter aud report at tbe
next meeting.
Trichinosis? Vincenzo Paternoster, an
Italian railroad laborer, who has been less
than a year in tbi3 country, applied to Dr
Yinton at Castle Garden about two weeks
ago for permission to go to the Ward's Is?
land Hospital. Paternoster complained cf
excrutiating paina in the muscles of his
arms. Dr. Yinton Buspected that the Ital?
ian bad trichinosip. At the hospital Dr.
Marple cut a piece of muscle from the Ital?
ian's arm, examined it under the microscope
and fouud it alive with triohiDSQ Patemos
ter's condition is precarious. He got tbe
di-ease by eating had and improperly cook?
ed pork while working in Long I-land. He
is abcu; '?>'> years old.
Court of Appeals Yesterday.
Richmond and Danville Railroad Com?
pany, &0 , va. Croson's administratrix. Writ
of error and pupersedeas awarded to judg?
ment rendered by tbe Circuit Court of tbe
county of Culpeper on the 18.h of March,
1890.
Corbin vs. Planters' National Bank. Fur?
ther argued by Messrs, Berkely & Harrieon
for the defendart in error and F. W. Chris?
tian, eeq , for plaintiff in error, and submit?
ted.
Elections.
Tho result of yostorday'a elections in several
StAtes were very favorable to thedemoerat!'. They
elected their candid :tos in Cincinnati, Cloveland
Columbus, Indianapolis, EvansviHe, Toledo, and
in many of the towns of Michigan, Ohio, Iowa
and Indiana. Eepibticans wero successful at
Hartford.
Reports from several ci ies of tho fourth cla.:s in
Kansas indicate that tie womon who are allowed
by law to vote at tho eity election cast abont two- J
Ii Iths of the votes. They had no candidates in
tho ilold of their own sex, bat allied themselves I
generally with one or othrr of the parties in tho j
contest. In Edgortown, however, they elected '
their entire ticket, a woman being chosen for
every cili.:e from mayor down.
Tho democrats carried tho city election in Bi
marck, N. D., by a iargo majority.
Foikd at Last?D?ring tho late war E. D. j
Cole, jr., of Newnan, ?Ii., secreted a box of silver j
between the ceiliDg and the roof of the residence 1
then occupied by the family. After tbe war the j
boxcoutdnot be fuULd, though diligent search I
w8s made for it. A few days since Mr. Colo was !
makiug some repairs on the old house and had j
occasion to tear away some of the interior frame- |
work. As he reraovod oae of the lower partition !
hoards a silver coin foil out, and opon looking!
further Mr. Cole was rewarded by Coding every j
dollar of the long-lost money.
Fkke Delivery Extension.?Statistics gather- j
ed by the Postoffico Dapartment show that on tho !
basis of tbe census of 1SS0, and of tho postal ro- 1
reipts for the last fi-cal year, the pending bill ex- j
tending the f'ee delivery system to a!l postoffi :es
in towns of 5,000 inhab.tunts, or having postal,
receipts of ?7,000, will extend the system to 2'.* 2
offices throughout the country. The law will add
several offices in Virginia to the free delivery list,
imong, tnem Charlottesville, Frederickaburg, i
Manchester and Winchester.
VIRGUIA HEWS.
The Sharon Baptist Chnrch, in Pittsylva
nia county, was destroyed by an accidental
fire yesterday.
Rev. Richard Henry Phillips, D. D? a
well known Episcopal clergyman and teach?
er, died at bis residence, in Norfolk, yester
day after a long illness, iu tbe eightieth
year of bis age. His remains will betaken
to Staunton for interment.
Bishop Whittle requested the children tf
tbe diocese to make a Lenten offering for
the support of evangelical work. Eight
thousand mite boxes were distributed and
the children began at once todrop in pennies.
The Richmond boxes were opened yester?
day, and the contributions amounted to
about $1,000.
A colored girl called "Sissy" Greene at?
tempted to poison the infant daughter of
John H. Holmes, of Spotsylvania county, on
Saturday, by giving it carbolic acid. The
screaming of the child when tbe poison was
being forced into her mouth saved her lif-.
A special jury was empanelled and the girl
indicted for felony. She will be tried at the
May term of court.
The petition of the Ladies' Hollywood
Memorial Association, praying the Rich?
mond City Council to grant the use tftbe
Jeff Davis mansion for a memorial ball for
the preservation of Confederate relics, came
up in that body last night, and was referred
to the proper committee. There is no
doubt of its final passage. It was stated
that the ladies would spend about $1,000
collecting Confederate relics, and preparing
the Jeff Davis house for their preservation.
The account of the trouble published cf
the rivalry between tbe Granby street and
Cumberland s'.reet M. E. Churches in Nor?
folk is denied by the pastors of these two
churches. They explain that a few ad?
ditional instruments were engaged for Eas
ter. and further that the pastor, Rev. W. V.
TuJor, D. D., of the Granby street church,
and Rjv., W. G. Starr, D. ? , of the Cum
berland street Church, are in cordial sympa?
thy with each other. The additional music
in question was arranged and provided by
tbe organist and approved by the official
board, and without any instructions from
tbe pastor, and was of such character as is
usually, and has been heretofore rendered
in their and other churches on similar Eas?
ter occasions.
The Meat Law Unconstitctional ?
Under appeal by Armour & Co . ol Chicago,
United States Judge Hughes iu Richmond
yesterday rendered a decision declaring the
meat inspection law passtd by the Legisla?
ture to be contrary to the Federal Constitu?
tion. Tbe decision is elaborate and takes
the ground that Inspection is not meant as
a sanitary measure, but as a Staterevenue
measure; that tbe tax of one cent per
pound ia outrageous, and that tbe meat
slaughtered within 100 miles of the place of
delivery could be sold under the law in an
unsound condition.
Tbe court held that as tbe federal Const!
tution gives Congress exclusive control of
interstate commerce, and as dressed beef is
an article of such commerce, the States can?
not legislate on the ..abject; that tbe Vir?
ginia act is invalid because it did not have
its origin in necessity and is unreasonable in
its character, and, in fact, is practically pro
hibitory of dressed beef entering Virginia
from other States. The case will be taken
to tbe Supreme Court of the United States.
De. Wagnkb's Case.?The noted crim?
inal case of Dr. Harrison Wagner and bis
libel suits, instituted in the county of Staf?
ford for nearly two millions of dollars,
against the Adams Express Company, came
up before Judge Barton, presiding in tbe
Circuit Court of that county, yesterday.
The doctor's counsel, Judge John T. Goo:
rick, argued for a continuance, on the
ground that (he trial of tbe civil cases in tbe
Circuit Court would injure his client's cafe
id the County Court, where he wan indicted
for felony. Judge Barton dismissed the
cases, saying that the rules were within bis
court, and that he knew nothing of tbe
criminal cases. In tbe criminal cases against
Wagner, in the County Court, his counsel
has tiled a plea of insanity.
THE SHILOH CHTJBCH TROUBLE.
I A good man misrepresented ! Isn't it a aLatne :
I Owi'jg to a statement made at Shiloh Baptist
Church, at Alexandria, not long Binco by the pas?
tor, Bov. H. H. Warring, about Be*. J. W. Webb,
our pastor, we, the bhiloh Baptist Church, at < San?
dten, Va., beg leave to reply. Brother Webb has
threo churches. Ho was a mnnber of Warring'3
church ; ho knew of tho trouble in said church.
To avoid giving bis own chnrch trouble, ho asked
for his letter of dismissal from Brother Warrlng's
church to join his church, which letter was not
granted. He waited for it eight months. Thve
was rfb charge against him ; no cause rendered.
Ho met the board to know the objections. Thore
were none. Tho board voted unanimously to give
tho letter in that meeting, the pastor being pre?
sent. The matter, however, was reconsidorcJ and
t!io letter was not given. Bov. J. W. Webb then
joined his chnrch without it. Nothing moro was
said or done. Two months thereafter a council
was called to coc:ider tho troubles of Shiloh
church. Thirttoi churches wero represented,
best esar.umborof visiting ministers were pro
sent. Thi3 council condemned both the pastor,
Bev. H. II. Warring, and the church for their un?
christian and nn-criptural course. Bev. Mr.
Webb s churches wero members of said council,
lathe next meeting Bev. H. H. Warring stated
from hia pulpit that Bev. J. W. Webb ws3oxclu1ed
from this church last Thursday night for taking
part publicly with excluded membeis. Two
months after he had left and joined his own
church. Look?he could not get a letter after it
was promised him, and waited lor it three months.
If he was excluded from the church, no charges
had boen preferred against him, nor had he re?
ceived any summons whatever to appear for trial.
The said Warring is writing and sending word all
through the country trying to break up tho posco
of our church. Wo say it is improper, unfair and
unchristianlike. Our pastor, Bov. J. W. Webb, ia
a gentleman, a Christian and a good preacher.
We havo had his pastorate seventeen years, and
he has given us ample opportunity to judge of his
ability. Ho is tho man for tho times?stands
second to none?and if his future bears likeness of
the past, we purpose to continue his pastorate.
Dono'.>y order of the Shiloh P.aptist chnrch. in
its regular meeting at Gunston.Va., April 5, 1990.
Abchtjc Giixak, I
Bobebt Thomps ? Deacons.
Wm. Jones, J
Tribute or Respect.
At a special meeting of tho Yonng Men's Sodal?
ity Lycouin held April 7th, 1390, the following
!evolutions in respect t>> the memory of tho late
John T. Hii.l were unanimously adopted:
Itesolved, That God, in hi-- infi.iite mercy, hav?
ing called from the suffering and trials of this
world our venerated honorary momber. John
T. Hill, eeq., we wish to place on record our sense
of his worth and of tho L-si wo have sustained iu
his removal from among us, and to extend to his
wi'i ?w and family oar hineere condolence in their
sad bereavement. Tho patience and fortit ;de
with which he h>-d borne for years intense suiler
ing and the deprivation of steht; tbe sincere love
he hoie to God's poor, which showed itself cot in
words, but in deeds of charity; bis devotion to our
Holy Mother, the Chnrch of God ; his activity in
every good work under circumstances which
would have excused him iu the eyes of all his
friends from participation in it; his humble trust
in the providence of God, and his earnest syrn
puby for the young men of our congregation,
gave ns an example which we will sadly miss.
May the Father of Mercies and God of all con?
solation comfort the hearts of those who were
dearest to him, and may his soul rest in everiast
ing joy and peace.
It wai lurther r- mlved, That a copy of thoao
resolutions be sent to the family of tho deceased ;
that they be spread on the minutes of the Lyce?
um, and that they be pnbii.-hed in the daily papers,
uud that the Lyceum attend the funeral in a body. 1
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
Washington, D. C, April 8.
senate.
Mr. Edmunds gave notice tbat as soon as
tbe Montana election case would be dis?
posed of the Judiciary Committee would
endeavor to bring up the anti-trust bill.
Mr. Hoar presented a memorial of Uoi
versalist ministers of Boston declaring pro?
found regret at the defeat of the Biair edu
catlonal bill, which they considered as "the
calamity of the nation," and expressing the
hope that such defeat is not final.
A bill was reported favorably to amend
the interstate commerce act.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a joint reso?
lution directing the librarians of Congress
and of the Department of Justice to
deliver copies of law books to the
law department of Howard UoiverBi
ty. He said that he had heard, with aston?
ishment, tbat a law school in the District of
Columbia, connected with a college that ex
isted under tbe authority of the United
states, had deliberately and on considera?
tion refused to allow a person of some Afri?
can blood, and in every respect a gentleman
of extraordinary ability, to attend its law
lectures, on account of his having African
blood in his veins. The Howard University
had also a law department; and he bad in?
troduced tbe resolution so that law books
might be donated to the Howard University
and that that portion of their fellow-citizens
who were denied equal rights in other uni
versi'.ies in the District might have a chance
to learn some law.
Mr. Cali offered a resolution reciting the
published newspaper statements as to the
packiog of juries in the northern district of
Florida, of which Charles E. Swayne is
judge and Joseph Stripling district attor?
ney; and Instructing the Judiciary Commit?
tee to take evidence in the matter.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Montana contested election case, and
Mr. Spooner continued his argument in
favor of the right of the republican claim
acts?Sanders and Powers.
housb.
The bill to prevent the enlistment of
aliens in the naval service of the Uclted
States, was passed, Mr. Lodge saving it bad
tbe hearty approval of Secretary Tracy.
ulr. Adams, of Illinois, called up the mo?
tion to reconsider the vote by which the
House defeated the bill making appropria?
tion to supply the deficiency caused by the
Silcott defalcation, with tin object of ofl'^r
irg a resolution making such an appropria?
tion._
Foreign News.
Paris, Apr. S.?A meeting of the cabinet
was held to-day. The subject under dis?
cussion was the release of the Duke of Or
leans. It is thought tbat a decree pardon?
ing the Duke will be issued to morrow.
Berlin, April S ?It is stated that Er ^
ror William will appoint a court t0 ,jef.j
with quarrels between officers li> tne army
The Emperor will only pero>*it a due, to be
fought for a blow or an ^^ult to a;lady re
lative or Ganceo when t>-,e otfen(ler refu8e8 to
apologiz).
Beklin, Apr. 8?All the striking coal
miners hav* reamed work.
Pakts, Apl. S.-The Siede urges the gov
trnment to hasten a renewal of its demands
for the evacuation of E>ypt by the British.
London, Ap!. S.?The appeal made on be?
half of Richard Davies, the 1u year old boy
woo was sentenced to death fjr the murder
of his father at Crewe, were unavailing and
to day the prisoner was hsnged.
Zanzlbab, Apl. 8 ? Bwanaherxie and
Caesen the leaders and a remnant of their
followers have surrendered to Mejor Wiss
man.
8t. pbtbbsbubg.Apl. S.?TheCzir has en
tirely recovered from his indisposition. He
will return to the imperial palace at Gatschi
naooAprii-0. Owirg to the recent riots
20 students will be expelled from St.
Petersburg. The other students who were
arrested for taking part in tbe demonstra?
tions have been released.
A Battle Lasting Two Seconds.
Lexington. Kv., April 8.?In 1880 John
Stevens, a citizan of Powell county, was
murdered by William Barnea, a neighbor.
Barnes got a life sentence. He was par
doued last spring. Albert Barnes, a brother
in law to John Stevens, has a wife of un?
savory character. The neighbors said she
and William B-iraea have been unduly inti?
mate since the 1 attar's return from prison.
Albert swore vengoance. For eome time
be has been working at Chambers station.
Yesterday Will b*rnc3 und his son armed them?
selves and boarded the west bound passenger train
twelve miles east of Clumbers. It was believed
hj them that they would bo attacked at tho latter
station by Albert and his friends, among whom
was George Ptavens, brother to Ihe murdered
John. As the train rushed by tho station at full
speed Albert f.r.d his seven men fired rapidly into
the car containing the men they sought tojdostroy.
The latter stood up and shot fa9t into their foes
In two seconds the fight was over. William
Barnes and Kelly Day were instantly killed.
George Stevens of the attacking party was also ob?
served to fall as if mortii'y shot. This tragedy is
likolr io provoke a^o'bor Kentucky vendetta.
Jack the Ripper.
London, April 8.?The oarbous murder o/
Helena Montana, a disreputable woman, at
Heberatbal, near Aix-la-Cbappelle, haa cre?
ated great excitement. Tbe woman was
killed in some mysterious manner in ths
open street under tbe eyes of (he passers by.
Toe throat was cut from ear to ear. The
body was disembowelled and otherwise mu?
tilated after the fashion of Jack tbe Ripper.
The unfortunate woman was drinking
with a Chioaraan all the afternoon in
a low deD and the pair parted apparently on
friendly term*. It is euppcrsed that the
Chinaman subsequently laid in wait for and
murdered her. When the body was found
it midnight the blood lay in stagnant pools
m the pavement all around it, No cutcriea
were heard by those livtrg in the vicioitv.
and none cf the neighbors could throw a
particle of l:gat on tbe my;Ur,\ The po?
lios arrested thirty laborers of tee Chinese
colony on suspicion of having been a
sory to the murder;
The Cyclone at Prophetstown
Chicago, Apl. S?A telegram jast re
ceived says that the reported heavy loss Df
life yesterday at Prophetrtown by a cy
Is unfounded. Tbe town contained 4 ?' in.
habitants and is located about 40 miles from
Burlington. The train hands report
the depot was blown down *nl the station
agent buried beneath the ruins. A Presby.
terian church on tbe main street, was
down and the steeple carried fully I ? .
A railroad man who lived near the ?
was killed In the ruins cf his owe h
Representative Cowles' Son K?l
Washington, D. C, Apl. 8.?A teleg:
was received here to-day announcing
death of ft son of Representative W. B
Cowles of North Carolina. The ycun^ tn
was at school in North Carolina and v a
killed by the accidental dlacharae o: a : -
tol. The news was communicated to i
father by Senators Ransom and Vaace, a: d.
he was almost overcome by the shock. Hi
outburst ofgriel was pitiful to see.
Jail Delivery.
8pokane Falls, Wash., Apl. s.-;,
teen prisoners escaped from the county
here early yesterday morning. Whilr tbe
jailer was making his rounds be was Be '.
oound and gagged by four of the prison,-:-,
who liberated the remainder by unlock :,
their cells. A posse is in pursuit.
Telegraphic Brevities.
Clarence P. WikofJ, an employee o'
dry goods firm of Fuller & Faller, at i
go, has been arrested charged wich havicc
robbed the firm of over $1,000.
The revival of a report that Mr. Ar I
Carnegie will soon succeed Mr. Mayer as
I president of the Baltimore and Ohio rai
road, is said to be without foundation.
The Newark police today captured sev?
eral men and one woman who were Imp i
cated in the Mockridge jewelry factory
robbery, on January 17, when flOOO worth
of jewelry was stolen.
At a meetiog of the Sr. Louis exchange
this morning it was decided to Euspen 1 all
trading in May and July wheni, pending a
settlement of the deals with Moses Fraley,
whose failure for about $'2.30.'Vh) - an
oounced,
J. S. Morgau, of the banking firm of L
Morgan & Co , did in London to day from f
fects of the injuries he received from j.][]r,
from his carriage while hi-? horse-. ' rTJ
ageable.
At Dresden, Ont., last nigh* Eu.? SjKy
17, and Miai Trea Huffm-v- ^ ^
iug the river in a srasJ' ^ accomj-mied by a
young man named Cj4a Hftrti whon ,he ^ ,
swamped an* the yonng Mie5 Wcn. arowned.
Fa i Li'Rjf
chant oi
heavi)
.?Moses Fraley, the noted grain
oC Louis, la in financial trouble,
/ abort on May wheat. Fraley states
, cause of his financial trouble is that ho *s
'Vailed upon yesterday for $210,000, and t tl
reply was that if tho parties would wait unti t
day he could settle.
George K. Sistaro's Sons, one of the rao-t pn :
inent firms in Wall street, having branch I
in Baltimore and Philadelphia, fiiiet yesU
It was stated that tbe suspension was ?ho;:y
to a Urge defalcation iu tho Philadelphia < :t. e
which was nimiaKod by a member of the Drm
I Doog'as Hilgen, who died a few days ago.
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL
New York, April 8 ?The mark.--, was
and firm at tho op >niug this morning, first pi ?
being generally from % to % better than last
night's closing figures, though considerable
ularity existed. At 11 o'clock the market was
very dull, but steady t; .'irm, generally h' a shade
bett'-r than tho opening prices.
Baltimore, April 8.?Virginia 6s consolid ted
?10 ; paat-duo coup ?: HMOs ? ; do 3s 66 '.j.
Alexandsta >Markkt. April 8.?Tho m
ts firm, but quiet, and there are no changes to
?ine?-yesterday. The offerings are light, and w<
quote: Wheat 65*82; Corn .;7a^?; Kye 10*5 ),
and Oats 27a31.
Raltimore. April 8?Cotton dull; middling
ll,-3all'i. Flour dull. Wheat- Southern firmer;
Fultz S'a86 ; longberry 81a87; No 2 Southern
S?1^ ; steamer 2 red 821?1; Western firmer . No -
winter red spot and April 841?2rM '.j ; Mh;. - i ?; ?
85^; July H2Hi bid. Cora?Southern qniet and
nearly uomioai; white 39*40; yellov 37a38;
Western firm : mixed spot :ind April 37^*37^
Mar 37%*37V June 38\fe?88%; July 38% 1
38"h; ateaaier 35^*36. Oats hrm ; 801
and Penna 31 ; Western white 3>>?.';i'v ; do inix
e<1 27a29; graded No 2 white 31. Bye qoict at
55a56. Hay steaiy; prime to choice timothy
$12 50al3. Provisions quiet aud steady.
Chicago, April 8?11 a. m.?Wheat?
80^*80%; July 79-!v,i79'ij. Corn?May 30%;
July 32V OaM?May 22%: July 22%. For*
?May $10 70: July $lo87Iv. Lard?April
$6 10; May $615*617%. Short Bibs-May
S5 17^
New Yobk, April 8 ?Cotton steady ; upland *
llha; Orleans ll1^; futures quiet and firm.
Flour qu;et and firm. Wheat active and firm.
Corn quiet and steady. Potk quiet and firm >?
$11*12 25. Lard quiet and steady at $6 ~><i
Baltimore, April 7.?Hogs?Tho n
some 1,200 head less than last week, consl
aupp'y about equal to a moderate demand u< ?? ?
ally reported. 'Ihe figures iiilint? show do change
since last week, though the market is somewhat
stronger than it was then, more sales being re?
corded at and near tbe top quotations than lest
week. We quote good Western Hogs at 6*6%c
per lb net, near-by 5 ?4*5".,';, and rough Hogs at
4%*5c. Receipts of Hogs this week 7119 bead.
Receipts of Sheep 2524 head, wi h sales at $3 2")*
5 50 per 100 lbs, and Lambs at 7%a9c per lb.
New Yobk Cattle Market. April 7.?Beeves
?market higher; ordinary to to>d steer! S3 90a
5, and bolla and dry cowa$l 75a3 25 per LOO Iba.
Calves?market dull ; veala $4*6 25 per 100 lb
and Western Calves $3a3 50 Sheep and l.at.
?market steady ; f-heep $5 40t6 per 1UJ r oui d-;
yearling Lambs *6 50*7 87, and rp ring Lambs
$3 50<5 each. Hogg?market nominallj ettudy
for live Hogs at $4 40*4 75 per 100 lbs.
Queesstow?? Cattle Market. April 7.?At
Union stock yards this week 162 Cattle were on
the market and sold as follows: Be6t 4r%?4\ :
good 4tya4,fcc; medium 3'^a4c; common
.?Ji^c per lb. 109 Sheep and Lambs were offer?
ed ; old Sheep 4%?6c; L?mbs ?^a?^c per H>.
Sorine Lambs SalOc per lb. Cows ai d Cain
>20a40. Market good.
DIED.
On Sunday, April 6th, 1890, nt G:i~> p. m ,
JOHN T. HILL, in the sixty-foarth year of his
age. ^S~Funer*l Wednesd?y, April 9ih. at 8:31'
*. m., from St. Mary's Church Belatives and
friends are invited. 2t
SHAD BOE AT RETAIL. 10c per lb, at
feb!3_McBDBNF.VN
MIXED NUTS, fresh, 12j par lb at
janlO J. C. MJLB?BN'8.
EW OBLEjNS MOLASSES,fancy, for aaie by
apl J. C. MILB?BN.