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THE- DEMOCRAT.
MINERAL POINT, - • - WIB.
FRIDAY. APRIL 18,1879.
PARAGRAPHIC COMMENT.
Nkw York slate (lour is beginning to
find a market in Philadelphia.
Milwauskk, Wis,, makes cockle-scp
arating machines for England.
'.rr
Thk trade of HI. Louis has been ex
ceptionally good for the lost thirty
days.
Thousands of pedometers arc being
manufactured iu Newark, N. J., for
Europe.
Thk Harmony mills at Cohoes, N. Y.,
are running on full time and capacity.
Nkw Jkusky’s pouch crop promises to
be the heaviest known in many years.
In Sandusky, 0., the building outlook
is said to be better than it lias been in
years.
Thk Newark (N. J.) cutlery manu
facturers have, it is said, more orders
than they can fill.
Pitthiiuuoh, Scranton and Troy are
furnishing steel rails for the southern
Pacific railroad.
Thk rolling mills of Portland, Mr.,
are running day and night, with orders
for months to come.
Larok numbers of French Canadians
are leaving Montreal to woik in the
New England mills.
Ohio's iron interest shows marked
signs of improvement. Hlasl furnaces
and rolling mills are everywhere re
suming operations.
At Baltimore during the past month
the shipment of (lour to Europe in hags
reached 4,850 hags, of Ml pounds
each, and the quantity will probably he
increased hereafter.
Tine Caughnawaga Indians ofCiypuda
arc organizing a troop which has been
engaged to exhibit in the United Stales
and Europe the peculiarities of the
North American Indians.
At New Albany, the chief manufac
turing city of Ohio, a highly encourag
ing (smdition of affairs is reported by
the Cincinnati! UuatU*. All the factor
ies are full of orders and running on
ull time.
Boston's hoot and shoe trade is fairly
active. Ready-made goods arc report
ed lo ho in demand for immediate de
livery, and Jobbers who arc able to fill
orders from stock on hand are said lo
he doing a good business.
Mouk than 100,00(1 tons of Algerian
and Spanish iron ore will he imported
into the United Slates this year. This
ore is going us far west as Harrisburg,
and may probably roach Johnstown, in
connection with Lake Superior.
Tim: Massachusetts house of represen
tatives rejected the hill to secure to
women the right lo vote on municipal
affairs in towns and cities, hut passed
the senate Mil giving them (he right lo
vote for school committees.
"'* " t
I'u ll. auki.it ll a, which eight years ago
had only sixteen shoe factories, has
now over 140. Their annual production
is estimated al 48,000,000 pairs. At the
present lime work is very brisk and the
employes are receiving higher wages
thru they have in many years.
Tiik American Suspender Company
of New York city and Watorhury,
Conn,, has been placed in the hands of
a receiver representing Ihe largest ered
dors, the Waterhnry Buckle company.
The Suspender company has a capital
of SIIOO,OOO, all paid in. The liabilities
are $180,000; assets nominally $870,-
000, consisting of real estate, machinery,
good accounts and stock.
At Troy, N. Y., the iron works an* all
busy. Twelve hundred and fifty tons
of steel rails are produced by the Besse
mer works weekly, an unexampled pro
duct. A largo extension will bo made
to tin* Burden works, and it is reported l
that 10. tlirning it Cos. contemplate an
addition to their extensive establish
ment. All the foundries are running,
and a first-class season is anticipated
by store manufacturers. The linen
goods business, in all its branches, prom
ises well. All the manufacturers ex
pect a hurried and profitable season.
Tiif Direct Cable company, during
the six months ended December 81,
1878, earned, after deducting payments,
£89,948 Bs. Cd,, an increase of £5,000
over the previous corresponding half
year. Tho not prollls were £08,105 4s.
od., which with the amount brought
over from the previous half
year, makes a net total of £71,128 Bs.
4d. The company has added £82,500
to its reserve fund, which increases it to
£78,139 14s. Up. Two interim divi
dends of 1J per cent., amounting to
£80,355, have been paid lor the piar
tere ended September 30 and December
81, 1878.
VERY LATEST NEWS.
Selected From Kvcry Source mid
Boiled Down.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Navkiation opened at Kant Saginaw
April 10th.
Thk Allen Print works of Providence,
R. 1., were forced to io-k f.r a three
years extension on the 10th inst.
Owinu to a culling of rates, passenger
fare from Ht. Louis to the seaboard was
reduced to #l2 on the lllii inat.
Thk Home Fire insurance company
of Newark, N. J., reinsured ita riaka, and
closed business April lltb.
A fiUK at Wabasha, Minn., on the
Pith inst., destroyed tbeCampbell house
block. 1/ma, #10,IKK); insurance, #7,000.
Thk British steamer Ontario arrived
in New York April lltb under a char
ter to embark mules for South Afiica.
MAlien earnings of nineteen western
railroads show an increase over the
same month last year of #200,000.
John P. Pmaik, hanged at Vermont
last week, left a statement asserting his
h-noce.ice,says a dispatch of April Mlb.
Thk republican slate convention, of
Kentucky, held in Louisville April
10th, nominated Walter Evans for
governor.
At Windsor, Vf., April 10th, John P.
I’hair was hanged in the state prison
for the murder of Mrs. Ann K. Frei/.e,
at Rutland, June 0, 1H74.
Nkw Oki.fans has established twenty
days ipiarantine against all veapels from
Mexican and South American ports as
a prevent it ive against yelloiv fever.
A Nkw Yoiik dispatch of April lltb
savs General Ricfnird Taylor, of the
confederate army, died here Saturday.
He had been ill for some weeks at the
residence of S. L. M. Harlow.
Thk gross earnings of the Chicago A
Northwestern railroad for March, as an
nounced April lllh, were #1,101,000, as
against #1 005,HHl during the same
month in IH7H.
At a meeting held April 12th, Sen
ator Windom was made president of
the national emigration aid society.
The ollieers of the association say their
appeals for aid have mol with generous
responses from philanthropists north
and south irrespective of party.
At Ottawa, 111., a heavy rain pre
vailed during April ‘.I ami lotli. Al
Marseilles, (him Creek, a very Hinall
Hlream, ordinarily, became clouded
near its junction wnh Ihe canal and the
water rose aeveral feet, Bonding many
dwelling, compelling the occupantH lo
Meek aafety on hißher ground.
Tin: will of Mine. Elizabeth I’atter-
Hon Bonaparte devinea all her real and
perHonal cHtale equallly to her grand
hoiim, Jerome Napoleon and Charles
JoHeph Bonaparte, who are also
made exeoutora. The real estate is de
vised for life to her grandsons and after
ward to their children.
A coNKKUKNOK of trunk ni'inagera wmh
held in New York, April 11th, to fix
new rated. The conference reunited in
the trunk line* fixing an arbitrary rate
on live Hlock at (10 centa per 100 pound*,
on a luma of Chicago to New York. The
new hcbednle went into i licet April
14th.
'l'llK mercantile agency of It. (i. I Min
& Cos., given the number of failures in
the Hlatea and tcrritoriea lor the quar
ter ending March 111, 1870at2,5-4, with
liahilitiea of 1411,112,(1(15, For the quar
ter ending March 111, 1870. the failurea
were 11,1155 and the liahiltiea $112,070,-
82(1.
Johiaii Bacon, Ircaauier of the Hood
year Dental Vulcanite Cos., of lloalon,
who had shortly before arrived in Han
Francisco, was found dead in his room
at the Baldwin hotel, Sunday afternoon,
Anril 111th. As no (Irearms were found
m the room, and as death evidently re
united from a pistol shot, the whole af
fair was a profound mystery.
Tim; funeral of (Jen. Richard Taylor
occurred in New York April llllh. The
pall-hearers were lion. Hamilton Fish,
Chas. O’Connel, Secretary Win. M.
Kvarts, 1). D. Withers, Win. A.Travers,
(Jeo. Tieknor Curtis, August Belmont,
Chas. 1,. Burkins, Win. Constable,
Abram S. Hewitt, .Senator Bayard and
Mayor Cooper.
A Dkauwood, I). TANARUS„ special t %ys that
on the 10th hist a party of
seven Indians attacked Sergeant
Kennedy, late signal observer al 1 •(•ad
wood, and a private soldier named Ba
der, of the 2.1 cavalry. The two men
were eating lunch al Mispati, 45 miles
from Fort Keogh, their destination,
when fired noon. Bader was instantly
killed and Kennedy badly wounded.
The latter crawled into the hushes and
kept the Indians off with a six-shooter
until assistance arrived. Bader was
scalped. Kennedy will probably re
cover.
Tim eleventh annual report of the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, A St. Louis rail
road company, for the year ending
l>ee. 111, 1878, was made public April
lllh. Tho total earning of tho road
are allowu to be $8,170,870; increase
over 1877, $78,408; operating expenses,
$1,980,007; decrease. SB3,JUKI, as com
pared with the operating expenses of
1877; net earnings tor 1878 weresl,-
18(1,7(18,
An official vote of t'iueimiati waa
anuouneed April 10th, and atanda aa
followa; Jacob, republican, for mayor,
412 majority; Boyce, republican,
board of public worka, 200 majority;
Koraker, republican, judge of
Supeiior Court, 722 majority; Kumler,
rep., City Solicitor, OIS majority; Kuorr,
rep,, City Treasurer, 1,111 majority;
\\ I’aon, deni., Judge of Police Court,
1.825 majority; Murphy, rep., Prose
cuting Attorney Police Court, 701 ma
jority; Setebei, rep., Police Coin mis
aiouer, 272 majority. Total vote east,
48.808.
A HCKCIAI from Port Buford, April
14th, reporta the Indiana realleaa and
beginning to move. Tho Vanktona are
diaaaiiatled and aearcoly controlablc. A
aearcilv of food at Poplar Uivcr and
Wolf Point ia the main eauac. Kim
nera irom aeveral boatile campa have
made overlurea to tho Uroovent res and
other peaceable tribes with otlera of
presents, asking them to join tho hos
lilo movementa. Unless more provis
ions are granted they will nearly all
unite, and, the tribes once comentcd,
the Indians of this country will make a
bloody campaign.
A Toronto special of April 14th says
! the plans for the construction of the
i tunnel under the Detroit river, approved
of oy the government, show that the
tunnel will lie 8,700 feet in length, ex
it tiding from Htoney Island to Anderdon
on the Canadian side. It is the inten
tion of the Canada Southern railway
company, who are doing the work, to
I lay a double track and double arches,
iso that (here will he no danger of acci
j dents by collision The work is to be
begun by the Ist of April. The tunnel
is estimated to cost $1,(500,000.
A New York dispatch of April
Blb says: The steamer Surbiton,
whose supposed loss was tele
graphed here to-day, sailed from ibis
port for Rotterdam, February 18lb,with
a general cargo of merchandize, valued
at about $100,000; three-fourths insured.
She had no passengers; was command
ed by Capt. J. VV. Abbott, and had a
crew of‘2B persons. The Surbiton was
mi iron screw steamer, built at New
Castle, England, in 1877, and owned by
Watts, Md.iurn & Cos., London. Fully
insured in British companies, and val
ued a' about $12(5,000.
At Chicago on the oth inst. during a
thunder shower a meteor which
looked while in the air about a foot in
diameter fell to the ground on the
south side bursting into many pieces
before striking. It was white with beat
and the fragments resembled clinkers.
A wire of a telephone connecting two
business oflices on the south side was
struck by lightning at about the same
lime and electric fluid entered the
oflices and played havoc with the furni
ture.
A DiHi'A'K'it dated April I‘Jth, from
Mackenaw City, says: fhere in very
liltl change i>> the condition of ilic ioc
in the straits towards Ink*! Mich igan.
It looks rone'll, compact and mdid. The
prevailing wind* are northerly, and pre
vent the ice from melting rapidly. He
lena wo have warm rains soon, it is not
likely the straits will he open before
May first. A report from Point St. Ig
nace slates that the condition of the ice
is had. No crossing since the iOtii.
A Nkw York telegram of April 14th
says: Prof. Edison declare* that his
electric light is a complete success, and
can he furnished at one-third the cost
ol gas., lie expects to make the whole
thing public within two months. He
will burn 500 lights at Menlo Park until
the stockholders are perfectly satisfied.
The delay has heon the want of a per
fect generator of electricity, and
this Professor Edison has him
self added to his inventions. It
has been supposed that the lamps them
selves would be very expensive. They
are simply a small cod of platinum
wire placed in a glass bulb. Professor
Edison says they will cost, bulb, plati
num, and all, not more than #1.50
apiece. He is making his own bulbs,
having picked up the art from a peram
bulating glass-blower.
A Four Stevknson, 1. T. special of
April 14th, says the post was thrown
into intense excitement about three
o’clocK yesterday afternoon by the re
port that prairie (ires were raging with
fearful velocity close to the outskirts of
the garrison. Col. Moore, post com
mander, ordered out the entire force
with wet blankets, etc., to light the foe,
and after three hours hard lighting the
fires were subdued. The wind was lilow
ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
and the flames spread very rapid
ly. Women and children became
wildly excited, and ran to and fro, and
began packing their household grinds,
to he conveyed to a point ol safety.
The fire surrounded the post, and at
one time it seemed as if it must go.
Two soldiers ami an olllcer were badly
burned. Fort Lincoln haiku similar ex
perience, with a narrower escape.
A TKUutm.K accident occurred at tho
Cleveland, 0., rolling mills April 10th,
William Raleigh, water boy, was stand
ing m front of Hie rolls through which a
bar of red-hot iron was being run.
When the iron is at its proper heat the
bar is very pliable, but by becoming
chilled it lakes all sorts of fantastic
forms, and Hies and twists about in
every direction. This bar wrapped it
self about the boy and encircled hint
hi its folds, literally burning bis body
in two. It was some minutes before be
could be extricated. Meanwhile tho
iron was searing ids llesb, causing the
most horrible erics of agony from the
helpless sntlerer. In a few moments
after bo burl been released by longs
and pincers by the workmen who
could reach him, be breathed bis last
in terrible agony. His clothing was
completely burned from Iris body, which
presented a most sickening spectacle.
A KfKriAi. dispatch of April Htb, from
Collinsville, 111,, a town about 11 miles
northeast of St. Louis, says a terrible cy
clone, from the northwest, struck the
town at a quarter of three o’clock this
afternoon, and taking a zig-zag course,
with a general direction almost due
cast, tore through the place, demolish
ing ten buildings, mining about thirty
others, and damaging more or less
some 75 residences and business houses.
A slight rain proceeded the storm, anil
nearly everybody was in doors when
the cyclone struck, but, notwithstand
ing ten bouses were leveled with the
ground, only one person was killed, a
little girl named Annie Reynold, and
one or two others badly injured. The
siorni lasted but two or three minutes,
but was frightfully severe. After it
passed, people rushed out of their
bouses in all directions, mothers look
ing for children, nftd husbands, fathers
and brothers, who were away from
home, hastening to their houses to see
who were killed or burl. The greatest
excitement and confusion prevailed for
some time.
A VtoroiUA dispatch via. San Francis
co April '.Uh says: The British gun boat
Osprey arrived this morning front Sitka
where she was relieved on the 3rd nisi,
by the U. S. steamship Alaska. All was
quiet at the time of the Osprey’s de
parture. On the night of the 2‘Jlh ult.
trouble was (eared, and at the request
of Col. Dill, collector of the port,
the commander of the Osprey held her
in readiness to land at tho moment a
signal was given from shore. The request
was complied with, and the crew of the
U. S. revenue steamer Oliver Wolcott
lying oil'the Indian village also stood to
quarters all night hut no occasion arose
for other services. It afterwards ap
| peared that a number of Ghilcol Indians
recently arrived from the north had
been holding a drunken carousal with
their friends in the village during which
a quarrel arose and a Sitka chief
named Anahools, who is friend
ly to whites and lives with
in the stockade was severely
i wounded, one of his assailants badly
hurt, anil Chilcols threatened to kill
Anahools in retaliation. It was feared
that the quarrel might result in a gen
eral attack on the whites, on account of
their friendly relations with Anahools.
Aside from tins no trouble arose during
the Osprey’s stay ul Sitka.
FOKEION.
A dispatch from Iquique, -ays that
port is blockaded by a Chilian squad
ron.
Italy will not participate in the
mixed occupation of Uoumelia, says a
cablegram of April 11th,
Thk German government expects to
derive a revenue of 100,000,000 ru irks
(about $25,000,000) from the new pro
tective tariff.
Gkn. Todlkhen declared at a council
held April 10th that he believed a war
was the only salution of the Eastern
Uoumelia difficulty.
It is reported that King Alfonso, of
Spain, in to marry the Arch Diiclkhs
Maria, daughter of Arcli Duke Charles
of Austria.
A dispatch from Bombay, April I.lth,
says it is rumored in Cabiil that the ne
gotiations between Yakoob Khan and ;
the British had failed because the latter
insisted on the annexation of Cahill,
An unsuccessful attempt was made |
to assassinate the czar while he was tak
ing his morning walk, near the palace,
April Mib. Four shots were Sired
without effect. The would-be assassin
was arrested.
A CADLEUiiAM of April lllh says,
seventeen thousand persons in Szeged in
and the neighborhood of that city are
still subsisting on charity. It has been
raining f'*r ten days. The supply of
bread is becoming exhausted.
The latest disnatch from Cape Town,
South Africa, gives the following infor
mation concerning the great slaughter I
of'English troops: A convoy of supplies
proceeding from Derby to Eu Webnrg,
escorted by 104 men of the 18tli regi
ment was attacked at day-break, Marcli
12th, on the banks of Intomhe river,
by 4,000 Zulus, under Umbelini. Owing
to previous alarm the British were un
der arms, but were overwhelmed by
the enormously superior force of the
enemy. Cant. Moriarily and forty
men killed, and twenty
missing. Fate of wagon drivers un
known Lieut. Harwood, with 40 men,
succeeding in reaching Luzeburg, 150
men of the 80th regiment subsequently
proceeded to the scene of the lighting
and recovered a quantity of racks and
ammunition and buried the dead.
Twenty wagons, containing supplies,
were lost. A relief column for Ekowe
will start March 20th. A parly of vol
unteers have visited the battle field ol
Isaiidula and found that the Zulus had
left 100 wagons there, but bad removed
the guns and ammunition.
A Kirff correspondent of the 8Y Peters
burger Journal, under dale of April I2th,
gives the following account of the out
break among the political prisoners
last month: ‘'Persons under arrest in
the Kiell‘prison resolved some time ago
to tunnel under the walls and escape.
The scheme was betrayed by one of the
conspirators The authorities allowed
the prisoners to continue the excava
tion. When the tunnel was completed,
and the prisoners had entered it one
after the other, intending to come up
through the opening beyond the pris
on precincts, the soldiers previously
posted at the opening shut the escaping
prisoners as they came up. When the
lailk of tliu prisoners, terrified by the
noise of the firing, stopped and re
mained in the tunnel, soldiers were sent
in from behind, and the unfortunate
wretches, caught between two tiros,
were all shot down. The proceeding
seemed to give the officials much
amusement, and the director of the
Kiel! prison was pra'- ed and decorated
for having acted with such cleverness
and decision.”
WASHINGTON.
Tiik President has nominated Robt. 1’
Wilson, of Pennsylvania, as consul at
Moscow.
A son of Senator Blaine was thrown
from his horse in Washington, April
10th, and sustained a broken shoulder.
Hon. Cm as. H. Bum. was admitted to
the United Slates senate from New
Hampshire by a vote of 35 to 28, on the
10th mst.
ArmHNKV Cknkkai, Dkvkns, while on
the way to the theatre with his chief
clerk, April lOtli, was badly shaken up
by the horses running oil and smashing
the earriage and whirling it over so the
oeenpants had to he taken through the
window. Fortunately they escaped seri
ous injury.
Rkckkskntativks from live civilized
nations of the Indian territory,says a dis
patch of April 11th, arc in Washington
to represent the manner in which their
lands, as they heltve, have been squand
red upon railroad companies.
A Ptsi’.vmt of April 11th says the
Widow Oliver has entered the lecture
field, and will visit the north and west,
and deliver her lecture, entitled "My
Late Trial with Senator Cameron."
She lectured in Alexandria, Va„ last
night.
Thk sister of tho late secretary of war,
Kdwin M. Stanton, says a dispatch of
April 11th, has been appointed to a
clerkship in the Quartermaster Gener
al's otlice by Secretary McCrary, upon
the recommendation of members of the
cabinet and prominent senators and
representatives.
Thk United States supreme court i*
to adjourn on the 12tli of May, if not
one week earlier. At the present term
350 cases have been argued and disposed
of, and an unusually large number have
been settled by arbitration. There are
still 7tX) eases on the docket. An inter
mediate court, to relieve the pressure on
the higher tribunal, is suggested.
An attempt is being made to amend
the rules of the house of representa
tives sothai in calling the oil only sur
j names shall he called with the prefix
i Mr., as in the senate. This would re
duce the time for taking the roll-call
i about one-half. Under the present
method in the house about one-third of
the time of the entire session is occu
pied in calling the yeas and nays.
Thk United States senate has
continued Andrew I‘. McCormick
United States district judge in the
northern district of Texas; James
Pollack, naval officer in the district of
Philadelphia; William M. Henry,
United Slates marshal for Vermont;
Geo. S. Smith, surveyor of the general
districts of lowa and Nebraska; Thomas
S. Wadsworth, of Illinois, receiver of
public moneys m Mesilla, New Mexico.
congressional" summary.
Tpksdav, April B.— Senate. The army
i hill was reported back from the coni
j mittee without amendment. Mr.
I Blaine gave notice of an amend
ment making it a penal offense, pun
ishable with line and imprisonment,
1 for any military, naval or civil officer,
[ or any other person, except for the pur
poses named in the hill, to appear arm
ed with deadly weapons of any descrip
tion, within a mile of any polling place
where a general or special election for
representatives to congress is being held.
After a debate on the New Hampshire
senatorship tiie senate without action
adjourned.
Tuesday, April 8. — House. —The legis
lative, executive and judicial hill was
taken up and fit) pages disposed of. The
house did not reach the political features
of (he hill. Adjourned.
Thursday, April Id — Smalt, —The
senate resinned consideration of the
New Hampshire senatorial case. J lon.
Chas H. Bell by virtue of an appoint
ment by the governor, was admitted to
a seat by the following vole:
YEAS.
Anthony, tlordon. Morrill,
lluytrd, (iroonir, I’liddork,
lloolh, JI it 111 11 11 . I*l*ll.
Itnico, Hill, Col. Plumb.
Biirnslil*. Innnl lx, Randolph.
Csimiroii, I’m. Jones, Fl*. Roll Ins,
Canu'ron, Win. Kellogi;. Smindure,
C bundlin', Kirkwood, Toiler,
Dawes, f.oL'iin, Voorlious,
Edmunds, McDonald, Walker,
Kerry, McMillan, Whyte.
Williams-:;. - !
NAYS.
Hailey. Drover, Moreau,
Call, llarriH, I'eudleiou,
Carpenter, Hereford, Ransom,
Cockrell, Hill, tin. Sluter,
Coke. Houston, Vulicu,
Conk line, Johnston, Vest,
Davis, 111. Jonas. Wallace,
Union, liernan, Withers- J-
Farley, Lamar,
(jurlimd, Muxey.
Mr. Bell was then sworn in. The
army hill was then taken up, hut after
an executive session the senate ad
journed, an attempt to adjourn over
Good Friday having failed.
Thursday, April 10— House. — Consid
eration of the legislative appropri
ation hill was resumed. Mr. Mc-
Mahon offered an amendment
repealing the sections providing for bi
ennial exam illations of pensioners, and
concluding, viz: In order to provide for
the payment of arrears of pensions, the
secretary is directed to issue immedi
ately in payment thereof, as they may
he adjusted, the $10,0(H),000 of legal
lender currency now in the treasury,
kept as a pecial fund fur the redemp
tion of fractional currency. Mr. Gar
field raised a point of order,
which led to a discussion. The
chairman finally ruled that the
amendment was germane to the hill in
the direction of economy, and there
fore it was in order; it was then further
amended by Mr. Canon that fractional
currency may ho redeemed in any class
of money in the treasury, and as thus
amended, was agreed to. Ollier amend
ments wore adopted when, without ac
tion, the committee rose and the house
adjourned.
Friday, April 11— Senate. —Mr. Garlan.
from the committee on epidemic dis
eases, reported a joint resolution, set
ting forth (ho doubts existing as to the
legal organization of the national board
of health and to remove them. The
resolution ratifies the organization and
action of that body. Agreed to. Six
sections of the army hill were read and
th > senate adjourned until Monday,
Friday, April 11 —liovur. —The consid
eration of tlio legislative appropriation
hill l>y the committee of the whole, was
continued. Tho amendment increasing
the clerical force in the postotlice depart
ment was adopted—yeas 105, nays (10.
The appropriation for the purchase
ami distribution of seeds, etc., was
increased from $05,000 to SIOO,OOO.
Mr. 11 union submitted an amend
ment increasing the appropriation for
eradicating infectious diseases among
domesticated animals from #25,000 to
$250,000. He stated that the object of
the largo increase was to stamp out the
disease known as pleno pneumonia and
the only way known to eradicate di
ease was to httry and kill diseased cal
tie, and cattle which have been subject
to contagion. Mr. Sparks advocated
the amendment. He said that it was
.vastly importatnt that the diseased cat
tle should he immediately eradicated.
Without disposing of tho amendment
the committee rose. The committees
were announced and the house ad
journed until to-morrow.
S.UTKt'Av, April 12—Howie.—Consid
eration was resumed in committee of
whole, of the legislative appropriation
bill, tho pending amendment being that
of increasing to S2SO,(XX) the appro
priation for controlling and and eradi
cating contagious diseases among do
meslicalcd animals. After a long
debate, the whole subject was
stricken from the bill, and
propositions were agreed to recom
mending the house to refer the whole
matter to the committee on agriculture,
with instructions to report promptly.
An amendment was submitted and
agreed to providing investigating agents
under the southern claims act.
Mr. Bragg moved to strike out all the
provisions for the southern claims com
mission and to insert a clause repealing
the law creating the commission. The
consideration of the amendment was
postponed until Tuesday next. The
proposition being one which
could not bo properly discussed under
the tive-mimite rule because he pro
posed to show that the government had
been paying these claims as mere
gratitude and he thought tnat where
gratuity was to be bestowed it should
l*e a personal matter and that congress
should not vote to give away w hat be
longed to the people at large. A mo
tion to adjourn until Tuesday was
defeated by a vote of lUS to 108.
All the republicans voted in the af
firmative and all the greenbackers in
the negative as did all hut the following
eleven democrats: Bicknell, Blount,
Clymer. Cook, Covert, Deuster, Ham
mond, Ga.. Hurd, Johnson, Norse and
Talbott. Among the pairs announced
was the speaker with a republican,
Kelley voted with the greenbackers.
The house then adjourned, 111 to 109.
Monday, April 14. — Senate. — Several
bills were introduced, among them one
to amend the revised statutes relating
to the election of United States senators,
designed to avoid a recurrence of the
New Hampshire case. Mr. Cameron
made a long speech cn the bill for the
relief of the Winnebago Indians of
Wisconsin. The army bill was then
taken up and Mr.Blaine spoke at length
upon the amendment ottered by him
prohibiting tiie appearance within a
mile of any voting place of any person
armed with deadly weapons of any
kind. Adjourned.
Monday, April 14.—Hoim.—Immedi
ately after the readi ig of the journal,
the speaker called the roll ot states
for bills for reference, beginning with
Maine. Mr. Ladd introduced a bill to
put the coinage of gold and silver on
the same footing, when a point of or
der was raised by Conger that one day’s
notice was necessary for the introduc
tion of hills. The speaker decided
against the point raised, and Conger
succeeded, by talking and by raising
points of order, in consuming the whole
morning hour and thus cut off the in
troduction of more hills. After further
filibustering the house adjourned with
out accomplishing any work.
The House Committees.
The following standing committees of
the house of representatives were an
nounced by Speaker Randall April 11th:
Elections—Springer. Manning, Slemons. Speer,
Colerlck, Armlield, Belizhoover. sawyer. Fluster,
Keiler, Camp, Calkins, Field Overton. Weaver.
Ways and Means—Fernando Wood, lacker,
Gibson. Phelps, Morrison, Mills. Carlisle, Felton,
Uarllcld, Kelly, Conger, Frye. Donnell
A ppropi iations—Atkins, Blount. singleton.
Mills, Ciymer, lllacklotrn. Wells. Cobb Fornev,
Mae Mahon. Maker, Monroe, Hawley, Huhbeli,
Cannon, lliseoek.
Banking ami Currency—Buckner, Ewing. Da
vis, Voting. I.owih, Lonnsherry, Ladd, Chltten
den. Fort, Price, Crapo.
I’aeide Itailroads—MeLattc, Chalmers, Bliss.
Clark, Dickey, Ellis Martin, Wellborn. Manner,
Belfort), Newberry, Bailey, Mailer, Worth.
Claims-Mriglit, Dickey. Davidson, Covert.
O’Connor, Davis, Sanford, Lindsay, Marhei, Mow
man, t rowley.
Commerce— Reagan, Miles, Itoss, Konna, Mc-
I ane, Thomas, Turner, Aeklen. Meale. Denster.
Ciardy, O’Neill, Waite, Henderson, Townsend
(Ohio), Mussel 1.
I’lild c Lands-Converse, Wright, Steele, Mc-
Kenz’e, Williams (Ala.), Ketcham, Kyan, Sapp,
vVaslibiirne, Meimetl.
I’ostolllPes and pest roads—Morev, Clark. Cook,
Evans, Singleton fill.), Shelly, Junes, Kctcliam,
Joiee. Slone, l-nglmm.
District of Columbia- Iliinton. Henklc, Bonck,
Clark, Martin, Sanford, Klot/,, Neal. James, licit
in.nr Aldrieli.
Judiciary—Knott, Harris, Culberson, Hnrd,
1 loose, Kyan, Herbert, N w, Hninnioi and, Lapham.
it diliison, McKinly, Williams, Willits.
War Claims-Bragg, Itobertsou, Warner. Roth
well, Thompson. Slmoiiuin, t arpeuter, Feidon.
Tyler Mavne. Mnssell.
I’uOlic Expeuditnres—Finley, Manning Davis,
Tillman, Slinonton, Meltzboovur, Juice, Mason.
Cowgill, Brigham.
I’rivate Land Claims— Gunter, Martin, Paid
well, Mnldrow, Stevenson. Myers, Lay, Mitchell.
Norcrnss, Burrows. Voortns
Manufactures—Wise, Beale. Nichols, Smith.
Richardson, Taylor, Lowe, Hall, Horr, Hammond,
McCook,
Foreign Affairs-Cox, Nelson, Bieknell, King,
Nichols, Herndon, Hill, Killingcr, Mice, Morion.
Robeson.
Territories- Mnldrow, Cravens. Bonck, Muller,
Marlin, Frost. Miiehmau, Humphrey, Aldrich,
Vonng. Dick, McKinley.
Revolutionary Tensions—Whitaker, Miand, Ca
bell Dibrell Singleton (HI.), Ryan (Pa.), Con
verse, F,rr. Miles. Pleiee, Gillette.
Invalid Pensions—ColTroili. Lewis, Caldwell.
Hostetler find.), Persons Ida.). Hatch iMo ).
Taylor I TeiiiiA. Smith (Pa.), Hazeitou (Wis.).
Davis (111.). UpdegrafftOhio).
Railways and Canals—Caliell, Shellv. Kummei,
Slemons, Wise. Oscar, Inrnei, O’Reilly, Fisher,
Mlakc, Honk. Ford.
Agriculture—Covert, Aiken, Steel Dibrell,
Henry, Le Fevre, Richmond, Persons. Hatch. Me
Cowan. Wilber, Valentine, Uodschalk, Ander
son. Forsythe.
Indian Affairs—Scales, Hooker, Gunter, Wid
dell, Poehler. Whitaker, Wellborn, Errelt, Deer
lug. Pound, Haskell. Lindsey
Military Affairs -Sparks. Dibrell. Bragg, Johns
ton, Smith, Le Fevre, White McCook, Murks,
Brown.
Militia—Ross. Scales, Henekle. Thomas, Turn
er, Speer, O’Brien, Dick, Furr. Daggett, Hawk.
Miller.
Naval Affairs—Wellborn, Goode, Morse, Klnm.
Davidson. Talbott, O’Brien, Harris. Hariner.
Mrigjs. Brewer.
Mines and Mining-Stevenson, Acklin, Arm-
Held, Atherton. Waddell, Klutz Lorsing, Mitchell.
Lrner, Einstein. Campbell.
Education and Labor— Goodo. Willis, Lay, IToll
man, McMillan, Ballon, Marlow, Osmcr. Van Aer
nem.
Revision of Laws—Harris. Clark, ("Mo ), Town
send, lilddes, Richardson, McMillan. Lowe, Orth.
(Thomas, Orner, (illicit.
Coinage. Weights and Measures-Stephens.
Vance, Ellis, Miami, Willis, Warner. De La Ma
tyr, CliillUn. (W.Vh.), Wood. Fisher.
Patents—Vance, Smith, (Ga ), Aiken, Town
send, (III,), Machinan, Talbott, Smith, W ard, Cas
well, Million, Dwight.
Public buildings and Grounds—Cook, Young.
McKenzie. Keinmel, Atherton Ketcham. March,
Clark, (la.), Jorgensen, hherwin, Shullengerger.
Accounts—Henry, Morse, Martins, Mold. Smith.
Mileage-Cobb, Knott, Mills, Chittenden, Over
ton.
in Sta'e Department—( lymer.
Ilenidon, King, l-’rust. Newberry, Barlow, Crow
lev.
Expenditures in Treasury Departm nt-Morri
son, (uni.). Fornev, Turner, Buckner. Regan.
Uni. O’Neil. Weaver, Sherwin.
_ Ex pend n u res In War De|iailmonf—Blackbnrn.
Felton, Wells, Jones, White, Norcrnss. Hawk.
Expenditures in Navy Department—Townsend,
(111.), Phelps, Kuchin. Hull, Wood Lindsay,
Neal.
Expendltur.s in Postofflee Department-Ladd.
Money, sparks, Poehler, Blake, Valentine, f.iug
ham.
Expenditures in Interior Department—Muller.
Whiti borne. Clarity. Williams,(Ala), De La Matyr,
Jorgonsou, Mnrrous.
Expenditures in I’niillc Buildings—Denster.
Bright, Hernert, ITPeilly, Ford, Forsythe, Vo
knm.
Expenditures In Department of Justice—
Blount. Culberson, S| ringer. Hur l. Now. i'hlsler,
Davis. Clark, find.), Thomas, Einstein, Shsllir.
berger.
Levies of Mississippi—Robertson. Chalmers,
Johnston, Oscar, Turner. Myers. Evans, Dunn,
Mavne, Mold, Caswell, Prescott.
R'iies—The Speaker, Stephens, Blackburn, oar-
Held, Frye.
Reform in Civil Service—Hostetler. Cravens.
House, K- ut.a, O'Connor, Sawyer. Hammond,
Hayes.Hazvlton, Mntlerworth, Richardson.
On stale law relating lo electoral count
Bieknell, Hunlou, Carlisle, Stephens. Ewing,
Lounsberrv, Dm n. Orth, fpdegrall. Van Voor
hla, Voknm.
Ventilation of Hall of House—Kimmei. Covert,
Carlisle, McMahon. Slone, Kelly. Ro'ieson.
Causes of Depression oi Labor \Vright. Dickey,
O'Cetinor. March, Sherwin. Cowgill, Mar; n.
Epidemic and Contagious Diseases-Vonng.
Gibson Hooper, Goode, Morse, Smith, Cpdegrafl
tOhlo). Van Aernam. MeGotran
Printing— Singleton (Miss ). Wilson. Hayes.
Enrolled Bills—Kenna, Coffroih, Ward, Ald
rieli, Wilbur
Library—Geddcs. Richmond. CUffln
Census—Cox. Hooker. Klim. Fintey, Colerick,
Thompson. Motnwell, Lormg. Pier- e, Daggett,
Sherwin.
Workingmen.
Before you begin your heavy sprit-g
work after a winter of relaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strengthen
ing to prevent an attack of Ague, Bil
-1 ousnetsor Spring Fever, or some olbfr
-pnng kiekness that will unlit you for a
season's work. You will save time,
much sickness and great expense if you
will use one bottle of Hop Bitters* in
your family this montn. Don’t wait.
column.