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The Diamond Drill BY C M. ATKINSON. CRYSTAL FALLS, MirmoAN. THE NEWS CONDENSED. thi: i: ist. Tun butler of ft palatial mansion cm HrooVlvn Heights permitted James F. Latliia nnd Patrick Fitzgerald to tight fur a purs of $"H) in tho dining-room. Twclvo sinking rounds bail Leon fought when tho owner of tho resilience apjHarcd and put a f-top to LohtililicK. Tho referee declared the fight a draw, ordered tho money to bo divided, ami annouucetl that all bets veto off. ..'.Margaret Mather, the ' well-known n Irene, was married at HutTulo to Kuril JluUrkoru, an orchestra leader. TillcEi: frame structures at Now York, occupied by colored fomilia. were burned. Mm. Sarah L. Johnson, aged 50, ami her (i-year-old adopted daughter perished in the flames. Walti:k C. Camp, of New Haven, ban been arrcHtcd in New York for attempting tho life of (Jeorge Condit Smith in Madison Square. The accused hag for several years coached the Yole loot-lnll team. It ap ponrs that bo was onco engaged to an heir ess, who discarded Mm and married Smith, and that he then threat ned tho hitter's life. xm: iv i :st. While rcobling her husband at Mil waukee, Mrs. Wilhelmine Meyer fell to tno Moor and suddenly expired. .. .Kx-Con-grespman Kdward llreitunj?, ono of th? pio neers of tho Vpi cr Peninsula of Michigan, who died in (Jeorym, left$.p,,PKi,fHi or more to his widow and son. Tho (lover iior of Missouri has appointed J. A.' Seldon, of St. IiOutH, Circuit Judge to till the va cancy caused by the selection of Judge A. M. Thayer for tho Fcdetal Pencil.... Detroit (Mich.) special: "it is a report, apparently will authenticated, that Jones, ex-Senator of Florida, for so many months n persistent sojourner in Detroit, will seek t re-election by tho Florida Legislature. In doing this, it is uid bo will lay before that boily tho true reason of hi long ab sence from tho national capital, and will a tale enfold that will not only vindicate bis own course, but create a national sensation in tho natnro of charges that he will make, and the high standing of the states men whom ho will involve. It is said that this storv has lecn confided to the caro of n trusted few, but tho secrecy which the Senator maintains has been enjoined upon thosii whom he has favored as confidante. Whatever the conspiracy that the gentle man from Florida may unfold when in his judgment tho fullness of timo may bo reached, ho now declines absolutely and positively to be interviewed upon tho sub ject or any phase of tho same. Ho will give no information either by denial, ad mission, or intimation." At Ellsworth, McLean County, 111., a band of thirty-eight woman marched to tho "gallon house" of A.J. Mctirevy and asked him to close up his saloon and leave the place. This he refused to do, when they charged on the place. Mcfircvy mot them at the door with a hatchet, but was prompt ly knocked down by George Whittaker. 'J ho women then raided the place, rolled out all the lienors and spilled them in tlio mud. Tho women declare that they will clear out all tho gallon lions, that may como there... On Sunday last a young man entered the engine-room of tho Chicago Wnter Works and began looking around. No paiticular attention was nuid to him, as u great many person visit the place every day. Ho seemed much impressed with tho working of tho machinery, i nd wandered from one part of the room to another. An hour later one of the engineers was making bis rounds and was bonified to see pieces of llesh and bono on tho lly wheel of ono of tho largest engines. Closer investiga tion disclosed the mutilated remains of the young man whirling around on the crank of the engine. He was crushed beyond all semblance to a human being, and bis cloth ing was torn to shred. It was a case of suicide... Joseph W. Itingham. a journal ist well known throughout the West, killed himself with a razor at th residence of his father, at Indianapolis. He had long suf fered from insomnia. tin: soi tie. MoniM dispatches give wino details of tho burning of tho steamer Gardner, on tho Tombigbee lliver, by which twenty hu man lives were sacrificed: The Are wan discovered in a balv of clton by Capt. Ho iu, A negro Ucek lititi'l, la thiowlng w at ron the li irnln bale, m t his lotim uin. l'unic stricken he ra i from place to place ettlng Urn to cittoii bale, mi. I m a few n i v tticnts tho Unit mu in nam . Sim was in midstream ami la nulinii. ihe pilot wura driven from tho wIhmI.hii I tno re w mm 1 passeii Cum Jumped ovorb ar 1. U In n t t'.io.igut that iiioro tliau ono or two cro huriicd. dipt. Mourn saved hlmsc.f by awimimu ashore. '11 steamer Tally was leulud Him (iar.lner wait ug to puss As N'ii us tho llauies hrko oat tint 1 aliy 1 wcred ler Units an. I thrwoir bales, seed sucks, mi l plans 1 1 helfi tho k. 1le w ho w ere Jumping from tho (taiduor. Tuo eat intense i mil tno 1 ally did not dare to go mt-r, but her ho it picked up a numoer -f people. When tno fire brki out the Gardner wa or lcrc.l to bi run ashore. She backed, nnd b lis w n r J i f Kia ahead. I'Uttliu n;tii' r vnu diltt'ii truiu t.K-lr it ly tl. llauiM, arid th l-u.it ilrllto I into tlm wlkxU mi thi I'p.xmltt l.it iio it (ho 1.1 aco whofP Ihorj . n j.a.-l lo ld Un lln, 'tint W. II. WiU n roinaliH' l lu tn.i )l.'. h mi. a until l.e f .imd Unit hi ik'iiil wciu ii .t vd and tliat tho l!ani mrn o. km; th si. I of tnu pilot llllUNO, W llMl lio tin I f r ll lfl. Iltf imicli praised for hl )i'T.lm. Tno cahln lxf ct tha Tall), iiuniod UailiT, cotorod, performed In reto ilt-p li. milni,' I'Vo IU bv 1111111.114 a.hrn with tluni In th wntor. Tim iiorea n if thot on th lxat wfru )iartrMidm;;. Mf4. W. T. lleuibrt throw 4 hd 1 lut th wat-r, li-r hmhand taking tnu otlu r two. llivti shu Jumped lu. All but 1 1 r hutband vvito (t. Dli lah May Moonr, ntjcd 17, khotand killed Henry Allen, a.ed .'0, at Memphis, Tenn., sending five bullets into his body. Miss Moure's father emptied the contents of a ilonl le-l nrr led ahot gun into Allen's body ns be lay writhing in death. Tho joung woman, who will oon become a mother, alleges that Moore outraged her lt June. Tin: tenmer W. H. (Jardner was burned on tho Tombigbee lliver, near Gainesville, Ala. Twenty persons lost their lives. In the Ohio lliver, near Madiaou, Ind.f a tow boat ran down a skiff containing fevrn colored people Harry Gross, his lhrtc soui aud two daughters, on 1 a young rnan named Urown. The skiff and its oc cupsnt ero swept under tho entire fleet of barges and six of them lost their lives . . . Paul King, cashur of u National liank at Cynthiuna, Ky., killed himself with arc volvtr on account of bad Lealth. lVANHIMaTO.-V. Tun following is a recapitulation of tho debt statement issued on tho 1st inst: inti itKiT-ur.AUi.NU n:ar. P Jftt4t, pfreviit I lOO.OTO Jt.xi.U at 4 J or rent. ?J,7k.i,1 J Ikui.U at S jH-r roi.t L'l.&Ji.t) Kelundiiiij crrtitlcatos at 4 percent.. l4.:U) Navy nkn fund at a r rcont. ... 14,noi.0)0 Pacific railroad lcud ui i j cr cent. CI,CJ1,ill X'rinclpai... Jl.irJ.Cjl.ir.j Ijitci..t.... lo,tw,i Total Sl.lJ'J.OIIJH I)1HT ON WliKlI IMI UMT llll IKAbCU fclMB iiATi'urrr. Principal t 0,511,(411 IiiU-rc.t UXl.:kv) Tout $ fi.7J-V.ilO lHir IIFAH'.NO KJ IKTKi.KMT. Old demand and l.-ral tender uoUi. J4rt.7JH.14l Certificate of deposit S.lmi.ou) (hdd c rtlflcate tMJ M 'M A Mlver rartincatea Ul.l;U,;ii Fractional currency (lemi t,35.'.Jl .tm.atod as lout or duntrujrd) .. C.OjJ.531 Principal 5 VU'Jj.H.lrii TOTAL IllT. Prti.clpat ti.70H.74 ).C tl InU'iiBt. l",j.!,jlt) Total 1 1,71'J.CJ,J7; I8 cash items available lor rr-duc tlon of tho debt J(U,452.yTC X.C8M rn rve hal 1 f..r redemptiou o( United htatc Duki 1 Jl.OOO.OX) Total :ki.),4:.2.W7fl Total debt, nvalJaLlo catli Items fl.rL'.l.isj.on Kct cah in tho Trvuaury l.t,lli,y7j pett. Je cash In Treasury, March I, 1hi7 fl.SJl.OJJ.O.'C I)ebt, itta cauli in TrcuHury, l'oh. 1, ltw7 1.332.4W.8 J)ecrcatn of Jcbt durlni; tho lnotitti i , i.l'.'rl Decrease of dobt vinco June :i , 1-ino. & ,im.:L' CAhll IN THE TllKAl 11T A V Al !. II I.K l oll KICIH C OK ITHMC l).UT. Gol'l li-ll for i.'"'d ccrtlticutos acta- ally outktandin VJ,V4,'UX Mlvrr held for mlcr ccttlflcaU'i actually otitKtandin l'Jl,i:i,),7jj Pnitad htates intci hold for certirl eaten of dciKit.it actually out standing B,H00) Cash held ror matured dobt an. I in tercut unpaid 17,421, 7J Canh held for b nulu called not ma tured and bulnnco of inter nt. ... . 22,7 j", 51 J Fractional currency 3,jU Total available i X'J,iZl,,Jl& Pccrve fund Lol.l for redemption of t'uitcd htaU'S notes, act Jan. 14. lH7.r, and July 12. 1hn. f 100,(XJO,WJ L'toivallablo for reductiuu .f tho debt: Fractional silver coin Vrt,4?.47'2 Minor coin 11.I..42 Total $ 2C,5:.,71t Ortlftcates held as ensh VJ.y72, j77 N t cash balance on hand 1J.14-4.U75 Total cah in tho Treasury as shown by '1 re a Hirer's gtneral account S 445,170,243 Tun failuro of tho deficiency bill will catiho inconvenienco to a greater number of poisons than tho failure of any other bill would havo done except tho legis lative, executive, ami judicial 1411.... There aro few bureaus of the Government that will sutler very seriously by tho failuro of tho bill, but most of them will be incon venienced and deltvr d. Tho Navy Depart ment is left shoit of money for work on the Chicago and Koton, and it is not ijuito certain whether the department can go on with tho work of arming ttieso vessels. Thirty-fivo of forty employes nt the Capitol have been summarily dismissed because there will bo no money to pay them. I'OMTICAIi. Tin: lower louse of the Indiana Leg islature adopted n m morial to tho Cnited State Senate agiinst the seating of David Turpie as a Senator from Indiana. Tho memorial reviews tho proceedings by which Turpie was elected, charging particularly that three tu rsons voted lor him who had no right to lo so. Tho Democrats vigor ously protested againt the adoption of tho memorial, and one memb-r in n bitter speech alluded to tho llcpublicans ns "the fifty-six cowards on the other hide," to which n llepul lban Representative rc fcpouded "You are a liar." Tin: Prohibition and Inform puty of Kentucky held a State convention in Lonis villo and nominated a full ticket lor State ofiloers. Uvr four hundred delegates, rcpr senting liltv-stven counties in tho State, were preucnt. A strong pl.itform was adopted, denouncing the liquor trade, voto buying and m lling, and convict labor. The following nmuimt oris wer' lihide: Tor Goverm r, Judge 1. T. I'ox; I.ieuten ant(iovernor, W. L. G(rdon; Ainlitor, Dr. A. T. Hetideison; TiniMinr, K. K. Dyiin; ll . lhler f ti e I.nud ( Ulice, James T. Dnrber; Attorney-General. Josinh T. Harris; Superintendent of Public Inslruc tion. D. W. Siev rifon. Tin: Minnesota Legislature ban adjourn ed sinodie. . . .The Senate of Michigan has passed a bill to require a civil liceni for marriages, intending to t-hut out i-lopois from the borders of Indiai a uml Ohio. Till. Nebraska Legislature has p.iMl n bill appropriating ifT.'i.t'tM for a hospital for incurable insane persons at Hastings, whore H'.ti acres of land are to bo U naled. S I Itl il. ni(TIi. Hhaiihi lii r.r'M, in a review of the strikes of tho first two months of the year, sty: In January, Ihs7, there havo ben reported ninety-two str ken and lockouts, involving over 7d,;ioo employes, ns compared with nineteen strikes nr.d 47, 'Jon employes during Jnnu.iry, Isn'.. Of the form r. eight. eight strikes, involving (,:i,"od employes, were concluded by l cb. 'Js; while fonr strike, including HM(W men. were still open. Of tho tl,IMHl, aUnit H,tt(ld are New Lngland lnot and shoe factory hand, locked out as a protest against Knights of Latr dicta tion as to shop management. The numler of shoo operatives locked out or on strike reb. 1, 1H7, was np. proximately, H.(;0; on March 1, 1h4 ohmi. The number out - in xar.ous su.ull strikes is about '.mhi, ai ugaiust -iO I l'cb. 1. 'J ho total number of succsful strikes of the January lit, including coinirotnises as successes, vns III (out of tndd by March 1), involving 1m,17:1 employes. As January ttrikes ot C.:t,.'U0 ctnplors nro ended, this shou s that about Ito per cent, of tho tmploycs have thus far Icon suc-ce-isful. The j rospect. howcer, is for a smaller percentage of successes after tho termination of tho loot and shoo lockout. The total 4 of failures are 57 i.trikes and employes about 70 per cent. In January, 1HH5, y frtrUts, ith V5't,3(Mi strikers, were success- ifnl nearly one-half while 10 strikes, with UM.'.oO strikers, were failures. In February. 1n7, therj wire 74 strikes and I 'Jt'i.fn'0 ftrikers, as compared with but 5 j strikes and 10.700 striken in February, ' Hy tho close of the month 67 strikes. involving ilO.OOO strikers, had ended, and 'li strikes, with C,tKtO i-trikers, remained unsettled. Of tho ol strikes with 20.000 I strikers crniea, ii snues ami o,,toii sinkers ' had Inen successful a little over per cent.; while strikes, with ll,h0 strikers -nearly M) per cent. had been failures. In February, TKV;, all the strikes were failims. Salt is now sold in Michigan for fifty ono cents per barrel, tho lowest price since lM'if. . , . A company is being formed at Su perior, Wiscons n, to produce fuel from crude peat, of a density equal to llliuois coal. Till: IMin.WAYN. TiiEitE is some gossip In regard to tn alliance between Jay Gould and Austin Corbin for joint control of tho Heading and Jersey Cet.tral lloads, as the first step toward the extension of tho Southwestern system to New York. Tin: greatest puzzlo in tho interstate commerce law is the clause exempting from its oierations mileage, excursion, and com mutation tickets. The General Passenger agents recommend a uniform rate of '1 cents for mileage tickets. Jay Got'Li is siated to havo acquired tho controlling interest in tho St. Louis and San Francisco liailroud, and after tho next annual meeting, at which ho will have a majority representation, the 'Frisco will be a full-lledged number of tho Missouri Pacific system, and will bo operate! throughout by Missouri Pacific officios. . . . A cylindrical tunnel with a diameter of six feet is being I sired under tl.o St. Cla r lliver at Port Huron, as a teRt for a Gr ind Trunk railway connection .. .Tho Minne sota and Northwestern Itoad has withdrawn from tho freight pool on account of dissat isfaction with tho percentages awarded it. ;i:.n:ir.Ai.. Tun d ath-roll of tho Forty-ninth Con gress was an extraordinary one, compris ing the uuprecedtnted number of thirteen names in tho House and Striate. .. ,Pe ports aro current at Ottawa. Out., that tho Canadian Pacific Hoad w 11 ask another largo grunt ($10,000,000) Irom tho Govern ment; that it is not paying ovpenscs, and that ultimately it will l.o thrown on tho hands of tho Government. llF.tT.NT deaths: Mrs. Jano Wavhit g!on Thornton Peck, wife of Senator Peck, of Kentucky, died at her residence in Wash ington hist week, tho result of a cold con tracted while out riding in an open car riage. The remains were taken to Lexing ton, Ky., for interment. Mrs- Peck was born in Auburn, Va., October 0, 1HI", and was tho grnndniofo and nearest living descendant of Georgo Washington. She married Senator Peek in Lexington, Ky., Feb. II, 1H1H. A cable dispan h announces tho death of Mr. G. Harris Heap, tho United States Consul General at Constan tinople. Commodoro F.. P. Lull, of tho United States Navy, died at tho lYn sacola naval station. William Coke, ono of the seven men who organized tho Knight of Labor, pasd awnv at Philadelphia, aged Oil y ars ... .Tracy Titus, tho well-known theatrical maungcr, nnd husband of tho l ito Alice Oatts, oied near Los Angeles, Cal....Mrs. lluth H. Harmon, mother of .Mrs. Folsom, and grandmother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, ex pired ot Jackson. Mich., where she had oeen living for tho last ten years with her son, M. Harmon. She was born in 1M):, and was married in 1K;$,. . . .Lieut. Col. K. N. Scott, chief of the publication office of war records, died at Washington. Charles J. Peterson, author and publisher, died in Philadelphia. roi:s:o(.,. Tin: London Simula nl declares that tho proceedings of tho Pritih Parliament aro becoming a public scandal. .. .Tho Suez Canil is now lighted the whole length by electricity, and a stearin r 1ms mado the passage in fifteen hours. . . .At tho opening session of the new German Peichstag 'J"0 members were present. In his speech from the throne tho Fmperor said: "Tho foreign relations of the Government are the same as wh-n the last Ileichstng was opened. If the present II ichst ig. without hesitation or division, gives unanimous ex pression to thoresi lve that tho nation will put forth it full s r -ncth in full panoply iiovv and at all times against any attack up on our frontiers, such n solution, even be fore corri.'d out, will mateiially strcngti.cn tho guaianties of peace and remove iho doubts which bite parliamentary debutes may have in-pir-d." Tho same in'crnal bills that wcic sul mitled to tho revious Peichsta will ac;ain be tuTero 1. Tin: troubles in Itc.lgaiii. which, it isal leg:d, have been four i:ted I y ngents of th O.nr, iniy p ssibly le id to tl outburst which h is been nlui st daily Miti. ipatcd for months. hi'e thr I'.nglihhli iv lie -n looking upon Al 'xander of butt mi berg ns a .voting I opolcon who wanted to found a dynasty in Kulgaria he his been giv ing assurances to Germany that he would not tinder any c rcumstanccH return tn Germany or he drawn into a position 1 osti'.o to Ku sia. . . . It is as-cited as on absolute fa t li nt Italy has concluded a treaty with Gi rinanynnd Austria, which, however, ih es in t ouid le r to ofiensive operations linles ither of her allies is in a pr. curious Mate. Si.e is to at tack Fram e in the event of ih latter mak ing wnr upon Germany in conceit with Kussiii, and is to bt lp Austr ia w ith hirl!eet in coo of a srions busbm ccntfiet. In rturn fho is to get at bast Trentmo, nnd, if a general wnr eio-tus, (' rdca, Nice, and Savoy.... Tho events of the lotweekor twohav conspired to put I oi mania into a o it on of p n antagonism to llifsia, and it seems clearer now than before that Turkey must Irom the tdnt throw herstlf into tho field agamt lusia.... Nine if the Uustclmk r bel h ue been sentenced to dath. A crowd cheered the ententes mil threatened to luich iho ti!on is If the sent nco was no: carried out.... Tli.i Chief So ritarvhp for Ire land, vacated by Sir Miclmel Hi ks-llonch, has been accepted by the Pi Jit Hon. Arthur W. Palfotu. a nephew .f Lord Salisbury ... .One hundred and forty-four miners were killed bv nn etphvdou of fire damp in a mine at Monr, Jivlgium. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Tun President h.s apfolnted John D. Sackctt po truater at PutTalo, N. Y,... Presidential postmaster havo been ap pointed as follows; Join McGouitJe, San jSucuat'cuttir.i, Cub, vice Mrs, Jennie Oood win, usicue 1; Jair.es L. Scott, Matlcon, lib, vice John Ciinniugu wu, rosined; George PiocasXey, Kockpott, lnd., vice Lyman S. Gilkey, commisiou expired; Stik.iu K. Pur h, Giorgetown, Ky., vice Miltou lturch, deceased; Chas. K. Kinder, Mia:iiil'iirg. Ohio, vice Henry Poltin, com miision expired; Kdward J. Wood, Me Miuuville, Tenu., vice llichard Kennedy, removed. The following reappointment as Presidobti il I ostmafete-ri nive been made, tho f-euu'c having allied to net on the ongnil nommanous: William T. Kiik, 'Atlanta, lib: William F. White, Harry, lib; r-auiuil P. Tufts, Cent nil hi. III.; Agnes Post, Kavenswood, 111.; Joel 11. Johnson, Woodstock, III.; John F. Laker, Lll worth, Kau.; A. M. Mc Phctou, (.iiiluu. Kau.; llobrt A. A. Pibhtr, Olathe, Knn.; James P. Carle ton, Iowa 1 alls, Jowa; llichard Purke, What Cheer, Iowa; Maria S. Howlett, Jonesville, Mi di; Frcl Putder, Ada, Mmu.; Gustav Daugeieiseii, It llcvue, Ohio; Georgo Perrdte, Cuunonsburg, Pa.; Georgo W. Dickey, Hontdab Pa.; Cyrus A. F.aton, Mifilintuig. I'll.; Georgo W. Lewis, Pl.ick lliver Falls, Wis ihe session of the Indiana Legislature expired by limita tion on tho 7th inst., and both branch es lobonined. The oj propriation bill werj " not passed, but this fail uro will not seriously atlect tho routine business of the State, for tho rea son that it is piovrded that when tho gen eral appropriation bill lulls of passage tho appropriations ma le by tho preceding Legislature shall be continued. Nearly all tho important legislation of (he session has failed. Gov. Gray says that ho will not call nn extra session. A von: niken in a joint ltepublicau legislative caucus at Albany, N. Y., ou tho subject of high liquor licenso resulted: For high licence, M; against, 4 W. II. Aktr, Dputy Serj-eont-at-Arms of tho House of l.epresent.itives, was arrested nt Denver, on a charge of attempt t bribery. There are now Wiore the House bill lo regulate irrigating ditch companies, pawn brokers, ami a high license bill. It is al leged th it Aker offered to give a member SlOO it ho would cast a vote against those measures. It is also charged that Aker is only one member of n combination of seven formed to defeat these bills, the other six being members of tho House and Senate. Cot.o.M:ii Ht'NTi:i, ex-Presidont of tho National Cattle - Growers" Association, says tho reported losses of cattle by cold on the ranges are greatly exag gerated. .. .The Governor of Iowa has issued a proclamation forbidding tho importation of cattle from llliuois ex cept under striugeut regulations. .. . N heat has advanced T cents per cental at San Francis.'). Tho amount in Iho State for export does not exceed :J,00!),000 bush els. .. .Chicago elevators and vessel con tain l J.OJs.lci bushels of wheat, 7,11,:13 bu-tiels of corn, l,0'iI,M:f:i bushels of outs, It.O.ss'.i bushel of rve, and iO.",74 bushels of barley; total, 22,l';o,:ir,i; bushels of all kinds of grain, against IH,34"2,07H bushels n year ago. Gi:m:ual Maiioni: declares himself a unalterably opposed to tho repudiation of ono cent of tho just indebtedness of Virgin ia, and hopes to see tho amount ascertained by tho employment of outside financiers. ... .Alex. Crawford, who killed a promi nent merchant at Winona, Miss., was taken from jail and hanged from a railto id trestle. AititAMir.MrNi'N have been made for tho redemption of trade dollars at all tho Sub Treasuries. .. .Tho Federal Supremo Court has rendered a decision in a case brought from Tennessee, which involvos tho right of one State or municipality to impose a license (axon drummers or traveling sales men fiom another Stats seeking to sell goods by sample or otherwise. Tho de cision is that such taxation is an interfer ence with iuterstato commerce, and is, therefore, unconstitutional. Tin: New York Produce Lxchango has decided that a car-loads of oats should con tain 1,000 bushels, instead of 0.", as heretofore. THE MARKETS. Ni:V YOItK. 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The hnate pitiicd r.ftv-nin private pnion hill in twenty-rive minutes, a s.Iio hills to convey to tho city of Aurora, 11L, a mnall Uland in I ox Kiver; t authorize tho Iridtflmr of the Mliuoiirl at Yankton; to annex a por tion f Idaho to Washington Territory ; ana to Ktve riwtit of way through Indian Territory to tho Chicago. Kan.a and Nchraaka Koad. The he..ato ordered the preparation of an index to it sveret journal for the r.tty yearn from l3t to lis.'J. The Injunction of secrecy will probably be removed neit autumn. The confercuce re iHirt ou tho t lver and harbor bill was adopted bv U,lh bouses. It appropriate nearly h),u0,l)uo. The II mi e of Pcprenentatlves paael the Mex ican peulon appropriation ct .',30.).0 H) for the remainder v( tho flxcal year, ant f4,0K).no) for next year. The Initiative and deficiency ap. prepriatein bills werp pamed tinder UMpennioa of tho rule. At the evetiini; session bill wero passed for brtdylni; the Misouri at Omaha and Kansas City, and tho Mittpi 1 at Kckult. Tuk Buato pasevt tho naval appr opriation bill on the 2d Inst., with an amend neut provid ing for six protected steel cruiser an 1 f r tho purchase of Krlcsson's Iestnyer. In evocative sesion Tubllo Printer Penedict wa sn::riuel by the Senate by a Vote of a tJ 1J. Th rcjHiri of the Committee on Printing reeomuieudud hi rejection lxcause he did not answer to tho requirements of th. law, which stipulate that tho incumbent of tht oiHco hall be a prac tical printer, which, technically spoaklni;. Mr. ltouedict is not. having never learu"d the trsde. lie gained what ktmwlolKo lie hii of tho printer' art while rdltor of a iiewpfter and proprietor of a job oltlce. Mr. (lormaii ati 1 Mr. Miller, of New York, defended llcnedlct. an t argued that havluv; proved htmuM a competent man during six tnontas of tr.al he shoul 1 not bs rejected upm a technicality, w hich appeared to bo trie opinion of tho Senate, for twenty I U pub lican voted In hi favor. The Kcnnto Committee on tho District of Columbia reoorted a lvcrely ujiouthe nomination of Jiunc M. Trotter to bo Iteconlerof leed for tho District of C'd imtda. The nominat ion of Lieut, iiroely to be Uiiadier (icnei al an 1 Chief Signal Officer wn r -pirted favorably. 'Die Ho ise of Itepresentntlves reced ed from its amendment to tho Sontte retaliatory flaheries bill and the Pacific railroad Investiga tion roaolti tloiia. Tho Committee on Ways and Means made an alvcrsereiKrtotithobill for tli rctief of sullerers by fire at Kastirt, 5le Kr.NATou IIoau mado a bitter attack on r-peaker Carlisle, tn the Senate eu tho Ul lust, lie stated that by holding back tho appropria tion bill both the Henato nnd llouco weio com pelled in the closing hour of tho oshIu to sul mit to the dictation of three or four members of tho House Commltteo on Appropriation. He nl-to complained that the Hpeanor hat recently refused to rccognlie a u ember desiring toinako ii motion of whioti tho Chair disapprove I. The Kentucky Senators rono and defended hpaker Carlisle from the charge of usurpation of jKcr. The Kenati pushed bill f r puhll t building at Dayton, Slu City, l.afavette, and I.ynn over vetltcH bv the President, uud the H mso but ap piopriatlng t.,0oi,,i0) to pay pensions to Mov Ican veteran. Tlie President scut to the Sot ate tho nomination of Chauiuey 1C. Seh-iltz. of Missouri, to bo Assistant Treasurer of the I' lilted States at St. Ioiiis, Mo.: also tho following Itegiriter of Land Oillces; At ('oiieordin, Kan., Samuel 1'euieres; lea.lwo.l, D. T., John J. Whiteside; UlackfiKit, Idaho, Prank W. llean. The President approved the ac t uiithnriuu the President to defend tho rights of American -fiHhirig vessels, Amerlcitn fiKhenn n, Ai.i rlcan tralliuand other vessel in the Prltish J'O mlntous of N'oith America; ulsothe Indian ap prt prlation bill ; the act to establish an agri cultural experiment station in rnnnectlon w iMi the colleges established under tho lo t of July V, IH'ii; and tho act relating to the division of the State of Illinois into judicial litiict and t provide for holding term of court of the Northern District at Peoria. The Houso of ltcpresentativea passed beiutto bills to repeal the tenure of ollk e act ; to accept the lllghwood tract from the Commercial Club of Chicago; to appropriate S'lV.oo) for the ptir chase of a isstilhco Hto at San I'ranrisco ; an attempt to hm the Koiiate bill )entlouiug Mr. liOgaii was defeated. Too bill lutmltlliig free of duty articles intcii. led for the MinnoaiHilis r position, and tho Senate bill authoruin the construction of a bridge across the Missis sippi at (irand Tower, III., wm pnssfd. Chairman Curtln, of tho select eooimttteu cre ated by the Ho-ise of Kepresentativ H t inquire into tho ' huso ao l extent of Western railroad strikes, suhmitted tho rqsrt of that couimtiteo. lly far the largr part of tho report I devoted to ii historv of the origin and pnvr.M t of the Missouri Paciflo strike, and u rctiapltahitiou of the testimony takn by the oommittce. CoMini:HS adjourned ilna die at noon ou Fri day, March 4. Among the appropriate:. of na tional liniHjitntice that failed during tl.o tiding hours were tho following: The d-tlcien y, tin District of Columbia, and tho fortil,cit. u oills. Tho river and hartx.r uppio) rlath ii hill, I :k hid ing the Hennepin Canal, fulled because i f tno failuro if the President to Dign it before tho i.d lourioiiont. Tho aiitl islygamy bill became a law without the President s l iguature. teu day huvtng elapsed after its passage bef ue tho hmil adjournment of C ncres. 'ih fniiuroof tho doltcieucy bill 1 likely to embarrass tno )Hstat s rvl o, as it contained provision for supplying prcsniug detimnd for t mtal-cirds, btaiuj , an I titer items. The legal machln. ry of tne (Kv- rumeiit will also be materially disarranged during the remain ler of th-j fUcal yenr, ai no in tie w ill be available for jurors , Witnesses', or marshals' fees, mid many i r.soiiers cannot bo tried for mouths to como A numher of sol dieia" cUlms, at;grognt!ng S70),un, width had been ceitlrud by the Treasury, w ill fail uUo of settleim iit. Navv depunuitut oitlclal .ay the fatli.re u? the bill wilt cause a stoppage of all work ou tho new cruisoi lio,to i an 1 4;nlco I'o. It Is expected that the Atlanta can bo co:u-pi.-ted, as bat little remain to On .June on her. il.eSem.te lu executive sessl' n lo.iilriued James W. Trotter to be Uecordcr if Deed fur thw District of ColuiiiMa, uud Captain Gr. oly tbe Chh-f Signal O.'lleer, with tho runs of Hr'gadier tieiu n.l. A Wa-hlu ktu apootal thu dem noes the closlrg scenes In tho House; "All nt tt long the couferenco cnumltteni wero wrestling icr the contested jsjr tious .f tl.o appropriation, iaid tho two houses wero , i.ec stilly kapt in session tj await nqsirt thereon and tano final action. It w a the luiMt tisl.o.i h. i i un interesting all night Kcssio.i and Kf.e.' in . nlgbt, wlieii tho icallcrle iiad bevMi etw; i I of tho crowd, at lesst one-haU of t!:e lunu.xr went U their lHlgin, or to commits., e room and convenient restnig pl io s to slo p. A (pjorum wa not present at any tone alter that hour, but the lor in of legislation were kept up, and a numher of oiilg ru pused. 'i he shout ng and rushing for a chance t cet bill before the Ib.use for action was k j; up at luterv.il, hut did notdistarb menihei sleop'ng iu varloii parts of the hall. Wide-awake mi l lireies fel lo unbent their dignity, plaved pranks ujshi each ither, and resotted to other b yti in arj f whiting away the time. During the night the aiiiiouiicein.iit of an a .r.Hiiu' it uju mo 1 -g slatlve, executive, and judio al appr.uui tl.i.i bill brightmied thi rop..t k.i tint tno d version of a brief debut j on a p -op.is;tliu to give clerk to hcpmspntatlve a well a hen il.us wa mdiileed in. Meanwhllj the port ni of the bill tint ha I been in dispu'owero being en tolled, and the bill wa ready for ti e Creil dent in rMl time. The House n iimlned fli in against tho mall sul-sldv, aid so tho H -n it re. c'!et and tho pistoM'ic appa.p.ial,o,i wi sare.1. Tho conferrees on thu forii!.vitio:i bill did not ngroe, but had bo far rmt nicihd dl;Ter enc -a that it I helieved a fo.v mo y bo ti vo ild have brouetit them together, lit Mont City public building Mil. veto?d by th.j PrcLDii was again )asse. by the Keuate, but In tho Hmss William I., fv.tt. of Pennsylvania, f.mcht it ami batlt Imca iso Mr. Stnih;e, of p.wo, had defeated the Sioux 4'ity br.dgo bdt. in which Siott wa In'.erraie I." Ti:.vi;n from tlio rnrli st tkys to in euro your principles against tlfo poi ils of ridicule; ton cum no inor, evert iso your nnson it ou livo in tlio (ctistint tlroiul tf latiKiitor thnn yen e nn enjoy your lifo if you arc in the lonst.mt ter ror of death. Sydney Smith.