IKON-MAKING. Vamtaiilr ajtd ' orowiko lV.jl'RY IX T.fta 80L I II. Womtrrfol Development of Alabama's Iron Ilnca Story of tttn Iron tJoom A Visit to h l'g Mine. . "T- WONDERFUL development lis going on ia irou-mnkiti"; in jM tho Pauth. I pjiout Bonin . time In Iiirminp,hnm, which city in (ho highest iron proilnecr sonth of rittnlmrj?, 'writes Frank O. Carpenter in tho Chicago Times Herald. Thero oro twenty-six iin furnaces within thirty milos of tho town, with a dully output of ill- most 4i)i)t) tons of pio; iron, Thoy era ploy nearly 4000 men, nnd pay wnpies f jjl.Vi.OOi) a month. They cinira to make iron cheaper thon nnyw'uoro eUo iu tho world, and one of the furnace comuuniei shipped some of its pro duct not long ago to London aud cold it there at a prollt. Tho South in doing its business on a hig, broad scale. There ia an enor tnuns amount of money invested. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Compnny has itself a capital stock of J ! 1,00'.). ODD. It has mines -altered throughout Tennessee nr ' Alabama, nod I am told that it ; property is worth an much as tome ui tha small Kuropcau kingdoms. It has n vast urea of ccnl beds, and is now mining more than 17,000 tons of coal n day. It owns mountains of iron ore, and latit year it prodneed more than 500, 000 'tons of pig iron and moro thnn 3,500,000 tons of coal. I visited its coke ovens at the town of Bessemer, south of Birmingham, and was told that the ovens there, together with the others owned by the company, make almost 5000 tons of coke a day, vthilo out of its Alabama iron mine alono are daily taken more than GOOD tons of ore. This is perhaps tho big gest company of the Sonth, but tbero are other large establishments, and an enormous industrial development may be expected there within the next few years. THE GREAT The coal and iron ot tho Sonth are ?airly hngRiug each other. They lio eide by tide, and when their marriage takes plaoo in the furnaces with the aid of the fleecy bridal veil of lime stone, which is also found near by, they can produce industrial children in the shape of iron nnd utocl more cheaply than, their kind in nny other portion of the world. There is no doubt that we are to furnish the greater part of the iron tor the world in the future. We have bigger ore bods than nny other conn try, and our coal fields are practically inexhaustible There is enough coal in Alabama to do all- tho manulaclur ing cf the United States (or many years to come. 1 was told at UefKetner that the available coal of Alabama lone, if it could be put into a lump, would make a solid chunk seventy milos long by sixty miles broad and ten feet thick. Such a lump wonld, it is estimated, furnish 10,000 toes of coal a day for more than 11,000 yean, or 1,000,000 tons a day for 115 years, llut Alabama has only a small amount of tho great Appalachian coal Held. These fields end themselves iu Ala bama. They ma from thero north ward a distanoe, it is said, ot about 1)00 miles, and they are from thirty to stbont ISO miles wide. Thoy furnish about two-thirds of onr bituminous mm M ml V..' ,MVj,s ' mwmm mm . TWl-niNO HOB.1ES IKTO A UIN& coal output, and we produce, you . know, about one-third of all the coal of the world. Id 189 we mined 170, 000,000 tons ot eoal, while the whole world produced only 670, 000, 000 tons. - The only country whioh boat us that year was Great Britain. We bave thousands of square miles of eoal lands mUide of the Appalachian fields, and there are great undeveloped eoal areas in the West. I was told ot a great iron mountain whioh is to be opened by a 7ftilroad from Hfclt Lake City to Los Angeles during my stay in Utah, and ' there are large iron deposit ia Mis- - aouri. To-day tha leading countries of the world whioh produoe iron are Ureal Britain, Gsrwany, France, .Austria-Hungary, Busais, Belgium and Sweden. 1 Bpaia mine a great deal of iron ore, but the ships tb moat of it to Leilas. J bud t big andava)- ll.fcV'i' I T. ' r-TT oped iron mines la China during my stay there, and there are Rome good mines in Mexico nnd Central America. There is ono iron region in Cuba, and yon find small beds scattered through the West India Islands. The great bulk of the prodnctof this hemisphere, however, comes from the United Stales, and, as I have said, the ihdica lions are that our resources have- not yet been touched. Tho furnaces at Eessorner are within a half mile of tho mines from which tho iron is taken out. In company with one of tho superintendents ot the Tennessee Coal nnd Iron Compnny I visited thorn. Wo rodo up to tho month of the mine in a carriti.r.o, wind ing our way np a littlo rnntjc of moun tains, tho sides of which worn covered with terra notta ttones. I picked up one of tho stones aud found it exceed ingly heavy, and was told that it was iron ore. Tim irou lies ri'ht on tho surlnun of the gronnd. They begin on tho vein and work right down into tho mountain, taking out nothing but irou. Deposits of this kind extuud through the mountains of tho region, nnd it is n wonder that they wer.) no!; developed loug ago. I was told that iron minot wero worked there during tho late war and that tho Confederate (loverninent pot a largo part of its coal and iron from that region. From time to time Northern capitalists were asked to invest in tho mines, but they would Hot believe the stories that were told them. Ono man who owned notno of the most valuable irou territory of Ala bama called upon Abrniu A. llowitt, who has niado a fortuno out of irou, and wno has big irou interests to -day. He showed Hewitt the ore, and told him it lay there in Alabama on the top of tho ground and could bo had for tho picking np. Hewitt replied that he had no money to invent at present, and ho evidently did not buliovo the man's story. "Why," said he, "we people here in New York look upon irou as so much gold, and you can hardly make me be lieve that you people have lumps of gold lnying around down South and that no ono has yet picked them up. If your Htory ia true I aovivo you to take neveinl New York experts to the (TAG TOT. South aivl gel, them lo swear to whit they fee beforo you try to placo such property iu New York. " it was come time afte,r this beforo the Al.'ibr.mu milling boom begau. A preat. deal of this was on paper, but the foundation i there, aud tho iron mines arc as va'uablo to-day as they were ten years ago. Thoy are now all owned by bii corporations, nnd they are bein' developed alter the best lui'iiuo.-s principle;. Tho miue which w entered was worked with com pressed air drills. The cars were hauled up and down an inclined rail way by steam, and hundreds of lootv laborer', with candles in their hats, were at work. Tho vein of oro that I aw racgod in width from eight to twenty-lour feet. It is a great sand wich of iron oro botween walla of slato and rock. It dips down into tho ground at an angle of about thirty-five degreed. 1 could hear tho booinl boom I boom I of tho blut-ting powder ns I went through the inino. At times tho air ehook and quivered with the conons-t-ioD, and our candles were blown out. Dynamite is used almost altogether in iron mining, and tho danger is very great if it is not carefully handled. Every now and then accidents oocur in the mines. Men are torn to pieces, tho walls fall in, and there is great loss of life. Lcaviug the mine, I next went to one of tho great furnaocs at the foot of Red Monutuin, whore the ore is turned into pig iron. Iron, you know, never occurs puro in a state of nature. The ore of tho lied Mountain, whioh is used ut the Becsemcr furnaces, con tains oniy about forty-eight per cent, of iron, nnd tho superintendent told mo that tho pnroit iron stone found anywhere contains oniy seventy per cent. The ret.t is made up of rock and other minerals, aud it is necessary to separate the iron before it can bo need for manufactures. This prooess is known as making pig iron. The iron is mixed with limestone nnd coke in great fnrnaoes, whioh aic, I judge, as high as a six-story house. The fur naces are fillod with alternate layers of coke, limestone and iron. It takes sn enotmous blast to furnish enough beat for such a fnrneoe, and the blast is created by immense engines, wbioh foroe the air first through what are perhaps the . biggest stove of the world. They are immense tubes, many feet high, and aa big aronnd a a eity gas tank. They are lined with fire brick and are beated by the gas whioh come from the furnaces. The air is made to pas through these enormous stoves before it goes to the blast and U produces a heat so intense that the iron and ateei maohinery of the fur nace wonld Vot last a minute were not every bit of it enveloped in water. All of the pipes are ijujased in other pipe wblob are kept VU of cold flowing water, and this water is .'orced about the outside of the fnrnace whenever melting is going on, Tha beat is so great that the iron ia melted in very abort time. It ia drawn off from each farnsci twice a day. 7vJ ' ' ' It flows out at the foot in a little river of gold. The stream looks like molten gold alloyed with copper nntil it gets a distance of perhaps twenty tmk DAsnnna op mininiJ. feet away from tho fnrnaco. Ileie it is divided iuto two strmms. The iron Hows one way nnd tbo slag or rcfugo, which has formed n scum and floats on tho top, is carried oft" in another. Tho iron is now of a yellow gold color. It seems to have lost its reddish tint. It runs oil' in a golden stream into a bed of sand, in which littlo holes havo been ent or molded, so that it looks for all tho world like n garden patch ready for planting. Theso holes aro of just tho size and shape of what isj known us an iron pig. Ihey oro about as big around as tbo upper arm of a good-si7.nd man nud about tbret feet long. The yellow stream flnda its way in through them nnd soon the garden is full of these bright yellow pigs, which turn to a copper tint as they cool nnd then change to the gray or cold pig iron. As the metal is cooling the heat waves dance over the gnrden patch ot hot iron, nnd you have to hold you hat boforo your face to keep from being scorched. After tho pigs are cooled thoy are pilod up ready to bo shipped to different parts of tho United States for nse in manu facturing. The slag goes to waste. It runs oil' iuto a great iron pot fastened on car wheels, and is wheeled on a railroad track some distance away and emptied out on tho slag heap. There aro mouutains of such slag near every great furnace, and the invention has yet to bo mndo whioh will turn it to any other uses than that of ballast ing railroads. Vo lead tho world not only in the production of iron, but nlso in the making of pig iron. Wo mado 10, 000,000 tous iu 1802, which was an increase of more than 1000 per cent, over tho product of 1805. Hinco that time wo have increased onr steel pro duct ;)il!) times, and we are now mak ing enough steel every year to give every man, woman und child iu tho United Stated 110 pounds, and have some to i-paro. Home of our pig iron which was lately sent to England, I am old, was sold for less than 87 a ton. We mado pig iron nt tho timo of tho Involution, which was worth 00 a ton, and wo nro making steel uow,it is said, almost as cheaply as a good class of iron. it is wonderful how iron increase the yaluo arteritis turned into ma chinery or articles of nse by the people. Yon get some idea of what labor is worth when you think of it. His estimated by Carroll D. Wright, of tho Labor Bureau, for Instance, that s.cventy-flve cents' worth of com mon irou oro when turned into bar iron is worth $5. If yon mako it into borse shoes it is worth $10, or if into lablo knives, $180. Hovcnty-five cents' worth ot oro manufactured into need les in worth 8(!8UU, and when made into buttons more than $22,000. It tho irou is converted into watoh springs its vnlno is almost ten times us great, and when turnod into Imir springs your seveuty-livo cents' worth ot rock and stono will sell for the enormous onm of $100,000, The dif ference between seventy-five ceuts and $100,000 is the valuo paid for labor alone. Bo you soe that, after all, the real wealth of a country lie in tho muscles and brains of its people. If wo could turn all ot our iron ore into hair springs, and could find customers for them, we would bo so rich that ws could buy tho wholo world and take flyers iu all tho speculative property on tho sun, moon and stars und still have money to burn. Ureal Fiud. One of the greatest finds ot treasure ever known was that of a Russian ia the village of Btarogarsilki. Tho man was a rosident on the estate of I'rinoe Ostersby, whose ancestors were plun dered and expelled from their posses sions by the Tartars. Tho treasure was probably eeoreted by tho family at toe timo. Toe man bad been given his clew somehow or another, and be workod ten years before finding any thing. At last bo oamo across twelvo large boxes filled with very ancient coins of fine gold, beside enormons other articles of great value. The total value ot the find was given at 17,000, 000 rubles, two-thirds of which went to the State and ono-third to the tinder, making bis share about $3,000,' coo. Johnnie- "Grandpa, wbst did Washington' father do atter be ent the eberry tree?" Orandpa "Well, I dnnno, Ones h wade tome cough ayrup out o' th' uarkv aw xom ueraiu. tTuctlcnl, A KXOTmH DOU AMU 11F.5. Fowl and St. Rnrnard Frolic Lllce Two Old Chums. Whitestono Village, ssvs tho New York World, contains some remarka ble animals, bnt the most intelligent one is a hnw St. Bernard dog that be longs to William Iligglnson, tho archi tect, of Fulton street. Many strango tales Mro told of tho intelligence of this dog, who answers to tho namo of Dnko. Duke is beloved bv tho children of the village. Ho escorts thom to school every morning, and waits patiently at the school door nntil recess timo, when bo joins in with tho children in their games. No play is ploastiro unless Duke is a participant in it. Among Mr. Higginson s possessions is a largo flock of fancy chickens. Theso are tho product of ono chicken nnd her mnte, n large unit Cochin rooster. Tho affection Duke has for thin hen ia almost filial. Ho allows tbo hen to perch on his head and then canters around the yard with her. mnD ant Don Ann mean. Whenever the hen strays off with her progeny Dnko corrals her from tho rent of the flock nnd drives her back to the yard. When night comos the hen roosts upon the dog's bond and tho two sleep together. The most rcmarkablo thins about Duke and the ben is that they seem to perfectly understand each other. When the hen begins to onckle insc provions to laying, Duke never leaves bur. Ho squats down and with his four foot forms a nest, in which tha hen lays her egg. Mr. Higginson has refused a largo sum for both tho dog und tho ben. Sew York's t'oinpusifo Personality. Mrs. Schuyler Van Renssolnor con tributes to tho Century a paper enti tled "I'lnces in New York," in whiou she gives n rjinturo of intero6tini; phases of lifo in tho New World metro polis. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says; Moro than sovonty-six per cent, o? those who people New 1'ork to-day wcro born of foroign mothors; morn than forty per cent, were born on foreign soil themselves; and many of theso aliens, brought from many dif ferent lands, oontinuo here to live in clusters with their own kin after their own kind. Yet whilo each of theso clusters, nud each of thoir wandering off shoots, modifies the now world metropolis, all of them togother do not destroy its cohesion, they simply intensify its curious composite sort of personality. They make it multifar iously diverse, but they leavo it an en tity. Thoy touch overy portion of it with pungont exotic flavors, bnt as flavoring an American whole. They play thoir several parts iu a civio lifo that is oosmoramio boyond tho belief of thoso who have not studied it wcli, but they do not turn New York into a cosmopolitan town ; for this means a town which, overwhelmed by its strangers, has lost, or has never pos seesed, a character of its own. Diamouih Worn on Finger-Mails. Millionaire women, says tho Now York Journal, bave a new ccccntrioity which they are quite suie they can re DIAMONDS IN I'lSOElt-.NAILS. serve for their own exclusive use. This new millionaire fad is to wear diamonds on the finger-nail. The new fashion, which has all the glory and prestige of an invention along more soientifio lines, demands that women with bank account long enough to permit of this costly trifling shall bave a tiny gold oap made for eaob of their lingors. From the cap i suspended on the outer sido a big diamond drop, whioh sparkle must aatisfaotorily, there being one large sparkle for each fluger-nail. Ot course the sparkles are not so? conspicuous as they would be if a large number ot ring wore not worn at the same time, but spoiety is a yet hardly ready for the great saorittoe wbioh the laying off rings wonld entail. Home day, per' baps, tbo finger-nail adornment may be allowed to shine in undiminished PENNSY'S UNARMED ARMY Orcatir Than That of Any Other ttatt In tht Vnlon. Adjutant General Stowurt.of I'pniisylvanln, has made Ills report to Congress ri'lntlve to tlin strength of the mllltla In tliu Hint". The ccmnilssloni'il officers, Ounoral Slid Gen eral's stuff number (I5 cavalry 14; lltflit bat teries, 1S Infantry, 675. Enlisted mi-ii, non commlssloiiHil (ifili-Hrs, 1,H12 musicians, 8HUt private cavairy, i;iu; Hunt nnttem-s, 17-1; ln Inntry, 5.4114. Tho suun imtes aiei OoukmI stall, 1111) cavalry, nils ll)lit battorlen, 2lf iiimmrv, ,un, gram total, H,V."J. llul avallablo men for activa si-rv.po number KI9,62H, whluh I morn than any othnr HtiiM reports. ni'W lorn, nn-oruuig lo iu stntiv mi'iit of its niljiitant Otimiml, has 800,000, Illinois, 700,000, and Ohio, 050,000. A lolnt agreement of merger and consoli dation was llli'd In tho otlbio of Heorntary lioedi-r between the Bt. Mnrvs A Hoiithwest- ern railroad company and Hot IJuffalo & fit. .ilarya railroad vomimny, lornilug a new corporation undi-r tht nnme of thtt HafTnlo, Ht. Marys A Southwestern railroad company. '1 hn company Is capitalized at l,000,fKJO,rid will operate between HI. Mnrvs and Inre tnout. Hr. l riiiik Hull of ltittgway, Is presi dent of tho company. Mrs. Mark Ellsworth, of (Icnesee. Tottsr county, drowned her child In a small crook. The woman vnt a hole in tho ten and drop ped tho child Into tho wntor. Khn then re ported that tho child hail been kldiinpx.-d, and tho story was corroborated by her lius- oni. investigation tiiscioseii too cniKi s body under tho leo, and ElUworth and his wife were arrested. Tho woman majo a confession, and said hunger had forced her to do It. A ten-acre plot of ground, adjoining Arlington heights, on the line of the Greens burg, Jrannettn A 1'lttsburg electrio railway, has been donated to tho Gill Glass Company ot Philadelphia by Krnnk Klopler, an exten sive land holder of this vicinity. The com pany will erect a lurge glass plant on tho sito and will manufacture light bulbs, water gauges lor Doners, nod several other small articles, and will employ 600 hand. Mathew Mnrtln. of North Strnbann town ship, Washington county, was killed while working on his farm, llo was hauling corn fodder when tha wagon partially over-tam ed, throwing him off and breaking his neck. Martin was a well-known farmer ot middle age and unmarried. A charter was granted at lfarrlsbujg to tho Vst Newton afreet railway company. This road will run from West Newton to Herminln, live miles, where it connects with Ihe Hempflnld bruuch of tho Pennsylvania railroad, forming a direct line to Greens- uurg. llobert llarr, 17 years old. of Alleghen? township, Westmoreland county. Is the Intent victim of a bunting accident. While cross ing a fence the hummer of his gun caught on n rail and the load of Ills gun entered his side. He Is In a critical condition and may die. Allegheny college has just completed a fine u vmmisliim Hudnrmory. which was used by the cadet batlallon.Tho building Is a mas sive structure of brick and stone, und will bo furnished with tho equipments ncctfstiry to a llrst-class gyimiarlum, Near New llehobeth church In Clarion township, about four miles from Clarion, the boiler of a portable saw mill explodod, kill ing a man by tho name of l'lercc Taylor and seriously Injuring llvo others, whoso unmci cannot bo learned. The P. Tj. Ktmberlymlll at Greenville, went Into operation Wednesdny inoruinir, after an Idleness of severnl wocksjglvlng employment to several hundred men. The prospects are favorable for a steady run. Tho Wcitlughotifte Electrio and Jtiuitifm luring company started its East 1'iusburg works on double turn. The making of liM street car motors und other contracts caused the step. The blast furnaces of the Dunbar Fnrnace company, at Dunbar, began operation! Tuesday night, after a shutdown of five mouths on account ot tha slump la pig iron prices. W. If. raulev. tho veteran editor of tho Waynesbtifg 'ilopublleiiu," is recovering' Irom tne eiiects ol Having nis right loot am putated because of gangrene. Thomns Smlth,an employe of the American Rtecl Custing company at Hhnrou. was seriously hurt by n casting weighing 2,000 pounds striking blm. Fire Iu tho residence of Harry Marker, as Ugonier, destroyed tho contents of two betll rooms nnd considerably damage:! the Inter ior of the lioue. Mrs. E. Mink, ot Charleston, eight mile east of (Sharon, whs the victim or a brutu assault, committed by two masked men Sun day night. The fine residence of W. I.. Corrln, nt Fniuklln, was damaged by lire to tho extent of t-'.SuO, caused by a detective flue. I. H. Work, a druggist, of New Florence was beaten by masked men and robbed of several dollar. John I'eppln, employed In tho Westmore land mines ut Larimer, was instantly killed by a fall of coal. Ramuel Kentlum was struck by a train at Morrellville, near Johnstown, and instantly killed. Councilman Tlurket has Introduced a cur few ordinance in Council at Altoona. N Minor Mention, Chicago has on hand a cash balance of 3,500,000. Kansas proposes to sand provisions t tho poor of Cblcngo. Montana leads la wool proJuatlon, with a Clip of 21,640,000 poun Is. Secretary Edgerton bus called for a Na tional conferonco ot Populists nt Kansas City, Mo. Dr. J. Mount Bloyer, of Now York City, tixpoaed to view tha human heart iu action by uso ot X rays aud tha fluoroscopy. C. O. Merrill, a California contractor, has snouted tho contract for laying tha sewer pipe in Ihe City ot Mexico, involvlug over 3,000,000. The largest onion riporto l last year was on exhibition at Los Angeles, Cal. It win thirty-six inohes In circurnterenaa aud weighed seven pounds. There were Wi can of Mexican oranges exported to the United States during the season Just closed, and next year these tlgure will be doubled without doubt. Horse owners and dealers In New York City Insist that tha aiptialt pavements be so treated with saud that tha bontaa shall no longer slip and Injure themselves. Tbo House Committee on Military Affairs reports that it eosts 1U to fire one round from an eight-Inch rltte; 3JJ from a ten-Inch rifle, uud ttiiSO from a llttueu-lnub pueuuiatiu tiuu. Claims filed In the Department of State, Washington, by American cltizuus agilnst Bpalu.arUliik'oatoltheiusurrectlou iu Cuba, uunjner eighty-three, and iigTeg itu nearly to ,000,000. Deacon Capon, ot Bharon, Mass., is dead. He was a slugulnr character. Hu gave ovct Ut 8,000 to church Institutions during his life on condition that they pay blurt six per cent. Interest until he died. Great distress prevail among tha river miner, almost all ot the 10,000 diggers tu tha Monongahela Vallay.Peuusylvania, being out of employment because of the dull con dition of the coal business and Iwcauao or tha freezing of th river. The bill to permit glove ontets passed tb Nevada Senate by a vote of to f, nav tag already passed the House. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. Feb. 1. Aflor hours of bitter debate, the treasury Investigation resolution wss passed without division, bnt with an amendment which practically commits the Honse to the enactment of a law requiring interest on Blntn deposits, Mr. Sparks, of llcrks, announced to the House the denth of ltepreseutatlv P. Mo Cnnley Cook of Fulton county. Hills were offered- To provide for the se lection of a slto and the erection of a state hospital for the criminal Insane, to lie call the Ktato llospi'nl for Criminal Insane, rd making nn appropriation of t2iH),( (K) there for, nnd relating to the conimltnirut, deten tion and discharge ot lnnno persons charged With or convicted of crime. Authorizing the oreatlon of n board, to consist of the gover nor and secretary .of tbo commonwealth, which shall fix the price of school text books to be purchased by boards of education, not exceeding 75 per cent of tho present whole sale prices; an net to extend the right of trial by Jury In proceedings to disbar an atiorney and providing frr a cbangs of venue on sueb procollntrs. Foh. a. The first Important hnslncss to. day was tho Introduction ot thn following resolution by Senator White, of Heaver: "Whereas, It Is thn duty ot Iho general assembly under tho constitution to. Immedi ately after each decennial eensns, apportion the state Into congressional, sunntoriul and rcprcftcntntlfo districts; nnd, "Whereas, Thero hits been no congres sional or representative apportionment since 1HH7, nor senatorial apportionment since lH74t and, whereas, great Inequalities exist under the precnt apportionments, and some portions of tho state are deprived of tho rep resentation they are entitled to nndor the constitution by reason of their Increased jiopuhitlon; and. whereas, thn governor of the state, in his mexsngo of January 5, 18!7. calls the attention of the general assembly to this question, and urges tho passago of proper congressional, senatorial and repre sentative apportionment bills, tborefore be If "Unsolved, That It Is the anso of the lennto that prompt action should bo taken on this subject, and that the congressional snd legislative apportionment committees be Instructed to report on said bills with in two weeks; that such bill shall be pass ed at the present session ot the Legisla ture." Bills were rendt I)y McQuown, a supple ment to the II rooks high license law, which provides that the several courts of quarter sessions In the granting of liquor license shall not grant In anv city more than on license for every 1,000 Inhabitants, nnd In tho several boroughs not more than two li cense in each borough having 800 Inhabi tants or le-s. Uy Mr. llowlnnd, to Insure "greater safety to life Iu theaters and other places of amuse ment by prohibiting persons from standing In aisles, and providing a penalty of a fine of 4100 nnd an imprisonment nt ISO days In the county prison on any manngcr or lessee, who shall sell tickets to persons with thn privilege of rtnndiug In nislo, corridor or passage way, February :l Everything Is in chaos eon corning a plan for a eontinuau.Hi of the ses sion of the I.cgielatiire. Until the governor arrived Tuesday night there waa talk of an adjournment for about two weeks, but his excellency said there was no necessity for an adjournment ut all. Ho Immediately or dered a number of benches and desks put In the Supremo Court chamlter for the use of the Senate, nnd when the members of that dlgnilled body arrived they worn surprised to II nd some very comfortable wooden desks; and really there Is no reason for the Senate adjourning at all, as the quarters, while not iixurious, are very eutntortable, and busi ness can lis transacted as u-tial. Senate convened at 11 a. m. A number of bills were presented, and wben It was an nounced that tint House hnd adjourned un til 11 o'clock to-morrow Henator Grady's motion was reconslderetl anil the Senate ad journed until 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. 1 1 thlr The House met In the pnstofllce building, ilrd floor, nt It a. m. The room had been used for civil service examinations, and con tains small desks such as are used In school bouses, but there were barely enough for the members. IsiieuKer liovr when he took his seat was applauded. After prayer by the chaplain the speaker announced tbat the gavel he was using was presented to blm In loni uy ;uanes voornees, inru enter Clerk, but now a mmnlior of the House, ltepresentntlvo Klrksluger presented a resolution that all members who hnd rescued their desks from the Are be permitted to re tain them. '1 lie resolution caused a laugh. and llcprcseiitativo I.ytle said the member who presented tne resolution must tie from a very remote section of tha Commonwealth, elso be would not present such a resolution, as that was not the way to get State proper ty. Mr. Klrksluger was very much In earn est, and said he had rescued the desk at thn risk of his own life ami thought bo was en titled to It The resolution was passed by sn almost unanimous vote. Thn following bills wero rend ns follows: ily Uobert Smith Aa act appropriating trMK) to the Southern homo for destitute children nt Philadelphia. A. 1). Furr An act to regulate the hours . of labor ot mechanics, workmen and labor ers in the employ ot the Slit o municipal cor porations therein or other wlso engaged on public works. F, M. Urnphy Appropriating (7,000 for the Eye nnd Ear Hospital at Pittsburg. The House then adjourned until 11 o'olook tomorrow. Spoaaer Itoyer name In to the meeting place with a hatchet in his hand, lie had sent for the old gavel nnd it did not arrive. Ho called the Hotisn'to order with the hatch et. When the chaplain tluished tb gavnj . arrived. Fob. 4. T.Ieut.-Gov. Walter Lynn nailed the Senate to crder at 11 o'clock and read the communication from the governor an nouncing that thel board ot pnblle property and the state olllclals bad agreed on Graoa M. E, church for a temporary borne for the legislative bodies. Senator Grady offered his resolution for an adjournment until February ill, wblcb precipitated a heated discussion. Senator Gobln took the Door In behalf of th gover aud said that if the legislature adjourned tintd February 32. It would practiually lose two months, and that the sessions wou.d not be over until July. Mr. Gobln moved to amend by fixing next Monday, February H, as tha time for ad journment. This was agreeU to by a vote of W to l 'J. Senator Thomas olYerod a resolution that the legislature refuse to order the erection of a. new state bouse until a bettur tire de partment is secured for Ilarrisburg. Henator' Grady asked that the resolution L laid over. It was dually referred to the committee on pnblle buildings. Senate bill No. 1 wn then taken up and ; Eaased. This win the first bill paused by the. ouso. Tho president then announced that the bouse had passed a resolution "lnstrnoU log the governor to select a competent! architect to make plans and ascertain the ooitt for the erection of a new statu build ing." 'Die resolution was passed with aa amendment tbat the governor udvwrtisa and solicit for an architect. Several bills were passed and, tha senate adjourned uutll Monday uight at 9 o'clock. lulls were offered Iu tho liousei Making It unlawful to erect aud maintain wire fence constructed in whole or iu parts along tha public roadt aud bet wee u adjoining lands. The following resolution was adopted: "Keaolvod by tho bouse of representatives, the senate concurring, That tha governor be authorized and requested to select arohl teeta tu make preliminary pious for the eree tion ot a new capital building, for th Inspec tion and luforruu lou of the members of the leg sluture, beads of departments, sad all others Interested, such plans to be aooonv pauled with uu approximate estimate ot tha) oot." The house concurred with the snato oa a motion to adjourn until Monday rveolag at I o'olook, when th first session ia the Ureea If. . Cuunu will be held.
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