NEWS OF THE WEEK. ~The Commissioner of Agriculture recently sent a veterinarian to Massa- chusetts, to inquire Into the existence of pleuro-pneumonia in that State. On the 28th ult. the Commissioner re- ceived a telegram from Governor | Ames, asking if the Department of | Agriculture can assist him in sup- | pressing the disease in Massachusetts | and “answered favorably —The latest particulars of the | burning of the steamer Gardner, on | the Tombligbee river, in Alabama, show tnat the lost passengers nearly all perished by drowning. The first report of the loss of 20 lives is con- | firmed. Ten of the victims were | passengers, the other 10 colored deck hands. A colored boy, named Bebe McCaw, saved five lives by swimming | ashore with people who jumped into the water. —A farmer's sled was struck by a Reading Railroad train at Pine Grove, | Penna., on the 2d, and Charles Rey- noids, aged 12 years, was killed. Isaac Hughes, about the same age, was badly injured. The boys had | jumped on the sled for a ride. " —Addis Emmett Carr, 25 years of | age, died on the 2d in Baltimore from the effects of sulphuric acid, swallowed | with suicidal intent. He was a civil | engineer, and a grandson of Dr, J. Marion Sims of New York —Kahner's cigar factory, in East | 100th street, New York, was robbed of | 56,000 cigars, valued at $15,000, on the evening of the 1st. 3d signed —The President on the the Fisheries Retaliation bill; the In- dian Diplomatic and Agricultural Appropriation bills; the Agricultural Experiment Stations bill, the Pacific Railroad Tnquiry bill, the bili to re- peal the Tenure of Office act; and authorizing the employment of mail messengers in the postal service. The Trade Dollar Redemption bill and the Anti-Polygamy bill have become laws, without the P’resident’s signature, by the expiration of the al hmit of ten days. —In Minneapolis on the morming of the 3d the flour storehouse **V," of | llsbary & Co., tumbled down with a terrible crash. In it were stored be- tween 100.000 and 125,000 barrels of flour, in sacks and barrels, The building was a frame, and covered a block of ground in length and half a block in width, and was one story high. The damage is variously esti- mated at $10,000 to $0,000. The same firm suffered a loss from similar cause on January 5th, when their east side elevator fell, spilling about 60,000 bushels of wheat and wrecking part of the building. The Superinterdent of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad, In Minnesota, says that *‘between Mankato and Tracy the snow drifts are in many cases six! feet above the telegraph poles, and the linemen have had to splice scantling to the tops of the poles to get the wires up where they could be used.” He says “many of the drifts are 25 feet deep and packed so hard that the company dares not attempt to send a snow plough through them. One thousand men are now at work shovelling snow between | Mankato and Tracy, and the line will not be cleared for several days.” om T tit $a constitution — News has reached Montreal that, on the evening of the 34, a large gang of men, with two esgines and a snow plough, were caught in a snow slide at Selkirk, Six of the men were smoth- ered before they could be got out. —A telegram from New York says that a scheme for consolidating all the gas companies in Chicago was com- pleted on the 4th, ‘“‘after several meetings of the parties Interested" there and in Philadelphia. ‘*The bus- iness will be controlled by the United Gas Improvement Company of Phila- delphia, The stock represented in the new company, itis said, amounts to over $8,000,000,” ~The George K. Oyler Manufac- | turing Company, of St. Louis, made an assignment on the 4th, Liabilities, $70,000; assets, $80,000, —The steamer Fleetwood burst her | boiler on the morniug of the 4th near Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Three roust- abouts were tatally scalded, and the engineer was badly injured, —Two frame buildings on Eigth avenue, New York, were burned early on the morning of the 4th, and a col- ored woman, Sarah lL. Jolnston, aged | 50 years, and her adopted daughter, aged 6, perished in the flames. The | report of the burning of the Wilming- | ton Jute Mills, at Wilmington, Dela- ware, on the 31, was a mistake. The building burned was an Ice house, close | to the jute mill. The latter was not | damaged. The tasneryof J. W. Low & Son, at North Cambridge, Massa- chuselts, was burned on the morning of the 4th, Loss, $50,000; insured. The | Sherwood Manufacturing Compsny‘s | factory at Grand Rapids, Michigan, was damaged by fire on the 4th, to the extent of $21 500; insured. ~The boller of a distillery at Mor- gan's Station, Kentucky, exploded on the 3d, scalding seven men, four fa- tally. Andrew Grummon, 50 years of | age, was gored to death by a bull, at | the Lakeside Farm, near Syracuse, New York, on the morning of the 4th, —A slight earthquake shock was felt | at Charleston, South Carolina, at a| quarter past 2 o'clock, on the morning of the 4th. The shock was also felt at Summerville, Oakley, Midway and other points in the lower section of the State, —The water supply at Cincinnati is reported ‘very scant” owing to the re- cent high water in the river, The ap- parent paradox is explained by the fact that the engines were damaged by the flood. —At East Cambridge, Massachu- setts, on the Sth, Mis, Sarah J. Robin- # n was mraigned on indictments alleg- ing that on June 20, 1885, she adminis tered poison to Prince Arthur Free- man and caused ns death; that on the first of August, 1881, she caused tie death of Ohver Sleeper by poison; that on July 11th, 1882, she caused the death of her husband, Moses Robinson, by administering poison, and that on the first of July, 1836, she murdered by poison Thomas Arthur Freeman, The prisoner pleaded not guilty to all the indictments and was held for trial. In the same Court Annie Towns was arraigned for poisoning her husband, with arsenic. She also pleaded not guilty and was remanded. The dead bodies of Mrs. Isabella Ells- Pa., on the morning of the 5th, It is supposed both committed suiclde, The bodies bore pistol-shot wounds. —A snow plough on the Canadian Pacific Raliroad was buried in a a snow slide in Selkirk the 31. Seven men were smothered to death. by —A large crowd of boys exploded a flask of powder in the yard of a church at Pittsburg on the afternoon verely maimed and burned in the face and neck. —A heavy 5th and snow storm prevailed on 6th in New inches on a level; in Maine, Vermont, and Northern New York it i315 to 24 inches. The snow fall at Hanover, New Hampshire, this —The aggregate of the appropria- bills passed by the Forty-ninth Con- gress about §250,000,000. This is exclusive of the sums appropriated by the River and Harbor and De- ficiency appropriation bills, which failed of enactment, The appropria- tions for the current fiscal year aggre- gate $264,000,000, which amount would have been equalled by the ap- propriations voted by the last Congress had two mentioned laws. The Reid 8 the bills become levee, in Madison Par- . Louisiana, broke during the night of the 4th. At last accounts the crev- asse was three feet deep and fifty yards wide. isi —The State Department is informed {hat the cholera has been officlally de- clared epidemic at Montevideo. —Reyv. Henry Ward Deecher was in a dying condition at his home In Breoklyn on the night of the 6th, from the effects of an apoplectic stroke which the 4th. The first symptoms of his illness appeared on the 34, but the attack was developed until the next day, when ull hope of his recovery was given up. Mr. Beecher remained in a comatose condition on the 6th, and his physician said in the evening that he might die at any mom- ent or linger for several days, not oe BE —A telegram from Reading reports an explosion of gas at the Sheridan fur- paces on the 4th, which caused five men to be terribly burned by molten fran iron. ri —— 49th CONGRESS—2d SESSION SENATE. In the TU. S. Senate. on the 28th ult., the Naval Appropriation bill was received fro he House and the first time, r. Edmunds objected to and complained of “the great and uowarranted delay of the House in sendin; a Senate the great appropriation mils.” The House Labor Arbit House of c J read \ tration} the ’ viet labor in the preparation materials for public works were passed without amendment. The House bill to provide for the adjustment of land grants heretofore made by Congress and remaining unadjusted was taken up and, after the adoption of sundry amendments, was passed. A confer- ence was ordered upon it. The Pleuro- Pneumonia bill was then taken up and passed, After an executive session Lhe Senate adjourned In the U. Senate op the Ist, a message was received from the Presi- dent vetoing the bill for a public build. ing at Lafayette, Indiana. Mr, Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and 3. Renators-elect Stockbridge, of Michigan, and Turple, of Indiana, report unadjusted railroad land grants was agreed to, An **argent defictency’’ bil was received from the llouse, but Mr, | Edmunds objected to its second read- ing. The Deficiency bill was consid- | ered, Adjourned. The Forty-ninth Congress ceased to at noon on the 4th, All the bills were got received the President’s signature except three, The three which falled were: The Deficiency bill, which could not be engrossed in time; Fortifications bill, abandoned in the Sueh hill, killed by President not a ‘‘pocket veto, having signed it, what have be- | yet impossible to state exactly bills which Among the other bills signed by the President on the 4th, | earned lands, and the act in reference | to the organization of reserve national between Inter-State railroad corpora- | Mr. Hale, in explaining to the Senate report on the Naval Appropriation bill, sald: **The appro- | in the bill now (in addition to the running expenses of the department) tween eleven and twelve million dollars for what might shment—the It comprehended four two millions for batteries and Lor be calle increase o thie navy. vessels and floating for also comprehended other structures defences, It begun, a little more than two mill tor work on the monitors and four mil- lions for armor plate and forgings.” In consequent ure of the Deficiency bill the ac ng tl free delivery system and towns having 10.000 inha*1tants or a postal of not less than becomes ti ti beginning Lie year, when regu un steel or or » wo of the fail- 3i LAE Li © | Leu a i cities $10 000 AV Va next fiscal the HOUSE In House on the message was received from dent, vetoing the bill for of a public building at Ohlo, The House went of the Whole on th Appropriation bill members sharply criticised tails of the bill, and also tl regard to the appropriation i ] Randall defended the Committlee Appropriations and said that, '® pared with past Congresses, this House stood In a wonderfully favorable matter of the transaction it |} placed DOCKS more previous T the into Commit tes e Legislative Several of the various de- 16 Say COl~ the in ill business, ad upon t useful legislation 1 N oy : 1 House within his s Democratic side was tute any ecollection. by the people for its its clean, its with leg interests of d straightforward, record in connection promoting best American people.’ useful isiation the tho wae wid In the HHousa, on the 24, the eries Retaliation bill was | originally came from tl House rec ng from its by a vole of 149 to 104, vols - ' emer IT el amen and then, by a 2. laving a motion to re- » table, This makes the House final, and the : further He i" the bill con. ider on # on Of Ons goes to the | i : * i $ resident. A 4 ' ference was ordered Post. office On Appropriation bill, The co port on the Pacific Rall bill was agreed Anevenii was held, in which conference on the Agricultural and Diplomatic and Sundry Civil Approg n bills were agreed to, A Was ordered on the Naval Apprpriation bill, Adiourned. ICH 16. luquiry 10. 2 Session rorwirt TEePOTS onference 31, the vetoed granting arrears of pension In the House on the Senate bill, n placed on file, The Naval Appropria- tion bill was tead a second time and referred. back and placed on the calendar. Con- ference reports on the Diplomatic Ap- propriation bill and on the River and Harbor bill were agreed to. In evening session, the Deficiency b Mexican Pension bill and the Legisia- tive Appropriation bill were received from the House, read twice ferred, Adjourned, In the UU. 8, Senate on but failed to pass over the veto, Ti conference reporion the bill regulating the bringing of sultsagainst the United States was agreed to. Mr, Henderson, of North Carolina, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill removing all restrictions from the sale of leaf tobac. co by tarmers; abolishing the office of storekeeper at distilleries having a | capacity not exceeding five Lushels of grain a day, and repealing the special | is, lost ~-yeas 138, nays 112~—ror want of two- thirds in the aflirmative. Mr. Gros venor, of Ohio, called up the vetoed bill granting a pension to Sally Ann e veto, In night session, Mr, Barnes, of After a recess was taken. propriation bill was considered. priation bill was resumed In evening Various amendments were adopted and tive bill, as amended, was passed and sent back to the House. A road Inquiry bill was agreed to, and the bill goes to the President. A hill was passed for the erection of a na- tional memorial bridge over the Poto- mae, from Washington to Arlington, It appropriates $500,000 to commences the bridge, which is to be erected in hon- or of Lincoln and Grant, A conference report on the Agnenitural Appropria- tion bill was agreed to. Adjourned, In the U. 8, Senate on the 3d, a conference was ordered on the Naval Appropriation bill, The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered and passed, with a few amendments. A conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was agreed to; also a conference report on the bill to provide for bring- ing suits against the United States, Bills providing for public buildings at Dayton, Oulo, Sionx City, Iowa, and Lynn, Massachusetts, were passed over the Presidens’s vetoes, A recess was taken, In the evening session another conference was ordered on the Post-cffice Appropriation bill, The Mexican Peusion bill was passed as it came from the House, A conference Committees on Appropriations, moved | to suspend the rules and pass an ur- | gent deficiency Will. The bill appro. priates for deficiencies in the Post | in the | United States legal tender notes) $27.000; in the Department of Justice, | $285 000; and for the payment of certi- | fied claims, $934,255. The bill was | passed. Mr, Henderson moved to sus- | pend the rules and pass the Senate bill | giving a pension of $2000 a year to the widow of General Logan. After de- bate the bill failed to pass for want of the necessary two-thirds vote, the yeas being 145, the nays 113, Adjourned. ens AMI SS STATE LEGISLATURE, SENATE. In the Senate, on the lst, among | the bills introduced were the follow- ing: By Mr. Delamater—To regulate the pay of County Commissioners, making it $5000 per annum in counties of over 500,000 population, $3000 in counties of lesa than 500000 and more than 800,000, ete. Judiciary General. By Mr. Steel, regulating the erection of wire fences. Agriculture, By sr. Newmyer, to promote order and safety in grounds set apnrt for public health and recreation. Muni. cipal Affairs, Adjourned. In the Senate on the 24, the follow. ing bills were passed finally: In relation to the improvement, government and release of convicts in the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Hunting- don. For the selection, summoning and challenging of special or struck juries in Common Pleas Courts. To 1 seated lands, Relating to the collec. tion of debts due by boroughs. To abolish all taxes upon watches, house hold furniture and pleasure carriages, In the Senate, on the 3d, bills ported favorably were as follows: To regulate the erection of wire fences, To punish false registrations of cattle, ete. To extend the minimum school term to six months, For the renewal and extension of charters of of discount. To prevent residents from hunting or killing or game fish except by license, ing and consolidating the bridge laws. For compulsory tion. ré- non. game Revis- road and educa- and repealing the laws prohibiting its manufacture, In the Senate sn the 4th was a Watres, for the Recorders of Deeds and Prothonotaries of Common Courts for keeping a dally record dur- ing the years 1825 and 1886 of the mortgages, judgments, ete., as required by the Revenue act of June 30, 1885, Referred to Judiciary General. Ad- journed. bill presented by Mr, HOUSES. House on the 1st, among bills introduced were the following: Mr. Russell, to amend the act est lishing the Board of Education in Ph aderphia, so as to provide that the di- reclors of report to In the tl { shall boards » # Education sons qualilied as sectional Board of names of all per 8rs 8rs, ie the the teach or 48 principals or assistant teach- By Mr. Graham, a bill to prevent e spread of pleuro-pneumonia i other infectious diseases, By unanimous c« Brooks High License bill, as amended by sub-committee ot the Ways and Means Committee, was favorably reported i se and placed upon the calen- jjourned, y Hi s introduced: By i } ia PDORTGS ers, +} g t) ant msent, the ti Lhe mee on the 24 the following 8S. T. Davis, certal the mercantile business, f bills he bill Jil jurns, to anches of he House passed a number readin among them G0) amending the act lien of mechanics and This bill extends the act of 1x30 all State, and provides not render perty le to liens for repairs, alterations or where the same has y lessee or tenant, CO nt of the owns protect P $ t relating others ilding f the to provisions o counties in tl the act ie shall pre al been als without I Ad- by an n the 34, the bill to live anim with a negative 1 ling of als to potted mmendation. ils introduced were the Mr. Woodwanl, provid- ud or circumvent is ! A signature a such fraud may be the 5 recover (S or on to f suit to involved, DBy Mr. Davis 0 re} that portion of the act ng & State Beard of Health whicl priations for creasing the salary of ul By Mr. Matten, he collection of de 4 i Whi creat limits appro the same, Secre- 4 y vO Pro- and in tary to §3600, vide for t ae bis incurred and 0 WAZIEs Or food, clothing her of life from 1 compensation of persons thesame. By Mr. Brown, 11d Lo prevent garmbinn # ” raed 10 groceries, necessaries he ntracting of Deaver, g bonds, or ig use on the 4th the bil Adjutant General to sup. of the Graud Army of th Republic located within State with harms and ammuniti as may be. ong to the State, and are not necessary for equipment of the National Guard, was reported favorably, The bili to abolish the Board of Education was reported with an amendment, which strikes out all alter the enacting clause and substitutes the Ring bill, t srovide that the members of the Board Adjourned. 0 the AU mn $ the ¢ 0 ———— Olivet. D, T., has a woman barber, ~Serpent skin Is coming into fashion as a covering for books, — Paris recently reached a record of 300 divorces in one day, —An unsteady man, like an unsteady light, is apt to go out nights. ~The colleges of this country cons tain 18.000 female students, —A Spaniard has turned the whole ~~ Newspapers published in Dakota average one for every 1200 population. year. .~The president of the Fat Men's association, of Jersey City, weighs 416 pounds, A Greenwood, 8, C,, farmer claims to have struck a gold mine on his plan. tation. «Ten cents is the price set on the head of the crow found in the State of Maine, w1t was In the ninth century that a navy was organized by Allred the (Great. ~The three most brilliant centuries of Egyptian history were from 1500 to 1200 B, C, Prof. Hughe: says a silk ribbon is a better lightning conductor than a metallic rod, «The heart of a citizen of Concordia, Kan., is reported to be clear over on the left side, «England derives its name from the Angles, a Teutonic people who won a home in Britain, —La Porte, Ind, bas a toboggan slide 1,600 feet long, said to be the long. est one in the west, ~'Twenty-seven hundred Japanese are stated to have emigrated to the Hawaitan Islands, had three before thee and lost them, | A tramp who has money 18 a tourist. Mock humility wears a gauze robe, ity. consoles even in oul but virtue pains, us is to The easiest thing in the world | find find fault, Even a blind man can fault, { It is but for a moment, comparative- ly, that anything looks strange sjartling. Good qualities, though come unveiled and shine throughout | the world, open heart, i open door. will everywhere | pitable, that they | tained an idea have never enter- | fects the character of the gentleman. { The manner of a vulgar man freedom without ease, and the manner of the gentleman has ease without free dom, Life is rather a state of embryo, 2 fe: a man is not . i COt- I thre assed yugh 1 has } iis turn and st nging others.’ Little je | house-bread, and never brin | and great or and then s ais vi s bn . v8 refresh us const The desire | unsatisfied from $ OuL spriz 0, that I less could fear t ing, which like a snow! coward hand, the more ¥ { m awav! the faster mells away! ue ce in any d ‘‘ean new be obt ife-t:me, but at a less price.” Br Je iy ff ne 8 { » % © i LLCS chiefly look x grand rn £ granag ii as wrillen eaning words, may f the he } ) w who pon ut like convulsive fits, stronger ever make us 1 they \ weaker the , (EAVE US y likes Lo come In noly fF “ah 12 which would never have been equity. An nell here been ounce 10 What I not th st studen ! are most can be got of terial, a man } vital F Hinsell dependent them is at best only 18~ 4 } 13 muss house for yuld be wie 1 , leave him with r a great you; if with v 5 » 3 im with a favorable fabric of heaven ome by chance, when make rare { always heart so of radiance that it yautward world, SL01% overflows upon can be formed Ly perm mot ts and records; but only be written { 1 which 18 i anent ume lives can from growing everyday ime is lost PETrsOnas eqage, and in a sho less, forever. to prove that the 8a to imaginative work, is to writer to the quality of what ces rather than to raise its gq Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. t of fashion 18 not the the wilful, the s fantastic; not superior superior : rt My experience goes ”~ 4 i effect of wine taken a blind ality. not the ract but the rst of all concretes—tihe vuigar. Life is ces and duties, but of little things, in made up, not of great sacrifi- obligations, given habitually, are what “st r ’ § CONLOT 4 the . it no little events in magnifies everything; There heart. are It | empire of fourteen years and the drop | always the glove weighs more than the [ empire. | Carry the radiance of your soul your face. Tet the world have benefit of it, ir your smiles be created like sunbeams, “on the just as well as the unjust.” | Want of goods is easly repaired; | poverty of soul is irreparable. Socra- | tes, seeing a great quantity of riches, jewels and furniture of great value carried in pomp throuch the city: | “How many things’ said he, ‘*do 1 not desire.” Such a liberal education as will fit the man in due time to grapple most effectu- ally, with any specially, consists more in training than in scquisition, The man that is thoroughly master of his own powers will master any sphere or theme to which he is called. Truth is tough. It will not break, like & bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a foot ball, and it will be round and full at even ing, Did not Mr, Bryant say that truth gets well if she is run over Yv a locomotive, while error dies of lock jaw, if she scratches her finger, 1 consiaer there 18 no wore respecia- ble character on earth than an unmare ried woman who makes her own way through life quietly, without support of husband or brother, and who retains in her a well-regulated mind, a disposition to enjoy simple pleasures, fortitude to support inevitable pains, and sympathy with the sufferings of others. ON HTRATFORD-ON-AVOXN. Unpleasant Revelations Buggested by the Proposed Restorations. 4 q gacrea Shakespeare's HONE started notl that a signalling peare’s works whic dentof bh happen to both, § wivpt » i 11 i ihe All boy the spider sore Linn est the indastnot ing its , and ing for its prey. ful littls © of indastry and } learned from them, home Snide pide a hel and reatures, Many severance There are many kind of spiders, it is reckoned that there are seven hundred species found in Britain alone. They all have eight legs and nearly all eight eyes, with which they keep eager Ww atch on all sides, Theyare extremely quar- relsome among themselves, and 7 many congregate together will fight till a large number are killed. It is said they resemble lobsters and crabs in having the power of causing a new leg to grow, if they are unfortunate enough to lose one in any way. The manner in which they spin their web i most wonderful and beautiful. They are provided with four little bags, each containing the finest of thread or silk. Each of these bags has more than a thousand tiny holes, out of which the silken threads come, amd these thous. ands of fine threads are spun into one as the spider runs busily aleng. This one stouter thread is that of which the web is made, and is both. strong and clastic,