NEWS OF THE WEEK.
who assaulted and murdered a little
was sentenced in that city, on the Tth,
to be hanged on the 12th of
James Waltz, colored, killed Leroy
Smith, white, in Lexington, Ken-
tucky, on the evening of the Tih,
Waltz accused Smith of testifying
against him to send bim to the Peni.
entiars. Belly” Gill, a desperado,
was overtaken near Woodward, Indian
LCerritory, on the 6th, by a party of
men {rom the vicinity of Ashland,
Kansas, and riddled with bullets, Gill
nad six horses which he had stolen
from his pursuers,
—Thieves entered the post-oflice,
iepot, and nearly every store in Fal-
mouth, Massachusetts, on the evening
of the 7th. Considerable plunder was
taken, but the robbers secured very
little money.
—loods were reported on the Sth in
the Minnesota and Des Moines rivers,
loing much damage, and causing ap-
prehension of much more,
—A despatch from Towson, Mary-
and, says Thomas C. Druff, Treasurer
f the Daltimsore County School Board,
8 missing, apd irregularities have been
iiscovered in his books, He has
reasurer for fourteen years.
— 5 passenger train leaving Bellows
Falls, Vermont, on the evening of the
ith, was wrecked one mile above Rock»
ngham station by a washout, Engi-
weer Moses Pratt and Fireman John
Pratt were killed, and five passengers
njucedd. The baggage and express car
with their contents were burned, The
sleeg and passenger coaches did not
eave the track, A [freight engine on
the Erie Railroad exploded at Craig-
ville, New York, on the evening of the
sth, Conductor John Clark, Engineer
John Bodine and Fireman Joyce were
l. A Burlington switch
pushing a train of lumber cars was
derailed by a misplaced switch in
Chicago, on the evening of the 6Lh,
The wrecker made his escape,
man Gerhardt was injured igternally
—Telegrams from parts
Kansas report heavy ah ontinuous
rains on the Tth and 8th. The dutlook
tor all grain in that Slate
magullice
i
+}
£11
allied
a
i
1 ©
"nt
Le
— Hans Stockreid and b
WoK poison at thelr
York on the morning
lied within
St. Vincent's
had been out
A man giving the
ganstein lea into
al Kansas Cy, Miss
He was rescued, aud
thrown away was found $7425
He said he was a suf]
curable disease. Un
stein confessed to
was a defaulter to the
thalers, to the hous Bernard
senthal & Co., Vienna. A cablegram
was sent to the Vienna police,
S uthy mer-
doapped
iy
Hone i
3
an hour o each other
Hos; ital,
of work for some time,
name of Marx Mor-
» Kansas river
uri, on
el t
ha Tt
he (Lh,
ins 1 i
SEER IRE
an
r
t
} ax Feary t §
i exsent ot
§ 1
Vi iwl~
sa muy, h
nor
Was a
at his estate In Itita, ¢
band It that
planters duoapped at
Remedios,
shant, few 0 K
iis. is two
hav
ai80 1
—I3y an explosion in a coal mi
Los Cerrillos, New
svening of the 8th, Ji
another miner,
killed, Seven mules were found in t
wrecked coal mine at Rich Hill,
ouri, on the Sih. wel
fine condition, having
abundant supply of ain
This does away with the theory
the explosion was caused by natural gas
or by toul vapor of any kind, as such an
ie at
1 the
and
. Mexico,
glan
Wn,
on La
Dame uUusn
tiem
ad access
and
4
damp, which would have killed the
mules,
ad a verdict ceusuring State Inspector
Wolfe. 1t was reported In Makato,
Minnesota, on the evening of the 9th,
that four farmers had atttempted
sross the Minnesota river on the
above that place on the Oth, and
been overwhelwed by a portion of
breaking gorge and dr
— [
[ilinois, says thouss
been deborned in
the outbreak of
months since, and with but
septions the animals rapidly recovered
from the operation. News has been
received, however, thal catcle on farms
west of Bloomington bad their horns
removed March lst, and the wounds
have not healed. Mortification is re.
ported to have set in in the flesh of the
pead. A number of animals have been
affected this way.
—A passenger train on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad crashed into the rear of
a freight train near Jersey City, New
Jersey, on the afternoon of the 9th.
The accident was the result of a tele-
graph operator’s blunder, He displayed
a white signal instead of a red one,
The injured were E, 11, Vanness, IL
A. Golding and James Brown, of New-
ark; J. B. Kendig, baggage master, and
A. Craig, brakeman, Two freight
trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Raiiroad collided near
Rome, Georgia, on the morning of the
dth, Both engines and 19 cars were
demolished. Five men were injured,
but none fatally,
—Orestes Cleveland, Democrat, was
on the 10th, re-elected Mayor of Jersey
City by a majority of about 5000, The
Democrats will have a large majority
in the Council, which was a tis last
Jens. The charter election in Albany,
‘ew York, on the 10th, resulted ina
sweeping Democratic victory, Edward
A. Maher, and the entire Democratic
city ticket were elected by majorities
ranging from 2500 to 3200, The new
Board of Aldermen will stand; Demo-
crate, 13; Re ublicans, 6, a Democratic
jain of 4, oe. majority for Mayor,
, 18 one of the largest éver given
in that city. In the charter election in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, on the
10th, the Democrats and Republicans
each elected tures members of the
Council, and that body now stands the
same as last year seven Republicdns to
five Democrats. The Beard of Com.
missioners of Streets and Sewers was
abolished by a very large majority, At
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on the 10th,
the Democrats elected their candidate
for Mayor and a majority of the Coun-
-¢ilmen, a
had
the
owded,
despatch Bloo
have
Lie
a
| ~The accounts of S. M. Weir, Treas.
urer of New Albany, Indlana, have
| been found $70,000 short, The ex-
| pert’s report makes no attempt to show
| where the money has gone, nor does it
| charge criminality upon Welr, Thirty-
{ seven pages of the record have been
torn or cut out, and upon these it
| supposed the accounts for the missing
{ money were kept. W eir has been
Treasurer for 14 years, 1Iis only one
travagance was the ownership of arace
} horse, which cost less than $5000,
{ —-Dr, C. W. Chase a well-known phsi-
cian of Chicago, was arrested in tha!
city on the morning of the 10th, while
selling a buffalo robe which the police
supposed to be stolen, Ife was lodged
in a cell in the Central Station, and in
the afternoon committed suicide by
hanging bimself with a pocket hand.
kerchilef. Ile was only 30 years of age.
Mrs, Lucy Markey, a well-known
widow of Frederick, Maryland, hanged
herself to her bed-post, at her son-in-
| law's residence in that city on the even-
ing of the 10th, She had shown symp-
toms of insanity.
-Dr, Howard Simonds dled in Alle-
gan, Michigan, on the 9th, of apoplexy,
after an illness of a few hours. The
funeral was fixed for the 11th, but,
owing to the peculiar conditions which
have followed Lis death, has been post-
poned indefinitely, **The body remains
warm, the color of the face natural,
the limbs relaxed and the expression
of the eyes, when opened, bright, 48
hours after apparent death, The de-
ceased’s Spiritualistic friends beliave
him in a trance, which condition was
frequently assumed Ly him in his med-
ical practice, The doctor was one of
the most distinguished Spliitualists in
Michigan.”
— Near Carrollton, Iowa, ou the OLh,
a “‘double-beaded’ [freight train ran
over a cow on the truck. Both engines
{ and ten cars were wrecked, many cat-
tle were slaughtered, brakeman L.
| Powell was killed and two other train
men were njured, The engines and
| ten cars of a freight train on the At-
lantic and DPacilic express Railroad
| plunged down an embankment near
Carnizo, Arizona Territory, on the
{evening of the Oth, and were wrecked
| Frank Ashton, fireman, and Jolin Bell,
brakeman, were Killed.
Morgan,
Hulligan, was
Ravenna, Olilo,
sentenced,
is
Ll
the murderet
Y
.
~**Blinkey’
of Detective
new trial
10th, and f nd
time, to be hanged on June l. N. A
ston, a farmer, | r Weathe
! ford, Texas, kil.ed his aight t
9th pecause she married Vv
a merchant, agains
convicts farm a
a
10 of
Once
all
jeluseqd a
’
al
Or thin
Te
I
r ol th
on the
s1esippl, made
aril
, and
je.
hie OLh
* I |
OM Kad
wamp,
Union
14 bh.
the g
county,
d Walker
ted Sta
al
ri’s brea
—In the Un
iat New York
{ found for the
1 $20,000 damages fo
| imprisonment agai
{| the dry goods merc!
of Philade
the plaintiff
's store and charged
When “tried
and
damages.
Low
and {ey tid, of
Florida, the jury on th
| & verdict of $10,000 for
-— Roscoe Conklin
. On
f
defend
Hershey,
{4th last
(O'Neill
Yt dior
RIRILE
was
| libel st 4 against
JacK8ons ¢
ea ini
ii rendered
tue plaint i.
| News
g Was very
better on the evening of the 11th
jaker said he had a
| was steadily improving. I'wents
{ hours ago,” said the Doctor,
| chances were one in a hundred; n
{ me in twenty-five ti
.'* Shortly after
for the worse wa
much
pr.
5 ¥
sound sleep
3 are
ver
¥ ix
—Thé Minnesota river is
it: channel at St. Paul, having
away 50 feet of the east bank,
tating the removal of several houses,
Men are working on the Omaha Ralil-
road to prevent it from being washed
tout. The Blue Earth river is higher
than it has been for years. The
fron bridge wert of Winnebago City,
Minn., has been swept away, and’ also
the iron bridge at Woodland Mills, four
miles north. All the wooden bridges
are gone, The raliroad bridge at Wine
nebago City is impassable. The wast
piain on the south side of the Tittaba.
mass*e river, at Midland, Michigan,
containing thousands of acres of land,
Is covered with water, which has back-
ed up because of a jam of logs at Ball.
ey’s Dridge, four miles below, Mid.
land is inundated and the roads leading
to It washed out or submerged. No
trains have arrived at La Crosse, Wis.
consin, from the west over the Min.
nesota Division of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St. Paul Railroad since the 5th
because several miles of track are sub-
merged in the valley of the Root river.
It is said that it will take 10 days 6
get the track in condition for traflic
after the water subsides, The bridges
are all gone, Villages are inundated
and there 1a distress in many places, At
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the river rose
rapidly oa the afternoon of the 11th
and swept away a million feet of the
Mississippi River Logging Company's
lumber, worth about $10,000,
- Mary Smith, who bas kept house
for John and Henry Hill, farmers,
pear Jamestown, Kentucky, went to a
neighbor's on the 11th, and said she
kad fled for her life, Three weeks
ago she sald the Hills killed two ped-
diers, forcing her to hold them, By
threat of death they had kept her
silent, but now talked of killing her
also. The remains of the ow Td
were found in a cave, The Hills
were arrested on the evening of the
11th. A despatch from Parkersburg,
West Virgivia, says the feud between
the Banks and Monroes broke out
afresh op the 9th in Wirt county. Silas
Banks, armed with a Winchester rifle,
met the three Monroe brothers, Eben,
George and Lemuel, who were armed
with revolvers, near Laurel. About
20 shots were fired, resulting in the
dedth of the thiee Monroes. Banks
lian ole
cual 5
washed
necessi.
i
fine
received of them
fatal,
-(eorge Kenamore and his 15-year.
old son were burned to death in ther
house in Green county in Missouri, on
the evening of the Oth. A fire occurred
in the basement ef the Franklin
House, a small hotel in Chicago, on the
morning of the 11th, Edward Dower,
bis wife and three children were awak-
ened by the nolse in the halls. Bower
lost his wife, and, springing from bed,
he seized his two boys, aged 5 and 7,
and dropped them from the window,
Fortunately firemen below caught them
safely, Bower, his wife and their baby
were then taken down a ladder,
~The Mrs. W.
four wounds, none
body of Kinney,
vacant lot in Newark, New Jersey, on
the 11th, She left a note in which she
sald: *I am a woman, and have had
such a terrible life with my husband 1
can’t stand him any longer. I mean to
do away with my life. Please tell my
husband to think of the hour when he
drove me to this,”” The husband will
be arrested.
|
{
{
i
rivers have passed into the Missiesipp!
and formed a dangerous jam at
pleau, The Cannon river, at Red
Wing, Midnesota, subsided on the
12th, and the worst was believed to be
over, The loss at Red Wing, Cannon
Falls and Zimbrota, from the inunda-
tion is estimated at nearly $100,000,
-=A report was received at the
drographie Office in New York on the
12th that large quantities of ice
drifting into the steamer routes,
tain Dawson, of the steamer
which arrived on the 12th from
foundland,
was blocked in the ice at
land with other vessels for three weeks,
Continual strong easterly winds packed
the ice so close to the shore that from
the signal hill at the entrance to the
Cap-
Portia,
New.
|
{
gion are greatly damaged
kins from in front of his
dwelling, in Louisville, Kentucky, on
the 13th, When canght he said
intended to hold the child for a ran-
som,
~-On the evening of the 12th four
entered a switch shanty of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad in Chicago,
lug a range of view of over sixty wiles,
no open water could be seen, and, dur-
Ing that time, the ice was so solid that
he walked over four miles to another
vessel, [His vessel was set free by a
westerly breeze, and it passed thir
Falls, Vermont, on the evening of the
ih, seriously damaging telegraph and
telephone lines. Trees and shrubbery
also suffered. A furious rain, hail and
wind storm passed over Pine Bluff, Ar-
kansas, on the evening of the 9th, A
two story frame bullding and a church
toppled over, the roof of one of the pub-
lic schools was carried away, and many
trees were uprooted, It is reported by
the Dayton Journal that the barley in
many counties in Uhlo and the adjacent
territory of Indlana has been utterly
ruined by the severity of the winter,
“Farm after farm of twenty tosone
plowed
One-third of winter wheat has been
killed around the head waters of the
Wabash, Maumee and Miami rivers,
but the damage is not so great further
down the valleys”
M. Jones
singing at
# reception to her friends in the Hotel
Vendome, on the ing
the Oth, She was said to be be a mem.
ber of the royal family of Russia, where
her husband, a of wealth and
She was
fr
107
~ Mrs, Austin
joston, evel of
man
ie
35 years old, and was noted
-— A. L. nd
Im
Brecker, a wealthy saw
Crandall, Ind
th, by being caught
mill, He was
to adjust a belt, A wall of Has-
$e }
buildin in 1 sburg, in the
-
i OWLer
r in
A
ed on the 1
h
i g of his
ger
TYRE
¥. & plumber, and
Frederick
contractor
i IALOTer,
nent who
montl ago,
the Fast River at
. 11%
of the 11t1
TOI
ree 5 was
ng in
on the evening
vidson was ar
I Lhe trail For
ie ie ia"
tor answered the en-
rineer’s wh
ive, which Pp aced in
car, reieasing 1 air in
train service pipe, thus
hh the en
©
AES Over wii
Had any other
RIir tem wen in
» been any
ti a great
LAYE result
TRIS
iy would
~The store of Thible
mi. Berks count:
KA) worth of
the 11th, Mos
wninent churchman,
of a
iyi
a
k bal
robbed of
weeks ago. in
er, a 1
petintendent
Moslem, was arrested, charg
being the leader of a gang of
who have been operating in
A store box flied with t}
was found in Kei
~-At Dennison, Obio, on the evening
of the 1ith, a parly of railroad men
were on lark, and assaanlted and
killed Policeman Quinlan, who attemp-
ted so arrest them,
drew his revolver, shot and killed
nieves,
nity.
olen go ¥i8,
wis garden,
tiie cou
on %t
nr
of
and
one
i
conductor named Thompion, A des-
patch from Wilkesbarre, Penna., says
the Hungarian League, a second Molly
Maguire organization in the coal re-
gions, attacked Willlam Dudhsh, a
young mine boss, on the evening of the
11th, and beat him ju a terrible manner,
[la was left for dead. Dudiish dis-
charged two Hungarians In his employ
about two weeks ago, and it is believed
this led to the assault. Frank Snaal
got married at Cherry Tree, near
Titusville, Penna., ou the evening of
the 10th, and a number of youths gave
him a “charivari.,” He became angry
and fred a revolver into the crowd,
fatally wounding Henry Boyd, A des-
patch from Stamford, Connecticut says
Mrs. Mills, colored, was shot and
killed and ber husband badly injured
during a fight at their house on the
evening of the 11th. Millssays several
white men assaulted him and killed his
wife, but a servant girl says Mrs, Mills
hit her husband with a hammer and he
shot her dead,
~The flood st Grand Rapids, Wis.
consin, on the 12th, drove the business
men on the river front from thelr stores,
and it was feared that, unless the ice
gorge broke by evéning, all the princi
pal streets of the city would be inun-
dated. The loss by the destruction of
bridges between Grand Rapids and
Centralia is about $10,000, The water
in the Mississippi river at St. Paul passed
the danger line at 20’clock on the morn-
ing of the 12th, and was two feet above
that point by 8 o'clock, Many fauiilies
Hying along the river front were com-
pelled to leave their houses, In the
afternoon the water wes rising at the
rate of threesquarters of an ineh per
hour, Farther up the river had over.
flowed its banks. The Mississippi river
at Lacrosse has risen a foot since the
evening of the 11th, Millions of logs
|
~A passenger train on the Er
Rallroad collided with a freight train,
near Bradford, Penna,, on the morning
the b. One hundred and twenty
freight cars and
trains were piled up in one wreck, The
passenger was severely in-
jured, and
tained slig injuries,
on Missouri
off the {rack
the Sth.
[6
1
-b
of
the
engineer
}
ght A freight train
Pacific Rallroad ran
al Lamont, Mi
Samuel Smith
John Kehn fatally
the
i ¢ 5
1 anda
wis Kille
jjured,
rear wall of a building on
ghth street, New York,
was being repaired, fell on t
morning , and Joseph
geldl, an Italian workman,
and four other workmen
jured,
he
ol
3s
the «Lh
severely in-
Langd 73 years of age,
left his wife and family in Lockport,
New York, about Years ago,
with and woman went to live in
Ohio, A few days ago he returned
Lockport
deserted, bat h
ie U3
—John
on
4
99) o
ther
iOW
he
i wife refused to al
him to live with her, On the 11th
ul were
1
Jackson-
From the
5
1
Dear
§
is i
Fso08
r
1
sari
: IHL
+ ”
re put on tl
re » LrackK
A passen
is and Indiana Kail
be Lrack
afternd
sisier,
ro
on
Me, in
3 $ Vi tid "
the 13th, Willie opened
nat t 0, to play
a bureaa
out a pistol, Whi)
fell from
he floor
drawer and pulled
Weapon h
v 4 ry 4!
steast and caused d Hs
Near Wellsville, Ohio
the five-year-old
a short time,
on the 13th,
f Thomas Daker
brush pile Her mother
her and both were fatally burned.
Jaker was severely burned while
ng the flames on their cloth.
While a familly named Meyer,
father, mother and
two sons, Were crossing a bayou at
New Madrid, Missouri, in small boats,
on the 12th, the father
overboard, Mrs. Meyer
,
daughter
0 a burning
tried to rescue
fell int
ing.
i
leaped
were
mn
both
drowned.
-The Mississippl river rose at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, on the 15th, and
covered the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul tracks on the levee, Reports
from the upper country are to the
effect that all tributary rivers are
breaking up and pouring great vol.
umes of water and ice into the Missis-
sippi, which is pow spreading over
tracts of land, much of which is n-
habited. Houston, Rushford and Ho-
kah, in the Root River Valley, have
been cut off from rallread communica~
tion for ten days. The Southern Min-
nesota Railroad is still submerged, Ile-
ports from the inundated points say
the water has commenced to subside.
About 20 miles of the Green Bay IRal’-
road are under water. The Medina
dam, on the Wolf river, in Cutagamie
county, on the 13th, gave way and a
large section of the country is covered
with water.
A man, calling himself James Mec-
Gee, has been arrested in Oneida, Ten-
nesses, lle is supposed to be William
B, Tascott, the alleged murderer of
millionaire Snell, of Chicago, City
Marshal John I. Howard shot and
killed E. L. Little, a colored preacher,
in Conway, Arkansas, on the evening
of the 12th. The preacher had knocked
the Marshal down with a can of peaches
for some unexplained affront. J. T.
Halsey and J, C. Hulist were going
home drunk, near Short Mountain, in
the Indian Territory, a faw days ago.
Passing & cabin, in front of which stood
a d.year-old colored boy, oue of them
sald: “Watch me kill that coon,”
whereupon he put a bullet through the
boy's breast, killing him on the spot,
«Ice half an inch thick formed at
Staunton, Virginie, on the evening of
endeavored to
they assaulted
tire
ving
William Studner,
out, when
put
him
fatal
injuries,
the Diue
route, in
arrested
robbing
Spring and Crystal river
Marion county, Florida, was
on the 13th on the charge of
mail sacks of registered and
her valuable letters. He confessed,
and much of the stolen property was
recovered,
ot
a —————
50th CONGRE
SENATE,
In the U, Senate on the
joint resolution appropriating $30,000
for participation in the Druossels Exhi-
bition was reported and passed. The
Military Academy Appropriation bill
as rej orted and placed on the calen-
The bill to 1
alms for French spo
mted adveresely. }
I
referre {
88. First Session,
Gth the
Q
extend the time
aiions
a WAS
18 were
cl }
p intro.
tablish.
of arbitra-
ed States and
wo, and (by Mr
» completion of the Di-
The bill
of certain
nd
and the es
uri
or
eh]
tion between the Unit
at
Britain and
(re
to author
min
Tax of 1861.
the sale to
lands was discussed,
being on an amendment by Mr. Fawk-
ner providing that where mining
which ented are
“a
tersat
Lrus
i720 aliens
eral
have been ji
partnership, majority
the partners and of the ees Or
be eitizens of ti United
rote was announced as yeas
The roll was
r
directors shall je
States, th
20, nays 17-—no quorum.
Dill was laid aside, and the unfinished
admit Dakota to
Terri-
IT
ii Wo
+
ot
to organize
as taken up. Pe
nale went
allerwaras
Ke
and
8 §
ite on the
Wan
ha 1
err
Th |
i
¢
All
&r An executive
$
request i
e with the
Crima-
y thee
y
AK &
rec t ns in regar
i the revision of the tariff. At the con-
ciusion of the remarks the
Admission bill was taken up, and Mr,
Davis spoke in his support.
y obtained the floor, and the bill
| was laid over. The House bill
| priating $10,000 for the purchase of the
{ swords of the late General Shields, anc
the Senate bill appropriating 81
{ aid
ument to
| who fell at Bunker Hill, were pas
| Bills were also passed
| $150,000 for a public building at Bridge.
$130,000 for a public
Worth, Texas; 82
building at Birmi
70,000 for
OInTnenGatid
of the erection in Dost
1}
i
h 8, Warren,
ged,
¥
)
General Jose
{ port, Connecticut;
| building at Fort
{ 000 for a public
| ham, Alabama;
public building
| Florida; increasing to $
of cost for a puliic
troit, and providing
| ment of a life-saving
Indian River Inlet, Delaware, and
Ocean City, Marviand. The West Point
ppropristion bill was passed with
a slight amendment, 1 back
and
the House for conc 11 for
ng
§ a
Al
100,000 the limit
Ix
establist
t ah
station Detween
SOUS
A
irrence,
of Washington
Mr,
of a sword
was read.
olijectea the price as exorbitant,
there being no pretence that the ac-
tual value of the sword was even §
discussions, without i
lor Lewis,
for £20,000
to
100
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In the Unilea
2th, the House joint resolution, au-
lock on the Direct Tax bill was ¥ spt
i ap.
In the House on 11th, whi
had been in session all night, the fruits
less struggle over the Direct Tax bill
! continued until in the even-
ing. At that hour the exhausted mem-
i
bers agreed to take a recess,
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{In the House on the i, alter soe
| parliamentary skirmishing
{ excitement on both
deadlock was broken
| ==148 to 157 —0f a motion
and the House adjourned unl
15th, This ends the Direct 1;
| for the present session of Congres
In the United States House of
resentatives on the 15th, the chaplain
opened the proceedings with
for the recovery of ex-Senator
ling. The clerk then
read the journal of the legisiative day
{of Wednesday, 4th April, Ihe
| journal consists of 90 manuscript pages
i exclusive of 71 roll calls. Mr. Dockery,
of Missouri, asked unanimous consent
to dispense with UO reading of the
jeurnal, but Mr. E. i
(rrosvenor fected,
however, demand the
| roll calls in full, as sueh read
occupy two or three |
thereupon read the sk
the journal, which
ne hour, The
ion bi Was rep
he Commitiee ol
great
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sides, the long
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al iouln
by the
to
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a prayer
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procecaed to
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t the Wh
ence report were agreed 1
to divide the Lt Bio
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into smaller separale
fag
to ratify an amendment
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darling, ¥ wife 1 will
you from every care,
{the winds of heaven shall not visit
| your face roughly,
| hands shall never be soll
| tasks, your wish shall be
happiness,
Just then he reappeared,
ng the hod on the floor, said
our darned coal. Give nn
Is life worth }
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ving
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The Story of William Tell
The oid sto
i son and the
ton that threatens t
The actors are S
13 years, of Somerville,
| prominent
and his cous;
Holla:
of small calil
i He extracted, or
bullels from son
| Recently the
appre
imnes
busines
lar
JOEL.
fie {her sit
GuUle Lae all
ner took tl
sal
i fortunatels
there shoul
‘as his cousin :
saved the little fellow
a bullet struck him on
{the neck. The woul
| and the boy's condit
dily worse, until now
sired of,
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ment
hh fi
i, i
side of
Dove
nslant deat Wr
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Ae rigul
Was sel
LAS
id MIS,
jon become
his fe «
the obstructions in the
between Philadelphia and
was reported and placed on the calen.
Adar, Mr. Botler introduced a bill to
divide into six classes and fix the sal-
aries of the employes of the rallway
mail service, The Dakota Admission
bill was contidered, and Mr. Tarple
opposed the bill. It was supported by
Mr. Cullom. Mr. Spooner obtained
the floor, whereupon the Senate went
into executive session, and afterward
adjourned,
HOoUsR
In the House, an atiempl was made
by the friends of the special order, the
Direct Tax bill, to arrange for a final
vote on the bill at five o'clock, and My,
Taylor, of Ohio, moved to lint general
debate to one hour, This led at once
to *“filibustering’ tactics by the op-
ponents of the bill, and the whole day
was consumed in voling on dilatory
motions. Adjourned.
In the House on the 5th, which had
taken a recess from 2.156 A, M, until
11.45, the struggle on the Direct Tax
bill was resumed. After a dreary
round of roll calls, continued for sev.
eral hours, the House adjourned.
In the House on the 6th, the Alibus-.
tering on the Direct Tax bill was kept
up until, at 3.30 PP, M. the House ade
journed,
In the House, on the th, the fli
bustering against the Direct Tax all
was resumwed, and the contest was
continued until a quarter past 10
o'clock at night. Adjourned.
In the House on the 10th, the dead-
Known Parisian porta
lived once, before his |
n a common lodging house at
le of seven stories, Fearing le
not induce the public to come so
he put up a placard on the buse-
ment of the house: “Portraits taken
here, Only ten fra studio «
third floor.” On reaching the third
floor a placard, “Ten franc portraits;
the studio has been removed to Lhe Gfth
floor,” would greet the eve, After
much panting and puffing the picture
seeker was greeted with “Ten franc
portaits; the studio has, owing 0 re
building of the premises, been tempor
arily removed to the seventh foor.™
The customer did not mind suffering
more after he had reached that period
of ascent, and the artist got his patron,
painter me
came,
altituc
{ could
high,
an
JOE mi
a —-— -
Substitute jor the Chestant Bell,
A "hiladelphia reporier by accident
had a glimpse of *‘the latest’ substi.
tute for the chestnut bell. Slanding
near him, at the corner of Eighth and
Chestnut streets, was a group of wen,
one of whom was engaged in spinning
a yarn, ana a shout of laughter, fol.
lowed immediately by a query of
“Where ye get it?" attracted his at
tention just in Lime for him to seen
portion of an Innocent, respectable
looking neckties worn by one of them
slip back into its proper position and
thus cover a card upon which is mn.
seribad: “ You tell it nice’ or any other
appropriate slang phrase which the
wearer wishes 1o place there, sn at of
them being sold with the tin