———— According to the Mai! and Krpressthe United States now leads the world in the {production of pig iron. — Ohio oleomargarine men want natura) butter inspected, claiming that three. fourths of it isn't as good as oleomar. gerine. A significant educational tendency o the day, thinks the Chicago Post, is the fncreasad interest in the study of history and politics at Johns Hopkins University. «It will not be long at the present rate of progress,” believes the Washington Star, until the oyster will have joined the buffalo in the happy hunting grounds” In the death of Baron Hausmann, Paris loses the architect who, with the assistance of Napoleon III., made her sc beautiful. It cost a great deal of money, remarks the Cincinnati Eaguirer, but iv the long run it paid. Within the past thirty years, estimates the Atlanta Constitution, the population . of our cities and towns has increased 251 | three inches more at every step the sav- per cent., from 5,000,000 to 13,000,000, ! while the rural population has increased | Jess than one-third as rapidly, or sbout | sevenly per cent. At the recent convention of street-car men in St. Louis, Mo., it was shown by statistics, avers the New York World, that after fifteen fares have rung up on an ordinary horse car all the re. mainder of the money taken in for that trip is profit for the company. been There are 5000 Indiaus still living on reservations in New York. They are civ- lized, well anybody any trouble. educated and never give The same is true of the Cherokees in the Indian Territory. The Indians of the Northwest far Bouthwest give us more trouble than all and of the others, The New York Mail and Ezpres al leges that ope of the great railroad cor- porations paid £300,000 last year for towing car floats around the harbor. The amount paid by the five great trunk lines would equal the interest on §30,000,000 or three —enough to construct two bridges and tunnels, The United States opened this year with 167,255 miles of railway in opera tion—enough, boasts the Cincinnati En- quirer, to go around the globe seven than tw thirds of the way to the moon. If it were all in a continuous line, times, and enough to reach more and in ab solutely pertect condition, it would take our fastest express train six months to rus over it. With regard to Germany, who can wonder, asks the St. Louis Ry of socialism in view In of the population have ublie, at the increase there Saxony 73.5 log facts like these per cent. come of le this number wrete I less than £125 class embraces 23.47. 3 than 8200 a year; 45.49 Yor, per cent. f dly having an income of The middle Even these have Only sess over $2400 per annum. per annum. less than $820 a year, 0.60 pos America is credited with saving devices, but thers are many labor of English origin, acknowledges the Boston some Transcript, that throw our best into the shade. One of these—for the benefit of suthors—is described in an English con. temporary. There are persons, it says, gifted with no faculty of writing, who for a small sum are prepared to contrive you all the involutions and evolutions of a story, with a full complement of heroes, villains, lovers, heavy fathers, scheming mothers, and all the rest of it." Captain J. M. Johnson, now a practic. ing lawyer at Kendall, Kan., tells an in- cident of tho battle in which Custer was | killed. He and Colonel Myers, com- manding a troop, were riding on the charge when they saw a squaw prone side her a four or five year old babe ery- ing and begging her to arise. Ta' ng pity on the papoose the Colonel ordered the First Sergeant to dismount and se. cure the youngster. He did so, and turning to the Colonel nonchalantly and pitilessly asked: “What shall I do with fekill itt” The announcement that the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin wanted Prince Bismarck for President of his Council of State was sufficient to prompt Em. peror William to abandon a pleasure trip to Cannes, Now comes the news that the people of Bavaria decidedly object to a review of their army by the German Emperor, although that army is an in. tegral part of the defense of the Empire, On the horizon of Germany signs are abundant, observes the Bt. Louls Star. Sayings, that the Bismarckian fabric of Confederated States under Imperial rule snot so solid as it was on a certain day in March, 1800, when its founder ws wiked to step down and out. | Geographical Society, | article Emperor William of Germany is said to be working on a project to secure the disarmament of all the nations of Europe. os Aree Agricultural statistics show that too much corn 1s being produced in this country, and yet, marvels the New York World, there are people starving in our great cities, —— The home rulers of Cuba will be sat- isfied with nothing less than universal suffrage. They have agreed to keep avay from the polls at the next election unless their request is granted, In two years, states the St. Louis Re. public, the original patents of the, Bell Telephone Company on the art of trans. mitting the human voice over wires by electricity, will expire. Then anybody who chooses can make and use a tele- phone without let or hindrance, FE AA DEATH AT YE FEAST. Secretary Windom Suddenly Expires in New York City. Falling Back Dead Just After He Had Made an Address, A wealthy Canadian is traveling about | the country with a mission. That sion is to save shoe leather to the world. | He insists that if everybody would cover ing in boots and shoes in America alone would be 827,000,000 per year, The Chicago Times asserts that Stick. | ney, a noted railroad capitalist, said to a | gathering of the stockholders and bond manipulators of railroads that met the other day in New York City: ‘You are all gentlemen here. In your private ea- pacity as such I would trust any of you with my watch, and I would believe the word of any of you, but in your capacity as railroad presidents I would not believe one of you on oath, and I would not trust " one of you with my watch, Captain 8. 8S. Leach, of the Missis. sippi River Commission, says that it has beea estimated by skillful engineers that $10,000,000 would pay for a levee sys- tem on the Mississippi River, that, if properly watched and maintained, would be flood. The of maintenace to nation and State he esti. safe against cost mated at less than $1,000,000 per an- num. The effect of such a system, he said, would be to revolutionize the car rying trade of the river, and redecm 30,- 000 square miles of the finest agricultural land. Over £61,000, record, was paid as duty on oleomar. the largest sum on garine manufactured in Chicago during December, Said Deputy Collector Lan. “Ever since the pa sage of the oleomargarine bill the output recently: dergren 5 Le has been steadily and rapidly increasing. a law the the farm was that the industry would languish and When that bill became tation, particularly among OTS, in a few years cease altogether; Ex. actly the contrary is what has happened.” New leans Picryane, where does it all or boarding h The mystery is, comments the Or. tot OAT go JSC USCS 0100 Germa iy wi | yet regret, pre licts the ‘hicago Post, that it ever showed a dis. the This want of civility to our grace- urteous spirit toward American hog. ‘ul porker will hardly plunge the two nations into a bloody strife. jut it tony strain the diplemadic relations for a time, because the hog is a uni the versa. favorite in land of the free and the home of the brave, The Swedish hog, the Norwegian hog and the Denmark hog all enjoy the The been freedom of the Kaiser Empire. pr hibitions against them have raised and they can come and go accord. The been singled out for this But evens all things, and the day will come ing to their pleasure, American hog alone has ungentiemanly treatment, time when the now despised hog will make 8 triumphal entry in Berlin amidst the salutes of the German artillery and the huzzas of the German populuce, J. Scott Keitie, librarian of the Royal London, in his “About Africa,” in Seridner, says: ‘In the final scramble for Africa, | Great Britain has managed to appropriate upon the frozen ground dead, and be. | a verp satisfactory share. Bouth of the Zambesi she has obtained nearly all that | is worth having, and here we see in the | making what in the future may prob. | ably become a great Eaglish-speaking nation or confederation, public spirit of Sir William Mackinnon, her dominion extends over those great lakes which give origin to the Nile, and the magnificent plateaus with their splendid populations around them, Oa the other side she has command of the Niger and the thickly populated and balf-civilized countries to which that river gives access. England is supreme in Egypt, aod will probably let no other goin a footing In those upper Nile countries which are at present terrorized over by the Mahdi. The history of Central Africa may only now be said to have begun, The problem here is very different from that which has had to be faced in Americ, in Australia, and oven In Asin; what will be the final outcome of it all, who can tell?” mise In the center | of the continent, again, thanks to the WILLIAM WINDOM, Willlam Windom, of Minnesota, Becretary of the Treasury of the United States, died at | eloven minutes past ten o'clock a few nights agoin a small serving room adjoining the banquet ball at Delmonico’s, in New York | City, where but a few minutes before he had | finished delivering the speech of the evenin at the annual banquet of the New York Roar: of Trade and Transportation The scene was the most dramatic and tragically sensational ever witnessed at an seonsion of festivity in that city Secretary Windom, after floishing his sprech, standing in front of the table of the | guests of honor in the glittering banquet ball, sank slowly into his chair, the seat of | honor, being the first to the President of the portation Fow noticed that he was affected unusual way. Applause io hearty for his speech was still at its height The Secretary bad spoken with particular energy and His form was erect and his face aglow with what seemed the flush of health at its best in ripe manhood Every modulation of his voloe and every gesture indicated the speaker who had him self and his subsjo y After the Secretary had gained his seat ho sat for perhaps as if half dared, and then maok slowly for ward, Dr. 8. A. Robinson, of West Brighton, Staten lsiand, who sat facing the Secretary atone of the longitudinal tables, was the first to notice the change in the Segretary’s con. dition Secretary Windom's head had meanwhile sunk almost to his breast His eyes wore opening and closing spasmodically Dr. Robluson stepped quickly over to the Secretary, but before he reached Mr. Win. dom's side the Secretary swayed in his chair and then slid from it half way to the floor. Mr. Windom had lighted a cigar just before sitting down, and the cigar dropped from his hand (hers in the room now notiosd the con dition of the Secretary. There was an in voluntary movement of those sitting nearest to start forward, and Judge W., H. Arnoux, who had begun to speak after Heordlary Windom, stopped suddenly He and ex Secretary of State Bayard, who sat next to Secretary Windom, sprang to his side. Every one of the 250 and odd gentle men at the tables was now aware that s thing unusual had happened One moan came from Secretary Windom's lips as his startiod friends strove to religve hun He stretched forth bis hand, seized a tumbler filled with water and hastily swa lowed a mouthful It was probably his last MOnSC ions aot He gasped for breath. The glass fell from his nerveloss grasp So intense was the silence that reigned in the chamber that it seemed alinost as loud as a death knell upon a church bell hen followzd another painful gasp; his head dropped forward further Becretary of the Navy Tracy, who sat near by, had by this time joined the others who were at the stricken man's side They lifted him to his feet, deathly pale. He was carried into the serving room bee hind the banquet hall, and everything was done to resuscitate him It was fruitless, At cleven minutes past fen he was pro= nounced dead by Dr. Robinson aud Dr. Do rant, who had come to the former’s assistance, The tears coursed down the cheeks of ex. Secretary Bayard, Mr. J. 8B Colgate, the banker, Secretary Windom's lifelong friend, wept like a child. Mr. C. M. Hondley, Mr. Window's private secretary, was cow pletely unnerved, For five minutes the Secretary lay on the table without a sign of life At sloven minutes past ten o'clock, just eleven minutes alter Secretary Wind sm had wen stricken down, Dr. Robinson, whose nar had asemy reese to the bremst of the inanimate form to catch the faintest sound of the beating of the heart, stopped back and said in a tone of in. expressible sadness “He is dond A tablecloth the dead man eyes and the room Then Judge Arnoux returned slowly and wdly to the banguet ball and announced that Secretary Windom's voice had been heand or the last time in that or any other gather. ing. The assemblage broke up in confusion, The News Received in Washington The gay world of Washington was assem- bled at the home of the Postmaster-{ieneral when news came of the death of Secretary Windom in New York, This was about 10.50 rr. »., and within a few moments the reception had come to an abrupt close, and the guests, with the exception of the per sonal friends, all departed right of the Joard of Trades and Trans. in any rounds clearness Lt under perfes three munutes head 198 i I was spread over the face of to shield it from obirusive group of watchers left the There was great consternation ar the | large crowd in the two parlors of the Wana maker mansion when the news came, and one | of the first guests to hear it was Mrs. Win- dom, as the President sought her side at the eariiest possible moment, and broke the sad tidings to the bereaved widow While they were leaving the house the news of the iary's death was spreading | Mike wildfire about the city, Official notices were sent to all the public officials, and a hasty conference was onlled at the White House, Notices of the death were posted in the telegraph offices, where were read as t pers passed up A th strostafior the play. In ten minutes the news was in every hotel and publie plac: in the city, and knots of people wers soon on the Nr Windom's daughters and Miss Col of New Yor > er 10 thie {in a Jersey City (N fs i jured by jumpiog from a window, and attacked by disease, and therefore he was ao- companied Sonstantiy by his Beoretary, Mr, Houdloy, who nover falled to walk with him to and from his offios, and at all thnes to be by his side, The Becretary's family consisted of a mar- ried son and two young daughters who have but recently made their bow to society, The son lives in Washin and te in the office of the Bupervising Architect of the Marine Department. A few months ago his little son died and the residence of the grand. father was therefore closed fora hood Iv has since been reopened to the social world, and on the day of her husband's death, Mrs. Windom held one of her most crowded and brilliant Wednesday afternoons. Mr, Windom's Career, Mr. Windom was a short, stocky man, nearly sixty-four years old. His parents had fived in Virginia, but migrated from there early in the century to Belmont County, Ohio, and there the future Repub» lican politician and financier was born, He was brought up on a farm, went to the common schools, and then the academy at Mt. Vernon, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to practice In 1850, Two years later he was chosen Prosecuting At- torney for Knox County, Three years after this ho moved to Winona, Minn., and from that time until a few years ago was the Btate in which he made his home and found the political support that put him in high office and made bim, according to Roscos Conkling, an available candidate for che Presidential nomination of the Republi can party. Soon after settling in Minnesota young Windom joined the Republican party and made himself well known as a stump speaker, In 1858 he was sent to the Houses of Repro sentatives at Washington His services there extended over a period of ten years, much of his work being done in the Committees on Public Lands and Expenditures, as Chairman of the Com mittee on Indian Affairs, and on the Bpecial Committee on the Rebellious State in 1870 he was appointed United States Benator to fill an unexpired term, and twio afterward he was elected for a full term, H held the office until 1881, when Presiden Garfield made bim Secretary o the Tre ary. Upon the accession of Arthur to the Pr idency, Mr. Windom resigned his Beoretar: ship and soon after was elected by the Mi nesota Legislature to fill his unexpired term in the Senate, A strong opposition wa croated against him, however, in his own party, and his leadership in Minnesota and general influence as a fector in Northwest polities were bitterly attacked, His enemie triumphed and he was defeated for renom ination From corn beourity, he emerge sy invited him to tal par nlive when President Harr 4 i the portfolio of the i ronsury Ofo | A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. A Series of Fire Fatalities in Jersey City, NX. J A chapter of a ents hinged upon a fire J.) tenement on a recent sflernoon. An aged woman was badly in one | man was found dead in an upoer room of the {| burning building { anedd at this fre was hastening to another, it As one of the engines was run down by an express train ng of the Pennsylvania iriver was killed al a Oross Kailroad and the A young colored woman { ho was standing near was injured, probably Iatally Meantime at the fire in Grove street Chief Henry E. Farrier was killed by an explosion, snd Fireman Joha McDonald was badly in jured ident was that of oid re. Flannen was driven by the flames to a window, and ; wt could be 1 be saddest as Nhe before a lad raised for bor rescue she was forced to jump, She struck on a empty plano box, crushing through It, and was pioked up for dead but recovered uses, and 1 was f« her right leg was broken and that she sustained intersal injuries At 730 rv. o. the same day an alarm in from the box at Pavonia Daniel Dinan, stoker of "sine in the absence regular driver, and dr As be approached the Penney ralirond crossing the gateman antern as a signal to stop The horses were under va sver, that Dinan was unable to uiled the horses 0 one f ne Strack one the ron slevated track This frightens and they dashed across the | track directly in front { Florida vestibule tra y at high spend The loon OCOnSCIO a WAS ruminal » ive struck the fire engin wnashed it Dinan was thrown seat under the wheels of locomotiv His head was severed from the body The body was pleked up afterward about halfway be tween Harrow and Grove streets, and. after a long search, the head was found near Grove street Mary Sneed, a colored won was standing near the tracks waiting to cross A piece of iron from the fire engine struck her on the head and knocked her senseless Hhe subsequently recovered and was taken home in a patrol wagon One of the engine horses was killed, and the other so badly in jured that be had to be shot A few hours later on the same day Fire Chief Henry E. Parrier, of Jersey City killed In Boltwond's hardware sto Grove street and Pavonia avenue wood's hardware store is a fourstory Lick building. The fire was sanily put ont and the firemen were making preojarations to leave when a terrible explosion was heard and Fireman John MeDouald, of Engine No, 6, came out from a cellar, his face and hands bloody and burned, and reported that Fire Chief Farrier was in the cellar, Fireman MeDonald, with Fire Commissioner Brown, who bad heard the explosion In in his house a block or two away, rushed into the cellar. They found Fire Chief fro 3] i Farrier's body Iviog on its back at the rear of the cellar, Life was extinct, No marks of violence were visi It appeared that he was in the front of cellar when the ex- osion occurred and was carried by its force orty feet Lo the rear. Ea ,—.— INGALLS DEFEATED, Kansas Elects Pleffor as His Saccos sor in the Senate, A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., mays Promptly at 13 0'clock the Beoate flied into the Representatives’ chamber for the pul pose of joining the House in joint convention to elect a United States Senator to succeed John J, Ingalls, Lisutesant Governor Fel took the chair and called the House to order, The roli of both bodies was culled at once and resulted as follows: William Pleffer, 101, | Company at Mount Pleasant | oily magistrates, | lature Is over, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, In the New York Assembly wo resolu. tions were introduced—og= Msn the Foderal Elections bill and the other declar- ing that in the event of that bill becoming a law Now York State would take no part in the World's Fair at Chicago, Tux first international convention of clubs of the United States met at Pittsburg, Penn, The meeting was held in the Select Council Chamber, and prominent journalists from all over the country were present. The Mayor delivered an addres of welcome, AFTER several meetings at Meadville, Penn., the creditors of the Delamateors have concluded to nccept the proposition made by | the bankrupt bankers to pay fifty per cent to their creditors in two years’ time, Gronae H, ExcoeMmax and four managers of the Clifton (N. J.) were fined and sentenced to State prison for one your for allowing poolselling on their | track. Tax report of the House Committes on | Canvass of the Votes fn Connecticut was | presented, declaring that there was no elec tion of Btate officers except in the case of Btaub, Controller; a resolution to that effect Mi | was adopted noesota | Frevewiox Sreix, brother-in-law of present Mikado of Japan, died a few days ago in the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island, Now York City, of a compheation of diseases. Heo was forty-seven years of age, | a German by birth, and had a most roman tic and checkered career OX the day after the sccidant one hundred and six dead bodies were removed from the mampoth shaft of the Frick & Co. Coke Pean., as the result of the fire damp explosion it wa then estimated that a total of 151 miners had perished A LARGE ladle of molten in the Duquesne Bteel Works was accidentally up set and the contents poured out upon four men, burning them to death. The Duquesne Steel Works are fifteen miles from Pitts burg, Penn., up the Monongahela River Arsenr H wie LAapxonr, at present one of the has nominated for Mayor by the Democratic City Conventi of Phila elphia, Penn Di. Jaxes K. Nas of St verdict in ston Ma m and Maine Rallroad ( or injuries sustained Passumprie in been Jot agai January, 1889 ex loss ate Ce tired IT, wr natu pO yw for R ty was passed South and West, Corrs Asnavsox, aged thirty-five years, wanted to marry Mamie Ronnigan st West wort, Minn, and because she refus e shot Ea dond. then blew out his own brains. The parties were wall COD He tod { the Wisconsir liam F Vilas to Spooner as 1 nite part The Repu for Ser lor Spooner Born Houses « elected W Nintes Ne ¥ vole Wnes the new admi of the T ants of the 1} led Kat wor = cg RB PRsSse Ler : renoe wnt Set at rive Medi and tw Cuan 8 MiLien a dered tw IVE Bamad * son inn i thin the borders of Wyoming, while they were «a route from their home in Mt J soph to Denver, has been setitenond to be i od on March 20 ht car = ng A PICTURE of ope of the farmers’ mem bers in the Illinods Legislature was recognised by prisoners in an Ohio penitentiary as that of a paroled convict who never returned roof of a mine cham men were killed and BY the caving of the bor at Ameret, Mo, two five buried under debris Cartas Wintian DD, Diere assistant sur geon, United States Army, and his wife were found dead st Alostraz Iddand, San Fran Captain Dietz first shot his wile himself with a double barrelled vison, Cal and then shotgun A DARING safe robbers was committed at Saltillo, Tenn. The safe of Craver & Will jameson, merchants, was orscked by dyna mite, and several thousand dollars stolen The explosion awoke a numise of citizens, but the burglars escaped in a skiff down the Tennessee Hiver, A BLazzanDd raged west and north of Chi cago, lL; raliroad travel was greatly hin- dered by snow, Ex Govenson Gerona A Crawronrn, of Kansas, died recently at Grand Junction, Col. of bemorrhage of the lungs. He was the founder of the city, and unmarried ALL the fruit canneries of California, with one exception, have agrecd to form a cor poration to last fifty years, Tix long deadlock of the Montana Legis The Democrats have the or anization and the Republicans have a ma- wity of one HC Kezstre, a prominent resident of Belma, All, is missin He had failed for $350,000, It is believed he is in Mexico, and itis suspected that he fled with the proceeds of 0000 bales of cotton consigned to him by neighboring planters Tug boller of Rean & Henry's saw mill, at Overton, Texas, exploded, killing Dilly Henry and Dan Tucks, rh fatally injuring John Austen, all colored Ax overloaded boast from the Rueos, in Ban Francisco (Cal) Bay, onpained, preciph tating uine seilors into water, of then — W llliam Blum, William Stephen Tide were drowned 3 Geonar 8, Maxx, a veteran of the Maxionn war, died a few days ago at Ban Francisco, Cal, at the age of ninety-three yoars, other | racetrack | the | ly made w | bills introduced has been greater than in ap but died shortly after surface, A conscresce contribution of $150 in a letter postmarked New York City has been received at the Treasury rot. Brconp Lixvresant BanveL Seay, Jn, Twenty-first Infantry, United States Army, has been detailed by Becretary Proctor as Professor of Military Belence at the Florida Agricultural College, Lake City, Fia. Tre President gave a reception and dinner to the Bupreme Court Justices, Mrs. McKee took the place of Mrs, Harrison, who is suf. fering from a severe cold. Covers for forty seven were laid. ATTORNEY-GENERAL MILLER made his re. | 24 in the Behring Mea case before the United tates Bupreme Court Josgrn H. Cuoare concluded his argu- ment before the Supreme Court in behalf of the British Government, the petitioners in the Behring Bea case Tux Navy Departinent has been informed that the trial of the Ban Francisco was high. ly satisfactory and successful, Fourteen Bioux Indians in charge of Special Agent Lewis have arrived in Wash ington, and are guarded against interview ers at their bosrding houses Bporerany Wivnos on the day befors his death sent to the House of Representa. tives a letter urging prompt action on the bill providing for a new Mint bullding st Philadelphia, Penn Tux body of Secretary moved from the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York City, and taken to Washington; flags were at half-mast and different bodies passed resolutions of respect and sympathy The body was met at Washington by the Pres dent and Vice-President and the members of the Cabinet Windom was re Porn branches of Congress adjourned as a mark of respect to Secretary Windom, who had been a member both of the and the House Tre Secretary of the Interior has an order directing that all persons in quarrying stone on the Cheroke removed therefrom as intruders t all persons Bensate ak aot | ngaged further directed that proper authority be pr evaented {rom the strip on any pretext whatever Tie Navy Department is Lhe old } BOrse pow: gun 4.52 + OF FB ors Englidh woman suffer who was treated by Berlin for two Lannes from Koch wine France, of blood po Weis Te 7 SQUARGATONn OTUs New Zealand has beer ng in waters of rdered Chil Sexon Friare Poxy pher and naturalist, is in Havana in 1802 the Coban philo dead He was born Disrarcues from Greece tell of hi bY an svalanchs { snow, ice a horrible One of earila disaster wrong oh the © Buge masses and cae rolling down from the mountais the town of Athaman persons outright, injur destroying eights = IE section wit furtanos hres persuns wae = killed ried that Abdurrahman aistan IT is repo be Amear of Khan, 1 afgt is dend 1 Beotland has ting with the offi & With the vies r former pia reached Cs rah wh nave rm at Mass a foods of Massowah | lisaatrous Uves y property is son be breaking of 1 were wanted ior Nteanthope wi FIriuer ra aledonian Noad Brapravan, Membe rithampton for some time past His end was quiet and was born ia 158 He was a n all the Sante tiom of the CRARLES British | bad bees ritically fil at London peacelu He noted * sment Tor Ne atheist sudden bs! ore Ewcnr gypeies were buried in a snowdrift in Moravie, and two died relief reached them ———— THE WORK OF CONGRESS, Proportion of Private Bilis to Pablio Much Smaller Than Usual The percentage of bills introduced in Cone gress that rea tion--the Executive —is very small hod the inst stage of legisla wal of the recent date, 18 an 15.250 approval or disap Up including this session ani last bills and 275 joint resolutions have been intro duced in the House. Of this number 12.2080 were put in last session. Of toss 3515 have been considered by committees and reported to the House. Three thousand two hundred and forty-three were reported last session and 277 this session Of the 12.30 bills introduced last session only 1005 beoame Inws. Of this number 504 were bills of public interest, the others pri. vats pension bills claims, ete During this sewnion the total number of bills which have Jaawad and received the signature of the resident lssixty-five. Of these thirty-three were public bills and thirty-two private This isa very unisual proportion, as ordin. arily the number of private bills passed is four or five times greater than the publie bills. The inlications now are that the record of the Fifts-first Congress when final will show that the number of A BATTLE TO THE DEATH, | Fierce Fight Between a Stallion and a Jackass, A battle to the death took place a few Murray and | days ago ln Mercer County, Ky., between a valuable saddle stallion and n jackass belong. fog to William Thomas a stock riser. A
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