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unarmeo aud helpless prisoner, the only man. be-
eve. who, in the history Of that war shown TO have
been killed injured the Con iedcrate side by the
warrior from Massachusetts,. loud laughter and ap-
plause GU tho democratic side.)
The previous question having been seconded the
first vote was taken or the resolution offered py Mr.
les resolution that the House proceed 70 the
election OF doorkeeper, and u was adopted-yeas
Of Messrs. Collins. OF Pen Peansyivan,s, aud Cutler OF
Now Jersey, who voted with The Republicans IN inc
ON The announcement OF the vote Mr.. Clymer, Of
Pennsylvania, rose and said:-l nominate Charles W.
Field, citizen OF Georgia, as doorkecpcr oil TINS
House
Mr.. BUTLER, OF Massachusetts-I nominate tho gal
lan Christian, loyal tried and true Union soldier OF
United STATES Army tLaughlor.)
Mr.. RANDOLPH trepl OF Tenn.-l nominate for
doorkeeper Union soldier-a gen man who fought
three years in tho war. who acquitted himself with
honor ana credit ana who bears the mark OF lead on
his body to-day whose name rs John H. rront OF Nor
The vote then taken and resulcd;--
For Charles W. Field, l23-all cast by democrats.
For James Shields, l0l-all but ono cast by repub-
lcans, and that one being cast by ME Springer. Of
ILLINOIS.
For John H. Trent, s--cast by Messra Erett,
Bayne. Evans, OMEN, Whito and Hammer OF Penn
New York.
Upon tho announcement OF the vote Charles W.
Field was declared duly elected. and was tncreupon
sworn in, taking the modified oath.
GENERAL SHIELDS ON THE RETIRED L,sE
Mr. CLARKE, (dem.) Of Mo-, asked unanimous consent
to inlroluco ior present consideration bill author
iz,na tho President 70 appoint James Shields, oil Mis-.
Brlgadler General oil the United States army
the rcifed list his pay to commence from the
time OF the passage OF the bill.
Mr. WHITE (rep.I OF Pa, objected.
Mr. CLARKE movoi 10 suspend The rules and pass
the bill.
Mr. WHITE made tho point OF ordor That that
ton not order until after the marning hour.
Ho made The pont OF order respon ,ibility.
The passage OF that bill would without precedent
In tho history OF the government.
Tho SPEAKER overrued me point Of order, on Tho
ground that upon Monday motion TO suspend tho
rules Is in order hour aftor the reading Of tho
Journal
The vote was then taken and the bill was passed.
yeas u.s. nays g. the negative vote being cast by
Messrs Randolph, OF Tennessee; White and O'Neiil,
OF Pennsylvania; Jones ana Cox oil OHIO, and AckleD,
OF LOUISIANA.
Mr.. BLouSr. (dem.) OF Ca. from tho Committee on
Appropriations reported toe Post once Appropria-
lion b Referred TO the Committee OF tho Whole
IL appropriatcs S33, 09O, 1878.
Mr. BUTLER, OF Massachusetts, moved to suspend
the rules and pass tho BIN introduced by him
time ago 10 provide for issuing fifty and twenty i've
cent fractional currency and one. two, 1--WE
dollar United States legal tender notes, pending
which, motion Of Mr. Cox, OF New York, tho
House, at twenty-five minutes to i've O'Clock, I'D
jeurned.
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FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

wAsHisGrox, April 8, 1873
THE PENSION BrLL-PEofosED ABOLITION or
EXISTING AGENCIES.
In the House tomorrow Mr.. Smith. OF tho Com.
pittee Appropriations. Will call up the Pension
BILL which will probably pass without much debate,
although IL proposes to further diminish executive
patronage by aboshing the existing pension agencies
some eighteen In number. Under the proposed plan
the saving salaries alone will annually DO 5000 O00
besides making further dciaications impossible. Mr..
Smith has carefully In tho bill Tor tho work
OF sending pensioners their checks direct from the
Treasury In Washington, that annual disburse-
mcnt OF 900 will hereafter DO In the form OF
currency checks tho Assistant rrcasurcrs and will
for a time least bccomea substitute for an equiva-
lent OF papor money.
PROPOSED CHANCES IN THE HALL OF REPRE-
sENTATIvEs.
proposition Ia before Congress TO remodel the hall
In wh,oh the members sit by taxing all tho desks,
leaving only chairs alter manner OF the Eng.
lish House OF Parliament should IL DO adopted the
concentrio scmi-circlcs OF chairs will be brought
closer together than at present. SO that the entire
House will be concentrated IN a smaller body
20 the Speakers desk. Al equidisant points in the
centre OF each Of tho four segments into which tho
chairs will DO arranged, platform viii be
erected at slight elevation, from which any member
making q speech will deliver his remarKs There
viii be thus rostrum for the lett tho left CENTRE the
right centre and tho right Eighteen longitudinal
tables Of tho committee room shape Will be provided
In the rear OF tho desks, at which members who may
wish any writing VIII ind all tho requisite facil-
tiles II 10 commended that this system will expedite
business and enable a debate to DO heard In all its
features by everybody sitting In the chairs Another
plan 10 to dvi1e tho hall by stout wall running the
length Of the present centre aisle and making two
chambers communicating BY doors afser the manner
OF tho openings into tho cloak rooms Ono OF these
chambers IN which the Speakers desk would be
snsnged about to position At a right angle with It's
present location, would DO furnished with benches
only and DO reserved for debate The other chamber
would DO furnished with desks and sofas, and the
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SCHOOL FOR NURSES.

Tho Society OF the framing School for Nurses, Of
which Mra Alexander Hamilton Is president, hold
their reception at the school, NO. l26 East Twenty
SIKH street, yesterday afternoon Tho thirteen grad
yates wcrc clad In neat nttins dark dresses with
circular igh crowned white caps, and received thcr
diplomas from the bands Of the president. Mrs Alex
ander Hamilton. DR. william H. Draper then ad-
dressed them in a few appropriate remarks, COZ.
graduating them on the successful manner In which
they acquitted themselves IN their cxamina,iop, I'm.
pressed upon them tho great responsibility which do
VOWED upon them their new sphere OF duties ane
t,o difficulties which they would probably
counter IN tho course OF their ministcring career
Above all other things, he said, great patiencz
and orbcarance we're absolutely necessary Tor them
and should mark their whole conduct In their inter
with and attendance the SICK and afflicted
Tho reception was largely attended BY Tho friends u
the management.
Foilo~ing are tho names of those who received
Diplomas Misses Mary Clark, Lille Burgess, Augusta
Andrews, Dana Van Du.en. Marion shaw. Maggie
Jaeger, Ada Cooler. Sarah l.. Post. Lizx,c Fosvr.
Caroline w'ibour, Emily Dunn, Mary y. Brown aad
Mrs. hawson.
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members could therein do their writing, talking
smoking without disturbing the debate in tho other
department.
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to alter, amend or repeal at any time.
passed. tho House by vote oil l54 too. Who're was
the eioqcence OF tho Senator from Maine tnen Why
did he then proclaim that IL would DO made the
football Of the stock gamblcrs9 HIS voice was not
heard. he was as muto the lamb before the
shearcr aud when the vote he was not present.
like JOBS trends
Mr.. said tho FIRST nc had heard OF the matter
he saw 10 Tie democratic morning paper that nc Was
to take Dir. Tburman's scalp. Coming IRON the DEM
ocratc organ he inferred II was notice 10 him that
The Senator from OHIO TO take his scalp. IL
could not be that he terms with tho
democratic organ ms To cause its insertion there.
MIR. THURMAN said the Post the Senator's
side on this question.
SIR. BLAINE replied, but not politically and IL could
not DO supposed mat he made the communication. II
did not come from him. He read I'ost every day
had oficn thought he saw evidence OF
suggestions from tho senator from Onto. The
Senator had quoted his own short remarks, but
not The longer speeches. They showed that no
constantly tho alert. watching tho measure: II no
might use tho expression, 'Dossing The bl.' HIS
record 1876 had been referred TO. Al that
tine he had not been in Washington for month"; He
had been bed Of sickness from which some OF his
friends thought he would never arise. He did NOS
even know that Mr. Lawrence had funding bill
Mr. HERMAN. (dein.) OF ~ ", advocated thu Judici-
airy Commitiec's bill, claiming that the government
had un9uestionable right to alter, amend or repeat
the acts denied there was aoy breach Of the
contract proposed
Mr.. EDMUSDs (rep.) OF VI, obtained the foor but
gave way TO Mr. THURMAN, who SAID number OF Sem
atois hnd gone away, some Of them not fceag well.
and hc mad said he would not ask vote any OF tho
propositions to-day but Lhat he would ask the Senate
10 1nish the bill to- morrow.
On motion OF Mr. CoNKLiNG tho Senate then, ut ten
minutes past lour O'clock went into executive Sos
si0n and when the doors reopenod nj hall-pas
four O'Clock, adjourned until tomorrow.
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SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD BEACoNsFIELD.-A
London special says: The air is heavy concern
ing the Illness OF Lord BeacOnSfield The LONG
strain made on his mental powers, not only in
the matter OF the Berlin treaty, but in carving
on more OF less acrimonious warfare with Mr.
Gladstone, has seriously undermined his con-
StitutlOn. In this critical state of things the
cabinet has been summoned 10 consider whaf
should be done in case OF his loriship'S death
lt is now known that after the last meeting OF
the cabinet, he was attacked by an epileptfc hi
which nearly had the effect of bringing TO an
end the eyentful career OF this remarkable man.
so severe was the attack that it was feared his
life would be endangered If he were Immediate
ly removed. He was therefore compelled TO re-
main for several hours in a waiting-room az
Hughenden before it was considered safe 10
transfer him to his carriage. He was driven 10
his home in charge OF a physician. who has
since admitted that he had fears of fatal resIltS
from the fatigue OF this means OF transport
The medical man has been criticised for nor
ordering an invalid carriage for his ilustrious
patient. The bulletin received in this city this
morning announces that Lord BeacOnsfield is
In better health and rapidly rallying toward
his former state OF health. A good deal of anX
1ety, however, prevails on the subject.
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ss~Owipg TO lack OF money many publ
schools in Virginia will not be opened this year.
rS-T The blue-.tbbon movement has been be-
gun lin England.
cz Three stones placed over the grave
ThOmaS Jefferson have been, one by one de
stroyed by relic hunters.
ss Charles F. COlburn. employed for ten
years in the CharleStOwn (MasS.) poStOifice, has
been arrested In the act OF rObbing letters
u The climate OF England and the exposure
TO salt water have caused Cleopatras Needle ID
SHOW disposition to crumblc.
cs The fair OF the Virginia State Agricultural
society commenced at Richmond yesterday
The exhibition is equal to any of former years.
Many northern exhibitors are present.
"a Yellow fever has thus far carried Off fifty
SIX clergymen. Twenty-fOur were Roman
Catholics, thirty -one Protestants, and one a
Jewish rabbi.
es Ernest Clemens, Isaac Barrows David
SWeeten Charles Schaffer, and James Davidson.
rngleadelS in the lynching OF Edward Freeman
at Ansonla, Conn.,, october 4, have been ar
rested.
es"Satan died here" reads Ptttsburg sign.
Dut II was not until an aStute Allegheny Dutch
man inquired when he died there that the
people understood that they could get satin
dyed. '--'
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Horrible Death OS q rE,rax,.,

New YORK, Oct. 30.-The station house at
Fairfield, a village about 15 miles from here
who was locked up for drinking, was burned to
death. A number Of persons witnessed the
burning OF the building and described the scene
as cruel horrible and tragic beyond utterance,
the yells and groars of the prisoner ringing ont
upon the still night air with blood curdling
clearness: His struggles were maddened and
frantic. He could actually be seen burning, it
Is alleged. by those who saw the fire. So intense
and rapid were the flames that the few persons
who witnessed their progress We're utterly un-
able TO rescue the burning man. His charred
ing, He was tramp, but has at one time
worked at Fairfield
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The Markets,

BALTIMORE, Oct 30-yirginia skies, Old, 20;
dc. deferred, Ca do consolidated, 521@; do second
series, 20; do past due coupons. sos. North Caro-
quiet-A soft. Gao.
BALTIMORE, Oct 3o.-Cotton flat and irrexu!ar-
n!ddling. nominally g. Flour fairly active and firm
Wheat, southern good demand and firm; western
ac,Ive and tirmer-southern red, 95al 02; do amber
IO3al: :Osi No 2Pennsylyania red. 1;03; No, = Yves;
ern winter red, SPOT LOO, November, lO0L: De-
cehber I02 hal 027s. Corn southern steady western
steady aud tTnl-southern white and yellow, new
4oa45; western mixed, spot AS November, A. De
cember and January,46; steamer 43. Oats steady
and firm-southern, 27a29; wet .rrl white. 2Sa29
do mixed, mixed, 25a27: Pennsyiyania. 27a29. Rye quiet,
duh. weak and heavy. Butter firm for choce-west-
ern roll and packed; l6a1S, Petroleum quiet. but
more sieady-crude, IA refined. 9s94, Coffee dull
and nominal-Rio cargoes, 13llal6ll. Whisky fair
demand IL. Fre1ghts to Liverpool per steamer
quet-cntton, II, ,s2d. -four 2s lOl. grain Sd. Re
cepts-four, 42W wheat, $4,000; corn. IA 800: oats
500; rye 300. No shipments
NEW YORK, Oct. $0.-Stocks strong Money. 5.
Gold, zoos: Exchange, long, 1873; short, 4S7 Z
Governments strong.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Flour quiet Wheat quiet
Corn quiet
LONDON, Oct. 80. 10 80 p. m.-U s. bonds, To- 4O's.
1878. Erie, II do. preferred, 2SE Pennsylvania
Central, 33s4. New Jersey Central, 2924. Reading
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STRANGE CASE OF HANGING.-A very strange
case is agltatlng the hamletS OF Linwood and
Marcus Hook, two little places divided bv the
track OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
umore railroad, and the good people are as much
excited over it as were the citizens OF Ardmore
over the celebrated H0chne case At about five
O'Clock Sunday morning boy discovered the
dead body OF man hanging from tree near
the Hook cross roads. Investigation showed
that the mans neck had not been broken. The
body was warm when found, and there were no
signs OF strangulation. A stranger took the first
train for Philadelphia. He was seen earlier in
the morning, lnquiring for time table. He
was much confused when spoken TO Of the dead
nody and had two OvercoatS with him. and so
the good people OF the Hook think there NAV be
something more than suicide in the case, and
tllat tle man might have been dead before he
was suspended from the tree,
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TelegTams to The Star.
EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS.
Vienna Cabinet Crisis.
CHICAGO BUILDING FRAUDS.
HOME AND FOREIGN FAILURES.
MORE FEVER VICTIMS.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
A Disabled SleanaH


LONDON, Oct. 30.-The British bark Annie
Williams, from Glasson Dock for Oak Point,
ReSt1ganche, has put back to HOlyhead. She
reports that on the 10th of october in latitude
46 degrees and longitude 80 degrees she saw a
steamer apparently disabled. The steamer was
Dark-Iigged, had black funnel, and was stand
vessel seen may be the Belgian steamer Her
mann Ludwig, which left New York september
2oth for Antwerp, and has not yet reached her
destination.
The st. GOthard Railway.
GENEVA, Oct. 3o.-Twenty-one cantons have
accepted the scheme for the completion of the
st. Gothard railway.
The Cabinet Crisis at Vienna.
VIENNA, Oct. 30.-Baron Won PretiS Caynodo
Telinquished the formation of cabinet because
OF the impOSSibility OF securing combination
commanding majority OF the Reichsrath.
Greece and Turkey.
CoNSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 3O.-The Port at the in
stance OF France and Italy expresses its willing
hess TO make Slight rectitcatiOn OF the from
tier In favor OF Greece, but It is thought here
that Greece will refuse any boundary other
than that indicated in the conference at Berlin
Meanwhile Turkey and Greece continue hostile
preparations.
A Sensation Cable Story COntradic-
ted.
LONDON, Oct. 30-There was not the shadow
of foundation for the pretended cable dispatch
published i'll American opposition evening pa
p9rS OF October 10th, making The important
statement that the Car had sent a letter to the
powers asking them to unite in compelling Tur-
key TO execute her share OF the treaty OF Berlin.
The dispatch was pure fabrication, the pro-
duct OF wild and 'unintellgent imagination
only, The evidence OF its fraud is on its face
II asserts, for instance, that the Car complains
because the Sultan had not taken any steps to
comply with articles is and Il OF the Berlin
treaty: relating to Christian governor for Rou-
mania, and article is, respecting arrangements s
for the new judicial and financial admintstra-
ton OF the province. The abSurdity of this is
established by the well known fact that it is
precisely these three artcleSo OF the treaty which
Russia refuses 10 recognize the PorteS right to
carry out during the nine months OF Russian
occupation OF the territory also provided for by
treaty arrangement.
Failure i'm England.
The North of England Carriage and Iron
Company have failed. Their liabilities are be-
iieVe(l 10 be heavy
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A SUICIDE n PRISoN.-The attempted sui
clde OF John Carpenter, in the jefferson market
prison yesterday. was singular case. The
crime for which the man was i'm confinement
was the attempted assassination OF a girl named
Mary Lyons, in st. Francis Xavier'S church
during early mass about three weeks ago. The
girl was stranger to him, and his story is that
ne mlStO0k her for his wife, who had deserted
him, and whom he had intended to murder.
fortunately The wound was not fatal. and the
young woman recovered. Carpenter was to
nave been taken to the General sessions yester-
gay, and while getting ready suddenly drew a
knife from his coat and plunged it into his alb
aomen, performing the operation OF hari-kari
S1ngularly enough, his companion in the cell
was prisoner who had twice attempted sui
eide, and Carpenter was asked to keep sharp
LOOKOUT against repetition OF the attempt
IN. Y. Herald, 29th.
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The Public Building Frauds in Chi

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 30-The Times and T,j-
bunc charge that the exclusion OF Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Thomas from the duty OF pre-
with the construction of a government building
here is scheme to defeat the ends of Justice
and demand that the conduct OF the case shall
now be placed in Mr.. Thomas hands. The Tri-
tiOn about which on this point Mr.. Thomas
knows everything worth knowing, and about
which Judge Banks knows next TO nothing is
In progress. We do not charge that Judge
Bangs designs to defeat the ends of justice but
we do not hesitate 10 assert that his course in
excluding Mr.. Thomas from the case tends di-
fectly 10 that end. The government OF the [ nj
ted states is not being represented SO ably as it
might be, and this, by the arbitrary interposi-
Jlon or Judge Bangs, a sworn government Of
hcer. MI. Thomas should be reinStated in his
proper place in the conduct Of the investigation
and That at once.
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American Missionary Society.

TAUNTON, MASS, Oct. 30.-The twenty-third
annual convention of the American Missionary
Association convened here yesterday afternoon
The annual report showed the receipts of the
year to be 1896, .G5, expenses 49, leav-
ing balance of $7,522.19 The current receipts
are not equal by $13.063 % to those of preceding
years the falling Off being mainly in legacieS
The debt, which two years ago was s93 600, has
teen reduced by gifts and pledges to s2627S,
After the transaction of some minor business
the convention adjourned until evening. when
the annual sermon will be preached by Dr. S. .E,
HerricR. The convention will be In session
until Thursday night.
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LOVE AND WAR.-Russian newspapers relate
some romantic attachments which have sprung
up between Turkish prisoners of war and Rus
sian ladies Of various ages In the towns where
the former have been detained, leading in some
cases to somewhat sensational and rather incon-
venient scenes upon the departure Of the Turks.
Al CharkOn Russian girl, dressed up as a
Turk, took her place among the returning Mos
lens. She was detected on numbering the per-
sons conveyed in the car. At Poltaya a young
lady OF position and education insisted upon ac
cOmpany1ng Turkish officer, to whom she ear
neStly desired to be married. AT the same place
the departure OF one railway train carrying lib
Grated prisoners led to a regular scene, neceSSi-
tating the interference OF the police and calling
for orders which have since been given to pre-
vent similar occurrences I'm future. crowd
ladies, young and old, some only schoolgirls
assembled on the platform and took leave or the
departing Turks in the most pathetic and de-
mOnStrative OF ways. All embraced, all kissed
some burst into tears, others tainted away. Al
this was done In public. The school -girlstaking
part in the display have since been expelled
from their schools.
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tF George Washington and brother are
manufacturing split-bottom chairs at Gordons-
Vile, Va.
EB-"As long as grass grows and water runs,
IS the term OF lease recorded at Ann Arbor.
Mich.
eE-The bellies OF Athens Ga. have been col,
Ing kisses at dime piece for the benefit of the
yellOw-feyer sufferers
The Chicago Times indicts Don Cameron
for parting his hair with towel.
sSGreensDoro: Ca, fair is closed for lack
OF exMoltS, the oun having ate the pumpkin.
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THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN p

The hENUIUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA
IS promoted In some measure by the cOmpica-
Ilons OF national finance. No one is able to
lolil lil any defhlte idea OF the state OF the
finances, OF the requirements OF the treasury or
OF the measures which are about to be intro
auced. AS consequence. diStruSt is universal
Inc government papers recently announced
thal 3t0,0G0,0OO rOubleS OF the new internal loan
nad been subscribed for, but it turns out thai
tWo-thlrds OF these bonds had been taken bv
Tue war contractors in payment OF their bills
ana Inat mol more than S6.2500OO was actually
paid into the treasury. There are numerOns
accounts TO- be settled and the floating debt is
large. ana the issues Of paper money must 90 on
Indefinitely. ~ ~
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SAD RESULT OF OyERTURNING KEROSENE
LAMP.-Mr. Eugene B. Smith, aged thirty-siX
years, very wealthy citizen of New York, who
mas been boarding at jamestown, across the
pay from Newport, r. l., died last Saturday
upset kerosene lamp in his room and was Sc
verely burned, one side OF his body presenting
sickening spectacle. He fingered until Satur-
accident are not generally known, as the friends
of the deceased are very retfcent. The bed
stead, bedding and carpet, were considerably
burned.
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THE ATTEMPT TO AssAssINATE KING ALFONSO
Inc tflal or Juan MoDcaSi for the attempt TO as
SaSSlnate King Alfonso has commenced at Mad
rld. lt is considered as certain that he had no
accompllceS. Sentence OF death will without
DOUBT be passed upon him, but the king will
commute ms punishment to penal SerVitude
for life. The police have found eighteen bot
Ties OF dynamite near Madrid, and three ar
rests have been. made in connection with tile
explosive 'A oiAO