The Newtown bee., 1879-04-01
From Washington.

The principal committees of the Senate have been rearranged by the Democratic majority as tollows Finance - NIessrS. Bayard, chair man; Wallace, Herman, Voorhees,, Beck. App opriations-Messrs. Davis, of West Virginia, chairman; Withers, Beck, Wallace, Eaton. Foreign relations - Messrs. Eaton, chairman; Johnson, Morgan, Hill, Pendleton. Commerce - Messrs. Gordon, chairman; Ranson, Ran dolph, Hereford, Coke. Judiciary - Messrs. Thurman, chairman; Mcdonald, Bayard, Gar land, Lamar, Davis, of Illinois. The other chailmanships distributed follows: Privileges and elections--Mr. Salisbury. Mill tiry affairs - Mir Randolph. Naval affairs - Mir. McPherson. Postoffice and post roads - Mr. Maxey. Public lands - MT. Mcdonald. Indian affairs - MT. Coke. Pensions - MT. Withers. Claims -- MT. Cockrell Manutac- lures - Mir. Grover. Agriculture - MT. John son. District of Columbia-Mr. Harris Pat ents - NIr. Kernan. Public buildings and grounds-Mr. Jones, of Florida. Territories MT. Garland. Railroads-Mr. Ransom Mines and mining = Mir. Hereford. Revision of the laws MT. Wallace. Education and labor - MT. Bailey. Civil service and retrenchment- Mr. Butler. Printing-Mr. White Library MT. Voorhees,. Contingent expenses = Mir. Hill Rules - MT. Morgan. Enrolled bills - bIr. Vance. The select committee C to inquire into alleged frauds in the late elections" com- monly known heretofore as the "Teller con- mittee," is reorganized with MT. Wallace as chairman.
 
 tion cases ill the Forty-sixth Congress. The five elective officers in the Senate have been elected by the Democratic majority, as follows: Secretary, Colonel John C. Burch, of Tennessee; sergeant-at-arms, R. J. Bright, of Indiana; chief clerk, Francis k. Shober, of North Carolina; executive clerk H. $. Peyton, of Virginia; chaplain, Rev. J. G. Bullock, of Virginia
 General Francis A. Walker has been nomi- tad fo l&a of the national census.
 The national executive committee of the Ma tional Greenback party has issued an address ! to the people of the United States, in which the committee states that no dependence is to be l placed on the professions of avowed friends to the cause; that hope for financial relief within l old party lines has been extinguished, and that l the Nationals have been in several instances misled by the nominees of the party and others ] who obtained it's support The address says that it is only possible through new organiza- l ton to found q party which shall accomplish the desired end. To succeed, a uniform effort
 must be made, and position bold, aggressive, independent and uncompromising must be taken.
 The President has nominated Dr. J. B. i Hamilton to be surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital, as successor of the late I Dr. Woodworth.
 Foreign News.
 A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, says the
 British steamer Bolivar, Captain Doherty, ply 1 ing between Liverpool and St. Thomas, came in collision with the Haytian steamer Michel. l The latter sanlx and sixty persons board l were drowned
 At Bleiberg in the Austrian Tyrol, ten houses
 were crushed by an avalanche, and forty per-
 sons were killed and eighteen seriously in jured.
 The French floating battery Arrogante foun- l dered off Hyeres, France, and forty seven men
 were drowned out of crew of l22.
 The rebellion of Caffre tribes in South Af-
 rica against the British is spreading, the sue
 cess of the Zulus having inspired other tribes
 to join in revolt
 Nearly Irl00 persons are reported to have
 been killed, and two villages totally destroyed
 by an earthquake shock in northern Persia.