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pared by Judge Lowell and recon,

pared by Judge Lowell and recon-
mended generally by Eastern Boards OF
Trade and Chambers OF Commerce, was
substituted for what Is known as the Equity
bill" which was championed by the Western
and Southern Senator'S The vote stood "a
to 80 and the substitute was sent TO the Jul
dietary Committee for revision A motion
TO take up Mr.. Pendletons Civil Service bill
was carried; but the Senate dismissed and
defeated scheme to release the Memphis
and Little Rock road from its obligations 10
carry troops free and mails at areduced rate.
The Senate confirmed the nominations of
Gen. Pope and Col Mackenzie, To be Major
General and Brigadier General respective
~ In the House, Mr.. Springer intro
duced a Joint resolution providing for an
amendment to the constitution which shall
extend the terms of the President and Vice
President TO six years and render them ineli-
gible tor reelection IL also likes three
years term for Congressman, and provides
that beginning with the year 1880, the Con
gress elected in November previous shall
meet en- the first Wednesday of January.
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, introduced a
resolution reciting the efforts of certain
railway managers 10 prevent the construc-
ton of competing lines In the Northwest,
and directing the Committee on Commerce
TO report n bill To prohibit and punish such
combination. Mr.. Waite introduced a
bill TO stop the coinage of silver dollars
until the stock il reduced to So, 600 OO, and
Mr.. Ellis offered a measure TO authorize the
State OF Louisiana to establish quarantine
stations. Mr.. Dibrell presented an act TO
abolish internal-revenue taxes and allow q
rebate on whisky and tobacco, and another
to reduce the specie in the treasury to $780,
OO0,OOO bill was passed TO authorize
brevet commissions for distinguished con-
duct in Indian campaigns
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Arab Pasha pleaded guilty TO the
charge of rebellion, and was sentenced to
death The Khedive commuted the sentence
to exile for life
The RI. Rev. Archibald Campbell
TAFT, Archbishop of Canterbury, Is dead
Socialistic agents are busily sowing
the seeds of discord and anarchy among the
lower classes of Spain.
The threatened danger from the An
archist conspiracy In France hos entirely
disappeared for the present
At home-rule demonstration ut San
ford, England a resolution passed condemn
ing the Government for its determination to
prosecute Davitt and Healy, and congratu-
lating ~these true patriots" on their refusal
o enter into terms for bail Kenney, in an
address, declared IL the Government i'm
prisoned Davitt and Healy, it must face the
task of arresting the whole Irish Parliament
airy party.
A Paris paper sneers at the feeble
ness of the navy of the United States, de
claring that the war vessels of France cou1
demolish every American seaport withoes
serious resistance.
Arab Pasha has penned a note OF
thanks for the interposition of England in
his behalf He expresses desire to live in
Damascus or London and says his misfort-
une has secured for his country the liberty
and prosperity it deserves
Louis Blanc, the French Radical,
died ut Cannes, aged co
Won + otow, the operate composer,
has become blind from cataract of the eye
Ten persons were drowned by the
laundering of coal-carrier off Berwick-on
Tweed The British ship Fiona was lost ut
sea with all on board
The permanent Presidency OF the
Egyptian Debt Commission, which is to have
the management of the revenues. has been
rendered to France by England, but will be
declined
Three Pashas were arraigned in Cairo
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and concluded by asking a continuance of
the case to the next term. Judge Wylie
pronounced the paper an insult 10 the court,
and promptly overruled the motion
The Wavs and Means Committee has
decided to proceed at once TO the considera-
ton of the report OF the Tariff Commission,
and to frame a new schedule OF customs
duties
In his annual report the Commits.
sioner OF Pensions recommends the remod-
cling of the bounty-land laws, and the
granting of pensions according to disability
rather than rank. At present there are III
grades of pensioners The Commissioner
regrets the fact that no enumeration of the
pension population was made in the last
census, bat an approximation shows that
out of 2,06S, 39l soldiers enlisted in the war
of the rebellion only 10 per cent have APP
piled for pensions
The United States Commissioners OF
Railroads reports that ut the end of June
last the Union Pacific Company owed the
Government s63 600, $40, and that the Central
Pacific was indebted to the amount OF S52,
l40,Sl3
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THE DEATH RECORD.
Anthony IrOilOpe.

Anthony Trolope, the famous English novel;
ist, died at London on the 9th of December, in
the6Sth year of his age. The death of Mr.. Troll
lope il the loss of the last link between the old
school OF fiction and the new. What made his
writings great their fidelity to actual life.
He did not possess the melodramatic power of
Dickens the keen satire of Thackeray, nor
tho metaphy steal analysis of George Eliot, nor
the realistic power of description OF Charles
Kingsleg and lac did not have the ingenuity in
plot-weaving OF Wilkie Collins, nor the power
OF fascinating and holding the attention Of
his reader that Charles Reade has; his forte lay
In building a novel, distinct from romance, but
being an ana sis of real characters and the
arrangement OF real his il posi- tile and natural
events and circumstances. In this Anthony
Trolope the leading novelist OF his time.
He never exceeded the limits of probable matter
in his stories, and his works are ruer to life tran
either those of Dickens or Thackeray, being at
the same time remarkable for the command of
language which they di. play. L. has been truth
fully said hat his novels have plot
in them, but this IL just what English lite
isl lenty OF character, but little incident in It.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Ex-Delegate Cannon, of Utah, says
the Edmunds Polygamy law will be strongly
resisted by the Mormons by all legal meth
DDS, that eminent lawyers, including Judge
Jere Black, pronounce it unconstitutional,
and that it will prove fiat failure.
TWENTY-FIVE ostriches, which had
been sojourning in Central Park New York,
were blndfolded with stockings and placed
in a car for California, where they will have
farm of 800 acres to roam over. The
transportation cost S., 600
The Western Iron Association held
meeting at Pittsburgh last week. Orders for
20Q, coo tons of steel rails have been given
since the decrease in price, and there ap
pears to have been no ground for the recent
fears of a total suspension OF business by the
iron works The report of the Tariff Com
mission was discussed, and dissatisfaction at
it's recommendations expressed
A horrible Indian massacre is report
ed from Chihuahua Mexico. band of
Apaches, numbering 500, crossed the border,
descended upon the little town of Casa
Grande and began q massacre fully seventy
five persons falling victims Several girls
and women were carried off by the savages,
and large quantity of stock and other
property stolen The houses OF the unfort-
innate Mexicans were burned. The dead
bodies were stripped of their clothing and
iewelry The murdered persons were among
the wealthiest class, and several of the most
prominent families are among the victims
Business failures for the week ending
Dec 8 numbered 247 being CT more than for
the preceding week, and an increase of IS
over the corresponding week in 1881.
Building, at Bradford, Pa valued at
so, GOO, were destroyed by fire loss OF
$50, coo was experienced at Columbia, s c.,
by the burning of the Wiley Block
The hangings on Friday, Dec. 8,
were: Will Porter, at Perry, Ga Gustave
Paul, at Donaldsonvile, La 4; Albert Sanders,
at Charleston, Mo- /; Ed Congers at SWANS
boro, Ga and Hong All Duck at San Rafael,
Cal
A railway collision occurred near
Hinton, W. Va, by which three persons were
instantly killed and five injured. Among
those who escaped were Senator Williams
and Robert Bonner.
Sir Hugh Allan, the great Canadian
shipbuilder and vessel-owner, died suddenly
in Edinburgh. Scotland. He was born in
Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1870 and emigrated to
Canada ut the age Of IL
The Mexican Gro eminent has APP
pointed Romero and Zamacona Commission
ers to meet Grant and Prescott in Washing
ton to negotiate a treaty of commerce.
Senator Maxey says that only frontier pro
lection, reciprocity and railways are needed
to bring about cordial relations and profit
able trade
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for participation in the Egyptian revolt
They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
death, but the Khedive promptly commuted
their sentences to exile for life. Europeans
in Alexandria threatened to lynch the pris-
oners
Just after the audience had retired,
the other night, the Royal Alhambra Theater
in London was utterly destroyed by fire.
Loss, si5o,0O0.
The HUNGARIAN Government, sur
priscd at the great tide of emigration to
America from the mountain districts has re-
quested the Austrian authorities To stop all
persons unprovided with passports
A famous Nihlist, lately banished to
Siberia, killed the Governor of the Territory.
A confagration ragged for ten hours
in the heart of London, and swept away
buildings covering two acres of ground, and
occupied by three of the largest wholesale
firms in the worlds metropolis, namely
Foster, Porter & Co, hosiery; Silver 4 Elem
ing bronzes, clocks and fancy goods, and
Rylands, dry goods The loss is placed at
Sl5, 600, 600
hIdDi dSild anu iiio Niiici
are to be exiled to Ceylon
The festival OF st. George was held
in the Winter Palace ut St Petersburg,
where the Car proposed the health of the
Emperor of Germany, which was enthusiasts
tically received
The Captain and ten of the crew of
the bark Argonaut, bound from Bremen to
New York, were drowned by the vessel be-
ing wrecked on Terschelling island, off the
province of Friesland, in the Netherlands
England is soon to bring from Egypt
four battalions of troops and ship more ma
rines to Ireland for police duty.
The Project has ordered the police to
expe all Jews residing with the municipal
boundaries of St Petersburg without official
permission. The Senate has decided that
:lll Jews are incapable OF holding landed
property in Russia
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Rear Admiral Wyman, in command
of the North Atlantic squadron, died in
Washington of apoplexy.
CLAYTON McMichael, proprietor of
the Philadelphia North American, has been
commissioned as United States Marshal for
the District of Columbia
Judge Wylie, in charging the Grand
Jury of the District of Columbia, referred in
cutting terms TO the damage accomplished
by the publication of malicious and lying
statements in newspapers III the public, he
said, ceased To patronize such journals the
professional liboler would soon find his oc-
cupation gone
The Utah Commission recommends
the amendment OF the Territorial law giving
women the right of suffrage, and urges the
enactment by Congress of a marriage law.
In the Criminal Court ut Washing
ton, Col Ingersoll submitted a melton for
the continuance of the case of Brady, Dor
sey and others, on the ground of the illness
of Dorsey. A long affidavit signed by all the
defendants wa read, setting out that they
could not safely go to trial at the present
term because Of the acts of the officers Of
Government in endeavoring TO influence
opinion against them, and to intimidate and
coerce witnesses, jurors and officers of the
court reciting the arrest of Dickson, the re-
moval from Office of Henry, Anger ct al I,
for the avowed reason that they were in
sympathy with the defendants, and express
ing the belief that in the selection of tales
men influence prejudicial TO the defendants
was set at work, and that the appointment
of McMichael, as Marshal, was part of that
scheme. The affidavit also claimed that
Judge Wylie was so biased and prejudiced
against the defendants that he could not
fairly and impartially administer the law,
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A practical reduction of the superfu-
Gus alcoholic product was effected by de-
structive fire in distillery at Gibsontown,
Fayette county, Pa Over 1000, 900 gallons
of whisky were stored on the premises, a
large proportion of which was destroyed
The total loss is estimated at $780,
Capt. Ed Cox, who killed Col. Robert
A Aston in Georgia four years ago, has been
pardoned by Gov Stephens
y serious riot occurred at Opelika,
Ala, between the factions supporting the
rival City Councils, in which nine white men
and a negro were shot down The Legisat-
ure has passed an act vacating the charter
OF the city and authorizing the Governor to
appoint Il local government
Robert S. Champion, Cashier and
Paymaster of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroad, has absconded, leaving de-
falcations which will exceed $4,000
The steel-rai mills at South Chicago,
operated by the North Chicago Rolling
Mills Company, shut down the other day. 1t
is alleged that this course was forced upon
the company by the low price at which the
product is now quoted The Delaware roll
ing mill, at Phillipsburg, N j., started up,
after suspension of one month The
Riverside rolling mill, at Newcastle, Del
stopped on account of the dullness of trade,
All navy pensioners residing in the
agency districts of Chicago Columbus, Des
Moines, Detroit, indianapolis, Louisville,
Milwaukee and Topeka will hereafter be
paid at Chicago
The House Committee on Education
has decided to report favorably bill appro-
priating sic, Oo0, 600 annually, for five years,
to aid the public schools
A committee of citizens of Washing
ton held an interview in the Jail with pair
OF convicted thieves who related the cir
cumstances of many robberies, including
that Of ex-Minister Christiancy's diamonds,
and stated the amounts paid the detectives
for protection 1t appears that the entire
detective force of the District has received
weekly dividends from the monte and bunko
men
Parnell, through the Land Court,
desires TO dispose of his County Wicklow
property
William Galignani, of Paris, the last
of the well-known family and Sir Joseph
Napier. of England, are dead
Gen. Lew Wallace, Minister to Tur-
key, has lately been TO Jerusalem, and Wis
tied the Khcdive ut Cairo
The Edwards County Bank, ut Kins-
ley, Kan, was robbed of $1,000
Sosish A. Noonan, for many years a
leading politician and journalist of wiscon-
gin, died in the insane asylum at Wauwatosa
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland COM
muted the sentence of death passed upon
five participants in the murder of the Joyce
family
London was visited the o her dayhyone
Of the dense fogs for which it is 30 uncom-
fortably famous, the result being that all
traffic was stopped and numberless accidents
occurred.
1t is reported that Congressman Man
ming, of Mississippi who ran against Chal-
mers, refuses to accept a certificate of cleo
ton from the Governor of that State as he
believes he was not fairly elected The Gov
ernor, however, still refuses to give n GER
tificate to Chalmers, and says he will order a
new election in case Manning persists in re-
fusing the certificate.
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The POstOmce.

Postmaster General Howe In his annual TO
port recommends that a system Of postal saw
ings-banks should be inaugurated. After careful
study he has arrived at the conclusion that the
telegraph and postal systems of the country
should be included under one management ana
that the only protection for the public against
multiplied extOrtions Is for the Government 10
domestic messages. He considers the telegraph
too terrible a power 20 be welded by any
other tina the representatives or whole peo-
pie OF the first time In ~ one years he
y etoffice has not been a burden on public
treasury. After deiucting all extra expenses
there was net surplus Of receipts over ex-
penses Il $1,000, while last year there w .
deficiency OF $2.4i6,Saa. The e timated revenue
and the estimated expenses = GALL which
will cave surplus revenue Z 1922 '.45
The heaviest item of expenditure Is for trans
portation of mails on raj ways The mex heav-
two items mus swell with the volume or busi-
ness since the rate of compensate N is proper
toned 70 the amount of business dons The ex-
penditure next in rank Is for what IL
all the mail transportation not on railw vs.
nor on ste mboats The amount and co t OK
that service IL left almost wholly e the ar
bitra cont oil of the department For the year
en- ed s., 1881. the = ar service covered
1887 miles of transp ration, at a cost or
Sc 597. 3S3 + the year ended June 1-S2, the
same service covered 76,92i,s67 miles, and cost
&,hh3 $40.
Congress is invoked by the Postmaster Gen.
eral to make ne move eff TT TO engraft upon tha
postal servic' system OF deposits for small
sums, and n recommend ition il made that post
age on second-class matter be abolished.
After the FIJI eat consideration which have
been able to give the subjert of postal telecra-
phv. am forced to the concl sion that the time
service should be embraced under one manage
ment.
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The Interior.

Secretary Teller commences his report with
the discussion of Indian affairs, and recon-
mends the disarming of the Indians a a means
Of removing temptations from u EN- TO go upon
the warpath. Upon the veXed question II the
title to Indian lands, the Seere airy slys
that the SAVAGE Indian objects to-
land in several bect.se he has been
and Indian morals, that II l. crime TO divide
tre land and allow ne man 70 o.. II 10 70 the K
clu ion of ano her. To the end hat the Ind ans
may be secure in their title and n we the assrr-
their free consent, he recommends the passage
of a law to We each 'ribe patent for the land
the Government has gu r nteed 1t, leaving
the Indians TO determine the question Of allot-
mem tor themselves.
At lie st half of all the Indian children Of
school are should be put 10 manual-iab r
schools. and more attention should be paid 70
teaching then TO labor than to rend With 20, 90
or more indian chi Dire p ope ly selected In our
schools there will be no danger of indian wars.
Some care should be had in the selection OF
those indv duals and tribes most liS ly
to make trouble. The Secretary indorses the
recommendation of the Commissioner of the
Land Gfhce for the repeal or thu pre- emption
law and the modification of the Homestead law.
The Pre- emption law, intended as a me M OF
enabling tn" citizen wishing to make a home
to do 30 che PLY and speedily, has been used
largely t. aggregate large quantities of lands
for the benefit of the speculator, and not
for those VIII Sc benefit il was intended. 1t Will
be useless TO repeal the pre- emption laws
If the opportunity still exists tn commit the
same frauds II der the cover Of the Homestead
law. II II IL thought best to retain the pre-emp-
tion lNws they shou be 40 amen ted ha the
filing for pTe-empticn should precede the Entry
by at lie st year The Commissioner OF Rail-
rosd Dis reports tina with the exception OF few
minor roads, he regards the United States Sc
Gu in the ultimste payment or both principal
and interest OF the loans adv need.
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POLITICAL POIN rs.

The South Caro- ina Legislature has
ntor.
Gov. McEnery, of Louisiana, has is
sued certificate of election to Senator Kel-
loRg as Congressman from the Third Louisi-
una district
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JOSH BILLINGS says: "Humor must
be based on truth. 1t is because thing
is ludicrous and at the same time true
to nature that poop laugh at it. Now.
Artemus Ward was not hlmorist, but
he was the drollest man the country
has ever produced. Writers who make
their effects 10y hyperbole are not hui
morists. Genuine humor lasts forever,
becausesit is true You soon tire of
hearing man tell stupendous lies"
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THE widow of a physician died in
San Francisco, Cal, recently, leaving q
little estate which has been appraised
at 81, 7S5.50. Among the claims filed
against it is one from her physician,
who claims $4,000 for two years SER
vices. He is homeopathic, and be-
lieves in small pills but not in small
bills
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NJ. Louis I,Iepc.

M Louis Blanc, the distinguished French
Journalist and politician, died at Cannes In
France, aged co. He was born at Madrid, Spain.
and was OF Corsican extraction. When 10 years
Old he went to Paris and beran his career Of
journalism, which he followed nearly his entire
life, at the same time taking prominent part
In the political agtatiOns of his time.
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The Navy.


The report Of the Secr' tary OF the Navy recon-
mends promotion by selection to the grad OF
Rear Adj niral, and the construct on OF TWO SEQ
ond rate steel cruisers, one steel ram and an iron
Dispatch boat. all TO cost not to exceed ssoOoooo
The report recommends the transfer OF the light
house servi G. coast survey and revenue mar ne
TO he Navy Department, as the first two are not
proper v part of the treasury and are largely
operated by navy employees at present, and
properly come within It's scope OF ope atoms. AZ
a measure of &C nomy union OF naval ana
ma inc hospitals is suggested The repo COM
ments at length upon the dec Inc OF American
sh piping, and the present evils must ne
renedied or American shipping will be ent rely
wired out He recommended the adop ion OF a
protective system and rye com ensatton for
carving the mails in Anne lean ships, and the
estab ishment OF a mercantile marine in the Ma,
Department: the report concludes as follows: II
the IA nj esta lishmen IL no made effective II
should be discontinued, and the tI5,n0,0OOan
nnally expended be reese we'd o Irocure, In ma
tional emergencies the ASST lance n foreign
ships and Vuns. II Governmental meas re are
n soon adopt d 10 promote the carving trade
and arrest tie disappearance OF Ameri an ships
from the ocean, we shall DON cease 10 be sea-
faring peol l., d not need TO maintain navy
OF our own
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Department d Justice.

Attorney General Brew ter asks legislation to
protect civil officers OF TIE Government in the
performance Of their duties, az there Is no Fed
eral law u punish the mTr lerer Of an official
He csl attention 10 the refusal of the Lexis at
ure of Utah to appropriate fun to Execute
Territorial wa, by which it evadcs a charge OF
about 6OOO
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AN English diamond merchant re-
GENTLY offered G400, 600 for the Regent
diamond, now the property of the
French Government. It was bought
$50 years ago from an Englishman for
G125, ZOO.
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Samuel Il. worcester.

Judge Samuel T. Worcester died at Nashua,
n II , aged rs. He was brother of the lexicog-
rapher worces or was an ex-member of Con-
gross from Ohio and n member of the judiciary
of that State
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IT ls suggested that the "blackwaxy'
soil in Texas would grow black walnut
timber, and that men owning it might
proftably plant forests.
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THERE are no pumps where the cocoa
nut grows, which, perhaps. accounts for
the milk in it.