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CHICAGO, December 6.-At IL O'Clock
clouds began 10 overcast the sky aud obscure
the sun, ca using stoppage in the observations
of the transit of Venus. At o'clock fully
an inch OF snow had fallen, and the Storm
was general in Wisconsin. Iowa and Ne
braska. At Dearborn Observatory ten pho
tograPhs were taken, the last one at HIS
O'clock
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READY TO REFORM.
Resolutions introduced in the House for
an Investigation OF the Question Of
Political Assessments.
Minority Report Of che Committee Of
Ways and Megns on the Internal Rev
enue Bill-In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, December House-Mr
Willis Ky.1 offered resolution similar 10
that offered IN the Sena'e yesterday by SEN
ator Beck, directing the Committee on Civil
Service Reform 10 inquire into the details oil
the alleged Political assessments made on
government employees during the recent cleo
tions.
Mr.. Kassou objected TO the present consid-
Grafton of the resolution, and 1t was re-
ferred.
Mr.. Townsend 70 offered resolution
calling on the Secretary OF War for the
names and charac of the particular OBJ
ject referred TO in the Presidents message
which discusses appropriations for rivers
and harbors as likely to need additional APP
propr istions this session. Referred.
Mr.. CasweH EWi-. offered resolution
authorizing the Committee on Appropria-
lions TO embody in the pOstofice bill a
clause reducing letter postage TO two cents.
Adopted.
Mr.. Kelley offered the usual resolution for
the distribution of the Presidents message,
and that the House proceed in Committee
of he Whole to its consideration.
After discussion the resolution was adopt
the Whole, Mr.. Waite [Conn.1 in the chair,
on the state of the Union. .
The first bill to be considered was one re-
funding to the State Of Georgia S35, 900, ex-
pended by the State for the common defense
in 1877.
By vote of ffty-one 10 seventy-six the
committee refused to strike out the exacting
clause. Toe bill was then reported to the
House and psssed-96 to 80.
Mr.. Steele [Ind.] offered resolution di-
recting the Committee on Civil Service Re-
form to inquire how much money was col
lected by the campaign managers OF toe
Democratic party from the Golden Club
and from the Free-Trade Club for use in the
election of 1882.
"Let it be adopted" cried several Demo
Gratis, but Mr.. Kasson obj 'cted to its present
prompted him TO object to the Willis resolu-
tion-that the committee had as much work
before it as it could accomplish:
Mr.. Townshend Ill. called attention 10
the fact that the objection came from tie
Republican side, and then the resolution was
referred.
bill authorising the extension of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad TO 3 point on
the military lands of Fortress Monroe was
referred.
Mr. Kssson presented the views of the
minority of the Committee of Ways and
Means on the internal revenue bill. They
were ordered printed.
The minority report is signed by Kasson,
Dunnell, Mckinley, Haskell, Morrison and
Russell. They say they are not prepared to
recommend the entire abolition of the tax j.,
nor to run the rick of reducing the revenue
Of the government below the amount which
will undoubtedly be required to meet the
arresrages of pensions, in addition to the
other current expenses of the government, by
an extravagant reduction of either source of
public revenue; that it is much more agreea-
able duty, and much more feasible, to reduce
taxes from time to time, as the unknown ex-
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TI,a Couteef for the Late Congressm an
Iauesk Unex pired I erm.

HuNrsviLLE, December The governor
of Alabama has ordered a special cleo ion
to be held in this (the Eighth Congressional
District, Tuesday, January 2, 1888, for the
purpose Of electiDg a Congressman to fill out
The unexpired term OF the late Hon. VIM.
NJ. Lowe. The Democratic Nominating
Convention meets in Decatur nert Thurs.
day. and it is said that Gen Joseph Wheeler
will be nominated by acclamation. Hon.
John g. Mcclellan, of Limestone county.
has announced himself as the independ emf
candidate. The new congressman will have
two months and two days of service. The
prospects are that light vote viii be polled
but little interest being taken in the
matter.
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CARLISLE CURED
THE OUTLET THEORY BY HIS TRIP TO tn
JETIIEs.

The OUTLET THEORY By HIS TRIP no THE
JETIIEs.
4 WASHINGTON, December 6.-Mr. Carlisle
E Us that he has reached the conclusion thai
e only way to improve The Mississippi
sver was TO contract it and make the cur
ut scour out the bed of the river. He said
was not certain, however, whether il could
contracted. The question of the expense,
said, was sso important. From this
|Atement, however, il is apparent that Mr..
|arlIsle is cured Of his outlet notion. Eeipg
man OF sense, he will of course zee the
FoPriety of letting the engineers determine
be question whether the river can be con-
acted or not.
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rne Re,mon.-De,oy L,beI SHIT.

NEw YORK, November SIN the crimi.
nal Libel suit OF August Belmont, banker
az sinst John Dsvoy, editor OF the Irish Va.
tios The jury, being unable 10 agree, were
Looked up for the night.
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A NEW QUESTION
SGD BY REPREsEHTATIyE SHELLEY AS IL
THE SALARY HE Is TO RECEIVE.

1AE sALARf he Is TO RECEIVE.
|WAsHINGToN, December 6.-At the last
|sion OF Congress the seat Of Representa-
Re Shelley, Of Alsbans, was contested by
~. Smith. Smith died in April, 1881, be.
Re the termination OF the contest, which
quilted 10 the unseating of Shelley, who was
hnt~d L. Sli-.l--------~sPiT-s1- ryrU. SMUT
be never seated because OF his death.
|elley now raises the question, whether,
lder section 81, of the Revised Statutes, he
not entitled to pay from the date of
nith's death, although he has already re-
ived pay for two months OF that time.
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IN. Ohio conxressionaI Contests.

CoLUMBps. December 6.-The State Can
wasting RoSrd in the Wallace Mex inley en-
test, in the Eighteenth Congressional Dis
rrrcr,tnis nsUrnfDg arvfd-d bfchtuiey efectesi
by eight majority, and issued him certifi-
cate OF election accordingly. In the Seventh
District Morey was declared elected, and in
the TEelfth Hart. None others were con-
feafed
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suit for Damages I'm the COekerilI-. ley
back Case.

ST.. LOUIS, December 6.-R. S. Mcdonald
and FIR NIX J. Bowman. attorneys for Mrs.
Alice w. Slaybsck, filed at late hour
this evening civil suit in the Circuit Court
for $4,000 damages sgainst Col. John A.
Cockerill, managing editor of the Post Dis
patch, for killing her husband, Col. Slsyback,
a few weeks sRo
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TAKINGTHETRANSIT
Satisfactory Observations Of the Pas
sage OF Venus Across the Suns
Disc Taken at
Number OF POINTS, While at Others Uns
favorable Weather Interfered-
The Results Obtained.

WASHINGTON, December 6.-The weather
this morniog was quite cloudy, consequently
but about dozen photographs of the tran.
at of Venus were obtained at the Naval OBJ
serTarory. The weather is now clear. and
the observers expect to be more successful
this afterno6u
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The Charleston Cotton Mil.

CHARLESTON, S. c., December 6.-The en-
gines and machinery of the Charleston Cot
ton Factory, begun IN August, 1881, were
successfully tested to-day. Spinning will
begin next week. The mill has $1,000
spindles, with capacity for $4,000 more.
This is the first cotton mill erected 10
Charleston since the war, and will be run
BY steam entirely.
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GERMAN POLITICS.

The Prussian government will introduce
in the Bundesrath motion in favor of in
creasing timber duties with the view of de-
irving a large revenue from forests
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BATON RoUGE, December 6.-The gov
ernor, after an examination OF the law and
facts in the Kellogg case, has given cettif.
cate 10 kellogg in accordance with the Re.
turns from the Third District.
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A Large Fortune offered for an I'm.
former.

The Dublin police continue to declare that
they are on the track of the assassins who
murdered Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Under Secretary Burke on the 9th of last
May. The recent renewal and enlargement
of the reward offered for the arrest and con-
viclion of the murderers leads to the belief
that no clue 10 their whereabouts has yet
been discovered. By proclamation dated on
the 10th OF last month, and posted all over
Dublin, the lord-lieutenant repeats his offer
of reward Of e10,000 $3.50, 000) for such in
formation as will lead to the conviction of
"any one of the Phoenix Park assassins." He
also offers a further reward OF $4,000 for such
private information as will lead to the same
result. To the driver of the car in which
the four murderers escaped he offers,
for such information as will convict any
one of them, a free pardon, the special
protection of the crown, and reward of
$4,000. Two other rewards are offered - one
OF $4,000 to any one concerned in or privy to
the murders of such asrivate information as
will convict any one OF the assassins any
other person concerned in or privy TO the
murders. The final reward ia of E500 for
such private Information as will lead to the
identification OF any persons concerned IN or
privy to the murders, or OF the horse
and cart used on the occasion. That
there must have been many persons in Ire
land TO whom the arrangement for the
Phoenix Park murders and the persons of the
assassins are known there is every reason 10
believe, and the strength of Irish fealty has
rarely been more strongly displayed than In
the signal failure of so great reward az
$4,000 10 tempt an informer to tell all he
knows
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OF Venus, at tn. Interval of ingrssr' hi
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DIED.

TURNER-At Bolivar Tenn, on Tuesday. De-
cember 5, 1882, at 11:40 p. m, Mrs. LANYRA 81.
TURNER, wife Of Thomas B. Turner.
Funeral from residence. at Gill's Station, near
Memphis. this (THURsDAY) morning at IL
O'Clock. Carriages in at attendance at residence
also carriages will leave Hosts, in city, at 10
LINDsLEY-Departed this life December 8, 1852,
in the full faith and hope of the Christian religion,
at her home near Moon Lake. Coahoma county,
Miss Mrs. N. L. LINDSEY, in The seventy first
wear of her age
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CHINA.
REACHING AFTER TERRITORY.

HONG Koso, November Sit is reported
in diplomatic circles at Pekin that consid-
cradle party in the Chinese government are
elsted by the success Of the recent move
meats in Corea, and propose urging the re-
ssmption of active sussrainty over AMMAN
and Siam
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BOSTON, December Notwithstanding
tae clouds, the Harvard Observatory made
satisfactory observations of the FIRST and Sec
ond contact in the transit Of Venus.
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GONE ON A HUNTING TRIP.
TIMBER DUTIES TO BE INCREASED.

The Emperor, accompanied by Crown
Prince Frederick William, and large party
have gone 10 Goehrde on a hunting trip.
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ERTIFIED CHECKS
suppressed Chapter in the Report Of
the Comptroller Of the Currency
Brought TO Light.
port OF the Attorney. General on the
REORGANIZATION OF Checks by Ma
ton Banks-Capital Briefs.

WASHINGTON, December 6.-The HOUSE
ect Committee on Civil-Service Reform
this morning aud decided TO brisg In
Dew bill Tuesday next. 1t will probably
klUde. Frovisions for the probationary an.
fntment of clerks in the civil service
fixed term of Office for four or six years
h the prohibition OF removals except for
hse, and after allowing :he clerk an op-
Ftunity be heard before a special tribunal.
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SAN FRANCISCO, December GA dispatch
from Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton,
at o'clock am says: splendid, clear day.
Forty eight photographs Of The transit al
ready ubt2iuedD
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WESTERN paper Gays: Nothing will
cure some sick men more quickly than an
Office properly applied. This cure may be
very successful in many cases, but we would
say: "If man suffers from cough or cold,
give him a bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup"
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PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
Conference Of western Delegates az Chi
caxo-some OF the Men Presented 3
ard Discussed.
Kellogg Gets Bis Ceriiheaie-Ihe cess
test for the UsexPired Term IN me
Eighth Alabama District


HARRrssURe, PA, December 6.-The
House OF Representatives consists oil lib
Democrats and So Republicans.
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GERMANY.
LOSSES BY THE FLOODS.

BERLIN, December 6.-The losses by the
foods in the Rhenish districts amount to
millions OF marks. II he d1msge 70 rue town
OF Domsburg alone amounts TO 1,O0O,OOOm.
Sixty houses near Mayence were swept away.
GENEROUS GIFT.
The King OF Bavaria has given 50,000m.
to sssist the people made destitute by the
foods.
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FOREIGN,

DUBLIN, December 6.-The transit of We
nus vas plainly visIble at Cork.
Al Ottawa.
QrTA"A' December 6.-The observer here
'ook " successful observation of the transit
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Mme Sardou, the mother of the well-known
dramatic author and academiciau, has Just
expired at Nice. The deceased lady cele-
braied her golden wedding two years ago.
Great excitement was caused at the Folies
Bsrgere by the fall of little Japanese &C.
robat, who, with two other children, nightly
goes through a series of dangerous exercises
at that place of amusement. There was no
safety net, and it was only by miracle that
the poor little fellow escaped instant death.
He alighted sn one of the female specta-
tors, who was naturally severely bruised,
and Who tainted several times before she
was able TO leave the hall. The unlucky
child was also badly hurt.
An attempted suicide under very dramatic
Eight years ago Mons. Dubourg surprised
his wife in tete a tete with an employe
| named De Precorbin. The husband, who
was armed, shot the woman dead on the
| spot, while her paramount made his escape.
| Dubourg was condemned TO long impris-
oument. The whole affair had been
| forgotten, when, few days ago, a
| newspaper reproduced full account of the
miserable business. Not a single detail was
I omitted, and to crown the whole, a copy was
carefully sent TO NJ. de Precorbin. Over
come by despair the unfortunate man rushed
| TO the Seine and threw himself in, but was
rescued and brought safely to land. 1t was
found, however, that he had lost his reason
and was taken TO the hospital of st. Anne
where, after lingering few hours, he ex-
pired.
NM. Valabregue and Bertol have lost nc
time in extracting sensational 6ve-aci
drama out of the Chauou murder. There
was a private representation of Lie Crime do
Peg at the Menus Plaisirs Theater. A more
| CHASTITY play it is not possible to imagine
The plot goes into a nutshell, and although
divided into five acts is not spun out. In
act first we see the interior of "Fayrou's'
or "Fenayrou's" home. Next "Fayrou'
surprises Gabrielle" waiting for "Robert'
or "Aubert," to whom she has giver
a rendezvous. He accuses her of Haisor
| with the chemist and then announces to hel
that her paramour is about TO get married
The news turns her love into ferocious hatred
which, however, does not take settled char
Ecter until she has unsuccessfully endeav
ored to break off Roberts" matrimonial en-
gagement. We next witness the meeting il
the restaurant, then the murder in the houss
at Chatou, aud lastly the arrest of the muir
/ derers.
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MIR. E E. PoRrERa ricl

Mr.. 3. F. PORTER, rich banker in Utica,
n. Y, says: 81 have used Browns Iron Bitters the
past year, much to the cnagriu of cur family ply
stefan, for neither myself, wife nor little girls have
since suffered from single days Illness. Tt is
making us all robust and strong" al - a -
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7 ANTHONY IROLLOPE DEAD.
Anthony Trollope, the novelist, is dead.
THELrER BURNED.
FAwcErr's CONDITION
scandal. In ErxIi,h Hixh Lie.

The British ship Flora Was lost at .es,
with all on board.
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THE RHINE RISING.
Losses BY the Floods in Germany Ale
ready Amount 10 Millions Of Marks,
and More to Come.
Scandals in English High Life-AnthOBy
TroIIope Dead-French Gossip-
Irish Side Lights.

Cairo, Dec ,mber 6.-In view Of the dis
position of Arabi's case, it is probable that
all other leaders in the rebellion, except
Suleimen Pashs, will be pardoned.
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LONDON, December 6-ln consequences IL q
unfayorable westhers Inc "snslt VI tee ~
was totally invisible from Greenwich Oh
Eefvatofy. L1 :.
n-rhsr - C.n.ioyu. At Madrid observa.
lion was nreyented BY bad weather.
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Browns bronchial Trocbes

For coughs and cold-. al have used them
for more than dozen years, and think them
the best and most convenient remedy eT-
isn't. Bet. C. Al. Humphrey, Grats, Ky.
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HanaeI and sixteen followers have written
the Progressist Com mittee saying that; though
in corporation with other Liberal groups,
they remained in the minority against the
Richter, they would not secede from the
party. They require, however, the uncondi-
tioual recognition of their standpoint within
the Progressist party, and demand that its
organizations and official press shall not be
employed for combating their views.
PROMINENT REFoRldER DEAD.
FRANKFeRT-oN-THE-M MAIN, December g.
DIR. Leopold Stain, prominent advocate of
Jewish reform in Germany, is dead.
RISING RIVERS.
COLOGNE, December 6.-The Rhine has
risen thirty-one csntimeters since o'clock
this morning. The Mosel is sgain rising rap
idly. The Neckar and the Main are also
rising, but more gradually.
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the tngnorutd of that famous lady-killer,
Capt. D, aud The said captain challenged
him, that a matrimonial row became impera-
tive. be had thought he could run away
Tor week to Paris, without creating excite
menij but the lady-killer, who had cut out
Handsome Claude,p did not see things in
the same light, and called kin cut! Now,
to call man out in London is no great
matter. The law allows of no such things as
duels. But In Paris it is another affair, and
fight can easily be brought off. Hence
the dancers present young man is under 8
suspicion OF coHardice, and no man speaketh
unto him.
The Stanhope scandal is Il lesser matter,
| lnssmuch az il Is only the case of young
man making foolish match aud finding il
in the long run even a worse bargain than
bis friends anticipated. Some Eve years ago
Mr.. wyndham Stanhope, youngest brother
OF the Earl of Harrington, married Miss Ca
mile Dubois, daughter of Mr.. ReyloG,
most respectable musician al Brighton. The
young lady, who has figured on The stage is
handsome Brunette, with that slight down
on the upper lip which is esteemed a special
charm of the fenires d. Midi. According to
the husbands case. she was often-too often
called from home TO attend the bedside OF
her sick father. AT last this perpetual and
too tender nursing aroused Mr.. Stanhope's
suspicious, and he discovered that Mr.. Rey-
loft WAS not the robust invalid whom Mrs.
Stanhope went 10 soothe. The lady was fol-
lowed, watched; and the case will shortly
come into court.
1t would seem as II not even PLAY could
Reproduced without scandal. You have
heard by this time all about the ridiculous
failure of Tennyson's Promise Of Nay,
and probably of the Marquis of Queens
berry's equally absurd protest against the
arguments put into the mouth of Mr.. Tenny-
sons very fabby minded free-thinker. 1t is
something new for peer to riss in bis stall
al the theater and protest against play, but
Lord Queensberry Is ecc sntric peer who
threw up his seat in the Lords not long ago
on accotnt of conscientious scruples on the
subject of faith. As pointed out some time
since his father died in an unfortunate kind
of way, and his sister is Lady Florence
Dixie, who by her Writings has become well
known to the reading public! Lord Queens
berry is frequently seen on first nights in the
box of conspicuous beauty among "irst-
nighters," friend of the stately aud elegant
Miss leighton.
There Is unfortunately no longer any
doubt as to the separation OF Sir Coutts and
Lady Lindsay of Balcarres. This event has
caused great sorrow in the artistic world,
where both have been exceedingly popular.
What will become OF the Grosvenor Gallery,
the "green-ga llery"-clad domozels and the
"long-haired, lean, ard not very c'ean"
young men who stood gaping at Mr.. Burne-
Jones's bilious saints and lantern-ja wed
nymphs? Where, oh where, are the tea and
toast, the mullins and chocolate-covered cake
that the princesses, big and little, of our
royal family enjoyed so much on Sunday
afternoons? All, like Hans Breiimann's
lager beer, "Auoy In die EUigkeit."
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National Batter aud Cheese Associate

Its Delicate and Refreshing Fragrance
Explain why Floresten Cologne is such
favorite with the ladies everywhere.
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FRANCE.
ENGI.ANn,s nEEER

PARIS, December 6.-England has offered
France the permanent presidency of the
Debt Commission, which body, in future,
will have the management Of the Daira
domains. Should a French president De
appointed, the management of the Egyptian
revenues would become exclusively inlrusted
To France
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IRELAND.

DEChEAbE
DUBLIN, December 6.-The number o.
agrarian outrages ia Ireland during Novem-
Der were eighty mine. This contrasts favoraf
bly, with previous lists.
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The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune sends the following, which is
published in his paper of Monday:
There is at last an end OF the Wellesley
scandal. The divorce is granted and the
rising soldier and diplomatist is as COM
Pletely ruined socially as a gentleman very
we'll can be. Sect IN bon 9arcOr, nsGis Il
NEST pas fort" Col. Wellesley, sometime aid
de-camp to The Queen and military dttaehe at
Vienna, with civil az we'll as a military
career open TO him, sinks into the hanger-o n
OF dancer, pretty woman and graceful
dancer undoubtedly, but with two children
OF her own. The quondam brilliant officer
and attaehe, who is also fairly good writer,
was last summer employed in trottiDg round
the country during Miss Kate Vsughan's
tour, as If he were already mari d'dctEIce, as
they say he soon will be, holding her wraps
during the performance and taking her
children oui for walk in the morning. To
! this complexion has come the man who once
had beautiful wife and children Of his
| own well as a career
To be just to him, his in6delities were
many; and it was only when he carried Oh