Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-05-20

"A bill was in reduced in the House
providing for the sale of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
The House Commerce Committee
has agreed to report to the House and
recommend the passage of the pending
bill to promote the efficiency of the
Revenue Marine Service. The Com
mittee have adopted report on the
River and Harbor bill
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
ton Of Roland Worthington TO be Col
lector of Customs at Boston.
A substitute for the House Bonded
Spirits bill was introduced in the Senate
under instructions from the Einan ce
Committee.
Secretary Teller has determined to
disarm indians on * reservation.
Senator Sherman has received let.
ter from Mrs. Garfield in which she
says: 81 have received your note with
inclosed notice of the pension granted
me for my husbands sake. / am truly
mindful of the generous kindness shown
to the family of Geperal Garfield, not
only by friends but by the national Leg
islature, and may | ask that you make
acknowledgment of this in whatever
way and by whatever expression of my
gratitude seems to you appropriate.
With ser timents of high regard, re-
main, very truly yours.
"A bill was introduced in the House
of. Representatives thanking lieutenant
Danenhower for his services in the jean
nette expedition and advancing his rank
in the navy.
As the three and one-half per cent.
bonds are liable to be called III by the
Secretary of the Treasury Mt any time
funding bill is regarded as necessary for
the preservation of the national banks
which have these bonds on deposit.
The aggregate amount appropriated
ny tho Pension bill is S100, 00o, COO.
The new bill appropriates for army PEN
sions as follows: Invalids, STA, 000, 900;
widows. children and dependent reia-
tives, $40, 600, 900; survivors and widows
Of the war of 1912, $3.50, 000-in all
S97, $4,000. For navy pensions: Inva-
lids, 100000; widows, children and
dependent relatives, S900,000-in all
81 500. 900.
The Senate Finance Committee has
instructed a sub committee TO draft
substitute bill extending the bonded
period for spirits five years.
The Washington monument has
reached height of 260 feet, ten feet of
stone having been added since May l.
The proposed height is 500 feet.
The River and Han Dor bill calls for
an appropriation of more than so, 000,-
600 for improvements on harbois and
rivers. This amount is exclusive of
the appropriations asked for the Missis-
sippi and Missouri rivers.
The Senate passed the Appellate
Court bill, and the House the Geneva
Award bill.
The Pension bill, as it will be re-
ported 10 the House, appropriates
500, 100000.
"A petition to preserve the extinct
cities and antiquities Of New Mexico and
Arizona was brought before the Senate
FOREIGN.
There is decided trepidation in
England that some new and terrible
deed may further complicate matters
and exasperate both parties.
A dispatch to the Standard from
Constantinople reports that Turkish
transport is ashore in the Bosporus,
and that fifty of The soldiers on board
have been drowned.
The Pail Mall gazette predicts :he
failure of the Repression bill, and says:
Fate seems 10 De preparing all that is
worst for England and Ireland"
-Messrs. Davitt. Parneil and O'Kelly
have gone to Paris TO consult with Mr..
Egan as To the future conduct of the
Land League.
-Presumptive evidence of another
attempt to blow up the Mansion House
has been discovered.
Every effort is still being made to
find the assassins. English detectives
have started for this country aud expect
20 find more evidence here, although it
Is not believed that the assassins were
American Irish.
Tho authorship of the new Irish
Coercion bill is attributed to Mr.. Forster.
Ia the debate On the new bill, Mr..
CoSen said that the bill placed the lives,
liberty and property of the Irish peo-
PIE in the hands of Lord Spencer.
The NeaC Free Press says there are
Z 600 Jewish refugees i'll Brody. About
300 arrive there every day, while only
800 leave weekly. Their misery is indie
scribable.
"A British minister has been stoned
in Morocco. Six hundred arrests have
been made in connection with the as
saalt.
Information has just beel received
of terrible explosion of fire-damp in
the Pluto Mine. at the town Of Bochum.
Westphalia. The bodies of fifty-six
victims of the disaster have thus far
been recovered md the loss OF life is
large.
"A bill endowing the Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland with almost unlimited
powers for the suppression Of crime has
been lail before Parliament.
1t is said that the Lord Chief jus.
tice Of ireland was aecosted in Phoenix
Park on Saturday afternoon, directly
after the assassination, and informed
| that he was to be the next victim.
"A revolution in Egypt is imminent.
The Khedive looks TO England and
France for ~nppart.
- The following additional informa-
ton with r. gard 20 the assassinaiioas
has come TO light Two b;cyclisis. fit.
tiers i'll the employment of a railway
company, state that the. passed. tEeapot
where the murders were committed.
They saw the assassins gtrike their VIC
Tins, and heard Lord Frederick Caycn-