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orrAwA, April l4,-ThO Bill lcgaliztng
marriage with deceased wiie's sister
passed the Senate by vote OF 81 to II.
Those voting against the bill have given
notice that they wilIappeaI to the Governor
General for his veto, and, II the appeal
tails, will petition the Queen TO dlsallow
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The Nature OF the n Meaaurc and DlstrIbu.
tIou OF Claims,

wAsmSo4oS, April ll,-Tho Omnibus
Claims bill passed by tho Senate to-day
previously passed the House. 1t contains
1850 claims OF individuals, and each iudt
yidual claimant Is named together with
the amount allowed. The bill was drafted
and passed in pursuance Of an act of Con,
greaa. July 4, 1891, providing for the pay.
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s5177sHED AUGUST "a. 1852.
dp gttsIIlgfnfef.
-. . rol rlle.enlh Slreet.

5j,,.i Yesterday that Senate,
n'|. ,.I returned from New York and
d's' ~ a, arrangements for tho money
bi"''' Mid the River railroad. The
''''',' ,',,., y, await. only the completion
nH''''' t.Jsay This is The situa'
due .,,., ~, ,sepl, along the route have
li'a. ., ~, y,ct to bring matters TO "
i % ''. ..-irsba, aud insure the letting
n. s,,'...l,..., s1 to as.' !" The next !s. few
d a' n Han, % tie alI'' OF way and
ssa.s,s, ''s1 a'.., s,ln fall blast fro" this
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A FINISHED FARCE.
sAtpHeAo HAS HAD HIS SAY,
Aud has Succeeded In E.t.bll.Alnr Record for q
Flrst.el.M MPFasa-HarlAat, Of thsNsW IOrk
World, sar he knows HIN not, and
also that he Is UAtruthfsl.
gpecIal pI.palch o lhO lnLellIseneet.

opeclAl OhpAtcn 70 Ihe AntellkeuSets
WASHINGTON, April 14.-shipherd has
completed his investigation. He was be-
fore tho Committee on Foreign Affairs
about an hour to-day, and by that time the
Committee seems to have squeezed him
dry. An interesting feature Of the case is
long editorial In the New York TFerld to-
day, written by William Henry Hurlbut,
in which he brands shipherd as a liar;
never saw him but once and never showed
him document Of any kind, and never
had in his possession q letter from Mr..
BIaine's brother, or any such document as
shipherd described in his testimony yes
terday.
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tlIlCorulnr.

BALrIMoRE, April l4.-The strasburg,
from Bremen, arrived with LOO emigrantE
for the Northwestern States,
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ADEFEAr ron MAnoNE.
Rejection of the Renppottionment Bill
By the viRrlnIn Eenata


BY the Virginia Senate.
RICHMOND, Va, April 1.-THE Malone
scheme for redistricting the State for mem.
bers Of Congress, SO rs to give the Readius-
tiers eight out Of the ten members TO which
this State is entitled, was defeated in the
Senate yesterday. Tho Democrats com.
bined with two Republicans and ten
Democratic Readiusters, accomplished this
object. Every effort to induce Williams
and Wingaeld, the Republicans, to give
their adherence to this measure proved un.
successful. During the day large
number Of prominent Republicans
from different sections OF the State
were. on the floor OF the Senate. One Of
these took seat near Senator Williams, as
soon rs the Congressional Reapportionment
Bill came up, but that gentleman recorded
his vote against Mahone's pet scheme for
running hist Administration congressman.
Ex-Auditor Massey and the four Anti-Ala-
hone Senators are jubilant. The defeat
means that the ex-Auditor is going to be
candidate lor Congress from the State.at.
large as an anti.AIahone aspirant An
effort is being made TO reconsider the re-
lection Of the bill, but this can hardly prove
successful.
Richmond Dispatch, April 14:-"What
will the Readjusters do now?" was irc-
guentiy asked yesterday, after the utter de-
feat OF the reapportlonment bill. There
were various answers and surmises. One
who is well up in headquarters secrets
said; "This session will now soon end.
We will in few days get through all the
bills we care for which We are allowed 10
pass, and then We will go" "And will
Governor Cameron call another extra ses-
sion2" Perhaps So" he said, "but not
until be has some reason to believe that the
congressional apportionment bills, and the
bill in relation TO commissioners OF land
sales, and the bill to redistrict the State for
circnit judges can be passed twill be Of
no use calling them hack until the Read.
iusters find out that they have q majority
Of senator's"
Another Mahonite said, THAT old man
Massey is the cause OF all this. II he puts
himself up as candidate for Congress for
tho State at large shall 90 In for nominat-
iuga negro to beat him."
Malone has recently said to several gen.
tlemen, "Fhd defeating OF Massey for Au.
ditor was mistake" Verify Il looks 50
now.
What Messrs. Williams and Wingfeld,
OF Hanover, have had to contend with in
the way Of persuasive oratory has been
simply fearful. They arc Republicans in
their party affiliations, and have been be.
set day and night, on the street and in the
Senate ehamber, by letters and BY personal
appeals by the leading men Of their party
10 get them to abandon their convictionI
and vote with the caucus tolss. All tht
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ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS. April l4.-There has been nc
specially notable feature in general bust.
ness during the past week. All branches
Of trade seem to be doing well and mer-
chants generally expressed satisfaction
with the condition Of things. There has
been no boom as some hoped there would
be, but the volume oitrade so far has been
good, prices steady and fur, aud content.
lnent seems 10 prevail. The recent cold
snap worked no material damage in this
section and in no sense disturbed either
the agricultural pursuits or the mercan.
tile business Of the week, with a largely in
creased disposition to operate in them.
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,,H :'%e.a',i S,s.lc . Pas D;pa,cl.-Thc Republi-
'G 'Ja@Ste Central Committee today audit.
,U,,lS % ,hS accounts oi the lust campaign and
;S'iSS Mc HeSt State Convention 10 meet
conrn,rtG ,r 't'GsS :! Of representatives to-day
tOnEHrFtH ,Sn S,t, IN the Senate amendments "a
S", Jv 'Mtiit a1 bt'' for closing saloons on Sun.
0aEi " and the mcasurc Is now s a law, =" '""'
sv1n;n', s"H s'"t.a .. JaFy OF franklin county this
s%"E ssan, re-, returned ! Indictments against ep,
,SsG"'S'lye sST S, William Bloch, Of CIeyelNnd.
IIO.LiP H." representative W, A. Wright. a
I,iSSI IiSSS,Tg + eounty, charged with accep,inr
s,nSl "SS 'lonl lobbyist interested in certain
SSH,s ''T' srlet''es al Cincinnati. Two indict.
o. Cincinnati, who is CHARGED viii, ii Lt;I,o TLGSson
= y attempted bribery Of memGen @ U''OtEF 4 !
county jail. """ P"NEu IN th'
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NV YORK, April 14.-Yesterday Ship
herd swore that William Henry Hurlb1t
informed him be had dispatch from
Blaine to General sHurlbut, with marginal
note saying, go in, Steve" In to.day's
World Hurlbut fatty denies this, and says
with ShiOherd
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A FINE selection Of sQnareund Upright Pl-
amos but little used equal 10 new Ia every
respeetii lily guaranteed; at great bargaii,s.
at 1.ucAs' Muse EYoaE
ll42 Main street.
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COLvMnu-S NOTES.
SaIIhA Sunday H!H Law-Ths Late
bribery Cases.

"u"nA shhHA} H!lI u LaW-The Late
bribery Cases.
s'sI Dispatch 10 'he Iaselllgeneer.
COlrNBrs, April l4.-Smith's Sunday
Oh, amended in the Senate, passed the
House to-day and now is law. The
oeRi'e Inserted in one line, "lor medical
s'7ees' Noothcr alteration was made.
'ean D. Watson, chief lobbyist for the
.asn Line railroad scheme, was arrested
S4y aa4 ior want OF bail he Ia now
ASHAaius behind the bars.
NpNseatatiycs Bloch and Wright have
I,! "sa ladIacl. as has also Albert Meter,
N'aoasrishl hand man.
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pLHvItANn.

Z CLEvElASn April 14.-The iron markets
are still inactive. Pig iron Is selling slight
ly better though at Q decline oi about one
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dollar. The larger buyers are still out o
the market and there will be no improve
ment until they take hold. There Is les
inquiry lor manufactured iron, but there 4
still employment for the mills on old or
ders. Prices are unchanged. Steel rail,
SIS. w 44S'0 '"O NO'AN' lower d
Petroleum has been easy this week and
declined to 6Ic for Standard white.
Railway business Is substantially un
changed: The tonnage Of freight Is light
70 the East while the western and local
freight Is fair. Passenger business is good
PlnLADRLPntA.
PnILADELruA, April 1.-THE Nori
american tomorrow will say; Trade in
most departments was most active the past
week and prices ofthe several leading DIR.
advanced.
Cotton shade higher.
Flour in fair demand and some holders
demanding further advance.
Wheat is active and higher.
Rye firmly held ut full prices.
Corns and oats are active at further ad-
vance.
In provisions there was fair jobbing
trade doing ut former rates.
There was very little doing in seeds, but
prices are unchanged.
Petroleum remains the same as last
quoted.
Mhiskey is firmly held at full prices.
Wool continues dull, and prices are
without essential change.
foSToS.
BosroN, April 1.-THE Commercial Bul-
tdtn tomorrow will say: "There Is gem
eral steadiness in prices Of staples. The
woolen mills and boot and shoe factories
are taking orders for fall and winter goods
at the same figures as year ago. Almost
the only manufactured goods OF value
which arc materially different from those
oil one year ago are those OF iron. These
are settling back, Large numbers OF the
buyers for the leading boston houses are
in California, Texas and Kentucky, max.
ing arrangements to move the new clip OF
wool, and a large number oi the buyers
for the leading western and in interior
firms are in Boston, arranging contracts for
the coming seasons supply OF boots and
shoes and other manufactured good.
ST. LOUIS.
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LOUISVILLE.


LOUISVILLE, April l4.-Trade in general
has been fair. Farmers, in view OF the
pearness OF what they deem good har
vest, anticipate lower prices, while dealen
arc firm, arguing that flour canaot be made
and sold ut present quotations. The mar
ket during the week has been steady, anC
aud closes with prices shade lower
Grain has ruled steady and firm, and price
have advanced,
The iron market has been stagnant, viii
small offerings and concession can be had il
large lots, but the inclination Is toward re
trenchment on all sides, and prices mus
settle before heavy transactions can b
had. Nails are going freely at a slight Gu
from manufacturer card. Fence Wire
in heavy demand, and rules strong at MAJ
ket prices Heavy hardware Is unchanget
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OMNTBUs CLAIas BILL.

Tho President and his party returned tc
70 city this morning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-04
POPULATION OF THE WORLD,

a most carefully prepared report of the
population of the various countries of the
world is that issued from time to time by
Drs. Benin aud Wagner. 4 ,sew aadi-
ton Of this publication has just appeared,
the previous one having been issued two
years. Within this interval censuses
have been taken in large number of
countries, and the results of these are
embodied in this work. But in the case
of some countries no official statistics
are to be had, and for such countries the
figures presented are necessarily the re-
suit OF computation or even conjecture.
The report of the population of China,
for instance, is but an estimate, while
that of Central America can be little bet
ter than guess. The results given by
Behm and Wagner are, however, eener-
ally accepted as the most trustworthy
published.
The total population Of the globe is
now reported by them at l, 433, 800, 600.
According to their last report it was
l,455, 100000. The difference would
indicate decrease of %, ,OOO, 900, but as
matter of fact there has, according to
these authorities been an increase of
more than SO, 900, 900. This is explained
by the fact that the population of China
has been very much over estimated here
tofore.. In the last issue of this work il
was given at 434, 900, 900; it is now put
at 379. 100000. In fact, in those coun-
tries alone in which censuses have been
taken the official returns show an aggre-
gate increase of 100000 during the
preceding interval of ten years. The
number Of people inhabiting the larger
divisions OF the globe, as given by Benin
and Wagner, are as follows: Europe,
327, ,743, 600; Asia, 795, ,591 900; Africa,
205, ,823, 900; America, 100, AIS, 900; Aus
tralia and Polynesia, 4,232, 900; Polar
regions, $4,000. Russia is credited with
83, 1000, 900 inhabitants; China, 379, ,OOO,-
600; Japan, $4,000, 900, and British In
dia 252, 600, 600.
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THE CURSE OF CREDIT.

1t is asserted by a writer in the Lon
don Times that the distress which cul-
minated in Ireland two years ago was
mainly brought about by small shop
keepers who "pressed their wares upon
he peasantry and ,dulged them in
ruinous credit" Whatever the facts as
to the cause of Irish distress, saye tue
New York Mail and Express, it is certain
hat credit has proved ruinous to nations
again and again. The panic of 1873,
with all it's J ears OF distress, could not
have come upon IT'S had it not been for
reckless extravaganza Of the people
through the credit system. 1t is said
that the greatest obstacle to the progress
of the colored people of the south is
their ready acceptance of credit from
the schemers who thus bring them into
their power. But indulgence in credit
is not confined to the ignorant and i'm
poverished laborers Of the south; it is
the curse of majority Of the American
people. A certain kind of credit is
necessary in great business operations,
but the practice of purchasing family
supplies upon credit would surely be
avoided were those addicted to it aware
of the disaster it entails. Tie French
people abhor debt, and to that fact much
Of their thrift is attributable. It is ex-
ceedingiy desirable that the people Of
the United States initiate the French in
their reluctance to incur debt.
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The Lion Of the Puniab,

Certainly there is an air of romance
and of tragedy about the story of Dhu-
leep Singh, who, it is announced, in
tends now to seek election to the British
House of Commons. He began life at
the Maharajah of the Punjab, possessor
of the Kohinoor and other almost bound
less wealth. After, ruinous wars and
equally ruinous treaties, he. now bids
fair to close his career in the position Of
Squire Of Elveden, a quiet English
country gentleman, without the Kohin-
oor, or any Of his former vast posses
sions, save an annuity from the govern
ment Of $125, ,O00, which, BY his ,luxuri.
GUS habits, he has already reduced to
$65, 900 per annum. True, he has pur.
chased estates and built magnificent pal
aces in England, Elveden Hall having
cost $500, 600, but BY act Of parliament
all these must be sold. at his death. leay-
ing his heir only the name and the men,
ory Of the son Of t'the Lion Of the Pun
jab. '...5s: ~: .>ss q
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Daring RObberieS,

On the night of the Both ult., while passen-
ger train was side-tracked near Granada, COL,
two men mounted the engine with drawn revol-
vers, and compelled the engineer to pull the
train a mile and half out Of town. Here fif-
teen armed men took possession Of it and pro-
ceeded to ransack the express car. They Sc
cured $500 in money and departed after
forcing the engineer to start his train full
speed: safe containing $4,000 was not mo-
Tested. -.
Shortly after the doors were opened at the
Cincinnati exposition building on the 2sth ult.,
812, 900 worth of diamonds and valuable
jewely were stolen from the exhibit of G..
Oskamp. The show case was insecurely locked
and was left unguarded. Two men entered the
booth and leisurely opened the case and Sc
cured the treasure. Those who observed them
supposed they we're the owners.
Three male shop-ifters despoiled Cook Il
Sloss' jewelry store at Louisville KY, of 900
worth of stock.
Two strangers entered the National Bank of
Baltimore, at Baltimore on the 25th, and Sue
cessfully abstracted $4,000 in bonds from a
table where q clerk was engaged in clipping
coupons. At the First National Bank, in the
same city, man was detected IN the act of
picking $3, 500 from the pocket Of bank mes
senger. The would-be-thief and his confederate
were allowed to escape.
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THE RISKS OF MINIRG.

The time is likely to come, says the
New York Times, when the history of
mining in this country will be written,
for The material which could be collected
for such work is abundant and of a
most varied character. The increase of
scientific knowledge has in few depart
ments of industry been productive of
better results. A mining expert at the
present time is almost at loss to COM
prehend what induced men to sink shafts
and build mills in some of the extreme
western states and territories. Money
was spent in this way to the amount of
millions of dollars, ami in some of the
abandoned mining towns west of the
Rocky Mountains theruins Of former es-
tablishments stand as lingering evil
dence OF misdirected industry. A great
part of this work was carried on in good
faith, in the belief that gold or silver in
paying quantities would be found; but a
mining engineer at the. present time
would decide, under like conditions,
that the results were altogether too un-
certain to warrant the expenditure of
money. Gold and silver mining is a
very uncertain undertaking even now:
but the risks are now appreciably less
than they were generation ago, for the
reason that those in the business un-
derstand better where and when not to
work. Enterprises are, however, car
ried on now and brought to a successful
conclusion that in other days would have
been abandoned. An instance of this is
given in the experience Of the owners of
. profitable gold mine on what is termed
the Mother Lode in California, SO called
because it is supposed to be the original
source Of al Of the gold-bearing quartz
veins in that state, 4 peculiarly about
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Beecher's Cow,

81 can remember" says Henry Ward
Beecher, "when I received an old COW
in payment of q bad debt. It wasa very
bad debt, and I came to consider it
very bad payment. She was thin COW,
but the former owner said she was bet
ter than she looked, being cross be-
tween the Jersey and the Durham. She
looked as if she might have been q cross
between an old hair trunk and an aban
doned hoop-skirt. I kept the brute
three days, and no one, except perhaps
Lieut.. Atwell, could ever appreciate the
suffering endured in that tin1e }'!o
first night she broke through the j. 1860
and reduced to pulp all the under
clothing belonging to my next door
neighbor. She put her horn through
my bath-tub, and ate up all my gera-
NUNS. She WAS to give three gallons Of
milk day, but she seemed to be short
just then, and never had that amount to
spare while we kept her. The second
day she walked into the kitchen and up
set pan of butter and tub of lard.
Then she fell down well, and when I
got her out, at q cost of five dollars, she
took the collie, whooping cough, or some
thing, and kept us awake all night. Not
a green thing was left in my garden; my
neighbours peach trees and the rope on
which his underwear grew were as bare
of fruit as singletree, and he did not
have a twig of ehrubbery left. My
neighbor came over to see me, and said:
stNow I don't desire any quarrel,
but I want you to keep your COW out of
my shrubbery!0
"And want you, my friend, said
I, 'to keep your shrubbery out of my
COW; it spoils the taste of the milk.
'Ever afterward there was a GOODNESS
between us, and my neighbor's wife
ceased to patronize our house when she
wanted to borrow cupful of yeast pow
dar'
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Work of the Flames.

Carter's block and three frame buildings fell
q prey 10 flames at Maquoketa, Ia., on the 18th
inst. The loss foots up $685. 900, The Masonic
lodges and Tancred Commandery Knights Tenn
plar, lost their effects.
Seventeen of the principal places in En-
porium, Pa, including two printing. Offices, a
bank and hotel were reduced to ashes on the
29th. Loss $75,O00, ,.,.-'
Eighteen stores were destroyed by fire at
Parnonburg, Mo-, on the night of the 26th.
Loss 36O, 900. - 9.
: Woods manufacturing establishments at Wins
low, n. c., burned ON tho 27th. Loss $50, 600.
Richardson's grain warehouse, Kingston.
Ont. wasswept away by fire on the 9th. Loss
100000. ~. ,.......... - sI-;.. FL.
An extensive hosiery factory at Balbriggan,
near Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by fire on
tue evening Of the 26th. Three hundred en-.
ployes are thrown out Of employment. & &.
Fires on the 26th: Frame Bros.''ssL Lock
Works, Lancaster, Pa, $40. 600; dry goods Of
Walhn Phillips tannery, Saugatuck, Mich,
$50. 900; Maltby, Stevens i Curtis silver plate
factory, birmingham, Conn.,, $15O, 600; an in.
cendiary blaze at Davenport, Ia, &25, 900.
Bergenthal's Meadow Springs Distilery, near
Milwaukee, Wis.,, was swept away by fire on the
26th. Loss eb0, 600; insurance $11, 500.
The Franklin Sugar Refinery, valued al
about @1,0OO, 900 WAS devoured BY flames on
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OUR WASTE OF, FOOD,

Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes to the
Boston Advertiser: In the recent report
of the commissioners of prisons l ind a,
statement Of the cost of provisions per:
week per prisoner in the year 1881. By
this statement it appears that in the
prisons and houses of correction in which
any considerable number of prisoners
are detained, the cost of provisions per
week ranges from sixty-one cents to 81.
ln regard to at irost QUE II ihe larger
houses OF detes:tioH, where veiy few but
adults are held, the cost is less thar
eighty cents Per week per pri:ouer, less
than Twelve CENTS per day for all the
food consumed. 10 this case The best
flour is bought aUd made into bread and
the beef served consists of the coarse
pieces Of the very best beeves, from
which tie sirio'ns and choicest parts
have been sod to the principal hotels in
Boston. [ tlis>k it is safe to say thar
the food served in this prison is of better
quality and better prepared than in the
average worklnan's family in the state Of
Massachusetts, aud think the question
Of waste on the part of the average men,
Der of the community may be sustained
by reference to the proverbial frying
pan. pale pie and half baked bread raised
with saleratus or some similar abomina-
tion. Even the average Englishman
knows how to make better use of beef
than we do. The best pieces, sirloin and
the like, command higher prices in Bos-
ton than they do in London, while the
coarse pieces command much less. It
pays to export beef to England even
though the sirloins sell for less; because
the people know better how to make use
of the rest of the carcass. Few people
know even how to cook the sirloin.
They roast it flank and all, while they
ought to cut ofthe flank and keep it for
the savory stew for Mondays dinner.