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FURS AND SKINS,
Latest Prices PAID for Them in the
New York Markets.
Cypress.

Although cypress has been in use many
years at the South for building purposes,
it is only within the two or three last
years that its value has commenced to DO
appreciated at the North; but the de-
mand for it is said to be steadily increas-
ing, and the probability is that ere long
it will form Il very considerable portion
of the supply of lumber sent to this mar
ket. There are two varieties of the tree,
usually called the yellow and red The
latter, which is the harder of the two,
grows upon the highlands, and as it takes
a high polish, is extensively used at the
South for furniture, shelving counters
and wainscoting. The yellow variety
grows in swamps and bottom lands in
the State of Alabama and all along the
Gulf coast, and throughout these sections
is used as substitute for white pine,
although when thoroughly dried it is
rather heavier and does not work quite
so easily. 1t is claimed that it is stronger
than white pine, that it can be nailed
without splitting, that it docs not readily
absorb moisture. 1t is used exclusively
for hogshcads barrels, cisterns, etc. 1t
is also used for picket fences sashes
blinds, door stills, clap-boards. shingles,
tanks and watts for brcWerles and mills,
and is said to be growing in favor for
dyeing and chemical watts, as the dye
does not affect it as m Ich rs other woods.
The most important quality of the
wood, is represented to be its great dura-
bility, which has been amply tested with
the most satisfactory results In this
respect it is valuable for the foundations
of buildings upon tilled-in land,
where the wood is apt to become wet
and then dry, as it will not rot
easily. Since it has been Systematically
placed upon this market, it has been
growing steadily in favor with builders,
and as its merits become better apprecia-
ted, the consumption will no doubt in
crease The lumber generally runs large
and clear and the price at which it can
be laid down here makes it cheap wood
for almost any purpose.
Cypress was known to the ancients as
the most lasting wood. But few persons
know that the collins of the Egyptian
mummies are made of cypress. The first
doors of st. Peters church at Rome were
made of cypress and were replaced by
bronze doors after 800 years. the cypress
being as sound at the end of these years
as at the building of the church.-Lum-
Der Trade JOUrndL
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SENATE COMMITTEES.
ChairmanslIips of the Various Conn
mittees of the Upper EEOusc.

he following are the chairman hips of the
United States Senate Committees as an
houncel also the ma orty of the Finance
conmittee): Privileges and elections, Mr..
Hoar; appropr ations, Mr. Allison; foreign
relations Mr.. Miller (of California;: finance,
Messrs. Morrill,, Sherman, Jones (of nevada,
Allison, Aldrich and Miller (of New York. :;
commerce, Mr. Mcmillan; manufactures,
Mr.. Ri idleberger; agriculture, Mr.. Miller;
(of New York;; public lands, Mr.. Plumb;
military affairs, Mr.. Logan; private land
claims, Mr.. Edwards; naval affairs, Mr..
Cameron Cof Pennsylvania; Indian affairs,
Mr.. Dawes; Judiciary, MIR. Edmunds: pen
sions, Mr.. Nil chell postoffice, Mr., Hill; revo-
lutionary claims, Mr.. Anthony; claims,
Cameron (of W Wisconsin,; District Of Column
bin, Mr.. Ingalls,; education and labor, Mr..
BAR; patents, Mr.. Plat; civil service, Mr..
Hawley; Territories, Mr.. HAIR SON. contin-
gent expenses, Mr.. Jones, (of n vada); rail
roads, Mr.. Sawyer; engrossed bills, Mr. ALI
son; rules, Mr.. Frye; mines and mining, Mr..
wilson; improvement of Mississippi river,
Mr.. Van Wyck; revision of the laws, Mr..
Conger printing. Mr.. Anthony: routes to
the seabord, Mr.. Aldrich library Mr.. Sher-
man; enrolled bills, Mr. Sewell; pubic build
ings and grounds, Mr.. Malone: committee to
examine branches of the civil service, Mr.
Cullom; river front, Mr. Conger; ten h CEN
sus Mr.. Hale epidemic diseases, Mr. Sewell :;
Nicauraguan claims, Mr.. Hill; woman suf-
trage, Mr.. Lapham; additional accommOda-
items for the library, Mr. voorhees,.
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OUT OF THE COMMON RUN,

AT Hannibal, Mo-, wedding, the bridal
march was played ON harmoni a and the
bride wore a calico dress in the Mother Hub
bard style.
THE eighteen-months- old child of Mrs.
John Tucker o. Salem, Ga, was at its moth
er's brcast nursing when lightning killed both
mother and child.
A THTRTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl of Amherst
Wis, has only blue spots on her face where
her eyes should be- Her other senses are acute
and she is intelligent
A GRAND banquet was given in Dublin to
Mr.. Parnell, the Irish home rule leader. Lord
Mayor Dawson presided, and many members
of parlia ment were present A check for
93S,O0J was presented to Mr.. Parnell as
national tribute.
The machinery of an ore mine at Carson,
Nevada, suddenly stopped, and among the
ore was found the pulverIzed remains of
hundreds of trout which had been swept
tn ough a broken screen in the mill-race into
the supply pipe.
thunder on a recent Sunday night so affected
two la lies Of Newburyport, that on the fol-
lowing Tuesday they Were unable to remem-
Der anything which had occurred on The pre-
vious day, although they o'herwise gave no
indication of mental disturbance.
a son of Gle rye Glaze, while out hunting
two miles below Selinsgrove, Penn, a a
pace known as the Marrow, - freed "A sluir-
rel and in charging the hole in order to Sc
cure the game came upon hard substance
which proved to be n silver watch Cutting
il eper, he succo eded in taking out eleven
of them Some five years ago iewelry store
in Sudbury was rol bed of n lot of watches
and it is sunpoed that this is part of tho
plunipr
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AGRICULTURAL.
What ComnissiOner LOring Says in
His Annual Report.

The annual report of Commissioner of Ag-
riculture Lorng shows that there were dis
tributed during the past year nearly $500, 900
packages Of seeds, of which more than 1000,
600 packages were furnished TO members of
Congress.
he experiments made by the department
in extracting the juice from sorghum cane by
diffusion inst of milling, lave been very
successful, ami have resulted in an increase of
from twenty five to thirty per cent. in vie d.
The commits ioner, III urging the impoI lance
of forest culture SAYS that the total value
of the forest products of the United
States for The census year is estimated at
s.Oo,OOO,OOJ, and that they exceed in value
our crops of hay, rye, oats, harley, buck
whea', potatoes and tobacco taken together.
They amount to ten times the value Of gold
and silver and to more than three times the
"A d other minerals combined
The EXPENSES of the department. for the
year amounted to $i55,619
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WASHINGTON.

On the first "billday" of the House, S24
| bills were overwhelmingly an average of
seven bills for each member-and even then
the call of States was not concluded, MaSsa-
chu 'etts only having been reached i'll alpha
betical order.
THE President sent the following further
nominations to the Senate: Albert u. Wy
man, of Nebraska, to be treasurer of the
Unit ell States; Edward o. Graves, of New
York. to be assistant treasurer of the United
States; Walter Evans, of Ken ucky, to be
commissioner of internal revenue: Benjamin
| Butterworth, of Ohio, to he commissioner
of patents; John s. I coke of Michigan. to
be secretary of the Territory of Montana.
Edwin II. Nevin, Jr., to be naval officer OF
custom, disri of Philadelphia: George f.
Leland, to be surveyor of customs, district of
| Philadelphia; Andrew Mason. of New York,
TO pe superintendent United States assay Of
flee in New York.
AN official crop report from the depart
ment of agriculture says the season was
favorable for cotton picking. The corn
! product falls below the average.
THE Republican National committee met
in Washington, and elected Senator Sabin. of
Minnesota, its permanent chairman, 10y
acclamation. The committee decided to
hold the national convention of 1884
in Chicago, on June 3. Chicago
was declared the choice on the fourth ballot
| by 26 votes to Is for Cincinnati, for Sara
toga, and for Philadelphia. Resolutions of
Senator Frye, proposing a change in the plan
of representation, by reappointing delegates
on the basis of the Republican vote, we're
offered and provoked discussion and strong
opposition. They were finally referred to
the rational convent on. Resolutions were
adopted paying warm tribute to the
memory of Marshall Jewell chairman of the
committee in the Garfield campaign.
TIE Senate in executive session confirmed
the following nominations; Sch Lcdyar1
Phelp to be envoy extraordinary anil minis
ter plenipotentiary to Peru; William w.
Thomas, Jr, to be minister resident to
Sweden and Norway.
DURING November the number of emf.
grants landed in the United States was 3d.
393 The number landed in November, 1882,
was 40,G2j.
THE Senate committee on Territories has
amended the bill to establish a civil govern
Ilent in Alaska so as to provide for schools tC
be open to the children of both white men
ana Indians.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CARLIsLE.-Speaker Carlyle was at one
time a schoolmaster
TENNYsoN-lt is s1id that the poet Tenny-
son title will be Baron Tennyson Deyn our /
of Aldworth.
GARRErT.-John W Garrett has b en- lee
tie president of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road for tie twenty sixth time.
BLisS.-Dr. Bliss received 900 letters dur
ins thu eighty days of President Garfields ill
ness lie has them classified and listed for use
III history of the case.
NENNoa.- Nennor, the Canadian weather
prophet, makes the comforting unnDu u. ce-
ment that March and April will p. obab y
give us the cold and snow lacking throa,, Ii
the first half of the winter
EvARTS. Since Alexander II. Stephens
death, VIM. NJ. lvarts Is the smallest man of
political renown. He has eleven ch Id en- some
of them married, and makes hundred thou
sand dollars year in his law practice.
BLAINE.-One of Nh Blaines friends says
that the statesman has niurei bis eyes by his
close work upun his book of Congrossiu nal
"reminiscences. He I, arel a ca atact o. his
left eye, but his occulist assures him that the
trouble is not serious one.
CARLETON Mr.. Ashbaugh, a friend Of
viii Carleton, the poet learns the latter is
about to publish vu ume of poems ON ii V
life, "He will take 1t up as Die ems aid
b. Z
who lives at Cartoons oil home, hll,aa.e,
Mich, estimates that the poet has made
$4,000 by his pen.
KING OF SIAM.-Ihe present king of Siam
is dong his best to give his sons a Euroi an
education, and his eople good govegim ut,
COOL roads, and good garages. His army
is drilled by Europeans, and many OF his
high functionares of sta can spea& ing
ish, and have provided Their houses WIN
English furniture. siam is rapidly adVa tc-
ing in prosperity.
DoNIPHAN.-General Doniphan has raai
that sounds something like thai oi the q ,eA
leader, Xenophon, b the res, NIB an be
tween the two goes further-ioth ma ie
MAJ ches OF extraordinary length General
lonil han, at the outb. eak OF the MeAlcan
war in 1916, led band OF 1000 soldiers fron
/ ort Leavenworth To Mexico and back, :, 900
miles, in thirteen months. He lives now at
Idaho Springs, man OF seventy, tall, hearty
and every inch soldier.
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O'DONNELL'S EXECUTION.
Hanging of the slayer OF thc iDscrncr
Carey. in London.

The trial and execution of O'Donre forthe
murder OF the Irish informer Carey aroused
great public interest in this country as well
as in Great Britain. General Pryor. New
York lawyer, was one of O'Donnell's counsel
and after the prisoners sentence TO be
hanged delegation of Congress m N waited
upon President Arthur and requested h m to
interfere in ODonnel's behalf. Victor
Hugo the eminent French writer. also wrote
to Queen Victoria. asking her to Dar,Ion
ODonnell. A Washington dispat h saws that
Secretary Frelinghuysen telegra he'd Minis
ter Lowell stating that the
House of Representatives had brought
the case of ODonnel to the Presi-
dents notice, in the hope that the
latter might secure reas nable delay in the
execution of the sentence, and might ascer,
tam whether the pr soner was an Ant rcan
citizen, and whether there was error in the
tria. In this telegram Mr.. Lowell was in
structed as follows:
GAS before instructed. You will consider
ODonnels citizenship as established. There
being in Great Britain no judicial ex-
animation on appeal of the proceedings
at criminal trial, possibly errors can
only be corrected through n new trial,
or by executive action upon the sem
tence, therefore this government is anxious
that ,uch careful examination be given to
the proceedings in this case as TO discover
error, should one have leen committed You
are, therefore. directed by the Tres dent 10
request telay of the execution II the sen
tence and that careful examination of the
case he made by Her Ma .e,ty's go, eminent,
and that the prisoners counsel he IerIaitted
to present any alleged points of error
Secretary Frelinghuysen received tele-
gram from Mr.. Lowell, who stated tAat he
Immediately communicated the sub ,tance of
the above telegram to Lord Granville. who
acknowledged its receipt and stated that it
had been referred to the proper authorities:
also that Mr.. Lowell received Lord Gran
vies reply, in which the latter after
referring to Mr. Lowelrs conmuni alton,
stated that the counsel for O'DOnnell having
submitted the represe nations he thought adj
visable on the prisoners behalf those
representations and all the other circum-
stances of the case had been carefully ex-
aminei and considered in the manner usual
in the case of capital convictions, and Her
Ma jestys govern ment had found no grounds
upon which they would be jus lied IN advis-
ing the crown TO interfere with the sentence
of the law or its execution.
O'Donnell was hange at SOP oclccl. in the
morning. Despite bosterous and sgually
weather consi erab!e crowd assemble at
the prison at 1 O'Clock Hundfe 5 of workmen
who passed by the Jail waited to gaze at the
black flag. Among them was ODonnelrs
brother, who pace to and fro oppoite the
flagstaff in a most restes and deie ted man
ner, exciting the sympat ~ of al present
The hangman's arrangements We're perfe t,
and the execution occurred without hitch.
O'Ionnell was calm and collected, and made
no statement on the scatfold.
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SUMMARY Of CONGRESS-.



The various committees of the Senate were
appointed. "A reso ution of Mr.. voorhees,
was agreed to author zing the committee on
military affairs to int uire into the expediency
and feasibility of purchasing the encamD-
ment grounds oc upied by the Revolutionary
army at Valley Forge, to be MADE national
park. Mr. voorhees, also offered a resolution,
which he asked to have printed, that the
judgment of the Senate public debt is not
public blessing, and that any measure of
financial policy looking to the perpetration of
the present in crest bearing national debt
of this government for the purpose of
national banking or on any other ac-
count me, is with the disappro baton of this
body ard should be viewed with alarm by
the taxpayers of the United States Bills
were introduced to provide for coinage at
the Denver mint: 10 increase the salaries of
chapleins in the United stat $ army: to reg
ulate elections for Representa- ives in Con-
gre and TO unish violations thereof; to
define the rights of Urited States citizens
when ding in foreign countries; luthoriz-
ing the construction of a building for the
accommodation of the library of Congress.
Mr.. Anthony was sworn in and ook his
seat. Bills were pre- ented to establish
stan ard time in the District of Columbia; to
provide for the enc engagement of closer COM
nercial rcla ionship between the United
States and the re ,ubliCs Oi Mexico and Cen
trai and South America and the empire of
Brazil; to eS abiish uniform system of bank
ruptcy. The Senate received long list of
nominations from the President, and con-
firned he nomination of General Gresham as
postmaster-general
Mr.. Becks resolution calling on the secre
tary OF the treasury for information respect.
ing the management of nat onal finances was
amended and adopted. Mr. Wilson adj
dresse the Senate III support OF his resolll-
ton proposing an amendment to the consti-
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Foreign.

QUEEN VICTORIA has made Alfred Tenny-
son. the poet laureate of England, baron.
NINE persons pleaded guilty at Sligo Ire
land, of conspiracy to murder a landlord.
AN mme' Sc throng of poor people gath
erei before the house of a deceased merchant
in Moscow to receive the money that is
usually distributed at The demise of a wealthy
person. The pressure was so great that
several persons were crushed to death and
four severely injured.
HEAVY gales have caused n great loss of
life aud property throughout Great Britain.
EIGHTEEN persons, comprising four priests,
four merchants, schOohn1ster and nine
peasants have been eXecut d in Servia for
taking prominent part i'll the recent revolt
CHINA is continuing its active preparations
for war with France. Canton has b en- placed
in defensible condition. a large fleet having
collected to protect the city. and its ap-
breaches having been barred by sinking
iunks loadel with stones. The Chinese
viccroy declared that all foreigners would be
protected.
IT is reported that the king of Anam has
been poisoned by the anti-French party and
that the revolutionists have declared war on
France.
A HEAVY storm caused great damage to
shipping along the coast of New Foundland.
THE wife of John HOWE, of bonneville,
New Brunswick, gave birth to four boys the
other morning. One died two hours after
birth, but the Others were doing nicely at
last accounts.
THE steamer AUX, from Liverpool for
Rotterdam, was wrecked during gale, and
her crew of twenty-one men were all
drowned.
a ROME dispatch says that the American
nat onal council of Catholic bishops will be
held at Baltimore after the presidential elec-
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Caught at Last.

For years a large red fox, which had
been dubbed "Stonewall Jackson" has
evaded the hunters of Kenton county,
Ky, and to capture him has long been
the ambition of the owners of several
packs of hounds. This has finally been
done by members of the Kenton Cunning
club. Mastering a pack of thirty-two
fine English fox-hounds they repaired to
Reynard's haunts. and in short time
the hounds were observed to be giving
tongue beautifully on a hot trail. The
run lasted for six hours, terminating in
the capture Of the fox miles away near
the Boone county line Many of the
hounds gave out long before the chase
ended.
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LATER NEWS

ACTIVE work has been commenced in Bos-
ton to prevent the employment of children
moro than sixty hours per week.
A PHENOMENAL change in the weather is
reported from Vergennes, VT, where the
thermometer fell fifty degrees in one
night and paralyzed business. All over New
England the change was as great as it was
sudden.
DR.. ALBERT G. f. GoERsEN, convicted in
Philadelphia of poisoning his wife, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
MEMORIAL services for the lost fishermen
were held at Gloucester, Mass. Two
more vessels overdue if proved to be lost
will swell the number of vessels lost TO twelve,
with probably $50 men. The number of lives
lost during the year will not fall much short
of two hundred.
Conc FRESHMAN d. c. HASKELL, of Kansas
died in Washington after lingering illness.
Mr.. Haskell was born in Vermont in 1S42, and
had lived in Kansas since 1865. He was cleo
ted to the Forty-fifth Congress, and has served
eversnce. In the last Congrets he was chair
manof the committee on Indian affairs
Mr.. HAsKEI L is the fifth member elect Of
the Forty-eighth Congress who has diel.
There were three deaths among Repub-
lican members and two among Dem
ocrats The Republicans who died were
Mr.. Marsena Il. Cults, of the Sixth
Iowa district Walter r. Pool, of the First
North Carolina, an d. c. Haskell, of Kan
sas. Both Cults and Pool have been sue
ceeded by Democrats, Mr.. John G. Cook
being elected in place of Cults and Thomas
G. Skinner in place of Pool. The deaths
among the Democrats were E. w. Rolert-
son, of the Sixth Louisiana, and j. II. Hern-
don, of the First Alabama and both vacan
cies were FL ed by Democrats. There are
now three vacant seat, in the House-the
Second Mississippi, Second Kansas and Sew
enth Virginia.
THE first cargo of American wheat has
Just been received in Austria
KING ALFONSO opened the Cortes- the
ST anish national legisature-n person.
A DISPATCH from Port Arthur, Manitoba,
says that the schooner Mary Ann Hubert,
which was being lowed TO Michipicoton by
the steamer Kincardine, foundered Off st.
Ignace island. The Hubert carried a crew
of five in ldition to fifteen laborers, all of
whom went down with the vessel.
FIFTEEN thousand troops are necessary to
defeat FL Mahdi, the false prophet, in Egypt
A RIOT has taken place between some
drunken soldiers and a number of Jews at
GarmolinI. Russia, resulting in the killing
of Il rabbi and the wounding of many of the
Jews The soldiers have been arrested
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KRUPP.--IIerr Alfred Krupp the proprie
tor Of he great steel works at Eisen, Ger
any, VIII re TIE guns which bear his name are
manu- ac. ured- G lp oys 1000 IN N who oper-
ate i.5l3 iur aces, $50 steam-boi,ers, $50
cam en- ines aud ,G12 ma Lines for ,,olk k
ins ron. b. sid ben the owner of the
works al Elen h is the ow. er of j47 mines
IN various parts of Germa ~. His entire os-
sessions are IA d to b worth $1,000 OJ.. lie
is CRIB d a. "A tail nd rather stern-looking
nan, W tn S o. IN, hou der, long neck and
iuli VIII te beard, h.dng sensitive mouth,
d ID "A e narrow tne aw aud broadenin !;
above The thin, well shape nose. His dark
eye Is keen and penetrating, his forehead ex-
"a siye. He is deli ate, er GUS aud intellec-
tunl, and looks like clergyman.
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BURT ELLIS (colored was hanged in pres.
ence of an immense crowd at Shelby, N. c.,
for the murder of Mrs. William Logan,
All old white lady, and the at
tempted murder of her husband, the
motive for the crime being robbery. On
the same day Pleasant Hall also color ed
was hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss, for the
murder of another colored man during a
dispute about thirty cents; Juan Duran,
a Mexican, was executed at Galveston Texas,
for Chinaman's murder, and Levi James, a
Choctaw Indian, expiated the crime of muir
der, by being legally shoJ to death, at Scully-
vile court house, Indian Territory.
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HENRY STocKER, of Southwark, fell dead
while in a fit of passion, caused by the re-
fusal of his eleVen-year-old son to obey him
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CURIOUS lawsuit is now pending in Lau-
same. Adog chased a cat, which fled down
the air shaft leading from the street into
wine vault. The d Y lluwed, and the two
fell against the tap large cask of Yvorne,
AMI tn wine began to flow. The wine mer-
chant claimed he had a cause Of action for the
loss of his wine and as the owner of the cat
WIS not known, be SIel the owner OF the dog.