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: INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
Provisions of Senator Cul,om's Substitute for
the Committee Bill.

Provisions of Senator Cullom's Substitute for
the Committee Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l6-Mr. Culom reported
substitute for the bill to regulate commerce.
recently submitted by the committee on inter-
state commerce, and gave notice that he would
ask the Senate to set day for It's considera-
ton. The important sections of the bill have
been revised and somewhat modified by the COM
mittee. As the bill now stands. its provisions
apply to the transportation of passengers and
freight by railroad, or partly by railroad and
partly by water when both ere used for continu-
GUS carriage between tho States and between
the United States and foreign countries The
sections prohibiting unjust discrimination and
the giving of undue preferences are not material
ly changed. The charging of more for shorter
than for longer distance is prohibited. with the
provso that the commission may make excep-
tlons to this requirement when found necessary
in special cases where there is water eomneti,
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THE DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.


WAR DEPARTMENT..
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WARRINGTON, Feb. II. A. n. }
Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours,
from A. NJ, for indianapolis and Vicinity
Fair, warmer weather.
For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee Fair
weather; warmer variable winds, generally
southerly in the Ohio valley and easterly in the
Tennessee falling barometer.
For the Lower Lake Region-Fair weather
in the western portion followed by local SHOWS.
followed by fair weather; and again followed by
local SHOWS; southeasterly winds, falling bar
ometer, slowly rising temperature.
For the Upper Lake Region-L;ght local
SHOWS. followed by fair, warmer weather; winds
generally westerly.
For the Upper Mississippi valley-Fair
weather in the southern portion, light local
SHOWS, followed by fair weather in the northern
portion; westerly winds in the northern portion,
seutheriy winds in the southern portion; gener-
ally warmer weather.
For the Missouri Valley-Fair weather; slight
ly warmer. northerly winds in the northern por-
tion, southerly winds 10 the southern portion.
Local Observations.
INDIANApoIIs Feb. 16.
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Cough and watterson.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 16-The condition of
Mr.. John B. Cough. who was last night stricken
with apoplexy. remains unchanged. Through
out the night and up to noon to-day he has
been unconscious
At midnight Mr.. Coughs condition was not
improved.
terson was somewhat better, though he was
restless during the afternoon eIt will be several
days before the crisis is passed
At IL o'clock Mr. Watterson's symptoms were
still favorable. This is his forty sixth birthday.
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pestitn,lon in New York.

New YORK. Feb. 16.-Alexander Geir. aged
forty. was arrested here to-day while climbing
over the railing of the East river bridge promen-
ade. His purpose was to commit suicide by jump.
ing from the structure. He said that he wanted
70 die because of his inability to provide for
three weeks to eight years of age. They lived
at No. 158 Essex street. An officer who went
there to investigate found the prisoners wife
and three little ones crowded Ia a small room in
the rear Of the building. They had eaten moth
ing tor two days.
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WHEN INDICATIONS.
WEDNEsDAY.-Fdir, wdrmer
aUedther.

Early to bed and early to rise make man healthy,
wealthy and wise.''
Wrong again!
Old proverbs are as frequently
wrong as "Old Probabilities used
to be.
If you would be healthy you
must have proper clothing.
If you would be wealthy you
must buy it at the proper place.
If you are wise you know this
place is THE WHEN.
The garment Of all others for this
time of year is a medium weight
Overcoat.
Needless to say that the largest
line in every variety, and at prices
to suit everyone, is found at
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ting at theirdesks writing, constantly-day after
day, a constant work with the pen. Those OF
the House are members who have not the means
or inclination to employ an .amanuensis, or they
have so many autograph letters to write they can
not attend to them out of session hours 1t used to
be that the Senate only adjourned over Saturday
each week, that its members could get up their
work; but now the adjournment Is over Friday
and Saturday, too showing cumulative duties.
The House, that used TO very seldom adjourn
over Saturday. does now nearly every week.
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Sir Charles Dixie WIN Travel.

LoNDoS. Feb. 16.-The Liberal Association Of
Chelsea, the constituency of Sir Charles Dixie,
has discussed the advisabilty of permitting him
to continue as parliamentary representative of
the district and has decided to leave him un-
disputed in his possession. Sir Charles will not
resign his seat IN Parliament.
The Pail Mall Gazette summonss Sir Charles
to resign forthwith. Sir Charles Dixie is going to
the south of France. whore it is said he will re-
main several months
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Russia and the Turco-Galgarian Agreement
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 16.-The Journal DeS st.
Petersburg, in commenting on the Turco- Bulgari
an agreement, says that Prince Alexander has no
right to place the Bulgarian arms in subordna
ton toTurkey In proposing to do this, Prince
Alexander infringes the treaty of Berlin. Such
action would be likely to arouse the slumbering
passions of the East and plunge the countries
into fratricidal struggles. Russia. the writer
continues, which delivered Bulgaria from the
domination of the Porte, would not allow Prince
Alexander to take this course. This determina-
tion OF Russia may be forgotten at Sofa, but it
will not be ignored elsewhere.
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Greece and the Powers.

LONDON, Feb. 16-The Daily News says
statements will be made in both houses of Par
lament. tomorrow, respecting the Balkan poll
icy of the government. It is understood that
upon the arrival of the two men-of war sent to
reinforce the British Mediterranean fleet, for
ward operations will be taken, with view of
disabling the Greek feet In the present tenn
per of the Greek nation there is little doubt the
Greek admiral will forcibly resist the contem-
Mated attack
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A Fatal COLLAPSE,

LIVERPOOL, Feb 16.-A portion of the ship
pers' exhibition building in process of construc-
ton in this city, collapsed to-day while several
score of workingmen were engaged upon it. Most
of the men have been recovered from the wreck
eighteen of them with broken limbs These
have been sent to hospitals 1t is known that
several men were killed by the accident.
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Conspiracy Against King MILAN,

LONDON, Feb. 16.-A dispatch from Belgrade
says that conspiracy has been discovered there
to overthrow King Milan and place upon
the throne Prince Alexander Karageorgevtch
Several persons who were charged with being
implicated in the conspiracy have been arrested.
Prince Karageorgevitch has long been o pre-
tender to the Servian throne.
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Demand that England Evacuate Egypt
English and French Cooperation.
LONDON, Feb. 16.-De Freycinet has informed
the Earl of Rosebery, Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs, that he has instructed the French minister
at Cairo to support the demands of Moukhtar
Pasha, the Turkish commissioner to Egypt. that
the English evacuate Egypt, and that the British
forces there be replaced by a urco-Egyptian
army. The French Prime Minister has made
overtures to Lord Rosebery looking to an agree
ment between England and France on the
Egyptian question.
M. De. Freycinet pledges that when the
English occupation ceases, France will not inter-
vene. but will cooperate with England to pre-
vent any other power from interfering in
Egyptian affairs
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Steamship News.

LONDON, Feb. l6-Passed: The Lizard Bel
genland, from Antwerp, and ST Simon, for
Havre from New York.
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The Policy Was Decided on Two Years Ago,
but Action Was Delayed in Order to Show
that Threats Carried no Weight.
Continuation of the Agitation Among
Unemployed English Workmen.
Important Declarations Of John Dillon Con-
corning Irish Home Rule-A Demand that
England Withdraw from Egypt-Notes.


Their Abolition Due to the Governments De-
sire to Outgeneral the Center Party.
BERLIN, Feb. 16.-The Vossisehe Zeitung at
tributes the introduction of the bill in the Upper
House Of the Landtag, to abolish many of the
May laws, frst to the governments desire to
outmaneuver the Center party in the Landtag,
in order to secure the approval Of the Bishop of
Fulda and to carry the bill by the weight of the
Vatican adhesion. In the Lower House it is not
likely that the Liberal opposition will oppose the
bill. The Germania tultramontane organ) is
dissatisfied because the bill does not include an
organic revision of the religious laws. The gov
ernment's changed attitude toward the Vatican
is semi officially explained as follows The gov
ernment has been for two years decided to ac-
cede to the wishes Of it's Catholic subjects, but
was hindered by the fact that the sessions of Par
lament were attended with circumstances tend
ing to raise the impression that the government
could be driven by attacks and threats to un-
willingly consent. There is no longer any
ground for fear. and therefore the government
has introduced the present bill in the Landtag
The bill abolshes the remainder of the May
laws, with the exception Of the obligation to OBJ
tain government approval of religious appoint
ments
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Local Observations.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16.
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on the spot where he is supposed to have
sat his horse and directed the battle, is only
half completed and in a sad state of decay.
passed up the circular step inside to view
the top of the half finished shaft Our party
was attacked by a swarm of honey bees, the
February day being warm enough for them
to be out, and we had to hastily descend.
At the base of the monument / saw nest of
mice in sheaf OF rice. Negros are afraid
of this monument and never go near it. In
fact, they are afraid of the whole region
round about this battle-ground and the mon
ument too many skulls and cannon-balls
and the like are plowed up and picked up to
suit our colOred brother. And so it is the
bees up in the broken old monument and
the little mice in the rice at the base of il
have it all their own way, and nothing comes
near 10 brighten or disturb them save an oc-
casional and rare knot of tourists from the
North like that of my party yesterday after
noon.
But some day they will all be rudely dis
turbed, the dead and the living. Up yonder
by the convent the river Is furious. 1t
foams and frets and chafes against the bank,
and is eating it away terribly. 1t is reported
to be eighteen feet deep in this furious eddy.
Great frames and drains and dlkes have been
let down here, weighed at the bottom with
iron bars; aprons with great weighty stones
to hold them in place against the bank have
been let down into the deep, dark, whirling
water, but it will not be satisfied. Some
night the old Ursuline Convent, and all its
noble army of nurses and ministering angels
will go down together. And then the mon
ument, the double burying ground, the bones
the cannon balls and all will follow.
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A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.
Nathan Hall Murdered by the Turner
Brothers.

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 1.-THE following ac-
count of murder in Bell County has just reached
here: The terrible tragedy which occurred at Har-
Ian Court House. resulting in the murder of Ma
than Hall and Robert Hall. some ten or fifteen
days past was repeated in Bell County on Wednes-
day, February H. near Pineville. Advices from
various sources, all of which have been confirmed,
say that William Lane, highly esteemed young
man, was at work getting out saw-logs, having
with him boy named Thomas Black, and that
while returning to their home Gordon Turner.
Lee Turner, John Turner and others, who had
been hing in wait for them, sprang from the
bushes and fired upon them, shooting Lane
through the body, MORALLY woundiRg him, Dut
missing Black.
take care of himself, that he (Iane) was killad.
At the same time he raised his weapon and fired
al Gordon Turner, shooting him through the
head, killing him instantly. Lane then retreated
a few steps and fell, while the remaining Iur-
ners were shooting at him, but he got up and shot
again and again at his pursuers, but missed them,
and falling again, where he received two or three
more shOtS, alter which he got up and reached
the house of Winston Partln, whose residence WAS
only about 80 or 200 yards from where the con-
flict began. Lane died at Mr.. Partins honse the
next morning.
Thomas Black made good his escape. but was
pursued and diligently searched for by the gang
The report says it is a notorious fact that after
Lane had fallen into the door OF Partins house,
the Turner's surrounded the house and would not
allow any of Mr.. Lanes friends 70 see him until
fred during the terrible struggle. After Lane
died the Turner'S went TO Pineyille, the county
seat of Bell County and pretended TO surrender,
but in reality to join more friends, who viii
and where they were at last accounts enjoying
absolute freedom.
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The Dressed Beef Controversy.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27.-Yesterday, at the National
Yards large handler of stock, who withhOlds
his name, said: This dressed beef controversy has
a peculiar interest to st. Louis. You see the st.
Louis institution has not been taken into the Chi
cago combination and is antagonistic to the Ar
mour-Swift- Hammond combination, and has to
buy in direct competition with those people who
secure their purchases at Chicago and Kansas
City, where they make the markets to suit them
selves, and after they buy cattle at their
prices complain bitterly against railroad discrim-
nation. But these people Will find that they have
run counter to the interests of too many classes.
They antagoniZe the railroads, the butchers. the
stock yards, the cattleraisers and the.consumers;
they seem to want the whole earth, as the phrase
goes. 1t is a matter of easy demonstration that
the triumvirate monopoly has made cattle prices
at Chicago and Kansas City with
out regard to the shippers interest. For
instance, the dressed beef buyers pool at Kansas
City, and If live stock shipper offers to take
portion of q consignment on good figure, the
salesman does not sell the portion bid on, for if
he does the pool buyer will not take the balance
at any price. If the salesman in his dilemma
offers the entire drove to the pool, they bid him
away down. II he finally concludes to forward
TIE cattle to Chicago he has jumped from the
frying-pan into the fire. for the Kansas Cay bid
has been forwarded by wire, and he Will be
slaughtered for his.pains and pluck by the pool
dressed beef people hold dangerous power. Buy
ing cattle thus they do at their own price, they
are enabled to put retail meat on the market at
prices which run the butcher out on business IN
the East and for that matter, in the West as well,
but remember when once competition is killed
they put the retail price up at their pleasure ana
the consumer is wholly at their mercy. BY COM
pairing the retail prices OF beef Tor ISL with the
that while cattle in wholesale way have gone on
heavily in price, the retail prices are the same
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PECULIAR SENTENCE.
A Pension Swindler Banished for Life From
West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. 27.-The only case on
record OF Punishment for life from this State is
that of George J. Williams, whose imprisonment
rs a United States convict has but recently oc-
CURED. Williams, who is well educated and
handsome fellow, came into this State few years
ago, went to Nicholas County, where he became
engaged in the United States pension and fnsur-
ance business. He succeeded in working up
many thousands Of dollars for disabled soldiers
and widows of dead soldiers in Nicholas and adj
joining counties. Through some way he sue
ceeded in getting pension drafts eashed, and in
short time had pOcketed large sums OF money be-
longing TO his clients. lie was finally caught in
nefarious transactions, and indicted by United
States Grand jury in this city, His trial. about
two years ago, resulted in his being sent to the
Denitentiary for one year.
Three other charges of the same nature were
placed against him, but he not tried, as IL
was deemed best by the Judge to wait till he
had served his year. in order TO have him here
as q witness against persons mixed up with him
in pension frauds. Williams was brought back
here before his time in the penItentiary expired,
and used a witness. He then confessed on
three charges of mail robbery and pension
frauds, and being in bad health, and almost dead,
Judge Jackson, OF the United states District
Court for this State, tempered his sentence with
mercy. aud gave williams three months in jail
on confession. Judge Jackson, in his sentence,
embodied an order banishing Williams forever
from the State of West Virginia, to take effect
sixty days after the expiration OF his three
months imprisonment Williams imprison-
ment was up TO Thursday last. and he now has
less than two months 10 fix up business and leave
he State forever.
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JACKSoN'S MONUMENT.
Another Memorial Incomplete and Left
to Decay.

New Orleans Correspondence Chicago Times
Close by here, in the old French quarters
and almost in the shadow of the cathedral
stands the little red-tile Criminal Court
House in which General Jackson was found
guilty, or rather in which he pleaded guilty
of superseding the civil law with that of
military during the siege of the city by. the
British.
mile or two further down the embank-
ment of the angry and surging river stands
the once famous Ursuline Convent-the first
in all the Americas, The door-sill was red
with blood on the day of battle here. Gen.
eral Harvey, our oldest soldier, told me last
summer that he saw the battle of New Or
leans, but did not take part. He told me that
he was but lad then, but distinctly remem-
bers standing on the high and heaped-up
bank of the river and seeing them carrying
the wounded into the convent
The battle-ground of New Orleans is to- day
the very prettiest spot of interest to be found
in all our land. 1t is beautiful orange
grove, and under these fruitful and laden
trees is the most perfect riot of flowers that
art and generous nature can bring together.
Many Of these flowers are such as blossom
the winter through.
Here the Federal authorities estaD lshed
cemetery for the soldiers Twelve thousand
Federal dead lie here, with nearly as many
thousand British. In corners of the grave
yard you see little heaps of British cannon
balls, dug up when digging graves for Fed
eral dead. These balls are small and rusty
not unlike the oranges that hung on the trees
overhead.
The monument TO General Jackson, placed
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If what some of its leading citizens say of
it is true, Chicago badly needs a shaking up;
the services of an energetic reyivalist are
much required in that stronghold of iniquity.
With characteristic courage Sam Jones has
undertaken to thunder the law aud declare
the Gospel in the ears of the big and multi
tudinous SINNERS of the city by Lake Michi
gan. His good work elsewhere encourages
the expectation that even Chicago is not so
wicked that it can not be made better as the
result of his earnest and interesting minis
trations.
The leading revivalist of the day is of good
stock. He was born in Gainesville, Barlow
County, Georgia, in 1S49. His father was
soldier in the war, and afterward practiced
law. Several of his uncles and his grand
father share or did share, with him the
preachers vocation, with preferences for the
Methodist denomination.
Sam jones, though not a learned, is far
from being an unlettered man. and could be
more elegant in his diction if he cared more
for the literary proprietles. He received q
good academic education, and was a vorac-
ious reader during his boyhood and youth.
Having attained the proper age, he adopted
the learned profession of the law, and pros
pered IL practice notwithstanding that, &C
cording to his account of what he was at
that period of his life, he was drunkard and
gambler. There is no evidence that he was
even "hard" character. He was generous,
gay, jovlal, and bit wild, and blundered in
to wickedness sometimes, but was never a
hardened sinner, and his friends deprecate
his being so understood when he calls his
past to mind in the great congregation.
The revivalist married when young, and
began singularly harmonious domestic life
with daughter of Kentucky, who is now
living, and the joyful mother of six children.
1t was in the year 1870 that Sam began to
take religious view of life, the occasion
of the change being the impression wrought
on his mind by the death of his father.
| Soon after this event he was 'soundly con-
verted," joined the church, and began to be
heard in meeting. His gifts illumined his
graces, and before long he was popular
preacher. The first ten years of his work in
| the pulpit were spent in different parts of
| Georgia. After that time, in 1881, he began
revivalistic work outside of his native State.
His reputation is now as wide as the diffu-
sion of ephemeral Literature.
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Fire Losses.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Eariy this morning fire
broke out from some unknown cause in the stable
of Patrick Mackey, in Magnolia street. Brooklyn.
The high winds famed the flames and scattered
the burning embers in every direction. The fire
spread to Mr.. Mackey's dwelling. and in a short
time both were demolished, causing loss of
$500. The fire communicated to the Lutheran
Cemetery and Cypress Hills Railroad Company S
depot. The firemen could not check the flames,
and the horses were rescued with difficulty. The
depot, sheds and stables were burned with forty
cars, seven motors and a quantity of harness. The
company estimate their loss at over 100000; in
sured in difereDt companies, but not for the full
amount.
Another fire occurred early this morning in the
four story brick building, No. 257 First street,
New York, which is occupied for manufacturing
purposes. The first and second floors were occu-
pied by G. ID. Demorest as a mandatory for opera
fourth floors are occupied by Stephen Simonds as
a nickel-plating works His loss is about S. 900.
The building which was destroyed was valued at
5000.