Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-03
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
ANOTHER "O.TLFR y0E- SENS4.
TION IN WASHINGTON.
Senator MilIer's Funeral Ex,epSaS
vital Statistics-Texas Floods
Affairs Abroad.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD -usyex.,
DOMESTIC.
Congress This Week.

Congress This Week
WASHINGTON, May 2d.-The Postofftee
appropriation bill will be passed bv the
senate tomorrow, and it is expected that
the interstate commerce bill will then COM
mand the attention of the Senate after .
O'Clock each day until it is disposed of.
senator Cuilom, who has the bill in charge,
| thinks the result should be reached after
two or three days discussion. The hank
ruptcy bill, general pension bill and the
Des MONIES river land bill are upon the
| caucus committees programme for consid
eratlon next after the interstate commerce
Dill, but Senator Frye has expressed a mr.
pose to contest their right of wav some
tlme during the week in behalf of the
Staten Island bridge bill. He will also ask
tiint ii uurlhg the morning hour the shipping
Dill ne taken up, discussed and passed.
To morrow being individual suspension
day IN the House of Representatives n
number q public building measures will
be passed ander suspension of the rules.
II Is probable that the river and harbor bill
Will come up in the House Tuesday. As
only one important section remains to he
| considered, the bill can be finally disposed
Of in one day. The Campbell Weaver con-
tested election case may also be reached on
the same day, and the committees report
III laNOT ol edVef, the sitting member
will without doubt be adopted after a short
debate. The Chinese indemnity bill comes
up Wednesday in the morning hour.
struggle for precedence is expected between
the conflicting special orders made for that
day, which may result in the taking up of
| the consular and diplomatic approximation
bill. Friday will be devoted to the con-
| slderation OF private bills, and On Satur-
! day the Oklahoma bill again receive the at
tention of the House
New Topic of Gossip in Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 2d.-The .Siolday CtrDi-
tai to-day prints the following: There is a
new topic of gossip in town. which for the
moment is almost as exciting in some
quarters as "OStler joe" Mrs. Hearst.
! wife of the California Senator having in
| vited that eccentric person, Chaplain Mil
| burn, TO entertain company in her parlors
| on Wednesday last, the reverend gentleman
carried out his arrangement by delivering
a discourse on the poet Goethe, which was
| quite as remarkable as any of his remarka-
| bic prayers. Goethe, as everybody knows.
was not only great poet and philosopher,
but very enterprising and cbangeable
lover of fair women. He never seemed TO
manifest any conception of what is known
, as moral principle in his relations with
women, and there are chapters in his
] va W Niidt al dtldDltt lOT eNDialla-
ton in refined circles. Rev. Mr. Mil
burn, however, is said to have dwelt
at lerstl, and with much freedom
of expression, on the great Germans anna
| tory experiences, and some of his auditors
are hardly through bushing yet at the
strength of the terms which he used in his
| characterization. 1t would seem to be
pretty good rule for ladies who are going to
give parlor entertainments to insist on the
privilege Of reading beforehand the poems
and essays with which their guests were to
be entertained. Even this, however, would
be no protection against an extempore dis
course by the blind parson, who has some
what dull notions of what is appropriate
for discussion in polite society. Mr.. Mil
burns discourse was fully two hours in
length, and when he finished young lady
was heard to remark, " Mother, it was too
long" To which her level-headed parent
replied, My dear, it was too broad"
The Regular Annual Appropri ton Bills
WASHINGTON, May 2d.-Following is
statement of the present position of the
regular annual appropriation bills Five
the general deficiency, legislative, sundry
civil, naval and fertilization bills. have not
been reported from the committees in which
they originated. Three, to wit, the mill
tary academy, consular and diplomatic and
army appropriation bills, are upon the
House calendar The river and harbor
bill is untinshei business in Committee of
the Whole. Three. viz: the pension, Dis
trict of Columbia, and agricultural bills,
have passed the House, and are before the
Senate Committee ON Appropriations. The
postofiice bill is before the Senate, and the
Indian bill has passed both houses.
Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United
States.
WASHINGTON, May 2d-The report of DR..
Billings, Surgeon of the United States
Army, on the mortality and vital statistics
of the United States, as returned for the
tenth census (June, 1880, has been re-
ceived b. The Secretary of the Interior. 1t
says The total population III 1850 was
90 l53 1SS-an increase in ten wears of H.
593 4l2. OF this increase, 2S1 9per annum
may be taken as due to immigration, the
total number of Immigrants for ten years
being 2,Sl2, l9l. This makes the mean an
nual increase, due to excess of births over
deaths. S7S ,522. The mean annual birth
rate Tor the United States is given as Sc per
100. 1t appears, from the data presented
in the report, that the United States, as a
whole, during the census year, had COM
paratively low death rate and a high birth
rate. The death rate is shown to be higher
in the colored than in the white popula-
ton, in the foreign element than the
whites of American parentage, in cities
than in rural districts.
The Expense OF the Late Senator niiIIe,'s
Funeral.
WASHINGTON, NAY 2d.-The total EXPENSE
of the late Senator MiIler's funeral was
S7,37S, divided as follows: Transportation,
IS, ,S4S; Pullman cars, 81. 129; travelling ex-
penses including hotel bills, 1888 sashes.
gloves, etc, 1918 carriages in Washington.
i 4ha 81 L.. .
carriage and use of 500 chairs, $S7. Total,
S7,37S.
Frightful Tragedy in Chicago.
CHICAGO, May 2d.-Alexander Ribboa.
an Italian, 62 years of age living at 32I3
Butterfeld street, became engaged in a
quarrel this morning with John Hipsman,
German hostler, 60 years of age. The
two old men soon came together. Hipsman
with a pitchfork and Ribbola with re-
volver. The latter fired an Intellectual shot
when Hipsman dropped the pitchfork
and grappled with him TO obtain the revol-
yer. While the two old men were strug-
Cling, servant called out to Ribbola's sons
that Hipsman was killing their father. The
boys hastily rushed out and Felix, aged %,
sprang between the combatants As he
did so shot was fired, and Felix sank to
the ground. Hipsman then ran away
Ribbola fired two shots at him without eff
feet and then turned and saw his son dying
on the ground. With wild cry, :. NV
God! I've shot my boy" he raised his
sons head and called upon him to speak
Receiving no answer, and maddened by
grief, he left the PROSTATE form and rushed
into the house. He eneered his room,
threw himself on the bed, placed the muz-
zle of his revolver in his mouth, and with
the last remaining shot killed himself in
stantly. The wounded boy is shot through
the lungs, and cannot survive The Rib
bola family was one of the oldest, best and
most favorably known Italian families in
Chicago.
The Traitors Trip-His Speech at Savan-
nah.
SAyANN. iGa.), May ad.-Jeff Davis
trip from Atlanta to Savannah was con-
tinuous ovation. At every station crowds
collected, and wherever the train stopped
Davis was called for, and was obliged either
to bow or speak The enthusiasm every