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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.

18TH DAY.-At the reassembling OF the
presented urging the issuance Of fractional
currency; against any change in the fishery
treaties and in favor of the rights Of Ameri-
can fishermen under existing treaties and leg
islation; in favor of the present tariff on
lumber; indorsing the Inter State law; favor
ing Government ownership Of the telegraph,
etc, Senator Sherman made long speech
on the tariff. Herevewed and argued against
tho Presidents Message, spoke. strongly in
favor of protecting American industry and
favored reduction Of the surplus by the
abolition of internal revenue taxation. 80.
MIR. VOORHEES, followed Mr.. Sherman in q
speech supporting the Presidents Message.
At the close of Mr.. Voorhees, speech Mr..
Sherman moved that the Message be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee, but the
motion was not acted upon.
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4 Valuable Gown,

The old door. keeper of the Hotel
Milan at Florence, Italy, named Sal.
yador Cecchini. died recently and left
his properly to his nephew. The latter
came and looked about in the dingy
porter's lodge and was much dis
satisfied at not fin'ling anything worth
carrying away. The deceased had for
years worn All old gown made OF coarse
cloth and had never changed his attire
in winter or in summer. The nephew
took up the gown and a'Sa threw IT, from aoSa h;s
him. and, taking up the gown again, he
lelt there was thick paper parcel in it.
1t was sewed under the lining. Cutting
the folds lie found seventy.five Govern.
ment bonds in it of tie value of about
$50 each. That gown was no longer
treated with disrespoct.
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PROMINENT PEOLPE,

A GRANDDAUGHTER OF Charles Dickens
does nourishing business with typewi lter
GOVERNOR BIGGs, of Delaware, owns
eleven farms and has made fortune from
them.
NJ GREvY saw twelve cabinets, with In
ministers, serve under him while President ol
France.
NJ ,sT Of tha London churches have Offered
up prayers Tor the recovery of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
THE American Ross Winans now controls
$50, 900 acres of deer forest in Scotland, and
EMPLOYS several hundred keepers.
WILLIAM Z. GLADsToN", who is past
seventy-nine years old, is going tn the South
of Europe. ostensibly for his health.
THOMAS l.. THOMPSON. one Of California;
Representa- yes in Congre. is the son and
grandson OF former Representatives.
GENERALS SHERMAN and Sheridan viii re-
view the State military exercises al the cen
tenn;al celebration in Ohio next September
THE Queen nf En.lnd is granted S3CO &.
000 annually for her own personal exnenseS
Tut she costs the people in one way and an
other 81 ,gS5. .G0 a year.
HON. FRANCIS BRINLEY, the orator select.
ed to deliver the address at the opening o!
the Boston Historical Society's new build
Ing, is nearly W years old.
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South md West.

JOHN STRICKLAND, twenty years old, was
hanged in Conway, 8. c., for numbering his
stepmother, and similar fate befell William
F.nchman, at Harrisonburg, Va, for the
murder Of his brother.
PARTIES to q bitter legal fight were ar
rested and brought before Justice Haynes
worth at Sumter, s. C. They began to fire
upon each other and killed the Justice. D.
f. Kills. one of the parties, and bystander
were fatally wounued. Several other men
were dangerously wounded.
The floor of crowded colored Baptist
Church at Fo:getown, Ala, gave way, and
child were killed, and between twenty and
thirty persoLs were injured
FOURTEEN human skeletons were fonnd in
q pit under the dwelling of a half-breed Sioux
Indian near Pierre, Dakota. The remains
were travellers who had been murdered and
robbed. The Indian had disappeared.
HOSTILE Apaches are on the warpath in
Arizona, and have killed number Of tray
elers.
A FIRE at Houma, La. burned away
twenty business houses and 10J dwellings,
causing an estimated aggregate loss OF $751;
co.,
A wEAK-MINDED white man named Wal
drop was lynched at Central, s. c.. by
crowd of colored men, for atrocious as
sault upon thirteen year-oll colored girl.
DuRIvG political row in New Orleans
saloon Police Comm ssioner Patrick Mealey
and Mike Welsh were fatally wounded, Ian
Mark.y was shot in the mouth, William
Delaney was cut in the hand and Louis Clare
was badly beaten.
THREE members of the notorious Kelly
fami y, who h. d been numbering and robbing
travellers at their b ,us on tue Texas bor-
der, have been caught by vigilantes and
hanged. They were William Ke ly, aged
ifty,four; his son "Bill,' aged twenty, AMI
daughter Kate, agel eighteen. The cd
man confesse his lamily had murdered nine
men and Two women.
TwENTY-oNE business houses were burned
at Salida, COL, involving a loss estimated at
$200,OO0.
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House PROCEEDINGS.

11TH DAY.-A flood OF bills, among them
being the following: To provide for the re-
du"t.on Of customs duties; to establish
court of appeals; to amend the Civil Service
act; granting pensions to survivors of In
dian wars who have attained the
age of seventy years; to establish
signal stations on West Indian
Islands: for the temporary support Of COM
mon schools; for the refunding of the cotton
tax; to remove tn: tax from tobacco and
spirits made from fruits; to authorize fe-
males to enter lands under the homestead
law; to regulate the administration Of the
army; to donate public lands for school pur-
poses; to secure cheaper telegraphic
correspondence; to prohibit the immi-
grafton Of Chinese; abo!ishing the duty
on sugar; to permit the President to
veto items Of the General Appropriation bill;
ep'aling the Limitation on the AREA 8 OF
Pensions act; proposing n Constitutional
Amendment granting women the right OF
sulf, age; to prevent the employment of con-
vict afor on public works; for the admission
of southern Dakota into the Union.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Fastern and Middle States.

ACCORDING to Bradstreets, the mercantile
failures in the nied States last year num-
bere 8, ,74O, and in Canada 1,3l5. The iabili'
ties were: United States, Sl3O, Goa, 900; Cana.
da, sl7,O51 ,0O0 These figures are the lowest
since 1888.
A CONVENTION of Reading Railroad eril-
ployes, after a continuous session OF nearly
= hours in Reading, decided to issue another
order to strike at noon OIL Saturday. Every
nan in the employ of the Reading Com
pany, with the exception of passenger train
crews, trackmea and signal tower men ana
crossing wutchmen, was ordered to 60 on
strike.
ALL the fires in the f1intglass factories OF
the East have been put out, pending the
settlement between emp oyers and employees
of difference over the adoption OF new shop
rules for 1883
MARCUS W. RAsBAcH, the trusted and
popular cashier of the Herkimer IN. W Ma
tional Bank, absconded with over $34 ,OOO.
In New York city last year there >, were 0,s
94,O23 births, 1850 marriages and SS93S
deaths The police arrests for the year were
O,153; suicides 232; number Of emigrans
arrivals, 3il,034.
Hon. JOEL PARKER, twice Governor OF
New Jersey, died suddenly Of paralysis in
Philadelphia on Monday. He was Lorn in
1916, elected Governor Of New Jersey in 1869
and again in 1871, and was appointed JuStlce
of the Supreme Court by Governor Mcclellan
in 1880.
AN explosion blew up the engine house on
the Equitable Gas Company's works in New
York. One man was killed and the driver
of passing horse-car had his legs broken.
ALMOST all the business section Of Egg
Harbor City, N. j., has been swept away by
fire.
THERE will probably be no international
yacht race for the Americas cup this year,
the Britishers having Iailed to send chal-
lenge within the prescribed time.
THE New York Legislature is in session.
Fremont Cole has en- elected Speaker of the
Assembly. Governor Hills me- sage was
shorter than usual Its chief novelty was q
recommendation in favor OF the passage OF
an act aboiishing the Senates power Of con-
firming or rejectin, Executive nominations,
except in the few cases where the Constitu-
tion specifically requires confirmation by the
Senate.
AN old couple named Woodham, who had
been confined in an insane asylum at Con-
cord, N. H., thirteen years, charged with
crimes they never committed, have just been
released.
R. S. HICKS, tho defaulting cashier Of the
Stafford Comm National Bank, has been
sent to the State prison for four years.
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RIOTOUS SOLDIERS.
ARRAY Between White and Col
Ored Troops in st Louis.
Three Men Fatally Wounded and
Others Badly Injured.

A disturbance occurred at Jefferson Bar
racks, ST. Louis, Mo-, the other evening be-
tween white and colored United States
soldiers that resulted in the injury OF many
men and has probably cost three men their
lives. At present there are many recruits
at this station, and a few days since
they drew their first pay and made an On
slaught on the sutler. Numerous brawlS re-
suited. a crowd from New York resented the
familiarity of the colored troops and hght
followed. The guard house was filled with
disorderlies and still the rows Eept
up Late in the afternoon drunken
colored trooper was seen pursuing %nte
girl, and party of white troopers was soon
after him. and in due time handed him over
to the officer OF the day. This enraged
number of his comrades and they, lett
the barracks, starting for Carondelet.
On Their way they fell in with a
s1uad Of white troopers and proceeded to
take veng ance. The white soldiers made
their escape with a few bruises and went 10
the barracks where they soon made up
party to handle the revolters. Armed with
revolvers and carbines they started IN
good order for Carondelet, but before
they had gone far, they were ordered to re-
turn and disarm by the officer OF the day
They refused to return to their quarters,
but laid down their arms at once
and then proceeded after the enemy.
At the River Des Pores bridge they met
the colored troopers returning. An encounter
Immediately followed, and knives, clubs and
rocks were used The fight was a desperate
one and the white men in superior force were
met by the discipline OF the negroes, VINO
had entered on second term Of service.
For half an hour the battle waged with
out an advantage to either side, and on the
bridge and road and river bed, men lay ex-
bausted and beaten down. Finally the
belligerents withdrew A colored trooper
reported the affray at Carondelet station,
and he was locked up while the patrol
wagon was sent to the scene to gather up the
in ured. In the meantime the VIII te soldiers
had gathered in iorce, and marched to the
station and demanded that the colored
trooper be given to them. The police re-
fused and promptly prepared for assault
In the mea1tim, information OF tn, bat
tie had reached the barracks and four
troops Of cavalry were o dered out and ar
rived at Carondelet in time to save the police
from attack, The mutineers dispersed
and were arrested in detachments on
q general order to arrest all troopers The
barracks, Carondelet and the intervening
country assumed military aspect, and all
night long soldiers tread and the demand OF
'.halt' rang out The disturbance was quelled,
and in the morning peace reigned, though
bruises. hack eyes and gashes on
half q hundred still told the tale of the strug.
gle, while in the hospital at the point OF
death lay Troopers Livingston, Peterson and
Krumml lknocker, all white At one time IN
the atterICon over three hundred men were
looking for row.
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Foreign.

The German bark Johanna was destroyed
by fire off Cape Horn, and eight Of the crew
were lost.
Pope LEO XIII. has been celebrating the
fifuieth year O. his entrance into the Catho ic
priestho I'd at Rome The city was filled
wi pilgrims from all p'rts 0, Europe, and
the presents received by the Pope are worth
millions of doll rs At pontifcal mass,
celebrated in St. Peters, 5000 people were
present, and the Pope was so overcome that
he tainted tWi|e.
A HORRIBLE disaster Is reported from the
seaport city OF Annoy, China. A powder
magazine blew up. destroying one-fourth OF
Jus bu idings IN the p ace Fifty soI hers
wAre blown to atoms and several hundred
civilians killed.
A FIRE in Erards big piano factory, Paris,
destroyed 500 pianos.
THERE have been several outbreaks at the
univers ty in ST. Petersburg, owing to the,
expulsion of 2D students. The military
were employed to suppress the disorders.
A SLIGHT earth1 lake shock was felt in tho
City Of NJ i o. lasting tn rty- our conls
1t was more violent in Southern Mexico.
A VIOLENT snow storm has swept across
Europe, gre ty impeding tra'fic in many
places. At B uenn eight gyp'ies were fro en-
to ;leath, AMI in Vienna several women have
perished from the COLI.
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Ages Of congressman.

The oldest member Of the House d.
Judge William D. Kelley, of Pennsyl-
vania. Although he is seventy-three, he
not the oldest.looking man in the
louise, or the least active. He was
forty.seven when he entered Congress,
in 1861, and he has been member con-
stantly since then, q period of twenty
six years. The youngest member y
Benjamin F. Shively. of the Thirteenth
Indiana District. Born in 1857, he is
only trife under thirty-one years Of
age, but he is tall, strong and vigorous,
and has already served part of term
in Congress. MIR. Ralph Plumb, of ths
Eighth Illinois district, is an old mem;
Der. He was bora 10 1916, the same year
in which Mr.. Gay, of Louisiana, first
saw light. There is quite a batch OF
members too modest or too sensitive to
furnish their ages, the last including Mr..
Miliken, of Maine; General Hooker, OF
Mississippi. and Mr.. Heard and Mr.
Hutton, of Missouri; Mir. Sowden, OF
Pennsylvania, and Mr.. R. Q. Mills, Of
Texas. Some of these gentle rem are in :
good preservation, and upon the edge Of
that period when men are" not inclined
to gratiously lead people to consider
them older than they really are. Mr..
andever, of California, who was born
in 1917, was member of Congress from
1869 until the breaking out of the civil
war. He and Mr.. Holman, of Indiana,
who was in the Ihirty-sixth (ongress in !
l860-61, saw service before Mr.. Kelley,
but Mr.. Vanderver has not returned
until now, and Mr.. Holman's service has
not been continuous. Mr.. Randall did
not make his first appearance as mem-
ber until 156 ;, four years later than Mr.
Holman, hut he has be cun his thirteenth
consecutive term, standing next length
u service TO Mr. Kelley.-Pittstuyz
ChrGn.cls. 81
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American Manhood.

The grand feature of American man.
hood is that it is ,omposite, made up OF
the best tharacterist .cs of all nations.
Our forefathers were of foreign birth or
parentage, an / yet, where in history will
we find more illustrious examples of up.
rirht manhood, We do not care what
pcrccntage of foreign bio ID is in our
population, provided it assimilates with
our own. and good results are attained
Netc UGreL LeHS.tr.
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The above group represents Prince William,
Oldest son of the Crown Prince Of Germany,
his wife, and their oldest son, also designated
Prince William. The father was born
January q, 1859, and is, therefore, 2S years
old. His mother is the Oldest child of Queen
Victoria, married to the Crown Prince Of
Germany on January 25, 1858. They had
eight children OF whom two are dead. Their
Oldest son is the Prince William above
portrayed, the heir apparent to the throne of
Germ my. Should he pass away then the
ruler of the German Empire in the natural
course Of events would be the little seven
year-old Prince William starding before his
father and mother in the foregoing group.
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PEOPLE at st. Paul are preparing for the
Ice Carnival. which will lie held with
"iioats," sleigh parLdes. process ions Of 'od
settlers an other attractions The lie prl-
ace is in process of erection. 1t is thought
that $500 La ls of ice, or almost 6,000 tons,
will he required for the binding.
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MR. JAMES R0ur> title son, OF I'oupviiie,
Ga, had b Ell deaf for several yesIs. ana
pbys:cian who treatssl him WIS unable 20
affuri relief. TIE other day, while MIS-:
Roip was washing the Buys face, siss pulled
ont from his ear u Ulple Of straw two inches
1oug. HIS deafness has since disappeared.
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BIG huck stood on a Michigan railroad
track the other night so interested in watch
ing the glare Of re headlight of an approach
ng lOc''' ntive that he never stirred until hs
was II ock, off ;hs track and killed.
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A BosToN steamship company has peen
fnei si,aW by the I'm grafton Commission
ers tora stowaway who was Above to es
cape from one Of the companYb vessels.
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Ills Majesty Tong Khan. of AMMAN,
has fifty cu"kS taking part IN the prepa-
ration of each royal lelmst. but each chef
is tontine tu the elaboration of a single
one of the fifty dishes of which the meno
is invariably composed.
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CANADIANS are establishing ran"hes in tile
Northwest Territory and sh piping cattle 10
the Europe IN market by wav OF Montreal
over the Canadian Pacific Railroad
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NATIONAL LABOR BUREAU.
Third Annual Report of Commits
sioner Carroll ID. Wright.

Commissioner Carroll D. Wright has sub
mitted to the Secretary Of the Interior the
third annual report Of the Bureau of Labor,
which relates entirey to strikes and lock-
outs for the PERIOD OF six years, ended De-
cember ii, 1855 The following table shows
the number Of strikes occurring during each
of the last six years and the number OF es-
Establishments involved:
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An Old Epitaph.

Here is an cpitaph still to be found in
IN English churchy"rd:
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THEY FEEL THEIR OATS.
Prohibitionists Jubilant Over the
Minnesota Spring Elections.

PrOhiDltlOn1StS JuDllant over the
Minnesota Spring Elections.
G. F. Wells. secretary of the Prohibi-
ton state central committee, was found
hard at work at headquarters. Being
asked to give his views of the political
situation, he said: Eve are well salts
fed with the outlook, to put it mildly.
The old parties are all torn up, and
while they are squabbling over nothing,
the great issue and the only one upon
which the people will divide this year,
is coming to the 'front.' just now the
returns of the spring elections
m bsq Of us ct hsppy than aa aeger Deore
had Prohibition tickets in the field,
and we made great gains. Mankato
more than doubled her votes. Our men
at Owatonna think they have fully
doubled their strength during the past
year. The Republican mayor of two
years ago, three ministers and two col
iege professors are among recent Access
si0ns to the party. A year ago our vote
in Hastings was eleven. This year
Jerome Hanna, our candidate for
mayor, received 263 votes, and was beat
en- by combination of Republicans and
Democrats. In Fergus Falls, also. we
compelled the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis to unite, in order to save the
liquor traffic. The Democratic mayor
elect said in speech the other day: 81
owe my election to Republicans, to
workingmen, to all-except the Prohibit
tionists." So. it seems that up there
the Republicans, rather than the Pro
hibitionists, are the Democratic an
Mex"
ssOf course this all counts for next
fall. Men of sense, who in local cleo
ton have laid aside their Republican
ism and Democracy and united with all
enemies of the liquor traffic irrespective
Of party for the overthrow of that
traffic, will see the necessity of thus
combining in national election, and
especially now that there is no issue be-
tween the old parties. High license as
a restrictive measure touched its high
water mark when enacted. Those
liquor men who opposed it are already
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MEN WHO SWEAR.
Some of the Reasons Why They
Do it---Dean Richmond.

Some or the reasons why Iney
Do it---Dean Richmond.
"Some very good people object to
Phil Sheridan because they say he is adj
dicted to profanity in his Speech" re-
marks the Boston Herald. 1.-THE same
criticism, we believe, has been made of
Gen. Sherman. Those who are on
terms of intimacy with these distin-
guished gentlemen, however, say that
neither of them ever makes use of these
swear words except on great oc-
casions, when the ordinary vocab-
ulary would fail to do full
Justice to the subject" This, also, was
the case with George Washington. In
deed, all great, strong men are afflicted
with this vice-indeed, they crowd all
the vices of their sinful human nature
into that one folly. Dean Richmond,
the great leader of the Democracy of
this state, is in the fifties, powerful as
he was in business and politics, was
excessively weak in this respect.
1t is told of him that when presi-
dent of the New York Central,
New York clergyman had occasion
to call On him for pass. Finding MIR.
r. in rather amiable mood the clergy
man thought it good opportunity to
demonstrate with him against his pro-
family, and he did so. Mr.. Richmond
listened to him patiently, and then re-
spOnded: ''Oh, now, dominic, you
know how it is. You do good deal of
preaching, and / do a good deal of
swearing. But you do not mean any
thing by your preaching, nor do | by
my swearing" After pause he added:
"That is, Nothing bad"
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BONNETS MADE AT HOME.
The Economical Plan Invented by
Society Ladies.

The Economical Plan Invented by
Society Ladies.
New York Mail.
"Forty dollars for sping bonnet?" a
lady was overheard to remark to friend
as she was riding down Fifth avenue in
a stage yesterday morning. "Not L.
Nor $40 either. Money is worth too much
for that. / haven't spent over $40, and
not oftener more than Sc for bonnie t
since l was married. This I have on
cost me just S4.27."
"And 1 thought it was French. How
can you look imported when you are
really home-made?"
80, but Pm not homemade. Pm just
as French as if came from Paris in my
little Cousins big trunk. That's the
beauty of the thing. My bonnet was
made to order by bona fide French
milliner, and one of the cleverest in the
city, too. Yes: Of course there is lit
tie scheme. There were a dozen of us
who passed unanimous resolution that
bonnets for us individually and collect
lively, had got to come down. We shook
hands upon it and exchanged pledges Of
bonnet-pins. While we were discussing
ways and means we heard that one of
Mines assistants was out of a place.
Our course was clear. Mile. Julie
should work for us. We inquired every
one of us among our acquaintances and
found plenty of women who jumped at
the chance of having their hats and
bonnets provided for by milliner who
would come to the house. She comes,
that's all. She works by the day OF half
day, or even by the hour. She charges S.
a day. She has more work than she can
attend to, and talks of hunting up a
partner. She makes more money
then she did as one of Nine IS de-
signers. And as for us, we're going to
the country this summer on our savings.
We are paying for materials and good
wages for skilled labor now; nothing
more. And really it is new way Of
self-support for women, you see."