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Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15
FlFTlETH CONGRESS.

IN the senate, on the 5th, several resolptfone
VI inquiry were offered and adopted THO
senate senate IarlH Dill was taken up. and of tho
various amendments offered few were 60
ca ana many were rejected. The Union Pacific
= unuine OH received brief consideration. The
a;1 A.ln piii was then again taken up and after
oisposlhg OF thirty pages Of the bill the
senate went into secret session ana ~
o.oo p. m adjourned In the Honsa =
hoiiiper OF bills were introduced and an
propriately referred. The hill To oa;.
accounts under the Eight-Hour law was
Drought up and discussed, and the bill To on;et
.ilies OF settlers upon the Des Moines river
ianas IN Iowa, was considered and passed. and
Tue house at 4:30 p. N. adjourned.
IN the Senate, on the 6th Mr. Sherman
raised the question OF the constitutonality of
the law OF Congress under which secretaries OF
state are required to forward to both houses
certified copies of the credentials of presi-
GENITAL electors chosen in their respective
States. Consideration of the Tariff bill was
resumed, eight pages being reviewed. A Joint
resolution proposing q constitutional amend
ment extending the presidential term of office
TO six years was introduced and laid on the
table. ...... In the House, discussion of the Di-
rectTax bill was begun An effort was made
10 reach some agreement touching the Offering
ana pendency OF amendments to the bill, but it
proved futile. The District of Columbia Ap-
preparation bill was reported and referred
The Senate was not in session on the 7th.
In the House, the Invalid Pension Appropria
ton bill was reported. Majority and minority
reports on the Elliott-Smalls contested -elec
ton case was received and placed on the cal
endar. The remainder of the day was taken up,
In committee of the whole, in consideration OF
the Senate bill to incorporate the Nicaragua
Canal Company. Several amendments to the
bill were adopted. A brief evening session
was held, at the close OF which the House ad
tourned until the 10th.
IN the Senate, on the 10th, certificates OF
election Of presidential electors in Alabama,
New Jersey, Missouri and louisiana, were re-
ceived. Mr.. Frye presented resolution in
structing the committee on foreign relations to
inquire into the condition Of affairs at Samoa
and report to the Senate what steps have been
taken to maintain the neutrality of the island,
and what action, if any. is demanded. The re-
mainder OF the session was occupied in the dis
cusslon Of the Senate Tariff BILL. In the
House, a number OF new bills were introduced,
and several different measures were consid-
cred, but no decisive action was taken upon
them.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE inhabitants of Dustabad, Persia,
have been forbidden to sell grain to the
Russians, and the Vienna press states
that Southern Persia is now under En-
rlish control.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE House committee on printing re-
norted a resolution, on the 9Th, which was
adopted authorizing the printing of $4,000
COPIES of the Presidents message.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

ELISHA ATKINSON, one of the most wide
1r-tnown and successful business men Of
Boston. died in that city, on the 9th, aged
cnrentE-fiYe.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

TIE most elaborate preparations are
being made for the celebration Oh ,he cen
tennial Of Georgetown ID. " CoIlege.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

The Car and King George Of Greece
have agreed that the marriage Of Grand
Duke Paul of Russia and Princess Alex
andria of Greece shall not take place until
October next.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

SENIOR CAssoLA, Minister Of War, has
rasigned from the Spanish Cabinet.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15
Compilcd from Various Sources

PRINCE ALEXANDER of Hesse was, on
the 10th. reported to be dying.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw says he will ac-
cept the Office Of Minister to the Court of
st. James if rendered to him by Mr.. Har-
rison, as he regards it as the most exalted
Office, next to the presidency, in the gift
of the American people.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

IT is said that the German Emperor's
illness was caused by a cold contracted by
his rising on cold, stormy night and
opening a window of his overheated apart
ments at Gelzlingen.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

AN injunction was issued in the Chan
Gerry Court at Nashville, on the 9th, for
bidding Governor Taylor of Tennessee to
issue a certificate to H. Clay Evens, the
Republican Congressman-elect from the
Third district
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

REPRESENTATIVE VANDEvER, OF Califor-
MIA, on the 9Th, introduced bill in the
House to divide the State of California
into two States. He proposes to divide
the State practically on the line OF the
present Sixth Congressional district.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

FRANK w. ADAMS, a clerk in the Wash
ington City post-office, was arrested, on
the 9th, for opening letters. He confessed
the crime, but said he had not found any
money in the letters, and that this was his
first offense.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

SENATOR SHERMAN said, on the 10th, that
the report that he would pass the Christ
mas holidays with General Harrison In
indianapolis, was, as far as he knew then,
without foundation. He expects to pass
Christmas in the bosom of his family.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE working hours of the twenty five
thousand employees in the shops OF the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com
pany were reduced from ten to eight, Wild
a corresponding reduction in wages, on
the 9TH.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

A MEETING Of the National Board Of Pro-
notion of the ''Three-Americas" Exposi-
ton was held in Washington on the 9th.
1t was we'll attended and composed of
notable characters, who all spoke enthu-
siastically Of the proposed celebration.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

Two members of the Republican Society
have been arrested at Naples for an at
tempt to wreck the German Consulate
there with dynamite bomb. No damage
was done, as the bomb did not explode.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THERE has been heavy falling off in
the number Of hogs slaughtered in the
West this fall, the decrease for November
and the first five days Of December
amounting tn 515 0O0
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE Window-Glass Manufacturers Ben
efcial Association of Pittsburgh, Pals to
be reorganized shortly, with view not
only to control prices, but to limit pro-
ductiOn when necessary.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, origi-
nally selected February 80, 1899, as the
date of hanging the murderer Isaac Kee-
nan, but afterward, for obvious reasons,
changed it. substituting instead March l.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE German troubles in Zanzibar have
already entailed a loss of f350,0O0
upon the German East African Company
as a corporation, and, for the present at
least, ruined many of its individual men,
how
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

Mr. A. H. Moss, president of the Moss
National Bank Of Sandusky, o., generally
Known and respected among bankers
throughout the United States, and for
many Years one Of the most prominent
"a 1a!Men of the Protestant Episcopal
oAlrh, died on the 9th,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Dec. 11.-As the
smoke Of the conflict clears away investi-
cations are resulting in the discoveries
which, with the inexorable certainty of
Gods justice will clear up the mystery of
one of the most fearful crimes that has
ever been recorded in the history of this
country.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THE Great Falls (Mont.) Board Of Trade
has appointed a special committee on
Statehood, with view to determining the
best course of action for the people to
pursue under the present circumstances.
The movement is entirely non-partisan.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

:, MRS Lucy PARSONS arrived in New
iOfk from England by the steamer Au-
lanla, on the 10th, and was greeted by a
lumber of her admirers. She says that
ner reception abroad was a gratifying
oAe' and that great interest in radical
Ie4Orm IS being shown in England
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

THOMAS AxwoRTHY, the defaulting city
treasurer Of Cleveland, O., who is now in
London, has made proposition to return
SIGlOOO to the city, and in two years to re-
pay his bondsmen, if prosecution is
dropped and he is permitted to return to
America.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15

DiVlDENDs amounting to So, 100, 900 have
,qen paid by nine mining companies OF
Aontana for the first eleven months of the
year. This is over one-fourth of all the
S.yluends O. declared by mines of the United
o'aleS and Mexico for the same period,
alu Surpasses all previous records for one
IN response to the request of the English
ssarrlson IN Suakim for reinforcements,
ale British Government on the 10th, or
10Ied that troops from the Mediterranean
S+'d''ons be sent to that city. Troops will
s He sent from England to replace the
rlsons.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
What is Likely 70 Happen in
the Next Century,
m the North American Review,

From the North American Review.
The civilization of the future will,
however, respectfully decline Mr.. Rus
kin's plan for regaining Arcadia by
the substitution of moonshine and
manual labor for gaslight and steam
engines. Labor-saving machinery
has come to stay, and if steam shall
not monopollze the rough work of the
next century it is only because it will
share it's functions with it's twin giant
OF electricity. We shall have steam
quarries and steam-diggine machines
and the speed of travel is destined to
surpass the achievements of the pre-
sent age by lust as much as a modern
express train surpasses a medieval
mail coach.
The coming American autocrat of
the breakfast table will growl at the
delay of the morning mail per night
boat from Europe. Excursion trains
leaving Boston alter breakfast Will
avoid the night fogs OF the Cordilleras
by reaching the City OF Mexico in
time for supper. The competition of
rail and ocean routes with balloon.
bee lines will make travel cheap
enough to familiarize our tourists
with every zone of their continent,
and climatic epicures will probably
contrive to enjoy a perpetual summer
by converting their July picnics in the
Yellowstone Park and their New
Years symposium in Valparaiso.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
a Rare Biblical Library.
rom the Philadelphia Ledger.


The American Philosophical So.
ciety's Committee on History preced-
ed the formation OF the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. 1t was in
dustrious, and the result is the COL
lection Of certain rare books and
pamphlets of historical value, which
would scarcely be expected in a sc1en-
tific library.
In the division, spiritual science,
is included religious books. OF these
the most important and unique are
Bibles and testaments, a variety Of
literature unusual in the collections
OF societies unless they might be con-
sldered as aids to the study of philol-
ogy. 1t Is q polyglot collection, too,
and can scarcely be surpassed any
where by the diversity OF dialects and
tongue in which the Scriptures are
printed. OfTestaments there are cop
les in the languages of Malay, Siam,
Turkey, Java and the East Indies,
including the various dialects of Ben
gal, Hindoostan, North Africa
(Berber), Arabia, Armenia and Chi
nese. These Eastern tongues are at
least contested with by translation in
the Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian and
Esquimaux languages. The Bibles
are Of rare editions and early i'm.
prints, comprising one in Latin, print
ed in 1924; in French, the Etienne,
1867; Spanish, 1869; Dutch, 1891;
German. 1903; Latin, 1927; Vulgate,
1880; French, 1899; Iluther's trans
lation, 1890; Welsh, 17O6; Swedish,
1715; Erse or Gaelic, 17O7; Italian,
l712; Syriac, ills; Polish, l741,
and Hebrew, 1882. These, with the
English translations OF later dates,
make up biblical library which it
would be hard to match and not easy
to surpass.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
The JuggIer's Fatal Wand.

In Batavia a Parsee juggler treated
the Dutch residents to novel matan-
"a, or killing show, in the circus OF the
old city bull ring.
His victims were number of worth
less ours which their owners or cap
tors had brought along with the dis
tinct understanding that their entries
would not survive the Incidents OF the
performance. With no weapon but a
light stick POSSIBLY tube) some six
feet long by an inch in diameter, the per-
former entered the arena, and then in
one at a time. A lank hound, almost
hairless with mango, opened the festiv-
tiles by making aplunge round the ring,
but stopped short on finding his way
BARRED by the still tanker professor,
and reiterated after displaying
his few remaining teeth. The
necromancer held his staff at
arms length, still facing the dog,
who presently began to stagger, and
two minutes after had expired in con-
vulsions. A second cur managed to
run the blockade by leaping over the
extended staff, but soon after began
to show signs OF distress, and before
the end OF the third minute had shar.
ed the fate OF his predecessor. Doe
after dog entered the ring in quick
succession, some OF them stopping in
surprise and shifting at the corpses OF
their doomed forerunners, but all
finally approached the possessor OF
the fatal secret, or even snapped at
his naked shins, and not one OF the
1000 spectators saw him strike a
direct blow, or defend himself in any
way suggesting mechanical explana.
ton of the uniform result. He would
merely lift his staff with a menacine
gesture or permit blockade.runner
to touch it in darling by, but in no
instance was there occasion for re-
peating that touch. The victims had
hardly time to complete the cir
cult of the ring before their gait under
went a peculiar change; they would drag
themselves along and stagger, ors tart
as under q sudden blow, then roll
over and die in the commissions char.
acterizing the effects of certain viru-
lent drugs. They had evidently been
poisoned; but how? A postmortem
inquest failed to reveal as much as q
scratch or a puncture. A poisoned
arrow could not have entirely disap-
peared, while q gaseous poison would
have betrayed itself by it's odor or by
its effects on the person OF the per.
former. After the conclusion OF the
matanza Mr.. Gerstaecker secured a
private interview with the artist, and
in va offered him q liberal induce
ment - explain the modus operandi
of his Ujl''1. The Parsee seemed bride
proof, DuC at last took his tempte1
aside and in a whisper guaranteed the
results OF his professional assistance
if mynheer should wish to try the
efficacy OF the art by an experiment
on two-legged subject-the amount
OF the proffered compensation having
evidently suggested a conjecture that
the enterprising foreigner was con.
templating the removal of some OBJ,
noxious acknowledgements
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
Specimens of the Commands
Given to Troops by Hoosier
GaTTiearS

Our volunteer soldiers had, for the
most part, no knowedge of tactics at
the time of their enlistment and were
differed by men almost as stgreen;' as
themselves. The historian of an Ind l.
ana regiment reports a few commands
given by different officers when they
undertook for the first time to pet
their men into marching order. They
have the merit of being ineligible,
though not exactly regular:
sect in two lines, one behind the
other!'
Fall in here, boys, In two rows,
like Indians"
Come up sideways, with your faces
in this direction!" |.'."
"Now, march in a string'' "a
"Step over Sideways Lige, and
march backward four feet!'' Il
Come around to theleft, like a barn
dOOrn' ~. ..sa--
By a sort of mutual understanding
OF each other the officers and men, as
sisted by the adjutant, got into a
pretty fair line OF three to five deep,
and DIS we were not to receive a charge
from the enemy we cared less for it's
military exactness than for it's rugged
outline. 1t looked as rugged and grand
as mountain range.-Yonth's Conn
panlon.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
a Fair KIeptonaniac.
New York Correspondence Baltimore
r.

New York Correspondence Baltimore
American.
A well known merchant Of this city,
whose trade is principally among the
female fashionables, gives some start
ling information about kleptomania,
which he pronounces a disease.
''Having just threatened to prose-
cute one OF the women in this city for
theft, have been in a, position to
know considerable about the extent
to which kleptoman1a obtains among
shoppers generally" said the mer-
liant.
II have a customer whose pilferings
are worth more to me than her pur-
chases, although she buys heavily.
"This disease has taken such firm
hold upon her that her husband pays
her bills without question. This lady,
whose wealth is up to the hundred
thousands, will not hesitate to pick
up trifiing articles and conceal them.
For these we Invariably send bills at
the highest prices. The husband is so
accustomed to these bills that, each
week, he lays aside an amount which
he terms needle fund.- as needles are
the articles most commonly preferred
by his wife. Nor will this k(eptomani-
&C hesitate to steal the most trifing
articles from her best friend. FIRE.
quently persons whose houses she
visits report the loss ofsmall articles
to her husband, who always pays the
amount, explains the disease to
which his wife is O. victim and begs
that nothing be said about the theft
farther than a presentation to him
OF the bill for the amount. A Broad
way baker, whose shop it is her GUS
tom to visit, makes out a. monthly
bill for luncheon loss And SC, wher-
ever this kleptomaniac-rich though
she is-visits, bill, suspiciously
worded, is sure to follow.
'During the halliday season the
dealers in fancy articles complained
Of the loss of such goods as this KEEP
tomaniac would fancy. and one Of
them took occasion to shadow her in
her shopping tour through his place.
He discovered that the lady had ap-
prop1lated about $50 worth ofgoods,
for which she did not offer to settle,
while spending hundreds of dollars for
handsome articles for presents. The
proprietor was in a quandary. To re-
mind his fair customer of the fact that
she was q theft meant the loss of the
profits on her purchases, and not to
do SO would be to encourage her to
greater thefts. Ascertaning her hus.
band s address the merchant sought
an interview. He threatened prosecu.
ton at first until the wife disease for
thleving was explained.
Nov, there is q standing agreement
between the husband and the proprie-
tor of the store, to the effect that
when in future the wife visits the store
she shall be closely followed by sales
man with account book. The value
Of all the articles stolen shall be not
ed: and a bill sent, without the lady's
knowledge, to her husband, who
promises to settle promptly for every
thing provided exposure is carefully
guarded against"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-01
Shutting i'm the Senate,

A Washington correspondent says
OF senators who use tobacco: Snuff
ing, however, is on the decline, though
big bottles OF it are in the senate
chamber. Senator Wilson of Mary
land is an inveterate snuffer; Beck of
Kentucky likes a pinch of snuff after
a senatorial discussion, and Senator
Edmunds now and then makes his
nostrils culver with the titiliating
powder. Wade Hampton OF South
Carolina likes to make his own snuff.
and he does it by getting good cigar
and pulverizing it in his hands. He
can take a strong snuff without sneez-
ing, and his face smiles with a gener-
Gus Joy when his nose is undergoing
the pleasure. Capt. Bassett, the door
keeper, who has been in the senate for
the past fifty years, tells me that a.
snuff box used to be kept on the desk
OF the president OF the senate, and the
pages OF the past were required
to keep this full, and they often had
to carry pinches OF snuff from it to
the various senator's. When Van
Buren, was vice president it was his
custom to give Bassett fifty cents a.
week to keep this snuf-box full for the
use OF the senate. The last fifty cents
expended was taken out OF Bassetts
pocket. and he prides himself on the
fact that the Van Buren, estate still
owes him this amount. Bassett learn
ed to snuff himself by smelling his fin
gers after carrying snuff to Henry
Clay, and when he had reached his
fifty years OF service as a senate EN-.
ploye, the senators gave him a solid
silver snuff box, lined with gold, on
the lid OF which was a testimonial to
his fidelity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-09
GLOBULES.

Seven births, two deaths and one marriage
was the score at the health Office yesterday.
The Young Peoples association, of the
Central Park church, will give stereopticon
display at the church par,ors this evening at
7:45.
progress at the Bates Avenue NJ. Il. church.
The pastor is being assisted by Rev. Nj.
Doran, of Trinity church.
A satchel full of woman's wearing apparel,
supposed to belong to Miss Nellie Arnold,
was picked up on Sibley street yesterday and
awaits the owner at police headquarters.
Joseph Heinzelmann and Fred Oelker. for
selling liquor without license, were bound
over to the grand jury in the sum of $500
bail. Both men had been arraigned before
on the same charge.
j. W. Rose was arraigned in the police
court yesterday and held in $1,000 bail for a
hearing to-day on a charge of stealing ninety
bushels of oats from the barn of A. n Good
rich on Eva street, West side
The Minnesota state Methodist convention
will be held in Central Park church, st. Paul,
March 1928. beginning the 9th, at 1880 p.
N. with grand reunion of all nationalities
of Methodists. Churches are entitled to one
lay delegate to each fifty members, but all
members of the church are invited to partic-
ipate in services. Dakota and Wisconsin
Methodists are invited. The convention will
close the evening Of the 29th with banquet,
az manly UhctuOulStS. lllc
state officials, and prominent people of other
denominations will be present.
The civil service examination ordered to
be held in the United States court room yes
terday had to be postponed as the examina-
ton blanks mailed from Washington On the
9th has not reached here. There are so many
applicants that the local board has announced
that those applying for clerkship and
stampers viii be examined at O'Clock this
morning, and the applicants for carriers
positions on tomorrow at the same hour.
Each applicant is expected to be on hand
promptly, as they will not be allowed to COM
pete after the examination has begun.