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The House.

oath DAY.-Chairman Dibble. OF the Pub
lie Buildings Committee, succeeded in offer
ing the conference report on the Milwaukee
BujlIinc bill, and it was adopted, as also was
a report on the Omaha Building bill. Then
Mr.. Dibble tried to offer third conference
report, but Mr.. Weaver moved that the
House adjourn, and filibustering was en-
gagged in over this motion until botn tne day
and night sessions were consumed without
accomplishing anything.
25TH DAY.-The deadlock which 1as been
maintained through ten days by the. hI-
clustering tactics of Mr.. Weaver has Deen
broken. The Pension bill. the Military
Academy and Diplomatic and Consulate Ap-
preparation bills were passed. In Commit.
tee of the Whole hill to revive the grade OF
Lieutenant General was reported favoraoiy
2STH HDAY.-lmmediately after the reading
OF the journal, Mr. Randall from the Com
mittee on Rules, ,rer orted a resolution rescind.
ing the rules recurring daily adJournmenG
at five o'clock. After debate this was adopted
by a vote of 155 to IS. -. Under the call OF
States, Mr.. Cowles introduced Dill EN-
hodying the internal revenue features OF tne
Mills bill.
9TH DAY.-The bill for the admission OF
South Dakota into the Union was taken up
and discussed until the hour of adiournment;;
Chairman Springer opened the debate, and
was followed by Messrs. Cox and Clifford. -.
The bill which provides that there be estab'
lisheo off Sandy Hook, N. j., a new lightship
with steam fog signnl, the entire cost OF
which shall not exceed S6A, 900. was passed
2SrH DAY.-The debate in the House on
the Territorial bills was continued. Delegate
Joseph, of New Mexico, delivered all earnest
speech in behalf of the admission OF that
Territory. Delegate VOORHEES,. of Washing
ton Territory, delivered a strong speech IN
behalf of the admission of his Territory.
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DELAWARE'S SENATOR.
Anthony Higgins Elected to the
Uni ed States Senate.

Anthony higgins Elected to the
Uni ed States Senate.
The REPUBLICAN caucus Of the Delaware
Legislature nominated Anthony Higgins OF
Wilmington, to the United States Senate on
the forty-third ballot In the Legislature
Mr.. Higgins was elected, receiving on joint
ballot sixteen votes to nine for Walcot and
five for Robinson, both Democrats
Anthony Higgins is son OF the late An
thony NJ. Higgins, of Red Lion Hundred: He
was born in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle
County, DEL, October /, 1870 He was
graduated from Yale College in 1881, with
the degree Of A B., and was admitted to the
bar Of New Castle County in May, lSa He
at once opened an Office in Wilmington, In
conjunction with the late Edward j. Brad
ford, afterward United States District Judge
and the fc under of the Republican party in
Delaware. Mr.. Higgins was one OF the orig
inal 300 persons in Delaware who voted the
Republican ticket The same year he was
admitted to the bar be was appointed Deputy
Attorney General OF the State under Attor-
ney General Jacob Moore, serving two years.
He was made Chairman OF the Republican
State Committee Of 1865, and in 1869 was ap-
pointed by President Grant United States
District Attorney for Delaware, which Office
he held until June. 1876. He was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for Congress in 1874. he
took front rank as lawyer from the first.
He has been a leader Of that faction OF the
Republicans Of delaware who have been ia
vorable to Blaine.
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LATER NEWS.

MISS CARRIE PLATT, wealthy young lady,
was killed by the cars at Danbury, Conn.,
JOSEPH MooRERoUsE, aged sixty-eight,
boss dyer at the woolen mill at Webster,
Mass, and his niece, Ella Cooper, of Wood
stock, Conn, while crossing the railroad
track were struck by a train and thrown
fifty feet. Their skulls were crushed and
both died in few minutes.
ONE Gila Bonita, cowboy, dressed and
painted as an Apache Indian, made descent
upon Mexican herders in the employ OF Ion
Pedro of Montana, recently. killing five and
wounding one.
Two small boys, Sidney Watson and
Joseph Harper, playing on the ice IN 'he
harbor at Chicago. broke through and were
drowned.
TIE public schools at Albert Lea, Minn.'
have been closed on account of diphtheria
epidemic.
The Exchange bank of Dunlap, Iowa, has
failed with $4,000 liabilities
THE Michigan Senate and House, in joint
assembly, have formally declared James
Mcmillan elected United States Senator 10
succeed Mr.. Palmer.
AsBuRY EVANS, farmer, whose fortune
is estimated at $500. 900, hanged himself az
his home near Elkhart Ind, because OF 'ne
death of his favorite dog.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT has trans
mitted his annual report for the year looe
to the Senate.
THE most elaborate fireworks ever seen IN
this country will mark the inauguration OF
Presidentelect Harrison in Washington.
TIE President has directed the Secretary
Of War to order Judge-Advocate-General
Swain. now under courtmartial sentence OF
suspension, before a Retiring Board, 20 De
examined with q view to determining
whether his existing disabilities are such as
TO incapacitate him for duty.
THE proposed international Maritime Con-
ference has been postponed from April to the
end of September. Secretary Bayard has
;nformed the different Governments of the
postponement of the conference.
A LETTER from Henry NJ. Stanley, the
explorer of Africa, dated August II. has been
eceived at Brussels; it confirmed the news
of his safe arrival on the Aruwhinii.
DAMAGE estimated at S5.0GO,OCO was done
nv an earthouake in Costa Rica, West
Indies.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THE author of Madame Angot' has a new
bouffe nearly ready.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American vocalist,
is singing in Portugal.
EDMOND AUDRAN, the French composer,
has about completed new comic opera.
RUB1NsrKIS has finished q new grand
opera, "Gorivska." on a Russian subject
Mr.. WHETHERILL, the husband of Emma
Abbott, the American prima donna, IS dead.
LAWRENCE BARRETT Is afflicted with
glanduar swelling that is likely to prove
serious.
THE musical colleges of Chicago are said
to be unsurpassed by those in any other
American city.
EDWIN BOOTH and Lawrence Barrett are
To receive S200U0 cash for seven perform
ances in Louisville.
IT is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to
engage both John Gilbert and z. w. CouI-
dock for next season
w. j. FLORENCE, the comedian, is con-
templating big revivs' OF one OF Snakes
peare's plays next season.
THE London papers are unanimous and
enthusiastic in their praise OF Henry lrVlngs
impersonation of Macbeth.
JOHN p. SoUsA, the leader of the
Marine band of Washington, has sold to
Francis Wilson, the comedian, new comic
opera called 1.-The Wolf" Under the con-
tract Mr.. Wilson agrees to produce it in New
York city within year. The scene is laid
In Spain.
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Sponge Gathering on Florida Reefs.

All the good spongeS DO not come from
the Levant and the Indian Seas, nor from
Mexico and the Bahamas. The United
States has quite fourishing sponge in
dustry, off the Gulf coast of Florida,
where great line Of ''spoDge reef" ex-t
tends from Appalachicola dowr to and
beyond the Cedar Keys, and out toward
the Bahamas. These coral and lime
stone ridges afford q supply that is abun.
dant and practically lnexhaustible, as
the spongcs grow rapidly, reaching ma-5
turity within two years. Italians and
half breed Indians do most of the
"sponging' in this locality, and very
hard work it is. An eight-ton schooner,
manned by crew of five, and carrying
two small boats, or "dinkies," goes Out
on cruise of. perhaps. FIVE or six weeks
on the burning subtropical waters of the
Gulf. As the average depth of water on
the sponge-reefs most frequently is only
about twenty feet. the men do not have
to dive after their harvest Of the deep.
They 20 out, two in each of the small
boats, and take observations of the rocky
bottom through the clear water, using
for the purpose buckets with glass bot
toms. The sponges are thus easily dis
cerned, and It is easy for an expert to.
detach them by means of an iron hook
fastened on the end of long pole. The
sponges are laid out on the deck of the
schooner for four or five days, until the,
pelatinous animal matter decays; then
they are taken to the shore and deposited
in ''crawl," or cage Of logs, in some
inlet, where the most of this substance
is soaked out. A beating with wooden
paddles, followed by several more wash
ings and bleaching in the sun, after
which the sponges are strung in punches
of twenty, completes their preparation
for the Appalachicola market, where they
are trimmed and sorted before being
shipped to the North. With acreage
luck, a schooner's crew of, soy. five men
will gather about 1900 spopges o week,
or 1000 (s5O "bunches'D in six weeks.
These bunches, or strings, are worth
according to a correspondent writing in
Forest anil S:ream-about $l.50 apiece
in the local market, making the gross
earnings for the trip amount to $'e5.
After the expenses and the boats share
are deducted, there is about s. 0 apiece
for the men-little enough. when the
risks, exposures and hardships of t'eir
calling are considered.
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Portraits Two Thousand Years Old

An interesting collection of antiquitie(
has lately been on exhibition in LondonS
consisting of the various objects brought
to light by MIR. Flinders Petrie during
his recent excavations in Egypt at
Hawera, on the site of the ancient
Labyrinth described by Herodotus
These objects are not so very ancient
that is, they belong to the Ptolemai
and Roman periods, which, although
dating back to about 800 B. c., is quit}
modern according to the Egyptiar
standard, says Chambers's Aagasins
Nevertheless, to many people these relics
will be of greater interest than those Of
far greater antiquity.
The first thing which strikes US is
series of portraits on wood, 50 perfect
and fresh in appearance that it is difficult
to believe that they have been buried
for nearly two thousand years; yet such
is the case, for these portraits repre-, ent,
Romans inferred during the Ptolemiaej
period.
It is singular that the Romans in Egypt
should have adopted the mcde of burial,
of the Egyptians: but the faces and dress,
of these portraits are undoubtedly
Roman, although they covered the heads
of mummies beautifully and elegantly
swathed in the numerous linen bandagesI
peculiar to Egyptian burials, but more
artistically arranged than was commo1
in the more ancient mummics, for the,
crossings of the bandages form beauti-
full honeycomb pattern Of extraordinary
symmetry, each panel finished with g
gilt band.
The board upon which the portrait
was painted was bandagcd in skilfulIy3
over the head, and thus the relatives3
mig ght have the mournful pleasure OF
contemplating the features of the de-1
ceased whenever they pleased; and1
certainly no artist of modern times could
have more faithfully portrayed the indi-|
vidual than did the portrait painter of
two thousand years ago.
They are evidently what are usGallyl
called speaking" likenesses. There isl
one or an old man, who might have been
general, or one of the C,sars, in hisl
white toga, every line and furrow of the
face carefully dclineated; while several
of the ladies, and particularly two young
girls, might be exhibited as likenesses,
of professional beauties of the present.
day. l.2s
The material employed for these dura-
bic portraits was a wax medium, which,
has been employed with excellent effect
in modern times, and might be used
more frequently with advantage.
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South and West.

South and West.
AN immense crowd attended the funeral
of Owen Brown, son of John Brown, and last
survivor of the Harpers Ferry tragedy, at
Pasadena, Cal. He was seventy-four years
old.
Az endemic of dirhtheria prevails at Ar.
gyle, MINI.
As there is neither ice nor snow in st.
Paul, Mimi, the project of the ice palace
and carnival has fallen through.
JAMES BARBER, a prominent farmer OF
Spring Hill, Kan, has been gored to death
by Holstein bull which he was leading ,c
the barn.
ELMER SHARKEY, of Eaton, Ohio. quar-.
relied with his mother because she objected
to his marriage. At two o'clock next morn.
ing he beat his mothers brains out with q
maIlet The Sharkey's are among the richest
people in the county.
AT Benwood. w. Va, an unoccupied house
was demolished by an explosion of gunpow-
der. and two boys, who had temporarily
taken shelter in it, we're killed.
THREE men were killed by boiler expo
sion at Petosky, Mich.
MRS CLEMaIE Cox, demented woman,
locked herself in her room at Paris. Texas,
and, saturating her clothes with coal OIL set
them on fire. She was burned to death.
D. R. DRIscoLL, City Marshal of Florence,
NO., was killed by Isaac Will. who escaped
from Jail sonae time ago. Will was followed
and killed.
A BATTLE took place between over 200
citizens of Cimarron and ingalls,, two Kansas
towns which are fighting for possession
of the county records during which j. W.
English and John Bliss, two of the leading
citizens of Cmarron, were killed and score
lsexN ,al
by the State militia.
IsHAM G. HARRIS was nominated by the
Democratic legislative caucus at Nashville,
Tenn, to succeed himself as United States
Senator. The nomination is equivalent to
election.
SENATOR MANDERsoN has received the
unanimous vote of the Republican caucus OF
Nebraska legislators for United States Sem
ator to succeed himself. The caucus also
resolved to submit the prohibition question
to the popular vote.
GOVERNOR ALVIN P. HovEY, of Indiana,
was inaugurated at Indianapolis; Joseph w.
Fifer took the oath as Governor of Illinois
at Springfield, and D. T. Francis was in.
augurated as Governor of Missouri.
UNITED STATES SENATOR CHARLES F.
MANDERsoN, of Nebraska, has been re.
elected by the Legislature. He received a
vote OF l04 to 20
The Michigan Legislature has elected
James Mcmillan, Of Detroit,as United States
Senator to succeed T W. Palmer.
E. O. WALcoTr has been elected United
States Senator from Colorado to succeed
Thomas NJ. Bowen, receiving the solid Re-
pubiican vote. C. o. Thomas received the
complimentary vote Of the Democrats.
WESLEY BARNETT, the notorious half
breed Creek Ind an desperado, who has beer
the terror of Indian Territory for years, ha:
been killed. He was the leader of desperat.
band of thieves and outlaws in the Greek
Nation.
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WaahinRtOn.

THE Senate and House of Indiana met ir
Joint convention at Indianapolis and listened
~ the farewell message of Governor Isaac P
Gray.
SENATOR PLUMB has been renominated by
the Joint Republican caucus of the Kansa:
Legislature.
A FIGHT between cowboys and shepherds:
took place near Holbrook, Arizona, in which
three men were killed and three fatally
wounded.
GINERAL HARRISON is hard at work at his
home in Indiana polls on his inaugural.
COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM has issued cir.
cular in regard to the affairs of the Freed
mans Savings and Trust Company, in which
he says: mo dividend has been declared since
May II, 1883, and the assets are not likely tc
allow Of another dividend"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent to the
Senate the nomination Of Henry W. Beck,
with of Illinois, to be United States Consul
at Bermuda.
SECRETARY AND MRS. WHITNEY inaugu.
rated their official hospitalities Of the season
at Washington by a brilliant reception, at
which they entertained disting guished COM
pany.
MRS. CLEVELAND has held the first public
reception Of the season at the White House.
Over 5000 persons attended.
SPEAKER CARLISE has appointed as the
conferrees on the part of the House to con-
slider the question of concurrence with the
Senate on the bill to incorporate the Mari
time Canal Company of Nicaragua. Messrs.
Clardy, Rayner, and O'Neil of Pennsylvania
The President and Mrs Cleveland were
entertained by the Secretary of State and
the Misses Bayard at a Cabinet dinner.
THE President has nominated w. B. Webb
to be Commissioner of t. District of Colum
bia, Thomas c. Anderson, of Iowa, to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Utah, and Henry j. Mum to he Collector OF
Customs for the Pamllco District OF North
Carolina.
The Secretary of the Navy has issued in
structions to Rear Admiral Kimberly, com
manding the Pacific station, to proceed IN
the United States ship Trenton to Samoa, Tor
the purpose of protecting American interests
on that island.
SECRETARY Villas has reported to Con-
gress that commission, after conference
with the Utes of Southern Colorado, had IN
duced the Utes to agree to cede their lands
for new reservation in Utah, to which they
agreed to remove for per capita payment
Of $50, 600, S2U, 900 worth of sheep and S20oo
to each of the five leading chiefs and the
establishment of a new agency on the new
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RAILROAD MEN AGREE,
Important Conference in New York
An Interstate Association.

An Interstate Association.
Substantially all the leading railroads Of
the country were represented by their Presi-
dents or other officers at meeting held in
New York for the purpose Of effecting
radical reformation in railroad matters, rate
cutting and other troubles having caused
greet depreciation in the securities or moef
of the companies. Prominent New York
bankers also took part in the conference on
behalf of the security holders. A committee
which had been appointed to perfect plan
of organization submitted long report,
which was adopted. The essence of the propo-
sitjon OF the committee is that an association
be formed of the Presidents Of railroad com.
panies. The purpose OF such an association
shall be the enforcement OF the Interstate
Commerce act, and the establishment and
maintenance Of reasonable and uniform
rates; to secure complete reports OF all COM
petitive traffic subject to the Interstate act,
and such other traffic as may hereafter be
deemed advisable.
A Board of Managers shall be formed to
consist Of one accredited representative from
each company whose President is a member
of the association This Board shall meet
monthly, or at such special times as may be
deemed necessary. They shall appoint rate
committees to consider all changes in rates
One officer from each company shall be held
responsible for the maintenance of rates by
his company. Agencies and commissions
shall be regulated or abolished. No conces,
sions shall be made to influence business. All
official reports must he certified.
For violation of any Of the laws or rules OF
the proposed association penalties are pro,
yided. including dismissal from service of
any employe responsible for such violation.
The association, when formed, is to be
known as the Interstate Railway Associa.
tion. As guarantee Of good faith each
member of the association will be required
to keep in bank, to be named by the mana.
less than $1,000 and not more than $4,000, as
may be agreed upon.
The plans submitted by the committee
have the endorsement of the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzEl.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE Cunarder Cmbria has made the east
ern voyage across the Atlantic in slX days,
two hours and fortv-five minutes from SandSy,
Hook. N. j.. to Browhead, thus beating all
previous records.
THE bodies of the dead were all recovered
at Pittshurg, and at Reading it was 1ound
that corrected list of those killed ny the
storm numbered twenty-threo
j. B. MORRISON, a prominent dentist or
Pittsburg, Penn, committed suicide IN III
of dySpeptic melancholy.
SAMUEL BECKETT. the President of an iron
foundry company in Arlington, y. D., COM
mitted suicide at his home by inhaling gas.
THE third special trial trip OF the dyna-
mite cruiser Eesuvius has Teen made over
the new Government course at delaware
Breakwater. Penn. 1t was a complete sue
cess. the vessel attaining a speed OF 2l.h,
knots, which makes her the fastest war ship
afoat.
CHARLES CRISP was killed and Mrs. Herk.
inner injured fatally on the Long Island
Railroad.
Mrs. GOULD. wife of Jay Gould, the mil
lionalre, has died after lingering illness at
her home in New York city.
A FIRE broke out in the five-s.ory brick
building occupied by Smith, Pratt d Her
rick, in Albany, N Y. 1t was only after
uSQC Oh i've nOuTS CHdI Tue IRE was cAsAh
guished. The loss is about $50, LOO.
WILLIAM CARROLL and a boy named
Bostley were killed bv the fall OF an elevator
at the Walter A. Wood Moving Machine
Works at Hoosaic Falls, n. Y. Ahern and
Jansen, the other passengers on the elevator,
were fatally injured.
A FIGHT between riotous Hungarian and
italian miners. near Scranton, Penh, fe-
suited in three deaths.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES RICHARDS MILES,
United States Navy, the young naval othcsr
who has been very i'll with yellow fever on
board the Yantic in New York Harbor, since
the vessels return from Hayti, is dead.
THE Republican caucus of Massachusetts,
nominated, by acclamation. George r.
Hoar to succeed himself as United States
Senator. The Democratic caucus nominated
General P. A. Collins.
Miss ADA WAKES, a teacher in Spring
field. w.t. public school, committed suicide
by drowning in the Black River She was
the daughter of James K. Walker, we'll
known farmer and writer on agricultural
subjects
SENATOR HoAR has been reelected by the
Massachusetts, Legislature. The vote stood:
In the Senate, Hoar thirty.two, General
Collins, six; in the House, Hoar171, and Col
lins fifty-six.
SENATOR FRYE, Of Maine, has been re-
elected.
THREE girls lost their lives at fire in a
cigar box factory in Fifth street, New York
city.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
The Senate.

ODD DAy.-Only six Senators were present
at the opening Mr.. Butler moved call OF
the Senate. The Chair declined to entertain
the motion. After an hours delay quorum
assembled. q. The Senate then resumed con-
sideration Of the Tariff bill, the pending
question being on the amendment offered by
Mr. Plumb, to strike out of paragraph 557
the words Except when frozen or packed in
ice or otherwise prepared bv any process, for
preservation"--so as to let the paragraph
read simply "fresh fish" tfreeI. MesSrs. Hoar
and Frye opposed it. After long debate,
fresh fish was struck off the free list of the
Tariff bill and made dutiable at one-half
cent pound.
g3p DAY.-Consideratio of the Tariff bill
was resumed Quite q number of minor
amendments were adop:ed. After the read
ing of the entire bill was completed, the Sen.
ate. i'm Committee of the Whole, went back
to the provisions which had been informally
passed over A number Of verbal amend.
inents intended to make clear portions OF the
ILL were made to the administration sections.
34TH DAY.-The Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the Tariff bill and Mr.. Alli-
son, on the part of the Finance Committee,
reported two new sections, which he proposed
to offer as amendments. They related to
hounty on sugar, and provided that until
April, 1900, there shall be paid to the pro-
ducer of sugar from beets, sorghum, or sugar
cane grown within the United States boun.
ty of one cent per pound: Mr.. Hoar intro
duced concurrent resolution, which was
referred, providing for the counting OF the
votes for President and Vice-President in the
House of Representatives, on Wednesday.
February 13.
25TH DAY.-The Senate discussed for five
hours and half an amendment to the Tariff
bill, which proposed to strike from the free
list after of roses and substitute salt. No
action was taken, and the Senate adjourned
with tho amendment still pending. The
principal speakers were Messrs. Vest, Voor-
hees Aldrich, Hiscock and Plumb.
26TH lAy.-The debate on the Tariff bill
was continued. . The correspondence in the
Samoan affair and about the seizure OF the
steamer Haytien Republic was laid before
the Senate.