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Work of the Pension Office.

During the week ending April 80, 6,747 claims
were received, of which 345 were original in
valid, 1927 widows, bounty land, % navy, q
old war; 242 accrued, and 1864 applications for
increase. and $50 applications for increase under
act June q, 1890; act of June II, 1890, g., ISL
original invalid, COL widows.
Number of claims received to date under act
of June 81, 1890, $50, 743; claims disposed of to
date under said act, 3S7, $40.
Number of rejected claims reopened, 1853.
The names and postoflice addresses Of $500
comrades were furnished for the use of claim
ants There were SO S39 pieces of mail matter
received "a 669 letters and blanks sent out.
Number of cases detailed to Special Exam
liners, 419; reports and cases from Special Ex
aminers, $685. cases on hand for special exami-
nation, 5,764.
Report of certificates issued: Original. 4199;
increase, 2,271; duplicate, O; accrued, 144;
total, 6,614. Total number of claims pending,
az
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The Bland Silver Bill in the House.

There is possibility of the Bland free coin
age-of- silver bill being taken up again in the
House of Representatives and day fixed by
the Committee on Rules for a final vote on the
measure and to prevent filibustering. 1t was
thought that the bill was efectually squelched
in the House during the month of April when
Speaker Crisp refused to have a rule reported
preventing flibustering against the bill, unless
it was requested by majority of the Demo-
Gratis of that body Mr. Bland refused to have
anything to do with petitioning the Committee
on Rules to report such resolution and virtu-
ally gave up the fight. But such was not the
case with Mr.. Pierce, of Tennessee, one Of the
strongest ad vocates in Congress of the free
coinage of silver, and he has been working
quietly getting signatures among the Demo
cratic members to q petition which reads as
follows:
ave, the undersigned, Democratic members
of the sgd Congress, request the Committee on
Rules to bring in an order fixing day when
final vote shall be taken on the Bland bill and
amendments and to prevent filibustering on the
said bill"
This has been signed by 105 members, only
10 more names being required to have ma
iority Of the Democrats of the House. MIR.
Pierce feels sanguine of soon having the neces-
sary names to this petition to compel Speaker
Crisp TO fulfll his promise to report rule
allowing a final vote on the bill without fill
bnstering.
When Representative Harter, Of Ohio, one
of tho bitterest opponents of the measure,
heard of this petition for the first time few
days ago, he was amazed and startled, for he
had believed the free coinage bill was dead for
this session in the House. He Immediately
went to work to counteract the still hunt which
Mr. Pierce has been making but the latter
gentleman has no fear of the result.
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Ex-senator Bruce Goes South.

Ex-senator Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi,
Recorder of Deeds of the District of bia,
left Washington for r tour of the South, his
mission it is said being in the interest of Presi-
dent Harrison's Presidential boom. AS the
time for the meeting of the National Republi-
can Convention approaches, rumors are rife
about the city that many of the delegates
-credftedgio the President in the Southern States
are about to waver in their allegiance to Gen.
Harrison, and Mr.. Bruce has been sent out to
stiffen their back bones. 1t is evident on all
sides that Gen. Ayers strength is rapidly in
creasng in Washington among Congressman
and Senators, and his friends here claim that
he is receiving the most gratifying assurances
from all sections of the country, and from
delegates to the Convention from the Western
States, and they predict that the Generals vote
in the Minneapolis Convention will be sur
prise, not only to the present Administration,
but to all the other candidates
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sires in regard to correspondence as to Special
Examiners and within what dates you desire
it, will furnish copies as soon as the force at
my command will allow. Whatever may be
my constitutional rights as an officer, adhere
to the purpose expressed when l first volun-
tarily appeared before your committee, that In
accordance with the views of the President
wish to aid you in your investigation and not
have to hinder you"
The following is Gen. Raums letter to Secre-
tary Noble regarding the matter:
acknowledge the receip. of your valued letter
of this date transmitting copy of your letter 70
Hon. II. III. Wheeler, Chairman of the committee
on the Investigation of the Bureau of Pensions.
note your statement that misapprehended your
purpose when 1 informed Chairman Wheeler on
mittee copies of certain letters relative to the re,
moval OF a number of employees Of the Bureau Oh
Pensions 80
When application was made for copies OF these
papers by the committee. observed that they re.
lated to matters which had TRANSFERRED before
became Commissioner of Pensions and i, there-
fore, thought it proper that you should determine
whether these documents should be furnished, ana
so. on the 18th ultimo, addressed you letter
upon the subject, forwarded You copy OF the re-
quest of the committee, and concluded by stating
that | submitted the matter for your lns'ruc-
tons"
On the I'd instant.I called on Assistant Secretary
Bussey upon business and in the course OF our
conversation invited his attention to the fact that
there had been reply to my letter of the 18TH
Honorable Secretary had made in regard to FUR
nishng copies of the letters indicated by the COM
miltee. l informed by Assistant Secretary
Bussey that the Secretary had decided not to lur,
nish the copies then inquired OF him II shouio
inform the committee of this concluson,a and he
replied in the affirmative.
Upon my return to the Bureau Of Pensions
wrote to Chairman Wheeler my letter OF May =,
and nclosed him copy of my letter to- you oil GATE
April 49, As Gen. Bussey stated no grounds upon
which the refusal on your part to furnish the papers
was based, | assumed that the grounds stated in my
letter of the 18th ult accepted by you as cor
rect.
forwarded you copy of my letter OF the I'd
inst. to Chairman Wheeler, and, In transmltthg
the same among other things stated: secretary
Busscy informs me that am directed to ADVISE
the committee that you have decided not to furnish
the information desired
Personally, have no interest whatever in hav-
ing copies of these papers withheld from the com
mittee. l have doubt that In the press OF
business you did not take time to give the subject
full consideration. /, however, followed the In
sructions of Assistant Secretary Bussey III adyis-
ing the committee that you declined to furnish
copies of the letters In question.
In conclusion will state that am In full accord
with yonr expressed wish to give the committee
every aid in making n thorough investigation OF
the Bureau of Pensions, and invits the fullest ex-
animation of all my official acts in connection with
no Rureau
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est ships to-day in the world, since the Great
Eastern was broken up; the two stanchest
ships in the world; and he might say, the two
fastest, except that the Majestic had crossed
the ocean in Is minutes less time.
Mr.. Frye spoke at length on the bill, and the
measure was also discussed by Messrs. Vest,
Sherman, Hawley, and Mills, and the bill was
then passed.
The resolution for payment of the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Nations for their interest in tn
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation, nearly
100000, was taken up, and after discussion
was passed-yeas 49, nays Is.
After a short Executive session, the Senate
adjourned. :,
An hours time was consumed in the consid-
Grafton of reports submitted by the Committee
on Accounts, after which the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the River and
Harbor appropriation bill. Several amend
ments increasing the appropriation were
adopted, after which the bill was passed.
Yeas, 1856; nays, 65.
The floor was then accorded to the Commit
tee on the District of Columbia, and measures
of local interest were considered.
The House adjourned at 8 p. m.
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to the United States is being generally dis
cussed by them.-The Southern Baptist Con-
vention met at Atlanta, Ca, last week, 800
delegates attending. Judge Jonathan Harral-
son, of Selma Ala, was reelected President;
Joshua lowering, of Maryland; W. Northern
of Georgia; James p. Eagle, of Arkansas. and
L. l.. Foster, of Texas, elected Vice Presidents
Foreign.
Ex-Premier Mercer and Editor Pacaud, his
friend and party organizer, were arraigned last
week in Quebec at a private judicial investi-
CATION. The charge against the ex-Premier is
criminal in its nature and is preliminary to a
general accusation of public "boodling."
Mercier and Pacaud stand charged with con-
spring to defraud the Province out of 100000
In connection with the Langlois stationery
contract. They are to be defended by the
three lawyers who represented Louis Rie, the
rebel, namely. Fitzpatrick, Greenshields, and
Lemeux.-The new tariff arrangements
made by Spain for Cuba and Porto Rico are of
an extremely protectionist character, and vir-
tualy abolish trade between those Colonies and
Nations which have not signed treaty with
Spain. The tariff regulations will remain I'M
changed for six months in order to test their
operation.-Two farmers, appointed by the
Dominion Government to visit the maritime
Provinces, have reported that great suffering
has been caused to farmers through the closing
OF American LudThStS W tuciI pIOuuSko
by the passage of the Mckinley BILL
Charles Wilfrid Mowbray, lately publisher of
the Anarchist sheet, the Comm0Hgeol, and
David j. Nichol, editor, were tried in London,
Nichol also being indicted by the Grand Jury
for an infammatory speech in Hyde Park.
Nichol was sentenced to Is months hard labor.
Mowbray, who has all along protested that he
had nothing to do with the article which
caused tho trouble, and that he severed his
connection with the Commenced when the
article appeared, was acguitted.-The Ar
gentine Congress has approved the recent
elections despite the energetic protests made
BY the Radicals-Arabs arriving at Zanzibar
have reported that Emn Pasha is dead. 1t is
already known that Emin was stricken with
smallpox while following his advance force
from Wadelai to Bukoba. This force was
under DR.. Stuhlman, and reached Bukoba on
Feb Is. No later reports have been received
from Stuhlman.-It is said that the mer-
chants of San Jose and other principal cities of
Costa Rica are greatly disturbed over the new
reciprocity treaty with the United States, and
declare that it must be amended. For that
purpose it is believed that in a few days Don
Mauro Fernandez, ex-Secretary of State, and
Costa Rica's foremost statesman, will sail for
New York,
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Your druggist does not

Your druggist does not
spread his plasters or gela-
tine-coat his pills. He knows
that such work is better done
in a factory.
Some try to make an Emui-
sion of cod-liver oil; but they
cannot make one like SCOTS
Emulsion-they'll find it out
some day.
There is no secret in what
it is made of; there is a
knack in making it. That
knack is SCOTS Emulsion.
There is a book on CARE
Full LIVING that you ought to
read. Shall we send it? Free.
Scorr 4 BOVINE, Chemists, r3a South 9Th Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion OF cod-liver
oil-ali druggists everywhere do. 81.
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The Chinese Exclusion Bill.

The House and Senate agreed upon bill for
the exclusion of the Chinese from the United
States. and the measure was signed by the
President on May 5. The bill which passed
the House was not liked by the Senate, and a
Senate bill was substituted for the House bill.
This action did not please the House, so a con-
ference was ordered, and an agreement was
finally reached upon the question. This agree
ment was ratified by both Houses The follow
ing are the two important sections of the Dill:
SEC 5. That after the passage OF this act, on an
application to any Judge or Court OF the United
States in the first instance for writ OF haoeas
cornus by a Chinese person seeking to live IN the
United States to whom that privilege has been
denied no bail shall be allowed, and such appllca-
ton shall be heard and determined promptly
without unnecessary delay.
SEC G And it shall be the duty of all Chinese
laborers within the limits OF the United States at
The time of the passage of this act, and who are
entitled to remain in the United States, to apply to
the Collector of Internal Revenue Tor their re-
speciye districts within year after the passage
of this act for II certificate OF residence; and any
Chinese laborer within the limits of the United
States, who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to comply
with the provisions of this act. or VINO after one
wear from the passage thereof shall be found with.
In the jurisdiction of the United States without
auoI certificate of residence, shall be deemed and
adindoed To he unlawfuy within the United States,
and NAV be arrested by any United States customs
officer Collector of Internal Revenue or his depu-
ties limited States Marshal or his deputies, and
taken before United States Judge, whose duty 1t
sbolI be TO order that he be deported from the
United States as hereinbeore provided, unless he
shall establish clearly to the satisfaction OF SAID
Judge that by reason of accident, sickness or other
unaSoidable cause he had been unable to procure
his certificate and to the satisfaction of the Court
aud by at least one credible white witness that ne
was n resident of the United States at the time OF
the massage of this act; and if upon the hearing
il shall appear that he is entitled to certificate,
il shau be granted upon his paying the cost:
Should il appear that said Chinaman had procured
certificate which has been lost destroyed, he
shall be detained and judgment suspended a rca-
TO oil Inn n
from the officer granting it, and in such cases the
costs of said arrest and trial shall be In the dis
erection of the Court And any Chinese person
other than q Chinese laborer having - right TO be
and remain In the United States, desiring such
certificate as evidence of such right, may apply for
and receive the same without charge.
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Evil Effects of Early Rising.
HnrDer's Bdzar.I

Codling-Why, Chappic, you look fatigued.
What's the trouble?
Goslin-I am quite tired, Cholly. I got up
this mawning 10 minutes earlier than usual,
instead of remaining in bed 10 minutes later
than usual, as | genewally do.
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Crimes and Casualties.

section of the History Havemeyer Build
ing, now being erected in New York, fell May
s. Two men were killed and two others in
iured. -Almy, the murderer of Christie
Warden, was denied new trial at Portsmouth,
N. H., May 4, and sentenced to be hanged on
the third Tuesday in May next. Before sem
tence was passed he told the court that there
was no mutlation of the body of his victim,
and that the first shot was accidental. He i'm
p!ored the judges to believe him and alter the
sentence.-James Kellow, of Pittston Pa,
while under operation for dslocation of the
right shoulder, died in the chair in one DIR.
Mulholaud's office. Drs. Hileman, Barrett
and Mulholland were to operate to reduce the
dislocatou and put the patient under the in
fuence of choroform. Heart failure set in
and Kelow was dead in three minutes
The trans-con tinental express on the Atchison
road was wrecked Thursday between Revere
and Medill, Mo-, while on the way to Chicago,
seven passengers being killed and % injured.
The heavy floods had carried a trestle out of
line and all but the end car and the engine
went through the bridge. short time be-
fore heavy goods train had passed over in
safety.
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Willing to Oblige.

police officer met an organ grinder on the
street and said: "Have you license to play !?
If not, you must accompany me-" With
pleasure" answered the street musician.
What will you sing?"
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General.

President G. K Adams, of Cornell University,
Ithaca, n. Y, has resigned his office, after u
long occupancy on account of grave and SEEM
ing irreconcleabe differences of opinion in re-
gard to matters of administrative Importance
-Lansing B. Miner, ex- Minister to Guate-
mala, who has been spending some time in the
Hawaiian Islands, said, in an interview in San
Francisco, that the Hawaiians are finding the
expense of maintaining the Government very
burdensome, and the question OF annexation
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A Springfield mother calls her unweaned but
teething baby Sarcasm, because he's SO biting.
TEXAS S;fings.
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SATURDAY, MAY7.
MONDAY. NAY 9.

In the Senate, after the routine morning
business, Mr.. Frye from the Committee on
Commerce reported back the House bill to en-
courage American shipbuilding. He said that
the report was unanimous and that he had been
instructed to move its present consideration.
he made that motion, and il was agreed to.
The bill having been read in full, Mr.. Frye
stated that although il was general in its pro-
visions, two ships only were to be admitted to
American regst ry; they were 10 be excluded
from the coast wise trade, aud might be used
by the Government (by charter or purchase) in
case of war
That he said. was the full extent of the bill.
The two ships to be admitted were the City of
New York aud the City Of Paris-the two larg-
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

To clean up our stock for this season we
are offering our summer goods at greatly
reduced prices, to make room for the
coming season.
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

An Ohio school teacher viii spend her
summer vacation in an original way.
From Yellow Springs, o., where she
lives, she win travel upon bicycle to
Davenport, e. The trip will require
twenty live days, and the plucky young
woman's gain in mental, muscle and
nerve power should be great. II Is strange
that vacation excursions Of this sort are
not more common. Instead Of being
crowded into stuffy summer boarding
house for weeks . party Of ladies and
gentlemen might have q delightful vacar
ton bicycle excursion. The way to see
the country is to travel leisurely through
it, looking at nature and objects Of In
terest at first hand, not through the win
dow OF a flying car. History, botany,
geology and biology might be studied
thus IN the true way-the way that
Agassiz advocated.
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

This is sensible: The colored people
Of Columbia, s. G., in convention assem-
bled, passed resolution urging negroes
to "desist from crimes that provoke
them and the whites, to frown mobs
down and let the law take its course. !"
On the same day that the Colum bia
convention was held the colored citizens
Of Washington and other places spent
the hours in fasting and prayer because
Of the outrages inflicted on their race in
the south. Meantime southern paper
remarks, when negroes stop outrag-
ing white women, then white men will
stop lynching negroes"
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

[ hear Lots of talk shout Cathefwo8d
for QUIZ next county attorney was
iockin at his head the other day and
tell YOU he is pat mp for smart man. /
just like to Look at bis high forehead and
honest face One OF the boys said that
he had done ali of the work in the county
attorneys office for the last year and :
half and the other fellow had got ali the
salary. He said be thought that If Cath
erwooa did all the fhinkin' and work Of
the Office he ought TO have the salary and
the office. / think that is shout right.
tell ypn the young fellows are comm t.
tine front. since the convention at Min
nssPolas Farmer Ben finds that he is toe
old to amount TO much any more. and
gaane of those back numbers that want f1
keep hOlain' office until they ere hum
dned years old and then git pensions from
the county ought to see that they don't
anount to so much either % they used to,
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

and ought to be filed away right away.
We fat and kill our old cows when they
are about so old. They have seen their
best days then and keep givin' less milk
in their old age.
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

The present generation VIII live to see
railway running from the northwest
corner Of the United States to the Ar
gentine Republic. The preliminary sur
vey for the road is already well In hand
The United States commissioners for the
intercontinental railway are Me@rA a.
j. Cassatt, 81 G.. Davis and 3. C. Ke-
rens- They report that there are three
routes which are considered practicable
The surveyors believe the road can be
constructed at an average expense of
$4,000 mile. Economy IN congress
ought not to take the direction OF cut
ting of appropriations for continuing
this survey.
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
Monday.

11OH06y. -
WASHINGTON. June l3-The house by
unanimous consent passed bills to admit
Indian children to citizenship at 81 years
provided that they have had ten years
Industrial training. To authorize the
Scheutzen Verein to erect q statute to
Baron Won Steuben in the public reserva.
ton in Washington, D. G. Being district
day the house proceeded with business ne
lating to the District Of Columbia. A
number OF bills from the committee on
public lands were passed and the house
adjourned
In the senate Mr.. Stewart reported the
pension appropriation bill Mr., PETER
called up and spoke on his bill to increase
the currency and provide for the circula-
ti0n: to reduce the rate of interest and &c
establish loans with England
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

If You Intend Taking q Pleasure Trip this
Summer Please Make Note of This.
The C.. N. Il St. r. R'y now have on sale
very cheap excursions to eastern resorts.
This includes such points as AIexandria Bay,
n T.: Asheviils. u. C.; Chautauqua Lake. n.
T. Lookout Mountain, Tenn; Nia8ara Falls; I;
Portland, Maine. and numerous other points.
We have the best facilities In this country for
furnishing you fz1ll information regarding
routes and rates to any point and can furnish
you tickets TO your actual destination. Be
lore purchasing elsewhere please give us a
call C. r. WENHAN. Agent.
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

In South Carolina this year the acreage
Of cotton is quarter less than It was
under the enormous crop Of last year.
But the cotton loss is the planters gain,
since the acres thus vacated have been
planted with bread grains which can be
eaten. Cotton could not Lack OF
variety OF crops is sonetihing from which
southern farmers have long suffered
Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15

A ringing noise
in the ears, headache, deafness, eyes
weak; obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery and acrid, at
others, thick, tenacious, bloody and
putrid offensive breath smell and
taste impaired, and general debility.
Not all of these symptoms at once.
Probably only few of them.
That's Catarrh. "-. E. 81.
A medicine that by its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties has cured the most hope
less cases. One that will cure you,
no matter how bad your case or of
how long standing. A medicine
that doesn't simply palliate for q
time, but produces perfect and per-
manent cures.
That's DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
A cash payment of $500, not By
you, as you might expect, but to
you, if you can't be cured. It's an
offer that's made in good faith, to
prove their medicine, by responsible
men, the proprietors of DR.. Sage's
Remedy.
That's the kind of medicine to try.
Doesn't it seem SO?