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The House.

SD DAY.-The bill for the protection OF
forest reservations was discussed. The
amendment to the Chinese Exclusion act was
debated.
g4rH DAy.-Debate on the McCreary bill to
amend the Chinese Exclusion act occupied
most of the session.
55rH DAY.-Debate on the bill to amend
the Chinese Exclusion act was continued by
Messrs. Mcguire, Cultivate, Everett, Her
man, Sibley, Mahon, Williams and Helborn.
56rH DAY.-The McCreary BILL extending
for six months the time in which Chinese resi-
dents may register under the Geary law, was
passed. The Cox bill, for the better con-
troll OF National bunSs, was taken up. and,
without disposing OF the measure, the House
adjourned.
57TH DAY.-A bill dispensing with PROOF OF
loyalty in the cases Of persons who beforethe
war were entitled to pensions and to bounty
lands, was objected to by Mr.. Burrows as far
as the pension clause was concerned.
Thereupou Mr.. Oates, who had charge OF
the measure. withdrew the pension clause,
and the bill WAS passed. came up
the proposition for the better control Of Ma
tional banks, and after brief exchange OF
views between its supporters and opponents,
it was agreed to without a division. The
remainder OF the day was consumed in the
consideration OF the Public Printing bill.
5SrH DAY.-The bill amending the Revised
Statutes relating TO clerks fees, semi-annual
returns OF fees by district attorneys, mar
sha!s, and clerks, commissioners fees. and
to offenders against the United States. was
passsd.-The New York and New Jersey
Bridge bill was passed.-The House then
resumed the consideration Of the Printing
bill, but without disposing OF it adjourned.
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Washington.

IT is announced in Washington that Ellis
Mills, the new Consal-General at Honolulu.
is to marry Miss Marie S. Along, daughter OF
a Chinese millionaire and sister OF Comman-
der Writings tiancee.
THE United States Supreme Court bar met
and eulogized the late Justice Blatchfcrd.
The House passed bills authorizing the
lease of building for the storage OF public
documents, and increasing TO hundred the
number OF army officers who may act as
teachers in schools
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BaowN, OF the United
States Supreme Court, nearly bled to death
from a severed artery, caused by piece OF
plate glass that had been shattered by the
wind.
GENERAL McCooK, commading the new
Department of Colorado, recommends in
his annual report the abandonment OF old
Fort Bowie, in Arizona that the military
reservations Of Fort Verde, il Arizona, and
Fort Union, in New Mexico, be opened in
settlement ard that Fort Wingate, in New
Mexico, and Fort Logan, in Colorado, ten
miles from Denver, be made regimental
posts.
The President has written q letter to Presi-
dent Higinbotham, OF tho Worlds Columbian
Exposition, expressing his regrets that he
ana Mrs. Cleveland are unable to accept the
invitation recently rendered them to attend
the Worlds Fair before it is permanently
closed.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are $4,000 blind people in England
and Wales.
GREAT BRITAIN makes over 100, 900 bicy-
cies year.
A WOMAN has been nominated Tor coroner
in Leavenworth, Kan.
New churches built in America last year
numbered nearly 10000.
A FINE Of 800 Is the penalty for sending
false fire alarm in London.
THERE is a premium offered on the Colum-
bian postage stamps In Europe.
WAsHINeroN's hop crop this year is one Oh
the largest and finest ever known.
BosroN has more electric trolley cars run.
ming in its streets than any other CRY In Inc
world.
TIE .Nosses of the leading millionaires
OF New lSSG are mostly guarded by secret
police.
BRooKLYSs population, according to the
census OF the Bureau OF Vital STATISTICS, IL
1,000,0 900.
THE expenses OF carrying on the city gov
ernment OF New York next year Will Dc
$36, 100000.
TIE wheat yield Of Kansns is M.ss1, 44S
bushels an increase OF 5,0O0, ,ooo over tne
September estimates.
PATRICK COlLlNS, WIZ
his wife, was arrested while praying in
San Francisco church.
Miss OLLIE CLINE, one OF the "rough
riders who got lot in Perry, Cherokee
Strip. has sold her claim for $500.
CHINA is about to establish ISastal system,
beginning with the seaports: IL hoped
that within ten years 1t will DO eStenoeo
| throughout the empire.
DISPATCH from Clyde, Scotland, says that
John Jamison, owner OF the yacht lverna,
will build yacht and challenge for thf
Americas Cup next year.
TIE project OF holding National Expo
st.on in the City OF Mexico this winter,
using the exhibits sent by Mexico to Chi
cago, has been abandoned.
/ EXPERIMENTS with the importation OF
fruit from Cape Colony have proved 80 sue
cessful that Londoners expect soon to get
not only apples but peaches and mangoes
from Africa.
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IMAGINATION Is DEAD.
The Great French Marshal Passes
Quietly Away.

The Great French Marshal Passes
Quietly Away.
Marshal MacMahon died at 10 o'clock q. m.
Mt Chateau La Foret, on the Loire, in France.
He was able to partake OF food until the day OF
his death, but during the night his strength
gradually declined, uod he grew weaker
and weaker until the end came peace
fully at the hour mentioned. The family OF
the deceased soldier, including the Duchess
OF Magenta, his wife, his three sons and his
daughter, Countess Piennes, were present at
his death.
Marie Edmund Patrice Maurice Mac
Mahon was born at Sully. June IL. l6oS.
He was descended from an Irish family,
which followed the Stuarts to France in
1851. He was educated at st. Cyr. and
after graduating took part In the AlSer-
ian campaign. In 1S4O he was mace
a Maio- on account OF distinguished
services, and at the beginning OF the Crimean e3l
war was made General. Here he also DIS
tinguished himself, his storming OF the Alala-
kolI being an achievement renowned in his
tory. During the Franco-Italian war in 1859
he was created Duke of Magenta because OIL
the decisive defeat he administered to the
Austrlans in the battle OF that name. 1t WIS
shortly after this that no was made a Mar
shall OF France. In 1854 Marshal MacManoh
was appointed Governor OF Algeria,
and rendered important services III
that capacity. He commanded the
whole French army in the Franco-Prusslan
war, but that brief campaign ended
disastrously for his country. He lost two
important battles and finally suffered 4
crushing defeat at Sedan, where he was Sc
verely wounded. Marshal MacMahon was
elected President OF the French Republic IN
1873, but resigned in 1879. Since then his
Life mas been spent In retirement.
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A LINCOLN MEMORIAL.
The House in Which He Died Dedtca-
ted as a Public Museum.

Ceremonies of most interesting char
acter. to which Vice-President Stevenson,
senators Cullom and Palmer and others OF
the Illinois delegation In Congress, and
other prominent public men lent their
active participation, were held to mark the
formal opening of the newly established Lin
coin Memorial House in Washington:
Through the patriotic efforts OF number OF
prominent citizens forming the Lincoln Me-
mortal Association OF the District, the unpre-
ten1;ous three-story brick house on Tenth
street, into which Lincoln was carried
after tho fatal shot was fred in the
old Ford Theatre opposite. and where he
died on that April morning. twenty-eiSht
years ago. has been secured on lease and has
been made Il museum Of Lincoln relics AMI
memorials. The collection. which is not Yet
complete, embraces all the interesting relics
which Captain q. H. Olroyd mas 0een collecting
since 1860, and which up to last spring were
retained in the house at Springfield, III. where
Lincoln resided when he was elected Presi-
dent. This property came into the pos
session of Robert T. Lincoln. who presented
II to the State OF Illinois. There are between
1000 and 5000 articles formerly in the Spring.
field collection OF the most interesting
character which are now transferred TO
Washington, and many moro are to be
added.
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LATER NEWS.

THE failure OF the Wellman Iron and Steel
Company, Of Chester, Penn, has been an.
nounced.
AT Riverside, Cal, W. Z. Wrisley stabbed
and killed his wife, from whom he had been
separated for some time. he then blew of
the top Of his head with revolver.
THE Pennsylvania limited was in collision
with freight train at Wellsville, Ohio. -Four
men were killed and three injured.
SIX men were literally blown to atoms by
the explosion Of powder mill at the village
Of Kragujevatz, Servia.
ADM1RAL AvELAN and the officers of the
Russian fleet arrived In Paris, and were en-
Enthusiastically welcomed; they were received
by President Carnot, and dinner and ball
were given at the Elysee in their honor,
ADMIRAL MELLo, commander Of the insur-
gent Brazilian feet, again bombarded Rio de
Janeiro. The damage done is said to have
been great. Many OF the residents who re-
manned in the city during the prior bonn
bardment are now fleeing to interior cities
and towns.
E1-LAsoR CoMMrssroyER O. F. PIECE
surrendered himself in Albany, N. Y. and
gave bail for trial for forging statistics.
LORD DUNRAvEs and his party sailed from
New York for England. The valkyrie will
winter on this side.
A FIRE in New York City swept away one
third Of the block bounded by Tenth ave
nue., Fory-frst and Forty-second streets,
destroying the wall paper factories Of Will
lam s. Campbell and NeviDs e Haviland and
George Schastey & Sons plano and furniture
factory In the adjoining block south Of For
ty-arst street. It was thought that Eve lives
had been lost In the flames. The damage to
property is estimated at 90, 500, 900.
THE stallion Directum trotteda mile IN
2.051 In race at Nashville, Tenn.
THE bankers Of the United States held
their nineteenth annual convention In Chi
cago, and discussed the financial situation.
CARDINAL GIBBONS celebrated. the twenty
fifth anniversary Of his conservation as o
Bishop with great pomp In Baltimore, Md.
SECRETARY CARLISLE received the resigna-
ton of Michael Kerwin, Collector OF Internal
Revenue for the Second District of New York.
he accepted it, to take effect on the appoint
ment OF his successor.
COMMODORE M. q. FARoUHAn, Chief OF the
Naval Bureau OF Yards and Docks, esti-
mates in his annual report, just submitted to
The Secretary of the Navy, that 81 1892, 701 is
required to carry out the work OF the bureau
during the next fiscal year.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, OF Germany, unveiled
statute Of his grandfather in Bremen.
= PRESIDENT PErxoTo has declared that
Brazil will not be responsible for property
damaged during the revolution. He also
brands as deserters all officers and soldiers
who have joined the insurgents.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

QUEEN VICTORIA is skilful kn1tter, and
works at it indefatigably.
FORD MADDOX BRowN the English painter,
died few days since in London ut the age
of seventy-two years.
SEVEN HUNDRED live larks constitute the
queer present lately sent by the King OF
Italy to the German Emperor. .
SENATOR WoLcorr. OF Colorado, has the
reputation of being the gourmet par excel
lence Of Congress. and his tips are so gener-
ous that the walters grow rich on them
TIE late Arthur Elder Nelson Is said to
,havemade about S12, 900 year writing dime
and half-dime novels, and he didn't waste
any oft on pistols and bowie knives to so
hunting bears. and Indians
The Queen OF England has approved the
appointment Of the Earl Of Elgin as Viceroy
OF India. The new Viceroy is the eldest son
OF the eighth Earl Of Elgin, who was ap-
pointed Governor-General OF India in jan
uary, 1862, and who died In Office November,
1868. ...
The youngest Judge in this country IS said
to be Henry W. Scott, Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. he is
twenty-eight years old. Attheag oitwenty-
two he was Register OF the land office at
Larned, Kan. He has written several legal
works.
DENNIS FLYNN. Delegate in Congress from
Oklahoma, has staked claims in half dozen
States, practiced law in Iowa, edited paper
in Kansas, acted as Postmaster at Guthrie
and narrowly escaped getting shot several
times during the wnoopful, early days OF the
Territory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Is said to- be
most laborious writer. He rewrites his
manuscript to such an extent that at the end
OF the day scarcely one OF the orlginal SEN
tences remains unchanged. Occasionally he
spends three weeks on a single chapter and
then throws 1t away.
THE Duke of York must be acquiring q
considerable library, for It is said that he Is
preserving all the newspaper references
touching on any part OF his life. Now, OF
course, he has added those about his bride.
The volumes are handsomely bound, and
have solid gold clasps, which display the
Dukes initials beautifully engraved.
SIX members of the United States Senate
have passed the seventieth year Of their age.
Mr.. Morrill,, OF Vermont, heads the list with
his eighty-three years. Next comes MIR.
Palmer, OF Illinois, who Is seventy-six. DIR.
Harris, Of Tennessee, Is seventy-fve; MIR.
Pugh, Of Alabama, is seventy-three, and Dir.
Sherman, OF Ohio, and Mr.. Hunton, OF Vlr-
ginia are each seventy years old.
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BIGGEST GILDED DOME.
Facts About the New Congressional
Library in Washington.

Facts About the New Congressional
Library in Washington.
The process OF gliding the dome Of the
new Congressional Library Building,
stones throw from the Capitol, has pro-
gressed far enongh to indicate that when
completed this golden dome will be one Of
the most conspicuous and beautiful objects
in Washington.
There are not many gilded domes in the
world. The Hotel des Invalides in Paris, the
Connecticut State House at Hartford, and
the Massachusetts State House at Boston are
the best known. The dome Of the new Lii
brary Buildings larger than any OF these
two-thirds larger, it is estimated, than the
famous dome Of the StG:e House in Boston.
There is a total surface OF 10000 square feet
to be gilded. More gold will be used on this
dono than on any other in the world. This
Is appropriate to the new Library Building,
forthe structure will be the largest OF its
kind, covering no less than four acress. The
contract for the granite alone was $780,
900, the largest contract for stone ever
awarded at single time
The building will not be completed for
four years. When finished it will have q ca
pacty, according TO the calculations OF Lii
brarian Spofford, to accommodate all the
books of the world for 100 years to come,
and still leave seven-eighths of its space ap-
plicaole for other purposes. The rotunGa is
40 feet in diameter-forty-four feet greater
than the rotunda Of the Capitol. it will be
finished in marble from floor to cellar, and
will surpass even the famous reading roo1o
OF tle British Museum.
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South and West.

IT was decided to prolong the Worlds Fair
as long as it was profitable.
FORTY boarders in Lincoln (Neb. hotel
struck because the landlord substituted uni
yersity students for girl walters.
THERE were eighteen new cases Of yellow
fever and one death from the disease at
Brunswick, Ga.
A BIG storm ragged on the Florida coast and
swept on up to Savannah, Ga, and Charles
ton, S. G. The wind blew u perfect gale. Re-
ports from Savannah indicated that the dam
age would be greater than in the August
storm.
PRESIDENT S. H. n. CLARK, Controller Oh
iver W. Mink and E. Ellery Anderson We're
named as receivers OF the Union Pacific Rail-
way by the court in Omaha, Neb.
A KILLING frost fell in the Cotton Belt,
greatly iniuring crops and vegetables. The
cotton crop will be cut short fifteen or
twenty per cent, and In the lowlands the
top crop will be failure. The frost seems
to have been general throughout the Mis-
sissippi Valley.
The treasury OF indianapolis, Ind, is
bankrupt, there being only $4,000 on hand,
and debts amounting nearly to $500, 900 out
standing.
TIE business portion OF King City, Mo-,
was destroyed by fire with loss of S15O, 900.
FIVE we'll blowers at Ervington, ILL.,, were
killed by premature explosion Of dynamite.
Two bystanders were severely hurt and
several houses were blown down.
THREE colored men have died from burns
received at the burning OF the Baltimore
(Md.) City Jail
COUNTY TREASURY W. NJ. CAMPBELL, oi
Lawrence County, Missouri, was robbed o'
S45O0. While he was absent to dinner thieves
entered his Office and took the money out oi
his safe.
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DROWNED IN LAKE ERIE
WRECK OF THE PROPELLER
DEAN RICHMOND.

She Ran on a Reef in Lake Erie, Near
Dunkirk in the Storm, and Went
to Pieces Her Cargo and the
Bodies of Her Crew Washed
Ashore.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
line propeller Dean Richmond was lost some
time during the night between Dunkirk, N
Y, and Erie, Penn, with all on board. com.
prising crew Of eighteen. She was loaded
with -four and grain and bound from Toledo
for Buffalo. There is no living witness OF
the disaster, and the manner OF 1t could only
be surmised from the wreckage and the
bodies that came ashore. ..
The Richmond put into Erie at O'Clock
p. m. to coal up, and departed shortly after.
ward for her destination.
Next morning the shore from Dunkirk to
Van Buren,, q distance OF four miles, was
strewn with thousands Of sacks Of flour.
pieces of ships furniture, etc.
About 9 O'Clock O. m. body came ashore q
mile west of - unkirk and by papers on the
body it was identified as that of Albert G..
Dodge, OF Fayette, Ohio, sailor on the
Richmond. If
In the afternoon two more bodies came
ashore. There was nothing on them by
which they could be identified, but mani
festly they were sailors.
To each Of the three bodies was fastened O
life-preserver, and as they were only partially
dressed, 1t Is presumed that the disaster
came without warning and that they leaped
from their beds only to find death In the
raging waters.
All the bodies were terribly bruised by
striking against the rocks, and 1t Is believed
that death was the result of exposure and
pounding against the rocks, as they did not
bear the appearance Of having been drowned.
The Richmond's after part came ashore q
few miles from Dunkirk In the afternoon. It
Is badly broken,up. .....- .. 49,.
pearance Of the wreckage and the bodies tho
propeller must have become unmanageable
and gone on the rocky shore, where the tre-
mendous sea that was running quickly
pounded her to pieces. The sailors may have
been suddenly left struggling In the waves by
the collapse Of the vessel or they may have
had time to embark In the small boats, but
in either event the end could not have been
long delayed.
The -four which was consigned to Boston
parties is being gathered up by the beach
dwellers.
A dispatch from Buffalo, n Y. says: The
bodies Of five of the victims of the Dean Rich
mond disaster have come ashore at Van Buren,
Point, forty miles from this city, near Dun
kirk. The shore of the lake Is strewn with
wreckage and merchandise, and tho waves
hourly yield up further evidence OF the Rich
monds fate.
A report from Erie, Penn, states that the
Dean Richmond yawl has been found near
where the first two bodies were picked up.
There can be no doubt that all on board
perisheI. The coast Is full OF rocks
and che waves ran twenty feet
high all night. The Dean Richmond was a
thirteen -hundred-ton vessel. owned at Port
Huron, and valued ut $40, 900. She was built
in 1869 and rebuilt in 1890. The vast amount
of wreckage indicates that she went to pieces
la.e in the night.
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DEATH OF GOUNOD.
The Great Composer Sank Steadily
After His Apoplectic Stroke.

The Great Composer Sank Steadily
After His Apoplectic Stroke.
N. Gounod, the great French composer,
died painlessly at 6.25 q. m. at Paris. He
never recovered his faculties after he was
stricken. Many OF his relatives and friends
were at his bedside when he passed away.
The direct cause OF N. Gounod's death Is
certified to have been general paralysis OF
the brain.
Charles Francois Gounod was born in
Paris on June II, 1918. and his first memory
OF music was when as a boy he listened to
his mother, q distinguished pianist. She
gave him his first Insight into musical
education.
After finishing his classical studies at the
Lycse. St. Louis, he took his decree as Bach
elor OF Letters In 1886 and entered the con-
servatoire, where he was in Halvey's class
for counterpoint. learning composition from
Paer and Lesneur.
His first success in musical composition
was in 1887, when his cantata, 'Marie Stuart
ct Rizzio," obtained the second prize OF
Rome, which entitled him to study In Italy
For several years he studied In Italy as q
pensioner OF the Academic de France. A
few years later he determined to study for
the priesthood and devoted two years to
reading and attending course of theology.
He discovered at the end Of that time that he
was not destined fo- the priesthood and never
took orders.
Then followed long years OF study of the
works OF Schumann and BerlioZ, and then he
Suddenly appeared for the first time in the
musical world, making his debut in London.
where he produced his first opera-''Sapho"
in 1851, with Nine. Yiardot in the principal
part.
In rapid succession he composed choruses,
masses, symphonies. His opera, ''The Nome
Sanglante," was produced in 1854. But it
was not until he produced Faust" that he
took front rank as composer. His compo-
sitions embrace almost the whole field OF
higher music, with efforts at times In lighter
veins.
Hislast opera, produced in 1878. "Polyen-
etc." contained flashes OF the great compos-
er's power, but it never was classed by crit
les with Faust"
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He TIED FARRAGUT,
A Celebrated Seaman Commits Sui
eide at the Mare Island Yard.

A Celebrated Seaman Commits Sui
eide at the Mare Island Yard.
john Neil. q seaman in the United States
Navy. serving on board the resolving ship
independence, Mare Island (Cal.) Navy
Yard, committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head. The hedeceased was reprimanded
for having oycrstaye1 his leave Of absence
and WAS punishad By restriction to the ship
for periol of sixty days.
AS soon rs Neil received his punishment
ne was seen to 60 below into the ship bag
room. whero he was found later with q bull
lot wound in his right temple. The deceased
vas man OF unusual distinction, having re-
ceived medal honors from Congress for
bravery and meritorious conduct.
Neil enlisted in the navy in 1861, served
with Farragut at Mobile Bay. and lashed the
Admiral in the rigging Of the Hartford, while
he stood by his side throughout the fight.
Since the war Neil has served continuously
in the navy. and was one Of the survivors Of
the i!l-fated Trenton, which went down in
Apia harbor, and received general mention
for bravery in rescuing shipmates from the
Vandalia. which was also wrecked in the
same gale. He was native OF Ireland, aged
siXty-two and member of the Grand Army
OF the Republic and the regular Army and
Navy Union.