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The Czar of Russia has determined to adopt means "for the immediate and permanent suppression all forms of political agitation by young students." The committee of the Grant ment fund at New York, are convinced that no further progress can be made in the collection of money until a cision shall be reached as to the acter and cost of the memorial. They find that possible contributors are waiting to know, before giving money, exactly what is going to be done with it. The amount accumulated stands nearly stationary under $150,000, but they think it would increase ly as soon as a certainity was reached. A bill has been introduced in gress which will, if adopted and tained by the courts, make the ers of the country exceedingly gleeful. It proposes to put the manufacture and sals of oleomargarine under about the same restriction as the ture of tobacco, and to put a tax of ten cents a pound on that and other imitations of butter.

The restrictions are exceedingly stringent and with the tax on the product would practically put an end to the business. Several weeks ago a boycott was declared against the Mongolians in California, and all persons employing them were requested to discharge request involving an pressed threat that those who refused would be made victims of the measure. The fruit growers complied with the request and discharged their Chinese laborers, and now they are beginning to ask what they are going to do for help to gather their large fruit the largest ever gathered in the state. Washington's "Farewell Address" is not by any means so familiar to the people of the United States as it should be, but it is hardly possible that such a hoax as the one lately perpetrated in Canada could have curred here. An editor altered a few portions of the address to fit dian affairs, and published it, ing it to be the parting words of the Premier, Sir John McDonald, to the Canadian people.

It was very ally believed for a time that Sir John had actually resigned, but some bers of the opposition thought the news too good to be true, and gated the matter. The new Local Option law in sippi virtually gives the temperance people a double chance. The vote on the license question is to be taken by counties, upon the petition of onetenth of the qualified Voters, and the election is to be appointed for a date when no other issue is before the ple, and at least two months from any other election. This provision will help to separate the question from party politics. If a majority vote against the sale, no liquor can be sold within the county for two years.

If the election goes the other way, an applicant for a license must file a tition signed by at least twenty-five real estate owners in the town. This is to iie over for thirty days, and if, in the meantime, a counter petition is presented, signed by a majority of the legal voters in the place, license not be gained. The war talk between the French and German newspapers has at last brought out an utterance from Prince Bismarck's organ, the North German Gazette, which intimates that many will be there when France begins to fight again. The Gazette's article is a well considered one, and, while not calculated to increase the ity between the two nations, shows positively that Germany will not be taken by surprise, and expresses no doubt as to the result of another flict, if one should occur. Germany recognizes that the French area brave race, and that under the republic they have made great many strides in military strength, and believes they will seize the first Opportunity for venge, but Germany thinks she knows how to fight also.

The article, its official source considered, ought to cool French military arder for awhile. Mr. Carroll D. Wright, the federal commissioner of labor, whose recent report attracted much attention by its argument that co-operation or profit-sharing would be the final come of tha labor agitation, takes a rosy view of the prevailing turmoil in the industries oi the land. He declares, in a recent interview, existing tions will bring better instead of worse times, and that they simply mean that the wage system is its end.

The so-called laborv troubles, he are not the outgrowth of norance, but the direct result of creased workmen in profits in addition to wages is a true harmoniier of the terests capital and labor. It in fact identifies the intereit of the ploye with that of thtf employer. It converts the industqrial association employer and employer into a moral ovganfeation, in whkh the various ialentp.eervfeei ofjthe 8W CONGRESSIONAL taken by a tee of the Ohio legislature in the bribery investigation, implicating Senator Payne that states was laid before the senate. Mr. Payne, in a speech, claimed that he' had been unjustly dealth with by tha committee, and maintained that he had been already completely exonerated from any improper proceedings in connection with his election to the senate.

The jority and minority reports were referred to the committee on privileges and tions and it is believed that this is the end of the matter. The bill providing for an extension of the executive mansionpassed. It appropriates $300,000. The interstate commerce bill was taken up. The ponding question was on Mr.

Camden's proposed amendment to strike out the words "from the same point of parture" from the long and short haul clause of the bill. Mr. Cullom defended the bill. The mittee had given the subject of long and short hauls a good deal of consideration, and had not felt it cafe to go further than the State of Massachusetts had gone in tbat matter. No country in the world had an absolute long and short hael law tor railroads.

There was in this country a belief that the short haul people were swindled in order to make up for losses on the long haul. The committee had deavored by this bill to prevent the bility of the railroads recouping themselves out of the "short haul''people for losses on the long haul. The committee had not been able to bring their judgment to the conclusion that it would be wise to, insist that there should never be a greater charge for a shorter tlfan for a longer haul. If passed as things were, such a law would be greatly injurious to the business of the country. Mr.

Sherman could not see how the mittee, having recognized the long and short haul principle, could resist the amendment proposed by Mr. Camden. house committee on tary affairs reported a bill to authorize the president to confer brevet rank on army officers for gallant services in Indian paigns. The house judiciary committee reported adversely the bill to prohibit aliens from acquiring title to or owning lands in the United States. A minority report in favor of the bill was submitted by Messrs.

Oates of Alabama and Hepburn of Iowa. The minority, in support their views, refer to the case of Mr. Scully, who resides in land and is a British subject, and who owns 90,000 acres in Illinois, occupied by dreds of tenants, mostly ignorant ers, from whom he receives as rents $200,000 per annum and expends it in Europe. The Schenley estate, consisting of about two thousand acres, within the city limits of Pittsburg and Allegheny, is cited as instance of alien landlordism in America. The Sclienleys are subjects siding in England, who draw annually from their American estates $100,000.

A bill was reported by the ways and means committee authorizing the secretary of the treasury to exempt all distilleries which mash five gallons or less per day from maintaining storekeepers and gaugers. It also authorizes the secretary to nate special warehouses for distilleries whose daily capacity is less than twentyfive gallons. Mitchell spoke on the morial submitted by the conference of the New York Methodist Episcopal church, praying for protection for Chinese in the United States. He criticised the tee on foreign relations for not having yet reported his immigration prohibitory bill, and warned senators on both sides of the chamber that he would press that bill, and that they would have to come ly up to the mark and could not escape the question. house committee on culture reported an elaborate bill ing for placing the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine under the direction of the internal revenue department.

This ure has the approval of the American Dairy association. It imposes a special tax upon all facturers of oleomargarine of $600 per num, wholesale dealers $480 and retail ers $485. It requires stamps similar to those now used for manufacturing tobacco. Heavy penalties are imposed for any violation of the bill. The office of analytical chemist and microscopist is created, which office is to be attached to the staff of the sioner of internal revenue.

The bill was reported with the mous approval of the committee, and its passage will be urged at an early day. The house passed the bill directing the proper accounting officers to settle and just the accounts of Maj. Small, sary of subsistence, when stationed in Chicago in November, 1880, as purchasing and depot commissary. He was robbed by his clerk. George Davidson, of $3,780.

Suit was brought against Davidson in New York for the recovery of the money stolen and judgment obtained. Fourth of Juiy claims bill passed with an amendment to reimburse the estate of Ayres P. Morrill of MiHsissippi $67,000 for Eupplies to the United States army during the war. In executive session the senate took up the case of Judge Pollard of Montana, who was reported adversely from the judiciary committee, and was the subject of a long debate last week. He is accused of various fraudulent practices, and the ocrats decided that they could not afford to make a fight for his confirmation, after an examination of documentary evidence submitted by Mr.

Edmunds, the greater part of which was certified copies of the records of the courts of JaBper county, Ind. Pollard's nomination was therefore jected by an almost unanimous vote. Van Eaton, from the mittee on public reported a bill to rant the right of way through the public ands of anycanal or ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation. The house committee on coinage ed a bill to redeem the trade dollars. The measure reported is a substitute for the eral bills on this subject introduced during the present session.

The provisions of the measure are: For six months after its passage, trade dollars shall be received at their face value in payment of all dues to the United States, and shall not be again aid out or issued in any other manner, of trade dollars on presentation of the same may receive in exchange for an equal amount of standard silver dollars. The trade dollars so received by the United States treasury officials shall be transmitted to the coinage mints and recoined into standard silver dollars. When the paragraph of the river and hurbor bill was reached appropriating $500,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi from St. Paul to Des Moines rapids, Mr. Gilfillan of Minnesota moved an amendment providing that $20,000 of the amount should be expended at the cretion of the secretary of war for tinuing tests at Adams' flume.

Mr. Gilfillan made a five-minutes' speech explaining the character and purpose of Adams' flume, the amount already pended upon the work and the results pected to be accomplished. As the ed amendmentdoes not increase the amount, of the appropriation, the river and harbor made no objection to and it was agreed to. AU the items providing propriations for northwest rivers wen ed, and the amounts reported by the mittee were adopted in every instance. took np the ident's veto ol the bill "to prevent the secration of graves." The bill provides that the unclaimed bodies of deceased paupers in the District oi Columbia might be tamed over to the medical colleges ol the district.

The president' takes the ground that the bill is defective and offers no proper safeguard. After a short debate the senate refused to pass the bill over the president's 6, nays 48. Hatchf on behalf of the mittee on agriculture, called ia tion Setting apart Ifay 13 for the ation ol btttaMi presented by, that mittee. Mr. Hatcnstated: Tbi.

measure whichactton would be waa the bttL Though it was a roveon agriculture would 'mjaatrto the and not altax on spirits A Davis. Jefferson Davis visited Montgomery, a few days ago, and was accorded a Eleralovation. and A dispatch says: More flags float in Montgomery than at any time since 1860. The scenes around Mr. Davis, and the great desire to see and shake him by the hand, are indescribable.

Amid the waving of hats and handker made with them. SPIRIT OF 80UTHEKN LIBERTY is rtot dead. and continued Then you were full of joyous hopes. You had every prospect of ing all you deserved, and now you are wrapped in the mantle of regret and yet that regret only manifests more ly and does not obliterate the expression of your sentiments. I felt last night as I approached the Exchange hotel, from the gallery of which your peerless orator, William L.

Yancy, introduced me to the citizens of Montgomery and commended me in guage which only his eloquenco could yield, and which far excelled my merits, I felt, I say again, that I was coming to my home, coming to a land where liberty dies not and serious sentiments will live forever. I have been promised, my friends, that I shall not be called upon to make a "speech," and therefore I will only extend to you my heartfelt thanks. God bless you, one and all old men and boys, and the ladies above all others, who never faltered in our direst need. and long continued More Dakota Admission Plans. Washington Special: Mr.

Springer duced a bUl providing for the admission of Dakota as a state. The bill differs from all the measures hitherto presented on this subject, and Mr. Springer believes that it will be agreed to by the committee on ritory, which will hold a special meeting for its consideration. The bill provides for the admission of the territory without division. Provisionis made for the election to be held on the second Tuesday of November next, when a convention is to be chosen for the formation of a constitution, which tution is to be submitted to a vote of the people, the election to be held at such time and place as may be fixed by the stitution.

At the election in November the 'people are also to vote on a location for a state the three places receiving the greatest number of votes are to be again submitted to a vote of the people at the election fixed for the adoption of a stitution, and the place receiving the est number of votes at this election to be designated as the state capital. No county shall be formed which contains less than three thousand inhabitants. Counties now existing which do not contain that number shatl be dated. At the election at which the stitution is submitted for adop tion, state officers and two members of congress are to be chosen. There is nothing to prevent the election of two members to the second session of the present congress, but, as the tion cannot be adopted earlier than ary next, it is not likely that members will be chosen to this congress, and it looks as if the bill was drawn to prevent ta from gaining admission prior to the time fixed for the assembling of the Fiftieth congress.

After being adopted by a popular vote, the constitution must be submitted to congress, through the president of the United States, for the examination and approval of that body. Mr. Springer thinks that should the bill be passed at this session, all its ments could be fulfilled in ample time to enable congress to admit the new state prior to March 4, 1887. The bill is lar in every respect to Mr. Springer's souri river division bill in its main features.

Fifty-one delegate districts are provided for. No courts are provided for, tbat ing left to the convention. It is thought that it is the committee's bill. Death of Noted Minneaotian. Officials in the general office of the can Central railroad received a telegram from Division Supt.

Echert, at Freisnello, 750 miles south of Paso del Norte, nouncing that Col. Abner Tibbitts, dent of the El Paso, St. Louis Chicago railway, had been found dead in his berth on a south-bound train for the City of Mexico. Ex-Secretary Windom of sota was accompanying the deceased to the City of Mexico on behalf of the brated Topotovampo Pacific railroad ject, in which both were largely interested with Gen. Butler, and others.

Col. Tibbitts was in poor health, and it was thought that his -death was the result of heart disease, superinduced by the rarity of the atmosphere through which the train was passing at the time. The track through that portion of Mexico rises to an altitude of 9,000 feet above the sea level. The de- at Lake City, and represented Wabasha county in the state legislature. quently he was appointed register of the United States land office at St.

Peter, and filled the position for a number of years, being succeeded by Honry A. Swift, who succeeded Hon. Alexander Kamsey as ernor of Minnesota. After his retirement from office Mr. Tibbitts engaged in the real estate business, but several years ago moved to New Mexico, where he engaged in mining and stock growing.

Gmu Gneh the Apaches. Gen. Crook has arrived at Omaha from Arizona and at once assumed command of the department of the Piatt. He was quoted by friends, aiid he said: I-had but limited opportunities to verse with Gen. Miles, before my departure.

I infer, however, from what he said that be intends to actively push the campaign against the Apaches. There are still teen of'the bucks, with Geronimo at the head, to be Captured. The only thing to be done is to run them down and make them surrender. What, difficulties that wiU involve only Shter 4 chiefs, the booming of cannonT pTayine Gen. Crook eays he left matters in Buch a of bands of music, and excited shouts a "bape that Gen.

Miles could take up the scene was presented rarely in campaign and push advantage. any country. Mr. Davis, leaning on his cane, witfasthe federal flag oyer him and Confederate veteras before him, who had come hundreds of miles to hear and seo him, in a clear ringing voice, showing the deep intensity ol his feelings, but without a tremor or pause' Washington. President George Bancroft, except when interrupted by the ehoutq of his hearers, said: iv wuum UQ 11 BDOuICi attempt to express to you the deep cation which I fee) at this demonstration.

-v But I know that it is not personal, and President Bancroft asking him to consent therefore I feel more deeply grateful, be- -to become an honorary member of the asflLllSA if. IS A. flAnftmAMf a sociation: cause it is a sentiment far dearer to me than myself. You have passed through the terrible ordeal of a war which Alabama did not seek. When she felt her wrongs too grievous for further toleration, she sought the peaceable solution.

That being denied her, thunders of war came ringing over the land. Then people rose in their ty. Greyhaired seers and beardless boyB eagerly rushed to the front. It was that war which aloae holy war fense. Well do I remember seeing your gentle boys, so use a farmer's might have been called seed corn, moving on with eager step and less brow to the carnival of death and I have also looked upou them when their knapsacks and muskets seemed, heavier than the boys, and my eyes, partaking of a mother's weakness, filled with tears.

Those dayB have passed. Many of them have found nameless graves, but they are not dead. They live in memory and their spirits stand out, the grand reserve of that column which is marching on with unfaltering step toward the goal ol constitutional liberty. It were in vain if I should tempt, as I have alreaQy said, to express my gratitude to you. I am stading now very nearly on the spot where I stood when I took the oath of office in 1861.

Your demonstration now exceeds that which welcomed me then. This shows that the ten miles where our cavalry can travel one, ind they know every inch of the country. No more troops are needed. The present force is large enough. If the force were ten times as large the result would be the same.

When ran down and captured I do not lieve these Indians should again be placed on a reservation, and no treaty should be One Historian, to Another. The third annual meeting of the American Historical association was held in the lecture hall of the Columbian university at Washington. President George Bancroft, the eminent hirtorian, delivered the dress of welcome. At the conclusion of the address the following letter was read from Leopold Von Ranke, the venerable torian of Berlin, in reply to a letter from President Bancroft asking him to consent to become sociation: Iecture Columbian university at eminent hirtorian, delivered the ad- To the President of the American torical Association, Mr. George Bancroft, in Washington: In reply to your kind communication I gratefully accept the position of an honorary member in the sociation to which I have been elected.

It gives me great satisfaction to belong to a society pursuing the same aims beyond the ocean that we on this side are striving to Christianity achieve. Such unity of studies binds torar for people widely separated, yet allied by ancient kidship. It fills me with pecial joy to see Mr. George Bancroft, one of the masters in science, extending his hand to me from afar a man who, during his residence in Berlin, bound me to self by tier of reverential friendship. cept my hearty sentiments of respect and honor.

LEOPOLD VON RANKS. Berlin, Feb. 14, 1886. New Lynching a Villian. The wife' of Jacob Freimuth, a home steader in Seward counter, Kansas, was murdered and outraged by Fritz Rupin, a half-witted German.

Kupin had been tor some time enjoying the hospitality of the Freimuths. He was homeless and without friends, and they had taken him in until he could find work. During the porary absence of Mr. Freimuth, Rupin overpowered his benefactor's wife and tally outraged her person and then killed her. The posse then set out to scour the country for the murderer, and found him secreted in a small ravine, several miles away from the scene of his crime, near the Cinnamon river.

A fractious and spirited horse was secured and saddled. One end of the longlariat was then fastened around his neck and the other extremity was attached to the pommel of the saddle. The horse was then started, and amid the shouting of the men and cracks of revolvers and rifles the frightened animal tore madly away. After a run of nearly five miles the beast fell exhausted and the lifeless body of the murderer was loosened as soon as the men came up. The lariat had drawn so tight that was almost severed from Bhores Tascherean of Quebec will ceased formerly resided in Minnesota and not be installed as a cardinaluntil widely known.

At one tirae he lived ber. experienced Indian can know, Chasing these redskins th the limited facilitiCs at our disposal trying to rfcta a flock of wlth cavaJrj. ThM JutVeto through ior--d often notfciag but an ict trail to indicate the direction in uxusunctKausoinaicawuiedirection in RUKhine for aepamting flaxseeds wkkh havevme. They can travel Brown, William J.f Ft. Madison, Iowa! his No one more than yourself head his body.

The features showed that he had died a terrible death. The body was ibft on the prairie, uncovered. Cleveland and the Heathen Chinee. Cheng Tsao, the retiring Chinese ister, accompanied by Secretary Bayard, called at the White House recently," and took official leave of the president. In senting his letter of recall, he paid the ident the compliments usual to such sions, and the president responded in kind.

Mr. Cleveland concluded: haB sought more faithfully to overcome the difficulties which have grown out of race jealousy and the competitions and rivalries of labor. I recognize And thank you for your earnest efforts to create that good feeling between your country and my own which I trust will continuo to bear its good fruits to both nationalities. When you return to your own I beg you will assure your Sovereign and cause your fellow men to know that I and my constitutional advisers truly represent the great body of our countrymen in professing the most dial and friendly sentiments toward China, and desire to conduct our commercial terchanges to a mutually satisfactory and benificen't end. Precautions Against Rioting.

New York local authorities have not been idle in arranging to cope with a riot. Preparations have been made at most of the armories for a den call-out, and there has been a great deal of activity behind the walls of the state arsenal, at Seventh avenue and Thirty-fifth street. The Forty-Beventh regiment of Brooklyn was under nrms the night of the riot in Green Point and the day after. Aequad of Earle's battery was put on duty night and day. The Gatling gun was transferred to the arsenal, and the battery has since had its rendezvous there.

There is an effort on the part of the authorities to keep the whole matter quiet. Lynching of a Wife Murderer. George Graham, the wife murderer, was lynched at Springfield, by a mob. Several men, heavily armed, called the sheriff to the door, seised and forced him to give up the keys. Then they went to the cell and opened the door.

Graham was in his bunk, and was commanded to get He was at first riate and replied with oaths, but he was silenced by the muzzle of a revolver thrust in his face. He dressed himself, and when the rope was placed around his neck broke down and wept bitterly. He was led out of the jail at the end of the rope, placed in a spring wagon, and the procession moved in a northerly direction. It is claimed that he reasserted his ment that neither Mrs. Maloy nor Cora Lee was implicated in the murder.

A cloth was tied over his face, his hands were bound behind him, the rope was thrown over a limb of a tree, and the wife er was run up. He was strangled to death, and at 5 a. m. the body of Graham was hanging where left by the lynchers. The committee of five to be appointed under the resolution of Delegate Voorhees calling for an investigation of the pecially in regard to ex-members of gress, will give an opportunity for Bome sensational Some- members of the last house for their hostility to the railroads afe now in the employ of and working on the floor for the Union and Central Pacific.

A well known law firm of this city, composed of two ex-members of congress, is open counsel for the Union Pacific, and has appeared for the road in the courts. The Spanish senatorial elections have resulted in the return of 128 ists, twenty-eight Conservatives, six dependents, four Republicans and two members of the Dynastic Left. The German government, with a view to extending German influence and trade in the East, has decided to establish a nary for tHe teaching cf Oriental languages in connection with the Berlin university. A drawing by Meissonier was sold the other day at the Hotel Drouot, Paris, for six francs. It was a hasty sketch of a pair of legs.

Emperor William has sent the popo a costly gold cross, mounted with jewels, as a souvenir, pf German gratitude for friendly offices rendered by the pope in arbitrating the Caroline's dispute. The pope, addressing the Prussian ernment on the ecclesiastical laws, concedes the submission of ecclesiastical appointments to Prussia. The emir of whom the Italian expedition nnder Connt Porrn waa cred, also captured fifteen Indian soldiers, but alterwaitls relenaed themi. The report that a British ontpost at Suakimhad been surprised and-, -fifteen Indian soldiers tared by the enemy arose -from this capttfre flndianS bytheemir. The following arte Nortbwefttera fesfrJssufcd: Bates, Jetftiafc, machine for eepamting cased r-rfegiifM iift Defective Page spring cultivator, beam lifter Crane, Minneapolis, horse power Enckson, John, Albert Lea, composition of matter for the ture of soap Oilman, Charles Elder, Iowa, sidewalk and roof Hartley, Henry, Minneapolis, stone sawing machine Jervis, John, St.

Paul, switch stand Kenoyer, Marquette, corn planter Roberts, Benjainan Dunlap, Iowa, cultivator blade Seevers, Thomas, OBkaloosa, Iowa, bciler: Fulton, Anaximander Sioux Falls, syringe attachment for bottles Walters, Eugene, and H. L. Ayers, Walworth, clevisWestcott, Earl A. and E. R.

Bristol, neapolis, car brake. Mr. Gladstone has written the following letter to the Chronicle: It is not my tom to comment on statements by papers, but having a sincere respect for the Chronicle, I would call attention to an gation made by it in a leader that I have heretofore taught that home rule in Ireland would be a source of imperial danger. I will not challenge proof of the aesertion, which was doubtless made in good faith, but it is entirely an error. I have always asked for an explanation of the meaning of home rule, in order to make clear the tion whether not it would be a source of danger.

We have now learned the mand of Ireland from five-sixths of her chosen representatives. Such home rule is, in the language of my address of ber last, a source not of danger, but of strength. The danger, if any, lies in ing it. Prof. W.

D. Whitney is editing a new dictjonary for the Century company, which will cost $250,000 and be finished in 1889. Radical changes will be made in the spelling of many words. Railroad me estimate that 72.000 ple have visited California since February. The Boston Herald employs sixty ers on its city staff, all of whom are paid a salary.

Ex-Congressman Taber of New York is dead. He leaves an estate valued at $1,000,000. Detroit (Mich.) is building a $100,000 art institute. George Bancroft, the historian, delivers the address of welcome to the American Historical association at Washington. Senator Van Wyck has knocked berlain and Pierre out of the bill creating two new land districts in Dakota and ing those cities the capitals of them.

He proposed to leave the selection of officers to the president. The house Indian mittee has receded from its opposition to ratifying the purchase of Sioux lands made by the Northwestern and Milwaukee roads, opposito Pierre and Chamberlain, for town Congressman Nelson succeeded in getting the bill passed authorizing the Little Falls Water Power company to build a dam at Little Falls. It is similar to the Brainerd dam bill, and will meet no opposition in the senate. The river and harbor bill, as far as it has been considered, leaves nesota ports and rivers as reported by the committee. The Fox and Wisconsin improvements has been split up.

The Fox gets $75,000, while the Wisconsin gets nothing. Congressman Thomas made an earnest but ineffectual effort to have it considered. The Hennepin canal people were opposed to it and had the strength to kill it. Firs broke out in the Canadian Pacific passenger depot at Emerson, and in half an hour the entire building wa8 in flames. As there was no good supply of water nearer than the Red river, almost a mile distant, all that could be done was to save as much movable property as sible.

The loss on the building and fixtures is about $6,000. L. T. Owen, agent, lost $500 in clotheB and valuables. The graph operator and agent's clerk lost everything, about $400 total loss, $7,200.

Secretary Whitney has written to the ficers in charge of the work on the new val cruisers, calling attention to the delay in completing the Atlanta, and asking that she be put in condition for Bea as soon as possible. The polygamous case ol Lorenzo Snow is before the federal supreme court. Helena, is partly submerged by the breaking oi the levee, and two persona are drowned. An alleged anarchist, a cigarmaker by profession, is trying to arouse the fears of timid people ol Milwaukee by announcing that he has in training several thousand socialists, who in case of a labor riot in Milwaukee, will revel in blood. This talker Walks beyond the city limits every ing and practices shooting at a mark with a navy revolver so as to be able, as he presses it, to pop a head every time.

Argument was begun in the supreme court of the United States in the cases of zo Snow vs. the United States in error to the supreme court of Utah. George Tichnor Curtis and Franklin S. Richards are counsel for Snow. Mr.

Richards opened the argument with a statement of the points involved in the case. Nominations: Cousuls, R. H. Jones of New Mexico at Chihuahua Samuel H. Keely of West Virginia at Rheims E.

H. Biyan of California at Lyons, vice N. J. Newkirk, withdrawn. A number of army and navy appointments were also sent in.

The accounting officers of the treasury department find that Col. Mosby, recently consul general at Hong Kong, has been turning over to the government fees that, under the law, he was entitled to retain himself, and he has been notified that eral thousand dollars are in the treasury subject to his disposal. It is said that there never was a case of this kind known the officers of the government abroad generally cute enough to determine what fees they were entitled to and put them in their own pockets. The house Indian committee mends the ratification of the purchase of Sioux lands by the Northwestern and waukee opposite Pierre and Chamberlain, for town-site purposed. The house committee on territories cided by a party vote to report adversely the Harrison bill, which recently passed the senate, for the admission of Dakota as a state.

Subsequently the committee took up for consideration the bill introduced the other day by Mr, Springer, the ions of which was explained by him. The remains of Wendell Phillips were taken from the family vault, in the old Granary burying ground, Boston, and with those of his wife, who died a few days ago, were removed to Milton, where they will find their last resting place. The removal was in accordance with the wishes of Mrs. Phillips, expressed just before her death. Seven rounds were fought at between Tom Powers and Pat Welsh Chicago, when Welsh hit Powers a stiinning blow over the left temple, which sent him down senseless, not to come up again.

Miss Lambert and the Misses Duffy, of West Philadelphia, were riding in the part when suddenly some straw which was in the bottom of the carriage bnrst into flames. They jumped out of the carriage. Miss Duffy was painfully burned, and the two others received injuries from the jump. Judge David Davis is reported to be ting ominously thin. The trial of ex-Alderman Jaehne of New York, accused of bribery, has been set for May 10.

Tobe Jackson, the Cartersville (Ga.) namiter who was arrested at Waco, escaped at Chattanooga, by jumping through a car window. A circular letter signed "by order of the ironmolders' union." has been received by the majority of iron "manufacturers in cago, including foundries, machine shops and iron works of almosteverydeecription. It has caused quite a flurry, and the gets of some of the larger concerns are bating very earnestly the question of ing down for a time. The circular Btates On and after May .1 the hours of labor shall be eight hours per day, except in cases of emergency, and then all overtime shall be paid at the rate of double the usual wages. No one shall be compelled to work over eight hours unless at the double rate.

Henry Phipps of Allegheny City has en the park committee $26,000 to open greenbouses which will be open to the on Sunday. Platte Jesup, Iowa, drowns himMtf onaccouat ofbueiness troubles. MDIMSSOTA STATE 'NEWS. There was a white frost in the part of the state. A party of Danish immigrants arrived in Danielson and will settle in the vicinity.

Mrs. "xlpy of Litchfield has had a clone cellar constructed which will hold ten persons. The first law suit ever brought in Viding was before Justice Ennis'of that town. Charles McGuire, near Clontarf, lost a stablj und two cars by fire caused by sparks blowing from the stovepipe of his house. He had no insurance.

Mrs. Sandsmark of Freedom lost her granary by fire, with several hundred bushels of wheat and a barn containing several horses and hogs. The Milwaukee depot at Canon Falls was entered by burglars recently. They blew open the safe, finding but forty cents in it which they left, ransacking things generally they departed, leaving their tools Col. Abner.

Tibbits, president of the El Paso, St. Louis Chicago railway, who lately died of heart disease while travelihg with Hon. William Windom on the can Central railroad, was one of the ers of Wabasha. At Preston, the fine large roller mill of Kramer Brothers, with about 8,000 els of wheat, burned. Loss, $25,000 surance $8,000 to $10,000.

The fire was caused by machinery near the roof, and the mill went like powder. The Farmers and Merchants' bank at Perham lias discontinued business. positors at-e being paid in full. This is a branch ot Herbert Root's Farmers and Merchants'National bank of Valley City, Dak. Representative Gilfillan hks forwarded to Edward L.

Butts oi Stillwater an pointment as cadet to West Point, and to Milton Rex of Minneapolis an appointment as an These twov.young men were the successful candidates at the petitive examination recently held for this place. Peter Ringstrom of the town of Crook. Traverse county, twelve miles from man, and three irom Wheaton, fatally shot Theodore Wise, owner of an adjoining farm, in the Btomach. The quarrel took place upon some disputed laud between the two farms. Ringstrom was plowing, when Wise came up and ordered him to quit.

Then Rinsstrom shot at Wise, who did not know he was hit until he walked some distance. He was shot with a 82-caliber revolver. Henry Schultz, of Wadena, was found fatally wounded in his wagon near Redwood Falls. The cause is a mystery. Kramer rolling mill at Preston, burns with bushels of wheat.

Lose $25,000. The body of Minnie Wolf, the missing Stillwater girl, is found in Lake St. Croix, near Hudson bridge. John P. Williams is a candidate ior judgeship of the Seventh judicial district, Minnesota.

Gov hubbard appoints John Rea to the judgeship of the Fourth dicial district, vice Koon, resigned. Gladstone sends a letter of thanks to Gov. Hubbard for the indorsement of his policy by the St. Paul meeting. Photographer Miller of Minneapolis is acquitted of the charge of assault upon the girl Levelle.

The liabilities of the Lenham Elevator company of Duluth are $350,000 assets, $270,000. Peter Ringstrom of Traverse county, fatally Bhoots Theodore Wise uear Herman. The annual tournament under the auspices of the Minneapolis Gun club will be held at the club's range on Minnehaha avenue on the 26th, 27th and 28th ol May. Gov. Hubbard has appointed John P.

Rea Judge ot the Fourth judicial district, vice Judge M. B. Koon resigned. Judge Rea was endorsed by 108 members of Hennepin county bar and numerous inent citizenB of Minneapolis. nent, Daniel Fish, was endorsed by ty-six members of the Hennepin county bar, ten members of the Wright county bar, and a number ot Wright county citizenp.

J. Cardingly, living a few milcsjsouth of Fnirmount, whose wife was supposed to have committed cnicide by shooting self in the head with a revolver, some time ago, was arrested for the murder of his wife. The. coroner's jury was not satisfied that she died by her own hand, and cion has attached to Cardingly as trator of the Joed. Jefferson Davis was accorded what is termed the grandest ovation of his life on the occasion of his visit to Mobile, Ala.

There will be a meeting of the Minnesota State Millers' Association held in olis on Wednesday, the 5th day of May, A. I). 1886, at the rooms ot the Minneapolis Millers' Association in the Chamber of Commerce building, at 10 o'clock a. m. Charles Morton was arrested while trving to swindle the St.

Paul National Bank out of $3,500. A fire in Liuxweiler's hardware store, Minneapolis, damages the establishment to the extent of $9,000. At the village election held at son there were 384 votes cast in favor of accepting the proposition of the olis. Lyndale fe Minnetonka railway to tend its road to that place, and 74 votes against it. Spring Valley sent her quota of aid to cyclone sufferers.

A subscription was passed among the business men of the village by Burdett Thayer, and $105 was subscribed, nearly all of which was at once collected and will be forwarded to the suffering district. The citizens of Albert Lea have scribed about $225 for the sufferers, which, with the city donation, amounts to over' $500. The store of Adicks Piatt, with its contents was burned at Delano. ance, $2,000. Much rnore cash in needed for the do sufferers.

There is a vacancy in the United StateB military academy from the Third sota congressional district, and man Strait, who has the nomination of a candidate, has decided to make the nation through acompetitiveexamination. The following gentlemen have been nated by Mr. Strait to conduct the nation: Hon. W. Potter of Northficld Prof.

Ericson ol Beaver Falls and Prof! Taylor of Chaska. The examination will be held at Shakopee, May 11. At St. Cloud, Mrs. Gonscope died at the hospital.

This makes thirty-eight deaths there and seventy-two in the whole trict. At Brainerd, the McDona'l boarding house was burned. Loss $1,800. Mayor Rice of St. Paul vetoes the nance closing barber shops on Sunday.

The Odd Fellows celebrate the sixtyseventh anniversary oi the order at apolis. Lizxie Middleton, wife of Richard E. Hussey of Crookston, died recently of tion. The dairy commissioner and his ants are gradually collecting evidence against the dealers in oleomargarine and butterine throughout the state, and before long will open up their batteries in the courts. Prosecutions will probably be conducted under the laws 1881.

Mrs. Winslow Paphenfos, ol 8auk Rapids, died at the hospital a few days ago. Her injuries were Her mother and three children were killed instantly by the and only the husband and one are left of the family. The wbort of 5attle north of Kich Prairie, Morrison county, fa also confirmed. She was fifteen years old, the daughter of Sam Randall, of Fort Rinler WHliam Drake's family'.

The Chicago box manufacturers decline to concede the eight-hour rale, but agree to pay instead an advance of 10 jer cent. On preunt fcwtni vote. WOMAN'S DRESS. Mr. the New Torfc Miss Cleveland to Tuk send Defends the Decollete Dress.

Miss Cleveland, because of what she modestly calls the brief prominence oi her position, has felt it to be her duty to express her disapproval of any evening dress for women ''which shows the bust" She has no objection to the play of neck and arms, and leaves het own bare on all full-dress occasions but she laj's down the rule that "between the neck and bust there is a line always to be drawn, and which can not be ed without producing an effect ing, nauseating, revolting, and ing of the utmost denunciation on the score of morality, beauty, health, and every other consideration which good men and women should conspire to serve and exact." Yet throughout the civilized world the full evening dress for women falls below Miss Cleveland's line, and is pressly designed to show what she clares so emphatically cannot be ed without outraging and decency swell of the bosom. The fashion, too, is not recent, but has prevailed in all ages, and no less in times when SOCIAL MORALS were strict than in times when they were lax. It is true that the portraits by Sir Peter Lely of the beauties of the court of Charles If. show that the bosom was then exposed to an dinary degree, as was also the ease in France under the Directory but traits of the women of courts and times equally distinguished for dissoluteuesrepresent the women closely covered from head po foot and from shoulder ti wrist. Marguerite of Lorraine, famous for her beauty and her bad morals, pears in a full dress costume which veals only her face and hands while La Belle Hamilton, the chaste beautv who escaped the breath of scandal even in the scandalous reign of Charles shows her bosom almost withoui, airy covering at all.

Queen Victoria who is everywhere honored as a bright example oi dignity and propriety, at the present time requires ladies to appear at her court in costumes which frankly pose what Miss Cleveland declares can not be revealed except at the sacrifice ol modesty and the Queen herself makes a display that would shock the dent's sister, who probably has seen nothing equal to it among the women with whom she has been brought into contact since HER BROTHER'S ELEVATION. The truth is that our notions as io modesty or immodesty in woman's dress are largely, if not chiefly, ventional, so that up to a certain point, what is customary seems modest. The Turk's estimation of woman is low and gross, and yet he will not. endure the sight of his wives in public with their faces exposed aud in other countries where women are degraded they are kept bundled up from view, except in the presence of their lords or of each other. But Christian civilization every where demands that feminine beauty shall be seen and wherever that zation has reached its highest ment the practice against which Miss Cleveland inveighs so violently, has continued to prevail, though other fashions of women's dress have gone a multitude of changes.

In every country where women are most hia-hly honored and most tenderly cherished, and where respect for women is most complete and sincere, it may be said generally that the line drawn by Miss Cleveland is always ignored in full dress of the best women. This style of dress has been worn by the most admirable of women in all generations. It was "WORN BY OUR GRANDMOTHERS, the ball dress at the beginning of the century, for instance, having been scribed as "nothing but a chemise of pink silk and yet Miss Cleveland would hardly denounce the women of that period as immodest, or deny that, in spite of their low-cut gowns, ly purity continued untarnished among them. The evening costume of the present time, so far from more generous in its display of feminint charms than that of past periods, rather more reserved in that respect, even in its freest manifestations, though those who have but lately come familiar with the social customs of great capitals may think differently. Perhaps dresses may now be worn st trifle lower in the United States thac was the ease ten or fifteen years ago: but in Paris and London the line drawn by Miss Cleveland has never been spected during that time.

Nor is there intrinsically any more immodesty in showing the BEAUTIFUL CURVE OF THE BOSOM than there is in exposing the neck and chest, the arms and shoulders. The hibition, too, is quite as unassailable on esthetic grounds as it is on grounds oi taste and morality. We observe also that as a general thing the tion of the fashion is apt to be more dent in the young to whom niggard ture has denied the beauty they insist should be concealed, or in the old and sickly, in whom it has passed its bloom, so that they no longer dare to confront the air in fear of agne and catarrh. However, there need be no dispute on the question The beautiful will continue to delight society with theii beauty, and the others will only follow the law of wisdom in avoiding the tempt to do whet is impossible. while for all those, beautiful or not, who share Miss Cleveland's opinion, only one course is open, and that is tc obey their conscience whether the world agrees with them or York gun.

Gen. Lee's Foresight. Unlike the vast majority Southern countrymen, Lee hfLd clear idea of the tremendous odds against which the South wonTd have tc contend, and was not sanguine as tc the result. This is shown by an dote never before print and entirely reliable. Just after receiving his mission from the Virginia he called upon a family in Richmond wbom he had known for many years.

Twoofthe8on8 had already enlisted ana the mere to do so. The mother, naturally anxions, said: how long do you think this awful war will The wi give with solemn and significant emphasis, which the questioner "My little madame, 1 am afraidit will last until we are all driven into the hills and mountains." St. Louia Bepublican. 4 of his a very Wflliam Hutto, of Georgia, had font wives. Hejold one forabiicketfalfol peas and another for some shacks.

It is estimated that there axe more in New Toft City, ttembeirphip com- Vi.