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to the authorities and was committed to prison. 
The Missouri House of Representatives, on 
the 9th. amended the General School law so as 
to permit women over twenty-one years of age 
and the owners of property to vote on school 
tax questions. The Senate unanimously passed 
the bill to withdraw all Missouri State bonds in 
the National Bunk oT Commerce of New York, 
and to pay ail over-duo coupons. 
elected Mayor, and every ward was carried by 
the Republican candidates for Alderman. The 
Democratic candidates for Assessor and Justice 
were elected. The Board of Aldermau stands: 
Republicans 9, Democrats 1. 
A bust of the late James T. Brady was pre¬ 
sented to the Law Institute of New York City on 
the 9th by the Committee appointed to procure 
a memorial of the deceased. 
Caucuses of the Republicans and Democratic 
members of both branches of the Legislature 
was held Wednesday night the 9th in Albany to 
nominate candidates for Regent, of the Uni¬ 
versity and Metropolitan Police Commissioner. 
The Republicans nominated for lho latter office 
ex-M«yor Booth, of Brooklyn, and the Demo¬ 
crats renominated Judge BoswOltli. For Regent 
the Democrats nominated Francis Kernan, of 
Oneida. 
On the morning of the 10th in Rochester, the 
the Fhawraut Flouring Mill at Brown's Race, 
owned and occupied by James M. Whitney A 
Co., was completely destroyed by hie. The loss 
Is estimated at £40,00(1; insured for $18,000 -$13,- 
000 on the buildings and £5,000 on the stock. 
The adjoining buildings and slocks therein were 
damaged slightly by water, in the agregate, per¬ 
haps, to the amount of $2,000; fully covered by 
insurance. 
The Erie Railroad litigation against Mr. Ram¬ 
sey was again before Judge Barnard in New 
York on the 8th, and reference ordered to asoor- 
lain whether any officer of the Court has partic¬ 
ipated in the alleged proceedings of Mr. Ramsey 
in violation of the injunction restraining him 
from prosecuting his suit. The Court, also 
ordered Ibe referee to ascertain if any attorney 
of the Court had been guilty of a breach of 
trust. This is in reference to D. B. Eaton, for¬ 
merly counsel for the Erie Company, who is 
alleged to have used his knowledge of thcafrairs 
of the corporation In drafting the complaint 
against them. The intent ion to disbar him was 
announced if the charge is proved. 
maine. 
The thermometer ran down to Zi}(° below zero 
on the 4th iust., at Bangor, and 13’ below at 
Lewiston. 
Vermont. 
Hon. Peter T. Washburn, Governor of Ver¬ 
mont, died at bis residence In Woodstock, on 
Monday morning, the 7th inst., at t lie age of li tty- 
live years. 
JUiixKiiclunwttii. 
The remains of George Peabody were interred 
at Harmony Grove. Peabody, on Tuesday the 8th 
just- The funeral oration was delivered by Hon. 
Robert C. Winthrop. Prince Arthur and suite 
were present. 
The steamship Ontario was sold by auction on 
the 81 h, in Boston, for $350,000, to satisfy the 
claims of bondholders. The purchasers aroJ. 
W. Raich and Nathan Crowell. 
The “ Labor Reform " members of (he Massa¬ 
chusetts Legislature have determined to confine 
their labors to labor reform measures, and to 
have nothing to do with woman suffrage and 
“other doubtful measures.** 
Itliodc Island. 
Mrs. MkmNA Sutcliffe, under arrest at 
Providence for attempting to shoot Mrs. Ariad¬ 
ne B. Mercur, was examined in that city on the 
5tli inst., and held to bail in the sum of $5,000. 
The old Board of Directors of the Providence 
and Worcester Railroad Company were re¬ 
elected unanimously at Providence on the 7th. 
Connecticut. 
Iticv. Dr. Ei,ton, the pastor of a Baptist 
Church in Windsor, Ct..and agraduatcof Brown 
University of the Class of 1813, died on the 5th 
iust. in Boston. Mass. 
The Republican State Convention met at 
Hartford on the 9t h, and re-nominated Governor 
Jewell and the old board of Stale officers, with 
the exception of Lieutenant-Governor Way- 
land, who has gone to Europe. In Ids place was 
1 nominated Morris Tyler, who was Mayor of New 
Haven In 18W-5. 
Virginia. 
Gov. Walker, on Wednesday, the 9th inst., 
scut a supplementary message to the Legisla¬ 
ture, in view of the difficulty of fluding persons 
to 1111 1 lie Judgeships, under the Fourteenth 
Amendment, i hat petitions be sent to Congress 
for the removal of all political disabilities of the 
people of the State. 
Nortli Carolina. 
A terrible storm la reported from Wilming¬ 
ton, and a number of murine disasters as (lie 
result. The schooner Eleanor T., from Balti¬ 
more, among others, went ashore near Fort 
Fisher, and her crew, consisting of live men, are 
and to regulate the fares on the New Y ork and 
New Haven Railroad. 
Roth Houses inet on the 7th, but held very 
brief sessions. Ju the Semite a bill was intro¬ 
duced to amend the charter of the city of Utica, 
and in the Assembly one to abolish corporeal 
punishment in the State prisons, and to regulate 
the conduct of convicts. In Committee of the 
Whole various bills were advanced. 
In the Senate, on the 8th, the bill to alter tlie 
Commissioner’s map of Brooklyn was passed. 
The bill to abolish canal repair contracts was 
reported. The Canal Appropriation Bill was 
ord-red to a third reading. The One Hundred 
and Twenty-Win street Railroad Bill was order¬ 
ed to a third reading. 
In the Assembly t he bill to abolish the offices 
of Superintendent and Assistant Superintend¬ 
ent. of the Onondtiga SaJt. Springs, was discussed 
and ordered to a third reading. A long debate 
arose on the bill to amend the act to protect 
life and limb In various manufact uring opera¬ 
tions, at the close of which the bill, with the 
stringent amendments of the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee stricken out, was ordered to a third mul¬ 
ing. Among t he bills int roduced was one au¬ 
thorizing the Brooklyn Common Council to 
establish and maintain public baths. 
Jn the Senate, on the 9th, the bill to extend 
the term of office ol the Collector of Taxes of 
Kings county whs reported, and a bill to amend 
the Public Printing Act. The bill making ap¬ 
propriations fot maintaining the canals was 
passed. 
Jn the Assembly, the only business was the 
consideration of the General Appropriation 
Bill. An amendment appropriating $849,000 to 
pay the ante-war State debt In coin was rejected. 
The appropriation for the New York House ol 
Refuge for Juvenile Offenders was reduced from 
$40,000 to $80,000. The item for the Deaf and 
Dumb Institution was cut down from $00,000 to 
$40,000. and, alter other changes, the bill passed. 
MifiCELLANEOtre.-Tho Hudson River is filled 
with ice a distance of ninety miles above Pough¬ 
keepsie. The steamer Connecticut, from New 
York l'or Troy, on the 3d inst.., could go no 
further than Hudson, win re she unloaded her 
freight arid passengers- 
A fire occurred on Sunday morning, the 0th, 
in Poughkeepsie, in which a German eighty-five 
years of age was suffocated, lie was asleep In 
u st able In the rear. Three horses were burned 
at the same time. 
On the tt h last., in the Court of Oyer and Ter¬ 
miner of Cat turaugus county, TheodoraNichlos, 
t he murderer el Dr. Andrew Mead, in Allegany, 
was convicted and sentenced to be hanged oti 
the 18th of March. 
The case of Jervey et. al. vs. Hart ot al., which 
came up on the 3d in the Supreme Court in Now 
York before Judge Oardozo, on a motion for 
ber of persons named therein. Senator Sumner i 
concluded his speech on the Census Bill. 
In the House, Mr. Paine gave notice that ho 
should, at a future day, introduce a resolution 
changing the present rule of the House in regard ' 
to determining contested election cases, and pro- 1 
viding for the selection of the committee by lot. 
A long discussion ensued upon the resolution of¬ 
fered on the Tib in regard to the publication of 
petitions against the franking privilege, in which 
the question of abolishing the issue of the Con* ( 
gregional Globe itself was seriously mooted, 
and several resolutions to that effect offered. 
The resolution was finally tabled by a vote of 72 
to 53. Mr. Ingersollgave noticeof theintroduc- j 
ttou of a Joint resolution proposing to so amend 
the Constitution as to allow Congress to issue 
United Slat es notes as legal lenders for debts. Mr. 
McCarthy made a personal explanation In reply 
to n newspaper article charging him with being 
a shareholder in the Onondaga Suit Company, 
and thus Influenced in his official conduct. He 
denied the truth of the articlo in question. A 
joint, resolution was offered by Gen. Logan pro¬ 
viding for t he payment of a year’s sa lary, us Sec¬ 
retary of War, to the family of the late Gen. 
Rawlins. 
Ficu. 9.—In the Semite, to-day, a bill was re¬ 
ported from the Judiciary Committee admitting 
Mississippi unconditionally, as a substitute for 
the House Bill. Senator Wilson introduced a 
bill to Increase the number of Judges in the 
United States Supreme and Circuit Courts; and 
tho bill to change the judicial circuits was re- j 
ported from the Judiciary Committee with | 
amendments. Senator Chandler introduced the i 
bill of last session providing for a new railroad I 
from Washington to New York, and tiew tele¬ 
graph and railway lines from Washington to 
Pittsburgh, and another to Cincinnati. Senator 
Morgan made a long speech on neutrality, in 
which In took the Government to task for per¬ 
mitting the building and sailing of the Spanish 
gunboats and for its treatment of Cuba. The 
House Census Hill was discussed and finally 
tabled by a vote of forty-six to nine. 
In the House the Foster-Covode contested 
election ease was disposed of: the minority re¬ 
port, declaring Foster elected, waa rejected by a 
strict party vote; and the majority, declaring 
Covode elected, was adopted. Mr. Covode was 
then sworn in. In Committee of the Whole the 
Legislative Appropriation Bill was Considered. 
On motion of Mr. Dawes, the salaries of the 
Scrgoant-ftt-Arms of the Senate und House were 
fixed at $4,320 each. Some discussion occurred 
on a proposition ol' the same gen tlcmrnt loatriku 
out the appropriation for the Congressional 
Globe reporters, and finally it was rejected. In¬ 
formation was ordered regarding the l’ocent 
murder of American citizens in Cuba. 
Miscellaneous. -President Grant,, on Mon¬ 
day, the 7t h inst., nominated Hon. John P. 
Bradley of Now Jersey, and Judge William 
Strong of Pennsylvania, to bo Associate Justices 
of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
Tho Foreign Rein I ions Committee has reported 
favorably on the nomination of Sickles, us Min¬ 
ister to Spain. 
It has recently been decided that in cases 
where an Jnvali d pensioner dies without filing 
arrears, the right thereto d/es with him, and 
where a pensioner, who has been dropped from 
the rolls trader the Act of Fob, 4, 1802, dies with¬ 
out applying for restorat ion, no claim for ar¬ 
rears accruing since tho name was dropped can 
lie entertained. 
Tho Reconstruction Committee on the 8th 
agreed to report the Universal Disability Bill, 
which requires petition and application to the 
courts. 3’ho Individual Disability Bill, covering 
about 3,000 names, and including all persons who 
have heretofore been recoin mendo d for clem¬ 
ency, will also be reported at the same time. 
A general order from the headquarters of the 
army, promulgated on the 3th in accordance 
with the Act of Jan. 21, 1870, relieves all retired 
officers who have been assigned to duty from 
tin* 21st inst. Such as have been detailed as Pro¬ 
fessors In Colleges may continue In that capacity 
if desirable under any private arrangement with 
the authorities. Retired officers are also peemit¬ 
ted to enter private business, and to change 
their residence, und travel at pleasure within 
the United States. 
Geu. Slocum appeared bet ore the House Naval 
Committee on the 8th, and advocated the re¬ 
moval of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Coin- 
mil lee promised to take the matter into consid¬ 
eration. Gen. Slocum al leges that i t can be done 
not*only without cost to tho Government, hut 
to its profit, as tho real estate and wharf privi¬ 
leges of the one hundred and ninety acres now 
I occupied by the yard, would sell for more than 
It would cost to remove and locate the yard at 
some interior point, say fifty miles up the Hud¬ 
son. It would also be an improvement, he be¬ 
lieves, morally and politically, to Brooklyn. 
New York. 
Legislature.— In the Senate, on the 3d inst,, 
a bill was introduced authorizing the gramma 
of land in New York City whereon to found an 
asylum under tlio direction of the Sisters of 
Charity. The bill relating to public health 
in New Utrecht was passed. The resolution 
was adopted requesting New York's representa¬ 
tives In Congress to urge the erection of United 
States buildings in Albany. 
In the Assembly the Canal Board, in response 
ton resolution.sent in a report showing that it 
will req uire £2,910,320 to complete tho Eric, Os¬ 
wego and Champlain Canals, and that they 
should be completed In threo years. The bills to 
amend the Flat bush and New Utrecht Avenue 
Act, and to authorize the Citizens' Gas Light 
Company to Jay pipes in New Utrecht yrere 
passed. The bill amending the Long island and 
New York Bridge Company’s charter underwent 
discussion aud amendment In Committee ol the 
Whole. 
In the Senate, the 4th inst,, the bill to regulate 
proceedings against corporations by injunctions 
or otherwise, was reported. Rills were intro¬ 
duced to alter the map ol’ Now York City; to aid 
the Boys und Girl's Lodging House ol the Chil¬ 
dren’s Aid Society of New York. After receiv¬ 
ing the report of the Managers of the Slate 
Lunatic Asylum, the Senate adjourned. 
In the Assembly a bill was reported to author¬ 
ize tho construction of u public market in the 
Thirteenth Ward, New York. A resolution re¬ 
quiring savings banks to report, within tweuty 
days, the amount of unclaimed deposits in their 
I muds, whether such deposits have been trans¬ 
ferred to any other fund, and whether the banks 
have complied with the law by advertising such 
deposits was adopted. Bills were introduced to 
charter the New York Real Estate Exchange, 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
Great nritain. 
Parliament began its sessions on Tuesday, 
the 8th inst,, when the Queen’s Speech was read 
by a Commission,owing to the indisposition of 
Her Majesty. Among the Government meas¬ 
ures to be brought forward at the present ses¬ 
sion are the amendment of Irish laud tenure, a 
bill for the enlargement of rite means of na¬ 
tional education, and n bill to define the status 
of British subjects who desire naturalization in 
other countries. Tn the debate on tho address 
in the Da d Chancellor regretted the absence in 
the Queen's speech of any allusion to colonial 
affairs. In the House of Commons, Mr. Glad¬ 
stone gave notice of a motion for the expulsion 
of the member from Tipperary, because he was 
under sentence-of penal servitude, and the seat 
therefore vaeaut. The address to t he Queen was 
then moved and was followed by debate. 
The London papers comment variously on the 
Queen's speech. The Times thinks its timidity 
on the Irish question is redeemed by lira cour¬ 
age shown in the Fenian matters; the News 
finds an argument in support of the ballot in 
the speech and debate, aud the Standard says 
life and property in Ireland arc unprotected, and 
the Government Is responsible. 
A bill is promised to enable aliens to hold 
property in England. 
A writer in the London Times ascribes the de¬ 
pression in the cotton trade in England to the 
high price of the raw material and the superior¬ 
ity of the American manufactures. 
A deputation of learned men in England 
on the 4Mi inst. waited upon members of the 
Government and asked the endowment of scien¬ 
tific schools by the State. 
France, 
On the 5th inst, it was reported in Paris that 
Lucicn Atmtoie Prcvost-Puradol, the celebrated 
author, had been appointed Minister from 
France to America. 
The French Government lias removed LeVer- 
ricr, the eminent astronomer, from his office as 
Director of the Imperial Observatory, for “ tak¬ 
ing certain action in the Senate inconsistent 
wit h his duties as mi offieer df t lie Government." 
What is behind this ambiguous accusation the 
Journal Offidd doe* not inform the public. Le 
Vender became Director of the Observatory in 
1853, upon the death of Arago. The offence must 
be very grave that calls for I he disgrace of a man 
so distinguished in science and letters. 
In the French Chambers a debate on the sub¬ 
ject of the contemplated arrest of M. Rochefort 
arose on Monday the 7ih, la which our member 
argued against the arrest as a wrong to the con¬ 
stituents of Rochefort. The views of t lie Gov¬ 
ernment were sustained. 
The arrest, of M. Rochefort in Paris was made 
early on the evening of the 7th, on his way to a 
political meeting near Belleville, which was tho 
signal for the gathering of his friends and par¬ 
tisans in great crowds in the streets of that 
quarter. At 3 A. 1\1. Tuesday the 8tli the streets of 
that section were barricaded, the people taking 
Omni busses and vehicles from stables. A force 
of the police attempted to carry one of the bar¬ 
ricades, but was repluscd, with the loss of one 
man killed and another wounded. The other 
barricades were not defended. The Insurgents 
obtained arms from various armories which 
] they pillaged. The troops were out in force, but 
bounties, which <«x tends the benefits of pen¬ 
sions, &o., to the families of deceased soldiers 
who enlisted for a period of less than a year, 
was paswd. Among the resolutions offered and 
adopted was one of inquiry as to tho propriety 
of granting to all citizens the privileges of ' 
banking on all Government bonds. An extcii- ! 
give and important bill providing for tho execu¬ 
tion of every and all the Jaws in Utah Territory 
was reported and recommitted. The Tax Bill 
was made the special order for March 1st, to be 
taken up after the Tariff Hill, 
Feb. 4. The Senate passed a hill authorizing 
the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold 
moneys duo l o Sta tes In default of the payment 
of interest on bonds held in trust by the Gov¬ 
ernment. A long discussion was held in refer¬ 
ence to the abolition of the franking privilege 
on a motion to take tho Mouse Bill from the 
table. The motion was lost by a vote of twenty- 
two to tldrty-four. Pending the consideration 
of tho bill to relievo the political disabilities 
(under the Fourteenth Amendment) of a num¬ 
ber of persons in various States, tho Senate ad¬ 
journed to tbo7tb. 
In the House a rcsolut on was adopted after 
some debate authorizing tho Committee on Mili¬ 
tary Affairs to Investigate tho reported Nile of 
appointments to the Naval and Military Acade¬ 
mies by members of Congress. The bill to re¬ 
lieve Francis K. Blialor, member elect from 
North Carolina, from taking the test oath, was 
tabled by a vote of elglity-nlne to seventy-eight. 
In Committee of t he Whole tho •hill for the re¬ 
lief of the poor of the District of Columbia was 
considered, and subsequently passed alter the 
adoption of the amendment of Gen. Logan in¬ 
structing tho Secretary of War to issue rations 
to the poor, 
Feb. 5.—In tho House the time was devoted to 
general debate. The attendance of both mem¬ 
bers and spectators was light. Speeches ou vari¬ 
ous subjects were made by Messrs. Sargent, 
Packard, Sheldon of Louisiana, Tyner, Biggs 
and Lawrence, and at 4 P. M. the House ad¬ 
journed. 
Feb. 7.—In the Senate, to-day, petitions were 
presented by Senators ConkJing and Fenton for 
another constitutional amendment granting fe¬ 
male suffrage. Resolutions of the Georgia 
Legislature were received giving notice of the 
acceptance of the conditions imposed by Con¬ 
gress, and the ratification of the Fourteenth and 
Fifteent h Amendments. The Pension Committee 
reported adversely to the payment of pensions 
to the soldiers of tho War of 1812. Among tho 
bills Introduced was one to Incorporate a com¬ 
pany to .Construct ft tunnel from New York City 
to the New Jersey shore opposite. Several im¬ 
portant. bills were reported in regard to steam¬ 
ship and railway lines, and one oh altering the 
American and Asiat ic Telegraph Company, and 
to pro'viih- for detailing Government vessels to 
aid the enterprise. Senator Colliding made a 
long speech on the Census Rill, and Was followed 
by Senator Sumner. The debate was interrupt¬ 
ed by a message from the House, announcing 
the decease of Representative Hong; and, after 
remarks by Senators Thurman and Sherman, and 
the passage of resolutions of respect, tho Senate 
adjourned. 
In the House, among the bills introduced were 
the followingTo aid steamship construction 
by allowing drawback duties on materials used; 
modifying the present law In the postage of both 
newspapers and let I ora; for a metrical system 
of coinage; for a uniform railroad gauge; to 
discontinue the Freed men's Bureau; and to 
make the compensation of females in the Gov¬ 
ernment employ equal to that received by males 
in like positions. Mr. Morgan, of Ohio, an¬ 
nounced the death of his colleague, Truman H. 
Hoag, and brief speeches were made in honor of 
the deceased by Messrs. Bingham and Wood¬ 
ward. The usual resolutions were also adopted, 
and a oororaittcc appointed to accompany his 
remains to Ohio. And at 3 P. M. the House ad¬ 
journed. 
Feb. 8.—In the Senate to-day the ratification 
of tho Fifteenth Amendment by Iowa was an¬ 
nounced. A resolution was adopted asking how 
much of the $100,000 appropriated for defending 
cotton eases has been expended, and in what 
manner. The resolution to allow the discussion, 
of Indian treaties In open session was agreed to 
after being so amended ns to except confidential 
treaties transmitted by the President. A reso¬ 
lution was reported und adopted providing for 
a correspondence with foreign count ries In re¬ 
gard to an international coinage. Among the 
bills reported was the bill to prevent encroach¬ 
ments upon harbors and the Ilonse Bill for sup¬ 
plying the naval deficiencies, but with amend¬ 
ments doubling the appropriations. The West 
Point Appropriation Bill was passed, as was also 
a bill relieving from political disabilities a num- 
Cntnlogue*, Etc,, Received.—Catalogue of N. 
S. Whitney’s (Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada,) 
Ayrshire herd, edited by John R. Page.— Ply¬ 
mouth Pulpit, or Sermons of Henry Ward 
Beecher, published weekly by J.B. Ford & Co., 
39 Park Row.— Thomas Gould’s (Aurora, N. Y..) 
catalogue of cattle, swine and fowls.—The Filth 
Catalogue of Officers and students and Pro¬ 
gramme of the Course of Instruction of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — An¬ 
nual Report °f t,l ° Commissioner of Patents for 
1899.— Hawley'S (Hartford, Conn..) Descriptive 
Catalogue of Garden and Agricultural Seeds. 
Rest's (Utica, N. Y.,) Potato Rook, containing 
an Essay on the Potato Mania by Henry W ard 
Reel her, and Experiments in Potato Culture.— 
An Appeal from the South to the North; I ho 
South and Its Wonderful Resources, from Doa’O- 
ho, Joy & Co., Memphis, Teuu.-W ash burn & 
Co. (Boston, Mass..) Amateur Cultivator's Guide 
to the Flower and Kitchen Garden; a handsome¬ 
ly bound and illuslaaled volume. - Premium 
List of the Fourth Grand State Fair of the 
Mechanics and Agricultural Fair Association of 
Louisiana. Luther Holmes, New Orleans, Sec¬ 
retary and Treasury. 
Opera House building, Chicago, startled the 
audience on Wednesday night, the 2d iust., 
which rushed in a panic for tho doors. No one 
was injured. The loss or tho artist, Mrs. H. S. 
St. John, is said to be $7,000 or $8,000, half insured. 
A gold fever has broken out in Clark county, 
a returning Californian, it is said, having found 
gold in the earth on “Big Creek.’’ 
The revelations ot smuggling through the 
mails at Chicago continue. Packages have been 
seized addressed to a Freeport milliner, who ac¬ 
knowledges smuggling to the amount of $500 in 
valuable furs aud laces, in packages like ordin¬ 
ary newspaper packages. A gross of hymn books 
addressed to Brigham Young, Balt Lake City, 
has also been seized. 
Missouri. 
At Rushvillc, on the 1st inst., Joseph Fry 
killed two men, Jackson and Sinclair Hurst, by 
striking them on the head with a piece of scant¬ 
ling. The Hursts are said to have been intoxi¬ 
cated aud the assailing parties. 
At St. Joseph, on the 3d. H. L. Church, a rail¬ 
way conductor, shot and killed Michael Culligan 
in a street fight. Church surrendered himself 
