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Compiled from Late Dispatches, CONGRESSIONAL. Seooiirt Session. Both houscs of the Forty-eig-hth Conifress met ou tho lst. In the Sonate bilis were Intro ducod: In refrard to retiroinents from the uavy: to liffht navimihle rivera by electricity; to confer the rtffhta of citizens upon Indiana who are natlve born and who have beeome civilized, and to jfive Dakota two new Supreme Court Judges. After the readlnuof the Prosident's message tho death of Mr. Anthony was announced and tke Sonate adjournod In the House 222 members werp present. Mr. Shovely was sworn in tor the Thirteenth Indiann District, Mr. Calkins having resimied. The Presideut'8 message was then read. A bilí makin? toinporary provisión for the navy was reportedby Mr. Hlitchins. An adjournment followed the announeement of the death of Messrs. Duncau and Evans. In the Senate on the 2d Mr. Vest offered a resolution for an investigation into the leasing of lands in Indian Tcrritory, which led to a lonjjdebateon the Indian question. ...In the House a rosolution presentad by Mr. Follett, of Ohio, was adoptod for an investiitation into theconductof Lot Wright, Marshal at Cincinnati at the October eleotion. Mr. Keagan oflerod his Inter-SUite Coinnierco bill as a substituto for one reported by the Comnnttee on Commcrce at the last session, and explalned its advantajres over the coinmlttoo measure. Mr. H. Y. Sniith, from the Seventh Iowa District, was swoin in to flll the vacancy oecasioned by the resigrnation of Mr. Kassou. Mr. McPhersov introduecd a bill in the Senate on the 8d to suspend the coinage of silver dollai-s and cease issuinfr grreenbacks of a leas denomination than flve dollars. A resolution, offered by Mr. Vest, was adoptMl ordering: an invcsti(ration into the loase oí lazids bolonírinjr to Indian reservations. Notico was (flven by Mr. Slator that he would move on the 8th to take up and would press to passage tho bill declarinir forfelted the unoarnod lands g-ranted in aid of the construction of tho Orojion Central Hailroad. The select committ-es were continuod, and the presiding oflicer was iiven power to flll existing: vacancies. the bilis introduced was one by Mr. Wilson, providing that i'ailway postal clerks saall hereafter be appointed for a probationary term of hom thtw to nine months, and if the record of their service and oonduct inade in that time bo satisfaetory then a permanent appointment shall be made subject to removal lor cause A bill was passed in the House makinj? tomporary provisión for the navy. On motion of Mr. Cobb, the Senate amendments t the House bill forleiting the uneaniodl and rmnt of the Atlantic & Pacific Kailroad ('oinpany were non-concurred in. Aftor furthor cousidoration of the Inter-State Commorcc bill the House adjourned. Mr. Mitchei. introduced a bill in the Senate on the 4th for a pension of $5.000 per annum to General Grant. A rosolution was subinitted by Mr. Camoron (Pa.), for an inquiry into the expedieucy of expendingr tho surplus revenue in revivlngr the shipping and export trade by the use of American vessels. Krank Hatton was contlrmed as Postmaster-General, aud J. Schuylor Crosby as First Assistant. Adjourued to the 8th In the House bilis were introduced: By Mr. Duna, to próvido for the Arkansas River Conunission; by Mr. Dockery, to ropoal all laws authorizinif the appointment of special Deputy Marshals at the polls aud the appointment of Supervisors ¦f Eleetion; by Mr. Taylor (O.), to prohibit the removal of any honorably-discliarged soldier, sailor or marine, or any widow or dependant relative of the same, from any office in tho civil-service of the United States, exccpt for 6pecifled causes. After further discussintr the Inter-Stato Commerce bill, the house adjourned to the 8th. DOMESTIC. The General Managers of the Missouri River railroad lines agreed on the 3d to fix the rate between Chicago and St. Louis at $7.50, and that between Chicago and Kansas City at $12.50, to go into effect at once. Whilk a Salvation Army meeting was in progress a few evenings ago at Saco, Me., an incendiary fired the hall, but prompt action in dismissing the audience averted a panic. Charles Hale was carried home at Lafayette, Iud., on the 3d with a broken leg, which so frightened his wife that she feil in a swoon, and died in a short time. A large number of counterfeit ten-cent pieces jiave recently been put in circulation at Lawrence, Kan. They are brighter than the genuine ones, having a glazed appearance as if coated with quicksilver. The wreath is clumsily executed, and the counterfeits thus far seen are dated 1875. B A sciT for criminal negligence has been entered against the James Cole Mining Company, at Uniontown, Pa., in whose works fourteen persons were killed recently by an explosión. It was announced on the 3d that Carnegie Bros. & Co. would soon be obliged, unless trade improved, to close their milis and limestone quarries at Fittsburgh, Pa., which would throw 0,000 men out of employment. Five boys of Worcester, Mass., built a shed in the woods and supplied it with implements of war, being determined to harden themselves by exposure this winter for a campaign against the Indians next summer. Two of the band were arrested a few days ago for burglary and larceny. 1 Durin$ November the fire losses in the United States amounted to $7,900,000, and for eleven months of 1884 the loss is placed at $101,000,000. Near Knoxville, O., a few days ago William Reynolds' wagon, containing his three children, left its fastenings on a hillside and dashed down the incline, coming in collision with a great rock. Two of the children were killed, but the third eseaped with slight injuries. Three boys feil through the ice at Rondout, N. Y., on the4th, and were drowned. Seven men were arrested on the 4th, charged with being members of the band of regulators, who, a few days ago, killed J. G. Hughes in Rowan County, Ky. Two had confessed, implicating ten or twelve. A fearful explosión of dynamite and gunpowder oeeurred at Strafford, N. H., the other evening, destroying a house and its contents and badly injuring eight persons, four of them fatally. Five hundred pounds of canon powder in the magazine of the Virginia Military Instituto at Lexington, Va., exploded the other night, shaking houses a mile off and shattering glass to a great extent. A firk in the Hall Spring Railway atables at Baltimore on the morning of the 4th destroyed tencars and caused the buruing to death of fifty-one horses. The Sheriff of Mount Sterling, Ky., on the 4th arrested seven men of a band of regulators whoreeently kiljed J. G. Hughes in Rowan County. Two of the number made full conf essions. Feignespaugh's brewery at Newai k, N. J., was burned the other day, the loss reaehing $100,000. Charles Neiveille, the alleged Baronet, who ran away with and married Miss Whitney, of Detroit, and was recently tried and eonvicted of bigainy, was on the 4th Bentenced to imprisomuent for seveu years in the penitentiary. The following exeeutioas took place on the üth : Solomon Forres and José Manuel Soto at Salinas, Cal., for murdering a Chinaman; Cook Teets, a blind man, at Owen Sound, Ont., for killin;' his wif to secure the insurance on her llfe; Joe Foster (colored), at Natchitoches, La., for criminal assault upon a white woman, and John Nesmith (colored), at Mount Pleasant, S. C, for the murder of J. W. Shipman. IThefts from stores at Charleston, W. Va., led to an investigation and the diseovery a few days ago that a band of boys, fully organized, and haring grips, passwords, etc, were the robbers. Their headquarters were in an unfrequented section, and tbeir meetings were always held at night. Jüdge Howard, of Arizona, recently fined three conricted polygamists $500 each and sentenced them to three and ono-half years each. in the House of Correction at Detroit. Two Bishops were fined the same amount, and ordered toYuma Penitentiary for srx months. Miss Kate lm had Leo Heller, her former lover, in a Justice Court at Cincinnati a few days ago for threatoning her. Heller attempted to kill the girl, but the Justice prevented him, upon which Heller shot himself dead. Crazed with jealousy, John Purschttook oxalic acid at New York the other night, then worked at his head awhile with an ax, and tinall y shot himself dead. An oíd feud caused a shooting affray at Gatesville, Tex., a few days ago, during which Henry Basham, Dr. T. H. Sauls and Abraham Sauls were fatally wounded. All it.,. n&rtieg werö weil-to-4lo u. _ Secretary Chandler, of the navy, in his annual report on the 5th stated that the expenditures of the Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 18N4, were $17,t&jni. The estímate for the Ofdinary purposes anl public work for th D3Xt fiscal year is $17,860, (1TS, and the estimates for the increase of the navy, $16,071,6711. Of this latter sum about one-half will be needed for the coming fiscal year. Jok Williams, the negro who murdered Minnie Brooks and Giles Hunt in Chicago, was on the 5th found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for Iife. In Cooperstowu, D. T., the other day Mrs. H. G. Pickett, wife of a bauker, acoidentally killed herself while carelessly handling a revolver. A laroe number of Connecticut clergymen appeared before the Railroad Commissioners in Hartford on the 5th to advocate restriction of Sunday traffic on railroads. An incendiary flre on the öth in Meyersdale, Md., destroyed flfteen buildings comprising the business portion of the village. A number of business men had received warnings that they would be burned out. Twentv business buildings at Breekenridge, Col., were destroyed by tire a few evenings ago, causing a loss of about $100,000. Business men of Gloucester, Mass., entered a protest on the öth agaiust any reciprocity with Canada which would permit the entry of fish free of duty. Hill, Fontaine & Co., of Memphis, Tenn., on the 5th estimated the cotton erop oí this year at 5,G83,000 bales. The frost of October 24 resulted in a loss of fully 100,000 bales. In the United States and Canada there were 330 business failures during the seveu days ended on the 5th, against ïi(2 the previous seven days. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, (Ï3; New England States, 20; Western, 10t; Southern, 72; Pacific States and Territories, 20; Canada, 34. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The official vote oí Texas at the recent election is as f olio ws : Cleveland, 223,208 ; Blaine, 88,353; Butler, 3,321 ; St. John, 3,511; Lockwood, 2; total vote, 318,390. Cleveland's plurality overBlaine, 181,855; Cleveland's majority over all, 128,021. As eonipared with the Presidential vote of 1880 Texas shows an increase of 85,218 votes. Orrin A. Carpenter, charged with the mu: der of Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111., a year ago, but subsequently tried and acquitted, was shot at on the 2d in Lincoln by William H. Burns, the father of the murdered girl. The bullet m'ssed its mark. Hon. L. C. Collins, late Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, has been appointed a Jifdge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, to flll the vacancy causedby the resignation of Judge Barnum. The Florida State Board of Canvassers declared on the 2d that the result in Florida on the Presidential Electora is as follows: Cleveland, 31,709; Blaine, 28,039; St. John, 74. Cleveland's plurality, 3,738. Governor Hamilton ended the BrandLeman contest on tlie 2d by issuing a certifícate of election to Henry W. Leman as Senator from the Sixth Illinois District, and ordering the Secretary of State to enter his name on the Senate pay-roll. Accompanying the order was a long written opinión, which fully discussed the law and facts in the case. The officials were still lnvestigating the fraud upen the ballotbox, and a reward of $5,000 had been offered for the perpetrators of the crime. The Electoral Colleges in the varibus States on the 3d went through the formaly of voting for President and Vice-President, Cleveland and Hendricks receiviag 219 votes and Blaine and Logan 182. Necessary to a choice, 201 . The official vote for Goveinor at the recent election in Wiscousin is as follows: Rusk (Rep.), lt!:!214; Fratt (Dem.), U3,945; Hastiiig.s(lJrohihitiiiiiist),S,54; Utley (Greeubacker), 4,27+. RuskTs pluralit3', 19,2ti!l; majority, (,450. The Georgia Legislature on the 3d passed a resolution empoweriug the Clerk of the House to employ women to perform clerical work. In the debate the oieniug of every avenue of labor to women was fully indorsed. Francis D. Moulton, who was lifted into fame by the Beecher trial, died in NflwViirlf nn thii :ïl Amono the noininations sent to the Scnate by President Arthur on the Md were the following: Hugh McCulloch, of Maryland, Seeretary of the Treasury; Frank Hatton. of Iowa, Postmaster-General ; General Schuyler Crosby, of New York, First Assistant Postmaster-General; James Harían, of Iowa, Presiding Judjfe of the Conrt of Commissioners of Alabama Claims. Solomon Eversull, of Cinciiinati, O., died the other night at his residence in that city, aged one hundred and one years. He went to Ohio from Virginia in 1801. The annual convention of the Women'a Suífrage Association of Rhode Island was held at Providence on the 4th. In an address Susan B. Anthony said the reason so little had been done for woman was becauss she was disfrauchised. William Rogeb.s, a veteran, who lost hig sight during the war, and for vears had been grioding an organ for a living at Carthage, Mo., was the recipiënt on th 4th of $9,312.17 pension money, and will besides receive $72 permonth for life. In the opera-house at Erie, Pa., on th evening oi the 4th Levy, the famous oornetist, waf married to Miss Stella Costa, a meznber of his concert company. President Arthur on the 4th noniinated Otis P. G. Clarke, of Rhode Island, as Commissioner of Pensions, with CalTiD B. Walker, of Indiana, and Noah P. Loyeridge, of Michigan, as Deputies. John A. Swope, of Gettysburg, has been nominated by the Democrats of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District as candidate for Congress, to flll the unexpired term of William A. Duncan, deceased. The Senate of Alabama on the 5ti adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the State. The Aldermen of New York on the 5tb passed OTer the Mayor's veto a resolution permitting the construction of a surfac railroad in Broadway. Attobnet-Geseral McCartnet, Republican candidate for Congress in the Sirteenth Illinois District, has served S. Z. Landers, his Democratie opponent, with a notice of contest, on the doublé ground ol the bribery f voters and false and fraudulent returns. FOREIGN. Alexander Buntin, a Montreal millionaire, was on the 2d sentenced to ten days' imprisonment for making himself a preferred creditor of the insolvent Exehang Bank, of which he was Vice-President, by withdrawing $10,000 after the suspension. M. Hoessbl has been elected President of Switzerland and M. Bezzola Vice-President. Both are Radicáis. The bark Clyde, from Mauritius, was wrecked recently near Akaroa, New Zealand. The Captain, his wife and three children and the offlcers and all the crew, except one, were drowned. The lumber cut In the Ottawa Valley, Ont., this year is 62!j,000,000 feet, representing a cash value of $T,")(X),OOÜ. At Toronto, William Bone, aged sixtyfive, took laudanum recently becuuse u girl of nineteen jilted hira. The Canadian Government refused on the 2d to permit the American tug Winslow togoto the relief of a wrecked steamer in British waters, on account of repeated infractions of law. Skventeen Anarchists were arrested at St. Petersburg on the 3d, oue of them a woman. Foür sehooners and all hands were on the 4th reported lost on the west coast of Newfoundland in a terrible gale. During a recent storm the little Isle Louis Marie, in the St. Lawrence River, 1 was submerged, and buildings, crops and domestic animáis were swept away. The Court of Appeals of Loidon has affirmed the conviction for murder of the ' Captain and mate of a wrecked yacht who ' killed a boy to prolong their livos. A lohs of $200,000 was sustaiued by the recent burning of Smalley's cotton-mill at Farnworth, Eng. In the British House of Lords on the 5th the Franchise bill was read a third time miAiMEB ai vicioria, uritisn uoiumnia receive twenty-flve dollars from ench Chiruininn landedin Washington Terrltory. A vossel engaged in tliis trade was recently lost, with twelve Celestials. A KOmber of vessels at the London docks whirh wit1 BUpposod to be loading with provisinns wore om the áth diseovered to le taking on board munitions of war for China. Hundreds of people were on the "th said to he actually starving in the North of England, with many thousands more hungry and destitute. More than six thousand people were turned out of doors in Irelaud for non-payment of rent during the quarter ended November 'M. LATER NEWS. At 2:20 o'clock on the afternoon of th fith thé American flag was unfurled tron a stufl' on the top of the Washington tnouu ment, at Washington, as the aignal of th cbmpletion of the work, which was ooin i' eiiccd in 1848. The total weight of th ïiiouument is 160,000,000 pounds , thü totul cost $1,180,000, and it is.V0 feet high. Tiikick ín hes ot' snow feil on the Tth Bakersfleld, Cal., which was improcedente in the history of that section of the State. A fËRRIPTC wind-stonn prevailed a Pittsburgh, Pa., on the evening of the Gth doing immense damage to property. Mr? A'lani l'aff and her tvvu children, a bo aged six and a girl aged eight years, weikilled by a falllog Bign, and other persOD in various portions of the eity were injured some fataüy. Maskiïd robbers boardivl a railroad train near Little Rock, Ark., on the nigh of the fith and secured ,'fi;,OM) in cash am' valuables. Bloodhounds were put on theii trail on the Tth, and six men were soou captured in Little Koek. The correspondent of the Courirr-.Toitrncd. Louisville, who had investigated the pestilencecaused by drought iu the mountainous regions ot' Kenturk}r and Virginia, reported on the (th that up to date 3,040 deaths hail occurred. John Aöams and tt'ill Moore, of McKinny, Teuu., rivals for the hand of a young lady, killed eafh other during a quarrel recently. Two colored vromen named Esther Ellis and Mary Johnson were arrested on the tith at Fort iSprings, 'a., charged with the Wholesale poisoning of the families of Matthew .Manu and James W. Goodman. Four persons M"ere alrendy dead, and others of the thirteen polioned were in a critical condition. A la roe steamer foundered off the Xorth Coruwall (Eng.) coast during a reeent hi-iivy gale, and twenty of the persons on board were drowned. London advices of the (th state that emigration in all dirftctfona was falling off. The total emigTatiOJI trom the lïritish Isles to the United States {during the monta of Novemlirr, 1884, was 7,4n: to Cana.ln, 878, and t" Australia, 8,490. The figures for ovei)ier, 1883, were, respectively, 7,1127, 809 and 5,929. The ürms eomposing the Boot and Shoa Mamifacturers' Association of Pbiladeliliia closet! their faetones on the (th, hrowiiig flvo thousand employés out o( work. A sknkation was caused in Lafayette, ndt, ou the evening of the tith, in the oiirsi' of a leotnre by Colonel Ingersoll. Dn. John A. Stein protestad against the asphemy of the lecturer, and he so inormsd liim, and with several frisada aróse and lelt the hall.