The News

Compiled from Late Dispatches. CONGRESSIONAL. Socond si-ssion. The bill for the admlsston of 1 mkoiH as a State in the Union was passed in the Senate on the 16th by a strict party vote- 34 to 38 - the Republicana voting in the affirmatire. The bilí provides for the creation of a State from the región south of the fortysixth parallel, the portion north of that line to become the territory of Lincoln. The Sil ver bill was further onsidered, and a resolution was adoptod ealllng lor information regarding ourtrade with Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies In the House a bill was passed authorizlng postmasters to forward mail matter of the second, third and fourth classes on which the postage has once been pald in f uil. It was voted- 135 to 87- to suhstitute the Reag-an Inter-StaM ('ommerce btll for the eommittee measur. A resolution for a holiday reeess from December 2U to January 5 was passed. Is the Senate on the 17th a communication was presented from the Secretary of the Navy etating that he had ordered two civil engineers and an ensign to vlsit Nicaragrua and survey a route for the proposed canal. Mr. Dawes presented a petition for cauocling the lease of grazing lands made by the Crow Indians to cattle-raisers. The Naval Appropriation bill was passed. In executive sossion Mr. Riddleberger again opposed the connrmationof McCulloch....In the House the Inter-State Commerce bill was further considerad, and a motion to reconslder the vote adopting an amendment against race dioriraination in transporting passengers was defeated. It was agreed to add a clnuse, oonceding to railroads the right to provide such separate accommodatlons for pasPenjrers as is deemed best for public comfort and safety. Mr. Hoar presented a memorial in the Senate on the 18th from tho Woman's Suffrage Association of Pennsylvania, protesting againstthe admission of Dakota without the electlve franchise for women. A bill was passed appropriating $50,000 for a statue of Lafayetto. Mr. Cullom made an address on the Inter-State Commerce bill. Thp nomination of Secretary McCulloch was conflrmed by a vote of 5U to l....In the House the session was occupied in dlscussing the later Suite Commerce bill. In the Senate on the 39th a bill was passed making Maren 4 of Presidental inauguration years a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. The Inter-State Commerce bill was further discussed....In the House the Interstate Commerce bill was ngain cousidered, and an amendment to prohibit the issue of free passes was lost, as was also an amendment to strike out the clause which forbids pooling. At the evening session Pension bilis wero considered. DOMESTIC. A tramp entered the house of Mrs. Sealey Sprague, at Rockville Center, L. I., a few days ago and demanded money. She stepped to the bureau and simultaneoiisly seized a pocket-book and revolver. Whilo handing him the moaey, she shot him dead. A train on the West Shore Road was wrecked on the lGth by the fall of rocks at a point fifteen miles from New York. The iireman and two passengers received serious injuries, and the engineer was cut on the head. The property loss was $100,000. John B. Hoffman was executed at Cincinnati on the llith for killing his son three years ago. Two men supported him while the handcuffs and noose were being adJusted, and he wept like a child at tha reading of the death warrant. Judgk Taylor, of Indianapolis, has decided that the Pullman Car Company ia responsible for the goods and chattels of its passengers, and gave judgment for t71.40, of which a patrón was robbed on a sleeper. The district around Laconia, N. H., was shaken by an earthquake early on th morning of tho 17th, doors, windows and dishes being rattled in residences. A horrible case of starvation was discovered in Vincennes, Ind., on the 17th. A widow with several children was found in bed cold and stiff in death. Her ehildren were around her, shivering with cold and crying for mercy. They were saved frenn gtarvation by the mother, who, rather than see her children suffer, suffered herself. Another wldow with several children was rescued. Rtjeosl & Robinson, clothiers at Buffalo, made an assigmuent on the 17th, oaruuz llabiiltia of nn mn The people of Florida -robti at the lata election in favor of holding a eonvention to revise their State Constitution. The vote was: "Yes," 31,884; "No," 28,130. President Arthur on the 19th sent to the Senate the nomiuation of Fr aak V. Palmer to be postmaster at Chicago. J. Henry Hobart, the civil engineer who built the famous loop on the Southern Pacific Road, was frozen to death iu the Street at Omaha the other uight aftor becoming intoxicated. FOREIGN. The Dominion Parliament will meet in Ottawa January 29 for the purpo3e of transacting business. Some Chinese cruisers, which had been preparing for service, sailed on the lGth from Shanghai. Admiral Courbet reported from Kelung tbat he killed or wounded two hundred Chinese engaged in erecting defensive works. A large quantity of dynamite and giant powder was found recently at Victoria, B. C, 8ecreted behind a pile of freight on the wharf of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Rev. Dr. O. S. Tatlor, of Auburn, N. T., the oldest gradúate of Dartmouth College, celebrated his centennial birthday on the evening of the lTth. A report was in circulation in London on the lTth that Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, was dead. The French commander in Tonquin reported on the 17th another enagagement with the Chinese, in which the latter were defeated with heavy loss. A mail-baq was robbed of registered letters containing $9,000 on a train between Kamloops and Victoria, B. C, a few dayi ago. The safe of Napoleon Lafevre's jewelry store at Montreal was blown open the other night, and watches and diamonds valued at $10,000 were taken. Thk report of the death of Louis Kossuth was without foundation. Details of the recent revolution In Corea show that the outbreak occurred during an entertainment given by the King to the British Minister and others. On a given signal the King's son and six ministers were massacred. The King placed himself under the protection of the Japanese. The foreign residents of Corea were safe. The motives of the rebellion were unknown. Herr Bauman, ex-Chief of the Cologne Financial Bureau, was recently arrested on a charge of embezzling 200,01X1 marks. Cholera has reappeared at Aubervilliers, France. Six case were reported on the 18th, of which four proved fatal. The reappearance of the disease was attributed to the mildness of the weather. A defalcation of $1,000,000 by a bank President in Vienna caused a panic on the bourse on the 18th. A DECREE has been issued by the Governor-General of Littlo Russia expelling all Jewish traders in the Dniéper who can not supply themselves with special permits. The decree places the Jews in the power of petty Russian officials. Lucua Jauner, Director of the Securities of the Lower Austrian Discount Bank, hot himself on the lOth, leaving behind him a deficit of about $ 1 ,000,00''}. Eleven cases of cholera were under treatment on the 19th at Toledo, Spain, of which threo were fresh ones. Three men hailing lrom America were recently arrested in Mayence, France, with boxes of dynamite in the r possession. A collision occurred recently between ! the Spanish steamor Butaran and th Maria in the Harbor of Manila, Phillippine Islands. The Maria was cut iu two and eunk within a few minutes, and twenty one persons perished. The mate and boatswain of the Ameri can ship Chapman, whieh arrived in Liverpool on the 19th, were orrested at the Instance of the American Consul, charged with murder on the high seas. LATER NEWS, ' FntE on the 2Oth destroyed the oil warehouse of Weston & Fiske, in Water street, New York, causing a loss of $210,000. The Mansión House at Long Branch, N. J., and Um American Worstsd bloek, at Wegue3lut.& 1, . tui klis burned.