Epitome Of The Week

TnK Wil in favor of pTovlding for t.1 emigration of colored people from South was dis cusseil in tlu' Sonate 0:1 tbe rUb by senator Morgan. AMllwas introduoed to próvido for a world's expoxltion ai the National Capital in 1893 In the House the ruloa wow dlsouased at length. and a bilí was Introduoed provlding for a pension of f72 per month to disabled st.i(licrs requlrlng tho ald of an nttendant, and onother blll givlng the i. Idlera ;i penBion not to exoeed U& nor less thttn sfx dollars per month, aooordingto dtsability. The timo was oooupled In the Sonate on tho 8th by Mr. Voorhees upon the resolution oflered by him in relation to alleged n'.crference by Mr. Ohamlx rs, the United States Dlstrlot Attorney at Indianapolls, t prevent the arrest of W. W. Dudley on a charge of vioUtting the clection lava of Indiana, and by Mr. Edmunds in reply In the House a bilí was introduced providing that the ttrms or members of Congress shall begin January 1. Adjourned until the lOth. ON tho 9th the Vice-President laid beforo the Senato a communication from Attorney-Gcneral Millrr in whioh he states that no instructions, oral or written, have been given to District Attorney S. N. Chambers, of Indianapolis, on the subject of the arrest of W. W. Dudley. Several bilis of minor importance were reported and numerous appointments were conliroied. Adjourned to the 13th....The House was not in session. The Senate was not in session on the lOth.... In the House resolutions were passed eulogizing the career of the late Judse Kelley and an adjournment was taken as a mark of respect ta nis memory. DOMESTIC. The visiblo supply of wheat and corn in this country on tho Oth was respectively 33,750,004 and 9,389,852 bushol8. Diphtiieria and "black tonguo1' were epidemie on tho Tth near Morgantown, W. Va. Many persons had died and ffreat suffering existed amonj tho afflictod families. Franklix I!. Masox, an old and wealthy farmer, and Theodoro Wickey, his nephew, were drowncd on tho 7th .while attempting to cross Rock creek near Kankakee, 111. Three workmen woro crushcd todeath at Long Island City, N. Y., on tho 7th by tho caving in of one of the walls of the railroad machine shops. The socretary of the Indiana Stato Board of Charities said on the 7th that ■ thero were 2, 111 insano persons in Indiana. Miss Faxxii; KkeZTER, of Jacksonvillo, 111., was shot and mortally woundcd on the 7th on the Street by Nathan I'asten, her colored coachman, who also was fatally shot by Miss Keener. 1 The ülamorgan Iron Company of Philadelphia tailed on tho 7th for S2S0,000. □ Oslak Johnsom and wife, an old couplo of Nashota, Wis., wero struck by the engine of a passenger train on tho 7th and both were killed. The American Brewery Associalion was organized at St. Louis on tho 7th for the purpose of competing with the breweries said to havo been acquired by the English syndicate. Uxdkk an order from Mr. Vanderbilt on the 7th no freight trains, except those transporting perishable freight, will hereafter be run on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad on Sunday. ! Ed Cin-ncn, agcd seventeenyears, fled from Guyandotto, VV. Va., on tho 7th after poisoning his father, mother, brothers and sisters. Two had died and the others were not expocted to live. Mrs. L. B. Buur, of Buffalo, N. Y., received notice on the 7tb that she was heiress to a fortune of 81,000,000 left by !her great-grandfather at Yorkshire, Eng. The President and Mrs. Harrison gave their first state dinner on tho ;ovening of iho 7th to the Vice-President, members of the Cabinet, leading [Sonators and their ladies at tlie White Houso. i Chief Justici: Ei.i.ioi-, of the Indiana Supremo Court, on the 7th rondcred a 'decisión sustaining the valadity of the 'law which forbids tho payment of wages 'in any thing except money I Fon their participation in tho Sulli.van-Kilrain fight Willlam Muldoon, W. E. Harding, Mike Cleary and Mike .'Donovan were arrested at New York on tho Sth and held for extradition to Mississippi. i llr.NKY Wasd, a negro boy who murdered W. II. lïonson on December 30, was taken from jail at Bayou Sara, La., ,on tho 8th by masked men and hanged to a tree. '■ Lauoh agents in Oklahoma and at ;Fort Worth, Tex., were on the 8th said !to bedesirous of obtaining colored men from South Carolina, and were offering facilities for tho organization of colonios. In' New York Stato last year 49,956 men wero convicted of various crimes and 5,534 women. ' The Patoka river in Indiana had ovorflown its banks on the Sth, and a track of country twenty miles long by three to four miles wkle in tho yicinity of Jasper was inundated. ; SriRiT thermometers at Elko, Nev., registered 50 degreea below zero on tho 8th, and at Wells tho thermometer indicated 23 below. : The Western Cnion Tclegraph Company's building at St. Louis was burned on tho 8th. I. .000. ; The Becretary of tbc: towa State Agrioultural Society on the 8th estimated ,the erop in the State in 1839 to be: Corn, 326,073,000 bushcls; oats, 113,000,000 bushels; potatoas, 21,000,000 bushels; Vhoat, 27,000,000 bushels. The valueof tho total erop, exclusive of grass, was estimated at $127,000,000. JonxsTOX ('ai.uoin-, an aged and woalthy resident of East Liverpool, O., who was accuscd of beating his wife, was given a ride on a rail by a band of regulators on tho 8th and badly injurcd. In Kansas City on the 8th tho fourmonths-old child of l'eter Martin and tho fivo-year-old daughter of Mrs. O'Brien were burnod to dcath. Os the 8th a Chattanooga (Tonn.) Chinaman sent a packago of cabbage seed to a friend in the Celestial Empire. Cabhagos: have never been grown in China.