Epitome Of The Week

Mr. OaMBROS announoed ;ü i1'-1 s.M.ite on the 3d the recent affllcttona la families of two membera al the Cabine) und moved an adjournment, whioh wa onanimously....In the House the Republioam had a quorum present, mil In the eontested eleotlon case from Wesi Virginia Bmtth (Rep.) is given the scat ocoupted b.v Jackson (Dem.), No othcr busine ia waa transaoted. Sevkuai, petitlona prsying Sor t lio passage of a per diem pension bill were presented Jn tho Sonate on the Hth und tho Samoan treatj was ratifled. Araong tho bilis introduood was one to prevent the exteroiination "f íui-biaring animáis in Alasita, and out allowlng New Mexico to (ramo u eonstitution and admitted to the Union In the House the bul to relieve the Treasurer of the Onlted Btatea from the amount now obarged to liini und deposited Ín theseveral States was referrod by tbe Speaker to thc commíttoe on ways and mcuns aftcr a long debate. IN the Benate on the 5th bilis to provide a temporary government for the Territory oí Oklahoma and to aid in the establishment and the temporary support of tho cornmon schools were discussed, and a resolution was reportcd congratulating the pcople of the United States of Jlrazil on tueir adoptlon ot a rcpublican form of government... In the House tho Journal as read, lut 110 business was tranaaöted, n largo numberof the xnexnbers havlnggone to attend the funeral of Mrs. and Mis Tracy. Bms were pajsed in tho Sonate on the 6th authorizing tho construction of a railroad, wagon and foot passenger bridge across tha Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia., and appropriating t75,0OO for the relief of oertain Chippewa Indians of the La Pointe agency in Wisconsin. The bill to provide temporary government for tho Territory ot Oklahoma and tho Blair educational bill were discussed. Adjourned to the lOth In the House tho new code of rules were rsported, and it was ordered printed and recommitted. Bills werc passed appropriating 1113,000 to jabnburte tho seamen who lost thelr personal effectsin the Samoan disaster; to establiah two additional land distriets in Montana, andtoincreasc tho pensions of lotally dlsabled soldters and sailors to $7-' por mout h. Jïills were introduoed directing the .Sec-retury of tho Treasury to purchaso ?-l,(Xx),000 worth of silver bullionper month and to have it coinod iminediatoly into Standard silver dollars, and for the survey of a ship canal connecting I.akes Superior and Michigan. Tqeue was no session of the Senate on tha 7th....In the House Wils were passed inercasing tho pension of General Abram Duryea to 1100 per month and authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river between Douglas, orSarpay County. Nebraska, and Pottawattomte County, Iowa, Ailjourned to the lOth. DOMESTIC. The stovo works of A. Cox & Co., near Norristown, Pa., were dostroyod by fire on the 4th. Loss, S100.000. Os the 4th two colorcd men named Gray and Randle wero assassinated in the woods near Eocky Comfort, Ark. Skvkkai. persons wero bitten by a mad dog on the 4th at Huntington, Ind. A cat-oose and car containing railroadlaborers went through a railroad bridge sixty-eight feet high on the Oregon railway near Cascade locks on the 4th, and ten men wero killed and ftiteen wounded. Turee seotion men wero killed by a train on the 4th near St Cloud, Minn. Thk centennial of the formation of the United States Supremo Court was colebrated with a public moeting at the Metropolitan Opera-House in New York on the 4th and a banquet in the eveninp. Duiïixo a drunken danco at a christening in Marshwood, Pa., on tho 4th a lamp was upset and Mlohael Gurtz, Mrs. Joseph Strasson and two children were burned to death. At tho National convention of colored men in Washington on the 5th Editor Mitchell, of Riohmond, read a paper upon outragos upon colored people in the South. He said that S83 negroes had been lynched in the South from lbS7 to date, and that colored men had boen roasted in North Carolina. A permanent organization was formed to be known as the American Citizens' Equal Rights Association of tho United States of America. DuRl?íO a quarrel on tho 5th near Topeka, Kan., Melvillo Beard, aged 19 years, fatally shot hi3 brother William, 22 years old. Joseph P. Munrnv, manufacturer of cotton and woolen goods at Philadelphia, failed on the 4th for 500,000. The Baptist Book Concern was organlzed on the 4 Ui at Louisville, Ky., on a plan similar to the Methodist Book Concern, and would soon begin tho publication of denominational books. At Now York on the 4lh the Sixth National Bank and the Equitable Bank resumed business. Window-gi.ass manufacturers met on the 4th at Pittsburgh, Pa., and ordered an ad vanee in prices of 5 per cent. Thk town of Burke, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Aleno mining district, was on the 5th nearly destroyed by avalanches. Half the business houses were in ruins and three men were killed. The steamer Mineóla, which arrived at Philadelphia on the 5th, passed on iceberg on her trip one mile long and seven hundred feet high. In Portland, Ore., the river front and several streets were under water on the 5th, caused by the swollen condition of the Willamette, and merchants were compelled to suspend business. The flood was tho highest sinco 1861. Throughout tho Willamette valley and in Southern Oregon heavy losses were reported, bridges, houses, fences, milis, etc, having been swept away Three men were drownod whilo boating at Marino City. Mich., on tho 5th. l was on tho 5th said to prevail in Hamilton County, Mo., owing to the failure of crops, and aid was asked for the suffering people. Petek Giur.i.v, agod 8, and EddieCaln, aged 7 yeai broko through the ice on Lapham'3 pond at Worcoster, Mass., on the 5th and were drowned. A Bir-r. before the Virginia Legislature to revive the old whipping-post law was defeated on tho 5th. Ltox City, a mining camp, which lies at tho base of Lyon mountain in Montana, was completely buried by a snowslide on the 5th, and two miners were killed and a large amount of property destroyed.