Show PAN ELECTRIC DOES NOT PAN OUT THE action of the house committee to whom was referred the pan electric telephone company scandal does not help very much the cause of attorney general garland there is no majority indis favor four democrats try to help him out four republicans strike him some pretty heavy blows ana one democrat knocks him down on OB one side and holds him up on the other the upshot of it all is that there is no recommendation for the house to act upon and the movement will probably collapse it will amount most likely to a scotch verdict of I 1 not proven that mr garland did accept of a block of stock in ill a company that was worthless except for probable action in congress which that gentleman was expected to be able to influence has been developed beyond doubt by the inquiry B but u t the question of his moral tur turpitude i hiie an and d of his actual interference irk in ite the affair is not by any means settled we do not see where it is proven that mr goode was to blame and garland will have to be given tile the benefit of the doubt that remains as to his share in the questionable transaction republicans will try to make political capital out of the report of their four members of tile the committee democrats will reply by heieren re lerene e to the I 1 vindication I 1 of their quartette and so the game of party will oe be about even and pan electric will not pan out very much solid material on either side the khedive of egypt haying having decided to visit all the capitals of europe will shortly sail from alexanderia on the yacht Mahrous sah for trieste from thence lie he will proceed to vienna berlin brussels london paris and rome on arriving at naples he will resume his sea voyage for egypt an exchange says the mississippi river is a big thing for navigation purposes and for draining the country between the two great mount mountain aln ranges it is also very handy for boys to bathe and fish in but it has been discovered to be dangerous to human life no less than two sad hearted young men have recently buried their sorrows and their bodies at once by pla plunging nging into its fluid depths on account of being ji jilted te by giddy young women with w whom 0 they were in love daniel douglas home the famous spiritualist whose death is announced at london turned his alleged supernatural powers to profitable account for a long lone series of years and numbered miny many distinguished people among his bis dupes his business was finally broken up however bo w ever by a verdict against him in the courts on the suit of mrs jane lyon of london whom he defrauded of on the pretense that thai it was by direction of her deceased husbands spirit ris hi exposure in that case was so glaring that he was never able to recover baom it and add he died in comparative obscurity says the facetious peoria journal there is always something tile the matter with the crops in kansas it has been so hot and dry that oats and wheat turn out dourly pourly the stem is very short abort and in most fields headers are beins being used instead of harvesters across the line in nebraska there has ha beenson much rain that small grain has been spoiled and corn is being washed out of the ground the cheerful lying laiu tiller of the soil has duly sent these reports east and his aider and abettor the C chicago icaco board of trade man is exhibiting hi black rust and chinch buss bugs and weevils and army worms engaged n weir their regular pursuit of business on specimens specimen of western grain plucked from the unlucky and unholy earth the use of natural gas is working a revolution in the production of iron the cost of sufficient coal to produce a ton toa of iron is a trifle over three dollars natural gas companies have entered into contracts with leading pennsylvania manufacturers to supply all the fuel they require at a mean cost of per ton from the pig to finished iron never before in modern history has better steel been manufactured than is now being turned out by the rolling mills of pittsburg and allegheny city and the improvement is due solely to the uniformity of heat beat maintained in the furnaces by the combustion of the new fuel says the washington critic anarchy still pervades the atmosphere of chicago mr parsons has put in an appearance with a request to be mar byred the dusky mrs parsons Is writing a book on socialism and the reign of terror of which 2000 copies accompanied by a photograph of her lute resting husband hubband are to be struck off for general circulation the trial of the spies gang is about to proceed provided a jury is ever selected and the inevitable parsons has a two hours speech on hand which he be desires to deliver iu in his own defense la in the meantime the anarchists who are not in jail are holding ting incendiary meetings as of yore and aia plotting the extermination mi nation of the police chicago as a summer resort Is ruled ruled out for this year according to a washington atao there have been some 1200 bills introduced in congress this season three fourths of wal which ch are house bouse bills of the introduced in the senate are set down to mr sawyer and to mr blaine no other senator is guilty ot half so many thou though h mr sewell comes up with and ur mr van wyck with the kansas kandas senators blumb Flum band and ingalls respectively number and mr sawyers are doubtless mostly private pension bills as he acquired great distinction some weeks ago in prep preparing I 1 ring I 1 an unprecedented ce cemented dented e d number wi within thin a gi given time for presentation on the part of the pe pension n slon committee M mr r kenna of west virginia introduced the lowest number two if we except mr jones of florida who has been continuously absent and who has presented none at all the baltimore american says no one has attracted so much attention at the national capital during the past ten days as mrs cleveland and it is improbable that any future mistress of the white house will have so many persons eager to see her the ladies who made ii a study of mrs cleveland at the two receptions held in the past week say that she will be a credit to the white house and will give satisfaction to the people who have to do with the administration if she interferes with the actions of the president the ladief think that her interference will be for the better there is all the difference in the world between the general character of mr cleveland and his wife he is slow and phlegmatic while she is very energetic he Is methodical and meditative while she is somewhat gay and quick to act ace but those who have seen most of mrs cleveland say that the match is a very good one disguise the fact as his immediate friends will there appears to be but little doubt that the days of ex pres dint di nt arthur are numbered and we may hear of his bis death at any time the ex president is suffering from brights ts disease of the kidneys that horrible american disease anat has carried off so many of our public men and for which there appears to be no certain cure care major william artnur arthur the dents brother who is is paymaster in the army has bad ad himself placed upon waiting orders so that he be may be with his brother who is now under his care the sufferer has been confined to the house the greater part of the time being unable to go out for a ride excepting at intervals of several days and returning n log to his bis room much exhausted after such exercise he has however lust just gone on a visit to new london conn in the hope that he be will be improved but his friends are reported as espres expressing sing the belief that such improvement pro would only be temporary his condition is almost helpless utah marble today to day we were shown a specimen of beautiful dark colored marble resembling the agate species taken from a deposit tia in the vicinity of provo we are assured by a gentleman interested in it that it can be procured in blocks as large as ad eight to ten feet square if this be the case the claim will probably develop into a valuable property the great difficulty encountered thus far in utah marble deposits has bas been that the article is only found in comparatively small slabs having evidently been broken up by the convulsions which evidently at one time dine changed the topography of this eui cut ire region the provo marble is dark in color most of it having a reddish body bod with black spots and slightly whitish whitish veins in some portions the spots are a bright green ane substance is admirably adapted for counter stand and bureau tops cops vases and innumerable other uses |