Show AN enormous number of measures were introduced in the recent session of congress the total for the session being 5 among alie important ones that became laws were alie following relating to permissible marks on mail matter for the division of the sioux reservation for a conference with the south and central american nations limiting the hours of letter carriers making lieutenant general sheridan general of the army to establish a department of labor for an international maritime conference to prohibit the coming of chaness laborers to the united states to increase tho detail of army and naval officers to educational institutions to create boards of arbitration to settle controversies between com inon carriers and their employed emp loyes to prevent the return of chinese laborers to this country to investigate the practicability of constructing storage reservoirs servo irs in the arid regions to aid state homes for disabled soldiers and changing the date of meeting of the electoral college A number of important bills that passed one of the houses either failed to reach the other or were rejected the senate passed bills to divide dakota and admit the southern half as a state and to aid common school education iho biair bill but they never reached the house for action in the senate the same thing cad be said of the following bills which passed the house the fisheries re bill whose passage was re commended by the president for the printing of government securities by hand to prevent the use of the products of convict labor by government departments or on public buildings or public works the latter part of the session was devoted chiefly to political discussions the tariff question taking the precedence the legislators finally wearied themselves out in partisan controversy and were compelled to adjourn neither tho senate nor the house being able to bring together a quorum for the transaction of business A MAN named hudgel has notified surveyor general julian at sanan fe N M that ho and his brothers and sisters are the highful owners of a tract of land thirty miles square containing six hundred thousand acres in colfax county new mexico the title to this vast territory is claimed ander a grant alleged to have been made by the crown of spain in 1685 to tho present claimants natural ancestors who bore the peculiar name of corpus christi Chr iati the land claimed is located in abo vicinity of the towns of baton springer and folsom and probably includes the last two named A portion of the maxwell grant and a large number of claims of onra ara jeopardized by alua grant six and seven hundred an have gathered in st louia and it is said ten times as many socialists both will commemorate t ho hanging of the chicago anarchists on november alth the socialists however will have nothing to do with the anarchists exercises but will hold archis ts will not parade but will hold a festival of sorrow poems will bo read songs sung and a drama the unjust sentence in which all the principal actors in the haymarket tragedy audits consequences will be enacted THE london cor dent of the new york times says i antiquarians and zoologists are cited at present with a live toad f iad in the course of railway excavations at greenock the toad is from to years old as the stratum of clay in which it was fondd certainly dates from tho glacial period its mouth is sealed up it breathes slightly through its nostrils and though the eyes are quite expressive it docs see old enough to voto to eay the least THE farmers review of its crop summary estimates the total yield of wheat for this year at against in 1887 a total shortage of nearly bushels this shortage appears very large whan standing by itself ant large as itis it is hardly sufficient to justify the alarming talk about a coming bread famine and the consequent advance in the price of flour and wheat DB of washington 13 tho inventor of a new system of machine telegraph by which messages are united at the farther end the sending instrument is similar to a type writer it is claimed to bo able to send 2000 words a minute and will revolutionize telegraphy making it to send by telegraph than mail THE first session of the fiffi jih congress was the longest continuous session in the history of the country the time covered by it beine three hundred and twenty one days or nearly one year the longest previous ran three hundred and two days aside from ita length the session can hardly be called ft remarkable on 3 GOVERNOR WEST in lisa annual report to he secretary of tho interior estimates the population of alie territory at an increase of since 1839 the assessed taxable valuation is stated 10 ue an increase of about during the year HON MICHAEL HEan EitT lias been appointed british charge d at washington lord Back villo returns to angland immediately on ibave of ibbe c it ia tood the will allow his case to rest until after the presidential election THE new austrian army bill maintains tha war strength at for the next decade it M proposed to recruit for the arav and landwehr fand wehr men yearly the term of service 13 raised to twelve years the tion of found in ayer ayers s pills renders them tonic and curative aswell as well as cathartic for this reason they are the best medicine for people of costive habit as chev restore the natural action of tho bowdls bo wils with bouc debilitating wa ats |