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JT. YAK SLYKE * BON, Puiuaim* MoHENBT, ILLINOIS. f I E I L T I E V S R E V I E W , ANOTHKB groat Are has oocurred in lib oil regions of rrnnsyhmnift, the district MaRBsohuBctta district to the National Green- hack Convention. NEVADA instructs her six delegates to the Chicago Convention to vote for Blaino.... The New York Senate, by » vote of 17 to 14, hM passed a concurrent resolution to amend tt»e State constitution HO as to extend the elective franchise to women. FOUR political State Conventions were held May 12. In Michigan the Republicans in­ structed for Blaine, bat an anti-Grant resolu­ tion created » tumult. Mid was promptly tabled. The Florida Republicans instructed for Grant. In Went Virginia the Blaine Republicans had things theiv own way, instructions for the Scn- •V. barrels of oil and forty derricks .... Catherine Miller and her paramour, Georee haw been convicted in Williamsport, J»«», of the murder of Andrew Miller. Ax open switch on the New York Central road, near St Johns ville, N. Y., caused ft* M': devastate! beine in the neighborhood of Rest- . ator being opposed by only a few Sherman men. _ , ,, .... , nwr»n noA i The Wisconsin Democrats elected four deWates- Eighty hurncd i at-larare to the Cincinnati Convention. No in- hmwls at oil and fortv m , wero given, but they are understood to be opposed to Tilden. S. B. CONOTER has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Florida. THE Vermont Greenbackers met in the destruction of almost an entire express j convention at Montpelier on the 13th inst., and train. Only one passenger was injured, but . selected delegates to their National Convention, hundreds of others were badly shaken up. _ ^ foUowing is from the Boston Advertiser FIBE broke out a second time in the I of the 14th inst.: " In an inte.rview with E. B. wnds near Bradford, Pa., and spread with i Washbnrne, visiting his brother at Portland, he ww~' f , j states his candidacy for the Presidency is out of great rapidity over a large tract of county. , the tioil He}8 for Grant tirgt, last and all villages of Oil Centre and Middanghville j the time, repudiates all combinations with other and a tank containing 25,000 barrels of oil were ; candidates, and will not be a candidate under destroyed. Railroad bridges, oil wells and aay circumstances. Tho charge that he is guilty tanks, and other property have been swept duplicity toward Grant he demos, and says a way in all directions. _ The conflagration is so ' the result of the Cook County Convention was extended that anything like an accurate esb- ; & greater surprise to him than any one etee." ««»•« of the losses cannot be given uoccssnry"... .It- is thought in Berlin that when the German army is fuuy vorruitud under the rwentlv passed Armv act its effective strength will 000. SBNERAl* HON. GROBGK BROWNE, statesman and Journalist, of Toronto, Canada, who was Bhot by Dickson, an employe, some weeks since, ! has died of his injuries Davis, the polyga- j mist, was convicted in Chicago, and the ex- 1 reme penalty--five years' imprisonment and ! $J,000 fine--was imposed upon him.... .. i The steamer American, of the Union Steamship L almost entirely destroyed by an incendiary > )jnCj ffom the Cape of Good Hope for South- ill®. Loss, §200,000 There wa« a triple hanging ' - - •• -- i unsuccessful attempt has been made to kill the Spanish Consul at New York, by means of Mi Infernal machine. Tho official found, on entering his office, an oblong package, mailed Philadelphia, which he proceeded to open. On cutting the string, an explosion oocurred, flilintr the room with smoke, and severely wounding him in the left hand. THE village of Stuyvesant, N„ Y., has Sfc#; S3; ' K'y >wr. power to provide accordingly. Lotteries the ft,* i d • $ atLebanon, Pa., oa the 18th inst, the victims be­ ing Brandt, Humel aad Wise, convicted of the murder of old man Raber for the purpose of securing the insurance on his life. Two men had previouslv been executed for the same mur­ der.--Edwin bunt was hanged the same day at Bridgeport, Ct, for the murder of his father. MILTON, Pa., has been almost entire­ ly destroyed by fire. Six hundred buildings were burned and one life lost The loss of property is estimated at" from fsl,000,000 to %a,OOQ,doo, and the insurance at #500,000 Jacob Painter, oae of the founders of the iron industry of Pittsburgh, has just died, at the age of 80 years A. murderer named Carl Mankewas »*«cuted last week at Buffalo, N. Y. The monster ex­ pressed not the least regret for haying killed a fellow-being, refused to see his wife, sworo at those who suggested a clergyman, and went to the foot of the gallows using blas­ phemous and vulgar expressions.... An express-train, drawn by a new locomotive with but one six-and-a-half-foot driving wheel at each side, was run between Philadelphia and ; court held to be demoralizing in their effects, Jersey City, a distance of ninety miles, in : no matter hew carefully regulated. They are a ninety-seven minutes. The return trip was species of gamoling, and are bad in their inilu- made in ninety and a half minutes | ences. The giving of a charter to a lottery Hie death is announced of Hon. Sanford E. | concern, then, is merely a permit subject to fu- Church, Chief Justice of the New York Court j tore legislation or constitutional control or of Appeals. Judge Church was exceedingly ! withdrawal. popular with all parties in New York State. I j^T a meeting of the Western Nail As- He has been frequently mentioned in oonaoc- ' ~~ , , , tion with the Democratic Presidential nomina- "ociatiaii, held at Pittsburgh, it was resolved to tion. He was 65 years old. suspend work in all the mills represented two WE WEST# ; weeks out of the next three. A further reduc- . tion in the card-rates was made to $3.25 E. A X i O T of ambitious young man living • o. Haven, C. D. Foss, H. W. Warren and J. F. •t Bollv, Mich., attempted to clean out a circna, i Hnr«* have been created Methodist Bishops by • . , .. , • u. the General Conference of that denomination. but the plug-uglies of the show received them Qne Sanmel s stftnton KUeH Socretary wttfc a volley of clubs, stones and bullets, and, Schurz at St. Louis for £20,000 damages for im- after half-killing several of the attackers, com- • prisoning him at Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, pelled them to beat a retreat Heavy without cause. rains have fallen throughout Kansas, m , • _. ,. doing incalculably- service to the wheat and ; THE steamship companies are unable other crops... .Another raid by squatters on j to accommodate all the persons who wish to Indian .Territory Having been announced^ more ; leave Great Britain and Ireland for this coun troop* hare been ordered to the protection of the i$d m«n's soil. ampton, foundered near the equator. The [»s- sengers and crew took to the ship's boats, and already three of these, containing fifty-four per­ sons, have been picked up and landed at Ma­ deira. Five boats are still missing, but when kst seen they were making for the Liberian coast, with very good prospects of reaching it safely. THE Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a very important decision j upon the subject of lotteries. A lottery scheme I known as " The Mississippi Agricultural, Man- : ufactnring and Educational Aid Society," re- I ceived a charter from the State of Mississippi in 1867. An act was passed by the same body in 1870 providing for the suppression of the : scheme. The lottery company resisted the en- i forcement of the act, and earned tho i case to the State Supreme Court, where they were defeated. The company then , appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which holds that, as government is or- . „r i r o n i - r a A ^ ' W a v n a n a M o a n s C o m n u t t o - , t h e C u r t m - i o c u m c o n - y, a V ® • a- * tested-election case was dooi.l<xl by tho adoption of a of public mor&lH, it cannot divest itHelf of the I resolution that Mr. Yocum was entitled to retain hie WOE NATIONAL CONGRflSS. Tlio Senate was not in session on the 8th inst ... .Th« Hons© devoted the day to ON consideration of the oonteated-eleetlon ease of Curtin against Yo­ cum from one of the Pennsylvania districts. Curtin olalias the sect as a Democrat. Yocnm is Republican- , Clrecnbacker. The day was devoted to a very long pwch by llcJtahoover at Pennsylvania. He argued that Curtin vr«« undonbtedly elccted, and ahculd be aonlcd. The President pro temu (Thurman) laid bo. fore the Senate, on the morning of Monday, May 10, a communication from the Secretary of the Interior stating that his estimates of March 6, 1880, for the deficiency for arrears and the army and navy pen­ sions have been found Insufficient, and transmitting the increased estimate. The report of the oon- ferenoe committee M Ike Diplomatic and Oonnular Appropriation bill was present­ ed by Mr. Eaton and adopted. After the morning hour, the Kollogg-Spofford case was the subject of a speech by Mr. Hoar, occupying the whole day. The Senate rejected the nomination of George S. Houghton to be Census Supervisor Third district of Iowa.... In the House, under the caU of the States, the following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Doggett, for the survey of lands within the railroad subsidy limits; by Mr. Louns- bnry, amending the Revised Statutes so as to allow national1 banks to issue notes to the extent of 90 per cent, of the market 'value of bonds deposited to secure circulation; by Mr. Frost, a resolution asking what, If any, cir­ cular letter had been given to Gen. Grant to foreign Governments on his foreign tour; by Mr. Newberry, to extend the time for completing the Northern Pa­ cific railway; by Mr. Young (Ohio), appropriating $40,000 to rebuild Memorial Hall at Dayton, Ohio; by Mr. Carlisle, to reclaim waste and arid lands; by Mr. McCoid, to regulate commerce by railway be­ tween the States; by Mr. Cabell, allowing tobacco manufacturers to import liquorice snd liquorice- paste to bond, and exempting the same from duty; by Mr. Wright, a resolu­ tion declaring that, after the 16th inst., the session of the House shall begin at 11 o'clock a. m. Mr. McGowan, from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, reported back the joint resolution requiring the President to call an International Sanitary Con­ ference to meet in Washington, D. C. Passed. The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations, It appropriates $16,120,331. Consideration was then resumed of the Curtim-Yo- cum contested-election case, and the House was ad­ dressed by Mr. Stevenson in support of tho claim of the contested. Mr. Frost introdured a bill providing that army officers should be promoted according to date of commission. At the night session of the HOUSA, Mr. Stevenson, of Illinola, made a speech favoring the electron of President and Vice President by a direct vote of the people. On Tuesday, May 11, the Senate concurred in the House amendment to the joint resolution author­ izing the Presid«nt to call an International Sanitary Conference. The amendment Includes in the countries from which delegates are to be invited those subject to cholera. Mr. Hill Bpoke two hours and a half upon the Kellogg-Spofford case, and had not concluded at adjournment.... .In the House, after reports from the try. Twenty-two emigrant vessels left Queena- ./ , ,T _ , _ n „ town, last week, for New York Gen. Sherman 4®ujk]' ® Hew York Park Theater Oom- and Quartermaster General Meiggs have writ- & ^any remain at McVicker's Chicago Theater for i tu the Secretary of War urging the comple- • •'Miattier week, the attraction being W.S. Gilbert's : t*on °F Northern Pacific railroad. They . , ' rr~b ' , agree m saying that it would be of great ad- grttat comedy. Engaged. The author a mten- : vantage in conveving troops, would save con- tion m writing thus play was to try the effect of ; siderable expense to the War Department, and treating a broadly-farcical subject m a grave and ; would facilitate the establishment of new mili- Mrnest spirit, and without extoayagancq, in : tary posts in closcr proximity to the Indian . ne' ,8®'?r ®o"tuine. It has always .j tribes than present Circumstances will permit, toeen found that, where the parts were plavedi T in accordance with thiatheorv, the comedy iias i WA*aINOXOIf. tdivoroo ̂three of the tint company playing the piece in h^un in Washington by ex-Senator Christiancy their original characters. A RUMOR has reached Denver of the massacre of twenty-five prospector* by the In­ dians in the Lower Gunnison country. Nopaiv tictilars are given. A BRIDGE on the Wabash road, a few miles south of Streator, I1L, gave way, as a train was passing over, precipitating the locomotive, baggage and smoking cars into the water, and dashing them into a thousand fragments. No against his wife... .A statement issued by the Bureau of Statistics shows the total value of exports of petroleum and petroleum products from the United States for the month of March, 1880, at §2,378,342 ; month of March, 1879, •$2,059,826 : for nine months ending March 31, 1880, $30,615,256 ; and the same period in 1879, $31,448,961. THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following information in regard to immigration into the port of New York. one was killed, but several of the railway em- ! arm during the month of April, 1880, ployes were severely injured, one of them per- ' passengers, 46,821 of whom were lmhii- haps fatally Four persons were killed and fP'J'rts. Dunng the corresponding period of •everal severelv injured bv a tornado at Wood- • ^'9 the total number of passengers arrived was -- -- . , . - . 14,394, of whom 11,601 were immigrants. The ; arrivals at the port of New York during the twelve months ended April 30, 1888, as com­ pared with the twelve months ended April 30, 1870, were as follows : lawn. Ill, The storm destroyed many buildings, and killed forty sheep and a number of find horses. A CONTEST between a railroad com­ pany and settlers on lands claimed by the com­ pany in Tulare and Fresno counties, CaL, has culminated in a bloody tragedy. A United States Marshal was sent to serve writs of eject­ ment on the settlers, by virtue of a decision of the court in favor of the railroad company. In attempting t* execute writs four men were 1880 Immigrants. 198,876 Citizens of United States returned... 81,708 Sojourners. 6,037 Total. .236,701 128,802 FOREIGN. MOUNT ETNA is once more in a terri proclaimed their independence Davit t and lolled and two wounded... .One hundred j ble state of eruption... .The Albanians have pounds of giant powder, stored in a blacksmith shop at Central City, Black Hills, exploded, the othsr day, instantly killing three men. THE Mihills Manufacturing Company's works at Fond du Lac, Wis., have been de­ stroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $200,000, and the insurance, divided among thirtv-six companies, at 669,000... .Twentv-one business houses and several dwellings have been de­ stroyed by fire at West Liberty, Ohio. The loss is placed "at $300,000. A MAN named John AUendorf, claim- seat, by a vote of 153 to 75. The House then went into committee of the whole upon the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, but ad­ journed before finishing it In the evening the House proceeded to the consideration of the Steam­ boat bill, and after considerable debate, and without making much progreuu in the bill, adjourned. In the Senate, on the 12th inst., Mr. Hill fin­ ished his speech upon the Kellogg case, his remarks occupying the whole day. The President nominated James L. Dryden, of Illinois, to be United States At­ torney for Montana, and John S. Bigley, of Newman, Ga., to be United States Attorney for Georgia. The nomination of Robert M. Wallace to be United States Marshal for South Carolina was re­ jected by the Senate In the House. Mr. Hooker introduced a bill abolishing the Indian Commission. A large number of committeo reports were made, and the bills were disposed of as recom­ mended, after which the House went into committee upon the Legislative Appropriation bill. An even­ ing session was held for consideration of the District Code bill. The President pro tcm. of the Senate laid be­ fore that body, on Thursday, May 13, a communi­ cation asking for $57,900 for deficiency in the service of the land offices. Mr. Voorhees submitted a reso­ lution directing the Secretary of the Interior to re­ port to the Senate the names of all railroad corpora­ tions in the United States to whom grants of land have been made by compliance with the terms of the grants within the time specified thereto; also the number of acres of unearned lands claimed j by each of such railroad corporations, and the j period of time when their right to uiem expired under the limitation contained mts. Adopt- | ed. A bill abolishing tol^fn the uouisville and i Portland canal, and mithoi^Bg the <fcvernment jo.,. j ojpeckte the w&ttirway wuo MBSHL HaSfiiion and Carpenter deimtod the IHogg Jfe vor of Mr. Kellogg retaining his At" Ralph P. Buckiand, of Ohio; Charles C. House!, of Nebruska: George B. Smyth, of Iowa, and Daniel Chadwick, of Connecticut, were appointed Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company At 10:30 Wednesday's session of the House was continued. The Speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Culbert- son in placc of Itregan as member of the committee to investigate the alleged corruption in the election case of Donnelly vs. Washburn. The House went Into committee of the whole on the Legislative, Ex­ ecutive, and Judicial Appropriation bilL At noon the session became the regular Thursday meeting, and the committee consideration of the Legislative bill was continued. Mr. Springer replied to Mr. Orth's explanation of tfce Venezuela matter. Mr. Cobb in­ troduced a bill appropriating $9,000,000 to supply the diiiciencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions for the present fiscal year, and asked for its present consideration.' It went back to the com­ mittee. In the Senate, on Friday, May 14, Mr. Thur­ man called up a joint resolution authorizing a court of inquiry in the case of Thomas Worthington, late Colonel of the forty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and it was passed, with amendment The bill providing for 35^858 ! additional accommodations for the Congresnional 6,129 | Library was passed ai amended. Me?nrs. Pendleton and Cameron, of WiMconcin, ppoke upon the case of Kellogg, both cgaiimt unseating tlie Fitting member. Adjourned to Monday. The President appointed N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, fornier'v Her- geant-at-Arim of the Hou*e of Representatives, Gov­ ernor of Dakota Territory... .In the Houve, the Leg­ islative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was considered in 1879. 86,905 was considered in committee and Brennan are to stump the United States, and i afterward passed. Mr. Gibson reported Parnell is to join them when Parliament is pro- i a resolution for adjournment May :<1, which met rogued.... The inhabitants of Bitlis, Asia Minor, J*'ith much opposition, and threatened filibu-tcrinK have revolted because the Government ordered ' *v'.n,'"ll,cr» who favored _legislation upon the tariff all available cereals to be sent from Bitlis to I Van and Bo.sh-Kaleh, where the famine is par- j , ticularly severe Gladstone has been re- j elected in Mid Lothian without opposition.... American citizens residing in Peru have pub­ lished a protest against the inhuman and reck- ! less mode of warfare carried on by the Chili- ans. They complain that their property has | at the present session. The matter was undecided. The H iu e met at 7:30 and immediately went into committee of the who'e on the bill regulating the municipal code of the District of Columbia. Trapped In His Own Coffin. t A retired Paris tradesman, advanced ing to be a resident of linn countv Kan. has *^en rutwfesslv destroyed and themselves"wan- j years, took it into liis head to buy a arrived atLeadville with a harrowing report of l-)ld? 1,n*,ulu'd-: • -JHe provisions for the aboli- | eolfin. Once in his lodging, he thought, _ _ . „ 6 1 tion of slavery in Cuba, have been published in he would trv how one felt in it He pot amassacre in the Ute country. He says he left Havana... .Instructions have been issued by the ' ' 3 k/.lnlk, Uw nu f home m company with seventeen companions, Spanish Colonial Minister to the Captain Gen- i ? lay, ? ? 7™ weeks ago, and that after taking out consid- eral of Cuba to combine firmness with human- ! f ,' could not get out again. There «^le metal on the reservation his party was ity in dealing with the Cuban insurgents In I he la3' for several days, when his hall attacked by the savages, he only escaping to strong contrast with the frequent cable reports 'porter, weary at not having seen him. ten the story of the slaughter. of late that all destitution and distress in Ire- ; knocked at his door. Hearing groans A SECBET organization has been formed • ft^^^c^ifcHourw»^^ "he wndition'of'the t^le Porter l,roko °Pen the 'door, and at Denver, with which some 150 persons, some peasantry of a portion of Galway county is such ; foun<1 t}le state of things described. He at them being respectable citizens, are connect- that unless immediate relief is afforded people broke the sides of the coffin and released ed, for the purpose of exploring the Gunnison j will die by the score. ' the old man. With the aid of wine and country an vmg out the Ute Indians. | EIGHTEEN persons were killed by an j beef tea he was restored to health. A NIHIL»r Tbe IMmUmUve «wet *&Mtt A tttsrtl of , mndent Write*, Vlrititflfmn* Dl»- '•i [St, Petersburg Cor. Xanchectcr guardian.] I have just seen one of "<he greatest printed on one side of a single sheet. Il bears the imposing title of the Will of the People. This little sheet took such possession of me that I could not rest until I learned more about it. I made inquiries in tho proper quarter, and ob­ tained a most interesting revelation of the whole "inwardness." of one of those Russian revolutionary papers which so perplex the police. The office of a Rus­ sian revolutionary journal is usually a little back room ih a very big hoiise. The room must be so insignificant that it is, as it were, lost in the house, and A policeman would hardly think of looking into it in a general search. It bears on the door an humble business announce­ ment to, the effect that artificial-flower making, or some such harmless handi­ craft, is carried on^QSttde. The room is scantily fumislfeoiy and the staff of the journal is just one small unwholesome- looking ex-student, who lias been turned out of college for insubordination, and is now living by his wits, on pawning and on a small allowance from a revolution­ ary center. Tlt^Vftaff has long, un­ combed, greasy hair, and a face which is rarely washed rwitli anything but its own tears. Ir wears a long cloak or wraprascal lined with what was once fur but it is now merely a bald surface of hide, and the only glimpse or hint you get of nether garments is in frayed ends of trousers peeping out from below. Within this wRipv*«cal is the all in all of the revolutionary journal--its soul and spirit and its iiioterial life." When the cloak moves, staff and the type, the pen and pape%, the ideas, the principles, lift and the poli^-- all go with it. It is a triumph of the art of packing. It is still rather inaCchrafce to say that the staff is a purd individuality. It is a dual one. A woman shares the wretched room, and the labors of the wretched enterprise. She. too, has been a student, and she is ^still young. She studied medicine, perhaps, at Zurich or at Paris, served as "queen's messenger" between the home centers and the leaders abroad, until the police made Russia too hot to hold her in her own name. To the other half of the%taff she is devoted heart and soul, and through him to his hobby --the universal revolution. She is a vol­ untary outcRstfrom a respectable family, and she would as cheerfully lay down her life as any petrolcusc of Paris for her creed. The journal is not a daily journal, but what may be called an intermittent one. It comes out when it can. The first business is to collect material. For this purpose the reporting staff, after a scan­ ty meal on the cold remains of last night's supper, Vraps itself in its cloak and sallifes out to watch public events. It is irresistibly attracted by a sort of magnetic instinct to places where there may be somebody to shoot at. It goes to the dreat square in front of the Win­ ter Palace, or to the environs of the public pffices. It has a pistol in its pocket, as well as n pen. There is no knowing what may turn np, and the staff hps generally a standing order to put a Czar or a Minister out of the way. With /this double duty im view it is al­ ways pure of some result. If it cannot get niar enough to kill it can still man­ age fo obtain information of goiDgs-out and comings-in which may be useful at some" future moment of action. It minglgs with the crowd of idlers. It worts it§ Maty g$4du«Uy to the front, as !1\nar as anW^olu &r« av ill allow, and, wheij/the Czar or Minister drives by, witli ilwift trotting horses and Cos­ sacks befote and behind, it darts such a look of hate at him as would do the work more effectually than knife or pistol, if looks could kill. When the reporter has brought in his ac­ count of how tilings are looking in the city it becomes the editor's turn. The leader is generally composed under the trees in a snow-covered public gar­ den. It is written on sheets of paper torn from a tiny pocket-book, and as each sheet is finished it is rolled up in a ball, ready to be swallowed at a mo­ ment's notice. I believe there is no in­ stance known in which the most vigilant detective has ever caught a leader writer in flagrante delictu. At the first sign of a policeman approaching the scene of literary labor down go the pills. The next stage is the setting up in type. The staff gathers up the pills into his hands, and proceeds to the little back room. The little back room is locked and bolted, and a chest of drawers is pushed against the door. The dual member lays a loaded revolver within easy reach, and the printing department is in full activity. The type is taken from under the mattress, and the leader is slowly and painfully composed, with many a start at the sound of a footstep, which threatens to turn it all into an immediate "pi." How the paper goes to press is not quite definitely known. My informant on this point was wanting in technical knowledge, but I am led to conclude that a sheet of paper is spread on the " form," and that the staff sits on the sheet of paper each impression. When where fchey are likely to be found by the next customer, and immediately steal out with ail dispatch into the shelter of the night. Midnight witnesses its re­ turn to the office, where it puts the broken " pi " into its place of conceal­ ment, and has dreams of revolutionary murders, arson and general misrule on its hard bed of type. 7 1 V S A L L S O R T S. *. THKHE are said to be at this moment more editors in than out of prison in Russia. _ THE quantity of cotton consumed in 1878 was fifty-four times greater than in 1778. MORE than twenty celluloid companies in this country are doing a successful business. FISK University, at Nashville has been presented with a bell weighing 2,000 pounds. NEW ORLEANS has shipped to France and Italy within a year 2,400,000gallons of cotton-seed oil. Jonn ROSE was tarred and feathered on his wedding night at Lewis, Ky., because his bride was his niece. IN the Territory of Arizona, with a population of 60,000, there are only five Protestant ministers and four Protestant churches. MARY BEANE deemed herself neglect­ ed by her lover at Denver, and shot the man with whom she found him playing cards when he ought to have been vis­ iting her. PHILADELPHIA contains 103 distinct iron factories, giving employment to nearly 12,000 hands, without including those employed at the Baldwin locomo­ tive works. " I WISH I was worth $1,000,000," said a, gentleman. " What good would it do you, for you don't spend your present income?" inquired a friend. "Oh, I could be economical on a large scale." MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE, who comes into the new Parliament with his father, is said to be " not only a strong, calm and lucid reasoner, but has that gayety and playfulness in him which a British audience most loves." MRS. ROGERS, and one of her daugh­ ters, of Buncomb, N. C., made by their own labor during the last season, from two and a half acres of land, $684 worth of tobacco. This amount was realized after paying a rent of one-third of the crop. JOSEPH EMMET'S spree in Pittsburgh will cost him $5,000. Nearly all of the seats were sold for a week of his per­ formance at the Opera House, and the house had to be closed, the money being refunded. Persuasive efforts did not avail, and he was sent to a hospital, where he was put into condition to act during the ensuing week. A NEWSPAPER in Georgia says that if the farmers of that State would devote less of their energies to the raising of cotton and give more attention to the cultivation of sugar cane, rice, arrow­ root, the tea-plant, wine-growing, and the production of early fruits, vegetables and melons for the Northern market, they would be much more independent and happy, A. RUST, residing on Grand Prairie, Texas, while returning from Dal&s, was attacked on Mountain Creek bridge by a Mexican lion. His life was saved by bis dog, which engaged the lion. The dog was terribly lacerated. The neigh­ borhood demand action of the County commissioners in ridding the county of the beast. This is the third person at­ tacked by it. "I AM told," said Mr. Gladstone "to Mr. Safn Ward one evening at Dalmeny after a day of great oratorical conflict, "that you have in your country a man who can play on a narp of a thousand strings." "Yes, was the reply, "but I have listened to a man to-day in this country who can play upon a harp of ten thousand strings." Mr. Gladstone is understood to have been pleased with the compliment. AN insidious worm called the fluke is causing losses among the sheep in Great Britain, actually exceeding, in the ag­ gregate, the cost of any of the wars which have figured in the indictment upon which the Tory Ministry is said to have been found guilty. In some parts of England, chiefly in the southwestern provinces, whole flocks have perished, and not a sheep is sound. IT is to be decided by legal authority just what constitutes a " gentleman " in England. The election of Mr. Thomas Wood as member of the Local Board of Stapleton, near Bristol, has been ob­ jected to on the ground of misdescrip­ tion on the voting papers, he having set himself down ae^a " gentleman," whereas he is an eating-house keeper, and was so described at last year's election, when he was beaten. THE Boston Traveller relates of an old and wealthy Boston merchant that he has in his " sitting-room" an ancient music-box, and several mirrors reaching from floor to ceiling. He loves to take his ease with a bowl of punch or bottle of brandy beside him, and for amuse­ ment he starts the music-box and calls in his man-servants and maid-servants to obtain j and has them dance to his music, while the whole : he watches their movements in tli<» iv>ir THE SOUTflL i explosion of dynamite at the Mount Gothard ( BEKBT HORNE (colored) was hanged" tunnel work8' • • Bret Harte iH reftPinK a 8olden ' for burglary at Raleigh, N. C„ on the 8th of b£rvtf iB lecturing tour in England. The ° , ' l c nul, UI attendance at his lectures is reported as large May. On the same day Isham Kapp (colored) ^ and constantly increasing The British have was executed at Fort Worth, Texas, for the bombarded and burned a town on the west crime of rape--Intelligence comes from I coast of Africa, the inhabitants of which re- Clarksviile, Teun., of the murder of two colored i cently captured and ill-treated several subjects children by their father, mother and aunt, who °f the Queen. iMd become crazed by religious excitement. j A DISPATCH from Teheran says the Greeley's Sayings. The sharpest or the drollest things came out of Horace Greeley's mouth e | with wonderful readiness and ease. For I instance, a woman had been sending to | him verses, some of which he printed, j and some of which he did not. Hhe em- "pi." The distribution takes place at nightfall. The first thing to provide for is the supply of the honorary free list, | namely, tlie Emperor and two or three I of his" chief Ministers, including the ! head of the Police Department.' Copies ' are forwarded to these through the post, with a manuscript intimation on tlu _ ployed a friend to call upon Mr. Greelev MAN was breaking up condemned i famine in Persia is increasing. (>op wospects t U111^ to hmt to hini that pecuniary re- shrapnel shells at Fort Mc Henry, near Baltimore, i are bad. There have been COO deaths from m«n«nit»an *onl? bo entirely aceepta- when one of the missiles exploded, killing six ; starvation since January in one single district. -*-tic plainest of plain speakers set- persons. The report was heard five miles awav i Wliesit couto ^CGO per ton in tli® faminc-atriokeri ' tied the matter at once. " Tell her,"' The bodies of the killed were shockingly mutil- ' he said, " that we should bo willing to •tod* | A SHERIFF'S posse was successfully pay her something for hot sending us DTTBINO an amateur theatrical per- j resisted in an attempt to eject some tenants any more !" • fonnance at Atlanta, Ga., a young lady's drens • from their farms near Tralee, Ireland. The took fire from the footlights, and in the panic 1 Sheriff and several members of the police force Which ensued the clothes of two other girls are reli0rtt:d to kavo been «~riGUsly injured ... were ignited. All of them were severelv bnmed i A commission appointed by the French Gov­ ernment to decide as to the disposition to bo before the flames could be smothered. A SOUTH CAROLINA man clioj wife's head off with an ax, and drowned him- Albania has resolved not OII1> to defend its A Q. n , _ , . made of the Tuileries has agreed to restore the AU CAROLINA man chopped his palace and convert it into a museum.. (iriof and Business. [Epitaph in a French Cemetery.] Here Lies Mine. Bertraxul, Wife of brandy wiien all goes IT is notorious that dogs take their i manners from the human society in j which they have been brought up. Thus I the coach-dog, having associated all his i bfe with grooms and stable men, is de- ! ficient in sagacity and only fit to follow \WIJI A manuscript uumiaiioii on tlie the rumbling of thei wheels. Fighting, margin of tlie paper that the recipients > £>nl,l).in£> anJ* holding on with iron will be done for at the first convenient tenacity are the congenital attributes of opportunity. Tlie letters are posted , J1'0, ^"l-dog, whiie the greyhound lias and the regular distribution begins. A ;, . ,, r®asonui8 faculty which is copy is left with every dead wall, where , rn.in the colley or sheep dog. A par- it may remain all night, with a chance i "°8» which, like Lever's Mrs. Roo- of being read by the moujiks as they are I ue^' _"comes o dacent people," would goin^ to their labor in the early dawn. rf,Plldiate the company of a street cur, This part of the undertaking involves ! m . gentleman and scholar of considerable risk and danger. Every j ~urns would nose and find out, just as dead wall in St. Petersburg is guarded ! jlou^8t Launee s cur Crab was spotted just now, not only by the police, but bv ' -Y, ,*"? ?r three gentleman-like dogs watchful house-porters, who are ordered j **7 yh.lc°,he came m contact under the to st'.md outside their doors and keep i 1 s table. awake all night. Still the house-porters cannot look two ways at once, and win). • they are looking one way the nimbie stafl' may contrive to post. up a copy the other. The ornamental part of tlie work, the one little bit of it which is a subject of just professional : M. Bertrand, marble-cutter. . . _ •elf in a mill pond in the presence of aminm : frontier against the Montenegrins, but ban also • This monument is a specimen of his work, j pride, is to leave a copy or two on the ing party. * »P^u- d(;t errnined to v ssert il s independence of Turkey. Cost 1 500 fraucs i walls of the police department itself. A. TEXO feq»n&> nanwil I „ ,. • ~ „ J /.f1 ̂ ""t" fur disagreement with his wife. The latter wo- meeting. ^ THE diminutive Commodore Nutt j of the impression. The remainder is ceeded to her mother's house whitw ' RrssiA is nl-minrr Mm tvWU Phi™ ; keeps a drinking-ploce in New York left (still on the generous free-list prin- ' thoughts are recalled, and sometimes ceeuui to her moUer s house, whither Baa- fol- , RUSSIA is placing the roads to China , ^ ̂ ^ wa3 recent. ciple which marks the whole conduct of | hate to inflame and fester; when prob- The Value of Our Xights. Do we not fail to accord to our nights their true value ? We are ever giving to our days the crcdit and blame of all we do and niisdo, forgetting those silent, glimmering hours when plans--and sometimes plots--are laid; when resolu­ tions are formed or changed; when Heaven, aijd sometimes Heaven's- ene­ mies are invoked; when anger and evil Raniniseeneeg of Eariy Railroading. Mr, J. H. Jackman in a recent letter shows that, in the matter of speed, loco­ motive engines of to-day are not greatly superior to those of earlier times. He says : "In 1840 Ross Winans, of Balti­ more, built a locomotive for the Boston and Worcester railroad. It had a seven- foot driving-wheel, and was intended for very high speed. It had steel springs to support the weight, and was fitted with many new devices. I was sent to Baltimore to look after the construction and delivery of this locomotive, and also to study the matter of coal-burning, which was a new thing on roads in New England at that time. I ran the engine for about six weeks, and should have run her longer but from the fact of her driving-wheels breaking. They were made entirely of cast iron, with chilled faces. These broken drivers were re­ placed with imported wrouglit-iron wheels, the first of the kind ever import­ ed. The locomotive was named the Carroll of Carrollton. Its speed, under favorable circumstances, was one mile in sixty seconds, the fastest I ever ran it; the trial was not accurately noted, I hav­ ing enough to do to attend the machine, and those with me Were too much flus­ tered with the excitement to accurately note anything. I have traveled many thousand miles on locomotives since that day in order to test speed; and, while I have seen some high speed made, still I have never seen the loco­ motive that could lay right down to it and outrun the Carroll of Carrollton. In those days we had no power brakes, and to run at such high rates of speed sometimes became daiigerous, I re­ member one instance in the night time of rounding a curve at about sixty miles an hour, when a danger signal met my view; I shut off steam and whistled down brakes, but they did not seem to check me. I whistled again. Still the speed kept up. I gave the third signal for brakes, and then reversed my en­ gine, saying to her : ' Do your duty, my beauty, or in twenty seconds it is good-by to railroading.' We came to a stand-still eighty rods from a train on the main track, having run one mile and a quarter froiik the place where I first discovered the red light." Country Social Life. Country folks are in general so fully occupied with affairs that they have no time to discover how lonesome they really are. So far as this is concerned we think it is a misfortune. We are too busy. We work too hard. We take few or no holidays. We read and think too little, and do not spend sufficient time in social culture. There is no reason why those who plow the soil or "whose talk is of bullock" should not experience the refinements which are the result of formal social life. In business, at bar­ gains, in pursuit of dollars, no man is seen at his best. He is thorney, spiney, with his back up as a porcupine might be at his business. Let one doff his working clothes and enter a room full of neighbors--men, women, young men and maidens--and he is a man of another kind. He naturally falls into the ways of an intuitive kindness, which is really the truest politeness; the doing to his companion what he should do to him. He " lets himself out" to please, and, after an evening spent in social con­ verse, he retires with many rough cor­ ners and asperities toued down. For a few days the ' influence remains. It would be permanent if it could be re­ inforced now and then, and the good re­ sults would be most agreeable and use­ ful. There is no difficulty in bringing these good influences to bear. Two or three persons with energy and some magnetism about them can put them in motion with ease. Now is the time to begin the effort.--Rural New Yorker. lowed her, fired at he r twice, assaulted her sis- I *n condition to transport troops and supplies in - - rufft&ii used tli© muzzle of the revolver* on happily with deadly effect. ia will visit the Emperor of Ger­ many nAt slimmer... .The Afghan war has I cmt England and India the handsome sum of I £65,000,000. lv arrested for keeping the; place open on Sunday, contrary to law, he was prompt­ ly bailed by the little Commodore, who Baid that he had bank stock enough to qualify as bondsman. FOUTICil. a * ^ ARRANG^NG to take 250 JAPAN rejects the proposals of China j A NEW YORK engraver recently made .. J mcinnati when the Demo- { for an ailiince> against Russia Russia proposes j this mistake : "Mr. and Mrs. -- re- rT. Mrs. Josephine . to place five ironclads in the Pacific to b©in spectfully request your presents at tho ***ne 18 one of the delegates from the Fourth 1 readiness should a war with become marriage of their daughter." the enterprise) with the proprietors of I lems are solved, riddles guessed, and tea shops and other popular establish- | things made apparent in the day, which ments much against their will. The : day refused to reveal. Our nights are staff, needing refreshment after its la- ' the keys of the days. They explain bors, will enter some wretched refresh- I them. * They are also the day's eorrect- ment-house in a low quarter, and, after j ors. Night's leisure untangles the mis- drinking his glass of tea seasoned witli j takes of day's haste. We should not lemon, and toying meanwhile with any | attempt to compromise our past in the regular journal, that may be lying on the j phrase "in, those nights," we should table, will slip a few copies intoacomor, 'rather say "in those days and nights." A Ping of Tobacco. One day last month when trade was dull a grocery clerk procured a piece of sole leather from a shoemaker, painted it black and laid it aside for future use. Within a few days an old chap from back in the country came in and inquired for a plug of chewing tobacco. The piece of sole leather was tied up, paid for, and the purchaser started for home. At the end of the sixth day he returned, look­ ing downcast and dejected, and, walk­ ing into the store, he inquired for the clerk: " 'Member that terbacker I got here the other day ?" " Yes, sir." "Well, was that a new brand?" " Y$s." " Regular plug terbacker was it ?" "Yes." " Well, then, it's me. It's right here in my jaws," sadly replied the old man. " I knowed I was getten purty old, but I was alius handy on bitin' plug. I never seed a plug afore this one that I couldn't tear to pieces at a chaw. I sot my teeth on this one and bit and pulled and twisted like a dog at a root, and I've kept biting and pulling for six days, and thar she am now, the same as the day you sold lier to me." " Seems to be a good plug," remarked the clerk, as he smelt of the counter­ feit. " She's all right; it's me that's fail­ ing," exclaimetl the old man. "Pass me out some fine cut and I'll go home and deed the farm to the boys and get ready for the grave myself."--Fort Worth (Tex.) Advance. Mark Twain as a (ierman Scholar. I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He wfis greatly interested, and, after I had talked awhile, he said my German was very rare, possibly a " unique," and wanted to add it to his museum. If he had known what it cost me to acquire my art he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it. Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and system- less, and so slippery and illusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and tlritiier, in the most helpless way, and, when at last he thinks he has cap- turecKa rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the general rage and turmoil of the parts of speech, he turns j over a page and reads, " Let tlie pupil j make careful note of the following ex- ; ceptions." He runs his eye down and , finds there are more exceptions to the ! rule than instances of it. So overboard [ lie goes again to hunt for another Ararat and to find another quicksand. German | books are easy enough to read when you | hold them before the looking glass or j stand on your head--so as to reverse the j construction--but I think that to learn j to read and understand a German news- i paper is a thing wliicli must always re- j main an impossibility to any foreigner. | tinted inclosnre I said to hilh: 'So* terribly tiie wild animalcules growL don't they ?' I was eenamost frightened to death till Daniel told me it was only the vendoes of peanuts and prize pack­ ages plying their rogation."--Boston Transcript. The First English Song Set to The following old English poem is said to have been the first English song ever set to music. It was written about the year 1300, and was first discovered in one of the Harleian manuscripts now i the British Museum : f T ^ APPROACH or nnmk Summer is i-oomen in, -• «f~ • ; Lhnde Ring cucen; " " Oroweth ftd, and bloweth me4L f-fc* And springetli the wde nu. ."-vi • CUCCU. ^ Awe bli'teth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu ; Bulluc stertctb, buck vertethf - Mur'e sing cuccu; Caocn. cuccu; Wei singes the cuccu; Ne swik'thow nawer nu. Sing cucco nu, Sing cucou. The following is a literal modern proso version : " Summer is coming. Loudly sing, cuckoo. Groweth feed and blow­ eth meed, and springeth the wood now. Ewe bleateth after lamb, loweth cow after calf; bullock starteth; buck verteth," i. e., harboreth among the ferns ; " merrily sing cuckoo! Well singest thou, cuckoo. Nor cease to sing' now. Sjng, cuckoo, how; sing, cuckoo!** Sir Richard Wallace. Lord Beaconsfield was desirous qfT making Sir Richard Wallace, who ih^ herited the late Marquis of Hertford's- estates, a peer; but the Queen, it is- said, objected, though so many of the fiwst creations in the Peerage were ille­ gitimate children. Any honor to Sir Richard would be very popular in Paris, where he was brought up and has chiefly resided, and to which he has been a. benefactor in many ways, especially by his magnificent gifts of drinking fount­ ains of clear water for the public. It is. quite common now at the cafes, when the waiter pours from the decanter on the absinthe or brandy, for the customer to say, " A little more Wallace gareon,. if you please." i Shall Suicides Be Cremated? The proprietors of the cremating fur­ nace at Washington, Pa., have been &. good deal exercised over the question whether they shall cremate the bodies, of suicides. At first they decided, with­ out any apparent good reason, that they would not give suicides the benefit of their furnace. Now, equally without any apparent reason, they have changed their minds and consented to cremate the particular suicide concerning whom the question was raised. It used to be the custom to deny suicides Christian burial; but that custom has long since become obsolete. Is it to be revived again when cremation is substituted for interment ? The Dutiful Son. A French boy saw his father hanging, and, instead c»f cutting him down, went and hunted up a policeman, who, on en­ tering the room, found the man almost gone. On reproaching the youth for not interfering, he said he had "no right to meddle with liis father's proceedings; it was not the part of a dutiful son to meddle." His father, being restored, went to thrashing his son for letting him hang; but the boy declared that his father would have thrashed him just the same if he had cut him down, and that he had no right to meddle. A Leaky Church. Bishop Butler was once holding .ser­ vice in a dilapidated church in the North of England, and, a storm coming on,: was nearly " drowned out" by the tor­ rent of water that filtered through a» thousand rents in the roof. He mildly remonstrated at the leaky condition of things, and suggested that the first sun­ shiny day should be devoted to repairing^ the edifice. " But it doan't need repair, your Wprship, when it doan't shower,"- was the answer of the worthy church­ warden. Horse-Biscuit. A horse-biscuit is being manufactured in Russia to take the place of oats. It- is made of crashed oats and the flotu* of gray peas, mixed with hempseed oil and salt; and is four inches in diameter. A day's rations weighs about four pounds, and is equal to ten pounds of oats. The horses like the biscuit when soaked in water; and if fed exclusively on thpm, though they lose in flesh, are still fit for fatiguing work. Mas. SCOTT-SIDDONB says: "Ihave traveled through the United States for eleven years, and know all phases of so­ ciety. The women here are very much better informed than the English women. American women possess a certain grace and ease, what the French call chic, that you will not find even in the high­ est English society. A servant girl here will dress herself in a graceful, natty way that an English Duchess knows- nothing about." THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. $8 50 <$10 00 11K) <G 5 50 11^ 12 4 00 («M 85 1 25 <$ 1 36 61 (A 53 42 «ii *5 DO (AI 92 11 00 <v*ll » • BEEVES Hoos COTTON FLO I. B--Superfine WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--Western Mixed OATS--Mixed KYE--Western PoitK--Mesa LABD CHICAGO. 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