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ILLINOIS - •" m ( * ? ; V e * * ? HEtlli KWS REVIEW. * ' • • * WOBRAS*. • * • • OOCID, in his flrndenoa BE- taw eomalttw of the New York State *' ^Ntenatetnvestigating "corners," said comers *4 Afiwe the producers better prices ana make 2«ipBHHdBete. Speculation benefits the home «eauerB, brings money to the country, and markets all over the world. Gould *aid he had spent large sums in aiding immi­ gration. A panic was caused, he said, when i lose their balanoe, and rush to sell -- le walking home from prayer-meeting at ton. Pa, two men and two women were led by a Joooaaotive James Brennaa into a Brooklyn restaurant and ordered remarking at the name time that he »Roman Catholic While eating- a piece lodged in his throat, causing his .The rubber manufacturers decided New York to close their factories for one t, and when they reopen to reduce the ntby one-halt HENRY WARD BEECHER, premising V£iis lemarks with the statement that his ^vjprofession entitled him to speculate in "fut- rpare souse Information to the New York Legislative committee on the subject «f "Corners." Mr. Beecher considered frrain less injurious to public morals eta fairs and religious lot- • j* MM • He told of his experience ' Tn the stock market, which *t*460aAned to the purchase of Panama stx <400 and its unloading at one-fourth that »rioe....John G. Whittier was 75 years of on the 16th of December, and received MjBy calls at his residence in Boston and * •cores of congratulatory letters His mind '•••Is unimpaired, but his physical vigor is a fgr&ing of the past F(. JAMES B. KEKNK testified at New fork regarding "corners," and maintained r they do not injure the public. He as- ' 'verted that the commerce of the country ^demanded dealings in futures, and believed ) • that speculation was an agent of civiliza­ tion, and helped to build up the West. The l' *Chic*go markets reflected the opinions of : t£e country, and he thought it wrong to xnention the Board of Trade dealings in that •** *«Wy 'antler the category of gambling. Mr. , m »Xf»ene thought the railway freight rates now , •efisting more disastrous than any corner l' *wlfbin his remembrance By thie explo­ it, Man of .a powder storehouse near Paterson, , 1ft. X, three men lost their lives # & T ALFRED CLOCK, an aged and respected Citizen of New York, residing on Madison ^Mlireime, was steered into a bunko den and *" lad on until he had lost 950 in cash and ins wnn nun n t carnag® ̂ m ntta „7'- totaue Balk, where he drew tl,50U in cur- stock market, which waa s WASHINGTON. • WASHINGTON has been astonished at rowan that • Jwttoe of the Supreme Court tost maral *nmsands in a gaming house, aid only left the table when the proprietor, refmwd ta farther honor hia personal check*. * THE Supreme Court of the ynitid States made an tmpoitant decision on tlta subject of political assessments It upheld the recent prosecution of Gen. Curtis in New York, affirming the oonstitutionftlitrv of the statute under which he waa convicted. Justice Bradley, in a dissenting opinion, do- dared that Congress had no right to inter­ fere with the inalienable right of the citizen to be imposed upon if he saw fit to submit to it THE Western Distillers' Association, in session at Cincinnati, has resolved to tax each member 4 cents a bushel on 40 per cent capacity, which will yield $3,500 to #4,000 per day. Each distiller will receive a rebate of 30 cents p«* bushel for running less than tile allowance. ..A Are at G rand Forks,. Da­ kota, swept away buildings and goods val­ ued at $100,000. Great difficulty in obtain­ ing water was experienced. SKORETARY LINCOLN sent to the Sen­ ate a letter stating that he can dispense with no clerks without injury to the public serv­ ice The House Pensions Committee have finally agreed to report favorably upon a bill to pension all the surviving soldiers of the Mexican war. with the notable exoep- tioBof Jefifarson Davis. GENERAL. • PETEB THOMAS, colored, was hanged «tMansfield, La., in presence of2,000persons, for the murder of Dick Bright James IA Gilmore was hanged at Deadwood, D. T., for the murder of a Mexican, and John Redd was executed at Searle, Ala., for choking Lucy Lee to death. THE coast of Newfoundland has just been visited by the worst storm of fifty years. The blow lasted twenty-four hours, wrecked numbers of vessels, and caused the loss of some thirty or forty human lives. Fifteen vessels were wrecked at Twillin- gate alone, and some fifteen people were drowned. The sailors whose ships were fortunate enough to ride out of the storm describe the sight as the most fearful they ever looked upon at sea .. .The descendants of William Black- more, who settled on this side of the At­ lantic in Colony times, claim heirship to the ground upon' which stands the United States Capitol Building, the White House, Treasury, Navv and other Government buildings, and hundreds of fine dwellings and business houses, as well as thousands of acres of land in Georgetown, D. €., Mary­ land, and Washington county, Pa The principal claimants live in Pittsburgh, and the papers have been drawn up far toe insti­ tution of an ejectment suit POLITICAL. ' R ' Ross J. ALEXANDER, who ran against the late J. T. Updegraff in October last, has been nominated by the Democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio district to fill the vacancy in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con­ gresses caused by the death of Mr. Upde­ graff. FOREIGN. THREE persons were hanged inthe Gal- way (Ireland) jail for the Maamtrasna mur­ ders. One of the men, Myles Joyce, protest­ ed his innocence while standing on the scaf­ fold The insanity of the Turkish Sultan is daily becoming more pronounced. Sedi­ tion proclamations have been posted in the streets of Constantinople and many persons have been arrested. DE. LESSEPS informed the French Geographical 8ociety that the Panama canal would be finished in 18S& The rate of mor­ tality on the Isthmus, he said, does not ex­ ceed that in France, and fears' that the canal would be destroyed by earthquakes are groundless Important Ministerial changes are taking place in her Maj Shocking Accident iir a Manur factory at Canton, 111. Three. Lars* Boilers Explode, Killing ^ Klne Men Instant*. -i Three Tk>n«rs in the works of the Pain Orendorff Company at Canton, I1L, exploded with terrific force, wrecking a portion of the building, and causing the death of nine em­ ploye* The bodies of the victims were crushed, mangled and scalded in a shock­ ing manner. A telegram from Canton gives the following account of the terrible affair: At about 7:t0 o'clock a deafening sound was heard, and buildings throughout the city shaken from the foundations up, caus­ ing the people to rush to their doors to learn the cause of the unusual occurrence. In a very short time afterward the tire-bell sounded an alarm, and a dense volume of Bmoke and steam was observed over the ex­ tensive agricultural-implementworks of the Parlin & Orendprff Company ̂ located on Elm street, in the east part of the city. It was at once inferred that the shopA were on fire--people not imagining the awful catas- ipplied the heatinir p esty's Council Derby becom Colonies; Lord into the India Offii 'WM IUS MIVCUI UEMG JJNSCEUETT a sound similar to that pro- by an explosion. Hie people from the swaying bnildings into the streets, the concussion in some insiances «xttngriixhlng the gas. Shocks were also at Manchester,Dover, Cbntocook, Pitts- and other towns Henry James. Sr., brilliant philosopher and metaphysician, tat his residence in Boston cf disease of brain, at the age of 71 years... .J. M. <e A Co., New Y*>rk tea merchants, have tailed, with liabilities of about $150,000. THE WEST. -.-.v. __ ** Toledo, Ohio, totally de. •v..irtroyed the Hall block, at the corner of St. ^Clair and Jefferson streets, the finest busi- **> 'iiess structure in that city. The main occu- jggtataa were Taylor, Rodgers A Co., shoe- dealers, L S. Baumgartner, notions; and . wood A Acklin, grocera The building had I 'fallen into the hands of the Connecticut Mu- the total case of . charged with the murder of _ ^Charles Stiles, at the Palmer House,.Chica- returned a verdict of guilty of man- hter, fixing the penalty at one year in penitentiary. THE State Grange of Wisconsin in I SBion at Madison adopted memorials to the jsiature asking that bonds and mortgages subjected to taxation the same as real es- te, and that railroad companies be required #f4#o reduce passenger rates 25 per cent At Fort Apache, Arizona, Lieut. George W. Schofield, of the Sixth Cav- J"t ', killed himself with & revolver, from jy caused by ill-health. He is a er of Gen. John M. Schofield, now com- _ the Division of the Pacific, and hia ier and sister reside in Chicago... .Four "lars entered a jewelry store at St Louis, while a pair of them covered the pro- or with revolvers, the other two went ugh the show cases. They got away > about 91,000 worth of goods. Hox. GODLOVK §. ORTH died at LA- lad., of blood poisoning, superln* ̂ j^oeed by cancer. He is the sixth member . " g»f the present Congress who has passed V'( #'£pw»y. Mr. Orth was 05 years of aga * ; Twb EXPRESS trains on the Pittsburgh, Hifj-Cincinnati and St Louis railroad collided in i* ®urve between Foster and New Lebanon, _f rOW°. Engineer Peters was decapitated. •'- and Postal Clerk Wharton was also instantly equalled. Five other postal cle^cs were seri- ' ftlislr- IT ' ~ -- . .. _ . injured... .Fire in the Barton Block, at Minneapolis, caused a loss of #85,000. imoa which there was #70,000 insurant*. ̂ THE SOUTH, ' WT ROBERT OCLP, Assistant Secretary of •VrWar of the Confederate States, died in Rich- * mond. He was brought into great promt. by his labors in the exchange of wris- WS«, and was selected by Jeff Davis as Seo. 1,'gLXStary of a Peace Commission whose over- • /Wes were rejected by the authorities at W ̂Waahington... .The steamboat Kate Kinnev, with 1,H<T> bales of ootton on )>oard, wa» de- atroyed by fire at the dock in Shreveport «:*<A flames spread to adjacent buildlnai and 4 loss of #150,000 resulted. THE tobacco trade in Virginia is t ,paralyred because of the pending changes . of the laws concerning it in Congress. Its manufacture is generally stopped, and fears fit# Of Suffering among the poorer classes of M both raoes are felt among the people.... A Mewport Jackson county. Ark., was visited a destructive confiagiation. Sixty build- SSS1* •"" ̂* "*iff!W8 comes from Texas of the lynch- iff of two brothers, George W. and Jim 'Vraley, the latter a mere boy. Both were ar- iaihthUid in tlM Comanche country, charged If cotton. They were placed un- at Haze 11 DelL At midnight a ! with shotguns, overpowered the i> jrugdflL took, the prisoners to the woods and hanged taem both on the same limb.... "' ftnprtoonment for six months is the penalty Ibed in Richmond for two medical stq. and their colored assistants can grave.... An I »red assistants caught a incendiary fire at Cor- out a numbeî of bust- valued at Sootheni - • v', jy- per m i ports franc at ~ Windsor. Cord Secretary for the Kimberley goeaf the Marquis Of Hart- iders, and Mr. Child- ce to relieve Mr. Glad- 6f the Exchequer... •k. while toast* WerA heinir nffojorl •* a banquet given to Parnell, a stranger pro­ posed the health of the Queen of the Bel­ gians, and when an attempt was made to eject him he drew a revolver. He was disarmed and given into custody.... Westgate, the self-accused participant in the Pncenix Park assassinations, now denies that he ever made a confession, or that he knows anything about the crime The imports into France the last eleven months increased 100,000,000 francs compared with the same ~Tiod last year. The increase is principally manufactured goodis. The increase in ex- irts for the same period was 147,000 000 ics compared with the same period last year. PARNELL, in a recant speech at Cork, said he would always oppose any attempt of the Government to land emigrants in a hap­ less and penniless condition on the shores of America. If, he said, England desires to promote the emigration of Irishmen, let them be placed on land in America, provided with houses and means to raise crops the first year of their residence. ParneQ esti­ mated that £3,000,000 of arrears of rent would be wiped out by the Arrears of Rent act iie believed that since the commence­ ment of the agitation £3,000,000 reduct ion of rent had been obtained for the people. Father Gallagher telegraphs from Killvbegs, Ireland, to the New York Herald: "The dis­ tress is intensifying hourly here. The Gov­ ernment seems apathetic. It is with us a case of relief or death. Disease has already many victims" The Austrian Cabinet or- advises the people to pay no heed to newspaper reports concerning the mili­ tary preparations of Russia, as they are not worthy of credence Eight hundred houses were destroyed by fire in Canton, China, and several firemen were burned to death... .Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle, la dead. He was born in 1797. THE reported massing of Russian faroops on the Galician frontier has had a de­ pressing effect on Russian securities in the Berlin Bourse, and exchange is lower than at any time since the battle of Plevna. Ar­ ticles in the German press, alleged to have been inspired by Bismarck, touching the defensive nature of the Aus- tro-German alliance, have tended to disturb the public mind.... A large party of laborers paraded the streets of Lougnrea, Ireland, demanding work or food Thev gathered about the residence of Bishop Duggan, who distributed money among them... .Statements are made & Paris that the relations existing between France and China are of a cordial character. gaii i the i TNCM have so changed that were Daniel Webster alive and upon the streets the fact that he was D. Webster could not secure him a place in the front row at a dog fight. He would have to take his chances with the common herd. GAIL HAMILTON says a woman may have been originally one step in ad­ vance of man in evil-doing, but he very soon caught up to her, and has never Bince suffered himself to labor under a similar disadvantage. Ax Indianapolis woman, asking for a div rce after twenty-eight months of mar-ied life, says of her husband: Of his home he made a • rison, of his wife a riso itr, and of himself a prison guard." THtL time has come when the average man has to wrestle with the temptation to buy his wife a snioking-cap i nd a box of cigars for a Christmas present.-- Philadelphia News. THE first newspaper that ever ap­ peared i i Fr n;ce is said to hav the da e of 1494. A bookworm recently di covered a stray copy in a library at Nantes. THE word "barnum" is used "in Europe with a small "b" as a common noun. Its meaning will be readily guessed. COUNTER irritant--A lady an a shop­ ping tow. trophe that had just occurred. Tliree large boilers, which s ufactory with motive and heating power, had exploded, scattering death and destruc­ tion and completely demolishing the brick engine and boiler room. The extent of the calamity could not be seefl from the street, the boiler-house being located on the south side of the north wing of the building, which is three stories high. The force of the ex­ plosion tore out about lorty feet of the brick wall of the three-story section, the brick and debris falling directly upon the wreck of the engine and boiier room, and breaking all the windows in the north side of the building. In the ruins could be seen the bodies of some of the workmen, and it soon transpired that others were missing. The fixe com­ pany, which was promptly on hand, soon extinguished the flames thathad burst forth in the ruins, and, with the, assistance of hundreds of citizens, commenced the mournful task of removing the dead and wounded as rapidly as they could be got at Six lifeless bodies were removed, and three more were taken out before life was en­ tirely extinct Two of the latter did not regain consciousness, one of them dying while he was being carried home, an­ other living but a short time after his re­ moval to the office of the company, and the third, who was conscious for several hours, expired at 4 o'clock this afternoon, making the total number of deaths from the explo­ sion nine. William McCarney, engineer, crushed out of shape; found lying across the engine, with his oil-can in his hand. Lemuel Hunnicut, fireman, burned and mangled horribly. Hiram Palmer, crushed and scalded. William Miller, crushed to death; found on a circular-saw table, with a stick of timber in Ms hands, in the work-room, just 'in the rear of the boilera Archie Henderson, crushed and scalded so as to be almost unrecognizable. Alexander Nickerson, literally cooked. Joshua Oldham, burned to a crisp on the arms; head crushed and scalded all over. Robert McGsath, the last man taken from the ruins, was crushed and cooked into an almost shapeless mass, one foot hanging by shreds of skin, bowels coughed out, and bones all broken. Samuel Bell, fearfully scalded and bruised about the head and chest Only two persons in addition to those killed received injuries--Calvin Armstrong and Joe Drake being slightly injured by bruises and scalda The cause of the explosion is a mystery, and will probably never be known. Two of the boilers were torn into small pieces and scattered all over the yard. The third boiler was one-half blown away and the other half forced through the partition wall into the woodwork-room adjoining. Pieces of the boilers were hurled a distance of 100 yards. SLYIITH CONGRESS. " r ' ^ ̂ The Pendleton Civil Betvtoe bill again oo* Xsd the attention of the Beyiate ou t̂he Inst Mr. Miller advocated the pmmHurti of the bill, saying that it the evils of the present civil-service system continue to in­ crease in the same proportion as in the past, the Government could not outlive another century. Mr. George thought the adoption of the measure would inaugurate a most important and necessary reform. Mr. Bay­ ard supported the bill, and spoke of the demoralizing effects upon public men of the "spoils system." The bill was amended to provide for the confirmation of the Commissioners by the Senate. The French Spoliation bill was amended and passed In the House Mr. Reed presented the memorial of James H McLean, who was elected to the present Congress to succeed the late Thom­ as Allen, of Missouri, and who was refused a certificate because the Second district had been legislated out of existence After con­ siderable debate it was resolved, by 144 to 15, to swear in Mr. MuLeaai and he took the oath. The PostofHce bill was taken up, dis­ cussed and amended. Mr. Yoorhees addressed the Senate In op­ position to the Pendleton Civil Service bill on the 10th inst He said the bill provided for admission of competitive examination to only the lowest grade of public offices. Therefore the treatment of the bill in the Senate seemed to him to be "much ado about nothing." The zeal of the Republicans for a reform of the civil service seemed to result from deathbed repentance, which was brought alKtut not by hatred of their sins, but by fear that they would not Le allowed to indulge in them "much longer and the Democrats were soothing the sufferings of the deathbed with the esthetic gruel c\f politics. Who had ever heard of any politic­ al scandals occurring among lower-grade clerks? They were not the public officers who figured in star-route or whisky-ring transactions. Yet this bill proposed to ex­ amine and regulate and replace these poor minor officials, leaving the strong, arrogant corrupt higher officers un­ disturbed. The real demand of the people was for penal laws to punish wrong­ doers in high places, not for contrivances to wrong poor cferka An amendment to the measure by Mr. Brown to limit the term of the Commissioners to four years was lost The House devoted the day in committee of the whole to the Postoittoe Appropriation bilL Mr. Sherman presented a bill inthe Senate, on the 18th Inst, to extend for two years the time in which spirits must be with­ drawn from bonded warehouses. Mr. Plumb reported admeasure to authorize the sale to settlers of part of the Fort Dodge reserva­ tion. The provisions of the Indian Appro­ priation bill, which sets aside $<>,0:r.,ii00 were explained by Mr. Dawes, and several amendments reported bv the Senate committee were adopted. Mr. Brown stated that the com­ mittee appointed to attend the funeral of Ben H. Hill expended only #1,0"^T>. The House resolution in regard to the death of Mr. Orth called out tributes of respect, and caused an adjournment The President nominated to the Senate John F. Gimsted, of the District of Columbia, to be Commis­ sioner of the District In the House, the desk of the late Hon. Godlove 8. Orth was draped in mourning, and the Chap­ lain alluded to his death in tender phra«c:a Mr. Putterworth offered a resolution recit­ ing the injury done the tobacco trade hv the proposition to reduce the tax, and pledging the House to grant a rebate on unbroken packages should the tax be repealed Mr. Kelley reported back unfavorably the res­ olution for a holiday recess, and it was voted down by 105 to 12i A resolution offered by Mr. Robeson, to Impose a fine of •50 per day on members absent during the holidays, was adopted. Mr. Logan presented a bill In the Senate, Dec. 10, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, regulating charges to be made by telegraph companies. It provides that such corporations must transmit messages for other companies in the same business at the same rates as are charged the public. The understanding is that the bill is aimed at the Western Union, which has been in the habit of levying a prohibitory tariff on messages given to it bv the Mutual Union. It is also alleged that the Western Union has been charging a royalty on Atlantic cable messages. A similar bill was introduced in the House by Mr. Joyoe of Vermont Mr. Sherman presented a memo­ rial in the Senate asking that monthly pub- rate lications be carried by mail at the same i H TholfidlAll. tUledttpiritati Sherman. Mr. tor the eotli after the entry. Mr. for a rebate in case duced. In the Bo) bill was introduced directing Agency to the /The bill to of dis- oalled up by Mr. an amendment oent interest yean from ftresolution on tobacoo is re- Repmssntati f es, a it the number of liquor saloons in Die District of OOtumtia to 200. Mr. Mills offered a resolution Inquiring of the Porteester j8**end if lettecMjarriers had been prohibited ttoln wearing overcoats. A number of request* for leave of absence having been presented, it was voted, by 177 to lol, to adjourn from Dec. £2 to Jan. 2. Bills wane introduced--to pre­ vent Federal afltoehoyters from Interfering with the freedom of elections, to stop the importation of adulterated tea, to annul the anti-polygamy lanr and to repeal the statute for the pre-emption of public lands. A reso­ lution was adopted tiat the Garfield Board of Audit report all dtftn* presented and al­ lowed. The Postoffloo Appropriatin bill was considered in committee of the whole and the relations of the Pacific roads to the Gov­ ernment were fully ̂ cpbined. The hcuate passed ̂ the Consular Appropri­ ation biil MI. Saunders, by request, introdticed an act for the admission or Utah as a State, and a bill for the construction of a br.dge jvcross the Missouri directly be­ tween Omaha and Council Bluff a When the C.vii .Service bill ctone up, Mr. Pendleton oli'ciod an amendment striking out the pro­ vision that original entrance to the service shaii he m the lowest grade. This provoked a free-for-all talking match, in which sev­ eral Senators tirqdilrTIt'their tongues, when an executive Eesslbji came to their relief. The House passed a bill to permit retired army odicers to had civil offices in the Territories, after rejt-cting an amendment to cover their retired pay into the treasury. The Post-office Appropriation bill was passed.' Mr. Lynch offered a resolution to extend the provisions of the Pension Appropriation bill to enlisted colored men. ADDITIONAL KEW& JOREPH E, ACKLEN, who claims the seat in Congress for the Third district of Louisiana has gone to Washington for re­ venge. He states that William Pitt Kellogg levied$80,000 on Federal officers in Louisiana, obtained large Sums from the railway com­ panies and distributed bags of money among plantation hands, through the med­ ium of Lewis Honor. Appraiser of the port of New Orleans, and Gorge Drury, of the mint ... .Gen. Curtis, of New \ork, paid the 91,000 imposed for eolletitftig political assessments ana was discharged from custody. AT a conference of iron manufactur­ ers held in Pittsburgh, reports were pre­ sented showing a far outlook for trade. An agreement was reached in regard to the price of bar-Iron, which forms the basis on which wages are reckoned. No change is proposed to be made, but it is believed that in some cases production will be limited The manufacture!*, while not fully satisfied with the findings of the Tariff Commission in regard to scrap, pig and heavy bar-iron, yet indorse the report as a whole.... The Copeland : Hotel at Pembroke, Ont, was burned, two bqy servants and a guest perching in the flames Many of the guests had narrow escapes with their lives... .Trenor W. Park, a native of Ver­ mont, well known throughout the United States as a brilliant financier, died on a steamship bound for Aspinwall. He was President of the Aspinwall Railroad Com­ pany Forty brigands invaded the town of Ahuacatlan, Mexico, and bound and carried away the Mayor, Justice and Aldermen, whom they will hold until ransomed. DAVITT, in a speech at Stalybridge, declared that the outrages in Ireland must he suppressed... .Michael Flynn, the last of the three men arraigned for the murder of the two Huddys at Lough Mask, was con- victed and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 17. Aftfer Flynn received his sentence he said to the Judge: "Thank you, sir, I am as willing to go there," looking upward, "as to home. I wish you all_ good-day.".... a y« a fine of 3,000 francs, "IduL farmers yKfln 4i proclaimed meeting at Ballymena, Antrim. Bail was reiused Ex-Empress Eugenie has written to M. Rouher to convey to the ctt/ of Marseilles the park and castle decreed to her by the court.... Oberdank, whe was arrested for conspiring to take the life of the Emperor of Austria, was executed at Trieste Eighteen deaths resulted from an explosion in a cartridge factory at Paris Joseph Keichardt, a leather merchant of Vienna^ has failed for •2,000,000. A SUIT for divorce HAS been entered at Richmond, Va, by Mrs. Henrietta Pigeon, who was married in London in 1804. This was the former name of Mrs. Liibouchere, and, as she recently spent two days in Rich­ mond, it is believed that the action was brought in her behalf by her next friend.... A hail-storm at Huntsville, Ala., blew down a milling-house, killing a white man and four negro women who had sought shelter. CHARLES E. UPTON, President of the City Bank of Rochester, has wrecked that institution by speculations in petroleum, in which he is believed to have sunk 550,000. He has surrendered property valued at $50,- 000. The bank held the funds of the Episco^ Sal Diocese of IV'estern New York, and large cposits by the County and the savings banks. A drait purchased at Cincinnati on the Manhattan Bank, of New York, for 917.03 was presented bv the owner to the Manu­ facturers' and Traders' Bank, at Buffalo, calling for $5,#70.48. The bank paid the money and offieers are now inquiring as to the whereabouts of the expert forger.... Goldsmith's Hkll, Library street, Phila­ delphia, was burned. Loss, #100,000; insur­ ance, 950,000. IDA SLOAN died of delirium tremens in the Home for Fallen Women at Des Moines. She is the woman who escaped the gallows in Chicago after killing a female rooni-mate and hiding the corpse in a closet ... .Representative* of the brewing interest in Chicago, Milwaukee, St Louis and other Western cities met in Chicago and decided upon advancing tilt price of lager beer 91 per barrel. Th^ brewers allege that the price of the vajrious ingredients used in the manufacture ol beer has advanced to an extent which ji stities this action. A brewers' associatioi, trade west of I(ocb;ster, N. Y., was formed at the meeting 1 y the burning of a farm house in Linn' cou lty, Kansas, three child- ren lost their livea J. T. HARKEY, a bottle of pep^ ague. The dose like a dog with snarles and tries person in reach < THE Bee-Keept n announces that not hear. That'i fun in lifting a high is in hearinj; he comes down. including the entire Palmer, Tex., drank ersauce to cure the made liim mad, and, the hydrophobia, lie bite everything and him. ? o s' Journal officially the honey bee can- too bad. Half the x>y about three, feet what he says when & MISSISSIPPI murderer wanted his execution delayed half an hour for the weather to clear off and give the crowd a chance to put down their umbrellas, and the Sheriff admired the idea and waited. IT may be all imagination, but when a man is drawn as a juryman he thinks every man he sees smiling is grinning at his misfor^ine, and it is as torment­ ing as fleas. ONE of tiie benevolent New Yorkers who helped introduce the English spar­ row here has luul to remove every bracket and go to an expense of $100 for painting. A PENNSYLVANIA woman who thought she had used arsenic instead of baking- powder in her biscuits, solved the ques­ tion by feeding two tramps. A NEW YORK teacher of the art o* swimming says that women learn quick- mtim* men. natural Eatertalataff Anecdote* at Jodgea. v. {Indianapolis Review.l I The gravity of the bench ia so mueh a characteristic that humors are litte expected. Yet there are many anec­ dotes of the bench that show its humor to lie bright and genuine. Perhaps the grimmest humorist on the bench, in this country, was Mr. Justice Grier, of the United St ates Supreme Court. His colleague. Judge David Davis, is said to relate, with great relish, a whimsical story of his first day on the bench of that court. He was quite impressed with the importance of his functions and listened with great eagerness to what was going on. A young lawyer was making a very ambitions speech and after the harangue had lasted for nearly an hour, Judge Grier, who was seated next to Judge Davis, turned as if to speak to him. Davis inclined his hand, expecting to hear some profound obser­ vation on the law of the case, when the solemn Judge Grier growled, "Con­ found that fellow. He makes such a row I can't sleep." Congress, not many years ago, passed an act requiring a term of court to be held every year in Judge Grier's circuit, at the town of Williamsport, Pennsyl­ vania. The Judge was there promptly at the first term and taking his seat commanded the clerk to call the first case. It was a trifling criminal case, and was disposed of in a few moments by an acquittal of the prisoner. "Call the next case," then said the Judge. "There is no other," modestly replied 4he clerk. "What," said the Judge, breaking out into a storm of indignation, "call a Judge of the Supreme Qonrt of the United States here to tfy one case? Why, you might as well call a regiment of United States soldiers to shoot at a pigeon--and miss him at that." Judge Grier had a great spite against the technical defense often set up in suits to recover upon bonds given to se­ cure subscriptions to railroads and other public improvements. In one case where a lawyer had set up one of these objections, the Judge, remember­ ing an old case in Pennsylvania which had sustained a like decision, exclaim­ ed, as if to assist him. "Yes, Mr. Rich­ ards, you will find a case in point in your favor in the 231 of the Pennsylva­ nia Reports." "I was about," said the delighted at­ torney, "to refer to that case." "But," said the Judge, gruffly, "it is contrary to every other decision on the face of the earth." f It will be remembered by lawyers fa­ miliar with the Supreme Court, reports that Judge Clifford, for a good while omitted the article the from the begin­ ning of sentences where that article was appropriate. The omission made the sentences awkward and often obscure. Judge Grier, who was quite fatherly, one day after Judge Clifford had deliv­ ered an opinion where these omissions had seemed quite conspicuous, said: "Cliffy, that was a good opinion of yours. It is good law and it will stand. But what's the cause of your animosity against the little article the?" "Mr. Justice Greer," replied Judge Clifford, with considerable dignity, "the law of my opinion is a proper subject for criticism; the style is my own." When Judge Davis first held a term of the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis, General Tom lirown woe United States District ._Ai>/>rHey. The General, thinking he should show the Judge some special attention, bought two tickets for the opera, and going into the Judge's room, invited the Judge to go to the o'pera with him that night. "Oh," said the Judge, "I don't feel very well, General, and I believe I'd rather iiot go." The General turned away, a good deal disappointed. But the Judge suddenly exclaimed, as if a bright thought had struck him: "By the way, General, I understand there's going to l»e a good circus in town to­ morrow night. I think if you would in­ vite me to that I'd like to go." Judge Davis Used to tell some admir­ able stories of an old Illinois judge, one of which we chance particularly to re­ member. One of the judges was rather remarkable for conveying to jurors in his charges to them, his own opinions with regard to the merits of the case. In one case he had done so with great plainness, but, to his amazement, the jury hung out for hours without coming to an agreement. The Judge inquired of the bailiff what was the matter and learned from him that one juror was hanging out against the other eleven. He sent for the juror at once and stat­ ing to the jurors that he had plainly intimated how the case ought to be de­ cided, and that he understood one juror was standing ont against the other eleven, he proceened to rebuke the juror sharply. The obstinate juror was a nervous little man, and as soon as the Judge was done he rose and said: "Judge, may I say a word ?" "Yes, sir," said the indignant Judge; "what have you to say ?" "Well, wliat I wanted to say is, I am tile only feller that's on your si&#«* The Grate of Artemas. Artemus Ward's grave is marked by a plain marble slab, on which is the in ciiption, "Charles F. Browne, known to the world as Artemu* Ward; died at Southampton, Englaud, 1867, aged 33 years." And beneath, tliis line: "His memqgy will always be a sweet and un­ failing recollection." These words were copied from the letter sent to the sor­ rowing mother by Mr. Miller, the En­ glish gentleman win 'cared for the son in his last illness, and closed his eyes whe-n he ceased to breathe. Blanks. "Mother," asked a > oy in pursuit of knowledge, "it says here that ' the play is written chiefly in blank verse.' What is blank verse, mother? Intelligent mother--" Blank verse, Charley ? >ever heard of such a thing. Have heard of bla k books, though. Yes, that is what it evidently means--the play is written in blank books. I supp« se that the au­ thor found them more convenient th. n letter paper."--Philadelphia Bulletin. Adulterated Olire OIL Cottonseed oil mixed with twioe its volume of pure nitric acid, shaken for several seconds in a slender .vial, and allowed to stand for five minutes, is first a golden yellow, then copper-col­ ored a d finally almost black. A sin ilar treatment of olive o 1 results in a liquid which is at first almost color­ less, changing to an ashy gray, with a yellowish tinge. This simple test will detect an adu teration of o]ive oil amounting to but 5 per cent. A Pleas ng Dictionary. No, we are pretty well satisfied that there is no companion to the language M fammt kwwu *» the language of food. If there waa such a book, it would contain something like this: Hash--innocence; boarding-house steak --tender thoughts: sausage--kiyi; beans---culchah j fishballs--forget-me- not; etc.--Puck. i Colonial Carolina Dlnnor. As a letter of that time by Mr. Har- leston informs us, the great social fea­ ture of the period was the dinner, and he records the fact that Sir Nathaniel was present at one which must have been a stately affair. Bills of fare were not known in those days, and it is im­ possible to supply an accurate list of the delectable things which were pro­ vided on such occasions; but there lies before me an old volume of Markham's Country Contentment*, published in 1637-'8, which has been carefully pre­ served by the descendants of Mr. Har- leston, and was doubtless a great au­ thority anvong the housewives of Caro- linia about the beginning of the eigh­ teenth century. Markliam warns the housewife that though she "be never so skillful in the parts of Cookery, if shee want skill to marsliall the dishes," fail­ ure must attend her. "It is," he says, "like to a Fencer leading a band of men in rout, who knows the use of the weapon, but not how to put men in order. Shee shall first," he admonishes, "marsliall her Sallets, delivering the grand Sallett first, which is ever more compound; then green Sallets; then boil'd Sallets; then some smaller com­ pound Sallets. Next unto Sallets she shall deliver forth all her Fricases, the simple first, as Collops, Rashers, and such like; the compound Fricases; after them all her boyFd meats in their de­ gree, as simple broths stew'd--broth, and the boyling of sundry fowles. Next them all sorts of roast meats, of which the greatest first, lis chine of Beefe, or surloyne, the gigger or legges of Mutton, Goose, Swan, Yeale, Pig, Capon, and such like. Then bak'd meats, the hot first, as Fallowe-deere in Pasty, Chicken, or Calves-foot-pie and Dowset. Then cold bak'd meats, Pheas­ ant, Partridges, Turky, Goose, Wood- cocke, and such like. Then, lastly, Car­ bonadoes, both simple and compound." Now, with all these dishes well prepared and arranged on the dresser, the criti­ cal moment has only just arrived; for Markliam farther says that the server must not set the viands down as he re­ ceived them, "but, setting the Sallets extravagantly about the Table, mixethe Fricases about them; then the boyl'd meats amongst the Fricases, roast meats amonst the boyl'd, bak'd meats amongst the roast, and Carbonadoes amongst the bak'd, so that before every trencher may stand a Sallet, a Fricase, a boyl'd meat, a roast meat, a bak'd meat, and a Car­ bonado, which will both give a most comely beauty to the table and very great contentment to the Guesse." This constituted the first course. The second and only remaining one--unless the reader be already surfeited--consisted of "Mallard, Tayle, Snipe, Plover, Woodcocke, Chicken, Pigeon, Partridge, Raile, Turky Bitter Hearne, Shov- eler, Crane, Bustard, Puets, Gulls, and such like. Then hot bak'd meats, as Marrowbone-pye, Quinee-pye, Floren­ tine, and Tarts. Then cold bak'd meats, as red Deerej Hare-pye, Gammon or Bacon pye," etc. At such a feast did Sir Nathaniel sit with Chief Justice Trott, Colonel Wil­ liam Rhett, and the elite of the prov- ience, toasting the bride at intervals in Muskadine, "great, pleasant, and strong, with a Bweet scent and amber color," *Y lint' tllfv ntliu llilk KJL tlm 111 in- digO and furs, of French intrigues with the Indians to the Westward, of the Spaniards tampering with the slaves on the southern border, of the conse­ quences of a servile insurrection, the proportion of whites to negroes being at that time one to ten. Then the talk settled on the subject of silk-making and the growth of rice. Ramsey tells us that among the col­ onists there was an impression that rice was not a very wholesome article of diet--an opinion to which Markliam no doubt largely contributed; for although he says "If you take a quarter of a pound of Rice, and boile it in a pottle of wa­ ter till it come unto an indifferent tliick- nesse, and then put into it a good lump of potted or barrelled Butter, and as much sugar as shall saltwise season it to ton indifferent sweetnesse, it is a dish of n eat meet for an Emperour at Sea, wholesome, good, and light of deges- ture and will be as much as foure rea­ sonable men can eat at a meal," yet he adds, "I doe not not wish any man of shipboard to make this a continuale feeding dish, for it is both too pleasant and too strong, and--may breed incon­ venience in strong bodies; but rather to use it once a week as a physical noiiv- islier, or for the comfort of sick and dis­ eased men."--P. D. H&y, in Harper's Magazine. SEVENTEE* yearp after Renfroe had killed Scott at Carthage, La., he was captured by a brother of the murdered man. Like a Danite, the brother had dogged his footsteps from place to place through all these years. He wanted JiiOQ damages. IT is said there are in New York city some 20,000 houses, each containing from two to forty families, and 8,000 more containing two or three families, but not known technically as tene­ ments. The polite name for these bar­ racks is flats. _ THE Galveston News infers from no­ tices found in Washington newspapers that, when a gentleman is elected to the United States Senate, the wife be­ comes much handsomer than she waa ever known to be before. A CHARLOTESVILLK (Va.) printer has written 2,452 legible words on a postal card with a lead pencil, reserving in the center of the c ird a space the size of a gold dollar, on whieh i» inscribed the Lord's Prayer. OF the three sons of ex-President Hayes, Bircliard, the eldest, is practic­ ing law in Toledo; Webb, the second, is in business in Cleveland, and Ruther­ ford, Jr., is in the savings bank at Fro* mont. ACCORDING to an English scientist, if you want to know how to digest oysters, soak one in brandy and water, another in porter. The brandy hardens them into leather, the porter dissolves them. A CERTAIN drawing-room on Fifth avenue, New York, has a oeiling of cathedral glass, said to have cost $5,000. It is one of the oddest ideas of a very odd year. DURING the last ten years cattle in New South Wales have increased very little, but sheep have gone from 16,000,- 000 to 83,000,000. IT IS estimated that $10 worth of false hair improves a woman's looks $500. worth. It is the hair-dealer who > [From Few people who use hidf a box ©t" matches a day are dispaMd to thin#-** much on tho subject of their origin, and rest.content witli the faofctliat thev ex* ist. Fifty years have net" yet passed, since the most elementary match in it&r^ prcHent form was invented^ and in Vien­ na, not long ago, they celebrated tli<k* fiftieth anniversary of their iuventioi§ by three Austrians to whom, of course^ that honor is assigned. In England, itji. ? 1832, matches had not seaclied theiih* present shape, but had only raacheqjl th^ stage of "Inciters." Tlie modem* generation has lost si^ht of all these* gradual evolutions, and they are onlj£ known to those who have the zhisfortnno* to be survivors of those benighted unenlightened days. In the time dpM Fox and Burke, and up to the begins ning of the present century, the flinij and steel and tinder stage had not- ljeerj passed, though it is probable that Dr» Johnson and others were more skillful. - than we moderns are at this intricate* », operation. About th6 beginning of the* century, however, matters began to im-: . prove, and long brimstone matched) H came into use to supply the place o£ the tinder. These were pieces of woodt- ^ | about six inches long, tipped with enl- i phur, and caught fire easily from thai , y spark of the flint. It would be diffi- ,• cult to obtain a specimen of them now~A adays. No museum seems to interests itself in preserving these little social cariosities; and it is only some fifty ^ years hence that they will bo look&E . upon such, and sought after in some* ' ^ technical exhibition of the match trader | It was not, however, till 1825 that mat- ters began to improve, when an elabo- ' f rate apparatus called "Eupyrion" camee | into use. This consisted of an opens J bottle containing sulphuric acid, soak-* . :| ed in fibrous asbestos, and the matches* 1 which were about two inches long and. 1 sold at one shilling a box, were tipped! .. with a chemical combination, of which, t chlorate of potash was the ingredients '4 On putting the match into the bottle* 3 and rapidly withdrawing it a flame wast produced, but as the acid was incon­ venient and the matches liable to be» spoiled by damp, the Eupyrion beingf | shown not to be the fittest did not sur­ vive. • ,; Many inventions more ingenious than* useful were successively tried: the« "pyrophorous," the pneumatic tinder- box, and the hydrogen lamp of Dobe- ? reimer; but it was not till 1832 that the> first sign of a friction match was evolv­ ed--and it was called "a lucifer" by the* joking generation. Lucifers were sub­ stantially the present match pulled - through a piece of sand-paper. The« remembrance of such a contrvance isi calculated to make us think less than, we do of that dull time. But the coun­ try was waking up, and the congreve,. which is the match of to-day, soon fol­ lowed the Reform bill. Whether the> congreve was called after the rocket of!i , that name is a doubtful point. There is a story of its inventor which shows, if true, the value of attention on the part of schoolboys, and might be put in all board schools. The real invent­ or, it is said--a village schoolmaster-- explained it to his boys at his school, and one more intelligent talked of it to> his still more intelligent parent, who< was a chemist, and who turned it to- material advantage. Be that as it may* this was the same as the match of to­ day : and it has since undergone few im­ provements, except one changing from a silent to a noisy match. Trie silent match, which is so affected by burglars, and is a necessary accompani­ ment to list slippers, consists in the omission of chlorate of potash in the. composition which tips it, and which is the cause of the cracking noiss which is liable to awake the intended victim. The last great invention was the safety match, which was patented by Bryant and May in 1856. It would require, perhaps, the intel­ lect of a Rabbage to wrestle with the statistics of matches. That 60,000,000 are burned every day in Europe seems below the mark. Some firms, Buch , as Messrs. Dixon, at Manchester, turn out 9,000,000 a day, and many in London 2,000.000 or 3,000,000. The consump­ tion of phosphorus for the purpose in England and France shows that about 250,000,000 a year are turned out in these two countries alone. In America, where, as in France, there is a * tax on matches, by which grist is thus brought " to the mill, the stamps show an out­ turn of about 40,000,000, so at present match-making is not a speciatly of America, though tlie tax yields about 4700,000 a year to the revenue. MISS RUTH MONROE GOUVERXIHJ*^ A great-granddaughter of President Mon­ roe, and for some years past a clerk in the Postoffice Department, wiU be mar­ ried in Washington to Dr. William C. Johnson, of Frederick, Md. THE HABKEXE&" ^ NKWYOBK. Bwvns. t 5.01) ^ T.S1 Hoos 6.go 0) r.4P COTTOW. ,l<m FIX>ur--Superfine. 3.3 @ 3.80 WHEAT--No. 1 White...U* & l.«7 No. J Red........^ 1.09 COBN-tNo. 2 .T1 & .73 OATS--No. a .« @ .4t PORK--Mesa. 18.60 <319.00 LABD. .u»4«£ .11 CHICAGO. ' BEKVBS--Good to Fancy Steers.. 5.00 (<? Cows and Hellers 2.W 4.'< Medium to Fair i.W 4.99 HQOS. 4.T5 & B.50 FIX>UB--Fancy White Winter E*. 5.25 6. 5 Good to Choice Spr'ftfiX. 6 00 fit 6.80 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring "" ** No. a ited Winter..... 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