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'ii' .̂u Gov. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, ap- fSBured In oourt at Boston as counsel In a ftllMl owe the Weetfield distillery sult- and made an argument for the defense. TlMoocawesoe muatws Win fwteto mrr In Beacon Hill that the gubernatorial oflloe AMU tie wdisgracedT. .'.The Academy of KUSLC and Horticultural Hall at Philadelphia havebeen engaged for the Irish National Lnd League Convention, to be held April and 28. Parnell and Sifittara expected to be present... .Elliott, thepriee-filter, was honed in New York with dtsttngulaned hOnora The remains were foUowed to the nave by 150 coaches filled with admiring Meada *Two BOYS were arrested at Jersey Ctty who were bound West to kill Indians, flour pistols. two knives, 1,000 rounds of am­ munition, and tlttt in gora were found ou them. BY an explosion of dynamite in "Dead Man's Hollow," near McKeesporfc, Pa., fine man was killed outright and three oth emceoeived injuries that may prove fatal Tike accident was caused by an attempt to thaw out some frozen dynamite by the heat of a stove.... .A scow having on board thirty laborers was struck by a schooner opposite Jersey Oity< and eeven men were drowned. AIIOKG heavy failures in the East are Ives, Beecher A Oa, liquor dealers of New York, with #500,000 liabilities, and Friend, Humphrey A Sons, leather dealers of Albany, N. Y., upon whom preferred creditors have claims amounting to 9123,000. The liabili­ ties of the latter firm are #838,000 and the actual assets 9108,000. THE Western Nail Association de­ cided at Pittsburgh to resume operattona,run for three weeks, and again close for a fort­ night Business was reported to be dull The jury in the case of Dukes, a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, tried at Union- town, Pa., for the murder of Assistant State Treasurer Nutt, whose daughter Dukes was alleged to have seduced, brought in a ver­ dict of aoquittaL There was such indigna- lat the citizens hanged and burned ies of Dukes and the Jury, 1 the former with violenoe. , ,, &£*• tion that JUDGE PHILLIPS, of the Macoupin 011) Circuit Court, has rendered a decision which will be of decided interest to bank Directors and officiate. Stated briefly, the decision holds that a Director of a bank is not an ornamental figurehead, but that it is his duty to keep posted as to the condition of the institution with which he is con­ nected. In the case at bar a depositor in an insolvent bank sued the Directors person­ ally and recovered a verdict. The insolv­ ency of the bank was caused by the fact that its cashier stole the funds, and the court held that it was the business of the Directors to ascer­ tain the true condition of the bank, and that they could not plead ignorance when due diligence would have discovered the facta ...J.D. Watson, for offering a bribe to Rep­ resentative Bloch, of the Ohio Legislature, wasaentenoed at Columbus to one year in the penitentiary... .A railway train ran upon a hack near Grawfordsville, lnd., killing the drhrttaad two passengers. - A CUQUTIOK society is to be formed In Chicago, with a capital of *100,000. It is Intended to establish a regular crematory, MttiiflMittht there are alaxge number of people tn the northwest who believe that Hie moat decent and economical method of dispotfng of the dead is by incin er&tlon. A DISPARAGING st atement is made by Mayor Jacob, of Louisville, who has been up the Ohio relieving flood victims. He says tmesis and Sentadky abandoned the inhab- mnmm wuntof tlx the lynching, in Beaver- r, of John A. JeSsnuur, for the r of Gharu brutal murder last winter of • i David- huysequragrst is iSBSaa.,..-. deemed it namnait tn liiiikit ihf mnii tonaoftte ohnS^AHen aet,a^<IS1 ̂ finds expeaaistt Hal tfaesnforoement of ft* law may tttnto irtfc the gtittd re- fiMonawhich have htfeherto existed between the jfarltiah; Qoveqaaent^spd the United --The Prasident has been sobering for some time from a catarrhal affection, and is ™nKid«rahly annoyad at it* tenacity* IT is stated from Washington that the new Tax and Tariff law underwent some remarkable transformations from the time it was passed in the Senate until it reached the President for signature, the responsi­ bility for which does not appear In the rec­ ords. In several instances the intention of the frsmers of the bill has been defeated by the transposition of a conjunction or a punotnation mark, and the probability is the Treasury Department, instead of being relieved in the matter of construction of the law, will have little time for any other business than explaining the purport of the act of 1883 Judge Lilley, an aged Washington lawyer, called upon Stephen W. Dorsey, at the lat- ter'« residence in Washington, a few nights ago.and in the course of a conversation about the star-route trial Lilley made some re­ mark that greatly enraged Dorsey, who ibrack his guest from the chair in which he was sitting, and then Jumped upon, and kicked him, inflicting serious Injuries. THE Chief of the Secret Service Di­ vision of the Treasury Department has been advised that a most dangerous counterfeit of the standard silver dollar has made its ap­ pearance in Ohio and Indiana The base coin has the exact weight, ring and appear­ ance of the genuine, and resists an acta test unless the outer coating of silver is pene­ trated. It would readily be accepted as genuine by merchants Several of these pieces have only been discovered upon reaching a sub-treasury. A WASHINGTON telegram of the 13th Inst says: "Mr. William lilley, the gentle­ man who was assaulted by ex-Senator Dor­ sey, is in % very precarious condition from the effects of the assault, and his physician thinks his recovery is a matter of consider­ able doubt He is unable to retain food on hia stomach, and suffen a great deal of pain." AT Mankato, Minn., Carl P. Yinter shot Lizzie Levi and then himself. Vinter's wounds are mortal, but the girl may re­ cover. THOMAS J. BRADY, one of the defend­ ants in the star-route case, was placed on the stand to testify in his own behalf. His examination will run through several days and will probably yield the most interesting developments of the trial To-day Brady swore that Walsh was a liar, and that the evidence of McVeagh, James and every other Government witness was false in the whole or in part. He testified that Dorsey and he were never intimate until they were indicted. Persecution made them friends. Rerdell he regarded as a messenger of low degree. Brady said that he never conspired with Dor6ey or anybody else for unlawful purposes. He conspired with Dorsey in 1880, out it was for the purpose of caring Jndi- anafor the Republican party. »> * ; ' KUTICAL AT Carson, Nev., it is understood that Mr. Fair will resign the United States Senatorship, and that Gov. Adams, resigning the executive office, will be appointed by his successor, the present Lieutenant Gov­ ernor, to succeed Mr. Fair.... .The New Jer­ sey Senate, by an almost unanimous vote, passed a bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco to minora, and imposing a fine of 120 for every violation of the law. "PURE bosh" is what Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, calls the talk about the un­ constitutionality of the new Tariff act A stringent high-license liquor law has passed the Legislature of Missouri The Illinois House of Representatives has passed a bill punishing wife-beaters at the whipping-post NEW YORK merchants who are dis­ satisfied with the new tariff are broaching the theory that the Senate transcended its functions in "originating" the bill, which is therefore, null and void! ThaneIs talk of •»«» court... .Williss Sprague was nominated for Governor of Rhode Island by the Independent State Con­ vention that met at Providence. m riwnt 986 mtMa tram GteHfe Ife* ttxaoak ott IFT&SSGI the" Xavtfte was inadequately pro­ vided with Mfe-pressrvara, and some of the jmnrfvsn allege that' the Captain of ths ateamer was Intoxicated.... The Parisian police feasibly ^Suppressed a Socialist moWiny which was announced to be held on the Esplanade des Invalided An attempt was made: to form a barricade with paving stones, bat the municipal cavalry charge# on the mob, and a large number of arrests were made A DUBLIN dispatch states that the murder-conspiracy prisoners have been no­ tified that their trial will begin April 9, and that they will be tried on three counts-- namely: the Phoenix Park murders, attempt­ ed murder of Juror Field, and conspiracy. PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF, with whose career the history of Russia the past quarter of a century has been intimately linked, died the other day at Baden-Baden, in the 86th year of his age. after havinfftieea for more than sixty years In official employment, be­ ginning as a legation attache, ana ending as Chancellor of the Russian empire. Virtually his last service to his sovereign was ren­ dered in the Congress of the Powers in Berlin in 1878, at the close of the Turoo-Russian war; and the issue of that memorable con­ gress is evidence that the intellect of the octogenarian was then as keen as that of the great statesmen with whom he was brought into contact The Prussian Government has forbidden the introduction into Germany of the Vienna AUegeiiuinr Zritung Coum- oundourons, the well-known Greek states­ man, is dead. A DIVER who examined the Cimbria wreck says entrance to the cabins Is closed by compact masses of corpses, and others are jammed among the gear of a lifeboat on deck. To save, the cargo the three decks must be exploded, which would make frag­ ments of the 400 bodies in the hold... .In­ fernal machines have been found in various sections of Paris. - DR. CRAMER, Minister to Switzerland, has incurred a mild reproof from the Swiss federation. It appears he had complained to the cantonal authorities of Berne regard­ ing some persons who had created a disturb­ ance at the Methodist Church, which he at­ tends, whereupon he has been reminded that he is accredited to the federation and not to the cantons, and that whatever com­ munication he has to make should be made to the federation... .A Berlin dispatch says the decree has been gazet­ ted prohibiting the importation of American hog products, including sides, bacon and sausages. The decree goes into force one month after its promulgation. The assent of the Reichstag is not requisite The semi-official press represents the measure as purely a sanitary one. The Liberals denounce it as protective in its character... .Parnell's amendment to the Land act, which Gladstone stated virtually remodeled the bill, was rejected in the Com­ mons-*'Ji-H) to <18. , : 1 ~ A CORRESPONDENT who visited the scene of the terrible Diamond mine dis­ aster, near Brsidwood, telegraphed as fol­ lows on the 16th Inst: "Since the sad mis­ hap at the Diamond mine, on the 10th of Iwrascy, resulting in the death of seventy- * five men, the weather has been favorable and the prairie has dried as rapidly as oould be expected. Unfortunately, no ditch or provision has been made to carry off the water pumped from the mine, hence the want or raocew. Only six inches have been made since 8anday night One conjecture Is that there is underground water. This is founded upon the coldness and on the smell of the water taken from the shaft Another Attentat and It appears to be the most rea­ sonable, that as the water taken from the shaft la allowed to spread itself over the •f the water taken from the shaft Another pcairieit finds its way back into the mine." Tuwon, t . A corresponded who recently .:fiiased down the Mississippi river from telegraphed as follows to the St Loots Olobe-Drmocrat: "There are not more [ two or three spots of dry ground be- i Memphis and this point, and scores of i in Arkansas and Mississippi «re In a complete state of wreck. Most of litem have been abandoned, the owners and laborers having fled to higher ground. At Harbul's landing eighteen colored men and women in two boats are moored to a tree on the flooded bank, waiting for a steamboat to take them away. There is not a foot of dry land In forty miles. Skiff-loads of colored people, with their household goods, are seen at various points, seeking for ground to rest on. At Sterling the colored people, horses ' are indiscriminately huddled in the upper stray of the oni.y 'store there. Host of the'fences and houses along the river bank are still intact, though many of them have floated away. At Star landing tin dwellings are full of cattle, and the gin houses full of negroes The water in St Fran­ cis river la still flowing down from the sunk lands and slowly rising at all points. The rtveer is covered wtth saw-logs. The suffer- ing is intense, and many people are believed tone dying for want of fdod." Later ad- floss report the water declining at Helena, but rising below, causing breaks in the NEAR Helena,-Ark., the flood over- terned a house, and four children were 4rown6d, Six adults were rescued, after slinging to the roof for three days. A Memphis dispatch K»VH that "stock are up to their throats In water in the 8t Francix Stamps, and many earowses of aead animals •fj^e floating about." HEREAFTER Dorsey county, Ark., will be known as DeSoto county, the State Legis­ lature having enacted a law to that effect The county, when created, was named for Stephen W. Dorsey, at that period a United States Senator from Arkan"a<... .Muspelma.i A Co.. tobacco manuiacturers, of Louisville, *J., have made an assignment for the bene- •t of their creditors. SENATOR DAVID DAVIS was married to Misa Addie E. Burr at "Tokay," the resi­ lience of CoL Wharton Green, near Fayette- tille, N. C. The marriage was private, no >ue being present except the members of Jne family and fixatives from Boston Ma t The suite of parlors were thrown into one, fUfcdthe wnole house was decorated with Judge W. T. Otto, of the United Court of Cla ms, was be^.t man, and Sadie Oreen, the daughter of Cougress- man W. J. Omen, was the bride's aitendant 13w bride and groom stood at the head of toe parlor, in front of a marb.e statue of rsyche, and under a wedding bell. CoL Owen cave the bride away. The bride was •tttradin a traveling dress of brown bilk and phish hat to match, with plumes of ostrich " Her trousseau is magnificent It fifteen dresses, several by Worth, gifts were very numerous and valuable. VAIHOTOTOI. EXTRACTS from the correspondence between Minister Lowell and the State Dc- ifis *pa«lmant relative to the enactment by the MM Parliament of the law for the pre ven- tlenef Crime In Ireland have been pub- ; In a let-- Htrrstsrr W" _ * '""jpw .. mmn I « IT is stated as a fact that direct telephonic communication has been had between Cleveland, Ohio, and New York city, a distance of over 600 miles. THE business failures for the seven days ending March 9, as reported to & d Dun A Ca, numbered 262, as against 272 for previous week, distributed as follows: New England States, 21; Middle States, 40; West­ ern, 80; Southern, 57; Pacific coast and Ter­ ritories, 17; Canada and Provinces, 27..... Three murderers paid the penalty of their crimes on the 9th Inst, two being hanged in Mew York city and one at Clayton, A1& THE storm foreshadowed by Wiggins, the Canadian crank, failed to pan out A good many people throughout the country had prepared themselves for the worst, and some were rendered insane from fear and apprehension. There was no unusual at­ mospherical disturbance, though there were local storms in several sections of the country, as usual in March. None of them, however, took the form of a tornado or blizzard. There were strong gales and heavy rains on the East Atlantic coast On the Nova Scotian and New Brunswick coasts a heavy gale prevailed, but the damage caused was trifling. A great snow-storm raged in the region of Waterloo, Quebec. The loss to the Gloucester fishing industry, occa­ sioned by the refusal of fishermen to go to sea on account of Wiggins' false prophecy, is estimated at not less than tl50,00u TEN acres in the Yellowstone Na­ tional Park have been leased by the Secre­ tary of the Interior, in seven tracts of from one to two acres each, so located as to com­ mand the hotel and other privileges in the vicinity of all the most attractive natural curiosities in the park The lease is looked upon as excessively favorable to the lessees ON the arrival of a steamer at Boston Patrick Levy, a passenger from Queenstown, was taken into custody on the charge of murder. During the voyage Levy confessed to the officers of the steamer that he killed Patrick Hariey, a farmer at Mullingar, Ire­ land, two years ago. He ea d that Harlev rented a farm over the head of an evicted tenant and that he (Levy) was paid £30 by a person whom he refut ed to name to kill Hariey. On being arrested he denied that be was hired to do the murder, and said that the crime wan committed in a drunken quarrel. He will be held under surveillance until advices from England are received.... Wiggins alleges that his storm prophecy was literally fultilled, and believes hundreds of thousands of lives have been destroyed on the shores of the Bay of Bengal by a tidal wave, a small edition of which, he claims, struck this continent. He asserts that he is able to foretell storms, heat, ooId and high tides. PATKICK EOAN, the Treasurer of the Land League, arrived In New York the other day. He stated that his chief business in tins country was to visit the flour-exporting cities, the tirm in Dublin with which he is connected being large dealers in fiotir. In addition to this he hud received pressing in­ vitations from friends on this side who de­ sired to obtain personal information in re­ gard to the Land League movement and the titration in Ireland. Mr. Egan declared that not a penny of the Land League funds was ever supplied for the purpose of the assassination conspiracy, but that on the qthor hand the league spent money to pre- vfijit outrages by sending men to localities where there was danger of attempts being made to murder landlords. He alleged there is no possibility of the men now under arrest for the Phoenix Park murders obtain­ ing a fair trial ... .The Lamoille Valley (Vt) railway extension has been completed, and, as it Will be leased to the Ogdensburg imd Lake Champiain line, gives nn^thgr through route to the seaboard. THE railway general passenger agents of the United States have resolved that here­ after a physician's certificate most accom­ pany every corpse cfuried, to prevent the spread of contagion....There is no founda­ tion for the report started sometime since that the Prince of Wales intended visiting the United States IOUMI THE steamer Navarre, from Oopen* hagen forLsith, foundered doriag a gale la LATER NEWS ITEM ̂ • 1 LONDON dispatches of the, 16th inst. report that "an explosion occurred last evening in the local Government board of­ fices, Westminster, which is attributed to an attempt by Fenians to destroy the build­ ing. In one room a trench ten feet wide by three feet deep was torn in the ground, and the walls were b.dlv shattered, stones being thrown a considerable distance, one tearing a large hole in the side of the King street [tolice station.' The only persons in­ured were two children sleeping in a building near by, who were thrown from their bed, suffering severe cats about the face. The explosion occurred while the members of the House of Com­ mons were at dinner. The Duke of Edin­ burgh was in the House of Lords at the mo­ ment. and the nofre of the explosion caused . him to exhibit some Indications of alarm. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the affair. An insig­ nificant attempt is alleged to have been made to destroy the Times building." The evidence of James Mullett. the Irish con­ spirator, is alleged to be of such a character as to warrant the arrest of Patrick Egan for complicity in the Phoenix Park assassinations should he return to British soil... .Bishops of Halifax, Charleston and Grand Rapids LYNFFT IW tllC?CpC ̂ in Rome, in accordance with the recom­ mendations from the clergy of their re­ spective dioceses In the University boat race on the Thames, Oxford beat Cambridge by three lengths. At the start*-the > betting was 7 to 2 against Oxford. WASHINGTON telegram: "Republican members of the Ohio Legislature write to friends here that there is a movement at Co­ lumbus having for its object the nomination of Senator John Sherman for the Governor­ ship next fall The idea is that if he should be elected Governor he would be a promi­ nent candidate for the Presidential nomina­ tion in the convention of the next summer." AN. Wyman has been appointed Treas­ urer of the United States, vice Gilfillan, re­ signed. Mr. Wyman has for a number of years occupied the position of Assistant Treasurer In the Pennsylvania Senate Senator Emery slapped Senator McKnight's face, and the other returned the mow. McKnlght was charged with < dodging a vote on the Free-pipe bill....The Republican State Convention at Providence nominated Augustus O. Bourne for Governor of Rhode Island. H. F. CIIOCKBS, a notorious horse thief, committed subside tn the Granbury (Tex.) jail He left a written statement that he was born and well connected in Georgia-, that he had killed three men and one woman; that he regretted that he could not kill two men more who had injured him. He asked that his bodj'Be throWttinto th e river... The attorneys for Marshall T. Polk, the de­ faulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, have made a proposition for a full settlement of his deficit to the State OBSERVATIONS through Northern Ohio, Southern Michigan and a portion of Indiana, says the Chicago Times, excite anxiety for the winter-wheat crop, the winter and spring having been unfavorble. The conditions are propitious for. ft ' yield of THE XJLBKET. r:'"" - 7 MEW YORK. I M® Hoos.. 1M FLOUB--Superfine 1.70 WHEAT--No. l White 1.1« No. 2 Bed....*. 1.1s CORN--No. 2 .70 OATS--NO. J M POHK--Mess 1S.75 I.t«n CHICAGO. Bxzvxs--Good to Fancy Steers. Cows and Heifer* Medium to Fair Hoos. FLOUB--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spr'g Ex. WHRAT--No. 3 Spring No. 2 Bed Winter COSH--No.,»..... OATS--No. 2 RVB--No 2 BAELET--NO. %. BUTTEB--Choioe Creamery....... Eoos--Fresh PORK--Mem LABD MH.WAUKBB. WHEAT--No. 3 CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2.... ; RYE--No. 2 BARLEY--No. A PORK^-MCM LARD ST. LOUia SAM 7.60 4.00 @ 1.17 « 1.20 & .7S f " @19.00 .11 >4® .UN ISO S.SO 5.90 6.26 6.60 *.76 1.06 1.08 .M .40 XI .74 .90 .10 1S.00 .11 1.06 .40 JM .82 18.00 .11 1.0S Ai .67 18.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red. CORN--Mixed OATS--No. 2 RYE. PORK--Mess. LARD. - _ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. S Red.. CORN OATS....... Rrn...... PORK--Mass LARD.. TOLEDO. WHEAT--We. s Bad o DETROIT. FLOUR WHEAT--Ma 1 White CORK--No. 2 JI OATS--Mixed. 46 PORX--Mees. 18.26 INDIANAPOLI& WHEAT--No. 2 Red LOT CORN--No. 2 JN OATS--Mixed .44 EAST LIBERTY. PA ® 6 .76 & 4.76 @ 6.75 @ 8.00 (4 S.7S « 6.00 & 1.07 <9 1.00 @ .58 0 .41 & M & .75 © .20 A .17 @18.25 » .11W (9 1.0ft 0 .67 0 .41 «4 .ft* « .83 <®18.25 6 .UK 0 1.08 <9 .58 £ .rs @18.25 oral Sdeuow Mtowremarlfanponihammerof: . wpper ftmnir itt lhe RAemka Mine, SiUigim, by 8. F. Peck. It exhibited i distinct laminar surface and structure caused hy hammering pieces of native copper together while in a cold state, in which our aborigines living in districts north of Mexico seem to have acquired great proficiency. This is shown by the Qumerous wedges, chisels, hammers and other implements found in the an­ cient mining pits of Keewenaw Point, Lake Superior and at Isle Royal, to­ gether with axes, spears and arrow- points, ornaments, etc., in Ohio and throughout those sections of country which were at one time inhabited by the mound builders, a race of people whose remains indicate a state of advancement in the arts and manufactures superior to the savage nations which succeeded them. The speaker likewise called at­ tention to the haft hole in this hammer, as peculiar to the hammers pertaining to the Neolithic and later periods of the Eastern continent. It is a very in­ teresting fact that recent discoveries have shown upon various forms of cop­ per implements, deposited in their bu­ rial places by the mound-builders, markings similar to those left by molds in the process of casting; it may there­ fore be supposed that these • people were acquainted with the art of smelting copper beside that of hammering it. Prof. Foster, in his "Prehistoric Races of the United States," mentions the fact that in a col­ lection made by Mr. Perkins he saw copper implements of mound origin that bear well- defined traces of the mold. "It is impossible," he adds, "to infer, after a careful examination of the specimens, that the ridges have been left in the process of hammering or oxi­ dation. The more I examine their arts and manufactures the stronger becomes my conviction that they were something more than a barbaric people." Col. Whittlesey, in "Smithsonian Contribu­ tions to Knowledge for 1883," mentions that in all the pits exathined by him traces of fires were to be seen on the sides thereof, and fragments of char­ coal and wood in the debris, indicating the use of fire in assisting the action of the wedges and in extracting the masses of copper. The melting point of cop­ per is about 1,398 degrees centigrade, which no doubt fused the small points of copper attached to the larger masses, which the quick perception of these aboriginal people noticed, and led them to utilize in casting. The artistic forms of copper implements, whether cast or hammered, cannot fail to impress the observer that a race of men existed in early times whose origin is enveloped in mystery and whose skill rivals man of historic times, assisted by all the in­ ventions of this mighty age of iron. Prof. Lewis remarked that much the greater number of prehistoric copper hammers were evidently produced by hammering. He believed that archaeol­ ogists had generally adopted the opin­ ion that the mound-builders were not an extinct people, but were the ances­ tors of existing tribes.--Philadelphia Ledger. A Legitimate Use for Retired Prize Fighters. In a New York barroom a neat, dap­ per little man with a prominent nose and keen eyes has been pointed out by men about town to their friends as Billy Edwards, the light-weight cham­ pion. He is no longer » prize fighter but a peace officer. "Please don't refer to me as a 'bouncer,'" he said, smiling. "I am an anti-bouncer. My duty is to keep other people from bouncing. This is a very largely frequented place, where necessarily evervbody of decent exterior is supposed to liave the right to enter, and, with all the care that can be exerted, men will sometimes show that they have more liquor stowed away in their holds than they can sail with.in safety to themselves or with comfort to the surrounding community. The im­ perative rule is that no drink shall be given to a man who shows intoxication; but liquor affects people sometimes with strange suddenness. A man may look as sober as a deacon, and three minutes later be fighting drunk. Then, of course, the barkeeper shuts down on him and the chances are that he swears to take another drink or die. I believe most men want to fight when they get drunk. Well, when a man issues that sort of a proclamation I try to dis­ courage him. I talk to him landly, re­ spectfully, but firmly, of course, and get him to leave. Every possible effort is made to prevent an encounter. A fight here would be a very serious thing. Not only might the throwing of a single glass do thousands of dollars' worth of--yes, I might almost say ir­ reparable--damage to some of the many costly pictures aboijt the walls, but it would shock, disgust and drive away gentlemen. I have never had but one fight here in all the time I have been on duty, which has been since this place started in its present style. That was on an election night, when there were clouds of whisky in the air. A man, who was top heavy, was sparring with a friend before the bar. Neither that nor fencing with sticks is ever allowed here. Both are liable to lead to bad results. I requested him to stop. He became violent. I had to put him out. I was pushing him to the door as considerately as I could, when, at a moment when t was quite unpre­ pared to expect anything of the sort, he struck me heavily on the left eye. That was how it began. A couple of minutes later I carried him down the stoop and laid him gently on the sidewalk."--New York Sun. Qeorge Peck's Adviee to Young Men. c A correspondent writes to inquire if there is room in this city for a young man to dig in his toes and clamber for success. He says the avenues of em­ ployment and the great high roads to success in the quiet little town where he lives are closed, and that a young man might „wander about all summer and never find anything to do that will eventually make him a great man, and place laurels of fame within his reach, so he will only have to reach up with a pole and knock off chunks of fame enough to last him through life. Yes, sir, there is ple:itv of room in this city for young men. There is plenty of room in any city, village or town for a young man who wants t<> climb up the ladder of fame. But there is no room in this city for more young men who expect to knock laurels off a tree with a pole. Laurels don't grow on trees in this city any more than they do in country places, even where trees are more plentiful, and laurels couldn't grow on them if they wanted to. But there is still room in the most crowded city on the globe for young men of energy and push, and who rather spend their leisure time in hustling for bread than smoking cigar­ ettes, wearing tight pants, and posing as a masher, at nothing per day, and beat- Jgg some boarding house oat of their A0H& .11 1.08 0 1.09 M ® .67 A* & .46 JM & M 18.25 @18.60 40*0 .11 1.10 .60 4.29 LOS CATTLE--Best...... Fair. Common.'. Hoos coo 6.60 6.00 7.20 & 1.11 & .61 & .41 9 4.60 » 1.08 m .6» & .47 @18.75 0 1.08 9 .68 <9 .a 0 6.60 «• 6.00 0 6.25 ~ 8.00 rm: atthedinner before wad if it was a good one Jehovah," etc. If it *We are not, O Lord, worthy $$£ least of Thy mercies." A ailkop's BAD POETRY. I iw^ebetja at Sandringham paying a visit to m Prince and Princess of Wales, Mid * very pleasant visit it has been. Thiflf are so thoroughly kind and friendly, and leave you so very much to do as you like. "She is quite charming. She sent her book tome last night, asking me to write some­ thing, and here was my inscription: hearts. Princess, ' Withlove thy life to bless, • ^SijAlohf Utjr path of happiness * " isL'jm'Onwiurdtoglory press. TUB UKSCBCPULONA DISRAELI. The most wonderful thing is the rise of Disraeli It is not the mere asser­ tion of talent, as you hear BO many say. It seems to me quite beside that. He has been able to tt-ach the House of Commons almost to ignore Gladstone; and at ?>resent lo ds it over him, and I am told says he will hold him down for twenty years. * * * He is a mar- velouft'man. Not a bit a Briton, but all over an Eastern Jew; but very interest­ ing to talk to. He always speaks as if he did believe in the Church. * * * (Dean Wellesley said) Disraeli opposed L^igh'on (for the Primacy) with all his strength on every separate occa­ sion. The Queen would have greatly liked him, but Disraeli would not hear of him. You cannot conceive the ap­ pointments he proposed and retracted or was overruled; he had no other thought than^fche votes of the moment; he showed an ignorance about all church matters, men, opinions, that was astonishing, making propositions one way and the other, riding the Protestant hone to gain the boroughs, and then, wh$n he thought he had gone so far as to endanger the counties, turning round and appointing Bright and Gregory; thoroughly unprincipled fellow. I trust we may never have such a man again. A TIPSY BIRD. Dined Warden's. Sir Bartlc Frere very pleasant; told me: "The crows often get thoroughly tipsy drinking the fermented palm juice. Few more curious sights than to see a tipsy crow hunting for the bone he has hidden, and not able to find it for his drink." AN OPINION OP TENNYSON". Mr. told nae the stranger speak­ ing to one near, of Tennyson: "Mr. Tennyson lives here, does not he?" "Yes, he does." "He is a great man!" Well, I don't well know what you call great, but he only keeps one man servant and he doesn't sleep in the house." He Would Have Shot Grant. I met a man called "Soldier Sam/' an honest fellow, and one .of the true- blue boys of the late war. He had served under Grant, and could tell reminiscenoes of the gr&t General by the hour. The best of it was that his stories was always authentic. I re­ member, said he, that while we were down on the Mississippi a big barge loaded with bombs and gunpowder was lying alongside the wharf. Grant had given orders that no one should smoke on board that barge. I suppose the old tub had thousands of dollars' worth of powder d^cl^a. So the cor­ poral get a ytiard there, and ordered him to shoot the first man who should cross the plank with a lighted pipe or cigar. Well, when the word got abroad we kept away, for we knew that the order meant business. One day when I was off duty Gen. Grant rode up on his horse. He wore a big blouse and a slouch hat. He had no star, no side- arms. We all knew him without the aid of trinkets. " Is that the powder-boat?" he asked. I told him it was. He looked at me sharply over a red- hot cigar, and said, " Fll go on board, then." I knew he'd never take that cigar out of his mouth except to eat or sleep, so I said, " General, if you walk across that plank smoking the sentry will shoot you.** He saw that I was in earnest, but he said, "Don't you suppose he knows me?" "Of course he does, General," I re­ plied; "but he's been ordered to shoot the first man caught smoking on that barge, and he'll do it. That's the kind of a chap he is." Grant looked rather amused. I reckon he never intended to go near the barge. He just wheeled his horse about and away he went. That evening I told the sentry all about the talk. The next morning he and the corporal were ordered up to the General's headquarters. The sentry was a black man, but when he heard that Grant wanted to see him he was rather white. He went up. "Can you read?" asked Grant. "No, sah; I nebber had no chance to l'a'n." "Do you always know me when you •ee me?" • "Yes, sah." "Suppose I had gene on board that powder-boat with a lighted, cigar, what would you have done?" "Shot you, sah?" "But I'm your General!" exclaimed Grant. "Yes, Bah; and we jes' obeys yo' or­ ders," said the sentry. Grant looked the men all over. The corporal was trembling, and the sentry was actually pale; but both were as firm as rocks. At last the General relaxed. "Well, sir," he said to the negro, "we'll make vou a corporal; and this other man shall be a sergeant. I promote these men!" "I tell you we didn't forget that," said Soldier Sam.--Chicago Inter Ocean. The HI Manners of Smoking. A man who has just got up from a dish of raw onions deserves to be kicked if he exhales hb odoriferous breath into another's nostrils, and there are many people who would almost enjoy an onion eater's breath in comparison with the stifling atmosphere of a smoke be­ clouded room. The trouble with many smokers is, they enjoy their pipe or cigar so much that they frequently grow selfish and fail to reflect that other people may en joy it much less. Even people who rather like the smoke of a cigar do not particularly enjoy the stale odojr per vading a smoker's room, clinging to his clothes and perfuming his breath. Let the smoker think of the man who eats raw onions, and he will perceive the force of the most indulgent people's ob­ jection to smoking.--Clinton Herald. AT Athens, Ga., a negro child was born with a full set of teeth. Nature evidently designed that darky kid to have a fair show from the start, espec­ ially if there were any watermelons that !|MMM fmuHtiliatir attsntijMI' th» HOp® _ on better tfc ̂ he TOUW in th# country. The young man who don't catch on in a small town, where com­ petition in labor and capital is less, does not possess the ingredients to give him a very startling lead in the city. If the correspondent can extract any con­ solation out of this information he is welcome to it at the usual rates. The Cynic. OM of the most disagreeable human beings is the cynic who does not be­ lieve in good or disinterested motives. He distrusts every one. He is skeptical as to the sincerity of all men, and he believes that self-interest prompts all their actions. Whenever vou see one of these men, you see one who is so filled with selfish­ ness that there is not room enough in­ side him for it and for all the egotism he tries to carry, and you will see it oozing out of him at every pore. These two attributes crowd his soul into a small compass, press on his heart until there is not room for it to develop a generous impulse, and take possession of his mind until liberal or noble thoughts cease to exist there. He is liberal enough in one way- liberal in unbeliefs--but a narrow- minded bigot in his beliefs. When he hears of some apparently unselfish act. he begins huntin g for a "selfish motive, and, should he fail to find it, he says: "Well, I cannot understand what he does it for, but he must expect to benefit by it somehow." Certainly, he cannot understand a disinterested act of kindness, because all his own motives are prompted by self-interest. He knows of no higher motives. The cynic is simply what he believes all other men, who are not fools, to be. His heart is not large enough to con­ ceive a chivalrous act, his brain not of sufficient dimensions to beget or be de­ livered of a noble or generous thought, and his little soul so shriveled that if it were possible that it could ever get to heaven, and if Peter should smile a welcome as he let it in, it would imme­ diately suspect the saintly gentleman of having some interested motive of being so friendly. Whenever you meet a man of this kind, who suspects that everybody in the world is trying to take advantage of him, you may be sure that that man would, beat everybody in the world if he could. Whenever you see a man at­ tributing mean or sordid motives to others, you have found a man who him­ self is mean at heart, and you,have dis­ covered a man who may have many ac­ quaintances, but very few friends. Snakes, even the most venomous, are supposed to have been created for some useful purpose, and so the cynic has, doubtless, a place in the economy of nature that is necessary he should fill, but he is a very disagreeable necessity. Texas Siftingx. A Lake on Fire. The burnmg of Moscow is described as "an ocean of flame." The sdene of a burning lake here related must have been equal in grandeur to that confla­ gration, and none the less impressive for being a wonder of nature. Imagine a bonfire four or five square miles in extent. It is said that from one of the chief naphtha wells of Russia the liquid shoots up as from a fountain, and hn^ farmed a lake four miles long and one and a quarter wide. Its depth is, however, only two feet. This enormous surface of inflammable liquid recently became ignited, and presented an imposing spectacle, the thick, black clouds of smoke being lighted up by the lurid glare of the central column of flame, which rose to a great height. The smoke and heat were such as to render a nearer approach than 1,000 yards' distance impracticable. Suitable means for extinguishing the fire were not at hand, and it was feared that the conflagration would spread un­ derground in such a manner as to cause an explosion. This supposition led many inhabitants of the immediate vi­ cinity to remove to a safer distance. The quantity of naphtha on fire was es­ timated at 4,500,000 cubic feet. The trees and buildings within three miles' distance were covered with thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit appeared on persons' clothes, and even on the food in the adjacent houses. Not only was the naphtha itself burn­ ing, but the earth, which was saturated with it, was also on fire, and ten large establishments, founded at great ex­ pense for the development of the trade in the article, were destroyed. T * Fifty-three Hard-Boiled Eggs. "Talk about eating sixty quail in thirty days; that is nothing. I can eat two quail a day the rest of my life, if anybody will find 'em; but I'd a little rather try it on yellow-legged snipe," said Mr. Charles F. Murphy, the fishing- rod maker of Newark. "If Dolph Jakes was alive he could eat a bevy every day. He was the fearfulest gor­ mandizer I ever saw. Did I ever tell you how he beat me out of $2.65?" "No, Murphy; how was it?" said the listener. "Why, I was settin' in the Astor lunch one night and in came Dolph. He walked up to the bar and took a drink. There was a big dish of hard- boiled eggs at one end of the bar, and he began going for the hen fruit. He picked up an egg, cracked it on the bar, Eicked the shell off, and ate it. But e didn't stop; he ate another and an­ other until he had swallowed five. I was watching him, and it made me real mad to see him so greedy. So I said: 'Dolph, you had better eat 'em all, hadn't you?" " 'So I will, Charles, if you'll pay for 'em,' said he. * 'Go right along,' said I; Til pay if yon finish the dish.' "He never stopped until he had eaten twenty-five more. He then took a drink, ate an oyster stew, a plate of crackers, and finished the dish of eggs. There were twenty-three more. Fifty- three eggs was what he ate, and they had the cheek to charge me five cents apiece for 'em--just $2.65 I was out. I never spoke to Dolph again. I wouldn't associate with him after that."--The Gastronomer. Cure for Ivy Poisoning. Bathe the parts affected with sweet spirits of nitre. If the blisters be brok­ en, so as to allow the nitre to penetrate the cuticle, more than a single applica­ tion is rarely necessary; and even where it is only applied to the surface of the skin three or four times a day, there is rarely a trace of the poison left next morning.--HalVs Journal. A SERENADED girl leaned too far out of her window, at Pottsville, to see who the singers were, and fell to the ground, wrecking the party and their song on the way. : lav's' Alt*. Vhraagli UMIMI •* O** A. distingirshed company of lawyen* sat m the gqgwiii*^Court-room, talking: over old thwHk Among them waaCoh Charles S. Spencer. He was in his us­ ual happv vein, and told a new story. "I was retained," said he, by an "ex soldier of the war, to sue for the recovery of some $1,800 which he had loaned to fe friend. The late Edwin J«mes was. counsel for the defendant. I went to- work zealously far my client. Jamefc cross-examined the plaintiff in his usual forcible way. '"You loaned him $1,800?» Mr, Jwwp asked. a ' " 'I did, sir,' was the reply. " It was your own mone^f* iBfe, James continued. " 'It was, sir,' my client responded!.. • " 'When did you lend him the mi|j»- ey?' was the next question. M " 'In July, 1866,' was the answer. _" 'Where did you get that money* sir?* Mr. James asked, sternly. " 'I earned it, sir.' The words wer** said in a meek tone. " 'You earned it, eh? When did J** earn it?' asked Mr. James. v " 'During the war, sir,' was the reply, still in a very humble tone. " 'You earned it during the War. Boy„ what was your occupation' during th& war?' Mr. James inquired. " 'Fighting, sir,' the man replied* modestly. " 'Oh, fighting,' Mr. Jalites bail* somewhat taken down, and instantly changing his manner. "I smiled triumphantly, and even snickered a little. James was half" mad. Well, we went to the jury, and I, of course, had the last say. I sailed away up to glory. I spoke of the war; of the lives and treasure which it cost us ; of the awful battles which decided the= fate of the Union; of the self-denial and bravery of our men who left home and wife and children, and father and mother, and everything that was dear to them, and went forth to fight for firesides and freedom and the salvation of the nation. I pointed to the plantiff as he sat there, still with the same air of humility and even sadness, and I said that was the sort of men who had fought our battles and saved the flag and shed his life-blood that we and our children might enjoy uncurtailed the glorious blessings of freedom wrenched from the hand of despots by our sires. I worked up that jury, I can tell you, and the plaintiff himself drew forth an unpretentious hankerchief and wiped away a tear. I got a verdict for the full amount, of course. "As we were quitting the court­ room, James said, 'Spencer, your war speech gained you the verdict. If you hadn't discovered through my cross-ex­ amination that the man had fought iri the war, you would have been beaten.* " 'My friend,' I replied, ' if you had only asked the man which side ho fought on, you might be going homo with a verdict. My client waa a rebel.'" Satisfied Curiosity. _ l^was a quiet-looking little witli a frayed mustache, who got on car; and he had a square wooden box under his arm, with rows of holes punched in the top, which immediately attracted the attention of a corpulent passenger, with a cotton umbrella, who Was sitting near the door. " " t~~~- "I suppose you have some wild ani­ mal in that box?" said he, tapping it with his umbrella. "Yes," replied the other, shrinking into a corner. "You have a museum somewhere, maybe?" "No," answered the small man, look­ ing down at his feet. "Well, might I ask what you have in that box ?" questioned the »t man, hia curiosity increasiqg. "Certainly," murmured the man with the box, looking like the chief mourner at a funeral.. There was a dead silenoe for several minutes, when the corpulent man spoke up somewhat impatiently, "Well, what is it ?" "It is a mongoose," said the melan­ choly man. "A mongoose--what's that?" asked the man with the umbrella, leaning over and eying the box curiously. "It is an animal that exterminates snakes," replied the small man, pulling; his hat over his eyes. "And what do you propose to do with it?" asked the fat man, opening hia eyes until they looked like watch dials. "I don't propose to do anything with it," answered the other, nervously. "It is for a friend of mine who has the de­ lirium-tremens, and wants something to kill the snakes he sees." "But they aren't real snakes, yon know!" exclaimed the fat man, opening his mouth until the other could see hiar cork soles. "No, that's true," said the quiet man, getting up and putting the box under his coat; "but then, this isn't a real mongoose, you see!" And he evapor­ ated out of the door, while the fat man stared thoughtfully out of the window at the flickering gas-lamps.--New York Chaff. . Agriculture 1b Russia. The great wheat-producing sections of Russia are said to be rapidly falling off in that cereal. In a review of the subject an English journal gives the following information respecting this matter, and says that Russia agricult­ ure is failing. The "black soil," the fruitful soil of the south, it says, is ex­ hausted by scourging, and the poorer soil of the north requires a greater ex* penditure of capital before it will repay the enhanced cost of working. The picture given of the position of the landed proprietors, and of their rela­ tions with the agricultural laborers, in­ dicates a highly depressed and unsettled state of affairs. The estates of the rural nobility, it is said, are offered for sale in hundreds, for the reason th«t they are not capitalists, and their land can not be properly cultivated without the expenditure of considerable sums. The laborers are asserting their inde­ pendence, and are able to combine more readily than in England, owing to the existence of the communal sys­ tem. They are described as ignorant and insubordinate, but they are appar­ ently not lacking in a certain short­ sighted cunning, for in hiring them­ selves out they bargain for payment in advance, and desert the landlord at harvest time, t leaving him, cheated of money and labor, without redreta. Even where he hat contrived to retain, his laborers, he is often forced to see his corn rot in the stacks for want of barns. The defects of the railway ad­ ministration contribute their share to the farmer's distress. IN beating butter always take the