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ILLINOIS. m-s* oothe28d , it A. SHOW , T*» Ap*efc#s at present committing whH*« to 4rts-- w suits be Iww th# Tint Vanderbilt coterie of New York nutoty «<en throw* into a tremor over i report that the SodaHrta o( that city, under UM lead of Beer Most had plannedto break «> Mm W. X. Vandertilt's fancy-dreai hall tfcrowtî bombs through the windows of s . te revenge for the discharge aniliat of Uialinniii from the New Yotk OentanU's employ. Four young men, well known In New l̂ 'v gi- -• York society, engaged ia a double prl*e- I'* . |> flght at Ite Boakaway, Long btod, for W"' ft. • > thdroaa aattofantton and the edification of g,; < 'a party of congenial spirits. Some hard ̂ • Mem were struck, but neither of the com- ® ̂ batanta waa rerr badly punished.... .Har- f:i.r r './ ' rtnrtonA Rimonds, wool-dealers, of Boston, H k a;*.« lum suspended, with #7S,0(X> liabilities. IPV - . THE fancy ball given by Mr. and km W. 3L Vandertrilt at N«w York was a 1..' i social event sever surpassed ta the metrop­ olis. The costumes were unique but taste­ ful, the dances fantastical, and the deoora- tions magnificent 8IMCE the rendering of a decision by a New York city court that policemen are entitled to pay during illness, the alarming increase of sickness is demoralising the "! ^ «< f- "• kA ' - 4£ . '• k. <&,, k $l£-i&&•*': Iv t loralixbog the forre The centeisanr «f Bidm Seawurv - ,11 ii,A two ctmym WKB the Phcenix Park awaaadna A VERDICT of guilty has been ren­ dered in the ease of Nuftnti and his twelve aasd bride tfgca courtesies at Atlanta, Oa. U N PRKCBDEHTXDLT HEAVY storms are reported from sections of the Carolinas and Virginia. It was two feet deep in somê taoes, and houses collapsed under W. C. WOODWARD, a reporter, was arreted at Nashville ehu|ed with paaing gold-waahed nickels for #5 piece* He made a vigorous attempt to escape from the offi­ cer*, but was capsuled. THE Arkansas Legislature has en­ acted a law of eeaskiarahle Importance to printers, by which the public printing is to be given to the lowest Didder m or outside the city. BMb may be received from San is considered very unfair to tike printers of the State, and it is likely the members of tiie Legislature will hear individually from the press The bill tar a settlement of the debt of the late city of Memphis has been signed by the Governor of Tennessee Pro­ vision has been made by the taxing1 district of Memphis for the payment of interest on the refunded debt July I of the current yeas. & K "fe »*• W"< , • !•>.: 7**„ . . . . f" ««* • who was elected first American Episcopal Bishop March 25,1783, was celebrated March 25, at Woodbury, Conn. Bishop Williams and twenty clergyman we*e present. THE gossips who have been making •estimates of the cost «f the Vanderbilt ball have given publicity to extravagant And ridiculous figures. That upward of $1,000,- 000 was expended is entirely erroneous. The report that the fabulous sum of i~0,000 had been expended for floral decorations alone give place to the truth of the matter; the cost of ther are exotics that found place among the art-hanging of the sumptuous drawing-rooms is now placed at about $10,000. The «upper fur­ nished by the chefs de cuisine -of the combined families of Vanderbilt, aided in the matter of ices and pastry by Delmcmico, cost, inclusive of service "and incidentals. $10,(KX). HIE sparkling beverages consumed are estimated to have cost $8,o00, while the cost of the music by Lander and Gilmore is said to have been but $1,500 Joseph Lavery, crippled for .life by runaway lames, was awarded f o,000 dam­ ages at New York against the Metro­ politan Elevated road, he having proved that hot coals falling' on the backs of the animals from one of its locomotives caused ;e The Massachusetts House bill providing for biennial ns of State officers and for biennial' sessions of the Legislature.......The Delaware Boose has passed a bill imposing an extra fine upon unlicensed salesmen from other States, the fine to go to the party the arrest. ITALAKD REKD. one of the brightest , -and most-promising young comedians <on *> I •tsge, •©pears at McVicker s Theater, Cucago, this week, in his highly-amusing :/ play entitled * Cheek. ~ He is supported by V <:ma ®xoeUeBt •orap^y- „ A BLOODY affair recently occurred ^ onithe border of the fteminole nation's.res- ervstion in the Indian Territory. Brady Bretn^jr, Eli Perryman BillyGrimmitt.and an Indian were engaged in a game of cards, which finailv «Mded m a free light.'in which the Indian killed Bretney and Pern msn, PRICK, the star-route mail contractor, refuses to testify is the civil action <tf Walsh counsel, OOnnnvui James Redpath and John wi which the people are fleeing safety. --The inhabitants of some Rou- melian towns, as a protest against the im­ portation of Woolen thread, nave pillaged and burned warehouses where it has been PUBLIC buildings in London will be guarded henceforth by 2,000 infantry, whil- the Parliament buildings and Buckingham PaMnewill be watched by the Coldstream Guard* The fall of volcanic ashes at Drontheim, Norway, leads to the belief Quit there has been an eruption from Mount Hecla in Iceland.... PUmawt is now suffering from sciatica.. Avalanches have destroyed Beveral small villages at the foot of Mount Ararat One hundred persons have been killed and 100 injured. Imp. . A Jn follfl * the Uaauai •sla • HwiiMa Coadi- of tto recovery oftfce latesgts orerwtelmed by the i at the Diamond mine were i nmarOig&ubodimoi the . _ two corpses were hrooiriit .night air at midnight Fully both sexes wore there hover- snbterran USEFUL HIKT8. JOHN BROWN, the well-known attend ant of Queen Victoria, is dead. His death occurred at Windsor Castle. AH the favorite attendant of the Queen, John Brown was probably better known to the world at large than any Lord in waiting or aristocratic hanger-ou of the royal . , ^ ^ court He was a familiar figure on the against Brady, relative to what are known box seat of the royal carriage whenever as the "Prioe drafts,-" on the ground that his evidence would tend to cximiuate himself. "WHEN Stephen W. Dorsey, one of the star-route defendants, was called as a witness, the question immediately arose as to his beliefs on the sanctity of an oath, and whether be had doubts of tutors rewards or punishments. The Ju dge decided that Dorsey should be sworn, and that gentleman then formally denied that tie conspired against the Government; that he ever had transac­ tions, directly or indirectly, with Brady; and that BerdeiTs testimony was false from beginning to end. The irascible temper of the witness was evident throughout his ex­ amination. A RUMOR having gained «nrrency that the relations between Great Britain and the United States were strained, 4n ceat- sequence of the failuie of this Government to restrain plotting* of Irish revolutionists in America against the peace of Great Britain, Mr. 8ackviUe West, the English Minister at Washington, has stated to an interviewer that a better under­ standing never existed between the two Governments thaaa there is at present Secretary Frelinghuvsen also contradicts the report alluded to. The President "has appointed John L. Parish, of Chicago, Consul at Chemnitz. Saxony, to succed John J. Elinn, also of Chicago, who. has been removed Itls estimated that the income of the United States Government under the new Tax and Tariff bill the next fiscal year' will amount to $405,000,000, against $403,500;000 thin year. THE Secretary of the Interior has •rendered a decision relative to the fencing of public lands by -stock-raisers, holding that such action is altogether without the sanction of law. Mr. Teller promises that < his department will do all it can to break up the practice Gen. Diaz and party have reached Washington. Many of the courte­ sies that it was intended should be extended to the ex-President of Mexico were i dis­ pensed with, owing to .the -death of Post­ master General Howe DR. HICKS, who was Guiteau's spir her Majesty rode out among her London subjects, and when the royal lady betook herself to her Highland home he was ber faithful attendant and humble friend It is awell-known fact that Queen Victoria, as well as her late oonrort, were much more disposed to unbend and bo familiar with such nws as John Brown, the humble High­ land gillie, than with persons whom the eti­ quette of court compelled them to be gra­ cious. In the Queen's "Journal of the High­ lands," published rome years ago, frequent mention is made of John Brown. He was a favorite gillie of Prince Albert, ac­ companying that would-be sportsman upon all occasions wtien he sought the moora After the Prince Con­ sort's death, the Queen, knowing her late husband's attachment to this faithful servant, promoted him to a place in her own personal retinue. Knowing her Majesty's tastes and weakness--and Victoria is said to have bar share--John Brown proved him­ self * "canny Scot," accumulating, it is said, considerable property Two shocks of earthquake have Wen felt at Miskolez, in Hungary An agent of P. T. Barnum is in Paris negotiating with Louise Michel for a lecturing tour in America. JUMUTIOLTTL NEWS. and Grimmitt, wfaoitook no active part inl itnaladviHer.has sued the Baltimore Arneri- i 'A(. V&* Vf iMr •'H ' , Si fight, was accidentally killed bv~one<aX >the .three during the siiootiqg. The next' morning, two1 brothers, Mose and Gabriel Marshall, frieadsof the>dead men, followed theilndian, who had fled, and, < coming up with him, riddled his body with bullets.... £The trial of the four men charged with theiiheft of #100,000 in bonds of the city of St Joseph, Mo., from the office of the City KsoBrder, Mdalafc- to oome to conclusion, TWO ot the accused turned Statate evidence, the third was acquitted, .JM&nowthe Jury in.thecaee.of the fourth, -WlHiain W. Scott, has .disagreed Four MB^ont Frenchman and .three Mexicans, were killed by Apaches in .the Whitestone mountains, Arizona, making a total of-eigbt lives lost during the present outbreak. I TIMOTHY O. HOWE, Postmaster Gen- • eml,.tlied on the 2&th, at Kenosha, Wis, ofi pneumonia. He contracted .a -severe cold the week before at Green Bay., and, though he was reported to.be. improving, sank rap­ idly,, and expired at 2:i0 p. m. Sunday. Timothy O. Howe was .born ,in iLivermore,• Me.,'on the 7th of .February, 1816. He re-! eelvedan academic (education, studied law in the same offioe with Senator Morrill, andvwas admitted to the bar in 183a .The first public office which he held was that of Postmaster in his native town. He remained •n this position only.a short tame In 1845 he .was.elected to the Maine Legislature, . and the. following vearmoved to GreenBay, Wia. which place nad ever since .been his home. He was chosen Circuit Judge of . the Statoin 1W0, serving in .that position for five years, when he resigned. In lsQSLJudge Howe \was elected United states Senator, and rmnained in that body con­ tinuously for eighteen years, his term of office expiring .March 4, 1879. The famous triangular contest In which the •lection of his successor was involved,, and In which. Judge Howe, E. W. Keyes and Matt Carpenter were participants--* contest which finally ended in the eleotian crf Mr. Carpenter--will be reaffily recalled. .Judge Howe then retired to >Hs home at Green Bay, but was not permitted to remain long to retirement He was tendeasd by President Garfield .appointment as a member of .the Board of Commissioners seatiby the United States to -represent this jQovemunent in the International Monetary <Canjrress .at Bwris, his ; associates betog «x-Senator Thurman And William M Evacto He re­ mained abroad about °l~ -ruttm, nmil nnnn after his return began to 1MS pmaninentLy mentioned ass a probable ssenfaer«f iRaesi- dent Arthur's Cabinet In Demsaber 1881, he was tendered the PostaMstor General shiD. which position he hekl M fee time ot nis death Patrick Egan, ih» itM, ™ triot, is In Chicago--Four bodies had feiean recover&d from the Braidwood alne, ay tto No MORE bwdies were recovered fnaca ithe Diamond mine, near Braidwood, •37, the search tor corpses being retarded by masses of earth that had fallen in the passages sinoe the pit was Hooded. - Two different camps, located between Clif­ ton and Lordsbn^g, N. M, were ittarlrrti by Apaches the other night, and nine men were killed. A count has been made at the fen <Carlos reservation Indians, which demon­ strates that that hand is not responsible for the outrages Genl (Crook reports that the marauders are a paction of the Chiricahua Apaches who wen driven into Mexico last year. To these Indians Gen. Crook Charges the murder of at least 1,000 rrsons during the last ton years Reavis has filed a claim with the United States Surveyor at Ttacson, Arizona, for 5,850 square miles embraced in the Peralto land claim. The claim covers all the valua­ ble mines of Arizona, except those in the Tombstone district Russell Brown and Patrick McGlew, accused of the murder of Mrs, Gen. Dorris, Brown's grandmother, at 8t Louis, entered a plea of guilty of man- Manghter in the first degree, and were sen­ tenced to ten years in the penitentiary. A DISPATCH from Braidwood, 111., of March 28, says: "Despairing of being able to recover the sixty-eight corpses in the Diamond coal mine at Braidwood before de- ??Ba').®kition Khali have rendered their Identification impossible, the owners of the mine are considering a proposition to close «be pit permanently and to erect over the entrance to it a monument to tbe memory of toe miners intombed therein. The sug­ gestion is opposed by the friends of the dead JSrt, Jl° was made yesterday in the work of clearing away the obstructions in ttie pit. THE funeral of the late Postmaster Qeneral, Timothy O. Howe, was celebrated jflfc Kenosha, Wis, Quiet and simple cere- u? 'ir^held at 1116 Unitarian Church, after which the remains were removed to Senator Howe s old home at Green Bay for toterment ^ A diHtingmshed gathering of Junited States .Senators and Cabinet officers state and judicial officers of Wisconsin and Tinr^fimifrn-Hn nn Af t» ' 1 can for 935,000 rfor stating he disposed'of the assassin's'bones for. a monetary consid­ eration The Grand Juryof the district of Columbia have returned three additional presentments in connection with the star- route frauds. In one James T. Brady is charged with unlawfully receiving #5,000 from Price, the contractor; in the second* ex-Senate#. Bellogg, of Louisiana, and Brady are jointly accused of conspiring with.Price to defraudthe Govern­ ment by the expedition of routes; and, in the third, Kellogg, individually, is alleged to have unlawfully received from Price $20,100 in consideration of: the* exercise of his influ­ ence in securing certain advantages for Price from the Postoltiee Department. The indict­ ments were found upon the evidence of Price, who claimed to have made the payments ito Bracty and Kel­ logg in cash and postoffioe drafts Acting Secretary' of the Treasury French has ordered the payment of the bonds embraced in the 130th eau on April 4 .and on the two following Wednesdays, not more than 95,- 000,000 being payable each '^Wednesday. The bonds embraced iutbis call mature May 1, and amount to #15,0C0,C«0 The Commis­ sioner of Internal Revenue has issued a cir­ cular to Collectors^giving minute directions relative to the allowing of claims for rebate to tobacco manufacturers .under the new Tax. and Tariff bilL EX-SENATOR KELLOOO professes his ability to disprove the allegations in the affidavit of Contractor Price, in .a statement that .he is preparing The IPxesident has forbidden the communication iby his subor­ dinates of uny information About cases in which the executive clemency is invoked Hereafter all such proceedings will be kept secret The reason assigned ds .newspaper misEepresentotion of the President's inaertain recent pardon roiaHML GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, .OF 'Georgia, Who, some two or three years ago, resigned his seat in the United States Senate to enter into .railroad speculation, has jrrown Yerv wealthy. He is now a citizen of Florida, ana again longs for his old Senatorial lite. It Ls said he is a candidate lor :the seat in the Senate, >now occupied .by Aon. Wilkinson CalL A iRITJ. prohibiting political assess­ ments iin the State of Pennsylvania was passed 'by the State House ,of .Representa­ tives. COTTNT VONMVKT.ATH YON SZKKHRLY, ftresident of the Hungarian Court of Cassa­ tion, was found murdered at his residence at Ofen. He had been strangled, and his tongue had been cut out His hands were bound tightly together with ropes. The body was lying on tne bed in the Count's room 'when discovered, but the bed-clothes were not disturbed, and the Count was undressed. A rope was hanging frotn the window of the apartment to the street below. The Count's ihouse had been robbed by the murderers In the British House of Commons, Sir William Harcourt, Home Secre­ tary, in reply to questions asked by Capt. O'Shea, member for Clare, said an inquiry by the police into the alleged at­ tack upon Lady Florence Dixie had been fu­ tile Inference is drawn from a recent speech by the Italian Foreign Minister that Germany, Austria and Italy have entered into an alliance against France, and. in case one makes war with the latter power, have pledged themselves to remain neu­ tral, unless they wish to aid the ally engaged in the conflict An informer named David Whelan waskilled at Maryborough, Queens county, Ireland Threats having been made to blow uo the postoffice at Cork, that building is lieing /guarded, by military. „ .A passenger <rem oork wan arrested at Liverpool ror having an infernal machine in his possession. Ax act making it felony to keep gam- •Ming establishments, or the renting <of (houses for such .a purpose, has passed the Tennessee Legislature. The penalty is im­ prisonment for not less than one nor more than three years in the penitentiary. The •effect of this will be to banish the gambling fraternity from the State. The Mormon •elder, Morgan, left Chattanooga, Term., last week with 150 proselytes for Utah, Tethered in all sections of the South circus tent at Key West, Fla, fell during the performance, burying a large audience and creating a panic. Four women andtwo men were dangerously injured and eight were fatally injured O. F. Hightower, an Iinformer, who was conducting a posse -of revenue officials to capture illicit distillers, <was shot and killed by the latter in the Saln- <da mountains, Greenville county, 8. C. UHE acting Secretary of the Treas­ ury ̂ has decided that the rate of duty, as'be- itween the Old and new tariff, is to be fixed by the date of the arrival of the importing VMwel at the exterior port of entry, and that goods.imported before the new act takes ef­ fect, and Fhipped to Western ports under immediate transportation, will be dutiable under the present tariff, unless they remain in public store or bonded warehouse when the act goes into operation.... /The Postoffioe Department has placed the following names on the list of frauds: W. M. Clinton & Co. and the Comet Publishing Company, Bloomington, lll.; Western Card Company, Normal, 11L; Union Novelty Com Company, anaGuidi repcai Mlt Tm Hons in ess failures :far <£he week, as reported to B. G. Dun A Oo.., <of the (mercantile.agency, numbeaed it85,*s against 225 for the previous week, a iiridnu Him of 80, .distributed.as follows: KevSnglatid States, 1J; Middle States, 39; Western, 57; Southern, 38; Pacific States and Territories, 12; New York city 8; Canada. '̂ ....OaGoodPriday, William Barks and Green Cimningham were hanged at Lafayette. Ga.; Jerome Belt at Graham, N. C.; Nicholas Walker at little Rock. Ark; and Fred. Waits at Franklin, Tex... .The official call forthe meeting of the Irish National Land League of the United States and Canada, to meet at Philadelphia April 26, has been issued. The announcement is made that Psrnell other nationalists will attend. IT U state! as & fact that direct telephonic communication IHW had between Cleveland, Ohio, and New ¥fr¥ city, a distance of over 000 miles. FIRE destroyed the Williams sewing- machine factory, located near Montreal, in­ volving a loss of 9300,000. which was entire ly covered by insurance. An oatmeal-mill at Center City, Ohio, was burned, the toss being 935,000... .Rear Admiral Thomas Turner, United States navy, is dead. AMERICAN artists at Paris are excited over the increased tariff on works ot art passed by the last Congress, and will peti­ tion for its repeal... .The movement among cigar-makers for an increase of 91 per thousand in the price for making cigars after the 1st of May is extending, theSoston union having 'taken action in the matter. The manufacturers at Milwaukee are preparing to assume an aggressive position in the controversy, and, if the de­ mands of the workmen are persisted in, will clone their shops lor a season. The record of deaths includes the names of Charles Stetson, ex-member of Congress, of Ban­ gor, Maine, aged W years, and the Rev. Daniel Lathrop, a prominent Presbyterian divine of Jackson, llich., aged 85 years. DURING the year 1882 the loss by fire in the United States was 981,505,024, and in Canada 95.605,040. In the e&ht years past, beginning with the record of 1875, the losses in the United States were 447,t509, and in Canada 978,779,390, or the great total of 9672,a«6,999,.... -3* SI SJJ2 ̂ 1 Byrne, the Irish suspect recently ar- took part la the solemn rite* - 1 restgdin Parts, but whose extradition was pany. Mount Pulaski, III; Star Publishing uta, III, and Agents' Guide le Publishing Company, Lincoln, QL RECENT deaths: Gen. N. B. Bnford, of Chicago; Jerome Leland, proprietor Off the -Bfeurtevant House, New York, at Clev«e land,'Ohio; CoL CharlesR. GilL ex-Attorney General of Wisconrfn, at Madison, and Nath- *n JL IDearborn, of -St Charles, QL, who come West in 1836. ^ , JWP: ' ^ THE ttKBEElt _ NEWYOBK. 9T.80 0&1K goos. 7.70 0 8.12K FLO us--Saperflne 8.40 «9 3.80 Wasax-No. l White 1.10 0 1.11 _ No. 9 Bed 1.19 49 1.30 COB*--No. 2 M & ,«7 OATS-NO. 8.. so 9 .5« POKK--Mess 18.78 @19.25 LAW* ai}6 CHICAOiA BKKVSS--4tood to Fancy Steras.. &lf O 7.98 Cows snd Heifers ... 3.80 .0 4.78 Medium to Fair ...... :f.TC @6.10 goos. .8.96 @7.98 FlXWm--ftuscy White Winter Bx. 8.0J & 8.25 Good to Choice Spr'g K*. 4.78 @ S.W WBKAT--No. t HpnnK -1.04 ® 1.06 No. t Red Winter UM ® 1.09 CORN--NOW I..„ OATS--No. i ' RYE--No 1 BAKIOT--No. l BUTTER--Choice Creamery Eoos--Fresh. POBK--Mess I.4RI> ..... MILWAUKEE. WHBAT--NA 3...;.. CORN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 EYE--No. 2 BARLET--Na 3 POBK--Mess T .A 'sf.Lo'riii" WHEAT--No. 3 Bed COHN--Mixed OATS--No. 3 RYE. PORK--Mess. LASD..... CINCINNATI. WHEAT--Na 3 Bed. CORN OATS RYE. PORK--Mess LARD.... TOLEBA'* WHEAT--Na 3 Bed Cobx. OATS--Na 3 DETROIT. FLOUR • WHEAT--No. l White.... COBS--Na 3 OATS--Mixed POBK--Mess „7 „ INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed 1.06 <9 1.07 CORN--No. 3 .4S & .49 OATS--Mixed .41 US ,42 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE--ne«t 6.2s ® «.78 Fair... 8.78 <o> <.38 Common..... 8.38 <9 6.00 Hops. 7.80 & 8.30 BUV 9>N tf0.78 bowldesi ward"*"' rushi from seemed thefltok .88 •43 .84 .43 4.38 ® 4. SO LOS (A) 1.06 .64 C4 .56 .49 ® .44 18.60 <$18.78 among UM terrible Ih tototht 500. Inf"•ItiVllfttiii mil 1 MIII 10 to the subterranean eharnaMNgBla. anxiousiv hoping that some near aadter one would be brought up first Kothers W«H> had lost sons, and youtut wives were Wtiiimii shivering >n the cold, with tbaictttHPnildren dinging* to their skirts and whUmrering. There was no noise but that ioidamr the pumping and hoisting ma­ chinery. The tumbling of the wa­ ter ffcnn the pumps kept up swish as it struck %he outside and trickled.off to- lowed prairie, whence it had eminc. The water was black with the walls of coal, and with a more somber hue by torches of the watchers and e miners who were engaged _ the bodies yprald occasionally surface to bresthe fresh air and .m the oppressive nausea of the , eir mining-clothes, their faces seamed wtth coal-dust, and the little lan- - - to their heads, these laborers dead looked weird and almost darkness. was indeed a ghastly one. Bobs from the women, and strong ih bated breath in the pres- first body brought out The hoisting apparatus had scarcely deposited theftefacd remains uoon the landing when UteiNcpectant crowed swayed forward, hoping to get a glimpse of the horrible sight It was a horrible sight, and required a stont heart to look upon it unmoved For thirty-eight days the bodies had remained underground in the water, and decomposi­ tion had set in and was a. ready in an ad­ vanced stage. It was expected that the corpses would be putrid, but putrefaction was not yet thorough, and they were easily handled. The first body was hoisted up in a large oblong box and hurried into a shanty thirty feet distant from the hole, where the Coroner and the jury and a few others waited to view the remains and identify them if possible The box was opened ana the crowd gazed upon the sickening sight The face was black as ink, as was the entire body, and it seeined impossible to recognize in the disfigured heap of clay the man who had been represented by it The clothing alone served a£ a mark of recognition, and the corpse was alleged to be P. H. Walt Soon another body came up, and the creaking of the machinery continued until daylight dawned, when fifteen had been brought to the surface. As fast as one body was iden­ tified it was placed in a coffi n and removed a short distance to the fiat-cars, to be fans- ported to Braidwood The identification in a number of instan­ ces was necessarily imperfect, because of the disfiguration of some of the bodies and the advanced stage of decomposition. The soene in here was sickening. The saturated remains were exposed for a few minutes and eagerly gased upon by bereaved relatives. No women were permitted within the morgue The bodies were contorted into all manner of shapes, some of them almost doubled up, with the heads stiffened down upon the breast One man had his hands uplifted, as if to protect himself from some impending blow. He had raised them to ward off death, and when it came it left him still appealing. The eyes of nearly all were gone, the noses flattened close to the face, which in a great many cases were laid bare to the cheek bones. Great gashes caused by falling1 stones ren­ dered recognition of a'few an absolute im­ possibility. The lips, thickened into exag­ gerated unnaturalness, the matted hair, cor­ roded hands, and blackened faces and limbs had so disguised ail of the bodies that rec­ ognition was more guess-work than cer­ tainty, As an evidence of this uncertainty, Mr. Pearsons, who had lost three sons in the mine, was brought into identify one of the corpses that it bad been insisted was one of his boys. The old man looked with quiv­ ering lips ufion toe hideous spectacle, and turned away murmuring: "It's not him! It's not UkfeuJ^HBMre was a weight of woe in iiw^iWp^pwawlwMly spoken by a father mho raw aw weeks oeen tutoring himself to bear the sight of his dead when they were broqght to him. The positive- ness of .the parent did not convince those who had known the youn^r man intimately, but the lather's verdict was accepted and the Coroner recorded "unknown." The only one brought out up to 10 o'clock in the morning who was unanimously ident­ ified was a young man named John Bovd. He was known by his clothing, and this be­ came the only approximate means of identi­ fication. One man was known by a patch on his 'boots, anotfeer by a paten on hiB short, and a third toy a button on his drawera A solitary white button on this garment satisfied the man's wife, who had sewed it on, that the putrid corpse, bearing' no semblanoe tto.a, man, was her husband! There may have.been other men with sim­ ilar buttons on their under-garments, but the bereaved heart was satistied.and the re­ mains were identified. As soon as the bodies were recognized, or admitted to be unrecognizable, they were taken from the plain wooden boxes and incased in .-a cofiin. The coffins were ranged around the room, .and were of neat imitation mahogany. Each cofiin was supplied with a glae i cover­ ing at the head, permitting the upper por­ tion of the body to be seen without unscrew­ ing the lid. As soon as the cottin .bearing a body was placed on a liat-car the women and those not allowed in the morgue would clamber up the car and peer into it All morning and all day the scene around the (funeral cars was a [pitiable one. *The crowd kept steadily increasing until 500 persons wer6 clustered together .near the 1 tracks. Wails came from the women, heart-broken sobs bet kenlng un­ told woe, and slout-bearted men who had •worked 1 in the "taine, und had saved them­ selves almost by miracle? from the awlul rush of \wa en,-wept in comyaav on looking at the crumbling ciay. Tears trickled down arugg-ed cheeks, and fond mothers, \wives, aaad sisters wrung .their handx in tearless grief. A wdfewoaid.be told that her hus- Iband layUn;a<aeriain cofiin, but, look ever so Jiard, there was nothing to tell her that (they were right By 10 o'clock ceventeen bodies had ibeen mecovered, and these -were placed upon the funeral train of three passenger cars draped in mourning and taken to .Braidwood, where &hey were Interied after religious servlaetj aver fome of .them, whiletothers were token d&nectly to the.cemetery Twenty-tow bodies.h ld been taken outtto- 4jasr, of whitah twenty wera identified It was a nntiaeable fact that the bodies were in a •fmch .better condition while in the mine than they were after removal to the outer air. H3kegr .began to smell imme- tbe iDoxi .61 @ 54 AO m .41 & .69 & .78 @ .30 JM .17 MLM @18.36 M & MX 1.08 m 1.07 M & .64 .4(8 & .41 M m .67 m m .83 LFCOO 4S18.25 .11 • .11* 1.09 0 1.10 .46 .47 .40 <& .41 .83 TG .*4 18.00 m*.ti .10*4# .11 1.09 & 1.10 ja & .54 •44 # .46 .61 & .63 18.00 @18.50 .10H& .11 1.09 G 1.10 . diately it'ter the fredh air touched them. \were opened enfi The Oli Story. " He t&ought it wasn't loaded, again. This time tibe cotastEopSne oocurnad at La Crosse, Wis., where Louis Miay, Frank Maher and three other youths w ent to the gun-room of the Light Guard arnwry to play cards. May watched the other four, and, seeing some cheating going on, went to the iloeker, and, taking out a gun. said: *111 shoot the next man that cheats." He then held up a brass shell, and placed it in the gun. Soon be saw Frank Maher pass a card to his partner, and called out to him to look out Maher turned to May, placed bis band on his heart, and «aid, "Fire away!" This May did, and the ball entered Maher's left eye, coming out near his left ear. He fell to the floor, but the boys thought it only a continuation of the joke until they saw blood streaming from the hole in the unfortunate youth's bead. May was nearlv crazed with grief, for he and the dead youth were close friends. He had taken the shell from a box containing the shells fired in tar­ get practice a few evenings ago, and sup­ posed that it was not loaded May was not arrested His Room Better Than His Company. A Uniontown (Pa) special pays N. - L Dukes, the murderer of Nutt, arrived there from his stepfather's, and next morning a committee of ci i'.ens waited on him and presented h:m with the resolutions adopted at the ind gnation meeting lately held. They ah o gave him notice that he would have twenty-four hours to transact his busl. ness and leave town. IT is reported that, in consequence of th« refusal of the manufacturers to grant an ad­ vance of SI per thousand to cigarmakers, workers in this industry all over the coun­ try, to the number of tSjUUOtueu, will quit work togtttw on May Foft ̂ fdinary woodwork use whiting to rub the dirt off, and ammonia. Oorpioua mixed with whitewash upon the oellar-walls will keep vermin away. Ir tin wall alxAit the stove has been smoked by the store, oover the black patches with gam shellac and they will not strike through either {Mint or cal­ cimine. CABPKTB shonld be thoroughly beaten on the wrong Bide first, and then on the right, after which spots may be re­ moved by the use of ox gall or am­ monia and water. To MAKE good mucilage, take equal parts of gum arabie and gum traga- canth, and add sufficient water to dis- solve; add. a couple of cloves and you have good cheap mucillage. To REMOVE paint from windows, take strong bi-carbonate of soda and dis­ solve it in hot water. Wash the glass, and in twenty minutes or half an hour rub thoroughly with a dry cloth. Do You KNOW.--That wild mint will keep rats and mice out of your house? That pennyroyal distrib­ uted in places frequented by roachetf will drive them away ? That oil paintings hung over the mantel­ piece are liable to wrinkle with the heat? To REMOVE tar from the hands: The Qermantown Telegraph recom­ mends rubbing the hands with the out­ side of fresh orange or lemon peel, and wiping dry immediately. It is aston­ ishing what a small piece will clean. The volatile oils in the skins dissolve, the tar, so that it can be wiped off. BEFORE paint or calcimine is applied to walls every crevice should be filled with plaster or cement. For the calci­ mine put a quarter of a pound of white glue in cold water over night, and heat gradually in the morning until dissolved. Mix eight pounds of whiting with hot water, add the dissolved glue and stir together, adding warm water until about the consistency of of thick cream. Use a calcimine brush, and finish as you go along. If skim milk is used in­ stead of water, the glue may be omitted. A PRETTY present for a lady is a dressing-gown, slippers and combing- jacket, all en suite, of pale blue silesia. Cut cretonne roses out as a border and applique on with silk. The roses should be on the cuffs, pockets and down the front. The slippers have a few roses on top. The shape should be cut at first in paper, then of the silesia. and lining; next applique the flowers on and then sew on the cork-soles. A sachet for night-dress is also pretty, cut in the form of a large envelope, with a cluster of flowers below the flap and a smaller one above. This work will be found very fascinating and quite worth the time and labor bestowed on it. To WASH flannels: Make suds be­ fore putting the flannels in; do not rub soap on them; do not leave them soak­ ing in the tub, but rub out one piece at a time. Wash in two suds if much soiled, then rinse thoroughly in clean, weak suds, wring and hang up; but do not take flannels out of warm water and hang out in a freezing air, as that certainly tends to shrink them. It is better to dry them in the house, unless the Bun shines. In washing worsted goods and men and boys' woolen cloth­ ing, pursu^, the same course. nnlv An not wring them, but hang them upland let them drain; this prevents wrinkles, which it is almost impossible to press out. They should be ironed while damp, with as hot an iron as you can use without scorching the goods. IF a present is needed for a gentle­ man there is a novelty in shaving cases, in round cardboard sides, which can be hand-painted or decorated, edged with Lace or gimp and mounted upon a gilded stock, the effect being both novel and pretty. 80, too, are little shaving mats, of Japanese canvas, embroidered in silks. The latest novelty in mats is that known as the "pond lily mat," which is very easily made of colored tissue paper and is admirably adapted as a lamp mat. Different shades of green and yellow tissue paper are select­ ed, which are cut «ut in the shape of a pond lily in graduated sizes, the largest Forming the foundation and the remain­ der being placcd sraceessively one upon the other. The lejwes are easily curled with the fingers asid the result is very pretty. A Wise Statesman. When M. de Persigny was French Minister of the Interior, he received a visit one day from a friend, who, on sending up his name, was shown into the great man's sanctum. A warm dis­ cussion arose between them. Suddenly an usher entered and handed the Minister :a note. On open­ ing it he at once changed his tone of voice, and assumed a quiet and urbane manner. Puzzled as to the contents of the note, and by the marked effect it had produced upon the Minister, his friend cast a furtive glance at it, when, to ihis i astonishment, he perceived that it was simply a plain sheet df paper, without a scratch upon it. More puzzled than ever, the gentlo- iinan, after a few mimttes, took his leave and proceeded to interrogate the usher, to whom he was well known, for he thimself had been Minister of the IB- tkerior. "You have," said he, '"just handed to (the Minister a note, folded up, which had a most extraordinary effect upos 'him. Now, it was a plam sheet of pa­ per, with nothing written upon it. What did it mean?" "Sir, " replied the usher, ^Ihere is the explanation, which I am*t beg you to keep secret, for I do not wish to com­ promise myself. "My master is very liable to lose his temper. As he himself is aware of his weakness, he has ordered m«, «eaeh time' that his voice is raised sufficiently to be audible iu the ante-room, witkout de­ lay to plaee a sheet of paper ia an en­ velope and take it to him. "That reminds him that his temper is getting the better of him, and he at once calms himself. Just now I heard his voice rising, and carried out my in­ structions/' A Bare Clock. Mr. T. G. Calvert, the well-known jeweler, has in his store one of the finest old clocks in the country. It was man­ ufactured in Liverpool over 100 years ago, and all the parts are as good as new. The pendulum weight is of glass, and holds forty pounds of mercury. Originally this clock cost $500, but Mr. Calvert says $1,000 would not buy it. It takes observations with a transit three times a day, and compares them with the clock. These observations show that the clock does not vary a minuto ia a year.--Lwington Trans- cript. the now LfrW- Uust 900 row or with ww, and, •afe and even dur-got within Baoe, when, ahe Wis run intobv Testa, a small iron steamer owned And manned by Fnmcliinmi, and nt &Knni 100 tons burden. Within four hours of the collision the big vessel disap­ peared beneath the waves, and the lit­ tle vessel was speeding on her way to­ ward the Fralnen coast, where, uncon­ scious of the misehief she had done, she arrived in safety about a fortnight later. About forty of the Arctic's crew and passengers were saved in a boat, and a few more were picked up from rafts and bits of the vessel, among the latter l>eing Capt. Luce and a Mr. Smith, then a resident of the Stttte-of Mississ­ ippi, but subsequently a Wealthy Otas- gow merchant. Mr. Smith was saved upon a raft of planks, lashed together by himself, on the top of which he tied the basket lined with tin, into which unwashed plates were put during the saloon dinner. Upon the edge of this basket, with his feet at the bottom, Mr. Smith sat for two nights and nearly three days, bailing it as it filled from time to time. It will be heard with lit­ tle surprise that for many years Mr. Smith preserved this much-valued his­ torical basket as a trophy in his dranr- ing-room at Glasgow, and showed it to his friends as the vehicle in which he had floated upon the waves for fiftv or sixty hours. The basket was concealed in the center of an ottoman made pur­ posely to hold it, and was only re­ vealed when Mr. Smith was surrounded by a few congenial friends. Jewesses and Wigs. There is a remarkable mystery sur­ rounding the origin of the custom of the Jewish women cutting off their hair and donning a wig on their marriage. The stubborn adherence to this custom suggested the plot of the gloomy story which concludes the "Jews of Bar now." Even in the present day the custom is still observed by the ultra-orthodox. The effects of the custom were supposed to give a clew ta its origin. There was undoubtedly too much reason in the middle ages for Jewesses to be eager to make themselves as un­ attractive as possible. The custom of cutting off the hair of the bride on the wedding day is not mentioned in the Talmud. According to Mislinah Ket- uboth (vol. 6) it is contrary to Jewish custom for married women to appear in the street with head uncovered. Out of modesty the custom was also ob­ served in the house, and in order to re­ move the poss.bility of yielding to temptation the hair--serving no longer as an ornament, but being ia superfluous weight on the head--was entirelv cut off. According to Mishnah Nazir (iv., 5) the cutting off the hair is considered a disfigurement, which the husband could veto in case of his wife being a Naz- arite. Seme few believe that the cus­ tom dates from the very earliest times, and that they found their opinion upon the allusion thereto in Deuteronomy xxi., 12. Referring to the mode pre­ scribed for taking a captive woman for wife the text says: "Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head."--Jewish Chron­ icle. Tea, Coffee and Spices Adulterated. • The New York correspondent of the Detroit Post and Tribune speaks thus of adulterations: I am acquainted with a clerk in a down-town furniture store, snd he tells me that the upper part of the building is allotted to the adulteration of tea, coffee and spices. Great loads of sacks filled with peas and beans are carted there, which, he assumes, becomes prime Java and Mocha, and bags of light, fluffy stuff which, he supposes, becomes tea, to in­ flame the blood and loosen the tongues of sewing societies. Broken crackers, the sweeping of bakeries, in enormous quantities, are used to adulterate ginger --crushed and rolled out fine on great tables, and then mixed with pure gin­ ger--one-third of the latter to two- thirds of the former. "For a time I was puzzled about the boots and shoes," says my informant. "Three or four times a week a truck-load of big boxes, filled with old boots and shoes, would back up and transfer their loads to the elevator, which would carry them to the fifth floor. At last, after some months, I found out the shocking fact. Those old boots are actually charred in a very hot oven, and then ground up fine in a machine that we hear rumbling all day long--ground up and mixed with pep­ per and cinnamon. For cinnamon they ;also use old tan-bark, which they get for nothing." Importance of Care. If we would be half as careful to avoid bad air, bad water, improper and half- decayed food and poorly-cooked food, as we are to care for a little harmless •dust or an innocent cobweb, we might liave improved health. If the young <oould become as much interested in good and instructive books as in "flashy literature," or would take as good care of the feet, the stomach, the eyes and the health in general, as they do of the jgew-gaws and jewelry, we might soon *iee more who would be better prepared lor the cares of the family. If we would heed the laws of God, including the laws of the body as well as those of the soul, as we do the absurd and tyranni­ cal demands of fashion, we would have fewer cases of "nervous prostration," wihieh simply means a worn-out body, crushed by cruel treatment of ourselves, tuecessarily or otherwise. If we could feel that our health is mainly what we snake it, and that we are as certainly responsible for our use of the body--or its abuse--as we are for mental and moral delinquencies, we might increase the term of human life one-half in a few generations. That term has been in­ creased materially during the last fifty years, .effected through improved care of QiiwriffOH.--Dr. J. H. The Secret Oat. During the engagement of a certain star actress at a Boston theater, a flor­ ist was engaged by her to stay behind the scenes every evening for the pur­ pose of working over flowers into new designs. The floral ship which was handed over the footlights in the first act, for instance, would astonish and delight her again in the second act in the form of a pillow, and then be thrown to her in numerous boquets through­ out the rest of the play. In this way she reduced her bill for flowers, but of- fendedthe florist, who therefore let out the secret. A WESTERN editor speaks of Herbert Senear ps a u thinker from Think* It was to bo twelve fset long. Iftrat •taftaa frasra-wvak oa wliiou to sireioii the |wf>er. For this latter purpose I bought about eighteen yaras of venraffitog wrapping-paper. Itwasof alighteream OQior, smooth on UM sur&oe, and very tough, bat neither stiff nor very thick; •nd, being made in long rolls, it could be obtained of almost any length desired It was onfy about a yard wide, so that it required two breadths to reach around the frame in the widest part. I cut enough off the roll to cover the frame, and soaked it for a few minutes in wat­ er. I then turned" the frame upside down and fastened the edges of the two strips of paper to it, by lapping them carefully on the under side of the bot­ tom board and tacking them to it so- that paper hung down loosely on all sides. It was then trimmed, lapped, and doubled over as smoothly as pos­ sible, at the ends of the frame, and held in place by means of small clamps. Along the edges it was drawn tight* trimmed, and doubled down over the gunwale, where it was firmly held by slipping strips of ash just inside of the gunwales. The shrinkage caused by the drying stretched the paper, thus fastened* tightly over the frame-work. As soon as thoroughly diy, it was varnished, inside and out, with asphaltum varnish thinned with turpentine, and, as soon as that had soaked in, a second coat of the same varnish was applied, but with less turpentine; and, finally, the laps or joints of the paper were covered with pieces of muslin stuck on with the un- thinned varnish. The loose strips oi ash. were now removed, and another layer of paper was put on, and fastened along the edge of the boat by replacing the strips as before. When the paper was dry, and the whole outside of the boat varnished several times, until it presented a smooth, shining surface, I covered the whole boat with unbleached muslin, sewed at the ends and tacked along the gunwales. It was then tight­ ened by shrinking, and finally received three coats of a mixture of varnish and paint. I then took some split ratfcaa, and, after wetting it, wound it firmly around both gunwale and inside strip,, passing it through small holes punched m the paper just below the gunwale,, until the inside and outside strips were- bound together into one strong gun­ wale. During the two years that I have used my boat, I have often landed it, through . heavy breakers, on a very stony shore, beside running it against a fair number of submerged snags and stones, some­ times with considerable force, but, ow­ ing to its lightness and toughness, it never received the slightest injury. I have been out in it in very heavy seas, "- and have found it much easier to man- ' age at such times than a heavier boat. In rowing parallel to high waves it is- apt to ship a little water occasionally, unless carefully managed, but all small boats with low sides experience this difficulty. The approximate cost of the materi­ als used in the construction of the canoe- was as follows: Fivfi nnarta ysynish, $!.9©J ajglitoan yards paper, $1.20; eight yards cloth,,. 72 cents; bottom-board, 60 cents; guii--' wales, 50 cents; cross-boards, 25 cents; paint, 50 cents; split rattan, 25 cental* nails, screws, wire, etc., 25 cents. To-.- tal, $6.17.--De Cost Smith, in Si* Nicholas. An Aristocratic Bog; i f There were two of them; one a maopl the other a dog. The man was a tall,, raw-boned specimen of humanity, and his face wore an expression of care. He' held a little string in one hand and at the other end of the string was a very aesthetic pug dog. The faces bore a. striking resemblance to each other, but there was a certain aristocratic- look about the pug's face, and he dainti­ ly raised one of his paws and shook off a piece of coal dust which had settled, thereon. "Will yez plaze tell me where the police station is, till I take this little^ devil there?" "Why, that dog looks like a good!' animal," remarked the reporter. _ The descendant of an ancient line of Irish Kings drew himself up and a look of pity stole across his face. "Good dog ? He's a bloody aristo­ crat, an' he's been the bane of me life< fur the last foive days." He gave the string a vicious jerk and continued: "I came home from me work a few days since, and me wife says: 'Faith, an* look at the purty cretur we've got for Teddy to play wid.' At supper I gave- him an intelligent piece of steak, an' yez will hardly believe it, but he turned' up his nose an' walked off. An' the only thing he would ate was poi and cake. An' he'd sleep no place but ih me own bed on wua of the pillows. I stud it four days, an', be hevings, 111 stand it so longer. I'm no aristocrat*. an' a dog what ates poi an' cake is too- high-toned for me. Get on ter the mug. of him," and, giving the string an extra hitch, he started in the direction of the police station, while the sesthetie . canine's hind legs merely grazed the. --Milwaukee Sentinel*, » . Terrn-Cotta Lumber* f A remarkable material called "terra' cotta lumber" has recently been brought to notice in England. It is composed'of the top layer of fire-clay beds and sawdust, exposed to heat and pressure. Slabs, bricks and boards of any shape can be molded from it, audit is capable of being cut by edge tools, pierced by nails, sawn and otherwise manipulated, jnst as wood is. But the strangest feature about it is that it stands, without any apparent effect upon it, a more intense heat than firs* • 1 clay will bear; and for lining furnaces, for bridge walls in smelting furnaces and other places of exposure to great heat it will be a valuable and almost inexpensive substitute for asbestos. Water seems to have no destructive in­ fluence upon it. Its weight is about that of an equal mass of cinder, and ita color varies from light buff to fierce sal­ mon. No doubt it will be found of great value for building purposes. THE idea of having State capitals ft*, ' large cities is all wrong. Have 'em in small towns, where hotels are bad, va-v riety shows scarce and most of the , girls homely. Then you'll get short, sessions and quick adjournments. -- Boston Post. f LIBERALISM is creeping into all the v churches, bnt the poor preachers notice ' that it has not yet struck the contribu­ tion box. &&»>!... „ ... ,K*ol -..J'.../'. . «. . ... ̂• -y, . * • .' • -••irfSdt-- . ..