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' v., * < « ?tess»is .-"fete* fiipi I f i re- GTON. w to lie •tusioal aMMabortof -the A BUttmt «oa*> mdcaicr Itand Third Trial Hie Is Guilty of Harder. Interesting Notes and Gossip from the National Capital. I. Wll SLYNI. E«t»r Mi FvMMier. ILLINOIS. HSWS CONDENSED. s,: if '4 *-'$ !•' v * < J- : V*• \ •i f a % . *». • ̂ , ? r •'.&••• £*' . <£ < • -V f <- ' J: • :"^0- i • w.iiii ' . * *' - m r-i. *. y&h i' • • , i.jet * 01 >< 4^; *frr f+*}•*?&'&- It-" •*& f t ' - » ' * • ?% *m> • |c' 5 /* fc: >•»-** • f *&•' , J ' <•• -"411/1 *'« jp ' <••! .# i*jV t t- P T& ftferf v r^.. • . h».\ Ji" MXKRIOTT and Mary- New York, flhaqped wltk tflfeeaBaC #98,004 worth of diamoada Cram i Franx Kramer, a jeweler of Pari* The ma* . confessed to the robbery. Three parts of the diamonds were found at the prisoner'! lodging. Frank Mann, of Oxford, Mass, .• ahot Mary E. Moore, of Millbury, ia the 8tece, and then himself, la conse- wof kMTCn'qnaneL Both are< i a widower, and Mrs Moore separated from her husband. Intending' to marry Mann when she should have obtained • divorce In the horse-bicycle contest at Boeton the former won by twenty-two milea Seven thousand persons witnessed the close. EDISON, the electrician, and others "filed papers at Albany, N. Y.. for the incor­ poration of the Electric Railway Company of the United States, the object being to de­ velop electricity as a motive power. The capital is placed at $2,(X 0,C00 A. O. Tinst- man & Co,, coke manufacturers, of Pitts­ burgh, Pa, nave made an assignment. The liabilities of the firm are $:ttt»,COJ, of which #220,000 is secured. A PITTSBURGH dispatch says of the labor situation there: "What the result of ,tbe dickering between the iron manufact­ urers and the Amalgamated Association will ibeoannotbe foretold with certainty,but since ,the last conference all fears of a long strike have been abandoned by the men, since i unexpectedly the manufacturers h&ve said they would sign a scale if one could be agreed upon. It was feared the manufact­ urers would refuse to sign a scale underany .conditions Four large iron firms on the ;South 8ide say they can see no reason for a reduction of wages, and express their •willingness to sign a scale for f&50 per ton, 4hepresent price* THE New York World has passed in­ to the possession of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The price paid mas about #400,000. not including the build- S ing. The paper will continue Democratic in olitics Sucty-one head of Jersey cattle raogbt 182,180 at New York. The 'King of Aflbantee sold for the highest figures ever obtained at auction, $(!,50U WAJUJ MCCONKEY was executed at Pittsburgh for the murder of George A. MoCluDe, in Dead Man's hollow, near MeEeeapert, Pa, on the night of Aug. 2, 188L McConkey retired to bed about 10 o'clock the preceding night and slept so soundly that ne had to be awakened la the morning. He ate a hear.y breakfast^ and when his spiritual advisers visited hwn was as unconcerned as he had been all the time. Just as the cap was adjusted he said, "Good-by, all ye murderera" Death was caused frotn strangulation Life was extinct in sere* minutes The bearing cf the condemned was of total indifference, not a single tremor being perceptible, and even laugh ng as he marched from the jail to the scaffold.., .The Standard oil-works, at Connnunipaw, Jf. J, were Ftruck by lightning ana set on fire. The flames communicating with the oil tanks, oue ex­ plosion followed another, and at last the storehouse where the barreled oil was kept was attacked, which succumbed. Six fire­ men were overtaken by a flood of blazing oil and perished The *1©' s is estimated at fl ,5C0,000, the property destroyed including twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six bups. i dwdg«, three docks and five brick W>' life: •|f- y f * . THE most noteworthy dramatic at­ traction that has been afforded Chicago the- ater-goers for some time is the Jefferson comedy season, which opened at McVicker's Theater on Monday last 'The Rivals," which was selected for the opening perform­ ances, was the-first dramatic work of the fa­ mous Bichard Brinslev Sheridan, and was first produced at the Covent Garden Thea- taLMBdga in 1/275. Mr. Joseph Jefenon andlm MtaSnw peteona&e the charac­ ters of Bob Acres sad Mrs. Malaprop. Fol­ lowing "The Rivals," the "Cricket on the Heam," "Lend lie Five Shillings," and other itoriiiif old comedies, will be produced REPORTS have been received from the Illinois Department of Agriculture Bhowlng that the oondition of winter wheat in the State is not very promising. The damage by floods and flies has been large, anil the southern counties suffer moat, where tome of the land must be seeded to other crops and where the average condi­ tion May l w?q 65 per cent against 103 last fear. In the northern section, com­ prising thirty-three counties, the com­ parative average of condition is reduced 25 per cent, and in the centra 'section of thirty-five counties the reduction is 35 per cent Present indications are for a yield of 20,374,097 bushels, against 50,944,249 bushels in 1882--Ninety Cree Indians have been captured by United States troops in the Bear's Paw mountains, in Montana, near the Canadian border. The Indians, who claim to have crossed the frontier to work for con­ tractors at wood-chopping, will be disarmed and returned to the country whence they came. CHOP reports from every county in Indiana have been published, from which the following averages are drawn: North Division--Wheat, per cent of condition, 70; corn, per cent planted and to be planted. 100; clover, per cent of condition, ifr; timo­ thy, per cent of condition, 99; peach buds, per cent alive, 30; apple buds, per cent, alive, 88. Central Division--Wheat 70, coin 100, clover 68, timothy 96. peaches 21, apples 77. Southern Division--Wheat 76, corn 97, clover 89, timothy 96, peachyJBt, apples w* The Indiana Farmer publiaivM repents frqm Ohio sad Illinois showing the relative con­ ditional Wheat, Indiana 72, Illinois 73, Ohio 71; corn, Indiana 99, Illinois 100, Ohio 100; peaches, Indiana 40, Illinois 61, Ohio 20; ap­ ples, the same in all the State?. A POLITICAL feud between two bad ' tlaments in Dodge City, Kan., has resulted In anarchy now ruling the town. The Mayor is in league with the desperadoes, who drive persons out freely, watch trains closely, and even prevented for ten days past telegraphic information being sent to the outside world. A request has been made to Gov. (Hick to place the citv under martial law. Matters have assumed a serious as­ pect, and life sad property are endangered. , THE United States District Courts of Iowa sad Minnesota, at Des Moines, gave an opinion on the ceiebrated drivewell cases, holding that the patent was void. Bob­ bins & Colvin's circus was blown down bv a hnrrieane at Freeport, I1L Wild confusion prevailed among the small audience present, *. Jnut all escaped without injury. AT the St. Louis city hospital, e patient named Dan Kelleher died very Bud denly, and two other inmates sank into a •eml-unconscious condition, and were only revived after great exertion and applica­ tions of an electric battery. It seems a ser ions blunder was made by the hospital drug gist, who gave a mixture of chloral instead of the proper prescription The bank of Townsend, North A Co., of Vasyar, Mich, was burglariously entered a few nights ago. The double doors of the vault and the time lcck of the specie drawer were blown open. The tiiieves secured |3,0C0 in gold and $1,COO in stiver. They weie interrupted and fled, leaving the currency drawer, containing f7,U00 in currency, partly broken open During the heavy thunder and rain storm at Avoca, Iowa, Cook's livery stable was (truck by lightning and set on fire. The Humes spread until SICO.CX O worth of property had •een reduced to ashes. ' THE SOUTH. Gov. SpRAGtiE, the famous stallion #wned by J. L Case, of Racine, Wis., died at " Lexington, Ky., of pink-eye. The animal's winnings on the turf last year amounted S10.00U. AT Orange, Texas, Hal Holmes, ; - desperado on trial for murdering his fourth ran from the Deputy Sheriff, mounted thorse, and galloped off with yells, while olmes' sister covered the Deputy with a Jbt-shooter and made him hold up his . PAYMASTER WASSON, of the United States army, who claimed to have been fobbed of #24,0JO on a railway train near :'$ast Worth, Texas, has confessed that he was jaeSeAbefl, <«*dh,| - I KOteMstsmMttiifcL Urn u more, the hidtarptM* of reeled to hiasujM . „ " ~ iemam.* Thfimnfrin NT iJMtXB QMIIitn : jEoh, of . TMOOAWSA, 'IH»P»OS- . swMstedbyex-Golr. QHatzell, W. C. Ow«ns,#oa ]tanay«aa.iVMM jMottim.... -alan llaaaiuw ii a; rtnk. ox -jrn--we,'«xe- ««ted m «MBA W5,EOO, <at KTAMLTO. a»d was released ban ijall by order of Judge Allen, at tha Caminal 'Court The bonds- atoaare three well-known dtisses.-each of whom waseeqadaed totgive a written state­ ment ot his property...JUght kmndred thousand bales of -oottan were received at Galveston, Texas, this season. THK Florida Ship Canal Company was organised Mt Washington by the election of ex-Oov. Btown, of Tennessee, .President, and the Hon. William Windom Vies Pres­ ident It is estimated that the canal will cost #,10,000,GOI and will be completed in three yean. Air aged gentleman «rho:ha<Llong been paralytic, and * colored servant, lost their Uvea by the burning of the house in which they lived in Baltimore. A third inmate of the house sasta<ned serious injuries by leap­ ing from a window £e escape from the flaznea Five ihoasand -dollars' woith of gambling apparatus was burned omit be pub­ lic square of Naefkville. Team., by older of the Criminal Court five hundred gamblers left the city on account of the law making ram­ bling a felony. A large number headed;for Chicago At Warwick, Texas, two Mexi- icans killed theinsdves with the sama knife One stabbed the other in the region of the heart, leaving the knife sticking ia the wound. The other then quickly drew the knife from his own breast and stabbed hte antagonist POLITIC Al» TFFLC political topic of the day a New York is the split between GOT. Cleveland and Tammany Hall John Kelly and bis faction think the Governor Jhas treated Tammany unfairly in the matter of patron­ age The Tammany legislatoca have there­ fore brought about a final adjournment of the Legislature, leaving twenty-six of the Governor's nominees unconfirmed. Gov. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, re­ fuses to sign the resolution appropriating #264.000 for double- tracking the Hooslc Tun­ nel Line THE official canvass of the Michigan State election, held the first Monday in April to elect two Judges of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State Uni­ versity, was made at Lansing last week. The result for Judges was officially declared as follows: John W. Champlin, Fu-ion Dem­ ocrat, 127,870; Austin Blair, Republican, 119,870; Thomas R. Sherwood, Fusion Green­ back, 124.(>39; Thomas J. O'Brien, Republican, 1SJ,330; D. P. Sagendorph, Prohibition, 13,950; J. H. Tatcn, Piohibition, 13,467. The result on Regents was not largely different from the above figures A BILL prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and use of any article, device or inven­ tion for the purpose of surreptitiously de­ stroying human nre and injuring property by (explosion or fire passed the Pennsylvania Senate. DPBING a debate in the Pennsylvania Senate upon the proposed Prohibitory amendment to the constitution, a member censured President Arthur for countenanc­ ing the drinking of liquors in the White House, a practice, the Senator said, which had not prevailed during the incumbency of Presidents Haves and Garfield The Ver­ mont Senate has refused to enlarge the Governor's powers so that he could remove the Superintendents and physicians of the State institution WASHINGTON. *' THE Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in the case against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, known as the Iluggles suit, the gist of the decif ion being that the State of Illinois has a right to fix maximum charges for the conveyance cf freight and passengers..... The Millers won two notable victories in the Supreme Court, the Deuchtield and Down- ton patent suit** having been decided in favor of the defendants. The royalty sought to be recox ered under the Deuch- fiela patent for coaling and drying meal amounted to #1,000,00e, while the Downton patent for manufacturing middling flour was estimated to be worth |3,€0J,C0J The Supreme Court denied the petition for a re­ hearing of the Louisiana and Virginia bond cases. COL. BLISS closed his argument in the star-route oonspiraiy case at Washing­ ton on the 8th test, having spoken seveg daya A communication from "Brews er, Attorney Genera1," to Mr. Merrick, of coun­ sel lor the Governm?nt, \va- read, claim­ ing for the Government the right • to two closing arguments, one of which he himself proposed making , but in case the. court should decide that thare should be but one c'.osing argument, Mr. Brewster taid he would leave the closing to Mr. Merrick. The court stated that the invariable custom had been to allow the Government but oae closing argument, and there was no reason why an exception should be made in this case. MB. CHARLES LYMAN, Chief Clerk of the Treastiry Department, has been ap­ pointed Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, the nomination of Mr. Keim having been recalled from the President GENERAL THE Pope has released from her vows the nun in the Hochelaga convent, Montreal, whose alleged illegal detention caused asen- sation a few weeks tince, aqd the ycung troman has returned to her family. To­ bacco manufacturers complain that they ere subjected to great In convenience and loss by the inadequate supply of Govern­ ment tax stamps. COL. UNDA, chief of staff of Oen. Fuero, the Chihuahuan military commander, who is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, states that Gen. Crook's presence in old Mexico is approved by the Government of Mexico, and that the combined forces of Uens. Fuero and Crook will form a cordon about the Apaohes which will be impossible to penetrate. CoL Unda is confident that the campaign will result in the extermination of the hostile Apaches The National Temperance Society and Pub­ lication House have re-elected John N. Stearns Secretary, and have chosen Bishop Hopkins, of Massachusetts, Presid ent The receipts in the past year were #00,000, the expenditures #t >1,000... .The rebels at Mira- groane, Hsvti, are reported to have blown up a bridge there with dynamite, wlH"g 2U0 people and wounding as many more. rOKKIGM. TABBEEZ, a city or North Persia has been visited by an earthquake which de­ stroyed many bouses and caused the death of a great number of people The city, how­ ever, contained few buildings worthy of note except its citadel and the fine remains of a mosque It has been a center of trade be­ tween Persia, India, Russia and Turkey, and was well known for its manufactures of silk. It is supposed to have been founded in the time of Haroun-al-Raschid, toward the dose of the eighth century. A FRENCH cruiser arrived at Loanda, on the Congo river, recently, and the com­ mander took possession of the International Company's property. Henry M. Stanly rep­ resents the International Company, a Bel­ gian concern, and the seizure grows out of the rival claim of De Urazza to priority/ of possession in behalf of the French Government.... A dispatch from Rome to the London Stand­ ard says that Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Sec­ retary of State, has nent a dispatch to Cardi­ nal McCloskey asking if it is tame that he received Alexander Sullivan, President of the National League of America, and de­ manding an explanation of his action if the fact is as stated The meeting of Francis Joseph of Austria and Humbert of Italy, at Berlin, has been deferred until next Novem­ ber Another vessel, the Wilhelm Barenks, has been sent in search of the Dutch Arctic expedition. ANOTHER defeat is scored by the Glad­ stone Government, its leader being com­ pelled to announce that instead of the pensions which it was proposed to bestow upon Lord Wolseiev ana Lord Alcester (Ad­ miral Seymour) they will each be given a lump sum of money. The public outcry against the proposition to j tn^ion not only tue naval and military commanders in Egypt, but to. saddle upon the country an addition # the pension list by oon- wtha- >twl# la regard to WnfjHPaoBST, the Ultrnwtniie lead­ er, speaking 1B the QerraanSak*stag,'on the budget MUa, said republics wexv avt "congen­ ial ill Btttope; that Bmn wouMl again be Kj*. t anil und tmA Wuldo^lj k f j AM falrafefta*... 7%e death sentence «T»rtar1ck Delaney, one of the Phoenix Paifc assassins who pleaded goUty, has been oemmntod. FOUR THOUSAND Chinese or Annamese troops attacked Hono4, the capital «f Ton- quin, but wans repulsed by the French France is determined to establish herself at Tonquin, and asks the King of Airnam to reoognlze her protectorate over his domin­ ions. AT Dublin, Joseph Mullett was fatand guilty of conspiracy to murder Dennis field, one of the jurors in the Hynes case, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life Another adjournment was taken in the case; of the men arrested in London for the unlawful possession of nitro-glycerine. At the next ne»ing their commitment on a charge of treason-felony will be a ked... .At Paris, as a wedding party was going to church, a re- {ected lover shot and killed the expectant >ride|;room, and then poisoned H ,V'[ ADDITIONAL HEWS.'51 U FIVE murderers fell victims to the hangman on Friday, May 11. Angelo Cor- rct'i, the Italian murderer of Daniel Gash, a fellow-convict a Sinqr Sing, Dec. 31, 1881, was h:;uged in the prison yard at that place. 8,lve*!*r K. Makin^on, ior the murder of Mrs. A!a?gie Copelani, was hanged in the jail vard as Cambridge, I1L The condemned protested his innocence. He ate and drank neaitilv at h:s iau't dinner ou earth. John W. Ja kson, for the murder of Samuel L Hull, was strung up at Jackson, Ohio. He slept soundly over eiiht hours the previous •night, ate a hearty breakfast, and was cheer­ ful. Jerry B.alock, the murderer of Thomas Bradenburg, was hanged at Jack- sonport, Ark. The condemned was con- ver ed Hi said he was {repared for death. Henry Itivels, who murdered Henry Hjatns five years ago, was executed at East Providence, La A large crowd wiln ssed the execution.... Therj were 14'.t failures in the United States reported to BradxtreeVs during the week ending May 11,17 more than the preceding week, .1 more than the corresponding week of 18<"), *nd • ft more than the same week of lt-81 The recent fig..t between the Mexi­ can troops under Gen. T< rre* and the rene­ gade Apaches in the Sierra Madre mountains was a fierce one, tbe Mexicans showing re­ markable courage and skill The Indians left eveu dead bucks on the field, while the loss to the troops was five killed and eight seriously wounded. AT the South Carolina convict camp on the Georgetown and Lanes railroad, nine prisoners attempted to escape One was shot dead, two were shot and drowned, and four gob away. One of the men killed had been pardoned, but the papers had not ar­ rived at the camp .. .'1 he Johnson brothers, train robbers, who killed Conductor Cain at Mulbe.iy Station, Ark., wtre convicted at Clarksville of murder in the first degree. . CAPT. W. W. Bush, of Lockport, N. Y., who was the first mail to enlist in re­ sponse to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men to serve ninety days, issued April 15, 18B1, has been presented with a gold badge a foot in length, in testimony of the fact cited above Hannah 8. Grant, mother of ex-Pres:dent Grant, died quite suddenly at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, at Jersey City Heights, aged 5)4 yeara PAIL STROBACH, who was the Re­ publican candidate for Congress in the Sec" ond district of Alabama in 1880, being de­ feated by Herber., Democrat, was recently appointed United States Marshal for the District of Alabama Preliminarv to a trans­ fer of the office, agents of the D apartment of Justice have been examining the accounts of his predecessor, especially as regards the alleged irregularities in the payment of Deputy Marshals, of whom Strobach was on?. The result is that the Grand Jury of the United States Dis­ trict Court at Montgomery has just returned five indictments ugainsb Strobach for de­ frauding the Government while acting as Deputy Marshal Strobach claims that he is beu^g made the victim of a conspiracy by an Opposing faction of the Republican party. EDWARD O'BRIEN, Thomas Doyle and Edward McCaffrey, recently indicted for conspiracy to murder, were arraigned at Dublin. O'Brien and Totle pleaded not guiliy. McCaftrey was subsequently in­ dicted for the murder of Burke, and ar­ raigned to plead to that charg?. He said he was not guilty, and a'ked that cour.s 1 be as itnsd h'm The trial «a- postp ned.... In the Bow Street Polica Court, London, all the dynamite consiiracy prisonous ex­ cept O'C nnor, alias Da*ton, whom the autho.iiies . re unable to c?nnec' with the ! others, were cjmm ttad tor trial on a cL; rge | of tr^so ':-fe'ony. Lynch, al'as Norman, the informer, was commuted on a charge of misdemeanor. O'Connor w. s dlschai ge i.... The Pope informed Aichbi hop Croke of Dub'in. at an aud enca, that ceitain grave resolutions regard ng the I; ish trouble would speedily be promulgated, including a cen-ure of such of the Ir s i cle rgy as had promoted tho Parnell fund Mul.'e.t, who was sentenced at Dublin to penal seivitude for life for par­ ticipating in the attempt to murder Juror Dennis Field, excla'med on leaving the dock, after receiving his sentence, that he would get justice elsewhere. The Irish, he eaid, would get justice for him An­ nouncement was made in the House of Com­ mons that the British Government would consider the question of perm.tting the planting of tobacco in the United King­ dom. ... .Oherlihy and Kennedy, alias Foath- erstone, chargeif with having been engaged in the dynamite conspiracy, were arraigned at Liverpool and remanded for another week. THE Italian Government charges ad­ mission to all the art galleries, always free in the past, and^pnakes $100,000 a year out of it. Seateaved to Hang JUM 9--IDs Pro­ testations of Intaoeenee. ' - i ' - " fS!-. -r The British Government finally succeeded in obtaining a jury that would convict in- the case of Timothy Kelly, one of those accused of tbe Phoenix Park assassinations, who, upon his third trial (the juries having twice disagreed), was convicted and sen­ tenced to be hanged June 9. The jury de­ liberated one hour. Being removed, Kelly exclaimed: "I am innpeent Thank you, my Lord" He thanked his counsel for their exertions in his behalf, and hoped they might live long to defend the innocent On the first trial of Kelly, one juror is said to have refused to agree upon a verdict of jguilty out of pity for tbe youth of the pris­ oner, while ten, if not eleven, of the jurors were satisfied of his guilt The defense was an alibi, not very well sustained, but grow­ ing stronger on "the second trial, when new testimony favorable to the prisoner was in­ troduced. There was, of course, the evi- dence Of the approvers, who were the chief witnesses against Kelly, as they had bsen against Brady and Curley. The evidence of Caroy, Farrell. and Kavanagh clearly placed Kelly with Brady and Curiey as one of the men in the group in the park, and one of the four whp were diiven away ou Kavanagh's car. Tha prisoner's counsel made & very strong appoal to the jury on the character cf the witnesses by whore evidence "the boy in the dock" was to be condemned; but there was no important point in which their testimony was m»t confirmed by independent evidence. In the first trial Kellv was identified by George Huxley, the English gardener of Mr. EL C. Guinness, who had seen and noticed him among the groufk by whom the. murders were committed, and his evi­ dence remained unshaken. Mr. Brown, Kelly's employer, who gave him an excellent chaiacter, proved that he was absent from his work on the 5th and (th of May except for the first quarter of each day. A hatter named George Mottley saw Kelly minding Kavanaph s car, as Kavanagh had stated, and haa seen him on Kavanagh's car a sec­ ond time on the 15th of May. On the other hand, Mr. Glynn, the builder, was called, as he had been on all the former occasions, to prove ttat he saw Carey sitt ng on the seat in the positionCarey had himself defcubed. This confirmation of Carey's statement he gave as before, but it was elicited, in cross-exam­ ination, that he knew Kelly, and then asked if he Paw Kelly on the grouiid Mr. Glynn anSwered '•No," but when pushed by the counsel for the crown, admitted that he had said on a former occasion that he had not taken particular notice of the four men, of whom, according to the theory of the prosecution and the testimony of other witnesses, Kelly was ona It wlft be remsmbered that, after tha- second failure to convict Kelly, Delaney and Caffrey p eaded guilty, and Lelansy (who Tuesday nad his sentence commuted to im­ prisonment for life) (iecltr^d that the in­ former Carey had told the truth. Of course this fact was got before the jury which tried Kelly for the third time, and this sufficed to secure a conviction. Jfaportaat Decision by Secretary Teller-- Pred Douglass' Convention--The s„.,Mciored Citizens hMnn*1 v; Etc. RND0N CONDEMNED, The Little Bock and Fort Smith Train Bobbery of Last March. One Men Who Killed Conductor Cala Pound Guilty of Mnnhr. A Clarksville (Ark.) dispatch says the jury in the ca e of Jim Herndon, one of the Little Bock and Fort Smith railway train robbers who murdered Conductor John Cain, re­ turned a verdict of murder in the first de­ gree after being out thirty minutes. TheinMae w which Herndon has bean convicted was committed March 8 last, Herndon, with his fellow miscreants, being eoon after Jailed in Ozark, Ark. March 21 the Johnson brothers confessed their com­ plicity in the attack on the train. It was the understanding that the train was to be captured and the pa sengers robbed. Their intention was not to kill any one except in self-defense. The shooting of Conductor Cain was done under excitement, and was entirely unnecessary. A man named McDonald was at the head of the gang. Herndon fired the shot that killed Conduct­ or Cain. He then went to McDonald to sto ) the shooting, but McDonald shot at him" supposing he was a passer; ger. Jim returned the tire, shooting his leader in the face. One of the Johnson brothers, known as the "Gov­ ernor," served in the United States avmy during the war of the Rebellicn, and is now drawing# Government pension. THE CZAR* THE MABKBE NEW YORK. u t «.» Hoos 7.60 FLotm--Superfine 3.86 WHEAT--No. 1 White 1.16 No. a Bed us CoaN--No. 3 m OATS--No. 3 49 PORK--Mesa on.as I.mn Ji _ „ ' CHICAGO.' BBTB-Good to Fancv Steers. 6.15 Cows and Heifers 8.75 Medium to Fair. t.T5 Hp08-*-" 5.00 tm i.ao FLOUB--Fancy White Winter Ex. 6.60 & 5.75 Oood to Choice 8prV Ex. 4.75 ® 5.0 J WHEAT--No. A Spring.... . 1.12 No. 3 Red Winter 1.13 COBN--No. a ja OATS--No. 3... .41 KY®--No 3 J66 BAKLEY--No. 3 JBO BUTTEJR--Choioe Creamery \ ] .35 Eoos--Fresh 14 1'OKK--Mess 30,00 L.nn 13 ... MXLWAUKE&' WHEAT--NA A 1.11 COBN--No. 3... .53 OATS--No. 2 .40 RtE--No. 3 jt2 KAKI.EY--No. 70 POBK--Mess 30.00 LABD JL?I(A .13 ST. LOU11A WHEAT--Na 3Bed I.*4 COBN--Mixed 32 OATS--Na 3 .*2 RYE .67 POBK--Mess. 30.26 LABD „ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--Ma 3 Bed. COBN OATS. RYE. POSE--Bless LABD.... ....... TOLEDO. WHEAT--Na 3 Red 1.15 @i.l( Cvkh.. • jjW g ,co OATS--Na 3 M & M ^ DETROIT, FIOUB (,(25 01 4.80 WHEAT--No. 1 White 1.12 <9 1.14 COBN--No. 2 J55 M OATS--Mixed ...i.... A6 & M POBK--Mess-- (&21.00 INDIAN APOU& WHEAT-Na 3 Red .T_ 1.13 01.14 COBN -NO. 3 M & M OATS--Mixed.. ^2 D .43 „ EAST LIBERTY, ^A. CATTLE--Best 4.75 ® 7.00 Fair. 8.40 C.00 Common. 6.00 ® 8.35 te;::;::;:::::;:::;::;::;:;::: JS S l» m 7.30 i» 7.79 <3 4.30 & 1.17 W 1.35 & .«*• & .53 <£20.50 «$ .1XH 0 6.60 & 5.50 (9 6.10 & 7.88 ® 1.18 0 1.14 & .58 m .43 31 .67 & .83 & .38 .16 02J.2J & .13!4 1.13 O M & .41 & .63 <fl> .71 (<420.35 & 1.18 «$ .53 & .44 (IS .58 @30.50 Jl'2(» .13 1.13 ® 1.13 M <9 M Ai & .45 .64 m .88 ao.00 @30.75 MH& .13 Magnificent Preparations for the Corona­ tion Ceremonies. The cornation of the Czar, Alexander IIL, will, it is thought, be the grandest and most magnificent ceremony of this kind of the present century. Beside the festivities in the Kremlin, the great fetes for the people will be one of the most interesting part3 of the coronation programme. The enormous Chodynski plains are now the scene of the most busy preparations. Booths, tents, bar­ racks, and all other components of a great Rusi ian fair are being erected, with ttands for the spectators, and an imperial pavilion opposite to the Petroft'sky Pala:e, from which the Czar and the court can survey th« entire field and the populace at their amusements. At -least 4t 0,00u persons will be present Drink ai d food for the people will be distributed from 1^0decorated rail wry baggage cars, transformed into temporary bars arid drawn up in one long row. Every guest will receive an earthen­ ware jug, stamped w th the imperial eagle and the date or the coronation, with whica be can call for his beer and mead. The Masslennlkoff factory at Moscow ha; fur­ nished ^00,000 of these jugs in dinerent Sizes and colors. Furthermore, every per­ son will receive two meat pies, candies, "to and cakes. Tbe Cominfsaloner of the General Land Office has received complaints from the Postofflce Department that cattle-breeders in Nehiaska have recently inclosed with fence, for grazing purposes, a large tract of public land, and thereby cut oif an impor- icnD mail route. The ease is Lelng investi­ gated, and it is thought at the Interior De­ partment that measures about to be taken will lesult in breaking un this unlawful practice of fenc ng up public lands, a prac­ tice which has lately grown to be a serious evi1. 8 icretrry Teller hav rendered a decision in which he holds That the act of June 8, 187b, which permits the sale at the minimum priLe of 8 per acre of lands valued prin­ cipally for their timber and unfit for culti­ vation, dee < not apply to t mber-lands which may be rendered susceptible of cultlv&tldn by ordinary farming processes, "Such lands," the Secretary says, ' are not within the purpose of this act, which is intended to embrace withiu its provisions timbered tracts enly in broken, rugged or moun- tunous districts, with soil unlit for ordinary agricultural purposes wten cleared of tim­ ber." Fred Douglass defends the motives of himself and associates in calling a colored convention in Washington, and says that it has no secret purpose; that its only Object i;to advance the interests of the colored lace, and that there is no more reason why there should not be a colored convention thai* that the conventions of Irishmen, women, temperance people, workingmen and relig'ous societies should be abandoned, 'x ha colored men of the District are much cxcited over the removal by the Marshal of the Ur trict of Perry Carson, who for many years has been one of the leading deputies of that office. Work has commenced again upon the Washington monument A cargo of maible from the Lee quarries in Massachusetts armed the other dayandw.ll at once be put into condition to be laid. The total pressure now borne by the be:l of the foundations is 74,^11 tons, which is about iC-lou of the to! al pressure to be finally pis c d upon it When completed the shaft will be ihe loftiest structuie in the world. TLe total settlement of the shaft thus far has been one and one-quarter inches. The Comptr oller of theCuirsncy has author- i ed iho foil w ng b 11.ks to begin business: 'lh? National German-American Bank, St Piiul, Minn.; capital, $',0J ,(AU, Big Rapids Na i. nal Bank, Eix Rap ds, Mich.; capital, S.0.',0v». Aurora National Bank, Aurora, II.; capitil, SltO.OGO Sacretary Folger has rented the estata in the suburl)3 or Washingbo formeriy occu- p td by ( ommodore Palter on, of the Coasj H. rvey, ; nd if h s heul.h permits vVIll en­ dow \ or to eialn near , o Washington most of the 1 jimmer. His physicians do not th n'< he will !.e succe tfuL It is vary evident that the defendants in the star-ioate ease had no serious intention of resting their case without argument II13 «c-juuiel for all the defendants will spea'c, and i: is not certain that the trial will not last several weuks longer. The Pre ident has appointed George Gif- fcrd. of Mains, United States Consul at Cognac, Frunze; and John W. Burdette, Jr., Coatctor cf Internal Revenue for the Fourth district of Iowa The P.cideat has accepted another fifty m'lai of the Northern Pacific railroad in Montan L. This section, re gently completed, extends from the 5f0th to the »i00th - mile of road west of the Missouri river. Thj Preside .t desi n.ted John J. Knox, Cotnrtrollei- o; ih3 Currency, to aot as Com­ mission :;r of Int jrnal lte i*enue for ten days from May 10. Tn 2 Hon. Geo g3 8 oneman, of California, hu tendered his ie.:ignation as a member of the B >ard of Indian Commissioners. FUNNY THINGS, "TAKE NOTICE" is the name of a new mining town in Nevada. SABA BERNHARDT committed snlolda the other day near Dublin, Ga. MB. DBINKWATEB happens to> be the name Of a Massachusetts ale-brewer. ZACHARIAH TAYLOR has been sent to jail at Syraouse, N. Y., for theft LA INK BIBLE and his wife Sarah Testament live in Crittenden county, Ky. AN Indiana farmer has christened a calf With two mouths "O'Donovan ltossa." ' THE village of "Tight Squeeze," Ga, is to be known hereafter as Nor^h At anta BOONE county. Mo., has a citizen named Old, whose nearest neighbor is named Young. At Rock vfor 1 Mr. Graves lives a few doors above Mr. Gay. GEORGE WASHINGTON is lecturing in Som­ erset countv, N. J., David T)avis teaches school at Middle Valley, in tbe same county, and Cornelius Vanderbilt works in a mine near by. GEORGE WASHINGTON was a witness bef re a Baltimore court last week; he was also dis­ charged from ihe Botetourt (Va.) jail on the 2nd inst. after having served a term Of twenty years. BRIEFS. A MAN in Alexandria, Va, has been fined 92> for cutting oft a cat's tail IT costs $ (I a day to maintain a pe st- house at I'UBiii*, Arizona A CINCINNATI firm IS making a #10.009 bar tor a Texas saloon. CH. BUOTTE, N. G, pays 94 par thousand feet for its gas. « A FROG-SHAPED young negro, aged 18, is being exhibited at Lynchburg, Va WORK 'mules are being ki led by. buffalo gnats in Moi« louse parish, Louisiana. SWEET potatoes are selling in Farmerville, Tenn., at 50 cents per bushel. NAZARETH has just had a telegraph office, the <tvst opei 01 n the Holy Land. T a lfi,i£0 tens of copper mined in M chl- ga 1 list year ia estimated to be worth #8,- rP- • * I H E D K l T K-WKLL PATENT. The District Courts of Two States Render a B -lding that the Patent Is TLe United Stiles District Court, fitting in Tcs Moines--says a recent dispatch from that city--readered a decision in the cele­ brated drive-we; 1 case, holding the patent void. The question was decided in the case of Andrews vs Hovey, of independence. The case was brought before the courts of Iowa and Minnseoba together, the .Tud;es Lclntr Love and fchiras, of Iowa, and Ne!' oa, of Minnesota, and is conclusive as t^ alt ca e > pending in both States. Judge Hhiras de ivoie'I the opinion, holding: 1. Tlrt t^ p /.e :t i" ir_v.il d, because the in vc:-'. r Co'. Cr:cn,of N .wYork, allowed it to go iito public use fcr more than two years jr or to his application for a patent Tha; the reissue was void, because it was ;..Ci-or .h: ramo in-enticn as tbe original Xa':cn , and void bscause that theitistam^es of prior use were, in the main, mere experi­ ments of we Is at Independence, Iowa, in a::d the succcssful us'j of p?ve-°l -.vc.l at Milwaukee in 18ii)and 18L0 wae Lrom substantially tho Bame invention a, Grcca's. Judga Love concurred and held further that, undai' tha act of Congress of ILVJVI, it WEB imra tsrial whether prior use o" the inv.n' 01 f ir tha two years therein mentioned was with or without the consent and allowance cf tho invent r, and that such prior use in either ca e inva idated the pat­ ent Judge Nelson dissented. The opinion was very long, aud all th • quest ons in­ volved were discuss?d wi h much learn ng. .Tudg3 MiCrary sat with iha Judges during the reeding of the opinion, which was Hstmed to with t'i3 closest attention by thp bar an t a room fall of spec.atora "DM idnintitfs, if an appeal is made, will 1 >peol on law 1 olntr. ODD OCCI RREMES. A OAHQ of tramps found an unoccupied lioure in Minr.es ita with comfortable beds, ••ool\ii:g uccnti s, and a stove. Thev took liW.e s posses .on, and it was not until the • nd of u week that thev learned that they were in a small-pox pest house. A WISCONSIN schoolma'am wished to oor- pora iy r unish a big boy, but doubted her own abll.ty to whip him. In this dilemma ihe cave the buliy of the school permission VO fa i f y an old grudge against him, and the ihfushing was quite as severe as she could uave wished ANNIE G^ANDTER, 15, began several years a:o to help her father, a switch te ider on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rall- L* ad, and for some time has hud charge, at $!0u month, of seven important swit.hea She and her father live a Box and Cox life, ^he working from (ia.rn.to 0 p. m., when he relieves her. She is beleved to be the sole railroad switcheress in the country. A FunmriBE dealer in Bowling Green, Kyt ret a lot of wulow ci-airs out in front *01 his store the other day, to attract the at- t n ion of those who might be looking for g ods n that line. When he went to take them in at n ght he f unci them almost co ered with buds and >o n?spio t . The Willow was cut last fa 1 and tue chairs budt and varnished during the winter. A GENTLEMAN in Hartford who lost nis daugh er last Christmas will not, in con e- quence of her expressed dread of being put int > the ground, suffer her to be buried. Tbe body lies in the parlor, and to it an un­ dertaker frequently applies prcservat ves. Every midnight the father dresses himself and sits wrtli the corpse,addressing to itwords of endearing atiectiort as tlioujfh his daugh­ ter heard. At daylight he goes and finishes h s sleep. Neighbors have tried in vain to induce him to consent to the burial. His wife has suffered greatly and he has at last consented to a vault in his doorvaid, made easily a?ce~sible so that he can ^till h:>!d n glitly communion with his daughter's re­ mains. A NUIKBEB of mep were carousing in Can- delar.a. Ner. lately, when a doctor named Mart n intvrrupted the half-drunken revelry by assuming a grave tone, and telling hfis midi'jrcc how he nrght become somebody if he could only conquer his mania tor drink, but how he had tried in vain. "Ah," he said. "I'll leave the world; but, boys, as a lart favor, let me do so to the sound of music." His friends summoned some Italian musicians, and while they played the doctor took raor- £bine. His friends, who did not believe lariln was ia earnest, gradually lett the saloon, and the saloon-keeper, teeing him so eoand a leap, locked up the house and re­ tired. in tue morning the doctor was found glpwt . • TFCE Aerttge and Ikli BeJow the AYOT* and the Crop 77,1 H»e May returns of wheat to th® Depart­ ment of Agriculture at Washington t-*"* condition, compared with the April av­ erages, materially lower in Mew York, «M»- igan, Ohio and Il!lnoi& Further injury was wrought by frosts early in April, and in the Northern districts the real damage by the March freezing was more fully disclosed as the covering of mow and ice disappeared. The average is 77 fcr New York; Michigan 83, Obio 53, Illinois W6. Further loss is suffered by plowing up large area* in Ohi > and Illinois A reduction in Missouil from 8:; to 80 is also reported In Indiana the average is 75, and New Jersey reports 101, both the same as in AiriL All the remaiidng Northern Statea Show an improvement since the April re­ port, as well as the Pacific coast, and nearly all the Southern States. These averages were: 96 Mississippi....; 03 IJeMWiylvania... nn Tex^s 87 Jjwware... H5 Arkansas 86 M®*T«,®<1 ff'Tennessee.............88 y^nta .. ..... .• 97 West Virginia 90 North Carolina 86iKer.tucky. 81 South Carolina BfllKansas.. » Georgia #7 California ; 77 Alabama W'Oregon 73 „ ̂an improvement of 15 points in CaUfornia and 17 in Oregon The average condition of winter Wheat is 83*<r, against 80 mArril. The lose In Krea from replanting in other crops may he aS^medtoredice the prospect to that of April 1. m 1879 and 1880 the general average was #»; in 18*1 it was 88; in 1883, 10-2, and in May, of last year, 100. In former years there were no kay returns. Two years ago the average declintkl to HO in July. Last year it increased to 104 at the time of cutting. It should be understood that, in the department repoits of the con­ dition, 100 means a medium growth with full standand healthy plant. The Ohio and Illi­ nois State reports compare with last year's crop thus: Ohio renoits E(i for May compared with last year, and 03 compared with aver* age crop. The spring wheat area will not be com­ plete till May 15, and will be repor ed .Tim* 1. The statistical agent for Dakota make! the probable increase 80 per cent The agent for Minnesota reported 86 per cent of laf.t year's area already planted. An increase of 1 j per cent is reported in Washington Territory. It is not probable that the in­ crease in the spring wheat area will more that make good the loss of the winter wheat acreage. Without regard to the spring wheat breadth, the present prospect for the winter wheat area, in consideration of the reduced condition and acreage, is 20 pet ceni less than in May last, representing a los3 of about 77,000,(M) bushals. THE CROP ABROAD. A disp tch from the London statistical agent, under da e of April 28. reports an im­ provement in European wheat prospect! during the last month. The severity of March was followed by three weeks oif dry weather, which was succeeded by one week of invigorating rain. The season is still backward, and higher temjerature is need­ ed. The small area of spring-sown wheat in England is thin, and much of it will be dis­ placed by barley. In France and Germany rainis needed, and high temperature naces- rary. With a reduced acreage in Western Europe, and lome injury from irceelng in Maicu, a reduced crop appears inevitable In Austria-Hunga y the prospect is favor a. ble fcr at least a medium crop. COTTON. Keturns of the progress of cotton-planting show the work is later than usual in every State, and indicate that, on May 1, 74 per cent cf the proposed area was planted, when the usual proportion is said to be 84 per cent. In Virginia and North Carolina it was very late. The percentages were:' Virginia 151 Mississippi gj North Carolina 3>!Louisiana.,... 81 South Carolina....... ,75'Texas 75 Georgia 73I Arkansas...7# Florida 16 Tennessee........ ,«7 Alabama es| OUR MENAGERIE. A HOTED "dude" has died in Philadelphia. He was a babion in the Zoological Garden. His postures and gait were exactly like the cuirent American imitation of the London swell's, and he showed just about enough intelligence to complete the likeness. CAMILLA'(Ga.) Clarion: A young ladv pas­ senger on the railroad the other morning had as pets two live chamelion lizards. One was fastened by a libbon to Her shawl-pin, and rested ou her bosom and shouldet The other t he held on the back of her hand When these die tbe boys propose to give her a gopher. Be it said sne was not a Georgia girt Georgia girls have good sen-e. NEWMAN (Ga) Herald: Mr. John B. Good- wyn brought to our office some black duck- egg8- Careless of George Washington's hatchet-lesson, he assercs that his aucks have been in the habit of laying colored eggs fcr several years; some of them are buick, some drab aud tome pale blue. The ducks have not yen attained to perfection in the coloring art, as tbe colors are easily rubbed of. IN Padocah, Ky., the other day, two spar­ rows got into a fight and tried to drown ea jh other in a stream flowing down a street putter. After a long and desperate struggle one got the other's head under and kept it there until life was extinct A largo num­ ber of birds gathered around the victor and chattered to it as it sat on a limb rearrang­ ing its toilet The fight was witnessed by more than one hundred people. WE jbave in Cartersville. Ga. (fays a cor­ respondent), a cow who lost her calf Eome months since, and it seems tha" she does not like the idea of being childless conse­ quently she has, unfortunately for her owr.er, take.i under her wing of adoption an animal in t'.ie shape of a goat rgad 6 months, ra'Bed up mctherleFs. and from ap­ pearances it seems that tbo cow is in full sympathy with the poor little mother.ess goat, and permits it to follow her around and partake of the lacteal fluid fresh from the tsats. She caresses it b>' licking it with 1 e: tongue with as much care and tender­ ness as if it ware htr own. and one of the most prominent features about t le goat is that if any one try tj separate it from itc adopted mother it will bleat as if is were crying after its mother. CHARLOTTE (N. C.) Observer: Jake Bar rin­ ger, a tenant who was plowing on Mr. John Walsworth's farm recently, turned up with the plow shcre one of those curiosities--a Sointed snake. Tbe reptile was about a yard n length and was out together in four sec­ tions. The darkv did not know what sort of a snake it wa* when it first turned up, and hie it with a stick to kill it At the first blow the snake fell all to pieces, the head going cne way and the tail part another, and the two body pieces jumped off in different di­ rections' The amazed darky resumed his plowing, went to the end of the furrow, and on his return was surprised to see the snake all together again exc3pt the tail­ piece, and, watching a few minutes, saw the tail comin •; up to join the body, tak­ ing sharp, quick lut le -jerks. It came nearer and nearer until within a few inches of tha three fourths t nak \ when it gave a sadden jump and hitcued on in its pro' er T lace, with a fu's ra-embling the popi insr of a'cap. The darky knocked it to pieces several times, and ea;ii time it came together again. He earned his amusement a little too far, however, in throwing the tail part of the tnakc a.ross the creek, jutt to see, a; he fad, "how 1c nsr it would take it to catchup" bat it never caught up. The ; nake wit'j its three joints was carried to the house, and th? tail is no doubt still going about tlie woods hunt, ng for a snake to hitch ontjBi SINGULAR ACCIDENTS. ROMAN ROVSB, of Vandalia, IIL, broke his neck in falling from his bed He struck hi? head in such a manner as to bend it under his body. SAMUEL CUKLETT. of Amsterdam, N. Y., broke his leg by letting a stone fall upon it. then Ms nose began to bleed, and he died frcm loss of blood. WHILE playing in fiont of a fire-place with a dog, little Ne.lie Burton, of Rushville, Ind, 1st her balance, fell backward, and was lit­ erally roasted ali\ e. A SON of Benjam'n Justice, of Hawk's Bridge. N. J., 1U years of age, first lost his f et, then his'life, by keeping tight y strapped skates on his feet several hours. Two vouNoJwomen at th« birthday party of Jes'e Taylor, Mndlay, Ohio, moved hi* chair from under him a9 he attempted to take a Boat hatweeu ih-w. Jease fell uuA bio^e his neck. #1 p«^^ ̂̂ hk UU^eIdPing ̂ |Ude. Von of isteBished thai ii3 r^,1T.T was not banded to him atonoe. about any bi- cyole. No detective has taken any tri­ cycle that I know of. What you mean?" "Veil," said the German/as he stood on one loot and pulled at his vest, "you •ee a leedle man mit a light mustache said he vot a detective, and he see dot pizikle in front of my store, and he said der shief ton dot bolice vos goin' to buy a pizikle for all der police and der detectives, so dey get around quick already, and he said dot pizikle fit him plenty, and I vos glad if I sell it, cause der man vat leafs it of my stoie he noi redeem it any more. So dot detective say he take dot pizickle, and ride it around a plock, mav be two tree, and I ^aid veil, dot vos all right, if he pring it back some more. He get his lex on bott sides fon der pizikle, and say i| he dond't was come pack dot vos all right, und I pring de bill to hetquartert right ay ay, und ven he go around •do gorner he say 'ta-ta, Dutchy,' and by phimminy I vait all day if he gome pack, and my vife say dot man vos a dead beat and I dell her pull her veBt avay, and vipe off her shin, cause I know about my own beesness. Dot detective not got back, and it vas yes­ terday he say to me 'ta-ta, Dutchy/ How vos dot?" "Well, yon have been bilked. It was no detective that took your bicycle, but some tramp. We are not going to arm the police with bicycles. "We might jjust as well give them hand-cars, or ice- wagons. We have no detective that an­ swers to that description at all, you better go back to the store or he will come back and steal your wife," and the policeman handed the bill back to the German. He looked down at the floor a moment and then broke out: "Veil, I told my vife dot man was a pwindler. He look like a tief. But you vait. We got him yet. Ven yoti hear dot a man break his leg fon a bi- zikle that broke a veel, ven it go over, stones, it vos dot man, and you pull him mit de batrol vagon, und I come here und kill him. Dis vos a nice country, ven the tiefs look yoost like de­ tectives, so you can't tell vich vos de one. I go back und tell my vife it va* all right, und I got my money. Vait till you see me fool my vife," and the little second-hand man went away trying to look as though he had #60 in his pocket.--Peck's Sun. Work, Worry anil Bad Habits. An Eastern journal remarks, with truth, that there is a great deal of hum­ bug in the common talk of men being overworked. "We know," it says, "a good deal about work--honest, square, steady, effective work; but about over­ work we have a great deal of doubt. Generally speaking, when a man is said to be overworked, the truth is that he has been guilty of some excess which : breaks down his strength. There may ! be cases in which there is an excess of work, but of these ca^es there are very few indeed. The excess is in eating, in drinking, in neglect bf exercise," or of sleep, it should have added. Another ! journal adds: "It is # trite saying, lint' a true one, that worry kills oftener thaal work; but both combined do not break! down so many men as do irregular and irrational habits." He ConMnt Stand It. . "My son," said a solicitous mother to I herwaywffird 10-year-old, "I want yon j to be a good boy or you will go to the ] bad place and remain there forever.' "Do they keep shingles and slippers j there?" "No, of course not, Johnny; they] would be burned up in such a terrible j place in no time." "Well, then, ma, I guess I can stand] it," and the boy slid gently into a cush-j ioned chair with a slight contortion . of ] the face as though there was a tender] spot about his nature somewhere which] his mother could get at.--Toledo Amer-\ ivan. Insanity. Page, of the Connecticut Hos-I pital for the Insane, says that one-halfl the cases of insanity arise from causes| within human control. Those who ha\ made a most careful study of the sul ject frvor efforts looking to the prevent tion of insanity. This prevention ca only become effective by the thoroug dissemination of a knowledge of causes which lead to the disease. Cedar Lands Looking Up. Cherry has pretty well supersede black walnut for fine house-furnishing and now another rather neglected natn wood is coming to the front. This: cedar. Cedar land all over the count is looking up and becoming more uable. The demand for cedar has inj creased its value enormously within few years. This is. not only true of th^ Northern Statee, bnt is applicable the South. "AwAT, then," said Prof. Parrish the thirty-five young women to whoa he was giving diplomas as graduates the Philadelphia Woman's Medi6al Co^ lege, "with the fallacious reasoning tl women may with propriety devote hel capabilities to the study of the lily the rose, the spider or the beetle, bti cannot study man, the noblest work God." THERE is something barbarous an repulsive in the fashion of making crii pies of Chinese women by lacing th«| feet. Would it be more humane to ma" perpetual invalids of them by la their bodies?--Hail*# Journal Health. THE orator remarked: "What hd this country to expect after the Fortj seventh Congress ?" and a hoarse wl per from the gallery responded, Forty-eighth. GEOROK ELIOT showed the woi possible taste in her furniture hangings, and her house was not we dusted, either, says the London Wort\ THE latest mathematical quest runs as follows: Two girls meet tt other girls and all kissed. How ma kisses were exchanged ? WALKING from his home to the Lc don docks, an aggregate of 11,t miles, a man has collected 600,000 < ends in seven years. IK Italy the very best artists pa drop scenes, etc. Where has an a better chance of advertising genius ? . • GBAY respect hairs are tbe only object . • > ; * . . cannot &