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' " V 1 n<mmm. - - ~ - - ilmnois. * ' ..~ $' ' delegation from the National Christian Temperance Union, l»y Miss francos 13, Willard, of Ohi- red before tho Blair committee 'ork, and urged that the temper- aeetion be brought before Congress, t. Cahen, of San liauciseo, appeared fee his "views on the labor question. »of the scarcity crabsence of lahor- > <WWng off Chinese ImmlgtaTion, though" the fare from China i be reduced. The committee then •dfonmed to meet In a few days in New Kn- where further testimony will be tak- will then go South. The coin- wa« in session in New York tiftv-one •pent forty days in listening to mf. Dui in? this time neaiiy l&l ~~ weiw examined. Tiiey repieieeut- tN, Xaogfeng' from Jay Gould to Denis Kearney. um L,iKO,OWi words of Bnn^mHiji WMjU tsYtlW Thk PiMsbu*gh Exposition buildings, located in Alleghany City, caught tire the other night end were entirely destroyed, notwithstanding the united efforts of the entire fire department of both cittcv, The fire originated to the boiler rorm nothing in the main building was raved excopt a few trifling articles of no value: All the valu­ able exhibits were destroyed. The relic department w«s in the building, and every­ thing was lost, including the locomotive Arabian. Also $fi,OCO in the safe was con­ sumed, The loss is over Oft AT New York the clearing-house transactions for the fiscal year aggregated *M,»5-»,1SS,453, the daily averagebci ng SI :iTs- 101,40*. The total transactions since the clearing-houee was organized in 1NVJ amount to _ with a daily aveiage of ... .Seven rounds were" fought on Long Island by Mitchell and Sheriff, inpiesenceof SJ»OIt- ing celebritse : nd prominent men of New York, the result being a draw Kimball Brothers, carriage-dea ers, of Boston, whose liabilities are very heavy, have made an as signment GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, gave a dinner party at Newport, in com­ memoration of his 83d birthday... .Canter­ bury & Haskell, boot and shoe manufactur­ ers at Boston, have failed for #190,00A JOHN A. DECREE'S paper-mill, at Lee, .•ass., was consumed by fire, entailing a loss of $:ff>,0C0 James McSteen. a Pitts­ burgh wife murderer, was hanged in that city last week. THEWI8T. : THE Hamilton County I Ohio) Dis- Mct Court has made a decision as to the lia- "Wlity of diocesan church property to pay the debts of the late Archbishop Purcelt. The decision is in effect that schools and ehurchos built by subscription are not liable in any sense, as* the Archbishop was simply trustee, except where it is known that the Archbishop himself contributed, and this special amount, with interest, the assignee can collect Regarding the cemeteries, the court held that they were not dedicated to the public, and such lots as remain unsold should be disposed of for the benefit of the creditors. MBS. J.W. BAILEY, of Monmouth, I1L, took her young daughter to a oorn-field, tied and blindfolded her, and then with a razor killed her child and hersell She left a note saving it was best that she should sacrifice her life for her child. It appears that the daughter was an epileptic, and the mother became mentally disordered through anxiety and labor .. Judge Jeflers n P. Kidder, ex Deiegate to Congress from Dakota and Associate Judge of the Supreme Court for the Fourth dis­ trict of that Territory, died in St Paul hut week Winter wheat from the Pacific ooast, to the amount of twenty car-loads, arrived at Fargo, Dakota, eight days from the time of shipment. AT the convention in Chicago of the lamber Manufacturers' Association of the Iforthweat it was insisted that the proper thing to do was to advise a lessened produc­ tion of logs during the coining winter. The, reported drown ng of Ju, the noted Apache Chiefs is confirmed. He fell off of his horse into a river and was too drunk to Swim. little Charley MtComas is said to ; hm alive, and wH&Ju'ls widow. LELAND STANFORD and other CaH-; fomians have incorporated an agricultural Implement company with a capital of •5,000,000--The sash and door factory and warehouse of Q. D. Peck & Sons, at Osh- tmrned, causing a loss of 1,1K 0 insurance Henry C. John C. New and one of the proprietors of the Indianapolis Journal, and John - G. Thompson, of the Washington Sututap Chronirir, met on the streets of Indian ipolis, and renewed their Mht about where they left off a year ago. itols were drawn, but there Was no blood- died. The pi lice appearing, both parties were arrested •- •* - • THE SOUTH. ' DTTBIXO apolitical quarrel at Liberty, f |(isa, Eugene McEtwee killed Sheriff Whit­ ing ton. A large number pf persons at once gathered about the scene, one of whom shot the murderer dead ;:AT a camp-meeflng near Wing' tain, N. G, the appearance of a large •nmber of moccasin snake* caused fifty ladies in the congregation to faint Several Br sons were bitten before the men could II the reptiles : 4 ARKANSAS, Louisiana and Mississippi ^ ^?8rc rePrc>ented at an Inte r State Le vee Con 'wntion whi-jh met at Yicksburg and adopted resolutions declaring it the imperative duty pf Congress to improve tha Mississippi and Its tributaries in (be interest of commerce and as a protection against annual overflows Of thj adja ent territory, indorsing the plan of the Mississippi Hiv<r Commission, advising the formation of a permanent as­ sociation representing the peop'e in the Mississippi \ alley to continue the rivcr-im- ftpvement agitation. , NOAH KITTLE, for many years a re- f *>ectnWe farmer of Barbour county, W. Ya., tpu confess d complicity in a large number ' jjjf robberies, together with Circuit Judge •arton Howse. Deputy Marshal Price Other leaders in the order of lied Mea A DISI'ATC U from Natchioches, La., •eporte a frightful affair in that parish. A •*rowd of colored men quarreled in a saloon toad a Pitched battle with dirks ensued. James Hand stabbed Isaac ltobinson to death; then a son of Robinson shot Hand mad. Evm liobinson i-hot aud killed two Mners, and before the melee was over six fiMn were dead and four fatally wounded. At a_ne^rro eard-partv in the same parish Ked Bradford won all the money. Ashe to surrender it% his companions held over a brisk log fire until he was ly burned, and he soon died in the Jt agony. WASHINGTON. ! THE readjustment affects thesalaries #f 2,170 Postmasters. Forty-four offices have jreen added to the Presidential list, and Iwenty-five Presidential offices have been tsduped to the fourth class, l«avinir the Presidential post offices Oct. 1 *1<5» With salaries amounting to f > 150 nod Xvenr part of the country is included in the ••adjustment. The changes m some of the larger offices are noted below: present Salary as •Salary. Adjusted. H.OGO $0,<KJ0 4,000 C.000 IIMO 5,000 •»»# » -.vDCliJUlgod I ring. sbt statement sfiowa a September £* 114,707,278, higher Tiii D folio SJpfer,? £$£ A.*. "*.*!; IR.T w ToUd"JWSSRE«T-TTSTAIN<^IBBT!!^F,»L Matured DABT 6,613,1 t^Wial-tender notes. Certificates of deposit................ (fold and silver certificates Fractional currency Total without interest.........». $si2,6.3,-;ss Total debt (principal) 11,96,000 Total interest, eash TE 12.337,«;«» TOT^CSSH In iwaiiCT «M,450.«70 Debt, less cash In treasure l,S3l,Ki l>ecrwme<lBrin«:S*p enit>er....... . 14.7oT,229 Decrease of debt since June 90,188 5. 29,3 < 9,I>71 -Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid Debt on which Interest has ceased.. lntetest thereon Gold and silver oerttficates U. 8. notes held for redemption of eertificatesof deposit.....FJ. Casu UUNOD available 2,027,1*1 *•'43.66* 17«'^I85,4-1 4r,000 Total Available assets-- Chsli UT trewury #3»,4ot\070 S55.450.670 Bonds issued to Paciflelaflwnveoat- " IONICS, interest payable by united ISTN.E?-- Prtncinal outstanding 1 nt«rest accrued, not yet uaid. Interest p>tfd by United States...... «M -T.M3 >*«,' Si •9.233.1 KU warenouse oi U koah, WFA, was 13 •00,000, with Mew, son of Jo Interest repaid by companies-- Dy transportation service. $ 17£38,523 By cuts payments, 6 per cent, net ^ earnings.. MUX Balance of interest paid by United States tt.M8.37S NOTWITHSTANDING all that has "been written and said upon the subject of re­ duced postage, thousands of people are still ignorant of the law. Hundreds of foreign letters are posted daily upon which only S cents have teen paid, the sender belie vine that the reduction in domestic ratesextend* also to the foreign service. POLITICAL. THE ascertained views of forty-one Republican members elect of the next Con­ gress, says a Washington correspondent, in­ dicate that the party aaa whole oppose a re­ opening of the tariff question at the next Fession. The views of the seventy-nine Democratic members indicate that theii party will favor a further revision oi the tariff and liberal appropropria tions for the Mississippi river, may favor the abolition of the internal rev­ enue, and a large majority favor free tobacca Most of the seventy-nine refuse to express themselves on the Speakership question, but to the extent that they have done so Carlisle seems to be the favorite. Hiscock is the favorite Republican can­ didate THE names of 750 or 800 Postmasters will be cent in to the Senate by the Presi­ dent during the next session of Congress In the first place there have been about .10C Postmasters appointed by the President since Congress adjourned, whose names must be submitted to the Senate. In many of these cases reasons will have occurred to change the President's mind, aud he will not renominate the men appointed in the recess. Then the commissions of about ;.0J Presidential Postmasters will expire during the session. In addition to this gallant OUC who will charge the Senate, at least 150 oi 20J persons will be nominated to till vacan­ cies caused by death, resignation and re­ moval, and to manage offices promoted from fourth to third cia a THE managers OF Butler's campaign in Massachusetts have issued a "ballot," which is a resemblance of the human skin when tanned, and is headed. "Regular Re­ publican Ticket" For candidates, it bears the names of prominent defenders oi Tewksbury. Virginia is in the midst oi the hottest political campaign ever wit­ nessed in the State. , : GENERAL. THE base-ball season closed on the 80th of September. Boston wins the cham­ pionship of the National League from the Chlcagos, which has held it for the past three years; Philadelphia captures the Amer­ ican Association flag, while Toledo will next year FIY the new Northwestern League pen- ant. The following table shows the gamee won and lost this season by the eight clubs comprising the National League: SSlO Sr.* C o «• » " w Boston... Chicufo.. Fruvtdeaee.......... Cleveland Buffalo New York........... Detroit Philadelphia........ Games lost ...... 10:14 63 91*69 12:ii|5S 9,12 53 »! 9jS2 6'12 46 -Uj4Q -Fl" !M|3»!40!«2!45ifi0 M SI I Name of office. Louis ew Orleans.. tsvllle m is 7. anooca..... Francisco BURGH 2,am 3,500 :i,ooo 2,500 4,1100 3,900 3,000 3.W >0 2,900 3,800 8,300 2,700 tjOUO 8,WX) 3,300 3,700 It I* is telegraphed from Washington Dfeat since November last the redemption of 9-per-cent. bonds has caused a contraction fftgM currency to the amount of $IO, ouo - •00, and that the ba»k« are trying to devise MM means of RELIEF Tn Treasury Department hm in- *S- { 'IF-T y-*. GEN. ROGER A. PBYOR has sailed from New York for England, haviug been retained as counsel for Avenger O'DonnelL CHRISTINE NICSSON arrived in New York, looking ten years yoanger than she did last October, owing to a rest at European watering-places. Moody and Haukey, the Evangelists^ have sailed from New York foi Ireland SMUGGLING Chinamen from British Columbia into Washington Territory is said to be a thriving business, notwithstanding the reports of a United States Treasury Agent to the contrary. These "assivted" emigrants arc large'y employed in thePuget 8ound saw-mills... .The Genera! Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States met in annual session at Phil- delphia last week, 'lhe lie v. Dr. E. E. Beardslev, of New Haven, was elected President of the House of Deputies Joseph Wharton offers to furnish the Phila­ delphia mint with ten tons of nickel at 91 centsper pound, the lowest figure at which the Government has ever secured that metal The demise is chronicled of Real Admiral Johnson Bands, on the retired listoi the United States navy, 89 years of age. A WHALEE which arrived at Dundee, Scotland, the other day, brings word that natives of Saunders island saw a party of five men at Ktah, a fishing station off the Greenland coast, early in the year, who be­ longed to an expedition located furthei north. The Captain of the whaler believes this party was sent o;it by Lieut Greely to meet the Ill-fated Proteus....A horrible tragedy occurred near Lampasas, Mexico, where an insane mother killed her live chil­ dren and then committed suicide..,.The Kent four-mills, at Chatham, Ontario, were homed Loss. FFT\(K.0....The striking gltes workers at Pittsburgh are said to have formed a combination to compcte with theix late employer--. Fourteen left for Belgium to work, declaring that they can make as much there as here VOKEIGIT. MORS in the streets of Madrid in* suited Frenchmen and threatened the French Embassy, because of THE indignities offe: ed Alfonso in Paris. At many gather­ ings held strong speeches against France made. It is now stilted that the Span­ ish King g appointment was a complete sur­ prise planned by Kaiser Wilhelm, and with which Bismarck had notbin/ whatever to do... .Nihilist circulars have appeared in St Petersburg demanding that the Government prevent the cruel treatment of prisoners, especially women. A PAPAL decree has lieen published regulating the procedure before civil til- buna's of the Vatican. It ignores the na­ tional law, and declares that all contracts between any portion of the Pope's household and parlies outside shall b e r e g u l a t e d b y t h e P o n t i f i c a l l a w . . . . The London F publishes a report sent py the correspondent of a Copenbagan journal that Lieut. Grecly's party mutineed in Greenland and kii.ecl ihcir conunjsder. An Esquimaux interpreter, who got MC de­ tails from other Esquimaux at t ape York, is the author of the story, which t h e T i m ™ c o n s i d e r s i m p r o b a b l e . . . . A rope broke in a coal-mine at Leigh, England, recently, precipitating the cage to the bottom of the shaft and killing six miners... .The statement of the Imperial P/Oermany SHOW* a decrease in specic of 30,100,000 marks. tM m war, nroTinoes the idea • Is not wejUt re- _ to >w»ident^wyJtot the ft®. *£££?& •ad abetted tl» agitatton * King Alfonso... i Victoria* acttsndant, is iMatae Ml THE grounds at „al, # monument in P*tnoe Albert • nanseleunt aft Viregmore and a tablet in the NAM at St George's chapeL.. .Shakspeare • bones will not be moved The Town Coun­ cil of Stratford-on-Avon has put a final veto on «ie oontewiptated deaecrsnoa JOSEPH SMITH, one of the Phoenix Park informers, who was not permitted to land in Australia, reached Marseilles, France, ttMTQtlNr day, from Caledonia, and is re­ ported to have immediately taken passagt For Chin* Another snrmtse is to the effect that Smith, Joseph Hanlon and Michael Kav- anagh will go to India, where James Carey intended to take up his resi dence until d'ssuaded by his wife.... A limerick ballad-singer PAS_ been sent M for a month for celebrating O Don* neil in song, and advising all other Irishmen to treat all other informers even as O'Don- neH did Carey The Spanish Cabinet, af­ ter discussing the insnlt to their King, at Paris, advised Alfonso to call the OORTW together as soon as possible * . ADDITIONAL HEWS, / BUSINESS failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. 6, numbered 160, be­ ing four less than the preceding week, but an Increase of thirty-seven when compared with the corresponding period of 1882. H. G. Dun & Co.. of the Mercantile Agency, report that the week was one of quietude in New York, with A very considerable decline in the volume of business. Reports from Western cities indicate more activity, and the ex­ changes in that section show increased busi­ ness. The failures continue to bt numerous, but they seem to reflect more mistakes of the past than any serious defects in business at present. The money market continues easy. CORRESPONDENTS who have can­ vassed 746 leading Democrats of Michigan, representing all parts of the State, are re­ ported in the Detroit News at length. Their figures, boiled down, show the following pref­ erences for President in 1884, and for Gov­ ernor of the State. Democrats interviewed, 746: BCTHV Abept •f Track •f 188% Thr-- toD«tpoil t aI§ " : Ihey liH tb» Engineer, rod Wound • The JtaUKng Ag* prints the following in­ teresting SOACSMURY of ndlway construction In the United MATES during nine months of the T ui'ieat year Bailway bnikUng has proceeded with much VIGOR FARING the present year, NOT- withstandinr$he assertions freely made aft Its comnieneinient that construction had ceased, and that little if any new mileage would be added in the United STATES during 1883. It was evident at the outset that the remarkable Xfoord of 188?. during which about 11,000 Ales of new lines were added, would not M| e iua'ed, as the "boom" in business had )H a large degree subsided and EMULATION if all forms had received a savere and salutary cheek But it should also have IPE*1 realized that a vast F' Choice for Governor-- JOSIAHW. BESROLE 176 MICHAEL SHOEMAKER.. 42 DON M. D CKINSON... 27 BYRON G. STOUT 26 GEO. V. N. LATHROP.. 23 ORLANDOM. BARNES.. 15 WILLIAM L. WEBBER.. 13 SCATTERING 40 NO CHOICE .384 Choice for President- Samuel J. Tilde n Benjamin F. Butler. 95 Winfleld 8. Hancock 73 Thoe. A. Hendricks.. 41 WM. S. HOLMAN 35 THOS. F. BAYARD 85 JOS. E. MCDONALD... 28 ALLEN G. THNRMAN... 23 GIOVER S. CLEVELAND. 5 SCATTERING 59 NO CHOICE VI A STREET-CAB moving along at the corner of Susquehanna avenue and America street, Philadelphia, was demolished by a Beading train. Two men were killed, one woman terribly mangled, and ten others in­ jured. The car had no conductor, the driver having to watch for fares and look out for trains at the crossings Trinket beat St. Julien at Albany, in straight heats. Best time, 8:18. / THE residence of Mr. William Dutton, of Adrian, Mich., was entered by burglars, who carried of about $80,000 in mortgages. United States bonds, and Michigan municipal securities, besides a small amount of money, a watch, and some articles of family jewelry. THE New Orleans National Bank has brought suit against Postmaster General Gresham for $100,000 damages, sustained by reason of his Instruction to withold money- orders from it on account of its aiding a lottery. A MOB stoned the French Consulate at Saragossa, Spain, but were dispersed by the Police Tinker, a participant in the murder of Lord Mountmorris in Ireland, three years ago, has turned informer. •* Preserving the Hair. ' A German professor, who does not think baldness of the head results from bad health or much study, writes as follows: "The strongest men are often bareheaded; and German professors who are nothing if not studious, are distinguished above all men by the pro­ fusion of their locks. On the other hand, soldiers and postilions, who wear heavy helmlets and leather caps, and wear them a good deal, are frequently as bald as billiard balls. Therefore baldness comes chiefly of the artificial determination of blood to the head, and to the heat and perspiration thenoe arising. The result is a relaxed condi­ tion and loss of hair. If the skin of the head is kept in a healthy state hair will not fall off. To keep it healthy, the head covering should be light and por­ ous, the head kept clean by washing with water, and the hair cut short. The nostrums vended as hair restorers, and on which a fabulous amount of money is wasted by the ignorant for the benefit of quacks, are wove than useless. "I LIKE company .well enough," said Mrs. Planetung, but I'm not going to {»ut myself out too much. I believe in ooking after one's own comfort first." "That is to say," remarked Fogg, "that yon follow the custom of the shop sign and put your company last."--Bos­ ton >Transcript. portion of - the territory of the United Statu IS still inadequately supplied with railway facilities, and that the legiti­ mate work of building roads must go on every year, resulting in an addition of thou­ sands of miles In the aggregate That gloomy predictions at the enl of the year cannot stop the steady development of the country BY means of new railways is proved again by the following tu'.iisnary of the mileage of new track laid in the nine months from Jan. 1 to Sept so far as we have been able TO obtain information. The figures, it should be remembered, represent' only the length of main track added, and ana do not include sidings or teond track, which would very considerably swe 1 the re­ sult Following is the amount of track laid from Jan. 1 to Sept. 80,18;8: States. , Miles.! Stataa. Miles. ALABAMA..... 139 MINNESOTA 85 ARIZONA......,*,... 155,MISSISSIPPI. . . . , . 726 ARKANSAS.......... 97 J MISSOURI. 84 CALIFORNIA......'... 2S7,MONTANA 351 COLORADO.......... 4L!NEBRASKA ...... 44 DAKOTA ..I... 3^8 NEW JERSEY 5 FLORIDA......101 NEW MEXICO ST GEORGIA 64 NEW YORK 887 IDAHO 210NORTH CAROLINA.... IS INDIAN TERRITORY.. 13OHIO 195 ILLINOIS 150| OREGON 65 INDIANA 137PENNSYLVANA...... M IOWA 69|SOUTH CAROLINA.... 28 KANSAS 43{TENNESSEE DO KENTUCKY V.*.. 61 TEXAS 63 LOUISIANA 161 UTAH 160 MAINE 15I VIRGINIA 58 MARYLAND . 11 WASHINGTON TER... M MASSACHUSETTS..., 17 WEST VIRGINIA...,. 45 MICHIGAN.. 143 WISCONSIN 106 TOTAL 4,344 It will be seen from this table that at least 4,244 miles of main track have, been laid thus far on 100 different lines in,forty of the forty-seven State * and Territories of the Union. The only States not reporting any new track ARE New Hampthre, Vermont, Bhode Island and Connecticut; Nevada, locked in the Rocky mountains, and the al­ most uninhabited Territory of Wyoming. New York leads, with 3o7 miles of new lines, and Pennsylvania, wh'ch excels in number of roads, follows in mileage, report­ ing no less than nineteen lines, ag­ gregating 296 miles. Young Dakota comes next, with 288 miles of new track, laid on only six lines; Montana shows 251 miles added; California, 2I7; Mississippi, 226; Idaho, 210; and Ohio nearly ~0.» nufes on thirteen line?. The other Hta es and Ter­ ritories reporting more than 100 M les thus far are Louisiana, Utah, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, Alabama, Indiana and Wisconsin. In most of the States grading is being act­ ively pushed on numerous lines, and some track has doubtless been laid during the pe­ riod named of which we have not obtained report, although our researches and corre­ spondence have been very thoroaghly ex­ tended. As was to be expected, the figures for this year are much less than they were in the previous year of extraordinary railway building. At this date in 18^ we RE; orted 8,075 mlle3 of track laid, on 260lines, against 4,244 miles on 1U0 lines for the correspond­ ing period of 1883. Assuming a similar com­ parison for the entire year, the railway mile­ age added during 1883 is likely to aggregate about TF,€00 miles, which will exceed the rec­ ord of any year previous to 18 0, when the "boom* begm. We have a record of nearly 160 M|UejRi(K>n which trackway log is still in progress or expected to commence this year, and our own estimate now Is that the total extent of track la d during 1882 will be between 0,000 and 7,100 inilei Of course the foregoing figures do not include the thousands of miles of new lines which will be bnilt during 1881 in the neighboring countries of Canada and Mexico, and for which American manufacturers to huge extent supply the materials. : (Kansas City Telegram.! IWiuittiateaM SAPIEAS circles here over the attempted FAUNFFFFLF MORULA* ASAT-bound EXMMI brain on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa FE rttllwlqratOooHdge, Kan. The ROBBERY was the week of three men, who made an attack upon tlM train just as it WAS about to pull OUT • frptn the etatioa Conductor Greeley nad caUed out "all aboard," when two men lumped upon the engine with drawn revolv­ ers and ordered the engineer, John R. Hil­ ton, to pull out Instead of doing this he reversed the engine, when one of the men •hot him through the heart, killing him Instantly. At the same time the second robber shol George Faddie, the fireman, througĥ the back and he fell from the cab Into the gutter. At almost exactly the came time the third member of the £ang jumped into the express car and Urea point blank at & H. Patterson, express messenger for Wells, I argo A Co., who WAS reclining partially asleep on a bed of blanket* sprevd out upon, bis safe. Patterson SPRANG T$$£KFEET with » revblver in each hand and-wiir agadii fired at by the robber, but luckily escaped unhurt and tired i» return at his antagonist, who was partially concealed by some baggage, the express and baggage car being a joint iixture. Ihe robber, seeing that the jumped from the door. With Patterson in par- suit, but escaped wttn his two companions from the engine, as by this time tne con­ ductor and train hands were taking a hand In the fiisilade, some fifteen or twenty shots being fired. It was so dark, however, that jgood marksmansfofp was impossible, and, lor the time being, the robbers escaped. The most intensa excitement prevailed among the passengers when the robbery be­ came known throughout the train, ana dis­ patches were sent to Las Animas, Dodge City, and other points for assistance, while the dead engineer and fireman were taken into the Sleeping-car and properly cared for. A special train left Dodge City at once for the scene, with a posse of armed men under charge of the Marshal, and at a late hour three men, Looney, Chambers and Dean, were captured,who pro v ed to be the attempt­ ed train-robbers 'I hey were taken to Dodge train, under a heavy OOPAZ. •hoes, and * ivy cf JnH WHkurd •f- the ItatleMl W«at> ' uppers. ~ To behove fixed glass stoppers, tap "V ___ .. i HaveKfee I inch *be Rational Women's Christian Temper, in breadth and def^w^TH a piece mor- ance Union were given a hearing before the tised out large enmtgh to admit the flat Senate Committee on Education and Labor part of the glass stopper. ™NEW Y?RK- . .MLM F;ANICE3 R O* , A GOOD present for an old lady is a ChiMgo, President of the union, gave a LIGHT woolen wrapper, made double, condensed statement of the organization, | WITH A thin thidme of wqolenbe- its growth and methods of work. She tween, and quilted itt rather l*rge dia- said the union is often called the sober sec- | monds. Take a simple * ond thougtt of the crusade ta the winter and cnt it large and amj of 1874, and which, through prayer snd persuasion, resulted in closlcg £0 sa!oons. The society comprises tklitgr-fm States sad three TeRttories, and organizations with over a,000 local societies and a fol- "jg work of the society Into departments, snd 5! ®*S3RJME® whe«» a medal department of wpxkhss seemed to fe oiUledfor some woman has been raised to stand at the head of such department Pir.-t in the order of evolution stands the department of "Hered­ ity," which aims to teach women who come ^WETHER in companies the relation ot that of - Hy genie," whioa alms to give a better understanding of the methods of DALLY LIVING, especially regarding food, cleanliness, exerciaa, ventilation, and the wbole physical oonduet of life. Under the educational division of the work, scientific instruction stands first, its subdivisions being SundJty-echools, juvenile wdAQML school, educational, and medical associa­ tions, and relative statistics. The tiflc instruction embraces the Introduction of text books into the public schools, set­ ting forth the nature and effect of alcohol on the system. Sunday-school work aims to give the MIPS saith the Lord* regarding the use of Intoxicating liquors as a bever- aga The department of Juvenile unions endeavors to teach children the duty of total- abstinence by a regular oourse of study--scientific, ethical ana governmental A military feature Is introduced for boys, and pri- es offered for the best essays Ef­ forts are made to gain the co-operation of ecclea.astical bodies, and whenever a synod or conference is held some representative of the society is usually present The Do- partment of Relative Statistics endeavors to collect the best and latest statistics regard- City by special train, under a heavy I ing paupeiism snd crime, and present the guard, ana placed in jail. In the express -same to the people until such time as the safe at the tone of the-attempted robbery J Gtovernment shall appoint A committee to was between #40,003 and 950,100, and bid; for jtiake the matter in hand. the fight made by Patterson the robbers would probably have made a big haul,as be­ fore be drove the man from bis car the men in the engine had things their own way. The plan of the robbers was that while two men captured the engine and made the en­ gineer run the train the third man was to kill the messenger, then r>tle the safe while the train was In motion, and then all three escape at once to same convenient place be­ tween Coolidge and Dodge City. Patterson, the express-messenger, make 3 the following statement: "You are of course aware that the raid took place at Coolidge, a station on the line of the Atchiion, Topeka and Santa Fe rail­ way, about ten miles east of the Colorado State line, tetwean 2 and 3 o'clock this morning. There IJ an eating-house in the station, and the train stopped there as usual twenty minutes in order to give the passen­ gers an opportunity to get lunch. Tne train Mra W. C. Buell spoke of the department of "Influencing the Press," and said that, recognizing the power of the press, the union has during the last four years endeav­ ored to enlist the press by securing columns to be edited by women appointed by the union of the locality, or to secure the inser­ tion of extracts from standard authors of scientific temperance works and from the writings and speeches of prominent men and women Mrs. Mary H. Hunt gave an account of the efforts of her department to introduce text­ books into the public schools of the coun­ try, giving a short account of legislation in Michigan, Vermont and New Hamp­ shire, which gave to their States a law for compulsory temperance. Other ladie3 present and in charge of departments ex­ plained the working of each department and its purpose The ladies present were: Mis* Frances E. Wi llard, of < hicago, Presl- was No. 4 bound east, Conductor Greeley. ! dent; Mra. Caroline E. Buell, Ea?tfiainpton, Engineer John Hilton, Fireman Faddie and Ct, Corresponding Secretary; Mra Mary I* Baggageman Johnson. When the train Burt, Brooklyn, President of the New York stopped I put off some railroad mail which State Union; Mra Mary H. Hunt. Hyde I had and, there being no express to put off Park, Mass., Superintendent of the Depart- and no fmther work for me to do, I lay ment o f Scientific Instruction: Mrs. C. C. down o I my box just in front of the side Alford, Brooklyn, Secretary of the Scientific door, on the side of the car next to the Department; Mra Frances J. Barnes, New depot Af .er lying down for a few minutes York, Superintendent of the Depaitment of I dropped off into a doze. I was lying on Young Women's Work; and Miss Annie A. back with my arms folded over my J Gordon, Avondale, Mass, private secretary of Miss Wlllard. . * A GHASTLY DEED. Woman Slays H«T flte Children and Then Commits Suicide. my bosom. Both of the doors on the side of the car next to the platform were open. Bag­ gageman Johnston being Beated in the back side door looktug out on the platform. My revolver, a Colt's 41-callber, double action. lay at my side I hal taken it out of my scabbaid AND la D it down THAT I might be readyforany emergency that might arisa The pistol lay where I could easily lay hands upon it I. was about time for the train to start, when I heard the words: 'Come out of there, you This woke me up, and I aftecward learned that the re­ mark was made by Conductor Greely to A man whom he noticed getting into the car.* When I awoke I nat- S2L£S£lL%?£;«cSiEii35l | " a pistol in bis liand. I was Iving with MY I sixty Democratic mexxiMrs of THE SPEAKERSHIP. 4 A Congressman!W«w» , / of the Contest,. (Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.) A Southern Congressman said to-dayt "If Mr. Randall is to be elected, I don't know where he is going to get bis votes. During can slip it on over her When putting up cu to be draped, in a low rojim pAjthe oornioe to which the cartel* » to be fastened eloee to the ceiling, even if the window is pal inlower dbirajis jti^Tee the effect of greater height to the room. The curtain meeting At the top will conceal the wall. FOR washing hands that have become cracked or blackened, " there ik nothing better than Indian meal rubbed on with soap. It not only removes the dirt but softens and. whitens the hands as well. For men and boys do­ ing farm or shop work it is excellent, and should lie kept always at hand. AMMONIA water or a damp cloth dip­ ped in whiting, cleans paint nicely. Sapoiio is also good. Gold tea is tho best thing to clean varnished wood with, the tea and tea leaves saved from the table for several days and steeped will usually be sufficient. It removes spots, and gives a fresher, newer ap­ pearance than when soap and water are used. • ; ! Lined lunch-cloths one yard square,, with a vine and some odd mirth-pro- voking design in the corners, are the fancy of the hour. These are very pretty to cover the small tables uf ed at lunch or small tea-parties. Have aa much variety in coloring and in the de­ sign as possible Mid yet be in har­ mony. A CORRESPONDENT of the Tropical Agriculturalist says regarding the de­ struction of ants: "Take a white china, plate and spread a thin covering of common lard over it. Place it on the shelf or other place infested, by the troublesome insects. You will be pleas­ ed with the result. Stirring up tho next morning is all that is needed to set- the trap again." THE more freely a plant Is growing the more water it will require, and the more it grows the more light and sun will it need. In all cases those plants which grow the fasted should be plaeed nearest the light. The best aspect for room plants is in the southeast. They seem like animals in their affection for the morning sun. The first morning: ray is worth a dozen in the evening. IF there is any reason to suspect that- moths have made inroads in upholster­ ed furniture, it should be sprinkled with benzine. The benzine is put i|i a- small watering-pot, such as is used for sprinkling house-plants, and the uphol­ stered parts of the furniture thorough­ ly saturated with the fluid. It does hot spot the most delicate silk, the unpleas­ ant odor passes off after an hour . or two in the air, and it will completely- exterminate the moths. "OH, she was a jewel of a wifeJ" said Pat, mourning over the loss of his better-half; "she always struck me ^ifch Jthe soft end of the mopP ^ fHE MAEBBT, Bnvas. Hoos... NEW YORK. 11«0 1LM .06 C.10 4.30 6.96 4.40 6.4V 4.76 WHEAT--No. l White.*.':!!!.'.*.'"! No. 2 Red COBST--No. a OATS--No. a POHK--Mess LARD CHICAGO. BKBTSS--Good to Fancy Steers.. Common to Fair. Medium to Fair Hoos. FIXMTS--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spr'gKx. WHKAT--No. a Spring. No. a Bed Winter COBN--No. 2....... OATS--No. a RTE -NO. 2 BABUBT--No. a BUTTER--Choioe Eoos--Fresh.... POBK--Mess LAKD MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--WO. *. COBW--No. a. OATS--No. a. RYE--No. a BABLET--No. a. POBK--Mcm LAKD BT. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. a Bed CORN--Mixed OATS--No. a RYE POBK--Mess T.Ann CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. a Bed CORN OATS HYE. POBK--Meaa. 11.50 4.40 6.00 S.M m 4.90 LOT @ 1.0054 i.is^@ l.ian "" # .61^ & .36* *11.76 @ .08* a 6.40 & S.1S © S.6S & 5.15 & 6. GO & 6.00 .95 1.01 & L.OM .48 & .48!* .2794 .66 .6554 .mm .so M & .38 .24 m M 10.10 @10.55 .0736® .07X @10.45 CTelecram from Laredo, Texaa>| A gentleman from Lampasas, Mexico, gives the fall particulars of a most horrible tragedy that occurred near that place. Mm Yaldez K lied her five children and then her •elf during a fit of insanity. In one of the large ranches about twenty miles to the southward of Lampasas there lived for four years past a quiet, well-to-do Mex can named Antonio Vaidez, whose family con­ sisted of a wife and five children, the age of the eldest child being 10 years, and of the youngest 2 yeara The wife, who was about 30 YEARS of age. had been subject, to epileptic fits and spells of mslanoholy of long dura­ tion. During the last few months she hits exhibited many evidences of ineanity, and when in such mental aberrat on invariablv sought to do violence to her little ones. J A few days AGO the woman was attacked with % tit of unusual severity. When she had recovered from her spasm her husband went out to herd a floo'X of sheep belonging to the ranch. He had been gone but a short time when h'S w#A rose from her couch, . and, with a huge butcher-knife, which had been carelessly left within hir reach, com­ menced her terr.H'e work of destruction. Her eldest child, a sweet GIRL of 10. was the first to fall a victim TO ber maniac mother's cruel blows, her head being almost severed from her body. With thas method peculiar to insane persons, she in qu'ck succession slew the other children, hacking and stab- bine them in a sickening manner* The frantic woman, after five bleeding little corpses lay at her feet, viewed them with grim satisfaction, filling the air w.tb wild and weird exclamation'. Suddenly, taking a parting look at the dead before her, she plunged the knife into her own breast, reeled to a corner in the rttom, and fell dead. During all the TIME th s fearful trag­ edy was being enacted a seivlng-wotnan, AT peon, was powerless to prevent it from ab­ ject fear. The husband was soon apprised of what bad happened, and his lamentations were pitiable in the extreme and he could not be consoled In due time neighbors oame, and speedy arrangements were made to bury the dead. Six gi aves were dug, and the next morning the funeral RIGHTS were performed head toward the front end of the car, ana the man wa« standing near my feet I did not SAY a word; in fact, L did not have time to speak before he covered me with the re­ volver and fired The bullet went over my head and I could feel the fire burning over my face. The man then fired a shot out of the doorway at the conductor: Fortunately, I was completely self-pos­ sessed, and when he fired I realized that a traln-ntbbery was going on. With the hope of risking the robber believe that he had killed me, 1 unclasped iny hands, which were folded on my bosom, and allowed them to fall at my Bide. My right hand fell oa the muzz e of my revolver, and, realizing that it would never do to allow the robber to see that I was about to defend myself. I worked my hand alowly into position until I had hold of the pistol with my hand on the trigger HIE robber did not- nottoe this maneuver, Lecause it was quite dark in the part of the car where I\lay. Meantime the man was working his way toward the rear of the car, evidently to ICLL the baggageman or anyone el-e who got iqhis way. As soon as 1 got hold of MYF pistol I sprang into a sitting posture and lireid at the robber. I Jumped up then and walked toward the man. lie raised HIS revolver as it to thoot again, but it went off p:ema- turely, tho ball striking the roof of the car. When I shot at him a part of his body was behind a stove. 1 aimed at his abdomen, and I believe th: t my ball took effect About this ilme 1 saw another man who ptoved to be the 0 imbin atthe S tired, however, than he disappeared, and the man I shot at Jumped out on the platform from the rear side door. That was the last 1 saw of the robbers I calculated that they would come I p to the front side door, and eeiring some freight I barricaded the door, so as to protect myself and propertyVwhlch > haa been intrusted to my care Leci than THE Crew of the Vessel COMPOSE! M half a minute after the robbors left my oar Congreea I have with them gone over the entire field, and I think I know where the votes will go." Taking a list of the next House of Representatives by States, he counted off the votes oouoedea to Ran­ dall by the Carlisle men. They are as fol­ lows: Alabama 8, Arkansas 1, Connecti­ cut 3, Delaware 1, Florida 1, Georgia 1, Indiana 1, Louis ana 3, Maryland 4, Massachusetts 1, Mississippi 1, Mis­ souri 1, Nevada 1, New Jer.ey ^ New York 1, North Carolina 1, Ohio 2, Pennsylvania 12, South Carolina 1, Tennes ee I, Texas 2, Virginia 2, West Vir­ ginia B and Wls^ontin 1--A total Of 5O Votes, or just 40 short cf the number necessary to nominate This would leave 141 Democrat'C votes against Randall, of which it Is claimed that over 1C0 are for Gar)I»IA Continuing h's conversation, the Southern member safd: "Carlisle will be nominated on THE first bal­ lot Among the Southern members we con­ cede to Randall are some who want to vote for him, but the tariff sentiment of their dis­ trict is to strong that I believe they will not dare to support Randall. Yes. Carlisle will be Speaker, and John Clark will be Clerk of the next House. Mr. ii andall IS claiming votes in New York, but even after Cox drops out of the race he will only get about three Tllden end the New York Nun are making A show of supporting Randall to hold his in­ fluence for them in Pennsylvania next year. They are just playing with RandalL The ^ ^ indications in New York now are that Tllden OF THE TOSC fevlng FC> ; UP Cleveiand as his ltoMridmttal door. No sooner had I candidate, and, in order .to jret Rm^'s support for him in Pennsy.vania, they WMKG a show of supporting him for Speaker." IKE PROTEUS DISASTER. , What Our Colleges Ladb . § A graduate of Harvard declares his Alma Mater is not the ideal univer­ sity, because enthusiasm is considered among the students as "bad form." It- seems the whole tone of that seat of learning is averse to anything like gen­ erous emotion. The tendency, there­ fore, is to indifferent is A and making of literary dudes. The graduate becomes self-sufficient and supercilious. The only pursnit that is followed with ardor is athletics, especially boating. It ife a mistake to suppose that the chief wants- of colleges are money and able pro­ fessors. The leading Scotch seats of learning have always been very poor;: but the students were recruited from the common people, and as they had their fortunes and careers to make they were assiduous in their studies. As a consequence, the graduates of the Scotch universities have given to the world many of the most brilliant lights.- As compared with Oxford and Cam­ bridge. where only rich students can matriculate, the advantage has l»pen with the Scotch universities with tlieir poor endowments and poorer students. Our own West Point gives an admira­ ble training to its cadets' They are under the sternest discipline, biT subject is known down to tlio' Yet West Point costs the nation but a trilling sum compared with the splen­ did results and the kind of officers it develops. What our college! need is, not more money, but higher aims, more thoroughness, and. above all, entlinsi- «sm among the students.--Demoront'8 Monthly. BARK NOTES. 1 heard »ome shots at the engine. Th ree shots were tired in half as many minutes. Z stood at the front side door of my car, re­ volver in hand. Just then Conductor Oieeley oame up. 'Have they gone?' I asked. 'Yes, I think so,' replied he, 'but I believe our engineer ana firetnan are hurt' Thto Greeley went forward to .them, and coming BASK to me. said: .Thtjrate b3.IL killed. The engineer is shot through the heart aud tho fireman through the neek.1 I then jumped out on the plat orm and saw the engineer lvingon the nlatform alongside of the engine. The I renum was still con­ scious, ana was taken into the hotel, I talked with him a few minutes," Friendship. ? Jones meets me on the pave and tiff*; "Wish yett had got Mrs Jones inswad of me " What's the matter, 'Squire "Friends," says Jones. "I can't bring a man home to dinner but I find in t*o weeks he's on Mrs. Jone's list of death­ less friends. She won't hear a word against him. Next thing she lectures me on the weakness I have for not be­ ing true to my friends. 'Friendship,' she says, 'is all there is in life.' 'Great i ,w..Mn<rhM< t II 5. > I * bread-and-butter!' says I, 'there are too Lieut O.rllnBton, ot TH. (Srecl, MIL,! M.NY cl.il.lten with MO.itli. open hen " -- 4 - - : I nuoe. Be moderate, Mrs. Jones.' 'My I friends,' replies the Madame, 'I never i will relinquish. I am true to my friends!' 'So am I, Mrs. Jones, ut tea- Rofllans Who Refused to Obey IMr <>•««. _ oau?e of the failure of the expedition and the ditticnlty with the crew of the Proteus. Artificer Moritz, a private soldier connected with the expedition, has given a full account of the citlculty. "The crew of the Proteus," he said, "were a set of pirates, and when the Proteus was wrecked they refuse 1 to help rave provisions or clothing, but Btole all they could of what va< eaved. We had on the i.oi%® i.oa* .65%# .56*6 .%->%& .ViH 11.00 tfll.'.S .07* L0*K<» 1.04% .61 & .52 .2) % .H»% .88 @11.75 LAKD .07'^ .0734 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. * Bed i*os CORN ..si OATS--NO. 3 ,r„ .a® DETROIT. FIXJUB «.PO @ 6.78 WHKAT--No. l White XOH%cd> i.oeft COBN--NO. A. ,84 OATS--MIXED .29 POBK--MEM. 12.25 INDIANAPOLIS WHKAT--NO. A RED 1.03 COKK--NO. 2 47 OATS--MIXED.. 27 „ EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE BENT (.40 FAIR V. 4.25 COMMON...,.*..... &90 HOOS..... «.« ......... FC«O 9 1.07 & .82 0 .2#* C4 .29)4 @12.80 m 1.08M % '.A?« & MO & Ml- & 4.78 THCM Is no DANGER In HANDLING You Have Them. (Washington Telegram,! The story that several Government em­ ployes who handle national-bank notes have been poisoned from tbe arsenic used in the manufacture of the green ink, which comes off t':e lingers of the counters ns'ng a wet sponge, is pronounced untrue in the Treas­ ury Department In the division of issue where TL,'i-R0,00(\000 worth of notes have been put out, and where packages are counted and recounted d; Y afcrr day, there has never been a case of arsenical poison ng since its tint establishment One case some time ago, which was at ft 5 st ascrib d to this cause, was afterward found to be due to an "enttrely-diiierenb cause, the em; love in question having been similar.Y troubfed be­ fore he entered the Government service. KEWSY BITS. . '.VTV •. , -- « * * .•£' ' 1 lertdwl rarOdlML, Ohio, TOOT hla aredwit. MN™ONIV .NA tnreu MAMS. nro. and then shot himself. men, and we qnly saved three months' pro­ vision for twelve men. If we had remained there on Middleton'S ;sU nd all the winter JOHN Ai.tbm, Captain of the schooner Ida ; Ve should have eaten up everything. We LESLIE ARTHUR, Ifl, and Alma Lacey, 16, were groomsman and bridesmaid as a wed­ ding in Lincoln, 11'. Before the ceremony they took the ministerjln A room with one witness and were secretly married. JAMES A Harris, of Florida, gets 968,000 net out of his orange crop this searon. Walker, was knocked overboard by a boom, near Oswego, N. Y., and his son sprang after MM. both BE NJJ drowned , THE feeling against Parnell in some of the northern ; arts of Ireland Is quite bitter. Irish t ade has suffered from social convul­ sion, and a famine is being predicted sooner or later. J JOSEPHINE BBYAMT, who took her own llfo 1 at Pittsburgh, wa* educated at the Univer­ sity at Normal, 11L, and taufht school at Blooii.ington. Bfae became amanuena s of Dr. Newton, at Cincinnati. She claimed to be a oousln of A. W. Campbe.L, of the Wheeling htUUigetutf. AT Erie, Pa, Mr. George Watts plaoed in the hands of Lawyer Firch a copy of the notorious book, "The Memoirs of George IV.," of which it was supposed all copies ex­ tant had been destroyed, and for which, some Teats since, the British Government offered F ,000 per copy. Mr. Flrch wl.L ne­ gotiate its return to the Eng.isb authorities for the present owner. SEVEN UILUONS of I Helena stookmea Is represented la had nothing with whi.'h to help the Greely party, and would?have been just so many more men in distress. Moreover, the Pi o- teus crew were twenty-three. We were eight Tiiey caved all their guns We saved but two. if we had been short of food in win'er not one of our party of eight would have seen spring. ̂_ •Capt, Pike s a gentleman, but I e couldn't control his men. «e paid toGarling* n that they were a set of dogs. We cached what provisions and clothing we could npare and came south in five open boats 7-0 miles to Upernavik. 'l he 1 antic was expected to meet us at Littleton's island, bu we knew she was ordered not to risk going in ice, and we thought she couldn t get there If the Proteus" crew h ;d helped us we could then have saved enough provisions to remain on on the island all winter and helped Greely in the si ring, but ins ead of that he sailor-j got 1 oat ing drunk while the l'roteus was finking." Moritz says theie was 110 misun­ derstanding' between Capt Pike and Gar- lington. _ Tm American Bible Society will issue 2,000,00'J Bibles and Testaments thia>eac son, but perhaps they can get along with me a few days * at a time.' 'Ha, spider!' says Mrs. Jones, 'mocking at friendship, the only safe thing in life.'" Said I: "Jones, what is your medicine for the patient?" "I am going to make an Odd Fellow of her," savs Jones, "for the motto of that order exactly fills her case; it is Friendship, Love with a little" L, and Terruth."--Gath. Beer Consumers. It appears that the Germans are not the largest consumers of beer and other malt liquors, as has generally been sap- posed. The Chemical Review figures out that the production of beer in the Qerman Empire amounts to ninety-two quarts per capita, but a large propor­ tion of this beer is exported. In Austria the amount is thirty-four quarts per inhabitant. In Or eat Britain one hundred and fifteen quarts of very strong beer is the ratio. In the United - States the beer per inhabitant is forty quarts. The consumption of malt liquors is increasing faster here in any other country. The consumption, however, is chiefly limited to the North­ ern States. South of the Ohio liier there are few breweries. < ) •"»»>* -: -r"r; • - - 4 s V • „ 1 ~ w . . / • , , 7 < « * r ! to. '* %%v v- • ' .r «e > • *• / >/• < 5S ' t&jL* . 4.V.. . * ' , .r A.