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>% Y ^ %,\ * *7T ?~f'<f *v. V-<7<*S*^"~' ri*r < * -1' T-^% ~t 'T |Sgt||cMrj» ||lahidcaler J. VAN SLYKE. EMer an* PsMisher. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS p- •id i •; ':\"V-' * ' * THEXFWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. IN Southern New Jersey, on the morning of the 16th, the thermometer fell to 38 de­ grees. There were frosts in Rome places, and considerable damage was done to ten­ der crops ... For the third time in thirty years S. Sommerich & Co., wholesale mil­ linery, New York, have failed. On the for­ mer occasions they paid, respectively, 25 and 35 cents on the dollar. ABOUT five thousand persons, mostly Spanish-Americans, assembled at Central Park, New York, to witness the unveiling of a statue to Bolivar, the great liberator. ... .Mrs. John Both escaped from a burn­ ing building at Erie, Pa. She rushed back to get her clothing and was burned to death. BISHOP MATTHEW SIMPSON, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, breathed his last at Philadelphia, after a lingering ill­ ness at the close of his seventy-third year. A STATUE of the late Gov, Buckingham, of Connecticut, was unveiled at Hartford, in presence of six thousand militia­ men and a vast concourse of citizens.... By a decision of the New York courts the Rev. John P. Newman is restrained from offici­ ating as pastor of the Madison Avenue Con­ gregational Church, taking charge of its services or meetings, or from receiving sal­ ary, save as acting pastor, since March 31 of this year. T1IE WEST. ' « 1; i...J ...l .• ' .- .. IK a prize-fight near Minneapolis, Minn., between Patsy Mellen and Jack Keefe, fourteen rounds were fought in fifty-six minutes, when Mellen was declared the victor. ALEX. FIDDLER, a notorious crook, was found hanging to a tree near Sturges, Da­ kota Territory. The lynchers are unknown. ... .The body of a man named Bechtel was found in the Jim River, near Mitchell, Da­ kota Territory, and it is believed that he was executed "by the vigilantes. WHILE inebriated James Cowan, 8 years old, was drowned near Omaha, Neb. His little companions were so befuddled with beer that they could render him no assist­ ance. .. .At Oconto, Wis., an aged woman named Mrs. Charles Ritter brained her hus­ band with an ax and then took paris green. Both are still alive. LUKE PHIPPS, who last August killed his wife on a ferry-boat on Detroit River, was executed at 8andwich, Ontario. He met death bravely. His body was interred at the expense of a number of philanthropic ladies. He broke jail last November, and •was recaptured at Pullman, 111 Mrs. Roberta C. Cole, wife of Chief Justice Cole, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is dead. She was in her 45th year.... A dis­ patch from Fort Leavenworth chronicles the death of Col. Edward R. Piatt, Ad­ jutant-General of the Department of the Missouri. ISAAC JACOBSON, the Finnish sailor who murdered George Bedell in Chicago, hav­ ing pleaded guilty was brought before Judge Williamson for sentence. The bru­ tality of the crime forced a sentence of death by hanging on Sept. 19. While the Judge, the clerk, and the attorneys were almost overcome by emotion, the doomed man betrayed nothing but satisfaction. MBS. WARBEN, wife of Bishop Henry W. Warren, of Denver, Colo., has donated ' $100,000 to Denver University for the es- I tablishment of a Department of Divinity | to be known as "The Iliff school of Di­ vinity," on condition that others endow a single professorship... .Margaret Kling, a 14-year-old girl of Milwaukee, has eloped ; with Henry Geahrig, CO years of age, for years an inmate of the Soldiers' Home.... Owing to a dispute touching a mining claim, Edward Gallagher shot Mrs. Greenwood, near Sonora, Cal. The woman's son, Otis, followed Gallagher, and fired at him with­ out effect, Robert Watson chased young Greenwood, but the latter turned on him, shooting him mortally. Watson's son next pursued Greenwood, but he escaped and surrendered to the Sheriff, and both him­ self and Gallagher are in jail. Mrs. Green­ wood and the elder Watson have died from passed allowing the representatives of the State in the national convention to aet on their judgment GEN. BTTTTJER has formally accepted the nomination for President by the National Greenback Convention... .The Ninteenth Illinois District Republicans nominated by acclamation, for Congress, Thomas Ridge- way, of Shawneetown.... The Democratic {State Convention of Delaware adopted a resolution presenting Thomas F. Bayard as a statesman whose nomination for Presi­ dent would furnish at once the platform and the candidate. IN the New York Democratic State Con­ vention at Saratoga the differences of opin­ ion among the various sections of the New York City Democracy were settled and har­ mony secured by allowing Tammany thirty- one delegates in the national convention, the County Democracy thirty-one. and Irving Hall ten. The convention did not instruct its representatives at Chicago, but they are believed to stand 4(5 for Cleve­ land, 14 for Flower, and 7 for Bayard. The delegates -at - large are Daniel Manning, Ed­ ward Cooper, Lester B. Faulkner, and John C. Jacobs. Among the district dele­ gates are August Belmont, John Kelly, and Abram S. Hewitt. THE delegates to the National Demo­ cratic Convention, selected by the Michi­ gan Democrats at Detroit, are mostly for Cleveland. One delegate is for Thur- man. The platform denounces the present tariff laws as iniquitous and unjust, the parent of every econdmic evil, and de­ mands a tariff for revenue only The Democrats of the Fourth District of Maine have nominated John F. Lynch for Con­ gress. IN the Indiana State* Republican Con- vention. the first ballot for Governor re­ sulted in 594 votes for W. H. Calkins, 512 for W. W. Dudley and 48 for Gen. J. P, C. Shanks, and the nomination of Calkins was made unanimous. The platform favors the framing of a new constitution for the State... .The Prohibitionists of Illinois, at their State convention at Bloomington, nominated J. B. Hobbs, of Chicago, for Governor, and Dr. Perrymau, of Belleville, for Lieutenant Governor. The sum of $2 ,700 was, raised for campaign purposes. fiE^ERAI* THE SOUTH. A NUMBER of German claimants are try­ ing to establish their title to the lands of the Oolenoy Valley, in Oconee County, South Carolina. The lands are among the most valuable in the State, and contain rich min­ eral deposits. The claim of the Germans is based on grants said to have been made in 1790, and are resisted by over 1,000 present occupiers. GIDIERE, DAY & Co., cotton factors at New Orleans, have suspended, and ask an extension. Liabilities, $280,000: assets. $380,000. AN injunction was granted at Louisville restraining the removal df the headquarters of the Knights of Honor from Kentucky. General Sloat, Supreme officer of the order, says members need not feel alarmed, that death benefits will be paid regularly and business matters attended to The frig­ ate Constellation has sailed from An­ napolis for Hampton Roads, to repair her THE trial of T. C. Campbell, a criminal lawyer of Cincinnati, on charge of bribing a juror in a murder trial, resulted in a disa­ greement of the jury, seven of its members voting for conviction. The papers pre­ pared for his disbarment contain seventy charges. EMIGRANT passenger rates have been re­ duced on all the German„and English trans­ atlantic steamship lines to $15. The Na­ tional Line, it is reported, is selling tickets for $14 The decrease in the aggregate clearances of the twenty-five leading clear­ ing-houses of the United States in the last week, as compared with the aggregate for corresponding week last year, was 23.1 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was 10.9. OBITUABT: The Rev. Dr. Alexander J. Baird, of Nashville, Tenn., died suddenly at the Pt^rk Avenue Hotel. New York, while on his way to attend a meeting of the Pres­ byterian Alliance at Belfast, Ireland. He was in his 60th year. He had been a pas­ tor at Nashville since the close of the war. Col. J. G. Bayne, a Greenback leader in Kansas, who had lately been devoting his energies to the extension of the Fort Scott Road, died of heart disease in Wichita. Commander Samuel B. Gregory, U. S. N., died at Boston, Mass., aged 71. STATISTICS furnished by the customs officials of the various seaports indicate that Chicago, in the number of arrivals and departures, with only eight months of nav­ igation, is the greatest port in the United States. For the year 1883 her coastwise arrivals and clearances were 22,895, while ai]» the ocean seapqrts combined drily re­ ported 15,617 By the premature explo­ sion of a blast two Americans and twelve Mexican laborers were killed on the Tam- pico branch of the Mexican Central Rail­ road recently. One of the Americans killed was Mike Madigan, a well-known railroad contractor of St. Louis. THE Ohio Supreme Court rendered deci­ sions on the Scott law, declaring the second section of the act, providing for a lien on real estate tenanted by a liquor dealer, to cover the tax, unconstitutional, but refusing to say whether the entire statute is valid, claiming that that question has not been presented in the cases under consideration. THE Directors of the Rock Island Road report for the year ending with March gross earnings of $15,335,514 and a net income of $5,237,512. The capital stock is $41,950,- 800, and the bonded debt $17,500,000. WHILE a train on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Road was passing through the long tunnel near Magnolia, two strangers sprang upon a passenger with a couoling- pin. and knocked him under his seat. He struggled until the robbers leaped from the train, for fear of capture.... The Dominion Government has granted permission to the Canadian Pacific „ Road to carry Montana cattle over its line in bond. EOREICiX. DIN AMITE explosions at London caused widespread alarm and indignation. The police, says a cablegram, are completely baffled, and, for the first time in the history of great crimes in the metropolis, have not even a theory to offer. In fact, they find themselves to be a laughing stock. The public are becoming hourly more restive ^ ^ ^ and agitated over the apparent mcompe- huil, it having been found so rotten that Tt \ te,nce of.the Police- and the wildest schemes could not bold the rudder. WHILE towing a bark from New York in •the Mississippi the iron tug W. W. Wood suddenly careened and sunk, drowning the pilot and two other persons. 1 ABOUT 5,000 men assembled at Greens­ boro, N. C., to celebrate the completion of 130 miles of the Cape Fear and* Yadkin "Valley Railroad. Gov. Jarvis, Senator Vance, and Judge Gulmer delivered feV WASHINGTON. SENATOR ALLISON, Chairman of the Sen­ ate Appropriations Committee, says under no conditions will the Senate fix a In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies the Catholic party has now a majority of thirty-four At Vienna, Herr Bnkovies, lessee of the Stadt Theater, who, among severel others, was charged with having set fire to that building, was brought to trial. The case was concluded and Bukovies was found guilty of negligence in not more promptly taking steps to extinguish the flam en when the theater was found on fire. He was sentenced to a month's imprison­ ment and ordered to pay a fine of £15. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, editor of United Ire­ land, was fined £500 by a Dublin court for contemptuous comments on a libel suit brought bv Crown Solicitor Bolton.... Mapleson lias engaged Patti to sing in America next season. She is to receive $4,000 for each concert, and all her ex­ penses are to be paid An English ar­ tillery regiment mutinied at Glin, near Limerick, Ireland, and made a savage at­ tack on the townspeople, injuring several of them. Some arrests were made. CAMBODIA, on the coast of Africa, has passed under French control. The King will be a mere figurehead. He will have an annual allowance, however, which will probably compensate him for the otherwise empty honor or a Kingship.... The cable chronicles the demise of Dr. Droysen, professor of history in the University of Berlin. ADDITIONAL NEWS. ON representations of the Canadian Paci­ fic Road, Canadian customs rules will be relaxed so as to enable cattle from Montana to be shipped in bond to Montreal for ex­ port... .There were 187 failures in the United States the past week, against 184 the week before. FOUR negroes were killed at Albany. Ga., by the explosion of a boiler in Fields & Co.'s brickyard. GEN. MILES, commanding the District of the Columbia, has appointed an expedition to explore the Copper River, in Alaska, which is considered a dangerous undertak­ ing, as the Indians are exceedingly hostile. .... In Detroit a bolt of lightning wrecked the front portion of the residence of A. T. McReynolds and stunned six persons.... In the Circuit Court at Chicago, Edward F. Thomas and an accomplice were convicted of swindling a woman by trading her a warranty deed to lots to which they had no title. Thomas was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.... Because she was not given $2,000 insurance at the death of her mother, Miss Lizzie Bradley, of White Cloud, Kan., entered upon a fast forty-three days ago. She is now face to face with death, as her stomach revolts at everything offered. THREE Italian workmen have been ar­ rested at Vienna for stealing dynamite from the Government arsenal... .A number of pins and revolvers have been discovered buried in the earth near Cork, Ireland. It is supposed they were concealed there by Fenians. An informer is supposed to have given information concerning their loca­ tion. EX-SENATOR S. C. POMEROT, of Kan­ sas, has been nominated for President of the United States by the American (Anti- Secret Society) party. John A. Coutant, of Willimantic, Conn., is the nominee for Vice President. The platform adopted by the convention at Chicago demands the pro­ hibition of the manufacture and sale of in­ toxicating drinks; that the charters of all secret lodges granted by Federal or State Legislatures should be withdrawn; that land and other monopolies should be dis­ couraged; and the abolition of electoral colleges and a direct vote for President and Vice President of the United States. KIRALFT BROTHERS' great spectacle, "Ex­ celsior, " continues to be the attraction at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. It is a nota­ ble production, some of the most pleasing effects being introduced. fFhe pantomimic work is good, in several instances highly commendable. Mile. Nani and Sig. Ettore. Coppini being really admirable in the intel­ ligence and cleverness and force of theii respective performances. The ballet fig­ ures indicate a great deal of study and pains in discipline, though it is difficult to con­ trol the 382 people employed on the stage. IN the Senate, June 20, a favorable report was made on the bill to amend the act relating to the immediate transportation of dutiable googp.. The credentials of Ephraim K. Wilson as Senntor-elect from Maryland was presented. The Mexican pensions bill was debated at con­ siderable length, but no actio i was reached. The House, in the Ohio contested elec­ tion case of Campbell versus Morey, decided to seat the former, and he were duly sworn. Bills were passed to reduce the clr ar- ance fees ievied upon vessels engaged in domes­ tic commerce, and to forieit the unearned land srrant of the Sioux City and St. Paul-Kali read Company. The Judiciary Committee reported in favor of appropriating for the relief of ex- 8en;eant-at-Arms Thompson the amount of the judgment received l>y Hallet Kilbourne. of reprisals against Irish agitators are mooted. The appointment of local vigi­ lance committees on the American Western plan is seriously discussed in some hitherto very conservative quarters. ELECTION agents throughout Great Britain expect an early dissolution of Par­ liament, and are making arrangements ac- ocrdingly... .The marriage of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and the Grand Duke Sergius occurred at St. Petersburg ... Prince Krapotkine's liberation from Clair - vaux prison. France, July 14, is assured. The Prinoess is permitted free entrance to her husband's cell, and passes whole days assisting him in his literary work.... A large meeting of Orangemen was held at Belfast, Ireland. Resolutions were adopted de- .<•»«; .U the appro- priation bills are signed. He does not think there is any possibility that the business before Congress will be completed before July 15. A CIRCULAR addressed to the foreign representatives by Dr. Carlos Zaremba pro­ poses the celebration of the discovery of America, 400 years ago, by a universal ex­ position at the capital of Mexico, and the erection of a colossal statue of Columbus upon the spot selected by an international committee, upon a base of stones contrib­ uted by the nations of the world which have since the discovery of America taken part in its colonization, civilization, and progress... .J. H. McKenney, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, was stripped of $61,000 by the colkmse of Mid­ dleton's bank at Washington. Envelopes in which he had left securities in their safe «N*e cot open and the contents abstracted. •v » '• ---z ' ' ' POLITICAL not to attempt to carry out his intention of visiting Ulster. * AT a balloon ascension in Bordeaux, a French soldier fired at George W. Roose­ velt, the American Consul. The bullet passed through his hat, contusing his head and knocking him over. It is believed that the assailant mistook his victim for an officer in citizens' dress.... On the entrance of Duke Sergius into St. Petersburg, householders were forbidden to admit strangers to their residences, under stern penalties. .. .El Mahdi has appointed one of his subordinates Governor of Don- gola, and threatens to annihilate any Turk­ ish force that may be sent against him. BRITISH officials in Egypt credit the state­ ment of an Arab from Berber that the rebels, on May 23, massacred two thousand male citizens and fifteen hundred men of the garrison, but spared the women and children... .The Pope has instructed the Papal agent at Brussels to open negotia- | tions for the establishment of diplomatic ! Vatican and Bel- LVMINOUS plants have a peculiar charm to the grower and observer. One of the best is Fraxinella, or gas plant. It is an old favorite, perfectly hardy, a perennial of the very easiest culture, and should be in every garden. In the calm summer evenings, when in bloom, a light applied to the base of the stalk will envelop the whole plant in flame. This can be repeated time and again, and, it appears, with benefit to the ripening seed. This property was dis­ covered by Linnams. The flowers are white or red, and are very fine. A GIRL named Price, six feet three inches tall, was married in Oregon the other day. She came high, but he would have her at any Price. THE Texas Democratic State Convention ! relations between the •elected as delegates at large to Chicago, i ginm Theebaw, King of Burmah, has Gov. Hubbard, D. C. Gidding, Thomas J. i poisoned his Queen and her mother and » . T , t» t? x. i i marned the Queen s sister. Brown, and John P. 8r «th. Before the i . . , , ,. , declination of Mr. Tilden ^ade known epidemic, believed to be the bujxmic the delegates were instructed for the old ! plague. has broken out in a village along the Ifeltet; but subsequently a resolution was ] right bank of the Tigris River near Bagdad. THE WORK OF CONGRESS. What Is Being Done by the Hational Legislature. THERE was no session of the Senate on the 14th. The House devoted its session to consid­ eration of the amendments Simile by the 8?nate to the postofflcc bill. By a vote of 126 to 95 it was agreed to make the appropriation for spe­ cial mail facilities on the trunk lines $250,000. A motion to increase to $4,300,000 the item for rail­ way postoffice clerks was lost, and the House in­ sisted on disaifreement with the Senate. IN the Senate, June 16, Mr. Ingalls created a breeze py charring that Mr. Brown had In­ serted in the official report of the latter's speech on the Georgia claim words which were not used in the debate. Bills were reported to in­ crease to &tco,tioo the appropriation tor a pnbllo building at Erie, and to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether the Union and Central Pacific Koads have guaranteed interest on bonds other than those specifically authorized by Congress or have issued new stock in violation of said act. Interesting debates took place on Mr. Butler's resolution for an investigation of the banks of New York and on the Utah bill. In the House, bills were introduced to give to every honorably discharged soldier or sailor 1C0 acres of land, and tor the erection of a home for union and confederate soldiers at Denver. The Committee on Elections reported in favor of admitting Mr. Morey from the Seventh Ohio District. Mr. Deuster pre­ sented a measure to punish the prosecution of fraudulent claims against foreign governments by tine and imprisonment. An evening session was held to consider the deficiency appi epila­ tion bill. IN the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Brown stigi matized the recent remarks of Mr. Installs as a de­ li berate insult, and contended that Senators were always accorded an opportunity to revise their remarks before being printed in the official proceedings. Mr. Ingalls retorted that all he had said in regard to interpolation might be con­ strued as the Senator from Georgia chose. A joint resolution was passed to lease to the Michigan Fish Commissioners a strip of land adjoining St. Mary's Falls Canal. Mr. Sherman argued against the wisdom of ordering an investigation into the condi­ tion of the banks of New York, but suggested a stringent law prohibiting bank officers other than directors from engaging in speculative operations. The house, by 1W to 61, agreed to the conference report on ti;e bill for the relief ot Fitz John Porter, providing that he shall receive no compensation for the period since his dis­ missal. The deficiency appropriation bill was passed, the chair ruling out a proposition by Mr. Randall against i>olitical assessments. A bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acts in relation to the survey of lauds was passed. IN the Senate, June 18, after the reading oj the journal, which contained an allusion to the Fits John Porter bill, the Chair stated that no further action on that bill was necessary than to have the action announced to the Senate. A debate ensued as to whether the provision relat­ ing to back pay secured the object iu view, which was ended by the Chair laying before the Senate a message of the House of Representa­ tives announcing the concurrence of that body in the report of the conference committee, which recommended that the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment ot the Senate and agree to the same. [1 his action takes the Porter bill back to the House of Rep­ resentatives as finally passed, so far as the ac­ tion of Congress is condffned.] By a vote of 33 to 15 the Utah bill was then passed. The bill embodies many suggestions offered by the Utah Commission and by District Attorney Van Tile, and is Intended to afford some means by which polygamy can be punished. It compels wives to testify against their husbands as to the fact of marriage, and declares children born in polygamy illegitimate. In the House a further conference was ordered on the postoffice bill, and Messrs. Townshend, Holman, and Horr were appointed conferrees on the part of the House. The remainder of the day was spent in coasidering a bill to extend the pro virions of the Thnrman act to the Kan­ sas Pacific, the Sionx City and Pacific, and the Central branch of the Union Pacific Road. It requires the Union and Central Pacific Com­ panies to pay annually into the sinking fund $2,000,000 each, with lesser amounts for the smaller lines. IN the Senate, June IP, when the Mexican pension bill came up, Mr. Beck said the amend­ ments proposed would, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Pensions, involve an outlay of $246,000,000. The House of Representativec passed the Pacific Railroad bill, with the amend­ ment to make the Central Pacific Road pay year­ ly into the treasury 53 per cent, of its net earn­ ings. The bill to prohibit the importation ol aliens unjkr labor contracts was passed without divf " " js. The b ensnnflpr 1 THE MARKET. NEW YORK. BEKVKS $ 6,50 M T.FIO HOOS 6.60 US 7.00 FLOUB--Extra 3.00 & a.30 WHEAT--NO. 2 Chicago 07 & .98 No. 2 Red 1.02 & 1.03 COBX--No. 2 White .62 @ .63 OATS--White 38 @ .45 POKE--Mess 16.60 @17.00 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. 6.60 & 7.00 Fair to Good 6.76 & 6.25 Butchers' 6.00 <«5 5.73 HOOS... 6.50 0 6.00 FliOUli--Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 & 6.75 Good to Choice Spring.- 4.60 & 5.2-< WHEAT--No. 2 Hurinv 88 .ao No. 2 Red Winder. <& .95 COBX--No. 2 6* <«i .66'"j OATH--NO. 2 32 QFI .33 ltVE--No. 2 .64 <<*> .60 IUKI.EV--No. 2. .62 m .«5 •BUTTEB--Choice Creamery...... .10 @> .20 Fine Dairv .14 ©) .15 CHEESE--Full Cream. 08 & .«*» Hkimmed Flat .03 & .05 Eo(;s--Frexh .15 & .16 POTATOES--New, per l>rl 8.50 & 4-25 PORE--Mesa 19.2J T«l»75 LABU .07J*IFL> .08 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Red 91 c? .00 COBN--No. 2 .56 <G .6s OATH--No. 2 •* • .37 MILWAUKEE WHEAT--No. 2 -H& @ COISN--No. 2 .86 .57 OATS--No. 2 -32 <9 -3A BAKLEY--No. 1..... i. .60 <f? .62 POKE--Mess .....v........... 1».2J <SW.7.v LAISU . 7.60 & 8.00 ST. ,uOUl&, WHEAT--No. 2 Red 1.02 & 1.05 COBN--Mixed. .62 & .63 OATS--No. 2 Jil & .82 RYE. .66 & .67 PORE--Mess 18.00 G$18.76 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 3 Red 1.01 @ 1.0a CORN. 67 . <?6 .58 OATS--Mixed 34 & .3G PORK--Mess 17.60 W18.00 LABD 07!I>@ .08 DETROIT. FLOUR 6.60 ® 7. , WHEAT--No. 2 Red 1.04 & L.OE CORN--No. 2 .55 19 .56 OATS--No. 2 White 85 # .36 POBK--Mess ?. 19.60 @20.00 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red 04 0 .96 CORN--Mixed..... 61 €» -63 OATS--Mixed 33 9 .33 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best 6.00 #0.50 Fair. 6.60 <TT E.25 Common................ 3*76 <g9 4.25 Hoos. ; . . 6 . 6 0 @6.00 SHEEP 3.75 @ 4.2s Why He Was Thankful. The disposition of some men to look on the bright side of everything was il­ lustrated cn a far Western road. An old gentleman had been an attentive listener to the somewhat remarkable ex­ periences of his fellow-travelers, break­ ing into the culmination of each anec­ dote with a pious ejaculation of praise for some redeeming incident in the sub­ ject under discussion. Finally they got to setting matters up on the man, and telling stories in which it was hard for him to find anything to be grateful for* But he managed to get there each trip, until the boys were nearly at their wits' end. "But one of the worst I ever heard of," commenced one, winking at his companions to look for a smasher, "really the worst, was on the Savannah and Pensacola Boad, in 1842. We ran into a coal train, and not a soul es­ caped. No, not a soul! Every one was killed !M There was a moment's pause, and every one looked at the old man to see how he would take it, "Thank heaven!" he exclaimed fervent­ ly, "thank heaven!" '"What for," de­ manded the relator of the story, "what are you thanking heaven for now?" "To think you were killed by that train!" ejaculated the old gentleman, rolling up his eyes. "If you had been spared, what a liar you would have been by the time you reached your present age! Thank heaven for that disaster!" And, after that, the boys let him alone.--Gerjnantown Tele­ graph. Hadn't Come. "Is Mr. Rackville in?" asked a man, entering an office and addressing a lazy* looking fellow. "No." "Has he been in to-day?" "No; hasn't come around." *When do you think he will come?" "Have no idea." The man went away and about two hours later again entered the office. "Has Mr. Backville come yet?" 'No; haven't seen him." My business with him is very impor­ tant and should he come before I return wish you'd tell him that Gen. Maley has called." "All right." Several hours afterward the General called uguin. "Has ne been here?" "No, sir." "Well, I don't see what's keeping him away. He wrote me that he would be in his office by 9 o'clock." "Perhaps he's there." ; "What! isn't this his office?" "No, sir." "Why in thunder didn't you tell me?" "Why in lightning didn't you adk." "You are a fool." "I'm all right. You are a fool." "Blamed if I don't believe you are right. Let's go over here and take --Arkorusaw Traveler. THE WASHINGTON BANES. Ml̂ dletoB A Co.'* Failure Wone v Anticipated--Extraordinary \ Disclosures. ̂ [Washington special.] bank failures hereafelfoiaa than had been anticipated. The filing of a bill for an injunction against the private banking house of Squiers & Co. has resulted in -the disclosure of some peculiar facts. When the writ was served yesterday a meet­ ing of creditors was being held at the bank, and Judge Edmunds, a District Commissioner, was endeavoring to explain to the creditors that a small safe in the office was his private property, which he had stored there because he had not room for it at his house. This circumstance, to­ gether with many others, has given rise to the rumor that Judge Edmunds is a partner in this enterprise. The cashier is reported to have said that the small safe contains army and navy vouchers. Judge Edmunds denies that he has any connection with the firm. Squiers' business consisted almost exclusively in loaning money to clerks and army and navy officers at excessive rates of interest. Home extraordinary disclosures are being made as to the Middleton failure. The Evening Star has she following; One of the latest developments of the way in which their customers were plun­ dered is shown in the case of James H. Mc­ Kenney, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. McKenney had been the close friend from boyhood of D. W. Middleton, Jr., and succeeded Mr. Middle- ton, Sr., as Clerk of the court/ and his con­ fidence was therefore unbounded in Mid­ dleton, Jr. His deposits in securities and money with the firm amounted to the large sum of $61,000, every dollar of which M lost. They not only took his money in the general default, but cut open the envelopes in which he had placed his securities, such as bonds and stocks, for safe-keeping, and sold them. Mr. McKenney has nothingbutthe plundered en­ velopes to show for the savings of a life­ time, though part of this amount belonged to the court. In another instance $10,000 in trust bonds have disappeared in the whirlpool. There is still another aggravat­ ed case. They had power of attorney from a man of means absent from the city to at­ tend to his business here, and had the key to his safe. On hearing of their failure this gentleman hurried to the city to look after his own securities. He found that every one had been sold. His safe was not in the Middleton bank. Gen. Frank Morey, of Louisiana, one of the committee of credit­ ors, loses about $19,000. Lost at Sea. [Philadelphia telegram."! The brig G. P. Sherwood, of St. John, N. B., arrived at this port May 2 from Bar­ bados with a cargo of sugar. As the West India trade was dull, it was thought advis­ able to send her with a cargo of 600 tons of anthracite coal, valued at $2,400, to Halifax, N. S. While the Sherwood was lying here Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the captain, came on from St. John and decided to go home on the vessel. June 6 the vessel failed, having on board ten persons all told, consisting of Capt. Robert D. Taylor, his wife and brother, Daniel Taylor, first mate Dorson Stevens, a second mate name unknown, Steward George Gittiffe (colored), seaman Nicolas McMullan and Joseph Nicholson, the latter living at 139 Huntingdon, Philadelphia, and two other seamen names unknown. No tidings were heard of her until to-day, when the mate, Dorson Stevens, arrived at New York on the Spanish bark Rafael, and reported that the Sherwood foundered at sea the night of June 14, and all were lost except himself, who took to a boat and was picked up the next day by the bark Rafael. The Sher­ wood was a double-decked brig, of 400 tons register, and was built at Bockland, N. B., in 1870. Two Hen Burned and a Theater De­ stroyed. A special telegram from Leadville, Colo., says: About 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the Zoo Theater, a three-story brick building on State street, and spread with such rapidity that the whole building, with three or four frame houses, was de­ stroyed before the flames could be controlled. During the conflagration two; firemen, named J. W. Mullory and Charles Sawyer, were caught by a falling wall. Sawyer was with difficulty rescued from his peril­ ous position after being badly burned, and he will probably die. Mallory perished in the ruins, and his charred body was found about 8 o'clock this morning. A miner named M*cCune was also caught by falling walls and burned to death. His body was recovered about noon to-day. The build­ ing originally cost about $46,000. The to­ tal loss is about $75,000, with little or no insurance. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Four Fishermen Drowned. [Portland (Oregon) dispatch.] A special from Astoria, Oregon, states that four men engaged in salmon-fishing were drowned near Columbia River and swept out by the tide to the open sea and lost. The loss of life by drowning among fishermen this season has been very heavy. The season is not much more than half over, and it is estimated that between thirty and forty have been carried out to sea and perished. Many have been lost and no re­ port ever made of the accident. CLIPPINGS. A Silence Sent For. A golden-haired Silence put its head in at a door. "Did you send for me?" "Of course I didn't," replied a man in a long apron. "A messenger boy said somebody along here wanted to see me." "Well, 'twan't me; I'm a barber. May be it was the merchant next door. I heard him gay he was going to quit advertising." THE first woman settler of Cosmopolis, W. T., will get a premium of $100. THERE are thirty professional fortune­ tellers in Chicago. IT costs not less than $33,000,000 anna- ally to support the dogs of the United States. THERE is a boy in Detroit who rejoices in the name of Bjoernstjerne Bjoerson Bjones. QI'EEN VICTORIA is about to have a life- size bronze statue of John Brown placed in the hall at Balmoral. THREE HUNDRED pounds of honey was obtained from a bee-tree recently cut near Chehalis, Montana. AMONG the brass bands that participated in the semi-centennial in Rochester, N. Y., was the Salamanca Indian brass band. IT is reported that Kate Field intends to bo cremated after death, and is already ne­ gotiating for an urn in which to preserve her ashes. THE late Gen. Babcock left a neat little fortune of about a quarter of a million, in­ cluding $1( 0,< 00 wcr.'h of Florida lands, and life insurance amounting to $3(!,0C0. A PARTY of men digging in the bed of a dry pond near Americus, Ga., found a live alligator at the depth of seven feet. It was eight feet long and was in a torpid condi­ tion. MRS. J. R. HAWLEY is described as one of the most remarkable women of the day. When her husband went to the war she went to the hospital to nurse soldiers, and remained there through the conflict. COMPLAINT is made in several Maine vil­ lages that the number of robins and other birds that annually return to build their nests is constantly growing less. Various causes are given, among which are cats and small boys. TWENTY-EIGHT years ago Henry Clark, of Hawkinsville, Ga., put a catfish in his well, and it has grown from two inches in length to sixteen. Every year when the well is cleaned the fish is carefully caught and replaced after the cleaning. IN Zacatlan, Mexico, a Peddlers' Protec­ tive Association is being formed. a RUSH TO DEATHS k CSwpeh Excursion and an Accommo­ dation Train Meet in TerriUe Collision. the Bailway EntpkyeaJEPii. and a Number of Persona Woonded. [Philadelphia telegram.] There was a crash on the Camden and At­ lantic Railroad this morning. Two trains came together with terrible force. Eight people were killed, and of the dozen or more wounded several will probably die. At 8:30 a train of three cars left Camden, N. J., for Lakeside with children from the Second Presbyterian Church on an excur­ sion. At 7 o'clock an accommodation train of seven cars left Atlantic City for Camden and Philadelphia. The trains should have passed at Ashland Station. Superintendent Bannard sent a telegram to the operator at Ashland to hold the accommodation on a side track there until the excursion had passed. Somehow the accommodation got by Ashland, and about a mile this side rushed headlong into the excursion train. "I was sitting in the smoker of the ac­ commodation," said James Anderson, of Atco, N. J., "when I heard the shrill whistle of a locomotive, which was followed by similar signals from' another locomotive close by. I thought that something was wrong, and I immediately jumped to my feet. At that instant the air-brake was ap­ plied. and the movement of the train was brought to a stop so suddenly and with such force as to throw me down 011 the floor of the car. I quickly regained my feet, and on glancing around I found that all the other passengers, of whom there, were about twenty in the car, had also been thrown out of their seats. This-was all the work of a few seconds, and was followed by a terri­ ble crash as the two trains came together. The smoking-car was the third from the locomotive, and was pretty well used up. After the collision occurred we all scram­ bled out of the car, some escaping by the windows. Both locomotives were com­ pletely demolished by the collision, and the escaping steam made it impossible for some time for any one to approach within fifty feet of the wreck. " Great excitement existed among the people in the two trains, especially among the women and children composing the ex­ cursion train. The sight presented after the accident occurred was a terrible one. The train-hands and the male passengers Were running to and fro, so much excited that they were unable to render any assist­ ance to the injured and dying." As soon as partial quiet had been restored the uninjured went to the assistance of the wounded. Fireman Nicholas Barber was taken ont dead, with his entrails protruding. Mail Agent Winfiela Hiles was, with Sreat difficulty, gotten out. He was lying eep under the debris, and it was some time before he was discovered. He was heard to call "Here I am." and was thus found. When gotten out he could not give much account of himself, as he was terribly in­ jured internally, and died in a short time. Frank Fenton, the surveyor of the road, who was on the train, was taken out after about two hours' work, mangled in a terri­ ble manner. Both engineers were killed. Conductor Albert Smith and the brake- man, Gustavus Edwards, of the Lakeside train, were taken out dead. Smith was counting his tickets in the front car. It Was nearly an hour and a half after the accident before medical attendance was gotten on the ground. The most affecting thing of the affair was the fact that the daughter of Civil Engineer Fenton was on the excur­ sion train. She looked for her father and was told that he was safe and had gone ahead to flag the trains. She then waited and walked to Haddonfield. In a few minutes after she had gone her father was taken out of the ruins, his head almost flat­ tened where it had been crushed. The point where the collision occurred is considered the worst on the line. It is about two miles from Haddonfield, and one mile from Ashland, with a heavy down grade and curve in both directions. In the middle of the curve is a wooden bridge over Cooper's Creek. There is only a single track on the curve, with a light embank­ ment on either side. The accommodation was running at the rate of twenty-two miles an hour when it entered the curve. Tom Campbell--Will He Be Disbarred! 1 [Special from Cincinnati.] | The disagreement of the jury in the T. G. Campbell bribery case is almost as disas­ trous to the defendent as a verdict of guilty would have been. What Mr. Campbell wanted was a vindication. Nothing short of a verdict of not guilty quickly returned would have placed him upon his feet again. Since the riot his law practice has greatly declined, and business which v as in his hands before the riot has some of it been withdrawn. Clients have been afraid to leave their business in his hands because the prejudice against him is so strong that he is in danger of losing cases which other attorneys would have no trouble at all in gaining. Under such circumstan­ ces a complete vindication was absolutely necessary. With much buncombe he (Mr. Campbell) called upon Judge Matthews, who sat in the notorious Berner trial, for an investigation. He thought the matter would be placed in the hands of some committee. Judge Matthews referred the matter to the entire Common Pleas bench, and the inves­ tigation was placed in the hands of a special Grand Jury made up of prominent business men. Mr. Campbell, instead of being whitewashed by a committee, was indicted for alleged attempt to bribe a juror. His hope then lay in the fact that the prosecuting witness, a saloon­ keeper, whom he had once defended for murder, would give testimony which, com­ ing from such a man, would have little weight with the jury. The precautions were taken, however, to overcome what the man Gabe might say on the stand. First two attorneys (one of them an employe of Mr. Campbell's office) were found to take the stand and swear that Mr. Campbell no­ tified the State's Attorney that Gabe was a client of his, and hence ineligible as a juror, in the forenoon of the day Gabe alleges the attempt to bribe him was made, between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock. The second precaution was the call­ ing to the stand of Charles H. Da­ vis, a voung distiller, who swore he was with Mr. Campbell when the conversation with Gabe occurred, and that nothing of the character Gabe charges was said. The de­ fense as to the point of time was completely broken down by the State by the introduc­ tion'of sixteen "men who were summoned to sit upon the Berner jury, and who all testi­ fied that they were not called into the box until after the noon recess, instead of the forenoon as the two lawyers had sworn. Gabe's testimony was to the same effect. The State then attacked the testimony of Davis by introducing nearly a dozen dis­ tillers and revenue officers, who testified that his reputation for veracity was bad. The jury stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. It is stated that proceedings to disbar Mr. Campbell will be brought this week by a committee appointed by the bar association. Mr. Campbell has been practicing law in this city for fourteen years. He gradually organized his forces and became the most successful man in the community. He controlled political conventions and plnced his tools in powerful places. He then hid the machinery of justice largely under control, and desperate men, whom he had saved from the penitentiary, did his bid­ ding. His defense of Beiner caused the riot and his fall. MEXICO is afflicted with a laige number of female counterfeiters. IKE BUZZARD CAUGHT. The Tenor of Pennsylvania Prison by Chioago Offloers. [Special from Chicago.] "Halloo, Ike," was the exclamation Offioers Mclnerney and McKeough as theyl discovered a sallow-faced, slender youngI man standing in front of Forepaugh's cir- f ens at the corner of State and Twenty- second streets. A dense crowd surged! about the young man, eager to gain ad- ] mittance to the tent, but their progress was | stopped for a moment at least. "lou are Ike Buzzard, the outlaw," con­ tinued the police, "and we want you come with us." B«£h officers placed hands I on Buzzard and moved him off to the Hwenty-second Street Station. The-| prisoner seemed dazed, as if unable to com­ prehend what had befallen him. Fori several minutes he said nothing, but walkedJ quietly along with his captors. In appear­ ance he seemed very unlike the typical des- perado. He was thin and emaciated, an<T iwore a suit of faded summer clothes. In I height he was a trifle over 5 feet 5 inches, and | weighed only 125 pounds. Yet the cap­ tive has the reputation of being a second Jesse James, in all the qualities of daring^ and reckless desperation. A chean slouch hat concealed his closely cut white hair, and, tilting back on his neck, with the rim turned up in front, allowed a good view of his countenance. It was a wasted, blood­ less face, with thin lips, long jaws, long, slender nose, and eyes that shone with & strange brilliancy. Presently Buzzard re­ covered his composure. A smile over- Spread his face, and he merely remarked: "Well, I guess you have me right; but it was a mean trick to give me away." The words were delivered in a weak, drawling tone of voice, as if the speaker •was unwell. With greater emphasis. how- Sever, he continued: "It was that hound, Pat Doyle, who gave me away. We were iin jail together at Lancaster, Pa., eight years ago, and I shook his hand on the street to-day." As soon as Buzzard was locked up word was telegraphed to the Governor of Penn­ sylvania, where a reward of $500 has been offered for his capture. ! For the past six years the midland' counties in Pennsylvania have been at the mercy of the notorious Buzzard boys. There were six boys in the family." Under the leadership of Abbe Buzzard, the elder, they achieved a reputation in the East only a trifle inferior to the James and Younger brothers in the West. Abe and Ike, the desperadoes of the family, were house-breakers and highwaymen. They terrorized over the district in which they lived, and, though outlawed several years ago, none of their neighbors had the courage to divulge their hiding place. They were raised on the Walsh Mountains, some ten miles outside of Lancaster, where innn- merable caves and fissures in the rocks af­ forded them places of concealment. Time and again they have been sought by a sher­ iff's posse, but the 'movements of the latter became so well known to the outlaws that they were easily enabled to evade arrest. They defied the local authorities and two or three times managed to escape from the State militia. Ike was captured less than three years ago, and sentenced to ten years in the jail at Lancaster for housebreaking. He served some two years when his brother Abe was arrested. Abe occupied a cell in another corridor from Ike. The latter had a num­ ber of singing-birds in his cell, and one day induced a keeper of the jail to take one of the birds to his brother. The keeper forgot to close Ike's cell door, and in a mo­ ment he was on the outside. He locked up the keeper in the cell of his brother, and then went about the work of releasing his friends. Another keeper was deprived of his liberty, and the two Buzzards with ten other convicts made their way to the outside. They reached the- outskirts of Lancaster, and at the Conestoga bridge separated, six going one way and six another. Ike took to the mountains, fol­ lowed by the Sheriff and fifty men, and, after concealing himself one night, made for Fredouia, N. Y. Here he was harbored by his brother-in-law for another day, and then he made for Iowa. Since then Buzzard has tramped over Iowa, stopping at Council Bluffs and other towns, and picking up an odd sort of living the best way he could. He denies having committed any serious crime in Iowa, but grinned knowingly when asked how he con­ trived to live there. He arrived in Chicago from Clinton without a cent in his pocket. Soon after he chanced upon his old prison friend, Doyle. The latter, he claims, pointed him out to the police. He visited the circus, he said, to better his fortune, and was dumfounded at his arrest. Paid with His Life. [Sandwich (Ont.) telegram.] Luke Phipps was hanged here this morn­ ing for the murder of his wife last August. Only a few people witnessed the execution, and Phipps, who behaved coolly throughout the proceedings, addressed them briefly. When the trap fell a few minutes after 10, the murderer's neck was broken, and it is believed he died almost instantly. As soon as his heart ceased to beat physicians made experiments with a galvanic battery, but although they succeeded in making the breast heave, no sign of a heart-beat was observable. Phipps, who was a Detroit bar-tender, had been separated from his wife, and on Aug. 19, while c..ized with liquor, met her on the steamer Hope while crossing from Detroit to Windsor. He at once drew a re­ volver and shot her three times, the woman dying before she reached the Canadian shore. After a desperate struggle the mur­ derer was overpowered and lodged in jail at Sandwich, but escaped Nov. 22, in company* with another murderer, and made his way to Pullman, 111. He was arrested at the lat­ ter place, and made every effort to avoid ex­ tradition, but the adverse decision of Com­ missioner Hoyne was sustained by Attor­ ney General Brewster, and Phipps was re-- turned to Sandwich in April. He was tried and sentenced on the same day, the juiy be­ ing out about half an hour. Not a Natural Death. [Reading (Pa.) dispatch.1 Considerable excitement was caused here when it was learned that Hon. Hiester Clymer, ex-member of Congress from this district, and who was buried from his resi­ dence on Perkimen avenue, had caused his death by his own band, and had" not died a natural death, as given out by his family and friends. It is said financial reverses while in the iron business led him to suicide. He drew up his will two weeks ago, leaving everything to his wife. Physicians walked him up and down the rooms all night, having relays of men, and the stomach pump was used from midnight until six in the morning. His wife, mean­ while, was going into hysterics every few minutes. Clymer died in terrible agony. Strong efforts were made to keep the matter quiet, but the Coroner was notified this af­ ternoon, and the body may yet be raised and an inquest held. Mrs. Clymer is lying very low from the shock, and will hardly recover. Deceased was a member of Con­ gress for ten years, the Democratic candi­ date for Governor in 1866, being defeated by Gen. Geary, and was for many years en- 5 in the iron business. HERE AND THERE. THERE are 2,000 school-teachers in Ark­ ansas, 800 of whom are colored. Two MORE Maine towns, Dover and Fox- croft, have returned to local time. A LOCISVILLE (Ky.) man worth $50,000 left only $1 to his wife in his will. BEAUMONT, Tex., gives $10 to any citi­ zen digging a well for fire purposes. 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