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1. VAN SLYKE, E«T*r «M PMIMMS P. BPABOO, Postmaster at Clarion, Pa., being short la his accounts, shot himself the heart Charles Briggs, who, While drank, murdered his wife in g. njpgj brutal manner two years hanged at Philadelphia.... who thinks he can beat n Yankee din Boston counterfeit $ao pieces, weighing only 2!W« grains, composition is similar to that of silver coins, and they are gilded by a battery A pugilistic ©n- place on the platform of a ' - " nUrosd depot at Titusville, Pa., between li, ,th« Rev. C. A. Babcock, pastor of the First i. BaptistjChnreh in that town and the Hon. H" j|. X. Perrin, senior deacon. The fracas 2'•""' was the result of a dispute concerning r^'v ichnrch matters. EKIE Railway employes are excited over the finding at Hornellsville, N. Y., of the Upper part of a human arm in the fire-box V- |>f a locomotive The paraffine factory of tT. li. Marc, at Elizabethport, N. J., was de- Wtroyed by fire. Loss, foOfl.OOO; no insur- «noe In the Lunatic Asjrlnm of Essex : Conner, New Jersey, one inmate beat out V • • • 8w brains of another with a heavy spittoon, • • • , because he desired him to go to heaven. -" OeB. Grant has improved sufficiently to j K/#&e hominy and beef. A consultation of " Njutgeons decided that it was mechanically possible to remove the growth in his throat, Mt resolved not to recommend the pro- •edure. The Philadelphia Medical Aeira •tales that the malady from which the ex- ' President suffers, as a rule, speedily ter- •tinates fatally, and that the duration of |}ie life of those who survive an operation ' ' averages nineteen months. REV. ELI AS BRAT, who said he was or­ dered from heaven to kill the new Presi- Amt, was taken from the Brooklyn Insane $ ' Asylam nnd shipped for England by the | Charity Commissioners... .The corporation /. of Yale College has appointed a committee from its number to make a prospectus of (he needs of the college as to funds and building, with a view to expanding the in­ stitution into a full university. As a result, no colored man lad ever prac­ ticed law in the State. A NEW8FAPEB from Jaelcson County, West Virginia, reports the organization of destitute farmers in the vicinity of Staats' Mill to cMopftl an equal division of what food remains in the region, in order to save the lives of people and stock. The Com­ mittee of Public Safety took fifty bushels of wheat from some barm for 'disiribu- tion.... Mrs. Itouit Bender, of Louisville, Ky.. learning that Geo. McClury, her be­ trothed, had transferred his attentions to Miss Jennie Beard, went to Miss Beard's house, drew a pistol and fired, the ball tak­ ing effect in Miss Beard's side. She then ran down the street until overtaken by a policeman. Her victim cannot recover.... A heavy snow-storm prevailed in Virginia and North Carolina March 18. From six to ten inches fell. WASHineim >HEWE»t. " THEwmferience held at St. Louis by the (leveraors, Railway Commissioners, and At- ;'v tsnmy Generals of Kansas and Missonr ; » recommended that the Missouri Pacific ^ 5 Boad restore wages to the striking employes without prejudice. Notice is, therefore, f givenby Vice Presidents Hayes and Hoxie that old rates will be paid, and will not be changed except on thirty days' notice. MAJ. FRANK. NORTH, a famous Indian ? . ,),t Spout, died at Columbus, Neb. , 4 , Ton FITZSIMMONS, William Stanwood, Ipd Fred Esser, charged with grand Icctsy, and • Tom Dorval with selling , . mortgaged property, escaped from the * v Uounty Jail at Lincoln, Neb., by removing : || large stone and digging under the bars t,|ketween the cage and the lower corridor, I . FRAXK BOKHAM, charged with the mnr- . 4er of his mother, brother, and si star, was taken from jail at Independence, Kan., and hanged to the railway trestle-work... .An "J Omaha hotel was the 6cene of the murder * r' Of Henry Vorpoten. a barkeeper, bv Thos. - Ballard, well k nown as a hotel ranner, who * 1 ttsflim intoxicated. • Two OFFICKBS at Springer, New Mexico, )f*;*, • j |Md a fight with three desperadoes, and the latter were killed. . Friends of the roughs . Ajt threaten to attack the town, and troops have M fcen ordered out from Fort Unidn An :^MpiBen switch at Monroe, Wis., on the St. *Kil Bead, wrecked nineteen cars, their ; ^ contents being scattered in all directions. f _ 4hke man lost his life. „ * A COITFLAGRATION in the city of Tshpem- •' Ing, in Northern Michigan, consumed the jpostoftce, the pnblie library, ten stores "" *nd other property The Supreme Court !% : ?•?!>€ Iowa has unanimously decided that yj^reiy provision of the Prohibitory law is stitutionaL The Circuit Court at Des les holds that the Governor has power ' take possession of the Auditor's office lid place some person in charge Ernest lish, an aged German, who for thirteen i had lived in a hut at West Bay City, was found frozen to death on the id, with his door-key in his hand. A jlog at his side permitted no one to touch "lie corpse. KALKASKA, Mich., reported a tempera- f" * " fure of 44 below zero on the 18th inst. At Ignace the mercury registered 10 below. **' *.. .On a farm near Elkhart, Ind.. nn insane c.jfaan named William Hubbell shot his wife , I'^ly then killed himself... .Thomas Olfflpson, an Englishman of liberal educa- * pon, belonging to a leading family of Bir- • ;>i • faingham. was sent to the United States to fheck his intemperate habits. He worked fora time at Youngstown, Ohio, as a coach- v Z pian, but in a despondent moment killed ilimself with morphine. "!L THE Captain of the Governor's Guards, .'•".r^'itDes Moines, quietly placed a dozen uni- . V • .forms and muskets in the Capitol at night. • ! £leven members of the organization were gathered at the Chovernors office in the psorning, and the doors of the Auditor's room were opened with the butts of . tpuskets. Auditor Brown was seized by 3^5 ;; Sheriff, and Auditor Cottell was placed • i possession. The seal was missing and • v«r<!be Mfe locked. : T a a t commutation of the sentences of M two confessed murderers, under sentence ^ ' fit death, by Gov. Marmaduke, of Missouri, •yd fesulted in the circulation of a ̂ Mannaduke to resign his office. fe' ' ' ^1^5' ' i X*: • ORDERS have been given by Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland to sell at auction the horses and carriages be­ longing to their departments, and cover the proceeds into the treasniy. It appears that seven clerks in the Interior Department have heretofore been used as drivers. THE Census Bureau has been closed up. Only ten of the twenty-six volumes bare been issued. > ARMY circles are much wrought up over a recent law which permits of civil appoint­ ments to the Quartermaster General's De­ partment, the vacancies in which have hith­ erto been eagearly sought after by young Lieutenants and Captains. IT is reported that the authorities of Mexico, San Snlvador, and Nicaragua have posted guards at the cable landings of the Central and South American Telegraph Company. Secretary Bayard has tele­ graphed to the United States Legation at Guatemala stating that that Government will be held responsible for injuries to the cables or other interests of United States citizens in Central America. It is said that the revolution at Panama is ended. THE new President was 48 years of age March 18, on which occasion he received a bouquet of violets from a child to whom he has shown considerable attention. William H. Vanderbilt was among those who called at the White House. HENRI A. NEWMAN, formerly chief of the Labor Bureau in Missouri, has been appointed special agent of the Bureau of Labor to collect information in the Valley of the Mississippi on the subject now being investigated by that bureau. THE President has recognized Attilio Monaco second Vice Consul of Italy at New York. POLITICAL. GET?. EDWARD C. W ALTHATX has been tendered and has accepted the appointment of United States Senator from Mississippi, to succeed Secretary Lamar....The Kan­ sas Legislature passed a resolution of sym­ pathy with General Grant... .An extra ses­ sion of the Indiana Legislature wilt be necessary to pass appropriation bills. SECBETART BATARD, in resigning the Senatorship from Delaware, ^ave the Leg­ islature to understand that his successor should be Attorney General Gray. The Saulsbury family, however, are pushing Representative Lore for the vacancy, and the struggle grows in interest daily. * THE Prohibitionists of Chicago have nominated William H. Bush for Mayor, W. W. Waite for City Treasurer, George C. Christian for City Attorney, and Charles M. Catlin for Clerk. The campaign fund of the party is $94.70 George Gray, the candidate of Secretary Bayard, received the Democratic caucus nomination for Senator from Delaware, and was elected by the Leg­ islature of that State. THE Democratic Congressmen-elect from Virginia acted upon an intimation that the President would be happy to appoint Catlett Gibson District Attorney at Richmond, and made haste to indorse him. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is a candidate fo^tfinister to Mexico, aR is also Jerome Eddy, Chairman of the Michigan Democratic State Committee.... The Democrats elected their Mayor at Chey­ enne, Wyoming Territory, on St Patrick's Day. for the first time since 1877. WASHINGTON special: "There is a fall­ ing off in the crowd of office-seekers here. It is said that the President intends to make no changes in any of the four-year-term offices except for cause. When the terms of the present incumbents expire the offices will be tilled by picked Democrats." THE BOOTH. mi •m M v V ' f A w k u i 1 6 h a s b e e n s e t a s M e x i c a n v e t - eaan's day at the New Orleans Exposition. t. Davis and William M. Burrell . . hav# been invited to deliver addresses on ' the result of the war with Mexico. •?>; A rauGccM express train on the Texas . Pacific Boad was wrecked on a bridge at ^ Village Creek, near Fort Worth. The fire- ( , kttfed. the engineer was fatally in- ;i '• and two postal clerks were seriously ^J"?8 number of strikers at 1 ., j;, Marshall and Dal as manned a wrecking ¥ ;,i,toadk.and WCnt °Ut t0 repair the bridge and Mott than 100 persons have been in- at St. Mary's, W. Va., for playing in public. There are several in the list, two physicians, a minis- and an attorney... .Emigration from a©uthwe«t counties of Virginia to the Mates has been progressing in sufficient force to be called -j""-- --_ '• The cause is drought and a teak of nil way facilities. «ENEBAL. THE attempt of President Barrios to make himself dictator of Central America caused the United States to order south­ ward the Wachusett and Shenandoah, and three more war vessels are to be held in readiness to sail thither. EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR, ex-Senator Mc­ Donald, and the Rev. H. W, Beecher called upon President Cleveland at the White House. Two hundred representatives of the Women's Temperance Union, also paid their respects to the President.. . .An annu­ lar eclipse of the sun excited the interest of astronomers all over the United 8tates on the 16th. The cloudy weathef in­ terfered seriously with the observations.... A party of 250 revolutionists, headed by Gen. Vizpura, made an attack on the city of Panama, aud firing was kept up for hours. The president of the Central Amer­ ican Cable Company telegraphed to Secre­ tary Bayard, yesterday, that a Guatemalan vessel had gone out to cut the wires. Secre­ tary Whitney has ordered the Yantic to sail from New Orleans for Guatemala and pro­ tect American interests. RECENT deaths: At Chelsea, Mass., John Robbins, known throughout the United States as a manufacturer of bag­ gage-checks; at Buffalo, N. Y., C. W. Mc- Cune, proprietor ofthe Buffalo Courier; at Washington, the wife of Congressman Her- beit, of Alabama. THE Iowa Supreme Court rendered A decision affirming the constitutionality of the new prohibitory law and providing for its speedy enforcement. The court virtually declared that saloons may be enjoined as nuisances, and any citizen is practically given the power to close up a saloon without trial by jnry. If a saloon-keeper disobeys an injunction he can be punished with a fine of $1,000 and six months' imprisonment. Prohibitionists claim that they can close every saloon in the State. THE British Government has provided £25,000 for extra mail facilities with the United States and Canada. THE Manitoba members of the Dominion Parliament insist upon immediate steps for the construction of the Southwestern Boad, to prevent thousands of tenners from emi­ grating to the United States. Tn Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Vfr* has petitioned President Cleveland IB convene the National Board of Health at ooee, and to authorize the use of so much Of the epidemic contingent fund as may be to enforce a vigorous system of EX-COXGBESSHAX JEFFORDS, from the II, Mississippi "Shoestring" District, died sud­ denly, of heart disease, at Vickeburg A. deriskm was rendered last week by the flnpresae Bench of Baltimore that a colored •»n has a right to admission to practice at fbo bar. The Maryland law provides that oaJjr white men are eligible, and this law VOBEKCUI. •M - H IN THE THE B Ruosfaitt forswott mg&a* nttMtenn to tfebtoi, the intafo oT Inferior, it said to have threatened to establish an independent Patriate!* at St Ptttnbwg. Ax advance it fane was made from Svakin in fte cjirection of Hasbeen. Caval­ ry, mounted infantry, and Indian infantry were sent to reoonnoiter, while the Guards acted as a reserve. The Arabs retreated be­ fore the British as far as the hills near Hasheen, the main body ol the troops under Gen. Graham supporting the skirmishing line. Th® scouts, on reaching the summit c2 the hills, discovered the Arabs massed in the village. When the main body of the British reached the hilltops the Hadendowah tribe rushed from ambush and made an attack, in which several hundred Arabs were killed and wounded, as well as a number of the British. It was ascertained by a recon­ naissance that the enemy were in force along the entire range of hills. The en­ gagement ended with the retirement of the British... .At last accounts lilty-one of the workmen who were entombed in the Camp- hausen mine in Rhenish, Prussia, had be en taken out alive. One hundred and thirty- seven dead bodies had been recovered, and about forty men and boys remained unac­ counted for. feightfiil Loss of Life Caused by an ion in a German Colliery. ; * , V Oat of Two Handred and Seveateea Hlners but Thirty Are IATBB HEWI ITEMS. Two PERSONS were burned to death in a boarding-house at Bridgeport, Conn., and a fireman received fatal injuries. COL. W. S. BOLAKP, formerly a promi­ nent business man and politician of Chi­ cago, died in the Iusane Hospital at Kan­ kakee, aged 60... .In a hotel fire at Seattle, W. T., one man was burned to death, an­ other killed by jumping from a window, and a number of others were more or less injured. Br the explosion of a boiler in the. shoe factory of the South Carolina Peniteatiary, a life convict and a crippled prisoner were killed, and seventy feet of the prison wall were blown out... .The St. Joseph's Acad­ emy, a large edifice at Emmittsburg, Md., the headquarters of the Catholic Sisters of Charity in the United States, was destroyed by fire last week. JAMES H. BERRY was elected Senator from Arkansas, Poindexter Dunn having withdrawn from the field... .Tha Demo­ cratic Central Committee of Nebraska held a session of seven hours at Omaha to agree upon some plan for the distribution of fed­ eral patronage, and at last agreed to leave office-seekers free to scramble... .The Ohio Legislature adopted a joint resolution for the submission of the constitutional amend­ ment to change the time of State elections from October to November. IT has been said that the clause in the last pension bill providing that the admis­ sion of a soldier to the army should be re­ garded as proof of his previous sonnd con­ dition would cost the Government immense sums of money. The apprehension does not, however, seem to have been justified, the proportion of this class of cases being only about one in a hundred of the pension claims not yet allowed.. . .The veterans of the First and other corps of the Army of the Potomac are perfecting arrangements for the visit to the historic battle-field of Gettysburg, Pa., on the 4th and 5th of next May. President Cleveland and a number of State Governors will attend.... Business failures for the week number 247, against 250 last week, and 192 in the corresponding period of 1884. THERE seems to be a brighter prospect of peace between England and Russia. It is reported that Gen. Lnmsden, the British diplomatic agent on the Afghan frontier, has been given new instructions which em­ power him to accept the frontier line fixed oy Russia. The principal interest in re­ gard to Afghan affairs centers now in the approaching interview between the Ameer of Afghanist in and Lord Duffenn, Viceroy of India, which is to be held at R&wif- Pinde, in the northwestern corner of India. ... .The Swedish Parliament has rejected the measure proposing to place import du­ ties on foreign corn. WALTER EVANS, late Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in surrendering his of­ fice made a report to Secretary Manning showing that during a little over eight months of the current fiscal year $78,500,- 000 has been collected, the cost of collection being $100,000 per annum less than the nppropiiation made by Congress and about that much less than the expense incurred dminq the last fiscal year. Mr. Evans recommended to Congress the reduction of the appropriation for his department by $200,000. Stamps to the value of $57,000,000 are turned over to Mr. Evans' successor. THE resolution for the appointment of an Alaskan Commission was taken up in the United States Senate on the 20th. During the debate which tollowed Mr. Van Wyck made a vigorous attack upon the Soutb American Commission, which, he paid, consisted of two men and a boy, the Chairman remaining in All>atiy. He charged that two men and a boy chartered a palace-carat $35 per day.and each drew f 7,5iH) for his expenses. It cost the Government $40,00;> before the trio not beyond New Orleans. Messrs. Vest and Hawley defended the com mission. The Alaska resolution was referred to th? Com­ mittee on Territories. In executive session the Senate confirmed the following nomination'*: Martin V. Montgomery of Michigan, Commis­ sioner of Patents; Milton J. Durham of Ken­ tucky, First Comptroller of the Treasury; Mal­ colm Hay of Pennsylvania, First Assistant Post­ master General; Joseph It Ryan of Nevada, Coiner of the Mint at Carson City: William Garrard of Nevada, Superintendent of the Mint at Carson City: J. D. 0. Atkins of Ten­ nessee, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and James D. Porter of Tennessee, Aesistan^ Secre­ tary of State. tw fee Royal Alpha Masonic Lodjge at London, Prince Edward was initiated by the Prince of Wales, and manifested deepest interest in the work. IK a colliery at Camphauson, Rhenish Prussia, over 200 miners were imprisoned by an explosion of fire-damp. By the latest advices only seventeen bad been rescued. JAKES STEPHENS, the Fenian Head- Center, who was expelled Iron France re­ cently, is reported to be destitute and dying at Mons, Belgium... .The Dnke of Rich- mond, the heaviest owner of rental property in the city of London, has made • uniform THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVES. SESO Ho<w §25 WHEAT--No. L White 8» No. 2 Red .89 COBK--No. A .50 OATS--White POBK--New Mess X8.S0 CHICAGO. ' BEEVES--"hoice to Prime Steers. Good Sliippinx Common to Fair Hoos., 1'LOun--Fancy lied Winter Ex.. Prime to Choice Spring. WHEAT--NO. t Red CoaN--No. 2 ; OATS--No. A UVK--No. i. BAKUEY--NO. A BUTTEU--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream 8klmni ;d flat........; Eo<is-- Fresli POTATOES--Choice, per bu.i .... POKK--Mess MUJWAUKBS. WHEAT--No. 2 Cons--No. 3 OATH--NO. 2 RYE--No. L BARI.EY--No. 2 POBK--Mess... TOLBDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Rod CoitN--No. 2 OATH--No. 2 ST. LOUM. WHEAT-NO. 2 Red. Cons-Mixed OATS--Mixed RITE Pons--Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--NA 2 Red..... CORN OATS-MLred. POBK--Mess. DETROIT. FIXHJB. 1 WHEAT--No. I White.... COBK--Mixed OATS--Nib. 2 White POBK--Family „ INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBK--Mixed OATS--Mixed BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 2 OATS--NOW 2 White EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best Fair Common 5. so 5.00 4.26 4.75 3.75 a. 50 .70 .38 .27 .6 2 .64 .26 . UH .12 .06 4 .16 .44 1125 .74 .99 .« .« 6 .64 12.00 .77 .42 M .81 .37 ' .80 .«1 12.25 .34 1150 & 6.7ft (§ .91 .90 & .61 & .42 @14.00 ® #.25 («, 6.(50 4.75 <<« 6.25 & 4.25 ($ 4.0D «« .78 .40 .2S .04 .CO .27 .22 .13 .Of. .17 .48 @ & © *S» w & & @u.s» .78 .41 :£ <$ Oi2.se • .78 • .44 0 .84 0 .82 a .88 0 .SI 0 .68 Oil-76 m M & .48 m .88 @18.00 4.75 9 6.28 Hons.. 8HI*P. .86 <9 .88 .46 # .48 .8$ & .88 13.00 &1XS9 .88 .84 .41 o .48 .88 .83 .90 .M .47 i .49 .88 & ja 6.33 & 7.00 6.29 t* 6.00 4.25 6.00 6.00 & 6.60 4.50 « 6.00 [By cable from Berlin.] At the mining district of Camphausen, near Saaibrack, in Rhenish Prussia, a fear­ ful explosion occurred early this morning. Just before daybreak the last of the day shift of men bad gone down in the cages of one of the largest mineEverything was reported in order, though reports of fire­ damp in two of the levels had somewhat disturbed the superintend­ ent. Still, the ventilating apparatus working through the main shaft was in por- feet order, nnd no catastrophe was feared. The men, in taking; their safety-lamps, had been specially warned to be careful. After a while the cars laden with coal began com­ ing to the surface. The 210 men who had gone down were at work, and all was well. At 0:30 a terrible rumbling shook the earth. A flash of ttnme leaped up the shaft and a volume of trifling smoke poured out. This was followed by the crashing of timbers and the tumbling of earth down the shaft. From ali quarters men and women came running to the month of the pit. There ara fifteen thousand employed in the Camphausen coal-field*, nnd in a quarter of an hour a crowd of five thousand men and as many women and children, the latter shrieking aud sobbing, were around the mine. As soon as the heavy smoke had rolled away an attempt was made to work the cages, but they would not move. The force of the return draught at the pit's mouth told that the explosion had shivered the ventilating engine. Still the ventilating engine was kept go­ ing. It might do some good. It was thought from a first glance that no after fire had followed, and this may prove correct. Volunteers were called for to de­ scend. A temporary cable was rigged, nnd six brave men went down to save their fel­ lows. On reaching the uppermost drift they heard voices calling and signaled to stop. Thirty men were there in a state of terror and semi-stupefaction from the dense fumes still pervading the galleries. These men were brought to the surface alive. The rescuers and the rescued were greeted with shouts of delight as they came in parties to the Rtirface. The thousands of women were on their knees praying. The main difficulty now began. There were still 189 men in the mine whose chance of life was ebbing away at every instant. Doubtless many of them had been killed instantly by the blast of exploding gas, and others had bean smothered shortly after, before they could retreat to the main shift The volunteers went down again, but their progress soon was stonped. The shaft had been filled with rocks nnd earth shaken out by the blasts. All endeavors to communicate by signal with th9 entombed men were fruitless. Some of the men thought they smelt fire, but this could not be definitely settled. There was only one way to reach the un­ fortunates, and this was by clearing the shaft. This news spread despair over Camphausen. At one i work was begun with a will. Thousands offered their help, and the offers of hundreds were availed of. The work, soon progressed. It was tedious tad dangerous. At every re­ moval of the . displaced roeks and timbers there was danger of a fresh caving in at the sides. After eight hours' work a lower level was reached, and there over forty bodies were found around the shaft. Suffocation hid evidently quickly ended their struggles. The breaking of the air-shaft left them at the mercy of the poi­ sonous after-damp. The search went on. At level after level dead miners were found in close proximity to the shaft. In all nine­ ty-two bodies were brought to the surface before night. The work still goes on. There are still ninety-seven men in the pit It is fenre#4hat all are dead, but the sturdy Prussians with hopeful hearts are working on by the light of great fires and amid the wails of the women waiting aronflfl the mine for their dead. GIVING HIM THE GUI*. Albert Victor Joins the Masons and Is Pat Through the Mysteries. Bv cable from London.] The dignity and traditional grandeur of Freemasonry was largely vindicated and illustrated when last night, in the Royal Alpha Lodge, in the pres­ ence of a large company of Masons, Prince Edward, heir presumptive to the English throne, was initiated by the Prince of Wales, his father, heir apparent, Grand Master, and at the same time a working Mason, in the office of Worshipful Master. The lodge is private, and its working dates from 1722. The by-laws of the Royal Alpha restrict the number of members to thirty-three, nearly all officers or past officers of the Grand Lodge of England. Also the principle that no visitor can be received enables the work to be carried out in the presence of lodge members only. Willis' rooms, near St James Palace, was the meeting- place. The lodge was laid ont in a first- floor apartment, garnished with fine por­ traits in oil of Past Royal Grand Masters, Worshipful Masters and Wardens. There were chairs in gold emblematically decorat­ ed and other appointments in keeping. The Prince of Wales took the Worshipful Mas­ ter's chair, donning above his Grand Mas­ ter's clothing the blue collar of a working Mason, the pendant being the instrument which forms the rude and proves the per­ fect mass and marks him as a master of the arts and sciences. All the officers wore the blue collar of working members of the speculative craft over purple and gold Grand Lodge officership peudanta in silver, the centers being works of art in enamel, with rays studded with diamonds. The candidate was prepared in an ad­ joining room for the ceremony. The craft does not admit illiterate persons, and the first act required of a seeker after Masonic knowledge is to prove himself capable of entering upon the study of the liberal arts. The Prince was then admitted with full solemnity within the portils in the manner in which all enter the craft. The ceremony was performed with all the graee and dignity which characterize the Grand Master and his officers, all skilled craftsmen, and all noblemen or titled per­ sons. When the ceremony was completed the young Prince was seated in the place of honor and witnessed such work as is re­ stricted to the first degree. The lodge be­ ing closed in due form after its labors, the members adjourned to a banquet where the initiate, sitting next the Worshipful Master, according to ancient custom, received the congratulations of his elders. THEBE are about 60,000 more females than males in the city of Berlin. This fact is all the more remarkable as there is a gar­ rison of soldiers in the/city which numbers 19,000 men. THE fourth century of the death of Bugenhagen, the associate of Luther, will be celebrated on the 25th of next June. A K- ttue of him is to he erected at Witten-tg. - OF the French Senators elected on the 25th of January ten an Protestants, which is three times as many in proportion to the population as the Catholics have. IT is said that no one can live oomfort- ably in Washington and keep house and maintain any sort of social footing upon less than $5,000. THE latest regarding Daniel Webster is that he never used a profane word. Ihrtatlng Treaties -with, the In­ dians Not to Be Ignored* (Washington dispatch.] ̂ e following proclamation has been is- by the President: WHEREAS, It is alleged that certain indi- Viduns, associations of persons, and cor- jpo.ation are in unauthorized possession of portions of thd territory known as the Okla­ homa lands, within Indian Territory, which ore d?signattid, described, and • recognized by treaties and laws of the Un ted StateB and by th; executive authority thereof as Indian lands; nnd WHEREAS, It is further alleged that cer­ tain other persons or associations within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States have beran and set on foot prepara­ tions for an organized nnd forcible entry and settlement upon the aforesaid lands, ad are now threatening Much entry and oc- Apation; and WHEREAS, The laws of the United States provide for the removal of all persons re­ siding or being found upon such Indian lands and territory without permission ex- Eressl v nnd legally obtained of the Interior •epartment: Now, therefore, for the purpose of 'pro­ tecting public interests, as well as the in­ terests of the Ind an nations and tribes, and to the end that no person or persons may be induced to enter upon said territory, where they will not be allowed to remain without permission of the authority afore­ said, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby warn and admonish all and every person or persons now in occupation of such lands, nnd all such person or persons as are in­ tending, preparing, or threatening to enter and settle upon the same, that they will neither be permitted to enter upon such territory, or, if already there, to remain thereon, nnd that if due regard for and voluntary obedience to the laws and treaties of the United States and this admonition and warning be not sufficient to efl'ect the purposes and intentions of the Government as herein declared, the military power of the United States will be invoiced to abate all such unauthorized possession, prevent such threatened entry and occupatiou, and to remove all such intruders from said In­ dian lands. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set _ my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ GROVER CI<EVELANI>. By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. ! BLAINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The Distinguished Republican Leader Fays His Respects te the President. Washington telegram.) A few minutes before 5 o'clock this after­ noon, when the White House was nearly emptied of visitors, nnd after the gas had been lighted and the shades had been drawn in the library, where the President receives his callers, a gentleman walked briskly up to the western approach from Pennsylvania avenue. He was a man of a little more than the uveiage height, of sturdy build, of strong features, lull gray beard and gray hair, complexion colorless, and eyes of keenest brown. His hsavy overcoat was buttoned closely, for the day was a chilly one. with oc asional flakes of snow. As he walked up the stops of the porch he glanced around quickly and then bowing to the attendants at the door he passed through the vestibule toward the left and ascended to the ante- rooin leading to the apartment in which the Cabinet meets. The President's messenger, Mr. Loeffler, who knows everybody, knew this distinguished visitor and bowed re­ spectfully as he helped him to remove his overcout The visitor passed into the Cab­ inet-room aud back to the rear, where a door opened into the library. The Presi­ dent had been listening to a long talk by Senator "Joe" Brown, of Georgia, who had been shown out by. the main door. As he turned to walk back to his desk the new visitor entered from the Cabinet-room with Private Secretary Lamont, and a moment later President Cleveland and James G. Blaine w£re meeting for the first time and were shaking hands as cordially its if they had never been opposing candi­ dates in one of the most closely contested Solitical battles ever fought in this country. Ir. Blaine was not an unexpected visitor. He had asked for an appointment to suit the President's convenience, and had been asked to come at an hour when the Pres­ ident would be least likely to be inter­ rupted. His visit was not a hurried one. He stayed long enough to congratulate Mr. Cleveland, to explain his absence from the inauguration ceremonies, caused by the death of his sister in Baltimore, and to entertain the President as he does every one he meets--with brisk conversation about men and things. It was Mr. Blaine's first visit to the White House since the winter of 1883. IT is figured that 7,000,000 sermons ar# annually preached to Americans. Oklahoma. In view of the proclamation of the Pres­ ident relating to the Oklahoma country, Gen. James B. Weaver, Congressman elect from Iowa, and ex-Congressman Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, representing the Okla­ homa settlers, have sent the following tele* gram, dated at Washington: W. L. Couch, Arkansas City, Kan.: The President is of the opinion that further negotiation with the Creeks and Seminolas, as contemplated by the recent action of Congress, is necessary to author­ ize the settlement of Oklahoma. His proc­ lamation is intended to eiect cattle syndicates on one hand ami suspend on the other the settlement of the country pending negotiations. We have earnestly urged upon the Secretary of the Interior, in view of the exigencies of the situation, to proceed at once to conclude negotiations, aud to place upon the commission a repre­ sentative of the settlers. We deem it best for all purlies to await the contemplated ac­ tion. It must be understood that the cor- rnpt conspiiacy by which lands in the Okla­ homa country and the whole of Indian Ter­ ritory have been illegally occupied by cattle kings is strong'y defended here by powerful financial influences. This conspiracy has been for years, and is now, represented here by persons holding high positions in the Government. These men, having ac­ cess to the avenues of public opinion, and the privileges of constant communication with all the departments of the Govern­ ment, are persistent in their misrepresenta­ tions. They who attack here any4>f the great wrongs which have fastened ffi^sn selves upon the Government undertak task of great magnitude. But we shall con tiuue to urge, with confidence, upon Presi­ dent Cleveland's administration a reversal of the bad policy of former yean. The only safety for the people is sharply defined public opinion, rising above all party distinctions, and demanding that the Eublie domain shall be held sacred an a eritage for actual settlers. SIDNEY CLARKE, J. B. WEAVES. •ERE AND THERE. Six hotels have already failed in New York since Jan. 1. EATING forty-two oranges at one sitting was the feat accomplished the other day by a man at Crescent City. Fla. AMONG Rhode Island's exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition is a heavy steel chain forged by a female blacksmith of that State. A PERFECT skeleton, to which was at­ tached a ball and chain, was lately nn- eartbed twenty-five feet below the surface of the earth, near Savannah, Ga. ALL the horse cars in Montevideo and ^Buenos Ayres come from the United States. The Stronghold Over Which the lion > ipi the Beer Are Orowbaf. Work hi the PVom the Ohiesao Triboae] It may not be uninteresting to take a glance at famous Herat, which has onoe again loomed np before the sight of the world as the bode over which the Lion and the Bear are growling. Herri, as it was anciently called, from its contiguity to the Herri Rood River, has a record beyond the pen of accurate history, and, according to Afghan traditions, it had an existence close to the time when the world was miraculous­ ly evolved from chaos. In the Zoroastrian anna's of the "Vendidad Sade," it appears as Hariwh," or the country of the Aryans, and as the founder of the Gebir or Fire- worshiper faith is supposed to have lived contemporaneously with Moses, it follows that its ancient inhabitants may have been contemporaneous with the patriarch Abiaham when he was grazing his flocks among the deserts of Mesopo- tamia. There seems to be no reason to doubt that Alexander th© Great en- camped at Herat in the famous cam­ paign which Xenophon describes in his Anabasis, and that it occupied a certain Ori­ ental magnificence contemporaneous with that period of Grseco romance when the names of Bacchus, Qemiramis, and Her­ cules became so fulgent as to shine down through the centuries to the present dav. In the East there exists a tradition that the Afghans are really the offspring of the lost, tribe of Israel--a tradition to which color is lent by the remarkably sti-ong Jewish type of feature that characterises the Af­ ghan race--and that it was that Israelitish tribe which gave outward splendor to Herri as a city. Whatever truth there may be iu all this, it is certain that Herat rose its bat­ tlements in the mists of antiquity, and that where the trading provindah now leads his camels through its tortuous, narrow streets to-day Aryans lived and died who have since given their cognomen to a conspicuous di­ vision of the human race. While Herat possesses immense interest historically, it occupies a geographical im- portanca of such a nature as has for many centuries made it the central part for furi­ ous fighting among tribesmen and nations. Again and again it has been made the focus for Persian fury and ambition, and it is only by continual hard fighting that it now remains in the hands of the Ameer of Afghanistan. When England obtained, by intrigue, chicane, and hard fighting, the dominant control of Hindostan she fully recognized Herat as one of the points d'apput from which an enemy may threaten that dominance, and hence it became thi fashion to name the city "The Gate of India." Situated picturesquely upon a spur of the Hindoo Koosh mnge, and surrounded by a bewildering network of deeply irrigated rice-fields--so bewildering that cavalry operations are made impossible with wny feedom of action--Herat is at the same time powerfully fortified artificially. Recent Russian travelers have averred that nowhere in the East is the art of canalization carried ont so thoroughly or on so vast a scale as it has been in the Velley of Herat, where the waters of the Herri Rood are utilized to the utmost extent. This state of circmstances naturally makes Herat a valuable basis of supplies for any army that may be fortu­ nate enough to obtain possession of it. It is, therefore, no wonder that Herat has become a singularly important point of Central Asian commerce, roads forking from it into Persia, to Kabool, to Kanda­ har, to Beloochistan, and northward through the Merve oasis and Turkes­ tan, more especially that part of Turkes­ tan which is known as Bokhara. The city is nearly quadrangular, with faces about a mile long, and the high inner wall of defense is pierced by four gates .point­ ing toward the different great cities with which it has communication. Thus, for in­ stance, the great gates in the celebrated walls of Delhi were known as the Lahore Gate, the Cashmere Gate, and so on. The stu­ pendous earthwork upon which Herat is built has been the wonder of modern times, being, according to Sir Henry Rawlinson, the great English authority on Eastern mat­ ters, 250 feet in width at the base, fifty feet high, crowned by a wall twenty-five feet high and fourteen wide at the base, and supported by no fewer than 150 circular towers, which again are protected by a ditch forty-five feet wide and fifteen in depth. There have been disputes about the true strength of the fortress. In 1846 Gen. Fer- rier of the British army gave it as his opin­ ion that the place was only an immense re­ doubt wnich a European army could reduce in twenty days, but it is significant that in 1837, with the assistance of two English Engineer Lieutenants, the Heratese suc­ cessfully held at bay for ten months a Per­ sian army of 35,000 men supported by fifty pieces of artillery, which were in many cases directed by expert Russian officers. The mosques of Herat are made exceed­ ingly picturesque by bluish-tessellat id tiles, the bazaars are rich, and swaim day and night with motley groups of men drawn from every part of Central Asia. Afghanis­ tan, and India; and bearing in mind all these facts, together with the fortuitous geo­ graphical position of Herat, it is no wonder that the famous city is coveted both by Russia and England. It possesses the un­ enviable reputation of being one of those cities so happily situated by nature that it must become perpetually the object of every powerful nation placed in its vicinity. Killed for His Money. [Dayton (Ohio) telegram.] Last May William Biersdorfer, keeper of a grocery and saloon at Brickland, left home with f300 in hie pockets to buy goods. He was seen to get off the cars at Wapakoneta with two strangers, but no trace of him could be found after that. Three months afterward two sportsmen fishing in the St. Mary's reservoir, about twenty miles west of Wapakoneta. brought up a body which was unrecognizable. There was a bullet- hole through the forehead and a rope with a large stone attached to it around the neck. There were no papers or articles on the corpse by which it could be identified. J. W. Biersdorfer, a brother of William Biersdofer, who lives in this city, has for the last week been so troubled with dreams about his missing brother, such as seeing him drowning, that he went to Wapakonet-i aud renewed the search. There he acci­ dentally came across an old paper contain­ ing an account of the finding of the body in the reservoir. The description of the clothes corresponded exactly with those worn by his brother the day he left home, nnd a ling on one of the corpse's fingers identified it beyond doubt as the body of William Biersdorfer. It is asserted that in exhuming the body to make identification positive a clue was found, which, it is hop- will lead to the capture of the mur­ derers. -------------- Sullivan Knocked Out* t [Philadelphia dispatch.] ' This afternoon John L. SullivaA^feond one man who could knock him out. He went with Patsey Sheppard to a matinee at Egyptian Hall, where Professor Keller was doiug his cabinet trick. When the Pro­ fessor invited a committee to go upon the stage and tie him the audience shouted for Sullhan. and he and Sheppard did. Keller then invited Sullivan to go into the cabinet with him. The slugger afterward said: "I was never so much surprised in my life as I was after I went into the cabinet The , first thing I knew my overeoat was gone. I felt all around for it, bnt I couldn't find it, I and then I was chucked out of the cabinet i onto the stage as if I had been shot out of ! cannon. My inside coat was turned inside . out, and I lay sprawling on the stage as if ( some fellow had kicked me one in the jugu- ; jar. I'll be blanked if Keller ain t the strongest little man I ever aaw. I don't want any .Hon cabinet business." IN Persia no son ever sits in the presence of his father until ordered to do so. THX resolution ottered by Mr. Van hucapon this Secretary of the Interior for I matioa lespccUnn the issuance oC to the ""Backbone" BaOroad. am erewas andae haste vm patents, was taken up hi in Monday, ieth nut, VauWpdc. On motion of Mr. MOHBTSSB Fan1 ate went inte executive session. < _ noininattonB of John C. Black, of llllwato. f tenants In the navy, a reopened, adjourned. THE Chair laid before the Senate the iwsola- tfcm offered by Senator Blair mrthecisiaie the Committee on Education and Labor toeoa with a view to its completion daring the ___ in* vacation, the investigation of the nlatfoasl between labor and capital. it waa ;! adopted, on the 17th Inst. The lesola* 1 tion offered the previous day by fieiatot Cuilom, that a select committee of five be an* polated to investigate and report upon the sub­ ject of the regulation of commerce among the several States, with authority to att dnrfwg the recess of Congress, waa taken upi. Mr. Conger thought the Committee on Commerce aheuld make the proposed invest!fratien. Mr. Harri­ son did not think the contingent fond of the Senate waa large enough to meet the expenses of the varioes special investigations propos­ ed. Messrs. Miller, Allison, Dawes aad Maser favored the resolution. Mr. Saulabury oppos­ ed it. It was finally modified so as to make it an "investigation of the regulation of the transportation by railroads and water routes in connection therewith of freight and passen­ gers between the several states," and, as tKn« modified, was adopted. The resolution em­ powers the committee to summon witnesses and to do whatever la necessary for a full examina- non of the subject. A resolution was also paased declaring that the President of Guate­ mala should be prevented frem carrying on his scheme of annexing neighboring republics. THE Chair laid before the Senate, March 18, the resolution offered by Mr. Miller, of New York, authorizing the Committee An Agriculture and Forestry to sit durimr the recess to nmwfa*,. the best means of preserving the forests upon tbe public domain, and to employ a clerk. A brief debate ensued, developing the fact that the only object of the resolution waa to give employment to the clerk of the com­ mittee named during the recess. It was agreed, to, however--27 to 25. The division waa upon party lines, except in the case of Call, who voted in the affirmative, and Riddleberger and Sher­ man, who voted in the negattve. The President sent the following nominations: Milton J. Dur­ ham, of Kentucky, to be First Comptroller of the Treasury; William Garrard, of Ne­ vada, to be Superintendent of the Mint at Carson City, Nev.; James R. Ryan, of Nevada, to be Coiner of the Mint at Carson City, Nev.: Mal- com Hay, of Pennsylvania, to be First Assistant Postmaster General; Martin V. Montgomery, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents; Da­ vid S. Baker, Jr., of Rhode Inland, to be United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island: Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. The Senate then went into executive session. EPHBAIM K. WIMON, Senator-elect from Maryland, was sworn in on March 19," as was also George Gray, of Delaware, successor of Senator Bayard. The Committee on Printing was authorized to sit during the recess. The resolution offered last week relating to the sale of lands granted FloriJa to aid railroads was referred. Mr. Ingalls' resolution, offered last week, calling lor information relating to the illegal occupancy of Oklahoma lands, "Was laid before the Senate, Mr. Ingalls said since the resolution was o.^ered it' had been practically answered by the President's message. He moved it be laid on the lable--agreed to. Mr. Manderson offered a resolution providing that a committee of five Senators be appointed to proceed to Alaska to make investigations; laid over. In executive session Mr. Sherman offered a resolution pro­ viding for the appointment ot two Senators to wait upon the President and inform him that unless he had some farther communication to make the Senate was ready to adjourn without day, which was laid over. How "Oath" Learned to Use the Weed. As soon as the American boy is born and has been a few times flogged, and has played truant once or twice, he thinks it is necessary to smoke or chew. The first superb experience he has is that of getting sick over tobacoo. I can well remember when my moth­ er sent me on a certain occa­ sion with a small tin can, such as was then up to our manufacturing quality, to bring some milk or cream home to flavor the coffee. An eldae thunder had given me that afternoon a small piece of tobacco carqfullj knifed off his plug. He recommonded that to­ bacco as entirely innoxious, and the proper thing to begin upon. As I went along with the milk-can I nibbled at the tobacoo. There was something in it indulgent and enticing, yet not whol­ ly wholesome. By the time I got home with the milk such movements were going on in my head that no Presiden­ tial election nnd no battle I have ever seen matched with them. I got down on a log--for they were making a new well in the yard--and put my head over the grass and strug­ gled to lose my stomach. I have often lost it since with one-half the exertion. My mother came out and sympathized with me; my brother, who was of hard­ er material, said I had been chewing tobacco. We made a majority against him of one, and it was decreed that I~ had a delicate nature, fine tastes, and was entirely above chewing tobacco. But I have never since had an encoun­ ter with tobacco in that form. A little later on I tackled the cigar. The first cigar did not make me sick, and that was my ruin. A large row of brick houses has since gone down my throat on account of the failure of that cigar to do its work. The second or third cigar plunged me into a condi­ tion of curious intoxication, where I was drunk not only in the whole upper story, but it appeared to me that I had the drunks of a hundred men all con­ densed there. Nevertheless, such is the depravitv of human nature, I severed smoking, and occasionally i per- loit isdoin. Ueorge Eliot's One of the lessons a woman most rarely learns is never to .talk to an an- gry or a drunken man. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes aire dumb? When Death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent, bnt our severity. Quite superfluous existenoea -- in­ artistic figures crowding the canvas of life without adequate etfect. He held it no virtue to frown at irre­ mediable faults. Imagination is a licensed trespasser ; It has no fear of dogp, bnt may climb over walls and peep m at windows with impunity. There are various odors of beauty, causing men to make fools of them­ selves in various styles, from the des­ perate to the sheepish. Cleaning The Government and railway method of cleaning brass is to dip the articlea in a mixture of one part common nitric acid and one-half part sulphuric acid in a stone jar, and then into water, and rub them with sawdust. They at once take on a brilliant color. If the brass is greasy it should first be dipped in a strong solution of potash and soda in warm water, which so cuts the grease that the acid is enabled to act.--Phila­ delphia Press. IF yon are determined to live and die a slave to custom, see that it is at feast a good one.--E. P. Day. AFTER a man has led a fast life for a while the fast life begins to lead Un. ' . j.; .. \ - r . . . "v. . \ . t -