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QUXOffi. flOHDKNSBD. 80LDIEB. Obfitmt*» BattU with Death. Q«k Onat eajeyed another night's unbroken •wrt. --j Ifci mnnilnr of April 21 found the rat- fttnrtvte improved that the physicians gave to hla taking an airing la Central r after noon the family curiam _a to the door. "Gen. Grant heard the Htf wbeela. and as the driver reined m.p the aick man polled aaide the • moment to assure himself that hat come for the longed-for drive. _ the oolored nurse, with a fur i SBon hit arm. emerged from the house and Bnnted the oaniafe. A moment later the UfcSnd appeared. He wore a high hat; about Ms Beck was a silk scarf, and closely buttoned aboat his figure was a heavy beaver overcoat. T%» General carried a light cane, and, unaided, watted down the stem with a firm tread. As ho ciWMd the flagging ne bowed and smiled as a handrad hats were lifted in salute by those who had assembled on the walk across the Itrnrf As the General was stepping into the aanrlage he irlaitoed up to the colored coachman and bade him good-morning. Harrison, as he mounted to Ma place with the driver, remarked: That dent look much like a dead General, does it?' and his face was wreathed in smiles." The aaltarer refused to BO out REDITU; Sunday,the 19th, giving *a an excuse that at the time there were many people prayine for him, and it would hardly be right that he slionld appear in public. Gen. Grant slept uninteTuptsdlv through the night of April 31, and wi; reported as apparent­ ly gatnln? in strength. The swelling at the faaaeof his tongue still existed. He wa? driven through Central Park during the dav. A New York telegram says: There are stlll rumors in oertain circles that Gen. Grant's disease has been misrepresented. These rumors ar<* in­ creasing, and this mornins the Sun said editori­ ally that the hemorrhage was caused by a sore which has now disappeared; that he has not had cancer; that his doctors now admit it, and that Dn. Douglas and Shrady have got a good deal tt tree advertising and are sharp fellows. A continued improvement in Gen. Grant's Mnilliun was noted in th? New York dispatches of April 33. His three physicians held a con- •albrtka and examined his throat, which they found to ha mnch better than when last seen. The General drove out in his carriage, and later walked a block or two. returning not in the least fatigued. A gentleman, jn-t ar­ rived from England, presented the Genera! with a card, upon which Premier Gladstone had written his sympathies and good wishes for him. A Chattanooga dispatch reports that a movement is on foot in that citv to t ender Gen. Grant the free u«e during his convalescence of a private hotel on Lookout Mountain, in »lght of the battle fields of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga. "Offl. Grant expresses himself as feeling bet- tar and stronger than at any time since the favorable symptoms began to appear," says a Hew York dispatch of April 24. "The General, Ms wife, Mrs. F. D. Grant, and Mrs. Sartoris at for a drive yesterday. Afterward the dig­ it HocfUh dlspaGolfc wero toM la the la ifaat«*y. Six bediea had nemnd. and II was bdhred from to twenty ethers, vwt still in the Tans veterans of the Texan army of 1896 met at Sherman on the 21st inst, and cele­ brated Uio anciYcrsarj sf tic tattle of San Jacinto. Davy Crockett's famous bowie- knife was exhibited by Robert Wheat. Among the noted characters present was Mr. Phillips, of Braxoria, who raised the it Lone Star fli first' flag on the Rio Grande. ,tn3S flttt Comptroller of the Treasury hag advised the Commissioner of Agricult­ ure that he has power to order the slaughter of infected cattle and cany out quarantine measures. THE Secretary of the Treasuiy has re­ ceived from the Union Pacific Railroad Company $916,704, of which $633,541 is to be applied to-the sinking-fund account and $28;}, 163 to the bond and interest ac­ count, in accordance with the awards made by the Court of Claims.... A. U. Wyman, Treasurer of the United States, has re­ signed his position, to the regret of Secre­ tary Manning, to become Vice President of an Omaha bank. C. N. Jordan, formerly a bank cashier in New York, will take the vacancy. SECRETARY MANNING desires to transfer $35,000,000 in gold coin from San Francis­ co to New York, for which purpose Con­ gress appropriated $100,000. The expirees companies ask $3.25 per $1,000 for carry­ ing the treasure, but the Pacific Mail Steamship Company made a much lower bid....The silk undervaluations report now under consideration by the authorities at Washington is a voluminous document It fully sustains the charges made from time to time by Chicago importers, and sets forth that the frauds hare beeh of frequent occurrence and immense proportions. iK ths Bo«M •* OtdiMA, April as, Mr. Gladstone, % Mm tog to an inquiry toy Sir Started said there was •o iatentka of hying further papers touching tfce AJM»a situation upon (he table before asking for a vote upon the war credit# already submitted in the House. "The Government," Mu Glad­ stone oonttnued, "was engaged in a coire- spoadenee of extreme giavily with Russia. I> impossible BOW to make a com­ plete statement of the nature of that corre­ spondence, while no partial statement could he given without the greatest risk of caus­ ing misapprehension." A mysterious explosion occurred in the basement of the Admiralty Offloe in London. Edward N. era daring the day, including Senator Ticlnari Stanford and ex-Speaker Keifer." TUB EAST. &T Greenwich. Conn., Barclay Johnson enticed his mother and sister into the woods and killed them and himself with a revolver. The head of the family in a imminent railway lawyer, named J. Au­ gustus Johnson. THE Pullman Palace Car Shops at Phila­ delphia were burned, creating heavy loss. Seven cars, worth $105,000, aud machinery valued at $40,000 were destroyed. FOREST fires in Camden, Atlantic and Gloucester Counties, New Jersey, have horned cranberry marshes, destroyed coke and cordwood in large quantities, and re­ duced to ashes acres of cedar trees and other timber. The exports of produce from New York during the last week were valued at $6,109,000... .A terrific explosion of gas occurred in the Phoenix colliery at Pittston, Pa. Abont 100 men were inthe mine at the time, bat no one was fatally hurt THE steamer City of Mexico was seized, and her captain, John O'Brien, arrested, at New York, on a charge of supplying war munitions to the insurgents in the United 8tates of Colombia. The vessel was char­ tered in March for lumber, but in reality took out a cargo of firearms... .An incen- di«y fire destroyed thirteen buildings at Shaipcburg, Pa., rendering sixty persons homeless, and causing a loss of $60,000. tOUTICU* CLEVELAND is be somewhat embarrassed by the pressure from politicians in the older States to secure judicial positions or land offices in the Ter­ ritories, in defianoe of the principle of home rule. SAVANNAH (Ga.) telegram: "Gen. Law- ton has sent a dispatch to Washington de­ clining to accept the Russian mission, to which he has just been decided eligible by Atty. Gen. Garland Gen. Lawton's ac­ tion is based on a desire to relieve the ad- . .. ., . _ ministration from any embarrassment which poands in the put three months. His weizht „„ ,„u 1141 poands. There were a number of call- i ml8ht result from the inevitable fight which daring the day, including Senator T , would occur over his confirmation by the Senate. It can be asserted on the highest authority that until to-day President Clere- land expected that Gen. Lawton would start for Russia within a few days, and that the declination of the latter is not based on a suggestion from any one in or out of official circles. Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, will, it" is said, now be tendered the Russian mission." Since his appointment as Consul at Mel­ bourne, it has been discovered that Mr. James W. Morgan, of South Carolina, sup­ ported Blaine during the recent Presiden­ tial campaign. His indorsers were Butler, Hampton, a ;d Gorman... .Boyd Winches­ ter, of Louisville, has respectfully declined the appointment as Consul to Nice, at a sal­ ary of $1,500 per annum. THE Illinois House declined an invita­ tion of the Illinois Central Road to visit the New Orleans Expositiqn, notwithstand­ ing that the Speaker drew up a resolution favoring the trip and that it was warmly supported by Mr. Linegar. Speaker Haines was given leave of absence for a week to visit the Exposition, and permis­ sion was a!so granted that he take a select committee with him. IGNATIUS DONNELLY, in a card pub­ lished in Washington regarding the Minne­ sota plan of securing Federal offices, de­ clares himself able to prove that P. H. Kel­ ly has for years labored to prevent the election of Democratic Congressmen from Minnesota... .It is rumored that at the commencement of the fiscal year the posi­ tion of Public Printer will be given to ex- Congressman Rogers, of Buffalo. clerk, received indows were broken, TH£W£ST. WEKALi . At the inquest in St Louis on the body ! C. A. Preller, a witness recognized a photograph of the supposed murderer as that of Walter Maxwell, whose father owned large potteries at Northampton, England. OWING to the prevalence of pleuro-pneu- monia among cattle in Calloway and adja- oent counties in Missouri, the railways have agreed to refuse cattle shipments from those points unless accompanied by a bill of health from a Government Inspector. / THE graduating exercises of a class of twenty-two at the Woman's Medical Col­ lege of Chicago were closed by an address by Miss Ada C. Sweet. By the payment of a sum said to be less <*••>" $1,000,000, *»y Gould secured the dismissal of the Marie-Garrison suit against the Missouri Pacific Road, pending in the Federal Court at St. Louis .In a Chicago court, a cattle- dealer from Texas was awarded judgment for $666 against the Western Union Tele­ graph Company for an error in a quotation sent over the wires, through which he lost the amount claimed. CHICAGO telegram: The recent rains have extended all over the Northwest and have greatly facilitated seeding. In West­ ern and Southern Dakota the ground has been very dry, but reports from these sec­ tions now say there is plenty of moisture and that seeding is being rushed. In Southern Minnesota there has been no com- plaint of drought, but the recent rains will not impede sowing to any great extent. At Wheaton, 111., fire broke out in the hardware store of J. P. Bauer through a leakage of gasoline, and before it was sub- dned seventeen buildings were destroyed, inflicting loss estimated at $50,000 The Louis Gc*k Carriage Company, of Cincin­ nati, with liabilities of $200,000, has made «B assignment to ex-Mayor Stephens. NEAB Medicine Lodge, Kan., a water­ spout caused the death of several entire families. A dispatch from Medicine Lodge gives the following meager particulars of the disaster: "The water rolled down over the lowlands east of Medicine Lodge five to twelve feet in height. Several families we known to have been drowned. Men Who went out to give relief found men, Women and children clinging to trees with nothing on but their night-clothes, and iMne without any clothing whatever, but Still ftlive. Their cries could b© be hewd as early as 4 o'clock in the morning. Three attempt* were made to rescue persons on the opposite side of the river, but each t in turn Iuru was swamped, and the" oecu pants only saved themselves by swimming |p toees. fSir bodies have so far been re­ covered. There were eight movers' wac- «as camping in the bottoms, and one old |Utttesn^niMd the bodies of three of i wife and two children." THE Coroner's jury at St. Louis re turned a verdict that C. Arthur Preller died fiom the effects of chloroform administered Lenox Maxwell. DISPATCHES from the Northwest Terri­ tory, of April 22, report: Fort Pitt, on the Saskatchewan River, which was garrisoned by twenty-five police and sheltered twenty civilians, has been sacked by the Indians. Gen. Middleton is at Clarke's Crossing, awaiting supplies with which to move for­ ward He will move along the east bank with five hundred men, while Lord Mel- gund will take the west bank with a mixed force of four hundred. The attack on Riel is expected to take place immediately. OWING to the failure of Congress to ap­ propriate the necessary fnnds, some of the United States courts in Pennsylvania must cease doing business The French showed more feeling than the Colombians over the presence of the United States ma­ rines on the Isthmus, but all opposition is now ended. Trains on the Panama road make six trips daily, guarded by armored cars carrying Galling and Hotchkiss guns. IT appears that President Barrios, of Guatemala, was killed by a Salvadorian sharpshooter as he was in the act of lead­ ing a regiment which had refused to march under a distateful Colonel... Two hundred Mormon converts from England and Scot­ land, en ronte for Utah, reached New York last week. A DISPATCH from the West states that as a result of the water-spout and flood at Medicine Lodge, Kan., fourteen bodies had been recovered, and a number of othen were yet believed to be missing. A cy­ clone at Prairie Grove, Texas, killed a 14- year-old girl and fatally injured three other persons. A school-house, church, and four dwellings were demolished, a number of children receiving severe wounds. Unusually heavy rains and destructive floods are reported from Texas. The water in the streets of Austin was three feet deep. North and west of Deni- son railway travel was stopped, heavy storms having caused washoutB and weak­ ened bridges. The Red River rose at the rate of four feet an hour. Colorado was visited by the heaviest snowstorm ever known in that region. The fall at Denver was twenty inches, and the roofs of nu­ merous buildings fell in.----Hot weather prevailed in New England. The mercury registered 92 degrees in the shade in wv- eral places in Vermont, putting a stop to sug»r-making. SOME definite, though rather meager, particulars of the Frog Lake massacre, in the Northwest Territory, have been re. ceived. It appeals that the Indiana in- vited the settlers to attend church, and after the service was finished shot ten of the whites as they left thie chapeL The savages then took the two priests who officiated, murdered them, and burned their bodies. SIB JOHN A. MACDOXALD read in the Canadian Parliament a telegram from the Indian chiefs at Fort Qu'Appelle expressing Swainson, the _ severe scalp wound. and an &oP m The 321st anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare (April 23) was celebrated with neat ceremony at Stratford-on-Avon. Every house was deoorated and the church bells chimed all day Russia has made contracts at Newcastle for 10,000 tons of steamer coal, to be delivered at CronBtadt at ninepence above the retail price, ADDITIONAL MEWS. EBEN M. BOYNTON, of New York, has entered suit in the United States Court against Hussey, Howe & Co., steel manu­ facturers Of Pittsburg, for an alleged breach of contract. Boynton claims that % defendants refused to deliver a large contract , for steel plates which had been contracted for because the price on steel had advanced several cents before the date of filling the same. The suit, which involves $600,000, will come up for trial May 11. The Hon. Ben­ jamin F. Butler his been secured to take care of the plaintiff's interests George Smithy, of Pittsburgh, a youug married man. died from overexeition caused by roll­ er-skating. THE business failures occurring through­ out the country during the week numbered for the United States 215, and for Canada 25, or a total of 240, as against a total of 222 the week previous. More than two- thirds of the failures in the United States were famished by the Southern, Western, and Pacific States A letter from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, states that {he death of Gen. Barrios has crushed forever the hopes of the Union Liberals in Central America, and political and social regen­ eration in that section has ceased. Many of Barrios' followers still think he is alive. It is also said that Barrios relied on the friendship and assistance of Gen. Sal- diva, of Salvador, to aid him in carrying'out his plans for a Central American Union, but the latter forsook the ambitious schemer at the critical moment .. .Lieut. Jouett. of the Tenth Cavalry, son of Rear Admiral Jouett, who commands the North Atlantic Squadron, is to be dismissed the service because of irregularities in the accounts of the post where he had charge. M. BARKEBE, French Charge d'Affaires at Cairo, has been instructed to suspend all official relations with Egypt, and to make the declaration that France declines to sanction the Egyptian financial convention, and reserves to herself complete libeity of action. ThiB step is regarded as evidence that there is an understanding be­ tween France and Russia. It is stated that Egypt now offers to compromise the dispute with France con­ cerning the seizure and suppression of the Bosphore-Egyptien by making an apology and by admitting that her officials violated the rights of domicile of the publishers-- the apology, however, to contain "no allu­ sion to the seizure of the Bonphore-Egyp- tien.".... Some of the greatest landhold­ ers in England met the other day and re­ solved to form a company to buy land at wholesale and sell it in lots not to ex- eeed forty acres, in order to break up the large parcel system The fast steamship Alaska, of the Guion Line, has been char­ tered by the British Government, and will be refitted for cruising purposes in case war is declared The brief speech of M. de Lesseps on being received into the French Academy caused M. Renan to pav a compliment to the American style of oratory. THE first battle between Gen. Middle- ton's forces and the Northwestern rebels occurred near Batoche Crossing on the 24th of April. There was fighting off aud on all day. The Canadians lost seven men killed and a large number wounded. The loss of the rebels, who fought Indian fashion, partially concealed, is not known. From the meager and disconnected ac­ counts telegraphed from several points in the British territory we glean the follow- ing; The engagement was of short duration. The pickets of the insurgents and of Mtddletoa"S troops first had an encounter. The Scotch com­ pany of the Ninth, commanded by Capt. Clarke, being the nearest, was the first to fire and to re­ ceive a volley from the rebels, who numbered abont a hundred. Capt. Clarke was first to fall, badly wounded. Then Corporal Maclta dropped dead, killed by a bullet. Private Fer­ guson was the next to fall, and quite a number were badty wounded. Two minutes after Gen. Middleton rode up. His cap was pierced by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of a Khasp- shooter. Capt. Wise, whose horse was ohot from under him, was badly injured in falling. New York dispatcher ot the morning of Aped 24 reported Gen. Grant as having passed a com­ fortable day, but a somewhat restless night. The usual airing in the park was taken. It is likely that the General and his family will spend the month of July at or near Saratoga, and August in the CatRkillx. Mr. Drexel has offered them his cottage at McGregor, and they may occupy it In July. THE MARKETS. $8.80 4.50 .99 .97 .56 .46 13.78 I 13 l.ol & .99 & .57i ® .*r 6.7S/& 6.25 5.25 # 5.7S 25 & 4.75 & 5.00 & 5.00 & 4.76 & .96 m % % 9 & C<9 & 4. 4.50 4.50 4.25 .94 .46 .33 NEW YOBK. BEEVES... Hoos. WHEAT--ND. 1 White No. 2Bed COBN--No. 2. OATS--White VOBK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. Good Shipping Common to Fair HOGS FIOUB--Fancy I ted Winter Ex.. Prime to Choioe Spring. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. CoKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 3 BYE NO. % BARLEY--No. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream. Skimmed Flat EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bn PORK--Mesa MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 3 COBN--No. 2 OATS--No; 2. BTE--No. 1 BABLEY--No. 3 « .» POBK--Mess f 11.60 012.00 TOLKDO. WHEAT--NO. 3 Bed .to • .91 CORN NO. 2 48 • .80 OATS--No. 3 .30 0 .87 BT. LOUIS. WHEAT-NO. 1 Bed. 1.01 COKN--Mixed 44 OATS--Mixed 34 iiYK CO POKE--Mess 13.00 ~ _ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed. 1.08 COBN 48 OATS--Mixed. 37 POBK--Mess ueo DETROIT. FIjOUB. 880 WHEAT--No. 1 White LOS COBN--Mixed 49 OATS--No. 2 White 40 EOBK--New Mexs 1X80 ' INDIANAPOLIS. .33 .16 .11 .08 .13 .66 11.60 M .46 .48 .36 .67 .66 .24 .20 .13 .06 .13 .68 @12.00 0 .87 0 .48 & .34 0 .70 « .63 0 1.03 a .46 <a .86 0 .63 01X35 0 1.05 0 .49 0 .88,^ 013.50 HXHSXETTA MOBGAN, of Leung- |f: toa, Xjr., inherits a fortune of $1,000,000 by <&•fke death at the Baroness de Fannemberg, France, April 12. The Baroness surprise at the arrival of troops, pi-- thorough loyalty, and asking for DMCS and larger supplies. VOBEMUI. If is rumored that Ayoab ftimwriy Aaseer of Afghanistan, who was arrested at 0 6.00 " 1.03 .60 .41 01X78 rHEAT--No. 3 Red. toBN--Mixed , W] Coi OATS--Mixed. BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. L hard COBM--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White EAST LIBERTY. CACTXB--Best.... 6.36 Fair 8.23 Common 4.25 Boos 4.60 4.35 .97 .46 1.06 .83 .41 § 0 ST, 0 .37 §L08 X S I S 0 5.00 0 6.00 0 6.48 A MMutid Aflraatioft «T the CM* •i Um ' . iiifeip let ... . *i'K A D 8 . . pre me Court in the polygamy ease of Bad­ ger Clawson against the United States. brought here bt writ of error from the Su­ preme Court of tJtah. Clawson, plaintiff in error, was indicted for polygamy at the April term of 1884 of the District Court of Utah, and aftex;trial found guilty and sen­ tenced to a fine of $800 and four years' im- Srisonment. He appeared to the Supreme ourt of the Territory.nnd thattrihpnal hav­ ing affirmed the judgment of the District Court, he brought his case here for review, upon the ground that the grand and petit juries by which he was indicted and tried were illegally constituted. The alleged ille­ gality in the impaneling of the grand jury consisted in the exclusion upon challenge of persons who believed a man had a right to have more than ono undivorced wife liv­ ing at the same time, and in the case of the petit jury in the drawing of the jurors from an "open venire," after the whole annual jury list of 200 had been exhausted through the exclusion of polygamista. This court, in a carefully prepared opin­ ion by Justice Blatchford, decides against the plaintiff in error upon both points raised. Section 5 of the Edmunds act pro­ vides: 1 hat in any mcqsecntion for hisramy, polyga­ my. or unlawful cohabitation under any statute ot the United States', it ^ha)l be sufficient caus-) ot challenge to any person drawn or summoned OS juryman or talesman, that he believes it right for a man to have more than one living and on- divorced wife at the same time. This court holds that the proceedings to impanel the Grand Jury which finds in­ dictment for one of the offenses named un­ der the statute of the United States against a iierson not before held to answer are part of the prosecution, and that the indictment is good, although persons drawn and sum­ moned as Grand Jurors were excluded by the court from serving on Ihe Grand Jury, and being challenged by the United States for cause mentioned in the act, the chal­ lenges having been found true. "With respect to alleged illegality in the case of the petit jury the court holds that where, under section four of the act of June 23, 1874, relating to courts and judi­ cial officers in the Territory of Utah, the names in the jury-box of 200 jurors pro­ vided for by that section are exhausted, the jrny being only partly impaneled, the Dis­ trict Court may issue a venire to the United States Marshal for the Territory to sum­ mon jurors from the body of the Judicial District, and the jury may be completed from persons thus Summoned. It is held that the record shows no error, and the judgment of the court below is accordingly affirmed. HENRV B. JACKSON. Vailed States Minister to MeXle*. Gen. Henry R. Jackson, whom President* Cleveland has appointed Minister to Mex­ ico, was born at Savannah, Ga., in 1820, graduated from Yale College in 1839, stud­ ied law, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ga., in 1840. Shortly afterward he was appointed United States District At­ torney. He commanded a Georgia regi­ ment in the Mexican war. In, 1849 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Georgia, and in 1853 was sent as Minister to Austria. In 1860 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He was a Confederate Gen­ eral in the war. was captured in the fall of 1864, and imprisoned for several months at Fort Warren. SAMUEL S. COX. Ulitod State* Minister to Turksgr* _ Samuel S. Cox, the newly appointed Min­ ister to Turkey, was born at Zanesville, O., in 1824, graduated at Brown University in 1846, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in the Ohio courts. In 1853 he edited the Ohio Statesman, and two ?ears later went as Secretary of Legation to 'eru. In 1858 he was elected to Congress from the Columbus district, and served three successive terms. He suffered defeat in 1864, after which he removed to New York, and spent a good portion of three or four years in travels abroad or in writing amusing books about those tmvelB. In 1868 he ran for Congress in New York, was elected, and has been continuously in Con­ gress ever since. How Barrios FelL Advioes have been received at WasWnfc- ton from Gautemala describing hiiefly the scene of Barrios' death. The contending armies had hardly begun to battle when the Gautemalan commander was killed. He was not leading the troops on the bat­ tlefield, but was passing leisurely along at some distance in the rear of the troops when an onslaught was suddenly made on him bv a band of the enemy. Barrios fell mortally wounded by a bullet, and died in a few minutes. A desperate struggle was made to capture his body from his guard, and twenty Guatemalan soldiers were killed before the enemy were repulsed and the attempt abandoned. It was in this fight that Barrios' son fell. It is the com­ mon belief that Barrios was deliberately as­ sassinated by the intrigues of Zaldivar, and that the responsibility for the crime rests with him. THH Seventh-Dav Adventists seem to be gaining in strength in New York. They nave recently established missions in New 'York, Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. A NKW YOBX toper, whose dootor for­ bade his drinking any more liquor, is taper­ ing off on distilled water. . STRATFORD, Conn., has a lively in the shape of a haunted house. Equates fearer eaMcttfltfttr la tie United States. . Mr. Burchard, Director of the jq hla special annual report-on tip pmdlirtinn of gold aad silver in the United fttstss jjlj the calendar year 1884, estianNis of fchfl onnntrj tt% Iwyro 6ok! .t30.80Q.000 Silver, computed at the «lm doUar coming rate . 48^80(^000 The Dimcvm LoBdoa.l Total |7),600,000 This shows an increase over the yield of the previous year of nbout $800,000 gold and $2,400,0(!0 silver. The total deposits of gold nt thp mints during the year amounted to $50,518,179, of wh:ch $30,- 807,200 was reported as domestic. The ex­ ports of gold bullion, exclusive of United States bars, amounted to only $115,000. To the amount deposited at the mints and the small amount ex­ ported might be added some $600,000 worth of gold contained in silver bullion exported, and also, possibly, $700,000 of undeposited gold in the form of nuggets, grains, etc., used in ornamentation, and $200,(tOO in bars in private refineries used for similar purposes, which would make in all an addition of abont $1,500,000. But of the gold received from British Colum­ bia and the Northern States of Mexico, amounting to about $1,000,000. only $400,- 0(H) was deposited at the San Francisco mint as foreign, and the statements fur­ nished by refiners show that it was refined by them and included in refined bullion deposited at that mint under the hepd of domestic. Deducting this would still leave $50p ,000 to add to the amount of gold de­ posited at the mints, so it is safe to assume that the gold product of the mines of the United Statos for the year 1884 would be understated rather than overestimated by taking the amount deposited at the mints and assay offices as domestic bullion. The total deposit of silver bullion ex­ clusive of redeposits at the mints and as­ say offices was $36,670,731, of which $•12,305,036 was entered as domestic. The exports of domestic silver were $17,697,- 067, of which • $2,148,578 were United States bars, and $700,000 Hawaiian coin manufactured of domestic silver of 1884's production, which would leave the export of domestic undeposited silver, as entered at the custom house at its commercial value, $148,848,479. The exports of sil­ ver were $3,256,938, of which $2,296,218 came to the minis, leaving nearly $1,000,000 exported as domestic. Deducting this leaves $13,887,000 as the commercial value of the net export of undeposited domestic silver, which, at its coining rate, equals $16,400,000. It is estimated that abont $100,000 worth of domes­ tic silver bullion was furnished by private refiners to jewelers and others: adding to the amount of domestic silver deposited at the mints the net exports of undeposited and the amount of undeposited used in the arts, would make the silver production of the country about $49,000,000, or at its commercial value about $42,000,000, which is about $1,500,000 less than Mr. Valen­ tine's estimate. The product of the year and disposition ) follows: Silver. $38,800,000 $83,300,000 16,400,000 100,000 may be approximately stated as: GokL Production $30,800,000 Disposition- Deposited less foreign $30,000, ooo Undeposited exports 116,000 Undeposited, used In the arts 684,000 Total $30,800,0c0 $48,800,000 Fifty-three incorporated companies work­ ing gold and silver mines paid during the year in 227 dividends $7,567,698. During the same period some 207 assess­ ments were levied on 117 mined, on which it is estimated that over $4,000,000 have been paid. The Director's report also con­ tains detailed reviews of the production of the various States and Territories, and of the mining sections and properties, as well as many valuable statistical tables of pro­ duction, consumption, imports, exports, coinage and circulation, and a number of scientific metallurgical articles. The R sent Thornton Sir Peter JjumMden's SnppleaMtttary report ea t&a laittte of March 30, has just been received. M. de Giers replies curtly thai Russia declines to enter upon any further discussion of the Penjdeh incident. It is reported at St. Petersburg that the Sencral staff are in favor of allowing Gen. [omaroff to act at his own discretion, not even M. de Giers to interfere. A letter from Baku confirms the first ac­ count of the battle of Penjdeh, and states that the Afghan force consisted of 4,000 men. The writer, who had been with Sir Peter Lumsden. but who left him before the battle was fought, states the Russians throughout the winter had been trying to excite and irritate the Afghans, and that only Sir Peter Lumsden's influence pre­ vented bloodshed long a<;o. Col. Alikhanoff advanced to Ak-Tapa at about the end of November, before the boundary commis­ sion had arrived, and a battle with the Af­ ghans was narrowly avoided then. News has also been received that in the battle at Penjdeh the Afghan Gener.il was through­ out in the fore front of the fighting and was twice wounded. It is reported that Co). Alikhanoff offered a reward of 100 tomas (about $300) for the head of either of the British officers with the Afghan force. A dispatch from Constantinople puts a new light on the diplomatic mission to En­ gland of Hassan Fehmi Pasha, the special Turkish Envoy, and Hobart Pasha, Mar­ shal of the Turkish Empire. In order to avoid the censorship of press dispatches at Constantinople this message was sent by mail to Athens and transmitted thence by telegraph to London. It say? that the sole mission of Fehmi Pasha, who has been here constantly since January last, was to fool the British Government into a belief that Turkey was disposed to be on friendly terms with England and to seek and follow her advice in all inter­ national complications. Hobart Pasha, whose former reputation as a gallant Ad­ miral of the British navy made him an ad­ mirable tool for this purpose, was sent with Fehmi Pasha to strengthen the blind. Ho­ bart Pasha was intrusted only with the de­ livery of certain presents to the Queen and Prince of Wales, accompanied by the cus­ tomary assurances of distinguished consid­ eration, etc., which may mean a great deal or nothing. All the fine work of diplomatic intrigue was to be done and has been done from first to last by Fehmi Pasha. It is not believed that Hobart Pasha has had the slightest suspicion of the real object of the mission, but his presence in London as the colleague and presumably the confidant of Fehmi Pasha has had precisely the moral effect which was intended. The correspond­ ent affirms positively that Sultan Abdul Hamed noun shes an intense hatred toward England, and that despite the entreaties of his Premier, Said Pasha, and a majority of his other Ministers, he is quite ready to form an alliance with Russia. The Sultan, it is said, clearly foresaw the present com­ plications regarding Afghanistan as long ago as last winter, aud sent Fehmi Pasha to London to lull the British Government into a false sense of security in re upon Turkey's help in case of war. „ ABDURRAHMAN KHA3, :*v* Ameer of Afghanis^*. THE BUSINESS SITUATIONTT ^ [From the Chicafo Tribune.] < ® The disappearance of tne war-cloud has deprived the business world of the spec­ tacular and speculative element that recent­ ly caused so much disturbance, and we must now fall back on the real merits of the situation and the slow, humdrum course of ordinary trade events. Except the dam­ age that has been done to the winter wheat in the ground, the extent of which nobody knows, and which must therefore cause considerable fluctuation in the price of the commodity, there is nothing which is likely to furnish the speculators much material to work with. The distribution of goods is now very unsatisfactory to the sellers as to quantity and still more so as to price. While the cool weather has something to do with this, the main causes are the enforced economies of consumers and the timidity of retailers, who do not dare to lay in large stocks in antici­ pation of a better demand in the near fu­ ture. The iron men have lesigned them­ selves to the expectation of low prices for a long time, and the dry goods people think themselves fortunate if they save them­ selves. There is considerable activity in futnber. but profits are small. The reduc­ tions in the dividends of the carrying com­ panies attract a good deal of attention, be­ cause their affairs are publicly known; but their hardships are not at all out of propor­ tion to those of other branches of business, and there is more probability of further re­ ductions than of a return to the old divi- iends soon. The labor market is more quiet all over the country than for some weeks.« There was so much slack rope in the money market that the war excitement did not produce any visible effect on it. The reserves of the bank are growing again, and rates are as low as ever. There was an in­ crease of nearly $27,000,000 in the gold held by the nat onal banks of the country between Dec. 20 and March 10, and the holdings are no doubt larger now. The loans fell off during that time, and have certainly not increased much since, though we are now in what is usually an active sea­ son of the year. The stock market is very |^:-- dull, and there is nothing in the legitimate business field which promises any laige trading in stock for months. • • -'/% - %UB WHEAT CROP. The inchcations are all pointing to not i • mere than a total of 400,000,000 bushels as the whe.it crop of the United States this year, says a leading Western journal. The Government estimate, issued a short while ago. finds ample confirmation in the aspect of the wheat fields since tho-ie figures were made up, the recent rains rather exposing the damage than improving the appearance of things. There is somo disposition to think that these developments, with the advance in prices noted this month, will cause a large increase in the area seeded to spring wheat. It is by no means certain that there will be %ny such increase. Some of our exchinsjes are figuring out that even with a crop of only the quantity above stat­ ed we shail sti'l have on nand an aggregate of considerably over 500,000,000 bushels at the close of next harvest, or say fully as much wheat as was raised in the United States last year. But this estimate counts in a large quantity which is not available under ordinary conditions. One might as well talk about all the money in the country as available for circulation and certain to be brought out before the next harvest is ready for sale by the farmer. In other words, the situation does not w%r-ant bear- ishness on the idea that there will be a big lot of wheat on hand a few months hence to depress prices. Ameer Abdurrahman Khan was bom in 1830. He is the eldest son of Afzul Khan, and is thus a grandson of Dost Mahom- med, who ruled Afghanistan till his death in 1863, and nephew to the late Shere Ali, who was deposed and expelled by the Brit­ ish invasion of 1879, and who died soon afterward in exile. When Shere Ali was was recognized by the English, Abdurrah­ man, who had married a daughter of the Turkish Ameer of Bokhara, took refuge in those countries north of Afghanistan be­ yond the Oxus, which had then not yet been subjected to Russian control. He was pursued, however, by the persecuting spite of Shere Ali and Yakoub, who had seized his mother, wife, and sister, and detained them many years prisoner at Candahar, and who compelled the Ameer of Bokhara to deny him an abode in that state. Abdur­ rahman was fain to put himself under the protection of the Russians, then gradually advancing their conquests in Turkestan, and was received by Gen. Kaufmann, who procured him, in his poverty, a Russian pension of 25,000 rubles a year, and after­ ward permitted him to reside at Samarcand. After innumerable intrigues and internal dissensions the throne was again vacated, and the present Ameer was chosen in 1880, and has been very substantially supported by the British Government of India, under Lord Ripon, receiving from it a regular sub­ sidy of £160,000 a year, with large gifts of artillery, rifles, and ammunition to improve his military force. ' FRANZ ABT. The Well-Known ident says his Cabinet accepted his position for four years. _________________ CONSUL GBNIOUX. WALum will tail for England May 2. Musical Franz Abt, whose death was recently an­ nounced by a cable dispatch, was born in 1819, and was, therefore, 66 years old. His parents intended him for the ministry, but, naving a passion for music, he chose that vocation. He was a prolific composer of songs, his compositions numbering between four and five hundred, the most popular of which is "When the Swallows Homeward Ply." . ' THE Rev. Dr. Talmage says he is going to Europe to rest and get acquainted with his family. He has their photographs, but has had no time to get acquainted. It is the first rest he has had in thirty years. A SCOTCH gelatine manufacturer sends out with each package of his goods a leaf from the Bible. JOHN KBXAIY still oontrols Tammany. He has been unanimously elected to his old position. Mm. GARFiELD#ill spend five weeks at Williamstown, Mass. , this summer. is aim?* feverish and real- tfca wopiioa, than it feala £*•!.. «3paptoa>9 of ,«s coI4 fbil, taadrt&ms, bad dark circles- around the enter. This will be followed by an u&eonfortable feeling in the bowuaof toe earth, and % fluttering pulset Th* •oloanoe is then about to erupt, and those who live near there .had bettor •ell out at a sacrifice. i vJ? «thousand eight hundred and eighty-four years ago the Roman geo­ grapher Md weather crank, Strabo, •poke of Vesuvius as a burnt moun- tain, but it had not at that time turned jtself wrong aide out. Quith a forest grew where its crater now stands. For fifty years Vesuvius had bilious spells, but kept on drawing its salary without loss of time, but in 79, A. D., it turned itself loose, and tore up the ground a good deal. Heal estate was to an as­ tonishing height, but became depressed again at once. The south half of the mountain was jerked loose, as PJIny has it, and knocked galley west. This was followed by a Bhower of hot, wet ashes, which completely obliterated Pompeii and Herculaneum. Those towns have been exhumed lately, but, owing to the oriminal delay of the au­ thorities in doing so, no lives wero saved. These cities are not covered with lava. Scientists say that the ruins were found under a deep layer of vol­ canic tufa. I do not know what tufa is, but presume the term is perfectly proper and safe to use in good society. I have heard of the tufa cigar, whioh is sold at the rate of tufa 5 cents, but I am comparatively ignorant of the gen­ eral appearance of volcanic tufa. This is a joke that I thought of myself. Times are so olose this winter that I am obliged to originate a good many of my own jokes, and to write my own autographs. My amenuensis, who has stood by me so long and aided me so well, has been discharged. Auto­ graph hunters will notice that my an* tographs are not so good as when I had my amanuensis. For nearly 1,000 years Vesuvius then , remained in a comatose state, with only' an occasional eruption. Then for 500 years it did not erupt Iu 1538, on the shores of the Gulf of Baise in the Bay of Naples, a new and attractive crater was opened. It was a good, easy-running crater and the lava was hot when it came out. Hot lava is not good for food. It hardens in the stom­ ach and taints the breath with the ordor of sulphur. In 1631 Vesuvius itself again became intensely irritable and showed signs of ,a morbid desire to erupt. Euring th© \ 1,500 year of quiet the crater has been covered over with forests infested by :the wild boar of Italy and the tame boar of Enghand. The slopes of the |mountain were cultivated up to the ? foot of the cone and Sunday-school pio- ;nics swarmed over the greenswards at j its basfc^ * ? Suddenlyrtn the latter part of De­ cember, Vesuvivs rose on its hind feet and painted Home red. All Southern Europe and a part of York State was covered with ashes and debris from the {internal economy of the volcano. "Many people were killed who had never previously lost their lives. The way Vesuvius slung hot mud at the Neapolitan hordes that fall was a sol­ emn warning to the puny pugmire pushers of putrid politics in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The beautiful cities of Resini and Postici were entirely destroyed and those of Torre del GrecO and Torre del l'Amumgiata would have perished if they had not spread the names of the towns over themselves and escaped. A good long name in Italy is rather to be chosen than great riches. About ever ten years since the above date, Vesuvius has been liable to jar the country and shake down a few towns, covering the people with stuff that is entirely useless. The eruption of Vesuvius is a fine sight at night. No doubt that there will always be more or less apprehension on the part of spectators until some American "rust) Ler" puts a damper in the crater of Vesuvius so he can regulate the eruption. At present those spasms are too irregular and too vehement.--En- gleside. A Cowboj's Fight with a Wildcat. A cowboy accidentally referred t?* recent experience when camping near a sheep herd. He wan sleeping out of doors, with his boots on, and was awakened by a wildcat that had a she by the throat. He leaped up started toward the cat, when it made a spring for his throat. Ho had nothing to fight with except his hands and leet, and couldn't run. By way of apology for relating the story, he said that he just had to light-- that that was all there was about it He knocked the wildcat off, and it leaped back. He jumped away, and as the animal fell he *gave it a kick. This knockcd it over, and as quick as thought he jumped upon its head. It got free, though stunned, and started for him once more. He knocked it again with effect, and getting it under his feet, stamped yit to death. "I was never so glad to se6 anything die in my lite," he added, as he rolled a Mexican cigarette.--Cor- rexpondencc Cincinnati. Commercial' Gazette. A Palnftil 5eusatioR. "Oh, mother," said a little gTrf suii- " day morning, while being dressed for . Sabbath school, "I feel perfectly awful; I've such a horrid old pain, you know." "Where do you experience the pain­ ful seusation?" inquired the solicitous mother. "Kight down here," rhe replied, em­ phasizing the statement with an elo­ quent gesture of her little hands, "right down here in my new pink sash!* --Breakfast Table. THK jute industry is carried on at present in Germany by twenty-three es­ tablishments, with more than 50,000 spindles and 2,240 looms. New estab- lishmentaahave lately been opened at Hamburg, Harburg, and Stralau, and it is calculated that next year another 10,000 spindles aud 600 looms will be working. According to the official sta­ tistics, the import of jute into Germany amounted to 236,013 double hundred­ weights in 1882, against £34,865 in 1888, and the production of the German jute- spinning establishments has risen irom about 224,212 double hundred-weight* in 1882 to 317,647 in 1885k PAPBR is now used in Germany in­ stead of wood in manufacturing lead pencila. J ATALEWT may be perfected in soli/ tude, a character only in the world. >- • -> ' : s- . -v. r.:--