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Etfttar and Patiltdwr. CONDENSED. the Fede lithe El ILLINOIS TOE £AfT. 8nt INpaks ago n Btudent in the Female College at Pittsburgh was secretly married to,a BOB at the Rev. Dr. Pershing. After a quarrel, tire other night, the bridegroom started for Chicago, and the young wife shot herself fatally in the right temple Itie. Htzam pfautz. of Litita, Pennsylvania, vent out with her five children for a walk. On reaching a mill she quickly threw the tthree eldest out into the stream, and then leaped in with the others under her arms. The first victims were brought to shore and resuscitated; the others perished.... Ex-Secretary Lincoln was uresent ,at the ' cremation of the remains of Maj. Lyford, " U. S. A., at Lancaster, Pa. GEN. GHAUT'S condition was reported in the New York dispatches of the 14th Inst as less favorable than for some time past A hypodermic injection of five drops of morphine failed to neutralize the intense pain in his throat, which was swollen con­ siderably. LARRY O'BRIEN, once an Alderman in New York City, and at another time mem- ; icr of the New York Assembly, quarreled : In front of the Coleman Honse in Broadway {with George Thomas Truman, formerly a ' Chicago druggist and now a gambler and speculator, and said to be the most expert card-sharp in the country. Truman stabbed ^O'Brien, and he 6hot Truman twice, and .both of them are in the New York Hos- Brien is likely to die. THE WEST. , ?<•>•. // THE police of Chicago have finally snc- ,ceeded in securing from three of the ar­ rested Italians a full confession of thamur­ der of Filippo Caruso, whose body was shipped from Chicago to Pittsburgh in a trunk. The conspiracy was formed two months ago. The victim, on entering the residence at 94 Tilden avenue, was invited Into the barber-chair for a shave, and was quickly strangled by means of a stout rope, til three of the villains pulling upon it, while a fourth watched the doors... .Cattle ;from Illinois and Missouri will be admitted to Colorado if the health certificates are ^signed by Dr. Trambower, of Kansas City.... : Near Springfield, Ohio, John Neneighbor lay in wait for his wife, who had left him. On her refusal to return to his house, he shot her in the head and killed himself.. . W. H Sutherland, proprietor of the Indi­ ana Dental College, at Indianapolis, com­ mitted suicide with morphine The laigest gas flow in the Ohio Valley wns struck last week near Steubenville, Ohio, at * a depth of 1,340 feet.... Mrs. Catherine Main died at Kalamazoo, Mich., at the ad- jp; , .4Yanced age of 116 years. TJL' • OKLAHOMA has again been invaded by ||iV-' the boomers. A dispatch from the Chey- fejy- enne Agency, Indian Territory, says: L""* ; "Twenty-seven boomers' wagons, each par- l|r . - tially loaded with Indian supplies from Ar­ kansas City, have gone into the Territory, delivered their goods, and then moved on into the Oklahoma district, where they have located claim? and commenced farming operations. The boomers are exultant, and have 6ent words to the campers in the vicin­ ity of Caldwell that the coast is again clear for another raid. Some of their number openly boasted that they had outwitted the authorities."... .The fifiy-third convention of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity assem­ bled at Ann Arbor, Mich., Judge T. M. Coolev, of the Michigan Supreme Court, delivering the address of welcome. Touch­ ing the relations of public and private morality. Bishop Harris, the Rev. David Swing, and Mr. Andrew Shu- man, of Chicago, made addresses. In the evening a banquet Mas enjoyed and the Chapter House was opened... The immense Brand Brewery, corner of Fullerton and Clybourn avenues, Chicago, was des^oyed by lire, involving a loss of about a quarter of a million of dollars. The loss is total, as the firm carried its own insurance Diamonds valued at $4,000, which weae stolen from the trunk of Frank Evans, traveling eastward from San Fran­ cisco. have been recovered at Mojave, Cal., and the thief has been arrested. GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN was thrown from his carriage at Los Angeles, CaL, and te; seriously injured. Nothing dangerous, o- however, is anticipated. ' ' THREE deputy marshals who attempted arrest eight persons at Paris, Idaho, for p" • illegal cohabitation were refused admission §f~ f to the Mormon Church, where the offenders ' ' , were protected by their friends The second wife of James Taylor, Deputy City •' ' Recorder, of Ogden, Utah, gave evidence •»* showing his unlawful cohabitation, and he . was in $1,500 to the Grand Jury . The Western freight wars have been satis- « factorily settled, the railroads interested |tr„ " having agreed on five new pools on business from Chicago to the Missouri Biver. Ir". St: pi# '! Yj? • t w$i THE Grand Jury at Chicago has found ^ true bills against the five Italians charged ^, with the murder of Filippo Caruso. Mer- \ " curio and Bove were indicted Bimply as ac- oessories: the other three, Girardo, Sylvesti, r " and Azzaro, being indicted as principals, jr.-,"-' . t The assassination was one of the most * % ; fiendish ever perpetrated in Chicago, for * § there was no element of passion or revenge it. The murder was planned weeks be- fore its consummation, and the unsuspect­ ing victim was taken at such a disadvantage that he had not even time to cry out. Be­ ll lieving himself among friend, he accepted a iS proposition of Augustino Gilardo to be ||* shaved in the room at 94 Tilden avenue, # where all were assembled. Once in the "0 chair, a stout cord, already prepared, was fsl slijiped over his head, the two ends were , ,| seized by Agnazzio Sylvesti and Giovanni J Azzaro, and while they pulled the cord tight Gilardo stood behind the chair hold- | ? ing the poor, strangling wretch's head to 8*ve the rope full play. In a few moments Caruso was dead, and his body was then packed in a trunk purchased by Sylvesti s > and Gilardo immediately afterward, and shipped to Pittsburgh. cials, oalled by appointment who liSftneii&otiiifrously and «§. tenihrely. and, a|HI» Ite coQetaei||, nothing to do with that. Of course it is my duty to see that it is enforced, as well as all other laws. You are entitled to fair consideration and to have the law im partially administered, as yoa ask, and so for as any appointments which I shall make are concerned I will endeavor to give you the character of men who will see that the law is impartially administered. I hope soon to be able to get at these mat­ ters, but it will require a little time." The President's face broke into a smile as he concluded: "I wish you out there could be like the rest of ns." "All we ask." re­ joined Mr. Caine, "is that the law shall be impartially administered." "You are en­ titled to that," said the President, "and so far as I am concerned I shall see that it is so. I will give these matters my attention as early as possible." Another delegation entered at this time and the Mormons saluted the President and withdrew. THE monthly statistical publication of the Agricultural Department for May, which has just been issued, contains a com­ prehensive statement of wages paid farm laborers in all parts of the country, based upon what Mr. Dodge, the statistician of the department, believes to be entirely, trustwor hy data. The figures are: East­ ern States, $25.30; Middle States, $23.19; Southern States, $14.27; Western States, $22.26; California, $38.75. The amount of labor seeking employment in agriculture at the present time is unusually large, yet there are many localities in almost every section of the country in which there is more or less complaint of scarcity. The report closes with the practical suggestion that in the manutacturing towns and cities offices bo opened either by the labor unions or by benevolent citizens, through which communication may be opened between un­ employed city workmen and farmers need­ ing help, so that a reputable and worthy city laborer may have the means of making known his true character, instead of start­ ing out on foot at a venture, subject to the risk of being mistaken for a professional tramp. POLITICAlii MR. LEEPEB, the defeated Democratic candidate for the Legislature in the Thirty- fourth Illinois District, has decided to con­ test the election of Weaver to the House of Representatives on the ground that lists of registered voters were not posted in accord­ ance with law. THE President has appointed Ferdinand Dubois, of New York, to be,United States Consul at Havre. Also the follow­ ing Presidential Postmasters: Harvey T. Snively, at Bawlins, Wy. T., vice James France, resigned; Albert C. Snyder, at Cheyenne City. Wy. T., vice John W. Jones, resigned; George W. Evans, at Ocean Grove, N. Y., vice Henry Beagle, resigned; Henry Kingsley, at Schoharie, N. Y., vice P. S. Clark, resigned; W. H. Cullings- worth, at BichmondJ Va , vice G. K. Gil- more, commission expired; Daniel Liddall, at Gadsden, Ala., vice W. J. Ewing, com­ mission expired; Jacob G. Van Biper, at Rutherford, N. J., vice W. H. Stephens, commission expired; Charles Rittenhouse, at Haakettstown. N. J., vice Robert Rush­ ing, Jr., commission expired. THE President has appointed Thomas H. Simms to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Arkansas, vice Henry M. Cooper, suspended; Charles B. Staples to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania, vies Ed­ ward H. Chase, suspended; Richard F. Dodge to be Collector of Customs for the District of Salem and Beverly, Mass.; Richard T. Rundlett to be Collector of Cus­ toms for the District of Wiscasset, Me.... A delegation from the Fourth Assembly District of New York called on the Hon. S. S. Cox at Washington and urged him to decline the Turkish mission, as his servic?s were needed in Congress. Mr. Cox said that he did not feel at liberty to withdiaw, on the ground that the President had ap­ pointed him without solicitation and was determined that he should go to Turkey. Thereupon the delegation called upon ths President and asked him to advise Mr. Cox to resign. The President said Mr. Cox was the man he wanted for the Turkish mission and he could not spare him. AMID great excitement the Illinois Leg­ islature, on Thursday, May 14, voted ten times for a successor to Gen. Logan as United States Senator. After, on two suc­ cessive ballots, receiving the entire support of his party, CoL Morrison, the Democratic caucus nominee, withdraw, and Judge Lam­ bert Tree became the Democratic favorite. He received 101 votes, and lacked only one vote of an election. & • the sovtb. THE General Conference of Secretaries of Young Men's Christian Associations of the United StateB and Canada convened at Chattanooga. About 200 delegates were in attendance....In the interstate drill at Mobile the Busch Zouaves, of St Louis, took first zouave prize, and Chicago second. Ax affray between a party of negroes «*er a game of draw poker at Waltham- •ille, Ga., resulted in the killing of five of the dusky Bports and the wounding of four •others. Armed with pistols and razors, they fought with the ferocity of tigers. PROF. T. S. LATIMER reported to a medical gathering at Baltimore that a chol­ era epidemic may be expected in this conn- <*y either this summer or the next Maj E. A. Burke has tendered to the Board of Management of the New Orleans Exposi­ tion his resignation as Director General. COKOBESSIONAIJ DELEGATE JOHN T. CAIHE, of Utah; Mr. John W. Taylor, son of the President of the Mormon Church; and Mr. John Q. Cannon, son of ex-Con- Seesional Delegate Cannon, who compose • delegation sent by the Mormon Church to l<y before the President a statement of the grievances of the Mormons and present the petition recently adopted by a mass H sting of Mormons against the action of THE steamer/Critic, which arrived at New Ydrk the other day, reports coming upon a solid wall of ice, some of it eight hundred feet high, and three days were consumed in finding a passage round it. Capt. Lord makes the following report of his thrilling experience: On Mav f>, at 6 a. in.. In latitude 48 north, longitude 47 :lo west, we found a solid wall of packed ice interrupting our forward protcres# and extending as far as the eye could reach in a west-northwest and south-southeast direction. We at once decided to look for a pas?ase to the southward. This we did unsuccessfully all day. As we advanced to the south, fol­ lowing the outward or eastward curvatnre of the Ice, which at times trended away to the west-southwest, gradually comfns? ltack to the eastward, and in some cases even as far back as northeast the icebergs became ex­ ceedingly numerous. Thev were irom 200 to 800 feet In height and of the dimensions ot large islands. The weather now became thick with tog, and it was with the utmost difficulty that we could thread our way through them, and the man on the lookout no sooner reporting one on the starboard bow than he had to repeat his re­ port with one on the port bow, right ahead, etc. After a struggle of seventy-two hours we were able to get clear of the ice. In all my experience at sea I have never seen or heard ot such im­ mense quantities of ice in that latitude. SOME additional details of Gen. Middle- ton's onslaught upon Riel's rifle-pitl reach ns by way of Winnipeg: The charge was made at 2 p. m.--the Mlaland Battalion on the left, the Grenadiers in the cen­ ter, the Ninetieth with the Gatling on the riirht. Keven volunteers, with cheers, rushed into the first ravine, full of rifle-pits, and one Indian was oayoneted in his pit. The troops beliave<| with the utmost gallantry, and supported by one gun of the "A" Battery and the two Winnipeg guns, which did good work, soon captured the village. Capt. French was shot while kicking open the door of a hous;. The white prisoners, hearing the cheer*, burst open the trap-door ot a cellar which was nailed down upon them and came up to Gen. Middle- ton amid cheers. The troops arc higlilv elated over their work. Gen. Middleton praised them In the highest, terms. Gen. Middleton per­ sonally captured Andrew Nolin, a Cree, who has been a servant for the priests. He had nothing new to tell ot the rebel*, except that Kiel is urging them to stand fast, as they are sure to go to heaven If they are killed now. He also filln them with lies as to the In­ tentions of the Government and expects the arrival of Big-Bear with reinforcements. The rebels are evidently going off to join the Indians west of Battleford. Midiileton cannot attempt to pursue them. They fought under the river bank for some time altar the houses had been taken. Jackson, Kiel's secretary, who was among the prisoners rescued, is insane. Riel is reported to have crossed the river, making for Big-Bear. Big-Bear and I'oundmaker are re­ ported to have joined forces, tito. MMUiMon must remain here for some days. Ml fca ifetons acts nrogfccl thelkKMW of the Rational Club The English Gov- will recall Sir Evelyn fitting, Con- *«t at Cairo, on the ground that he flt fea accord Willi the administration Jxjlicv regarding the Suez Canal and the withdrawal of troops from the 8oudan. IT is thought that the new Irish crimes act will abolish the right of the night search of domiciles and the special laws against newspapers and public meetings. The new bill will be piloted through the English Parliament by Sir William Harcourt.... The brigade of Guards has been ordered home to England from Suakin. The Aus­ tralian troops are preparing to embark for home. A portion will go to England as guests of the Home Government....; London dispatch: "The negotiations which have been resumed in London between Russia and England respecting the Afghan question are making satisfactory progress. Some further explanations are still neces­ sary from both sides before a latification of the general agreemeut already reached can be secured, but it is not believed that this will delay a final adjustment. M. Lessar, the chief of the Russian commission on the Afghan frontier question, expects any mo­ ment to be instructed to proceed forthwith to Asia for the work of delimitating the frontier." ADDITIONAL NEWS. CANADIAN rebels fired on a party ot mounted police, at Eagle Hills, killing Constable Elliott and wounding another man named Spencer from West Troy. N. Y. It is said that the loss of the half-breeds in the fight at Batoche amounted to over fifty killed and nearly 200 wounded.., .A call has been issued for a reunion of the rep­ resentative organizations of the soldiers of the United States, to be held in Phila­ delphia from June 28 to July 26.... Charles Houldeu was hanged at Petersburg, 111., for the murder of his wife. The cul­ prit was cool and collected. He was asked if he had anything to say alter ascending the gallows. He answered in the negative. The noose was then adjusted. After the body was cut down it was turned over to the undertakers. The murderer insisted to the last that he had no recollection of the commission of the deed. SECRETABY LAMAB has appointed the following-named persons as special agents of the Bureau of Labor: Charles B. Judd, of Colorado; Jonas Libby, of New York; Elgin L. R. Gould, of Maryland; Henry C. Wilson, of New Jersey; Win. H. Stinson, of New Hampshire; James Reed, of Mas­ sachusetts; Arthur B. Woodford, of Con­ necticut; J. H. Groves, of Delaware; H. L. Ihmson, of Pennsylvania ; Gregor Fox, of Pennsylvania; Charles F. Gilliam, of Ohio; Wm. S. Maudby, of Ohio ; Ring­ gold W. Browning, of Maryland; Wm. C. Trenholm, of South Carolina; Henry Newman, of Missouri; Henry Jones, of Georgia; and Silenus O. Ward, of New York. It is learned that in making these appointments the Secretary acted without regard to the party affiliations of the per­ sons to be appointed, and they were select­ ed without respect to any theories they might entertain upon econorcic questions. The districts to which these appointees are to be assigned have not yet been fully determined. THE business failures occurring through­ out the country during the week, as re­ ported to R. G. Dun & Co., numbered, for the United States, 203, and for Canada, 26, or a total of 229, as against a total of 248 the week previous. The casualties are pretty evenly divided among the different sections of the country... .Bradatreet'a report places the volume of merchandise distributed throughout the country during the week considerably below kite av­ erages. Interest in the industrial situ­ ation centers about the coming con­ test between the Amalgamated Asso­ ciation of Iron and Steel Workers and the Iron and Steol Manufacturers' Alliance. The latter has declared that the former must submit to a reduction of wages averaging from 20 to 25 per cent., ana the former declares that it will strike on June 1 if the demand is persisted in. The breadstuffs market has been weaker, and has declined in the face of the indus­ trious circulation of alarmist short wheat crop reports. Special investigation by Bradstreet's fails to show any reasonable ground for belief that the avai able supply of wheat on July 1 will be less than 470,000.(100 bushels, as compared with 480,000,COO bushels on July 1, 1884. A better feeling has been shown in some lines of grocery staples, but on the whole there is not much improvement. Dairy products are dull at lower prices. IT would appear from the dispatches th^t Russia is preparing to take still another Asiatic province under her wing. Reports from Teheran which find publicity at St Petersburg speak of a revolt of the Mo­ hammedan population of Kashgar, in Chi­ nese Turkestan, against Chinese rule. It is stated that the revolutionists have driven the mandarins from all the principal towns. It is also said that the leader of the Mohammedans fcas invoked Russian protection, and has asked Russia to occupy Kashgar and supply the rebels with arms and ammunition.... Thomas Petty, of Boston, won the court tennis championship of England from George Lambert, at London. FOHE1CH*. EGYPT insists that the province of Don- agola must be held. The sickness of the British and Egyptian troops at Suakim grows alarming, and shore hospitals are being built. One thousand heretofore hostile na­ tives have submitted to British authority, and have been given arms. Australia in­ tends to present medals to its contingent in the Soudan... .A crowd of ten thousand persons assembled in Trafalgar Square, London, for a • demonstration against the proposition to increase the duty on THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. BEEVES .|6.oo HOUS 4.50 WHEAT--No. L White i.m No. 2 Bed. I.03 CORN--No. 2 .66 OATS--White - .45 POKE--New Mess $2.50 Lard .07 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 Good Shipping 6.25 Medium ,4.80 Hoos 4.00 FLOUK-- Fancy Red Winter Ex .. 4.50 Frime to Choice Spring. 4.00 WHEAT--NO. 2 Spring H3 CORN--No. i. .47 OATr--No. 1 .84 IlYE--No. 'I .72 BAKLEY--No. 2....;...,.......... .61 BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... .21 Fine Dairy 16 CHEESE--Full ( ream .10 Skimmed Mat.......... .05 E^os--Fresh .11 POTATOES--Choice, per bu... 40 PORK--Mess 11.00 LABD 6.76 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 3 Red : 04 COBS--No. 2 62 OAT»-NO. 2 37 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--NO. a 87 CORN-- No. 2 .47 OATS--No. 2 34 BYE--No. 1 72 BABI.EY--No. 2 60 PORK--Mess 11.00 BT. LOUIS. WHEAT--NO. 3 Bed 1.07 COHN--Mixed 47 OATS--Mixed 36 RYE .66 HAY--Prairie 10.50 PORK--Mess 11.26 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 1.06 CORN 58,^ OATS--Mixed 80 • M RYE--No. 2 Fall 71 PORK--Mess. 11.60 DETROIT. FLOUR. 6.60 WHEAT--No. L White 1.04 CORN--No. 2 .68 OATS--No. 2 White 41 PORK--New Mess ; 12.00 _ INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. 1.0s CORN- Mixed 40 OATS--No. 2 36 EAST LIBERTY. CATTL«--Best 6.28 Fair 6.26 Common 4.26 Hoos 4.75 BHalP 4.50 <§> 6.50 & 5,00 @ 1.03J6 & 1.04 .67 @ .50 @1175 @ .0714 <8! 6.75 ® 5.50 & 5.25 W 4.50 <$ 6.0J # 4.60 & .84 .48 .86 .74 .66 .23 .19 .11 .06 .12 .48 GBANVIIXE. The Right Hon. George Live Son Ckrwer, K. G., the eldest son of the first Earl of Granville, was born May 11, 1815, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church. Ox­ ford, taking his degree in 1834. In 1835 he became an attache of the Parisian Embassy, was elected to the House of Commons for the borough of Morpeth in 1836, and again elected in 1837. In 1840 he was tendered and accepted the position of Under Secre­ tary of State for Foreign Affairs. He was next chosen as member from Litchfield. While in the House of Commons he sup­ ported the Liberal party and always advo­ cated the doctrine of free trade. In 1846 he succeeded to the peerage, and in 1848 was appointed President of the Board of Trade. In 1851 he was made a Cabinet Minister, and in December of that year suc­ ceeded Lord Palmerson in the Foreign Office, retiring from the position on the oc­ casion of the fall of the Russell Ministry, early in 1852. Lord Granville, who has held the offices of Master of the Buckhounds, Paymaster General of the Forces, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Treasurer ©f the Navy, was appointed President of the Council in 1853, and in 1855 undertook the ministerial leadership of the House of Lords, but was, however, unsuccessful. In 1856 he was sent to represent England at the coronation ceremonies of Alexander II., at St. Petersburg. He was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in December, 1865, and in 1868 accepted the position of Colonial Secretary under Gladstone, re­ maining in the position until 1870, when he was made Secretary for Foreign Affairs, oc­ cupying the position until the retirement of the Liberal Cabinet, in February, 1874. At An Entertaining Batch' of Vfws Ijfram Many Quarters Utyift Many Subjeo'.s. The Genesis of Bid's RebeMfon--The Mfiior Question--A Craxy er's Shocking Crime. Can»e« of tho Kiel Insurrection. , The half-breeds in the St Laurent dis­ tinct complain that ,the Dominion of Canada ., J;haa treated them badly. Under the Mani­ toba act of 1870 each half-breed born in that province before July 1 of that year was granted 240 acres of land free, in satisfac­ tion of what may be termed the half-breed title. But beyond the confines of Manito­ ba lay a few half-breed settlements, for the inhabiiants of which no provision was made, nor, indeed, was any demanded at the time. St. Laurent, one of'these, was estab­ lished as long ago as 1862, and is a fairly prosperous place. The first demand for consideration was preferred by the colon­ ists ten years ago^ when they asked to be placed on the same footing as regards free homesteads as the Metis of Manitoba. Later on, when the Do­ minion surveyors appeared in the country, a fresh grievance sprang np. The half- breeds, as was the French custom, had set­ tled along the! rivers, each farm having a narrow water frontage and extending far back in the form of a long parallelogram. The surveyors, were, of course, compelled to destroy this arrangement of the holdings, and the people earnestly protested against it. They also renewed their claim for grants of 240 acres per capita, and from that day to this 1 he agitation has been maintained, Riel's arrival from Montana last spring giv­ ing it the semblance of a general and united movement. ' The bill of rights adopted by the half-breeds at a public meeting at St. Laurent in September demands: (1) the subdivision into provinces of the northwest territories; (2) the half-breeds to receive the same grants and other advantages as the Manitoba half-breeds; (3) patents to be is­ sued at once to the colonists in possession; (4) ihe sale of 500,009 acres of Dominion lands, the proceeds to be applied to the establishment in the half-breed settlements of schools, hospitals, and such like institutions, and to the equip­ ment qf the poorer half-breeds with seed, grain, and implements; (5) the reservation of 100 townships of swamp land for distri­ bution among the children of half-breeds during the next 120 years; (6) a grant of at least $1,000 for the maintenance of an, in­ stitution to be conducted by the nuns in each half-breed settlement; and (7) better provision for the support of the Indians. This last item was inserted by Riel in order the commencement of the following year^ to please Poundmaker, a turbulent Indian Earl of GralT chief, whofee band has si when Gladstone retired, the ville became the acknowledged leader of the Liberal party. When Mr. Gladstone was returned to power, in 1880, Granville was again made Secretary for Foreign Affairs. De Gters, Bnssian minister of Foreign Affairs. SB GIKRS. Nicholas Carlovich de Giers is a descend­ ant of an old Finnish family, and was born in 1820. At the age of 18 he entered the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg, and rose from step to step in his position under the Government. He thus became acquainted with every detail in the department, and to this thorough training is to be ascribed his great success as a diplomatist and states­ man. In 1848 and '40 he acted as political agent for Russia during the Hungarian in­ surrection, and was for a greater part of the time upon the scene of conflict. In 1858 he was made Consul General to Egypt, and subsequently was sent to Bucharest, owing to the Turkish complications. In 1872 he represented Russia at Teheran, Persia, and from thence was commissioned as Ambas­ sador to Stockholm. He served as Director of the Asiatic Department, one of the great­ est in the Russian service. In 1882 he was elevated to the position of Minister ol Foreign Affairs. since made common cause with the half-breeds. Since these claims bave been put forward Riel has asked for more than he is entitled to in or­ der to better his chances of getting his due. The half-breeds will be well satisfied, how- ( sources of water supply, volume, its vari'aibli'ityj Prof* Biley Predicts a Looul : Irrigation ~ A Bureau Dairy Products. [W ashington telegram.] According to Prof. 0. V. Riley, United States Entomologist, we sc*e to experience this year a very extended appearance of the insect known as the periodical cicada, alias "the feveoteen-year locust" Prof. Ri ey, who has made many original observations on this insect, and who seventeen vears ago published an account of twenty-two distinct broods, and first announced that there is a thirteen-year race of the species, states that we shall witness this year the conjunction of two distinct broods--one a seventeen-year and the other a thir­ teen-year brood. These two broods have not appeared simultaneously since the year 1664. The sixteen-year brood is located principally in the Missis­ sippi, Valley, reaching up as far as the mouth of the Missouri and having it® thickest centers in Union County, Southern Illinois, and in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi. The seventeen-year brood iB one of tho largest of those known to occur and will appear on Long Island in Kings and in Monroe Counties, New York, at Fall River, in the southeastern portion of Massachu­ setts, in parts of Vermont, and verr gen­ erally in Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware, and Virginia, also in Northwestern Obio, in Southern Michi­ gan, in Indiana, and Kentucky. This curi­ ous insect, according to race, remains either for thirteen or seventeen years un­ derground, developing slowly, and some­ times burrowing far below the frost line. Prof. Riley says that they will be­ gin to rise from the ground about the latter part of May in the more southern portion of the country and early in June in the northern portion, and the woods will re­ sound with the hoarse rattling noise which the males make, the females being noise­ less. The seventeen-year brood that is to occur this year has been well recorded for 1715, 1732, 1749, 1766, 1783. 1800, 1817, 1834,1851, and 1868. Prof. Biley witnessed it himself in 1868, and while the under­ ground life of the insect has been hitherto inferred only from the periodical appear­ ance of the perfect insect, he has since then been able to establish it by direct observa­ tion of the development of the larvae from year to year. IRKIGATIOLF. The Department of Agriculture is about to make an exhaustive inquiry into all mat­ ters relating to irrigation. The special ob­ ject in view is to ascertain the best means for the improvement of the arid-land re­ gion of the Western plains. The following series of questions has been prepared, to be submitted to all who have any knowledge of the subject: 1. State your location, character of enterprise, whether corporate, community, or individual; amount of capital stock, amount invested, pres­ ent value of works. 2. Extent of works, length of main canal, of secondary ditches, capacity of reservoir (if any); A FULL-HAND OF DEAD HEN. C$11.25 & 7.00 0 .04^ <9 .62!& 0 .39 @ .88 0 .48 & .86 0 .73 5 .62 011.25 0 1 08 L<9 .48 6 .87 <9) .68 011.60 @11.76 & 1.08 10 .5456 0 .78 012.00 @ 6.00 0 1.04 .£4 @ .43 012.50 & 1.05 >4 ® .40^ 0 .38 Five Persons Killed In a Game of Draw- Poker at W althourvllle, Ga.--Several Badljr Wounded. , f Savannah (Oa.) ppeolaL] Walthourville, a small hamlet thirty- seven and a half miles from this city, was yesterday the scene of a quintuple tragedy among a party of negro gamblers. The number of the participants in the game of poker is uncertain. A flat-car standing on a side track was its scene. Many of the players were mill bands who had just been paid off. There were forty or fifty dollars in the pot, and the gamesters, all of whom were some- fchnt flushed with liquor, were considerably excited. One accused another of cheating. Words followed, and as the accuser rose to his feet to draw a knife tho alleged sharper drew a revolver and fired. The bullet en­ tered the forehead just between the eyes,and the victim fell a corpse across the cards and stakes. The friends of the dead man arose v> avenge his murder, while those of the flayer rallied to his defense. Each side fcas well armed with knives and revolvers, and in the free-for-all fight which followed five were, according to the most reliable in­ formation obtainable, killed outright, and four or five badly wounded. Other turpentine and mill hands came Ip and took a hand in the struggle, and it eventually assumed the proportions of a small-sizod riot. The faction at whose door the origin of the trouble is laid finally fled. 1 CHICAGO WOOL MARKET. 7.00 6.00 6.00 0 5.00 0 6.00 [Reported by HHFRMAW HAM, ft Co., rhicajrn. ni.i PriccH ot Unwashed Wool (oldflipi from Indian Michigan. Illinois, and Iowa for the past w<»ek are whanged an follows : Fine, r.Ocilc; Fine Medium, Wfrtic; Medium, 2i*»28c: Low Medium, Juwaic; (loarxi:, Delaine--Fine, !<•; Moiihuii, aK't 21c. Combine--Medium, 22<<<<24<'.; Low Medium, 22tJ !Bo; Coarse, l'.)f«/21c ; Uraid, ncrfjlMe. Total receipt* for past week, 290,395 IDs; and sinro January 1, 4,Wl,(i84 n>«. Trade i» much restricted bv | W^l ̂ vc^'lSW.1'4" Swashed The Plymouth Epidemic. [Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch.] The new hospital at Plymouth for the re ceptiou of patients afflicted with the fever was formally opened this morning. Only twose who have no homes will be admitted. Medical attendance and nurses will be free. On Gaylord avenue there are eighteen fam­ ilies that must be kept in food and medi­ cine. All the members are down with fe­ ver. It costs $10 a day to keen these families alone. There are about eignty other cases of families receiving aid from the relief committee. There were two deaths yester­ day and thirteen new cases. France Clutching New Territory. It is announced by a cable dispatch from Paris that France has made fresh annexa­ tions on the southwest coast of the Red Sea and south of the present French pos­ sessions at Obok. The new acquisitions are said to include the port of Doungarata, and comprise a vast territory peopled by two powerful tribes. THESE are nearly 88,000 Irish soldiers in the English army. | ever, if they obtain the patents for the farms which they have been cultivating all these years, with grants of 240 acres for those among them who have not yet taken np land. Monsignor Grandin, the Boman Catholic Bishop of that region, supports the bill of rights to that extent, and so do the vast majority of the English-speaking flettleis. " Indiana's Saloon Law Declared Constltn- . tlonal. (Indianapolis special.] \ The Supreme Court has decided that the law compelling saloons to be closed be­ tween the hours of 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. is constitutional. The opinion was read by Judge Elliott, and was the unanimous Opinion of the court. It says the point Upon which the appeal was made is that the Legislature transcended constitutional pow­ ers .because the statute in, question en­ croaches upon the natural rights of the citi­ zen. This argument finds no support from authority, and has none in principle. Whether the statute is or is not a reasona* ble one is a legislative and not a judicial Question, and whether a statute does or oes not unjustly deprive the citizen of natural rights is a question for the Legisla­ ture and not the courts, for there is no cer­ tain standard for determining what are or are not the natural rights of the citizen. The decision farther covers the following points: ^ 1. It is clear in our minds, both upon reason and authority, that the statute is a valid exercise of the police powers vested in the Legislature. 2. The title of the act is sufficiently com­ prehensive to include all offenses of public nature. 3. The contention that the clause of the law "between the hours of 11 o'clock p. m. aiid 5 o'clock a. m." refers only to Sundays, holidays, and election-days cannot be maintained. 4. What the statnte prohibits tinder pen- altyjtf fine and imprisonment is unlawful. A Kentucky Vendetta. [Louisville special.] Another chapter has been added to the bloody record of the Bell County vendetta, and three more persons sent into eternity by Andrew J. Johnson, the notorious out­ law. Sunday, as Josiah Hoskins, jailer of Bell County, was returning from church, accompanied by several of his children and Thomas Napier, the whole party was fired npon by Johnson, who was lying in wait behind a building in the town of Pineville. Hoskins, his daughter. 10 y£ars old, and Napier were instantly killed. The weapon used was a large revolver. The first shot killed Napier, the second killed both Hos­ kins and the child, wlo was standing be­ hind her father in the wagon, with her hands upon his shoulder. This assassina­ tion is the result of a difficulty between Napier and Johnson on the day of the last Presidential election, when Napier was wounded in the eye by a shot from John­ son's ever-ready pistol. The three persons killed by Johnson yes­ terday swell the list of his victims to five, all killed within the past three years. An Insane Mother's Terrible Crime. A recent dispatch from Reading, Pa., states that Mrs. Hiram Pfautz, living near Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., left home in comrany with her live children, ostensibly to take a walk. She proceeded direct to Binkley's mill, a short distance away, and threw far into the stream three of her eldest children, aged respectively 10,8, and 6 years. Next she took under each arm one of her two remaining children, 3 and 1 year old. and jumped in. The children cried for assistance, and were heard by Ipome of the mill-hands, bnt when they ar­ rived all six had sunk under the water for |he last time. They were promptly brought to the shore, all stiff and pulseless, as if in death, bnt the three eldest children were resuscitated. The mother and two youngest ch ldren were beyond all human aid. It is believed that the woman was prompted to commit the act by religious excitement. Prohibition In Iowa. (Council Bluffs special.] The first attempt to enforce the pro­ hibitory law in this city wns made to-day. The Temperance Alliance tiled application for writs of injunction against six saloon­ keepers. The friends of the saloon-keep­ ers then asked for injunctions against forty more saloon-keepers, with a few of defeat­ ing the prosecution of the Alliance. The saloon-men have employed counsel, and will fight the cases. The City Council and the Mayor have refused to take any action in the matter. seasons; distinguish between natural and artifi­ cial source*, as running streams or wells. . State area of land served by your works, area now under water, area In your locality that may bs reclaimed. 4. Btate the unit of water measurement in use, whether It be one cubic Inch per second or one cubic foot per second. State amount of water rate or rental, whether by acre, season, or year. Also if the "service" of water is continuous for season; if not, when and how it is served. Also if the service is bylttoodlng, covering superficial Burtace of water, or whether by "seepage" from lateral ditches. 5. Are distributing regulations made by the company or the community? Are there general laws In your State (or Territory) governing the water supply and its distribution? . What is the duty of water--that is, how much land per season Is irrigated by one cubic foot per second, or by one cubic inch per sec­ ond, in continuous flow? 7. What is the difference in the value of land, if any. before and after the construction of your works and consequent use of irrigation? 8. What is the average annual rainfall in your region? What effect, If any, has irrigation had on Increase of humidity, either in the earth or by precipitation from the atmosphere? A BUREAU OF DAIRY PRODUCTS. The Commissioner of Agriculture has de­ termined upon the establishment of a bu­ reau which is to be devoted exclusively to dairy products. Prof. Taylor, the microscopist of the de­ partment, has already made the very im­ portant discovery which he believes will prove to be an absolute test to detect oleo­ margarine or any imitation of butter. He has made a great many experiments, and thinks that he has demonstrated the fact be­ yond any possibility of doubt that under the microscope butter particles always as­ sume the form of a perfect globule npon which is distinctly marked a St. Andrew's cross. He says every other fatty substance presents very different forms and has equally marked character­ istics. Pure butter has been examined in all its possible forms--sweet, ancid, and melted--and the result has always been the same--a perfect globule with a St. Andrew's cross. The process is said to be so simple that a child, after one explanation, can al­ ways toll genuine butter. The experiments are to be submitted to the other microscop- ists and scientists in the different branches of the Government service. Prof. Taylor is much elated with his experiments, and is confident that they have been sufficiently numerous to prevent the possibility of a mistake. Commissioner Colman is satisfied that thiB is an infallible means of detecting oleomargarine. END OF THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN. Mb. F. D. MiiiiiET, the artist, is accom­ panying Mr. Charlw Francis Adams, Jr., on his Mexican travels. He will sail for Europe in July. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN has been leased to the liverymen of Chattanooga. The statement which has been so fre­ quently made that the Englioh Government was about to abandon the Soudan campaign is now confirmed by the official declaration in Parliament. It required considerable courage to make this declaration, now that the pressure of the threatened rupture with Russia, which offered an excellent excuse for removing the troops, no longer exists, but Mr. Gladstone calmly faced the music and made the acknowledgment. It might be said that it would have been better had he abandoned the project at the ontset. He might have done so had he been more than human. He was never in favor of the Soudan campaign, nndas is well known resolutely opposedjthe dispatch of Gordon to Khartoum. The pressure of his own party, of the Tories, of the press, and the people was too great to withstand, however. He reluctantly allowed Gordon to go upon his fat.il errand, and when he was in danger he could not consistently with humanity de­ cline to make an effort to rescue him. That effort having proved a wretched failure, he has now faced the situation and announced that there will be no advance against El Mahdi in the fall, as had been contemplated by Gen. Wolseley, who was eager to re­ trieve bis reputation. The most that will be done will be to hold Wady-Haifa on the Lower Nile and Suakin on the Red Sea, the locality where the future railroad to Berber begins, and to proceed with this and tho Nile road as commercial enterprises at a fitting time. ^ A Hot Recepttou Given to Burglars. (Anderson (Ind.) special.] Throe tramps broke into Bodenhorn's store at Fishersbnrg last night William Stanford was sleeping in the store. The thieves wakened him. As he raised him­ self one of them shot at him with a re­ volver, slightlv wounding him. Stanford returned the fire with a shotgun, putting sixty-four shot in the burglar'B face at short range. Both his eyes are shot out, and he cannot recover. The Iceland Avalanche. The latestt reports from Iceland show that the first reports of the April avalanche were not exaggerated. Fifteen dwellings, with their inhabitants, were swept into the sea, and twenty-four persons were thus drowned. The avalanche destroyed fifty fishing boats. The loss in one village alone reached $20,000. KINO OSCAR of Sweden is traveling la i Turkey and the Holy Land. $§• Canwdiftn Bebels Driven lit 4 Their Intrenchfeenti at the Point of the Bayonet ftp the InpetMBi Their Leader Crowes the Blipi end Escapes. The Canadian forcos tinder Gen. Mid­ dleton, after four days' fighting, defeated Lonis Riel's half-breeds and captured Ba­ toche. The rebels were driven from their rifle-pits and ambush at the point of the bayonet. The charge was made on the aft­ ernoon of Monday, May 11. Gen. Middle- " ton sent the following official report of the engagement to the Government at Ottawa: Have just made a general attack and carried ;: the whole settlement. The men behaved splen- didly, and the rebels are in full flight. Am sorry' to say I have not eot Riel. While I was recon- i noitenng this mornlmt Willi <m Astley, one off.'A the prisoners, walloped UD with a flax of trace,, and hande l me a iet'er from Riel saying: "If > you massacre our families, I shall massacre my • prisoners." I sent answer that if he would pat his women and children in one place and let me kuow where it was. not a shot should be fired on them. I then returned to camp and - pushed on my advance parties, which;,; were heavily tired on, I so pressed on . until I saw my chance, and ordered a gen- eral advance. The men vesponded nobly, splen- . y ^ ky their officers and CoL Htraaben- zle, and drove the enemy out of their rifle-pits. • Atter the rifle-pits were taken they forced their' way across the plain and seized the houses, and.; we are now masters of the place, and most of- my lorce will bivouac there Itiuhi, in the heat f of the action, Mr Astlcy came back with au- • other missive from Riel, as follows: " General:, ' Your prompt answer to my note shows that I was right in mentioning to you the cause ot hu ­ manity. \\'e will gather our families in one' place, and as foon as it is done we will let you S know. " On the envelope he had written as fol­ lows : 'I do notlike war, and if you do not retreat," ' and refuse an interview, the question remains the same concerning the prisoners." Our loss I am afraid Is heavy, but not so heavy as might be expected. As yet 1 find it is six killed and fifteen wounded. Killed: Capt. Johh French, scout; Lieut Fitch, of the Koyal Grenadiers; Capt. Brown, of Boulton's troops; W. H. Kippen, ot the survey-' ors' corps; Private Frazer, of the Ninetieth; Private Hardesty, of the Ninetieth. _ Wottudrrt: Lieut. Garden, surveyors'scouts;. Lieut. Laldlow, Tenth Battalion; Maj. Dawson. Tenth Battalion, slightly: Sergt. Maj. Watson, i Ninetieth Battalion, si ghtly in the ankle; Sergt. Jakes, Ninetieth Battalion, in the hand; Private - Young. Ninetieth Battalion, flesh wound in thigh; Private W. (ook. Tenth Battalion, shot inarm; Bugler M. Gaughan, Tenth Bat alion. wounded in finger; Private C. Barber, slight wound in head; Private J. W. Quiglev, flesh • wonnd In arm; Private J. Marshall, Tenth Battalion, flesh wound in leg; 1-rivate W. Wil­ son, Tenth Battalion, slight wound across back; Private Barton, Midland Batta ion, thigh and groin, serious; Corporal Helliwell, Midland Bat- ' talion, slight hurts in face and arm; Lieut Helliwell, Midland Battalion, in shoulder. The prisoners were all released and are safe in , my camp. Among them is Jackson, a white man ' who was Riel's Secretary, but who is mad and rather dangerous. FKED MIDDLETON, Major General. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Reveille WM sounded at 5 o'clock a. m. The troops had received some rest, but were not fresh. Middleton seemed bent on doing some­ thing decisive before the day was over, and so "" expressed himself to the troops. The dav was clear and warm. Fighting was begun before 7 o'c ock, and the troops advanced nearer the rebel strongholds than on the previous day, and < continued to pour volley after volley on the tneinyV position. The distance was consider­ able, and the bullets did not have great eflect. Battery A and the Winnipeg Held battery did effective work in F helling the enemy. A con­ siderable detachment of the rebels was on one occasion conyi etely driven from their in­ trenched position In the bluff by the explosion of a shell in their midst. Several charges wiere made toward the rifle pits in the hope of capt­ uring them, but the half-breeds held stub­ bornly to them. While leading a charge, Capt. Jack French, who commanded a troop of scouts, was shot ' through the heart. His body was brought back. French was a brave fellow, exposing himself recklessly to danger. He was a graduate*of the Dublin Colleire of Surgery, and was well con- " nected in Dublin. In another charge, Richard Hardesty, of the Ninetieth Battalion, who had just returned from the Egyptian campaign, was shot in the mouth and killed instantly. He was taking aim at one of the rebel leaders when he met his death. Hot flshting was kept up until midday, when Middleton drew backfor a short respite. The battle was vigorously resumed at 1 p. m. and kept up for two hours, when the rebels showed signs of weakening, and returned the fire of the troops but meager iy. Middleton was about to make a charge, when a man bearing a white flag advanced from the rebel camp. It was Astley, one of Kiel's prisoners. He bore the fallowing note from Riel to Middleton: "If you do not cease firing on the houses, thereby injur­ ing our families, we will massacre the prisoners, commencing with Indian Agent Lash." Mid­ dleton answered: "Let me know where your women and children are, and we will not fire on them." Riel replied, thanking him for the courtesy, but subsequently, as the troops rushed forward to attack, he penciled on an en­ velope : "As 1 don't like war, 1 conclude to massacre the prisoners all the same." Middle- ton did not give him time to execute his threat, but immediately gave the command for a charge, and the troops swept on after the enemy. For a time the rebels seemed inclined to hold to the rifle pits, and then they fired sev­ eral volleys into the troops, doing considerable damage, but it was their parting kick, for the next moment they wavered, broke, fled, and within a quarter of an hour Batoche was in the hands of the troops, and the rebels were flying over the plains. The prisoners were found locked up in a house supposed to be Riel's headquarters. They were terribly fright­ ened during the progress of the battle, as they expected every minute to be murdered, but when the troops broke open the honse and re­ leased themthey wept tur joy. 'Ihe following are those released: McDonald, the, Thomas brothers. H. Ross, Astley, MacKeand, the Jack­ son brothers, Albert Monkman, and Agent Lash. The rebel loss was very heavy. While riding about the field the bodies of nine half-breeds and Indians were seen. JQSEPH E. JOHNSTON. Avdtor of Ballroad Accounts. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was lately appointed Auditor of Railroad Accounts, was born in Virginia in 1807, graduated at West Point in 1829, served in the Seminole war as aid to Gen. -Scott, resigned in 1837, re-entered the army in 1838 as First Lien- tenant, and was brevetted Captain for gal­ lantry during the war with the Florida In­ dians. He served in the Topographical Bureau, and in 1843 on the survey of the boundaries between the United States and the British provinces. From 1844 to 1846 he was engaged on the coast survey, He served with gallantry in the Mexican war, was twice wounded, and successively bre­ vetted as Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel. From 1853 to 1855 he was in charge of Western river improvements. He was subsequently employed in various du­ ties in Kansas and elsewhere, and in 1858 was acting Inspector General in the Utah expedition. In 1800 he became Quarter­ master General, with the rank of Brigadier General. He resigned his commission in April, 1861, entered the Confederate serv­ ice, and commanded at Bull Run, York- town, and Richmond. He was severely wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and for several months was disabled for service. He was subsequently intrusted with im­ portant commands in the Southwest. Since the war he has led ag^niet life. He once represented the Richmond (Va.) district in Congress. AN Indiana salesman was mean enough to strike with a stave the pamer of a lady who had been stealing grocery eggs ana concealing them in two big rear pockets. OOTDA'S new story, "Othmar," i* &*-«-. seiiptive of life in Bossis.