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earn Iflaindealcr I. VMSLYKC. tttsr aMl PmMMmt. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. ;MKS. HENDRICKS has received from the' officers of the United States Senate the massive iron inkstand used by her hus­ band in his private room at the Capitol at Washington. It is a handsome and unique work of art, and is worth at least *300. WILLIAM W. ASTOB, who has been added to the number of American nov­ elists, is 40 years old. He is tall and slender, but muscular, and devoted to all kinds of athletic sports: he is a good boxer, an accomplished swords­ man, a fine and fearless horseman. PRINCESS ISABELLA, who recently in­ herited $1,000,000 from her mother, ev­ idently has not the fear of Pasteur and the rabies before her.. She keeps twenty dogs and twenty cats in her Parisian palace, who, being fed to the full, agree very happily together. She intend^ to found a home for the aged and indigent of both races. A SACRAMENTO grand jury declares that evidence was laid before it that there are a number of Chinese female children in that city being forced to un­ dergo the barbarous torture of having their feet compressed. The torture, it is said, continues from infancy to ten or twelve years of age, and is a* process sickening in its details. THERE is some prospect that cocaine, the valuable anaesthetic, will not al­ ways be as ccstly a remedy and, there­ fore, as inaccessible to the people in general as heretofore. According to the Vienna Medical Journal, cocaine has been successfully procured, not from coca leaves, but in a synthetic way from chemicals by W. Merck, in Darmstadt, and others. ; A MARYLAND fisherman tells an ex­ pensive story of his experience with a sturgeon he caught in the Pocomoke. He called upon a friend to assist him in getting the fish into the boat, but the friend, being afraid of it, left him to manage as best he could. Being afraid of losing his prize, he sprang upon the back of the fish, caught it by the gills to keep its head out of the water, and with kicks and yells rode it ashore. A SILVER drinking cup, which for­ merly belonged to Frederick the Great, has just been sold at Berlin for 2,000 roubles. The cup was presented to Frederick by his troops, and' he drank out of it on his last battle-field. There are inscriptions on it of the names and dates of his great victories, and it is in all respects a curiosity. The German Ambassador offered the owner 5,000 roubles for it some years ago, but he then refused to sell it. "CRANMER of Colorado," as he is popularly called, is probably the most extensive cattle-raiser in the world. His cattle are all branded with three circles, the three-circle brand he calls it. Once he was at a cattle convention, and while conversing with a party of friends, one of them happened to men­ tion the name of Shakespeare. "Shakes­ peare?" observed Cranmer. "Where have I heard that name before ? What kind of a brand dbes he use on his cat­ tle?" PROPERTY is not very cheap in New York City. There was sold on Broadway recently some lots for $101 a square foot. This is a little too high for prac­ tical farming purposes, but land has been sold at a still higher figure. As tlierp are 144 square inches ip a square foot, the $101 would hardly cover the lots with gold dollars. A buyer of land in London once offered to pay a price that would cover it with golden sover­ eigns, but the offer was refused. The seller said he would agree if the buyer wonld cover it with sovereigns set up edgewise. ' THE waste of food iu hotels and res­ taurants, says the ̂ Chicago Times, & something enormous. In London this waste is partly utilized by the Sisters of Mercy, who keep someone con­ stantly in the kitchen to save all the scraps as well as all the articles that are returned from the dining-room. These are carefully sorted and put in covered baskets. The soups, chowders, and gravies are placed in cans or buck­ ets. At night * covered wagon comes and takes them away. Some of the ar­ ticles are taken to asylums, the others are distributed among those of the sick and poor who are deserving. BERRY, the English hangman, is a tall, respectable-looking man, with the appearance of a mechanic. He is a shoemaker by trade, but does not work now, as the executioner is well paid. He gets $50 a head, or, when there are more than one, $50 for the first, $25 for the second, and $25 for the third, with all his expenses paid. The first essen­ tial is nerve, and Berry has nerve. Binns, who preceded him, was a brag­ gart, and liked publioity. He would smoke his pipe outside half an hour be­ fore an execution, and drink, and had an active tongue. Now the executioner is obliged to sleep in jail the night before a hanging. Cafleraft, who Wad hang­ man for so many years, was also a shoe­ maker, ajad,. like ̂ tegrry, a^uiet, retiring Tm Millinery Trade Review points out that the weapons which are to deal the death blow to polygamy are noth­ ing more nor less than the fashion plate and its resulting "confections" in the way of dress. A few years ago Mor­ mon women in Utah were distinguisha­ ble from gentiles by the shabbiness of their costume, but now, in the verna­ cular of the street, they have "caught on," and the wives of the saints vie with each other in the richness of their ap­ parel. No . man in Ordinary circum­ stances can afford to keep more than one wife in fashionable attira, and if the wo­ men insist upon applying the proceeds of their individual labor to replenishing their wardrobes instead of dutifully turning them over to the husband, one of the strongest props of polygamy is knocked out. The spring l>onnet has its uses even in the missionary field. AN amusing story has been received at Washington concerning Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson, our recently-appointed Minister to Denmark After having been formally received by the King and made the speech customary upon such occasions, Mr. Anderson was shown by the official introducer of Ambassadors into the audience-room of the Queen, whereupon the American diplomatist shook hands with her Majesty as cordially as he would have done with anybody of his, acquaintance, and, tak­ ing a chair, sat down for a familiar chat. The attendants in waiting were aston­ ished at this breach of decorum, but the Queen is said to have been very much amused. She speaks English perfectly, but Mr. Anderson insisted on talking in Danish, and conversation-was carried on with him speaking Danish afid "she speaking English. After he hail inquired into the health of the royal cliildren, etc., lie got up, shook the Qijeen cordially by the hand, and bade her adieu. THE use of natural gas for fuel in the manufacture of iron and glass is giving to Pittsburgh a tremendous advantage over the other cities of the Union which are not blessed with the ability to avoid the payment of coal-bills. A careful comparison of the new facts with the old shows that not only is there an absolute saving in the cost of fuel, ex­ cept that incurred bv laying down the pipes for supply, lrat that the wear and tear is very much less. The differ­ ence in this respect is so great that the managers of one of the largest mills said recently they would rather use manufactured gas, if the natural flow gives out, than ttrgo back to the use of coal. Not the least important property of the natural gas is its freedom from sulphur, which gives an admitted supe­ riority to the iron that is manufactured by its aid. This fact alone may yet render it necessary for manufacturers in other cities to resort to the use of coal gas in the production of iron that is desired to possess the qualities which distinguish the better grades from the poorer ones. This would involve the laying down of pipes at a great expense in addition to paying for the fuel in competition with those who get the lat­ ter for nothing. Without a change in the situation, to destroy at least a part of the inequality now existing, the man­ ufacturers of Pittsburgh should be able to dictate terms to the trade elsewhere within the area in which the cost of transportation does not exceed the dif­ ference due to fuel. How wide that area is may perhaps be inferred from the figures which have recently been published by F. A.Bates, of Cleveland, who is connected with one of the largest establishments in the trade. The sav­ ing by the use of gas is given as equal to 68 cents per ton, including the lesser expense for repairs. The latter item is so .small that the boilers of the firm have not required the outlay of a single dollar in the last two years and appear to be in as good condition now as they were at the beginning of that time. Mattering Recognition. A memory of names and faces not only contributes to social success, but to eminence in official positions. A teacher who always succeeded in memo­ rizing the names of her fifty pupils within the first forenoon of the term, has declared that in that faculty lay one cause of her effective discipline. "If I can say," she explained, "on the very first day of school, 'Mary Jones, what are you doing?' 'Tom Brown, where is your book ?' the scholars l>egin to fear my quickness of thdught.' Each one has an ill-defined feeling that I may not only know his name, but all his traits." The man who aspires to be* a leader of the people will do well to cultivate a memory of faces. President Van Bnren was said to pos­ sess that faculty in a high degree of perfection. A gentleman was once in­ troducing a party of friends to him, and when he reached the fourth member of the group. Mr. Van Buren anticipated him by saying: "Thisis Mr. Thompson." "Yes," said the gentleman, "I was once introduced to you, but did not suppose you would remember it." "Oh, yes, certainly I do. You were introduced to me at Syracuse, in 1835, on the occasion of the visit of Gen. Jackson to that city, and with you were three other gentlemen. You were the second presented,"--a statement which the gentleman confirmed. On tha occasion of the meeting, at Montreal, of scientists from all parts of the world last year, many of these learned gentlemen desired to be pre­ sented to Gen. Grant, who accordingly received them; but their guide was greatly astonished a1 finding that he recognized many of them before their names were mentioned. A frequent form of salutation was, "How do you do, Professor? I met you at Liver­ pool," or, "I saw you last in Manches­ ter. " When the guests had taken their leave, the General's friend asked where he could have Income acquainted with so many foreigners. "Oh, I met them abroad," was the answer. They had been introduced to him there among crowds of other strangers, but he had fixed their faces indelibly upon his memory. At an­ other time he recognized a lady whom he had seen for a few moments only, year's before, and then as one of several hundred school-girls. A delicate flattery is implied in the fact that one's name or face has made so deep an impression upon a stranger that he has been able to retain it through a period of years. And since it shows a truer kindliness to preserve a gracious attitude toward the world at large rather than a hostile one, such a flattery of strangers may spring from something nobler than mere aelf-inter- est--Youth's Companion. KATE FIELD considers Dickens the best novelist that ever existed, and says that he is to novel-writing what yarish is to an oil-paint»Hg. 4 1PEB£ETS REMINISCENCES. G«or*» Tlancrof,'* Culogjr on Abraham Lincoln--A Memorable Ocrasllin. George Bancroft's eulogy on Abra­ ham Lincoln attracted crowds to the Hall of the House of Representatives. The occasion was indeed a memorable one, equalled only by the exercises in the old hall on the last day of 1834, when that "Old Man Eloquent," of Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, occupied nearly three hours in the de­ livery of his grand oration on Lafay­ ette, which covered tho history of the preceeding half century. Henry Clay, who was on that occasion chairman of the joiut committee of arrangements on the part of the Senate, had ten years before, as Speaker of the House, wel­ comed Lafayette as the nation's guest. Mr. Adams, in eloquently alluding to this impressive scene, said that few of those who received Lafayette were alive to shed the tear of sorrow on his departure from this earthly scene. Neither was there a member of Con­ gress, who joined in the memorial ex­ ercise to Lafayette, to pay a farewell to Lincoln. There were a fev. present who heard the orator eulogize Jackson, and a few more who were present at the impressive funeral ceremonies of John Quincy Adams, who had fallen at his post in that glorious old ball, in which his voice, like that of John the Baptist, proclaimed The comtng of the glory oftbe Ixml. The doors of the Capitol were opened at ten, when a grand run commenced, ami from that time until half-past eleven there was a Balakiava charge through the rotunda, through the old hall, along the corridors, up the stair­ cases--"forward six hundred." Toil­ ets were somewhat disarranged, and stout dames grew very red in the face, but the coveted seats in the galleries were reached at last, and very closely did remorseless ushers pack every seat. Then commenced a musical hum of gos­ siping tongues, tvith pleasant criticisms on the lords of creation as they entered the hall below. The representatives, after having es­ corted their ladies to the galleries, came in on the floor of the House, and took seats on either side of the Speak­ er's platform. With them were a num­ ber of prominent citizens of different States, among theiu Gov. Smyth of New Hamshire. William Whiting and J. M. S. Williams of Massachusetts. The ladies of the President's family, Madames Storer and Patterson, occu­ pied the front seat of the east gallery, and were escorted by Cols. Moor and Rives of the President's suite. With them were Mrs. Daniel Webster, Mrs. Vice President Foster, and the ladies of the family of Mr. Speaker Colfax. The ladies of the diplomatic corps, in the best modes de Paris, made their way to reserved seats in the first gallery as gav as a tulip bed, wliile through the door of the reporter's gallery could be seen the scarlet coats of the Marine Band stationed in the press ante-room. This afforded funny people a chance to talk about two sets of blowers and the new supply of brass in the reporters' gal­ lery. Some men will try to be smart even at funeral exercises. The army was represented by Gens. Hitchcock, Curtis, Boyce, Meigs, and Fry, with Admirals Sliubrick, Davis, Dahlgren and other wearers of anchor buttons. Soon after they were seated, a short, unpretending-looking officer came quietly in, his coat unbottoned, and took a front seat by the side of the old Admiral Shubrich. It was Lieutenant General Grant, and those on the floor and in the galleries welcomed him with applause. The diplomatic corps had received in­ timations that the address might not be acceptable to them, and there was not a full attendance; neither did any of them wear their court dresses or even their decorations ot honor. Sir Frederic Bruce had a long chat with James Wat­ son Webb, and Baron Stoeckel explained the locality to a Russian officer who ac­ companied him. At noon Sergeant-at-armsOrdway en­ tered, bearing the official mace, and he was followed by Mr. Speaker Colfax. A rap from the Speaker's gavel brought the assembly to order, and a solemn and very appropriate prayer was offered by Mr. Chaplain Boynton. The journal of the last day's session was then read, followed by a letter from Secretary Seward apologizing for his absence. The hum of conversation again echoed around the galleries, with the craning of fair necks arid the peering of bright, curious eves as the ladies sought to see who was there and what was worn. At ten minutes after twelve the door­ keeper announced the Senate of the United States. Mr. Speaker Colfax re­ peated the announcement with the familiar rar>s of the gavel, when on this occasion brought all on the floor to their feet. Sergeant-at-arms Brown led the way: then c ame Mr. Foster, president pro tempore, with Chief Clerk Mc­ Donald ; and then came the Senators, two and two, and took seats on eith r side of the main aisle. The inn r half-circle of chairs was as yet unoccupied. President Foster, re- c< iving the gavel from Speaker Colfax, said: "Please be sea'ed," and a rap was again obeyed. A few moments elapsed, (luring which time the oc­ cupants of the galleries had to scan the countenances of the eloquent guardians of the Union a?ul champions of freedom, whose voices have been and may again be heard as a battle-cry in the dark days of our eventful history. The President of the United States was announced, and the audience rose to receive the Cliief Magistrate. He was a "tired in simple black, and as he passed l>etween the Senators down to the front seat reserved for him, escf rte 1 by Senator Foot, ho reminded one of Webster and of Douglas, so immovable was the. expression of his massive, rej s lute, determined features. The Pres­ ident took his seat directly opposite the Speakt r, and the seats at his right hand were occupied by Secretaries McCuI- loc'i, Stanton, Wells, Harlan. Post­ master General Dennison and Attorney General Speed. Mr. Baucroft entered with the Presi­ dent, and was escorted- to the clerk's tjvble.< n which a reading desk had been placed for his use. Before taking his seat h." shook hands with President Foster and Mr. Speaker Colfax, who sat side by Hide at the Speaker's table, directly behind him. . The Supreme Court was next 'an­ nounced, and all rose to pay homage to the majesties of the law. They wore their silk robes, and took the front row of seats on the President's left hand in tha following crder: Chief Justice Chase. Justices Wayne, Nelson, Clif­ ford, S wayne, Miller, Davis, and Fields, Justice Grier's recent family bereave­ ment kept him away. Just after the Supreme Court was seated, the President and Justice Clif­ ford rose, advanced toward each other and cordially shook hands. This made it twenty minutes after twelve, and as all were present. Major French, the Commissioner of T „f: cic foddingb, gave a signal, and the Marine Band per­ formed the Miserere from the opera of "II Trovatore" with impressive effect. The Chaplain of th j Hovuje, Rev. Dr. Boynton, made a most orthodox and righteous introductory prayer, after which Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, in a brief but eloquent address, introduced the orator of the day. Mr. Bancroft was received on rising with hearty applause, and he com­ menced the delivery of his address in a clear, loud, and distinct tone of voice, heard in every part of the hall. He held his printed address in his left hand, and his sincerity and ability com­ pensated for the absence of oratorical grace. His was the simplicity of, faith rather that the simplicity of art, and l»y easy and rapid transition it occasionally rose into liold and manly enthusiasm. He oeeupied over two hour in the de­ livery of his addres, but he varied nearly every sentence from his manu­ script, and he omitted er.-irely one al­ lusion to Great Britian, prolw,bly on ac­ count of the presence of Sir Frederic Bruce, but another was greeted with cheers. When Mr. Bancroft had concluded, and the President and the Senate, with other invited guests, had retired, Mr. Washbume offered a joint resolution of thanks to Mr. Bancroft, copied almost verbatim from that passed when John Quincy Adams delivered the oration on Lafayette. When the address was printed, Mr. Bancroft insisted on having the title page state that it had been de­ livered before "the Congress of Amer­ ica," instead of "the Congress of the United States of A merica.Keiu Per- ley Poore. Celestial Humor. The China ficvietc publishes a col­ lection of Chinese humorous anecdotes selected from the "Hsiao Lin Knang," or "Book of Laughter," some of which are interesting because they are iden-. tical with stories familiar to Western civilization, while others have a pecu­ liarly Celestial accent: Two persons standing over a stove on a cold day, warming themselves, were overheard indulging in the follow­ ing dialogue : No. 1--apathetic, and given to verbiage, addresses No. 2-- reputedly hot-tempered and decisive, whose clothes he noticed smouldering, as follows: "My dear friend, there is something I would like to speak to you about; I have seen it for sometime, and all along have wanted to tell you, but as people say your temper is so fiery, I hesitated; on the other hand, I think, if I do not sj>eak,,vou may be the loser, so I have come to the conclusion, at least, to ask your permission to do so." "Out with it," said the other. "Well, your clothes are burning," mildly con­ tinued No. 1. "Why the dnce," cried No. 2 in a passion, as he observed con­ siderable damage already done, "could you not speak at once?" "It is true, then, what people say; what a temper he has got," muttered N6. 1, as he la­ zily moved off. A woodcutter was at work in concert with his son. while his little grandchild played near them. The old man acci­ dentia- cut his son's finger, whereupon the irate sufferer called his father a blind old fool. "You son of a dog." cried the little boy, "how dare you abuse your father ?" The following is told of an incorrig­ ibly idle offspring of a literary father: A youngster, having a great disinclina- tiwHo study, was shut up in a closet, with strict injunctions to apply himself. Stealing near, the parent, to his delight, heard tlie boy droning over his l>ook, and was presently still more pleased by hearing the supposed student ex­ claim, "I understand it." The excited father rushed in, crying out, "I am proud, my son, to find that you have mastered that work." "Yes," said the boy, "I alwaysjlioughtbooks were writ­ ten, but to-dav I have discovered they are printed." "Come home to dinner," cried a good housewife to her husband at work in a field. "All right," he shouted, "as soon as I have hid my hoe." At dinner his wife remonstrated with him for shouting so loudly altout hiding his hoe. "I am certain," said she, "the neighlmrs have heard you. and someone has al­ ready stolen it." Struck with the re­ mark, the man returned to the field, and sure enough the hoe was gone. On returning to the house, and im­ pressed with the wisdom of his wife's previous caution, he whispered into his wife's ear, "The hoe is stolen." The following impromptu, though consequent on a fall, cannot be looked upon as the outcome of deficient under­ standing. A man stumbled and fell. Trying to rise he again fell. "Hang it," he cried, "if I had know n I was to fall again, I would not have tried to get up." A woman was fanning the corpse of her husband, and being asked by the neiglilK)rs why she fanned a dead man in the middle or winter, she replied, "My husband's last words were, 'Wife, wait till I am cold before you marry again.' " SEVEN PERSONS CREMATED. Ait Entire Family perlil In Their iarning Ihvctljjng, Nckr HigMfti Month, flls. * 'i S:indford and Merton. Do you see the two angelic boys in the picture? You do? All right. They are Sandford and Merton, re­ vived, and they are going to a public school. They look as if angels would l»e put to shame in their presence--arid so they would. Do you know what will happen to them when they mingle with the other bovs at school ? &o? Well, we'll tell you. The bovs will sweep the school J"ard with them, stand them oil their heads, fill the legs of their trousers with new- l-iid. snow, and generally paralvze them." If there is one thing mere than an-' other that the average healthy Ameri­ can lad will npt stand, it is the drivell­ ing, braiul-new angel boy wli> never said an angry word nor stole appl x. -- Puck'# Annual. THE Frcnch are constantly devising means to advertise their grief over de­ funct rela'ives. A widow (lately hit upon a new device. Her husband had owned a box at the National Opera, and occupied it with gr< at regulaiit v*. If she were to retain the box i:i perpetuity and never occupy it, would it not tell of the dear departed ? This the proceeded to put into execution, but in her ab­ sence a faithless emplove nightly sold the seat and pocketed the full value of the widow's grief, wherefore she is go­ ing to bring suit against the opera to recover the damage to her feelings. WHEN your collars and < u Ts come from the laundry as hard and stifi as a board don't break your studs and cull buttons in trying to put them on, but just dip your finger in water and touch it to the* button-holes, and sec how easy they go on. THE death rate in Dakota is only live in the 3.000. ' -- ?J • 1 [Plymouth (Wis.1 «p*ei(iLl , Before the citizens of Greenbush had awakened to a realisation of the calamity this morning the remnant of the old Ehle hostelry lay in a smoldering fire. The house had burned like a paper box, and beneath the thin sheet of ashes and charred timbers in the basement were the remains of seven people. This fact soon circulated through the neighborhood, attracting people to the scene from l^iles around. There was no­ body to account for the tr igedy or explain its origin except the hired man. who was the only member of the household to es­ cape. He was regarded in the community SB a vicious character, and when he related that he knew nothing about the holocaust, more than tLat he was awakened by the smoke and contuved to make his way into the yard from his room in the second story, crime was suspected, and he was placed under survsillauce as the probable perpe­ trator. The smoking rains were hurriedly searched by the crowd, and about noon what were supposed to be the remains of all the vietims had been recovered. The dead were: Abraham Ehle. aged 80; James Ehle, aged 42: Ellen Ehle. aged 40; Mrs. Kinney, a guest; three, children of James and Ellen Ehle. •The remains were almost impossible of identification, being mere cinders of bodies and calcined hones. What are supposed to be the remains of Mrs. Ehle and her chil­ dren were found in an intricate mass, as if they had died huddled together. Those of Mr. Elbe, the younger, were discovered in a positiou indicating that he had fallen in another room. Fragments of Mrs. Kinney and the elder Ehle were found as they would have naturally fallen in their beds. There is a wide diversity of theory and belief as to whether the tire concealed a crime. Many are inclined to regard t).-> finding of the Ixxlies as related sufficient ?videnee that the fire was accidental and so swift that the inmates were unable to escape from it. It is thought that Mrs. Kinney and old man Ehle were {suffocated, but that they might have been assassinated in bed nobody attempts to deny. Mr. Ehle. too. might have made his way to an adjoining room in the endeavor to escape, h aving his wife and children to pesi-h. but it is more likely that they would have clung to him closelv in­ stead of grouping together inactively in the smoke. The relative positions of "the re- ipains are made to justify (he suspicion of foul play by those who are demanding au inquiry. It is possible that the seven peo­ ple were killed, the premises soaked with keroseue, and then set tir.J. That the house should have burned as quick as it did with­ out the application of some inflammable liquid would be as mysterious as is at pres­ ent the death of its occupants. Two mo­ tives for crime are advanced. Ehle is sup­ posed to have kept considerable money in the house, and the hired man is said to have for some time entertained a deep feeling of hatred against him, because of some abuse, real or fancied. The Ehles were pioneers of the county and were highly respected. Mrs. Ehle was the daughter of J. \V. Taylor, of Sheboygan. The two eldest children had only returned home from boarding-school Saturday. CANNON CAPTURED. MOB LAW. Ilurderers Lynched iAoiiiana. in [New Orleans special.l i, George Robinson, colored, who killed Millard F. Parker on the HUpqf fiecember last, was taken to-night from the parish jail at Monroe, in tfais State, by a mob of 100 men? carried to the scene of the killing, and lynched. Robinson became involved some months ago in a quarrel with two white men, one of them Parker by name. In this quarrel he was hurt, but succeeded in hit­ ting Parker with a brass knuckle, injuring him. The next day a party of Parker's friends, sixteen in number, went out to give Robinson a whipping. He locked himself within the house, whereupon they broke in the door. He escaped by the back door, which Millard Parker was guarding, and in the struggle which ensued shot Parker through the breast, killing him, and making good his escape to Bolivar County. Missis­ sippi. He was arrested there Saturday By the Sheriff of Onachita Parish and brought back to the Monroe .Tail, whence he was taken to-night and lynched. [Boauregcrd (La.) disputcb.] A notorious colored desperado named James, who had twice escaped from jail, was discovered in his old neighborhood on Bahala Creek on the night of the 15th inst., and surrounded by a posse of citi­ zens. James refused to surrender, and he was shot, seven duck-shot taking effect, bnt he made his escape in the dark. Next day the entire community renewed the search. They tracked him to Ruffinton Briant's house. He surrendered, and was taken to Rockpoit bridge, where lie was hanged to a tree. James confessed to hav­ ing killed a negro named Levi Brown last year: also to having burned Dr. Alford's gin, B. F. Norman's dwelling, and other houses in that section. He stated that his intention was to kill Dr. Alford, Mr. Catch­ ing, and one or two other persons, before he left the country. A MANIAC MURDERER. TLa Mormon Apostle, After Leaping from a Train, Safely Collared by the Marshal [8alt Lake •peelal.] The city has been in a state of great excite­ ment and deep anxiety all day. The United States Marshal, with his prisoner, George Q. Cannon, was expected on the train at 11 o'clock. Many hundred people gathered at the depot, and some were apprehensive that an attempt would be made at rescue. Shortly before the arrival of the train dis­ patches were received saying that at day­ light this morning at Promontoiy. at the north end of Great Salt Lake, Cannon jumped from the train and escaped. Those were followed by other telegrams announc­ ing his recapture, since which the town has been flooded with rumors and improbable stories that Cannon fell from the train; that !!• Kills a Itrnther-ln-l.nw with an Ax- No Motive Known for thr Demi, !Dos Moines (Ia.t special.] A shocking tragedy occurred at RunnellS, a small town seventeen miles east of Des Moinfcs. at 4 o'clock this morning. Floyd West, a respectable miner, was discovered murdered in his bed, w ith the probable as- sassin, the brother-in-law, standing over hiiu with an uplifted ax. 0 West's two brothers-in-law. William and Henry Furry, have been living with him. The latter has occasionally manifested indications of men­ tal unsoundness, threatening his rela­ tives, and particularly his brother-in law. Tmslay night it was noticed that Henry Furry seemed more restless than usual, declining to go to bed. His brother kept watch of him, bnt did not anticipate serious trouble. During the night Henry went frequently to the bedside of his brother to see if he was asleep. The latter was awakened by a slight noise about 4 o'clock, and rushed into the room :of his brother-in-law, Mr. West, where he saw his brother Henry with an ax raised as if to strike the prostrate man. lie grabbed his brother and took away the weapon, bnt found his brother-in-law already had his skull smashed. The assassin ran to a neighbor's, where he was soon captured. Later in the day he was lodged in jail in this city? When seen to-night he feigned insanity, or was insane, saying that he had been charged by the Lord for several years to do this deed, and had only done it by di­ vine request. His preliminary examination will take, place next Friday. The murdered man leaves a wife and four children. ROTTING ON THE PRAIRIES. The Number of Cattle That PcrfiihMl on the Kangen Muring the Recant Coltl Wnithcr Haiti to Be Far In Excmu of All Entlmat«>K. [Eirppria (Kan.) special.] The loss of cattle in the ranges in West- era Kansas and Eastern Colorado by the terrible cold weather is beyond almost any comparison heretofore made. A report rc- ceiveed here a few day* ago makes an estimate of 25,000 head as being large enough to cover the losses.* In trin from Emporia to Syracuse, sixteen mites this side of the Colorado live, your correspondent is positive that he saw dead bodies and hides enough from the cat Windows to almost make that amount. In one place a bunch of one hundred were founit together, all dead, while from the railroad track in the hollows passed, where he jumped through a closet window and (foe snow has been heavily drifted, hundreds broke a leg: that on a second attempt to Qf homs heads, and parts of bodies could escape he was shot dead by the Marshal; that he made good his escape, a party with horses having been in readiness to cam- hiin away. All these stories tended to increase anxiety and intensify excitement, the affair being almost the sole topic of conversation. The facts are that Cannon either jumped from the train with intention to escape or fell accidentally and was slightly hurt. He was missed in a few minutes. The train stopped and the officers returned, finding Cannon at the station house. They then decided to keep the prisoner there till more force arrived, and he has been guarded all day. several friends and members of his family being with him. This evening a special train took a company of United States troops and deputies to Promontory, a hundred miles from here, and will bring Cannon in. Bail will be given immediate­ ly, a bond having been made out for $50,- 000. It was the intention of the District Attorney to put Cannon on trial to-night, but the prisoner's lawyers interposed an ob­ jection, taking the statutory time to plead. All danger of trouble is over. iVrrible Railroad Accident. [Point Pleasant (W. Va.) special, j The passenger train on the Ohio Central Road, due here from Charleston at 5 o'clock this evening, was wrecked at Ten-mile trestle a few minutes before that hour. One coach jumped the track and ran into the Kanawha, the others narrowly escap­ ing following. There is no telegraph oflice at the scene of the disaster, but word brought from there at 10 o'clock to-night makes the accident a very bad one. It is jr£j;orted that six passengers in the coach Which went over the bank were unable to eecape and were drowned, and that another passenger named Elkins was instantly killed. Eight or ten others are wounded, among them being J. W. Dent of Parkers- burg, Dr. S. Roush of Madison County, and the Hon. Edward Sehon of this place, United States Marshal for this district.* The latter is very dangerously hurt. It is feared that fuller details, which cannot bo received Ijefore to-morrow, will increase the loss of life. , Mrs. Hendricks Annoyed by Mediums. I Indianapolis dispatch.] Mrs. Hendricks has been much annoyed by mediums and spiritualists claiming to have roceived messages from Mr. Hen­ dricks. Prominent among them is a Wash­ ington medium named West, who has sent her several batches of spirit poetry, with the explanation that they came to her in the dead of night, forced her out of bed to write them down, etc. Another communication comes from a New York medium, who in­ closed a letter which he said he had re­ ceived from Mr. Hendricks, claiming that it was nndoubtedlv the handwriting of the late Vice President, but Mrs. Hendricks characterized it as a clever piece of imita­ tion and easily detected the difference, "Of course, I do not believe in such things," •he said, "and do not see that any good can come from encouraging them." be seen protruding from the snow as it was being rapidly melted away from the car­ casses. And this is not all, for thousands of animals may be seen tottering along, partly frozen, and so thin and gaunt that it seemed the wind could almost blow through them. Cattlemen are evidently desirous of making as light of the matter as possible, but, in the lauguage of a citizen of Western Kansas, "there will be a big stench when warm weather comes." FROZEN TO DEATH. A Suicidal I*reachc*r's Body Found Incased in Ice--An Aged Man'* Wretched End. [St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch.] . While a number of fishermen were bus­ ily engaged in the river at the foot of Ell- wood street, Carondelet, they saw what ap­ peared to be the body of a man floating in mid-stream at some distance away. A boat was procured and the men rowed out and caught the object, which proved to be a man's body incased iu ice. The body was towed ashore upon the banks. The appearance of the body indicated that it had probably been in the river fully two weeks. Letters found about the body proved beyond a question that the deceased was the late Rev. Jesse B. Braley, of Nor- tonville. Ky., and that he had committed suicide by jumping into the river. The cause of this action is shown to be, from th£ same letters, the fear of the result of an in­ vestigation then going on in relation to his private affairs and habits, which, it p hint­ ed, were not beyond reproach. [Beading (Pal) dispatch-! , Thomas M. Jackson, colored, who was fonnd in his hut on the hills of Union Township badly frozen, died at the county hospital yesterday. There is undoubted evidence that Jackson was 104 years of age. Over seventy years ago he was in the em­ ploy of Gen. Jackson on the latter*s planta­ tion in Tennessee. FATAL EXPLOSION. Four Little Children, Left Alone In the House, Attempt to Iteklndle tlie Fire with Coal Oil--^Two Were Killed and the Others Seriously Injured. [Wilmington (Dol.) telegram.] A special from Tangier, Va., says: Sun­ day afternoon Capt. W. L. Truitt's wife went to Sunday-school, leaving four little children in the hohse'. Three little girls named Cooper, from a neighboring house came in, and while they were playing the fire went out. Capt. Truitt's daughter, aged seven years, put some kindling: in the stove, while another child struck a match and put it to an oil-can by accident. A terrible explosion followed. The child who held the can was instantly killed, and a two-year old boy was so badly injured that he died in three hours. The other Truitt children and the three visitors were t?rri- bly burned, but may possibly recover. The house was badly damaged,' but the neigh- lx>rs saved it from being laurned. Captair Truitt, who is away on hi* vessel, has not heard of the accident. ILLINOIS STATE NEW& --The Itev. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., K- * 't" President of Illinois College, is dead. ; *r-A fifteen-inch vein of coal has beiftt > strtiek at a depth of. 350 feet jtnt east of Urbana. * -- Fred Ivea,, a 14-year-old boy, Hufg near Wapella, was fatally hooked by a viciou? cow. --A pool has been, organized fbe " stone companies in the Desplaines Valley from Chicago to Joliet. --A young man named Sunderland, the son of a miller at Plainfield, was drowned ' while helping to clear an ice gorge. --The Pjesbyterlan congregation at De­ catur hare reqnested withdrawal of the resignation of the Rev. W. H. Prestlev. --Perry Dewees, living near Monticello, * has been arrested on an indictment for lltf murder of his wife, who, it was at first lie- */• lived, had committed suicide. * --John Higgins, in attempting to board a . passing freight-train at Waukegan, fell is such a way that a wheel passed over feb ankle, nearly severing the- foot. --C. B. Bostwick, editor of the Mattopn Gazette, who for a year past has been'd special agent in the service of the War De­ partment. has been dismissed from AM : service. --Robert Houston shot and killed D. W. Barr on the streets of Havana. Both par- , ties reside at Bath. The shooting is the re- < suit of an old grudge growing oat of - of long standing. , ^ --Frank Alexander, of Centralia, dfoppaft* dead in Prill's Hotel a few days since, of heart disease. He had been a soldier and had received notification that he woo!dxe<» ceive back pay in a short time. - --After a trial of two days the jnry in the case of Wiley Connell, at Lincoln, for the shooting of Wallace Thompson last June, returned a verdict of not guilty. The de­ fense proved that on the morning of the shooting young Thompson had shamefiri^ treated Connell's wife. --Mrs. Sarah Harper, a very intelligent and prominent resident of Farmer City, has been adjudged insane before Judge Graham. She had spent seventeen yean of her life teaching school. Family troubles are supposed to have been the cause of her insanity. : --The State Veterinarian, Dr. Paart#, u visited Blue Mound and ordered one honfe affected with glanders killed at once. Sev­ eral others belonging to Thomas Gabriel were placed in quarantine for thee months, •Four of the Gabriel horses were killed the other day. j. *\*v ^ * --Mrs. K. J, Knight kept a store hi Pa- • . toka. She charged that two men n'amCct * Gaultney and McFarland induced her to sell the stock, which was valued at $1,800, for $800 by fepre^enling to her that her Chi- - cago creditors were going to close her ottt. She sued to recover the difference between the amount paid her and the value of the • goods. The jury hung. --At Gartsides. a station near Belleville, Mrs. Wilkenson, a widow, committed snidde by jumping into a well, Search was made and a footprint was discovered inside the well-box, and upon looking into the well the men saw the woman's dead body. Mh. Wilkenson was strongly suspected of hat­ ing murdered William Massey, fonnd shot dead by some unknown person. --Louis Knaus, George Rodgers. and John Whitmeyer, the three Wabash switch­ men who are suspected of being the perpe­ trators of a diabolical joke by which seven other switchmen were almost cre­ mated alive one night recently at East St. Louis, have been arrested and sent to Belle­ ville. The men that were burned are r»- 9overing slowly in the hospital. --In the Lawrence County Circuit Cowl John McQnillen, Mary McQuillen, his wife, and Laura Adamson were sentenced to the State Prison at Chester, the first for four, the, second for two, and the third for three years, for the abduction of a 14-year-old girl named Zarilda Huddleston from her homs in Lawrence County. They first took her to Vincennes, Ind., and afterward to Mount Carmel. * * --John Evans, of East St. Louis, hail* ̂ narrow escape from death by dynamite. He was engaged in trying to break the iee gorge in the river opposite Choteau avenue. Ev.ms had been placing the dynamite cart­ ridges in the holes in the ice, and had suc­ ceeded in getting all in but one, and was in the act of putting this down, when the elec­ tric current was turned on and the explosipi^ took place. M --The county officials of Cumberland , County are having trouble among themselves growing from matters connected with the destruction of the Court House. To restore the records of the public highways the County Attorney had the records published in a Toledo paper. The advertisement filled seventy columns and cost $2,000. The Board of Supervisors rejected the bill on the ground that the advertisement was un­ necessary and unauthorized by them. --A few weeks ago Charles Pitman, re­ siding at Pana, was discovered peeping through a hcl> in the wall of the frame skating rink, looking into the ladies' room, which created such indignation that he was given twenty-four hours to leave town. A former wife of Pitman, residing in Cairo, wrote to the City Marshal at Pana. sending a photograph of her husband, which proved to be Pitman. This proved Pitman to be a ' bigamist, as he married a respectable young lady of l?ana. --An object of great curiosity to Joliet people was placed on board of a car I8-* cently bound for the Kankakee Insane; . Asylum. It was the notorious desperado and third-term convict. Jack Dyer, alias "Jumbo." A man of immense sireugtl^, nearly seven feet in height, the officers feared that if he had an opportunity he would kill one of them, as he had often threatened'to do. He refused to do any kind of labor, and for several years past has constantly worn a heavy ball and chain. f' --About a year ago Samuel Telford, m / wealthy farmer, a widower with five dren. courted a widow residing at Oentrulla ' and married her. The day of the wedding the children packed up nearly all the housed hold goods and took them to Salem, chafew tered a car, and shipped them to Kansas. They also took three minor children., In the present term of the Circuit Court the father brings suit iu trespass for damage* for the property taken, and also for loan sustained in losing the three minor children. #»s. 1(^0'