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I. VMM.YKE, UNKMPsMsMr • , • • - r j , u ^ r*^r r ' 4 - • r ^Vi „ \ * ,>,*,/ , T ^ 2-t TIE ffiDE WOfiLD. Oitadogoe of tit* Watk'i &•- ,..,4(Srt«rt OecorroncM C<*. ciMly flnrniriirlttil - ' fhtellifenoe by Electric Wire P' '>' .' Brery Guarter of the Clvil> bed World. Pi# _ IATEST mSPATCHiat , •fitJSfNESS MtOSPECTR " le Beginning: to Feel the Effipet of the Ye- kions Strikes--Decrease in the Iron Ontpttt. ' The business failures daring the last ||?ren days, says a New York dispatch, Qttmber for the United States 140, for Can­ ada, 43--total, 173; against 209 for the porresponding week of last year. In the Eastern and Middle States the failures are exceptionally light. In the other sections t about the average number are reported, but in Canada there is a considerable increase, arising mostly in the maritime provinces. Brmlatreel'x, in its weekly review of the -commercial situation, says: Telegrams to Brad street'a forecast tho ap- funach of midsummer with the accompanying decrease in industrial and commercial activity. ' Wihile trade is fairly active at Pittsburgh, Cfn- cfonati, Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City, it la not in all linos equal in volume to that of the preceding week. At some ot the cities named there is very little anftnatiou. A moderate activity with no special change since June 1 is noted at Boston, New York, Phila­ delphia, Evansville, Louisville, Milwaukee, and St Louis. The movement of general merchan­ dise at Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul is ttrasuaily large for the season, and there has been a gain at Memphis. Leading interior money markets continue to call on the East for funds for wool-f rowers, wheat and pork spec­ ulators. real-estate investors, and merchants and manufacturers West and South to a degree which may produce what is termed tight money. Specially active de­ mands for funds are noted at Kansas City, Chicago, and New Orleans. Cotton goods are Ann, with some grades of brown and bleached cotton higher, and a prospect for a further ad­ vance owing to the strength of raw cotton. Trade continues slow. £pot wheat has been lets active for export, though the outward movement continues heavy. Raw sugar is doll. but ho]de. r< are confident Coffee is less confident, with buyers for distribution hesitat- SUPREME CTHJRT VACAN<fsT. "in Interview with Attorney General 6ar- ' land. iR Associated Pros* dispatch from Washington cays that Attorney General Garland wss asked as to the accuracy of several statements which have been circu­ lated concerning the Supreme Court va­ cancy, the mention of bis name in connec­ tion with it, his connection with the ad­ ministration, and his future plans. From j what the Attorney General said it may be fftid that the President is strongly disposed not to appoint any man to the Supreme Bench unless he is in such vigorous physical condition as to promise useful and efficient service for at least fifteen years; also that Mr. Garland had the appointment placed at his disposal and declined it. The Attorney General said that when this administration came Into po wer and it was suggested that he should go into the Cabinet the suggestion was a pleasant one to him, and his friends, with his concurrence, interested themselves to that effect. His relations with the Pres­ ident had been uniformly agreeable; had they not been, he would certainly not have regained in the Cabinet. m CURRENT ETENTOp ' ' ' , ' * • • / ' ' ' • " • " • ' v ' i • " floods prevailed in portfeM «f Somerset and Cambria counties, Pennsyl­ vania, on Wednesday and Thursday. The losses in the immediate vicinity of Johns­ town ace estimated at $150,000. Two aged residents of the place dropped dead fawn heart disease when the water poured into the town Tuesday night. Many families have been rendered dsstitute by tbe deluge. Adolfh Reich, wife murderer, was sentenced at New Tork to be hanged July 29 Charles D. Keep, editor of the Wall Street .Vfirs, died at Long Branch At the New York session of the Grand iJoclge of Masons the report of the Com­ mittee on Warrants in the case of Pru­ dence Lodge, which admitted Jere Dunn and ethers, was received. The report says: "Patient and earnest search for the facts in this case has satisfied the committee that there were no circumstances sufficiently of an extenuating character to mitigate the offense. Jere Dunn, Tom Gould, and six other equally disreputable individuals had been obligated at the altar of Prudence Lodge. They were not only men of a dis­ reputable character, but were go notorious that their bunco-steering, confidence op­ erations have been common report and food for sensational stories for years. Not to know that Tom Gould and Jere Dunn were improper candidates for Masonic affiliations was to confess an utter ignorance of affairs too improbable to be accepted even by a very credulous person. Never­ theless these persons have received their Masonic degrees in due and ancient form in a lodge rating 203 members, any one of whom at any time whatever during the progress of the conferring of the degrees, as the Masonic law places an en­ forced interval of two weeks between each degree, could by his own simple act have stopped and prevented its occurrence and th's desecration of the pure altar of Free­ masonry. Such neglect--such failure to protect the order--indicates utter unfitness to be a lodge duly empowered to work. The c ommittee recommended that the warrant be forfeited, and those members who can establish their Masonic purity and worthiness can join some other lodges as can be induced to aocept them. Tie re­ port was adopted. j governments of. Europe. ,J| we sow as they sow, we shall reap the same ctod. American morals an tho fOunda American ; liberty." B--oluttons adopted denouncing in vigorous terms the muraer of Editor Gam of Mississipj for his opposition to caM«lat«a to be in favor of tee liquor. An. prsscot wets ex-Gov. John P. Su Kansas, Hob. O. 8. Wolfe of •eissippi, npMMNKl DM those of lva- INTERSTATE COMMERG _ . '•<%•'• Din--seta Shippers Complain of the St. Paul Road. The Minnesota Board of Bailroad "iB Warehouse Commissioners has transmit­ ted to the Interstate Commission a petition and complaint against the Chicago, Mil­ waukee and St. Paul Railroad from the Farmington, Northfield, Faribault, and Owatonna boards of trade. The com­ plaint, which is indorsed by the Minne- Business Men's Association, charges load with charging shippers living the towns mentioned a high­ er rate on millstuifs to points in than it re­ ives from persons living at St. Paul, eapolis, Stillwater, Menomonee, ippewa Falls, and Ean Claire for like service. It is alleged that the railroad charges 7J cents a hundred for the trans­ portation of millstutts from St. Paul to points on the Mississippi River, while it charges 18 cents on like traffic. As a re­ sult of these unjust charges many flour mills in these towns have been closed, and large numbers of men thrown out of em­ ployment. ' £ ShiW WEST. •(• A Maquoketa (Iowa) dispatch stales that five boys--three of whom were sens of John ,Beck and two of them sons of Paul Hindel--whose ages ranged from 9 to 16, were drowned in the Maquoketa River Monday afternoon. Three of them while in bathing plunged off a sand bar into the water beyond 'heir depth. When another boy saw they were drowning he plunged in to rescue them. Another boy who had his clothes on, noticing the failure of the first boy. also plunged in. and all were drowned together. Another boy, however, being by this time, undressed, plunged in after them, but failed to rescue them. A terrible tragedy occurred on .Elm street, Cincinnati, in which Fred Bauer shot two women and then blew out his own brains, dying within an hour and a half. Both of his victims are living, and one of them will recover. The wheat crop of Ohio is estimated by the State Board of Agriculture at 304,000,- 000 bushels, a shortage of 6,270,000 bushels as compared with the average of the past seven years. The prospects of oats and meadows have been improved by the re­ cent rains. The wheat crop of California will fall considerably below that of last year Oats, wheat and grass in Northern Iowa are being burnt up for want of rain. None has fallen for two months, and herd­ ers are suffering greatly from the drought. By the explosion of a kerosene lamp in Sears' flour mill at Shopiere, Wis., tfie en­ tire destruction of the mill followed. Loss, $10,000. One of the "'li narrowly escaped deaU)» I A special from. "No gales, A. T., says:' The Indian outbreak in this territory is assuming serious proportions. The wide­ spread depredations indicated that there are many more than seventeen bucks, as at first reported, on the war-path. The whole . country is fired with citement, and it is feared parties will organize to visit the San los reservation. In such an event c* And Still They Come. Immigrants to the number of 2,728 1Mre landed at Castle Garden on Friday, Counsel for the Inman Steamship Com- peny has applied for a writ of habeas tor- pas in the case of the seventy Irish pan- pen whose return to Ireland has been or­ dered by the emigrant commissioners at --_ Commerce. ^tlwrai declined from 10 to 13 cental per M0 pounds at Chicago on Friday, owing to large receipts at the Stock Yards. Hogs were plenty, and active at a small advance. Sheep were scarce and advancing. Latest general market quotations: KEW YOJUC. £"?•* : HOGS. ^00 « 6.75 Wheat-Bo. 1.White. s» «, No. 2 Bed.............. ,98 A jOO Coaw--No. 9.............,,...,, 1714(6 48V Oats--White V Fork--New Mess. ^ ^ CHICAGO. Cattle--Choice to Prime Steers 16.00 0 .42 e 16.60 4.75 4.00 3.75 4.75 4.45 .03 0 5.25 £ 4.60 .08*® .07 H* .18 A .85 0 » 4.00 @ 5.23 0 4.75 .93 & & «* & Msdiom Common -Shipping Grades loob--Winter Wheat •heat--Ho. 2 Bprinit. .... sax--No. a .77r. Oats--No. a. a 1 ? • 1 1 l u n i a -- C h o i c e C r e a m e r y v • <_ Fine Dairy. CfiCEKSE--Fall Cream, Cheddars. r f s > ' ' V ! F u l l C r e a m , f l a t s Boos--Fresh »• I IPotatobs--Choice, new'.".*. I 5 Vobk--Mess _ MILWAUKEE. £ | > Oats-No. 2 White .ao ^ •*»--No. 1 jr A '«> foRK--Meas -- • •••••• 13.75 «l«l2S „ ST. LOUIS. Wheat-No. % '* Cork--Mixed f f «>ATS-Mixe4 J'oBij- New Messk ^ i TOLEDa .39 .96 .17 .14 .W?< .06J< .13!* .90 £12.25 .86 m .91 14.76 .87 .37 .98 @15.28 'U ti < HEAT~.No. 2 COBK--No. 9 'f: Oats .40 DETBOIT. V--Michigaa &ed --No. 2 -White CINCINNATI.' W hjiat--No. 2 Bed <3obk--Mo. 2. , .PATS--Na 2 *' . Poma--Mess. s5.«-i;j-ilMV«Hoos " , buffaLo. Wheat--No. l White eb* Cattle... 8.60 •5*2 O 4.75 9 125 ® 4.75 91 .40!4 .U T ism No. 9 Yrtknr Cattle, IKDIANA^orik 8854 ,90 @15.50 (3 5.00 G 5.80 3M 8.80 150 100 .8C .88 .27 Fheat--Na 9 Bed -No. 9 -No. 9 Mixed ;... f....... I _ EAST LIBEKTt. •in. /^H>wuaon............. 4.* 4.75 m 4.75 @ 5.25 & 8.75 2 ® .36 « -KH O 5.25 a 5.00 «> OS * 5.53 tt 4.50 ex- that Car- there will be great slaughter. Advices are com­ ing from all directions of outrages. Word comes from W. E. Leek, of Crittenden, that he and two others were aroused yester­ day morning by several rifle shots, and found they were surrounded by Indians. Mike Grace, oug of the partyi an old pio­ neer and a nighly esteemed "and prominent citizen of Arizona, was killed. The other two made their escape through a canyon, pursued by the savages. The people of Crittenden appealed to the sta- tian at Xogales: "For God's sake send us aid." In fifteen minutes a special train had soldiers oii board in charge of Capt. Lee. A portion of the command under Cfpt. Nutt is on the trail of the hostiles, A courier reports that he ran into a party of Indians, and is now chasin; them overthe hills. They seem to be making for the Patagonia mountains, and it is quite evi­ dent that they intend to reach the Sierre Madre mountains. -A telegram from Calabasas to the chief of police at Nogales says the Indians fired upon McCuflock's ranch and are on their way south. Another party, it is reported, pushed southwest out of Calabasas. Juan Cenochio, commandant of Magdalena, has twenty-five mounted men who leave to-day to try and intercept the Indians at the principal passes along the international line. Frank Wallace, of the Senora Land Company, arrived from the Montezuma dis­ trict to-day and reports that all settlers along the route who are likely to be exposed had been notified by Gov. Torres that the Indians are out. A dispatch from Wash­ ington says that no information has been received at the War Department in regard to the recent outbreak in Arizona, beyond the fact that thirty Apaches have left their reservation, and that Captain Lawton is in pursuit of them with four troops of cavalry. , BOUTHT" •• . : The Atlanta Exchange, a bucket-shop in Atlanta, Ga., has failed for $300,000. As­ sets, nothing. Foub masked men boarded the engine of an east-bound Pacific and Texas express at Benbrook, near Fort Worth, Texas, and compelled the engineer to stop on a trestle, where they went through the express and mail cars. It is estimated that they ob­ tained at least $1,350, and some think it will prove to be as much as $10,000. The passengers were not molested. John H. Fields, a farmer living near Helena, Ky., shot his wife and two sons and then cut his own throat. Jealousy and financial embarrassment are named as causes fer the crime. At Mcorehead, Ky.* John Mannin, the Marshal, with a posse, went to the dwell­ ing of Dr. Henry D. Logan to arrest his eons, John and William. The latter shot and dangerously wounded the Marshal, but his aids rushed into the room and killed both the Logans before they could offer further resistance. Dr. Logan himself is a prisoner on the charge of murder* POLITICS. There was a conference in New Tork City, on Tuesday, of prohibition leaders from New York and adjoining States. Ad­ dresses were made by the Hon. John B. Finch and others on the Sunday law. Mr. Finch said: "Licensed prostitution,licensed gambling, lioensed beer selling, and no Sunday are the foundations of the despotic ilia, Col. Chevia of Kentucky, J. H. Heo- tor of Washington, and J. Lou Beauchamp of Ohio. • A Boston dispatch says the oonstitu tional prohibitory amendment waa defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representa­ tives by a vote of 139 to 74--not the nec­ essary two-thirds. There were three pairs. Of the 14'2 members recorded in favor of the measure 126 were Republicans, 13 Dem ocrata, 1 Independent Republican, 1 Inde­ pendent Democrat, and 1 Independent. Of the 77 recorded against it 17'were Republi­ cans, 58 Democrats, and 2 Independent Democrats. A joint Legislative oonvention was held at Concord, N. H., for the choice of officers, the following being elected: Sec­ retary of State, A. B. Thompson, of Con­ cord: State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, of Concord; State Printer, John B. Clark, of Manchester; Commissary General, A. S. Gorham. , • ? • : * RAiLWAira J feS The annual report of the Pennsylvania Company operating the Port Wayne, Pan- Handle and other lines of the Pennsyl­ vania ^yttem west of Pittsburgh shows an increase M revenue for 1886 over the pre­ ceding year of $3,363.3J2.25. A syndicate of promlhent capitalists have subscribed for the unissued 6 per cent, bonds of the Oregon Pacific Road, and will complete the line from Yaquima Harbor to Boise City, Idaho. INTERSTATE COMMERCE, \ WOOdbiff Sutton, of New York, has protested to the Interstate Commerce Com­ mission against the suspension of the long and short haul clause of the law in favor of the transcontinental railroad lines. The firm of Sutton A Co. are en­ gaged in clipper transportation around the continent, and. in behalf of the clipper lines it is stated that the transcontinental roads have made war upon them. It £s leged that the roads require shippers enter into contract to ship all pverli freights by rail, and that inducements ard held out to contractors by offering lowers rares on freight than those &&orda| the general public. In his letter Mr. Sut­ ton expresses the belief that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company is interested with the railroad companies in the effort to secure a suspension of the fourth section of the law, the object being to crush out the clipper- line competition. Reuben Daily, of In­ diana, formerly a Washington correspond­ ent for the Indianapolis Sentinel, has been appointed stenographer to the commissions GENERAL* TftS perennial fishery dispute vrtffi Can­ ada has broken out in a new place. Six boats, with four tons of fish caught in Georgian hay, and consigned to a Detroit firm, have been seized by the Canadian Customs Inspector at Victoria harbor, and the consignees' will appeal to the Domin­ ion Government for redress, failing In which they will seek redress in the courts. They claim that all the requirements of Canadian law had been fulfilled. Mr. and Mbs. James G. Blaine and their daughters, Misses M. and Hattie, sailed from New York for Europe Wednes­ day in the steamship Ems. There was a large crowd at the pier to Bee Mr. Blaine off. He will be absent about a year. He will disembark at Southampton and will go direct to London. He intends to spend considerable time traveling through En­ gland, and will probably "do" Scotland and Ireland. France and Germany will be vis­ ited, and a trip along the Mediterranean is On Hie programme. Mr. Blaine has made no detailed plans, but intends to drift about and change his plans to suit his fancy. Aabon L. Stili., colored, a famous pro­ moter of "underground railroads" in early days, and one of the best known colored men in Pennsylvania, died at Reading, aged 67. The annual meeting of the American Bankers' Association will be held at Pitts- < buigh Oct. 12 and 13 next. John McMackin, leader of the Henry George party in New York, has written an open letter, denouncing William O'Brien and the men who feted him there and praised his work in Canada as hypocrites. He says their sympa­ thies for evicted Irish tenants are very tender, but that he bad not heard a word from Tammany Hall or Bishop O'Farrell in "condemnation of the brutal evictions of a-couple of weeks ago in Penn­ sylvania, whose scores of families were pitched out of their houses into the streets and obliged to remain their all night, as the landlord forbade, under penalty of /eviction, any one fo give,them shelter." A watebhpout burst over Nanticoke, Pa., doing great damage. The sewers were incapable of carrying off the water and it quickly flooded the streets to a depth of three feet. The rushing water und«rmined and swept away several residences and put out the fires of the Susquehanna Coal Com­ pany, stopping all work in the mines. Thirty tenement houses in the neighbor­ hood of the boiler house were surrounded and the occupants were driven to the roofs, where they were taken off safely. About two hundred feet of the Pennsylvania Railroad roadbed was washed away. FIFTY JtftDS A QUEER Anniversaxy of the on of Britain?* Ruler. Aberdeenshire, on the hanks of the riter Dee. The Queen'* daughter Bstilts has been hw constant companion for many years, and sinoe her mrriage to Prince Battenburg hat remained aline* as near to hff. -At Balmoral the Onsen live* •nd rides atpuad her great H«r Majesty at 18 mi •! «M|* starts Her LwMt*'*,v** -'.VS.-.'u Rtlgn. • About the only topic discussed in Lo&» don, except the Irish question, which is always with us, is the approaching Jubilee, writes Mr. Robert P. Porter from London. Although I have been in the country less than a week, the very word Jubilee^has be­ come distasteful. Everything you buy is labeled Jubilee. Your suspenders, your collars, your cuffs, your cravats, your hat, your toothbrush, have a crown and the word Jubilee worked or painted upon them. Columns of the doily journals are devoted to advertising word competitions and ether devices fdr extracting the penn|e«, the shillings '#fcid the pounds froin the pockets of a loyal people for Jubilee pur­ poses. The 'present may be termed a period of assessment. The pictures accompanying this article are from the two best photographs attain* able, showing her Majesty in her early girlhood, and m sbe last sat to aJ?fcotog- rapher immediately after- the Poke of Albany's wedding. . " " *".» ' of tarietfn. whteh was not without many incidents onntorest, we turn to the married yean of the Queen as to a bright and nurnf moMiv. The QwMn's married life was ideally perfect. She married the nun she loved, and each yea* deepened her early affsoKon into an admiration, a reverenoe and * pride whieh elevated her love into censecr&eo, £ 4 , ^ Fifty Years m Queen. Victoria Alexandria, Queen bf Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, only child of the late Duke of Kent and of the Princess Louisa Victoria, of ctaer Coburg, was born at Kensington Palftcfe, May 24,1819, her parents, wh<** hpd been residing abroad, having hastened to En­ gland in order that their child might "be born a Briton." Her father died Jan. 23, 1820. Until within a few weeks of her ele­ vation to the throne, her life was spent in comparative retirement, varied only by tours through the United Kingdom. Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle, William IV., June 20, 1837, as Victoria, and her corona­ tion was celebrated in Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. She was married Feb. 10, 1840, to Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg Gotha, by whom she had issue first, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, born Nov. 21, 1840, imarried Jan. 25,1868; second, Albert Edward, Prinze of 1 -hn 'S - * ana §iudie% attends to state dftages, keeps a minute •* f" 1 ^ "V »" v ' 1 I «Hr QTJEEN VICTOBIA AT THB AOS OF 68 TEABS. QUEEN VICTOBIA AT 18. Wales, born Nov. 9,1841; married March 10, 1863; third, Alice Maude Mary, born April 15, 1843, married July 11, 1862 (she died Dec. 14, 1878); fourth, Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 3, 1844, married Jan. 23, 1874; fifth, Helena Augusta Victoria, .horn May 26, 1846, married July 5, I860; sixth, Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March 18, 1848, married March 21,1871; seventh, Arthur WiJliam Patrick Albert, born May 1, 1850, married in March, 1879; eighth, Leo­ pold George Albert, born April 7, 1853, married in April, 1882; ninth, Beatrice Mary Victoria, born April 14, 1857, mar­ ried July 23, 1885. Her Majesty is the Eattern of a woman in all the relations of fe. Her mother died March, 16, 1861, followed by the sudden death of the Prince Consort, Dec. 14. FOREIGN. A BerIjTN dispatch of Wednesday says: "A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal-pit at Gelsen-Kirchen, Westpha­ lia. The bodies of forty-one unfortunate colliers, who lost their lives by the explo­ sion, have already been recovered, and be­ tween twelve and twenty more are believed to have perished in the mine. Rescuing pnrtiei are now searching for the remain­ der of the entombed 'victims. A miner's carelessness is sa|dto have caused the dis­ aster." A Dublin dispatch says: "The gun­ boat Benterer took the Sheriff of County Clare and a body of police to Clare Island, where they evicted twelve tenants. The scenes witnessed while the writs of eviction were being executed were deplorable. Dur­ ing the evictions at Bodyke two women de- tied the Sheriff and police by throwiug boiling whitewash on them. Their family was finally evicted and the women were ar rested." The latest received issue ot Beerbohm'* Corn- Trade List contains an estimate that the United Kingdom will require from out­ side sources an avetnge of nearly 3,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour per week trom dale up till the close of August. The ship ments of wheat from British India are rather free, but more than half of current shipments are ordered to ports on the Con tinent of Europe. The English wheat crop is backward, but the majority of reports of condition are not otherwise unfavorable. Another article on "Parnellism and Crime" was printed Tueeday by the Lon don Times, in which it was claimed that the lexers of the Irish Nationalists worked to the same end as those who or­ ganized arson and murder -- universal hatred of England and a determination to effect a complete separation between En gland and Ireland.. ^United Ireland" urges the Irish peo­ ple. to further patience The Eq|l of Winchelsea and Nottingham is dead. Victoria's DomMtto BMsttod^!. , , Victoria was "in her eighteenth year Wnfen she became Queen. William IV. died 09.1 June 20, and the English dignitaries weoit before daylight to announce to Princess Victoria her accession, and it is related that she came out in her night dress, a shawl around her and her feet in slippers, and it was at once decided to call a privy council meeting for 11 o'clock in the fore­ noon, when the 'new Queen took the cor* onatlon oath. The public coronation, aud the moBt brilliant pageantry of modern times, did cot take place until the next June, and on the 28th day of that month, 1838, the great ceremonies took place. According to royal etiquette it is necessary for the Queen to make the first suggestion of mar­ riage. This she did late in 1831), and in >ruaiy, 1840, she was married to her cousin. They had long been lovers, and they were a most devoted couple. The Prince Consort died suddenly in 1861, leavti nine children, seven of whom are alive. The Queen was utterly disconsolatf, and for years lived in the closest seclu­ sion. In fact she so closely secluded herself that her subjects have found a > great deal of fault with her on this ground. During her married life the Queen spent nearly all of the time at Balmoral, their country Beat in the highlands of Scotland. The royal residence, as established by law and usage, is Windsor Castle. This palace is east of Windsor, si city of 12,000 inhabitants, twenty-three miles from Lon­ don. This castle was the home of the Saxon kings as long as 1,000 years ago. The castle proper was founded by William the Conqueror, but almost entirely rebuilt by order of Edward III., the architect .be­ ing the noted William of Wykeham, and, in 1824-'8, the edifice was finally and com­ pletely remodeled under the direction of Sir Geoffrey Wyatville. Half a mile from Windsor Castle is the small palaoe of Frog more, which was the resi­ dence of Queen Charlotte and of Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of KeiuU Respite the royal splen- diaty, ant ftBgrs 'SKMe royal etiquette to* a large exteht She has few visitors, except the Prince and Princess of Wales and her numerous grandchildren. The Queen has seven living children, thirty-one grand­ children, and six great grandchildren. There are only a half dozen attendants and a dozen servants at Balmoral, and little or no excitement. The Koyal HouMbold. there is a big force of attendants, prob­ ably 1,000, at Windsor Castle. At the head of the household forces is the Lord Stew­ ard1, with a salary of £10,000 a year, ap­ pointed by the Prime Minister, and there- lore a political official. He is com­ mander-in-chief of every employe in the household, except the ladies directly about the person of the Queen, the religious staff and the stable corps. He appears at court on state occasions, and appoints all his sub­ ordinates. His lieutenant is the master of the household, who receives £1,200 a year, and has a private secretary at a good sal­ ary. Next comes the lord treasurer of the household, who pnys the bills and gets a salary of *1,000 a yefcr. These three con­ stitute the board of green cloth, and sit as judges of all offenses committed in the pal­ aoe; and to assist them and keep the record they have one secretary at $1,500 a year (as it would be in American money) and three accounting clerks at $1,000 each. Then there is the cleric of the kitchen at $2,500 a year, the chef st the same, and his four assistant cooks at $1,750 each, the chief confectioner at $1,500 and his assist­ ant at $1,200, the chief butler at $2,500, the table decker at $1,000, and his assist­ ants at salaries somewbat less. There are also yeomen of the pantries, ladies of the linen room and a vast array of chamber­ maids, lamp-lighters, washers, etc. The coal department alone employs thirteen persons. Directly about her Majesty's person are the mistress of the robes, the groom of the robes, the keeper of the pri­ vate purse, or financial secretary to the Queen, eight maidB of honor, as many bed-chamber women and numerous maids for other functions--all these under con­ trol of the lord chamberlain, who receives $10,000 a feat and is assisted' by the groom of the stole. Next to the ladies who attend directly on the Queen come the gentlemen of the private household, viz: Eight lords in waiting, as many grooms in waiting and divers gentlemen ushers of the privy cham­ ber, grooms of the privy chamber, grooms of the great chamber and pages of the back stairs. In short, life at the court, even in the most ordinary times, is carried on with inch ponderous social machinery and routine that it almost makes one tired to hear of it. But, in addition to all these, there are two distinct sets of officials for extraordinary occasions with independent functions and different codes of ceremoni­ al and etiquette. At the head of one of these is the marshal of the ceremonies. He There was no home in beautiful by all that was tender, cultured, and noi^le, than that in which "the blame­ less prince" fulfilled his heroic career of duty, and shed the bright light of his joy­ ous, affectionate, and keenly intellectual life. There were fewer homeB in which a greater amount of tiying and anxious work was more systematically accomplished, or in which there was a more exquisite of hard thinking with the <£;l 2 I. PRINCE ALBERT VICTOB. the enjoyment of the .fine arts and fullness of loving family happiness. It is when we come to" this bright time, so full of fresh interest and of a delight­ ful freedom, that we have the advantages of the Queen's own "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.0 Her visit to Edinburgh in 1842, and the drive by Birnam and Aberfeld to Tay- mouth, and the splendor of the reception, when amid the cheers of a thousand High­ landers and the wild notes of the bag­ pipes, she was welcomed by Lord Breadal- bane, evidently stirred every feeling of romance. "It seemed," she wrote, "as if a great chieftain of olden feudal times was receiving his sovereign." It appeared like a new world when, throwing off for a time the restric­ tions of state, she found herself at Blair two years afterward, climbing the great hills of Athol, and from the top of Tulloch looking forth on the panorama of moun- TIE HATI0NAL SAME. The ftaee for tiMBaae-BtD •hip--8U»diaf.of the Yari- k - out Ovfe. Detroit art Bdctta Reck aai Bel^ 0«Mipr«f Hi : tiame. % - [CHICAGO OOBBEBPOKDntOl] Since the date of my last letter the fjf- cago team has made a spurt in its for the pennant (hat has aroused the hopes of its admirers in this city, and tho interest ot lovers of the game throughout thd country. The good work began, as I stated last week, at Philadelphia, when we took two games of the series from the Philadelphia lads. It was continued at Boston, when after a close fight in the opening game of the series, we beat Mike Kelly and his braves the following day, and but for raia would probably have taken two games of the series there instead of one. At New York the following week, We took two games out of three mm the Giants upon the latters own Stamping grounds, and then we surprised the world by going to Detroit and beating the heavy hitters of the League two straight games with such scores as 4 to 2 and 2 to 1. That is ball-plaving good enough to suit any one. " Should New York continue to plav the game it is now playing and Chicago con­ tinue to improve as it has improved during the past two weeks, we may anticipate a great crowd for the two games scheduled for July 4 upon the Chicago grounds. The record of the Ltague clubs, tip to date, shows Boston and Detroit have tied for first place, and the positions of the re­ maining clubs may be seen from the fol­ lowing table of games lost and won: THE LEAGUE. Clubs. 'mtaiii.n Detroit Boston New York... Philadelphia.. Pittsburgh Chicago Washington Indianapolis.. Games lost...; -%= 14 15 i *• a a s o 6 21 21 is ie 412 413 1110 .. 7 The Association race shows St. Louis to be still further in the lead this week than ever--Yon der Ahe's men seeming to be away out of their class this season as in seasons past. The fight still continues close and bitter between Cincinnati, Athletics, Louisville and Baltimore, with the chances at present in favor of Baltimore. Cleve­ land has finally yielded last place to the ' Mets, and it is hoped that the struggle for tail-end honors between these two crack organizations is now ended: Following is the record: association*. s Bt, Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati..... Baltimore Louisville Athletic Cleveland Metropolitan Games lost a 3 Is? *l.9|.§!£ :9 si 2! 4 --1 2 3 21-- 3 II 6 - 8 4 2 2 41 1 11 1 .. i| l|. 5!l8|20'l3 l||il olsro ~4l 4132 31 4 1ft SJ18 421 220 25 manages the etiquette on tbe state ocoagj^ toin and glen. "It was quite rom*ntic; •^4 V-' - * I to the Queen's presence.^ The oth- behind us holding the ponies; not ' ' ' ' ' r n m '\ ' wnrcson cAsttfe. dors qf Windsor, the Queen is muoh fonder of ler Balmoral home, where she still trends the mo«t of her time. T^e palaoe is in the midst of a tract of 100,000 acres and is located in the parish of Crarthie, to the Queen's presence. er its the court of the Marshal sea, which has legal jurisdiction bf all crimes and mis­ demeanors committed within the Queen's private domain. It is a regular court of justice, with the same general law as other English courts, but with far more cere­ mony, and vastly more expense in pro­ portion to the work it does. The knight marshal, who is the same as sheriff or po­ lice to this court, is a tolerably important personage with $2,500 a year, and has eight deputies, besides a few servants and secre­ taries. The foregoins? gives but a mere out­ line of the system. Th*re are departments of music, amusement, medicine, charity, and literature, in all of which liberal sal­ aries are paid. Buckingham Palace, the London royal residence, is also maintained on an elaborate scale. < v v at Bslsiorst The life of her Majesty ie nmriced by three stages--her youth, her married life, and her widowhood. Each is bound to each by the tie of a consistent growth passing through those experiencces which are typical of God's education of His chil­ dren, whether high or low, rich or poor. Hier childhood, with its wise education, is very much the key to her after-life. Pos- ieessed naturally of a quick intellectual capacity and an unusually accurate mem­ ory, a taste for music and the arts, and a deeply affectionate heart, she was admirably brought up by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, on whom the training of the future Queen devolved from her in­ fancy. 9 If the education was as high as it was possible to afford a young and intelli­ gent spirit, the moral inltuences were equally beneficial. The young Princess, instead of being isolated within the formal­ ities of a court, was allowed to become ac­ quainted with the wants and 6uffeiiugs of toe poor, and to indulge her sympathies by giving them personal help. The contrast was a ^reat one between the Court of George IV"., or even that of William, and the truly English home where the Duchess of Kent nurtured this sweet life ia all that was simple, loving, and pure. There could scarcely have been a better school for an affectionate nature. ..Without touching op the earlier period FROST TIEW OF BUCKINGHAM PAXiACE. aisfcnsiadors f here we were with only this Highlander house, not a creature near us but the pretty Highland sheep, with their horns and black faces. It was the most delight­ ful, most romantic ride and walk I ever had." These early visits to Scotland inspired her with her love of the Highlands and the Highlanders. She found there quite a world of poetry. The majestic scenery, the fresh, bracing air, the pic- turesqueness of the kilted gillies, the pip­ ing and the dancing, ana the long days among the heather, recalled scenes whieh Sir Walter Scott has glorified for all time, and which are specially identifiecLwith the fortunes of the unhappy Stuarts. We do not wonder at the attachment felt by the royal pair for Balmoral. The High­ lands have a charm which every healthy mind must acknowledge. The sportsman and the tourist confess" it when they rush from tbe crowded town and the cares of business, or from the tamer beauties of cul­ tured lands, to enjoy a "bath of liberty" on SAXDHISOHAM PALACE. the fresh seas and lochs of the Western Heb­ rides or among the vast solitude of the Grampians. It was here that the Queen and the Prince Consort enjewd tor more than twelve years a delightful rreedom, minsling with their people, devising the wisest methods for in­ suring tt eir well-being, going with them to worship in their plain tvery plain!) parish church, and being to each and all unaffect­ edly sincere friends. Every spot around soon Iseoame consecrated by eotoe sweet association. Her life at Balmoral, since her great sorrow, maintains, as far as may be, the traditions of the happy past. SENSATIONAL BI" MOBS. It seems too bad that some one can not arise in the arena of base-ball journalism who can successfully call down the sensa­ tionalist? Is it fair that just in the middle of the season, with pennant races going on all around us, we should have our nerves unstrung and our attention distracted from the real work of the clubs by senseless ru­ mors of trouble in the Pittsburg camp; the intended purchase by Von der Ahe of Sim­ mons and Sharsig's snap at Philadelphia; the probable transfer of the Detroit club to Brooklyn; the predicted sale of the Wol­ verines' best talent to Harry Wright; the consolidation of the League and Associa­ tion, and the hundred and one other foolish stories thst might be pardoned during the winter season, when the boys cannot play ball, but which are just at this time an outrage upon a long-suffering and patient public? The management of the 1'ittsburg club has been kept busy indeed denying the rumors of internal discord and dissatisfaction in its ranks. But, then, did ever any young club, par­ ticularly a club that starts out to play such pretty ball as Pittsburgh has played', enter a race under new colors that some one or more long-eared, surly, jealous and venge­ ful set of ignoramuses did not put in their blades with a view to making mischief? They can not help it, poor things. Nature has constructed them that way, and if a man can control his sense of righteous in­ dignation far enough to refrain from using them as a plug for a coal hole, perhaps the next best thing he can do is to extend to them his stock of pity^nd sympathy, rather than his anger. It is said that several players in the Pittsburgh club are angry at Manager Phillips for suspending Pitcher Morris upon a charge of intemper­ ance, and that they are ugly upon the field as a result of this baa feeling. From good authority I learn that this is not so. The Pittsburg players know that Morris broke his contract by drinking, and are with Manager Phillips in his action against Morris. If Morris was drunk the proper thing to do was to discipline him, and no one who has had anything to do with boozing ball players will gainsay me in tbis. If there is any one thing on earth to rile the temper and "test the patience of a ball club manager, it is a capable ball player who will insist upon impairing his ucefulness to his team by sucking the top end of a whisky bottle whenever he gets a chance, or by behaving as that beauty, Tony Mullane, has behaved at Cincinnati. Now, they are a pretty brace of ducks, aren't they? Can't straighten up and at­ tend to a business for which they are hand­ somely remunerated for just a few short months in the year, without making mon­ keys of themselves. Why, if there is any one thing that the thousands upon thou­ sands of base-ball lovers in this country admire, it is a player who Btarts in like a man at the outset of tho season and plays ball nntil the season ends. We ha^e got a few of that stripe in the Chicago club. Now as to several other sensational sto­ ries: I can only say that the fellows who are looking wise and predicting the disrup­ tion, transfer, or sale of the Detroit aggre­ gation are wasting their breath and fore­ arm vitality over some very senseless theories. What in thunder does Detroit want to sell anything now for? Won t her talent be worih as much at the end of the season, and more, for that matter, than at Rresent? Doen Detroit need gold? Hard-r. If so, what is the matter with Stearns? As to transferring the team to Brooklyn or anywhere else to play out the season, I think the journalist (he was certainly no newspaper man) who raised that cry made a Brazilian ape of himself. Why should the team go to Brooklyn? What'B the mat­ ter with Detroit? Got a ball park there, haven t they? Support their team, don't tfaey? Wherefore, then, should they po to Brooklyn? Silly, rank silly, upon its faos. Then, again, hasn't Chris Von der Ahe got enough money invested in base-ball, brick houses, etc., without necessitating his poking around the outskirts of Philv dolphin to do Sharsig and Simmons a favor by buying their team? This is not right. It is impoBiug upon Dutch generosity, al­ though I very much question if, after the circus genial old Chris has had this season with that beauty Latham, Bobby Caruthers, Hudson, and one or two others of tfce pets, he will in future want to have more than one ball team ou hand at a time. i - Ms*' v iM: